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2:17

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2:20

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2:22

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2:24

an award winning wine maker. His

2:27

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2:29

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2:32

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2:34

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2:37

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2:39

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2:41

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2:43

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2:45

that include last year's Hallmark Channel Christmas

2:48

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2:50

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3:03

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through the month of April. Welcome

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to today's podcast, Today's episode

4:21

of Love Someone. Pat Monahan, frontman

4:23

for Train. Good

4:25

morning. So you are going on

4:28

the road soon, uh, And before

4:30

we talk about your tour, we

4:32

got to talk about am Gold.

4:35

I'm in love with am Gold. I'm

4:38

so in love with that song for so many

4:41

reasons. But tell me, tell me your inspiration.

4:43

Well, you know, in the beginning of the pandemic, we

4:46

had our twenty anniversary of Drops

4:48

and Jupiter. We put the Greatest Hits record out

4:50

and I was writing this record and going to Los

4:52

Angeles all the time, and and I

4:55

loved the record. But it was pretty

4:58

pop, and uh,

5:00

it was it was cool. It was it was going to be really

5:03

fun and and good. But then

5:05

the pandemic hit and everyone that I

5:07

was writing with they shut it down

5:09

and I ended up I ended up writing

5:12

songs virtually with my band, and

5:15

as we wrote these songs, I was like, this is the record

5:18

that I was supposed to make. It's

5:20

uh, it's a throwback record with you know,

5:22

R and B and and disco and

5:25

you know, singer songwriter songs.

5:27

And my manager was like, you're

5:30

making an am Gold record and I was like,

5:32

that might be before my time. What is that? So

5:35

I watched all these uh advertisements

5:38

about the am Gold albums

5:40

and I was like, that's exactly what this is.

5:42

It's an am Gold album. It's like a compilation

5:44

of all these different sounds

5:46

that were you know, hit songs back then. And

5:49

uh. Then I wrote the song am Gold

5:52

because that was the last

5:55

one to be written that would tie it all

5:57

together and make sense of the whole thing. And it ends

5:59

up being the first thing that people here. But when you

6:01

hear the rest of the album, you'll you'll definitely

6:03

recognize that throwback

6:07

sound. That is going to

6:09

be, uh, you know, a fresh

6:12

reminder of the past. But usually I'm

6:14

inspired by current artists

6:17

doing current work, but this one was inspired

6:19

by the past, for sure. My podcast

6:21

producer and I were talking about it before you

6:23

came on, and she's like, I am so

6:25

in love with the song. I am so in love

6:28

with this project, and it

6:30

is. It's got that throwback sound, but it's

6:32

got a fresh message,

6:35

Like it's got the sound that's kind of throwback

6:37

and retro, but the message

6:40

and the lyrics are vitally

6:42

important, I think for where we're all

6:44

at right now. Yeah, I think that what

6:47

you know, I read this quote about the

6:49

Internet and how we're

6:52

so stressed that

6:54

we just keep scrolling or we're so happy

6:57

that we just keep scrolling, and we're

6:59

all these things, but to get

7:01

back in touch with being human

7:03

and being there from one another. And uh, you

7:06

know, if if he don't love you no more, she don't

7:08

love you no more, if they don't love you anymore, than

7:11

just get on the dance floor with the people that do love

7:13

you. Because that's really you know, life

7:15

can be a dance party if if you want that, you

7:17

know it can. And honestly,

7:20

don't you think it's a much better dance party

7:23

when you are just dancing with the folks that

7:25

love you rather than worrying about coupling.

7:27

And and uh,

7:30

it's coming back that

7:32

that understanding, that that my

7:34

friendships are precious

7:37

and worth celebrating.

