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It holds that a +serious Bitcoiner listens to forty hours of Bitcoin podcasts every week, that this +listening is labour rather than leisure, and that the hours purchase everything from +marital standing to political judgement to salvation. [[media/the-bugle-weekly|The +Bugle Weekly]] does not merely reference the doctrine; it defines its own audience by +it. "It is the podcast, the Bitcoin podcast for people who listen to forty hours of +Bitcoin podcasts," [[characters/rod-palmer|Rod Palmer]] explains in the titular +episode, adding that "the difficulty may seem high" but the newcomer will adapt.[^ep45-thesis] + +Over two years the number stops being a joke about podcast consumption and becomes the +universe's general-purpose credential — the thing you cite to dismiss a philosopher, +qualify a guest, sentence a criminal, sell a t-shirt, or close a church service. It is +also, repeatedly, the thing nobody can agree on the size of. + +**Who's in it:** [[characters/rod-palmer|Rod Palmer]] · [[characters/richard-greaser|Richard Greaser]] · [[characters/timmy-tether|Timmy Tether]] · [[characters/kailey-welch|Kailey Welch]] · [[characters/the-broken-ruler|The Broken Ruler]] · [[characters/pastor-jeffs|Pastor Jeffs]] · [[characters/piez|Piez]] · [[characters/matt-odell|Matt Odell]] + +**Related:** [[memes/40hpw]] · [[bits/full-time-podcast-listeners]] · [[sponsors/40-hpw]] · [[merch/40-hpw]] · [[storylines/church-of-compliance]] · [[storylines/canada-watch]] · [[storylines/v4v-music-empire]] · [[storylines/war-on-bitcoin-mining]] + +> *Henry's note: the beat index for this page is SAMPLED — 120 of 376 verified beats +> across 127 episodes. What follows is the arc as the sample attests it, not a census. +> Where this page contradicts its own earlier draft, see [[#Disputed]].* + +## Before it had a name (2024) + +The forty-hour frame arrives before the podcast quota does. In the very first episode +[[characters/rod-palmer|Rod Palmer]] and [[characters/richard-greaser|Richard Greaser]] +propose that Bitcoin observe business hours: "I would support an initiative to stop, +producing blocks on the weekends. Stop producing blocks after 04:30PM," with custodial +Lightning for anyone transacting after close.[^ep1-hours] Three weeks later the labour +framing is transposed onto mining outright — hashers should unionise, because "Nobody +who hashes for forty hours a week should live in poverty."[^ep4-hash] + +By autumn 2024 the number has migrated from mining to listening and hardened into a +credential. Guests are simply assumed to clear it: "just assume that anybody that wanna +come on our show in the first place, by default already listens to forty hours of +Bitcoin podcasts a week."[^ep27-guests] The quota is deployed to refute a political +philosopher — Greaser dismisses Hans-Hermann Hoppe's anti-democracy position on the +grounds that "He's not orange pilled. He obviously doesn't listen to forty hours of +Bitcoin podcast"[^ep29-hoppe] — and to set terms for Whitney Webb, whose warnings +Palmer will weigh once "Winnie should listen to as many Bitcoin podcasts as I +have."[^ep26-webb] Palmer prices a wedding in the same currency, wanting some +twenty-five to thirty Bitcoin podcasters per unorange-pillable family member.[^ep30-wedding] + +The listeners are already doing it. An HR Specialists recap notes that "one listener +actually claimed to be putting in forty hours a week" — at 1.75x, for three years +straight — in October 2024, months before any merch existed.[^ep31-listener] The same +week's episode opens the doctrine's first sustained interrogation: "what's so special +about listening to forty hours of Bitcoin podcasts?"[^ep31-question] By November the +answer is blunt. Below the threshold, Greaser rules, "hate to break it to you, but +you're just dumb."