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It runs from the +show's first months to the present and has no terminus: a discography, a t-shirt line, an +awards show, a supplement read, a basement mushroom grow, a trading-card game, and a +recurring habit of leaving the studio to catch a plane. [[characters/richard-greaser|Richard Greaser]] +is the arc's other half — his own ventures (cigarettes, a radio slot, a clothing line, an +AI degree mill) track alongside Rod's closely enough that the record treats the two as one +economy rather than two. + +The unifying doctrine is that a Bitcoin podcaster's attention is an asset and everything +adjacent to it is inventory. + +**Who's in it:** [[characters/rod-palmer|Rod Palmer]] · [[characters/richard-greaser|Richard Greaser]] · +[[characters/mars-spits-bars|Mars Spits Bars]] · [[characters/mshodlnaut420|MsHodlNaut420]] · +[[characters/open-mike|Open Mike]] + +**Related:** [[storylines/v4v-music-empire]] · [[storylines/fountain-premium-content]] · +[[storylines/40-hours-per-week]] · [[storylines/bitcoiner-fashion-desk]] · +[[storylines/behind-the-podcast]] · [[storylines/white-goy-summer]] + +## The absent co-host (2024) + +Rod enters the arc by not being there. In May 2024 Greaser argues a +[[storylines/samourai-wallet-saga|Samourai]] segment entirely out of his absent co-host's +doctrine — "you know, Rod Palmer talked about how it shouldn't be illegal to launder money +for the CIA in a democracy,"[^cia-doctrine] and a week later fields a boost asking where Rod +went. The answer is the arc's founding premise: "Good question. So Rod is actually +undercover,"[^undercover] on assignment, two weeks out, big things planned. + +When he returns he is a specialist. Assessing the compliance level of Trump's hypothetical +prison McDonald's, Rod names his tell — "they serve breakfast after 10:30AM."[^mcd-breakfast] +Assessing [[characters/donald-trump|Trump]] not holding his own lightning wallet, he pivots +without transition into career advice for his daughter: "the president of The United States +cannot be expected to learn how to use lightning wallets,"[^lightning-ea] therefore learn +lightning and become an executive assistant to powerful people who need to transact +adversarially. + +The departure becomes structural. In August 2024 he hands the boosts to Richard and goes: +"I gotta take off. I gotta run. There's a a big story developing. I gotta catch a plane out +of town."[^plane-2024] Greaser signs him off as "Ron." + +Greaser's own book opens in parallel. His non-KYC cigarette business finds product-market fit +at the Nashville conference — "the non KYC cigarette sales were absolutely amazing,"[^cigarettes] +sold out, overflow demand referred to rival vendors. + +The music surfaces in September, off a listener's fan video: Rod plugs his back catalogue, +"naked through the snowy mountains, playing, one of my original hit songs, Girls on +Spaces."[^girls-on-spaces] By December he has found the business model. Reading a +[[sponsors/sats-by-southwest|Sats by Southwest]] boost from [[characters/open-mike|Open Mike]] +aloud, he realises what he has just done: "I just got, paid to read an ad apparently in our,"[^paid-ad] +having not thought of boosts as a way to advertise a Bitcoin podcast. + +The year closes with Christmas shopping: "I got them, Umbrel nodes and open dimes for +Christmas,"[^christmas] plus forty hours of individually curated Bitcoin podcast per relative, +burned to CD-R — the [[memes/40hpw|40 hours per week]] doctrine repackaged as gift-giving. + +## The product line (2025) + +January 2025 is when the hustles stop being jokes and start being SKUs. + +The boost thesis hardens into a credit theory: present your [[sponsors/fountain|Fountain]] +boosts to a landlord — "to publish, give them your fountain boost and show them the fountain +boost you get as a Bitcoin podcaster,"[^boost-income] as proof of income. Rod frames it as +long-held doctrine: "I've been saying this