Cleared Hot - Powered By BRCC - Vote For The Garbage Can | Negligent Discharge Friday | 8.14.2026

Episode Date: August 14, 2026

Michael is moving to Missoula, so this one opens with a resignation and gets worse from there. A man in a garbage can is polling at 20% against Nigel Farage in Clacton, and his platform makes more sense than it should. Term limits, and the unelected career staff who actually run the machine. Early access to Truth Social posts for $60,000 to $100,000 a month. Trading firms have already signed up. A president clearing north of two billion in his first year back in office, and why the silence around it is deafening. A California mayor who pleaded guilty to working as an unregistered agent of China. A former Marine home after four years in a Russian prison. What prison is actually for. Punishment, incapacitation, rehabilitation, and where the line sits. A carrier at sea 250 days straight, what that does to 5,000 people with no end date, and the guy I watched grab a fire extinguisher and jump. Also: a four mile run, PT school, and a second wiener dog named Beans. Today's Sponsors:  Firecracker Farms:  https://www.firecracker.farm Tiny Health:  https://www.tinyhealth.com/clearedhot

Okay, got the red smoke. West of the smoke. I'm looking at danger close now. Come on water, baby. Give it to me. I made it. You're quit it hot. And we're going.

Where, though? Where are we going? Well, I'm going to Missoula. Well, let's dive into it. That's pretty much all there is to say. That's how much else. So, and what's the term that we should use? Moving on to greener pastures?

I mean, I guess, whatever you're going to call. I wouldn't say greener, just different. Yeah. And for clarity, although I give you a hard time on just about everything, it's because I actually care about you. And I couldn't be more stoked for you to go. Yeah. Do whatever it is you're good.

No, I knew you'd be excited, I don't know, whatever, but I knew you'd be supportive. Yeah. All problems have solutions as long as you look hard enough for them. And we've actually found a solution. We didn't really even have to look that hard. We didn't. And I mean, this is no spoiler or attention.

anybody. Either you and I are tech guys. No. And we're also not video production guys. I mean, the number of times that I've had to go onto YouTube and say, how do you lens, cameras, all that. So, yeah, a buddy of ours who is a black belt and jujitsu, professional videographer and photographer who can help. He's already talking about changing a few of the settings on the cameras, a few settings on the lights for temperature type stuff, which, I thought all lights were at the same temperature, but I mean, apparently it has something to do With the color. Anywho, I think it's a step in the right direction. I think so, too. It's literally an upgrade from me in every way.

Yeah. Which, I mean, is that hard? No, it's a very low bar. Is it above the ground or just does the bar lay on the ground? It's basically, it's like a little raised step on the sidewalk that you trip over a little bit. Or did we find a big enough crack to put the bar into it that it's just flat? Just level. Yeah. It's probably just level. How uncanny was it, though, because you had obviously been thinking about this.

This goes back to the last negligent discharge Friday, where we opened with a set of cards. And the question that I, and you didn't tell me until afterwards, you kind of alluded to it. You said, kind of thinking about doing this out of the other. And afterwards, almost the instant we turned the camera off, you said, you're not going to believe, but. Yeah, that card. I actually want to go back to school. Yeah. Yeah.

I was like, are you joke? Because like, obviously, I wasn't going to tell you the full thing for the first time on air. You could have. My reaction would have been a different. I know. But I'm not saying because of that. I just wouldn't, I don't know. It just wouldn't feel right to do that.

But it felt wrong? I wouldn't have felt wrong either. That's kind of where you live. I guess, you don't know if it feels right or it feels wrong. You're just curious. I don't know where you're going. Speaking of curious.

Why don't you highlight the. educational tool that my sister provided for you. Oh. Have you determined what it is? Yeah, she told me. It's like, let's see, make sure the audience can see this. It is like the. It's not like the.

It is an anatomical representation of the, in the womb, a child before they develop either a penis or a vagina. This is what it is, right? That's what she said. Am I, did I get that completely wrong? I thought that's what she said. What did I get wrong? Do you want to go alphabetically?

That is what she said. She said that men and women at the biological level start with the same wrong material. Yes. One turns into a penis. Yes. The other one into a vagina. Yes. Yes.

That is a physical representation. I might be completely wrong. actually what it looks like of the entire structure of the female starts with the sea oh say it I don't want to you say it what be an adult let's have a sex head class clitoris there you go so you have a treasure map now for the remainder of your life thanks yeah why did you feel like you needed it is a better question. That's a really good question because... It's easy to answer, though.

Yeah, obviously. It's very obvious. Totally. Go home, study. I'm talking about five minutes a night before you go to bed. What's that? Five minutes per night before you go to bed study. It's all takes.

I don't know. All right you. Man, we are off to the races already today. We are really off to a great story. You're moving, some sexual education. For the three people who are still with us on this episode, do you want to talk about today? Not much.

What do you got for today? Do we have happy day, sad day? You always seem to have a mix. Yeah, honestly, it's mostly, mostly sad, some humorous things. Do we want to start with humorous or sad? Oh, I don't care. How do you decide which things to highlight on these episodes?

For the audience, I turn that over to you. I don't know what we're going to talk about. Yeah. It's kind of whatever suits you are fancy, which is a dangerous proposition. Dangerous. A mix of news, current events, and just things that,

I'll find just online. Okay. Fire away. What do you have for this Friday's episode? Okay. So I think this story here goes to show that frustration in politics is not just an American thing. Have you heard of this Count Binface? Listen, when I first read that, I'm going to be honest.

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Okay, so, wow. Have you ever watched the video, I think we have, where the people are passing the basketball back and forth and they tell you that, and then the gorilla walks through? Yes. I almost didn't see the fox on the right-hand side. Yeah, you're so focused on. I'm assuming that's a fox with very rabid eyes that says,

protect British wildlife. So I have no idea. So from left, Count Binface. And then British Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, an animal welfare activist Wigan or Wigan in England in June. What are we looking at? So I guess I didn't know Nigel Farage is not the prime minister anymore. It's this guy apparently.

