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Ross Ulbricht
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diff --git a/wiki/characters/ross-ulbricht.md b/wiki/characters/ross-ulbricht.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..f3856a96 @@ -0,0 +1,195 @@ +--- +title: Ross Ulbricht +type: character +status: confirmed +portrait: /portraits/x-ross-ulbricht.jpg +aliases: + - Ross Ulbrich + - Ross Ulberg + - Ross Ulbert + - Ross Alpert + - Russ +sources: + - raw/episodes/vaccinating-bitcoin-derangement-syndrome-bugle-weekly-episode-10/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/selection-autopsy-bugle-weekly-episode-34/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/this-is-the-bull-market-bugle-weekly-episode-35/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/sly-goomba-thanksgiving-special-behind-the-podcast-episode-1/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/the-future-is-wrapped-bugle-weekly-episode-44/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/protecting-your-daughters-from-breedloves-orange-pill-behind-the-podcast-episode-8/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/40-hours-per-week-bugle-weekly-episode-45/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/fixing-the-cias-incentives-with-frank-corva-behind-the-podcast-episode-9/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/let-the-festivities-begin-bugle-weekly-episode-51/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/noa-gruman-and-lahav-discuss-scardust-behind-the-music-episode-1/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/scaling-with-paper-bitcoin-ft-21-media-evan-kaloudis-and-rob-hamilton/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/satarize-the-system-and-samourai-wallet-with-frank-corva-zack-shapiro-jeremy-poley-and-the/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/podconf-superbowl-aftermath-bugle-weekly-episode-62/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/back-in-the-saddle-podcasting-again-bugle-weekly-episode-71/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/reflections-from-the-frontier-bugle-weekly-episode-83-part-2/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/telling-compelling-stories-with-avi-burra-intellectual-silk-road-episode-3/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/pioneers-prepare-for-christmas-bugle-weekly-episode-89/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/bugle-weekly-christmas-special/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/bitcoin-magazine-maxi-madness-victory-twitter-spaces-with-casey-and-erin/bundle.json +--- + +> *Henry's note: rebuilt from the beat index — 31 beats across 21 episodes, coverage COMPLETE, spanning May 2024 to March 2026. The mechanical mention-list it replaced was wrong. Ross never appears on the show; every beat is someone else talking about him.* + +The founder of the Silk Road and the Bugleverse's imprisoned patron saint — venerated for years as the man who made Bitcoin useful, then pardoned, then, within days, put through the same purity test the show applies to everyone. He is a fixed point the cast orbits without his ever appearing: there is no beat in which Ross Ulbricht speaks. He is a cause to be worn on a lapel, a résumé line for the man who freed him, and a hero whose heroism is measured almost entirely in cigarettes. + +**In it with:** [[characters/richard-greaser|Richard Greaser]] · [[characters/rod-palmer|Rod Palmer]] · [[characters/david-bailey|David Bailey]] · [[characters/donald-trump|Donald Trump]] · [[characters/pledditor|Pledditor]] · [[characters/dick-whitman|Dick Whitman]] · [[characters/deeter-bob|Deeter Bob]] · [[characters/justin-sun|Justin Sun]] · [[characters/roger-ver|Roger Ver]] · [[characters/peter-mccormack|Peter McCormack]] · [[characters/kailey-welch|Kailey Welch]] · [[characters/aubrey-strobel|Aubrey Strobel]] · [[characters/erin-redwing|Erin Redwing]] + +**Arc:** [[storylines/trump-crypto-saga]] · [[storylines/intellectual-silk-road]] · [[storylines/cigarette-money-donations]] · [[storylines/pledditor]] · [[storylines/maxi-madness]] · [[storylines/importance-of-heroes]] + +## A hero, personally (2024) + +Before the pardon, Ross is the show's proof that the disreputable origins of Bitcoin are the good part. [[characters/richard-greaser|Richard Greaser]]'s case for his historical importance is narrow and unwavering: "I wouldn't be able to buy cigarettes for Bitcoin today if it wasn't for Ross creating the Silk Road."