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    +---
    +title: 40HPW
    +type: meme
    +status: confirmed
    +aliases:
    +  - 40 Hours Per Week
    +  - 40 HPW
    +  - "#40HPW"
    +  - forty hours per week
    +  - 40 h p w
    +  - 40hpw
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    +---
    +
    +**40HPW** — forty hours per week of Bitcoin podcasts — is the central doctrine of
    +[[media/the-bugle-weekly]] and the standard against which the Bugleverse measures a
    +person's seriousness. It is not presented as a listening habit. It is presented as
    +labour: a weekly quota, equivalent in scale to employment, that qualifies the listener
    +to hold opinions, run an economic node, sit on a jury, and survive the fourth turning.
    +The show defines its own audience by it — "the Bitcoin podcast for people who listen to
    +forty hours of Bitcoin podcasts."[^thesis]
    +
    +The number is a floor, never a ceiling. Below it, [[characters/richard-greaser]] rules,
    +"hate to break it to you, but you're just dumb."[^dumb] Above it, the arithmetic gets
    +competitive rather than absurd — and stays competitive for the entire run of the record.
    +
    +## Naming the condition
    +
    +The earliest instance in this index is not the doctrine at all but its shape: in April
    +2024, [[characters/rod-palmer]] transposes the slogan onto mining, arguing that hashers
    +should be paid a living hash rate — "Nobody who hashes for forty hours a week should live
    +in poverty."[^hashers] The labour framing arrives before the podcasts do.
    +
    +By September 2024 the quota is the show's signature demand, read as one costume with the
    +[[orgs/orange-berets]]: "they're doing all this wearing orange berets, telling us to listen
    +to forty hours of podcasts a week."[^beret] The doctrine's cleanest early statement lands
    +the same month, as the punchline to a segment on [[characters/whitney-webb]] — she is
    +disqualified because "instead of listening to forty hours of Bitcoin podcasts a week, she's
    +speaking, doing at least forty hours of Bitcoin podcasts a week."[^webb] Palmer's reply
    +formalises it: study it first, then do it.
    +
    +Greaser establishes both the floor and the ceiling in October 2024. Forty is the minimum
    +for a "high testosterone Bitcoiner," with "no half assing it"; eighty is "kinda like taking
    +anabolic steroids. Like, it's almost cheating."[^floor] Rod immediately supplies the
    +loophole — 1.5x speed counts.
    +
    +The rule's justification is geopolitical. Greaser: "why is it so important, to listen to
    +forty hours of Bitcoin podcasts a week? Is because there's a Chinese person out there that's
    +willing to listen to eighty hours."[^armsrace] Rod escalates it into physics in the same
    +segment, asserting that hash rate correlates to hours of Bitcoin podcasts consumed — a claim
    +the show returns to when it builds an AI price prediction model that ingests every hour of
    +Bitcoin podcasts released each week and outputs a price.[^model]
    +
    +The record contains two incompatible accounts of where the meme itself came from; see
    +[[#Disputed]] below.
    +
    +## The entropy doctrine
    +
    +Asked why the volume specifically matters, the show gives a consistent epistemology: forty
    +hours is not about finding a podcaster to trust, it is about ingesting enough contradiction
    +to think independently. Greaser: "this is why forty hours a week is important because you
    +need the entropy to understand."[^entropy] Rod develops it into the movement's load-bearing
    +metaphysics — listening across macro, privacy, technical and astrology podcasts is literally
    +key generation: "when you create a podcast you are having to go out and listen to forty hours
    +per week with all this entropy," and all you need to create your own private keys is enough
    +entropy.[^privatekey]
    +
    +The sermon form of this argument is delivered solo, before a guest arrives: "you shouldn't
    +just be podcasting. You should be listening to podcast. You should be listening to forty
    +hours per week." Its payoff is that Bitcoin is not for everybody — it is for those who do the
    +proof of work.[^sermon]
    +
    +The doctrine has an earnest floor beneath the bit. Asked what the yield on forty hours is,
    +Greaser answers without irony: "The yield is having a good marriage. The yield is being able
    +to afford your taxes."[^yield]
    +
    +## As credential
    +
    +40HPW functions throughout the record as a gate rather than a hobby, and the show pursues
    +making it verifiable. The gamified version appears in October 2024 — "a gamified system k.
