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diff --git a/wiki/storylines/shinobi-bits.md b/wiki/storylines/shinobi-bits.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..e337748f @@ -0,0 +1,452 @@ +--- +title: Shinobi Bits +type: storyline +status: confirmed +kind: character-arc +span: 2024-02 to 2026-06 +aliases: [Shinobi Bits, Kenobi, Shinra, Shenode, Shenobi, Shelby, Shinomi, Shinno, Shido he] +related: + - yellow-memefactory + - david-bailey-bitcoin-magazine + - behind-the-podcast + - church-of-compliance + - bitcoiners-in-love +sources: + - raw/episodes/comply-side-economics-101-bugle-weekly-episode-3/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/the-influencer-super-cycle-bugle-weekly-episode-5/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/the-compliant-people-are-getting-involved-bugle-weekly-episode-6/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/the-revolution-will-not-be-centralized-bugle-weekly-episode-9/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/vaccinating-bitcoin-derangement-syndrome-bugle-weekly-episode-10/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/opsec-in-spookville-bugle-weekly-episode-17/bundle.json + - 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[[characters/shinobi|Shinobi]] — Bitcoin +Magazine's technical editor — appears in the record almost entirely in the third person: a +masked, whiskey-fuelled, anime-deficient grump who is discussed, matchmade, ranked, deployed +as a rhetorical weapon, and blamed for the mood of the timeline, usually while absent. Across +fifty-nine episodes the bit resolves into four threads that keep braiding into each other: +Shinobi as the scaling antagonist, Shinobi as the Bugle's unmarriageable ward, Shinobi as hot, +and Shinobi as the man who calls everyone retarded — which the show eventually elevates from +a personality defect into a theory of consensus. + +**Who's in it:** [[characters/shinobi|Shinobi]] · [[characters/richard-greaser|Richard Greaser]] · +[[characters/rod-palmer|Rod Palmer]] · [[characters/terrence-yang|Terrence Yang]] · +[[characters/rob-hamilton|Rob Hamilton]] · [[characters/frank-corva|Frank Corva]] · +[[characters/bitcoin-mechanic|Bitcoin Mechanic]] · [[characters/luke-dashjr|Luke Dashjr]] · +[[characters/lyn-alden|Lyn Alden]] + +## The scaling antagonist (2024) + +Shinobi enters the record as a position to be argued against. In the third *Bugle Weekly*, +[[characters/richard-greaser|Greaser]] answers his block-space scarcity case with +state-subsidised custodial Lightning and concludes that "this is this is why Shinobi is so +incorrect on scaling"[^scaling] — the show's earliest statement of what later becomes the +[[storylines/church-of-compliance|Church of Compliance]] position. The frame sticks. By 2025 +[[characters/rod-palmer|Rod]] is naming him the loudest scaling voice in Bitcoin and arguing +the whole industry is solving for demand that does not exist: "I just think we should get +1,000,000 people to actually use Bitcoin every day before we worry about scaling it to +8,000,000,000."[^stu] Greaser's parallel diagnosis is that there is no technical objection +underneath any of it — when Umbrel ships one-click Lightning bots, "he's just a bear. You know? +He's just a bear on the plugs."[^bear] + +Two 2024 beats establish Shinobi as Rod's off-screen oracle, quoted privately and never present +to confirm it. He "told me privately that we could hard fork around this wall easily, and it +would work, but people would probably not wanna do it,"[^hardfork] and he holds that +imprisonment is a Bitcoiner's obligation — a doctrine Greaser rebuts on pure capacity grounds, +there being not enough spots in prison for everyone.[^prison] + +The show is not consistently hostile. When [[characters/michael-saylor|Saylor]] implicitly casts +Shinobi as [[characters/anthony-fauci|Dr. Fauci]], Greaser misses the insult entirely and says +he would be flattered, "because he is a very credentialed individual."[^fauci] Later, asked +whether the Core devs have explained themselves, Greaser's rebuttal-by-inventory includes +Shinobi's own show: "[[characters/ava-chow|Ava Chow]] does live streams, talking about it. +[[characters/gloria-zhao|Gloria]] did a podcast with Shinobi."