forever." + +The discography acquires authority. Rod establishes that his song *My Digital Treasure* is the +sole surviving record of [[characters/dennis-porter|Dennis Porter]]'s backstory — "if you're +hearing about Dennis Porter more and more lately, go back and check that one out. It'll explain +the backstory"[^digital-treasure] — the Bugleverse citing its own music as a primary source on a +public figure. A song about falling in love with a fed is credited to off-the-record interviews +with [[characters/mars-spits-bars|Mars Spits Bars]]: "fall in love with the Fed, and it talks +about how we you talked about, yes, they do."[^fed-song] Rod also reminds Mars he has already +produced a commercial for Mars's non-existent podcast — "And because you know I made you that +video with a commercial a while ago. I wanna thank you your first Bitcoin podcast +commercial"[^mars-commercial] — retroactively making the [[sponsors/mars-bars|Mars Bars]] spot +that cold-opened the hour a Rod Palmer production. + +The merch arrives the same month. Rod launches a 40HPW / Silk Road commemorative on +[[sponsors/orange-label|Orange Label]] in Marlboro-inspired art marking +[[characters/ross-ulbricht|Ross Ulbricht]]'s release — "hours per week, Silk Road commemorative +Marlboro cigarette,"[^silk-road-shirt] — which Greaser sells as a status symbol precisely +because nobody will buy it. The outro canonises the customer base: "You are on the front line +of the orange revolution, the very first color revolution that wasn't started by the +CIA."[^orange-revolution] + +Then the awards show. [[events/the-bugles|The Bugles]] are announced for Q1 2025 — "the bugles +are the Bitcoin the premier Bitcoin podcasting awards"[^bugles] — with [[orgs/podconf|PodConf]] +helping stage an event run by hosts who openly distrust them. Greaser ranks it above +[[characters/michael-saylor|Saylor]]'s hundred-k party; Rod asks for Olive Garden discounts, +"just like veterans do." + +The Wavlake catalogue keeps being cited as prior art. On the theory that Bitcoin spaces are a +federal operation, Rod notes he called it first: "And I wrote a song about this. You can go back +to Wave Lake,"[^wavlake-spaces] the song having observed that daily spaces keep the same +holidays as commercial banks, the Fed and the CIA. + +Spring brings the widest spread. A trading-card game is teased and half-bleeped — "rhymes with, +GBT playing cards"[^card-game] — with Richard refusing to confirm anything until there is +"something shippable." Rod ends an episode by leaving for a supervised basement grow: "I gotta go +tend to the mushrooms growing in my basement. I got a mushroom shaman here to help me figure this +out,"[^mushrooms] promising a report after harvest. Greaser names his own clothing line after his +catchphrase — "this revolution won't have good UX"[^ux-line] — giving the anti-UX doctrine a +product SKU alongside Rod's 40HPW line on the same storefront. A new single lands at number two on +Wavlake: "Well, let's talk about the music. So you got a new song out. Oh yeah. Yeah, I knew one +called The Orange Pillow Blues."[^orange-pill-blues] And [[sponsors/alpha-protocol|Alpha Protocol]] +creatine goes on the merch table — "creatine via alpha protocol. Is that on orange +label?"[^creatine] — pitched at Bitcoin devs, Rust devs and MMA fighters. + +Not every investment pays. A boost asks for a refund on Rod's voice: "Sean for 4,000 sets says, +Rod Palmer bring the old voice back. The people spoke and,"[^voice-boost] establishing that he had +been taking professional podcast classes. He concedes: give the people what they want. + +## The résumé (2025, cont.) + +The origin story arrives in July. Rod's pre-podcast profession, offered straight: "I was in charge +of whenever somebody died or something, I would go and edit their their Wikipedia +articles."