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   +title: "Matt Odell: The Grumpy Arc"
   +type: storyline
   +status: confirmed
   +kind: character-arc
   +span: 2023-03 to 2026-06
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   +  - church-of-compliance
   +  - bull-market-euphoria
   +  - nostr-watch
   +  - behind-the-podcast
   +  - michael-saylor-saga
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   +  - core-vs-knots-war
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   +---
   +
   +> *Henry's note: rebuilt from the verified beat index — 92 beats across 47 episodes, coverage COMPLETE for this slug. The previous draft was seeded from a breadth sweep of episode descriptions and had the arc as a three-episode story that ended in September 2025. It is a forty-seven-episode story and it has not ended. Corrections are logged under [[#Disputed]].*
   +
   +[[characters/matt-odell|Matt Odell]] is the Bugleverse's designated grump: the man who tells plebs to stay humble and stack sats in a universe whose entire cosmology is that the number must go up. He is the show's longest-running antagonist, its most-defended friend, and the only enemy of NGU it has ever recorded an episode inside the studio of. The arc is not a redemption. It is a two-year campaign to make one man cheerful, conducted by two hosts who need him grumpy.
   +
   +**Who's in it:** [[characters/matt-odell|Matt Odell]] · [[characters/richard-greaser|Richard Greaser]] · [[characters/rod-palmer|Rod Palmer]] · [[characters/marty-bent|Marty Bent]] · [[characters/michael-saylor|Michael Saylor]] · [[characters/fundamentals|Fundamentals]] · [[characters/pledditor|Pledditor]] · [[characters/late-stage-hodl|Late Stage Hodl]] · [[characters/lyn-alden|Lyn Alden]] · [[characters/elon-musk|Elon Musk]] · [[characters/jack-dorsey|Jack Dorsey]]
   +
   +**Related:** [[storylines/ten31-portfolio]] · [[storylines/church-of-compliance]] · [[storylines/bull-market-euphoria]] · [[storylines/nostr-watch]] · [[storylines/michael-saylor-saga]] · [[storylines/behind-the-podcast]] · [[storylines/maxi-madness]] · [[storylines/core-vs-knots-war]] · [[storylines/pledditor]]
   +
   +## Prologue: the Top G exposure (2023)
   +
   +Before the podcast existed, the Bugle's paper had already filed Odell as a hypocrite. An alt-account slip exposes what is reported as a double life of fast cars and exotic trips — awkward for the author of *Stay Humble and Stack Sats* — and [[characters/marty-bent|Marty Bent]] is quoted grieving his co-host.[^topg] The lifestyle then costs him the partnership: Bent leaves TFTC for a nightly Infowars show with [[characters/whitney-webb|Whitney Webb]], naming the grievance as an incompatibility between his conspiracy theories and Odell's Top G lifestyle.[^rift] Three months later, the blue-check resistance member takes the blue check.[^knee]
   +
   +> *Henry's note: these three are Bugle News items and sit outside the episode beat index, which begins 2024-04-15. They are cited to their pages, not to cues, and are carried forward from the earlier draft rather than re-verified against a beat.*
   +
   +## The indictment: Odell and Iran (April 2024)
   +
   +The podcast's case opens in [[episodes/odell-and-iran-attack-ngu-bugle-weekly-episode-4|Odell and Iran Attack NGU]]. Asked to name the era's biggest compliance LARPs, Rod Palmer reaches past Saylor and [[characters/mark-cuban|Mark Cuban]] — the men writing the checks — and lands on the Nostr and open-source crowd: "all the people who are working on the node strip and free and open source node strip protocols are the biggest LARPs. Odell obviously has been creating a lot of waves."[^ngu-open] The week's news follows: "it seems like Odell has launched a coordinated strike with Iran."[^ngu-thesis]
   +
   +The terms of compliance are spelled out, and they are the terms the whole arc will be argued over: "He should stop posting about staying humble. He should start posting price predictions."[^ngu-comply] Iran is handed the parallel demand in the same breath, welding the two halves of the title together.
   +
   +The substance of the offence is that Odell criticised [[characters/michael-saylor|Michael Saylor]]. This is classified as "spreading some dangerous misinformation about Michael Saylor this week. He was attacking MGU."[^ngu-misinfo] The diagnosis is that he is off Twitter, starved of engagement on Nostr, and lashing out — a theory the hosts reach by a route they narrate without embarrassment: "And so the way that I saw it was I saw a bunch of screenshots of his Noster posts on Twitter."[^ngu-screenshots] Odell is then cited as proof that Nostr cannot be trusted without verification, which inverts his own catchphrase.
   +
   +The episode also commits the arc's founding act of theft. *Stay Humble and Stack Sats* is credited to Odell and immediately reassigned: "and Sailor just stole the meme and just kept it going."[^ngu-meme] Saylor is graded an A-plus on original content on the strength of it. And the segment closes with the exit already drawn — a direct appeal to Bent to pull his co-host aside: "Yeah. And if if you're listening to this Marty Bennett, I would just"[^ngu-broker] — get him back on the right team. The face turn is proposed seventeen months before it is filmed.
   +
   +## The heresy restated (April 2024)
   +
   +A week later, [[episodes/the-influencer-super-cycle-bugle-weekly-episode-5|The Influencer Super Cycle]] drops Iran and keeps the grievance. Greaser raises a circulating gender-swapped Odell image — "it was a picture of Odell and somebody had turned him into a girl"[^super-gag] — and builds the episode's entire thesis on it: "We'd be we'd be at a 100 k right now, guaranteed, if Matt Odell was a girl."[^super-thesis] He is also cited straight, as the man who recommends *The Mandibles*, with not having read it made into a Bent-shaped insult.[^mandibles]
   +
   +The closing indictment ties the threads: "there's two things I struggle with him on. One, that he's not a woman, and two,"[^humble] — he wants people to stay humble. The Bugle's complaint against Odell was never conspiracy. It was insufficient euphoria.
