So... Alright - Moving In

Episode Date: May 20, 2025

Geoff recounts the very secretive events of the last few months related to renting and moving into an office. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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especially a star superstar to lose a year in their prime to such a devastating injury and then of course it hurts even worse when that superstar is on your team and he's amongst your favorite players of all time so just kind of sitting refreshing the Celtic subreddit all day waiting to find out how bad the injury is seasons pretty much over at this point you never want to throw in the towel, but the demoralizing effect of losing our best player to a serious fucking injury potentially is, you know. Don't write us out.

Obviously we have enough talent to beat the Knicks, although we haven't seemed to be able to do it fully healthy. However, you never know the kind of things that spur a team on and motivate them. So I shouldn't give up on the playoffs just yet, but mostly I just am worried about Jason Tatum and, you know, what this means for his immediate future. Other crazy fucking thing that happened in sports last night. If you're not familiar with what that is, I can explain it very quickly.

Every year at the end of the season, there is a draft where we draft college and international players into the NFL into the NBA into Major League Baseball into hockey, I assume soccer all the major sports have a draft and The draft order is determined I Guess in the most stripped down Way to explain it the worst teams have the it, the worst teams have the best odds. The best teams have the worst odds. It's created to balance the league, right? If your team fucking sucks every year, then they get Victor Wimbenyama, then they get Cooper Flagg, then they get access to these great young players that they can hopefully build up and turn into stars

and build a team around, right? It's supposed to balance the league and create parity. However, it is chance. This is like the digital version of somebody pulling bingo balls. And so the draft lottery was last night where they determined the order of the top 14 teams, which is called the lottery. And this is an especially important draft because there's a player named Cooper Flagg in it

who is very, very, very touted. I'll say not as much as Wimby. He's not projected to be as big of a star as Wimby. Nobody is, but he's projected to be a generational star, the next big star to enter into the NBA. If it weren't for Wimby just entering in the league, everybody would be talking about Cooper flag in similar fashion. Not that he, I think, weren't for Wimby just entering in the league, everybody would be talking about Cooper Flag in similar fashion. Not that he I think will compare with Wimby. I think Wimby is in a league of his own, but Cooper Flag is going to be. Cooper Flag has a ceiling that projects that he could be a future generational superstar and everybody wants a chance at Cooper Flag, right? Some fucking how the Dallas Mavericks just keep tripping over their own dicks into success.

Last night they had a 1.8% chance of getting first pick in the draft. 1.8% chance to be the first pick in the draft. And they fucking pulled it. So somehow after losing Luka Doncic, getting Anthony Davis, losing Kyrie Irving for a year to injury, Anthony Davis going down twice to injury in the short tenure he's been on your team, getting bounced from out of the playoffs

after making it to the finals last year, somehow Nico Harrison and this fucking team ended up getting first pick in the draft, which means they're going to draft Cooper Flag and they're going to have their next Luka Doncic. I've never subscribed to the scripted theory of sports that the league scripts these narratives in some loose fashion, but goddamn, man, really? Really? He didn't go to the Wizards, he didn't go to the Bulls,

he didn't go to the Hornets. He didn't even go to the San Antonio Spurs who got second pick. He went to the Dallas Mavericks after the biggest trade flop in the history of the NBA. They have the next generational talent just fall into their fucking laps after having a 1.8% chance of it happening.

Sports is fucking wild. Okay, prayers for Jason Tatum. But moving on. Was excited to do today's episode because I have been living with a secret for the last two months or so in that over on the main gig side. You know, this is my side podcast I do, but the main podcast, the regulation podcast, which is the company that we all work for now, has been in the market for an office all year. We got one in January. It fell through at the last minute. We were heartbroken and dismayed and had to go back to the drawing board.

We're also not the kind of guys who like to over communicate stuff until it happens. And so we we wanted to make sure that we were in the building and paying for electric and rent before we announce it to the world that we actually have an office. But two months ago, we finally found one and we rented it. And we have spent the last month or so going every day before or after recordings and building IKEA desks and running cables and figuring out layouts and room structures and how and where to grow into the space. And it has been exhilarating and amazing, and I'm gonna talk about it with you today, but what it's also been is very fucking difficult

to navigate three consecutive podcasts where I can't talk about it, in addition to live streaming three times a week and doing all the other supplemental and gameplay videos. Not mentioning the biggest thing that's going on in our lives in the background has been really, really challenging. Especially for me because the older I get,

the looser my lips get. The less I'm paying attention to what I'm saying when I go call it like a mental decline or just a relaxing of the tongue or whatever. But I'm I'm not great at keeping secrets at all. So it has been especially challenging for me, especially when I'm on like a two hour stream, just playing a video game in the background and people are asking me a billion questions and the office comes up. Or you'd be like, what do you what do you do today, Jeff? And I'm like, oh, I was just over build.

