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Another Gilbert and Price. Here's another Gilbert and Price.

Colossal Plastic.

Hi, this is Gilbert Gottfried and this is Gilbert Gottfried's amazing Colossal podcast with my co-host Frank Santopodre, where once again we're going to be working on a new project.

We're recording at Nutmeg with our engineer Frank Fertaroza. You know, every now and then we get a guest who's accomplished so much and witnessed so much that we could easily do a 7-hour show.

And today we're lucky enough to have one of those people. He's a musician, singer, record producer, author, and one of the greatest songwriters this country has ever produced.

It's numerous platinum-selling songs to his credit, including Wichita Alignment, Galveston, Up Up and Away, the worst that could happen. All I know, Makata Park, and of course, by the time I get the Phoenix, which Frank Sinatra called the greatest tortsong ever written.

His original compositions have been recorded and performed by a who's who are popular music, including Johnny Cash, Rosemary Clooney, Kenny Rogers, Linda Runtstad, R-E-M, Carly Simon, Harry Nielsen, Tom Jones, the Supreme Spray in Wilson, James Taylor, Billy Joel, and Bob Restrysan, to name but a few.

He's been a member of both the songwriters Hall of Fame and the Nashville songwriters Hall of Fame. He's the only artist to win Grammy Awards for Music, lyrics, and orchestration.

And in 2016, Rolling Stone named him one of the 50 greatest songwriters of all time. As Vice Chair of ASCAP, he continues to lead the fight to preserve and protect the intellectual rights of composers and songwriters the world over.

His brand new book released today is called The Cake and the Rain, a memoir. Please welcome a man Glenn Campbell once called the greatest musical poet of our time, Jimmy Webb.

Wow.

Do you get chills? Boy, you know, from from from your mouth to to God's ear, I mean, the only thing. The only thing missing would be tended with pounded and his low sense.

You know, when Gilbert occasionally breaks breaks into MacArthur Park on this show spontaneously, Jimmy, without any prompting at all, that's great. We had a running joke in between us. We said, now we'll, if it gets out there, now we'll never get Jimmy Webb.

And yet here you are in the fly. I could sort of imagine what you what you're describing. Hopefully you won't actually have to do experience it. And so the audience will know, Jimmy has been like working since like like five o'clock in the morning.

That was my wake up time and we're recording recording us at 630. And I've it's been a really exciting day. It started with Don I must you know, talking from Texas, which I know very well.

I was raised in West Texas and I think we had established some rapport. Oh, good. A rapport there. Because I he started out very grumpy and I think he sort of mellowed as we as we went on.

That was fun. It was really fun. And I was wondered what it would be like to be on I must you know, in the.

I like getting up early and doing show business things and then I went over to serious and I literally I was like on show after you cousin, Brucie. No, I did I did Steve Earl. Okay.

So you've been going nonstop since this morning. I'm doing them one after and promoting the book. But I've been saving some extra energy for you.

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