WEBVTT - MICHAEL BUBLÉ: "Christmas" 10th Anniversary! 0:00:04.120 --> 0:00:10.600 Hello, everybody, Welcome aboard, Welcome to love someone with the Lilah. 0:00:10.640 --> 0:00:15.320 Are you enjoying the lovely autumn days after the intense 0:00:15.480 --> 0:00:18.600 heat of the summer we've recently gone through. I know 0:00:18.800 --> 0:00:22.520 I am loving, loving autumn. I think one of the 0:00:22.560 --> 0:00:25.759 best ways to describe fall is to say that it 0:00:26.000 --> 0:00:31.200 is a treat for all of our senses. The dazzling 0:00:31.280 --> 0:00:34.199 array of colors is almost almost too much for my 0:00:34.280 --> 0:00:38.440 eyes to take in, so many amazing jewel tones. And 0:00:38.479 --> 0:00:43.840 the trees, the bushes, the brambles, whether blanketed in thick 0:00:44.000 --> 0:00:48.800 morning mist or shining in the afternoon sun. And oh, 0:00:49.000 --> 0:00:54.560 the smells the sense would smoke from the crackling fireplaces, 0:00:54.600 --> 0:00:59.360 newly bailed hay piled high in my barn. We raise 0:00:59.440 --> 0:01:02.240 our own hey at our ranch, and so we have 0:01:02.320 --> 0:01:05.520 like I don't know, two thousand bales piled up in 0:01:05.560 --> 0:01:10.119 the barns, freshly baked breads, and pies on the counters, 0:01:10.240 --> 0:01:13.600 apple pies. Do I even need to talk about the 0:01:13.840 --> 0:01:18.400 taste of all of pumpkin spice everything and sour dough, 0:01:18.480 --> 0:01:22.200 loaves of crisp, apples, and apple sauce and apple cider. 0:01:23.480 --> 0:01:27.040 It's no wonder at all that this is the season 0:01:27.800 --> 0:01:31.880 of giving thanks, the season of giving thanks, of being grateful. 0:01:32.160 --> 0:01:34.440 There's so much to be grateful for. But let's not 0:01:34.560 --> 0:01:38.679 forget the sounds of autumn, the bird calls, the lowing cattle, 0:01:38.880 --> 0:01:43.120 all the the beautiful sounds of ottomn and all the 0:01:43.480 --> 0:01:48.520 great music. Late autumnus when we traditionally start playing Christmas 0:01:48.600 --> 0:01:51.400 music on my radio program, and it's a time of 0:01:51.480 --> 0:01:55.280 year I look forward to with so much anticipation. I've 0:01:55.320 --> 0:01:59.040 been around a few years to flip that switch, taking 0:01:59.160 --> 0:02:03.080 us into the holiday season, and there's nothing that reminds 0:02:03.120 --> 0:02:07.160 me how much and how long I have been in 0:02:07.200 --> 0:02:10.280 this business. Then when someone tells me about a big 0:02:10.320 --> 0:02:12.920 anniversary of a song or an album that in my 0:02:13.040 --> 0:02:15.880 mind just came out, you know, I think, oh, it's 0:02:15.919 --> 0:02:18.959 new music, and then I'm like, no, it's it's years old. 0:02:19.240 --> 0:02:21.840 Such as the case today. It's been ten years, a 0:02:21.840 --> 0:02:25.799 full decade since a very young, very handsome crooner from 0:02:25.840 --> 0:02:29.680 Canada dropped a Christmas album that would sell over twelve 0:02:29.760 --> 0:02:34.040 million copies worldwide, making it one of the best selling 0:02:34.120 --> 0:02:37.400 albums of the twenty first century. And let me tell you, 0:02:38.120 --> 0:02:41.919 if we still spun vinyl in the studio, those grooves 0:02:41.919 --> 0:02:45.519 would be worn all the way through to the other side. 0:02:45.520 --> 0:02:49.760 By Now it's received so much airtime, especially on my shows. 