The Bush is Burning 🦍🔨 — Halloween Night, Mutant Shopping, and the Doodle Spice Incident

Burningbush and an early guest talk about BAYC still having "community magic" even when everything is down 90%: "floor price doesn't really affect the vibes in a project so big with capital of that size." It sets the tone for a night that's much more about onboarding friends than about charts.

The great ApeFest regret: Tim lay down "just for a little bit" instead of going to Waffle House with everyone, and the rest was history. He did make it there — in a dream. Next year, he swears, he stays up.

Katie explains she's been around since 2021, looked at an ape mid-tank, decided she didn't like the art, and went V Friends instead. Twenty-four hours at ApeFest changed her mind; she's now shopping for a mutant, just not tonight.

Walter objects to the suggestion he "snuck" on stage (he submitted an application, thank you), declines to borrow his Web3 counterpart's ape for follower farming on principle, and then watches his count climb live from 191 to 194 — at which point he asks the room for the correct phrase: "The lady of the ball? Is that it?" 21:32

Dan nearly disappears mid-space to deal with an incident in the room, which he reports was "scarier than the Blair Witch." Not a Bob Ross, he clarifies — "more of a Jackson Pollock, if anything."

Katie asks for Bruno Mars and gets "Pond Keeper," an entire track about her Frankie's World frog-keeping and ApeFest week, delivered within minutes. Then Dan suggests a song about X pushing broken Spaces updates, Burningbush picks 1970s Elton John piano ballad, and the room gets a genuinely funny three-minute lament about frozen speakers, vanished recordings, and a billionaire landing rockets while the mute button stays broken.

Mid-ETH-troubleshooting, Burningbush announces he's about to buy a mutant. Katie, deadpan: "You're gonna buy me a mutant tonight? You just met me." (He was buying it for Ghost. It didn't happen anyway — see: Kentucky bank.)

The OG character voice shows up from a Toronto balcony in a Kill Bill costume (his wife is going as Bill), immediately roasts the new PFP — and then gets genuinely wistful about losing 25 Crypto Moris, and with them his entire IP and persona, in the Magic Eden hack. He spends the next twenty minutes threatening Quirksville, name-dropping Toronto film sets, and doing live auditions for the pig villain role in Frankie's World that Maaaaahhhaaaaa never cast him in. Maha pops up at 1:24:36 purely to say the role is technically still open.

Anjin — in his first-ever Space as a speaker — overrules SHOWMAN's confident guess of Ice Cube and asks for Spice Girls. What comes back is a full pop banger about his art, his pencil, and Chicago. Wizard1sgv, driving home in the rain, reports at 1:39:04 that his windshield wipers were on beat and he nearly swerved a lane. Anjin's verdict: "Probably one of the best songs I've ever heard."

Asked about a family spring break trip to Chicago, Burningbush reports his kids' highlight was a man licking the window of the Starbucks they were sitting in. Anjin, graciously: "I'm glad my city can represent so well."

What starts as Kowsky asking whether to have a second kid turns into Wizard1sgv — who raised four girls and helps raise two nieces — explaining that the only thing that matters is making sure they always know they can come to you, even if you're mid-contract when they sit down on the edge of your bed. Lyss comes up at 2:52:08 to say the same thing about her own dad, and to gently flag the part everyone glazed over: keeping the relationship with your partner alive after the kid arrives.