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Speaker 1 (00:10):
The Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George Washington Broadcast Center,
Armstrong and Getty. You're listening to the best of the
Armstrong and Getty. So I have a logistical challenge here.
I collect, I Joe collect all sorts of things I

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want to talk about on the show, and I have
tabs and the folders and the rest of it, and
it's become totally unwieldy. There's so many great things to
talk about. Each one of them deserves between thirty seconds
and five minutes of discussion, and so once in a while,
I do this just to preserve my own sanity and
to make sure you hear this stuff. It's time for
Joe closes his tabs, now Jack, because we're gonna move

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swiftly here. Oh boy, you know, I want to make
sure that you have time to comment as much as
you want. So just why don't we end each little
mini segment with you saying something like, well, there you
have it, awkward, I have nothing else to say. Here
we go. Joe closes as tabs. Sorry, gay folks. Vatican

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said Monday the Catholic Church would not bless same sex unions,
being gay, getting married up as a gay person is
a choice, and it's a sin and cannot be recognized
as objectively ordered to God's plans. I was kind of
surprised by that. This pope seems to, you know, march
to his own drummer, and has been out there on
a number of subjects. I thought now might be the

(01:44):
time that they say, hey, you're born gay. So oh yeah, yeah,
they're still going with you could go with your born
gay and still be anti gay marriage, I guess for
a variety of reason. But um, the idea that there's
still going with it's a choice is interesting to me. Yeah.
Now the doctrine is, look, we love you. We're all

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sinners that happens to be yours, No, no problem, we
love you, welcome to church. We're just not gonna bless you.
You're merrit so anyway, so not Catholic. My gay friends
don't care what the pope things, as far as I
can tell, right well, and I don't think most Catholics
are gonna live by that either. So Sean suggests, ain't

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that something for the way to? That's pretty strong, Sean,
that's why you're the producer. Ain't that something okay? Moving along? Then,
scientists want to store the DNA of six point seven
million of earth species on the Moon. Wow, they're calling
it a lunar arc. They're gonna hide inside the Moon's

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lava tubes the sperm, eggs and seeds of millions of
Earth's species by twosies twosies. Ah, that's not clear to me.
They'd be safely hidden in these hollowed out tunnels and
caves sculptured by lava more than three billion years ago.
Take that ten thousand year old basket from the last segment.

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They would be powered by solar panels above, holdy cryogenically
preserved genetic material of all six point seven million known
species of plants, animal animals, and fun guy on Earth,
it would it would require at least two hundred and
fifty rocket launches to transport all those things to the Moon.

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As a fun guy, I'm in favor of that. Ain't
that something? Okay? Moving along? Who among us hasn't considered
urinating in our airline seat? What? Nobody's considered that? But
if you, if you have, you could get yourself a
quarter million dollar fine and up to twenty years in prison.

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Exhibit A is a Colorado man twenty four years old,
who refused to wear a face mask and then stood
up and urinated on his seat. According to the ap Okay,
the man now faces a federal charge of interfering with
a flight crew and attendance that carries a maximum term
blah blah blah blah blah. So I think if you
just let it go because you're too lazy to walk
to the back of the plane, you probably won't get

(04:12):
a quarter million dollar fun I would love some sort
of real time way to know how do you think
this is going to play out? Ran like? As this
is actually going forward? Right, Let's let's fast forward to
an hour from now, a day from now. Is your
life going to be better for this experience? Sir? I
see you're standing on your seat and your penis is exposed,

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and it appears to me that you're about to urinate.
Let's think about this for a day. Exactly how does
this play out? Jack authorities believe alcohol was involved. The
I would like your expert judgment as a recovering drunk
about this activity. The Colorado man told the FBI that

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he had several beers. How many's you say several? It's
a lot because all cops will see you everybody says
two when it's been more than that. If you're willing
to admit to several, it's a lot more than six.
I'm guessing absolutely I would say more. Yeah, yeah, and
I quote a couple of shots. Oh boy. Before boarding