0:02:50.280 --> 0:02:54.560 It's been ten years of Michael Boublets Christmas singing us 0:02:54.600 --> 0:02:57.840 through the holiday season. There's got to be some kind 0:02:57.880 --> 0:03:00.480 of celebration of foot, don't you think for at I 0:03:00.520 --> 0:03:03.200 guess we'll just have to check in with Michael and 0:03:03.320 --> 0:03:06.840 find out what they're doing for their anniversary. So that's 0:03:06.880 --> 0:03:09.880 what we are going to do. Because Mr Crazy Love 0:03:09.960 --> 0:03:13.280 himself is with us today on Love is Someone. I 0:03:13.280 --> 0:03:15.760 can't wait to catch up on what's been going on 0:03:15.840 --> 0:03:19.760 with him since he dropped this album a few years ago. 0:03:20.720 --> 0:03:23.320 Let me give one of today's podcast sponsors a shout 0:03:23.360 --> 0:03:27.799 out for helping to make this beautiful conversation possible, and 0:03:27.840 --> 0:03:34.080 then Mr bou Blet, Mr Bubbly will join us. While 0:03:34.280 --> 0:03:37.600 you're making your holiday gift list, be sure to add 0:03:37.640 --> 0:03:41.920 a subscription to Annie's Kid Clubs. Kids from Annie's are 0:03:41.960 --> 0:03:45.400 the gift that gives all year long. We love the 0:03:45.520 --> 0:03:51.840 variety young woodworkers, textiles, card making, jewelry, and so many others. 0:03:52.280 --> 0:03:55.720 They now have some great fun new holiday kids too. 0:03:56.080 --> 0:04:00.240 Annie's Kid Clubs has kids for everyone. 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Yes, yes, 0:04:53.160 --> 0:04:56.720 I'm pumped. You're so cute. You hear the stuff. I 0:04:56.760 --> 0:04:58.840 think it's the best. I think it's I've never it's 0:04:58.839 --> 0:05:00.680 been good. I was everything. How are the kids? How 0:05:00.760 --> 0:05:03.880 is everything? Oh? Life is crazy, but we're healthy and 0:05:03.920 --> 0:05:07.200 I thank God for that. Yeah, the same, it's crazy. 0:05:07.279 --> 0:05:10.880 So how are you? I'm good? Really good? Really good? 0:05:11.200 --> 0:05:12.720 Do I get to know what you're working on? Are 0:05:12.720 --> 0:05:14.680 you're gonna wait and send it to me? Like get 0:05:14.760 --> 0:05:17.080 a sneaky I'm going to send you a couple of 0:05:17.080 --> 0:05:21.120 things that I've done. And you know, I don't know why. 0:05:21.160 --> 0:05:23.960 Some records come together and some don't, and sometimes the 0:05:24.040 --> 0:05:27.440 ideas from the universe come and some don't. But one 0:05:27.480 --> 0:05:31.960 of the songs Noah was I was giving the kids 0:05:31.960 --> 0:05:35.480 a bath and he said, I wrote a song Poppy, 0:05:35.560 --> 0:05:38.479 and he started to sing it to me and I said, wow, 0:05:38.560 --> 0:05:40.880 that's that's a really good no. I said, where did 0:05:40.920 --> 0:05:42.400 you hear it? He said, no, no, no, I wrote 0:05:42.400 --> 0:05:44.560 it and he played it on the piano. And so 0:05:44.600 --> 0:05:47.200 I was working with Ryan Teer writing and it was 0:05:47.240 --> 0:05:48.719 going okay, and I was like, you know what, you guys, 0:05:48.760 --> 0:05:51.240 can I just sing something that my son sang? And 0:05:51.279 --> 0:05:53.760 they looked at me like I was nuts? And twenty 0:05:53.800 --> 0:05:55.880 five minutes later, I think we have my lead single. 0:05:58.000 --> 0:06:01.240 How cool is that? I know, I know, I can't 0:06:01.240 --> 0:06:03.159 say anything about it. They told me, I'm not allowed 0:06:03.200 --> 0:06:05.920 to talk now. If my son I you know, I 0:06:05.960 --> 0:06:09.039 adopted another one who's five. Now, if he were to 0:06:09.080 --> 0:06:12.320 write a song, it would go something like this, dog poop, 0:06:12.520 --> 0:06:16.520 poopy dogs, but peepies dog poop. My kids are into 0:06:16.560 --> 0:06:24.000 balls right now? Balls is balls? Ball? I want to 0:06:24.040 --> 0:06:26.400 have one more, because I'm already seen there growing up 0:06:26.400 --> 0:06:27.800 too fast, and I'm like, oh no, no no, no, it 0:06:27.920 --> 0:06:30.680 can't be the last. My little girl can't be the last. 0:06:31.600 --> 0:06:37.040 One more. Maybe two with the boss, Yeah, with the boss. Pooh. 