Speaker 1: Hello, my friend. I'm Delilah, welcoming you to my new
Speaker 1: podcast series, Love Someone with Delilah. We've renamed the series
Speaker 1: this year. Last year we started doing really good podcast,
Speaker 1: really amazing podcast. But we decided that since I believe
Speaker 1: the most important thing in life, the most important thing
Speaker 1: in a marriage, the most important thing in being a
Speaker 1: good parent or a good member of your community, is love,
Speaker 1: the single most powerful tenant that we all should share
Speaker 1: is love. For all the years I've been here on
Speaker 1: the air, and it's been many, I've employed my listeners
Speaker 1: to love someone romantically. Sure, we talk about that a lot,
Speaker 1: but love is a hard to heart connection we're able
Speaker 1: to make with anyone and everyone at any time, in
Speaker 1: any place, not just romantic love between partners. Love is
Speaker 1: a shared smile, it's a kind deed. It's a moment
Speaker 1: of sincere listening when someone needs to unburden their soul.
Speaker 1: It's setting aside your own agenda to champion another's. It's
Speaker 1: being present and accountable, and that's that's hard to do
Speaker 1: in this day of social media, because so many people
Speaker 1: are distracted. Love is being present, it's being accountable. It's
Speaker 1: showing up. It's showing up for life's moments. It's being
Speaker 1: there when your daughter is getting ready for the prom.
Speaker 1: It's being there when your son is got a speech contest,
Speaker 1: or is in a play on stage. It's being there.
Speaker 1: It's showing up for life's moments. Thank you for allowing
Speaker 1: me to share these precious moments with you. I also
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Speaker 1: Delilah is a singer, songwriter and musician whose name may
Speaker 1: not be as familiar to you as his band. Pat
Speaker 1: Monahan is the front man for the iconic rock band Train.
Speaker 1: He's funny, he's charming, and according to him, a supermodel
Speaker 1: good looking as he is, according to me and several
Speaker 1: million fans worldwide, talented. Pat visited with Me in My
Speaker 1: Studios recently to talk about his upcoming summer tour with
Speaker 1: the Goo Goo Dolls and a talented young man named
Speaker 1: Alan Stone. The tour kicks off in Seattle on June seventh.
Speaker 1: Also had the chance to talk about his new Train
Speaker 1: album Greatest Hits, which features the phenomenal Kinney g on
Speaker 1: Careless Whisper and I was honored to hear of Pat
Speaker 1: and Train's passionate involvement. Passionate involvement. They are so committed
Speaker 1: to this. It's called Family House. It's a Bay Area
Speaker 1: retreat for families that need a place of dignity, as
Speaker 1: Pat says, to collect themselves while their children undergo serious
Speaker 1: medical treatments, many of them for childhood cancer. Whether it
Speaker 1: was music or giving a helping hand or just chatting
Speaker 1: about random things. One powerful thread was woven through every
Speaker 1: moment with Pat, and that was the thread of family.
Speaker 1: You'll fill chills when he shares how his hit single
Speaker 1: Drops of Jupiter, which I've been playing for years and
Speaker 1: never knew this story when he tells you how that
Speaker 1: song came about, and many of you, either from a
Speaker 1: child or parent's perspective, will relate on some level. When
Speaker 1: he mentions how his grown son, who's also a musician,
Speaker 1: doesn't share his work with his dad. Women, you will
Speaker 1: swoon and applaud and maybe feel a lethal beat of
Speaker 1: jealousy when Pat makes a Game of Thrones reference to
Speaker 1: his gorgeous wife and mother of his two youngest children
Speaker 1: as the Kalisi. He holds her in such honor and men, men,
Speaker 1: maybe you'll be inspired to tell your wife that she
Speaker 1: is the Kalisi in your life. Family is what binds us,
Speaker 1: whether that family is one created by a marriage and children,
Speaker 1: or relationships that we have forged in other ways. I
Speaker 1: call it my tribe because my family isn't just blood.
