Love Someone to Welcome to love Someone with Delilah. The person I get to talk to today on this podcast is someone that I have loved for many, many, many many years, um, almost as many as his wife has has loved him. Have you ever heard of a rock and roll star married and in love with the same person for over thirty years. We're gonna be talking with John bon Jovi after being forced to cancel their world tour and delay a highly anticipated album. He has an album out now, while it's going to be out. It's going to be released October two, Jon bon Jovi, We're gonna catch up with you your music right after I share a word about the folks who make this podcast possible. You know them as the friendly associates in the Orange Aprons. I have my own Orange Apron. Thank you very much. We're going to talk about the folks at the Home Depot. This is the time of year we take care of all those outdoor projects. Some of you might be procrastinating a bit, some of you have completed the ten page to do list, item by item. Either way, remember that the Home Depot can help. Whether you choose to visit their store and pick up all you need or shop online and with their awesome new phone app, you have access to more than a million products to help you with your projects. You'd be amazed how handy that app is in determining whether they have a replacement part of the closest home depot or how many paint color options can be sent your way to test on the side of your home along with the paint brushes you need. Talk about helpful. The home depot is. Whatever you're up to this weekend, take us along, and by the way, you will want to take us along when you hear who I have got to share with you today. John bon Jovi, welcome to Love Someone with de Lilah. Hello, Delilah, Hi John, how are you very well? My love? How are you? I was just looking on Wikipedia to see how long you and Dorothea have been married. It's like thirty one years, right. I love that. I love the fact that when I flirt with you like and I let you know that I really find you very charming. You always bring it right back to your wife that that has not been lost on me. Um because you honor her, You honor her, you honor her, you honor her and all that you do and I just I respect you so much for that. You're very kind. You have a new song out, and am I to understand that she wrote something on a picture of you, and that's that was the inspiration. You know. What happened is read At the beginning of this COVID crisis, UM, there were no longer volunteer opportunities at the Sole kitchen, so I was back behind the sink washing dishes, and in order to tell the Indie population and the people of Red Bank that we were still open, she took a photograph and he wanted to post it, and so she said, well, what should the caption read? But what she was asking me was how do we tell people were still open? And I said, if you can't do what you do, you do what you can. She posted that, and then the next day I went, wait a minute, that's that's a chorus. That's a wait a minute, wait a minute, that's a whole philosophy. It really is. And so I picked up the guitar and I wrote and wrote and wrote and wrote versus over and over, and then uh, I had a great song out of it. And then you got your fans involved with it. I did, And you know, because I had the song finished, and I was very aware that we as a people were living this song together. I said, I'm going to share the chorus and the verse and asked people by and large to tell me their story, give me four lines, and I'll make it a verse and sing it back to them. And so I got kindergarten classes in Palm Beach, Florida to Russians who were sending me verses, you know, the nurses and housewives and people from all over the country. And I would just record them and put them back online and sing them that. And as soon as I had the opportunity to go in the studio at the band, I took the version that I had written initially and we went in and knocked out the record. Wow. Yeah, that's cool. People from Russia. Kindergarten classes. Did they send pictures because this all started with a picture, right, I had some kids. Yeah, they sent in videos or or they sent in photographs if you could play. Oftentimes they would sing me their own verse in addition to the one that I had posted. When I did a zoom call with the kiddergarten class, there must have been twelve of them on the call with their parents, and uh and I called into the classroom. So yeah, every very variation of this happened. Wow, how how how full? Did that make your heart feel? You know, I felt the connection, which was the magic, and it very stressful trying times of late March early April, when everybody, being as confused as we've all been, was compounded in the very beginning of this, nobody knew what this was going to need too, and so we as a people, you know, needed some kind of comfort in knowing that we were all going through it together. And what better than song to bring us together. So, besides your sole kitchen, the community restaurant, what are some of the things that you've been doing or did at least in the first three or four months, that you maybe never thought in a million years you would find yourself doing because you've been playing and touring. You were planning