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Trump is adopted +because he is noncompliant, promoted because he is orange-pilled, credited with +everything, and then audited against his own campaign promises until +[[characters/rod-palmer|Rod Palmer]] files him as the final boss of pleb +slop[^final-boss]. Nothing about the adoption is retracted. It is simply +outlived. + +## The noncompliant candidate (2024) + +Trump enters the record as a compliance story, not a Bitcoin one. His +hush-money conviction is reported straight — as a conviction for a non-KYC +transaction: "Donald Trump was convicted for participating in a non KYC +transaction"[^non-kyc], making him the first convicted noncompliant +presidential candidate. Rod completes the conceit by supplying the motive: "He +was trying to do a coin join to make his transaction extra private."[^coinjoin] +The thirty-four felony counts are thereby welded onto Bitcoin privacy +persecution, and the 2024 debate becomes "the first felon versus non felon +presidential debate in history"[^felon-debate] — a milestone for representation. + +Greaser's forecasts for a second term run in parallel and are not modest. He +predicts "operation warp speed two point o in this next presidency when he most +likely wins"[^warp-speed], this time to rush the BDS vaccine to market, and +proposes stimulus paid as "custodial lightning vouchers that they could redeem +through KYC ing"[^vouchers] — compliance and adoption sold as one transaction. +[[characters/michael-saylor|Michael Saylor]] is meanwhile revealed to be +leaving breadcrumbs in the Trump manner: "it's not orange because of Bitcoin. +It's orange like Donald Trump."[^saylor-q] + +## The orange cabinet (mid-2024) + +By June the selection has become a patronage draft. [[characters/jason-lowery|Jason Lowery]] +is reported engaged with the campaign for Treasury Secretary — "one of the +things Jason's trying to do is as treasury secretary"[^lowery-treasury] — with +the IRS regulating mining and US miners taking control of the branches of the +military. Rod nominates Peter McCormack for Secretary of State over his Bedford +ambitions: "this is controversial, but I think it would be Peter McCormick. He +wants to be the man of the Bedford, but I think I think he's got a bigger role +waiting for him."[^mccormack-state] Greaser reports Bitcoin Magazine brokering +a deal to become state media, "to achieve the status of being official state run +media"[^state-media], and treats it as a straight promotion. + +The load-bearing rumour of the period is sourced to exactly one man. +[[characters/dennis-porter|Dennis Porter]], the show's standing "credential +journalist", says "he's gonna make Bitcoin part of the strategic +reserve"[^porter-sbr] — from which Rod derives the cleanest statement of the +Bugle's cigarette rule: "So cigarette money will be a part of the strategic +reserve."[^cigarette-reserve] + +Credit for the conversion goes to [[characters/david-bailey|David Bailey]] +throughout. Greaser: "So he turned he turned Peter Schiff into a pleb and he +turned the former president Donald Trump into a pleb."[^bailey-orangepill] After +Nashville, Rod explains the whole recovery in one line — "the big one had +already won. I think that it was announced in Nashville"[^nashville-won] — and +Greaser reports Bailey "ushered them into the initial club"[^inner-circle], +making Trump the first pleb president. The campaign's own spot states the +thesis without a host present: "That is why I support Donald j Trump's plan to +pump Bitcoin to the moon."[^campaign-spot] + +## The selection (late 2024) + +Doubt arrives before the vote. Steven Lubka scores the field entirely on +compliance and finds it wanting: "I mean, you just don't have any good choices +in the selection. On one hand, you have Donald Trump who wants to promote +unregistered securities."