March 22, 2022 • 34 mins
A new hit single, a whole new album, and an upcoming summer tour are just a few things that my friend, Pat Monahan of Grammy Award winning rock group, Train, is going to be telling us about on today's episode of LOVE SOMEONE.
"AM Gold" is now out and climbing the charts, and the album of the same name will drop in May! Oh my gosh, you guys, it is sooooo good!!! While their wine label, "Save Me, San Francisco Wine Co." and the organization it supports, Family House, is also newsworthy. Climb aboard for this super fun conversation! ~ Delilah
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their countless chart topping hits spanning nearly three decades, multi
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Grammy Award winning band Train has announced their eleventh studio album,
am Gold, which is set to release on ma frontman
Pat Monaghan is setting down with me to tell me
all about it. Am Gold is the group's first release
of all new original music in five years. They recently
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outside of music too. He's a busy family man and
an award winning wine maker. His label, Saved Me San
Francisco Wine Company, has won over one hundred medals. Proceeds
assist San Francisco based Family House, a charity that supports
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Today's episode of Love Someone. Pat Monahan, frontman for Train.
Good morning. So you are going on the road soon, uh,
And before we talk about your tour, we got to
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talk about am Gold. I'm in love with am Gold.
I'm so in love with that song for so many reasons.
But tell me, tell me your inspiration. Well, you know,
in the beginning of the pandemic, we had our twenty
anniversary of Drops and Jupiter. We put the Greatest Hits
record out and I was writing this record and going
to Los Angeles all the time, and and I loved
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the record. But it was pretty pop, and uh, it
was it was cool. It was it was going to
be really fun and and good. But then the pandemic
hit and everyone that I was writing with they shut
it down and I ended up I ended up writing
songs virtually with my band, and as we wrote these songs,
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I was like, this is the record that I was
supposed to make. It's uh, it's a throwback record with
you know, R and B and and disco and you know,
singer songwriter songs. And my manager was like, you're making
an am Gold record and I was like, that might
be before my time. What is that? So I watched
all these uh advertisements about the am Gold albums and
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I was like, that's exactly what this is. It's an
am Gold album. It's like a compilation of all these
different sounds that were you know, hit songs back then.
And uh. Then I wrote the song am Gold because
that was the last one to be written that would
tie it all together and make sense of the whole thing.
And it ends up being the first thing that people here.
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But when you hear the rest of the album, you'll
you'll definitely recognize that throwback sound. That is going to be, uh,
you know, a fresh reminder of the past. But usually
I'm inspired by current artists doing current work, but this
one was inspired by the past, for sure. My podcast
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producer and I were talking about it before you came on,
and she's like, I am so in love with the song.
I am so in love with this project, and it is.
It's got that throwback sound, but it's got a fresh message,
Like it's got the sound that's kind of throwback and retro,
but the message and the lyrics are vitally important, I
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think for where we're all at right now. Yeah, I
think that what you know, I read this quote about
the Internet and how we're so stressed that we just
keep scrolling or we're so happy that we just keep scrolling,
and we're all these things, but to get back in
touch with being human and being there from one another.
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And uh, you know, if if he don't love you
no more, she don't love you no more, if they
don't love you anymore, than just get on the dance
floor with the people that do love you. Because that's
really you know, life can be a dance party if
if you want that, you know it can. And honestly,
don't you think it's a much better dance party when
you are just dancing with the folks that love you
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rather than worrying about coupling. And and uh, it's coming
back that that understanding, that that my friendships are precious
and worth celebrating. And that was the feeling that I
got the fifteen times I listened to a gold Over
and well, thanks, I love that that's a you know,
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my wife and I talk a lot about um music
that makes you feel good, because what a great gift
that's given all of us over the year is to
like find a son that makes you feel good about
yourself because it's hard to be human sometimes, and you know,
with the last two years and then as soon as
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the pandemic seems to be reaching its end, people are
worried about what's happening in the Ukraine and Russia that
it might sift into the rest of our human existence.
And to have a song that could maybe uh give you,
you know, two and a half minutes of thinking about
something that that is okay, it seems like a pretty good,
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pretty good gift. I have made an effort the last
couple of years since I've been doing the podcast to
try not to try not to interject my own stuff
into conversations, which is hard because that's you know, who
I am by nature. But I just bought an AM
radio station by the first AM station that I was
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ever on, the first radio station I was on the
Envy and uh, circumstances came together and it's been dark
for a while and I was able to buy it
and put it back on the air. So what will
what will it broadcast? Um? It's it's for and about
the community that I grew up in and read sport. Um.
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But it's on I Heart Radio now, So anybody who
wants to escape the madness of big cities and feel
like they're a part of something really sweet and really
precious can listen. That's really cool. What's the station? Uh,
it's called k do you in Doune Radio? Voice of
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the Oregon Dunes ten three oh Dune Radio. So if
you just go on iHeart wherever you are, you can
look up ten three. Oh, that's really cool and we play.
I think that you interjecting yourself. That's why people listen
to you. So you have to you have to keep
doing that. Oh thank you. Well. I tend to be
somewhat narcissistic, Okay, a lot narcissistic sometimes, and I'm trying
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to stop that. Um. But when I heard a am
Gold and I listened to it, I'm like, oh my gosh,
oh my gosh, this is perfect because all the music
is retro on the station. But I'm adding this because
it's so perfect. It's so there's so many you know,
there's sometimes in life that things just cosmically seemed to
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come together in Like I'll bake something or make a
dinner that I always make for the kids, but sometimes
there's that extra ingredient or extra bit of sour cream.
