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Maxi Madness

Maxi Madness is the bracket tournament of Bitcoin maximalists that The Bugle stages every March: a seeded field of influencers, memers and thinkers voted through public polls until one of them is crowned champion. Three editions are on the record — 2024, 2025 and 2026 — and the show’s own account of why it exists has never wavered. Rod Palmer‘s case is constitutional: PODCONF appoints Bitcoin’s spokesmen and nobody ever voted for them, so the bracket “is an election. It is bringing democracy to the influencer community”.1 The prize is nothing. “It’s not a competition about glaze. It’s a competition about eternal glory,” Richard Greaser says.2 The mandate, in Rod’s doctrine, is real: “whoever wins Maxey Madness should be the one who goes on Joe Rogan to talk about Bitcoin.”3

What it actually produces is a week of suspended rules. “Maxi Madness is the state of nature,” Rod explains — everything you thought you knew about maximalism goes out the window, and the influencers behave like men racing trucks to an aid convoy.4 The show has never pretended to regret this. It is also, by Greaser’s own admission after the 2026 markets settled, a business: “We’re we’re always looking for new ways to extract Bitcoin from you guys.”5

Who’s in it: Rod Palmer and Richard Greaser as organizers; champions Yellow (2024), Teddy Bitcoins (2025), Casey Rodarmor and Rev Hodl (2026); perennial contestants Michael Saylor, Lyn Alden, Giacomo Zucco, Adam Back, Matt Odell; and Timmy Tether on the recap desk.

2024: the inaugural bracket

The first March Maxi Madness ran on public Twitter polls and produced its founding legend in round one, when a 16-seed knocked out the 1-seed: “that a 16 seed upset a one seed, and Eric Cason defeated Dennis Porter.”6 Erik Cason‘s win over Dennis Porter was treated by Greaser — who conceded he had arranged Porter’s favorable route, “in a very fair way, of course” — as a failure of voter compliance rather than of seeding.

The corruption subplot opened immediately. Rod reported Peter McCormack and Tone Vays wagering six and seven figures of sats on matchups and paying for promotion: he’d “heard that Peter and Tone have been financing meme gangs to to create memes and to interview”.7 Anonymous insiders told him David Bailey had hauled his Bitcoin Magazine staff onto an early call about winning it — “reported David Bailey, Dodge, Shinobi, and Rizzo on a video call, like, at 8AM” — because he refused to lose the inaugural tournament to Swan.8 McCormack, trailing Stephan Livera 52.6 to 47.4, escalated live during the episode: “He says that, he’s calling in his Russian bot farm.”9 And when Hodl Magoo was pegged back overnight by Becca after Michael Saylor tweeted that he had personally voted, Magoo reached the only available conclusion: “And Magoo says, c I CIA rigs another election.”10 Greaser’s rebuttal established the house style for every rigging claim since: “It was a safe and effective election.”11

Pledditor — who did not make the bracket — posted that the whole thing was beneath him: “so, Pleditor tweeted something, talking about how stupid influencer brackets are.”12 He blocked the Bugle and Rod outright during that first tournament, “so he’s missed out on a lot of Maxi Madness history”.13

Yellow won it. The earliest on-air confirmation is Rod, three months later, treating the fact as too obvious to argue: “we had our fresh tournament back in March, the influencer tournament, which was obviously won by Yellow.”14 Whom he beat in the final is genuinely contested — see [[#disputed|Disputed]]. Saylor’s response to the loss became permanent lore anyway: “the power of a yellow cat. He made me a cat,” Yellow complained, noting he is a puppet.15 The tournament’s commercial consequence was structural — Rod credits it with the Bugle’s follower surge, arriving just after the show had signed its sponsorship rights away to PODCONF until 2028.16

2025: Teddy Bitcoins

Greaser opened nominations in February — “is the second round of March Maxi Madness. You prepared for that, Rod?” — with editorial discretion reserved.17 The promo went up a week before first-round polls: “I’m talking about March Maxi Madness. Maxi Madness is bigger than ever this year.”18 The pick-em prize package was a BitAxe plus a cypherpunk goodie bag: “a Podkoff t shirt, an Evian Parks seriously snarky candle, Otis Bittmeyer coffee beans, and two cypherpunk sticker packs from the Ungovernable Misfits.”19 Rod disclosed the economics unprompted: “we do have sponsors all over our graphics, but that money’s not going to us. That is all going towards whoever wins the the prediction bracket challenge.”20

