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Richard Greaser
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diff --git a/wiki/characters/richard-greaser.md b/wiki/characters/richard-greaser.md index 01b0d01c..5d0b4e6d 100644 @@ -304,6 +304,27 @@ Scardust/Behind The Music connection.[^scardust] He closes the show addressing Fundamentals as "Rodney," a nod to the borrowed chair rather than a name.[^rodney] +## Big Bitcoin and the fall of BIP 110 (July–August 2026) + +With [[characters/rod-palmer|Palmer]] back for the endgame of +[[storylines/core-vs-knots-war|the BIP 110 fight]], Greaser extends the +running cult-and-clergy bit to its conclusion, naming +[[characters/luke-dashjr|Luke Dashjr]] the movement's own pontiff: "Luke is +the the the pope the pope's pope."[^popes-pope-g] He coins the arc's lasting +term live, mid-argument, framing a funded corporate-developer establishment +as the movement's opposite number: "let's talk about big — so so big +Bitcoin is, like, you know, with big pharma."[^big-bitcoin-coin-g] See +[[memes/big-bitcoin]]. Once the BIP 110 chain-split had produced exactly two +blocks and died, Greaser read a commentator's post-mortem taxonomy of the +fight's personalities on air, sorting [[characters/matthew-kratter|Matthew +Kratter]], [[characters/bitcoin-mechanic|Bitcoin Mechanic]] and +[[characters/justin-bechler|Justin Bechler]] as megalomaniacs and giving +[[characters/fred-krueger|Fred Krueger]] a category of his own.[^taxonomy-g] +The same episode found him crediting Bitcoin Mechanic with one of the +discourse's few substantive points — that AI-driven hardware deflation +raises real doubts about whether plebs will still be able to afford +dedicated nodes going forward.[^mechanic-point] + ## On the timeline The [@GreaserRichard](https://x.com/GreaserRichard) account is the byline's @@ -487,3 +508,7 @@ retcon or a masthead the man gave himself; the record does not say which. [^bonus-army]: [[transcripts/kayfabians-bugle-weekly-episode-116#t-1309|Bugle Weekly 116 @ 21:49]]. [^scardust]: [[transcripts/kayfabians-bugle-weekly-episode-116#t-2724|Bugle Weekly 116 @ 45:24]]. "Lav and Noah" are ASR for Lahav and Noa Gruman. [^rodney]: [[transcripts/kayfabians-bugle-weekly-episode-116#t-3170|Bugle Weekly 116 @ 52:50]]. +[^popes-pope-g]: [[transcripts/pleb-nodes-dont-matter-bugle-weekly-episode-118#t-744|Bugle Weekly 118 @ 12:24]]. +[^big-bitcoin-coin-g]: [[transcripts/pleb-nodes-dont-matter-bugle-weekly-episode-118#t-1771|Bugle Weekly 118 @ 29:31]]. +[^taxonomy-g]: [[transcripts/the-emperor-has-no-entropy-bugle-weekly-episode-120#t-3084|Bugle Weekly 120 @ 51:24]]; Fred Krueger's category at [[transcripts/the-emperor-has-no-entropy-bugle-weekly-episode-120#t-3110|@ 51:50]]. +[^mechanic-point]: [[transcripts/the-emperor-has-no-entropy-bugle-weekly-episode-120#t-2300|Bugle Weekly 120 @ 38:20]].
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He broadcasts from a newsroom he will +only describe as "a secret location in New York City,"[^newsroom] files copy on a +typewriter,[^typewriter] and holds that economic policy properly belongs to Bitcoin +podcasters rather than to central bankers.[^policy] He is the Bugleverse's most +prolific voice: host, announcer, essayist, recording artist, and — on the record — +the man who decides what The Bugle prints. + +## The Bugle Weekly + +The show began without a name. Ninety seconds into the first episode Greaser +interrupts to ask "What's the what's the name of this podcast? We didn't even discuss +that yet."[^ep1] It settled into a fixed format: an announcer bills "your hosts, Rod +Palmer and Dick Greaser" of "the most thermodynamically sound podcast in the game,"[^billing] +and the sung theme states the division of labour outright — "Rod has the facts," +with Dick supplying the flare.[^theme] Both men are introduced, every week, as +credentialed journalists; Greaser's own gloss on the credential is "I'm a credentialed +journalist. I'm not a genius."[^credential] + +The ASR mangles him relentlessly. Across the record he is Richard Grieser, Richard +Reeser, Richard Glacier, Richard Grazer, Richard Griesemer and Rich Greaser, and the +show itself becomes the Beagle Weekly, the People Weekly, the Beacon Weekly and, once, +the Bit Weekly.