80. INTERVVIEW- Ricko Baird on Dancing With Michael Jackson & What Made MJ the Gold Standard

All right, you guys.

Now, if you watched our first conversation, you already know that Rico Baird has had an incredible career as a dancer, choreographer, musician, dancing alongside Michael Jackson on stage and in a short film, portraying Michael Jackson in Thriller Live on the West End in London, and working with some of the biggest names in entertainment.

Now, I, today I wanted to have a different conversation with him, okay? Not just about his journey, but also why performers in general all over the world still study Michael Jackson.

I'm so excited to welcome him today in person.

Rico, welcome to the show.

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Hey.

We're-

What's going on? So happy to be here.

You're here in person.

Yeah, in person.

It's great.

Uh, the first one we did was really good, but now we're face to face-

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... which is cool.

Yes.

And we're here.

I'm so excited.

Yeah, me too.

And I wanted to remi- I want ...

If you could, remind people, um, so you worked with Michael Jackson on a number of projects, and that's a lot of what we talked about last time, but just remind us how, what projects you worked on with Michael.

Um, what I worked with Mike was we did the live shows, which is MJ and Friends.

Uh, we did a show in Korea.

Um, Korea and Munich, Germany, MJ and Friends, uh, Dangerous, and then obviously the Rock My World music video-

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... that I doubled for him in.

And, uh, yeah, it's just been such a interesting, amazing, exciting journey, so here we are.