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Corrected below; the old claim is preserved under +> Disputed. Coverage is a sample of the index, not the whole of it — this page +> does not list every appearance.* + +Podcasting Meta-Drama is the Bugleverse's largest and longest-running arc: the +Bugle reporting on the Bitcoin podcast industry as though it were a beat, with +itself on the beat. It is not a subject the show ever chose so much as the one +it could not stop returning to, and over two years it hardened into a body of +doctrine — that podcasters write history, that podcast supply sets the Bitcoin +price, that a podcast is itself a credential, and that the industry is +perpetually either under attack or crashing out. + +**Who's in it:** [[characters/rod-palmer|Rod Palmer]] · [[characters/richard-greaser|Richard Greaser]] · [[characters/sly-goomba|Sly Goomba]] · [[characters/peter-mccormack|Peter McCormack]] · [[characters/adam-curry|Adam Curry]] · [[characters/pledditor|Pledditor]] · [[characters/joe-rogan|Joe Rogan]] · [[characters/michael-saylor|Michael Saylor]] · [[characters/rob-wallace|Rob Wallace]] · [[characters/walker-america|Walker America]] · [[characters/fundamentals|Fundamentals]] · [[orgs/podconf|PODCONF]] + +**Related:** [[storylines/podconf-industrial-complex]] · [[storylines/bugle-newsroom-metaverse]] · [[storylines/rod-palmer-side-hustles]] · [[storylines/intellectual-silk-road]] · [[storylines/peter-mccormack]] + +## The beat invents itself (2024) + +The arc begins as housekeeping. By episode 3 the hosts are reporting their own +crossovers as news — [[characters/rod-palmer|Rod Palmer]] frames a +[[sponsors/plebchain-radio|Plebchain Radio]] appearance as missionary work into +non-compliant territory[^ep3-crossover] — and [[characters/richard-greaser|Richard Greaser]] +is running an investigative line on a rival newsroom's headcount, reporting that +BTC Times has 160,000 followers and one writer.[^ep3-btctimes] A week later +[[media/the-bugle-weekly|Bugle Weekly]] turns compliance inward and announces +that all future guests must KYC with [[orgs/the-bugle|the Bugle]] before +appearing.[^ep4-kyc] + +The show's economics arrive almost immediately, and they are adversarial by +design. Rod discloses that the show is locked into an exclusivity deal running +five years to the next halving that bars every other sponsor[^ep5-lock]; two +weeks later Greaser coins the position that governs the rest of the arc — +podcast sponsorships are for enemies.[^ep6-enemies] By Compliance Month, Rod is +admitting on air that [[orgs/podconf|PODCONF]] contractually obliges the show to +run a compliance segment, the sponsor dictating editorial in plain +view.[^ep11-obligated] When Swan lays off its influencers that July, the item is +filed not as a company story but as evidence that the podcast economy is a +dependency rather than a business.[^ep18-swan] Greaser had also called the +shakeout: [[characters/peter-mccormack|Peter McCormack]] winding down *What +Bitcoin Did*, followed by a hundred new Bitcoin podcasts a day as the price +runs.[^ep19-shakeout] + +Sponsor ethics are litigated in public and settled by construction. When +[[characters/sly-goomba|Sly Goomba]] accuses [[characters/fundamentals|Fundamentals]]' +boosts of being a covert [[sponsors/rock-paper-bitcoin-podcast|Rock Paper Bitcoin]] +sponsorship, Richard's answer is that the boosts are visible on the ledger — the +funding is transparent whether or not anyone likes it.[^ep17-boosts] Production +quality is handled the same way, by admitting it: Rod pre-excuses a short, +badly-recorded episode by invoking McCormack's airplane episodes, which "sound +terrible" and get listened to anyway.[^ep14-plane] + +## Podcaster supremacy + +Episode 12 supplies the doctrine the arc never abandons. Greaser delivers it as +a PSA: Bitcoin has won, history is written by the victors, and therefore the +podcasters are the ones writing it.[^ep12-history] Rod extends it to +entitlements the same episode — podcasters are "the modern version of those GI +heroes" and should qualify for veterans' benefits[^ep12-dday] — and Greaser +later claims naming rights over the successor to modern monetary theory on the +grounds that podcasters are the leading economic researchers +alive.