Drew Franklin

He could have used some cocaine, if you ask me. That's what he just said. Yeah, Crystal Ball called him half-dead Biden, right?

Yes.

No, I never thought he was on it.

Yeah.

Do you walk in and you get your... You should not get a locker just to go on tour of the White House.

You'd make me something, right?

Or a locker. You don't get a locker. Oh, I was thinking like Secretary of State or something important. No, no, no. You're not getting it.

And a lot of them are still out, right? Two are still on the loose. Three were found over this past weekend.

out and about.

Well, in the New Orleans one, they yanked a faulty cell door open. They squeezed through a hole behind a toilet. They scaled a barbed wire fence and they fled inside or they fled. And with help from a janitor who was shortly arrested afterwards because he had to turn off the water so they could get through the pipes.

But the ex-Arkansas police chief that was just arrested, he was serving time for 30 years for murder and rape, escaped from prison on Sunday and remains at large. He used a disguise, a makeshift disguise to mimic law enforcement and walked right out the door. What is it with all this fake law enforcement? Wait a minute.

This was last Sunday. Wow. So, yes, I have the same question. Is it that easy to break out of prison?

supermodel poster they'll hang a poster that's what it was in shawshank yeah and then yeah every night they'll chisel a little bit i i feel like we should have already been onto this years ago so he just walked out the front just walked out the loading dock they've even got video of it and him in his little uniform what was his disguise uh just just a black outfit with a hat on and it says something on the back police official i promise

Yes, this is hard-hitting. All right, what's next? All right, let me go from Arkansas to Texas, where House Bill 186 is poised to pass. Is it poised? It's poised.

House Bill 186 is set to prohibit individuals under the age of 18 from having social media accounts on platforms like TikTok, Facebook, and Snapchat. It's driven by concerns over youth mental health and online safety. While critics would argue the First Amendment right is being violated, and it's a cutoff of an entire universe of information and conversation for young people.

Texas.

18.

I'm for it. Billy, are you for it? I'll play devil's advocate a little bit because, you know, there's a wealth of information that you're just going to hold me from until I'm 18.

Well, I mean, I think you have a point there. But, like, I've seen things on TikTok that can broaden my horizons, Matt. Like what?

I do like Zesty Towns. I love Zesty Towns. Oh, my God. It can't be that. Maybe we'll talk about one later in the show as a topic. But I also learned how to fix my sink on TikTok. So, I mean, there's a lot of YouTube. What 16-year-old is fixing the sink? You don't know.

Number five. Let's go to Las Vegas, where the Bitcoin 2025 conference will be taking place this week with a host of very interesting speakers, including Donald Trump's sons. No, there's two intellects. Several senators, including Cynthia Loomis and Marsha Blackburn.

rock star and the keynote speaker will be vp jd vance at the bitcoin 2025 conference and they will look to address innovation financial sovereignty in the future of bitcoin by the way that sounds like my personal hell of a conference only if you also had like eight-year-olds that were there would be there be a less actually i like i'm talking like five-year-olds um no parking Oh, yeah.

I have no idea. I picture Minesweeper for some reason.

Bitcoin mining is the process of adding transaction records to Bitcoin's public ledger, known as the blockchain. That's where you can see all the transactions.

Miners use specialized hardware and software to solve complex mathematical problems, validating transactions and securing the network.

Oh.

Correct. But I'm already an idiot. You know, have you seen like meme coins? I don't know what. Oh, that's where. Yeah, that's stupid. Like people can create these cryptocurrencies and then pull the rug out from under hardworking people.

All right, we've been through five, so we're going to start having a little bit more fun. We've got to start by talking about the video of French President Emmanuel Macron. Have you seen this yet?

Macron.

His wife shoved him in the face while they were getting off an airplane. It's bizarre. I haven't seen it yet. Uh, but people don't think so.

Well, Matt, tell us about what you think about the video first.

Yes. He is saying that they were bickering and joking. I love his face when he sees the camera. They are bickering or not bickering? Bickering and joking.

That was his explanation.

I believe so.

That's the one whose wife was his teacher, right? That's what I wanted to get into. This story has exposed to a younger generation the story of him and his wife. His wife, Bridget, was 39 years old when she met Emmanuel, who was 15. She was his high school student. Emmanuel expressed his love for her to his parents. They sent him to boarding school.

