Speaker 1: Welcome to our podcast, our new named podcast. It used
Speaker 1: to be Conversations with Delilah, but now with the new year,
Speaker 1: we have a whole new image and a new name,
Speaker 1: and we've changed the name to Love Someone with Delilah,
Speaker 1: since it's all about love and kindness and changing the
Speaker 1: world for good. And our guest today is somebody that
Speaker 1: I met when he was a teenager. And since I
Speaker 1: met you, you have continued and consistently changed the world
Speaker 1: for good with your gift and your fans who are insane.
Speaker 2: In the best possible ways. Mostly the best possible ways.
Speaker 1: Josh grow. Yeah, they do take it over the top
Speaker 1: of the lady that I met that had you tattooed
Speaker 1: on our arm. Yes, that was unique.
Speaker 2: She has a new one. She now has my my newer,
Speaker 2: older bearded face tattooed somewhere else with the big beard
Speaker 2: with the beard. I'm not sure. I'm not sure how
Speaker 2: long she chose to do the beard. I think it's
Speaker 2: somewhere in the middle. But but yeah, just because that
Speaker 2: now I've outgrown my face has outgrown the first young tattoo,
Speaker 2: so she's had to she's had to had to update
Speaker 2: to get a new one. But she's also like I've
Speaker 2: found out, like she's like she's she's kind of like
Speaker 2: a biker Like she's she's tough, like she wears like
Speaker 2: leather vests and goes biking on her Harley, and she
Speaker 2: has like all kinds of other like badass tattoos. And
Speaker 2: then she just has my your cue, adorable little face.
Speaker 2: When I was like nineteen years old, going Hi everybody. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so Josh, I'm ruining her street cred is what it is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Josh, when you were nineteen years old, you did
Speaker 1: not go Hi, everybody, Hi everybody. I went to your
Speaker 1: first show, Yeah, nineteen years old, man, and and you
Speaker 1: you look like you were fourteen years old.
Speaker 2: I know, I was a late bloomer.
Speaker 1: You were just this tall, adorable kid. And then you
Speaker 1: open your mouth and out came this voice from heaven.
Speaker 1: It was one of those experiences in my life. There
Speaker 1: are two people that I saw earlier, early, early, earlier
Speaker 1: in their career that changed me, I think on a
Speaker 1: cellular level. One was Whitney Houston. I saw her when
Speaker 1: she was twenty one.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, what that must have been incredible.
Speaker 1: It was unbelievable.
Speaker 2: And I look back at old footage of her singing
Speaker 2: right after when she was singing in church and she
Speaker 2: coming right out of the gospel scene. Yep, yeah, that
Speaker 2: instrument just as it continued to be.
Speaker 1: And she had nothing else. When I saw her, she had,
Speaker 1: you know, a small band playing. She had no choreography,
Speaker 1: no stage director, no lighting. It was just her and
Speaker 1: that voice.
Speaker 2: Something magic about that time period.
Speaker 1: And the same with you. When I first saw you,
Speaker 1: you didn't have a big show, you didn't have a
Speaker 1: big production, but you walked out, Josh, this thin baby face,
Speaker 1: ye boy, and out came the voice from heaven like
Speaker 1: God gave you such well a beautiful gift.
Speaker 2: That's so kind of you to say. And I was
Speaker 2: so lucky, as I continue to be that that you
Speaker 2: were there. You were right at the beginning of it,
Speaker 2: and you you heard something in me, and you were
Speaker 2: right there to be a support and a friend from
Speaker 2: day one.
Speaker 1: So thank you for Janny and I both were just
Speaker 1: sitting there with our mouth tied up and doing are
Speaker 1: we really hearing what we think we're hearing? Because your
Speaker 1: voice is so magical.