[^ep40-naming] + +The supremacy claim carries a jurisdictional argument. Nobody in the federal +government is competent to regulate Bitcoin podcasts, [[characters/lubka|Lubka]] +explains, because the highest number of *What Bitcoin Did* episodes any +regulator has heard is two or three.[^ep24-fcc] Podcasting is not FCC-regulated +in the first place. The boldest version of the claim is the show's biggest piece +of invented lore: since a podcast is simply recorded hosted audio, every wiretap +qualifies, which makes the NSA the largest Bitcoin podcast archive in +existence.[^ep33-nsa] + +Method follows doctrine. Greaser lays out the Bugle's procedure without +embarrassment — before you can publish a story you must first write the articles +that will source it — and Rod extends it to academia, where the correct paper is +the one with the longest chain of self-citations.[^ep31-citations] The +credential itself is fungible: journalists get to invent definitions of words, +which is how Greaser rules that the God candle has not happened.[^ep49-definitions] +The claim is territorial too: a Bugle takeover of morning Twitter Spaces is cast +as Jesus clearing the temple, with the non-credentialed Spaces hosts as the money +changers.[^ep10-temple] + +The supremacy runs specifically against the developers. Rod's remedy for Core's +legitimacy crisis is that credentials are not enough — the devs will have to +reach out and break bread with the influencers[^ep63-breadbread] — a position +[[characters/portland-hodl|Portland Hodl]] later takes to its conclusion. And +when USAID's shutdown exposes the media apparatus as CIA-funded, the Bugle's +response is not to gloat but to annex: Rod proposes putting the CIA on +podcasting 2.0 value-for-value so the agency can be transacted with +adversarially, fixing its incentives by boost.[^btp9-usaid][^btp9-fix] + +## The power law + +The arc's load-bearing economics are stated as physics. Greaser introduces the +Bitcoin podcast power law on [[characters/rob-hamilton|Rob Hamilton]]'s BTP +appearance — a model tying the Bitcoin price to the number of Bitcoin podcasts +in existence[^btp5-powerlaw] — and by the one-year anniversary it is an axiom: +the more Bitcoin podcasts there are, the higher the price, denominated in USDT +rather than dollars.[^ep52-axiom] It is applied straight-faced in both +directions. A returning [[characters/sly-goomba|Sly Goomba]] show is reported as +a bullish leading indicator[^ep44-supply]; a disappointing all-time high is +explained by insufficient podcast creation[^ep68-lag]; and Greaser's astrological +forecast for Saturn entering Aries routes through the same model, since +self-sovereignty's first step is starting a podcast.[^btp14-saturn] He calls it +"my credentialed price model." + +If supply drives price, supply must be recruited. [[characters/sly-goomba|Sly Goomba]] +opens the *Behind the Podcast* spinoff by noticing the gap in the market — +Bitcoin podcasts exist for millennials, women, devs and lightning freaks, but +not for podcasters — and announcing a Bitcoin podcast for Bitcoin +podcasters.[^btp1-calling] His first line on the show states the recursion +outright.[^btp1-premise] Three episodes in, Rod is still unsure the spinoff has a +name.[^btp3-name] The remit is two Bugle men interviewing podcast +influencers.[^btp5-remit] The gap-filling never stops: the missing Bitcoin +podcast for HR ladies, nags and hall monitors is assigned to +[[characters/fundamentals|Fundamentals]] on the grounds that he already makes a +podcast for everything.[^btp10-karen] + +The recruitment slogan is coined live in episode 45, when Greaser fumbles into +"learn to podcast" as the successor to learn-to-code and Rod ratifies it on the +spot — AI took the coding jobs, so podcasting is the only path left.[^ep45-learn] +The credential logic closes the loop: the fix for a man being disbelieved is not +evidence but a podcast[^ep46-credential]; a paper Bitcoin company will not hire +you without one[^ep69-hire]; and if you want an hour of a Core developer's time +you are not owed it — you have to start a podcast and book him.