WEBVTT - Michael Bublé 0:00:01.600 --> 0:00:05.520 Hey, guys, welcome to I've never said this before with 0:00:05.680 --> 0:00:10.320 me Tommy di Dario. Today's guest is the always dapper, 0:00:10.880 --> 0:00:16.760 the always smooth, and the always serenading Michael Boublay. Michael 0:00:16.760 --> 0:00:20.920 Boublay has sold more than seventy five million albums worldwide 0:00:20.960 --> 0:00:24.599 over the course of his extraordinary career. Now let me 0:00:24.640 --> 0:00:28.280 break this down. Five Grammys, a star on the Hollywood 0:00:28.320 --> 0:00:32.480 and Canada Walk of Fame, six multi platinum albums, over 0:00:32.680 --> 0:00:36.840 fourteen billion global streams. You know what, I'm just gonna 0:00:36.840 --> 0:00:39.920 stop there, Otherwise I will be reciting his accolades for 0:00:40.000 --> 0:00:42.800 the next twenty four hours because there are so many. 0:00:43.240 --> 0:00:46.320 I mean, clearly, he has made a tremendous impact in 0:00:46.400 --> 0:00:49.720 music and pop culture. But what I love about Boublay 0:00:50.000 --> 0:00:53.360 is that his voice his instrument. It can do at all. 0:00:53.800 --> 0:00:57.880 He sings pop, swing, jazz, R and B, and he 0:00:58.000 --> 0:01:01.600 takes his audiences on a special journey with every song 0:01:01.680 --> 0:01:05.000 he performs. He feels his music so deeply, and that 0:01:05.080 --> 0:01:07.559 is evident every time you watch him, and the guy 0:01:07.640 --> 0:01:10.440 is all heart. But what is also evident is that 0:01:10.480 --> 0:01:15.080 Michael has exceptional taste. Yes he does. He recently launched 0:01:15.240 --> 0:01:19.640 Fraser and Thompson, an elegantly blended North American whiskey brand. 0:01:20.160 --> 0:01:23.520 And today Michael invited me to sip some whiskey and 0:01:23.600 --> 0:01:26.679 dive into his latest venture. And let me tell you, 0:01:26.920 --> 0:01:30.959 the whiskey is good. We chat all about the sweet 0:01:31.000 --> 0:01:34.160 story behind the name Fraser and Thompson, who he would 0:01:34.200 --> 0:01:36.399 love to sit down and have a cocktail with, and 0:01:36.600 --> 0:01:38.800 the moment Cher called him to work with him and 0:01:38.920 --> 0:01:44.000 recreate one of his most iconic songs. So let's see 0:01:44.000 --> 0:01:46.960 if today we can get Michael Boublay to say something 0:01:47.040 --> 0:01:54.360 that he's never said before. Michael Boublay, thank you so 0:01:54.480 --> 0:01:55.640 much for joining me today. 0:01:55.640 --> 0:01:57.400 How are you. I'm really good, Thanks for having me. 0:01:57.480 --> 0:01:59.760 I am so happy you are here. I see a 0:02:00.000 --> 0:02:04.240 beautiful bottle of whiskey in front of me. It's calling 0:02:04.280 --> 0:02:06.240 my name. You poured me a glass. 0:02:07.160 --> 0:02:08.080 What time is it right now? 0:02:08.120 --> 0:02:09.400 It's nine thirty. It's not relevant. 0:02:09.360 --> 0:02:11.360 That sounds like a good time in the morning. Relevant. 0:02:11.360 --> 0:02:13.000 You even to blow up my spot, all right, So 0:02:13.080 --> 0:02:16.000 first of all, cheers to you. This is your new endeavor, 0:02:16.200 --> 0:02:16.720 thever we go. 0:02:17.200 --> 0:02:17.840 Thanks for having me. 0:02:17.919 --> 0:02:18.560 Let's have a sip. 0:02:18.639 --> 0:02:24.959 Let's check it out. M oh man, what do you think? 0:02:25.200 --> 0:02:27.480 Oh man, don't you know what? I know. I'm not 0:02:27.480 --> 0:02:30.639 going to be kind and you're gonna be courteous, but 0:02:30.720 --> 0:02:31.880 be really honest with me. 0:02:32.120 --> 0:02:34.959 You know, I'm not a huge whiskey drinker. I'm Italian. 