# Quirks Fighting Cancer w/ Papii and Sho — Special guest: theMiracle 💕

**Host:** Sho (@AgogoKaren) with co-host Papii (@RealPapii) · **Date:** Fri, Oct 9 · **Duration:** 1:20:42 · ~11 speakers

## TL;DR
- Quirkies launched year two of **Quirks Fighting Cancer**, this time as a $1 open-edition Quirky Recognition Card distributed inside MetaMask Rewards, in partnership with **theMiracle** and their **Pink October** campaign. 100% of proceeds go to a breast cancer charity; both teams are waiving fees [32:50], [36:00-ish detail at 37:15].
- The card actually **went live mid-Space** — Papii got the news on air at [1:07:16] and listeners started claiming in real time.
- Papii laid out the transparency plan: fresh wallet, OTC desk to wire funds directly, and due diligence on where the money lands (the Breast Cancer Research Foundation's 3x match was floated as a possible multiplier) [45:45].
- Piff debuted a new original song, **"You're Never Alone"**, written for the campaign — the emotional center of the whole Space [50:44]. COACH offered on the spot to push it through distribution to Apple Music and streaming [56:45].
- Papii announced live bounties: royalties from Quirky **199** and **2179** (both pink) donated immediately, plus a separate **$5,000 donation to a suicide prevention charity** tied to last month's exploit [1:04:33].
- Nearly every speaker shared a personal cancer story — friends, parents, cousins, spouses — which is really what the hour was.

## Highlights

**[7:24] — How the campaign started in the first place.** Papii rewound to September 1, 2025: the Quirkies acquisition, three people, "a bunch of files and folders," nobody sure what the back end even looked like. Within weeks they'd thrown together two t-shirt designs and donated the proceeds to Susan G. Komen. That scrappy first campaign is now a community tradition people were asking about all year.

**[8:54] — The quiet whale.** Papii shouted out board49ergirl, a low-profile holder who bought a stack of shirts last year and swept OGs off the floor to donate. She did it again days ago — three OGs, one with a wizard hat — which will be raffled/auctioned with proceeds going to the charity.

**[14:12] — Sam's story, and the hair.** Sam (@SamAdoption) spoke about a close friend — soccer, work, pals — who got breast cancer, was told he was clear, relapsed, and died at 39 with a baby on the way he never met. When his friend lost his hair, Sam offered the solidarity head-shave and then talked himself out of it on anatomical grounds: *come feel my head, I have a really weird shaped head.* So he grew it long instead, to donate. His friend loved that. Callum is five now, and the fire department still shows up for the family several times a year.

**[21:26] — Ash on the Quirkies account.** Ash shared that her younger cousin was diagnosed at 23 — the first in the family — and that her own mother was diagnosed in August 2025. Both are survivors, both in remission. She turned it outward fast: there are holders in the community currently in the fight, and the point of the campaign is that they aren't doing it alone.

**[29:04] — Gm's testimony.** Gm (@gmatoall) walked through four decades in a few minutes: her mother gone at 44 when Gm was nine, in a era before chemo; her father's leukemia at 21, before bone marrow transplants were really a thing; a cousin with colon cancer; and her own breast cancer, now approaching two years in remission, radiation only. Her takeaway was the clearest thesis of the hour — stories are the mechanism, not the decoration.

**[39:54] — Atlaz on why theMiracle wanted in.** Atlaz (@atlaz_karim) said the cause is personal — an uncle in late-stage brain cancer — and framed the partnership around distribution: theMiracle lives inside wallets like MetaMask and Solflare, reaching millions with offers, and this is a chance to point that pipe at something other than hype. He also reported MetaMask and Solflare committing to amplify Pink October [50:18].

**[45:45] — The money talk Papii insisted on having.** Rather than name a charity and move on, Papii spent several minutes on stewardship: a dedicated wallet, an OTC desk for the wire, and a month of actual emails and phone calls to vet where the funds do the most good — explicitly because "if you make even one little mistake, people will fud you," and he doesn't want the good thing to stop being the good thing.

**[50:44] — "You're Never Alone."** Piff explained that last year's track was "Fight With Me, The Quirky Way"; this year he went at the isolation itself. The four-minute song played in full [51:21], and the room went quiet. Afterward Piff talked about why he leaned into it [57:06], Coach volunteered to get it on distribution within a day or two [56:45], and Sho noted her husband lost his mother to breast cancer in his first year of medical school — she became the reason he became a doctor [58:10].

