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Jon Ungovernable
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diff --git a/wiki/characters/jon-ungovernable.md b/wiki/characters/jon-ungovernable.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..038e60ea @@ -0,0 +1,175 @@ +--- +title: Jon Ungovernable +type: character +factions: + - Ungovernable Misfits + - ISR +status: confirmed +card: + id: inf-16 + tier: 1 + class: Culture + role: Tank + hp: 178 + atk: 50 +aliases: + - John + - Sean + - Clubminer John + - Club Miner John + - club miner John +sources: + - "raw/cards/roster.json#inf-16" + - raw/episodes/the-compliant-people-are-getting-involved-bugle-weekly-episode-6/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/ungovernable-non-compliance-with-the-ungovernable-misfits-bugle-weekly-episode-7/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/the-revolution-will-not-be-centralized-bugle-weekly-episode-9/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/vaccinating-bitcoin-derangement-syndrome-bugle-weekly-episode-10/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/history-is-being-written-by-us-bugle-weekly-episode-12/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/noncompliant-4th-of-july-bugle-weekly-episode-15/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/this-is-fine-bugle-weekly-episode-20/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/onwards-and-upwards-bugle-weekly-episode-41/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/2024-recap-bugle-weekly-episode-42/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/trump-n-dump-bugle-weekly-episode-43/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/build-back-better-with-mike-behind-the-podcast-episode-7/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/protecting-your-daughters-from-breedloves-orange-pill-behind-the-podcast-episode-8/bundle.json +--- + +> *Henry's note: rebuilt from the beat index — 19 beats across 12 episodes, coverage COMPLETE. It was a stub until now.* + +**Jon Ungovernable** is a member of the [[sponsors/ungovernable-misfits|Ungovernable +Misfits]], the non-compliance "unorganization" that runs as the mirror image of the +[[storylines/church-of-compliance|compliance podcast]], and — by the show's own +year-end tally — the single largest recurring booster of +[[orgs/the-bugle|The Bugle]]. He is a miner by vocation and a heckler by habit: the +listener who funds the newsroom and needles it in the same 21,000-sat message. Where +[[characters/max-ungovernamble|Max]] is the Misfits' front man, Jon is the one who +writes the scripts, points the hash rate, and boosts in the line that organizes the +segment. + +**In it with:** [[characters/max-ungovernamble|Max]] · [[characters/richard-greaser|Richard Greaser]] · [[characters/rod-palmer|Rod Palmer]] · [[characters/fundamentals|Fundamentals]] · [[sponsors/ungovernable-misfits|Ungovernable Misfits]] · [[orgs/the-bugle|The Bugle]] + +**Arc:** [[storylines/ungovernable-misfits-crossover]] · [[storylines/podconf-industrial-complex]] · [[storylines/fountain-podcasting-2-0]] · [[storylines/cigarette-money-donations]] + +## The first to defect (2024) + +Jon enters the record on the exact episode the show turns on +[[orgs/podconf|PODCONF]]. A 21,000-sat Fountain boost from him is the first listener to +side with the turn, declaring that "we, the ungovernable misfits, will not yield to +compliance mandates that infringe upon our inherent right to privacy" and, less +formally, that "Podkoff is a great evil."[^first] [[characters/fundamentals|Fundamentals]] +boosts in behind him, which forces [[characters/rod-palmer|Rod]] to clarify that only +PODCONF is the enemy — "if you're not PodCom, and you wanna sponsor us."[^first] + +## The unorganization (2024) + +The Misfits are booked as guests a week later, and the episode's central gag is the +guests hijacking it: with [[characters/richard-greaser|Greaser]] dropped from the call, +[[characters/max-ungovernamble|Max]] seizes the show and opens a list of tips for being +less compliant.[^hijack] Asked for the pillars of being ungovernable, Jon supplies the +group's canonical self-description — the Ungovernable Misfits are "an +unorganization"[^unorg] — which Max glosses as a decentralized autonomous group who do +what they want. + +The rest of Jon's appearance is the ungovernable guest out-complying the compliance +podcast. He deadpans a fabricated on-chain statistic, "the unspent whirlpool capacity +of the CIA," allegedly some fifteen million Bitcoin read straight off a public +dashboard, and Greaser accepts it as sourced reporting.