[^explained] + +## The matchmaking project + +The Bugle's longest institutional commitment. It begins as a shipping bit in episode 5, where +Rod pairs Shinobi with the developer d++ as "the perfect couple" — a spaces communicator plus +somebody who can actually code, which "might really elevate the possibility of +covenants."[^dpp-start] A 420-sat boost restarts it a week later, with listeners encouraged to +matchmake the pair in Spaces and [[characters/jimmy-song|Jimmy Song]] reportedly teaching +Shinobi to code: "You could be the one that taught Shinobi how to code."[^dpp-boost] By episode +9 the hosts allege [[orgs/podconf|PODCONF]] is obstructing the date, on the grounds that an +angry Shinobi is the better product — "I think they need him to be angry. I think they need him +to fight with Terrence and to fight with with shitcoiners and spaces."[^cockblock] Rod later +wants a Polymarket line on whether they hook up at Nashville.[^polymarket] + +By episode 33 [[characters/rod-palmer|Rod]] and Greaser have promoted it to policy: "us at the +Beagle, we've been trying to hook up Shinobi with a lovely lady in the space for a +while"[^policy] — the d++ attempt having "fortunately" failed, the Bugle nominates the +Libertarian Party chair instead.[^mcardle] The project outlives every candidate. In 2025 Greaser +states it outright — "here at the Bugle, for a very long time, we've been trying to help Shinobi +find a girlfriend" — and floats [[characters/l0la-l33tz|L0la L33tz]] before rejecting her on +anime grounds.[^lola] Rod reports the actual evidence circulating for the Lola theory, a +negative keyword search: Shinobi has never called her retarded.[^lola-search] Greaser's +reductio is immediate and fatal — Shinobi has never called [[characters/lyn-alden|Lyn Alden]] +retarded either. Rod's own attempt to falsify the no-insulting-women rule involved DMing Shinobi +[[characters/natalie-brunell|Natalie Brunell]] tweets as bait and watching the typing bubbles +resolve into "that's an interesting perspective."[^brunell] + +The d++ thread never fully dies — reported as timeline news in 2025 and pitched as +programming[^dpp-romance], and blamed for Shinobi's temperament: "I bet if Shinobi had an Asian +Waifu instead of dating d plus plus,"[^waifu] he would stop screaming at people. The project +ends in failure on the record. Episode 97 opens with Rod reporting that the Bugle made it their +goal to get Shinobi a girlfriend for Valentine's Day, and could not.[^valentines] See +[[storylines/bitcoiners-in-love]]. + +> irl: d++ is named in the record only by that handle and has no page here. The ASR renders +> the intro variously as "Indeed, plus plus" and "d plus plus." + +## Shinobi is hot + +The [[memes/lyn-alden-is-hot|Lyn-Alden-is-hot]] meme acquires a male counterpart in late 2024, +when the hosts report that female listeners harassed them into it and ask Alden for a +ruling.[^hot-origin] It escalates into an entire episode of *Behind the Podcast* — the one it is +named for — in which Greaser reports the Bugle's DMs flooded with women who think Shinobi is +hot, and Shinobi, present, answers them directly: "Well, I don't know what to say, +ladies."[^hot-dms] [[characters/jyn-urso|Jyn Urso]] discloses that she spent years believing the +mask concealed Mr. Meeseeks and read his Nashville costume as a coming-out.[^meeseeks] +[[characters/rob-hamilton|Rob Hamilton]] ratifies the meme as a suppressed universal truth — +"Shinobi's hot. I'm tired of pretending" — adding that cipherpunks, podcasters and influencers +all know it.[^hot-hamilton] [[characters/fundamentals|Fundamentals]], asked what he would say if +his daughter came home calling Shinobi hot, answers that there is more to life than being hot, +having already placed Shinobi below the bottom of the tier list: "no tier."[^no-tier] + +The office is not permanent. In 2025 Rod declares a succession — Shinobi lost the White House +after refusing to apologise to [[characters/donald-trump|Trump]] for calling him retarded, so +the title passes to [[characters/frank-corva|Frank Corva]]: "We're in the era of Frank Korva is +hot. It's not Shinobi anymore."[^succession] + +## Behind the Podcast: the covenant + +The December 2024 sit-down is the only extended first-person Shinobi in the record. Rod sources +a rumour to [[characters/david-bailey|David Bailey]] that Bitcoin Magazine gave Shinobi an +ultimatum — cover the White House or go on *The Bachelor* — which pushes him toward independent +media.