So... Alright - Goodbye

Episode Date: February 17, 2026

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So, I apologize in advance I apologize in advance if today's so all right catches you off guard. But I figure it's better to pull the Band-Aid off and get right to it than, I don't know, talk around it for the next 20 or 30 minutes and then leave you guys with a decision at that. the end. So, I'm going to end this podcast. I have decided that this will be the final episode of So All Right. Like I said, don't want to tease this out over the course of this episode. Want to get right to it. You deserve it. And now let's talk about why. Actually, actually, before we talk about why I did it. The podcast, I mean, not why I ended it. Why I made it in the first place. We're 120-something episodes in, I believe, which means it feels like I've been doing this podcast for

four or five years. Not in a good way or a bad way. It just does. But I guess it's been about two and a half years. So that would mean I must have started it, you know, six months or so before rooster teeth ended. It's kind of hard to remember it all jumbles together in my mind at this point. But at least the timeline portion of it does. The reason I created so all right in the first place is because I was in a place in my life where I needed some kind of outlet that was not related to me being a clown. I don't know why I said it that way. It sounds like I have a lot of disdain for it. I don't mean it that way. but, you know, my job for the last quarter of century has been to make people laugh, to be some form of online comedian, entertaining humorously in some way.

I've been incredibly fortunate to be able to say that that is what I do for a living and for that to be true. However, I long, especially at Achievement Hunter, I talked about getting to a point in my life when I didn't want to look up, and be the 40-year-old guy doing a keg stand at a party surrounded by 20-year-olds, you know. And I could sense that day coming, metaphorically, physically, mentally, emotionally, quite literally, in some cases, part of a very, very, very small part of why I quit alcohol. A very, very small part that went into the stew of my alcoholism was this fear of oversteen overstaying my welcome, not getting the hint, you know, not being the lame old guy surrounded by young people, still trying to connect and fit in, still trying to get drunk.

Now, I felt like a real danger, and I was very scared of that. I talked about that in the past, maybe in this podcast or definitely in previous ones, part of why I left Achievement Hunter when I did and took on more responsibility in the company was to try to carve out some segment of my life that didn't involve me having to lean on, well, I guess I can explain it best this way. For me, comedy has, as long as I can remember it, been my main self-defense mechanism. Oh, Jesus. Honestly, it's probably the only tool I have in my belt, if I'm being completely and totally transparent with you.

And so it's a tool that I've used my entire life. Hard to cry when you're laughing, you know, and I got very good at making myself laugh and eventually others, thankfully. and so I needed, I was at a point in my life or I was in my 40s, you know, I had gone through a lot of changes in my life over the last few years and I just felt like I was stagnating in a lot of ways. And this is during fuckface. And I would like to point out that I'm not saying these things about fuckface. Fuckface since day one has been, if anything, and now it's regulation, obviously. But fuckface was therapy for me.

We all talked about that. In a very real sense, we were all going through a lot of difficult stuff in our lives. And the hour that we got to spend together every week doing that fuckface podcast, while it was funny, and it was comedy and it was camaraderie and it was friendship. It was also quite literally therapy for some of us and myself included. And so all of this kind of exists outside of that. Like fuckface was this bubble, this perfect bubble that I got to participate in that I didn't want everything else going around in my life, my issues to damage or effect in any way. And so I kept it very special. You know, we created this universe and we treated it with kid gloves. And thank God it has grown into regulation and where we are now. And it's such a wonderful and healthy place to be. And I couldn't be proud or more excited or more happier. more happier, did I just say that? More happy than I am right now with regulation.

And that's, you know, as we get into it, part of why, part of why I'm ending this podcast. But I needed something else. I needed to not have to lean on the only tool in my belt to try to be entertaining, to have some sort of an outlet. I was in a situation where, you know, I had a lot of freedom with Fuckface back then. I had a lot of, I had, I actually had more productions

that I was a part of back then than I do now. And I had more outlets back then. But none of them allowed me a space to just try to be me, I guess. Not the guy trying to make other people or himself laugh or trying to perform in that way. Just a place to feel like me. And I wanted to see if that guy was interesting enough to warrant an audience. I really genuinely didn't know and so all right taught me that it was, that there was enough

to me outside of the goofy dumb shit I did in and for rooster teeth content, that there was enough substance to me as a human being that I could talk to people about things that were honest or personal or interesting but not funny or sad or frustrating. and I could have very real, naked, honest conversations with you in a way that I very rarely was able to in the past, usually only during some sort of a tragedy and addressed through the off-topic podcast or some other outlet. But with So All Right, I got to come every week to you as just the guy I felt like on the inside. The 40-something-year-old guy who was interested in so much more in the world

than was able to express through the content outlets that he had that I had. Why would I talk about myself and the third person like that? That I had. And I was scared to do it. It was a challenge. I wasn't sure that I would be able to come up with things to talk about each week. I was really happy to find out that I was that there was enough rattling around, enough natural curiosity, left in me that I, there was always something that I wanted to dig into.

