MICHAEL BUBLÉ: "Christmas" 10th Anniversary!

Published Nov 9, 2021, 10:00 AM

It's been 10 years since Michael Bublé released his iconic holiday album, "Christmas". Can you believe it?! It seems like only yesterday, and also like it's been with us always. I've known and loved Michael for far longer than a decade, and while the anniversary of this now-classic LP brought us together, our conversation is anything but on-topic! We talk about kids, music, footed pajamas, and food, food, food!

Join us and you'll find out what Michael likes to add to his mac 'n cheese to make it extra-special (and all kinds of other fun stuff)! ~ Delilah

Hello, everybody, Welcome aboard, Welcome to love someone with the Lilah. Are you enjoying the lovely autumn days after the intense heat of the summer we've recently gone through. I know I am loving, loving autumn. I think one of the best ways to describe fall is to say that it is a treat for all of our senses. The dazzling array of colors is almost almost too much for my eyes to take in, so many amazing jewel tones. And the trees, the bushes, the brambles, whether blanketed in thick morning mist or shining in the afternoon sun. And oh, the smells the sense would smoke from the crackling fireplaces, newly bailed hay piled high in my barn. We raise our own hey at our ranch, and so we have like I don't know, two thousand bales piled up in the barns, freshly baked breads, and pies on the counters, apple pies. Do I even need to talk about the taste of all of pumpkin spice everything and sour dough, loaves of crisp, apples, and apple sauce and apple cider. It's no wonder at all that this is the season of giving thanks, the season of giving thanks, of being grateful. There's so much to be grateful for. But let's not forget the sounds of autumn, the bird calls, the lowing cattle, all the the beautiful sounds of ottomn and all the great music. Late autumnus when we traditionally start playing Christmas music on my radio program, and it's a time of year I look forward to with so much anticipation. I've been around a few years to flip that switch, taking us into the holiday season, and there's nothing that reminds me how much and how long I have been in this business. Then when someone tells me about a big anniversary of a song or an album that in my mind just came out, you know, I think, oh, it's new music, and then I'm like, no, it's it's years old. Such as the case today. It's been ten years, a full decade since a very young, very handsome crooner from Canada dropped a Christmas album that would sell over twelve million copies worldwide, making it one of the best selling albums of the twenty first century. And let me tell you, if we still spun vinyl in the studio, those grooves would be worn all the way through to the other side. By Now it's received so much airtime, especially on my shows. It's been ten years of Michael Boublets Christmas singing us through the holiday season. There's got to be some kind of celebration of foot, don't you think for at I guess we'll just have to check in with Michael and find out what they're doing for their anniversary. So that's what we are going to do. Because Mr Crazy Love himself is with us today on Love is Someone. I can't wait to catch up on what's been going on with him since he dropped this album a few years ago. Let me give one of today's podcast sponsors a shout out for helping to make this beautiful conversation possible, and then Mr bou Blet, Mr Bubbly will join us. While you're making your holiday gift list, be sure to add a subscription to Annie's Kid Clubs. Kids from Annie's are the gift that gives all year long. We love the variety young woodworkers, textiles, card making, jewelry, and so many others. They now have some great fun new holiday kids too. Annie's Kid Clubs has kids for everyone. They may get easy by sending supplies to your mailbox every month, and who doesn't love getting packages? Visit Annie's Kit Clubs dot com use promo code radio for se off your first kit. That's Annie's Kit Clubs dot com Code Radio. Oh my god, it's been a long time, a long time. Hi, I'm making a record and it is just NonStop chaos. Can I tell you something? Oh my god, Michael, I miss you. I love you. You text me today. I will because I have. I need to send you the ship that I'm working on, okay, because I am freaking out. Honestly, is it one of those times where you're going, oh my god, that's so good. I have to share it. Yes, yes, I'm pumped. You're so cute. You hear the stuff. I think it's the best. I think it's I've never it's been good. I was everything. How are the kids? How is everything? Oh? Life is crazy, but we're healthy and I thank God for that. Yeah, the same, it's crazy. So how are you? I'm good? Really good? Really good? Do I get to know