Avi hosts the fifth serving of Sunday Brunch as a proper decompression chamber: coffee on the table, records on the turntable, and a strict Value-for-Value house rule where 90% of sats streamed during each song goes straight to the artist. This week’s guest-DJ is DJ Valerie B LOVE, who rolls in with “curve balls and lightning rods and heart openers” and a playlist designed to surprise. Between tracks, the conversation wanders in the best Sunday way: from the idea of building an open-source “cyber opera” inspired by The Legendary Treasure of Satoshi Nakamoto (a “Cirque du Soleil meets Burning Man meets Hamilton” kind of mutant art form) and how that project gathered momentum through community collaboration and remix culture, long before today’s push-button creative tools. Later, the chat gets practical and spicy: Avi and Val dig into intellectual property and copyright in a world where AI eats styles for breakfast, and whether the future is protection, permissionless sharing, or something stranger that artists can still live on. Along the way you’ll hear shoutouts to V4V musicians, a nod to new Nostr entrants, and the general vibe of two friends trying to build a better music economy without turning the soul into an API. Executive Producer: Shadrach Links Extended Playlist DJ Valerie's Website Val on nostr