Ep. 5363: Shakespeare in the park and China's, "Countermeasures."

This is the full episode of The Morning Show with Preston Scott for Tuesday, April 22nd.

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- Connor Wilson
- Peter Schweizer
- Howard Eisenman



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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:14):
Good Amages and welcome.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
It's Tuesday of the Morning Show with Preston Scotti's ose.

Speaker 1 (00:19):
I'm Preston. Great to be with you.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
April twenty second, show fifty three sixty three That has
a ring to it fifty three sixty three.

Speaker 1 (00:30):
Issue number fifty three sixty three.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
And my friend Dose can you see is over there
in Studio one A. I'm here in Study one B.
We'll get to the date in history in just a
few moments.

Speaker 1 (00:42):
But boy, oh boy.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
Got a story coming up in just a few minutes.
It's going to kind of just go to your brain
as it relates to the crucifixion of Christ and what's
recorded in the Bible, and oh, by the way, what's
recorded in history, and oh, by the way, what science
at NASA has weighed in on.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
Really huh.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
But we'll just start with our scripture today, not to
suggest that I'm diminishing, will just start. We'll start with
Romans one twenty for his invisible attributes, namely his eternal
power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived ever since

(01:33):
the creation of the world in the things that have
been made so they human, you and me are without excuse,
divine nature eternal power invisible attributes made clear through things

(01:57):
that have been made. Let's just and I discussed this
passage a lot, and I never grow weary. And I
have to believe that part of my wonder looking at nature,

(02:20):
and I really enjoy doing it with my wife. My
wife has such a discerning eye for the intricate designs
of God in creation. And maybe that's what draws us

(02:42):
to a butterfly garden. Oh, it causes us to have
a butterfly hummingbird garden and roses in our yard, and
to just look at the detail of say a hummingbird,

(03:03):
or better yet, a butterfly. Have you considered just how
does that happen? How do we have these unbelievably intricate
designs in plants and flowers?

Speaker 1 (03:24):
And said butterfly, if you looked at.

Speaker 2 (03:26):
A monarch, and they're not the same, they just they're
all different. They're all intricately made, unique from one another.
And with all of man's skills and ability, they still
can't make anything of nature without using part of nature

(03:48):
as the starting point. They can't make it, they can't
create it. To create grass, you still have to have.

Speaker 1 (04:01):
You can't.

Speaker 2 (04:02):
In other words, man can't just walk into the kitchen
and mix up some grass. You still need the building
blocks of nature to build nature. You still need what
God created, and man is still stuck with no matter

(04:22):
how many theories they roll out on how mankind came
to be, even those that believe foolishly that we evolve
from the primordial soup, which is just absurd. We evolved

(04:42):
from roaches. Really, that's all you got. Well, but you
see monkeys. We have many characteristics with monkeys and apes. Well,
we have a common creator, but we still have monkeys
and apes, we have man.

Speaker 1 (05:00):
Where's the missing link?

Speaker 2 (05:01):
Aren't they Shouldn't they still be evolving and developing into whatever? No,
I think it takes more faith to believe in that
nonsense than it does to believe in God. But the
reality is you are fearfully and wonderfully made, and you
are part of that creation that God revealed in his

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divine nature. So enjoy that. Ten past the hour, Well

(05:43):
is shee we got here? And make you show me?

Speaker 3 (05:45):
In this year dates the twenty second day of the
good month of April in the year of Our Lord.

Speaker 1 (05:58):
Eighteen sixty four. That's where Congress authorizes the use of
the phrase in God we trust on uish coins. Eighteen
sixty four, that's when that happened.

Speaker 3 (06:08):
It was just twelve years later that Baseball's National League
begins its first season, with the Boston Red Stockings defeating
the Philadelphia Athletics sixty five. Eighteen eighty nine, the Oklahoma
land rush begins with thousands of homesteaders. Actually homesteaders hurry
in the state claims on unashined land.

Speaker 1 (06:30):
So my pappy got some land right there.

Speaker 3 (06:34):
Eighteen ninety eight, just nine years after that happened, in
the first action of the Spanish American War, USS Nashville
captures the Spanish ship Buayne a Vista off Key West Florida,
and in nineteen seventy, Earth Day is observed across the
country for the first time, which is stupid because the

(06:57):
Earth's been around longer than that. But I guess they
just said, we're gonna recognize that we's on the Earth.
Nineteen seventy that's where that's where that started. Although I
would say that we've got an owner by the Earth
since today you had him.

Speaker 1 (07:13):
And even don't you think, yep, we did all right.

Speaker 2 (07:19):
National Day of School Bus Driver Appreciation Day. Yeah, boy,
talk about long suffering. But here's the thing. There are
parts of this country where buses are still full, where

(07:39):
they're making the rounds and picking up the kids. And man,
I remember the days of getting to know your bus driver,
and the bus driver was just part of your day.
You'd see him every morning and every afternoon.

Speaker 1 (07:51):
It was cool. But then parents started taking their kids
to school.

Speaker 2 (07:57):
I remember when I was in grade school in uh
we moved from Minnesota down to Arizona.

Speaker 1 (08:06):
Okay, we lived on a mountain.

Speaker 2 (08:08):
It was kind of cool, but I had to ride
my bike to school and it was probably maybe a
three four mile bike ride one way, and riding to
school was so wheat because I went down the mountain.

Speaker 1 (08:27):
Coming home from school.

Speaker 2 (08:29):
Oh my goodness, I had to ride up the mountain. Now,
just think about that Arizona in UH in the spring,
early summer, riding up a mountain. Man, that was brutal.
But most kids, you rode the bike, bus, you walked,

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or you rode a bike to school. Today, most kids
are taken to school, excuse me, by their parents. It's
it's weird, but I get it. We're not trusting. We're
not trusting our kids walking to a school bus and
sitting there by themselves. I get it, absolutely get it.
Today's National Jellybean Day. Jellybeans are a thing that if

(09:18):
they're there, I will eat them. I will not go
out of my way to buy them, but I will.

Speaker 1 (09:25):
I will do that National Earth Day. There you go.

Speaker 2 (09:29):
We talked about that already, so there you have it.
And a quick reminder May first not to not this.
A week from this Thursday is the National Day of
Prayer down at the Capitol.

Speaker 1 (09:47):
That will be May first.

Speaker 2 (09:48):
And this Saturday is the Bible Reading downtown at the
State Capitol from nine thirty to eleven am. You'll get
your instructions, and then from ten to eleven to me
people all over.

Speaker 1 (09:58):
The place just in scripture. That ought to be fun.

Speaker 2 (10:03):
I just want to hang out with the dude doing
doing Leviticus, whoever whoever's reading Leviticus.

Speaker 1 (10:10):
I just want to be there.

Speaker 2 (10:11):
Good luck, sixteen past the hour, come back in that
NASA story about the crucifixion. A note from one of

(10:36):
Tallahassee's finest police officer listening to the program. A actually
a detective.

Speaker 1 (10:46):
Said keep doing the accents. They make me laugh. I just.

Speaker 2 (10:53):
Oh yeah, I uh, that's that. That just that's a
thing that when I was little, I just started mocking.
That's the wrong word, mimicking. Now, some mimicking would turn
to mocking. But one of my very first radio gigs unpaid,

(11:17):
not as a professional. That didn't happen until I was seventeen,
but I would occasionally impersonate a guy that my dad
hated in his profession, and I would call into the
radio station where my dad was doing a report here
and there, because he was kind of a big deal
and doing these reports from time to time, and I

(11:40):
would call in as his arch enemy in the world
of sportscasting. And Dad didn't know it was me until
maybe ten to fifteen years later. I couldn't admit it
because he was so angry when those calls came in.
They keep putting this guy on the air, that's Howard

(12:00):
cole Sell. He's mocking Howard co cell and he's making
fun of me. I don't know why they do it
so well, maybe they just are getting a cheap laugh
out of it. Dad, And all of a sudden, you know,
it's like it's me.

Speaker 1 (12:14):
You know.

Speaker 2 (12:15):
I didn't tell him for years because he wasn't happy
about it. Ray Scott a legend in his own mind,
couldn't carry my lunchbox to school anyway, just part of
the part of the charm of being me, I guess.
But I've always just heard something and tried to you know,

(12:36):
I'm not an impersonator. They're just they're characters that I
can kind of get into and repeat. I can do
a decent Kennedy, John F. Kennedy when I if I
hear it, I can kind of do a good job
with that.

