Speaker 1: So excited tonight to be talking with somebody that I
Speaker 1: have admired your music, I have followed your career, I
Speaker 1: have played your songs. Pat Monahan, lead singer from Train,
Speaker 1: Welcome to the Delilah Show.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Gila, Thanks you for having me to your
Speaker 2: beautiful share that I listened to a lot of same song.
Speaker 3: I was so excited.
Speaker 1: I have a producer named Peter who's been with me
Speaker 1: Pat almost as long as Train has been around. And
Speaker 1: we call him behind his back, well we call it
Speaker 1: to him his face to snippy Peter, because Peter is
Speaker 1: almost like a TV character, and that he is this
Speaker 1: sort of sardonic always has a sarcastic comment to everything.
Speaker 1: You know, he's got this, You would love him. He's
Speaker 1: got this wicked, dry sense of humor.
Speaker 2: Yeah, worthy tomp, you know, because they like three areas
Speaker 2: that is the wickedest. So it's New England, Pennsylvania, and
Speaker 2: New Jersey.
Speaker 1: Well he would fit very, very very well in Jersey.
Speaker 1: But he's actually from Bellevue, believe it or not. He's
Speaker 1: your next door neighbor.
Speaker 2: But wow, that's so funny.
Speaker 1: He discovered your video play that song before I think
Speaker 1: before it was maybe released. I don't know if he's
Speaker 1: got an end with somebody at iHeart, but he sent
Speaker 1: me a copy and he's like, oh my gosh, this
Speaker 1: is the best song that I have heard in years.
Speaker 1: And for somebody as sardonic and snippy as Peter to
Speaker 1: forward that to me, and I'm like, I was expecting
Speaker 1: him to be a smarty pants, you know. And so
Speaker 1: I clicked on it and I watched it, and I
Speaker 1: watched it again, and I watched it again, and I
Speaker 1: don't know if it's it's just because it's got that
Speaker 1: old fashioned vibe to it, or if it's because it's
Speaker 1: got the call letters of the radio station. I don't
Speaker 1: know what what you know inspired Peter.
Speaker 3: But I love it. I love the song, but man,
Speaker 3: I love the video.
Speaker 2: Oh thanks. It just is such a happy song that
Speaker 2: we had to make an equally happy video for it,
Speaker 2: which is the director just had an idea of basically
Speaker 2: doing what happened in a movie called Five Hundred Days
Speaker 2: of Summer, where this guy falls in love, he walks
Speaker 2: out of his house and then everywhere he goes he's
Speaker 2: just like a magnet to greatness. And so we just
Speaker 2: kind of played on that.
Speaker 3: And right now we need happy, pat I love happy
Speaker 3: right now. We really really need happy.
Speaker 4: In our world, really need happy.
Speaker 1: Every night I come into the studio and I purposefully
Speaker 1: do not watch or read any news before I go
Speaker 1: on the air, because with you, I want to be
Speaker 1: happy and I want to share joy and I want
Speaker 1: to share you know, goodness, And it's hard when you're
Speaker 1: just being inundated with negativity.
Speaker 2: It really is.
Speaker 4: A tough time for that. And I'm hoping that it
Speaker 4: shifts soon. Like I have a couple of doctors in
Speaker 4: my life that practice like alternative medicine, and they believe
Speaker 4: that this is a humongous shift in the universe that
Speaker 4: at the cleansing time. It doesn't feel like it right now,
Speaker 4: but they are convinced that this is a time of
Speaker 4: cleansing and that it hurts to cleanse at first.
Speaker 2: So we'll see if they're right.
Speaker 1: Well, there is a theory that that's not a theory,
Speaker 1: it's it's truth that when you want pure gold, if
Speaker 1: you want to have a necklace or a wedding band
Speaker 1: or something made of pure gold, in order to get
Speaker 1: the dross or the metals out that aren't gold, it
Speaker 1: has to go through the fire right, there's only one
Speaker 1: way to burn out the dross.
Speaker 3: To burn out the dross.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, we'll see.
Speaker 1: We'll see if this fire is going to bring out
Speaker 1: pure gold. But man, it's so nice to have happy
Speaker 1: music and happy songs to kind of be the balm.
Speaker 4: I love to be a part of it. You know.
Speaker 4: Little kids love play that song a lot, and which
Speaker 4: is great about having little kids. I have a five
Speaker 4: year old and an eight year old, so when I
Speaker 4: write music, I always bring it home for them, and
Speaker 4: their reaction means.
