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Travis Holloway
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Jack Armstrong
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Travis Holloway
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Jack Armstrong
I insisted first.
Travis Holloway
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Travis Holloway
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln radio studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center.
Joe Getty
Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Travis Holloway
Armstrong and Getty.
Jack Armstrong
And now here's Armstrong and Getty. That's right. I mean, it was interesting to see him kind of walk through his thinking around this meeting, and he's clearly coming.
Travis Holloway
Into it in a different headspace than.
Jack Armstrong
He was the last time the two men sat down. He now acknowledges, at least to some extent, that Putin has strung him along.
Joe Getty
He says know that that Putin is the reason that there has been no end to this crisis.
Jack Armstrong
And he acknowledged that he's not sure.
Joe Getty
What'S going to come out of this.
Travis Holloway
Sit down.
Jack Armstrong
As I liked her saying that or I'm happy to hear that. I hope it's true and sticks that Trump has acknowledged that Putin is the reason this war is still going on. Because my concern is he meets with Putin and comes out, you know, Friday afternoon or Saturday morning and starts really leaning on Zelensky. The reason we can't get peace is Zelensky is just too angry. He did say the other day, Zelensky's been there for three years and hasn't accomplished anything. What, what was he supposed to accomplish in terms of a peace deal as he's being attacked over the last few years?
Travis Holloway
At the same time, the Kremlin's putting on a full court press that, I mean, for instance, here's one Putin aid, senior aide, neocons and other warmongers won't be smiling when the two leaders meet. The Putin Trump dialogue will bring hope, peace and global security. Though the Ukrainian question has been declared to be the main item of the agenda, much more important global issues are going to be raised, according to other senior advisers to Putin, including there it is ambitious plans for economic and infrastructure cooperation in the Arctic, among other things. So they are now trying to cast it as, oh, yeah, yeah, we'll talk about Ukraine, but this is time. This is the time for the great reset on all sorts of issues before the you between the US And Russia, to my mind, thereby dangling as a prize for Trump the ability to do what Obama and Hillary and Biden and everybody else could not do, reset relations with Russia.
Jack Armstrong
Well, we talked about this at length in our one. So if, if you're interested and you want to catch that, you can go to the podcast Armstrong and Getty on Demand. I think that maybe the one of the big unknowns hanging out there is does Europe Find its balls, its testicles, and decide, yeah, this is our.
Travis Holloway
Yeah, we knew what you meant by balls. We were good. We're solid. But go on, please.
Jack Armstrong
Kohanes Koheny, it's gonads, if you will.
Travis Holloway
It's sperm producing organs that generally hang on the male. Go on. Yes, please, please.
Jack Armstrong
Hitler had one.
Travis Holloway
No, that's a myth. But go on.
Jack Armstrong
Does Europe decide? We've got an economy as big as the United states. We got 500 million people here that are in the backyard of Russia. How about we decide what the terms are going to be for an agreement with Russia instead of the United States? Fine, go ahead. That'd be awesome. I would love that. I think Trump would love that. But are they going to, are they just going to sit back and passively let imagine, imagine letting some other country, even if it is the dominant United States, letting some other country so far away come in and take care of this, Right.
Travis Holloway
If we were having just a brutal dispute with, say, Mexico, France would fly in and say, all right, here's how it's going to be.
Jack Armstrong
Right.
Travis Holloway
But to continue your delightful metaphor, the problem with Europe is they've got like 23 different sets of gonads of various sizes and shapes. And, and they don't agree on much. They pretend to, but they don't really.
Jack Armstrong
Right. So when we talk about Europe, we already said this earlier, but we're in terms of standing up to Russia, it would really be Germany, France, England and Poland probably be the main, main people.
Travis Holloway
But the, the Baltic States as well, Estonia, Latvia, sure, I don't have a. Finland's always good to count on, too.
Jack Armstrong
But I don't have a sense of their economies and power because. Well, that was one thing that. God, there's a quote from George Schultz, if you're old enough to remember George Schultz, he's one of the great diplomats of the Reagan era or whatever. Talking about.
Travis Holloway
Looks like a cartoon bloodhound.
Jack Armstrong
Smart man, though. He did look like a cartoon blood hunt. Didn't we meet him once and do something with him? I think we did.
Travis Holloway
I think so. Oh, yeah.
Jack Armstrong
But he has a quote about this sort of negotiation where unless it's just a capitulation by one side, there has to be some sort of power to force the agreement by one side or the other or a third party like the United States. I mean, that's what we're trying to do with our, you know, tariffs, penalties on India for their oil and that sort of thing that would hurt Russia.