[^cigarettes] He restates it as a personal creed — "Ross is a hero for me personally, because he really paved the way for non KYC peer to peer cigarette markets"[^hero] — welding the show's oldest bit, [[storylines/cigarette-money-donations|cigarette money]], to its patron saint. The bit outlives the pardon: after Ross walks free [[characters/rod-palmer|Rod Palmer]] posts the fantasy summit it was always building toward, "chain smoking non-kyc cigarettes with ross ulbricht and [[characters/dennis-porter|dennis porter]] at the @VibeCapitalMgmt party last night was simply unforgettable." + +> — [@rodpalmerhodl, 2025-05-30](https://x.com/rodpalmerhodl/status/1928527604912632303) Against this, Greaser's complaint is that PODCONF thinks Ross is bad for number-go-up and would prefer the Silk Road forgotten, leaving "Free Ross" a pin plebs will wear at the conference but not on Capitol Hill.[^hero] + +The first sign of the pardon to come arrives as the week's curveball: news "that Donald Trump wants to, free Ross Ulberg."[^trump] Asked who is really behind it, Greaser answers without hesitation that [[characters/david-bailey|David Bailey]] is responsible — the origin of a credit line that follows Bailey for the rest of the arc.[^baileycredit] + +## The pardon (2025) + +Recorded the night before the inauguration, the premise is stated flat: "Donald Trump takes over. He takes president. He's gonna free Ross."[^inaug] Two days later it is fact — "full pardon for Ross Ulbert. He was freed from from prison"[^pardon] — and the show's instinct is immediately commercial, [[characters/rod-palmer|Rod Palmer]] reducing it to a price question. Rod's account of Ross's first days of freedom is the cleanest statement of who greets you when you get out: podcast royalty flown in bearing homemade baklava, David Bailey among them.[^baklava] + +The release is also folded into the show's theology of forgiveness. [[characters/frank-corva|Frank Corva]] retcons the genesis-block headline from indictment to endorsement — Satoshi was shouting out the chancellor, not criticising him — while Greaser frames America as the land of second chances: "When Ross Ulbricht goes to prison, he's pardoned."[^secondchances] + +The pardon then curdles into the episode the show tells about its own credulity. A year later, Rod inventories what Bitcoiners had believed: "Ross Ulbricht freed from prison by Trump in a top hat riding in a Lamborghini with laser eyes sheeping out of his head."[^laser] Even here the release itself survives the mockery — "Pardon Ross, good for him. It was like the one good thing he did aside from forgetting to log off Twitter."[^loggedoff] + +## The purity test + +Ross is barely free before the reflex fires. Asked in advance who will be first to call the newly pardoned Ulbricht a shitcoiner, Greaser reports that "both Dick Whitman and Platteter already have tweets drafted"[^drafted] — the purity test documented as premeditated, the tweets workshopped across scenarios and waiting for a trigger. The trigger arrives: [[characters/pledditor|Pledditor]] "excused and exposed Ross Ulbricht to being a shitcoiner"[^shitcoiner] for liquidating meme coins that fans had sent him. + +At his first conference as a free man it escalates. [[characters/deeter-bob|Deeter Bob]] and Pledditor are "calling him a shitcoiner and he hasn't even announced a shitcoin,"[^premature] the pretext being a banana: [[characters/justin-sun|Justin Sun]] handed Ross one on stage, which Rod duct-tapes into "a $6,000,000 banana"[^banana] and then declines to want. Greaser supplies the defence the critics won't — that Ross's crypto-agnosticism is downstream of who paid for his freedom, since it was the shitcoiners, "people like Roger Veer when he was in prison,"[^rogerver] who actually funded the campaign while Bitcoiners refused to spend their coins on anything. + +## Patron saint of the podcast movement + +Ross's larger role is as the show's origin myth for podcasting itself. Rod's version runs backward through a chain of orange-pilling: Ross built the Silk Road, the Silk Road made [[characters/peter-mccormack|Peter McCormack]], McCormack made the people who freed Ross — so with McCormack retired, Rod predicts Ross inherits the biggest podcast of 2025.[^inspired] Greaser makes the same case to answer PODCONF's claim that dissent is bad for growth: McCormack is "the Michael Jordan of Bitcoin podcasting… He got in because of the Silk Road. The Pete Rose of podcasting"[^jordan] — the disreputable stuff is the on-ramp. + +The vacated crown is contested in his name. Rod nominates [[characters/kailey-welch|Kailey Welch]] to inherit it on the grounds that she "got the most eyes on Ross," having been "tweeting FreeRoss and… making videos about it, you know, since July,"[^welch] and her Hawk Tuah show is duly reclassified as "a Bitcoin podcast… the most effective Free Ross campaign in the space."[^hawktua] Even Swan Bitcoin is reported to want him: an inside-sources scoop has [[sponsors/swan-bitcoin|Swan]] "looking at Ross Ulbricht because they're trying to use Ross Ulbricht to… heal their reputation" for being too compliant, by installing him as host of its flagship podcast.[^swan] + +## The romantic market + +His release is also processed as a dating-market event. Greaser reports that "a lot of Podkoff women were very excited that Ross was getting out of prison,"[^cockblock] and that Ross posting a photo with his wife amounted to cock-blocking all of them. Rod runs the same finding on the timeline, and pins the fallout on the show's designated grump: "pledditor is jealous that women in bitcoin think ross ulbricht is hot." + +> — [@rodpalmerhodl, 2025-01-22](https://x.com/rodpalmerhodl/status/1881900939235504143) + + The clearest casualty is [[characters/aubrey-strobel|Aubrey Strobel]], whose recovery Rod nominates as the highlight post of Bitcoin Twitter: within a night she "got a selfie with Daniel Penney at a bodega in New York City,"[^strobel] a rebound Rod half-credits with the price pump. + +## Commemorative merch and the intellectual Silk Road + +Ross's pardon is monetised almost immediately. Rod launches a "40 Hours Per Week / Silk Road commemorative" in Marlboro-inspired art "commemorating Ross being freed,"[^shirt] which Greaser sells as a status symbol that will fail to sell; a "not Marlboro" cigarette pack in a Silk Road edition follows the next week.[^pack] The Silk Road also becomes a live prop: mid-stream at [[events/satirize-the-system|Satirize the System]], news broke that 2,300 twelve-year-dormant Silk Road coins had moved, and Rod instantly annexed it to the ad read — "It was Ross it was Ross buying tickets to satirize the system"[^tickets] — on a stream Greaser had opened by calling his location "ground zero for the intellectual silk Road." + +The Silk Road becomes shorthand for a whole thesis about freedom tech: on the Samourai prosecution, Greaser's reading is that the crime was making privacy profitable, with the Silk Road the paired example.[^samourai] And Ross seeds the profile-bio activism the show canonizes: the #BringDennisHome campaign is given its lineage in "Free Samourai, Free Ross day one" shirts worn "before he was let out of jail on day two."[^dennis] The Bugle later closes the loop and turns the freed man into the freer, filing a straight-faced dispatch that "Now Ross Ulbricht is asking Trump to pardon two convicted Samourai" — the pardoned patron saint conscripted into the next campaign. + +> — [@bitcoin_bugle, 2025-12-18](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/2001463085928677697) + + + +## Disputed: who freed Ross + +The credit for the pardon is claimed by at least three parties and the show never fully settles it. + +- **David Bailey.