Hi folks, in the interest of full disclosure, I want to tell you that there was some construction noise, of all things, while we were talking to our guest today.

Now, it went away, thank goodness, but there are moments when it might be a little distracting.

I assure you it will be worth getting through that to listen to Paul Williams today.

An exceptional interview

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Hi everybody I'm Leonard Malton and I'm Jesse Malton. And I'm Jesse Malton.

And we have big smiles on our faces.

Huge smiles.

Huge smiles.

Because we are joined today by Paul Williams.

And Paul Williams is smiling as well because, you know, every time he sits down to watch something that he isn't quite sure if he wants to spend the time or not. He grabs a hold of a Leonard Malton's review of the film,

looks at it flips through the book and goes,

oh, yeah, I don't know.

Don't look up Smoking the Bandit 2.

Smoking the Bandit 3 is that, you know,

I describe them as Smoking the Bandit 1, 2, and even worse, you know.

The more money they gave us the worse the pictures were.

And Paul's CV, as they say, his resume is just so overwhelming, so staggering.

It's an accurate use of the word awesome.

Yes, we try to avoid, actually. But in this case, I believe

it does invoke awe. Yeah. So I'm going to... I mean, we're talking about an Oscar, many Oscar

nominations, Grammy Awards. Your is well-known... David Bowie, Barbara Streisand. That alone, if you've only got David Bowie and Barbara Streisand, I feel like it's pretty

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