[^ep35-dumb] + +The concept is fully formed and requires no explanation by [[episodes/sly-goomba-thanksgiving-special-behind-the-podcast-episode-1|the Thanksgiving special]], +where Palmer names the quota as the podcaster's credential — "having the the forty hours +per week, that proof of work" — with the ASR rendering *Bitcoin Podcast* as "Big Point +Podcast."[^btp1-pow] A week later the welcome announcer credits the entire bull market +to listeners who "have been listening to forty hours of Bitcoin podcasts."[^ep37-bull] + +## The movement names itself (winter 2024–25) + +At the turn of the year the bit is upgraded from house standard to social movement. +[[episodes/onwards-and-upwards-bugle-weekly-episode-41|Episode 41]] frames 2024 as the +year of "this absolute tsunami of individuals declaring" that they were going to listen +to forty hours of Bitcoin podcast a week — and names them as the constituency +[[orgs/the-bugle|The Bugles]] award show exists to serve.[^ep41-movement] The 2024 recap +states the premise as doctrine in its cold open: you are immune to bearish news "because +you understand game theory as a result of listening to forty hours of Bitcoin podcasts +every week for years."[^ep42-gametheory] The station ID makes it civic labour: "By +listening to forty hours of podcasts a week, you are solidifying our bright orange +future."[^ep43-civic] + +[[episodes/40-hours-per-week-bugle-weekly-episode-45|Bugle Weekly 45]] takes the name +for its title and gives the meme its cleanest definition.[^ep45-thesis] From there the +formula settles into the standing open: "Welcome back to Bugle Weekly, the number one +Bitcoin podcast for people who listen to forty hours per week."[^ep48-open] + +## Merch, franchise, anthem (spring 2025) + +The doctrine acquires a commercial layer in April 2025. [[characters/kailey-welch|Kailey Welch]] +declares "a trade war with love is bitcoin" for ripping off a Rod Palmer shirt, retaliates +by ripping off theirs, and launches "the Kayley Welch forty hours per week biddies t +shirt" through [[sponsors/orange-label|Orange Label]] — her stated edge over the rival +proprietor being that Libby "doesn't smoke cigarettes, listen to forty hours per week of +Bitcoin podcast, or drive drunk."[^ep55-tradewar] Ten days later [[characters/timmy-tether|Timmy Tether]] +reads the OrangeLabel spot for the Bugle's forty-hours-per-week collection — premium +cotton "that feels as good as withdrawing your Bitcoin from exchanges directly into cold +storage," 0.000012 Bitcoin, "or if you prefer Fiat, we accept that too."[^btp14-ad] + +Within a week 40HPW is a franchise with its own programming: [[episodes/truckin-down-the-rabbit-hole-bugle-weekly-episode-57|Bugle Weekly 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 "send us your proof of forty hours +per week so we can tell your story."[^ep57-spotlight] The doctrine subsequently leaks into +unrelated sponsor copy — a non-KYC prediction book closes its read with "It's only +gambling if you don't listen to forty hours of Bitcoin podcasts per week"[^ep84-predyx] — +and into ads that prescribe the show's whole ideology as treatment: 40HPW, start a +podcast, or learn to code.[^ep79-ad] + +It also has music. The 40 Hours Per Week track serves as the show's standing outro, +carrying lines like "I was a national security threat" and "Now I've picked a conference +over my own wedding."[^btp24-anthem] The Christmas special opens its original song on the +commandment: "forty hours a week is what is required."[^xmas-song] + +## The doctrine's applications + +Once established, the number is applied to essentially everything. + +**Penal policy.** Palmer complains that "I don't even think they let you listen to Bitcoin +podcasts in prison" and proposes mandatory listening as the rehabilitation program of +federal and state prisons.