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diff --git a/wiki/sponsors/orange-mart.md b/wiki/sponsors/orange-mart.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..d88ac0cd @@ -0,0 +1,173 @@ +--- +title: Post-Apocalyptic Supplies +type: sponsor +status: confirmed +aliases: [Orange Mart, Orange Moor, OrangeMoor, Orange Mort, Orange Mark, Orange Bar, Orange Park, Orange Mart Lincoln] +wpUrl: "https://bugleverse.com/all-bugleverse-content/media/ads/orange-mart/" +sources: + - raw/wp-pages/ads/orange-mart.md + - raw/episodes/comply-side-economics-101-bugle-weekly-episode-3/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/ungovernable-non-compliance-with-the-ungovernable-misfits-bugle-weekly-episode-7/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/vaccinating-bitcoin-derangement-syndrome-bugle-weekly-episode-10/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/history-is-being-written-by-us-bugle-weekly-episode-12/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/the-intellectual-silk-road-bugle-weekly-episode-13/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/making-journalism-cypherpunk-bugle-weekly-episode-14/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/noncompliant-4th-of-july-bugle-weekly-episode-15/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/recovering-from-a-noncompliant-4th-bugle-weekly-episode-16/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/opsec-in-spookville-bugle-weekly-episode-17/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/the-calm-before-the-storm-bugle-weekly-episode-18/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/orange-berets-march-in-bugle-weekly-episode-28/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/environmentally-friendly-war-bugle-weekly-episode-29/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/2024-recap-bugle-weekly-episode-42/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/super-sportball-bitcoin-pizza-day-for-normies-bugle-weekly-episode-46/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/1-year-anniversary-bugle-weekly-episode-52/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/pleb-is-the-new-n-word-bugle-weekly-episode-98/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/bored-of-peace-bugle-weekly-episode-100/bundle.json +--- + +**Orange Mart** is a survival store and a place you can actually go. Both facts +are load-bearing. In its produced spot it sells post-apocalyptic supplies to +listeners bleeding on a beach and unable to find their kin; in practice it is a +Rust server, a settlement inside it, and — for roughly two years of the record — +one of [[orgs/the-bugle|the Bugle]]'s most persistent boosters. The sponsor read +and the destination are the same entity, which is why hosts kept filing travel +journalism about an advertisement. + +The spot itself describes the game honestly enough. You spawn nude, you are +instructed to "transact adversarially," and you "battle the temptations of +PodCon" — the trailer read by an unnamed announcer rather than a host, which is +how the Bugle signals a produced ad rather than a live boost.[^om-trailer] + +## The sponsorship that couldn't happen + +Orange Mart's first appearance in the record is as a sponsor the Bugle was not +allowed to take. [[characters/rod-palmer|Rod Palmer]] disclosed that the show was +"locked in to our contract with with Podkomp until 2000," the year completing as +"'28" in the following cue — an exclusivity clause that had already cost them +Orange Mart's offer of in-game compliance credits and a gold buyer.[^om-podconf] +The [[orgs/podconf|PODCONF]] arrangement is the reason Orange Mart entered the +universe through the back door instead. + +That door was boosting. By episode 13, Orange Mart had put 21,000 sats into the +show in reply to its own ad from the week before, and was welcomed into the +[[orgs/intellectual-silk-road|Intellectual Silk Road]] — the first time the ISR +functioned as a filter on who may pay the Bugle rather than as a slogan. The +governing rule, per [[characters/richard-greaser|Richard Greaser]]: "anybody can +sponsor the show. You you sponsor the show through boosting us," provided you are +part of the Intellectual Silk Road.[^om-isr] + +## Political commitments + +Orange Mart did not boost neutrally. In May 2024 it spent 5,000 sats to announce +that "the Orange Mart proudly stands with the bugle in making the month of May a +month of civil noncompliance," with a copyright sign attached and a sign-off the +ASR renders as "Hashtag compliance straight" — that is, #compliancestrike, the +catchphrase Greaser had coined earlier in the same episode.