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Speaker 1: am Gold, which is set to release on ma frontman
Speaker 1: Pat Monaghan is setting down with me to tell me
Speaker 1: all about it. Am Gold is the group's first release
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Speaker 1: watch the amazing lyric video. Pat's busy with other ventures
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Speaker 1: an award winning wine maker. His label, Saved Me San
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Speaker 1: assist San Francisco based Family House, a charity that supports
Speaker 1: families of children with cancer and other life threatening illnesses.
Speaker 1: He's also appeared on TV and in films with credits
Speaker 1: that include last year's Hallmark Channel Christmas and Tahoe, inspired
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Speaker 1: Today's episode of Love Someone. Pat Monahan, frontman for Train.
Speaker 1: Good morning. So you are going on the road soon, uh,
Speaker 1: And before we talk about your tour, we got to
Speaker 1: talk about am Gold. I'm in love with am Gold.
Speaker 1: I'm so in love with that song for so many reasons.
Speaker 1: But tell me, tell me your inspiration. Well, you know,
Speaker 1: in the beginning of the pandemic, we had our twenty
Speaker 1: anniversary of Drops and Jupiter. We put the Greatest Hits
Speaker 1: record out and I was writing this record and going
Speaker 1: to Los Angeles all the time, and and I loved
Speaker 1: the record. But it was pretty pop, and uh, it
Speaker 1: was it was cool. It was it was going to
Speaker 1: be really fun and and good. But then the pandemic
Speaker 1: hit and everyone that I was writing with they shut
Speaker 1: it down and I ended up I ended up writing
Speaker 1: songs virtually with my band, and as we wrote these songs,
Speaker 1: I was like, this is the record that I was
Speaker 1: supposed to make. It's uh, it's a throwback record with
Speaker 1: you know, R and B and and disco and you know,
Speaker 1: singer songwriter songs. And my manager was like, you're making
Speaker 1: an am Gold record and I was like, that might
Speaker 1: be before my time. What is that? So I watched
Speaker 1: all these uh advertisements about the am Gold albums and
Speaker 1: I was like, that's exactly what this is. It's an
Speaker 1: am Gold album. It's like a compilation of all these
Speaker 1: different sounds that were you know, hit songs back then.
Speaker 1: And uh. Then I wrote the song am Gold because
Speaker 1: that was the last one to be written that would
Speaker 1: tie it all together and make sense of the whole thing.
Speaker 1: And it ends up being the first thing that people here.
Speaker 1: But when you hear the rest of the album, you'll
Speaker 1: you'll definitely recognize that throwback sound. That is going to be, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, a fresh reminder of the past. But usually
Speaker 1: I'm inspired by current artists doing current work, but this
Speaker 1: one was inspired by the past, for sure. My podcast
Speaker 1: producer and I were talking about it before you came on,
Speaker 1: and she's like, I am so in love with the song.
Speaker 1: I am so in love with this project, and it is.
Speaker 1: It's got that throwback sound, but it's got a fresh message,
Speaker 1: Like it's got the sound that's kind of throwback and retro,
Speaker 1: but the message and the lyrics are vitally important, I
Speaker 1: think for where we're all at right now. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think that what you know, I read this quote about
Speaker 1: the Internet and how we're so stressed that we just
Speaker 1: keep scrolling or we're so happy that we just keep scrolling,
Speaker 1: and we're all these things, but to get back in
Speaker 1: touch with being human and being there from one another.
Speaker 1: And uh, you know, if if he don't love you
Speaker 1: no more, she don't love you no more, if they
Speaker 1: don't love you anymore, than just get on the dance
Speaker 1: floor with the people that do love you. Because that's
Speaker 1: really you know, life can be a dance party if
Speaker 1: if you want that, you know it can. And honestly,
Speaker 1: don't you think it's a much better dance party when
Speaker 1: you are just dancing with the folks that love you
Speaker 1: rather than worrying about coupling. And and uh, it's coming
Speaker 1: back that that understanding, that that my friendships are precious
Speaker 1: and worth celebrating. And that was the feeling that I
Speaker 1: got the fifteen times I listened to a gold Over
Speaker 1: and well, thanks, I love that that's a you know,
Speaker 1: my wife and I talk a lot about um music
Speaker 1: that makes you feel good, because what a great gift
Speaker 1: that's given all of us over the year is to
Speaker 1: like find a son that makes you feel good about
Speaker 1: yourself because it's hard to be human sometimes, and you know,
Speaker 1: with the last two years and then as soon as
Speaker 1: the pandemic seems to be reaching its end, people are
Speaker 1: worried about what's happening in the Ukraine and Russia that
Speaker 1: it might sift into the rest of our human existence.
