Highlights
Jed frames the whole room.
He set the tone on why vibes matter now: a year ago "we were dead… people thought NFTs are over," and the market went from that to $65M thrown at a single mint. The ask: do it "the right way this time" — celebrate wins instead of fighting.
Lyss on shilling vs. building.
Her core note: it's not just the founder's job — members, leads, and investors should all learn to talk about what they love, and it isn't shilling when a builder simply speaks on what they're building. She paired it with prepping your takes so you never "sound chilly."
Slick: stop watching the dollar.
Slick's read on the moment — focus on relationships and networking, not the price. His line landed hard: "That's why you keep leaving, because all you care about is the price. And if that's all you care about, you're not gonna make it."
The bacon takes over the steakhouse.
A running bit about De Stefano's: CCM joked the Google reviews now read like "a bacon house, not a steakhouse," Lyss walked through the full plate as an "experience," and Bored Osaka landed it — "the bacon is the gateway drug to the steak." Which flowed straight into Lyss publicly praising Bored Osaka until he cracked: "Oh fuck. Excuse me. I don't like that." The room resolved to shower him with compliments until he got comfortable.
Super's quiet mic and the roommate mystery.
Super revealed he'd oddly refused to name his NFT NYC roommate — "yeah, I'm staying with my friend" — while said friend (Piffs) was sitting in the crowd. Slick's disaster-prep advice for Super's low audio: "get underneath the table. Put some pillows around it." Show confessed she'd been holding her phone to her good ear and still couldn't hear him; Lyss vowed to teach him voice ISO as her biggest NFT NYC "W."
The Friday administration collapses.
After Jed "rugged" to go shower, Lyss shared what her Reenvisioning AI intern wrote when told: "LMAO. Of course he did. The Friday administration has collapsed and control of reinvisioning has been restored." (Jed, still listening: "Even if I shower, I did not collapse.")
Bored Osaka's fractured journey.
He opened up about closing 17 years of coffee shops and a wine bar to migrate to Osaka, Japan — a first visa approved, a second stalled by administration changes — and the grief of shuttering "a cultural business" people still mourn. His framing throughout: "we plan and God laughs," and being an entrepreneur is "a disease… like the mob — you leave, but you can never truly leave."
Margie B on getting hacked.
She described Tuesday as "negative 28,000" — not over lost followers but the fear of losing her Web3 family. The save: friends and Slick Rick interrogated the hacker with inside jokes ("six nine, six nine, get a bottle of wine") to prove it wasn't her. By Friday she was back and "living her best life."
Celeste's first mic.
A first-time speaker in the room, she talked about rocking a male AI PFP as a woman ("I just love the art… and the purple background"), training your mind to stay positive, and spotting who's real in the quiet stretches. Her close: "don't invest in the product, invest in the founder."
The water tangent.
What started as show's "aquapana" bit turned into a genuine deep-dive: Chicken drives 30 minutes to a Romanian spring and links it to his Crohn's flares, Bored Osaka warned about microplastics, Lyss confessed to being a proud "water snob," and Jed shut it down in character: "I drink from the Johnny Pump, I drink from the garden hose, Brooklyn water is the best… gives me muscles."
Topic timeline
| Time | Topic |
|---|---|
| P1 2:55–11:00 | Music, warmup, mic troubles, restart |
| P1 11:15–17:00 | Intros; Super on Loki stage & the Fugs pillow collab; vibes theme |
| P1 17:00–24:00 | CCM's NFT NYC media pass; Lyss on marketing vs. shilling; Bored Osaka on public speaking |
| P1 24:00–28:00 | Slick: relationships over price |
| P1 28:00–37:00 | Community, retention, "excuses are like assholes," team-building |
| P1 41:00–45:00 | Bacon vs. steak; showering Bored Osaka with compliments |
| P1 45:00–54:00 | Super on real connection; Kowski/alpha leaks; Jose's NFT NYC plans |
| P1 54:00–1:02:00 | Super's quiet mic, Piffs roommate bit, liver-pills alpha, show's prep day |
| P2 0:29–8:05 | Restart; Bored Osaka's coffee-shop/Japan journey |
| P2 8:05–11:00 | AI-intern gag; recap of the vibes thesis |
| P2 11:13–16:33 | Chicken on liquidity, quality projects, retaining people each cycle |
| P2 19:00–24:38 | Gratitude & health; Margie B's hack story |
| P2 24:40–39:31 | Faith/service; Celeste's first speak; female PFP energy |
| P2 42:00–51:00 | Water snob deep-dive; Jed's Brooklyn tap loyalty |
| P2 51:00–53:57 | Closing; NFT NYC/De Stefano's plans; the steakhouse anthem |
Notable quotes
We were dead fucking a year ago… from there to 65 million dollars being shot at a mint — we gotta start really pumping the vibes.
That's why you keep leaving, because all you care about is the price. And if that's all you care about, you're not gonna make it.
Excuses are like assholes. Everybody got one.
The Friday administration has collapsed and control of reinvisioning has been restored.
Don't invest in the product, invest in the founder. Simple.
I drink from the Johnny Pump, I drink from the garden hose, Brooklyn water is the best… gives me muscles.
Who said what
- Jed (@jed_131) — host; opened with music, framed the vibes-as-liquidity-returns thesis, owns De Stefano's, and defended the garden hose to the end.
- Lyss (@Lysss302) — co-host and Part 2 anchor; the throughline on marketing without shilling, retention, showing up daily, and self-professed water snob.
- Super (@SHGFees) — co-host; talked the Fugs pillow collab and his own hesitation on big stages, and became the affectionate target of the quiet-mic and roommate bits.
- Slick / SLICK RIC (@richj530) — relationships over price, "excuses are like assholes," and pragmatic NFT NYC survival alpha (liver pills, electrolytes).
- Bored Osaka (@BoredOsaka1) — Regen Nation's motivator; shared his coffee-shop/Japan story and steady service-and-faith framing.
- RudeAwkN / Scotty (@RudeAwkN777) — on community, work-life balance, and being vulnerable through a personal transition.
- CCM — media/creative agency owner with an NFT NYC media partnership, headed to the city to make content.
- Jose (@Yoshi_3000) — dialing in from hot Austin, sorting his NFT NYC access and a Burke Cafe pop-up.
- Sho / show (@AgogoKaren) — co-host prepping for the trip; gently confirmed Super really is hard to hear.
- Margie B (@MargieAponte2) — recounted Tuesday's account hack and the community rallying to verify her.
- Chicken Wizard (@ChickenWizardX) — on liquidity signals, quality projects (Blockies, simple farmers), retaining good people each cycle, and building "louder it."
- Celeste (@CelesteWAO) — first-time speaker; positivity as daily practice and investing in founders over products.
Worth a full listen
- P1 54:00–1:00:00 The comic peak: Super's low mic, the unnamed-roommate mystery with Piffs sitting right there, Slick's "pillows under the table" plan, and the liver-pills survival guide. The reactions don't survive paraphrase.
- P2 19:00–36:25 The heart of the episode: Lyss on gratitude and healing, Margie B's hack scare, and Celeste's first-time speak — three unhurried, genuinely warm stretches.
- P2 42:00–51:00 The water tangent that ate the outro, ending in Jed's Brooklyn-hose manifesto and a plan to devote a whole future Space to water.