Speaker 1 (12:50):
Rocky.

Speaker 2 (12:51):
Sylvester Stallone is rocky, which means you can do about
every Sylvester Stallone character ever. Rambo, you know, you can
can do all those.

Speaker 1 (13:02):
Types of things. But I think some of it's just
like attitude. Anyway.

Speaker 2 (13:07):
I'm sorry, this is really cool. NASA has discovered evidence
suggesting that the lunar eclipse, which could have led to
the biblical descriptions found, for example, in Matthew twenty seven
forty five, from noon until three in the afternoon, darkness
came over all the land. That's one of the translations

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of what happened when Christ was crucified.

Speaker 1 (13:34):
And so NASA has weighed in.

Speaker 2 (13:40):
Stating that astronomical models suggest that there was an eclipse
on the day of Friday, April third, thirty three ad.

Speaker 1 (13:53):
Here's the thing.

Speaker 2 (13:55):
I don't necessarily know it was an eclipse. Now, Easter's
traditionally been connected the date moves because it's traditionally connected
to the cycle of a full moon. But is it
really beyond the realm of possibility that God just pH

(14:20):
But here's the part that and this is fine, okay,
science weighing in and saying, well, you know.

Speaker 4 (14:26):
We've calculated that back in April of April third, thirty
three eighty and the description of the of the you know,
the redness of the moon that suggests a lunar eclipse
because the moon takes on a reddish hue and that's
what it does.

Speaker 1 (14:46):
That's great. But here's what I want to take you to.

Speaker 2 (14:51):
And this goes back to research that I did years
ago when I was in vocational ministry and I came
across it in a book called Evidence that Demands a
Verdict by Josh McDowell. And it's a real dry read.
It's thick, it's it's it's it's not an easy read
because it's broken into it's broken down like a college thesis.

(15:14):
It's not a book per se it's a presentation of evidences.
And he and he said, this came from ponscious Pilot's pen. Well,
I did some research, and it turns out Pilot wrote
an account to Caesar of everything that was going on
at that time, because there was there was tumult. This

(15:41):
this is the writing of ponscious Pilot. And at the
time he was crucified, there was darkness over all the world.
The sunbeam darkened at midday, and the stars appearing, but
in them there appeared no luster, and the moon as
if it turned into blood filled in her light, and
the world was swallow it up by the lower regions,

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so that the very sanctuary of the temple, as they
call it, could not be seen by the Jews in
their fall. And he and I mean he, this is
the writing of Pilot. This is Roman archives. This is
him describing the miracles that Jesus produced, the fact that
he found no fault in him. He had them whipped.

(16:23):
I mean, the account of the Bible is written by Pilot,
It's matched by Pilot. It's in there just saying for
minutes after the hour, that ought to help.

Speaker 1 (16:34):
You a little bit. If you're a doubting Thomas.

Speaker 2 (16:46):
Time for the big stories of the press box tomorrow
on the program. I just want to throw this in.
We will go through some of the quote leading candidates
to become the next pope. It's amazing how many are progressive,
illiberal heretics. It's it really is. So we're gonna break

(17:10):
it down.

Speaker 1 (17:12):
What happens when the smoke turns white?

Speaker 2 (17:15):
Who's likely to come out of the fog. We'll, uh, well,
we'll we'll go through that. I don't know that we'll
handicap it. But but observers say there is a leading candidate.
We'll get to all that tomorrow and and you know,
whatever significance you want to attach to it is up
to you. But we will discuss it. I don't know

(17:37):
if you've seen this. Uh, District attorney in Minneapolis is
not going to prosecute with criminal charges people that are
clearly seen vandalizing tesla's. There's no doubting who they are.
They're just not going to pursue criminal charges. Oh yeah,
that's that's a strong deterrent. So they have to pay

(18:00):
restitution or are we just charging that off to the
guy's insurance company whoever owns the Tesla. This is sickening.
It really is anyway, not the big stories in the
press box. Here we go, small business owners. A poll
conducted by John McLoughlin and Scott Rasmussen on behalf of
the Job Creators Network Foundation, sixty five percent support DOGE.

(18:24):
Fifty nine percent believe in passing the new tax cuts
with no taxes on tips, no tax on overtime, no
tax on Social Security. They say it'll be easier to
attract workers. Sixty three percent support amending the Constitution to
require Congress to pass balanced budgets without adding to the
federal deficit. How about without adding to the debt, not

(18:50):
deficit debt. When I was kind of to all this,
I confuse the two. Oh, there's a big difference between
deficit and debt. Deficit is when you are spending more
than you're taking in. Debt is how much you owe.

(19:11):
Deficit spending is spending even using your credit card. That's
deficit spending. I'm not talking about racking up points and
you pay off your card every month. I'm talking about
you don't have the money to pay it, so you're
going to be making monthly payments.

Speaker 1 (19:25):
That's deficit spending.

Speaker 2 (19:27):
And in the process of doing that, you're now taking
that amount that you haven't paid off, and you're adding
it to the debt that you have. That's what the
United States does every single day. Twenty one percent say
that if they if they expand the Tax Cuts and
Jobs Act, they'll expand operations.

Speaker 1 (19:51):
I want to know who's not supporting dog sixty? Who
are the thirty five percent that aren't supporting it? The nuts?

Speaker 2 (20:00):
No, that probably indicates the thirty five percent of business
owners that probably get benefit from the waste in government.
They're probably on the I'll refrain from using that terminology.
They are benefiting from government payments in some way, shape
or form. They're feeding off the government. How about if

(20:23):
I put.

Speaker 1 (20:23):
It that way.

Speaker 2 (20:24):
Panama City, Beach, Panama City, the area really pushing hard
to get rid of the spring breakers.

Speaker 1 (20:30):
They want families, They want families.

Speaker 2 (20:34):
Tommy Ford, the Bay County Sheriff, we've had on the
show a few times over the years, talking about how
they are. They are, they are going to keep working,
They make progress and then they have some fallback where
things don't go as well as well as they want.
But Panama City, ins Panama City Beach, in beachins Beach,

(20:57):
Tonians beachins.

Speaker 1 (21:00):
Now that doesn't work.

Speaker 2 (21:02):
Yeah, they could use your help and get this, old people,
smart phones can reduce dementia risk in older adults. I'm
gonna spend a little more time on that next hour.
I'm just telling you. Even the frustration of your laptop
and your phone helps you. And if you think about it.

Speaker 1 (21:23):
It makes sense.

Speaker 2 (21:25):
The frustration in trying to figure it out keeps the
brain moving, keeps problems solving going, and so they're finding
a strong correlation in reduction in dementia with use of technology.

Speaker 1 (21:40):
How about that.

Speaker 2 (21:41):
So stop your kids from using it, and old people
you confiscate their pones and you use them forty one
minutes after the hour. Okay, maybe not quite like that.

Speaker 1 (21:53):
But all right. Between the.

Speaker 2 (22:08):
Fiscal year twenty twenty two, in the first year of
the Biden administration, which is the first year of the
Biden administration. Sorry, in the end of twenty twenty four,
immigration judges listen to this issued more than five hundred
and seven thousand ofsentia removal orders or removal orders for
those who did not show up for their immigration hearing.

(22:33):
So under Biden's watch, better than a half million failed
to show up for their court hearing. This was all planned.
Biden's plan is unfolding right now with the district judges
ruling that the way that they're ruling, with the Supreme
Court slowing things down their goal. You remember when I

(22:54):
shared with you last week that one district judge is saying, sorry,
you have to have a hearing for every single one
of them. This was Biden's plan, Biden Obama, this was
the Left's plan to overwhelm and break the immigration system.

(23:21):
You can't you there are not enough days in enough courts.

Speaker 1 (23:28):
To do this. And that's why I think Congress.

Speaker 2 (23:34):
We have to expect Congress to step up and act
in a very decisive way and create short term legislation
to massively send all of these people out of the
country and then redo legal immigration and enshrine this stuff

(23:55):
so it's not executive order, it's law. It's the law,
and keep the power of the president limited to the
executive and not changing law. They deliberately did this to

(24:18):
overwhelm the judicial system and to muddy it up so
that we couldn't deal with the illegal immigrants. It's incredible.
So there has to be drastic action taken, and Trump
is trying to do that. Trump is trying to find
out what he can and cannot do Democrats, and Jose

(24:42):
made a great point before the show even started, or
in one of the breaks here, you know this Kilmar
Abrago Garcia. It sure seems it's interesting to me how
many Democrats want to get this guy free but languish,
allowed to languish, and have allowed the languish in prison.

