Re:Building Together EP 257 — People Over Pictures

Host: CEELOS (@CEELOSFIGG) with cohost ValerieKates (@valeriekates_) · Fri, 10 Jul 2026 · ~1:05:00 · 5 speakers

TL;DR

• A no-agenda hangout episode. The title held up: it was almost entirely people, almost no pictures — regulars catching up while CEELOS loaded his car for a three-day convention gig at the Ontario Convention Center.
• Heavy Robin Hood / NFT floor chatter — MPCs (a.k.a. NPCs), Regen, Kobe jerseys, "pinamals," and a fresh mint everyone kept fading and regretting.
• CEELOS bought a live "dumpster" coin on air, narrating every wrong wallet and dead link along the way.
• The group realized a recap account is now transcribing them, and immediately started performing for it.
• Wrapped with a happy-birthday shoutout to CEELOS's mom and a CEELOS a-cappella 2Pac send-off.

Highlights

[3:14] Val checks in from the padded room. Valerie joined late after caregiving and a shower, and the room decided she'd been "talking to the voices in her head." Asked about wanting another baby, she noted her husband already got a vasectomy — so the "conversation with your husband" ship had, technically, sailed.

[8:27] The sticker reveal. CEELOS unveiled homemade stickers: solo as a "baby shrimp" (built from a haircut selfie solo unwisely sent) and toomazing as a "buff whale" (harvested from an Instagram face pic). toomazing's verdict: "you're never gonna get my face again." CEELOS's reply: "I already got it."

[10:28] Knee update meets peer review. CEELOS gave a detailed six-week report on his bad knee and its suspiciously protruding bone. solo's diagnosis was swift and free of charge: "You're old, bro."

[19:23] The room discovers it's on the record. Someone flagged the new recap account, and the crew leaned all the way in — "everything you say can and will be used against you" — spending a few minutes cheerfully shouting out "Recaps" and workshopping how their glizzy talk would read in text.

[33:15] The dumpster coin saga begins. Learning the coin had dropped hours earlier, CEELOS tried to buy it live — striking out on Photon, misremembering Jupiter, wrong wallet, dead vote-button — before finally getting in via the project's own link. A one-man DeFi tutorial with all the mistakes left in.

[45:17] Redneck ostrich hour. solo went shopping for "pinamals" while riding the bus, flagging a cigar-smoking, aviator-hatted, dollar-eyed ostrich by exact token number. CEELOS gently questioned whether "redneck ostrich" was an approved term; it turned out to be the actual trait name.

[50:20] Baked finally lands. Blaming a time-change mixup, Baked slid in an hour late, immediately got roasted for going quiet in the group text ("too big for my britches"), then narrated wrangling his cat back inside mid-sentence.

[57:39] The energy speech. Rolling through everyone's heritage — Salvadorian, "double Indian," Mexican, Irish Italian — CEELOS landed on his thesis: he gets along with everybody, it's all energy. It flowed straight into remembering it was his mom's birthday.

Topic timeline

Notable quotes

• "You're old, bro." — solo dolo [10:28]
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• "…there's that recap account now, so everything you say can and will be used against you." — CEELOS [19:23]
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• "My family's cooked. Dad doesn't know how to trade." — CEELOS, mid coin-buy [35:17]
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• "I don't mess around with Robin Hood. They really be robbing the hoods, so I don't play with them." — Baked [56:05]
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• "I get along with everybody, bro. It's all energy." — CEELOS [57:39]
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• "Happy birthday, mom. Can't see you today. Working all weekend." — CEELOS [59:34]
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Who said what

• CEELOS (@CEELOSFIGG, host —^*: ran the whole thing between loading his car for the convention; live-bought the dumpster coin, swept a few NFT floors, and MC'd every tangent.
• solo dolo (@solodolo^*: the teacher with a run in two weeks; bet big on Spain, bought an MPC that lifted the floor, and served as reluctant coin-buying guide.
• ValerieKates (@valeriekates_^*: joined mid-stream from caregiving and provided the sticker-reveal reactions.
• Baked (@Bakedmetax^*: arrived late on a time-zone mixup; the Florida Disney local and resident Robin Hood skeptic.
• toomazing (@TooMazing265): in and out via mic and group text — the gym-rat "buff whale" of the sticker bit.

Worth a full listen

• ~33:15–44:00 — The dumpster coin buy. The transcript can't capture the real-time comedy of CEELOS bouncing between Photon, Jupiter, and DexScreener, ending up in the wrong wallet, and still somehow getting his bag.
• ~57:39–59:34 — The heritage roll call flowing into the sudden realization it's mom's birthday; a nice window into how this group actually talks.
• 1:03:44–end — CEELOS closing out solo, freestyling 2Pac (carefully editing one word) while digging canopy walls out of his back seat.

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