Quirkie Connection with Papii and Sho

Host: Sho (@AgogoKaren) with co-host Papii (@RealPapii) · Fri, Aug 7 2026 · 1:26:31 · ~6 speakers

TL;DR

• Episode four of the weekly Quirkie Connection, and the first one built around a guest spotlight: Yew (@yew_eth), a day-one collector and community connector.
• Papii recapped the New Quirk City streetwear drop (pizza shirt was the runaway top seller) and confirmed Piff owns a genuine one-of-one khaki "I Love New Quirk City" hat.
• Roadmap notes: Board Ape Yacht Club signed on as a sponsor, a bigger sponsor is coming, physical collectibles and a Blockies PFP/figurine pre-sale are in the pipeline, and Papii teased "big doors" that opened this week around Quirk Kids.
• Sho's mic never worked the entire show — an X-wide bug — so Papii narrated every one of her lines back to the room, which became the running joke of the hour.
• Yew talked through his NFT path (Alien Friends → Quirkies), why he collects rather than flips, and got roundly celebrated by Papii and Coach.
• Coach floated a Kirk the Quirk mascot costume for NYC and pitched Yew as the brand's first surfer.

Highlights

[16:06] The streetwear drop postmortem. Papii walked through the New Quirk City results — the pizza club shirt outsold everything by a wide margin, with the pigeon trucker hat second, and the khaki "I Love New Quirk City" hat selling exactly once.

[17:34] Piff's accidental one-of-one. That single khaki hat went to Piff (@RealPiffsPeak), making it a true 1/1. Piff, who'd just been marveling about it with Coach in the group chat, declared it's going in a glass case: "It will never be worn."

[18:20] Kirk the Quirk in costume. Papii spun up the idea of a life-size Kirk the Quirk mascot for the NYC event — "I'm talking coach in the costume, signing autographs" — and Coach reportedly texted back that he's "a thousand percent ready."

[22:41] Big doors, no hype on the timeline. Papii said he'd just had the best conversation of his professional career, with "some of the biggest doors" opening for Quirkies and a strong confirmation from someone "in a very high place" about the Quark Kids direction — pointedly kept off the timeline for now.

[28:31] Blockies and the $1,500 figurine. Papii detailed the upcoming Blockies collectible and pre-sale, noting the partner team's coin gecko figurine now lists around $1,500 on secondary; whales holding 15+ Quirkies get first claim on the 1-of-100 Kirk the Quirk blocky.

[32:44] Yew takes the mic. In his first real Spaces moment, Yew called Quirkies the one project he'd pick above all others, describing himself as a "stoker" who wakes up, pops on the app, and lifts people up — and tying his surfing/action-sports life to the brand's original edge.

[40:49 / 45:13] The mic saga. Sho's audio cut out entirely. Yew joked this is exactly why he avoids Spaces ("running around the house trying to find that Wi-Fi little corner"), and Margie B (@B4Margie) confirmed it was an X-wide bug — Woofy had the same problem hosting earlier. The fix: host from the Quirkies account and speak from the co-host seat.

[54:38] Yew gets vulnerable. Asked what would surprise people about him, Yew dropped the good-vibes armor for a beat to say he has real struggles and a lot of emotions, and that he'd rather talk them through than bury them.

[59:59]–[1:03:14] The Quirk Kids origin story. Papii's most heartfelt stretch — how the idea "spawned," how Jed brought back three samples and both instantly picked Molly's, how the shark-onesie reveal nearly brought the office to tears during Art Basel, and how the one-of-one companions were born on the fly (a stethoscope left on the ground, a last-minute skateboard for the skater quirk). He framed Quirk Kids as central to the doors now opening.

[1:20:43]–[1:22:15] Sho's arc. With Sho still inaudible, Papii traced her journey — "I'm never coming on stage" to "I'm never gonna host" to now hosting one of the community's most active Spaces. Yew credited it to the onboarding chain that started with a trade he set up, calling Quirkies "that home that everyone needs."

Notable quotes

"dude, do we realize like I got the only iHeart Newcork City hat? Like it's a true 101. Like, there's none more of its existence ever." — Piff [17:49]

"Something that surprises me is that I'm human, that I'm emotional... I don't knock off my emotions, I talk them through." — Yew [54:38]

"We can laugh because it's not your problem. It's Elon's problem." — Papii, on Sho's dead mic [1:05:17]

"I really want quirkies to be looked at as like the new age supreme, quicksilver, billabong." — Papii [1:03:14]

"I know you every one of us know of this here, like that just haven't found quirkies that are soon to find home... quirkies are that home that everyone needs." — Yew [1:22:15]

"It's a very popular term in like surfing... I thought it would just be a cool, easy name." — Yew, explaining the handle [1:23:15]

Topic timeline

Who said what

• Papii (@RealPapii) — co-host; drove the roadmap recap and the interview, and voiced Sho's every line once her mic died.
• Sho (@AgogoKaren) — the show's host, entirely inaudible this episode due to the X bug; her questions reached the room only through Papii's echo.
• Yew (@yew_eth) — the guest of honor; day-one holder, surfer, and connector who framed Quirkies as home and himself as a stoker there to lift people up.
• Coach (@punkrockcoach) — brought the back-half energy: the mascot volunteer, the surfer pitch, drone war stories, and the "I love YEW" bit.
• Piff (@RealPiffsPeak) — owner of the accidental 1/1 hat headed for a glass case.
• Margie B (@B4Margie) — diagnosed the audio failure as a platform-wide X issue and suggested the host-from-Quirkies workaround.

Worth a full listen

• [59:59]–[1:03:14] — Papii's Quirk Kids origin story is the emotional center of the episode; the play-by-play of picking Molly's art and inventing the companions doesn't compress well.
• [1:11:13]–[1:14:37] — Coach and Yew's easy surfing-and-drone tangent (including Yew fishing a grounded drone out of the ocean near a naval no-fly zone) is the loose, funny heart of the room.
• [1:20:43]–[1:22:15] — Yew and Papii tracing Sho's crawl-walk-run climb to host, all while she can't be heard, lands better in real time.