[^bachelor] Greaser reads his stated meditation practice back to him — "So you you +meditate every morning on quote how retarded Bitcoiners are"[^meditate] — opening the longest +monologue on the character. Rod invents the Bitcoiner DNR, a card forbidding a #FreeShinobi +campaign, because the imprisonment is the point; Shinobi endorses it and raises the +stakes.[^dnr] + +The episode's reveal closes its own loop. Shinobi's bearish Twitter Spaces earlier that day was +not analysis: "that that was my offering of a covenant" to [[characters/satoshi|Satoshi]], who +accepted it, which is why Bitcoin hit $100k.[^covenant] The terms remain undisclosed. The +following week Rod dates the show against the milestone — the previous episode was recorded the +day Bitcoin first crossed 100k, with a drunk Shinobi: "Shenode was drinking beer and got +hammered. It was fun."[^hammered] + +Episode 5 is built entirely out of a Shinobi callback: he insisted miniscript was +invented, so the Bugle books the man who says he discovered it.[^miniscript] Hamilton concedes +the point in the Columbus sense — "Mini Script in the way that Christopher Columbus discovered +America."[^columbus] He later uses the show's anniversary reel for a drive-by: "while there are +many fake journalists out there like Shinobi."[^anniversary] An AI clone of Hamilton fronts a +2025 [[sponsors/anchor-watch|Anchor Watch]] cold open in which Shinobi is the second voice, +threatening to sponsor every podcast so listeners hear "my voice calling you a retard 40 times +per week."[^ai-rob] + +## The word + +The single most cited fact about Shinobi is that he calls people retarded, and the Bugle spends +two years upgrading the observation into doctrine. The early form is scheduling: "if Shinobi +wasn't bearish, would it even be a sundae?"[^sunday] The Vegas livestream gives it its plainest +statement — "Shinobi calls everybody retarded who doesn't get this"[^vegas] — the thread that +pays off two hours later in the "highly regarded" catchphrase. Greaser opens episode 58 by asking +listeners whether they are "being the individual that disappoints Shinobi"[^disappoints], and +his cold opens compress the show's whole beat sheet into a single line — "another week of +Shinobi calling people retarded" — before declaring the culture stale.[^stale] Rod uses the +insult as the ambient hazard of Bitcoin Twitter: nobody on their deathbed wishes for one more +Shinobi Spaces beating[^deathbed], and being called retarded by Shinobi is part of the suffering +that forges a Think Boy.[^thinkboi] + +Then it becomes a theory. Episode 51 makes the Shinobi-vs-[[characters/dennis-porter|Dennis +Porter]] matchup a thesis on consensus: "it was a major tactical mistake by Shinobi over the +last couple of years to call everybody in Bitcoin retarded"[^tactical] — because you will +eventually need those people for your soft fork. Greaser then proposes it as a weapon, and Rod +supplies the mechanism behind [[characters/deeter-bob|Deeter Bob]]'s standing accusation: +Shinobi is deployed to advocate for good privacy proposals so that his insults kill them. "That's +why when Dieter Bob says that shinobis compromised, that's what he means."[^compromised] In the +[[orgs/knotzis|Knotzi]] war he is canonised as the Coremunists' chief propagandist, whose entire +war effort is whack-a-mole: "Shinobi, the chief propagandist of the communist, is calling every +Nazi he finds retarded."[^propagandist] The war is "hotter than ever" by episode 73, with Shinobi +named the weekend's chief combatant.[^knotzi-war] Rod's asymmetric-warfare reading is the +sharpest version: [[characters/bitcoin-mechanic|Mechanic]]'s long performative threads are F-35s +being shot down by a cheap drone — the word "retarded" — so the answer is "tighter memes" at +higher frequency.[^drone] + +Greaser's own immunity is a matter of status: "If Shinobi called me a retard, I I wouldn't care. +Shinobi doesn't fucking smoke cigarettes."[^vape] His orange-pilling manual for parents comes +hedged with the best callback in the run — you needn't say it out loud like Shinobi +does.[^boomers] And Rod's closing thesis, the line an entire hour was built to earn, turns the +complaint back on the complainant: "You've framed your own rhetorical prisons that you feel +helpless."[^prisons] Richard's version is that arguing with sea lions merely converts the +zero-knowledge plebs watching.