Re:Building Together EP 281 — Project Spotlight: "ReGenerates"

Host: CEELOS (@CEELOSFIGG) with co-hosts Baked & Valerie · Mon Aug 3, 2026 · 2:10:27 · ~8 speakers

TL;DR

• A ReGenerates project spotlight that spent its first half hour fighting X Spaces itself — for long stretches nobody could hear the host CeeLos, and the room turned the meltdown into a running bit.
• Jed (@jed_131), the ReGenerates founder/restaurateur, laid out the plan: a hidden QR-code "site," token-gated restaurant events, regen allocations for teams, Stripe memberships pegged to the floor, and an "other side" metaverse hangout. His new restaurant space is going into contract, targeting a Sept 1 open.
• Baked walked through ReGenerates' arc: a former free mint now coasting around 0.06, "community-first," with a fond tour of trait favorites (aliens, ghosts, spiral eyes, that elusive punk background).
• A heartfelt tribute to McFly, who lost his brother the day before, anchored a long conversation about time and gratitude.
• Bored Osaka joined with coffee-pioneer stories and crystal-energy talk; Ace demoed his soundboard (verdict: music barely survives Spaces); Valerie shared how she learned pool from legendary coach Don Haskins.

Highlights

[24:52] The great audio meltdown. For a solid stretch listeners could hear everyone except the host. Cue emoji verification tests ("Poncho, if you can hear us, do emoji"), the discovery that "it's only the host" who's cutting out, and Ace's immortal contribution to the diagnostics: "I need more coffee inside me." A whole spotlight nearly derailed by X's plumbing, played for laughs.

[30:18] Jed on the "other side." Jed floated opening a metaverse space for region owners — likely Thursday/Friday — and wants Ghoston, who knows the platform, to lead building it out as a hangout with special perks for holders who can't make it to the physical restaurant.

[34:56] Baked's ReGenerates recap. Picking up "from December 2024," Baked framed the collection as his "home project": basically a free mint that's grown to a comfortable ~0.06 by "building new things to bring more fun and more info to Web3," and by bonding with other communities rather than walling off.

[45:44] The restaurant vision. Jed's big segment: a scannable secret site, coasters with QR codes to onboard "normies," secret menu items, and — the real alpha — team allocations. Hold 15–20 regens and your community gets table seats at token-gated events (his example: a 70-seat Gary V night). He also pitched his "Ape Fest should've been Coachella" theory: put the exclusive section in plain sight so outsiders feel the FOMO. [51:59] Non-crypto guests could even buy a Stripe membership pegged to the regen floor.

[53:20] The McFly tribute. The mood turned as Jed shared that McFly lost his brother the previous day at the restaurant — "highest high to the lowest low in a split second." He and Ace both reflected that McFly being surrounded by people that night mattered: "I believe everything happens for a reason."

[1:00:48] Time as an asset. Jed relayed a line from Bored Osaka that landed hard: time isn't your most valuable asset — what you do with it is. Ace answered in kind with "any day above ground is a good day," and Jed capped it with his 13-year-old daughter's salutatorian bit about never judging a book by its cover, chapters and all.

[1:03:12] A trade offered. Before dropping, Jed told Baked that for all the work he does for the project, he'd trade him one of his two punk-background regens — the exact trait Baked had been hunting.

[1:17:11] Crystals vs. diamonds. Bored Osaka and Ace got into it (warmly): why kings and queens didn't actually wear diamonds, how a diamond chain "amplifies your aura," the six-foot "biomagnetic sheath" around each person, and why Bored Osaka keeps "my bling on the inside" at the heart chakra.

[1:27:03] Coffee corner. Ace unveiled his mobile coffee cart, "Crystal Bruce," and geeked out on single-origin roast windows and arabica vs. robusta — meeting his match in Bored Osaka, who ran the first African American–owned specialty coffee chain in Seattle twenty years ago and name-dropped David Schomer and his beloved La Marzocco gear.

[1:47:11] The soundboard show. Ace's Rodcaster demo became the comedic peak — playing commercials, accidentally cueing the last rap song he'd been listening to ("We was in the trap house"), and patiently tech-splaining MIDI channels until Bored Osaka begged him to "speak to me as if I'm my five year old self." Practical takeaway buried in the chaos: music sounds terrible piped through soundboards on Spaces, so switch your phone to "wide spectrum."

[1:58:39] Valerie's pool life. Valerie revealed she's a serious pool player in Vegas — cutthroat tournaments where losing the break means "getting sent to tables to get murdered" — and that she learned cue control and English from Don Haskins, the UTEP coach famous for starting Black athletes, who taught her on commercial breaks while she bartended.

Topic timeline

Notable quotes

• "Any day above ground is a good day. I can't complain. But if I did, don't listen." — Ace [1:00:39]
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• "Time is not your most valuable asset. It's what you do with your time." — Jed, relaying Bored Osaka [1:00:48]
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• "People will sometimes not remember you for what you say, but how you made them feel." — Ace [1:01:10]
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• "Okay, speak to me as if I'm my five year old self, and please write that down for us." — Bored Osaka, mid soundboard lesson [1:48:16]
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• "I feel like I'm financially inside of you or something." — Ace, on how deep the tech tangent had gone [1:48:27]
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• "When you're really ready, your teacher finds you." — Valerie [2:02:11]
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Who said what

• CEELOS (@CEELOSFIGG) — host; ironically the one person Spaces kept muting, so he ran much of the show from behind the scenes. LA-based, roasts coffee.
• Baked (@Bakedmetax)^* — co-host who carried the ReGenerates spotlight and trait tour; in Sarasota, FL; star of the $52 gas-station charger saga.
• Valerie / ValerieKates (@valeriekates_)^* — co-host running production and troubleshooting; hardcore Vegas pool player; off to Spain to catch the eclipse.
• Jed (@jed_131)^* — ReGenerates founder/restaurateur; delivered the restaurant + metaverse roadmap and led the McFly tribute; new space going into contract.
• Ace (@the1440club)^* — high-energy guest with the soundboard; Hollywood, FL; building the "Crystal Bruce" coffee cart; hockey competitor; crystals enthusiast.
• Bored Osaka (@BoredOsaka1)^* — Seattle/Osaka; specialty-coffee pioneer turned energetic-crystal seller; the room's source of gratitude and five-year-old-self wisdom.
• Brief early presences: toomazingTM, Solo dolo, Pharaoh, Matt.

Worth a full listen

• [45:44]–[52:00] — Jed's restaurant blueprint runs dense with specifics (team allocations, Stripe memberships pegged to floor, the Coachella/Ape Fest riff) that a summary flattens; hear it for the actual mechanics.
• [53:20]–[1:03:00] — The McFly tribute and the gratitude conversation that follows carry a weight and warmth no paraphrase captures.
• [1:47:11]–[1:58:00] — The soundboard demo is best experienced live, accidental trap-house song and all, right through to the "biggest room in the house is room for improvement" dad joke.

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