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Joey - Canadian Bitcoin
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diff --git a/wiki/characters/joey-canadian-bitcoin.md b/wiki/characters/joey-canadian-bitcoin.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..b57392f0 @@ -0,0 +1,191 @@ +--- +title: Joey - Canadian Bitcoin +type: character +status: confirmed +card: + id: inf-35 + tier: 2 + class: Technical + role: Mid + hp: 116 + atk: 45 +portrait: /portraits/inf-35.webp +aliases: + - Joey Temprile + - Joey T + - Joey Bitcoins +sources: + - "raw/cards/roster.json#inf-35" + - raw/episodes/canada-needs-40hpw-with-joey-temprile-behind-the-podcast-episode-15/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/orange-pilled-pioneers-bugle-weekly-episode-63/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/emergency-broadcast-podcasting-under-attack/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/in-the-midst-of-madness-bugle-weekly-episode-102/bundle.json +--- + +> *Henry's note: rebuilt from the beat index — 23 beats across 4 episodes, coverage COMPLETE. Twenty of them come from the single [[storylines/behind-the-podcast|Behind the Podcast]] interview that defines him; the other three are glancing. It was a stub until now.* + +**Joey** is the co-host of the Canadian Bitcoin Podcast and the marquee guest of +[[episodes/canada-needs-40hpw-with-joey-temprile-behind-the-podcast-episode-15|Behind the Podcast Episode 15]], the interview from which nearly his entire +character is drawn. He is the Bugleverse's designated Canadian: the man brought on +to answer [[characters/timmy-tether|Timmy Tether]]'s cold-open thesis, that +Canadian Bitcoin podcasters "are struggling to orange pill their fellow maple syrup +blooded citizens."[^framing] His answer, worked out over an hour and a quarter with +[[characters/rod-palmer|Rod Palmer]], is a doctrine of accelerationism, barbell +squats, tailored suits and cigarettes — the country cannot be saved, so the correct +posture is to get fit and let it fall. + +**In it with:** [[characters/rod-palmer|Rod Palmer]] · [[characters/timmy-tether|Timmy Tether]] · [[characters/len-canadian-bitcoin|Len]] · [[characters/richard-greaser|Richard Greaser]] · [[characters/jameson-lopp|Jameson Lopp]] · [[characters/trace-mayer|Trace Mayer]] · [[characters/michael-saylor|Michael Saylor]] · BTC Sessions + +**Arc:** [[storylines/canada-watch]] · [[storylines/behind-the-podcast]] · [[storylines/40-hours-per-week]] · [[storylines/bitcoiner-fashion-desk]] · [[storylines/core-vs-knots-war]] + +## The interview + +He arrives converted. Asked, as every guest is, where he is on his quota — Rod's +greeting is a quota audit, "Where are you at on your forty hours per week right +now?"[^audit] — Joey first supplies the standard [[storylines/behind-the-podcast|Behind +the Podcast]] apostasy narrative: "I I didn't like to beagle at first. I thought +these guys are fucking stupid. This is retarded," before the network "grew on +me."[^convert] The founding datum of the episode is his accounting of his co-host +[[characters/len-canadian-bitcoin|Len]], who runs three concurrent forties — "he's +putting a 40 on the listing side, 40 on the research side," plus a day job — with the +result that "his wife and daughter don't even remember what he looks like."[^len] The +[[memes/40hpw|40 hours per week]] is presented not as an aspiration but as an +occupational injury. + +The show states its own mission back to him flat: "The bugle is the Bitcoin podcast +for people who listen to forty hours per week."[^mission] The quota's field +verification is a listener called Boomer, who heard the meme and immediately raised +the bid — "He's back. Sixty hours per week. Minimum" — and whom Joey now uses "as a +dipstick."[^boomer] The most punishing benchmark for a genuine listener is two Dave +Collum appearances in one month, "Dave Colum doesn't record anything less than thirty +hours long."