[^sealions] The counter-canon is that the rule has exceptions — +Shinobi does not call any women retarded, because he is trying to be the nice guy. + +## The translator + +The most sympathetic reading the Bugle ever offers. Greaser defines Shinobi's actual function at +Bitcoin Magazine as "an autism translator"[^translator], which produces the show's key coinage: +"he's translating Dev Slop into Plebslop"[^devslop] — the counterpart to [[memes/pleb-slop|pleb +slop]]. Rod supplies the reason the translators get browbeaten: "if they're mad at +[[characters/gloria-zhao|Gloria]] they're yelling at Shinobi because Gloria is not out there +communicating with people," and Mechanic absorbs the heat meant for +[[characters/luke-dashjr|Luke]].[^heat] The burnout is measured earlier, in episode 60: Shinobi +is "crashing out on the timeline" because he is personal influencer to every Core maintainer at +once while Luke has a whole bench[^burnout], and the deficit is anime — "He hasn't gotten enough +time to watch anime"[^anime], with whiskey covering the gap. Rod's remedy for Core's legitimacy +crisis is that credentials aren't enough; the devs have to "break bread with +[[characters/justin-bechler|Justin Bechler]]" and the influencers[^breadbread] — an argument that +runs alongside Richard's proposal to elect Core devs by Twitter tournament in the style of +[[events/maxi-madness|Maxi Madness]], up to and including +[[characters/teddy-bitcoins|Teddy Bitcoins]]. + +## The maintainer steps down + +The credentials question sharpens into an accusation. [[characters/paul-sports|Paul Sports]] +opens a running dismissal — trolling is the ceiling of the skill set — asking where the code +is: "what can you do if you have the Shinobi skill set?"[^sports] Rod separates the two +grievances: people wanted him off the maintainer roster for backing Core, but the real case is +"he wasn't contributing, he wasn't coding, he was online calling people retards."[^roster] Rod +had already established that credentials are optional — some people think you have to know how +to code to appoint yourself a Core dev, and "Shinobi is a good example" that you don't.[^appoint] +Muck then names Shinobi "the number one enemy of Bitcoin," +sourcing the ranking entirely to Twitter and admitting the grievance is personal — "He called me +retarded, and I just I don't know what to do about it"[^enemy] — and takes credit for the +resignation, achieved by pure brute-force attrition: "saying we're not retarded. You're retarded. +And and that seemed to do the trick."[^stepdown] The 2026 leaderboard puts him at the bottom: +one laptop, a flip phone, "not a very serious situation monitor."[^leaderboard] + +## Physical lore + +The mask, the Naruto run, and the OPSEC that isn't. Shinobi "doesn't even own a car. He just +Naruto runs around the city," a habit the hosts source to the Chicago BitDevs and then escalate +into public infrastructure — his slipstream cools Lake Michigan beachgoers.[^naruto] The +definitive description compares standing near him during an open-source panel to standing +trackside at an F1 race.[^f1] The disguise fails on arrival: "Shinobi thinks he just puts on +mask and that the plebs don't recognize him," but mask plus ponytail plus camo plus a cracking +voice means "he sticks out like a sore thumb."[^opsec] Plebs claim to have seen the Ghost of +Tehran running through Iran.[^tehran] + +He is a documented buzzkill — "his, spaces etiquette is absolutely horrendous," and Greaser +would admit him to a party solely to eject him[^buzzkill] — though Rod's dream card remains +Shinobi and [[characters/terrence-yang|Terrence Yang]] in a space together again.[^dreamcard] +Yang himself, last seen being busted trading ordinals in the men's room at Nashville, "does very +much miss, fight with Shinobi in spaces."[^yang-misses] Shinobi's own cameo in Plebs On Parade — +as "Shinobi from Chicago" — is one unbroken curse at [[characters/elon-musk|Elon Musk]], +delivered as a man-on-the-street soundbite by [[characters/timmy-tether|Timmy Tether]].[^musk] + +The conference lore runs the other way. At Bitcoin Asia he is the breakout star, women queueing +for selfies with him in the Meeseeks costume "like they're seeing the Beatles"[^asia]; the +kissing booth becomes legend, with security dragging women away and Greaser afraid he'd catch +herpes.[^booth] Rod's 2026 prophecy is the inversion: ticket sales down, and the remaining +buyers there to confront him.