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    +title: The Bugle Weekly
    +type: show
    +portrait: /portraits/show-the-bugle-weekly.jpg
    +status: confirmed
    +aliases: [Bugle Weekly, "Google Weekly", "Eagle Weekly", "Beagle News (show ID mangling)"]
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    +---
    +
    +**The Bugle Weekly** is the flagship podcast of [[orgs/the-bugle|The Bugle]], hosted by
    +[[characters/rod-palmer|Rod Palmer]] and [[characters/richard-greaser|Richard "Dick" Greaser]] and
    +running weekly since March 2024. Its announcer bills it as "the most thermodynamically sound podcast
    +in the world."[^tagline] The show's own cold-open testimonial states its founding paradox without
    +apology: "The Bugle is easily the most important journalistic institution around today. They make up
    +literally everything they write, and yet it is somehow all true."[^ep1-paradox]
    +
    +The show does not concede that it is a comedy program. Confronted by a first-time listener who had
    +mistaken it for sarcasm, Greaser allowed only that he and Rod are "not super beings, we're not gods,
    +we're just" — credentialed journalists.[^ep13-notgods] Twenty months later he restated the position
    +against plebs crashing out in the replies: "we're just reporting the news. We're not trying to be
    +funny. The world the world is super gay and retarded. We're just reporting the gay and retarded
    +news."[^ep89-mission] The self-image is fixed early and never revised: a signal "coming from two
    +journalists who smoke more Marlboro Reds than all of their competitors combined," accountable only to
    +listeners because the CIA funds everyone else.[^ep17-selfimage]
    +
    +## The compliance kayfabe and its collapse
    +
    +The show launched as a compliance shill and said so in its content advisory. Episode 3 warns off the
    +wrong audience outright: "stop listening now. This podcast is reserved only for mature individuals who
    +will comply to the extent necessary in order to ensure NGU."[^ep3-warning] The pose held for five
    +episodes. In episode 6 the same advisory voice inverted it — "Warning. The Bugle Weekly is no longer a
    +compliant podcast"[^ep6-defect] — and by episode 7 listeners were being warned they were "about to
    +enter a world where individuals have self respect and therefore do not comply with a government that
    +does not comply itself."[^ep7-flip] The whole [[storylines/church-of-compliance|Church of Compliance]]
    +arc runs out of that hinge.
    +
    +Its replacement doctrine arrived as scripture. The station-ID announcer delivers the cypherpunk origin
    +myth straight-faced — "a group of shadowy super coders saw that the internet would either create new
    +possibilities for freedom" — as the show's founding text.[^ep14-cypherpunk] By episode 22 the formula
    +was fixed: "This is the Bugle Weekly, and you are entering the intellectual Silk
    +Road."[^ep22-isr] Listening to the show *is* the [[orgs/intellectual-silk-road|Intellectual Silk Road]].
    +
    +## Furniture
    +
    +The Bugle Weekly is built out of recurring parts, and the parts carry the ideology.
