1 00:00:04,240 --> 00:00:10,080 Speaker 1: Merry Christmas, Happy holidays everyone. I hope this holiday season 2 00:00:10,160 --> 00:00:13,600 Speaker 1: has been a season filled with joy for you. I 3 00:00:13,640 --> 00:00:16,079 Speaker 1: hope you have been able to connect heart to heart 4 00:00:16,200 --> 00:00:19,880 Speaker 1: with family, with friends, and I hope you are feeling 5 00:00:20,079 --> 00:00:25,759 Speaker 1: all the fields of the holidays. Maybe you've been baking cookies, 6 00:00:26,280 --> 00:00:29,360 Speaker 1: maybe you've done a little holiday crafting. I hope you've 7 00:00:29,360 --> 00:00:34,159 Speaker 1: been busy wrapping presents, window shopping. I hope you've driven 8 00:00:34,240 --> 00:00:38,479 Speaker 1: through a neighborhood that's all lit up with Christmas lights 9 00:00:38,960 --> 00:00:43,480 Speaker 1: and the magic of the season. And I hope while 10 00:00:43,520 --> 00:00:48,159 Speaker 1: you're busy at all these tasks, you found yourself humming 11 00:00:48,200 --> 00:00:53,320 Speaker 1: a familiar Christmas carol or one of your favorite holiday tunes. 12 00:00:53,400 --> 00:00:58,240 Speaker 1: There are so many, so so many holiday songs and 13 00:00:58,320 --> 00:01:02,680 Speaker 1: holiday traditions that I at absolutely love. Tree hunting with 14 00:01:02,720 --> 00:01:07,279 Speaker 1: my kids and my grandkids, tree trimming, making and eating 15 00:01:07,400 --> 00:01:10,360 Speaker 1: special foods we only have during the holidays, and we 16 00:01:10,400 --> 00:01:13,600 Speaker 1: have a lot more of during the holidays. Wearing our 17 00:01:13,920 --> 00:01:19,160 Speaker 1: footing pajamas on Christmas morning, having our annual scavenger hunt 18 00:01:19,920 --> 00:01:22,120 Speaker 1: every year. I say, this is it. I'm not doing 19 00:01:22,160 --> 00:01:25,080 Speaker 1: this much work ever again, but it's something we so 20 00:01:25,280 --> 00:01:28,200 Speaker 1: look forward to. These are some of the things I 21 00:01:28,280 --> 00:01:32,240 Speaker 1: look forward to all year long, but Christmas music probably 22 00:01:32,319 --> 00:01:36,320 Speaker 1: one of the biggest things I cherish. And you know what, 23 00:01:37,200 --> 00:01:41,039 Speaker 1: it's also one thing right up there with faith, hope 24 00:01:41,080 --> 00:01:43,640 Speaker 1: and love that can never be taken from us, no 25 00:01:43,680 --> 00:01:47,560 Speaker 1: matter how bad times might get, no matter how dark 26 00:01:47,880 --> 00:01:52,600 Speaker 1: the winter. Maybe there is Christmas music songs to lift 27 00:01:52,680 --> 00:01:56,480 Speaker 1: our spirits. You might have noticed a lot of shortages 28 00:01:56,640 --> 00:02:00,240 Speaker 1: on the store shelves or found something you wanted to 29 00:02:00,280 --> 00:02:04,720 Speaker 1: purchase was on back back, back order, but thankfully music 30 00:02:05,200 --> 00:02:09,680 Speaker 1: is not in those categories. New music and Christmas music 31 00:02:09,840 --> 00:02:14,040 Speaker 1: especially as an abundance this year. Many artists say they 32 00:02:14,040 --> 00:02:19,840 Speaker 1: were inspired to create new, hopeful holiday music after enduring 33 00:02:20,040 --> 00:02:24,000 Speaker 1: the socially distance holiday season last year. Music was one 34 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:26,800 Speaker 1: thing they could count on to carry them through and 35 00:02:26,840 --> 00:02:29,160 Speaker 1: they wanted to share it. They wanted to make more 36 00:02:29,360 --> 00:02:35,119 Speaker 1: good music. We've seen new holiday albums from Kelly Clarkson, 37 00:02:35,280 --> 00:02:40,160 Speaker 1: Norah Jones, Brett Young, Pentatonics, Darren Chris and there's a 38 00:02:40,240 --> 00:02:45,600 Speaker 1: beautifully remastered album of Nat King Cole songs too. Some 39 00:02:45,760 --> 00:02:48,760 Speaker 1: of these newcomers have been added to the Christmas music 40 00:02:48,880 --> 00:02:52,680 Speaker 1: rotation on My Delilah Radio show, and a lot of 41 00:02:52,720 --> 00:02:56,240 Speaker 1: them have been added to my personal playlist. But wait, 42 00:02:56,480 --> 00:03:01,600 Speaker 1: there's more. Another beloved artist released his first holiday album 43 00:03:01,639 --> 00:03:07,520 Speaker 1: this year, The Oh So Smooth. That's a little hint there, 44 00:03:07,760 --> 00:03:12,360 Speaker 1: Mr Smooth. Three time Grammy Award winner Rob Thomas. He 45 00:03:12,400 --> 00:03:16,760 Speaker 1: has given us Something about Christmas Time, a new Christmas 46 00:03:16,840 --> 00:03:19,840 Speaker 1: album with ten tracks and all most of them are 47 00:03:19,880 --> 00:03:24,399 Speaker 1: brand new, original summer covers, and some are wonderful duets. 48 00:03:25,280 --> 00:03:28,519 Speaker 1: My favorite has to be small Town Christmas. I love 49 00:03:28,560 --> 00:03:31,080 Speaker 1: it because even though I love visiting the Big Apple 50 00:03:31,120 --> 00:03:34,360 Speaker 1: at Christmas time, I am a small town girl through 51 00:03:34,600 --> 00:03:38,000 Speaker 1: and through. We'll have an opportunity to catch up with 52 00:03:38,080 --> 00:03:41,400 Speaker 1: Rob Thomas and get all the details about this new album, 53 00:03:41,440 --> 00:03:44,400 Speaker 1: all the wonderful things he's been up to. Let me 54 00:03:44,520 --> 00:03:47,600 Speaker 1: tell you, he and his wife have a heart, such 55 00:03:47,640 --> 00:03:51,400 Speaker 1: a heart for kids and dogs and creatures. Right now, though, 56 00:03:51,400 --> 00:03:53,400 Speaker 1: I'm going to sing the praises of a sponsor that 57 00:03:53,440 --> 00:03:56,560 Speaker 1: helps me be able to have these great conversations and 58 00:03:56,640 --> 00:04:00,280 Speaker 1: to be able to share them with you. If you 59 00:04:00,360 --> 00:04:04,360 Speaker 1: have been listening to my voice on the radio four years, 60 00:04:04,560 --> 00:04:06,960 Speaker 1: then you know that I have been around on the 61 00:04:07,080 --> 00:04:11,160 Speaker 1: radio four years. Off the radio, I'm taking care of 62 00:04:11,200 --> 00:04:15,040 Speaker 1: my kids, taking care of my dogs, riding my horses, 63 00:04:15,200 --> 00:04:19,680 Speaker 1: growing plants in my gardens. 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I wish we could do 82 00:05:35,800 --> 00:05:38,919 Speaker 1: these somehow, like put them on our website and actually 83 00:05:39,080 --> 00:05:42,160 Speaker 1: use the video because you're so dank cute. Oh, I'll 84 00:05:42,200 --> 00:05:45,200 Speaker 1: listen to you. Please tell me more. Is that your house? 