(25:03):
The January sixth people, they're more concerned about MS thirteen
gang members involved in human trafficking and wife abuse than
there are people that showed up at a political rally
and did nothing. Now there's a handful that did. They
committed crimes, not crimes that they've been punished for, but

(25:27):
they violated laws. But most people did not. People jailed
did not. And it's funny to me how four more
Democrats went to El Salvador. We got to pull their passport,
can't come back. Oh well, shouldn't have left, maybe El Salvador,

(25:49):
or find some funny, funny money in their suitcase or
something like that. I'm just saying, you never know what
is why powdery stuff? Huhy seven minutes past?

Speaker 1 (26:01):
Ye come back?

Speaker 2 (26:03):
Hey, you've got to be kidding me number if I've
ever seen one. We're here to make it all better.
It's The Morning Show with Preston Scott. I don't know
if you've seen the story. A county judge, Joel Cano
in Las Cruces, New Mexico, has resigned following the rest

(26:26):
of an alleged member of Trende Aragua who is living
in his home. He was sheltering him. Guy was living
in a casita behind the judge's residence, facilitated by his

(26:50):
wife Nancy. He needs to go to jail. He is
aiding and embedding human trafficking.

Speaker 1 (27:01):
Unbelievable. Okay, I told you this is staggering to me. Now.

Speaker 2 (27:11):
David Hogg is the young man who has no accomplishments
other than the fact that he didn't get shot at
Marjorie Stone in Douglas High School, and that's awesome. There
were victims there. It was a tragedy. Once again, the
media doing the wrong thing, giving notoriety to the shooter.

(27:34):
It doesn't matter what the Parkland Commission found, we're not
following it. We're not allowing students and teachers to be
armed at colleges and universities. We're not allowing teachers to
be armed on K twelve schools. We're not mandating things
that would keep campuses from becoming gun free zones.

Speaker 1 (27:56):
But let's set that aside. Let's go back to David Hogg.

Speaker 2 (28:00):
He's one of those illiberal punks that thinks he's smarter
than everybody else. James Carville can't stand him because he's
actually calling for Democrats to be primaried. He's the vice president,
vice chair, vice chair of the Democrat National Committee. This

(28:24):
little punk, it's incredible. This is where the Democrats have
fallen to that David Hogg is the chair of their party.
This is not me playing nice. It's demonstrating my commitment
to winning back to House and making Hakeem Jeffreys the speaker,
which is an absolute imperative. We need a better Democratic party.

(28:46):
We need to get rid of the Democrats in safe
seats who do not understand what's at stake right now,
who are asleep at the wheel, not meeting the moment
and our liability now into the future of our party.
We absolutely cannot wait for people to retire at their
own leisure, to let them sit there and do nothing
while the country is burning. This guy is twisted in
a serious way. But here's my question. How does he

(29:12):
have one hundred thousand dollars to donate to the cause.
How does this petulant little brad have one hundred thousand
dollars to donate to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. He's

(29:41):
been a professional agitator. Where does he make his money?
Who is paying him to be a little jerk?

Speaker 1 (29:54):
And he is?

Speaker 2 (29:56):
Oh, trust me, he is. And trust me when I
tell you these the people that want no part of
coming onto a show like this, why because I invite
them all the time. Just get your brain around that
one hundred thousand dollars for doing what? Anyway, part of

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the landscape of the culture of the day we come back.
We are changing gears. If you're in around the capital
city early May, Shakespeare is coming to the park. That's right,
Shakespeare in the Park, Southern Shakespeare Company. We've got the
director of Henry the Fourth Part one, which will be
the presentation nightly at Cascades Park. Connor Wilson will join

(30:49):
us next. Cannot wait. It's gonna be fun, so stick
around our two coming up in our three, Peter Schweitzer
will join us from the Government Accountability Institute and the
New York Times bestseller List. Welcome friends, Second hour morning

(31:18):
show with Moa Preston Scott. That's Jose and it is
Tuesday on the radio program show fifty three sixty three.
Go figure hey, coming up to the capital city in
May eighth through the eleventh. It is the It is
the Shakespeare in the Park at Cascades Park.

Speaker 1 (31:38):
It is a festival.

Speaker 2 (31:40):
It's Thursday May eighth, Friday May ninth at five, and
Saturday May tenth, Sunday May eleventh at four. We're gonna
have food, trucks, arts and crafts, live demonstrations. But the
centerpiece of it all is nightly at seven thirty Cascades Park.
Henry the Fourth Part one Joining us is the director.

(32:01):
He's Connor Wilson. Connor, Welcome to the program.

Speaker 1 (32:04):
How are you.

Speaker 5 (32:05):
I'm good, press and thanks for having me.

Speaker 2 (32:07):
Tell me about the play itself. Give us the synopsis
of the story here.

Speaker 5 (32:13):
Yeah, absolutely, you know so Henry the Fourth Part one.
It largely deals with King Henry and his son Prince Hal.
Now most people probably know Prince Hal as he'll grow
into Henry five. Perhas one of the most famous, you know,
English literary figures and English kings. But so this is
kind of Hol's origin story. So as how it comes
into this play, he's a young kid, he's not quite

(32:35):
ready to step into his princely duties yet. So it's
a play about how finding himself. So he spends most
of the play kind of goofing off with his friends,
you know, getting into a little bit of trouble, before
his father kind of pulls him in and says, hey,
it's time to take things seriously. It's time to grow
into the king that you're meant to be. And so
this play is a you know, it's a great deal
of fun. It's a great deal of It's a very

(32:57):
very funny play. It's a very exciting play before we
get the more serious history play that Shakespeare will right
in Henry the Fifth.

Speaker 2 (33:04):
Tell me your background. I mean, you've got an extensive background.
You've been working as a as a director, you've been
working as an associate director on Broadway. How different are
the challenges of doing something like this outside?

Speaker 5 (33:21):
Yeah, you know, it takes a very specific and a
very good type of actor. You know, you get this
massive stage, you know, and i'd say, you know, I
work on Harry Potter and The Curse Child on Broadway
and that stage is one hundred feet wide ish, and
I say Cascades Park is like one hundred and twenty
feet Why so in a way, this stage is bigger
than Broadway, which I love, you know, and I love
that this company, Southern Shakespeare Company, they're so ready for

(33:43):
a challenge, they say, they say, let's make some bake theater.
Let's you know, put it on a big scale, and
let's invite the whole community. And so, you know, it
takes its own challenges, right, But we've got some whip
smart actors that have some really amazing skill and they're
ready to do it on the outdoor stage. You know,
it's definitely harder than doing it inside. But this company,
you know, they're ten years now, they've been developing these

(34:05):
actors and working with these people, and it shows they've
really got a special talent here. They've really got a
special group of people that they've arranged for this show.

Speaker 1 (34:13):
What are the unique challenges of doing Shakespeare?

Speaker 5 (34:17):
Yeah, Shakespeare can be very very tough, you know, of course,
because you know everybody comes to Shakespeare right of like,
oh I'm not going to understand it.

Speaker 1 (34:24):
Oh it's archaic.

Speaker 5 (34:26):
I don't know. The thing I'd say about Shakespeare is
that it's actually, you know, you haven't seen the good Shakespeare.
That because the good Shakespeare you can understand it, you
really can. It's right there if the actors know what
they're saying. And the thing about Henry the fourth part
one as well, this is one of his most successible
which is great. It's largely, you know, a tavern comedy.

(34:46):
It's largely a bar comedy. You know, most of it
is set in a bar, and so most of it
is just kind of characters. It's a low man's play.
It's about characters complaining about work, complaining about you know,
getting up and going to work, about the struggles of
the day to day life. So this is one of
those ones that I think will feel very very accessible,
very very clear to an audience because they get very

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intrinsically what the characters are going through and how the
characters feel.

Speaker 2 (35:12):
I think a lot of us, whether it's in the
movies or going to plays, we kind of accept creative
license to a certain extent.

Speaker 1 (35:20):
Is that possible with Shakespeare?

Speaker 5 (35:23):
Oh yeah, you know, I mean he can't complain about it,
that's for sure.

Speaker 1 (35:26):
Well, that's true, you know.