And so all right gave me an excuse, but more importantly, a reason to do it. And I really enjoyed having that reason and that outlet and that opportunity and the fact that you supported it in real numbers. You know, honestly, in the 29 or so months that we've been doing this podcast, I think, we've pulled in millions of views, multiple millions of views. I will tell you that that doesn't translate into revenue. We can talk about that down the road. But it's a number that makes me feel seen and appreciated and validated and lucky and humbled.

Because I am a person who is at his best in an ensemble. I love the ensemble. I enjoy streaming, don't get me wrong, but that is not what I aspire to do. Saul right was not what I aspired to do. Regulation is what I aspire to do. Rooster Teeth, Achieve Mahunter, let's play. Good morning, Gustavo.

Those are things that I aspired to do. I subscribe to the idea that with the right chemistry and if you put the right pieces together, you can create something that's so much greater than the sum of its parts. and I will always feel that way. It's why I respect when people like Ray leave rooster teeth

to go off and strike out on their own and do their own thing. I think that's awesome. It's never something that I would be able or want to do because I just genuinely want to perform with other people. That's why So All Right was such a breath of fresh air for me at a time in my life when I really needed it because the only way I could think of

to talk about some of these things was to create other podcasts with other people. And you just, it's hard. It's hard to find, it's hard to assemble those parts. It's hard to make those things make sense. And stumbling into so all right allowed me to scratch an itch and to test my metal in some ways and to test my usefulness with you.

And like I said, it was humbling and rewarding in equal measure. and the fact that any time I load up the Eric at Jeff's boss email address, I am inundated with insightful and interesting and beautiful and wonderful and hilarious emails from you that I can't even begin to keep up with is honestly, it's a wonderful and amazing feeling. And I'm so happy to be in this place where we have, I feel like built a conversation. I know it's me talking at you, but a lot of it is me. responding to you in email forum, there are those episodes, and even if it's not an email episode,

it comes up. And I really do feel like these things are conversations that are going on between us in some ways. The last week's episode, two weeks ago episode, I did the animal-fronted heavy metal bands. And I only did that because it was a recommendation from one of you. I wouldn't have made that content if you hadn't piqued my interest. And so I've loved the give and take of this podcast. And I am going to be really bummed to lose that part of it. But the reality of where I am in 2026 is that this labor of love that this podcast is, and I call it a labor of love because it doesn't really make any money. I'm not trying actively to make it make money, which may seem stupid or obtuse or wrong to you, but it doesn't get enough views to warrant direct ad reads, right? There's nobody going to sell

against these numbers. You'd be surprised. And even if they did, the numbers, that the money that I would make off of that would be, it's not insignificant, but it wouldn't be enough to justify the kind of labor that's going on here. Believe me, regulation is a podcast that does infinitely better than Saul right, and we do good numbers in the industry. Like regulation is an entity that matters in the podcasting industry for our size and the amount of traffic that we drive.

But even that, if we had to rely on ad reads and ad sales from dynamically inserted ads and direct ad reads, we'd be out of business in a month. Like, there's just not enough money in ads. And so the only way for me to make this into a money-making venture, which would allow me to, I don't know, hire an editor or pay Nick for all the free work he does on it or anything else.

It would require me to probably do some sort of a Patreon model. And I was not interested in that, and I am still not interested in that. And you may be okay with that. And you may be like, But Jeff, I'd give you five bucks a month or whatever. The reality is, I don't have the juice in me to make the additional content that would justify creating the Patreon. Nobody's going to create a Patreon and then not offer some sort of incentive.

