Highlights
The premise.
CEELOS opens episode 279 solo-ish ("shout out to me and Bakes, because we're here"), explaining the copy-paste-copy-paste prompt that renders your NFT as a Garbage Pail Kid — held by a random hand or sitting on a table for that "it's a real card" realism. Baked's invisible-man PFP with multicolored visors came out as "glitchy Gary."
Cohosting from the roof.
Baked checks in from a job that ballooned from an hour into a day of fixing his boss's mess-ups, in 103° heat, "hot and exhausted, ready to be off this roof."
The case for the bot.
Baked's dry answer to CEELOS forgetting to mine all day: "This is why I set up the bot to run for me."
A web3 funk, honestly told.
CEELOS talks through a bored pocket in web3 and lands on the episode's quiet thesis — the space isn't there to entertain him; it's on him to find the fun in it. (Detour into his mom's long-running campaign against his beard included.)
Wallet hygiene.
A clinic on spotting scam airdrops — mystery "stonk traders" and "stonk punks" showing up with suspiciously high offers — and calmly sliding the junk into the hidden wallet. "Not your boy, not your boy."
Sticky Spencer.
CEELOS renders a Garbage Pail card from zGhostin's NFTs and reads out the AI-assigned name: "Oh gross. His name is Sticky Spencer, bro. That's actually perfect." He floats turning the cards into real stickers.
The derp explainer.
zGhostin comes up unsure what to do with his mine boys, and CEELOS walks him step by step through Uncle Mac's stonkpit.xyz — bridging mine boys to pit boys (108 apiece), clocking them in to mine derp, and the randomized payouts (44 derp on the low end, ~1,200 on a lucky hit). Turns into a heartfelt appreciation of a builder who "doesn't get the proper spotlight because of where he's hanging out."
The Otherside store.
zGhostin describes the one-year-anniversary in-world market by the Nexus spawn — limited-edition backpacks and letterman jackets you buy with Ape via your glyph wallet — which sends the two into riffing on custom print shops, coffee roasteries, and community plots inside the Otherside.
No-reveal rugs.
The pair agree the worst outcome isn't even the rug — it's being left with a static placeholder and no IP to play with. zGhostin suggests platforms hold mint funds until reveal to scare off bad actors; "give me a damn image."
Sixty-three dollars of dirt.
Baked reports back his derp balance — ~63,000 — prompting CEELOS's "go buy some dirt, fool" so he'd have 100K, and Baked's deadpan "so it's sixty-three dollars worth of dirt."
The wind-down.
Baked closes out, thanking zGhostin for holding it down while he and Bake were both at work (and while his phone overheated). Solo dolo lands the trademark outro: get your ass to the gym, anything is possible.
Topic timeline
| Time | Topic |
|---|---|
| 3:57–7:10 | Pre-show / stray 50 Cent audio over the mic |
| 8:00–11:00 | Garbage Pail Kids AI prompt, PFP renders |
| 11:00–16:44 | Baked on the roof, mining bot, a web3 funk |
| 17:04–24:00 | Scam airdrops, wallet cleanup, pixel trip evolves |
| 24:00–34:00 | More card renders (okay Djens, zGhostin's banner), skateboarding return, derp intro |
| 35:08–45:00 | zGhostin: mine boys → pit boys → derp, Uncle Mac, Ape Chain's lack of shine |
| 45:00–57:00 | Otherside store, otherdeeds, no-reveal rugs, OpenSea vetting |
| 57:00–1:02:47 | Baked's derp balance, Solo's arrival, outro |
Notable quotes
It's not up to Web3 to keep me entertained... it's up to me to find things within Web3 to keep me entertained.
Not your boy, not your boy.
Oh gross. His name is Sticky Spencer, bro. That's actually perfect.
Some of the smartest people I've met are on [Ape] chain building over there, but you know, nobody even knows.
So it's it's sixty-three dollars worth of dirt.
Bro, I've been waiting since 11:30... I got salty, so I stopped.
Who said what
- CEELOS (@CEELOSFIGG)* — host and engine of the room: ran the Garbage Pail generator, narrated wallet cleanup and pixel-trip evolves, and gave the full derp/Ape Chain onboarding to zGhostin.
- Baked (@Bakedmetax)* — cohost phoning in from a rooftop job in extreme heat; champion of the mining bot, source of the "63,000 derp = $63" gag, and the one who closed the show.
- zGhostin (@zGhostin)* — brought the middle third to life, asking how to use his mine boys and driving the Otherside/otherdeed discussion with real detail on store items and land stars/resources.
- Solo dolo (@solodolo)* — arrived late (and salty about it) to deliver the signature gym-and-grind outro.
Worth a full listen
- 35:08–42:44 The mine boys → pit boys → derp walkthrough is the most practically useful stretch: exact site, bridging cost, how clocking in/out works, and why Ape Chain builders like Uncle Mac fly under the radar. Hard to compress without losing the how-to.
- 46:40–55:00 The Otherside/otherdeed segment covers the anniversary store, land sizing and resources, community plots, and the safety logic of glyph wallets — a good primer if you've been ignoring that ecosystem.
- 15:04–17:04 CEELOS thinking out loud about a web3 funk (and his beard) is the episode's honest heart, and lands on the line the whole night orbits.
* some voices are identified from context; those names are marked as likely.
