Chit-Chat Check-In #88 Transcript

Hello, this is your Captain speaking. I'm continuing the series of iPhone recordings of songs that I'm thinking about putting in the set Friday night at Solid Sound. It's not going to spoil anything, because it will sound different when the whole band plays them. But it's also not likely that all of these will end up making the set. It's just kind of an exercise I'm going through, just relearning songs I haven't played as much.

Which leads us to this week's song, "Please Be Patient With Me, " which is a current plea, I would say, for lots of reasons. But also a reminder that, I don't know, everybody is probably deserving of some patience that we struggle to give them. I think people are usually going through a lot of things we don't know about. 

I think people don't know, a lot of times, when they're not doing their best. And I know a lot of people aren't aware of the choices that they have to make about how they're behaving. And I think it's really almost impossible to make good choices when you're not aware of the choices in front of you. And I speak from experience, where I've had to learn to recognize the choices I have to make in front of me. And it's been an enormous help in making better decisions. But I still have to be conscious and aware of how hard that is for all of us. And that's why I wrote this song.

I don't think it hurts everybody to be reminded of that. I think it helps me to be reminded of that. And that's one of the main reasons I write songs, honestly, is to remind myself of things that I think I discover in myself, and want to not forget them. So a song is really helpful for that.

Anyway, I'm here in the control room of the Starship Casual with my trusty comrades. They all say hi, they're having a great time. I'm just looking around seeing all the smiling faces, the thumbs up, just the palpable excitement in the room. All right.

[Cheering, laughter, and clapping in the background.]

They're still getting their coffee intake adjusted, I guess. All right, carry on.