So... Alright - Six More Miles

Episode Date: April 9, 2024

Geoff's on his six mile journey to the graveyard. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

So let's get into it. How's everybody feeling today? Everybody doing alright? You having a good, well I don't know when you're listening to this, I guess if you're listening to it when it comes out it's a Tuesday. I'm recording it on a Wednesday. If you want to pause right here and come back on a Wednesday so that we're both on a Wednesday at the same time I'll understand. Either way, how's everybody doing? How's everybody feeling? I'm doing OK. I get asked that question a lot right now, as I'm sure you can imagine.

Basically. Every single person that I've had any kind of a relationship over the last 48 years has reached out to me in the last two months, which is really gratifying and what an overwhelming amount of support and love. And I really do appreciate it. A bit overwhelming at times,

as I'm sure you can understand. But, whew, I don't know how, I mean, I'm doing good. Not that you asked, maybe you did, I don't know. Plenty of people mean, I'm doing good. Not that you asked. Maybe you did. I don't know. Plenty of people are. I'm doing good. I've been I've been trying to relate, you know, as I process these things, everything to a song as I tend to do. And I've decided that the song for right now, the mood, the tone,

the time I'm in. It's been coming up in my playlist constantly and it's clearly for a reason, you know? I'm choosing to lean into this whole idea that the universe is speaking to me through music. And so the song I've been listening to, not on repeat, but like it just keeps coming up in my playlist constantly, is Six More Miles to the Graveyard by Hank Williams Sr. It's the B-side off of the I Saw the Light release,

I believe. Not as big of a fan of that song, but Six More Miles to the Graveyard I've always loved, and now it has a different meaning to me. If you're not familiar with the song, it's pretty somber. I'll give you some of the lyrics Oh the rain is slowly falling and my heart is so sore six more miles and leave my darling Never on this earth to meet no more six more miles to the graveyard six more miles long and sad

Six more miles and leave my darling the best friend I ever had Kind of conjures up for me at least. That almost like the the tone and feeling of a William Faulkner novel, you know what I mean? Like sort of this like in my head, I'm seeing a. A long, slow horse drawn carriage ride to a graveyard to have somebody buried six miles is not that far in a car can be a little little longer when you're carrying a coffin on the back

of a horse and buggy I would imagine and just that like I think the whole tone of that that the whole the whole tone of that song is like he's going to put his, I assume, wife or lover into the ground to bury them at a funeral, and he's just on this long, slow ride, this inevitable journey towards the end, and he just has to sit with it. And if that's not apropos to what we're going through, I don't know what is. I mean, it is like, there is a

funeral coming in like, a month or so. And it just like, it just feels like it kind of feels like in a horror movie, when you walk into a hallway upstairs into a scary hallway, and then something maybe threatening or menacing is behind you. So you push forward, and then the the hallway like telescopes out in front of you, and it feels like you're never going to get to the the hallway like telescopes out in front of you and it feels like you're never gonna get to the end of it and the faster you run the further it gets it kind of feels like that right now and I know that's

not the case because that's not the way the real world works and the May is coming pretty quickly it's just taking its time for me right now it feels like and yeah. And so I just, that's how I feel. That's how I've been feeling. And I say that laughing and in a fairly good mood because honestly I am. Like you can't stay sad all the time.

And I think everybody here who's been living with this for the last month or so has, you know, making the best of it, trying to make light of it. And so I'm not bummed out or anything by the association of the song, but I do find it to be kind of hilariously appropriate. As I'm, I got about, on my six mile journey, I feels like I got about four miles left.

And so hopefully the scenery will be pretty along the way. Gotta say, I'm pretty fucking thankful for a few things in my life right now. Obviously the people and the relationships that I have that matter to me, the people that have been there to support me, the community, friends, family, chosen family, et cetera. But in this instance, I'm actually talking about sports.

