Speaker 1: Hello, everybody, Welcome aboard, Welcome to love someone with the Lilah.
Speaker 1: Are you enjoying the lovely autumn days after the intense
Speaker 1: heat of the summer we've recently gone through. I know
Speaker 1: I am loving, loving autumn. I think one of the
Speaker 1: best ways to describe fall is to say that it
Speaker 1: is a treat for all of our senses. The dazzling
Speaker 1: array of colors is almost almost too much for my
Speaker 1: eyes to take in, so many amazing jewel tones. And
Speaker 1: the trees, the bushes, the brambles, whether blanketed in thick
Speaker 1: morning mist or shining in the afternoon sun. And oh,
Speaker 1: the smells the sense would smoke from the crackling fireplaces,
Speaker 1: newly bailed hay piled high in my barn. We raise
Speaker 1: our own hey at our ranch, and so we have
Speaker 1: like I don't know, two thousand bales piled up in
Speaker 1: the barns, freshly baked breads, and pies on the counters,
Speaker 1: apple pies. Do I even need to talk about the
Speaker 1: taste of all of pumpkin spice everything and sour dough,
Speaker 1: loaves of crisp, apples, and apple sauce and apple cider.
Speaker 1: It's no wonder at all that this is the season
Speaker 1: of giving thanks, the season of giving thanks, of being grateful.
Speaker 1: There's so much to be grateful for. But let's not
Speaker 1: forget the sounds of autumn, the bird calls, the lowing cattle,
Speaker 1: all the the beautiful sounds of ottomn and all the
Speaker 1: great music. Late autumnus when we traditionally start playing Christmas
Speaker 1: music on my radio program, and it's a time of
Speaker 1: year I look forward to with so much anticipation. I've
Speaker 1: been around a few years to flip that switch, taking
Speaker 1: us into the holiday season, and there's nothing that reminds
Speaker 1: me how much and how long I have been in
Speaker 1: this business. Then when someone tells me about a big
Speaker 1: anniversary of a song or an album that in my
Speaker 1: mind just came out, you know, I think, oh, it's
Speaker 1: new music, and then I'm like, no, it's it's years old.
Speaker 1: Such as the case today. It's been ten years, a
Speaker 1: full decade since a very young, very handsome crooner from
Speaker 1: Canada dropped a Christmas album that would sell over twelve
Speaker 1: million copies worldwide, making it one of the best selling
Speaker 1: albums of the twenty first century. And let me tell you,
Speaker 1: if we still spun vinyl in the studio, those grooves
Speaker 1: would be worn all the way through to the other side.
Speaker 1: By Now it's received so much airtime, especially on my shows.
Speaker 1: It's been ten years of Michael Boublets Christmas singing us
Speaker 1: through the holiday season. There's got to be some kind
Speaker 1: of celebration of foot, don't you think for at I
Speaker 1: guess we'll just have to check in with Michael and
Speaker 1: find out what they're doing for their anniversary. So that's
Speaker 1: what we are going to do. Because Mr Crazy Love
Speaker 1: himself is with us today on Love is Someone. I
Speaker 1: can't wait to catch up on what's been going on
Speaker 1: with him since he dropped this album a few years ago.
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Speaker 1: That's Annie's Kit Clubs dot com Code Radio. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: it's been a long time, a long time. Hi, I'm
Speaker 1: making a record and it is just NonStop chaos. Can
Speaker 1: I tell you something? Oh my god, Michael, I miss you.
Speaker 1: I love you. You text me today. I will because
Speaker 1: I have. I need to send you the ship that
Speaker 1: I'm working on, okay, because I am freaking out. Honestly,
Speaker 1: is it one of those times where you're going, oh
Speaker 1: my god, that's so good. I have to share it. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: I'm pumped. You're so cute. You hear the stuff. I
Speaker 1: think it's the best. I think it's I've never it's
Speaker 1: been good. I was everything. How are the kids? How
Speaker 1: is everything? Oh? Life is crazy, but we're healthy and
Speaker 1: I thank God for that. Yeah, the same, it's crazy.
