So... Alright - Thankful

Episode Date: November 26, 2024

Geoff gets sappy and lists the things he's thankful for this holiday season. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Emily and I and the dog are all going to meet in a neutral territory where none of us live. We rented a big house and we're going to have we're going to have some Thanksgiving fun. I assume I'm probably doing that right now. In the real world, but with you, I wanted to do a brief episode today. It is a holiday. I I'll be honest with you. I kind of just wanted to take the week off, but I'm not a take the week off kind of guy. So instead, I thought, what if I have a, you know, a relaxed, easy

Thanksgiving episode where I just list some of the things that I'm truly thankful for? I think we we should all take a moment to reflect on our lives, the people and the things that are important to us in holidays and moments like this that tend to bring us all together and also give us time off to ponder and have a little perspective. I am thankful that this podcast still exists.

I don't know how many people listen to it. I don't know how much money, if any, it's made. It's thrown into the mix with the regulation stuff. It's on my to-do list to figure out if this is even worth doing, but I'm so busy with the regulation stuff and Nick is so busy, I don't wanna overtax him helping me figure all that stuff out.

So it'll be something I'll tackle next year. But I am thankful that every time I put one of these out, which is every Wednesday, Tuesday, every Tuesday, I ask you for advice or to share a story about a moment in your life with me or whatever. I am overwhelmed every time with emails, which tells me somebody out there is listening. And I cannot thank you enough. This is such a. I started this podcast specifically because the place I was in at Rooster Teeth at the

time, I felt like. I thought I was losing a little part of me in in in the mix somewhere. I was producing a lot of stuff that I really enjoyed and loved, including Fuckface and, you know, Anima and everything else, but I don't know. I felt I did it to the detriment of kind of where I wanted to go or be creatively sometimes, and so I created this as sort of a safe space where I could, that safe space sounds dumb.

I just created this as a space where I could come and talk about things that didn't quite fit into the other shows or productions that I was doing. I no longer feel those constraints, which is weird because I probably have less vehicles than I did when I was a part of Rooster Teeth, but I just feel more free in the direction of them. That being said, I'm still thoroughly enjoying doing this podcast,

and so I don't have any immediate plans to stop. Although, you know, there might come a day. There might come a day. I am also thankful. To be living in Austin, I may sound silly, but I was pretty sure I was ready to leave the city earlier this year. For the last couple of years, I've been kind of planning for an exit. Loosely planning towards an exit, I guess I should say.

And when my daughter graduated high school, that was, you know, you know, she's the main reason for everything in my life. Right. And so when she graduated high school and went off to college, there was less of a reason for me to be in Austin or tied to Austin. Rooster Teeth went away. That released that tie to Austin. And so suddenly it was starting to look like maybe,

maybe I could potentially start making steps toward leaving Austin, sold my house, right? Moved into a one-year rental. Give myself the flexibility and the freedom. However, what happened was moving from the part of town that I lived in, which is a lovely part of town that I'd always wanted to live in,

back over to a part of town that I was more familiar with, reignited my love of this fucking city. And I have been falling in love with Austin again, like every day a little bit since I moved. And I think I just needed a change of pace. I just needed a new leaf in a lot of ways. And so for as painful and tumultuous and heartbreaking as a lot of early 2024 was for myself and others,

it has been a period of regrowth and rebirth. And it's been a refresh in a lot of ways, and I feel creatively free. And I still am excited about the idea of moving to Michigan and finding a place in Michigan and maybe splitting my time there eventually, but I no longer feel a rested development being in Austin, if that makes sense.

I'm not in a hurry to leave. I'm not opposed to leaving. I don't know that I'll ever fully leave this city. I had it in my head that maybe I would. I think now it may be more of a some of the year there, some of the year here, or some of the year there, some of the year here, or some of the year here, some of the year somewhere else. But I'm just, I'm thankful that I fell in love

with Austin again a little bit. I'm thankful that I was put on a path that created upheaval in my life and caused me to physically pick, pack up and move because that move was great for me. I think it was great for my family. Speaking of family, I think everybody will say this, but I am thankful for my family.