The selection committee did the rest of the work. Snubbed maxis were told to look inward — “some soul searching. You have to ask yourself, why didn’t the committee consider you worthy”21 — while the elected were barred on principle: Bukele, Lummis and Trump have already been chosen by Bitcoin to lead, so they don’t need the mandate.22 A pregnant-mothers category was petitioned for and refused on competitive balance: “put some pregnant moms in the Maxey madness. But I elected we elected not to do that because it was an unfair” advantage.23 The committee’s actual method surfaced defending the Fred Krueger pick: “I figured if he was at a swan salon with Corey that he was a Bitcoin maximalist. I was wrong apparently”.24 Late Stage Hodl‘s boost supplied the doctrine — “you get what you get and you don’t get upset” — which Rod accepted as governing law.25

The voting was, as ever, a beauty contest in a protocol-debate costume. Greaser called the whole edition “a referendum on is the reality that Lynn Alden is hot”26 and decided a second-round match on anatomy: “And I think the community is gonna determine that Aubrey has nicer legs than my Max Kizer.”27

Then Teddy Bitcoins — a memer whose entire vetting defense was that his name is Teddy Bitcoins — started winning. Rod first read his Sweet 16 berth as a symptom of a distracted community: “That’s how Teddy Bitcoins gets to sweet 16 in Maxi Madness. That’s a prestigious round.”28 He predicted Adam Back would outlast him on thermodynamic grounds — “doctor Adam Back will still be in Maxi Madness”29 — and was wrong within days. The canonical run, as Rod recites it: Teddy “completely dominated, I mean, he took out Yellow, he took out Lin Alden, he took out Adam Back, and then he took out Sailor in the final,” with Saylor sending his simps to the polls and losing anyway.30 Cory Klippsten went out in round one to Matt O’Dell, and Saylor considered renaming himself Mikey Bitcoins.31 Junseth made the final four, lost to Saylor, and conceded the era: “I think we all know that Teddy Bitcoins is maybe the greatest Maxi of all time.”32

Mid-tournament, Teddy took the bracket hostage live on air: “I will step down from the Bitcoin bugle March Madness race if this address has 5,000,000 sats within the next twelve hours.”33 The address was watched on mempool for the rest of the episode and received nothing. Guest Kaz refused the demand to void the result on principle — “we’re not we’re not Ethereum Maxis. We’re not gonna roll back the chain”34 — and told the aggrieved Swan Bitcoin C-suite, whose feelings the run had hurt, to “touch grass. Get off the Internet, like, if you’re getting your feelings hurt about a a meme bracket.”35

Greaser crowned him “the champion of Maxi Madness, the the well deserving champion who also is, Swan Bitcoin’s biggest enemy at the moment”,36 and noted the memer division was now two for two.37 The aftermath was the largest in the tournament’s history. Greaser diagnosed Klippsten with a new condition — “it’s like he had Teddy Bitcoins derangement syndrome”38 — and extended it to first-round loser Joe Carlasare.39 He accused PODCONF of organizing the hate campaign: “what it felt like to me after the event, Podkomp had some pretty nasty remarks towards us.”40 Rod’s tinfoil went further — they wanted the asset: “And I think that they wanna steal Maxi Madness. There was a lot of people talking about forking Maxi Madness.”41 He imagined the compliant fork in loving detail, with KYC’d ballots: “make every single person who wants to vote Maxi Madness, upload their driver’s license.”42 Stephen Lubka was singled out as the one contestant who behaved.43 Bugle contributor Maggie Morris, who had questioned the results on Twitter, read a retraction on air after her contract was renewed: “I would like to fully retract the statement I posted to Twitter, putting in question the results of the Maxi Madness polling and the professionalism of the Beagle News editorial team.”44 The show’s own posture supplied the episode title: “if you’re looking for an apology from us, you will not get that.”45

The pick-em was won by a listener known as Boomer, unmasked as “the guy that listens to sixty hours of Bitcoin podcast per week” — 40HPW adherence as predictive alpha.46 Teddy’s legend outlasted the bracket: hostile boosts were still arriving weeks later,47 Rod proposed retiring his number to the rafters,48 and Greaser filed the win alongside the Saylor series drop as monumental history — “I was here when American HODL debated Dieter Bob. I was here when Teddy Bitcoins won Maxi Madness”.49 By 2026 the run had become the benchmark: “Now Teddy Bitcoins absolutely ran through Maxi Madness and, like, I don’t think we’re ever gonna see it’s like the 1996” Chicago Bulls.50

