Highlights
Cold open and the setup.
CEELOS runs the recorded-listener intro from the convention floor, noting coffee's been "flying off the shelves." His favorite moment: a self-described coffee snob came back a day after buying a bag just to say her home brew was amazing.
Origin story.
CEELOS dates his first NFT purchase to January 22, 2022, but suspects it was actually his second — his first was "a complete rug" he thinks he quietly archived off Instagram. The real starting point, he says, was buying Castle Kid.
Unintentionally starting a cease-and-desist.
He picked a Castle Kid with a Santa Cruz skateboard in the background, posted it proudly, and tagged a Santa Cruz brand ambassador he knew from coffee. Within a week the project announced a metadata refresh — the logo became a "CK." "So I came in stirring the pot unintentionally, bro."
The rooftop dab-bar party.
CEELOS recalls his first IRL event — a Dented Fields / Angry Pitbull Club bash on a month-old downtown LA rooftop, open bar plus an open dab bar — as the moment Web3 felt real, and in hindsight a sign expectations were set unrealistically high.
Wrong hallway, right story.
Hunting for a VIP zone, CEELOS got lost, locked eyes with Christopher Lloyd on a motorized scooter ("that's Doc Brown"), realized he was in the wrong place, and returned to find the vendor next to him had been fending off a member of the "Black Eyed Wheeze" hitting on his wife.
The one-at-a-time drop.
The heart of the collector talk: a project (unnamed on purpose) that the artist lists on OpenSea a single piece at a time — "no mass drop, no second chances" — at random moments, most sniped within 1–3 minutes. Sub-$6 each, 1,000 pieces across 40 phases. CEELOS loves the organic, keep-you-refreshing design and admits half the fun is just having one more than toomazing.
Precisely 710 days.
Baked has ChatGPT do the math on his Web3 tenure — "710 days" — earning a fond "you little stoner" from CEELOS.
"We're gonna sell this so much money."
At a Pokémon vending machine, CEELOS's son declined a visible booster-box drop; CEELOS pounced ("if it'd been a younger dude I'd have let him have it"), only for his son to loudly announce the resale plan mid-purchase. toomazing's verdict on the kid passing it up: "Shut up, little homie."
Autograph roll call.
A relaxed round of celebrity-signature stories: Baked has AC/DC's singer (a Sarasota regular) and an OG Jason on a machete; toomazing sprinted through LAX with a napkin to get Mick Foley/Mankind's autograph (then lost it the next day); CEELOS, too shy to ask anyone, treasures the one Al Bundy autograph a coworker scored for him at a urinal.
Topic timeline
| Time | Topic |
|---|---|
| 1:22–2:30 | Chit-chat, coffee, meal philosophy |
| 2:31–3:59 | Intro; Creepy Cloud convention & coffee vending |
| 4:00–11:38 | CEELOS's 2022 Web3 origin: Castle Kid, Santa Cruz C&D, early regrets |
| 11:38–17:00 | First IRL event / rooftop party; becoming a collector |
| 17:00–19:14 | Baked on die-cast: Hot Wheels, Matchbox, Cartooned low riders |
| 19:15–24:00 | Convention adventures: Christopher Lloyd, the Homies, dormant projects |
| 24:00–33:00 | Collector philosophy; the one-at-a-time NFT drop |
| 33:00–46:00 | Days-locked-in reflection; stickers, QRC cards, custom carpets, PFPs |
| 46:00–53:00 | toomazing joins: Twisted Metal, Pokémon pulls, snipe banter |
| 53:00–1:01:00 | Celebrity autographs & encounters |
| 1:01:00–1:07:50 | Wrap-up, chat-scolding aside, weekly schedule |
Notable quotes
Whichever the meal I eat first, no matter what time of the day it is, that's breakfast.
So I came in stirring the pot unintentionally, bro.
Check out the one that I got — which really does strike that chord of that little kid thing of, like, check out my new toy.
710 days.
Dad, dad, we're gonna sell this so much money.
I should have never sent it to the chat. I should have kept that one low key tucked in the back pocket. Now you're another person I gotta worry about.
Who said what
- CEELOS (@CEELOSFIGG, host): Anchored the whole show from the convention floor — coffee vendor, storyteller, and self-described collector who's grown from whitelist-chasing to buying purely what he likes.
- Baked (@Bakedmetax, cohost): Running the buildatron and the pins; focused on his die-cast collecting (Hot Wheels, Matchbox, Cartooned low riders), a planned sticker competition, and 710 days in.
- toomazing (@TooMazing265, speaker): Dropped in with his son mid-Twisted Metal rewatch; the friendly rival on the one-at-a-time NFT drop, and source of the best autograph saga (the lost Mick Foley napkin).
- ValerieKates (@valeriekates_): Named as a regular but didn't get the mic before the room closed — teed up to return Sunday from Vegas.
Worth a full listen
- 19:15–24:00 The Christopher Lloyd hallway mixup rolling straight into the vendor defending CEELOS's wife — a convention-day comedy of errors that reads flat in summary.
- 46:00–53:00 toomazing's arrival: the Doughboys/Twisted Metal boycott, the Pokémon machine standoff, and the escalating snipe banter all land better with the timing intact.
- 54:44–1:01:00 The full autograph round — Mankind at LAX, Al Bundy at the urinal, AC/DC in Sarasota — is peak Collectors Anonymous energy.