0:06:37.560 --> 0:06:39.159 How does it feel to be bossed around by the 0:06:39.160 --> 0:06:43.440 most beautiful woman in the whole world? What an honor privilege? Yeah, 0:06:43.480 --> 0:06:47.600 you are blessed, blessed. Do you remember when you wrote 0:06:47.600 --> 0:06:48.920 to me and told me you had met the love 0:06:48.960 --> 0:06:50.840 of your life and you were going to marry this girl. 0:06:52.000 --> 0:06:56.919 And then you sent me a picture and I was like, dude, 0:06:57.720 --> 0:07:00.280 she is gorgeous, and you said, yeah, but that's why 0:07:00.279 --> 0:07:02.680 I love her. It's it's the inside that I love. 0:07:02.760 --> 0:07:04.800 She's like the most wonderful thing I've ever met. That 0:07:04.880 --> 0:07:07.080 I love that you said that her, that it was 0:07:07.160 --> 0:07:10.120 her heart that you fell in love with. Oh, well, 0:07:10.160 --> 0:07:12.160 I mean, you don't know, you know what I mean? 0:07:12.200 --> 0:07:14.720 I mean, you know, but you hope I don't know. 0:07:14.920 --> 0:07:16.840 I the time I came to your show and I 0:07:16.880 --> 0:07:19.480 was to meet her backstage at the concert, she was 0:07:19.600 --> 0:07:22.679 lying on the couch sleeping with Noah in her arms, 0:07:23.040 --> 0:07:28.000 and it was pure mother love. There's fifty people in 0:07:28.040 --> 0:07:32.120 the audience. You've got the suit on, the lights are flashing, 0:07:32.320 --> 0:07:38.720 everybody's screaming, and here she is holding Noah in her arms, 0:07:38.960 --> 0:07:43.120 on the couch of your makeup room, sound asleep. And 0:07:43.200 --> 0:07:46.360 that's the real well, you know, that's real life. I 0:07:46.400 --> 0:07:48.320 tell I try to explain this to you all the time. 0:07:48.360 --> 0:07:50.680 It's like you put on the bat suit or whatever 0:07:50.680 --> 0:07:52.280 it is, you go to work, you go, you stick, 0:07:52.520 --> 0:07:55.240 the microphone goes, and then you become the Let's like, yeah, 0:07:55.320 --> 0:07:59.360 and it's who you are. But yeah, I saw the 0:07:59.400 --> 0:08:05.240 pictures of Noah on his birthday and I bawled. I bawled. 0:08:05.920 --> 0:08:08.360 I was on my computer scrolling and I saw him 0:08:08.400 --> 0:08:13.440 and tears just gush. I was like, thank you, thank 0:08:13.480 --> 0:08:16.440 you God. My wife thought I was crazy because she 0:08:16.520 --> 0:08:18.800 kept finding me in the bathroom and stuff, and I 0:08:18.880 --> 0:08:21.680 was just I was a mess. I cried my eyes out, 0:08:22.240 --> 0:08:23.960 and you know, I don't for no one would ever 0:08:24.000 --> 0:08:26.960 know this. But a few days after that, we had 0:08:27.000 --> 0:08:30.920 his scan, his six months scan, and it's always terrifying 0:08:31.360 --> 0:08:34.120 and came back all good and now we can breathe 0:08:34.160 --> 0:08:36.599 for another six months. But it's like, of course, no 0:08:36.640 --> 0:08:38.760 one would ever know, you know what I mean, you don't. 0:08:38.800 --> 0:08:40.720 We don't show that, I don't share that, you know. 0:08:41.320 --> 0:08:42.760 And then when it came good, it was like all 0:08:42.800 --> 0:08:45.480 of a sudden, I didn't give a about anything about 0:08:45.520 --> 0:08:50.800 anything else, about anything to all whatever, It'll be fine. 0:08:51.360 --> 0:08:54.199 So you're in Vancouver now, and the reason we got 0:08:54.240 --> 0:08:57.040 to have this little get together is because it's the 0:08:57.240 --> 0:09:02.360 ten year anniversary. Can that be of the best Christmas 0:09:02.360 --> 0:09:06.120 album ever? No? I can't be. It couldn't be possibly 0:09:06.160 --> 0:09:08.720 ten years. It's funny when I say people like I 0:09:08.760 --> 0:09:10.360 just one of my best friends, just what are you 0:09:10.360 --> 0:09:12.880 doing