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    +title: The Pleb Persecution Saga
    +type: storyline
    +status: confirmed
    +kind: theme
    +span: 2024-04 to 2026-06
    +aliases: [pleb persecution, plug persecution, club persecution, plaid persecution]
    +related:
    +  - pleb-slop-wars
    +  - jeff-pastor-jeffs
    +  - holiday-specials
    +  - church-of-compliance
    +  - matt-odell-arc
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    +---
    +
    +The Pleb Persecution Saga is the Bugleverse's longest-running class narrative: the
    +slow conversion of the pleb from a person the show defends into a person the show
    +diagnoses, segregates and finally advertises against. It is not a single feud. It is
    +the record of a downward reclassification, carried out mostly by
    +[[characters/richard-greaser|Richard Greaser]] and [[characters/rod-palmer|Rod Palmer]]
    +on their own audience, and it runs from the earliest surviving episodes to the edge of
    +the archive.
    +
    +The word's own origin is given, three years after the fact, by
    +[[characters/avi-burrah|Avi Burrah]], asked directly for his perspective on the term:
    +it was a "silent cry of rebellion saying, look, I'm not one of these people",[^origin]
    +a protest against influencer culture that Plebchain then took its name from. Everything
    +below is what the Bugle did to that word afterwards.
    +
    +**Who's in it:** [[characters/rod-palmer|Rod Palmer]] · [[characters/richard-greaser|Richard Greaser]] · [[characters/pledditor|Pledditor]] · [[characters/matt-odell|Matt Odell]] · [[characters/luke-dashjr|Luke Dashjr]] · [[characters/sasha-hodder|Sasha Hodder]] · [[characters/gloria-zhao|Gloria Zhao]] · [[characters/natalie-brunell|Natalie Brunell]] · the plebs
    +
    +**Related:** [[storylines/pleb-slop-wars]] · [[storylines/church-of-compliance]] · [[storylines/matt-odell-arc]] · [[storylines/jeff-pastor-jeffs]] · [[storylines/holiday-specials]]
    +
    +## Before the word: the noncompliant (2024)
    +
    +The machinery arrives before its target has a name. In April 2024 the persecuted class
    +is "the noncompliant", and the Bugle is on the wrong side of it by design. Greaser
    +forecasts an enforcement body into existence on air — "I think the Anti Toxicity League
    +will or FOND or or whatever you wanna call them"[^atl] — and a week later the hosts
    +propose collective punishment as editorial policy: "the first step that we could take in
    +setting a good example is blacklisting all the Bitcoiners in Iran".[^iran] The method
    +scales. Rod supplies the quiet part of the Bukele bit, explaining that El Salvador can
    +open its borders because it now has "fewer citizens as a result of eradicating
    +multipliers"[^bukele] — the ASR's rendering of *noncompliers*.
    +
    +The turn is emotional and it is plagiarized. Rod reads a Niemöller parody he found on
    +Stacker News: "Then they came for the noncompliant, and I did not speak out because I was
    +compliant."[^niemoller] From there the show's sympathies invert. Greaser states the
    +inversion in its permanent form — "the reality is that we're watching compliant people get
    +prosecuted by a non compliant government"[^inversion] — and the persecution becomes
    +domestic and petty: Trump's 34 felonies are recast as a coinjoin prosecution, since "He
    +was trying to do a coin join to make his transaction extra private";[^coinjoin] Rod loses
    +his local meetup for admitting his wife holds the keys ("It's very contentious. I was
    +almost kicked out of my meetup for that, right?");[^meetup] and the r/Bitcoin mods
    +de-platform the Bugle because "They don't think Lynn Alden's hot and they always kick the
    +bugle off as soon as we post something".[^rbitcoin]
    +
    +Surveillance enters as a running bit. [[characters/michelle-weekley|Michelle Weekley]] is
    +pluralised into a class of infiltrators who "infiltrate their their meetups",[^weeklies]
    +and Rod issues the counter-doctrine: they are farming you, so "if you tell them, hey. You
    +suck. Fuck you. I will never comply"[^engagement] you have paid them. The prescribed
    +retreat is the group chat, which Greaser and Rod christen a "based safe space" —
    +"We need more based safe spaces, safe spaces to be based, and it starts the smoke
    +pit".[^safespace]
    +
    +Prison is treated throughout as a career stage rather than a hazard.