That's what the subtitle would allude to. Yes. So this guy, Count Benface has been... I'm not calling him that. Well, nobody knows his real name. Okay. Exploding popularity. And I think it is mostly because of a backlash at

current political state in the UK, which honestly translates over to the U.S., a lot of people are hating our current political state. I think they're a touch ahead of us in some of the progressive policies. So I think we're getting a little bit of a sneak preview to the answer to some of the test questions. Like what do you mean? Meaning the frustration level. Oh, yes.

I think they're a touch ahead of us on some of the policies that they've instituted. And a lot of people in the U.S. want to mirror some of those policies, but you can forward, or not I was going to say forward look. You don't need to. you can look across the Atlantic and see the, what I mean is the answers to the test. These have been applied in places. Well, he's running against Nigel Farage, who was an ultra right wing. Okay.

Yeah. He's an intergalactic space warrior. Is he, though? Self-descript. And do you have any semblance, you know, when he said he's exploding in popularity? Let me know, that's one thing. Is it notoriety? Or is this person actually getting...

He is projected to get... get 20% of the vote in Clacton? I think the town is called Clacton. I think it's safe to say that most people, I'll put myself, I'll speak for myself only. It's more than safe to say. I look back at our political system and the political system of the UK or any at this point people running for public office. And I'm not so sure that the system itself is survivable at its its current state. I completely understand people becoming frustrated because it doesn't seem to matter if you run on the left or the right or the center. It's you have all the promises in the world and you get there and almost nothing is accomplished. It's like you are, there are just three on ramps or

four or five or six or whatever it is and all, but it all ends up in this one water slide. Yeah. So it looks like you're headed into different direction, but 50 yards down the road, they all converge and then you're on the same water slide and I don't. I've heard other people say this. I agree with it. I'm not an expert in politics, but I do think without term limits in our ability to ferret people out of being professional politicians their entire life. We're headed for problems. And there also has to be an additional step to that. The number of people who are lifetime government service employees. And I've used the example. Ridiculous. Yeah. Well, I've used the example many times from the officer detailer in the

seal community. I believe it was a woman. I'll leave her name out of it. I think I've said it before, but just in case I haven't, I'll leave it a little bit neutral. She was there for decades. And every two years, though, a new active duty officer would come in. And technically, that's the active duty officer detailer. But if you really wanted something done, you called and you asked for her because she knew all the billets and all the officers from Enson to Admiral and had shepherded some people's careers through that period. So on paper, yeah, the officer detailer was the active duty person that rotated through every two years. But the power broker was anything but that. And that system also exists in a lot of government institutions as well. We vote for the vast

minority of people that are actually serving in government. And those people are tremendous power brokers. They can get things done quickly or they can drag their feet and prevent us from getting anything done. And their job's fine. But I think a lot of people suffer because of that. Yeah. Well, yeah. And I feel like this is kind of a backlash to some of that. where it's like we you're not even representing us. So watch this. We're going to vote for this doofus. And we don't care anymore.

Yeah. I don't think it's mean. I don't think it's going to be meaningful. But I don't understand where it's coming from. I completely understand the sentiment of well, absolutely nothing else so far has worked. So you know what? Let's vote for the most ridiculous thing to even see if it makes a difference.

Yeah. And here is some of the, his ridiculous policies that he has. Oh, nice. Let's go from top to bottom. Cut your taxes. Raise everyone else's. So is that, I mean, how does this work beyond the one person? I'm not sure.

Okay. Nationalize Adele. Are we talking about the music? I think the singer, I believe. I'm going to support that. Adele's voice is not bad. Very good. Yeah, strong.

Nationalize model railways. Are we talking to little microscopy? I think these are like the miniature railways. Hobbies. Okay. Okay. Send one trillion a week to the N.H. Jess, no.

Who can't get on board with this? This should be the first one. Cap croissants at one pound 10. Do they say cents? I don't think so. I don't think so either. What would that be? One pound ten.

Sorry for anybody across the pond. I really don't know. I'm going to ask Google here. Yeah. Or one euro? No, they use pounds. That's a pound, yeah. One pound.

What would they call the 10? The UK equivalent for the cent is the penny plural pence. 10 pounds. People were screaming at their computers or whatever device. Sorry for anybody in the UK. I have not spent a lot of money over there. Cap 99 flake ice creams at 99 pence. That seems like how can you argue against that?

99. Cap Wigan kebabs, which in parentheses basically a butter pie and barme cake at two pounds. tie all government ministers pay, including the mayors to that of nurses for the next 100 years. I also support that. You know, again, this is stuff I see on the internet. None of this is my idea. And just because it was a small snippet in a larger video. Most of the video didn't make sense.

But in this context, it essentially said, why don't we overpay teachers and underpay politicians? Yeah. And then the person said, I bet you we have a lot less stupid people. I would agree with that. I would fully support that. I fully support that. Yeah. I would argue teachers are.

much more important than politicians, actually. To our day-to-day life, and I think the continued ability for our civilization to exist, yes, I support that for sure. Yes. MPs to lose their subsidized cheap food and drink in parliament. I don't actually know what many of those words mean. Auto-renew all, oh, okay, auto-renew on all online subscriptions to be abolished immediately. I like that, too. Fuck, yes.

You should get an email saying, do you want to renew? And you can just click no. Have you ever gone into your Apple account? and then gone into subscriptions. Yes. What did you find? Too many. I did this and found that I was paying for the same subscription multiple times.

Do you know why? No. For a time, I shared an ICloud account with my children. Oh. My oldest Riley one month put $400 on these micro transactions. I forget the game. I want to say it was a clash of clans, but I don't think it was. Yeah.

But he kept buying. coins. And apparently he felt no need to ask for the $1.99 purchase 200 times. How old was he? Probably 22, but that's how old he is now. This was yesterday. No, this is probably 13 to 16, something like that. So yeah, there were a lot of double and triple subscriptions in there. Pensions to be double locked with a little extra chain on the side. I don't know. I'm not sure what that means. Okay. There's a lot here. So we don't have to go This is amazing. Wi-Fi on trains that work.

Support. Oh, followed by trains that work. Interesting that he put Wi-Fi on the trains above the trains working. So that, I can vouch for that because when we were in the UK, dude, the train situation was pretty bad. Not going to lie. We were crammed. There were about three times the normal amount of people crammed on one train because two of them were out of service. Okay.

