BONUS EP: Bobby Backstage Interview with Bailey Zimmerman & Diplo
The Bobby Bones Show
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🗓️ 29 September 2025
⏱️ 22 minutes
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We recorded a bonus podcast backstage at our iHeartRadio Music Festival in Las Vegas inside the T-Mobile Arena. Bobby sat down with Diplo and Bailey Zimmerman to discuss how music unites us, their collaboration “Ashes,” how that all came together and more!
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:04.2 | I'm Jonathan Goldstein, and on the new season of heavyweight... |
| 0:08.0 | And so I pointed the gun at him and said this isn't a joke. |
| 0:12.6 | A man who robbed a bank when he was 14 years old. |
| 0:16.0 | And a centenarian rediscovers a love lost 80 years ago. |
| 0:20.5 | How can a 101-year-old woman fall in love again? |
| 0:27.6 | Listen to heavyweight on the I-Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:35.1 | The Bobby Bone Show. |
| 0:37.5 | All right, hey guys, Bobby here backstage, Las Vegas for our I Heart Radio Music Festival, |
| 0:41.7 | and we're about to talk with Bailey Zimmerman and Diplo, and it is with Hyundai, and I hope |
| 0:46.8 | you get a chance to go over and watch the video. |
| 0:48.3 | We just shot a really fun video where it's basically I'm supposed to drive them around the |
| 0:53.4 | city, but then I'm really early, and they're also kind of late, and then we get in the Hyundai. But watch it all, you'll be able to see it up on the socials, but we're going to go over to them now. Bailey Zimmerman Diplo backstage before their performance at the Iheart Radio Music Festival. Hey, it's Bobby Bones backstage at the I Heart Radio Music Festival, and this whole festival |
| 1:13.6 | is known for its once-in-a-lifetime collaborations. |
| 1:15.6 | So how did Ashes come together, Diplo? |
| 1:18.6 | Well, I kind of briefly met Bailey, I think at Morgan's show, one of them, and I think he's just |
| 1:24.6 | the guy in Nashville. |
| 1:26.6 | He's cool as hell, and I had a new kind of sound I wanted to do, and I think he's just a guy in Nashville he's cool as hell and I had a new kind of sound I wanted to do and I think he's the one guy that could carry it and I came to his house I had a show I pulled up real quick he was about to leave on tour you're about to jump in your tour bus and we had like three hours play the record for him we kind of like got a scratch and then he handled on his own on the road yeah it was |
| 1:45.4 | really cool he really just like randomly showed up to my house and I'm like oh hey diplo what are you |
| 1:49.4 | doing he's like I have a song did I want to show you and I was like okay and then now we're here |
| 1:55.1 | playing it live and so you record you say like a scratch like a the first version at the house did you use |
| 2:00.6 | any of that in the actual |
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