[^lubka-verdict] [[sponsors/blackrock|BlackRock]] is +established as the antagonist — Trump became a self-custody influencer after +Bailey handed him a coin, "which is really threatening to BlackRock because +they're trying to sell these ETF platforms"[^blackrock-motive] — and the second +would-be assassin is, like the first, an actor in a BlackRock +commercial[^second-shooter]. Trump buys burgers at PubKey "using his custodial +lightning wallet strike"[^pubkey], billed as the first presidential Bitcoin +transaction for goods and services, and Rod defends the president not holding +the phone: "the president of The United States cannot be expected to learn how +to use lightning wallets."[^lightning-defence] + +Then the first real crack. Trump is not invited to the Orange Wedding, which +opens the hosts' doubts "that the that Donald Trump didn't get +invited"[^wedding-snub] — doubts they treat as dangerous to say aloud. Greaser +credits [[characters/pledditor|Pledditor]] as the industry's shitcoin auditor +for the candidate, "documenting all the cases of shit coining that the former +president has been involved with"[^pledditor-audit], and Pledditor duly breaks +the story that Trump sold the Bitcoin Bailey gave him — a report that itself +"created a flurry of ordinals"[^trump-sold], making the snitch an accidental +ordinals influencer. The canonical statement of the surveillance follows in the +same episode: "that Pluder is watching everything you do. So Donald Trump had a +Bitcoin, Pluttr immediately found his on chain address and started +sleuthing"[^chain-watch]. + +The result is recorded, not celebrated: "and as the first Bitcoin pleb was +selected into the White House."[^selected] Greaser immediately qualifies it — +America has chosen [[sponsors/podkoff|Podkoff]], and Trump straddles Podkoff and +the actual ethos of Bitcoin. The cabinet roster fills out with a Bitcoin podcast +promotion agency[^podcast-agency], loyalty screening runs through the +[[memes/lyn-alden-is-hot|Lyn Alden]] question[^lie-detector], and Trump's +manufacturing rhetoric is glossed by Rod as "Trump said he wants Bitcoin +podcasts made in America."[^podcasts-america] By year's end the reserve has been +promoted to scripture: "the strategic Bitcoin reserve is our Manhattan project +to finally fix the US dollar fiat system."[^manhattan] + +## Trump N Dump (2025) + +The inauguration delivers on exactly one promise. Rod's premise the day before — +"Donald Trump takes over. He takes president. He's gonna free Ross."[^free-ross] +— resolves two days later with [[characters/ross-ulbricht|Ross Ulbricht]]'s +pardon[^ross-pardon]. Everything else arrives sideways. The memecoin lands over +the same weekend: "Trump's Shakecoin which we're gonna get into the crypto ball +that he launched, Trumpcoin"[^trumpcoin], which Rod resolves into the title +thesis — a righteous rug of the degenerate meme coin scammers, rolled into a +Bitcoin smash buy. The cold open of the following week is less generous: "By +introducing the president to bitcoin, David Bailey has unleashed the shitcoin +kraken upon humanity."[^kraken] + +The shitcoin presidency then legislates. Social Security is abolished and +replaced with a per-citizen Solana memecoin[^social-security]; the Overton +window opens by executive order[^overton]; the Supreme Court rules in +"Scambler's United that buying politicians meme coins and pumping their bags is +free speech"[^scamblers]. Rod predicts the stablecoin caste settlement with +Canada: "Sats are for Americans. Canada can use Tether on Tron"[^sats-americans]. + +But the reserve does not come. When the price falls, Greaser reaches for FUD +rather than policy — "They're gonna blame David Bailey"[^blame-bailey] — and +[[characters/cynthia-lummis|Cynthia Lummis]] is cast as the source of unhelpful +information. Rod dates Saylor's defection to the same event: "Michael Saylor has +not said there is no second best since Donald Trump won the election. And that's +not a coincidence."