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🗓️ 9 May 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Introducing Bobby Bones: “Tenacity is a talent.” from Math & Magic: Stories from the Frontiers of Marketing with Bob Pittman.

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Bobby Bones has been called “the most powerful man in country music.” Host of the nationally syndicated country music radio program, The Bobby Bones Show, and the podcast, Bobbycast, millions of Americans consider him a friend. Audio is his bread and butter, but he’s also made a name for himself on TV, as a mentor on American Idol, the host of Breaking Bobby Bones on the National Geographic Channel, and as a winner of Dancing With the Stars. He’s from a small town in Arkansas where his youth was largely defined by poverty and instability. Today, he considers the perspective it gave him one of his biggest strengths. Bobby joins Bob to share insights about ambition and tenacity, the power of country music, and how emotional intelligence is the strongest skill an interviewer can have.

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0:00.0	You're listening to an IHeart podcast.
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0:23.4	You're listening to Math and Magic, a production of I-Hart Podcasts.
0:29.9	Tenacity is a talent, because I never felt like I was super talented at anything, because
0:35.5	I never had one skill that I could lean on. It couldn't sing.
0:39.9	Didn't have a great voice. It wasn't super funny. I started to realize that being tenacious and not
0:47.4	stopping being tenacious, that's a real talent. Hi, I'm Bob Pittman and welcome to this episode of math and magic. Today, we're
0:56.1	exploring the power of audio and the power of those hosts on the radio and podcast who
1:01.4	hundreds of millions of Americans call their friends. Our guest today is Bobby Bones, known the
1:07.2	millions and millions for his morning show on country radio, and also for his stents as a mentor on American Idol,
1:13.3	host of Breaking Bobby Bones on the National Geographic Channel,
1:16.7	and a past winner of Dancing with the Stars.
1:19.4	He's also authored two New York Times bestsellers,
1:22.3	and has the wildly successful podcast, Bobbycast,
1:26.5	and the Nashville Podcast Network.
1:28.8	Bobby was born and raised in small town, Arkansas, Mountain Pine, in what he has described
1:34.7	as extreme poverty. He literally had no bed for himself until he finally got to college.
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