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Sly Goomba
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diff --git a/wiki/characters/sly-goomba.md b/wiki/characters/sly-goomba.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..a3c94c1f @@ -0,0 +1,115 @@ +--- +title: Sly Goomba +type: character +factions: + - ISR +portrait: /portraits/x-sly-goomba.jpg +status: confirmed +aliases: + - Slide Goomba + - Goomba + - Gooba + - Sly Gooba + - Sly Cooper + - Mister Gambo + - Slag Doonba + - Goob +sources: + - raw/episodes/opsec-in-spookville-bugle-weekly-episode-17/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/sly-goomba-thanksgiving-special-behind-the-podcast-episode-1/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/thanksgiving-victory-lap-bugle-weekly-episode-37/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/satoshi-is-jewish-behind-the-podcast-episode-3/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/jason-lowerys-drones-bugle-weekly-episode-39/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/the-future-is-wrapped-bugle-weekly-episode-44/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/40-hours-per-week-bugle-weekly-episode-45/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/eligible-bachelor-tatum-turnup-behind-the-podcast-episode-17/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/monitoring-the-situation-bugle-weekly-episode-65/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/queen-of-canadian-paper-bitcoin-with-cryptomags-btp-episode-20/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/pioneers-run-economic-nodes-bugle-weekly-episode-74/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/everyone-is-recording-the-same-podcast-w-rod-and-jeff/bundle.json +--- + +> *Henry's note: rebuilt from the beat index — 34 beats across 13 episodes, coverage COMPLETE. The old page's 20-episode "Appearances" list was a mechanical name-match; more than half of it has no verified beat and has been dropped.* + +A Canadian listener-turned-guest and permanent **friend of the show**: the plebeian evangelist of "a Bitcoin podcast for Bitcoin podcasters," and the inaugural guest of [[storylines/behind-the-podcast|Behind the Podcast]], whose entire recursive premise he supplied. Where [[characters/lubka|Lubka]] is the credentialed enemy the show sat down with, Sly Goomba is its purest fan — a man who took [[characters/rod-palmer|Rod Palmer]]'s [[storylines/40-hours-per-week|forty-hours-per-week]] listening quota as scripture and then out-doctrined the hosts on it. + +His first mark on the record is not friendly. In [[episodes/opsec-in-spookville-bugle-weekly-episode-17|Opsec In Spookville]] he had accused [[characters/fundamentals|Fundamentals]] of taking "some sort of under the radar"[^shade] sponsorship from Rock Paper Bitcoin; [[characters/richard-greaser|Greaser]] rebuts him on the grounds that a [[sponsors/fountain|Fountain]] boost is public by construction, and speculates the real grievance was that "people weren't boosting his podcast." He is a listener with a podcast and a bone to pick before he is ever a guest. + +**In it with:** [[characters/richard-greaser|Richard Greaser]] · [[characters/rod-palmer|Rod Palmer]] · [[characters/fundamentals|Fundamentals]] · [[characters/matthew-kratter|Matthew Kratter]] · [[characters/true-heather|True Heather]] · [[characters/cryptomags|CryptoMags]] · [[characters/tatum|Tatum]] · [[characters/piez|Piez]] + +**Arc:** [[storylines/behind-the-podcast]] · [[storylines/podcasting-meta-drama]] · [[storylines/canada-watch]] · [[storylines/40-hours-per-week]] + +## The Thanksgiving special (2024) + +Sly Goomba's canon is set almost entirely in one sitting: [[episodes/sly-goomba-thanksgiving-special-behind-the-podcast-episode-1|the Thanksgiving special]], the very first Behind the Podcast, recorded as a Bugle Weekly spin-off "to elevate the intellectual Silk Road." His opening line states the format's whole conceit — he is "Excited to, talk to a fellow Bitcoin podcasters on a Bitcoin podcast about Bitcoin podcasting."