Bridget was married and had three kids, yet she divorced and married him

Well, I'm always extremely confident, so I know this is going to go swimmingly, just like Fade This did always. I've got several handwritten notes over here, as you guys can see. Wow, look at all that paper. The prep work is here.

Correct. Correct.

I couldn't really tell about that. How do you respond from that? You look at the camera and you smile. You give your cheesiest wave. I don't know how you live that down, man. That's a tough look.

I agree. I think that reveals to me it was obviously a fight.

Not a Louisville fan ever shoved you in the face like that? Drew's gotten punched from behind before. Well, I've said, I've told you. You've had a couple close encounters.

All right, let's go back online. The United States likes to be the number one, or likes to be number one in everything. This will make you happy if you're one of those people. Australian linguist scoured the web to better understand how people might employ naughty words in their written communications. Over 20 countries were surveyed, 340,000 websites, and 1.9 billion words were analyzed.

597 words, vulgar words, were highlighted. And what did we learn? The United States sets the bar for the dirtiest mouth on the Internet. Followed by Great Britain, Australia, Singapore, New Zealand, Malaysia, and Ireland.

Read me the top seven again. USA, Great Britain, Australia, Singapore, New Zealand, Malaysia, and Ireland.

Did you say how they studied it? I didn't, but I think it's English-speaking countries.

Well, that's why I'm confused.

Not sure.

Well, I think we have to start with Donald Trump's pardons, guys. I mean, the number one news. We're on 840 WHAS.

I have one time. Did you drop yourself? I had to have the producer drop it, yeah. I was filling in for Dick Gabriel, and you cannot use that language on the Big Blue Insider. Let me tell you.

All right, well, that's good to know. What's number eight? All right, it's our feel-good story of the episode. I want to introduce you to Oliver Widger, or as most people know him on TikTok as Sailing With Phoenix. Sailing With Phoenix, excuse me.

That is his TikTok account name. He has gone viral over the last few weeks as a man who was living in Oregon, who quit his job, liquidated his retirement savings, and set sail on a sailboat from Oregon to Hawaii with his cat, Phoenix.

The cat's name is Phoenix. He taught himself how to sail via YouTube. He bought a $50,000 boat and repaired it in a matter of months. A 25-day journey spanning 2,400 miles ended last Sunday, where he was greeted by a welcoming party in Hawaii.

Which one is it? Talking more like a sailboat, old school sailboat, common man's, not a rich person's. What does that mean? Like sailing competitions. I mean, there is the art of sailing. There's a lot that goes into it. When he buys a $50,000 boat.

Well, I really honed in on one guy, Matt, and that's former Virginia Sheriff Scott Jenkins, who was convicted on fraud and bribery charges. He was found guilty of accepting more than $75,000 in bribes last December in exchange for making several businessmen into law enforcement officers without training.

boat and has to repair it himself he's not on a you know a yacht or a rich person's vessel is he the first part like no don't a lot of people say why is this a thing this is a feel-good story on the internet because of the cat well the cat and quitting his job and you know he was diagnosed with a rare condition three years ago okay that was an important fact just just for future reference bill

I've never heard of this before. Klippel-Veal syndrome, a condition that causes abnormal fusion of cervical vertebrae.

I don't know that I'd want to go sailing if I had to.

Yeah, I've seen it a couple times. He's a nice guy, very personable. That helps. He's got a cat.

Sailing.

He's got over a million followers and has captured the attention of the country.

Okay. Yeah, instead of hitting the block button. So you like the sailing guy? I think it's fine, but I can't ignore the news.

What does the cat eat?

I actually hate cats.

25 days. I mean, not everybody gets two months off in the summer. Just do whatever they want. Excuse me.

Oh, yeah. Yeah, you guys are, I mean, I'd like to see you on a sailboat for 25 days. This is not like the coast, like just let's coast for 25 days. I mean, you're on waves and, you know, the hull just broke. The what?

Uh, hold on. Sailing with Phoenix.

All right. Did this story with Shannon the other day. He's a music guy. The All-American Rejects are doing a twist when it comes to the tour. They're doing the twist. It's the house party tour. Instead of set dates and going to cities, they take DMs and submissions from fans and and they do shows from people's houses.

They announced the show the day of, and they've been to a lot of different places, including college campuses on finals weeks. They even did a show in a field in Iowa. But they are appealing to a new generation of fans by doing house party tours.

