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    +title: "Chartbois & the Price-Call Priesthood"
    +type: storyline
    +status: confirmed
    +kind: running-gag
    +span: 2024-07 to 2026-03
    +aliases:
    +  - Bitcoin podcast power law
    +  - podcast astrology
    +  - macro slop
    +  - TikTok macro
    +  - vibe investing
    +related:
    +  - bull-market-euphoria
    +  - pleb-slop-wars
    +  - first-turning-era
    +  - jim-cramer
    +  - 40-hours-per-week
    +sources:
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    +  - raw/episodes/powell-signals-everythings-fine-bugle-weekly-episode-27/bundle.json
    +  - raw/episodes/thanksgiving-victory-lap-bugle-weekly-episode-37/bundle.json
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    +  - raw/episodes/discovering-miniscript-with-rob-hamilton-behind-the-podcast-episode-5/bundle.json
    +  - raw/episodes/2024-recap-bugle-weekly-episode-42/bundle.json
    +  - raw/episodes/the-future-is-wrapped-bugle-weekly-episode-44/bundle.json
    +  - raw/episodes/fixing-the-cias-incentives-with-frank-corva-behind-the-podcast-episode-9/bundle.json
    +  - raw/episodes/dont-tell-me-where-to-meme-with-yellow-behind-the-podcast-episode-11/bundle.json
    +  - raw/episodes/let-the-festivities-begin-bugle-weekly-episode-51/bundle.json
    +  - raw/episodes/is-good-ux-counter-revolutionary-behind-the-podcast-episode-12/bundle.json
    +  - raw/episodes/we-know-whats-going-on-bugle-weekly-episode-54/bundle.json
    +  - raw/episodes/richard-greaser-vs-mike-brock-debate/bundle.json
    +  - raw/episodes/the-coremunists-vs-the-knotzis-bugle-weekly-episode-59/bundle.json
    +  - raw/episodes/boomers-sacrificing-to-moloch-bugle-weekly-episode-68/bundle.json
    +  - raw/episodes/queen-of-canadian-paper-bitcoin-with-cryptomags-btp-episode-20/bundle.json
    +  - raw/episodes/back-in-the-saddle-podcasting-again-bugle-weekly-episode-71/bundle.json
    +  - raw/episodes/emergency-broadcast-podcasting-under-attack/bundle.json
    +  - raw/episodes/be-a-good-example-bugle-weekly-episode-78/bundle.json
    +  - raw/episodes/reflections-from-the-frontier-bugle-weekly-episode-83-part-1/bundle.json
    +  - raw/episodes/happy-thanksgiving-bugle-weekly-episode-86/bundle.json
    +  - raw/episodes/straight-out-of-distractions-bugle-weekly-episode-96/bundle.json
    +  - raw/episodes/in-the-midst-of-madness-bugle-weekly-episode-102/bundle.json
    +---
    +
    +The Bugleverse's standing quarrel with people who claim to know where the price
    +is going. It is not a quarrel the show conducts from the outside: its principal
    +chartboi is [[characters/richard-greaser|Richard Greaser]], who maintains a
    +public price model, misses by roughly seven orders of magnitude, and continues
    +publishing. The arc's method is to hold the genre's practitioners — the macro
    +elders, the boy-wonder analysts, the power-law authors — to the same standard
    +the show conspicuously fails to meet itself, and to propose replacements
    +(podcast counts, astrology, vibes) that are offered without visible irony.
    +
    +**Who's in it:** [[characters/richard-greaser|Richard Greaser]] ·
    +[[characters/rod-palmer|Rod Palmer]] · [[characters/lyn-alden|Lyn Alden]] ·
    +[[characters/peter-schiff|Peter Schiff]] · [[characters/erin-redwing|Erin Redwing]] ·
    +[[characters/luke-broyles|Luke Broyles]] · [[characters/james-lavish|James Lavish]] ·
    +[[characters/matthew-kratter|Matthew Kratter]] · [[characters/tom-luongo|Tom Luongo]] ·
    +[[characters/paul-tudor-jones|Paul Tudor Jones]] · [[characters/hodl-magoo|Hodl Magoo]]
    +
    +## The prophecy business (2024)
    +
    +The arc's first dated, checkable prophecy is Greaser's, delivered before the
    +Nashville conference: Trump speaks, and Bitcoin — "close to $70,000" going in —
    +runs to 210k and onward to a two-trillion coin, "based on my expert opinions and
    +charts."[^nashville-call] The figure was unstable even inside the segment,
    +wobbling between $200,000, $210,000, and $2,000,000,000,000 across four cues, and
    +arriving at $4,000,000,000,000 by the time [[characters/rod-palmer|Rod Palmer]]
    +repeated it back.
