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diff --git a/wiki/characters/piez.md b/wiki/characters/piez.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..400a7dd5 @@ -0,0 +1,117 @@ +--- +title: Piez +type: character +status: confirmed +card: + id: inf-50 + tier: 3 + class: Economics + role: Mid + hp: 94 + atk: 30 +portrait: /portraits/inf-50.webp +aliases: + - Pies + - Pius + - Pai + - Pai's + - Pye + - Pyz + - Pipes + - Pods + - Pfizer +sources: + - "raw/cards/roster.json#inf-50" + - raw/episodes/selection-autopsy-bugle-weekly-episode-34/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/the-first-responders-and-compliance-salesmen-bugle-weekly-episode-38/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/satoshi-is-jewish-behind-the-podcast-episode-3/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 + - raw/episodes/fixing-the-cias-incentives-with-frank-corva-behind-the-podcast-episode-9/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/fix-the-world-one-bitcoin-podcast-at-a-time-with-the-broken-ruler-behind-the-podcast-episo/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/dont-tell-me-where-to-meme-with-yellow-behind-the-podcast-episode-11/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/the-revolution-wont-have-good-ux-bugle-weekly-episode-50/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/let-the-festivities-begin-bugle-weekly-episode-51/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/is-good-ux-counter-revolutionary-behind-the-podcast-episode-12/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/bitcoin-is-like-prison-with-junseth-behind-the-podcast-episode-13/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/canada-needs-40hpw-with-joey-temprile-behind-the-podcast-episode-15/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/pressure-creates-good-ux-with-evan-kaloudis-btp-episode-18/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/boomers-sacrificing-to-moloch-bugle-weekly-episode-68/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/the-orange-pill-is-not-ozempic-bugle-weekly-episode-69/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/pioneering-v4v-music-with-open-mike-btp-episode-21/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/pioneers-run-economic-nodes-bugle-weekly-episode-74/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/a-renaissance-man-intellectual-silk-road-episode-1/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/be-a-good-example-bugle-weekly-episode-78/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/predicting-bitcoins-future-with-paul-sports-btp-episode-27/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/pleb-is-the-new-n-word-bugle-weekly-episode-98/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/behave-or-benjamin-netanyahu-bugle-weekly-episode-99/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/white-goy-summer-headwinds-bugle-weekly-episode-112/bundle.json +--- + +> *Henry's note: rebuilt from the beat index — 28 beats across 25 episodes, coverage COMPLETE. It was a stub until now.* + +**Piez** is a listener promoted to cast. He never hosts and rarely speaks; he exists on the show almost entirely as a Fountain boost being read aloud, and out of those boosts the Bugle built its patron saint of [[storylines/40-hours-per-week|40 Hours Per Week]] — the man held up, week after week, as the hardest-working Bitcoin podcast listener alive. He is the show's number-one booster, its number-one sales guy, an ex-con orange-pilled in prison, and a walking advertisement for the redemption the hosts are selling. The Automatic Speech Recognition never once spells him right; across all 25 episodes he is "Pies." + +## The first responder + +His first attested boost is a boycott: he "refuse[s] to listen to Simply Bitcoin because they have the Compass mining cons as a sponsor,"[^compass] which the hosts fold into their standing "that's just their job" defense of [[companies/compass-mining|Compass Mining]]. But the character proper is minted three episodes later, when [[characters/rod-palmer|Rod Palmer]] canonizes him against [[characters/dennis-porter|Dennis Porter]]: "The way that Dennis Porter is a front is a first responder to news, Pies is the first responder to Bitcoin podcast."