Speaker 1: I have a very special podcast with a brand new name.
Speaker 1: We did a podcast last year and we really have
Speaker 1: kind of found our stride. And I have a new
Speaker 1: executive producer for the podcast. That would be my sister Deanna.
Speaker 1: And this year, not only are we going to feature
Speaker 1: artists and authors and famous folks, we are going to
Speaker 1: be talking to ordinary people who are doing extraordinary things
Speaker 1: to change the world by their love. So my new
Speaker 1: podcast has a new name. It's called Love Someone. Before
Speaker 1: I get started, I wanted to acknowledge our longtime partner,
Speaker 1: the Home Depot. They have generously agreed to sponsor this podcast,
Speaker 1: not just this podcast, but for the whole year. This year,
Speaker 1: we hope to feature stories of everyday folks doing extraordinary
Speaker 1: things because I believe we will change this world one
Speaker 1: heart at a time. And even though our first guest
Speaker 1: is pretty famous between you and I, I met him
Speaker 1: when he was nineteen. He's an ordinary guy who has
Speaker 1: an extraordinary talent and an extraordinary heart. So as we
Speaker 1: approach Valentine's Day, who better to visit with than Michael Bubla. Michael,
Speaker 1: I have missed you. Welcome aboard my friend with me. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'll try, I'll try so, since it's called love Someone,
Speaker 1: since it's Valentine season and you have a new album
Speaker 1: out all about love, and I just listened to the
Speaker 1: song you wrote for Noah and sat here bawling, missing
Speaker 1: my Zach attack. We're gonna We're just we're gonna dive deep.
Speaker 1: We're going to start out with the big one and
Speaker 1: talk about the new album and the inspiration for your
Speaker 1: new song so Forever. Now. Did you write it before
Speaker 1: or after you found out your baby boy was sick?
Speaker 2: I wrote it during, during the whole thing. And the
Speaker 2: truth is, I I know it sounds strange, but I mean,
Speaker 2: you take a lot from the experiences you're going through,
Speaker 2: but at the same time, it also is a way
Speaker 2: to have therapy and to sort of separate yourself. And
Speaker 2: so for me, that song really wasn't as much about
Speaker 2: Noah or my other children as it was about the
Speaker 2: sentimentality towards time and the sentimentality towards relationships in which
Speaker 2: we we we give everything of ourselves. And I mean,
Speaker 2: it's funny, you know, I've become more and more sentimental
Speaker 2: the older I get about our life, the cycle of life,
Speaker 2: about you know, how much we love our parents, and
Speaker 2: how much we rely on them, and how time flies
Speaker 2: by so quickly. My dad says to me, all the time,
Speaker 2: you know that, you know, the days are long and
Speaker 2: the years are short. And now with my own children,
Speaker 2: I see that happening, and I feel that happening. And
Speaker 2: so for me, it was really a study on the
Speaker 2: passage of time and that it changes for no one,
Speaker 2: that it moves that quickly for everyone, And you know,
Speaker 2: it's just kind of about trying to really remember and
Speaker 2: embrace the moments that we have. And so some of
Speaker 2: those images I mean of you know, holding your kids'
Speaker 2: hands and knowing that that will pass too, that at
Speaker 2: some point they won't walk to anymay why there's just
Speaker 2: this great amount of sentimentality that comes with it. And
Speaker 2: it really made me realize why I loved the music
Speaker 2: so much. The power of a good song.
Speaker 1: The power.
Speaker 2: Where you know you can hear it and interpret it
Speaker 2: in your own way and it becomes that thing for you.
Speaker 2: And I think that's the most magic thing about music,
Speaker 2: is that we can hear it and it becomes this
Speaker 2: really special, distinct thing that only we can really understand
Speaker 2: and feel as powerfully as we did.
Speaker 1: Well, I read the lyrics. First before I listened to
Speaker 1: the song, and I was weeping.
Speaker 3: And then I listened to the.