0:02:34.960 --> 0:02:37.960 I drink a lot of wine, getting more and more 0:02:38.000 --> 0:02:41.800 into whiskey, and I gotta say it's smooth and it 0:02:41.840 --> 0:02:44.520 doesn't burn. Why do so many whiskeys burn? 0:02:44.720 --> 0:02:47.639 That is because they're fancy, I swear to man, that's 0:02:47.680 --> 0:02:52.720 what's Listen, real connoisseurs of great whiskeys. Somebody who loved 0:02:52.760 --> 0:02:55.400 doing poppyvan Winkle at three thousand bucks a bottle, Well, 0:02:55.440 --> 0:02:58.360 they love that. They love that burn. You know, I 0:02:58.440 --> 0:03:00.920 never did. I liked a more excess whiskey. I always 0:03:00.960 --> 0:03:02.880 like whiskey, but I liked that a little bit more 0:03:02.880 --> 0:03:05.000 smooth than the sweeter flavor at the end, A little 0:03:05.040 --> 0:03:07.200 bit of sweet at the end, not too sweet. B Yeah. 0:03:07.240 --> 0:03:10.440 And the truth is this all started on my birthday, 0:03:10.560 --> 0:03:13.880 where a fellow named Paul Circa who had a distillery 0:03:13.880 --> 0:03:16.480 in Montreal, a little boutique distillery, and he had called 0:03:16.480 --> 0:03:18.400 my manager and said, we'd love Mike to be the 0:03:18.440 --> 0:03:20.320 face of this thing. And my manager said, listen, Mike, 0:03:20.360 --> 0:03:22.040 I think I don't know if it's a big enough 0:03:22.080 --> 0:03:25.080 business for you to do that. And so my birthday 0:03:25.080 --> 0:03:27.720 I was having drinks and I loved it. I mean, 0:03:27.760 --> 0:03:29.800 I knew it was great quality. And I said to 0:03:29.840 --> 0:03:32.200 my wife, you know what, Lou, what if you and 0:03:32.240 --> 0:03:36.640 I do something where we joined forces kind of artistically creatively, 0:03:37.000 --> 0:03:39.320 And what if we buy we'd become a part owner 0:03:39.320 --> 0:03:41.800 of this distillery. And that is really where it started. 0:03:42.360 --> 0:03:44.720 And so we became part owners. Had no idea what 0:03:44.720 --> 0:03:46.600 we were doing. And then a fellow named Larry Roof 0:03:46.640 --> 0:03:48.800 out of Las Vegas, out of Southern Glacier, was a 0:03:48.840 --> 0:03:51.240 big distributor. He said, you know, Mike, why don't you 0:03:51.280 --> 0:03:55.240 go and meet with Shelley Stein, who worked for West Brands. 0:03:55.280 --> 0:03:56.720 And I went to go meet Shelley. I was working 0:03:56.720 --> 0:04:00.560 with Lauren Michaels on the SNL SAT and I went 0:04:00.600 --> 0:04:02.240 to go see Shelley, and Shelley said, you know, Mike, 0:04:02.520 --> 0:04:04.200 I think you got the right brand for this, the 0:04:04.240 --> 0:04:08.400 personality you obviously like the whiskey. Why don't we try something. 0:04:08.480 --> 0:04:12.200 And so we made a deal with Southern Glaziers and 0:04:12.560 --> 0:04:15.400 we went to a beautiful place called heaven Hill, which 0:04:15.440 --> 0:04:18.800 is a beautiful whiskey one hundred year old company that 0:04:19.080 --> 0:04:22.440 out of Kentucky earned a very famous whiskey makers, and 0:04:23.440 --> 0:04:25.599 first time, you know, for one hundred years, that family 0:04:25.640 --> 0:04:29.839 allowed someone else in and we started Fraser and Thompson, 0:04:29.839 --> 0:04:33.799 which was a mix of that Montreal Distilleries whiskey bourbon 0:04:33.920 --> 0:04:38.599 with the Heaven Hill Whiskey bourbon. So we have this 0:04:38.640 --> 0:04:41.880 beautiful North American whiskey and listen, man, I lost control. 0:04:42.000 --> 0:04:44.280 It was supposed to be this little, fun little thing 0:04:44.760 --> 0:04:47.440 with my wife, and it's turned into something that it's 0:04:47.480 --> 0:04:50.919 a lot bigger and a lot more ambitious. But the 0:04:50.960 --> 0:04:54.279 truth is it's been fun. It really has like we're 0:04:54.279 --> 0:04:56.480 having a kick out of doing it. And I think 0:04:56.520 --> 0:04:58.640 what you said when I first walked in, you said 0:04:58.640 --> 0:05:01.640 to me, this new challenge, new endeavor. And I think 0:05:01.680 --> 0:05:05.520 twenty years writing records, promoting the record, and touring the record, 0:05:05.600 --> 0:05:08.120 and there's been it's been cyclical over and over again. 