[^firstresponder] [[characters/richard-greaser|Richard Greaser]] backs it — nobody is as dedicated, and "every every time you listen to an intellectual Silk Road episode, you see Pies boosting"[^dedicated] — and Piez is put up for first responder of the year at the coming award show. + +From there the titles accumulate. He is "the MVP of Bitcoin podcast listeners,"[^prestige] "MVP, like number one Bitcoin podcast listener,"[^mvp] and — certified by Greaser as plain fact during a boost read — "probably the most prolific Bitcoin podcast listener" of all time.[^prolific] A guest ranks him against the greats: "Pies, he might actually be like the Jordan,"[^jordan] casting himself as the Pippen. The proof offered is always the speed: "a new episode comes out and he's listened to it and boosted within five minutes,"[^mvp] to the point that Rod theorizes he is "somehow slowing down time for himself and listening to more hours than are in a day."[^jordan] The doctrine acquires a missing piece of infrastructure in the process — if Fountain ever adds tracking for listening hours, "Pies will be the prestige king,"[^prestige] a leaderboard demanded specifically so that Piez can top it. + +## The boost + +His boosts follow a template: a small sat amount, a string of emoji, and a line of profanity. The emoji are treated as scripture. Reading "beers clinking, mushroom, strong-arm, cigarette,"[^code] Greaser decodes a "secret code" — cheers, the [[storylines/swan-bitcoin-scandals|Swan sex cult]]'s mushrooms, [[characters/lubka|Steven Lubka]] at the gym, the Bugle's cigarette — and reads the recurring 420 sats as "a signal to the having," the halving that fell on April 20.[^code] + +The sat amounts are habitually thin, which is itself a running item. [[characters/barnminer|Barnminer]] roasts a 100-sat boost live — "A 100 sats, dude, is kinda weak"[^weak] — and Rod defends it on volume: Piez "listens, and boosts every podcast on Fountain. If he boosted 10,000 SaaS to everyone, he would have to be as rich as [[characters/michael-saylor|Michael Sailor]]."[^weak] Barnminer relents: "I'll forgive him. Still weak, though."[^weak] The economy those sats belong to is cigarettes. When the guest Junseth asks the obvious question — "If Pies is spending all of his stats on, Bitcoin commentary, What is he using to buy cigarettes with?" — Rod answers that Piez is "doing 40 cigarettes per day,"[^cigs] folding him into the show's [[storylines/cigarette-money-donations|cigarette unit of account]]. + +## Orange-pilled in prison + +The lore underneath the numbers is a redemption story. Piez was, by his own boost, "orange peeling while in prison years ago,"[^prison] and his ADHD "led me down the path of criminal underworld, but it also became my superpower."[^adhd] The show treats this as its central sales pitch. Rod names him "probably our number one sales guy or marketing guy,"[^billboard] and states the recruiting mission outright: sign up ex-cons and the noncompliant and "make them our billboards for how forty hours per week sets you on the on the the straight and narrow."[^billboard] Greaser turns the testimony to doctrine: "If it can fix Pies, it can fix anyone."[^adhd] + +His listening is held up as the movement's visible accountability case — the man who "puts their accountability out there for everybody"[^odell] — and he is folded into the show's pioneer class by name, listed in a Labor Day roll call of honest laborers between [[characters/sly-goomba|Sly Goomba]] and the truck drivers.[^laborday] The one recorded tension is medical: told he had cut back from twenty hours of AirPods a day to two-to-four for his ear health, [[characters/timmy-tether|Timmy Tether]] warns he risks forfeiting the cauliflower ear that marks a serious listener,[^prison] and the following week he is back at forty — pulled in, the hosts say, by hearing them retell his own prison story.[^return] By the time [[characters/evan-kaloudis|Evan Kaloudis]] crowns him "the OG of 40 HPW,"[^og] Piez has boosted that he now has "the street cred to come back to forty hours a week, but without the hashtag anymore."[^og] + +## Crossing over + +The listener eventually becomes a guest. His first-ever interview is on Otis Bittmeyer's coffee show, Sound Coffee, and Greaser quotes his opening words: "Hi. I'm Pies the retard."[^interview] Rod pitches a follow-up recorded on the job, Piez "jackhammering in the background."[^interview] The appearance becomes, per Palmer, the "most controversial" episode of Sound Coffee,[^soundcoffee] paying off in a bit about whether Piez is more dangerous with caffeine or without. + +The peak of his recognition is external. When [[characters/matt-odell|Matt Odell]] acknowledges him on a Bugle episode, Piez boosts that he has "finally made it in Bitcoin space,"[^odellrecog] and Greaser turns it into practical advice for the rest of the audience: if you want Odell to know who you are, boost Citadel Dispatch and be active on Nostr.