    +For measuring podcast consumption complete with badges and ranking. Like a Bitcoin podcast
    +master badge"[^badges] — and Rod later turns it into a product demand of
    +[[sponsors/fountain]], which should track hours so plebs can display "their prestige badges,
    +their their their badges of honor of listening to forty hours per week."[^prestige] He argues
    +in the same segment that battery drain from listening constitutes literal proof of work.
    +
    +Applied as a gate, the standard disqualifies broadly. On the OP_RETURN debate: "If you don't
    +listen to forty hours per week, I don't want to hear your opinion on this" — which Rod
    +insists is filtering, not censorship.[^filter] It reaches constitutional law, where the Sixth
    +Amendment is read to require a jury doing its hours: "Peer to peer that is the jury of your
    +peers somebody who doesn't listen to Bitcoin podcast."[^jury] It disqualifies
    +[[characters/tom-luongo]], who "doesn't listen to forty hours of Bitcoin podcasts. It's it's
    +very clear he doesn't."[^luongo] Greaser diagnoses democracy itself as a compliance failure,
    +99% of voters simply not putting in the hours.[^democracy]
    +
    +In August 2025 the standard is formally ranked. A listener asks whether running a node buys
    +him out of the quota — "if I run my notes, should that not be, like, the equivalent of forty
    +hours of podcast per week?"[^nodeq] — and Rod refuses a quick answer before the hosts rule
    +against him: "listening to forty hours is much bigger deal than running a node."[^noderuling]
    +Greaser's reasoning is that forty hours of listening is forty hours of work, whereas Umbrel
    +requires understanding nothing. The inverse follows: 40HPW is the mechanism that converts a
    +pleb into an economic node, which is why plebs who skipped it "have no excuse."[^econnode]
    +
    +## Merch, franchise, liturgy
    +
    +The meme acquires commercial infrastructure in January 2025, when Rod announces a
    +partnership with [[orgs/podconf]] on the 40HPW brand and asks listeners to put #40HPW in their
    +Twitter or Nostr handle in lieu of a boost.[^podconf] The same episode launches his first
    +shirt on [[sponsors/orange-label]] — a "hours per week, Silk Road commemorative Marlboro
    +cigarette" design marking [[characters/ross-ulbricht]]'s release, which Greaser sells as a
    +status symbol precisely because it will not sell.[^shirt] The line proper follows in the
    +titular episode, a not-Marlboro cigarette pack in "forty hours per week. The, you know, the
    +Silk Road edition commemorating Ross being freed," alongside wife-directed SKUs ("my husband
    +is a Bitcoin podcaster").[^merch] By April 2025 [[characters/timmy-tether]] is reading the
    +[[sponsors/orangelabel]] ad for the collection, priced at 0.000012 Bitcoin.[^adread]
    +
    +It also becomes programming. Episode 57 cold-opens not on the hosts but on the "40 Hours Per
    +Week Bitcoin Podcast Listener Spotlight," fronted by Tether, whose call to action is to send
    +proof of your forty hours so the show can tell your story.[^spotlight] The bit annexes
    +history in the same episode: Greaser retcons the Canadian trucker convoy as downstream of the
    +quota — "the reason why that protest happened was because of forty hours per week."[^truckers]
    +
    +The religious register is explicit rather than implied. [[characters/pastor-jeffs]] closes a
    +sermon with the benediction "Now go forth and listen to forty hours of Bitcoin
    +podcasts,"[^benediction] and [[sponsors/mountainside-church]]'s course curriculum lists "forty
    +hours of assigned podcast listening, and guided repentance for past altcoin
    +activity."[^curriculum] The show names its own parent, too: [[characters/adam-curry]], "the pod
    +father, the father of podcasting, the father of podcasting two point zero, the father of
    +Bitcoin podcast," without whom, the hosts say, they couldn't do 40HPW.[^curry]
    +
    +The franchise even has a soundtrack. Rod's "40 Hours Per Week" exists as an actual song, and
    +by June 2025 it is being covered live: [[characters/noa-gruman]] performed it at Bitcoin Film
    +Fest, which [[characters/richard-greaser]] posted with approval, vouching for her on the only
    +axis that counts — "the most talented musician I have encountered that is a diligent Bitcoin
    +Podcast Listener." — [@GreaserRichard, 2025-06-08](https://x.com/GreaserRichard/status/1931556317518307730)
    +
    +<video controls preload="none" poster="/tweets/1931556317518307730-poster.jpg" src="/tweets/1931556317518307730.mp4" style="width:100%;max-width:620px;border-radius:10px;display:block;margin:.5rem 0;"></video>
    +
    +## Escalation and variants
    +
    +The quota is never revised downward, and the record is full of people bidding it up.