    +
    +By September the doctrine had a retail congregation. A boost from the listener
    +Avile thanked "Brother Palmer's reminder that even one sat can be
    +generation"[^avile-boost] — the compressed form of Rod's teaching, which the
    +hosts promptly extended by computing 801 sats as 801 generations of wealth. The
    +same segment fixed the Bugleverse's true unit of account, when Greaser asked "So
    +when do you think we'll hit sat cigarette parity?"[^sat-cigarette] 801 sats being
    +80% of a cigarette today and potentially 80 cigarettes later, Rod's retirement is
    +budgeted against the exchange rate, hoping for 2025 and surviving 2030. See
    +[[storylines/cigarette-money-donations]].
    +
    +The year closed with a retcon of the genre's most famous conversion. Greaser
    +recast [[characters/peter-schiff|Peter Schiff]]'s capitulation as social rather
    +than intellectual: "one of the reasons why he capitulated was because he was
    +nervous about Thanksgiving, like, having to face his family" — relatives who had
    +been putting in their Bitcoin podcast hours.[^schiff-thanksgiving] Rod added
    +[[characters/jim-cramer|Jim Cramer]] to the roster of the converted, the ASR
    +rendering him "Kramer."
    +
    +## The models (2025)
    +
    +January produced the arc's central artifact. Interviewing
    +[[characters/rob-hamilton|Rob Hamilton]], Greaser asked "Yeah. Are you familiar
    +with Bitcoin podcast power law?"[^podcast-power-law] and spent the next four
    +minutes on it. The mechanism is that every podcaster has a girlfriend, mother,
    +father or sibling they can plead with to listen; Hamilton supplied the feedback
    +loop, observing that as the price goes up everyone gets girlfriends, and
    +girlfriends are podcast listeners. That the model's author has 44,000 Twitter
    +followers against Plan B's two million was taken as proof that the model is
    +early. Greaser restated the chain in March — more podcasts, more podcasting apps,
    +more signal, higher price — while lamenting to [[characters/btckaz|BTCKaz]] that
    +"out there right now is the Bitcoin podcast power law, which you're kind of
    +existing or assisting in," and that he did not know why his model had not taken
    +off more.[^power-law-restated] By April he had escalated it to a prescription: "I
    +think everybody should start a podcast. That's my opinion. It's the only way that
    +the price of Bitcoin could go up."[^everybody-podcast] The only reason to abstain
    +is if you hate yourself and want the price to go down.
    +
    +The show also catalogued the competition. Rod defined the
    +[[characters/luke-broyles|Luke Broyles]] playbook — the boy-wonder macro
    +authority "who carries himself like a macro elder that is still in undergraduate
    +school, hasn't even taken macroeconomics" — as a repeatable route to
    +[[storylines/podconf-industrial-complex|PodConf]]'s attention, extending the type
    +to [[characters/dylan-leclair|Dylan LeClair]] and, via Greaser,
    +[[characters/nic-carter|Nic Carter]] and [[characters/will-clemente|Will
    +Clemente]].[^broyles-playbook] Greaser's own flagship 2025 call was filed later
    +that month: "my price prediction is $2,000,000,000,000 a coin," denominated in
    +USDT rather than dollars, taking the top market-cap slot off gold, with NVIDIA
    +surviving only because GPUs are needed to look at price charts at those
    +increments.[^two-trillion] Rod's counter was that by then nobody prices in USDT
    +and the figure would be read as ten zeros after the decimal on the ETHBTC chart.