I would need to create more content to make that value proposition worthwhile to you. And I don't have it in me, honestly, to make the podcast in its current form right now. I don't know how I would increase. money is not going to help me increase my ability to do the work of a load. And also, I just don't want to ask you for money. I just don't. I'm, you guys pay my bills through regulation. And that means the world to me. And I, that's enough. I'm not going to, and I'm going to start the Jeff Ramsey store and I will be selling the old Jeff merch again. But I'm not, that's there if you want it. I'm not asking you to subscribe to it. If you see a Popsick shirt you always wanted and it was never

available and you didn't want to play the dumb game where you had to log in at noon on a Friday and try to catch it before it went out of sale. I'm trying to make all that stuff available very soon. It's not out yet, but hopefully it will be soon. For you to buy it whenever you want to. This is as I am trying to make money off of you in some way, but I don't want to add or attempt to add another subscription into your or anyone else's life. And it just doesn't feel like the appropriate or proper or right thing to do. And not that this is about money, but it is about effort and time

and it is about slowing down a little bit, I think, in terms of my production carousel. I know I talked a little bit last year, late last year, about how I'd finally worked out this perfect work week where I was busy enough or I didn't feel like a piece of shit, but I wasn't overweight.

or overburdened. And that's true. I got to, I was humming there and I still am, but it's only true when two things are happening. A. I am in town and B, I have the interest and the energy and the honest curiosity to go through the process of making an episode. A couple things have happened at once there. One, travel makes this hard. And that's because this podcast comes out every week. I'm very proud to say in 120 whatever episodes, I've never missed a week. And that goes back to me being a journalist in the Army

and working on weekly newspapers and getting used to the never-ending production cycle of entertainment, right? Whether it's a newspaper, whether it's a podcast, whether it's a comedy show, whatever it is. That's how I operate. People have argued with me, audience members have argued with me in the past about it. You guys tell me you don't need to do it every week. Maybe you just do an episode when you feel like it.

Maybe do it every other week. But I can tell you that that, I'm not wired that way. One, and two, that is a recipe for a, not a slow death, not a quick death, but a medium death. When you stop consistently releasing content, people stop looking for it consistently. even if you're into it and you're like, no, I'd be happily have an episode a month. You'll forget because it's inconsistent. And once I miss a week, it gets easier to miss the next week and the next week. And then before you know it, we're six months down the road or a year down the road.

And I've released fewer and fewer episodes on a more and more sporadic schedule. And the audience has disappeared. And I am no longer happy with the product that I am making and the way I'm making it. and you're probably not around to listen to it. And if you are, you're probably not going to be as happy to listen to it either because I have a hard time faking it, you know? And I don't want to be in that position. I am at a point right now where I am proud of the work I do on Saw Right.

I would say out of the 100, let's say out of 125-ish episodes, I probably published 121 of them proud and happy. very few episodes that I didn't feel good about when I released them, that I felt like I phoned it in or didn't give it my all or didn't put enough work or effort into. It's very rarely that I feel that way about this production. And I feel really happy to be in a place where I can end this podcast feeling good about the podcast and the work that I do and the product that I create. But that's not going to continue forever because, going back to the two reasons, I'm running out of juice. I am at a point now where it's getting harder and harder to come up with things

to talk about from week to week. I am busy enough in my day that by the end of the day, I'm too exhausted or just too fed up with whatever I was doing to have a lot of intellectual curiosity to then want to go down a rabbit hole and find interesting facts out about a Navy chair or a military bicycle corps or whatever the fuck it is that I'm interested in. That curiosity that has driven this podcast, it's gone right now. And I'm pretty sure I can get it back and I will get it back, but I need time to do it. I need idle moments in my life where I can allow my mind,

to wander on its own, you know? I want to reclaim. 2026, I wanted two things. I wanted to get physically in shape. I'm at a point in my life where the work I put into my body now will pay dividends down the road in terms of longevity of quality of life. And I'm taking that seriously, you know? I'm very invested in being mobile and feeling young for as long as I humanly can physically, but also every bit of age that I feel in a physical way, I feel mentally and emotionally as well. And I need to figure out how to nurture that side in 2026 as well. I want to get back into reading. I've been trying to watch movies and stuff and do reviews on Saw Right here and there. But it's not the same. I think