Between editions the bracket became the community’s status ladder. Adam Semeka was reported to be campaigning a year out — “He’s really working hard to make Maxi Madness next year, he wants to be PodCon approved”51 — and was later granted a slot on air for his pioneering.52 Greaser proposed electing Bitcoin Core developers the same way.53 Tatum explained his own loss as a victim of reverse psychology, beaten by an opponent who campaigned by telling people to vote for Tatum;54 Rod credited the winner’s method to Odell’s doctrine: “He was following Matt O’Dell’s advice. He was staying humble.”55

2026: two brackets and a soft war

Rod put the calendar on the record in February — Selection Monday March 16, play-in games Wednesday, bracket threads Thursday the 20th, “of play in games to decide who makes the final 64”, Timmy Tether returning — and forecast prediction markets as the year’s foundation.56 The tournament was declared open source: “You can join with us and collaborate with us or you can you can make it your own. It is the is the first open source” influencer tournament, with no rules except please respect the democracy.57 The franchise would never be handed over, though — Rod’s reasoning being that any successor would over-glaze it, the way “they would be like Erica Kirk, with Charlie Kirk’s legacy.”58

The novelty was a second bracket. Alongside the X tournament, Greaser facilitated an inaugural Nostr edition on Primal‘s beta zap-polls, where sats weight the ballot. The franchise pre-emptively disenfranchised its own audience: asked whether pleb votes could be restricted, Rod ruled that “a a Plebron Noster” vote would count as three-fifths, pending the Maxi Madness Committee.59 Ballot integrity was outsourced: the Bugle had sent “the ballot counting and the ballot boxes to Israel,” making any fraud investigation a request to be killed by Benjamin Netanyahu.60 The sole rule, and the ASR’s finest hour, was Rod’s “as long as it doesn’t offend Benjamin Netanyahu, all is fair” — which the machine rendered as “in Nazi madness.”61 Greaser, refusing the distraction charge, staked a larger claim: “I I really do think that Maxi Madness very well could be the, start of the bull market.”62 Rod predicted the crash-outs would begin at the bracket reveal, not at tip-off — the snub grievance being the real opening ceremony.63

The Nostr bracket broke first. Different users saw different totals on the Jack Dorsey / Rev Hodl poll; a recount found “that Rev Huddle had won. And in reality, Rev Huddle had won,” and Dorsey was disqualified.64 Predyx had already resolved for Dorsey — “The people were betting on Jack in the prediction markets” — so real sats were lost to a poll bug.65 Rod shrugged it off as the price of frontier infrastructure: this is what you get “on a tournament taking place on a beta feature like polls on primal”.66 Greaser, who had braced for worse, allowed that “It has been a lot less of a shit show than I anticipated.”67 Rev Hodl was reinstated live on air mid-boost-read, “because of a clerical issue.”68 American HODL accused the Bugle of running Dominion machines.69

The X bracket ran Node, Pioneer, PodConf and Hot regions.70 Uncle Rockstar knocked out Michael Saylor before the Sweet 16.71 Efrat Fenigson beat Lyn Alden after complimenting her,72 and as the only contestant alive in both Sweet 16s prompted a new doctrine: win “the Nasr and the Twitter tournaments, she would be the undisputed” champion.73 Greaser recused himself from the markets — he was running a bracket — and named Rev Hodl as his pick.74 His law of the format: “I mean, the the problem with Maxi Madness is anything can happen.”75