    +
    +Guests were not exempt. [[characters/frank-corva|Frank Corva]], the man closest
    +to policy, delivered his macro read as settled fact: "this is the year that, the
    +Samsung and Mount God candle becomes a reality and that we just go straight to a
    +million. We just 10 x directly from here."[^god-candle] The ASR's "Samsung and
    +Mount" is [[characters/samson-mow|Samson Mow]]; Corva credited
    +[[characters/preston-pysh|Preston Pysh]] and [[characters/james-lavish|James
    +Lavish]], assumed the United States would hyperinflate the dollar to buy Bitcoin
    +for the strategic reserve, and quoted [[characters/michael-saylor|Saylor]] to the
    +effect that everybody gets in at the price they deserve.
    +
    +## The Lyn Alden exception
    +
    +One macro authority is exempt from the arc's contempt, on grounds the show states
    +plainly. In January Greaser filed [[characters/lyn-alden|Lyn Alden]]'s left ear
    +alongside Atlantis and El Dorado — "I would say, Lin Alden's left ear, you know,
    +kind of falls into the same category as, like, these" mythic ancient sites, its
    +existence only recently confirmed to the world.[^alden-ear] Asked for the most
    +important things about her, he gave the whole meme in one line: "Well, I think
    +the most important thing about her is she's hot," diagnosing dissenters as
    +homosexuals who don't find attractive women attractive.[^alden-hot] The rider is
    +standard. Rod's last question before bailing early on an episode was to make
    +[[characters/yellow|Yellow]] recount podcasting with "the greatest, hottest
    +macro" influencer who ever lived.[^alden-hottest-macro] See
    +[[memes/lyn-alden-is-hot]].
    +
    +The exemption is not purely aesthetic. When the meme-gang argument was put to the
    +hosts, it resolved against the meme gangs — nobody had beaten "nothing stops this
    +train," so the macro elder won the cycle: "Fuck. Is Lyn Alden the best memer of
    +this past cycle?"[^alden-best-memer] Rod's verdict was that it is hard to argue
    +against, and that she is the hottest memer for sure. In November the affront was
    +that [[storylines/pleb-slop-wars|pleb slop]] had come for her likeness: Coin
    +Bureau and CoinDesk were illustrating her analysis with AI-generated Temu
    +knockoffs, which Rod called "version of Lin Alden. It's the pledge, they're
    +pledge swapping Lin Alden. It's so disrespectful."[^temu-alden] The ASR's
    +"pledge" is *pleb* — this is pleb-swapping, and not
    +[[characters/pledditor|Pledditor]], who is not in the episode.
    +
    +## The power law dies (March 2025)
    +
    +Episode 51 buried the genre's reigning model. Greaser's setup was that the power
    +law had officially died that week; Rod's supporting case for
    +[[characters/fred-krueger|Fred Krueger]] was that he is "really a mathematician
    +who was friends with Giovanni who invented the power law"[^krueger-giovanni] —
    +tentatively, since the passage is thin — with Krueger's first-round opponent
    +named as [[characters/preston-pysh|Preston Pysh]], mocked as the guy trying to
    +make the dollar stronger.
    +
    +Into the vacuum arrived a new prediction superhero. Josh Mandel, described as a
    +legendary options derivatives trader from the 1990s, had called in November that
    +Bitcoin "would close at 84,000. Exactly. And then run the table" to a $440,000
    +top — and it landed on the Friday before the episode.[^mandel-call] The account is
    +given at medium confidence: Mandel has no page here, and his rule set reportedly
    +came from a book that burned down in Building 7 of the World Trade Center. He had
    +doubled down while [[characters/hodl-magoo|Hodl Magoo]] was calling him a
    +scammer. The kill shot was quoted verbatim on air: Giovanni had a discrediting
    +thread pre-written for the moment his model broke, and "Josh Mandel just replied,
    +at ease, Giovanni, you are dismissed."[^at-ease-giovanni] Rod likened the power
    +law to XRP or Cardano on the grounds that Giovanni is whiny and complainy like
    +[[characters/charles-hoskinson|Charles Hoskinson]], and delivered the obituary for
    +the class: their mainstream relevancy gone, their YouTube channels gone, their
    +affiliate links gone — an audience already burned by stock-to-flow and by
    +[[characters/willy-woo|Willy Woo]].