what you're working on? Are you're gonna wait and send it to me? Like get a sneaky I'm going to send you a couple of things that I've done. And you know, I don't know why. Some records come together and some don't, and sometimes the ideas from the universe come and some don't. But one of the songs Noah was I was giving the kids a bath and he said, I wrote a song Poppy, and he started to sing it to me and I said, wow, that's that's a really good no. I said, where did you hear it? He said, no, no, no, I wrote it and he played it on the piano. And so I was working with Ryan Teer writing and it was going okay, and I was like, you know what, you guys, can I just sing something that my son sang? And they looked at me like I was nuts? And twenty five minutes later, I think we have my lead single. How cool is that? I know, I know, I can't say anything about it. They told me, I'm not allowed to talk now. If my son I you know, I adopted another one who's five. Now, if he were to write a song, it would go something like this, dog poop, poopy dogs, but peepies dog poop. My kids are into balls right now? Balls is balls? Ball? I want to have one more, because I'm already seen there growing up too fast, and I'm like, oh no, no no, no, it can't be the last. My little girl can't be the last. One more. Maybe two with the boss, Yeah, with the boss. Pooh. How does it feel to be bossed around by the most beautiful woman in the whole world? What an honor privilege? Yeah, you are blessed, blessed. Do you remember when you wrote to me and told me you had met the love of your life and you were going to marry this girl. And then you sent me a picture and I was like, dude, she is gorgeous, and you said, yeah, but that's why I love her. It's it's the inside that I love. She's like the most wonderful thing I've ever met. That I love that you said that her, that it was her heart that you fell in love with. Oh, well, I mean, you don't know, you know what I mean? I mean, you know, but you hope I don't know. I the time I came to your show and I was to meet her backstage at the concert, she was lying on the couch sleeping with Noah in her arms, and it was pure mother love. There's fifty people in the audience. You've got the suit on, the lights are flashing, everybody's screaming, and here she is holding Noah in her arms, on the couch of your makeup room, sound asleep. And that's the real well, you know, that's real life. I tell I try to explain this to you all the time. It's like you put on the bat suit or whatever it is, you go to work, you go, you stick, the microphone goes, and then you become the Let's like, yeah, and it's who you are. But yeah, I saw the pictures of Noah on his birthday and I bawled. I bawled. I was on my computer scrolling and I saw him and tears just gush. I was like, thank you, thank you God. My wife thought I was crazy because she kept finding me in the bathroom and stuff, and I was just I was a mess. I cried my eyes out, and you know, I don't for no one would ever know this. But a few days after that, we had his scan, his six months scan, and it's always terrifying and came back all good and now we can breathe for another six months. But it's like, of course, no one would ever know, you know what I mean, you don't. We don't show that, I don't share that, you know. And then when it came good, it was like all of a sudden, I didn't give a about anything about anything else, about anything to all whatever, It'll be fine. So you're in Vancouver now, and the reason we got to have this little get together is because it's the ten year anniversary. Can that be of the best Christmas album ever? No? I can't be. It couldn't be possibly ten years. It's funny when I say people like I just one of my best friends, just what are you doing today? So we're gonna talk about the Christmas? He says, why what do you mean? I said, well, it's a tenure anniversary and he literally went, oh my god, it's long. And I could see him like go like, oh god him mold. Well, imagine my shock when today I WICKPEDI at you, just, you know, to see if there was anything new that I should ask you about, and it had your age and I'm like, that is not true. He's twenty two, maybe twenty four. And then I remember that I talked to you on your thirtieth birthday and then I went, oh, I have known you a long ass time, young man, when people come up to me like I'll have like a like like what I think is a pretty mid aged person, and they'll come up and the go, hi, I just I've been listening to you since I was a little kid, and I go like, oh yeah, yeah. The first time that sensation happened to me, I was at a wedding show. They had asked me to em see a fashion show and the bride, the young woman who was getting married, said to me, I've been listening to you since