Speaker 1: And to have a song that could maybe uh give you,
Speaker 1: you know, two and a half minutes of thinking about
Speaker 1: something that that is okay, it seems like a pretty good,
Speaker 1: pretty good gift. I have made an effort the last
Speaker 1: couple of years since I've been doing the podcast to
Speaker 1: try not to try not to interject my own stuff
Speaker 1: into conversations, which is hard because that's you know, who
Speaker 1: I am by nature. But I just bought an AM
Speaker 1: radio station by the first AM station that I was
Speaker 1: ever on, the first radio station I was on the
Speaker 1: Envy and uh, circumstances came together and it's been dark
Speaker 1: for a while and I was able to buy it
Speaker 1: and put it back on the air. So what will
Speaker 1: what will it broadcast? Um? It's it's for and about
Speaker 1: the community that I grew up in and read sport. Um.
Speaker 1: But it's on I Heart Radio now, So anybody who
Speaker 1: wants to escape the madness of big cities and feel
Speaker 1: like they're a part of something really sweet and really
Speaker 1: precious can listen. That's really cool. What's the station? Uh,
Speaker 1: it's called k do you in Doune Radio? Voice of
Speaker 1: the Oregon Dunes ten three oh Dune Radio. So if
Speaker 1: you just go on iHeart wherever you are, you can
Speaker 1: look up ten three. Oh, that's really cool and we play.
Speaker 1: I think that you interjecting yourself. That's why people listen
Speaker 1: to you. So you have to you have to keep
Speaker 1: doing that. Oh thank you. Well. I tend to be
Speaker 1: somewhat narcissistic, Okay, a lot narcissistic sometimes, and I'm trying
Speaker 1: to stop that. Um. But when I heard a am
Speaker 1: Gold and I listened to it, I'm like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, this is perfect because all the music
Speaker 1: is retro on the station. But I'm adding this because
Speaker 1: it's so perfect. It's so there's so many you know,
Speaker 1: there's sometimes in life that things just cosmically seemed to
Speaker 1: come together in Like I'll bake something or make a
Speaker 1: dinner that I always make for the kids, but sometimes
Speaker 1: there's that extra ingredient or extra bit of sour cream.
Speaker 1: I don't know what it is, and the kids will go,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, Mom, this is the best laza on
Speaker 1: you you've ever made. You know, whatever it is. And
Speaker 1: that's am Gold, like when I listened to it, because
Speaker 1: the meaning, the lyrics, the hope that it offers, the
Speaker 1: self awareness that you gotta love yourself. You gotta you
Speaker 1: gotta like yourself. You've gotta love yourself, and you gotta
Speaker 1: make your dreams come true. Stop waiting. And I hate
Speaker 1: Disney movies where they wait for Prince Charming, you know,
Speaker 1: to come along. Stop waiting, Stop waiting. So that's one
Speaker 1: of the one of those songs, um and I know
Speaker 1: you're you're working with Jewel this summer. But her her
Speaker 1: song Hands when it came out, had that same impact
Speaker 1: on my heart, like it was perfection, And when I
Speaker 1: listened to am Gold, it was perfection. You know. I
Speaker 1: feel like you and would be good friends. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: very similar way about looking at things. I love that
Speaker 1: woman's tenacity. Yeah, she's cool. She's so cool and and
Speaker 1: I have loved watching her career and her personality evolve
Speaker 1: to you know what, I'm gonna I'm gonna say what
Speaker 1: it is. I'm gonna say what it is. I'm not
Speaker 1: going to hold back anymore. Yeah, she's good at it.