The X final was the first between two people from the same show: Hell Money co-hosts Casey Rodarmor and Erin Redwing, which Greaser read as a podcast rather than a person “won the whole tournament, I would say. You know, you had the cohost”.76 Rod opened the victory spaces by crediting the ordinals “dog army”77 and dismissed the bot allegations as unfalsifiable: “the idea that bots are voting in Maxi Madness is pure speculation.”78 Erin’s run was powered by a slight — “by being seated number 15 out of 16 in the hot bracket”79 — and Casey’s by a decade of groundwork he claimed had been the plan all along: “all playing the long game. So many selfies with Chinese fans, all playing the long game to win Maxi Madness. It’s all been leading up to this moment.”80 The trophy was a hand-drawn Pepe, commissioned overnight and handsomely paid for: “a hand drawn slop, nothing AI. Just pen on paper, Pepe.”81 Rob Hamilton took the pick-em and a lifetime supply of SoapMiner tallow soap.82 Yellow, three tournaments deep, retired on air — “the last Maximus I’ll take part” — extending the hand to the winners first.83 He had already spent the final in the Hell Money chat workshopping ordinals features with the enemy, which Erin called a moment of unity.84

The Nostr edition went to a 16-seed. Rev Hodl “won the tournament. Rev Hoddle, absolutely incredible guy,” Greaser reported, still surprised the zap-poll format had worked.85 Rod’s framing was that zap-weighted voting made the whole thing “social capital price discovery.”86 Rev Hodl’s campaign was permaculture: rather than extract favors he offered voters goods from his own circular economy — “you can get, a jar of maple syrup from me, a pack of my cannabis seeds, a free ticket to Lake Satoshi”87 — and donated the sats to the Bugle. The Meshtadel group chat delivered the upset of the tournament: “The Meshedale was the group chat that took down Odell in the semifinals, but they were there right with me the whole time.”88 Even the loser enjoyed it: “Even grumpy Odell” managed a couple of smiles.89 Noa Gruman was runner-up, and was subsequently adjudicated on air as probably a Pleiadian.90 Rev Hodl also supplied the year’s name, and the pun the ASR could not hear: “the whole Maxi Madness thing is software. Right?” — soft war. Rod christened the edition Soft War One.91

The bill came due afterward. Greaser described organizing it as “it’s like taking a macro dose of acid.”92 Maxis blamed the Bugle for Casey’s win, and Rod issued a formal denial — “The Bugle does not tip the scales, does not participate.”93 His actual explanation was shorter: “They won because they are hot.”94 Over 1.2 BTC moved through Predyx, “with almost a full Bitcoin paid to winners”,95 which Rod read as a verdict on the protocol war: “it is literally the market telling you that that, Maxi Madness is bigger than BIP 110.”96 The crash-out precedent was 2025’s, when Klippsten and Brady Swenson “were crashing out constantly in my DMs, the whole Maxi Madness.”97 For next year Rod proposed extending Nostr the IDF courtesy: an “announcement that, hey, Maxi Madness is about to start and it’s gonna go for a week,” so users can evacuate.98 His closing doctrine explained the champion: “don’t overthink it. Don’t overthink it. Just let the just enjoy the ride on the plug slot popularity contest.”99

Echoes ran into summer. Greaser read the meme coin revival as bracket fallout,100 and counted it his proudest conference moment to have got both hot-bracket winners into one photograph — Noa Gruman for Nostr, Erin Redwing for Twitter.101 Gruman performed the Maxi Madness song live in front of Peter Todd.102

Format and traditions

  • The vote. Public polls: Twitter/X, and since 2026 Primal zap-polls on Nostr, where a pleb’s ballot is worth three-fifths.59 Integrity claims are answered in regime boilerplate — “It was a safe and effective election”11 — a bit Junseth played straight back at the hosts in 2025, drawing “It was truly one of the safest and secure most secure elections in human history.”103
  • The committee. Anonymous, credentialed, unappealable. Snubs are a personal failing.21
  • The pick-em. Escalating prizes: a BitAxe and goodie bag in 2025,19 tallow soap in 2026.82 Won twice by 40HPW overachievers.46
  • The recap desk. Timmy Tether, on staff rather than on the bracket, producing daily coverage on Twitter and Nostr.104
  • The song. The Maxi Madness song plays the 2026 tournament out — “64 voices squirming through the feed”105 — and is requested on repeat by at least one five-year-old.106
  • The crash-out. Losing in public is the sport. Greaser’s 2026 over/under was “at least a thousand”.107
  • The omen. Rod’s standing theory: the bracket “is foreshadowing of very, something that’s gonna be trending big time in the summertime” — 2025’s edition preceding Paper Bitcoin Summer.108