[^ep36-prison] He escalates into an institution — "You need to +have shitcoiners prisons," with conversion therapy attached.[^ep38-shitcoin] + +**Climate and war.** "If everybody was doing nothing but sitting around listening to +Bitcoin podcast, there would be way less carbon emissions."[^btp4-climate] + +**Marriage and dating.** Palmer coins the *time preference gap* — the relationship hazard +nobody discusses, worse than an age gap: twenty thousand hours of Bitcoin podcasts against +a partner's forty or zero.[^ep40-gap] Greaser's remedy for a wife who out-stacks you is +arithmetic: listen to eighty.[^btp8-eighty] + +**Gifts.** Umbrel nodes and OpenDimes for the family, plus forty hours of individually +curated Bitcoin podcast burned to CD-R per relative.[^ep39-xmas] + +**Licensure.** [[characters/rob-hamilton|Rob Hamilton]] drops the standard unprompted as +routine self-custody hygiene — "That's why we listen to forty hours of Bitcoin podcast per +week" — then puns it into insurance continuing-education credits and reports he is working +with state regulators to make the hours count.[^btp5-insurance] + +**Employment and verification.** Palmer demands [[sponsors/fountain|Fountain]] track hours +listened so plebs can display "their prestige badges, their their their badges of honor of +listening to forty hours per week."[^ep49-badges] The onboarding ladder is likewise pegged +to it: Bubble is "a podcast app for people who haven't listened to forty hours yet," and +Fountain is what you graduate to.[^btp12-ladder] + +**Elections and democracy.** Palmer's election theory is that precinct-level podcast +consumption "really is as it is correlated with how the vote went."[^ep34-election] +Greaser later diagnoses democracy itself as a compliance failure: 99% "of the voters don't +listen to forty hours of Bitcoin podcasts a week."[^btp20-democracy] + +**Class.** "If you are living on the Fiat standard, you do not have time to listen to +forty hours of Bitcoin podcast per week."[^ep50-class] + +**Time accounting.** [[characters/the-broken-ruler|The Broken Ruler]] states the governing +law: idle minutes are debt. "At any moment of the day that any spare five minutes, then +you're just short your forty hours."[^btp10-debt] + +**Civil defence.** "Nobody's gonna be caught by surprise when they wake up and listen to +forty hours per week. You can see what's coming."[^emergency-warning] Greaser applies the +same logic retroactively to Mike Brock's shock at the Epstein list.[^ep103-brock] Palmer +extends it to alien contact, worrying about what happens "if forty hours per week of +Bitcoin podcasts are are propagating" out to quantum-computing aliens.[^ep90-aliens] + +**Fatherhood.** The duty stack of the family node operator begins with listening: "It's +your job to listen to 40 HPW. It's your job to know."[^ep58-uncle-jim] The thesis gets its +own titular episode — "You're running the node for the family. You're listening to forty +hours of Bitcoin podcasts a week" — where the ASR mangles the acronym to "48 HPW."[^ep64-fathers] + +**Family management.** Thanksgiving strategy is to invoke the standard against your +relatives, who "have to listen to forty hours of Bitcoin podcasts" rather than be caught +up.[^ep86-thanksgiving] Non-listening relatives are reclassified as "uncontacted pledge" — +ASR for *uncontacted plebs* — to be approached as first contact and calmed with +podcasts.[^ep87-uncontacted] + +**Religion.** [[characters/pastor-jeffs|Pastor Jeffs]] closes a sermon with the +benediction "Now go forth and listen to forty hours of Bitcoin podcasts."[^ep74-benediction] +By the Easter service the hours are curriculum: "forty hours of assigned podcast listening, +and guided repentance for past altcoin activity."[^easter-curriculum] + +## The number won't hold still + +The arc's most persistent tension is that forty is never stable. + +It is doubled for cause — eighty hours for the out-stacked husband[^btp8-eighty] — and +doubled again by acclaim, with Open Mike judging that [[characters/piez|Piez]] "has gotta +be eighty hours per week."