    +[[characters/shinobi|Shinobi]] holds that "you should, like, sacraf like, you should it's
    +like your duty to go to prison",[^duty] Greaser founds a care-package charity on air —
    +"you could call it the Orange Cross"[^orangecross] — and Rod proposes forty hours a week
    +of Bitcoin podcasts as the federal rehabilitation program.[^prisonpods] Greaser's modest
    +proposal for shitcoining follows the same vice-policing logic: "instead of arresting
    +prostitutes, they go and arrest the johns."[^johns]
    +
    +## The purity test becomes the mechanism (2024–2025)
    +
    +The instrument that will eventually be turned on the plebs is described first as a market
    +strategy. Greaser's aphorism is the law of the thing: "the person who's best suited to
    +pass the purity test is the one that creates the purity test."[^purelaw] He later names it
    +outright as the marketing law of the Bugleverse — the best way to sell to Bitcoiners "is
    +to issue a new purity test"[^marketing] — and credits Adam Semeka with a stroke of genius
    +for the Steak and Shake test: "if you don't eat at Steak and Shake and and purchase your
    +meal with Bitcoin, then you want CBDCs."[^steak]
    +
    +The Bugle's answer is to fail on purpose. Rod is "comfortable enough in my maximalism to go
    +to an ordinals conference";[^ordinals] Greaser is "always open to exploring more ways to
    +fail the purity test";[^sinners1] and at PodConf the theology is stated flat — "we are all
    +sinners in the eyes of the Lord, and we are all shitcoiners, in the eyes of
    +Satoshi"[^sinners2] — with the indictment that the only people who pass are "so pure that
    +they refuse to participate, they refuse to spend, they refuse to build, and they refuse to
    +just be".[^refuse]
    +
    +The enforcement is personified in [[characters/pledditor|Pledditor]], and the wiki's
    +entity-resolution trap lives here: across dozens of episodes the ASR renders him
    +*Plenator*, *Pleadeter*, *Plattator*, *Pleather*, *Plettator*, *Plutator*, *Pledger*,
    +*Pledder*, *Bader* and *predator*, and he is a different person from
    +[[characters/matt-odell|Matt Odell]] throughout. He is introduced almost admiringly as a
    +watchdog "who, you know, has gone through the effort to get a direct line with Gary
    +Gensler";[^pledgensler] Rod invokes his pinned checklist of real Bitcoin use — "he has like
    +a bullet point list that you pinned to the Thomas profile. You have to have like an old
    +shitty laptop"[^pledlist] — and Greaser distinguishes him from mere opportunists on grounds
    +of sincerity: "Pleather believes in snitching just for the sake of snitching."[^pledsnitch]
    +
    +The Bugle's verdict on him is consistently that he lacks standing. Rod: "Plenator is always
    +the the bridesmaid, never the bride. Pleadeter is not an alpha."[^pledbridesmaid] Greaser:
    +"he's a perfect example of the guy who refuses to be the man in the arena. He's the man on
    +the sidelines."[^pledarena] By 2025 Greaser has reframed watching him as academic
    +fieldwork and refuses to concede him agency: "I don't know who's letting Plutert or set the
    +narrative. I'm not letting him set the narrative."[^plednarrative] The hardest line lands in
    +ep 67: "ACAB, all cops are bastards. That includes Predator."[^pledacab]
    +
    +His function, though, is ambient rather than active. Palmer polices his own Thanksgiving
    +table against a man who is not there — "Like, if Pledger found out that I had family members
    +talking about Zcash at the at the Thanksgiving dinner table"[^pledthanksgiving] — and Santa,
    +having dropped his Palantir contract, outsources the naughty list to him, because "there's
    +one thing Pledger does not miss, and that is, purity test failing plebs."[^pledsanta] The
    +Bugle itself is on the list: "everyone at the bugle will be receiving coal this year because
    +Pleditor is a little bitch and doesn't respect credentialed journalism".[^pledcoal]
    +
    +Not everyone reads him as an antagonist. [[characters/rob-wallace|Rob Wallace]] offers the
    +charitable theory — that [[characters/dick-whitman|Dick Whitman]] and the Pledditor cohort
    +are "part of that" immune system of Bitcoin[^pledimmune] — while also supplying his own
    +grievance: "Pledder quote tweeted that, called us a bunch of grifters and pieces of shit for,
