Re:Building Together EP 320 — Fun Friday (People Over Pictures)

Host: CEELOS (@CEELOSFIGG) · Fri, 11 Sep 2026 · 1:09:48 · 4 speakers (CEELOS, Baked, toomazingTM, SLICK RIC)

TL;DR

• A lunchtime Fun Friday episode that ran mostly on storytelling: CEELOS hosted from his warehouse, Baked called in from a work van after a morning on a roof, toomazingTM from a shift between patients, and SLICK RIC dropped in near the end.
• CEELOS owes SLICK RIC 25 push-ups from a bad football bet and announced he'll be delivering them in installments — ten on video already, fifteen more when he gets home [10:23].
• The long centerpiece: CEELOS's old collection-agency job, complete with a mispronounced La Cañada, an old coworker's file landing on his desk, and a boss who closed a $5K account with one phone call [20:55]–[27:23].
• Blockies revealed live during the Space; Baked walked SLICK RIC through his three, including a mage trait that's 74 of 10,000 [57:55], [1:00:09].
• The "people over pictures" thread: CEELOS on an LT3 he wants purely because two of its traits echo his first-ever favorite PFP [46:26], and SLICK RIC's wallet picture, made by his eight-year-old daughter [1:02:46].
• Closing notes: 25 years since 9/11, shout-outs to September birthdays (CEELOS's is Sunday), and tomorrow's creation partner session with Jake for making things with your NFTs [1:08:01].

Highlights

The push-up payment plan [10:23] — Having lost a bet on "these millionaires playing games," CEELOS explained his restructuring: he recorded ten, will record fifteen later, and considers the debt satisfied. "He's getting it in sections." He maintains he could do 25 in a row, he just isn't trying to be on video trembling through the last ten. The room had opinions.

Dad life, timestamped [11:00] — CEELOS's youngest wants a "bro date" with his 29-year-old brother he insists he's never met (baby photos have been rejected as evidence). The text thread that followed ran on the older son's schedule — replies at 10:30 and 12:30 at night — but landed at 8 a.m. with a "love you, Papa" that made the whole day [13:49].

Fontana, or possibly not Fontana [19:57] — toomazingTM tried to locate his son's Saturday game in real time, landed on "Flint Ridge," got a guess of "near the Bay Area" from CEELOS, and finally corrected course to La Cañada — which set up the next twenty minutes.

"La Cañada, you fucking idiot" [20:55] — Young CEELOS, working phone-fraud collections, read the city name off a screen with no tilde and got corrected by the debtor mid-call. His comeback was to remind the man about his unpaid phone bill.

The account he couldn't close [22:33] — He recognized a name on a file: a former coworker running five Social Security numbers off one phone line. Two weeks of pressure, zero dollars. Then his boss asked what he knew about the guy, CEELOS mentioned the girl the guy had a crush on, the boss made one call, and the $5K was paid on the spot — commission gone. Elsewhere in the same job: a number that answered "Domino's Pizza, how can I take your order?" [29:38].

"Everything happens for a reason" [32:04] — Burned out on being lied to all day — to the point where he couldn't tolerate his friends' exaggerated block stories anymore — he took a friend's offer at a coffee shop. That yes turned into 23 years in coffee. The takeaway he keeps coming back to: missed buses and wrong exits are the point, "we're exactly where we're supposed to be."

$75 at Jack in the Box [34:59] — Feeding five people on a night too hot to cook produced sticker shock and a broader lament about what money used to buy. Adjacent: Baked's verdict on McDonald's milkshakes [40:57], CEELOS's thrifty-brand-only ice cream doctrine, deep-fried Oreos made with pancake batter, and the older homie who taught 13-year-old CEELOS to dip fries in a caramel sundae [42:00].

The LT3 he keeps missing [46:26] — The most "people over pictures" stretch of the show. CEELOS explained that an LT3 he's been watching carries two traits identical to his original favorite NFT — a project about feelings that hurt him enough that he once swore off feelings-based projects entirely. It isn't rare; it's sentimental. It got sniped once and is listed again. Which led to a genuine feature request: let people set an alert on a specific token so holders, not just flippers, can catch it [49:34].

Blockies reveal, live [57:55] → [1:00:09] — Baked reported the reveal mid-Space and got three. SLICK RIC pulled up, revealed he'd been researching the ecosystem via ChatGPT, and got a read on his own: a mage, 74 of 10,000, plus back-to-back medieval boxes. His trading philosophy, stated plainly: "All I know how to do is hold" [1:02:02].

Closing [1:08:01] — Proof-of-push-ups promised, shout-outs to the September birthdays and to Ghostman, a note on the 25th anniversary of 9/11 and everyone still affected by it, and a reminder that things could be worse.

Topic timeline

Notable quotes

• "25 is 25. I never agreed to 25 in a row." — CEELOS [10:23]
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• "Little did I know saying yes to that job meant, oh, you're in coffee for life." — CEELOS [32:04]
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• "They're too watery. It doesn't taste like real vanilla in it. It's like tastes chemically." — Baked, on McDonald's milkshakes [40:57]
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• "All I know how to do is hold." — SLICK RIC [1:02:02]
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• "I don't know how to sell, bro. I suck." — SLICK RIC, on not taking profit at 600 apiece [1:04:36]
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• "Any day above ground is a good thing. So embrace the moment because that's all we get." — CEELOS [1:08:01]
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Who said what

• CEELOS (@CEELOSFIGG, host) — carried the room from his warehouse: the push-up debt, the sons, the collection-agency years, the sentimental LT3, and the closing philosophy that you only manage what's in your control and keep building [1:06:22].
• Baked (@Bakedmetax) — phoning in from a van between roof jobs, packing for a move next Friday while on call. Provided the live blockies reveal coverage and trait reads for SLICK RIC, plus the milkshake indictment.
• toomazingTM (@TooMazing265) — checking in between patients; son's football (a tackle was made, grandpa jokes were declined), and a disciplined stance on sweets undermined by a gifted box of muffins [36:32].
• SLICK RIC (@richj530) — late arrival with the best energy: blockies research via ChatGPT, a long-position argument against buying more, regret over not selling at the top, and a PFP his daughter made.

Worth a full listen

• [20:55]–[31:00] — The collection-agency arc in full. The mispronunciation, the old coworker, the boss's one phone call, the Domino's answer, and the burnout that followed. The summary flattens a story that builds.
• [46:21]–[49:34] — CEELOS explaining why a non-rare LT3 matters to him more than a rare one, in his own words. This is the thesis of "people over pictures," and it's better heard than described.
• [1:00:09]–[1:05:42] — SLICK RIC and Baked going through the blockies reveal trait by trait in real time, sliding into Del Mundos and hand-drawn art. A good snapshot of how the room actually looks at a collection together.