[^btp21-piez] It is exceeded by design: the bracket-challenge +winner is "the guy that listens to sixty hours of Bitcoin podcast per week,"[^ep53-sixty] +and [[characters/heavily-armed-clown|Hack]] claims to have front-loaded "a hundred and +sixty hours a week" in the early years and coasted on the surplus ever since.[^btp16-160] +Bubba's account is cruder: "I took your forty hours a week and shoved it up your ass. I was +on it."[^isr2-bubba] Greaser floats an official revision upward: "we're gonna have to bump +forty hours per week up to, like, maybe forty five, fifty soon."[^v4v-bump] + +It is also negotiated down. [[characters/matt-odell|Matt Odell]], introduced as "a skeptic +of listening to forty hours of Bitcoin podcast per week" who nonetheless "lives it," +counters with a humbler figure of about four hours.[^btp23-odell] [[characters/rob-warren|Rob Warren]] +exempts the hosts from his critique — "you are doing you're doing the Lord's work with +forty hours per week" — then spends the hour asking what if he only needs ten.[^btp29-warren] +And a listener question puts the unit on trial directly: "if I run my notes, should that +not be, like, the equivalent of forty hours of podcast per week?" Palmer refuses to answer +quickly.[^ep72-node] When Greaser dates the end of the fourth turning to 2032 on +[[characters/lawrence-lepard|Lawrence Lepard]]'s authority — the ASR renders him "Larry +Lapard" — the immediate question is whether 40HPW ever ends.[^ep82-2032] + +Not everyone buys it at all. Asked what he makes of the meme, [[characters/yellow|Yellow]], +the show's ranking memer, says flatly that he doesn't see it.[^btp11-yellow] + +## Annexation of guests + +The show's standard method is to audit an arriving guest against the quota. Palmer's +opening question on [[episodes/canada-needs-40hpw-with-joey-temprile-behind-the-podcast-episode-15|Behind the Podcast 15]] +is not a pleasantry but a compliance check: "Where are you at on your forty hours per week +right now?" — put to [[characters/joey-canadian-bitcoin|Joey]], who confesses to being five +or six hours short.[^btp15-audit] [[characters/frank-corva|Frank Corva]] ratifies the unit +without hesitation and submits to an audit of how a credentialed journalist structures the +hours.[^btp9-frank] [[characters/evan-kaloudis|Evan Kaloudis]] inducts himself within ninety +seconds, claiming the Bugle as "regularly, part of my forty hours a week."[^btp18-evan] + +The quota takes casualties. [[characters/mike-high-hashrate|Mike]] explains that he quit +his own podcast because "I had too many hours of Bitcoin podcasts that I was listening +to," and Palmer diagnoses him as a podcastaholic.[^btp7-mike] Greaser's own workload doubles +when Scardust enters the picture: "because I can't help but listening to forty hours of +Stardust a week as well" — the ASR renders the band as "Stardust" — on top of the forty he +already owes Bitcoin.[^btm1-scardust] + +## Liturgy (2025–26) + +By its second year the doctrine functions less as a gag than as the show's stated +epistemology and creed. [[characters/kailey-welch|Kailey Welch]] compresses the Bugle's +commandments into a benediction on the first anniversary: "fuck PodCon, smoke Marlboros, +and listen to forty hours of Bitcoin podcasts a week."[^ep52-creed] The pioneer manifesto +grounds its claim in the same house doctrine — the forty-hour listener at the tip of the +spear — before asking "are you a pleb or are you a pioneer?"[^ep63-pioneer] A guided +meditation fuses the quota with the fourth turning as a duty of care: "In the same way you +take care of your family by listening to forty hours of Bitcoin podcasts a week in order to +be informed enough to understand how to properly navigate the fourth turning, you must take +care of your body."