I was just over I was just over getting some supplies for the backyard. Yeah, that's what I was doing. You just make up dumb excuses, you know, sort of like Norm McDonald and dirty work. She's like, where are you going? You know, like, I'm going to go to the gym and work out. What? Like, why did I say that? A lot of those moments for me over the last 45 days or so. And so we announced on Sunday, May 11th, it was the one year anniversary of the regulation

company. We had a big live stream. We played a 30 turn Mario Party and we did it all from our office. And then we showed the office off. We announced it, we gave a tour and it was so much fun and so exhilarating and so exciting to share this secret that we've been building in the background and holding on to and trying not to spoil for so long. It was such an awesome experience to get to share it with the world and say thank you.

We now have a place that we can call home in the physical world where we can go to record that isn't my rental house, you know, that's got space, that's designed where we can have permanent sets and we can put lighting down and not have to set up and tear down every time we want to film anything and worry about trying to cram stuff into spaces that aren't designed for it and all the myriad of reasons why it's exciting to us. But mostly for me, it was just a relief that I didn't have to talk around it anymore because it has been excruciating.

It's also been a really wild and unexpectedly sentimental couple of weeks for me, I guess I should expect that there are so many parallels to what I'm doing today compared to what I did a couple of different times at Rooster Teeth with the previous generation of friends that I worked with. I did an episode not too long ago, right? I took a literal walk down memory lane and kind of talked about how I could see almost the ghosts of previous versions of myself living and moving and interacting on this street that I used to hang out at a lot. And I kind of experienced that in even greater detail over the last couple months as I've been in an office putting together IKEA tables.

The same fucking IKEA tables I put together with Gus and Bernie and Matt so many years ago, you know, it's it's it's wild. And I'll talk about that a little bit later. But in addition to that, that that alone, I think is enough to create some nostalgia and sentimentality for me. But also having the one year anniversary and being able to look back on what we've created over the last year, what we were able to accomplish from the ashes of the previous company in itself is a moment for reflection.

But also kind of quite by accident, I did this repo, repos of video game multiplayer video game on Steam that's popular. I did this stream with a bunch of ex coworkers, Gavin and I, and then Jeremy Ray Alfredo, I apologize if you don't know who these people are, Matt, and then their friend Chibi. It was kind of a reunion of the old gaming group I founded, Achievement Hunter, and that just kind of fell on my lap.

Jeremy asked me a couple days before, and I said, yeah, sure, what the hell, I'll do it, I like that game. And then I was immediately transported back to 2012. That was wild and crazy. 2015, 2017, because it was people from different eras. And so that created a tremendous amount of nostalgia and took me on a path down memory lane.

But also a video came out at the same time, which is Gavin and I revisiting an old map we created in Minecraft 13 years ago now that was very popular that we made hundreds of videos and we built games within games. And it became synonymous with the identity of our achievement hunter and what we did. We sold posters and t-shirts

and let people tour it at conventions. And it was in much the same way Cannery Row is, if you've ever read the book Cannery Row, it was kind of its own character. And eventually it got lost and corrupted and we moved away from it creatively anyway because we can only do something for so long before you completely and totally ring out all the ideas.

And so we and the company and the next generation of those gamers, they all moved on in different directions. But a few months ago, I found access to a pretty in the game version of that map, not the final version, but one, three or four months before they stopped playing on it, I think. And was able to get into it and I thought,

oh, it'd be fun for Gavin and I to do a little tour where we walk around and try to remember all the stuff that we made and kind of have a literal walk down memory lane in Minecraft in this old world that we created. And so we film that in February or March, I think it was a long time ago. So long ago, I forgot about it, but it came out on the anniversary of regulation. We thought that that would be a nice video to throw up as a surprise. And so I had this like crazy effect over the weekend of being two days past playing video games with all the guys I played video games with for a career, all people that I hired. Right.