[^ep76-startpodcast] +[[characters/cryptomags|CryptoMags]] plays the premise entirely straight when +asked whether a treasury company's key 2020 hire should have been a +podcaster.[^btp20-hire] [[characters/portland-hodl|Portland Hodl]], a developer, +takes it furthest: podcasters will replace devs, because Core lost the war on +communication rather than on code.[^btp22-replace] The same prescription is +written for [[characters/luke-dashjr|Luke Dashjr]]'s fork: he cannot win on code +alone, he needs [[memes/pleb-slop|Pleb Slop]] and a Heaven Money podcast to +counter [[media/hell-money|Hell Money]].[^btp26-heaven] + +The movement is even given a lineage. Rod's origin myth has Ross Ulbricht +building the Silk Road, the Silk Road orange-pilling McCormack, and McCormack +orange-pilling the people who got Ross freed — a closed loop, from which he +predicts Ross takes over the biggest podcast of 2025.[^ep44-ross] + +## Forty hours per week + +The [[memes/40hpw|40HPW]] standard is the arc's membership test. Guests are +assumed by default to already listen to forty hours of Bitcoin podcasts a +week[^ep27-40hpw]; Rod recites it back at [[characters/mars-spits-bars|Mars]] as +the reason "basement dweller" is not an insult[^btp6-basement]; and +[[characters/junseth|Junseth]]'s episode records Greaser disqualifying +[[characters/mike-brock|Mike Brock]] from having a valid opinion on exactly this +ground.[^btp13-40hpw] See [[bits/full-time-podcast-listeners]]. + +The quota is coercive by admission — [[characters/joey-canadian-bitcoin|Joey]] +describes the relief of "finally to be part of someone else's forty instead of +just getting force fed the forty"[^btp15-joey] — and escalates from listening +doctrine to production stunt when Greaser commits on air to recording a forty-hour +straight podcast.[^ep74-40hour] By 2026 it has become a theory of alpha: forty +hours a week is insider information.[^isr4-pelosi] It also supplies the +diagnosis when [[characters/natalie-brunell|Natalie Brunell]] sits on an +unreleased interview — the plebs are crashing out because it is now harder to get +their forty in.[^ep114-brunell] + +## Funny, or nothing + +Running alongside the price theory is a theory of humour. The 2024 election is +read as a referendum on whose jokes you are required to laugh at, and the result +deregulates comedy — "a free market of jokes."[^ep34-jokes] Greaser codifies the +industry's single benchmark in the same breath: a Bitcoin podcast can only be +funny if its hosts are free to say [[characters/lyn-alden|Lyn Alden]] is hot, +which is why [[orgs/podconf|PodConf]] — "ruled by HR departments, which are +inherently anti funny" — cannot produce one.[^ep34-lyn] See +[[memes/lyn-alden-is-hot]]. + +Labels are contested throughout. [[characters/samson-mow|Samson Mow]] spends a +week in May 2025 treating "influencer" as a slur, which organizes an entire BTP +episode around what an influencer even is; the answer offered is that nobody +wants to be one — they want to be a thought leader, a journalist, a researcher, +anything else.[^btp16-influencer] Credentials fare no better: Rod's verdict on +Douglas Murray losing to [[characters/dave-smith|Dave Smith]] on Rogan is that +he rested on his credentials and did no research, the same charge the show levels +at [[characters/mike-brock|Mike Brock]].[^ep55-credentials] The labor-market +satire runs to its conclusion when Greaser forecasts that women taking over +Bitcoin podcasting will force male podcasters to transition to keep their +revenue up.[^ep28-transition] Even a sponsor read carries the thesis: a +[[sponsors/macro-minutes|Macro Minutes]] spot bills daytime Bitcoin spaces +decentralizing as bullish, and moves his own to prime time.[^ep20-macro] The +custodial worry is that a good bit can be inherited badly — Rod's argument +against ever handing [[events/maxi-madness|Maxi Madness]] to PODCONF is that +they would over-glaze it the way [[characters/erika-kirk|Erika Kirk]] handled her +husband's legacy, until it became a Harambe meme.