[^odellrecog] Piez also treats Bugle abuse as tribute — one of "the highlights of my life is being referred to as a thirst trap by the Bugle Boys"[^thirsttrap] — which prompts [[characters/mike-high-hashrate|Mike]] to reckon he must be doing "eighty hours per week," double the quota.[^thirsttrap] + +## Absence, and a successor + +Loyalty makes his silences newsworthy. A missing boost is logged as an item, with the hosts tracking a "Grumpy Boost" he left on a rival podcast instead — a cross-show boost personality now.[^grumpy] His prolific style draws a running gag that the [[orgs/knotzis|Knotzis]] will mistake him for a spammer and come for him.[^spam] When both he and another regular vanish from the boosts, Rod first blames pleb slop, then escalates to a deportation scare — "Did we lose pies to did he get deported by ICE?"[^ice] — which a listener files as persecution lore in a Niemöller boost, "First, they came for Dennis. It was silent. Now they'd come for Pies."[^niemoller] Rod confirms Piez surfaced in the group chats and was not deported, adding that prison had left him suited to an Amazon warehouse, where the work "would be a vacation for him."[^niemoller] By mid-2026 the seat is quietly reassigned: reading a new booster's line, Rod decides "I guess I'd use Silas as the new Pies,"[^silas] with Greaser signing off, "Hope Pies is doing okay. Miss you, buddy."[^silas] + +## Note on the name + +The ASR never spells him correctly. He is "Pies" in every episode, and elsewhere "Pius," "Pai," "Pai's," "Pye," "Pyz," "Pipes," and "Pods"; a boost read as "Pfizer for 420 sat" is Piez, not the drug company.[^code] Because the card canon lists him as **Piez**, that is the page; the spellings live in `aliases:` so the next pass does not lose him. The identifications above rest on context — the boosting, the emoji, the prison lore — rather than the spelling. + +> *Henry's note: the automated X-archive pull for this page, keyed off the `Pfizer` alias, returned sixteen posts across the [[orgs/the-bugle|@bitcoin_bugle]] feed and the [[characters/rod-palmer|@rodpalmerhodl]] and [[characters/richard-greaser|@GreaserRichard]] accounts — and not one is about Piez. Every hit is the Bugle's separate running pharma gag: Pfizer "accepts Bitcoin" for vaccines, a pill that "Makes Stupid People Stop Buying Memecoins And NFTs," record Viagra sales pinned to [[characters/dennis-porter|Dennis Porter]]'s fictional imprisonment, and the [[characters/dennis-porter|Porter]]-as-Pfizer-front bit where "PROTECT DENNIS PORTER!" is the punchline. That is the alias collision this section warns about, running the other direction: the ASR turned one of Piez's boosts into "Pfizer," and a text search for "Pfizer" then dredges up the drug company instead of the listener. Logging it here so a future pass does not mistake the pharma feed for his. His actual paper trail is the on-air boosts cited above, not the timeline.* + +> irl: "boosts" are Lightning-network micro-payments listeners attach to podcasts on the Fountain app; the Bugleverse reads real ones on air, which is how an actual audience member becomes a recurring character. + +[^compass]: [[transcripts/selection-autopsy-bugle-weekly-episode-34#t-3822|Bugle Weekly 34 @ 1:03:42]] — "the Compass mining cons" is the ASR's rendering; the boost is read as "Pies" / "Pi is the pep." +[^firstresponder]: [[transcripts/the-first-responders-and-compliance-salesmen-bugle-weekly-episode-38#t-3042|Bugle Weekly 38 @ 50:42]] — "Pies" = Piez. +[^dedicated]: [[transcripts/the-first-responders-and-compliance-salesmen-bugle-weekly-episode-38#t-3035|Bugle Weekly 38 @ 50:35]]. +[^prestige]: [[transcripts/the-revolution-wont-have-good-ux-bugle-weekly-episode-50#t-1639|Bugle Weekly 50 @ 27:19]]. +[^mvp]: [[transcripts/fixing-the-cias-incentives-with-frank-corva-behind-the-podcast-episode-9#t-4833|BTP 9 @ 1:20:33]]; the five-minute proof is Rod's at [[transcripts/fixing-the-cias-incentives-with-frank-corva-behind-the-podcast-episode-9#t-4847|1:20:47]]. +[^prolific]: [[transcripts/predicting-bitcoins-future-with-paul-sports-btp-episode-27#t-7809|BTP 27 @ 2:10:09]] — "of all time" follows in the next cue. +[^jordan]: [[transcripts/fix-the-world-one-bitcoin-podcast-at-a-time-with-the-broken-ruler-behind-the-podcast-episo#t-293|BTP 10 @ 4:53]]; Rod's "slowing down time" theory lands at [[transcripts/fix-the-world-one-bitcoin-podcast-at-a-time-with-the-broken-ruler-behind-the-podcast-episo#t-3878|1:04:38]]. +[^code]: [[transcripts/build-back-better-with-mike-behind-the-podcast-episode-7#t-5195|BTP 7 @ 1:26:35]]; the decode runs to [[transcripts/build-back-better-with-mike-behind-the-podcast-episode-7#t-5236|1:27:16]]. The same segment renders Piez as "Pfizer for 420 sat" at t-5159. +[^weak]: [[transcripts/protecting-your-daughters-from-breedloves-orange-pill-behind-the-podcast-episode-8#t-3911|BTP 8 @ 1:05:11]] — the first sentence is Piez's own boost text; Barnminer's verdict and Rod's defense follow through [[transcripts/protecting-your-daughters-from-breedloves-orange-pill-behind-the-podcast-episode-8#t-3949|1:05:49]]. "SaaS" = sats, "Michael Sailor" = Michael Saylor. +[^cigs]: [[transcripts/bitcoin-is-like-prison-with-junseth-behind-the-podcast-episode-13#t-6432|BTP 13 @ 1:47:12]] — Junseth's question is at t-6400; Rod's "40 cigarettes per day" at [[transcripts/bitcoin-is-like-prison-with-junseth-behind-the-podcast-episode-13#t-6412|1:46:52]]. Junseth has no page yet. +[^prison]: [[transcripts/the-revolution-wont-have-good-ux-bugle-weekly-episode-50#t-1665|Bugle Weekly 50 @ 27:45]] — "orange peeling while in prison" is the ASR wart; the AirPods cutback and cauliflower-ear warning run to t-1700. +[^adhd]: [[transcripts/pioneering-v4v-music-with-open-mike-btp-episode-21#t-4366|BTP 21 @ 1:12:46]] — Piez's testimony boost; Rod's "If it can fix Pies" doctrine at [[transcripts/pioneering-v4v-music-with-open-mike-btp-episode-21#t-4388|1:13:08]]. +[^billboard]: [[transcripts/is-good-ux-counter-revolutionary-behind-the-podcast-episode-12#t-3429|BTP 12 @ 57:09]] — "billboards" line; "number one sales guy" at [[transcripts/is-good-ux-counter-revolutionary-behind-the-podcast-episode-12#t-3410|56:50]]. "X cause" at t-3424 is the ASR for "ex-cons." +[^odell]: [[transcripts/be-a-good-example-bugle-weekly-episode-78#t-4215|Bugle Weekly 78 @ 1:10:15]] — "puts their accountability out there for everybody." +[^laborday]: [[transcripts/pioneers-run-economic-nodes-bugle-weekly-episode-74#t-1008|Bugle Weekly 74 @ 16:48]] — Greaser's Labor Day roll call; "Pies" = Piez. +[^return]: [[transcripts/let-the-festivities-begin-bugle-weekly-episode-51#t-3165|Bugle Weekly 51 @ 52:45]]. +[^og]: [[transcripts/pressure-creates-good-ux-with-evan-kaloudis-btp-episode-18#t-5072|BTP 18 @ 1:24:32]] — Evan's "Pies the OG of 40 HPW" is in the same cue. +[^interview]: [[transcripts/the-orange-pill-is-not-ozempic-bugle-weekly-episode-69#t-4586|Bugle Weekly 69 @ 1:16:26]] — Greaser quoting Piez's first words; "Otis Spittmeyer" / "Otis Bittmeyer" is [[characters/otis-bittmeyer|Otis Bittmeyer]]. Rod's on-the-job pitch runs to t-4616. +[^soundcoffee]: [[transcripts/a-renaissance-man-intellectual-silk-road-episode-1#t-5856|Intellectual Silk Road 1 @ 1:37:36]] — "Pies" (and "Pipes" at t-5878) = Piez; Sound Coffee has no page yet. +[^odellrecog]: [[transcripts/be-a-good-example-bugle-weekly-episode-78#t-4821|Bugle Weekly 78 @ 1:20:21]] — Greaser's advice runs to t-4879; "the roster" / "Oster" is Nostr. This is Matt Odell, distinct from Pledditor earlier in the episode. +[^thirsttrap]: [[transcripts/pioneering-v4v-music-with-open-mike-btp-episode-21#t-3535|BTP 21 @ 58:55]] — Mike's "eighty hours per week" verdict at [[transcripts/pioneering-v4v-music-with-open-mike-btp-episode-21#t-3559|59:19]]. +[^grumpy]: [[transcripts/boomers-sacrificing-to-moloch-bugle-weekly-episode-68#t-2310|Bugle Weekly 68 @ 38:30]] — "No boost from Pies this week. Did you see Pies Grumpy Boost on that other podcast?" +[^spam]: [[transcripts/pioneers-run-economic-nodes-bugle-weekly-episode-74#t-3409|Bugle Weekly 74 @ 56:49]] — "Knotzis" is rendered "Nazis"; Piez sent seven boosts this episode. +[^ice]: [[transcripts/pleb-is-the-new-n-word-bugle-weekly-episode-98#t-3601|Bugle Weekly 98 @ 1:00:01]] — the "Fluff Slop" and ICE guesses run from t-3587; "Pies" = Piez. +[^niemoller]: [[transcripts/behave-or-benjamin-netanyahu-bugle-weekly-episode-99#t-3840|Bugle Weekly 99 @ 1:04:00]] — Boomer's boost; Rod's Amazon-warehouse line at [[transcripts/behave-or-benjamin-netanyahu-bugle-weekly-episode-99#t-3866|1:04:26]]. "Dennis" is Dennis Porter. +[^silas]: [[transcripts/white-goy-summer-headwinds-bugle-weekly-episode-112#t-3130|Bugle Weekly 112 @ 52:10]] — Greaser's "Miss you, buddy" coda at 52:24. The booster "Silas Storm" is read here as [[characters/silas-thornbrook|Silas Thornbrook]] on first-name grounds (medium confidence).