September 27, 2022 • 29 mins
Heeee's back! The man, the legend, the incredible, Michael Bublé! Michael is packing concert venues on his "Higher" tour, after recently releasing a whole new LP of the same name. He's got some fun new partnerships with Dancing With The Stars legend, Derek Hough, a brand new baby girl, and he tells us about a business venture his sweet wife talked him into - Dog For Dog - that helps out our furry companions.
Michael takes a break to talk with us about the IMPORTANT stuff! How we all have the power to change a life simply by being KIND. It's one of the most genuine, heart-to-heart conversations you could ever be a part of, so waste no time - listen now! ~ Delilah
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Hey, there, have you been settling into your fall routines yet?
Those first few weeks of back to school are kind
of tough at times, but hopefully you're getting into the
rhythm now. You're not forgetting to be there to pick
up the kids at the bus stop. Okay, it only
happened once or twice. Even if you don't have kids
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at home with schedules that remind you of the passing seasons.
You've certainly noticed the shorter days and the changing weather.
What autumn delights are you looking forward to? Will you
go to a pumpkin patch? Will you carve a jack
o Lannard? Will you decorate your porch or your mantle
with fall favorites? Are you the costume wearing type, Maybe
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you're the apple bobbing sort. Maybe you just enjoy taking
long drives and looking at the changing colors. Whatever it
is that sends your spirit soaring, I hope you carve
out time. See that, carve out time to do it.
I cracked myself up. Music is always top of my list,
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and this autumn one of my favorite performers is on tour.
The One, the only, the sexy, the charming, the charismatic
Michael Bubley. He's been wowing fans with his Higher tour
and by the way, you'll you'll hear this. I'm sure
we'll talk about it in our conversation. But his son
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Noah wrote the hook the main lines in the song Higher.
It kicked off on August eight. He's been hitting Citi's
coast to coast. He'll be bringing it to a conclusion
on October eleven and Buffalo, New York. But today today,
he's taking some time out of his busy schedule to
spend time here with us. In just a minute, we're
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going to catch up with Michael Boubley and here all
about the tour. Will we'll talk about life, we will
talk about kids, what ever he wants to dish on.
I gotta ask him about his social media presence because
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Michael Bublet, who is one of my favorite entertainers in
the whole world. I was talking to somebody the other
day and I said, if you knew how funny this
guy is, like you do humor in your show, But
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I said, you gotta watch his TikTok's. Just watches TikTok's
and then you'll get how funny my friend Michael is.
Because I have too much fun with those tiktoks. Have
way too much fun with your TikTok It's like you're
like eight years old on TikTok's. Michael, you know you
and your son are like best friends, the same mental age.
When you do TikTok's, he's probably beat me for a
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maturity love. We did we talk about TikTok the last
time we talk. No, we didn't. But I am obsessed
with you on social media and I love the fact
that you are. You put I don't put content out
all the time because I'm I'm busy, I'm I'm have
got a baby zebra to feed. You got a baby
baby de feed. I got a baby zebra to feed.
But you do the the stupid, funniest thing on your
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social media. I love you. I wasn't. I was never
a big social media fan. I understood that it was
a way to help grow your brand. I understood it
was a part of the marketing thing. And it was
because now people, you know, that's where they get their information.
And so I wasn't. You were you were a reluctant
entrance into I was reluctant, But I honestly felt like
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I would watch my friends doing all these instagrams and
I would think, Man, they're they're really needy. This person
needs to hug, you know, like there's something this guy,
this guy really needs attention. Eating bagels it's like, what,
what do you do? You need a hug? But then
TikTok came along. My wife said to me, you should
do it. She said, you know you're you're funny and
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you enjoy the interaction with Pete both. But I never
knew how much I'd like it. And the truth is,
it isn't making the content that I like so much,
because and I do like that, that comes far far
after how connected we get to become with with people.
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I have found the greatest voices, the funniest people, and
I have literally not just follow them, but then written
them and or commented on them. And all of a sudden,
this great, big world has become so much smaller, and
I have, actually, I have actually started friendships. When I
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met you, you were a kid talking about your grandpa
doing plumbing at my farm, and you were goofy and silly.
And so when I watch you on TikTok, I'm like,
that's my Micha all that that's who I'm met. And
I love that I know all of you. I mean
that I get to experience all the different variations of
your wonderful personality. I love that I get to be
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those people. It's so much fun to play those and
I say, play those characters and make sure, but they're
just a part of you. They're a part of it.
It's funny when we when I think about you and
I think about what you do and how you do it,
it's very interesting. It's very I'm sure that in parts
it's calculated and in other parts it's a very natural thing.
