Speaker 1: Hello, Harry, How are you doing Harry Connick Jr. Welcome
Speaker 1: to The Delilah Show. Thank you very much. It's good
Speaker 1: to talk to you. How do you have time to
Speaker 1: be with me on the show when you are like
Speaker 1: everywhere right now? Because in life you have to have priorities,
Speaker 1: and you are a priority for me. Delilah melt my heart.
Speaker 1: So you've been melting my heart Harry Connick Jr. For years,
Speaker 1: despite the fact that you're married to like the most
Speaker 1: beautiful woman on the planet. I still have a secret
Speaker 1: crush on you. Okay, well it's not that secret. You're
Speaker 1: so damned adorable. You're like talent it and you can sing,
Speaker 1: and you can act, and you got those eyes and
Speaker 1: that smile, and you're funny and now you're like this
Speaker 1: famous TV guy. Man, I need to call you more often.
Speaker 1: Grateful my ego. Oh come on now, how how are
Speaker 1: you doing it? How are you like keeping TV shows
Speaker 1: and like producing new music and like going on tour
Speaker 1: this summer? How are you going to do that? Well?
Speaker 1: We we finished taping this year for the for the show,
Speaker 1: so I have some time this summer, and you know,
Speaker 1: I'm focusing on coming out and playing music, and we're
Speaker 1: excited because we haven't been on the road in a
Speaker 1: little while, so, you know, on a like a formal tour.
Speaker 1: I mean we've we've played shows here and there, but
Speaker 1: this is a, you know, an official tour, and we're
Speaker 1: we're thrilled because you know, we love that. I think,
Speaker 1: as for me and everybody in the band, playing concert
Speaker 1: is playing in front of people as as at the
Speaker 1: heart of what we do. So we're we're we're dying
Speaker 1: to get out there and start playing in Harry, I
Speaker 1: just I adore you. I cannot say enough to your
Speaker 1: Your music has touched my heart. Your I love your jazz,
Speaker 1: I love your career. I mean, everybody knows you're like
Speaker 1: Mr Christmas. You're right up there with Santa Claus Records
Speaker 1: to make you are right up there with Santa Claus
Speaker 1: in in in the bringing Christmas Joy to people department.
Speaker 1: You know that. That's really sweet. Thank you, Delilah, because
Speaker 1: the Delilah Show is all over Christmas. Yeah, man, that's
Speaker 1: good stuff. We we we crank out the Christmas So
Speaker 1: thank you for all the great Christmas music. Are you
Speaker 1: going to be in any more movies or TV shows
Speaker 1: besides your own point right now, you know, I'm kind
Speaker 1: of looking at the immediate future. We we just finished
Speaker 1: a workshop of a musical adaptation of the film This Thing.
Speaker 1: I was playing Paul Newman's part and it's very cool.
Speaker 1: So the the intent there for that show to go
Speaker 1: to Broadway. We'll see what happens that. Now I have
Speaker 1: the tour and then, um, you know, whatever bridges are
Speaker 1: after that, we'll cross him when we get to them. Harry,
Speaker 1: thank you for spending time with us. Could you talk
Speaker 1: a little bit about your interest and your passion in
Speaker 1: encouraging people to get screened for cancer. I know your
Speaker 1: wife is a cancer survivor. Talk a little bit about
Speaker 1: that if you would. It's a campaign, UM that has
Speaker 1: to do with uh, screening for colon cancer, which is
Speaker 1: something UM, you know, I've had too many negative experiences
Speaker 1: with with cancer. I mean, one experiences is bad, but
Speaker 1: you know, my mom died of cancer. My wife, you know,
Speaker 1: is just at the five year point recovering from breast cancer.
Speaker 1: And I thought it was important too to make people
Speaker 1: aware of how important was to to get screened for
Speaker 1: colon cancer. So I've been doing this campaign called the
Speaker 1: New fifty Campaign. UM, basically telling people that UH fifties
Speaker 1: a little bit different now than it than it used
Speaker 1: to be. And if you go to a New fifty
Speaker 1: dot com you can read all about it. But there's
Speaker 1: a product called colon Guard, which is a uh which
Speaker 1: you use to screen for colon cancer. And it's it's
Speaker 1: unequal standing as a screening uh as for screening for
Speaker 1: colon cancer as colonoscopy. So if you're over fifty I
Speaker 1: just turned fifty. If you're over fifty and your average risk,
Speaker 1: you can ask your doctor to prescribe colon Guard for
Speaker 1: you and then you don't have to go through that
Speaker 1: big nuisance of getting colonoscopy. Um that's just for the
Speaker 1: screening part. Obviously, if there's a positive diagnosis, you have
Speaker 1: to have a colonoscopy. But it's it's pretty it's a
Speaker 1: game changer, and I'm just trying to get as many
Speaker 1: people as I can to get screen because it's important.
Speaker 1: It's very important. Okay, where can they go to find
Speaker 1: out more the New fifty They can go to New
Speaker 1: fifty dot com any w and then the number five,
Speaker 1: Oh I should I should tell you to the lotta
Speaker 1: before I go. There's a hashtag um called screen with Me.
Speaker 1: It's a challenge that Jill and I are trying to
Speaker 1: get everybody we know that over fifty to take this challenge.
Speaker 1: It's about getting screen for colon cancer. And every pledge,
Speaker 1: and this is important, Exact Sciences are going to donate
Speaker 1: a dollar to cancer research and advocacy. So if you
Speaker 1: go to hashtag screen with me, you can you can
Speaker 1: uh get all your friends to get signed up if
Speaker 1: they're if they're over fifty, to get get screened because
Speaker 1: there's too many people that are not getting screened. And
Speaker 1: you know, one people who is going to be diagnosed
Speaker 1: with this, and thirty five million people are not getting
Speaker 1: screened because of probably the same reason I didn't want
Speaker 1: to get a colonoscopy, which is I was freaked out
Speaker 1: by it. So I just wanted to make sure I
Speaker 1: said that before I left. You. Okay, hashtag screen with me, Yeah,
Speaker 1: hashtag screen with me. Okay, And a dollar goes to
Speaker 1: cancer research for each person signed up. It's really really important,
Speaker 1: you know, let's get this thing eradicated. Man, enough already
Speaker 1: enough already, Harry, thank you for spending time with us.
Speaker 1: God bless you. That's just talking to you. Give my
Speaker 1: love to your beautiful family. Thanks Delilah,