#383 - Grammy Nominated Songwriter Jon Nite on Geeking Out When Garth Watched Him Soundcheck + How Having a Kid When He Was 16 Years Old Changed his Life + Writing “I Hope” with Gabby Barrett and Fighting for It To Be A Hit!
Bobby Bones Presents: The BobbyCast
Nashville Podcast Network
4.8 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2023
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Jon Nite (@jnitewriter)is a Grammy-nominated, CMA and ACM award winning singer/songwriter with 15 No. 1’s and counting. He dealt with many struggles in his life growing up without much in Texas, getting his girlfriend pregnant when he was only 16 and the repercussions it had on his father who worked in the church. Jon talks about what motivated him to move to Nashville to study music and pursue songwriting even when everything in his world felt like chaos. He talks about meeting Gabby Barrett for the first time and writing and recording “I Hope” together. He also reveals the real story of how Charlie Puth got added as a featured artist. And the first time he met Garth Brooks and why he apologized to Jon.
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| 0:00.0 | Paper Ghosts is a true crime podcast investigating the mysterious disappearance and brutal unsolved murder of Tammy's Wiki. |
| 0:08.6 | They just kept telling us from the beginning, she'll be back, she'll be back. |
| 0:12.4 | We had no clue where she was, they didn't know where to begin to look. |
| 0:16.0 | Tammy's story shocked the nation. The deeper I searched, the more troubling things I found. |
| 0:22.2 | The best lead, the best evidence, the best witness was blown off. |
| 0:28.4 | Listen to Paper Ghosts on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your favorite shows. |
| 0:36.0 | Have you ever watched the Exorcist and wondered, are demons real? |
| 0:40.2 | What we interviewed a leading exorcist to find out and the truth was shocking. |
| 0:44.8 | Tell me who you are, the one who won't get out. The one who can't. |
| 0:50.1 | Levitations, vomiting, spitting at the priest with an uncanny marksmanship. That has not been a movie for me. |
| 0:58.8 | Listen to the Exorcist files on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:05.6 | I'm Jason Alexander and I'm through the talk and we know you've been pining for a brand new podcast |
| 1:10.0 | hosted by a beloved television icon. And largely unknown talk radio hosts. |
| 1:14.2 | Yeah, yeah, yeah, I wrote that. Pine no more because we're the hosts of really no really. |
| 1:18.3 | The funny informative show that seeks the answers to things that make us say, |
| 1:21.6 | really, no, really, you'll lay off your learn and we'll get paid. |
| 1:25.0 | That's really no really with Jason Alexander and Peter Tillman on the iHeartRadio app on Apple Podcasts |
| 1:29.8 | or where you get your podcasts. And anybody who uses the word pining, let me know because |
| 1:34.2 | I don't think it's very much the middle agent. Very common word. |
| 1:41.3 | Fall in love with this girl in high school and I get a pregnant and it was crazy to me |
| 1:47.6 | to know the right thing to do, you know, and to be this young and then like, you know, I've just |
| 1:53.3 | screwed up my future in that moment I thought. |
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