# Re:Envisioning Web3 #359 | Thursday Thoughts ✨

**Host:** Lyss (@Lysss302) with co-host Jed (@jed_131) · Thu, Oct 15 2026 · 2h 15m · ~15 active speakers

## TL;DR
- No topic today, by design — Jed opened with 15 minutes of walk-up music and motivational clips and declared himself "fired the fuck up," and Lyss confirmed this was the first of 359 spaces where he out-energized her.
- Bagel (@Bagelism) returned from a two-week break after losing a friend; the room gave 30 seconds of silence and he spoke candidly about imposter syndrome and coming back to open arms.
- Big day for regen buys off the back of the De Stefano's dinner the night before — Little Wens (Pudgy Penguins Canada / Fugs Studio) swept six, B rated brought his non-web3 brother, and Jed picked up a Celestial.
- Jed detailed the Regen Think Tank — launching in Discord around Sunday, tiered, with capital, network and marketing for community builders (Burning Bush kept 80% of his mint).
- A long, genuinely useful AI segment: Uncle Mac on the real cost of credits, Luna on hidden third-party API bills, Jed on "AI muscles," JB on running open models locally.
- Burning Bush's AI jukebox stole the last 30 minutes, generating custom tracks for Luna, CryptoBulliez and the whole room — with a teased arcade/Dance Dance Revolution-style use case down the line.

## Highlights

**[17:52] Lyss opens on the energy, not a topic.** She marked #359 as the first space where Jed was more pumped than she was, recapped the De Stefano's dinner with the apes, and explained why there was no theme: "today just needs us to be together here and enjoy this."

**[20:48] The rescreen roll call.** Lyss went through the day's buys — J Bon bought a regen for 150 and got fed a dinner worth more than that; Anthony picked up another and is gifting them; Jed grabbed one of only 25 Celestials; Little Wens swept six after a conversation at the restaurant; B rated brought his brother, who is emphatically not in web3 and now wants in anyway.

**[25:08] Thirty seconds of silence for Bagel's friend.** Jed paused the celebration before the space properly started. Bagel [26:11] came back genuinely moved — "you guys didn't even know him" — then talked about the imposter syndrome of returning after two weeks ("it feels like a year"), and his plus-one to ApeFest who he's been trying to onboard with regens since last year.

**[50:26] Jed's eye-opener from the dinner.** Out of a table of ten web3 regulars — including a regen advisor — only one knew what the project had actually built. His takeaway: the people already here every day are the unreached audience, and one-or-two-regen holders tend to be better holders than someone sitting on forty.

**[53:32] Other side avatars go to players, not whales.** Ghostin's regen PFP is next in line, done by Rita at Scepter Studios, with the first seven to ten slots going to people actually showing up for game nights. Jed's reasoning, delivered with full awareness it would annoy someone: "if you have 300 regens, you don't need 300 avatars." Chazzgold.eth [56:23] offered up his own avatar-pipeline know-how, which Bagel vouched for at [59:09].

**[1:01:46] JB on sending the free regen back.** Jed praised JB for returning a gifted regen when he decided it wasn't his lane. JB's framing: if you can't give monetary value back, give kind gestures — then paid the room a compliment about actually shipping versus the older blue-chip communities where "there's no community."

**[1:19:23] Uncle Mac does the AI math.** The Derp rebuild from Stonk Pit to Dirtworks cost "at least $3,000 worth of AI credits" — and that's with referral tricks, cheaper models and cross-auditing between five AIs. Jed pushed back gently that $3,000 is startup-world rounding; Uncle Mac clarified that was just v1 to v2, on top of the $3,000 before that and the ten-to-twenty before *that*. Earlier [1:19:23] he also admitted he'd misheard "orate" as "worry" and had to replay it three times.

**[1:35:15] Luna's $5,000 meme-coin bot confession.** Luna described building a trading bot that made him *think* he was making money, then flagged the cost nobody talks about: non-AI API fees, roughly $500/month scanning three chains just for decent data. The verdict — "just because you can pay for OpenAI doesn't mean you can do shit."

**[1:42:43] The jukebox takes over.** Burning Bush dropped a Metallica-flavored track for Shiba King, then an unprompted one for Luna ("Moon Warrior... iconic by mistake"), then a full CryptoBulliez track built from his timeline. Luna's review [1:51:20]: "three Michelin stars worth of cooking." Jed teased that the most-played tracks on the regen jukebox feed into something bigger; Lee hinted at arcades and Dance Dance Revolution [1:45:18].

**[2:02:24] Dingus and the Nido arc.** Having had his entire NFT wallet drained two months ago, Dingus found collectible Nido toys and recognized the exact same mechanics — retail-price hunting, condition grading, trading with friends. He was first in line at a Kohl's drop Tuesday. Asked whether he'd beat a four-year-old to the last sugar skull cat set, he answered honestly [2:05:51]: "I'm snagging them up as soon as I can, man."

