So... Alright - Fall Ya'll

Episode Date: November 25, 2025

The Austin summer finally relents, and Geoff takes stock. Also, sports talk. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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And today is much the same, I'm afraid. It's currently 82. We've got a high of 83, which is nothing. Austin breaks through those highs with ease, so it'll probably hit 86, 87 today. At least it's overcast. But goddamn, am I sick of summer? I was talking about it with Emily. She's very fed up with it.

Just ready for any kind of a change in season. It's been a pretty mild summer in the grand scheme of things for Austin. It didn't get crazy hot like it has the last few years. But it just won't fucking end. Today is, like I said, November 18th, leaves finally falling. That's how I know it's fall. Finally changing colors and falling as of yesterday. I went for a walk on Sunday, no leaves on the ground.

Monday, a few leaves on the ground. Today, dumping leaves on the ground. Kind of getting some color change in the leaves, but mostly they just turn to a sickly yellow and fall. We don't get the beautiful, vibrant reds and oranges and stuff that you see in, I don't know, like in Michigan, for instance. I mean, it exists, but just not in the same way it exists further north from us.

And I am just... I know it's only 83, but when it feels like it should be 55 and it's 83, it might as well be a hundred. You know, it's just like, it just fucks with your head. And I know that I live in Austin because of this. It was, I was on tour with Catch 22 in December of 1998. And I had obviously been stationed at Fort Hood, now Fort Cavazos, maybe Fort Hood again. I don't know. Anyway, I had been stationed in Texas about an hour north of here. and so I was very familiar with Austin and I'd always wanted to live here

but then I ended up moving to New Jersey and the military you know and then I was on tour with a band and we played through Austin and it was December I want to say 11th when we got here December 13th and we went swimming and we wore shorts

and I thought why the fuck am I living in New Jersey when it's freezing and there's black ice everywhere and gray sludgy snow when I could be swimming in December and so I realized that I did this to myself The thing that I am complaining about is the thing that lured me to Austin in the first place.

But damn it, man. It just would be nice to have a fall. We don't really get them in Austin. What tends to happen is we have summer until there's a cold front, like maybe summer until late October, early November. And then there's a brief cold front of like four or five days

and everybody gets excited. And then we have our second summer, which then lasts for anywhere between three and five weeks. And then we just have winter. It just goes from hot to then annoyingly cold. And you don't get comfortable sweater weather, really, you know, which is unfortunate. But it is what it is. I don't care.

I'm just ready for something different. I think in Austin, November, is most easily equatable just because I've been there a lot lately. Austin, November is a lot like Michigan July. It's great in July. But in November, I wouldn't mind a lot. a little breeze? I wouldn't mind a little crisp in the air. You know what I mean? I wouldn't mind a little, woo. You know, maybe I should get a, I should get a scarf, but I don't get that. I went bike riding in shorts today and came home sweaty because it was 80 degrees.

When does fall start? September 22nd in the northern hemisphere marked by the astronomical autumn Equinox. Oh, okay. That means Austin's fall is finally starting two months after everybody else's. Fucking hell. Who has the longest fall? California is often cited as having the longest fall season due to its size and varied topography, which creates a prolonged period of fall color from September through December. Also, North Carolina, Pennsylvania have long falls. Who has shortfalls? Ah, well, that's obvious. Gulf Coast. Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and apparently Austin. When does winter begin? Sunday, December 21st through Friday, March 20th is winter. Huh. I have a feeling that Friday, March 20th, 20th, 2026 in Austin is going to be like 85 degrees and gorgeous.