** The recurring answer. Greaser first names Bailey as "responsible for it" while the pledge is still a rumour,[^baileycredit] and by the PODCONF bracket the case is stated as a two-item résumé: "it's as simple as this David Bailey got Ross free," that and the strategic Bitcoin-only reserve.[^baileyresume] +- **Angela McArdle.** Greaser flags her as claiming the credit at Lake Satoshi — "I think she's taking credit for freeing Ross"[^mcardle] — and disputes it. +- **Ross's mother, Lyn.** In the same breath Greaser reassigns the credit to her: she "was the reason why Ross was freed, essentially, not Angela McCardell."[^mcardle] + +> *Henry's note: Angela McArdle (ASR "McCardell"), former chair of the Libertarian Party, has no page yet; nor does Ross's mother, the real-world Lyn Ulbricht — not to be confused with [[characters/lyn-alden|Lyn Alden]].* + +## Later invocations + +Ross persists as a benchmark and a relic. In [[storylines/maxi-madness|Maxi Madness]], [[characters/erin-redwing|Erin Redwing]] names the slight that powered her whole run — a 15-of-16 Hot-bracket seed she set out to disprove "by being seated number 15 out of 16 in the hot bracket," aiming to beat Ross Ulbricht.[^erin] A 2023 Christmas text of Greaser's, read back in 2025, files him in the roll call of the imprisoned beside Julian Assange: "Let us dream of a world where journalists like Assange are not in chains and Ross is free"[^christmas] — both causes since resolved. And the deepest cut is one that never aired: [[characters/lahav|Lahav]] discloses that a Silk Road Easter egg had been ready for a shoot but was lost to a two-hour delay on a twenty-person set.[^easteregg] + +## The campaign, as posted + +Ross never speaks on the show, but the show's accounts spoke *for* him for years — running Free Ross as a live bit long before it was a fact, and auditing him the moment it was. The timeline is where the arc's beats were rehearsed. + +### #FreeRoss, addressed to management + +The pardon campaign is run as a customer-service complaint. The Bugle's earliest filing predates any Trump pledge, dating the demand to a wish list: "Santa Receives Unusually Large Amount Of Requests For Ross Ulbricht To Be Released From Prison." + +> — [@bitcoin_bugle, 2023-12-21](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/1737852423409180689) + +Rod supplies the partisan version, converting the [[storylines/trump-crypto-saga|election]] into a single-issue referendum: "Kamala Harris is a corrupt cop, of course she wouldn't agree to free Ross Ulbricht. She want's to imprison more Bitcoiners, not less." + +> — [@rodpalmerhodl, 2024-07-24](https://x.com/rodpalmerhodl/status/1816123754625331694) + +Once [[characters/donald-trump|Trump]] is in, the pressure campaign is styled as email escalation — a memo "To: @POTUS cc: @realDonaldTrump" with the subject "Ross Ulbricht pardon ('Free Ross Day 1')." + +> — [@bitcoin_bugle, 2025-01-20](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/1881469536261882278) + +The retail-entitlement version follows the next day, the Bugle instructing plebs to "embrace their inner Karen" and "Demand to speak to the manager until Ross is safe at home! #FreeRoss." + +> — [@bitcoin_bugle, 2025-01-21](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/1881746398036836535) + + + +### The Swan succession + +The on-air scoop that [[sponsors/swan-bitcoin|Swan]] wants Ross as a host originates here, filed at full breaking-news volume months before the pardon: "@Swan is reportedly considering pursuing Ross Ulbricht to become the new host of their Swan Signal Bitcoin Podcast when he's pardoned by President Elect @realDonaldTrump in January." + +> — [@bitcoin_bugle, 2024-11-06](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/1854260947415941336) + + + +### The