Highlights
Don't name the coin on a recorded Space.
Baked's opening bit set the tone — he'd help you find a two-to-three-X, but "don't say it on a recorded space. Then we're gonna get blamed because people don't know how to sell." CEELOS admitted he's "the king of not knowing when to sell," back in his old scrape-a-little-here casino mentality.
The room officially opens.
CEELOS welcomes everyone to Episode 262, sets the theme — "summer adventures, or at least things that we used to get into during the summer that we consider adventures" — and checks in with the co-hosts.
Hottest day of the summer.
Everyone's cooking: solo dolo went running and it was already brutal, and CEELOS is broadcasting from a coffee-roasting warehouse where the machines hit 480°F, so a cold shower barely helped.
Region prices and the recap curse.
A recurring gag — CEELOS believes the Kobe region he wanted got marked up because it was mentioned on a previous Space recap, so he's careful not to name the one he's still eyeing.
The LAUSD track system.
CEELOS explains the color-coded A/B/C track schedule of his childhood — A-track got summers off, B and C didn't — and the joy of being one of four friends on vacation while the fifth sweated it out at school.
Stunts and fire-escape leaps.
Pre-skateboarding summers meant "stunts" (a tame Jackass), hide-and-seek in the Bonaventure Hotel, and jumping fire escapes onto rooftops — CEELOS stuck to the first floor while his friend Julio, RIP, went for the fourth and fifth.
Broke-kid cuisine.
The nostalgia peak: dry Cup Noodles crunched straight from the styrofoam, one 99-cent Whopper, and Wendy's when it still had a salad bar with red jello and sliced bananas — one refillable soda passed around a whole crew of skaters near USC.
Slick Ric on quitting the leverage grind.
Slick Ric (a former DJ up in NorCal) described a year of daily leverage trading that burned him out — "I'm so glad I don't do that anymore" — while eyeing the Robin Hood/cash-cat meme revival from the sidelines, same as CEELOS with NFTs.
The Star Wars section they didn't know existed.
CEELOS recounts nearly leaving Disneyland last year, taking one final lap, and stumbling into the whole Galaxy's Edge area — Millennium Falcon, a projection show, and the build-your-own-droid shop. solo dolo confirmed he'd built an R2-D2 there (an "Arturito," ~$200), and Baked declared it the one reason he'd go to Disney.
Closing soccer picks.
solo dolo calls 2-1 Argentina, Baked co-signs Argentina, and CEELOS goes contrarian with 2-1 England, taking a shot at Argentina's "cheat mass team" on the record.
Topic timeline
| Time | Topic |
|---|---|
| 1:53–7:18 | Pre-show meme-coin banter + intro song |
| 7:18–13:36 | Intros, heat wave, PFPs and NFT "regions" |
| 13:36–26:00 | School tracks, hide-and-seek, stunts, fire escapes |
| 26:00–31:22 | Growing up broke: cheap eats, no vacations |
| 31:22–38:00 | Slick Ric joins; meme coins / Robin Hood trading |
| 38:00–48:13 | Disneyland trip, prices, Star Wars, droids |
| 48:13–55:00 | Skate-industry friend, heat, ocean, coin sniping |
| 55:00–57:58 | England vs. Argentina bets |
| 58:00–1:00:11 | "Fug" edit decision, sign-off |
Notable quotes
You're you're back in the casino.
You gotta get out at seven. Minute seven, bro. Minute seven. The moment you see that candle start getting green, you gotta get out.
Low income baby.
My frozen lemonade is gonna run me like twelve dollars now. Awesome.
I've been scalping coins there in the during the space. Made about 25 bucks so far. Playing with change, you know.
Break bread, Papa, break bread. You took my daughter from me.
Who said what
- CEELOS (@CEELOSFIGG) — Host; roasting coffee in the heat, steering the summer-nostalgia theme, an NFT guy who watches the meme-coin action but rarely plays, prepping for a family Disneyland day.
- Baked (@Bakedmetax) — Co-host in Florida on the Gulf; scalping meme coins live for lunch money, the resident anti-MPC-wallet holdout, and dry-ramen-as-chips enthusiast.
- solo dolo (@solodolo) — Teacher out in Whittier; grew up low income too, built an R2-D2 at Disney, and offered the soccer pick (2-1 Argentina).
- Slick Ric (@richj530)* — Former DJ up in NorCal; recovering leverage trader, colorful stories about his East Indian neighbors' week-long weddings, now watching meme coins from the sidelines.
- Sam (@pressedcurl)* — Brief drop-in; the outlier who went to Catholic private summer school rather than free/summer school.
Worth a full listen
- 20:21–31:22 The heart of the episode: fire-escape stunts, USC skate spots, and the whole economy of the 99-cent Whopper and the refillable Wendy's cup. The details land better in the speakers' own telling.
- 31:22–38:00 Slick Ric and CEELOS trading war stories on leverage trading and the Robin Hood/meme revival — a genuine, unhyped read on jumping back into the casino (NFA and all).
- 46:21–48:13 The Star Wars/Galaxy's Edge discovery and droid-building tangent, with Baked deciding on the spot this is the reason to finally go to Disney.
* some voices are identified from context; those names are marked as likely.
