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diff --git a/wiki/storylines/holiday-specials.md b/wiki/storylines/holiday-specials.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..a03b6a0e @@ -0,0 +1,352 @@ +--- +title: Holiday Specials Tradition +type: storyline +status: confirmed +kind: recurring-event +span: 2023-12 to 2026-06 +related: + - jeff-pastor-jeffs + - pleb-persecution + - cigarette-money-donations + - pleb-slop-wars + - pioneers-of-the-frontier + - 40-hours-per-week + - v4v-music-empire + - bugle-anniversary-tradition +sources: + - raw/episodes/noncompliant-4th-of-july-bugle-weekly-episode-15/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/sly-goomba-thanksgiving-special-behind-the-podcast-episode-1/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/thanksgiving-victory-lap-bugle-weekly-episode-37/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/the-first-responders-and-compliance-salesmen-bugle-weekly-episode-38/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/jason-lowerys-drones-bugle-weekly-episode-39/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/bugle-christmas-special/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/bitcoin-is-tax-affording-technology-bugle-weekly-episode-40/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/bugle-easter-special-bugle-weekly-episode-56/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/navigating-holiday-family-division-bugle-weekly-episode-87/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/enemies-of-bitcoin-with-muck-anic-bugle-weekly-episode-88/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/pioneers-prepare-for-christmas-bugle-weekly-episode-89/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/the-world-is-a-podcast-with-rob-wallace-btp-episode-28/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/bugle-weekly-christmas-special/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/the-quantum-quarrel-has-commenced-bugle-weekly-episode-90/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/the-plebs-killed-jesus-easter-service-by-pastor-jeffs/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/podcasters-crashing-out-bugle-weekly-episode-105/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/fabian-slop-summer-bugle-weekly-episode-114/bundle.json + - raw/news/corporations-sue-santa-claus-for-ip-infringement.json + - raw/news/santa-receives-unusually-large-amount-of-requests-for-ross-ulbrict-to-be-released-from-prison.json + - raw/news/how-to-orange-pill-your-family-this-thanksgiving.json + - raw/news/tension-at-thanksgiving-as-daughters-new-boyfriend-wears-swan-hat.json +--- + +The Bugleverse keeps the calendar. Every holiday that arrives is annexed by the +newsroom, restated in Bitcoin terms and returned to the audience as programming: +July 4th as a noncompliance festival, Thanksgiving as a first-contact mission, +Christmas as an audit of who can afford both presents and taxes, Easter as a +church service the hosts then disown. The specials are not a genre the show +occasionally attempts — they are the show's standing method for testing its own +doctrine against relatives who do not listen to Bitcoin podcasts. + +**Who's in it:** [[characters/rod-palmer|Rod Palmer]] · [[characters/richard-greaser|Richard Greaser]] · [[characters/kailey-welch|Kailey Welch]] · [[characters/santa-claus|Santa Claus]] · [[characters/pledditor|Pledditor]] · [[characters/dennis-porter|Dennis Porter]] · [[characters/buster-cherry|Buster Cherry]] · [[characters/lyn-alden|Lyn Alden]] · [[characters/pastor-jeffs|Pastor Jeffs]] + +**Related:** [[storylines/cigarette-money-donations]] · [[storylines/pleb-slop-wars]] · [[storylines/40-hours-per-week]] · [[storylines/pioneers-of-the-frontier]] · [[storylines/jeff-pastor-jeffs]] · [[storylines/v4v-music-empire]] · [[storylines/bugle-anniversary-tradition]] + +## The wire establishes the holidays (2023) + +The tradition begins in print, before the podcast is doing specials at all. The +Christmas 2023 run gives the universe its two durable holiday fixtures: Santa +Claus as a defendant, sued by Samsung, Apple and Cold Card for manufacturing +their products at the North Pole without regard for intellectual +property,[^santa-ip] and Santa as a mailbox, receiving an unusual volume of +letters asking for [[characters/ross-ulbricht|Ross Ulbricht]]'s +release.