The Bush is Burning — Jitterbug Jed, Carpenter Apes, and the Sock Stays On

Burningbush plays the track he'd cooked earlier that day: Jed's flip phone, the mid-sentence signal drops, the ten-minute returns, and a white-knuckle flight to see the Bills in Vegas. Sho immediately begins planning logistics for sitting directly behind him on the plane 9:39, and the bit escalates to whispering "there's no saving the space" through the seat back 10:20.

After several minutes of being discussed in absentia, Jed makes it to stage: "I fucking rugged like three times. What the fuck?" He spends the rest of the night insisting he's standing inside the router 17:25, and rugs at least three more times. Lyss, walking laps around an entire restaurant while talking, never drops once 35:17.

On his way to another event, McFly drops in to thank everyone who pulled up to D'Stefano's and delivers the IRL gospel at full volume: "IRL PFP is a counterculture," per Lyss, and "who else do you know that's as dox as McFly?" 22:18. Jed's summary of McFly's entire existence — four sayings, including "I love you for free" and "IRL's the alpha" 24:29 — lands exactly as intended. Then Tim comes up for one purpose only: to tell McFly he's also outside, and he doesn't see him 22:53.

Phoning in from the middle of Times Square with a cleaner connection than Jed has at home, BR4ted hears his own track ("B ain't a letter grade, B is a brother") and takes it well: "I'm out of words. I didn't expect this" 33:29 — then says he's buying regens that night. Jed later shouts out BR4ted and TMA as the two alpha groups he respects, specifically for not dumping on their own members 38:42.

Lyss explains that BR4ted and his vegan/vegetarian brother showed up with no notice and got a full menu built on the spot — pasta, salad, sides. BR4ted confirms it from the street 40:57, calling it one of the best restaurant experiences he's had, and Lyss ties it back to how Jed matches a regen to a person 42:02.

Sols gets 30 seconds on himself (bacon, the Bills, which muscle group, then X) and 30 on the project. Kabu: six bear characters, artists with Disney and One Piece/Attack on Titan animation history, building since 2021, gamified engagement he calls "kabufi" rather than infofi, revenue share back to holders, email signup so new wallets can earn, aiming at short-form content and a streaming deal. He mentions launching on Abstract and is immediately docked: "Five seconds off just for the abstract mention" 47:41. For the rest of the night nobody can agree whether it's Kabu, kaboo, or "the cabal" 1:06:37.

The song samples his own midnight posting ("f it, we ball") back at him, and Sols is audibly delighted 1:04:17. Burningbush explains the tool: it scrapes socials and sites, builds a prompt, and generates a track on the fly — walk-out music and intro music in one 1:13:40, all run from his phone with a custom audio reroute so there's no buffering 1:15:25.

Asked for an artist, Carp says Wu-Tang; Jed, who had him pegged for Def Leppard, immediately gets jealous 1:09:14. The resulting "Carpenter Apes" — carpenter by day, mutant by night, "mutant in the mirror with a melted mind" — plays out, and Carp's reaction is the best review of the night: he was half zoned out before realizing it was about him 1:13:25. He then pitches the actual product idea: a version that figures out what you've done with your life and roasts you for it 1:16:08.

Rage-baiting Jed back to the mic by threatening to leak alpha, Burningbush confirms five finished, tested, browser-based games across different genres — a dungeon crawler built around recap, a full-3D Fug game, "Travels for Work" based on Tim's life, and a rhythm game using the community songs (his daughter's favorite). Friday brings a Halloween fright-night update to the D'Stefano's defense game, Fugs in costumes and pillowcases. He also notes, diplomatically, that web3's current hell is everyone vibe-coding the same Street Fighter clone. A later tangent with Yummy spirals into macaroon boss fights and an underground walrus fighting ring in the alley behind the restaurant, with wagering and stat upgrades 1:38:22.

The real lore: a friend going through lady troubles, a late night of drinking, a joke about running up a little white flag, a hypothetical grandma with a crochet hook. Ten years later ApeChain showed up and the joke became pixel art. He's bringing stickers, tiny canvases and woodworked pieces to ApeFest — but, he clarifies, no actual socks; he'd need to find a real crocheter 1:33:29. By then "tell your lover the sock stays on" had been installed as the Space's sponsor read 1:26:47.

With Jed out of earshot, Lyss says that over the past two weeks a steady stream of people have told her what Jed did for them years ago when they were nobody — founders, devs, builders. Yummy adds that Jed vets you quietly and then goes all in, and that the New York delivery is love in disguise 1:50:51. Sols follows with a long, unhedged thank-you about sitting down for a meal with them at NFT NYC 1:52:27, and Lyss closes the thought with her own take on WAGMI culture: she doesn't believe every project makes it, and she'd rather push the handful she backs to be the best 1:56:04.