🖍️🎨 Saturday AM QuirKids // Quirkies & NFT Talk

Host: Papii (@RealPapii), with cohosts Sho (@AgogoKaren) and Quirkies · Sat, 25 Jul 2026 · 1:18:51 · ~8 active speakers

TL;DR

• A loose Saturday-morning community hang: Papii is freshly back from Asia, running on jet lag and a "quirk quencher," and in an unusually motivated mood about all things Quirkies.
• The meaty segment was a walkthrough of Renatic/Adam's new FWA "gacha" project (fwa.fun) — how depositing and backing NFTs works, why it's lifting project floors, and Papii's measured skepticism about serial shippers.
• Papii is looking at getting Quirklings and Inks added to FWA (not OG Quirkies), and reflected on the earlier Token Works "strategy token" era and Quirkies' road to a 1 ETH floor.
• Big NFT NYC preview: a Quirkies main event Aug 30–31 (Monday party ~6–11), a Yankee-game tailgate day, two large sponsors incoming, and the event likely open beyond holders.
• Makaveli (Mac) dropped in to celebrate one year of persistent Other Side and the launch of its first non-Yuga deed (designed by Tropical Virtual) at 3pm EST — and teased a Quirkies build-out plus a free "booger" mint for Quirklings.
• Lots of warm banter throughout: lettuce recalls, a CIA-trained wife, a Moana walkout, and Papii's lifelong losing streak at blackjack.

Highlights

[13:31] Hulk vs. the microwave. Guest Hulk (audience) checked in as a pre-7am "full zombie," admitted he doesn't know how to work a microwave that early, and rolled into a riff about coming back from Mexico lighter thanks to what the US puts in its food — "20 tacos of sitting" and all.

[15:21] The great lettuce protest. A running bit about a lettuce recall — whether the room was "protesting lettuce," Papii's plan to dodge it at Rocco's Tacos before the movies, and Sho confessing she gambled on some the night before.

[17:10] The CIA wife. Explaining why he can't sneak out of the George Washington movie into Odyssey, Papii revealed his wife was "recruited for the CIA" and clocks every detail — if a bathroom trip runs past 30 seconds, there will be questions.

[18:32] Moana casualty report. Hulk warned Papii off Moana: his kid walked out because it wasn't animated and didn't care that the guy on screen was Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson — she just wanted her popcorn.

[23:16] Wife agreed to Odyssey. Live negotiation success: once Papii framed the Christopher Nolan film as being about Odysseus and the Greeks, wifey was in and calling Nolan "the GOAT." The only rotten-tomato flagged: Tom Holland calling Matt Damon "dad" too much.

[25:11–30:34] The FWA gacha explainer. Tim and Thanos broke down Renatic/Adam's new FWA project like Papii asked ("talk to me like I'm in fourth grade"): it's an on-chain gacha machine where depositors back an NFT with ETH, earn ETH + FWA while it sits unclaimed, and spinners either keep a pulled NFT or take 85% of the backing in FWA. Floors on eligible projects (TTT, Peppins, etc.) have jumped as people buy cheap NFTs just to deposit.

[26:22] Papii's serial-shipper take. Papii commended Adam's creativity but voiced his own opposite philosophy — four-plus years on Quirkies with no exit or pivot, feeling guilty if a day passes without doing something for it — and cautioned that repeated pivots can damage projects. Thanos agreed you shouldn't be a serial shipper "but sometimes you gotta ship till you land on something good," which Papii minted into the slogan "ship it till you rip it." [41:44]

[46:18] Papii's covenant against blackjack. A crowd favorite: on a cruise years back, Papii asked God for a sign on whether he should gamble, then got "slaughtered" — every 21 met by a dealer 21 — and took it as divine instruction. He's a poker guy now; the casinos, he joked, keep mailing him free cruises because they know the deal he made.

[52:30] "Outside" in New York. With NFT NYC approaching as his first as solo founder, Papii declared he's feeling "spicy" (down ~35–40 lbs) and planning one very serious night — Yankee day game, bodega chopped cheese at 10am, bar hop after. Bagel's deadpan: "When a New Jerseyan says he's gonna be outside, you take that very seriously."

[56:49] The "only quirks" problem. A genuinely funny detour into how "QuirkHub" sounds a little too provocative, an imagined "only quirks" page, and Papii's fear of a vibe-coded knockoff surfacing mid-deal with Disney or Amazon.

[1:06:13] Makaveli's Other Side anniversary. Mac (Makaveli) joined "to give out aura," marking one year of persistent Other Side and the first non-Yuga deed dropping at 3pm EST — designed by Tropical Virtual, the first builder Yuga ever hired for a world. He got heartfelt about watching a community proposal manifest and shouted out Bagel for hosting Quirkies events there every Monday.

[1:11:56] Booger, ready to mint. Mac revealed he'd already paid for a full 3D suit series to turn his honorary Quirk Kid "booger" into an Other Side–ready collection — a free mint for Quirklings — just waiting on Papii's green light. Papii, back from a dropped call: "Mac, let's launch booger, bro."

Topic timeline

Notable quotes

• "If you knew my wife, you'd know that that's not an option. She actually was recruited for the CIA." — Papii [17:10]
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• "That's the Rock, first of all. You respect Dwayne the Rock Johnson, okay?" — Hulk, recounting his kid's Moana review [18:47]
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• "God, if you're listening, this is the deal. Give me a sign." — Papii, on his anti-gambling covenant [46:20]
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• "When a New Jerseyan says he's gonna be outside, you take that very seriously. He's not playing." — Bagel [52:30]
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• "Years ago they promised us, Poppy, a metaverse… they promised us a metaverse, then they gave it to us." — Makaveli [1:08:39]
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• "Get your ass to New York. I never curse, but right now it's the time." — Papii, closing [1:18:03]
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Who said what

• Papii (@RealPapii, host) — Steered the room; freshly back from Asia and fired up, gave a measured critique of serial shipping, told the blackjack-with-God saga, and laid out NFT NYC plans.
• Sho (@AgogoKaren, cohost)^* — Co-hosted and welcomed guests, played comic foil (dogs, wine coolers, her husband's raised eyebrow), and volunteered to help at the event door.
• Hulk (audience) — Groggy pre-7am energy, the microwave meltdown, Mexico-taco math, and the Moana warning.
• Tim/Sam (guest) — Delivered the clearest fourth-grade breakdown of how FWA's deposit/back/spin mechanics and payouts work.
• Thanos (FWA depositor)^* — Added the practical side: backing strategy, floor effects, and pushing for Inks/Quirklings to be added.
• Bagel (@Bagelism^* — Movie-rewatch takes, Pudgy-community context, and an evangelist's pitch for Other Side as a social "third place."
• Ash (@princessashleiv^* — Event logistics and capacity (200 downstairs, 100 rooftop), plus the twerking bit.
• Makaveli / Mac (@MakaveliDlaCruz) — Celebrated persistent Other Side's one-year and first deed launch, and lined up a Quirkies build plus the booger free-mint for Quirklings.

Worth a full listen

• [25:11]–[44:50] — The FWA gacha segment is the substance of the Space: Tim and Thanos trade a genuinely useful, plain-English walkthrough while Papii weaves in Quirkies floor history and his broader philosophy on building vs. shipping.
• [44:50]–[50:20] — Papii's gambling confessional is the comic set piece of the morning — the cruise, the sign from God, and why the casinos keep his mailbox full.
• [1:05:41]–[1:18:00] — Makaveli's Other Side pitch and the live back-and-forth about a Quirkies world (and the booger mint) is where the recap can't capture the real-time excitement of two founders finding congruency.

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