today? So we're gonna talk about the Christmas? He says, 0:09:12.880 --> 0:09:14.280 why what do you mean? I said, well, it's a 0:09:14.280 --> 0:09:17.600 tenure anniversary and he literally went, oh my god, it's long. 0:09:18.600 --> 0:09:20.360 And I could see him like go like, oh god 0:09:20.400 --> 0:09:25.719 him mold. Well, imagine my shock when today I WICKPEDI 0:09:25.840 --> 0:09:28.120 at you, just, you know, to see if there was 0:09:28.160 --> 0:09:30.920 anything new that I should ask you about, and it 0:09:31.040 --> 0:09:32.719 had your age and I'm like, that is not true. 0:09:32.760 --> 0:09:36.720 He's twenty two, maybe twenty four. And then I remember 0:09:36.800 --> 0:09:38.559 that I talked to you on your thirtieth birthday and 0:09:38.600 --> 0:09:43.560 then I went, oh, I have known you a long 0:09:43.640 --> 0:09:47.800 ass time, young man, when people come up to me 0:09:47.880 --> 0:09:51.520 like I'll have like a like like what I think 0:09:51.640 --> 0:09:55.280 is a pretty mid aged person, and they'll come up 0:09:55.280 --> 0:09:58.200 and the go, hi, I just I've been listening to 0:09:58.200 --> 0:10:00.480 you since I was a little kid, and I go like, 0:10:00.679 --> 0:10:06.920 oh yeah, yeah. The first time that sensation happened to me, 0:10:07.000 --> 0:10:09.000 I was at a wedding show. They had asked me 0:10:09.040 --> 0:10:13.120 to em see a fashion show and the bride, the 0:10:13.160 --> 0:10:15.440 young woman who was getting married, said to me, I've 0:10:15.480 --> 0:10:17.440 been listening to you since I was a baby. And 0:10:17.480 --> 0:10:21.960 I'm like, that's not possible, bold, And now it's I've 0:10:21.960 --> 0:10:25.400 been My mom's listen to you, my grandma's listen to you, 0:10:25.480 --> 0:10:27.880 my kids listen to you, my grandkids are listening to you. 0:10:28.000 --> 0:10:32.199 I'm like, oh my god, I'm old. That's absolutely amazing, beautiful, 0:10:32.440 --> 0:10:36.320 great life. It is a great life. I'm very, very blessed. 0:10:36.440 --> 0:10:39.440 So it's the tenure anniversary of your Christmas album. And 0:10:39.480 --> 0:10:42.720 you know, like next to Santa Claus, I own Christmas, right, 0:10:44.400 --> 0:10:49.400 you know that? You know me, there's no like I well, 0:10:49.440 --> 0:10:51.080 you know I love it so much. I love it. 0:10:51.120 --> 0:10:53.640 And you know what, my parents they made it so 0:10:53.760 --> 0:10:58.400 great for us that I think I still have that 0:10:58.520 --> 0:11:00.720 sense of wonderment, and it's not even just that I 0:11:00.760 --> 0:11:03.880 see it through the eyes of the kids. I genuinely 0:11:03.960 --> 0:11:07.400 have that sense of wonderment. Like my tree and everything 0:11:07.480 --> 0:11:11.560 was up last Christmas in November one was it. I 0:11:11.600 --> 0:11:14.560 went through this phase last year because of all the 0:11:14.600 --> 0:11:17.320 craziness with COVID and you know, you're not supposed to 0:11:17.320 --> 0:11:21.920 get together blah blah blah, where I realized that the 0:11:22.000 --> 0:11:25.360 wonderment of Christmas that I had always tried to create 0:11:25.440 --> 0:11:30.800 for my kids and you know, people at at holiday 0:11:30.840 --> 0:11:36.079 dinners and stuff, it changed, like I don't want to 0:11:36.120 --> 0:11:38.720 say it became a more spiritual thing, but it just 0:11:38.800 --> 0:11:42.560 became a much more hard thing for me, where I 0:11:42.640 --> 0:11:49.640 was noticing details of you know, like, uh, I got 0:11:49.679 --> 0:11:54.480 a Christmas ornament from Balsom Hill, who sponsors my show, 0:11:54.800 --> 0:11:56.760 and they had sent these Christmas ornaments and I was 0:11:56.800 --> 0:11:58.760 looking at them and I was trying to figure out 0:11:58.800 --> 0:12:01.320 