Speaker 2: And the connection between me and Whitney is David Foster,
Speaker 2: who you know, we made such incredible music with that great,
Speaker 2: great guy, and so, I mean, that was a time
Speaker 2: period I looked back at it. I was, I was
Speaker 2: so it was so incredible that I was able to
Speaker 2: have that stage, in that platform, But I was terrified
Speaker 2: that scrawny, skinny, tall kid was was really not all
Speaker 2: that happy that time period. I was so scared and
Speaker 2: I was, you know, I was plucked from school at
Speaker 2: that time. When you first came to the concert, that
Speaker 2: was basically my first time ever touring, ever doing live shows.
Speaker 2: My voice didn't really come into its own until I
Speaker 2: was sixteen, and then David discovered me at seventeen. So
Speaker 2: for that time period that you first saw me, I
Speaker 2: was a student and a pro at the same time.
Speaker 2: I was trying to I was basically learning as I went.
Speaker 1: But you did a great job well. And the same
Speaker 1: time I met you and discovered your voice, I met
Speaker 1: your folks. Yeah, and I knew you were going to
Speaker 1: be okay. I knew you were going to be okay
Speaker 1: because I was so honestly, I was so afraid for you,
Speaker 1: because I've seen this industry two people up and spit
Speaker 1: them out. Like I said, I met Whitney, I saw
Speaker 1: her when she was young, and I saw what happened,
Speaker 1: and when I saw your talent, I was so afraid
Speaker 1: for you.
Speaker 2: I was also so naive.
Speaker 1: You are so nicive.
Speaker 2: I was really naive, and I think I look back
Speaker 2: at it now and I think, well, blissfully so yeah,
Speaker 2: because I didn't know.
Speaker 1: But you were trying to be so tough. You're like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm from California.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I've got a new album out as
Speaker 3: my tour, so it's all going good, yeah, feeling pretty,
Speaker 3: feeling pretty good about things.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and inside you're just going you know, alert, alert,
Speaker 2: you know, and uh, you know. And and I didn't
Speaker 2: know at that point, all the all the myriad of
Speaker 2: ways that it could it could be, it could go
Speaker 2: all terribly wrong, you know.
Speaker 1: And it does for so many people because they're not grounded.
Speaker 2: That is I think the main reason. Yeah, the lack
Speaker 2: of grounding.
Speaker 1: What I saw in you when I met you was
Speaker 1: standing right behind you, four feet away were your folks
Speaker 1: and your mom. Oh my gosh, what a beautiful land.
Speaker 1: She's she's wonderful, she's so wonderful, and she was like,
Speaker 1: we're not gonna let that happen to our son. We
Speaker 1: are going to make sure that he is looked after
Speaker 1: and grounded, and and they're still there.
Speaker 2: Oh absolutely, I'm so lucky that I still have them
Speaker 2: as a sounding board and as my protectors, and just
Speaker 2: you know, to have that balance, to have to have
Speaker 2: parents that believe in you that way. And I had
Speaker 2: an amazing professional team too, but there's only so much
Speaker 2: that a professional team can do for you big picture
Speaker 2: when it comes to the emotions you're going through and
Speaker 2: the decisions that you have to make that might not
Speaker 2: be the best thing for your professional career, but are
Speaker 2: the best things for your soul and for your emotional
Speaker 2: well being. And having a family that you can bounce
Speaker 2: those things off to that gives you the balance that
Speaker 2: I think when when it does go wrong, when when
Speaker 2: people spiral out, it's because they don't have that balance.
Speaker 2: It's because they don't have people to turn to away
Speaker 2: from the decision makers they have good as they may
Speaker 2: be in the industry, and so yeah, I know without
Speaker 2: without my parents and my brother too. I've got to
Speaker 2: give my brother a lot of credit to because he's
Speaker 2: he's my younger brother, but he's like my older brother.
Speaker 2: He's just he's always been ten times more mature. He's
Speaker 2: just got such a great head on his he's a
Speaker 2: brilliant director, he's he's a behind the camera guy, and
Speaker 2: he's just so full of wisdom too. So yet to
Speaker 2: have a great family is something that I'm very very,
Speaker 2: very very lucky.