Speaker 1: It's people that God has woven together into a one
Speaker 1: wonderful family of eclectic eccentric incredible people. It gives us
Speaker 1: a sense of belonging and where we find ourselves giving
Speaker 1: in ways we didn't even know was possible, and receiving
Speaker 1: so much more. In return, chapter eleven of my book
Speaker 1: that came out last year, One Heart at a Time,
Speaker 1: is titled A Connected Heart, and in it I talk
Speaker 1: about my mom, my Mama Bear, my mother, Wilmadine, and
Speaker 1: how she had such a loving, giving heart. She also
Speaker 1: had really big feet, big bones, and a big, quirky,
Speaker 1: eccentric countenance. She taught me many life skills and many
Speaker 1: important lessons, but most importantly, most importantly, she taught me,
Speaker 1: through her deeds and her actions, how to love like
Speaker 1: only a mama can or a parent can. I should
Speaker 1: say I'm honored that Pat Mana and from Train found
Speaker 1: the time to share his heart and his passions with
Speaker 1: me on this edition of Love Someone.
Speaker 2: Thanks. Yeah, thanks for having me on your first ever
Speaker 2: incarnation of.
Speaker 1: The Love Someone podcast. Yeah. And you look so good
Speaker 1: the hair and everything.
Speaker 2: You know. I feel. I feel pretty average, not at
Speaker 2: my best, but I'm gonna I'm gonna get in better shape.
Speaker 2: Coming up soon. I have a golf tournament to play
Speaker 2: in in Pebble beach. So I've just been.
Speaker 1: So that's your motivation.
Speaker 2: It's my motivation right now.
Speaker 1: You know my motivation. I don't know if you notice,
Speaker 1: but I like, you know, a little more fit than
Speaker 1: probably last time I saw you. My motivation is I'm
Speaker 1: waiting for Duayne the Rock Johnson to call me yep
Speaker 1: and say, Delilah, I need you on Titans.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't have a TV. I don't watch the show.
Speaker 1: I have watched it on my computer a couple of times.
Speaker 1: And I'm going to I'm going to wait for him
Speaker 1: to call me, and then I'm going to suggest some
Speaker 1: new exercises that he should include in his Titan competition.
Speaker 1: I'm going to ask him to introduce some courses for moms,
Speaker 1: cool obstacle courses for moms, Like I think there should
Speaker 1: be a competition where you have a toddler in a
Speaker 1: backpack on your back while you're folding laundry while have
Speaker 1: you ever tried, have you ever seen your wife when
Speaker 1: your your daughter was younger, try to do anything with
Speaker 1: a toddler around, like pick up anything off the floor.
Speaker 2: My wife is she's not the She's an anomaly. She
Speaker 2: can do all of it. She'll hold three children and
Speaker 2: figure out how to get the job done. I've never
Speaker 2: seen anything like it. I don't compete parentally because she
Speaker 2: is far superior.
Speaker 1: She you just bow to the queen.
Speaker 2: I do manse she.
Speaker 1: Game of throes. There you go.
Speaker 2: It really is true. She's the Khalisi.
Speaker 1: So how many kids have you got at home? Now
Speaker 1: you've got older kids and younger kids.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I have a seven year old and my ten
Speaker 2: year old daughter at home, and then I have a
Speaker 2: daughter who goes to Western University of Washington, and my
Speaker 2: son lives in Seattle.
Speaker 1: And do you guys, like, do the whole family thing
Speaker 1: or are the adult kids off doing their thing and
Speaker 1: the younger kids.
Speaker 2: Are It depends on what it is. So like any
Speaker 2: kind of event, then we all get together. But otherwise
Speaker 2: want in college. She's busy all the time, is a
Speaker 2: very busy job in school. My son is pursuing music
Speaker 2: and doing another job, so he's always busy. So we
Speaker 2: get together as the six of us are greater when
Speaker 2: it's you know, a holiday or a birthday.
