WEBVTT - HARRY CONNICK, JR 0:00:03.200 --> 0:00:15.160 So lovesome with love Today's edition of Love Someone with 0:00:15.240 --> 0:00:18.960 Delilah is going to be very, very very easy for 0:00:19.000 --> 0:00:22.079 you to do. It is going to be so easy 0:00:22.239 --> 0:00:25.400 for you to love the someone who is my guest 0:00:25.440 --> 0:00:31.120 today because he is so lovable, one of America's endearing 0:00:31.320 --> 0:00:36.479 heart throbs. He is a beautiful singer, such a talented 0:00:37.200 --> 0:00:42.720 singer and musician. He's a gifted actor. And he's not 0:00:43.040 --> 0:00:47.640 so hard on the eyes either. Let's be honest, such 0:00:47.760 --> 0:00:53.200 a handsome man. Mr Harry Connick Jr. Is joining us 0:00:53.320 --> 0:00:55.760 to talk about a whole lot of stuff that he 0:00:55.800 --> 0:01:02.320 has got going on. Uh music and giving back. 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A big, huge welcome to 0:01:57.440 --> 0:02:02.480 my friend, the incredibly talented raconic Jr. As I just mentioned. 0:02:02.640 --> 0:02:07.240 His talent is massive, his heart is even bigger. You're 0:02:07.360 --> 0:02:10.440 so nice. Thank you. So tell me about this trip 0:02:10.480 --> 0:02:13.560 that you took with your daughter. My sister was telling 0:02:13.600 --> 0:02:17.760 me that your daughter is a filmmaker. Yeah, so she 0:02:18.080 --> 0:02:21.280 This is Georgia. She's the oldest of our three girls. 0:02:21.280 --> 0:02:26.040 She's twenty four, and she studied filmmaking and has been, um, 0:02:26.080 --> 0:02:28.480 really kind of making a name for herself in the 0:02:28.639 --> 0:02:31.600 in the business. And we've worked together before, and we 0:02:31.600 --> 0:02:35.280 were sitting at home during quarantine when it kind of 0:02:35.280 --> 0:02:38.120 first started. I said, Georgia, let's um, let's take a 0:02:38.160 --> 0:02:41.880 road trip and go thank some essential everyday heroes for 0:02:41.919 --> 0:02:44.400 all the stuff they're doing to help us out. People 0:02:44.440 --> 0:02:48.400 like sanitation workers, um, people who were on the Boys 0:02:48.400 --> 0:02:52.840 and Girls clubs, truck drivers, grocery store clerks, you know, 0:02:52.840 --> 0:02:56.040 and just just go say thanks and um, and you 0:02:56.040 --> 0:02:58.160 can film it and we can put something together. And 0:02:58.240 --> 0:03:02.000 she said, that sounds that's was great. So um, we 0:03:02.080 --> 0:03:05.840 rented an RV and uh, CBS followed us around and 0:03:05.880 --> 0:03:08.679 filmed it, filmed her filming me, and we put a 0:03:08.720 --> 0:03:12.480 special together UM called United We Sing a Grammy tribute 0:03:12.520 --> 0:03:15.800 to the Unsung Heroes, and it came out on CBS 0:03:15.919 --> 0:03:19.600 about three weeks ago and now it's streaming on CBS 0:03:19.680 --> 0:03:22.120 All Access. And it was just an incredible opportunity for 0:03:22.240 --> 0:03:25.920 us to thank and pay tribute to these amazing folks 0:03:25.960 --> 0:03:29.480 who keep our lives going every day. So how many 0:03:29.520 --> 0:03:31.720 of the comics went in the motor home? Was it 0:03:31.840 --> 0:03:35.360 just you and Georgia? Was it the whole family? Well, 0:03:35.400 --> 0:03:37.400 if it were up to me, I would have brought everybody, 0:03:37.440 --> 0:03:42.120 but Jill wasn't able to go. Neither were Kate or Sar, 0:03:42.560 --> 0:03:46.040 which was probably best because we were working so much, 0:03:46.080 --> 0:03:49.080 like we ended up driving thirty five miles and Georgia 0:03:49.120 --> 0:03:54.080 when not filming, was editing, so we weren't the most 0:03:54.320 --> 0:03:56.560 social because we were really trying to get a lot 0:03:56.560 --> 0:03:58.920 of footage. UM, so it probably worked out best. But 0:03:58.960 --> 0:04:01.720 it wasn't really like a like a vacation where everybody 0:04:01.720 --> 0:04:05.240 could have come along, so you didn't get to stop 0:04:05.280 --> 0:04:08.520 at all the roadside attractions you didn't well they were 0:04:08.520 --> 0:04:11.560 probably closed anyway, with COVID, everything was closed. But when 0:04:11.600 --> 0:04:13.920 we stopped, like we would go and we weren't staying 0:04:13.920 --> 0:04:17.160 in hotels because we were being really cautious about social distancing. 