I need to just re-engage with my curiosity, and I don't quite know how to do that, but I need to figure it out, you know? And that's not to say I'm dried up or out of ideas or anything. None of this affects regulation in that sense. Like I said, I draw a pretty clear line between the comedic work I do over there and the work I do in So All right, and they're different sides of my brain for the most part. But also, something that I do run into from time to time is a lot of the stuff I talk about in so all right could be subject matter in regulation. And sometimes it is. The hot dog thing started in so all right, really, and then exploded into a year of content over in regulation. There are times I probably could have done something with the

animal fronted bands, the most recent thing that I can think of. There are a lot of times when I have to make a decision because I can see a blurry line and I can see it going in either way. And I don't want to ever push anything away from regulation towards anything else. I tried not to do it. I've done it a few times. I told a story one time recently, a couple months ago. In So All Right about just a day of tripping over my own dick that ended up in me wearing my wife's sunglasses are on town like an idiot. And then it felt so funny after I told it and So All Right. And people responded so strongly to it. I wanted to tell it in regulation again. And then people were upset. They were like, we already heard this in So All right. Why are you telling it again in regulation? And I want to avoid that in general.

And I want to give, like I'll be honest with you, as much as I love so all right, regulation is the most important thing in the world to me. That is not a person. And I want to do the best I can for that production at all times. And I'm not insinuating in any way that I haven't been. But I can see how it would become or could become a problem. And I can see moments in my life where I have to make decisions. And I would just rather not have to make that decision.

decision. I would rather just know it's for regulation because that's what matters. Especially at a place in my life when I just, you know, ideas and curiosity are at a premium for me right now. And so I got to put that energy in that effort where it matters the most. And, you know, I'm bummed about it, but I'm also not bummed about it. Two Thursdays ago, I don't know what day that was, someday in January, I woke up. and the first thing I thought was, so all right, it's over. I didn't even think it.

It's, you ever have that thing where, I don't want to get, I don't want to get like Eckhart Tolly about it or Khalil Gabron or anything, but you've ever had that thing where something inside of you that doesn't feel like you, call it your subconscious, or your spirit,

or your essence, or your sense, or your soul or your ego or however you want to describe it, it's a force that makes decisions and informs you. And I'm sure you've all felt it at different times in your life. I have talked about how I felt it a bunch in my life. Two things that come to mind that I've mentioned many times, but they come to mind immediately when I was 19 years old in the Army, I was playing pool in the common area of the barracks that I lived at at Fort Hood at the time,

Fort Cavazas now. and I was racking up the pool balls and I just froze for a second. It was like my body rebooted and I just couldn't stop looking at the top of the triangle, the top three balls in the triangle when I was rackin. My friend was like, what's your problem? And I was just like frozen for a second.

Like I was on pause. And then as soon as the pause lifted, I looked at him and I said, I know how to juggle now. And he's like, what are you talking about? And I was like, I've, I just learned how to juggle. My brain just told me I know how to juggle. And I've never juggled in my life. I'd never tried to juggle in my life. That wasn't a interest I'd ever had. I never wanted to be a busker. I wasn't a devil-stick hacky-sack kind of kid. Juggling offered no appeal to me. But I picked up those three pool balls and I knew how to

juggle in a rudimentary, not super professional way, and I'm not much better than I was that day, but I always just attributed it to my subconscious working it out in the background. I don't know why it would have done that, but something in my body, in the back of my head, flipped a switch, rebooted something, and then suddenly I instantly knew how to juggle. When I was 32 years old, I went to the movies. One of my friends, probably Gus, I can't remember specifically, got nachos with queso and jalapenos. I spent my entire life hating hot food, spicy food. My grandfather was super in to spicy food. He had a pepper garden that he tended the entirety of the time I knew him. He would carry with him, this sounds ridiculous, but it's 100%

true. He had this little, he had this little Tupperware container, and he would cut up four or five different kinds of peppers and put him in his Tupperware container. And then anytime we'd go to a restaurant, he would pull out his Tupperware and then he'd peel off a seven-year pepper or a hollow or a scotch bonnet or whatever it was he was eating at the time and put it into his food because he could never get food spicy enough. And the man traveled with peppers in his pocket, I think my entire life. I was the opposite of that. Couldn't stay in spicy food. Like I said, at the movie theater, somebody gets nachos. I'm 32 years old. We're walking into the theater. And I just am looking at a jalapeno, stick it out of one of the chips. And I just, I think, can I have that?