    +[[characters/heavily-armed-clown]] one-ups the movement's arithmetic by claiming he
    +front-loaded "a hundred and sixty hours a week" in the early years and has coasted on the
    +surplus since.[^hack] A boost read in October 2024 calls 1.75x-speed compliance "rookie
    +numbers" and asks what is so special about forty hours anyway.[^rookie] Another listener
    +attests the practice in the wild — forty hours a week at 1.75x for three years
    +straight.[^attested] [[characters/late-stage-hodl]] contributes "docking" — docking into 40 HPW
    +— which the hosts adopt on the spot.[^docking] The format itself proves portable: a boosted
    +"40 hugs per week" is upgraded by Greaser to twelve a day, "the the official
    +minimum."[^hugs]
    +
    +Its terminus, as Rod states it, is total: forty hours is "not a joke at the price you
    +deserve," it is a portal, and the deeper you go the more your life becomes a
    +podcast.[^portal] By December 2025 the doctrine has expanded past Earth — the real quantum
    +threat is aliens picking up forty hours per week of Bitcoin podcasts on radio
    +antennas.[^aliens]
    +
    +The bit is durable enough that its targets count it. [[characters/mike-brock]], mid-debate:
    +"Of Bitcoin podcast a week. Yeah. I've heard you say this, like, 20 times now."[^brock]
    +
    +## On the timeline
    +
    +The doctrine does not stay inside the podcast. The Bugleverse accounts post the quota as
    +slogan, threat, sermon, insider crime, and pickup line, and the number holds its shape across
    +every register.
    +
    +### The number as its own post
    +
    +Stripped of all argument, the meme reduces to the figure. [[characters/richard-greaser]] has
    +posted it as a complete sentence — "40 hours per week" — [@GreaserRichard, 2025-06-15](https://x.com/GreaserRichard/status/1934048376116433179) —
    +and elsewhere restates it as monetary backing, the labour theory of value applied to
    +listening: "Bitcoin isn't backed by nothing. It is backed by podcast listeners who listen to
    +40 hours per week diligently." — [@GreaserRichard, 2025-04-17](https://x.com/GreaserRichard/status/1912856913039044707)
    +The credential test from [[#As credential]] recurs on the timeline word-for-word. Quizzing
    +[[characters/robert-breedlove]]'s *What is Money* show for a working definition of money,
    +Greaser sets the quota as the bar for basic competence: "Anyone listening to 40 hours per week
    +should have a good answer." — [@GreaserRichard, 2025-10-03](https://x.com/GreaserRichard/status/1973949912527360426)
    +
    +![](/tweets/1973949912527360426-0.jpg)
    +
    +He also files the doctrine under courtship, which is the same claim with the seriousness sanded
    +off: "Hey girl, are you a Bitcoin podcast? I could listen to you for 40 hours per week." — [@GreaserRichard, 2025-11-11](https://x.com/GreaserRichard/status/1988286321853702324)
    +
    +### Rod's loopholes and rivals
    +
    +[[characters/rod-palmer]]'s posts worry the exact edges the show does — what counts, what
    +cheats, what competes for the hours. The rival-content framing is constant: the forty hours can
    +be spent on podcasts "or if you don't like bitcoin podcasts you could use that time to listen
    +to 3 phish songs" — [@rodpalmerhodl, 2024-12-13](https://x.com/rodpalmerhodl/status/1867710606930846036) —
    +and the seasonal enemy is [[memes/pleb-slop|pleb slop]]: "pumpkin spice pleb slop or 40 hours
    +per week? how would you rather spend your time this uptober?" — [@rodpalmerhodl, 2025-10-02](https://x.com/rodpalmerhodl/status/1973547028086128939)
    +Even sanctioned homework registers as betrayal — "have you ever had to cheat on your 40 hours
    +per week of bitcoin podcasts to watch 40 hours of lightning tutorials?" — [@rodpalmerhodl, 2024-11-26](https://x.com/rodpalmerhodl/status/1861244421246775523) —
    +cheating on the quota with more studying. When he wants the archetype rendered, he outsources
    +it: "grok, draw me a picture of someone who listens to 40 hours per week of bitcoin podcasts."