Speaker 1: And I heard you on the Today Show talking with
Speaker 1: Kathy and Hoda about the fact that your folks love
Speaker 1: story has inspired you in your in your music and
Speaker 1: finding that the ninety nine years yeah, forever love.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I I can only write from my
Speaker 2: experiences when I write about myself, and those experiences generally
Speaker 2: stem from relationships that I'm in with which you know,
Speaker 2: I've been in a couple of relationships that have lasted,
Speaker 2: you know, almost a three year mark. But generally, you know,
Speaker 2: you know, my not not a lot of people I
Speaker 2: know have been together as long as my parents have,
Speaker 2: Like you know, it's it's it's pretty remarkable that they've
Speaker 2: been together, I mean, fifty years. That's just they've beaten
Speaker 2: all the odds. So so I might, you know, I
Speaker 2: might write about new love for a relationship that I'm in,
Speaker 2: but I'm also I'm so inspired by the idea of
Speaker 2: their journey and the fact that it wasn't always you know,
Speaker 2: it wasn't always perfect. That looking for perfection is I
Speaker 2: think something that drives people to a lot of unnecessary pressure.
Speaker 2: And my parents I think didn't know what they were
Speaker 2: doing for a lot of it, which I think was
Speaker 2: another key factor in their success, was that they were
Speaker 2: just diving in and didn't necessarily have a plan. They
Speaker 2: just went off of love and loving each other and
Speaker 2: also just being able to laugh off the small stuff,
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 1: And so who has the insanely fabulous sense of humor
Speaker 1: that you got? Was it both of them or one
Speaker 1: of the other things?
Speaker 2: Well, it's pretty funny. My dad is more of like
Speaker 2: a borsch belt, like just kind of very dry, very
Speaker 2: groucho marxy kind of humor.
Speaker 1: Now does he do the stupid dad jokes?
Speaker 2: Oh he does. He invented dad jokes. Yeah, I was born.
Speaker 2: I was born with a dad joke. I slapped my
Speaker 2: back and I immediately had a dad joke. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 2: this kid is going to be intolerable. Yeah. And my
Speaker 2: mom is kind of she's she's she's definitely more like
Speaker 2: the emotional of the two. So she she's kind of funny.
Speaker 1: Does she make excuses for the dad jokes, does she say, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm so sorry.
Speaker 2: She you know, she does laugh at them, which is
Speaker 2: I think that's the key. I think that I think
Speaker 2: that one of the reasons they've been together so long
Speaker 2: is that he can make her laugh and vice versa.
Speaker 2: I think that that's a big part of them. But
Speaker 2: my mom my dad is like, is that kind of witty?
Speaker 2: But brief? My mom will tell a hell of a
Speaker 2: story and be very funny in the way that she'll
Speaker 2: talk about a situation that happened or somebody that she
Speaker 2: met or something like that, and that's where her humor
Speaker 2: comes through.
Speaker 1: Yeah, when I've talked to your mom, she's very self deprecating,
Speaker 1: like she does not take herself seriously and she can't
Speaker 1: tell fabulous.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, and growing up in now being in the music
Speaker 2: business where everybody is so about taking them so seriously,
Speaker 2: and you know, thinking every little story they have is
Speaker 2: the most important thing that's ever happened. You know. I
Speaker 2: grew up in Los Angeles. I found myself in show
Speaker 2: business as a teenager. But both my parents are not
Speaker 2: showbiz parents, and I think that was the key. But
Speaker 2: they come from education. My mom was an art art teacher,
Speaker 2: a junior high school art teacher in public school in La.
Speaker 1: You gotta be funny to survive junior And she.
Speaker 2: Loves working with junior high school students, even.
Speaker 1: Though that's just baffling, which is I taught art for
Speaker 1: three years. Oh yeah, junior high school kids will put
Speaker 1: me over the edge, right over the edge.
Speaker 2: Yep. It's it's because they they're testing the boundaries. It's
Speaker 2: right at puberty. Oh yeah, it's it's everybody wants to
Speaker 2: be really cool.
Speaker 1: Everybody's a poopoo head totally.
Speaker 2: Everyone's a total poopo head. And my mom like has
Speaker 2: like the magic. She she can command their attention and
Speaker 2: and even now because I've got my Arts Foundation Find
Speaker 2: Your Light, and my mom is a big part of that.
