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The Bush is Extinguished — walk-up songs, Mud Water math, and a regen bought live on mic

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TL;DR

the one-minute version
  • The whole night runs on Burningbush's AI "walk-up song" bot: give it an artist, it scrapes your timeline and spits out a custom track. Ghost, Zombie Rob, Yummy, Law, Pat, BOOM, Dong Socks and a Slick/Ghost/BOOM lowrider posse cut all got one.
  • Apple's developer approval landed live on the mic at 19:44 — the music app (an iOS "Spotify rebuild" holding all the songs) was slated to ship the next day.
  • Long, genuinely useful Mud Water TCG breakdown: the packs aren't mapped, what that means for pulls and pricing, and whether the game is fun enough to carry a card game 1:22:00.
  • BOOM shopped for a hooded regen in real time with Burningbush and Papii calling out token IDs, and bought one on air at 2:36:09 — completing a gold / ape / hoodie three-pack.
  • Papii closed out the night with founder talk: why he refuses to constantly sell to his own holders, and a 555-piece cold-cast resin Quirkies collectible that costs him over $100 a unit to make 3:29:38.
  • Deep lore throughout: Pat Darcy's World Series ring, the Quirkies vs Killer Bears cyberwar, Alien Friends IP limbo, and a dog-NFT exploit the host reverse-engineered the night before.

Highlights

At 19:44

Apple approval, mid-sentence.

Burningbush interrupts his own rant about spaces scheduling to announce the email landed: "I am now on the iOS store. All you fuckers look out." The app is a rebuilt music player holding every custom song the bot has generated, with an open invite to any artist who wants their music on it 1:55:28.

At 15:37

Building in public, and the grumbling that comes with it.

The host gets candid about hearing that people were annoyed at how much airtime he and his output have been getting, and nearly skipped the Space over it. His counter: it's a small project that runs on volunteers, so if you're "building in the shadows," show the work. Moon agrees from the other direction — he's deep in OpenSea's API with Claude holding his hand, building something a dev friend told him was a genuinely good idea.

At 31:58

The youth soccer saga.

The reason the host was late: his first-grader's game, an opposing coach posted on the parents' sideline, a request to move that escalated into the coach calling the parents names, and a text afterward quietly pulling his son off the team. He closes it with a call to the coaches and parents listening: it's about the kids. The fix his college-coach friends recommended — pay a good high schooler $40 twice a week for fundamentals and fun — is better than any AAU team.

At 40:22

Law's Pat Darcy story.

Law's little-league coach was Pat Darcy, the Reds pitcher who gave up Carlton Fisk's walk-off in Game 6 of the '75 World Series. He'd wear his World Series ring to games and talk ample amounts of shit; one night an opposing parent suggested where he could put the ring, and Darcy, per Law, "went out there and whooped the shit out of him." Fifth-grade Law thought it was the greatest thing he'd ever seen. The host, meanwhile, is live-Googling the box score.

At 49:21

Hank Williams, by way of a yodel.

Law asks for Hank Williams and the bot delivers a full country western ode to him as "the finest collector in this here land," complete with mud water in the saddlebag, a Monday-is-fermenting-chairs verse, and a yodel the host visibly did not prompt for. It is the room's favorite thing for the next several minutes.

At 1:06:38

Pat's first time on mic becomes the Stonk Broker help desk.

Pat comes up to compliment the space, gets instantly drafted as "the official spokesperson," and then actually delivers: how intern percentages work (0.25% base, can rise to 2.5%, never comes back down), why he keeps 80% of his token cold and 20% in self-adjusting LPs, and a warning to go learn what impermanent loss is. "He drug my old ass along, and I figured it out. So you younger fuckers should get this shit a lot faster than I do." He got his own song at 1:12:13.

At 1:22:00

Why "unmapped" matters.

The best technical stretch of the night: Burningbush explains pack mapping — guaranteed hit ratios per pack/box/case — and why Mud Water having none makes single packs a coin flip (and weighable with a digi scale). From there the table gets into whether the game itself is fun, deck size math capping the theoretical player count, Hearthstone's game feel, and Magic the Gathering nostalgia from Pat, Yummy and Law. Law's counterpoint lands well: series one was made for club members, and a lot of the art is ApeFest and Lisbon memories, which is why it hits for them and not for outsiders 1:33:39.

At 2:15:00

BOOM goes through all five stages of grief in four minutes.