a world tour and the release of the album, which had both been delayed. The album fortunately was you know, it'll come out in October. But not only do what you can, but I wrote a song called American Reckoning in light of what happened in the Black Lives Matter movement and the George Floyd murder. So Um, I have two new songs. And then I had to cancel the tour because I had decided that people needed to have their money to pay the rent in the credit card bills. So instead of delaying the tour like many or have done, I canceled and made sure everybody got their money back. Um. And then what I founded I would have never thought in a million years, was we had to open a food bank, not a food pantry. The differences of the bank gives the food to the pantries. So we're currently giving food to seven pantries who are in turn feeding I've guesstimate fifteen to twenty thousand people a month that me and my foundation are pains. So I'm out there sleeping boxes three times a week. Uh, you know, in this big space, five thousand square foot space that we have on eastern Long Island, so that the food pantries have food in these trying times. And we've been doing it for four months now. John, When I say you are a rock star, I can say that literally, such a rock star. We're going to pause for a brief moment so we can give acknowledgement to some of the big business that helps to support this podcast with me today is my friend John bon Jovi. I'm so very proud of all the good work that you've done. John. Do you see this current food crisis getting any better? Yeah, it is leveling out some. The need is definitely there, and who knows what the fall season is going to bring. But our our intent was to do it as a pilot program for four months, and now we've decided that we've got to continue at least until the end of the year, so we'll finance that and do it and uh, and it's it's great, it's really great. We're doing it. We're we're really affecting change out here in Long Island. But that's something that I never dreamt that i'd have to be doing. So you're giving me chill bumps here, go back to the numbers. How many people now in the Greater New York area and New Jersey are are being fed by the pantries? My god, it's got to be in the hundreds of thousands. But we did the JBJ Soul Foundation took a food bank. Uh, and we we created a food bank and so we get, you know, tractor trailers full of food to come to us. You buy, you are buying tractor trailers full of lettuce and tomatoes and potatoes. Groceries. Yeah, great grocery and you're then distributing them through the pantry seven did you say? Seven different pantries getting and then they give it to the people. So you know, by our estimate, it's it's um. It's a lot. It's a lot, you know. And uh, and the need was was dramatic out here. And this is in Eastern Long Island. We're in UM at our summer home, and so we're we're in Eastern Long Island. Wow. So besides the three full kitchens, now we've got a food bank. It's like you're you're giving birth to more than just or four kids. You're giving birth to well, to hope, to hope, but to UM an infrastructure that is blessing and saving lives. Well, it's it's hard to live when you're hungry, bet you, it's hard. I know how charitable you are too, And we've talked about all that before. But you know, we don't need a scientist to find the cure. It's groceries for goodness sake, you know, it takes money and sweat, and so that's what we knew how to do. I'm so proud of you. It's fun. I like doing it. I know I can tell from the videos I've seen and the pictures that you are so connected to the people and to this and to love and to hope that that it's just it's like emanating out of you. It's resonating out of you, like like the music comes out of you. It's like a a beacon, a lighthouse on a hill. Uh. I thank you. There's no ulterior motive. It's just to do good. And we did good. We continue to and then the gift for me, I got a great song out of it. Well, that's a gift for for us. I've got a great song. You know. I've watched the video and I love that you put the lyrics up there in the video because within like you know, twenty seconds, you're singing along to it. Good. Well, isn't that the magic of song? That we did make a proper video that's just being polished right now, and it's wonderful and uh and so I got some big surprises to go with the song for the video, but you know, it's all good. I just like to get it out there and share it because I can't bring it to people's town, so we're gonna make sure it gets played on the radio. I'll make sure that. So when's the drop date for the whole album? Because you've got the two songs that we're listening to, but there's more right, Yes, am finished on October two. October two is now the release date of the record, So it's it's all ready to go. Very topical record. Everything is about something that you know, there's just too many topics that we were all living in the last year. So it's not a boy girl record. It's um, it's a life. It's roll up your sleeves and get busy record. It really is. You know, It's like the world around us has been very different and I was able to pay attention and write about it. So I know you don't have a crystal ball, None of us do, and we have no idea