7:40

And that was the feeling that I got the

7:42

fifteen times I listened to a gold

7:45

Over and well, thanks, I love

7:47

that that's a you know, my wife and I

7:49

talk a lot about um

7:52

music that makes you feel good, because

7:56

what a great gift that's given

7:58

all of us over the year is to like

8:00

find a son that makes you feel good about yourself

8:03

because it's hard to be human

8:05

sometimes, and you know, with

8:07

the last two years and then as soon as the

8:10

pandemic seems to be reaching its end,

8:13

people are worried about what's happening in

8:15

the Ukraine and Russia that it

8:17

might sift into the rest of our

8:19

human existence. And to

8:22

have a song that could maybe uh

8:24

give you, you know, two and a half minutes

8:26

of thinking about something

8:29

that that is okay,

8:31

it seems like a pretty good, pretty

8:33

good gift. I have made

8:35

an effort the last couple of years since I've

8:37

been doing the podcast to try not to

8:41

try not to interject my own stuff

8:43

into conversations, which

8:45

is hard because that's you know, who I

8:47

am by nature. But I just

8:50

bought an AM radio station by

8:55

the first AM station that I was ever

8:57

on, the first radio station I was on

8:59

the Envy and

9:02

uh, circumstances

9:04

came together and it's

9:06

been dark for a while and I

9:08

was able to buy it and put it back on the air. So

9:11

what will what will it broadcast? Um?

9:15

It's it's for and about the

9:17

community that I grew up in and read sport.

9:19

Um. But it's on I Heart

9:22

Radio now, So anybody

9:24

who wants to escape the madness

9:26

of big cities and feel

9:28

like they're a part of something

9:31

really sweet and really precious can

9:34

listen. That's really cool. What's

9:36

the station? Uh, it's called

9:38

k do you in Doune Radio?

9:41

Voice of the Oregon Dunes ten three oh

9:43

Dune Radio. So if you just go on

9:45

iHeart wherever you are, you can

9:47

look up ten three. Oh, that's really cool

9:49

and we play. I think that you interjecting

9:52

yourself. That's why people listen to you. So you

9:54

have to you have to keep doing that. Oh

9:56

thank you. Well. I tend to be somewhat

9:58

narcissistic, Okay, a lot narcissistic

10:00

sometimes, and I'm trying to stop that. Um.

10:03

But when I heard a am

10:05

Gold and I listened to it, I'm like, oh my gosh,

10:08

oh my gosh, this is perfect because

10:10

all the music is retro on the station.

10:13

But I'm adding this because

10:17

it's so perfect.

10:19

It's so there's so many you

10:21

know, there's sometimes in life that things

10:23

just cosmically seemed to come

10:25

together in Like I'll

10:28

bake something or make a

10:30

dinner that I always make for the kids, but

10:32

sometimes there's that extra ingredient

10:35

or extra bit of sour cream. I don't know what it

10:37

is, and the kids will go, oh my gosh, Mom, this

10:39

is the best laza on you you've ever made. You

10:41

know, whatever it is. And that's

10:44

am Gold, like when I listened to it,

10:46

because the meaning, the lyrics,

10:49

the hope

10:51

that it offers, the self awareness

10:54

that you gotta love yourself. You

10:57

gotta you gotta like yourself. You've gotta

10:59

love yourself, and you gotta make

11:01

your dreams come true. Stop waiting.

11:03

And I hate Disney movies where

11:06

they wait for Prince Charming, you know, to come

11:08

along. Stop waiting, Stop waiting.

11:10

So that's one of the one of those songs,

11:14

um and I know you're

11:16

you're working with Jewel this summer. But her

11:18

her song Hands when it came out, had

11:21

that same impact on

11:23

my heart, like it was perfection, And

11:27

when I listened to am Gold, it was perfection.

11:30

You know. I feel like you and would be good

11:33

friends. Oh my god, very similar

11:35

way about looking at things. I

11:37

love that woman's tenacity.

11:40

Yeah, she's cool. She's so cool

11:42

and and I have loved watching

11:45

her career and her personality

11:47

evolve to you know what, I'm gonna

11:49

I'm gonna say what it is. I'm gonna

11:52

say what it is. I'm not going to hold back anymore.

11:55

Yeah, she's good at it. She's good at doing

11:57

it in a way that makes uh, makes

11:59

her sounds art instead of judge.

12:03

She is, she's aware instead of

12:05

critical. I think she's probably

12:07

one of those MINSA people. You know. Yeah,

12:10

maybe she has that big high

12:12

i Q going on. Yeah. I

12:15

never had to worry about that neither. Ah.