He opens by offering to buy Dong Socks' whole ApeFest stash, detours into the story of a friend who sold his box for $1,200 after BOOM had offered $700, and then full-throatedly rants about booster boxes being run from $100 to $1,500 and who's going to be holding the bag. Burningbush cuts in with a sponsor break from Dong Socks ("tonight, tell your lover the socks stays on"), and Papii's read on it: "Boom just went from buyer to fudder to fucking super buyer."

At 2:21:46

Live regen shopping.

The host and Papii spend fifteen minutes reading out token IDs, trait by trait, hunting BOOM a hoodie-up regen under $500 — with multiple detours into gorgeous ones that aren't for sale ("well then why are we talking about it?"). BOOM lands the robot with the blue sus-eyed visor at 2:36:09, admits he just drunkenly loaded $300 to do it, and realizes he owes Papii 0.1 ETH. Papii: "I'm not even mad at all. I'm happy you got a badass regen." It spirals into a sharp observation from BOOM at 2:36:28 about why mature collections are hard to enter — all the cool traits are locked down by people who'll never sell.

At 2:58:47

The Quirkies vs Killer Bears war, told properly.

BOOM, formerly known as Doom, explains how he became the loudest anti-Killer-Bears voice in 2022, how it escalated into all-out "cyber chess warfare" (Papii's words), and the 6am spaces titled things Papii had to call and beg him to take down. Earlier, at 2:04:02, there's the origin of the Bro Luminati — a rival group chat he founded with the Brolu triangle flipped upside down, purely out of spite. "It was so high school, it was so fun."

Topic timeline

TimeTopic
0:33–10:23Opening songs: Ghost & Pengy's lowrider track, Zombie Rob's graveyard banger
12:07–19:52Turning 40, knees and cardio, building in public, Apple approval lands
19:52–27:00Spaces-hopping, the algorithm, karaoke pet peeves, Clubhouse nostalgia
27:02–31:30Yummy's "Steady Hands," Slick arrives
31:58–39:10The youth soccer coach saga and parents ruining sports
40:04–43:30Law's Pat Darcy World Series ring story
43:30–52:34Web3 work histories, Welcome Apes, brands that left, the Hank Williams yodel
53:15–1:00:19Jed's song, Ghost's merch orders, cannabis lounges and state programs
1:00:31–1:14:13Stonk Broker, interns, Mutual Fun seats; Pat's debut and his song
1:14:13–1:21:40Onboarding and education as a community job; engagement-farming jokes
1:22:00–1:34:29Mud Water: mapping, pricing, game design, Magic the Gathering
1:35:01–1:42:51Otherside, Other Games, Flash-game nostalgia and what makes a game fit its platform
1:43:00–1:57:42BOOM arrives; Yummy's shopping song; Limp Bizkit lore and Woodstock '99
1:50:10–1:51:45Papii's World Series suite — Joe Torre, Manfred, CC, a walk-off
1:57:51–2:13:00AI slop vs "AI grenades," bot accounts, Alien Friends IP limbo, Dong Socks' dancehall anthem
2:13:12–2:19:03Mud Water box prices; the Bruminati TCG is invented on the spot
2:21:46–2:36:09Live regen shopping; BOOM buys the robot
2:36:28–2:46:04Trait grails, grail chats, Quirkies trade lore, a 100 ETH bid that lapsed
2:46:25–2:55:00Cars: six-fours, diesel trucks, Slick's memorial build, the lowrider posse cut
2:55:30–3:06:00Jed soundboard bits, Killer Bears war, one-of-one Quirkie prices
3:06:00–3:15:00Trump tangent, the dog-NFT exploit breakdown, 2022 alpha-group grossness
3:15:00–3:24:00Sobriety, BOOM's goodbye, Niners tickets, trucks and a Brabus G-Wagon in rural Kentucky
3:24:37–3:34:00Papii on founding, Quirk Quencher, the 555 resin collectible, a collab call
3:34:36–3:41:52Well-wishes for Jed, kids and games, GTA VI speculation, sign-off

Notable quotes

I don't have an AI assistant, dude. I'm the assistant to the AI.

Burningbush 1:00:58
0:38

How do you create a sports environment without parents? Because that's who's ruining it. Adults.

Burningbush 37:30
0:38

Their name was gonna be Bloodfart before it was Limp Biscuit.

Law 1:55:51
0:38

If Yummy talks for more than 30 seconds, it comes with a restraining order.