I was a baby. And I'm like, that's not possible, bold, And now it's I've been My mom's listen to you, my grandma's listen to you, my kids listen to you, my grandkids are listening to you. I'm like, oh my god, I'm old. That's absolutely amazing, beautiful, great life. It is a great life. I'm very, very blessed. So it's the tenure anniversary of your Christmas album. And you know, like next to Santa Claus, I own Christmas, right, you know that? You know me, there's no like I well, you know I love it so much. I love it. And you know what, my parents they made it so great for us that I think I still have that sense of wonderment, and it's not even just that I see it through the eyes of the kids. I genuinely have that sense of wonderment. Like my tree and everything was up last Christmas in November one was it. I went through this phase last year because of all the craziness with COVID and you know, you're not supposed to get together blah blah blah, where I realized that the wonderment of Christmas that I had always tried to create for my kids and you know, people at at holiday dinners and stuff, it changed, like I don't want to say it became a more spiritual thing, but it just became a much more hard thing for me, where I was noticing details of you know, like, uh, I got a Christmas ornament from Balsom Hill, who sponsors my show, and they had sent these Christmas ornaments and I was looking at them and I was trying to figure out how they made them, and I was noticing like the pattern of the glitter on the ornament, and I was fixated on these ornaments for like an hour or more, just looking instead of just hanging him on the trio was like really taking in the craftsmanship, I guess, and I was noticing the flavors of the food that you were living in more in the moment. Yeah, yeah, yeah, And it was so different. One of the things are that I do for my kids every year. I've done this for the last ten years or more, is Christmas pajamas that they get to open Christmas Eve, and then where on Christmas Morning the whole family onesies footed onesies. I looked. I looked like the penguin for the Danny to Eato version. For for Zach, it was like the meaning of Christmas. That was all that really mattered to him was the footed onesies, which he probably wore to school after Christmas break. And last year I lost them. And so the week before Christmas, I'm frantic. I'm going to every store. No store within a two mile radius had more than like two pair of matching pajamas. So I'm like, Okay, I gotta buy fabric, I gotta make the pajamas. I gotta do this, I gotta pull it all together. And then I went, you know what, I can calm down. They don't have to match. They're in the same color scheme. That's close enough. You said about the pajamas. So my one of my best friends, he fell in love with a girl who has two kids. They're eight and six now, and last year for Christmas, he was you know, it was tough. He was in your dad to them, so it was hard for him, you know, obviously, like what, it's a difficult position to and I didn't know what to do for him, and I wanted to do some special but you know what, that's what I did. I went with lou and we went and we bought the onesie pajamas and so and of course for me, it was very romantic and I thought, you know what, how cute for them to spend their first Christmas together and they're all in their same ones He's he's he's like six ft five two and so I got the biggest one. But I mean, I just thought that was a cute. I mean, that's that makes me very sentimental. It's funny that you said that, because there's those little there's those moments that in every household everyone has, Like everyone talks about traditions and they oh, yeah, there's the tree and listen to that. But those those little details are what make Christmas Christmas for us. And then when we grow up, we want to get you know what I mean, we want to do those. Yeah, it's pretty, it's magic. I don't know you. I feel like you have to be pretty cynical not to listen. I have more friends that are Jewish or agnostic atheists who listened to Christmas music like crazy, and they're not Christians. They don't you know, that's not what it's about for them, but they will see. For me, I am a Christian, but I don't believe he was actually born on Christmas Day. Uh, I don't know. I don't know. Well, I don't know when. But when I adopted Sammy Um, one of my boys, he didn't know his birthday because he had been in an orphanage his whole life and he had no clue when he was born. So when we're trying to do the adoption papers, the lawyer said to him, pick one of your favorite days of the year. He goes, I don't have a favorite day, says okay, And he picked his favorite soccer player's birthday and that became his birthday. And so on his