    +reporting that news."[^pledrob] Rod once indicted the audience for under-supporting the
    +enforcers, complaining that "We have not supported Plenator and Corey and some of the Bitcoin
    +maximalists on Twitter";[^pledsupport] and when [[characters/matt-odell|Odell]] accused the
    +Bugle of hounding Pledditor across two platforms, Rod's denial was the pursuit restated as
    +hospitality — "Planator was trying to avoid us, and we wanted him to know that he was invited
    +to Paper Bitcoin Summer and there was nowhere" he could hide.[^pledbully]
    +
    +## Pleb or pioneer (mid-2025)
    +
    +In June 2025 the show stops defending the class and offers it an exit. The ep 63 cold-open
    +manifesto derives *pleb* from Rome, plants the [[memes/40hpw|forty-hour]] listener at the tip
    +of the spear, and puts the question that organizes everything after: "Let me ask you, are you
    +a pleb or are you a pioneer?"[^pioneer] Allegiance to the [[orgs/knotzis|Knotzis]] is
    +diagnosed as self-esteem failure — you only "let somebody like Luke Dasher"[^dashjr] gatekeep
    +you if you already think of yourself as helpless. Rod's rule for running a non-KYC node is
    +pride rather than caution: "only risk it if you're if you're proud to be a terrorist
    +wallet."[^terrorist]
    +
    +The axis is stated cleanly in September: "The pleb is upset right now that life's
    +difficult"[^lifehard] — the pioneer is content and builds his own reality. The same episode
    +opens with [[sponsors/first-amendment-mutual|First Amendment Mutual]] pivoting its product
    +line to "free speech insurance", whose "discourse indemnity protects Bitcoin podcasters from
    +the mayhem".[^famutual]
    +
    +And then, briefly, the show sides with the plebs one last time. Ep 77 is the high-water mark
    +of pleb sympathy: Rod names the fear campaign as theatre — "Matthew Crater's fear campaign
    +looks correctly like a staged performance"[^kratter] — and reduces the whole thing to a
    +business model in the line the episode is titled for: "Stop scaring the plebs to sell merch
    +and raise money from Jack Dorsey."[^stopscaring]
    +
    +## The turn (late 2025 – early 2026)
    +
    +The sympathy does not survive contact with the plebs themselves. When
    +[[characters/sasha-hodder|Sasha Hodder]]'s debunking of the CSAM-on-nodes panic went to
    +100,000 engagements after a Bugle retweet, the mob went to her law firm; Rod's account has her
    +explaining "on nodes, how you're not gonna get healed. The SWAT team's not gonna bust in your
    +house".[^hodder] [[characters/gloria-zhao|Gloria Zhao]] is driven out in a throwaway clause —
    +"Gloria was finally bullied, out of her position as the core maintainer"[^gloria] — and
    +Greaser's benchmark for consequence-free pleb behaviour is "going on Twitter and and posting
    +that Gloria isn't hot, there was no economic consequence to that."[^gloriahot]
    +[[characters/shinobi|Shinobi]]'s resignation is claimed as a win for pure attrition: "saying
    +we're not retarded. You're retarded. And and that seemed to do the trick".[^muck]
    +
    +Greaser opens a campaign against the word itself, and the target is tolerance: the problem is
    +"individuals that are super mediocre interjecting themselves constantly into the narrative like
    +they have a valid opinion".[^mediocre] He runs the allegory of the cave on them — "the plebs
    +think they're outside of the cave", but are inside it and terrified of leaving[^cave] — and
    +[[characters/matt-odell|Matt Odell]] is arraigned in the same register for the opposite crime:
    +"trying to keep the plebs down by telling them to stack sets and be humble? What's going on
    +here?"[^odell]
    +
    +By February 2026 the persecution is explicit and infrastructural. Greaser reports a passed HOA
    +resolution and states the segregation doctrine: it is time "for the pioneers to segregate
    +themselves from the clubs. Like, you don't you don't want your children going to a club
    +school".[^segregate] Rod translates it into consensus mechanics — "to segregate the Plebs. Oh,
    +segregate a separate but equal chain. A big one ten chain"[^bip110] — leaving the plebs the
    +ghetto chain or life as an uncle pleb. The following month supplies deportation ("The scared
    +straight with meme game plebs is probably what they need")[^scaredstraight] and the terms of
    +settlement ("as long as we get universal basic digital Pokemon cards")[^pokemon]. Rod reads
