Re:Building Together EP 318 — Wayback Wednesday: MTV/BET/VH1

Host: CEELOS (@CEELOSFIGG) with cohosts ValerieKates (@valeriekates_) and Baked (@Bakedmetax) · Wed, Sep 9 2026 · ~1:00 · 4 main voices

TL;DR

• A loose, warm Wayback Wednesday hang from the Regens community, built entirely on 90s/2000s music-TV nostalgia — MTV, BET, VH1, TRL, freestyle Fridays.
• CEELOS opened by reciting an Andy Milonakis song, which set the tone for the hour.
• Regens' two-year anniversary lands Sept 28; CEELOS and Baked are compiling a recap of everything the project has done, admitting they'll probably miss a few.
• Baked (@Bakedmetax) is moving in nine days into a brand-new four-bed house, days before turning 28 — and is waiting on approval for a game he built to launch on its own domain.
• Plenty of aging-out-of-your-20s ribbing, plus a genuinely tender turn where CEELOS remembered his late father via a Facebook memory.

Highlights

[3:04] The Andy Milonakis cold open. CEELOS kicked the show off by performing "It's My Show" verbatim — peas on his head, Bruce Leeves on his head, beef stew from lemons — before dryly announcing, "there's your way back Wednesday for you."

[7:07] Slick calls in from the road. SLICK RIC (@richj530) joined mid-drive — "just getting on the freaking road," four and a half hours ahead of him with snacks, protein bars, beef jerky, and water loaded up — and slotted right into the reminiscing.

[8:39] MTV, TRL and early-internet nostalgia. Val (@valeriekates_)^* noted she caught the early, pre-boy-band TRL and remembered seeing Marilyn Manson before he broke big, which spun into a bittersweet riff from CEELOS about the shift from magazine paparazzi to everyday folks trying to trigger celebrities for a clip.

[13:03] "Game over" at 28. CEELOS laid out his theory that 27 is the last year you're a "young man" — hit 28 and "you're pushing 30... you might as well be the new singer of Aerosmith." Val's rebuttal: "You're not 30 till you're 30."

[13:42] Blind Fury and Freestyle Fridays. Slick lit up recalling everyone dragging chairs into the TV room for BET's 106 & Park freestyle battles, where Blind Fury "used to shred people." CEELOS gently explained the reference to Baked, who claimed he still listens to Blind Fury freestyles to this day.

[15:07] "I just thought that was Miley Cyrus' dad." After CEELOS teased Baked's presumed Kid Rock/Billy Ray Cyrus tastes, Baked delivered the line of the hour: "I didn't even know Billy Ray Cyrus made music. I just thought that was Miley Cyrus' dad."

[15:31] The generational-music thought. CEELOS landed a genuinely reflective point: his 13-year-old listening to late-90s Blink-182 and Green Day is the same time gap as him listening to 60s bands like The Doors in the 90s — "really weird, think about it like that."

[22:19] Two years of Regens. Heading toward the Sept 28 anniversary, CEELOS reflected that a two-year-old project has barely "got out of diapers," and he and Baked are digging through old contracts and tokens to catalog every collab, giveaway, and activation.

[32:13] Val discovers the font settings. CEELOS ran a running bit about Val needing bigger text, after she'd apparently posted about cranking up her phone's font size — "Val can only see two posts at a time on her screen." Her verdict on being teased again: "I'm not gonna be vulnerable on the timeline no more."

[39:32] Embrace your people. CEELOS turned quiet, recalling a Facebook memory of mourning his father and the days he'd spot his dad around the city and pull over for a hug. It became the emotional center of the hour.

[44:29] Baked's move. CEELOS clocked that Baked had gone quiet packing boxes; Baked confirmed he's moving in nine days into a brand-new never-lived-in four-bed, two-and-a-half-bath — the timing landing right on his 28th birthday, "nice little birthday present to me."

Topic timeline

Notable quotes

• "When life hands me lemons, I make beef stew." — CEELOS, reciting the Andy Milonakis song [3:04]
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• "I didn't even know Billy Ray Cyrus made music. I just thought that was Miley Cyrus' dad." — Baked [15:07]
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• "You're not 30 till you're 30." — Val [13:18]
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• "I'm just a lame from Maine trying to maintain, you know what I'm saying?" — Slick [23:22]
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• "Embrace your folks if you got them, if you don't, embrace those memories because that's all we got left." — CEELOS [39:32]
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• "I'm not gonna be vulnerable on the timeline no more." — Val [32:17]
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Who said what

• CEELOS (@CEELOSFIGG) — host; drove the nostalgia, opened with the Milonakis song, delivered the aging-out-of-your-20s bits, and anchored the show's warmer moments about his dad and about the Regens two-year mark.
• ValerieKates (@valeriekates_) — cohost; the room's music-video romantic (Marilyn Manson, VJ competitions, "I miss music videos"), good-natured target of the font-size running joke.
• Baked (@Bakedmetax) — cohost; the birthday-approaching mover, back-injury sufferer, and game builder waiting on his project's approval to launch on its own domain.
• SLICK RIC (@richj530) — speaker calling in from a four-hour drive; brought the BET freestyle memories, West Coast oldies, and the recurring "the one thing I know is I don't know" bit, plus a Cybercab side quest.

Worth a full listen

• [13:42]–[15:31] — The Blind Fury / 106 & Park stretch into the Billy Ray Cyrus punchline and CEELOS's generational-music reflection; the room's chemistry and timing carry it better than any summary.
• [39:32]–[40:59] — CEELOS's unhurried "embrace your people" reflection on his father is the hour's most heartfelt turn and doesn't paraphrase well.
• [44:29]–[49:06] — Baked's move reveal spun into a very relatable riff on why nobody with a truck answers the phone on moving day, plus trades-life logistics.

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