This week we’re putting focus on my missed opportunity with Nancy Jones, the feisty but very tough force behind the presence of Country Music’s greatest star George Jones. Missed Opportunity. A lost piece of history. You know the questions. Let’s locate the reactions. The door is always open. If you are or know Nancy Jones please reach out to me at arroec@gmail.com that’s arroec@gmail.com Be brilliant!
Episode Transcript
Hey, welcome back to Missed Opportunity. I love sharing conversations,
now hosting them requires show prep. My podcasting platforms feature
thousands of guests. What you don't have access to are
my missed opportunities. The show prep was one hundred percent completed,
the conversation didn't happen. I keep every single note that
I put on that page because I believe that paths
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will one day cross again. Let me explain missed Opportunity.
It's my questions and statements without their answers. I'm leaving
open enough space at the end of each question, hoping
they'll download the talk and insert their answers, then send
it back to me. Missed Opportunity is a lost piece
of history, like a message in a bottle. It's been
tossed out to see I hope to locate a destination.
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This week, we're putting focus on my missed Opportunity with
Nancy Jones, the feisty but very tough force behind the
presence of country music's greatest star, mister George Jones. Okay,
Nancy Jones, widow of the late great George Jones. It's
an audible audio book titled Playing Possum my Memories of
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George Jones. In the book Playing Possum, listeners get an
intimate look at country music legend George Jones as seen
through the eyes of his wife of thirty years. I
didn't know that thirty years. Ask anyone who the goat
is of country music, and they'll tell you it's George Jones.
People know the name George Jones, but they don't know
the behind the scenes man and his golden voice with
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a strong, feisty woman who not only saved his life
from cocaine addiction, alcoholism, and abusive behavior, but was instrumental
in saving his soul. The invitation to share a conversation
with Nancy Jones arrived on June fourteenth, twenty twenty four,
my dad's birthday. Within a few hours, I was booked
for July seventeenth, a single slot, meaning only ten minutes
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ten thirty am. Eastern I wrote back and said absolutely perfect.
June sixteenth, twenty twenty four came all too fast. A
reminder of the conversation and a zoom link were it
would take place tomorrow. Well, tomorrow arrived very fast. July
seventeenth came around, only to receive an email at nine
to twenty a m. Knowing that my conversation would be
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at ten thirty, and they said, good morning all. Unfortunately,
at this time we have to postpone this tour. Sorry
for the inconvenience. Nancy Jones, the wife of country music
legend George Jones. It is my missed opportunity coming up next,
the questions the statements for Nancy Jones, in high hopes
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that someone in her family or Nancy herself will find
this conversation and insert her answers. Hey, welcome back to
Missed Opportunity. This week, our focus is on Nancy Jones,
the wife of the legendary George Jones. The book playing Possum,
My Memories of George Jones. You know situations like this
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where I just wish my parents were here today to
listen to this, because, my god, that's all I heard
when I was a kid, George Jones. This, George Jones
that when a creative mind has declared war on itself.
I d frag, what did George do? You guys were
married more than thirty years. You knew George as a
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real guy, the dreamer, the pathmaker. You stood beside George
Jones through every single change and challenge that he faced.
I host a podcast called Creativity is the Addiction. See,
this is one of the reasons why I did this
because of people like George Jones. Creativity is so misunderstood
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and those that are fighting those wars need something like this.
I love it that Frank Sinatra embraced your husband, George
Jones when the demons returned to the surface. How do
you deal with something like that? Personally? We all only
assume that we know George's full story. Now you're facing
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the rumors and you're sharing with us things that the
National Inquirer felt like, well, this is news and it
turned out to be no, not really. Did George see
himself as the greatest of all time? How important was
he haw to George Jones? Because man, I remember seeing
him on there all the dang time. Your husband, George
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Jones was an absolutely sound machine. I mean to hear
his story on audible just it adds to the impact
of his journey when you refer to the possum. When
you refer to the possum, is it because they know
how to play games with others? And there you have it.
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Another missed opportunity, a lost piece of history. You now
know the questions, so let's locate the reactions. The door
is always going to be open. If you are or
no Nancy Jones, please reach out to me erroc at
gmail dot com. That's a R. R Oe C at
gmail dot com. Always be brilliant
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