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Vote For The Garbage Can | Negligent Discharge Friday | 8.14.2026

August 14, 2026

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Vote For The Garbage Can

Count Binface—a man in a silver cape with what looks like football shoulder pads—is running for a seat in the British Parliament against Nigel Farage in Clacton. His platform includes nationalizing Adele, capping croissants at one pound ten, and requiring MPs to live in the district they want to represent for four years before standing. He is projected to get 20 percent of the vote. The hosts of this episode use him as a starting point for a wider conversation about political frustration, corruption, and whether the system itself is survivable.

The Garbage Can Candidate

The hosts frame Count Binface not as a joke but as a symptom. "I completely understand people becoming frustrated," one says. "It doesn't seem to matter if you run on the left or the right or the center. You have all the promises in the world and then you get there and almost nothing is accomplished." The metaphor they land on: there are multiple on-ramps to politics, but they all converge into the same water slide fifty yards down the road.

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What you'll learn

  • 1 (06:25) **Count Binface: The Garbage Can Candidate** - Michael introduces the story of a UK political candidate running against Nigel Farage as a protest vote against the broken political system.
  • 2 (13:34) **Count Binface's Platform: Satire Meets Common Sense** - Andy and Michael read through the candidate's policy list, highlighting the most ridiculous and surprisingly reasonable proposals.
  • 3 (24:41) **Trump's Truth Social Insider Trading** - The conversation shifts to corruption, focusing on Trump's plan to sell early access to his Truth Social tweets, which are often market-moving.
  • 4 (28:57) **Trump's Billion-Dollar Presidency** - The hosts examine Trump's financial disclosure, revealing he generated an estimated $2.2 to $2.4 billion in 2025, largely from new digital assets.
  • 5 (40:21) **The Manchurian Mayor: A Chinese Agent in California** - Michael shares the story of the former mayor of Arcadia, California, who pleaded guilty to acting as an unregistered agent for China.
  • 6 (44:27) **US Marine Released from Russian Prison** - Michael brings up the story of a former US Marine held in Russia on disputed charges who was finally released.
  • 7 (53:24) **The Purpose of Prison: Punishment vs. Rehabilitation** - The hosts debate the primary goal of the prison system, sparked by a discussion of "luxury prisons" for white-collar criminals.

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Show Notes

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.

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