But you have an ability to really make listeners feel
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their heard. You're not just like other people. And you
know that are putting out now, here's the song, here's
the thing. There's an actual back and forth to the relationship,
and you are also there's a sexiness there and whether
you mean to do that or you don't mean to
do that, there's a definite undertone of sexuality. There's a
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thing where you are. You're not only communicating with them,
but you are in a in a strange way, romancing them.
And and I've said you before that there's so much
that I feel that we have. It's similar because we
as much as we love our audience and we and
they are our extended family, our job is also to
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seduce them in a way, and that's when we get
to become that other person. That isn't that isn't the
googy person, that isn't the self africanting person world you
know parts of us that are that person, so we
can be grown up professionals. Yeah. Absolutely, I want to
fall in love with your new baby. Are you trying?
Are you and your wife trying to catch up with me?
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And that's what is that? What's going on? There is
no possibility, you know what it's Sometimes it's overwhelming, like
as you know, but it's a joy. I mean, the
fact that I get to to live both of these
laps is I was talking about it this morning, And
you get to be a fabulous dad with fabulous kids.
And thank God that that everything is going well because
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I know you have hit basis where nobody ever wants
no parents well ever, can I ask you something? Don't
you feel through this pandemic that it really put us
all on equal ground? Like I mean, I knew so
many people that have never dealt with any kind of
adversity and or mental health issues, and all of a sudden,
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we have a whole world that that can be empathetic
towards each other that at least we know there I mean,
people suffered, people are still suffering. I mean, I look
out to my shows and I see I mean, I
see thousands of people every night, and I know it
was tough for them to get there. I know it
wasn't easy. I know they worked their ass off for
the money they make. I know the gas is expensive.
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I know that the economy is not great. I know
that we've got inflation and uh, you know, and then
forget about just that those kind of things. I mean,
for a long time, we were all just we feared
for our lives, for the lives of people we love,
people lost people they loved. Um mental health obviously, just
it was always been an issue. I just don't think
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people maybe realized the precipice we live on, how our
mental state hangs in the balance, in the balance, and
we saw something like this happen, and all of a sudden,
the whole world have suffered. The whole world felt like, oh,
this is yeah, and you're right there there, you and
I are very blessed. I mean, when it when it
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started coming down, when I saw what was happening, and
I'm like, okay, kids in the car, we're going to
the ranch. Could I ask you a question, even though
I know you're asking any questions, how did the pandemic
and what you saw happening? How did it change you
and your what your process and what you're hopeless for
sale podcast? Did it Did it inspire you to just
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sort of take care of people in a different way?
Did it change Well? I think my natural inclination, you know,
has always been to be a caretaker. Otherwise I would
not have fifting child. And but um, what it did
for me is it really helped me prioritize in uh
a way that that I didn't see coming. None of
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us saw it coming. And I thought that I had
prioritized fairly well before, but I hadn't. I hadn't, And
it really like laser focused me on what really matters,
what really really matters, the caretakers at the hospital, of
the people on the front line, they really really matter.
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And I had given lip service before thanking nurses and doctors.
Oh my gosh, no that matters. And what kind of
stories were you getting? Because I know people contact you
a ton of these things with a ton of letters
that were you Were you really receiving a ton of stuff? Oh? Yeah,
my my phone calls, I mean I get call attempts now,
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and I'm sure it doubled or tripled because people say
that again, how many attempts fifty thousand call attempts plus
a night. I'm not kidding you. Wow, I'm in the
wrong business. Yeah, that we have an eight hundred number
six three threela and so we track how many call attempts.
I don't have a call screener. I don't know if
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you know this. I don't have a call screener. I
did for years, and what I've discovered is I like
the intimacy and the immediacy of answering the phone and
talking to people, because with the call screener, it's kind
of like the listeners give them the best stuff and
then by the time they get to me, they've rethought
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in their head, or they've staged what they're gonna say,
or they've rehearsed it. I don't want to do that.
I just I like, Hi, Michael Boublet, it's Delilah. Who's
on your heart tonight? You know? I like that, that
that intimacy. And so when when the pandemic hit, when
the shutdowns hit, I became a lot of people his
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only friend, that's Michael. Do you know how many people
live in a freaking high rise apartment and don't know
their neighbors. You and I would never be that person. Um,
we know everybody on every floor and their habits and
their favorite song. That's just the way you and I
are built. But there are a lot of people who
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aren't wired like us, and they were so desperately lonely. Yes,
and that I have been blessed to be entrusted with
this place that God has placed me where I get
to be people's friends. But with that comes a great responsibility.
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What do I what do I take to you privately
about about that relationship with the people, Because listen, they
think we're doing an interview where you and me are
doing this interview things. When I write you personally, I
always say that I find you and I are similar
in our unique love for those people, that they are
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not they are not our bread and butter, they are
our extended family, and that we genuinely care about them,
and that actually, you know what I just read? This
is it? Okay? If I read this, you can read anything.
