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diff --git a/wiki/characters/mike-brock.md b/wiki/characters/mike-brock.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..b8cf066b @@ -0,0 +1,378 @@ +--- +title: Mike Brock +type: character +factions: + - PODCONF +status: confirmed +portrait: /portraits/x-mike-brock.jpg +aliases: + - Michael Brock + - Mike Dirac + - Mike Rock + - Mike Brown + - Mike Brocke + - Mike Barack + - Michael Rush +sources: + - raw/episodes/is-saylor-a-spook-bugle-weekly-episode-31/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/selection-autopsy-bugle-weekly-episode-34/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/40-hours-per-week-bugle-weekly-episode-45/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/richard-greaser-vs-mike-brock-debate/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/never-rest-on-your-credentials-bugle-weekly-episode-55/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/bitcoin-is-like-prison-with-junseth-behind-the-podcast-episode-13/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/bugle-easter-special-bugle-weekly-episode-56/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/the-coremunists-vs-the-knotzis-bugle-weekly-episode-59/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/satarize-the-system-and-samourai-wallet-with-frank-corva-zack-shapiro-jeremy-poley-and-the/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/spamming-vegas-livestream-with-fundamentals-and-erin-redwing/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/monitoring-the-situation-bugle-weekly-episode-65/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/grumpy-with-a-cause-bugle-weekly-episode-67/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/broccolispace-media-with-charlie-spears-btp-episode-19/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/boomers-sacrificing-to-moloch-bugle-weekly-episode-68/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/back-in-the-saddle-podcasting-again-bugle-weekly-episode-71/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/predicting-bitcoins-future-with-paul-sports-btp-episode-27/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/year-in-review-bugle-weekly-episode-91/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/2026-starts-with-a-bang-bugle-weekly-episode-92/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/integrating-podcasts-into-your-life-with-meditation-man-intellectual-silk-road-episode-4/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/the-dawn-of-the-1st-turning-bugle-weekly-episode-93/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/a-cold-rowdy-winter-bugle-weekly-episode-94/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/the-truth-has-consequences-bugle-weekly-episode-95/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/in-the-midst-of-madness-bugle-weekly-episode-102/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/hard-lessons-for-plebs-bugle-weekly-episode-103/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/how-to-win-maxi-madness-with-rev-hodl-isr-5/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/podcasters-crashing-out-bugle-weekly-episode-105/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/happy-pleb-pride-month-bugle-weekly-episode-111/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/white-goy-summer-headwinds-bugle-weekly-episode-112/bundle.json +--- + +> *Henry's note: rebuilt from the beat index — 65 beats across 28 episodes, coverage COMPLETE. The old page was a mechanical mention-list and is gone.