February 26, 2019 • 26 mins
I recently got to cozy up to the charming and charismatic Pat Monahan, front-man for the iconic rock-band, TRAIN. We had such a good visit!
Train is going on tour with the Goo Goo Dolls in the summer, they have a new album out, "Greatest Hits." and Pat's life is BUSY! But not too busy to share some time with us and never, ever, too busy to give credit to his wife, and love to his family.
When you give this episode of LOVE SOMEONE with Delilah a listen, you'll soon discover, like I did, how much family means to Pat and how it influences his every waking - and sleeping - moment. Enjoy! ~ Delilah
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Mmm, Hello, my friend. I'm Delilah, welcoming you to my
new podcast series, Love Someone with Delilah. We've renamed the
series this year. Last year we started doing really good podcast,
(00:24):
really amazing podcast. But we decided that since I believe
the most important thing in life, the most important thing
in a marriage, the most important thing in being a
good parent or a good member of your community, is love,
(00:46):
the single most powerful tenant that we all should share
is love. For all the years I've been here on
the air, and it's been many, I've employed ward my
listeners to love someone romantically. Sure, we talk about that
(01:07):
a lot, but love is a heart to heart connection
we're able to make with anyone and everyone at any time,
in any place, not just romantic love between partners. Love
is a shared smile, it's a kind deed. It's a
moment of sincere listening when someone needs to unburden their soul.
(01:34):
It's setting aside your own agenda to champion and others.
It's being present and accountable, and that's that's hard to
do in this day of social media, because so many
people are distracted. Love is being present, it's being accountable,
(01:55):
it's showing up it's showing up for life's moments. It's
being there when your daughter is getting ready for the prom.
It's being there when your son is got a speech contest,
or is in a play on stage. It's being there.
It's showing up for life's moments. Thank you for allowing
(02:17):
me to share these precious moments with you. I also
got to say thank you to my podcast sponsor, the
Home Depot. They do so much to help you and
I when it comes to remodeling different rooms in our homes.
One of the more intimidating rooms to remodel and renovate
is the bathroom. The Home Depot makes that project so
(02:39):
much simpler. It can start with the countertops and the vanity,
maybe a new sink and the faucets as well. When
you visit your local home Depot, you'll see the large
selections of vanities they have and all the different choices.
The very helpful Home Depot associates can help you match
(03:00):
up a new vanity with the sink and the faucets
that you like the most. You'll be surprised at how
far you can go with their help and the sense
of empowerment you'll have planning it all out the home Depot,
more saving, more doing. Today's guest on Love Someone with
Zalia is a singer, songwriter and musician whose name may
(03:24):
not be as familiar to you as his band. Pat
Monahan is the frontman for the iconic rock band Train.
He's funny, he's charming, and according to him, supermodel good
looking as he is according to me and several million
fans worldwide, talented. Pat visited with me in My Studios
(03:48):
recently to talk about his upcoming summer tour with the
Google Dolls and a talented young man named Alan Stone.
The tour kicks off in Seattle on June seven. We
all also had the chance to talk about his new
Train album Greatest Hits, which features the phenomenal Kinney g
on Careless Whisper and I was honored to hear of
(04:11):
Pat and trains passionate involvement, passionate involvement. They are so
committed to this. It's called Family House. It's a Bay
Area retreat for families that need a place of dignity,
as Pat says, to collect themselves while their children undergo
serious medical treatments, many of them for childhood cancer. Whether
(04:35):
it was music or giving a helping hand or just
chatting about random things. One powerful thread was woven through
every moment with Pat, and that was the thread of family.
You'll feel chills when he shares how his hit single
Drops of Jupiter, which I have been playing for years
(04:56):
and never knew this story when he tells you how
that song came about, and many of you, either from
a child or parents perspective, will relate on some level.
When he mentions how his grown son, who's also a musician,
doesn't share his work with his dad. Women, you will
swoon and applaud and maybe feel a beat of jealousy
(05:21):
when Pat makes it Game of Thrones reference to his
gorgeous wife and mother of his two youngest children as
that Callisi. He holds her in such honor and men, men,
maybe you'll be inspired to tell your wife that she
is the Calisi in your life. Family is what binds us,
(05:43):
whether that family is one created by a marriage and children,
or relationships that we have forged in other ways. I
call it my tribe because my family isn't just blood.