0:04:17.240 --> 0:04:20.159 So we would pull into these campground sites and you know, 0:04:20.200 --> 0:04:23.320 we stayed in you know, Tennessee and Virginia and Alabama, 0:04:23.360 --> 0:04:25.320 and it was it was just awesome. You know, we 0:04:25.400 --> 0:04:27.360 got some R and R at night and then we 0:04:27.480 --> 0:04:29.560 pick up the next day and go, you know, and 0:04:29.640 --> 0:04:35.400 stopping you know, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Casisco, Mississippi, or Memphis or wherever. 0:04:35.440 --> 0:04:38.880 And so it was intense, but it was really really cool. Okay, 0:04:38.880 --> 0:04:40.920 how many miles again did you put on the r 0:04:41.000 --> 0:04:43.560 V and I'm taking that you were driving while Georgia 0:04:43.720 --> 0:04:49.720 was editing. Yeah, we drove thirty five miles in total. Wow, 0:04:50.480 --> 0:04:53.400 what inspired you to do that? Like, you know, sitting 0:04:53.440 --> 0:04:57.760 around thinking about everybody getting sick and what was going 0:04:57.839 --> 0:04:59.960 on because back when a first hit we were hearing 0:05:00.440 --> 0:05:03.160 we were hearing the stories out of Wuhan. What made 0:05:03.160 --> 0:05:05.440 you think, you know, what, we can we can do 0:05:05.480 --> 0:05:07.880 some good, we can we can be a blessing, we 0:05:07.920 --> 0:05:10.800 can be an inspiration, Like, how did that thought come up? 0:05:11.480 --> 0:05:13.440 I was getting tired of watching the news as as 0:05:13.800 --> 0:05:17.520 I am now actually with with just so much bad 0:05:17.600 --> 0:05:20.680 news and contradictory information. In fact, the song that I 0:05:20.720 --> 0:05:23.600 wrote that I'm promoting Stars Still Shine the very first 0:05:23.600 --> 0:05:25.320 line as all this news is getting old, and it 0:05:25.400 --> 0:05:28.599 it really was. And I'm thinking, you know, we're seeing 0:05:28.640 --> 0:05:31.120 a lot of who we should see on the news, 0:05:31.160 --> 0:05:36.520 healthcare workers, firemen and women, e ms, you know, police officers, um. 0:05:36.520 --> 0:05:38.440 But we're not seeing a lot of the people who 0:05:38.800 --> 0:05:40.680 do a lot of the lot of the you know 0:05:40.800 --> 0:05:45.640 work that is going on. Um. Who who really deserves 0:05:45.680 --> 0:05:48.160 some sort of recognition. And so that was that was 0:05:48.240 --> 0:05:50.320 the idea to just to go say thanks to him 0:05:50.400 --> 0:05:53.040 and just to to you know, look at them, and 0:05:53.160 --> 0:05:54.800 I mean I couldn't shake their hand or anything, but 0:05:54.920 --> 0:05:58.000 just in the eyes and say we we see you, 0:05:58.080 --> 0:06:00.320 and we love you and we appreciate you. And then 0:06:00.360 --> 0:06:04.440 I had the idea of having celebrities zoom in and 0:06:04.480 --> 0:06:08.640 I'd be holding an iPad and the street car operator 0:06:08.680 --> 0:06:11.599 in New Orleans, you know, would see Sandy Bullocks saying 0:06:11.640 --> 0:06:17.880 thank you or um, the the trucker, husband, wife, couple, um, 0:06:17.960 --> 0:06:19.960 who are you know are putting themselves at risk every 0:06:20.000 --> 0:06:22.760 day to keep our supply chain going. Tim McGraw was 0:06:22.839 --> 0:06:24.880 on the iPad and saying them a song. So it 0:06:24.960 --> 