[^santa-ross] Thanksgiving 2023 supplies the other half — the family +table as a conversion opportunity[^orange-pill] and as a site of hat-related +hostilities.[^swan-hat] Every later special is playing these same two chords. + +## Noncompliance as a holiday (July 2024) + +The podcast's first special in the record is *Noncompliant 4th of July*, which +opens on an anthem stating the thesis as a jingle: "Take back your pride. Embrace +freedom. Do not hide. Only fools follow the rules."[^ncj-anthem] An unbranded PSA +retcons the founding as a smuggling event — "let's embrace the cypherpunk ethos +and sell each other cigarettes peer to peer. This is our Boston Tea +Party"[^ncj-psa] — and [[characters/richard-greaser|Greaser]] supplies the +organizing axiom: "there's nothing more American than smoking non KYC +cigarettes."[^ncj-axiom] Citizenship in the Bugleverse is established as a +behavior rather than a passport; [[characters/julian-assange|Julian Assange]], +"while not being American, is is much more of an American than most +Americans."[^ncj-assange] [[characters/rod-palmer|Rod Palmer]] closes by +inverting the show's usual compliance sermon into an order: "maybe light some +cigarettes with some fireworks this weekend and just be free. Don't be a cock. +Don't be a status cat. Don't comply."[^ncj-signoff] + +## The first Christmas run (winter 2024) + +The Thanksgiving 2024 slot belongs to the debut of a second weekly show — Rod +announces "new thing. We're gonna have podcasts coming out on Thursdays as +well"[^btp-launch] — after which the run turns to Christmas and does not stop for +six weeks. + +*Thanksgiving Victory Lap* opens by selling the hosts' own catalogue as a gift: +"Richard Grieser and Rod Palmer have been dominating the Wave Lake top 40 this +year, and now you can give your loved ones a taste of the action."[^tvl-ad] A +second ad lists what gifting the Bugle prepares your family for — affording taxes, +and "thinking Lynn Alden is hot."[^tvl-alden] Rod names the frame: "it was nothing +short of a victory lap,"[^tvl-frame] and gives the Christmas bull market an +origin — [[characters/satoshi|Satoshi]] timed the chain "to feed off the energy of +the birth of Christ."[^tvl-satoshi] The recommended present is a carload of +low-tax cigarettes: "the gift of non KYC peer to peer cigarettes. I mean, that's a +huge gift."[^tvl-smokes] The closing story is a lawsuit — the North Pole elves +"have been building cold cards"[^tvl-elves] in record numbers, so the Coinkite CEO +is suing [[characters/santa-claus|Santa]].[^tvl-nvk] + +The following week's outro is an original carol that runs the whole cast through +the show's obligations, opening on "Forty hours a week is what is +required."[^carol-40] A week after that, *Jason Lowery's Drones* cold-opens on a +full "Twas the Night Before Christmas" parody rewritten around +[[characters/dennis-porter|Dennis Porter]], in which the awaited gift is "Twas the +announcement before the announcement."[^twas] Rod's shopping is hardware — "I got +them, Umbrel nodes and open dimes for Christmas"[^ep39-gifts] — and Greaser +diagnoses the war on Christmas as "really just a communist plot because what +Christmas ultimately represents is it represents American capitalism."[^ep39-war] +The sign-off makes orange-pilling a deadline: "you're running out of time to +convince your grandma to get on the, to get on zero."