1 00:00:00,400 --> 00:00:01,120 Speaker 1: Taking a Walk. 2 00:00:01,160 --> 00:00:03,920 Speaker 2: You know, I'm not, you know, twenty years old again, 3 00:00:03,960 --> 00:00:06,520 Speaker 2: I'm eighty two, and I don't want to go out 4 00:00:06,559 --> 00:00:09,400 Speaker 2: there kind of found that I did then and you know, 5 00:00:09,440 --> 00:00:11,559 Speaker 2: and people telling you don't found that can use it. 6 00:00:11,760 --> 00:00:14,360 Speaker 2: I have records that I'm made that I'll lead. You know, 7 00:00:14,360 --> 00:00:16,520 Speaker 2: if you want to hear Aaron Neville, you know, check 8 00:00:16,560 --> 00:00:19,280 Speaker 2: out the records. I still call him records. 9 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:19,159 Speaker 1: You know. 10 00:00:19,760 --> 00:00:23,320 Speaker 3: Welcome to this episode of Taking a Walk Music History 11 00:00:23,400 --> 00:00:26,440 Speaker 3: on Foot. Buzz Night is your host, and his guest 12 00:00:26,560 --> 00:00:30,400 Speaker 3: is Grammy Award winning singer Aaron Nevill. Aaron has four 13 00:00:30,440 --> 00:00:34,320 Speaker 3: platinum albums, four top ten hits, including three that reached 14 00:00:34,440 --> 00:00:37,760 Speaker 3: number one on the Billboard Charts. Aaron's new book is 15 00:00:37,760 --> 00:00:41,480 Speaker 3: called Tell It Like It Is. Aaron Nevill joints Buzz 16 00:00:41,600 --> 00:00:43,800 Speaker 3: Night next on Taking a Walk. 17 00:00:45,840 --> 00:00:48,159 Speaker 1: Aaron, it's an honor to speak to you. 18 00:00:48,200 --> 00:00:49,280 Speaker 2: Oh thank you, Sam. 19 00:00:49,360 --> 00:00:53,040 Speaker 1: Yeah, congratulations on the book Tell It Like It Is. 20 00:00:53,400 --> 00:00:57,320 Speaker 1: Tell me did you enjoy the writing process for your book? 21 00:00:58,200 --> 00:01:01,240 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it was great. But the Adamman who had 22 00:01:01,240 --> 00:01:03,960 Speaker 2: helped me to it great things, you say it was, Aaron. 23 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:06,280 Speaker 2: I wanted to be in your voice, and that's what 24 00:01:06,319 --> 00:01:08,840 Speaker 2: we've done, and I'll tell you it was a roller 25 00:01:08,840 --> 00:01:11,600 Speaker 2: coaster of emotions, you know, just going over the stuff 26 00:01:12,160 --> 00:01:12,880 Speaker 2: that I had lived. 27 00:01:13,800 --> 00:01:16,200 Speaker 1: Did you find it uh therapeutic? 28 00:01:17,160 --> 00:01:20,800 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, definitely, you know. And and I you know, 29 00:01:21,040 --> 00:01:23,160 Speaker 2: I prayed the whole while I was doing it, you know, 30 00:01:23,160 --> 00:01:25,840 Speaker 2: and as some forgiveness or whatever I've done wrong at 31 00:01:26,200 --> 00:01:27,080 Speaker 2: different times, you know. 32 00:01:28,560 --> 00:01:31,880 Speaker 1: Tell me about religion in your life. 33 00:01:31,600 --> 00:01:36,120 Speaker 2: Aaron Well, I went to Catholic school in Saint Monica 34 00:01:36,200 --> 00:01:39,839 Speaker 2: and New Orleans. It was close to the Calttle Project. 35 00:01:40,040 --> 00:01:44,080 Speaker 2: And uh, the nuns, you know, like one of my 36 00:01:44,160 --> 00:01:47,440 Speaker 2: favorite nuns, the sister Damiens, she taught the fourth grade, 37 00:01:47,520 --> 00:01:50,720 Speaker 2: and you know she followed out the red and say 38 00:01:50,680 --> 00:01:53,880 Speaker 2: as you passed. And uh, I learned a lot from 39 00:01:53,960 --> 00:01:58,280 Speaker 2: them and from my parents too, you know. But uh, 40 00:01:58,880 --> 00:02:02,880 Speaker 2: being in Catholic tache listening to the choir saying the 41 00:02:02,880 --> 00:02:05,240 Speaker 2: Ivy Maria, I never knew the words. I just knew 