* + +The Bugleverse's **designated credentialed antagonist**: a former Block / Cash App +executive — "Jack Dorsey's right hand man," in [[characters/richard-greaser|Richard +Greaser]]'s framing[^rightman] — who lost the weight, lost the job, and re-emerged +as a Substack essayist styling himself a "reluctant Cassandra" narrating the fourth +turning to paying subscribers. He is the man the show sat across a table from once +and has never stopped debating since. + +He is never a guest. He is a **foil** — the one recurring outsider the Bugle uses as +a fixed reference point, whether as the villain of the debate that put the podcast on +the map, the benchmark for unproductive grouchiness, or a literal unit of measurement +for how much a given troll would upset him. By 2026 the show has stopped arguing with +his ideas and simply invokes his name. + +**In it with:** [[characters/richard-greaser|Richard Greaser]] · [[characters/rod-palmer|Rod Palmer]] · [[characters/fundamentals|Fundamentals]] · [[characters/pledditor|Pledditor]] · [[characters/jack-dorsey|Jack Dorsey]] · [[characters/peter-mccormack|Peter McCormack]] · [[characters/junseth|Junseth]] · [[characters/curtis-yarvin|Curtis Yarvin]] · [[characters/ayn-rand|Ayn Rand]] · [[characters/donald-trump|Donald Trump]] + +**Arc:** [[storylines/richard-greaser-philosopher]] · [[storylines/40-hours-per-week]] · [[storylines/pleb-slop-pulitzer-prize-pieces]] · [[storylines/white-goy-summer]] + +## First contact: White Dudes for Harris (2024) + +Brock enters the record in October 2024 as a diagnosis. Rod, told a rumor that "Mike +Brock is the leader of white guys for Harris,"[^harris] blames the politics on Ozempic +— seventy to eighty pounds lost with zero muscle mass — and notes the man no longer +works for Cash App or Block. The verdict is put more bluntly a few cues later: "I think +Ozapic made him retarded."[^harris] He is filed with the [[orgs/cypherpunks-for-kamala-harris|Cypherpunks +for Kamala Harris]] wing and [[characters/dennis-porter|Dennis Porter]] as a specimen +of the statist Bitcoiner. + +A month later he is already a byword for company one does not keep. Accused by a booster +of secretly being a White Dude for Harris, Greaser rules it impossible: to be one would +mean "hang out with [[characters/terrence-yang|Terrence]] and Mike Brock in the same +room."[^room] The following winter Rod casts him and [[characters/pledditor|Pledditor]] +as the Muppets' balcony hecklers at [[events/the-bugles|The Bugles]] — Statler and +Waldorf, "sitting up in the balcony" counting impeachable offenses[^balcony] — the first +sketch of the pair as professional disapprovers. + +## The debate (April 2025) + +The relationship's founding event is the [[episodes/richard-greaser-vs-mike-brock-debate|Richard +Greaser Vs. Mike Brock Debate]]. Its origin, by Greaser's own account, is petty: he told +Brock he "didn't have a valid opinion because he didn't listen to forty hours of Bitcoin +podcast a week. And that upset him on Twitter,"[^origin] and Brock challenged him to +settle it live. The debate ran on Brock's own new format, Counterpoint — "my first episode +of of Counterpoint, a live coherent series"[^counterpoint] — a challenge show run through +his Substack, *Notes From The Circus*, on which Greaser was the inaugural guest. +Greaser previewed the event with characteristic effort — he would "get my wife to set +it up on my type writer before," adding "I'm not entirely sure what we are debating." + +> "I'm debating Mike Brock tonight on Substack at 7pm PT. Not sure how Substack works." — [@GreaserRichard, 2025-04-10](https://x.com/GreaserRichard/status/1910419734887358895) + + + +First contact set the tone. Brock arrived to discover his opponent masked and voice-modulated: +"I wasn't expecting you to be, in a mask and and and with the audio distorted."[^mask] +Greaser's reply — "Well, this is just me, dude" — is the canonical statement of his +anonymity. + +Brock came with a thesis, drawn from his essay *Clear Thinking v Bitcoin Cult*: maximalism +had ceased to be a monetary argument and become "a secular cult. It has prophets. It has +sacred texts. It has moral hierarchies,"[^cult] with hyperbitcoinization as its eschatology. +Greaser declined to meet it. Instead he cast the debate as fiction and assigned the parts — +"I'm the hero of a Ayn Rand novel, and you're the the villain of a Ayn Rand novel"[^rand] — +handing Brock the role of Ellsworth Toohey from *The Fountainhead*, which Brock accepted. +The argument that most preoccupied Greaser was whether Brock could "judge the difference +between an MPC and a sentient being"[^npc] — the ASR's "MPC" for NPC — a question he asked +four times and Brock finally refused: "I don't