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diff --git a/wiki/storylines/solana-memecoin-mania.md b/wiki/storylines/solana-memecoin-mania.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..616214dd @@ -0,0 +1,333 @@ +--- +title: Solana Memecoin Mania +type: storyline +status: confirmed +kind: arc +span: 2024-02 to 2026-06 +related: + - trump-crypto-saga + - pledditor + - maxi-madness + - ethereum-eth-heads + - feds-in-bitcoin + - paul-sztorc-bip300 + - 40-hours-per-week +sources: + - raw/news/solana-described-as-millennial-chain-due-to-it-taking-excessive-sick-days.json + - raw/news/wodndor-coin.json + - raw/news/w.json + - raw/news/iggy-azala-becomes-top-crypto-influencer-after-launching-token.json + - raw/news/will-future-presidential-elections-be-decided-by-meme-coins.json + - raw/news/ranking-the-best-trump-cope-2.json + - raw/episodes/history-is-being-written-by-us-bugle-weekly-episode-12/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/opsec-in-spookville-bugle-weekly-episode-17/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/outrunning-hypersonic-missiles-bugle-weekly-episode-26/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/the-first-responders-and-compliance-salesmen-bugle-weekly-episode-38/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/satoshi-is-jewish-behind-the-podcast-episode-3/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/trump-n-dump-bugle-weekly-episode-43/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/the-future-is-wrapped-bugle-weekly-episode-44/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/dennis-porter-faces-headwinds-bugle-weekly-episode-47/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/kim-jong-uns-strategic-reserve-bugle-weekly-episode-48/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/is-this-the-god-candle-bugle-weekly-episode-49/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/the-revolution-wont-have-good-ux-bugle-weekly-episode-50/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/apologizing-to-absolutely-no-one-bugle-weekly-episode-53/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/broccolispace-media-with-charlie-spears-btp-episode-19/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/emergency-broadcast-podcasting-under-attack/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/reflections-from-the-frontier-bugle-weekly-episode-83-part-1/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/reflections-from-the-frontier-bugle-weekly-episode-83-part-2/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/happy-thanksgiving-bugle-weekly-episode-86/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/2026-starts-with-a-bang-bugle-weekly-episode-92/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/podcasters-crashing-out-bugle-weekly-episode-105/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/happy-pleb-pride-month-bugle-weekly-episode-111/bundle.json +--- + +The Bugleverse's longest-running account of the chain it refuses to take +seriously and cannot stop talking about. Solana enters the record as a +punchline about uptime — the "millennial chain" that takes excessive sick +days[^millennial] — and leaves it, two years later, as a corpse: diluted, +flipped, and strictly replaced by prediction markets.[^polymarket] In between it +serves as the universe's all-purpose venue for whatever the hosts think is +wrong with money — assassination contracts, presidential bribery, Social +Security, and the professional purity of [[characters/pledditor]]. + +The arc's through-line is not that meme coins are bad. It is that meme coin +demand is a fact about people, and every institution that encounters it — +the CIA, the SEC, the Supreme Court, the Trump administration, the show's own +snitch — is reshaped by it rather than the reverse. + +**Who's in it:** [[characters/rod-palmer|Rod Palmer]] · +[[characters/richard-greaser|Richard Greaser]] · [[characters/pledditor|Pledditor]] · +[[characters/donald-trump|Donald Trump]] · [[characters/kailey-welch|Kailey Welch]] · +[[characters/dick-whitman|Dick Whitman]] · [[characters/david-bailey|David Bailey]] · +[[characters/fundamentals|Fundamentals]] · [[characters/charlie-spears|Charlie Spears]] + +**Related:** [[storylines/trump-crypto-saga]] · [[storylines/pledditor]] · +[[storylines/maxi-madness]] · [[storylines/ethereum-eth-heads]] · +[[storylines/feds-in-bitcoin]] · [[storylines/40-hours-per-week]] + +## Prehistory: the chain with a reputation (2024) + +Bugle News establishes Solana's character before the podcast record picks it +up. The chain is diagnosed as a millennial for its sick days;[^millennial] the +$Wodndor 🚪 token's holders threaten to fork it over a max-supply +disagreement;[^wodndor-fork] and its founders complain that March Maxi Madness +betting is pulling liquidity out of their token.