what the next three months or six months is going to hold. But what are you feeling in your gut? Like I know the whole messages, do what you can, but what are you feeling in your heart that right now people should hang on to? In truth, I wish that without getting myself in trouble, is that Americans, because that's what we all are and as one our common thread, as we are all within these borders and call our South Americans. Have to think about generations that came before us, who came together in trying times to succeed to defeat an enemy. Think back to World War Two when moms were on the production lines fighting a war. If we can come together and we can defeat this by social distancing and or wearing something like a paper mask, why can't we just respect each other enough just to do that, you know, just just know that it's not political, it's not political. Do the right thing for a couple of months so that we can all go back to what we think is normal. You know. And people are saying it's politicized. Let's not make it politicized. Let's think about generations past and how they sacrifice so that we could have a better place that we called home. Amen. I couldn't have said it better myself. I I just boils down to respect. It's really simple. I swear to God. It's not red or blue. It's just let's try it. And even if you don't agree with it, doesn't mean that it's wrong. So try it, you know, your mother made you try food you didn't like when you're a kid, and then you went out. I wasn't so bad. I may not want to eat it the rest of my life, but I did it for your mom. To do it for your country. What's so hard, you know, make a sacrifice once in a while. It's good. Well, thank you for taking some time. I know you're busy, busy, busy. Give my love to your family and to the band, and thank you for your music. John, and and just be blessed, be well, and be blessed. I am and I thank you and I love you for this. I really appreciate all the help. Alright, tax you soon. Alright. Bon Jovi is set to be released this October. You can pre order the album online. Their new single that pretty much sums up with John and his band members are all about, is available for download right now. Do what you can, do what you can and inspiring anthem. Don't be looking at the stuff that's been taken away, but instead focus on what we can do, do what needs to be done. That's how we do it. That's how we're going to enjoy every day by focusing on what we can do to make the world a better place. Thank you for being with me. I love someone with the Lilah joined me next time for another fun conversation and thank you Mr John bon Jovi

Love Someone to Welcome to love Someone with Delilah. The person I get to talk to today on this podcast is someone that I have loved for many, many, many many years, um, almost as many as his wife has has loved him. Have you ever heard of a rock and roll star married and in love with the same person for over thirty years. We're gonna be talking with John bon Jovi after being forced to cancel their world tour and delay a highly anticipated album. He has an album out now, while it's going to be out. It's going to be released October two, Jon bon Jovi, We're gonna catch up with you your music right after I share a word about the folks who make this podcast possible. You know them as the friendly associates in the Orange Aprons. I have my own Orange Apron. Thank you very much. We're going to talk about the folks at the Home Depot. This is the time of year we take care of all those outdoor projects. Some of you might be procrastinating a bit, some of you have completed the ten page to do list, item by item. Either way, remember that the Home Depot can help. Whether you choose to visit their store and pick up all you need or shop online and with their awesome new phone app, you have access to more than a million products to help you with your projects. You'd be amazed how handy that app is in determining whether they have a replacement part of the closest home depot or how many paint color options can be sent your way to test on the side of your home along with the paint brushes you need. Talk about helpful. The home depot is. Whatever you're up to this weekend, take us along, and by the way, you will want to take us along when you hear who I have got to share with you today. John bon Jovi, welcome to Love Someone with de Lilah. Hello, Delilah, Hi John, how are you very well? My love? How are you? I was just looking on Wikipedia to see how long you and Dorothea have been married. It's like thirty one years, right. I love that. I love the fact that when I flirt with you like and I let you know that I really find you very charming. You always bring it right back to your wife that that has not been lost on me. Um because you honor her, You honor her, you honor her, you honor her and all that you do and I just I respect you so much for that. You're very kind. You have a new song out, and am I to understand that she wrote something on a picture of you, and that's that was the inspiration. You know. What happened is read At the beginning of this COVID crisis, UM, there were no longer volunteer opportunities at the Sole kitchen, so I was back behind the sink washing dishes, and in order to tell the Indie