    +— [@rodpalmerhodl, 2024-12-23](https://x.com/rodpalmerhodl/status/1871208864059990155)
    +
    +The liturgy of [[#Merch, franchise, liturgy]] reaches the dinner table. Rod's most-liked post
    +in this index is a parenting scene, the benediction of [[characters/pastor-jeffs]] rewritten as
    +a threat: [to my son who is refusing to listen to his 40 hours per week] "you're not going
    +anywhere until you finish your podcasts. there are kids in africa starving for signal right
    +now." — [@rodpalmerhodl, 2025-07-20](https://x.com/rodpalmerhodl/status/1946966623761387991)
    +
    +### The Bugle desk reports it as news
    +
    +[[orgs/the-bugle]]'s wire treats 40HPW as a standing institution with regulatory exposure. The
    +flagship is a market-structure panic that reframes the quota as material non-public
    +information: "SEC To Rule On Whether 40 Hours Per Week Bitcoin Podcast Listeners Should Be
    +Barred From Trading As Insiders." — [@bitcoin_bugle, 2025-10-17](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/1979194213393711154)
    +
    +![](/tweets/1979194213393711154-0.png)
    +
    +The desk also lists the meme as national infrastructure. In a February 2025 dispatch, "40 Hours
    +Per Week" closes a roster of things Washington allegedly panic-searches once USAID stops funding
    +dollar-friendly podcasts — filed beside V4V, [[sponsors/fountain|Fountain]] boosts, and
    +[[orgs/podconf]] sponsorships. — [@bitcoin_bugle, 2025-02-16](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/1891209654971117711)
    +And it works the number as a straight pun on employment, saluting overworked accountants who
    +"reportedly worked up to 40 hours per week to get the job done" — [@bitcoin_bugle, 2025-04-16](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/1912505132211925187) —
    +the joke being that a full-time American work-week is merely the Bitcoiner's baseline listening
    +load.
    +
    +![](/tweets/1891209654971117711-0.jpg)
    +
    +## Disputed
    +
    +The record cannot decide whether the Bugle invented 40HPW or merely named it.
    +
    +Asked directly by [[characters/rob-hamilton]] in May 2025 whether the show came up with it,
    +Greaser disclaims authorship: "I I think we just discovered it. I I wouldn't say that we
    +invented it. It was not in any way." His grounds are that
    +[[bits/full-time-podcast-listeners]] already existed as a cohort — [[orgs/the-bugle]] "just put
    +a description on it… Turn it into a meme." Rod ratifies the framing on the spot.[^discovered]
    +
    +Greaser twice attributes it to Rod as a coinage instead. In August 2025: "I think you came up
    +with this, Rod, is like, this is the podcast for the forty hours per week listener."[^coined1]
    +And in September 2025, more flatly: "This is like Rod coined a long time ago on this show.