    +
    +## Astrology, vibes, and the honest instrument
    +
    +With the models dead, the show proposed successors. In April, Greaser named the
    +credentialed as part of the problem — "American HODL, Jason Williams, these
    +people claiming to be OG Bitcoiners" who have no idea what's going on — the
    +vacuum the Bugle claims to fill.[^ogs-clueless] (Medium confidence; the passage is
    +short, and American HODL has no page.) By May, Rod had named his own method:
    +synthesizing signals from across the podcast community to "gauge where I think
    +price is going. It's kind of like my Bitcoin podcast, astrology,
    +method."[^podcast-astrology] The three signals he read that week were
    +[[characters/samson-mow|Samson Mow]] calling a mega candle,
    +[[characters/david-bailey|David Bailey]] selling paid tweets, and
    +[[characters/dennis-porter|Dennis Porter]] posting charts crediting state reserve
    +bills — including Arizona's, which Rod noted permits the state to confiscate
    +digital assets it considers forfeited.
    +
    +Literal astrology has a benchmark practitioner. Blaming a podcast shortage on
    +Mercury going into retrograde on July 17 and disrupting microphone supply chains,
    +Greaser demurred: "I'm not gonna read too much in the astrology because I'm not
    +an astrologer. I'm no Aaron Redwing" — [[characters/erin-redwing|Erin Redwing]],
    +whose show [[media/hell-money|Hell Money]] he plugged two cues
    +later.[^redwing-benchmark] The same episode audited his own model and found it
    +wanting: "based on my price targets, I was, estimating Bitcoin would be about
    +2,000,000,000,000" and it is only at $118,000. The variable he had failed to
    +price in was apathy.[^model-missed]
    +
    +The third successor was formalised with [[characters/cryptomags|CryptoMags]].
    +Greaser argued that women's edge in selling paper Bitcoin is a predisposition to
    +astrology; CryptoMags converted the insult into a thesis — "Vibe investing? Yes.
    +Forget the spreadsheets. Just invest based on vibes" — which is what
    +[[companies/vibes-capital-management|Vibes Capital Management]] is
    +for.[^vibe-investing] Rod's amendment: you have to be able to vibe check yourself
    +to trade on vibes successfully.
    +
    +Against all of this the show holds one instrument to be honest. Greaser elevated a
    +Rod group-chat remark into doctrine — "which was that, you knew that the Polish
    +situation wasn't a big deal because the Bitcoin price didn't crash"[^price-war-test]
    +— with the control group supplied: Israel/Iran missile-launch wars dump Bitcoin
    +7–10% the afternoon before, and Poland did not move half a percent. See
    +[[storylines/war-watch]].
    +
    +## The teachers (late 2025)
    +
    +The arc's contempt narrowed onto people who teach. Greaser dismissed
    +[[characters/matthew-kratter|Matthew Kratter]] and
    +[[storylines/university-of-bitcoin|Bitcoin University]] with a those-who-can't-do
    +inversion: "the problem with Crowder is he doesn't have the self awareness of
    +realizing that he should be teaching gym class."[^kratter-gym] ("Crowder" is ASR
    +for Kratter.) [[media/simply-bitcoin|Simply Bitcoin]] drew the harder charge —
    +responsibility for retirement math the plebs actually believed: "they were, you
    +know, they were watching Simply Bitcoin videos, and they were told that what
    +amount of Bitcoin they needed to be able to retire."[^simply-retirement] They
    +acquired that amount and can barely afford their taxes.
    +
    +## The macro elders lose the plot (2026)
    +
    +Episode 96 is the arc's fullest statement. Greaser reported
    +[[characters/lawrence-lepard|Lawrence Lepard]] spraying pleb slop across a
    +MicroStrategy investor call — "with micro strategy, and they brought Larry Lapard
    +on to just dispute Pub Slop. It was incredible" — gold, silver, low time
    +preference and [[characters/saifedean-ammous|Saifedean]] inside two
    +minutes.[^lepard-mstr] Rod's read was that shareholders wanted a remote dynamic
    +hype speech from [[characters/michael-saylor|Michael Saylor]], not Larry Lippard,
    +Grumpy. On the same call the catchphrase met its author: "like you said, Lynn
    +Alden's name. Nothing stops his train. She was sitting on the
    +call."[^train-collision]
    +
    +The diagnosis followed. Rod attributed the elders' failure to a misread of the
    +cycle — "a lot of podcasts with grumpy macro elders kind of wondering why" their
    +macro voodoo no longer works, because they mistook the first turning for the
    +fourth.[^macro-elders] [[characters/paul-tudor-jones|Paul Tudor Jones]] was the
    +named casualty, still saying since 2020 that a bunch of angry guys with hardware
    +wallets means it is never going to zero. Greaser reduced the whole genre to one
    +word repeated, after listening to [[characters/james-lavish|James Lavish]] on
    +*What Bitcoin Did*: "And liquidity, liquidity, liquidity, It'll go up eventually.
