brain.db. Local reference, not deployed.Span 2015-10-02 → 2017-01-27
Lanes audio_episode 68
Transcribed with distil-large-v3 66 · whisper-base 2
Quality flags 0 repetition-loop · 0 silent · 0 under 40 words
Rights unknown — may quote, do not serve media
LICENCE-STATUS.md
HAS NO SOURCE OF ITS OWN. Nested inside WCN, identified by title. 'You, Me, and BTC -- your liberty and Bitcoin podcast', hosted by Daniel Brown, Timothy Baker and John Stewart, with its own site and its own MP3 hosting at youmeandbtc.com; the episode descriptions link to the show's own MP3, not to a WCN one. WCN was the UPLOADER, not the author -- README.md 'uploaders'. Registered 2026-10-24 on Thomas's explicit instruction. Before this entry existed, classify() had no nested rule to match and fell through to the sources pass, filing all 68 of these broadcasts as WCN: every WCN figure published before 2026-10-24 includes them, and so does every WCN figure in the 2026-10-24 early-podcasts survey, which found this and left it alone because it moves a published denominator. Titled '... - YMB Podcast E###' and never 'You, Me and BTC', which is why a search for the show's name found nothing -- the same shape of failure as Today in Bitcoin. E92-E159 unbroken, 2015-10-02 to 2017-01-27. The run starts at E92 because that is where the WCN uploads start; episodes 1-91 were published elsewhere and ARE NOT HELD AND WERE NEVER HELD. Do not report 68 against a denominator of 159: the missing 91 are outside this archive's reach, not a shortfall in it, and no enumeration of them has been attempted.
Span 2018-08-06 → 2019-03-19
Lanes live 18
Transcribed with whisper-base 11 · distil-large-v3 7
Quality flags 2 repetition-loop · 0 silent · 0 under 40 words — filter on these before any term-frequency work
Rights own — may quote, may serve media
own production — nobody to ask
HAS NO SOURCE OF ITS OWN. Nested inside WCN, identified by title. A series under the WCN umbrella presented by Max Hillebrand. `kind: own` and `may_serve_media: true` rest on THOMAS'S 2026-10-24 OWNER DECISION (rights.owner_decision): "Max Rothbard show is wcn. We archive it like the rest and include it. He would want it. I know him personally." They do NOT rest on the earlier inference from WCN's 2018-12-15 episode 'How to Use Tally Coin and Support the WCN', which the 2026-10-24 playlist enumeration undermined by showing the strand titled 'with Max Hillebrand' alongside three other Hillebrand strands. That question was raised, flagged, and answered by Thomas — see WCN.wcn_carriage._RR_RESOLVED. Do not re-derive it from the playlist title. 18 broadcasts, 2018-08-06 to 2019-03-19. title_contains is 'read rothbard' and MUST NOT be loosened to 'rothbard': that matches 21 rows, and the extra three are a 2018-07-18 Mises University 'Late Night Rothbard Circle' and two 'Bitcoin to the Max' episodes that only mention him in the title. Two titles drop the comma ('Read Rothbard Use Bitcoin'), so the filter is deliberately the two words without it. Registered 2026-10-24 on Thomas's explicit instruction; before this entry existed all 18 were filed as WCN.
Span 2014-02-01 → 2026-10-04
Lanes short 1630 · audio_episode 1123 · live 878 · video 4
Transcribed with whisper-base 2096 · distil-large-v3 1533 · distil-large-v3 6
Quality flags 223 repetition-loop · 0 silent · 74 under 40 words — filter on these before any term-frequency work
Rights own — may quote, may serve media
own production — nobody to ask
Host channel for TIB, BTS and most of TBG. Effectively dormant in 2022.
Span 2013-04-21 → 2026-01-31
Lanes audio_episode 660 · live 46 · short 16 · video 3
Transcribed with distil-large-v3 636 · whisper-base 89
Quality flags 18 repetition-loop · 0 silent · 16 under 40 words — filter on these before any term-frequency work
Rights own — may quote, may serve media
own production — nobody to ask
A daily through 2014; occasional after 2018.