[^no-second-best] Greaser completes the list of who actually +installed the president — AIPAC, the CIA, USAID, then "Swan Bitcoin and Corey +Clipsta and David Bailey and Bitcoin Magazine"[^who-installed] — which is the +argument for why an elected president has no Bitcoin mandate. Rod, grading his +own prophecy at the show's first anniversary, settles for directionally correct: +Trump never defaced the logo, but "he has kind of taken over the the like role +as president or like leader of Bitcoin"[^logo-prophecy]. + +## Tariffs, wars and the audit (2025) + +The tariff regime is priced through to what matters — "it showed the the tariff +tax is now going to cost for Americans who wanna buy a cold card from +Canada"[^coldcard-tariff] — and then reported entirely as a schedule on Bitcoin +podcasts, with the Great Firewall as a 100%+ podcast tariff[^podcast-tariff]. +Rod addresses Xi Jinping from the Brandenburg Gate: "tear down"[^tear-down] this +red communist firewall. Canada's election is fought on Trump's terms, Carney's +slogan delivered deadpan: "Trump wants to break us so he can buy us."[^carney] +Bitcoin 2026 is leaked to Gaza[^gaza-conf]. Trump, jealous of Mossad, "blew up +every single hardware wallet that the Mexican drug cartel had +simultaneously"[^wallet-detonation] — which Greaser offers as the reason the +reserve has been held back. + +The split with [[characters/elon-musk|Elon Musk]] is read as a purity-test +failure — "the big, beautiful bill doesn't pass Elon Musk's purity +tests"[^purity-test] — and generalised into the diagnosis that everyone is +failing everyone's. The Epstein files then reorganise the arc around themselves. +[[characters/joe-rogan|Joe Rogan]] "said recently that he feels +betrayed"[^rogan-betrayed] over Epstein, the unpumped reserve, and the JFK +files. Greaser's snitch doctrine holds that the Speaker's defence "is trying to +give Trump an out from being a pedophile by calling him a snitch"[^snitch] — and +snitches are almost always guilty. Rod's evidence that Trump "doesn't respect +us" is that the waste-cutting program was "named it after a meme, Doge, run by +fucking Elon Musk."[^doge-meme] Greaser reinterprets the reserve announcement +itself: "there were Diddy parties coming to the Bitcoin ecosystem."[^diddy] + +By September the post-mortem is explicit. The reserve never came, Fort Knox was +never audited, the budget-neutral swap died: "the strategic Bitcoin reserve, +the, you know, Cindy Obama's 1,000,000 Bitcoins for the strategic reserve. We +thought it was coming fast."[^sbr-postmortem] NSPM7 is folded into the Core war +as "an attack on CORE"[^nspm7] because the devs are insufficiently religious. +Trump's counterterrorism directive, his birthday parade sponsored by Coinbase +and Palantir[^parade], and his surveillance posture — "Donald Trump appears to be +trying to to look at or make Obama look like a libertarian"[^obama-libertarian] — +accumulate without ever quite being called a betrayal. + +The year-later audit is delivered as a campaign-promise scorecard. Energy prices +did not fall, which Greaser blames on plebs deploying trinkets[^trinkets]; the +plebs who cheered at Nashville got a flat price and "podcasters telling them +that Bitcoin's broken"[^nashville-callback]. Rod's inventory of what the space +believed a year earlier is the arc's thesis in one image: "Ross Ulbricht freed +from prison by Trump in a top hat riding in a Lamborghini with laser eyes +sheeping out of his head."