Speaker 1: Hi there. I'm Delilah, and I am so glad that
Speaker 1: you've decided to check out my podcast. It's a great
Speaker 1: outlet for me to have because it's free of a
Speaker 1: lot of the rules that apply to regular radio programming.
Speaker 1: This podcast allows me to just talk to talk to you,
Speaker 1: to talk to our guests, to address subjects without any
Speaker 1: time constraints, without a boss breathing down my next saying
Speaker 1: be quiet and play the music. And this podcast has
Speaker 1: been made possible by the amazing folks at the Home Depot.
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Speaker 1: but also for your dreams of spring plants and bulbs
Speaker 1: and everything you need to plan your garden ahead of time.
Speaker 1: So thank you to the Home Depot for making this
Speaker 1: podcast possible. Brandy carl is with me today. She's a
Speaker 1: hometown Seattle girl. She has got a farm like me.
Speaker 1: She's got goats and dogs and beautiful kids. But you
Speaker 1: know what else Brandy Carlyle has that I don't. She
Speaker 1: has six Grammy nominations. Six six Grammy nominations. Whoo, Brandy Carlisle,
Speaker 1: thank you for taking this time to reach out. It
Speaker 1: is so good to connect with you during such an
Speaker 1: exciting time in your career.
Speaker 2: Oh, it's my pleasure. How are you? So?
Speaker 1: I find it kind of weird that I've been in
Speaker 1: radio since long before you were born, in radio in
Speaker 1: the city you were born, and I've followed your music
Speaker 1: and owned your album back in the day when I
Speaker 1: actually owned an album. And this is the first time
Speaker 1: I've got to talk to you because somebody you love
Speaker 1: is somebody that I now love.
Speaker 2: In a door, Oh yeah, I never.
Speaker 1: Got to talk to you before until I met Kim,
Speaker 1: and She's like, what I know, I know, let me
Speaker 1: facilitate this for you.
Speaker 2: I know. And I've been listening to you for years?
Speaker 2: How cool is that as long as I can remember? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Cool. So Kim was telling me that we've got many
Speaker 1: many things in common, including horses and goats. Yeahats a
Speaker 1: lot more than you do, though.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: So tell me about your your new project, your new album,
Speaker 1: and then I want to talk about your work with refugees.
Speaker 1: But first we're going to talk about your brand new album.
Speaker 2: That's out well, and then an album with the Twins,
Speaker 2: my longtime band and brothers, Kim and Philhans, a off
Speaker 2: called by the.
Speaker 1: Way I asked of you, Now, can I can I
Speaker 1: share this because because Kim told me this that you
Speaker 1: guys not only work together and played together and produce
Speaker 1: together and record together, but you also like live in
Speaker 1: the same general area, so you like do your like family?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's cultish. One of them's married to my little
Speaker 2: sister and so they're little kids and my niece and nephew,
Speaker 2: and then you know, buy marriage in some way or
Speaker 2: another them related to the other one because of that,
Speaker 2: So his wife and his two kids or my other
Speaker 2: niece and nephew. And then we have a long time
Speaker 2: cellice who's been in our band for about fifteen years.
Speaker 2: Josh Newman. He married my wife's sister, and.
Speaker 1: So you really really really are family.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And the engineer that tours with the band, and
Speaker 2: that engineered Firewalker's daughter, and Bear Creek is marrying my
Speaker 2: wife's other sister. So we basically are all married into
Speaker 2: the band.
Speaker 1: And so you can never ever break up. The band
Speaker 1: can never break up. In the marriages can never break up.
Speaker 2: It would cause real problems if one of the marriages hit,
Speaker 2: uh yeah, because we'd all probably take sides and freak out.
Speaker 1: And that would just be bad for the music. That
Speaker 1: would be bad for us fans.
Speaker 2: It gives the music a real serious depth. But I
Speaker 2: suppose the music's always in jeopardy because if something went wrong,
Speaker 2: you know, in the family, it'd be a problem.
Speaker 1: Now, are you guys going to be like Fleetwood Mac
Speaker 1: and if things do, you know, go upside down for
Speaker 1: a minute, write a great song about it and and
Speaker 1: capitalize on that pain.
Speaker 2: Like write revenge songs. Probably, But then you have to
Speaker 2: go back to it.
Speaker 1: By the way, I forgive.
Speaker 2: You, yep, back to this record.
Speaker 1: So let's let's talk about by the way I forgive you. Okay,
Speaker 1: So you've got a single off that tell me about
Speaker 1: the single and why you chose that one. Because I
Speaker 1: listened to the whole thing, I could not I could
Speaker 1: not pick a favorite.
Speaker 2: Really, it was really hard, actually, but the joke felt
Speaker 2: like a favorite to me because it's so uplifting, a
Speaker 2: universally anthemic that it was just like a message I
Speaker 2: just felt like we all wanted needed to hear right now.
