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Bobby Bones: ...you can turn your life into whatever you want it to be

Nobody Told Me!

Nobody Told Me!

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.2671 Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Join us for an inspiring and fun conversation with television and radio personality Bobby Bones.  Bobby is also a bestselling author, winner of "Dancing with the Stars", and four-season mentor on "American Idol".  We talk with him about his book, "Fail Until You Don't: Fight. Grind. Repeat.", which is about how he and some of his famous friends made it through their failures and found their way to enormous success.  https://bobbybones.iheart.com/

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0:00.0

Welcome to Nobody Told Me. I'm Jan Black. And I'm Laura Owens. If you're even somewhat of a country music fan, chances are that you've heard of our next guest.

0:21.5

Bobby Bones is the host of the Bobby Bones show,

0:24.3

which has an audience of more than 7 million per week.

0:27.5

He's a member of the musical comedy group,

0:29.6

Bobby Bones and The Raging Idiots,

0:31.4

and even mentored the top 24 on American Idol this year.

0:35.3

His latest book,

0:36.4

Fail Until You Don't, Fight, Grind, Repeat,

0:40.0

is about how he and some of his famous friends

0:42.3

made it through their failures

0:43.4

and found their way to enormous success.

0:46.2

Welcome to the show, Bobby.

0:48.1

Thank you for having me.

0:49.4

I really appreciate that.

0:50.9

Well, talk to us a little bit about your background

0:52.8

because you grew up in this very small

0:54.8

town in Arkansas. So how did you go from this town to being a big, big, radio star?

1:01.7

Well, I don't know if I'd use the words big, big, and star, but my transition started. So I was born in

1:08.0

Mountain Pine, Arkansas, the population is 700 people.

1:11.2

And there's a sawmill, or there was a sawmill, and it's since been shut down.

1:15.6

And the town is, you know, it struggles now.

1:20.2

And, you know, my mom had me when she was 15 years old.

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