[^ep39-zero] + +The *Bugle Christmas Special* itself is the quietest thing in the arc. It presents +"smoking cigarettes and listening to bitcoin podcasts" as the wholesome image of a +family Christmas,[^xmas-fire] gives Greaser a sincere solo monologue — "For many, +this may be a challenging Christmas"[^xmas-greaser] — and lets Rod answer it: +"Families are able to afford both taxes and Christmas presents for their kids +because they did the proof of work."[^xmas-proof] Dinner tables are said to +"revel in how hot Lynn Alden is";[^xmas-alden] Santa's sleigh is loaded with +"crypto cloaks, doodads, and bit axes";[^xmas-sleigh] and +[[characters/lindsey-graham|Lindsey Graham]] is the designated villain, having +written to Santa to ask for permission to invade Iran.[^xmas-graham] Rod's outro +calls it "this year's edition,"[^xmas-annual] which is the moment the special +becomes an institution. The episode then plays the end of *It's a Wonderful Life* +without announcement and stops.[^xmas-coda] + +The year closes with *Bitcoin Is Tax Affording Technology*, which is a Christmas +episode in everything but title. Rod reveals *Home Alone* as "a story about being +the only Bitcoiner in a family full of shitcoiners";[^ep40-home] identifies the +holiday's second meaning — "you can just look back at the story of Santa Claus and +realize that that is one of the most common psyops";[^ep40-psyop] and nominates +[[characters/steve-barbour|Steve Barbour]] as the man who games the naughty list +on purpose, because "he likes getting coal in his stocking."[^ep40-barbour] +Greaser closes with the Greaser family rite of passage: "that that was the first +time my dad gave me a pack of Marlboro Reds."[^ep40-marlboro] + +## Easter, and the disowning of it (April 2025) + +The *Bugle Easter Special* opens with the standing framing device — +[[characters/kailey-welch|Kailey Welch]]'s station ID, "This is Kaylee Welch, and +you are listening to the Bugle weekly Easter special"[^easter-id] — and the set +piece is Greaser salting a children's egg hunt: "I put a bunch of cigarettes in +all the Easter eggs and then proceeded to watch the parents freak out as their +kids were pulling cigarettes out of the Easter eggs."[^easter-eggs] The special +then eats itself. Having been framed by a [[characters/pastor-jeffs|Pastor Jeffs]] +sermon, it ends with the host repudiating it: "I think Pastor Jeff's is kind of a +a tool."[^easter-jeffs] The commission survives the repudiation — "Shell the +podcast. Go bugle pill somebody."[^easter-signoff] + +## The second Christmas run (winter 2025) + +By November 2025 the holiday season arrives as an economic dread. Greaser states +the pleb dilemma without a joke attached: "They're they're gonna be asking +themselves, should they buy their family Christmas presents or should should they +save to be able to afford their taxes?"[^ep83-dilemma] + +*Happy Thanksgiving* cold-opens on [[sponsors/trinkets-for-plebs|Trinkets for +Plebs]] retooled for Black Friday and a down market — "It's Black Friday at +Trinkets for Plebs, the only store brave enough to shout the truth"[^tfp-bf] — +closing on the tagline "trinkets for plebs. If you ain't buying, you're probably a +shitcoiner."[^tfp-tag] The dinner-table agenda has grown teeth: relatives will ask +"whether or not Core v 30 actually killed Bitcoin," and why Core was funded by +[[characters/jeffrey-epstein|Epstein]].[^tg-core] Rod's strategies are, in order, +the 40HPW standard applied to your own family — "they have to listen to forty +hours of Bitcoin podcasts"[^tg-40] — then volume, because "when the when the +market's down, that is the Super Bowl for club slop,"[^tg-slop] then conquest of +the television: "put on a podcast, watch watch Ram and Roll Recap or or watch what +Bitcoin did on the big screen at your parents house."