WEBVTT - MICHAEL BUBLÉ: "Higher" 0:00:04.120 --> 0:00:08.720 Hey, there, have you been settling into your fall routines yet? 0:00:09.560 --> 0:00:12.560 Those first few weeks of back to school are kind 0:00:12.560 --> 0:00:15.319 of tough at times, but hopefully you're getting into the 0:00:15.360 --> 0:00:17.640 rhythm now. You're not forgetting to be there to pick 0:00:17.720 --> 0:00:21.400 up the kids at the bus stop. Okay, it only 0:00:21.440 --> 0:00:24.800 happened once or twice. Even if you don't have kids 0:00:24.840 --> 0:00:28.280 at home with schedules that remind you of the passing seasons. 0:00:29.000 --> 0:00:32.880 You've certainly noticed the shorter days and the changing weather. 0:00:33.720 --> 0:00:37.000 What autumn delights are you looking forward to? Will you 0:00:37.040 --> 0:00:40.080 go to a pumpkin patch? Will you carve a jack 0:00:40.120 --> 0:00:42.800 o Lannard? Will you decorate your porch or your mantle 0:00:42.880 --> 0:00:47.600 with fall favorites? Are you the costume wearing type, Maybe 0:00:47.680 --> 0:00:51.000 you're the apple bobbing sort. Maybe you just enjoy taking 0:00:51.000 --> 0:00:56.000 long drives and looking at the changing colors. Whatever it 0:00:56.160 --> 0:00:59.040 is that sends your spirit soaring, I hope you carve 0:00:59.080 --> 0:01:03.480 out time. See that, carve out time to do it. 0:01:04.920 --> 0:01:08.720 I cracked myself up. Music is always top of my list, 0:01:08.800 --> 0:01:12.520 and this autumn one of my favorite performers is on tour. 0:01:12.760 --> 0:01:17.480 The One, the only, the sexy, the charming, the charismatic 0:01:18.000 --> 0:01:22.600 Michael Bubley. He's been wowing fans with his Higher tour 0:01:23.160 --> 0:01:25.880 and by the way, you'll you'll hear this. I'm sure 0:01:26.160 --> 0:01:29.520 we'll talk about it in our conversation. But his son 0:01:29.920 --> 0:01:35.040 Noah wrote the hook the main lines in the song Higher. 0:01:35.720 --> 0:01:38.480 It kicked off on August eight. He's been hitting Citi's 0:01:38.560 --> 0:01:41.640 coast to coast. He'll be bringing it to a conclusion 0:01:41.760 --> 0:01:45.679 on October eleven and Buffalo, New York. But today today, 0:01:45.720 --> 0:01:48.120 he's taking some time out of his busy schedule to 0:01:48.200 --> 0:01:51.960 spend time here with us. In just a minute, we're 0:01:51.960 --> 0:01:54.040 going to catch up with Michael Boubley and here all 0:01:54.080 --> 0:01:58.360 about the tour. Will we'll talk about life, we will 0:01:58.400 --> 0:02:01.400 talk about kids, what ever he wants to dish on. 0:02:01.800 --> 0:02:05.320 I gotta ask him about his social media presence because 0:02:05.320 --> 0:02:08.840 he is hysterical on social media. 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Ultimate Disco Cruise dot 0:02:57.080 --> 0:03:02.760 Com slash Delilah. The Ultimate Disco Creus dot Com is 0:03:02.800 --> 0:03:06.280 the website and then use my name Delilah to get 0:03:06.320 --> 0:03:11.680 special pricing on your accommodations. So let me introduce Mr 0:03:11.720 --> 0:03:14.560 Michael Bublet, who is one of my favorite entertainers in 0:03:14.560 --> 0:03:17.720 the whole world. I was talking to somebody the other 0:03:17.800 --> 0:03:21.760 day and I said, if you knew how funny this 0:03:21.840 --> 0:03:25.440 guy is, like you do humor in your show, But 0:03:26.200 --> 0:03:29.000 I said, you gotta watch his TikTok's. Just watches TikTok's 0:03:29.240 --> 0:03:31.800 and then you'll get how funny my friend Michael is. 0:03:31.919 --> 0:03:35.080 Because I have too much fun with those tiktoks. Have 0:03:35.200 --> 0:03:38.320 way too much fun with your TikTok It's like you're 0:03:38.360 --> 0:03:41.880 like eight years old on TikTok's. Michael, you