But okay? I guess that is the old man weather report portion of the podcast. But for all you people that have been sipping hot cocoa or coffee in the mornings on your front porch or on your deck over your balcony and you're like just taking in the cool, brisk air, know that I'm jealous of you. I'm extremely jealous of you. I'd like to be you soon. Fingers crossed, I will. I guess now since Austin is begrudgingly transitioning into fall and we're in a new season two months late, maybe I should just do one of those take stock. episodes where I talk about like what I'm doing, all the products I'm making, and just make sure that I'm doing a good job of adequately promoting everything that I'm doing because I'm maybe the

worst at doing that. I spend the majority of my time on the regulation podcast. If you are not familiar with the regulation podcast, it is the spiritual successor of a podcast I did called Fuckface when I was at Rooster Teeth. When Rooster Teeth shut down, we started a new company. It's It's that podcast as well as gameplay and live action. It's all the stuff that we were best at at Achievement Hunter rolled up into a new entity called Regulation. Obviously, we have a Patreon, the Regulation Pod. There are YouTube channels for the gaming and for the podcast

and all the supplemental content. That is my job. That is my main gig. That's what pays the bills. And that is what occupies the lion's share of my time. I would say second on that list is this. The so all right podcast, which you clearly are aware of because you are listening to this. Put that out once a week every Tuesday.

Found out recently, I've done over 100 of these bad boys. So time flies. And that would be what I would consider to be my secondary responsibility or job. And then I guess behind that would be streaming. I don't know if I definitely probably don't talk about it on this podcast as much as I should. but I stream on Twitch every Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday morning, typically from 8 a.m. Central Time to about 10 a.m. Central time. It's when I'm up in the morning, drinking coffee and kind of formulating my plan for the day. I sit down with you guys. I play a video game like Power Wash Simulator or Roadcraft, or honestly, lately, just sit on webcam and talk. The video game has started to really take a backseat to just the conversations that we're having. And I got to say, it is really irrespective of whether you come and hang out with me at 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. on a. on Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday on Twitch. It is a lot of fun to just sit down and be social every... It's not what you usually do.

You know, you get up, you take a shower, you grumble through some breakfast, you throw your clothes on, you do whatever little chores you have to do, get the kids out the door, feed the dog or whatever, kiss your wife on the head, and then you're out the door to work, or you lock yourself in a spare bedroom that's your office because you work from home or whatever. You don't have a lot of social time, typically. You don't start the day off socially. At least I never have. Usually when I would get to, even when I would get to RT back in the old days, I would get there a good hour or two before anybody else because I'm an early morning guy and I would have my coffee quietly and you just like kind of mentally prepare and get the work done that's annoying to do around

other people done, get that out of the way. And then you kind of integrate into other people throughout the day as they show up. But these Monday through Wednesdays where I sit down with a cup of coffee, pop on Twitch, and just have conversations with so many awesome and wonderful community members, it's honestly really become something I kind of crave. And I'm bummed. I can only do it on Monday, Tuesdays and Wednesdays. On Thursdays, I prep for the regulation podcast. We record the regulation podcast at 11 a.m. on Thursdays. And that requires that day. is, I mean, I do regulation stuff throughout the week, but that day is when I am completely and totally solely focused on the podcast. I wake up. If I do anything, it's to go to a coffee shop

with my notes and prepare for the day if I didn't do that the day before. But I don't want to do any other work to distract me. And then after the podcast is done or the podcasts, if we have to double up, then we do let's plays or supplementals or whatever. And that's easy because I've already gotten the podcast out of the way. But no time on Thursdays, unfortunately, to do anything other than focus on the most important thing in the world to meet career-wise, which is the regulation podcast. Fridays we already stream at 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. on the regulation podcast Twitch channel. That's typically the whole group of us. And so since I'm already streaming in the afternoon, and we do a lot of supplemental recordings in the morning on Friday, that doesn't really leave me

a lot of time to do my personal streams there either. And honestly, at my age, streaming early in the morning and then at the end of the day is probably too lofty of a task for me to pull off from an energy standpoint. Anyway, so that's the Twitch thing. On occasion, typically on Sunday nights or Monday nights, Emily and I will hop on and do a surprise stream where I just stream with her. She loves to watch the spectator cams in Call of Duty Warzone. So sometimes we'll go in, I'll try to die immediately and then we'll spectate the person that killed me as long as they live. And then when they die, we'll hop to the next person. And then we just, you know, watch the entirety of the match that way. She absolutely loves that. The late.