Speaker 1: So how are you? I'm good? Really good? Really good?
Speaker 1: Do I get to know what you're working on? Are
Speaker 1: you're gonna wait and send it to me? Like get
Speaker 1: a sneaky I'm going to send you a couple of
Speaker 1: things that I've done. And you know, I don't know why.
Speaker 1: Some records come together and some don't, and sometimes the
Speaker 1: ideas from the universe come and some don't. But one
Speaker 1: of the songs Noah was I was giving the kids
Speaker 1: a bath and he said, I wrote a song Poppy,
Speaker 1: and he started to sing it to me and I said, wow,
Speaker 1: that's that's a really good no. I said, where did
Speaker 1: you hear it? He said, no, no, no, I wrote
Speaker 1: it and he played it on the piano. And so
Speaker 1: I was working with Ryan Teer writing and it was
Speaker 1: going okay, and I was like, you know what, you guys,
Speaker 1: can I just sing something that my son sang? And
Speaker 1: they looked at me like I was nuts? And twenty
Speaker 1: five minutes later, I think we have my lead single.
Speaker 1: How cool is that? I know, I know, I can't
Speaker 1: say anything about it. They told me, I'm not allowed
Speaker 1: to talk now. If my son I you know, I
Speaker 1: adopted another one who's five. Now, if he were to
Speaker 1: write a song, it would go something like this, dog poop,
Speaker 1: poopy dogs, but peepies dog poop. My kids are into
Speaker 1: balls right now? Balls is balls? Ball? I want to
Speaker 1: have one more, because I'm already seen there growing up
Speaker 1: too fast, and I'm like, oh no, no no, no, it
Speaker 1: can't be the last. My little girl can't be the last.
Speaker 1: One more. Maybe two with the boss, Yeah, with the boss. Pooh.
Speaker 1: How does it feel to be bossed around by the
Speaker 1: most beautiful woman in the whole world? What an honor privilege? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you are blessed, blessed. Do you remember when you wrote
Speaker 1: to me and told me you had met the love
Speaker 1: of your life and you were going to marry this girl.
Speaker 1: And then you sent me a picture and I was like, dude,
Speaker 1: she is gorgeous, and you said, yeah, but that's why
Speaker 1: I love her. It's it's the inside that I love.
Speaker 1: She's like the most wonderful thing I've ever met. That
Speaker 1: I love that you said that her, that it was
Speaker 1: her heart that you fell in love with. Oh, well,
Speaker 1: I mean, you don't know, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, but you hope I don't know.
Speaker 1: I the time I came to your show and I
Speaker 1: was to meet her backstage at the concert, she was
Speaker 1: lying on the couch sleeping with Noah in her arms,
Speaker 1: and it was pure mother love. There's fifty people in
Speaker 1: the audience. You've got the suit on, the lights are flashing,
Speaker 1: everybody's screaming, and here she is holding Noah in her arms,
Speaker 1: on the couch of your makeup room, sound asleep. And
Speaker 1: that's the real well, you know, that's real life. I
Speaker 1: tell I try to explain this to you all the time.
Speaker 1: It's like you put on the bat suit or whatever
Speaker 1: it is, you go to work, you go, you stick,
Speaker 1: the microphone goes, and then you become the Let's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: and it's who you are. But yeah, I saw the
Speaker 1: pictures of Noah on his birthday and I bawled. I bawled.
Speaker 1: I was on my computer scrolling and I saw him
Speaker 1: and tears just gush. I was like, thank you, thank
Speaker 1: you God. My wife thought I was crazy because she
Speaker 1: kept finding me in the bathroom and stuff, and I
Speaker 1: was just I was a mess. I cried my eyes out,
Speaker 1: and you know, I don't for no one would ever
Speaker 1: know this. But a few days after that, we had
Speaker 1: his scan, his six months scan, and it's always terrifying
Speaker 1: and came back all good and now we can breathe
Speaker 1: for another six months. But it's like, of course, no
Speaker 1: one would ever know, you know what I mean, you don't.