[^wodndor-liquidity] By that +summer the token economy has produced its own celebrity class — Iggy Azalea +tops the crypto influencer rankings by entering the market[^iggy] — and the +paper is already asking how the next American civil war might be funded by +meme coins.[^civil-war] + +## Assassination markets (2024-06 to 2024-09) + +The podcast's first sustained engagement is not about trading. It is about +murder. [[characters/rod-palmer|Rod Palmer]] explains Mexico's lead in +political violence as an infrastructure story: "they're trading assassination +tokens on Solana and people who pull off these political +assassinations"[^assassin-tokens] get paid, while American assassination +markets are priced out by Bitcoin's fees — a state of affairs Rod attributes to +CIA sabotage of open-source developers. [[characters/richard-greaser|Richard +Greaser]] closes the loop by denying Solana the dignity of working at all: the +markets fail "because the markets are being built on Solana, which is a non +thermodynamic." + +Greaser reads the same phenomenon through the compliance frame. Jim Bell's +theory of assassination politics held that the markets would take care of the +non-compliant first — "the whole theory on them that Jim Bell came up with is +that it would take care of the noncompliant actors first."[^jim-bell] In +Mexico, Greaser observes, the non-compliant are the beneficiaries, and become +the cantillionaires. Rod extends the bit into trade policy with the "North +American Free Token Agreement,"[^nafta] a NAFTA 2.0 letting assassination-market +winners move meme coin proceeds untaxed across the continent, and predicts +Trump will flip-flop on free trade to get it. + +The premise returns a month later, with Greaser introducing the Mexican +markets as the engine of the episode and reading the political class's sudden +distaste for violence as simple fear of them.[^opsec-markets] By September the +bit has been fully institutionalised: Palmer explains the Solana ETF push as a +recruiting tool, so that the actors in the commercials — "the only company that +I'm aware of that has commercials with presidential assassins acting in +them"[^blackrock-etf] — can cash out their assassination tokens on listing. + +> irl: Jim Bell is the author of the essay *Assassination Politics*. He is named +> clearly in the record but has no page here. + +## The demand-side problem (2024-12) + +The arc's sharpest policy segment arrives with the Hawk Tuah coin. Pledditor is +named as the leading voice of outrage — "like Plenator, you know, is up in +arms. A lot of people are up in arms about the shitcoin"[^plenator-outrage] — +against which Greaser stakes the contrarian position that the supplier did +nothing wrong, since she never represented the coin as anything other than a +shitcoin. + +Greaser then locates the real culprit in demand: the problem is that there even +is market demand, so the answer is to prosecute the buyers, on the model of +progressive vice policing — "instead of arresting prostitutes, they go and +arrest the johns."[^arrest-johns] The justification is frankly stated: the +government loves prosecuting people who cannot afford a legal defence. The +seller walked away with millions and can hire as many lawyers as she wants; the +ruined buyers will be easy for the DOJ. + +The same week, [[characters/fundamentals|Fundamentals]] scolds the hosts for +missing the story — Welch's DNA result went unremarked until "Haaktuah being +Jewish become a thing after she ran the shitcoin."[^haaktuah-jewish] He also +supplies a causal theory: a woman orange-pilled while on birth control has her +hormones drawn to the wrong people and "they end up launching a +shitcoin."