   +
   +## Deplatform the journalist (May–June 2024)
   +
   +The charge escalates before it softens. In [[episodes/democracy-dies-in-darkness-with-party-bent-bugle-weekly-episode-8|Democracy Dies In Darkness]], Greaser introduces the villain as the man "who's not Podkoff approved named Matt O'Dell"[^ep8-intro] — a Nostr partisan with no journalism degree — and Party Bent ranks him the most wanted noncredentialed journalist alive: "journalists that we need to deplatform as soon as possible. I think he'd be number one. It's really dangerous."[^ep8-deplatform] The specific danger is the reading list: "I mean, this this dude is out there telling people to read mandibles."[^ep8-mandibles] Predictive programming, a national security issue. The remedy is infrastructural — "We need to we need to kill this baby in the cradle that is Noster and do it quickly while we can."[^ep8-nostr]
   +
   +Then the ground shifts. In [[episodes/vaccinating-bitcoin-derangement-syndrome-bugle-weekly-episode-10|Vaccinating Bitcoin Derangement Syndrome]], Saylor goes on *What Bitcoin Did* and, in Rod's reading, "basically confirmed Matt Odell's accusations about being against donating to core devs."[^ep10-vindicated] The accused misinformer is retroactively correct. The show does not withdraw the charge; it simply moves on. By [[episodes/making-journalism-cypherpunk-bugle-weekly-episode-14|Making Journalism Cypherpunk]] the Bugle is recruiting from his audience, with Greaser reporting defectors from Rabbit Hole Recap tired of "getting cold freaks every week."[^ep14-defectors]
   +
   +## The humility problem (August–October 2024)
   +
   +Through 2024 the show stops prosecuting Odell and starts arguing about him. It defends him against his own catchphrase: "Odell talks about staying humble, but to somebody who doesn't understand what humility means, he does not seem humble, which he has earned the right"[^ep23-defence] — humility misread by people who think it means false modesty. In the same episode his loyalties are put to the non-KYC cigarette test.[^ep23-cigarette] Greaser's grievance from Bitcoin 2024 Nashville is that the [[orgs/timechain-police|TSA]] confiscated lighters at the door, blocking his free speech of smoking a cigarette during Odell's talk.[^ep21-lighter]
   +
   +The catchphrase itself becomes public property. Palmer thanks the audience for helping him follow "Matt O'Dell's, advice of staying humble" by humbling him in the charts.[^ep30-humble] Musk's Twitter wanted identity, so — settled canon now, dropped in passing — "to KYC themselves. That's why, Odell went to Noster."[^ep32-exodus]
   +
   +One beat from this stretch matters more in hindsight than it did at the time. [[characters/fundamentals|Fundamentals]] cites a professional comedian roasting Bent and Odell at a Rabbit Hole Recap event as proof that the post-[[characters/shane-gillis|Shane Gillis]] comedy wave has reached Bitcoin: "And even you start seeing it in the Bitcoin space with, David Lucas roasting,"[^ep25-roast] The Bugle files it as a milestone. A year later Odell will explain, on the Bugle's own show, what happened at that event.
   +
   +October brings the [[storylines/ten31-portfolio|Ten31]] scoop. Rod breaks a leaked LP letter — "And Matt O'Dell wrote a letter to those investors in the past week"[^ep31-letter] — disclosing a total write-off on a $2.5m beef tallow anal lube startup whose entire go-to-market was Diddy parties: the "plan was to partner with Diddy and to sell the beef towel to Diddy for Diddy parties,"[^ep31-diddy] which ended when Diddy was arrested. Rod resolves the loss into doctrine rather than scandal — the purpose of a system is what it does.
   +
   +## The gay bear (November 2024 – mid 2025)
   +
   +The bull market arrives and Odell will not concede it. He becomes the designated holdout: "if you're a gay bear like Matt Odell and you don't think there's a bull market yet, there there's already podcast"[^ep35-bear] — and the show proposes an institution. "we might get to the point where we need to make gay bear conversion camps where we need to send Odell,"[^ep35-camps] run on positive reinforcement — beanbags, bullish [[characters/lyn-alden|Lyn Alden]] clips, [[characters/dennis-porter|Dennis Porter]] press releases — rather than electroshock. The stated cause of his condition is siloing: he is on Nostr, where Porter doesn't post. By [[episodes/we-know-whats-going-on-bugle-weekly-episode-54|We Know What's Going On]] the bit is load-bearing enough to be an onboarding hazard: "They're gonna listen to RHR, and then they're gonna see that Matt's a gay bear and and kinda grumpy."[^ep54-rhr]
   +
   +Affection and menace run together. [[characters/jyn-urso|Jyn Urso]] frets that a Trump administration could disappear the podcasters — "God forbid something happens to him or Odell"[^btp4-disappear] — and forty minutes later Greaser names the transition he most anticipates: "that I'm looking forward to is Matt Odell becoming a woman. Because as a woman, I think he'd be pretty hot."[^btp4-woman]
   +
   +2025 makes him a power rather than a victim. He is Nostr's Musk: "Matt O'Dell, he's kinda he's kinda like the Elon of Nostril in a lot of ways."[^ep48-elon] With [[characters/jack-dorsey|Jack Dorsey]] he is upgraded into a spook theory — Nostr as "Matt O'Dell's School of the Americas."[^btp11-soa] Rod ranks Alden above him on humility as the week's designated heresy.[^ep51-humility] He knocks [[characters/cory-klippsten|Cory Klippsten]] out of [[storylines/maxi-madness|Maxi Madness]] in round one.[^ep53-bracket] [[characters/evan-kaloudis|Evan Kaloudis]] identifies his permanently over-unbuttoned shirt as a tactical opening.[^btp18-shirt]
   +
   +He is also, routinely, just a source. Greaser answers a listener asking when voting comes to Nostr by citing "Matt O'Dell said on Citadel dispatch today with Rob Hamilton that, he's talking with Dorsey about"[^btp13-voting] adding it via Primal. [[characters/rod-palmer|Rod]] reads Ten31's partners as men who invest out of love rather than return: "Matt Odell and Marty, I don't think they ever ever invested in a profitable company but they keep doing it."[^btp14-vc] In the [[episodes/richard-greaser-vs-mike-brock-debate|debate with Mike Brock]], Odell and Bent are the grump pole a balanced podcast diet exists to dilute — "doomer stuff. It can't just be Marty Ben and Matt Odell."[^brock-diet] And when the show argues the sats-to-bits rename, the reductio that wins it is his: "what is Matt O'Dell gonna do? Is he gonna go out and ask or impose stay humble stack bits?"[^ep60-bits] It just doesn't ring.
