Re:Building Together EP 311 — Wayback Wednesday

Host: CEELOS (@CEELOSFIGG) · Wed, Sep 2, 2026 · 1:05:20 · 4 speakers

TL;DR

• A low-key "Wayback Wednesday" that turned into a heartfelt hour on jewelry — first pieces, family heirlooms that never arrived, and what we hold onto and why.
• CEELOS carried most of the room with childhood stories from a rough LA neighborhood: a gold necklace gifted by his brother and stolen the same day, and a donut-shop arcade caper that ended in a lie he still carries.
• Bored Osaka shared the "payback" of buying his son an engraved Rolex Submariner so the kid wouldn't wait on an heirloom that never came.
• Baked traced his jewelry habit to a spite ear-piercing and a growing "treasure trove" of sapphires, silver bars and gold he holds as investment.
• Housekeeping-turned-fun: NFT NYC winding down, homemade regen stickers, a stolen skate-park QR sticker, and a "clay and glitter" chain mistaken for real carats.
• Tomorrow's episode: AI talk.

Highlights

[1:58] The intro sets the tone — grillz. The Space opened on a grill anthem in full, "Rob the jewelry store 'til it makes me a grill," which teed up the entire jewelry theme without anyone planning it.

[8:26] The grill CEELOS never got. CEELOS confessed he's wanted a grill since his Wu-Tang days, but his wife — whom he's known since they were 11 — has been firm: "You are not getting fucking grill." That opened the night's question: what was your first piece of jewelry?

[9:54] The necklace stolen the same day he got it. CEELOS recounted his older brother gifting him a thin gold necklace with a little bicycle pendant on his sixth birthday, and getting jumped a block and a half from home before he could ever wear it to school — "maybe that's where my introduction to gang life was at that point."

[12:45] Osaka's heirlooms that went sideways — and the payback. Bored Osaka matched the story: a '65 Mustang meant for him that got stolen, a ruby pinky ring promised for graduation that went to a sibling who then lost it. His answer years later was to buy his own son an engraved Submariner for high school graduation — "Yeah, this is payback. I'm just gonna say it like it is."

[16:13] Baked's spite piercing. Baked's mom took him to get one ear pierced specifically because his stepdad said he never would — but only one, because two was, in her words, "fruity." Cue Baked's logic: "Well, now I look even more fruity, only having one."

[17:41] The earring that had to be forced back through. After football practice nearly let the piercing close, Baked's mom "stuck it right back through my ear... she forced that thing through" — filed under worst pain of the era.

[18:18] Which wrist, and what people will think. CEELOS's mom insisted he wear his watch on the right ("people are gonna think you're..."); Baked catches flak for the same choice but wears it on his right anyway — tattoos down that arm, right-handed, "it just looks better."

[45:06] Baked's treasure trove. Baked walked through his stash on the jumbotron — three colors of sapphire (the smallest, pinkest one is the priciest), moissanite, silver bars, gold and chains, "for investment reasons." CEELOS: "You're such an investor, bro." Baked: "Bro, I've got money everywhere. It's terrible."

[1:02:35] The clay-and-glitter chain. CEELOS closed on a Target cashier admiring his handmade skateboard necklace: "How many carats is that?" — "bro, this is clay and glitter." A reminder not to let the sparkle fool you.

Topic timeline

Notable quotes

• "You are not getting fucking grill." — CEELOS, relaying his wife [8:26]
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• "Yeah, this is payback. I'm just gonna say it like it is." — Bored Osaka, on gifting his son the Submariner [12:45]
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• "Well, now I look even more fruity, only having one." — Baked [16:13]
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• "I got tattoos all the way down to my wrist on my right, and it just looks better... so I'm gonna wear it on my right, all right?" — Baked [19:01]
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• "Bro, I've got money everywhere. It's terrible." — Baked [45:57]
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• "Bro, this is clay and glitter... Don't let the sparkle fool you." — CEELOS [1:02:35]
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Who said what

• CEELOS (@CEELOSFIGG, host) — Steered the whole hour, opening the jewelry theme and carrying the longest, most personal stories: stolen necklaces, the arcade lie and the guilt he still holds, his evolving relationship with wanting-vs-needing (jewelry and NFTs alike), coffee-roasting life, and his birthday meetup invite.
• Baked (@Bakedmetax^*, co-host) — House-hunting with a hard 4pm stop; provided the piercing stories and a running thread on collecting sapphires and stones as both hobby and investment, plus the custom regen dog tag he's commissioning.
• ValerieKates (@valeriekates_^*, co-host) — Kept it light between deeper beats; shared baby ear-piercings as her first jewelry and her lasting regret at choosing silver as a kid now that everyone else has gold.
• Bored Osaka (@BoredOsaka1^*, speaker) — Delivered the emotional centerpiece: heirlooms that never reached him, and paying it forward with an engraved Submariner for his son.

Worth a full listen

• [9:54]–[15:31] — The back-to-back memory exchange between CEELOS and Bored Osaka on stolen jewelry, missed heirlooms and the Submariner "payback" is the emotional core of the episode; the summaries can't carry the delivery.
• [16:13]–[19:48] — The lighter run through Baked's spite piercing, the forced-earring ordeal and the watch-wrist debate, with Val's silver regret capping it, is the funniest stretch of the hour.
• [39:04]–[43:25] — CEELOS's arcade story and the reflection it opens up — why he refuses to escalate arguments because "I always carry that weight" — is quietly the most revealing few minutes.

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