Speaker 2: She's on She helped me co create and was on
Speaker 2: the board, and she'll visit schools and she'll talk to
Speaker 2: these inner city teenagers and just it's amazing how she's
Speaker 2: able to connect with them and reach them. She's a
Speaker 2: teacher through and through. And so between that and my
Speaker 2: dad having started in art, he was a trumpet player
Speaker 2: and jazz tromp player in college. He came from a
Speaker 2: very very traditional family and and you know, his mom
Speaker 2: kind of said, there's no way to make a living,
Speaker 2: you know, go into business, yea, and so he did so, so,
Speaker 2: you know, very grounded, very grounded folks, which which then
Speaker 2: going into a very not grounded business, I think was
Speaker 2: was essential that I stayed in the real world.
Speaker 1: So let's talk about your foundation, because you've been doing
Speaker 1: this for years. And one of the things that I
Speaker 1: love about the school my kids go to is they
Speaker 1: have and the little town that I live in has
Speaker 1: an amazing choral program. Oh yeah, my son, zach that
Speaker 1: I told you that.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 1: The past we started something called the Zachariah Funderful where
Speaker 1: we raise money for kids who want to be in
Speaker 1: the choral program but can't buy this suit, the uniform.
Speaker 1: Right now, the boys have suits, the girls have black dresses,
Speaker 1: and they're not expensive, but if you're on a you know,
Speaker 1: fixed income, they're expensive. And so trips, choral trips are
Speaker 1: our choral teacher, mister Allen is a father figure to
Speaker 1: so many kids in our community, and he really brings
Speaker 1: out the best in kids. Yeah, and.
Speaker 2: It's so important because SOTT because it's a tool, you know,
Speaker 2: I think that the misconception when it's argued about and
Speaker 2: talked about in schools is that it's a soft subject,
Speaker 2: that it's an extracurricular, that it's a drum circle just
Speaker 2: to fill time. Macaroni necklace is that kind of thing,
Speaker 2: and you know, and it's it is as essential as
Speaker 2: any of the major categories of education. And I say
Speaker 2: that without even a shred of doubt because I've seen
Speaker 2: it in action. I've seen it used in schools where
Speaker 2: it's not about becoming a talent, becoming a professional singer
Speaker 2: or whatever. I mean, if that happens, it opened up
Speaker 2: a world of possibility for me. It gave me blinders,
Speaker 2: it gave me the bug. But what I've seen more so,
Speaker 2: and especially in inner city communities and places where I
Speaker 2: was very lucky, but so many kids who don't have
Speaker 2: the parental system at home that keeps them where they
Speaker 2: need to be, that doesn't have the opportunity to go
Speaker 2: out and see shows and be part of camps and
Speaker 2: stuff like I was part of. That's their open door
Speaker 2: to express themselves and to build leadership skills. And their
Speaker 2: grades go up, the graduation rates go up, their home
Speaker 2: life goes up, their parents are coming to see them
Speaker 2: in their school plays, and they've had previously nothing to
Speaker 2: talk about at home, and suddenly they're going and they're saying,
Speaker 2: oh my god, I had no idea my son or
Speaker 2: my daughter wanted was this good a dancer, wanted to
Speaker 2: be an Annie or whatever it is. And they're cheering
Speaker 2: in the audience, and for a lot of families, that's
Speaker 2: that's a very special connection and source of pride that
Speaker 2: they hadn't had previously.
Speaker 1: And it's life.
Speaker 2: It's life, it's empathy. And in this ever divided world
Speaker 2: that we're in, where everything is being shouted from the
Speaker 2: rooftops about how scared we should be of each other
Speaker 2: and suspicious and fearful, the arts are one of the
Speaker 2: few languages we have left that are as that universal
Speaker 2: to teach us about each other's common denominators and what
Speaker 2: brings us together as a unity, but also celebrates our differences.