[^birth-control] + +Elsewhere the same episode registers the movement's own drift. Greaser's proof +that this time is different is a seating chart: "Marty Bent was on a panel with +Justin Sohn."[^marty-panel] [[characters/marty-bent|Marty Bent]], who has +believed that shitcoins are bad, is now sharing a stage with +[[characters/justin-sun|Justin Sun]], the biggest proponent of meme coins. + +## Trump (2025-01 to 2025-03) + +The $TRUMP launch over inauguration weekend gives the arc its centre of +gravity: "Trump's Shakecoin which we're gonna get into the crypto ball that he +launched, Trumpcoin,"[^trumpcoin] and with it Palmer's Trump N Dump thesis — +that a $50B premine will be converted into a Bitcoin smash buy, making Trump +the man who rug-pulls all of the degenerate meme coin scammers. Bugle News +marks the weekend by paying out its Trump Cope Contest prize in +SOL.[^trump-cope] Greaser floats a presidential pardon for the Hawk Tuah girl +over the $HAWK rug, and Palmer agrees Trump has to do it.[^pardon] + +A week later the premise escalates to the whole population: Trump abolishes +Social Security, "replacing that Ponzi scheme with another," issuing every +citizen their own Solana meme coin and redirecting Treasury benefit payments +into pumping them.[^social-security] The purity enforcers mobilise — +"Already, Plattator and Dick Whitman are plotting on how to correct humanity's +course. But in a world without Gary Gensler at the helm of the SEC, what power +do they really have?"[^cold-open-44] — which states their structural problem +exactly: the snitching only ever worked because there was a +[[characters/gary-gensler|Gensler]]-run SEC to snitch to. Rod nonetheless turns +it into a workload question, asking whether Pledditor can report all 340 +million citizen meme coins to the SEC as unlicensed securities before the +deadline.[^340-million] + +Two further readings surface in the same hour. Rod frames shitcoins as the +compromise ritual of the new order: where the old system made you attend the +"ditty parties" and "Evanston Island,"[^diddy-party] the new one makes you join +the launch group chats. And Greaser floats a drivechain endgame — if the +administration backed BIP 300 and issued the citizen coins on Bitcoin itself, +consensus would arrive by tomorrow and +[[characters/paul-sports|Paul Sztorc]] would finally be +vindicated.[^drivechain] + +The rest of the quarter fills in the machinery. The LIBRA rug enters the record +as tragedy — it caught "a lot of people, including Barstool's Dave Portnoy for +millions of dollars"[^libra] — and is folded into the show's running thesis that +it would never have happened had [[characters/dennis-porter|Dennis Porter]] been +platformed. A produced PSA prescribes forty hours per week of Bitcoin podcasts +as the clinical treatment for meme coin gambling addiction: "All it takes is +listening to forty hours of Bitcoin podcasts per week to stabilize their time +preference."[^psa] Rod names the constitutional settlement "Scambler's United" — +the ruling that "buying politicians meme coins and pumping their bags is free +speech."[^scamblers-united] And [[characters/david-bailey|David Bailey]] is +cast as the movement's non-judgmental on-ramp for declining to +"call Donald Trump a retarded shitgoiner,"[^bailey] which earns him Rod's +verdict that he is an accessory. + +## Pledditor's price (2025-03 to 2025-09) + +The arc's best material treats Solana less as a chain than as a test the +universe's professional snitch keeps failing. Greaser, working through a +corruption ladder on which everyone has a price, proposes launching a Solana +meme coin that pays out for snitching on unregistered securities purely to find +Pledditor's: "Do you think we could trap Pleditor and corrupt him as a result of +doing that?"[^trap-pledditor] + +Asked who could stop Solana, [[characters/charlie-spears|Charlie Spears]] +nominates Pledditor as CEO of Bitcoin, on the grounds that the job needs someone +who half-gets it: "I would hire Platator. You need someone who's kinda got it, +but still, like, has giant holes missing from their head."[^ceo-of-bitcoin] + +The trap finally springs itself. Pledditor catches the +[[characters/charlie-kirk|Charlie Kirk]] memecoin only by visiting pump.fun, +which gates entry behind a disclaimer: "So that means that in order for Platter +to v the site, he would have had to hit that yes on that disclaimer that he was +ready to pump."