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diff --git a/wiki/characters/dennis-porter.md b/wiki/characters/dennis-porter.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..509b0981 @@ -0,0 +1,470 @@ +--- +title: Dennis Porter +type: character +factions: + - PODCONF +status: confirmed +portrait: /portraits/x-dennis-porter.png +aliases: + - Danish Porter + - Dennis Poirier + - Dennis Port + - Dallas Porter + - Dennis Orange + - Dennis Pruitt + - Dennis Quater + - Dennis Coroner + - Dennis Burton + - Demispard + - Goodpuego + - Penis Daughter +sources: + - raw/news/dennis-porter-declines-wef-appointment-as-a-result-of-being-too-important.json + - raw/episodes/out-complying-the-competition-bugle-weekly-episode-1/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/abc-always-be-complying-bugle-weekly-episode-2/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/odell-and-iran-attack-ngu-bugle-weekly-episode-4/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/the-influencer-super-cycle-bugle-weekly-episode-5/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/the-compliant-people-are-getting-involved-bugle-weekly-episode-6/bundle.json + - 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He is the single most-referenced non-host in the corpus, so this documents the shape of the bit rather than every instance. The old body was a one-story stub built off a single news item.* + +The Bugleverse's **most worshipped man**: a Bitcoin policy lobbyist — head of the +[[storylines/dennis-porter-saga|Satoshi Action Fund]] — whom the show treats not as +a subject but as a deity, an epoch marker, and a controlled substance. He is the +credited reason anyone can own, spend, or podcast about Bitcoin at all; the show's +inaugural tribute holds that "if it wasn't for him, none of this would be +possible."[^tribute] He is a "credential journalist,"[^credential] master of "the +four influencing arts,"[^fourarts] and, per the standing litmus test for an enemy +of number-go-up, one of the three "greatest agents of number go up" — the men you +can identify a villain by, because a villain attacks them.[^ngu] + +Almost none of the reverence is his own doing. Dennis Porter is a running bit that +the hosts perform *at* him — [[characters/rod-palmer|Rod Palmer]] and +[[characters/richard-greaser|Richard Greaser]] cast as unreciprocated hangers-on +of a man too busy to text back — and the joke is the intensity of a devotion its +object never asked for and rarely returns. + +**In it with:** [[characters/rod-palmer|Rod Palmer]] · [[characters/richard-greaser|Richard Greaser]] · [[characters/david-bailey|David Bailey]] · [[characters/michael-saylor|Michael Saylor]] · [[characters/erik-cason|Erik Cason]] · [[characters/brad-mills|Brad Mills]] · [[characters/cryptomags|CryptoMags]] · [[characters/kim-jong-un|Kim Jong Un]] · [[characters/matt-odell|Matt Odell]] · [[characters/btckaz|BTCKaz]] · [[orgs/podconf|PODCONF]] · Satoshi Action Fund + +**Arc:** [[storylines/dennis-porter-saga]] · [[storylines/orange-pilling-the-powerful]] · [[storylines/podconf-industrial-complex]] · [[storylines/core-vs-knots-war]] · [[storylines/canada-watch]] · [[storylines/the-2024-selection]] + +## The cult of Dennis Porter + +From the first weeks the show installs him above the human scale. He is barred from +its influencer triathlon on the grounds that "he's kinda like the Chuck Norris of +Bitcoin. So it it's unfair for him to compete" — the invincibility is the point, not +fairness to Dennis.[^chucknorris] The Bugle formalizes this by launching a **Dennis +Porter Facts page**, canonized on air as a Bugle publication;[^factspage] the bit's +stated genealogy is explicit — they are "Chuck Norris style jokes,"[^factsgenealogy] +transposed onto a Bitcoin lobbyist. + +The deification climbs from there. [[characters/rod-palmer|Rod]] rates him "the alpha +of orange pilling," better at it than Andreas Antonopoulos;[^alpha] the +[[storylines/orange-pilling-the-powerful|orange-pilling]] arc treats his conversion +count as a body count that some bodies weigh more heavily into.[^bodycount] By early +2025 Greaser has him at "a superhuman. He's like a demigod," a figure who +single-handedly out-performs Ripple's entire war chest, with Rod capping it as "the +second coming of Bitcoin Jesus" now that the first — [[characters/roger-ver|Roger +Ver]] — is bound for prison.