[^collum] + +## Canada, accelerated + +The episode's news peg is the 2025 Canadian election, taped four days after Mark +Carney won it. Joey and Rod's read is that the country elected not a central bank but +"a two time like, repeating defending champion central banker,"[^carney] and that +Canadians voted on American politics rather than their own — Carney's actual campaign +line, Joey reports with disbelief, was "Trump wants to break us so he can buy us," +which "political strategists here" thought "was a home run."[^slogan] + +From a ballot of interchangeable candidates Joey derives a national ideology: "Canada +is the home of the acceleration platform... We fucking started that."[^accel] Since +every option only slows the decline, the country's contribution to the world is to +stop pretending — the plane is going off the cliff, so add runway and enjoy the ride. +Rod later adopts the frame wholesale as the episode's thesis. + +## The squat-225 standard + +Joey's entire political program compresses into a single lift. Orange pilling would be +unnecessary, he argues, "If if anybody if everybody could just squat two twenty +five."[^squat] From this he builds a fitness gate for civic life: a screener at the +Costco door checking that "your shirt is tucked in, and your BMI is under thirty," a +squat rack beside the ballot box, and the same 225 bar for anyone who wants to be a +politician or a parent. The barbell then joins the quota as a survival marker — the +people who make it are "doing their forty hours a week, hitting the two twenty five +squat, buying Bitcoin," and everyone else wears "the thousand yard stare" of the +NPC.[^divergence] + +## The thumbnail exposé + +The interview's central piece of media criticism is Joey's claim that Bitcoin YouTube +is a single content mill wearing many faces. His grievance opens on praise for BTC +Sessions — "I love the the fact that Ben is thirst trapping" — before the turn: he +wants Sessions to stop buying AI-generated titles and thumbnails from one supplier, +who "is giving the same titles and thumbnails to every other person," none of whom +realise they are all running identical shows.[^thumbnails] Rod's prescription for +Canada's recruitment problem is that Joey follow Sessions into the genre directly: +"you could frost your tits."[^thumbnails] + +> *Henry's note: the thumbnail supplier is named as "Luke Michic," ASR for the +> Bitcoin YouTuber Luke Mikic — a different person from [[characters/luke-broyles|Luke +> Broyles]] and [[characters/luke-dashjr|Luke Dashjr]]. He has no page; the beat is +> medium-confidence on the spelling only.* + +## Friends and enemies + +Joey's own catchphrase is "Bitcoin is for friends and enemies," a slogan he has +"printed T shirts with" and uses "as an intro every episode."[^friends] It is also his +whole position on the [[storylines/core-vs-knots-war|OP_RETURN fight]]: he has no +opinion, because "If you can pay for it, pay for it because it just makes me +richer."[^friends] His deep-cut disqualification of the other side is that he remembers +[[characters/jameson-lopp|Jameson Lopp]] and [[characters/trace-mayer|Trace Mayer]] +"handing out pamphlets for something called Grin coin at a conference before Trace +Mayer had to go underground in shame."[^grin] + +The segment ends with a confession Rod turns into general absolution. Joey does not run +his own node — "Len tried to get me to run one. I still haven't set it up" — and Rod, +rather than scold him, reports that "most of the retards on Twitter who are telling you +all this stuff don't run a note either," there being "only 20,000 nodes," half unused. +People don't run nodes because they don't have to, not because blocks are full.[^node] + +## The fashion desk + +The set piece of the hour is Joey's tailoring sermon, which anchors the +[[storylines/bitcoiner-fashion-desk|Bitcoiner fashion desk]]. Its exhibit is +[[characters/michael-saylor|Michael Saylor]]'s New Year's yacht party, at which the +guests dressed "like they're at their grade eight graduation."[^fashion] The technical +core is a doctrine of movement — that a jacket fitted standing still betrays its owner +the moment he walks — plus named offenders (Banana Republic, RW & Co, Le Chateau) and a +prescribed remedy of Goodyear-welted Allen Edmonds shoes. The grounding claim is one of +seriousness: "We're supposed to be a serious bunch. Are we not?"