[^top-hat] Greaser states the rule the optimism +actually produced: "if you donate enough to their campaign, they they might +pardon you."[^pardons-for-sale] The proof arrives at Christmas — Trump pardoned +Jelly Roll, not the Samourai devs[^jelly-roll]. + +## The final boss (2026) + +The verdict is a reclassification, not a reversal. "Donald Trump is the pepslop +president"[^plebslop-president] — king of American plebslop — and by ep 93 he is +promoted to its final boss, with the Democrats losing to it[^final-boss]. +Greaser audits him against the label he was adopted under and finds it does not +hold: "it's funny to refer to Donald Trump as a, conservative at this +point"[^not-conservative], given the stakes in US companies, the stimulus +cheques and the price controls. Bailey's long campaign to manufacture the god +announcement by courting Trump is closed out in one line: "God did not +look"[^god-did-not] shine his light fondly on David Bailey. + +The Epstein material becomes the show's longest running gag[^blowjob], with the +punchline that the alleged act proves bipartisan credentials: "that shows that +you have what it takes to be the leader of this nation."[^bipartisan] Rod prices +the Iran naval buildup as a distraction from the files[^iran-distraction] and +predicts the bombing will be timed to the Super Bowl[^superbowl]. Barron Trump +shorts the market a minute before the tariff tweets[^barron]. Candace Owens cuts +her vacation short because "the president of The United States said that, +Brigitte Macron was hotter than her."[^candace] Trump asks Joe Rogan for +ibogaine[^ibogaine], which Rod reads as evidence the president is depressed. The +$250 Trump bill is issued as UBI and read by Greaser as a trap to herd TDS +liberals into the surveilled system[^trump-bucks]. The arc's last recorded beat +is a peace deal that "does not require"[^paper-peace] Iran's signature to be +valid. + +## Disputed + +**Is Trump a Bitcoiner at all?** The record never resolves this and does not try +to. Ep 26 has him converted into a self-custody influencer by a coin Bailey +handed him[^blackrock-motive]; ep 33 has Pledditor finding the on-chain address +and reporting that he sold it[^trump-sold], with Greaser theorising the proceeds +went into USDT[^chain-watch]. Ep 19 calls him the first pleb +president[^inner-circle] and ep 34 the first Bitcoin pleb selected into the +White House[^selected]; ep 30 has the hosts doubting he is a Bitcoiner at +all[^wedding-snub]. Both readings stay live to the end of the record. + +**Why the memecoin.** Rod's ep 43 reading is strategic — a $50B premine rugged +from the scammers and rolled into a Bitcoin smash buy[^trumpcoin]. Greaser's ep +84 reading is that it was personal: "Donald Trump launches Meancoin was just a +spite predator"[^spite] — launched to spite Pledditor, a referent Rod confirms +by extending the bit. Neither host reconciles them. + +**David Bailey: kraken or on-ramp.** Ep 44's cold open assigns him the blame for +the entire shitcoin presidency[^kraken]. Ep 50 has Rod defending him as the +movement's non-judgmental on-ramp, declining to "call Donald Trump a retarded +shitgoiner"[^bailey-onramp] because everyone arrives eventually — though Rod's +own word for him in that passage, "an accessory", is cut off mid-sentence and +left ambiguous between the helpful and the criminal reading. + +**Correction to this page's earlier draft.