I have, you know, I've got a lot of time on my hands. There's a lot to be done, right? There's a lot to do, but there's also a lot of like sitting around on your hands waiting to be able to do stuff. And so that can be quite maddening, you know, when you're on that six mile journey. And so I just want to shout out to the NBA and Major League Baseball and the UFC and the MLB, the show video game,

because those entities have been keeping me sane lately. I have had so much fun watching that. I've decided to go all in on the Tigers this year. And so I've watched every game or most of every game. They're 4 and 0 right now as of this recording, which is insane to me. Had a great extra innings win. I got to see last night. Dodgers have been fun to watch.

White Sox have been the train wreck expected. That's been heartbreaking to see. Celtics are humming along. All the NBA games matter right now, or most of them matter because people are fighting for playoff position and there's only about eight games left. And so it's just been like, I watched Golden State, or most of Golden State, and Dallas last night.

And that was just a fucking awesome game. It's at that point where almost every game is awesome right now. And so and then I really have enjoyed the UFC, you know, that's it's it's a almost every Saturday night. I have some UFC to look forward to, which I really appreciate. And so it's a. Man, it's been it's been really nice to take your mind off. And if you are not into sports,

but you're looking for a little stress relief, maybe give some a try that I've really, it's man, it's amazing how much they've helped me in these last few months. I also really like sports, so there is that. Don't wanna brag, but play an MLB the show right now on the easiest difficulty, like whatever beginner is and Crushing it hitting 719 got about 130 home runs at 250 RBI's my Ricky year

Somehow I was only selected in the sixth round of the draft Sort of a Mr. Irrelevant situation I'm really Tom Brady in Major League Baseball right now. Uh, so, for all those teams, all those computer teams that didn't believe in me in rounds one through five, suck it. You missed out on the greatest hitter in the history of MLB, the show. Oh, man. I've been doing a lot of spring cleaning too.

You're talking about having a lot of like, a lot of just time on my hands, right? It's that time of season when you wanna start going through all your stuff and spring clean. It's in the fucking name. It's spring, I need to spring clean. I don't know why I need to further describe that to you or myself. And so it just seemed like a really good time, you know, I'm

not going into the office as much right now. And so I have a lot of like my day. I just have a lot of like chunks of time in my day where I want to stay productive and I can't quite work on RT or the next thing in those moments. So I've just been kind of going through all my shit. I cleaned out my garage. Well, I don't have a garage. I clean out my shed. I call it a garage to make myself feel better, but it's it's a shed. So, you know, I've been going through my closet, just cleaning out all my drawers,

just trying to purge myself of of the old and make room for the new. And then also just clean, you know? And it's good for the soul, it's good for the mind, you know? And in the process of doing that, I also have been hanging out in my storage unit a little bit and going through stuff there. And I realized I have such a ridiculous amount

of Rooster Teeth gear. It's mostly Jeff related or Achieve related. Those were the brands that I just enjoyed the most, the one with my name on it. Those are the ones that I held onto the most stuff from. I think I have almost one of every single piece of Jeff merch. I don't have everything.

I gave up on trying to collect all that because it got out of control. But I'd say I have probably like 92 percent of it if I wanted to get precise and most of it is It Overwhelmed me quickly. We made so much of it. I couldn't keep it all in my closet anymore So what I started to do is put it in those space-saving bags and then you know Let's suck the air out and shrink them down. And I have, I don't know, hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of pieces of Jeff merch in my

in my storage unit. I'm sitting here thinking about, am I going to carry this around with me for the rest of my life? I'm probably never going to wear most of this stuff again. So I thought about donating it all to Goodwill, which is what I've done with virtually every piece of Rooster Teeth merch I've ever stopped wearing. I offer it to Millie. If Millie doesn't want it, it goes to Goodwill.