I don't know what it is, and the kids will go,
oh my gosh, Mom, this is the best laza on
you you've ever made. You know, whatever it is. And
that's am Gold, like when I listened to it, because
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the meaning, the lyrics, the hope that it offers, the
self awareness that you gotta love yourself. You gotta you
gotta like yourself. You've gotta love yourself, and you gotta
make your dreams come true. Stop waiting. And I hate
Disney movies where they wait for Prince Charming, you know,
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to come along. Stop waiting, Stop waiting. So that's one
of the one of those songs, um and I know
you're you're working with Jewel this summer. But her her
song Hands when it came out, had that same impact
on my heart, like it was perfection, And when I
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listened to am Gold, it was perfection. You know. I
feel like you and would be good friends. Oh my god,
very similar way about looking at things. I love that
woman's tenacity. Yeah, she's cool. She's so cool and and
I have loved watching her career and her personality evolve
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to you know what, I'm gonna I'm gonna say what
it is. I'm gonna say what it is. I'm not
going to hold back anymore. Yeah, she's good at it.
She's good at doing it in a way that makes uh,
makes her sounds art instead of judge. She is, she's
aware instead of critical. I think she's probably one of
those MINSA people. You know. Yeah, maybe she has that
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big high i Q going on. Yeah. I never had
to worry about that neither. Ah. So you're going on
tour this summer with am Gold and it's been two years,
three years since he got to tour. Well, we toured
last summer. We did twenty five shows and every moment
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we were worried we would get shut down because every
tour around us was getting shut down, and we lasted
the whole time. It worked out great. All the tickets
were sold and many times there would be hundreds of
people that didn't show up because they were uh, you
know that the times were shifting all over the place.
It was a big wave. Everyone was on and so
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there would be some towns. But we played Shout to St.
Michel and in Seattle for two nights and everybody showed up.
But it was really beautiful. My a ten year old
son came out and did a song that I was
a feature on called vacation a I'm a make Asian
every single day because I love my occupation. So he
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did that with me and we just had a great time.
So this this summer will be an extension of that
one in a lot of ways and then a lot
different in other ways. I think because there's so many
horns and strings on this new album, we'll we'll bring
out a horn section. Really makes some fun of it.
It sounds wonderful. So tell everybody who else is going
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to be with you other than Jewel and Blues Traveler.
We hadn't mentioned John yet. We hadn't mentioned John or
or Blues Traveler. Is it the whole group or just
John Popper? No, to be the whole group. So John
and I years ago, like many years ago, we closed
this club in d C down called the Bayou. Do
you remember that one? So it was a little club
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that we were the last ones to be on stage.
And then I think they turned it into some apartment buildings.
But and then years later Train open from Blues Traveler
at the Greek Theater before we had a record deal
in the Greek Theater in San Francisco. Uh, and then
we got a record deal. And you know, I haven't
seen John in a while, but he was on my
podcast when I had it, you know, like ten years ago,
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and I haven't seen him since. But I think that
it'll be just like getting back together like old friends,
and we'll join each other on stage. And I'm on
one of Jewel's songs on her new album, and she's
on one of ours, and so we'll join each other
on stage for that. Because I've learned the hard way
that camaraderie is not just the best way to enjoy
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a tour as a travel traveling musician, but it's also
the best way for fans to enjoy uh your tour
and for it to be special is if they can
see that camaraderie. And I always try to make that
a big part of every show. So John Popper was
the featured artist on a tour that I went on
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in two thousand and six. We went to Afghanistan to Iraq,
we did a military tour with the Air Force Reserve band.
John's the funniest, funniest man I think I've ever met. Yeah,
he's hilarious. Gosh, what an amazing time we had. What
a gifted artist. Yeah, he's cool. I think in the
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beginning of the tour, a friend of mine, his name
is Thunderstorm Artiss is going to come out and he'll
open all the shows and kids. Understorm artis from from Hawaii. Yeah,
do you know him. I took my family to Hawaii
and we decided to go to this little area and
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we hear music. And my godson, who is the engineer
on this podcast, heard music and he's a musician. He's like, Wow,
that sounds good. Let's go check it out. So we
go and we go meet the whole artist family that
are phenomenal. And it was shortly after their papa had passed,
who was the king of their family, and the mom
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was trying to keep the kids together, trying to keep
them going forward, and was doing an amazing job in
the midst of her great grief. And we spent hours
with him, like, hey, stay and eat, we'll have dinner
with you. And we looked at their artwork, and we
looked at their graphic work, and we looked at their batiquing,
and blah blah blah. Ryan comes to me and he goes,
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remember the artist family from Hawaii. Check dude out. He's
unlike American idol or whatever it was. It was like,
holy moldy, so talented, and I think he was like
ten or eleven when we met him. I met Thunderstorm
when he was eight. Uh and years later he opened
for us last year, last summer, and I was like,
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hey man, you gotta come out with us next year.
So he's going to come out for the first month
and uh then he's gonna go have a baby with
his wife. And then while that's happening, Will from a
band called Parachute will join us. Will as a wonderful kid.
You'll know some Parachute songs. He'll take over for a
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Thunderstorm for a month, and then Thunderstorm will come back
out and finish the tour with us. Oh fun, fun.
You have surrounded yourself, pat you and train with really
amazing people. Yeah, that was the end goal, not just
great artists, but amazing human beings. You're gonna have fun.
You are going to have so much fun on this tour.
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I have done so many tours, Delilah that uh, I
have taken away something from every one of them, be
good or bad. One of the major lessons that I
learned was one of the first tours I ever did
was with a band called Everything. You may remember their
sawing it when who got the Hooch? You got? Anyway,
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it was called the Hooch, and we toured with them
early on. They had a trombone player who played keyboards.
His name was Wolf, and he was so fun and
so cool, and he told me the story that really
influenced how I was going to behave where he told
me that he went out with the band Cracker. Uh.