[^first] + +The signature bit follows from a market gap. There are Bitcoin podcasts for millennials, women, devs and lightning freaks, he reasons, but none for podcasters themselves, so "everybody becomes a Bitcoin podcaster. And we need we need to spread the message of the importance of Bitcoin podcasting to Bitcoin podcasters."[^podcasters] He frames podcasting as a "calling" every Bitcoiner is fated to answer, and dates his own conversion to two weeks before he started his show. + +His podcast doctrine is a theology of scarcity. He will not waste "The the bandwidth on my brain" designing a logo — an AI-generated logo signals low time preference, which Rod certifies makes the podcast "thermodynamically sound"[^logo] — because "we only have so many blocks in our life" and he refuses to associate with people who waste blocks. The reasoning generalises: a Bitcoin song is liturgy you cannot feel until you have done the reading, "unless you've put in at least one full cycle of forty hours a day of Bitcoin podcasts,"[^music] a quota he silently escalates from per-week to per-day. The same engine produces his finest lore: told the biggest Bitcoin song is *Don't Stop Believin'*, he concludes "Scottie Pippen must have helped write that song because he actually knew Satoshi in '93,"[^pippen] tipped off half a century early. + +His enforcement instincts are consensus-flavoured. Blaming the cycle's first failed pump on the band Creed, he calls to "filter CREED"[^creed] — a soft fork to remove them from the ecosystem and disassociate from anyone who thinks Creed matters to a pump. Toward the Ocean/Knots faction he is gentler: their "one flaw is that they might think that Bitcoin hasn't won yet,"[^won] a defect of proximity rather than malice, since [[characters/luke-dashjr|Luke Dashjr]] and company are simply too close to see the war is over. + +The interview's most-repeated joke is the headphones. Modern earbuds are "disposable. This is a problem with the Fiat system,"[^headphones] and since he burns through a pair doing his forty hours, he must budget for headphones weekly alongside groceries, rent and cigarettes — "the essentials." Greaser recommends over-ear; Sly leaves the interview mid-answer to go research, prompting Greaser's verdict that he has never interviewed anyone who left the interview to do research. + +Asked his sell target in a bull market, he will never sell a sat — but at $300,000 he "made a decision with myself that I'm gonna buy PlayStation five,"[^ps5] money used for what it is meant for. Video games are his terminal value: no point in an off-grid homestead if you cannot enjoy a good eight-hour session on the couch. + +## The theory of Canada + +Half the special is a monetary thesis about his home country. The US dollar beats the Canadian dollar because it is "backed by a real government that at least is willing to go and murder people all across the world,"[^dollar] whereas he holds the loonie is backed by nothing — a claim Greaser fact-checks and overrules, ruling that the Canadian dollar is in fact backed by "tolerance and anti racism."[^factcheck] The theme recurs when Greaser reads the credentialed press back at him: Canada is reaching "new levels of compliance, new new levels of tolerance"[^compliance] and a booming housing market, against which Sly maintains he hasn't met anyone able to pay taxes in four years and that roughly twelve people in Canada own a house. + +His prescription for Canadians who feel too late is that they are too late: "sell whatever labor you can in order to trade it for sats,"[^body] man or woman, or failing that "start a podcast and get boosts on fountain"[^fountain] — the two escape routes named in the same breath, with Greaser ruling that selling your body puts you on a fast track to Bitcoin podcasting anyway. He also corroborates the episode's ordinals-etiquette bit, agreeing that a Canadian who inscribes an ordinal owes the land