[^whirlpool] He frames the +Misfits' own PODCONF ad read as turning the cartel's budget against it: "I intend to +use the significant amount of money that PodConf has has paid Max and I on to continue +our message of dismantling the state"[^podmoney] — the same rationalization Greaser then +claims for the Bugle's sponsorship. And he inverts the standard boost appeal, telling +listeners not to use podcasting 2.0 but to "do it through something that you can claim +your taxes."[^taxes] A running bit has each Misfit assigned a personal federal handler; +Jon reads out a Twitter handle and reveals it is "my code name for my NSA agent," though +the handle itself is lost to the transcription.[^nsa] + +## ClubMiner (2024) + +Jon's second identity is technical. The Misfits' own ad read bills him as "club miner +John" — the ASR's rendering of *Clubminer John* — selling non-compliance on +[[sponsors/fountain-fm|Fountain]] as the exact inverse of the Bugle's compliance +pitch.[^clubminer] The name is functional: he is the Misfits' mining hand. + +The mining strand feeds the newsroom directly. When the Meshtadel — a group Greaser +describes as "pretty tight knit with the ungovernable misfits guys" — launches a hash +rate drive for the show, pointing 670 terahash at the Bugle's pool with a stated goal +of a full petahash by night's end, it is Jon who is credited as leading the +charge.[^meshtadel] Later, [[characters/richard-greaser|Greaser]] offers the Misfits' +solo-mining script — written, he says, by Jon with help from a developer called Urban +Hacker — as the payoff for supporting the intellectual +[[orgs/intellectual-silk-road|Silk Road]], a tool to "mine Bitcoin directly from the +network without using a third party." Greaser had not tried it himself because he +"didn't wanna get into the command line of my typewriter."[^solo] + +> *Henry's note: the Meshtadel and solo-script beats name only "John," never a surname; +> both are attributed here on the Ungovernable Misfits framing, which the beat index +> marks medium-confidence. Urban Hacker, the Meshtadel, and the mining pool have no +> pages yet.* + +## First place (2024–2025) + +Jon's standing role is patron. He is the show's largest recurring booster, and the +canon says so on the leaderboard: reading the 2024 recap, the hosts place "Ungovernable +Misfits… number one. He came in first place with 757,000" sats, ahead of MsHodlnaut420 +and [[characters/fundamentals|Fundamentals]], out of 128 distinct boosters.[^leader] The +next episode's top boost is his too, 21,000 sats — the same figure he opened with — +confirming the relationship as a fixture.[^top43] + +The boosts are never merely money. They arrive as lore. It is Jon who opens a boost +segment with "ain't no party like the bugle party because the bugle party don't stop," +the line that cues the newsroom mythology.[^party] His 69,420-sat Passover parody casts +[[characters/rod-palmer|Rod]] and Dick as Israelites in PODCONF's Egypt — "when Rod and +Dick were in Podcuff land, let my people go" — which Rod notes "goes a long way for the +cigarettes."[^passover] A boost calling [[characters/fundamentals|Fundamentals]] "a +terrible Jew" spawns the foreskin bit, Greaser reporting that "rumor has it he +reattached his foreskin" and reframing it as an interesting new purity +test.[^foreskin] And on [[storylines/cigarette-money-donations|the cigarette front]], +Jon boosts in the metaphor that organizes the whole segment — "unfiltered cigarettes +are the raw milk of nicotine delivery" — which Rod certifies as unhealthy-sounding but +"actually very based."[^cigs] A late boost, read aloud by [[characters/barnminer|Barnminer]], +announces Jon's GLOB NFT line — Gorgeous Ladies of Bitcoin — "launching with +[[characters/lyn-alden|Lyn]], the hard money, Alden."[^glob] + +His credentials with the show are stated plainly in the alliance episode: the +Ungovernable Misfits are "our good friends… carrying the banner of noncompliance," and +where Max earns only a grudging exemption from Greaser's standing anti-British position +for being "a funny talker," the verdict on Jon is unqualified — "John is just +awesome."[^awesome] The continuity even reaches the show's own guest standards: Greaser +admits he "lowered the standards" to have Jon and Max on despite their lack of +journalistic credentials, a callback to Rod's substitute +[[characters/marty-bent|Marty Bent]].[^standards] + +## Note on the name + +The ASR cannot hold his name still. He is transcribed as **John** almost everywhere, as +**Sean** twice in one episode,[^top43] as **Clubminer / club miner John** in the ad +copy,[^clubminer] and spelled out once as "j o n" — the only hard evidence for the +"Jon" the card canon uses.