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the flight, he fell asleep on the plane and awoke
to being yelled at by the flight attendant. Sho told
him he was peeing. He was released on a ten
thousand dollars bond depending his next court appearance. What happens, Well,
this other guy punched a Delta flight attendant in the face.
I mean, that's just it's another mask thing. I started

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talking to a girl in a airport bar one time,
and she was headed to Wisconsin and I was headed
to California, and we ended up in Las Vegas. I mean,
things gonna happen when you start drinking. Wow, the crossroads
of the world. Let's see. So the okay, second incident
involves a passenger. It was caught on camera punching a
Delta flight attend in the face masks refused to wear

(06:04):
his masks. Here's trade table and fasten his seatbelt. That's
the matter with you, anyway, he should probably be in jail.
And kept away from me. So you could get fined
heavily if you screw around on an airplane? Ain't that
something California schools? You know what? Now, we're not going
to do that one. That one's too important. And finally this, well, no,
I have more tabs, which one? Which one should I do?

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A second? Working from home is breaking our bodies, according
to physical therapists, professionals with neck and back gates and
other pains arising from work hours spent sitting at makeshift
work from home stations. So that's that's interesting. I would
think that most people have a more comfortable setup at

(06:47):
home than they do at work. That tends to give
you the cheapest chairs they can get away with. Right
Sean is doing deep knee bends right now? Is that
to help with your work? Soft cares? Healthcare everybody? Another
great Sean phrase. According to the premise of this story,
which we should not question, Jack corporations have ergonomic office

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furniture your Herman Miller chairs, adjustable standing desks, whereas employees
are kind of makeshifting it in front addressers and countertops
and whatever office chair they had there where they balanced
the checkbook in the kitchen they are reclined on their
couch with their laptop on their belly like an otter

(07:35):
positive Sean in fine form today spinal disc issues next
strains at center. It is possible that I could see this,
actually that you tend to do kind of the lounging thing.
Sean was just describing, as opposed to sitting up what
seems uncomfortably in an office chair, which is actually much

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better for you. Yes, yeah, I could see that. So
here are a couple of helpful hints. If you find
yourself in this position. Create a workstation that is dedicated
exclusively to work. Yeah, and if you have fine, if
you have room, you do. If you don't, you don't.
But keep your eyes level with the top of your
web browser to achieve good neck positioning. That's a good tip.

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Keep your eyes level at the top of your web browser. Yeah,
you want to try to avoid craning the neck up
or down for yeah, exactly. Keep your elbows at ninety degrees. Nay,
the ain cray. Now we're onto the elbows. Okay, everybody's
got their elbows in ninety degrees. I look like a robot.
Wrists in a neutral position, shoulders relaxed, to avoid tightness

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across the chest. What's what's a neutral wrist position like
mister Burns. That's correct, let's see an external mouse versus
a touchpad can also help relieve excessive strain on arms
and wrists. All right, etc. Etc. That's too long. Oh,
Plus people are used to having a couple two tree

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screens on their desk. It worked. They're all maxed out,
and then they're working at a single desktop at home
and they're hunched over and they're squinting and the rest
of it. Plus people are working too long from home,
so cut it out. I've been trying to sit up straighter.
One of those things that your mom or teachers wherever
used to told you that they've turned, that they've found
out over the years, is actually very good for you,

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not just physically but mentally. It's better for your brain
to sit up straight. Yeah. Interesting, you do feel differently
things that you can feel the chemical spoiling. And finally
this I found this interesting. Lengthy walks, a popular pandemic passtime,
can wear down the knees and hips if longer excursions

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are not complimented by core and pelvic stability strength strength
training exercises, like planks, bridges, and clamshells. Variety is important,
and patients who focused on just one form of exercise
like walking, running, biking, can develop muscle imbalances and overuse injuries.
How many deep knee bends did you just do? Like
twenty something like that? Yeah? I think if I did

(10:03):
twenty deep knee benes, I wouldn't be able to get
to my car after work. I think you would hear
cartilage tearing from across the room. Armstrong and get best
of the Armstrong and Getty shoe Armstrong and Getty. This

(10:24):
is the best of Armstrong and Getty. So it's beyond bath.
What's the name of the place. It's a bath and
body works, I believe, is that correct? Do you attest
to that? Yeah? Michael Okay, may Sell probably sell soaps
that look like desserts. Oh yeah, and desserts that look
like soaps. It's very clever. So I've watched this video.

