Memories with James Abrahart
Absolutely Not
Dear Media
4.9 • 14K Ratings
🗓️ 1 July 2026
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
On this episode, Heather is in LA and brings one of her oldest friends from childhood, James Abrahart to the pod. JHart is an award winning music producer, singer and reality star. Their lore starts in James’ parents basement where they used to create rap albums and eat way too many Pubsubs. They chat about their wild childhood neighbors of Whitney Houston and T-Boz, as well as them being the first “Lonely Island”. His new single, Memories, is out now.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a Dear Media production. |
| 0:06.4 | Welcome to the Absolutely Not podcast, where we do the most and the least at this same damn time. |
| 0:12.6 | I'm your host, Heather McMahon. I want to start a fire. |
| 0:33.2 | Hello, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to another episode of the Absolutely Not podcast. |
| 0:34.4 | I'm your host, Heather McMahon. |
| 0:35.9 | I've got to switch accents real quick because I don't even think you understand. I am so excited for today's guest. He's one of my oldest friends. You're going to be obsessed with him. If you don't already know him and love him, you're going to know him and love him after this. He's a Grammy award-winning artist. He's a producer, a writer, and he is |
| 0:56.2 | his, he's coming out with a new single, you need to know him, you're going to love him. Please, |
| 1:00.6 | welcome to the stage. James Aberhart, aka Jay Hart. Happy to be here, Heather. Thanks for having me. |
| 1:06.4 | Hello, love. You're right. You're right. So, James, people do not understand the lore of like of our our roots it's deep |
| 1:17.0 | it's deep lore how deep would you say it goes i mean i'm no mathematician but i would say at this |
| 1:24.8 | point we're running at least a 20 year lore 20 year lore yeah you don't want to |
| 1:29.0 | age ourselves you were saying 30 years you said 30 years on your story and I was like girl that would |
| 1:34.2 | that that that means we would have met when I was like six we met when when you were what nine no we |
| 1:40.1 | met when I was like 12 13 no no no yeah 13 or 14 13 or 14. 13 or 14. So it's a deep lore nonetheless. Nonetheless. But let's, you know, get our numbers straight here. Well, we also don't want to age ourselves. Lest we forget. Lest we age. So James and I grew up in Atlanta together. We met doing theater in high school. James is an insanely, you are just an accomplished artist. |
| 2:03.3 | You're an accomplished songwriter, producer. |
| 2:04.9 | But I don't think people understand that you have been doing this. |
| 2:08.1 | You've been writing. |
| 2:08.7 | You have been producing. |
| 2:10.1 | You have been your own artist since you were when I met you. |
| 2:14.3 | I remember you were like 15 and you would produce music in your parents' basement. |
| 2:18.7 | And I would come over. You were Timberlin, basically. |
| 2:21.0 | Oh, I was. I was Timbalin. You couldn't tell me shit. He would have like a pub sub sitting on the deck. |
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