Re:Understanding — Remember When?

Host: Code.E (@CodeeNCX) with cohost BubbaGump (@BubbaGumpNCX) · Fri, 24 Jul 2026 · 56:40 · ~5 active speakers

TL;DR

• A relaxed 90s-nostalgia night: Code.E ran an "A or B" picture game — eight matchups (Blockbuster vs. arcade, GoldenEye vs. Mario Kart, tree fort vs. blanket fort, ice cream truck vs. candy-store fiver, etc.) — asking each speaker to pick one memory to relive for an hour and explain why.
• Code.E announced this was his last Re:Understanding space, stepping back to focus on IRL construction and property work, with warm thanks to Liz for encouraging him to host from the start [08:03].
• Bubba previewed the Ninja Cat stream slate: a new Jeopardy-style segment called Dojo Purdy in the works [09:42], the live stream hub for tracking entries/wins/prizes, and a Fugs-sponsored night tomorrow (10pm EST) with a Fugs NFT giveaway [52:24].
• Papii dropped in jet-lagged from a ~50-hour travel marathon and got roped into the game anyway; the crew hatched a plan for a Wednesday game-night stream running N64 GoldenEye and Mario Kart together [42:32].
• Running threads: everyone was secretly the best GoldenEye player alive, Florida wants to kill you, and Jones Soda is apparently a Canadian mystery.

Highlights

[08:03] Code.E's farewell. Opening the night, Code.E shared that this would be his final Re:Understanding space after seven months, citing how time-consuming his construction and property work has become. He thanked Liz directly for pushing him to start hosting: "forever grateful."

[11:48] The picture game begins. Code.E explained the format — eight images, each with two options, pick A or B and say why — and invited listeners to answer in the comments if they didn't want a mic. First up: Blockbuster vs. arcade. Bubba went Blockbuster, tying it to Friday-night core memories of picking three movies with family.

[14:14] The last Blockbuster on Earth. Bubba noted the sole surviving Blockbuster lets you pay to sleep among the shelves; a listener confirmed it's in Bend, Oregon [16:26], and Code.E immediately floated a team-building trip.

[15:10] Everyone was the GoldenEye champ. On GoldenEye vs. Mario Kart, Bubba made the case that GoldenEye is basketball-brain territory — every single person remembers being the best player in the world — and half-seriously called for a real tournament to settle it.

[16:55] Slick Ric's good news and the Tootsie Roll wars. Slick Ric joined mid-game with word that a brick-and-mortar shop looks like it may come through, then reminisced about wall-hopping in Mario Kart to fleece his cousin out of Tootsie Rolls — a con he's proudly never explained in 50 years.

[24:53] Slick Ric's hide-and-seek trauma. Picking the indoor blanket fort (bugs, and Sandlot-induced fear of dogs), Slick Ric admitted he quit hide-and-seek forever the day his kids simply stopped looking for him.

[27:24] Growing up in Florida. Bubba described a childhood swing over a canal governed by one rule — if the resident 10-foot gator was visible, you could swim; if not, you couldn't — and marveled, post-trip, at how much of Florida is trying to eat you [28:43].

[45:45] The ice cream man voice. After nailing an ice-cream-truck impression, Code.E revealed its origin: paging cells in his old maximum-security-prison job to stir up some fun. Papii was convinced he'd used a soundboard.

[52:24] Tomorrow's stream. Bubba walked through the Ninja Cat stream ecosystem — the live stream hub, new interactive segments (Dojo Draw, Dojo Dash, the upcoming Dojo Purdy) — and the Fugs NFT giveaway night at 10pm EST.

Topic timeline

Notable quotes

• "If you survived that intro, you will survive anything tonight." — Bubba [07:43]
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• "Every single person was the best golden eye player in the world, but I was just putting it out there." — Bubba [15:10]
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• "I never gave me a sauce, and I never will. He still don't have the sauce to this day." — Slick Ric [16:55]
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• "I quit playing hide and seek because one day they quit looking for me… I said, you know what? I'm never playing that bullshit again. Traumatized." — Slick Ric [24:53]
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• "It was if the gator's there, you can swim. If the gator's not there, you don't swim. And that's how we grew up." — Bubba [27:24]
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• "I used to work in a maximum security prison… every time I worked in the protective custody unit, I would page their cell and use that voice just to stir up some shit." — Code.E [45:45]
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Who said what

• Code.E (@CodeeNCX)^* — Host and MC of the picture game; announced his departure from the series and steered every matchup, often torn between his own two options.
• Bubba (@BubbaGumpNCX)^* — Cohost and main foil; supplied Florida gator lore, BMX/manhunt stories, and the rundown on tomorrow's Ninja Cat stream and Fugs NFT giveaway.
• Slick Ric (@richj530)^* — Dropped in from work with brick-and-mortar news; brought the Tootsie Roll con and the hide-and-seek heartbreak.
• Papii (@RealPapii)^* — Arrived jet-lagged from a marathon overseas trip; the resident N64 evangelist, ended up co-planning a live game-night stream.
• StarDawgs (@StarDawgs)^* — Team cartoons and movie theaters; shared his grandma's reaction to Jake the Snake's python and his first job at a (haunted) theater.

Worth a full listen

• [19:57]–[23:21] — The manhunt/booby-trap tangent: fishing line strung between trees, a six-foot pit with a jump board over it, the "cool dad" building 18-foot BMX ramps, and Code.E's homemade Turok armor vest. Pure childhood-engineering chaos the summary can't capture.
• [38:30]–[43:18] — The N64 love-fest, culminating in a real plan: Papii to buy the wireless controller and Nintendo subscription so the crew can run GoldenEye and Mario Kart live on stream. Good-natured, fast, and full of "just watch what it does to you."
• [46:03]–[51:30] — Cosmic bowling vs. theaters, the ice-cream-man voice reveal, and the Jones Soda "is this Canadian?" investigation, complete with Code.E's black-light-bowling memory of a winery owner buying him a fancy-looking soda.

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