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It is a brutality. It is a handful of heavy
set white gals and one heavy set You mentioned race
and wait, I'm painting a picture. What I pick? Paint
pictures with words heavy set white girls? Yeah? Yeah, white women,
ages thirty to fifty. I'd say thirty to forty five,

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I'm told. And if anybody has any more complete information,
feel free to interject now. But I'm told that there
was a dispute over somebody cutting in line. An employee interceded,
that was met with bad feelings, and the small female
fists got balled up and started to fly. It smells

(11:50):
like cinnamon. It was remarkable how quickly it just turned
into a multi person melee. Do we know what started
it in line? I'm told I don't know. Does Brett
Bears Report Shedney further light on this. It will make
you mad when somebody cuts in line. Foxtown and Phoenix says.
Video goes viral of a massive brawl between a customer

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and two employees at a bath and bodywork store. A
police spokesman says the fight started over someone cutting in line.
The company that owns the store says it's deeply concerned
and is investigating that incident. Oh yeah, right, well, of course,
the owner says he's deeply concerned. What are you ever
gonna say, bees, Bebes, what are you gonna do? I mean, well,

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what was really impressive to me? An old school? Really
old schools that the bath and bodyworks gals were willing
to throw dogs and just punched their customers right in
the face. That is that is from a bygone era
when you couldn't shoplift or you couldn't cause chaos. You know,
back back in the day you tried to shoplift, somebody
tackle you and sit on your chest till the cops came. Now,

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the great progrem as if experiment hall no better, let
the authorities deal, but don't do anything. Don't do it,
we might be sued. Don't do anything, and so property
crime is rampant. No, I'm not necessarily pro You know,
if my wife says, no, this coupon's not expired and
they say yes it is, and they soccer in the mouth,
I'm going to be pretty unhappy with that. You got
to have a little restraint, obviously. So the what was

(13:21):
that email you had earlier about um be kind to
people who are this that or the that? Because we
do you have that handy a quote from George Washington Carver. Yes,
because it fits in with my story about somebody cutting
in line. Yeah. How far you go in life depends
on your being tender with the young, compassionate, with the aged, sympathetic,

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with the striving and tolerant of the week, and strong
because someday in your life will you will have been
all of these. That's pretty good. I will remember that forever.
Um The other days, I'm at the grocery store and
I'm waiting in line. I'm doing the six foot back
thing that you have to do at the grocery store,
and some guy comes and just walks betwixt me and

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the person in front of me and just well just
cut in line. And it was a fairly long line.
We'd been waiting for a long time, and I was
do I say something? Do I not say something? For
whatever reason, I was in a mood where I thought,
you know what, I'm just gonna let him. I don't
I don't want I don't want to get worked up.
It's not worth that whatever. I'm gonna go all gandhi.
I'm gonna go all gandhi here. I'm gonna cease fighting

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everyone and everything and just let it go be part
of my world. But then we got up there after
he went through and everything that they were talking to him,
and he was clearly one way older than I had thought.
He was a quite old man and special in some way.
I don't know what. All the all the workers there
knew who he was. And did you have a ride
home today? Jim, you have a ride? Yeah? I got

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a guy I think I gotta ride. There's somebody want
to help him out. I mean, he's a guy they
know who's got some problems. And I thought, you know what,
I made the right call by accident. But I don't
the person that cut in line in front of me,
you don't know what their situation is now. Sometimes they're
just a holes who don't want to wait. That happen.
That's more often than not. But with all kinds of