0:05:08.160 --> 0:05:10.120 Twenty years yeah, doing the same thing. And by the way, 0:05:10.160 --> 0:05:12.920 ten years before that, of playing nightclubs and bars and 0:05:13.000 --> 0:05:15.719 everything else, it was really fun to go. You know what, 0:05:16.920 --> 0:05:18.440 I don't want to be maybe I can try being 0:05:18.480 --> 0:05:21.640 an entrepreneur and not taking myself too seriously, but try 0:05:21.640 --> 0:05:24.400 to do this thing. And more than anything, was an 0:05:24.440 --> 0:05:26.640 idea and a way for my wife and I to 0:05:26.760 --> 0:05:29.240 have a deeper connection. So wow, here I am man. 0:05:29.400 --> 0:05:32.360 Were you always a whiskey drinker or he's always ask drink? Yeah? 0:05:32.360 --> 0:05:34.760 You were? Yeah? Okay, all right. I wasn't much of 0:05:34.800 --> 0:05:37.800 a beer guy, not much of a wine guy. I mean, 0:05:37.920 --> 0:05:41.240 I appreciate it. My wife like wine, but I liked 0:05:41.360 --> 0:05:44.240 you know, someone was saying to me recently that they 0:05:44.320 --> 0:05:47.760 liked the they liked the direct road. You know. I 0:05:47.880 --> 0:05:50.880 like having a few pops with my buddies and my family. Yeah, 0:05:50.920 --> 0:05:53.760 and I don't you know, I love having a nice 0:05:53.760 --> 0:05:56.839 little buzz and I don't love sometimes taking eight beers 0:05:56.880 --> 0:05:57.320 to get there. 0:05:57.600 --> 0:06:00.040 No, I get it, because I get it. 0:06:00.160 --> 0:06:02.120 Just a couple of little glasses of whiskey and I'm 0:06:02.560 --> 0:06:03.200 a happy boy. 0:06:03.440 --> 0:06:04.839 So talk to me about the name. I know it 0:06:04.839 --> 0:06:06.120 has sentimental meaning to you. 0:06:06.160 --> 0:06:08.040 Yeah. Well, you were talking to me about your heritage, 0:06:08.080 --> 0:06:11.320 about your grandparents, and you know, I'm a really proud 0:06:11.400 --> 0:06:16.159 Canadian of Italian extraction, and our family's just really close. 0:06:16.200 --> 0:06:19.200 My grandpa and Grandma Nona. Nona were just a tight 0:06:19.279 --> 0:06:21.520 part of our family. And the reason that I'm here 0:06:21.640 --> 0:06:24.480 sitting in this chair across from you is because I 0:06:24.560 --> 0:06:27.320 had a grandpa who loved the music of the big band. 0:06:27.640 --> 0:06:30.039 He loved the thirties and forties, fift he loved Sinatra 0:06:30.080 --> 0:06:32.200 and Dino, I mean, all the time is Tony Bennett 0:06:33.320 --> 0:06:34.960 and I loved it. And it was one of those 0:06:34.960 --> 0:06:36.800 things where it was like not just enough, where you 0:06:36.880 --> 0:06:39.000 just love your grandpa because you both love hockey and 0:06:39.040 --> 0:06:41.599 you love each other, and you know, just we just 0:06:41.640 --> 0:06:44.560 had a really great connection. But he used to make wine, 0:06:45.040 --> 0:06:46.960 his homemade wine, and it was like the hit of 0:06:47.000 --> 0:06:49.520 the neighborhood. And he'd make grandpa and put cherries in 0:06:49.560 --> 0:06:52.880 and this basically moonshine. And so when I came up 0:06:52.880 --> 0:06:55.280 with this whiskey and I knew we were going to 0:06:55.360 --> 0:06:57.720 do this, I wanted to pay tribute to him. So 0:06:58.600 --> 0:07:01.080 my grandpa was a plumber for fifty years, but he 0:07:01.120 --> 0:07:03.160 really wanted to be a geography teacher and he used 0:07:03.160 --> 0:07:06.120 to it was fascinated with the world, and he used 0:07:06.160 --> 0:07:08.039 to take his camping and we'd go up to where 0:07:08.040 --> 0:07:10.320 the Mighty Fraser and the glacier Thompson met in this 0:07:10.360 --> 0:07:13.600 beautiful confluence. They built a gondol over it now. But 0:07:15.280 --> 0:07:17.880 when I thought about this mix of North American whistkey, 0:07:17.920 --> 0:07:20.080 I was like, you know what, talk about paying