population and the people of Red Bank that we were still open, she took a photograph and he wanted to post it, and so she said, well, what should the caption read? But what she was asking me was how do we tell people were still open? And I said, if you can't do what you do, you do what you can. She posted that, and then the next day I went, wait a minute, that's that's a chorus. That's a wait a minute, wait a minute, that's a whole philosophy. It really is. And so I picked up the guitar and I wrote and wrote and wrote and wrote versus over and over, and then uh, I had a great song out of it. And then you got your fans involved with it. I did, And you know, because I had the song finished, and I was very aware that we as a people were living this song together. I said, I'm going to share the chorus and the verse and asked people by and large to tell me their story, give me four lines, and I'll make it a verse and sing it back to them. And so I got kindergarten classes in Palm Beach, Florida to Russians who were sending me verses, you know, the nurses and housewives and people from all over the country. And I would just record them and put them back online and sing them that. And as soon as I had the opportunity to go in the studio at the band, I took the version that I had written initially and we went in and knocked out the record. Wow. Yeah, that's cool. People from Russia. Kindergarten classes. Did they send pictures because this all started with a picture, right, I had some kids. Yeah, they sent in videos or or they sent in photographs if you could play. Oftentimes they would sing me their own verse in addition to the one that I had posted. When I did a zoom call with the kiddergarten class, there must have been twelve of them on the call with their parents, and uh and I called into the classroom. So yeah, every very variation of this happened. Wow, how how how full? Did that make your heart feel? You know, I felt the connection, which was the magic, and it very stressful trying times of late March early April, when everybody, being as confused as we've all been, was compounded in the very beginning of this, nobody knew what this was going to need too, and so we as a people, you know, needed some kind of comfort in knowing that we were all going through it together. And what better than song to bring us together. So, besides your sole kitchen, the community restaurant, what are some of the things that you've been doing or did at least in the first three or four months, that you maybe never thought in a million years you would find yourself doing because you've been playing and touring. You were planning a world tour and the release of the album, which had both been delayed. The album fortunately was you know, it'll come out in October. But not only do what you can, but I wrote a song called American Reckoning in light of what happened in the Black Lives Matter movement and the George Floyd murder. So Um, I have two new songs. And then I had to cancel the tour because I had decided that people needed to have their money to pay the rent in the credit card bills. So instead of delaying the tour like many or have done, I canceled and made sure everybody got their money back. Um. And then what I founded I would have never thought in a million years, was we had to open a food bank, not a food pantry. The differences of the bank gives the food to the pantries. So we're currently giving food to seven pantries who are in turn feeding I've guesstimate fifteen to twenty thousand people a month that me and my foundation are pains. So I'm out there sleeping boxes three times a week. Uh, you know, in this big space, five thousand square foot space that we have on eastern Long Island, so that the food pantries have food in these trying times. And we've been doing it for four months now. John, When I say you are a rock star, I can say that literally, such a rock star. We're going to pause for a brief moment so we can give acknowledgement to some of the big business that helps to support this podcast with me today is my friend John bon Jovi. I'm so very proud of all the good work that you've done. John. Do you see this current food crisis getting any better? Yeah, it is leveling out some. The need is definitely there, and who knows what the fall season is going to bring. But our our intent was to do it as a pilot program for four months, and now we've decided that we've got to continue at least until the end of the year, so we'll finance that and do it and uh, and it's it's great, it's really great. We're doing it. We're we're really affecting change out here in Long Island. But that's something that I never dreamt that i'd have to be doing. So you're giving me chill bumps here, go back to the numbers. How many people now in the Greater New York area and New Jersey are are being fed by the pantries? My god, it's got to be in the hundreds of thousands. But we did the JBJ Soul Foundation took a food bank. Uh, and we we created a food bank and so we get, you know, tractor trailers full of food to come to us. You buy, you are buying tractor trailers full of lettuce and tomatoes and potatoes. Groceries. Yeah, great grocery and you're then distributing them through the pantry seven did you say? Seven different pantries