Highlights
The cert-number complaint.
Mike laid out why he'd posted about Tatakai: slabs listed in the store without visible PSA certification numbers. His framing wasn't "rug" — it was growth. Existing holders are getting their cards fine, but "you want to get real collectors in from outside of what you already have, so you have to do everything above board." He noted he'd raised it with the founder days earlier and still stayed fully staked.
The project's reply, read aloud.
Smitdog read the response: the cert number is obscured out of fear counterfeiters copy it to make fake slabs — but the barcode stays visible, and a phone scanner pulls the same eight digits off the barcode. Mike's reaction: "Exactly. So what are you hiding?"
TusK, from the collector side.
Every PSA card has a cert number, a matching barcode, and a QR on the back, and all of it is searchable online. He wouldn't personally buy a slab with the cert edited out, though he offered a benign explanation too — a seller might be using a placeholder image for a card they're still sourcing. His actual ask was just a line on the site explaining why: "be transparent all around… then no problems will happen."
The Robinhood bump.
Agent jumped in with the news (admitting at P1 1:07:54 he hadn't read the room on the way in). TusK then did the homework: on a day his entire watchlist was red, stockbrokers and everything paired with it — cardwall, yardkeeper, clock in, hold please — was up in the past hour. Clarification for the overexcited: it's wallet availability, not a Robinhood listing.
Guess the activated brokers.
A spontaneous price-is-right: TusK called 1,839, Mike said somewhere in the 18–1900s, Pat said 964. Actual: 1,836. Pat's verdict on himself — "Yeah, and there's no, I just embarrassed myself." The useful takeaway underneath the game: Moods allocation is likely one per wallet, as with nightshades, which makes the real number far smaller.
SpaceKitty's honest answer.
Asked how she was, SpaceKitty asked whether Mike wanted the honest version and then gave it — her daughter's first basketball scrimmage went well, the aftermath did not, and work piled on top of it. The room just listened. She described suppressed tics like water filling a balloon: it still goes in, it just makes a bigger pop later. Mike and Agent sent support; she signed off saying she felt slightly better for having said it out loud.
Box-opening folklore.
Collective reverse-engineering of the cardwall pull animation: yellow is common, red/white/blue is rare, white is epic and annoyingly hard to tell from yellow — plus Pat's claim that a good box comes out rumbling, and sometimes the box just sits there and does nothing. Everyone immediately wanted to go do a pull to check.
Burningbush got an ape.
He joined under protest ("how dare you invite me up five minutes before my space starts"), showed off the mutant and the robe, and talked about wanting to build with the IP. Bored Osaka welcomed him "LeBron James style," which accidentally exposed his League summoner name: Lee Bronze James. He left to go push his own space back.
The domain scare, resolved in real time.
SpaceKitty came in having heard a warning fragment in another space and admitted she'd already connected and seen red errors. TusK confirmed: use stonkbrokers.io, not the .cash site he'd used since day one — he sent Simple Farmer a screen recording and Farmer "jumped on that shit freaking ASAP." Mike then read the official post: legacy domain, takedown submitted, nameserver change blocked, no users affected.
StarDawgs talks Mike back into auditioning.
Dylan announced a Jan 15 release for Straight Shot (Dolph Lundgren, William Forsythe, Rachael Leigh Cook), then turned on Mike for not submitting himself — Mike hasn't had a headshot in six years. Dylan's pitch: the vertical market is an $11B business this year, day rates often beating SAG modified low budget. He suggested running cheap shots through AI; Bored Osaka, a photographer, offered a friendly counter that casting directors can feel the difference and you want a human bringing out your best you. They landed on a compromise: entry-level photographer now, great photographer later.
