LT3 #97 — Be You And Grow

Host: Super (@SHGFees)^* with cohost Sho (@AgogoKaren)^* · Mon, 10 Aug 2026 · 59:50 · 4 active speakers (plus opening music)

TL;DR

• Episode 97 of the daily LT3 space, built around Super's PFP-of-the-day: a mossy-hoodie, antennaed, alien-eyed character that anchored a topic of "be yourself and grow."
• The conversation turned into a warm, TED-talk-ish session on self-acceptance, self-awareness, and growth through pain and pressure.
• Cadarn returned after 10 days at a convention and brought several original poems and extended metaphors (gold, hills, mosaics).
• Sho closed the thread with a quote that summed up the whole hour: growth doesn't have to be forced when you're rooted in who you are.
• Housekeeping: episode #100 lands later in the week with a marketing rollout (Super hopes to get "Jack and Tyler" on), and everyone was pointed to Liz and Jed's 7pm EST space about "unvault."

Highlights

[4:39] Episode 97 opens, and #100 is coming. Super welcomes the room, notes that Tuesday–Thursday build toward LT3 #100 with a Friday marketing push, and thanks anyone patient enough to sit through the intro song: "if you're… just sitting through the song, you're the real MVP."

[9:24] The great clean-version discovery. Super confesses he'd long agonized over song vulgarity in spaces before realizing clean versions exist — "I struck fire for the first time or something" — and now blanks out all the bad words. A small personal breakthrough he was happy to bank as a win.

[10:46] Timeline OCD, fully disclosed. Super walks through his need to have a post between a space reminder and the space-start post, and the 3:59pm scramble to satisfy it. "If you want some insight into how my brain works, there you go."

[13:37] Sho's day and the regions whitelist. Sho recaps a busy day (dogs, baking, cleaning) and the real news from another space: regions landing on tier-one of the "bugs" whitelist, with Molly as artist. She's excited to try for one.

[15:10] "Gas war" without gas. On the omnichain mint, Super and Sho land on the same conclusion: no gas war, just whoever clicks first with the fastest internet — which, both agree, will not be Super, who still needs to master step one: being awake for it.

[18:06] The crypto-bro immune system. Super recounts getting sick after NFT Paris and a listener bluntly diagnosing the cause — you never leave your house, your immune system is weak — and concedes the guy "probably had some validity to his statement."

[21:03] Chicken Wizard leans all the way in. Chicken reads the PFP as pure Star Trek (the whale-saving film gets a shout as best-worst movie), then makes the topic personal: audiobook LitRPGs while rocking his baby to sleep, card games while working, and a life philosophy of embracing the nerd instead of hiding it — which, it turns out, pairs surprisingly well with being an MMA pro.

[29:00] Nobody's watching as closely as you think. Super traces his own growth to a Gary V line that stuck: nobody cares about the things you're insecure about because everyone's focused on their own stuff. That, plus refusing to feel ashamed of driving Uber and DoorDash, taught him to stop caring what the room thinks.

[40:39] Cadarn's gold analogy. Cadarn frames people as raw gold — no shine until heat and pressure from work, family, and hard times burn off the impurities. He and Sho agree the growth isn't felt in the fire; it shows up once you're on the other side of the hill and can see how tall it was.

[52:43] The quote that tied it together. Sho reads out a line she'd found: rooted in who you are, growth stops being forced and becomes a natural unfolding. It landed so cleanly that Super admitted there was nothing left to add. Cadarn immediately proposed a running "LT3 nugget" per space to capture takeaways like this one.

Topic timeline

Notable quotes

• "If you're in the space while the song is playing and you're just sitting through the song, you're the real MVP." — Super [4:39]
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• "I struck fire for the first time or something." — Super, on discovering clean song versions [9:24]
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• "Growth doesn't come when you're pretending to be somebody else." — Sho [32:14]
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• "Each of and every one of us, we are like gold in its raw form… when work pressure, friend pressure, family pressure, hard time puts a lot of heat on us, then our true self will come out." — Cadarn [40:39]
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• "When you're rooted in who you are, growth doesn't have to be forced. It becomes a natural unfolding of who you're meant to become." — Sho [52:43]
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• "Each one of us is a mosaic, a puzzle. But the most mysterious thing… I don't know the kind of mosaic I am, but others can see it." — Cadarn [50:22]
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Who said what

• Super (host @SHGFees)^*: Ran the show, chose and unpacked the "be you and grow" theme, shared the Gary V realization and his work-makes-me-feel-alive story, and marveled that the daily space keeps turning into a TED talk.
• Sho (cohost @AgogoKaren)^*: Grounded the growth thread — true self before real growth, self-awareness as the prerequisite — flagged the bugs whitelist news, and dug up the closing quote that summed everything up.
• Cadarn (@RendCadarn)^*: Back after 10 days away and clearly missed, supplying poems and the hour's best metaphors (gold, the hill, the mosaic community) plus the idea of capturing a "nugget" from each space.
• Chicken Wizard (@ChickenWizardX)^*: Turned the PFP into a Star Trek riff and a heartfelt case for owning your inner nerd — the same lean-in energy the topic was chasing.

Worth a full listen

• [40:39]–[46:59] — Cadarn's gold-and-hill analogies traded with Sho and Super on why growth is only visible after the pain. The back-and-forth builds better than any summary of it.
• [50:22]–[55:00] — The mosaic-community metaphor, the closing quote, and the "nuggets" idea arriving one after another; this is where the room's affection for the daily space comes through.
• [9:24]–[12:30] — Super's timeline-OCD and clean-song confessional, for the comic register the recap can only gesture at.

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