    +
    +The cold open is rarely the hosts. It has been a land-acknowledgment parody re-aimed at the dollar's
    +unceded reserve-currency status;[^ep9-land] an anti-piracy PSA reskinned so that "listening to Bugle
    +Weekly without boosting Rod and Richard Satz is stealing from journalists, and it's against the
    +law";[^ep11-boost] a Fourth-of-July anthem whose hook is "Only fools follow the
    +rules";[^ep15-anthem] and a torch ballad sung by a woman who wants "a man whose full time job is
    +listening to Bitcoin podcasts" — the [[bits/full-time-podcast-listeners|full-time podcast listener]] as
    +romantic ideal.[^ep16-ballad] The [[memes/40hpw|40HPW]] doctrine is issued as an invocation: "By
    +listening to forty hours of podcasts a week, you are solidifying our bright orange
    +future."[^ep43-40hpw]
    +
    +Noncompliance is measured in tobacco. The episode 19 cold open reports post-conference defections from
    +[[orgs/podconf|PodConf]] with the show's standing index: "Individuals are throwing away their vapes in
    +exchange for smoking cigarettes, as well as throwing away compliance in favor of
    +defiance."[^ep19-cigs]
    +
    +## Staff
    +
    +[[characters/kailey-welch|Kailey Welch]] arrives in episode 20, announcing her own hire in the cold
    +open: "Rod and Dick discuss how everything in the market is fine, as as well as how they hired me as
    +their new show producer."[^ep20-hire] She signs off as the Bugle's "smoking hot vape
    +producer"[^ep24-vape] and thereafter carries the standing station ID.[^tagline]
    +
    +Around the hosts sits a bench of correspondents who appear only in their own segments. William Hooper
    +signs the doom-laden election cold open of episode 32 — "This is William Hooper, and you are listening
    +to the Bugle Weekly" — and returns later as a herald voice.[^ep32-hooper]
    +[[characters/maggie-morris|Maggie Morris]] debuts a dating column in episode 46: "Hello, and welcome to
    +Maggie's Advice Corner. Here, I will give thermodynamically sound advice to Bitcoiners and their loved
    +ones."[^ep46-maggie] [[characters/buster-cherry|Buster Cherry]] reads the headlines and supplies the
    +show's handshake formula, "Well, it's been a strange week, folks."[^ep64-buster]
    +[[characters/philmore-katz|Philmore Katz]] is the house lawyer, unbidden — "Hello pioneers, this is
    +your favorite Jewish lawyer, Phil Moore Katz"[^ep82-katz] — and bills $5,000 an hour at Katz and
    +Goldberg, though he works the Bugle pro bono because its journalists spend all their money on
    +cigarettes.[^ep78-katz-rate]
    +
    +## The spinoffs
    +
    +The feed metastasized. In November 2024 Rod announced a "new thing. We're gonna have podcasts coming
    +out on Thursdays as well" — the founding moment of [[storylines/behind-the-podcast|Behind the
    +Podcast]],[^btp1-launch] whose remit he later compressed to one line: "where we, my cohost, and, the
    +editor of Beagle News, Richard Grieser, and I, we interview influencers in the Bitcoin podcast
    +community."[^btp5-remit] Behind the Music followed in March 2025, opening by canonizing metal as "the
    +sacred music of the ungovernable and non compliant."[^btm1-metal] Behind the Article launched in
    +September 2025 with Greaser admitting on tape that he had no name for it: "I don't even know what we're
    +gonna call it. I I guess we're just,"[^bta1-noname] Greaser's Take began the same month as a solo
    +editorial with no cold open and no co-host,[^gt1-solo] and the
    +[[storylines/importance-of-heroes|Heroes]] lectures ran as a numbered series.[^heroes2]
    +[[characters/rudy-dazzleworth|Rudy Dazzleworth]] narrates
    +[[storylines/pleb-slop-pulitzer-prize-pieces|Pleb Slop Pulitzer Prize Pieces]], a straight-faced
    +longform read whose honored journalism eventually includes the New York Times.[^psppp3]
    +
    +## Monetization
    +
    +The show is candid that the listener is the resource. From episode 11 the boost is framed as a legal
    +obligation.[^ep11-boost] From October 2025 the Bugle began walling segments off entirely: a Rod Palmer
    +mock job interview survives in the public feed only as a thirteen-second trailer announcing "We are
    +releasing this exclusively for our paid fountain subscribers,"[^premium-interview] "deep dive" became
    +the house label for the paid two-hander format,[^deepdive] and within three weeks the paywall trailer
    +was routine enough to say so — "This is another subscriber exclusive piece of
    +content."[^another] In February 2026 the Wednesday interviews were retired in favour of a
    +subscriber-exclusive second dose of the show, promised as "a little bit more non
    +compliant."[^ep98-format] Greaser stated the model plainly after the Maxi Madness prediction markets
    +turned over 1.2 BTC: "We're we're always looking for new ways to extract Bitcoin from you
    +guys."[^ep103-extract] The show measures the take publicly as well: it announced finishing "#11 in
    +@fountain_app Top 40 shows of 2024," billed as a recap of "the biggest year in Bitcoin Podcast history
    +(so far)."[^x-fountain11]
    +
    +[^x-fountain11]: [@bitcoin_bugle, 2024-12-30](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/1873772979345383485). See "The Fountain front" below for the surrounding boost-and-charts campaign.
