# Re:Building Together EP 308 — The CEELO & DOLO Show

*Host: CEELOS (@CEELOSFIGG) · Sun 30 Aug 2026 · 1:07:51 · 7 speakers (Baked was busy, Val pulled up)*

## TL;DR
- A deliberately mellow end-of-week recap Space that started as just CEELOS and Solo dolo, with most of the community already headed to NFT NYC.
- Lots of small-stakes Robinhood-era degen talk — cheap free/near-free mints, "hood hash" pagers, broker-punk fuse-and-burn, praying bears — with CEELOS narrating himself unstaking tokens live on mic.
- ValerieKates joined and revealed she'll be the lone Re:Building Together host actually at NFT NYC; the crew spent much of the back half coaching her (and gently roasting her camera-shyness).
- Wolf (NYC-bound in the morning) and Slick Ric (just out of church, NYC veteran) traded New York intel: the vibe, the subway, the famous spots, and one transcendent piece of bacon.
- Recurring bits carried the room: Wolf's one leg, Val's coin-flipping "cutthroat" instincts, and CEELOS's plan to just throw Solo at any would-be muggers.

## Highlights

**[6:15] Two hosts, one chill Space.** CEELOS opened Episode 308 as a low-key open convo — "just me and solo" — noting everyone else was out at NFT NYC getting it. He'd been half-listening to the Robinhood/Boost space all morning until his wife made him put on *Shameless*, which he's dismayed to learn runs eleven seasons.

**[12:04] Small-money degen theater.** The core of the first half: sweeping cheap mints, the "hood hash" pagers that sold out in the time it took to switch wallets, V-RAM miners, bandits, corrupteds. CEELOS's actual not-financial-advice thesis — take ~$100 of Robinhood money, sweep three here and five there, gamble $20, and you'll usually recoup the twenty. He also walked through unstaking and fusing broker-punk tokens in real time, complete with a MetaMask "please update" interruption.

**[28:33] Cutthroat Val.** Val explained her plan to sit on coin, wait for the dump, and buy her "Macy" — actually *four*, to flip and sell later. The degens were scandalized in the best way. CEELOS delivered the house motto: "Today's price isn't tomorrow's price."

**[32:38] Spaces vs. spouses.** Wolf recounted how his wife (Meow) wore him down over a couple of years — he thought crypto was "a croc" and a scam — until he caved and went all in. Val one-upped it with the image of hiding behind a dumpster at the Texas State Fair while her husband stared at her, wondering why she was in Spaces. Solo noted CEELOS does the same thing to Val on date night.

**[38:58] Chinatown, tastes-like-childhood edition.** CEELOS took the week off for his wife Crystal's birthday and is heading to Chinatown. Cue a warm tangent: the toy guns of the '80s that "look real," the nunchucks and ninja stars he still wants in his 40s, and Phoenix Bakery — the one cake shop so essential that, in his memory, parents nearly came to blows if you showed up with the wrong cake.

**[45:00] The legendary bacon.** Slick Ric and Wolf hyped a piece of bacon from last year's meetup to near-mythic status — "hella thick, almost look like pieces of spam," glazed sweet-and-spicy, "almost not even bacon, it's just pork belly." Slick Ric admitted talking about it was making him hungry. Earlier, the group workshopped fixing Baked up — Slick's prescription for the almost-30 bachelor included, unforgettably, "butt paste."

**[54:01] Fist to the face.** Teasing that Liz is so tireless she might be AI-generated earned Val's deadpan warning — "You're gonna get a real fist to the face one day" — especially about her football team. Wolf pivoted straight into peak absurdity: he lets Meow carry his spare leg around New York so nobody bothers her, and CEELOS suggested displaying it in a glass case with fake blood, because in New York nobody would even look twice.

**[1:03:09] "Hi, I'm Valerie."** Val, resigned to hiding in a corner and dodging photos, tried out a brave, extra-social greeting voice — including a helium-pitched "hi, everybody" — while CEELOS pointed out it was the exact same voice she always uses. He signed off promising to just AI-generate a face to paste on any pictures she's in.

## Topic timeline
| Time | Topic |
|------|-------|
| [1:41]–[6:15] | Pre-show banter + intro track |
| [6:15]–[16:00] | Catch-up, *Shameless*, cluttered wallets, cheap-mint theory |
| [16:00]–[26:00] | Corrupteds, bandits, praying bears, broker-punk fuse/burn (live) |
| [26:00]–[31:00] | Val joins; coin-flipping and "cutthroat Val" banter |
| [31:00]–[37:00] | Wolf, NFT NYC, Spaces-vs-spouses, Yankees |
| [37:00]–[42:00] | CEELOS's week off + Chinatown nostalgia |
| [42:00]–[45:00] | Title tweaks; Baked's house hunt |
| [45:00]–[52:00] | The bacon; NYC meetup logistics |
| [52:00]–[58:00] | NYC vibes vs. West Coast; Val traveling solo |
| [58:00]–[1:04:00] | NYC spots; Val's photo-shyness |
| [1:04:00]–[1:07:51] | Birthday plans, blessings, close |

## Notable quotes
- "No, I'm trying to get four of them to flip and sell later." — ValerieKates [28:33]
- "I've hid behind a dumpster at the Texas State Fair with my husband just staring at me, like, why are you in Spaces?" — ValerieKates [33:00]
- "Why do California guys gotta be such pussies? It's November. It's not like it's the middle of July." — Wolf [34:46]
- "Almost look like pieces of spam it's so thick, but it's bang, and it's like glazed." — Slick Ric, on the bacon [46:45]
- "You're gonna get a real fist to the face one day." — ValerieKates [54:01]
- "I let her take my extra leg and she walks around and everybody thinks she's weird because she's carrying a leg around and nobody bothers her." — Wolf [54:33]

## Who said what
- **CEELOS (@CEELOSFIGG)** — host; steered the mellow recap, narrated his degen mints, and carried the Chinatown and closing bits.
- **Solo dolo (@solodolo)** — cohost; the waffles-and-the-gym counterweight, quietly holding the stonks he bought at 0.003 and refusing his flowers.
- **ValerieKates (@valeriekates_)** — the only Re:Building Together host actually going to NFT NYC; the room's cutthroat coin-flipper and cheerfully camera-shy target of every roast.
- **Wolf (@WoofArmyXX)\*** — NYC-bound with wife Meow; source of the marriage-into-Spaces story, the Yankees-hat plan, and the running leg gag.
- **Slick Ric (@richj530)\*** — fresh from church with a back tattoo pending; NYC veteran and chief bacon evangelist.
- **toomazingTM (@TooMazing265)\*** — fought headphone/audio gremlins most of the Space, surfaced for trades and a closing "I love you."
- **Baked (@Bakedmetax)** — absent but present in spirit; house-hunting out of a moldy place, with a stray cat waiting to come home once he moves.

## Worth a full listen
- **[45:00]–[47:20]** — The bacon monologue in full. No summary conveys the reverence Slick Ric and Wolf bring to describing two glazed slices that are "almost not even bacon."
- **[53:53]–[55:20]** — The Liz-is-AI riff, Val's fist-to-the-face warning, and Wolf's spare-leg-in-a-glass-case escalation all land back-to-back — the funniest stretch of the night.
- **[1:02:39]–[1:03:15]** — Wolf vowing to scan Val out of her corner ("I'm half robot") and Val debuting her brave "hi, I'm Valerie" voice — a small, warm bit about actually showing up IRL.

\* Some voices are identified from context; those names are marked as likely.