** The seeded version listed three +episodes (23, 43 and 106) and described the arc as running "from the pre-election +MAGA-versus-Joy framing through 'Trump N Dump' to … 'Is Trump Taking Ibogaine.'" +The beat index carries 163 beats across 79 episodes, spanning 2024-04-15 to +2026-06-15. The three-episode reading was an artefact of matching on episode +titles: Trump is load-bearing in dozens of episodes that do not name him in the +title, and the arc's spine — the strategic reserve, the pardon economy, the +campaign-promise audit — runs almost entirely through those. The seeded +narrative's Nashville, memecoin and reserve beats survive contact with the +index; its claim that the saga ends in April 2026 does not. + +> irl: Henry's note — the beat index for this page is SAMPLED, not complete: 120 +> of 163 beats, round-robined across all 79 episodes. Every claim above is +> anchored to a verified cue, but this is not every appearance. Beats sourced +> from bugle.news articles are not in the index and are not cited here; the +> seeded page's nineteen news items have been left out rather than asserted on +> the strength of a headline sweep. + +**Who's in it:** [[characters/donald-trump|Donald Trump]] · [[characters/rod-palmer|Rod Palmer]] · [[characters/richard-greaser|Richard Greaser]] · [[characters/david-bailey|David Bailey]] · [[characters/pledditor|Pledditor]] · [[characters/michael-saylor|Michael Saylor]] · [[characters/elon-musk|Elon Musk]] · [[characters/ross-ulbricht|Ross Ulbricht]] · [[characters/dennis-porter|Dennis Porter]] · [[characters/jason-lowery|Jason Lowery]] · [[characters/cynthia-lummis|Cynthia Lummis]] · [[characters/jeffrey-epstein|Jeffrey Epstein]] · [[characters/barron-trump|Barron Trump]] · [[characters/joe-rogan|Joe Rogan]] + +**Related:** [[storylines/the-2024-selection]] · [[storylines/david-bailey-bitcoin-magazine]] · [[storylines/michael-saylor-saga]] · [[storylines/elon-musk-antics]] · [[storylines/church-of-compliance]] · [[storylines/tethers-turf]] + +[^selected]: [[transcripts/selection-autopsy-bugle-weekly-episode-34#t-548|Bugle Weekly 34 @ 9:08]]. Greaser qualifies it at 9:27: America "has chosen Podkomp" — ASR for Podkoff. +[^final-boss]: [[transcripts/the-dawn-of-the-1st-turning-bugle-weekly-episode-93#t-1014|Bugle Weekly 93 @ 16:54]]. Setup at 16:47: "If you think of Donald Trump as as as the the the the final, boss of Plebslop." +[^non-kyc]: [[transcripts/happy-compliance-month-bugle-weekly-episode-11#t-564|Bugle Weekly 11 @ 9:24]]. The sentence is broken across four ASR fragments (t=554/564/565/568). +[^coinjoin]: [[transcripts/happy-compliance-month-bugle-weekly-episode-11#t-633|Bugle Weekly 11 @ 10:33]]. +[^felon-debate]: [[transcripts/noncompliant-4th-of-july-bugle-weekly-episode-15#t-2887|Bugle Weekly 15 @ 48:07]]. Quote straddles cues 2886→2890. +[^warp-speed]: [[transcripts/vaccinating-bitcoin-derangement-syndrome-bugle-weekly-episode-10#t-474|Bugle Weekly 10 @ 7:54]]. ASR renders "2.0" as "two point o". +[^vouchers]: [[transcripts/vaccinating-bitcoin-derangement-syndrome-bugle-weekly-episode-10#t-540|Bugle Weekly 10 @ 9:00]]. The $1,000 figure is in the preceding cue at t=535. +[^saylor-q]: [[transcripts/democracy-dies-in-darkness-with-party-bent-bugle-weekly-episode-8#t-2997|Bugle Weekly 8 @ 49:57]]. ASR gives "the Sailor Non story" for QAnon at 48:52. +[^lowery-treasury]: [[transcripts/history-is-being-written-by-us-bugle-weekly-episode-12#t-2900|Bugle Weekly 12 @ 48:20]]. Rod hedges the policy's authorship at 48:16: "I don't know if this is official policy or it's, David Bailey's idea." +[^mccormack-state]: [[transcripts/the-intellectual-silk-road-bugle-weekly-episode-13#t-1396|Bugle Weekly 13 @ 23:16]]. ASR: "Peter McCormick"; also "Peter McCourt" at t=1463. +[^state-media]: [[transcripts/the-intellectual-silk-road-bugle-weekly-episode-13#t-1166|Bugle Weekly 13 @ 19:26]]. Greaser later calls the outfit "ordinals magazine" (t=1306). +[^porter-sbr]: [[transcripts/the-calm-before-the-storm-bugle-weekly-episode-18#t-424|Bugle Weekly 18 @ 7:04]]. ASR drops the -ed: "credential journalist". +[^cigarette-reserve]: [[transcripts/the-calm-before-the-storm-bugle-weekly-episode-18#t-430|Bugle