42 00:02:05,240 --> 00:02:08,560 Speaker 2: the refrain would always do something to my heart. I 43 00:02:08,600 --> 00:02:11,280 Speaker 2: can't explain it, you know. It was like like medicine, 44 00:02:11,280 --> 00:02:14,440 Speaker 2: you know, And that's what I've called my music effort 45 00:02:15,400 --> 00:02:20,040 Speaker 2: medicine for other people. But the Ivy Maria was special 46 00:02:20,760 --> 00:02:25,560 Speaker 2: until I met Linda Ronstad and the first thing we 47 00:02:25,800 --> 00:02:27,840 Speaker 2: got the chance of singing together in the studio was 48 00:02:27,919 --> 00:02:30,840 Speaker 2: the Ivy and Maria. We did it in Harmony co 49 00:02:30,960 --> 00:02:34,880 Speaker 2: produce with George Matthenbury. My first solo album on A 50 00:02:34,960 --> 00:02:38,160 Speaker 2: and M Warm Your Heart. It suggested that I do 51 00:02:38,280 --> 00:02:43,320 Speaker 2: Ivan Maria and we recorded it in San Francisco at 52 00:02:43,360 --> 00:02:47,680 Speaker 2: Grace Cathedral with the Old Boys choir, and I mean 53 00:02:47,720 --> 00:02:49,279 Speaker 2: it came out magnificent. 54 00:02:50,639 --> 00:02:52,440 Speaker 1: I have chills just thinking about that. 55 00:02:53,080 --> 00:02:55,519 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it was chilled for me too, really. 56 00:02:56,280 --> 00:03:00,840 Speaker 1: Aaron, the book is so transparent in terms of where 57 00:03:00,880 --> 00:03:08,239 Speaker 1: your life led you down some paths of destruction when 58 00:03:08,240 --> 00:03:13,040 Speaker 1: you when you sort of think about those lessons like 59 00:03:13,200 --> 00:03:16,320 Speaker 1: lessons of rehab as an example, what would you want 60 00:03:16,360 --> 00:03:19,240 Speaker 1: to pass along to others listening. 61 00:03:20,440 --> 00:03:25,079 Speaker 2: Well, it's a it's a game you play, and especially 62 00:03:25,120 --> 00:03:29,360 Speaker 2: with the drugs with the hair on is like your phrase, 63 00:03:29,480 --> 00:03:31,560 Speaker 2: do it and make you think it likes you, but 64 00:03:31,600 --> 00:03:34,040 Speaker 2: it don't like you. You know, it's your worst enemy 65 00:03:34,600 --> 00:03:38,400 Speaker 2: and drag you through hell and gasoline draws. And that's 66 00:03:38,400 --> 00:03:41,600 Speaker 2: what it had done me. So you know, I'm glad 67 00:03:41,640 --> 00:03:43,200 Speaker 2: I got up to the other side. I'm glad I 68 00:03:43,240 --> 00:03:46,840 Speaker 2: wasn't one of the twenty seven club like Jimmy Hendricks 69 00:03:46,880 --> 00:03:49,240 Speaker 2: and a few others, you know, the oh dad at 70 00:03:49,240 --> 00:03:52,480 Speaker 2: twenty seven years old, Well, yeah, I am still here. 71 00:03:53,640 --> 00:03:58,560 Speaker 1: What did doctor Drew Pinsky teach you when you consulted him? 72 00:03:59,480 --> 00:04:02,400 Speaker 2: He told you that the drugs what they were doing 73 00:04:02,520 --> 00:04:04,920 Speaker 2: toil you're inside, to the organs and all, you know, 74 00:04:05,400 --> 00:04:09,120 Speaker 2: destroying you. And then you said something, you said one 75 00:04:09,280 --> 00:04:11,920 Speaker 2: too many and the thousands not enough? I said, wow, 76 00:04:12,040 --> 00:04:16,640 Speaker 2: isn't there so much sense? You know? But I guess uh, 77 00:04:17,160 --> 00:04:19,640 Speaker 2: I had to you know, reach my waterloo whatever you 78 00:04:19,680 --> 00:04:22,680 Speaker 2: want to call it. You know before what I tell 79 00:04:22,720 --> 00:04:25,839 Speaker 2: you all, it's all in the book. I finally flew 80 00:04:25,880 --> 00:04:26,400 Speaker 2: the dragon. 81 00:04:26,440 --> 00:04:31,320 Speaker 1: You know now you have kind of quietly retired. 82 00:04:36,880 --> 00:04:39,600 Speaker 2: You know, I've done it since I was a teenager. 