Speaker 2: A lot to if I'll use it or not.
Speaker 4: And so that was one of several songs on this
Speaker 4: album that they really responded to. And they were right,
Speaker 4: because little kids around the world really respond to it.
Speaker 1: So you've got your own little mini testing ground right
Speaker 1: there in your house. You're like, okay, kids, dad's about
Speaker 1: to go on tour. How do you feel about this one?
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 4: They're like my small record company. You know, I've never
Speaker 4: been a famous guy, and a lot of people don't
Speaker 4: even know the Main Train as a band, but they
Speaker 4: know the songs, and so I have seen as songs
Speaker 4: and I think that's a pretty great life. I can
Speaker 4: go where i'd like to go in my whole life
Speaker 4: and take my kids to the grocery store, and when
Speaker 4: people here marry.
Speaker 2: Me or drop the Jupiter or hey sol sister, those
Speaker 2: songs mean something to them. And that's a great gift
Speaker 2: that I've been given.
Speaker 3: That is a great gift.
Speaker 1: And of all the people that I have interviewed on
Speaker 1: this show through the years, I think you might be
Speaker 1: the first one that acknowledged what a gift that is.
Speaker 4: There.
Speaker 1: You know, there are a lot of other artists who
Speaker 1: put the music before themselves.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 1: I think about Sheryl Crow and so many people that
Speaker 1: I've interviewed that are very very humble, humble people, yeah,
Speaker 1: that that do put their music. They're not out there
Speaker 1: being a show off being you know, it's all about me.
Speaker 1: It's about the music. But I think you're the first
Speaker 1: one that's ever articulated what a gift that is. And
Speaker 1: I appreciate that well.
Speaker 2: You know, I have six brothers and sisters and they
Speaker 2: for some reason, they can't perform and sing and write songs,
Speaker 2: and so I don't know why, but I've been given
Speaker 2: that ability, and so I have to respect it as
Speaker 2: as much as my parents would have wanted me to
Speaker 2: because it's a gift that my siblings wish they had,
Speaker 2: and probably many other people, so I have to respect
Speaker 2: it at all times.
Speaker 1: Well, I truly wish I had it, but I was
Speaker 1: probably in my thirties or forties before I realized why
Speaker 1: I didn't, because I would not have been like you.
Speaker 1: I was born with this show off gene, and so
Speaker 1: God had to counter that by not giving me any talent.
Speaker 2: Is an amazing thing that you just said.
Speaker 4: That's hilarious because if I had pat if I had
Speaker 4: one if I had.
Speaker 5: One smidge in one one iota, one teamy, tiny little
Speaker 5: smidgeon of musical ability, if I could play a single instrument,
Speaker 5: if I could keep a beat on a drum, if
Speaker 5: I could play the piccolog if I could have played
Speaker 5: the triangle, Well I would have been you know, one
Speaker 5: of those those stars that's up grinding on stage trying
Speaker 5: to take all the attention.
Speaker 1: No, you don't, you really don't it. You're a great performer.
Speaker 1: You are a fabulous performer. I've seen you I don't
Speaker 1: know how many times and how many shows, but you
Speaker 1: never You're just not a jerk like I.
Speaker 3: Would have been.
Speaker 2: It's the nicest thing anyone's ever said to me, You're not, but.
Speaker 3: It's true your shows are always.
Speaker 4: Some would disagree with you at this point.
Speaker 1: Really, okay, tell me Pat Monahan from lead singer from Train,
Speaker 1: what's the jerkiest thing that you can talk about on
Speaker 1: the radio, given that your kids will probably listen to this,
Speaker 1: what's the jerkiest thing you've ever done?
Speaker 2: Well? I have learned how to be a jerk from
Speaker 2: my older brother Jackie.
Speaker 3: He's the king jerky.
Speaker 4: He would but hilarious, like I'm just always trying to
Speaker 4: be funny, not really a jerk.
Speaker 2: So he when I was.
Speaker 4: Five, he was like sixteen, maybe he was eighteen, and
Speaker 4: he came home from.
Speaker 2: College and he just said, hey, you know, mom doesn't
Speaker 2: want you anymore. I'm five And I said, yes, she does,
Speaker 2: and he says no, still ask her.