Travis Holloway
Arms shipments and the rest of it.
Jack Armstrong
Sure is, is. And so the point of this quote was, is Europe going to bring to bear any forcing mechanism, any power to this so they can take control of the situation, with the main thing being something they talked about up until a month ago, putting a hundred thousand troops in there.
Travis Holloway
France. France and Germany, when Britain were talking.
Jack Armstrong
About their own troops there in Ukraine as a tripwire. Okay. Then that's what's going to establish the peace deal. If they're willing to do that, then they've got some leverage. Trump, Putin does not want that.
Travis Holloway
Right. And the Euros are not willing to do it. Therefore, we must snatch Putin the moment he steps on America.
Jack Armstrong
Good transition. So we brought up the idea, or I asked like a, like a dullard that I am as a. Why don't we just nab the war criminal? He's coming to the United States. Why don't we just arrest him? Say you're under arrest. You take him to Washington, D.C. or wherever you're going to take him and put him on trial for crimes against the globe, and you lock him in arms. And I, I was asking what would be the. Well, first of all, how difficult would that be to do? And then secondly, you've got.
Travis Holloway
What.
Jack Armstrong
What would be the repercussions from that? How would the world react? I feel like a lot of the world would love to have Putin off the stage. I feel like maybe the people below him in Russia would say, oh, cool, let's now we can get out of Ukraine and go back to running our oligarchy.
Travis Holloway
Yeah. But at the same time, the idea of snatching up foreign leaders that you have invited for a visit. You want to talk about.
Jack Armstrong
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. It was Putin's idea. Putin's idea was Alaska. It was his idea to meet with Trump, and it was his idea to meet in Alaska.
Travis Holloway
You want to come to Alaska? Yeah. Yeah, I think we could work that out.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah.
Travis Holloway
What day? Friday. Saturday. How about Friday?
Jack Armstrong
Let's make it earlier. Anyway, so I talked to somebody very familiar with security for these sorts of things. Like, actually has, you know, walked the walk on this sort of thing around the globe. We're wondering about the security. Like, does Putin get to bring his own, you know, Secret Service, basically? And then we got our Secret Service. And is everybody armed to the teeth? From what I'm told by an expert, Putin brings an armed detail. Yes. And we provide him Secret Service protection. That's part of what the Secret Service does. And then given how close the summit is in Alaska to Russia, One would be rightly concerned this is about snatching up Putin and arresting him. One would be rightly concerned about a military response from Russia, which is next door. They would have a security room probably there at the meeting, too, and would start advising the military if he was apprehended. It could be done, but it would. But it would obviously be beyond the norm and would set a terrible precedent for the world. Let's skip over that part. This person said, if I was planning how to do it, you got to knock out all the communications there. Kill the security detail, Putin's security detail, immediately. You'd have to then get. Get him as far away from Alaska as possible. That'd be the only way to pull it off.
Travis Holloway
Wow. Well, yeah, yeah, I would agree, having been studying the methods for dealing with foreign leaders and their security needs when they come to the United States. But get them as far away from Alaska as possible. Yeah, okay. All right. Well, we've got great jets and all. What? Connecticut? I don't. Maine. What would that. Miami Beach. Take them to Miami Beach.
Jack Armstrong
Well, you kill. You. You kill a security detail. You got them on a helicopter, you get them to a plane. You get him out of there fast.
Travis Holloway
And then have Dick Cheney take over, you know, one of those black sites. Right.
Jack Armstrong
Somebody. Somebody did point out on the text line yesterday, and I'm happy about this. We are not a signator to the international court that declares who's a war criminal. We do not sign that, because otherwise these other freaking weirdo countries would decide Dick Cheney was a war criminal, and then he shows up in Paris for some meeting, and he would be arrested.
Travis Holloway
Right, right.
Jack Armstrong
Because of something with Israel or who knows what. So that. So we don't even believe in that sort of stuff.
Travis Holloway
So being curious about this whole topic, I dug into it a little bit and came up with some pretty interesting information. And, yeah. And Jack said when a foreign head of state or government visits the US Almost always bring their own security detail with them. Those agents are responsible for the leader's personal safety, often travel with them on the same plane. They are physically very, very close to the leader. The U.S. secret Service is still in charge. They have primary responsibility for protecting foreign dignitaries who are visiting. The visiting security team works closely with the Secret Service. Cannot operate independently. They coordinate routes, venues, and security perimeters together. They usually carry firearms only after special permissions and credentialings. In practice, the U.S. secret Service handles the outer perimeter, like, I don't know, aluminum shed with a clear line of sight to the President and The overall security plan while the foreign detail stays physically close to the leader, like right at their side in public. And then I was digging into this on ChatGPT, which is a great resource except when it lies to you.