Speaker 1: She's good at doing it in a way that makes uh,
Speaker 1: makes her sounds art instead of judge. She is, she's
Speaker 1: aware instead of critical. I think she's probably one of
Speaker 1: those MINSA people. You know. Yeah, maybe she has that
Speaker 1: big high i Q going on. Yeah. I never had
Speaker 1: to worry about that neither. Ah. So you're going on
Speaker 1: tour this summer with am Gold and it's been two years,
Speaker 1: three years since he got to tour. Well, we toured
Speaker 1: last summer. We did twenty five shows and every moment
Speaker 1: we were worried we would get shut down because every
Speaker 1: tour around us was getting shut down, and we lasted
Speaker 1: the whole time. It worked out great. All the tickets
Speaker 1: were sold and many times there would be hundreds of
Speaker 1: people that didn't show up because they were uh, you
Speaker 1: know that the times were shifting all over the place.
Speaker 1: It was a big wave. Everyone was on and so
Speaker 1: there would be some towns. But we played Shout to St.
Speaker 1: Michel and in Seattle for two nights and everybody showed up.
Speaker 1: But it was really beautiful. My a ten year old
Speaker 1: son came out and did a song that I was
Speaker 1: a feature on called vacation a I'm a make Asian
Speaker 1: every single day because I love my occupation. So he
Speaker 1: did that with me and we just had a great time.
Speaker 1: So this this summer will be an extension of that
Speaker 1: one in a lot of ways and then a lot
Speaker 1: different in other ways. I think because there's so many
Speaker 1: horns and strings on this new album, we'll we'll bring
Speaker 1: out a horn section. Really makes some fun of it.
Speaker 1: It sounds wonderful. So tell everybody who else is going
Speaker 1: to be with you other than Jewel and Blues Traveler.
Speaker 1: We hadn't mentioned John yet. We hadn't mentioned John or
Speaker 1: or Blues Traveler. Is it the whole group or just
Speaker 1: John Popper? No, to be the whole group. So John
Speaker 1: and I years ago, like many years ago, we closed
Speaker 1: this club in d C down called the Bayou. Do
Speaker 1: you remember that one? So it was a little club
Speaker 1: that we were the last ones to be on stage.
Speaker 1: And then I think they turned it into some apartment buildings.
Speaker 1: But and then years later Train open from Blues Traveler
Speaker 1: at the Greek Theater before we had a record deal
Speaker 1: in the Greek Theater in San Francisco. Uh, and then
Speaker 1: we got a record deal. And you know, I haven't
Speaker 1: seen John in a while, but he was on my
Speaker 1: podcast when I had it, you know, like ten years ago,
Speaker 1: and I haven't seen him since. But I think that
Speaker 1: it'll be just like getting back together like old friends,
Speaker 1: and we'll join each other on stage. And I'm on
Speaker 1: one of Jewel's songs on her new album, and she's
Speaker 1: on one of ours, and so we'll join each other
Speaker 1: on stage for that. Because I've learned the hard way
Speaker 1: that camaraderie is not just the best way to enjoy
Speaker 1: a tour as a travel traveling musician, but it's also
Speaker 1: the best way for fans to enjoy uh your tour
Speaker 1: and for it to be special is if they can
Speaker 1: see that camaraderie. And I always try to make that
Speaker 1: a big part of every show. So John Popper was
Speaker 1: the featured artist on a tour that I went on
Speaker 1: in two thousand and six. We went to Afghanistan to Iraq,
Speaker 1: we did a military tour with the Air Force Reserve band.
Speaker 1: John's the funniest, funniest man I think I've ever met. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's hilarious. Gosh, what an amazing time we had. What
Speaker 1: a gifted artist. Yeah, he's cool. I think in the
Speaker 1: beginning of the tour, a friend of mine, his name
Speaker 1: is Thunderstorm Artiss is going to come out and he'll
Speaker 1: open all the shows and kids. Understorm artis from from Hawaii. Yeah,
Speaker 1: do you know him. I took my family to Hawaii
Speaker 1: and we decided to go to this little area and
Speaker 1: we hear music. And my godson, who is the engineer
Speaker 1: on this podcast, heard music and he's a musician. He's like, Wow,
Speaker 1: that sounds good. Let's go check it out. So we
Speaker 1: go and we go meet the whole artist family that
Speaker 1: are phenomenal. And it was shortly after their papa had passed,
Speaker 1: who was the king of their family, and the mom
Speaker 1: was trying to keep the kids together, trying to keep
Speaker 1: them going forward, and was doing an amazing job in
Speaker 1: the midst of her great grief. And we spent hours
Speaker 1: with him, like, hey, stay and eat, we'll have dinner
Speaker 1: with you. And we looked at their artwork, and we
Speaker 1: looked at their graphic work, and we looked at their batiquing,
Speaker 1: and blah blah blah. Ryan comes to me and he goes,
Speaker 1: remember the artist family from Hawaii. Check dude out. He's
Speaker 1: unlike American idol or whatever it was. It was like,
Speaker 1: holy moldy, so talented, and I think he was like
Speaker 1: ten or eleven when we met him. I met Thunderstorm
Speaker 1: when he was eight. Uh and years later he opened
Speaker 1: for us last year, last summer, and I was like,
Speaker 1: hey man, you gotta come out with us next year.