[^reeser] All are him; all are it. + +He hosts alone when he has to — the 2024 year-in-review was delivered solo because +"Rod is not joining me. I'm just doing it by myself"[^solo41] — and by mid-2025 the +solo mode had become a format in its own right. + +## Doctrine + +Greaser's positions are consistent enough to constitute a system. Its first premise is +podcaster supremacy: fixing the money "takes economic policy out of the hands of bankers +and central bankers and puts it in the hands of Bitcoin podcasters,"[^policy] and since +podcasters are the true economists, they should also name whatever succeeds modern +monetary theory — "We're gonna be the ones victorious writing history. So we might as +well choose the name for whatever comes after."[^naming] The duty attached to the +premise is [[memes/40hpw|40HPW]]: forty hours of Bitcoin podcasts a week, which he +frames as an obligation of fatherhood — "You're running the node for the family. You're +listening to forty hours of Bitcoin podcasts a week."[^40hpw] + +Its second premise is that friction is authenticating. "The revolution won't have good +UX" began as an episode title, hardened into doctrine — "You want the UX to be bad +because you want it to feel authentic"[^badux] — and now functions as a shrug he reaches +for whenever software fails him on air.[^brock] He restates the vanguard claim in the +same register, once rewriting Eisenhower's D-Day order of the day to address +"podcasters, podcast listeners, and individuals engaged in the orange revolution"[^ike] +and afterwards folding the show's own technical collapse into the war story: "We're the +front line of the orange revolution. We are battling bad UX."[^frontline] + +Its third premise is the cigarette. "There's nothing more American than smoking non KYC +cigarettes,"[^cigs] and asked at Easter what Bitcoin's hope actually consists of, he +answered with contraband tobacco: "illicit non KYC cigarette transactions in a peer to +peer manner, and and and nobody can stop you."[^cigs2] + +The method underneath all three is the straight-faced analogy. Synthetic dollars are +simply the better product, he argues, because motor oil comes in synthetic and +non-synthetic blends and the synthetic one lasts longer and costs more.[^oil] Telegram +is Galt's Gulch, where "Bitcoiners, become the Galt's Gulch" by withdrawing onto their +phones to discuss thermodynamics.[^galt] Disliking Bitcoin is a diagnosable illness, +and he proposes adding Bitcoin Derangement Syndrome to the DSM-6 accordingly.[^bds] +He periodically rejects a frame in favour of a worse one: offered an ethnic reading of +a Middle East war, he substituted a generational one — "I don't see this as the Jewish +war. I see it as the boomer war."[^boomer] + +## Compliance and PODCONF + +Greaser's standing enemy is [[orgs/podconf|PODCONF]] and the culture of compliance +around it, and the record shows the relationship starting as commerce. In episode 3 he +announces that "Podkoff actually approached us to sponsor us" — the outfit The Bugle +had been reporting on had bought the sponsorship.[^podkoff] The grievance began small +and personal: Rod received the entire PodConf Legend Series free while Greaser paid $21 +for his own shirt.[^tshirt] It matured into a thesis. Conferences exist, he argues, to +marry an online dissident movement to in-person meetings — "Like, OPSEC is thrown out +the window"[^opsec] — and the [[orgs/intellectual-silk-road|Intellectual Silk Road]] +manifesto names the mechanism: PodConf's people "all repeat the same narratives and will +turn on you in a moment if you do not comply with their endless purity tests."[^purity] +He has sat down with the enemy's credentialed man — [[characters/lubka|Steven Lubka]], +booked as an "approved compliance influencer" — and confirmed at the end that it had +changed none of his opinions.[^lubka] + +Adjacent to the compliance beat is the reflex the Bugle is best known for. Over Iranian +missile launches and a falling price, Greaser's first substantive line of the episode is +"Everything's fine. This is actually good for the economy," extended immediately into a +trade: the defense contractors are bullish.[^fine] The same instinct runs the gossip +beat, where the question "is [[characters/michael-saylor|Saylor]] a spook?" is answered +with "Well, there's this rumor that he's gay."