GRAMMY Preview & Stories with Jimmy Jam + Former Host Paul Reiser & Steven Van Zandt

Naked Lunch

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4.8 • 889 Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2026

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Legendary producer, songwriter and Chairman Emeritus of The Recording Academy Jimmy Jam -- a 5-time Grammy winner and 23-time nominee -- joins Phil and David to discuss their behind-the-scenes perspectives on the 68th Grammy Awards airing February 1st on CBS and streaming on Paramount +. This marks 25 years of David as a writer and later also a producer on the Grammys with Jimmy, we get the inside story of not just this year's show, but also great stories from the past quarter century of Grammy broadcasts. Plus a few Grammy stories from previous episodes with former Grammy host Paul Reiser and Steven Van Zandt who featured in David's first favorite Grammy moment. For more on the Grammys and the work of the Recording Academy, go to https://www.recordingacademy.com. To learn more about building community through food and "Somebody Feed the People," visit the Philanthropy page at philrosenthalworld.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:28.8	to learn more. Good afternoon, David. Hey Phil. I have two Grammy superstars here.
0:37.8	One of them is a special surprise.
0:40.3	Cool.
0:41.1	But the other one is you, David.
0:44.6	Less superstar than Schlepper.
0:46.8	Grammy's Schleper.
0:47.6	You are the Grammys.
0:49.7	The Grammys would deny that.
0:51.8	When you started with the Grammys, it was like best rock album, but it was literally people banging rocks. Yes, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, not yet a Grammy. She was just a single mother at that. A hot cheek. Yeah, hot check. Yeah, no, it's been a while and I, we have a guy who's going to join us for this discussion, who has
1:11.2	been such a big part of my whole time at the Grammys.
1:15.6	He's run the joint, and he's also a great musician, producer, and human being.
1:22.0	Well, if you people like music and want to hear some amazing Grammy lore.
1:30.0	This is the podcast for you today.
1:34.8	And then you should watch the show on CBS for the last year.
1:42.8	And on Paramount Plus, you can stream it because next year the show is moving to ABC and Disney Plus.
1:43.8	All right.
1:45.1	Let's talk Grammys.
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