Champions

YearChampionRunner-upBracketPick-em
2024[[characters/yellowYellow]]disputed — [[characters/michael-saylorSaylor]] or [[characters/giacomo-zucco
2025[[characters/teddy-bitcoinsTeddy Bitcoins]][[characters/michael-saylorMichael Saylor]]
2026[[characters/casey-rodarmorCasey Rodarmor]][[characters/erin-redwingErin Redwing]]
2026[[characters/rev-hodlRev Hodl]][[characters/noa-grumanNoa Gruman]]

Disputed

Who Yellow beat in the 2024 final. Two Bugle sources, both stated as fact. In February 2025 Rod offers the result as proof the tournament has no PODCONF thumb on the scale: “Yellow defeated Michael Sailor in the championship,” despite Saylor directing his simps to vote.109 In November 2025 he describes Giacomo Zucco as “runner-up of the inaugural Maxi Madness Tournament Championship two thousand twenty four.”110 Both stand. A 2026 group-chat push for “a Giacomo versus Yellow rematch” is glossed on air as a rematch of the 2024 final,111 which favors Zucco; nothing in the record retracts the Saylor account.

The compliance tournament is not Maxi Madness. The seeded page folded them together. The record separates them. In June 2024 Greaser announces a bracket “of 64 different Bitcoin companies” competing on compliance pride, and dates it explicitly against “our fresh tournament back in March, the influencer tournament, which was obviously won by Yellow.”11214 Peter McCormack won the compliance bracket and retired from podcasting on the spot,113 which is why Rod can say the only two people who have ever won a Bugle election are “Yellow and Peter. Both Europeans.”114 In the 2024 recap Rod lists the compliance tournament and March Maxi Madness as separate items. They are sister events of the same format, not the same event.

Corrections to the seeded record. The 2024 comeback against Hodl Magoo is by Becca — matched to Becca Amilee by elimination, the episode giving only that she is married and hosting the spaces.10 The seeded page’s “Stackchain Madness” fork has no support in the beats; what the record attests is unnamed talk of forking Maxi Madness.41 The seeded page credits Casey’s 2026 win partly to a promised “turbo flag” feature; the turbo flag appears in the record as Yellow workshopping ideas in the Hell Money chat, framed by Erin as a détente rather than a campaign plank.84 The 2026 pick-em prize attested on air is the tallow soap.82

irl: Maxi Madness satirizes influencer clout contests by literalizing them. The entrants are mostly real Bitcoin personalities, the polls really ran on The Bugle’s X and Nostr accounts each March, and the vote-buying, bot-army and crash-out arcs parody how Bitcoin Twitter behaves around engagement. The “safe and effective” and “most secure election” lines are 2020–21 pandemic and US-election boilerplate transposed onto a podcast poll.

Related: PODCONF Industrial Complex · Meme Gang Wars · Pledditor · Core vs Knots War · per-year records at 2024, 2025, 2026, and the site’s event page.

Footnotes

  1. Bugle Weekly 51 @ 12:00. ASR renders Maxi as “Baxi”; the setup at 11:39 is “Podkomp isn’t democratic… who elected this person to be the CEO of Bitcoin?” ↩

  2. Bugle Weekly 100 @ 44:21. ↩

  3. Bugle Weekly 100 @ 50:22. ASR “Maxey Madness”; Greaser’s framing moments earlier is “this is the Super Bowl of Bitcoin.” ↩

  4. Bugle Weekly 98 @ 47:25. ↩

  5. Bugle Weekly 103 @ 1:09:33. ↩

  6. Bugle Weekly 2 @ 45:34. ASR “Eric Cason” for Erik Cason. ↩

  7. Bugle Weekly 2 @ 36:50. ASR gives “Peter McCormick” and “Tom” for Tone. ↩

  8. Bugle Weekly 2 @ 41:06. ASR renders Bailey as “David Daley” moments later; “Dodge” is unidentified. ↩

  9. Bugle Weekly 2 @ 57:43. ASR mangles Stephan Livera to “Stetha Milvera” before Richard says “Stefan” plainly. ↩

  10. Bugle Weekly 2 @ 34:35. Medium confidence: “Becca” is matched to Becca Amilee by elimination. ASR also renders Magoo as “Mateus”. ↩ ↩2