Speaker 1: Song and I was bawling, and so I had to go,
Speaker 1: you know, get some tissue and pull myself together.
Speaker 2: And that's you know what I wanted to when I
Speaker 2: when I listen, I wasn't even sure that I was
Speaker 2: going to release it. To be honest with you, it
Speaker 2: became a kind of a you know, an inside kind
Speaker 2: of I just wasn't I was. I wasn't. I didn't
Speaker 2: know if I was ready for it, didn't know if
Speaker 2: it was too personal to me. And so when I
Speaker 2: finally decided, okay, you know this is I'll let it out.
Speaker 2: To be honest with you, I still haven't listened to it.
Speaker 2: The truth is, hell, I sang it only one time.
Speaker 2: I did the demo, and I sang out once and
Speaker 2: it was me and a piano, and then I never
Speaker 2: sang it again. So that'll tell you how I feel
Speaker 2: about it. But I love that it can be open
Speaker 2: to the interpretation of other people. And I love that
Speaker 2: when you hear it, it can be about you and
Speaker 2: your kids, or you know, when someone else here's it
Speaker 2: can be about the relationship they've had with their parents
Speaker 2: or grandparents.
Speaker 1: Well, for me, it's about the two boys that I've
Speaker 1: lost and all the other ones that are here still
Speaker 1: and how important it is to let them know every
Speaker 1: single minute of every single day. Then I'm never going
Speaker 1: to let them down.
Speaker 2: No, that's all we got. Listen, Delilah, I don't care
Speaker 2: where you're from. If your gears straight to Richard poor
Speaker 2: Black of life. At the end of the day, that
Speaker 2: is everything, and love is all the matters. And so
Speaker 2: you know, when you go through difficult but things that
Speaker 2: that you and I have always been gone through, I
Speaker 2: think this becomes even clearer. But I think in a
Speaker 2: good way that you know you wish that clarity on
Speaker 2: your best friends because you live in a different way,
Speaker 2: and I think that it's important to live in a
Speaker 2: different way and live and be in the moment and
Speaker 2: not taking for granted.
Speaker 1: I remember when my first son was born, thinking, how
Speaker 1: did I ever even live without your soul in my world?
Speaker 3: How did I what did I do? What was what
Speaker 3: was what was my purpose? Before I had this soul.
Speaker 1: Connected to me and my daughter Sheila, who adores you.
Speaker 1: She just had a baby in June, little Rosebud and
Speaker 1: she said the same thing to me. She's like, Mom,
Speaker 1: I did not know I was capable of this deep
Speaker 1: of love. And oh, yeah, that's what your song, that's
Speaker 1: what that's what it touches on. Is that depth of
Speaker 1: intimacy that you never even knew you could feel.
Speaker 2: No, it's lovely, it's a beautiful thing. But you know,
Speaker 2: it's funny. A friend of mine said to me that
Speaker 2: she had gone through something really tough and she had
Speaker 2: lost a friend and she had gone to see her
Speaker 2: therapist and she was just not getting over it. And
Speaker 2: then she said to the therapist, she said, oh, I
Speaker 2: just I just loved her so much. I loved her
Speaker 2: so much. And the therapist said to her, what she said,
Speaker 2: you thought that love was free, She said, you thought
Speaker 2: that love, that kind of love, that depth of love,
Speaker 2: was free. She said, no, I'm sorry, honey. That kind
Speaker 2: of love has a great cost. And it's really it's
Speaker 2: very heavy, and it's it's serious, but it's it's true.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's scary. You know, you really put yourself
Speaker 2: out on a limit the greatest way. You truly risk everything.