**[1:04:33] — Papii in the feels, writing checks live.** Admitting he was improvising on the spot, Papii put charity bounties on two pink Quirkies — 199 (rare mustache trait) and 2179 (pink raincoat) — donating the brand's royalties from whoever buys them, same day. He then confirmed the brand was also sending **$5,000 to a suicide prevention charity**, following the exploit last month where Sam's charity Quirkies were scammed and the community bought them back.

**[1:07:16] — Live on air.** Mid-walkthrough of the MetaMask Rewards tab, Papii got word the card had gone live. Gm had hers claimed in roughly two seconds — "you just hit it, connect your wallet, and boom, you got it" [1:08:45] — followed by Sho, and mints started visibly pouring in. Atlaz explained the cache delay for anyone not seeing the pink banner yet [1:08:22].

## Topic timeline

| Time | Topic |
|---|---|
| [0:44]–[4:15] | Last year's campaign track playing as intro |
| [4:15]–[7:24] | Welcome, pink fits, reposts, framing the day |
| [7:24]–[12:12] | Origin of Quirks Fighting Cancer; OG donations; new PFP and October badge |
| [12:23]–[31:03] | Community testimonies: Bullish Beck, Sam, Molly, Ash, Papii, COACH, Gm |
| [31:51]–[39:54] | theMiracle joins; QRC mechanics, the $1 card, how the partnership happened |
| [39:54]–[43:00] | Atlaz on Pink October, distribution, and Web3's lost community feeling |
| [43:00]–[49:52] | Charity vetting, transparency, skate deck + raffle plans |
| [50:44]–[56:02] | Piff debuts "You're Never Alone" |
| [56:02]–[1:00:48] | Reactions, distribution plans, Papii on energy and community |
| [1:01:23]–[1:06:00] | Atlaz's wrap-up; Papii's live bounties and $5K suicide prevention donation |
| [1:07:16]–[1:11:03] | Card goes live; claim walkthrough; first mints |
| [1:11:50]–[1:20:30] | Song encore, closing thank-yous, tears |

## Notable quotes

> "I said, so why don't I flip the script and grow my hair long until I could donate it." — Sam [15:42]

> "If you don't tell your story, nobody really understands unless it happens to them... But if we keep telling the story, it gets out and people start to help." — Gm [29:04]

> "Let's use it to make money, but give every cent to the donations, to the foundations, and make sure we have a real impact." — Atlaz [41:31]

> "If we want to be remembered, this is what we want to be remembered by." — Papii [1:03:04]

> "You made Coach shed a tear. I'm gonna be real with you. I had a little liquid coming down my face. I'm unfamiliar with that. But you brought it out of me." — COACH [1:18:47]

> "Anybody that listened to it and wasn't touched isn't really a person. They're a bot." — Sho [1:19:14]

## Who said what

- **Papii (@RealPapii)** — Drove the structure: campaign history, QRC mechanics, charity due diligence, and a string of on-the-spot donations when the mood took him.
- **Sho (@AgogoKaren)** — Host, kept the testimony round moving, and gave the closing read on what the morning meant for the community.
- **Ash on the Quirkies account (@quirkiesnft)** — Handled the launch announcement live while the song played, and shared her mother's and cousin's survivor stories.
- **Atlaz (@atlaz_karim)** — theMiracle's voice: Pink October, wallet-level distribution via MetaMask and Solflare, and a pitch for Web3 to remember what it felt like in the Clubhouse days.
- **Piff (@RealPiffsPeak)** — Wrote and debuted "You're Never Alone," the second year running he's scored this campaign.
- **COACH (@punkrockcoach)** — Shared his wife's two-time leukemia survivorship and her father's bone marrow recovery; volunteered to get the song onto streaming within days.
- **Gm (@gmatoall)** — Four generations of family cancer history, her own remission, and the fastest claim in the room.
- **Sam (@SamAdoption)** — The Frankie story, the hair, and the rescued Picasso Quirky now dressed in pink.
- **Molly (RGQ) (@SanaeMolly)** — Artist behind the new PFP, badge, and the QRC card; spoke about losing her aunt and a childhood friend taken in 20 days.
- **Bullish Beck (@BullishBeck)** — Came up, got gently bullied for it, and praised the apparel drop anyway.

## Worth a full listen

- **[14:12]–[18:08] — Sam's story.** The summary gets the facts; it doesn't get the pacing, the joke about his head shape, or the five-year-old named Callum at the end of it.
- **[50:44]–[58:10] — The song and everything right after.** Piff's setup, the full four minutes, and then Coach, Ash, Sho and Piff reacting in sequence. This is the part of the Space people will remember.
- **[1:04:33]–[1:09:35] — The spontaneous donations into the live launch.** Papii announcing bounties off the cuff, the $5K suicide prevention check, and then the card going live mid-sentence with mints arriving in real time.