Span 2017-07-03 → 2024-09-20
Lanes audio_episode 254 · live 34
Transcribed with distil-large-v3 287 · whisper-base 1
Quality flags 0 repetition-loop · 0 silent · 0 under 40 words
484,037 words are physically held, but that counts a broadcast once per upload. The figure above is distinct broadcasts.
Rights own — may quote, may serve media
own production — nobody to ask
HAS NO SOURCE OF ITS OWN. Nested inside WCN and MB, identified by title. A session once reported it missing from the archive on exactly this basis.
Span 2013-10-18 → 2026-10-24
Lanes audio_episode 574 · live 502 · video 23 · short 16
Transcribed with whisper-base 778 · distil-large-v3 321 · distil-large-v3 16
Quality flags 335 repetition-loop · 0 silent · 4 under 40 words — filter on these before any term-frequency work
12,829,934 words are physically held, but that counts a broadcast once per upload. The figure above is distinct broadcasts.
Rights own — may quote, may serve media
own production — nobody to ask
Filed in three places at once: its own source plus the WCN and MB uploads. Its own rows carry no youtube_id; corpus.py backfills the link from the nested copies.
Span 2014-03-19 → 2021-05-26
Lanes live 182 · audio_episode 3
Transcribed with whisper-base 151 · distil-large-v3 34
Quality flags 53 repetition-loop · 0 silent · 0 under 40 words — filter on these before any term-frequency work
Rights own — may quote, may serve media
own production — nobody to ask
FOUND 15 OCT 2026, and it had been in the archive the whole time. A fourth nested show with no source of its own -- 185 rows across WCN and MB, 2014-03-19 to 2021-05-26, 59 numbered episodes, almost entirely the `live` lane (the call-in format: 'Call 1-708-23-COINS or Skype'). Until it was registered, every one of those rows was silently counted as WCN. Thomas already has an analytics site for it at /bitcoin-talk-show/ describing it as 'Bitcoin Talk Show on World Crypto Network, 2014-2021', so the show was documented in one part of the estate and invisible in another. This is the Today in Bitcoin failure repeating, and it is the reason to check for nested shows by TITLE rather than trusting the source list.
Span 2011-06-14 → 2018-10-08
Lanes video 92
Transcribed with whisper-base 92
Quality flags 0 repetition-loop · 0 silent · 0 under 40 words
Rights unknown — may quote, do not serve media
LICENCE-STATUS.md
THE ONLY PRE-2013 VOICE IN THE ARCHIVE. 28 of its 92 rows predate 2013-01-01 and the first is 2011-06-14; nothing else here reaches back past WCN/MB's 2013. Volumes 1-26 cover the June 2011 bubble and the Mt. Gox hack as they happened, which no other show in the corpus witnessed. It was ALSO the LTBX failure repeating: ingest_brain.py loaded all 92 rows on 2026-06-12 and they sat in brain.db, FTS-indexed and entirely unreachable, because `bitcoin_report` was in neither register — a later session was briefed that the show had zero rows. Registered and backfilled to convention 2026-10-15 (backfill-bjf.py): source_ids rewritten from `bitcoin_report:VOL_nnn` to the lane-prefixed `video:BJF_<date>_<ytid>`, and every row gained a youtube_id so CONVENTIONS.md §1 can be met. 'Brother John' is Thomas's shorthand; the channel is BitcoinChannel and the programme is The Bitcoin Report. NOT Thomas's production — rights `unknown`, may_quote false, until someone asks.
Span 2018-06-06 → 2026-04-19
Lanes live 197 · video 96 · short 30
Transcribed with distil-large-v3 321 · whisper-base 1 · distil-large-v3 1
Quality flags 71 repetition-loop · 2 silent · 14 under 40 words — filter on these before any term-frequency work
2,483,228 words are physically held, but that counts a broadcast once per upload. The figure above is distinct broadcasts.