know you 0:03:41.960 --> 0:03:45.360 and your son are like best friends, the same mental age. 0:03:45.680 --> 0:03:49.640 When you do TikTok's, he's probably beat me for a 0:03:49.680 --> 0:03:52.640 maturity love. We did we talk about TikTok the last 0:03:52.640 --> 0:03:54.960 time we talk. No, we didn't. But I am obsessed 0:03:55.000 --> 0:03:57.560 with you on social media and I love the fact 0:03:57.600 --> 0:04:00.200 that you are. You put I don't put content out 0:04:00.240 --> 0:04:04.160 all the time because I'm I'm busy, I'm I'm have 0:04:04.280 --> 0:04:07.000 got a baby zebra to feed. You got a baby 0:04:07.040 --> 0:04:09.280 baby de feed. I got a baby zebra to feed. 0:04:09.560 --> 0:04:14.040 But you do the the stupid, funniest thing on your 0:04:14.080 --> 0:04:18.080 social media. I love you. I wasn't. I was never 0:04:18.120 --> 0:04:20.920 a big social media fan. I understood that it was 0:04:21.040 --> 0:04:24.640 a way to help grow your brand. I understood it 0:04:24.680 --> 0:04:26.200 was a part of the marketing thing. And it was 0:04:26.240 --> 0:04:28.840 because now people, you know, that's where they get their information. 0:04:29.680 --> 0:04:33.200 And so I wasn't. You were you were a reluctant 0:04:33.480 --> 0:04:37.680 entrance into I was reluctant, But I honestly felt like 0:04:37.720 --> 0:04:39.800 I would watch my friends doing all these instagrams and 0:04:39.839 --> 0:04:43.080 I would think, Man, they're they're really needy. This person 0:04:43.160 --> 0:04:46.560 needs to hug, you know, like there's something this guy, 0:04:46.800 --> 0:04:50.560 this guy really needs attention. Eating bagels it's like, what, 0:04:50.560 --> 0:04:52.760 what do you do? You need a hug? But then 0:04:52.800 --> 0:04:55.359 TikTok came along. My wife said to me, you should 0:04:55.400 --> 0:04:58.440 do it. She said, you know you're you're funny and 0:04:58.560 --> 0:05:01.279 you enjoy the interaction with Pete both. But I never 0:05:01.360 --> 0:05:03.840 knew how much I'd like it. And the truth is, 0:05:04.279 --> 0:05:06.920 it isn't making the content that I like so much, 0:05:06.960 --> 0:05:11.120 because and I do like that, that comes far far 0:05:11.240 --> 0:05:17.920 after how connected we get to become with with people. 0:05:19.600 --> 0:05:24.520 I have found the greatest voices, the funniest people, and 0:05:24.960 --> 0:05:28.800 I have literally not just follow them, but then written 0:05:28.839 --> 0:05:32.159 them and or commented on them. And all of a sudden, 0:05:32.160 --> 0:05:35.880 this great, big world has become so much smaller, and 0:05:35.920 --> 0:05:39.760 I have, actually, I have actually started friendships. When I 0:05:39.800 --> 0:05:42.960 met you, you were a kid talking about your grandpa 0:05:43.000 --> 0:05:46.440 doing plumbing at my farm, and you were goofy and silly. 0:05:46.440 --> 0:05:48.479 And so when I watch you on TikTok, I'm like, 0:05:48.560 --> 0:05:51.440 that's my Micha all that that's who I'm met. And 0:05:51.480 --> 0:05:53.760 I love that I know all of you. I mean 0:05:53.960 --> 0:05:58.960 that I get to experience all the different variations of 0:05:59.040 --> 0:06:02.400 your wonderful personality. I love that I get to be 0:06:02.520 --> 0:06:05.680 those people. It's so much fun to play those and 0:06:05.800 --> 0:06:07.719 I say, play those characters and make sure, but they're 0:06:07.720 --> 0:06:09.960 just a part of you. They're a part of it. 0:06:09.960 --> 0:06:12.200 It's funny when we when I think about you and 0:06:12.240 --> 0:06:15.360 I think about what you do and how you do it, 0:06:15.360 --> 0:06:18.400 it's very interesting. It's very I'm sure that in parts 0:06:18.560 --> 0:06:21.839 it's calculated and in other parts it's a very natural thing. 