[^wikipedia] It paid for his cigarettes. Amy Winehouse was his last article. He then +pivots to his journalism degree from the University of Phoenix. + +The music campaign escalates to platform strategy — the hosts try to force *Paper Made Men* onto +TikTok: "If any anybody knows how to shuffle dance, do do a video to Rod's song, get that trend on +TikTok,"[^tiktok] the stated goal being to make grumpy maxis crash out when their daughters sing it +at Sunday dinner. + +In August, sitting across from the V4V music pioneer himself, Rod contradicts the Podfather rule to +its face. Where Mike says you have to ask, Rod does not: "And I think my secret to my success is +playing hard to get. Instead of asking people to zap me or to, boost."[^hard-to-get] He extends the +doctrine to dating. The same episode mints a genre: "That it's not, you know, it's not wife slop. +Your wife don't show this meme. Don't listen to this song to your wife,"[^wife-slop] — the second +thing a Rod Palmer boost guarantees you are not getting, after AI slop. He is candid about the +product's standing: "nobody wants to tell their wife that they did something gay,"[^ai-music-gay] +his AI music being gay but good enough that his wife is proud anyway — same as telling his dad he is +a full-time Bitcoin podcaster. + +Greaser's side of the ledger gets its clearest statement in September, when Rod covers for him +fumbling a livestream by explaining what he does on Mondays: "He's like a doomsday DJ radio on +Mondays for Liberty Under Attack. But"[^doomsday-dj] — the [[media/doomsdays-dj|Doomsday's DJ]] slot +on [[sponsors/liberty-under-attack|Liberty Under Attack]]. + +Then the arc's most-teased artefact. Greaser trails it as premium content — "still working on, +sorting out, Rod's job interview. That's on the docket"[^interview-trail] — and in October it ships +to paid subscribers: "This is Rod Palmer's job interview that he did with Richard +Grieser."[^interview-teaser] Rod as applicant; Richard as the man with hiring power over him. The +interview itself sits behind the paywall and is not in the record — only the framing. + +> Henry's note: the wiki cannot document what it cannot hear. Everything known about the job +> interview is its premise. + +The premium rundown that follows bundles the hustles together — Richard's Doomsday's DJ song +("when I finished that, Doomsdays DJ song"),[^premium-rundown] an early release of his electronic +album, Rod's Mars episode, and the job interview — with early song releases floated as a subscriber +perk. Later that month Rod coins another line built for the merch table out of a cargo-pants +digression: "If you don't wear shorts, you're short Bitcoin."[^shorts] + +## Monetizing the situation (2026) + +The long feud with [[characters/mshodlnaut420|MsHodlNaut420]] — live since 2024, when she boosted +that he was itching for round two and he corrected the count on air, "not to be pedantic, but it +would actually be round seven. I think you were blackout for rounds two through six,"[^round-seven] +and since revisited when Greaser needled him about the entanglement costing him hours of Bitcoin +podcast listening[^huddlenut] — reignites in February 2026 on one line: "looks like Rod is still +being a salty bitch."[^salty-bitch] Rod files her as a drunk pleb and +[[characters/sasha-hodder|Sasha Hodder]] as a pioneer. + +He names himself twice more inside bits — "and I have Trump derangement syndrome, or my name is Rod +Palmer,"[^tds] and, in the third person, "Anybody you know is Rod Palmer knows he's a glutton for a +nothing burger."[^nothing-burger] The plane bit returns intact after two years: "I gotta jump. I +gotta catch a plane to Bakersfield,"[^bakersfield] to cover a meetup live and in person, leaving +Richard to finish the boosts. + +In June 2026 the arc gets its thesis. Rod retires the show's standing +[[episodes/monitoring-the-situation-bugle-weekly-episode-65|monitoring the situation]] bit and +replaces it: "You're now in the era of monetizing the situation,"[^monetize] promising to build on +the theme all summer, and signing off with it. A week later Greaser adds the newest entry to the +trinkets-for-plebs economy — AI-generated universities to undercut +[[characters/matthew-kratter|Matthew Kratter]]: "competing universities to compete with Matthew +Kratter in and Bitcoin University. So if you could generate a bunch of university courses and charge +$790."