🍋‍🟩💦 Teaquila Time: pouring one out with @zubic_eth

Host: Mexi (@_queenmexi) · Wed, 22 Jul 2026 · 1:51:30 · 2 main speakers (plus opening music)

TL;DR

• A long, warm one-on-one between host Mexi and Space Riders founder Zubic (@zubic_eth) — less roadmap, more the person behind the project.
• Zubic's throughline: block the noise, do what feels right, and let fulfillment — not other people's demands — steer you. He calls himself his own North Star more than once.
• He owned the recent Shellmates rug he'd posted about, walking through exactly how he held himself accountable while others quietly deleted their tweets.
• Extended praise for Simple Farmer and his Robinhood mint Stonk Brokers, framed as proof that backing genuinely good, humble builders pays off.
• Recurring theme: keep IRL family and friendships close, because crypto is largely cutthroat and "every day above ground is a blessing."
• Mexi closes by tying it to her own IRL community work with local youth, and both trade genuine appreciation before wrapping. Tequila Time returns next Wednesday 11:30 ET.

Highlights

[7:43] A too-hood-for-the-morning intro. Mexi kicks off admitting her hype-up freestyle playlist ("Keith Lock") may have been "a little too heavy for the room this morning… I forgot we're not all hood rats 24-7," before welcoming Zubic to the stage.

[12:59] Tequila and a shitty Molson. Asked if he'd take a shot, Zubic begs off — it's early — but recalls shotgunning "a shitty Molson beer" and warns that tequila "catches up to you real fast," hinting at "some pretty scary history" with it. Mexi counters with her own origin story: she quit tequila at 20 after downing a whole cheap bottle to spite a boyfriend, and only came back years later via a gifted reposado.

[15:56] Who Zubic was before Space Riders. A "pretty average" middle child from Toronto's GTA, into sports, gaming and tech, who describes himself as someone you could drop into any situation. At 27, he says he keeps asking what the next 27 years look like, and that crypto's appeal is you can "wear many hats and do many different things at once."

[23:04] The hardest hat and the easiest. Leading a collection has been his biggest teacher and biggest grind — keeping relevance "against the grain" while 90%+ of people are only there for a payday. Growing a personal brand on CT, by contrast, has always come naturally to him.

[36:16] The advice he's glad he ignored. Zubic's centerpiece: most advice in the space is "selfish advice" from anonymous people who don't pay your bills. He distinguishes genuine, humbling criticism (which he takes) from noise, and says everything improved "tenfold" once he stopped giving strangers real estate in his head.

[57:10] What business could never teach him. The lesson crypto can't give you: real IRL love — family and lifelong friends. He frames online relationships as real but different, and warns that people lose marriages and friendships by over-indexing on business.

[1:09:30 / 1:11:00] Owning the Shellmates rug. Zubic recounts being gifted a Shellmates NFT, posting supportively about it, and then — when it rugged — quote-reposting his own original post to say plainly "I fucked up." He notes the slimy contrast: loud supporters who quietly deleted their tweets then reappeared to throw shots. "I'm a grown fucking man and I can do it."

[1:24:04] The Simple Farmer / Stonk Brokers story. He traces a call with Simple Farmer months before Stonk Brokers existed — Clutch Markets tech, an Ape Chain background, a humble, grounded builder — into why he publicly minted the "only thing on Robinhood" he'd touch, and why relationships with good people are the real flywheel.

[1:23:34] "This is a mid fucking project, Zubik." When Zubic downplays Space Riders as "very, very mid low cap," Mexi playfully refuses to accept it — "Have a seat, all right?" — arguing the community is one of the loudest on the blockchain and the low floor is a feature for onboarding.

[1:37:41] Confronting himself. Closing on the deepest note: the part building forced him to face was simple honesty with himself — taking inventory, confronting bad habits instead of brushing them off, and trusting his gut. If everything vanished tomorrow, he says, he'd still be himself.

[1:45:14] Mexi on IRL community. Mexi shares that she spends Wednesday evenings leading youth at church, has returned to volunteering, and challenges the room: we talk about "community," but what are we doing for the community physically around us? "You'll probably get more out of it than what you're giving."

Notable quotes

• "Every day above ground is like an absolute blessing because we have a capped amount of time on this earth." — Zubic [19:16]
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• "You are your North Star. Like everyone's always talking about what's your North Star… well, that's you." — Zubic [39:11]
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• "If you're not feeding me, financing me, or a-f-ing me… you shouldn't have anything to say about it." — Mexi [41:45]
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• "I'm a grown fucking man and I can do it." — Zubic, on holding himself accountable for the Shellmates post [1:11:00]
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• "Most of crypto is really throwing shit at a wall and seeing what sticks." — Zubic, quoting Henry from CyberCon [1:30:34]
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• "With all due respect… you're not gonna shock the space, okay? This has been done a million times over." — Zubic, on the parade of new mints [1:29:10]
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Topic timeline

Who said what

• Mexi (@_queenmexi, host) — Steered a friend-to-friend conversation, drew out personal angles, tied Zubic's themes to her own entrepreneurial past and her IRL community/youth work, and cheerfully refused to let him call Space Riders "mid."
• Zubic (@zubic_eth, guest) — Reflective throughout: on founding and leading Space Riders for ~5 years, blocking noise and following fulfillment, holding himself accountable over the Shellmates rug, championing Simple Farmer/Stonk Brokers, and prioritizing real IRL relationships over the cutthroat mechanics of crypto.

Worth a full listen

• [36:16]–[41:45] — The "advice I ignored" stretch is the philosophical core of the Space, and Mexi's "feeding, financing, or f-ing me" line lands it perfectly. Hard to compress without losing the build.
• [1:09:30]–[1:15:24] — The full Shellmates accountability play-by-play: how he posted, how it rugged, how he quote-reposted himself, and how the loud supporters vanished. A candid case study in owning a mistake on the timeline.
• [1:37:41]–[1:47:59] — The closing arc, from Zubic on radical self-honesty ("who would you still be?") into Mexi's reflection on serving her local youth. This is where both speakers get most personal.