   +
   +The grump bit reaches its recursive form in the mouth of a field reporter: "Odell is a little bitch. I'm not sure what his problem is. He gets super grumpy especially if you call him grumpy."[^ep57-recursive] And when Greaser tries to call a truce — "anybody that's being critical of Matt Odell needs to chill"[^scaling-defence] — Rod's answer is reflex, not argument: he's not grumpy, he's not grumpy, he's not grumpy.
   +
   +The doctrine, meanwhile, keeps winning where it is not credited. Rod attributes Mandrick's Maxi Madness victory to it — "He was following Matt O'Dell's advice. He was staying humble."[^btp17-strategy] — and offers Odell as the cure for grouchdom rather than its cause: "Pawsey. You can be like Matt Odell. You can start your own"[^ep65-vc] paper Bitcoin venture capital company instead of living in the trash can.
   +
   +The single most important beat in the arc is bookkeeping. Rod reveals a poll of the top five people paper Bitcoin makes grumpy, and reads "Along with predator" and "Odell" as two separate entries on the same list.[^ep65-list] They are different people. See [[#Disputed]].
   +
   +## Inside the studio (June–August 2025)
   +
   +By mid-2025 the show is close enough to Odell to occupy his property. [[episodes/pioneering-v4v-music-with-open-mike-btp-episode-21|Pioneering V4V Music with Open Mike]] is recorded at Bitcoin Park: "So kinda kinda fun store. So we're we're recording in Matt O'Dell's studio. We took it over. We're in Nashville."[^btp21-studio] They then spend the hour complaining about him inside it. Rod's theory of Nostr sentiment is that Odell is a base influencer whose mood propagates through the Primal algorithm to everyone else.[^btp21-algo] Greaser wants the old euphoria back: "I'm I'm waiting for the the point in the bull market where Odell like, last cycle where he wasn't humble anymore."[^btp21-euphoria] Odell has reportedly nominated his own euphoria as the top signal.
   +
   +Elsewhere the tone warms without announcement. Greaser credits him with a lesson: "Matt O'Dell taught me how to zap on on the Nostra app. So I'm zapping on the Nostra app. Finally."[^ep70-zap] And the show claims a scientific result: "It did seem like we had a reverse psychology effect on Odell. We we started calling him grumpy, and then he became less grumpy."[^ep71-reverse] Rod's caution is about supply, not truth — call everybody grumpy and you debase it.
   +
   +## From grumpy to gleeful (September 2025)
   +
   +The guest arrives in [[episodes/from-grumpy-to-gleeful-with-matt-odell-btp-episode-23|From Grumpy To Gleeful With Matt Odell]]. The announcer states the conversion as fact before the man speaks: "Once seen as the grumpiest Bitcoin podcaster, our guest today says he is feeling gleeful and bullish."[^btp23-open]
   +
   +Odell spends ninety minutes declining every identity offered him. Asked to rank venture capitalist, podcaster, Nostrich, father and freak, he answers with a list containing none of them: "Father, husband, Bitcoiner."[^btp23-rank] Asked how Citadel schoolchildren will write about him in fifty years: "I know. Hopefully, they don't at all. That would be the ideal situation."[^btp23-legacy] Greaser rules that not an option, and later files him after Alexander the Great and George Washington — "Thomas Jefferson, Matt O'Dell."[^btp23-jefferson] Odell's entire response is that he hates him.
   +
   +What he will talk about is the streak. His origin story for it is March 2020: "Gave Marty two masks and said, good luck. That was when we thought everyone's gonna die."[^btp23-masks] They still shipped that week's show.
   +
   +He also, finally, explains himself. Rod first names the mechanism that made the Saylor fight a spectacle — you know Bitcoin beef is real when "an ode to l screenshot from Noster starts going viral on x"[^btp23-barometer] — and then frames the fight itself, Odell calling Saylor out over starving core dev donations, before delivering the reversal: a year on, the plebs are on Saylor's side.[^btp23-fight] The all-caps posts came after months of failing to reach Michael privately: "So I sent out two Nostra posts. And at that point, I was posting in all caps."[^btp23-caps] He lost the argument and says so, and identifies exactly what he salvaged: "when it's mostly people saying, like, Sailor was right and Odell was wrong, at least, like, they're admitting that I wasn't a liar."[^btp23-liar] Saylor cannot both be right and Odell a liar.
   +
   +And the grump gets a cause. At his own 600-person Nashville live show, billed family friendly, the hired comedian opened on the children in the front row: "that it was family friendly and that they can bring their family. And he just gets up on stage, and the first thing he says is there's a bunch of kids in, like, the front row. And he's like, you all should have been aborted."[^btp23-comedian] He rejects the word: "I I think grumpy is probably the wrong word for it." He was pretty pissed off at him. His theory of the rest of it is institutional: "So I think behind most, like, most Odell haters is a rejected OpenSaaS application, and they never say that's what it was."[^btp23-opensats] Nearly 2,000 rejections, many of which he voted for, all of which he wears.
   +
   +Rod diagnoses [[characters/fundamentals|Fundamentals]] with Odell Derangement Syndrome, dated to that Nashville roast.[^btp23-ods] Odell confirms the condition is real.
   +
   +Then the sung outro runs: "Odell is confused and doesn't think Glenn is hot. He's a gay bear who needs to be taught."[^btp23-outro] The show never accepted the conversion it spent ninety minutes documenting. This episode is the arc's centrepiece; it is not its conclusion.