12:20

So you're going on tour this summer with am

12:22

Gold and it's been two years, three

12:25

years since he got to tour. Well, we toured

12:27

last summer. We did twenty five shows

12:29

and every moment we

12:31

were worried we would get shut down because

12:34

every tour around us was getting shut down,

12:36

and we lasted the whole time. It

12:39

worked out great. All

12:41

the tickets were sold and many

12:43

times there would be hundreds of people that didn't show

12:46

up because they were uh,

12:48

you know that the times were shifting all

12:50

over the place. It was a big wave. Everyone was

12:52

on and so there would be some

12:55

towns. But we played Shout to St. Michel and

12:57

in Seattle for two nights and everybody

12:59

showed up. But it was really beautiful.

13:01

My a ten year old son came

13:04

out and did a song

13:06

that I was a feature on called vacation

13:08

a I'm a make

13:10

Asian every single day because

13:13

I love my occupation. So

13:15

he did that with me and we just had a great time.

13:18

So this this summer will be an

13:20

extension of that one in a lot of ways and then

13:24

a lot different in other ways. I think because

13:26

there's so many horns and strings on this

13:28

new album, we'll we'll bring out a horn

13:30

section. Really makes

13:32

some fun of it. It sounds wonderful. So

13:34

tell everybody who else is going to be with you

13:37

other than Jewel and Blues Traveler. We hadn't

13:39

mentioned John yet. We hadn't mentioned John

13:41

or or Blues Traveler. Is it the whole group

13:43

or just John Popper? No, to be the whole group.

13:46

So John and I years ago, like

13:48

many years ago, we closed

13:50

this club in d C down called

13:52

the Bayou. Do you remember that one? So

13:55

it was a little club that we were the last ones

13:58

to be on stage. And then I think they turned

14:00

it into some apartment buildings. But and

14:02

then years later Train

14:04

open from Blues Traveler at the Greek Theater

14:07

before we had a record deal in the Greek Theater

14:09

in San Francisco. Uh, and

14:11

then we got a record deal. And you know, I haven't seen

14:13

John in a while, but he was on my podcast

14:15

when I had it, you know, like ten years ago, and

14:18

I haven't seen him since. But I think

14:20

that it'll be just like getting

14:23

back together like old friends, and

14:25

we'll join each other on stage. And I'm

14:28

on one of Jewel's songs on her new

14:30

album, and she's on one of ours, and so we'll

14:32

join each other on stage for that. Because

14:35

I've learned the hard way that

14:39

camaraderie is not just

14:41

the best way to enjoy

14:43

a tour as a travel traveling

14:46

musician, but it's also the best way for fans

14:49

to enjoy uh your tour

14:52

and for it to be special is if they can

14:54

see that camaraderie. And

14:56

I always try to make that a big part

14:59

of every show. So John

15:01

Popper was the featured

15:04

artist on a tour that I went on in

15:07

two thousand and six. We went to

15:09

Afghanistan to Iraq, we

15:11

did a military tour with

15:13

the Air Force Reserve band. John's

15:16

the funniest, funniest

15:18

man I think I've ever met. Yeah, he's

15:21

hilarious. Gosh, what an amazing

15:24

time we had. What a gifted

15:26

artist. Yeah, he's cool. I

15:28

think in the beginning of the tour, a

15:31

friend of mine, his name is Thunderstorm

15:34

Artiss is going to come out and he'll

15:36

open all the shows and kids.

15:39

Understorm artis from from Hawaii.

15:41

Yeah, do you know him.

15:44

I took my family to Hawaii and

15:46

we decided to go to this little area

15:49

and we hear music. And my godson,

15:52

who is the engineer on this podcast, heard

15:54

music and he's a musician. He's like, Wow, that

15:56

sounds good. Let's go check it out. So

15:58

we go and we go meet the whole artist family

16:02

that are phenomenal.

16:04

And it was shortly after their

16:07

papa had passed, who was the king

16:09

of their family, and the mom

16:11

was trying to keep the kids together, trying to keep

16:13

them going forward, and was

16:16

doing an amazing job in the midst

16:18

of her great grief. And

16:21

we spent hours with him, like,

16:23

hey, stay and eat, we'll have dinner with

16:25

you. And we looked at their artwork, and we looked at their

16:28

graphic work, and we looked at their batiquing,

16:30

and blah blah blah. Ryan

16:32

comes to me and he goes, remember the artist family

16:35

from Hawaii. Check dude out. He's

16:37

unlike American idol or whatever it was.

