#515 - Montel Williams on Why He Joined the Military + Origin of His Talk Show + How He Started a Trend on His Talk Show Before TikTok + Bobby Gets Interviews About What He Wants His Legacy to Be
The Bobby Bones Show
Premiere Networks
4.8 • 10.2K Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
On this BobbyCast, Bobby talks to Montel Williams who is best known as the host of the Emmy-nominated daytime talk show, The Montel Williams Show. It ran for 17 years (1991–2008) and aired over 4,000 episodes, making it one of the longest-running daytime talk shows in TV history. He currently hosts Military Makeover with Montel and Military Makeover Operation Career on Lifetime. He talks about how his 22 years in the military led to him starting his talk show. Montel’s new book, The Sailing of the Intrepid: The Incredible Wartime Voyage of the Navy’s Iconic Aircraft Carrier is out now. Bobby then gets the tables turned on him as Julia Pelham who is a student at Chapman University interviews him! She talks to Bobby about his daily routine, what his favorite part of doing the radio show is, how he really ended up on Dancing with the Stars and what he wants his legacy to be.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:09.8 | Welcome to Bobbycast, episode 515. |
| 0:13.7 | By the way, thank you guys for all your comments, all your reviews. |
| 0:18.2 | We need them. |
| 0:19.2 | And wherever you are, sometimes they do the little social media thing |
| 0:21.9 | where you can leave comments down on whatever platform it is. |
| 0:25.3 | Just say hi over there. |
| 0:26.4 | We may message you and give you something free. |
| 0:28.3 | Probably not, but we could. |
| 0:29.3 | You never know, right? |
| 0:30.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:30.3 | Yeah, we need the help. |
| 0:31.4 | So glad you guys are here. |
| 0:32.8 | We're going to go now to this interview with Montel Williams that I did. And if you're around my age, you probably |
| 0:37.8 | remember the Montel Williams show. It says here for 17 years. Man, that's a long time to have |
| 0:43.2 | anything in the world of entertainment run. But 17 years, the Montel Williams show was on. And I |
| 0:49.2 | watched a lot of it. I mean, I remember, there was Sylvia Brown. She was like the psychic that |
| 0:53.5 | would like predict crazy stuff. |
| 0:55.0 | Do you remember that at all, Mike? |
| 0:55.8 | Are you too young for him? |
| 0:56.6 | I remember her. |
| 0:57.8 | Man, he would have on this psychic named Sylvia Brown. |
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