Speaker 1: I have a daughter who's fourteen, Blessing, and she played
Speaker 1: sports for the first time this year, and it was
Speaker 1: so much fun to go see her, But it was
Speaker 1: weird for me because for the last ten fifteen years,
Speaker 1: the kids that I've been parenting were all into the arts, drama, music, choir, Coral,
Speaker 1: the elite choir, So lucky to have had.
Speaker 2: You too and introduce them. But I think sports can
Speaker 2: do the same thing, by the way exactly.
Speaker 1: But it was so similar but so different. You know,
Speaker 1: when I'm used to curling the girl's hair for the
Speaker 1: madrigal fees and finding a boar's head, you know that
Speaker 1: they can bring in because every year they have a
Speaker 1: real magical fees. Yet it's their biggest fundraiser and the
Speaker 1: most amazing two weekends of the high school's music program.
Speaker 1: To go from that to the basketball court. But the
Speaker 1: relationships that my daughter formed with the other girls that
Speaker 1: she played with, I saw the same sort of glue
Speaker 1: that held the team together, that held Zach's choir together
Speaker 1: and Sheila's choir together, and Bridget's choir together, and the
Speaker 1: plays together. And what people need to understand, and I
Speaker 1: try to express this on the show, is life. If
Speaker 1: you don't have love, if you don't have relationships, if
Speaker 1: you don't have community, you are going to end up
Speaker 1: in trouble. Kids are going to end up in gangs
Speaker 1: that they don't have family if they don't have community.
Speaker 1: And what you're doing by supporting the arts is giving
Speaker 1: them that family, that community, that that glue to help
Speaker 1: them care about someone else.
Speaker 2: Well, it's when.
Speaker 1: You care about the show, when you care about the performance,
Speaker 1: when you care about the choir, that gives you skills
Speaker 1: to change the world purpose, and it gives you empathy, empathy, and.
Speaker 2: It gives you a voice that that for the first
Speaker 2: time in these young people's lives, they feel really matters,
Speaker 2: that they really can do something. There's so much noise
Speaker 2: out there, and there's so much negativity, especially now with
Speaker 2: social media and all the ways that pepe kids can
Speaker 2: be anonymously bullied and made to feel so small. The
Speaker 2: arts and sports too, I really do feel the athletics
Speaker 2: are are vitally important as well. Give give young people
Speaker 2: the chance to choose the right side of the fence
Speaker 2: when when they're on the fence, because you're right. It's
Speaker 2: there are two many temptations out there to find validation
Speaker 2: in their lives when there is a void, to find
Speaker 2: it in unhealthy ways, and the arts gives them a
Speaker 2: healthy outlet, and in that way, I don't think it's
Speaker 2: overstating that it's helping to save future generations and change
Speaker 2: the course of the world through the leadership and empathy
Speaker 2: of those generations.
Speaker 1: So my foundation point hope. We work with foster kids,
Speaker 1: and the statistics Josh for foster kids in America is
Speaker 1: stomach turning. Yeah, I know four hundred and eighty seven
Speaker 1: thousand kids right now in foster care. Last year twenty eighteen, nineteen,
Speaker 1: nine hundred and eighty seven kids aged out with no parents,
Speaker 1: no family, no hope. And so what we try to
Speaker 1: do is encourage people to adopt children who are in
Speaker 1: foster care and legally free and support kids who are
Speaker 1: in foster care. We got to figure out how to
Speaker 1: team up, Yes, so that we can use your platform
Speaker 1: for arts to help kids who don't have permanency. You
Speaker 1: don't have a forever family, need so desperately exactly find
Speaker 1: that hope and joy. And I can't sing a note.
Speaker 1: You know that you've heard me.
Speaker 2: I don't. I've actually had a theory that in the
Speaker 2: shower in your car, oh I sing? Really?
Speaker 1: Last, that I can't sing doesn't stop me from saying.
Speaker 2: Oh, you've got such a glorious speaking voice that I
Speaker 2: kind of feel like people who have incredible speaking voices
Speaker 2: should should.