Speaker 5 (35:29):
At some point, you know, I say, people take a
lot of creative license with Shakespeare. People said it at
in a different time period. People cut it all the time.
So you know, my thing about Shakespeare is that, you know,
I just think more Shakespeare better, you know, he whatever
you want to do, you want to cut it, you
want to do a one hour version of it, you
want to do a five hour version of it. You know,
whatever gets people excited about it, because the plays are

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so incredible, and the play speak to, you know, what
it means to be a human. You know, he was
writing about the human psyche four hundred years before he'd
even got there, you know, and so he really was
tapping into something very primal within us, very you know,
unique to all of us. And so the creative license
of it, I say, yeah, whatever gets people excited, Whatever
gets people interested in Shakespeare, because there's there's something for

(36:13):
everybody in Shakespeare. People love to say the talking point
of Shakespeare's that is universal, you know, that was a
Shakespeare's universal. Ben Johnson wrote about Shakespeare that he was
not of an age before all time, right, And I
think that that's why Shakespeare stands the test of time,
because still four hundred years later, we look at these
plays and we find the humanity in them. We say, oh, yes,
I know exactly what that character's feeling. I know exactly

(36:35):
what they're going through because I go through that too.

Speaker 1 (36:38):
I love it.

Speaker 2 (36:39):
Connor Wilson with us one more segment, director of Henry
the Fourth Part One, which will be the feature each
night at Cascades Park from May eight through the eleventh,
at seven point thirty more did to come here on
The Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 6 (36:58):
The Morning Show with Preston's on news radio one hundred
point seven WFLA.

Speaker 2 (37:06):
This is a family friendly, friendly, sorry, everything's free event
at Cascades Park May eight through the eleven. Love the
idea of bringing classic art and theater to Cascades Park
and joining us is the director of Henry the Fourth
Part One, Connor Wilson. Connor, you talked about the importance

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of the actors being committed to knowing. How difficult is
it because Shakespeare is such a I mean, we're talking
old world English. We're talking about a very different cadence
in how one even speaks, enunciations, enunciates.

Speaker 1 (37:45):
How difficult is it for the actors.

Speaker 5 (37:48):
Yeah, absolutely, you know, i'd say, you know, we rehearse
this thing for about five weeks, right, and we spend
the first week just sitting around a table just reading
it kind of over and over and over again. You know,
wrote in this thing called I'm tentameter, you know, which
is a metric system in which he wrote, and when
you go really really deep into that, you find all

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these clues in the text that he was giving us
about character, intention and motivation and what the characters are feeling. Right, So,
you know, we spend a lot of time just going
over the script, pouring over it, finding all the little details.
I'd say, it definitely takes more time to get it
all down. But once you get it down, because it's
a rhythm, because there's a you know, a metric quality.

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But they'll never forget them. They'll be burned into your
brain forever.

Speaker 7 (38:36):
You know.

Speaker 5 (38:36):
It's one of the reasons why we remember iconic Shakespeare
lines Romeo Romeo, where for the Romeo? Or to be
or not to be? That is the question. There's a
meter to them, and so these iconic lines they stick
in our brain because there's something musical about them. You know,
this is again, one of the reasons why Shakespeare really
sicks in our psyche because he wrote in a way

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like music, and so we remember Shakespeare almost like we
remember or our favorite song sometimes.

Speaker 2 (39:01):
What about you? What about as a director? I mean,
I don't know how often, if at all, you have
directed Shakespeare in your career, but the first time you
encountered the need to do the deep dive into his
writing style and to understand all of these nuances, because
I would imagine a director's job is to try to

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squeeze that nuance out of the script from the actors.
So how about you, what was it like for you
to prepare?

Speaker 5 (39:30):
Yeah, you know, I've been very fortunate where I've directed
a lot of Shakespeare in my career, and I love
directing Shakespeare. And it started because my very very first
professional gig. You know, you never know what your first job,
and as a theater director is because you never know
who's going to give you the chance to give you
the shot, right, And it was from a theater company
in Chicago that gave me a production of loved flavored
Lost Shakespeare play very early one not one of his

(39:53):
more popular ones, you know, And so for whatever reason
that one went exceptionally well, and then I I got another,
and then I got another, and then I got another,
and from that I just started directing more and more Shakespeare. Now,
the thing I'll say me and Shakespeare is that, for
whatever reason, you know, some people can just sit down
at a piano and play for whatever reason. From an

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early age, when I wrote Shakespeare, I could just play.
I could just understand it. The words they meant something
to me. Even though I didn't know every syllable, every word,
every definition, I could tell the timbre of it. And
I think that most people, whether they know it or not,
have that within them themselves. And so, you know, I'm
such a nerd with this stuff, so I go really

(40:35):
really deep. I spend months and months and months, you know,
looking into this. But I'm very very fortunate to be
directing this play right now, and then I'm doing another
Shakespeare after this, and I'm doing two more Shakespeare's right
after this, So you know, I kind of go back
from Shakespeare to Shakespeare to Shakespeare, and then I jump
and I do some Broadway in between, and then I
do Shakespeare, Shakespeare, Shakespeare. So I've got a pretty good life.

(40:55):
Pretty I'm pretty fortunate with it.

Speaker 2 (40:57):
Connor, thanks for making time the vision with us this morning.
We appreciate look forward to the play.

Speaker 5 (41:01):
Yeah, I appreciate you that.

Speaker 1 (41:03):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (41:03):
Connor Wilson with us this morning, Director Henry the Fourth
Part one again. It's free Cascades Park, May eighth through
the eleventh. It begins on Thursday and Friday at five,
Saturday and Sunday at four. The play is nightly at
seven point thirty. It is free. Will Johnson, renowned British

(41:25):
actor who in fact was at Cascades Park playing a
role I want to stay back in. Well, it was
here in nineteen ninety six, not Cascades Park necessarily, but
the Southern Shakespeare Festival doing Midsummer Night's Dream and then

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one year later doing The Taming of the Shrew. This
is a return all these years later, so British actor
Will Johnson playing the lead role of Henry the Fourth.
Seventeen past the hour, It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

(42:16):
Oh my, I haven't posted one of these in a while.
Scammer Payback. It is a YouTube page of a guy
who has turned into a career getting the scammers that

(42:36):
call you and I all the time, they send emails,
they make phone calls. Sometimes maybe your caller software tells
you that you have a likely spam phone call, that

(42:56):
it's not legit. I sometimes pick up for the of it.
Sometimes I'm very polite, sometimes I'm not. There are a
small percentage of these people that are literally being held
hostage to make these calls.

Speaker 1 (43:17):
Most of them are not.

Speaker 2 (43:21):
But there are several places out there, one in particular
that I'm gonna put another blog up that talk about
that videotape and show how they get inside these people,
and literally, I mean they shut them down. They infect
their computers, they log into their internal camera systems and

(43:47):
start describing them in the office, and they freak out.
They lock up their programming and dump garbage in their programming.
And I'm sharing a video of a most recent scam
where the police were alerted by this guy. This is
happening right now. She's going to the bank. She's withdrawing

(44:09):
twenty thousand dollars cash. And the scammers started this with
a PayPal bogus email. And some of you fall for
these things. You click these links, you get these emails.
They look legit and they're not, and eventually you get

(44:29):
a phone call in front of a man named Richard,
who's not Richard. His name's likely papooed or whatever the
case might be. But it's not Richard, it's not Bill,
it's not Frank. He's not your friend. Why are you
talking to the police? Are trying to scam you?

Speaker 1 (44:50):
Now? They're not. The police got to her.

Speaker 2 (44:53):
She was waiting in a parking lot at to hand
over twenty thousand dollars Cashe to her just in time.
Now as a result of this, the scammer, the payback
the scammer payback guy.

Speaker 1 (45:08):
That's how I know him.

Speaker 2 (45:11):
Is has has got him, the scammer, and he is
going to infect his computer with images of the police
officer over and over and over. He can do nothing
about it other than throw the computer away. He can't
change it, he can't get rid of it.

Speaker 1 (45:28):
He can do nothing.

Speaker 2 (45:31):
Sometimes they take over all of their accounts, hand all
the information over to the FEDS. Sometimes there are arrests,
but oftentimes these cities in India primarily are filled with
fraud and corruption, and government officials get paid to look
the other way, and they have these buildings and so

(45:53):
scammer payback and others. But this guy in particular, he'll
tell him, Hey, you're going to get some food over it,
which is right there in the alleyway next door. They
know exactly what he figures out, exactly where they live,
where they work, where they eat food. They describe the desks,
the names on the desk. You're not Frank, You're yeah.

