Re:Building Together EP 259 — Collectors Anonymous

Host: CEELOS (@CEELOSFIGG) · Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2026 · Duration: ~1:08 · Active speakers: 3 (CEELOS, Baked, toomazing)

TL;DR

• CEELOS broadcast live from day three (of a seven-day work stretch) vending coffee alongside his wife at the Creepy Cloud show in the Ontario Convention Center — best coffee outing yet, down to his last bag by the end.
• The Sunday format is "Collectors Anonymous": toys, cards, shoes, die-cast, sports memorabilia and NFTs all fair game.
• CEELOS reminisced about his 2022 entry into Web3 (first NFT a rug, second was Castle Kid) and traced how he grew from chasing whitelists into a collector who buys art simply because he likes it.
• A recurring bit: an unnamed NFT project — put on CEELOS's radar by toomazing — that lists one piece at a time at random hours, sparking a friendly snipe war between the two friends.
• Long, warm tangents on convention life, celebrity autographs, Pokémon pack pulls, and the joys/perils of being a collector parent.
• Housekeeping: tomorrow is a Kaboo project spotlight; the week's themes and Val's return (from Vegas) were previewed.

Highlights

[2:31] Cold open and the setup. CEELOS runs the recorded-listener intro from the convention floor, noting coffee's been "flying off the shelves." His favorite moment: a self-described coffee snob came back a day after buying a bag just to say her home brew was amazing.

[5:47–7:14] Origin story. CEELOS dates his first NFT purchase to January 22, 2022, but suspects it was actually his second — his first was "a complete rug" he thinks he quietly archived off Instagram. The real starting point, he says, was buying Castle Kid.

[8:14–9:07] Unintentionally starting a cease-and-desist. He picked a Castle Kid with a Santa Cruz skateboard in the background, posted it proudly, and tagged a Santa Cruz brand ambassador he knew from coffee. Within a week the project announced a metadata refresh — the logo became a "CK." "So I came in stirring the pot unintentionally, bro."

[13:04–14:31] The rooftop dab-bar party. CEELOS recalls his first IRL event — a Dented Fields / Angry Pitbull Club bash on a month-old downtown LA rooftop, open bar plus an open dab bar — as the moment Web3 felt real, and in hindsight a sign expectations were set unrealistically high.

[19:15–22:10] Wrong hallway, right story. Hunting for a VIP zone, CEELOS got lost, locked eyes with Christopher Lloyd on a motorized scooter ("that's Doc Brown"), realized he was in the wrong place, and returned to find the vendor next to him had been fending off a member of the "Black Eyed Wheeze" hitting on his wife.

[25:11–29:34] The one-at-a-time drop. The heart of the collector talk: a project (unnamed on purpose) that the artist lists on OpenSea a single piece at a time — "no mass drop, no second chances" — at random moments, most sniped within 1–3 minutes. Sub-$6 each, 1,000 pieces across 40 phases. CEELOS loves the organic, keep-you-refreshing design and admits half the fun is just having one more than toomazing.

[33:10] Precisely 710 days. Baked has ChatGPT do the math on his Web3 tenure — "710 days" — earning a fond "you little stoner" from CEELOS.

[50:19–52:00] "We're gonna sell this so much money." At a Pokémon vending machine, CEELOS's son declined a visible booster-box drop; CEELOS pounced ("if it'd been a younger dude I'd have let him have it"), only for his son to loudly announce the resale plan mid-purchase. toomazing's verdict on the kid passing it up: "Shut up, little homie."

[54:44–1:01:00] Autograph roll call. A relaxed round of celebrity-signature stories: Baked has AC/DC's singer (a Sarasota regular) and an OG Jason on a machete; toomazing sprinted through LAX with a napkin to get Mick Foley/Mankind's autograph (then lost it the next day); CEELOS, too shy to ask anyone, treasures the one Al Bundy autograph a coworker scored for him at a urinal.

Topic timeline

Notable quotes

• "Whichever the meal I eat first, no matter what time of the day it is, that's breakfast." — CEELOS [1:45]
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• "So I came in stirring the pot unintentionally, bro." — CEELOS, on the Santa Cruz cease-and-desist [9:03]
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• "Check out the one that I got — which really does strike that chord of that little kid thing of, like, check out my new toy." — CEELOS [28:04]
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• "710 days." — Baked, on his time in Web3 [33:10]
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• "Dad, dad, we're gonna sell this so much money." — CEELOS's son, mid-purchase [51:55]
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• "I should have never sent it to the chat. I should have kept that one low key tucked in the back pocket. Now you're another person I gotta worry about." — toomazing [53:53]
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Who said what

• CEELOS (@CEELOSFIGG, host): Anchored the whole show from the convention floor — coffee vendor, storyteller, and self-described collector who's grown from whitelist-chasing to buying purely what he likes.
• Baked (@Bakedmetax, cohost): Running the buildatron and the pins; focused on his die-cast collecting (Hot Wheels, Matchbox, Cartooned low riders), a planned sticker competition, and 710 days in.
• toomazing (@TooMazing265, speaker): Dropped in with his son mid-Twisted Metal rewatch; the friendly rival on the one-at-a-time NFT drop, and source of the best autograph saga (the lost Mick Foley napkin).
• ValerieKates (@valeriekates_): Named as a regular but didn't get the mic before the room closed — teed up to return Sunday from Vegas.

Worth a full listen

• [19:15–24:00] The Christopher Lloyd hallway mixup rolling straight into the vendor defending CEELOS's wife — a convention-day comedy of errors that reads flat in summary.
• [46:00–53:00] toomazing's arrival: the Doughboys/Twisted Metal boycott, the Pokémon machine standoff, and the escalating snipe banter all land better with the timing intact.
• [54:44–1:01:00] The full autograph round — Mankind at LAX, Al Bundy at the urinal, AC/DC in Sarasota — is peak Collectors Anonymous energy.