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things driving, you know, all kinds of instance instances, you
don't know what's going on there. Yeah, mercy is better
than anger in general. Although some chick cuts in front
of you at the bathroom body works, I say, just flattener, Huh,
you got your story? What were you at a fair
or what were you to know? It was the first
time I ever went to the San Diego Zoo with

(15:26):
my wife and kids. With the great experiences for a
tourist in the world, sheer to pander to lions the
other animals. So recently inoculated apes. You know. I'm I'm
there with my three kids. It's a bit of a
spit show, if you know what I mean, trying to
keep everybody happening in line, and oh man, everybody's hungry

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but doesn't know what they want. So I got to
wait in line for the chow. And this was also
the first experience I had with this really as an adult.
I think, um, everybody's waiting in the line was very slow,
and some other people just walk in to the enclosure
and a lady waves over here, over here, over here,
and usher is an entire family in with her in
front of all of us who'd been waiting a long

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damn time. And I said, hey, excuse me, we've all
been waiting here for a long time. They really ought
to go to the end of the line. Because I was,
I was torked off and did it in that tone
there oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah. I may have
had a little edge, but I don't know. Years ago.
And so this lady turns and she shouts so everybody

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can hear, oh, white boys gotta eat. The white man
has to eat first. And I'm like, oh, and I'm like,
what are you anyway? Are you kind of hispanic ish
or something? I can't even tell, but she's She immediately
went to the race car she got thought, okay, all right,
And late later she went and got her man and

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this guy, you're a pretty big guy too. He came
it comes over. He goes, Hey, what's going on over here?
I said, she waved a bump, talked to her dude. Yeah,
her man, she had She made her man come over,
and uh and and this was actually a hell of
a good moment, a great woman. She waves her man over.
He says, what's going on here? I said, she waved

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a bunch of people in front of us in line.
We've been waiting a long time. He looks at me,
he looks at her. He rolls his eyes and walks
back to the table. He is like, dude, you have
to deal with this for ten minutes. I gotta deal
with this year round. You got lucky, got a normal person,
because there are people that would have loved the opportunity

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to fight over you disrespected his girlfriend, wife, whatever this is. Oh,
you're right, you're absolutely right. Oh my god, Armstrong, you're
listening to the best of the Armstrongs, of the Armstrong
and Getty Shoe. This is the best of Armstrong and
we wanted to talk to Mike Lyons military analysts. We've

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had on for years about some of the threats that
are the Biden administration faces in the world. Obviously China
is always on that list. But you know, start a
new administration, start fresh, look at the world and what
we need to worry about. Mike Clients, he served in
various military organizations in both the United States and Europe
throughout his career. It's got a bachelor's science degree from

(18:18):
the United States Military Academy at West Point, mba from
New York University. All around, smart guy and a guy
we like to talk to. Mike Clients. Welcome to the
Armstrong and Getty Show. How you doing, Hey, thanks so
much for having me back. How's your life? By the way,
A year into coronavirus, Yeah, we're still in pandemic hell
here in New York. Frankly, things are just opening up.

(18:39):
Ten percent of sports events I love close to New
York City, and you know, restaurants are closed. I've had
friends and relatives just seriously impacted. Their businesses are still closed. Yea.
We live under a governor that rules with an iron
fifth and the media lets them get away with it, frankly,
So you know, we just kind of every days Groundhog Day,
we lived data Day, and which is you know, hope

(19:01):
things change as the vaccine gets out there. Oh and
his administration covers up and lies about people dying, which
we'll talk about later this hour. Yeah, So before we
get to China, which has obviously got to be probably
the biggest part of the conversation, what are the big
threats that Joe Biden faces in his new administration around
the world. You know, when Mike asked me to talk
today about that, I really had to think about it

(19:22):
and say that. You know, we've talked in the past
about our strength of our military and what our military
can do and the hammer that it is. But I
really am now thinking that the Biden administration or any administration,
the way we are in the world right now, there's
so many more threats that are even non military related.
Cyber for example, a drug production technology transfers. The thing