an acknowledgement — Greaser's ruling that a miner should "sign the apology"[^land] into the block itself, block space being digital real estate. + +The one province he exempts is Alberta: "Canada's last stand. It's like Florida,"[^alberta] his reason for moving there, home of Bull Bitcoin's relocated headquarters, and a candidate for secession on a platform of oil and guns. He installs premier Danielle Smith as a "hardcore Bitcoiner"[^smith] drafting a charter guaranteeing guns, oil and Bitcoin — a claim carried here at the beat's medium confidence, since her credential is podcast adjacency and the corroborating names around her are ASR mush. Danielle Smith has no page. + +He also floats a hope that [[characters/justin-trudeau|Justin Trudeau]] is a secret Bitcoiner, canonising a clip of the PM telling Canadians to "opt out of inflation, buy Bitcoin"[^trudeau] — though he worries Trudeau is outgunned, printing as fast as he can against a hard cap of 21 million coins. + +## Doctrines and diagnoses + +Two of the special's set-pieces sit slightly apart from the Canada thesis. The episode's synthesis is that "simping" for yourself is the highest virtue and the forty-hour quota is self-care: "The best way to start is by listening to forty Hours of Bitcoin Podcasts."[^simp] And the Bugle's cigarettes-as-wellness doctrine gets applied to Lizzo, whose weight loss Sly credits to self-simping and whom he prescribes smoking — "hopefully she started picking up smoking cigarettes. I think that'll help her"[^lizzo] — a medium-confidence beat, and Lizzo has no page. Greaser closes the episode by naming the whole format "podcasting adversarially."[^adversarial] + +## Friend of the show (2024–2025) + +After the special, Sly Goomba becomes a recurring reference the hosts reach for without him present. Greaser announces the Behind the Podcast launch on [[episodes/thanksgiving-victory-lap-bugle-weekly-episode-37|Thanksgiving Victory Lap]], naming the first guest — "Sly Goomba."[^launch] On [[episodes/satoshi-is-jewish-behind-the-podcast-episode-3|Satoshi is Jewish]], Fundamentals credits "Goomba"[^satoshi] with the strongest plank of the Satoshi theory — that Satoshi never spent a single sat — sourcing the bit to him rather than claiming it. On [[episodes/jason-lowerys-drones-bugle-weekly-episode-39|Jason Lowery's Drones]], Rod offers Chinese sabotage as the explanation for Sly's earbud problem: unable to reach podcast equipment, they are "blowing up AirPods every time Sly Goomba listens to Bitcoin podcasts,"[^airpods] prompting a proposed charity fund to feed hungry minds rather than hungry kids. + +He becomes a market indicator. On [[episodes/the-future-is-wrapped-bugle-weekly-episode-44|The Future is Wrapped]] Greaser's leading bullish signal for 2025 is not price but podcast supply, and his insider datum is that Sly Goomba is relaunching his show;[^relaunch] on [[episodes/40-hours-per-week-bugle-weekly-episode-45|40 Hours Per Week]] the return itself is the bull case — Sly "should be publishing his first episode"[^return] as this one airs, because last time he did this the price went 8x. The [[episodes/fix-the-world-one-bitcoin-podcast-at-a-time-with-the-broken-ruler-behind-the-podcast-episo|Broken Ruler]] cold open casts him as the emblem of Canadian collapse, one of the "individuals like Sly Gooba" begging [[characters/donald-trump|Donald Trump]] to "annex the collapsing country and force them to use Tethr."[^annex] + +The later appearances keep him in the recurring bench. In [[episodes/eligible-bachelor-tatum-turnup-behind-the-podcast-episode-17|Eligible Bachelor Tatum Turnup]], Greaser's closing wager asks who gets a girlfriend first, [[characters/tatum|Tatum]] "or Sly Goomba?"[^girlfriend] — Tatum picks Sly. [[episodes/monitoring-the-situation-bugle-weekly-episode-65|Monitoring The Situation]] logs his nuke denialism as settled friend-of-the-show lore: "Sly Goomba, a friend of the show, he doesn't believe that nukes exist."