lately. She's been wanting to play games a little bit, so we played Peggle 2 on live stream. Those are Sunday and Monday nights, and very rarely. I would say less than once a month we do that, although I'd like to do it more. It really just depends on how much extra she wants to work in her week. She's already got a salon to run and her own podcast and Patreon to run. So she's a pretty busy lady. In addition to that, I do cameos. That's actually turned into kind of a thriving business for me. You guys are really wonderful about ordering cameos and have brought me into your lives and into your wonderful anniversaries and new jobs and graduations and birthdays and weddings and it has been something that I wasn't sure how I would like when I started it.

But it's another thing that I just genuinely enjoy. If anything, I enjoy it a little bit too much And I get so concerned about fucking up people's cameos that sometimes I'll record a cameo nine or 10 or 11 times before I feel like I got it right because I just don't want to do a shitty job for people, you know? And so, by the way, if you need a cameo, it's Jeff L. Ramsey over there on cameo. And I think that's the majority of what I do during a week.

There's all the administrative responsibilities behind the scenes at regulation that we split up between the five of us. say Eric and I do the lion's share of that. That's stuff that nobody sees, talking to banks, depositing checks, filling out forms, talking to lawyers, having meetings with accountants, all that stuff. And it takes longer than you would think, and it takes up, it occupies more of a week than you would imagine, even for a small little five-person company like we have. But it has sort of served to create this, what feels like,

like a complete work week to me, which is something I didn't know how I was going to handle. I've had a steady job since I was 15. Now, I have a steady job now. Don't get me wrong. But for the last up until rooster teeth ended, for that 21, 22 year period, I had safety and security and structure, right? Crazy thing about striking out on your own is the lack of structure and you have to build your own structure, which is a weird thing because I created Roche Teeth with those guys many, many years ago

and went through this process. But you do it, I did it so long ago, and then you fall into a rhythm, and then you modify that structured week as time goes on, but it is always a cemented thing, you know? And when you wake up one day and your company's gone

and you're starting a new company and you have to kind of rebuild your life, a lot of that is just like, to a finish line, there's an unimaginable, unbelievable amount of work in front of you, and you just work towards it until you can't work anymore and go to bed and get up and do it again and again. But at some point, you're a year or a year and some change into your new business. I think we're almost a year and a half into the business now. We've got our tent poles secured and the structure is built. We're doing some little things here and they're still getting

the 401K stuff worked out, you know, that kind of deal. But we have insurance and we have a steady paycheck coming in. And once all that stuff is behind you and you're left with just the business of your company and running your company and making your content, I found that the week was full of holes and it looked like Swiss cheese. And you have to start trying to figure out. Like, this is not a show up at 9 a.m. and work till 5 p.m. at an office job like rooster teeth was. If for no other reason, then, you know, people have a lot of stuff going on. Eric and Nick have their other company 100% Eat that they work on, which occupies a part of their week. And Gavin has the slow-mo guys. And so Andrew and I have more time in our week than the other

guys do, which is why I continued and expanded so all right. It's why I did another season of Good Morning Gustavo, even though that we decided to sunset that. It's why I do the cameos. It's why I'm considering getting back into selling cards on eBay. It's essentially me trying to plug holes in the week. And I think I'm at a point finally where I can look at the week and I feel productive every day. I've got a responsibility and it's based on so stupid to you. I apologize if it does. But it was hard for me to figure out. It really was. I've always been pretty good about self-managing and staying on top of me, mostly because I know how fucking lazy I have a tendency to be. So if I don't stay on top of me, nobody else will. And I know

what kind of bullshit I'll pull if I let myself. So I got to crack the whip pretty hard on old Jeff just to make sure he's not a piece of shit. But I feel like I'm at a point now where I can wake up on a Monday and I know what my week is going to look like Monday to Friday and there's no huge gaps to fill. I had that for a while where I felt like I had too much to do on a Wednesday and not nearly enough to do on a Monday or Tuesday. And a lot of that is revolving around like Wednesday's a bad example. It's just a date I threw out. It's not real. But a lot of it revolves around other people's schedules and trying to get stuff done and fit it within the framework of their availability. And it just, it creates for like feast or famine days where you have

so much to do on Thursday and then nothing to do on Friday and then so much to do on Monday and then nothing to do on Tuesday. I kind of hate that. When you're flying Emirates business class, sipping your favorite cocktail at our onboard lounge, you'll see that your vacation isn't really over until your flight is over. Fly Emirates, fly better Black Friday is here at IKEA and the clock is ticking on savings you won't want to miss.