And it was about a two-hour ride standing the whole time. Yeah. A train was late. One of the trains got canceled. We had to get a voucher for a taxi because the train can get us all the way to London. So then we had to take an hour taxi drive into London. It was terrible. Horrible. I'm glad all of that happened to you. I know you're glad. But I'm glad because none of that would happen here in Montana. And if you don't have things like that happened to you in life, if that was your dark night of the soul, which if you don't know what that is. It wasn't my dark night. It was just annoying. It sounds like it was. There was emotion in your. voice with that. You sounded like a bitch. Okay. Like a little first world bitch. You would be complaining way worse than me if that happened to you. No, I wouldn't. Yes, you would. On the train. Do you have any idea some of the living conditions that I have spent? No, I know they're terrible. Months and years in. I know they're terrible. I had two times as many people in my train. Three. I was trying to travel through the first world. I was trying to make my weight. This is exactly what you sound like, by the way. This is as if when

I don't know. You'd be pissed. Just so people know, this is me, Andy, making Michael's voice because I know I sound exactly like he just said. Yeah. I was the hardest train ride of my entire. I was hardest. Yeah, whatever. That's what you sound like.

Also, even I am recognizing you've worn that Mexico shirt several times for Friday episodes. I told you. I have like six shirts. Do you want the brown shoes back that you wore to Tyler's birthday party, by the way? I think they're at the house. Really? Yeah. The slip-ons?

No, I'm pretty sure I took those back. It must be Tyler's. I don't know. I digress. Yeah, that's not really that bad. Yeah, well, it wasn't fun. Oh, dude. And it's a vacation.

Are you going to be okay? No. It wasn't that fun? No, I'm going to go cry after this, actually. I was assuming you were crying during. What did you do with yourself while you were standing there? It was terrible. I almost jumped off the train.

I don't think you could have figured out how to open the door. No. I was broken a window. It's probably was plexiglass. had broken your hand. I do find it interesting that Wi-Fi on a train that works was above line item number two, which is actually trains that work. Yeah.

I would probably invert those two. I think you did it for comedic effect. Yeah. Free parking for electric vehicles between Vine Street and that's all super local stuff. Housing. Go down a little bit. Build at least one affordable house. Nice.

Strong. MP, I feel like that has something to do with Parliament or something to do with their electorate. constitutional reform abolish the house of lords nope i cannot get on board with that because i don't even know what it is but it's it sounds really cool yeah house of lords does sound cool how it sounds cool i don't know what they do though so maybe there's a good uh reason for that introducing a minimum wage or minimum voting age to of 16 and a maximum of 80 that's pretty fair is i like that i don't know if i trust my dad to vote anymore no i don't either i was looking at when we went out to uh to dinner for Tyler's birthday, which, by the way, thanks for being a wingman for him until 2 a.m.

Of course. It was epic. Made sure he got home safe. Yeah. I was looking at the menu. I think there's a reason why children's and seniors is on the same paragraph. Because you start off life as a child and then you return to one. Yeah, he, yeah.

I can get behind that. He is out of his mind. He's living his own life. Living his best life, one could say. For sure. And I'm fully supportive of it. Yeah. But I was thinking that when we were sitting there at the table, we start off, needing all the help we can get.

And then we end off needing all the help we can get. Potentially even diapers on both sides. Yeah. Actually, that is true for a lot of people. In the diaper section, which I know you have probably never gone in. Nope. There's children and adults. Yeah.

Furries. Again, look ended. Yep. All right. This one, I think, is also very good. MPs to live in the area they wish to represent for four years before standing. Yes, of course. Yeah, you should actually have some tie and live in the community that you want to represent.

Yep. So, I mean, that's the, you know, it's crazy. It's not crazy. It's just, again, it highlights the ridiculous nature of politics. Some of these are clearly ingest. Yes, of course. And they're funny. Yes.

Some of these are so common sense that you can't tell if they're just real. Because that's how ridiculous this is. should be this way. Like, yeah, that's a pretty reasonable idea. You should. That you even have to bring this up is comedic. Yes, correct. Let's see, London to join the European Union.

I don't know, I've heard pros and cons of that. Environment and utilities, go down. Stop the sale of arms to repressive regimes. Okay. Water company bosses to take a dip in the British rivers and see how they like it. Fully support that. Love it. Abolish.

I have no clue of that. So I know they're talking about soccer. I don't know what that is. Corners in football to be refereed properly. Okay, this guy's obviously a soccer fan. Tries in rugby league to be increased from four to five points in line with inflation. Okay. All British citizens to be offered stilts to combat the UK's increasingly wet climate.

I don't know if stilts solves that. Well, I guess won't make your feet wet anymore. I like it. National Yorkshire pudding day to be a bank holiday except for banks. Strong. It's amazing. He's got a whole Wals and Cromit to be knighted for services

to Wensley Dell. Okay. And then a golf course at Richmond Swimming Pool to host the Open Championship, strong. Count Binfeis to represent the UK at Eurovision. I don't know what that is, but... It's a music contest. Make Pierce Morgan zero emissions by 2030. Oh, that's so funny.

God. See, we're not that far behind in the U.S. I think. We're not. But this is, I support, you know what, if I were, if I lived in Clacton, I would vote for Count Bittenface. You know that people there are thinking to themselves, what does it matter? You've tried voting for both sides. And. So I'm going to vote for this guy now. Yeah. The end result was the same. Yeah. So yeah, we'll vote for a dude with the garbage can on the day. It's just kind of a middle finger to the.

system. I was just like, dude, you guys are doing nothing. This is what, this is who we're voting for. The only issue would be is if he's a candidate and draws enough votes away from somebody who would be even worse in that person, you know what I mean? He draws enough of the vote away. If there's somebody who was a reasonable and somebody who was shitty, it draws enough away from the reasonable that the shitty person gets elected. But I, you know, that's probably the argument against the third party that's used the most often, not an expert in politics, but I can see that being the case. Yeah. Anyways, count bin face for you.

Strong opener. I appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah. Your news feed is far different than mine. I can tell you that right now. And I do support nationalizing Adele. Yeah. I think that's a good, a good, strong option. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Now on to some corruption. Oh, we were just talking about politics. Yeah, exactly. Continuing our talk on corruption.