and I just put it in my mouth and I knew I was gonna love it and I loved it. I put it in my... I'm sure I'd had a jalapeno before but I wasn't super familiar with the flavor and I didn't like it by any stretch. But that moment I knew that I was gonna like that pepper and then I was gonna like spicy food

from that moment on inhaled that pepper and from that second on in my life I've been on a journey to eat spicy food. Not like in a going to spicy festivals and doing deep research on the hottest hot sauces in the world or anything kind of way. But anytime I'm offered the ability to test how hot I like something, you know, if you're going to give me a ghost pepper hamburger or

something, I'm going to eat it. I'm going to try. I've had, you know, I've had a boochelokia. I've never gone higher than that, but I will never turn down spicy food now. And it's been 18 years since that moment. I didn't make that decision consciously. It was something that happened in my body. There are many more examples of these things in my life. Those are just the two that come to mind and that I've talked about in the past. That essentially happened to me two Thursdays ago when I woke up. I woke up and I knew it to be true instantly that so all right was over. And I thought, wow, felt like, I don't know how to describe it, but it felt like an immutable fact. And so I sat down and, well, actually, I went to make regular.

made the podcast, made a bunch of let's plays. And then I spent the rest of the day just kind of working through that pragmatically and looking at the nuts and bolts of it and looking at the numbers and looking at the effort and the schedule and all of those things. And I just realized I never told you part two.

Sorry, one of the things that I was going to do, I sat down and I was going to write an outline for this. And then I thought, I just, I kind of just want to speak from the heart. And that feels more honest. And because of that, I'm going to take a lot of off-ramps and I'm going to forget where I'm going and I'm going to jump around and back and forth and turn this into a whole spaghetti mess. But earlier I said there were two reasons why I was stopping and I told you one. It was just like the creativity sapping up and the curiosity sapping up. The other issue is travel. I kind of alluded to it. I was getting, I was getting to it and then I got distracted. But I looked it up. I took 18 trips last year. Now, that's a far cry from the 45 weeks a year I was traveling back at Rooster Teeth, but 18 trips and 52 weeks is a lot.

Now, a few of those are vacations, but a lot of them are to visit my daughter or to visit family and done some work trips. And the reality is every time I have to take one of those trips, I have to account for it with the podcast. I have to record up in advance. And that's where the schedule that I had worked. out only works when I'm in town. And when I have to travel, and sometimes I have to travel quickly or at the drop of a hat, it creates a chaos that is immediately difficult to deal with

trying to get ahead. And I'm real good at it. Not to brag, but I've been doing this for 25 years. I'm real good at it. I'm tired of doing that. I'm tired of being good at it. I can handle regulation. But I don't think I'm going to travel any less in 2026. And having to pre-record and get ahead sometimes three or four weeks it just gets harder and harder

and when you're already having trouble engaging your own curiosity in the first place I just, I don't want to get to a point where I'm cranking out stuff that I'm not happy with,

you know? Okay, back to where we... Back to what we were talking about. So for the next three or four, four days after I had that, I guess, revelation, I went through very, like I said, dispassionately and I'm very good at, for better or worse, I'm very good at compartmentalizing these things. And so I took it from a dispassionate, what does it look like to stop doing this podcast? And everything made sense.

then I did the thing that I try to always do when making an important decision like this. I think it's critical to approach problems this way. I took the opposite point and then I spent the next two days arguing against everything I knew to be true about why I wanted to stop this podcast. And I convinced myself, I did everything in my power, rather, to convince myself not. to quit. And at the end of that two days, the reality is the mental hurdles I had to jump through to get to a place where it made sense to keep going for three months, for six months, for another year. I tried it a couple of different ways. I tried to sporadic releases. I tried every other week. I tried just fucking getting over myself and barreling forward in the way I used to

when I was younger and saying, quit whining and just get back to work. You know, I tried that. I tried it up working out a Patreon model that would allow me to hire some help. But the help doesn't really, it doesn't help the hard parts. The hard parts are the idea generation.