## Topic timeline

| Time | Topic |
|---|---|
| [0:58] – [17:52] | Walk-up music, motivational clips on leadership and trust |
| [17:52] – [25:08] | Lyss's open, De Stefano's dinner recap, rescreen of the day's buys |
| [25:08] – [34:39] | Moment of silence; Bagel's return, mental health, positive self-talk |
| [34:39] – [41:17] | Lee / Burning Bush: golf, LinkedIn, Regen Noir workflow |
| [41:17] – [47:41] | Woof's breast cancer awareness space; Moon's mini-game pitch; Yot fighting fugs on a trackpad |
| [47:41] – [53:30] | Fugs floor, Little Wens, Jed's "nobody knows what we built" realization |
| [53:30] – [1:01:46] | Other side avatars, Chazz's design work, ape chain ROI |
| [1:01:46] – [1:08:35] | JB returns the gifted regen; the Regen Think Tank explained |
| [1:08:35] – [1:28:00] | AI deep dive: adoption, focus, credit costs, open models |
| [1:23:47] – [1:30:42] | Shiba King's non-update market update; retention and mini-activations |
| [1:32:56] – [1:58:23] | Burning Bush jukebox: Shiba, Luna, CryptoBulliez tracks |
| [1:58:23] – [2:02:13] | Bills vs. Giants, manifesting-with-action |
| [2:02:13] – [2:07:56] | Dingus on Nidos, drained wallets, and collectible psychology |
| [2:07:56] – [2:15:38] | Lyss's close, Vegas plans, outro track |

## Notable quotes

> "It is not for the people to prove to us, it is for us to earn their trust." — motivational clip Jed played [12:28]

> "I'll be dead before the fucking project fails." — Jed [17:01]

> "I take two weeks off, it feels like a year. Like, are people gonna you know accept me back?" — Bagel [29:19]

> "De Stefano's is Mariano Rivera. It's the closer." — Jed [32:59]

> "Why aren't people doing this? Because it costs a fuck ton of money." — Uncle Mac [1:19:23]

> "Manifesting without action is actually bullshit. So do something, don't say something." — Jed [2:01:42]

## Who said what

**Lyss** — host; opened, ran the rescreen of the day's buys, handled the room, and closed with a call to action about contributing however you can even if you can't buy. Also committed to running spaces from Vegas, Bills game or not.

**Jed** — co-host, running on pure adrenaline from the night before; drove the Think Tank announcement, the other side avatar policy, and the "the people already here don't know what we built" thesis.

**Bagel** — returned from a break after a loss; spoke about mental health, imposter syndrome, ApeFest plans, and vouched for both Chazz's avatar work and regens' positioning on other side.

**Burning Bush (Lee)** — builder behind Regen Noir and the jukebox; relaunched his LinkedIn with 30 days of scheduled posts overnight, shared Fugs-game alpha about bouncing fugs off the De Stefano's wall, and generated most of the back half's soundtrack.

**Uncle Mac** — grounded the AI conversation in hard numbers, detailing credit costs across multiple rebuild cycles and the cross-auditing workflow that keeps results honest.

**Luna** — full-stack-dev-in-progress; the $5,000 bot story, hidden API costs, and the long-promised Luna's Lunchtime cooking stream that Jed will not stop campaigning for.

**Super** — framed how much sharper AI output has gotten and warned about how good these platforms are at the upsell.

**JB** — returned the gifted regen on principle, talked up locally-run open models, and offered to build Jed a bot that reconnects every 45 minutes to simulate rugging.

**Shiba King** — delivered a market update consisting of "wait until Bitcoin breaks 77 or 87," volunteered to juggle at a kids' birthday party at the steakhouse, and picked Metallica as his safe answer.

**Dingus** — the Nido convert, connecting physical collectible scarcity back to NFT behavior after losing his whole wallet.

**CryptoBulliez** — joined with headphones on and kids in the room, got a full track made about exactly that, and appreciated how the lyrics were clearly ingested from his timeline.

**Chazzgold.eth** — offered his other side avatar expertise to anyone who needs it, heading to Texas Tuesday.

**Woof** — in good spirits ahead of his 7pm breast cancer awareness space.

**Moon** — two weeks into the community and already pitching a memory mini-game for Regen Noir.

**Yot** — level 20 in the Fugs game, on a trackpad, with wrist consequences.

## Worth a full listen

**[25:08] – [33:21]** — Bagel's return. The moment of silence and his response are the emotional center of the space, and his reflection on taking a break after ten straight months of grinding is the kind of thing a summary flattens.

**[1:17:34] – [1:38:21]** — The AI cost conversation, running from Super through Uncle Mac to Luna to Jed. Actual numbers, actual mistakes, actual caveats about API bills and "AI muscles" — the most practically useful stretch of the two hours.

**[1:42:43] – [1:58:23]** — The jukebox run. You simply have to hear the Luna and CryptoBulliez tracks; no transcript does the room's reaction justice, and Luna's "three Michelin stars" review lands better with the song fresh.