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with the Chinese, for example, is the Chinese might not
threaten us militarily, but the bottom line is of all
information eventually flows through Chinese routers and the Internet and
they control those kinds of things. You know that that
has the real impact on our country. And so why
we focus continue to focus on our military might and
you know, our budget shows that we're going to invest
more in our navy and we're gonna say, you know,

(20:07):
we're gonna make sure that the shipping lanes are open
in the South Pacific and the like. Information, I think
more and more every day becomes more powerful than than
the sword and some levels, so I think that the
Biden administration is going to have to focus on more
than just the kinetic issues, but the threats that we
face with non military forces. So does it make sense

(20:28):
to continue to have troops in Afghanistan and you know,
keep our eye on Iraq and all that sort of
stuff while we're doing this, or can we even do that? Well,
the Trump administration has allowed the Biden administration and off
ramp in Afghanistan, and frankly, if they don't take it,
they're just stupid. You know, we've been there for twenty years.
It's Vietnam without the body bags. We're going to have

(20:49):
the same situation that taliment will takeover eventually in a
few years. Maybe it won't be eighteen months but if
they don't take advantage of this, then I don't know
when we're ever going to get out of there. And
for you know, the the Bid administration's foreign policy can't
be everything the opposite of what Donald Trump did, because
he did a lot of good things. Then shift that
back over to Iran. You shifted up to the Middle East.

(21:09):
You know, we're about to see you know, like who
concert meet the new boss sam as the old boss.
Because if we start shifting our attention away from Israel,
try to overthrow the government in Syria, you know, we're
gonna have failed nation states. We're gonna have the same
foreign policy we've had for the past thirty years before that,
with Iran in the center of it being the greatest
foreign policy failure in the history of the countries in

(21:32):
the post World War two error. So let's see what
Let's see what happens. But I do think that we've
got to think the third dimension now and recognize that
it's not just that situation of troops on the ground,
and that's not going to be what's going to protect power.
Iran is the greatest foreign policy failure in the post
World War two era. That's an interesting thing. For you

(21:53):
to say, yeah, absolutely, I think, you know, you could
argue Vietnam, we lost fifty six thousand souls there and
that that was a tremendous failure. But everything if in
nineteen seventy nine from the revolution. It took place when
we were young men, and I was in high school
at the time, just starting my military career, and and
everything that we look at today is all focus of

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the fact that Iran fell. Back then, they had that
war with Iraq, and you saw the Iraq war in
the nineties with Desert Storm, and then you saw what
all led up to the Taliban making their way inside
of Afghanistan. So I you know, had had that not happened,
I think, you know, we didn't see that coming. We
didn't see that revolution take place in Iran. And to

(22:34):
Barack Obama's credit, he tried to fix that. You know again,
he figured that that would be a good legacy project.
Let's let's fix it. But the way to fix it
is not to give them nuclear weapons and not allow
them to have them in ten years, which is really
what that deal was going to do. Yeah, it's pretty
interesting that the Biden administration, all their talk about things
they were going to do on day one and get
back into the Iranian Nuclear Agreement and all that sort

(22:55):
of stuff. They have not lifted sanctions, and Joe Biden
said the other day that we're not going to do
you stopped making uranium. Iran announced yesterday that they are
going to you know, enriched uranium. Yeah. Yeah. The thought
why that came out with from the mulas there as
all by the wayside. And you know, if they were
going to use nuclear energy in order to power hospitals
and the like and that thing, that that would be fine.