[^saylor] + +## The newsroom and its spinoffs + +Greaser starts shows the way he started the first one: without a name. He launched +Behind the Article on air with "I don't even know what we're gonna call it,"[^bta] and +the title was applied in post. He premiered Behind The Music himself — "The debut episode +of Behind the Music"[^btm] — and co-hosts Behind the Podcast, whose remit is two Bugle +men interviewing figures from the Bitcoin podcasting ecosystem.[^btp] In August 2025 he +opened Greaser's Take alone, by name, with no co-host and no cold open: "Hey, folks. +This is, Richard Greaser, and…"[^take] When Charlie Kirk was assassinated he convened an +emergency broadcast and classed the killing as an industry matter — "Today, we witnessed +an on person attack on podcasting" — qualifying it at once with "while Charlie Kirk was +not a Bitcoin podcaster, he was a podcaster."[^kirk] + +The producer's chair has its own arc. [[characters/kailey-welch|Kailey Welch]] is hired +in episode 20, announced by herself in the cold open;[^kailey] she leaves the show to +run off "with some Manero guy" after discussions about the Bugle's relationship with +PODCONF;[^monero] and she returns as a convert, naming the enemy and the heroes in one +breath — "Podkomp needs to be destroyed and the world needs to know it's okay to use +your brain. Rod and Dick are the real heroes facing adversity every day."[^kailey-return] + +## Music + +Greaser writes the show's songs and sells them. He is on record as the author of the +theme that opens the July 2024 assassination episode — "Did the CIA shoot Trump like +they shot Kennedy?" — saying afterwards that "It was a fun one to write" and that he was +"putting all the the intro songs that we're using over on Wave Lake."[^cia] By that +Christmas the catalogue was merchandise: a cold-open ad sells the hosts' Wavlake output +as a gift, on the grounds that "Richard Grieser and Rod Palmer have been dominating the +Wave Lake top 40 this year."[^wavlake] Singles and albums now ship straight to the +podcast feed — the song "With Me Now" as a bare, unhosted teaser,[^withme] and the +electronic record [[media/doomsdays-dj|Doomsdays DJ]] as a bonus-episode +preview.[^dday] The paywall carries the rest: [[characters/pastor-jeffs|Pastor Jeffs]] +pitches a Greaser documentary series investigating whether Jesus was a Mossad agent, +available to subscribers.[^mossad] + +## The philosopher mode + +Set against the ranting is a sincere register that the record returns to. The 2024 +Christmas special hands him a solo monologue that opens "For many, this may be a +challenging Christmas."[^xmas] Asked in the middle of the fourth turning how he was +doing, he answered "I'm doing great. I'm having a good time. I'm enjoying life," and +then asked the question the answer implies: should he be losing his mind +instead?[^fourth] By late 2025 the mood had become a position. He declared the pleb era +over — "Pleb is dead"[^pleb] — replaced it with "It's the age of the pioneer, +folks,"[^pioneer] and, surveying a culture he called stale, offered the Intellectual +Silk Road as the counter-evidence: "Another week of the fourth turning chaos, another +week of the grumpy plaives, another week of [[characters/shinobi|Shinobi]] calling +people retarded."[^stale] + +## Maxi Madness + +Greaser is the ringmaster of [[storylines/maxi-madness|Maxi Madness]], the annual +maximalist tournament he runs with Rod Palmer "ensuring maximum clout damage." The role +has been hands-on from year one: he personally built the inaugural 2024 bracket, +admitting he "set up Dennis [Porter] for a very favorable route to the, championship, in +a very fair way, of course, because I would never favor anybody" +([[transcripts/abc-always-be-complying-bugle-weekly-episode-2|ep. 2 @ 46:35]]) — Porter +promptly became the first 1-seed ever beaten by a 16-seed. In +[[events/maxi-madness-2025|2025]] he rose "every morning at 5AM to work with +[[characters/timmy-tether|Timmy Tether]] to produce the Maxi Madness recap" and delivered +the committee's doctrine on snubs: "ask yourself, why didn't the committee consider you +worthy of being in the tournament and just try to double down over the next year" +([[transcripts/let-the-festivities-begin-bugle-weekly-episode-51|ep. 