Speaker 1: So he's going to come out for the first month
Speaker 1: and uh then he's gonna go have a baby with
Speaker 1: his wife. And then while that's happening, Will from a
Speaker 1: band called Parachute will join us. Will as a wonderful kid.
Speaker 1: You'll know some Parachute songs. He'll take over for a
Speaker 1: Thunderstorm for a month, and then Thunderstorm will come back
Speaker 1: out and finish the tour with us. Oh fun, fun.
Speaker 1: You have surrounded yourself, pat you and train with really
Speaker 1: amazing people. Yeah, that was the end goal, not just
Speaker 1: great artists, but amazing human beings. You're gonna have fun.
Speaker 1: You are going to have so much fun on this tour.
Speaker 1: I have done so many tours, Delilah that uh, I
Speaker 1: have taken away something from every one of them, be
Speaker 1: good or bad. One of the major lessons that I
Speaker 1: learned was one of the first tours I ever did
Speaker 1: was with a band called Everything. You may remember their
Speaker 1: sawing it when who got the Hooch? You got? Anyway,
Speaker 1: it was called the Hooch, and we toured with them
Speaker 1: early on. They had a trombone player who played keyboards.
Speaker 1: His name was Wolf, and he was so fun and
Speaker 1: so cool, and he told me the story that really
Speaker 1: influenced how I was going to behave where he told
Speaker 1: me that he went out with the band Cracker. Uh.
Speaker 1: Cracker was one of my favorite bands at the time,
Speaker 1: and I was like, oh cool? Was it awesome? And
Speaker 1: he was like kinda. But the first night, because everything
Speaker 1: was opening for them, he went up to the B
Speaker 1: three Hammond player and said, hey, man, since this is
Speaker 1: such a big rig in the stage is so small,
Speaker 1: can I use your gear so I don't have to
Speaker 1: bring my B three up in everything? And the guy said,
Speaker 1: here's the way this tour is gonna work. You'll use
Speaker 1: your ship and I'll use mine, and so Wolf said, okay,
Speaker 1: well guess who's him? And B three broke down three
Speaker 1: days later, the guy from Cracker, and I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: sweet dude, I love this and and he goes so
Speaker 1: he had to come to me and said, hey, can
Speaker 1: I use your BE three tonight? And I said, dude,
Speaker 1: would you say? And he said, of course you can.
Speaker 1: Of course you can use my B three because that's
Speaker 1: what he should have said to me, Rise above it,
Speaker 1: Rise above it. And I was like, wow, what a cool,
Speaker 1: what a high level lesson you taught everybody. Instead of
Speaker 1: here's the way this is gonna work, you know, he
Speaker 1: did the opposite. And I was like, I want to
Speaker 1: be like Wolf, uh not, not like anybody else. And
Speaker 1: so I tried to be like that through all of it,
Speaker 1: whether we were opening for someone or we were the headliner,
Speaker 1: and I try to make that environment like Wolf made
Speaker 1: for everyone that we're on tour with, and it just
Speaker 1: works better. It makes people have a better time that paid,
Speaker 1: you know, hard earned money to be in those seats.
Speaker 1: I love every artist that you're talking about that you're
Speaker 1: touring with, and so I can tell the energy is
Speaker 1: going to be wonderful. The new album is going to
Speaker 1: be wonder full. I can't wait. I can't wait. And
Speaker 1: you're starting, You're starting? When? What's the start? On June
Speaker 1: eighth in Boston. So I'll see some you know, at
Speaker 1: this point in my career, I know people in every city,
Speaker 1: So I'll bring my golf clubs and and go to
Speaker 1: barbecues and it'll be really good fun. So we'll start
Speaker 1: on June eighth in Boston at the Exfinity Center. Uh,
Speaker 1: and you know in in the Seattle area will play
Speaker 1: the Climate Pledge Arena where the cracking play. Have you
Speaker 1: been to a cracking game yet? Have not been to?
