Re:Building Together EP 314 — Let's Play With Our JPEGs

Host: CEELOS (@CEELOSFIGG) · Sat, 05 Sep 2026 · 1:09:24 · 4 active voices

TL;DR

• The whole episode was a hands-on "play with your JPEGs" session: CEELOS built a four-part AI prompt that turns any NFT into a meme, and the crew ran it live for an hour.
• They fed it clay stonks, regens, quirks and Wolf's PFP, tagging each project along the way — the running message being "don't let your NFTs sit in your wallet, make stuff with them."
• CEELOS's one genuinely practical aside: watch creator fees on the new Robin Hood-era projects (a lot are sitting at 10%), noting regen's is 6.9% — "sixty-nine for the culture."
• A 50-cent pug mint prompted some impulse buying and jokes about whether it'll ever reveal (maybe Monday).
• Housekeeping: tomorrow's space at noon PT / 3 PT for Baked; Solo's Clay for Pay space runs later that night with toomazing as cohost.

Highlights

[7:19] The setup. After a full Rakim intro track, CEELOS opens Episode 314 and explains the gimmick: he wrote a prompt so long X won't post it in one piece, so you copy it in four sections into your AI of choice, upload your NFT, and it spits out a randomized meme. First result: something Halo-ish he can't identify — "I don't know. I really don't know. But that is what we're doing today."

[9:45] Breaking the robots. Baked reports the prompt keeps handing him the same meme, then Solo hits Grok's 4,000-character wall. CEELOS turns it into a Gemini sales pitch — "Do you have a Gmail? ... Then just log into your Gemini." Minutes later everyone's memes are flowing.

[10:32] Baron von Dart on a coffee bag. CEELOS points to the Builditron: he's put a Robin Hood NFT's IP onto an actual physical product — a coffee bag — and claims he may be the first to do it, alongside a chihuahua fug and a reimagined regen showing the whole coffee-harvesting process.

[27:27] Group photo, please. With Val and Baked both now in the clay stonks, Solo calls for a whole-crew clay portrait; CEELOS pictures it as the Friends title card. Baked, still one quirk short of the club, takes the ribbing — "I'll have it eventually. I did last year."

[30:23] You can't pause life. On tomorrow's schedule, Val grumbles she has things to do; CEELOS gives the whole "spaces from anywhere" speech — he's hosted from a wake, from a farm, from Disneyland — landing on "It's just life, you know, you can't pause life."

[36:19] The one real alpha. CEELOS breaks the goofing for a beat to warn about creator fees on the wave of new NFT projects — many at 10%, which the old heads used to call greedy — versus regen's 6.9%. A quick, useful reality check inside the chaos.

[38:11] Sad about the claymons. Amid the pug-mint impulse buys, CEELOS mourns his placeholder mints: "my claymons, those things are never gonna reveal. I'm so sad." Solo reassures him they said Monday.

[45:38] Reindeer grandma. A tangent about indigenous features and mixed bloodlines takes a hard left when CEELOS speculates a great-grandma was "taken down by a foreign deer" — Baked deadpans "Grandma got run over by a reindeer," and Val caps it: "That's the white version."

[49:47] Bake Veggie. Tagging Baked, CEELOS admits the first account that autocompletes for "baked" is some thirst-trap profile he's never clicked. Baked, instantly: "Now we see what you've been looking up."

[52:15] Stuck in New York. CEELOS tells the story of his skater friend Cody from Hawaii who planned five years in NYC before moving to Spain, then "fell in love, goof, got married, and now he's just stuck in New York."

[1:02:13] Chubby Celos. CEELOS recounts his brother-in-law's welfare check — three blocks of NFT talk before "you look like you've packed on some weight" — and matches himself to his own flaming clay bull: "that's how my body looks right now, bro. Me and the fucking bull are matching." He's dreading skating tomorrow.

Topic timeline

Notable quotes

• "I've done spaces from my brother-in-law's wake. I've done it from a farm. I've been in them at Disneyland. We still make it happen." — CEELOS [30:23]
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• "Regions, we have six point nine percent, you know, sixty-nine for the culture." — CEELOS [36:19]
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• "My claymons, those things are never gonna reveal. I'm so sad." — CEELOS [38:11]
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• "Grandma got run over by a reindeer." — Baked [45:38] / "That's the white version." — ValerieKates [45:47]
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• "Now we see what you've been looking up." — Baked [49:47]
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• "He fell in love, goof, got married, and now he's just stuck in New York." — CEELOS [52:15]
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Who said what

• CEELOS (@CEELOSFIGG) — host and engine of the episode: wrote the four-part meme prompt, narrated dozens of live generations, tagged every project, and steered the tangents (coffee-bag IP, creator fees, the skate game, his son's buzzcut).
• Baked (@Bakedmetax) — cohost and resident game dev; got fully addicted to the prompt, cranked out memes ("now do another"), bought the floor's cheapest redhead regen, and delivered the best one-liners.
• ValerieKates (@valeriekates_) — cohost; mostly dry asides and a well-timed "that's the white version," plus warm goodbyes.
• Solo dolo (@solodolo) — speaker; watching UFC and college football, invited CEELOS to Korean BBQ, and runs the Clay for Pay space later that night with toomazing.

Worth a full listen

• [46:00]–[54:16] — the run of the show's best banter: the Bake Veggie bit, two-mazing bouncing in and out of the panel, and the full Cody-in-New-York story. The comedy is in the timing, not the summary.
• [54:16]–[57:10] — a pure food detour (McDonald's guilt, a shut-down beef-tallow burger spot, an evangelical pitch for duck fat fries) that captures the Saturday-hang tone better than any recap can.
• [36:00]–[38:40] — if you only want the useful part: creator fees, the 6.9% flex, and the pug-mint decision-making, all in one stretch.