   +
   +## After the conversion (late 2025)
   +
   +The aftermath is mostly the Bugle metabolising its own episode. Greaser reports meeting Odell, Michael Goldstein and [[characters/adam-back|Adam Back]] in person, which Rod establishes is indistinguishable from a podcast.[^ep77-meeting] Rod coins the house mantra out of the Book of Job: "Nothing stops this glee, I think should be"[^ep77-glee] — the grumpy/gleeful axis, now the show's own vocabulary rather than Odell's diagnosis. [[characters/piez|Piez]] boosts to celebrate Odell recognising him on air, and Greaser turns it into doctrine: boost Citadel Dispatch, be active on Nostr.[^ep78-piez]
   +
   +The ODS bit eats itself. Accused on air, Fundamentals cuts a half-hour emergency rebuttal within twenty minutes — "he recorded an emergency podcast about half hour long to explain how he doesn't have Odell Derangement Syndrome"[^btp24-ods] — which Rod reads as proof, and refuses to retract. The same episode's summary of the guest is the show's settled reading: "He used to be a grumpy Bitcoin podcaster, but he's not so grumpy anymore. He's hairless, but he's not not as grumpy."[^btp24-summary] A boost credits "RoboCop voice" with the absurd questions on the Odell episode and neither host can work out which of them it means.[^btp24-robocop] Another supplies the arc's most generous reading of the grump, from a listener who met a drunk Odell at an RHR takeover between stages of grumpiness: "Or he might have been my moment to stop acting like a retarded pleb and turn into a pioneer."[^btp24-pioneer]
   +
   +The [[storylines/core-vs-knots-war|Knots]] campaign then finds him: plebs swarm him on Nostr demanding he endorse Knots, and go after his companies.[^ep80-knots] Rod cites [[characters/justin-bechler|Justin Bechler]] screenshotting a fight with him as the case study of plebslop psychosis reaching the Bugle's own niche, hedging the attribution as he makes it.[^ep80-bechler] And in [[episodes/life-after-expulsion-from-bitcoin-university-with-stu-btp-episode-26|Life After Expulsion From Bitcoin University]] the grump-in-chief pays a shitcoiner's tuition — "Yeah. Odell. I would love that. Odell Odell pledged through OpenStats,"[^btp26-tuition] — the arc's most straightforwardly generous beat, delivered as a punchline.
   +
   +Then [[episodes/happy-thanksgiving-bugle-weekly-episode-86|Happy Thanksgiving]] restates the original charge at its sharpest. With the DCA doctrine declared broken,[^ep86-doctrine] Greaser puts it plainly: "trying to keep the plebs down by telling them to stack sets and be humble? What's going on here?"[^ep86-charge] The verdict: he's an enemy of the plebs. He isn't staying humble himself — he's a VC guy. Rod mounts the defence and it is the most sympathetic thing the show has ever said: "I think Odell is a victim of his own circumstance, of his own choices. He is chosen to be"[^ep86-defence] — cornered by accreditation law, retreated to Nostr, which is not an echo chamber but a sheltered protocol.
   +
   +## The grump abides (2026)
   +
   +Twenty months after the Iran indictment, the vocabulary has outlived the quarrel. Rod's account of American HODL's crash-out during Paper Bitcoin Summer has him fleeing to Nostr and being horrified by what Odell let the plebs get away with there — "what Odell"[^ep102-moderation] — and Rod concedes it's like the wild west. Odell enters the BIP 110 fight and Rod reads it as folklore: "the meme of, you know, just wait until the people who want to be left alone get indulged. This is this is that incarnate."[^ep98-bip110] Plebs burn their Citadel Dispatch hats over it. The humble bit reaches its final form in "Chinese Odell is probably the most humble"[^ep100-chinese] man in China, undiscovered at a Buddhist monastery. He is name-checked as a stay-humble hypocrite alongside [[characters/mike-brock|Mike Brock]] — "Odell's out there talking about how humble he is."[^ep102-humble] Talk is cheap.
   +
   +[[storylines/maxi-madness|Maxi Madness]] 2026 makes him the overall favourite and then kills him in the semifinals. [[characters/rev-hodl|Rev Hodl]] credits the Meshtadel group chat with the upset — "The Meshedale was the group chat that took down Odell in the semifinals, but they were there right with me the whole time"[^isr5-upset] — and reframes the match entirely: "It was me versus Predix. Right?"[^isr5-predyx] It was never Odell; it was the prediction market. Even so, the tournament got something out of him: "Even grumpy Odell"[^ep103-smiles] was seen smiling.
   +
   +Two beats place him outside the quarrel entirely. Denim closes a [[storylines/peter-mccormack|Peter McCormack]] thread by putting [[characters/casey-rodarmor|Casey Rodarmor]] inside Odell's orbit years before ordinals made him a maxi target: "I do remember listening to Casey on Citadel Dispatch, which is, like, a super,"[^maxi-spaces-casey] And [[characters/kailey-welch|Kailey Welch]] turns the producer-competence bit into a hit on Rabbit Hole Recap that spares its hosts nothing: "You make Marty and Matt look more retarded every week than they already are."[^premium-producer]
   +
   +The last beats are the arc in miniature. A [[characters/late-stage-hodl|Late Stage Hodl]] boost reports that "Odell gave late stage Huddl and his wife the cold shoulder at Bitcoin Park. I did not"[^ep104-snub] — and Rod admits on air that it changed his opinion of him, then immediately builds him an excuse out of Ten31.[^ep104-excuse] The accusation and the defence, in the same minute, from the same man. And the final appearance in the index is not an appearance at all: a closed prediction market on whether Odell would admit he was wrong about BIP-110, which Greaser rules unresolvable — "it was about Matt Aldell"[^ep115-market] — because Odell has no stated position to be wrong about. He doesn't know either.
   +
   +## Disputed
   +
   +**Does *Grumpy With A Cause* (Bugle Weekly 67, 2025-07-07) belong to this arc? No — it is a [[storylines/pledditor|Pledditor]] episode.** This is settled, not open. The earlier draft listed it as an Odell episode on the strength of the grumpy motif, but the name "Odell" is never spoken in it; the grumpy figure the episode names is rendered by the ASR as *Pleditor / predator / clutter*, and the episode's own `chapters.json` spells it "Pleditor". The decisive internal evidence is the cop/snitch run — "ACAB, all cops are bastards. That includes Predator" — which lands only for the snitch who phoned the Nashville police on the Taproot Wizards, and the episode places him on X while explicitly contrasting Nostr. The positive confirmation sits in [[episodes/monitoring-the-situation-bugle-weekly-episode-65|Monitoring The Situation]], where Rod reads out a single list of the people paper Bitcoin makes grumpy and names "Along with predator" and "Odell" as two separate entries.[^ep65-list] "Predator" is not an ASR mangling of "Odell"; it is [[characters/pledditor|Pledditor]], a different person, and both are grumps on Nostr. Grumpiness is a shared Bugle motif, not an Odell trademark, and the two figures are separately attested inside single episodes at least five times in the index. The episode was fully mined — 29 beats across its cast — and **not one is attributed to Odell**; its grumpy-figure beats belong to [[storylines/pledditor]].
