Re:Building Together EP 260 — Project Spotlight: "KABU"

Host: CEELOS (@CEELOSFIGG) · Mon 13 Jul 2026 · ~1:01:12 · 4 active voices (CEELOS, Baked, Val, solo dolo)

Note: diarization split the host's voice across two labels; both are treated here as CEELOS. Speakers 2 and 7 are the intro-song vocals, not participants.

TL;DR

• Episode 260 was a Monday project spotlight on Kabu ("Kaboo") — a 4,444-supply teddy-bear NFT collection that just migrated from Abstract to Ethereum mainnet.
• CEELOS framed the whole thing as a holder's tour, not a pitch: floor around 0.027 ETH (~$48), 139 listed, founder "Souls" active in Spaces, art reportedly two years in the making before mint.
• The migration portal went live Saturday (the 11th); Abstract holders still have a window to bridge their tokens over, and CEELOS credited the Frame/Maha team for a smooth, safe migration.
• Long, warm off-topic stretch first: Val's new car is back in the shop, CEELOS is seven weeks into a stubborn knee injury, and solo dolo is on unpaid-summer teacher purgatory.
• CEELOS walked the room through Kabu's "Sunset City" lore and its five body types (plush, cloud, box, robot, spirit), and closed with genuine gratitude to the recorded listeners.

Highlights

[6:14] Welcome and the disclaimer. CEELOS opened episode 260 — 105 episodes short of the one-year mark — and set the frame for Kabu up front: "I am a holder. So that is your disclaimer. This is not to convince anybody to buy anything." Mondays are for project spotlights since the room rarely talks NFTs.

[8:12] Val's cursed car. The weekend check-in landed on Val's brand-new car being in the shop again ("I'm cursed"), which CEELOS blamed on her decision to "add hydraulics to it," leading to a lowrider-in-a-flood image from El Paso. Warm, easy banter to open.

[9:00] The knee saga. CEELOS gave an honest, frustrated update on a seven-week-old skate injury — the shoulda/coulda replay loop, a brand-new egg-shape board sitting unused, and the plan to "risk it for the bisque" with a knee brace. The gut-punch: unloading a 20-lb cat-litter container that slammed onto his good knee — "you already got one bad knee, don't mess up the good one."

[14:39] The holder census. Asked point-blank, Baked admitted he's no longer a Kabu holder — he'd only bought his because it was "fat fingered." solo dolo then joined as the room's verified two-kabu holder, cheerfully announcing "I'm fucking bored" now that summer school's over.

[16:11] The teacher speech. Learning solo dolo won't be paid through the summer, CEELOS went off on how underpaid teachers are versus "jobs out there that get paid exaggerated amounts of money" — "we gotta do better by teachers, man." He promised solo a warehouse job if one ever opens up.

[19:30] How Kabu got on the radar. CEELOS traced the discovery: first heard from "brother West" in a random Space, initially dismissed it as an Abstract project, then came around to the art — the eyes, the creative traits, the founder showing up in rooms with established builders like Zubix and Jed from Regenerates. What sold him: the crew started making stickers and edits together, which is what always tips him into enjoying a collection.

[23:34] The one-of-ones and the reveal mechanic. He flagged Kabu's 12 one-of-ones as unusually cinematic — full scenes (some with multiple kabus) that look mid-story, hinting at future lore — and described the Discord unreveal experience: click "reveal," get a spectral arcade animation, then your kabu. He also won a "banger" during one of those reveal parties.

[51:22] Sunset City lore. CEELOS read through the collection's worldbuilding — the five kabu types each mapped to a body trait: plush (sensitive, live in arcade claw machines), cloud (keep the sunset going), box (DIY cardboard), robot (community-builder travelers), and spirit (time-travelers who tell "really funny jokes"). He'd already used the Sunset City setting to build scenes of his own.

[58:20] Hot Wheels detours. Baked scored two Chase cars (worth ~$20 each) for a dollar apiece out of a 2024 shipper display; CEELOS countered that his own grocery-store hunt got cut short after 45 seconds because so many Hot Wheels had been stolen out of their packages.

[59:00] The sign-off. solo dolo capped closing remarks with a plain "I love you," CEELOS returned it, and the host closed with heartfelt thanks to everyone who reposts, shares, and shows up: "the support means everything… it doesn't go unseen."

Topic timeline

Notable quotes

• "I am a holder. So that is your disclaimer. This is not to convince anybody to buy anything." — CEELOS [6:14]
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• "Car's in the shop again." / "I'm cursed." — Val [8:12] / [8:20]
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• "I'm fucking bored." — solo dolo, on summer break [15:22]
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• "We got teachers that have to figure it out. That's not cool, man… we gotta do better by teachers." — CEELOS [16:11]
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• "Lock in core memories with your children and your husband while you're young… before you look too wrinkled and old. That's right. I said it." — CEELOS [56:55]
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• "I love you." / "Love you too, brother." — solo dolo & CEELOS [59:20]
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Who said what

• CEELOS (@CEELOSFIGG), host — ran the show and carried most of the Kabu walkthrough: how he found it, why the art won him over, the Ethereum migration, floor/holder stats, and the Sunset City lore. Also the source of the knee saga, the teacher speech, and the closing gratitude.
• Baked (@Bakedmetax), cohost — checked in from a service call ("dying in the ceiling of an office building"), confirmed he's not currently a Kabu holder, and delivered the Hot Wheels Chase-car win of the day.
• Val (@valeriekates_), cohost — kept it low-key to hold her signal; her cursed car and browsing the Kabu collection live ("I want the one with the Polaroid camera") were the through-lines. Noted each social platform reaches a different demographic — a soft way to test a project's audience.
• solo dolo (@solodolo), speaker — the room's genuine multi-kabu holder and its box-kabu enthusiast; a teacher on unpaid summer, prepping for a San Francisco 5K, and dialing in recovery and carbs.

Worth a full listen

• [9:00 – 13:00] The knee-injury monologue — genuinely funny and a little raw, from the cat-litter incident to the untouched new board — is the emotional center of the first act and doesn't compress well.
• [19:30 – 27:00] CEELOS's full origin-and-appraisal of Kabu, including the reveal-party mechanic and the one-of-one scenes, is the best single stretch if you actually want to understand the project.
• [51:22 – 54:24] The Sunset City lore read-through — the five kabu personalities in the founder's own words — is charming enough that paraphrase loses it.