    +Slap."[^macro-slop] The ASR's "Slap" is *slop*; Rod named the product on the next
    +cue as macro slop. Greaser's real complaint was that they cannot say the words
    +*we have no idea what the fuck's gonna happen*. His floor for commentary was set
    +accordingly: "I wanna hear something more insightful than what I would hear Nico
    +and Opti say on Simply Bitcoin"[^simply-floor] — he would rather hear
    +[[characters/erin-redwing|Erin Redwing]] speculate about astrology, on the grounds
    +that it is at least different. Rod's account of the succession is generational:
    +the broccoli haircuts begged their elders for a mentor, got nothing, and "that's
    +where the TikTok macro is coming from. That's where these Zoomers are" taking over
    +prediction markets and meme coins, generating their own liquidity because the M2
    +chart stopped being useful.[^tiktok-macro] See [[storylines/first-turning-era]]
    +and [[storylines/boomer-problem]].
    +
    +By March 2026 the reversal was complete. Gold ripping left Bitcoin Twitter dead,
    +because plebs were "so frustrated with not knowing how to call Peter Schiff
    +retarded" — [[characters/peter-schiff|Schiff]], the arc's 2024 convert, now
    +somewhat vindicated, with the dunk deferred to the Bitcoin/gold death
    +cross.[^schiff-vindicated] Rod's account of the decoupling ran through WWF: pleb
    +sloppers hulk up on crowd vibes to declare Bitcoin the real store of value and
    +gold the fake one, "and that's what the plug sloppers are dealing"[^hulk-slop]
    +(medium confidence; "plug sloppers" is ASR for pleb sloppers). The genre's newest
    +specimen is [[characters/tom-luongo|Tom Luongo]], a dumb Gen X doomer obsessed
    +with the City of London who thinks [[characters/jerome-powell|Powell]] is fighting
    +the globalists and who, "in his own mind, is the smartest person in the
    +world."[^luongo-sketch]
    +
    +## The doctrine, posted
    +
    +The arc does not stay on the mic. The show's accounts run the same two models on
    +X, where the price-call priesthood is preached rather than merely reported — the
    +Bitcoin podcast power law as gospel, TikTok macro as the heresy it displaced.
    +
    +### The power law, in tract form
    +
    +[[characters/richard-greaser|Richard Greaser]] carried his model to the timeline
    +in the same January the interview with [[characters/rob-hamilton|Rob Hamilton]]
    +seeded it, compressing the whole four-minute mechanism into an equation:
    +
    +> More podcasts equals more NGU: Bitcoin podcast power law
    +> — [@GreaserRichard, 2025-01-14](https://x.com/GreaserRichard/status/1879023681982366096)
    +
    +The house account did the catechism, stating the doctrine's promise and its one
    +commandment as settled arithmetic — the same "everybody should start a podcast"
    +prescription Greaser would escalate to on air by April:
    +
    +> the more podcasts there are, the higher the price will go. If you want the price to go up, start a podcast. This is a mathematical certainty
    +> — [@bitcoin_bugle, 2025-01-29](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/1884642019672216069)
    +
    +The adoption curve was self-reported the same day — "Bitcoin Podcast Power Law
    +is gaining traction" — [@bitcoin_bugle, 2025-01-29](https://x.com/bitcoin_bugle/status/1884632006048305189),
    +which is the recruitment problem restated: Greaser's complaint to
    +[[characters/btckaz|BTCKaz]] that he did not know why the model had not taken off
    +more. The March restatement the page records on air has its dated timeline
    +counterpart, the phrase posted bare — "Bitcoin Podcast Power Law" —
    +[@GreaserRichard, 2025-03-14](https://x.com/GreaserRichard/status/1900403590772253160).