Speaker 1: Should be able to sing ding it Well, yeah, it
Speaker 1: so not fair but God gave me a three note range,
Speaker 1: you know, as so long as I'm speaking in my
Speaker 1: in my range.
Speaker 2: But I can't stand my speaking voice, so I'll get
Speaker 2: on the micro. Oh, how are you guys growing? How
Speaker 2: is that? How that trade's trade?
Speaker 1: But when I was in school, I was in places. Okay,
Speaker 1: I didn't get to do the musical.
Speaker 2: I didn't get to be said all right, I didn't
Speaker 2: get it. I didn't get a singing role in my
Speaker 2: first musical either. Really yeah, I was mister Shinkopf in Fame.
Speaker 2: I was the German math teacher, music teacher, and I
Speaker 2: didn't didn't get a singing role.
Speaker 1: Well, I got to sing along with Vivitybobedy Booth, you
Speaker 1: know it. It was like thirty other people singing. Sure, But
Speaker 1: that was my home. That was my stage and my brother.
Speaker 1: I had a brother, Matt, who's left to be in
Speaker 1: heaven years ago. But Matt and I were in every
Speaker 1: play together, and our friends were the same friends, and
Speaker 1: we always hosted the after the play party at our house.
Speaker 1: And I have so many amazing memories from that. They
Speaker 1: stick with you, They stick with you for life, and
Speaker 1: they they're the building blocks of your future. Relationship absolutely,
Speaker 1: and those friendships last forever too.
Speaker 2: Whenever I've been in there's nothing like being in a
Speaker 2: production with somebody that really just connects you emotionally for life.
Speaker 2: You've just you've been through it, you've learned the lines together,
Speaker 2: you've been through the boot camp of doing a show.
Speaker 2: And that's I think one of the great things about
Speaker 2: being young and doing theaters. It teaches you discipline, it
Speaker 2: teaches you, you know, selflessness when it comes to making
Speaker 2: sure the whole show. You're a cog in a wheel.
Speaker 2: It's not just about you, and I think that that
Speaker 2: connectivity is so important too. And from a social aspect,
Speaker 2: I made friends because of the arts. That's another thing
Speaker 2: is I didn't feel as lonely when I was a
Speaker 2: kid because I was shy. I wasn't I wasn't going
Speaker 2: to go up and make friends by myself. It was
Speaker 2: being part of a show sometimes being forced through the
Speaker 2: assignment to interact with kids on an artistic level. You
Speaker 2: learn about each other, you become friends with each other.
Speaker 1: So how can somebody partner with you? Yeah, and get involved?
Speaker 2: Well, we in a number of different ways. We have
Speaker 2: a website we can anybody can go to find your
Speaker 2: Light Find your Light Foundation dot org. The name of
Speaker 2: the foundation is Find Your Light and they can learn
Speaker 2: about us. They can donate off the website and through
Speaker 2: the website. If you're a program who also needs help,
Speaker 2: you can reach out to us. We take grant requests.
Speaker 2: We are always looking for new places to team up with,
Speaker 2: to to funnel our donations into to become a Find
Speaker 2: your Light program. We we kind of like to be
Speaker 2: a part of many different organizations success and uh and
Speaker 2: then you know, we're we're we're doing our fourth gala
Speaker 2: this year, you know, and it's it's incredible. I've been
Speaker 2: able to call on my friends who've been right there,
Speaker 2: people like a Diana Menzel who has her own Broader
Speaker 2: Way Foundation, people like Joshua Bell who's done incredible things
Speaker 2: with education through music. This year while honoring the Tony Bennett,
Speaker 2: you know who's he and his wife have just done
Speaker 2: incredible things. So, you know, we've had the honor of
Speaker 2: being able to include artists and friends that share our
Speaker 2: vision that we all team up together for the same purpose.
Speaker 2: That there is no competition with these kinds of things.
Speaker 2: And that's one of the fun things about Finding Your
Speaker 2: Light is an umbrella organization. We're out there to help
Speaker 2: make sure that those programs in school and after school
Speaker 2: don't get lost in the shuffle, don't fall through the
Speaker 2: cracks as those as the funds are being cut at record.
