#579 - Milo Ventimiglia on His First Big Yes, Gilmore Girls & This Is Us
Bobby Bones Presents: The BobbyCast
Nashville Podcast Network
4.8 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2026
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Actor Milo Ventimiglia sits down with Bobby and shares what he learned working alongside Will Smith, then breaks down the TV breakthroughs that changed his life—from getting on the map with Gilmore Girls to launching into a whole new stratosphere with This Is Us. He also gets real about the “99 no' before a yes” grind, how he memorizes lines, and when you’re allowed to ad-lib (and when a set won’t let you change a single word). Plus, the unexpectedly hilarious side of Milo: Blue Angels stories, “chirping,” and why he has very strong opinions about passing out mid-flight and what it was like learning to sing for a new role when vocals weren’t even in his bag of tricks.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:11.1 | Ashley was having a party, and my role was I walk down the steps with a girl in my arm, |
| 0:16.6 | and Ashley runs up to me as this party's happening while her parents are out of town. |
| 0:20.6 | And she says, nobody's supposed to be upstairs. |
| 0:23.0 | And I say to her, relax, Ash, we're just taking a little tour. |
| 0:26.2 | And walk off. |
| 0:30.4 | Hey, guys, Bobby Bones here today on the Bobbycast. |
| 0:33.5 | I'm hanging out with Milo Ventimilia, actor, director, producer. |
| 0:44.1 | I know him mostly as Jack Pearson on This Is Us, but also he was on heroes, he was on Gilmore Girls. |
| 0:46.2 | Heck, he was even Fresh Prince of Bel Air. |
| 0:48.4 | The dude's awesome. |
| 0:49.9 | Like, I really enjoyed this. |
| 0:51.3 | I had never met him before. |
| 0:52.6 | And he's in a new movie. |
| 0:57.4 | I can only imagine, too, where he plays Tim Timmons and Tim actually lives in Nashville, and he's in a new movie. I can only imagine two where he plays Tim Timmons, and Tim actually lives in Nashville, |
| 1:00.0 | and it's pretty cool because Milo's in Nashville, we're recording this. |
| 1:02.9 | But I can only imagine two in theaters. |
| 1:05.1 | Here he is, Milo Ventimilia. |
| 1:11.1 | I often try to find the three questions I think people are asked and not ask them. Okay. |
| 1:12.1 | But I want to see if I can guess the three questions that you get asked the most. |
| 1:15.6 | Okay. |
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