   +
   +**Who coined "suitcoiner"?** Rod puts the origin to Odell with Pledditor as rival claimant — "some people think you may have coined the term suit coiner, although creditor takes credit."[^btp23-suitcoiner] Odell half-claims it and declines to care, then explains his actual method: put a word in front of "coiner". The beat is mined at medium confidence — "creditor" is a single ASR token read as Pledditor from context alone — so the [[memes/suitcoiner|suitcoiner]] attribution is left open here rather than settled.
   +
   +**Did he actually stop being grumpy?** The show cannot decide, and the disagreement is internal to one episode. BTP 23 opens by stating the conversion as fact[^btp23-open] and closes by singing that he is still a gay bear who needs to be taught.[^btp23-outro] The Bugle's own claimed mechanism — that calling him grumpy made him less grumpy[^ep71-reverse] — requires the caricature to continue in order to keep working. Henry declines to adjudicate a bit whose premise is its own perpetuation.
   +
   +> irl: Matt Odell and Pledditor are both real Bitcoin/Nostr accounts, which is why the show can play them as adjacent without ever explaining the difference. OpenSats and Ten31 are likewise real institutions Odell is really involved with.
   +
   +## A note on spelling
   +
   +The ASR has never once agreed with itself about his name. Recorded across the index: "Matt O'Dell", "Nat Odell", "Matt Aldell", "Bodell", "Adele", "an ode to l", "O'Daldo", and — in a passage where Rod stumbles and corrects himself mid-sentence — "Senator Dell. Matt or Dell?" These belong in the `aliases:` of [[characters/matt-odell|his character page]], which is outside this rewrite's remit.
   +
   +[^topg]: [[news/matt-odell-accidentally-tweets-from-alt-account-revealed-to-be-living-top-g-lifestyle|Bugle News, 2023-03-24 — "Matt Odell Accidentally Tweets from Alt-Account"]], by [[characters/max-shaft|Max Shaft]].
   +[^rift]: [[news/marty-bent-leaves-tftc-to-cohost-infowars-show-with-whitney-webb|Bugle News, 2023-05-11 — "Marty Bent Leaves TFTC To Cohost Infowars Show With Whitney Webb"]], by [[characters/richard-greaser|Richard Greaser]].
   +[^knee]: [[news/breaking-matt-odell-complies-with-musks-cerulean-letter|Bugle News, 2023-06-13 — "Odell Nursing Serious Rug Burn After Bending The Knee To Musk"]].
   +[^ngu-open]: [[transcripts/odell-and-iran-attack-ngu-bugle-weekly-episode-4#t-883|Bugle Weekly 4 @ 14:43]] — "node strip" is ASR for Nostr; the same episode also gives "Nostra", "Noster", "Gnostr" and "no stirs".
   +[^ngu-thesis]: [[transcripts/odell-and-iran-attack-ngu-bugle-weekly-episode-4#t-925|Bugle Weekly 4 @ 15:25]] — the clause finishes "against NGU" at t=934; restated by the outro announcer at t=4262.
   +[^ngu-comply]: [[transcripts/odell-and-iran-attack-ngu-bugle-weekly-episode-4#t-1105|Bugle Weekly 4 @ 18:25]] — paired at t=1113 with "Iran needs to stop bombing Israel. Like, they just need to comply."
   +[^ngu-misinfo]: [[transcripts/odell-and-iran-attack-ngu-bugle-weekly-episode-4#t-3368|Bugle Weekly 4 @ 56:08]] — "MGU" is ASR for NGU.
   +[^ngu-screenshots]: [[transcripts/odell-and-iran-attack-ngu-bugle-weekly-episode-4#t-3384|Bugle Weekly 4 @ 56:24]] — turned into an argument against Nostr at t=3474.
   +[^ngu-meme]: [[transcripts/odell-and-iran-attack-ngu-bugle-weekly-episode-4#t-3507|Bugle Weekly 4 @ 58:27]] — ASR spells Saylor "Sailor"; the A-plus grade lands at t=3639.
   +[^ngu-broker]: [[transcripts/odell-and-iran-attack-ngu-bugle-weekly-episode-4#t-3699|Bugle Weekly 4 @ 1:01:39]] — "Marty Bennett" is ASR for Marty Bent; completed at t=3712, "And I'm back on the right team."
   +[^super-gag]: [[transcripts/the-influencer-super-cycle-bugle-weekly-episode-5#t-512|Bugle Weekly 5 @ 8:32]].
   +[^super-thesis]: [[transcripts/the-influencer-super-cycle-bugle-weekly-episode-5#t-573|Bugle Weekly 5 @ 9:33]].
   +[^mandibles]: [[transcripts/the-influencer-super-cycle-bugle-weekly-episode-5#t-2259|Bugle Weekly 5 @ 37:39]] — "if you haven't read the book, you're like Marty Bent."
   +[^humble]: [[transcripts/the-influencer-super-cycle-bugle-weekly-episode-5#t-4283|Bugle Weekly 5 @ 1:11:23]] — completes at t=4292 with "The worst advice I can give you anybody can give you is to stay humble in a bull market."
   +[^ep8-intro]: [[transcripts/democracy-dies-in-darkness-with-party-bent-bugle-weekly-episode-8#t-2633|Bugle Weekly 8 @ 43:53]] — "Podkoff" is ASR for PodConf.
   +[^ep8-deplatform]: [[transcripts/democracy-dies-in-darkness-with-party-bent-bugle-weekly-episode-8#t-2660|Bugle Weekly 8 @ 44:20]] — escalated at 46:01 to "number one on my list of people to lock up".
   +[^ep8-mandibles]: [[transcripts/democracy-dies-in-darkness-with-party-bent-bugle-weekly-episode-8#t-2680|Bugle Weekly 8 @ 44:40]] — ASR lowercases the book title.
   +[^ep8-nostr]: [[transcripts/democracy-dies-in-darkness-with-party-bent-bugle-weekly-episode-8#t-2747|Bugle Weekly 8 @ 45:47]] — "Noster" is ASR for Nostr.
   +[^ep10-vindicated]: [[transcripts/vaccinating-bitcoin-derangement-syndrome-bugle-weekly-episode-10#t-2911|Bugle Weekly 10 @ 48:31]] — Rod adds at t=3061 that Saylor never names Odell "but you can tell that he is hoping that is listening".
   +[^ep14-defectors]: [[transcripts/making-journalism-cypherpunk-bugle-weekly-episode-14#t-2041|Bugle Weekly 14 @ 34:01]] — "cold freaks" (t=2056) is ASR for "called freaks".