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Shop now at IKEA.ca.ca. Black Friday. Ikea. Bring home to life. So I guess what I'm rambling about is I feel like, as of maybe two weeks ago, I feel like I'm finally in a good place where I've got a routine. I crave routine, but I also fight against routine constantly. It's something I've been very bad about self-imposing. but I think I'm finally at a point where I can I can feel good about myself Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. Whereas previously I would maybe feel good about myself on Monday, feel like a total piece of shit on Tuesday, medium on Wednesday, and then really good about myself on Thursday and Friday, for instance. And I just, I feel like I've, I feel like I put the puzzle pieces together now. And it, when I take a step back and look at it, it looks like a career. Does that make sense? Between regulation and Saul Wright actually makes a little bit of money on ad revenue. You know, I don't have any merch here or anything. So any money I get, I also don't do any direct ad reads. Not that I wouldn't, but none have been brought to me.

And I just don't know if this podcast is big enough to warrant them. But that's been kind of a nice surprise because I never expected Saw Right to make any money. And it definitely doesn't make a lot. But I would say it definitely justifies its existence, you know. And so between Saw Right and regulation and now layering streaming in and trying to figure out how to do that in a in a repeatable way that doesn't burn me out and then the cameo i just i look at it and the puzzle pieces fit together and i feel like i've got a productive week and a consistent week and i think that's the thing that feels the best about it is i just feel consistent right now and i think i think that's a place i needed to be after the tumult of the last few years it's definitely

a welcome feeling and it's something that I didn't maybe realize I needed until I realized I had it and it just like, it feels like an exhale, you know? I know that I can turn a part of my brain off a little bit, the justify your existence. Why aren't you doing something this minute? You need to figure out something to do this minute, you piece of shit, you're wasting, you're wasting your life and you're not doing, you're not working for your family and you're not working for your company right now. Those moments, those little moments of self-hate where you just, I feel like I've structured things so that I don't have those anymore. And it is such a weight off my shoulder to, like I said, just be able to turn that part of my brain off

and know that I've got, I know what I do on Tuesday. I know what I do on Wednesday. I know what I do on Thursday. Clearly, I have to do creative work to prepare for those days, but I don't have to figure out what those days are going to be. And that's nice. That's real nice for a guy like me. I need that, and I'm glad I have it. Somebody in the Twitch chat asked me to give a rundown on sports and where we are right now. I know by this time last year, I had already done a breakdown, a preview of the NBA and how I thought every team was going to perform, and I ranked how I thought they were going to finish, and all that stuff. I haven't really done any of that this year. And some of that has just been burnout, honestly.

It's been a lot of sports. You know, the World Series was awesome, but it feels like it was yesterday. and now that I'm watching every Red Wings game, you know, there's 82 hockey games a season on top of the 82 basketball games a season. So I've basically doubled my sports watching by adding the Red Wings in, and I'm absolutely loving it.

It's, although I've got to say hockey is a frustrating sport to watch. Not like basketball isn't right now, but, you know, hockey is a frustrating sport to watch. But I've been a little fragmented in my fandom, and so I don't feel prepared to, or I don't feel like I'm in a place where I've absorbed enough NBA. Certainly, I don't know shit about hockey,

so I could never speak intelligently towards hockey. I am a fan who is learning the sport and loving every second of it, but I am hockey stupid. You know, I still have to Google something about four times a game right now. And I'm just a little fragmented on my NBA knowledge.