0:06:21.920 --> 0:06:27.440 But you have an ability to really make listeners feel 0:06:27.480 --> 0:06:30.640 their heard. You're not just like other people. And you 0:06:30.640 --> 0:06:32.880 know that are putting out now, here's the song, here's 0:06:32.880 --> 0:06:36.360 the thing. There's an actual back and forth to the relationship, 0:06:36.920 --> 0:06:41.760 and you are also there's a sexiness there and whether 0:06:41.839 --> 0:06:43.919 you mean to do that or you don't mean to 0:06:43.960 --> 0:06:49.280 do that, there's a definite undertone of sexuality. There's a 0:06:49.360 --> 0:06:53.839 thing where you are. You're not only communicating with them, 0:06:53.880 --> 0:06:57.320 but you are in a in a strange way, romancing them. 0:06:57.800 --> 0:07:01.520 And and I've said you before that there's so much 0:07:01.560 --> 0:07:04.719 that I feel that we have. It's similar because we 0:07:05.440 --> 0:07:07.800 as much as we love our audience and we and 0:07:08.080 --> 0:07:11.160 they are our extended family, our job is also to 0:07:11.240 --> 0:07:14.400 seduce them in a way, and that's when we get 0:07:14.440 --> 0:07:17.320 to become that other person. That isn't that isn't the 0:07:17.360 --> 0:07:20.440 googy person, that isn't the self africanting person world you 0:07:20.440 --> 0:07:23.000 know parts of us that are that person, so we 0:07:23.040 --> 0:07:26.920 can be grown up professionals. Yeah. Absolutely, I want to 0:07:26.960 --> 0:07:30.520 fall in love with your new baby. Are you trying? 0:07:30.560 --> 0:07:32.560 Are you and your wife trying to catch up with me? 0:07:32.640 --> 0:07:36.520 And that's what is that? What's going on? There is 0:07:36.560 --> 0:07:40.240 no possibility, you know what it's Sometimes it's overwhelming, like 0:07:40.320 --> 0:07:42.400 as you know, but it's a joy. I mean, the 0:07:42.480 --> 0:07:45.280 fact that I get to to live both of these 0:07:45.360 --> 0:07:48.360 laps is I was talking about it this morning, And 0:07:49.320 --> 0:07:52.320 you get to be a fabulous dad with fabulous kids. 0:07:52.400 --> 0:07:56.800 And thank God that that everything is going well because 0:07:57.200 --> 0:08:01.600 I know you have hit basis where nobody ever wants 0:08:01.680 --> 0:08:05.120 no parents well ever, can I ask you something? Don't 0:08:05.160 --> 0:08:08.960 you feel through this pandemic that it really put us 0:08:08.960 --> 0:08:11.800 all on equal ground? Like I mean, I knew so 0:08:11.840 --> 0:08:13.920 many people that have never dealt with any kind of 0:08:13.920 --> 0:08:18.920 adversity and or mental health issues, and all of a sudden, 0:08:19.560 --> 0:08:23.840 we have a whole world that that can be empathetic 0:08:23.880 --> 0:08:26.680 towards each other that at least we know there I mean, 0:08:26.800 --> 0:08:29.880 people suffered, people are still suffering. I mean, I look 0:08:29.880 --> 0:08:32.319 out to my shows and I see I mean, I 0:08:32.400 --> 0:08:34.760 see thousands of people every night, and I know it 0:08:34.840 --> 0:08:37.000 was tough for them to get there. I know it 0:08:37.040 --> 0:08:38.760 wasn't easy. I know they worked their ass off for 0:08:38.760 --> 0:08:41.160 the money they make. I know the gas is expensive. 