Re:Building Together EP 306 — People Over Pictures

Host: CEELOS (@CEELOSFIGG) · Fri, 28 Aug 2026 · ~40 min · 6–8 speakers

TL;DR

• A low-key Friday hang built almost entirely around CEELOS opening trading card packs on live video — One Piece, Disney Lorcana, and "Attack of the Vine."
• Pharaoh (@spade_pirates) checked in from the road, mid card-run, buying packs by the box and sleeve to flip $12 boxes into $60 singles.
• Baked (@Bakedmetax), the room's resident TCG guy, coached CEELOS through reading rarities (C/R/SR/SEC, foils, chase cards) as the packs came open.
• Val (@valeriekates_) gave a travel update — Boston and NYC good-company meetups, plus a Quirkies event and a hard family visit.
• NFT corner: Blockies opened secondary trading (floor climbing toward ~0.23 ETH), and CEELOS confessed he only minted one Blockie and one Quirkie when he could've grabbed two — a regret he circled back to at the buzzer.

Highlights

[5:31] CEELOS opens the show. After a Frankie Pulitzer track ran under the intro, CEELOS flips to "rebuilding together, episode 306, people over pictures," teases changes coming near the "365 mark," and gets the room rolling.

[6:56] The window-AC saga. Baked scores a cheap AC unit for his grandfather; CEELOS admits he does own an AC — he just doesn't trust it, won't uninstall it, and technically isn't allowed to have it. "You're gonna tell people to melt?"

[9:17] Stickers, a sore subject. Val offers to save CEELOS any Quirkies stickers from the NYC event, tripping a nerve: "Quirkies and stickers, sore subject for me." His actual gripe — projects need to make sure their drops work on mobile.

[17:45] "When I grow up, I wanna buy cards like you." After Pharaoh rattles off his haul — six boxes and four sleeves that morning, 30 sleeves and six boxes over two days, targets lined up on the drive home — CEELOS marvels at the sheer volume.

[20:30] The real ape. Mid-Lorcana pack, CEELOS pulls King Louie and takes a friendly shot at the JPEG crowd: "Eat your hearts out, bored apes. This is the real ape right here."

[27:00] Pharaoh's card-show type. Opening One Piece, CEELOS decides one character "looks like one of the girls that Pharaoh dates… this is the type of girl Pharaoh takes to the card shows with him." Pharaoh's response was brief.

[29:29] An actual hit. Pharaoh perks up at a Rox Pirates card — "that's actually a hit" — and immediately offers to buy it off CEELOS, who suddenly decides he'll be holding onto that one.

[32:18] Robin Hood, the chain. CEELOS pulls Robin Hood from an Attack of the Vine pack and connects the dots: "This is where they got the name for that chain… so I got a hit today on Robin Hood, the chain."

[36:14] Video Space discovery. Baked and Slick Ric realize they can now turn their cameras on too, prompting CEELOS to recall the first time Val ran video "DUIing at home from the pool hall."

[38:43] Blockies secondary update. CEELOS reports the Blockies floor already skyrocketing toward 0.23 (~$560), and laments only buying one when he could've had two — the closing regret of the episode.

Topic timeline

Notable quotes

• "You're gonna tell people to melt? I'm a big shot." — CEELOS [7:22]
• "I get free coffee. You think I want your weak ass coffee?" — Sam (@pressedcurl)^* [19:16]
• "When I grow up, I wanna buy cards like you, bro. That's wild." — CEELOS [17:45]
• "Eat your hearts out, bored apes. This is the real ape right here, King Louie." — CEELOS [20:30]
• "That was the Disney Writers. They didn't have to make Tink look like that." — CEELOS [33:53]
• "Big bucks, no whammy… you remember that show." — Slick Ric [37:34]

Who said what

• CEELOS (@CEELOSFIGG) — host; ran the whole episode as a live pack-opening, narrating every pull and cracking most of the jokes.
• Pharaoh (@spade_pirates) — called in from a card-buying road trip; the room's volume flipper, spotting the real hits and offering to buy the Rox card.
• Baked (@Bakedmetax) — resident TCG guy; walked CEELOS through rarities, foils, and which sets hold value, plus the cheap-AC-for-grandpa story.
• Val / ValerieKates (@valeriekates_) — travel and events update (Boston/NYC meetups, a Quirkies event) and a heads-up on a difficult family visit.
• Slick Ric (@richj530) — busy event vendor (airport show, corn dogs, kids' sports weekends); learned he could enable video and joined the Blockies talk.
• Sam (@pressedcurl)^* — dropped in for the coffee-for-cards trade banter with Pharaoh and the apple bit.

Worth a full listen

• [26:30]–[30:00] — the One Piece stretch: Pharaoh's dating-life ribbing, the "tiggos" derailment, and the genuine excitement when a real Rox hit surfaces. The play-by-play energy doesn't compress.
• [32:18]–[34:55] — the Lorcana run peaks here: Robin Hood "the chain," the Peter Pan/Tink tangent, Mike Wazowski, and a Buzz Lightyear pull, all in CEELOS's stream-of-consciousness register.

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