16:39

It was like, holy moldy, so

16:43

talented, and I think he was like ten or

16:45

eleven when we met him. I met

16:47

Thunderstorm when he was eight. Uh

16:50

and years later he opened

16:52

for us last year, last summer,

16:54

and I was like, hey man, you gotta come out with us next

16:57

year. So he's going to come out for the first

16:59

month and uh then he's gonna

17:01

go have a baby with his wife.

17:04

And then while that's happening, Will

17:07

from a band called

17:09

Parachute will join us. Will as

17:12

a wonderful kid. You'll know some Parachute

17:14

songs. He'll take over for a Thunderstorm

17:16

for a month, and then Thunderstorm will come back

17:18

out and finish the tour with us. Oh

17:21

fun, fun. You have surrounded

17:24

yourself, pat you and train with

17:26

really amazing people. Yeah,

17:29

that was the end goal, not just great artists,

17:32

but amazing human beings. You're

17:34

gonna have fun. You are going to have so much

17:37

fun on this tour. I have

17:39

done so many tours, Delilah

17:41

that uh, I have taken

17:43

away something from every one of them, be

17:45

good or bad. One

17:48

of the major lessons that I learned

17:50

was one of the first tours I ever did was

17:53

with a band called Everything. You

17:55

may remember their sawing it when who got

17:57

the Hooch? You got?

17:59

Anyway, it was called the Hooch,

18:01

and we toured with them early on. They

18:04

had a trombone player who played keyboards.

18:07

His name was Wolf, and he was

18:09

so fun and so cool, and

18:11

he told me the story that really

18:14

influenced how I

18:16

was going to behave where

18:18

he told me that he went out with the band Cracker.

18:21

Uh. Cracker was one of my favorite

18:23

bands at the time, and I was like, oh cool? Was it awesome?

18:26

And he was like kinda. But

18:28

the first night, because

18:30

everything was opening for them, he went up

18:33

to the B three Hammond player and said, hey, man,

18:35

since this is such a big rig in the stage

18:37

is so small, can I use your

18:39

gear so I don't have

18:41

to bring my B three up in everything? And

18:44

the guy said, here's the way this tour is gonna work. You'll

18:46

use your ship and I'll use mine, and

18:48

so Wolf said, okay, well guess

18:51

who's him? And B three broke down

18:53

three days later, the guy from Cracker,

18:56

and I was like, oh, sweet dude, I

18:58

love this and and he goes

19:00

so he had to come to me and said, hey, can I

19:02

use your BE three tonight? And I said, dude,

19:04

would you say? And he said, of course you

19:06

can. Of course

19:08

you can use my B three because

19:11

that's what he should have said to me, Rise above

19:13

it, Rise above it. And

19:15

I was like, wow, what a cool,

19:18

what a high level lesson you taught everybody.

19:20

Instead of here's the way this is gonna

19:22

work, you know, he did the opposite.

19:24

And I was like, I want to be like Wolf, uh

19:27

not, not like anybody else. And so I

19:30

tried to be like that through all of

19:32

it, whether we were opening for someone or

19:34

we were the headliner, and I try to

19:37

make that environment like Wolf made

19:40

for everyone that we're on tour with, and

19:42

it just works better. It makes people have a better

19:44

time that paid, you know, hard

19:47

earned money to be in those seats. I

19:49

love every artist that you're talking

19:51

about that you're touring with, and so I

19:53

can tell the energy is

19:56

going to be wonderful.

19:58

The new album is going to be wonder full.

20:00

I can't wait. I can't wait.

20:02

And you're starting, You're starting?

20:05

When? What's the start?

20:07

On June eighth in Boston.

20:10

So I'll see some you know, at this point

20:12

in my career, I know people in every city,

20:14

So I'll bring my golf clubs and

20:16

and go to barbecues and it'll be

20:19

really good fun. So we'll start on

20:22

June eighth in Boston at the

20:24

Exfinity Center. Uh,

20:26

and you know in in the Seattle

20:28

area will play the Climate

20:31

Pledge Arena where the cracking

20:33

play. Have you been to a cracking game yet?

