Chit-Chat Check-In #148 Transcript

Hello, this is your Captain speaking from Paris on Valentine’s Day, which is a little bit too on the nose, if you ask me. Tried to get Susie to come visit the tour on Valentine’s Day in Paris, and she wasn’t having it. I think she wasn’t up for the travel for just a few days and feeling kind of crappy, maybe. Too much to get on an eight-hour flight or whatever. I get it.

So, this is a song for Susie. It seems very true to me about how love kind of actually works, in my opinion. [The] immediate feeling of love—I think you fall in love over and over and over again. But the real love takes a lot of miles, a lot of time. That’s the kind of love that makes ground harder under your feet and colors stronger, and it’s just, it’s not the same thing as puppy love. It’s love that creates families, makes a family, maybe. Maybe that’s it.

Really sweet song from Cameron Winter of Geese, who I’ve gotten to know a little bit and would consider him a friend. And it’s kind of a poignant song for such a young person to put out into the world. Maybe I’m misinterpreting it, but that’s what songs are for. Hope you check out the rest of his stuff and Geese. I think a lot of people are talking about Geese, a lot of opinions. I’ll just say that what Susie said when she saw Geese on Saturday Night Live. She said they would have been absolutely the kind of band she would have loved to have booked at Lounge Ax. She’s right. They totally would have fit in at Lounge Ax.

Happy Valentine’s Day. I know, I know it’s a made-up holiday, and there’s all kinds of reasons to be cynical about that kind of shit, but love ain’t so bad, especially right now. And love ain’t so bad, even when it’s marketed. It could be worse, and it often is. So, once again, Happy Valentine’s Day from the City of Lights, Paris, whatever. Carry on.