It's people that God has woven together into a one
her full family of eclectic, eccentric, incredible people. It gives
(06:07):
us a sense of belonging and where we find ourselves
giving in ways we didn't even know was possible, and
receiving so much more. In return, chapter eleven of my
book that came out last year, One Heart at a Time,
is titled A Connected Heart, and in it I talk
about my mom, my Mama Bear, my mother will Madine,
(06:29):
and how she had such a loving, giving heart. She
also had really big feet, big bones, and a big, quirky,
eccentric countenance. She taught me many life skills and many
important lessons, but most importantly, most importantly, she taught me,
through her deeds and her actions, how to love like
(06:54):
only a mama can or a parent can. I should
say I'm honored the Pat monta and from Train found
the time to share his heart and his passions with
me on this edition of Love Someone. Thanks. Yeah, thanks
for having me on your first ever incarnation of the
(07:14):
lovesoone podcast. Yeah. And you look so good the hair
and everything. You know. I feel I feel pretty average,
not at my best, but I'm gonna I'm gonna get
in better shape. Coming up soon. I have a golf
tournament to play in in Pebble Beach, so I've just
been motivation. That's my motivation right now. You know my motivation.
(07:36):
I don't know if you notice, but I like, you know,
a little more fit than probably last time I saw you.
My motivation is I'm waiting for Dwayne the Rock Johnson
to call me yeah and say, Delilah, I need you
on Titans. Yeah. I don't. I don't have a TV.
I don't watch the show. I have watched it on
(07:58):
my computer a couple of times. And I'm going to
I'm gonna wait for him to call me, and then
I'm going to suggest some new exercises that he should
include in his Titan competition. I'm going to ask him
to introduce some courses for moms, obstacle courses for moms,
Like I think there should be a competition where you
have a toddler in a backpack on your back while
(08:20):
you're folding laundry while have you ever tried, have you
ever seen your wife when your your daughter was younger,
try to do anything with a toddler around, like pick
up anything off the floor. My wife is she's not
She's an anomaly. She can do all of it. She'll
hold three children and figure out how to get the
(08:40):
job done. I've never seen anything like it. I don't
compete parentally because she is far superior. She you just
bowed to the Queen. I do thrones. There you go.
It really is true. She's the Calisi. So how many
kids have you got at home? Now you've got older
kids and younger kids. Yeah, I have a seven year
old son and my ten year old daughter at home,
(09:01):
and then I have a daughter who goes to Western
University of Washington and my son lives in Seattle. And
do you guys, like, do the whole family thing or
are the adult kids off doing their thing and the
younger kids are It depends on what it is. So
like any kind of event, then we all get together.
But otherwise want in college, she's busy all the time.
(09:25):
Is a very busy job in school. My son is
pursuing music and doing another job, so he's always busy.
So we we get together as the six of us
are greater when it's you know, a holiday or a birthday.
So the sun pursuing music. Does he have Dad's gift
for lyrics? You know? He doesn't show me his music.
It's interesting, so but I I've heard him sing and
(09:49):
it's really good. So he's got a great voice. He
doesn't show you his music. One of the most talented
dads in the world. He likes to keep it to himself.
Oh that's kind of cool. My daughter. I have seven daughters,
but my daughter, who lives in the house next door,
is incredibly gifted. Sings like an angel. She would never
(10:13):
sing in front of me, but she always sang in
the shower. She has no idea how many hours I
spent sitting on the floor outside listening to her. Thing.
Here's the funny thing about Train. I'll say to people,
you know, I love pad, I love Training. They're like training,
I don't know train. And then I sing like hay
Soul Sister to two lines of it and they're like,
(10:35):
oh my god, I love them. Or drops a Jupiter,
you know, one or two lines and I'm like, oh
my god, that's the best song ever. I'm like, I know.
My manager thinks that I'm a genius because I'm not famous,
but my music is. And he's like, that's your genius.
You get to have. He's like, you get to have
(10:55):
a great life. And then saying songs a matter to people,
and he's he's really right. I take my kids skiing.
Every weekend. I go to PCC grocery store, you know,
which is the co op around this area, and no
one cares at all. But if I sing, then I
mat her for an hour. You know. It's like, that's
(11:17):
a good life. That is a very good life, and
I have been blessed to create the same life and
radio I can go to Goodwill, I can go to
the grocery store. I mean, I I walk around my
little town in my cowboy boots because I have horses,
you know, right after I clean the stalls, nobody cares.
Nobody cares because I'm Blessings mom. I'm Delilah's Junior's mom. Yeah,
(11:41):
that's that's who I am. Most people that I run
into just think I'm your average supermodel, you know what
I mean, just like unbelievably beautiful. So you've you've partnered
with somebody that I have not seen in like twenty
five years, but I love him. Can a g Yeah
(12:02):
I heard a little clip. They didn't even send me
the whole song. Oh yeah, we we recorded Careless Whisper.