[^prophecy] + +Assorted: he is a fixture of the annual naughty list[^naughty]; his politics are alleged to have +gone communist to impress a girl, which Richard files as an HR problem — "having having a +communist technical editor might not be the best look for Bitcoin Magazine"[^hr] — and which the +show blames for his crusade to add block space supply into falling demand[^communist]; Frank +routes journalistic-ethics complaints to him because he is "Great with, using HR appropriate +language"[^ethics]; Rod worries about him wearing off inside the Oval Office[^oval]; his +post-inauguration tweet calling Trump a retard is offered as the reason Trump seized dictatorial +power[^trump]; Greaser reaches for the correspondent bit as the punchline to a straight NSPM7 +news beat — "Do you think this means that Shinobi's White House press credentials are going to +get revoked?" — and Rod declines to take it[^credentials]; Core maintainers "like Shinobi are +creating these Bitcoin development decisions" +on their private islands, per the Epstein files[^epstein]; ChatGPT renders the judgment of God +upon the sinners of the world as something that "looks exactly like shinobi"[^chatgpt]; he is +named alongside [[characters/matthew-kratter|Kratter]] as the promotional engine behind Start9's +node sales[^start9]; [[characters/sasha-hodder|Sasha Hodder]] rules he would beat the Trailer +Park Boys bottle kids[^bottlekids]; Greaser has never liked Radiohead and knows exactly whose +feed the heresy will detonate in[^radiohead]; he defected to joy at the DNC and swapped Austrian +economics for "George Floyd economics"[^dnc]; he would be first to shake the big blockers' hand +if Bitcoin Cash came home[^bigblockers]; and the Bitcoin University camp keeps agreeing to +debates and dropping out, "especially once against Shinobi."[^debate] A prop bet to make +[[characters/jordan-peterson|Jordan Peterson]] cry on stage is resolved by panel design: put him +opposite Shinobi on dating, with [[characters/robert-breedlove|Robert Breedlove]] for a knight's +round table.[^peterson] + +## Cooking with Shinobi + +The [[sponsors/cooking-with-shinobi|Cooking with Shinobi]] ad read is the bit's purest artifact: +a produced trailer whose entire thesis is that Bitcoin fails "if it doesn't solve the problems I +need for it to solve so I can orange pill liberal chicks."[^cooking31] The hosts then spend two +minutes soberly debating it as a development question. The same spot fronts episode 112 eighteen +months later, unchanged.[^cooking112] A booster's request for more of it draws Greaser's +spin-off pitch: "I wanna see Shinobi on the like a Shinobi Bachelor."[^bachelor2] + +## Disputed + +**Does Shinobi own a car?** The Bugle News report of 2024-03-26 has him driving "a high octane +modern internet connected vehicle" and donning a mask against its cameras — the basis of his +alliance with the pro-mask street racing gang.[^car-news] The episode record of 2025-06-02 +states the opposite as settled fact, sourced to the Chicago BitDevs: "he doesn't even own a car. +He just Naruto runs around the city."[^car-ep] No source reconciles the two. Both are recorded. + +**The street racing gang.** This page previously stated that Shinobi *founded* a solo masked +street-racing gang. The article says he made "an unlikely alliance with a mask wearing +anarchocommunist street racing gang" that already existed and already had mask-wearing as a core +tenet — for health reasons rather than Shinobi's privacy ones.[^car-news] The founding claim is +withdrawn. + +> Henry's note: the seeded version of this page was assembled from episode descriptions and +> headlines and listed three Bugle News items as its whole record. Those three items are real +> and are kept below. The ninety-two episode beats behind the rest of this page were not in it. + +## Bugle News + +- [[news/rubins-reubens-an-embezzlement-scheme-of-massive-proportions|Rubin's Reubens: An Embezzlement Scheme of Massive Proportions]] — 2024-02-22. Shinobi accidentally posts a DM as a tweet, exposing the [[characters/jeremy-rubin|Rubin]]'s Reubens open-source grant embezzlement and sandwich-shop scheme. +- [[news/shenobi-starts-street-racing-gang-that-wears-masks-inside-cars-alone|Shinobi Becomes Unlikely Hero of the Pro-Mask Left Underground Street Racing Gangs]] — 2024-03-26. +- [[news/fiat-money-is-hard-money-it-is-a-harder-kind-of-fiat-currency|Fiat Money Is Hard Money, It Is A Harder