Geoff Ramsey

Ramsey was born and grew up primarily in the Mobile, Alabama area, where he attended elementary and high school, but also lived in Pensacola and Jacksonville, Florida, Beaverton Oregon, and the outlying areas of New Orleans. He was a Semi-professional bowler in his teen years, and enlisted into the United States Army before graduating high school, beginning basic training at Fort Jackson in South Carolina shortly afterwards. His service lasted from 1993 to 1998, though he went on to serve as a photojournalist in Kuwait; he was based at Fort Hood during that time. He studied journalism at Fort Benjamin Harrison.

After his military service, Ramsey worked as a roadie for the band Catch 22 and as a production assistant for View Askew Productions. Ramsey then secured a job at the tech support company teleNetwork, where he met Burnie Burns and Gus Sorola. Prior to working for Rooster Teeth, he also co-created the web site drunkgamers.com with Sorola, hiring Burns shortly afterwards to run the site.

While changing his surname to his stepfather's, "Ramsey", he was informed by the court that it would not cost any more to change any of his other names, so he jokingly changed his middle name to "Lazer".

It is not publicly known when Ramsey married his first wife, Sarah, but as mentioned in a story from the Rooster Teeth podcast, it just so happened that he finalized his divorce from his first wife and got engaged to his second on the same day.

Ramsey married his second wife, Griffon Ramsey, in 2005. They have a daughter named Millicent (Millie). In November 2017, Griffon confirmed on Twitter that the two were in the process of an amicable divorce. Geoff announced the following April that he was divorced in a video on the Let's Play channel on YouTube.

Ramsey began dating an Austin-based hairstylist/salon owner, Emily Hatfield, in 2019. The couple became engaged in October 2022, and were married November 2023.