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diff --git a/wiki/storylines/chartboi-punditry.md b/wiki/storylines/chartboi-punditry.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..e74566a0 @@ -0,0 +1,436 @@ +--- +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: + - raw/episodes/the-calm-before-the-storm-bugle-weekly-episode-18/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/powell-signals-everythings-fine-bugle-weekly-episode-27/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/thanksgiving-victory-lap-bugle-weekly-episode-37/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/onwards-and-upwards-bugle-weekly-episode-41/bundle.json + - 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: + + + +> 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: + + + +> 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. + +- [[news/bitcoin-prices-crosses-18k-threshold-full-time-podcast-listeners-claim-it-will-never-go-under-it-again|Bitcoin Price Crosses $18K Threshold, Full Time Podcast Listeners Claim It Will Never Go Under $18k Again]] — 2023-01-12 +- [[news/willy-woo-emerges-from-apartment-sees-shadow-bear-market-to-continue-for-8-more-weeks|Willy Woo Emerges from Apartment, Sees Shadow—Bear Market to Continue for 8 More Weeks]] — 2023-06-06 +- [[news/replicators-declare-the-start-of-the-bull-run|Podcasters Declare The Start Of The Next Bull Run]] — 2023-10-20 +- [[news/will-clemente-predicts-stablecoins-will-outperform-bitcoin-next-cycle|Will Clemente Predicts Stablecoins Will Outperform Bitcoin Next Cycle]] — 2023-11-02 +- [[news/anthony-pompliano-willy-woo-and|Anthony Pompliano Partners With Gareth Soloway to Teach Bitcoin Technical Analysis to Palestinian Refugees]] — 2024-02-15 +- [[news/ta-is-a-hard-science-that-should-be-taught-in-colleges-willy-woo|"TA Is A Hard Science That Should Be Taught In Colleges," Willy Woo]] — 2024-02-21 +- [[news/disney|VanEck Report Shows Bitcoin Market Cycles Depend on Dune Releases, Not Halving]] — 2024-03-05 +- [[news/dune-makers-co|Dune Makers Revealed to Control The Price Of Bitcoin]] — 2024-03-05 +- [[news/amateur-chartbois|Over 50 Amateur Chartbois Set To Compete To Be This Cycle's Will Clemente at Bitcoin On-Chain & TA Scouting Combine]] — 2024-03-12 +- [[news/experts-compare-bitcoiners-who-only-post-green-charts-to-gambling-addicts|Experts Compare Bitcoiner's Who Only Post Green Charts To Gambling Addicts]] — 2024-03-14 + +**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.