Continuing, except for American politics. Trump will be selling early access to his is true social tweets, which often are very market moving. So essentially insider trading. Yeah. So I had just heard somebody, I had heard this and thought nothing of it because I'm not on true social, nor do I, I don't think I know, I don't know if I actually follow any political figures on any platform. I don't think that I do.

I don't follow the White House. I don't follow Trump on any of the social media platforms. I had heard somebody else talking about this being the potential for. insider trading. I don't know what the legitimate criteria for that means. But yes, if it's a market mover and he's soliciting to be paid for it, and I don't know if it's six seconds or 60 seconds or six minutes or six hours, I don't know. But what are we doing? I mean, that's blatantly, blatantly saying, hey, this is going to move a market. Whoever pays me. Dude, they're not hiding anything at this point. It's very blatant. And do you know what they paid the UFC?

fighter bonuses in? Trump coin. Yes. Which Trump coin is a whole other can of worms with how quickly it was run pulled. Trump. Yeah, Trump mobile. I mean. What's going on?

Directly, directly profiting off the presidency. Hold on. Cost. Whoa. Okay. Is true social free? In general for like just a normal person. Yes.

I had seen these figures that I'm about to read. I thought this was. was a typo. Truth API service, the cost for the program costs between $60,000 and $100,000 per month. What are you talking about? Yeah. First off, who would pay that and why? Mm-hmm.

What is going on? Yeah. You know, who would pay that is somebody very rich who's very active in the market or a company, some hedge fund or whatever. Hold on. Look at this. Delivers top user posts, most notably from President Donald Trump, seconds or milliseconds before. Is that a no? I mean, I'm not saying I support this.

And I do know, who I'm right up to the edge of my skis on knowledge on this. But I have read a few articles talking about there was competition in New York near. in and around New York to get the fastest fiber optic cable possible because there is money to be made when it comes to milliseconds or fractions. So I think that that is real for sure. 60 grand to $100,000 a month to get a millisecond. Again, I'm not in the market, so I don't understand. But that's the thing is if you, so let's say you pay 100 grand a month for this.

But if you get a tweet 30 seconds before everybody else and you can make that market move before the markets actually move, you could potentially make millions. And so it covers the cost. It's well worth it. I don't understand how this is legal. It shouldn't be. And I think probably because this is new territory. Insider trading is not new territory.

No. But that's the thing is inside trading is technically illegal, but everybody does it. Adoption. More than 10 subscribers, including trading firms. Yep. and financial outlets have already signed on. Okay, why would they do that? They, especially if they are publicly traded,

are looking at their bottom line and ROI. So what return on investment am I going to get for this? Yes, that's an informational advantage, I'm assuming here. Like I said, dude, the politicians aren't even hiding it anymore. No, this is like, it's blatantly out in the open. And the other thing, I mean, going off of corruption and making money off the presidency. Donald Trump generated an estimated $2.2.2 billion to $2.4 billion in total revenue and business income during 2025, the first year of his second president's term. This figure represents a dramatic increase from the $622 million to $760 million in his enterprise brought in through 2024.

Prior to his return to the White House, this massive surge in earnings was revealed in his mandatory annual financial disclosures form filed with the Office of Government Ethics. primary revenue drivers according to investigations by news outlets and financial analysts the vast majority of Trump's 2025 income came from newly launched digital assets and traditional real estate holdings. I know he's held real estate for a long

time, so... Yeah, that's probably not a huge... So cryptocurrency venture, 1.4 billion. This was the largest single driver of his revenue. Is he directly involved in this or is this where his family has a cutout? Or not a cutout, but he is supposedly not involved, even though I bet you his sons are involved in this.

So I don't know if he was, but he definitely promoted it. You know, I'm not against people making money. I want people to be able to pursue the American dream. Pick whatever number you want for you, which is enough for you. Hopefully it's not more because I've watched so many people just auger themselves in

in the pursuit of more because what they have is never enough. And I want people to be, I believe in capitalism, I believe in competition. I am fine with all of that. I don't know. not being an expert in this world,

looking at the political system, we were just talking about how I think that the UK is ahead of us in some progressive policies and ideas that they've implemented. We might be ahead of them when it comes to something like this. Yeah.

I don't know, again, putting the legalities of this aside, just from an optic, I wouldn't want anybody to assume the office of the president with the sole driver being their self-enrichment or their family enrichment.

Yeah. Is it probably going to happen anyway, especially as they leave office with opportunities that are going to come their way? Sure. And that's, you know, that's the, you get the ticket to the dance. You do the best you can. And when you like, okay, I get that. But I don't understand, again, maybe this is totally legal. And I am talking out of my ass here, which is incredibly possible.

I don't like the optic. No. I don't like the optic at all. That's $17 million in merchandise and publishing, real estate. state and resorts, 300 million. He was deeply involved in that. And again, yeah, that was before the presidency. Cryptocurrency ventures, 1.4 billion. The big problem is the crypt because almost all... It's a crypto firm backed by his family. And I'm sure that there are legalities being in arms reach and all that stuff. But at the same time, you know, you ever heard the term

the Biden crime family and talking about how Hunter Biden was paid millions of dollars by oil companies in Russia for consulting and all this stuff and how hard into the paint. Yeah. They went on that. And silence. Yeah. And it's again, balls and strikes. I want the United States to be as successful as possible, whether it's a Republican or a Democrat in office. This optic to me, and I am totally open to being educated on this and somebody explaining this to me how this is completely above board and in line with what we want from our elected officials. If somebody believes that, please reach out and explain that to me. I'm more than happy to have discussion about it until I can educate myself further on this.

But from looking at the things that were said about other political families and this type of behavior, I'm sorry, this is crazy to me. Yeah. Absolutely. Me as well. It's, I mean, to me, it seems to be blatant corruption. And, you know, like you were saying, it's not, it's not because I don't like John. and I think he's a bad guy.

It's because you have a president who is directly using his position as president to profit off of the presidency and what seems to me to be above helping the American people. Google has any American president ever increased their net worth by a billion dollars while in office? Yes, Donald Trump increases net worth by billions of dollars.

office driven primarily about ourage ventures blah blah blah so then google has any president other than Donald trump increase and again his numbers were probably starting off larger than most other people so we can you know take that into account so this just a quick thing says uh bill clinton and obama accumulated tens of millions uh but their massive wealth increase predominantly occurred after leaving office that's what i'm saying do they start getting hey do you want to come talk to our group for 30 minutes which i'm not against that here's a half million dollars exactly private jet exactly Like I said, that's the ticket to the dance. This job seems to aid you in dog years.