[^ai-university] + +The era, as of the last source, is ongoing. + +## Disputed + +The previous revision of this page was seeded from a sweep of episode descriptions and headlines +rather than from the record, and the beat index contradicts it on four points. The index reports +COMPLETE coverage for this storyline — 41 beats across 37 episodes — so these are not gaps in +sampling. + +**Span.** The seeded page dated the arc `2025-10 to 2026-05`. The beats run 2024-05-06 to +2026-06-15. The arc's founding beat — Greaser explaining that "Rod is actually +undercover"[^undercover] — predates the seeded window by seventeen months. + +**Episode list.** The seeded page named four episodes as the whole arc. Three of them +(*Rod Palmer Job Interview For Paid Subscribers*, +[[episodes/everyone-is-recording-the-same-podcast-w-rod-and-jeff|Everyone Is Recording The Same Podcast w/ Rod & Jeff]], +[[episodes/we-know-w-rod-and-mars|We Know w/ Rod & Mars]]) contribute no beats to this slug except +the job interview's framing teaser;[^interview-teaser] the fourth, +[[episodes/the-dawn-of-white-goy-summer-bugle-weekly-episode-110|The Dawn Of White Goy Summer]], +contributes none at all. The summer-2026 beat in the record is +[[episodes/white-goy-summer-headwinds-bugle-weekly-episode-112|episode 112]], not 110.[^monetize] +Thirty-three episodes the seed did not list do carry beats. + +**"One More Summer, One More Edit."** The seeded page attributed this 2026 summer single to Rod. No +beat mentions it. The songs the record actually attributes to him are *Girls on Spaces*,[^girls-on-spaces] +*My Digital Treasure*,[^digital-treasure] *The Orange Pill Blues*,[^orange-pill-blues] *Paper Made +Men*,[^tiktok] a song about falling in love with a fed,[^fed-song] a song about spaces keeping +banking holidays,[^wavlake-spaces] and — per the 2024 recap — *Miss The Days* and an unresolved +title the ASR renders "Archfield's Cowboys." Henry has left the claim out rather than assert it; it +may be real and unrecorded, or it may be an artefact of the sweep. + +**Jeff.** The seeded page listed Jeff under "Who's in it." No beat in this storyline names him, and +no character page exists for him. He has been dropped from the line rather than linked to nothing. + +> Henry's note: the seeded prose read the arc as four late solo ventures. The record reads it as a +> two-year, two-man business. The error is instructive — a sweep of titles finds the episodes that +> *announce* a hustle, and misses the ninety per cent of the arc that happens in the boosts. + +[^cia-doctrine]: [[transcripts/ungovernable-non-compliance-with-the-ungovernable-misfits-bugle-weekly-episode-7#t-638|Bugle Weekly 7 @ 10:38]]. Rod does not appear in the episode; Greaser quotes him in the third person. +[^undercover]: [[transcripts/democracy-dies-in-darkness-with-party-bent-bugle-weekly-episode-8#t-3553|Bugle Weekly 8 @ 59:13]]. Answering a boost from "Linkin Park rules" for 8,008 sats: "who are these miserable cons? Where's Rod?" +[^mcd-breakfast]: [[transcripts/happy-compliance-month-bugle-weekly-episode-11#t-916|Bugle Weekly 11 @ 15:16]]. Rod's full framing: breakfast after 10:30 would be "biggest indication above of the amount of compliance taking place inside that prison." +[^lightning-ea]: [[transcripts/powell-signals-everythings-fine-bugle-weekly-episode-27#t-1445|Bugle Weekly 27 @ 24:05]]. Rod's daughter is referenced but not named. +[^plane-2024]: [[transcripts/this-is-fine-bugle-weekly-episode-20#t-3404|Bugle Weekly 20 @ 56:44]]. Greaser signs him off at t=3416 with "Good chatting with you, Ron" — ASR for Rod. +[^cigarettes]: [[transcripts/satoshi-would-be-proud-bugle-weekly-episode-19#t-2592|Bugle Weekly 19 @ 