Speaker 1: Heavy holiday from today.
Speaker 2: Is December twenty fourth, Christmas Eve. And whether you've had
Speaker 2: your last gift purchased and wrapped for days and are
Speaker 2: casually fluffing pillows and we'll spend your day napping, or
Speaker 2: you're planning to jump in the car head to them all,
Speaker 2: buy all the gifts, stop at the grocery store, pick
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Speaker 2: the night after all night wrapping, rapping, rapping. I've got
Speaker 2: a very special gift for you, the gift of the
Speaker 2: one and only Michael Bublay. Michael has had a busy
Speaker 2: year this year. He joined the coaching staff of The
Speaker 2: Voice season twenty six, and not long after our conversation,
Speaker 2: became the first coach in the history of the show
Speaker 2: to have the top two artist on his team on
Speaker 2: his debut season. No surprise, Michael's always been number one
Speaker 2: with me. He positively gushes about his time on this
Speaker 2: hit show and even more so his love for fellow
Speaker 2: coaches Gwen Stefani, Snoop Dog and Reba McIntyre. I rarely
Speaker 2: watch TV, but I made an exception for The Voice
Speaker 2: this season, because when it comes to mister Boublay. I
Speaker 2: am all in, but that's not all Michael's been doing.
Speaker 2: Somehow he find time to write a few songs, a
Speaker 2: new one in fact, not just any song, but a
Speaker 2: Christmas song. Not just any Christmas song, but a heartfelt
Speaker 2: Christmas prayer, and it'll absolutely wreck you well it did
Speaker 2: me anyway. Break out the tissue. Michael's song called Maybe
Speaker 2: This Christmas a special song that comes from a deep place.
Speaker 2: And I know you'll all agree with that statement when
Speaker 2: you hear it. I could say more more than Michael
Speaker 2: could at the time we recorded this conversation, but I won't.
Speaker 2: I want you to hear from him what it meant,
Speaker 2: why he's so proud of it, and what he hopes
Speaker 2: to bring to everyone that listens to it. I'll be
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Speaker 2: Cow Michael Boublay. I love you, I miss you, but
Speaker 2: I get to see you. I see one the waste
Speaker 2: all the time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I pretended every Monday Tuesday at.
Speaker 2: NI Yeah yeah yeah. Well I'm on the air then,
Speaker 2: so I have to watch it on my computer later.
Speaker 4: But I mean, I'm unfortunately watching football those nights, very busy,
Speaker 4: so I don't have a chance to see it.
Speaker 3: But you guys can all remind me of what.
Speaker 2: Wait wait wait wait wait wait, but do you get
Speaker 2: like you're like I was there. I remember. I don't
Speaker 2: really need to watch it again, right, you know what?
Speaker 3: I don't.
Speaker 4: I don't know how about about you. I don't watch.
Speaker 4: I will not watch myself. And uh, I get updates
Speaker 4: from my family, like my sisters have watching parties where
Speaker 4: all their friends come over and they all like do
Speaker 4: nachos and pot luck stuff and they all watch them
Speaker 4: and then and of course I'm not allowed to say
Speaker 4: I know what's happening, and I'm not allowed to say.
Speaker 3: It, but you know, it's weird. Lola. This is This
Speaker 3: is going to maybe sound funky for people, but it is.
Speaker 3: It is warm, it is spiritual.
Speaker 4: It is the greatest gig I've ever had in my
Speaker 4: life because Reba McIntyre is the real deal, and Gwen
Speaker 4: Stefani is a beautiful soul, and Snoop is a grandpa
Speaker 4: who is a beautiful guy who's hey, listen, he's a
Speaker 4: bad man and he's cool and he's all. But there
Speaker 4: are beautiful human beings. And we love those artists that
Speaker 4: we work with. We love those kids. I mean, listen this.
Speaker 2: Okay, Michael, Michael, Michael, can I just can we cut
Speaker 2: to the chase here? I love them all. I've had
Speaker 2: Riba on my show. I think Gwen is gorgeous. Snoop
Speaker 2: is a funky cool Snoop Dogg. But I'm in love
Speaker 2: with you, okay. And I always have to ask about
Speaker 2: your beautiful wife and your kids to remind myself that
Speaker 2: you know you're married to.
Speaker 4: Like my wife would be happy to just you, she'd
Speaker 4: say go ahead, and.
Speaker 2: That I'm chasing his four babies around. Your Your baby
Speaker 2: is eleven now.
Speaker 3: Okay, morning, I just want to show you something.
Speaker 4: This is so people might think it's all fake and stuff,
Speaker 4: but you're the same, and I know.
Speaker 3: You so I know you so well because we're friends.