    +By April it had graduated to a quote card:
    +
    +![](/tweets/1910310138822467834-0.jpg)
    +
    +> It's that simple. Bitcoin Podcast Power Law
    +> — [@GreaserRichard, 2025-04-10](https://x.com/GreaserRichard/status/1910310138822467834)
    +
    +Henry's note: the card renders "If you want the price to go up, start a Bitcoin
    +podcast / Richard Greaser," which is the house account's January TLDR laid out
    +over the show's orange-and-red livery. The model is early — its author's follower
    +count is the proof.
    +
    +### TikTok macro and the broccoli zoomers
    +
    +The successor genre the arc diagnoses in [[storylines/first-turning-era|Episode 96]]
    +was already [[characters/rod-palmer|Rod Palmer]]'s standing grievance on X, filed
    +months before the fullest on-air statement. His charge is generational: the
    +Zoomers call tops off a feed rather than a chart, and have not done the reading.
    +
    +> these plebs today don't remember the mayer multiple. they're calling top based on tiktok macro
    +> — [@rodpalmerhodl, 2025-07-23](https://x.com/rodpalmerhodl/status/1948123386502430743)
    +
    +> zoomers, i'm not impressed by your broccoli haircuts or your tiktok macro
    +> — [@rodpalmerhodl, 2025-07-23](https://x.com/rodpalmerhodl/status/1947855456723955735)
    +
    +The "broccoli haircuts" here are verbatim the ones Rod's on-air succession account
    +gives — the kids who begged their elders for a mentor, got nothing, and generate
    +their own liquidity instead. When the top-callers turned bearish in November, Rod
    +logged it as one more datum against the method rather than a signal worth heeding:
    +"tiktok macro guy thinks it's over for bitcoin" — [@rodpalmerhodl, 2025-11-25](https://x.com/rodpalmerhodl/status/1993309232414990690).
    +The two heresies are named together, and set against the arc's honest instrument —
    +the suit, the man who shows up:
    +
    +![](/tweets/1978911573662896479-0.jpg)
    +
    +> it's going to take more than pleb slop and tiktok macro to dethrone a man who puts on a suit to host spaces.
    +> — [@rodpalmerhodl, 2025-10-16](https://x.com/rodpalmerhodl/status/1978911573662896479)
    +
    +Henry's note: the pairing of [[storylines/pleb-slop-wars|pleb slop]] and TikTok
    +macro as the two things that cannot dethrone the suited man is the arc's whole
    +posture in one line — the models are dead, the successors are unserious, and the
    +only defensible credential left is dressing for the occasion. The referent of the
    +suited headshot is not fixed by the post.
    +
    +## Disputed
    +
    +The previous revision of this page dated the arc **2023-01 to 2024-03** and
    +described it as mockery of external price pundits — [[characters/willy-woo|Willy
    +Woo]] seeing his shadow, [[characters/will-clemente|Will Clemente]] on
    +stablecoins, [[characters/anthony-pompliano|Anthony Pompliano]] and Gareth
    +Soloway teaching TA to refugees, Dune releases driving the four-year cycle — sourced
    +to a breadth sweep of episode descriptions and headlines rather than to the
    +record.
    +
    +The beat index contradicts both the span and the thesis. Every verified beat for
    +this storyline falls between **2024-07-23** and **2026-03-23**, and the arc's
    +central chartboi is not an outside pundit but Greaser, whose two-trillion-USDT
    +call is made on air[^two-trillion] and audited on air as a
    +miss[^model-missed]. Woo and Clemente do appear, but as passing referents inside
    +that later window — Clemente as an instance of the Broyles
    +type,[^broyles-playbook] Woo as a name the audience was burned by before the power
    +law died.[^at-ease-giovanni] Pompliano, Soloway, the Dune cycle, and the scouting
    +combine appear in no beat.
    +
    +Henry's note: the 2023–24 headlines listed below are real pages and are plainly
    +topical, so they are kept here rather than deleted. What is withdrawn is the
    +claim that they *are* this storyline. They are unverified against the record
    +until a replay reaches them.