[^ep100-erika] + +The industry is graded against professionals and against itself. Fundamentals +reads David Lucas roasting [[characters/marty-bent|Marty Bent]] and +[[characters/matt-odell|Matt Odell]] at the Rabbit Hole Recap event as the moment +the post-Shane-Gillis comedy wave reached Bitcoin — and the space's comedy IQs +got measured.[^ep25-roast] Greaser's verdict on why Bitcoin Magazine cannot +manufacture a power couple is the definitive line on the field's romantic +prospects, later contradicted by his own poll.[^ep5-couple] Rod ranks Haley Welch +third among US podcasts and floats her as the first-ever number-one Bitcoin +podcast, over McCormack.[^ep28-welch] And the boredom of cypherpunks earns a +national-security frame: Palmer proposes highway safety warnings on +[[characters/adam-back|Adam Back]] interviews, in case a trucker nods +off.[^isr2-back] + +## The war on Bitcoin podcasts + +The adversarial frame arrives in August 2024, when Rod claims his own earlier +prediction and declares [[media/simply-bitcoin|Simply Bitcoin]]'s YouTube +deplatforming the first shot fired in the war on Bitcoin podcasts.[^ep23-war] +The theological payload is that Simply Bitcoin complied and was rugged anyway. +The frame proves elastic. Zelensky's Oval Office blowup is reported as a podcast +that went badly.[^ep49-zelensky] Substack is dismissed as where the betas hang +out, minutes before Greaser debates on it.[^debate-substack] And in September +2025 the show breaks format entirely for an emergency stream classing Charlie +Kirk's assassination not as a political murder but as an attack on the +podcasting industry — "while Charlie Kirk was not a Bitcoin podcaster, he was a +podcaster."[^eb-kirk] + +Rivals are handled as beat coverage. Rod explains why the Bugle covers +[[characters/pledditor|Pledditor]] at all with the cleanest statement of the +show's editorial doctrine in the canon: he is just reporting the news, because +Pledditor's tweets are notable.[^btp21-notable] Pledditor is also made the +archetype of the too-many-podcasts objector, and Greaser's inversion is that +those are precisely the people who must be convinced to start +one.[^btp12-pledditor] [[characters/marty-bent|Marty Bent]] and +[[characters/matt-odell|Matt Odell]] appear early as the source of defectors — +listeners arriving from *Rabbit Hole Recap* upset at "getting cold freaks every +week"[^ep14-rhr] — and Marty returns two years later as a character study, a +pleb who accidentally became an influencer.[^ep103-marty] +[[characters/peter-mccormack|Peter McCormack]] is graded the Piers Morgan of +Bitcoin podcasting, a larp who only looks impressive because the surrounding bar +is on the floor.[^ep70-piers] [[characters/joe-rogan|Joe Rogan]] draws the arc's +angriest sermon: Bitcoiners groveling for a booking is a self-respect failure, +because a man who has never listened to a Bitcoin podcast has no +standing.[^ep77-rogan] Greaser also coins the open mouth thumbnail brigade for +the YouTube reaction-video bottom feeders who build audiences purely by +critiquing others.[^ep65-openmouth] [[media/simply-bitcoin|Simply Bitcoin]] +returns as "Simply Statism", a nickname Greaser credits to their own fans rather +than claiming[^ep33-statism]; [[characters/charlie-spears|Charlie Spears]]' +[[sponsors/blockspace-media|BlockSpace Media]] partnership is introduced by way +of [[characters/will-foxley|Will Foxley]] being a broccoli haircut who lacks the +haircut[^btp19-broccoli]; and Rod's standing purity test for anyone defecting to +noncompliance from a credentialed newsroom is "spook until proven +otherwise."[^ep11-spook] McCormack, inevitably, is recast as the Crown itself, +with the American Revolution re-staged around him.[^ep66-crown] Not all coverage +is hostile: Bubba's *2 Angry Cunts* gets the show's earliest plug on the strength +of a first episode that "got right to business."[^ep72-bubba] By November 2025 he has refused the term +"independent media" as plebslopped to death and branded the Bugle "the non CIA +media"[^ep84-noncia], then claimed that naming [[memes/pleb-slop|plebslop]] has +frightened the whole industry into a renaissance.