51 @ 4:16]]). +In [[events/maxi-madness-2026|2026]] he personally facilitated the inaugural Nostr +bracket on Primal — posting the polls an hour before the Twitter rounds, managing the +first mid-tournament recount and the [[characters/jack-dorsey|Jack Dorsey]] +disqualification, and refusing to bet on Predyx "because I'm facilitating the bracket" +([[transcripts/in-the-midst-of-madness-bugle-weekly-episode-102|ep. 102]]). His view of +the institution: "I don't think it's a distraction. I think it's a recalibration of what +matters. I really do think that Maxi Madness very well could be the start of the bull +market" ([[transcripts/the-madness-begins-bugle-weekly-episode-101|ep. 101 @ 23:08]]). + +## The bugle.news byline + +His earliest documented work is the first wave of bugle.news dispatches from January +2023, beginning with the Pomp sponsorship story +([[news/members-of-bitcoin-twitter-urge-antony-pompliano-to-resume-sponsorships-of-podcast|Members Of Bitcoin Twitter Urge Pomp To Resume Sponsorships]], +2023-01-11). Within two days on the beat he had closed the $18k rally story with his +founding editorial mission: to "closely monitor and report on the expert takes from the +full time bitcoin podcast listeners of Twitter" +([[news/bitcoin-prices-crosses-18k-threshold-full-time-podcast-listeners-claim-it-will-never-go-under-it-again|Bitcoin Price Crosses $18K Threshold]]). +The Bugle's beat — covering the coverage — was set from day one. Within two weeks it had +expanded to courtroom reporting +([[news/bitcoin-pleb-astounded-after-dan-held-steals-his-tweat|Dan Held's tweet-theft conviction]]) +and public health, where his coverage of the dying-suddenly trend shipped with an +unremoved editor's note still embedded in the published copy — "I would remove this +sentence, I don't feel it fits with the satirical tone of the rest of the piece" — the +earliest documented evidence of The Bugle's editorial workflow +([[news/strange-phenomenon-happening-as-celebrities-take-to-social-media-to-suddenly-die-talking-heads-compare-it-to-ice-bucket-challenge|Celebrities And Athletes Suddenly Die]]). +By late January he had turned on his own readership, declaring Bitcoin Twitter's +shadowban complaints a self-refuting engagement farm +([[news/bitcoiners-posting-about-being-shadowbanned-for-engagement-stunned-to-find-out-in-twitter-files-they-werent-targeted|Bitcoiners Stunned To Find Out They Weren't Targeted]]), +then broke both opening beats of the defense of the dollar +([[news/g-edward-griffin-charged-with-attempt-to-ensite-bank-run-more-arrests-to-follow|G. Edward Griffin Charged]]; +[[news/mr-monopoly-to-replace-benjamin-franklin|Mr. Monopoly to Replace Benjamin Franklin]]), +establishing the federal-beat pattern of quoting officials saying exactly what they +mean. That pattern reached its apex in March 2023 with a CIA Director certifying Jason +Lowery's engagement as organic +([[news/cia-director-insists-jason-lowerys-engagement-is-organic|CIA Director Insists Jason Lowery's Engagement Is Organic]]). + +## Kayfabians (July 2026) + +With Rod Palmer out for a second straight week, Greaser hosts alongside +[[characters/fundamentals|Fundamentals]] again and recasts [[storylines/engagement-farming|Glaze]] +— the show's standing term for engagement capital — as the payoff of the +Great Reset: "you'll own nothing and be happy was kind of a misleading +statement because you will own Glaze, the currency of the plebs, the +currency of the future."[^glaze-reset] He opens the episode's purity-test riff +by naming the ongoing feud between [[characters/justin-bechler|Justin Bechler]] +and [[characters/david-bailey|David Bailey]] before declaring David Bailey's +serial failures as predictable as sunrise, with [[characters/michael-saylor|Michael Saylor]] +named next in line.[^purity-test] + +Greaser's history-nerd register resurfaces mid-episode: he compares the +aggrieved node-runner army to the 1932 Bonus Army, tear-gassed by its own +government under Douglas MacArthur while demanding a promised +payout.[^bonus-army] See [[storylines/richard-greaser-philosopher]]. He +previews a fall [[characters/lahav|Scardust]] show and a value-for-value +music event in Chicago, name-checking his standing friendship with Lahav and +[[characters/noa-gruman|Noa Gruman]] — consistent with his existing +Scardust/Behind The Music connection.