Rights own — may quote, may serve media
own production — nobody to ask
No audio_episode lane at all. Best-transcribed show in the corpus (distil-large-v3); the four above are whisper-base.
Span 2014-05-01 → 2020-05-26
Lanes live 40 · video 31 · audio_episode 12
Transcribed with distil-large-v3 69 · whisper-base 14
Quality flags 6 repetition-loop · 0 silent · 0 under 40 words — filter on these before any term-frequency work
664,079 words are physically held, but that counts a broadcast once per upload. The figure above is distinct broadcasts.
Rights granted-reported — may quote, may serve media
LICENCE-STATUS.md
Uploaders
Rights carve-outs
THE multi-uploader case, and the one that taught id-over-title. One show, three channels, and the uploader is not the author. Its real extent only appeared from the UPLOADER'S OWN PLAYLIST: 27 evenings from 2016-2019 sit in the MB/WCN mirror under titles a 'San Francisco' filter never matches, which is why an earlier pass reported 2016 as a year with no meetup footage when there are six evenings in it.
Span 2014-02-27 → 2015-12-04
Lanes video 422
Transcribed with distil-large-v3 422
Quality flags 0 repetition-loop · 0 silent · 2 under 40 words
Rights mixed — may quote, do not serve media
LICENCE-STATUS.md
Rights carve-outs
`may_serve_media` is false while the syndication question in s3 is open — the grant is entity-level and Kenna-shaped, and sixteen author accounts contributed. Downgrade to quote-only until per-post attribution is extracted.
Span 2013-12-20 → 2026-09-09
Lanes audio_episode 673
Transcribed with distil-large-v3 673
Quality flags 0 repetition-loop · 0 silent · 0 under 40 words
Rights unknown — may quote, do not serve media
LICENCE-STATUS.md
Probably the most useful single acquisition: 2013-2026 unbroken, so it spans the whole window end to end and can carry a continuous spine that no other show can. Nothing on disk as of 14 Oct 2026 and no LICENCE-STATUS.md yet, so rights are `unknown` and may_quote is false until someone looks.
Span 2013-06-08 → 2015-02-07
Lanes video 180
Transcribed with distil-large-v3 180
Quality flags 0 repetition-loop · 0 silent · 0 under 40 words
Rights granted-reported — may quote, may serve media
LICENCE-STATUS.md
THE metadata-only case. The audio host deleted its S3 bucket and Wayback saved redirect stubs rather than bodies; the video survived on LTB's own YouTube channel. Episodes with no surviving media get a `metadata` lane row -- catalogued, dated, linked, no transcript -- so the gap is visible in a count instead of looking like an episode that never existed. See CONVENTIONS.md s8.
Span 2019-05-12 → 2022-08-20
Lanes audio_episode 126
Transcribed with distil-large-v3 126
Quality flags 0 repetition-loop · 0 silent · 1 under 40 words
Rights granted-reported — may quote, may serve media
LICENCE-STATUS.md
Not a separate show so much as LTB renamed. Kept as its own code because the titles and numbering restart; a report spanning both must say so.
Span 2014-10-05 → 2025-11-14
Lanes audio_episode 84
Transcribed with distil-large-v3 84
Quality flags 0 repetition-loop · 0 silent · 0 under 40 words
Rights unknown — may quote, do not serve media
LICENCE-STATUS.md
Rob Mitchell's show. Episode 6 is 'Adam B. Levine of Let's Talk Bitcoin' — a direct tie into the LTB material. Code is TBGAME, not TBG, deliberately: TBG is The Bitcoin Group and confusing the two would be expensive.
Span 2013-06-09 → 2020-03-16
Lanes video 775
Transcribed with distil-large-v3 775
Quality flags 0 repetition-loop · 0 silent · 1 under 40 words
4,790,012 words are physically held, but that counts a broadcast once per upload. The figure above is distinct broadcasts.