Speaker 1: We don't show that, I don't share that, you know.
Speaker 1: And then when it came good, it was like all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, I didn't give a about anything about
Speaker 1: anything else, about anything to all whatever, It'll be fine.
Speaker 1: So you're in Vancouver now, and the reason we got
Speaker 1: to have this little get together is because it's the
Speaker 1: ten year anniversary. Can that be of the best Christmas
Speaker 1: album ever? No? I can't be. It couldn't be possibly
Speaker 1: ten years. It's funny when I say people like I
Speaker 1: just one of my best friends, just what are you
Speaker 1: doing today? So we're gonna talk about the Christmas? He says,
Speaker 1: why what do you mean? I said, well, it's a
Speaker 1: tenure anniversary and he literally went, oh my god, it's long.
Speaker 1: And I could see him like go like, oh god
Speaker 1: him mold. Well, imagine my shock when today I WICKPEDI
Speaker 1: at you, just, you know, to see if there was
Speaker 1: anything new that I should ask you about, and it
Speaker 1: had your age and I'm like, that is not true.
Speaker 1: He's twenty two, maybe twenty four. And then I remember
Speaker 1: that I talked to you on your thirtieth birthday and
Speaker 1: then I went, oh, I have known you a long
Speaker 1: ass time, young man, when people come up to me
Speaker 1: like I'll have like a like like what I think
Speaker 1: is a pretty mid aged person, and they'll come up
Speaker 1: and the go, hi, I just I've been listening to
Speaker 1: you since I was a little kid, and I go like,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, yeah. The first time that sensation happened to me,
Speaker 1: I was at a wedding show. They had asked me
Speaker 1: to em see a fashion show and the bride, the
Speaker 1: young woman who was getting married, said to me, I've
Speaker 1: been listening to you since I was a baby. And
Speaker 1: I'm like, that's not possible, bold, And now it's I've
Speaker 1: been My mom's listen to you, my grandma's listen to you,
Speaker 1: my kids listen to you, my grandkids are listening to you.
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh my god, I'm old. That's absolutely amazing, beautiful,
Speaker 1: great life. It is a great life. I'm very, very blessed.
Speaker 1: So it's the tenure anniversary of your Christmas album. And
Speaker 1: you know, like next to Santa Claus, I own Christmas, right,
Speaker 1: you know that? You know me, there's no like I well,
Speaker 1: you know I love it so much. I love it.
Speaker 1: And you know what, my parents they made it so
Speaker 1: great for us that I think I still have that
Speaker 1: sense of wonderment, and it's not even just that I
Speaker 1: see it through the eyes of the kids. I genuinely
Speaker 1: have that sense of wonderment. Like my tree and everything
Speaker 1: was up last Christmas in November one was it. I
Speaker 1: went through this phase last year because of all the
Speaker 1: craziness with COVID and you know, you're not supposed to
Speaker 1: get together blah blah blah, where I realized that the
Speaker 1: wonderment of Christmas that I had always tried to create
Speaker 1: for my kids and you know, people at at holiday
Speaker 1: dinners and stuff, it changed, like I don't want to
Speaker 1: say it became a more spiritual thing, but it just
Speaker 1: became a much more hard thing for me, where I
Speaker 1: was noticing details of you know, like, uh, I got
Speaker 1: a Christmas ornament from Balsom Hill, who sponsors my show,
Speaker 1: and they had sent these Christmas ornaments and I was
Speaker 1: looking at them and I was trying to figure out
Speaker 1: how they made them, and I was noticing like the
Speaker 1: pattern of the glitter on the ornament, and I was
Speaker 1: fixated on these ornaments for like an hour or more,
Speaker 1: just looking instead of just hanging him on the trio
Speaker 1: was like really taking in the craftsmanship, I guess, and
Speaker 1: I was noticing the flavors of the food that you
Speaker 1: were living in more in the moment. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: And it was so different. One of the things are
Speaker 1: that I do for my kids every year. I've done
Speaker 1: this for the last ten years or more, is Christmas
Speaker 1: pajamas that they get to open Christmas Eve, and then
Speaker 1: where on Christmas Morning the whole family onesies footed onesies.