consider any human beings MPCs. That's stupid." + +The one moment the bit met a real cost came over cigarettes. Greaser, whose supplement stack +is "I smoke cigarettes. That's what I do,"[^cigs] declared smoking good for you; Brock +answered with his father — "it killed my father… my father was a chain smoker, and it +destroyed his heart"[^father] — and Greaser rode straight past it into a claim that banning +cigarettes had sent cancer rates "through the roof." Elsewhere the mismatch was played for +farce. Brock, who had promised he'd "methodically and rigorously deconstructed" the Austrian +economists, begged for a serious critique and received one line: "Well, Austria's Austria's +a pretty cool country."[^austria] He also broke and counted the running gag out loud — +"I've heard you say this, like, 20 times now"[^count] — and lodged a grievance that +[[orgs/the-bugle|the Bugle]]'s own coverage had put him "in late stage Trump derangement +syndrome," which Greaser blamed on unnamed other writers.[^tds] Greaser scored cleanly only +once, springing a tipping-at-black-owned-restaurants trap Brock walked into whole: "if you +tipped more, you'd be racist… I applaud you, Mike."[^tip] His final read on the whole +mismatch was that he simply couldn't look at Brock "and not see Corey Clipston" — the ASR's +[[characters/cory-klippsten|Cory Klippsten]], offered as a jab rather than a claim of shared +history.[^klippsten] + +## The defrocking (April–August 2025) + +The show declared victory for months. On [[episodes/never-rest-on-your-credentials-bugle-weekly-episode-55|Never +Rest On Your Credentials]] Greaser crystallized the Randian frame into a self-mythology: +Brock "was like an Ellsworth Toohey type character from the Fountainhead… and I I'm being +the John Galt of journalism."[^galt] The credential was inflated to "one of the premier +journalists in the world… Jack Dorsey's right hand man,"[^rightman] so that his refusal to +listen became a condemnation of Dorsey's whole product line. Rod met Brock's story about +his father's cancer with the [[memes/40hpw|40 hours per week]] doctrine's coldest line — +"there's a sovereign way to have cancer"[^sovereign] — generalized the loss into a law ( +[[characters/dave-smith|Dave Smith]] beat "Douglas K. Murray" the same way, because Murray +"rested on his credentials"[^murray]), and prescribed the cure: read Atlas Shrugged twice a +year, which Greaser noted the unemployed Brock had ample time for.[^atlas] +[[characters/fundamentals|Fundamentals]] boosted 21,000 sats to canonize the creed — the +future is 40HPW, and "overeducated influencers who refuse to do it will be vanquished"[^fundboost] +— and a booster christened Greaser "the great degreaser" for beating a man who was "like a +two legged stool."[^degreaser] + +The debrief tour continued. [[characters/junseth|Junseth]] reviewed the tape and ruled Brock +wrong on a technicality of theology — "Bitcoiners don't believe the world ends at +hyperbitcoinization"[^junseth] because it is a beginning, not an end — while enjoying "the +many times that you guys talked past each other." On the [[episodes/bugle-easter-special-bugle-weekly-episode-56|Easter +Special]] the debate was already settled canon, the type specimen of the expert who "just +scoff[s] at you like Mike Brock did to me."[^scoff] By August, Fundamentals could invoke +"the Mike Brock defrocking"[^defrocking] as a fixed benchmark against which a Greaser solo +episode was measured, needing no explanation at all. + +## A unit of measurement + +Through mid-2025 Brock detaches from the debate and becomes a reusable reference. The +trucker-philosopher [[characters/haulin-sats|Haulin Sats]] disclaims all pretension by +disclaiming him — "I'm no Mike Brock. The answer is that Bitcoin doesn't care."[^haulin] +Jeremy Poley scores an RFK-legalizes-cigarettes fantasy purely by how much it would upset +him — "Mike Brock kryptonite… a triple folded sandwich"[^kryptonite] — treating Brock as a +quantity rather than a person. When a rumor breaks mid-livestream that "Mike Brock has been +spotted at the Venetian,"[^venetian] the show's instant response is an intervention plan: +donate a copy of Atlas Shrugged (or Fountainhead, "acceptable as well"), have Greaser +autograph it at [[events/satirize-the-system|Satirize the System]], and deliver it to +Brock.