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Midday Mobile - Cameron Smith joins the show to talk free speech and tonight's debate - June 27 2024
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Before we get started with the show, I do want to do, this is a, like a public service announcement deal, go get your scripts, y'all. This is from Fox Business, come out just a little bit ago, said Walgreens to close significant number of underperforming stores, cuts profit forecast, the retail pharmacy chain cited a difficult operating environment. Oh, I ain't think they all said Walgreens today announced plans to close a significant number of underperforming stores in the U.S. due to ongoing challenges with profitability in declining margins. How they're not, maybe, I just maybe, maybe it's because they have one, I mean, there's people at Dollar General that say, damn it, Walgreens, how many stores are you going to build? Said Walgreens didn't specify how many of it's more than 8,700 stores will be affected, but the CEO told the Wall Street Journal that a meaningful percent, end quote, of underperforming locations would shutter Walgreens shares, tumbled in premarket trading today after the company cut its 2024 profit forecast over the past year, shares have dropped over 45%. The note here from the CEO at Walgreens said, "Here's CEO E's. We continue to face a difficult operating environment, including persistent pressures on the U.S. consumer and the impact of recent marketplace dynamics, which have eroded pharmacy margins." End quote. I'm glad he talks like regular people, to the satellites to say, "To face difficult operating environment." I'm going to use this stuff whenever, like things don't work out and say, "Well, listen how it was a difficult operating environment, and it included persistent pressures on U.S. consumers and the impact of recent marketplace dynamics, don't you hate those, which have eroded pharmacy margins." Do you think possibly, and by the way, coming up at 30, 1235, my buddy Cameron Smith and I will talk about tonight's debate, but do you think possibly persistent pressures on the U.S. consumer? What might that be? Might that just be the non-transitory inflation we've all had to eat here over the Biden years? You think maybe that might be it? Walgreens is having trouble making money, not getting enough margins on the coconut water or batteries or whatever they're selling, but they say the pharmacy part of it is that people not getting their drugs because I worry about the pharmaceutical industry, they're just barely getting by, right? What's the door disc, whatever, can somebody look up a good market watch and tell me how Norvo or whatever it is, the Ozempic people, how they're doing, how those shares are doing, my God, if I would have bought into that. The other says we get started, and it's worrisome too, as they close these Walgreens stores, if they're here locally, they'll reopen as one of two things. They're going to be a plasma center or a vape shop. I'm excited. We have a new construction going on here by the opulent FM Talk 10065 studios at Airport in '65, and I found out it's going to be a restaurant, and that's cool, because almost every other construction project, I see I get all fired up like, "Oh, what could that be?" You'll be like outdoors or a boating place or something cool like that. It's going to be a vape shop or a plasma center, so I don't know how many at the Walgreens here are underperforming. They should be making the margins, unless you go when they have the sale where you get like, and y'all know, I'm a big consumer of sugar-free Coca-Cola products, I've really switched lately from the diet Coke to the Coke Zero to keep it fresh here in midlife prices. In case we can get the deal where you can get like, $3.12 packs for, what, $15.16 like that, but normally the 12 packs are more expensive than the 12 packs a beer out there. They should be making margins there, but Walgreens in trouble because of what is it? Recent marketplace dynamics. That's as we get started. But yeah, I hope we don't have a bunch of vacant Walgreens that turn into vape shops. Nothing against vape shops, but y'all, hey, vape shops, y'all are like on the Dollar General track too. Y'all are going to get, and I love this though, this is what I argue about if we had casinos in the state, you build one too many and then you arrive at the, right, and that one closes and you arrive at the right amount of them. So I don't want to ban or limit vape shops, but y'all are like expanding. That and plasma centers is pretty much what we got going on. All right, yeah, we won't talk about the debate tonight. Also on the way you heard, I think it was yesterday, Jeff Moore talking to Orange Beach Mayor Tony Kennan, and they didn't talk about this, but a story out now got this from our news partners at WKRG that one of the banner planes in Orange Beach, you know, coming down the beach, pulling the banner, advertising, whatever had by the