# Re:Building Together EP 344 — Highs & Lows

Host: CEELOS (@CEELOSFIGG) with ValerieKates (@valeriekates_) and Baked (@Bakedmetax) · Sun, Oct 4 · 1:03:51 · 4 active speakers (plus Brit, on stage and aura farming)

## TL;DR
- Sunday's "highs and lows" format: a loose, football-soaked check-in with the co-hosts, no agenda beyond what the week did to everybody.
- Baked's week was all Other Side — the Re Games went well, but he can't see other people's loaded assets or use his new Feline Fiends avatar on the client build, and nobody he's asked has an answer yet [18:05].
- toomazingTM's low was a sick kid missing football; his high was his oldest racking up tackles, filmed from roughly two feet away by a dad who ran onto the field [16:44].
- Valerie's low was busting out 69th in a poker tournament; the real low underneath it was family health stuff and a Halloween likely spent in El Paso [11:58].
- Running thread: everyone's trying to get their hands on Higgsfield, with a Grok-teaches-itself-Higgsfield trick floated as a workaround [52:46].
- Monday (ep. 345) is This Week in Web3 — TMF passes, Ape Fest, and good entries across chains; everyone has homework [1:02:16].

## Highlights

**[6:34] Sunday football settles nothing.** Valerie opened with "They won, motherfucker!" about the Cowboys, toomazingTM arrived in full Patriots mode, and CEELOS held the line for the Rams only. Valerie's declared allegiance to both the Cowboys and the local Raiders was ruled invalid by committee ("your vote don't count, though").

**[9:39] The Jerry Jones clause.** Valerie's theory that Dallas won't contend again until ownership changes hands got phrased in a way she immediately had to walk back, with toomazingTM refusing to let it go and Valerie offering to go check the recording. She did eventually concede: "Technically, yes."

**[12:30] The low under the low.** Valerie's real low wasn't poker — her mom needs shoulder surgery, it's a workers' comp case (toomazing, who works in the field, confirmed those drag for a year or two), and the family's first Halloween in the new neighborhood is probably getting swapped for El Paso.

**[16:44] Dad with a camera, no shame.** toomazingTM's high: his oldest played more snaps and got a couple of good tackles. He ran onto the field to film it from behind the players — "I don't give a fuck" — which CEELOS endorsed as memory-making, with the caveat that the kid will one day ask why every angle is from three feet off the ground.

**[18:05] Other Side, one build short.** Baked's high and low came from the same place. The Re Games went great and he's been floating through activations — three just that day — but on the client version he can't use his newly bought Feline Fiends skin and can't see anything other players load in, so people appear hovering in midair on invisible objects. The streaming version shows everything and is unplayably laggy. He's hit up Ghostin, Sal, James Hall and more. CEELOS: "Damn, so they're ghosting you?" [19:18]

**[24:20] Live wallet forensics.** CEELOS spent several minutes narrating toomazingTM's wallets out loud — Frankie boxes, Jungle Kings, zombies, rare roses — before discovering two Forever Angries stranded on an abandoned ApeChain wallet, never migrated, with Ghostie in the audience. toomazing's apology to the artist: "It's not, it's not you, it's me."

**[28:02] Grease on the actual field.** CEELOS's high was an outdoor screening at Venice High, lawn chairs on the football field where Danny Zuko ran, kids and their friends around. His low, by contrast, was a filter-change reminder that fired after he'd already left work — followed by the inevitable Sunday text that the flames were going out on roast 18.

**[37:38] Pool league, playoffs, and an unexpected offer.** Valerie's team finished fourth, beat fifth, and now draws the team that beat everyone all season; her plan is heavy defensive play and hiding the cue ball. She also recounted complimenting an opposing player, being offered some one-on-one coaching, and quietly never speaking to her again.

**[52:46] Teach Grok to be Higgsfield.** With Higgsfield subscriptions still pending (and the discount percentage dropping every time CEELOS checks — 40% down to 21%), toomazingTM described a clip where someone prompted Grok to study Higgsfield's tooling and then work from the same infrastructure. CEELOS asked for the video so he could read the exact prompt, and the two drifted into keeping every model updated for best output [53:53].