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Cracker was one of my favorite bands at the time,
and I was like, oh cool? Was it awesome? And
he was like kinda. But the first night, because everything
was opening for them, he went up to the B
three Hammond player and said, hey, man, since this is
such a big rig in the stage is so small,
can I use your gear so I don't have to
bring my B three up in everything? And the guy said,
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here's the way this tour is gonna work. You'll use
your ship and I'll use mine, and so Wolf said, okay,
well guess who's him? And B three broke down three
days later, the guy from Cracker, and I was like, oh,
sweet dude, I love this and and he goes so
he had to come to me and said, hey, can
I use your BE three tonight? And I said, dude,
would you say? And he said, of course you can.
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Of course you can use my B three because that's
what he should have said to me, Rise above it,
Rise above it. And I was like, wow, what a cool,
what a high level lesson you taught everybody. Instead of
here's the way this is gonna work, you know, he
did the opposite. And I was like, I want to
be like Wolf, uh not, not like anybody else. And
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so I tried to be like that through all of it,
whether we were opening for someone or we were the headliner,
and I try to make that environment like Wolf made
for everyone that we're on tour with, and it just
works better. It makes people have a better time that paid,
you know, hard earned money to be in those seats.
I love every artist that you're talking about that you're
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touring with, and so I can tell the energy is
going to be wonderful. The new album is going to
be wonder full. I can't wait. I can't wait. And
you're starting, You're starting? When? What's the start? On June
eighth in Boston. So I'll see some you know, at
this point in my career, I know people in every city,
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So I'll bring my golf clubs and and go to
barbecues and it'll be really good fun. So we'll start
on June eighth in Boston at the Exfinity Center. Uh,
and you know in in the Seattle area will play
the Climate Pledge Arena where the cracking play. Have you
been to a cracking game yet? Have not been to?
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I haven't been anywhere since all this stuff really start taking.
Games are extraordinarily fun. Yeah, the cracking are kind of
taken over. You know, everybody was a twelve for a while,
and now I'm seeing the twelve shirts kind of replaced
with the crack and release the kracking, or at least
the cracking. Yeah, it's super fun. Well, so we'll be
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here in the Seattle area on August August two at
the Climate Pledge and everywhere in between. Will be all
in l A. And we'll be in Bend, Oregon and uh,
like Tahoe and Denver and New York and Jersey, in Austin,
Texas and everywhere else. If you think, if you go
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to save Me San Francisco dot com and you can
find all that out. So tell people why save Me
San Francisco. Why that was the name of our basically
our comeback album with Hay Soul Sister on it, and
the idea behind it was even though I live in
Seattle because my wife is from here, train came out
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of San Francisco and we really lost touch with the
fact that you have to be a hometown banned a
hometown anything, and so Save Me San Francisco was our
way of asking for them to take us back, and
they did, and we created a wine and our label
is the Savy San franc Go Wine brand and we
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donate uh those proceeds to our charity in San Francisco
called Family House. Every town has something like Children's Hospital
here in Seattle has a program like that like this,
but this is an eight room building that houses very
sick children and their families when they're getting mostly cancer
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work and a lot of head trauma and and things
done at UCSF Hospital. And there low income families that
need a place to go. They have to quit their jobs.
You know, they're coming from Seattle, They're going there from
Alaska and everywhere else in the world. And it gives
them a chance to have some dignity and recollect themselves
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so they can fight for their child's life like they
should be doing. And so that's where Saving San Francisco
came from. And if somebody wanted to order some wine, yeah,
you can go to save me san Francisco dot com
and get that done. And we just we just partnered
with uh Costco. And your why is one like a
hundred awards. It's it's not just like, you know, cheap,
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it's not. It's good. It's really award winning delicious wine.
I would you know, I've always been the kind of person,
uh where if you I just read this book which
confirms that I've been, you know, at least consistently doing
what I was hoping to read. This book that my
friend Matt Nathanson, who you know, has turned me onto.
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It's called The Courage to Be Disliked. And in this
book it talks about you know, the need to uh,
the need to talk about all of your achievements is
such an insecurity. It's not it's not a power, and
so it's just better for other people to find out
about if the wine is good or not then for
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me to tell people it's. Uh. It's just I think
you can hear the insecurities of people when they're telling
you all of the wonderfulness that they've done. And this
book was really intriguing and eye opening about that superiority
complexes are really inferiority complexes and uh, and so it's
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a pretty fun book. If you already get a chance
to read it, I will courage to be disliked. I
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and the life lesson he taught you, it reminded me
when I was very young twenty one, I met my
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first husband, who uh was black, and we fell in
love and got married, and we were in Vegas or Reno,
can't remember, but we went on a little three day
excursion and we were playing the roulette wheel like quarter roulette.
I love roulette because you don't really win, you don't
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really lose. You can just sit there and play for
hours and have fun. And that's what we were doing.
And a very obnoxious person came in and confronted us
and confronted me and started just saying some very vile things,
and my hackles went up and my glass of diet
Soto went down, and I was I was ready. I
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was going to duke it out right there. And my
husband came and grabbed me by the arm and steered
me away and steered me outside the building. And I'm like,
did you hear what he said? Did you hear what
he said? He'said, I heard what he said. And he
looked at me and he said, rise above it. His
nickname for me was Pup, and he said, rise above it, Pup.
