PANDAPALS AFTER DARK 🐼

Host: Panda (@PandaPump_) with co-hosts WAGBi and Curtis Gore · Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2026 · Duration: 4:48:22 across two parts · ~16 speakers

TL;DR

• An impromptu Friday-night hang that started as a victory-lap after everyone spilled over from Toes's earlier room, and ran until roughly 4 a.m. Eastern.
• The spine of the first three hours was a marathon effort to help Larry Pink's Pool Party (and later Toes) mint a Panda on the base app — a saga that only cracked when someone realized his USDC needed to be base USDC.
• Real onboarding friction became the recurring theme: Curtis and Doji both pushed for step-by-step how-to videos, and Bill floated an Apple Pay mint path to kill the web3 learning curve.
• A long, genuinely good discussion on space cadence (daily vs. weekly), led by Peanut's case for scarcity and diversity of speakers.
• Kat (The Cat) closed the night with a heavy, wide-ranging deep dive: his grandmother's recent passing, a nine-figure private-sale scam he says helped kill the altcoin market, and an extended warning about AI, malware, and surveillance.
• Running warmth throughout: Panda repeatedly framing this as "watering the bamboo," giving flowers to consistent members, and shrugging that he "hasn't made any money on this project — and that's okay."

Highlights

[P1 2:37] Panda sets the tone. Driving and talking, Panda opened with gratitude and vision — "one of the deepest collections in this web3 game" — and leveled with the room that he hasn't earned a dime on Panda Pals yet, treating that as beside the point during what he keeps calling a 12-round fight.

[P1 4:56] "We CTO'd the space, bro." Wagby (@WAGBi_)^* recapped hijacking Toes's earlier room on the pandas' behalf and gently ribbed Panda for going shy and leaving Toes "on silence" after she gave him flowers — Panda conceding "room for improvement" while insisting he was just respecting her room.

[P1 9:44] The hole-in-one that wasn't. BeeCuzFuture (@BeeCuzFuture)^* shared he'd landed his first one-of-one — from Drop Dead Gorgeous — which briefly got heard as a golf "hole in one." He then gave a thoughtful account [P1 11:31] of burning tokens for it so he could get the art he wanted while making the collection more rare rather than flooring it.

[P1 12:46] Bear-market reps. Panda's "here's the kicker — it's still a bear market; imagine what happens when we get into a bull" landed as one of the night's biggest moments with the crowd. His framing: put the reps in now while it's hard.

[P1 28:16] Flowers for Toes. Panda credited Toes (@ToezOGToeken)^* for her consistency — spaces every Friday since an April 1st launch — as the thing that makes people stand out, one of the warmest beats of Part 1.

[P1 34:34 → P2 17:59] The mint saga, resolved. After nearly two hours of "connect wallet first," "sign it three times," and "this transaction is likely to fail," the culprit finally surfaced in Part 2 [P2 16:14]: Larry (@LarryPinkPool)^* had regular USDC, not base USDC. "I'm swapping right now… Let's fucking go." Payoff: a pink pandarina in camo smoking a pipe, plus a samurai-masked tricorn panda [P2 18:51].

[P2 24:27–38:14] "You gotta learn." The onboarding turned into a running bit — Doji (@TheDojiETH)^* offering Toes a spare panda outright, Toes threatening to just send crying emojis and leave, and Larry refusing to mint it for her on principle: "You gotta learn. You know what happens if I die? You gotta learn."

[P2 1:13:34–1:17:45] Peanut on cadence. Peanut (@peanutt)^* made the strongest structural argument of the night: a single longer weekly space creates scarcity ("this is my shot this week") and lets you hit every time zone, whereas daily rooms tend to shrink to the same core group. He tied it to his real gauge of a healthy space — diversity of speakers, especially non-native English speakers getting the mic.

[P2 1:27:38–1:30:11] Luna, called up and cracked open. Luna (@888_Societyclub)^* asked Peanut to stop using her as an example ("you're putting this spotlight on me, it makes me anxious") — then, asked about Tuesday's unrecorded mental-health space with Dr. Nicole, softened completely: "I learned how to control my anger so I don't kill my co-owner. It was like the best thing ever."