[^demigod] He is also the ecosystem's "alpha apex predator +of first responders. He's the pre responder," a man who does not react to news but +pre-empts it by weeks.[^preresponder] + +Most durably, he becomes an **epoch marker**. Asked by [[characters/junseth|Junseth]] +what Bitcoin was like "pre Dennis Porter," the answer is "mostly drug dealers and +hookers"[^prep] — the same "before Dennis Porter" frame that lets Rod fix him as a +unit of lowered time preference: before him you waited a year for a good meme, after +him "you can get a good meme multiple times a day, and you can have sex with your wife +multiple times a day."[^timepref] + +## The lobbyist and the announcement economy + +Under the worship sits a real trade: lobbying statehouses for strategic Bitcoin +reserves and self-custody law. His fundraising ask is read as a monetary theory of +government capture — "according to Dennis, it takes 10 Bitcoin to absolutely change +the government for better. In twenty years, it might only take 1 or 2 Bitcoin," so +deflation makes buying the state cheaper every cycle.[^tenbtc] His method is described +in full off the Oklahoma mining bill: pepper the statute books with "nonbinding, +meaningless policies" until judges ratify them — "you've civil attacked legal +code."[^civilattack] A friend-of-a-friend rumor has him faxing Strike's compliance +desk a heads-up before each newly orange-pilled senator begins KYC.[^fax] His +statehouse connections are treated as a purchasable vending machine: Greaser prices +the abolition of daylight savings at "a $50,000" donation to the Satoshi Action +Fund.[^daylight] + +His signature output, though, is not policy but the **announcement of an +announcement** — the pre-emptive teaser of news that "might not be that big of a +deal."[^announce] The bit gets a full "Twas the Night Before Christmas" parody in which +the anticipated gift is "the announcement before the announcement,"[^twas] and it is +canonized nationally when Greaser reports Trump issuing an executive order "naming, +September 23 announcement day in honor of Dennis Porter" — a claim guest David Bennett +rates "Complete and utter bullshit."[^announcementday] + +Because he is the announcement, he is also the market. When Bitcoin first touches +$100k, "Dennis Porter. He tweeted immediately, you're welcome. He did it";[^100k] a +later cross of $105k is attributed not to the strategic reserve but to Porter "ending +his announcement hiatus."[^105k] The energy-FUD inverts the same way: relatives who +once blamed the grid on Bitcoin podcasting come to accept, via "Dennis Porter's +tweets," that the podcasters are load-balancing it.[^grid] + +## Politician, president, cabinet + +The lobbying arc is always pointed at a candidacy. He opens a testimonial reel with +"My name is Dennis Porter, and you should write me in for president this +November,"[^writein] and by [[storylines/the-2024-selection|the 2024 selection]] the +bit has hardened into prophecy: the Selection Special ad calls the vote "the most +important selection in the history of the world. That is until Dennis Porter runs in +2028."[^selection2028] Greaser reads his ambition as canon — banned from the +conference, on everyone's podcast but the Bugle's, "on his checklist is to become a US +senator and then after that to become the president."[^checklist] The show even +invents constitutional lore to date it, a clause forbidding a presidential run "until +you've actually visited the Wailing Wall."[^wailingwall] + +In [[characters/rod-palmer|Rod]]'s fantasy-draft Bitcoin cabinet he is the +president, with David Zell of the Bitcoin Policy Institute as VP.[^cabinet] Earlier the +bit ran him at Secretary of Education, on the theory that Bitcoin orange-pilling +belongs in the public-school curriculum with Swan's blog as the department's +resource.[^education] He is even given an origin as a converted man of the people: +before politics he ran a podcast, "Smart People Shit," studying billionaires' bowel +movements — a Preston Pysh parody the hosts treat as a legitimate path to becoming +"the top orange pillar in human history."