    +the bombing of Iran as a demonstration for the class's benefit, in the voice of a dog watching
    +a plushie get beaten: "I will obey. I will sit when you tell me."[^rottweiler]
    +
    +Two catchphrases close the phase. Answering a supportive boost, Greaser explains that pleb
    +opinion can never matter — "They have no idea what's going on. They're easily manipulated. Like,
    +the for example, the plebs killed Jesus"[^jesusorigin] — which becomes the title of ep 104,
    +where Rod escalates it into foreign policy: "do we wanna be allies with the people who killed
    +Jesus? Do we care about the plebs?"[^jesus104] The answer is the plebs-as-proxy figure: "They're
    +like the Kurds. Yeah. They're like the Kurds in Afghanistan."[^kurds] The Bugle's own culpability
    +is acknowledged only once, in an anonymous tribute on the 100th episode: "I think BIP 110 people
    +actually need to thank the bugle."[^tribute]
    +
    +## Pleb Pride Month, and the absence of a resolution (2026)
    +
    +June 2026 does not rehabilitate the class; it monetizes it. The
    +[[sponsors/outlaw-hash-apprentice-program|Outlaw Hash Apprentice Program]] debuts a scared-straight
    +boot camp aimed at "a soft, pudgy pleb addicted to doom scrolling and crashing out about the lives
    +of Bitcoin influencers on social media",[^outlaw] and [[sponsors/pleb-pride-month|Pleb Pride Month]]
    +arrives as an ad read celebrating "the brave, the courageous,"[^pridead] and, in the next breath,
    +the proudly uninformed — with the thesis that "Plebs don't fix the world's problems, they just
    +bitch about them together."[^pridethesis]
    +
    +The hosts remain where they were. Asked the following week whether he is bullish, Greaser splits
    +the question: "I'm not feeling bullish for the plaids. That's for sure."[^bearish] The humiliations
    +continue on schedule — the 2021 cohort's unpaid pledges of "faith tips when Bitcoin hit 200 ks, and
    +that 200 ks never came";[^faketits] plebs "stacking l after l after l" needing a win from
    +sportsball;[^needaw] compute declared a national security matter because "Anthropic does not want the
    +plebs to have access to unrestricted compute";[^compute] and the purity machinery turned on a host
    +when [[characters/natalie-brunell|Natalie Brunell]] declined to publish an interview and "the plans
    +we're trying to find out if Natalie Brunel was Jewish."[^brunell] By the end of the month Greaser has
    +found the governing analogy — "So the witches are shitcoiners"[^witches] — and the purity test has
    +proven durable enough to survive translation, a Czech professor relaying through an interpreter only
    +whether a stranger supports BIP-110, "like hoping, like I, he was like," is this guy a loser.[^czech]
    +
    +Dissent from the mechanism is rare and comes from outside the newsroom. [[characters/rev-hodl|Rev
    +Hodl]], speaking as a meetup organizer, rejects the whole apparatus: "The purity testing is definitely
    +not valuable in meetup culture. Right? There's you don't need to pass all the purity tests."[^revhodl]
    +Rod's own redemption conceit points the same way — recruit ex-cons and the noncompliant and "make them
    +our billboards for how forty hours per week sets you on the on the the straight and
    +narrow."[^billboards]
    +
    +## Disputed
    +
    +The seeded version of this page recorded six episodes and a span of 2025-09 to 2026-06, opening with
    +*Quit Scaring The Plebs* and resolving "into celebration with Pleb Pride Month". The beat index does not
    +support any of the three claims.
    +
    +- **Span.** The arc is evidenced from 2024-04-09 (Bugle Weekly 3) to at least 2026-06-30 (Bugle Weekly
    +  115), across 78 episodes — not ten months across six. Ep 77 is not the opening; it is the last
    +  sympathetic episode in a persecution narrative already two and a half years old, and by then the class
    +  had already been offered the pioneer exit.[^pioneer]
    +- **Pleb Pride Month is not a resolution.** It is a sponsor spot, delivered by an announcer voice heard
    +  nowhere else in the episode, whose stated content is that plebs "just bitch about them
    +  together".[^pridethesis] The hosts remain bearish on the class in the episodes on either side of
    +  it.[^bearish][^needaw] Read as celebration only if the Bugle's ad reads are read as sincere.