[^om-noncompliance] By +episode 29 it was saluting the [[orgs/orange-berets|Orange Berets]],[^om-berets] +and by episode 28 it was being credited from the desk with "hearing them take the +ideas that we kind of share and running with them," in a read where Rod stated +the Bugle's ethos outright: "We want you to steal our ideas. We want you to build +on our ideas. We want you to iterate."[^om-steal] + +Greaser's forecast for the place was correspondingly grand. Prompted by the +Orange Berets boost, he predicted Orange Mart would become the Berets' meeting +ground and training simulator — "the School of the Americas" for Bitcoiners, on +the reasoning that "if you wanna go figure out how to destabilize Latin America, +you can go to one of those schools."[^om-berets] Rod, separately, proposed simply +merging the two brands: "incorporate the intellectual Silk Road into Orange +Mart."[^om-clothes] + +## The tutorial problem + +The longest-running bit attached to Orange Mart is that the Bugle's own hosts +could not competently visit their sponsor. Accused via an Orange Mart boost of +defacing PODCONF's mural on the premises, Greaser's denial was not that he +wouldn't but that he couldn't: "I encouraged it to happen. I wanted to do it +myself, but I just have not figured out how to get past the tutorial yet." He +called the graffiti "Bitcoin improvement paint"; Rod's verdict was that he was "a +little rusty on his video game typewriter."[^om-mural] + +Progress, when it came, was incremental and unclothed. By episode 14 Greaser had +cleared the tutorial and was breaking things for materials, but reported he "was a +little bit shy too because I was running around naked."[^om-clothes] The state of +undress persisted long enough to become an onboarding critique: at the 2024 recap +he was still complaining that the game was too hard "to even be able to figure +out how to wear clothes. Like, when I went there, I was naked," and argued Orange +Mart needed a BTC Sessions Rust tutorial and a difficulty rating benchmarked +against setting up a cold card.[^om-naked] Rod's first question on hearing any +Orange Mart field report was, reliably, whether clothes had been located. + +## Field reports + +Once the hosts could reach it, the [[storylines/bugle-newsroom-metaverse|metaverse]] +coverage was filed as straight travel journalism. An unrecorded livestream +produced horses, a helicopter tour, and a fatal bear: Greaser hung out with +[[characters/tipnz|TipNZ]] and reported, flatly, that he got killed by a +bear.[^om-tour] The same trip yielded a coinage. Mugged in-game once his attacker +"realized that that I had Bitcoin" — and on a server where spawns are issued +rocks rather than wrenches — Greaser named the event "an immaculate conceived rock +attack instead of a wrench attack," a local variant of the $5 wrench +attack.[^om-rock] + +A later visit went better and was streamed on zap.stream, which Greaser described +as "Kinda like Twitch, but like lightning": "I showed up to the orange bar. I +didn't tell anybody I was gonna be there. You know? And I had a tour guide." Tour +guide, helicopters, train rides, horses — and, at last, "I walked away with +clothes."[^om-tourguide] The premises were confirmed to contain a +[[characters/dennis-porter|Dennis Porter]] PodConf mural, which Greaser toured +with some disappointment before being cheered by footage of somebody defacing +it.[^om-porter-mural] + +Orange Mart also proved to be where the Bugle's other preoccupations went to be +tested. It was credited with prompting Greaser's plan to release the show's theme +songs as a Wavlake album, after boosting a link to the previous week's +theme.[^om-wavlake] Rod pitched it as [[memes/40hpw|40HPW]]-compatible listening +and floated collaborating on the Bugles outright: "We love Orange Mart, through +listening. We love to collaborate for the bugles."[^om-40hpw] By episode 98, with +Orange Mart returning after a long absence to boost "a bear market of boost not +on our watch," Rod's pitch had absorbed the show's bot thesis: "you could probably +play Orange Mart with your Claude bot. You and your Claude bot will start naked +together."[^om-claude] The last appearance in the record is a boost built on an +Iran pun — "I ran, you can. We all ran down to the local Orange Mart" — which +Greaser fumbled and re-read, and which Rod extended into the claim that Orange +Mart is the only place to avoid hypersonic missiles crashing out of the +sky.