[^ep86-renaissance] + +The crossovers that opened the arc never stop being reported as news. A boost +documents Greaser's *Once Bitten* appearance with +[[characters/daniel-prince|Daniel Prince]][^ep73-oncebitten]; +[[characters/sasha-hodder|Sasha Hodder]] books a Bugle law review on her new show +by boost, on air[^ep90-sasha]; and the resulting +[[sponsors/sunset-circuit|Sunset Circuit]] episode is cross-promoted with a +confession about its format — Rod started the interview, Greaser arrived late and +ended it.[^ep92-sunset] + +## The money problem + +Poverty is the arc's constant. [[characters/rob-wallace|Rob Wallace]]'s BTP +appearance supplies the structural case — Bitcoin companies are frugal, and +having no premine, they cannot pay you in a coin conjured from nothing — and Rod +converts it into a culture problem set at the top, asking +[[characters/michael-saylor|Michael Saylor]] to lift the never-sell prohibition +so podcasters can eat.[^btp28-sell] [[characters/david-bennet|David Bennett]] +sketches the other end: the paper Bitcoin media company that buys reputations +with enough money that burning them stops mattering, then cuts them +loose.[^btp24-saylor] Greaser's honest verdict on Podcasting 2.0 is that the +mechanism works but plebs would rather buy trinkets than fund +podcasters.[^ep106-v4v] The audience is not above saying so — a 20,000-sat boost +roasts the show's audio and tells them to hire a producer.[^ep43-boost] By +February 2026 the Wednesday interviews are being replaced by a subscriber-only +second dose of Bugle Weekly.[^ep98-format] The [[sponsors/mountainside-church|Mountainside Church]] +Easter service goes further and introduces Support a Podcaster, a missions +program funding Bitcoin podcasters as though they were overseas +missionaries.[^easter-support] + +Against that, the arc's self-regard is undiminished. [[events/the-bugles|The Bugles]] +are announced in December 2024 as a live-streamed awards show with real trophies, +justified on the grounds that the CIA built the Academy Awards to reward its own +content[^ep39-bugles], and are declared the most important event of 2025 without +a date being set.[^ep46-bugles] [[characters/adam-curry|Adam Curry]] is canonized +as the Prometheus of media, the Titan who stole broadcasting from the gods of +radio and cable and handed it to the average Bitcoin blob — first as a chapter +Greaser says he is writing in his book[^btp7-prometheus], later as the opening +line of his own essay.[^gt1-curry] Greaser's proposal that every podcaster +publish a GitHub page of the standards they hold people to, committing every +change so listeners can see the goalposts move, belongs to the same +impulse.[^ep43-standards] So does the koan of whether you are really a Bitcoin +podcaster if your podcast is not inscribed on chain.[^ep89-inscribed] + +Two lines fix the show's self-image. The Bugle's creed is that distrust is the +product: "we don't want the plebs to trust the bugle."[^ep94-distrust] And +[[characters/erin-redwing|Erin Redwing]]'s tribute states the editorial remit — +not macro, not econ politics, but the personal lives of Bitcoin podcasters, the +Bugle as Bitcoin's New York Post.[^ep101-remit] + +## Crashing out (2026) + +The first turning arrives and the industry does not take it well. Rod's +crash-out sermon in February — "it is not a death sentence to crash +out"[^ep96-crashout] — sets up the year's dominant register. Greaser supplies +the diagnosis in the same month: the truth is not liberating, only your response +to it is, which is why people respond to the Bugle by getting grumpy rather than +grateful.[^ep95-truth] The casualties are +reported straight: [[characters/vlad-costea|Vlad Costea]] evicted, with Rod +blaming shitcoins and Greaser refusing the easy explanation[^ep97-vlad]; +[[characters/mike-brock|Mike Brock]] quantified at 77 essays in a +weekend.[^ep102-brock] Greaser names it as the thesis of episode 105 and frames +it as a leading indicator, the plebs having crashed out +already.