83 00:04:40,200 --> 00:04:42,160 Speaker 2: And the thing about me and London, I said, talk 84 00:04:42,240 --> 00:04:45,080 Speaker 2: about it like she's saying. When she first found her, 85 00:04:45,080 --> 00:04:47,640 Speaker 2: she had Parlkinson and you know, she wasn't hitting the 86 00:04:47,720 --> 00:04:50,320 Speaker 2: notes like she used to. She said, I don't want 87 00:04:50,360 --> 00:04:52,520 Speaker 2: to treat the people. And that's how I feel. You know, 88 00:04:52,560 --> 00:04:56,480 Speaker 2: I'm not you know, twenty years old again, I'm eighty two, 89 00:04:56,680 --> 00:04:58,360 Speaker 2: and I don't want to go out there kind of 90 00:04:58,960 --> 00:05:01,080 Speaker 2: sound like I did. And then, you know, and people 91 00:05:01,080 --> 00:05:02,640 Speaker 2: would say, oh, you know, it sound like you used to. 92 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:05,599 Speaker 2: I have records that I made that are great. You know, 93 00:05:05,600 --> 00:05:07,800 Speaker 2: if you want to hear her never, you know, check 94 00:05:07,839 --> 00:05:10,400 Speaker 2: out the records. I still call them records. You know. 95 00:05:11,960 --> 00:05:14,599 Speaker 1: Is it possible anyone would ever coax you into a 96 00:05:14,680 --> 00:05:15,560 Speaker 1: recording session? 97 00:05:16,480 --> 00:05:20,960 Speaker 2: Nah? I mean I I got five Grammars out since 98 00:05:20,960 --> 00:05:22,760 Speaker 2: I've retired. I got a Grammar some one of the 99 00:05:22,839 --> 00:05:29,120 Speaker 2: songs I did on the album Aparty or Stopping Grounds. 100 00:05:30,440 --> 00:05:33,440 Speaker 2: Who would have thought I was getting a fifth Grammy? 101 00:05:33,839 --> 00:05:35,080 Speaker 2: So I'm satisfied, you know. 102 00:05:36,279 --> 00:05:38,960 Speaker 1: Back to Linda Ronstadt, do you recall the first time 103 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:39,520 Speaker 1: you met her? 104 00:05:40,200 --> 00:05:43,000 Speaker 2: I still do. We are. It was nineteen eighty four 105 00:05:43,839 --> 00:05:46,800 Speaker 2: in the Organs that the World's Fair. She was there 106 00:05:46,839 --> 00:05:50,360 Speaker 2: doing Nelson Riddle at the Amphitheater and the Brothers were 107 00:05:50,400 --> 00:05:53,960 Speaker 2: doing a gig at Pete Sumon's Club on the grounds. 108 00:05:54,440 --> 00:05:57,760 Speaker 2: And after her show, somebody told she we were playing, 109 00:05:57,800 --> 00:06:00,360 Speaker 2: so she came and he told me she was an audience. 110 00:06:00,400 --> 00:06:03,440 Speaker 2: So I sang a song called Irine and I dedicated 111 00:06:03,520 --> 00:06:07,000 Speaker 2: to her, and and I called up on stage when 112 00:06:07,040 --> 00:06:10,000 Speaker 2: she later told the press that she you, you will 113 00:06:10,120 --> 00:06:13,039 Speaker 2: never do anything improp like that, but she wasn't going 114 00:06:13,080 --> 00:06:16,360 Speaker 2: to say no to Aaron. That was So that was 115 00:06:16,720 --> 00:06:20,200 Speaker 2: how we met. And I saw autographs and uh she 116 00:06:20,320 --> 00:06:23,240 Speaker 2: said to Aaron Love, I was singing with you any time, 117 00:06:23,320 --> 00:06:28,240 Speaker 2: any place, anywhere, in any key. So that was eighty 118 00:06:28,240 --> 00:06:31,680 Speaker 2: four eighty five. Allan Twoson and myself had formed the 119 00:06:32,600 --> 00:06:37,159 Speaker 2: organization called New Orleans Artists Against Home and Homeless, and 120 00:06:37,200 --> 00:06:39,440 Speaker 2: we were doing benefits for it in New Orleans. You know, 121 00:06:39,520 --> 00:06:42,839 Speaker 2: all of the New Orleans artists would be would participate 122 00:06:42,880 --> 00:06:46,599 Speaker 2: in it, you know, the Brothers, the Dixie