[^scardust] He closes the show +addressing Fundamentals as "Rodney," a nod to the borrowed chair rather than +a name.[^rodney] + +## On the timeline + +The [@GreaserRichard](https://x.com/GreaserRichard) account is the byline's +on-platform extension — 2,831 posts in the sampled export — and it runs at the +same register as the show: Bitcoin media covered as if it were statecraft, +delivered flat. The obsessions map cleanly onto the doctrine. What the podcast +argues at length, the timeline states in one line and walks away. + +His signature coinage is [[memes/pleb-slop|Pleb Slop]], the epithet he applies +to low-nutrition Bitcoin content, and on X he escalates it from insult to +security model. He rates it above the field's marquee threats — "So far I'm +convinced that Pleb Slop has hurt Bitcoin more than spam" +— [@GreaserRichard, 2026-03-27](https://x.com/GreaserRichard/status/2037359418715566316) +— and above the one the developers actually war-game: "I'm more concerned about +the security risks posed to Bitcoin by Pleb Slop than I am about Quantum" +— [@GreaserRichard, 2026-07-03](https://x.com/GreaserRichard/status/2073080246547710073). +He moralizes it as readily, filing it as a bar to salvation with a St. Peter +meme — "Pleb slop won't get you into heaven" +— [@GreaserRichard, 2025-11-20](https://x.com/GreaserRichard/status/1991334841258844596) +— and blames its spread on the [[storylines/pleb-slop-wars|slop war]]'s named +antagonists: "Mechanic and Luke are cloud seeding pleb slop to make a +hurricane" +— [@GreaserRichard, 2025-11-16](https://x.com/GreaserRichard/status/1990181480622891342). + + + +The same contempt drives the page's "Pleb is dead" line back to first +principles. The pleb is not a mascot but a liability — "Bitcoin is protected by +thousands of technically illiterate and easily emotionally manipulated plebs. +Got it" +— [@GreaserRichard, 2026-02-01](https://x.com/GreaserRichard/status/2018018053561217234) +— and the cure is a change of costume: "Being a pleb was cute last cycle. It's +time to put on a suit and grow up." +— [@GreaserRichard, 2025-04-16](https://x.com/GreaserRichard/status/1912334719234027663) + +Through 2025–26 the account's dominant beat is the +[[storylines/core-vs-knots-war|Core–Knots war]] and its soft-fork proposals, +which Greaser narrates as farce. He reports the coalition's tactics as consumer +complaints — "Matthew Kratter is threatening to leave negative Yelp reviews if +mining pools don't support BIP 110" +— [@GreaserRichard, 2026-07-12](https://x.com/GreaserRichard/status/2076410976136470721) +— and proposes the campaign's missing infrastructure straight-faced: a way for +plebs "to show their support for BIP 110, like a check list where they complete +an activity to get an 'I voted sticker' or a 'I just got vaccinated selfie'" +— [@GreaserRichard, 2026-07-15](https://x.com/GreaserRichard/status/2077371708575510580). +He posts the coalition itself as a mock group portrait — [[characters/luke-dashjr|Luke]], +[[characters/matthew-kratter|Kratter]], [[characters/bitcoin-mechanic|Mechanic]] +and an orange-suited astronaut cat, arranged like a movie poster — under the +caption "Support BIP 110." His standing feud with [[characters/mike-brock|Mike Brock]] +runs on the same current; when Brock turned on Bitcoin users, Greaser filed the +diagnosis by deficiency: "This may be one of the most beta nicotine deficient +takes I've ever heard of." +— [@GreaserRichard, 2025-04-10](https://x.com/GreaserRichard/status/1910373174975386044) + + + +A separate running bit conducts analysis entirely through attractiveness. Women +and developers in Bitcoin are graded hot, and the grade is offered as argument. +Defending [[characters/gloria-zhao|Gloria Zhao]] from a pile-on, he turns the +attack into a testimonial — "all I see is a hot and competent woman who +understands relay policy 5000x better than the person attempting to dunk on +them" +— [@GreaserRichard, 2025-10-02](https://x.com/GreaserRichard/status/1973820659987067221) +— and elsewhere collapses a whole soft-fork's credibility into the same axis: +"BIP 444 failed the moment they tried to say Gloria wasn't hot" +— [@GreaserRichard, 2025-11-20](https://x.com/GreaserRichard/status/1991299569024467400). +"GM. Lyn