Gaming Apes Show Ep. 2,700,777

Host: SQUIDDY (@SquiddyNFT) with co-hosts Grateful Ape and siw.eth · Mon, 10 Aug 2026 · 2:06:52 · ~14 speakers

TL;DR

• A loose, warm Monday vibe show: stonk brokers on Robinhood chain flipping the Bored Ape Yacht Club by floor was the running backdrop, with SimpleFarmer (the dev) dropping in to talk shop.
• The one genuinely somber thread: Nifty Island is shutting down. JB, Makaveli, Otter and Bagel walked through what happened (a rewards-contract hack tipping the scales)^* and why they're not bearish on Other Side.
• Grateful and Squiddy compared notes on X's paid handles, spaces "rugging," and the 500k-verified-impressions original-content bar Squiddy is now chasing with a five-tweets-a-day plan.
• Ape Fest in Charleston is two months out; Baron is collecting side-event ideas via a Google form, and a basketball event is in the works.
• Two Fisters given away — a top-250 to Tony, plus one to happy war bird — and Beamer Boi got recruited on the spot.

Highlights

[5:56] The flip that started the show. siw.eth recapped Adit's trade: he sold his ape for a stonk broker roughly a week back, then sold the stonk broker and its tokens and bought two apes with spare ETH on top. Squiddy called it legendary and admitted he could never do it — his own apes are "the epitome of a floor ape for a floor guy."

[19:03] Squiddy and Bagel meet IRL. Bagel, for whom Squiddy was the first crypto person he'd ever met in real life, recounted their early-morning Long Island bagel run — and the lesson that walking into a deli after 11am "like an absolute chud" is asking for a wrong order. It rolled into a genuinely committed bit about cream cheese ratios.

[36:00] The Nifty Island news. Bagel steered the room to the biggest recent Web3-gaming story: Nifty Island going down. He praised its Roblox-for-adults user experience and floated doing a full post-mortem next week. Squiddy offered to host "a funeral for Web3 gaming" in a tux.

[57:00] JB and the builders process it. Just back from vacation, JB (who had toured spaces with Charles promoting Nifty right before the shutdown) suspected a gacha/rewards-contract hack — someone drained rare Pokémon cards — pushed the team past their runway. He spoke movingly about a teammate, Sloth, who'd run raids there two hours a day for nearly three years and now doesn't know what to do.

[1:02:45] Makaveli and Otter stay bullish on Other Side. Makaveli argued Other Side sits in its own realm — funded, patient, more social experience than game — and wasn't worried. Otter, a two-plus-year builder there and on Nifty, took the founder's view: shit happens, you keep contingencies ready, and "I'm just gonna flow." Bagel added that Nifty's most aggressive builders may now funnel into Other Side.

[1:29:18] SimpleFarmer on stonk brokers. The dev behind the project that flipped the apes by floor kept the same energy: "we're really in phase one… the boat is still at dock, and we're still putting together the crew." He framed it as infrastructure for other builders and repeatedly credited his time at Yuga/ApeCo. Squiddy owned missing the mint and buying in later to support.

[1:45:02] The Charleston streaking summit. Grateful announced a 1am Ape Fest "side event" — streaking through Charleston — sparking a debate about whether the run needs both a quad and a gymnasium. Baron gently noted that after years of "let's bail people out" talk, they've thankfully never had to, and would like to keep it that way.

[1:57:37] Beamer Boi's grand entrance. After getting cut off in a basement ("Am I rugging?"), Beamer Boi came back with full Beef Stew Radio energy — Vegas Ape Fest was his first exposure and it "blew his top," he runs a youth basketball tournament going since 1989, and he committed to buying his first mutant after NFT NYC. He was fisted before he finished talking.

[2:04:49] Sign-off wisdom. siw.eth's closing advice — touch grass, don't look at the charts, don't FOMO — got the show's biggest reaction as Squiddy amended each rule in real time: "FOMO is bad unless it's good."

Topic timeline

Notable quotes

• "I love getting lathered up in cream cheese, man." — Squiddy [22:57]
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• "Grief is nature's most powerful aphrodisiac." — Squiddy, on funeral crashers [37:57]
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• "Sweetie, we haven't missed a boat. The boat is still at dock, and we're still putting together the crew." — SimpleFarmer [1:31:40]
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• "The apes are doing big shit popping and little shit stopping, and I'm all about it." — Beamer Boi [2:00:44]
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• "FOMO is bad unless it's good." — Squiddy [2:05:16]
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• "If you are above 40, being a fister 100% helps you with a colonoscopy… real utility." — Grateful Ape [2:05:29]
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Who said what

• Squiddy (host, @SquiddyNFT): ran the vibe, evangelized bookmarks and the Fisters, championed IRL connection, and plugged his new sports-card startup Grails.
• siw.eth (co-host, @siw0bbyte): the steady sidekick — flagged Adit's flip, the "still collecting data" running joke, and delivered the touch-grass sign-off.
• Grateful Ape (co-host, @Gratefulape): trip-down-memory-lane on hosting through cycles, X handle economics, the original-content bar, and chief instigator of the Charleston streaking plan.
• Bagel (@Bagelism): IRL meetup story and the one who put the Nifty Island shutdown on the table.
• JB (@ClassicsCrypto): back from vacation to the bad news; offered the hack theory and the human cost for builders like Sloth.
• Makaveli (@MakaveliDlaCruz): Other Side builder, unworried — sees it as a social experience with runway.
• Otter (@NFTOtter): two-year Nifty/Other Side builder, pivot-ready optimist, teased "Grand Theft Otter."
• SimpleFarmer (@OxSimpleFarmer): stonk brokers dev; framed it as phase-one infrastructure, credited Yuga/ApeCo, confessed to skipping the gym since launch.
• Baron (@TheeHustleHouse): organizing Ape Fest side events via a Google form; WNBA hype.
• Beamer Boi (@BeamerBntlyBenz): high-energy newcomer / community builder, recruited into the Fisters live.
• Dupes (@acdupes): nudged Squiddy to give away more Fisters and ran a sweep-10 giveaway.
• BRAINPASTA (@brain_pasta): artist and OG Fister; shared the Charleston celebrity-plate story next to Burning Mac.
• Bebo harlemallday (@russheyward132): popped up to sort out Ape Fest ticket logistics for his crew.

Worth a full listen

• [56:40]–[1:19:19] — The extended Nifty Island conversation is the heart of the show and the summary can't capture the care in it: JB's hack theory, the loyalty ethic ("who are we ready to go down with the ship with"), and the collective case for why Other Side is different.
• [1:29:18]–[1:36:35] — SimpleFarmer's stonk brokers segment, from "the boat is still at dock" through the gym-and-love-handles confessions, is the best window into the guy behind the project that flipped the apes.
• [2:04:49]–[2:06:38] — The closing stretch — touch-grass advice amended live, the colonoscopy "real utility" pitch, and the group fisting sign-off — is where the room's humor peaks.

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