Welcome Wednesday 🧁 — 2,000 Apes Welcomed, Two Gifted Grails, and a Philosopher Walks In

A full intro-music treatment, then Dort on why it was an easy call: never posting shit, never talking down other collections, just "focusing on the cool shit about being an ape" — the Board Ape Sports Club shirts, the dinners, the Midwest Apes IRL work. ngbshpend.eth added the line that stuck for the rest of the show: he's essential to the club. Pm0721 chimed in from Detroit, which sent the room on a brief tangent about whether a bad Detroit ape has ever been observed in the wild. Verdict: no 18:26.

ngbshpend.eth walked through the combination flow (24 packs → box, 10 boxes → case), confirmed sealed boxes should combine into cases, and explained that packs digitized from physical will be marked as loose packs specifically so resealed-pack problems from the broader TCG world don't follow Mudwater in. Also on the roadmap: an FAQ, a deck builder, and community events in SoCal and New York. He also confessed to oversleeping a 20-minute nap and missing last week's tournament entirely 25:33.

Framing Yuga's distribution as a thousand-true-fans play — 71% seeded to holders — Dort said he feels a sort of debt not to open three boxes "alone in a dark room." ngbshpend.eth's answer: any format you're comfortable with, streams, phone video, meta glasses, family rips, a photo of the game board — and if you're organizing a meetup, tell him and they'll try to make it muddy.

He'd been pulled in by a DM that morning asking if he was free at four, assumed it was a regular Wednesday, and got blindsided. Five years in the club this December. Dort admitted he'd spent his workday instead of "doing science" AI-ing Essential's ape into a Barry Sanders portrait, which landed exactly as intended with a lifelong Lions fan.

CCM — Hawaii-based shooter, ex-cannabis-industry lab builder, now building proprietary software that edits event recap videos in five minutes — came up to introduce himself and got crowned the 2,000th ape welcomed on the timeline. His path in: years on Algorand, then a realization. He also described tracking a Mudwater-dispensing ape across Marfa by foot, sniffing out packs like a bloodhound 48:29.

He opened OpenSea to look at his abstract chickens, saw a grail ape in his wallet, and posted the single word "wait." Frantic DMs followed before he traced it to a quiet collector named Ed, who told him he'd just had a gut feeling. Four days earlier James had jokingly tweeted that all he wanted for Christmas was a Deathbot. Dort's follow-up question — how do you now choose a PFP between this and your gob? — was declared the real problem 1:08:17.

Gifted by OG ape Tim after reconnecting with the space, Burningbush also explained the eight-bit butt cheeks PFP Dort had spotted earlier: it's Re:gen Radio, a high-fidelity audio tool he built that streams into Spaces, plus a character-profile library hooked to Suno that spins up custom walkout songs for whoever takes the stage 1:21:28. He's also sold off his competitive One Piece collection to go all-in on Mudwater guides 1:26:20.

Asked what his bio meant, Dan went deep: a rough upbringing, creativity as the only control mechanism he had, a studio named for the Nine Inch Nails album, and the eventual decision to drop "broken" while keeping the habit of challenging his own stories. He picked his DMT-fur, leather-jacket mutant on Halloween morning — moody artist, sad eyes, Alex Grey-adjacent eyes in the fur 1:44:08. He also builds a Spaces recap tool and offered to use it on this very show.

Prompted by DJ BASIKS's wife discovering Ape Fest was not, in fact, a frat, Tiger highlighted the sold-out afternoon tea party, Dippy's Otherside castle build, and new lady apes joining this week — and redirected her own flowers to Clubhouse & Co: "rather than following me, please go follow Clubhouse and Co" 1:56:00. DJ BASIKS offered practical feedback about publishing the programming in advance so newcomers know what they're walking into, and noted the husbands would happily chip in on the budget, which Meirav suggested the ladies take notes on 1:59:29.

The published author described Ape Fest apes "sauntering about" Charleston, the old-money bow ties failing to understand why anyone pays for a JPEG inside a building that is itself a $69 million result of this space, and how he picked a one-eyed philosopher to represent himself. Dort connected the proverb in Comfort's mint post — in the land of the blind, the one-eyed philosopher is king — to who's buying apes right now 2:26:46. Makaveli's recurring review: bro's got bars.

Two days in the club, building a whole character around a floor ape he got sniped on and then bought directly from the seller, from Long Island, trying to organize a regional chapter and maybe an actual yacht. Underneath the bit: his father passed away five months ago, they'd been in NFTs together for years always saying they could never get in here, and this is his homage 2:36:16.

The host had Grok narrow the entries to one and then read the justification aloud like a verdict. Jay pulled up, declared he'd rip it the second it hits his wallet, and plugged his Thursday 8pm ET Otherside tour for beginners — lore, points of interest, how to use your codecam and glyph 2:49:59. The host's stated rule for any legendary pulled: hand it over 2:49:22.