Jack Armstrong
Can you imagine that? If that ever went sideways, though, for some reason, and you got the arm to the teeth of Russian dudes with the arm to the teeth the U. S. Secret service, both protecting their each of the man. That would be quite the scene. As I told my source yesterday, I said, somebody's got to write this movie because that is an interesting scene.
Travis Holloway
Yeah, I saw a similar scene that happened to be a couple of criminal organizations battling it out in a drama Judy and I were watching. But yeah, it would be. It would be a bloodbath anyway. But it said, I can give you a real example of how this plays out when, say, the British prime minister visits. And I said, nah, I'm more interested in an example where it's a foreign leader of an adversary like China. And chatgpt told me that when it's an adversary nation like China, the dynamic gets much more sensitive, but the basic structure is the same and. And I probably should have read about Putin, but it was funny. Xi Jinping was the first person to come to mind because he's been recently though my favorite part was coordination is tense, but formal. The two security teams meet in advance, exchange very limited plans, agree on routes, motorcade structures, who stands where. The Chinese security team, in this case, and I'm sure Russia is the same, will usually insist on driving in their own armored vehicles brought from China, sometimes flown in with the delegation.
Jack Armstrong
Wow.
Travis Holloway
Weapons and legal permissions are tightly restricted. Extra surveillance on both sides. U.S. counterintelligence teams, FBI, Diplomatic Security Service and others will monitor the foreign security personnel closely, not just for safety, but also to prevent or detect espionage. The foreign team may also be running its own counter surveillance to spot potential threats or track where US Personnel are. And they. They actually go into the Chinese visit to Seattle and Washington D.C. in 2015, and it's. It's interesting and it's certainly the stuff of movies, but they break down further step by step, from the inside out what the security is. And I'll just hit you with the close in the inner ring of security. In the case of China, it would be the Chinese Central Security Bureau. With Russia, it would be probably some branch of the fsb, I don't know. But they're within arm's reach. Often two to six agents who move with leader at all times, leader at all times, immediate Protection from sudden attacks, physical shielding, rapid evacuation. You know, are the only foreign agents who might be armed in the U.S.
Jack Armstrong
My favorite question, I feel like we've talked about this before and I don't remember who it was with, but how crazy. So if, if, if Trump swung on Putin or Putin swung on Trump and.
Travis Holloway
They'Re rolling actual fisticuffs.
Jack Armstrong
Okay, if they're rolling around on the floor, like gouging each other's eyes and stuff like that, who does what?
Travis Holloway
What happens in that scenario, I guess. Well, so unlikely we're pitting a fat old real estate developer against an old KGB assassin.
Jack Armstrong
Ah, Trump's weight ain't nothing though there. You know, Trump's taller and heavier by a lot.
Travis Holloway
Yeah, I don't see him moving fast enough to prevent Putin putting a thumb clear to the back of his eye socket, his eyeball right now.
Jack Armstrong
It isn't going to be like a match though, I think, where they all just back off and let them fight. I mean, I assume the various security details would get involved. I just don't know how it would look. They're just gonna back off and let them fight? Well, let them work it out.
Travis Holloway
They'll be like hockey refs. They'll just hover and they'll wait till somebody's on the ground. They're really getting the hell be it out of them.
Jack Armstrong
Okay, we got more next.
Travis Holloway
Armstrong and Getty.
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The reviews and ratings are in and ice Cube's big three is the surprise hit of the summer. This Saturday, 4pm Eastern on CBS. With playoff elimination on the line, the stars will be flocking to Los Angeles to witness the most physical, fiercest and competitive basketball in the world. Miami's Michael Beasley and Lance Stevenson must win over Houston to make the playoffs, reeling from last week's savage beating at the hands of Chicago's possessed Montrez Herald Last time these teams met, Miami beat Houston Houston. But they are a dangerous team having their manhood at stake. Then breakout star Dwight Howard of the LA Riot will battle Gary Payton's Boston squad in a do or die match for both teams. Will LA avenge their previous shocking loss to perennial basketball Boston rivals? To survive, six teams are allowed for four spots and all must win. Don't miss the Big Three, the three on three basketball league everyone is talking about. There's no crying in the Big three and the no hold spot Action start starts Saturday at 4pm Eastern, 1pm Pacific, followed by two games on Vice starting at 6:30 Eastern. Presented by iheart this is Jacob Goldstein.