   +[^ep23-defence]: [[transcripts/will-the-future-be-joyful-or-maga-bugle-weekly-episode-23#t-2157|Bugle Weekly 23 @ 35:57]] — Greaser's setup at t=2135: "humility is having an accurate depiction of yourself."
   +[^ep23-cigarette]: [[transcripts/will-the-future-be-joyful-or-maga-bugle-weekly-episode-23#t-2235|Bugle Weekly 23 @ 37:15]] — "how you determine somebody is a Michelle Weekly or not. It's like you have to smoke this non KYC cigarette." See [[characters/michelle-weekley|Michelle Weekley]].
   +[^ep21-lighter]: [[transcripts/the-economy-is-still-fine-bugle-weekly-episode-21#t-2817|Bugle Weekly 21 @ 46:57]] — "To go see, you know, Matt O'Dell speak."; Rod names him "Nat Odell" at t=1279 in the same episode.
   +[^ep25-roast]: [[transcripts/comedy-fundamentals-with-fundamentals-bugle-weekly-episode-25#t-2625|Bugle Weekly 25 @ 43:45]] — "Marty Bent and Matt O'Dell" lands at t=2630. The same David Lucas whose set Odell describes in BTP 23; see [^btp23-comedian].
   +[^ep30-humble]: [[transcripts/the-orange-wedding-bugle-weekly-episode-30#t-3367|Bugle Weekly 30 @ 56:07]] — quote spans t=3367 and t=3370.
   +[^ep32-exodus]: [[transcripts/selection-special-part-1-bugle-weekly-episode-32#t-568|Bugle Weekly 32 @ 9:28]] — this episode alone gives Nostr as "Noster", "Nostra", "Monster" and "Oster".
   +[^ep31-letter]: [[transcripts/is-saylor-a-spook-bugle-weekly-episode-31#t-2250|Bugle Weekly 31 @ 37:30]] — Rod flags the Bugle story as still unwritten at t=2226.
   +[^ep31-diddy]: [[transcripts/is-saylor-a-spook-bugle-weekly-episode-31#t-2295|Bugle Weekly 31 @ 38:15]] — ASR renders beef tallow as "beef towel" and "beef to aloe"; Rod's doctrine lands at t=2476.
   +[^ep35-bear]: [[transcripts/this-is-the-bull-market-bugle-weekly-episode-35#t-2765|Bugle Weekly 35 @ 46:05]].
   +[^ep35-camps]: [[transcripts/this-is-the-bull-market-bugle-weekly-episode-35#t-2866|Bugle Weekly 35 @ 47:46]] — programme detail at t=2893–2913; the siloing diagnosis at t=2923.
   +[^ep54-rhr]: [[transcripts/we-know-whats-going-on-bugle-weekly-episode-54#t-1147|Bugle Weekly 54 @ 19:07]] — Odell is named in full by Rod at t=1205.
   +[^btp4-disappear]: [[transcripts/cigarettes-prevent-climate-change-behind-the-podcast-episode-4#t-1315|Behind the Podcast 4 @ 21:55]] — payoff at t=1336, "we've made a pact with the devil here for number go up."
   +[^btp4-woman]: [[transcripts/cigarettes-prevent-climate-change-behind-the-podcast-episode-4#t-3976|Behind the Podcast 4 @ 1:06:16]] — Jyn's tag at t=3986 concerns his hair.
   +[^ep48-elon]: [[transcripts/kim-jong-uns-strategic-reserve-bugle-weekly-episode-48#t-3766|Bugle Weekly 48 @ 1:02:46]] — "Nostril" is ASR for Nostr; Rod's setup at t=3652 has him as "the Podkamp of Noster".
   +[^btp11-soa]: [[transcripts/dont-tell-me-where-to-meme-with-yellow-behind-the-podcast-episode-11#t-1226|Behind the Podcast 11 @ 20:26]] — Greaser glosses the CIA reference himself at 20:29–20:44.
   +[^ep51-humility]: [[transcripts/let-the-festivities-begin-bugle-weekly-episode-51#t-1755|Bugle Weekly 51 @ 29:15]] — "I think she's more humble than Matt O'Dell. That's my controversial opinion there."
   +[^ep53-bracket]: [[transcripts/apologizing-to-absolutely-no-one-bugle-weekly-episode-53#t-1474|Bugle Weekly 53 @ 24:34]] — "first rap" is ASR for "first round"; Saylor considered renaming himself "Mikey Bitcoins" (t=1453).
   +[^btp18-shirt]: [[transcripts/pressure-creates-good-ux-with-evan-kaloudis-btp-episode-18#t-2547|BTP 18 @ 42:27]] — Odell is not named in full; resolved from Rod's follow-up at t=2571. Evan disclaims endorsement at t=2559.
   +[^btp13-voting]: [[transcripts/bitcoin-is-like-prison-with-junseth-behind-the-podcast-episode-13#t-6743|Behind the Podcast 13 @ 1:52:23]] — continues at t=6750, "adding, voting functionality to Nostr via primal." The listener question is [[characters/piez|Piez]]'s, read at t=6712.
   +[^btp14-vc]: [[transcripts/cypherpunks-use-ordinals-mode-with-erin-redwing-behind-the-podcast-episode-14#t-3584|Behind the Podcast 14 @ 59:44]] — ASR gives "ten thirty one" for [[storylines/ten31-portfolio|Ten31]].
   +[^brock-diet]: [[transcripts/richard-greaser-vs-mike-brock-debate#t-770|Richard Greaser Vs. Mike Brock Debate @ 12:50]] — "Marty Ben" is ASR for Marty Bent. Reprised at t=863.
   +[^ep60-bits]: [[transcripts/moodys-says-nothing-stops-this-train-bugle-weekly-episode-60#t-1673|Bugle Weekly 60 @ 27:53]] — quote spans into t=1679; Greaser's verdict at t=1682: "It just doesn't it doesn't ring."
   +[^ep57-recursive]: [[transcripts/truckin-down-the-rabbit-hole-bugle-weekly-episode-57#t-880|Bugle Weekly 57 @ 14:40]] — Kailey Welch speaking, set up by Louise at t=871: "I get a kick out of Citadel dispatch because Odell is so grumpy."