I don't know that.

Yeah, a talent fee maybe to get the guys there.

Yeah, to get there to the house party.

Dirty little secret.

They are, and that's why they've appealed to a whole new fan base by doing this. They also said they're not doing it for money. They took $50,000 out of their own pockets, booked a bus, put the crew on salary, and started this wild ride.

It doesn't say, but it does say they recently read about people financing festival tickets, and they just thought these weird and wild times. No, I do think it's very cool.

They could avoid traffic tickets and carry a concealed firearm without a permit.

Maybe a squatter? You need to know your neighbors. You need to meet them.

Yes, he has not served a day yet. He was sentenced to 10 years in jail in March, but he will not serve one day.

Is it?

Now you're talking me into keeping them all. Drop your kid off at karate, you go jazzercise a little bit. Either way. You need karate to get this lady out of your yard.

Okay, number 10. I'm torn between two topics. Would you guys rather talk about gymnast icon Mary Lou Retton getting a DUI or if it's acceptable to tell your homies goodnight?

Gymnast icon Mary Lou Retton arrested and charged with DUI.

Driving under the influence.

57. And she refused the roadside breath test.

In her hometown of West Virginia. Yep.

Driving a Porsche. Slurring her words.

In West Virginia.

So she got a DUI? Yeah, less than two weeks ago. And you just hate to see that, don't you? You can't end with that.

Okay.

Yeah, it is the news. You know, you can't stray from the news. It's true. It is what it is. Drew, this is the news. To end on a lighter note.

This is the news. To end on a lighter note, this is the farthest thing we have from the news. But there is a TikTok trend going around where people are calling their friends and telling them goodnight. And I'd like to ask you guys if you think that's weird to call the homies goodnight at night.

Shut the hell up. You don't tell me goodnight.

Is that your blue-collar comedy tour? Pretty much, yeah. Larry the Cable Guy, all that.

Oh, absolutely. Well, there's a lawsuit that it was. What lawsuit? The class action lawsuit with Apple where you can get $100 if you had a Siri device from 2014 to 2024 because the device was just listening to you. Is this true?

Yeah, you get a $25 per Apple device you owned from 14 to 24. You can get up to $100.

Show prep? The news?

It's the news. I got a show to do every day.

Yeah, they only expect 3% to 5% of people eligible to even cash in on this.

How would something on your arm know how many steps you did? That's a great question. Did it track your movement somehow? The distance traveled?

For the Apple one, no, it's not. You can do that right now. I don't know the date of that, unfortunately.

Well, you might see that on your TikTok algorithm tonight. If he shows up. Sailing with Phoenix.

I guess it's not for life. Was it like a subscription plan? Yeah, after their scheme has been found.

Was there any explanation why? Trump says Jenkins is a wonderful person who was persecuted by the radical left monsters and left for dead.

Yes. And then Trump also went on to say Jenkins tried to offer evidence, but the judge, who was a Biden appointee, refused to allow it, shut him down, and went on a tirade in a jury case.

Yep. And left him for dead.

Don't know. Okay.

No, I don't think he retains the title. Now do the deputies get to stay deputies? I hope so. I'd like to think that.

That was a great first topic.

All right, we were talking about pardons. Hunter Biden was pardoned once upon a time. Also didn't like that. And that might relate to this story. The FBI is reopening investigations into the cocaine found at Biden's White House.

That's right. They found cocaine where? In the White House. Is that like we know that or they just said that? A baggie of cocaine was found.

I don't know the specifics there in the West Wing or in the office or on the table.

I think where it is in the White House is an important fact. In a storage locker near the entrance to the White House to West Wing.

You're asking the wrong person.

But the deputy director, Don Bongino, announced that they are reopening several cases.

He's reopening several cases that garnered public interest. Okay, but why is he reopening them? He thinks the public may have influenced how they were decided or what people thought of it. How did the public influence it? I'm not sure, but the D.C.

pipe bombing, the leak of the Supreme Court Dobbs case, and the cocaine at the White House are all three investigations the FBI has announced they are reopening.

The D.C. pipe bombing is one of the three investigations that the FBI is reopening.

Yeah, yeah, to see what was going on, I guess, Matt.

Well, that was Trump. He said it could either be Joe or Hunter.