0:08:41.280 --> 0:08:43.000 I know that the economy is not great. I know 0:08:43.040 --> 0:08:46.640 that we've got inflation and uh, you know, and then 0:08:46.679 --> 0:08:49.280 forget about just that those kind of things. I mean, 0:08:49.679 --> 0:08:52.559 for a long time, we were all just we feared 0:08:52.600 --> 0:08:54.439 for our lives, for the lives of people we love, 0:08:54.520 --> 0:08:58.960 people lost people they loved. Um mental health obviously, just 0:08:59.520 --> 0:09:02.400 it was always been an issue. I just don't think 0:09:02.440 --> 0:09:07.960 people maybe realized the precipice we live on, how our 0:09:08.000 --> 0:09:11.760 mental state hangs in the balance, in the balance, and 0:09:11.840 --> 0:09:14.760 we saw something like this happen, and all of a sudden, 0:09:15.400 --> 0:09:18.800 the whole world have suffered. The whole world felt like, oh, 0:09:18.840 --> 0:09:22.360 this is yeah, and you're right there there, you and 0:09:22.400 --> 0:09:24.640 I are very blessed. I mean, when it when it 0:09:24.720 --> 0:09:26.719 started coming down, when I saw what was happening, and 0:09:26.800 --> 0:09:28.640 I'm like, okay, kids in the car, we're going to 0:09:28.679 --> 0:09:31.160 the ranch. Could I ask you a question, even though 0:09:31.200 --> 0:09:34.040 I know you're asking any questions, how did the pandemic 0:09:34.280 --> 0:09:38.480 and what you saw happening? How did it change you 0:09:38.880 --> 0:09:42.679 and your what your process and what you're hopeless for 0:09:42.760 --> 0:09:48.200 sale podcast? Did it Did it inspire you to just 0:09:48.240 --> 0:09:50.800 sort of take care of people in a different way? 0:09:51.000 --> 0:09:56.120 Did it change Well? I think my natural inclination, you know, 0:09:56.240 --> 0:09:59.120 has always been to be a caretaker. Otherwise I would 0:09:59.120 --> 0:10:01.840 not have fifting child. And but um, what it did 0:10:01.880 --> 0:10:07.600 for me is it really helped me prioritize in uh 0:10:08.040 --> 0:10:11.840 a way that that I didn't see coming. None of 0:10:11.880 --> 0:10:14.920 us saw it coming. And I thought that I had 0:10:15.000 --> 0:10:19.880 prioritized fairly well before, but I hadn't. I hadn't, And 0:10:20.040 --> 0:10:24.720 it really like laser focused me on what really matters, 0:10:25.320 --> 0:10:30.080 what really really matters, the caretakers at the hospital, of 0:10:30.120 --> 0:10:34.080 the people on the front line, they really really matter. 0:10:34.240 --> 0:10:37.600 And I had given lip service before thanking nurses and doctors. 0:10:38.040 --> 0:10:42.840 Oh my gosh, no that matters. And what kind of 0:10:42.880 --> 0:10:45.520 stories were you getting? Because I know people contact you 0:10:45.559 --> 0:10:48.439 a ton of these things with a ton of letters 0:10:48.480 --> 0:10:51.280 that were you Were you really receiving a ton of stuff? Oh? Yeah, 0:10:51.360 --> 0:10:54.839 my my phone calls, I mean I get call attempts now, 0:10:54.840 --> 0:10:57.800 and I'm sure it doubled or tripled because people say 0:10:57.880 --> 0:11:03.199 that again, how many attempts fifty thousand call attempts plus 0:11:03.280 --> 0:11:06.599 a night. I'm not kidding you. Wow, I'm in the 0:11:06.640 --> 0:11:09.360 wrong business. Yeah, that we have an eight hundred number 0:11:10.400 --> 0:11:14.199 six three threela and so we track how many call attempts. 0:11:14.679 --> 0:11:16.520 I don't have a call screener. I don't know if 0:11:16.520 --> 0:11:19.320 you know this. I don't have a call screener. I 0:11:19.360 --> 0:11:23.560 did for years, and what I've discovered is I like 0:11:23.720 --> 0:11:28.240 the intimacy and the immediacy of answering the phone and 0:11:28.920 --> 0:11:31.800 talking to people, because with the call screener, it's kind 0:11:31.800 --> 0:11:35.720 of like the listeners give them the best stuff and 0:11:35.760 --> 0:11:38.479 then by the time they get to me, they've rethought 0:11:38.520 --> 0:11:41.480 in their head, or they've staged what they're gonna say, 0:11:41.600 --> 0:11:44.200 or they've rehearsed it. I don't want to do that. 0:11:44.679 --> 0:11:49.199 I just I like, Hi, Michael Boublet, it's Delilah. Who's 