  11. Bugle Weekly 2 @ 35:38. ↩ ↩2

  12. Bugle Weekly 2 @ 1:08:46. ASR “Pleditor” — Pledditor, not Matt Odell. ↩

  13. Bugle Weekly 102 @ 9:50. ASR gives “Pledger” and “Rob Palmer” for Rod Palmer. ↩

  14. Bugle Weekly 12 @ 20:36. “fresh tournament” is likely ASR for “first tournament”. ↩ ↩2

  15. Behind the Podcast 11 @ 42:22. ↩

  16. Bugle Weekly 3 @ 31:53. ASR renders The Bugle as “the beagle”. ↩

  17. Bugle Weekly 48 @ 53:40. Rod calls it “MAPSI Madness” moments later. ↩

  18. Bugle Weekly 51 @ 0:21. Read by an announcer, not a host; closes on “Let’s go dancing.” ↩

  19. Bugle Weekly 51 @ 0:39. “Podkoff” is the standing ASR spelling of PODCONF; the BitAxe is consistently “bid ax”. ↩ ↩2

  20. Bugle Weekly 52 @ 24:03. ↩

  21. Bugle Weekly 51 @ 4:40. ↩ ↩2

  22. Bugle Weekly 51 @ 14:18. ASR “senator Launice” for Cynthia Lummis; reason given at 14:29: “they’ve already been democratically elected.” ↩

  23. Bugle Weekly 51 @ 21:28. ASR “Maxey madness”; Rod: “I think a pregnant mom would’ve won.” ↩

  24. Bugle Weekly 52 @ 25:13. ASR “Fred Kruder”; “Corey” is Cory Klippsten. ↩

  25. Bugle Weekly 52 @ 47:55 — Late Stage Hodl’s 15,000-sat boost, read by Rod, who attributes the maxim to “Ludwig von Nises or Salma Hayek.” ↩

  26. Bugle Weekly 51 @ 28:46. ASR “Lynn Alden”. See memes/lyn-alden-is-hot. ↩

  27. Bugle Weekly 51 @ 26:57. ASR “my Max Kizer” for Max Keiser. ↩

  28. Bugle Weekly 52 @ 17:05. ↩

  29. Bugle Weekly 52 @ 30:58. The premise: “it’s thermodynamically sound to StackSats and not buy bots.” ↩

  30. Maxi Madness Victory Spaces @ 20:34. ASR “Lin Alden”, “Sailor”. Corroborated for the Alden semifinal at Bugle Weekly 91 @ 10:16. ↩

  31. Bugle Weekly 53 @ 24:34. ASR “first rap” for first round. This is Matt Odell, not Pledditor — the passage is bracket bookkeeping, not a purity test. ↩

  32. Behind the Podcast 13 @ 2:00. Junseth on his own loss: “I think it was Sailor who upset me.” ↩

  33. Behind the Podcast 12 @ 7:21. Rod: “Tenney Bitcoins is attempting to take Maxi Madness hostage.” The address is checked at 46:01 — no Bitcoin received. ↩

  34. Behind the Podcast 12 @ 2:29. ↩

  35. Behind the Podcast 12 @ 6:32. ↩

  36. Bugle Weekly 53 @ 1:24. Greaser also credits him with having “single handedly revived Bitcoin Twitter.” ↩

  37. Bugle Weekly 53 @ 2:13 — “it’s two for two to the Meebers”, ASR for memers. ↩

  38. Bugle Weekly 53 @ 14:56. ↩

  39. Bugle Weekly 53 @ 15:49. Heavy ASR: “tiny Bitcoin arrangements in it” is “Teddy Bitcoins derangement syndrome”; “Joe, Carlos” is Joe Carlasare. ↩

  40. Bugle Weekly 53 @ 12:51. The charge is against the Swan C-suite specifically; Rod exempts “the low level workers, the collabs at SWAN.” ↩

  41. Bugle Weekly 53 @ 18:32. Greaser reframes it as a chain split: “Maybe Bitcoin’s next block size war is the Maxi Madness war.” ↩ ↩2

  42. Bugle Weekly 53 @ 22:48. ↩

  43. Bugle Weekly 53 @ 13:49. ↩

  44. Bugle Weekly 54 @ 13:36. ASR “Beagle News” for Bugle News. She thanks Greaser “and the BugleFest board for renewing my contract” moments later. ↩