**[58:03] The Monday-through-Friday doctrine.** CEELOS explained that at 18 or 19 he decided to list his availability as Monday–Friday on every application, full stop — originally out of childcare necessity, then kept because why stop. Coffee, roasting, current job: all M–F for 25-odd years. toomazingTM, eight years into his own M–F after a 10-to-10 pediatric urgent care stretch with only Wednesdays off, raised the ceiling: "I'm trying to make it no day through no days."

## Topic timeline

| Time | Topic |
|---|---|
| [1:11]–[5:53] | Intro / intro track |
| [5:57]–[11:17] | Format setup, NFL check-ins, Cowboys/Patriots/Raiders |
| [11:44]–[14:14] | Valerie's lows: poker, mom's surgery, workers' comp |
| [14:14]–[17:49] | toomazing's lows and highs: sick kid, football, sideline filming |
| [18:05]–[23:50] | Baked on Other Side: Re Games, Feline Fiends, client vs stream builds |
| [24:13]–[28:00] | Wallet tour, abandoned ApeChain bags, Forever Angries |
| [28:02]–[32:19] | CEELOS's week: Grease screening, filters, heat wave |
| [32:19]–[40:24] | Homecoming dress, Little House on the Prairie tangent, parenting daughters |
| [36:34]–[38:24] | Pool league playoffs |
| [40:58]–[44:44] | Higgsfield access, open-edition idea to thank Quit, DJen tunes |
| [46:31]–[47:32] | Morning space recap, Higgsfield pricing roulette |
| [51:34]–[55:08] | AI tooling: Grok prompt trick, Pixart, keeping models updated |
| [55:52]–[57:00] | Chemex shout-out, Val's Ape Church stream Monday |
| [58:03]–[1:00:39] | Work schedules, the M–F philosophy |
| [1:01:19]–[1:03:09] | Wrap, preview of ep. 345 |

## Notable quotes

- "They won, motherfucker!" — ValerieKates [6:38]
- "They're ghosting me, bro." — Baked, on the Other Side support chain [19:20]
- "Could be, could be, and I'm not getting a stronger computer just for other side, bro." — CEELOS [23:45]
- "Yeah, I'm in all your wallets, brother. I'm in all your wallets, alright? Don't get it twisted." — CEELOS [26:32]
- "Constant improvement is the whole goal, right? … whatever you're making today, you want one year from now, you're looking back and being like, ah, damn." — CEELOS [53:27]
- "Monday through Friday is the best. I'm trying to make it no day through no days." — toomazingTM [1:00:08]

## Who said what

- **CEELOS** (\*, @CEELOSFIGG) — host; ran the highs/lows format, narrated everyone's wallets uninvited, shared a Grease-on-the-field family high and a coffee-roaster filter low, and laid out his decades-long Monday-through-Friday hiring policy.
- **ValerieKates** (\*, @valeriekates_) — co-host; Cowboys partisan, poker and pool league updates, the week's heaviest low (family surgery and caregiving logistics), and the only person who remembered what Monday's episode is about.
- **Baked** (\*, @Bakedmetax) — co-host; the Other Side correspondent — Re Games recap, new Feline Fiends avatar, invisible-asset bug on the client build, and off to a 6 p.m. Sunday shift.
- **toomazingTM** (\*, @TooMazing265) — speaker; Patriots loyalist, proud sideline cameraman, healthcare-field reality checks on workers' comp, and the source of the Grok-studies-Higgsfield idea.
- **Brit** (@CryptoBrit28)\* — on stage the whole time, reposting and tagging people in rather than talking; described by Valerie as aura farming.

## Worth a full listen

- **[18:05]–[23:50]** — Baked and CEELOS working through the Other Side client-vs-stream split in real time, including the moment they wonder aloud whether it's just a GPU problem. Useful if you're trying to get in-world and can't.
- **[24:13]–[28:00]** — The wallet tour. A live, affectionate audit of someone's entire on-chain history ending in two forgotten Forever Angries and an apology to the artist in the room.
- **[58:03]–[1:00:39]** — The work-schedule conversation. Genuinely good career advice disguised as two dads comparing shifts.

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