Clubs, whoever, 123 00:06:46,720 --> 00:06:50,360 Speaker 2: and they invited men of the country. Said well, yeah, 124 00:06:50,360 --> 00:06:53,840 Speaker 2: I definitely do it. So we went Allan twos in 125 00:06:53,960 --> 00:06:57,560 Speaker 2: studio and the first thing we wanted to sing together 126 00:06:57,640 --> 00:07:01,560 Speaker 2: by both then Catholic Ave Maria and be singing and 127 00:07:01,640 --> 00:07:06,359 Speaker 2: homemade and her manager Peter Asher said, y'all should do 128 00:07:06,400 --> 00:07:09,400 Speaker 2: a record together. I said, man, I'm geek, you know, 129 00:07:09,680 --> 00:07:12,920 Speaker 2: I'd love to sing with Lindon said we didn't record 130 00:07:13,040 --> 00:07:15,880 Speaker 2: till like eighty eight or something like that. But the 131 00:07:15,960 --> 00:07:18,840 Speaker 2: record came out in eighty nine and in the studio 132 00:07:19,920 --> 00:07:22,200 Speaker 2: I told her Mietch at the gramm As. I was joking, 133 00:07:22,240 --> 00:07:24,720 Speaker 2: but not joking because there was that great of a song. 134 00:07:24,800 --> 00:07:28,200 Speaker 1: You know you are yeah, one of the you know, 135 00:07:28,720 --> 00:07:32,760 Speaker 1: rare group of people who have sang with Linda Ronstadt. Uh, 136 00:07:33,280 --> 00:07:35,160 Speaker 1: what kind of experience is that? 137 00:07:36,200 --> 00:07:39,000 Speaker 2: It's a heavenly experienced That's all I can say, you know. 138 00:07:39,120 --> 00:07:42,240 Speaker 2: She she said, I have the voice of an angel. 139 00:07:42,560 --> 00:07:44,680 Speaker 2: I think she has the voice of an angel also, 140 00:07:44,800 --> 00:07:48,280 Speaker 2: so there was two angels mixing together. I mean, we 141 00:07:48,400 --> 00:07:50,800 Speaker 2: got a bunch of stuff we did, not just the 142 00:07:50,880 --> 00:07:53,960 Speaker 2: four songs on her album. She recorded stuff with My 143 00:07:54,280 --> 00:07:59,040 Speaker 2: fear My albums. We did a song called the Song 144 00:07:59,120 --> 00:08:02,120 Speaker 2: of Brunna that and they did a harminey but that 145 00:08:02,240 --> 00:08:05,280 Speaker 2: she sang, not a song called Please Remember Me. She 146 00:08:05,440 --> 00:08:08,480 Speaker 2: saying close your eyes, a little do up about the 147 00:08:08,560 --> 00:08:13,200 Speaker 2: five pies, and she's singing on Ivan Maria. And we 148 00:08:13,320 --> 00:08:15,240 Speaker 2: still talk. They every one for a while, a couple 149 00:08:15,280 --> 00:08:17,960 Speaker 2: of times a week given time. 150 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:22,680 Speaker 1: Take Aaron. We have a podcast we produced besides this 151 00:08:23,160 --> 00:08:27,640 Speaker 1: Taking a Walk podcast that's called Music Saved Me about 152 00:08:28,120 --> 00:08:32,520 Speaker 1: the power and healing power of music and for someone 153 00:08:32,559 --> 00:08:35,640 Speaker 1: who has gotten mixed up into a lot of trials 154 00:08:35,679 --> 00:08:38,600 Speaker 1: and tribulations in your life that you depict in the book, 155 00:08:38,720 --> 00:08:42,720 Speaker 1: you know, stealing cars, ended up in jail, addiction. Can 156 00:08:42,760 --> 00:08:46,400 Speaker 1: you say, can you say music saved you? 157 00:08:46,520 --> 00:08:49,559 Speaker 2: Yeah? I alviously music was medicine to me. And I 158 00:08:50,120 --> 00:08:52,400 Speaker 2: have a couple of incidents, like the lady told me 159 00:08:52,440 --> 00:08:56,000 Speaker 2: about a little six year old boy. It was artistic 160 00:08:56,320 --> 00:08:58,400 Speaker 2: and they had to keep him in a rubber room. 161 00:08:58,440 --> 00:09:01,000 Speaker 2: They couldn't do anything with him. He flopped around at 162 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:03,600 Speaker 2: the field and the only thing that would calm him 163 00:09:03,600 --> 00:09:06,120 Speaker 2: down that they put a headset on his head with 164 00:09:06,160 --> 00:09:08,559 Speaker 2: my voice. And I said, well, only thing I can 165 00:09:08,600 --> 00:09:11,319 Speaker 2: think of is the guard and me touch the guard 166 00:09:11,360 --> 00:09:15,559 Speaker 2: and him, you know. So stuff like that give me chills. 