headlines. It has the mayor and beach goers furious. The plane was pulling an ad for only fans, specifically an only fans account, which if you watch a news story, it's blurred out, but if you want on the text line, I'll tell you what it is. The words, there's no bad words in it, but we'll get to that story. So big, big going on in a river city there, as Orange Beach, they can't control it because it's not in the city limits, it's above the city limits, there's banner plane coming down that has people looking at a banner advertising only fans, a specific one there. And as we all wait for this big time of year, Supreme Court time, a little bit still coming out today, but we're waiting, I guess, so today's Supreme Court talked about this emergency abortions for, I think, the state of Idaho, here's a story from Washington Post says the Supreme Court would allow emergency abortion care for Idaho now, despite the state's restrictions on the procedure, or according to a copy of the not yet released opinion posted by Bloomberg Law. Now, you see this yesterday when this came out? So this was supposed to come out, I guess, today or tomorrow, but it's out now because it got leaked from the Supreme Court. Isn't it interesting that every time it has something to do with abortion, there's a leak from the Supreme Court. I mean, can we do know better at the Supreme Court? We have we still found the person who link who leaked the Dobbs decision, aren't we looking for them? They're looking under every law journal there for them. This is the Supreme Court of the United States. And here another big leak, they said, you know, it was like a mistake that the decision was put out before it was supposed to be released. Who is what kind of chimps what kind of Lancelot link, secret chimp are running things there? So that's one that but the going back to yesterday and yeah, we're roaring about the decision of the Supreme Court, six to three of saying that the attorneys general in Missouri and Louisiana didn't have standing in this case about censorship from the federal government and actually, I mean, they probably didn't have standing. But the subject overall before the Supreme Court has been this talked about yesterday. It's this soft censorship that happened during COVID, right? We played the audio yesterday, then press secretary Jen Psaki coming out and saying, you know, and I'm paraphrasing here, we're not telling Facebook to take certain posts down. They're just making them aware. Now come on the same, like we said yesterday, when the godfather, he didn't say I'm going to burn down when when, you know, when John God, he had Sammy the bull Gravano stomped by your story. He didn't say, Hey, we're going to burn your store down. He would say, it'd be a real shame if your store burned down, it'd be a shame. A heart breaking. You put your whole life into this straight, it'd be a shame. We'll expect our money by Thursday. That's what the Biden administration was doing. And so there's, as I see a not bad many out there, but there's this kid, this kid, Jonathan Turley, seems like a pretty bright kid since he agrees with me, this is Turley kid. It's all right. He's written something up here and I think it's brilliant because, well, we agree with it. So he writes this, I guess the column came out in USA today, today, that must be shocking to the readers of USA today. They're there for the pie charts and the, you know, little columns on the side. But he writes this about, here's a headline. Want to defeat Joe Biden? Look to 1800 election and make free speech, the key issue in 2024. Dalton, do you think Turley party, do you think we can get him to go like a, we go get some cold beers and go, go on a canoe float or something? I think I like this guy. He writes this. Yes, I see him on Fox News and all that. I'm aware before he started showing, he's on, I get it. So he writes this, since his dystopian speech outside Independence Hall in 2022, President Joe Biden has made quote, democracy is on the ballot and quote his campaign theme, pundits have repeated repeated the mantra, claiming that if Biden is not elected, American democracy will perish. While some of us have challenged these predictions, the other presidential candidates are missing a far more compelling argument going into this election while democracy is not on the ballot. This election free speech is, can I get, can I get a witness from the back of the church here? Dang right, Turley. He writes the 2024 election is looking strikingly similar to the election of 1800. And if so, does not bode well for Biden. So this part, I need this smart kid, Turley, tell me about, I was, he agrees with me, but he brings in the history of it. And he writes this. He said, he writes about his, his book, he's pushing his book, indispensable, right. He said, one of the greatest villains in that history, oh, sorry, he said, it's an unvarnished history of powerful stories over heroes, villains, blah, blah, blah, blah. But just as Louis Brandeis called