And so my experience with Kenny is I've only met
him once. And when I meet famous people, I I
meet you, and then I'm bail because I don't want
to bother you. And if you want to have a conversation, great,
(12:24):
how many records sold around the world. I just don't
want to bother people because they have their lives, they
want to do it the way they do it. But
Kenny is a really lovely, down to earth guy from Seattle,
so he's not full of his own nonsense at all.
But I asked a mutual friend in the golf world
if I could. I was like, Hey, will you please
(12:44):
pass my information onto Kenny. I want to ask him
for a big favor. He can always say no to it,
and so I texted him, Uh, any chance that I
could send you careless whisper. We're gonna put it on
our Greatest Hits and it wouldn't be the same without
some Kenny g on it. And he was like, yeah,
send it my way, and then he sent it back
and it was incredible. So so you guys weren't together
(13:07):
when you recorded. No, he was, Yeah, he's so cool,
so good. Yeah, he's good with me in the studio.
Talking today is Pat from Train and You've got the
greatest album out and h greatest hits and you're going
on tour starting here in Seattle. That's right. It starts
(13:30):
on cities now, yeah, it starts on June seven in Seattle.
We're out with the Google Dolls and Alan Stone, Allen's
kid from Spokane who's really crazy talented. And what a
great time you have with that guy and Google Dolls.
How did you how did your team with them? I've
known those guys, not very personally, but like, do you
(13:54):
play golf with three years? No? No, not that maybe
after this we will. They're really lovely guys. And we've
tried for the last six years to put put something
together and now you did. Now we did, and you're
going to be touring all summer long. That's right. So
I wanted to talk to you about Drops of Jupiter,
the song, and your charitable charitable project with wine. Okay,
(14:21):
so tell me about first off, the song and the lyrics. Well,
it's uh, it's a story about not having any hit
songs on our second album. We had an album called
it was called Something More, and the president of Columbia
Records he was listening to it and he was like,
(14:44):
we don't have a first single. So my manager at
the time said, you know, Donnie doesn't think you have
a first single. He want you to go to New York.
And the reason you wanted me to go to New
York is because as a band, we foolishly had a
deal where we were not allowed to write outside of
the band. So it was to protect other people from
me going out and writing a bunch of songs without them,
(15:07):
which held us back more than it helped us. So
Donny was saying, come to New York because I'm about
to make you right with other people. So they booked
my flight, and my mother had passed away that year.
I went to sleep and I woke up about twenty
minutes after I fell asleep and wrote the entire drops
(15:27):
to Jupiter Lyric and Melody down. The next day, I
went to a friend's house and we demoed it up,
and then when I went to New York, I had
a CD in my pocket, and so Donnie Einner was
telling me, you know, if this song was yours be
a hit, and he basically getting me ready to so
we're gonna put you at a studio with these other guys,
(15:47):
And I said, I got this demo, it's probably terrible.
If you're gonna hear it. So it's just a story
about my mom telling me what it was like to
be on the other side swimming through the planets. And
he looks into it and he had a breakdown. He
was like, this is the song of the year, and
you know it's gonna be. It was during the same
time and almost famous was out, so he wanted Paul
(16:09):
Buckmaster to do the string arrangement, and he had the
big plan before even got back on the plane to
go home. So that's how Drops the Jupiter was created.
So that was really mom letting you know everything is good.
That's what it felt like to me hanging out with
me today here in the studios. As Pat Monahan of Train,
we're talking about this summer's tour. He's going on tour
(16:31):
with the Google Dolls, the new CD Greatest hits his
endeavor with Drops of Jupiter wine, uh, a wine that
is a charity and how it benefits family house and
we're talking about the love of family and now you
have a project raising funds to help kids who are hurting,
(16:53):
our kids who are sick. So as a Bay Area
band or San Francisco band, uh, we we're seeking the
right charity to partner with about eight or so years ago,
maybe nine about nine years ago. So every charity has
a rating. You can look them up online, and many
(17:16):
of the ratings aren't very good because they spend an
enormous amount of money on the wrong. So this particular
place was called Family House. They had two homes and
I think there were eight rooms in each home. So
there were about sixteen to twenty families that they could
(17:37):
give food and shelter to while their children, who most
of them had brain tumors, tumors behind their eyes, very
very terrible things. These parents had to quit their jobs,
some of them, you know, all low income families bringing
their children to to try to have some dignity while
their children are being worked on and possibly not going
(18:00):
home with them. That just seemed like the right partnership.
So I went and visited them, and I visit them
as often as I can, and so proceeds from wine
and many other things that we do go to Family House.