Speaker 1: I looked. I looked like the penguin for the Danny
Speaker 1: to Eato version. For for Zach, it was like the
Speaker 1: meaning of Christmas. That was all that really mattered to
Speaker 1: him was the footed onesies, which he probably wore to
Speaker 1: school after Christmas break. And last year I lost them.
Speaker 1: And so the week before Christmas, I'm frantic. I'm going
Speaker 1: to every store. No store within a two mile radius
Speaker 1: had more than like two pair of matching pajamas. So
Speaker 1: I'm like, Okay, I gotta buy fabric, I gotta make
Speaker 1: the pajamas. I gotta do this, I gotta pull it
Speaker 1: all together. And then I went, you know what, I
Speaker 1: can calm down. They don't have to match. They're in
Speaker 1: the same color scheme. That's close enough. You said about
Speaker 1: the pajamas. So my one of my best friends, he
Speaker 1: fell in love with a girl who has two kids.
Speaker 1: They're eight and six now, and last year for Christmas,
Speaker 1: he was you know, it was tough. He was in
Speaker 1: your dad to them, so it was hard for him,
Speaker 1: you know, obviously, like what, it's a difficult position to
Speaker 1: and I didn't know what to do for him, and
Speaker 1: I wanted to do some special but you know what,
Speaker 1: that's what I did. I went with lou and we
Speaker 1: went and we bought the onesie pajamas and so and
Speaker 1: of course for me, it was very romantic and I thought,
Speaker 1: you know what, how cute for them to spend their
Speaker 1: first Christmas together and they're all in their same ones
Speaker 1: He's he's he's like six ft five two and so
Speaker 1: I got the biggest one. But I mean, I just
Speaker 1: thought that was a cute. I mean, that's that makes
Speaker 1: me very sentimental. It's funny that you said that, because
Speaker 1: there's those little there's those moments that in every household
Speaker 1: everyone has, Like everyone talks about traditions and they oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: there's the tree and listen to that. But those those
Speaker 1: little details are what make Christmas Christmas for us. And
Speaker 1: then when we grow up, we want to get you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, we want to do those. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's pretty, it's magic. I don't know you. I feel
Speaker 1: like you have to be pretty cynical not to listen.
Speaker 1: I have more friends that are Jewish or agnostic atheists
Speaker 1: who listened to Christmas music like crazy, and they're not Christians.
Speaker 1: They don't you know, that's not what it's about for them,
Speaker 1: but they will see. For me, I am a Christian,
Speaker 1: but I don't believe he was actually born on Christmas Day. Uh,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know. Well, I don't know when.
Speaker 1: But when I adopted Sammy Um, one of my boys,
Speaker 1: he didn't know his birthday because he had been in
Speaker 1: an orphanage his whole life and he had no clue
Speaker 1: when he was born. So when we're trying to do
Speaker 1: the adoption papers, the lawyer said to him, pick one
Speaker 1: of your favorite days of the year. He goes, I
Speaker 1: don't have a favorite day, says okay, And he picked
Speaker 1: his favorite soccer player's birthday and that became his birthday.
Speaker 1: And so on his birthday when we got him to America,
Speaker 1: we celebrated his birthday and he was crying. He we
Speaker 1: think he was fifteen or sixteen. So we just, you know,
Speaker 1: kind of made it up as we went along. And
Speaker 1: I said, honey, are you not happy? We had a
Speaker 1: little party and friends over, and he said, I don't
Speaker 1: know what I'm feeling. It's just too much. It's just
Speaker 1: too much. It's too much feelings. It's too much, it's
Speaker 1: too much. And so, you know, I kind of brought
Speaker 1: him aside and let him process for a minute, and
Speaker 1: he said, Mommy, I didn't know what a birthday felt like. Wow.