[^tg-tv] The cousin has +updated his portfolio; where he was once "kind of like an XRP army tard or some +kind of meme coin flipper,"[^tg-cousin] he now mouths off about Zcash. Greaser's +gratitude list extends the newsroom's core value to a Core maintainer — "I'm +grateful that [[characters/gloria-zhao|Gloria Zhao]] is hot"[^tg-zhao] — and his +benediction reconciles the hour: "Thanksgiving is about enjoying slop together +with your family."[^tg-benediction] + +*Navigating Holiday Family Division* supplies the arc's governing metaphor. +Non-listening relatives are "uncontacted pledge they have not listened to Bitcoin +podcasts yet,"[^div-uncontacted] and the family division of the title turns out to +be stuffing: "do you like bread stuffing or cornbread stuffing," a fight as +vicious as the Coreminis versus the [[orgs/knotzis|Knotzis]].[^div-stuffing] +Greaser's nephew Jimmy, whom he has formally banned from talking pleb slop at the +table,[^div-jimmy] pays the bit off: cousin Sarah complains about turkey prices, +the vein bulges, and Greaser walks him outside for a cigarette where he finally +screams "Bitcoin fixes this."[^div-vein] Rod's mirror-image nephew brings up +Zcash and is taken "out behind the shed" — pleb slop is forgivable at the table, +altcoins are not.[^div-shed] Greaser's uncle John argues that "Satoshi was Jeffrey +Epstein, and that's why XRP was a better coin," and the counter-strategy is to nod +and leave.[^div-uncle] With twenty people smoking indoors, the Greaser household +is ruled "a citadel of freedom for a day."[^div-citadel] Rod, meanwhile, books the +pre-holiday pump as cover: "Bitcoin did pump from 80 to about 92 +ks."[^div-pump] + +The run continues sideways. Episode 88 closes on a Jingle Bells parody — "Jingle +bell, jingle bell, jingle bell slop. Content Farm Christmas that just won't +stop"[^ep88-carol] — over an interview in which the guest describes his enemies +list as "I'm kinda like McCarthy about it. You know? I make lists. I check them +twice."[^ep88-mccarthy] *Pioneers Prepare For Christmas* then delivers the arc's +best structural joke: Santa has discontinued his tracking contract with Palantir +and outsourced the naughty list to [[characters/pledditor|Pledditor]], because +"there's one thing Pledger does not miss, and that is, purity test failing +plebs."[^pioneers-pledditor] [[characters/adam-semeka|Adam Semeka]] is reported to +be cashing a decade of stacking into extended-family tallow fries — "Adam Samecca +told me that he's gonna take his whole family to Steak and Shake for +Christmas"[^pioneers-steak] — and the Porter mechanism is stated as a causal +chain: the God announcement leads to the God candle leads to your saying "have fun +staying poor" at Christmas.[^pioneers-porter] Greaser's house tour prices the +trinket economy as visible proof of work — "Look at all the trinkets I have that I +can afford because I listen to Bitcoin podcast"[^pioneers-trinkets] — before the +episode's sermon, which is the title: "You remind yourself and reaffirm that +you're a pioneer on the frontier, that you were built for this +moment."[^pioneers-sermon] Rod signs off on the show's nearest thing to a +benediction: "Feel the grumpiness, let it pass, and, meditate on on lowering your +time preference."[^pioneers-grump] Three days later the Thursday show contributes +the arc's only piece of straight practical advice, from +[[characters/rob-wallace|Rob Wallace]]: "go home for the holidays this year and +make a code word," against AI voice-cloning ransom calls.[^btp-codeword] + +The *Bugle Weekly Christmas Special* is the tradition's most self-aware entry. It +dates itself — "We are in the fourth turning"[^bwx-turning] — hands off through an +announcer, "Here is your host, Richard Grieser,"[^bwx-host] rotates through the +bench with [[characters/buster-cherry|Buster Cherry]] taking the second +segment,[^bwx-buster] and gives the special its central image: on the frontier, +"the Pioneer family would gather together and light a tallow candle."