Speaker 4: So you know, once those kids are gone or they're
Speaker 4: not on my team, or they are on my team,
Speaker 4: I'm talking to them all the time. I gave them
Speaker 4: my number and we're just this morning. There's a kid
Speaker 4: named Joachim. He's this beautiful kid squeak fourteen years old.
Speaker 2: The kid who did God only knows that kid. Janie
Speaker 2: saw it first and sent it to me and made
Speaker 2: me cry. And my daughter Tangy was here visiting, who's
Speaker 2: had like so many struggles the last few years. So
Speaker 2: I'm like, you got to see this, you see this,
Speaker 2: and I played it for her. She cried and then
Speaker 2: we all watched it like twenty more times that night.
Speaker 2: What a talented sweet boy.
Speaker 3: He's a sweet kid. So he wrote me this morning, Hey, hey,
Speaker 3: hey uncle Mike. Mom. My mom would like to send
Speaker 3: this to the d DOUBLEG.
Speaker 4: She is a teacher and this is her turkey trot
Speaker 4: sign and that's so that's what they meant. Made in
Speaker 4: their class. You can see all the kids. So I
Speaker 4: sent it. So I sent it to Snoop this morning,
Speaker 4: and of course he's so cute. He's he's overwhelmed by it.
Speaker 4: He thinks it's you know what I mean, like it
Speaker 4: mess him so much. It's such a beautiful family Thingila.
Speaker 4: I never knew it could be like that. I never
Speaker 4: knew that it could be that cool and that much fun.
Speaker 3: It's a blast.
Speaker 2: So I've been interviewing winners of the Voice, you know,
Speaker 2: the judges of the Boys, for twenty five years now
Speaker 2: on my show, and I have never watched a full
Speaker 2: episode of the Voice until Wow, until mister Bubbly, I.
Speaker 3: Made you watch.
Speaker 2: You made me watch some I'm like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 2: this is what everybody's been talking about all these years.
Speaker 3: This is so good.
Speaker 4: I know you love me, but there must be times
Speaker 4: when you go like, oh, he's so stupid.
Speaker 3: Oh bub Man, No, So I have so much fun.
Speaker 3: I'm so I like, I'll write things like I'll get.
Speaker 4: There in the morning and I'll be like, today, I
Speaker 4: think I'm going to do movie Lias, I'm gonna lie
Speaker 4: about movies.
Speaker 3: I'm going to say and watch.
Speaker 4: I look over and I got Gwen next to me,
Speaker 4: and she's going, oh, you're so stupid.
Speaker 3: And when she does.
Speaker 4: It, it's the greatest problem anyone could give me, because
Speaker 4: I know for a fact because I talked to Blake,
Speaker 4: that's exactly what she says to Blake, Blake, you're so stupid.
Speaker 2: And it's the sweetest, it's the sweetest compliment.
Speaker 3: It's the greatest And Reeb is so she's just so cute.
Speaker 3: She's the gangster. By the way, she's my hero Gangsta.
Speaker 4: Snoop calls Ariba magnet Tire, called Reba magnet Tire because God,
Speaker 4: God help you if you think you're going to go
Speaker 4: up against her, and that anyone who's going to choose you,
Speaker 4: because the moment she splashes that smile and those eyes
Speaker 4: light up is over.
Speaker 2: It's over. It's over. They go with the She's Everybody's
Speaker 2: she's everybody's darling.
Speaker 4: And Snoop and I just we just crack each other up.
Speaker 4: We spend the whole time just dying.
Speaker 2: So you've got a new Christmas song out, and I
Speaker 2: just got a copy of it, and I listened to it,
Speaker 2: like not not as many times as I listen to Joaquines.
Speaker 2: God only knows. By the way, I need that young
Speaker 2: man's number. You got to hook me up because I
Speaker 2: want him on my show. I'm going to have him
Speaker 2: on my show. If his mama says it's okay.
Speaker 3: I think absolutely, I'll do it right now.
Speaker 2: I love him. But I got a copy of the song,
Speaker 2: and it's so pretty. You well, harmony, you and Carly,
Speaker 2: and that would where where you fade out and she
Speaker 2: comes in and then you do that thing.
Speaker 3: Do you understand what it's about?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Oh yeah, it's about faith. Yeah, about the
Speaker 2: prayer you put in there the second or I was like,
Speaker 2: you know, right right after the little intro of the
Speaker 2: storyline and you start praying in the song and I'm like, whoa,
Speaker 2: Michael's taking me to church here.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: When I was writing it, I realized that I it
Speaker 4: was a hymn, and I realized that.
Speaker 3: This is a really this sounds so cliche, but it's
Speaker 3: the truth.
Speaker 4: It is a really, really hard time.
Speaker 3: For many people.