I've probably donated a couple of thousand items of Rooster Teeth merch to Goodwill over the last 21 years here in Austin. If you ever want to get Rooster Teeth merch on the cheap, wink, wink, go to Goodwill in Austin. Go to any of the Goodwills in Austin. If you ever want to get Rooster Teeth merch on the cheap, wink wink, go to Goodwill in Austin. Go to any of the Goodwill's in Austin. There's a good chance you'll find stuff there. But with this stuff, I don't know, I've held on to it so long and I'm sentimental and I'm kind of struggling with I don't think I'm going to wear it again.

But I really am proud of it and I appreciate it. And I don't want to just throw it away. Not even throw it away. It's not throwing it away. It's donating it to people who need it. But, you know, I don't know. I just. Once this stuff's gone, I won't get it back. And so I've been thinking about it. And I guess I'm going to hold on to it for a little while,

just in case my feelings change. But I think down the road somewhere, I might do a deal where I throw them up on eBay or one of those clothing resale sites. And I'm not trying to make money off of them. I just like the idea of them going to the people that will appreciate them and the people that wanted them, maybe the people that wanted them,

like you wanted a certain shirt and you didn't get it or a hat. So maybe at some point, I mean, the overhead of that alone would be a lot because it's like I said, it's probably close to a thousand pieces of merch, if not more. And that would be a lot of work to photograph and throw up. But I might just do a thing down the road if I have a little bit of free time where I just start to throw up, I don't know, ten or twenty at a time,

sell them for ten bucks each, 15 bucks each, just to cover shipping and handling and the amount of time it takes to package it. And then send them off to good homes if people want them. I don't know. I kind of like that idea. I kind of like the idea of instead of it just going to an impersonal store where somebody's going to go, I guess that fits, it seems like an okay logo. Maybe going to people that really wanted it

the first time around but weren't able to get ahold of it. I don't, well like I said, I don't wanna like, I wouldn't throw it up and bid on it like it's baseball cards or something. I'm not trying to make any money off y'all. I'm just trying to potentially get you this, get people stuff that may want stuff. But I'm also not entirely sure that I wanna do that.

I'm feeling, you know, I'm in that emotional period where I kinda wanna, you wanna like, you're at a crossroads and you know a phase of your life is gonna end and you're about to start a new one and you kinda wanna shed a lot of the old to make room for the new In terms of physical space like in my storage unit But also just in terms of emotional space and mental space and so I may feel differently down the road

I'll hold on to them for a few more months, but It's entirely possible Six months or a year, whoever knows, down the road that maybe I'll start throwing some of that stuff up if I decide that I just don't wanna carry it around with me for the rest of my life, or if, and this may sound ridiculous to you, but if holding onto it, continuing to hold onto it

is too painful because I would be lying if I said that standing in my storage unit and looking at all of that stuff that I meticulously saved and held on to doesn't just hurt to look at right now. And I don't know exactly why, but it is a it all that Jeff Merch and the Achieve Merch and everything that I held onto is turning into a kind of a painful reminder of things. And so anyway, I'm rambling. I might might dump off some of my old clothes down the road for real cheap if you want. If not, I'll hold on to it forever and look at it every once in a while and get nostalgic. At Real Canadian Superstore, our colleagues collectively speak over a hundred different languages and counting.

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I've been watching the Traders UK Season 2, just finished it. Very good. Very different from the UK Season 1 Traders. I remember watching Traders UK 1 and thinking that like every single person on that show cried almost every episode. It was the most emotional

Series and season two of the traders has been very different very very different. I I don't know if that's just in the casting because I've watched you know, Australia UK US and I thought it's just Interesting at how like more emotionally connected people were in UK season one, But now season two, people were pretty harsh and cutthroat. So maybe it was just that particular group of people. Anyway, if you like reality TV, if you like the if you ever played the game werewolf or one night werewolf, that's the traders. If you ever watched the mole back in the day with Anderson Cooper or the Netflix remake, that's the Traders.

