Re:Building Together EP 319 — "I Blew It pt 2"

Host: CEELOS (@CEELOSFIGG) with cohost ValerieKates (@valeriekates_) · Thu, 10 Sep 2026 · 42:36 · 4 active speakers

TL;DR

• This was the do-over: CEELOS accidentally rugged the first Space by tapping the wrong thing while trying to pin a post, so EP 319 became "I Blew It pt 2." [01:08], [07:57]
• The night's actual project: CEELOS is toying with turning his AI chihuahua images into a small, exclusive 1,111-piece NFT collection — with heavy design input on hat sizing from the room. [04:31], [10:45]
• Two new recurring segment ideas got logged: a "Way Back Wednesday: Mascots" edition and a Creation Corner prompt to reimagine your NFT as a mascot. [17:30], [20:02]
• A long, gleefully gross tour of kitchen and food-service confessions took over the middle of the Space. [27:09]–[33:40]
• Sam's parking-lot Karen saga (a passive-aggressive windshield note) turned into a group brainstorm of petty-but-not-technically-vandalism revenge. [33:40]–[37:07]
• Running fitness bit: Slick Ric and CEELOS renewed their 25-push-up bet, and CEELOS floated a weight-loss challenge with pooled NFTs as the prize. [25:52], [39:19]

Highlights

The rug confession [01:08] — CEELOS opened by admitting he'd killed the previous Space himself: while scrolling Quirkies posts to pin one, he accidentally clicked into someone else's Space and closed his own. He'd have saved it, he noted, if Val had still been co-host before she dropped.

Val's 41,860-item phone [02:56] — Diagnosing Val's dropped signal, CEELOS read out her camera roll stats in forensic detail (1,257 selfies, 12,105 photos, 3,770 portraits, down to 8 time-lapses) and still couldn't make them add up to 41,000-plus. Verdict: back it up to the cloud.

The 11:11 chihuahua collection [10:45] — The recurring gag about CEELOS's fat-chihuahua AI images matured into a real pitch: an 1,111-piece collection ("make a wish"). Val made the case for keeping it small: without a huge audience, exclusivity is the whole point. [11:14]

Hat sizing, the great debate [11:37] — The room's most consequential design decision: little hat vs. big hat on the sombrero-and-poncho chihuahua. Val and Sam both landed firmly on Team Little Hat ("the little hat's funnier"). [12:44]

Mascots become a segment [17:30] — A tangent on Taco Bell's chihuahua and the Jack in the Box guy spun into two logged content ideas: a mascots-themed Way Back Wednesday, and a Creation Corner challenge to turn your NFT into a brand mascot. [20:02]

Health inspections and the ant orgy [27:09] — Slick Ric mentioned passing a health inspection at work; Sam one-upped it with the Starbucks inspector who checked the floors while the ants were "all on the wall having an orgy." The complaint was real, and so were the ants. [27:09]

Kitchen confessions [29:31] — Val, a former Chili's cook, admitted plating a quesadilla she'd dropped between the flat-top and the prep station 20 years ago because she couldn't spare the four minutes to re-fire it — capped by her dad losing the top layer of his thumb into the Thanksgiving potatoes with no known recovery. [31:50]

The parking Karen [33:40] — Sam got a note reading "I moved your mirror and got your license plate. Please park better next time." The room workshopped responses — lipstick, shoe polish, a lettered flower circle — before Val caught herself: "sorry, we're still in rebuilding and we're recorded." [35:50]

Topic timeline

Notable quotes

• "That's what I get for trying to pin stuff up top while I'm in the space hosting." — CEELOS [01:08]
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• "Unless you have a huge following… a small collection makes it more exclusive." — Val [11:14]
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• "They were all on the wall having an orgy and shit, and he was like checking the floors." — Sam, on the health inspector [27:09]
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• "I couldn't afford the four minutes that were needed to re-fire the whole thing. Like I was so behind." — Val [30:05]
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• "Sorry. We're still in rebuilding and we're recorded." — Val, mid-revenge plan [35:50]
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• "Don't let bitches tell you you can't park." — Sam's closing words [38:20]
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Who said what

• CEELOS (@CEELOSFIGG) — Host; owned the rug, drove the chihuahua-collection idea, kept the segment ideas flowing, and closed things down before they went further off-script.
• Val / ValerieKates (@valeriekates_) — Cohost; the segment-keeper (logging Way Back Wednesday and Creation Corner ideas), voice of small-collection exclusivity, and MVP of the kitchen-confession round.
• Sam (@pressedcurl)^* — Speaker; brought the Starbucks ant saga and the parking Karen, and the deadpan closing line.
• Slick Ric (@richj530) — Speaker; joined late from "the sticks," renewed the 25-push-up bet, and reality-checked the weight-loss challenge (heavier folks shed faster). Noted as a man of his word for paying last season's push-ups. [38:45]
• Pharaoh (@spade_pirates) — Present; got a shout-out at close over some owed One Piece packs, no substantive turn.

Worth a full listen

• [27:09]–[33:40] — The food-service confession chain (ant orgies, dropped quesadillas, the missing thumb tip) is the comedic core of the Space and doesn't compress without losing the escalation.
• [33:40]–[37:33] — The parking Karen brainstorm, complete with Val's on-record self-catch and CEELOS's dog-poop-under-the-door "harmless little prank," is the room at its most in-sync.

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