# The Bush is Burning — Saturday night, 25 songs deep

Host: Burningbush (@BurningBush_eth) · Sat Oct 24 → early Oct 25, 2026 · 3:38:34 · ~15 speakers on stage

## TL;DR
- A late-night Regens hang built almost entirely around live AI songs: Burningbush scrapes a guest's profile mid-conversation and drops a custom track for them, piped in through the Regen Radio account over an audio tool listeners can't mute.
- Salem called in from prison through Ascend's account [16:31], got his own track, told the room his release date, and left with a homecoming dinner on the books.
- AC gave UX feedback on the Regen Studio tool [13:03]; Burningbush shipped the fix — saving animations to camera roll on mobile — before the hour was out [27:00].
- Regen Radio / Regen Records site is finished: old-school Windows Media Player look, multiple skins, searchable archive of every song ever made in these rooms [38:32]. Regen Noir chapters and a site-wide word hunt (free regen for solvers) are live.
- Market minutiae: Lyss quoted the regen floor at 0.0691 and Jed offered Eagle one at 0.05 on the spot [2:22:25].
- Square Apes walked the room through the entire CCFF00 "squares" saga on Robinhood — Based Apes rug, Hood Street, a 50,000-piece "strategic square reserve" [2:28:10].

## Highlights

**[9:26] — The McFly steak incident becomes a song.** Burningbush recounts lying next to his sleeping son when Jed's all-caps text lands: McFly ate meat. First time, at a friend's house, homemade. He rolls out from under the kid, cooks the track, and drops into the Space with it. "Not even at De Stefano's. Sad."

**[16:31] — Salem on the line.** Ascend kept Salem connected so Jed could catch him; six weeks short of a year in, working out daily, out August 13th [17:28]. Jed promised a party and dinner for the whole family when he's home. Salem picked East Coast hip hop [20:24], got a personalized track in under a minute, and said: "I was like, I'm a fan of that." Lyss later framed the whole thing for her dad as proof of what these rooms actually are [30:53].

**[27:00] — Feature request to shipped, same hour.** AC's one piece of friction — saving the animated stuff from the studio on a phone "isn't as simple as it should be" [14:00] — came back fixed before the Space moved on. Burningbush, not subtle about it: most web3 teams would've taken three or four days.

**[32:36] — How the tech actually works.** For Ascend's benefit: a tool that overrides Twitter's audio stack and streams directly from the Regen Radio account (mute it and it still plays), plus a scraper that reads a profile's recurring themes, top tweets and images and turns them into a track — with memory, so guests accumulate a character sheet across songs. Ascend's verdict at [37:29] became a running line for the night.

**[42:56] — Terry Silver takes the hot seat.** New voice, so: 30 seconds, "we want to know about the man behind the PFP… because we invest in people, not projects." Terry answered with surfing, and it turned out Burningbush ran a surf school in Ocean Isle Beach for twelve years — the two of them went straight into Outer Banks pier talk and how little the Netflix show resembles anyone who's actually been there [45:57].

**[59:04] — Everyone gets a weapon.** The signature end-of-space bit: the AI arms everyone on stage and picks a winner. Master got an ATM firing exploding pennies stamped *follow the money*, Lyss rolled out on a Zamboni with buzzsaws, Water took a bazooka, and Burningbush's nunchuck cactus turned on him. Terry Silver — on stage for fifteen minutes — won the whole thing with a flung pigeon [1:01:50].

**[1:03:12] — Water clears the air, politely.** After a jokey "looks like you fumbled that," Water came up to say the regen on the jumbotron was his sale: priced above floor, floor rose, Ascend snagged it. "I don't think I fumbled anything. I think it went to a great place." Everyone agreed it was mutually beneficial and moved on.

**[1:22:20] — The reggae disagreement.** Moon, deep into a very expansive night, argued American reggae's streaming and ticket numbers deserve respect; Burningbush, who takes this personally, drew a hard line about the West Indies. Tim wandered in with the only correct answer [1:27:55], then redeemed the segment entirely by explaining why he's drifted from jazz to classical: sometimes it's the lyrics, sometimes the story, but a lot of the time it's just the sound [1:35:03].

**[2:06:17] — "Jitterbug Jed."** The night's hit single: a country ballad about Jed's flip phone dropping him from his own Space mid-sentence. Jed, back from work and about to try a bottle of Yukon Jack someone had snuck into his liquor order, complained that the songs are too catchy to get out of his head — "they got some jiggles in them, bro" [2:08:37]. The follow-up, "Knock Twice," about him coming home at midnight with steak and two slices of cheesecake, got the biggest response of the night [2:18:19], helped by Lyss posting the photographic evidence of that exact bag in the comments.

**[2:44:38] — Harriet arrives and the room becomes an Australian hazard briefing.** Casuary picnic protocol ("you stay very still and stop breathing" [2:52:54]), the correct response to a spider in your boot, and a quiz on what an esky is that Burningbush failed while claiming expertise based entirely on having watched every Chris Lilley series. The resulting track, "Everything's Fine," ends on *log off, touch grass, check for snakes this time* [2:56:44].

**[3:22:47] — Pandora's box, 1944 edition.** A tangent through Wisconsin basements, tornado averages and toxicology reports landed on Burningbush reading the Wikipedia plot of *Gaslight* aloud and discovering, live, where the word comes from. AC, who'd been several steps ahead the whole time, approved.

