Born live in a regens space, for regens and space hosts everywhere. If @recap_spaces follows you, you're covered.

The Wake up Woke Show | What is Stockholm Syndrome [Shill + Chill]

Host: doji.base.eth (@TheDojiETH) · Sat, 15 Aug 2026 · 1:54:21 · 5 speakers

TL;DR

An impromptu Saturday-morning "shill + chill" hosted by Doji that drifted from scheduling philosophy into gaming, the dead internet theory, and a long meditation on what "value" really means in crypto.
Doji explained the origin of his project home ($HOLM) — literally named after the Stockholm Syndrome of round-tripping shitcoins — and reframed it as a badge of relentlessness and never giving up.
BaseGold (@BaseGold_BG) walked through his gamified-staking gold-mine game and shared war stories about normies, wallet hacks, and social-engineering at crypto conferences.
Panda (@PandaPump_) gave an extended riff on the grind of community building, the "boulder from zero," and why early supporters earn a special kind of trust.
xDTECHx (@xxDTECHxx) represented the Pepe community, talked tech/security chops, and connected with Doji over League of Legends the night before.
Doji closed with a full-disclosure breakdown of home's liquidity, supply, and roadmap (membership cards, a beta in a month or two), plus a plan with BaseGold to link home into the gold-mine game.

Highlights

[34:21] The normie who complained about free money. BaseGold told the story of setting a father's-friend up with a Base wallet and gifting him a BG token worth ~$18, only to get a message weeks later: "What's up with this junk you gave me, man? It's only going down." Doji recognized the archetype instantly — his own dad calls him "Poppy" and asks how to get the money out because "it keeps going down."

[35:51] Time, elves, and scheduling. Doji opened the show's actual theme via an anime about a near-immortal elf traveling with short-lived humans, using it to reflect on how we perceive time — and to argue that over-scheduling your life on a calendar quietly flattens genuine human experience.

[38:39] Where did five hours go. A relatable aside on League of Legends as a "hyper bollock machine" that teleports you to 10pm — Doji making the case for being mindful about gaming time without pretending he's cured of it.

[41:24] AI, bots, and the dead internet theory. BaseGold wondered aloud how close we are to agents farming games for us; Doji and D Tech built it out into the dead internet theory, RuneScape bot economies, and a prediction that authenticity will migrate back into the physical world.

[44:53] Glass as the next chip. Doji went down a tangent on etched-glass circuitry from an upstate New York glass museum and checkout-free Amazon stores, tying it to a hope that reclaimed time could push people toward creativity and small, real communities.

[50:07] The birth of home / Stockholm Syndrome. Doji told the founding story: after round-tripping his bag to zero five times in a base room, he declared he had Stockholm Syndrome and decided to transmute it into a crayon-drawn blue house token — a symbol of belief and perseverance rather than a slur to fear.

[52:09] Everyone had a two-year plan pretending to be four. BaseGold's "baby bull" Mario-of-Solana project and the FBI/Toly "you'll go to jail for giving kids crypto" moment led into a sharp observation that the 2024 industry ran on exit-liquidity thinking with no long-term trajectory.

[1:01:31] The boulder from zero. Panda's centerpiece: community building is a Herculean grind of capital plus time, and the hardest part is pushing the boulder before it rolls. His door-to-door approach ("interested in a panda?") earned praise from D Tech for being refreshingly direct.

[1:20:14] The stars aligned the open-minded people. BaseGold recounted a San Diego meetup where a horoscope workshop found ~89% of the room shared an "open mind" trait — and the closed-minded 11% were the ones struggling. He and Doji mused, half-seriously, about how to find more of the open-minded ones.

[1:26:34] Consensus as a war zone. BaseGold described recent conferences as increasingly hostile — pineapple pagers at the door, a "cybersecurity" contact who dropped a wallet-draining Telegram bot at 8am — and framed his career pivot into security around the coming quantum/vibe-coding threat surface.

Topic timeline

Time	Topic
[3:14]–[10:41]	Intros, scheduling vs. living "on the whim," meeting people organically
[10:41]–[24:43]	Cat Town, the home game concept, mini-games, wide vs. deep building
[25:00]–[34:21]	BaseGold's gold-mine game, Florida, Coinbase Amex, normie stories
[35:51]–[41:01]	Time perception, scheduling, gaming discipline
[41:24]–[47:34]	AI/bots, dead internet theory, authenticity, glass tech, future of the internet
[49:38]–[59:14]	Origin of home / Stockholm Syndrome, exit-liquidity culture, 8–10 year plans
[59:40]–[1:19:00]	Panda on community building, value, trust circles, early supporters
[1:20:14]–[1:31:03]	Open-minded people, astrology in the space, IRL crypto events, security threats
[1:31:03]–[1:35:23]	Tokenized stocks, Robinhood synthetics vs. one-to-one, base/DTCC/Canton
[1:35:23]–[1:47:42]	Saturday plans, mindfulness, full home tokenomics/roadmap disclosure
[1:47:42]–[1:53:23]	Thank-yous, BaseGold x home collab idea, closeout

Notable quotes

"I like to just kind of experience things on the whim and kind of just like for things to happen to me." — Doji [5:23]