our indispensable right, right, that's that, that first amendment, right. He said, one of the greatest villains in that history was President John Adams, who used, and y'all remember this from school when we had to learn it, the Alien and Sedition Acts to arrest his political opponents, including journalist, members of Congress and others. Many of those were prosecuted by then President John Adams administration. Those people were Jeffersonians, remember, of course, Jefferson and Adams didn't get along so well. You know, when people will tell me, I can't believe there's all this mud slinging in American politics. Now I said, we'll go back and read what Adams and Jefferson had people saying about the other one. Usually they wouldn't say it themselves, they'd have a columnist and somewhere else, do their work for them and say mean things about the other ones. Well, so John Adams was using the Alien and Sedition Acts here, arrested political opponents, including journalist, members of Congress, and had them prosecuted these Jeffersonians. Then in the election of 1800 old TJ, Thomas Jefferson to the learned, ran on the issue and smoked, he wrote, defeated smoked Adams in that election. Turley goes on to say we're now seeing what is arguably the most dangerous anti-free speech movement in our history. He's a speech. Brother Turley, President Joe Biden is, in my view, the most anti-free speech president since Adams under his administration. We have seen massive censorship funded and directed by government. The federal judge described the system as Orwellian in its scope and impact. Biden is repeatedly called for greater censorship and accused social media companies of quote, killing people and quote, by not silencing more dissenting voices. Other Democrats such as Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, you know her, she just has a beer in the kitchen there. She's a regular person. Remember her video? She had the dog, has a husband, go have a beer. Let's have a beer. They have push for restrictions on what they call unacceptable speech and quote. So it goes on and I'll link this up or you can just go to Jonathan Turley over on Twitter and read it or pick up a copy of USA Today wherever colorful newspapers are sold and see this. But good for Turley. This is what I was talking about yesterday and this is why this is so important and why I was teed off, the Supreme Court may be accurate in the fact that attorneys general Louisiana Missouri did not have standing. But the question of soft censorship coming from the executive branch is huge, it's huge. Those of you who have listened to me for more than a week or two would realize even if there was a Republican in there doing it, I would be complaining just the same because I'm an American, I believe in the Constitution more than any party out there. So this is big and he's saying that maybe the candidates should run on the fact that Biden is a sensor and with that, and now this is off of Turley and onto me, would that erode the people on the edges of Biden that go, you know, they're right, they're right. We don't like Trump, but we can't have a system that limits speech. Now there's going to be hardcore Democrats go, no, you must have the government mandate on what, you know, what acceptable speech is. But I think there's still plenty of folks that are on the left that go, you know what? That's not right. Jonathan Wright says, as we head to the news said, in this election, Robert F Kennedy, Jr, Jill Stein, Donald Trump in Cornell West should talk about threats against free speech at every debate and stump speech. They will have to overcome a news media that has been complicit in the attacks on free speech, but these candidates can break through by raising it as a key issue dividing Biden from the rest of the field. Well done. This, uh, Jonathan Turley kid, I think he's got promise your thoughts on that will hit the text line in the phone lines at three, four, three, zero, one, zero, six plus banners fly. We'll switch gears at some point banners flying over Orange Beach has the mayor and beach goers furious, furious, uh, plus we'll get, uh, little debate talk with Cameron Smith coming up in just about 10 minutes. This is midday mobile with Sean Sullivan on FM talk one oh six, five, I, I, I, I, I, I'm just saying this curly kid has some promise 1226 FM talk one of six five bid day mobile right. Also, check it out on our Facebook page where I'm sure that people with the Biden administration are just making Facebook aware. So we're not telling you to censor them, but just making you aware, but the algorithm does not like what we have put up here. Leanna has your bingo card for tonight's debate is up there. You can check it out Facebook.com slash FM talk one oh six, five speaking, which also Leanna is killing it right now with my discussion of these underperforming Walgreen stores, being, uh, being closed and what they might be, you know, just in, in my fair city, I worry they're going to become