tribute 0:07:20.120 --> 0:07:22.960 to this dude that is my everything. We will call 0:07:23.000 --> 0:07:26.360 it Fraser and Thompson, F and ty and and it 0:07:26.440 --> 0:07:28.960 all just you know, in a marketing way, it just 0:07:29.080 --> 0:07:30.680 it was perfect. It was one of those ideas where 0:07:30.720 --> 0:07:33.160 you just go, oh, yeah, that's this is easy, and 0:07:33.680 --> 0:07:35.760 it's cool because even on the bottle, there's these little 0:07:36.280 --> 0:07:38.640 some of these little easter eggs, you know, like here 0:07:38.680 --> 0:07:41.480 at the very top, that's nineteen twenty seven, the year 0:07:41.480 --> 0:07:45.040 he was born. And here I've got I pretend it's 0:07:45.040 --> 0:07:47.680 a serial number, but it's not. It's my birthday, nine 0:07:47.760 --> 0:07:50.640 nine seventy five. Wow. So there's all these cool little 0:07:50.640 --> 0:07:52.360 easter eggs, and you can see where the Fraser and 0:07:52.400 --> 0:07:53.760 the Thompson meet here. 0:07:54.120 --> 0:07:55.880 So it's a deeply personal adventure. 0:07:56.000 --> 0:07:58.440 Yeah, man, it really, it really is. And it's you know, 0:07:58.520 --> 0:08:01.120 I hope that I don't sun crass when I say this, 0:08:01.760 --> 0:08:04.560 but I've been really lucky in my life. I've been 0:08:04.640 --> 0:08:08.360 really fortunate. I've had great success in my business, and 0:08:09.760 --> 0:08:14.720 it's really nice not to make decisions based on finance. 0:08:15.560 --> 0:08:18.280 And I'm sure you feel the same way about your life. 0:08:18.840 --> 0:08:23.960 When you make decisions based on monetary goals, things just 0:08:24.000 --> 0:08:26.960 go wrong really quickly, and even when you don't mean 0:08:27.120 --> 0:08:29.840 for them to, there's a purity that's lost. And so 0:08:29.880 --> 0:08:32.320 it's a really nice thing to you know, by the way, 0:08:32.520 --> 0:08:34.520 this is a lot of pressing the flesh. It's me 0:08:35.000 --> 0:08:38.880 going to you know, to different companies and meeting you know, me, 0:08:38.960 --> 0:08:41.480 your contributors, and you know, it's my I own the company, 0:08:41.559 --> 0:08:42.280 you know, my wife and I. 0:08:42.320 --> 0:08:44.079 It's not just a face in it. 0:08:44.320 --> 0:08:46.800 And we took three years to make sure that we 0:08:46.840 --> 0:08:49.840 could reverse engineer whiskey for people that might not love whiskey, 0:08:49.920 --> 0:08:52.839 you know. And and I sort of wanted to bust 0:08:52.840 --> 0:08:54.240 all the tropes. I didn't want to sit in a 0:08:54.320 --> 0:08:57.240 leather chair and and try to be mister smooth. I 0:08:57.280 --> 0:09:00.160 wanted to, you know, I wanted to you know, our 0:09:00.160 --> 0:09:03.319 whole brand was about easy. Now the world's got nuts, 0:09:03.320 --> 0:09:06.840 you know, and there's so much divisions, so much to fighter, 0:09:06.920 --> 0:09:09.199 or how about we just chill, have a nice glass 0:09:09.240 --> 0:09:11.440 of whiskey and get along for a second. 0:09:18.120 --> 0:09:19.920 And we keep bringing up the idea of this being 0:09:19.960 --> 0:09:22.280 your new en Denver, and obviously you're a pro in 0:09:22.320 --> 0:09:25.320 the music space, So how is creating this whiskey different 0:09:25.679 --> 0:09:27.360 or similar to creating music? 