Re:Building Together EP 308 — The CEELO & DOLO Show

Host: CEELOS (@CEELOSFIGG) · Sun 30 Aug 2026 · 1:07:51 · 7 speakers (Baked was busy, Val pulled up)

TL;DR

• A deliberately mellow end-of-week recap Space that started as just CEELOS and Solo dolo, with most of the community already headed to NFT NYC.
• Lots of small-stakes Robinhood-era degen talk — cheap free/near-free mints, "hood hash" pagers, broker-punk fuse-and-burn, praying bears — with CEELOS narrating himself unstaking tokens live on mic.
• ValerieKates joined and revealed she'll be the lone Re:Building Together host actually at NFT NYC; the crew spent much of the back half coaching her (and gently roasting her camera-shyness).
• Wolf (NYC-bound in the morning) and Slick Ric (just out of church, NYC veteran) traded New York intel: the vibe, the subway, the famous spots, and one transcendent piece of bacon.
• Recurring bits carried the room: Wolf's one leg, Val's coin-flipping "cutthroat" instincts, and CEELOS's plan to just throw Solo at any would-be muggers.

Highlights

[6:15] Two hosts, one chill Space. CEELOS opened Episode 308 as a low-key open convo — "just me and solo" — noting everyone else was out at NFT NYC getting it. He'd been half-listening to the Robinhood/Boost space all morning until his wife made him put on Shameless, which he's dismayed to learn runs eleven seasons.

[12:04] Small-money degen theater. The core of the first half: sweeping cheap mints, the "hood hash" pagers that sold out in the time it took to switch wallets, V-RAM miners, bandits, corrupteds. CEELOS's actual not-financial-advice thesis — take ~$100 of Robinhood money, sweep three here and five there, gamble $20, and you'll usually recoup the twenty. He also walked through unstaking and fusing broker-punk tokens in real time, complete with a MetaMask "please update" interruption.

[28:33] Cutthroat Val. Val explained her plan to sit on coin, wait for the dump, and buy her "Macy" — actually four, to flip and sell later. The degens were scandalized in the best way. CEELOS delivered the house motto: "Today's price isn't tomorrow's price."

[32:38] Spaces vs. spouses. Wolf recounted how his wife (Meow) wore him down over a couple of years — he thought crypto was "a croc" and a scam — until he caved and went all in. Val one-upped it with the image of hiding behind a dumpster at the Texas State Fair while her husband stared at her, wondering why she was in Spaces. Solo noted CEELOS does the same thing to Val on date night.

[38:58] Chinatown, tastes-like-childhood edition. CEELOS took the week off for his wife Crystal's birthday and is heading to Chinatown. Cue a warm tangent: the toy guns of the '80s that "look real," the nunchucks and ninja stars he still wants in his 40s, and Phoenix Bakery — the one cake shop so essential that, in his memory, parents nearly came to blows if you showed up with the wrong cake.

[45:00] The legendary bacon. Slick Ric and Wolf hyped a piece of bacon from last year's meetup to near-mythic status — "hella thick, almost look like pieces of spam," glazed sweet-and-spicy, "almost not even bacon, it's just pork belly." Slick Ric admitted talking about it was making him hungry. Earlier, the group workshopped fixing Baked up — Slick's prescription for the almost-30 bachelor included, unforgettably, "butt paste."

[54:01] Fist to the face. Teasing that Liz is so tireless she might be AI-generated earned Val's deadpan warning — "You're gonna get a real fist to the face one day" — especially about her football team. Wolf pivoted straight into peak absurdity: he lets Meow carry his spare leg around New York so nobody bothers her, and CEELOS suggested displaying it in a glass case with fake blood, because in New York nobody would even look twice.

[1:03:09] "Hi, I'm Valerie." Val, resigned to hiding in a corner and dodging photos, tried out a brave, extra-social greeting voice — including a helium-pitched "hi, everybody" — while CEELOS pointed out it was the exact same voice she always uses. He signed off promising to just AI-generate a face to paste on any pictures she's in.

Topic timeline

Notable quotes

• "No, I'm trying to get four of them to flip and sell later." — ValerieKates [28:33]
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• "I've hid behind a dumpster at the Texas State Fair with my husband just staring at me, like, why are you in Spaces?" — ValerieKates [33:00]
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• "Why do California guys gotta be such pussies? It's November. It's not like it's the middle of July." — Wolf [34:46]
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• "Almost look like pieces of spam it's so thick, but it's bang, and it's like glazed." — Slick Ric, on the bacon [46:45]
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• "You're gonna get a real fist to the face one day." — ValerieKates [54:01]
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• "I let her take my extra leg and she walks around and everybody thinks she's weird because she's carrying a leg around and nobody bothers her." — Wolf [54:33]
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Who said what

• CEELOS (@CEELOSFIGG) — host; steered the mellow recap, narrated his degen mints, and carried the Chinatown and closing bits.
• Solo dolo (@solodolo) — cohost; the waffles-and-the-gym counterweight, quietly holding the stonks he bought at 0.003 and refusing his flowers.
• ValerieKates (@valeriekates_) — the only Re:Building Together host actually going to NFT NYC; the room's cutthroat coin-flipper and cheerfully camera-shy target of every roast.
• Wolf (@WoofArmyXX)^* — NYC-bound with wife Meow; source of the marriage-into-Spaces story, the Yankees-hat plan, and the running leg gag.
• Slick Ric (@richj530)^* — fresh from church with a back tattoo pending; NYC veteran and chief bacon evangelist.
• toomazingTM (@TooMazing265)^* — fought headphone/audio gremlins most of the Space, surfaced for trades and a closing "I love you."
• Baked (@Bakedmetax) — absent but present in spirit; house-hunting out of a moldy place, with a stray cat waiting to come home once he moves.

Worth a full listen

• [45:00]–[47:20] — The bacon monologue in full. No summary conveys the reverence Slick Ric and Wolf bring to describing two glazed slices that are "almost not even bacon."
• [53:53]–[55:20] — The Liz-is-AI riff, Val's fist-to-the-face warning, and Wolf's spare-leg-in-a-glass-case escalation all land back-to-back — the funniest stretch of the night.
• [1:02:39]–[1:03:15] — Wolf vowing to scan Val out of her corner ("I'm half robot") and Val debuting her brave "hi, I'm Valerie" voice — a small, warm bit about actually showing up IRL.

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