Speaker 4: Many many people feel a lot of ways about it.
Speaker 4: They're alone, they're vulnerable, and I just started writing something
Speaker 4: that came from a very deep place my faith. I
Speaker 4: hope the humanity that we should feel towards each other
Speaker 4: and Carly Pierce. I called Carly and I was like, Carly,
Speaker 4: you know you got to do this with me. You
Speaker 4: got to you got to show up. And she flew
Speaker 4: to Vancouver and we did it and in a day,
Speaker 4: in a couple of days. I mean, it was one
Speaker 4: of those songs that, especially as I opened myself up
Speaker 4: and said, like this is you know, this is a
Speaker 4: song about about faith and a man who's it wasn't
Speaker 4: it wasn't romantic. I didn't want it to be a
Speaker 4: song about, well, I'm missing you tonight and I need you.
Speaker 2: No, No, I got it right.
Speaker 4: Off the bat, a man saying I am at the
Speaker 4: end and I don't know how much longer I can
Speaker 4: hang on.
Speaker 3: And there's a lot there's a line.
Speaker 4: I wrote, it's a shodown in the dark, might be
Speaker 4: wishing on a star. It's him doubting his faith and
Speaker 4: him saying, but Jesus God, if you're there, if you exist,
Speaker 4: we need you give me your grace because I don't
Speaker 4: know if I can make it without it. And when
Speaker 4: Harley comes in. There was a reason why I wrote
Speaker 4: it the way I did. I wrote it so that
Speaker 4: as he's ending that prayer, she overlaps him. She doesn't
Speaker 4: even give us space a musical break. She overlaps and
Speaker 4: that can be his therapist, his sister, his friend, you know,
Speaker 4: his person, his go to somebody who realizes that there's
Speaker 4: a person there who is lost. And you know, I
Speaker 4: know you and I.
Speaker 3: Talked about this a lot through COVID.
Speaker 4: I can't believe how many people that later after the fact,
Speaker 4: I would find out that I called, even family members,
Speaker 4: and they would say to me years later, when you
Speaker 4: called to see how I was, When you called to
Speaker 4: check on me, you had no idea, how low, you
Speaker 4: had no idea, how scary.
Speaker 2: And how at that moment God sent.
Speaker 4: You and you came to check on me. And I
Speaker 4: thought no one cared, and I thought I was a lone.
Speaker 4: And that's the beauty of what I hoped that this
Speaker 4: would do. And I hope you don't live in success
Speaker 4: and money and fame and power and all those things.
Speaker 4: You get to the end of your life, none of
Speaker 4: those things matter. A lick that lailah, not a lick Nope.
Speaker 4: Is you know what is your legacy? Is it kindness?
Speaker 3: Is that love? Is a life? Is it empathy?
Speaker 4: And I look at my beautiful kids, and I think
Speaker 4: that's what they'll be proud of. How did my daddy
Speaker 4: make people feel and when I wrote this song, I
Speaker 4: was so proud because I knew I was doing something positive.
Speaker 4: It wasn't to go and make money, and it wasn't
Speaker 4: to go and do something that would move me ahead.
Speaker 4: I thought, you know what, this is a special song,
Speaker 4: comes from a deep place. The last time I wrote
Speaker 4: something that had that much of an impact on me
Speaker 4: as I was writing.
Speaker 3: It was home. And it's just a fact, it's just
Speaker 3: what it is.
Speaker 4: And I know because I called my co writers when
Speaker 4: I come up with the chorus, and I said to them, guys,
Speaker 4: this is this is the best work I've done a
Speaker 4: lot long time.
Speaker 3: And I mean.
Speaker 4: Truth, ernest, emotion. You know that's that's and that's all
Speaker 4: you can hope for.
Speaker 2: Well, I love everything you do. But but last night
Speaker 2: I cried. I cried because I knew it was a prayer.
Speaker 2: I listened to it again and I said, oh my gosh,
Speaker 2: he even says it's a prayer.
Speaker 4: I mean it's called listen, it's called maybe This Christmas.
Speaker 3: And a day.
Speaker 4: After I put it out Delilah and someone said to me, wow,
Speaker 4: you put out a song called maybe This Christmas, saying
Speaker 4: is it the same song as Jason Kelsey and uh
Speaker 4: and Stevie Nicks I was like, no, it.
Speaker 2: Is no, no, no, not the same song.
Speaker 4: We just happened to name it this same We just
Speaker 4: happen to come up with a song with the same name.
Speaker 3: Very different songs.
Speaker 2: Anyway, Well, maybe this, Chris is a prayer that a lot.