Rights granted-reported — may quote, may serve media
LICENCE-STATUS.md
Everything on the LTB channel that is not a numbered flagship episode: talks, sibling shows, interviews. 775 videos, the largest single body of acquired material after Epicenter. Was in the drive registry as LTBX and MISSING from this one until 15 Oct 2026 -- found by reconciling the two.
Span — no date resolved for this show's rows; not a claim that there are none
Lanes video 369
Transcribed with distil-large-v3 369
Quality flags 0 repetition-loop · 0 silent · 0 under 40 words
Rights unknown — may quote, do not serve media
LICENCE-STATUS.md
Rights carve-outs
THE ADVERSARIAL CONTEMPORARY THE CORPUS LACKS. 29.9M of 30.9M words are Thomas's own network, so this is the one acquisition that changes what KIND of question the archive can answer rather than how much of the same answer it holds. 49 mentions across his shows (TBG 25, WCN 18, BTS 4, MB 2) and Chris DeRose appears IN them six times as guest or panelist. Survival is the Let's Talk Bitcoin pattern with a twist: own YouTube channel 404, SoundCloud feed gutted to 4 episodes, archive.org empty -- and 371 files intact on Jameson Lopp's personal mirror, a third party with no institution behind it. Found 15 Oct 2026 by asking the survival question once per host instead of once per show (CONVENTIONS.md s8). ACQUIRED IN FULL 15 Oct 2026: 371/371 files, 122.5 GB, every one size-verified against the server's Content-Length and SHA-256 recorded, because this is a single-host rescue and our copy is now effectively the copy. Junseth's one appearance on Thomas's shows was also found that day -- The Bitcoin Group #138, 2017-04-21, tier A -- under the affiliation 'Bitcoin Uncensored Classic', the show he continued alone after the 2017 split.
Not ingested. No transcript records exist in brain.db yet, so this show has no word count — which is not the same as zero words.
Rights unknown — may quote, do not serve media
LICENCE-STATUS.md
Rights carve-outs
THE FIRST NON-CRYPTO SHOW IN THE REGISTER, and the first registered on preservation grounds alone rather than because it answers a question the corpus already asks. Requested by Thomas 19 Oct 2026 against the risk of the channel disappearing from YouTube. Identity resolved from one video id he supplied (7TgK7HPvsIE, an episode uploaded that same day) via the oEmbed endpoint, because the player endpoint was bot-gated. THE IMPORTANT FINDING IS A NEGATIVE ONE: the channel begins in October 2020 and holds nothing from before it. Olbermann's MSNBC 'Countdown' run of 2003-2011, the Special Comment editorials included, is NBCUniversal's property and is on no channel he controls -- zero title matches for 'Special Comment' across all 1,365 items. If 'before Trump took over' means before 2017, this channel is the wrong host for it and CONVENTIONS.md s8 applies: ask the survival question once per host, not once per show. That material is an acquisition-candidates question, not something this registration answers.
Not ingested. No transcript records exist in brain.db yet, so this show has no word count — which is not the same as zero words.
Rights unknown — may quote, do not serve media
LICENCE-STATUS.md
Rights carve-outs
Requested by Thomas 19 Oct 2026 as 'a series of podcasts with vanity fair or something'. IT IS GQ, NOT VANITY FAIR -- same publisher group, Condé Nast, which is where the memory blurred. Whether a distinct AUDIO podcast exists, as opposed to the video web series, is NOT ESTABLISHED and he may have been thinking of one; that is an open question, not a settled no. THE FIND THAT MATTERS: the series was renamed mid-run, so 41 episodes from Sept-Nov 2016 sit under 'The Closer' and are invisible to any search for 'The Resistance'. That 2016 run is the pre-inauguration Olbermann material the archive otherwise lacks entirely.
