Quirkie Connection with Jaahshua and Sho

Host: Sho (@AgogoKaren) with co-host Jaahshua (@PEPESIGNS) · Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2026 · Duration: 1:23:19 · ~7 speakers

TL;DR

• The weekly Quirkies Friday Space, mostly a warm hang about the Blockies mint — where the Quirkies presale allotment landed and the raffle reportedly drew a jaw-dropping amount of ETH.
• Big theme: NFT NYC weekend (rebranded "New Quirk City"), with Papii walking through the event setup, whale dinner, and a slate of unannounced reveals.
• Jaahshua shared that he launched a meme token on the Stonkbrokers platform and mused on the new X algorithm crushing his main account's reach.
• Shiba King dropped an unplanned market read — Bitcoin holding above ~75k is bullish, with 82–85k a plausible next leg.
• Housekeeping: the weekly showdown runs after the Space in Discord; Bullduck manages prizes.
• The room closed on a full "New Quirk City" hype track that Piff cued up.

Highlights

[7:23] The Blockies raffle stuns the room. Sho and Jaahshua opened on the mint everyone was watching. Jaahshua noted a team everyone trusts was put in charge of the raffle funds, and marveled at the scale — "thousands of ETH... millions of dollars" — with Sho admitting she "had no idea there was that much liquidity out in the space."

[9:07] Presale receipts and a mystery refund. Jaahshua recounted minting his two allotted Blockies presale spots, paying for four, and later finding ETH airdropped back — which he read as the team quietly refunding overpays and "completely on top of the ball."

[14:07] Bullduck on the first 24 hours. Bullduck predicted the opening day of secondary "will be madness," with FOMO buyers overpaying to not miss out before things settle. His broader lesson: take profit along the way instead of holding out forever for a legendary — "I've missed so many profits from other projects. I'm not gonna do that again."

[26:00] The Uganda pump-fun saga. Jaahshua explained the token he'd chased — apparently a hacked national X account launching a "Uganda token" on pump.fun. He bought in "just after the top," watched it fall, and shrugged that it was fun anyway. Talk of government corruption tangents followed.

[39:04] Hot dogs vs. steaks at the whale dinner. Sho relayed the running joke that whales were getting hamburgers and hot dogs while the Regen table got steaks. Papii deadpanned the budget explanation, and Sho threatened to defect to the Regen table for a steak.

[43:26] Papii's full event walkthrough. Papii laid out the New Quirk City plan in detail: TVs on stands, printed banners, Kirk & Bones cardboard cutouts, a step-and-repeat with sub-brand and OpenSea/BAYC logos, looping video of the physical collectible's four colorways, and a kids' learning-app demo. Frankenpunks and Cabu will set up tables; OpenSea execs and Board Ape Club reps are expected. His pitch: reveals normally saved for a Space and a big post will instead greet people as they walk in.

[59:04] "65 million, bro." Coming back to the mint, Papii called the Blockies collab a humbling, unexpected win for a project long "outside looking in," and said he'd trusted it enough to stamp it and run a presale — leaving Quirkies holders positioned while others pray for one.

[1:04:39] Shiba King's second breakfast and market read. Shiba came up debating whether to get a second breakfast ("sometimes you just need the second breakfast"), then delivered a genuine breakdown: Bitcoin forming a bull flag, key levels at ~75k support, 82–85k as the next target, and 90k by late October "with confidence." When Jaahshua jokingly suggested 100x leverage, Shiba shot it down hard.

[1:17:45] The New Quirk City anthem. Piff cued the closing track — a full borough-by-borough Quirkies hype song — that Sho said was the perfect send-off into the weekend.

Topic timeline

Notable quotes

• "I had no idea there was that much liquidity out in the space. It just shocked the heck out of me." — Sho [8:04]
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• "The full moon is real. So a lot of people will over overbake big time." — Bullduck [14:19]
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• "Yeah, it was a tight budget. I have to pay Bulldog so much money every month to run the Discord. So we went with Oscar Meyer." — Papii [39:19]
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• "65 million, bro... for many years, quirkies were always outside looking in on stuff like this." — Papii [59:04]
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• "It'd be like Shiva, I could have swept 90 corkis, but instead I leveraged because you said so. Please do not do that." — Shiba King [1:08:06]
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• "And it's New Quirk, not New York." — Jaahshua [1:13:22]
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Who said what

• Sho (@AgogoKaren) — host; kept the weekly Space consistent, drove the Blockies and NYC threads, and played gracious straight-woman to the merch and hot-dog jokes.
• Jaahshua (@PEPESIGNS) — co-host; broke down the Blockies mechanics, shared his pump.fun and meme-token adventures, and battled a Wi-Fi gremlin (blamed, eventually, on his mom's arrival). Also building Cork Hub, the game, and a security bot.
• Papii (@RealPapii) — project lead; called in from the Parkway en route to NYC and delivered the definitive event rundown, apparel post-mortem, and the liquidity gratitude.
• Bullduck (@BullDuck) — from the Netherlands; grounded the secondary-market expectations, preached taking profit, and runs the Discord showdown/prizes.
• Shiba King (@Shiba_King1991) — dropped in for a clear-eyed market breakdown and a firm anti-degen PSA, plus the second-breakfast bit.
• PiffsPeak (@RealPiffsPeak) — building the reveals and videos for NYC; came up briefly, then cued the closing anthem.

Worth a full listen

• [43:26]–[50:28] — Papii's uninterrupted event walkthrough is the meat of the Space; the summary can list the pieces but not his energy about letting people "walk in and be a part of" the announcements.
• [1:04:39]–[1:11:44] — Shiba King's market segment is worth hearing in full for the specific levels and the running comedy of the leverage warnings and prediction-market tinkering.
• [1:17:45]–[1:23:19] — The full "New Quirk City" track is the send-off; lyrics don't do the borough-by-borough hype justice on the page.