Speaker 1: So the sun pursuing music? Does he have Dad's gift
Speaker 1: for lyrics?
Speaker 2: You know? He doesn't show me his music. It's interesting so,
Speaker 2: but I've heard him sing and it's really good. He's
Speaker 2: got a great voice.
Speaker 1: He doesn't show you his music, Nope. He wants one
Speaker 1: of the most talented dads in the world.
Speaker 2: He likes to keep it to himself.
Speaker 1: Oh that's kind of cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: My daughter, I have seven daughters, but my daughter, who
Speaker 1: lives in the house next door, oh wow, is incredibly gifted.
Speaker 1: Sings like an angel. She would never sing in front
Speaker 1: of me, but she always sang in the shower. She
Speaker 1: has no idea how many hours I spent sitting on
Speaker 1: the floor outside of the That's a fun listening to
Speaker 1: her sing. Here's the funny thing about Train. I'll say
Speaker 1: to people, you know, I love that, I love Training.
Speaker 1: They're like train, I don't know Train. And then I
Speaker 1: sing like Hayesol's sister two lines of it and they're like,
Speaker 1: oh my.
Speaker 2: God, I love them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, or it drops a Jupiter, you know, one or
Speaker 1: two lines and I'm like, oh my god, that's the
Speaker 1: best song ever. I'm like, I know.
Speaker 2: My manager thinks that I'm a genius because I'm not famous,
Speaker 2: but my music is. And he's like, that's your genius.
Speaker 2: You get to have genius He's like, you get to
Speaker 2: have a great life and then sing songs that matter
Speaker 2: to people. And he's really right. I take my kids
Speaker 2: skiing every weekend. I go to PCC grocery store, you know,
Speaker 2: which is the co op around this area, and no
Speaker 2: one cares at all. But if I sing, then I
Speaker 2: matter for an hour. You know. It's like, that's a
Speaker 2: good life.
Speaker 1: That is a very good life, and I have been
Speaker 1: blessed to create the same life in radio. I can
Speaker 1: go to Goodwill, I can go to the grocery store.
Speaker 1: I mean, I walk around my little town in my
Speaker 1: cowboy boots because I have horses. You know, right after
Speaker 1: I clean the stalls, nobody cares, yeap, nobody cares because
Speaker 1: I'm Blessing's mom. I'm Delilah's Junior's mom. You know, That's
Speaker 1: who I am.
Speaker 2: Most people that I run into just think I'm your
Speaker 2: average supermodel, you know what I mean, just like unbelievably beautiful.
Speaker 1: So you've partnered with somebody that I have not seen
Speaker 1: in like twenty five years, but I love him. I
Speaker 1: heard a little clip. They didn't even send me the
Speaker 1: whole song.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, we recorded Careless Whisper, and so my experience
Speaker 2: with Kenny is I've only met him once, and when
Speaker 2: I meet famous people, I meet you and then I
Speaker 2: bail because I don't want to bother you. And if
Speaker 2: you want to have a conversation.
Speaker 1: Great, how many records sold around the world.
Speaker 2: I just don't want to bother people because they have
Speaker 2: their lives, they want to do it the way they
Speaker 2: do it. But Kenny's a really lovely, down to earth
Speaker 2: guy from Seattle, so he's not full of his own
Speaker 2: nonsense at all. But I asked a mutual friend in
Speaker 2: the golf world if I could. I was like, Hey,
Speaker 2: will you please pass my information onto Kenny. I want
Speaker 2: to ask him for a big favor. He can always
Speaker 2: say no to it. And so I texted him any
Speaker 2: chance that I could send you careless whisper. We're going
Speaker 2: to put it on our greatest hits and it wouldn't
Speaker 2: be the same without some Kenny g on it and
Speaker 2: he was like, yeah, send it my way, and then
Speaker 2: he sent it back and it was incredible.
Speaker 1: So so you guys want together when you recorded, No.