    +
    +## Periodization
    +
    +The Bugle Weekly does not date itself by the calendar. It grades the news week against the Fourth
    +Turning — "not so long ago, this would have been an interesting news week. But it's the fourth turn in.
    +It's been a little bit slow"[^ep86-turning] — and it retires registers as eras end. Rod closed out the
    +bull-market voice in January 2026: "This is not the Bull Market Bitcoin podcast."[^ep92-retire] A week
    +later the show declared the crisis itself over, mocking its own house style: "Everyone is walking around
    +yelling fourth turning, fourth turning, like it's Beetlejuice."[^ep93-beetlejuice] The
    +[[storylines/first-turning-era|First Turning]] posture that followed is jestermaxxing — "They're jester
    +maxing, the plebs are jester maxing, the goys are jester maxing, everybody's trying to mod each
    +other."[^ep97-jester] The prescribed civic response to unrest is disengagement: let "the feds fight it
    +out and just listen to Bitcoin podcast."[^ep94-disengage]
    +
    +## Position
    +
    +The show defines itself against the rest of the industry, and the definitions harden over time. Greaser
    +rejected "independent media" as plebslopped to death and rebranded: "myself and the bugle call us, the
    +non CIA media."[^ep84-noncia] After [[characters/charlie-kirk|Charlie Kirk]]'s killing the Bugle ran an
    +emergency stream classing it as an industrial event — "Today, we witnessed an on person attack on
    +podcasting"[^emergency] — the show's [[storylines/podcasting-meta-drama|meta-drama]] instinct at full
    +extension. The 2026 positioning statement is an outro: "While the rest of the Bitcoin podcasters are
    +crashing out, pivoting the AI or doing whatever gay shit they're up to," the Bugle will be here
    +reporting the news every week.[^ep99-position]
    +
    +Not every episode is two hosts and banter. Episode 77 opens with Rod alone — "This is Rod Balmer" —
    +reading an eleven-minute prepared statement to listeners, written because he had gone on Plebchain Radio
    +wanting a sermon and had to compose his own.[^ep77-statement]
    +
    +## The show on X
    +
    +The Bugle Weekly's promotional life runs on the newsroom account [[orgs/the-bugle|@bitcoin_bugle]]
    +plus the hosts' personal handles, and the marketing voice is the same kayfabe as the show, only
    +compressed to a post. The account announced the launch in the show's own idiom — "The Bugle Weekly
    +Podcast has Launched! We intend to use podcasting to subvert the PODCONF Industrial Complex" — naming
    +the enemy before it had named a single guest.
    +
    +> "The Bugle Weekly Podcast has Launched! We intend to use podcasting to subvert the PODCONF Industrial Complex"
    +> — [@bitcoin_bugle, 2024-03-25](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/1772229563013083507)
    +
    +The [[storylines/podconf-industrial-complex|PodConf]] feud is not confined to the audio. Four months
    +in, the account reported the conference retaliating at the distribution layer, and refused to fold:
    +
    +> "Due to our support for @SamouraiWallet devs, PODCONF is now trying to intimidate @fountain_app until they deplatform Bugle Weekly. We won't back down ✊"
    +> — [@bitcoin_bugle, 2024-07-30](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/1818317054971412644)
    +
    +### Selling the signal
    +
    +The self-promotion is total and unembarrassed. The show does not claim to be good; it claims to be
    +physically distinct from its competitors, a thing of superior thermodynamics and "entropy."
    +
    +![](/tweets/1961584139003420941-0.jpg)
    +
    +> "There is no other podcast like the Bugle Weekly"
    +> — [@bitcoin_bugle, 2025-08-30](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/1961584139003420941)
    +
    +> "Bugle Weekly & Behind The Podcast contain Credential Grade Entropy to ensure your #40HPW🎧 remains high signal."