birthday when we got him to America, we celebrated his birthday and he was crying. He we think he was fifteen or sixteen. So we just, you know, kind of made it up as we went along. And I said, honey, are you not happy? We had a little party and friends over, and he said, I don't know what I'm feeling. It's just too much. It's just too much. It's too much feelings. It's too much, it's too much. And so, you know, I kind of brought him aside and let him process for a minute, and he said, Mommy, I didn't know what a birthday felt like. Wow. And after he was able to collect himself, he really enjoyed himself. He had never had balloons before. Um, he had never had his own birthday cake before, he had never seen anyone have a birthday cake. And I thought about that because I get a little cynical about how some people get really adamant about the religious aspects of the holidays. And I'm like, you know what, I don't know when the actual day is, but just like Sammy, this is the day that we picked, so we're going to celebrate it. Yeah, it doesn't matter. I mean, you know, I'm I'm Christian too. I don't talk about it a lot. I'm not afraid to share that I have that faith, you know, because for me, it's exciting to think that if there's some kid or somebody out there that that likes me or respects me and they're afraid of sharing their faith, that if they see me do it, they might think, oh, you know, hey, he did it, that's okay. And because I've had other people that I really like and admire that have shared their their view on it, and it's been given me strength. But one of the things I love most about my role here is that quietly, without ever putting it into people's face, I get to sort of in the in a small way kind of you know, you have the good word. St. Francis of ASSISI said, go and spread the gospel, and if you must use words, let your life be that light that shines in the world. And you are that light. We're catching up with Michael bou Blat today. He's got more to share with us, but not until I sing the praises while I'll let him saying, I'm just going to tell you about one of today's podcast sponsors. As we head into the holiday season with family and friends, I invite you to reflect upon what you found to be the most meaningful this year for me, one of those things was my involvement with an organization I absolutely love Mercy Ships. Their work is so inspiring. Their mission is to provide free surgeries to people who don't otherwise have access to medical care, selfless acts of love that I know is making the world a better place. You can visit mercy ships dot org to get inspired to that's Mercy ships dot org. So that the tenure anniversary of your Christmas album and you have new music coming out, but we don't get to talk about it until when, like is there. But I don't think they've even said a date. But I know that I want to send you a couple of things because it's crazy. It's honestly, I think people are going to lose their minds, fully lose their I think it's going to be a nice, a good time for me. I don't know where to say. I'm too excited. Okay, Well, whendn't we get closer and when you can say, we'll get back together and we'll do a big thing about it. Okay, I'd love that. It is it funny with Christmas music. It's it reminds me of rich food when you haven't had it. In a while. It is the most. You're just so excited for it and you just can't. You eat as much as you eat two pieces of cheesecake from Juniors. By December, you don't ever want to hear it again. There are worse things than than a season where people are kind. Last summer, during the in the heart of COVID July um, Dolly Parton called or wrote me a letter and asked if I would do a duet with throwing up this Christmas song that you'd written, And so I was. I love Dolly Parton, And the truth is I didn't even listen to the song. I literally answered yes, before ever listening to anything. And I called my manager and he said, oh, what do you think. I said, well, we're doing it, and he said okay, And I said, you know, Bruce, I think people will need the respite from this fear, the anxiet, the loss that people are going through. People are grieving, people are are they're going hungry, they don't you know. And he said to me, you think so? And sure enough, I mean you could tell people needed it, they needed well, we need we need it now more than ever. So let's celebrate your tenures. I know that. I know that, I know. Don't you go buy a million other records. You're just I'm happy I can be part of it. I'm happy that I can invite me into your house. Well, I'm gonna text you after our conversation. UM, I can't wait to hear this great stuff you're working on. And I am going to play every Christmas song you have ever recorded back to back. And one more