[^ep105-crashing] Rod's state-of-the-podcasters in May is bleak — no ad +network, no alliances, every host on his own island, "podcasters have never been +weaker."[^ep108-splintered] + +The Bugle's answer is positional. Its outro for 2026 is that everyone else is +crashing out or pivoting to AI while the Bugle reports the news every +week[^ep99-outro]; Greaser's summary of the edge is that the rest of the +ecosystem are checkers players looking at a world with chess +rules[^ep104-chess]; and Rod's bar for any aspiring podcaster is simply to be +better than Mike Alfred.[^ep93-floor] The industry's surviving output is the +visual clout ladder Greaser codifies for +[[characters/fundamentals|Fundamentals]]: orange podcaster glasses, a decent mic +stand, a Shure SM7B, Bitcoin art in the background.[^ep115-glasses] Meanwhile +[[characters/rev-hodl|Rev Hodl]] launches a meetup podcast and reports that the +gloom is an online phenomenon.[^isr5-local] [[characters/walker-america|Walker America]] +had already given the job its best description: cypherpunks write code, and +Bitcoin podcasters get called retard all the time so that they can.[^btp25-walker] + +What the Bugle claims for itself at the end of the arc is unpretentiousness. +Palmer's Think Boy creed — "builders build in the bear market. Think boys think +in the bear market" — is immediately followed by the show's self-definition: it +does not pretend to be Think Boys, and too many podcasters do.[^btp29-thinkboi] +The seams stay visible: when a recording breaks down, Greaser keeps the wreckage +in the edit and turns it into the standing line that podcasting is hard +work.[^isr3-hardwork] And the arc's premise gets played entirely straight in the +Pulitzer Prize Pieces investigation, whose reporter's obsession begins where +every Bugleverse obsession begins — hearing about it on a podcast, in +traffic.[^pulitzer-origin] + +## Disputed + +The seeded version of this page dated the arc **2025-08 to 2026-04** and +attributed it to five episodes: *Podcaster Wealth Inequality* (72), *Emergency +Broadcast: Podcasting Under Attack*, *Everyone Is Recording The Same Podcast*, +*The World Is A Podcast* (BTP 28) and *Podcasters Crashing Out* (105). It was +compiled by keyword sweep of episode descriptions and headlines, which finds the +episodes that say "podcast" in the title. + +The beat index contradicts the span outright. The arc is live from **2024-04-09** +— Bugle Weekly 3, before the show has a second sponsor[^ep3-crossover] — and runs +to at least 2026-06-30[^ep115-glasses], across 97 episodes. The five seeded +episodes are all genuine members of the arc; they are not its boundaries, and +three of the four load-bearing doctrines (podcaster supremacy, the power law, +40HPW) are established in 2024, before the seeded span opens. The seeded +"Who's in it" line also listed a "Jeff", presumably from the title of *Everyone +Is Recording The Same Podcast w/ Rod & Jeff*; no beat in the index attributes +anything in this arc to him, so he is dropped rather than guessed at. + +Both readings are preserved here per the retcon rule. The seeded reading is a +description of what the arc is *called*; the index describes what it *does*. + +[^ep3-crossover]: [[transcripts/comply-side-economics-101-bugle-weekly-episode-3#t-1166|Bugle Weekly 3 @ 19:26]]. ASR gives Plebchain Radio as "Clubchain Radio". +[^ep3-btctimes]: [[transcripts/comply-side-economics-101-bugle-weekly-episode-3#t-2424|Bugle Weekly 3 @ 40:24]]. Low-confidence beat: the sole writer is "Dennis from fifty eight k game" (ASR for the 58k Gang), and Rod subsequently calls him "Denise" and "Quinn" — the hosts lose the name mid-story. +[^ep4-kyc]: [[transcripts/odell-and-iran-attack-ngu-bugle-weekly-episode-4#t-4204|Bugle Weekly 4 @ 1:10:04]]. +[^ep5-lock]: [[transcripts/the-influencer-super-cycle-bugle-weekly-episode-5#t-454|Bugle Weekly 5 @ 7:34]]. ASR: "stuck in the real Plaid only PodConv sponsorship agreement" — Real Plebs and PODCONF respectively. +[^ep6-enemies]: [[transcripts/the-compliant-people-are-getting-involved-bugle-weekly-episode-6#t-754|Bugle Weekly 6 @ 12:34]]. Rod's "our