Topic timeline
| Time | Topic |
|---|---|
| P1 0:39 – P1 5:25 | The Happy Hour theme song |
| P1 5:45 – P1 29:32 | Tatakai PSA cert numbers, transparency in Web3, Smitdog's near-miss Ruby pass |
| P1 18:48 – P1 33:26 | Robinhood wallet news, Hyperliquid listing raffle, X glitching all day |
| P1 35:02 – P1 39:59 | Cardwall: gifting cards, the kiln, binders and escrowed offers |
| P1 43:08 – P1 53:00 | Moods on Monday, GVC cryo chamber, activated-broker guessing game, onboarding newcomers |
| P1 55:45 – P1 59:00 | Mutual fund voting, red market day, self-custody after the hacks |
| P1 59:39 – P1 1:09:23 | SpaceKitty's check-in |
| P1 1:09:23 – P1 1:24:34 | Fund strategy, Halloween OpenSea pumpkins, pull-box rarity lore |
| P1 1:25:18 – P1 1:44:08 | Horror movie deep end: Amityville, Saw, Dracula trivia, Mike's 2012 film, Malcolm McDowell |
| P1 1:46:11 – P1 1:49:12 | BAYC appreciation, then the space dies |
| P2 0:29 – P2 9:40 | Restart, BAYC merch, mutants on Mudwater cards |
| P2 14:16 – P2 20:41 | Robin Rabbits' carnival, Midcap's Cooper Flagg slab, cardwall redemption walkthrough |
| P2 23:00 – P2 29:38 | Birthdays, hockey gear shipping, the wine glass tribunal begins |
| P2 33:21 – P2 1:10:16 | Otherdeed shopping live: sediment vs environment vs resources |
| P2 42:37 – P2 47:17 | Burningbush's ape reveal |
| P2 1:10:19 – P2 1:14:19 | stonkbrokers.cash phishing scare and all-clear; Tim's Mudwater run |
| P2 1:15:18 – P2 1:35:12 | StarDawgs on the vertical boom, headshots, AI vs photographers |
| P2 1:35:12 – P2 1:46:00 | Goodnights, paper wine cups, close |
Notable quotes
And be open to changing your mind when better information comes out, right? That's how I am. But you gotta give me the fucking information so I can change my mind.
Just be transparent all around, you know. Then no problems will happen.
It was made by the tourism board.
Technically, the space was going fantastic, and we had no issues at all. It was you.
Okay, everyone's just as fucked up as I thought, but there are some cool ones in here. Okay, I like this.
I had my Advil, I had my water, I had my four ounces of wine. And I fed my cat. So I'm going to bed now.
Who said what
- Mike Campbell (host) — opened in a mood, pressed the cert-number issue while repeatedly noting he's still fully staked, ran the room through Moods/mutual fund logistics, supplied an hour of film-industry war stories, and ended the night half-convinced to get new headshots.
- Bored Osaka (cohost) — Japanese Bible study in the first hour, live Otherdeed shopping in the second (he never pulled the trigger), chief enforcer of proper stemware, and the night's most reliable source of both encouragement and gentle abuse.
- Agent (cohost) — brought the Robinhood news, got knocked out of the Mudwater tournament in effectively the first round, pulled the activated-broker count on demand, and advised Bored to weight resources and environment over sediment.
- TusK — the collector authority of the room: confirmed how PSA certs work, tracked the token pairs on a red day, nailed the broker count guess, and quietly caught the legacy domain and got it to Simple Farmer.
- Pat — reported his first physical cards arriving, the story of gifting a $10 kiln card to a friend's daughter in Europe, and the cardwall redemption walkthrough (three clicks, $5.99 shipping, six days to Alaska).
- Smitdog — read Tatakai's reply aloud, mourned a Ruby pass bought out from under him at 29,000 points, and introduced the tiny five-gallon-bucket beer pong cups.
- SpaceKitty — gave the honest answer when asked how she was, and later offered to rescue Bored from his glassware problem out of her China collection.
- StarDawgs (Dylan) — announced Straight Shot for Jan 15 and made the case that the vertical boom means there's more work out there than Mike thinks.
- Burningbush (Lee) — stopped in to show off his new ape and robe before running to his own nightly space.
- Midcap — got his Cooper Flagg PSA slab in the mail and described trying to stay a bridge between the bullish and the bearish in the community.
- Tim — made the quarterfinals of his first Mudwater tournament before Honey B D ended it.
- Cantstopmenow — postponed the Halloween double feature for tech reasons; encore and a wrap-up article of the spliced STONKBROKERS commercials to come.
- Asun — contributed the Australian horror canon and, later, the news that stainless steel wine tumblers exist down there (received about as well as you'd expect).
- Robin Rabbits — described her "wild carnival," 33 crowns and 111 keys, and volunteered to build on other people's Otherdeeds.
Worth a full listen
- P1 11:43 – P1 28:24 The full transparency conversation, from Mike's complaint through the project's reply to TusK's collector-side breakdown. It's a good example of the room working a criticism through to something constructive rather than either dogpiling or dismissing it.
- P1 1:25:18 – P1 1:44:08 The horror tangent that eats twenty minutes and earns it: Rob Zombie remakes, Saw's defensible gore, the two Draculas shot day and night on the same Universal sets, Mike's 2012 indie landing on Pirate Bay, and the Malcolm McDowell role lost to a passport.
- P2 1:15:18 – P2 1:35:12 StarDawgs and Bored Osaka on headshots, the vertical market, and whether AI can do the job, braided with Mike's casting-coach horror story ("you're not gonna get a lot of work until you look 35") and a live photo critique that ends with Bored being told he looks like Candyman.