    +> — [@bitcoin_bugle, 2025-04-18](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/1913238322660466697)
    +
    +![](/tweets/1913238322660466697-0.jpg)
    +
    +The [[memes/40hpw|40HPW]] doctrine — forty hours of podcasts a week — is the account's standing
    +hashtag, and the [[bits/full-time-podcast-listeners|full-time podcast listener]] gets a recurring
    +"Listener Spotlight" with named subjects like Randy "Haulin Sats."
    +
    +![](/tweets/1917773661622198517-0.jpg)
    +
    +The account is also candid, in the show's manner, that the goal is engagement rather than accuracy —
    +it pre-announced an episode title chosen for the reaction it would draw:
    +
    +> "In an effort to boost engagement, the next Bugle Weekly podcast episode will be titled 'Jeff Booth Is a Communist'"
    +> — [@bitcoin_bugle, 2024-08-26](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/1828201955539247290)
    +
    +Even the pull-quotes stay in character. A promo for the last episode of 2024 lifted a line from
    +[[characters/rod-palmer|Rod Palmer]]: "If you aren't having fun it's because you aren't listening to
    +enough Bitcoin podcasts."[^x-fun] The fake-breaking-news register survives intact too — a December
    +2025 episode was trailed as "BREAKING: Dennis Porter Has Been Confirmed To Have Been Kidnapped By
    +North Korea," with [[characters/dennis-porter|Dennis Porter]] the ostensible subject.[^x-porter]
    +
    +### The Fountain front
    +
    +The show's early growth story is told in [[sponsors/fountain|Fountain]] metrics. The account
    +publicised its listener base's platform loyalty, drafted its audience into the trending war, and
    +posted the standings when they came in.
    +
    +> "53% of Bugle Weekly listeners use @fountain_app"
    +> — [@bitcoin_bugle, 2024-05-22](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/1793330079898148968)
    +
    +> "Make sure to boost us so those losers at Linux Unplugged don't beat us in the Fountain trending charts."
    +> — [@bitcoin_bugle, 2024-05-15](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/1790792909375132053)
    +
    +![](/tweets/1873772979345383485-0.jpg)
    +
    +> "MASSIVE BREAKING: Bugle Weekly finished #11 in @fountain_app Top 40 shows of 2024"
    +> — [@bitcoin_bugle, 2024-12-30](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/1873772979345383485)
    +
    +### Trailers, segments, and running characters
    +
    +Before Kailey Welch's hire, [[characters/rod-palmer|Rod Palmer]]'s and
    +[[characters/richard-greaser|Greaser]]'s own accounts carried the show's video promotion, and the
    +clips they chose show the segment machinery being built in real time. Rod cut a trailer for
    +[[characters/pledditor|Pledditor]]'s in-show investigative serial "To Catch A Shitcoiner":
    +
    +<video controls preload="none" poster="/tweets/1823071178124415276-poster.jpg" src="/tweets/1823071178124415276.mp4" style="width:100%;max-width:620px;border-radius:10px;display:block;margin:.5rem 0;"></video>
    +
    +> "Don't miss the exclusive new trailer for Pledditor's investigative series 'To Catch A Shitcoiner' on the latest episode of Bugle Weekly"
    +> — [@rodpalmerhodl, 2024-08-12](https://x.com/rodpalmerhodl/status/1823071178124415276)
    +
    +The same week he pitched a companion bit — a scammer who only scams scammers — with the show's
    +habitual borrow-a-premise-from-cable framing:
    +
    +> "What if he was a Bitcoin maximalist who scammed but he only scammed scammers? Check it out in this excerpt from the latest episode of Bugle Weekly"
    +> — [@rodpalmerhodl, 2024-08-26](https://x.com/rodpalmerhodl/status/1828170962321485847)
    +
    +Sponsor reads got their own cutdowns — this one an in-show ad promoted straight off Rod's feed:
    +
    +<video controls preload="none" poster="/tweets/1818363492707274946-poster.jpg" src="/tweets/1818363492707274946.mp4" style="width:100%;max-width:620px;border-radius:10px;display:block;margin:.5rem 0;"></video>
