Hey, this is the moment, Brian Coppelman, thanks for listening.

I am just thrilled to have Paul Williams here today.

If you don't know his name, that means you're maybe younger than I am.

But Paul Williams, one of the great songwriters and performers and artists of the period that

I've been walking the Earth, some of the songs that he wrote or Randy Days and Mondays,

we've only just begun and Rainbow Connection, which we're going to talk about a bit.

And then Paul, I don't know if you've done any researcher on me at all, but I have an amazing

story, man, about my childhood as everybody does who talks to you.

But I have a very personal one, which is when I was eight years old, my dad took me on

the first business trip that he was going to ever take me on.

And we went to California and he told me, I'm going to take you to somebody's house.

And you need to be, I was an ADHD kid and sometimes, you know, I had a hard time keeping it

together and he was like, we're going to go to somebody's house and I need you to really be

on your A-game, polite, kind, easy because this person is a musical artist and they're very famous.

And we went over to Barbara Strysan's house and she was lovely to me and Jason was there in

Barbara and because my dad was working with her on records and Barbara said, I just wrote a

melody that I want to play you guys. And it's like one of the most distinct memories of my

whole childhood, Paul, is she took an acoustic out and I'm sure you know and remember she wasn't

really a guitar player. And she basically just barely fingered the chords and hum the melody

to Evergreen. And as she played that melody to Evergreen for us as an eight-year-old hearing that

voice come out of her, it was a defining moment of seeing, and then to hear the song later,

and you know, my dad didn't work on the record. But even he was, I remember, we were both so blown

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