reflexes fire + +The purity test the transcripts document as premeditated plays out live. Rod greets the official-account victory laps with the arc's coldest read: "Seeing the feds on here celebrating Ross Ulbricht's pardon reminds of the FBI's tweets honoring MLK Jr. every year." + +> — [@rodpalmerhodl, 2025-01-22](https://x.com/rodpalmerhodl/status/1882067228490948804) + +Number-go-up reasserts itself almost at once, the Bugle logging a polled preference "without anyone having to ask" that "he would prefer $125k Bitcoin over Ross Ulbricht being pardoned last month (If he had to choose)" — the shitcoiner-versus-hero tension of the [[storylines/maxi-madness|maxi]] world stated as a coin flip. + +> — [@bitcoin_bugle, 2025-02-27](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/1895200164362756426) + + + +[[characters/richard-greaser|Greaser]] alone floats a statute of limitations on the coming heresy hunt: "Unpopular opinion: Ross Ulbricht should be given a free pass if he shitcoins for at least a year. He just got out of prison." Read against the transcripts — where Pledditor and [[characters/deeter-bob|Deeter Bob]] call Ross a shitcoiner before he has announced a shitcoin — the amnesty is offered to a jury that has already returned its verdict. + +> — [@GreaserRichard, 2025-04-24](https://x.com/GreaserRichard/status/1915530088017232252) + +### The intellectual Silk Road + +Rod annexes the freed man to the show's own franchise, and does it before the release — a single line laying claim to the [[storylines/intellectual-silk-road|inheritance]]: "I hope ross ulbricht likes the intellectual silk road." + +> — [@rodpalmerhodl, 2024-11-11](https://x.com/rodpalmerhodl/status/1856041224043438344) + +## Note on the name + +The ASR cannot reliably spell him. Across the corpus he is **Ross Ulberg**, **Ross Ulbert**, **Ross Alpert**, **Russ** and (correctly) **Ross Ulbricht**; the mechanical mention-scan that seeded the old page missed as much as it caught. Every beat above was resolved from context — usually the word "Silk Road" sitting next to the name. + +> irl: Ross Ulbricht is the real founder of the Silk Road marketplace, sentenced to life without parole in 2015 and pardoned by Donald Trump in January 2025 — which is why the show can treat "Free Ross" as a live campaign in 2024 and a fait accompli in 2025 without ever explaining the turn. + +[^cigarettes]: [[transcripts/vaccinating-bitcoin-derangement-syndrome-bugle-weekly-episode-10#t-2201|Bugle Weekly 10 @ 36:41]]. +[^hero]: [[transcripts/selection-autopsy-bugle-weekly-episode-34#t-655|Bugle Weekly 34 @ 10:55]] — "Ross is a hero for me personally"; the "pin on your suit" framing runs from the same passage. +[^trump]: [[transcripts/vaccinating-bitcoin-derangement-syndrome-bugle-weekly-episode-10#t-2030|Bugle Weekly 10 @ 33:50]] — "Ross Ulberg" is the ASR rendering. +[^baileycredit]: [[transcripts/vaccinating-bitcoin-derangement-syndrome-bugle-weekly-episode-10#t-2041|Bugle Weekly 10 @ 34:01]] — Greaser: "I think David Bailey's responsible for it." +[^inaug]: [[transcripts/trump-n-dump-bugle-weekly-episode-43#t-204|Bugle Weekly 43 @ 3:24]]. +[^pardon]: [[transcripts/build-back-better-with-mike-behind-the-podcast-episode-7#t-469|Behind The Podcast 7 @ 7:49]] — ASR "Ross Ulbert"; Mike reveals he had been cutting an Ulbricht biopic. +[^baklava]: [[transcripts/build-back-better-with-mike-behind-the-podcast-episode-7#t-613|Behind The Podcast 7 @ 10:13]] — "homemade baklava. That's a true story that's happening." +[^secondchances]: [[transcripts/fixing-the-cias-incentives-with-frank-corva-behind-the-podcast-episode-9#t-3320|Behind The Podcast 9 @ 55:20]]; Greaser's second-chances riff lands at [[transcripts/fixing-the-cias-incentives-with-frank-corva-behind-the-podcast-episode-9#t-3241|54:01]]. +[^laser]: [[transcripts/reflections-from-the-frontier-bugle-weekly-episode-83-part-2#t-111|Bugle Weekly 83 Pt 2 @ 1:51]] — "sheeping" is ASR for "shooting". +[^loggedoff]: [[transcripts/reflections-from-the-frontier-bugle-weekly-episode-83-part-2#t-142|Bugle Weekly 83 Pt 2 @ 2:22]]. +[^drafted]: [[transcripts/the-future-is-wrapped-bugle-weekly-episode-44#t-2878|Bugle Weekly 44 @ 47:58]] — ASR "Platteter" is [[characters/pledditor|Pledditor]], a different person from [[characters/dick-whitman|Dick Whitman]]; both have tweets pre-written. +[^shitcoiner]: [[transcripts/40-hours-per-week-bugle-weekly-episode-45#t-352|Bugle Weekly 45 @ 5:52]] — ASR "Planetar" is Pledditor. +[^premature]: [[transcripts/podconf-superbowl-aftermath-bugle-weekly-episode-62#t-1774|Bugle Weekly 62 @ 29:34]] — ASR "Dieter" ([[characters/deeter-bob|Deeter Bob]]) and "Plutator" (Pledditor). +[^banana]: [[transcripts/podconf-superbowl-aftermath-bugle-weekly-episode-62#t-2241|Bugle Weekly 62 @ 37:21]]; the banana is planted in the headlines at [[transcripts/podconf-superbowl-aftermath-bugle-weekly-episode-62#t-46|0:46]] — "Justin Sun gave Ross a banana." +[^rogerver]: [[transcripts/podconf-superbowl-aftermath-bugle-weekly-episode-62#t-1831|Bugle Weekly 62 @ 30:31]] — ASR "Roger Veer". +[^inspired]: [[transcripts/the-future-is-wrapped-bugle-weekly-episode-44#t-1996|Bugle Weekly 44 @ 33:16]] — "orange filling Peter McCormick" is ASR for orange-pilling Peter McCormack. +[^jordan]: [[transcripts/satarize-the-system-and-samourai-wallet-with-frank-corva-zack-shapiro-jeremy-poley-and-the#t-5094|Satirize the System @ 1:24:54]] — "Peter McCormick" is the ASR spelling. +[^welch]: [[transcripts/this-is-the-bull-market-bugle-weekly-episode-35#t-1659|Bugle Weekly 35 @ 27:39]] — the "hawk tuah girl"; filed under [[characters/kailey-welch|Kailey Welch]]. +[^hawktua]: [[transcripts/sly-goomba-thanksgiving-special-behind-the-podcast-episode-1#t-1780|Behind The Podcast 1 @ 29:40]] — ASR "Haylee"/"Hawtua". +[^swan]: [[transcripts/selection-autopsy-bugle-weekly-episode-34#t-2538|Bugle Weekly 34 @ 42:18]] — "Ross Alpert" at t=2547 is Ross Ulbricht. +[^cockblock]: [[transcripts/protecting-your-daughters-from-breedloves-orange-pill-behind-the-podcast-episode-8#t-1389|Behind The Podcast 8 @ 23:09]] — "Podkoff" is ASR for PODCONF. +[^strobel]: [[transcripts/protecting-your-daughters-from-breedloves-orange-pill-behind-the-podcast-episode-8#t-1464|Behind The Podcast 8 @ 24:24]] — Daniel Penney has no page yet. +[^shirt]: [[transcripts/the-future-is-wrapped-bugle-weekly-episode-44#t-3463|Bugle Weekly 44 @ 57:43]]. +[^pack]: [[transcripts/40-hours-per-week-bugle-weekly-episode-45#t-2422|Bugle Weekly 45 @ 40:22]] — "the not Marlboro pack." +[^tickets]: [[transcripts/scaling-with-paper-bitcoin-ft-21-media-evan-kaloudis-and-rob-hamilton#t-4446|Scaling With Paper Bitcoin @ 1:14:06]] — the coin count drifts from 2,300 to 2,003 across speakers. +[^samourai]: [[transcripts/telling-compelling-stories-with-avi-burra-intellectual-silk-road-episode-3#t-3054|Intellectual Silk Road 3 @ 50:54]] — "samurai" is ASR for Samourai. +[^dennis]: [[transcripts/pioneers-prepare-for-christmas-bugle-weekly-episode-89#t-4672|Bugle Weekly 89 @ 1:17:52]]. +[^baileyresume]: [[transcripts/let-the-festivities-begin-bugle-weekly-episode-51#t-1779|Bugle Weekly 51 @ 29:39]] — "David Bailey got Ross free," alongside "the strategic Bitcoin only reserve." +[^mcardle]: [[transcripts/back-in-the-saddle-podcasting-again-bugle-weekly-episode-71#t-1826|Bugle Weekly 71 @ 30:26]] — Angela McArdle (ASR "McCardell"); the correction to Ross's mother Lyn lands at [[transcripts/back-in-the-saddle-podcasting-again-bugle-weekly-episode-71#t-1837|30:37]]. +[^erin]: [[transcripts/bitcoin-magazine-maxi-madness-victory-twitter-spaces-with-casey-and-erin#t-923|Maxi Madness Victory Spaces @ 15:23]]. +[^christmas]: [[transcripts/bugle-weekly-christmas-special#t-664|Bugle Weekly Christmas Special @ 11:04]] — read by Kailey from Greaser's 2023 text. +[^easteregg]: [[transcripts/noa-gruman-and-lahav-discuss-scardust-behind-the-music-episode-1#t-867|Behind The Music 1 @ 14:27]] — names the Silk Road, not Ulbricht directly.