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But they're not. They're gonna it's gonna go down this path.
And the question is what's going to happen. And we're
gonna sit on the sidelines with it, you know, on
our hands, and we're gonna watch Israel and Saudi Arabia.
There's this line up taking place now between Israel, Saudi
Arabia and other Arab nations against the Persian countries. Turkey
could get sucked into that too, and then NATO's involved,
and now we've got a real problem. So it remains

(23:37):
a tinder box. The question is whether or not the
Iranians are going to eventually comply in some ways and
make some kind of deal. I'm not sure the Europeans now,
they're they're they're done with America. Frankly, they're tired of
being whip said between these administrations, about going back and
forth about who's in charge, so they're not I don't
think they're gonna have any trust in the Biden administration
at al right now. They're going to stay on the

(23:58):
sidelines until this gets figured out. Wow, that's really interesting
talking with Mike Lins military analysts. We've talked to him
for years and enjoy his company. Um, So we were
talking a little bit ago about that cyber attack on
the water treatment plant in Florida, and you know, was
that a test run or what the heck was that?
And I was just picturing that that that nut job

(24:19):
that blew up that truck in Nashville shut down cell
phone service for like a giant chunk of the country
that day, and for like an entire day. If if
you'll have if we had some sort of cyber attack
from China where a whole bunch of water plants across
the country, all of a sudden the waters undrinkable and
our cell phones got shut off, the level of panic

(24:40):
you would have in this country for you know, twenty
four forty eight hours would allow China to do anything,
and by the time we all got our act together
and figured out what was going on, it'd be too late.
They'd be done with whatever operation they've done. Isn't that
a real possibility for how this unfolds. Yeah, I'm not
a fun guy here and certain in down in that regard,
but that's exactly the threat that is out there. That

(25:00):
non military threat starts in that direction and then is
followed up potentially by something connectic. Then they could turn
around and attack our ships in the South pacifics. They
could use that as a again, as an off ramp
to start something. But that is clear. And these infrastructure,
of the critical infrastructure within our water systems, electrical grids,
they've got to be continuously reinforced and make sure that

(25:22):
we can cut the problems off if they are compromised.
That's what happened there is someone doesn't even have to
be in the United States in order for that to happen.
That it goes through a Chinese route or someplace you know,
North Korea and North Korea's greatest cyber threat. It doesn't
even fit inside the boundaries of North Korea. So that's
why if there's one thing the world has learned is
don't fight the United States conventionally. You don't want to

(25:43):
get the US Army involved, the US Air Force involved,
You don't want to do any of those things because
you're gonna get you But you know, kick it's not
going to work out. But you can do things like
this the soft power and have where the United States
has piers. We have piers in these in these areas
where we had no piers in those other places, and
so that the enemies to go in those kinds of directions.
And is the Pentagon aware of this? Are they aware that, hey,

(26:04):
we might have the Marine Corps and Seal Team six,
but when it comes to the cyber stuff, we're like
everybody else right every day, which is again why you know,
you look again with the Trump administration did with the
Space Force. I think that's going to prove to be
somewhat precedent because it's going to transcend not only defending
that domain of space. I think there's a layer of

(26:24):
cyber that that is over it because of all the
satellites that connect us and all of the things that
that it goes through. So I do think that, um,
we've our country eventually gets it right. Middlets of mistakes
fall on the way in our history, but in this case, um,
there are enough people that recognize that we the last
war against fighting conventionally is not going to happen tank battles.

(26:46):
You know, thirty years from Desert Storm, now that that
was the largest tank battle in the history of the world.
You put the US seventh Core one hundred and forty
thousand trimps online, those days are gone. That's not going
to happen for our military. The next war is going
to take place inside the internet. Wow, that's really interesting stuff.
I hope I hope the people, you know, spending all
that money, all that taxpayer money on protecting the country

(27:09):
are aware of what you just said. I think, yeah,
I think the r And that's the point though, is
but you're You're right, it's got to be a bipartisan
approach to it, because the money still is going to
want to get spent in districts that make tanks and
make parts and all those other things. And that's where
politicians are going to have to figure that out and
where we're going to pivot away look, for example, the
Army's going to struggle for a mission. I think for
the next ten years, the Navy's going to get fun to,

