GGs Level 12: Coming Home — Where Do You Call Home?

Host: BubbaGump (@BubbaGumpNCX) with co-host Code.E (@CodeeNCX) · Tue, 21 Jul 2026 · 1:23:31 · 6 speakers

TL;DR

• A Monday-night NinjaCat community Space themed on "coming home," built almost entirely around open conversation rather than a set agenda — Bubba admitted he'd cobbled the questions together after a week off.
• The talk drifted from literal homecoming (Bubba back from a family cabin trip; Cody and Ava building a house on their property) to what "home" really means: the people, the memories, and the feeling, not the address.
• A recurring thread: why "the grass is greener" thinking creeps in, and learning to be happy with what you already have.
• A genuine mid-Space realization from Bubba that the room itself — the regulars, the banter — is home, and matters more than the chart.
• Week ahead announced: Wednesday is community game night (Pictionary via the stream hub, Mecha Chameleon, Dojo Dash), Friday is a Fugs deep-dive. Side quest shows move to once a month.

Highlights

[9:52] Mama Bear's "better day." Asked whether today had been decent, Mama Bear deadpanned that her therapist had canceled on her — "so it was a better day" — then rode the bit into the injustice of no-show fees running one direction only. Bubba, delighted, said if he were a therapist he'd just mess with people: "You failed. Say me now."

[11:04] Swag packs and border security. Bubba ran through shout-outs and announced the final NinjaCat badges, stickers and swag packs were assembled and shipping — with a little extra thrown in for Ava and Cody — "nothing crazy, no feet pics or nothing." Cody's proposed additions (a Smith & Wesson, a six-shooter) were noted as unlikely to clear the Canadian border.

[13:18] Ava rides in to hold the ground. Ava popped up specifically because Mama Bear had: "okay, it's not just two cowboys. I gotta hold the ground too." She welcomed Bubba back and ribbed Cody for supposedly calling him "all day, every day" — a callback to a video that had apparently made the rounds. Bubba clarified Cody had actually behaved himself.

[14:01] The week away, and why you should just book the trip. Bubba recapped the cabin trip he actually managed to unplug for — white-water rafting, a scenic train, and the real train wreckage left from The Fugitive. His advice: don't overplan, just take the time off. He also confessed that of everything he missed at home, the biggest surprise was the bidet.

[20:07] Home is the people. Ava, drawing on a life spent moving across countries and continents, offered the line the room kept returning to: you can be in the biggest, most beautiful house and feel empty — home starts within and grows out from the people and memories. Bubba matched it with the story of his son's only real tears coming over selling an old $400 minivan full of memories.

[32:16] Two years, 600 square feet. Cody shared some "PG pillow talk" — pride that he and Ava have spent two years straight in a 600-square-foot hunting cottage with no washer, dryer, or closets and come out closer, something he knew he could never have done in a past relationship. Bubba gave them full credit, noting his wife's take: she'd have "murdered" him by now.

[43:55] Kissing the cheeks. In the parenting stretch, Cody talked about giving his boy the same love his nan gave him growing up — "I kiss the shit out of those cheeks every time I see him, and I tell him it's coming" — and how life came full circle with his son now flying back every summer, his turn to give that love back.

[51:15] "This is home." Off-script, Bubba stopped to name what was happening in the room: the team plus Mama Bear plus newer regulars like No Credits felt like the cast of a sitcom, and it clicked that NinjaCat is bigger than the project. "This doesn't replace a chart… it just is more comforting to me than seeing a pump happen and disappear."

[1:12:23] The Mecha Chameleon fiasco. Cody recounted a round of the camouflage game where he, Bubba and Wander were on the same team call and he couldn't even figure out how to lie down on an object — so he used reverse psychology, asking Wander if he'd seen Bubba while creeping up behind Bubba with a shotgun. Bubba's counter-image: a clip of a guy who paints an arrow on himself pointing at his own hiding teammates.

[1:18:15] No Credits scouts the rafters. After a Saturday night of Mecha Chameleon, No Credits admitted he went to church Sunday morning, looked up at the rafters, and thought, "Yep, I can hide up there." The game, he confirmed, does weird things to your brain.

Topic timeline

Notable quotes

• "The home is not the place. The home is the people, the home is the memories, the feeling that you get." — Ava [20:07]
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• "Home is where I feel at peace with myself, no matter where I'm at. If I'm at peace with myself, I'm at home." — Rob [37:13]
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• "This doesn't replace a chart… it just is more comforting to me than seeing a pump happen and disappear." — Bubba [51:15]
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• "I kiss the shit out of those cheeks every time I see him, and I tell him it's coming." — Cody [43:55]
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• "I went to church Sunday morning and I was looking up at the rafters, going, Yep, I can hide up there." — No Credits [1:18:15]
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• "It's not just two cowboys. I gotta hold the ground too." — Ava [13:18]
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Who said what

• BubbaGump (host)^* — Framed the theme, kept the room moving, and landed the "this room is home" thesis; shared the minivan and first-house stories that anchored the personal-vs-place thread.
• Code.E / Cody (co-host)^* — Grounded the "home" idea in the property they're physically building, shared the 600-square-foot relationship pride, and carried much of the comedy (the game story, the cheek-kissing bit).
• Ava (@AvaaNCX)^* — The reflective voice: home starts within, gratitude over comparison, and balance between living moments and capturing them; also the room's designated ground-holder and running-joke narrator.
• Mama Bear (@MamabearK444)^* — Comic relief and hard-won wisdom in one; the therapist bit, plus the reminder that intervening in someone's struggle can rob them of the lesson.
• No Credits (@NoCredits_)^* — Thoughtful takes on "greener grass" as a skill you learn with age, how a full house disrupts the feeling of home, and how a member's reasons for being in a community evolve.
• Rob (@RobbAllen15)^* — Speaking from a recent relocation to Ohio, defined home as inner peace and named vulnerability and honest critique as what makes a Space feel like home.

Worth a full listen

• [16:52]–[24:00] — The core "what does home mean" round, where Bubba, Cody, Ava and No Credits each land a different, genuinely moving angle. The minivan story and the "even at home I wasn't home" houseguest story don't compress well.
• [32:16]–[35:15] — Cody's 600-square-foot reflection and Bubba's riff on families who bury themselves in kids' sports at the cost of the relationship — a candid, warm stretch that's more felt than summarized.
• [1:12:00]–[1:19:00] — The closing game-night run, from Cody's Mecha Chameleon confusion to No Credits eyeing church rafters, is the room at its most relaxed and funny.

* some voices are identified from context; those names are marked as likely.