COYOTES AND CROWS — Tiny Vikings, bots, and a three-hour Latino goodbye

Host: UNCLE CORVUS (@unclecorvus) with co-host Margie B (@MargieAponte2) · Sat 12 Sep 2026 · 3:21:55 · ~10 speakers

TL;DR

• Lars (Tiny Vikings)^* dropped event dates live: a Tiny meetup at the Charleston, SC event on Oct 17, New York around the 19th, and Marfa, Texas Oct 22–25 [8:52], [11:21].
• Uncle Corvus laid out the Blackfeather mission — an official partnership with Destiny Rescue, monthly ticketed challenges through the Blackfeather run app, 100% of ticket funds going straight to Destiny Rescue with no link back to him [20:08], [23:17].
• Berserk Bill talked through bots by Bill / Scholars: 0.2 SOL mint, no rarities, a token with 50% of supply locked until 2068 designed to pay out to each NFT monthly, and NFTs earmarked for charities [1:56:33], [2:01:00].
• Bill then gave away three Scholars NFTs on the spot to Liz, Ryan and Donny Ðoge — and Uncle promised three more bots by Bill given away live next week [2:23:19], [2:25:33], [2:07:59].
• A first-time listener, Shandy from northwest Arkansas, wandered in off the title, offered her 13 wooded acres for a Blackfeather IRL event, and got pulled into the group chat [15:40], [25:36].
• Long middle stretch on community ethics: no shaming people for selling NFTs or leaving group chats, and a pitch to flip the NFT model — lead with product, use the NFT as the gym fob card [1:15:13], [1:23:49].

Highlights

The Tiny Viking arithmetic problem [7:25] — Uncle Corvus explained how a comfortable 12 became 25, then 27 ("that's an odd number, you can't have odd number"), then 43, then a blackout: "I blinked and I was at like 94." Kraken status sits at 96, but the OCD demanded a round hundred. Lady Corvus, listening from the audience, suggested he at least stop at 101.

Lars brings the tour dates [8:52] — Between two dropped connections, Lars got out the Tiny Vikings meetup plan: Charleston on Oct 17, New York around the 19th, and Marfa, Texas Oct 22–25, where they're hoping to set up a tiny showcase featuring other artists from the space. He'd never been to Marfa but had heard it was one of the most epic events going [11:21].

Shandy arrives from the Ozarks [15:40] — A stranger joined purely on the strength of the title: she has a coyote-mix dog and crows that "piss me off because they're just doing crow things." Thirteen acres in northwest Arkansas, Civil War ghosts included [29:56]. By [25:36] she'd offered the land for a Blackfeather event, and Uncle was already speccing a shooting range, mortars and a front desk. Lady Corvus, meanwhile, quietly started house-hunting in the conversation [25:52].

The mission, stated plainly [20:08] — Asked what the room actually was, Uncle Corvus described Blackfeather as a syndicate aimed at getting every trafficked child out of every shadow, executed through community collaborations and the run app. At [23:17] he explained the Destiny Rescue partnership and why he deliberately made it impossible for money to pass through his hands: "I don't even have a link… I don't want to touch one dollar."

"Have no fear" [43:29] — Shandy asked the Christians in the room whether AI was going to kill everyone. Uncle answered straight: fight principalities, not people; hate the sin, not the sinner; raise the brethren. It ended on the line about sacrifice and surrender [44:56]. Lady Corvus followed with Joshua 1:9 and 1 Peter 5:8, plus the reminder that being loving doesn't cancel boundaries [47:06].

The Yowie briefing [58:46] — Australian cryptid hour: two kinds of Yowie, the tall one and a three-to-four-foot interdimensional terror. Aboriginal law says if you smell rotting flesh and feel sudden dread, shut your eyes and hug the nearest eucalyptus until it passes. Uncle's response was to announce he'd be buying a tank in Arkansas. Ryan added the only sensible footnote: always believe the aboriginals on this stuff [1:00:32].

No shaming people for selling [1:15:13] — The most sustained serious stretch of the night. Uncle pushed back on the creeping culture of shaming people for exiting groups or selling NFTs, using himself as exhibit A: he owns 100+ Tiny Vikings and still left the group chat months ago for his own sanity, and nobody made him feel bad about it [1:16:41]. Ryan and Margie B both added that nobody owes anyone an explanation, with Margie noting that selling back to the project usually nets more anyway [1:27:09]. At [1:28:22] he told the story of a community member who sold during a brutal stretch of grief and mental health struggle — and the NFT group was the only thing making them smile.

Berserk Bill on making things for free [1:33:07] — Bill described falling into AI art through the people he met rather than the money, at a time when others were charging per prompt. His homeless-man story at [1:39:40] — buying a meal on the way home, handing it over, cooking for himself instead — landed the point better than any thesis: the 30 seconds of being treated like a human is the gift. Later he walked through the Scholars mechanics, including not whitelisting himself [2:02:12].