The hard part is sitting down in front of a microphone and figuring out how to convey a message to you guys in a way that I think makes sense and is interesting over the span of 20 or 30 or 40, or 40 minutes, like those things I can't get help on. And every, I was able to get there. Like I said, I was able to get to a point where I could convince myself to continue briefly, but the amount of bullshit I had to convince myself to get to that point, let me know that I was, I was not being intellectually or emotionally honest with myself. And so I knew after those two

days that it really, it really was time. And then I've spent the last week thinking about it, talking about it with my wife and friends. And it's interesting because this is happening in tandem with my wife and, and her podcasting partners going through the process of ending their podcast. The timing is insane. They just announced the end of their podcast a couple days ago. I have known that I was ending my podcast for four or five days longer than I've known they were ending their podcast. And I say that to let you know that I was not influenced by their decision in any way whatsoever. I had already made this decision. And I'd like to also add, I don't think I influenced them in any way whatsoever because I didn't communicate this with Emily

until after she had announced that her podcast was ending and she had had the conversation with me and talked through it with me because I wasn't sure, I wasn't ready to speak it into the world yet. I really needed to go through the process of figuring out on my head first, you know? So while the timing is incredibly,

is incredibly suspect, I assure you, my decision in the podcast had nothing to do with Clutch My Pearl's ending their podcast and to my knowledge, Clutch My Pearl's ending had nothing to do with me, especially considering I had not communicated to Emily or any of them in any way that I was ending my podcast. They had no idea. I've been at peace with this decision for the last week

leading up to recording this, knowing I was going to have to record this, trying to figure out what the hell I would say. I've had a, like I said, a bunch of different versions of this run through my head, thought about writing an outline so I could hit all the important bullet points. but that just felt produced and less honest. I don't know why, but it did. So we're going to do it this way. A rambling off-the-cuff mess. I apologize.

I do worry because I'm not done creating content. I worry that I'll lose access to some of you, and that deeply saddens me. Obviously, I'm not walking away from creating content. If anything, I'm going to use the additional hours in my week, the day and a half or so that I worked on this in my week to focus on regulation more and probably to stream a little bit more too

because that's real low touch work for me. So to that end, if you don't already, and I know there's a decent portion of you that listen to this podcast that do not participate in regulation in any way, but if you've never given it a shot, I would ask, as your friend, maybe give it a try.

If you tried and you thought it wasn't for you a while back, maybe give it another try. You might feel differently about it now. maybe we're making a better product now. Regulation is going to continue indefinitely because it's how I make a living. And I'm very excited with the state of it and where we are as a company and an entertainment entity and the work that we're creating, I think, is as good as anything I've ever done. And so I'm not, you know, I'm not going to slow down there.

I also will continue to stream. I know that that is definitely not for a lot of you, and a bunch of you aren't going to roll out of bed at 8 a.m. To turn on Twitch to see me stream every morning. But I do have archives on YouTube now. So if you look up Jeff Ramsey on YouTube, you can see all the streaming archives, which I'll be honest, some of those days

feel more like a soul-all-right than anything else. A lot of the time it just ends up. me chatting with the audience and answering questions about rooster teeth days or achievement hunter or whatever, you know, it's a pretty fun, direct conversation with the audience. And in a way that I get instant feedback on, you know, and that we can have a more robust conversation than I'm able to have with you here in some ways. And so even if you're not able to catch it live, you might find some value in the YouTube archives. My Twitch handle is fake Jeff. Look up Jeff Ramsey on YouTube. And of course, I am on Jeff L. Ramsey on Instagram. I will be communicating, trying to

communicate there, I guess, now that I don't have this outlet to communicate information to you, this was kind of my primary outlet outside of regulation for letting you guys as an audience know about things, like the new Jeff store that's coming soon, jefframsy.com store. Go ahead and bookmark that. I don't think it's already out by the time this comes out, but it might be. Either way, it'll be out soon. If you were ever interested in any of the old Jeff merch, there's going to be a bunch. I'm going to reconceive some of it.

I found some stuff that we approved that we never actually made or released, so there'll be a few new things, but a lot of it will just be trying to make people's old favorites available again so that they can re-buy them or buy something that they never got a chance to because of how ridiculously limited the supply was when we made that stuff.

And I'm on cameo, obviously, at Jeff L. Ramsey. so you can get me on Twitch, you can get me on YouTube, you can get me on Instagram, you can get me on cameo, and of course, you can still listen to me in this format on the regulation podcast. Release content six days a week right now. Even without so all right, I will still be releasing content six days a week. So please don't take this as the end of Jeff. Don't let it be the end of the conversation that we've been having. I'm going to continue to talk about the things that matter to me in ways that I can in these other productions. I just no longer feel hamstrung in the way I did when I needed to start this podcast and I needed to prove to myself that there was more to me