I'm thankful that my daughter is thriving in college and that she is out living on her own and getting to experience adulthood. I'm thankful that this Sunday will be the one year anniversary of my union with my wife Emily and I cannot tell you how thankful I am to have her in my life. She is in many ways and in more ways than she will ever understand. That woman saved my life. She. She is more to me than I will ever be able to properly express to her. So I am definitely, definitely thankful.

To have her in my life and to get to be a part of hers. I'm thankful that my mom moved. My mom has been living in a house, not my childhood house, but my dad's childhood house, I guess. She's been living in that house since I, right around the time I graduated high school, they moved into it. So I never spent a lot of time there.

I only lived there for maybe a year and a half or so, but she lived there for, I don't know, 30 years probably. And after my dad died, you know, a while back now, she's just been living in that house by herself and she's been fairly happy, but I have hated it, you know? I just, I hated that she was alone. I hated that she had a house to take care of all by herself and I always wanted her to get roommates or,

and from, you know, from time to time she did, but she was mostly just kind of living a solitary life. And like I said, she seemed happy enough about it, but she has recently sold her home and a solitary life. And like I said, she seemed happy enough about it, but she has recently sold her home and moved in with her sister, my aunt. And I could not be more excited about that. I'm so jazzed. They love spending time together.

They're pretty inseparable. They're very close. And it's in a different part of town. It's on the other side of the city from where she has spent the last. Well, most of her life, honestly, because she lived that house that my mom's lived in for the last 30 years is a block away from my grandma's house where, you know, we all grew up. And so now she lives with my aunt. And I'm just so jazzed about that.

I'm happy they're going to travel together. My you know, my dad's dead, my aunt's husband, my uncle is dead and so they're just gonna be these two free spirit retired ladies that are gonna travel and hang out and have a hell of a time and not be lonely and that makes me so fucking happy. I can't even tell you. I am thankful for regulation and that you all have

granted me the opportunity to continue down this road. One of the most immediately frustrating things selfishly about Rooster Teeth shutting down. I mean, there are one million ways it was. Heartbreaking, you know, for the people that were affected, but from a kind of frustratingly, selfishly personal place, it really sucked because Fuckface was at an all-time high. We were firing on all cylinders and everything was working and everything was humming and everything felt possible.

And when that rug got pulled out from under us, the thought of losing that momentum was heartbreaking. And man, it would have been, if we didn't get to continue, that would have been soul crushing. That would have been like, God, can you imagine what could have been if we hadn't had the opportunity taken away?

And we didn't, and we get to find out now because you guys supported us through that transition. And I'm happy to say we're clearly not firing And we get to find out now because you guys supported us through that transition. And I'm happy to say we're clearly not firing at the same level we were at the tail end of fuck face right before the shit hit the fan. But we're getting close, you know, merch is really lagging behind. We had such phenomenal merch infrastructure at Rooster Teeth that was just full of talented, hardworking, passionate people that were so good at what they did

and we really leaned heavily on them. And so, you know, we're building that arm of regulation up, but from a content standpoint, I can't believe I'm saying this, but I think the stuff we're making now is significantly better than the stuff we were making then. And I was so proud of the stuff we were making then. And so I'm just thankful that I get to be here

still making regulation content for y'all, or for those of you that listen to So Alright, who also listen to regulation. I assume that would be most of you, but maybe not. I don't know. I really don't know who's listening to this. I only know who emails me. Shop Cyber Monday deals now on Amazon with up to 35% off home goods to deck their halls,

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Add your teen to your Uber account today. Add your team to your Uber account today. I'm just so fucking thankful that the road didn't end for me there. At some point, my career is going to reach a logical conclusion, whether I make the choice or the choice is made for me. I'm just really glad the choice wasn't made for me and that you guys continued to support all of us because I'm so excited to be a part of it and to be on this train that's going somewhere. And I just, I don't quite know in much the same way

I didn't know where the train was going when I. When I grabbed onto it in the early days of Rooster Teeth, I could never have envisioned all the places it would take me. I have no idea where the regulation train is headed, but I only see good things in the future. And. I'm so fucking thankful for that. I hope that's not too cliche, but I really am. I'm also I'm thankful and everybody that has it should be. I'm thankful for my

health. I will be 50 years old in six months, seven months. It's pretty old. If I'm to live to be 100, this is my 50% mark. This is my halfway checkpoint. I would prefer to live longer than 100 years. I'm hoping with technology that that'll be possible. I think 150 would be good for my physical body, you know, but I would like my conscious to continue indefinitely. I've been thinking about this a lot. I've been thinking about the idea of life and death and what it means to be alive and what is important to us and I really really would like to be able to transfer my consciousness my But I don't know what it is, what do you call it soul brain essence the entity that is