enough vape shops to just think, uh, y'all are growing too fast. Icarus, the sun, that whole thing, but, um, did I worry they're going to be like a plasma center or a, a vape shop, Leanna who lives Halloween, 365 says, I hope they become spirit Halloween's, which as a company, what a, what a smart move for that company to go into places have closed and just rent for whatever they do three months or whatever. It's like, I loved to watch free market and business and people that, you know, got a different hustle out there. I was impressed when I said, you know, good for them. They're about paying rent all year. Uh, they, they just come in when they make money and then they go, go back and, uh, chill out just like the ice cream man, right? Ice cream man makes his money right now and then he's off to the, uh, uh, wherever he's off to Antigua for the rest of the year. Um, Scroverine says is, uh, that a way of hiding that they're closing because of shoplifting. Yeah. And, and we'll look. Scrovering will look at where the locations are because, you know, the places like San Francisco and all that, where it's out of control, I'm with you. They've closed a lot of stores and places like that. If we see it in States like ours or places where they don't tolerate that, then maybe it's according to the CEO, would he say market dynamics or some kind of gobbledygook. Um, he's going to cause a meaningful percentage of, of Walgreen's source out there. So go get your scripts. Um, see here, oh, and also Scroverine said they're actually still some horsey hitch and post downtown, but those things are the fancy ones, man. I'm talking about a real, real hitch and post. Okay. Chris, listen. So Chris and orange beach lecturing me said, Hey brother, I have two words to say to you about drinking those diet drinks, kidney stones, switch to water. I, I do drink water in the mix. I need, I need, I need my caffeine, man. I need the, and I don't believe those drinks are good for you. No, I, I make choices of things that are not. So I agree with you. They're not good for you, but he wants me to be the tip of the spear. And here's, we'll see, we'll see, um, maybe yes, New Year's, I don't, y'all don't want to be around me if I let go of caffeine for, oh man, uh, let's see. Mr. Potts said I didn't open up my vape shop because they wouldn't let me use the name I wanted. Can you tell me what is possibly wrong with naming my shop, the town vapest, I wouldn't know. That said, who is, who's the orange beach mayor, this Tony Kennan? Adam said two comments, if Walgreens close the stores, they'll still be liable for rent. I hope that there'll be enough councilmen who have the courage to vote against Amtrak funding if they do. It'll be up to the state and the port authority decides it's important enough for them to pony up the city's portion. Yeah, we'll watch that as well. Get back to your text here and conversation with, uh, my man Cameron Smith, about tonight's debate. Check out Facebook. We got your, uh, debate bingo card posted up there, get it and print it. This is Midday Mobile with Sean Sullivan on FM Talk 1065, 1234 FM Talk 1065, Midday Mobile. Let's say that it began to show just a week away from Independence Day, I know I'm, I'm the guy that gets excited for that. But most people for Christmas or something like that, I, I got that for Independence Day. Let me bring my friend out here and then I'm going to ask a couple of questions that we talked about earlier and then we'll get into the discussion of the debate tonight. You know them. You love them. The crowd goes, well, most of the crowd goes wild for AL.com and the Triptych Foundation and publications nationwide and the movie industry's favorite, Cameron Smith, joining us now. How about that? That was a heck of an introduction, man. You mentioned blueberry farmer. I didn't hear that. I did not get that. How's your mind? If really I'm back to like getting two or three blueberries every four days, it slowed way down. Even though I have my cages built around them to keep the Cedar Rax wings out, it slowed down. Yeah, that's where we are to the next rounds coming in, uh, the pink lemonades are kind of done, you know, for this round and, you know, frankly so are we. We've eaten a lot of blueberries and we're turning them into, uh, blazons or brazons or, you know, whatever alternative to dehydrated blueberries you want to go with. Okay. Do me a favor later on. Text me a picture of what that looks like because I, that might be a thing that I have to have a bigger production to be able to start drying out the blueberries in the garden. But I'm interested in what you're doing. Uh, another thing to mention at the beginning of this show, it was not what I was going to talk about, but the story, uh, popped across my screen here, uh, from Fox Business and said Walgreens is going to close significant number of underperforming stores and it cuts its profit forecast. Let me read you here for the CEO said your, your smart guy, you know, went to a