[^intervention] Fundamentals concedes the whole cigarettes-and-forty-hours prescription +"is a troll. However, those things would probably benefit him greatly,"[^troll] because Brock +"doesn't have enough entropy." + +He also becomes the benchmark grouch. Greaser and Rod repeatedly bracket [[characters/pledditor|Pledditor]] +with Brock — Pledditor is "the gold standard of how to be unproductive," and "Mike Brock is +too"[^goldstandard] — but the two are split on redemption: Pledditor "still has his keys and +cold stor[age]" and will be alright, whereas Brock is the one who gave up Bitcoin +entirely.[^twogrouches] That is the charge that hardens into a verdict on +[[episodes/boomers-sacrificing-to-moloch-bugle-weekly-episode-68|Boomers Sacrificing to +Moloch]]: crypto people don't want to dismantle the Fed, they love it,[^fed] and Brock "gave +himself Bitcoin derangement syndrome, and now he is a soldier for the… sacrifice to Moloch. +You hate to see it."[^moloch] + +## The reluctant Cassandra (2026) + +The 2026 arc is Brock as the show's designated case study in crashing out. His self-styling is +the hook: Rod reports he "started calling himself a reluctant Cassandra"[^cassandra] whose +subscribers pay to have the fourth turning narrated to them, and Greaser introduces +[[characters/paul-sports|Paul Sports]] by the contrast — Brock only *calls* himself a reluctant +Cassandra, whereas Sports actually is one.[^sports] On [[episodes/year-in-review-bugle-weekly-episode-91|Year +In Review]] the debate is named a "tipping point" that put the podcast "in the spotlight big +time,"[^tipping] and Greaser reports the state of the feud: "I'm still blocked by Mike +Brock,"[^blocked] who never published the video and behaves as though it never happened. +Greaser's read on why Brock believes himself a great philosopher is that he "curate[s] people +in his life that will glaze him"[^glaze] — later upgraded to a diagnosis of "ChatGPT +psychosis," a chatbot flattering him into a full disconnect from reality.[^chatgpt] + +The essays themselves become the target. Brock is invoked as the plebslop attention economy +in one man — "how many people have died and Mike Brock hasn't written an essay about +them?"[^essays] — and prescribed "more BitChat posts from Mike Brock and fewer essays about +Forrest Gump."[^bitchat] His output is quantified at "77 essays this weekend," announced with +"I make no apologies for the intensity of the pros that I'm using,"[^crashout] and read as a +man who "blames everybody but himself."[^blame] The show tracks his booking troubles too: +he wanted to debate [[characters/peter-mccormack|Peter McCormack]], who "said, no. I'm not +interested,"[^mccormack1] and McCormack is praised specifically for the way "he just turned +his nose up to Mike Brock. Mike Brock was begging Peter to have him on his podcast."[^mccormack2] +He is slated for a [[orgs/podconf|Podkoff]] "Super Bowl" card against +[[characters/curtis-yarvin|Curtis Yarvin]].[^yarvin] + +The arc peaks with his own turn to journalism. In June 2026 Brock "announced earlier this week +that Donald Trump was dead," claiming AI voices had been negotiating with Iran, and then walked +it back[^trumpdead] — slotting him into the show's roll of podcasters who found that being a +credentialed journalist is harder than it looks, "similar to [[characters/nico|Nikko]] from +Simply Bitcoin and [[characters/will-foxley|Will Foxley]]."