    +- **The plebs killed Jesus.** The seeded page attributes the conclusion to Pastor Jeffs' Easter service.
    +  The catchphrase is on the record earlier, in Greaser's answer to a boost in ep 102, two weeks before
    +  Easter.[^jesusorigin] Whether [[characters/pastor-jeffs|Pastor Jeffs]] independently reaches the same
    +  conclusion in the Easter service is not addressed by the beats available to me; the origin claim, as
    +  seeded, is wrong.
    +
    +> *Henry's note: coverage is SAMPLED — 120 of 186 beats, round-robined across all 78 episodes that carry
    +> this storyline. Every episode is represented, but no episode is exhausted, and the survey above should
    +> not be read as the complete record of any single one.*
    +
    +[^origin]: [[transcripts/telling-compelling-stories-with-avi-burra-intellectual-silk-road-episode-3#t-2527|Intellectual Silk Road 3 @ 42:07]].
    +[^atl]: [[transcripts/comply-side-economics-101-bugle-weekly-episode-3#t-2952|Bugle Weekly 3 @ 49:12]]. The quote runs across three cues; "FOND" is the ASR's.
    +[^iran]: [[transcripts/odell-and-iran-attack-ngu-bugle-weekly-episode-4#t-2386|Bugle Weekly 4 @ 39:46]]. Quote spans two cues.
    +[^bukele]: [[transcripts/the-influencer-super-cycle-bugle-weekly-episode-5#t-2191|Bugle Weekly 5 @ 36:31]]. "multipliers" is ASR for "noncompliers".
    +[^niemoller]: [[transcripts/the-compliant-people-are-getting-involved-bugle-weekly-episode-6#t-1392|Bugle Weekly 6 @ 23:12]]. Greaser calls it "your poem that you wrote"; Rod corrects him.
    +[^inversion]: [[transcripts/satoshi-would-be-proud-bugle-weekly-episode-19#t-1389|Bugle Weekly 19 @ 23:09]].
    +[^coinjoin]: [[transcripts/happy-compliance-month-bugle-weekly-episode-11#t-633|Bugle Weekly 11 @ 10:33]].
    +[^meetup]: [[transcripts/the-economy-is-still-fine-bugle-weekly-episode-21#t-1480|Bugle Weekly 21 @ 24:40]]. He drops the "almost" two cues later.
    +[^rbitcoin]: [[transcripts/selection-autopsy-bugle-weekly-episode-34#t-770|Bugle Weekly 34 @ 12:50]]. "Lynn Alden" is the ASR's spelling; the subreddit is rendered "our Bitcoin".
    +[^weeklies]: [[transcripts/will-the-future-be-joyful-or-maga-bugle-weekly-episode-23#t-336|Bugle Weekly 23 @ 5:36]]. ASR variants in this episode alone include "Michelle Weekly", "the shell weeklies", "Michelle Leafly" and "Michelle Weakley".
    +[^engagement]: [[transcripts/will-the-future-be-joyful-or-maga-bugle-weekly-episode-23#t-1095|Bugle Weekly 23 @ 18:15]].
    +[^safespace]: [[transcripts/powell-signals-everythings-fine-bugle-weekly-episode-27#t-3464|Bugle Weekly 27 @ 57:44]]. Greaser coins it at 57:22; Rod pluralizes.
    +[^duty]: [[transcripts/dont-stop-your-enemy-from-pumping-your-bags-bugle-weekly-episode-36#t-1399|Bugle Weekly 36 @ 23:19]]. Rod paraphrasing Shinobi; Greaser rebuts on capacity grounds.
    +[^orangecross]: [[transcripts/dont-stop-your-enemy-from-pumping-your-bags-bugle-weekly-episode-36#t-1455|Bugle Weekly 36 @ 24:15]]. Framed as an initiative "the Beagle starts" — ASR for Bugle.
    +[^prisonpods]: [[transcripts/dont-stop-your-enemy-from-pumping-your-bags-bugle-weekly-episode-36#t-1434|Bugle Weekly 36 @ 23:54]].
    +[^johns]: [[transcripts/the-first-responders-and-compliance-salesmen-bugle-weekly-episode-38#t-2110|Bugle Weekly 38 @ 35:10]].