0:06:27.320 was really, you know, it was just about let's not 0:06:27.360 --> 0:06:30.000 do a news piece. That's you know, real heavy. Let's 0:06:30.080 --> 0:06:33.559 let's just bring these folks some entertainment and some joy 0:06:33.920 --> 0:06:36.960 and nothing nothing, nothing, nothing lives your heart or your 0:06:37.000 --> 0:06:40.680 spirit as hearing thank you. Yeah, I think I think 0:06:40.680 --> 0:06:42.839 you're right, you know. I mean, when I play a 0:06:42.880 --> 0:06:45.479 show or I do something and somebody comes up to 0:06:45.520 --> 0:06:47.160 me on the street and says, you know, thank you 0:06:47.160 --> 0:06:49.000 for what you do, that that that is you know 0:06:49.040 --> 0:06:53.200 what it's like. I mean, you're giving people arrestite from 0:06:53.240 --> 0:06:55.120 from all of this craziness. I mean, that's what you 0:06:55.160 --> 0:06:58.000 do for a living. And what an honor it is 0:06:58.040 --> 0:07:00.000 to be able to do what you love and actually 0:07:00.080 --> 0:07:03.960 have it, you know, help someone. So man, it's it's 0:07:04.000 --> 0:07:06.520 a no brainer for for me to go out and 0:07:06.920 --> 0:07:09.320 just you know, look these people in the eye and 0:07:09.320 --> 0:07:12.160 tell them thank you so much, and every one of 0:07:12.200 --> 0:07:15.160 them except maybe one, so like, why do you why 0:07:15.200 --> 0:07:17.400 do you want to talk to us? I'm like, because 0:07:17.440 --> 0:07:19.880 you are the cleaning crew of the hospital at the 0:07:19.960 --> 0:07:22.520 University of Alabama and you have husbands and wives and 0:07:22.600 --> 0:07:25.920 children and you can't sit home in quarantine. You are 0:07:26.000 --> 0:07:30.120 giving me chills. You know that the chicken skin My 0:07:30.200 --> 0:07:33.520 kids call it when you get excited, goose bumps. But 0:07:33.640 --> 0:07:37.160 it's true, and it's true now. It's true now, and 0:07:37.200 --> 0:07:39.880 people are forgetting that. Okay, that was four months ago. 0:07:39.960 --> 0:07:44.320 It's true now. Yeah. Well it's it's worse now. It's 0:07:44.400 --> 0:07:48.120 far worse now. Yeah. And so while all of this, 0:07:48.960 --> 0:07:52.600 you know, stuff is going on like that, that guy 0:07:52.640 --> 0:07:54.520 who collects the trash every day at four o'clock in 0:07:54.600 --> 0:07:57.280 the morning said, why you aren't talk to me? I said, 0:07:57.280 --> 0:07:59.840 because I'm asleep. When you come you pick up my trash, 0:08:00.000 --> 0:08:02.560 you're exposing yourself to this virus far more than I am. 0:08:02.960 --> 0:08:06.720 You can't, you know, take four months off work, you know, 0:08:06.800 --> 0:08:08.840 and he has to come home and you know, take 0:08:08.880 --> 0:08:11.320 extra precaution with his clothes and stuff. I said, do 0:08:11.320 --> 0:08:13.560 you think what you're doing is He goes, yeah, I 0:08:13.560 --> 0:08:16.880 actually do, and it was you know, I mean, I 0:08:16.960 --> 0:08:19.040 love these people, man, This is there's a lot of 0:08:19.040 --> 0:08:21.280 goodness out there. We just need to focus on that. 0:08:21.400 --> 0:08:25.000 There's so much goodness out there. I'm so sick of 0:08:25.040 --> 0:08:28.200 the bad news. I'm so sick of the divisiveness. I'm 0:08:28.240 --> 0:08:32.840 so sick of it, of the bitterness and the negativity 0:08:32.960 --> 0:08:37.400 when there's so much goodness out there. Thank you. It 0:08:37.920 --> 0:08:43.200 was my honor, really was, Harry. It is my absolute 0:08:43.320 --> 0:08:46.360 honor to be speaking with you. We are going to 0:08:46.440 --> 0:08:48.560 take a brief pause right now to share a message 0:08:48.640 --> 0:08:52.840 from some folks who make this podcast possible. I am 0:08:52.880 --> 0:08:56.959 so excited to have my friend Harry