## Topic timeline

| Time | Topic |
|---|---|
| [0:23]–[9:00] | Regen Radio opening theme songs, early-crew roll call |
| [9:05]–[12:00] | The McFly steak saga; Bills-fan recruitment |
| [12:20]–[15:40] | AC's Regen Studio feedback; mobile saving |
| [16:27]–[27:00] | Salem calls in via Ascend; custom track; site fix shipped |
| [28:00]–[40:00] | Ascend onboarding, how the music tech works, Regen Records site |
| [40:34]–[46:40] | Water's first time on mic; Terry Silver's hot seat; surf talk |
| [46:40]–[1:02:44] | Moon arrives; Master's reggaeton track; the fight song |
| [1:03:12]–[1:09:00] | Water on the jumbotron sale; Eagle reporting live from Dallas |
| [1:20:00]–[1:35:50] | Country music, the reggae disagreement, Tim on classical |
| [1:41:46]–[1:56:09] | Lyss's Buffalo-blue country song; AC on what the room means |
| [1:56:46]–[2:00:00] | Donny checks in from a wedding |
| [2:00:30]–[2:11:00] | Regen Noir access, the site word hunt, Cleeroy |
| [2:06:17]–[2:27:00] | "Jitterbug Jed," "Knock Twice," Yukon Jack, floor talk |
| [2:28:10]–[2:39:12] | Square Apes: the full CCFF00 squares lore |
| [2:42:00]–[3:00:00] | Amy and Harriet; Australia; "Everything's Fine" |
| [3:03:00]–[3:28:00] | Wisconsin basements, tornadoes, poisons, *Gaslight* |
| [3:30:00]–[3:38:00] | TV recommendations, game onboarding, closing |

## Notable quotes

- "Crazy tech. Tech is definitely teching." — Ascend [37:29]
- "I only got one. I like Bob Marley." — Tim, asked for his top three reggae bands [1:27:55]
- "Listen, after one night of this, they'll be like, bring the robot up, please." — Jed, on Moon's regulars [1:49:09]
- "That's my fucking guy right there. That's my fucking DJ. My producer." — Jed, after "Knock Twice" [2:20:56]
- "I just had my 79th birthday, but I'm still 78." — Harriet [2:49:43]
- "No one needs to visit my profile now. It's all in the song." — Harriet [2:57:09]

## Who said what

- **Burningbush (@BurningBush_eth)** — host, producer, and chaos engine; built the audio tool, the profile-scraping song generator and the new Regen Radio site, and ran hot seats, fight songs and a late-night deep dive into 1940s psychology experiments.
- **Lyss (@Lysss302)** — Regens team lead, co-host energy throughout; handled floor quotes and onboarding, eyes everywhere in Brooklyn, and got her own country song out of it.
- **Jed (@jed_131)** — De Stefano's owner, arrived home mid-space, tried Yukon Jack live, gave Square Apes the straightest advice of the night: be authentic, set trends instead of following them.
- **AC (@resonancetone)** — the night's value-add; gave the studio feedback that got shipped, spoke about why she'd tell a non-web3 friend about this room [1:53:52], and out-researched the host on everything from basements to toxicology.
- **Ascend (@AscendXRP)** — kept Salem connected, bought his first regen on stage [24:32], and asked the practical onboarding questions (Discord? chain? tech?).
- **Salem** — calling in via Ascend's account; the respect segment of the night.
- **Moon (@AfRedwave)** — bartender from rural Maryland, several drinks deep, opinionated on American reggae streaming numbers; also returned as Sound Raise (@soundraiseapp) to pitch fixing per-stream payouts for artists [1:38:39].
- **Water (@H20KT36)** — long-time listener, first-time speaker; introduced himself as "I'm water," then clarified the jumbotron regen sale was his and fairly priced.
- **Tim (@tim_8093)** — came up to say goodnight, stayed for a genuinely lovely detour on classical keys, strings, and why some music doesn't need words.
- **Harriet (@HarrietPJones)** — Australian, 78 (or 79), playing a dungeon crawler through most of the Space; delivered the wildlife safety briefing and the best game-onboarding critique of the night [3:36:04].
- **Square Apes (@Rusty_is_Square)** — gave the complete, self-aware history of the squares meta on Robinhood, including his 50,000-piece strategic square reserve.
- **Eagle (@EagleNFT69)** — reporting live from the streets of Dallas; got a track, lost it to the noise, came back to hear it properly [2:14:19].
- **Terry Silver (@lord_of_lorz)** — surfer, hot-seat passer, undefeated champion of the fight song.
- **Donny Ðoge (@DogeDonny2013)** — checked in from a wedding looking sharp; the room was delighted for him.
- **Amy (@barkeep1347)** — late-night TV soulmate to the host; Ozark, Tulsa King, Tracker.

## Worth a full listen

**[16:27]–[26:55] — the Salem call.** Reconnecting, release dates, a custom track made from a timeline in real time, and a homecoming dinner planned on air. The summary can't carry the tone of it.

**[59:04]–[1:02:44] — the fight song.** Everyone on stage armed by an AI with weapons derived from their own posting history, narrated as cartoon violence, won by a man who'd been in the room twenty minutes. You have to hear the pigeon part.

**[2:44:38]–[2:57:28] — Harriet's Australia block.** The esky quiz, the casuary picnic protocol, the spider-in-the-boot pop, and the song that scraped all of it into a chorus about everything outside wanting you dead.