than being a goofy clown, that there was a substance to me that could engage with people in a real way and that they would be valuable for both of us. And, And I think that I proved that to myself over the last 120 episodes. And I'm immensely proud of that. And the biggest fear I have in this whole deal is just the nebulous loss of a connection to you. And I hope that doesn't happen. I don't want that to happen. Like I said, maybe I said, I don't know if I said it or not, but I'm not closing down

the email address. Eric at jeffsboss.com is the so-all-right email address. It will continue to be open and active. indefinitely, and I will continue to monitor it and try to answer your questions. And if you want to give me suggestions, I will take them happily and maybe they'll make their way into regulation or something else. Maybe stuff we talk about on stream. We do talk a lot about the stuff that I talk about on Saul right on stream. It ends up being discussed in a more conversational manner on stream. So I guess what I'm saying is, while I'm scared to say goodbye to you in this format, I hopefully

am not saying goodbye to you in other formats. And hopefully one of the avenues I mentioned to you is interesting and that you'll want to follow me on or continue to have, like I said, this conversation on. But turning something off is scary because, you know, I'm 50 years old now, going on 51. And Jesus Christ, Catherine O'Hara just died at 71 years old. And I was thinking to myself, that is insanely young. And it is. And it is. and it's a crime that that talented woman died that young. And that feels right around the corner to me. But the reality of it is,

I got another rooster teeth before I turned 71. Roosterteethed teeth lasted 21 years. I got literally another 21 years before I am 71 years old. I could have an entire roosterteeth-esque act in front of me. I have that much time. so turning off a lever is scary because I don't know how many more I'll be turning on but I will say it is comforting to know that I could have you know potentially rooster teeth-esque longevity ahead of me in terms of production and so that that helps

that helps I think we're I think we're getting close to winding this down and it's trade deadline week in the NBA or you guys watch Jesus Christ. I just saw Jaron Jackson Jr. got traded. I just saw Kevin Herder and Dario Sarich are a part of a trade. Things are going nuts and my phone is starting to blow up over there and I, it'd be great stuff to talk about it's all right if I wasn't ending the podcast, right? Also, one of the last things I did was I I teased like a movie club with you guys where I gave you four movies I was going to watch and talk about in future episodes, It's All Right? And I'm, I'm sad to say that I'm not following through with that, obviously.

I did watch the hit. It's the only one of those four movies I've seen so far, and I recommend the hell out of it. Terrance Stamp is awesome in that movie, and I have an episode worth of notes about it. I believe I read somewhere that... I think it was Wes Anderson, was inspired by the film.

They're very different than his kind of content, but I will say from a visual standpoint, the film's color work was amazing. The palettes that they worked with were really striking and the framing was unique. I really like the film. Like I said, I'm not going to dive into the notes,

but I can't recommend the other three because I didn't watch them, but I do recommend the 1984 film to hit. Terrence Stamp is fucking tremendous in it. Everybody in the film is tremendous, but he gives a really amazing, like, devil-may-care attitude performance that flips at the end in a really heartbreaking and humanizing way that I think you've got to watch to see. And I hope you do check it out and enjoy it. I think it's definitely

worth going back and watching. Unique and interesting little film. About a, like a mafia guy who goes states evidence in London, Inners witness protection, hides out in Spain for a decade, and hitmen come to find him. And then it turns into a way, honestly, it turns into a road trip movie pretty quickly and an ominous road trip movie. I'll leave it at that, I guess, but I hope you'll check it out. Let me know what you thought of it.

Send an email to erikajusbos.com. I could probably talk to you for another hour about all the reasons why I'm ending this and try to express some sort of verbal diarrhea that makes it all make sense in an eloquent way. But I think I'm just talking in circles

at this point. It has been a tremendous joy to produce this podcast for and with you. And I cannot thank you enough for the validation you've given me over the last two and a half years. That may sound silly. I've received a tremendous amount of validation of my career through rooster teeth, but the person that performs in rooster teeth content and the guy, the guy who made so are slightly different people. And I never, I never got to show that guy off very often. And, you know, that's who I am most of the time. And so thank you. Thank you for the kindness that you've shown me. Thank you for the support that you've given me from day one. Thank you for not being too angry with me for deciding to end this on a high note. Thank you to Nick Schwartz above all.

for the work that he has done behind the scenes to make this podcast possible. Week in, week out. Every bit of complaining that I've done, he's been working just as hard on his own, but without bitching about it to you. And I really, really love and respect and appreciate him. Obviously, I have a business with him in regulation, but the work that he's done over here has been just as a friend and just because he's a good guy and wants to help out.