It's not unlike people who, I mean, I get hired to travel around the world and give speeches because of my military background. I'm not going to sit here and say it's because of, oh, hey, Andy, you're so unique in your thought process and you're just this unique dandelion that has all the pedals. It's a combination mostly driven by my military background. I completely understand that. If I didn't have that, would any organization give two shits about what I think about leadership? I don't know. but I would assume probably not. It is the way that it is.

I get it. The speaking circuit, yeah, an ex-president, you're getting a massive check. Yeah, as you're going to get a book deal probably right out of office,

maybe double-digit millions, maybe single, but it's going to be high. It's going to be high. Again, that seems to be the standard, but amassing tens of millions of dollars is different than a billion dollars,

which is one thousand million dollars. And this all, the first year of being a president. This isn't after the presidency speaking about your experiences as a president. This is currently in office. It's a rough optic. It's, uh, the silence is pretty deafening. Yeah. And I, I, I, again, I sit in the middle on a lot of stuff. I'd say it for the five millionth time, probably socially pretty liberal. I want people to live their best life and live their life that they want to, don't push your life on me and won't push my life on you. Fiscally very conservative, but a lot of my politics are very purple. I don't care who was in office. I wouldn't be a fan of

this. Oh yeah. No, it's, it's, and that's the thing. I think people are a lot of, a lot of people will say, oh, you're just attacking this because you don't like Trump. And while it is true, I'm not a particularly a fan of Trump. Something like this, no matter who's in office, is not okay. So anyways, I think we're getting a little too political right now, but I don't know. I mean, we're talking about politics, but again, I, if a Democrat is an office, I may not like the person. I may not like the policies, but that doesn't mean I want to see America fail. Exactly. And I think you should be able, depending on whatever your team jersey is, let's just go to sports.

I played water polo and baseball when I was growing up. I should be able to, as a member of my water polo team, provide constructive criticism on a way as a team that we could perform better without being ostracized and put into this place where you're considered a traitor. I can have criticisms of the team that you may be aligned with, but not throw the rest of the, and you know what I mean? You're not throwing the baby out with the bathwater. You're just trying to call again balls and strikes. Yeah. Like, yeah. Hunter Biden being paid millions of dollars, what is it, Burisma, the Russian organization? I'm not sure. Let me see. Yeah. I mean, it was ridiculous. Maybe he has some.

ungodly insight into that area of the world. But I don't think that's the case. I think what he had was access to people in the White House. Ridiculous. Shouldn't ever happen. Batrina wired 3.5 million to an investment firm called Rosemont, Seneca, Thornton, which Hunter Biden co-founded. Okay.

So, yeah, there is some weird connections there. Like, it's an odd connection for sure. Yeah. I don't know. I want to as a country be better than this. That's what it comes down to for me. Yeah. Left or right in office, I want to be better than this.

It's just a bad look and quite frankly, a little embarrassing on the world stage. Man. Do you have anything funny? Hmm? Do you have anything funny? Have any funny ha-ha topics? I know. All the rest of them are kind of along the same name, but now I'm like, man, I don't even want to talk about these.

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Eileen Wang, the former mayor of Arcadia, California, resigned and pleaded guilty in May 2026 to a federal felony charge of acting as an unregistered illegal agent for the People's Republic of China. Wow. An elected official. Again, I don't, dude, what does a mayor do? I'm not exactly sure, actually. Also, Google how many people are in Arcadia? We'll do.

Yeah. She admitted to using local news website to covertly publish pro-Bijing propaganda. Wow. 58 took office as mayor of Arcadia in February 2026. It's about 50K. Okay. I mean, so, you know. A little bit bigger than Calisbeau.

Yeah. Took office as mayor in February of 26, resigned in May of 20206. So a very long tenure here. One charge of acting as an illegal agent of a foreign government under 18 U.S.C. 951, carrying a maximum sentence of 10 years in federal prison. Between 2020 and 2020,

Wang and her former fiancé operated the U.S. News Center. A diaspora-focused website. What does that mean? Diaspora-focused. I don't know. Let me look it up. Well, they took where they took direct orders from Chinese officials to post articles favorable to Beijing, including his essays denying human rights abuse in who.

Jin Jiang, man. The dispersion of a population from its original homeland characterized by cultural retention, Thai stone central place, and life across multiple. So maybe a website focused on Chinese expats, maybe. Scroll down. The aftermath. Wang formally entered her guilty plea. federal court in the Arcadia City Council appointed counsel when Paul P. Chang to succeed her as mayor.

Did she go to jail? I mean, I do not. I don't know if that's still, what was her name? What was her name? What was she? Eileen Wayne. This is relatively recent. May a couple months ago.

An American mayor accused of secretly working for China. She has not gone to jail yet, but she pleaded guilty. She remains out on bond awaiting her sentencing. hearing. Why don't we get her a one-way ticket to Beijing? Honestly, just like, get her out of here. Okay. I mean, what was the title? Unregistered for an agent. Well, now you're registered. You've been registered. You're an Al-Forean agent. So, like, if you want to do that, go do that shit in Beijing. Yeah. Well, having said that, I'm sure I'm, I mean, it's probably a U.S. citizen and I'm sure I'm violating some constitutional rights. And I have no idea what the law allows for.

but as a spitballing idea, I don't have a problem with that one. Yeah. Yeah, but I just, crazy story. I mean, you always, like,

obviously there are movies made on like spies infiltrating into politics and whatever. What are they called the Manchurian candidate? The Manchurian candidate. Yeah, but that's kind of different. Why?

Because a Manchurian candidate is like somebody who doesn't know they're a spy until they're like activated after they're into the highest. How do they not know? Well, I think it's a fictional. thing. How would you not know? Chirian candidate. No. Candidate meeting. My knowledge on this subject comes from a movie that I watched. A person, most often a politician who is secretly used as a puppet

by an enemy power. Oh, I guess not. The individual may be fully aware of the retrail or they might be an unwitting agent controlled through mind control, brainwashing, or covert manipulation. It's like a fictional thing. It's going to say, like I just said, my understanding of a Manchurian candidate comes from a movie from 20 years ago that I watched about 10 minutes of. It's called Manchurian Canada, right? It is. Yeah. And for a million dollars, I couldn't tell you who was in it.