Speaker 2: And so it was the only single that's ever been
Speaker 2: chosen as a single based on the message and for
Speaker 2: us anyway, and that's why we chose it.
Speaker 1: We do need a message of hope, a message of laughter,
Speaker 1: a message of let's get over it. Brandy Carlisle is
Speaker 1: with me today and we're talking about kids, our fur babies,
Speaker 1: and oh yeah, those Grammy nominations. This podcast has been
Speaker 1: made possible by the wonderful folks at the Home Depot.
Speaker 1: The Home Depot is a great company that makes anything
Speaker 1: home improvement possible for us each and every day. We
Speaker 1: now go back to continue our conversation with six time
Speaker 1: Grammy nominee Brandy Carlisle. One of the things that I
Speaker 1: love and have loved about you when I heard about
Speaker 1: your Cover Stories project is that you're not just talking
Speaker 1: about it. You're doing something to try to help and
Speaker 1: bless kids who are affected by war.
Speaker 2: Well, that's basically what Warchild does, you know, is it
Speaker 2: deals with kids that are having to see horrific things
Speaker 2: that they're having to see it on a daily basis,
Speaker 2: or they've seen it and its shaped their little lives
Speaker 2: in a way that they're not going to get beyond
Speaker 2: because they don't have the emotional maturity process what they've seen.
Speaker 2: More child introduce as an education and so these kids
Speaker 2: are actually getting their schooling in the camp, so that
Speaker 2: if and when they actually do get out of the camp,
Speaker 2: when the rest of us, you know, get our heads
Speaker 2: on straight and realize that these people need to be
Speaker 2: assimilated into the rest of the world, then they will
Speaker 2: have an education or have a way forward. They'll be
Speaker 2: ready to live their lives functionally and productively.
Speaker 1: And I am so, so so proud of that. I've
Speaker 1: six of my kids are adopted out of refugee camps.
Speaker 2: Really, and good on you. There's a lot of really
Speaker 2: cool people doing really good things in the world and
Speaker 2: not getting nearly enough visibility for it. It's not that
Speaker 2: you do it for visibility, but you do the visibility
Speaker 2: part of it because it inspires other people to do
Speaker 2: good work.
Speaker 1: Exactly. Exactly. Yeah, there's way too much bad news, uh huh,
Speaker 1: So we need we need to highlight to put a
Speaker 1: spotlight on the good things, the great things, the powerful things,
Speaker 1: the loving things, the kind things.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And I mean, if I could focus it down
Speaker 2: to just like if I could give you know, at
Speaker 2: least my life right now, one one purpose it would
Speaker 2: be to depoliticize babies and to kind of reintroduce people
Speaker 2: in this country, like reintroduce us to our empathy, you know,
Speaker 2: and remembering that everybody somebody's baby, and there's just no
Speaker 2: such thing as just a junkie, and there's no such
Speaker 2: thing as just a criminal or just an immigrant or
Speaker 2: just a refugee, or just a person of different ethnicity
Speaker 2: that like babies or babies, and everyone is somebody's baby.
Speaker 2: And if we could just like remember that once a day,
Speaker 2: I really think we would live much longer and happier life.
Speaker 1: Amen, Well, you keep doing your part, keep singing, keep playing,
Speaker 1: keep encouraging. I'll do my part.
Speaker 2: Yeah, clearly are. You're doing your part and mine at
Speaker 2: about fifteen other people's part.
Speaker 1: You know, there is a scripture I believe to who
Speaker 1: much is given, much is expected. And when you've been
Speaker 1: given great blessings like you have with your voice, your music,
Speaker 1: your talent, your circle, the twins, the family.
Speaker 2: That you know, beautiful are the feet that bring good
Speaker 2: news and you have some fu.
Speaker 1: Feat and you're the only person in the world and
Speaker 1: that is the only context in the world that that
Speaker 1: would be said about my size eleven hoofers. But it's true.
Speaker 1: Let's keep bringing good news and you keep singing good songs,
Speaker 1: and then you're going to bring the kids to my farm.
Speaker 1: Maybe I can come and walk the trails on your
Speaker 1: farm and absolutely figure out how we can continue to
Speaker 1: just be a light in the darkness. There you go, Brandy,
Speaker 1: thank you for taking the time in the midst of
Speaker 1: all of this excitement to talk to us. I wish
Speaker 1: you the best for the Grammy Awards, but more than that,
Speaker 1: I wish you love. I love the way you live
Speaker 1: your life and love your children and your tribe. You
Speaker 1: have an amazing tribe of people around you that you
Speaker 1: have built, and I love your music. You have already won.
Speaker 1: Even if you don't win the Grammys, which I hope
Speaker 1: you do, but you have already won our hearts and
Speaker 1: our respect. Brandy Carlisle, thank you for being here with me.
Speaker 2: Today is really Billy Blayant Turky Delilah. Thank you so
Speaker 2: much for you've made my whole day.