A @Base Space 🟦

Host: Waldo (@waldoforrealz) · Date: Wed, Sep 2, 2026 · Duration: ~4h07m · Speakers: 17 detected

TL;DR

• Billed as a Base Space, it quickly became a four-hour community hangout — the actual "Base" content arrived in bursts between long, warm tangents.
• Wagby (co-host) pushed the Wagby cat-meme token and a Waldo-hosted meme contest; Noelle offered to bring in more meme-makers, and Mesh/Axel flagged the Base Creator grant.
• Abby confirmed real merch in production: hoodies, tees, and 222 custom OSHA-certified hard hats, numbered and plaqued to be tied into NFTs, with profits routed to the project.
• Doji delivered the genuine "base alpha" — Base app updates (working collection log, limit orders with preset percentages) — plus warnings that scams are now spreading through DMs and even the metaverse.
• Curtis, a 26-year window-tint pro, gave an unplanned masterclass on tint law and flat-vs-auto glass; the room adopted "proofer" and "swivel" as new favorite words.
• The Space closed by rolling everyone straight into Rachel's on-chain community call.

Highlights

[14:45] The Marlboro pitch for a smoking cat. After learning the algorithm keeps throttling posts of the cigarette-smoking mascot "Smoky," Waldo proposed going straight to the source: get Marlboro to sponsor the cat, "slap you on a carton of cigarettes," and bring him to the festivals. "People like cats, they'll want to tickle the kitty."

[16:15] The kneecap mission. Comparing notes on hostile DMs, Waldo described a stranger who told him to unfollow — so naturally he followed harder and is now on "a fucking mission to get this guy to send me a picture of his kneecap," conversation ongoing.

[18:37] IRL beats the PFP. Sin dialed in from Hawaii Tech Week with a story about a Solana Spaces contact who made eye contact and walked away. It kicked off a genuine thread: at IRL events "you can't hide behind the PFP," and body language shows who the real ones are.

[22:41] Brandon's thank-you. Brandon gave a plain, warm shout to Waldo and the crew for being what pulled him into Base in the first place — one of the room's most sincere beats amid the chaos.

[26:29] Base grants. Mesh/Axel pointed everyone to the Base Creator grant, arguing daily Space hosts onboard more people than anyone. Waldo said he'd rather leave grants for "real builders," while Wagby said he'd apply anyway — "at the end of the day, it's only four thousand dollars."

[56:48] Rocky's community-over-cabal thesis. Walking through his 125-supply Moth NFT collection's journey from Sonic to Base, Rocky argued the collective could "eventually have more influence on the culture than base chain can with any amount of money," and "virtually CTO their marketing division." Waldo agreed Base has been borrowing the group's language for months.

[1:30:36] Send Jonathan. The running gag over Toasty's "XYZ" handle spiraled into a debate over whether "Wagby" or "Jonathan" sounds more competent. Waldo's verdict: "Wagby sounds like a Jonathan can get fucking business done. If we have to go to an olive garden, break bread, and sign contracts, you're gonna want to fucking send Jonathan." (It was actually Julian.)

[1:37:25] The rules of panda ownership. With Panda himself asleep at the wheel, Waldo delivered the full care manual — no touching the pandas, no power-washing the pandas, no M80s in the bamboo, and "this is not a cult, so stop calling it a cult" — before pivoting to a documentary and OnlyFans business plan that Curtis correctly identified as panda porn.

[1:41:03] "Bass baby." News that Base Junkie's wife had gone into labor turned into instant congratulations and, just as fast, a plan to CTO the newborn into a "bass baby" ticker, complete with NFT diapers and a diaper drive as the good-Samaritan arc.

[2:14:53] Doji's actual Base alpha. Doji ran through real app improvements — a collection log that loads without crashing his 8k NFTs, limit orders, preset buy percentages — and credited the "bullish struggle-bus years" of community feedback for shaping it. Later he warned scammers now clone likeness, voice and socials, and will hunt you across the metaverse.

[3:55:02] Curtis's tint masterclass. What started as a joke about tinting sunglasses became a genuinely informative rundown on flat-vs-auto glass, thermal dynamics, plastics that off-gas, and why amateurs with a plotter break windows — the room's surprise educational segment.

[4:05:33] The Free Willy send-off. Waldo closed by literally shooing the audience toward Rachel's Space: "Go, go, you stupid animal. Go... Stop coming back... Be free. I love you so much. Be free."

Topic timeline

Notable quotes

• "People like cats, they'll want to tickle the kitty. Well, lighten up a bogey. It's good marketing. So we're in." — Waldo [14:45]
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• "Eventually our collective is going to have more influence on the culture than base chain can with any amount of money in their marketing budget, and we can virtually CTO their marketing division." — Rocky [56:48]
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• "Wagby sounds like a Jonathan can get fucking business done. If we have to go to an olive garden, break bread, and sign contracts, you're gonna want to fucking send Jonathan." — Waldo [1:30:36]
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• "It's the app we should have had five years ago. But I'm happy it looks how it looks now." — Doji [2:15:53]
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• "It says speculator on my bio, but I'm less a speculator than I am an actual art collector. And I collect what I like." — Carrie [2:22:44]
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• "Go, go, you stupid animal. Go... Be free. I love you so much. Be free." — Waldo [4:05:33]
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Who said what

• Waldo (@waldoforrealz) — host; steered a sprawling room from Marlboro sponsorships to panda husbandry, and revealed his own name is Anthony.
• Wagby ("Julian")^* — co-host; drove the cat-token / meme-contest agenda and cooked memes nonstop in the background.
• Doji^* — the room's builder-in-residence; delivered the real Base app alpha and metaverse-scam warnings, and volunteered to infiltrate a Burger King for meme research.
• Curtis^* — 26-year window-tint pro; the surprise craft-and-science segment, and the source of "proofer" and "swivel."
• Abby^* — manufacturing owner detailing Wagby hoodies, tees, hard hats, and NFT-tagged plaques.
• Rocky^* — Moth NFT founder; community-over-cabal marketing thesis and the day's push-up enforcer.
• Carrie^* — chain-agnostic Cosmos vet and self-described art collector; connective tissue to Midas, guitars, and Canada meetups.
• Noelle^* — offered meme-maker connections and updated his bio to "Wagme."
• Mesh/Axel^* — flagged the Base Creator grant.
• Sin^* — checked in from Hawaii Tech Week with the IRL-vs-PFP story.
• Keelo^* — window-install day, the hot-dog / "nip dog" saga.
• Pengy^* — marketing and event ideas, NFT scouting, dumpster-baby lore.
• Brandon^* — cat-meme maker; credited the group for pulling him onto Base.

Worth a full listen

• [1:30:00]–[1:45:00] — The Jonathan naming bit flows into the full panda-ownership rulebook and the "bass baby" ticker. Peak room chemistry that a summary flattens.
• [2:55:00]–[3:25:00] — The Burger King Dragon Ball Z "Super Saiyan sauce" brainstorm, escalating to Doji offering to walk into a BK in disguise for reference photos. Pure collaborative absurdity.
• [3:25:00]–[3:57:00] — Curtis's window-tint masterclass plus the swivel/proofer/fishing detour: genuinely informative and quietly hilarious at once.

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