Speaker 1: Speed, unbelievably.
Speaker 2: It's it's it's a shame.
Speaker 1: It is as criminal. It's criminal. And when you were
Speaker 1: earlier talking about the fact that when kids are involved
Speaker 1: in music or plays or the arts, I mean, I
Speaker 1: love pottery, I love painting, I love drawing. I have
Speaker 1: a son, TK who's eighteen, and before I adopted him,
Speaker 1: he had a traumatic brain injury that went undiagnosed for years.
Speaker 1: We didn't know, we didn't have the records. But he
Speaker 1: has found his home on the potter's wheel in the
Speaker 1: art room at their school.
Speaker 2: It's a focuser, oh my gosh.
Speaker 1: And he's turning out these beautiful creations and bulls. But
Speaker 1: more than that, he started mentoring the younger kids great
Speaker 1: and teaching them and it's really given him an outlet
Speaker 1: for his love.
Speaker 2: He has a path, he has a purpose.
Speaker 1: Ah, and he's so so talented.
Speaker 2: And he's now reaching those kids and passing on that
Speaker 2: purpose and it gives and it gives, and it gives.
Speaker 2: And that's the incredible thing about arts education is that
Speaker 2: what you receive from it, you then have have a
Speaker 2: million opportunities to give back to this person and it
Speaker 2: just continues. We also did a really cool thing. You
Speaker 2: like wine, you.
Speaker 1: Drink, I don't.
Speaker 2: You don't drink.
Speaker 1: I don't I drink. I know you took your folks
Speaker 1: to it.
Speaker 2: That's true. I took up the wine country.
Speaker 1: The last time I drank wine. It was Strawberry Boons Farm,
Speaker 1: Strawberry Hills.
Speaker 2: Oh cracky, that's why you stopped. Yeah, that'll do it.
Speaker 2: That's a hang That's a hangover that I would imagine
Speaker 2: is a hangover that that that would make anybody stone
Speaker 2: cold sober for the rest of their lives.
Speaker 1: Key oh boy.
Speaker 2: But but we teamed up with a wonderful guy named
Speaker 2: Ross Hallick, who is both an award winning pino maker
Speaker 2: and also an arts fan, and he reached out to
Speaker 2: us and he said, hey, love what you guys are doing.
Speaker 2: We have a whole lot of wine that we've made
Speaker 2: that is ready to go, and we want to make
Speaker 2: it a fine to find your light wine. And we're
Speaker 2: going to give every dollar of profits to find your light.
Speaker 2: And we've done that now for four years. And since
Speaker 2: I'm such a such a wine lover, he said, for
Speaker 2: the next couple of vintages, come over and blow us.
Speaker 2: So I got to learn all about tasting. I got
Speaker 2: to drink out of the barrels and just learn about
Speaker 2: what all the different vines can do and all the
Speaker 2: different types of oak can do to a blend. So
Speaker 2: now these bottles that we're selling for the Foundation are
Speaker 2: just absolutely delicious and really personal because we've had our
Speaker 2: own personal touch into them too.
Speaker 1: Have you ever read the book The Secret of the Vine?
Speaker 2: No, oh, I've heard about this.
Speaker 1: That's thick. I mean it's a one hour reading. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: blow your mind.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not a wine drinker, but that book
Speaker 1: made me want to sorry about wine.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I'm not a heavy drinker by any stretch,
Speaker 2: but I love I love learning about the creation of wine.
Speaker 2: And like you said, whether you drink or not, it's
Speaker 2: fun to learn about the horticulture, how what goes into it,
Speaker 2: what proprietors do and wine makers do to make that happen.
Speaker 2: You know, it's pretty stunning to do.
Speaker 1: Well. I have vines on my farm that are over
Speaker 1: one hundred years old. I have wow, two sets of
Speaker 1: grape vines that I have excavated off old properties and
Speaker 1: brought to my farm and planted probably I don't know,
Speaker 1: a couple hundred plants that are one hundred and twenty.