Connick Jr. Joining 0:08:57.040 --> 0:09:01.959 us today. Harry, tell me more about your beautiful daughter, Georgia, 0:09:02.559 --> 0:09:04.640 you know, to work with her. You know, this was not, 0:09:05.040 --> 0:09:06.800 you know, like a pleasure trip. I mean she was 0:09:06.960 --> 0:09:09.960 really you know, burn the midnight all trying to get 0:09:10.000 --> 0:09:13.320 these edits, you know, uploaded to CVS. She was working really, 0:09:13.360 --> 0:09:16.040 really hard, and then she would go out and film 0:09:16.080 --> 0:09:19.280 these people, and she was listening to you know, Asia, 0:09:19.400 --> 0:09:24.560 the twenty something year old school teacher who has a 0:09:24.559 --> 0:09:28.080 bunch of elementary school kids who don't have computers to 0:09:28.120 --> 0:09:30.840 do online learning, and they don't have access to the 0:09:30.880 --> 0:09:33.440 internet because they can't afford it to do online learning. 0:09:33.640 --> 0:09:35.360 So what does she do? She goes to their house 0:09:35.400 --> 0:09:38.200 every day and drives by with candy and throws it 0:09:38.200 --> 0:09:40.720 out the window and checks on them. I mean, this, 0:09:40.720 --> 0:09:43.319 this is what I'm talking about. And you know that 0:09:43.480 --> 0:09:45.600 these are the There's a line I keep coming back 0:09:45.600 --> 0:09:47.319 to in the song and says, thank God for you, 0:09:47.360 --> 0:09:51.200 thank God for you. These aren't lyrics that you know, 0:09:51.360 --> 0:09:54.240 you write down because you need lyrics. These are lyrics 0:09:54.240 --> 0:09:56.840 that I said, how can I say thank you? And 0:09:56.840 --> 0:09:59.120 it's you know what it boiled down to, thank God 0:09:59.320 --> 0:10:02.920 for you. Um, you know we could not do this 0:10:03.000 --> 0:10:05.320 without you, and you need to hear it. And and 0:10:05.360 --> 0:10:08.360 that's what the song is all about. I'm sorry, you're 0:10:09.559 --> 0:10:14.480 making me cry. Oh well they listen, they make they 0:10:14.520 --> 0:10:18.240 make me cry and and and like like you know, 0:10:18.280 --> 0:10:21.600 it's in this time for me that that's what gets 0:10:21.640 --> 0:10:24.280 me through, um with with all of the vitriol and 0:10:24.320 --> 0:10:29.360 all the divisiveness and bitterness. Um, you know, I I 0:10:29.480 --> 0:10:33.600 look at you know, the good the good ones, and 0:10:33.640 --> 0:10:35.520 there's there's a lot of there's a lot of people 0:10:35.559 --> 0:10:38.440 out there that are that are making as possible and 0:10:38.600 --> 0:10:40.800 you know, I keep my eye on that, and I 0:10:40.880 --> 0:10:45.520 just know we'll be okay, Mr Rogers. Look for the helpers. 0:10:46.480 --> 0:10:50.040 Look for the helpers. There's so many helpers. Yeah. And 0:10:50.040 --> 0:10:54.920 and it's funny how the noise dissipates and disappears when 0:10:55.559 --> 0:10:57.880 when my focus is on that. I mean, you know, 0:10:58.040 --> 0:11:01.240 things that would you know, normally, you know, make my 0:11:01.280 --> 0:11:03.400 heart rate go up or worry me or stress me out. 0:11:03.400 --> 0:11:06.240 They it's funny how they just dissolve when a slight 0:11:06.559 --> 0:11:10.960 change in perspective or gratitude or humility is really all 0:11:11.000 --> 0:11:13.640 all that it takes. And um, I mean it's it's 0:11:13.720 --> 0:11:17.040 it's something that I have to remind myself of. Um, 0:11:17.080 --> 0:11:19.200 but when I do, it's just it's it's funny how 0:11:19.280 --> 0:11:22.760 much brier the world looks. So your girls, your wife 0:11:22.760 --> 0:11:24.760 and your girls. Are you guys are all at home 0:11:24.840 --> 0:11:28.840 now that that project is done? Are you still together? 