The Incoming Era Of Collecting

Host: Super (@SHGFees), with cohosts Sho (@AgogoKaren) and Lyss (@Lysss302) · Sat, 05 Sep 2026 · ~1h33m · ~11 speakers

TL;DR

• Super framed a rare "just NFTs" Space: where digital collecting is headed, and what separates it from stamps, coins, and Comic Con longboxes. [3:48]
• Aspen Shredder — self-described solo collector, 10 years deep, ~7,000 NFTs — made his first real appearance in a Space and became the room's centerpiece, preaching education, high conviction, and "these tokens are people." [14:39]
• A shared philosophy emerged: don't buy one of everything. Concentrate on projects and founders you genuinely believe in, and support community members buying into good houses even when they're not your own. [24:18]
• Tim reframed collecting as backing builders with real business acumen (Yuga, Pudgy, Poppy, Jed & Lyss) over "quick roadmap" projects, and made the case for Robinhood/RWA-backed NFTs. [43:39]
• Celeste and Lyss turned the room emotional — collecting as memory and provenance, from a grandfather's coins to buying a first NFT with a parent at the Stefano's table. [48:xx]
• Housekeeping: a Sho + Tim cohosted Space teed up for 7:30, and Revisioning Web3 at 10.

Highlights

Super sets the table. [3:48] After a long musical warm-up, Super explained he'd done tons of deep Spaces but never one squarely about NFTs themselves — how they enhance collecting, and how NFT meetups might differ from a Comic Con floor. He admitted he had "a monologue up his sleeve" and mostly kept it holstered.

Aspen's origin story. [14:39] Aspen traced a decade in crypto — fly-tying, coin collecting, buying Bitcoin at ~$500, the privacy sector — into an NFT run he cheerfully called ridiculous ("went so hard it was ridiculous… wouldn't recommend that for anybody"). He corrected the record that he's a collective: "I am not an entity, I am one person," and framed a ~7,000-piece collection as a graveyard of trying to support everyone. His throughline: the market is tiny, the chain connects people, and retention beats hype. [17:40]

The concentration debate — friendly version. [24:18] Sho gently differed with Aspen on breadth: she goes all-in on six or seven projects she loves, driven by founders and meaning, not money. Aspen agreed it was an excellent point and turned it into portfolio talk — treat NFTs like a real allocation, high conviction, few names — thanking her for "the pushback."

Lyss on stewarding whales toward good houses. [28:30] Lyss clarified she's no wagmi optimist — "I'm a realist" — but loves steering collectors toward strong communities beyond her own (Quirkies, LT3, Fugs), citing holders like Dan and the joy of someone getting their first ape after real conversation. The point: support people being happy in the space, don't silo them.

Tim on builders over roadmaps. [43:39] Tim said he stopped chasing "next runner" hype and now invests in founders and vision — Yuga's restructured, leader-per-division company, Poppy's brand discipline, Jed & Lyss building distinct things. He then connected Robinhood's younger investor base and RWAs to NFTs: image plus financial backing as a genuinely new collecting primitive. [46:22] Aspen's response: "Bro, well done. I'm gonna follow you." [47:07]

Celeste: collecting as memory. [48:xx] Celeste, an investor building a game, reframed the whole topic — humans have always collected coins, stamps, jerseys, and it's the story attached, not the object. She spoke about coins passed down from her late grandfather, and imagined a decade-long "digital timeline" of your relationship with a brand. [50:49]

The Stefano's table. [59:50] Lyss shared the Space's most tender beat: buying an NFT with her dad at a particular corner table, then hearing Walt/Warner describe buying one with his mom at that same table. She recounted convincing Jed's dad — "if you think of the mafia… that's Jed's dad" — to pick his first regen, one he said looked like him in the '70s. Sho added that her 89-year-old father holds two Quirkies they manage together. [1:00:58]