(46:14):
I mean he kills them and they go nuts every
now and then he links up with a dude named
Mark Rober who we've talked about, and they send rats
and glitter bombs and packages to them. But I'm gonna
put it out there, and I'm doing this as a
warning to all of you who are senior adults, and

(46:34):
as a warning to all of you who are children
of senior adults. Your parents are getting older and they
don't know or understand the dangers of clicking those emails
that are they're just man. You just look at the
return address on the email. Teach your parents, senior adults

(46:56):
learn there are ways to avoid being scammed, and they're
really pretty easy. It's called delete. And when you have
a doubt, if like if you have a PayPal account
and there's a question, just look at the email, call PayPal,

(47:19):
reach out to the PayPal site directly. Don't click the
link in the email, just call them. Just call the
company in question. They'll answer whether you have a call
your bank, call your credit union, call your financial institution.
Hey did my Amazon account get shut down because of
something or another. What they really love to do is
give you a bogus charge. You have a charge of

(47:40):
eight hundred and seventy nine dollars, and then you pandic
and kit the link. No no, no, no, no, no,
anyway I'm putting I'm posting it public service twenty eight
minutes after the hour. Didn't plan on talking about that,
but that was good.

Speaker 1 (47:59):
You're welcome.

Speaker 2 (48:08):
May I'm gonna post that blog tomorrow morning and encourage
you to support the work of people like Scammer Payback,
because that's by going to the YouTube channel, you're supporting
the work and the guy just devotes his skills which
you're mad, to helping people. And in this case, he

(48:32):
saved the woman twenty thousand dollars of cash she was
about to hand over to someone driving up to her.
That's how organized they are. They have people in every
major city around the world prepared to take money. It's unbelievable. Anyway,

(48:55):
let's get to a related story here, big story in
the press box. We are seeing dementia now increase in adults,
and there's growing research to suggest that it doesn't have to.

(49:16):
There are there are markers that can be noted and
everything from diet to.

Speaker 1 (49:26):
Activity to.

Speaker 2 (49:29):
Even use of a device like a phone or a
laptop or a tablet. Researchers at Baylor University have found
that digital technology is not a barrier to cognitive abilities
in senior adults, but in fact could be just the opposite.

(49:51):
And they talk about how the technologies can harm, and
certainly there are aspects to all technology that can harm.
The Internet is an amazing thing, but it is also
amazingly evil in the wrong hands. What they've done is
they have done a meta review of more than one
hundred and thirty six studies, including four hundred thousand adults,

(50:15):
with an average of six years of follow up data.
They have concluded, listen to this, this is significant. Use
of digital technology correlates with a fifty eight percent lower
risk of cognitive impairment, even after adjusting for age, gender.

Speaker 1 (50:38):
And education level fifty eight percent.

Speaker 2 (50:47):
In the release, it says one of the first things
that middle aged and older adults were saying, is that
I'm so frustrated by this computer. It's hard to learn.
That is actually a reflection of the cognitive challenge, which
may be beneficial for the brain even if it doesn't
feel great in the moment. And they say use the
digital tools available calendars, phone reminders, navigation apps to allow

(51:12):
for even greater independence. That these apps, Hey you've got
an appointment. Hey you need to do your your pills
or your nutrients or whatever. It's time to put them
out for the week. Whatever these things are, Hey, go
for your walk. These are all little little nudges that
technology can use, and so you push past the frustration

(51:33):
and then you get the benefit. And if you think
about it, isn't that isn't that always the case? Think
of just a standard exercise regimen. Don't you have to
push past being tired and achy and weak, and you
push past it, and you do it again, and you

(51:54):
push past it and you do it again, and before
you know it, you're fitter, you're more flexible. But early
on it was hard. You're trying to remove certain foods
from your diet. It's hard, and then it gets easier.
It's the same thing with digital technology. And so I'm
tying that to my blog on scams that senior adults

(52:17):
are falling prey to learn. Senior adults listening to me,
and I know there's a bunch of you learn. Take
the time to learn, ask for help, don't get frustrated
and just shut it down. Push through. Forty minutes past

(52:37):
the hour one of the big stories in the press
box here in the morning show with Preston's guy. All right,
before we get to another story, I got to get
to the rest of the big stories in the press box.
Small business owners sixty five percent support the work of Doze.
Who are the thirty five percent that don't. They're the

(52:57):
ones that are nibble at the government's breast. That's what
that's That's what that thirty five percent represents. They don't
want to see the and and how scary is that
everybody ought to be supporting the work of Doge.

Speaker 1 (53:15):
Steps on some toes we knew it would.

Speaker 2 (53:20):
We know, for example, that abolishing the IRS and going
to a consumption tax will throw the accountant world into
a tizzy. I'm sorry, but just think about that now.
Think of the pressures that come when we find ourselves

(53:40):
dependent on the government for whatever it's It's like a
piece of fat that gets lodged into your joint. It
attaches blood vessels over time, these these little the irs
is now connected into all kinds of of industries out there,

(54:03):
like the accounting industry. They're going to lobby hard against
any changes to the tax system that would eliminate the
IRS and the need for an income tax. The surveying
also shows here that seventy six percent of small businesses

(54:26):
prefer school choice and they support Congress focusing on the
Tax Cuts and Jobs Act twenty one percent, saying if
it happens, they'll expand operations that means more jobs. And lastly,
Panama City Beach, Panama City really working hard to change
the spring break destination to families, for families to come,

(54:50):
not for students to come. They are really pushing hard
against students, making things more difficult. And I'm all in favor.
We're gonna talk about this with Peter Schweitzer a little bit.
China's threatening countermeasures against countries that work with the US
on the trade war. Really, collectively, the nations of the

(55:15):
world need to say to China, so what are you
gonna do because we are negotiating together, and you're the problem.
You cheat, you steal, you starve your people. They're not

(55:35):
as bad as North Korea, but they're subsidizing their businesses
to be so cheap that they're killing the world market.
So what you do is you freeze them. You freeze
them out, and they either have to you know, hey,
I don't care what you say to your people about

(55:55):
why you had to come to the bargaining table. Lie
to them like you always have. I don't care. But
the threat now of countermeasures against any country that negotiates
with the United States, China is going to take action.
They're trying to scare people. Why because they're getting desperate.
But again we'll talk to Peter Schweitzer about that in

(56:17):
just a little bit. We got a manly minute still
to come. We have money Money Talk next hour, and
of course the Fighting Oma Gaki Tour coming up next
as well. Forty six past the Hour, This Morning Show
with Preston Scott. Fifty minutes after the hour, Peter Schweitzer

(56:54):
in just a little bit, all right, I gotta follow
up here.

Speaker 1 (56:59):
The post's going up on scammers.

Speaker 2 (57:05):
They were able to save this woman from handing over
twenty thousand, but she had handed over twenty thousand dollars previously.
They claimed an undercover police officer was coming to collect
it to keep it safe. This dude's from India. They

(57:31):
know his name, and so the payback is coming, though
she's not getting her twenty thousand back. They saved her
from giving away another twenty thousand dollars. She had to
tell her husband she'd already given him twenty thousand dollars.

(57:55):
They have all of this because police were involved this time,
stopping her, and all because police were alerted due to
this guy. This is happening, now get after it. But
this is happening all over the country. Senior adults are

(58:18):
falling for this stuff, and there are people making boatloads
of money, millions and millions of dollars.

Speaker 1 (58:31):
I beg of you. Learn.

Speaker 2 (58:36):
Learn, please, please learn, and don't allow yourself to fall
for this stuff. I'm gonna see if I can get
this dude on the show. You know me, I have
my ways now, I just again, I just I swing

(58:57):
for the fences and go for it. And this will
be a great, great interview if we can pull it off. Anyway,
that's up. Now, time for a manly minute. Remember mail
by birth, man by choice. These are skills virtues.

Speaker 1 (59:25):
I feels.

Speaker 2 (59:30):
To teach your son so that one way you can
look at him and say you are a man.

Speaker 1 (59:36):
It starts early.

Speaker 2 (59:40):
Give your son a little help managing his emotions. And
let me tell you, as as young boys hit puberty,
it ramps up, but you can you can help by
starting early.

Speaker 1 (01:00:00):
Don't allow the temper tantrums.

