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+title: Orange Label
+type: sponsor
+status: confirmed
+aliases: [OrangeLabel, Orange Mart, orangelabel.co, 40 HPW T-shirt]
+wpUrl: "https://bugleverse.com/all-bugleverse-content/media/ads/orange-label/"
+sources:
+  - raw/wp-pages/ads/orange-label.md
+  - raw/episodes/the-future-is-wrapped-bugle-weekly-episode-44/bundle.json
+  - raw/episodes/1-year-anniversary-bugle-weekly-episode-52/bundle.json
+  - raw/episodes/apologizing-to-absolutely-no-one-bugle-weekly-episode-53/bundle.json
+  - raw/episodes/never-rest-on-your-credentials-bugle-weekly-episode-55/bundle.json
+  - raw/episodes/node-rape-run-rampant-bugle-weekly-episode-58/bundle.json
+  - raw/episodes/pioneers-attend-university-of-bitcoin-bugle-weekly-episode-75/bundle.json
+---
+
+**Orange Label** (orangelabel.co) is the storefront through which [[orgs/the-bugle|the Bugle]] sells everything it has ever thought of selling: t-shirts, clothing lines, creatine, multivitamins. It is not a sponsor in the ordinary sense so much as the universe's default answer to the question "where do I buy that" — a single web address behind the merch, the supplements, and at least one act of retaliatory brand theft. Nobody on the show runs it; they refer to "the person running this website" as a third party to be talked to later.[^ol-website]
+
+## The 40 HPW shirt
+
+Orange Label enters the record as the launch platform for [[characters/rod-palmer|Rod Palmer]]'s first t-shirt: a [[memes/40hpw|40 Hours Per Week]] design executed as a "Silk Road commemorative Marlboro cigarette,"-inspired piece in honour of [[characters/ross-ulbricht|Ross Ulbricht]].[^ol-launch] [[characters/richard-greaser|Richard Greaser]] sold it on air as a status good whose entire value lay in nobody else buying it — walk into the meetup, heads turn, and then they don't buy one because they're not cool enough, leaving you the only person at the meetup wearing it, repeatedly.[^ol-status] Asked how many had sold on the day of announcement, Palmer estimated "at least 30."[^ol-thirty] Greaser's one complaint concerned merchandising rather than product: the shop's front page was all comply gear, and the 40 HPW shirt should be right there.[^ol-comply]
+
+## A catalogue accumulates
+
+By the show's first anniversary Greaser had his own line on the store — "the revolution will not have good UX clothing line. Big shout out to OrangeLabel." — with a ship date of the next few weeks.[^ol-ux] The same segment produced an on-air ranking of the shop's stock, with the [[orgs/intellectual-silk-road|intellectual Silk Road]] shirt taking Greaser's personal top slot.[^ol-rank]
+
+A week later he made the hierarchy official: "I I would say the flagship clothing line that the Beagle has right now is the 40 HPW" — ahead of the [[sponsors/comply-clothing-line|Comply line]], which he conceded still needed a revamp.[^ol-flagship] Palmer reported the market had spoken and asked for less: buyers who did not know what [[sponsors/40-hpw|40 HPW]] meant wanted a plain shirt with a big prominent logo, so that is now available.[^ol-plain]
+
+> irl: "Beagle" for "Bugle" is a standing ASR mangling in the transcripts, not an in-universe name.
+
+## The trade war
+
+The store also became a theatre of war. [[characters/kailey-welch|Kailey Welch]] used her segment to declare that "on behalf of the Bugle, I am launching a trade war with love is bitcoin. Love is bitcoin ripped off one of Rod Palmer's shirts, and in retaliation," — the retaliation being to rip off their entire brand in turn, and to sell the resulting 40-hours-per-week shirt through Orange Label at a domain squatted on the rival's own name.[^ol-tradewar] The line remains the clearest statement of Orange Label's operating philosophy: any grievance can be resolved by putting it on a shirt and listing it.
+
+## Supplements
+
+The catalogue outgrew clothing. [[sponsors/alpha-protocol|Alpha Protocol]] creatine and multivitamins — pitched at Bitcoin devs, Rust devs and MMA fighters — are sold through the same storefront, a fact established on air by a host simply asking: "creatine via alpha protocol. Is that on orange label?"[^ol-creatine] By the time the Bugle was covering the pioneers of the frontier, the cross-sell had gone routine, folded without ceremony into a recovery-stack read.[^ol-creatine-2]
+
+[^ol-website]: [[transcripts/the-future-is-wrapped-bugle-weekly-episode-44#t-3668|Bugle Weekly 44 @ 61:08]].
+[^ol-launch]: [[transcripts/the-future-is-wrapped-bugle-weekly-episode-44#t-3463|Bugle Weekly 44 @ 57:43]]. The quoted fragment is mid-sentence; the read continues "inspired art" at 57:51.
+[^ol-status]: [[transcripts/the-future-is-wrapped-bugle-weekly-episode-44#t-3488|Bugle Weekly 44 @ 58:08]] — "If you want a status symbol, it is the 40 HPW shirt"; the meetup line lands at [[transcripts/the-future-is-wrapped-bugle-weekly-episode-44#t-3536|59:36]].
+[^ol-thirty]: [[transcripts/the-future-is-wrapped-bugle-weekly-episode-44#t-3660|Bugle Weekly 44 @ 61:00]].
+[^ol-comply]: [[transcripts/the-future-is-wrapped-bugle-weekly-episode-44#t-3668|Bugle Weekly 44 @ 61:08]].
+[^ol-ux]: [[transcripts/1-year-anniversary-bugle-weekly-episode-52#t-2712|Bugle Weekly 52 @ 45:12]]; ship date at [[transcripts/1-year-anniversary-bugle-weekly-episode-52#t-2704|45:04]].
+[^ol-rank]: [[transcripts/1-year-anniversary-bugle-weekly-episode-52#t-2718|Bugle Weekly 52 @ 45:18]] — "the intellectual Silk Road shirt. It's my favorite shirt that I own."
+[^ol-flagship]: [[transcripts/apologizing-to-absolutely-no-one-bugle-weekly-episode-53#t-2268|Bugle Weekly 53 @ 37:48]]. "Beagle" is the ASR's rendering of "Bugle". The Comply concession is at [[transcripts/apologizing-to-absolutely-no-one-bugle-weekly-episode-53#t-2256|37:36]].
+[^ol-plain]: [[transcripts/apologizing-to-absolutely-no-one-bugle-weekly-episode-53#t-2288|Bugle Weekly 53 @ 38:08]] — "they just wanted a big prominent 40 HPW logo. And so that is now available."
+[^ol-tradewar]: [[transcripts/never-rest-on-your-credentials-bugle-weekly-episode-55#t-213|Bugle Weekly 55 @ 3:33]]; "I am ripping off their entire brand" at [[transcripts/never-rest-on-your-credentials-bugle-weekly-episode-55#t-222|3:42]], the shirt listing at [[transcripts/never-rest-on-your-credentials-bugle-weekly-episode-55#t-235|3:55]]. ASR renders her "Kayley" here.
+[^ol-creatine]: [[transcripts/node-rape-run-rampant-bugle-weekly-episode-58#t-3582|Bugle Weekly 58 @ 59:42]]; see [[companies/alpha-protocol-supplements|Alpha Protocol Supplements]].
+[^ol-creatine-2]: [[transcripts/pioneers-attend-university-of-bitcoin-bugle-weekly-episode-75#t-2930|Bugle Weekly 75 @ 48:50]] — "you can buy creatine on the Yep. Orange label store, by the way".