[^ep81-meditation] Greaser reduces the whole worldview to three acts — +use your brain, listen to podcasts, smoke cigarettes.[^ep83-creed] + +The justifications grow more sophisticated as the joke ages. It is adoption theory: no +ticker or ETF is "a good substitute for forty hours per week."[^ep60-adoption] It is +epistemology, and priced accordingly — Bitcoin is abstract enough that "you have to listen +to forty hours of Bitcoin podcast a week to understand it."[^isr3-price] It is an epistemic +gate: "I'm not listening to you unless you listen to forty hours per week."[^btp22-gate] +It is a hierarchy: "If you haven't listened to forty hours of Bitcoin podcast per week, +you're just not at my level."[^btp25-level] And it is a portal — Palmer's fullest statement +holds that the deeper you go, the more your life becomes a podcast.[^btp28-portal] By 2026 +he has arrived at a defence that concedes the premise: "we listen to forty hours of Bitcoin +podcasts per week not because they're sane but because they're honest about being +insane."[^ep95-insane] + +The credential escapes into the audience and returns as art. A booster credits the doctrine +with his career: "Forty hours per week made me the credentialed musician I am today."[^ep96-musician] +Cold-open ad persona [[characters/adam-semeka|Adam Semeka]] fuses it with the Steak 'n Shake +bit: "the only thing I'm more committed to than building a stake in Shake Treasury is making +sure I get a full forty hours of Bitcoin podcast per week."[^ep101-semeka] And a boost +canonises the hosts as "the modern day Tim Conway and Harvey Corman, comedy duo of 40 HPW +podcasters" — neither host gets the reference, which is the joke.[^ep80-duo] + +## Disputed + +**Who coined it.** The record contains two incompatible origin claims from the same person. +Asked directly by [[characters/rob-hamilton|Rob Hamilton]] whether the Bugle came up with +forty hours per week, 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 full-time +podcast listeners predate the show; the Bugle "just put a description on it… Turn it into a +meme." Palmer ratifies: "You discovered it."[^v4v-discovered] Four months later Greaser +credits the coinage squarely to his co-host: "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."[^ep78-coined] The wiki takes no position. Both readings are live, and the +show has an evident interest in each. + +**When it started.** This page previously gave a span of 2025-01 to 2025-06 and held that +40HPW "launched with a t-shirt and a titular episode in early 2025." The beats contradict +the dating. The forty-hour listening quota is stated as an established standard by September +2024[^ep27-guests] and attested as a listener's own lived practice in October +2024[^ep31-listener] — both well before [[episodes/40-hours-per-week-bugle-weekly-episode-45|the titular episode]] +of February 2025[^ep45-thesis] and before the Orange Label merch of April 2025.[^btp14-ad] +The titular episode named the arc; it did not launch it. The merch postdates the bit by +roughly six months. Span corrected accordingly. + +**Two seeded claims not supported by their beats.** The earlier draft held that "Scardust's +Noa Gruman discusses the importance of 40HPW" and that "Canada is diagnosed as needing it." +Both appear to have been read off episode titles. The Scardust beat records a different gag +entirely — Greaser's own quota doubling to accommodate a second forty hours of the +band[^btm1-scardust] — and the [[characters/noa-gruman|Noa Gruman]] attribution is not +carried by it. The Canada episode's beat is Palmer's quota-audit greeting to +Joey,[^btp15-audit] not a diagnosis of the country. Neither claim is restated above as fact. + +> irl: The 40 Hours Per Week shirt is a real product, and the show is a real podcast. This +> page documents the in-universe doctrine only. + +[^ep45-thesis]: [[transcripts/40-hours-per-week-bugle-weekly-episode-45#t-70|Bugle Weekly 45 @ 1:10]]. Quote spans adjacent cues; "per week" lands in the next. +[^ep1-hours]: [[transcripts/out-complying-the-competition-bugle-weekly-episode-1#t-3681|Bugle Weekly 1 @ 1:01:21]]. +[^ep4-hash]: [[transcripts/odell-and-iran-attack-ngu-bugle-weekly-episode-4#t-3985|Bugle Weekly 4 @ 1:06:25]]. Rod speaking, immediately after arguing transactions should be limited to business hours. +[^ep27-guests]: [[transcripts/powell-signals-everythings-fine-bugle-weekly-episode-27#t-4349|Bugle Weekly 27 @ 1:12:29]]. +[^ep29-hoppe]: [[transcripts/environmentally-friendly-war-bugle-weekly-episode-29#t-773|Bugle Weekly 29 @ 12:53]]. ASR gives "Hans Herman Hoppe, Hermann Hoppe". +[^ep26-webb]: [[transcripts/outrunning-hypersonic-missiles-bugle-weekly-episode-26#t-3161|Bugle Weekly 26 @ 52:41]]. ASR mangles Whitney Webb to "Winnie" here and "Willy Webb" earlier. +[^ep30-wedding]: [[transcripts/the-orange-wedding-bugle-weekly-episode-30#t-474|Bugle Weekly 30 @ 7:54]]. The payoff straddles three cues; quote kept to the anchored one. +[^ep31-listener]: [[transcripts/bugle-weekly-episode-31-tldr-by-hr-specialists#t-225|Bugle Weekly 31 TLDR by HR Specialists @ 3:45]]. +[^ep31-question]: [[transcripts/is-saylor-a-spook-bugle-weekly-episode-31#t-4640|Bugle Weekly 31 @ 1:17:20]]. +[^ep35-dumb]: [[transcripts/this-is-the-bull-market-bugle-weekly-episode-35#t-1752|Bugle Weekly 35 @ 29:12]]. Setup: "until you've been listening to forty hours a week for a while". +[^btp1-pow]: [[transcripts/sly-goomba-thanksgiving-special-behind-the-podcast-episode-1#t-689|Behind the Podcast 1 @ 11:29]]. ASR renders "Bitcoin Podcast" as "Big Point Podcast". +[^ep37-bull]: [[transcripts/thanksgiving-victory-lap-bugle-weekly-episode-37#t-192|Bugle Weekly 37 @ 3:12]]. +[^ep41-movement]: [[transcripts/onwards-and-upwards-bugle-weekly-episode-41#t-2595|Bugle Weekly 41 @ 43:15]]. ASR renders "the Bugles" as "the Beatles". +[^ep42-gametheory]: [[transcripts/2024-recap-bugle-weekly-episode-42#t-74|Bugle Weekly 42 @ 1:14]]. +[^ep43-civic]: [[transcripts/trump-n-dump-bugle-weekly-episode-43#t-149|Bugle Weekly 43 @ 2:29]]. Quote spans two cues; announcer is an unnamed role, not a character. +[^ep48-open]: [[transcripts/kim-jong-uns-strategic-reserve-bugle-weekly-episode-48#t-405|Bugle Weekly 48 @ 6:45]]. +[^ep55-tradewar]: [[transcripts/never-rest-on-your-credentials-bugle-weekly-episode-55#t-213|Bugle Weekly 55 @ 3:33]]. ASR spells her "Kayley"; the page is [[characters/kailey-welch]]. +[^btp14-ad]: [[transcripts/cypherpunks-use-ordinals-mode-with-erin-redwing-behind-the-podcast-episode-14#t-52|Behind the Podcast 14 @ 0:52]]. +[^ep57-spotlight]: [[transcripts/truckin-down-the-rabbit-hole-bugle-weekly-episode-57#t-11|Bugle Weekly 57 @ 0:11]]. +[^ep84-predyx]: [[transcripts/rising-above-slop-bugle-weekly-episode-84#t-44|Bugle Weekly 84 @ 0:44]]. +[^ep79-ad]: [[transcripts/pioneers-frame-the-conversation-bugle-weekly-episode-79#t-44|Bugle Weekly 79 @ 0:44]]. Cue opens mid-sentence with "plev slop." — ASR for *pleb slop*. +[^btp24-anthem]: [[transcripts/a-pioneers-pioneer-with-david-bennett-btp-episode-24#t-5518|Behind the Podcast 24 @ 1:31:58]]. The speaker here is the song vocal, not a person in the room. +[^xmas-song]: [[transcripts/bugle-weekly-christmas-special#t-772|Bugle Weekly Christmas Special @ 12:52]]. The singer is not attributed. +[^ep36-prison]: [[transcripts/dont-stop-your-enemy-from-pumping-your-bags-bugle-weekly-episode-36#t-1434|Bugle Weekly 36 @ 23:54]]. +[^ep38-shitcoin]: [[transcripts/the-first-responders-and-compliance-salesmen-bugle-weekly-episode-38#t-2408|Bugle Weekly 38 @ 40:08]]. +[^btp4-climate]: [[transcripts/cigarettes-prevent-climate-change-behind-the-podcast-episode-4#t-1921|Behind the Podcast 4 @ 