0:09:27.400 --> 0:09:29.800 For you? Was just so similar because I don't really 0:09:29.840 --> 0:09:32.599 I know nothing about it. And the truth is, I 0:09:32.640 --> 0:09:34.800 don't know much about music. I never oh, come on, 0:09:35.120 --> 0:09:37.400 well listen, I know what I know, I know what 0:09:37.480 --> 0:09:40.280 I like. But I never went to school. You know. 0:09:40.360 --> 0:09:42.360 I write all those songs that you hear, and even 0:09:42.400 --> 0:09:45.720 the arrangements when you hear feeling good or sway, that's 0:09:45.800 --> 0:09:49.440 me sitting down and singing out those parts. But I 0:09:49.559 --> 0:09:53.400 never learned music theory. I still can't read music. It's 0:09:53.400 --> 0:09:55.120 funny because people hear that and they go, well, if 0:09:55.120 --> 0:09:57.800 you can't read music, you know, but a lot of 0:09:57.840 --> 0:10:00.480 people can't read music. Paul mcarr and he can't read 0:10:00.559 --> 0:10:04.520 music or doesn't. But it was the same. When I 0:10:04.520 --> 0:10:07.839 say it was the same, it's because you don't have 0:10:08.000 --> 0:10:12.480 to know logistically what you're doing when you're mixing notes. 0:10:13.280 --> 0:10:16.360 These things feel good essentially, and I think you're creating 0:10:16.360 --> 0:10:19.200 a vibe. And with this and the profile, it was 0:10:19.320 --> 0:10:21.480 mixing flavors that I really liked. It's the same as 0:10:21.520 --> 0:10:23.600 mixing notes that I really like. When I write a song, 0:10:24.360 --> 0:10:25.640 you know what I mean, it really is, and you 0:10:25.640 --> 0:10:30.160 come up with this harmony that works for you. And 0:10:30.520 --> 0:10:33.520 it helped too that when I songwrite many times, I 0:10:33.600 --> 0:10:36.120 know what I want Conceptually. You know I'm going to 0:10:36.160 --> 0:10:39.440 write a I'm going to write a love song that 0:10:39.600 --> 0:10:42.320 is about having your heart broken. And once I go 0:10:42.360 --> 0:10:45.360 in that direction, I know I know where I'm going, 0:10:45.440 --> 0:10:48.720 I know what it is. And this wasn't me trying 0:10:48.720 --> 0:10:50.440 to come up with a three thousand dollars bottle of 0:10:50.720 --> 0:10:53.480 a whiskey. It was me saying, I want to create 0:10:53.559 --> 0:10:57.800 something that is accessible that gives you. My dad talks 0:10:57.800 --> 0:11:00.400 all the time, but value. My dad talks about My 0:11:00.480 --> 0:11:03.040 dad talks about value. You call him frugal if you want, 0:11:03.120 --> 0:11:06.280 or but he does. Even in my concerts, you know, 0:11:06.640 --> 0:11:09.280 my commage or the tickets, do you think for that 0:11:09.400 --> 0:11:15.400 amount people are experiencing value for their dollar spend. And 0:11:15.480 --> 0:11:18.160 He'll say to me, because if they do, they will 0:11:18.160 --> 0:11:22.280 come back over and over again. The moment that they 0:11:22.360 --> 0:11:26.480 don't feel they've got value, they're gone. They will disappear 0:11:26.480 --> 0:11:29.920 from your life. And so for me, I was really 0:11:30.040 --> 0:11:33.600 lucky that the people that I was working with, my partners, 0:11:34.280 --> 0:11:37.160 they understood the assignment, which was, let's make a gorgeous 0:11:37.160 --> 0:11:40.280 whiskey that is really flavorful, that's a yummy that you 0:11:40.320 --> 0:11:43.480 can walk into a party with a three thousand dollars 0:11:43.480 --> 0:11:46.280 bottle of whiskey and I can walk in with F 0:11:46.320 --> 0:11:49.000 and T and you'll go and you know, the whiskey 0:11:49.120 --> 0:11:51.440 drinker will go, yeah, man, I'll try that. And I 0:11:51.480 --> 0:11:53.240 wasn't going for the high you know, I wasn't going 0:11:53.280 --> 0:11:55.480 for some high falutin thing. I wanted to make accessible 0:11:55.480 --> 0:11:57.600 whiskey that gave value for flavor. 0:11:57.679 --> 0:12:00.680 But man, quality doesn't have to be expensive, it doesn't. 0:12:00.760 --> 0:12:03.440 You're absolutely right, right, So this is priced at what twenty? 0:12:03.840 --> 0:12:04.600 It's thirty five bucks? 0:12:04.600 --> 0:12:06.640 Thirty five bucks? I mean, come on, come on, how 0:12:06.640 --> 0:12:07.120 do you beat that? 0:12:07.240 --> 0:12:10.240 Yeah? That must be very absolutely. I mean, I love 0:12:10.280 --> 0:12:12.400 this sweater and I think it's forty bucks. 