Speaker 1: And after he was able to collect himself, he really
Speaker 1: enjoyed himself. He had never had balloons before. Um, he
Speaker 1: had never had his own birthday cake before, he had
Speaker 1: never seen anyone have a birthday cake. And I thought
Speaker 1: about that because I get a little cynical about how
Speaker 1: some people get really adamant about the religious aspects of
Speaker 1: the holidays. And I'm like, you know what, I don't
Speaker 1: know when the actual day is, but just like Sammy,
Speaker 1: this is the day that we picked, so we're going
Speaker 1: to celebrate it. Yeah, it doesn't matter. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm Christian too. I don't talk about it a lot.
Speaker 1: I'm not afraid to share that I have that faith,
Speaker 1: you know, because for me, it's exciting to think that
Speaker 1: if there's some kid or somebody out there that that
Speaker 1: likes me or respects me and they're afraid of sharing
Speaker 1: their faith, that if they see me do it, they
Speaker 1: might think, oh, you know, hey, he did it, that's okay.
Speaker 1: And because I've had other people that I really like
Speaker 1: and admire that have shared their their view on it,
Speaker 1: and it's been given me strength. But one of the
Speaker 1: things I love most about my role here is that quietly,
Speaker 1: without ever putting it into people's face, I get to
Speaker 1: sort of in the in a small way kind of
Speaker 1: you know, you have the good word. St. Francis of
Speaker 1: ASSISI said, go and spread the gospel, and if you
Speaker 1: must use words, let your life be that light that
Speaker 1: shines in the world. And you are that light. We're
Speaker 1: catching up with Michael bou Blat today. He's got more
Speaker 1: to share with us, but not until I sing the
Speaker 1: praises while I'll let him saying, I'm just going to
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Speaker 1: your Christmas album and you have new music coming out,
Speaker 1: but we don't get to talk about it until when,
Speaker 1: like is there. But I don't think they've even said
Speaker 1: a date. But I know that I want to send
Speaker 1: you a couple of things because it's crazy. It's honestly,
Speaker 1: I think people are going to lose their minds, fully
Speaker 1: lose their I think it's going to be a nice,
Speaker 1: a good time for me. I don't know where to say.
Speaker 1: I'm too excited. Okay, Well, whendn't we get closer and
Speaker 1: when you can say, we'll get back together and we'll
Speaker 1: do a big thing about it. Okay, I'd love that.
Speaker 1: It is it funny with Christmas music. It's it reminds
Speaker 1: me of rich food when you haven't had it. In
Speaker 1: a while. It is the most. You're just so excited
Speaker 1: for it and you just can't. You eat as much
Speaker 1: as you eat two pieces of cheesecake from Juniors. By December,
Speaker 1: you don't ever want to hear it again. There are
Speaker 1: worse things than than a season where people are kind.
Speaker 1: Last summer, during the in the heart of COVID July um,
Speaker 1: Dolly Parton called or wrote me a letter and asked
Speaker 1: if I would do a duet with throwing up this
Speaker 1: Christmas song that you'd written, And so I was. I
Speaker 1: love Dolly Parton, And the truth is I didn't even
Speaker 1: listen to the song. I literally answered yes, before ever
Speaker 1: listening to anything. And I called my manager and he said, oh,
Speaker 1: what do you think. I said, well, we're doing it,
Speaker 1: and he said okay, And I said, you know, Bruce,
Speaker 1: I think people will need the respite from this fear,
Speaker 1: the anxiet, the loss that people are going through. People
Speaker 1: are grieving, people are are they're going hungry, they don't
Speaker 1: you know. And he said to me, you think so?
Speaker 1: And sure enough, I mean you could tell people needed it,
Speaker 1: they needed well, we need we need it now more
Speaker 1: than ever. So let's celebrate your tenures. I know that.