    +
    +Greaser's own posts run to deadpan one-liners in the show's OpSec register — "I secure my private keys
    +with paper from Office Depot"[^x-officedepot] — and to on-brand political "analysis," such as his
    +announcement that he had "just learned" of a presidential candidate and would be evaluating him on the
    +next episode.[^x-chase] Rod's earliest video, from before launch, is the compliance-era mission
    +statement in seed form: "Some people are curious why I am so passionate about compliance."[^x-compliance]
    +The correspondent bench is maintained on the feed as well: [[characters/philmore-katz|Philmore Katz]]'s
    +address "to Knotzis" was clipped as its own promo,[^x-katz] and Rod confirmed by popular demand that
    +"Timmy Tether will return soon to Bugle Weekly."[^x-timmy]
    +
    +One outside voice corroborates the [[characters/kailey-welch|Kailey Welch]] storyline from the
    +[[orgs/podconf|PodConf]] side. The @_podconf account, recapping her on-air arc, reads as a hostile
    +witness to the same events the show narrates:
    +
    +> "Wild story on @bitcoin_bugle Bugle Weekly podcast. Monero guys are assholes. Now she's shilling creatine supplements and all about 'Love is Bitcoin'."
    +> — [@_podconf, 2025-04-19](https://x.com/_podconf/status/1913693517852835846)
    +
    +**Henry's note:** the promotional feed and the show are the same bit at two lengths, so the posts add
    +texture rather than new canon — the on-air record already carries the compliance flip, the 40HPW
    +doctrine and the correspondent roster. The exception is the PodConf-Fountain deplatform claim, which
    +lives only on X and is filed under [[storylines/podconf-industrial-complex]] pending an on-tape
    +mention. Distinguish this account from the newsroom itself: @bitcoin_bugle is the X handle of
    +[[orgs/the-bugle|The Bugle]], and its non-show output (headlines, bugle.news) belongs on that page,
    +not here.
    +
    +[^x-fun]: [@bitcoin_bugle, 2024-12-31](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/1874136831719334103). Promo quoting Rod Palmer; the show attributes the line to him directly.
    +[^x-porter]: [@bitcoin_bugle, 2025-12-08](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/1998044502083428780). Trail for Episode 88, featuring @cornfedbtc; the "kidnapped by North Korea" framing is the account's satirical headline, not an episode claim verified here.
    +[^x-officedepot]: [@GreaserRichard, 2025-03-17](https://x.com/GreaserRichard/status/1901713783586017759). Video promo for the then-current episode.
    +[^x-chase]: [@GreaserRichard, 2024-10-31](https://x.com/GreaserRichard/status/1851837900628852770). The candidate is @ChaseForLiberty; the "just learned for the first time" pose is the joke. Feeds the election-coverage material around [[transcripts/selection-special-part-1-bugle-weekly-episode-32#t-75|Episode 32]].
    +[^x-compliance]: [@rodpalmerhodl, 2024-04-03](https://x.com/rodpalmerhodl/status/1775550277657014426). Recorded for an upcoming episode with @GreaserRichard, dated to the compliance-shill era before the Episode 6 defection.
    +[^x-katz]: [@bitcoin_bugle, 2025-09-29](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/1972668341505437938). "A message to Knotzis from our Jewish lawyer Philmore Katz," trailing Episode 78. "Knotzis" is the show's Knots-partisan coinage.
    +[^x-timmy]: [@rodpalmerhodl, 2025-09-30](https://x.com/rodpalmerhodl/status/1973113245323108541). Confirms the return of [[characters/timmy-tether|Timmy Tether]] as a recurring character.
    +
    +> irl: The Bugle Weekly is a satirical Bitcoin-media podcast. The wiki documents it in-universe; the
    +> hosts' in-universe insistence that the show is straight journalism is itself part of the bit, and is
    +> recorded here as canon rather than adjudicated.