  45. Bugle Weekly 53 @ 26:12. ↩

  46. Bugle Weekly 53 @ 4:52; recalled at Bugle Weekly 100 @ 53:59. The entry was filed under “Rob Palmer’s love child”; the listener is “Cory AKA Broken Ruler AKA Boomer.” ↩ ↩2

  47. Behind the Podcast 14 @ 1:50:55. ↩

  48. Behind the Podcast 13 @ 1:57:53. Number 23. ↩

  49. Bugle Weekly 70 @ 14:05. ASR “Dieter Bob” for Deeter Bob. ↩

  50. Bugle Weekly 103 @ 24:01. ↩

  51. Bugle Weekly 62 @ 13:20. ASR “Adam Samecca”. ↩

  52. Bugle Weekly 63 @ 57:05 — “He’s in Maxi Madness next year if he keeps up his pioneering experience.” ↩

  53. Bugle Weekly 63 @ 32:09. The proposal runs to “similar to Maxi Madness” and “should Teddy Bitcoins be a core dev?” ↩

  54. Behind the Podcast 17 @ 29:31. Medium confidence; the opponent, “Mandrick”/“Mandrake” in ASR, has no page. ↩

  55. Behind the Podcast 17 @ 29:44. ASR “Matt O’Dell’s”. ↩

  56. Bugle Weekly 98 @ 45:38. ↩

  57. Bugle Weekly 99 @ 53:31. Continues: “with no rules except please respect the democracy.” ↩

  58. Bugle Weekly 100 @ 47:46. ASR “Erica Kirk”. ↩

  59. Bugle Weekly 98 @ 49:19. ASR “Plebron Noster” for “pleb on Nostr”. Greaser proposes it; Rod defers to “the Maxi Madness Committee.” ↩ ↩2

  60. Bugle Weekly 99 @ 54:11. Complaints procedure: “you have to write a handwritten letter to Israel, to Tel Aviv.” ↩

  61. Bugle Weekly 99 @ 56:18. The next cue reads “in Nazi madness.” — ASR for Maxi Madness. ↩

  62. Bugle Weekly 101 @ 23:13. He calls the tournament “a recalibration of what matters.” ↩

  63. Bugle Weekly 101 @ 21:43. ↩

  64. Bugle Weekly 102 @ 3:55. ASR “Rev Huddle” for Rev Hodl. ↩

  65. Bugle Weekly 102 @ 4:39. ASR renders Predyx as “Predicts”. ↩

  66. Bugle Weekly 102 @ 5:00. ↩

  67. Bugle Weekly 102 @ 2:58. ↩

  68. Bugle Weekly 102 @ 49:37. Medium confidence — the boost being read concerns a different match, and the reinstatement addressed to “Rev Hottle” follows immediately; read as the recount settled on air. ↩

  69. Bugle Weekly 102 @ 7:46. Medium confidence. American HODL (“American Huddle” in ASR) has no page and is a different person from British Hodl. ↩

  70. Bugle Weekly 102 @ 25:44 — Rod reads the full X-bracket Sweet 16. ASR: “Giacomo Siko” for Zucco, “Casey Rodemore” for Rodarmor, “Aaron Redwing from Help Money” for Erin Redwing of Hell Money. ↩

  71. Bugle Weekly 102 @ 27:15. ASR “Michael Sailor”; Uncle Rockstar has no page. ↩

  72. Bugle Weekly 102 @ 29:05. Medium confidence. Efrat Fenigson (“Efraad”, “Ifrah”, “Efrafinixen” in ASR) has no page. ↩

  73. Bugle Weekly 102 @ 30:26. ASR “Nasr” for Nostr; Greaser calls it “the Triple Crown in horse racing.” ↩

  74. Bugle Weekly 102 @ 23:08. ASR “predates” for Predyx. ↩

  75. Bugle Weekly 102 @ 24:35 — “the least likely scenario is what always plays out.” ↩

  76. Maxi Madness Victory Spaces @ 4:24. The “first time in Maxi Madness history” clause follows at 4:38. ↩

  77. Maxi Madness Victory Spaces @ 0:53. ASR spells Erin as “Aaron” almost throughout this episode. ↩

  78. Maxi Madness Victory Spaces @ 2:18. ↩

  79. Maxi Madness Victory Spaces @ 15:23. She beat Ross Ulbricht to disprove it. ↩

  80. Maxi Madness Victory Spaces @ 26:47. ↩

  81. Maxi Madness Victory Spaces @ 13:27. Drawn by “Tommy… from the BMAG handle”, who “got the call from Rod Palmer to make the trophy.” ↩

