I have this song that uh it's it's it's about a guy trying to pick up somebody in a bar and uh a great writer named Lanford Wilson, a Pulitzer Prizewinning playwright. I he was a mentor and he would say things like that this is this is this is the best cup of coffee I've ever had. And he would just toss that off.And so I I stole that and then wrote this The best damn pickup line I ever heard was by some guy in a bar south of Harrisburg. Seen himself a woman, she was drinking all alone. I watched him blaze a ...

[Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Thank you. Uh, that's not some weird thing on my rider that says I have to have that played every time I come onto stage. It's the amens from a Welsh hymn sung there by the National Youth Choir of Wales and about 80 members of the alumni of the last uh 40 years.Uh the hymn is Tadia Rodist was written by the Welsh composer Arwell Hughes with words by the poet T. Roland Hughes and it includes the line keep us from losing the magic that travels the world uh today. The hymn ...