20:35

Have not been to? I haven't been anywhere

20:38

since all this stuff really start

20:40

taking. Games are extraordinarily

20:43

fun. Yeah, the cracking are kind of taken

20:45

over. You know, everybody was a

20:47

twelve for a while, and

20:50

now I'm seeing the twelve shirts

20:52

kind of replaced with the crack and

20:54

release the kracking, or at least

20:56

the cracking. Yeah, it's super fun. Well,

20:59

so we'll be here in the Seattle area

21:01

on August August

21:04

two at the Climate Pledge

21:06

and everywhere in between. Will be

21:09

all in l A. And we'll be

21:11

in Bend, Oregon and uh,

21:13

like Tahoe and Denver and

21:16

New York and Jersey, in Austin, Texas

21:18

and everywhere else. If you think, if you go to save

21:20

Me San Francisco dot com and you can find

21:22

all that out. So tell people why save

21:25

Me San Francisco. Why that was

21:28

the name of our basically

21:30

our comeback album with Hay Soul

21:32

Sister on it, and the

21:34

idea behind it was even though I

21:36

live in Seattle because my wife is from here,

21:40

train came out of San Francisco and we

21:42

really lost touch with the fact that you

21:45

have to be a hometown

21:48

banned a hometown anything, and so

21:50

Save Me San Francisco was our way

21:53

of asking for them to take us back,

21:55

and they did, and we created

21:57

a wine and our label is

21:59

the Savy San franc Go Wine brand and

22:01

we donate uh those proceeds

22:03

to our charity in

22:05

San Francisco called Family House. Every

22:08

town has something like Children's Hospital

22:10

here in Seattle has a program

22:13

like that like this, but this is an

22:15

eight room

22:18

building that houses very sick

22:20

children and their families when they're

22:22

getting mostly cancer work

22:25

and a lot of head trauma

22:28

and and things done at

22:30

UCSF Hospital. And

22:32

there low income families that need

22:35

a place to go. They have to quit their jobs. You know, they're

22:37

coming from Seattle, They're going there from Alaska

22:39

and everywhere else in the world. And

22:41

it gives them a chance to have some dignity

22:44

and recollect themselves so they can fight

22:46

for their child's life like they should be doing.

22:48

And so that's where Saving San Francisco

22:51

came from. And if somebody wanted to order

22:53

some wine, yeah, you can go to save

22:55

me san Francisco dot com and get that

22:57

done. And we just we just partnered

22:59

with uh Costco. And your

23:01

why is one like a hundred

23:04

awards. It's it's not just like,

23:06

you know, cheap, it's

23:08

not. It's good. It's really award

23:11

winning delicious wine. I would

23:13

you know, I've always been the kind of person,

23:16

uh where if you

23:18

I just read this book which confirms

23:21

that I've been, you know, at least consistently

23:23

doing what I was hoping to read.

23:25

This book that my friend Matt Nathanson, who you

23:27

know, has turned me onto. It's

23:29

called The Courage to Be Disliked. And

23:32

in this book it talks about you know, the

23:35

need to uh,

23:38

the need to talk about all of your achievements

23:40

is such an insecurity. It's not it's

23:43

not a power, and so it's just better

23:45

for other people to find out about

23:48

if the wine is good or not then for me

23:50

to tell people it's. Uh. It's

23:52

just I think you

23:55

can hear the insecurities of people

23:57

when they're telling you all of the wonderfulness

23:59

that they've done. And this

24:01

book was really intriguing and eye

24:04

opening about that

24:06

superiority complexes are really

24:09

inferiority complexes and uh,

24:11

and so it's a pretty fun book. If you already get a chance

24:14

to read it, I will courage to

24:16

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24:18

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When you were um speaking earlier about

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Wolf and the life lesson he taught you,

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it reminded me when I was very

26:02

young twenty one, I met my first husband,

26:05

who uh was black,

26:08

and we fell in love and

26:10

got married, and we were

26:13

in Vegas or Reno, can't

26:15

remember, but we went on a little three day

26:18

excursion and

26:20

we were playing the roulette wheel

26:22

like quarter roulette. I love roulette

26:24

because you don't really win, you don't really lose. You

26:26

can just sit there and play for hours

26:29

and have fun. And that's what we were doing.