0:11:29.120 --> 0:11:32.520 We're all home. Um, everybody's just kind of kind of 0:11:32.800 --> 0:11:36.120 on stand by, you know. Uh, Georgia, you know, can't 0:11:36.160 --> 0:11:38.520 really do a whole lot in terms of going out 0:11:38.559 --> 0:11:41.360 and filming. My daughter Kate has a clothing line. She's 0:11:41.400 --> 0:11:43.880 doing her best to kind of run the business from home. 0:11:44.200 --> 0:11:46.360 And Charlotte is about to be a senior in high 0:11:46.360 --> 0:11:48.760 school and we're still waiting to find out, you know, 0:11:48.800 --> 0:11:52.480 whether the public school will you know, go on a schedule, 0:11:52.559 --> 0:11:54.600 whether they'll do like a flex thing, you know, all 0:11:54.640 --> 0:11:57.600 about that with the two or three days a week, 0:11:57.800 --> 0:12:01.160 you know. So we're just kind of waiting, and and Jill, 0:12:01.640 --> 0:12:06.360 who happens to be a unbelievable chef, is spoiling us 0:12:06.360 --> 0:12:08.160 with a lot of home cooked meals. So it's been 0:12:08.520 --> 0:12:11.240 that part of it has been great. I gotta say, 0:12:11.280 --> 0:12:16.800 as as much stress and heartache and frustrations and school 0:12:16.840 --> 0:12:20.840 and all that stuff, dinner time has been a huge 0:12:21.240 --> 0:12:25.720 blessing to be together with my family. Yeah. I remember 0:12:25.760 --> 0:12:27.520 I was talking to somebody the other day and they're like, 0:12:27.559 --> 0:12:29.440 oh God, you know, I can't wait till all this 0:12:29.559 --> 0:12:31.560 is over our kids can go back to school. And 0:12:31.559 --> 0:12:33.800 I'm thinking, yeah, I mean that that we need that 0:12:33.840 --> 0:12:37.199 to happen. But man, I'm loving every second of having 0:12:37.240 --> 0:12:40.240 my girls here. I am loving it of the time, 0:12:40.320 --> 0:12:44.400 the intimacy, the conversations. Um, we started doing this thing 0:12:44.440 --> 0:12:47.040 at dinner time, and if if you've not done it, 0:12:47.559 --> 0:12:50.000 I would suggest you do it because it'll blow your 0:12:50.040 --> 0:12:53.280 mind with what your girls come up with. But every night, 0:12:53.760 --> 0:12:58.319 one of us comes up with a question, and uh 0:12:58.559 --> 0:13:01.840 So we've been sheltering and play up until last Thursday 0:13:01.920 --> 0:13:05.080 with my outlaws, my ex husband's parents who were in 0:13:05.120 --> 0:13:09.360 their eighties, and me and my husband and five of 0:13:09.559 --> 0:13:14.400 our kids that are still at home. And the questions 0:13:14.600 --> 0:13:18.640 are just phenomenal that the kids have been coming up with. 0:13:19.440 --> 0:13:23.800 And that so questions like if you could go back 0:13:23.880 --> 0:13:28.120 in time and change one event in your life, what 0:13:28.240 --> 0:13:30.480 would it be? And why? Man, that's great, you know 0:13:30.480 --> 0:13:33.240 why that's great because it gives your kids a chance, 0:13:33.559 --> 0:13:36.040 all of all of you, a chance to come up 0:13:36.040 --> 0:13:39.280 with something substantive. Like we play a game called Awkward 0:13:39.320 --> 0:13:41.800 Dinner where we go on the table and say, okay, 0:13:42.000 --> 0:13:43.720 name three people that you would never want to have 0:13:43.720 --> 0:13:46.040 dinner with at the same time. And you'd pick like, 0:13:46.640 --> 0:13:51.040 you know, like your ex ex boyfriend, and like a 0:13:51.080 --> 0:13:54.760 third grade teacher who they don't know, and like some politicians. 0:13:54.760 --> 0:13:58.520 You just like just people you just would never never 0:13:58.559 --> 0:14:01.240 put together. But the thing of your game is that 0:14:02.000 --> 0:14:04.920 it's it's um something that they've had a chance to 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:09.200 think about um, which would make it, you know, more meaningful. 