Kind Of Fiat Currency]] — 2025-01-02. [[characters/yellow|Yellow]]'s op-ed rebutting Shinobi's "Bitcoin is Fiat" piece. + +**Related:** [[storylines/yellow-memefactory]] · [[storylines/david-bailey-bitcoin-magazine]] · [[storylines/behind-the-podcast]] · [[storylines/church-of-compliance]] · [[storylines/bitcoiners-in-love]] + +[^scaling]: [[transcripts/comply-side-economics-101-bugle-weekly-episode-3#t-1363|Bugle Weekly 3 @ 22:43]]. +[^stu]: [[transcripts/life-after-expulsion-from-bitcoin-university-with-stu-btp-episode-26#t-3894|BTP 26 @ 1:04:54]]. +[^bear]: [[transcripts/jestermaxxing-through-the-1st-turning-bugle-weekly-episode-97#t-272|Bugle Weekly 97 @ 4:32]]. "plugs" is ASR for plebs. +[^hardfork]: [[transcripts/dont-stop-your-enemy-from-pumping-your-bags-bugle-weekly-episode-36#t-414|Bugle Weekly 36 @ 6:54]]. +[^prison]: [[transcripts/dont-stop-your-enemy-from-pumping-your-bags-bugle-weekly-episode-36#t-1399|Bugle Weekly 36 @ 23:19]]. +[^fauci]: [[transcripts/vaccinating-bitcoin-derangement-syndrome-bugle-weekly-episode-10#t-3029|Bugle Weekly 10 @ 50:29]]. ASR renders Saylor as "Michael Sailor". +[^explained]: [[transcripts/life-isnt-easy-bugle-weekly-episode-76#t-1895|Bugle Weekly 76 @ 31:35]]. "Gloria" resolved to Gloria Zhao from context. +[^dpp-start]: [[transcripts/the-influencer-super-cycle-bugle-weekly-episode-5#t-1046|Bugle Weekly 5 @ 17:26]]. "d plus plus" is ASR for the handle d++. +[^dpp-boost]: [[transcripts/the-compliant-people-are-getting-involved-bugle-weekly-episode-6#t-3774|Bugle Weekly 6 @ 1:02:54]]. Medium confidence; the boost renders Shinobi as "Kenobi". +[^cockblock]: [[transcripts/the-revolution-will-not-be-centralized-bugle-weekly-episode-9#t-616|Bugle Weekly 9 @ 10:16]]. +[^polymarket]: [[transcripts/the-calm-before-the-storm-bugle-weekly-episode-18#t-3153|Bugle Weekly 18 @ 52:33]]. Medium confidence; quote spans three adjacent cues, and ASR renders Shinobi as "Shinra" in the reply. +[^policy]: [[transcripts/selection-special-part-2-bugle-weekly-episode-33#t-504|Bugle Weekly 33 @ 8:24]]. ASR: "the Beagle" for the Bugle. +[^mcardle]: [[transcripts/selection-special-part-2-bugle-weekly-episode-33#t-523|Bugle Weekly 33 @ 8:43]]. Medium confidence. ASR: "Angela McCardell" for Angela McArdle, who has no page here. +[^lola]: [[transcripts/be-a-good-example-bugle-weekly-episode-78#t-1004|Bugle Weekly 78 @ 16:44]]. +[^lola-search]: [[transcripts/be-a-good-example-bugle-weekly-episode-78#t-1039|Bugle Weekly 78 @ 17:19]]. ASR renders Shinobi as "Shelby" twice in this cue. +[^brunell]: [[transcripts/be-a-good-example-bugle-weekly-episode-78#t-1108|Bugle Weekly 78 @ 18:28]]. ASR: "Natalie Brunel". +[^dpp-romance]: [[transcripts/queen-of-canadian-paper-bitcoin-with-cryptomags-btp-episode-20#t-4729|BTP 20 @ 1:18:49]]. +[^waifu]: [[transcripts/pioneers-run-economic-nodes-bugle-weekly-episode-74#t-1387|Bugle Weekly 74 @ 23:07]]. +[^valentines]: [[transcripts/jestermaxxing-through-the-1st-turning-bugle-weekly-episode-97#t-94|Bugle Weekly 97 @ 1:34]]. +[^hot-origin]: [[transcripts/thanksgiving-victory-lap-bugle-weekly-episode-37#t-3169|Bugle Weekly 37 @ 52:49]]. Medium confidence: diarization splits the sentence across two speakers, so which host said it is uncertain. +[^hot-dms]: [[transcripts/shinobi-is-hot-behind-the-podcast-episode-2#t-775|Behind the Podcast 2 @ 12:55]]. ASR merges Greaser's cue and Shinobi's reply. +[^meeseeks]: [[transcripts/cigarettes-prevent-climate-change-behind-the-podcast-episode-4#t-307|Behind the Podcast 4 @ 5:07]]. ASR renders Mr. Meeseeks as "mee Sikhs", "knee seeks" and "me six". +[^hot-hamilton]: [[transcripts/discovering-miniscript-with-rob-hamilton-behind-the-podcast-episode-5#t-2423|Behind the Podcast 5 @ 40:23]]. +[^no-tier]: [[transcripts/satoshi-is-jewish-behind-the-podcast-episode-3#t-4123|Behind the Podcast 3 @ 1:08:43]]. +[^succession]: [[transcripts/the-orange-pill-is-not-ozempic-bugle-weekly-episode-69#t-1289|Bugle Weekly 69 @ 21:29]]. ASR: "Frank Korva". +[^bachelor]: [[transcripts/shinobi-is-hot-behind-the-podcast-episode-2#t-588|Behind the Podcast 2 @ 9:48]]. ASR mangles David Bailey to "David Thailie" and "muse" to "niece". +[^meditate]: [[transcripts/shinobi-is-hot-behind-the-podcast-episode-2#t-1948|Behind the Podcast 2 @ 32:28]]. +[^dnr]: [[transcripts/shinobi-is-hot-behind-the-podcast-episode-2#t-1651|Behind the Podcast 2 @ 27:31]]. +[^covenant]: [[transcripts/shinobi-is-hot-behind-the-podcast-episode-2#t-2760|Behind