[^glob] Because he almost always appears as a boost read aloud +by a host rather than as a speaker, and almost always without a surname, several of the +beats above rest on Ungovernable Misfits adjacency rather than a clean identification; +the `aliases:` exist so a name-match pass does not confuse him with every other John in +the corpus. + +> irl: Ungovernable Misfits is a real Bitcoin podcast and non-custodial-mining +> community; the satire keeps its members as the Bugle's most loyal listeners, which is +> why they can fund the show and heckle it in the same breath. + +[^first]: [[transcripts/the-compliant-people-are-getting-involved-bugle-weekly-episode-6#t-3298|Bugle Weekly 6 @ 54:58]] — the quote spans cues t-3298/t-3299; "Podkoff" is the ASR for PODCONF. Rod's "if you're not PodCom" clarification lands after Fundamentals' follow-up boost. +[^hijack]: [[transcripts/ungovernable-non-compliance-with-the-ungovernable-misfits-bugle-weekly-episode-7#t-326|Bugle Weekly 7 @ 5:26]] — the line is Max's ("me and John have put together"); it is the beat index's primary evidence that Jon is the other Misfit voice, not this one. +[^unorg]: [[transcripts/ungovernable-non-compliance-with-the-ungovernable-misfits-bugle-weekly-episode-7#t-1994|Bugle Weekly 7 @ 33:14]] — Max's DAO gloss follows immediately. +[^whirlpool]: [[transcripts/ungovernable-non-compliance-with-the-ungovernable-misfits-bugle-weekly-episode-7#t-672|Bugle Weekly 7 @ 11:12]] — read off the Clark Moody dashboard (named at t-668, no page yet). The figure is self-contradicting in the transcript ("about 15,000,000 Bitcoin. $15,000,000 worth of Bitcoin"), possibly ASR, possibly the joke. +[^podmoney]: [[transcripts/ungovernable-non-compliance-with-the-ungovernable-misfits-bugle-weekly-episode-7#t-881|Bugle Weekly 7 @ 14:41]]. +[^taxes]: [[transcripts/ungovernable-non-compliance-with-the-ungovernable-misfits-bugle-weekly-episode-7#t-1129|Bugle Weekly 7 @ 18:49]]. +[^nsa]: [[transcripts/ungovernable-non-compliance-with-the-ungovernable-misfits-bugle-weekly-episode-7#t-2193|Bugle Weekly 7 @ 36:33]] — medium-confidence beat; the quote continues "my code name for my NSA agent" at t-2195, but the handle itself ("Gay LittlePigeon") is too ASR-mangled to reconstruct. +[^clubminer]: [[transcripts/vaccinating-bitcoin-derangement-syndrome-bugle-weekly-episode-10#t-1823|Bugle Weekly 10 @ 30:23]] — "club miner John" = Clubminer John; read by an unnamed ad voice, not by the Misfits themselves. +[^meshtadel]: [[transcripts/noncompliant-4th-of-july-bugle-weekly-episode-15#t-3103|Bugle Weekly 15 @ 51:43]] — medium-confidence beat; "mesh to Dell" is the ASR for Meshtadel. "John has been leading the charge on this one" (t-3300) is attributed to Jon on the Ungovernable Misfits framing; no surname is spoken. +[^solo]: [[transcripts/this-is-fine-bugle-weekly-episode-20#t-1965|Bugle Weekly 20 @ 32:45]] — medium-confidence beat; Dick (Greaser) introduces the item as coming from "our good friends at the Ungovernable Misfits" and says "John John seems to have spearheaded this." The script claim is at t-1987; the typewriter line at t-2031. +[^leader]: [[transcripts/2024-recap-bugle-weekly-episode-42#t-1784|Bugle Weekly 42 @ 29:44]] — quote spans cues t-1784/t-1788; total pot 4.3M sats. Stackatoshi (5th) has no page. +[^top43]: [[transcripts/trump-n-dump-bugle-weekly-episode-43#t-3049|Bugle Weekly 43 @ 50:49]] — quote spans t-3049/t-3051; "Ungerable Misfits" = Ungovernable Misfits. The same booster is named "Sean" at t-3104. +[^party]: [[transcripts/the-revolution-will-not-be-centralized-bugle-weekly-episode-9#t-3130|Bugle Weekly 9 @ 52:10]] — "Uncoverable Misfits" (t-3128) = Ungovernable Misfits; Rod reads the boost, the words are Jon's. +[^passover]: [[transcripts/history-is-being-written-by-us-bugle-weekly-episode-12#t-3550|Bugle Weekly 12 @ 59:10]] — medium-confidence beat; "Podcuff land" = PODCONF. The booster is given only as "John," attributed on the Ungovernable Misfits association. +[^foreskin]: [[transcripts/trump-n-dump-bugle-weekly-episode-43#t-3061|Bugle Weekly 43 @ 51:01]] — "fundamentals is a terrible Jew" is the boost text at t-3056; Palmer extends the bit to Trump and Stormy Daniels. +[^cigs]: [[transcripts/build-back-better-with-mike-behind-the-podcast-episode-7#t-4931|BTP 7 @ 1:22:11]] — Greaser reads it; the words are John's boost. Rod's "actually very based" ruling lands at t-4936. +[^glob]: [[transcripts/protecting-your-daughters-from-breedloves-orange-pill-behind-the-podcast-episode-8#t-3741|BTP 8 @ 1:02:21]] — medium-confidence beat; Barnminer reads the boost aloud. Richard identifies the booster at t-3737 as "John is next, j o n." "GLOB" is almost certainly Gorgeous Ladies of Bitcoin. +[^awesome]: [[transcripts/onwards-and-upwards-bugle-weekly-episode-41#t-2780|Bugle Weekly 41 @ 46:20]] — quote spans t-2778/t-2780; the Max "funny talker" exemption is at t-2802, "And John is just awesome" at t-2827. +[^standards]: [[transcripts/the-revolution-will-not-be-centralized-bugle-weekly-episode-9#t-3717|Bugle Weekly 9 @ 1:01:57]] — Greaser reads Rod's boost approving his substitute (Marty Bent) and concedes he lowered the standards for the Misfits; "John and Max" named at t-3749.