how they made them, and I was noticing like the 0:12:01.360 --> 0:12:05.080 pattern of the glitter on the ornament, and I was 0:12:05.160 --> 0:12:08.360 fixated on these ornaments for like an hour or more, 0:12:08.400 --> 0:12:11.240 just looking instead of just hanging him on the trio 0:12:11.520 --> 0:12:16.320 was like really taking in the craftsmanship, I guess, and 0:12:16.360 --> 0:12:19.400 I was noticing the flavors of the food that you 0:12:19.400 --> 0:12:22.640 were living in more in the moment. Yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:12:22.679 --> 0:12:26.839 And it was so different. One of the things are 0:12:26.960 --> 0:12:28.920 that I do for my kids every year. I've done 0:12:28.920 --> 0:12:32.080 this for the last ten years or more, is Christmas 0:12:32.080 --> 0:12:35.200 pajamas that they get to open Christmas Eve, and then 0:12:35.280 --> 0:12:41.320 where on Christmas Morning the whole family onesies footed onesies. 0:12:41.720 --> 0:12:44.920 I looked. I looked like the penguin for the Danny 0:12:44.960 --> 0:12:54.360 to Eato version. For for Zach, it was like the 0:12:54.520 --> 0:12:57.600 meaning of Christmas. That was all that really mattered to 0:12:57.679 --> 0:13:01.320 him was the footed onesies, which he probably wore to 0:13:01.400 --> 0:13:05.640 school after Christmas break. And last year I lost them. 0:13:05.760 --> 0:13:08.640 And so the week before Christmas, I'm frantic. I'm going 0:13:08.679 --> 0:13:12.880 to every store. No store within a two mile radius 0:13:12.880 --> 0:13:15.680 had more than like two pair of matching pajamas. So 0:13:15.720 --> 0:13:17.600 I'm like, Okay, I gotta buy fabric, I gotta make 0:13:17.640 --> 0:13:19.600 the pajamas. I gotta do this, I gotta pull it 0:13:19.640 --> 0:13:22.880 all together. And then I went, you know what, I 0:13:22.920 --> 0:13:27.920 can calm down. They don't have to match. They're in 0:13:27.920 --> 0:13:30.800 the same color scheme. That's close enough. You said about 0:13:30.800 --> 0:13:33.640 the pajamas. So my one of my best friends, he 0:13:34.000 --> 0:13:36.840 fell in love with a girl who has two kids. 0:13:37.040 --> 0:13:41.400 They're eight and six now, and last year for Christmas, 0:13:41.400 --> 0:13:43.320 he was you know, it was tough. He was in 0:13:43.320 --> 0:13:46.760 your dad to them, so it was hard for him, 0:13:46.760 --> 0:13:49.360 you know, obviously, like what, it's a difficult position to 0:13:50.080 --> 0:13:52.480 and I didn't know what to do for him, and 0:13:52.520 --> 0:13:54.080 I wanted to do some special but you know what, 0:13:54.080 --> 0:13:55.920 that's what I did. I went with lou and we 0:13:55.960 --> 0:14:00.200 went and we bought the onesie pajamas and so and 0:14:00.360 --> 0:14:02.160 of course for me, it was very romantic and I thought, 0:14:02.200 --> 0:14:04.280 you know what, how cute for them to spend their 0:14:04.280 --> 0:14:07.480 first Christmas together and they're all in their same ones 0:14:07.520 --> 0:14:12.000 He's he's he's like six ft five two and so 0:14:12.040 --> 0:14:14.360 I got the biggest one. But I mean, I just 0:14:14.400 --> 0:14:16.480 thought that was a cute. I mean, that's that makes 0:14:16.520 --> 0:14:18.559 me very sentimental. It's funny that you said that, because 0:14:18.559 --> 0:14:22.760 there's those little there's those moments that in every household 0:14:22.800 --> 0:14:25.800 everyone has, Like everyone talks about traditions and they oh, yeah, 0:14:25.840 --> 0:14:28.760 there's the tree and listen to that. But those those 0:14:28.840 --> 0:14:33.880 little details are what make Christmas Christmas for us. And 0:14:33.880 --> 0:14:35.680 then when we grow up, we want to get you 0:14:35.720 --> 0:14:37.560 know what I mean, we want to do those. Yeah, 0:14:37.600 --> 0:14:40.040 it's pretty, it's magic. I don't know you. I feel 0:14:40.080 --> 0:14:43.840 like you have to be pretty cynical not to listen. 