[^smartpeople] + +## The Viagra bit and the conference ban + +The single largest strand is sexual. Porter is a documented cure for erectile +dysfunction — Greaser publishes a song, "Who Needs Viagra When You Got Dennis +Porter,"[^viagrasong] and the closing prescription for a struggling friend is to +"prescribe them some Dennis Porter"[^prescribe] — escalating over two years into the +flat claim that "one of the powerful things that Dennis Porter is offering the world +is is men no longer need Viagra."[^noviagra] His edge over [[characters/david-bailey|David +Bailey]] in the [[storylines/maxi-madness|bracket]] is stated as pure clinical fact: +"Dennis cures erectile dysfunction and David doesn't."[^edcure] + +The gag's physical form is a **mechanical penis** at the Vegas venue kept permanently +erect by Dennis Porter's timeline scrolling in front of it.[^mechanical] The same bit +supplies the show's explanation for his years-long exclusion from the Bitcoin +conference: [[characters/david-bailey|David Bailey]] "really wants women to show up … +And if Dennis is walking around and all the dudes are hard, it's really just not a very +friendly place for the ladies."[^mechanical] Guest Tatum's countermeasure for +interviewing him on camera is "Anti boner underwear,"[^antiboner] and when +[[characters/luke-dashjr|Luke Dashjr]]'s definition of pornography — anything sexually +arousing — is run to its conclusion, "then Dennis Porter would have to be +banned."[^lukeporn] The rule survives even inside the show's own dating advice: Porter +is the standing carve-out to the rule that "Michael Sailor shouldn't be making you +horny."[^saylorcarveout] Asked who is the John Holmes of orange pilling, Greaser +overrules the premise and awards the title to Porter.[^johnholmes] + +His ejection from the conference is treated as a **credential**. He was "picked up" +and removed from Nashville alongside the plebs, which the hosts read as protocol-level +censorship of the network.[^ejected] Being "thrown out of the last Bitcoin magazine +conference" places a guest "in the company of some pretty elite Bitcoiners."[^elite] +Greaser claims a four-year "let Dennis speak" campaign — petitions, trended hashtags, +years of tweeting at David Bailey[^letdennis] — that finally pays off in 2026, when +Dennis Porter makes the [[orgs/podconf|PODCONF]] main stage "for the first time ever" +and Greaser reports getting "a raging erection" watching him walk by.[^onstage] + +## The oracle of consensus + +In the [[storylines/core-vs-knots-war|Core-versus-Knots war]] Porter functions as an +oracle nobody will act without. Greaser holds that Porter personally "decided the the +fate of the block size wars" by declaring himself a small blocker, "so we're waiting +for Dennis Porter to make this decision" before anyone can safely pick a +side.[^blocksize] The whole war, Rod concludes, will be won by "whoever Dennis Porter +picks."[^whoeverpicks] When Porter finally does flag a side — attacking "Bitcoin +influencers that don't run nodes" — Rod's objection is epistemic rather than +political: there is no way to confirm whether a podcaster actually runs a +node.[^nodes] Rod later reads the Knots advocacy as bought: "it seems like Dennis +Porter is working for knots. It almost seems like he's being paid," inspired only when +orange-pilling Democrats.[^paid] + +## Canada and the export model + +The orange-pilling arc runs into [[storylines/canada-watch|Canada]] as annexation +logistics: if Canada becomes the 51st state, "Dennis Porter is going to be landing in +Ottawa" to sell a strategic reserve.[^ottawa] Absent that, the show hunts for a local +substitute and crowns [[characters/brad-mills|Brad Mills]] "the Canadian Dennis +Porter,"[^bradmills] a verdict Greaser carries forward as consensus.[^bradmills2] The +title later passes to [[characters/cryptomags|CryptoMags]], reframed as Canada's answer +to a Dennis Porter "for all these laws he's been getting passed."[^cryptomags] + +## The North Korea captivity (2025–2026) + +Late in the run the announcement bit metastasizes into a missing-persons storyline. +Buster Cherry's cold open reports that "Dennis Porter is indeed missing and that he +was captured by the North Koreans in a daring plot" to stop American politicians being +orange-pilled — with the side effect that "erectile dysfunction has been cured across +the country" in Pyongyang.