0:12:12.440 --> 0:12:15.200 So it's a good sweater. You look pretty dapper. You 0:12:15.200 --> 0:12:18.920 look pretty dapper in that. Can you give me the 0:12:18.960 --> 0:12:19.480 name of that one? 0:12:19.520 --> 0:12:21.319 Later? We were talking about it this morning when I 0:12:21.320 --> 0:12:22.640 got ready, and it was like you're gonna wear a 0:12:22.679 --> 0:12:24.200 suit and I was like, no, it's too early. 0:12:24.360 --> 0:12:28.000 No, no, no, no, that's amazing, man. So if you could 0:12:28.040 --> 0:12:30.360 have a glass of this with anyone right now, let's 0:12:30.400 --> 0:12:32.720 see two people, someone living and someone who's passed on 0:12:32.760 --> 0:12:34.680 to the other side. Who would you sit down and 0:12:34.720 --> 0:12:36.640 share this amazing glass of windy. 0:12:36.760 --> 0:12:39.280 I'm really honest right now because all I have is 0:12:39.320 --> 0:12:41.920 now it's you. I'm really happy to be sitting with 0:12:41.960 --> 0:12:44.600 you having this class, and I'm glad you're not dead. 0:12:46.320 --> 0:12:50.200 And the person that i'd love to sit down with 0:12:50.320 --> 0:12:55.319 is my grandpa. And because because I miss him every 0:12:57.120 --> 0:13:00.360 single day, every minute of the day, everything good happens 0:13:00.400 --> 0:13:01.840 to me, my first thought is. 0:13:01.840 --> 0:13:02.880 To call him. 0:13:02.920 --> 0:13:06.319 And I don't know, man, my happiness was, you know 0:13:06.360 --> 0:13:09.000 what's weird. I know we love our we love our family, 0:13:09.040 --> 0:13:11.199 we love our mom and dad. But every once in 0:13:11.240 --> 0:13:12.840 a while, and you may not say it out loud 0:13:12.880 --> 0:13:16.720 because you don't want to play favorites, but we have favorites. 0:13:16.920 --> 0:13:20.520 There are people that just you just click. And that 0:13:20.679 --> 0:13:23.720 was what that was for me. Every time the Vancouver 0:13:23.760 --> 0:13:27.679 Canucks won a hockey game or I got a break 0:13:27.720 --> 0:13:29.240 where hey get they called You're going to be on 0:13:29.320 --> 0:13:32.400 Leno or you know you're going to open for Dion 0:13:32.480 --> 0:13:37.439 Warwick or you know that was the very literally two six, 0:13:38.520 --> 0:13:41.880 that was the number. And I wish he was here. 0:13:42.240 --> 0:13:43.120 What I love is here. 0:13:43.200 --> 0:13:45.560 He is here, He's with us. And what I love 0:13:45.600 --> 0:13:47.280 about you, man, is your heart. And I feel that 0:13:47.280 --> 0:13:49.600 in your music. You have so much soul. You write 0:13:49.640 --> 0:13:54.040 with passion, you write with your truth, and if you 0:13:54.080 --> 0:13:55.880 don't know, we see that in all of the artists 0:13:55.880 --> 0:13:58.160 in today's world. And I think that's something that you 0:13:58.240 --> 0:14:02.560 have had such success with. It's connecting with people and 0:14:02.600 --> 0:14:04.720 making us feel something. And even when you talk about 0:14:04.720 --> 0:14:07.600 this beautiful bottle of whiskey that I'm touching and looking at, 0:14:08.040 --> 0:14:10.559 I feel what you're talking about. And that's a gift 0:14:10.679 --> 0:14:11.360 you have, man. 0:14:11.840 --> 0:14:14.040 Thank you, And I wish I could tell you I 0:14:14.320 --> 0:14:18.560 was I'm this great. If you met my sisters, or 0:14:18.600 --> 0:14:20.360 my mom and dad, or if you met my grandma 0:14:20.400 --> 0:14:24.480 and grandpa, you'd understand who I am, and you probably 0:14:24.560 --> 0:14:27.400 like them all more than you like me. The truth, 0:14:27.480 --> 0:14:30.480 so where you know many times listen, it's funny because 0:14:30.520 --> 0:14:32.560 I have friends that have not had what I've had, 0:14:33.360 --> 0:14:36.200 and they've turned out to be really marvelous human beings. 