And worked with for a decade for the first time in like maybe five or six years. All got together with him and played video games. Then this video tour of the ghost of this world that Gavin and I created a million years ago and made hundreds of hours of content and releases. And it's our one year anniversary. And we are currently building out an office

in the exact same way I built out an office in Buda and the exact same way I built out an office in downtown Austin and the exact same way I built out an office at Ralph Aldo NATO and the exact same way, actually not exact same way I built out an office in downtown Austin, and the exact same way I built out an office at Ralph Aldo NATO, and the exact same way, actually not the same way we built out an office at the Austin Film Studios. At that point, it was done very differently.

But the point being, doing something that I had done passionately and intensely three or four times in the past and had been, you know, major milestone moment in my life. Craving an escape? Bring the vibrant flavors of Mexican street eat energy to life in your kitchen with Tia Rosa Tortillas. Born in Mexico, Tia Rosa knows how to turn your next taco night

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Or that luggage? Or that trench? Those jeans those jeans that jacket those heels is? Anyone paying full price for anything stop wondering start winning winners find fabulous for less Wow a lot of a lot of introspection over the last couple days been overwhelmed with the emotion of the anniversary and the success and overwhelmed with the emotion of the anniversary and the success and overwhelmed with the support from you all and being able to look at it in our office. We rented a house. We call it an office, but it's just a house. It's much more akin to who we are.

You know, mostly what we need is a kitchen with an island that we can film all our dumb kitchen shit with. But I wanted to have a break set to continue this break show that I do. And we wanted to have a co-op area where we can kind of sit on the couch and play co-op games and then we wanted to have a multiplayer section. Basically, we created Achievement Hunter in this house and I don't even remember where I was going with what I was just saying, but let me tell you, it has been cool. It has been fun to do this again. You don't think at 49 or 50 years old you're gonna start over again that in itself is kind of a scary

terrifying Feeling also exhilarating. I remember I used to say all the time And people would ask why I didn't leave roosterteeth earlier and why I didn't just take one of my productions and go off and start over again independently And I would I was very honestly and very truthfully, I would tell people, I don't want to compete against myself. I don't want to compete against the thing that I already created. And at that point Rooster Teeth was a juggernaut and I didn't feel like I could create against

a juggernaut. I know what it took to make the first one and I know how many talented and hardworking and passionate people were involved and how hard it is to catch lightning in a bottle once let alone two or three or however many times and so it seemed like an impossibility and a thing that I wouldn't want to do and a thing that in some ways would be disrespectful to Rooster Teeth in itself because I also created that and I don't know it fucked with me for a long time. I was really torn on it. But Rooster Teeth saw fit to end and not be competition, which is wild. And I realized anyway, it wouldn't have mattered.

It is so much fun to do this again, to be fortunate enough to be able to do this again, even though I'm older and I don't have the energy and the enthusiasm that I did. When you're in your 20s, you can just run full speed at a sprint on enthusiasm and drive and passion and excitement for incredibly long periods of time. You cannot do that when you're a half a century old.

I consider myself a pretty young dude for my age, but even then, it's a we all saw what happened when Mike Tyson tried to fight Jake Paul, right? It wasn't pretty. So honestly, I've been a little scared about it too. Like, do I have it in me to do this again? Luckily, it's not just me, obviously, I'm only 20% of this thing. And the other 80% are younger and full of enthusiasm and excitement and energy. And so they I'm learning to lean on others. I'm learning to take steps back. It's fun. It's interesting. It's a bit of a life change for me. But I couldn't have picked a better group of people to do this with again. And I know it's unfair to compare the different generations.

It is in every way apples and oranges. And I don't want to taint the friendships or the memories or the accomplishments of which there were many from the previous iterations of this. But I genuinely can't remember having this much fun in my life. Maybe it's just that I'm old enough now or long enough in the tooth to have the perspective

to appreciate it in the moment, which is such a hard thing to do when you're young, but it has been an unbelievable amount of sheer and pure joy to get to do this. And I cannot tell you how fuck, how I went from being scared that I can't, that I don't have it in me to do it again, to just overwhelmed by how lucky I feel

that I got to do it again. And then I'm getting to do it again, but I'm doing it clear-eyed, understanding what I have and where we're headed and where I've been. And it is, when I say youth is wasted on the young, right? understanding what I have and where we're headed and where I've been. And it is, they say youth is wasted on the young, right? It is. I feel like I'm getting to relive a bit of my youth through the lens of

a much older seasoned person now. And it is, man, it's going so much better than I was afraid it would go. And I. Ah, I'm just happy to be able to talk about it. Finally, you know, this has been kind of an emotional roller coaster for me the last few months and the whole time it's going on, I'm talking about escalators and we know Nevada in the background, you know, it's just been, it's just been a weird thing to try to keep in. And I'm just so glad that I don't have to anymore.