sponsors are also our enemies"; Greaser coins the phrase back at him across the following two cues. +[^ep11-obligated]: [[transcripts/happy-compliance-month-bugle-weekly-episode-11#t-326|Bugle Weekly 11 @ 5:26]]. ASR renders PODCONF as "Otkom" here, and as "pod cop", "PodCon" and "Podkoff" later in the same episode. +[^ep18-swan]: [[transcripts/the-calm-before-the-storm-bugle-weekly-episode-18#t-854|Bugle Weekly 18 @ 14:14]]. See also [[sponsors/swan-bitcoin]] and [[sponsors/macro-minutes]]. +[^ep19-shakeout]: [[transcripts/satoshi-would-be-proud-bugle-weekly-episode-19#t-1797|Bugle Weekly 19 @ 29:57]]. Medium confidence. ASR: "Peter McCormick". +[^ep12-history]: [[transcripts/history-is-being-written-by-us-bugle-weekly-episode-12#t-2380|Bugle Weekly 12 @ 39:40]]. "we have one" is ASR for "we have won". +[^ep12-dday]: [[transcripts/history-is-being-written-by-us-bugle-weekly-episode-12#t-2556|Bugle Weekly 12 @ 42:36]]. [[characters/joe-biden|Biden]] is not named — the referent is "President of The United States" at the D-Day anniversary. +[^ep40-naming]: [[transcripts/bitcoin-is-tax-affording-technology-bugle-weekly-episode-40#t-929|Bugle Weekly 40 @ 15:29]]. "discusors" is ASR. His proposal is "Bitcoin dollar monetary theory". Greaser's Twitter poll on whether people would date a Bitcoin podcaster is at [[transcripts/bitcoin-is-tax-affording-technology-bugle-weekly-episode-40#t-1142|19:02]]. +[^ep24-fcc]: [[transcripts/decentralizing-compliance-with-steven-lubka-bugle-weekly-episode-24#t-3132|Bugle Weekly 24 @ 52:12]]. [[characters/anthony-pompliano|Pompliano]] is the episode's case study in FCC non-compliance at [[transcripts/decentralizing-compliance-with-steven-lubka-bugle-weekly-episode-24#t-3211|53:31]] (ASR: "Anthony Bompliano"). +[^ep33-nsa]: [[transcripts/selection-special-part-2-bugle-weekly-episode-33#t-2551|Bugle Weekly 33 @ 42:31]]. Quote spans two cues. Rod demands the NSA publish the archive as a matter of national security. +[^ep31-citations]: [[transcripts/is-saylor-a-spook-bugle-weekly-episode-31#t-3198|Bugle Weekly 31 @ 53:18]]. The same episode coins "podcasting adversarially" at [[transcripts/is-saylor-a-spook-bugle-weekly-episode-31#t-381|6:21]] as [[characters/michael-saylor|Saylor]]'s exoneration — see [[storylines/michael-saylor-saga]]. +[^ep49-definitions]: [[transcripts/is-this-the-god-candle-bugle-weekly-episode-49#t-559|Bugle Weekly 49 @ 9:19]]. +[^btp5-powerlaw]: [[transcripts/discovering-miniscript-with-rob-hamilton-behind-the-podcast-episode-5#t-813|BTP 5 @ 13:33]]. The mechanism: each podcaster has a girlfriend, mother, father or sibling he can plead with to listen. +[^ep52-axiom]: [[transcripts/1-year-anniversary-bugle-weekly-episode-52#t-1902|Bugle Weekly 52 @ 31:42]]. Denominated in USDT — see [[storylines/tethers-turf]]. +[^ep44-supply]: [[transcripts/the-future-is-wrapped-bugle-weekly-episode-44#t-1835|Bugle Weekly 44 @ 30:35]]. Restated at [[transcripts/40-hours-per-week-bugle-weekly-episode-45#t-435|Bugle Weekly 45 @ 7:15]], where Rod's proof is "last time you did this the Bitcoin price went like 8x." +[^ep68-lag]: [[transcripts/boomers-sacrificing-to-moloch-bugle-weekly-episode-68#t-1155|Bugle Weekly 68 @ 19:15]]. +[^btp14-saturn]: [[transcripts/cypherpunks-use-ordinals-mode-with-erin-redwing-behind-the-podcast-episode-14#t-4469|BTP 14 @ 1:14:29]]. Quote spans two adjacent cues. +[^btp1-calling]: [[transcripts/sly-goomba-thanksgiving-special-behind-the-podcast-episode-1#t-487|Behind the Podcast 1 @ 8:07]]. Sly calls podcasting "a calling" and dates his own start to two weeks into being a Bitcoiner. +[^btp1-premise]: [[transcripts/sly-goomba-thanksgiving-special-behind-the-podcast-episode-1#t-49|Behind the Podcast 1 @ 0:49]]. The cue merges Rod's greeting with Sly's reply through diarization leakage; the quoted words are Sly's. +[^btp3-name]: [[transcripts/satoshi-is-jewish-behind-the-podcast-episode-3#t-65|Behind the Podcast 3 @ 1:05]]. +[^btp5-remit]: [[transcripts/discovering-miniscript-with-rob-hamilton-behind-the-podcast-episode-5#t-26|BTP 5 @ 0:26]]. ASR: "Beagle News" for Bugle News, "Richard Grieser" for Richard Greaser.