Aspen wants to resurrect Adam Bomb Squad. [1:02:12] Pressed by Sho on whether reviving dormant projects is even feasible, Aspen argued they're not dead — pointing to a Jack in the Box collab, a whale holding 200+ bombs, and Adam Bomb's Disney lineage. He bought 500 of them not to make it about the brand but about reactivating good people: "It's always been about people for me." [1:06:57]

Slick Ric brings the sermon. [1:07:55] Cooking hot dogs and listening the whole time, Slick Ric delivered the room's emotional peak: the separation factor is people, not pictures; hearing Sho cry and watching the "aha moments" at the restaurant is something you can't buy. He pushed a longevity mindset — treat these as five- and ten-year plays, and position yourself to translate blockchain to the wave of money and companies coming. [1:13:45]

The bacon canon. [1:21:20] As the Fameless lamented missing the Stefano's dinner, Sho revealed Fifth was "shoving the bacon everywhere in his pockets and in his shoes and in his socks" to smuggle it home — prompting Slick Ric to stake his claim to history: he shielded the bacon first.

Topic timeline

Notable quotes

• "Everybody here is a collector in some way shape or form… we work our lives all our lives to build wealth, create money, and then we want to do something with it. I choose to spend my money on things that I am passionate about." — Aspen [18:59]
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• "It's not always about the object, it's the story attached to it… ten years later it's not just your wallet full of JPEGs. You have a digital timeline about the relationship you built with that brand." — Celeste [50:49]
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• "If you were like sitting in a movie theater watching Claynosaurz and you were part of the mint or part of building it, it's gonna feel much different than if you went and watched Toy Story and had absolutely nothing to do with it." — Jed [53:40]
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• "You can't go to the store and buy those feelings, you can't buy those emotions… I'm not a rich person. I'm rich in life, I'm rich in my faith and in God." — Slick Ric [1:07:55]
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• "I just want everyone to know I was the first one to shield the bacon. I've been shielding it since day one." — Slick Ric [1:21:34]
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• "When you feel empowered, when you feel like people are leveling you up… if you're in a community that's not doing that right now, you're doing yourself a disservice." — Lyss [1:30:19]
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Who said what

• Super (@SHGFees) — Host. Framed the topic, drew out each speaker, and kept returning to founder–holder relationships and retention as the real work.
• Sho (@AgogoKaren) — Cohost. Steaks and a recovering voice notwithstanding, argued for high-conviction collecting and asked the sharp question about whether dead projects can truly be revived.
• Lyss (@Lysss302) — Cohost. The realist-with-a-heart: steering collectors to strong houses, and the source of the Space's most moving family-and-collecting stories.
• Aspen Shredder (@aspenshredder) — The center of gravity. Solo collector, education evangelist, "tokens are people," and champion of reactivating dormant communities like Adam Bomb Squad.
• Tim (@tim_8093) — Made the builder-vs-hype and Robinhood/RWA case; measured on "we're early" given how many startups fail.
• Jed (@jed_131) — Deep-thinker mode: good intentions without business acumen only go so far; everyone here is a pioneer, don't take it lightly.
• Celeste (@CelesteWAO) — Investor and game-builder; reframed collecting as memory, provenance, and identity.
• Slick Ric (@richj530) — The room's heart and preacher: people over pictures, faith, and a long-game mindset. Also the bacon's rightful founder.
• DaFameless (@DaFameless) — Honest about getting drained, taking bags to zero, and still FOMO-ing; buy one, spread awareness, find your core community.
• Dark Moon (@Bryan36krun) — "Community compassion" and IRL handshakes as where the real alpha lives.

Worth a full listen

• [14:39]–[23:11] — Aspen's unbroken origin monologue is the spine of the Space; the summary can't carry his cadence or the way "education" and "these are people" land in real time.
• [59:50]–[1:01:00] — Lyss on Jed's dad and the Stefano's table, into Sho's story about her 89-year-old father. This is the emotional core and plays far better spoken than summarized.
• [1:07:55]–[1:16:00] — Slick Ric's two-part sermon on people, faith, and a five-to-ten-year mindset, with Aspen riffing alongside him on being early and being needed.