He said, you knew when we got together that there's
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a lot of racism in this world and a lot
of ignorant people. He said, if you lower yourself to
fight with somebody who's in the gutter, guess what, yeah,
and the gutter that sounds like a wise man changed
my life right there, And I haven't always remembered that
lesson obviously, but I never once saw him lower himself
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to that level. He always he would always rise above it. Yeah,
it's it's hard sometimes when because we have these emotions
that tugged us and make us, Uh, I feel like
we're out of control. Uh, that we are in control
of them, and that that was not about you and
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your husband, that was about that guy. And and so
to confront him. Your husband at the time recognized that
to confront him was to help him deal with his
own stuff, not ours. Let's let him deal with that
with somebody else. Rise above it. Well, you know there
is a line though that that that you know you
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do have the power to help other people. So so yeah,
I try to use the power that God has given
me for good and well you're doing it to remind
people to rise above it. So I would like to
meet this friend Wolf. Well, I haven't seen Wolf in
twenty years, but I'm sure he's out there doing great
things for other people. Well, he would be fun to
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talk to. Maybe I'll find him for this podcast. That
would be fun. So folks want to get tickets again, Uh,
save me San Francisco. Uh, they can, they can order
a case of wine and get tickets to the tour.
You can find tickets to see Train, Jewel and Blues
Traveler and thunder a Storm anywhere you want on the internet.
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Do do people understand how much greatness that is in
one venue. It's a lot of songs you're going to recognize,
and it's a lot of friends hanging out together. It's
pretty cool and a lot of talent and a lot
of goodness, Yeah, a lot of goodness. And plus you know,
the venues would be filled with super fun, awesome t
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shirts and food and wine and just you know, there's
there's lawn seats and a lot of places to just
have picnics. It's it's gonna be just a cool family vibe.
So bring the kids, Bring the kids, bring the grandma's
I'm I am both you know. That's that's my joke
with my joke, told my guys that I golf with
here I go. Hey, Train's got a new record out.
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Tell your grandma. But you're you've spanned how many decades now,
I mean you've been doing this. It's been it's been
two and a half anyway, maybe three. Yeah, yeah, So
that's a lot of a lot of the last artists
who at my age had massive global success was share.
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That's saying a lot. I mean, do you believe happen? Love?
I I I'm proud of you for the diamond status.
What is it? Fifty eight songs? Well know the diamond.
Oh yeah, there are fifty eight other or fifty seven
other songs. Yeah, the Diamond was ten million sold of
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Hay Soul Sister. It's pretty fun. That's very fun. So
of course you'll be singing that and drop some Jupiter
and all your hits. But I'm going to go for
am Gold. Yeah, man, m I love that. I'm going
for am Gold and the new stuff. Yeah, the new
stuff is really fun, you know. I'm usually I'm the
guy that's like, why do you have to play the
new stuff? Can't you play the other stuff? But we
will do both, and so when the new record comes
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out in May, will keep close tabs on the internet
to see what people are gravitating towards and we'll add
those to the show, but not too many. We won't
bore people. Well, thank you for being here. Pat, it's
it to see you. It's good to talk to you.
I miss you. It's always great to see our miss you. Two.
Thanks we'll we'll hook up soon and I'll see you
and uh everybody else Jewel and John and Mr Artists
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the summer. And if I can find Wolf, I'll have
him come out this summer. Find Wolf, send him my direction. Yeah,
I'll send him to you, so I'd love to talk
to him. Well, thanks so much again, thanks by. Since
forming in nine, Train has had fourteen songs on Billboards
Hot one hundred, twelve albums on Billboards two D Album Chart,
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and has sold more than ten million albums and thirty
million tracks worldwide. In March of one, they celebrated the
twentieth anniversary of their iconic album Drops of Jupiter, and
the following month, their global hit Hay Soul's Sister was
certified Diamond by the r i A A one of
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just fifty eight songs in history to reach Diamond status.
The band has compromised a frontman, Pat Monaghan, with Hector Maldonado,
Jerry Becker, Taylor Locke, Matt Musty, Sakai Smith and Nikita Houston.
Train will be hitting the road this summer on their
upcoming Train Am Gold Tour produced by Live Nation. The
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North American Summer tour will kick off June eight in Mansfield, Massachusetts,
making thirty five stops in New York, Nashville, Dallas, San Diego, Seattle,
and Moore before wrapping up on August six, that Colorado's
iconic Red Rocks Amphitheater. Joining them on the road is
Grammy nominated singer songwriter and a previous guest on my podcast,
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The Amazing Jewel and multi platinum rock band Blues Travelers.
Oh my gosh, this is gonna be an amazing show.
Amazing Thunderstorm artist and Will Anderson will also join his
opening acts on select dates. It's going to be amazing.
Go to save Me San Francisco dot com for tickets,
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and if you're a wine drinker, celebrate by uncorking a
bottle of Save Me San Francisco wine and support the
good works that Family House does. I hope there's that
word again. Hope that Summer two delivers more joy than sorrow.
I hope we all have multiple opportunities to gather with
friends and strangers who might become friends in celebration of
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life and love and all things good and wonderful. Until
it arrives, and while Spring has had her widely ways
with us, find something right now that you can celebrate,
like the first yellow daffodil, the pattern the raindrops make
on your window pane, or the way they hang like
jewels on the bare tree branches in between the rain squalls.
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Listen to a m Gold on repeat. Just listen to it.
I don't know two or three times you'll find that
your feet have a mind of their own and send
you dancing through the house. That is something to celebrate.
I'll be here keeping you company through the budding springtime
and into the heat of summer. Tune into my radio
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We dropped these podcasts twice a month. And find my
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Did you feel it? Spring has sprung? Were you paying attention?
Did it just happen while your mind was wandering, dreaming
of sunshine and blue skies. It might be a while
before you feel like walking outdoors barefoot, but thankfully those
days are not far off. We've got to contend with springs,
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uh hormonal antics for a bit, but we can enjoy
so much about her as we love her through this
awkward stage, like the brave daffodils and tulips that are
struggling against the rain and the winds, the new baby
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Spring is about hope in the midst of turmoil and strife.