It's fun. It's a good show. I think it's on Peacock. And I'd give it a shot if I were you. I also have been enjoying the Gentleman on Netflix. That's a guy richie show. I think it was a movie, but they have reimagined it as a like an episode TV show. I'm only two episodes in, but I thought that was pretty good. I have been recommending this show,

Apples Never Fall, to a lot of people. It was a net-bending Sam Neal show. And I was recommending it before I finished it. I have since finished it. I'd like to un-recommend that show. I'd like to apologize for recommending it. Or if you do watch it, if I may make one suggestion, there will be a car crash at some point in the last episode.

Once that car crash happens, just turn the show off. Just let the car crash happen, and then you can create the ending to the show that makes sense to you in your mind. You can create the ending to the show that makes sense to you in your mind. Don't let them do it, because they're gonna fucking ruin it, and they're gonna make you mad that you watched all the episodes.

Really, really hated the ending of Apple's Never Fall. Also, season two of Physical 100 is on Netflix right now. It's a Korean show about, they put 100 incredibly physically fit people through a series of rigorous tests to determine who is the most physically fit person. Like what kind of job, body style, whatever. Cause these are like Olympic athletes.

They are martial arts experts. They are firefighters, arborists. Olympic athletes, they are martial arts experts, they are firefighters, arborists, like anybody that has like an incredibly physically demanding life, whether it's being a fitness model, or whether it's climbing trees with a bunch of gear on your back swinging a chainsaw. They just they take all those people and they put them together if you're not familiar with the show, and then they just find out who is the most physically capable at the end of it like.

And you know it's usually like what is more important in the grand scheme of things strength or stamina or endurance or speed and it all kind of plays into it and then. plays into it and then it's fascinating. It's really fun to watch. I haven't finished season two yet. Hopefully there isn't a car crash that ruins the whole fucking point of it like some shows, but definitely give that a try. This is just my I'm just going through my list being like, Oh, I wanted to recommend these things to people. So I do that. Oh, I do have I do have a pet peeve, man. I watch a lot of TV, I should be pretty clear. There has been a commercial that has been getting under my fucking skin for a couple months now. And I just, I lost it the other night.

I just lost it when it came on. I just got so irate, I'm so annoyed. It's this fucking all modern commercial. If you don't know what all modern is, it's like a online furniture retailer. I think they have retail stores now too. I think there's one in Austin up at the Arboretum that I drove by the other day,

but it's kind of like Wayfair. Like all modern is like the, honestly, in my head, it's identical to Wayfair. They just check the modern box for you ahead of time and sort that way. I'm sure plenty of you can email Eric and Jeff Spass to tell me why I'm wrong, but that's my impression of all modern.

I may have even bought a couple of pieces of furniture from them during the pandemic. I don't entirely know. I know I've been on their website before, but their commercial. Enrages me, enrages me. They have this like really simple commercial where they have a ball that tracks across different kind of a Rube Goldberg machine kind of thing.

And it knocks over a bunch of like what are clear dominoes as it goes through a home and different, you know, different like room settings so you can see, you know, here's their living room, here's their dining room, here's the office and they have this fucking voiceover. I got so mad. I wanted to make sure I got it right. So I went to YouTube, which pissed me off in another way. I went to YouTube and I watched the commercial one more fucking time so that I could write

down exactly what they say. This is what they say. And I, this is such a small thing, but I can't tell you how mad it makes me. Hi, we're all modern. Simply put, we sell modern furniture and decor here. Everything has a purpose and place. Crazy, right? Are you fucking kidding me? No, it's not crazy.

That's literally the point of furniture to have a purpose and a place. You're describing every piece of furniture ever created. That is the opposite of crazy. The question is crazy. The fact that you're asking the question is crazy. The fact that you think it's crazy is crazy. I hate whoever wrote that copy. I don't know what fucking ad agency made that commercial but I hate them. I really do. I have to listen to him, that smug dude in that voiceover say, crazy right? We think our furniture should be furniture. It should be useful. Fuck off. All furniture is furniture. It's like saying, we think the sun should provide light and heat.