You can do, Michael, you can do it. So here
is here is a private message between you and I
where this is what I say to you genuinely. I
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think we care about listeners. We care about them as
human beings and are extended family, and you can't fake that.
That is the magic or an X factor that makes
the relationships we have with them so unique and special.
So that's how I that's not that's me writing you
in a private conversation, and that's how I really do
feel that that is a and you can't fake it
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because people will see through it and uh. And you
might be able to get away with it for months
or maybe years, but at some point you are And
how long have you been doing this? How long has
it been now? Um, since a year before you were born.
I've been on the air since a year before you
one years. Yeah, something like that. Listen. The world is
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in a tough place right now, and so you have
to you have to know that that's just what That's
just what's happening. And I try so hard not to
to fan the flames, not to be divisive. I don't
want to be divisive. I don't want anything on my
show to be divisive. I don't want people fighting with
each other. But sometimes this our world is divided. But
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I'm gonna tell you something interesting and I talk about
every night. Tonight, I'm going to go play it here.
I think we've got twelve thousand people that will be
out there to night, and I swear to you that
will be black and white and gained straight, and young
and old and Richard four and there will be no division.
There will be no division. There are people at their best.
And it's harder to be a bad bad guy or
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a bad girl than it is to be good. And
I truly believe it when I see it. When I
see it out in that context, I realize it gives
me hope, when it gives me faith. And I talk
about it very openly because we're we're better than that.
We're better than to be divided by audiology or race
or or you know. It's okay, we can we can disagree.
That's the thing we're going to disagree. I will not
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There's a bunch of subjects you and I as friends
won't agree on at all. But I don't have to
hate you with guts for it. Yeah, you don't have
to agree with me, uh or or or pray the
same way I pray, or raise your kids the same
way I raise my kids. Um to be friends and yeah,
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we just got to get there. Now, we just got
to get there. But I mean it's hard to get
there when I think people are hurting in many ways
exactly I think, and it's coming out as anger. Yeah,
and it's just, you know, it's we're scared and anxious,
and when we feel those things, we lose our common sense,
We we lose our empathy for each other, we lose
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that love we have for ourselves, and it's just becomes
as one of those sort of domino effects. Maybe we
can make a difference. I'm trying. I'm trying. Every moment
in a day we have an opportunity to change lives.
And it's one small, random act of kindness. And every
single person, every one of those fifty people that writes
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to every night, they each have so much power. They
may not know they have so much power, but they
have no idea what one smile, but one turning to
a guy in the elevator and saying, Dan, boy, you
look great. I love those boots. I know it sounds
trivial and small, but it isn't small. It isn't small.
No idea that to say, you know, just I love
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those that TikTok's where someone puts a little note and
they'll handle it a note to somebody and they'll say,
you know you made a difference. Yeah, we all have
that power. We all have and you know this this conversation,
there will be cynical people. And I understand it because
I'm a cynical person. There will be cynical people that
hear this and say, well, listen to the violet and
boo bleg be essaying about you have any power and
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you can get And I get it. It's so easy
to be cynical. But I know that I can go
to bed at night and I can look in the
mirror and I can say that every day I try
my damnedest to be that guy and to to be
sensitive and to be empathetic, and one day, I hope
my kids and their kids will look at me and
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that will be the legacy of Michael Blue Blaine who
he is. That's what love is. It's that joy and
that energy that you pour into whatever you touch, whether
you're singing a song or dancing on stage, or picking
the kid up after school, or making greens and ribs
for dinner or whatever. When you pour love into what
you do, it affects. It's got that ripple effect. And
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if our conversation today, if one of the zillions of
listeners that listens to you goes, yeah, so I am
on the right track. I'm gonna keep doing this. Then
you know what is then you're doing a good job.
I love, love, love talking to this man, which is
why I do it every opportunity I get. He has
always so much fun. He is gracious, he is kind.
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That was that this thing called Opticon, which is a
big conference for vision people and glasses and everything. And
I found out that the people who make these lenses
and glasses Sessler has this charity where if a kid
can't afford a pair of glasses, if a parent brings
a kid into the doctor who can't apport for a
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get the word out so that kids can get glasses. Right.
So I'm talking to these people and I'm just like
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work with foster kids, and foster kids are always underserved
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in and there in our town, there's a population of
kids who are homeless and they actually sleeping cars and there,
so when they're served, and I want to get them
classes and blah blah blah. And this woman had this
beautiful little girl and I just, you know, zeroed in
on this little girl I'm like, oh my god, she's
so cute. And so somehow it got onto the subject
of kids and our kids, and I say, had, so,
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you know, why don't you have another one? You know,
because she was talking and said well, I said, so
we got four seven thousand kids in adoption and foster care,
adopt one. I said, I've adopted six. My house is
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she said, oh my gosh. I was thinking about this
for the last few weeks. She walked away. She called
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her her fiancee and she said, I'm going to do it.