    +[^purelaw]: [[transcripts/trump-n-dump-bugle-weekly-episode-43#t-2102|Bugle Weekly 43 @ 35:02]]. Quote spans cues 2100–2107.
    +[^marketing]: [[transcripts/moodys-says-nothing-stops-this-train-bugle-weekly-episode-60#t-2638|Bugle Weekly 60 @ 43:58]].
    +[^steak]: [[transcripts/moodys-says-nothing-stops-this-train-bugle-weekly-episode-60#t-2645|Bugle Weekly 60 @ 44:05]]. The ASR gives the name as "Adam Semeka", "Adam Samekka" and "Adam Samaka".
    +[^ordinals]: [[transcripts/the-coremunists-vs-the-knotzis-bugle-weekly-episode-59#t-3139|Bugle Weekly 59 @ 52:19]]. Quote spans two cues.
    +[^sinners1]: [[transcripts/spamming-vegas-livestream-with-fundamentals-and-erin-redwing#t-4475|Spamming Vegas Livestream @ 1:14:35]].
    +[^sinners2]: [[transcripts/podconf-superbowl-aftermath-bugle-weekly-episode-62#t-395|Bugle Weekly 62 @ 6:35]]. The cue is diarized to S3 but opens with Greaser's trailing words; the Satoshi line is Rod's.
    +[^refuse]: [[transcripts/podconf-superbowl-aftermath-bugle-weekly-episode-62#t-446|Bugle Weekly 62 @ 7:26]].
    +[^pledgensler]: [[transcripts/decentralizing-compliance-with-steven-lubka-bugle-weekly-episode-24#t-3265|Bugle Weekly 24 @ 54:25]]. ASR: "Pleditor", "Pleasure".
    +[^pledlist]: [[transcripts/is-good-ux-counter-revolutionary-behind-the-podcast-episode-12#t-1082|Behind The Podcast 12 @ 18:02]]. ASR: "Plattator", "Platter"; "the Thomas profile" is ASR for "the top of his profile".
    +[^pledsnitch]: [[transcripts/we-know-whats-going-on-bugle-weekly-episode-54#t-3541|Bugle Weekly 54 @ 59:01]]. ASR: "Pleather". Odell appears separately and by name in the same episode.
    +[^pledbridesmaid]: [[transcripts/female-influencers-the-apex-predator-with-mars-behind-the-podcast-episode-6#t-2701|Behind the Podcast 6 @ 45:01]]. ASR: "Plenator", "Pleadeter".
    +[^pledarena]: [[transcripts/eligible-bachelor-tatum-turnup-behind-the-podcast-episode-17#t-2368|Behind the Podcast 17 @ 39:28]]. ASR across the segment: "Plettator", "Pledger", "Pletta", "predator".
    +[^plednarrative]: [[transcripts/pioneering-v4v-music-with-open-mike-btp-episode-21#t-879|Behind the Podcast 21 @ 14:39]]. ASR: "Plutert or"; Rod's "Plater" precedes it. Greaser's purity-test diagnosis is at 13:47.
    +[^pledacab]: [[transcripts/grumpy-with-a-cause-bugle-weekly-episode-67#t-3139|Bugle Weekly 67 @ 52:19]]. ASR: "Predator", "Pleader's", "Bader". Odell is never spelled in this episode; the referent is fixed by the cop/snitch bit.
    +[^pledthanksgiving]: [[transcripts/navigating-holiday-family-division-bugle-weekly-episode-87#t-639|Bugle Weekly 87 @ 10:39]]. ASR: "Pledger", "platter".
    +[^pledsanta]: [[transcripts/pioneers-prepare-for-christmas-bugle-weekly-episode-89#t-516|Bugle Weekly 89 @ 8:36]]. ASR: "Pledger".
    +[^pledcoal]: [[transcripts/good-fathers-listen-to-40hpw-bugle-weekly-episode-64#t-108|Bugle Weekly 64 @ 1:48]]. ASR: "Pleditor".
    +[^pledimmune]: [[transcripts/the-world-is-a-podcast-with-rob-wallace-btp-episode-28#t-292|Behind the Podcast 28 @ 4:52]]. "predator" is the standing ASR mangle; the Dick here is [[characters/dick-whitman|Dick Whitman]], not Greaser.