But I feel like it's a political movie. Of course not, because you weren't born. No, it was not. Mind control. Yeah. I mean, obviously, this is not what happened here. But still very interesting, interesting topic. Yeah.

Man, we're really just finding some cracks and seams today. What else you got? Screw it. Let's just keep going. Let's just keep going. Kind of along the same lines. Former U.S. Marine held in Russia on disputed charges has been released. What? Have you not seen this?

No. Former U.S. Marine held in Russia on disputed charges. Oh, this guy was held for four years, right? Yes, I believe so. He kind of looks pretty similar to Nick who was sitting here yesterday. Oh, interesting. Do you see it? Yes, actually.

Yeah. I don't think you do. you're just saying that. No, I do. I, for some reason, thought you were talking about the Friday episode, which I wasn't here for. But then I remember that we had one yesterday. So when I said, I may just walk the dog here on this one for a sec. I don't remember names. When I said to you, it kind of looks like Nick, who was sitting here yesterday. I don't think you, did you say that? I must have blocked that out. So when I said, it kind of looks like Nick, that it kind of looks like, like Nick, who was sitting here yesterday, you jumped to a Friday episode where you weren't here.

Yep. Okay. I'm glad we got that covered. Russia released an American military veteran on Tuesday allowing him to turn to the U.S. are four years of what his family of U.S. officials alleged was wrongful incarceration and abusive treatment that left him near death. Whoa. 32-year-old Massachusetts teacher in four Marine was freed if President Trump said he spoke to

Russian President Putin about his release, which Trump said it was very much on a humanitarian basis. What was he in there for? Uh, for apparently assaulting an officer. Oh, what'd the officer do? I'm not sure. Um, I found it. Let's see. They was convicted. Attacking a prison inspector during a cell check beating an... Well, what was he doing in prison, though? I believe it was because Reprode, he pledged to the charge and apologized. I believe it was because he initially attacked an officers. Well, I, oh, yeah. Oh, here we go.

Being a police officer after being taken off a train for causing a disturbance. I'm going to say there's a good chance. He was shit-faced. Yeah. Actually, probably. Unfortunately, Russia or really, any country, any foreign country at the very least, is not the place to attack an officer. Use with caution in foreign countries.

You ever have any desires to go to Russia? Not really. And not because I don't think it would be like a nice country. I just, the current political climate, I think, would be inadvisable to go to Russia. Well, you don't want to end up on the front lines? Not really. That especially. But I think, I'm sure there's not a very fond view of Americans at this point.

If you were constricted, I think you would just be like a pleasure servant. You would be a concubine for senior officers. Okay. That's just my guess. Thank you. Yeah. If I was to take a snapshot and just what do I think that the Russian military would use you for? That's it.

You know, it's very telling that this is where your mind goes every single time. Yeah. It's very interesting. It's telling about how you present yourself to the world. Yes, of course. Yeah. Bosco is cool. They drink heavy there.

I spent about 10 days there in maybe 2014, 2015, got to walk all around there. It walked around the Kremlin. That's cool. The square right behind it that has all the lines painted that, you know, like, here's the rocket line. Here's the tank line. Right on the other side of that is a mall. No way. Super high-end stores.

That's awesome. Is this after you got out? Dang. That's so cool. Did you go with like rogue or something? I mean, not rogue. No,

it was, okay, so no, it was for Reebok because they were establishing, this was when I was working for CrossFit. So it had to been 2014, 2015,

they were working on establishing some gyms there. They had just signed the contract with CrossFit. Yeah, went there solo for like 10 days. Yeah, that's so cool. Yeah. See,

I would love to go. Like, I have nothing against Russia in general, but I just don't think the climate is good right now for Americans to be over there. Where are you going again in October? And also, I have you gone for the entire month. I know that you had some specific dates, but... Not true. Yeah, I won't be gone the entire month, but I'll be in Spain and Portugal.

Spain and Portugal. Yep. So it'll be good. Yeah. Good time. The toughest thing about you leaving is we have to find another wean sitter. Yeah. Yeah, that's like...

I don't think we've talked about it yet. They're beans. Dash 2. Yeah. We have a deposit down on another wean, and his name is Beans. And he is a Dapple as well. We pick him up September 13th. Bean the wean.

Yep. Yep. Beans and a hobby. BJ, if you will. Yep. Yeah. I love that that's the only reason you named it beans. We have to figure out the wean sitting situation.

Because sometimes he just can't take the weans. with you. Like you're going hunting. Yeah, it is unfortunate. That's, that's probably the part about my job I will miss the most. Really? Probably. Yeah, he'll forget about you. Probably. Probably. I mean, this sucks. Four years, I mean, at least he got out. What do you say he wanted a cheeseburger? That's fair enough. Yeah, fair enough after being in a Russian prison for. Man, I can't imagine. Well, not that I think American prisons are walking the park, even though God, some of these white collar crimes, I was watching the documentary get on the Theranos. lady oh yeah and uh that was like the blood testing thing yeah was it though yeah well

yeah quote yeah you know some of the prisons and i'm using very large air quotes with these are just ridiculous like as far as in one which end good or bad well there's both you know there's super max where probably have the Hubble telescope up your asshole on thursday is looking for contraband and then other ones where you're playing you know croquet and I'm not sure that's actually the case. I'm just making this up. But it seems like you got a lot more laxity. You can kind of just do whatever you want to do

and there's workshops and all sorts of stuff. Like the prison that Jolene Maxwell was in. Where is she had now? I don't know, actually. But I've heard rumors that she was in a very nice luxury prison. I don't think you should be able to pair those words. Yeah. I think luxury in prison should not be able to exist in the same sentence.

I don't think so either. Although there are some. So it's currently detained to the federal prison camp, Brian in Bryan, Texas. Google, what's the nicest prison? I mean, this is just, I'm fascinated now, is to how nice these things can get. The nicest prison in the U.S. are minimum security federal prison camps. Okay, so federal prison camp where Maxwell is right now. What makes them nice?

