Re:Building Together EP 266 — Collectors Anonymous

Host: CEELOS (@CEELOSFIGG) with co-hosts Baked (@Bakedmetax) and Val (@valeriekates_) · Sun 19 Jul 2026 · 1:02:06 · ~7 speakers

TL;DR

• Episode 266 of Re:Building Together, the third weekly "Collectors Anonymous" edition — a loose, warm hangout about everything people collect, in and out of web3.
• The room traded childhood collecting war stories: Hot Wheels, Pokemon, baseball cards, and the universal trauma of moms selling it all at a garage sale.
• A long, cheerfully derailed tangent on hot chocolate and Too Mazing's beloved cookie lady kept getting read as a double entendre.
• Teal introduced his niche: hand-blown glass, including "art unit" glass coins made in Oregon.
• CEELOS floated the idea that an NFT's trade history (fewer wallet hops = more desirable) will become a rarity signal as new collectors arrive.
• Housekeeping to close: Monday is a Project Spotlight on Gimbos (an ApeChain project tied to Ape Church), with Val leading; the weekly schedule was recapped.

Highlights

[1:39] The intro set — The Space opened with a full Jill Scott track running under the room, capped by a shout-out to DJ Premier at [3:50]. CEELOS came back with genuine appreciation: "Jill Scott, bro. You know about Jill Scott."

[4:10] Welcome to Collectors Anonymous — CEELOS opened episode 266 ("My name is Celos. And I'm gonna collect the Holic") and went down the line with the co-hosts. Baked reeled off his collecting portfolio at [4:52]: "NFTs, Hot Wheels, Pokemon, VHS... anything you can think of that's collectible."

[5:52] Porsche vs. Porsche — Asked if she now collects Porsches, Val delivered the line of the early hour on the correct pronunciation: "I grew up uneducated, so it was Porsche until I was educated."

[6:36] The garage-sale grief — Wolf, calling in from the road near Cincinnati, mourned the matchbox cards, Star Wars, and baseball cards his mom sold at a garage sale while he was in Europe. Baked co-signed at [7:15] with the N64-for-$40 grandkid stories he sees on YouTube — and CEELOS half-outed Baked as one of those Pokemon-collection casualties himself at [7:52].

[13:13] Scalpers and the stressed-out Ross guard — The room got into the modern retail gauntlet: kiosk "Pokemon machines" with 45-minute buy timers, cards locked in cages at Walmart and Target, employees holding stock for their regulars, and CEELOS's local security guard who went viral breaking up card arguments ("unfortunately, yes").

[19:00] Hot chocolate, cookies, and "talking in code" — Too Mazing's weekly ritual of a cookie from his cookie lady plus a hot chocolate spiraled into a tangent about whipped cream, toasted marshmallows, and Teal's homemade-marshmallow-torched creme-brûlée version — all of which the room kept hearing as something else entirely, to Too Mazing's exasperation ("I mean what the fuck, bro. Y'all sick minded").

[25:42] Teal's glass world — Teal walked through his real niche: hand-blown glass, Sam Flores / Upper Playgrounds toys, and "art unit" glass coins made by an Oregon collective — abstract alternative-currency pieces (a "7.1" coin = a $71 coin), tied to a "starship in every garage" ethos and, he noted, some controversy over how the artists were paid.

[35:11] Trade history as a rarity signal — CEELOS made his most substantive NFT point: he's drawn to tokens whose only on-chain activity is mint-to-wallet, and predicts that "how often has this token been traded" will eventually become a recognized rarity factor. Teal agreed, saying it's exactly what's kept him from selling his two Lazy Lions.

[41:03] The $25 dream team — CEELOS confessed to selling an entire binder — Jordan cards, the full Dream Team including coaches — for $25 as a kid to buy a skateboard, plus giving away a box of comics to a friend who wisely invoked "no take-backs."

[54:24] The custom action figure dream — CEELOS's most heartfelt thread: he wants a custom, hand-sculpted wrestling action figure of his globe-trotting oldest son (one for each of them), riffing off getting his youngest to finally believe his older brother is real. The room pointed him toward custom Funko Pops with wrestling attire as an easier route.

Topic timeline

Notable quotes

• "I grew up uneducated, so it was Porsche until I was educated." — Val [6:00]
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• "Those aren't for opening, boy. Those are for hanging out in the packages. That's what they do." — CEELOS, on his son asking when he'll open his toys [~10:00]
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• "I feel like he's talking in code." — Val, on the cookies [23:33]
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• "She makes them with like super love, bro. I don't know what the fuck she makes them with, but that shit is so delicious." — Too Mazing [23:48]
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• "I can't believe I sold that entire binder for 25 dollars." — CEELOS, on the Dream Team cards [41:20]
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• "I still have the two Lazy Lions I minted, and so like their sales activity is zero... and that has actually kept me from like weefing them over the years." — Teal [35:44]
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Who said what

• CEELOS (host^*: Ran the show from the road (dropping in and out of signal), steered the collectibles talk, and shared the most personal threads — skateboards, family photos, and the custom-figure gift for his son.
• Baked (co-host, @Bakedmetax): The everything-collector — Hot Wheels, Pokemon, VHS — and the room's retail correspondent on card limits and scalpers; battled Florida storms and a few mic dropouts.
• Val (co-host, @valeriekates_): Opened with warm crowd-tending, supplied the Porsche bit and the deadpan "talking in code" read, and closed by taking on scheduling the Gimbos spotlight.
• Too Mazing (@TooMazing265): Brought the cookie-and-hot-chocolate saga, the accidental innuendo, and easy IRL banter with CEELOS about their hangout the day before.
• Teal (@TealMetaX): The glass expert — pendants, Sam Flores toys, and Oregon "art unit" coins — and a thoughtful voice on why untraded NFTs feel more valuable.
• Wolf (@WoofArmyXX): Called in mid-road-trip from Cincinnati, an NFT-only collector these days, with the definitive mom-sold-my-collection lament.

Worth a full listen

• [19:00]–[24:00] — The hot chocolate / cookie tangent is peak Collectors Anonymous energy: a completely off-topic riff that snowballs into Teal's torched-marshmallow description and the whole room refusing to let Too Mazing's cookies be innocent.
• [35:11]–[36:36] — The one genuinely web3-forward stretch, where CEELOS and Teal talk through trade history becoming a rarity signal — a small, real idea worth hearing in full.
• [54:24]–[58:00] — The custom-figure conversation folds together family, 3D printing history, and Funko customization into the episode's warmest sequence.

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