Quirkie Connection with Papii and Sho

Host: Sho (@AgogoKaren) · Fri, 31 Jul 2026 · 1:03:55 · 5 speakers (plus a musical intro)

TL;DR

• A relaxed Friday community catch-up, kicked off with a custom "quirky drip" hype song and hosted by Sho with Papii calling in live from his sauna.
• Big news: the new Quirk City streetwear drop, a website relaunch, and the NYC-exclusive skate decks all land tomorrow at 10am, with a five-day ordering window (limited by time, not quantity). The team also expects to announce their first collab/sponsor partner on tomorrow's Space.
• Bullduck walked through the move to NOAT for holder verification and sales bots across Discord and X — a one-time, cross-community sign-in that tightens security against scammers and fake-Papii DMs.
• Papii recapped a first trip into the Other Side metaverse (Kirk statues, scavenger hunts, ape-coin prizes) and confirmed Coach and Piff were officially signed to team contracts.
• New recurring plan: use this Friday Space to spotlight and interview longtime Quirkies holders, with Liz floated as guest #1.

Highlights

[5:29] "No rug, no love." Papii nearly dropped off the stage seconds after joining — from inside his sauna — prompting a brief "he rugged!" panic before he reappeared on AirPods. He decided the whole Space might as well be broadcast from the sauna.

[11:55] The NOAT verification rollout. Bullduck (@BullDuck)^* explained the shift to NOAT for verifying holders and running sales bots for Quirkies, Quirklings and Inks. The pitch: a single sign-in that carries across every NOAT community, more steps that scammers can't fake, and a cleaner defense against the "fake Real Papii" DMs that try to broker cheap grails via three-way OTC chats.

[26:33] The decks reveal. Pressed by Sho, Coach (@punkrockcoach)^* let slip that the New York City-exclusive skate decks drop alongside the apparel tomorrow — quirky-branded, designed for the event, on the same five-day window. He and Papii sorted the logistics live: pick up clothing in NYC, ship the decks home so nobody wrestles a skateboard onto a plane.

[30:02] The sauna towel doctrine. Asked simply whether he was in a chair or the sauna, Papii delivered a full accounting of his session routine — a six-foot towel for the back, a four-foot for the chair, a one-foot for wiping his face, gray-and-black towels off-limits to the household, 12–14 big towels a week. Coach immediately began plotting a covert one-foot-towel heist; Sho pledged to swap the towels if she ever visits.

[38:53] Swatting Sho (vetoed). Coach explained "swatting" to a puzzled Sho, then floated doing it to her in the Other Side. Papii shut it down warmly — the team, he noted, cannot afford to lose her — and the running bit paid off later when he claimed to have written a "swatting Sho" clause into the contracts.

[41:15] Business is real. Papii turned sincere about the state of the project: a dinner with the team the night before, "real tangible practical conversations," sustainable revenue pathways, IP expansion and partnerships with big companies. He confirmed Coach and Piff were officially inked to contracts (by DocuSign, to Sho's mild disappointment).

[50:02] Spotlight the holders. Papii proposed reformatting the weekly Space: a 15–20 minute cold open, then bring up a different longtime holder each week to tell their Quirkies story — modeled on the spotlights Liz and Jed do. Sho embraced it.

[52:31] Sam's segment. Sam (@SamAdoption)^* came up half to get a long-overdue bio and half to make Papii procrastinate. He explained the punk-rock Corky he hasn't grabbed is tied to a pinned GoFundMe, admitted there's not a single quirk in his bag he'd trade, and — between references to fire alarms and flying off buildings — plugged the wellness/health chat he runs.

Topic timeline

Notable quotes

"No rug, no love. We're here. We're here." — Papii [6:03]

"The decks are hitting tomorrow… once it drops, you have five days to get those orders in." — Coach [26:34]

"We will not be swatting show. Because God forbid there's an accident and we lose her. We can't afford to lose her." — Papii [39:02]

"It's iron clad. I put some outs in case coach swats you in there." — Papii, on the signed contracts [42:32]

"I've been looking through my bag the other day. There is not one quirk, not one that I would consider trading." — Sam [52:52]

"If you hang out with the crazies, it's like Alice in Wonderland — we're all a little mad here in Cirksville." — Coach [57:57]

Who said what

• Sho (host, @AgogoKaren) — ran the room, kept the banter flying, teased out the drop details, and championed the new holder-spotlight format; also survived a computer scare that morning by migrating everything to a new laptop.
• Papii (@RealPapii)^* — called in from the sauna, gave the apparel/website/sponsor roadmap for tomorrow, recapped the team dinner and Other Side visit, and confirmed the Coach/Piff signings.
• Coach (@punkrockcoach)^* — the self-described devil-horns half of the duo; revealed the skate decks, handled drop logistics, and drove much of the comedy (towel heists, motivational self-talk, swatting clauses).
• Bullduck (@BullDuck)^* — the substance anchor, detailing the NOAT verification migration, sales bots, and scam-prevention education for new members.
• Sam (@SamAdoption)^* — firefighter and collector who came up for his bio, plugged his GoFundMe-linked punk-rock Corky and the wellness chat, and confessed his bag is untradeable.

Worth a full listen

• [30:02]–[33:52] — The sauna towel routine and the ensuing heist plotting is the comic centerpiece; the transcript can't capture the deadpan escalation from "am I in a chair" to snipers and hungry Dobermans.
• [11:55]–[20:00] — Bullduck's NOAT walkthrough is the one genuinely informational stretch — worth hearing in full if you hold Quirkies, Quirklings or Inks and will need to re-verify.
• [50:02]–[53:46] — Papii's spotlight-format pitch flows straight into Sam's impromptu segment, showing exactly the kind of holder story the new format is meant to surface.

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