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Travis Holloway
So good. Your bill, ladies.
Jack Armstrong
I got it.
Travis Holloway
No, I got it. Seriously, I insist.
Jack Armstrong
I insisted first.
Travis Holloway
Don't be silly. You don't be silly.
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Travis Holloway
Okay.
Joe Getty
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Travis Holloway
Rock, paper scissors. Shoot. No.
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Jack Armstrong
This is the top five ways people slack at work.
Travis Holloway
Number five we have the hour before lunch. I'm hungry. All I'm thinking about is I want to get the hell out of here. Number four, the hour directly after a meeting. Paying attention during the meeting has absolutely cooked me. Number three, the hour after lunch, I'm depressed. All I can think about now is how badly I want to have a nap. Number two, the first hour of the day. Quick socialize with the colleagues immediately. Looking to get a coffee. I might turn my computer on and see if I got any urgent emails. Number one, the last hour of the day. I busted my ass all day. Now it's time for me to start wrapping things up and look for the exit door. Yeah, Claire, to clarify, obviously, it's the top five hours of the day out of eight that you're going to waste at work.
Jack Armstrong
So if you. I don't know about the meeting one, but the other ones, the hour before you end, you could easily get into, like, short timers mode. Every day, the first hour, you know.
Travis Holloway
There'S no point in starting something that you know right. You know, I'll start it tomorrow.
Jack Armstrong
And that first hour, you're settling in, you're checking some emails. Some of them are personal. A lot of them are personal. Most of them are personal. And then before you get around to your work. So now you've already killed two hours. Then you got that hour after lunch where, oh, I shouldn't eat so much. I'm so tired.
Travis Holloway
Oh, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Jack Armstrong
So it could easily be three hours of every day where you're not very productive, which leaves you five.
Travis Holloway
So I dug back into the. The whole security detail thing with Russian examples, and I will tell you this. Practically guaranteed, the Secret Service that is in charge of this sort of thing is frantic right now because to have Vladimir Putin. What is it? Was it the Bering Strait between Russia and the U.S. i mean, it's a few dozen miles separating the two countries.
Jack Armstrong
How wide is the Bering Strait, Katie, or how close?
Travis Holloway
I think they said something like they're 55 miles apart at the Diomede Islands. Russia and the United States at its narrowest. It's 51. Wow. There you go. So you got Putin's personal protection that comes from the Federal Protective Service. Extremely tense and careful negotiations with his armed bodyguards, his advanced team scouting every location. The FSO is highly insular, deeply distrustful of foreign security services, especially in the US they'd want to physically control every interaction Putin has, in spite of the fact that the Social Security. I'm sorry, the Secret Service would be in charge. Heavy counterintelligence, presence of the FBI in all directions. Just very tense. I wonder how much snipers from both sides, the latter being closely monitored and restricted in position so that nobody could get snatched up.
Jack Armstrong
Wow. Of course, it's the it's what they talk about that matters that's going to come out of that thing. Inflation numbers came out.
Travis Holloway
We'll talk about those strong and getty.
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The reviews and ratings are in and Ice Cube's Big Three is the surprise hit of the summer. This Saturday, 4pm Eastern on CBS, with playoff elimination on the line, the stars will be flocking to Los Angeles to witness the most physical, fiercest and competitive basketball in the world. Miami's Michael Beasley and Lance Stevenson must win over Houston to make the playoffs, reeling from last week's savage beating at the hands of Chicago's possessed Montrez Harrell. Last time these teams met, Miami beat Houston, but they are a dangerous team having their manhood at stake. Then breakout star Dwight Howard of the LA Riot will battle Gary Payton's Boston squad in a do or die match for both teams. Will LA avenge their previous shocking loss to perennial basketball Boston rivals? To survive, six teams are allowed for four spots and all must win. Don't miss the Big Three, the three on three basketball league everyone is talking about. There's no crying in the big three and the no hold spot action starts Saturday at 4pm Eastern, 1pm Pacific, followed by two games on Vice starting at 6:30 Eastern. Presented by iHeart.
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Jack Armstrong
Wasn't that delicious?
Travis Holloway
So good. Your bill ladies. I got it. No, I got it. Seriously, I insist.
Jack Armstrong
I insisted first.