85 00:05:45,360 --> 00:05:47,960 Speaker 1: Are you in your home? Yeah? This is my studio, 86 00:05:48,279 --> 00:05:52,000 Speaker 1: so like everything here on this side is all uh 87 00:05:52,160 --> 00:05:54,880 Speaker 1: like the living portion of the studio and the hanging portion, 88 00:05:54,920 --> 00:05:57,360 Speaker 1: and then everything that you don't see is the working portion, 89 00:05:57,680 --> 00:06:00,960 Speaker 1: is the equipment? Yeah? Same here? Do you notice mine 90 00:06:01,040 --> 00:06:05,240 Speaker 1: is a little more um, how do we say this nicely? Uh? 91 00:06:05,400 --> 00:06:09,120 Speaker 1: Cluttered and disorganized than yours? That's okay. You know they 92 00:06:09,120 --> 00:06:12,560 Speaker 1: say that geniuses are cluttered and disorganized, Well then I 93 00:06:12,600 --> 00:06:19,760 Speaker 1: am pretty damn smart I am, because cluttered and disorganized 94 00:06:19,880 --> 00:06:24,240 Speaker 1: only for me, Like I know where stuff is, and 95 00:06:24,320 --> 00:06:28,920 Speaker 1: when somebody tries to organize me, unless it's my engineer Ryan, 96 00:06:28,960 --> 00:06:30,960 Speaker 1: who's here in the studio with me, When somebody tries 97 00:06:30,960 --> 00:06:33,120 Speaker 1: to organize me, I get so flustered because I'm like 98 00:06:33,400 --> 00:06:36,520 Speaker 1: I always keep my extra pins piled up in that 99 00:06:36,640 --> 00:06:39,520 Speaker 1: coffee cup. My mother had O c D. Right, and 100 00:06:39,560 --> 00:06:42,560 Speaker 1: she was very meticulous about everything, and a lot of 101 00:06:42,600 --> 00:06:44,440 Speaker 1: that rubbed off on me in this senseance like I 102 00:06:44,560 --> 00:06:46,840 Speaker 1: was the only kid that you know that would spend 103 00:06:46,880 --> 00:06:49,719 Speaker 1: early Saturday afternoons cleaning his room and rearranging it and 104 00:06:49,720 --> 00:06:52,359 Speaker 1: getting excited by it. But I will say, hold on, 105 00:06:52,960 --> 00:06:55,600 Speaker 1: like if you look over there, like see the way, 106 00:06:55,680 --> 00:06:58,719 Speaker 1: like all that mess over there. Huh yeah, Okay, I 107 00:06:58,800 --> 00:07:01,599 Speaker 1: do have some schedule old chaos in my life. Now 108 00:07:01,640 --> 00:07:03,960 Speaker 1: I feel now I can breathe, though, since you showed 109 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:06,880 Speaker 1: me that my wife hates that part of my of 110 00:07:06,960 --> 00:07:10,240 Speaker 1: my life every time. You know, the studio is the 111 00:07:10,280 --> 00:07:12,640 Speaker 1: area where like anything that we get that she doesn't 112 00:07:12,640 --> 00:07:14,520 Speaker 1: want in our home, it's like, oh, that would be 113 00:07:14,520 --> 00:07:19,120 Speaker 1: great for your studio. That would look nice down there, 114 00:07:19,160 --> 00:07:22,000 Speaker 1: relegated to the studio? Are we talking like the coffee 115 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:25,240 Speaker 1: table made out of antique ship wheel? If I had 116 00:07:25,240 --> 00:07:28,840 Speaker 1: one of those, that's where we go. Yeah. So, Rob Thomas, 117 00:07:28,920 --> 00:07:31,400 Speaker 1: let's just talk for a moment about your wife, because 118 00:07:31,920 --> 00:07:37,600 Speaker 1: who she's a smoke show, right, She's beautiful. You've done good. 119 00:07:37,640 --> 00:07:45,960 Speaker 1: A We just celebrated twenty two years married on October Wow. Wow, second, congratulations. 120 00:07:46,520 --> 00:07:49,160 Speaker 1: My anniversary is at the end of the month. We've 121 00:07:49,200 --> 00:07:53,320 Speaker 1: been together sixteen years but married since ian. We we 122 00:07:53,360 --> 00:07:56,400 Speaker 1: got married the year after we met we jumped right in, 123 00:07:56,800 --> 00:08:00,200 Speaker 1: and you were young and you married like a rock 124 00:08:00,280 --> 00:08:03,800 Speaker 1: star supermodel, and she married a rock star. So I'm 125 00:08:03,840 --> 00:08:07,280 Speaker 1: sure everybody was thinking, Ah, these two, they're never gonna 126 00:08:07,320 --> 00:08:10,360 Speaker 1: make it. Yeah, I mean everything about it, you know. 127 00:08:10,400 --> 00:08:12,000 Speaker 1: I mean, like you meet somebody and then a couple 128 00:08:12,040 --> 00:08:14,000 Speaker 1: of months later you're telling everybody that you're gonna get married. 129 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:16,600 Speaker 1: Because I told her on our first date the song 130 00:08:16,680 --> 00:08:18,000 Speaker 1: that she was going to walk down the aisle to 131 00:08:18,360 --> 00:08:21,080 Speaker 1: when we got married. What what song had you picked 132 00:08:21,080 --> 00:08:23,920 Speaker 1: out for your wedding on your first date to Marrison? 133 00:08:24,080 --> 00:08:26,840 Speaker 1: It was the Nearness of You? But the version by 134 00:08:26,920 --> 00:08:30,240 Speaker 1: Keith Richards And did you actually use that in your wedding? 135 00:08:30,840 --> 00:08:33,240 Speaker 1: Let me tell you a little story. Yes we did, 136 00:08:33,480 --> 00:08:36,280 Speaker 1: but not only did we, We didn't think that version 137 00:08:36,280 --> 00:08:38,160 Speaker 1: of the time because remember there was no YouTube, there 138 00:08:38,240 --> 00:08:40,680 Speaker 1: was no that stuff. You couldn't find it right it was, 139 00:08:40,760 --> 00:08:44,160 Speaker 1: it didn't exist. It only existed with Keith Richards and 140 00:08:44,200 --> 00:08:45,840 Speaker 1: he was holding onto it because he had done it 141 00:08:45,880 --> 00:08:49,439 Speaker 1: in a film bas Yacht and he and so we 142 00:08:49,440 --> 00:08:51,560 Speaker 1: were going to use the Shirley Bassie version. And we 143 00:08:51,640 --> 00:08:53,880 Speaker 1: didn't know. I didn't know. She didn't know until she 144 00:08:54,240 --> 00:08:56,520 Speaker 1: stood up and started to walk down the aisle that 145 00:08:56,640 --> 00:09:00,440 Speaker 1: a friend of ours that works with the Stones got 146 00:09:00,480 --> 00:09:04,120 Speaker 1: a cassette tape of the Keith Richard's version from Keith Richards, 147 00:09:04,520 --> 00:09:07,199 Speaker 1: but he had to bring it to the wedding, play it, 148 00:09:07,400 --> 00:09:10,800 Speaker 1: and then take it back to Keith. But I didn't 149 00:09:10,840 --> 00:09:12,800 Speaker 1: know until I saw her walk down the island that 150 00:09:12,920 --> 00:09:14,960 Speaker 1: version started playing. So then we both started We just 151 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:19,480 Speaker 1: both started crying immediately. That might be one of the 152 00:09:19,520 --> 00:09:24,280 Speaker 1: sweetest wedding stories I've ever heard of my life. It 153 00:09:24,320 --> 00:09:26,520 Speaker 1: was so it was so amazing because when I met her, 154 00:09:26,960 --> 00:09:28,920 Speaker 1: we had met for like five minutes, and I got 155 00:09:28,960 --> 00:09:31,160 Speaker 1: her phone number, and then I went to Europe for 156 00:09:31,200 --> 00:09:32,880 Speaker 1: like a month and a half and we just talked 157 00:09:32,880 --> 00:09:35,240 Speaker 1: on the phone every night. She was in college. Now, 158 00:09:35,360 --> 00:09:37,240 Speaker 1: was that back when you were like rock Star and 159 00:09:37,320 --> 00:09:39,959 Speaker 1: with Matchbox Twnny, Well, yeah, I mean, I mean I'm 160 00:09:39,960 --> 00:09:41,720 Speaker 1: still with Matchbox twenty, but this was like, you know, 161 00:09:41,760 --> 00:09:44,120 Speaker 1: the early days. Like I like to think at that time, 162 00:09:44,720 --> 00:09:47,240 Speaker 1: I was more famous than she thought that I was, 163 00:09:47,520 --> 00:09:49,680 Speaker 1: but I was less famous than I thought that I was. 164 00:09:51,240 --> 00:09:56,200 Speaker 1: That makes sense, and so I like that. I like 165 00:09:56,320 --> 00:09:58,240 Speaker 1: that I thought I was like, I've got a giant 166 00:09:58,320 --> 00:10:00,400 Speaker 1: hit song on MTV right now, and she's like, you've 167 00:10:00,440 --> 00:10:02,920 Speaker 1: got one song out, you know, like it was, She's like, 168 00:10:03,080 --> 00:10:05,959 Speaker 1: come on, and so uh when But when I met her, 169 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:08,040 Speaker 1: we talked for a month and a half and so 170 00:10:08,080 --> 00:10:09,800 Speaker 1: we really got to know each other before we had 171 00:10:09,920 --> 00:10:13,600 Speaker 1: like a date. And so when we