Especially in the midst of it, we must hold on
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called love that's weighing heavily upon you. Remember that there
are brighter days ahead. Today's guest on love. Someone might
not be able to solve any dilemmas you're facing, but
the news he brings will surely put a smile on
your face and a spring in your step. Known for
their countless chart topping hits spanning nearly three decades, multi
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Grammy Award winning band Train has announced their eleventh studio album,
am Gold, which is set to release on ma frontman
Pat Monaghan is setting down with me to tell me
all about it. Am Gold is the group's first release
of all new original music in five years. They recently
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dropped the title track, am Gold, which is absolutely phenomenal.
It's kind of got a retro vibe, but its message
could never be more perfect than right now. It's available
everywhere and as soon as you've listened to this interview
with frontman Pat monahand you need to download it and
watch the amazing lyric video. Pat's busy with other ventures
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outside of music too. He's a busy family man and
an award winning wine maker. His label, Saved Me San
Francisco Wine Company, has won over one hundred medals. Proceeds
assist San Francisco based Family House, a charity that supports
families of children with cancer and other life threatening illnesses.
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He's also appeared on TV and in films with credits
that include last year's Hallmark Channel Christmas and Tahoe, inspired
by Train's album of the same name. You might have
caught sight of him and Dr Ken nine O two one,
Oh Hawaii five, Oh Magnum p I, The Voice, American
Idol and The Bachelor to We're gonna get caught up
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Today's episode of Love Someone. Pat Monahan, frontman for Train.
Good morning. So you are going on the road soon, uh,
And before we talk about your tour, we got to
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talk about am Gold. I'm in love with am Gold.
I'm so in love with that song for so many reasons.
But tell me, tell me your inspiration. Well, you know,
in the beginning of the pandemic, we had our twenty
anniversary of Drops and Jupiter. We put the Greatest Hits
record out and I was writing this record and going
to Los Angeles all the time, and and I loved
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the record. But it was pretty pop, and uh, it
was it was cool. It was it was going to
be really fun and and good. But then the pandemic
hit and everyone that I was writing with they shut
it down and I ended up I ended up writing
songs virtually with my band, and as we wrote these songs,
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I was like, this is the record that I was
supposed to make. It's uh, it's a throwback record with
you know, R and B and and disco and you know,
singer songwriter songs. And my manager was like, you're making
an am Gold record and I was like, that might
be before my time. What is that? So I watched
all these uh advertisements about the am Gold albums and
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I was like, that's exactly what this is. It's an
am Gold album. It's like a compilation of all these
different sounds that were you know, hit songs back then.
And uh. Then I wrote the song am Gold because
that was the last one to be written that would
tie it all together and make sense of the whole thing.
And it ends up being the first thing that people here.
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But when you hear the rest of the album, you'll
you'll definitely recognize that throwback sound. That is going to be, uh,
you know, a fresh reminder of the past. But usually
I'm inspired by current artists doing current work, but this
one was inspired by the past, for sure. My podcast
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producer and I were talking about it before you came on,
and she's like, I am so in love with the song.
I am so in love with this project, and it is.
It's got that throwback sound, but it's got a fresh message,
Like it's got the sound that's kind of throwback and retro,
but the message and the lyrics are vitally important, I
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think for where we're all at right now. Yeah, I
think that what you know, I read this quote about
the Internet and how we're so stressed that we just
keep scrolling or we're so happy that we just keep scrolling,
and we're all these things, but to get back in
touch with being human and being there from one another.
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And uh, you know, if if he don't love you
no more, she don't love you no more, if they
don't love you anymore, than just get on the dance
floor with the people that do love you. Because that's
really you know, life can be a dance party if
if you want that, you know it can. And honestly,
don't you think it's a much better dance party when
you are just dancing with the folks that love you
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rather than worrying about coupling. And and uh, it's coming
back that that understanding, that that my friendships are precious
and worth celebrating. And that was the feeling that I
got the fifteen times I listened to a gold Over
and well, thanks, I love that that's a you know,
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my wife and I talk a lot about um music
that makes you feel good, because what a great gift
that's given all of us over the year is to
like find a son that makes you feel good about
yourself because it's hard to be human sometimes, and you know,
with the last two years and then as soon as
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the pandemic seems to be reaching its end, people are
worried about what's happening in the Ukraine and Russia that
it might sift into the rest of our human existence.
And to have a song that could maybe uh give you,
you know, two and a half minutes of thinking about
something that that is okay, it seems like a pretty good,
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pretty good gift. I have made an effort the last
couple of years since I've been doing the podcast to
try not to try not to interject my own stuff
into conversations, which is hard because that's you know, who
I am by nature. But I just bought an AM
radio station by the first AM station that I was
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ever on, the first radio station I was on the
Envy and uh, circumstances came together and it's been dark
for a while and I was able to buy it
and put it back on the air. So what will
what will it broadcast? Um? It's it's for and about
the community that I grew up in and read sport. Um.
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But it's on I Heart Radio now, So anybody who
wants to escape the madness of big cities and feel
like they're a part of something really sweet and really
precious can listen. That's really cool. What's the station? Uh,
it's called k do you in Doune Radio? Voice of
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the Oregon Dunes ten three oh Dune Radio. So if
you just go on iHeart wherever you are, you can
look up ten three. Oh, that's really cool and we play.
I think that you interjecting yourself. That's why people listen
to you. So you have to you have to keep
doing that. Oh thank you. Well. I tend to be
somewhat narcissistic, Okay, a lot narcissistic sometimes, and I'm trying
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to stop that. Um. But when I heard a am
Gold and I listened to it, I'm like, oh my gosh,
oh my gosh, this is perfect because all the music
is retro on the station. But I'm adding this because
it's so perfect. It's so there's so many you know,
there's sometimes in life that things just cosmically seemed to
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come together in Like I'll bake something or make a
dinner that I always make for the kids, but sometimes
there's that extra ingredient or extra bit of sour cream.
