Chit-Chat Check-In #97 Transcript

Hello, this is your Captain speaking, just laying around. I've been kind of busy, so it's taken me a while to get to the covers that I picked from your suggestions. Thank you, by the way, for all of your suggestions. A lot of lovely songs. Some that I wasn't familiar with, but that I listened to and considered, sincerely. And I found a lot of them to be outside of my skill set. Including the two I chose, in particular the singing, or the quite unique and individual styles of David Byrne and Elliott Smith. How far from my singing style both of those tunes really are. Hopefully, I did well enough to be enjoyable.

And to top it all off for this post, I thought I would share a blurry photo of my friend Andy, who's a tree frog that I've gotten to know pretty well over the last few summers. I really think it sounds crazy to people, when I tell them one of my best friends is a tree frog named Andy. But it's the truth. I really think Andy knows me. He hangs out, and he doesn't hop away when he sees me. Sometimes I really think he kind of seeks me out. Crazier things have happened. That's one of life's greatest treasures, is interspecial friendships.

Anybody who spends any amount of time on the internet knows that. It's really some of the only content that's worth your while when it comes across your feed. A pig and duck, or a goat and an alligator. I don't think—there's probably not too many friendships in that particular combination.

But it's an oddly uplifting phenomenon, and I happen to enjoy a relationship like that with my friend Andy. And I don't give a damn what you think about it.

All right. Carry on.