I usually listen to a lot of sports podcasts, and I haven't been doing that lately, and I just have, you know, just been kind of taking a mental break from it. But I will tell you that any kind of predictions or anything I did for the NBA would be a moot point anyway because it's pretty clear that the Oklahoma City Thunder are going to run away with this season. I think the only team that could provide any resistance to them, any meaningful resistance to them is the Denver

Nuggets. And they're a pretty fucking good team. I think Joker finally has his full rostered deep team and getting Valenciunis as a backup has been such a big deal to allow Joker to rest for meaningful minutes in a game and not have to worry about coming in the second he goes out because things immediately fall apart without his size and presence on the court. There are some other good teams in the NBA.

Houston Rockets are really interesting and really fun. They have Kevin Durant. They have some amazing young talent. Ima Yodoka, who was Boston's coach until the scandal is a really good, really good coach. I'll say that. I think the San Antonio Spurs

are a lot further ahead in their timeline, then we realized Wimby, Wimby's out right now with a calf strain for a few weeks, but he looks like the best player in the league when he's on the court already. And he's only going to continue to improve and to grow

and to strengthen and to get more dominant and more scary. So, I feel bad for the rest of the league because Oklahoma City is not going anywhere. They are by far the best team in basketball. Their second best player hasn't stepped on the court yet.

to my knowledge. And they still have the Utah, which I think somebody in the chat told me today is top eight protected pick next year. But they also have the clippers pick, which is unprotected, I believe. And the clippers are in the process of disintegrating in front of her eyes. So Oklahoma City could end up with a couple of really high picks in next year's draft and continue to assert their dominance over the league by drafting insanely well based off of Sam Presti's brilliant, absolutely brilliant asset allocation over the last seven years. If you're not a sports fan, what that means is the Oklahoma City Thunder are the best team in basketball, and they are going to continue to be the best team in basketball for a while.

I think the biggest threat is Denver this year going forward. It's probably San Antonio. None of those teams are Boston. You probably are like, but Jeff, your favorite team is Boston. Why aren't you talking about them? Well, as you know, Jason Tatum, our best player, probably the fifth or sixth best player in the world, is injured all season with an ACL tear. He is recovering wonderfully. He is making waves about returning before the season's over.

I kind of hope he doesn't. I'd rather him just take the time to get. Like this season, I think, it's going to be a fun season, but we're not going to compete in a serious way. So I'd rather him take the time and heal and get better. But what has been fun to watch this season for the Celtics? and I think we are, I don't even think we're 500 right now. Let me see. When was the last time I didn't know the Celtics record off the top of my head?

That's fucking wild. We are seven and seven tied for 10th place right now. And that feels about right. We lost Al Horford. We lost Luke Cornett. We lost Drew Holiday. We lost Chris Tapp's Porzingis. And we lost Jason Tatum to injury.

Our starting center is Nemeas Keda this year. He's doing a great job. I love him. We call Nimi. He was our fourth string center last year. Now he is our primary center. That's what's happened to our team. We had to trade a lot of guys away because of cap space issues.

The NBA really disincentes you from going over the cap space. They penalize the hell out of you. They've got these aprons. You've probably heard me talk about it before. We would have been in the second apron. The second apron is a restrictive, terrible place to be. You can't even really make moves to your team when you're in the second apron, so we had to get out from under that, which means we had to let go, unfortunately, of a lot of our best talent. We lost four of our seven best players, probably. Five, if you count Tatum's injury.

So we are in a, we're in a low expectation season. We've got a lot of really fun, interesting talent that we have acquired. We've got Hugo Gonzalez. We've got Jordan Walsh in his make-it-or-break-a-break-a-year. We have Josh Minot. We have Luca Garza. We have Baylor Shireman. We have Amari Williams.

We have, I think, Max Shulga and Ron Harper Jr. are on the team currently. Oh, and we have Anthony Simons. And so we have a lot of unproven, untested talent who's hungry for playing time, guys that would mostly ride the bench if we were fully healthy and a fully realized team. And so this is an opportunity for all those guys to get some meaningful minutes and to really show what they're capable of. And it has been very exciting. I have very high hopes for Hugo Gonzalez.