Travis Holloway
Don't be silly. You know he's silly.
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Joe Getty
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Travis Holloway
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Jack Armstrong
Israeli company D Fen Solutions CEO Zohar Halachmi says even off the shelf drones can now be easily outfitted to drop grenades or carry explosives. It is the latest concern of lawmakers on Capitol Hill as they're calling for greater coordination from federal agencies to protect large Events like the 2026 World cup and 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles. Where the hell would I get a grenade? Though I suppose the evildoers would have grenades. So now I don't know Amazon. So all you need to do is get a hold of some sort of explosive. You can buy a drone anywhere and then fly it over whatever event drop. I mean that's. It's inevitable, right?
Travis Holloway
I caramba. What a world.
Jack Armstrong
So inflation news came out today and there's a lot of concern about back on Liberation Day that there's going to be horrifying inflation because of the tariffs. Well, a lot of the tariffs got backed off until recently, so we haven't had the inflation we thought. Yada yada yada. Anyway, it's interesting how the three main newspapers in America's headlines can be different. Wall Street Journal inflation held steady at 2.7% and right underneath it it says Dow rises after inflation report, which suggests good news. Right. The New York Times, however, their headline is US Inflation Report shows effects of President Trump's Tariffs. Okay, that's not at all what they said in the Wall Street Journal.
Travis Holloway
Wow, that's a leap. Those people are shameless.
Jack Armstrong
And then the Washington Post, fairly non committal also, hang on a second.
Travis Holloway
How does it staying the same, show the effects of Trump's tariffs? Because, well, they did. We all knew it was going to go down.
Jack Armstrong
I complained about this earlier, but. So they always hit you with the main inflation number in these publications. And then they say in the second paragraph, of course, the number that economists pay attention to is the core inflation. And that actually went up a little bit. And my question would be, if this is the number that matters the most, then why isn't it the main number?
Travis Holloway
Why are you giving me some other.
Jack Armstrong
Number and then telling me this isn't really important, though? Here's the number that's important. And then it went up a little bit. And they're blaming that on tariffs.
Travis Holloway
Wow.
Jack Armstrong
But it just went up a tiny bit. Whatever.
Travis Holloway
You know, speaking of money, this is one of my favorite stories of the day, and it is utterly unnoticed. You probably will not hear it from anybody but us, but in Texas, where they're doing a lot of good stuff with conservative governing, they've, they've passed. Is it, they passed a law? Oh, it's, it's a priority for this month's special session of the legislature and it has to do with something we've talked about for years. And it's one of my favorite themes, that is when the government itself becomes so big and powerful, it becomes its own most important lobbyist. We're doomed if the very, you know, machine of government decides, you know, feeding ourselves is what we're really about. And guess what? We write the laws, we're doomed. So we're probably doomed. And as John, the excellent John Fund writes in the National Review, one of the biggest obstacles to government reform is bureaucracies using taxpayer dollars to lobby for higher taxes and spending in a perpetual motion of big government growth particular. That's exactly what I'm talking about. Longtime problem in Texas, where counties, cities and even universities send armies of lobbyists to the legislature and stymie good fiscal policy. Now we're finally seeing some progress in curbing this problem. Texas Governor Greg Abbott has had enough. He's made curbing taxpayer funded lobbying a priority for this month's special session of legislature. The state Senate has approved a bill that would prevent Cities, counties and school districts from spending taxpayer dollars to hire outside lobbyists.
Jack Armstrong
Wow.
Travis Holloway
There's a state senator who's a former county tax assessor. He's observed local officials abuse their offices. He's a key supporter of the bill. He argued Texans are being taxed twice, once to fund local services and again to fund political lobbying they may not support. He cited a report by the Texas Public Policy foundation that estimates that in 2023, local governments spend almost $99 million to hire contract lobbyists, which is a significant increase from a couple of years before. Another sponsor of the bill emphasizes that it would do nothing to restrict local officials ability to lobby the state legislature themselves. He said we just don't need a taxpayer funded lobbyist middleman between our elected local officials and our elected state officials.
Jack Armstrong
This is a more important version of one of our favorite things that ever happened on our radio show when one time we ran two back to back PSAs. Government PSAs, so paid for by the taxpayer.
Travis Holloway
Those are public service announcements.
Jack Armstrong
One suggesting you eat less dairy because it's bad for you and then your taxpayer money. On the next PSA explaining how you should eat more cheese. So one of them eat less cheese. One of them eat more cheese, your tax money.