And since then they've been able to build an eighty
family building and so it is full of the time.
(18:24):
Kids from all over the world go to UCSF Hospital
because they specialized in kid stuff, kid cancer basically, and
so when you go there, you leave so inspired and
so heartbroken at the same time. It's there's there's something
like that in Seattle as well and every other city.
(18:44):
If you'd like to know about your community, you know,
I always say that doing your own community is probably
the way to do it, because then you can go
see it when you want to. But what you guys
have done, just I went online and I looked at
the pictures, and I looked at the I watched a
bunch of the videos of the families and their stories,
(19:04):
and man, good work. Yeah, it's it's good work. And
they have a lot of volunteers. My sister in law
who's here in Seattle, lost a child a couple of
years ago, and so she started a charity called Season
of Miracles. Her daughter was called Season and it Seattle
Children's Hospital. We've been working for about four years now
(19:28):
to try to build a garden, a sanctuary, a place
for moms and dads and kids to go while their
children are in this hospital being worked on sometimes just
being sick, a place for people to go to meditate, prey,
and the paperwork, the red tape. It is exhausting. They
(19:51):
have all the money that it's going to take to
build it. They just I mean, if anybody you know
can inspire the city of Seattle to help mus deliver
that sooner rather than later, that'd be great. I will
see what who I know, ah and put it out there.
So it's going to be called the garden is going
to be called the Season of Miracles Garden, Season of
(20:13):
Miracles Garden. And how old was season when she changed
her She was one month. She she was real sick,
unexpectacularly right at birth and uh and didn't make it
past thirty days. I'm so sorry. Yeah, me too. It's
you know, it's something that it happens to other women
and other other parents, but when it happens to your family,
(20:37):
you want to do something about it. And this is
the way to help a lot of people, because it's
one of the things that was missing obviously, other than
your child getting well, a place to go, you know,
just somewhere to find some dignity. That's what family House does.
These these people come there many times poor, they have
(20:58):
six kids, sick kids, they lose their jobs, etcetera. And
then they come in and the first room in this
building is a room to collect your yourself. So that
you can find your dignity to go move on, and
that's what I think this garden will provide for people.
So Drops of Jupiter is the name of your wine. Yes,
(21:20):
that named after the song that your mother inspired you with.
But it's hard to find. Well, that's there's a reason
for it. Drops a Jupiter was was created with my
my partner at Cancanon Winery in Livermore, California. And like
(21:42):
the music world, wine has to find its place out
there in the world. And the way to do it
is you make a deal with Target. Hey, Target, if
you sell my record, will give you these two extra songs. Right,
So there's a way to inspire people to buy your product.
Wine is much more competitive even and so we made
(22:04):
we signed an exclusivity deal with Publix in Florida and
h e B in Texas and so they were exclusive
to Drops a Jupiter Pinot, Savignon blanc and cab and
until just recently. So now the label we'll go into
restaurants and all the other grocery stores in the country,
(22:26):
so soon you'll be able to find it. But until
then you can go to Drops to Jupiter uh wine
dot com. Very nice and the proceeds from that go
to a family house in San Francisco. How do How
does that make you feel knowing that something you're passionate about,
something that you birthed, is is such a gift two
(22:49):
families who well the think that it's a win win.
You can catch a little buzz and help people out.
You know, it's a it's a pretty fun thing, but
it's also it's a really good product. You know. When
we started the wine business that we are in, we
didn't want to be the cliche. Oh, here's a little
(23:13):
bottle of trained wine that you can put on your
shelf and never drink it because it's from the concert.
This is like a real bottle of wine. It's a
twenty dollar retail and it's quality everything and including what
it benefits, and so it's all fun. I'm not a
wine drinker. I think the last time I drank wine
(23:34):
it was Boone's Farm Strawberry Hill mixed with seven up
and I was wearing, um, you know what that that's
actually the ingredients of plutonium. So you had it after all? Yeah,
yeah I did. I just didn't know it. Yeah, but
(23:54):
I looked for some after I found out about yours.
Because I do this fundraiser for or the NGO that
I uh that I started called Point Hope, and we
do a fundraiser every year um called Farm to Feast
where people come to my farm and I grow organic
fruits and vegetables and we feast and we always pair it.
(24:16):
We have, you know, really lovely wines that we pair
everything with. So I was looking for drops of Jupiter
wine and there's no store within three We'll just send
it to you next time. Awesome, Awesome, Well you'll have
to come next time too, it's up you'll be on tour. Yeah,
we'll send you wine next time you do your event.