    +
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    +
    +**Related:** [[storylines/bull-market-euphoria]] · [[storylines/pleb-slop-wars]] ·
    +[[storylines/first-turning-era]] · [[storylines/boomer-problem]] ·
    +[[storylines/jim-cramer]] · [[storylines/40-hours-per-week]] ·
    +[[storylines/meme-gang-wars]] · [[storylines/podconf-industrial-complex]] ·
    +[[storylines/paper-bitcoin-menace]] · [[storylines/michael-saylor-saga]] ·
    +[[storylines/university-of-bitcoin]] · [[bits/price-floor-proclamations]]
    +
    +[^nashville-call]: [[transcripts/the-calm-before-the-storm-bugle-weekly-episode-18#t-2443|Bugle Weekly 18 @ 40:43]]. The number wobbles across the surrounding cues, from "$200,000" to "$2,000,000,000,000" to "$4,000,000,000,000" when Rod repeats it back.
    +[^avile-boost]: [[transcripts/powell-signals-everythings-fine-bugle-weekly-episode-27#t-3952|Bugle Weekly 27 @ 1:05:52]]. The booster Avile has no page here.
    +[^sat-cigarette]: [[transcripts/powell-signals-everythings-fine-bugle-weekly-episode-27#t-3990|Bugle Weekly 27 @ 1:06:30]].
    +[^schiff-thanksgiving]: [[transcripts/thanksgiving-victory-lap-bugle-weekly-episode-37#t-2307|Bugle Weekly 37 @ 38:27]]. ASR renders Cramer as "Kramer" / "Tube Kramer".
    +[^podcast-power-law]: [[transcripts/discovering-miniscript-with-rob-hamilton-behind-the-podcast-episode-5#t-813|Behind The Podcast 5 @ 13:33]]. The cue merges Hamilton's reply.
    +[^power-law-restated]: [[transcripts/is-good-ux-counter-revolutionary-behind-the-podcast-episode-12#t-2576|Behind The Podcast 12 @ 42:56]].
    +[^everybody-podcast]: [[transcripts/richard-greaser-vs-mike-brock-debate#t-663|Richard Greaser Vs. Mike Brock Debate @ 11:03]].
    +[^broyles-playbook]: [[transcripts/2024-recap-bugle-weekly-episode-42#t-538|Bugle Weekly 42 @ 8:58]]. ASR: "the uber bellish child wonder" for *uber bullish*; "Dylan McClary" for Dylan LeClair.
    +[^two-trillion]: [[transcripts/the-future-is-wrapped-bugle-weekly-episode-44#t-2223|Bugle Weekly 44 @ 37:03]]. The quote spans three cues; "by the end of twenty twenty five" follows.
    +[^god-candle]: [[transcripts/fixing-the-cias-incentives-with-frank-corva-behind-the-podcast-episode-9#t-1340|Behind The Podcast 9 @ 22:20]]. "Samsung and Mount God candle" is ASR for *Samson Mow God candle*; the referent is fixed by the passage, not the spelling.
    +[^alden-ear]: [[transcripts/onwards-and-upwards-bugle-weekly-episode-41#t-773|Bugle Weekly 41 @ 12:53]]. ASR spells her "Lin Alden" here. The passage is inside a borrowed interview clip.
    +[^alden-hot]: [[transcripts/onwards-and-upwards-bugle-weekly-episode-41#t-933|Bugle Weekly 41 @ 15:33]].
    +[^alden-hottest-macro]: [[transcripts/dont-tell-me-where-to-meme-with-yellow-behind-the-podcast-episode-11#t-2616|Behind The Podcast 11 @ 43:36]]. "influencer," lands in the next cue.
    +[^alden-best-memer]: [[transcripts/back-in-the-saddle-podcasting-again-bugle-weekly-episode-71#t-4396|Bugle Weekly 71 @ 1:13:16]]. ASR: "Lin Alden".
    +[^temu-alden]: [[transcripts/happy-thanksgiving-bugle-weekly-episode-86#t-2591|Bugle Weekly 86 @ 43:11]]. "pledge" is ASR for *pleb*; "Timu" for Temu. Coin Bureau and CoinDesk have no pages here.
    +[^krueger-giovanni]: [[transcripts/let-the-festivities-begin-bugle-weekly-episode-51#t-1130|Bugle Weekly 51 @ 18:50]]. Medium confidence. "Giovanni" — the power-law author — has no page here, and is not the Candi Giovanni of the Elizabeth Warren item.
    +[^mandel-call]: [[transcripts/let-the-festivities-begin-bugle-weekly-episode-51#t-2367|Bugle Weekly 51 @ 39:27]]. Medium confidence; Josh Mandel has no page here, and a garbled earlier mention ("Josh Mantow") is not confidently the same man.