    +
    +**Henry's note:** the beat index for this page is sampled — 120 of 447 beats across 129 episodes. The
    +above is representative, not exhaustive; segments, correspondents and formats not named here may well
    +exist in the unsampled remainder.
    +
    +[^tagline]: [[transcripts/will-the-future-be-joyful-or-maga-bugle-weekly-episode-23#t-3|Bugle Weekly 23 @ 0:03]]. Quote straddles two cues; other episodes say "in the game" rather than "in the world". ASR renders the producer as "Kayley Welch".
    +[^ep1-paradox]: [[transcripts/out-complying-the-competition-bugle-weekly-episode-1#t-57|Bugle Weekly 1 @ 0:57]]. Repeated verbatim by the same voice at t=4258 as the outro sting.
    +[^ep13-notgods]: [[transcripts/the-intellectual-silk-road-bugle-weekly-episode-13#t-3334|Bugle Weekly 13 @ 55:34]]. Quote begins mid-sentence; "credentialed journalists" lands on the next cue. Prompted by a boost from a listener admitting "I didn't realize it with sarcasm", to which Palmer replied "This is not sarcasm."
    +[^ep89-mission]: [[transcripts/pioneers-prepare-for-christmas-bugle-weekly-episode-89#t-3959|Bugle Weekly 89 @ 1:05:59]].
    +[^ep17-selfimage]: [[transcripts/opsec-in-spookville-bugle-weekly-episode-17#t-274|Bugle Weekly 17 @ 4:34]]. Same produced read at t=250 and t=257; the voice is a narrator, not a host.
    +[^ep3-warning]: [[transcripts/comply-side-economics-101-bugle-weekly-episode-3#t-13|Bugle Weekly 3 @ 0:13]].
    +[^ep6-defect]: [[transcripts/the-compliant-people-are-getting-involved-bugle-weekly-episode-6#t-0|Bugle Weekly 6 @ 0:00]].
    +[^ep7-flip]: [[transcripts/ungovernable-non-compliance-with-the-ungovernable-misfits-bugle-weekly-episode-7#t-0|Bugle Weekly 7 @ 0:00]].
    +[^ep14-cypherpunk]: [[transcripts/making-journalism-cypherpunk-bugle-weekly-episode-14#t-154|Bugle Weekly 14 @ 2:34]]. ASR renders "Big brother is watching you" as "My brother is watching you" at t=164.
    +[^ep22-isr]: [[transcripts/intellectual-silk-road-101-bugle-weekly-episode-22#t-315|Bugle Weekly 22 @ 5:15]]. ASR spells the producer "Kaylee". Bookended at t=4844: "Your support of the show is helping to develop the intellectual Silk Road."
    +[^ep9-land]: [[transcripts/the-revolution-will-not-be-centralized-bugle-weekly-episode-9#t-3|Bugle Weekly 9 @ 0:03]].
    +[^ep11-boost]: [[transcripts/happy-compliance-month-bugle-weekly-episode-11#t-15|Bugle Weekly 11 @ 0:15]]. "Rod and Richard Satz" is ASR for "Rod and Richard sats". Quote straddles t=15 and t=21; the outro at t=3842 varies it to "You wouldn't steal a Kia".
    +[^ep15-anthem]: [[transcripts/noncompliant-4th-of-july-bugle-weekly-episode-15#t-105|Bugle Weekly 15 @ 1:45]]. The song bookends the episode (t=6, t=3993).
    +[^ep16-ballad]: [[transcripts/recovering-from-a-noncompliant-4th-bugle-weekly-episode-16#t-25|Bugle Weekly 16 @ 0:25]]. ASR renders "Prince Charming" as "Prince Sean".
    +[^ep43-40hpw]: [[transcripts/trump-n-dump-bugle-weekly-episode-43#t-149|Bugle Weekly 43 @ 2:29]]. Quote spans two cues; the speaker is an unnamed announcer role.