Pat Monahan, thank you for making the drive today giving
(24:38):
us the low down on everything happening with you and
the band. Good luck with the tour this summer, and
thank you for your offer to share some drops of
Jupiter Wine with our Point Hope gala this summer. But
I gotta say, Pat, you're wrong on one level. You're
not your average supermodel, as you said, your way above
(25:00):
ridge and all things, my friend, but most especially your
capacity for loving. Pick up the train c D greatest
hits and get tickets to this summer's tour with the
Google Dolls, and don't forget to spend a little bit
of time showing gratitude to my sponsor the Home Depot
when it's time to update and refresh family spaces and
(25:20):
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Mmm, Hello, my friend. I'm Delilah, welcoming you to my
new podcast series, Love Someone with Delilah. We've renamed the
series this year. Last year we started doing really good podcast,
(00:24):
really amazing podcast. But we decided that since I believe
the most important thing in life, the most important thing
in a marriage, the most important thing in being a
good parent or a good member of your community, is love,
(00:46):
the single most powerful tenant that we all should share
is love. For all the years I've been here on
the air, and it's been many, I've employed ward my
listeners to love someone romantically. Sure, we talk about that
(01:07):
a lot, but love is a heart to heart connection
we're able to make with anyone and everyone at any time,
in any place, not just romantic love between partners. Love
is a shared smile, it's a kind deed. It's a
moment of sincere listening when someone needs to unburden their soul.
(01:34):
It's setting aside your own agenda to champion and others.
It's being present and accountable, and that's that's hard to
do in this day of social media, because so many
people are distracted. Love is being present, it's being accountable,
(01:55):
it's showing up it's showing up for life's moments. It's
being there when your daughter is getting ready for the prom.
It's being there when your son is got a speech contest,
or is in a play on stage. It's being there.
It's showing up for life's moments. Thank you for allowing
(02:17):
me to share these precious moments with you. I also
got to say thank you to my podcast sponsor, the
Home Depot. They do so much to help you and
I when it comes to remodeling different rooms in our homes.
One of the more intimidating rooms to remodel and renovate
is the bathroom. The Home Depot makes that project so
(02:39):
much simpler. It can start with the countertops and the vanity,
maybe a new sink and the faucets as well. When
you visit your local home Depot, you'll see the large
selections of vanities they have and all the different choices.
The very helpful Home Depot associates can help you match
(03:00):
up a new vanity with the sink and the faucets
that you like the most. You'll be surprised at how
far you can go with their help and the sense
of empowerment you'll have planning it all out the home Depot,
more saving, more doing. Today's guest on Love Someone with
Zalia is a singer, songwriter and musician whose name may
(03:24):
not be as familiar to you as his band. Pat
Monahan is the frontman for the iconic rock band Train.
He's funny, he's charming, and according to him, supermodel good
looking as he is according to me and several million
fans worldwide, talented. Pat visited with me in My Studios
(03:48):
recently to talk about his upcoming summer tour with the
Google Dolls and a talented young man named Alan Stone.
The tour kicks off in Seattle on June seven. We
all also had the chance to talk about his new
Train album Greatest Hits, which features the phenomenal Kinney g
on Careless Whisper and I was honored to hear of
(04:11):
Pat and trains passionate involvement, passionate involvement. They are so
committed to this. It's called Family House. It's a Bay
Area retreat for families that need a place of dignity,
as Pat says, to collect themselves while their children undergo
serious medical treatments, many of them for childhood cancer. Whether
(04:35):
it was music or giving a helping hand or just
chatting about random things. One powerful thread was woven through
every moment with Pat, and that was the thread of family.
You'll feel chills when he shares how his hit single
Drops of Jupiter, which I have been playing for years
(04:56):
and never knew this story when he tells you how
that song came about, and many of you, either from
a child or parents perspective, will relate on some level.
When he mentions how his grown son, who's also a musician,
doesn't share his work with his dad. Women, you will
swoon and applaud and maybe feel a beat of jealousy
(05:21):
when Pat makes it Game of Thrones reference to his
gorgeous wife and mother of his two youngest children as
that Callisi. He holds her in such honor and men, men,
maybe you'll be inspired to tell your wife that she
is the Calisi in your life. Family is what binds us,
(05:43):
whether that family is one created by a marriage and children,
or relationships that we have forged in other ways. I
call it my tribe because my family isn't just blood.