Weekly 18 @ 7:10]]. +[^bailey-orangepill]: [[transcripts/intellectual-silk-road-101-bugle-weekly-episode-22#t-373|Bugle Weekly 22 @ 6:13]]. Palmer coins "David Orangebill" at t=352 — ASR for "David Orange Pill". +[^nashville-won]: [[transcripts/the-economy-is-still-fine-bugle-weekly-episode-21#t-432|Bugle Weekly 21 @ 7:12]]. "the big one" is ASR for "Bitcoin"; the line recurs correctly at t=2882. +[^inner-circle]: [[transcripts/satoshi-would-be-proud-bugle-weekly-episode-19#t-1910|Bugle Weekly 19 @ 31:50]]. "initial club" is ASR, likely "inner circle". Greaser calls Trump "the first pleb president" at t=1931. +[^campaign-spot]: [[transcripts/will-the-future-be-joyful-or-maga-bugle-weekly-episode-23#t-80|Bugle Weekly 23 @ 1:20]]. ASR renders "Donald J. Trump" as "Donald j Trump". See [[sponsors/donald-j-trump-campaign-make-taxes-affordable-again]]. +[^lubka-verdict]: [[transcripts/decentralizing-compliance-with-steven-lubka-bugle-weekly-episode-24#t-3512|Bugle Weekly 24 @ 58:32]]. "the selection" is the Bugle's standing term for the election, and Lubka uses it unprompted. +[^blackrock-motive]: [[transcripts/outrunning-hypersonic-missiles-bugle-weekly-episode-26#t-625|Bugle Weekly 26 @ 10:25]]. +[^second-shooter]: [[transcripts/outrunning-hypersonic-missiles-bugle-weekly-episode-26#t-542|Bugle Weekly 26 @ 9:02]]. +[^pubkey]: [[transcripts/powell-signals-everythings-fine-bugle-weekly-episode-27#t-1145|Bugle Weekly 27 @ 19:05]]. ASR renders the venue "Pub Key". +[^lightning-defence]: [[transcripts/powell-signals-everythings-fine-bugle-weekly-episode-27#t-1445|Bugle Weekly 27 @ 24:05]]. +[^wedding-snub]: [[transcripts/the-orange-wedding-bugle-weekly-episode-30#t-732|Bugle Weekly 30 @ 12:12]]. +[^pledditor-audit]: [[transcripts/the-orange-wedding-bugle-weekly-episode-30#t-786|Bugle Weekly 30 @ 13:06]]. ASR "Plutator". Resolved from content, not spelling — this is Pledditor, not Matt Odell, who is named separately and correctly at t=3367. +[^trump-sold]: [[transcripts/selection-special-part-2-bugle-weekly-episode-33#t-1752|Bugle Weekly 33 @ 29:12]]. ASR "Predator" for Pledditor; resolved from behaviour, not spelling. Odell is not mentioned in this episode. +[^chain-watch]: [[transcripts/selection-special-part-2-bugle-weekly-episode-33#t-1789|Bugle Weekly 33 @ 29:49]]. Two ASR spellings of Pledditor inside one cue ("Pluder", "Pluttr"). Greaser's USDT theory follows at t=1874. See [[storylines/tethers-turf]]. +[^podcast-agency]: [[transcripts/selection-special-part-1-bugle-weekly-episode-32#t-2322|Bugle Weekly 32 @ 38:42]]. Quote spans the t=2320→t=2324 boundary. +[^lie-detector]: [[transcripts/selection-autopsy-bugle-weekly-episode-34#t-374|Bugle Weekly 34 @ 6:14]]. ASR "Lin Alden". See [[memes/lyn-alden-is-hot]] and [[characters/lyn-alden]]. +[^podcasts-america]: [[transcripts/dont-stop-your-enemy-from-pumping-your-bags-bugle-weekly-episode-36#t-2477|Bugle Weekly 36 @ 41:17]]. +[^manhattan]: [[transcripts/bitcoin-is-tax-affording-technology-bugle-weekly-episode-40#t-3238|Bugle Weekly 40 @ 53:58]]. Quote spans t=3236-3241. +[^free-ross]: [[transcripts/trump-n-dump-bugle-weekly-episode-43#t-204|Bugle Weekly 43 @ 3:24]]. +[^ross-pardon]: [[transcripts/build-back-better-with-mike-behind-the-podcast-episode-7#t-469|Behind The Podcast 7 @ 7:49]]. ASR: "Ross Ulbert"; rendered correctly at t=2997. +[^trumpcoin]: [[transcripts/trump-n-dump-bugle-weekly-episode-43#t-221|Bugle Weekly 43 @ 3:41]]. ASR "Shakecoin" = shitcoin. Rod walks the number from $50B to "$100,000,000,000 in profit" (t=830) and resolves it at t=853-855. +[^kraken]: [[transcripts/the-future-is-wrapped-bugle-weekly-episode-44#t-68|Bugle Weekly 44 @ 1:08]]. "Will David Bailey be redeemed or will we descend into darkness?" at t=139. +[^social-security]: [[transcripts/the-future-is-wrapped-bugle-weekly-episode-44#t-35|Bugle Weekly 44 @ 0:35]]. Mechanics at t=42; punchline at t=63. +[^overton]: [[transcripts/build-back-better-with-mike-behind-the-podcast-episode-7#t-2025|Behind The Podcast 7 @ 33:45]]. Greaser calls it "a giant shift in in Overton window" at t=2005. +[^scamblers]: [[transcripts/is-this-the-god-candle-bugle-weekly-episode-49#t-1110|Bugle Weekly 49 @ 18:30]]. Quote spans t=1110-1113. +[^sats-americans]: [[transcripts/40-hours-per-week-bugle-weekly-episode-45#t-1278|Bugle Weekly 45 @ 21:18]]. Quote spans cues t=1278/1280/1282. +[^blame-bailey]: [[transcripts/the-revolution-wont-have-good-ux-bugle-weekly-episode-50#t-644|Bugle Weekly 50 @ 10:44]]. Medium confidence. "Cynthia Ramos" is an ASR variant of Cynthia Lummis, resolved from content: the speaker predicted states would lead on reserves before the feds. The claim is falsified in the next cue (t=660). +[^no-second-best]: [[transcripts/let-the-festivities-begin-bugle-weekly-episode-51#t-845|Bugle Weekly 51 @ 14:05]]. Quote spans t=845 and t=851. See [[bits/no-second-best]]. +[^who-installed]: [[transcripts/let-the-festivities-begin-bugle-weekly-episode-51#t-911|Bugle Weekly 51 @ 15:11]]. ASR "Corey Clipsta" = [[characters/cory-klippsten|Cory Klippsten]]; "APAC" = AIPAC at t=904. See [[sponsors/swan-bitcoin]]. +[^logo-prophecy]: [[transcripts/1-year-anniversary-bugle-weekly-episode-52#t-942|Bugle Weekly 52 @ 15:42]]. Payoff at t=952-963. +[^coldcard-tariff]: [[transcripts/we-know-whats-going-on-bugle-weekly-episode-54#t-325|Bugle Weekly 54 @ 5:25]]. Continues over cues 56-59. +[^podcast-tariff]: [[transcripts/never-rest-on-your-credentials-bugle-weekly-episode-55#t-306|Bugle Weekly 55 @ 5:06]]. +[^tear-down]: [[transcripts/never-rest-on-your-credentials-bugle-weekly-episode-55#t-423|Bugle Weekly 55 @ 7:03]]. The line runs across four cues — "Mr. Xi," (t=416) / "tear down" (t=423) / "this red communist" (t=424) / "firewall." (t=426) — and is quoted from the single cue to stay verbatim. +[^carney]: [[transcripts/canada-needs-40hpw-with-joey-temprile-behind-the-podcast-episode-15#t-1306|Behind the Podcast 15 @ 21:46]]. Delivered by [[characters/joey-canadian-bitcoin|Joey]]. +[^gaza-conf]: [[transcripts/super-sportball-bitcoin-pizza-day-for-normies-bugle-weekly-episode-46#t-2757|Bugle Weekly 46 @ 45:57]]. "will be held in Gaza" lands in the next cue at t=2762. +[^wallet-detonation]: [[transcripts/back-in-the-saddle-podcasting-again-bugle-weekly-episode-71#t-3559|Bugle Weekly 71 @ 59:19]]. Greaser's motive theory at t=3616: "maybe this is why Trump has been waiting to go full steam on the strategic Bitcoin reserve." +[^purity-test]: [[transcripts/orange-pilled-pioneers-bugle-weekly-episode-63#t-937|Bugle Weekly 63 @ 15:37]]. Generalisation at t=961. +[^rogan-betrayed]: [[transcripts/boomers-sacrificing-to-moloch-bugle-weekly-episode-68#t-200|Bugle Weekly 68 @ 3:20]]. Quote spans cues t=200 through t=205; [[characters/tim-dillon|Tim Dillon]] is named in the next cue at t=207. +[^snitch]: [[transcripts/pioneers-attend-university-of-bitcoin-bugle-weekly-episode-75#t-1963|Bugle Weekly 75 @ 32:43]]. The doctrine lands at t=1973. The Speaker of the House is never named in the transcript. +[^doge-meme]: [[transcripts/boomers-sacrificing-to-moloch-bugle-weekly-episode-68#t-790|Bugle Weekly 68 @ 13:10]]. +[^diddy]: [[transcripts/grumpy-with-a-cause-bugle-weekly-episode-67#t-2356|Bugle Weekly 67 @ 39:16]]. +[^sbr-postmortem]: [[transcripts/life-isnt-easy-bugle-weekly-episode-76#t-264|Bugle Weekly 76 @ 4:24]]. Medium confidence. ASR renders Cynthia Lummis as "Cindy Obama"; resolved on the referent — the 1,000,000-Bitcoin reserve bill is Lummis's. +[^nspm7]: [[transcripts/be-a-good-example-bugle-weekly-episode-78#t-2771|Bugle Weekly 78 @ 46:11]]. The