0:14:36.640 --> 0:14:40.080 And I have one of my best friends. It's just 0:14:40.120 --> 0:14:43.680 not been an easy life. He's just not He just 0:14:44.200 --> 0:14:48.560 he didn't get lucky. You know. Dad left early, Mom 0:14:48.560 --> 0:14:53.920 passed away, brother left as well. And he has a 0:14:53.960 --> 0:14:58.840 million reasons and a million excuses to why he could 0:14:58.840 --> 0:15:03.880 be terrible, unhappy, bitter human being. And he has made 0:15:03.920 --> 0:15:07.360 the decision to strive for greatness. And I don't mean 0:15:07.520 --> 0:15:09.640 in business, I mean and just as a human being. 0:15:09.920 --> 0:15:12.760 And and so we all you know, I'm just really 0:15:12.840 --> 0:15:15.600 lucky that, you know, I had this incredible support, Like 0:15:15.600 --> 0:15:17.840 even man, I was sixteen fifteen when I told them 0:15:17.880 --> 0:15:19.560 I want to be a singer, and you know how 0:15:19.560 --> 0:15:22.040 many parents would go, you know, oh Jesus, it wants 0:15:22.080 --> 0:15:25.040 to be a singer. And it was like my parents went, Okay, 0:15:25.440 --> 0:15:27.400 let's do this. Let's buy him a mic and an 0:15:27.440 --> 0:15:30.720 ab and they would come to every show, every shopping mall, 0:15:31.040 --> 0:15:35.000 every busking thing that I did, every cruise ship, every 0:15:35.920 --> 0:15:38.640 I mean dude that my mom used to used to 0:15:38.640 --> 0:15:41.800 do these theater events. And my mom would take old records, 0:15:41.840 --> 0:15:44.000 you know, the ascetates, and she would melt them into 0:15:44.000 --> 0:15:46.400 a bowl and then she would make like a little 0:15:46.400 --> 0:15:48.800 gift bag. And then she you know what I mean, 0:15:48.840 --> 0:15:50.800 it's been a family It's been a family fair from 0:15:50.800 --> 0:15:58.880 the beginning. So I'm a lucky boy. 0:15:59.480 --> 0:16:02.280 I know that concept is super important to you. And 0:16:02.360 --> 0:16:04.880 you talked about family a lot today and where you're 0:16:04.920 --> 0:16:07.640 from and your roots even earlier before we were recording. 0:16:08.080 --> 0:16:11.400 And I have to bring up the home version with Share. Yeah, 0:16:11.560 --> 0:16:14.040 because man, that is epic. How did that happen? She 0:16:14.120 --> 0:16:15.840 just called you and said, yeah, I have a song, 0:16:15.920 --> 0:16:16.600 let's record it. 0:16:16.640 --> 0:16:20.560 And it's you know, it's funny. It happened because we 0:16:20.720 --> 0:16:24.280 have people in our lives that are mutual friends, and 0:16:24.360 --> 0:16:27.920 it's been no joke twenty years of them saying to me, 0:16:28.840 --> 0:16:30.840 you need to meet Schaer. You need to work with Share, 0:16:30.920 --> 0:16:32.320 you need to hang with Share, you need to know 0:16:32.440 --> 0:16:35.200 Share Share, and you would love each other, Sharon, you 0:16:35.240 --> 0:16:38.400 would laugh your ass off together. And then to her, 0:16:38.480 --> 0:16:40.880 they were going, you need to meet this booblet guy, 0:16:40.920 --> 0:16:43.560 this booblet you know, she was Share. So I mean 0:16:44.200 --> 0:16:47.920 I imagine she was going, okay, And and I think 0:16:48.400 --> 0:16:52.320 that it wasn't a surprise for all of those people 0:16:52.880 --> 0:16:55.640 that we would meet and that we would establish this 0:16:55.800 --> 0:16:58.880 really great chemistry and connection. She's just I mean, she's amazing. 0:16:58.880 --> 0:17:00.840 I mean every the truth is. I mean, she's just real. 0:17:01.000 --> 0:17:05.120 She's unapologetic about who she is. I think I don't 0:17:05.160 --> 0:17:07.240 think she thinks it's a big deal that she share. 