Speaker 2: But I don't think there's a greater risk worth taking,
Speaker 2: you know, And so I don't want to skip ahead
Speaker 2: with your questions. But when you you know, when you
Speaker 2: want talk and you say, well, well, your record is
Speaker 2: called love and it's about love, Well, I think that
Speaker 2: you know, honestly, I came to a realization that it's
Speaker 2: all about love, and I couldn't really think about another
Speaker 2: subject or another you know, and something that I really
Speaker 2: want to expound upon, and it's sort of at this
Speaker 2: time of my life, it is front and center, and
Speaker 2: so I find it fascinating, you know, the light and
Speaker 2: the dark, and the good and the bad, that everything
Speaker 2: that comes along with the most complicated and wonderful feeling
Speaker 2: that human beings have.
Speaker 3: Look at you, listen to you.
Speaker 2: You know that feeling you were talking about when you
Speaker 2: were saying talking about your daughter, and you're having that
Speaker 2: feeling of not knowing that there was a depth of
Speaker 2: love that deep.
Speaker 1: I never knew until I.
Speaker 2: I just had that epiffany when Adam Levine took off
Speaker 2: his shirt.
Speaker 1: And showed us the Chipolte bag.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I meant, honestly, I'm just a human beings beautiful.
Speaker 1: Oh thank you for lightning it up for me. I've
Speaker 1: had to Michael Boubla hold that thought. As we share
Speaker 1: this podcast, I want to give a shout out to
Speaker 1: our sponsor, the Home Depot. I do so much to
Speaker 1: make my home cozy and comfortable for my family. I
Speaker 1: want my family to use every inch of our old farmhouse,
Speaker 1: and we do. The house itself is over one hundred
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Speaker 1: Now, let's return to our conversation with the amazing, tenderhearted, talented,
Speaker 1: but more than anything, wonderful man that loves his family
Speaker 1: and his friends, Michael Bublea. So, how is your family?
Speaker 1: How are they all doing? I know Noah is much better.
Speaker 3: Praise God, Praise God.
Speaker 2: Everything's good. We have a new, little, beautiful little girl
Speaker 2: in the house, and I'm in love and my wife's
Speaker 2: doing really good. She's just you know, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I just don't know what happened that you need three babies.
Speaker 3: And I was gonna say, we need to talk about
Speaker 3: this because I don't know how that happens. How does
Speaker 3: she look like that?
Speaker 2: Michael, Oh, God just loves her more. Maybe he does?
Speaker 3: She be like his all time favorite because.
Speaker 2: I'm just I'm still working on off the baby weight.
Speaker 3: You are? You are? Yeah? But she clearly, like did
Speaker 3: she like eat ice cream every day like I did
Speaker 3: when I was pregnant or what?
Speaker 2: One of those weird people that likes going to the
Speaker 2: gym that like doesn't you know you know how some
Speaker 2: people pretend that they like it may but she really
Speaker 2: likes it, like she just she has an addiction to
Speaker 2: cross it and all this stuff, and she's really healthy,
Speaker 2: the same way that I have an addiction to ch
Speaker 2: paule and McDonald's.
Speaker 1: Ah, you're so darned cute and you're so darned blessed,
Speaker 1: and I'm so glad that that you are are our
Speaker 1: first big because we're changing the podcast this year.
Speaker 2: What do you say? Who's next? What do you who
Speaker 2: do you have on the radar.
Speaker 3: Well, here's the thing.
Speaker 1: Last year, you know we did we talked of music
Speaker 1: artists and authors and stuff like this that. But this
Speaker 1: year I really want to talk to everyday people who
Speaker 1: have done, have gone through experiences and done extraordinary things.
Speaker 1: And here's the thing that most people don't know about you, Michael.
Speaker 1: When I met you, the first thing you shared with
Speaker 1: me was how much you loved your grandpa. Yeah, because
Speaker 1: you were just a kid. I realized you had no
Speaker 1: clue number one, how talented you were and the trajectory
Speaker 1: your life was going to take because those of us
Speaker 1: in the industry saw it in you. You just have
Speaker 1: this magic, but you are so damn real and so
Speaker 1: human and that's never changed, never changed. The last time
Speaker 1: I went to see you, to show you and said,
Speaker 1: come backstage. You got to see my wife.