    +This is the podcast for the person that listens to forty hours of Bitcoin podcasts a
    +week."[^coined2]
    +
    +The two accounts are reconcilable only if the coinage is read as naming the show's audience
    +rather than the practice — which is what the "discovered it" version claims, from the same
    +speaker. The wiki records both. Note also that the threshold is itself unstable: in the same
    +conversation where he declines to have invented it, Greaser proposes raising it — "we're
    +gonna have to bump forty hours per week up to, like, maybe forty five, fifty soon."
    +
    +[^thesis]: [[transcripts/40-hours-per-week-bugle-weekly-episode-45#t-70|40 Hours Per Week, Bugle Weekly 45 @ 1:10]]. The quote spans three cues; "per week" lands at t=77.
    +[^dumb]: [[transcripts/this-is-the-bull-market-bugle-weekly-episode-35#t-1752|THIS IS THE BULL MARKET, Bugle Weekly 35 @ 29:12]]. Setup at t=1748: "until you've been listening to forty hours a week for a while."
    +[^hashers]: [[transcripts/odell-and-iran-attack-ngu-bugle-weekly-episode-4#t-3985|Odell and Iran Attack NGU, Bugle Weekly 4 @ 1:06:25]].
    +[^beret]: [[transcripts/bugle-weekly-episode-28-tldr-by-hr-specialists#t-284|Bugle Weekly 28 TLDR by HR Specialists @ 4:44]].
    +[^webb]: [[transcripts/outrunning-hypersonic-missiles-bugle-weekly-episode-26#t-3652|Outrunning Hypersonic Missiles, Bugle Weekly 26 @ 1:00:52]]. Quote spans t=3652–3661; Palmer's "Study it first, then do it" at t=3676.
    +[^floor]: [[transcripts/environmentally-friendly-war-bugle-weekly-episode-29#t-3492|Environmentally Friendly War, Bugle Weekly 29 @ 58:12]]. Greaser's sentence is split across three ASR cues (t=3492–3494); the steroids line is at t=3506 and Rod's 1.5x loophole at t=3514.
    +[^armsrace]: [[transcripts/jason-lowerys-drones-bugle-weekly-episode-39#t-2682|Jason Lowery's Drones, Bugle Weekly 39 @ 44:42]]. Quote straddles t=2682 and t=2690; Rod's hash-rate correlation at t=2743.
    +[^model]: [[transcripts/this-is-the-bull-market-bugle-weekly-episode-35#t-3687|THIS IS THE BULL MARKET, Bugle Weekly 35 @ 1:01:27]]. The model runs t=3681–3701.
    +[^entropy]: [[transcripts/orange-pilled-pioneers-bugle-weekly-episode-63#t-1853|Orange Pilled Pioneers, Bugle Weekly 63 @ 30:53]]. Developed at t=1874–1892: "it's not about choosing which opinion to follow, it's about choosing your own opinion."
    +[^privatekey]: [[transcripts/a-vibes-revival-with-walker-america-btp-episode-25#t-1172|A Vibes Revival With Walker America, BTP 25 @ 19:32]]. Built from t=1139 ("one of the terms we use is getting enough entropy") and t=1166–1169.
    +[^sermon]: [[transcripts/richard-greaser-vs-mike-brock-debate#t-748|Richard Greaser Vs. Mike Brock Debate @ 12:28]]. Payoff at t=968–977.
    +[^yield]: [[transcripts/scaling-with-paper-bitcoin-ft-21-media-evan-kaloudis-and-rob-hamilton#t-2908|Scaling With Paper Bitcoin ft. 21 Media, Evan Kaloudis, and Rob Hamilton @ 48:28]]. The cue is labelled S3 but opens with the tail of another speaker's line — a diarization artifact in this bundle. Continues t=2915–2930: "It equips you to be the person you wanna be."
    +[^badges]: [[transcripts/bugle-weekly-episode-31-tldr-by-hr-specialists#t-253|Bugle Weekly 31 TLDR by HR Specialists @ 4:13]].