I don't know what it is, and the kids will go,
oh my gosh, Mom, this is the best laza on
you you've ever made. You know, whatever it is. And
that's am Gold, like when I listened to it, because
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the meaning, the lyrics, the hope that it offers, the
self awareness that you gotta love yourself. You gotta you
gotta like yourself. You've gotta love yourself, and you gotta
make your dreams come true. Stop waiting. And I hate
Disney movies where they wait for Prince Charming, you know,
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to come along. Stop waiting, Stop waiting. So that's one
of the one of those songs, um and I know
you're you're working with Jewel this summer. But her her
song Hands when it came out, had that same impact
on my heart, like it was perfection, And when I
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listened to am Gold, it was perfection. You know. I
feel like you and would be good friends. Oh my god,
very similar way about looking at things. I love that
woman's tenacity. Yeah, she's cool. She's so cool and and
I have loved watching her career and her personality evolve
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to you know what, I'm gonna I'm gonna say what
it is. I'm gonna say what it is. I'm not
going to hold back anymore. Yeah, she's good at it.
She's good at doing it in a way that makes uh,
makes her sounds art instead of judge. She is, she's
aware instead of critical. I think she's probably one of
those MINSA people. You know. Yeah, maybe she has that
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big high i Q going on. Yeah. I never had
to worry about that neither. Ah. So you're going on
tour this summer with am Gold and it's been two years,
three years since he got to tour. Well, we toured
last summer. We did twenty five shows and every moment
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we were worried we would get shut down because every
tour around us was getting shut down, and we lasted
the whole time. It worked out great. All the tickets
were sold and many times there would be hundreds of
people that didn't show up because they were uh, you
know that the times were shifting all over the place.
It was a big wave. Everyone was on and so
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there would be some towns. But we played Shout to St.
Michel and in Seattle for two nights and everybody showed up.
But it was really beautiful. My a ten year old
son came out and did a song that I was
a feature on called vacation a I'm a make Asian
every single day because I love my occupation. So he
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did that with me and we just had a great time.
So this this summer will be an extension of that
one in a lot of ways and then a lot
different in other ways. I think because there's so many
horns and strings on this new album, we'll we'll bring
out a horn section. Really makes some fun of it.
It sounds wonderful. So tell everybody who else is going
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to be with you other than Jewel and Blues Traveler.
We hadn't mentioned John yet. We hadn't mentioned John or
or Blues Traveler. Is it the whole group or just
John Popper? No, to be the whole group. So John
and I years ago, like many years ago, we closed
this club in d C down called the Bayou. Do
you remember that one? So it was a little club
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that we were the last ones to be on stage.
And then I think they turned it into some apartment buildings.
But and then years later Train open from Blues Traveler
at the Greek Theater before we had a record deal
in the Greek Theater in San Francisco. Uh, and then
we got a record deal. And you know, I haven't
seen John in a while, but he was on my
podcast when I had it, you know, like ten years ago,
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and I haven't seen him since. But I think that
it'll be just like getting back together like old friends,
and we'll join each other on stage. And I'm on
one of Jewel's songs on her new album, and she's
on one of ours, and so we'll join each other
on stage for that. Because I've learned the hard way
that camaraderie is not just the best way to enjoy
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a tour as a travel traveling musician, but it's also
the best way for fans to enjoy uh your tour
and for it to be special is if they can
see that camaraderie. And I always try to make that
a big part of every show. So John Popper was
the featured artist on a tour that I went on
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in two thousand and six. We went to Afghanistan to Iraq,
we did a military tour with the Air Force Reserve band.
John's the funniest, funniest man I think I've ever met. Yeah,
he's hilarious. Gosh, what an amazing time we had. What
a gifted artist. Yeah, he's cool. I think in the
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beginning of the tour, a friend of mine, his name
is Thunderstorm Artiss is going to come out and he'll
open all the shows and kids. Understorm artis from from Hawaii. Yeah,
do you know him. I took my family to Hawaii
and we decided to go to this little area and
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we hear music. And my godson, who is the engineer
on this podcast, heard music and he's a musician. He's like, Wow,
that sounds good. Let's go check it out. So we
go and we go meet the whole artist family that
are phenomenal. And it was shortly after their papa had passed,
who was the king of their family, and the mom
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was trying to keep the kids together, trying to keep
them going forward, and was doing an amazing job in
the midst of her great grief. And we spent hours
with him, like, hey, stay and eat, we'll have dinner
with you. And we looked at their artwork, and we
looked at their graphic work, and we looked at their batiquing,
and blah blah blah. Ryan comes to me and he goes,
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remember the artist family from Hawaii. Check dude out. He's
unlike American idol or whatever it was. It was like,
holy moldy, so talented, and I think he was like
ten or eleven when we met him. I met Thunderstorm
when he was eight. Uh and years later he opened
for us last year, last summer, and I was like,
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hey man, you gotta come out with us next year.
So he's going to come out for the first month
and uh then he's gonna go have a baby with
his wife. And then while that's happening, Will from a
band called Parachute will join us. Will as a wonderful kid.
You'll know some Parachute songs. He'll take over for a
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Thunderstorm for a month, and then Thunderstorm will come back
out and finish the tour with us. Oh fun, fun.
You have surrounded yourself, pat you and train with really
amazing people. Yeah, that was the end goal, not just
great artists, but amazing human beings. You're gonna have fun.
You are going to have so much fun on this tour.
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I have done so many tours, Delilah that uh, I
have taken away something from every one of them, be
good or bad. One of the major lessons that I
learned was one of the first tours I ever did
was with a band called Everything. You may remember their
sawing it when who got the Hooch? You got? Anyway,
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it was called the Hooch, and we toured with them
early on. They had a trombone player who played keyboards.