0:14:09.240 --> 0:14:11.000 So I love that we're gonna do that. There have 0:14:11.120 --> 0:14:14.400 been so many blessings come out of the shutdown, and 0:14:14.440 --> 0:14:18.800 I'm not I'm not negating the financial hardships and and 0:14:18.840 --> 0:14:22.120 all the people we've lost and and all that. But 0:14:22.960 --> 0:14:25.440 in the midst of that, there have been so many 0:14:25.520 --> 0:14:28.560 moments of pure joy with me and my kids, and 0:14:28.600 --> 0:14:31.720 that's what I try to focus on. Yeah, yeah, it's 0:14:31.800 --> 0:14:34.200 it's it's life is I tell my kids, like, a 0:14:34.200 --> 0:14:36.800 pretty good day is a blessing because in the course 0:14:36.840 --> 0:14:39.680 of a day, you know, you may have heartbreak and 0:14:39.920 --> 0:14:41.600 great joy, you know, so if you can get through 0:14:41.640 --> 0:14:43.920 the day and have it be pretty good, that's that's 0:14:44.040 --> 0:14:46.400 that's all right. And life is complicated, right, It's it's 0:14:46.440 --> 0:14:49.680 all of those things. It's hardship and tragedy and joy 0:14:49.760 --> 0:14:52.520 and everything. So there there is joy here, and I 0:14:52.560 --> 0:14:54.560 think you're smart to embrace it. That's what we try 0:14:54.600 --> 0:14:58.800 to do too. Well, tell me about the projects that 0:14:58.800 --> 0:15:03.040 that a your your video, your your program is helping, 0:15:03.040 --> 0:15:06.200 because I know there's some really cool charities. Yeah. Well, 0:15:06.240 --> 0:15:09.680 the show United We Sing. People can see that now 0:15:09.720 --> 0:15:12.320 on CBS All Access streaming if they want to see 0:15:12.320 --> 0:15:14.160 the whole show. But the finale of the show is 0:15:14.960 --> 0:15:18.600 I'm writing this down CBS All access. You can stream 0:15:18.640 --> 0:15:23.880 it okay, yep, and then um, the song Stars Still Shine, 0:15:24.280 --> 0:15:27.680 you can download that anywhere you would normally download songs 0:15:27.880 --> 0:15:30.400 and all of the proceeds to that. You can just 0:15:30.440 --> 0:15:33.320 listen to the Delilah show. You just do that. That 0:15:33.320 --> 0:15:35.520 would be the favorite way to do it, and then 0:15:35.560 --> 0:15:39.120 you can look up online. The Ellis Marsalis Center for Music, 0:15:39.160 --> 0:15:43.680 It's something I started with Branford Marsalis. It's in one 0:15:43.680 --> 0:15:46.560 of the most underserved neighborhoods in New Orleans, the ninth Ward. 0:15:46.920 --> 0:15:49.840 It's a community center that offers you know, after school 0:15:49.920 --> 0:15:52.200 help for kids and it teaches them how to code 0:15:52.360 --> 0:15:56.520 and has a recording studio and a community center. Um. 0:15:56.840 --> 0:15:59.880 And we just lost Ellis from COVID. He was our 0:16:00.120 --> 0:16:04.000 teacher and Bramford's father, So, um, we want to keep 0:16:04.000 --> 0:16:07.280 this center going. It's been going since not long after Katrina. 0:16:07.720 --> 0:16:10.720 It's expensive to operate and all the all the money 0:16:10.760 --> 0:16:13.040 that we used to do that comes from donation, So 0:16:13.120 --> 0:16:15.640 all of the proceeds from Stars Still Shine will go 0:16:15.680 --> 0:16:20.120 to benefit that. It takes a village. It takes a 0:16:20.240 --> 0:16:24.120 village to inspire a child, to keep a child protected 0:16:24.160 --> 0:16:27.360 and safe during these crazy times. And how cool that 0:16:27.480 --> 0:16:30.720 kids can can go there and be safe and be 0:16:30.840 --> 0:16:35.800 taught and express themselves musically. Yeah, and to feel like 0:16:35.840 --> 0:16:39.000 they have ownership and something. You know, that's so much 0:16:39.000 --> 0:16:40.720 of it. You know, when when when they go back 0:16:40.760 --> 0:16:44.120 to their homes in the Musicians Village, their their parents 0:16:44.120 --> 0:16:46.680 own those homes. That's part of the whole Habits after 0:16:46.800 --> 0:16:51.360 humanity process when we started Musicians Village, those kids own 0:16:51.360 --> 0:16:54.320 those homes and they they have keys to the kingdom. 