26:31

And a very obnoxious

26:33

person came in and confronted

26:36

us and confronted me and

26:38

started just saying some very vile things,

26:42

and my hackles went up and

26:44

my glass of diet Soto went down,

26:46

and I was I was ready. I was going to

26:48

duke it out right there. And my husband

26:51

came and grabbed me by the arm and steered me

26:53

away and steered me outside the building. And I'm

26:55

like, did you hear what he said? Did you hear what he said?

26:57

He'said, I heard what he said. And he

26:59

looked at me and he said, rise above it.

27:02

His nickname for me was Pup, and he said, rise

27:04

above it, Pup. He said, you knew

27:06

when we got together that there's a

27:09

lot of racism in this world and a lot

27:11

of ignorant people. He said,

27:13

if you lower yourself to fight with

27:15

somebody who's in the gutter, guess

27:17

what, yeah, and the gutter that

27:20

sounds like a wise man

27:23

changed my life right there, And I

27:25

haven't always remembered that lesson obviously,

27:28

but I never once

27:30

saw him lower

27:33

himself to that level.

27:35

He always he would always

27:37

rise above it. Yeah, it's it's hard

27:39

sometimes when because

27:42

we have these emotions that tugged us

27:44

and make us, Uh,

27:46

I feel like we're out of control. Uh,

27:49

that we are in control of them,

27:52

and that that was not

27:54

about you and your husband, that was about

27:56

that guy. And and so

27:58

to confront him.

28:01

Your husband at the time recognized

28:03

that to confront him was to help

28:05

him deal with his own stuff, not

28:07

ours. Let's let him deal with that with

28:09

somebody else. Rise above it. Well,

28:11

you know there is a line though that

28:13

that that you know you do have

28:16

the power to help other people. So

28:18

so yeah, I try to use the power

28:21

that God has given me for good

28:24

and well you're doing it to

28:26

remind people to rise above it. So I would

28:28

like to meet this friend Wolf. Well,

28:31

I haven't seen Wolf in twenty years, but I'm sure

28:33

he's out there doing great things for other people. Well,

28:35

he would be fun to talk to. Maybe I'll find him

28:37

for this podcast. That would

28:39

be fun. So folks want to get tickets again,

28:42

Uh, save me San Francisco. Uh,

28:45

they can, they can order a case of wine

28:47

and get tickets to the

28:49

tour. You can find tickets

28:51

to see Train, Jewel and Blues Traveler

28:54

and thunder a Storm anywhere

28:56

you want on the internet. Do do people

28:58

understand how much greatness that

29:01

is in one venue. It's

29:03

a lot of songs you're going to recognize, and

29:06

it's a lot of friends hanging out together. It's

29:08

pretty cool and a lot of talent

29:10

and a lot of goodness, Yeah,

29:12

a lot of goodness. And plus you

29:14

know, the venues would be filled with

29:17

super fun, awesome t shirts

29:19

and food and wine

29:22

and just you know, there's

29:24

there's lawn seats and a lot of places to

29:26

just have picnics. It's it's gonna be just a

29:28

cool family vibe. So bring the kids,

29:31

Bring the kids, bring the grandma's I'm I am

29:33

both you know. That's

29:35

that's my joke with my joke, told my

29:37

guys that I golf with here I go. Hey,

29:40

Train's got a new record out. Tell your grandma.

29:46

But you're you've spanned how many decades

29:48

now, I mean you've been doing this. It's

29:50

been it's been two and a half anyway, maybe

29:53

three. Yeah, yeah, So that's a lot

29:55

of a lot of the last artists

29:57

who at my age had

30:00

massive global success was share.

30:04

That's saying a lot. I mean,

30:06

do you believe happen?

30:09

Love? I

30:11

I I'm proud of you for the

30:14

diamond status. What is it? Fifty

30:16

eight songs? Well know the diamond.