Speaker 1: I haven't been anywhere since all this stuff really start taking.
Speaker 1: Games are extraordinarily fun. Yeah, the cracking are kind of
Speaker 1: taken over. You know, everybody was a twelve for a while,
Speaker 1: and now I'm seeing the twelve shirts kind of replaced
Speaker 1: with the crack and release the kracking, or at least
Speaker 1: the cracking. Yeah, it's super fun. Well, so we'll be
Speaker 1: here in the Seattle area on August August two at
Speaker 1: the Climate Pledge and everywhere in between. Will be all
Speaker 1: in l A. And we'll be in Bend, Oregon and uh,
Speaker 1: like Tahoe and Denver and New York and Jersey, in Austin,
Speaker 1: Texas and everywhere else. If you think, if you go
Speaker 1: to save Me San Francisco dot com and you can
Speaker 1: find all that out. So tell people why save Me
Speaker 1: San Francisco. Why that was the name of our basically
Speaker 1: our comeback album with Hay Soul Sister on it, and
Speaker 1: the idea behind it was even though I live in
Speaker 1: Seattle because my wife is from here, train came out
Speaker 1: of San Francisco and we really lost touch with the
Speaker 1: fact that you have to be a hometown banned a
Speaker 1: hometown anything, and so Save Me San Francisco was our
Speaker 1: way of asking for them to take us back, and
Speaker 1: they did, and we created a wine and our label
Speaker 1: is the Savy San franc Go Wine brand and we
Speaker 1: donate uh those proceeds to our charity in San Francisco
Speaker 1: called Family House. Every town has something like Children's Hospital
Speaker 1: here in Seattle has a program like that like this,
Speaker 1: but this is an eight room building that houses very
Speaker 1: sick children and their families when they're getting mostly cancer
Speaker 1: work and a lot of head trauma and and things
Speaker 1: done at UCSF Hospital. And there low income families that
Speaker 1: need a place to go. They have to quit their jobs.
Speaker 1: You know, they're coming from Seattle, They're going there from
Speaker 1: Alaska and everywhere else in the world. And it gives
Speaker 1: them a chance to have some dignity and recollect themselves
Speaker 1: so they can fight for their child's life like they
Speaker 1: should be doing. And so that's where Saving San Francisco
Speaker 1: came from. And if somebody wanted to order some wine, yeah,
Speaker 1: you can go to save me san Francisco dot com
Speaker 1: and get that done. And we just we just partnered
Speaker 1: with uh Costco. And your why is one like a
Speaker 1: hundred awards. It's it's not just like, you know, cheap,
Speaker 1: it's not. It's good. It's really award winning delicious wine.
Speaker 1: I would you know, I've always been the kind of person,
Speaker 1: uh where if you I just read this book which
Speaker 1: confirms that I've been, you know, at least consistently doing
Speaker 1: what I was hoping to read. This book that my
Speaker 1: friend Matt Nathanson, who you know, has turned me onto.
Speaker 1: It's called The Courage to Be Disliked. And in this
Speaker 1: book it talks about you know, the need to uh,
Speaker 1: the need to talk about all of your achievements is
Speaker 1: such an insecurity. It's not it's not a power, and
Speaker 1: so it's just better for other people to find out
Speaker 1: about if the wine is good or not then for
Speaker 1: me to tell people it's. Uh. It's just I think
Speaker 1: you can hear the insecurities of people when they're telling
Speaker 1: you all of the wonderfulness that they've done. And this
Speaker 1: book was really intriguing and eye opening about that superiority
Speaker 1: complexes are really inferiority complexes and uh, and so it's
Speaker 1: a pretty fun book. If you already get a chance
Speaker 1: to read it, I will courage to be disliked. I
Speaker 1: can't wait to hear more pat that. I need to
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Speaker 1: when I was very young twenty one, I met my
Speaker 1: first husband, who uh was black, and we fell in
Speaker 1: love and got married, and we were in Vegas or Reno,
Speaker 1: can't remember, but we went on a little three day
Speaker 1: excursion and we were playing the roulette wheel like quarter roulette.