had our first date, 172 00:10:14,240 --> 00:10:15,520 Speaker 1: it was, I was a cheap day. It was. It 173 00:10:15,559 --> 00:10:17,280 Speaker 1: was cheap too, because I brought her to a festival 174 00:10:17,280 --> 00:10:19,959 Speaker 1: that I was playing in Boston, and so at the 175 00:10:20,080 --> 00:10:22,400 Speaker 1: end we she she flew out and she was going 176 00:10:22,440 --> 00:10:24,240 Speaker 1: to take the bus back with us to go back 177 00:10:24,240 --> 00:10:26,839 Speaker 1: to New York. And uh, we were sitting on the 178 00:10:26,880 --> 00:10:30,120 Speaker 1: bus watching Basque Yacht, the movie Basquiat that that song 179 00:10:30,160 --> 00:10:31,520 Speaker 1: came on, and I said, this is gonna be the 180 00:10:31,520 --> 00:10:33,840 Speaker 1: song that you walked down the aisle at our wedding too, 181 00:10:34,480 --> 00:10:38,120 Speaker 1: on your first date. Yeah, and she didn't run, so 182 00:10:38,160 --> 00:10:39,880 Speaker 1: I knew that she was a keeper. That's because you're 183 00:10:39,880 --> 00:10:43,240 Speaker 1: pretty damn cute. I was really cute then, you're really 184 00:10:43,280 --> 00:10:46,280 Speaker 1: cute now. But yeah, we were. We were all crushing 185 00:10:46,360 --> 00:10:49,160 Speaker 1: on you back then. We were all so cute when 186 00:10:49,160 --> 00:10:52,760 Speaker 1: we were young. All you want to hear a really 187 00:10:52,760 --> 00:10:59,120 Speaker 1: horrible wedding story. Yeah, yeah, it's very funny now. But 188 00:10:59,200 --> 00:11:01,720 Speaker 1: my first husband married him, you know, when you were 189 00:11:01,720 --> 00:11:05,080 Speaker 1: probably not even a twinkle in your mom's I uh, 190 00:11:05,200 --> 00:11:08,199 Speaker 1: I met my first husband, who got has since called home. 191 00:11:08,240 --> 00:11:11,120 Speaker 1: But I met him at the Kingdom when the Kingdome 192 00:11:11,200 --> 00:11:14,400 Speaker 1: existed and we were there for a radio event. We 193 00:11:14,520 --> 00:11:18,960 Speaker 1: both were in radio, and unbeknownst to either one of us, 194 00:11:18,960 --> 00:11:22,760 Speaker 1: when we met, I had been following him for like 195 00:11:22,840 --> 00:11:25,800 Speaker 1: ten years of my career, like I was a kid. 196 00:11:25,840 --> 00:11:29,040 Speaker 1: I was twenty one years old, and I had been 197 00:11:29,559 --> 00:11:32,839 Speaker 1: listening to him on the radio since I was a teenager, 198 00:11:32,880 --> 00:11:35,040 Speaker 1: since I was like thirteen years old. He was ten 199 00:11:35,120 --> 00:11:38,719 Speaker 1: years older than me, and kind of like with with 200 00:11:38,760 --> 00:11:40,800 Speaker 1: you guys, it was, you know, love at first sight, 201 00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:44,920 Speaker 1: and we fell in love. And two months into our relationship, 202 00:11:44,960 --> 00:11:48,680 Speaker 1: we decided to Elope and we got to Marino, Nevada, 203 00:11:48,800 --> 00:11:51,080 Speaker 1: and I chickened out. I was like, no, I want 204 00:11:51,080 --> 00:11:52,520 Speaker 1: to have a real wedding. I want to wear a 205 00:11:52,520 --> 00:11:56,280 Speaker 1: wedding dress, and so we came back. So you didn't, 206 00:11:56,880 --> 00:11:58,760 Speaker 1: Like some people would do the wedding and then do 207 00:11:58,840 --> 00:12:00,920 Speaker 1: the ceremony anyway, but you just didn't. You didn't want 208 00:12:00,920 --> 00:12:03,480 Speaker 1: to get married until you were married, right right, And 209 00:12:03,559 --> 00:12:05,439 Speaker 1: so we came back and I made a wedding dress, 210 00:12:05,480 --> 00:12:07,760 Speaker 1: and I made my bridesmaid stresses and we had a 211 00:12:07,760 --> 00:12:11,079 Speaker 1: little wedding. Um only had eighteen people there at a 212 00:12:11,160 --> 00:12:15,000 Speaker 1: park in Seattle, and his brother was in charge of 213 00:12:15,040 --> 00:12:18,920 Speaker 1: the music. So I had given him a mix tape 214 00:12:19,480 --> 00:12:24,480 Speaker 1: that had the song was always in't Forever by heat Wave, 215 00:12:25,400 --> 00:12:27,280 Speaker 1: So that was going to be what what I was 216 00:12:27,320 --> 00:12:30,440 Speaker 1: going to walk into. And my older brother was the 217 00:12:30,440 --> 00:12:33,720 Speaker 1: only member of my family to come. My family was 218 00:12:33,760 --> 00:12:36,440 Speaker 1: not happy that I was getting married to this person. 219 00:12:37,080 --> 00:12:41,400 Speaker 1: And we're outside the little park waiting for the music 220 00:12:41,520 --> 00:12:44,480 Speaker 1: to start, and Matt's like, come on, let's just walk in. 221 00:12:44,559 --> 00:12:48,280 Speaker 1: Because my husband's brother was messing with the music player. 222 00:12:48,320 --> 00:12:50,800 Speaker 1: We had two little speakers set up, and then he 223 00:12:50,880 --> 00:12:54,720 Speaker 1: hits play and instead of heat Wave always in Forever, 224 00:12:55,080 --> 00:12:59,400 Speaker 1: he had put the song get down on It, And 225 00:12:59,400 --> 00:13:03,640 Speaker 1: and that is awesome to be fairly, let me get 226 00:13:03,640 --> 00:13:06,320 Speaker 1: down on It's a really good song. Yeah, yeah, nothing 227 00:13:06,360 --> 00:13:11,440 Speaker 1: says romance like getting down on it. How long about 228 00:13:11,520 --> 00:13:13,280 Speaker 1: before you lost your How long were you guys married? 229 00:13:13,800 --> 00:13:16,160 Speaker 1: We were not married very long long enough to create 230 00:13:16,200 --> 00:13:21,720 Speaker 1: a beautiful life. We had a gorgeous son. Our son 231 00:13:21,920 --> 00:13:25,200 Speaker 1: is thirties seven now I just turned thirty seven. I 232 00:13:25,240 --> 00:13:27,720 Speaker 1: have a three year old from right before I met 233 00:13:27,760 --> 00:13:32,559 Speaker 1: my wife, So my oldest biological he's my oldest biological 234 00:13:32,640 --> 00:13:35,760 Speaker 1: My oldest child because I have many adopted children, is 235 00:13:36,040 --> 00:13:39,480 Speaker 1: um just a little north of the big four. Oh 236 00:13:39,559 --> 00:13:41,800 Speaker 1: and my youngest child, who is in the other room 237 00:13:41,880 --> 00:13:45,679 Speaker 1: watching Veggie Tales, is five. That's a gap. That's a gap, 238 00:13:46,200 --> 00:13:48,319 Speaker 1: but there's actually never been a gap. Like if there 239 00:13:48,320 --> 00:13:50,160 Speaker 1: had ever been a gap, I couldn't do this, but 240 00:13:51,160 --> 00:13:53,920 Speaker 1: I just kept adopting. I think a lot of people 241 00:13:53,920 --> 00:13:58,080 Speaker 1: who have kids and then get custody of their grandkids 242 00:13:58,160 --> 00:14:00,800 Speaker 1: or have a second family, it's kind of awkward if 243 00:14:00,800 --> 00:14:03,520 Speaker 1: they've gotten like ten years or more without changing. Yeah, Well, 244 00:14:03,559 --> 00:14:06,120 Speaker 1: because you get you get used to kind of being alone, 245 00:14:06,280 --> 00:14:07,680 Speaker 1: you know, like you get used to a rhythm, you 246 00:14:07,720 --> 00:14:09,360 Speaker 1: get That's why I think it's harder. You know, like 247 00:14:09,400 --> 00:14:12,280 Speaker 1: for guys that are there, they're like in the mid forties, 248 00:14:12,280 --> 00:14:14,400 Speaker 1: they've never gotten married, and then you know they might 249 00:14:14,400 --> 00:14:16,200 Speaker 1: just stay that way because you get kind of set 250 00:14:16,200 --> 00:14:20,760 Speaker 1: in your ways. Yeah, and and stubborn. Once you get 251 00:14:20,840 --> 00:14:23,840 