0:16:54.440 --> 0:16:56.280 And I mean when you don't have to worry about that, 0:16:56.960 --> 0:16:59.800 I mean, how how available are you to learn? I mean, 0:16:59.800 --> 0:17:03.280 it's it's infinite because you you feel like you Yeah, 0:17:03.320 --> 0:17:06.160 this is mine, the best recording studio in New Orleans. 0:17:06.200 --> 0:17:08.080 I can go in here whenever I want because this 0:17:08.080 --> 0:17:10.119 this belongs to me. And I'm telling you just takes 0:17:10.440 --> 0:17:13.879 a teeny bit of opportunity that and you could you know, 0:17:14.000 --> 0:17:16.480 that's that's the future superstars of music coming out of 0:17:16.480 --> 0:17:18.719 New Orleans and they just need a little bit of 0:17:19.320 --> 0:17:22.199 opportunity and hopefully, you know, the Ellis Marsala Center will 0:17:22.240 --> 0:17:25.800 give them that. Wow again with the goose bumps. I'm 0:17:25.800 --> 0:17:28.960 sitting here with the goose bumps again. That's good. We 0:17:29.040 --> 0:17:33.000 like goose bumps. I'm so proud of you. I'm so 0:17:33.160 --> 0:17:37.320 I just wanna weren't for COVID and and the fact 0:17:37.359 --> 0:17:39.520 that we're not face to face. I would just give 0:17:39.560 --> 0:17:42.639 you the biggest Mama Delilah hug. So I'm so proud 0:17:42.640 --> 0:17:44.800 of you of what you do. I would take that 0:17:45.200 --> 0:17:47.040 in a second, and one day I we'll be able 0:17:47.080 --> 0:17:50.679 to hug each other again. For sure. For sure. We 0:17:50.840 --> 0:17:53.480 just got to get through this and we gotta come 0:17:53.480 --> 0:17:59.400 out stronger, and um, we'll do it. Thank you, Thank you, Harry. 0:17:59.520 --> 0:18:02.879 It's great hearing your voice again as always. Thank you, sweetheart. 0:18:02.960 --> 0:18:05.320 Give my love to your family, and do that thing 0:18:05.320 --> 0:18:10.280 around the dinner table, ask the really weird questions and 0:18:10.280 --> 0:18:12.399 and let your kids, let the girls come up with 0:18:12.440 --> 0:18:15.480 the questions. Oh yeah, I love it. I think that's 0:18:15.480 --> 0:18:18.320 a great idea. We're gonna do that tonight and have 0:18:18.480 --> 0:18:22.879 Jill big sour dough bread, sour dough bread tipped in 0:18:22.880 --> 0:18:26.080 olive oil, with the questions. Nothing like it in the world. 0:18:26.680 --> 0:18:29.320 I'm coming over to your house. I'll sit outside. Okay. 0:18:31.040 --> 0:18:35.760 Thank you, Harry Connick Jr. Stars still shine. We'll talk 0:18:35.800 --> 0:18:39.399 to you soon, honey. All right, Bye, Harry Connick Jr. 0:18:39.440 --> 0:18:42.800 We are so fortunate to have your music, You're acting talents, 0:18:42.840 --> 0:18:48.800 your love, your kindness, your family values, and your adorable nous. 0:18:49.560 --> 0:18:54.080 One more entertainer who models care and compassion. One more 0:18:54.160 --> 0:18:58.120 person using their gifts, their talents, their skills to change 0:18:58.160 --> 0:19:02.760 the world for good. On Heart at a Time, you 0:19:02.800 --> 0:19:07.240 can download Harry Connick Jr's new single, Stars Still Shine. 0:19:07.880 --> 0:19:12.240 You can watch his CBS special at CBS All Access, 0:19:12.760 --> 0:19:15.960 and you can help out kids who need your love. 0:19:16.160 --> 0:19:18.879 All that you can do. Thank you for joining me 0:19:18.960 --> 0:19:23.960 today on Love Someone with Delilah, and stay tuned to 0:19:24.040 --> 0:19:28.359 my radio show every single night. God bless you and 0:19:28.480 --> 0:19:28.920 take care.