0:11:49.240 --> 0:11:53.000 on your heart tonight? You know? I like that, that 0:11:53.000 --> 0:11:57.559 that intimacy. And so when when the pandemic hit, when 0:11:57.559 --> 0:12:00.240 the shutdowns hit, I became a lot of people his 0:12:00.280 --> 0:12:04.320 only friend, that's Michael. Do you know how many people 0:12:04.840 --> 0:12:07.600 live in a freaking high rise apartment and don't know 0:12:07.720 --> 0:12:12.680 their neighbors. You and I would never be that person. Um, 0:12:12.800 --> 0:12:17.640 we know everybody on every floor and their habits and 0:12:17.640 --> 0:12:20.200 their favorite song. That's just the way you and I 0:12:20.240 --> 0:12:22.640 are built. But there are a lot of people who 0:12:22.840 --> 0:12:28.000 aren't wired like us, and they were so desperately lonely. Yes, 0:12:28.840 --> 0:12:34.720 and that I have been blessed to be entrusted with 0:12:34.840 --> 0:12:38.080 this place that God has placed me where I get 0:12:38.120 --> 0:12:42.720 to be people's friends. But with that comes a great responsibility. 0:12:42.960 --> 0:12:44.840 What do I what do I take to you privately 0:12:45.559 --> 0:12:49.120 about about that relationship with the people, Because listen, they 0:12:49.160 --> 0:12:50.800 think we're doing an interview where you and me are 0:12:50.840 --> 0:12:54.360 doing this interview things. When I write you personally, I 0:12:54.400 --> 0:12:58.920 always say that I find you and I are similar 0:12:59.440 --> 0:13:03.720 in our unique love for those people, that they are 0:13:03.800 --> 0:13:06.640 not they are not our bread and butter, they are 0:13:06.800 --> 0:13:10.200 our extended family, and that we genuinely care about them, 0:13:10.280 --> 0:13:12.760 and that actually, you know what I just read? This 0:13:13.080 --> 0:13:15.120 is it? Okay? If I read this, you can read anything. 0:13:15.240 --> 0:13:17.320 You can do, Michael, you can do it. So here 0:13:17.440 --> 0:13:20.120 is here is a private message between you and I 0:13:20.240 --> 0:13:24.080 where this is what I say to you genuinely. I 0:13:24.120 --> 0:13:27.200 think we care about listeners. We care about them as 0:13:27.280 --> 0:13:31.559 human beings and are extended family, and you can't fake that. 0:13:31.559 --> 0:13:34.079 That is the magic or an X factor that makes 0:13:34.160 --> 0:13:37.000 the relationships we have with them so unique and special. 0:13:37.640 --> 0:13:40.480 So that's how I that's not that's me writing you 0:13:40.800 --> 0:13:43.480 in a private conversation, and that's how I really do 0:13:43.559 --> 0:13:46.439 feel that that is a and you can't fake it 0:13:46.480 --> 0:13:49.040 because people will see through it and uh. And you 0:13:49.120 --> 0:13:51.160 might be able to get away with it for months 0:13:51.240 --> 0:13:54.360 or maybe years, but at some point you are And 0:13:54.400 --> 0:13:56.280 how long have you been doing this? How long has 0:13:56.280 --> 0:13:59.959 it been now? Um, since a year before you were born. 0:14:00.760 --> 0:14:02.800 I've been on the air since a year before you 0:14:04.559 --> 0:14:16.760 one years. Yeah, something like that. Listen. The world is 0:14:16.760 --> 0:14:18.800 in a tough place right now, and so you have 0:14:18.880 --> 0:14:22.560 to you have to know that that's just what That's 0:14:22.560 --> 0:14:25.640 just what's happening. And I try so hard not to 0:14:25.640 --> 0:14:28.560 to fan the flames, not to be divisive. I don't 0:14:28.560 --> 0:14:30.280 want to be divisive. I don't want anything on my 0:14:30.320 --> 0:14:32.360 show to be divisive. I don't want people fighting with 0:14:32.400 --> 0:14:40.360 each other. But sometimes this our world is divided. But 0:14:40.440 --> 0:14:42.440 I'm gonna tell you something interesting and I talk about 0:14:42.480 --> 0:14:44.960 every night. Tonight, I'm going to go play it here. 0:14:45.000 --> 0:14:46.880 I think we've got twelve thousand people that will be 0:14:46.880 --> 0:14:49.360 out there to night, and I swear to you that 0:14:49.480 --> 0:14:52.080 will be black and white and gained straight, and young 0:14:52.120 --> 0:14:55.840 and old and Richard four and there will be no division. 