Speaker 4: So she's in the kitchen making dinner and I am, Mom,
Speaker 4: do you want me? And she thought, I said meant
Speaker 4: you know, did you call for me? And she goes, no, honey,
Speaker 4: I don't want you. So I grabbed my bike and
Speaker 4: moved out of the house. So he had to come
Speaker 4: and get me because my mom was super upset about it.
Speaker 4: And so he was learning after me, but he could
Speaker 4: hardly even get to me because he was.
Speaker 2: Laughing so hard.
Speaker 4: So I got that gene and I try to pass
Speaker 4: it on to the younger people in my life.
Speaker 1: Oh good for you, Good for them, your family from
Speaker 1: what I've gathered and gleaned following you through the years,
Speaker 1: being a big Irish family. My producer Jane, who's been
Speaker 1: my producer for almost thirty years, is one of seven
Speaker 1: children as well, from a big Irish family from Boston,
Speaker 1: and the same thing, same jerky Jean runs in their
Speaker 1: family and in the same way she's passed it on.
Speaker 3: And I won't.
Speaker 1: Say this is her story because she's the one that's
Speaker 1: going to produce the show, but I will tell you
Speaker 1: that somebody who grew up in that area, in that
Speaker 1: family may or may not have fixed her younger brother
Speaker 1: a sandwich one time and told him it was crunchy
Speaker 1: peanut butter. Oh no, when really it was dog dog kibbles.
Speaker 2: Oh that's nice.
Speaker 3: Isn't that nice?
Speaker 1: Boy?
Speaker 2: This crunched peanut butter or something I'm going to stay
Speaker 2: away from in the future.
Speaker 4: Yeah, wow, that sounds uh what you know, we used
Speaker 4: comedy to survive, and so you know, I think that's
Speaker 4: what most most comedians would say as well.
Speaker 1: I love, love, love being around fun people and funny people,
Speaker 1: and I am one of the biggest jerks you will
Speaker 1: ever meet when it comes to practical jokes, which are
Speaker 1: neither practical nor funny part of the time, but I
Speaker 1: love pulling them anyway.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 1: So you're going to start touring when in May?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think our first date is mayteenth in Las Vegas.
Speaker 1: And how many cities do you think you'll be visiting
Speaker 1: during the tour?
Speaker 4: Well, you know, I think there's about fifty whoa And
Speaker 4: so yeah, I know it's a long one, but we
Speaker 4: make it a lot.
Speaker 1: Of fun family going with or staying at home, well
Speaker 1: a little bit of both.
Speaker 4: So we do start on the twelfth in Las Vegas.
Speaker 2: Then we go to Los.
Speaker 4: Angeles on the thirteenth, and so my family will come
Speaker 4: out for the beginning of that and then they'll go
Speaker 4: finish school. My little kids will go back to school,
Speaker 4: and then they'll come back out at the end of
Speaker 4: the run. When we're back on the West coast, like
Speaker 4: Salt Lake City.
Speaker 2: And you know, all the Bay Area and everything.
Speaker 1: Like that, and where can folks get information so they
Speaker 1: can start getting tickets now for train on tour all
Speaker 1: summer long, fifty cities.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you could go to save me San Francisco dot
Speaker 4: com and find out everything that you'd want to about tickets.
Speaker 4: And we're out with Natasha Bettingfield and some friends of ours,
Speaker 4: a band called Oaar And I'm sure you've played some
Speaker 4: of Oar and Natasha's music in the past, so it'll
Speaker 4: be a really fun night for everybody who comes.
Speaker 3: Out with me tonight.
Speaker 1: Is Pat Monahan, the trained lead singer new song Out,
Speaker 1: play that song, new album Out, A Girl, a bottle,
Speaker 1: a boat, A fabulous, fabulous.
Speaker 3: Listen and Pat, thank you for spending time with us.
Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you. I hope that everyone feels like to
Speaker 2: they are holding a glass of line on a boat
Speaker 2: somewhere and a beautiful lake when you listen to the
Speaker 2: album Networks A.
Speaker 1: Gould, Well, I'm sure that they will feel either that
Speaker 1: or when I play play that song, they're going to
Speaker 1: feel like.
Speaker 3: Going and dancing in a fountain.
Speaker 2: I love that cool.
Speaker 3: Pat, thank you, God, bless you.
Speaker 2: All right, thank you about you soon, Al.
Speaker 3: Damn and loves a bad reading.
Speaker 4: The h