[^fashion] Rod half-dissents, +excusing the sneaker-wearers on the grounds that "You never know if you might have to run +from the feds," and declaring himself a [[memes/suitcoiner|suitcoiner]] regardless. + +## The questionnaire + +Joey is also the guest against whom the [[storylines/behind-the-podcast|Behind the +Podcast]] standing questionnaire is documented as a fixed rite: every guest is asked +whether they listened to the last episode, and then, "which is, are you Jewish?"[^jewish] +Joey answers no to the first and, to the second, "Not a Jew" and "I'm a gentleman" — the +ASR's rendering of gentile.[^jewish] + +## Elsewhere in the corpus + +Outside his interview Joey is a passing reference. Rod and Greaser log a same-night +crossover appearance on his show — "we went on the Canadian Bitcoin podcast" — and plug +it for boosts on [[sponsors/fountain|Fountain]].[^crossover] Weeks earlier, in an insult +draft of who qualifies as a pleb, "Joey from the Canadian Bitcoin podcast" is run through +the same category as Saylor and [[characters/peter-schiff|Peter Schiff]].[^plebdraft] + +## Disputed: the third bastard son + +A later episode retcons a "Joey Bitcoins" into the Bugle's own Bitcoins family — Tim B is +introduced as "the third bastard Bitcoin son of going parabolic +[[characters/jason-williams|Jason Williams]]," brother to [[characters/teddy-bitcoins|Teddy]] +and Joey Bitcoins.[^bastard] Whether that Joey is Joey Canadian Bitcoin or a separate member +of the Bugle's invented dynasty is unresolved; the beat is medium-confidence and the two +readings are both live, so the claim is recorded here rather than folded into his biography. + +## Note on the name + +The ASR never gives him a surname. He is "Joey" throughout the interview and "Joey t" in +Timmy Tether's framing;[^framing] the spelling **Temprile** comes only from the episode +title. His show, the Canadian Bitcoin Podcast, is heard variously as itself and as "the +beagle" for the Bugle. The `aliases:` carry what the record supplies. + +> irl: The Canadian Bitcoin Podcast is a real show; Joey Temprile is one of its hosts, +> which is why the satire can seat him across from Rod as a peer rather than a target. + +[^framing]: [[transcripts/canada-needs-40hpw-with-joey-temprile-behind-the-podcast-episode-15#t-184|Behind the Podcast 15 @ 3:04]] — Timmy Tether's cold open; ASR renders the surname as "Joey t". The thesis completes at [[transcripts/canada-needs-40hpw-with-joey-temprile-behind-the-podcast-episode-15#t-192|3:12]]: "are struggling to orange pill their fellow maple syrup blooded citizens." +[^audit]: [[transcripts/canada-needs-40hpw-with-joey-temprile-behind-the-podcast-episode-15#t-333|Behind the Podcast 15 @ 5:33]] — "Welcome to the bugles behind the Bitcoin podcast." +[^convert]: [[transcripts/canada-needs-40hpw-with-joey-temprile-behind-the-podcast-episode-15#t-346|Behind the Podcast 15 @ 5:46]] — "beagle" is the ASR for the Bugle. +[^len]: [[transcripts/canada-needs-40hpw-with-joey-temprile-behind-the-podcast-episode-15#t-529|Behind the Podcast 15 @ 8:49]] — "listing side" = listening side; the wife-and-daughter line completes at [[transcripts/canada-needs-40hpw-with-joey-temprile-behind-the-podcast-episode-15#t-547|9:07]]. +[^mission]: [[transcripts/canada-needs-40hpw-with-joey-temprile-behind-the-podcast-episode-15#t-3344|Behind the Podcast 15 @ 55:44]]. +[^boomer]: [[transcripts/canada-needs-40hpw-with-joey-temprile-behind-the-podcast-episode-15#t-3380|Behind the Podcast 15 @ 56:20]] — medium-confidence; "Boomer" is an unpaged listener in Joey's chat. The "dipstick" line lands at [[transcripts/canada-needs-40hpw-with-joey-temprile-behind-the-podcast-episode-15#t-3414|56:54]]. +[^collum]: [[transcripts/canada-needs-40hpw-with-joey-temprile-behind-the-podcast-episode-15#t-3435|Behind the Podcast 15 @ 57:15]] — ASR "Dave Colum" / "Dave Collum"; Dave Collum has no page. +[^carney]: [[transcripts/canada-needs-40hpw-with-joey-temprile-behind-the-podcast-episode-15#t-1004|Behind the Podcast 15 @ 16:44]] — the cue is a rapid two-hander diarized to one speaker. Mark Carney (ASR "Kearney"/"Carney") has no page. +[^slogan]: [[transcripts/canada-needs-40hpw-with-joey-temprile-behind-the-podcast-episode-15#t-1306|Behind the Podcast 15 @ 21:46]] — the strategist verdict follows at [[transcripts/canada-needs-40hpw-with-joey-temprile-behind-the-podcast-episode-15#t-1319|21:59]]. +[^accel]: [[transcripts/canada-needs-40hpw-with-joey-temprile-behind-the-podcast-episode-15#t-1915|Behind the Podcast 15 @ 31:55]] — the ballot "blob" (Jagmeet Singh, Carney, Pierre Poilievre) is enumerated in the same cue; none have pages. +[^squat]: [[transcripts/canada-needs-40hpw-with-joey-temprile-behind-the-podcast-episode-15#t-2352|Behind the Podcast 15 @ 39:12]] — the Costco-door and ballot-box escalations follow at [[transcripts/canada-needs-40hpw-with-joey-temprile-behind-the-podcast-episode-15#t-2384|39:44]] and [[transcripts/canada-needs-40hpw-with-joey-temprile-behind-the-podcast-episode-15#t-2396|39:56]]. +[^divergence]: [[transcripts/canada-needs-40hpw-with-joey-temprile-behind-the-podcast-episode-15#t-2945|Behind the Podcast 15 @ 49:05]] — the "thousand yard stare" completes at [[transcripts/canada-needs-40hpw-with-joey-temprile-behind-the-podcast-episode-15#t-2982|49:42]]. +[^thumbnails]: [[transcripts/canada-needs-40hpw-with-joey-temprile-behind-the-podcast-episode-15#t-2481|Behind the Podcast 15 @ 41:21]] — medium-confidence on the supplier's name ("Luke Michic" = Luke Mikic). The indictment lands at [[transcripts/canada-needs-40hpw-with-joey-temprile-behind-the-podcast-episode-15#t-2595|43:15]]; Rod's "frost your tits" prescription is at [[transcripts/canada-needs-40hpw-with-joey-temprile-behind-the-podcast-episode-15#t-2434|40:34]]. +[^friends]: [[transcripts/canada-needs-40hpw-with-joey-temprile-behind-the-podcast-episode-15#t-3895|Behind the Podcast 15 @ 1:04:55]] — the OP_RETURN payoff ("it just makes me richer") follows at [[transcripts/canada-needs-40hpw-with-joey-temprile-behind-the-podcast-episode-15#t-3904|1:05:04]]. +[^grin]: [[transcripts/canada-needs-40hpw-with-joey-temprile-behind-the-podcast-episode-15#t-3929|Behind the Podcast 15 @ 1:05:29]] — ASR "Jameson Lop" / "Jameson Lopf" = Jameson Lopp; the line pivots into the fashion rant. +[^node]: [[transcripts/canada-needs-40hpw-with-joey-temprile-behind-the-podcast-episode-15#t-4448|Behind the Podcast 15 @ 1:14:08]] — Rod's absolution; Joey's own disclosure ("Len tried to get me to run one") is at [[transcripts/canada-needs-40hpw-with-joey-temprile-behind-the-podcast-episode-15#t-3847|1:04:07]], and the node count at [[transcripts/canada-needs-40hpw-with-joey-temprile-behind-the-podcast-episode-15#t-4467|1:14:27]]. +[^fashion]: [[transcripts/canada-needs-40hpw-with-joey-temprile-behind-the-podcast-episode-15#t-4103|Behind the Podcast 15 @ 1:08:23]] — ASR "Mike Saylor". Named offenders at [[transcripts/canada-needs-40hpw-with-joey-temprile-behind-the-podcast-episode-15#t-4061|1:07:41]]; the Allen Edmonds prescription at [[transcripts/canada-needs-40hpw-with-joey-temprile-behind-the-podcast-episode-15#t-4087|1:08:07]]. +[^jewish]: [[transcripts/canada-needs-40hpw-with-joey-temprile-behind-the-podcast-episode-15#t-3729|Behind the Podcast 15 @ 1:02:09]] — the format is declared at [[transcripts/canada-needs-40hpw-with-joey-temprile-behind-the-podcast-episode-15#t-3688|1:01:28]]; "I'm a gentleman" (gentile) is at [[transcripts/canada-needs-40hpw-with-joey-temprile-behind-the-podcast-episode-15#t-3766|1:02:46]]. +[^crossover]: [[transcripts/emergency-broadcast-podcasting-under-attack#t-457|Emergency Broadcast @ 7:37]] — Greaser resolves the host to Joey at [[transcripts/emergency-broadcast-podcasting-under-attack#t-448|7:28]]. +[^plebdraft]: [[transcripts/orange-pilled-pioneers-bugle-weekly-episode-63#t-3488|Bugle Weekly 63 @ 58:08]] — medium-confidence; "Joey from the Canadian Bitcoin podcast" in Greaser's pleb draft, alongside "Sailor's a pleb" at [[transcripts/orange-pilled-pioneers-bugle-weekly-episode-63#t-3477|57:57]]. +[^bastard]: [[transcripts/in-the-midst-of-madness-bugle-weekly-episode-102#t-71|Bugle Weekly 102 @ 1:11]] — medium-confidence; "Joey Bitcoins" at [[transcripts/in-the-midst-of-madness-bugle-weekly-episode-102#t-67|1:07]] may be a separate member of the Bugle's invented Bitcoins family.