Speaker 1: used to that freedom it's hard to wrap your mind 252 00:14:23,880 --> 00:14:28,560 Speaker 1: around going to cub scout meetings or sleeping, you know, 253 00:14:28,640 --> 00:14:31,480 Speaker 1: in a tent with twelve others small children. Well that's like, 254 00:14:31,560 --> 00:14:33,320 Speaker 1: so my wife and I, like, we don't have any kids. 255 00:14:33,320 --> 00:14:35,520 Speaker 1: We that was you know, when I first met her, 256 00:14:35,560 --> 00:14:36,880 Speaker 1: that was kind of that was a big deal, was 257 00:14:36,920 --> 00:14:39,360 Speaker 1: the you know, oh my god, we're in love. We've 258 00:14:39,400 --> 00:14:42,119 Speaker 1: never felt like this before. By the way, full disclosure, 259 00:14:42,120 --> 00:14:43,840 Speaker 1: I do have a baby on the way, you know, 260 00:14:43,880 --> 00:14:45,760 Speaker 1: Like that was that was a hard thing for her 261 00:14:45,800 --> 00:14:47,560 Speaker 1: to get over because that was that wasn't the way 262 00:14:47,600 --> 00:14:49,560 Speaker 1: that she saw her life. I mean, she was this 263 00:14:49,680 --> 00:14:51,600 Speaker 1: model who was going to college. She didn't see herself 264 00:14:51,680 --> 00:14:53,840 Speaker 1: living on the road. She didn't see herself with some money, 265 00:14:53,880 --> 00:14:55,120 Speaker 1: who already had a kid, you know what I mean, 266 00:14:55,160 --> 00:14:57,560 Speaker 1: Like none of those things. I mean now, twenty three 267 00:14:57,640 --> 00:15:00,640 Speaker 1: years later, we're like the most stable relationship he's ever known, 268 00:15:00,920 --> 00:15:02,960 Speaker 1: you know, and we're all you know, we're all a family. 269 00:15:03,000 --> 00:15:07,440 Speaker 1: But yeah, he just graduated from college. So co parenting 270 00:15:07,480 --> 00:15:12,320 Speaker 1: worked out well. There wasn't like drama. Yeah, there there 271 00:15:12,560 --> 00:15:15,800 Speaker 1: was some There was some drama obviously, But how did 272 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:18,280 Speaker 1: how did baby Mama take to finding out you were 273 00:15:18,320 --> 00:15:22,280 Speaker 1: in love and marrying. Well we worked together that you know, 274 00:15:22,400 --> 00:15:24,960 Speaker 1: like we that was that was a short lived. Um. 275 00:15:25,680 --> 00:15:28,200 Speaker 1: You don't have to explain, Delilah. There's just there's a 276 00:15:28,240 --> 00:15:33,920 Speaker 1: lot of nice people on the road. When you were young, 277 00:15:33,960 --> 00:15:35,240 Speaker 1: there was just a lot of nice people who were 278 00:15:35,240 --> 00:15:38,280 Speaker 1: generous with their time. So let's talk Rob Thomas about 279 00:15:38,320 --> 00:15:43,479 Speaker 1: your music and about the Christmas album that Oh my gosh, 280 00:15:43,520 --> 00:15:47,400 Speaker 1: nobody warned me some of its sad. It's just like 281 00:15:47,440 --> 00:15:52,320 Speaker 1: an emotional roller coaster. You got joy, you got real, 282 00:15:52,560 --> 00:15:55,160 Speaker 1: you got love, you got family, but then you got 283 00:15:55,280 --> 00:15:58,640 Speaker 1: like you got really real. I mean, I think that's 284 00:15:58,640 --> 00:16:01,000 Speaker 1: what the holidays make you feel, you know. I mean, 285 00:16:01,040 --> 00:16:03,200 Speaker 1: like all of those emotions they come around it. It's 286 00:16:03,240 --> 00:16:05,680 Speaker 1: a you're an easy laugh and an easy cry during 287 00:16:05,680 --> 00:16:07,840 Speaker 1: the holidays and and at any given moment you don't 288 00:16:07,840 --> 00:16:10,280 Speaker 1: know which one you're gonna which one you're gonna run to. Well, 289 00:16:10,320 --> 00:16:12,720 Speaker 1: I loved it because you know, my show is a 290 00:16:12,760 --> 00:16:17,200 Speaker 1: request and dedication show. That's what I do right all night. 291 00:16:17,280 --> 00:16:20,960 Speaker 1: I play songs that lyrically fit with your situation. And 292 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:23,640 Speaker 1: the truth of the matter is when you're alone at 293 00:16:23,680 --> 00:16:26,320 Speaker 1: Christmas or when your son is in the military and 294 00:16:26,360 --> 00:16:28,800 Speaker 1: you don't get to Sam, or your daughter is or 295 00:16:29,560 --> 00:16:31,760 Speaker 1: they're away at college and right now you can't afford 296 00:16:31,840 --> 00:16:36,600 Speaker 1: to fly them home. There's not really a standard Christmas 297 00:16:36,640 --> 00:16:39,320 Speaker 1: song outside of you know, I'll have a blue Christmas 298 00:16:39,400 --> 00:16:42,840 Speaker 1: without you that I can play, or yeah, you're tired. 299 00:16:42,920 --> 00:16:44,800 Speaker 1: You get tired of all of these people telling you 300 00:16:44,840 --> 00:16:48,080 Speaker 1: to be happy, you know, like are even worse telling 301 00:16:48,120 --> 00:16:50,480 Speaker 1: you that you're supposed to be happy, Like somehow there's 302 00:16:50,480 --> 00:16:52,920 Speaker 1: a deficit in your part because what you're going through 303 00:16:52,960 --> 00:16:55,000 Speaker 1: doesn't fit with, you know, with the idea of what's 304 00:16:55,000 --> 00:16:58,040 Speaker 1: supposed to be happening in the holidays. You know, yeah, 305 00:16:58,200 --> 00:17:02,320 Speaker 1: I know when you're grieving for me anyway, Man, it 306 00:17:02,400 --> 00:17:05,200 Speaker 1: hits hard, But do you feel it? Do you find 307 00:17:05,240 --> 00:17:08,400 Speaker 1: that that like the first you know, it's still raw 308 00:17:08,400 --> 00:17:11,280 Speaker 1: and numb the first time, and it feels like your 309 00:17:11,280 --> 00:17:13,920 Speaker 1: heart is getting filaid, And then maybe the second time 310 00:17:13,960 --> 00:17:16,439 Speaker 1: and the third time, and then little by little it 311 00:17:16,560 --> 00:17:20,159 Speaker 1: starts to feel like a connection to them, opposed to 312 00:17:20,760 --> 00:17:22,640 Speaker 1: making you think about their absence and makes you think 313 00:17:22,640 --> 00:17:25,840 Speaker 1: about their when they were present. Very much so. The 314 00:17:25,880 --> 00:17:29,879 Speaker 1: best illustration I saw was you know, a hole in 315 00:17:29,960 --> 00:17:32,680 Speaker 1: your heart and people used to think that as time 316 00:17:32,680 --> 00:17:36,880 Speaker 1: went on that whole shrinks. It doesn't. Your heart grows 317 00:17:37,040 --> 00:17:40,760 Speaker 1: around it, you know, your heart enlarges around it. And 318 00:17:40,800 --> 00:17:44,399 Speaker 1: what you just spoke of those traditions that the first 319 00:17:44,480 --> 00:17:48,639 Speaker 1: or second year, those traditions definitely just had me on 320 00:17:48,680 --> 00:17:52,440 Speaker 1: the floor, slayed me. But now they are such a connection. 321 00:17:53,240 --> 00:17:55,560 Speaker 1: Well yeah, because you know, grief isn't something that that 322 00:17:55,560 --> 00:17:58,440 Speaker 1: that wanes and goes away over time. It's just something 323 00:17:58,440 --> 00:18:01,960 Speaker 1: that becomes a part of you. And so that's that's different. 