Re:Envisioning Web3 | Midweek Check-In — four impacted wisdom teeth, zero missed spaces

Burningbush opened by explaining the only way to get Lyss to rally post-surgery was a Bills sing-along, warned the room that Lyss "could say something crazy," then immediately upgraded his own forecast: "it will be a great space. But it might be crazy space." Jed defended his DJ turf against the intrusion.

Jed played a talk about AI anxiety at work — that the emotions around it (FOMO, fear, excitement) are human problems, that travel and live concerts are booming because people crave real experiences, and that Amazon closing its cashier-less stores is a small referendum on all of it. Jed's takeaway at 10:24: he's bullish on Stefano's precisely because the more AI slop arrives, the more people will want a table and a face.

Lyss noted that Mr. Brightside plays at the stadium when the Bills win — and that at the post-Chimpers dinner with Adam Weissman, someone brought up the Killers and Jed responded, "wait, who are the killers?" She then flipped into the week's reset framing: midweek is another chance to realign for the back half.

After the room's audio adventures, he said hearing Mr. Brightside through Jed's setup reminded him exactly why he started building it — one-click clean audio for anyone in a space, because "the last thing we want is bad audio when we're experiencing these ideas."

He hopped up mostly to say that what's happening at Stefano's — chimps, quirkies, regens, VeeFriends, Fugs all cycling through — is something he hasn't seen elsewhere, and that founders he talks to get told they have to go see it. Jed's answer 16:39: Cortez is flying in for a day on Friday, and the goal is simply that people know there's one spot in New York where six to ten Web3 people will be.

Superhighgasfees said post-NFT NYC he realized the spaces and posts are all attempts to recreate the IRL vibe, and nothing actually hits like it. He also decided "secret weapon" undersells the restaurant — it's more like a secret arsenal.

From Mérida, Yucatán, in Web3 since 2021, artist currently wearing the dev hat. He's building a way for legacy NFTs to plug into the RWA wave — fee claims for older collections, "not only the new ones get to play the good games" — plus a separate project tying NFTs to actual land, which he pointedly declined to shill. Jed ran with the theme at 26:21: loyalty and marketing rewards, giving holders a reason to keep what they love rather than sell it.

Now that his collection has minted out, Chaz swapped his PFP as a nod of respect to the group. At 37:20 he described a last-minute IRL "Fireside" meetup in Portland — shoes already off, ran out the door — and came home with a 3D-printing crew inviting him to build with them, most of whom have never touched Web3.

Brrrbon dropped mid-childhood-story. Lyss called it — "the bourbon is down, the bourbon is down" — and Jed instantly 86'd old fashioneds for the day. VGF popped up from the middle of a work call at 41:18 purely to say the bar joke deserved more laughs than it got, then left. When Brrrbon reconnected and asked what the room had heard, Jed's deadpan reply at 42:25: "Nothing. My name is Bourbon."

South Florida to Ohio to Scottsdale; both parents born deaf, met at RIT; a family balloon business doing arches, drops and centerpieces for weddings, bar mitzvahs and the Dolphins, with young Brrrbon as phone-answerer, interpreter and, by his own account, child labor. He got into art school with an eight-foot fish made of balloons, then detoured into lacrosse.

Priced out of Ethereum gas, Brrrbon took an art commission on Cardano — and the founder rugged as the project was launching, leaving him holding a community he hadn't started. He gathered the survivors and brought them to Ordinals, where it worked. At 50:47 he confirmed everything is sculpted by hand and photographed, with Photoshop cleanup; Jed contrasted that with AI-generated "clay" collections 51:06.