Alden is Hot" +— [@GreaserRichard, 2025-06-09](https://x.com/GreaserRichard/status/1932081701741617446) +— is, at 422 likes, one of his best-performing posts, and needs no further text. + +The [[storylines/satoshi-lore|identity]] and +[[storylines/paper-bitcoin-menace|paper-Bitcoin]] beats get the same one-line +treatment. He tracks the rotating authorship of the white paper as a weekly +serial — "Last year Peter Todd was Satoshi. Last week Adam back was Satoshi. +This week it's Len and Hal. Who's going to be Satoshi next?" +— [@GreaserRichard, 2026-04-22](https://x.com/GreaserRichard/status/2047038281066369463) +— and lands the paper-Bitcoin thesis as pure deadpan: "Iran is Bitcoin only" +— [@GreaserRichard, 2026-04-08](https://x.com/GreaserRichard/status/2041953072054776007). + +His fed-and-spook reflex survives the jump to the timeline intact. He recuses +himself from an entire pundit on suspicion of provenance — "I will not listen +to Tucker Carlson because I believe he was created by the CIA" +— [@GreaserRichard, 2025-10-22](https://x.com/GreaserRichard/status/1981114837783789957) +— and treats every protocol upgrade as a chance to overstate Bitcoin's +capabilities, crediting a Core release with archival immortality: "Thanks to +Core V30, I was able to upload all of my Grandma's pie recipes… because Bitcoin +is decentralized file storage, her recipes will be available for anyone +forever." +— [@GreaserRichard, 2025-10-24](https://x.com/GreaserRichard/status/1981718480979161207) + +His single biggest post is none of these. A photo of [[characters/jack-dorsey|Jack Dorsey]] +in the stands at the Super Bowl — captioned only "Jack Dorsey is hanging out +with Jay Z at the Superbowl" — drew 2,727 likes, an order of magnitude past +anything else in the sample. The caption points at Dorsey; the frame does the +rest. + + + +> Henry's note: the tweets above are cited to @GreaserRichard directly and are +> not in the transcript corpus that backs the rest of this page. They corroborate +> the on-air doctrine rather than extend it — the same premises, compressed to a +> line and posted. + +## Disputed + +Greaser's title is not consistent across sources. + +The Bugleverse's own profile of him names him **Editor-in-Chief of The Bugle**, and +attributes to him an editorial philosophy — "Make it real enough to enrage, fake enough +to deny" — along with a claimed pre-Bugle career as a "typewriter-tapping Bitcoin +journalist." + +> irl: that profile is the bugleverse.com people page +> (`raw/wp-pages/people/richard-greaser.md`), a self-published site bio rather than a +> transcript of anything said on air. + +The show itself says **managing editor**, twice and in the same words. Rod Palmer +introduces "my cohost, the managing editor of… Bugle News, Richard Greaser,"[^title1] +and names him again as "Bugle News managing editor" a fortnight later.[^title2] +Elsewhere Rod uses the flatter "the editor of Beagle News."[^title3] No on-air source in +the sampled record calls him Editor-in-Chief. Henry's note: the promotion is either a +retcon or a masthead the man gave himself; the record does not say which. + +> Henry's note: the beat index for this page carries 2,423 verified beats across 177 +> episodes, of which 120 were sampled for this rewrite, spanning 2024-03-24 to +> 2025-10-08. This page is therefore representative, not exhaustive. Nothing here should +> be read as "every appearance" — a great many are not yet documented. + +[^newsroom]: [[transcripts/super-sportball-bitcoin-pizza-day-for-normies-bugle-weekly-episode-46#t-223|Bugle Weekly 46 @ 3:43]]; ASR renders the show "Beagle Wegley" and him "Richard Grieser". Repeated at [[transcripts/fix-the-world-one-bitcoin-podcast-at-a-time-with-the-broken-ruler-behind-the-podcast-episo#t-0|Behind The Podcast 10 @ 0:00]], where "Bugle" is ASR'd "Beagle". +[^typewriter]: [[transcripts/satarize-the-system-and-samourai-wallet-with-frank-corva-zack-shapiro-jeremy-poley-and-the#t-15|Satarize the System livestream @ 0:15]] — "It is hard to do a live stream from a typewriter." +[^policy]: [[transcripts/trump-n-dump-bugle-weekly-episode-43#t-488|Bugle Weekly 43 @ 8:08]]. The sentence runs across three cues. +[^ep1]: [[transcripts/out-complying-the-competition-bugle-weekly-episode-1#t-78|Bugle