Who could be a better guest to chat with on Valentines week than the ultimate heart throb, Mr. Michael Buble'? In this conversation, my FIRST official LOVE SOMEONE podcast, you'll hear a completely different side to the world's favorite crooner. It's real, raw, and will take you through tears and laughter, but mostly it reminds us of the incredible, binding, healing, power of love.
My heart is so grateful we had this time together, and I'm thrilled to share it with you! ~ Delilah
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I have a very special podcast with a brand new name. We did a podcast last year and we really have kind of found our stride. And I have a new executive producer for the podcast. That would be my sister Deanna. And this year, not only are we going to feature artists and authors and famous folks, we are going to be talking to ordinary people who are doing extraordinary things to change the world by their love. So my new podcast has a new name. It's called Love Someone. Before I get started, I wanted to acknowledge our longtime partner, the Home Depot. They have generously agreed to sponsor this podcast, not just this podcast, but for the whole year. This year, we hope to feature stories of everyday folks doing extraordinary things because I believe we will change this world one heart at a time. And even though our first guest is pretty famous, between you and I, I met him when he was nineteen. He's an ordinary guy who has an extraordinary talent and an extraordinary heart. So as we approach Valentine's Day, who better to visit with than Michael Boublay. Michael, I have missed you. Welcome aboard my friend with me. Okay, I'll try I'll try so, since it's called love Someone, since it's Valentine season and you have a new album out all about love, and I just listened to the song you wrote for Noah and sat here bawling, missing my Zach attack. Uh, we're gonna We're just we're gonna dive deep. We're going to start out with the big one and talk about the new album and the inspiration for your new song, So Forever. Now. Did you write it before or after you found out your baby boy was sick?
I wrote it during, during the whole thing. And the truth is, if I know, it sounds strange, but I mean, you take a lot from the experiences you're going through. But at the same time, it also is a way to have therapy and to sort of separate yourself. And so for me, that song really wasn't as much about Noah or my other children as it was about the sentimentality towards time and the sentimentality towards relationships in which we we we give everything of ourselves.
And I mean, it's funny, you know, I've become more and more sentimental the older I get about our life, the cycle of life, about you know, how much we love our parents and how much we rely on them, and how time flies by so quickly.
As my dad says to me, all the time, you know that, you know, the days are long and the years are short. And now with my own children, I see that happening, and I feel that happening. And so for me, it was really a study on the passage of time and that it changes for no one, that it moves that quickly for everyone, And you know, it's just kind of about trying to really remember and embrace the moments that we have. And so some of those images I mean of, you know, holding your kids' hands and knowing that that will pass too, that at some point they won't walk to any more. There's just this great amount of sentimentality that comes with it. And it really made me realize why I loved music so much. The power of a good song, the power where you know you can hear it and interpret it in your own way and it becomes that thing for you. And I think that's the most magic thing about music is that we can hear it and it becomes this really special, distinct thing that only we can really understand and feel as powerfully as we did.
Well, I read the lyrics first before I listened to the song, and I was weeping. And then I listened to the song and I was bawling, and so I had to go, you know, get some tissue and pull myself together.
And that's you know what I wanted to when I when I listen, I wasn't even sure that I was going to release it. To be honest with you, it became a kind of a you know, an inside kind of I just wasn't I was, I wasn't. I didn't know if I was ready for it, didn't know if it was too personal to me. And so when I finally decided, okay, you know this is I'll let it out. To be honest with you, I still haven't listened to it. The truth is, I sang it only one time. I did the demo, and I sang out once and it was me and a piano, and then I never sang it again. So I'll tell you how I feel about it. But I love that it can be open to the interpretation of other people. And I love that when you hear it, it can be about you and your kids, or you know and someone else here's it can be about the relationship they've had with their parents or grandparents.
Well, for me, it's about the two boys that I've lost and all the other ones that are here still and how important it is to let them know every single minute of every single day that I'm never going to let them down.
No, that's all we got. Listen, Delilah, I don't care where you're from. If your gear straight to rich are poor black of life. At the end of the day, that is everything, and love is all the matters. And so you know when you go through difficult things that you that you and I have always been gone through, I think this becomes even clearer. But I think in a good way that you know you wish that clarity on your best friends because you live in a different way, and I think that it's important to live in a different way and live and be in the moment and not taking for granted.
I remember when my first son was born, thinking, how did I ever even live without your soul in my world? How did I what did I do? What was what was what was my purpose? Before I had this soul connected to me and my daughter Sheila, who adores you. She just had a baby in June, little Rosebud and she said the same thing to me. She's like, Mom, I did not know I was capable of this deep of love. And oh, yeah, that's what your song, that's what that's what it touches on, is that depth of intimacy that she never even knew you could feel.