[^nukes] In [[episodes/queen-of-canadian-paper-bitcoin-with-cryptomags-btp-episode-20|Queen Of Canadian Paper Bitcoin]], Greaser maps [[characters/cryptomags|CryptoMags]]' sell-Bitcoin-to-buy-a-house heresy onto an argument Sly once had with [[characters/true-heather|True Heather]], diagnosing that to the [[memes/orangecels|orangecels]] such talk "sounds like failing a purity test."[^heather] On Labor Day's [[episodes/pioneers-run-economic-nodes-bugle-weekly-episode-74|Pioneers Run Economic Nodes]] he is honoured in the roll call of laborers, "Sly Goomba, the people like Pies,"[^laborers] alongside truck drivers and homebuilders. And by [[episodes/everyone-is-recording-the-same-podcast-w-rod-and-jeff|Everyone Is Recording The Same Podcast]] he is back in the guest chair, [[characters/matthew-kratter|Kratter]] trailing "a deep dive interview by Rod Palmer with Sly Goomba about my personal favorite topic, [[memes/pleb-slop|Pleb Slop]]."[^plebslop] + +## Note on the name + +The ASR cannot hold him steady. Across thirteen episodes he is rendered **Slide Goomba, Goomba, Gooba, Sly Gooba, Sly Cooper, Mister Gambo** and **Slag Doonba**, and the hosts call him "Goob" for short. A name-match scan is therefore near-useless — most of the beats above resolve from context, not spelling — which is why the `aliases:` are load-bearing. Greaser once addresses him as "mister Greenberg," left out of the aliases as a likely one-off misnaming rather than a transcription variant. + +[^shade]: [[transcripts/opsec-in-spookville-bugle-weekly-episode-17#t-2746|Bugle Weekly 17 @ 45:46]] — Greaser paraphrasing Sly's accusation; ASR renders the name "Slide Goomba" at 45:41. +[^first]: [[transcripts/sly-goomba-thanksgiving-special-behind-the-podcast-episode-1#t-49|BTP 1 @ 0:49]] — the cue merges Rod's greeting with Sly's reply; the quoted words are Sly's. +[^podcasters]: [[transcripts/sly-goomba-thanksgiving-special-behind-the-podcast-episode-1#t-487|BTP 1 @ 8:07]]; the market-gap setup is at 6:47 and the "calling" at 7:48. +[^logo]: [[transcripts/sly-goomba-thanksgiving-special-behind-the-podcast-episode-1#t-563|BTP 1 @ 9:23]] — Rod's "thermodynamically sound" completion runs across 9:34–9:47; the "waste blocks" theology follows at 9:57. +[^music]: [[transcripts/sly-goomba-thanksgiving-special-behind-the-podcast-episode-1#t-1455|BTP 1 @ 24:15]] — "forty hours a day" is the ASR's rendering; the surrounding conversation otherwise says per week. +[^pippen]: [[transcripts/sly-goomba-thanksgiving-special-behind-the-podcast-episode-1#t-1591|BTP 1 @ 26:31]] — "Don't Stop Believing" is the ASR spelling. Scottie Pippen has no page. +[^creed]: [[transcripts/sly-goomba-thanksgiving-special-behind-the-podcast-episode-1#t-1675|BTP 1 @ 27:55]] — a host prompts "You wanna filter CREED?" at 27:49 and Sly adopts it; the grievance started as [[characters/ben-justman|Ben Justman]] tweeting about cereal. +[^won]: [[transcripts/sly-goomba-thanksgiving-special-behind-the-podcast-episode-1#t-1730|BTP 1 @ 28:50]] — of Luke Dashjr, ASR "Luke Dash Junior"; repeated at 21:16, "Bitcoin has won." +[^headphones]: [[transcripts/sly-goomba-thanksgiving-special-behind-the-podcast-episode-1#t-1921|BTP 1 @ 32:01]] — he addresses Greaser as "Dick" at 31:32, the clearest evidence the co-host is [[characters/richard-greaser|Richard Greaser]]; the essentials list (cigarettes, headphones, rent) is at 40:22. +[^ps5]: [[transcripts/sly-goomba-thanksgiving-special-behind-the-podcast-episode-1#t-1846|BTP 1 @ 30:46]]; he reworks the number as "about $1,000,000 CAD" at 40:38 and calls it not far-going. +[^dollar]: [[transcripts/sly-goomba-thanksgiving-special-behind-the-podcast-episode-1#t-287|BTP 1 @ 4:47]] — he also objects to Canadian money carrying "kings and queens of another nation." +[^factcheck]: [[transcripts/sly-goomba-thanksgiving-special-behind-the-podcast-episode-1#t-306|BTP 1 @ 5:06]] — Greaser's words; the "tolerance and anti racism" punchline lands at 5:16–5:26. +[^compliance]: [[transcripts/sly-goomba-thanksgiving-special-behind-the-podcast-episode-1#t-2210|BTP 1 @ 36:50]] — Greaser's words; Sly counters on taxes at 37:04 and housing at 37:35. +[^body]: [[transcripts/sly-goomba-thanksgiving-special-behind-the-podcast-episode-1#t-1107|BTP 1 @ 18:27]] — preceded at 18:24 by "All all you can do now is sell your body." +[^fountain]: [[transcripts/sly-goomba-thanksgiving-special-behind-the-podcast-episode-1#t-1139|BTP 1 @ 18:59]] — cue merges both voices; the quoted words are Sly's, the "fast track" reply Greaser's. +[^land]: [[transcripts/sly-goomba-thanksgiving-special-behind-the-podcast-episode-1#t-970|BTP 1 @ 16:10]] — Greaser's ruling; Rod sets it up at 15:44 and Sly corroborates from a hockey-game land acknowledgement. +[^alberta]: [[transcripts/sly-goomba-thanksgiving-special-behind-the-podcast-episode-1#t-2727|BTP 1 @ 45:27]] — Greaser objects an independent Alberta is landlocked (49:03); Sly answers oil and guns. +[^smith]: [[transcripts/sly-goomba-thanksgiving-special-behind-the-podcast-episode-1#t-2811|BTP 1 @ 46:51]] — medium confidence; secession at 46:59, the "guns, oil, Bitcoin" charter at 50:53. Danielle Smith has no page. +[^trudeau]: [[transcripts/sly-goomba-thanksgiving-special-behind-the-podcast-episode-1#t-783|BTP 1 @ 13:03]] — he asks the hosts to put the clip in the show notes; the 21-million worry is at 13:39. +[^simp]: [[transcripts/sly-goomba-thanksgiving-special-behind-the-podcast-episode-1#t-3174|BTP 1 @ 52:54]] — "simping/simp" repeatedly rendered by ASR as "sync/sit for themselves." +[^lizzo]: [[transcripts/sly-goomba-thanksgiving-special-behind-the-podcast-episode-1#t-3271|BTP 1 @ 54:31]] — medium confidence; Greaser's setup at 54:23. Lizzo has no page. +[^adversarial]: [[transcripts/sly-goomba-thanksgiving-special-behind-the-podcast-episode-1#t-3402|BTP 1 @ 56:42]] — a callback to Rod's "carpentry adversarially" at 34:23; Rod confirms the Wednesday-record, Thursday-release cadence. +[^launch]: [[transcripts/thanksgiving-victory-lap-bugle-weekly-episode-37#t-3008|Bugle Weekly 37 @ 50:08]] — the sentence spans 50:06–50:16; ASR also gives "mister Gambo" at 51:14. +[^satoshi]: [[transcripts/satoshi-is-jewish-behind-the-podcast-episode-3#t-388|BTP 3 @ 6:28]] — ASR renders him bare "Goomba"; the nugget completes at 6:37, "never spent a single sat." +[^airpods]: [[transcripts/jason-lowerys-drones-bugle-weekly-episode-39#t-2824|Bugle Weekly 39 @ 47:04]] — Rod's line; Greaser proposes the headphone charity fund at 47:31. +[^relaunch]: [[transcripts/the-future-is-wrapped-bugle-weekly-episode-44#t-1835|Bugle Weekly 44 @ 30:35]] — "is relaunching his podcast. I talked to him the other day" follows at 30:38; the framing is "the increase in podcast is gonna be the leading indicator for price." +[^return]: [[transcripts/40-hours-per-week-bugle-weekly-episode-45#t-435|Bugle Weekly 45 @ 7:15]] — ASR gives "Sly Cooper" at 7:41; Rod's proof, "last time you did this the Bitcoin price went like 8x," at 7:57. +[^annex]: [[transcripts/fix-the-world-one-bitcoin-podcast-at-a-time-with-the-broken-ruler-behind-the-podcast-episo#t-17|BTP 10 @ 0:17]] — ASR "Sly Gooba" and "Tethr"; the setup blames Canada's hockey loss to the US. +[^girlfriend]: [[transcripts/eligible-bachelor-tatum-turnup-behind-the-podcast-episode-17#t-3039|BTP 17 @ 50:39]]. +[^nukes]: [[transcripts/monitoring-the-situation-bugle-weekly-episode-65#t-792|Bugle Weekly 65 @ 13:12]] — he returns at 1:00:37 as "Slag Doonba" on a Bitcoin Rodeo panel. +[^heather]: [[transcripts/queen-of-canadian-paper-bitcoin-with-cryptomags-btp-episode-20#t-2600|BTP 20 @ 43:20]] — "orange shells" at 43:33 is ASR for "orangecels." +[^laborers]: [[transcripts/pioneers-run-economic-nodes-bugle-weekly-episode-74#t-1008|Bugle Weekly 74 @ 16:48]] — medium confidence; "Pies" is ASR for [[characters/piez|Piez]]. +[^plebslop]: [[transcripts/everyone-is-recording-the-same-podcast-w-rod-and-jeff#t-3|Everyone Is Recording The Same Podcast @ 0:03]] — Kratter's trailer line; ASR splits the meme as two words, "Pleb Slop."