Weekly 1 @ 1:18]]. +[^billing]: [[transcripts/making-journalism-cypherpunk-bugle-weekly-episode-14#t-258|Bugle Weekly 14 @ 4:18]] — "Here are your hosts, Rod Palmer and Dick Greaser." "Dick" here is Greaser, not [[characters/dick-whitman|Dick Whitman]]. +[^theme]: [[transcripts/history-is-being-written-by-us-bugle-weekly-episode-12#t-97|Bugle Weekly 12 @ 1:37]]; the next cue is "Dick has the flare." The same lyric ASR gives "A rock farmer and degreaser" — i.e. Rod Palmer and Greaser. +[^credential]: [[transcripts/never-rest-on-your-credentials-bugle-weekly-episode-55#t-263|Bugle Weekly 55 @ 4:23]]; Greaser's own line lands later in the same episode. +[^reeser]: [[transcripts/we-know-whats-going-on-bugle-weekly-episode-54#t-218|Bugle Weekly 54 @ 3:38]] and [[transcripts/orange-pilled-pioneers-bugle-weekly-episode-63#t-187|Bugle Weekly 63 @ 3:07]] ("the People Weekly", "Richard Grieser"); "Richard Reeser" and "Beagle Weekly" at [[transcripts/jason-lowerys-drones-bugle-weekly-episode-39#t-257|Bugle Weekly 39 @ 4:17]]; "Rich Greaser"/"Beacon Weekly" at [[transcripts/1-year-anniversary-bugle-weekly-episode-52#t-354|Bugle Weekly 52 @ 5:54]]; "the Bit Weekly" at [[transcripts/node-rape-run-rampant-bugle-weekly-episode-58#t-375|Bugle Weekly 58 @ 6:15]]. +[^solo41]: [[transcripts/onwards-and-upwards-bugle-weekly-episode-41#t-241|Bugle Weekly 41 @ 4:01]]. He hosts alone again at [[transcripts/this-time-is-different-bugle-weekly-episode-70#t-84|Bugle Weekly 70 @ 1:24]]. +[^naming]: [[transcripts/bitcoin-is-tax-affording-technology-bugle-weekly-episode-40#t-929|Bugle Weekly 40 @ 15:29]]; his proposal is "Bitcoin dollar monetary theory". +[^40hpw]: [[transcripts/good-fathers-listen-to-40hpw-bugle-weekly-episode-64#t-193|Bugle Weekly 64 @ 3:13]]. The ASR mangles the acronym to "48 HPW" later in the episode. +[^badux]: [[transcripts/is-good-ux-counter-revolutionary-behind-the-podcast-episode-12#t-555|Behind The Podcast 12 @ 9:15]]. +[^brock]: [[transcripts/richard-greaser-vs-mike-brock-debate#t-59|Richard Greaser Vs. Mike Brock Debate @ 0:59]] — "Revolution won't have good UX. How about that shit?", deployed three times in the first 22 minutes as zap.stream fails. +[^ike]: [[transcripts/the-revolution-wont-have-good-ux-bugle-weekly-episode-50#t-72|Bugle Weekly 50 @ 1:12]]. A verbatim parody of Eisenhower's 6 June 1944 broadcast, which opens "Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force". +[^frontline]: [[transcripts/let-the-festivities-begin-bugle-weekly-episode-51#t-135|Bugle Weekly 51 @ 2:15]]. +[^cigs]: [[transcripts/noncompliant-4th-of-july-bugle-weekly-episode-15#t-342|Bugle Weekly 15 @ 5:42]]. +[^cigs2]: [[transcripts/bugle-easter-special-bugle-weekly-episode-56#t-530|Bugle Weekly 56 @ 8:50]]. Quote spans three cues. +[^oil]: [[transcripts/the-revolution-will-not-be-centralized-bugle-weekly-episode-9#t-462|Bugle Weekly 9 @ 7:42]]. +[^galt]: [[transcripts/will-the-future-be-joyful-or-maga-bugle-weekly-episode-23#t-738|Bugle Weekly 23 @ 12:18]]. +[^bds]: [[transcripts/vaccinating-bitcoin-derangement-syndrome-bugle-weekly-episode-10#t-363|Bugle Weekly 10 @ 6:03]]. +[^boomer]: [[transcripts/monitoring-the-situation-bugle-weekly-episode-65#t-235|Bugle Weekly 65 @ 3:55]]. +[^podkoff]: [[transcripts/comply-side-economics-101-bugle-weekly-episode-3#t-212|Bugle Weekly 3 @ 3:32]]. "Podkoff" is one of many ASR renderings of PODCONF. +[^tshirt]: [[transcripts/the-influencer-super-cycle-bugle-weekly-episode-5#t-367|Bugle Weekly 5 @ 6:07]]. Rod claims moments later that he "negotiated that in my contract specifically". +[^opsec]: [[transcripts/female-influencers-the-apex-predator-with-mars-behind-the-podcast-episode-6#t-1144|Behind the Podcast 6 @ 19:04]]; he follows with "KYC is promoted" and the kicker "You play basketball with them." +[^purity]: [[transcripts/moodys-says-nothing-stops-this-train-bugle-weekly-episode-60#t-37|Bugle Weekly 60 @ 0:37]]. +[^lubka]: [[transcripts/decentralizing-compliance-with-steven-lubka-bugle-weekly-episode-24#t-33|Bugle Weekly 24 @ 0:33]] — "approved compliance influencer, Steven Luko" (ASR for Lubka). +[^fine]: [[transcripts/environmentally-friendly-war-bugle-weekly-episode-29#t-140|Bugle Weekly 29 @ 2:20]]; "stacking stats" in the same passage is ASR for "stacking sats". +[^saylor]: [[transcripts/is-saylor-a-spook-bugle-weekly-episode-31#t-697|Bugle Weekly 31 @ 11:37]]. +[^bta]: [[transcripts/to-10-hottest-feds-behind-the-article-episode-1#t-7|Behind the Article 1 @ 0:07]]. The feed's own title for the series was applied in post, not on tape. +[^btm]: [[transcripts/noa-gruman-and-lahav-discuss-scardust-behind-the-music-episode-1#t-216|Behind The Music 1 @ 3:36]]. +[^btp]: [[transcripts/shinobi-is-hot-behind-the-podcast-episode-2#t-2|Behind the Podcast 2 @ 0:02]]. +[^take]: [[transcripts/the-revolution-wont-have-good-ux-greasers-take-1#t-0|Greaser's Take 1 @ 0:00]]. +[^kirk]: [[transcripts/emergency-broadcast-podcasting-under-attack#t-6|Emergency Broadcast: Podcasting Under Attack @ 0:06]]. "an on person" is ASR; the chapter title renders it "The unpersonate attack on podcasting", so the intended word is unrecoverable from the transcript. +[^kailey]: [[transcripts/this-is-fine-bugle-weekly-episode-20#t-303|Bugle Weekly 20 @ 5:03]] — "Rod and Dick discuss how everything in the market is fine, as as well as how they hired me as their new show producer." +[^monero]: [[transcripts/dont-stop-your-enemy-from-pumping-your-bags-bugle-weekly-episode-36#t-139|Bugle Weekly 36 @ 2:19]]. ASR renders Monero as "Manero" and Kailey as "Kaylee"; Greaser adds that the split followed "some discussions about our relationship with Podkoff". +[^kailey-return]: [[transcripts/we-know-whats-going-on-bugle-weekly-episode-54#t-218|Bugle Weekly 54 @ 3:38]]. "Podkomp" is ASR for PODCONF; "Dick" is Greaser. +[^cia]: [[transcripts/opsec-in-spookville-bugle-weekly-episode-17#t-12|Bugle Weekly 17 @ 0:12]]; authorship claimed by Greaser later in the same episode. "Wave Lake" is ASR for Wavlake. In the outro reprise the ASR degrades "shoot Trump" into "shoot drunk". +[^wavlake]: [[transcripts/thanksgiving-victory-lap-bugle-weekly-episode-37#t-6|Bugle Weekly 37 @ 0:06]]. ASR: "Richard Grieser" = Greaser, "Wave Lake" = Wavlake, "Orange Filled Cowboys" = Orange Pilled Cowboys. +[^withme]: [[transcripts/with-me-now-by-richard-greaser-song-early-access#t-1|With Me Now Early Access @ 0:01]]. +[^dday]: [[transcripts/doomsdays-dj-early-access-richard-greaser#t-0|Doomsdays DJ Early Access @ 0:00]]. ASR: "doomsday's DJ". +[^mossad]: [[transcripts/back-in-the-saddle-podcasting-again-bugle-weekly-episode-71#t-106|Bugle Weekly 71 @ 1:46]]. Priced at "10 USDT / in Bitcoin / a month" — the show's running unit-of-account joke. +[^xmas]: [[transcripts/bugle-christmas-special#t-472|Bugle Christmas Special @ 7:52]]. +[^fourth]: [[transcripts/life-isnt-easy-bugle-weekly-episode-76#t-396|Bugle Weekly 76 @ 6:36]]. +[^pleb]: [[transcripts/orange-pilled-pioneers-bugle-weekly-episode-63#t-187|Bugle Weekly 63 @ 3:07]]; "Pleb is dead. Pleb is dead." follows moments later, and he adds that it was "stupid from the offset." +[^pioneer]: [[transcripts/pioneers-run-economic-nodes-bugle-weekly-episode-74#t-421|Bugle Weekly 74 @ 7:01]]. +[^stale]: [[transcripts/pioneers-attend-university-of-bitcoin-bugle-weekly-episode-75#t-191|Bugle Weekly 75 @ 3:11]]. "grumpy plaives" is ASR for "grumpy plebs". +[^snubs]: [[transcripts/let-the-festivities-begin-bugle-weekly-episode-51#t-256|Bugle Weekly 51 @ 4:16]]. +[^title1]: [[transcripts/never-rest-on-your-credentials-bugle-weekly-episode-55#t-263|Bugle Weekly 55 @ 4:23]]. Quote spans four cues and completes with "Bugle News, Richard Greaser." +[^title2]: [[transcripts/truckin-down-the-rabbit-hole-bugle-weekly-episode-57#t-204|Bugle Weekly 57 @ 3:24]]; the introduction runs "Bugle News managing editor," / "Richard Grieser." +[^title3]: [[transcripts/discovering-miniscript-with-rob-hamilton-behind-the-podcast-episode-5#t-26|Behind The Podcast 5 @ 0:26]]. "Beagle News" is ASR for Bugle News. +[^glaze-reset]: [[transcripts/kayfabians-bugle-weekly-episode-116#t-264|Bugle Weekly 116 @ 4:24]]. +[^purity-test]: [[transcripts/kayfabians-bugle-weekly-episode-116#t-610|Bugle Weekly 116 @ 10:10]]. "Justin Belcher" is ASR for Justin Bechler. +[^bonus-army]: [[transcripts/kayfabians-bugle-weekly-episode-116#t-1309|Bugle Weekly 116 @ 21:49]]. +[^scardust]: [[transcripts/kayfabians-bugle-weekly-episode-116#t-2724|Bugle Weekly 116 @ 45:24]]. "Lav and Noah" are ASR for Lahav and Noa Gruman. +[^rodney]: [[transcripts/kayfabians-bugle-weekly-episode-116#t-3170|Bugle Weekly 116 @ 52:50]].