I'm gonna get foster licensed. I mean right there, and
I'm like, now, how many lives will that touch? How
many lives will that touch? Absolutely? So I just want
I just wanted to see a Ted talk and a
woman killed me. She killed me, And now that was
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what she did. On her TED Talk, she said that
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said that they knew in school they would make fun
of her because she she smelled, because her and her
brother didn't have a way to have a shower. They
would make fun of her because she would take app
of course for the garbage can, and that's what she
would eat. And she said that her and her brother
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would all come from school and there was an elderly
couple that would uh every day would would intercept them
and give them cookies and or peanut butter sandwich and
and she went, you know, she became a successful writer,
and she was about seventy something years old. And I'll
make the story short, but at the end of the
at the end of the story, she said, you know,
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those people would probably never had had any idea of
the impact they had on me. She said, but that
the teacher who believed in me and told me that
I was talented. It's the first time anyone ever made
me feel that I was that I had a life
with living. She had thought about suicide when she was
seven for the first time and and now she said,
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you know, she's gone on and she went on to adopted,
and she went on to live this incredible life. And
it was it killed me. I got to the end.
I was a mess. And she said, you know, I'm
seventy something years old. I have a view, a full
family that loves me. And she said, but to this day,
I'd never walked past the garbage can without wondering if
there's an apple corn and you know, crush me, crush me,
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crush me, because it's, uh, it's a big scary world sometimes.
So I just gotta keep keep aware of things like that,
every opportunity, every opportunity that you have to pour love
into somebody's life. Yeah. And by the way, that goes
for animals. So my wife, actually believe it or not,
talked to me into buying a company weirdly with Sho
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Dog and Chelsea Handler and some of our friends. And
it's called Dog for Dog. When you were talking about
the glasses company, it reminded me that, so what this
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When you go in buy a dog for dog, whatever,
it's a treat or a bag of dog food, we
deliver one for one, to the to the to the
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societies you made societies. Absolutely. I just my wife loves
dogs like you loves animals, and so she talked me
into it and we did it, and she told me,
she said, you know how many millions of dogs are
euthanized because they don't they can't, they can't feed them.
Ours is a no kill shelter, and so they are
shelter actually goes to shelters that are high killed shelters
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and brings the dogs and so they have rescued. My
wife and Argentina makes me go with the bandana and
go to stray dogs and hide the bandanas so that
then they know that's a lou dog and then they
can start to through her social media, she can set
them up for the doctor poems. Oh wow, I know
I loved her. When you're when you're when you're out
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on the street, scary straight pit bull and your wife's
going go for the handkerchief around. Yeah, but you know
what your wife could say, go go to to jump
on the back of that shark, and Michael, you would
do it. Go right the em honey, I want a
video of it for the children. Write the EMU. Well,
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if you ever get up here, you know, besides, when
you're on tour and you don't have two minutes to
your name, you guys got to come and you gotta
bring the kids to see the Yeah. I love you, guys,
I love you, love you. Thank you for having me.
This is a beautiful I sometimes forget that this is
being recorded. Yeah, but I didn't talk naughty to you once.
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This time, and I didn't use any bad language. I
think I said, would we're growing up or something? Yeah?
We do quhen can I get together with you? God?
I love you, Michael, lovey, thank you. Currently performing to
packed arena's on a nightly basis, the man never slows down.
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My friend, Michael Boublay continues his Higher Tour with stops
including the Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle tomorrow September. Were
you able to score tickets to any of his shows?
I sure hope some of you have. He puts on
a nominal show Dancing with the Stars. Fans will be
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including a one on one face time talking with Michael,
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and accommodations to l A for four and more, a
new album, new chart climbing singles, new videos, new partnerships
with Dancing with the Stars, a dog food company Dog
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for Dog, and a brand new baby girl. Michael is
on fire. I love, love, love this man. Have I
said that enough? And I am grateful to him for
the wonderful music he puts out. I love the way
he makes people feel. I love his love for his
beautiful wife, his commitment to his family, and mostly for
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his friendship that has spanned more than two decades now.
He's always willing to share time with us. Go to
Michael Bubley dot com, That's m I C H A
E L B U B l E dot com, Michael
Boublay dot com for details on Higher, the Album, concert news,
Higher National Dance contest Info, Michael Boublay, swag and more.
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Autumn Opens is a season of industry and business, but
there is a slowing down that takes place as well.
It brings deep breaths of fresh crisp air, meandering strolls
with crunchy leaves underfoot, and the opportunity to pause, to observe,
to make some course corrections if needed, to take advantage
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of every good thing that that autumn has to offer,
and remember the autumn season is every season that comes
before and after is the perfect time to slow down
and love someone. Thank you for joining Michael Boublet and
me today. I'm going to go listen to Higher on
repeat until it's time to sit down at the microphone
and spend the evening with you on the air waves.