It's lovely, it's a beautiful thing. But you know, it's funny. A friend of mine said to me that she had she had gone through something really tough, and she had lost a friend, and she had gone to see your therapist and she was just not getting over it. And and she said to the therapist, she said, oh, I just I just loved her so much. I loved her so much. And the therapist said to her, what she said, you thought that love was free, She said, you thought that love, that kind of love, that depth of love, was free. She said, no, I'm sorry, honey. That kind of love has a great cost. And it's really it's very heavy, and it's it's serious, but it's it's true. I mean, it's scary. You know, you really put yourself out on the limit the greatest way. You truly risk everything. But I don't think there's a greater risk worth taking, you know, And so I don't want to skip ahead with your questions. But when you you know, when you want talk and you say, well, well, your record is called love and it's about love, Well, I think that you know, honestly, I came to a realization that it's all about love, and I couldn't really think about another subject or another you know, and something that I really want to expound upon, and it's sort of at this time in my life, it is front and center, and so I find it fascinating, you know, the light and the dark, and the good and the bad, that everything that comes along with the most complicated and wonderful feeling that human beings have.
Look at you, listen to you.
You know that feeling you were talking about when you were saying talking about your daughter, and you're having that feeling of not knowing that there was a depth of love that deep.
I never knew until I.
I just had that a differently when Adam Levine took off his shirt.
And showed us the Chipolte bag.
Yeah, I mean, honestly, I'm just a human being. Beautiful.
Oh thank you for lightning it up for me.
I've had to.
Michael Boubla hold that thought as we share this podcast, I want to give a shout out to our sponsor, the Home Depot. I do so much to make my home cozy and comfortable for my family. I want my family to use every inch of our old farmhouse, and we do. The house itself is over one hundred years old, but we've done a lot to modernize the parts that need it so that we're all very comfortable. The cabinets, the doors, the floors. They're all from antique wood that I pulled out of my old barn. But I like things like stoves that work. The selection appliances alone at the Home Depot gives me everything I need, the fixtures for our bathroom and our kitchen. The Home Depot has aisles of choices for us to select from the Home Depot. More saving, more doing. Now, let's return to our conversation with the amazing, tenderhearted, talented, but more than anything, wonderful man that loves his family and his friends, Michael Buble. So how is your family? How are they all doing? I know Noah as much better.
Praise God, Praise God.
Everything's good.
We have a new, little, beautiful little girl in the house, and I'm in love and my wife's doing really good. She's just you know, I don't know. I just don't know what happened that you have three babies.
And I was gonna say, we need to talk about this because I don't know how that happens. How does she look like that? Michael?
Oh, God just loves her more. Maybe he does.
She must be like his all time favorite because I'm.
Just I'm still working on off the baby weight.
You are? You are?
Yeah?
But she clearly, like did she like eat ice cream every day like I did when I was pregnant or what?
One of those weird people that likes going to the gym that like doesn't you know, you know how some people pretend that they like it may but she really likes it, like she just she has an addiction to cross it and all this stuff, and she's really healthy, the same way that I have an addiction to ch paule and McDonald's.
Ah, you're so darned cute and you're so darned blessed, and I'm so glad that that you are are our first big because we're changing the podcast this year.
What do you think Who's next? What do you who do you have on the radar?
Well, here's the thing. Last year, you know, we did we talked of music artists and authors and stuff like this that. But this year I really want to talk to everyday pe pe poule who have done, have gone through experiences and done extraordinary things. And here's the thing that most people don't know about you, Michael. When I met you, the first thing you shared with me was how much you loved your grandpa. Yeah, because you were just a kid. I realized you had no clue number one, how talented you were and the trajectory your life was going to take because those of us in the industry saw it in you. You just have this magic, but you are so damn real and so human and that's never changed, never changed. The last time I went to see you, to show you and said, come backstage. You got to see my wife. She's so beautiful. We went backstage and she was sleeping because she just nursed the baby, and You're like, don't wake her, let her sleep, let her sleep, And I'm like, I love you. You're so real.