0:14:44.920 --> 0:14:49.160 I have more friends that are Jewish or agnostic atheists 0:14:50.320 --> 0:14:54.080 who listened to Christmas music like crazy, and they're not Christians. 0:14:54.080 --> 0:14:56.840 They don't you know, that's not what it's about for them, 0:14:56.920 --> 0:14:59.480 but they will see. For me, I am a Christian, 0:14:59.560 --> 0:15:03.920 but I don't believe he was actually born on Christmas Day. Uh, 0:15:05.720 --> 0:15:07.560 I don't know. I don't know. Well, I don't know when. 0:15:08.000 --> 0:15:11.440 But when I adopted Sammy Um, one of my boys, 0:15:11.480 --> 0:15:13.080 he didn't know his birthday because he had been in 0:15:13.120 --> 0:15:15.120 an orphanage his whole life and he had no clue 0:15:15.160 --> 0:15:16.840 when he was born. So when we're trying to do 0:15:16.880 --> 0:15:19.520 the adoption papers, the lawyer said to him, pick one 0:15:19.520 --> 0:15:21.000 of your favorite days of the year. He goes, I 0:15:21.000 --> 0:15:23.440 don't have a favorite day, says okay, And he picked 0:15:23.480 --> 0:15:28.320 his favorite soccer player's birthday and that became his birthday. 0:15:28.560 --> 0:15:31.240 And so on his birthday when we got him to America, 0:15:31.320 --> 0:15:35.000 we celebrated his birthday and he was crying. He we 0:15:35.160 --> 0:15:37.760 think he was fifteen or sixteen. So we just, you know, 0:15:37.840 --> 0:15:39.760 kind of made it up as we went along. And 0:15:39.800 --> 0:15:42.640 I said, honey, are you not happy? We had a 0:15:42.640 --> 0:15:46.120 little party and friends over, and he said, I don't 0:15:46.120 --> 0:15:48.600 know what I'm feeling. It's just too much. It's just 0:15:48.680 --> 0:15:51.600 too much. It's too much feelings. It's too much, it's 0:15:51.640 --> 0:15:53.760 too much. And so, you know, I kind of brought 0:15:53.800 --> 0:15:56.520 him aside and let him process for a minute, and 0:15:56.520 --> 0:16:00.760 he said, Mommy, I didn't know what a birthday felt like. Wow. 0:16:01.040 --> 0:16:04.440 And after he was able to collect himself, he really 0:16:04.640 --> 0:16:07.760 enjoyed himself. He had never had balloons before. Um, he 0:16:07.800 --> 0:16:09.840 had never had his own birthday cake before, he had 0:16:09.880 --> 0:16:12.680 never seen anyone have a birthday cake. And I thought 0:16:12.680 --> 0:16:16.400 about that because I get a little cynical about how 0:16:16.480 --> 0:16:20.800 some people get really adamant about the religious aspects of 0:16:20.840 --> 0:16:23.600 the holidays. And I'm like, you know what, I don't 0:16:23.600 --> 0:16:26.560 know when the actual day is, but just like Sammy, 0:16:27.680 --> 0:16:29.320 this is the day that we picked, so we're going 0:16:29.360 --> 0:16:31.800 to celebrate it. Yeah, it doesn't matter. I mean, you know, 0:16:31.920 --> 0:16:35.360 I'm I'm Christian too. I don't talk about it a lot. 0:16:35.440 --> 0:16:38.000 I'm not afraid to share that I have that faith, 0:16:38.040 --> 0:16:41.400 you know, because for me, it's exciting to think that 0:16:41.440 --> 0:16:44.600 if there's some kid or somebody out there that that 0:16:45.160 --> 0:16:48.800 likes me or respects me and they're afraid of sharing 0:16:49.040 --> 0:16:52.160 their faith, that if they see me do it, they 0:16:52.200 --> 0:16:55.120 might think, oh, you know, hey, he did it, that's okay. 0:16:55.200 --> 0:16:57.560 And because I've had other people that I really like 0:16:57.680 --> 0:17:00.680 and admire that have shared their their view on it, 0:17:00.720 --> 0:17:04.040 and it's been given me strength. But one of the 