Speaker 2: You know. Somebody asked me in an interview they did
Speaker 2: with me, what's different this holiday season from the past,
Speaker 2: And I said, there is a sense of hopelessness that
Speaker 2: I can't even describe, a sense of loneliness that people
Speaker 2: are experiencing that they can't even really put into words,
Speaker 2: but you feel it and you hear it in my collars.
Speaker 2: And man, this song is perfect.
Speaker 3: I hope it brings hope.
Speaker 2: Can we hear the song? Michael? I want to share
Speaker 2: with everyone listening to this podcast episode.
Speaker 3: Yes, I've been writing all WoT.
Speaker 5: I've been trying to get it right sentimentally a thing
Speaker 5: I do well. But it's Christmas time again.
Speaker 3: Hell.
Speaker 5: I listen a home my friends and the allion miles away,
Speaker 5: A touch to the hell. Now it's a shot out
Speaker 5: in the dark. I'm just wishing all to stop, and
Speaker 5: I wish you just want to do.
Speaker 6: Lord.
Speaker 5: I think I made July on this cold and silent nye.
Speaker 5: I'm just hanging over. It's all that I can do.
Speaker 3: And the snow.
Speaker 5: Falling down on the city and the put souls below.
Speaker 1: It ain't the same.
Speaker 5: When it comes down and turkeys into read because it's
Speaker 5: Ristmas time. I can't be.
Speaker 6: You've been run through my mind, and no matter how
Speaker 6: I try, when the bell's all same, pet start touring,
Speaker 6: and it's so hard for me to hear your loneness,
Speaker 6: tilly ear, and the bitterness that that cone must breed.
Speaker 7: And when you're sit in the dark and it's falling
Speaker 7: all apart.
Speaker 3: I'll be lining up.
Speaker 7: I can't do all for you, and all it's set
Speaker 7: the alone with you, joy and peace and hope which
Speaker 7: you all alone, that your heart and hold.
Speaker 3: And all.
Speaker 5: Oh the snow falling down the city.
Speaker 3: And they put souls below.
Speaker 1: The same.
Speaker 3: When it comes down, it turns into.
Speaker 8: It because it's Christmas time. Shouldn't be again. Maybe it's
Speaker 8: Christmas don't.
Speaker 5: Have to be.
Speaker 3: Again.
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Speaker 4: This song moved the right people in the right places,
Speaker 4: and it had nothing to do with me. It was
Speaker 4: it truly was. It just got it got hurt, and
Speaker 4: it just started to have a life of its own.
Speaker 2: Biggest Christmas tradition with the kids before you go, biggest
Speaker 2: holiday thing you're going to do?
Speaker 4: Did it last night? We did it last night. We
Speaker 4: went and we decorated the Christmas tree. We played Bing
Speaker 4: Crosby his Christmas.
Speaker 2: Record and decorated the tree.
Speaker 4: So we do just like my mom and dad did
Speaker 4: for me, and and decorated the tree.
Speaker 2: Wow, Merry Christmas.
Speaker 3: For the very first time ever, I listened to the song.
Speaker 3: I asked.
Speaker 4: We played it on whatever it was iTunes or Amazon
Speaker 4: or whatever the heck it was, and uh, sounded.
Speaker 2: Pretty good to your own song.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we did only one, so I got so everything
Speaker 4: was Bing Crosby.
Speaker 3: I think we listened to me. Who's the thing? I
Speaker 3: love you, guys, I love you.
Speaker 2: Merry Christmas, Honey.
Speaker 3: Vice Redyanks for having me.
Speaker 2: You didn't have a lot of time together, but I
Speaker 2: treasure any stolen moments with Michael Bubley, and he was
Speaker 2: more generous than a mare stolen moment. Besides, it's Christmas Eve,
Speaker 2: and I know everyone has things to do. The stuff
Speaker 2: I said in the beginning about having guest rap and
Speaker 2: spending the day napping, anybody does anybody in that that
Speaker 2: group raise your hand? Yeah, we know that's a fantasy.
Speaker 2: I will be up all night stuffing stockings, baking pies,
Speaker 2: who knows what else, But I am so thrilled I
Speaker 2: got to share this time with Michael. With all of you,
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Speaker 2: Michael wishes you joy and peace and hope and all
Speaker 2: the love your heart can hold. And that is my
Speaker 2: prayer for you as well. Through the dark days of winter,
Speaker 2: the long dark days of winter. Hold on to hope
Speaker 2: as it may feel at times. And while I can't
Speaker 2: be with all of you in person as I would
Speaker 2: love to be, I will be keeping you company on
Speaker 2: the airwaves every evening, taking your calls, hearing your stories,
Speaker 2: keeping you close in my heart. Merry Christmas, my friends,
Speaker 2: Thank you for the gift of your love.
Speaker 1: Happy holidays from the Li