Driving the body that is me. I would like that to continue in some way. I feel like I could be a pretty cool AI or computer program. Some down the road would be a lot of fun. Oh, I kind of, you know, I wouldn't mind being a sort of a less selfish. I wouldn't mind being like a less selfish Peter Wayland. If you if you're not familiar who that is, he's well, it's. He's kind of the origin of all of the alien movies. He's the guy that started the search for the Prometheans, the engineers

been watching all the old alien movies. I'm thankful. I'm thankful for resets. I know I mentioned earlier this year that I was thankful for the refresh and getting to change my home and the part of town I live in and a reframed a lot of my life. I'm thankful for resets in general. This election cycle has. Made it impossible for me to ignore that I have an genuinely

unhealthy addiction to and relationship with the 24 hour news cycle, politics and the outrage of politics. I listened to three different political talk radio shows a day every day. Well, Monday through Friday, I watch probably an hour of it on television every day or it's on in the background. And all it does, it doesn't keep me informed. I don't feel informed. I just feel angry and depressed

and frustrated all the time. And that's the point. The point is to get you in that state so that you stay engaged with the content. And I understand that intellectually and I've understood that intellectually for a very long time. But understanding it and doing something about it

are two different things. This election cycle, I think, broke me. I had to, after the election, turn it all off and I'm not going to turn it back on. I don't want to be stupid. I don't want to be willfully ignorant. I will still find my news, but I'm not going to engage in that content in the way that I used to. And because of that, because I am turning off talk radio, it has opened up hours in the day while I'm doing other stuff and it's going on in

the background that I can put my you know, my my background attention to stuff like movies I have watched my, you know, my my background attention to stuff like movies. I have watched in the last week, I've watched two movies. I watched Prometheus and I watched Alien Covenant. I had never seen either of those films. I never I knew that it explained a lot of the origin of the aliens. And I always wanted to understand that. And I thought, fuck it.

I got to fill that time with something else. It's kind of like how when I quit drinking, I Became a voracious reader again because it helped distract me Movies are I think movies are gonna be the go-to thing to distract me from a desire to engage in you know The 24-hour news cycle and so I Think next I'm gonna watch I going to just watch all the alien movies in a row. But now that I've seen the two that I hadn't seen, I have the new one to watch still as well. I don't really need to see Alien or aliens or any of the ones

I've seen before multiple times again. So I think I'm just going to jump to the newest one and then that'll complete the alien movies for me. I will have at least seen them all. I think I'm going to jump immediately to all the Terminator movies I never saw, because I just watched one and two with Emily not too long ago. I saw three once, but I barely, barely remember it. So I think I'm going to start at three and I'm just going to go through all those other Terminators, because I think there's like there's a bunch, right? Like there's at least another two or three. There's a Christian Bale one.

There's an Amelia Clarke one. Maybe that's three. I don't remember. There's a well, I don't know. There's more that I don't even know about. There's a Christian Bale one. There's an Amelia Clarke one. Maybe that's three, I don't remember. There's, well, I don't know. There's more that I don't even know about. And then who knows after that. So I'm thankful for the reset.

I'm thankful for the opportunity to make a change in my life and the ability to make that change because I think I already feel happier and the ability to make that change, because I think I already feel happier, if I'm being honest with you. And I'm thankful that I get to decide when this podcast is over, and I have decided that that is now. I don't need to drag this out for another 25 minutes,

and I'm thankful that I have such good taste in music to which today's song of the day is going to be To Live Is To Fly by Townes Van Zandt. I don't think I've picked that song before. Let's hope not. It's a really, really, really good song. If you are looking to listen to a specific version of it, there might be a few. My favorite is the live the old quarter Houston, Texas album version that that whole live album is really good, but that I think is the best version of that song. So give it a listen to if you want. And I'll see you back here next week. I have no fucking clue what we're going to talk about, but I'm excited to find out. All right. This is the end of the show.

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