(27:31):
the air Force is going to get fund to. The
Army's really going to struggle for a mission because there's
just nobody to fight. One final question, um, do we
as a nation have the stomach for an actual kinetic
battle with China if they were to, you know, I
want to close off the shipping lanes or move on
Taiwan or something like that. I don't know. If it's

(27:52):
a nation, we'd be willing to lose very many soldiers
to stop that from happening, whereas China they wouldn't care. Yeah,
we probably not for a long period of time because
China also is going to go right for our carriers.
They recognize that. You think a you know, the USS
jail forward Usinka an aircraft carrier, you kill five thousand sailors,

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you you don't allow planes to land. They're gonna they're gonna,
They're gonna go for it, That's what they're gonna do.
I don't think we do. And I thought back in
the seventies when Richard Nixon got the Chinese kind of
on our side. You know, we couldn't manufacture a billion
bullets because there's a billion of them to try to kill.
If a military perspective, but I don't know, I know,

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where does that war take place? Kinetically, it likely takes
place on the sea, and then what does it look
like is a World War two where it starts on
sea and then eventually it has some land invasion. It's unthinkable,
and I just we don't have either the patients or
the stomach, or you know, the wherewithal to try to
think that that is gonna do anything positive for our
country or the world going forward. Well, the Biden administration,

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I think was yesterday said, you know, a conflict would
not be good for either one of us. I believe
that's true for US. I don't know if China thinks
that's true, that it wouldn't be good for them, So
that's the problem. Anyway. Appreciate your time today, Miclines military
analysts you can follow and what's your what's your Twitter ad?
Major Mike clients on Twitter? Appreciate it, good follow Thank
you very much, Mike, appreciate the talk. Thanks for me.

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I know for some of you that seems like real
fanciful this stuff will never happen. It'll happen, you know when.
I don't know. Is it going to be in a
year or five years or ten years, I don't know.
But that is China's plan. That is the only thing
they spend their time thinking about is dethroning us as
the world's superpower. There's plenty of information out there to
let you to let you know that. You can read

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all kinds of books, articles, people who know ins and
outs of the way China works. That is what they're
gonna do. Do we have the stomach to stand up
to it. I don't know. If you're listening to the
best of the Armstrong and get Armstrong and Getty, you're

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listening to the best of the Armstrong and Getty show
Armstrong and Getty. So a couple of China things for you.
Both of them really horrifying, but one of them funny
if you're a juvenile, and luckily I'm not, so I
take things seriously, so I do not laugh at their
insistence on anal swabs of everyone from around the world.
But stay tuned for that. A more serious China story

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is and we talked about this a little bit yesterday.
A study found that China had permeated the regional power
grid in India using malware, causing mass blackouts last year
after they got into those border disputes between China and India.
So they got into the I don't if you remember,
they're throwing rocks and beating each other with sticks and

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stuff like that. They don't allow some right right, Yeah,
they can't have arms in that little region just to
avoid any shootings because they hate each other so much
and they get into so many dust ups. They don't
have weapons, so that the worst they can do is
you punch some guy in the face or hidden with
a stick, which ain't great either. But then China went
ahead and shut down like half of Mumbai's power grid

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a year ago. And they're only finding that out now.
That's a pretty major move. It might be just for
the record. They were beating each other to death at
times they're out the border. Yeah, yeah, you know. That's
also another one of those stories, similar to the one
we're gonna talk with Mike Lions next hour, that one
about Iran in our base. How long has India known

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or have we known that China did that? Have they
known this for a long time? And just decided to
let the world now know for some sort of leverage.
I don't exactly know what the geopolitical games are that
are going on on a number of these fronts. Now
the more silly one, although if you're if you're on
the business end of this, it's not silly. China yesterday,

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I'm sorry, Japan yesterday asked China to stop using anal
tests on its citizens. These are headlines. That's a headline
from BBC News. Here's the headline from a guardian. Stop
doing anal COVID tests on our citizens, Japan tells China. Um,
you know the story from Yahoo News. China's anal COVID
swabs causing great psychological pain. Well at least um. So