Speaker 2: He was in malay good. Yeah, he's so cool.
Speaker 1: So good. Yeah, he's good with me in the studio.
Speaker 1: Talking today is Pat from Train and you've got the
Speaker 1: greatest album out and greatest hits, ye, greatest hits, and
Speaker 1: you're going on tour. Ye're starting to here in Seattle.
Speaker 2: That's right. It starts on like.
Speaker 1: Thirty five thirty eight cities.
Speaker 2: Now, yeah, it starts on June seventh in Seattle. We're
Speaker 2: out with the Goo Goo Dolls and Alan Stone, Allen's
Speaker 2: kid from Spokane who's really crazy talented. And what a
Speaker 2: great time you have with that guy.
Speaker 1: And Goo Goo Dolls. How did you how did your
Speaker 1: team with them?
Speaker 2: I've known those guys, not very personally, but.
Speaker 1: Like, do you play golf with three years?
Speaker 2: No? No, not that put maybe after this we will.
Speaker 2: They're really lovely guys. And we've tried for the last
Speaker 2: six years to put.
Speaker 1: A put something together and now you did. Now we did,
Speaker 1: and you're going to be touring all summer long.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 1: So I wanted to talk to you about Drops of Jupiter,
Speaker 1: the song, and your charitable charitable project with Wine. Okay,
Speaker 1: so tell me about first off, the song and the lyrics.
Speaker 2: Well, it's a story about not having any hit songs
Speaker 2: on our second album. We had an album called it
Speaker 2: was called Something More and the president of Columbia Records.
Speaker 2: He was listening to it and he was like, we
Speaker 2: don't have a first single. So my manager at the
Speaker 2: time said, you know, Donnie doesn't think you have a
Speaker 2: first single. He want you to go to New York.
Speaker 2: And the reason he wanted me to go to New
Speaker 2: York is because as a band, we foolishly had a
Speaker 2: deal where we were not allowed to write outside of
Speaker 2: the band, So it was to protect other people from
Speaker 2: me going out and writing a bunch of songs without them,
Speaker 2: which held us back more than it helped us. So
Speaker 2: Donnie was saying, come to New York because I'm about
Speaker 2: to make you write with other people. So they booked
Speaker 2: my flight, and my mother had passed away that year.
Speaker 2: I went to sleep and I woke up about twenty
Speaker 2: minutes after I fell asleep and wrote the entire drops
Speaker 2: of Jupiter Lyric and Melody down. The next day, I
Speaker 2: went to a friend's house and we demoed it up,
Speaker 2: and then when I went to New York, I had
Speaker 2: a CD in my pocket, and so Donnie Einer was
Speaker 2: telling me, you know, if this song was yours would
Speaker 2: be a hit, and basically getting me ready to so
Speaker 2: we're going to put you at a studio with these
Speaker 2: other guys, and I said, I got this demo. It's
Speaker 2: probably terrible if you're going to hear it. So it's
Speaker 2: just a story about my mom telling me what it
Speaker 2: was like to be on the other side swimming through
Speaker 2: the planets and listen to it. And he had a breakdown.
Speaker 2: He was like, this is the song of the year.
Speaker 2: You know it's going to be. It was during the
Speaker 2: same time that Almost Famous was out, so he wanted
Speaker 2: Paul Buckmaster to do the string arrangement and he had
Speaker 2: the big plan before I even got back on the
Speaker 2: plane to go home. So that's how Drops of Jupiter
Speaker 2: was created.
Speaker 1: So that was really mom letting you know everything is good.
Speaker 2: That's what it felt like to me.
Speaker 1: Hanging out with me today here in the studios is
Speaker 1: Pat Monahan of Terrain. We're talking about this summer's tour.
Speaker 1: He's going on tour with the Goo Goo Dolls, the
Speaker 1: new CD Greatest hits his endeavor with Drops of Jupiter wine,
Speaker 1: a wine that is a charity and how it benefits
Speaker 1: family house and we're talking about the love of family
Speaker 1: and now you have a project raising funds to help
Speaker 1: kids who are hurting our kids who are sick.