43:12]]. Greaser at t=2608: "I started having to, you know, refer people to other vendors like Shadrach." +[^girls-on-spaces]: [[transcripts/outrunning-hypersonic-missiles-bugle-weekly-episode-26#t-4420|Bugle Weekly 26 @ 1:13:40]]. The outro announcer credits the song to Rod Palmer at t=4816. +[^paid-ad]: [[transcripts/thanksgiving-victory-lap-bugle-weekly-episode-37#t-3633|Bugle Weekly 37 @ 1:00:33]]. ASR renders "Fountain boost" as "found base." +[^christmas]: [[transcripts/jason-lowerys-drones-bugle-weekly-episode-39#t-281|Bugle Weekly 39 @ 4:41]]. The CD-R detail is at t=304: "I put, forty hours worth of Bitcoin podcasts individually selected for each family member." +[^boost-income]: [[transcripts/discovering-miniscript-with-rob-hamilton-behind-the-podcast-episode-5#t-410|Behind The Podcast 5 @ 6:50]]. +[^digital-treasure]: [[transcripts/2024-recap-bugle-weekly-episode-42#t-2640|Bugle Weekly 42 @ 44:00]]. The claim completes at t=2649: "because he doesn't have much of of a backstory available outside that music." +[^fed-song]: [[transcripts/female-influencers-the-apex-predator-with-mars-behind-the-podcast-episode-6#t-1262|Behind the Podcast 6 @ 21:02]]. The title is not stated cleanly; ASR gives only "fall in love with the Fed." Set up by Rod's standing credential claim at 20:44: "I'm a credential journalist." +[^mars-commercial]: [[transcripts/female-influencers-the-apex-predator-with-mars-behind-the-podcast-episode-6#t-4129|Behind the Podcast 6 @ 1:08:49]]. Heavy diarization leakage on this cue; the quoted words are Rod's. +[^silk-road-shirt]: [[transcripts/the-future-is-wrapped-bugle-weekly-episode-44#t-3463|Bugle Weekly 44 @ 57:43]]. Greaser's pitch: "If you want a status symbol, it is the 40 HPW shirt" — and "you'll be the only one at the meetup over and over again" (t=3536). Rod estimates sales "at least 30" (t=3660). +[^orange-revolution]: [[transcripts/the-future-is-wrapped-bugle-weekly-episode-44#t-4123|Bugle Weekly 44 @ 1:08:43]]. +[^bugles]: [[transcripts/40-hours-per-week-bugle-weekly-episode-45#t-2729|Bugle Weekly 45 @ 45:29]]. Rod corrects at t=2733: "The only Bitcoin Podcasting Awards and it's going to be the biggest and the best and by far the most bullish." ASR renders the event "the bureaus" at t=3813. +[^wavlake-spaces]: [[transcripts/super-sportball-bitcoin-pizza-day-for-normies-bugle-weekly-episode-46#t-923|Bugle Weekly 46 @ 15:23]]. ASR: "Wave Lake" for Wavlake. The thesis follows at t=929–939. +[^card-game]: [[transcripts/1-year-anniversary-bugle-weekly-episode-52#t-1978|Bugle Weekly 52 @ 32:58]]. Confidence is medium: the diarizer split the line across three cues and Richard never confirms it. Setup at t=1973: "I don't wanna say it. Maybe you can bleep it out." Feeds [[news/bitcoin-trading-cards-attempts-to-make-influencer-circle-jerk-even-gayer]]. +[^mushrooms]: [[transcripts/apologizing-to-absolutely-no-one-bugle-weekly-episode-53#t-3305|Bugle Weekly 53 @ 55:05]]. He adds at t=3314: "I'll share my experiences with that. That's after this, harvest is over." No report of the harvest appears in the record. +[^ux-line]: [[transcripts/we-know-whats-going-on-bugle-weekly-episode-54#t-2985|Bugle Weekly 54 @ 49:45]]. Both lines are at orangelabel.co (t=2852); Richard's is the Comply line, Rod's is 40 HPW (t=2866). +[^orange-pill-blues]: [[transcripts/never-rest-on-your-credentials-bugle-weekly-episode-55#t-3414|Bugle Weekly 55 @ 56:54]]. ASR renders the title "The Orange Pillow Blues"; the sung outro at t=5344 gives it as "orange pill blues." +[^creatine]: [[transcripts/node-rape-run-rampant-bugle-weekly-episode-58#t-3582|Bugle Weekly 58 @ 59:42]]. Palmer finishes the read at 59:49–1:00:23, insisting it is "real shit" from a credentialed supplement lab. +[^voice-boost]: [[transcripts/orange-pilled-pioneers-bugle-weekly-episode-63#t-3611|Bugle Weekly 63 @ 1:00:11]]. Confidence is medium — diarization bleed makes the reply "I stopped going to my professional podcast classes" (t=3618) hard to attribute, though it