thing, my kids asked me. Jennie said, to tell you she loves you, But my kids asked me to tell you that your soda water commercials are their favorite commercials ever. And Delilah Jr. Who's twelve, said, did he really do that? Does he really go in the store and change the name on the KANSA said, yeah, see yes he does. Yes, I do. I think it's hilarious. And I think when people watch me do it, they go like, she really doing it. I think it's hilarious. I only wish I had a piece that I had, like some financial peace, because it does so well and I get nothing. I think it's hilarious. Yeah, they should have given you stock. He said, do you really like it? Do you actually like it? And I said, yeah, of course I like it. I like it mixed with things, but I like it. My granddaughter calls it excited water. Oh that's cute. Well, my kids love it because they're not allowed to drink soda or Cola's, so they're allowed to have the bubbly And of course they're just they just think it's the coolest thing in the world that people they get to have a big guy drinking. Yeah. My daughter, Sheila is like the world's best mom. I kid you not. And she is the sugar Nazi. She is the health food Nazi. Yeah, her kids are the healthiest kids. They don't neat junk and she handmakes everything. How do you deal with that, um, because we're we're Me and my wife are tough on nutrition and all that. And then they go to my mom's house, to grandma's or they go with my my wife. See, I I can't really be that grandma because I still have little kids at home. Of course you can't. Yeah, you can't. You have to set the president. Yes, but I have a lot more junk food or stuff that would not be acceptable to my my son and my daughter's standards, because like, if there's more than three ingredients on a package, they don't buy it, which I'm really proud of them. That's amazing, that's good. Well, my wife's sister is a nutritionist, and so she's always been really basically exactly what you said if you labeled. Yeah, my sister taught me said this years ago, and it's stuck in my head. She says, just shop the perimeter of the store. Don't ever go in the aisles. If you just shop the perimeter where the meats and the fish and the veggies are, you're safe. It's when you go down the aisles and the triscas to jump out or the you know, why are triscuits in Bovida? So why are they so damn good, delous? So good? Like I could live on honestly, you know what, I could live on macaroni and cheese with like a tuna, fish and a little crack all. Yeah, if you listen, this is what you have to eat every day, I would say, okay, okay, yeah, yeah, any everything's good when it sits on a ritz, you know, and the canned cheese whiz crap. I can't help myself, my goal. Why can't When do we get to live in the time like it was in the early six hundreds, where the bigger you were, the sexier you were. You know, I'm looking for that to come into faction. Yeah, can we bring that Caronian cheese for the rest of my day? I make the bomb mac My daughter Lenika makes the best macaroni and cheese I've ever had in my life. But mine is a close second. What did she do? What do you do? What's your ingredients? Well, I use like five different kinds of cheese. You're talking to real, You're doing the real thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mix it up. But my secret is I boiled the noodles in chicken broth, so the noodles have like a flavor to them. I'm really happy. I had a vegetable smoothie for breakfast. I bet you're just thinking wow, and I might have another one for lunch. But no, Lonnie. She puts Tabasco sauce in her cheese sauce like she cooks the cheese sauce separately. You know. She taught me how to do this, and then she puts Tabasco sauce and garlic and a touch of worcester Shire sauce. Worcester Shire. Yeah, my secret is the slices on top of the cheese can of tuna fish. I know it sounds weird, but I take a canatonaficient, so almost like a cast role. And then I just take some Ris Ris crackers, yeah, and crumble them on the top the little saltines. You know, I think we should I don't think we should even have If we do a show, we shouldn't do music. It should just be this. It's to just be food. As we As we Die crossed into Velvita Michael Christmas album tenure anniversary. But there's a couple of treats that go with that. Yeah. Well one of the treats was then, you know, I had never recorded let Its Know on an actual studio recording I had years ago, but I didn't love it as was really kind of basic. And so I read this arrangement that I would do on stage and it was always full of energy and fun, and so that's what I wanted to do that. And I have another song called Christmas Sweater that comes out in conjunction with a movie that's being released. What movie, I don't even