Your point about memory is that you can ask someone what they were doing 20 years ago

and they may be able to piece it together, but you play a song from 20 years ago and they

remember what rooms they were standing in. It gives me chills. Say more. Yeah, you remember the,

you remember everything. You remember the smells in the air,

the temperature. It brings everything back to life. And that kind of means that music is a thing

that opens that back up, that unlocks that, the things that you have forgotten about.

Hi, everyone. Welcome to The Best People with Nicole Wallace. When I first had the curdle of an idea to make a podcast with the best people in my life, Jimmy Jam was on every list of possible guests. Jimmy Jam has made music with Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson, Prince. Jimmy Jam has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame,

and Jimmy Jam, the human being, is a font of wisdom and perspective and ways to live a creative

and meaningful life. This is The Best People with Nicole Wallace and this is Jimmy Jam.

Jimmy Jam.

Jimmy Jam, thank you for being here.

I got to meet you because I woke up one morning and called Brad Paisley and said,

I want to do We Are the World for Ukraine.

And he said, we have to call David Wild.

He produced the Grammys.

And so I called David Wild.

It was like an ungodly hour in the West Coast. And I said, I want to do. We are the Worldmys. And so I called David Wilde. It was like an ungodly hour in the West Coast.

And I said, I wanted to do we are the world for Ukraine.

And he said, well, it could only happen if you had somebody like Jimmy Jam involved.

And I said, well, how would I ever get to know Jimmy Jam?

He said, well, I'll ask him if they'll talk to you. And so I remember where I was standing when we had our first call. And I knew, I knew

about you. I knew Prince. I knew Janet Jackson, but I, I, I did more prep than I do from

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