It's people that God has woven together into a one
her full family of eclectic, eccentric, incredible people. It gives
(06:07):
us a sense of belonging and where we find ourselves
giving in ways we didn't even know was possible, and
receiving so much more. In return, chapter eleven of my
book that came out last year, One Heart at a Time,
is titled A Connected Heart, and in it I talk
about my mom, my Mama Bear, my mother will Madine,
(06:29):
and how she had such a loving, giving heart. She
also had really big feet, big bones, and a big, quirky,
eccentric countenance. She taught me many life skills and many
important lessons, but most importantly, most importantly, she taught me,
through her deeds and her actions, how to love like
(06:54):
only a mama can or a parent can. I should
say I'm honored the Pat monta and from Train found
the time to share his heart and his passions with
me on this edition of Love Someone. Thanks. Yeah, thanks
for having me on your first ever incarnation of the
(07:14):
lovesoone podcast. Yeah. And you look so good the hair
and everything. You know. I feel I feel pretty average,
not at my best, but I'm gonna I'm gonna get
in better shape. Coming up soon. I have a golf
tournament to play in in Pebble Beach, so I've just
been motivation. That's my motivation right now. You know my motivation.
(07:36):
I don't know if you notice, but I like, you know,
a little more fit than probably last time I saw you.
My motivation is I'm waiting for Dwayne the Rock Johnson
to call me yeah and say, Delilah, I need you
on Titans. Yeah. I don't. I don't have a TV.
I don't watch the show. I have watched it on
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my computer a couple of times. And I'm going to
I'm gonna wait for him to call me, and then
I'm going to suggest some new exercises that he should
include in his Titan competition. I'm going to ask him
to introduce some courses for moms, obstacle courses for moms,
Like I think there should be a competition where you
have a toddler in a backpack on your back while
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you're folding laundry while have you ever tried, have you
ever seen your wife when your your daughter was younger,
try to do anything with a toddler around, like pick
up anything off the floor. My wife is she's not
She's an anomaly. She can do all of it. She'll
hold three children and figure out how to get the
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job done. I've never seen anything like it. I don't
compete parentally because she is far superior. She you just
bowed to the Queen. I do thrones. There you go.
It really is true. She's the Calisi. So how many
kids have you got at home? Now you've got older
kids and younger kids. Yeah, I have a seven year
old son and my ten year old daughter at home,
(09:01):
and then I have a daughter who goes to Western
University of Washington and my son lives in Seattle. And
do you guys, like, do the whole family thing or
are the adult kids off doing their thing and the
younger kids are It depends on what it is. So
like any kind of event, then we all get together.
But otherwise want in college, she's busy all the time.
(09:25):
Is a very busy job in school. My son is
pursuing music and doing another job, so he's always busy.
So we we get together as the six of us
are greater when it's you know, a holiday or a birthday.
So the sun pursuing music. Does he have Dad's gift
for lyrics? You know? He doesn't show me his music.
It's interesting, so but I I've heard him sing and
(09:49):
it's really good. So he's got a great voice. He
doesn't show you his music. One of the most talented
dads in the world. He likes to keep it to himself.
Oh that's kind of cool. My daughter. I have seven daughters,
but my daughter, who lives in the house next door,
is incredibly gifted. Sings like an angel. She would never
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sing in front of me, but she always sang in
the shower. She has no idea how many hours I
spent sitting on the floor outside listening to her. Thing.
Here's the funny thing about Train. I'll say to people,
you know, I love pad, I love Training. They're like training,
I don't know train. And then I sing like hay
Soul Sister to two lines of it and they're like,
(10:35):
oh my god, I love them. Or drops a Jupiter,
you know, one or two lines and I'm like, oh
my god, that's the best song ever. I'm like, I know.
My manager thinks that I'm a genius because I'm not famous,
but my music is. And he's like, that's your genius.
You get to have. He's like, you get to have
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a great life. And then saying songs a matter to people,
and he's he's really right. I take my kids skiing.
Every weekend. I go to PCC grocery store, you know,
which is the co op around this area, and no
one cares at all. But if I sing, then I
mat her for an hour. You know. It's like, that's
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a good life. That is a very good life, and
I have been blessed to create the same life and
radio I can go to Goodwill, I can go to
the grocery store. I mean, I I walk around my
little town in my cowboy boots because I have horses,
you know, right after I clean the stalls, nobody cares.
Nobody cares because I'm Blessings mom. I'm Delilah's Junior's mom. Yeah,
(11:41):
that's that's who I am. Most people that I run
into just think I'm your average supermodel, you know what
I mean, just like unbelievably beautiful. So you've you've partnered
with somebody that I have not seen in like twenty
five years, but I love him. Can a g Yeah
(12:02):
I heard a little clip. They didn't even send me
the whole song. Oh yeah, we we recorded Careless Whisper.