Speaker 1: I love roulette because you don't really win, you don't
Speaker 1: really lose. You can just sit there and play for
Speaker 1: hours and have fun. And that's what we were doing.
Speaker 1: And a very obnoxious person came in and confronted us
Speaker 1: and confronted me and started just saying some very vile things,
Speaker 1: and my hackles went up and my glass of diet
Speaker 1: Soto went down, and I was I was ready. I
Speaker 1: was going to duke it out right there. And my
Speaker 1: husband came and grabbed me by the arm and steered
Speaker 1: me away and steered me outside the building. And I'm like,
Speaker 1: did you hear what he said? Did you hear what
Speaker 1: he said? He'said, I heard what he said. And he
Speaker 1: looked at me and he said, rise above it. His
Speaker 1: nickname for me was Pup, and he said, rise above it, Pup.
Speaker 1: He said, you knew when we got together that there's
Speaker 1: a lot of racism in this world and a lot
Speaker 1: of ignorant people. He said, if you lower yourself to
Speaker 1: fight with somebody who's in the gutter, guess what, yeah,
Speaker 1: and the gutter that sounds like a wise man changed
Speaker 1: my life right there, And I haven't always remembered that
Speaker 1: lesson obviously, but I never once saw him lower himself
Speaker 1: to that level. He always he would always rise above it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's hard sometimes when because we have these emotions
Speaker 1: that tugged us and make us, Uh, I feel like
Speaker 1: we're out of control. Uh, that we are in control
Speaker 1: of them, and that that was not about you and
Speaker 1: your husband, that was about that guy. And and so
Speaker 1: to confront him. Your husband at the time recognized that
Speaker 1: to confront him was to help him deal with his
Speaker 1: own stuff, not ours. Let's let him deal with that
Speaker 1: with somebody else. Rise above it. Well, you know there
Speaker 1: is a line though that that that you know you
Speaker 1: do have the power to help other people. So so yeah,
Speaker 1: I try to use the power that God has given
Speaker 1: me for good and well you're doing it to remind
Speaker 1: people to rise above it. So I would like to
Speaker 1: meet this friend Wolf. Well, I haven't seen Wolf in
Speaker 1: twenty years, but I'm sure he's out there doing great
Speaker 1: things for other people. Well, he would be fun to
Speaker 1: talk to. Maybe I'll find him for this podcast. That
Speaker 1: would be fun. So folks want to get tickets again, Uh,
Speaker 1: save me San Francisco. Uh, they can, they can order
Speaker 1: a case of wine and get tickets to the tour.
Speaker 1: You can find tickets to see Train, Jewel and Blues
Speaker 1: Traveler and thunder a Storm anywhere you want on the internet.
Speaker 1: Do do people understand how much greatness that is in
Speaker 1: one venue. It's a lot of songs you're going to recognize,
Speaker 1: and it's a lot of friends hanging out together. It's
Speaker 1: pretty cool and a lot of talent and a lot
Speaker 1: of goodness, Yeah, a lot of goodness. And plus you know,
Speaker 1: the venues would be filled with super fun, awesome t
Speaker 1: shirts and food and wine and just you know, there's
Speaker 1: there's lawn seats and a lot of places to just
Speaker 1: have picnics. It's it's gonna be just a cool family vibe.
Speaker 1: So bring the kids, Bring the kids, bring the grandma's
Speaker 1: I'm I am both you know. That's that's my joke
Speaker 1: with my joke, told my guys that I golf with
Speaker 1: here I go. Hey, Train's got a new record out.
Speaker 1: Tell your grandma. But you're you've spanned how many decades now,
Speaker 1: I mean you've been doing this. It's been it's been
Speaker 1: two and a half anyway, maybe three. Yeah, yeah, So
Speaker 1: that's a lot of a lot of the last artists
Speaker 1: who at my age had massive global success was share.
Speaker 1: That's saying a lot. I mean, do you believe happen? Love?
Speaker 1: I I I'm proud of you for the diamond status.