Hey, there, have you been settling into your fall routines yet?
Those first few weeks of back to school are kind
of tough at times, but hopefully you're getting into the
rhythm now. You're not forgetting to be there to pick
up the kids at the bus stop. Okay, it only
happened once or twice. Even if you don't have kids
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at home with schedules that remind you of the passing seasons.
You've certainly noticed the shorter days and the changing weather.
What autumn delights are you looking forward to? Will you
go to a pumpkin patch? Will you carve a jack
o Lannard? Will you decorate your porch or your mantle
with fall favorites? Are you the costume wearing type, Maybe
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you're the apple bobbing sort. Maybe you just enjoy taking
long drives and looking at the changing colors. Whatever it
is that sends your spirit soaring, I hope you carve
out time. See that, carve out time to do it.
I cracked myself up. Music is always top of my list,
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and this autumn one of my favorite performers is on tour.
The One, the only, the sexy, the charming, the charismatic
Michael Bubley. He's been wowing fans with his Higher tour
and by the way, you'll you'll hear this. I'm sure
we'll talk about it in our conversation. But his son
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Noah wrote the hook the main lines in the song Higher.
It kicked off on August eight. He's been hitting Citi's
coast to coast. He'll be bringing it to a conclusion
on October eleven and Buffalo, New York. But today today,
he's taking some time out of his busy schedule to
spend time here with us. In just a minute, we're
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going to catch up with Michael Boubley and here all
about the tour. Will we'll talk about life, we will
talk about kids, what ever he wants to dish on.
I gotta ask him about his social media presence because
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Michael Bublet, who is one of my favorite entertainers in
the whole world. I was talking to somebody the other
day and I said, if you knew how funny this
guy is, like you do humor in your show, But
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I said, you gotta watch his TikTok's. Just watches TikTok's
and then you'll get how funny my friend Michael is.
Because I have too much fun with those tiktoks. Have
way too much fun with your TikTok It's like you're
like eight years old on TikTok's. Michael, you know you
and your son are like best friends, the same mental age.
When you do TikTok's, he's probably beat me for a
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maturity love. We did we talk about TikTok the last
time we talk. No, we didn't. But I am obsessed
with you on social media and I love the fact
that you are. You put I don't put content out
all the time because I'm I'm busy, I'm I'm have
got a baby zebra to feed. You got a baby
baby de feed. I got a baby zebra to feed.
But you do the the stupid, funniest thing on your
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social media. I love you. I wasn't. I was never
a big social media fan. I understood that it was
a way to help grow your brand. I understood it
was a part of the marketing thing. And it was
because now people, you know, that's where they get their information.
And so I wasn't. You were you were a reluctant
entrance into I was reluctant, But I honestly felt like
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I would watch my friends doing all these instagrams and
I would think, Man, they're they're really needy. This person
needs to hug, you know, like there's something this guy,
this guy really needs attention. Eating bagels it's like, what,
what do you do? You need a hug? But then
TikTok came along. My wife said to me, you should
do it. She said, you know you're you're funny and
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you enjoy the interaction with Pete both. But I never
knew how much I'd like it. And the truth is,
it isn't making the content that I like so much,
because and I do like that, that comes far far
after how connected we get to become with with people.
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I have found the greatest voices, the funniest people, and
I have literally not just follow them, but then written
them and or commented on them. And all of a sudden,
this great, big world has become so much smaller, and
I have, actually, I have actually started friendships. When I
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met you, you were a kid talking about your grandpa
doing plumbing at my farm, and you were goofy and silly.
And so when I watch you on TikTok, I'm like,
that's my Micha all that that's who I'm met. And
I love that I know all of you. I mean
that I get to experience all the different variations of
your wonderful personality. I love that I get to be
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those people. It's so much fun to play those and
I say, play those characters and make sure, but they're
just a part of you. They're a part of it.
It's funny when we when I think about you and
I think about what you do and how you do it,
it's very interesting. It's very I'm sure that in parts
it's calculated and in other parts it's a very natural thing.
But you have an ability to really make listeners feel
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their heard. You're not just like other people. And you
know that are putting out now, here's the song, here's
the thing. There's an actual back and forth to the relationship,
and you are also there's a sexiness there and whether
you mean to do that or you don't mean to
do that, there's a definite undertone of sexuality. There's a
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thing where you are. You're not only communicating with them,
but you are in a in a strange way, romancing them.
And and I've said you before that there's so much
that I feel that we have. It's similar because we
as much as we love our audience and we and
they are our extended family, our job is also to
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seduce them in a way, and that's when we get
to become that other person. That isn't that isn't the
googy person, that isn't the self africanting person world you
know parts of us that are that person, so we
can be grown up professionals. Yeah. Absolutely, I want to
fall in love with your new baby. Are you trying?