  82. Maxi Madness Victory Spaces @ 35:48. ASR “silt miner” for SoapMiner. ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  83. Maxi Madness Victory Spaces @ 32:51. ASR “Maximus” for Maxi Madness. Rod eulogizes him as “a Maxi Mattis legend.” ↩

  84. Maxi Madness Victory Spaces @ 22:04. ↩ ↩2

  85. Maxi Madness Victory Spaces @ 43:38. The preceding cue establishes “a 16 seed”. ASR “Rev Hoddle”. ↩

  86. Intellectual Silk Road 5 @ 0:36. ASR mangles “vote” to “boat” and “npub” to “end pub” throughout. ↩

  87. Intellectual Silk Road 5 @ 5:52. The list finishes with “a bag of Otis Big Meyer coffee” — ASR for Otis Bittmeyer. ↩

  88. Intellectual Silk Road 5 @ 5:23. ASR renders the Meshtadel as “Meshedale”, “Masjid Al”, “Metrodol” and more. This is Matt Odell, not Pledditor. ↩

  89. Bugle Weekly 103 @ 38:46. ↩

  90. Intellectual Silk Road 5 @ 54:42. ASR “Noah Gruum” for Noa Gruman; “Palladian” here is Pleiadian, the star cluster — not Pledditor. ↩

  91. Intellectual Silk Road 5 @ 22:25. ASR renders “soft war” as “software” throughout — the pun is the point. Rod: “this was the first soft war.” ↩

  92. Bugle Weekly 103 @ 4:03. ↩

  93. Bugle Weekly 103 @ 6:56. ASR “Casey Ordinals” for Casey Rodarmor. ↩

  94. Bugle Weekly 103 @ 23:44. The chapter is titled “Casey and Aaron Are Hot”. ↩

  95. Maxi Madness Victory Spaces @ 42:51. ↩

  96. Bugle Weekly 103 @ 8:23. The chapter is titled “Poor Performance by the Nazis” — the Knotzis. ↩

  97. Bugle Weekly 103 @ 26:45. ↩

  98. Intellectual Silk Road 5 @ 28:23. ↩

  99. Maxi Madness Victory Spaces @ 58:44. ASR “plug slot” for pleb slop. ↩

  100. Bugle Weekly 105 @ 35:40. Medium confidence — the surname is never spoken, but Casey Rodarmor is the only Casey in the bracket canon. ↩

  101. Bugle Weekly 107 @ 18:24. ASR “Nostra” for Nostr, “Noah” for Noa, “Aaron Redwing” for Erin Redwing. ↩

  102. Bugle Weekly 107 @ 18:54. ↩

  103. Behind the Podcast 13 @ 3:11. Junseth’s setup: the community “voted ethically and, with IDs.” ↩

  104. Bugle Weekly 52 @ 32:07. ASR “Noster” for Nostr; Rod also calls him “Timmy Taylor”. ↩

  105. Bugle Weekly 102 @ 51:48. The lyrics ASR-mangle “pleb slop” as “plump slobbing” and “Maxi Madness” as “Matchy madness” / “Influenza playoffs”. ↩

  106. Bugle Weekly 102 @ 45:55. ↩

  107. Bugle Weekly 99 @ 46:15. ASR “Teddy Bitcoin’s Jester Max”. Greaser’s number — “at least a thousand will crash out” — follows at 46:46, plus, uncountably, the Claude bots. ↩

  108. Maxi Madness Victory Spaces @ 21:07. ↩

  109. Bugle Weekly 48 @ 55:05. ASR “Michael Sailor”. ↩

  110. Bugle Weekly 84 @ 30:59. ↩

  111. Bugle Weekly 102 @ 26:49. ↩

  112. Bugle Weekly 12 @ 20:26 — “competing to show who has the most compliance pride.” ↩

  113. Bugle Weekly 42 @ 4:52. Medium confidence. ASR spells him “Peter McCormick” throughout. Rod lists “the compliance tournament” as a separate Q1-2024 item from “March Maxi Madness”. ↩

  114. Bugle Weekly 13 @ 40:00. Greaser’s setup: “there’s only two people in the world that can say that they won a bugle election.” ↩