I have very high hopes for Jordan Walsh. I have very high hopes for Josh Minot. And I cannot wait to see them succeed. It has been a lot of fun just to watch us be a scrappy, young, make mistakes, but fight through it and trying to learn team. While we have Jalen Brown, our second best player, and Derek, White, our third best player on the court, helping shape and mold and train and teach these guys. It's, I'm actually really, once I gave up any expectation for this season, for the Celtics at least, succeeding or making it, making a deep playoff run. And who knows? Who knows?

I don't know. But I have had such a good time watching them. And it has been such a refreshing season. And I feel like a lot of pressure is off of the Celtics. And that's kind of fun. And also, the Pistons are awesome. The Pistons are fucking awesome. As of me recording this podcast right now, the Pistons are 12 and 2 and leading the Eastern Conference.

The Pistons are in first place in the Eastern Conference ahead of even Cleveland and New York, who by the way is in fifth place, and the 76ers who have kind of come out of nowhere who drafted very well and are looking really good

and the Bulls who have faltered a little bit but are showing a lot of promise and a lot more potential than I think anybody thought they had. It's a largely weak conference, the Eastern Conference, compared to the West. It is every year, but more so even this year, I think, because of injury.

Tyrese Halliburton's out, Jason Tatum's. A lot of players are out. But the Pistons are fun and good. And I don't think they stand a chance of competing against OKC or Denver or any team coming out of the West. I don't know that the Pistons will make it. I think the Knicks are probably the team

that's going to advance from the East. But the Pistons have all season to make me look stupid by continuing to dominate, and I hope they do. Jalen Duren is awesome, and this is his year. Obviously, Cade Cunningham, all the other talent on that team. But Jalen Duren, this is his ascension year. Watch Jalen Duren. He is bodying dudes. He looks tough and strong and dominant, and I think he's better than they thought he was going to be.

and it'll be interesting to see him reach his ceiling. Very excited about that. At the end of the day, it's still not the Celtics, though. And as much as I am a Tigers fan now and a Red Wings fan and a Lions fan, it's hard for me to be any kind of a real fan of any basketball team outside of the Celtics. So I've been watching some Pistons games and I've been enjoying it, but my heart is still in Boston when it comes to basketball. And that's your sports update.

I don't really know a whole hell of a lot. about the NBA this season because I am taking a step back in my consumption of the media around it and I'm not, I usually on nights when I don't have anything going on and the Celtics aren't playing, I will just browse League Pass

and just watch whatever games I can find on League Pass. I do that anyway. But now instead of doing that, I'm watching a lot more hockey games and so I just feel like I don't have as good of a handle on the NBA this year. But who knows, maybe I'll get sucked in at some point. I owe you

guys, a song of the episode. I realize we are 30, well, it's going to cut down a lot, but we're about 40 minutes into this thing before I edit it. So I should probably give you guys some music and get the fuck out of here. Song of the episode is going to be oh, okay.

It's going to be Modest Mouse sleepwalking. Modest Mouse is one of my favorite bands of all time, and I know more about their catalog than most bands that I like. I have loved them the entirety of their run as a band.

Sleepwalkin is a kind of a unique song though. It's kind of got a, well, just listen to it. It's a little different from their usual music, but it is melodic and it is dreamy and sing-songy, and it feels like you're sleepwalking when you're listening to it. So mission accomplished on that front, I guess. Thank you for listening to another episode of So All Right. Oh, also, I don't know if I've talked about it here,

but watch The Chair Company. If you're not watching the Tim Robinson show, The Chair Company on HBO, you really, really should check it out. I think there's six episodes in now, and it is, it's a fever dream that show. If you liked, I think you should leave, imagine a, and I think you should leave sketch drawn out over eight 30-minute episodes of a television series, and that's what you've got. If that sounds at all entertaining to you, you should run to the TV to watch the chair company. That's it for today. I'll see you next week.

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