Re:Building Together EP 289 — We In The Building

Host: CEELOS (@CEELOSFIGG) with Woof (@WoofArmyXX) subbing as co-host, plus a late cameo from ValerieKates (@valeriekates_) · Tue, 11 Aug 2026 · 1:08:09 · 3 speakers

TL;DR

• A loose, warm regen hangout — CEELOS ran the room with Woof filling in for an under-the-weather "bake," and the conversation wandered from NFTs to steak doneness to solar eclipses. [4:18]
• Real topic of the day: Unvault, letting regens move NFTs to mainnet Ethereum for ~69 cents. CEELOS is firmly "ETH is the home of NFTs" and happy to bridge everything over. [7:01]
• The through-line: back the builders who actually ship, keep holders informed, and treat the community's friendships as the real yield. [12:58]
• A running theme on aging-into-comfort — skateboarding shoes over Chuck Taylors, "barbecue dad" shoes, and a hard no on Velcro. [40:10]
• CEELOS gave a genuinely detailed tour of coffee roasting and "cupping," slurp technique and all. [55:00]
• Closed on IRL connections (NFT NYC three weeks out) and gratitude — walking his 16-year-old to the bus, kids back to school, "life is good." [1:04:33]

Highlights

Unvault and the case for mainnet [7:01] CEELOS laid out why he's excited for Unvault — the ability to move regens onto Ethereum mainnet — and planted his flag: ETH is the home of NFTs, and a project like the regens "deserves to be on the main chain." Woof added the practical frustration of juggling Polygon, Base, and bridges, and how nice one home would be. [8:34]

The 69-cent bit [8:34] Woof lit up that the transfer cost was "69 cents" — "I love when you said that was the number... get a little chuckle." Small joke, but it set the tone for the whole hour.

The accidental Papa Smurf regen [30:00] CEELOS's best story: to make a new "Papa Smurf" holder feel welcome, he AI-generated a regen version of the character. The holder later slid into his DMs wanting to trade for it — CEELOS just sent him the picture: "dude, I made that with AI. I just wanted you to be hyped." [30:55]

Digging up Mech's old one-of-ones [32:09] This spun into a fond tour of the early Discord days — Mexico's "remix" one-of-ones, the airdropped laughing Halloween witch, Thanos sniping the last few — and how AI now lets CEELOS make regen wrestlers and voxel versions when he can't draw a stick figure that looks like a stick figure. [33:23]

The West Coast regen meetup that never happens [50:44] CEELOS has been nudging Mexico about a West Coast meetup "for years." Woof deadpanned the status: "nothing, because it's not going on. That's what's up with it." CEELOS's pitch — no venue needed, just meet at the beach, bring your own steaks and bacon and overcook it well done (which, no thank you, medium rare please). [51:23]

Coffee cupping, explained [55:00] With 23 years of roasting behind him, CEELOS walked through grading coffee — 15 grams, four-minute steep, break the crust, smell it, then slurp off a bowl-shaped spoon to spray it across the tongue for citrus, mouthfeel, and finish. Woof's contribution: wine people do the same thing. CEELOS: "somalier — I know that word." [56:11]

Gratitude, and one grown-up moment [57:35] A building inspection Monday had CEELOS a little nervous but also feeling like an adult — "there's only a few moments in life where I feel like a grown person." He counted the day's small victories: a job, kids home for their last day off, and the toolbox the Lord gave him to handle it all. [59:04]

Val phones in from Spain [59:43] ValerieKates finally arrived after a "10-hour delay" (she's pushing midnight in Spain), en route to Zaragoza for a solar eclipse — and, per the running conspiracy-space bit, possibly a loss of gravity. She's bought rope, just in case. Woof offered that he's been abducted and returned, so you can't say it didn't happen. [1:02:00]

Walking his daughter to the bus [1:04:33] The warmest stretch: school starts tomorrow, so CEELOS is back to 5:30 wake-ups to walk his 16-year-old to her bus stop — 15 minutes of actual conversation before the screens take over. He knows these moments have a time limit and doesn't take them for granted, with a teenage youngest a few weeks away. [1:05:59]

Topic timeline

Notable quotes

• "It's okay, it's a recorded space. You never know who's gonna listen." — CEELOS [0:59]
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• "If you can sit, you can get in the space." — Woof, on bake sniping a regen while "sick" [5:30]
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• "My PFP might as well have gray mustache hairs on it already the way web three moves." — CEELOS [20:35]
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• "I made that with AI. I just wanted you to be hyped." — CEELOS, on the Papa Smurf regen [30:55]
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• "Nothing, because it's not going on. That's what's up with it." — Woof, on the West Coast meetup [50:44]
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• "I need to know I'm eating an animal carcass right now. I need to fight with this thing with my teeth sometimes." — CEELOS, on medium-rare steak [52:12]
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Who said what

• CEELOS (host)^* — Ran the room; roasting coffee for 23 years, skateboarding, three kids; champion of Unvault, mainnet ETH, and building genuine community over floor price.
• Woof (co-host)^* — Stepped in for the sick "bake"; steady good-vibes counterpart; going to NFT NYC, teasing Slick about bacon, and hosting a 9am space on peace and getting older.
• ValerieKates^* — Dialed in late from Spain, headed to Zaragoza for an eclipse (and possible gravity loss); thanked Woof for co-hosting and promised to be "much more talkative" tomorrow.

Worth a full listen

• [30:00]–[35:46] — The Papa Smurf AI story into the Mech one-of-ones nostalgia is the episode's heart: how a throwaway welcome gag becomes a DM trade offer, and why CEELOS leans on AI while genuinely revering the pixel artists he can't emulate.
• [55:00]–[59:04] — The coffee-cupping tutorial is oddly great radio — a real craftsman geeking out on slurp technique — capped by a grounded riff on gratitude and feeling like a grown-up.
• [59:43]–[1:02:00] — Val's eclipse arrival and the gravity/alien-abduction bit is the room's comedy at full tilt; the transcript can't carry the deadpan.

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