[^kidnap] The wire dispatches keep running: he "still remains +in North Korea,"[^stillnk] and [[characters/kim-jong-un|Kim Jong Un]] is said to be +weaponizing him to win the quantum-computing race and claim Satoshi's coins, a smuggled +photo showing him "very skinny and dehydrated."[^quantum] His absence is mourned deadpan +as a civilizational hardship,[^absence] his lobbying "job" is reported fully automated +by an announcement bot,[^bot] and by mid-2026 the captivity is settled backstory +invoked without explanation — "it's not like Dennis Porter's even he he's not even in +North Korea anymore."[^backfromnk] + +## The bit on the timeline + +If the episodes worship Dennis Porter, the Bugleverse's X accounts *operate* him — a +years-long performance in which [[orgs/podconf|the Bugle]], [[characters/rod-palmer|Rod +Palmer]] and [[characters/richard-greaser|Richard Greaser]] run the same devotions as a +live wire feed. He is the corpus's single most-posted non-host: 406 matched posts, 198 of +them from [@bitcoin_bugle](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle) alone. Henry files the strands +below because the timeline is where the joke actually moves — the transcripts describe the +cult; the posts *are* it. + +### The announcement, and its absence + +The wire treats a Porter tweet as a market utility and its silence as a crisis. The +foundational gag is that price is not real until he ratifies it — "$100k is not official +until Dennis Porter makes the announcement."[^t-100k] The counterpart is the **drought +report**, a recurring bulletin measuring how long he has gone quiet, filed as breaking +financial news: + +> "BREAKING: Dennis Porter hasn't tweeted an announcement in 9 days‼️ Bitcoin dropped +> below $92k on Monday after news that Dennis Porter hasn't posted anything since December +> 21 spooked already rattled markets." +> — [@bitcoin_bugle, 2024-12-30](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/1873804013139091752) + + + +The infrastructure grows to match: Bloomberg is reported "adding Dennis Porter +announcements to Terminal,"[^t-terminal] and when the announcements do land, the timeline +insists they are hollow — "Thousands Mute & Unfollow Dennis Porter After Latest +'Nothingburger' Announcement."[^t-block] The reverence and the ridicule are the same post +seen from two sides; by his own colleagues the [[storylines/dennis-porter-saga|announcement +economy]] is both sacred and spam. + +### #BringDennisHome + +The [North Korea captivity](#the-north-korea-captivity-20252026) plays out on the wire as a +sustained missing-persons campaign. Through December 2025 the drought counter and the +kidnapping storyline fuse — "Dennis Porter has not tweeted in 10 days"[^t-10days] shades +into a hostage vigil complete with a bipartisan hashtag, warm-up shirts, a prediction +market, and a rescue command structure: + +> "BREAKING: Jason Lowery appointed Special Assistant and direct advisor to the Commander +> of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command to lead effort on securing Dennis Porter. It's been 27 days +> since Dennis Porter's last tweet #BringDennisHome" +> — [@bitcoin_bugle, 2025-12-24](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/2003624829371797954) + + + +[[characters/kim-jong-un|Kim Jong Un]] is written as the hostage-taker who refuses to +negotiate, reclassifying his captive as sovereign infrastructure — he "Will Not Be +Returning Dennis Porter As He Sees 'The Dennis Porter Strategic Reserve' As Matter Of +National Security And Sovereignty."[^t-nk] The bit outlives its own resolution: the eventual +return is filed as market news — "Bitcoin Price Skyrockets As Dennis Porter Returns To +Twitter Ending 91 Day Announcement Drought"[^t-return] — and even a Netflix true-crime doc, +"Investigating The Mysterious Disappearance of Dennis Porter."