[^ready-to-pump] The purity-tester had to declare himself ready +to pump in order to police the pumping. Greaser names the structure a failed +purity test — a trap in the shape of a website. + +## Settlement and decline (2025-11 to 2026-06) + +Looking back, Greaser reduces Trump's Bitcoin posture to its output: "He +launched a meme coin on Solana, and then he sued people that criticized him for +it."[^trump-sued] He does not find it surprising. He also credits the +administration with the year's one productive act — it "essentially legalized +meme coin trading for the plows"[^legalized] — while attributing the motive to +tax revenue rather than freedom. By Thanksgiving the cousin-shitcoiner bit is +already dating itself: the cousin who "might be kind of like an XRP army tard or +some kind of meme coin flipper"[^cousin] is, for the first time in nine or ten +years, mouthing off about Zcash instead. + +The playbook is codified in January 2026 as a career path: podcast, persona, +"you launch a meme coin and then you rug pull, and then you can +retire."[^playbook] + +There is a last flare. "Trump is, doing a meme coin conference at Mar A +Lago,"[^mar-a-lago] which Rod reads as the QVC of elderly meme coin +enthusiasts and pronounces dead on the venue alone — it is in West Palm Beach, +not Miami. Greaser attributes the revival to the show's own bracket, asking +"Was that was that the outcome of Maxi Madness with the dog army"[^dog-army] +carrying Casey to the win — the [[storylines/maxi-madness|Maxi Madness]] +tournament treated, straight-faced, as a causal force in the market. + +The obituary comes in June. Rod's thesis is that prediction markets killed meme +coins: the assassination markets the show covered at the very start of this arc +have "totally been replaced by Polymarket,"[^polymarket] Kalshi, Predyx and +Glimpse. The rest of the sector goes with it — "alt alt coins, shit coins, +whatever you wanna call them. Ethereum is fucked. Hasn't made a new all time +high in, like, five years,"[^altcoin-obit] with Solana diluting itself into +irrelevance and already flipped by Hyperliquid. + +The arc therefore closes where it opened — on Solana's assassination markets — +having replaced them with a regulated venue for the same bet. + +## Disputed + +**Which Welch.** The record does not settle whether the meme coin launcher and +the Bugle Weekly's own producer are the same person, and the wiki's current +merge may be an error rather than canon. + +[[characters/kailey-welch]] carries "Hailey Welch" / "Haley Welch" among its +aliases, which draws the Hawk Tuah memecoin figure onto the producer's page. But +the two are discussed as separate people within single episodes. In *Trump N +Dump*, the pardon question — "do you what do you think the odds that he pardons +Hockto, for her meme coin shenanigans?"[^pardon] — plainly concerns the Hawk +Tuah girl, while the producer is discussed separately later in that same +episode; the beat index deliberately declines to attribute it to the producer's +page, and this article follows suit by naming her in plain text. The same split +recurs in *The Future is Wrapped*, where Greaser predicts that "Hailey +Welch"[^welch-podcast] will come out of hiding, repent for her shitcoinery and +pivot the Talk Tuah podcast into a Bitcoin-only show — while the producer is +discussed elsewhere in the episode. That prediction is recorded at low +confidence for exactly this reason and should not be read as settled. + +The ambiguity is live rather than clerical: when Greaser says "Kaylee Welch +didn't get in trouble"[^legalized] for meme coin trading, the passage genuinely +does not disclose which Welch he means. Both readings remain on the record here +until the corpus resolves them. + +**Corrections to the seeded record.** This page previously ran to 2025-01 and +held that Trump's inauguration rugpull completed the arc; the beats continue +through 2026-06-01 and end in an obituary, so the span has been extended. It +also asserted that Pledditor doxxed the $Wodndor founding team and that the +token was an antisemitic artifact. Neither claim appears in any beat or +headline in the record, and both have been removed rather than carried forward. +The seeded page further implied Maxi Madness drained meme coin liquidity; the +2024 headline supports that for $Wodndor specifically,[^wodndor-liquidity] but +the 2026 record credits the bracket with *reviving* meme coins.