fancier college than I did. So I want to read you what the CEO of Walgreens said this, uh, this, uh, Tim Wentworth. He said, we continue to face a difficult operating environment, including persistent pressures on the U S consumer and the impact of recent marketplace dynamics, which have eroded pharmacy margins. End quote. Um, is he saying inflation is a thing here? It sure sounds like it's kind of what I read it too. That's definitely corporate speak for, we're not doing so hot. I mean, it's not like, I mean, it's, if you want to say it, paint the picture of a company that should just make money, hand over fist in today's world with all the prescriptions and then all the other stuff, you know, the, the rolled teenies and the, uh, diet cokes and the, you know, the altoids or whatever they sell and the ball greens is not making it. And they said, because of the recent marketplace dynamics, I mean, it's to me, that sounds like inflation. Yeah, it sounds like inflation. Also, I'll be honest, I don't usually go through the drug store anymore. If we got to pick up a prescription, we go through the drive through and we're done. And you know, when you're not picking up those diet cokes and candy and stuff that frankly, everyone's telling us we shouldn't eat anymore, uh, I'm sure that hurts their margins. Yeah. So they're there. I just wonder if, I mean, with that coming out the day of the debate, also, uh, if you go check, I don't know if you saw what Jonathan Turley said about the, uh, the decision earlier this week from the Supreme Court, you know, saying that, I mean, they, and you can help people understand this. Me too, that the attorneys general in Missouri and Louisiana didn't have standing in the case, but the, the question of what I see as censorship or soft censorship from the executive branch over the COVID speak was huge. And Turley is saying that the people running against Biden in his own party, let alone, Trump should be talking about this and saying that he is the most, and I think he makes a pretty good argument that Biden is like the most anti free speech president since John Adams. Yeah. Uh, I, and I've written about this case and I think the Supreme Court, I understand why they decided it based on standing and can you explain that to us? Can you give us like the quick, like quick version for, you know, when you say that, what does that mean? Why, why, what is that? So standing basically is the judicial doctrine that says you have to be injured by a thing before you can sue to get it fixed. And for example, the Supreme Court's determined there's no general taxpayers standing. So I can't sue the federal government as a taxpayer because I don't like federal government policies. Uh, I have to be injured by a policy before I can sue for redress of those wrongs. And in this case, basically, I think this was a pushback to the folks in Louisiana and Missouri and saying, the solicitors general, y'all need to do your homework. You need to do a better job tracing injury here and showing that, Hey, this is actually a, that, that you have standing to ring this case. I would have argued as Justice Alito did that, you know what, when the government coerces people to do things and restrain speech, then that's enough of an injury right there for a state to jump in and sue, um, the majority disagreed. Uh, and so I don't think this one's done yet. I think that. So the subject matter. Right. And in this, it's kind of maybe semantics to some degree and the subject matter of the question they didn't make a real decision on. Correct. And so I think the, the message this sends to the administration, whether it's Biden or Trump in the next go around is, well, be artful about the way that you ask the questions of folks to try to censor them, uh, and you can probably get away with it. I, I for one think that these suits aren't going away. The solicitor's general will take the message from the Supreme Court and say, we've got to build a better fat pattern here because it seemed to me in looking at the opinion, like the argument was, well, the Biden folks went to these folks and asked them to do things they were already doing. And so they weren't coercing, which if you're threatening section two, third, that seems a lot like coercion, but again, the rationale was, but they were already doing it. So they wanted to do it. So it wasn't what a bad argument that is. I talked about this issue number one, I would say, as an American citizen, I know they don't take this, but as an American citizen, those attorneys general just by base being citizen, they have standing against censorship of the First Amendment rights coming from the executive branch. But yes, number two here that they, you know, and I played, went back, cause I remember ripping on this when it first happened. So I went right back to my well and played some flips from Jen Psaki back then. And she would, to paraphrase, say, well, we're not telling Facebook to take posts down and censor people and take them off