Speaker 3: She's so beautiful. We went backstage and she was sleeping
Speaker 3: because she just nursed the baby, and You're like, don't
Speaker 3: wake her, let her sleep, let her sleep, And I'm like,
Speaker 3: I love you. You're so real.
Speaker 2: I feel the same way about you, kid, And I
Speaker 2: told you. I texted you the other day and I
Speaker 2: said that, you know, it's important to be this and
Speaker 2: to be real. By the way, I love that you
Speaker 2: said you want to speak to people that have gone
Speaker 2: through incredible things. I mean, I think that gives other
Speaker 2: people strength, you know what I mean, if they can
Speaker 2: do it, I can do it. And I think that's
Speaker 2: a huge thing. Listen. You know, like the world is
Speaker 2: the world. Listen, the world is crazy, and everybody that's
Speaker 2: listening right now has got a sense and a sense
Speaker 2: probably a fear of feeling how out of control it
Speaker 2: seems to be going. I mean, listen, I think that
Speaker 2: social media, I think has a massive social impact on
Speaker 2: what's happening and how people feel about themselves. I think
Speaker 2: we're starting to understand, you know, mental health issues. We're
Speaker 2: starting to see a divide. I mean, there's been the
Speaker 2: last few years crazy, a divide between races, between God,
Speaker 2: between women, you know, between correctness and political and correctness.
Speaker 2: And you're just seeing this great divide between people their philosophies,
Speaker 2: how they live, what they believe. And I think more
Speaker 2: than ever, you know, we do need to spread love
Speaker 2: and joy and hope and and even if people are
Speaker 2: cynical and they fit that's strange, you know, we have
Speaker 2: I actually, this is what I wrote you the other day.
Speaker 2: We have there's so much power each of us, each
Speaker 2: of us, and even though some days we feel like
Speaker 2: we don't and what could we do with just one person?
Speaker 2: The individual can change nothing. It's just not true. Every
Speaker 2: single moment you have an opportunity to be kind, to
Speaker 2: be gracious, to bring hope and love. And that can
Speaker 2: be as simple as just walking, you know, walking down
Speaker 2: the street and smiling at someone and tell them they
Speaker 2: look nice, or you know, standing in line and letting
Speaker 2: somebody in front of you, or you know, there's a
Speaker 2: bunch there's just ways to be gracious and kind and
Speaker 2: and help out the world. And I think we just
Speaker 2: need it. And that's why it's songs like this, and
Speaker 2: when you talk about talking to people, it's just it's
Speaker 2: it's just too important. It really is. It really really
Speaker 2: is because people I think they can feel it. I
Speaker 2: think you can feel it, and I think they need
Speaker 2: it more than ever.
Speaker 1: We started something on the air called the One Heart
Speaker 1: Challenge because of the name of my book, One Heart
Speaker 1: at a Time, and the challenge just simple. It's don't
Speaker 1: say anything, don't post anything, don't respond to anything, don't
Speaker 1: talk about anybody to their face or behind their back,
Speaker 1: unless it is motivated by kindness.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a beautiful thing.
Speaker 1: And it's really it boils down to my mom saying, Sis,
Speaker 1: if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all.
Speaker 2: I just keep coming to people. Love not like, love
Speaker 2: not like.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I tell people love not shove, Love not shove.
Speaker 1: When you're trying to shove your beliefs or your politics,
Speaker 1: or your religion, or your philosophy, or you're on people,
Speaker 1: it doesn't They're not going to receive it. And all
Speaker 1: you're doing is causing divisions.
Speaker 3: Stop people, Stop.
Speaker 1: When you're laying in the hospital bed and you need
Speaker 1: a blood transfusion, you don't care if the person donating
Speaker 1: the blood it has the same political beliefs, or is
Speaker 1: the same race, or is the same sexual orientation.