    +[^ep19-cigs]: [[transcripts/satoshi-would-be-proud-bugle-weekly-episode-19#t-283|Bugle Weekly 19 @ 4:43]]. PodConf is mangled eight different ways across this episode, including "Podkoff" and "Bigfoot podcast". See [[storylines/cigarette-money-donations]] and [[storylines/podconf-industrial-complex]].
    +[^ep20-hire]: [[transcripts/this-is-fine-bugle-weekly-episode-20#t-303|Bugle Weekly 20 @ 5:03]]. Her first cue on the show; she adds at t=311 that she "fixed Dick's horrible audio".
    +[^ep24-vape]: [[transcripts/decentralizing-compliance-with-steven-lubka-bugle-weekly-episode-24#t-36|Bugle Weekly 24 @ 0:36]]. ASR: "Hailey Welch"; "bugle curse" is ASR for Bugleverse.
    +[^ep32-hooper]: [[transcripts/selection-special-part-1-bugle-weekly-episode-32#t-75|Bugle Weekly 32 @ 1:15]]. Hooper has no wiki page; named in plain text here.
    +[^ep46-maggie]: [[transcripts/super-sportball-bitcoin-pizza-day-for-normies-bugle-weekly-episode-46#t-131|Bugle Weekly 46 @ 2:11]]. Quote spans t=131 and t=135; the announcer introduces her as a "Bugle correspondent" and Greaser confirms he commissioned the segment at t=2373.
    +[^ep64-buster]: [[transcripts/good-fathers-listen-to-40hpw-bugle-weekly-episode-64#t-0|Bugle Weekly 64 @ 0:00]]. Greaser echoes it back at t=167.
    +[^ep82-katz]: [[transcripts/chain-splits-and-jewish-lawyers-bugle-weekly-episode-82#t-0|Bugle Weekly 82 @ 0:00]]. ASR renders him "Phil Moore Katz". Nobody commissions this one; he frames it as recurring unbidden counsel at t=4.
    +[^ep78-katz-rate]: [[transcripts/be-a-good-example-bugle-weekly-episode-78#t-192|Bugle Weekly 78 @ 3:12]]. "an hour" completes on the next cue (t=201); the pro bono justification is at t=180. Katz and Goldberg has no wiki page.
    +[^btp1-launch]: [[transcripts/sly-goomba-thanksgiving-special-behind-the-podcast-episode-1#t-13|Behind the Podcast 1 @ 0:13]].
    +[^btp5-remit]: [[transcripts/discovering-miniscript-with-rob-hamilton-behind-the-podcast-episode-5#t-26|Behind the Podcast 5 @ 0:26]]. ASR: "Beagle News" for Bugle News, "Richard Grieser" for Richard Greaser.
    +[^btm1-metal]: [[transcripts/noa-gruman-and-lahav-discuss-scardust-behind-the-music-episode-1#t-83|Behind the Music 1 @ 1:23]]. The speaker is an unnamed scripted announcer.
    +[^bta1-noname]: [[transcripts/to-10-hottest-feds-behind-the-article-episode-1#t-7|Behind the Article 1 @ 0:07]]. The series title exists in the feed metadata but is never said on tape — it was applied in post.
    +[^gt1-solo]: [[transcripts/the-revolution-wont-have-good-ux-greasers-take-1#t-0|Greaser's Take 1 @ 0:00]]. Greaser's Take has no wiki page of its own. See [[storylines/richard-greaser-philosopher]].
    +[^heroes2]: [[transcripts/the-importance-of-heroes-part-2#t-0|The Importance Of Heroes, Part 2 @ 0:00]]. ASR says "Richard Grieser's hero series"; the episode metadata says "Heroes". Distinct from [[media/heroes]], Greaser's song of the same name.
    +[^psppp3]: [[transcripts/my-quest-to-solve-bitcoins-great-mystery-pleb-slop-pulitzer-prize-pieces-episode-3#t-0|Pleb Slop Pulitzer Prize Pieces 3 @ 0:00]]. ASR: "Rudy Dazleworth", "Plebslop Pulitzer price piece".
