Overview
Freedom 35ers is an archived podcast that lets you look back at how a wave of digital collectibles and community tokens rose and fell. Three hosts recorded weekly livestreams for years, interviewing the people behind individual collections. The run ended in 2025, leaving the record itself: more than 300 videos and 245 audio episodes1.
Freedom 35ers sat inside the Cardano ecosystem and stayed close to its NFT collections and meme coins, which are tokens that start as jokes or community in-jokes and trade on attention rather than a product. Recurring subjects included Mallard Order, Old Money, Yummi Universe, Derp Birds, Clay Nation and SNEK. Most of those recordings were also released as an audio podcast, where the Apple Podcasts listing marks the years active as 2021 to 20252.
Key Features
- A week-by-week record of the collectibles cycle. Episodes were numbered and released on a steady cadence from launch to close, so the archive tracks the same set of projects through a full rise and cool-off rather than a single moment1.
- Long-form interviews with the people who built the projects. A dedicated Sit Downs playlist collects one-on-one conversations with founders and teams behind collections such as Yummi Universe, ADA Ninjaz and Cardopoly3.
- Episodes about collectors, not only founders. A second recurring format handed the microphone to community members and moderators from projects including The Ape Society and Old Money, capturing the holder side of a collection.
- Timestamped episode descriptions. Streams were indexed by segment and by project, so a specific discussion can be found without scrubbing through an hour of video.
- A stated entertainment-only position. Episode descriptions say plainly that the content is for entertainment and is not financial advice, and that viewers should do their own research4.
What to Expect
A visitor to Freedom 35ers finds an archive rather than a live show. New videos stopped in May 2025 and the audio feed carried one final episode later that month. The channel's own About page still advertises a Monday livestream slot the show no longer keeps. Nothing has been taken down, and the full back catalogue stays free to watch.
Expect long, loose conversations. Most episodes run an hour or more, with the hosts working through news before a guest segment. Titles lean heavily on hype and price framing, promising outsized returns or one chain overtaking another; the episodes underneath are commentary between enthusiasts, and the descriptions repeat that none of it is advice4. If you are new to the subject matter, the introduction to NFTs is a gentler starting point.
The surrounding presence outlasted the broadcast. A Linktree hub gathers the video channel, both audio feeds, a Discord server, the X account and an Instagram profile in one place, which makes it the quickest way to reach whichever surface you want5.