Speaker 1: I know that, I know. Don't you go buy a
Speaker 1: million other records. You're just I'm happy I can be
Speaker 1: part of it. I'm happy that I can invite me
Speaker 1: into your house. Well, I'm gonna text you after our conversation. UM,
Speaker 1: I can't wait to hear this great stuff you're working on.
Speaker 1: And I am going to play every Christmas song you
Speaker 1: have ever recorded back to back. And one more thing,
Speaker 1: my kids asked me. Jennie said, to tell you she
Speaker 1: loves you, But my kids asked me to tell you
Speaker 1: that your soda water commercials are their favorite commercials ever.
Speaker 1: And Delilah Jr. Who's twelve, said, did he really do that?
Speaker 1: Does he really go in the store and change the
Speaker 1: name on the KANSA said, yeah, see yes he does. Yes,
Speaker 1: I do. I think it's hilarious. And I think when
Speaker 1: people watch me do it, they go like, she really
Speaker 1: doing it. I think it's hilarious. I only wish I
Speaker 1: had a piece that I had, like some financial peace,
Speaker 1: because it does so well and I get nothing. I
Speaker 1: think it's hilarious. Yeah, they should have given you stock.
Speaker 1: He said, do you really like it? Do you actually
Speaker 1: like it? And I said, yeah, of course I like it.
Speaker 1: I like it mixed with things, but I like it.
Speaker 1: My granddaughter calls it excited water. Oh that's cute. Well,
Speaker 1: my kids love it because they're not allowed to drink
Speaker 1: soda or Cola's, so they're allowed to have the bubbly
Speaker 1: And of course they're just they just think it's the
Speaker 1: coolest thing in the world that people they get to
Speaker 1: have a big guy drinking. Yeah. My daughter, Sheila is
Speaker 1: like the world's best mom. I kid you not. And
Speaker 1: she is the sugar Nazi. She is the health food Nazi. Yeah,
Speaker 1: her kids are the healthiest kids. They don't neat junk
Speaker 1: and she handmakes everything. How do you deal with that, um,
Speaker 1: because we're we're Me and my wife are tough on
Speaker 1: nutrition and all that. And then they go to my
Speaker 1: mom's house, to grandma's or they go with my my wife. See,
Speaker 1: I I can't really be that grandma because I still
Speaker 1: have little kids at home. Of course you can't. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you can't. You have to set the president. Yes, but
Speaker 1: I have a lot more junk food or stuff that
Speaker 1: would not be acceptable to my my son and my
Speaker 1: daughter's standards, because like, if there's more than three ingredients
Speaker 1: on a package, they don't buy it, which I'm really
Speaker 1: proud of them. That's amazing, that's good. Well, my wife's
Speaker 1: sister is a nutritionist, and so she's always been really
Speaker 1: basically exactly what you said if you labeled. Yeah, my
Speaker 1: sister taught me said this years ago, and it's stuck
Speaker 1: in my head. She says, just shop the perimeter of
Speaker 1: the store. Don't ever go in the aisles. If you
Speaker 1: just shop the perimeter where the meats and the fish
Speaker 1: and the veggies are, you're safe. It's when you go
Speaker 1: down the aisles and the triscas to jump out or
Speaker 1: the you know, why are triscuits in Bovida? So why
Speaker 1: are they so damn good, delous? So good? Like I
Speaker 1: could live on honestly, you know what, I could live
Speaker 1: on macaroni and cheese with like a tuna, fish and
Speaker 1: a little crack all. Yeah, if you listen, this is
Speaker 1: what you have to eat every day, I would say, okay, okay, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: any everything's good when it sits on a ritz, you know,
Speaker 1: and the canned cheese whiz crap. I can't help myself,
Speaker 1: my goal. Why can't When do we get to live
Speaker 1: in the time like it was in the early six hundreds,
Speaker 1: where the bigger you were, the sexier you were. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm looking for that to come into faction. Yeah, can
Speaker 1: we bring that Caronian cheese for the rest of my day?