His name was Wolf, and he was so fun and
so cool, and he told me the story that really
influenced how I was going to behave where he told
me that he went out with the band Cracker. Uh.
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Cracker was one of my favorite bands at the time,
and I was like, oh cool? Was it awesome? And
he was like kinda. But the first night, because everything
was opening for them, he went up to the B
three Hammond player and said, hey, man, since this is
such a big rig in the stage is so small,
can I use your gear so I don't have to
bring my B three up in everything? And the guy said,
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here's the way this tour is gonna work. You'll use
your ship and I'll use mine, and so Wolf said, okay,
well guess who's him? And B three broke down three
days later, the guy from Cracker, and I was like, oh,
sweet dude, I love this and and he goes so
he had to come to me and said, hey, can
I use your BE three tonight? And I said, dude,
would you say? And he said, of course you can.
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Of course you can use my B three because that's
what he should have said to me, Rise above it,
Rise above it. And I was like, wow, what a cool,
what a high level lesson you taught everybody. Instead of
here's the way this is gonna work, you know, he
did the opposite. And I was like, I want to
be like Wolf, uh not, not like anybody else. And
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so I tried to be like that through all of it,
whether we were opening for someone or we were the headliner,
and I try to make that environment like Wolf made
for everyone that we're on tour with, and it just
works better. It makes people have a better time that paid,
you know, hard earned money to be in those seats.
I love every artist that you're talking about that you're
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touring with, and so I can tell the energy is
going to be wonderful. The new album is going to
be wonder full. I can't wait. I can't wait. And
you're starting, You're starting? When? What's the start? On June
eighth in Boston. So I'll see some you know, at
this point in my career, I know people in every city,
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So I'll bring my golf clubs and and go to
barbecues and it'll be really good fun. So we'll start
on June eighth in Boston at the Exfinity Center. Uh,
and you know in in the Seattle area will play
the Climate Pledge Arena where the cracking play. Have you
been to a cracking game yet? Have not been to?
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I haven't been anywhere since all this stuff really start taking.
Games are extraordinarily fun. Yeah, the cracking are kind of
taken over. You know, everybody was a twelve for a while,
and now I'm seeing the twelve shirts kind of replaced
with the crack and release the kracking, or at least
the cracking. Yeah, it's super fun. Well, so we'll be
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here in the Seattle area on August August two at
the Climate Pledge and everywhere in between. Will be all
in l A. And we'll be in Bend, Oregon and uh,
like Tahoe and Denver and New York and Jersey, in Austin,
Texas and everywhere else. If you think, if you go
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to save Me San Francisco dot com and you can
find all that out. So tell people why save Me
San Francisco. Why that was the name of our basically
our comeback album with Hay Soul Sister on it, and
the idea behind it was even though I live in
Seattle because my wife is from here, train came out
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of San Francisco and we really lost touch with the
fact that you have to be a hometown banned a
hometown anything, and so Save Me San Francisco was our
way of asking for them to take us back, and
they did, and we created a wine and our label
is the Savy San franc Go Wine brand and we
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donate uh those proceeds to our charity in San Francisco
called Family House. Every town has something like Children's Hospital
here in Seattle has a program like that like this,
but this is an eight room building that houses very
sick children and their families when they're getting mostly cancer
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work and a lot of head trauma and and things
done at UCSF Hospital. And there low income families that
need a place to go. They have to quit their jobs.
You know, they're coming from Seattle, They're going there from
Alaska and everywhere else in the world. And it gives
them a chance to have some dignity and recollect themselves
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so they can fight for their child's life like they
should be doing. And so that's where Saving San Francisco
came from. And if somebody wanted to order some wine, yeah,
you can go to save me san Francisco dot com
and get that done. And we just we just partnered
with uh Costco. And your why is one like a
hundred awards. It's it's not just like, you know, cheap,
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it's not. It's good. It's really award winning delicious wine.
I would you know, I've always been the kind of person,
uh where if you I just read this book which
confirms that I've been, you know, at least consistently doing
what I was hoping to read. This book that my
friend Matt Nathanson, who you know, has turned me onto.
(23:29):
It's called The Courage to Be Disliked. And in this
book it talks about you know, the need to uh,
the need to talk about all of your achievements is
such an insecurity. It's not it's not a power, and
so it's just better for other people to find out
about if the wine is good or not then for
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me to tell people it's. Uh. It's just I think
you can hear the insecurities of people when they're telling
you all of the wonderfulness that they've done. And this
book was really intriguing and eye opening about that superiority
complexes are really inferiority complexes and uh, and so it's
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a pretty fun book. If you already get a chance
to read it, I will courage to be disliked. I
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when I was very young twenty one, I met my
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first husband, who uh was black, and we fell in
love and got married, and we were in Vegas or Reno,
can't remember, but we went on a little three day
excursion and we were playing the roulette wheel like quarter roulette.
I love roulette because you don't really win, you don't
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really lose. You can just sit there and play for
hours and have fun. And that's what we were doing.
And a very obnoxious person came in and confronted us
and confronted me and started just saying some very vile things,
and my hackles went up and my glass of diet
Soto went down, and I was I was ready. I
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was going to duke it out right there. And my
husband came and grabbed me by the arm and steered
me away and steered me outside the building. And I'm like,
did you hear what he said? Did you hear what
he said? He'said, I heard what he said. And he
looked at me and he said, rise above it. His
nickname for me was Pup, and he said, rise above it, Pup.
