GGs Level 18: Let's Talk Hobbies Outside of Web3

Host: BubbaGump (@BubbaGumpNCX), with Ninja Cat Live — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 — ~1:55:11 across two parts — ~14 speakers

TL;DR

• A relaxed, no-agenda community hang about everything except web3: 3D printing, motorcycles, running, knitting, gaming, lowriders, and a lot of ice-fishing mishaps.
• The room turned into a low-key confessional — MamaBear's "fictional" car-and-explosives past and StarSeed's 90s Melbourne stories had everyone marveling they're still alive.
• A long, joyful gaming tangent (Need for Speed, Mortal Kombat, Twisted Metal, Halo 2) proved the running theory that every gamer is "the best in the world" at exactly one title.
• Milestone celebrated mid-space: the Twitch channel crossed one million minutes watched [P2 28:16].
• The Space actually "rugged" and had to be restarted as "Hobbies round 2" — treated as one continuous night.
• Announcements at the close: a double-guest Side Quest Wednesday (10pm EST on Twitch), DDG + NoCredits on Friday, and a Sept 10 mint tied to "a tribe called Rick" [P2 1:09:58].

Highlights

The porta-potty saga and PFP confusion [P1 4:40] — Bubba opened with Cody's homestead progress ("the porta potty is key, dude"), then a viral TikTok bit about a kid's 18th birthday party where the party's whole appeal hinged on whether they had a porta potty. He also confessed Ava's new yellow-and-black PFP keeps fooling him: "I'll be in a space, I'm like, oh, no one's here, and then I'm like, oh shit, Ava is here."

3D printing is bigger than trinkets [P1 11:00] — Space (Wicket) shared he's studying for a certificate in additive manufacturing; he and Bubba geeked out over stubborn TPU filament in 101° heat before Bubba noted 3D printing runs all the way up to Boeing helicopter parts and in-house metal printing.

Wealthy on poetry, running, and music [P1 19:36] — Wealthy gave the night's most heartfelt stretch: a principal who championed his poetry with a graduation gift, running 10 miles as moving meditation ("I feel like I'm one with the wind"), and music as the love of his life that carried him through depression and anxiety.

"Cody's my hobby" [P1 33:44] — Asked about his own hobbies, Bubba deadpanned that he doesn't have any — "Cody's my hobby. That's really all I got right now" — with Cody clarifying, "just on Wednesdays and Fridays."

Photographers don't take photos [P1 36:53] — NoCredits explained the curse of turning a hobby into a job: at a recent family function someone asked why no one took pictures, and he and his 50-year-pro-photographer dad just looked at each other — "not us. No, we're photographers, we don't take photos."

The phone-in-the-ice-hole [P2 11:52] — Cody recounted a friend warning him not to drop his phone down the ice-fishing hole ("what idiot would do that"), then standing up to grab whiskey, pivoting, and hearing the fatal bloop. Five-months-old pro model, gone. This flowed straight into Long Lost landing on cooking and baking as his truest hobby [P2 12:44].

MamaBear, certified gangster [P2 13:22] — MamaBear stole the night: the "crazy bead lady" who made teacher badge lanyards, a self-described badass driver who taught all her boys to drift, and then a very "fictional" tale involving a borrowed vehicle, a guardrail, and lighting a car on fire down a hill on military property. Bubba had to step in: "All right, this is recorded. We gotta chill" [P2 19:37].

Slick's 62 Impala [P2 44:00] — SLICK RIC walked through his lifelong lowrider dream: a clean red '62 he's repainting green as a memorial to his late nephew (born on St. Patrick's Day), with "peanut butter guts" interior and a trunk mural to come. It sparked Bubba's own story of a show-car paint job that came back the exact opposite color he ordered — purple with a hint of green instead of green with a hint of purple.

Battle scars round-robin [P2 1:05:08] — The night wound down into a wince-inducing lightning round of childhood wipeouts: Bubba showing off for his grandparents and hitting a sand pile, NoCredits chipping his tailbone rollerblading in Venice hours before a red-eye, and NoCredits' big-T-Rex-toe tale of a tandem bike coming to a full stop on his toe (three days in hospital).

Closing alpha and the roast of Cody [P2 1:11:11] — Slick pitched Solana ("a little bit of alpha for your ass"), Bubba countered that "Ninja Cat is the new stable coin," and the room sent Cody to bed with a barrage of "rest them cheeks" jokes that folded in the night's new favorite word — klutz/clutch.

Topic timeline

Notable quotes

• "We're photographers, we don't take photos." — NoCredits [P1 36:53]
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• "Cody's my hobby. That's really all I got right now." — BubbaGump [P1 33:44]
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• "Get me on the freeway. Let's fucking go... I'm a badass driver." — MamaBear [P2 14:41]
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• "All right, this is recorded. We gotta chill. We gotta chill." — BubbaGump, after MamaBear's arson story [P2 19:37]
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• "You're literally on the smartest blockchain with the most upside... just saying, a little bit of alpha for your ass." — SLICK RIC [P2 1:11:11]
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• "I need to put my ass to bed. I got just under four hours and 40 minutes to go to sleep." — Cody [P2 1:13:02]
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Who said what

• BubbaGump (host) — ran the room, steered the hobby round-robin, and offered the deepest well of car and BMX stories (custom audio builds, the Fast & Furious 2 eclipse, a dragon-airbrushed Acura).
• Cody / Code.E — homestead-and-house updates, motorcycles, ice fishing (RIP phone), and the responsible early-to-bed foil who got roasted at the end.
• Ava — knitting and crochet queen; drove the second half's best questions (skydiving, snowboarding) and kept the shared photos coming.
• NoCredits — photography-as-former-hobby, family, camping on a New Zealand beach, and a tailbone-cracking rollerblade disaster; also flagged the Sept 10 mint / Friday stream.
• Wealthy (@WealthySupreme) — the night's soul (poetry, running, music) and later its gamer, holding court on Mortal Kombat, Tekken, and Tony Hawk.
• MamaBear — breakout of the night: beading, drifting minivans, racing, and heavily-caveated "fictional" tales of blowing things up.
• StarSeed Witch — 90s Melbourne misadventures and knitting as present-moment mindfulness.
• Space (Wicket) — 3D printing / additive manufacturing enthusiast studying for certification.
• Long Lost — gym, DoorDashing as social therapy, ice fishing, and cooking/baking as his truest hobby.
• Jacoby — snowboarding above all, plus wake surf, Halo 2 doubles, and a skydive he'd happily repeat.
• SLICK RIC — boxing and the gym, Twisted Metal nostalgia, and lowrider builds (the '62 Impala memorial); closed with Solana alpha.
• Shinygal — music and war movies.
• Keys — popped up warmly, ducked out for a call, promised clips for the open.

Worth a full listen

• [P2 13:22]–[P2 19:47] — MamaBear's full arc from crazy bead lady to freeway drifter to "fictional" military-property arsonist. The energy (and Bubba's "we gotta chill") doesn't compress.
• [P2 30:24]–[P2 34:27] — The gaming tangent in full flow: the shared law that everyone's a world champ at one game, plus a nostalgia avalanche of Need for Speed, Midnight Club, and dubs on donk'd-out rides.
• [P2 1:05:08]–[P2 1:08:41] — The battle-scars round-robin and the great klutz/clutch mix-up, a genuinely funny, warm way to wind a two-hour hang down.