reads as Rod's. ASR: "sets" for sats. +[^wikipedia]: [[transcripts/broccolispace-media-with-charlie-spears-btp-episode-19#t-2942|BTP 19 @ 49:02]]. Follow-ups: "It paid for my cigarettes" (t=2963); "Amy Winehouse was my last was my last Wikipedia article" (t=2981); "my journalism degree at the University of Phoenix" (t=2992). +[^tiktok]: [[transcripts/the-orange-pill-is-not-ozempic-bugle-weekly-episode-69#t-4160|Bugle Weekly 69 @ 1:09:20]]. Richard says at t=5041 it is trending number one on Wavlake. +[^hard-to-get]: [[transcripts/pioneering-v4v-music-with-open-mike-btp-episode-21#t-409|BTP 21 @ 6:49]]. Directly contradicts Mike's Podfather rule at t=326. +[^wife-slop]: [[transcripts/pioneering-v4v-music-with-open-mike-btp-episode-21#t-2144|BTP 21 @ 35:44]]. Rod sets it up naming himself in the third person as a brand (t=2128–2140). See [[memes/pleb-slop]]. +[^ai-music-gay]: [[transcripts/a-renaissance-man-intellectual-silk-road-episode-1#t-3782|Intellectual Silk Road 1 @ 1:03:02]]. +[^doomsday-dj]: [[transcripts/from-grumpy-to-gleeful-with-matt-odell-btp-episode-23#t-229|BTP 23 @ 3:49]]. Quote begins mid-sentence; the subject is named at t=228, "Dick Kreese does," — ASR for Richard "Dick" Greaser, not [[characters/dick-whitman]]. +[^interview-trail]: [[transcripts/life-isnt-easy-bugle-weekly-episode-76#t-4287|Bugle Weekly 76 @ 1:11:27]]. +[^interview-teaser]: [[transcripts/rod-palmer-job-interview-for-paid-subscribers#t-0|Rod Palmer Job Interview For Paid Subscribers @ 0:00]]. ASR spells Greaser as "Grieser." The interview content is behind the paywall and is not in the bundle; only the framing is citable. +[^premium-rundown]: [[transcripts/puppets-on-strings-shout-no-kings-bugle-weekly-episode-81#t-5308|Bugle Weekly 81 @ 1:28:28]]. Also in the rundown: Rod's Mars episode, which "does a clinic on group chats" (t=5299), and "the Rod Palmer Job interview" (t=5316). +[^shorts]: [[transcripts/life-after-expulsion-from-bitcoin-university-with-stu-btp-episode-26#t-2596|BTP 26 @ 43:16]]. +[^round-seven]: [[transcripts/thanksgiving-victory-lap-bugle-weekly-episode-37#t-3282|Bugle Weekly 37 @ 54:42]]. Her boost is at t=3268. The ASR mangles her handle every time and never the same way twice — "miss hogelaw," "miss Haldeman," "miss Hottle not," "hot miss Hobble Nazi," "miss Humboldt" — all [[characters/mshodlnaut420]]. +[^huddlenut]: [[transcripts/kim-jong-uns-strategic-reserve-bugle-weekly-episode-48#t-2276|Bugle Weekly 48 @ 37:56]]. Greaser invokes [[characters/maggie-morris|Maggie]]'s dating advice; ASR spells her "miss Huddlenut" here and "miss Hogglenot" at t=2302. +[^salty-bitch]: [[transcripts/the-truth-has-consequences-bugle-weekly-episode-95#t-3755|Bugle Weekly 95 @ 1:02:35]]. Confidence is medium and the index flags that this feud may warrant its own page rather than sitting here. Rod's closer at t=3820: "if she if she's not ugly physically, she's ugly spiritually. That's why I just can't stand her." +[^tds]: [[transcripts/straight-out-of-distractions-bugle-weekly-episode-96#t-905|Bugle Weekly 96 @ 15:05]]. Continues at t=910: "and I have CORE derangement syndrome, or I have NOSI derangement syndrome" — "NOSI" is Nostr. +[^nothing-burger]: [[transcripts/podcasters-crashing-out-bugle-weekly-episode-105#t-2574|Bugle Weekly 105 @ 42:54]]. Escalation runs 42:48–42:54: "I'm a sucker for a nothing burger. I'm a glutton for a nothing burger." +[^bakersfield]: [[transcripts/is-trump-taking-ibogaine-bugle-weekly-episode-106#t-3678|Bugle Weekly 106 @ 1:01:18]]. +[^monetize]: [[transcripts/white-goy-summer-headwinds-bugle-weekly-episode-112#t-2776|Bugle Weekly 112 @ 46:16]]. Rod commits at 46:52: "we'll build upon that theme as the summer goes along." Called back in the sign-off at 52:45: "I hope you are monetizing the situation." +[^ai-university]: [[transcripts/sportsball-is-back-baby-bugle-weekly-episode-113#t-1169|Bugle Weekly 113 @ 19:29]]. Setup at 19:17: "there there's tons of new trinket ideas that you could come up with to sell plebs."