[^bwx-candle] +Kailey Welch then reads Greaser's Christmas 2023 article aloud in full,[^bwx-read] +observing that "a lot has changed with the Bugle since that first Christmas at the +end of twenty twenty three."[^bwx-loop] The outro converts the anecdote into an +instruction: "look for a candle in the window."[^bwx-outro] The year ends with the +Christmas album confirmed on air[^ep90-album] and the "Pleb Slop Blues" sung as +the outro: "so sad running out of podcast in the queue."[^ep90-blues] + +## Easter 2026 and after + +Easter 2026 is a full service, opened by Pastor Clyde — "welcome to Mountainside +Worship United this Easter"[^clyde] — and its conclusion enters the record the +following week when Greaser recaps it in the boost segment: "Last week's episode, +we talked about how the clubs killed Jesus."[^jesus-recap] + +The calendar keeps expanding. By June 2026 Greaser has confessed the July 4th +arrangement outright — "it's my past to be a neocon for a day. It's like it's +it's like my cheat day"[^neocon] — which Rod reframes as Halloween, and Rod has +fixed the summer's boundaries by federal holiday: "Basically, white coy summer +started on Memorial Day ends on Labor Day."[^goy-summer] + +> irl: "Ram and Roll Recap" is *Rabbit Hole Recap*; "what Bitcoin did" is *What +> Bitcoin Did*. Neither show has a page here yet. + +## Disputed + +**Whether the Santa lawsuit is one event or two.** The wire reports a group action +in December 2023 — Samsung, Apple and Cold Card among the plaintiffs, suing the +North Pole over IP.[^santa-ip] A year later the podcast reports a Coldcard-specific +suit with a different grievance: the elves are mass-producing Coldcards as +Christmas gifts "at a record record number," and NVK is suing them for +it.[^tvl-elves] The dates are a year apart and the plaintiff lists do not match, so +Henry has not merged them. Read together they suggest an annual filing; read +apart, two separate suits. The record does not say which. + +> *Henry's note: this page was previously seeded from a sweep of episode +> descriptions and headlines, and its source list was wrong in both directions. +> It listed eleven episodes; the beat index carries beats from nineteen, +> including eight the sweep missed entirely — episodes 38, 39, 40, 83 (part 1), +> 88, 90, 105 and 114, plus BTP 28. Several of those are the arc's load-bearing +> material: the "Twas the Night Before Christmas" parody and the *Home Alone* +> reading are not in holiday-titled episodes at all. Conversely,* Recovering From +> A Noncompliant 4th *(ep 16) sits on the seeded list and contributes no beats to +> this storyline. The sweep also named [[characters/sly-goomba|Sly Goomba]] as a +> participant on the strength of an episode title; the only beat mined from that +> episode is Rod announcing the Thursday show, and Goomba does not appear in the +> evidence. He has been removed from "Who's in it" until a beat supports him. The +> span has been extended: the sweep ended the arc in April 2026, but the calendar +> bit is still running in June.* + +[^santa-ip]: [[news/corporations-sue-santa-claus-for-ip-infringement|Bugle News, 2023-12-25 — "Corporations Sue Santa Claus For IP Infringement"]]. +[^santa-ross]: [[news/santa-receives-unusually-large-amount-of-requests-for-ross-ulbrict-to-be-released-from-prison|Bugle News, 2023-12-21 — "Santa Receives Unusually Large Amount Of Requests For Ross Ulbricht To Be Released From Prison"]]. +[^orange-pill]: [[news/how-to-orange-pill-your-family-this-thanksgiving|Bugle News, 2023-11-21 — "10 Ways To Orange Pill Your Family This Thanksgiving"]]. +[^swan-hat]: [[news/tension-at-thanksgiving-as-daughters-new-boyfriend-wears-swan-hat|Bugle