[^t-netflix] + +### Rod's private devotion + +Where the Bugle account is institutional, [[characters/rod-palmer|Rod]]'s Porter posts are +personal to the point of derangement — the hanger-on the character pages describe, caught in +the wild. He names a child after the man ("This is my middle son Dennis Porter Palmer before +my Bitcoin Meetup's Christmas party tonight"),[^t-son] narrates non-KYC cigarettes "with ross +ulbricht and dennis porter at the @VibeCapitalMgmt party,"[^t-cigs] and, in the single most +on-brand artifact in the file, documents the exact moment the devotion is requited: + + + +<video controls preload="none" poster="/tweets/1928254382849634635-poster.jpg" src="/tweets/1928254382849634635.mp4" style="width:100%;max-width:620px;border-radius:10px;display:block;margin:.5rem 0;"></video> + +> "i finally got dennis porter's attention" — [@rodpalmerhodl, 2025-05-30](https://x.com/rodpalmerhodl/status/1928254382849634635) + +The worship is never uncritical, though, and Rod is also the loudest heckler: "litecoin is +dunking on dennis porter,"[^t-ltc] he reports, before ruling that "dunking on dennis porter +is non-partisan."[^t-dunk] Same man, same day — the character's whole contradiction in two +posts. + +### Deity, cure, and free agent + +The rest of the corpus's obsessions all surface as posts. The **deification**: passed over by +TIME, the Bugle rules that "The Person of the Year should be Dennis Porter,"[^t-time] and +later reframes him in [[storylines/dennis-porter-saga|Strauss–Howe]] terms — "Dennis Porter +was our 4th Turning Man. Now that it's the 1st Turning, in his absence we must strive to all +be Dennis Porter's in our own lives."[^t-turning] + + + +The **Viagra strand** runs verbatim from the episodes — a "Who Needs Viagra When You Got +Dennis Porter?" post[^t-viagra] and the claim that "@ScottiePippen says Dennis Porter visited +him in a wet dream."[^t-pippen] The **orange-pilling** arc reaches for ever-higher targets: he +is dispatched "to the Vatican to orange pill the new pope. Papal Bitcoin Reserve incoming?!"[^t-vatican] + + + +And the [[storylines/core-vs-knots-war|Core-versus-Knots]] intrigue plays out as personnel +rumor — "Bitcoin Core is considering hiring Dennis Porter to handle their public relations. +Anything would be an improvement at this point,"[^t-core] countered by the Knotzis tapping him +as "Chief Bullish Announcements Strategist."[^t-knots] Through it all the timeline maintains +his purity with a straight face: "🚨BREAKING: Dennis Porter Has Never Taken Money From Ripple +#BitcoinOnly."[^t-ripple] + +## Heresies + +The reverence is never quite universal, and the show enjoys puncturing it. Rod concedes +early that Porter "might be compromised."[^compromised] Guest [[characters/btckaz|BTCKaz]], +who works on the Oklahoma bills, quietly notes he does not "converse with Dennis that +often."[^kaz] Offered Porter as the floor for podcaster seriousness, +[[characters/matt-odell|Matt Odell]] answers flatly, "that's a pretty low +bar."[^odell] Guest Bubba dismisses the whole edifice — "who the fuck is Dennis Porter? +Nobody"[^bubba] — and even as a unit of legitimacy he is deflationary, invoked to +belittle: Jared Kushner is merely "the Dennis Porter of The Middle East."[^kushner] + +> irl: Dennis Porter is a real Bitcoin policy advocate, founder of the Satoshi Action +> Fund, known for high-volume "breaking" announcements and photographs with state +> legislators. His canonical Bugleverse debut was declining a World Economic Forum +> Young Leaders invitation because he could "get more Twitter followers and meetings +> with important people" on his own.[^wef] The satire exaggerates the self-importance +> only slightly, then multiplies it by the entire cast's devotion. + +## Note on the name + +The ASR rarely spells him right. Across the corpus he surfaces as **Danish Porter, +Dennis Poirier, Dennis Port, Dallas Porter, Dennis Orange, Dennis Pruitt, Dennis +Quater, Dennis Coroner, Dennis Burton, Demispard** and **Goodpuego**, plus the +deliberate pun **penis daughter**. Because the show says his name constantly, most +beats survive the mangling on context alone; the `aliases:` are here so a mechanical +scan does not lose the episodes where "Dennis Porter" never appears cleanly. + +[^tribute]: [[transcripts/out-complying-the-competition-bugle-weekly-episode-1#t-678|Bugle Weekly 1 @ 11:18]] — "and lobbying of Dennis Porter. If if it wasn't for him, none of this would be possible." +[^credential]: [[transcripts/the-calm-before-the-storm-bugle-weekly-episode-18#t-424|Bugle Weekly 18 @ 7:04]] — "credential journalist Dennis Porter"; the ASR drops the -ed. +[^fourarts]: [[transcripts/comedy-fundamentals-with-fundamentals-bugle-weekly-episode-25#t-3932|Bugle Weekly 25 @ 1:05:32]] — "Dallas Porter is, like, the master of the four