    +[^prestige]: [[transcripts/is-this-the-god-candle-bugle-weekly-episode-49#t-3064|Is This The God Candle, Bugle Weekly 49 @ 51:04]]. The proof-of-work argument runs t=3114–3143.
    +[^filter]: [[transcripts/node-rape-run-rampant-bugle-weekly-episode-58#t-2352|Node Rape Run Rampant, Bugle Weekly 58 @ 39:12]]. Quote spans two cues; the filtering payoff at 39:37.
    +[^jury]: [[transcripts/satarize-the-system-and-samourai-wallet-with-frank-corva-zack-shapiro-jeremy-poley-and-the#t-2214|Satarize the System and Samourai Wallet with Frank Corva, Zack Shapiro, Jeremy Poley and the Bugle @ 36:54]]. Full run t=2204–2224.
    +[^luongo]: [[transcripts/in-the-midst-of-madness-bugle-weekly-episode-102#t-2263|In The Midst Of Madness, Bugle Weekly 102 @ 37:43]].
    +[^democracy]: [[transcripts/queen-of-canadian-paper-bitcoin-with-cryptomags-btp-episode-20#t-940|Queen Of Canadian Paper Bitcoin with CryptoMags, BTP 20 @ 15:40]].
    +[^nodeq]: [[transcripts/podcaster-wealth-inequality-bugle-weekly-episode-72#t-1094|Podcaster Wealth Inequality, Bugle Weekly 72 @ 18:14]]. ASR gives "notes" for "nodes" throughout this stretch.
    +[^noderuling]: [[transcripts/podcaster-wealth-inequality-bugle-weekly-episode-72#t-1312|Podcaster Wealth Inequality, Bugle Weekly 72 @ 21:52]]. Rod's "100%." at t=1318; Greaser's reasoning at t=1320.
    +[^econnode]: [[transcripts/pioneers-run-economic-nodes-bugle-weekly-episode-74#t-510|Pioneers Run Economic Nodes, Bugle Weekly 74 @ 8:30]]. Payoff lands in the following two cues (t=516, t=521); ASR renders "nodes" as "notes" here.
    +[^podconf]: [[transcripts/the-future-is-wrapped-bugle-weekly-episode-44#t-3388|The Future is Wrapped, Bugle Weekly 44 @ 56:28]]. "Forty hours of Bitcoin podcast will change the world" at t=3398; the boost-substitution ask at t=3424–3439. ASR gives "Noster" for Nostr.
    +[^shirt]: [[transcripts/the-future-is-wrapped-bugle-weekly-episode-44#t-3463|The Future is Wrapped, Bugle Weekly 44 @ 57:43]]. Quote spans t=3463–3469. Greaser's pitch runs t=3488–3524 ("If you want a status symbol, it is the 40 HPW shirt"); "you'll be the only one at the meetup over and over again" at t=3536.
    +[^merch]: [[transcripts/40-hours-per-week-bugle-weekly-episode-45#t-2422|40 Hours Per Week, Bugle Weekly 45 @ 40:22]]. Quote spans cues t=2422/2425/2427; "the not Marlboro pack" at t=2420; the wife-directed SKUs at t=2431–2436.
    +[^adread]: [[transcripts/cypherpunks-use-ordinals-mode-with-erin-redwing-behind-the-podcast-episode-14#t-52|Cypherpunks Use Ordinals Mode with Erin Redwing, Behind the Podcast 14 @ 0:52]]. The read names orangelabel.co at 1:23.
    +[^spotlight]: [[transcripts/truckin-down-the-rabbit-hole-bugle-weekly-episode-57#t-11|Truckin Down The Rabbit Hole, Bugle Weekly 57 @ 0:11]]. Announcer at t=6–10; the call to action at t=183.
    +[^truckers]: [[transcripts/truckin-down-the-rabbit-hole-bugle-weekly-episode-57#t-392|Truckin Down The Rabbit Hole, Bugle Weekly 57 @ 6:32]]. Greaser caps it at t=537: "fueled by forty hours per week."