324 00:18:02,000 --> 00:18:03,479 Speaker 1: It becomes a part of your d n A as 325 00:18:03,480 --> 00:18:05,439 Speaker 1: opposed to something that you're just waiting to go away, 326 00:18:05,800 --> 00:18:07,280 Speaker 1: you know, like that it doesn't really do that. You're 327 00:18:07,359 --> 00:18:10,960 Speaker 1: you're You're forever a different person. Every loss it is, 328 00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:12,920 Speaker 1: it's definitely, you know, is a part of you. There's 329 00:18:13,320 --> 00:18:15,720 Speaker 1: my wife and our favorite poet is uh and the 330 00:18:15,760 --> 00:18:19,600 Speaker 1: Saint Vincent Malay and Uh, she you know, she has 331 00:18:19,680 --> 00:18:21,600 Speaker 1: it that you know, like this poetus is. I think 332 00:18:21,640 --> 00:18:25,040 Speaker 1: we're like where you where you left. There's a hole 333 00:18:25,760 --> 00:18:28,160 Speaker 1: that I spend all my days walking around and trying 334 00:18:28,200 --> 00:18:30,840 Speaker 1: not to fall into. I'm paraphrasing it badly, but it's 335 00:18:30,880 --> 00:18:32,320 Speaker 1: but it's like that's that's just kind of what it 336 00:18:32,320 --> 00:18:35,879 Speaker 1: feels like. That's exactly what it feels like. So one 337 00:18:35,920 --> 00:18:38,159 Speaker 1: of the songs that makes me so happy, that doesn't 338 00:18:38,200 --> 00:18:41,800 Speaker 1: file at me but me but makes me smile. And 339 00:18:41,880 --> 00:18:44,560 Speaker 1: I you know, I hit replay like three times. I 340 00:18:44,640 --> 00:18:46,959 Speaker 1: listened to it while I was here in the studio 341 00:18:47,080 --> 00:18:49,879 Speaker 1: when I was going through through the whole album is 342 00:18:49,920 --> 00:18:53,879 Speaker 1: the song the small Town Christmas. Oh thanks? So where 343 00:18:53,880 --> 00:18:55,800 Speaker 1: did did you grow up in a small town? Where 344 00:18:55,840 --> 00:18:58,680 Speaker 1: did that come from? Well, you know, it's funny because 345 00:18:58,680 --> 00:19:01,119 Speaker 1: I did, Like I grew up in South Carolina in 346 00:19:01,600 --> 00:19:05,120 Speaker 1: Lake City, which is a really small tobacco town. Uh, 347 00:19:05,160 --> 00:19:08,200 Speaker 1: even on a good map it's hard to find. But 348 00:19:08,200 --> 00:19:11,080 Speaker 1: but I spent the last fifteen years here in Westchester 349 00:19:11,600 --> 00:19:14,119 Speaker 1: in New York, and that to me is like with 350 00:19:14,359 --> 00:19:16,040 Speaker 1: like if if you you know, west Such is about 351 00:19:16,080 --> 00:19:18,320 Speaker 1: forty five minutes north of the city, but once you 352 00:19:18,359 --> 00:19:20,880 Speaker 1: get up here, it looks like a postcard. And especially 353 00:19:20,880 --> 00:19:24,359 Speaker 1: at Christmas, it's all rolling hills and orchards and horse 354 00:19:24,440 --> 00:19:26,919 Speaker 1: farms and you know, lots of land and so the 355 00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:29,199 Speaker 1: snow is just like blankets of snow for you know, 356 00:19:29,280 --> 00:19:32,199 Speaker 1: acres and acres. So for me, it's really it's really 357 00:19:32,240 --> 00:19:34,720 Speaker 1: about about Westchester. Up here in New York. A lot 358 00:19:34,720 --> 00:19:37,679 Speaker 1: of people think of New York just as the big Apple. 359 00:19:38,280 --> 00:19:42,000 Speaker 1: You know, people who have never lived on the East 360 00:19:42,040 --> 00:19:45,160 Speaker 1: Coast or in Westchester or been to upstate New York. 361 00:19:45,440 --> 00:19:48,159 Speaker 1: And and even me, I mean, I'm from the West Coast, 362 00:19:48,200 --> 00:19:51,000 Speaker 1: but I was on the East Coast for many, many years, 363 00:19:51,480 --> 00:19:53,520 Speaker 1: and I thought of New York as the Big Apple. 364 00:19:53,560 --> 00:19:57,120 Speaker 1: And then I moved to Rochester, right and I went 365 00:19:57,400 --> 00:20:01,560 Speaker 1: whoa even well even more so people think of like 366 00:20:01,800 --> 00:20:05,240 Speaker 1: when I tell people Westchester, they think upstate. But in truth, 367 00:20:06,200 --> 00:20:09,119 Speaker 1: Westchester is is literally it's called down state. That's what 368 00:20:09,160 --> 00:20:13,240 Speaker 1: it's called. It's there's downstate, which is where the northern suburbs. 369 00:20:13,240 --> 00:20:14,920 Speaker 1: So like you know, like like if you go off 370 00:20:14,960 --> 00:20:17,200 Speaker 1: to the you know, to one side, you've got New Jersey, 371 00:20:17,400 --> 00:20:18,920 Speaker 1: if you got to the east, you've got Long Island, 372 00:20:18,920 --> 00:20:21,840 Speaker 1: which is you know, one suburb, and then you've got Westchester. 373 00:20:21,920 --> 00:20:23,520 Speaker 1: So we're you know, people that work in the city 374 00:20:23,600 --> 00:20:26,680 Speaker 1: live up here, so we're just a commute. But it 375 00:20:26,720 --> 00:20:30,600 Speaker 1: feels like it's so different, like like you know, Rochester, Albany, 376 00:20:30,680 --> 00:20:34,840 Speaker 1: that's that's upstate. Is it's a bigger state than that's Canada. 377 00:20:35,240 --> 00:20:40,119 Speaker 1: That's Canada. That's Canada. But my point is there's mountains, 378 00:20:40,160 --> 00:20:44,560 Speaker 1: there's horse farms, there's cattle farms, there's uh, you know, 379 00:20:44,600 --> 00:20:47,240 Speaker 1: like you said, the burbs. But it doesn't feel or 380 00:20:47,400 --> 00:20:51,080 Speaker 1: look like a metropolitan area. It's just like you said, 381 00:20:51,119 --> 00:20:54,320 Speaker 1: a postcard. It's beautiful. It's beautiful up here. And I 382 00:20:54,320 --> 00:20:56,040 Speaker 1: mean we we were in the city for while my 383 00:20:56,040 --> 00:20:57,840 Speaker 1: wife was born and race she was a queen's girl 384 00:20:58,440 --> 00:21:01,520 Speaker 1: and uh we but we we came up here and 385 00:21:01,560 --> 00:21:03,000 Speaker 1: just fell in love with it, you know, and we 386 00:21:03,080 --> 00:21:04,760 Speaker 1: like the proximity to the city, and I think that's 387 00:21:04,760 --> 00:21:06,520 Speaker 1: that's important for us to be able to, you know, 388 00:21:06,600 --> 00:21:10,000 Speaker 1: to get in and out of it. But we found ourselves, 389 00:21:10,119 --> 00:21:12,800 Speaker 1: you know, year after year going in less and less 390 00:21:12,840 --> 00:21:15,240 Speaker 1: and being you know, up here people a lot more 391 00:21:15,240 --> 00:21:17,840 Speaker 1: than we were in the city. People. Well, I could 392 00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:22,160 Speaker 1: use the pandemic is the reason. But I'm kind of enjoying. 393 00:21:22,600 --> 00:21:25,679 Speaker 1: I gotta be honest, Rob, I'm kind of enjoying just 394 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:29,399 Speaker 1: being shut in with my family. I don't mind it, 395 00:21:29,560 --> 00:21:31,560 Speaker 1: you know. I mean there's a there's a part of 396 00:21:31,560 --> 00:21:33,879 Speaker 1: me that's like that that they but it used to 397 00:21:33,880 --> 00:21:36,320 Speaker 1: be that I could get both of those itches scratched, right, 398 00:21:36,520 --> 00:21:38,080 Speaker 1: because I could go on the road and it was 399 00:21:38,400 --> 00:21:40,399 Speaker 1: every day is new and there's always new people. And 400 00:21:40,440 --> 00:21:42,480 Speaker 1: I like new people. I like meeting people, I like 401 00:21:42,800 --> 00:21:45,879 Speaker 1: interacting with with strangers. And then when I get off 402 00:21:45,920 --> 00:21:48,840 Speaker 1: the road, it's a long time of just nothing, you know, 403 00:21:48,960 --> 00:21:52,560 Speaker 1: and and isolation. And uh, I think it's because the 404 00:21:52,600 --> 00:21:54,840 Speaker 1: whole job is supposed to be too pronged. I'm supposed 405 00:21:54,840 --> 00:21:57,400 Speaker 1: to create and then go share that thing that I created, 406 00:21:57,720 --> 00:22:01,200 Speaker 1: and right here I've been just creating, eating, creating, creating, 407 00:22:01,240 --> 00:22:03,639 Speaker 1: and I don't get that the joy of the interaction 408 00:22:04,040 --> 00:22:06,720 Speaker 1: and that shared moment once you know, when you go 409 00:22:06,720 --> 00:22:08,080 Speaker 1: out and you get to play it with a group 410 00:22:08,119 --> 00:22:11,360 Speaker 1: of people, like a group of like minded individuals, all 411 00:22:11,400 --> 00:22:13,560 Speaker 1: on the same page in the same moment, there's something 412 00:22:13,560 --> 00:22:17,879 Speaker 1: beautiful about that. And I do miss that interaction. But 413 00:22:17,560 --> 00:22:21,040 Speaker 1: but I but I fare pretty well as a shut in. No, 414 00:22:21,240 --> 00:22:23,760 Speaker 1: for the most part, it's been me and Matti alone. 