Speaker 1: What is it? Fifty eight songs? Well know the diamond.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, there are fifty eight other or fifty seven
Speaker 1: other songs. Yeah, the Diamond was ten million sold of
Speaker 1: Hay Soul Sister. It's pretty fun. That's very fun. So
Speaker 1: of course you'll be singing that and drop some Jupiter
Speaker 1: and all your hits. But I'm going to go for
Speaker 1: am Gold. Yeah, man, m I love that. I'm going
Speaker 1: for am Gold and the new stuff. Yeah, the new
Speaker 1: stuff is really fun, you know. I'm usually I'm the
Speaker 1: guy that's like, why do you have to play the
Speaker 1: new stuff? Can't you play the other stuff? But we
Speaker 1: will do both, and so when the new record comes
Speaker 1: out in May, will keep close tabs on the internet
Speaker 1: to see what people are gravitating towards and we'll add
Speaker 1: those to the show, but not too many. We won't
Speaker 1: bore people. Well, thank you for being here. Pat, it's
Speaker 1: it to see you. It's good to talk to you.
Speaker 1: I miss you. It's always great to see our miss you. Two.
Speaker 1: Thanks we'll we'll hook up soon and I'll see you
Speaker 1: and uh everybody else Jewel and John and Mr Artists
Speaker 1: the summer. And if I can find Wolf, I'll have
Speaker 1: him come out this summer. Find Wolf, send him my direction. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll send him to you, so I'd love to talk
Speaker 1: to him. Well, thanks so much again, thanks by. Since
Speaker 1: forming in nine, Train has had fourteen songs on Billboards
Speaker 1: Hot one hundred, twelve albums on Billboards two D Album Chart,
Speaker 1: and has sold more than ten million albums and thirty
Speaker 1: million tracks worldwide. In March of one, they celebrated the
Speaker 1: twentieth anniversary of their iconic album Drops of Jupiter, and
Speaker 1: the following month, their global hit Hay Soul's Sister was
Speaker 1: certified Diamond by the r i A A one of
Speaker 1: just fifty eight songs in history to reach Diamond status.
Speaker 1: The band has compromised a frontman, Pat Monaghan, with Hector Maldonado,
Speaker 1: Jerry Becker, Taylor Locke, Matt Musty, Sakai Smith and Nikita Houston.
Speaker 1: Train will be hitting the road this summer on their
Speaker 1: upcoming Train Am Gold Tour produced by Live Nation. The
Speaker 1: North American Summer tour will kick off June eight in Mansfield, Massachusetts,
Speaker 1: making thirty five stops in New York, Nashville, Dallas, San Diego, Seattle,
Speaker 1: and Moore before wrapping up on August six, that Colorado's
Speaker 1: iconic Red Rocks Amphitheater. Joining them on the road is
Speaker 1: Grammy nominated singer songwriter and a previous guest on my podcast,
Speaker 1: The Amazing Jewel and multi platinum rock band Blues Travelers.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, this is gonna be an amazing show.
Speaker 1: Amazing Thunderstorm artist and Will Anderson will also join his
Speaker 1: opening acts on select dates. It's going to be amazing.
Speaker 1: Go to save Me San Francisco dot com for tickets,
Speaker 1: and if you're a wine drinker, celebrate by uncorking a
Speaker 1: bottle of Save Me San Francisco wine and support the
Speaker 1: good works that Family House does. I hope there's that
Speaker 1: word again. Hope that Summer two delivers more joy than sorrow.
Speaker 1: I hope we all have multiple opportunities to gather with
Speaker 1: friends and strangers who might become friends in celebration of
Speaker 1: life and love and all things good and wonderful. Until
Speaker 1: it arrives, and while Spring has had her widely ways
Speaker 1: with us, find something right now that you can celebrate,
Speaker 1: like the first yellow daffodil, the pattern the raindrops make
Speaker 1: on your window pane, or the way they hang like
Speaker 1: jewels on the bare tree branches in between the rain squalls.
Speaker 1: Listen to a m Gold on repeat. Just listen to it.
Speaker 1: I don't know two or three times you'll find that
Speaker 1: your feet have a mind of their own and send
Speaker 1: you dancing through the house. That is something to celebrate.
Speaker 1: I'll be here keeping you company through the budding springtime
Speaker 1: and into the heat of summer. Tune into my radio
Speaker 1: program nightly keep listening to Love Someone twice a month.
Speaker 1: We dropped these podcasts twice a month. And find my
Speaker 1: new daily podcast. Hey it's Delilah. It's a short, sweet,
Speaker 1: daily dose of all the best radio moments, dropping Monday
Speaker 1: through Friday. And do me a favor. Take some time
Speaker 1: out of your springtime schedule to slow down and love
Speaker 1: someone