know what it's called. I don't even know what it's called. I watched it and I liked it. It was it's weird and cool. You're not a star in it. You just sang a song for it. I just I helped write the song. Um, but it was fun for me, you know, to have a couple of new kind of really cool versions of of kind of like one of these originals. So it's it's very cool, it's very I don't know how to explain it, very BONDI. And then the other one is that let us know which has always always loved. So that's what is happening. Those two are coming. And I did I shot some videos and stuff and some that I've never I've never done that either for Christmas. I've never had a music video, but no, I never I've never made a music video. I did these little vignettes where I had little pieces, like twenty seconds of songs. But I've never had a Christmas video. And so I sat with my friends and come up with these really cool ideas of bringing it into a cool world, fast moving, fast paced fun. Of course, you know, it's weird. Now everything is about my kids. So when I did the videos and I recorded the songs, all I could think about was what my kids like this with my kids want to watch and literally, as I was writing it and putting it together, I kept showing them the clips and saying, like, what do you think? Because they're honestly, they're they're so earnest and they don't lie. And so if there was a part that was boring or didn't move fast enough for the music, wasn't there poppy? What happens next? Because it's in this new world we live in, I feel like people's attention spans are so you know, like that there's so much to see in, so much that you can access online that you know, it has to feel like it's it's moving. So my kids, my kids are basically my directors, my writers somehow. But it's better stuff, isn't it When they're when they're centered in it, it's better stuff. It totally is. And they're my harshest critics and my biggest allies. So it's uh, I feel pretty blessed to have them. Well, I can't wait to hear the songs, watch the video, play your music, and have a fabulous holiday season. I love you, you know I love you. I love you and I love getting to talk to you. And it's been too long to be honest well written me oh, I don't know, go bad schooling. That might be a good excuse that just ma I say. I've said the same thing to other people. It's like, what where have you been home schooling? And I tell you something that I don't know if you're gonna what you're gonna do or how you're gonna cut this? So what? But I find interviews with you not difficult, but it feels like it's not an interview, and then I have to censor myself because I'm I feel like I'm just catching up with you on zoom. And then there's stuff that I say and it's like my lang, all of it that I have to go like no, no, no, no, no no no no no no. Yeah. Well, Jenny called me this morning to say that she loves you, to say you are not allowed to spend the entire interview flirting with him, because that's not okay. I'm like God, but he's just so yummy, like a potato. Alright, my little potato. I love you. I'm gonna text you, okay, no, and I'll send it to you right now. Okay. Michael Buble and I first spoke many years ago, more than twenty years ago, when he was just beginning to be recognized as a super talent in the US. Canadians had known about him for a little while, but we were just discovering his suave, debonair goodness. It has been incredible to watch his star rise, his talent expand, to see him and his beautiful family grow. Through it all, Michael has remained a steady hockey fan, a good friend, a beloved entertainer, funny is anything, and one of the kindest people I've ever known. I'm going to celebrate the anniversary of his album Christmas just as joyfully as all of you will, and I'll be singing right along with him on all my favorites. And I so look forward to the release of Let It Snow and Christmas Weather. And if we get a new album from him in two that will be more reason to celebrate all things Boublay, Like I need a reason. He's so sexy, he's so debonair, he's so cool. I hope all of you are taking a moment or two each day to soak in the rich abundance that fall has to offer. I like to make it a practice to look for three things a day, three things a day that I can be thankful for positive things. It's not hard during this time of year. A leaf, a beautiful, perfect golden leaf on the sidewalk, A curl of smoke coming out of a chimney, Pumpkins on a doorstep, pumpkin pie in my oven. Whatever it is that catches your eye, let it soak in and touch your heart. Thank you for stopping by, my friends, I will catch up with you soon. Take some time out of your daily schedule to slow down and love someone

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