    +[^pledrob]: [[transcripts/the-world-is-a-podcast-with-rob-wallace-btp-episode-28#t-1412|Behind the Podcast 28 @ 23:32]]. ASR: "Pledder", "Plettador".
    +[^pledsupport]: [[transcripts/dennis-porter-faces-headwinds-bugle-weekly-episode-47#t-1814|Bugle Weekly 47 @ 30:14]]. ASR: "Plenator", "Bludder". Medium confidence: the reading rests on the pairing with [[characters/cory-klippsten|Cory Klippsten]] and the X-enforcer role rather than the spelling.
    +[^pledbully]: [[transcripts/from-grumpy-to-gleeful-with-matt-odell-btp-episode-23#t-1574|Behind the Podcast 23 @ 26:14]]. ASR: "Planator". Odell is the interlocutor, which settles the referent.
    +[^pioneer]: [[transcripts/orange-pilled-pioneers-bugle-weekly-episode-63#t-74|Bugle Weekly 63 @ 1:14]]. Cold-open voice S0 is unnamed and never interacts; not attributed to a host.
    +[^dashjr]: [[transcripts/orange-pilled-pioneers-bugle-weekly-episode-63#t-2900|Bugle Weekly 63 @ 48:20]]. ASR: "Luke Dasher", "Luke junior". The verdict lands at 48:49: "the Nazi client is for helpless plebs."
    +[^terrorist]: [[transcripts/podcaster-wealth-inequality-bugle-weekly-episode-72#t-3022|Bugle Weekly 72 @ 50:22]].
    +[^lifehard]: [[transcripts/life-isnt-easy-bugle-weekly-episode-76#t-711|Bugle Weekly 76 @ 11:51]].
    +[^famutual]: [[transcripts/life-isnt-easy-bugle-weekly-episode-76#t-26|Bugle Weekly 76 @ 0:26]].
    +[^kratter]: [[transcripts/quit-scaring-the-plebs-bugle-weekly-episode-77#t-567|Bugle Weekly 77 @ 9:27]]. "Matthew Crater" is ASR for Matthew Kratter; quote spans four short cues.
    +[^stopscaring]: [[transcripts/quit-scaring-the-plebs-bugle-weekly-episode-77#t-690|Bugle Weekly 77 @ 11:30]]. The title line; the following cues render plebs as "plugs".
    +[^hodder]: [[transcripts/the-slop-tsunami-bugle-weekly-episode-85#t-3572|Bugle Weekly 85 @ 59:32]]. "you're not gonna get healed" is the ASR's; plebs called her law firm at 1:00:16.
    +[^gloria]: [[transcripts/jestermaxxing-through-the-1st-turning-bugle-weekly-episode-97#t-117|Bugle Weekly 97 @ 1:57]]. Surname never spoken; "core maintainer" fixes the referent.
    +[^gloriahot]: [[transcripts/is-trump-taking-ibogaine-bugle-weekly-episode-106#t-2785|Bugle Weekly 106 @ 46:25]].
    +[^muck]: [[transcripts/enemies-of-bitcoin-with-muck-anic-bugle-weekly-episode-88#t-1816|Bugle Weekly 88 @ 30:16]]. Muck names the method as "pure brute force pressure on Twitter".
    +[^mediocre]: [[transcripts/the-truth-has-consequences-bugle-weekly-episode-95#t-1026|Bugle Weekly 95 @ 17:06]]. He declares the campaign against the term at 16:39.
    +[^cave]: [[transcripts/predicting-bitcoins-future-with-paul-sports-btp-episode-27#t-2187|Behind the Podcast 27 @ 36:27]]. "pliers" at 36:03 is ASR for plebs.
    +[^odell]: [[transcripts/happy-thanksgiving-bugle-weekly-episode-86#t-1453|Bugle Weekly 86 @ 24:13]]. "stack sets" is ASR for stack sats; the verdict at 24:19 is "He's an enemy of the plugs". This is Odell, not Pledditor, who does not appear in the episode.
    +[^segregate]: [[transcripts/pleb-is-the-new-n-word-bugle-weekly-episode-98#t-436|Bugle Weekly 98 @ 7:16]]. "clubs" is ASR for plebs throughout.