Speaker 2: So, as a Bay Area band or San Francisco band,
Speaker 2: we were seeking the right charity to partner with about
Speaker 2: eight or or so years ago, maybe nine, about nine
Speaker 2: years ago. So every charity has a rating. You can
Speaker 2: look them up online, and many of the ratings aren't
Speaker 2: very good because they spend an enormous amount of money
Speaker 2: on the wrong. So this particular place was called Family House.
Speaker 2: They had two homes and I think there were eight
Speaker 2: rooms in each home. So there were about sixteen to
Speaker 2: twenty families that they could give food and shelter to
Speaker 2: while their children, who most of them had brain tumors,
Speaker 2: tumors behind their eyes, very very terrible things. These parents
Speaker 2: had to quit their jobs, some of them, you know,
Speaker 2: all low income families bringing their children to try to
Speaker 2: have some dignity while their children are being worked on
Speaker 2: and possibly not going home with them. That just seemed
Speaker 2: like the right partnership. So I went and visited them,
Speaker 2: and I visit them as often as I can, and
Speaker 2: so proceeds from wine and many other things that we
Speaker 2: do go to Family House. And since then they've been
Speaker 2: able to build an eighty family building and so it
Speaker 2: is full. One of the time, kids from all over
Speaker 2: the world go to UCSF Hospital because they specialize in
Speaker 2: kid stuff, kid cancer basically, and so when you go there,
Speaker 2: you leave so inspired and so heartbroken at the same time.
Speaker 2: It's uh, there's there's something like that in Seattle as
Speaker 2: well in every other city. If you'd like to know
Speaker 2: about your community, you know, I always say that doing
Speaker 2: your own community is probably the way to do it,
Speaker 2: because then you can go see it when you want to.
Speaker 1: But what you guys have done, just I went online
Speaker 1: and I looked at the pictures and I looked at them.
Speaker 1: I watched a bunch of the videos of the families
Speaker 1: and their stories, and man, good work.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's good work. And they have a lot of volunteers.
Speaker 2: My sister in law who's here in Seattle, lost a
Speaker 2: child a couple of years ago, and so she started
Speaker 2: a charity called Season of Miracles. Her daughter was called
Speaker 2: Season and Seattle Children's Hospital we've been working for about
Speaker 2: four years now to try to build a garden, a sanctuary,
Speaker 2: a place for moms and dads and kids to go
Speaker 2: while their children are in this hospital being worked on,
Speaker 2: sometimes just being sick, a place for people to go
Speaker 2: to meditate, prey and the paperwork, the red tape. It
Speaker 2: is exhausting. They have all the money that it's going
Speaker 2: to take to build it. They just I mean, if
Speaker 2: anybody you know can inspire the city of Seattle to
Speaker 2: help us deliver that sooner rather than later, that'd be great.
Speaker 1: I will see what who I know and put it
Speaker 1: out there. So it's going to be called the garden
Speaker 1: is going to be.
Speaker 2: Called Season of Miracles Garden.
Speaker 1: Season of Miracles Garden. And how old was season when
Speaker 1: she changed her?
Speaker 2: She is one month. She was real sick, unexpectacledly right
Speaker 2: at birth and didn't make it past thirty days.
Speaker 1: I'm so sorry.
Speaker 2: Yeah, me too. It's a you know, it's something that
Speaker 2: it happens to other women and other parents, but when
Speaker 2: it happens to your family, you want to do something
Speaker 2: about it. And this is a way to help a
Speaker 2: lot of people because it's one of the things that
Speaker 2: was missing obviously, other than your child getting well, a
Speaker 2: place to go, you know, just somewhere to find some dignity.