there. We're just making them aware of these posts. Come on. It's like when the Godfather, right? He doesn't, he doesn't say, I'm going to burn down your business. He just says, it'd be a real shame if there was a fire here at your business. Well, and this is what people hate about politics because this is the game they play, right? And this goes the same for enriching your like, this is the Hunter Biden stuff. Well, Joe Biden didn't ever say you got to give him business, but he was at the meeting and he said, hello, well, okay, what's the implication there? And if the answer is, well, we can't connect the dots there without him clearly doing something, then that's what the court saying in this case is, well, look, they, they have ability to take a position on section 230, which would kill these social media platforms. And they're sending them very curated list of what they want taken down. Okay. Yes. We're making you aware of this and that it's high pass cute. I didn't like it. I don't like the opinion. I do think there was enough to probably establish standing. I don't think the issue is going away and importantly, the Supreme court did not reach a decision on the merits. They just said, basically, you don't have standing and we have some thoughts on it. So who, who was the, who was the person that has standing? Would you be, would you have to go back and have Facebook divulge individual accounts that were censored or shut down, something like that? And then that person then would have the standing because they were affected by their personal, you know, post or whatever on the social media platform. Well, I think the fact record was pretty vague. And what I mean by this is, okay, well, this person, this specific post was taken down, but then they had a process and then that person was allowed to post again. And so was the injury really an injury or, you know, by the time they said the Himes defendant or plaintiff, I should say, was one that had standing, but the situation that they were alleging had changed by the time the court heard the case. And I, I'm really sensitive on these first amendment issues when it comes to government censorship. And if the government is doing anything that coerces or compels the speech of a private individual or private company, then the court should absolutely intervene and the individuals whose speech is constrained, I think have standing. And man, I really think that if I'm the attorney general from a state and I'm arguing the case, I say the federal government is encroaching on the speech rights, get my citizens. And I think that's pretty compelling. The court didn't agree with me. And I agree with you and they didn't listen to us for at least six of them did not agree with us. All right. Tonight, the debate in Atlanta, I am interested though, I keep seeing one of the monitors in here on Fox News and says, watch the CNN debate on Fox News. I wonder if they're going to do like have a TV on some in somebody's office there at Fox News and put a camera on it, CNN, you know, carry it through their camera, but the debate tonight on CNN, for bad here seems very strange. Nobody else in the room, you know, no studio audience. Your thoughts on that, your thoughts on the muting the mics and all that, do you think this is a set up for Trump? I think it hurts Trump initially because he does such a good job of feeding off the emotion around him. He can sense what the audience is into, what it's not into. And he doesn't really care about anything else, but connecting with those peoples to not have that, to not have a real time feedback loop is probably something that hurts him. As far as the format and the rules and the mics, really the issue is this is Trump's race to lose now. That has changed over the last nine months. You asked me nine months ago, I'd say it's Biden's race to lose. All he has to do is stay in the basement to, wow, Trump has got this neck and neck and now it seems like the shoes on the other foot that this is Trump's race to lose. And how he loses it is the same way that he lost that last go around is the Democrats are able to successfully make the campaign about Trump and the silly thing they have, right? I mean, they don't, they're not going to go back and look at, you know, the last, you know, the last three years of Biden and go, look at, there are great successes, right? I mean, it's all going to be what Trump's bad. Yeah, the Trump bad thing was effective and it was also a time when he had a much stronger social media presence and he, frankly, there wasn't a big Biden record to run on. And now you're looking at immigration, you're looking at inflation. Foreign affairs, pick an issue, Biden's underwater on that issue. And I firmly believe that Biden's only prayer here is to basically have Trump implode on stage where he's screaming over a closed mic, whether he's acting like a fool. As long as Trump doesn't do that, I think Trump's going to be fine because Biden's the one that has to defend his