Speaker 1: I make the bomb mac My daughter Lenika makes the
Speaker 1: best macaroni and cheese I've ever had in my life.
Speaker 1: But mine is a close second. What did she do?
Speaker 1: What do you do? What's your ingredients? Well, I use
Speaker 1: like five different kinds of cheese. You're talking to real,
Speaker 1: You're doing the real thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mix
Speaker 1: it up. But my secret is I boiled the noodles
Speaker 1: in chicken broth, so the noodles have like a flavor
Speaker 1: to them. I'm really happy. I had a vegetable smoothie
Speaker 1: for breakfast. I bet you're just thinking wow, and I
Speaker 1: might have another one for lunch. But no, Lonnie. She
Speaker 1: puts Tabasco sauce in her cheese sauce like she cooks
Speaker 1: the cheese sauce separately. You know. She taught me how
Speaker 1: to do this, and then she puts Tabasco sauce and
Speaker 1: garlic and a touch of worcester Shire sauce. Worcester Shire. Yeah,
Speaker 1: my secret is the slices on top of the cheese
Speaker 1: can of tuna fish. I know it sounds weird, but
Speaker 1: I take a canatonaficient, so almost like a cast role.
Speaker 1: And then I just take some Ris Ris crackers, yeah,
Speaker 1: and crumble them on the top the little saltines. You know,
Speaker 1: I think we should I don't think we should even
Speaker 1: have If we do a show, we shouldn't do music.
Speaker 1: It should just be this. It's to just be food.
Speaker 1: As we As we Die crossed into Velvita Michael Christmas
Speaker 1: album tenure anniversary. But there's a couple of treats that
Speaker 1: go with that. Yeah. Well one of the treats was then,
Speaker 1: you know, I had never recorded let Its Know on
Speaker 1: an actual studio recording I had years ago, but I
Speaker 1: didn't love it as was really kind of basic. And
Speaker 1: so I read this arrangement that I would do on
Speaker 1: stage and it was always full of energy and fun,
Speaker 1: and so that's what I wanted to do that. And
Speaker 1: I have another song called Christmas Sweater that comes out
Speaker 1: in conjunction with a movie that's being released. What movie,
Speaker 1: I don't even know what it's called. I don't even
Speaker 1: know what it's called. I watched it and I liked it.
Speaker 1: It was it's weird and cool. You're not a star
Speaker 1: in it. You just sang a song for it. I
Speaker 1: just I helped write the song. Um, but it was
Speaker 1: fun for me, you know, to have a couple of
Speaker 1: new kind of really cool versions of of kind of
Speaker 1: like one of these originals. So it's it's very cool,
Speaker 1: it's very I don't know how to explain it, very BONDI.
Speaker 1: And then the other one is that let us know
Speaker 1: which has always always loved. So that's what is happening.
Speaker 1: Those two are coming. And I did I shot some
Speaker 1: videos and stuff and some that I've never I've never
Speaker 1: done that either for Christmas. I've never had a music video,
Speaker 1: but no, I never I've never made a music video.
Speaker 1: I did these little vignettes where I had little pieces,
Speaker 1: like twenty seconds of songs. But I've never had a
Speaker 1: Christmas video. And so I sat with my friends and
Speaker 1: come up with these really cool ideas of bringing it
Speaker 1: into a cool world, fast moving, fast paced fun. Of course,
Speaker 1: you know, it's weird. Now everything is about my kids.
Speaker 1: So when I did the videos and I recorded the songs,
Speaker 1: all I could think about was what my kids like
Speaker 1: this with my kids want to watch and literally, as
Speaker 1: I was writing it and putting it together, I kept
Speaker 1: showing them the clips and saying, like, what do you think?
Speaker 1: Because they're honestly, they're they're so earnest and they don't lie.
Speaker 1: And so if there was a part that was boring
Speaker 1: or didn't move fast enough for the music, wasn't there poppy?