influencing" (arts); ASR renders him "Dallas Porter." +[^ngu]: [[transcripts/odell-and-iran-attack-ngu-bugle-weekly-episode-4#t-1050|Bugle Weekly 4 @ 17:30]] — "They don't like Corey Clipston. They don't like Dennis Porter. They don't like David Bailey" ("Corey Clipston" is ASR for [[characters/cory-klippsten|Cory Klippsten]]). +[^chucknorris]: [[transcripts/the-economy-is-still-fine-bugle-weekly-episode-21#t-753|Bugle Weekly 21 @ 12:33]]. +[^factspage]: [[transcripts/is-saylor-a-spook-bugle-weekly-episode-31#t-101|Bugle Weekly 31 @ 1:41]] — "an important Dennis Quater facts page"; ASR mangles Porter to "Dennis Quater." +[^factsgenealogy]: [[transcripts/bugle-weekly-episode-31-tldr-by-hr-specialists#t-843|Bugle Weekly 31 TLDR @ 14:03]] — "Chuck Norris style" / "jokes." +[^alpha]: [[transcripts/satoshi-would-be-proud-bugle-weekly-episode-19#t-970|Bugle Weekly 19 @ 16:10]] — the surrounding cues render "orange pilling" as "orange peeling"; Antonopoulos has no page. +[^bodycount]: [[transcripts/intellectual-silk-road-101-bugle-weekly-episode-22#t-401|Bugle Weekly 22 @ 6:41]] — "it's kind of a debate between David Bailey and Dennis Porter." +[^demigod]: [[transcripts/the-future-is-wrapped-bugle-weekly-episode-44#t-893|Bugle Weekly 44 @ 14:53]]. +[^preresponder]: [[transcripts/the-first-responders-and-compliance-salesmen-bugle-weekly-episode-38#t-395|Bugle Weekly 38 @ 6:35]] — "the alpha apex predator of first responders. He's the pre responder." +[^prep]: [[transcripts/bitcoin-is-like-prison-with-junseth-behind-the-podcast-episode-13#t-270|BTP 13 @ 4:30]] — answering "pre Dennis Porter." +[^timepref]: [[transcripts/clowns-against-knotzis-behind-the-podcast-episode-16#t-644|BTP 16 @ 10:44]]. +[^tenbtc]: [[transcripts/the-compliant-people-are-getting-involved-bugle-weekly-episode-6#t-269|Bugle Weekly 6 @ 4:29]]. +[^civilattack]: [[transcripts/the-intellectual-silk-road-bugle-weekly-episode-13#t-2340|Bugle Weekly 13 @ 39:00]]; the punchline "you've civil attacked legal code" lands at t-2346. +[^fax]: [[transcripts/powell-signals-everythings-fine-bugle-weekly-episode-27#t-1272|Bugle Weekly 27 @ 21:12]] — sourced to a friend-of-a-friend on Stacker News, flagged as speculation. +[^daylight]: [[transcripts/the-plebs-killed-jesus-bugle-weekly-episode-104#t-286|Bugle Weekly 104 @ 4:46]]. +[^announce]: [[transcripts/the-first-responders-and-compliance-salesmen-bugle-weekly-episode-38#t-395|Bugle Weekly 38 @ 6:35]] — the pre-responder preparing his readers weeks ahead of announcements that "might not be that big of a deal." +[^twas]: [[transcripts/jason-lowerys-drones-bugle-weekly-episode-39#t-6|Bugle Weekly 39 @ 0:06]] — "Twas the announcement before the announcement." +[^announcementday]: [[transcripts/a-pioneers-pioneer-with-david-bennett-btp-episode-24#t-757|BTP 24 @ 12:37]]; Bennett's verdict "Complete and utter bullshit" at t-775. +[^100k]: [[transcripts/shinobi-is-hot-behind-the-podcast-episode-2#t-56|BTP 2 @ 0:56]]. +[^105k]: [[transcripts/protecting-your-daughters-from-breedloves-orange-pill-behind-the-podcast-episode-8#t-1094|BTP 8 @ 18:14]]; completes "announcement hiatus" at t-1100. +[^grid]: [[transcripts/thanksgiving-victory-lap-bugle-weekly-episode-37#t-545|Bugle Weekly 37 @ 9:05]]; Greaser credits "Dennis Porter's tweets" at t-507. +[^writein]: [[transcripts/the-influencer-super-cycle-bugle-weekly-episode-5#t-44|Bugle Weekly 5 @ 0:44]] — the reel also claims he "orange killed the IMF" (ASR for orange pilled). +[^selection2028]: [[transcripts/selection-special-part-1-bugle-weekly-episode-32#t-1387|Bugle Weekly 32 @ 23:07]]. +[^checklist]: [[transcripts/2024-recap-bugle-weekly-episode-42#t-995|Bugle Weekly 42 @ 16:35]]; the "on everybody's podcast except for ours" grievance is at t-982. +[^wailingwall]: [[transcripts/orange-berets-march-in-bugle-weekly-episode-28#t-2870|Bugle Weekly 28 @ 47:50]]; the clause completes at t-2877. +[^cabinet]: [[transcripts/dont-stop-your-enemy-from-pumping-your-bags-bugle-weekly-episode-36#t-1795|Bugle Weekly 36 @ 29:55]] — Rod lands on "Dennis Porter" as president at t-1801; David Zell named with the Bitcoin Policy Institute at t-1803. +[^education]: [[transcripts/environmentally-friendly-war-bugle-weekly-episode-29#t-2084|Bugle Weekly 29 @ 34:44]]; the Swan's-blog resource pitch at t-2103. +[^smartpeople]: [[transcripts/this-is-the-bull-market-bugle-weekly-episode-35#t-1394|Bugle Weekly 35 @ 23:14]] — "It was called Smart People Shit" ("Preston Pich" is ASR for [[characters/preston-pysh|Preston Pysh]]); Rod's coda "top orange pillar in human history" at t-1501. +[^viagrasong]: [[transcripts/the-economy-is-still-fine-bugle-weekly-episode-21#t-804|Bugle Weekly 21 @ 13:24]] — Greaser paraphrasing his own song title. +[^prescribe]: [[transcripts/will-the-future-be-joyful-or-maga-bugle-weekly-episode-23#t-3773|Bugle Weekly 23 @ 1:02:53]]. +[^noviagra]: [[transcripts/year-in-review-bugle-weekly-episode-91#t-53|Bugle Weekly 91 @ 0:53]]. +[^edcure]: [[transcripts/let-the-festivities-begin-bugle-weekly-episode-51#t-1253|Bugle Weekly 51 @ 20:53]]; ASR renders "David curing ED" as "David Kieran ED." +[^mechanical]: [[transcripts/scaling-with-paper-bitcoin-ft-21-media-evan-kaloudis-and-rob-hamilton#t-1734|Scaling With Paper Bitcoin @ 28:54]]; the ban explanation attributed to David Bailey runs t-4106–t-4139. +[^antiboner]: [[transcripts/eligible-bachelor-tatum-turnup-behind-the-podcast-episode-17#t-560|BTP 17 @ 9:20]]. +[^lukeporn]: [[transcripts/broccolispace-media-with-charlie-spears-btp-episode-19#t-1202|BTP 19 @ 20:02]]; the premise "pornography is anything that is sexually arousing" at t-1195, and Spears's "you just change one letter of his first name" at t-1239. +[^saylorcarveout]: [[transcripts/the-orange-pill-is-not-ozempic-bugle-weekly-episode-69#t-2608|Bugle Weekly 69 @ 43:28]] — "Dennis Porter's an exception to this, but Michael Sailor shouldn't be making you horny" (ASR: "Sailor"). +[^johnholmes]: [[transcripts/this-time-is-different-bugle-weekly-episode-70#t-2146|Bugle Weekly 70 @ 35:46]] — overruling a boost that proposed [[characters/peter-mccormack|Peter McCormack]]. +[^ejected]: [[transcripts/satoshi-would-be-proud-bugle-weekly-episode-19#t-523|Bugle Weekly 19 @ 8:43]] — "Danish Porter was also picked up" (ASR for Dennis Porter); Rod's "why are they trying to censor Dennis Porter?" at t-596. +[^elite]: [[transcripts/dont-tell-me-where-to-meme-with-yellow-behind-the-podcast-episode-11#t-2463|BTP 11 @ 41:03]]. +[^letdennis]: [[transcripts/podcasters-crashing-out-bugle-weekly-episode-105#t-2462|Bugle Weekly 105 @ 41:02]] — "I have tweeted so many times at David Bailey to let Dennis speak." +[^onstage]: [[transcripts/sound-vibes-in-the-fiat-burlesque-bugle-weekly-episode-107#t-459|Bugle Weekly 107 @ 7:39]] — "on stage for the first time ever"; the "raging erection" report at 35:37. The booking is flagged the prior week at [[transcripts/is-trump-taking-ibogaine-bugle-weekly-episode-106#t-1933|Bugle Weekly 106 @ 32:13]]. +[^blocksize]: [[transcripts/the-coremunists-vs-the-knotzis-bugle-weekly-episode-59#t-524|Bugle Weekly 59 @ 8:44]]; elaborated at t-540. +[^whoeverpicks]: [[transcripts/moodys-says-nothing-stops-this-train-bugle-weekly-episode-60#t-3503|Bugle Weekly 60 @ 58:23]] — "It's whoever Dennis Porter picks." +[^nodes]: [[transcripts/podcaster-wealth-inequality-bugle-weekly-episode-72#t-860|Bugle Weekly 72 @ 14:20]] — "decrying Bitcoin influencers that don't run nodes"; Rod's epistemic objection at t-890. +[^paid]: [[transcripts/pioneers-attend-university-of-bitcoin-bugle-weekly-episode-75#t-2551|Bugle Weekly 75 @ 42:31]]; the "Demispard" tell at t-2559 is ASR for Dennis Porter. +[^ottawa]: [[transcripts/dennis-porter-faces-headwinds-bugle-weekly-episode-47#t-639|Bugle Weekly 47 @ 10:39]]. +[^bradmills]: [[transcripts/canada-needs-40hpw-with-joey-temprile-behind-the-podcast-episode-15#t-1660|BTP 15 @ 27:40]] — "We have found the Canadian Dennis Porter. It's Brad Mills." +[^bradmills2]: [[transcripts/node-rape-run-rampant-bugle-weekly-episode-58#t-2589|Bugle Weekly 58 @ 43:09]]. +[^cryptomags]: [[transcripts/queen-of-canadian-paper-bitcoin-with-cryptomags-btp-episode-20#t-181|BTP 20 @ 3:01]]. +[^kidnap]: [[transcripts/enemies-of-bitcoin-with-muck-anic-bugle-weekly-episode-88#t-4|Bugle Weekly 88 @ 0:04]]. +[^stillnk]: [[transcripts/pioneers-prepare-for-christmas-bugle-weekly-episode-89#t-122|Bugle Weekly 89 @ 2:02]]. +[^quantum]: [[transcripts/the-quantum-quarrel-has-commenced-bugle-weekly-episode-90#t-5|Bugle Weekly 90 @ 0:05]]; the "skinny and dehydrated" smuggled photo at t-30. +[^absence]: [[transcripts/bugle-weekly-christmas-special#t-197|Bugle Weekly Christmas