[P2 2:33:44–4:05:00] Kat arrives, and the room goes deep. Kat (@JustAC4t)^* joined right as things were winding down, shared that his grandmother had recently passed after a fast cancer diagnosis, then walked Bill and Panda through a nine-figure "community VC" scam he blames for the altcoin collapse, pump.fun's liquidity vacuum, and a long, specific stretch on jailbroken local AI models writing malware, biometric verification, and looming surveillance — with Bill connecting it to the OpenAI/Hugging Face sandbox story and AI "slop" flooding YouTube.

Topic timeline

Notable quotes

• "I haven't made any money on this project, and that's okay." — Panda [P1 2:37]
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• "We CTO'd the space, bro." — Wagby [P1 4:56]
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• "It's still a bear market… Imagine what happens when we get into a bull, the awesome people we're gonna meet." — Panda [P1 12:46]
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• "You gotta learn. They gotta learn. You know what happens if I die? You gotta learn." — Larry [P2 38:04]
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• "I learned how to like control my anger so I don't kill my co-owner. It was like the best thing ever." — Luna [P2 1:29:11]
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• "You're already on a list if you're friends with me, so it's okay. Just say hi to the NSA." — Kat [P2 2:34:27]
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Who said what

• Panda (@PandaPump_) — host, running much of Part 1 from behind the wheel; community-first philosophy, base-chain thesis, and the "water the bamboo / put one foot in front of the other" throughline.
• Wagby (@WAGBi_) — co-host and chief hype man; the one who pushed pandas hard in Toes's room and kept nudging Panda to be more aggressive.
• Curtis Gore (@curtisgore) — co-host; the base-app minting reference point (screen-capped his three-click flow), proposed how-to videos, and clocked out early on his usual short night's sleep.
• doji.base.eth (@TheDojiETH) — base-app advocate, offered Toes a free spare panda, and keeps feeding Panda links and ideas off-space.
• BeeCuzFuture (@BeeCuzFuture) — caught up on his job and kids; landed his first one-of-one and explained the burn mechanic thoughtfully.
• Larry Pink's Pool Party (@LarryPinkPool) — the mint-saga protagonist and a Solana LP hand; also New York/Jersey banter and an extended-warranties bit.
• Toes (@ToezOGToeken) — host of the earlier room; struggled to mint too, and cheerfully threatened to rage-quit rather than learn it.
• Peanut (@peanutt) — the night's best structural thinking on space cadence, scarcity, speaker diversity, and time management.
• Luna (@888_Societyclub) — comic energy and real vulnerability about the mental-health space.
• Rocky (@Rockchilld3) — welder-turned-part-timer and ex-musician; 200 audiobooks in a year and a take on Solana's seamlessness vs. ETH friction.
• Bill / BillabongMonkey (@BillabongM) — consistency and market takes, AI-slop on YouTube, and the cybersecurity thread with Kat.
• Kat / The Cat (@JustAC4t) — UFO researcher and OG; grief, the private-sale scam history, and the AI/security warnings that closed the night.
• Justin (@fivefortweeting) — on reading the room, listening, and finding your people.
• Hippo (@Hippo_bloat) — in the space since ~2013, launching his own project end of month.
• Pengy (@YesImPudgy) — hosted a small IRL NFT meetup at a brewery, already planning the next.
• Capstiller (@capstiller) — the Part 1 gaming interludes (Fortnite, the broken "bike game").

Worth a full listen

• [P2 2:38:00–4:05:00] — Kat and Bill's deep dive on the community-VC scam, pump.fun, jailbroken local AI models writing malware, biometric verification and surveillance. Dense, specific, and impossible to compress without losing the texture.
• [P2 1:13:34–1:26:00] — Peanut's philosophy on why one longer weekly space beats a daily one, plus the Curtis/Kat Suno battle-rap lore and the infamous 0.55-ETH "it's not graffiti" panda.
• [P1 14:41 → P2 17:59] — the full onboarding saga, if you want the slow-burn comedy of getting one person minted on base in real time.

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