record. All Trump has to say is, hey, why didn't you just keep rolling with my policies on immigration and why didn't you just put them back in place when you started failing? He can focus on Biden, do what Biden wants to do to him and win the race. And my, my sort of conspiratorial take on this is the reason this is happening so early is if Biden tanks, if Biden looks as old and decrepit as he has, if he fails here, it gives Democrats enough of a window to try to come up with a plan B before the convention. I'm still going to, I'm still going to stick with the fact they're not going to switch horses here. But, you know, I'm doing that just to be cantankerous probably. But it is. I mean, the fact that Biden agreed to do the debate, right, shows that he's, he's desperate because they know that's not his strong suit. I mean, Trump would debate anybody at any point just for sport. Biden is not good for Biden. He's taking a week off at Camp David to prep for it, which by the way, you and I need to talk about the trout fish. And someday it can't buy at Camp David, they got a real good trout stream. But I don't think he's fishing that they would risk this, right? It is a big, it is a big risk for the Democrats. Yeah, that's what I that is the only reason that I think there has to be something. Oh, if I'm a Democrat, I'm looking at the numbers and I'm saying, what's the point? If this is, you know, to moving towards two to one Trump likelihood to win the election. Whether we're missing something and everybody on the planet is wrong here or Biden's just an extremely vulnerable candidate right now and Democrats must come up with an alternative. And I don't think this doesn't play to any of Biden's strengths. It isn't a great format for him either because he likes more of the shouting and the crazy because you know, that sure spotlight on Trump and to be for Trump to be yelling at a mic that doesn't work, doesn't do as much for him. And I just, I don't see a world in which this goes well for him. Trump could damage himself more. He does sometimes set himself on fire, but all Trump needs to do is just ask Biden questions about why he's a failure and I think he'll be successful. All right, are you going to, you know, quite often with a state of the union and other things, you and I are both on Twitter or X at that same point, I'm going to be on tonight during the debate. Are you going to be on? We'll be on @DCameronSmith on X. I will live tweet this thing because it's going to be like grumpy old men. I am thrilled to watch this. And hopefully the big takeaway we get is, is this really the best we can do? Because I'm not excited about the way it's going to actually turn out. You have the sentiment of probably, I don't know, 200 of the 385 million Americans out there. So we will be watching the grumpy men tonight and commenting on Twitter. Cameron is always, I appreciate it. We'll check back soon. Thanks, Sean. All right, there he goes. Cameron Smith. Yeah, check him out tonight @DCameronSmith on Twitter. I'll be at FMTalk4065 to join in the Wampooning. This is Midday Mobile with Sean Sullivan on FMTalk4065. At 1251 FMTalk4065 at Midday Mobile, check in with my buddy Anna at Mobile Bay Coins and find jewelry. You know, Ron and I go on, on, on about precious metals, prices and hedges and all that stuff. What you want to know is what gift items are out there. Anna, you just, during the news break, rolled a great idea out to me. Quinn's as jewelry. Yes, sir. I have recently, there's been an influx in people coming in and wanting like their birth year or some of the popular designs like the Liberty Head, Gold Coins or the Indian Heads or what they call the same gardens, which is the standing walk in Liberty Design, set into a bezel where they can wear it around their neck. OK, so you, you take something like that and do we get in trouble for that? Is that defacing currency or something like that or is that something I remember from a kid like that you couldn't? No, you wouldn't get in trouble exactly, but you don't want to put an expensive coin in there. That's like a better day to our more collectible, but most of the ones that are just, you know, gold and silver value, you could put those in there and wear it as a piece of jewelry. It wouldn't hurt the value that much. OK, so if they, I mean, that's pretty cool too, you get your birth year or if you're giving as a gift, give their birth year and something pretty special. You'll always find a way to take a gift and make it better. You amplify it and I like that. Oh, yeah. And we, you know, we have jewelry for pretty much any occasion, you know, engagement, in a bursary, there's birthdays, a lot of birthdays in June, July. And we do have a lot of unique unusual pieces, some vintage jewelry, some broaches, you know, cameos and an inexpensive pearl jewelry as well. Good stuff. So people need to come in and check it out. So tell them how to find you. Yes, sir. We're a 2204 government street and we're just a block over from