Give us some details. Often nickname. Okay, characteristics. Let me pull it up here. The whole, the private prison system is a whole other can of worms, too, which is terrible. Okay, dormitory living. Inmates typically sleep in open-bay bunk areas rather than traditional steel bar cells. Work opportunities, inmates often hold campus, maintenance, landscaping, or clerical jobs, sometimes working around military bases. Great. Access to hobby crafts, waitrooms, televisions, and outdoor sports field. Nonviolent populations restricted to strictly white collar or nonviolent offenders with relatively short sentences and clean institutional behavior records. The reality of club fed. Despite the milder conditions compared to maximum security lockups or supermaxes like the, the ADX in Florence, they remain strictly controlled federal institutions with mandatory counts, rigid schedules, and monitor communications.

Boo fucking who. You're in prison. Over the years, the federal borough of prisons has trimmed many of the recreational perks and tighter budgets of standardized conditions across most minimum security locations. I wonder what perks were trimmed. I don't know. I don't think prison is supposed to be anything other than shitty. I think that's the point.

It's punishment. Well, so on one hand, I do agree with you, especially. if you're a violent offender or if you have done something terrible. However, there is evidence that humanely designed prisons that are not as shitty actually helps benefit rehab rates and lower recidivism. But you're still being punished. It is a punishment. Okay.

But here's my, is it better to punish somebody or to rehab them into a better citizen? Yes. Both. So what if you give up some of the punishment for a greater rate of rehab? Like, where's the tradeoff? Where's the line in the sand, I guess? I have absolutely no idea. Because that's my thing.

If the whole goal is to make sure you don't do what you did again. But is that the goal of prison? I think it can be... The goal of prison is punishment. I think the goal of prison is punishment. I think the goal of prison is to keep... What is the goal of prison? Google it. I think it's to keep...

Okay. Yeah. My opinion is it's to keep bad people away from the general population. Yes, to restrict their freedom of movement and largely many of their rights. Yes. And not because the main thing is punishment, but the main thing is keeping this greater community safe. By punishing those who would do it harm. Yes, it is a punishment, but that's not the main... Okay, anyways.

What is the main goal of prison? the primary person is to combine individuals convicted of serious crimes and punish them say it and punish them retribution so retribution is part of it punishing prisoners to pay a proportional debt to society

let me tell us up which I don't disagree with incapacitation removing dangerous individuals deterrence discouraging both specific offender and general public from breaking the law and rehabilitation yeah yeah so like I said That's why I answered yes. I think it can be all of those things. Yeah.

How do you get on this? I don't know. I don't either. And if you're a horrible, horrible person and you do horrible, horrible, horrible things to people, I want you to be in a horrible, horrible environment. See, I agree. I agree with that. Because, again, it's safer for everybody else.

But also, you did a terrible thing. And I think you should be punished for that. But I'm not sure, like Texas recently just passed. If you have a certain amount of weed, you basically get, in prison for life. What? Yeah. It's insane.

The land of the free, apparently. What do you mean? The land of the free. We still have laws. Texas enforces strict ban on popular hamptor, or FTC alternatives, blah, blah, blah, blah. Criminal penalties, possessing banned varieties can result in a state jail felony.

No, there is a... Are you spreading propaganda, Michael? No, I saw a legitimate news article about this. But here's in the meantime. I've heard some gnarly things about this Delta 8 and Delta 10 stuff. I can't say I know much about it. And the Delta 9 as well. It seems like it's synthetic.

I don't know. But it seems pretty gnarly. Yeah, I've heard not great things about synthetic weed. Yeah. Yeah, what are you trying to say here? Like, I get it. We still have laws. We're the land of the free for sure, but you still have laws.

Yes, I agree. But, well, I don't even know where was I going with this? You were talking about a life sentence for somebody who has a certain amount of wheat. Yeah, I definitely did see that And maybe that I just got Yeah, I saw an article once The guy was doing an interview with Bigfoot It doesn't mean it's real

The entire community of people on earth And get together and talk about how the earth is flat It doesn't mean it's real Yes, where I was going with this is If you were in jail for A drug offense Where you were the only one affected By your drug use

That to me is like Okay, do we really need to put you in a prison a shitty condition prison. Because, yes, it is against the law. I think we should probably re-look at what the laws are. And if they're serving the purpose of the designation or design of those laws, you're always going to be able to find an outlier. You know, there's always, it's what happens when you have something that's broad

as it becomes imperfect and imprecise, the more it's applied. But yeah, it's, I don't know. I mean, there's an argument for letting people do whatever they want to, decriminalizing everything. How's that going for you, Portland? Yeah, that doesn't work out so well for Portland. No. And I don't know if it will work out well at a larger scale than that either. So I don't, but I also at the same time, I don't know the answer to that.

Yeah. Well, I think one of the big problems with Portland is, if I remember correctly, they decriminalize it, but then had no other recourse for those people that were addicted to whatever. And so. What do you mean by recourse? Like Portugal did a very similar thing, but they had tons of centers where people could go and wean themselves off instead of going to prison. If they wanted to? If they wanted to. Yes.

But Portland, what Portland did is basically said, okay, everything's fine. But then there was no alternative. So then no, you know, it was just like, okay, well, now it's just the Wild West over here. So, yeah, I don't know. That is a very complex issue. Very complex issue. There's no one right answer, I don't think. Yeah. How long we've been at it, Michael?

54. We had time for a little more corruption. What else you got? Perfect. This one isn't corruption per se, but have you heard reports... Why did you add per se to that? Actually, not even per se. It's just not corruption. Why did you add per se? I don't know, because it seemed like a good thing to add on at the time. Okay.

I didn't really think about it by being honest. So have you heard of basically the USS Lincoln has been at sea for the aircraft carrier? 250 days consecutively. I think so, yes. And there are stories, again, just stories that I've heard. I don't know if it's true. Okay. Of people trying to jump off of the aircraft carrier.