Speaker 2 (01:00:03):
Now, I'm not suggesting that you have to spank a
child all the time for that kind of thing. I'm
merely pointing out, don't reward temper tantrums. Don't reward actions
at the store when they're checking. I want that, I
want that no, and reinforce positive behavior. Managing emotions is

(01:00:29):
also about it's okay to show them in the right setting,
in the right way. You know, this male model of machismo,
showing no care or concern, that's just crappy parenting. That

(01:00:50):
turns into crappy parenting. A guy that shows no emotion,
that does not know how to hug his children, that
doesn't know how to show affection. Do we, son and daughter?
Teach your son these things. Teach your son how to
manage their emotions, how to how to work through them,

(01:01:12):
and and it'll make a big difference when your son
grows up. Okay, so there you go. There's your there's
your manly minute for the day. Get him talking when
he when he's frustrated, get him talking. No, no, get
get him talking. Get him get him to learn to

(01:01:34):
express himself, and and help him work through the solutions.
Because what happens is Satan loves to make us feel
like we don't have any solutions, that we're cornered, and
so we tend to make reactive decisions that are usually
really bad. So help your son look at the circumstances

(01:01:56):
that are causing him angst and to find solutions. There
are options, There are always options.

Speaker 1 (01:02:06):
All right?

Speaker 2 (01:02:06):
Coming up next Hour three with Peter Schweitzer. Five passed

(01:02:29):
the hour waiting on Peter Schweitzer to join us here
on the radio. You know, when you are a New
York Times best selling author, you are busy, and we
are pried away time from his schedule to get him
on the show. And we greatly appreciate the man, the myth,

(01:02:53):
the legend, Peter Schweitzer himself.

Speaker 7 (01:02:54):
Hello, sir, hey Preston, how you doing my friend.

Speaker 1 (01:02:58):
Well, I'm doing well.

Speaker 2 (01:03:00):
I have wanted to have this conversation since Doze got busy,
because Peter, anyone who follows the work you've done for
all these many years with the all the best sellers
know you saw this coming, right, You saw what Doze
is uncovering, and the waste and the fraud and maybe

(01:03:21):
maybe even the corruption that we're going to learn about.

Speaker 7 (01:03:25):
Yeah, I mean what I like in the t Preston
is you know, you go into a dark room and
you're trying to find something and you're feeling your way around,
and you know it's there, right, you can you lift
it up? You know, Okay, the weight is right, Yes,
it feels exactly right. You know what's going on with
Dose is basically done is turn on the light and

(01:03:45):
expose it in a way that that we or no
outsider really could because you know, they have the ability.
They you know, ultimately would have subpoena power to say,
you know, give us access to all your records. So yeah,
it's it's tremendously encouraging. The resistance that you're seeing is
certainly not unexpected because you're talking about this sort of

(01:04:07):
vast uh maybe call it underground economy where you see
you know, billions of dollars slashing around, not just for
you know, some scam artists who's trying to get some
Social Security money, but you know for very connected people
politically who have figured out a way to take for example,
government grants to nonprofits and turned it into huge profit

(01:04:31):
centers for themselves and their family members personally.

Speaker 1 (01:04:34):
What book started this journey for you?

Speaker 7 (01:04:39):
Uh, it was a book I wrote called throw Them
All Out the bubble title right, and throw Them All
Out really looked at looked at two things. It looked
at insider trading on the stock market by members of
Congress and and uh, you know, executive branch officials. Uh.
And the second thing it looked at is uh, government

(01:05:00):
grants and the shifts in legislation to you know, to
benefit people. So that was kind of the beginning, and
that really gave me a sense of how you know,
when you look at a nonprofit organization, you think, okay,
well it's a nonprofit. You know, yeah, they got to
pay their people's salaries, but it's not like people are
building up a business. But then when you realize how

(01:05:22):
you can structure it, you know, you get let's say
you set up a nonprofit business, uh for you know,
green banking, for example, which is what Stacy Abrams did,
and you get the federal government to transfer you two
billion dollars. You know, Okay, you can't pay yourself an
outrageous salary because you'll be called out for But here's
what you can do, Preston. You can set up a

(01:05:44):
series of LLCs, limited liability companies, and you can have
the nonprofit hire those LLCs to handle marketing, to handle communications,
to handle fundraising, and so in effect, you have set
up a series of business and you're using government grants
to pay yourself or your family members. And that's really

(01:06:05):
what you're seeing with a lot of these quote unquote nonprofits.
They're enormously profitable. You look at USAID, the US Agency
for International Development. We found this in Clinton Cash, the
book I wrote in twenty fifteen. There was a study
done that said half the money that USAID spent on

(01:06:26):
grants to help the people of Haiti after the earthquake.
You know, we're supposed to feed them and clothe them,
more than half the money never left Washington, d c.
It went to consultants, that went to advisors, that went
to all these very comfortable people that were getting paid
big salaries and you know, big consulting fees to quote

(01:06:47):
unquote advise on how you were supposed to feed the
people of Haiti. So I think what's going on with
Jos is great. I think there is more to come.
We're going to see more squealing, but that's okay because
we got to bring this up to light.

Speaker 2 (01:07:00):
Peter Schweitzer heads up the Government Accountability Institute. He's also
a New York Times bestselling author, and maybe you reverse
those because the books, as he noted, have come first
and years ago he was pointing out this fraud that
was going on. Who's documenting You talk about a guy
who can spike a football right now, Peter Schweitzer is

(01:07:21):
the guy. More to come here on the Morning.

Speaker 6 (01:07:23):
Show on news Radio one hundred point seven ufla.

Speaker 2 (01:07:40):
New York Times bestseller, head of the Government Accountability Institute.
But more important than all of that, our friend Peter
Switzer here this morning on the Morning Show.

Speaker 1 (01:07:50):
Peter.

Speaker 2 (01:07:51):
I saved a post by Lara Logan where she connects
some dots reporting of Michael Schellenberger, and you mentioned USAID
and that there's even a money trail and connection between
USAID and the CIA, and that it was behind the
first impeachment trial of Trump. And it goes on and on,

(01:08:12):
and there's a suggestion here that there needs to be
an investigation of criminal charges against people involved in all
of that connecting back to this money being exposed. Would
it surprise you for us to see criminal referrals?

Speaker 7 (01:08:29):
I think there absolutely should be criminal referrals, and I
hope they act on them. And here's why, Preston. I mean,
the problem is, as we all know, money is fungible. Right,
you have a seventeen eighteen year old kid and they say, oh,
can you know, can I borrow fifty bucks? And you
give them fifty bucks, Well, they could use that for
just about anything, for something good or for something bad,

(01:08:50):
for the intended purpose, or for what they really want
to do. And the problem with these government grants is
nobody's really minding the store. And so it's should not
be surprising that, you know, money is flowing to an
entity that says they're going to use it for one thing,
they you know, shift it through a couple of LLCs

(01:09:11):
or a couple of other nonprofits and it comes out
the other end doing something else. And the problem is
there are some legitimate I would say it's pretty limited,
but some pretty legitimate things that government grants can go to.
The only way, the only way pressed and you are
going to deter people from manipulating the system, is that
people that have manipulated engaged in illegal activity, of which

(01:09:34):
this would be go to jail and face the penalty.
See only to turn. If we know one thing about Washington, DC,
I don't care if you're a Democrat, Republican, independent, communist,
you know that in Washington, d C. If you allow
people to get away with something that's going to enrich
themselves or advance their agenda and they don't pay any

(01:09:55):
consequences for breaking the law, everybody's going to start doing it.
So that's why you've got to put your foot down
and deal with this or it's just going to get worse.
It's not going to get better.

Speaker 2 (01:10:04):
Let me read a tail end of her post here,
because it references you and the work you've done, Muscoutit
connects the dots into the Clinton Foundation receiving USAID funds,
Clinton roll of sale of uranium stockpiles to the Russians,
US tech companies partnerships with Russia setting up Moscow's version
of Silicon.

Speaker 1 (01:10:22):
Valley, and then it all.

Speaker 2 (01:10:24):
The FBI investigations into Clinton never came to fruit, despite
a mountain of evidence documented by Peter Schweitzer the Government
Accountability Institute in his book Clinton Cash, and it goes
on to say Special Counsel Durham and his findings found
the Deputy FBI Director McCabe restricted the FBI investigations in
their Hillary Clinton. Will we ever see that reopen?

Speaker 7 (01:10:47):
Peter, Well, I hope.

Speaker 1 (01:10:49):
So.