167 00:09:15,920 --> 00:09:18,600 Speaker 2: But I know my voice, you know when I sing. 168 00:09:19,960 --> 00:09:24,800 Speaker 2: Santa Gustin said, he who sings prayers twice and I 169 00:09:24,840 --> 00:09:27,280 Speaker 2: definitely believe him because I was always praying when I sing. 170 00:09:28,679 --> 00:09:32,280 Speaker 1: Are you singing around the house as you're doing chores 171 00:09:32,320 --> 00:09:33,080 Speaker 1: in the midst of. 172 00:09:33,080 --> 00:09:36,280 Speaker 2: The day, Oh, I do it outside. I'd be outside 173 00:09:36,320 --> 00:09:39,200 Speaker 2: and you know, sit by the piano and do something, 174 00:09:39,200 --> 00:09:43,719 Speaker 2: you know, But it's just for me and Sarah. 175 00:09:42,920 --> 00:09:46,240 Speaker 1: Who are some of the musicians that you admire today. 176 00:09:46,760 --> 00:09:50,839 Speaker 2: I really like Bruno Mars. I like some of the 177 00:09:50,960 --> 00:09:54,680 Speaker 2: rap stuff when they're talking positive stuff, you know, Adele 178 00:09:54,800 --> 00:09:59,839 Speaker 2: I like Adele, I like Beyonce, Adam Levine and it. 179 00:10:00,080 --> 00:10:03,880 Speaker 2: They both did a singing. It's called yourself Singing Aaron Nevils. 180 00:10:03,960 --> 00:10:07,440 Speaker 2: I don't know much sing Beyonce and Adam Levine, So 181 00:10:07,559 --> 00:10:10,960 Speaker 2: that was, you know, it's like given your. 182 00:10:10,800 --> 00:10:15,679 Speaker 1: Praise, like you know, tell me about the Aaron Neville Elixir. 183 00:10:17,400 --> 00:10:20,800 Speaker 2: Well, that's something my wife, Sarah. You started growing the 184 00:10:20,840 --> 00:10:25,560 Speaker 2: turmeric and the ginger and the cayenne and the lemons, 185 00:10:25,600 --> 00:10:32,520 Speaker 2: and it's a mixture of sumri, ginger, cayenne, lemon, eppisode 186 00:10:32,520 --> 00:10:36,920 Speaker 2: of vineta and honey and uh, I don't know. I've 187 00:10:36,920 --> 00:10:40,040 Speaker 2: been taking it for years nine don't want to stop 188 00:10:40,080 --> 00:10:43,680 Speaker 2: taking it. And anybody that takes it you like it 189 00:10:43,760 --> 00:10:45,600 Speaker 2: because they help them in different things. You know. 190 00:10:46,800 --> 00:10:49,679 Speaker 1: You still pretty aggressively work out every day, don't you. 191 00:10:50,840 --> 00:10:54,000 Speaker 2: Well, not every day, but me and Sarah we worked 192 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:56,920 Speaker 2: out at least four times a week, and sometimes we 193 00:10:57,080 --> 00:10:59,360 Speaker 2: do two in a row. We do the one with 194 00:10:59,840 --> 00:11:02,760 Speaker 2: the weights and then once called it hit you know, 195 00:11:02,880 --> 00:11:07,400 Speaker 2: gets you vigorous, and you know, vigorous workouts, and I feel. 196 00:11:07,160 --> 00:11:10,920 Speaker 1: Good affletes For someone who lived on the road so 197 00:11:11,080 --> 00:11:15,960 Speaker 1: much in your career, explain to somebody who has never 198 00:11:16,760 --> 00:11:20,640 Speaker 1: been a musician on the road how difficult and trying 199 00:11:20,720 --> 00:11:22,280 Speaker 1: and taxing it is. 200 00:11:23,440 --> 00:11:25,719 Speaker 2: Well, I'm looking, I'm so glad I'm not out there 201 00:11:25,800 --> 00:11:28,560 Speaker 2: right now. But all this stuff happening with I call 202 