And so my experience with Kenny is I've only met
him once. And when I meet famous people, I I
meet you, and then I'm bail because I don't want
to bother you. And if you want to have a conversation, great,
(12:24):
how many records sold around the world. I just don't
want to bother people because they have their lives, they
want to do it the way they do it. But
Kenny is a really lovely, down to earth guy from Seattle,
so he's not full of his own nonsense at all.
But I asked a mutual friend in the golf world
if I could. I was like, Hey, will you please
(12:44):
pass my information onto Kenny. I want to ask him
for a big favor. He can always say no to it,
and so I texted him, Uh, any chance that I
could send you careless whisper. We're gonna put it on
our Greatest Hits and it wouldn't be the same without
some Kenny g on it. And he was like, yeah,
send it my way, and then he sent it back
and it was incredible. So so you guys weren't together
(13:07):
when you recorded. No, he was, Yeah, he's so cool,
so good. Yeah, he's good with me in the studio.
Talking today is Pat from Train and You've got the
greatest album out and h greatest hits and you're going
on tour starting here in Seattle. That's right. It starts
(13:30):
on cities now, yeah, it starts on June seven in Seattle.
We're out with the Google Dolls and Alan Stone, Allen's
kid from Spokane who's really crazy talented. And what a
great time you have with that guy and Google Dolls.
How did you how did your team with them? I've
known those guys, not very personally, but like, do you
(13:54):
play golf with three years? No? No, not that maybe
after this we will. They're really lovely guys. And we've
tried for the last six years to put put something
together and now you did. Now we did, and you're
going to be touring all summer long. That's right. So
I wanted to talk to you about Drops of Jupiter,
the song, and your charitable charitable project with wine. Okay,
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so tell me about first off, the song and the lyrics. Well,
it's uh, it's a story about not having any hit
songs on our second album. We had an album called
it was called Something More, and the president of Columbia
Records he was listening to it and he was like,
(14:44):
we don't have a first single. So my manager at
the time said, you know, Donnie doesn't think you have
a first single. He want you to go to New York.
And the reason you wanted me to go to New
York is because as a band, we foolishly had a
deal where we were not allowed to write outside of
the band. So it was to protect other people from
me going out and writing a bunch of songs without them,
(15:07):
which held us back more than it helped us. So
Donny was saying, come to New York because I'm about
to make you right with other people. So they booked
my flight, and my mother had passed away that year.
I went to sleep and I woke up about twenty
minutes after I fell asleep and wrote the entire drops
(15:27):
to Jupiter Lyric and Melody down. The next day, I
went to a friend's house and we demoed it up,
and then when I went to New York, I had
a CD in my pocket, and so Donnie Einner was
telling me, you know, if this song was yours be
a hit, and he basically getting me ready to so
we're gonna put you at a studio with these other guys,
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And I said, I got this demo, it's probably terrible.
If you're gonna hear it. So it's just a story
about my mom telling me what it was like to
be on the other side swimming through the planets. And
he looks into it and he had a breakdown. He
was like, this is the song of the year, and
you know it's gonna be. It was during the same
time and almost famous was out, so he wanted Paul
(16:09):
Buckmaster to do the string arrangement, and he had the
big plan before even got back on the plane to
go home. So that's how Drops the Jupiter was created.
So that was really mom letting you know everything is good.
That's what it felt like to me hanging out with
me today here in the studios. As Pat Monahan of Train,
we're talking about this summer's tour. He's going on tour
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with the Google Dolls, the new CD Greatest hits his
endeavor with Drops of Jupiter wine, uh, a wine that
is a charity and how it benefits family house and
we're talking about the love of family and now you
have a project raising funds to help kids who are hurting,
(16:53):
our kids who are sick. So as a Bay Area
band or San Francisco band, uh, we we're seeking the
right charity to partner with about eight or so years ago,
maybe nine about nine years ago. So every charity has
a rating. You can look them up online, and many
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of the ratings aren't very good because they spend an
enormous amount of money on the wrong. So this particular
place was called Family House. They had two homes and
I think there were eight rooms in each home. So
there were about sixteen to twenty families that they could
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give food and shelter to while their children, who most
of them had brain tumors, tumors behind their eyes, very
very terrible things. These parents had to quit their jobs,
some of them, you know, all low income families bringing
their children to to try to have some dignity while
their children are being worked on and possibly not going
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home with them. That just seemed like the right partnership.
So I went and visited them, and I visit them
as often as I can, and so proceeds from wine
and many other things that we do go to Family House.
And since then they've been able to build an eighty
family building and so it is full of the time.
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Kids from all over the world go to UCSF Hospital
because they specialized in kid stuff, kid cancer basically, and
so when you go there, you leave so inspired and
so heartbroken at the same time. It's there's there's something
like that in Seattle as well and every other city.