[^journalist] + +## The feed + +If the transcripts are where the show argued with Brock, the Bugle's X accounts are +where it stopped arguing and started filing. Across roughly ninety posts split between +[@rodpalmerhodl](https://x.com/rodpalmerhodl), [@GreaserRichard](https://x.com/GreaserRichard) +and [@bitcoin_bugle](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle), Brock is the wiki's most-covered +outsider — treated less as a person than as a standing beat. + +### The essay machine + +The dominant thread is volume. Brock's Substack output is reported as a weather system +that never clears: Rod notes the man "saw his shadow today which means six more weeks of +crash out essays," and blames the supply on his antagonist — Trump, in Rod's reading, +"just guaranteed us a bountiful harvest of new mike brock essays." + +> "mike brock saw his shadow today which means six more weeks of crash out essays" — [@rodpalmerhodl, 2026-02-02](https://x.com/rodpalmerhodl/status/2018425733333315757) + +<video controls preload="none" poster="/tweets/2011918505239584904-poster.jpg" src="/tweets/2011918505239584904.mp4" style="width:100%;max-width:620px;border-radius:10px;display:block;margin:.5rem 0;"></video> + +The essays are counted like ordnance — 1,000 pledged "to defeat Trump in Minnesota," up +to 5,000 "to stop Donald Trump from annexing" Greenland — and the [[orgs/the-bugle|Bugle]]'s +own headline fixes their invariant thesis: the man releases "Dozen New Essays Detailing Why +Everyone Else Is to Blame." + + + +Rod dates the "essay era" by its precedent — before it, "[[characters/roger-ver|roger ver]] +wrote an entire book of crash out cope" — and stakes his own authority on sheer consumption. + +> "oh, you've read a few academic papers on the matter? cute. i have read over 100000 mike brock essays." — [@rodpalmerhodl, 2026-01-19](https://x.com/rodpalmerhodl/status/2013312850257678342) + +The subject matter is catalogued with a straight face: an exclusive essay on *Forrest Gump* +released free for Christmas, a blog piece "On Narcissism," a resurfacing on Nostr "to glaze +John Maynard Keynes," and one entry that "glazes Dilbert but censures Dilbert's creator, Scott +Adams." Henry notes the throughput is the joke — the position is downstream of the wordcount. + +### The self-glaze + +The show's second fixation is Brock's relationship with his own reflection. The Bugle reports +the surgical extreme of it — the subject is "having ribs removed so he can glaze himself" — and +files the readership problem it creates in the same deadpan wire style. + + + +> "Mike Brock Assures Critics His Essays Are Massively Popular With People Who Can't Respond" — [@bitcoin_bugle, 2026-01-28](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/2016570960434880759) + +Rod reduces the whole corpus to two recurring subjects: "1. how much smarter he is than everyone +else 2. how brave he is." Greaser, refusing the cheap insult, performs an upgrade the Bugle then +wields as if it were a masthead credential — promoting "Sophisticated Philosopher Mike Brock" and +"Sophisticated Blogger Mike Brock" with no wink at all. + +> "Mike Brock is not a retard. He is a sophisticated philosopher" — [@GreaserRichard, 2025-12-03](https://x.com/GreaserRichard/status/1996018960693952655) + +The cumulative diagnosis is Greaser's, and it doubles as the thread's thesis: the archive is a +place you go to feel better about your own week. + +> "If you're ever having a bad day, go to Mike Brock's twitter account and scroll. He's having a worse day" — [@GreaserRichard, 2026-02-25](https://x.com/GreaserRichard/status/2026799452569076215) + +### Crashing out to save democracy + +The political register is the same crash-out under a different flag. The [[memes/40hpw|TDS]] +first surfaces as a health bulletin — "good news. mike brock is now seeing doctors about his +tds" — and Rod locates the ideology precisely by cross-breeding two of the show's enemies. + +> "imagine knotzis but with the politics of liz cheney. that's what its like arguing with mike brock" — [@rodpalmerhodl, 2025-12-02](https://x.com/rodpalmerhodl/status/1995999771320869366) + +The Bugle stages the crash-out as live theatre — "Mike Brock is crashing out to save Democracy. +Coming to Las Vegas April 28th LIVE," which corroborates the in-transcript Venetian sighting — and +catalogues the platform: a 10,000-word rebuke of a Trump post, condemnations of an ICE shooting and +of [[characters/dennis-porter|Dennis Porter]]'s insufficient announcements, and a thesis reducible +to one Bugle headline. + +> "Mike Brock Claims War Could Have Been Averted If Americans Had Voted Harder" — [@bitcoin_bugle, 