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@TrollKingTD![The Wake up Woke Show | What is Stockholm Syndrome [Shill + Chill]](card.png)
The Wake up Woke Show | What is Stockholm Syndrome [Shill + Chill]
Host: doji.base.eth (@TheDojiETH) · Sat, 15 Aug 2026 · 1:54:21 · 5 speakers
TL;DR
- An impromptu Saturday-morning "shill + chill" hosted by Doji that drifted from scheduling philosophy into gaming, the dead internet theory, and a long meditation on what "value" really means in crypto.
- Doji explained the origin of his project home ($HOLM) — literally named after the Stockholm Syndrome of round-tripping shitcoins — and reframed it as a badge of relentlessness and never giving up.
- BaseGold (@BaseGold_BG) walked through his gamified-staking gold-mine game and shared war stories about normies, wallet hacks, and social-engineering at crypto conferences.
- Panda (@PandaPals__) gave an extended riff on the grind of community building, the "boulder from zero," and why early supporters earn a special kind of trust.
- xDTECHx (@xxDTECHxx) represented the Pepe community, talked tech/security chops, and connected with Doji over League of Legends the night before.
- Doji closed with a full-disclosure breakdown of home's liquidity, supply, and roadmap (membership cards, a beta in a month or two), plus a plan with BaseGold to link home into the gold-mine game.
Highlights
[34:21] The normie who complained about free money. BaseGold told the story of setting a father's-friend up with a Base wallet and gifting him a BG token worth ~$18, only to get a message weeks later: "What's up with this junk you gave me, man? It's only going down." Doji recognized the archetype instantly — his own dad calls him "Poppy" and asks how to get the money out because "it keeps going down."
[35:51] Time, elves, and scheduling. Doji opened the show's actual theme via an anime about a near-immortal elf traveling with short-lived humans, using it to reflect on how we perceive time — and to argue that over-scheduling your life on a calendar quietly flattens genuine human experience.
[38:39] Where did five hours go. A relatable aside on League of Legends as a "hyper bollock machine" that teleports you to 10pm — Doji making the case for being mindful about gaming time without pretending he's cured of it.
[41:24] AI, bots, and the dead internet theory. BaseGold wondered aloud how close we are to agents farming games for us; Doji and D Tech built it out into the dead internet theory, RuneScape bot economies, and a prediction that authenticity will migrate back into the physical world.
[44:53] Glass as the next chip. Doji went down a tangent on etched-glass circuitry from an upstate New York glass museum and checkout-free Amazon stores, tying it to a hope that reclaimed time could push people toward creativity and small, real communities.
[50:07] The birth of home / Stockholm Syndrome. Doji told the founding story: after round-tripping his bag to zero five times in a base room, he declared he had Stockholm Syndrome and decided to transmute it into a crayon-drawn blue house token — a symbol of belief and perseverance rather than a slur to fear.
[52:09] Everyone had a two-year plan pretending to be four. BaseGold's "baby bull" Mario-of-Solana project and the FBI/Toly "you'll go to jail for giving kids crypto" moment led into a sharp observation that the 2024 industry ran on exit-liquidity thinking with no long-term trajectory.
[1:01:31] The boulder from zero. Panda's centerpiece: community building is a Herculean grind of capital plus time, and the hardest part is pushing the boulder before it rolls. His door-to-door approach ("interested in a panda?") earned praise from D Tech for being refreshingly direct.
[1:20:14] The stars aligned the open-minded people. BaseGold recounted a San Diego meetup where a horoscope workshop found ~89% of the room shared an "open mind" trait — and the closed-minded 11% were the ones struggling. He and Doji mused, half-seriously, about how to find more of the open-minded ones.
[1:26:34] Consensus as a war zone. BaseGold described recent conferences as increasingly hostile — pineapple pagers at the door, a "cybersecurity" contact who dropped a wallet-draining Telegram bot at 8am — and framed his career pivot into security around the coming quantum/vibe-coding threat surface.