Speaker 1: What happens next? Because it's in this new world we
Speaker 1: live in, I feel like people's attention spans are so
Speaker 1: you know, like that there's so much to see in,
Speaker 1: so much that you can access online that you know,
Speaker 1: it has to feel like it's it's moving. So my kids,
Speaker 1: my kids are basically my directors, my writers somehow. But
Speaker 1: it's better stuff, isn't it When they're when they're centered
Speaker 1: in it, it's better stuff. It totally is. And they're
Speaker 1: my harshest critics and my biggest allies. So it's uh,
Speaker 1: I feel pretty blessed to have them. Well, I can't
Speaker 1: wait to hear the songs, watch the video, play your music,
Speaker 1: and have a fabulous holiday season. I love you, you
Speaker 1: know I love you. I love you and I love
Speaker 1: getting to talk to you. And it's been too long
Speaker 1: to be honest well written me oh, I don't know,
Speaker 1: go bad schooling. That might be a good excuse that
Speaker 1: just ma I say. I've said the same thing to
Speaker 1: other people. It's like, what where have you been home schooling?
Speaker 1: And I tell you something that I don't know if
Speaker 1: you're gonna what you're gonna do or how you're gonna
Speaker 1: cut this? So what? But I find interviews with you
Speaker 1: not difficult, but it feels like it's not an interview,
Speaker 1: and then I have to censor myself because I'm I
Speaker 1: feel like I'm just catching up with you on zoom.
Speaker 1: And then there's stuff that I say and it's like
Speaker 1: my lang, all of it that I have to go
Speaker 1: like no, no, no, no, no no no no no no. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: Jenny called me this morning to say that she loves you,
Speaker 1: to say you are not allowed to spend the entire
Speaker 1: interview flirting with him, because that's not okay. I'm like God,
Speaker 1: but he's just so yummy, like a potato. Alright, my
Speaker 1: little potato. I love you. I'm gonna text you, okay, no,
Speaker 1: and I'll send it to you right now. Okay. Michael
Speaker 1: Buble and I first spoke many years ago, more than
Speaker 1: twenty years ago, when he was just beginning to be
Speaker 1: recognized as a super talent in the US. Canadians had
Speaker 1: known about him for a little while, but we were
Speaker 1: just discovering his suave, debonair goodness. It has been incredible
Speaker 1: to watch his star rise, his talent expand, to see
Speaker 1: him and his beautiful family grow. Through it all, Michael
Speaker 1: has remained a steady hockey fan, a good friend, a
Speaker 1: beloved entertainer, funny is anything, and one of the kindest
Speaker 1: people I've ever known. I'm going to celebrate the anniversary
Speaker 1: of his album Christmas just as joyfully as all of
Speaker 1: you will, and I'll be singing right along with him
Speaker 1: on all my favorites. And I so look forward to
Speaker 1: the release of Let It Snow and Christmas Weather. And
Speaker 1: if we get a new album from him in two
Speaker 1: that will be more reason to celebrate all things Boublay,
Speaker 1: Like I need a reason. He's so sexy, he's so debonair,
Speaker 1: he's so cool. I hope all of you are taking
Speaker 1: a moment or two each day to soak in the
Speaker 1: rich abundance that fall has to offer. I like to
Speaker 1: make it a practice to look for three things a day,
Speaker 1: three things a day that I can be thankful for
Speaker 1: positive things. It's not hard during this time of year.
Speaker 1: A leaf, a beautiful, perfect golden leaf on the sidewalk,
Speaker 1: A curl of smoke coming out of a chimney, Pumpkins
Speaker 1: on a doorstep, pumpkin pie in my oven. Whatever it
Speaker 1: is that catches your eye, let it soak in and
Speaker 1: touch your heart. Thank you for stopping by, my friends,
Speaker 1: I will catch up with you soon. Take some time
Speaker 1: out of your daily schedule to slow down and love
Speaker 1: someone