Dong Socks 2:20:52
0:38

I remember telling Papii, I was like, who the fuck is Jed? He sounds like a drunk pirate.

BOOM 2:56:54
0:38

Trump would have fired killer bears. It would be like, you're fired.

BOOM 3:08:49
0:38

Who said what

  • Burningbush (@BurningBush_eth) — host, song-bot operator, app builder; ran the room from AI karaoke to pack-mapping economics to a live wallet-trace of the dog NFT drain 3:09:35.
  • BOOM (@jpgBOOM) — arrived at 1:43:00 looking for Yummy, stayed three hours; Quirkies OG (formerly Doom), Killer Bears antagonist, booster-box skeptic, and the night's biggest buyer.
  • Papii (@RealPapii) — driving home from a World Series suite; Quirkies founder with 163+ regens, trade-lore historian, and the closing voice on pacing drops so you're not perpetually selling to your own holders.
  • Law (@lawofthesaw) — Welcome Apes, Arizona, best story of the night; thoughtful on Otherside's platform potential and why series-one art hits for club members.
  • Pat (@Pat98501) — first time on mic, became the de facto Stonk Broker explainer; Magic since the late '90s, calls onboarding a community responsibility.
  • Moon (@AfRedwave) — working through OpenSea's API with AI, Mutual Fun seats, strong opinions on work ethic, Anvil's UI and weed legalization.
  • Ghost (@Ghost_Story86) — printing Mickey Mouse shirts for a family Disney trip while shipping merch orders; custom Harley builder IRL, and unashamed of crying on Slick's spaces.
  • SLICK RIC (@richj530) — Niners season tickets, four diesel trucks and a six-four; told the story of the green lowrider built as a memorial to his nephew 2:52:06.
  • Yummy The Artist (@Yummy_TheArtist) — vet by day, macaron artist by night, original Magic player, and the owner of a voice the room decided was legally actionable.
  • Pengy Peng (@YesImPudgy) — opened the night's "40 hit like a ton of bricks" thread ahead of a hip replacement 12:19.
  • Dong Socks (@dongsockswtf) — sitting on an unopened ApeFest Mud Water case, now fielding offers; also the night's recurring ad break.

Worth a full listen

  • 31:58–39:10 The soccer story. The recap flattens it; the full telling, with the indirect free kick that broke the other coach's brain, is better.
  • 1:22:00–1:34:29 The Mud Water deep dive. Four people who actually know card games working through mapping, deck-size math, game feel and what series two has to do. The most informative stretch of the night.
  • 2:21:46–2:36:09 Fifteen minutes of three guys reading token IDs to each other and arguing about whether 4635 looks like Lindsay Lohan, ending in an actual purchase. You had to be there, and you can be.
re:gen records11 songs in this room

The soundtrack

Songs Burningbush wrote about the people of web3, played live in this Space. Each one has its own page on re:gen records.

  1. Played at 4:10Debuted here

    Penguin on a Panda

    for Ghost, Pengy Peng · Atlanta trap · out Oct 28

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  2. Played at 7:23Debuted here

    Zombie Rob

    for Zombie, Weitsman · Industrial groove metal · out Oct 28

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  3. Played at 21:27

    Happy Hour with Mike

    for Mike Campbell, Macbeth · Big band swing · out Oct 6

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  4. Played at 27:02Debuted here

    Steady Hands

    for Yummy, Woof · Lo-fi hip hop · out Oct 8

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  5. Played at 49:38Debuted here

    Huckleberry at the Swamp

    for Law · 1940s honky-tonk country · out Oct 28

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  6. Played at 53:36

    Free Mint to the Top Five

    for Jed, Lyss, BurningBush · 90s East Coast hardcore hip hop · out Oct 12

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  1. Played at 1:10:05Debuted here

    Glacial Haze

    for Pat · Psychedelic blues rock · out Oct 28

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  2. Played at 1:43:41

    Yummy's Love Song

    for Yummy · 1970s soul · out Oct 26

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  3. Played at 1:49:38

    Twerk for the Quirk

    for Papi, Big Tony, Ash · Houston trap · out Oct 10

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  4. Played at 1:52:57Debuted here

    Don of the jpgMOB

    for BOOM, Jesus · Late-90s nu-metal rap rock · out Oct 28

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  5. Played at 2:49:22Debuted here

    Rollin' Low

    for Ghost, Slick Rick, BOOM · West Coast G-funk · out Oct 28

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