It's also been such a, oh my God, actually, take a sidestep here for a second. Talk about the difference between driving up and down I-35 in 2006 in Bernie's truck with Matt and Gus as we go from Target to Office Max to Ikea, picking up stuff and taking it back to the Buda or the downtown office and putting it together and the excitement, needing to get it done by a deadline because we had stuff to film and we were still making content in the background. And then fast forwarding to 2025 and driving up and down I-35 with Eric and Nick and Gavid and going to Target and Costco and these places and buying shit and then taking it back to

our house and putting it together and needing to meet a deadline because we had the stream coming up and still having to film the podcast and supplementals and good morning Gustavo and so on and everything else around at the same time. And it is like it is the exact same fucking thing. It's like looking at two identical blueprints of the same house. It is wild. It is wild. And the craziest thing about it, so much more cardboard than I remember the first time.

There must've been this much cardboard the first time. There had to have been, but I'll be damned if I know what we did with it. I don't have any memory of it, but we have a room at the regulation house that is just cardboard. I went through on a Thursday last week with a box cutter, and I just broke down every box I could

and just layered them on top of each other. It's like four to five feet high. There's like two or three piles of cardboard that are four to five feet high, and we're not done yet. We still don't have our computers, for Christ's sake. There's way more cardboard inbound, and I just, I'm sure I have rose tinted cardboard glasses but I just don't remember there being this much packaging

15 years ago or 20 years ago the last time I did this. God damn. Anyway, the cat is out of the bag. We have had our one year anniversary of the regulation company. We've shown our office to the world. We're still building it out. It was a huge hurdle to get it done in time for the stream.

Clearly we've got a long way to go. We don't even have operating computers in there yet. We couldn't do a multi-computer let's play in there if our lives depended on it. There's a million things we are going to be doing in there though that I'm very excited about. We're going to do some supplemental filming in there later this week. I think it'll be the first supplemental stuff we filmed in there. I think that that's where this place is really going to shine.

We can play video games from home if we need or want to. We can all stream from home. We are definitely going to continue doing the podcast from home. But this newer additional stuff that we're going to be doing in the office is what we're working towards right now. Right. So it's not the end of the world if we don gonna be doing in the the offices is What we're working towards right now, right? So it's not the end of the world if we don't have computers in there because we can still film all of our kitchen Supplemental stuff all of our contests all whatever dumb live-action shit we come up with soon Hopefully I'll have the break show off the ground people I gotta say out of all the stuff I've made over 23 years now

The break show has got to be among the most I gotta say, out of all the stuff I've made over 23 years now, the Break Show has got to be among the most discussed with me by audience and requested. Apparently, there are more people that enjoy that show than I remember, because the numbers were always fine, but the comments and the requests for it are far outweigh any other thing we do. Even more than Does It Do, for instance, which I think was one of the best things we've ever done which we're also never gonna do again by the way So just know that but yeah, so I hopefully I'll have the break show off the ground soon We'll have a bunch of stuff going in there I'm just happy that I don't have to worry about putting my foot in my mouth on stream anymore or letting something slip through this podcast because I was relatively

certain I was going to fuck this up. And now I don't have to worry about it anymore. I just got to say I'm so excited for the future too. Like so many so many things have already happened that make me so jazzed about where we're going. For instance, one week ago today, the Andrew robot didn't exist. Wasn't even a thought in anyone's mind. And then my wife sees a TikTok and she says, it would be funny if Andrew had a little robot

that he could drive around the office that you could interact with. And one week later, it exists. It's already a huge hit. We're already in love with it. We've already got stuff planned, shows planned around it. And that's why I'm excited about having this office and the future of regulation,

because we're not even fully in the building yet, and the ideas are jumping off the shelves that we were just so fucking excited about. And I'm gonna stop bugging you guys. I'm gonna give you a song of the episode and we can get out of here. What's that song gonna be though? So the song of the episode is going to be Jimmy Carter

and Dallas Country Green with the song Do's. That is D U E S. It's a Texas country song. Hopefully you enjoy it. And I will see you next week. All right. This is the end of the show. What?