Are you and your wife trying to catch up with me?
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And that's what is that? What's going on? There is
no possibility, you know what it's Sometimes it's overwhelming, like
as you know, but it's a joy. I mean, the
fact that I get to to live both of these
laps is I was talking about it this morning, And
you get to be a fabulous dad with fabulous kids.
And thank God that that everything is going well because
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I know you have hit basis where nobody ever wants
no parents well ever, can I ask you something? Don't
you feel through this pandemic that it really put us
all on equal ground? Like I mean, I knew so
many people that have never dealt with any kind of
adversity and or mental health issues, and all of a sudden,
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we have a whole world that that can be empathetic
towards each other that at least we know there I mean,
people suffered, people are still suffering. I mean, I look
out to my shows and I see I mean, I
see thousands of people every night, and I know it
was tough for them to get there. I know it
wasn't easy. I know they worked their ass off for
the money they make. I know the gas is expensive.
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I know that the economy is not great. I know
that we've got inflation and uh, you know, and then
forget about just that those kind of things. I mean,
for a long time, we were all just we feared
for our lives, for the lives of people we love,
people lost people they loved. Um mental health obviously, just
it was always been an issue. I just don't think
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people maybe realized the precipice we live on, how our
mental state hangs in the balance, in the balance, and
we saw something like this happen, and all of a sudden,
the whole world have suffered. The whole world felt like, oh,
this is yeah, and you're right there there, you and
I are very blessed. I mean, when it when it
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started coming down, when I saw what was happening, and
I'm like, okay, kids in the car, we're going to
the ranch. Could I ask you a question, even though
I know you're asking any questions, how did the pandemic
and what you saw happening? How did it change you
and your what your process and what you're hopeless for
sale podcast? Did it Did it inspire you to just
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sort of take care of people in a different way?
Did it change Well? I think my natural inclination, you know,
has always been to be a caretaker. Otherwise I would
not have fifting child. And but um, what it did
for me is it really helped me prioritize in uh
a way that that I didn't see coming. None of
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us saw it coming. And I thought that I had
prioritized fairly well before, but I hadn't. I hadn't, And
it really like laser focused me on what really matters,
what really really matters, the caretakers at the hospital, of
the people on the front line, they really really matter.
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And I had given lip service before thanking nurses and doctors.
Oh my gosh, no that matters. And what kind of
stories were you getting? Because I know people contact you
a ton of these things with a ton of letters
that were you Were you really receiving a ton of stuff? Oh? Yeah,
my my phone calls, I mean I get call attempts now,
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and I'm sure it doubled or tripled because people say
that again, how many attempts fifty thousand call attempts plus
a night. I'm not kidding you. Wow, I'm in the
wrong business. Yeah, that we have an eight hundred number
six three threela and so we track how many call attempts.
I don't have a call screener. I don't know if
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you know this. I don't have a call screener. I
did for years, and what I've discovered is I like
the intimacy and the immediacy of answering the phone and
talking to people, because with the call screener, it's kind
of like the listeners give them the best stuff and
then by the time they get to me, they've rethought
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in their head, or they've staged what they're gonna say,
or they've rehearsed it. I don't want to do that.
I just I like, Hi, Michael Boublet, it's Delilah. Who's
on your heart tonight? You know? I like that, that
that intimacy. And so when when the pandemic hit, when
the shutdowns hit, I became a lot of people his
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only friend, that's Michael. Do you know how many people
live in a freaking high rise apartment and don't know
their neighbors. You and I would never be that person. Um,
we know everybody on every floor and their habits and
their favorite song. That's just the way you and I
are built. But there are a lot of people who
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aren't wired like us, and they were so desperately lonely. Yes,
and that I have been blessed to be entrusted with
this place that God has placed me where I get
to be people's friends. But with that comes a great responsibility.
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What do I what do I take to you privately
about about that relationship with the people, Because listen, they
think we're doing an interview where you and me are
doing this interview things. When I write you personally, I
always say that I find you and I are similar
in our unique love for those people, that they are
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not they are not our bread and butter, they are
our extended family, and that we genuinely care about them,
and that actually, you know what I just read? This
is it? Okay? If I read this, you can read anything.
You can do, Michael, you can do it. So here
is here is a private message between you and I
where this is what I say to you genuinely. I
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think we care about listeners. We care about them as
human beings and are extended family, and you can't fake that.
That is the magic or an X factor that makes
the relationships we have with them so unique and special.
So that's how I that's not that's me writing you
in a private conversation, and that's how I really do
feel that that is a and you can't fake it
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because people will see through it and uh. And you
might be able to get away with it for months
or maybe years, but at some point you are And
how long have you been doing this? How long has
it been now? Um, since a year before you were born.