News, 2023-11-23 — "Tensions Spill Over After Son-in-Law Wears 'Swan' Hat to Thanksgiving Dinner"]]. +[^ncj-anthem]: [[transcripts/noncompliant-4th-of-july-bugle-weekly-episode-15#t-105|Bugle Weekly 15 @ 1:45]]. The same song bookends the episode; ASR mangles the refrain variously. +[^ncj-psa]: [[transcripts/noncompliant-4th-of-july-bugle-weekly-episode-15#t-276|Bugle Weekly 15 @ 4:36]] — see [[sponsors/noncompliant-july-4th-unbranded-psa]]. +[^ncj-axiom]: [[transcripts/noncompliant-4th-of-july-bugle-weekly-episode-15#t-342|Bugle Weekly 15 @ 5:42]]. +[^ncj-assange]: [[transcripts/noncompliant-4th-of-july-bugle-weekly-episode-15#t-766|Bugle Weekly 15 @ 12:46]]. +[^ncj-signoff]: [[transcripts/noncompliant-4th-of-july-bugle-weekly-episode-15#t-3891|Bugle Weekly 15 @ 1:04:51]]. "Status cat" is ASR for "statist cuck". +[^btp-launch]: [[transcripts/sly-goomba-thanksgiving-special-behind-the-podcast-episode-1#t-13|Behind the Podcast 1 @ 0:13]]. +[^tvl-ad]: [[transcripts/thanksgiving-victory-lap-bugle-weekly-episode-37#t-6|Bugle Weekly 37 @ 0:06]]. ASR: "Richard Grieser" is Richard Greaser; "Wave Lake" is Wavlake. +[^tvl-alden]: [[transcripts/thanksgiving-victory-lap-bugle-weekly-episode-37#t-126|Bugle Weekly 37 @ 2:06]]. ASR spells her "Lynn Alden"; the taxes half is the adjacent cue at 2:02. +[^tvl-frame]: [[transcripts/thanksgiving-victory-lap-bugle-weekly-episode-37#t-222|Bugle Weekly 37 @ 3:42]]. +[^tvl-satoshi]: [[transcripts/thanksgiving-victory-lap-bugle-weekly-episode-37#t-1493|Bugle Weekly 37 @ 24:53]]. The full ASR reads "broke grand Bitcoin to feed off the energy of the birth of Christ"; "broke grand" is mangled. The subject "Satoshi" is one cue earlier. +[^tvl-smokes]: [[transcripts/thanksgiving-victory-lap-bugle-weekly-episode-37#t-1713|Bugle Weekly 37 @ 28:33]]. +[^tvl-elves]: [[transcripts/thanksgiving-victory-lap-bugle-weekly-episode-37#t-2698|Bugle Weekly 37 @ 44:58]]. +[^tvl-nvk]: [[transcripts/thanksgiving-victory-lap-bugle-weekly-episode-37#t-2659|Bugle Weekly 37 @ 44:19]]. ASR: "KoiKite" is Coinkite. NVK has no character page. +[^carol-40]: [[transcripts/the-first-responders-and-compliance-salesmen-bugle-weekly-episode-38#t-3248|Bugle Weekly 38 @ 54:08]]. Untitled in the bundle. +[^twas]: [[transcripts/jason-lowerys-drones-bugle-weekly-episode-39#t-6|Bugle Weekly 39 @ 0:06]]. +[^ep39-gifts]: [[transcripts/jason-lowerys-drones-bugle-weekly-episode-39#t-281|Bugle Weekly 39 @ 4:41]]. Forty hours of curated podcast per relative, burned to CD-R, is the adjacent cue at 5:04. +[^ep39-war]: [[transcripts/jason-lowerys-drones-bugle-weekly-episode-39#t-360|Bugle Weekly 39 @ 6:00]]. +[^ep39-zero]: [[transcripts/jason-lowerys-drones-bugle-weekly-episode-39#t-4256|Bugle Weekly 39 @ 1:10:56]]. +[^xmas-fire]: [[transcripts/bugle-christmas-special#t-204|Bugle Christmas Special @ 3:24]]. Mined at medium confidence. +[^xmas-greaser]: [[transcripts/bugle-christmas-special#t-472|Bugle Christmas Special @ 7:52]]. +[^xmas-proof]: [[transcripts/bugle-christmas-special#t-798|Bugle Christmas Special @ 13:18]]. Medium confidence; a direct callback to Greaser at 8:05. +[^xmas-alden]: [[transcripts/bugle-christmas-special#t-812|Bugle Christmas Special @ 13:32]]. ASR spells her "Lynn Alden". +[^xmas-sleigh]: [[transcripts/bugle-christmas-special#t-818|Bugle Christmas Special @ 13:38]]. ASR renders [[companies/cryptocloaks|CryptoCloaks]] as two words and Bitaxe as "bit axes". +[^xmas-graham]: [[transcripts/bugle-christmas-special#t-828|Bugle Christmas Special @ 13:48]]. The ask lands at 13:58. +[^xmas-annual]: [[transcripts/bugle-christmas-special#t-785|Bugle Christmas Special @ 13:05]]. Medium confidence. +[^xmas-coda]: [[transcripts/bugle-christmas-special#t-1070|Bugle Christmas Special @ 17:50]]. Archival film audio, not a Bugleverse voice; mined at medium confidence. +[^ep40-home]: [[transcripts/bitcoin-is-tax-affording-technology-bugle-weekly-episode-40#t-472|Bugle Weekly 40 @ 7:52]]. +[^ep40-psyop]: [[transcripts/bitcoin-is-tax-affording-technology-bugle-weekly-episode-40#t-2594|Bugle Weekly 40 @ 43:14]]. +[^ep40-barbour]: [[transcripts/bitcoin-is-tax-affording-technology-bugle-weekly-episode-40#t-2678|Bugle Weekly 40 @ 44:38]]. ASR "Steve Barber" is Steve Barbour. +[^ep40-marlboro]: [[transcripts/bitcoin-is-tax-affording-technology-bugle-weekly-episode-40#t-4222|Bugle Weekly 40 @ 1:10:22]]. ASR renders the surname "Grieser" in the surrounding cues. +[^easter-id]: [[transcripts/bugle-easter-special-bugle-weekly-episode-56#t-0|Bugle Weekly 56 @ 0:00]]. ASR spells her "Kaylee Welch". +[^easter-eggs]: [[transcripts/bugle-easter-special-bugle-weekly-episode-56#t-2438|Bugle Weekly 56 @ 40:38]]. +[^easter-jeffs]: [[transcripts/bugle-easter-special-bugle-weekly-episode-56#t-3258|Bugle Weekly 56 @ 54:18]]. +[^easter-signoff]: [[transcripts/bugle-easter-special-bugle-weekly-episode-56#t-3323|Bugle Weekly 56 @ 55:23]]. ASR "Shell the podcast" is "Share the podcast". +[^ep83-dilemma]: [[transcripts/reflections-from-the-frontier-bugle-weekly-episode-83-part-1#t-662|Bugle Weekly 83 Part 1 @ 11:02]]. +[^tfp-bf]: [[transcripts/happy-thanksgiving-bugle-weekly-episode-86#t-0|Bugle Weekly 86 @ 0:00]]. The read continues into a [[characters/sam-bankman-fried|Sam Bankman-Fried]] gag. +[^tfp-tag]: [[transcripts/happy-thanksgiving-bugle-weekly-episode-86#t-39|Bugle Weekly 86 @ 0:39]]. +[^tg-core]: [[transcripts/happy-thanksgiving-bugle-weekly-episode-86#t-1686|Bugle Weekly 86 @ 28:06]]. The Epstein-funded-Core claim is at 27:58. +[^tg-40]: [[transcripts/happy-thanksgiving-bugle-weekly-episode-86#t-1719|Bugle Weekly 86 @ 28:39]] — the [[memes/40hpw|40HPW]] standard. +[^tg-slop]: [[transcripts/happy-thanksgiving-bugle-weekly-episode-86#t-1742|Bugle Weekly 86 @ 29:02]]. "Club slop" is ASR for [[memes/pleb-slop|pleb slop]]. +[^tg-tv]: [[transcripts/happy-thanksgiving-bugle-weekly-episode-86#t-1819|Bugle Weekly 86 @ 30:19]]. Mined at medium confidence: "Ram and Roll Recap" is Rabbit Hole Recap, [[characters/matt-odell|Matt Odell]] and [[characters/marty-bent|Marty Bent]]'s show, though neither host is named in the cue; "what Bitcoin did" is [[characters/peter-mccormack|Peter McCormack]]'s. +[^tg-cousin]: [[transcripts/happy-thanksgiving-bugle-weekly-episode-86#t-1846|Bugle Weekly 86 @ 30:46]]. The Zcash line lands at 30:58. +[^tg-zhao]: [[transcripts/happy-thanksgiving-bugle-weekly-episode-86#t-1951|Bugle Weekly 86 @ 32:31]] — see [[memes/lyn-alden-is-hot]]. +[^tg-benediction]: [[transcripts/happy-thanksgiving-bugle-weekly-episode-86#t-2858|Bugle Weekly 86 @ 47:38]]. +[^div-uncontacted]: [[transcripts/navigating-holiday-family-division-bugle-weekly-episode-87#t-156|Bugle Weekly 87 @ 2:36]]. "Uncontacted pledge" is ASR for "uncontacted plebs". +[^div-stuffing]: [[transcripts/navigating-holiday-family-division-bugle-weekly-episode-87#t-252|Bugle Weekly 87 @ 4:12]]. ASR gives the comparison as "the Corvinas versus the Nazis" — Coreminis versus Knotzis. +[^div-jimmy]: [[transcripts/navigating-holiday-family-division-bugle-weekly-episode-87#t-368|Bugle Weekly 87 @ 6:08]]. Jimmy has no page. +[^div-vein]: [[transcripts/navigating-holiday-family-division-bugle-weekly-episode-87#t-462|Bugle Weekly 87 @ 7:42]]. "Fixes this" completes on the next cue. Cousin Sarah is named only here. +[^div-shed]: [[transcripts/navigating-holiday-family-division-bugle-weekly-episode-87#t-624|Bugle Weekly 87 @ 10:24]]. The asymmetry is stated at 10:33. +[^div-uncle]: [[transcripts/navigating-holiday-family-division-bugle-weekly-episode-87#t-765|Bugle Weekly 87 @ 12:45]]. Aunt Phyllis and her husband John have no pages. +[^div-citadel]: [[transcripts/navigating-holiday-family-division-bugle-weekly-episode-87#t-571|Bugle Weekly 87 @ 9:31]]. The citadel line lands at 9:57. +[^div-pump]: [[transcripts/navigating-holiday-family-division-bugle-weekly-episode-87#t-802|Bugle Weekly 87 @ 13:22]]. The preceding crash is credited to a [[characters/deeter-bob|Deeter Bob]] prediction at 13:17 (ASR "Dieter Bot"). +[^ep88-carol]: [[transcripts/enemies-of-bitcoin-with-muck-anic-bugle-weekly-episode-88#t-3667|Bugle Weekly 88 @ 1:01:07]]. Vocalist uncredited; mined at medium confidence. +[^ep88-mccarthy]: [[transcripts/enemies-of-bitcoin-with-muck-anic-bugle-weekly-episode-88#t-2945|Bugle Weekly 88 @ 49:05]]. The speaker is the guest, Muck Anic, who has no page; mined at medium confidence. +[^pioneers-pledditor]: [[transcripts/pioneers-prepare-for-christmas-bugle-weekly-episode-89#t-516|Bugle Weekly 89 @ 8:36]]. ASR spells him "Pledger" — this is Pledditor, not Matt Odell, who is not mentioned in this episode. +[^pioneers-steak]: [[transcripts/pioneers-prepare-for-christmas-bugle-weekly-episode-89#t-659|Bugle Weekly 89 @ 10:59]]. ASR "Adam Samecca" is Adam Semeka. +[^pioneers-porter]: [[transcripts/pioneers-prepare-for-christmas-bugle-weekly-episode-89#t-843|Bugle Weekly 89 @ 14:03]]. The chain completes at 14:06 and the payoff at 14:12. +[^pioneers-trinkets]: [[transcripts/pioneers-prepare-for-christmas-bugle-weekly-episode-89#t-935|Bugle Weekly 89 @ 15:35]] — block clock $900, CryptoCloaks hand grenades $25 each, start9 server $9,900. +[^pioneers-sermon]: [[transcripts/pioneers-prepare-for-christmas-bugle-weekly-episode-89#t-3025|Bugle Weekly 89 @ 50:25]]. The cue continues "in history, for the foreturning" — ASR for fourth turning. +[^pioneers-grump]: [[transcripts/pioneers-prepare-for-christmas-bugle-weekly-episode-89#t-4899|Bugle Weekly 89 @ 1:21:39]]. +[^btp-codeword]: [[transcripts/the-world-is-a-podcast-with-rob-wallace-btp-episode-28#t-2667|BTP 28 @ 44:27]]. +[^bwx-turning]: [[transcripts/bugle-weekly-christmas-special#t-28|Bugle Weekly Christmas Special @ 0:28]]. Speaker attributed to Rod by elimination; medium confidence. +[^bwx-host]: [[transcripts/bugle-weekly-christmas-special#t-218|Bugle Weekly Christmas Special @ 3:38]]. ASR "Richard Grieser". +[^bwx-buster]: [[transcripts/bugle-weekly-christmas-special#t-456|Bugle Weekly Christmas Special @ 7:36]]. +[^bwx-candle]: [[transcripts/bugle-weekly-christmas-special#t-261|Bugle Weekly Christmas Special @ 4:21]]. +[^bwx-read]: [[transcripts/bugle-weekly-christmas-special#t-556|Bugle Weekly Christmas Special @ 9:16]]. ASR "Kayley" and "Richard Reeser". +[^bwx-loop]: [[transcripts/bugle-weekly-christmas-special#t-726|Bugle Weekly Christmas Special @ 12:06]]. +[^bwx-outro]: [[transcripts/bugle-weekly-christmas-special#t-752|Bugle Weekly Christmas Special @ 12:32]]. Medium confidence on the speaker. +[^ep90-album]: [[transcripts/the-quantum-quarrel-has-commenced-bugle-weekly-episode-90#t-3443|Bugle Weekly 90 @ 57:23]] — [[characters/pyro-hawk|Pyro Hawk]]'s boost, and Rod's reply confirming the track. +[^ep90-blues]: [[transcripts/the-quantum-quarrel-has-commenced-bugle-weekly-episode-90#t-3533|Bugle Weekly 90 @ 58:53]]. Medium confidence; the singing voice is almost certainly Rod but is not attributed in the index. +[^clyde]: [[transcripts/the-plebs-killed-jesus-easter-service-by-pastor-jeffs#t-154|The Plebs Killed Jesus @ 2:34]] — [[sponsors/mountainside-church|Mountainside Church]]. Pastor Clyde has no page and is distinct from Pastor Jeffs. +[^jesus-recap]: [[transcripts/podcasters-crashing-out-bugle-weekly-episode-105#t-2805|Bugle Weekly 105 @ 46:45]]. ASR "clubs" for plebs. +[^neocon]: [[transcripts/fabian-slop-summer-bugle-weekly-episode-114#t-3101|Bugle Weekly 114 @ 51:41]]. "My past" is ASR for "my pass". +[^goy-summer]: [[transcripts/fabian-slop-summer-bugle-weekly-episode-114#t-3279|Bugle Weekly 114 @ 54:39]]. ASR gives "white coy summer" — see [[storylines/white-goy-summer]].