30:19

Oh yeah, there are fifty eight other or fifty

30:21

seven other songs. Yeah, the Diamond was ten

30:23

million sold of Hay

30:26

Soul Sister. It's pretty fun. That's very

30:28

fun. So of course you'll be singing that and

30:30

drop some Jupiter and all your hits. But

30:33

I'm going to go for am Gold. Yeah, man, m

30:35

I love that. I'm going for am Gold

30:37

and the new stuff. Yeah, the new stuff is

30:39

really fun, you know. I'm usually I'm

30:42

the guy that's like, why do you have to play the new stuff?

30:44

Can't you play the other stuff? But we will do both,

30:46

and so when the new record comes out in May, will

30:49

keep close tabs on the internet to see

30:51

what people are gravitating towards and we'll

30:53

add those to the show, but not too many. We

30:56

won't bore people. Well, thank you for being

30:58

here. Pat, it's it to see you. It's

31:01

good to talk to you. I miss you. It's

31:03

always great to see our miss you. Two. Thanks we'll

31:05

we'll hook up soon and I'll see you and

31:08

uh everybody else Jewel and

31:10

John and Mr

31:12

Artists the summer. And if I can

31:14

find Wolf, I'll have him

31:16

come out this summer. Find Wolf, send him my direction.

31:19

Yeah, I'll send him to you, so I'd

31:22

love to talk to him. Well, thanks so much again,

31:24

thanks by. Since forming in nine,

31:28

Train has had fourteen songs

31:30

on Billboards Hot one hundred, twelve

31:32

albums on Billboards two D

31:34

Album Chart, and has sold more than ten million

31:37

albums and thirty million

31:39

tracks worldwide. In March

31:41

of one, they celebrated

31:43

the twentieth anniversary of their iconic

31:46

album Drops of Jupiter,

31:48

and the following month, their global

31:50

hit Hay Soul's Sister was certified

31:53

Diamond by the r i A A one

31:55

of just fifty eight songs in history

31:58

to reach Diamond status. The

32:00

band has compromised a frontman, Pat

32:03

Monaghan, with Hector Maldonado,

32:05

Jerry Becker, Taylor Locke,

32:07

Matt Musty, Sakai

32:10

Smith and Nikita Houston.

32:12

Train will be hitting the road this summer on

32:14

their upcoming Train Am Gold

32:17

Tour produced by Live Nation.

32:19

The North American Summer tour

32:22

will kick off June eight in Mansfield,

32:24

Massachusetts, making thirty

32:26

five stops in New York, Nashville,

32:28

Dallas, San Diego, Seattle, and Moore

32:31

before wrapping up on August six, that Colorado's

32:33

iconic Red Rocks Amphitheater. Joining

32:36

them on the road is Grammy nominated singer

32:38

songwriter and a previous guest on

32:41

my podcast, The Amazing Jewel and

32:44

multi platinum rock band Blues

32:46

Travelers. Oh my gosh, this

32:48

is gonna be an amazing show. Amazing

32:52

Thunderstorm artist and Will Anderson

32:54

will also join his opening acts on select

32:57

dates. It's going to be amazing. Go

32:59

to save Me San Francisco

33:02

dot com for tickets, and if you're a wine

33:04

drinker, celebrate by uncorking

33:06

a bottle of Save Me San Francisco wine

33:08

and support the good works that Family House

33:11

does. I hope there's that

33:13

word again. Hope that Summer two

33:15

delivers more joy than sorrow.

33:18

I hope we all have multiple

33:20

opportunities to gather with friends and

33:22

strangers who might become friends in

33:25

celebration of life and love and all

33:27

things good and wonderful. Until

33:29

it arrives, and while Spring

33:32

has had her widely ways with

33:34

us, find something right now

33:36

that you can celebrate, like the

33:38

first yellow daffodil, the pattern

33:41

the raindrops make on your window pane, or

33:43

the way they hang like jewels on the bare

33:46

tree branches in between the rain squalls.

33:49

Listen to a m Gold on repeat. Just

33:52

listen to it. I don't know two or three times

33:54

you'll find that your feet have a mind

33:56

of their own and send you dancing through

33:58

the house. That is something to celebrate.

34:01

I'll be here keeping you company through

34:03

the budding springtime and into the heat

34:05

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