I've been on the air since a year before you
one years. Yeah, something like that. Listen. The world is
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in a tough place right now, and so you have
to you have to know that that's just what That's
just what's happening. And I try so hard not to
to fan the flames, not to be divisive. I don't
want to be divisive. I don't want anything on my
show to be divisive. I don't want people fighting with
each other. But sometimes this our world is divided. But
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I'm gonna tell you something interesting and I talk about
every night. Tonight, I'm going to go play it here.
I think we've got twelve thousand people that will be
out there to night, and I swear to you that
will be black and white and gained straight, and young
and old and Richard four and there will be no division.
There will be no division. There are people at their best.
And it's harder to be a bad bad guy or
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a bad girl than it is to be good. And
I truly believe it when I see it. When I
see it out in that context, I realize it gives
me hope, when it gives me faith. And I talk
about it very openly because we're we're better than that.
We're better than to be divided by audiology or race
or or you know. It's okay, we can we can disagree.
That's the thing we're going to disagree. I will not
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There's a bunch of subjects you and I as friends
won't agree on at all. But I don't have to
hate you with guts for it. Yeah, you don't have
to agree with me, uh or or or pray the
same way I pray, or raise your kids the same
way I raise my kids. Um to be friends and yeah,
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we just got to get there. Now, we just got
to get there. But I mean it's hard to get
there when I think people are hurting in many ways
exactly I think, and it's coming out as anger. Yeah,
and it's just, you know, it's we're scared and anxious,
and when we feel those things, we lose our common sense,
We we lose our empathy for each other, we lose
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that love we have for ourselves, and it's just becomes
as one of those sort of domino effects. Maybe we
can make a difference. I'm trying. I'm trying. Every moment
in a day we have an opportunity to change lives.
And it's one small, random act of kindness. And every
single person, every one of those fifty people that writes
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to every night, they each have so much power. They
may not know they have so much power, but they
have no idea what one smile, but one turning to
a guy in the elevator and saying, Dan, boy, you
look great. I love those boots. I know it sounds
trivial and small, but it isn't small. It isn't small.
No idea that to say, you know, just I love
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those that TikTok's where someone puts a little note and
they'll handle it a note to somebody and they'll say,
you know you made a difference. Yeah, we all have
that power. We all have and you know this this conversation,
there will be cynical people. And I understand it because
I'm a cynical person. There will be cynical people that
hear this and say, well, listen to the violet and
boo bleg be essaying about you have any power and
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you can get And I get it. It's so easy
to be cynical. But I know that I can go
to bed at night and I can look in the
mirror and I can say that every day I try
my damnedest to be that guy and to to be
sensitive and to be empathetic, and one day, I hope
my kids and their kids will look at me and
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that will be the legacy of Michael Blue Blaine who
he is. That's what love is. It's that joy and
that energy that you pour into whatever you touch, whether
you're singing a song or dancing on stage, or picking
the kid up after school, or making greens and ribs
for dinner or whatever. When you pour love into what
you do, it affects. It's got that ripple effect. And
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if our conversation today, if one of the zillions of
listeners that listens to you goes, yeah, so I am
on the right track. I'm gonna keep doing this. Then
you know what is then you're doing a good job.
I love, love, love talking to this man, which is
why I do it every opportunity I get. He has
always so much fun. He is gracious, he is kind.
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That was that this thing called Opticon, which is a
big conference for vision people and glasses and everything. And
I found out that the people who make these lenses
and glasses Sessler has this charity where if a kid
can't afford a pair of glasses, if a parent brings
a kid into the doctor who can't apport for a
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is doctors don't know about it, so they're trying to
get the word out so that kids can get glasses. Right.
So I'm talking to these people and I'm just like
so jazzed, I can't even stand it. I'm like, I
work with foster kids, and foster kids are always underserved
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in and there in our town, there's a population of
kids who are homeless and they actually sleeping cars and there,
so when they're served, and I want to get them
classes and blah blah blah. And this woman had this
beautiful little girl and I just, you know, zeroed in
on this little girl I'm like, oh my god, she's
so cute. And so somehow it got onto the subject
of kids and our kids, and I say, had, so,
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you know, why don't you have another one? You know,
because she was talking and said well, I said, so
we got four seven thousand kids in adoption and foster care,
adopt one. I said, I've adopted six. My house is
kind of full. I could use a little healthier. And
she said, oh my gosh. I was thinking about this
for the last few weeks. She walked away. She called
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her her fiancee and she said, I'm going to do it.