[^om-iran] + +## Disputed + +Whether the advertiser and the booster are the same Orange Mart is not settled by +the record. The produced spot is a post-apocalyptic-supplies pitch for the Rust +server; the boosts arrive under the name "Orange Mart" without ever confirming +they come from the same entity rather than from a listener using the +name.[^om-cagematch] The gap matters most in episode 15, where a booster read as +Orange Mart declares themselves "proud to identify as a supporter of the Bitcoin +Bugle, AKA the Bitcoin Bitches, an inclusive group that doesn't care if you're a +heher or a sheshein," and Rod restates the pronoun policy: "we do not care what +your pronouns are, but we do want to know them."[^om-pronouns] This page treats +the two as one entity because the Bugle's own hosts do — Rod calls them "our good +friends at Orange Mart"[^om-40hpw] and Greaser replies to their boosts as if to +the sponsor — but the identification is an inference, not a stated fact. + +> irl: Rust is a real multiplayer survival game with periodic server wipes, in +> which players do in fact spawn naked holding a rock. The "$5 wrench attack" is +> the standard Bitcoin term for coercing a key from its holder by physical force. + +[^om-trailer]: [[transcripts/history-is-being-written-by-us-bugle-weekly-episode-12#t-246|Bugle Weekly 12 @ 4:06]] — "A game called Orange Mart." +[^om-podconf]: [[transcripts/comply-side-economics-101-bugle-weekly-episode-3#t-1990|Bugle Weekly 3 @ 33:10]]. "Podkomp" is ASR for PODCONF; the gold buyer is rendered "Ward's Leppard." +[^om-isr]: [[transcripts/the-intellectual-silk-road-bugle-weekly-episode-13#t-2874|Bugle Weekly 13 @ 47:54]]. The boost message reads "The bugle is the Bitcoin standard of journalism." +[^om-noncompliance]: [[transcripts/ungovernable-non-compliance-with-the-ungovernable-misfits-bugle-weekly-episode-7#t-2714|Bugle Weekly 7 @ 45:14]]. "Compliance straight" is the ASR's rendering of #compliancestrike. +[^om-berets]: [[transcripts/environmentally-friendly-war-bugle-weekly-episode-29#t-3415|Bugle Weekly 29 @ 56:55]] — "Orange Mart says, salute hashtag Orange Berets." The ASR gives "Orange Park" for Orange Mart later in the segment. +[^om-steal]: [[transcripts/orange-berets-march-in-bugle-weekly-episode-28#t-3503|Bugle Weekly 28 @ 58:23]]. Said during an Orange Mart boost read of 5,000 sats. +[^om-clothes]: [[transcripts/making-journalism-cypherpunk-bugle-weekly-episode-14#t-1692|Bugle Weekly 14 @ 28:12]]. The ASR also renders the name "OrangeMoor" / "Orange Moor" here. +[^om-mural]: [[transcripts/vaccinating-bitcoin-derangement-syndrome-bugle-weekly-episode-10#t-3567|Bugle Weekly 10 @ 59:27]]. The accusing boost describes a video of "somebody defacing the PodCon funeral" — "funeral" is ASR for mural. +[^om-naked]: [[transcripts/2024-recap-bugle-weekly-episode-42#t-2215|Bugle Weekly 42 @ 36:55]]. The ASR gives "Ross" / "rest" for Rust and "orange bar" / "Orange Mort" for Orange Mart. +[^om-tour]: [[transcripts/opsec-in-spookville-bugle-weekly-episode-17#t-1517|Bugle Weekly 17 @ 25:17]]. "The orange mark" is ASR for Orange Mart. +[^om-rock]: [[transcripts/opsec-in-spookville-bugle-weekly-episode-17#t-1655|Bugle Weekly 17 @ 27:35]]. The quote spans four short cues and is anchored at the first; the ASR renders Rod's "$5 wrench attack" as "$5 rush attack." +[^om-tourguide]: [[transcripts/the-calm-before-the-storm-bugle-weekly-episode-18#t-3626|Bugle Weekly 18 @ 1:00:26]]. "Orange bar" is ASR for Orange Mart. +[^om-porter-mural]: [[transcripts/1-year-anniversary-bugle-weekly-episode-52#t-2220|Bugle Weekly 52 @ 37:00]]. "Podkoff" is ASR for PodConf. +[^om-wavlake]: [[transcripts/history-is-being-written-by-us-bugle-weekly-episode-12#t-3848|Bugle Weekly 12 @ 1:04:08]] — "wave like" is ASR for Wavlake. The album model follows [[media/where-did-the-dollar-menu-go|Where Did The Dollar Menu Go]]. +[^om-40hpw]: [[transcripts/super-sportball-bitcoin-pizza-day-for-normies-bugle-weekly-episode-46#t-3512|Bugle Weekly 46 @ 58:32]]. The boost was 1,000 sats: "headphones on, follow you mob, #40HPW." +[^om-claude]: [[transcripts/pleb-is-the-new-n-word-bugle-weekly-episode-98#t-3228|Bugle Weekly 98 @ 53:48]]. +[^om-iran]: [[transcripts/bored-of-peace-bugle-weekly-episode-100#t-3610|Bugle Weekly 100 @ 1:00:10]]. Rod: "It was Iran, Iran, Iran, but it doesn't matter. Thank you for Orange Mart." +[^om-cagematch]: [[transcripts/recovering-from-a-noncompliant-4th-bugle-weekly-episode-16#t-3301|Bugle Weekly 16 @ 55:01]] — a 5,000-sat boost from "Orange Mart" whose relation to the advertiser is left unstated. +[^om-pronouns]: [[transcripts/noncompliant-4th-of-july-bugle-weekly-episode-15#t-3524|Bugle Weekly 15 @ 58:44]]. The attribution of this booster to Orange Mart is held at medium confidence in the beat index.