Speaker 2: That's what family house does. These people come there are
Speaker 2: many times poor, They have six kids, sick kids, they
Speaker 2: lose their jobs, et cetera. And then they come in
Speaker 2: and the first room in this building is a room
Speaker 2: to collect yourself so that you can find your dignity
Speaker 2: to go move on. And that's what I think this
Speaker 2: garden will provide for people.
Speaker 1: So Drops of Jupiter is the name of your wine. Yes,
Speaker 1: that named after the song that your mother inspired you with.
Speaker 1: But it's hard to find.
Speaker 2: Well, there's a reason for it. Drops of Jupiter was
Speaker 2: created with my partner at Concannon Winery in Livermore, California.
Speaker 2: And like the music world, wine has to find its
Speaker 2: place out there in the world. And the way to
Speaker 2: do it is you make a deal with Target. Hey, Target,
Speaker 2: if you sell my record, we'll give you these two
Speaker 2: extra songs. Right, So there's a way to inspire people
Speaker 2: to buy your product. Wine is much more competitive even
Speaker 2: and so we made we signed an exclusivity deal with
Speaker 2: Publics in Florida and HB in Texas, and so they
Speaker 2: were exclusive to Drops A Jupiter, Pinot, Sauvignon blanc and
Speaker 2: cab and till just recently. So now the label will
Speaker 2: go into restaurants and all the other grocery stores in
Speaker 2: the country. So soon you'll be able to find it,
Speaker 2: but until then you can go to drops to Jupiter
Speaker 2: wine dot com.
Speaker 1: Very nice, and the proceeds from.
Speaker 2: That go to a familyhouse in San Francisco.
Speaker 1: How does that make you feel? Knowing that something you're
Speaker 1: passionate about, something that you birthed, is such a gift
Speaker 1: to families who well.
Speaker 2: To think that it's a win win. You can catch
Speaker 2: a little buzz and help people out. You know, it's
Speaker 2: a pretty fun thing, but it's also it's a really
Speaker 2: good product. You know. When we started the wine business
Speaker 2: that we are in, we didn't want to be the cliche, Oh,
Speaker 2: here's a little bottle of train wine that you can
Speaker 2: put on your shelf and never drink it because it's
Speaker 2: from the concert. This is like a real bottle of wine.
Speaker 2: It's a twenty dollars retail and it's quality everything and
Speaker 2: including what it benefits, and so it's all fun.
Speaker 1: I'm not a wine drinker. I think the last time
Speaker 1: I drank wine it was Boons Farm Strawberry Hill mixed
Speaker 1: with seven up and I was wearing you.
Speaker 2: Know what, that's actually the ingredients of plutonium. So you
Speaker 2: had it after all?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah I did. I just didn't know it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I looked for some after I found out about yours,
Speaker 1: because I do this fundraiser for or the NGO that
Speaker 1: I that I started, called Point Hope, and we do
Speaker 1: a fundraiser every year called Farm to Feast where people
Speaker 1: come to my farm and I grow organic fruits and
Speaker 1: vegetables and we feast and we always pair it. We
Speaker 1: have really lovely wines that we pair everything with. So
Speaker 1: I was looking for drops of Jupiter Wine and there's
Speaker 1: no store within three hundred miles.
Speaker 2: No, we'll just send it to you next time.
Speaker 1: Awesome. Awesome, Well you'll have to come next time too,
Speaker 1: it's up you'll be on tour.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll send you wine next time you do your event.
Speaker 1: Pat Monahan, thank you for making the drive today giving
Speaker 1: us the low down on everything happening with you and
Speaker 1: the band. Good luck with the tour this summer, and
Speaker 1: thank you for your offer to share some drops of
Speaker 1: Jupiter Wine with our Point Hope gala this summer. But
Speaker 1: I got to say, Pat, you're wrong on one level.
Speaker 1: You're not your average supermodel, as you said, your way
Speaker 1: above ava and all things, my friend, but most especially
Speaker 1: your capacity for loving Pick up the Train CD greatest
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