Quirkies Sniper Sunday 🎯 — turtles, lings, and one very long story about a petting zoo

Host: Quirkies (@quirkiesnft) with COACH (@punkrockcoach) and Sho (@AgogoKaren) · Sun 14 Sep 2026 · 52:48 · ~7 active speakers

TL;DR

• Standard Sniper Sunday format: floor call-outs across Quirkies OGs, Quirk Kids, Quirklings and Inks — with Quirklings singled out as the cheap entry point (floor around 0.042, one pick at roughly $105).
• Mac (@maccurated)^* brought the room's big story: his friend Skip acquired Shellmates, and Mac spent his Sunday drafting free marketing strategy for him. Quirkies holders were already sweeping the turtle floor on-chain.
• That rolled into an extended, unplanned thesis on founder due diligence and "vaporware season" — check the founder's wallet, bet on ETH mainnet, buy nice traits in bear markets.
• Molly (@SanaeMolly)^* dropped genuine alpha: her favorite Quirk Kid snipe (3985) is the very first companion she ever designed, and the gummy-hair trait came before the Quirklings influenced the art.
• Sho celebrated a 43rd wedding anniversary (with pizza), got crowned "Chopra," and Coach delivered a birthday shout to Celos.
• Piff (@RealPiffsPeak)^* opened with two original tracks, including a purpose-built "Sniper Sunday" anthem.

Highlights

[1:57] Two songs, on request. Piff opened the room with "Bang Pow Boom" off his upcoming album and then a custom Sniper Sunday track — a full three-minute rundown of grails, traits and floor-sweeping set to a beat. "Started with a quirkling" became a lyric Coach quoted back later.

[8:46] Coach gets a producer's note. Coach launched into hot floors within seconds of the music ending, and Sho stopped him to point out he hadn't greeted the panel — or wished Celos a happy birthday. "That's what happens when you feel like you're the main character. You just forget shit," he conceded [9:19], before handing the room back and christening Sho the new Web3 Oprah, aka Chopra [20:21] — a name that stuck for the rest of the hour.

[11:17] Anniversary, celebrated by delivery. Sho mentioned in passing that it was her 43rd wedding anniversary, marked with ordered pizza because "we're homebodies." Mac's response: "Congrats. 43 years. That's fucking a good effort" [12:41], plus the observation that people who commit in the real world tend to do better in this one.

[12:51] Save the turtles, twice. Mac explained that his friend Skip — quiet whale, Quirkies holder, top fake rares holder — had just acquired Shellmates, and that Mac immediately swept the floor and got to work drafting a marketing narrative to hand over. He liked the setup because the pun runs both ways: the project needs saving and so, in real life, do the turtles [15:23]. Papi had reportedly picked up 200+ that day.

[17:32] The four-year-old test. Mac's stated method for evaluating IP: show it to his kids. His four-year-old immediately started assigning turtles names and ownership. "You don't get that when you show them some trash." Quirkies and Wackyville pass the same test.

[18:30] Coach's day, in real time. Given the floor to describe his Sunday, Coach delivered a one-year-old's birthday party in 93-degree South Florida, complete with a petting zoo — "I don't really understand how heat plus animals equals an unpleasant environment, but it does" — while Sho periodically asked what time of day he'd reached so she'd know how much longer this would take. He was only five minutes in.

[25:01] Molly's companion alpha. Asked for her top Quirk Kid pick, Molly chose 3985 — the sheriff hat, the matching outfits — then revealed the real reason: it's the first companion she ever designed. The gummy hair came from her earliest Quirk Kids trait work, drawn before Quirklings entered the picture, which is why it reads like a plushy Quirky.

[28:28] The vaporware rant. Mac's longest stretch and the closest thing to a thesis: buy nice traits when the chain is quiet (he cited a Bored Ape picked up under 8 ETH that had sold for 16.69 four weeks earlier), and vet founders by opening their wallet. "If I check a founder's wallet, I want to see a board ape in there... I want to see that you've got enough money in the real world that I can trust you with my crypto." He closed on ETH mainnet outlasting everything and artists who show up daily deserving support.

[38:02] Gm on the family in Georgia. Gm (@gmatoall)^* came up with news that her granddaughter, husband and great-grandson had left for the country of Georgia, where he plays pro basketball. Her three-year-old great-grandson is already in the 70th percentile for six-year-olds — dad is over seven feet. Coach's contribution: "tell the seven-footer I want to play him one on one. I'll just run right through his legs."

[46:39] The La-Z-Boy tangent. Somewhere between Inks call-outs the room drifted into recliners, Coach recalling that the only reason to visit his grandpa's house was the La-Z-Boy footrest, up and down, while watching Columbo. He caught himself: "why are we talking about lazy boys?" Sho, deadpan: "What space am I in right now?"

Topic timeline

Notable quotes

• "See, that's what happens when you feel like you're the main character. You just forget shit." — COACH [9:19]
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• "Committed people in the real world tend to do better here, just so you know, guys. Because it takes commitment to be here." — Mac [12:41]
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• "Man, I just love these fucking turtles. I couldn't stop looking at them. The price was going down, I just kept buying them." — Mac, relaying Skip [15:23]
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• "You don't get that when you show them some trash." — Mac, on the four-year-old IP test [17:32]
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• "I don't really understand how heat plus animals equals an unpleasant environment, but it does." — COACH [19:19]
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• "If I check a founder's wallet, I want to see a board ape in there. I want to see like 50 grand in NFTs. I want to see that you've got enough money in the real world that I can trust you with my crypto." — Mac [29:47]
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Who said what

• COACH (@punkrockcoach) — de facto floor guide: drove most of the OG, Quirkling and Inks call-outs, ran the closing "favorite Quirky for sale at any price" round, and supplied the running comic bit about being the main character.
• Sho (@AgogoKaren) — co-host and timekeeper, kept Coach honest on panel etiquette, marked her 43rd anniversary, and answered a hypothetical heart-rate question with an actual number.
• Mac (@maccurated)^* — the substance of the middle hour: Shellmates/Skip, bear-market accumulation, founder due diligence via wallet, and a closing case for ETH mainnet and artists who show up.
• Molly (@SanaeMolly)^* — drawing at 2am, picked 3985 and explained its origin as the first companion she designed, plus the history of the gummy hair trait.
• Piff (@RealPiffsPeak)^* — opened with two original tracks, checked in from the gym mid-workout, and later flagged 3498 and 4761; also relieved there are no purple curls on the floor.
• Gm (@gmatoall)^* — brought the Quirklings picks (589, 9672, 9323, 4123) and the family update from Georgia.
• StarDawgs (@StarDawgs)^* — brief drop-in, "busy building," excited about what's coming for Quirkies.

Worth a full listen

• [12:41] – [18:17] — The Shellmates story told properly: why Skip bought in, why Mac dropped his Sunday to write him a strategy doc for free, and the kid test for evaluating IP. This is the community-support ethic in practice rather than in the abstract.
• [28:28] – [33:25] — Mac's uninterrupted run on bear-market buying and founder vetting. It's a rant with actual numbers in it, and it round-trips back to sniping on purpose.
• [18:30] – [20:52] — Pure comic timing. Coach's Sunday narrated at real-time pace against Sho's escalating requests for a time check, ending in the coronation of Chopra.

* some voices are identified from context; those names are marked as likely.