   +[^scaling-defence]: [[transcripts/scaling-with-paper-bitcoin-ft-21-media-evan-kaloudis-and-rob-hamilton#t-976|Scaling With Paper Bitcoin @ 16:16]] — Rod's answer at t=981: "Shut up. He's not grumpy. He's not grumpy. He's not grumpy."
   +[^btp17-strategy]: [[transcripts/eligible-bachelor-tatum-turnup-behind-the-podcast-episode-17#t-1784|Behind the Podcast 17 @ 29:44]].
   +[^ep65-list]: [[transcripts/monitoring-the-situation-bugle-weekly-episode-65#t-1480|Bugle Weekly 65 @ 24:40]] — "Along with predator" at t=1486 and "Odell" at t=1487 are consecutive, separate entries. The load-bearing entity-resolution beat for this arc.
   +[^ep65-vc]: [[transcripts/monitoring-the-situation-bugle-weekly-episode-65#t-3110|Bugle Weekly 65 @ 51:50]] — the joke is that the cure for [[memes/paper-bitcoin|paper Bitcoin]] grumpiness is founding a paper Bitcoin VC firm.
   +[^btp21-studio]: [[transcripts/pioneering-v4v-music-with-open-mike-btp-episode-21#t-77|BTP 21 @ 1:17]] — the studio is at Bitcoin Park, Nashville.
   +[^btp21-algo]: [[transcripts/pioneering-v4v-music-with-open-mike-btp-episode-21#t-752|BTP 21 @ 12:32]] — ASR gives "Bodell" for Odell at t=749.
   +[^btp21-euphoria]: [[transcripts/pioneering-v4v-music-with-open-mike-btp-episode-21#t-794|BTP 21 @ 13:14]] — Mike confirms at t=815 that Odell nominated his own euphoria as a top signal; Rod's "he feels jaded" diagnosis at t=854.
   +[^ep70-zap]: [[transcripts/this-time-is-different-bugle-weekly-episode-70#t-1822|Bugle Weekly 70 @ 30:22]] — "Nostra" is ASR for Nostr.
   +[^ep71-reverse]: [[transcripts/back-in-the-saddle-podcasting-again-bugle-weekly-episode-71#t-4454|Bugle Weekly 71 @ 1:14:14]] — Greaser's law at t=4443; Rod's debasement caution at t=4484.
   +[^btp23-open]: [[transcripts/from-grumpy-to-gleeful-with-matt-odell-btp-episode-23#t-124|BTP 23 @ 2:04]].
   +[^btp23-rank]: [[transcripts/from-grumpy-to-gleeful-with-matt-odell-btp-episode-23#t-262|BTP 23 @ 4:22]] — "an ostrich" (t=244) is ASR for "a Nostrich". He concedes at t=302: "but I definitely am one".
   +[^btp23-legacy]: [[transcripts/from-grumpy-to-gleeful-with-matt-odell-btp-episode-23#t-645|BTP 23 @ 10:45]] — Greaser's rebuttal at t=650: "Well That's not an option."
   +[^btp23-jefferson]: [[transcripts/from-grumpy-to-gleeful-with-matt-odell-btp-episode-23#t-4199|BTP 23 @ 1:09:59]] — Odell's reply at t=4204: "I fucking hate you." Then, at t=4207: "But thank you. That was that was kind."
   +[^btp23-masks]: [[transcripts/from-grumpy-to-gleeful-with-matt-odell-btp-episode-23#t-354|BTP 23 @ 5:54]] — punchline at t=359: "March 2020. Still had RHR that week, though." ASR renders RHR as "RevPARTCAP" at t=318.
   +[^btp23-barometer]: [[transcripts/from-grumpy-to-gleeful-with-matt-odell-btp-episode-23#t-674|BTP 23 @ 11:14]] — "an ode to l" is ASR for "an Odell"; "Noster" is Nostr.
   +[^btp23-fight]: [[transcripts/from-grumpy-to-gleeful-with-matt-odell-btp-episode-23#t-693|BTP 23 @ 11:33]] — "charitable donations, and you whipped all the clubs into quite a frenzy over that." "clubs" is ASR for "plebs"; Rod's turn at t=704: "The plebs are very much on sailor's side".
   +[^btp23-caps]: [[transcripts/from-grumpy-to-gleeful-with-matt-odell-btp-episode-23#t-794|BTP 23 @ 13:14]] — he owns the tone at t=806.
   +[^btp23-liar]: [[transcripts/from-grumpy-to-gleeful-with-matt-odell-btp-episode-23#t-859|BTP 23 @ 14:19]] — completed at t=874; "maybe" there is ASR for "me". ASR spells Saylor "Sailor" throughout.
   +[^btp23-comedian]: [[transcripts/from-grumpy-to-gleeful-with-matt-odell-btp-episode-23#t-3998|BTP 23 @ 1:06:38]] — the comedian is named at t=3904 as David Lucas, who has no page yet. Odell rejects "grumpy" at t=4015 and lands on "I was pretty pissed off at him" (t=4025).
   +[^btp23-opensats]: [[transcripts/from-grumpy-to-gleeful-with-matt-odell-btp-episode-23#t-4219|BTP 23 @ 1:10:19]] — "OpenSaaS" is ASR for OpenSats; the rejection count is at t=4216.
   +[^btp23-ods]: [[transcripts/from-grumpy-to-gleeful-with-matt-odell-btp-episode-23#t-3926|BTP 23 @ 1:05:26]] — Odell confirms at t=4159: "that's a real fucking thing."
   +[^btp23-outro]: [[transcripts/from-grumpy-to-gleeful-with-matt-odell-btp-episode-23#t-5203|BTP 23 @ 1:26:43]] — the sung outro; "Glenn" is unresolved.
   +[^btp23-suitcoiner]: [[transcripts/from-grumpy-to-gleeful-with-matt-odell-btp-episode-23#t-4629|BTP 23 @ 1:17:09]] — mined at **medium** confidence: "creditor" is read as Pledditor from the episode's mangling family alone. Odell's answer at t=4640: "I think I might have been the first person to say it, but, also, I don't really give a shit".
   +[^ep77-meeting]: [[transcripts/quit-scaring-the-plebs-bugle-weekly-episode-77#t-1172|Bugle Weekly 77 @ 19:32]] — Greaser confirms at t=1202: "It was definitely a Bitcoin podcast in person."