Speaker 2: That's so cool. A trick I learned from the Mandavi family.
Speaker 2: They have started a name drop. They have me work
Speaker 2: for barbecue ones, and they grilled over their old vines,
Speaker 2: the old vines that they weren't using anymore, really old vines.
Speaker 2: They use this as would under the grill, and I
Speaker 2: bet to grill with it, and it gave them. It
Speaker 2: gave them a really cool texture and flavor. And uh
Speaker 2: so that's a that's a little if you're into into vines,
Speaker 2: that's a cool grilling.
Speaker 1: I clipped them, I groomed them, I grown them. I
Speaker 1: have beautiful harvests. Yeah, I just don't know how to
Speaker 1: make wine.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean me neither. That's why I'll call you.
Speaker 1: And I'll say, okay, yeah, Josh Grobin, here I cut
Speaker 1: counting bushels.
Speaker 2: Of these beautiful grapes there.
Speaker 1: You know what I do with them? I juice them
Speaker 1: and I freeze it. And then when I make my health.
Speaker 1: I blend a health drink every morning. Yeah, I use
Speaker 1: They're delicious.
Speaker 2: They're they're delicious. Just the non boozy wine grapes are
Speaker 2: just awesome. Just just juice them or eat them off,
Speaker 2: eat them off the vine. But but anyway, no, this
Speaker 2: one is delicious and people want to go. If people
Speaker 2: want to check it out, they can go to my
Speaker 2: website and get it all gost to charity. And we've
Speaker 2: got some twenty fifteens left which are.
Speaker 1: Awesome, very sweet. And your tour is going to be
Speaker 1: announced twin.
Speaker 2: We've just released. We've just announced the new dates. I'm
Speaker 2: going to be going out at the beginning of summer.
Speaker 2: We're going to be doing a bunch of arenas again,
Speaker 2: and then we're going to do some great outdoor venues
Speaker 2: as well, places like Red Rocks and Santa Barbara Bowl,
Speaker 2: Wolf Trap, Ravinia, some of these classic tangle would I mean,
Speaker 2: speaking speaking of arts, when we're going back to Interlocking
Speaker 2: where I went to arts camp and we're going to play.
Speaker 2: We're going to play the outdoor amphitheater that I would
Speaker 2: see shows at when I was a kid.
Speaker 1: Oh that is cool.
Speaker 2: I even like I wear my Camppin. When I go
Speaker 2: back on that stage and just looking at and all
Speaker 2: the kids in their uniforms that I remember sitting in
Speaker 2: those seats, that's always really, really special. But the arena
Speaker 2: shows are going to be fun because half of them
Speaker 2: are going to be with my friend Jennifer Nettles. We
Speaker 2: sang this morning on the Today Show and then half
Speaker 2: nine years we're going to be singing beautiful More, thank
Speaker 2: you so much. And then Chris Body, my friend Chris Body,
Speaker 2: the wonderful trumpet player court. Yeah, he's going to join
Speaker 2: me on the second half of the shows and we're
Speaker 2: going to do you know.
Speaker 1: Who loves Chris as producer Jamie loves Chris.
Speaker 2: Oh, well, well, Chris is a Chris Is. It's impossible
Speaker 2: to dress man not to be in the mood with
Speaker 2: his music and his playing and.
Speaker 1: Just he's a very sharp dressed guy, sharp dress man, talented.
Speaker 2: We all have to we all have to have to
Speaker 2: spruce it up a little bit when Chris is on
Speaker 2: on deck. Chris is coming on tour, Okay, okay, press
Speaker 2: the suits, yeah, break the slack exactly exactly.
Speaker 1: Well, thank you for spending time with me.
Speaker 2: It's always an absolute privilege to be to be with
Speaker 2: you and to talk to you, and to UH to
Speaker 2: share share a couple of microphones with you. You're You're
Speaker 2: an absolute absolute treasure and UH and I can't think
Speaker 2: enough for the years of support and friendship. Love you
Speaker 2: on YouTube, God.
Speaker 1: Bless down and love someone.
Speaker 2: With Delilah m HM