and I don't want to take any more of his time in that way anymore. I also want to thank Nick Saldanya specifically for being the inspiration behind the name of this podcast. Really do appreciate that. And I guess I will leave you, I will leave you with one last expression of all of this, I guess, which would be before I recorded this today, I had to do one

one more bout of due diligence. And so I got on my bike this morning after I streamed and I rode not my bike path that I ride now, but I rode the bike path that I took when I created this podcast. This is the route, by the way, that the bike jump is on that I did for Fuckface. This is the route where I slipped in the ice and fell down, the overpass and rubbed all the skin off my hands. And it had been a while since I had done it.

I thought today, maybe I would take it again and try to put myself in the mindset and in the place that I was in when I created this podcast. One last effort to see is there anything there. I decided to not only do the route, but do it backwards so that I'd be, I hope this doesn't sound too goofy, but I was hoping in some sort of an emotional way to catch a glimpse of my ghost going the other direction and try to reconnect with who I was in that moment at that time and see if I could find some sort of, glean some sort of an insight or introspection or bit of lost knowledge or a nugget of wisdom or something that would steer me in the other direction. I was surprised to find nothing.

I didn't feel anything. Not in those ways. And I guess that was the message. I guess that was the insight. I didn't receive it in the way I thought I would, but I guess it would be obtuse not to recognize that that in itself is a message. And so I know that my time with Saw Right is done.

I'd like to tell you that I'll be on again from time to time. You know, oh, I'm not going away forever. I'll have an idea. I'll want to talk about this thing and I'll hop back on and then do an episode here or there. You know, I'm not, you know, check this space because I'll be back occasionally. And I can even say that and honestly mean it and think that that's true. But I also recognize that I've seen a lot of productions end and I've seen that promised many times across many formats and many productions, and I've never seen it followed through with.

Not for more than a couple of months in a token way, and I don't want to perpetuate that stereotype. And so I'm not going to overpromise so that I can not only under-deliver, but not deliver at all in that regard. So will there ever be another upload to this space? It's entirely possible. Who fucking knows? I may find myself in a position in a couple of years where doing so all right, again is the only thing I want to do. I don't know. I would ask that you not unsubscribe from this

RSS feed because it's not going to clog anything up because I'm not going to be putting new stuff out anyway. But if I ever do, you'll be the first to know. I don't think I will though. But goddamn, dude, if I've learned one thing as I've gotten older, it's that I cannot predict who I will be in the future and how I will feel in the future. I am continually surprised. That's what aging is in my estimation. It's an accumulation of scars, I think first and foremost, but second, it is accumulating not only those scars, but lived experience and insight into you and the person you were and realizing how little you knew about yourself or things when you thought you did, realizing how stupid you were in the moment when you thought you were smart, realizing that you

couldn't even conceive of the truth because you didn't have enough lived experience to understand it. And so I've learned enough looking backwards in my life at this age to know that it's foolish to try to look forward and project. Because all I know for so, certain is that when I look back on this day, five or ten years from now, I'll be embarrassed at how stupid I was. Because that's how it goes for me every time. Age is just recognizing how dumb you were and hoping you're not currently. And with that, I think it's time to start wrapping this puppy up. Let's do one last time, Song of the episode. I'd like to say that when I realized I had to do a final song of the episode,

I did a lot of searching and thinking and trying to find the right song to convey some sort of a message or emotion to you, but it didn't happen that way. The day I decided to quit this podcast, the day my subconscious brain told me I was quitting, it also told me that the final song was going to be this song. It was presented to me on a platter.

I hadn't thought about it in years. It was a gift from my subconscious. subconscious brain to my conscious brain. It is a perfect fit. It came out in 1991. I was in 10th grade when I first heard this and fell in love with it. I think this song, hopefully you will understand this. But if you don't, that's cool too. I think this song embodies the essence of this podcast and everything that I was trying to accomplish and convey to you, but it does it in about three and a half minutes,

far more beautifully than I ever could have. I'm very happy to make this the final song of an episode. The song that, honestly, for me, wraps it all up in a little bow. Your final song of So All Right is American Music by the Violent Fibs. Thanks again. Follow me in those places I mentioned earlier.

Don't be a stranger to the email address. It's been such a joy. And I love you. All right.