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If you'd like to know about your community, you know,
I always say that doing your own community is probably
the way to do it, because then you can go
see it when you want to. But what you guys
have done, just I went online and I looked at
the pictures, and I looked at the I watched a
bunch of the videos of the families and their stories,
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and man, good work. Yeah, it's it's good work. And
they have a lot of volunteers. My sister in law
who's here in Seattle, lost a child a couple of
years ago, and so she started a charity called Season
of Miracles. Her daughter was called Season and it Seattle
Children's Hospital. We've been working for about four years now
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to try to build a garden, a sanctuary, a place
for moms and dads and kids to go while their
children are in this hospital being worked on sometimes just
being sick, a place for people to go to meditate, prey,
and the paperwork, the red tape. It is exhausting. They
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have all the money that it's going to take to
build it. They just I mean, if anybody you know
can inspire the city of Seattle to help mus deliver
that sooner rather than later, that'd be great. I will
see what who I know, ah and put it out there.
So it's going to be called the garden is going
to be called the Season of Miracles Garden, Season of
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Miracles Garden. And how old was season when she changed
her She was one month. She she was real sick,
unexpectacularly right at birth and uh and didn't make it
past thirty days. I'm so sorry. Yeah, me too. It's
you know, it's something that it happens to other women
and other other parents, but when it happens to your family,
(20:37):
you want to do something about it. And this is
the way to help a lot of people, because it's
one of the things that was missing obviously, other than
your child getting well, a place to go, you know,
just somewhere to find some dignity. That's what family House does.
These these people come there many times poor, they have
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six kids, sick kids, they lose their jobs, etcetera. And
then they come in and the first room in this
building is a room to collect your yourself. So that
you can find your dignity to go move on, and
that's what I think this garden will provide for people.
So Drops of Jupiter is the name of your wine. Yes,
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that named after the song that your mother inspired you with.
But it's hard to find. Well, that's there's a reason
for it. Drops a Jupiter was was created with my
my partner at Cancanon Winery in Livermore, California. And like
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the music world, wine has to find its place out
there in the world. And the way to do it
is you make a deal with Target. Hey, Target, if
you sell my record, will give you these two extra songs. Right,
So there's a way to inspire people to buy your product.
Wine is much more competitive even and so we made
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we signed an exclusivity deal with Publix in Florida and
h e B in Texas and so they were exclusive
to Drops a Jupiter Pinot, Savignon blanc and cab and
until just recently. So now the label we'll go into
restaurants and all the other grocery stores in the country,
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so soon you'll be able to find it. But until
then you can go to Drops to Jupiter uh wine
dot com. Very nice and the proceeds from that go
to a family house in San Francisco. How do How
does that make you feel knowing that something you're passionate about,
something that you birthed, is is such a gift two
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families who well the think that it's a win win.
You can catch a little buzz and help people out.
You know, it's a it's a pretty fun thing, but
it's also it's a really good product. You know. When
we started the wine business that we are in, we
didn't want to be the cliche. Oh, here's a little
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bottle of trained wine that you can put on your
shelf and never drink it because it's from the concert.
This is like a real bottle of wine. It's a
twenty dollar retail and it's quality everything and including what
it benefits, and so it's all fun. I'm not a
wine drinker. I think the last time I drank wine
(23:34):
it was Boone's Farm Strawberry Hill mixed with seven up
and I was wearing, um, you know what that that's
actually the ingredients of plutonium. So you had it after all? Yeah,
yeah I did. I just didn't know it. Yeah, but
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I looked for some after I found out about yours.
Because I do this fundraiser for or the NGO that
I uh that I started called Point Hope, and we
do a fundraiser every year um called Farm to Feast
where people come to my farm and I grow organic
fruits and vegetables and we feast and we always pair it.
(24:16):
We have, you know, really lovely wines that we pair
everything with. So I was looking for drops of Jupiter
wine and there's no store within three We'll just send
it to you next time. Awesome, Awesome, Well you'll have
to come next time too, it's up you'll be on tour. Yeah,
we'll send you wine next time you do your event.
Pat Monahan, thank you for making the drive today giving
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us the low down on everything happening with you and
the band. Good luck with the tour this summer, and
thank you for your offer to share some drops of
Jupiter Wine with our Point Hope gala this summer. But
I gotta say, Pat, you're wrong on one level. You're
not your average supermodel, as you said, your way above
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ridge and all things, my friend, but most especially your
capacity for loving. Pick up the train c D greatest
hits and get tickets to this summer's tour with the
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