the Podcast 2 @ 46:00]]. ASR renders Satoshi as "Santoshi" in the following cue. +[^hammered]: [[transcripts/satoshi-is-jewish-behind-the-podcast-episode-3#t-4895|Behind the Podcast 3 @ 1:21:35]]. ASR: "Shenode". +[^miniscript]: [[transcripts/discovering-miniscript-with-rob-hamilton-behind-the-podcast-episode-5#t-35|Behind the Podcast 5 @ 0:35]]. +[^columbus]: [[transcripts/discovering-miniscript-with-rob-hamilton-behind-the-podcast-episode-5#t-1315|Behind the Podcast 5 @ 21:55]]. +[^anniversary]: [[transcripts/1-year-anniversary-bugle-weekly-episode-52#t-242|Bugle Weekly 52 @ 4:02]]. +[^ai-rob]: [[transcripts/shake-your-adversarys-hand-with-portland-hodl-btp-episode-22#t-7|BTP 22 @ 0:07]]. +[^sunday]: [[transcripts/is-this-the-god-candle-bugle-weekly-episode-49#t-431|Bugle Weekly 49 @ 7:11]]. ASR renders "Sunday" as "sundae". +[^vegas]: [[transcripts/spamming-vegas-livestream-with-fundamentals-and-erin-redwing#t-432|Spamming Vegas Livestream @ 7:12]]. +[^credentials]: [[transcripts/be-a-good-example-bugle-weekly-episode-78#t-2846|Bugle Weekly 78 @ 47:26]]. +[^disappoints]: [[transcripts/node-rape-run-rampant-bugle-weekly-episode-58#t-393|Bugle Weekly 58 @ 6:33]]. +[^stale]: [[transcripts/pioneers-attend-university-of-bitcoin-bugle-weekly-episode-75#t-191|Bugle Weekly 75 @ 3:11]]. ASR: "grumpy plaives" for grumpy plebs. +[^deathbed]: [[transcripts/pioneers-run-economic-nodes-bugle-weekly-episode-74#t-4366|Bugle Weekly 74 @ 1:12:46]]. ASR: "Shenobi". +[^thinkboi]: [[transcripts/musings-of-a-thinkboi-with-rob-warren-btp-episode-29#t-710|BTP 29 @ 11:50]]. +[^tactical]: [[transcripts/let-the-festivities-begin-bugle-weekly-episode-51#t-1373|Bugle Weekly 51 @ 22:53]]. +[^compromised]: [[transcripts/let-the-festivities-begin-bugle-weekly-episode-51#t-1536|Bugle Weekly 51 @ 25:36]]. ASR: "Dieter Bob". +[^propagandist]: [[transcripts/the-coremunists-vs-the-knotzis-bugle-weekly-episode-59#t-300|Bugle Weekly 59 @ 5:00]]. "the communist" is the Coremunists. +[^knotzi-war]: [[transcripts/humor-knotzi-police-state-bugle-weekly-episode-73#t-1523|Bugle Weekly 73 @ 25:23]]. ASR renders the Core faction as "corniness". +[^drone]: [[transcripts/a-vibes-revival-with-walker-america-btp-episode-25#t-1652|BTP 25 @ 27:32]]. ASR: "shinomi" for Shinobi earlier in the segment. +[^vape]: [[transcripts/orange-pilled-pioneers-bugle-weekly-episode-63#t-2877|Bugle Weekly 63 @ 47:57]]. +[^boomers]: [[transcripts/good-fathers-listen-to-40hpw-bugle-weekly-episode-64#t-1256|Bugle Weekly 64 @ 20:56]]. +[^prisons]: [[transcripts/pioneers-frame-the-conversation-bugle-weekly-episode-79#t-2119|Bugle Weekly 79 @ 35:19]]. +[^sealions]: [[transcripts/puppets-on-strings-shout-no-kings-bugle-weekly-episode-81#t-4979|Bugle Weekly 81 @ 1:22:59]]. Medium confidence; the boost's subject "Mister Hoddle" is unresolved, but Shinobi is named outright. +[^translator]: [[transcripts/rising-above-slop-bugle-weekly-episode-84#t-2079|Bugle Weekly 84 @ 34:39]]. +[^devslop]: [[transcripts/rising-above-slop-bugle-weekly-episode-84#t-2090|Bugle Weekly 84 @ 34:50]]. +[^heat]: [[transcripts/rising-above-slop-bugle-weekly-episode-84#t-2300|Bugle Weekly 84 @ 38:20]]. +[^burnout]: [[transcripts/moodys-says-nothing-stops-this-train-bugle-weekly-episode-60#t-2003|Bugle Weekly 60 @ 33:23]]. +[^anime]: [[transcripts/moodys-says-nothing-stops-this-train-bugle-weekly-episode-60#t-2481|Bugle Weekly 60 @ 41:21]]. +[^breadbread]: [[transcripts/orange-pilled-pioneers-bugle-weekly-episode-63#t-1929|Bugle Weekly 63 @ 32:09]]. +[^sports]: [[transcripts/predicting-bitcoins-future-with-paul-sports-btp-episode-27#t-2224|BTP 27 @ 37:04]]. +[^roster]: [[transcripts/predicting-bitcoins-future-with-paul-sports-btp-episode-27#t-2281|BTP 27 @ 38:01]]. +[^appoint]: [[transcripts/orange-pilled-pioneers-bugle-weekly-episode-63#t-1929|Bugle Weekly 63 @ 32:09]]. Rod's proof follows in the same chapter. +[^enemy]: [[transcripts/enemies-of-bitcoin-with-muck-anic-bugle-weekly-episode-88#t-1700|Bugle Weekly 88 @ 28:20]]. +[^stepdown]: [[transcripts/enemies-of-bitcoin-with-muck-anic-bugle-weekly-episode-88#t-1816|Bugle Weekly 88 @ 30:16]]. +[^leaderboard]: [[transcripts/2026-starts-with-a-bang-bugle-weekly-episode-92#t-934|Bugle Weekly 92 @ 15:34]]. +[^naruto]: [[transcripts/podconf-superbowl-aftermath-bugle-weekly-episode-62#t-2403|Bugle Weekly 62 @ 40:03]]. ASR renders it "neruda run" later in the segment. +[^f1]: [[transcripts/sound-vibes-in-the-fiat-burlesque-bugle-weekly-episode-107#t-1164|Bugle Weekly 107 @ 19:24]]. +[^opsec]: [[transcripts/in-the-midst-of-madness-bugle-weekly-episode-102#t-1078|Bugle Weekly 102 @ 17:58]]. +[^tehran]: [[transcripts/in-the-midst-of-madness-bugle-weekly-episode-102#t-748|Bugle Weekly 102 @ 12:28]]. ASR: "Teran" / "the coast of Tehran". +[^buzzkill]: [[transcripts/the-plebs-killed-jesus-bugle-weekly-episode-104#t-1760|Bugle Weekly 104 @ 29:20]]. +[^dreamcard]: [[transcripts/the-plebs-killed-jesus-bugle-weekly-episode-104#t-1799|Bugle Weekly 104 @ 29:59]]. ASR: "Shenobi". +[^yang-misses]: [[transcripts/spamming-vegas-livestream-with-fundamentals-and-erin-redwing#t-7031|Spamming Vegas Livestream @ 1:57:11]]. The Nashville bust is canon per [[transcripts/the-revolution-wont-have-good-ux-bugle-weekly-episode-50#t-1618|Bugle Weekly 50 @ 26:58]]. +[^musk]: [[transcripts/super-sportball-bitcoin-pizza-day-for-normies-bugle-weekly-episode-46#t-51|Bugle Weekly 46 @ 0:51]]. Diarization folds Shinobi's line into Timmy Tether's cue. +[^asia]: [[transcripts/pioneers-run-economic-nodes-bugle-weekly-episode-74#t-1213|Bugle Weekly 74 @ 20:13]]. +[^booth]: [[transcripts/sound-vibes-in-the-fiat-burlesque-bugle-weekly-episode-107#t-4388|Bugle Weekly 107 @ 1:13:08]]. +[^prophecy]: [[transcripts/in-the-midst-of-madness-bugle-weekly-episode-102#t-1034|Bugle Weekly 102 @ 17:14]]. Medium confidence; the conference is placed in Vegas but not named. He is also reported crashing out with "a new reason to crash out every, like, five minutes" at [[transcripts/in-the-midst-of-madness-bugle-weekly-episode-102#t-985|16:25]]. +[^naughty]: [[transcripts/bitcoin-is-tax-affording-technology-bugle-weekly-episode-40#t-2628|Bugle Weekly 40 @ 43:48]]. Rod names Shinobi in the same roll call, after [[characters/udi-wertheimer|Udi]] and the ordinals. +[^hr]: [[transcripts/fixing-the-cias-incentives-with-frank-corva-behind-the-podcast-episode-9#t-238|Behind the Podcast 9 @ 3:58]]. +[^communist]: [[transcripts/node-rape-run-rampant-bugle-weekly-episode-58#t-1802|Bugle Weekly 58 @ 30:02]]. +[^ethics]: [[transcripts/fixing-the-cias-incentives-with-frank-corva-behind-the-podcast-episode-9#t-768|Behind the Podcast 9 @ 12:48]]. +[^oval]: [[transcripts/fixing-the-cias-incentives-with-frank-corva-behind-the-podcast-episode-9#t-92|Behind the Podcast 9 @ 1:32]]. +[^trump]: [[transcripts/behave-or-benjamin-netanyahu-bugle-weekly-episode-99#t-1032|Bugle Weekly 99 @ 17:12]]. +[^epstein]: [[transcripts/musings-of-a-thinkboi-with-rob-warren-btp-episode-29#t-1899|BTP 29 @ 31:39]]. +[^chatgpt]: [[transcripts/the-slop-tsunami-bugle-weekly-episode-85#t-1003|Bugle Weekly 85 @ 16:43]]. +[^start9]: [[transcripts/pleb-is-the-new-n-word-bugle-weekly-episode-98#t-1104|Bugle Weekly 98 @ 18:24]]. ASR: "StarKnight" for Start9. +[^bottlekids]: [[transcripts/integrating-podcasts-into-your-life-with-meditation-man-intellectual-silk-road-episode-4#t-4916|Intellectual Silk Road 4 @ 1:21:56]]. ASR: "bottle kits" for bottle kids, "thousands of hats" for thousands of sats. +[^radiohead]: [[transcripts/podcasters-crashing-out-bugle-weekly-episode-105#t-2015|Bugle Weekly 105 @ 33:35]]. The Shinobi payoff lands in the next cue. +[^dnc]: [[transcripts/will-the-future-be-joyful-or-maga-bugle-weekly-episode-23#t-2394|Bugle Weekly 23 @ 39:54]]. +[^bigblockers]: [[transcripts/the-future-is-wrapped-bugle-weekly-episode-44#t-1706|Bugle Weekly 44 @ 28:26]]. Medium confidence; only [[characters/luke-dashjr|Luke]] is resolvable among the named irreconcilables. +[^debate]: [[transcripts/pioneers-attend-university-of-bitcoin-bugle-weekly-episode-75#t-1701|Bugle Weekly 75 @ 28:21]]. +[^peterson]: [[transcripts/opsec-in-spookville-bugle-weekly-episode-17#t-2447|Bugle Weekly 17 @ 40:47]]. +[^cooking31]: [[transcripts/is-saylor-a-spook-bugle-weekly-episode-31#t-59|Bugle Weekly 31 @ 0:59]]. +[^cooking112]: [[transcripts/white-goy-summer-headwinds-bugle-weekly-episode-112#t-55|Bugle Weekly 112 @ 0:55]]. +[^bachelor2]: [[transcripts/sportsball-is-back-baby-bugle-weekly-episode-113#t-2917|Bugle Weekly 113 @ 48:37]]. +[^car-news]: [[news/shenobi-starts-street-racing-gang-that-wears-masks-inside-cars-alone|Bugle News, 2024-03-26 — "Shinobi Becomes Unlikely Hero of the Pro-Mask Left Underground Street Racing Gangs"]]. +[^car-ep]: [[transcripts/podconf-superbowl-aftermath-bugle-weekly-episode-62#t-2403|Bugle Weekly 62 @ 40:03]].