TAKE THIS PERSONALLY: My 87-Year-Old Grandma on Regrets, Adventure, and Why Hate Destroys You
The Bobby Bones Show
Premiere Networks
4.8 • 9.8K Ratings
🗓️ 11 January 2026
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
From growing up without modern technology to teaching English, raising children, exploring archaeology, flying planes, riding motorcycles, and living alone on the land she loves for over three decades, my 87-year-old Grandma Bernie reflects on the choices that shaped her life and the lessons she’s still learning.
I sit down with her on the Kansas farm she’s called home for decades. What unfolds is an honest, curious, and adventurous conversation about independence, love, regret, science, nature, and what it really means to live a full life. This episode is all about resilience, questioning what we think we know and some of the most powerful advice you may hear today "don't hate. grab life and go!"
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:25.6 | I can't believe I made this episode happen. I can't believe i made this episode happen my 87 year old grandma burney is joining the episode this week she is such a spitfire in somebody that i spent so much time with |
| 0:31.2 | growing up and she's also somebody that i look up to she has wisdom and knowledge and so many |
| 0:35.7 | stories to share i cannot wait for you guys |
| 0:38.1 | to hear this entire episode. So I'm not going to talk anymore. Let's just get into it. |
| 0:45.9 | I'm excited because my grandma Bernie is joining me for this week's episode. Grandma, how you feeling? |
| 0:52.9 | I'm feeling a little nervous. Yeah, but you're an expert at all |
| 0:57.0 | these things. You're once upon a time a teacher. And that makes you used to a microphone, |
| 1:03.6 | how? It makes you used to talking in front of people. You taught things all the time. I do. I talk a lot. And you're a good talker. I'm, |
| 1:13.0 | I talk plenty. Yes. I don't know. There may be some good in it somewhere, sometimes |
| 1:19.6 | just jabbering, I think. Your credentials here are going to be your age. Can you share with |
| 1:25.2 | everybody how old you are? I'm 87. You're 87. And my grandma |
| 1:28.9 | Barney has lived out here on this farm that we're at for how long? For right close to 40 years now. |
| 1:36.4 | And you've been out here by yourself for how long? |
| 1:40.0 | 33 maybe. I like that. |
| 1:44.5 | A long time, and you're really a very big expert at the independent world. |
| 1:49.7 | You have been independent for as long as I can remember. |
| 1:52.0 | I've always thought of myself as independent. |
| 1:54.7 | However, I have never lived, totally lived by myself before, |
| 2:02.7 | especially not long-term like this. |
| 2:06.4 | And it was hard at first. |
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