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apparently they did this to us. Also, US officials act,
I don't remember that this was not the United States. Oh,
they must have drunk. Must have been really found me
drunk exactly. That's terribly that, that's terrible, and I apologize
for it, um, US officials last week and I never

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got to the story. Then US officials asked China not
to subject our staff to anal swab tests. So China
and nobody can figure out if this is just a
power play because he well, I've had several coronavirus tests
as of you, as if many people listening was gonna end,
nobody got clear the south of the Equator to do them, right,

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I spit in a tube, you had a thing jabbed
up your nose. There's really no name need to drop
them in bend over. But China has decided no, the
only really good, really reliable sources jabbing you like this.
So is it merely a domination power play that they
were doing to our scientists in Japan and everybody else? Well,

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the original explanation was a was a scientific one. It's
quicker and more accurate. But I'm not buying it. I
like your thought. It's got to be it's gotta be
a power play. Yeah, now, come on, China, I haven't
heard all. I haven't heard a word about an accurate
or more accurate COVID test that has to do with

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an angle swab of you in the United States. I
have not heard it suggested even once that anybody in
And if that were a better test, you know, depending
on exactly what it is, I might be willing to
do it. But I haven't or anything about that. And
so I think China is just making anybody from a
foreign country come over there, let them shove something up them. Right. Yeah, Well,

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if you had the deep way way way up the
nostril one, you might prefer the Hiney test because that
was pretty painful. True that I've heard, I've heard that
it's yeah, it's it's a little rough. So um, I
don't know. Attack of a headline from Japan. Hey, quit
taking our scientists and stuffing things up them, would you please? Yeah?

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Buy me a cocktail first? Wow? Least I mean dinner. Now.
The most recent story is China denies asking US diplomats
to undergo COVID anal tests. But I find it hard
to believe that we're making that up and they're doing
it to the japan eating Japanese scientists. I had to
ask him to give up one thing, it'd be stop

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militarizing the South China Sea, but second would be that
started stutting down with me. Um. China is all kinds
of weird. Man. The good news on the way coronavirus
vaccine that I mentioned a little bit, well one knee
Johnson and Johnson is going out and people are getting it.
And you only need one dose. And despite the fact

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that it's being reported as sixty sixty six percent effective,
it's really one hundred percent effective in the tests against
ending up in the hospital are dying, which is a
pretty big deal. Um. But a good article in the
Wall Street Journal today about how all this research and
money thrown at it, and some of it was just
Lucky's the wrong word because they've been working on this

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for years. But they had a break They had a breakthrough,
a major breakthrough on vaccines on these kind of diseases,
and this is going to change the way human beings
interact with viruses forever. Is anybody talking about Yeah, absolutely absolutely,
They absolutely think they're closer than ever to h to

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wiping out the common cold and HIV and all kinds
of different things because this completely new way of handling things.
I'm not smart enough to completely understand it. I read
a lot of the article and then I decided that
you don't have the degree you need to have to
comprehend this. But it used to be about giving you
a little bit of you know, it goes way back
to old timy times, the way George Washington gave his

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soldiers a little bit of smallpox so that they could
handle catching smallpox. That's the way they used to do
these viruses. They gave you a little bit of it.
That's why you often got sick and then you were
immune to it. This is not that at all. This
is a somehow convincing your immune system to turn on
the virus. And it's just utilizing your own immune system
at like you know, it's like your immune system on

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steroids to go after these things. And it's a completely
different way of approaching it. And it's miraculous. Yeah, I'm
having this horrifying thought that will achieve some sort of
scientific pinnacle of knowledge and being able to help people
in cure disease right when Western civilization falls apart because
the woke crowd are trying to tear it down. I
hope not. Yeah, or you know, um global war with

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China or whatever. Um. Yeah, speaking of China, you want
me to bend over? Why what are you gonna do
with that thing? I would say to the Chinese guy
at the border. You're gonna feel a little pressure, sir.
Welcome to China. This is how we do things here.
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