Core-dev syllogism lands at t=2815-2828; "court" is ASR for Core. See [[characters/luke-dashjr|Luke Dashjr]]. +[^parade]: [[transcripts/good-fathers-listen-to-40hpw-bugle-weekly-episode-64#t-3122|Bugle Weekly 64 @ 52:02]]. Quote spans t=3122/3123. +[^obama-libertarian]: [[transcripts/humor-knotzi-police-state-bugle-weekly-episode-73#t-2068|Bugle Weekly 73 @ 34:28]]. Quote spans cues t=2063 and t=2068. See [[characters/barack-obama|Barack Obama]]. +[^trinkets]: [[transcripts/reflections-from-the-frontier-bugle-weekly-episode-83-part-1#t-437|Bugle Weekly 83 Part 1 @ 7:17]]. See [[sponsors/trinkets-for-plebs]]. +[^nashville-callback]: [[transcripts/reflections-from-the-frontier-bugle-weekly-episode-83-part-1#t-732|Bugle Weekly 83 Part 1 @ 12:12]]. Payoff at t=740-754. +[^top-hat]: [[transcripts/reflections-from-the-frontier-bugle-weekly-episode-83-part-2#t-111|Bugle Weekly 83 Part 2 @ 1:51]]. "sheeping" is ASR for "shooting". See [[memes/laser-eyes]]. Rod concedes the pardon happened at t=142. +[^pardons-for-sale]: [[transcripts/reflections-from-the-frontier-bugle-weekly-episode-83-part-2#t-1130|Bugle Weekly 83 Part 2 @ 18:50]]. +[^jelly-roll]: [[transcripts/the-quantum-quarrel-has-commenced-bugle-weekly-episode-90#t-3164|Bugle Weekly 90 @ 52:44]]. Completes at t=3173: "instead last week." +[^plebslop-president]: [[transcripts/year-in-review-bugle-weekly-episode-91#t-308|Bugle Weekly 91 @ 5:08]]. ASR "pepslop" = plebslop. See [[memes/pleb-slop]]. +[^not-conservative]: [[transcripts/rising-above-slop-bugle-weekly-episode-84#t-1496|Bugle Weekly 84 @ 24:56]]. Chapter marker at t=1501: "Is Donald Trump a Conservative?". +[^god-did-not]: [[transcripts/integrating-podcasts-into-your-life-with-meditation-man-intellectual-silk-road-episode-4#t-2128|Intellectual Silk Road 4 @ 35:28]]. The sentence completes at t=2130. +[^blowjob]: [[transcripts/the-slop-tsunami-bugle-weekly-episode-85#t-1344|Bugle Weekly 85 @ 22:24]]. See [[characters/bill-clinton|Bill Clinton]]. +[^bipartisan]: [[transcripts/the-slop-tsunami-bugle-weekly-episode-85#t-1511|Bugle Weekly 85 @ 25:11]]. Close of a sentence starting t=1504. +[^iran-distraction]: [[transcripts/the-truth-has-consequences-bugle-weekly-episode-95#t-851|Bugle Weekly 95 @ 14:11]]. Continues at t=855-868. +[^superbowl]: [[transcripts/straight-out-of-distractions-bugle-weekly-episode-96#t-365|Bugle Weekly 96 @ 6:05]]. Quote spans t=365-368. +[^barron]: [[transcripts/plebslop-psychosis-bugle-weekly-episode-80#t-571|Bugle Weekly 80 @ 9:31]]. ASR renders "tariff tweets" as "terrorist tweets". See [[characters/barron-trump|Barron Trump]]. +[^candace]: [[transcripts/podcasters-crashing-out-bugle-weekly-episode-105#t-466|Bugle Weekly 105 @ 7:46]]. ASR renders her "Janice Owens" at 6:16. See [[characters/candace-owens|Candace Owens]] and [[characters/brigitte-macron|Brigitte Macron]]. +[^ibogaine]: [[transcripts/is-trump-taking-ibogaine-bugle-weekly-episode-106#t-114|Bugle Weekly 106 @ 1:54]]. ASR renders ibogaine as "Iva Dane" at t=108. +[^trump-bucks]: [[transcripts/happy-pleb-pride-month-bugle-weekly-episode-111#t-892|Bugle Weekly 111 @ 14:52]]. Setup at 14:29. See [[characters/mike-brock|Mike Brock]]. +[^paper-peace]: [[transcripts/sportsball-is-back-baby-bugle-weekly-episode-113#t-1297|Bugle Weekly 113 @ 21:37]]. Quote runs into the following cues: "Iran's signature / for it to / be valid." +[^spite]: [[transcripts/rising-above-slop-bugle-weekly-episode-84#t-2617|Bugle Weekly 84 @ 43:37]]. "spite predator" is ASR for "to spite Pledditor"; Rod renders him "Platterer" at t=2628. Pledditor, not Matt Odell — see [[storylines/matt-odell-arc]]. +[^bailey-onramp]: [[transcripts/the-revolution-wont-have-good-ux-bugle-weekly-episode-50#t-1258|Bugle Weekly 50 @ 20:58]]. "shitgoiner" is the ASR rendering of shitcoiner.