Re:Building Together EP 303 — "Lock In, It's Tuesday"

Host: CEELOS (@CEELOSFIGG) · Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2026 · Duration: 1:04:45 · Speakers: 4

TL;DR

• CEELOS ran the daily Re:Building Together show around the theme "locking in" — the small, repeatable ways people stay engaged with Web3, creativity, and everyday life.
• The core message: don't whine on the timeline about a project underperforming — be proactive, make edits, host a space, ask questions in Discord, and figure out what you can bring to the table.
• Fun personal thread throughout: the Fugs/LT3 pillows are landing in people's mailboxes (with random bonus pillows), and CEELOS and toomazing compared shipping dates like a race.
• A running practical tip on tooling — Gemini's watermark quietly disappeared, and both use AI to build NFT scenes for custom coffee labels and content.
• Slick Ric floated turning his catchphrases ("slickisms") into shirts and even airdropped motivational NFTs, and he and CEELOS half-planned an audio-NFT collab.
• CEELOS closed on accountability: nobody forced you to mint anything, so own your losses, stay proactive, and live in the moment.

Highlights

[0:32] The open. CEELOS kicks off episode 303 solo, cues the intro song, and notes most of the usual crowd is over in "super high's" show with Yot being interviewed — but the schedule's the schedule, so the show goes on.

[5:29] Baked's Monday. Baked (@Bakedmetax)^* checks in from a job site doing a head-count on equipment and updates his apartment hunt — the house he wanted got taken, so he's touring an apartment Saturday. CEELOS reassures him it'll fall into place, which leads into the theme of the day.

[7:11] What "locking in" actually means. CEELOS lays out his approach: three or four "arenas" — creative work, degen plays, spaces, and a rotating fourth — because focusing on just one gets repetitive and disheartening. Baked's version is simpler: he doesn't have a ritual, he just likes being here with the homies instead of "wasting time" in his room with video games.

[12:25] The nine-to-five and the why. CEELOS gets candid about balancing a manager job with the space, and about growing up in a one-bedroom apartment with three siblings — "I'll never have my own room," so his kids having theirs is a driving motivation.

[14:31] toomazing joins — the labels bit. toomazing (@TooMazing265)^* pulls up on lunch. CEELOS admits he over-engineers the custom NFT artwork on coffee bags he ships to people in the space, printing and hand-cutting labels — prompting toomazing's deadpan callout that this "kind of contradicts your space title."

[18:00] AI housekeeping. The two compare notes on tools — Gemini's watermark vanished (neither paid for it), and CEELOS ditched Copilot because its "AI generated" tag in an ugly font wrecks his images. When forced to use Gemini, he just stamps his handle over the tag: "I'm not pretending that I drew this, bro."

[20:46] Pillow watch. The Fugs/LT3 pillows are arriving, some with surprise bonus items (an unreleased camo heart-eyes pillow). CEELOS's FOMO is real ("where's my Fug, bro?") and he's plotting a skate clip showcasing his — worried mainly about scuffing it on "them dirty ass streets."

[34:09] Clay dip, and the Solo problem. The group ribs each other over a Claynosaurz-related buy sitting below entry. Baked's ruling is blunt — "if they're below where I got it at, they're dead" — and the real injury is that Solo, who "just got back in the game," is somehow up on all of them.

[36:51] Baked, live and unmuted. Mid-thought, Baked's audio bleeds in directing a delivery driver ("watch your sideways… don't scratch the customer's floors"), then he resurfaces: "Yeah, I forgot that I was still unmuted." A genuine work-from-the-truck moment that landed.

[46:20 / 47:47] Why every project should host spaces. CEELOS makes his central pitch — small, low-pressure spaces beat intimidating 100-person rooms for building connection, and even a two- or three-person space keeps a PFP on the timeline and shows outsiders the community is alive. He credits this exact instinct (making content off people's PFPs to hype them) for getting him noticed by Jed in the early days.

[56:07] Own your bags. On projects that didn't deliver: "Nobody put a gun in my head and say, open your MetaMask right now and buy this project." Falling for a good pitch is on you — take the L, don't cry at the casino.

[57:00] Slickisms, incorporated. CEELOS pitches Slick a merch line of his catchphrases; Slick reveals he was literally talking to his shirt-printing guy about that same idea today — cue "the universe gives you signs." It grows into airdropping motivational NFTs and a possible audio-NFT collab.

[1:02:14] The send-off. CEELOS closes on the theme: lock in however you can, don't make excuses, and above all don't just whine on the timeline — if you love the project, do something for it.

Topic timeline

Notable quotes

• "I hate the act of moving, but I like acting." — Baked [6:31]
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• "If they're below where I got it at, they're dead." — Baked [34:09]
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• "How is Solo doing better than us with this?" — Baked [34:26]
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• "Yeah, I forgot that I was still unmuted." — Baked [36:55]
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• "Nobody put a gun in my head and say, open your MetaMask right now and buy this project." — CEELOS [56:07]
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• "It's 2026, man. We ain't got time for excuses. Tomorrow's not promised. Yesterday's already gone. So all you got is right now." — CEELOS [1:03:14]
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Who said what

• CEELOS (@CEELOSFIGG), host — carried the show solo for long stretches, framing "locking in" as choosing your arenas (creative, degen, spaces, life), and championing proactive community-building over timeline complaints.
• Baked (@Bakedmetax), likely — dialing in from a job site; the grounded, funny counterpoint who keeps it simple ("I'm just here with the homies") and accidentally gave the episode its best comic beat.
• toomazing (@TooMazing265), likely — the content-maker of the group; talked custom labels and AI tools, and gently needled CEELOS about the gap between "lock in" and procrastinating on his artwork.
• SLICK RIC (@richj530), likely — late arrival with the merch energy: catchphrase shirts already in motion, a jewelry-making cousin, and an audio-NFT collab idea sparked mid-conversation.

Worth a full listen

• [44:00]–[51:11] — CEELOS's extended, heartfelt case for why every project (and every holder) benefits from hosting even tiny spaces. It's the thesis of the whole episode and doesn't compress well.
• [36:51] — Baked's unmuted delivery-driver moment plus his return; a small, real, funny snapshot of what a work-from-the-truck community space actually sounds like.
• [56:27]–[1:00:52] — The Slick Ric stretch, where an offhand merch joke collides with something he was doing that same day and rolls into a genuine collab pitch — the "universe gives you signs" energy is better heard than summarized.

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