415 00:22:23,840 --> 00:22:26,040 Speaker 1: It's just the two of us. I mean, her mom. 416 00:22:26,400 --> 00:22:28,600 Speaker 1: Years ago. We bought her mom and dad a place. 417 00:22:28,680 --> 00:22:30,480 Speaker 1: It's only like six miles away, so they're part of 418 00:22:30,480 --> 00:22:32,639 Speaker 1: our bubble. And like once or twice a week we 419 00:22:32,680 --> 00:22:35,240 Speaker 1: have catchup night with everybody. We'll get together with somebody's 420 00:22:35,280 --> 00:22:37,680 Speaker 1: house and you know, and have dinner. But most of 421 00:22:37,680 --> 00:22:40,159 Speaker 1: the time it's it's me and Matty and the pups. 422 00:22:40,160 --> 00:22:43,399 Speaker 1: And so it's amazing that we fared as well as 423 00:22:43,440 --> 00:22:45,680 Speaker 1: we have, Like, you know, by now, we thought we'd 424 00:22:45,680 --> 00:22:47,520 Speaker 1: be you know, walked downstairs to see each other and 425 00:22:47,560 --> 00:22:51,040 Speaker 1: be like, oh you again, Well we're uh, but you know, 426 00:22:51,119 --> 00:22:53,440 Speaker 1: but we we still like each other. We're still getting along. 427 00:22:53,480 --> 00:22:56,119 Speaker 1: So it's it's kind of amazing how many pups. You 428 00:22:56,200 --> 00:23:00,520 Speaker 1: and your wife have an amazing organization, an umbrella organization 429 00:23:00,600 --> 00:23:02,840 Speaker 1: as I understand that, like you don't have an actual 430 00:23:02,960 --> 00:23:07,960 Speaker 1: rescue at your house, right, we fund other rescues, yeah, 431 00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:10,159 Speaker 1: we you know, we help either help them get like 432 00:23:10,280 --> 00:23:14,840 Speaker 1: kennels and runs, our medical supplies or do big rescues. Um, 433 00:23:14,880 --> 00:23:16,639 Speaker 1: it's more you know, these these are there's a lot 434 00:23:16,640 --> 00:23:18,919 Speaker 1: of great organizations that are that are helping animals and 435 00:23:18,960 --> 00:23:21,920 Speaker 1: no kill shelters and so we're you know, we're about 436 00:23:21,960 --> 00:23:24,159 Speaker 1: getting critical funding to all of these places as they 437 00:23:24,160 --> 00:23:25,880 Speaker 1: need them and try and trying to do that during 438 00:23:25,920 --> 00:23:28,040 Speaker 1: the pandemic has been tricky. Trying to figure out how 439 00:23:28,080 --> 00:23:30,040 Speaker 1: to raise the money so that we can still keep 440 00:23:30,080 --> 00:23:32,600 Speaker 1: these grants flowing to everybody. But we have we had 441 00:23:32,600 --> 00:23:36,040 Speaker 1: the two and uh just like three or four months ago, 442 00:23:36,119 --> 00:23:38,520 Speaker 1: we lost our our guy Cmme. He was with me 443 00:23:38,600 --> 00:23:41,439 Speaker 1: for fifth almost fifteen years. He would have been fifteen 444 00:23:41,480 --> 00:23:45,160 Speaker 1: like a month later. And he was my constant, my constant, 445 00:23:45,200 --> 00:23:47,639 Speaker 1: you know, every every night in the studio, like he 446 00:23:47,720 --> 00:23:49,360 Speaker 1: was just with me on the road, on the bus, 447 00:23:49,800 --> 00:23:53,160 Speaker 1: and so that you know, it's that having that constant 448 00:23:53,320 --> 00:23:55,280 Speaker 1: presence all the time and then not having it that 449 00:23:55,359 --> 00:23:58,280 Speaker 1: was that was kind of a big hit. Um. But 450 00:23:58,280 --> 00:24:02,880 Speaker 1: but now it's just me and uh Ali, I see 451 00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:05,879 Speaker 1: Alie here, Okay, my turn, let me see if I 452 00:24:05,880 --> 00:24:10,320 Speaker 1: can do this. Oh who's that Ruby? Hi? Ruby? All? 453 00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:14,480 Speaker 1: Hell's Ruby? Ruby is to Ruby is my latest rescue. 454 00:24:15,320 --> 00:24:19,720 Speaker 1: She's a puppy. She's a puppy and she's probably forty 455 00:24:19,760 --> 00:24:22,879 Speaker 1: pounds heavier than I was, you know, really looking for her. 456 00:24:23,680 --> 00:24:28,040 Speaker 1: But she's the best dog I've ever met in my life. Yeah. 457 00:24:28,040 --> 00:24:29,960 Speaker 1: I mean, every every couple of days, you know, I 458 00:24:29,960 --> 00:24:32,639 Speaker 1: would look at my boys and just say that I like, 459 00:24:32,680 --> 00:24:34,760 Speaker 1: I missed them. I missed them already. You know, like 460 00:24:34,800 --> 00:24:37,920 Speaker 1: I already missed him. She is like the best dog 461 00:24:37,960 --> 00:24:40,439 Speaker 1: I've ever met in my life. Well, you know the 462 00:24:40,440 --> 00:24:43,840 Speaker 1: thing about our dogs is they're not disciplined in any 463 00:24:43,840 --> 00:24:47,840 Speaker 1: way whatsoever. Like we've given them like literally just running 464 00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:50,240 Speaker 1: my wife. We're getting these argums just last night, like 465 00:24:50,280 --> 00:24:52,560 Speaker 1: we're sitting there eating and we had these like we 466 00:24:52,560 --> 00:24:54,119 Speaker 1: we've seen these little carrots and we give him some 467 00:24:54,119 --> 00:24:56,360 Speaker 1: carrots and he starts barking if you take too long, 468 00:24:56,400 --> 00:24:58,000 Speaker 1: and I'm like no, and she looks at me, say, 469 00:24:58,240 --> 00:25:02,080 Speaker 1: don't say no to him. I'm like no. So we 470 00:25:02,119 --> 00:25:07,040 Speaker 1: have our manager, Michael Lehmann, has has this this theory 471 00:25:07,080 --> 00:25:09,520 Speaker 1: and we do. We do kind of subscribe to the theory. 472 00:25:09,720 --> 00:25:13,280 Speaker 1: Is that you know, you can spoil your dogs because 473 00:25:13,320 --> 00:25:14,960 Speaker 1: if you have a spoiled dog, the worst you're gonna 474 00:25:14,960 --> 00:25:17,439 Speaker 1: get as a spoiled dog. Like if you spoil your kids, 475 00:25:17,600 --> 00:25:20,200 Speaker 1: you're gonna get an asshole. But if you spoil your dogs, 476 00:25:20,320 --> 00:25:22,040 Speaker 1: you're just gonna get a spoiled dog. So if you're 477 00:25:22,040 --> 00:25:24,440 Speaker 1: gonna spoil anything, it should it should be the pups. Yeah, 478 00:25:24,520 --> 00:25:28,120 Speaker 1: that's they literally can do anything and go anywhere and 479 00:25:28,119 --> 00:25:32,680 Speaker 1: and then there's no consequences for any of their actions whatsoever. Yeah, 480 00:25:32,760 --> 00:25:37,200 Speaker 1: I have very undisciplined dogs outside. You know, I say 481 00:25:37,240 --> 00:25:39,240 Speaker 1: come and they look at me like you gotta be kidding. 