Little Fox Epic School and Church. Thank you, Anna. You're welcome. All right. There goes Anna from Mobile Bay Coins and Find Jewelry. And yes, all the best birthdays in July, early July. That's for the early July birthdays. All right. Trying to catch up on some of these texts. I don't know who you're a named texture, but I think we could hang out because I made some reference earlier to Lancelot, Link's secret jump. See, I can't even say, we used to come on something when I was in Alabama, maybe daytime TV somewhere and idiot guys would sit in the house between classes and watch it and still find it funny. But the texture said, I love Lancelot, Link. Baron Von Butcher was always my favorite. I seem to recall that Bernie Koppel, a.k.a. Dr. Adam Bricker from The Love Boat did voice I did not know that. So there's some trivia. I appreciate that. James says Trump has learned the hard way that free speech can be really costly, like 80 million dollars worth. Yeah. Well, so, James, so you shouldn't, I mean, yesterday you're mad at me, right? Because I was saying that it was a bad thing that the Biden administration was censoring, all censoring people on Facebook that said things against the government narrative on COVID. And he said, you know, well, you know, even me who lost a friend to COVID. Yeah. And I still, I still believe in the First Amendment. There's a rule of law. There's, there's rights, even if it affects my personal emotion. I still believe in the First Amendment, T-bone says, uh, Machiavellian or Wellian or Crixonic are by three of my top favorite adjectives. Good stuff. T-bone, I probably, I probably use, I probably use Machiavellian more than a Machiavelli, the Prince. Use that more than Orwellian or Crixonic, but Crixonic is good too. That is good. Adam says, Sean, following up on the, oh, it says, Sean, two comments. If Walgreens closes stores, they'll still be liable for rent. I hope there will be enough councilmen who have the courage to vote against soundtrack funding. Okay. That, okay. Read that before he then he says, Sean, following up on the Walgreens situation, most of their leases were on 20 year primary terms. I assume that a lot of the ones that are closing are near the expiration of their primary lease terms. See, Adam, I appreciate all y'all giving me insight into things here. It's like yesterday with planning jurisdictions, learned a lot. Yeah. Okay. We're going to get, we're going to get into the banner sum here. Yeah. Backstrap stacker says, so what great advertising. I hope she made some serious money. Yes. So we, we will talk about that coming up next hour, the banner flying over the beach that has, well, at least according to the WKRG headline says banner planed in orange beach pulls ad for only fans account, mayor and beach goers are furious. So we'll get to that. And then on the, I guess, an, oh, comment here from backstrap stacker on our bingo card that Leanna has up on the Facebook page, Facebook.com slash FM talk, one of six, five, you can have tonight's debate, presidential debate bingo card. And you see all the different things that happen that you get to get a, you know, cross off on your bingo card, backstrap stacker said, I'll take three, come on, man's for $50. There you go. Um, CB cart. Well, CB, this is why this is called a tease in radio. He says, Sean, I know curiosity killed the cat, but what did the banner say? We had to figure it out too because it was blurred out in the news story and it wouldn't blur it out because it says something that I can't say on the radio is blurred out because there's, it said only fans and then it didn't give the person saying so they didn't get, I guess more free, what they call it, unearned media, like Trump is so good at getting. So, but I'll tell you more about it. CB Carl coming up, you know, period minds once a note. We'll talk about it next hour dirt ticker, Sean, which president do you think would do a better celebration in 2026 of our country's 250th anniversary Trump or Biden? I'm going Trump. Look at his style and properties. Yeah. Listen, I like Trump, but there are things dirt digger. I mean, I said I'm no, no perfect act like a Trump's because remember he wanted to do a big military display, like rolling tanks down the, down the street in Washington, which would have been bad for the asphalt, but that was too Russian, like two Chinese like for me. I love seeing, you know, I don't think there's any doubt here that I'm patriotic as, as it gets. I love seeing flyovers. I love all that stuff, but having, remember he wanted to do like, so if he wanted to roll the military equipment through the streets, I don't think I'd be crazy for that. But we'll see. But I would definitely dirt digger between those two choices. Yeah, we'd go with Trump. Let's see, Jim and Sim says, how does closing underperforming affect profits if they're really underperforming? Put asking real questions, Jim, if you mess up the old CEOs, you'll probably get there. All right. Be right back.