[^dog-army] The +two are two years apart and are recorded here as distinct events, not a +contradiction. + +> *Henry's note: the ASR mangles Pledditor across this arc in at least a dozen +> forms — Plenator, Plattator, Platator, Platter, Pleditor, Plutator, Pledder, +> Klederer, Planitar — and renders the Hawk Tuah persona as Haaktuah, Hockto, +> Octo, Hawkgirl and hawk two. These belong in the relevant character pages' +> `aliases:`, which are outside this page's scope; they are noted in the +> footnotes below where they occur. Jim Bell, Zcash, Hyperliquid, Glimpse and +> Sean Combs recur in this material and have no pages.* + +[^millennial]: [[news/solana-described-as-millennial-chain-due-to-it-taking-excessive-sick-days|Bugle News, 2024-02-06 — "Solana Described As Millennial Chain Due To It Taking Excessive Sick Days"]]. +[^wodndor-fork]: [[news/wodndor-coin|Bugle News, 2024-03-28 — "Users Threaten to Fork $Wodndor 🚪Over Disagreement About Max Supply"]]. +[^wodndor-liquidity]: [[news/w|Bugle News, 2024-03-29 — "$Wodndor 🚪 Founders Upset March Maxi Madness Betting Pulling Liquidity Out Of Their Token"]]. +[^iggy]: [[news/iggy-azala-becomes-top-crypto-influencer-after-launching-token|Bugle News, 2024-06-12 — "Iggy Azalea Becomes Top Crypto Influencer After Entering Crypto Influencer Market"]]. +[^civil-war]: [[news/will-future-presidential-elections-be-decided-by-meme-coins|Bugle News, 2024-06-18 — "How The Next American Civil War Could Be Funded By Meme Coins"]]. +[^assassin-tokens]: [[transcripts/history-is-being-written-by-us-bugle-weekly-episode-12#t-676|Bugle Weekly 12 @ 11:16]]. Greaser's "non thermodynamic" verdict follows at [[transcripts/history-is-being-written-by-us-bugle-weekly-episode-12#t-1126|11:26 mark, t=1126]]. +[^jim-bell]: [[transcripts/history-is-being-written-by-us-bugle-weekly-episode-12#t-1097|Bugle Weekly 12 @ 18:17]]. +[^nafta]: [[transcripts/history-is-being-written-by-us-bugle-weekly-episode-12#t-1064|Bugle Weekly 12 @ 17:44]]. +[^opsec-markets]: [[transcripts/opsec-in-spookville-bugle-weekly-episode-17#t-767|Bugle Weekly 17 @ 12:47]]. The phrase "markets on Solana" completes in the following cue. +[^blackrock-etf]: [[transcripts/outrunning-hypersonic-missiles-bugle-weekly-episode-26#t-1961|Bugle Weekly 26 @ 32:41]]. +[^marty-panel]: [[transcripts/the-first-responders-and-compliance-salesmen-bugle-weekly-episode-38#t-1773|Bugle Weekly 38 @ 29:33]]. "Justin Sohn" is the ASR's rendering of Justin Sun; the co-host mangles Marty as "Morty" later in the segment. +[^plenator-outrage]: [[transcripts/the-first-responders-and-compliance-salesmen-bugle-weekly-episode-38#t-1981|Bugle Weekly 38 @ 33:01]]. "Plenator" is an ASR variant of Pledditor; the referent is confirmed by the passage's role for him (the purity-tester up in arms, distinct from "a lot of people"), not the spelling. He is not Matt Odell, who is not named in this episode. Recorded at medium confidence. +[^arrest-johns]: [[transcripts/the-first-responders-and-compliance-salesmen-bugle-weekly-episode-38#t-2110|Bugle Weekly 38 @ 35:10]]. +[^haaktuah-jewish]: [[transcripts/satoshi-is-jewish-behind-the-podcast-episode-3#t-1159|Behind The Podcast 3 @ 19:19]]. "Haaktuah" is ASR for the Hawk Tuah persona, rendered variously across this stretch as "Haaktu", "hawk two", "Octo" and "Tua". +[^birth-control]: [[transcripts/satoshi-is-jewish-behind-the-podcast-episode-3#t-2695|Behind The Podcast 3 @ 44:55]]. +[^trumpcoin]: [[transcripts/trump-n-dump-bugle-weekly-episode-43#t-221|Bugle Weekly 43 @ 3:41]]. "Shakecoin" is ASR for shitcoin. +[^trump-cope]: [[news/ranking-the-best-trump-cope-2|Bugle News, 2025-01-20 — "David Baily wins 1 SOL in Bugle News' Trump Cope Contest"]]. +[^pardon]: [[transcripts/trump-n-dump-bugle-weekly-episode-43#t-1818|Bugle Weekly 43 @ 30:18]]. "Hockto" is ASR for the Hawk Tuah girl; the episode also gives "HOKTUWA", "HAWK2A", "HawkgTuwa" and "Haunt Tua". Recorded at medium confidence; see the Disputed section below. +[^social-security]: [[transcripts/the-future-is-wrapped-bugle-weekly-episode-44#t-35|Bugle Weekly 44 @ 0:35]]. The quote spans this cue and the next. +[^cold-open-44]: [[transcripts/the-future-is-wrapped-bugle-weekly-episode-44#t-75|Bugle Weekly 44 @ 1:15]]. "Plattator" is one of at least six ASR renderings of Pledditor in this episode. He and Dick Whitman are named in the same cue and are different people. +[^340-million]: [[transcripts/the-future-is-wrapped-bugle-weekly-episode-44#t-2654|Bugle Weekly 44 @ 44:14]]. "Pleditor" is ASR for Pledditor; the show's ASR chops this stretch into short cues, so the quote is confined to this window. +[^diddy-party]: [[transcripts/the-future-is-wrapped-bugle-weekly-episode-44#t-1044|Bugle Weekly 44 @ 17:24]]. "ditty party" is ASR for Diddy party and "Evanston Island" for Epstein Island. Recorded at medium confidence; only the [[characters/jeffrey-epstein|Epstein]] referent is on the wiki. +[^drivechain]: [[transcripts/the-future-is-wrapped-bugle-weekly-episode-44#t-1626|Bugle Weekly 44 @ 27:06]]. The quote opens the thought; "backs BIP 300 and drive chains" follows in adjacent cues. The ASR gives only the bare first name "Paul" plus "giant chains" for drivechains — the referent is certain from context, the page-slug match less so. Medium confidence. +[^libra]: [[transcripts/dennis-porter-faces-headwinds-bugle-weekly-episode-47#t-1187|Bugle Weekly 47 @ 19:47]]. Milei is rendered "Javier Malloy" and "Javier Millet" in the detail that follows. +[^psa]: [[transcripts/kim-jong-uns-strategic-reserve-bugle-weekly-episode-48#t-2806|Bugle Weekly 48 @ 46:46]]. The PSA signs off "Nobody deserves to be retard liquidity." +[^scamblers-united]: [[transcripts/is-this-the-god-candle-bugle-weekly-episode-49#t-1110|Bugle Weekly 49 @ 18:30]]. The quote spans this cue and the two following. +[^bailey]: [[transcripts/the-revolution-wont-have-good-ux-bugle-weekly-episode-50#t-1258|Bugle Weekly 50 @ 20:58]]. "shitgoiner" is the ASR's rendering. Rod's "accessory" line is cut off mid-sentence by a technical break-in and is ambiguous between "accessible resource" and criminal accessory. +[^trap-pledditor]: [[transcripts/apologizing-to-absolutely-no-one-bugle-weekly-episode-53#t-1909|Bugle Weekly 53 @ 31:49]]. ASR variants in this stretch: "Plutator", "Pleditor", "Plenator". +[^ceo-of-bitcoin]: [[transcripts/broccolispace-media-with-charlie-spears-btp-episode-19#t-521|BTP 19 @ 8:41]]. "Platator" is ASR for Pledditor; the surrounding passage's video-game and anime material confirms the referent is Pledditor, not Matt Odell. +[^ready-to-pump]: [[transcripts/emergency-broadcast-podcasting-under-attack#t-1658|Emergency Broadcast: Podcasting Under Attack @ 27:38]]. "Platter" is ASR for Pledditor; "Charlie Turpinene" is ASR for Charlie Kirk. +[^trump-sued]: [[transcripts/reflections-from-the-frontier-bugle-weekly-episode-83-part-1#t-1375|Bugle Weekly 83 Part 1 @ 22:55]]. The quote spans two cues. +[^legalized]: [[transcripts/reflections-from-the-frontier-bugle-weekly-episode-83-part-2#t-1349|Bugle Weekly 83 Part 2 @ 22:29]]. "plows" is ASR for plebs. Medium confidence; the Welch referent is unresolved — see the Disputed section below. +[^cousin]: [[transcripts/happy-thanksgiving-bugle-weekly-episode-86#t-1846|Bugle Weekly 86 @ 30:46]]. +[^playbook]: [[transcripts/2026-starts-with-a-bang-bugle-weekly-episode-92#t-1441|Bugle Weekly 92 @ 24:01]]. The ASR names her "Haley Welch, the Hawkgirl". +[^welch-podcast]: [[transcripts/the-future-is-wrapped-bugle-weekly-episode-44#t-1914|Bugle Weekly 44 @ 31:54]]. Low confidence, entity warning: the cue is tagged to Rod but the quoted phrase begins Greaser's answer, and the Welch referent is contested — see the Disputed section below. +[^mar-a-lago]: [[transcripts/podcasters-crashing-out-bugle-weekly-episode-105#t-2130|Bugle Weekly 105 @ 35:30]]. +[^dog-army]: [[transcripts/podcasters-crashing-out-bugle-weekly-episode-105#t-2140|Bugle Weekly 105 @ 35:40]]. Medium confidence: "helping Casey win?" follows in the next cue, and [[characters/casey-rodarmor|Casey Rodarmor]] is the only Casey in the bracket canon, but the surname is never spoken. +[^polymarket]: [[transcripts/happy-pleb-pride-month-bugle-weekly-episode-111#t-2482|Bugle Weekly 111 @ 41:22]]. The thought spans several short cues; the quote is the contiguous one. ASR gives "Predix" for [[sponsors/predyx|Predyx]]. +[^altcoin-obit]: [[transcripts/happy-pleb-pride-month-bugle-weekly-episode-111#t-2510|Bugle Weekly 111 @ 41:50]]. +</content> +