482 00:25:39,240 --> 00:25:41,600 Speaker 1: There's a deer over there. I gotta go. But this 483 00:25:41,640 --> 00:25:43,840 Speaker 1: dog came to me this way. I mean she's just 484 00:25:44,359 --> 00:25:47,520 Speaker 1: super well behaved. Yeah, well indoors too, Like this one 485 00:25:47,560 --> 00:25:50,600 Speaker 1: is such a love love love love love just wants 486 00:25:50,600 --> 00:25:52,760 Speaker 1: to like crawl inside of you and cuttle up everywhere, 487 00:25:52,760 --> 00:25:55,800 Speaker 1: every all the time. So tell me about this organization. 488 00:25:55,880 --> 00:26:00,080 Speaker 1: What's the name of your organization, Cydewalchangels Foundation. And you 489 00:26:00,119 --> 00:26:05,000 Speaker 1: don't just help organizations that are rescuing animals, well, no, 490 00:26:05,080 --> 00:26:07,919 Speaker 1: there's also a no kill shelters as well. Um, you 491 00:26:07,960 --> 00:26:10,200 Speaker 1: know they think about then okill shelters, which is great, 492 00:26:10,280 --> 00:26:12,359 Speaker 1: is you you can adopt from an no kill shelter, 493 00:26:12,440 --> 00:26:13,880 Speaker 1: but you don't have to rescue from an no kill 494 00:26:13,920 --> 00:26:16,480 Speaker 1: shelter because these animals are rescued. Once they go to 495 00:26:16,480 --> 00:26:18,320 Speaker 1: an no kill shelter, they have a home they're taking 496 00:26:18,320 --> 00:26:20,280 Speaker 1: care of, they have love, but they just don't have 497 00:26:20,320 --> 00:26:23,480 Speaker 1: it forever home yet. And so you know, we're we 498 00:26:23,520 --> 00:26:25,400 Speaker 1: would love to see all of New York and all 499 00:26:25,440 --> 00:26:28,199 Speaker 1: the country be a full no kill nation at some 500 00:26:28,320 --> 00:26:30,280 Speaker 1: point and that, you know, that would be that would 501 00:26:30,280 --> 00:26:33,760 Speaker 1: be amazing. But you know, we also work with We 502 00:26:33,800 --> 00:26:36,800 Speaker 1: work with the organizations that teach about the responsibility of 503 00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:40,680 Speaker 1: owning animals. We work with organizations that take in homeless 504 00:26:40,680 --> 00:26:43,919 Speaker 1: battered women with their pets. We work with organizations that 505 00:26:43,960 --> 00:26:47,520 Speaker 1: help children with autism through animals and have an animal interaction. 506 00:26:48,119 --> 00:26:51,680 Speaker 1: It's all animal related causes, but it's just in all 507 00:26:51,720 --> 00:26:53,280 Speaker 1: the different facets of how they can be a part 508 00:26:53,280 --> 00:26:55,720 Speaker 1: of your life. Let side Valcaneous Foundation dot org. If 509 00:26:55,720 --> 00:26:57,520 Speaker 1: anybody gets a chance to check it out, I would 510 00:26:57,560 --> 00:26:59,280 Speaker 1: love for people to check it out, and I would 511 00:26:59,280 --> 00:27:01,359 Speaker 1: love for people to support it because, like you said, 512 00:27:01,720 --> 00:27:04,800 Speaker 1: COVID hit and you're not touring, and yet you're still 513 00:27:04,840 --> 00:27:09,320 Speaker 1: supporting all these great organizations and it's hard. Usually it 514 00:27:09,359 --> 00:27:11,240 Speaker 1: was all kind of built into the job. Every we 515 00:27:11,280 --> 00:27:13,400 Speaker 1: had a residency every year of regatta that we would 516 00:27:13,400 --> 00:27:15,160 Speaker 1: do to raise most of our funds for the year. 517 00:27:15,560 --> 00:27:17,960 Speaker 1: But then if I was touring, a little proceed from 518 00:27:17,960 --> 00:27:20,480 Speaker 1: every ticket sold would go to side Volchanins Foundation, or 519 00:27:20,560 --> 00:27:22,760 Speaker 1: I would be able to go out and do Sometimes 520 00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:25,280 Speaker 1: you're full towards that are just for side volcanoes, but 521 00:27:25,320 --> 00:27:27,560 Speaker 1: not being able to do that. You know, you have 522 00:27:27,600 --> 00:27:29,919 Speaker 1: to get more creative now with your funding. Or we 523 00:27:29,920 --> 00:27:31,840 Speaker 1: could just say, please people if you have a heart 524 00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:36,560 Speaker 1: for pets and especially service animals that help kids. I 525 00:27:36,600 --> 00:27:38,960 Speaker 1: know that a lot of my listeners have children on 526 00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:41,640 Speaker 1: the autistic spectrum, and if you do, you know how 527 00:27:41,680 --> 00:27:46,440 Speaker 1: precious that bond and how priceless that bond is when 528 00:27:46,640 --> 00:27:49,400 Speaker 1: when a kid on the spectrum is able to connect 529 00:27:49,440 --> 00:27:53,560 Speaker 1: with an animal and get therapy that way. My nephews 530 00:27:53,560 --> 00:27:58,359 Speaker 1: on the spectrum as well. Yes, Savolcanous Foundation dot org um, 531 00:27:58,440 --> 00:28:00,639 Speaker 1: because a good thing about it too is you. We 532 00:28:00,680 --> 00:28:02,600 Speaker 1: also talked about all the places that we help, So 533 00:28:02,920 --> 00:28:04,639 Speaker 1: if you live near one of those places, you know 534 00:28:04,720 --> 00:28:06,439 Speaker 1: and you can't give to us, and maybe just go 535 00:28:06,480 --> 00:28:09,679 Speaker 1: there and donate your time. Shelters always need something. Sometimes 536 00:28:09,720 --> 00:28:12,160 Speaker 1: they need they need blankets, they need food, they need 537 00:28:12,160 --> 00:28:14,560 Speaker 1: some of your old veterinary medical supplies, so any of 538 00:28:14,600 --> 00:28:17,000 Speaker 1: those things you can do to help. I'm loving getting 539 00:28:17,040 --> 00:28:19,440 Speaker 1: caught up with Rob Thomas. Let me lavish a little 540 00:28:19,440 --> 00:28:22,840 Speaker 1: praise right now on one of my podcast sponsors, and 541 00:28:22,880 --> 00:28:26,879 Speaker 1: then I want to hear more. 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It had to 557 00:29:35,600 --> 00:29:38,080 Speaker 1: be someone that I could reach out to personally and 558 00:29:38,120 --> 00:29:39,680 Speaker 1: just ask them if they would do this for me. 559 00:29:40,400 --> 00:29:42,479 Speaker 1: So like BB Wine and bb Wine and sang at 560 00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:44,560 Speaker 1: my wedding. He's been one of our dear friends for 561 00:29:44,920 --> 00:29:47,720 Speaker 1: twenty you know, three years. I've known him as long 562 00:29:47,760 --> 00:29:50,880 Speaker 1: as I've known Marty. Brad Paisley has been a friend 563 00:29:50,920 --> 00:29:54,160 Speaker 1: for twenty some odd years. Abrat Michaelson I just met 564 00:29:54,200 --> 00:29:56,720 Speaker 1: recently a couple of years ago. She was promoting her 565 00:29:56,800 --> 00:29:58,880 Speaker 1: Christmas album and I was out doing like a Christmas 566 00:29:58,920 --> 00:30:02,400 Speaker 1: tour for radio, and we just kind of bonded over 567 00:30:02,440 --> 00:30:04,520 Speaker 1: what geeks we are about Christmas and how much we 568 00:30:04,560 --> 00:30:07,520 Speaker 1: love decorating in Christmas movies and and so I knew 569 00:30:07,520 --> 00:30:09,000 Speaker 1: that if I called her up that she would be 570 00:30:09,040 --> 00:30:14,200 Speaker 1: into doing it. Okay, favorite Christmas movie, It's a Wonderful life. Ah, 571 00:30:14,600 --> 00:30:17,000 Speaker 1: that's mine and my producer Janie's too. But you know 572 00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:21,880 Speaker 1: what my kid's favorite one is Elf Helf. Yeah. My 573 00:30:21,960 --> 00:30:25,720 Speaker 1: five year old discovered Elf last year. We watched Elf 574 00:30:26,360 --> 00:30:29,320 Speaker 1: every day. Yeah, I mean, listen it is. It is 575 00:30:29,360 --> 00:30:31,560 Speaker 1: a modern classic. You know, there's a few of those. 