Paul Williams and Tracey Jackson Launch New Podcast

Tracey Jackson and Paul Williams have taken their successful partnership to the airwaves with a new podcast that will adapt ideas from last year's book “Gratitude and Trust” into conversations and interviews with guests, centered around the themes of recovery.

According to Ms. Jackson in the first episode released on Tuesday, her idea for a podcast grew out of their book tour and some of the broadcasts and podcasts that they participated in to promote it. “I realized I wanted to do that too,” she said.

Anyone who has interviewed the two together will recognize their easy banter and self-effacing and sometimes sarcastic humor. “Back in the closet of your soul there’s this little snarky lady who can’t stay in there,” Mr. Williams teased her in the podcast opening. “It’s never too late to change,” she responded.

And their emphasis will be on “hope, courage, success and survival” addressed with “honesty, humor, probing and engaging discussion,” according to a press release. While Mr. Williams, who has had a long and hugely successful career as a songwriter and performer, lives in California, Ms. Jackson lives with her husband, Glenn Horowitz, and her two daughters in New York and Sag Harbor.

The first episode features Chris Hardwick, host of the Nerdist podcast, which featured them previously, and who is also the host of “@midnight with Chris Hardwick,” a late-night game show on Comedy Central. Upcoming episodes will include interviews with Judd Apatow, Penn Jillette, David Steinberg, and many others.

The PodcastOne network is distributing the show and it can be listened to and subscribed to here.