I feel the same way about you, kid, And I told you. I texted you the other day and I said that, you know, it's important to be to be this and to be real. By the way, I love that that you said you want to speak to people that have gone through incredible things. I mean, I think that gives other people strength, you know what I mean, if they can do it, I can do it. And I think that's a huge thing. Listen, you know, like the world is listen, the world is crazy, and everybody that's listening right now has got a sense and a sense probably a fear of feeling how out of control it seems to be going. I mean, listen. I think that social media, I think has a massive social impact on what's happening and how people feel about themselves. I think we're starting to understand, you know, mental health issues. We're starting to see a divide. I mean there's been the last few years crazy, a divide between races between God, between women, you know, between correctness and political and correctness. And you're just seeing this great divide between people their philosophies, how they live, what they believe. And I think more than ever, you know, we do need to spread love and jury and hope, and and even if people are cynical and they that that's strange, you know, we have I actually there's what I wrote you the other day. We have. There's so much power each of us, each of us, and even though some days we feel like we don't and what could we do with just one person? The individual can change nothing. It's just not true. Every single moment you have an opportunity to be kind, to be gracious, to bring hope and love. And that can be as simple as just walking, you know, walking down the street and smiling at someone and tell them they look nice, or you know, standing in line and letting somebody in front of you, or you know, there's a bunch there's just ways to be gracious and kind and and help out the world. And I think we just need it. And that's why it's sways like this, and when you talk about talking to people, it's just it's it's just too important. It really is. It really really is because people I think they can feel it. I think we can feel it, and I think they need it more than ever.
We started something on the air called the One Heart Challenge because of the name of my book, One Heart at a Time, and the challenge just simple. It's don't say anything, don't post anything, don't respond to anything, don't talk about anybody, to their face or behind their back, unless it is motivated by kindness.
Yeah, that's a beautiful thing.
And it's really it boils down to my mom saying, Sis, if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all.
I just keep telling people love, not like, love not like.
Yeah, I tell people love not shove, Love not shove. When you're trying to shove your beliefs or your politics, or your religion, or your philosophy, or you're on people, it doesn't They're not going to receive it. And all you're doing is causing divisions. Stop people.
Stop.
When you're laying in the hospital bed and you need a blood transfusion, you don't care if the person donating the blood it has the same political beliefs, or is the same race, or is the same sexual orientation. It's all we all need one another. Yes, Oh Michael, I love you. So how can people find out about your tour?
What? What tour?
I don't know they said to ask you about Michael Boublay dot com.
I'm sure you can google it or something or I don't know.
Michael Boublay dot com. There we go, There you go.
It's nice for me especially to have a platform this big to say it, because I'll say it whenever I can. Listen, Man, can I can I sort of talk to the people, Yeah, oh.
This is your show. You can say whatever you want.
Okay, I'll tell the people this. Listen, don't buy anything, buy the tickets if you like, buy the records, or don't or don't know this. You have changed my life, in my family's life, and with what we went through because of you. You gave me an opportunity that I know a million of parents don't have, which was to stop to just do what I had to do as a dad. And I can never tell you, I can only show you in my actions how much that you mean to me. It overwhelms me. The fact that you work hard and you take your harder money to go and invest in me, and like that you owe me nothing. So God bless I love that you. You know that whatever the liley you're telling them to go to this place and tickets and stuff, but they've done enough for me, more than enough for me. So if you just happen to be one of those people that are coming to the shows, then it's going to be my absolute honor. A step on stage and get to show you with my actions how much you mean to me and what it means to me to get to do this for you, because it really does. I'm a lucky boy.
You're a blessed man. Michael. You know what's funny is if if all the success of my show went away tomorrow and I moved back to read Sport where I grew up and I got to be on the air there, I wouldn't care. I just love talking to people.
Listen, when you go through tough stuff, trust me, you know people out there know it too. You don't think about the stuff. You do not think about any of it. And you know it's funny. I wrote a beautiful thing by Steve Jobs. He wrote us from his deathbed, and that's kind of he had written us off on his deathbed. What he had said was, look at once you have enough, you know, then do what you love because at the end of the day, it's it's it's it's family and relationships and love and that journey and that's it. That's all you want more off, So people go out there and live and love and go and just take it only and jewy, be kind.
I love you, Michael, love you.
Too. Thank you so much. Say hi to everybody. Family, Give jaana hug for me, and I hope to see you when I'm around your neck of the woods.
Oh well, I'm I'm going to bring you to my farm when you're when you're around my neck of the woods, I'm kidnapping you, beautiful, Okay, Love you, honey, glead to you.
Take care of yourself.
Michael, thank you for taking the time to be with us today. I'm thrilled you are once again sharing your music. Love is in stores and available everywhere that you find music. For more info, go to Michael Boublay dot com. And thanks again to the Home Depot for making this podcast possible and to my sister Deanna and my producer Jane for arranging it. Until next time, take some time out of your busy day to slow down and love someone