    +[^benediction]: [[transcripts/pioneers-run-economic-nodes-bugle-weekly-episode-74#t-104|Pioneers Run Economic Nodes, Bugle Weekly 74 @ 1:44]].
    +[^curriculum]: [[transcripts/the-plebs-killed-jesus-easter-service-by-pastor-jeffs#t-348|The Plebs Killed Jesus, Easter Service by Pastor Jeffs @ 5:48]].
    +[^curry]: [[transcripts/good-fathers-listen-to-40hpw-bugle-weekly-episode-64#t-3095|Good Fathers Listen To 40HPW, Bugle Weekly 64 @ 51:35]]. Quote spans t=3095–3102, one escalating sentence.
    +[^hack]: [[transcripts/clowns-against-knotzis-behind-the-podcast-episode-16#t-135|Clowns Against Knotzis, Behind the Podcast 16 @ 2:15]]. Rod's setup at t=121–127 invokes "the forty hours per week initiative" and "Hashtag 40 HPW".
    +[^rookie]: [[transcripts/is-saylor-a-spook-bugle-weekly-episode-31#t-4640|Is Saylor a Spook, Bugle Weekly 31 @ 1:17:20]]. The booster is given as "the broken ruler" at t=4634.
    +[^attested]: [[transcripts/bugle-weekly-episode-31-tldr-by-hr-specialists#t-225|Bugle Weekly 31 TLDR by HR Specialists @ 3:45]]. The "1.75 x speed" and "three years straight" details land in adjacent cues (t=225, t=239).
    +[^docking]: [[transcripts/let-the-festivities-begin-bugle-weekly-episode-51#t-2673|Let The Festivities Begin, Bugle Weekly 51 @ 44:33]]. ASR reads the booster as "late stage huddle" at t=2663.
    +[^hugs]: [[transcripts/are-the-aliens-zionists-bugle-weekly-episode-108#t-3857|Are The Aliens Zionists, Bugle Weekly 108 @ 1:04:17]]. Prompted by a boost adding "40 hugs per week to my rotation"; Rod's rider names [[characters/dennis-porter]].
    +[^portal]: [[transcripts/the-world-is-a-podcast-with-rob-wallace-btp-episode-28#t-1829|The World Is A Podcast With Rob Wallace, BTP 28 @ 30:29]]. Doctrine runs t=1833–1852.
    +[^aliens]: [[transcripts/the-quantum-quarrel-has-commenced-bugle-weekly-episode-90#t-635|The Quantum Quarrel Has Commenced, Bugle Weekly 90 @ 10:35]]. The cue reads in full "if our if our if our Barack if our Bitcoin podcast if forty hours per week of Bitcoin podcasts are are propagating"; premise at t=615–624, where "half quantum computers" is ASR for "have".
    +[^brock]: [[transcripts/richard-greaser-vs-mike-brock-debate#t-5346|Richard Greaser Vs. Mike Brock Debate @ 1:29:06]]. The cue's first clause is Greaser, mis-diarized into Brock's cue.
    +[^discovered]: [[transcripts/scaling-with-paper-bitcoin-ft-21-media-evan-kaloudis-and-rob-hamilton#t-2631|Scaling With Paper Bitcoin ft. 21 Media, Evan Kaloudis, and Rob Hamilton @ 43:51]]. Hamilton's question at t=2621; Greaser's grounds at t=2638; "just put a description on it" at t=2645; Rod's "You discovered it. That's right." at t=2649; the proposed bump at t=2753.
    +[^coined1]: [[transcripts/humor-knotzi-police-state-bugle-weekly-episode-73#t-1261|Humor Knotzi Police State, Bugle Weekly 73 @ 21:01]].
    +[^coined2]: [[transcripts/be-a-good-example-bugle-weekly-episode-78#t-357|Be A Good Example, Bugle Weekly 78 @ 5:57]]. Greaser flubs the unit a minute earlier ("forty hours of Bitcoin podcasts a year", t=287) and self-corrects at t=294.