Topic timeline
| Time | Topic |
|---|---|
| [3:14]–[10:41] | Intros, scheduling vs. living "on the whim," meeting people organically |
| [10:41]–[24:43] | Cat Town, the home game concept, mini-games, wide vs. deep building |
| [25:00]–[34:21] | BaseGold's gold-mine game, Florida, Coinbase Amex, normie stories |
| [35:51]–[41:01] | Time perception, scheduling, gaming discipline |
| [41:24]–[47:34] | AI/bots, dead internet theory, authenticity, glass tech, future of the internet |
| [49:38]–[59:14] | Origin of home / Stockholm Syndrome, exit-liquidity culture, 8–10 year plans |
| [59:40]–[1:19:00] | Panda on community building, value, trust circles, early supporters |
| [1:20:14]–[1:31:03] | Open-minded people, astrology in the space, IRL crypto events, security threats |
| [1:31:03]–[1:35:23] | Tokenized stocks, Robinhood synthetics vs. one-to-one, base/DTCC/Canton |
| [1:35:23]–[1:47:42] | Saturday plans, mindfulness, full home tokenomics/roadmap disclosure |
| [1:47:42]–[1:53:23] | Thank-yous, BaseGold x home collab idea, closeout |
Notable quotes
"I like to just kind of experience things on the whim and kind of just like for things to happen to me." — Doji [5:23]
"What's up with this junk you gave me, man? It's only going down… like, this is why you don't help normies. I've never complained to somebody that gave me free money." — BaseGold [34:21]
"You could just get an agent going there — yo agent, find all the shiny Pokemon for me. I come back a week later, I have everything." — Doji [41:01]
"I have Stockholm Syndrome… so I'm gonna launch a coin. H-O-L-M, short for Stockholm Syndrome — a little blue freaking house drawn by Crayon." — Doji [50:07]
"Everybody in crypto in '24 had a two-year plan. They acted like they had a four-year plan… nobody has a 12-year plan in crypto." — BaseGold [53:10]
"Just imagine trying to push a boulder from zero. Once you get it rolling, it's easier — but the least you have is the ability to say, this person's put so much time in the trenches." — Panda [1:08:04]
Who said what
- Doji (@TheDojiETH) — Host. Solo builder of the game home, onboarded via Cat Town; spun the whole show around time, mindfulness, and reframing Stockholm Syndrome as perseverance. Gave a candid full-disclosure walkthrough of home's supply and roadmap at the end.
- BaseGold (@BaseGold_BG) — Florida-based builder of a gamified gold-mine game on base; shared normie horror stories, conference security warnings, tokenized-stock alpha, and pitched a home × gold-mine collaboration. Also picked up 300M home.
- Panda (@PandaPals__) — Panda Pals founder; delivered the room's deepest thread on community building, the cost of the grind, and why early trust matters, all while stepping out to meet "Big Dan."
- xDTECHx / D Tech (@xxDTECHxx) — Pepe community, cybersecurity professional; drew out Doji's project with open-ended questions, echoed the "three-year dedication" sentiment, and gave the Pepe community its shill.
- Curtis Gore (@curtisgore) — Northeast Florida, low-key regular who showed up straight off a phone notification; admitted some of it was over his head but felt he learned a few things.
Worth a full listen
- [50:07]–[55:57] — The origin of home and the ensuing riff between Doji and BaseGold on Stockholm Syndrome, exit liquidity, and building on multi-year horizons. This is the emotional and thematic core of the show and doesn't compress well.
- [1:01:31]–[1:19:00] — Panda's uninterrupted meditation on value, the boulder metaphor, and trusted early supporters, with Doji folding in his childhood "panda" nickname. A genuinely warm stretch about what community means here.
- [1:20:14]–[1:31:03] — BaseGold's horoscope-workshop story flowing into IRL event culture and the darker security realities of recent conferences — the most narrative, alpha-dense run in the Space.