Speaker 7 (01:10:49):
I mean, look, you've got cash, bteled FBI, You've got
the Attorney General and Pam Bondi that you would think
would not have political reasons for not doing so. And look,
it's a similar thing with with with the Biden family.
I mean, you know, people say, oh, you know, let
you know, Biden's not in office anymore, the Clintons are
long gone. Let bygones be got bygones. The problem is, again,

(01:11:12):
if you allow people to engage in this and get
away with it, it's going to be imitated. So we
need to be doing this not because we need to
quote unquote get the Biden's or get the Clintons, but
because we have to ensure that this abuse is not
going to continue. And the only way you're going to
get that is by taking it seriously as a criminal matter.

(01:11:35):
And I think certainly in the case of the Clintons,
there's questions probably about some of the deals in statute,
the limitations, But on the other hands, there's some that
there's no question they should there should be criminal referrals
and they should be looking at ways in which, you know,
potential prosecutions could take forward. I'm not a lawyer, but

(01:11:56):
you know, don't let the excuse be oh well, they're
out of office deal. That is just not going to
cut it, and I don't think is healthy for our country.

Speaker 2 (01:12:04):
Peter schweitzerer with me for one more segment. We're going
to segue to China. Get his thoughts on what's going
on there and how much meat there is on that bone.
Next on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. One final

(01:12:28):
segment with Peter Schweitzer, And as always, we can take
all day, but I can't do that to him. It's
bad enough that I take fifteen minutes if it's time to.

Speaker 1 (01:12:37):
Sit on this silly show with me.

Speaker 2 (01:12:39):
But Peter, China, we're seeing this back and forth on tariffs.
We know that Biden's compromise with China, but he's kind
of sort of out of the way in your mind,
is China have any cards to play in all of
this or as many suspect, really the cards are in
the US hands.

Speaker 7 (01:12:58):
Yeah, the cards are in the US hands. And I
think if you look at many of the things that
Trump is doing, they are geared precisely around dealing with
the China threat and the China challenge. I mean, look
at the Ukraine Russia War. What's happened with Ukraine Russia War,
in addition to the human tragedy, is it has pushed

(01:13:18):
Russia into the camp with China and made them much
closer than they have been really historically since the times
of the time of Stalin. By trying to unwind the
Russia Ukraine War, he is trying to pull Russia away
from China to further isolate China. If you look at
what's happening with the tariffs, the tariffs on Mexico and

(01:13:41):
on China and Canada, a lot of it relates to
the fentanyl trade. And as I laid out in my
book Blood Money, the Chinese control every link in the
chain to the fentanyl poisoning that's happening in America. One
hundred thousand people are dying every year. It's the leading
cause of death for people under the age of forty five.
And it's not a drug addiction in the way we

(01:14:02):
think of it. The people that are dying of sentinel
overdoses don't even know they're taking fentanyl. It's a kid
who is studying for a test in college and takes
what he thinks is an adderall and it's laced with sentinels.
So it's a form of warfare that China is engaging
against the United States. So what Trump is doing with tariffs,

(01:14:23):
and yes it is a little bit chaotic, but what
Trump is doing with tariffs is really isolating China. He's
telling other countries come and make a deal with us,
and we are going to deal with China last. And
this is what China fears the most. So I am
been very encouraged in what I've been seeing with Trump

(01:14:43):
on this. You have really, for the first time since Reagan,
what I would call a grand strategy that's being employed
against our major adversary. And he's using tools and weapons
that are not going to lead to war. He's using
tools and weapons that are are going to make it
difficult for China in terms of technology and the economy,

(01:15:04):
which is really ultimately where their achilles heel live.

Speaker 2 (01:15:08):
It looks significant to me when Australia took the overture
from China and basically thumbed them off and said get lost.
China's efforts to try to find others to join them
is meeting with crickets, Yes, exactly.

Speaker 7 (01:15:22):
I mean, look, when it comes to dealing with China,
the United States is kind of the older sibling. Other
countries they'll grouse about their older brother, They'll they'll they'll
grouse about their older sister, but at the end of
the day, they often take their lead. And when you
had an administration under Joe Biden, but going back Barack Obama,
George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, all very accommodating towards China.

(01:15:46):
The word of choice was quote unquote engagement. We're going
to engage with China, which meant giving them access to
our capital markets and technologies, where they just got stronger
and bigger and became a bigger threat. When you have
the new older sibils, which is Donald Trump coming in
and say no, no, no. What we want to do is
isolate China because of what they're doing. The younger siblings

(01:16:09):
might grouse about it a little bit, but they're definitely
taking the lead. In Australia I think is a great
example of that. You're even seeing it in the UK
and in France and in Europe. China has clearly overplayed
their hand. They think they're going to somehow do an
end around with the European Union. The European Union knows
at the end of the day, what China wants to

(01:16:29):
do is sell them goods. They do not want europe
to have broad access to their own markets, so they
know it's a dead end, and then they know they
need to do a deal with the United States.

Speaker 2 (01:16:40):
Peter tell those that are listening that may not know
about it, that like me, could use a fix of
the intel that you and your team work on all
the time.

Speaker 1 (01:16:52):
About your podcast, Oh well, thank you.

Speaker 7 (01:16:56):
Yeah, So our podcast is called The Drill Down. You
can subscribe to it on any platforms I mean, like like.

Speaker 1 (01:17:02):
The iHeartRadio app.

Speaker 7 (01:17:08):
We need we need to have you do our ads,
by the way, they're much better than anything we've ever
come up with.

Speaker 1 (01:17:13):
Sure, sure, but.

Speaker 7 (01:17:16):
You know, it's it's it's really twenty five minutes. It's
not one of these podcasts that goes on for a
long time. It's twenty five minutes that we pick a
very particular subject to focus on and it comes out
once a week. Uh, and we really try to be
ahead of a curve and give you information that you're
not aware of.

Speaker 8 (01:17:33):
Uh.

Speaker 7 (01:17:33):
The one that we just did yesterday that's out is
about Trump and what he's doing with regards to Harvard
and higher education. And I think there's a lot of
interesting facts so people are aware of what's really going
on there. It's not just about uh, you know, the
anti semitism and the things going on in college campuses,
although that's important, it's much more broad reaching. And again

(01:17:56):
that it's that follow that money model that we try
to take in every thing that we do.

Speaker 2 (01:18:01):
Good stuff the Drill Down, which can be found on
the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts. That's fine, Peter, perfect, Peter,
thank you as always for the time. You're always very
generous and I appreciate it very much.

Speaker 1 (01:18:14):
Best to you.

Speaker 7 (01:18:16):
Thanks brother, Take care.

Speaker 2 (01:18:17):
Peter Schweitzer with me on the Morning Show with Prestin
Scott twenty seven minutes past the hour, Clear the Fog
The Morning Show with Preston Scott on news Radio one
hundred point seven WFLA boy Easter weekend lost another life

(01:18:52):
off Florida's beaches due to rip currents.

Speaker 1 (01:18:54):
Twelve year old boy talk about an unforced error. My goodness, you.

Speaker 2 (01:19:09):
Got flags up. You do all you can to warn
and tell people, learn what the flags mean and follow them,
and it just.

Speaker 1 (01:19:27):
It's so frustrating.

Speaker 2 (01:19:36):
Rip currents happen in calm waters, rip currents happen in
stormy waters. Rip currents happen, and you can see the signs.
You can tell the signs. I was gonna try to
wait till May first to post it, but I guess
I can't. I've got information that I will post on
my blog page, and I will refresh it so it

(01:19:59):
stays current, and by refreshing just meaning that it just
populates my blog routinely. But I've got information on how
to spot a rip current, even in calm waters, and
I've got a separate video that shows you how to
get out of one. A guy puts himself in the
middle of a rip current and he says here's what

(01:20:21):
you do first, calm The problem comes when you panic
and swim against it. Fatigue sets in and you drown.

(01:20:41):
You swim paralleled to the beach. You swim perpendicular to
the current. Wherever the direction is of that current, you
swim perpendicular to it.

Speaker 4 (01:20:52):
Well, how do I know what that is?