576 00:30:31,880 --> 00:30:34,040 Speaker 1: I don't know if you. Family Man with Nicholas Cage 577 00:30:34,400 --> 00:30:41,240 Speaker 1: is a great one. Um scrooged, love scrooged, unbelievable. Uh. 578 00:30:41,280 --> 00:30:44,640 Speaker 1: My favorite Christmas Carol is the Muppets Christmas Carol with 579 00:30:44,720 --> 00:30:49,160 Speaker 1: Michael Caine, Charlie Brown Christmas Charlie Brown Christmas of course, 580 00:30:49,520 --> 00:30:52,680 Speaker 1: and all and all those you know those cartoons, right 581 00:30:52,760 --> 00:30:54,680 Speaker 1: like all the what do you like the claymation of 582 00:30:54,680 --> 00:31:00,840 Speaker 1: the animation you know with a dentist, Yes, exactly, the dentist. 583 00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:07,320 Speaker 1: We could be independent together. So are you Will your 584 00:31:07,320 --> 00:31:10,960 Speaker 1: son be with you this Christmas season? Will we? Because 585 00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:13,680 Speaker 1: I've missed on the last two Christmases. So he graduated 586 00:31:13,680 --> 00:31:16,040 Speaker 1: from college and he used to live in Boston, so 587 00:31:16,120 --> 00:31:17,920 Speaker 1: it was great because I could you know, we could 588 00:31:17,920 --> 00:31:19,920 Speaker 1: see each other all the time. Now as soon as 589 00:31:19,960 --> 00:31:22,560 Speaker 1: he graduated, he went to Berkeley College of Music and 590 00:31:22,560 --> 00:31:25,280 Speaker 1: then him and his band jetted off to Los Angeles, 591 00:31:25,280 --> 00:31:27,440 Speaker 1: so now they're on the other side of the country 592 00:31:27,520 --> 00:31:29,360 Speaker 1: and then everything locked down, so we haven't really been 593 00:31:29,400 --> 00:31:31,200 Speaker 1: able to see each other. And I'm hoping that this 594 00:31:31,240 --> 00:31:33,800 Speaker 1: holiday is the time. So he got some of Dad's 595 00:31:33,920 --> 00:31:37,200 Speaker 1: musical d n A. Yeah, he's a really really good 596 00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:40,000 Speaker 1: guitar player and writer. So I'm really excited about the 597 00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:42,600 Speaker 1: stuff that they're doing. Very cool. So tell us how 598 00:31:42,640 --> 00:31:44,240 Speaker 1: we can find your son. We know how to find 599 00:31:44,360 --> 00:31:46,720 Speaker 1: Rob Thomas. How do we find your son? Well, you 600 00:31:46,720 --> 00:31:49,080 Speaker 1: know what, you can go check out on Spotify. He 601 00:31:49,120 --> 00:31:52,080 Speaker 1: has a band called handmade house. He's the cute guitar 602 00:31:52,120 --> 00:31:57,440 Speaker 1: player with the glasses, handmade house, and his name. His 603 00:31:57,520 --> 00:32:02,400 Speaker 1: name is Mason Avery William Thomas uti wow with an 604 00:32:02,440 --> 00:32:06,160 Speaker 1: exclamation point. Actually, on his birth certificate he has an 605 00:32:06,200 --> 00:32:15,040 Speaker 1: exclamation point because I think his mother and I were high. 606 00:32:15,560 --> 00:32:18,840 Speaker 1: Oh you are a kick, Rob Thomas. Thank you for 607 00:32:18,920 --> 00:32:21,600 Speaker 1: spending this time with us. Are you kidding me? This 608 00:32:21,640 --> 00:32:23,440 Speaker 1: has been the most fun interview I've done in a while. 609 00:32:23,680 --> 00:32:27,200 Speaker 1: Thank you. You are awesome. You are wonderful, and I 610 00:32:27,200 --> 00:32:31,600 Speaker 1: I've admired, I've loved your music and I just so 611 00:32:32,800 --> 00:32:37,000 Speaker 1: appreciate what you do for God's creatures. Thank you, and 612 00:32:37,080 --> 00:32:39,160 Speaker 1: thank you for you for letting me come and talk 613 00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:41,320 Speaker 1: to you on your show. I appreciate that. Alright, have 614 00:32:41,400 --> 00:32:44,440 Speaker 1: a wonderful, wonderful merry Christmas. All. I love you too. 615 00:32:44,440 --> 00:32:48,560 Speaker 1: It's good to see you by bye. Oh. There is 616 00:32:48,680 --> 00:32:54,760 Speaker 1: just something about Christmas time, isn't There memories to treasure, 617 00:32:55,200 --> 00:32:58,320 Speaker 1: so many more memories to make, especially if you've got 618 00:32:58,360 --> 00:33:02,240 Speaker 1: littles or grandkids. Uh. It's a time of feasting, a 619 00:33:02,360 --> 00:33:06,080 Speaker 1: time of gladness, a time of goodness, a time of 620 00:33:06,240 --> 00:33:09,440 Speaker 1: peace on earth, goodwill towards men, No matter what is 621 00:33:09,520 --> 00:33:13,800 Speaker 1: going on in the world. I also know it's a 622 00:33:13,840 --> 00:33:18,840 Speaker 1: difficult season, especially especially if you're alone or missing a 623 00:33:18,920 --> 00:33:21,920 Speaker 1: loved one, or in the midst of a personal battle. 624 00:33:22,640 --> 00:33:28,200 Speaker 1: All the glits, all the conspicuous consumption, even in these 625 00:33:28,200 --> 00:33:31,800 Speaker 1: tough times, that can be overwhelming. And that is where 626 00:33:31,880 --> 00:33:35,400 Speaker 1: music comes in. Let it soothe you. Let it soothe 627 00:33:35,400 --> 00:33:38,560 Speaker 1: your heart if your heart is tattered and torn, Let 628 00:33:38,600 --> 00:33:41,240 Speaker 1: it comfort you. Let it energize you. Let it be 629 00:33:41,960 --> 00:33:44,480 Speaker 1: the soundtrack to your tears if you need to cry, 630 00:33:44,560 --> 00:33:47,640 Speaker 1: to your laughter, to all the emotion that this season 631 00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:51,680 Speaker 1: brings about. I'm playing all your old favorites and your 632 00:33:51,760 --> 00:33:54,760 Speaker 1: new favorites on my radio show, and I hope you 633 00:33:54,800 --> 00:33:58,720 Speaker 1: will continue to join me there. I'm also sharing stories 634 00:33:58,760 --> 00:34:01,960 Speaker 1: and doing my best to keep your spirits up as 635 00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:04,920 Speaker 1: I smooth off the rough edges when spending time with 636 00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:08,520 Speaker 1: you each night. Rob Thomas and so many others gave 637 00:34:08,640 --> 00:34:11,040 Speaker 1: us a gift this year, a gift of more music 638 00:34:11,480 --> 00:34:14,120 Speaker 1: to add to our playlist, and I hope that you 639 00:34:14,600 --> 00:34:17,600 Speaker 1: are drinking it in, enjoying it as much as I 640 00:34:17,640 --> 00:34:22,719 Speaker 1: have been. There's just something about Christmas Time that's the 641 00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:25,839 Speaker 1: name of the album. Something about Christmas time. I think 642 00:34:25,880 --> 00:34:27,359 Speaker 1: a lot of it is the time that I get 643 00:34:27,400 --> 00:34:30,520 Speaker 1: to spend with you. Merry Christmas, my friends. Thank you 644 00:34:30,560 --> 00:34:35,480 Speaker 1: for making this season of love someone the best season yet. 645 00:34:36,040 --> 00:34:40,040 Speaker 1: I'll have more great guests and incredible conversations to share 646 00:34:40,080 --> 00:34:42,919 Speaker 1: with you soon. Do me a favor, take some time 647 00:34:42,960 --> 00:34:47,160 Speaker 1: out of your holiday schedule to slow down and love 648 00:34:47,320 --> 00:34:54,160 Speaker 1: someone