Speaker 3: It's all we all need one another. Yes, Oh Michael,
Speaker 3: I love you. So how can people find out about
Speaker 3: your tour?
Speaker 2: What? What tour?
Speaker 1: I don't know they said to ask you about Michael
Speaker 1: boublay dot com.
Speaker 2: I'm sure you can google it or something or I don't.
Speaker 3: Know, Michael booblay dot com. There we go, there you go.
Speaker 2: It's nice for me, especially to have a platform this
Speaker 2: big to say it, because I'll say it whenever I can. Listen, Man,
Speaker 2: can I can I sort of talk to the people.
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh this is your show. You can say whatever
Speaker 3: you want.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'll tell the people this. Listen, don't buy anything,
Speaker 2: buy the tickets if you like, buy the records, or
Speaker 2: don't or don't know this. You have changed my life,
Speaker 2: in my family's life, and with what we went through
Speaker 2: because of you. You gave me an opportunity that I
Speaker 2: know a million of parents don't have, which was to
Speaker 2: stop to just do what I had to do as
Speaker 2: a dad. And I can never tell you, I I
Speaker 2: can only show you in my actions how much that
Speaker 2: you mean to me. It overwhelms me. The fact that
Speaker 2: you work hard and you take your harder money to
Speaker 2: go and invest in me, and like that you owe
Speaker 2: me nothing. So God bless I love that you. You
Speaker 2: know that whatever the Liley you're telling them to go
Speaker 2: to this place and tickets and stuff, but they've done
Speaker 2: enough for me, more than enough for me. So if
Speaker 2: you just happen to be one of those people that
Speaker 2: are coming to the shows, then it's going to be
Speaker 2: my absolute honor. A step on stage and get to
Speaker 2: show you with my actions how much you mean to
Speaker 2: me and what it means to me to get to
Speaker 2: do this for you, because it really does. I'm a
Speaker 2: lucky boy.
Speaker 1: You're a blessed man. Michael. You know what's funny is
Speaker 1: if if all the success of my show went away
Speaker 1: tomorrow and I moved back to read Sport where I
Speaker 1: grew up and I got to.
Speaker 3: Be on the air there, I wouldn't care. I just
Speaker 3: love talking to people.
Speaker 2: Listen, when you go through tough stuff, trust me, you
Speaker 2: know people out there know it too. You don't think
Speaker 2: about the stuff. You do not think about any of it.
Speaker 2: And you know it's funny. I read a beautiful Thing
Speaker 2: by Steve Jobs. He wrote it from his deathbed, and
Speaker 2: that's kind of he had written off on his deathbed,
Speaker 2: and what he had said was, look at once you
Speaker 2: have enough, you know, then do what you love because
Speaker 2: at the end of the day, it's it's it's it's
Speaker 2: family and relationships and love and that journey and that's it.
Speaker 2: That's all you want more off, So people go out
Speaker 2: there and live and love and go and just take
Speaker 2: it only and jewy, be kind.
Speaker 3: I love you, Michael, love you too.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much. Say hi to everybody. Family, give
Speaker 2: jaana hug for me, and I hope to see you
Speaker 2: when I'm around your neck of the woods.
Speaker 1: Oh well, I'm I'm going to bring you to my
Speaker 1: farm when you're when you're around my neck of the woods,
Speaker 1: I'm kidnapping you.
Speaker 3: Beautiful, Okay, love you, honey, gave to you.
Speaker 2: Take care of yourself.
Speaker 3: Michael.
Speaker 1: Thank you for taking the time to be with us today.
Speaker 1: I'm thrilled you are once again sharing your music. Love
Speaker 1: is in stores and available everywhere that you find music.
Speaker 1: For more info, go to Michaelboublay dot com. And thanks
Speaker 1: again to the Home Depot for making this podcast possible
Speaker 1: and to my sister Deanna and my producer Jane for
Speaker 1: arranging it. Until next time, take some time out of
Speaker 1: your busy day to slow down and love someone