RE:Building Together EP 282 — Spaces That Last

Host: CEELOS (@CEELOSFIGG) · Tue, 04 Aug 2026 · 1:09:21 · ~4 speakers (plus a cameo from a kid and a 50 Cent mixtape)

TL;DR

• The show is officially switching to a loose open-conversation format — no rigid script, just the regulars hanging out and talking web3. Ceelos summed up the ethos at [4:23]: whoever's talking is the host.
• Long riff on the current wave of Uncle Mac / Simple Farmer / Crypto Bullies builder ecosystem — Pit Boys, Dirt Boys, stock-drop mining, Pixel Pals leveling, and apechain devs migrating their ideas over to the Angle/Robinhood side.
• Baked is planning to move his AI game-building from Base44 to a new Claude-based app, and wants to shake up Gelatics with a burn-and-evolve mechanic; Ceelos floated running his voxel Regen SVG file into a game.
• A shared philosophy on small-project collabs (Space Riders × Crypto Morts, Rara Pepes) — low-floor projects cross-pollinating audiences to prove they're still here.
• Plenty of non-crypto life: Baked broadcasting from a gym ceiling as an AC tech, Hot Wheels super-treasure-hunt flipping, Halo nostalgia, and kids-vs-screens.
• Way Back Wednesday is still on tomorrow — themed nostalgia, no set topic.

Highlights

The new format gets its mission statement [4:23]. Opening a slightly chaotic Android-plagued room, Ceelos declared the host title a formality: "it says host under my name, but in reality the host is you. Whoever's speaking. You're the host." Baked (^*, @Bakedmetax) later explained the reasoning at [16:23] — less script-reading, less pressure falling on one person, "more hanging with the communities and talking about what's going on here in web three."

Baked, live from a gym ceiling [5:03]. Baked joined mid-job as an AC tech ("I am currently in the ceiling of a gym"), got rugged out when he connected to the venue's Wi-Fi, and kept dropping back in. This became the episode's running sponsor bit — Ceelos "advertising everything" from Baked's AC services to his own coffee-bean-on-an-NFT-bag side hustle [12:34].

A Strava, but for skateboarding [6:40]. Ceelos pitched Baked on using Claude/Base44 to build an app tracking skate pushes and distance — since skating is "a lot of back and forth" — so he could gauge "how hard I went in the paint."

Roblox as a money machine [19:02]. Baked's deep dive: Roblox was built as a developer tool, and people have pulled "hundreds of thousands of dollars" making simple games, routing Robux into expensive Steam items and cashing out — a habit he traces back to his old CS:GO skin-trading days [20:03].

Dirt Boys, decoded (sort of) [22:11]. Ceelos and Baked worked through the new mining mechanic — activating a Pit Boy into a "Dirt Boy" that pays out real-stock drops (NVIDIA, silver/SLB, USA Rare Earth) with multipliers tied to your derp holdings. Both cheerfully admitted the techy details lose them; they credited Crypto Bullies for explaining mining "fucking clean" the day before [21:14].

Shout-out to the builders [27:00]. A genuine appreciation stretch for Uncle Mac, Simple Farmer, and Crypto Bullies — apechain devs who kept shipping after the chain cooled and carried their ideas elsewhere [35:21]. Baked at [32:31]: gamifying holdings "makes it fun… it keeps us here." Ceelos told the Not-a-Punk-Sculpt origin story — the collection that the base chain faded, minted out on Ape Chain, and how Uncle Mac gifted him an original [28:12].

The small-collab philosophy [37:20]. Ceelos laid out why two small projects should join forces — Space Riders × Crypto Morts, the Rara Pepes handoff — to "remind the timeline… that we're still here" and cross-pollinate bullish holders. Baked's deadpan agreement: "I can't agree with that, Celos. Get out of here." [38:27]

The PlayStation-in-the-pool parable [50:01]. Ceelos relayed a Thrasher story about a Florida dad who came home to his kids arguing over video games, ripped the console out, threw it in the swimming pool, bought two skateboards, and told them "go break your leg… I don't want you guys in the house." One of them went pro. It launched a warm tangent on kids, screens, and everyone's fading Halo reflexes.

Hot Wheels treasure-hunt economics [56:02]. Between stores on his drive home, Baked explained the flip: gold-flame = super treasure hunt (bought for $1, last sold $110), silver/regular treasure hunts one per lettered box worth $10–20. Practical rule for Ceelos: "Anytime you see a Hot Wheels that has either a silver or gold flame behind it, buy it."

Voxel Regen into a game [1:01:31]. Ceelos remembered an early holder who made voxel Regens from a mint-pass; Baked got excited that a real SVG/3D file is "workable" — you can drop it into a game engine. They agreed to trade files and start building.

Topic timeline

Notable quotes

• "It says host under my name, but in reality the host is you. Whoever's speaking. You're the host." — Ceelos [4:23]
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• "You know what really grinds my gears? Memes. Fuck you, memes… and now look at meme." — Ceelos, on becoming the thing he once resented [17:35]
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• "If I've got money in my bank account, it gets spent. If I have it in crypto or stocks, I don't touch it. I'm like, nope, I've already technically spent it." — Baked [33:32]
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• "No one's gonna love your project like you." — Baked [44:19]
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• "The internet killed it for me because I was cussing out 11 year olds and that just wasn't healthy." — ValerieKates [53:12]
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• "It is a playground for predators. It's really not a good place for kids." — ValerieKates, on Roblox [1:03:15]
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Who said what

• CEELOS (@CEELOSFIGG) — host/instigator; ran the room, pitched the skate app and voxel-game ideas, told the origin stories (Not-a-Punk-Sculpt, Rara Pepes), and championed small-collab strategy while cheerfully admitting he keeps most of his ETH in his bank account to save himself from himself.
• Baked (@Bakedmetax) — co-host broadcasting between AC jobs; the room's builder brain — Roblox/CS economics, mining mechanics, AI game-building on Claude, Gelatics revamp plans, and Hot Wheels flipping. Also: can no longer say "yes," only "dang it, dude."
• ValerieKates (@valeriekates_) — battled the Android/Spaces bug all hour; keeps this space as "where I play," not business; delivered the sharpest kid-safety notes on Roblox and a candid line about rage-quitting online gaming.
• Solo dolo (@solodolo) — teacher and post-marathon runner who checked in early; confirmed from the classroom that kids can't wait to get back to the screen, and that he lurks in spaces the way most people leave a show on.
• Ceelos's son (unnamed) — periodic cameo with math homework, Roblox murder-mystery lore, and a well-earned "I finally landed in the circle."

Worth a full listen

• [27:00]–[36:00] — The builder-ecosystem stretch is the most substantive part of the episode: Not-a-Punk-Sculpt lore, how apechain devs know each other, and why the mining ideas are migrating to the Angle/Robinhood side. Hard to compress without losing the connective tissue.
• [50:01]–[54:09] — The kids-and-screens tangent, from the PlayStation-in-the-pool story through the collective Halo-sticky-grenade reminiscing, is the warmest and funniest run of the room.
• [1:05:22]–[1:07:35] — Pure format chaos gold: Ceelos hunting for files, accidentally triggering two songs at once ("Wait, there's like two songs playing at once… oh, because I'm on the Pixel Pal site"), and rediscovering the AI Buffalo Soldier track he once made. The transcript can't do the confusion justice.

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