Travis Holloway
Oh my God. Yeah, you gotta laugh to keep from crying. Oh, that reminds me.
Jack Armstrong
But if you got taxpayer money going out and lobbying for things that are the government, I mean, it's a similar sort of deal.
Travis Holloway
That reminds me. The new trend you need to know about this hour because there will be another one. Next hour is carnivore babies swapping pureed fruit for ribeye. The rise of animal heavy diets for infants and toddlers. Concerns and perplexes pediatricians.
Jack Armstrong
Boy, I don't remember.
Travis Holloway
How much meat did my baby eat, Denny?
Jack Armstrong
I don't remember.
Travis Holloway
Do you feed a baby meat?
Jack Armstrong
I don't even remember.
Travis Holloway
You do some. You know, I could skip to the end of this. Look, if you're a diet craze person, and I've known a lot that like.
Jack Armstrong
That, like jump on the new bandwagon all the time or at least semi frequently.
Travis Holloway
Yeah, they're very enthusiastic about diet. A, then it's B, then it's C, then it's D and. And I think we've all worked with multiple people like that. Some of them were very bright and capable people. If you want to do that, eat nothing but meat and then go gluten free and then have nothing but whole grains or whatever and then nothing bigger than the cleansed diet. Right.
Jack Armstrong
Nothing better Bigger than the size of your fist or only repeat cards or.
Travis Holloway
A caveman diet or whatever. Go ahead, go ahead. But you're gonna do it to your infant.
Jack Armstrong
Oh, come on.
Travis Holloway
Daria Quinville's infant daughter was ready for solid food, but she skipped the mushed up avocado and banana on the menu. Instead, raw egg yolk and pureed chicken liver. Her child, Schizandra, then moved on to sardines, butter and ice pops made out of bone broth. She gnawed on a leg of lamb. She would just teeth on it and soothe herself.
Jack Armstrong
Freaking bone broth people. You bone broth people wear me out.
Travis Holloway
Schizandra is what her mom calls a carnivore baby. Most of her diet is meat. That's right, sir. Most of her diet is meat. Along with other animal sourced foods like eggs and butter. And of course. Oh, oh. Some parents. Oh, here you. Here you go. Here's the good part. With the carnivore diet rising in popularity among adults, babies and toddlers are getting in on it too. Like they're deciding to mom swap tips. Think directions for whipped bone marrow on Facebook forums with names like Carnivore Motherhood.
Jack Armstrong
If you say bone marrow to me, I exactly know what sort of person you are. That's all I need to know. Here is those two words. I know what. I know so much about you. If you say the two words bone marrow.
Travis Holloway
I don't know what the bone marrow does for you, but it makes my ass tired. That's the effect it has on me. Some parents say they're inspired by social media stars. A handful of doctors who are raising their own Carnivore babies have YouTube channels with hundreds of thousands, even millions of subscribers.
Jack Armstrong
You like the bone marrow. Okay. You wore a mask long beyond necessary. And we're all for the schools being closed down and voted for Kamala Harrison, like mum Donnie and all kinds of other things that go with bone marrow.
Travis Holloway
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. A carnivore champion, has loudly expressed his affinity for beef tallow. Yeah, the inevitable. Some pediatricians are very concerned. Small children need vitamin C. They need fiber. They need this, that, and the other for a functioning gut biome that are not prevalent in meat heavy diet. Here's the crazy part. And this is never going to be an effing craze. Pardon me, but this sort of thing makes me nuts because people want the super, super simple. I get the appeal of it on the chalkboard. No. All I eat is this. And that's the way. Because A caveman used to.
Jack Armstrong
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Travis Holloway
No, you know what? Cavemen probably eat plenty of leafy greens and, and, and berries whenever they found them. Anyway, it's got to be just super simple for people to get it. But virtually every responsible doctor they talked to said, yeah, the protein's good for the kid, but it needs this and that and the other. How about you go for a balanced diet?
Jack Armstrong
Yeah.
Travis Holloway
And I understand your child Schizandra.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, I understand weight loss crazes because you're desperate to lose weight and you're hoping that this new one is going to work and the other ones didn't. Reality is, most studies have shown the one you stick with is the one that works. So go with whichever one you can keep doing. But for your kid who doesn't need to lose weight, I don't know why you get into a craze.