    +[^bip110]: [[transcripts/pleb-is-the-new-n-word-bugle-weekly-episode-98#t-546|Bugle Weekly 98 @ 9:06]]. "big one ten" is ASR for BIP 110.
    +[^scaredstraight]: [[transcripts/behave-or-benjamin-netanyahu-bugle-weekly-episode-99#t-1571|Bugle Weekly 99 @ 26:11]].
    +[^pokemon]: [[transcripts/behave-or-benjamin-netanyahu-bugle-weekly-episode-99#t-1084|Bugle Weekly 99 @ 18:04]]. Quote spans three cues.
    +[^rottweiler]: [[transcripts/bored-of-peace-bugle-weekly-episode-100#t-522|Bugle Weekly 100 @ 8:42]]. The same cue continues: "That's what Trump is doing he is showing the plebs what he's capable of".
    +[^jesusorigin]: [[transcripts/in-the-midst-of-madness-bugle-weekly-episode-102#t-2739|Bugle Weekly 102 @ 45:39]]. Restated at 45:55 as "the plugs kill Jesus".
    +[^jesus104]: [[transcripts/the-plebs-killed-jesus-bugle-weekly-episode-104#t-895|Bugle Weekly 104 @ 14:55]].
    +[^kurds]: [[transcripts/the-plebs-killed-jesus-bugle-weekly-episode-104#t-944|Bugle Weekly 104 @ 15:44]]. Greaser's setup at 15:38 calls them "a pawn on the chessboard".
    +[^tribute]: [[transcripts/the-madness-begins-bugle-weekly-episode-101#t-37|Bugle Weekly 101 @ 0:37]]. Medium confidence: speaker S1 never identifies himself and appears only here; left unattributed.
    +[^outlaw]: [[transcripts/can-small-boobs-be-sex-symbols-bugle-weekly-episode-109#t-2|Bugle Weekly 109 @ 0:02]]. Ad-read voice S0 is unidentified.
    +[^pridead]: [[transcripts/happy-pleb-pride-month-bugle-weekly-episode-111#t-2|Bugle Weekly 111 @ 0:02]]. Continues into "the proudly uninformed."
    +[^pridethesis]: [[transcripts/happy-pleb-pride-month-bugle-weekly-episode-111#t-63|Bugle Weekly 111 @ 1:03]].
    +[^bearish]: [[transcripts/white-goy-summer-headwinds-bugle-weekly-episode-112#t-232|Bugle Weekly 112 @ 3:52]]. "plaids" is ASR for plebs; the diarizer merges Rod's question into Greaser's cue, but the quoted answer is Greaser's.
    +[^faketits]: [[transcripts/white-goy-summer-headwinds-bugle-weekly-episode-112#t-567|Bugle Weekly 112 @ 9:27]]. "faith tips" is ASR for "fake tits".
    +[^needaw]: [[transcripts/sportsball-is-back-baby-bugle-weekly-episode-113#t-582|Bugle Weekly 113 @ 9:42]].
    +[^compute]: [[transcripts/sportsball-is-back-baby-bugle-weekly-episode-113#t-741|Bugle Weekly 113 @ 12:21]].
    +[^brunell]: [[transcripts/fabian-slop-summer-bugle-weekly-episode-114#t-726|Bugle Weekly 114 @ 12:06]]. "plans" is ASR for plebs; the ASR gives her surname as "Brunel" throughout.
    +[^witches]: [[transcripts/fundamentals-larps-as-a-journalist-bugle-weekly-episode-115#t-1050|Bugle Weekly 115 @ 17:30]]. Continues at 17:32: "The witches are Fabians."
    +[^czech]: [[transcripts/fundamentals-larps-as-a-journalist-bugle-weekly-episode-115#t-1697|Bugle Weekly 115 @ 28:17]]. Greaser's read at 28:39: "Sounds like he was trying to qualify whether you were a club or not."
    +[^revhodl]: [[transcripts/how-to-win-maxi-madness-with-rev-hodl-isr-5#t-2802|Intellectual Silk Road 5 @ 46:42]]. Medium confidence; Rev names no purity-tester, so the reference is generic.
    +[^billboards]: [[transcripts/is-good-ux-counter-revolutionary-behind-the-podcast-episode-12#t-3429|Behind The Podcast 12 @ 57:09]]. "X cause" at 57:04 is ASR for "ex-cons".