I watched somebody jump off an aircraft carrier. I have spent very little time on a Navy vessel. we took an aircraft carrier from Guam to Australia. We had no roles and responsibilities whatsoever. It was fascinating. I've never been so goddamn lost in my life when I was down below deck reading the hieroglyphics that were on the walls and the carrier that describe exactly where you're at if you speak that language, which I don't, by the way. And I was on a, it wasn't a treadmill, an elliptical. Okay. Okay.

I was crushing a workout on an elliptical. And it was inside of the huge hangar bay where the aircraft are. There's like a lot of aircraft up on the deck. I was never on an aircraft carrier operationally. So I don't, this is my description of what I was seeing many, many years ago, this pre-9-11. So I'm up there. Probably a CD player at the time, just crushing with over-the-year headphones and Bluetooth.

Nobody knows what that is at that time period. And just getting it, really getting it on the elliptical, probably level eight. Not a big deal. Of course. And watched the guy walk over, pull a fire extinguisher off the wall, bear hug it, run, and jump off the side. So he could sink? Yeah, but it was positively buoyant. Do you think he was doing it so he could float and swim away?

I think he was doing it because it was one of a few options. He was trying to kill himself. Yeah. an absolute cry for help and not actually trying to kill himself, but he wanted to be treated as such so he could be removed from the vessel. Yeah, yeah. Or the combination of all of those with a mental health crisis going on. Right.

So that was just literally going from Guantau, Australia. There's 5,000 people sometimes on these aircraft carriers. That's a little city, a small town. Well, and you know what you have in every little city? Expressions of society. Yeah. There are gnarly prostitution rings. No way.

There are gang issues. Oh, yeah. It's, I guess so. 5,000 people. Yeah. Yeah, man. So you have all the same societal stuff. Yeah.

What could exacerbate that? Stress and being gone much longer than you were designed to be gone for in these compressed, tight environments with likely no end state. I mean, this, I'll provide an example, and this is such an easy one to show people the power of your own mind. As a Bud's instructor, if I wanted to. to mess with the students. We would go out for a conditioning rung. And I'd say, hey, in my mind, by the way, I knew we were going for four miles. That was it.

I knew the beach marker I was going to turn around on and we were going to come back. The difference as a student when an instructor comes out and says, hey, we're going for a run. Keep up. If you fall behind, it's going to be your ass. And we're just going to go until I say stop versus the instructor that come out and says, hey guys, it's Friday, we're going to go for a chill four-miler. You latch on to that four miles. And it is so much easier to mentally tolerate that than the unknown.

Right. These people probably have no idea when they're going to come home and that can unwind you. Yeah. Because you focus on that uncertainty. And the run, like I said, was going to be four miles either way. Yeah. But the difference in headspace in the students was astronomical. Also, sometimes you'd say,

say, hey, we're going to go for four miles and you just keep going. But would the students be able to tolerate that better? If you did just say, hey, we're just going for four miles. And even if you tolerate that better. Yeah. Even if you did go beyond four miles. It starts getting a little iffy there because then we're back into unknown terrain. Right.

Right. They're like, is the uncertainty and the unknown? It can unwind you. You have to not surrender your headspace to that and get back into, I don't know how far we're going to go. But I see that beach marker down there. I'm going to get to that beach marker down there. I'll go to the next one and go to the next one and go to the next one.

You take that agency back, control of your thoughts versus handing over that power to somebody else. This sucks, but it's also part of the job. Yeah. It's a tough life. It's a tough occupation. I have no doubt that the longer that they are gone, the more issues they are going to feel, because, again, let's just call it what it is, a small city slash society, societal problems in a pressure cooker, in a constriction. a constricted and constrained environment. We have, we could work really hard

Monday through Friday and you and I Saturday, Sunday we could go up to Canada. We could go hike. Yeah. Go do whatever we want to do. That option isn't available here either. So there's also no real like steam relief valve for these people that are stuck out there as well. It's tough. It's a hard job. Yeah. Yeah. So far, let's see. The longest ever deployment of an aircraft carrier is 332 days. And was that? And Vietnam.

Wow. Yeah. Dude. That's crazy. That's almost a full year without seeing land. I mean, I'm sure you saw land, but never being on land. It's a lot. It's a hard job, man.

Yeah. That does not sound fun. Anyways, there's no real point to that. I just thought it was intriguing. It's a real thing. Yeah. Yeah, it's people underestimate the size and the scale of what exists there. I mean, imagine just the amount of food that is

constantly being cooked for that many people. Yeah. Resupply operations. Jet fuel resupply. Ordinance, all of that stuff. I mean, it is a huge wheel with spokes and cogs everywhere just to make that function. Yeah. Cool.

Where are you going next? You said you're volunteering at a food bank today? Yes. How did you get, what's going on there? Well, I want to start getting volunteer hours so that by the time that I want to apply to PT school, I have a shit done. basically. Okay.

So you don't actually care about people. You care about yourself. Kind of, but it does feel nice to volunteer as well. What are you going to do with this food bank? I basically just make sure when people are like checking out, I make sure they have like the correct amount of everything. So you're going to judge them? Do you really need that can of corn?

You're looking like you're doing okay. Yeah, that's what I say every single time. How's your shoulder doing? Your sissy shoulder. You know, it was doing good. I think I just kept like tiny re-injuries during that first. You used? It was just small re-injuries.

Yeah, but what was that first word? I forget. You're on a roll today, tinyly per se? Per se. I think I just kept re-injuring it, small re-injuries at jujitsu, and it just wasn't healing. And so I was like, okay, I just need to take more time off, unfortunately. So that's where we're at with that. Bummer.

It is a bummer. But, yeah. If everything goes as planned, when will you begin PT school? Probably be three-ish years. I still got to do my undergrad. Will you be a doctor at the end of it? Not a medical doctor, but it's a doctor of physical therapy. It's like its own doctor.

Will you tell people, hello, I'm Dr. Michael? No. No, I will not do that. Michael Shelton, MD? Nope. M.D. Michael? Nope. Well, it wouldn't be an MD anyways. It'd be DPT. Listen, if I was a doctor of anything, that's all people get to call me.

Doctor. Yeah. Yeah. Andy! I would just say, it's doctor. That's not my name. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe I will start doing that. I would. It would be fun. Demand the respect that you deserve. Yes, that I've worked so hard for. Let's not use those words, but, you know, the title that you paid for.

Exactly. Yes. Right. All right. Thank you.