2026-02-28](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/2027764087912866035) + +The same feud fuels his [[events/maxi-madness|Maxi Madness]] run — the Bugle reports him "upset +about the results" — and the promised Vegas card against [[characters/curtis-yarvin|Yarvin]], which +Greaser calls before the bell. + +> "Mike Brock is going to save democracy in Vegas. @curtis_yarvin is going to get smoked." — [@GreaserRichard, 2026-04-16](https://x.com/GreaserRichard/status/2044583964245893449) + +### Journalist vs. blogger + +The oldest grievance — the credential — survives as a one-line refrain, and the founding sin +(refusing to listen) is still the whole indictment. + +> "I'm a journalist. Mike Brock is a blogger" — [@GreaserRichard, 2025-12-03](https://x.com/GreaserRichard/status/1996062759948038203) + +> "Mike Brock continues to look dumb for being unwilling to listen to Bitcoin podcasts" — [@GreaserRichard, 2025-12-01](https://x.com/GreaserRichard/status/1995561468373422104) + +The [[characters/peter-mccormack|McCormack]] booking saga gets its most vivid gloss on the feed: +Brock allegedly "'poked' Peter McCormack on Facebook over 700 times" to secure a debate the +Briton had already declined. + + + +And when Brock is barred from X's "For You" tab, Rod stages a solidarity he plainly does not feel +— "I stand with @brockm against censorship… pardon Mike Brock" — even as Greaser lists him first +among the accounts that have blocked *him*. On the wire, the antagonist is load-bearing: the Bugle +needs Brock crashing out as badly as Brock needs a Trump post to crash out about. + +## Note on the name + +The ASR is unreliable on him. Across the corpus he appears as **Mike Dirac, Mike Rock, Mike +Brown, Mike Brocke, Michael Brock, Mike Barack** and **Michael Rush**; the `aliases:` carry +these so a future name-match pass does not lose beats the way it would otherwise. Note also +that the grouch he is repeatedly paired with, "Platter" / "clatter," is +[[characters/pledditor|Pledditor]] — a distinct person from [[characters/matt-odell|Matt +Odell]], and never to be merged with him. + +> irl: Mike Brock is a real former Block / TBD executive who left the company and now writes +> the Substack *Notes From the Circus* — which is why the satire can treat his career pivot, +> and his essays, as established canon. + +[^harris]: [[transcripts/is-saylor-a-spook-bugle-weekly-episode-31#t-3933|Bugle Weekly 31 @ 1:05:33]] — "I heard a rumor that Mike Brock is the leader of white guys for Harris?"; Rod's verdict "I think Ozapic made him retarded" ("Ozapic" is the ASR's Ozempic) lands at [[transcripts/is-saylor-a-spook-bugle-weekly-episode-31#t-3945|1:05:45]]. +[^room]: [[transcripts/selection-autopsy-bugle-weekly-episode-34#t-3753|Bugle Weekly 34 @ 1:02:33]] — Greaser rebuts the "White Dudes for Harris" accusation against Rod; the booster's original charge at t-3714 is a slur and is not quoted here. +[^balcony]: [[transcripts/40-hours-per-week-bugle-weekly-episode-45#t-2974|Bugle Weekly 45 @ 49:34]] — "an honor to have Platter and Mike Brock… sitting up in the balcony." ASR renders Statler and Waldorf as "the Mothicks"; "Platter" is Pledditor. +[^origin]: [[transcripts/never-rest-on-your-credentials-bugle-weekly-episode-55#t-921|Bugle Weekly 55 @ 15:21]]. +[^counterpoint]: [[transcripts/richard-greaser-vs-mike-brock-debate#t-1746|Greaser Vs. Brock Debate @ 29:06]] — "a live coherent series" is likely ASR for "a live coherence series." The project runs through his Substack, *Notes From The Circus*. +[^mask]: [[transcripts/richard-greaser-vs-mike-brock-debate#t-1628|Greaser Vs. Brock Debate @ 27:08]]; Greaser's reply "Well, this is just me, dude" at [[transcripts/richard-greaser-vs-mike-brock-debate#t-1636|27:16]]. +[^cult]: [[transcripts/richard-greaser-vs-mike-brock-debate#t-1929|Greaser Vs. Brock Debate @ 32:09]]; Brock names the essay at t-1850 and locates a "fascist aesthetic" in the back half of Saifedean Ammous's *The Bitcoin Standard* at t-1993. +[^rand]: [[transcripts/richard-greaser-vs-mike-brock-debate#t-2354|Greaser Vs. Brock Debate @ 39:14]]; Brock accepts the Ellsworth Toohey role — "I'm Ellsworth" — at [[transcripts/richard-greaser-vs-mike-brock-debate#t-2375|39:35]]. +[^npc]: [[transcripts/richard-greaser-vs-mike-brock-debate#t-2937|Greaser Vs. Brock Debate @ 48:57]] — ASR writes NPC as "MPC" throughout; Brock's refusal at [[transcripts/richard-greaser-vs-mike-brock-debate#t-3082|51:22]]. +[^cigs]: [[transcripts/richard-greaser-vs-mike-brock-debate#t-258|Greaser Vs. Brock Debate @ 4:18]]; on the same footing, "Substack is, like, where the betas hang out" at [[transcripts/richard-greaser-vs-mike-brock-debate#t-573|9:33]]. +[^father]: [[transcripts/richard-greaser-vs-mike-brock-debate#t-2463|Greaser Vs. Brock Debate @ 41:03]] — answering Greaser's claim that banning cigarettes sent cancer rates "through the roof" (t-2458). +[^austria]: [[transcripts/richard-greaser-vs-mike-brock-debate#t-5445|Greaser Vs. Brock Debate @ 1:30:45]]; Brock's boast that he'd "methodically and rigorously deconstructed Mises and Rothbard" at t-2195. +[^count]: [[transcripts/richard-greaser-vs-mike-brock-debate#t-5346|Greaser Vs. Brock Debate @ 1:29:06]] — Brock counters by asking why Greaser doesn't listen to forty hours of Pod Save America (t-5365). +[^tds]: [[transcripts/richard-greaser-vs-mike-brock-debate#t-4203|Greaser Vs. Brock Debate @ 1:10:03]] — "bugle muse" is ASR for Bugle News; Greaser: "we we have a lot of writers at the Bugle." +[^tip]: [[transcripts/richard-greaser-vs-mike-brock-debate#t-5567|Greaser Vs. Brock Debate @ 1:32:47]]; the line is Greaser's, mis-diarized into Brock's cue; "I applaud you, Mike" at [[transcripts/richard-greaser-vs-mike-brock-debate#t-5576|1:32:56]]. +[^klippsten]: [[transcripts/richard-greaser-vs-mike-brock-debate#t-6347|Greaser Vs. Brock Debate @ 1:45:47]] — medium confidence; ASR "Corey Clipston," a visual jab resting on Brock volunteering his love of LA at t-1723, not a claim about Klippsten. +[^galt]: [[transcripts/never-rest-on-your-credentials-bugle-weekly-episode-55#t-1060|Bugle Weekly 55 @ 17:40]] — ASR "Ein Rand" for Ayn Rand. +[^rightman]: [[transcripts/never-rest-on-your-credentials-bugle-weekly-episode-55#t-1429|Bugle Weekly 55 @ 23:49]]. +[^sovereign]: [[transcripts/never-rest-on-your-credentials-bugle-weekly-episode-55#t-1650|Bugle Weekly 55 @ 27:30]] — Rod invokes [[characters/jack-kruse|Jack Kruse]] podcasts (ASR "Jack Cruz"/"Jack Crews"). +[^murray]: [[transcripts/never-rest-on-your-credentials-bugle-weekly-episode-55#t-2205|Bugle Weekly 55 @ 36:45]] — Douglas K. Murray, beaten by [[characters/dave-smith|Dave Smith]] on Rogan; Murray has no page. +[^atlas]: [[transcripts/never-rest-on-your-credentials-bugle-weekly-episode-55#t-2996|Bugle Weekly 55 @ 49:56]] — ASR renders Atlas Shrugged as "Alice Shrugged" (cf. the in-universe [[characters/alice-shrugged|Alice Shrugged]] parody); Rod notes Brock is unemployed at t-3024. +[^fundboost]: [[transcripts/never-rest-on-your-credentials-bugle-weekly-episode-55#t-4448|Bugle Weekly 55 @ 1:14:08]] — a 21,000-sat boost; "the features" at t-4456 is ASR for "the future is." +[^degreaser]: [[transcripts/never-rest-on-your-credentials-bugle-weekly-episode-55#t-5160|Bugle Weekly 55 @ 1:26:00]] — booster "Pies"; the two-legged-stool line at t-5191. +[^junseth]: [[transcripts/bitcoin-is-like-prison-with-junseth-behind-the-podcast-episode-13#t-3122|BTP 13 @ 52:02]]; Junseth's verdict on the debate ("I enjoyed the many times that you guys talked past each other") at t-3088. +[^scoff]: [[transcripts/bugle-easter-special-bugle-weekly-episode-56#t-1330|Bugle Weekly 56 @ 22:10]]. +[^defrocking]: [[transcripts/back-in-the-saddle-podcasting-again-bugle-weekly-episode-71#t-3899|Bugle Weekly 71 @ 1:04:59]] — a Fundamentals boost naming "the Mike Brock defrocking" as a benchmark. +[^haulin]: [[transcripts/the-coremunists-vs-the-knotzis-bugle-weekly-episode-59#t-149|Bugle Weekly 59 @ 2:29]] — [[characters/haulin-sats|Haulin Sats]], ASR "Holland Satz." +[^kryptonite]: [[transcripts/satarize-the-system-and-samourai-wallet-with-frank-corva-zack-shapiro-jeremy-poley-and-the#t-344|Satirize the System @ 5:44]] — "Mike brought Kryptonite" is ASR for "Mike Brock kryptonite"; the speaker is Jeremy Poley, who has no