The coffee sermon [1:44:35] — Thirty-five years of hospitality distilled: the grumpy customer, the first sip at the door, the turn and the smile. Then the brutal business math — a single cafe makes about 3% profit, you need three to five in Sydney to survive — and a warning about the day the activewear army mobilises against your winter shorts [1:50:07].

Donny Ðoge calls in from the factory floor [2:09:19] — Covering someone else's machine on his day off, half an hour early, and still cheerful about it. The room's best deadpan exchange followed at [2:16:38] when Uncle asked whether he was working with Stu today. Also: a genuinely useful seed-phrase PSA disguised as a joke at [2:29:00], and a cross-hemisphere NFL truce where an Aussie Steelers fan admitted he doesn't understand why people dunk on the Bills [2:20:36].

Bill gives away three Scholars [2:23:19] — Unprompted, Bill offered three Scholars NFTs to anyone Uncle picked. Uncle's first instinct was to award all three to himself on his own space [2:24:39], before handing them to Liz, Donny and Ryan — with a founders-never-win-anything rationale for Liz [3:06:01].

The closing hour turns into a Londoner ambush [2:41:00 onward] — Rescue (Scholars/Skull Bombs) joined, spent several minutes audible only to himself, and got roasted for it. Cheeky pulled up from the UK and spent her first five minutes unable to hear a word while everyone spoke to her anyway [2:47:32]. Margie B christened Uncle "the new and revised Bigfoot in 2026" [2:55:13], and the goodbye ran so long Uncle had to diagnose it himself as a Latino goodbye: out the door, at the car, and nobody's coming back in for coffee [3:14:17].

Topic timeline

Notable quotes

• "I blinked and I was at like 94. I was like, well, bro, I might as well go for the extra two to get to Kraken stage." — Uncle Corvus [7:25]
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• "Sacrifice without surrender is just ego wearing religion." — Uncle Corvus [44:56]
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• "It's one of those things where for that person it could have made a difference because someone's actually stopped and treated them like a human being, and that's all you need to do is treat people how you want to be treated." — Berserk Bill [1:39:40]
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• "Every single time we come here, this cup of coffee tastes exactly the same as it did the last time I drank it. That's all they want, man." — Uncle Corvus [1:45:51]
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• "Who the fuck's Stu?" — Donny Ðoge [2:16:38]
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• "Uncle Corvus is the new and revised Bigfoot in 2026. So make sure you close your window at night because he's very hungry." — Margie B [2:55:13]
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Who said what

• UNCLE CORVUS (@unclecorvus) — host. Ran the room open-door by policy, gave the Blackfeather/Destiny Rescue rundown, delivered the anti-shaming and NFT-utility monologues, and lost a documented fight with his own Tiny Viking count.
• Margie B (@MargieAponte2) — co-host. Vetted new speakers, worked the jumbotron, kept the roast rate high, and closed with a warm note about valuing listeners plus a warning label for anyone who follows her.
• Lady Corvus (Uncle's wife)^* — dropped in awake for once, brought the scripture at [47:06], the Gettysburg ghost story [30:13], and an active interest in Arkansas real estate.
• Lars (Tiny Vikings)^* — battled a bad connection to deliver the Charleston / NYC / Marfa meetup dates.
• Shandy — first-time visitor from northwest Arkansas; Bitcoiner, landowner, offered her 13 acres for an IRL event and asked the AI question that set up the night's most serious answer.
• Berserk Bill — bots by Bill / Scholars. Explained the community-built design, the 2068 token lock, why he didn't whitelist himself, and gave three NFTs away mid-space.
• Donny Ðoge (@DogeDonny2013) — dialled in from a printing plant on his day off, brought the NFL segment and the night's best two-word punchline.
• Ryan^* — steady presence; backed the no-shaming point and vouched for Raven and One Eyed Goat.
• Rescue (Scholars)^* — Londoner, arrived mostly inaudible, absorbed considerable affectionate abuse, and plugged a Sunday Scholars space.
• Cheeky — UK listener who joined, couldn't hear anyone for several minutes, then shouted the whole room out anyway.

Worth a full listen

• [1:15:13]–[1:32:00] — the anti-shaming stretch. The argument builds from a throwaway joke about someone leaving a group chat into Uncle's own admission that he left the Tiny Vikings GC, then into the story of a member who had to sell during a devastating year. Ryan and Margie B both add real texture. Summary flattens it.
• [1:33:07]–[2:07:59] — the Berserk Bill segment, essentially a full interview. The free-art origin story, the homeless-man encounter, the Scholars mechanics, and Bill's reason for grinding out shorts for other people's projects instead of his own. Bookended by Uncle's coffee-shop philosophy, which is worth it for the first-sip bit alone.
• [2:41:00]–[3:21:20] — the last forty minutes are pure closing-time chaos: Rescue talking into the void, Cheeky broadcasting on delay, the Bigfoot christening, Margie's barnyard repertoire, and a goodbye that had to be formally diagnosed before anyone could leave.

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