Travis Holloway
So this, this might have been my favorite part of this article. Carnivore babies tend to have carnivore moms. Lorraine B. Was trying to get pregnant when she stumbled upon YouTube videos from doctors promoting meat based diets for fertility. As a registered dietitian herself. Yeah, I'm glad they make them register. You know, like sex offenders. They ought to be on some sort of registry somewhere. Bunch of crazed pitching nut jobs. Not all of you. Not all of you. All right, go ahead, write your angry email. Any. So as a registered dietitian herself, she was skeptical about the meat based fertility diets. I said, that's crazy. Then she became obsessed, watching hours of videos a day and devouring comments from women who said eating only animal foods helped them conceive. So she went mostly carnivore two and a half years ago and didn't get pregnant. Oh, so they adopted a kid, but she's stuck on the carnivore diet now, feeding it to her kid.
Jack Armstrong
There. There needs to be a law in journalism against finding a nut job and then building an entire article around it. That's. That's like half of journalism in the modern world. So she got obsessed with it and watched hours of videos a day. That's not normal.
Travis Holloway
And then it didn't do her any good. That's completely abnormal. But because she's a simpleton that needs to latch onto the overly simple solution, she stuck with it in spite of the lack of results, and now has become a carnivore mom. Final note, her little girl is of course on a carnivore style diet too. If it makes sense for adults, why wouldn't it make Sense for kids. She said as a licensed dietitian. She spoke those words aloud. Registered dietitian. That's right. Put them on our registry. Isabella eats bits of egg, shredded cheese, yogurt, and pureed ground beef and chicken liver. She licks butter off a spoon, bunch of butter lickers and gets bone broth in her bottle. There you go. There's your bone broth. The toddler who has four teeth likes to gum rib eyes and lamb bones.
Jack Armstrong
All right, great. Good for you.
Travis Holloway
Oh, my God. I won't plug the Internet.
Jack Armstrong
Well, I think the Internet might kill off trends, which would be a good thing, mostly because I saw the Wall Street Journal the other day had in their fashion section the return of skinny jeans. Now, as far as I can tell, skinny jeans left like six months ago and they've returned again already. So at most.
Travis Holloway
Yeah, so, I mean, it may have been last week.
Jack Armstrong
If something returns that fast, maybe it'll just be the end of trends.
Travis Holloway
Well, right, you, you'd like to be a slavish follower of whatever's hot, but you literally don't have time to get to the store before that trend is over. This afternoon.
Jack Armstrong
Right?
Travis Holloway
Yeah, that. That would be great.
Jack Armstrong
God, how many years ago was it that Chris Rock said, here today, gone today. That was like 20 years ago when he said that. It's way more that now than it was then. Hilarious.
Travis Holloway
Trends are over by the time you speak the sentence required to describe them.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, you and your bone.
Travis Holloway
All right, K, F, Y, B, B, B. Keep feeding your baby bone broth.
Jack Armstrong
All right, more on the way.
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War ends can be a good thing or a bad thing. If it ends in a way, it looks like that Putin's overly rewarded. There goes Taiwan. You can't end a war without talking. I do hope that Zelensky can be part of the process. I'll leave that up to the White House. But I come on your show a good bit. I want to be honest with you. Ukraine's not going to evict every Russian Russian. And Russia is not going to Kiev. So there'll be some land swaps at the end.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, well, Putin's trying to have more land to swap. So this is breaking news. Moscow troops make massive, massive advance in Ukraine days before the summit. They are now six miles further in than they were two days ago and have surrounded three more towns that they did not have control of 72 hours ago.
Travis Holloway
And they want is a master stroke by the master manipulator.
Jack Armstrong
Well, plus, if it's going to end up being a, like the, our ambassador, the US Master to the, to NATO, to the un, whoever it was, one of our ambassadors, I think our ambassador to NATO said you don't get to have any land, that you haven't fought foreign control. Well, he was, he's going to fight foreign control. As much land as he can before maybe some sort of offer. I have no idea.
Travis Holloway
Yeah, expend whatever he has to expend right now to a snatch up as much land as possible, having been told by our NATO ambassador what he needed to do to keep the land. Nice job. And, and, and secondly, make it clear that, hey, I'll, I'll grab it all. Look how much ground I've gained in the last couple of weeks. Unless you give it, you know, these regions to me that I'm asking for, or I will go nuts and take it all. And you know, Trump might say, yeah, it's better for Ukraine if we settle right now. So Putin wins a lot.
Jack Armstrong
This is.
Travis Holloway
Notice that not all the time, but he wins a lot lot. Because he's brutal. He's absolutely brutal.