page. +[^venetian]: [[transcripts/spamming-vegas-livestream-with-fundamentals-and-erin-redwing#t-2405|Spamming Vegas Livestream @ 40:05]]. +[^intervention]: [[transcripts/spamming-vegas-livestream-with-fundamentals-and-erin-redwing#t-2484|Spamming Vegas Livestream @ 41:24]]; Rod allows Fountainhead "as well" at t-2496 and Greaser argues it is the better gift at t-2511. +[^troll]: [[transcripts/spamming-vegas-livestream-with-fundamentals-and-erin-redwing#t-2745|Spamming Vegas Livestream @ 45:45]] — [[characters/fundamentals|Fundamentals]]; the "not enough entropy" diagnosis at t-2731. +[^goldstandard]: [[transcripts/grumpy-with-a-cause-bugle-weekly-episode-67#t-2787|Bugle Weekly 67 @ 46:27]] — "Mike Brock is too" at t-2793; ASR "platter" is Pledditor. Cf. the earlier pairing at [[transcripts/monitoring-the-situation-bugle-weekly-episode-65#t-3123|Bugle Weekly 65 @ 52:03]] (medium confidence). +[^twogrouches]: [[transcripts/boomers-sacrificing-to-moloch-bugle-weekly-episode-68#t-2050|Bugle Weekly 68 @ 34:10]] — ASR "Pleditor," "cold stories" for cold storage; the naming cue "Pleditor and Mike Brock" at t-2048. +[^fed]: [[transcripts/boomers-sacrificing-to-moloch-bugle-weekly-episode-68#t-847|Bugle Weekly 68 @ 14:07]]. +[^moloch]: [[transcripts/boomers-sacrificing-to-moloch-bugle-weekly-episode-68#t-2089|Bugle Weekly 68 @ 34:49]]; Greaser's "pleading with people to sacrifice their children to Moloch" at t-2081. +[^cassandra]: [[transcripts/broccolispace-media-with-charlie-spears-btp-episode-19#t-3095|BTP 19 @ 51:35]] — medium confidence; Rod adds subscribers pay "$30 a month to let Mike Brock narrate the foreturning" (ASR: fourth turning) at t-3149. +[^sports]: [[transcripts/predicting-bitcoins-future-with-paul-sports-btp-episode-27#t-55|BTP 27 @ 0:55]] — "Mike Brock refers to himself as a reluctant Cassandra, but Paul Sports" (t-51). +[^tipping]: [[transcripts/year-in-review-bugle-weekly-episode-91#t-944|Bugle Weekly 91 @ 15:44]] — "I debated Mike Brock"; Rod's "tipping point" assessment at t-962. ASR "Mike Dirac" at t-1010. +[^blocked]: [[transcripts/year-in-review-bugle-weekly-episode-91#t-1721|Bugle Weekly 91 @ 28:41]]. +[^glaze]: [[transcripts/year-in-review-bugle-weekly-episode-91#t-1231|Bugle Weekly 91 @ 20:31]]. +[^chatgpt]: [[transcripts/integrating-podcasts-into-your-life-with-meditation-man-intellectual-silk-road-episode-4#t-1240|ISR 4 @ 20:40]] — completes at t-1245 ("CHAT GPT psychosis"); the guest performs the glazing ("You're absolutely right, Brock. That's brilliant, Brock") at t-1268, medium confidence. +[^essays]: [[transcripts/a-cold-rowdy-winter-bugle-weekly-episode-94#t-365|Bugle Weekly 94 @ 6:05]]. +[^bitchat]: [[transcripts/the-dawn-of-the-1st-turning-bugle-weekly-episode-93#t-2899|Bugle Weekly 93 @ 48:19]] — Greaser notes at t-2865 that Brock "doesn't have Dorsey derangement syndrome yet." +[^crashout]: [[transcripts/in-the-midst-of-madness-bugle-weekly-episode-102#t-2273|Bugle Weekly 102 @ 37:53]] — "pros" is ASR for prose (t-2319); Brock also appears in the stay-humble indictment at t-2132 and as the "blames everybody but himself" archetype at t-2333. +[^blame]: [[transcripts/in-the-midst-of-madness-bugle-weekly-episode-102#t-2333|Bugle Weekly 102 @ 38:53]]. +[^mccormack1]: [[transcripts/the-dawn-of-the-1st-turning-bugle-weekly-episode-93#t-874|Bugle Weekly 93 @ 14:34]] — ASR "Peter McCormick," "Mike Rock" in the same cue. +[^mccormack2]: [[transcripts/the-truth-has-consequences-bugle-weekly-episode-95#t-3328|Bugle Weekly 95 @ 55:28]] — part of the show's on-record McCormack exception (t-3288). +[^yarvin]: [[transcripts/podcasters-crashing-out-bugle-weekly-episode-105#t-2419|Bugle Weekly 105 @ 40:19]] — ASR "Podkoff" for PodConf; the card at t-2426. +[^trumpdead]: [[transcripts/white-goy-summer-headwinds-bugle-weekly-episode-112#t-1492|Bugle Weekly 112 @ 24:52]] — ASR also gives "Mike Barack" and "Michael Rush." +[^journalist]: [[transcripts/white-goy-summer-headwinds-bugle-weekly-episode-112#t-1545|Bugle Weekly 112 @ 25:45]] — "Nikko" is ASR for [[characters/nico|Nico]] of Simply Bitcoin; "for Blackface" for [[characters/will-foxley|Will Foxley]]'s outlet Blockspace.