32:01]]. +[^ep40-gap]: [[transcripts/bitcoin-is-tax-affording-technology-bugle-weekly-episode-40#t-1506|Bugle Weekly 40 @ 25:06]]. Quote spans two cues. +[^btp8-eighty]: [[transcripts/protecting-your-daughters-from-breedloves-orange-pill-behind-the-podcast-episode-8#t-564|Behind the Podcast 8 @ 9:24]]. +[^ep39-xmas]: [[transcripts/jason-lowerys-drones-bugle-weekly-episode-39#t-281|Bugle Weekly 39 @ 4:41]]. The forty-hours-on-CD-R detail is the adjacent cue. +[^btp5-insurance]: [[transcripts/discovering-miniscript-with-rob-hamilton-behind-the-podcast-episode-5#t-570|Behind the Podcast 5 @ 9:30]]. ASR: "air gaffing" for air-gapping. +[^ep49-badges]: [[transcripts/is-this-the-god-candle-bugle-weekly-episode-49#t-3064|Bugle Weekly 49 @ 51:04]]. +[^btp12-ladder]: [[transcripts/is-good-ux-counter-revolutionary-behind-the-podcast-episode-12#t-1006|Behind the Podcast 12 @ 16:46]]. +[^ep34-election]: [[transcripts/selection-autopsy-bugle-weekly-episode-34#t-518|Bugle Weekly 34 @ 8:38]]. Quote spans three short cues. +[^btp20-democracy]: [[transcripts/queen-of-canadian-paper-bitcoin-with-cryptomags-btp-episode-20#t-940|Behind the Podcast 20 @ 15:40]]. +[^ep50-class]: [[transcripts/the-revolution-wont-have-good-ux-bugle-weekly-episode-50#t-415|Bugle Weekly 50 @ 6:55]]. Verbatim fragment of a longer cue. +[^btp10-debt]: [[transcripts/fix-the-world-one-bitcoin-podcast-at-a-time-with-the-broken-ruler-behind-the-podcast-episo#t-157|Behind the Podcast 10 @ 2:37]]. +[^emergency-warning]: [[transcripts/emergency-broadcast-podcasting-under-attack#t-1243|Emergency Broadcast: Podcasting Under Attack @ 20:43]]. +[^ep103-brock]: [[transcripts/hard-lessons-for-plebs-bugle-weekly-episode-103#t-3588|Bugle Weekly 103 @ 59:48]]. +[^ep90-aliens]: [[transcripts/the-quantum-quarrel-has-commenced-bugle-weekly-episode-90#t-635|Bugle Weekly 90 @ 10:35]]. 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". +[^ep58-uncle-jim]: [[transcripts/node-rape-run-rampant-bugle-weekly-episode-58#t-947|Bugle Weekly 58 @ 15:47]]. ASR "40 HPW"; spelled out elsewhere in the episode. +[^ep64-fathers]: [[transcripts/good-fathers-listen-to-40hpw-bugle-weekly-episode-64#t-193|Bugle Weekly 64 @ 3:13]]. Quote spans two adjacent cues in one unbroken run. +[^ep86-thanksgiving]: [[transcripts/happy-thanksgiving-bugle-weekly-episode-86#t-1719|Bugle Weekly 86 @ 28:39]]. +[^ep87-uncontacted]: [[transcripts/navigating-holiday-family-division-bugle-weekly-episode-87#t-156|Bugle Weekly 87 @ 2:36]]. "uncontacted pledge" is ASR for "uncontacted plebs". +[^ep74-benediction]: [[transcripts/pioneers-run-economic-nodes-bugle-weekly-episode-74#t-104|Bugle Weekly 74 @ 1:44]]. +[^easter-curriculum]: [[transcripts/the-plebs-killed-jesus-easter-service-by-pastor-jeffs#t-348|The Plebs Killed Jesus: Easter Service by Pastor Jeffs @ 5:48]]. +[^btp21-piez]: [[transcripts/pioneering-v4v-music-with-open-mike-btp-episode-21#t-3535|Behind the Podcast 21 @ 58:55]]. ASR: "Pies" for Piez throughout. Mike's verdict follows in the next cue. +[^ep53-sixty]: [[transcripts/apologizing-to-absolutely-no-one-bugle-weekly-episode-53#t-292|Bugle Weekly 53 @ 4:52]]. The winner is unmasked as "Cory AKA Broken Ruler AKA Boomer"; see [[events/maxi-madness-2025]]. +[^btp16-160]: [[transcripts/clowns-against-knotzis-behind-the-podcast-episode-16#t-135|Behind the Podcast 16 @ 2:15]]. +[^isr2-bubba]: [[transcripts/boomers-on-trial-with-bubba-intellectual-silk-road-episode-2#t-4334|Intellectual Silk Road 2 @ 1:12:14]]. Bubba has no character page. +[^v4v-bump]: [[transcripts/scaling-with-paper-bitcoin-ft-21-media-evan-kaloudis-and-rob-hamilton#t-2631|Scaling With Paper Bitcoin @ 43:51]]. The proposed bump is later in the same segment. +[^btp23-odell]: [[transcripts/from-grumpy-to-gleeful-with-matt-odell-btp-episode-23#t-159|Behind the Podcast 23 @ 2:39]]. Odell's counter-figure comes later in the same episode. +[^btp29-warren]: [[transcripts/musings-of-a-thinkboi-with-rob-warren-btp-episode-29#t-293|Behind the Podcast 29 @ 4:53]]. +[^ep72-node]: [[transcripts/podcaster-wealth-inequality-bugle-weekly-episode-72#t-1094|Bugle Weekly 72 @ 18:14]]. ASR "notes" for *nodes* throughout; the asker is kept anonymous on air. +[^ep82-2032]: [[transcripts/chain-splits-and-jewish-lawyers-bugle-weekly-episode-82#t-982|Bugle Weekly 82 @ 16:22]]. "Larry Lapard" is ASR for Lawrence Lepard. +[^btp11-yellow]: [[transcripts/dont-tell-me-where-to-meme-with-yellow-behind-the-podcast-episode-11#t-3565|Behind the Podcast 11 @ 59:25]]. Greaser reads a Piez boost carrying the 40HPW hashtag, then asks Yellow, whose verdict follows: "I don't see it." +[^btp15-audit]: [[transcripts/canada-needs-40hpw-with-joey-temprile-behind-the-podcast-episode-15#t-333|Behind the Podcast 15 @ 5:33]]. +[^btp9-frank]: [[transcripts/fixing-the-cias-incentives-with-frank-corva-behind-the-podcast-episode-9#t-1507|Behind the Podcast 9 @ 25:07]]. +[^btp18-evan]: [[transcripts/pressure-creates-good-ux-with-evan-kaloudis-btp-episode-18#t-89|Behind the Podcast 18 @ 1:29]]. +[^btp7-mike]: [[transcripts/build-back-better-with-mike-behind-the-podcast-episode-7#t-306|Behind the Podcast 7 @ 5:06]]. +[^btm1-scardust]: [[transcripts/noa-gruman-and-lahav-discuss-scardust-behind-the-music-episode-1#t-273|Behind The Music 1 @ 4:33]]. ASR renders Scardust as "Stardust" here; elsewhere "Skardust", "SCARDIST", "Skardos", "escardists". +[^ep52-creed]: [[transcripts/1-year-anniversary-bugle-weekly-episode-52#t-69|Bugle Weekly 52 @ 1:09]]. ASR: "PodCon". +[^ep63-pioneer]: [[transcripts/orange-pilled-pioneers-bugle-weekly-episode-63#t-74|Bugle Weekly 63 @ 1:14]]. The cold-open voice is never named and is not attributed to a host page. +[^ep81-meditation]: [[transcripts/puppets-on-strings-shout-no-kings-bugle-weekly-episode-81#t-129|Bugle Weekly 81 @ 2:09]]. The meditation announcer is heard only in the cold open. +[^ep83-creed]: [[transcripts/reflections-from-the-frontier-bugle-weekly-episode-83-part-1#t-1115|Bugle Weekly 83 Part 1 @ 18:35]]. "use your" is a truncation of "use your brain", stated whole in the prior cue. +[^ep60-adoption]: [[transcripts/moodys-says-nothing-stops-this-train-bugle-weekly-episode-60#t-1020|Bugle Weekly 60 @ 17:00]]. +[^isr3-price]: [[transcripts/telling-compelling-stories-with-avi-burra-intellectual-silk-road-episode-3#t-1945|Intellectual Silk Road 3 @ 32:25]]. Quote trimmed from the middle of one cue. +[^btp22-gate]: [[transcripts/shake-your-adversarys-hand-with-portland-hodl-btp-episode-22#t-3117|Behind the Podcast 22 @ 51:57]]. +[^btp25-level]: [[transcripts/a-vibes-revival-with-walker-america-btp-episode-25#t-727|Behind the Podcast 25 @ 12:07]]. +[^btp28-portal]: [[transcripts/the-world-is-a-podcast-with-rob-wallace-btp-episode-28#t-1829|Behind the Podcast 28 @ 30:29]]. +[^ep95-insane]: [[transcripts/the-truth-has-consequences-bugle-weekly-episode-95#t-178|Bugle Weekly 95 @ 2:58]]. +[^ep96-musician]: [[transcripts/straight-out-of-distractions-bugle-weekly-episode-96#t-3184|Bugle Weekly 96 @ 53:04]]. Quote spans adjacent cues; the booster is credited as "Nelp", likely an ASR mangling. +[^ep101-semeka]: [[transcripts/the-madness-begins-bugle-weekly-episode-101#t-19|Bugle Weekly 101 @ 0:19]]. ASR renders "Steak and Shake" as "stake in Shake". +[^ep80-duo]: [[transcripts/plebslop-psychosis-bugle-weekly-episode-80#t-4200|Bugle Weekly 80 @ 1:10:00]]. Beat carries medium confidence. ASR renders Harvey Korman as "Harvey Corman"; Sylvie has no wiki page. +[^v4v-discovered]: [[transcripts/scaling-with-paper-bitcoin-ft-21-media-evan-kaloudis-and-rob-hamilton#t-2631|Scaling With Paper Bitcoin @ 43:51]]. +[^ep78-coined]: [[transcripts/be-a-good-example-bugle-weekly-episode-78#t-357|Bugle Weekly 78 @ 5:57]]. Greaser flubs the unit a minute earlier ("forty hours … a year") and self-corrects.