Jack Armstrong
Bullies always win a lot until somebody's willing to stand up to them. That's just the history of bullies. This is one of the. When has there been a high level meeting with more drama than this one? I don't know if I can remember one. You might have to go back to.
Travis Holloway
The Cold War, but even then they didn't have big meetings unless most of the agenda was already set.
Jack Armstrong
You already knew what was going to happen.
Travis Holloway
Right. It was just a ceremonial with maybe a couple of details to be hashed out. But I mean, this is like all question marks, right.
Jack Armstrong
And, and personalities or tempers or whatever could flare. I mean, it could have an impact, right? Absolutely could. Trump said yesterday he will call Zelinsky first. First thing he'll do is when he comes out of the meeting, he'll call, he said, as a, as a sign of respect, I'll call, I'll call Zelinski right away. So, man, he's got to be waiting by the phone for that one.
Travis Holloway
One of our listeners suggested a convincing bald eagle like drone flying in through a window and taking Putin out. I don't think we can rule that out.
Jack Armstrong
I mentioned something earlier about Dick Cheney being a war criminal. According to the rest of the world, we got this text. Dick Cheney is a war criminal. You chirping minstrels.
Travis Holloway
Oh, wow. While chirping minstrels. That's good.
Jack Armstrong
That's one of my favorite insults ever.
Travis Holloway
Yeah, it's funny. As you spoke those words, I thought, well, you know, there's some argument that. But chirping minstrels style points. Well done, sir or madam.
Jack Armstrong
Hey, do we have a time on the summit with Putin and Trump yet in Alaska? And then I don't know their time zone. We ought to nail all that down because I would like to know when I'm going to start getting drips and drabs of news coming out of that.
Travis Holloway
Yeah, Alaska has its own, like, funky far west time zone, right? I don't even know.
Jack Armstrong
I don't know.
Travis Holloway
Is it part of the United States? I want to get a little more into Russia's probable strategy Friday and it ain't good next hour. If you don't get next hour. First of all, we're so sorry. Secondly, you can grab it via podcast. Just subscribe to Armstrong and Getty on Demand. You get all sorts of great contact and you'll never miss a segment.
Jack Armstrong
Yeah. Make it as easy as possible.
Travis Holloway
Cool.
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We got a lot of good stuff on the way. I hope you can stay here.
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Podcast Summary: Armstrong & Getty On Demand – "We Knew What You Meant By 'Balls'"
Episode Details
The episode opens with an in-depth discussion about the anticipated meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, set to take place in Alaska. Hosts Jack Armstrong and Travis Holloway explore the potential implications of this high-stakes summit.
Key Points:
Notable Quote:
"We must snatch Putin the moment he steps on America." – Jack Armstrong (08:30)
A significant portion of the episode delves into the complexities of securing foreign dignitaries during their visits to the United States, using the hypothetical scenario of arresting Putin as a focal point.
Key Points:
Notable Quote:
“It would obviously be beyond the norm and would set a terrible precedent for the world.” – Unknown Expert (12:56)
The hosts analyze recent inflation reports and the differing narratives presented by major American newspapers.
Key Points:
Notable Quote:
“I complained about this earlier, but... So they always hit you with the main inflation number in these publications.” – Jack Armstrong (29:03)
A segment of the discussion focuses on Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s initiative to limit taxpayer-funded lobbying by local governments.
Key Points:
Notable Quote:
“Texans are being taxed twice, once to fund local services and again to fund political lobbying they may not support.” – State Senator (31:28)
The episode shifts to a discussion about emerging and controversial dietary trends, specifically the adoption of meat-heavy diets for infants and toddlers.
Key Points:
Notable Quote:
“If it makes sense for adults, why wouldn't it make sense for kids?” – Jack Armstrong (37:07)
Returning to geopolitical topics, the hosts provide an update on the ongoing conflict between Ukraine and Russia amidst the upcoming summit.
Key Points:
Notable Quote:
“Bullies always win a lot until somebody's willing to stand up to them.” – Jack Armstrong (46:27)
As the episode nears its end, the hosts wrap up their discussions with final remarks on the pressing issues covered and tease upcoming content.
Key Points:
Notable Quote:
“We are not a signatory to the international court that declares who's a war criminal.” – Jack Armstrong (11:43)
Notable Quotes with Timestamps:
This episode of "Armstrong & Getty On Demand" offers a comprehensive analysis of critical global issues, blending geopolitical insights with discussions on domestic policy and social trends. Through engaging dialogue and informed perspectives, the hosts provide listeners with a nuanced understanding of the complex dynamics shaping today's world.