0:14:56.520 --> 0:14:59.200 There will be no division. There are people at their best. 0:14:59.360 --> 0:15:03.080 And it's harder to be a bad bad guy or 0:15:03.080 --> 0:15:05.080 a bad girl than it is to be good. And 0:15:05.120 --> 0:15:07.000 I truly believe it when I see it. When I 0:15:07.040 --> 0:15:10.240 see it out in that context, I realize it gives 0:15:10.240 --> 0:15:12.320 me hope, when it gives me faith. And I talk 0:15:12.400 --> 0:15:15.440 about it very openly because we're we're better than that. 0:15:15.520 --> 0:15:18.280 We're better than to be divided by audiology or race 0:15:18.480 --> 0:15:21.480 or or you know. It's okay, we can we can disagree. 0:15:21.520 --> 0:15:23.400 That's the thing we're going to disagree. I will not 0:15:23.680 --> 0:15:26.280 There's a bunch of subjects you and I as friends 0:15:26.280 --> 0:15:29.320 won't agree on at all. But I don't have to 0:15:29.320 --> 0:15:31.280 hate you with guts for it. Yeah, you don't have 0:15:31.360 --> 0:15:35.440 to agree with me, uh or or or pray the 0:15:35.520 --> 0:15:38.080 same way I pray, or raise your kids the same 0:15:38.120 --> 0:15:43.960 way I raise my kids. Um to be friends and yeah, 0:15:44.200 --> 0:15:46.040 we just got to get there. Now, we just got 0:15:46.040 --> 0:15:47.920 to get there. But I mean it's hard to get 0:15:47.960 --> 0:15:52.440 there when I think people are hurting in many ways 0:15:52.560 --> 0:15:55.720 exactly I think, and it's coming out as anger. Yeah, 0:15:55.840 --> 0:15:59.520 and it's just, you know, it's we're scared and anxious, 0:15:59.560 --> 0:16:02.560 and when we feel those things, we lose our common sense, 0:16:02.640 --> 0:16:05.320 We we lose our empathy for each other, we lose 0:16:05.360 --> 0:16:07.440 that love we have for ourselves, and it's just becomes 0:16:07.440 --> 0:16:10.800 as one of those sort of domino effects. Maybe we 0:16:10.840 --> 0:16:15.360 can make a difference. I'm trying. I'm trying. Every moment 0:16:15.360 --> 0:16:18.400 in a day we have an opportunity to change lives. 0:16:18.680 --> 0:16:22.360 And it's one small, random act of kindness. And every 0:16:22.440 --> 0:16:26.040 single person, every one of those fifty people that writes 0:16:26.080 --> 0:16:30.440 to every night, they each have so much power. They 0:16:30.480 --> 0:16:32.960 may not know they have so much power, but they 0:16:33.000 --> 0:16:36.560 have no idea what one smile, but one turning to 0:16:36.560 --> 0:16:38.800 a guy in the elevator and saying, Dan, boy, you 0:16:38.800 --> 0:16:41.040 look great. I love those boots. I know it sounds 0:16:41.200 --> 0:16:43.880 trivial and small, but it isn't small. It isn't small. 0:16:43.920 --> 0:16:46.800 No idea that to say, you know, just I love 0:16:46.840 --> 0:16:49.440 those that TikTok's where someone puts a little note and 0:16:49.440 --> 0:16:51.200 they'll handle it a note to somebody and they'll say, 0:16:51.520 --> 0:16:54.840 you know you made a difference. Yeah, we all have 0:16:54.960 --> 0:16:58.320 that power. We all have and you know this this conversation, 0:16:59.200 --> 0:17:02.120 there will be cynical people. And I understand it because 0:17:02.120 --> 0:17:04.480 I'm a cynical person. 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