Span 2018-01-14 → 2018-10-29
Lanes live 39
Transcribed with distil-large-v3 39
Quality flags 0 repetition-loop · 0 silent · 0 under 40 words
Rights unknown — may quote, do not serve media
no LICENCE-STATUS.md on file
39 numbered + 8 'Special' items per the carriage survey; 39 rows measured in brain.db under this title. Episode #37 describes Hoffman as 'of CryptoGoldCentral.com AND the World Crypto Network' -- a WCN presenter, not a mirrored outsider. cryptogoldcentral.com is LIVE but dormant since 2022-02-18 and its WordPress /feed/ is CONFIRMED GONE (404), so even the presenter's own site is not a route to the audio. Separate strand 'One-on-One w/Andy Hoffman' is NOT part of this show and is still unassessed.
Span 2014-06-21 → 2014-10-29
Lanes live 22 · audio_episode 4
Transcribed with whisper-base 18 · distil-large-v3 8
Quality flags 5 repetition-loop · 0 silent · 0 under 40 words — filter on these before any term-frequency work
Rights unknown — may quote, do not serve media
no LICENCE-STATUS.md on file
Ellis had his own Patreon, his own BTC address distinct from WCN's, his own Bitmessage address and his own Amazon affiliate tag -- but no site, RSS or channel of his own. Every copy is on WCN.
Span 2019-02-02 → 2020-09-03
Lanes audio_episode 36
Transcribed with distil-large-v3 36
Quality flags 0 repetition-loop · 0 silent · 0 under 40 words
Rights unknown — may quote, do not serve media
no LICENCE-STATUS.md on file
40 items in the WCN playlist, 36 rows measured in brain.db. Video-first hardware tutorials, which is why this strand has zero Mixcloud presence -- relevant because the Mixcloud collection is NOT a fallback for it. github.com/arcbtc links throughout the descriptions.
Span 2019-05-09 → 2019-06-25
Lanes audio_episode 26
Transcribed with distil-large-v3 26
Quality flags 0 repetition-loop · 0 silent · 0 under 40 words
Rights unknown — may quote, do not serve media
no LICENCE-STATUS.md on file
A ~5-week daily short-form markets run; 26 rows. Same sign-off as BTCIOT in both earliest and later episodes. Same host as BTCIOT but a different show -- kept separate deliberately.
Span 2019-08-22 → 2019-10-31
Lanes audio_episode 7 · live 2
Transcribed with distil-large-v3 9
Quality flags 0 repetition-loop · 0 silent · 0 under 40 words
Rights unknown — may quote, do not serve media
no LICENCE-STATUS.md on file
9 items, numbered #2-#10 -- #1 is not public, so the run is incomplete at the source and 9 is a holding, not a total. Confidence on the `contributed` classification is medium-high and REST ON ABSENCE OF EVIDENCE: a 25-result YouTube search returned only WCN uploads. Absence of a found independent home is not proof none existed. Dupree was a recurring WCN contributor with a separate strand of his own ('Hi Everybody with Mike Dupree', still unassessed).
Span 2014-07-31 → 2015-01-29
Lanes audio_episode 13
Transcribed with distil-large-v3 9 · whisper-base 4
Quality flags 1 repetition-loop · 0 silent · 0 under 40 words — filter on these before any term-frequency work
Rights unknown — may quote, do not serve media
no LICENCE-STATUS.md on file
Episode 1: 'a weekly interview show by M.K. Lords ... if you care to donate to this one woman show' with HER address, not WCN's -- which reads independent. But no independent distribution ever existed -- which reads contributed. And Thomas appears as a GUEST on episode 8, which weighs against a WCN house product. Flagged rather than forced. The plan's prose s1.2 lists this among six `contributed` strands; the structured survey it was written from says `undetermined`. The survey wins.
Where these numbers come from. Every figure is generated from
brain.db by corpus.py holdings and rendered by
build-timeline.py. Nothing on this page is typed by hand. Re-run both
after an ingest.
LICENCE-STATUS.md; the card
links to it. That file is the authority and the registry is an index to it.Full documentation: /reports/CORPUS.md ·
conventions: /reports/CONVENTIONS.md ·
register: /_scripts/corpus/shows.json