0:17:04.080 --> 0:17:08.480 things I love most about my role here is that quietly, 0:17:09.480 --> 0:17:12.840 without ever putting it into people's face, I get to 0:17:12.960 --> 0:17:15.880 sort of in the in a small way kind of 0:17:16.000 --> 0:17:19.480 you know, you have the good word. St. Francis of 0:17:19.520 --> 0:17:22.480 ASSISI said, go and spread the gospel, and if you 0:17:22.560 --> 0:17:27.520 must use words, let your life be that light that 0:17:27.680 --> 0:17:33.800 shines in the world. And you are that light. We're 0:17:33.840 --> 0:17:36.240 catching up with Michael bou Blat today. He's got more 0:17:36.280 --> 0:17:38.480 to share with us, but not until I sing the 0:17:38.520 --> 0:17:41.280 praises while I'll let him saying, I'm just going to 0:17:41.400 --> 0:17:46.320 tell you about one of today's podcast sponsors. 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So that the tenure anniversary of 0:18:30.400 --> 0:18:33.520 your Christmas album and you have new music coming out, 0:18:33.600 --> 0:18:35.920 but we don't get to talk about it until when, 0:18:36.080 --> 0:18:38.760 like is there. But I don't think they've even said 0:18:38.760 --> 0:18:41.480 a date. But I know that I want to send 0:18:41.520 --> 0:18:45.200 you a couple of things because it's crazy. It's honestly, 0:18:46.080 --> 0:18:49.320 I think people are going to lose their minds, fully 0:18:49.560 --> 0:18:51.640 lose their I think it's going to be a nice, 0:18:51.880 --> 0:18:54.200 a good time for me. I don't know where to say. 0:18:54.200 --> 0:18:58.000 I'm too excited. Okay, Well, whendn't we get closer and 0:18:58.080 --> 0:19:01.240 when you can say, we'll get back together and we'll 0:19:01.240 --> 0:19:03.399 do a big thing about it. Okay, I'd love that. 0:19:04.200 --> 0:19:06.440 It is it funny with Christmas music. It's it reminds 0:19:06.480 --> 0:19:10.639 me of rich food when you haven't had it. In 0:19:10.680 --> 0:19:13.400 a while. It is the most. You're just so excited 0:19:13.440 --> 0:19:15.640 for it and you just can't. You eat as much 0:19:15.640 --> 0:19:21.760 as you eat two pieces of cheesecake from Juniors. By December, 0:19:21.840 --> 0:19:24.959 you don't ever want to hear it again. There are 0:19:25.000 --> 0:19:28.080 worse things than than a season where people are kind. 0:19:29.000 --> 0:19:33.080 Last summer, during the in the heart of COVID July um, 0:19:33.280 --> 0:19:36.440 Dolly Parton called or wrote me a letter and asked 0:19:36.440 --> 0:19:38.439 if I would do a duet with throwing up this 0:19:38.520 --> 0:19:40.680 Christmas song that you'd written, And so I was. I 0:19:40.720 --> 0:19:42.760 love Dolly Parton, And the truth is I didn't even 0:19:42.760 --> 0:19:46.360 listen to the song. I literally answered yes, before ever 0:19:46.400 --> 0:19:49.040 listening to anything. And I called my manager and he said, oh, 0:19:49.080 --> 0:19:50.480 what do you think. I said, well, we're doing it, 0:19:50.560 --> 0:19:52.800 and he said okay, And I said, you know, Bruce, 0:19:53.160 --> 0:19:59.320 I think people will need the respite from this fear, 0:19:59.440 --> 0:20:02.400 the anxiet, the loss that people are going through. People 0:20:02.400 --> 0:20:05.840 are grieving, people are are they're going hungry, they don't 0:20:05.880 --> 0:20:07.919 you know. And he said to me, you think so? 0:20:08.040 --> 0:20:11.000 And sure enough, I mean you could tell people needed it, 0:20:11.400 --> 0:20:13.960 they needed well, we need we need it now more 0:20:14.040 --> 0:20:18.800 than ever. So let's celebrate your tenures. I know that. 0:20:19.160 --> 0:20:22.480 I know that, I know. Don't you go buy a 0:20:22.480 --> 0:20:24.440 million other records. You're just I'm happy I can be 0:20:24.560 --> 