0:17:07.440 --> 0:17:09.480 I think if you put a truth serum into her 0:17:09.600 --> 0:17:12.880 arm and you said, like, oh my god, your share, 0:17:12.960 --> 0:17:18.640 she'd say yeah. And you know, and but she's it's 0:17:18.680 --> 0:17:21.240 funny man, when they called and you know. And I 0:17:21.240 --> 0:17:23.840 did an interview about this the other day. Listen, I 0:17:23.880 --> 0:17:26.920 made a Christmas record many years ago, and I meant it. 0:17:27.400 --> 0:17:29.679 I didn't make a Christmas record. I should clarify. I 0:17:29.720 --> 0:17:32.639 made a Michael Boublet record and I love Christmas. And 0:17:32.640 --> 0:17:36.200 that that I think people kind of like they couldn't 0:17:36.280 --> 0:17:39.600 articulate or express why they felt it was genuine. But 0:17:40.280 --> 0:17:42.399 then you like, oh my god. Actually people used to 0:17:42.400 --> 0:17:44.720 ask me and say, wow, you're making a Christmas record, 0:17:44.800 --> 0:17:47.280 and literally in the studio, I'd go, no, I'm making 0:17:47.320 --> 0:17:49.959 the Christmas record. Oh I like. I just loved it. 0:17:50.000 --> 0:17:53.399 I like, And I think I think she did the 0:17:53.440 --> 0:17:56.280 same thing. And I think when her and I got together, 0:17:57.119 --> 0:18:00.560 I realized quickly how ambitious she was. I realized she 0:18:00.600 --> 0:18:02.960 wasn't making a Christmas album. She was making a share album. 0:18:03.400 --> 0:18:06.440 And it was cute because here she is, this veteran, 0:18:06.520 --> 0:18:10.639 this beautiful, you know, full of light woman, and she 0:18:10.800 --> 0:18:13.040 is like fifteen years old. She was on the phone 0:18:13.080 --> 0:18:14.920 playing me all the songs over and over again, and 0:18:14.960 --> 0:18:16.520 oh my god, listen and I love this one. Listen 0:18:16.560 --> 0:18:18.440 to Darling Love, and oh, you know that I used 0:18:18.440 --> 0:18:19.960 to sing when I was a kid. I used to 0:18:20.000 --> 0:18:23.760 do the backout rack round things, and and oh my god, Stevie, 0:18:23.840 --> 0:18:26.679 I called Stevie. Stevie actually answered, and you're going, well, 0:18:26.760 --> 0:18:31.080 of course he answered, your share. But she's still genuinely, 0:18:32.440 --> 0:18:37.520 you know, like excited. And so every dude about September 0:18:37.720 --> 0:18:40.560 of every single year the last thirteen years, you know, 0:18:40.720 --> 0:18:43.560 or many of the biggest celebrities that we know start 0:18:43.600 --> 0:18:46.359 to call me and they start to say, I have 0:18:46.400 --> 0:18:49.359 an idea. We should do a duet or let's do 0:18:49.400 --> 0:18:52.000 a Christmas thing, And I say, thank you so much, 0:18:52.080 --> 0:18:54.880 you know, I you know, I really appreciate you thinking 0:18:54.920 --> 0:18:58.760 to me. But I love Christmas, but I want Christmas. 0:18:58.760 --> 0:19:01.040 I want Christmas for my baby. I went Christmas from it, 0:19:01.680 --> 0:19:04.320 and so I say no. I have said no to 0:19:04.640 --> 0:19:09.320 five different gigantic, iconic acts. But when Share called, there 0:19:09.480 --> 0:19:13.040 was I mean, are you kidding me? You just say yes? 0:19:13.320 --> 0:19:15.200 And then the fact that she said, like, we're thinking 0:19:15.200 --> 0:19:18.159 about singing the song home that I wrote, and it 0:19:18.200 --> 0:19:20.359 was like I met like I was talking to Elvis 0:19:20.440 --> 0:19:23.679 Durant about it, and my mom. I have sung with 0:19:24.280 --> 0:19:26.960 the most amazing artists in the universe, like you know, 0:19:27.080 --> 0:19:28.680 the ones, all of the ones that we love. I 0:19:28.960 --> 0:19:31.800 have been blessed to have a moment with them. My 0:19:31.960 --> 0:19:37.560 mother lost her mind that like none other. It was Share, like, 0:19:38.760 --> 0:19:41.600 you're doing this with the Share So I don't even 0:19:41.640 --> 0:19:43.240 know what to say. I imagine you do it too, 0:19:44.119 --> 0:19:47.320 But there continue to be so many moments where I 0:19:47.400 --> 0:19:50.040 just go, how is this happening? What is happening? And 0:19:50.200 --> 0:19:50.960 never gets old. 0:19:51.320 --> 0:19:53.480 Well, man, you should be so proud. There's there's so 0:19:53.560 --> 0:19:56.280