I'm gonna get foster licensed. I mean right there, and
I'm like, now, how many lives will that touch? How
many lives will that touch? Absolutely? So I just want
I just wanted to see a Ted talk and a
woman killed me. She killed me, And now that was
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what she did. On her TED Talk, she said that
she was she came from a really rough family. She
said that they knew in school they would make fun
of her because she she smelled, because her and her
brother didn't have a way to have a shower. They
would make fun of her because she would take app
of course for the garbage can, and that's what she
would eat. And she said that her and her brother
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would all come from school and there was an elderly
couple that would uh every day would would intercept them
and give them cookies and or peanut butter sandwich and
and she went, you know, she became a successful writer,
and she was about seventy something years old. And I'll
make the story short, but at the end of the
at the end of the story, she said, you know,
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those people would probably never had had any idea of
the impact they had on me. She said, but that
the teacher who believed in me and told me that
I was talented. It's the first time anyone ever made
me feel that I was that I had a life
with living. She had thought about suicide when she was
seven for the first time and and now she said,
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you know, she's gone on and she went on to adopted,
and she went on to live this incredible life. And
it was it killed me. I got to the end.
I was a mess. And she said, you know, I'm
seventy something years old. I have a view, a full
family that loves me. And she said, but to this day,
I'd never walked past the garbage can without wondering if
there's an apple corn and you know, crush me, crush me,
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crush me, because it's, uh, it's a big scary world sometimes.
So I just gotta keep keep aware of things like that,
every opportunity, every opportunity that you have to pour love
into somebody's life. Yeah. And by the way, that goes
for animals. So my wife, actually believe it or not,
talked to me into buying a company weirdly with Sho
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Dog and Chelsea Handler and some of our friends. And
it's called Dog for Dog. When you were talking about
the glasses company, it reminded me that, so what this
dog the Dog does is dog dog dog for dog.
When you go in buy a dog for dog, whatever,
it's a treat or a bag of dog food, we
deliver one for one, to the to the to the
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societies you made societies. Absolutely. I just my wife loves
dogs like you loves animals, and so she talked me
into it and we did it, and she told me,
she said, you know how many millions of dogs are
euthanized because they don't they can't, they can't feed them.
Ours is a no kill shelter, and so they are
shelter actually goes to shelters that are high killed shelters
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and brings the dogs and so they have rescued. My
wife and Argentina makes me go with the bandana and
go to stray dogs and hide the bandanas so that
then they know that's a lou dog and then they
can start to through her social media, she can set
them up for the doctor poems. Oh wow, I know
I loved her. When you're when you're when you're out
(25:38):
on the street, scary straight pit bull and your wife's
going go for the handkerchief around. Yeah, but you know
what your wife could say, go go to to jump
on the back of that shark, and Michael, you would
do it. Go right the em honey, I want a
video of it for the children. Write the EMU. Well,
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if you ever get up here, you know, besides, when
you're on tour and you don't have two minutes to
your name, you guys got to come and you gotta
bring the kids to see the Yeah. I love you, guys,
I love you, love you. Thank you for having me.
This is a beautiful I sometimes forget that this is
being recorded. Yeah, but I didn't talk naughty to you once.
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This time, and I didn't use any bad language. I
think I said, would we're growing up or something? Yeah?
We do quhen can I get together with you? God?
I love you, Michael, lovey, thank you. Currently performing to
packed arena's on a nightly basis, the man never slows down.
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My friend, Michael Boublay continues his Higher Tour with stops
including the Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle tomorrow September. Were
you able to score tickets to any of his shows?
I sure hope some of you have. He puts on
a nominal show Dancing with the Stars. Fans will be
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thrilled to learn of the Michael Boublay theme week on
Disney Plus beginning Monday October. The Grammy winning multi platinum
superstar entertainer will not only perform his latest single and
album titled track Higher, but will also serve as a
guest judge on Dancing with the Stars, and every celebrity
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and professional competitor will dance to timeless selections from Michael
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including a one on one face time talking with Michael,
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and accommodations to l A for four and more, a
new album, new chart climbing singles, new videos, new partnerships
with Dancing with the Stars, a dog food company Dog
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for Dog, and a brand new baby girl. Michael is
on fire. I love, love, love this man. Have I
said that enough? And I am grateful to him for
the wonderful music he puts out. I love the way
he makes people feel. I love his love for his
beautiful wife, his commitment to his family, and mostly for
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his friendship that has spanned more than two decades now.
He's always willing to share time with us. Go to
Michael Bubley dot com, That's m I C H A
E L B U B l E dot com, Michael
Boublay dot com for details on Higher, the Album, concert news,
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Autumn Opens is a season of industry and business, but
there is a slowing down that takes place as well.
It brings deep breaths of fresh crisp air, meandering strolls
with crunchy leaves underfoot, and the opportunity to pause, to observe,
to make some course corrections if needed, to take advantage
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of every good thing that that autumn has to offer,
and remember the autumn season is every season that comes
before and after is the perfect time to slow down
and love someone. Thank you for joining Michael Boublet and
me today. I'm going to go listen to Higher on
repeat until it's time to sit down at the microphone
and spend the evening with you on the air waves.
Host
Delilah
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