0:20:26.879 part of it. I'm happy that I can invite me 0:20:26.880 --> 0:20:31.520 into your house. Well, I'm gonna text you after our conversation. UM, 0:20:31.560 --> 0:20:33.840 I can't wait to hear this great stuff you're working on. 0:20:33.960 --> 0:20:37.080 And I am going to play every Christmas song you 0:20:37.160 --> 0:20:42.360 have ever recorded back to back. And one more thing, 0:20:42.400 --> 0:20:44.359 my kids asked me. Jennie said, to tell you she 0:20:44.440 --> 0:20:46.720 loves you, But my kids asked me to tell you 0:20:46.760 --> 0:20:52.080 that your soda water commercials are their favorite commercials ever. 0:20:52.560 --> 0:20:56.119 And Delilah Jr. Who's twelve, said, did he really do that? 0:20:56.160 --> 0:20:58.560 Does he really go in the store and change the 0:20:58.640 --> 0:21:01.800 name on the KANSA said, yeah, see yes he does. Yes, 0:21:01.880 --> 0:21:04.520 I do. I think it's hilarious. And I think when 0:21:04.520 --> 0:21:06.840 people watch me do it, they go like, she really 0:21:06.840 --> 0:21:09.159 doing it. I think it's hilarious. I only wish I 0:21:09.359 --> 0:21:12.159 had a piece that I had, like some financial peace, 0:21:12.359 --> 0:21:16.919 because it does so well and I get nothing. I 0:21:16.960 --> 0:21:19.639 think it's hilarious. Yeah, they should have given you stock. 0:21:20.000 --> 0:21:23.000 He said, do you really like it? Do you actually 0:21:23.040 --> 0:21:25.360 like it? And I said, yeah, of course I like it. 0:21:25.480 --> 0:21:27.639 I like it mixed with things, but I like it. 0:21:27.960 --> 0:21:33.360 My granddaughter calls it excited water. Oh that's cute. Well, 0:21:33.400 --> 0:21:35.960 my kids love it because they're not allowed to drink 0:21:36.280 --> 0:21:40.320 soda or Cola's, so they're allowed to have the bubbly 0:21:42.240 --> 0:21:43.960 And of course they're just they just think it's the 0:21:44.000 --> 0:21:46.199 coolest thing in the world that people they get to 0:21:46.240 --> 0:21:49.719 have a big guy drinking. Yeah. My daughter, Sheila is 0:21:49.920 --> 0:21:53.000 like the world's best mom. I kid you not. And 0:21:53.080 --> 0:21:57.000 she is the sugar Nazi. She is the health food Nazi. Yeah, 0:21:57.359 --> 0:22:00.600 her kids are the healthiest kids. They don't neat junk 0:22:00.760 --> 0:22:06.159 and she handmakes everything. How do you deal with that, um, 0:22:06.240 --> 0:22:08.919 because we're we're Me and my wife are tough on 0:22:09.359 --> 0:22:12.520 nutrition and all that. And then they go to my 0:22:12.600 --> 0:22:16.440 mom's house, to grandma's or they go with my my wife. See, 0:22:16.480 --> 0:22:19.080 I I can't really be that grandma because I still 0:22:19.119 --> 0:22:21.640 have little kids at home. Of course you can't. Yeah, 0:22:21.680 --> 0:22:24.040 you can't. You have to set the president. Yes, but 0:22:24.280 --> 0:22:26.480 I have a lot more junk food or stuff that 0:22:26.520 --> 0:22:30.359 would not be acceptable to my my son and my 0:22:30.480 --> 0:22:33.440 daughter's standards, because like, if there's more than three ingredients 0:22:33.440 --> 0:22:35.520 on a package, they don't buy it, which I'm really 0:22:35.560 --> 0:22:39.040 proud of them. That's amazing, that's good. Well, my wife's 0:22:39.040 --> 0:22:42.320 sister is a nutritionist, and so she's always been really 0:22:43.040 --> 0:22:46.080 basically exactly what you said if you labeled. Yeah, my 0:22:46.160 --> 0:22:48.480 sister taught me said this years ago, and it's stuck 0:22:48.480 --> 0:22:51.080 in my head. She says, just shop the perimeter of 0:22:51.080 --> 0:22:53.399 the store. Don't ever go in the aisles. If you 0:22:53.520 --> 0:22:55.760 just shop the perimeter where the meats and the fish 0:22:55.760 --> 0:22:58.399