Of course it does, it's all it does. Ugh. Anyway, that's my current pet peeve. Ugh. That seems like a good place to end it. Oh, oh, before I do though, I figured I should convey a little bit of information. You know, we're in this holding pattern.

People keep asking us, we keep telling you when we know you'll know, we don't know what's going on. But I do wanna give you some semblance of like what I'm gonna be doing with my career going forward if you would be so kind as to want to continue to participate in that. I have started a new TikTok channel. Is that what you call it? A new TikTok? Because we're, you know, we want, we wound down the break show on set at RT,

but I want to keep that thing alive. And so I've been doing a daily rip, but I'm doing it on TikTok every day. And it's the channels, just Jeff's daily rip. So if you want to look into that, if you're into the card ripping thing, that's cool. As I get more information about how we will address card rips in the future, and if there'll be a break show with a new thing,

I'll communicate it there and here and everywhere. But in the meantime, if the break shows were your thing, or if you enjoy card rips, check out my TikTok, Jeff's Daily Rip. I clearly I'm doing the sports stuff, baseball, whatever, but you know, I'm still trying to have fun. I open up some X files cards. I open up some Muppets cards the other day, and I'm sure I'll continue to do exactly that. Also, this podcast will continue. I don't know that it'll be called this once again, still working out all the

licensing and the right stuff. But I have I've decided that I want to keep this going. This was lowest on the list of priorities for me. Just because. Well, because the other things rely on other people and and they're important to me in different ways. So face being the most important, definitely gonna continue.

May not be called F***face, may be called F***face, we don't know. Anima, definitely going to continue. May be called Anima, may not be called Anima, we don't know. So Alright, definitely gonna continue. May take a hiatus at some point, hopefully not. May not be called so all right anymore, may be called so all right, may be a weekly show.

I flirted around with the idea of even doing it daily sometimes or even just whenever I had, instead of waiting until Tuesday every week or Wednesday every week to record and compile all my notes, maybe just sitting down when the mood strikes and then just publishing immediately. Maybe it's a once a week show sometimes and then a three day a week

show and then a five day a week show and then a one day a week show again. I don't know. That's the nice thing about the future. It's just pure possibility. Who knows? Who knows what it'll be? We'll figure it out together. Hopefully. I'm also still still doing those cameos. Thank you to everybody who has been sending me kind words through cameos and letting me wish your husbands and boyfriends and girlfriends and wives and moms and sisters and brothers happy birthdays and congratulations on promotions and new moves and all that. And to all the people that keep asking me to read their favorite poems,

genuinely thank you. I read Invictus for the first time the other day. Really, really stuck with me. I really, really enjoyed it. And it was kind of a shot in the arm I needed to hear at the moment. So thank you to all of you who have been sharing your favorite poems with me through cameo. I didn't realize there were that many people that still liked poetry. So it's kind of heartwarming and encouraging to hear.

Oh, gosh, what else? Let me look at my notes here. But make sure I'm not forgetting anything. Oh, I was going to talk about how dumb Deal or No Deal Island is, but it's still somehow fun to watch. I guess I just did, that's about it. Yeah, I guess that's about it. Thanks for tuning in,

thanks for putting up with us all this time, thanks for sitting with us through this period of unease and uncertainty as we are trying to figure out what our future is. Really, really do appreciate you hanging in there with us and. Pretty soon, I want to get back to the normal format of this show, because I've. I have you got let me ask you a question. What do you think the worst year ever was?

Because I was trying to think about like, is 2024 my worst year? Absolutely not. It won't be my worst year. A fingers crossed, I guess it's not over yet, but but it got me wondering about like what the worst year of my life is, which got me looking into it. What was Earth's worst year or humanity's worst year? And. I have an answer and I want to talk about it, but I got to do a little research first.

So I need to get this show back on the rails so I can start doing my deep dives again or my shallow dives. Anyway, I think that'll be it for today. Thanks for hanging in there. All right.