    +[^premium-interview]: [[transcripts/rod-palmer-job-interview-for-paid-subscribers#t-0|Rod Palmer Job Interview @ 0:00]]. See [[sponsors/bugle-weekly-premium]] and [[storylines/fountain-premium-content]].
    +[^deepdive]: [[transcripts/we-know-w-rod-and-mars#t-0|We Know w/ Rod & Mars @ 0:00]]. Featuring [[characters/mars-spits-bars|Mars]]. The same phrase framed the Rod-and-Jeff drop a week earlier, marking it as the fixed formula rather than a one-off description.
    +[^another]: [[transcripts/subscriber-bonus-episode-shadrach-and-nostrville#t-0|Subscriber Bonus: Shadrach And Nostrville @ 0:00]]. The word "another" is the evidence: roughly the third such drop, and already a standing house format.
    +[^ep98-format]: [[transcripts/pleb-is-the-new-n-word-bugle-weekly-episode-98#t-3071|Bugle Weekly 98 @ 51:11]]. "Google Weekly" is ASR for Bugle Weekly. Setup at t=3048; "That will be exclusively for subscribers" at t=3079.
    +[^ep103-extract]: [[transcripts/hard-lessons-for-plebs-bugle-weekly-episode-103#t-4173|Bugle Weekly 103 @ 1:09:33]]. Follows "It's just about finding creative ways to to extract it" (t=4164). See [[storylines/maxi-madness]] and [[sponsors/predyx]].
    +[^ep86-turning]: [[transcripts/happy-thanksgiving-bugle-weekly-episode-86#t-68|Bugle Weekly 86 @ 1:08]]. ASR renders "fourth turning" as "fourth turn in" here and four other ways across the episode. Rod disagrees at t=111.
    +[^ep92-retire]: [[transcripts/2026-starts-with-a-bang-bugle-weekly-episode-92#t-333|Bugle Weekly 92 @ 5:33]]. Continues across the next cues: "the fourth turning, the GDS year" — "GDS" is ASR for TDS. See [[storylines/bull-market-euphoria]].
    +[^ep93-beetlejuice]: [[transcripts/the-dawn-of-the-1st-turning-bugle-weekly-episode-93#t-0|Bugle Weekly 93 @ 0:00]]. The speaker is never named and is not attributed to either host.
    +[^ep97-jester]: [[transcripts/jestermaxxing-through-the-1st-turning-bugle-weekly-episode-97#t-135|Bugle Weekly 97 @ 2:15]]. "jester maxing" is ASR for jestermaxxing; "mod" is ASR for mog. The variant "jester gooning" follows at t=143.
    +[^ep94-disengage]: [[transcripts/a-cold-rowdy-winter-bugle-weekly-episode-94#t-241|Bugle Weekly 94 @ 4:01]]. Quote spans two cues. See [[storylines/40-hours-per-week]].
    +[^ep84-noncia]: [[transcripts/rising-above-slop-bugle-weekly-episode-84#t-1145|Bugle Weekly 84 @ 19:05]]. Quote spans three cues.
    +[^emergency]: [[transcripts/emergency-broadcast-podcasting-under-attack#t-6|Emergency Broadcast: Podcasting Under Attack @ 0:06]]. Quote spans three cues; "an on person" is ASR and the intended word is unrecoverable from the transcript. Greaser qualifies at t=15: "while Charlie Kirk was not a Bitcoin podcaster, he was a podcaster."
    +[^ep99-position]: [[transcripts/behave-or-benjamin-netanyahu-bugle-weekly-episode-99#t-4268|Bugle Weekly 99 @ 1:11:08]]. ASR renders the show "Eagle Weekly" at t=4265.
    +[^ep77-statement]: [[transcripts/quit-scaring-the-plebs-bugle-weekly-episode-77#t-4|Bugle Weekly 77 @ 0:04]]. ASR renders Palmer as "Balmer". The Plebchain Radio origin is given at t=718.