    +[^at-ease-giovanni]: [[transcripts/let-the-festivities-begin-bugle-weekly-episode-51#t-2562|Bugle Weekly 51 @ 42:42]]. Medium confidence.
    +[^ogs-clueless]: [[transcripts/we-know-whats-going-on-bugle-weekly-episode-54#t-288|Bugle Weekly 54 @ 4:48]]. Medium confidence; the quote spans two cues and is kept short.
    +[^podcast-astrology]: [[transcripts/the-coremunists-vs-the-knotzis-bugle-weekly-episode-59#t-1867|Bugle Weekly 59 @ 31:07]]. Quote spans three cues. ASR: "Samson now".
    +[^redwing-benchmark]: [[transcripts/boomers-sacrificing-to-moloch-bugle-weekly-episode-68#t-1303|Bugle Weekly 68 @ 21:43]]. ASR: "Aaron Redwing"; "help money podcast" for *Hell Money*.
    +[^model-missed]: [[transcripts/boomers-sacrificing-to-moloch-bugle-weekly-episode-68#t-1449|Bugle Weekly 68 @ 24:09]]. The unit is rendered "USTT" two cues later.
    +[^vibe-investing]: [[transcripts/queen-of-canadian-paper-bitcoin-with-cryptomags-btp-episode-20#t-1666|BTP 20 @ 27:46]].
    +[^price-war-test]: [[transcripts/emergency-broadcast-podcasting-under-attack#t-2924|Emergency Broadcast: Podcasting Under Attack @ 48:44]]. Rod's original phrasing has "sigh out", ASR for *psyop*.
    +[^kratter-gym]: [[transcripts/be-a-good-example-bugle-weekly-episode-78#t-1457|Bugle Weekly 78 @ 24:17]]. ASR: "Crowder" for Kratter.
    +[^simply-retirement]: [[transcripts/reflections-from-the-frontier-bugle-weekly-episode-83-part-1#t-761|Bugle Weekly 83 Part 1 @ 12:41]]. Quote kept as one sentence across a cue boundary.
    +[^lepard-mstr]: [[transcripts/straight-out-of-distractions-bugle-weekly-episode-96#t-1491|Bugle Weekly 96 @ 24:51]]. ASR gives "Larry Lapard", "Larry Lippard" and "Larry look hard" for Lawrence Lepard; "safadine" for Saifedean Ammous; "Pub Slop" for *pleb slop*.
    +[^train-collision]: [[transcripts/straight-out-of-distractions-bugle-weekly-episode-96#t-1555|Bugle Weekly 96 @ 25:55]]. ASR: "Lynn Alden"; "Nothing stops his train".
    +[^macro-elders]: [[transcripts/straight-out-of-distractions-bugle-weekly-episode-96#t-1644|Bugle Weekly 96 @ 27:24]]. Quote kept short; it runs across four cues. "first journey" is ASR for *first turning*.
    +[^macro-slop]: [[transcripts/straight-out-of-distractions-bugle-weekly-episode-96#t-1733|Bugle Weekly 96 @ 28:53]]. "Slap" is ASR for *slop*.
    +[^simply-floor]: [[transcripts/straight-out-of-distractions-bugle-weekly-episode-96#t-1844|Bugle Weekly 96 @ 30:44]]. "Simply Bitcoin slot" two cues later is *slop*.
    +[^tiktok-macro]: [[transcripts/straight-out-of-distractions-bugle-weekly-episode-96#t-1827|Bugle Weekly 96 @ 30:27]].
    +[^schiff-vindicated]: [[transcripts/in-the-midst-of-madness-bugle-weekly-episode-102#t-1252|Bugle Weekly 102 @ 20:52]].
    +[^hulk-slop]: [[transcripts/in-the-midst-of-madness-bugle-weekly-episode-102#t-1221|Bugle Weekly 102 @ 20:21]]. Medium confidence; "plug sloppers" is ASR for *pleb sloppers*.
    +[^luongo-sketch]: [[transcripts/in-the-midst-of-madness-bugle-weekly-episode-102#t-2173|Bugle Weekly 102 @ 36:13]]. ASR: "Tom Lago" / "Bon Bon Bon" for Luongo.