Special @ 3:17]] — "the absence of Dennis Porter"; the song later pleads "please Dennis Porter make me stronger" (t-808). +[^bot]: [[transcripts/the-dawn-of-the-1st-turning-bugle-weekly-episode-93#t-1313|Bugle Weekly 93 @ 21:53]] — "automated Dennis Porter's job." +[^backfromnk]: [[transcripts/the-dawn-of-white-goy-summer-bugle-weekly-episode-110#t-518|Bugle Weekly 110 @ 8:38]]. +[^compromised]: [[transcripts/the-compliant-people-are-getting-involved-bugle-weekly-episode-6#t-269|Bugle Weekly 6 @ 4:29]] — the "might be compromised" concession at t-259 precedes the 10-Bitcoin theory. +[^kaz]: [[transcripts/is-good-ux-counter-revolutionary-behind-the-podcast-episode-12#t-2242|BTP 12 @ 37:22]] — "We don't converse with Dennis that often, to be quite honest." +[^odell]: [[transcripts/from-grumpy-to-gleeful-with-matt-odell-btp-episode-23#t-406|BTP 23 @ 6:46]]; Odell's "pretty low bar" reply at t-412. +[^bubba]: [[transcripts/boomers-on-trial-with-bubba-intellectual-silk-road-episode-2#t-4627|Intellectual Silk Road 2 @ 1:17:07]]. +[^kushner]: [[transcripts/sportsball-is-back-baby-bugle-weekly-episode-113#t-1392|Bugle Weekly 113 @ 23:12]] — Rod completes the oracle bit at 23:28: "I'm not gonna consider this peace deal official, until Dennis Porter announces it." +[^wef]: [[news/dennis-porter-declines-wef-appointment-as-a-result-of-being-too-important|Bugle News, 2023-01-12 — "Dennis Porter Declines WEF Appointment: States He Is Too Important"]]. +[^t-100k]: [@bitcoin_bugle, 2024-11-21](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/1859684819229344150) — "$100k is not official until Dennis Porter makes the announcement." +[^t-terminal]: [@bitcoin_bugle, 2024-11-15](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/1857438195278840188) — "JUST IN: 📺Bloomberg is adding Dennis Porter announcements to Terminal." +[^t-block]: [@bitcoin_bugle, 2025-09-23](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/1970629778219606188) — "🚫MASSIVE BLOCKING🚫 Thousands Mute & Unfollow Dennis Porter After Latest 'Nothingburger' Announcement." +[^t-10days]: [@bitcoin_bugle, 2025-12-05](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/1997076092218200066) — "Dennis Porter has not tweeted in 10 days"; the counter is filed almost daily across December 2025 (9, 10, 14, 17, 18, 20 days). +[^t-nk]: [@bitcoin_bugle, 2025-12-09](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/1998359766708658238). +[^t-return]: [@bitcoin_bugle, 2026-02-25](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/2026802843487801499). +[^t-netflix]: [@bitcoin_bugle, 2026-01-24](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/2014884513671712794). +[^t-son]: [@rodpalmerhodl, 2025-12-20](https://x.com/rodpalmerhodl/status/2002182874980585917). +[^t-cigs]: [@rodpalmerhodl, 2025-05-30](https://x.com/rodpalmerhodl/status/1928527604912632303) — "chain smoking non-kyc cigarettes with ross ulbricht and dennis porter at the @VibeCapitalMgmt party last night was simply unforgettable." +[^t-ltc]: [@rodpalmerhodl, 2025-09-23](https://x.com/rodpalmerhodl/status/1970542986464202951). +[^t-dunk]: [@rodpalmerhodl, 2025-09-23](https://x.com/rodpalmerhodl/status/1970604033036415382). +[^t-time]: [@bitcoin_bugle, 2024-12-12](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/1867313817308320039) — "No disrespect to President Trump but @TIME picked the wrong person to be their Person of the Year." +[^t-turning]: [@bitcoin_bugle, 2026-01-22](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/2014131880610746749). +[^t-viagra]: [@bitcoin_bugle, 2025-04-25](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/1915799282147267001). +[^t-pippen]: [@bitcoin_bugle, 2025-04-22](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/1914791628759253000). +[^t-vatican]: [@bitcoin_bugle, 2025-05-08](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/1920520359113105814). +[^t-core]: [@bitcoin_bugle, 2025-05-12](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/1921991160311996849). +[^t-knots]: [@bitcoin_bugle, 2025-06-24](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/1937510559127146678) — "Knotzis Tap Dennis Porter For Senior Role As 'Chief Bullish Announcements Strategist'." +[^t-ripple]: [@bitcoin_bugle, 2025-02-27](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/1895143424149315819).