He said, you knew when we got together that there's
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a lot of racism in this world and a lot
of ignorant people. He said, if you lower yourself to
fight with somebody who's in the gutter, guess what, yeah,
and the gutter that sounds like a wise man changed
my life right there, And I haven't always remembered that
lesson obviously, but I never once saw him lower himself
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to that level. He always he would always rise above it. Yeah,
it's it's hard sometimes when because we have these emotions
that tugged us and make us, Uh, I feel like
we're out of control. Uh, that we are in control
of them, and that that was not about you and
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your husband, that was about that guy. And and so
to confront him. Your husband at the time recognized that
to confront him was to help him deal with his
own stuff, not ours. Let's let him deal with that
with somebody else. Rise above it. Well, you know there
is a line though that that that you know you
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do have the power to help other people. So so yeah,
I try to use the power that God has given
me for good and well you're doing it to remind
people to rise above it. So I would like to
meet this friend Wolf. Well, I haven't seen Wolf in
twenty years, but I'm sure he's out there doing great
things for other people. Well, he would be fun to
(28:36):
talk to. Maybe I'll find him for this podcast. That
would be fun. So folks want to get tickets again, Uh,
save me San Francisco. Uh, they can, they can order
a case of wine and get tickets to the tour.
You can find tickets to see Train, Jewel and Blues
Traveler and thunder a Storm anywhere you want on the internet.
(28:57):
Do do people understand how much greatness that is in
one venue. It's a lot of songs you're going to recognize,
and it's a lot of friends hanging out together. It's
pretty cool and a lot of talent and a lot
of goodness, Yeah, a lot of goodness. And plus you know,
the venues would be filled with super fun, awesome t
(29:19):
shirts and food and wine and just you know, there's
there's lawn seats and a lot of places to just
have picnics. It's it's gonna be just a cool family vibe.
So bring the kids, Bring the kids, bring the grandma's
I'm I am both you know. That's that's my joke
with my joke, told my guys that I golf with
here I go. Hey, Train's got a new record out.
(29:41):
Tell your grandma. But you're you've spanned how many decades now,
I mean you've been doing this. It's been it's been
two and a half anyway, maybe three. Yeah, yeah, So
that's a lot of a lot of the last artists
who at my age had massive global success was share.
(30:04):
That's saying a lot. I mean, do you believe happen? Love?
I I I'm proud of you for the diamond status.
What is it? Fifty eight songs? Well know the diamond.
Oh yeah, there are fifty eight other or fifty seven
other songs. Yeah, the Diamond was ten million sold of
(30:25):
Hay Soul Sister. It's pretty fun. That's very fun. So
of course you'll be singing that and drop some Jupiter
and all your hits. But I'm going to go for
am Gold. Yeah, man, m I love that. I'm going
for am Gold and the new stuff. Yeah, the new
stuff is really fun, you know. I'm usually I'm the
guy that's like, why do you have to play the
new stuff? Can't you play the other stuff? But we
will do both, and so when the new record comes
(30:47):
out in May, will keep close tabs on the internet
to see what people are gravitating towards and we'll add
those to the show, but not too many. We won't
bore people. Well, thank you for being here. Pat, it's
it to see you. It's good to talk to you.
I miss you. It's always great to see our miss you. Two.
Thanks we'll we'll hook up soon and I'll see you
and uh everybody else Jewel and John and Mr Artists
(31:13):
the summer. And if I can find Wolf, I'll have
him come out this summer. Find Wolf, send him my direction. Yeah,
I'll send him to you, so I'd love to talk
to him. Well, thanks so much again, thanks by. Since
forming in nine, Train has had fourteen songs on Billboards
Hot one hundred, twelve albums on Billboards two D Album Chart,
(31:35):
and has sold more than ten million albums and thirty
million tracks worldwide. In March of one, they celebrated the
twentieth anniversary of their iconic album Drops of Jupiter, and
the following month, their global hit Hay Soul's Sister was
certified Diamond by the r i A A one of
(31:56):
just fifty eight songs in history to reach Diamond status.
The band has compromised a frontman, Pat Monaghan, with Hector Maldonado,
Jerry Becker, Taylor Locke, Matt Musty, Sakai Smith and Nikita Houston.
Train will be hitting the road this summer on their
upcoming Train Am Gold Tour produced by Live Nation. The
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North American Summer tour will kick off June eight in Mansfield, Massachusetts,
making thirty five stops in New York, Nashville, Dallas, San Diego, Seattle,
and Moore before wrapping up on August six, that Colorado's
iconic Red Rocks Amphitheater. Joining them on the road is
Grammy nominated singer songwriter and a previous guest on my podcast,
(32:41):
The Amazing Jewel and multi platinum rock band Blues Travelers.
Oh my gosh, this is gonna be an amazing show.
Amazing Thunderstorm artist and Will Anderson will also join his
opening acts on select dates. It's going to be amazing.
Go to save Me San Francisco dot com for tickets,
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and if you're a wine drinker, celebrate by uncorking a
bottle of Save Me San Francisco wine and support the
good works that Family House does. I hope there's that
word again. Hope that Summer two delivers more joy than sorrow.
I hope we all have multiple opportunities to gather with
friends and strangers who might become friends in celebration of
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life and love and all things good and wonderful. Until
it arrives, and while Spring has had her widely ways
with us, find something right now that you can celebrate,
like the first yellow daffodil, the pattern the raindrops make
on your window pane, or the way they hang like
jewels on the bare tree branches in between the rain squalls.
(33:49):
Listen to a m Gold on repeat. Just listen to it.
I don't know two or three times you'll find that
your feet have a mind of their own and send
you dancing through the house. That is something to celebrate.
I'll be here keeping you company through the budding springtime
and into the heat of summer. Tune into my radio
program nightly keep listening to Love Someone twice a month.
(34:12):
We dropped these podcasts twice a month. And find my
new daily podcast. Hey it's Delilah. It's a short, sweet,
daily dose of all the best radio moments, dropping Monday
through Friday. And do me a favor. Take some time
out of your springtime schedule to slow down and love
someone
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