getting and then they give it to the people. So you know, by our estimate, it's it's um. It's a lot. It's a lot, you know. And uh, and the need was was dramatic out here. And this is in Eastern Long Island. We're in UM at our summer home, and so we're we're in Eastern Long Island. Wow. So besides the three full kitchens, now we've got a food bank. It's like you're you're giving birth to more than just or four kids. You're giving birth to well, to hope, to hope, but to UM an infrastructure that is blessing and saving lives. Well, it's it's hard to live when you're hungry, bet you, it's hard. I know how charitable you are too, And we've talked about all that before. But you know, we don't need a scientist to find the cure. It's groceries for goodness sake, you know, it takes money and sweat, and so that's what we knew how to do. I'm so proud of you. It's fun. I like doing it. I know I can tell from the videos I've seen and the pictures that you are so connected to the people and to this and to love and to hope that that it's just it's like emanating out of you. It's resonating out of you, like like the music comes out of you. It's like a a beacon, a lighthouse on a hill. Uh. I thank you. There's no ulterior motive. It's just to do good. And we did good. We continue to and then the gift for me, I got a great song out of it. Well, that's a gift for for us. I've got a great song. You know. I've watched the video and I love that you put the lyrics up there in the video because within like you know, twenty seconds, you're singing along to it. Good. Well, isn't that the magic of song? That we did make a proper video that's just being polished right now, and it's wonderful and uh and so I got some big surprises to go with the song for the video, but you know, it's all good. I just like to get it out there and share it because I can't bring it to people's town, so we're gonna make sure it gets played on the radio. I'll make sure that. So when's the drop date for the whole album? Because you've got the two songs that we're listening to, but there's more right, Yes, am finished on October two. October two is now the release date of the record, So it's it's all ready to go. Very topical record. Everything is about something that you know, there's just too many topics that we were all living in the last year. So it's not a boy girl record. It's um, it's a life. It's roll up your sleeves and get busy record. It really is. You know, It's like the world around us has been very different and I was able to pay attention and write about it. So I know you don't have a crystal ball, None of us do, and we have no idea what the next three months or six months is going to hold. But what are you feeling in your gut? Like I know the whole messages, do what you can, but what are you feeling in your heart that right now people should hang on to? In truth, I wish that without getting myself in trouble, is that Americans, because that's what we all are and as one our common thread, as we are all within these borders and call our South Americans. Have to think about generations that came before us, who came together in trying times to succeed to defeat an enemy. Think back to World War Two when moms were on the production lines fighting a war. If we can come together and we can defeat this by social distancing and or wearing something like a paper mask, why can't we just respect each other enough just to do that, you know, just just know that it's not political, it's not political. Do the right thing for a couple of months so that we can all go back to what we think is normal. You know. And people are saying it's politicized. Let's not make it politicized. Let's think about generations past and how they sacrifice so that we could have a better place that we called home. Amen. I couldn't have said it better myself. I I just boils down to respect. It's really simple. I swear to God. It's not red or blue. It's just let's try it. And even if you don't agree with it, doesn't mean that it's wrong. So try it, you know, your mother made you try food you didn't like when you're a kid, and then you went out. I wasn't so bad. I may not want to eat it the rest of my life, but I did it for your mom. To do it for your country. What's so hard, you know, make a sacrifice once in a while. It's good. Well, thank you for taking some time. I know you're busy, busy, busy. Give my love to your family and to the band, and thank you for your music. John, and and just be blessed, be well, and be blessed. I am and I thank you and I love you for this. I really appreciate all the help. Alright, tax you soon. Alright. Bon Jovi is set to be released this October. You can pre order the album online. Their new single that pretty much sums up with John and his band members are all about, is available for download right now. Do what you can, do what you can and inspiring anthem. Don't be looking at the stuff that's been taken away, but instead focus on what we can do, do what needs to be done. That's how we do it. That's how we're going to enjoy every day by focusing on what we can do to make the world a better place. Thank you for being with me. I love someone with the Lilah joined me next time for another fun conversation and thank you Mr John bon Jovi