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The Dr. Phil Podcast

Spies Among Soybeans: We Must Stop China Now

The Dr. Phil Podcast

Dr. Phil McGraw

Education, Society & Culture

4.313.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2026

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

China may only own “1%” of U.S. farmland — but this isn’t about acres. It’s about access. Farmland near military bases. Land near critical infrastructure. A growing espionage threat hiding in plain sight. That’s why Senator Pete Ricketts is pushing the PLOT Act — the Property Location Oversight and Transparency Act.

The media focuses on the “1%.” The PLOT Act focuses on the map. And that’s where the real story is.

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0:00.0

If you don't believe that there are sleeper cells from China, from Russia, just blending in,

0:07.0

that would be a very naive assumption.

0:10.0

Out of 880 million acres, they bought these few acres right next door.

0:14.0

Do you think that's a coincidence? If you do, I don't.

0:17.0

Anybody that looks at that and says, well, that's okay. Some village is missing their

0:23.4

idiot. Thank you for joining me again today on The Real Story. We're talking about spy activity.

0:30.7

Like, who doesn't like a good spy story, right? From Russia with love with James Bond. You remember

0:35.6

the James Bond series, which is still going on, North by Northwest.

0:40.0

I'm an advertising man, not a red herring.

0:42.5

The Born Identity.

0:44.1

I mean, that's a great series, right?

0:45.7

But the real story is this.

0:48.2

Espionage isn't just Hollywood entertainment.

0:51.1

It's real.

0:52.1

And it's a real world threat to America.

0:54.8

As foreign adversaries look for ways to infiltrate the United States.

1:03.0

Now, anybody that thinks that this is just high drama, and there's nothing really to it,

1:09.8

we have empirical evidence. we arrest spies on a regular

1:15.5

basis, and they're caught with things they're not supposed to have. Now, in the era of

1:22.4

cyber technology, spying has gone to a whole new level. We get cyber threats all the time. They take down our

1:30.5

cyber networks. They do it with our banking system. They do it with our cell phone systems. They do

1:38.6

things to tamper all the time. But they're also gleaning information. They're stealing information. And trust me,

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