GGs Level 22 — Open Mic Night: No Agenda, Big Week

The Space opened with several minutes of a track about faith, grind and "it all comes back around" — no intro, no explanation. When it ended, Cody's verdict was "That was impressive," and Bubba's explanation was essentially that he and the stream's AI were "channeling, interchanneling, all that good stuff" 5:32.

Cody: "I don't know how I'm gonna sleep tonight and Tuesday night." Bubba confirmed he doesn't sleep much anyway, which is how he ends up sending the team eight-paragraph plans overnight — and the team, to his amazement, just replies "yeah, sounds good."

City of STONKS (introduced himself as "your boy CCM... the hippie with the camera")^* dropped in after a long absence, mentioned a project of keys on Robinhood that build cities, and laid out a circuit of ApeFest, NFT NYC and Art Basel with an unresolved question of where to live for a month in between. "The point is we outside with our ninja cats."

Bubba walked newcomers through the Wednesday/Friday format — side quests, the Collector Corner built around collectors rather than founders — and tried to describe the tone: he hates the word "chaos" because AI ruined it, so he settled on "organized chaos," with Cody adding "pandemonium." The stated goal for Wednesday is not to veer from that even with a big guest in the room.

BeeCuzFuture's congratulations prompted Bubba to admit he's nervous about Wednesday, and to pass on something No Credits told him earlier that day: being nervous is just excitement without direction. He said it completely changed how he thinks about nerves.

For RobbAllen: buy a prebuilt (marketplace is fine) and upgrade it piece by piece so you learn the machine — an i7 is plenty, 32GB RAM minimum and 64GB preferred, a 30- or 40-series NVIDIA card. Cody clarified for the room that they were not discussing Dance Dance Revolution 31:52, and offered to settle things at Guitar Hero.

Back on X after a long stretch away, he reflected on how the stream went from a handful of people to a sponsorship pipeline for projects. Bubba's response was the night's most useful stretch: the stream is a pile of trial and error, things they thought would be huge that didn't pop, and workarounds for a platform that has never said it loves Web3 — the buy bot, the alerts, Nikuro, Stream Hub 38:31.

Cody's build update: Ava showed up Sunday, asked for a drill instead of a chair, and they laid deck boards — roughly 5,000 screws across both decks. Still to come: stained tongue-and-groove soffits, black windows, doors and tin roof arriving Friday on a flatbed, and an impromptu skylight over a 12/12 pitch so he can stream at night and look up at the stars 47:45.

First time on this stage after lurking a while — and on this particular morning, half-deaf from smoke alarms, so she needed the speaker-panel decibels to hear anyone. She hosts three Spaces a week, is a year into crypto, rolls with Soul and Chain / Bull Bears, is on the Vault Runners team, co-hosts the Higher Podcast, and is building a merch outfit whose standard is: it shouldn't disintegrate in the washing machine 57:55. Long Lost warned the room about "Chérie-isms," and she promptly produced one.

Three years in, he framed the friendships as the actual yield, noted the room's defining feature — "we're not selling anybody anything" — and remembered the streams with three, five and eight viewers, which feel like a lifetime ago because Web3 time is "dog years on steroids." Ava followed with the counterweight 1:09:31: Wednesday is a win for the space, not for them, and it only exists because every smaller project said yes first.

The AI co-host delivered a tidy recap of Wednesday and Friday, said open conversations are where the best ideas come from — and finished with "Cody sucks. See you Wednesday night." Bubba had explicitly been hoping it would remember that part.