00:11:28,640 --> 00:11:33,319 Speaker 2: it airport agony. You know, you cancel flights and at 203 00:11:33,320 --> 00:11:36,160 Speaker 2: the drop of a hat and you just stuck and 204 00:11:36,520 --> 00:11:38,720 Speaker 2: your luckies get lost. We don't know where it is, 205 00:11:38,760 --> 00:11:42,440 Speaker 2: and they, you know, good luck. Airport agony. I do 206 00:11:42,520 --> 00:11:45,840 Speaker 2: not miss it at all. Lated that in about people 207 00:11:45,920 --> 00:11:48,800 Speaker 2: being an airport for like a week trying to get 208 00:11:49,320 --> 00:11:52,360 Speaker 2: out of that town, you know, it gets crazy. I 209 00:11:52,400 --> 00:11:55,079 Speaker 2: don't miss the hotels, you know. I mean I missed 210 00:11:55,080 --> 00:11:58,680 Speaker 2: the crowd, you know, and that part. But the rest 211 00:11:58,720 --> 00:12:01,280 Speaker 2: of it, they can keep it. I used to say, Uh, 212 00:12:02,160 --> 00:12:05,559 Speaker 2: I'll we go and I can get like starts at 213 00:12:05,640 --> 00:12:07,520 Speaker 2: get being from my house to the gig, and I 214 00:12:07,559 --> 00:12:12,120 Speaker 2: have to have to worry about the airport. They never 215 00:12:12,120 --> 00:12:12,760 Speaker 2: worried that out. 216 00:12:14,360 --> 00:12:18,360 Speaker 1: You know, as you're contemplating your your faith every day, 217 00:12:19,080 --> 00:12:22,880 Speaker 1: do you do you find a way that maybe allows 218 00:12:22,920 --> 00:12:26,800 Speaker 1: you to communicate with some of your either lost friends 219 00:12:26,840 --> 00:12:30,480 Speaker 1: who have passed on or musicians who have passed on. 220 00:12:30,720 --> 00:12:32,319 Speaker 1: Do you get to communicate with him? 221 00:12:33,240 --> 00:12:36,400 Speaker 2: Well, I don't know my community, but think about him 222 00:12:36,440 --> 00:12:39,160 Speaker 2: a lot, you know, like my brothers, you know, doctor 223 00:12:39,240 --> 00:12:44,760 Speaker 2: John Allan Toussent and my first wife Joel and Lhufam 224 00:12:44,840 --> 00:12:47,880 Speaker 2: and you know, yeah, you know, I think in my reverie, 225 00:12:47,920 --> 00:12:51,880 Speaker 2: in my in my remembrance, you know. And that's why 226 00:12:51,880 --> 00:12:54,800 Speaker 2: I was able to just write the books like it's 227 00:12:54,840 --> 00:12:56,640 Speaker 2: you know, like I lived it. 228 00:12:57,640 --> 00:13:01,480 Speaker 1: So Lastly, what would you tell musician who is trying 229 00:13:01,480 --> 00:13:05,560 Speaker 1: to find their voice, who was starting out? What would 230 00:13:05,880 --> 00:13:09,040 Speaker 1: you give them advice wise in a very tough business? 231 00:13:10,280 --> 00:13:26,400 Speaker 2: Yea plumber, you get it. Yeah, yeah, that's DEI. 232 00:13:22,080 --> 00:13:29,200 Speaker 1: On that, you know. I love you to death. I 233 00:13:29,240 --> 00:13:31,680 Speaker 1: love you to death. I'm so grateful for all the 234 00:13:31,800 --> 00:13:35,640 Speaker 1: music that you've given us. And congratulations on the book 235 00:13:35,720 --> 00:13:39,439 Speaker 1: Tell It Like It Is, Aaron Neville, you are a treasurer. 236 00:13:40,880 --> 00:13:41,640 Speaker 2: Thank you both. 237 00:13:42,240 --> 00:13:45,960 Speaker 1: Thank you sir. What a joy talking with Aaron Neville. 238 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:48,480 Speaker 1: So grateful to have him on. Check out his book, 239 00:13:48,679 --> 00:13:51,480 Speaker 1: Tell It Like It Is. If you like this podcast, 240 00:13:51,920 --> 00:13:54,400 Speaker 1: please share it with a friend. Leave us a review. 241 00:13:55,200 --> 00:13:59,000 Speaker 1: Thanks to Bob Mela Tesla for his production excellence and 242 00:13:59,080 --> 00:14:01,040 Speaker 1: thanks for listening to take it a walk.