   +[^ep77-glee]: [[transcripts/quit-scaring-the-plebs-bugle-weekly-episode-77#t-3639|Bugle Weekly 77 @ 1:00:39]] — built from the Book of Job at t=3528–3543; Greaser's dissent at t=3555: "God's kind of a prick."
   +[^ep78-piez]: [[transcripts/be-a-good-example-bugle-weekly-episode-78#t-4821|Bugle Weekly 78 @ 1:20:21]] — "shurom" is ASR for mushroom; Greaser's advice at t=4867–4879.
   +[^btp24-ods]: [[transcripts/a-pioneers-pioneer-with-david-bennett-btp-episode-24#t-4544|BTP 24 @ 1:15:44]] — Rod refuses the retraction on air at t=4616.
   +[^btp24-summary]: [[transcripts/a-pioneers-pioneer-with-david-bennett-btp-episode-24#t-4216|BTP 24 @ 1:10:16]] — the haircut is explained at t=4249 as a defence against AI apps making him look like a girl.
   +[^btp24-robocop]: [[transcripts/a-pioneers-pioneer-with-david-bennett-btp-episode-24#t-5192|BTP 24 @ 1:26:32]] — the boost is at t=5179; Rod's non-answer at t=5197.
   +[^btp24-pioneer]: [[transcripts/a-pioneers-pioneer-with-david-bennett-btp-episode-24#t-4910|BTP 24 @ 1:21:50]] — a 5,000-sat boost from [[characters/late-stage-hodl|Late Stage Hodl]] running t=4878–4916.
   +[^ep80-knots]: [[transcripts/plebslop-psychosis-bugle-weekly-episode-80#t-1492|Bugle Weekly 80 @ 24:52]] — "Noster" is Nostr; the swarm also targets Anchor Watch, Marty, Trezor and Foundation.
   +[^ep80-bechler]: [[transcripts/plebslop-psychosis-bugle-weekly-episode-80#t-1478|Bugle Weekly 80 @ 24:38]] — mined at **medium** confidence; ASR spells Bechler "Justin Batchelor". Rod hedges in-source: "I don't know if he personally was".
   +[^btp26-tuition]: [[transcripts/life-after-expulsion-from-bitcoin-university-with-stu-btp-episode-26#t-4515|BTP 26 @ 1:15:15]] — "OpenStats" is ASR for OpenSats; Stu thanks him at t=4523.
   +[^ep86-doctrine]: [[transcripts/happy-thanksgiving-bugle-weekly-episode-86#t-1441|Bugle Weekly 86 @ 24:01]] — "wave" is ASR for "way".
   +[^ep86-charge]: [[transcripts/happy-thanksgiving-bugle-weekly-episode-86#t-1453|Bugle Weekly 86 @ 24:13]] — the verdict at t=1459: "He's an enemy of the plugs" — "plugs" is ASR for "plebs". Greaser presses at t=1490.
   +[^ep86-defence]: [[transcripts/happy-thanksgiving-bugle-weekly-episode-86#t-1463|Bugle Weekly 86 @ 24:23]] — the sheltered-protocol line runs t=1471–1487; the accreditation defence at t=1509.
   +[^ep98-bip110]: [[transcripts/pleb-is-the-new-n-word-bugle-weekly-episode-98#t-346|Bugle Weekly 98 @ 5:46]] — "indulged" is ASR for "involved"; the hat-burning fallout at t=391–396.
   +[^ep100-chinese]: [[transcripts/bored-of-peace-bugle-weekly-episode-100#t-1957|Bugle Weekly 100 @ 32:37]] — Greaser's rejoinder at 32:54: "Chinese Odell is like a super hot Chinese woman."
   +[^ep102-moderation]: [[transcripts/in-the-midst-of-madness-bugle-weekly-episode-102#t-540|Bugle Weekly 102 @ 9:00]] — mined at **medium** confidence; the quote is kept to two words because the sentence is shredded across cues 538–546 ("what Odell / and American Hoddle let Plads get away with on the roster"). "roster" is Nostr; "Plads" is plebs.
   +[^ep102-humble]: [[transcripts/in-the-midst-of-madness-bugle-weekly-episode-102#t-2132|Bugle Weekly 102 @ 35:32]] — mined at **medium** confidence; the third name in the indictment ("Tomer") is unresolved.
   +[^maxi-spaces-casey]: [[transcripts/bitcoin-magazine-maxi-madness-victory-twitter-spaces-with-casey-and-erin#t-3463|Maxi Madness Victory Spaces @ 57:43]] — Odell is named two cues later at t=3476. The speaker is a Bitcoin Magazine cohost introduced as "Dennis" but rendered "denim"; no character page.
   +[^premium-producer]: [[transcripts/whats-subversive-premium-episode#t-76|What's Subversive (Premium) @ 1:16]] — the producer is named at t=70 as "Logan", who has no page yet.
   +[^isr5-upset]: [[transcripts/how-to-win-maxi-madness-with-rev-hodl-isr-5#t-323|ISR 5 @ 5:23]] — "Meshedale" is one of seven ASR spellings of the Meshtadel in this episode.
   +[^isr5-predyx]: [[transcripts/how-to-win-maxi-madness-with-rev-hodl-isr-5#t-925|ISR 5 @ 15:25]] — "Predix" is ASR for [[sponsors/predyx|Predyx]]; preceding cue t=923: "it wasn't me versus Odell."
   +[^ep103-smiles]: [[transcripts/hard-lessons-for-plebs-bugle-weekly-episode-103#t-2326|Bugle Weekly 103 @ 38:46]] — continues at t=2329, "got to see a a couple smiles on his face".
   +[^ep104-snub]: [[transcripts/the-plebs-killed-jesus-bugle-weekly-episode-104#t-3588|Bugle Weekly 104 @ 59:48]] — "Lake Satoshi" is ASR for Bitcoin Park. Rod's verdict at 59:57: "it changed my opinion of Odell, I have to admit."
   +[^ep104-excuse]: [[transcripts/the-plebs-killed-jesus-bugle-weekly-episode-104#t-3628|Bugle Weekly 104 @ 1:00:28]] — ASR renders Ten31 as the clock time "10:31".
   +[^ep115-market]: [[transcripts/fundamentals-larps-as-a-journalist-bugle-weekly-episode-115#t-3465|Bugle Weekly 115 @ 57:45]] — "Matt Aldell" is ASR for Matt Odell. Greaser's verdict at t=3478: "I don't even really know. I don't think he knows either."