Speaker 2 (01:20:53):
Well, where is it taking you? If it's taking you
away from the beach perpendicular, it's parallel to the beach,
perpendicular to the current, and you swim away that way.
You don't swim against it. That's our instinct fighting it.
No no, no, no, no no. And if you just
know how to float, it carries you out enough. It

(01:21:17):
doesn't carry out all that far. Usually it just subsides
and then you just swim around and come back in.
Hurts the heart. Speaking of the beaches, Panama City Beach,
Panama City Beach, Panama City working really hard. They're telling,

(01:21:42):
they're telling the PARTI ers, go somewhere else. We don't
need you, we don't need your money, we don't need
your business. Really trying to send a strong message. The
post was taken down, but a Facebook post by the
Chief of Police in Panama City Beach each originally said,
I'm not willing to risk the safety of our city

(01:22:03):
to hold on to something that no longer works, meaning
spring break. They want families to come. They don't want
the idiots, they don't want the drinkers, they don't want
the brawlers. There are people that come from major cities
just to stir up trouble, just to sell drugs and oh,
by the way, traffic people. So yeah, avoid, avoid, avoid

(01:22:31):
and support families. Panama City, Panama City Beach, our neighbors,
make this a family place once again. Forty minutes past
the hour. One of the big stories in the press
box this morning and the Morning Show with Preston Scott.
We suggest you use the restroom before you listen, or
invest in the thirty foot catheter.

Speaker 1 (01:22:54):
Yes, I use it all the time. This is the
Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 2 (01:23:00):
Time for money talk with investment advisor Howard Heisman. With
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(01:23:31):
Howard I told everybody we got to rip away the
dry wall, exposed the studs to fix everything, and that
has led to Wall Street having a conniption.

Speaker 8 (01:23:40):
Yeah, Wall Street is a conniption. Is a good word
describes it well. So we're actually off to the worst
start in at least a century. Looking just at the
S and P five hundred index, it had dropped almost
seventeen percent from inauguration day to April A and that's

(01:24:01):
the biggest fifty five trading day drop in any presidential
term in the indexes history. The index pressing goes back
to nineteen twenty eight and the second worst happened to
be in George Bush's first term with a sixteen percent decline.
So through yesterday it pounces back just a little bit

(01:24:24):
at the end of the day, but the SMP is
still down over fifteen percent since inauguration day, so hopefully
better times are ahead.

Speaker 2 (01:24:33):
The bottom line is and I guess Wall Street is
reminding us that it is reactive and as opposed to
being overly analytical, it tends to just react to things.
And you've got another stat that I found fascinating to
illustrate that.

Speaker 8 (01:24:50):
Yeah, it really is. And you know, things have become
very compressed here lately. So let's talk about the NASTAC index.
That's where they're rapidly owned companies, many of them are
are located. So the composite rally twelve point two percent
in one day on April ninth, when President Trump announced

(01:25:13):
his ninety day pause in the implementation of reciprocal tariffs,
and that actually was the single the second best day
in the entire history of the Nasdaq trailing only a
fourteen percent gain on the very first trading day on
January third, two thousand and one, and it's only the

(01:25:35):
sixth day in Nasdaq history with a gain of ten
percent or more. So, yeah, that was a really ex
Wall Street loved that news, Love that announcement. Unfortunately, since then,
it's kind of rolled back over and has headed headed
south again.

Speaker 1 (01:25:52):
What do individual investors.

Speaker 8 (01:25:55):
Think, Well, they're concerned. To use a Spanish language term,
no moss no more. The majority of individual investors, per
the American Association survey, they do one every week. They've
been doing it since the early to mid seventies. They've

(01:26:16):
turned very bearish in fact, seven weeks in a row
of very bearish investor sentiment. Preston, you got to go
back to late nineteen ninety to see a street that
has been so sour, with fifty percent or more of
the folks saying they're pretty pessimistic about what they think

(01:26:40):
the market may do in the coming coming months. So
the most bearished reading since nineteen eighty seven. But I
will say that things look like they're getting a little
over sold here, and so maybe pretty soon we at
least see a little bounce coming up.

Speaker 2 (01:26:59):
Well, you know, you know, and I'm certainly not an expert.
I don't have to give that disclaimer to anybody because
they listen to me and they know. But I have
long believed that our stock market was overvalued and that
there needed to be some better support for the market
as it was, and I think that we are indirectly
getting that support. I think the tariffs and the increase

(01:27:20):
in manufacturing, the vows of companies like Honda to move
manufacturing domestically. I think it's going to build our economy
and give reason for the stock market to rebound.

Speaker 8 (01:27:31):
I think the markets are looking for stability, and I
will one hundred percent concur with the first part of
your analysis. We really even by election time last year,
and certainly with the big Trump balance after the election,
the markets were at all time highs valuations were pushing

(01:27:53):
close to thirty times earnings on the SMP and historic eye.
We were overbought and we were certainly due for a
correction regardless of what the economic policies may be and
how they work out, and hopefully we all work out.
We all hope that they work out very very well.

(01:28:16):
I think there are a number of things in the
Trump policy that are very positive, particularly looking at cutting
some of the fat out of federal government spending.

Speaker 2 (01:28:26):
Absolutely, Howard, thanks for the time and the details.

Speaker 8 (01:28:28):
As always, absolutely, Preston, have a great day, sir.

Speaker 1 (01:28:31):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (01:28:32):
We'll talk again in a couple of weeks with Howard Eisman.
It's Money Talk on the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Well,

(01:28:52):
my man Mitchell O'Brien is walking along Lake Michigan Beach
and they were looking for Leyland bluestones at the Reynolds
Street beach and he took a step into an area
of sand that he thought was safe.

Speaker 1 (01:29:12):
It was quicksand.

Speaker 2 (01:29:15):
And apparently this quicksand was caused by a hydraulic dredge
that removed about sixty thousand cubic yards of sand from
the bottom of the harbor, and as a result, it
created this.

Speaker 1 (01:29:31):
Incredible suction, and he was stuck.

Speaker 2 (01:29:37):
And he was walking with a coworker of his, a
gal named Brian Sika, and they worked together at a
recovery center clinic in Traverse City, and they've been just buds. Well,
he calls nine to one one to get help. She

(01:29:57):
calls nine one one separately to get help. They both
got through at the same time, and he says, I
think my girlfriend's trying to call too, and at the
same time she says, my boyfriend is stuck in the sand,
and they both after it was all over, fire department
came rescued him, got him out. They both said wait,

(01:30:20):
you said girlfriend, and he goes, yeah, wait you said boyfriend,
and they realized they were a couple. Well, now that's
one way to do it.

Speaker 1 (01:30:31):
I suppose.

Speaker 2 (01:30:34):
Get yourself stuck in some quicksand and hope the lady
nearby wants to be a friend.

Speaker 1 (01:30:40):
I don't know, but that's one of the.

Speaker 2 (01:30:43):
More interesting ways I've seen a couple kind of forge
their relationship, but I mean quicksand I guess it makes sense.

Speaker 1 (01:30:51):
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Speaker 2 (01:30:54):
It's the Morning Show one on WFLA time to look
at the radio program in one hundred and eighty seconds
or less.

Speaker 1 (01:31:04):
We started with Romans one twenty.

Speaker 2 (01:31:08):
That's where we began the day.

Speaker 1 (01:31:12):
Big stories in the press box.

Speaker 2 (01:31:13):
Small owners really like Doze, but not enough of them
sixty five percent? How can it not be one hundred?
Now think about it. What type of small business would
say we don't like them uncovering waste and government? See
that's really the I think the key to really understanding

(01:31:36):
that is to not just oh wow, look at that
sixty five percent. Two thirds of businesses love it. No,
why doesn't the other third? What type of business wouldn't
like uncovering the waste? They're either owned and operated by
a bunch of Dems, which means that that business ain't
going to be around long because if you run your

(01:31:58):
business the way Dems run government, you'll go bankrupt, you
will close. So anyway, that's good news. There were other
things in the survey that we talked about. Smartphone use
could reduce dementia risk in older adults by the number
of fifty eight percent. So we're talking smartphones, tablets, laptops.

(01:32:20):
But with that come this admonition you need to if
you're a senior adult, learn about scammers that are out there.
I've got a blog going up tomorrow morning about this,
and we're reaching out to somebody that can maybe help.

Speaker 1 (01:32:35):
Educate and to kids.

Speaker 2 (01:32:39):
You're kind of looking out for your parents at this
stage in their life, you need to know about these
scams too. But a fifty eight percent lower risk of
cognitive impairment from using these devices, Yeah, sign me up.
Panama City, Panama City Beach. They want to be a
family spring break, destiny period end. China threatening countermeasures against

(01:33:03):
anybody who works with the US on the trade war.

Speaker 1 (01:33:06):
Yeah, whatever to you.

Speaker 2 (01:33:11):
Covered a lot of other ground, including Dems going to
l Salvador again, five hundred thousand migrants missing the court
hearings under Biden and NASA talking about the lunar eclipse
during the crucifixion.

Speaker 1 (01:33:24):
Interesting back tomorrow