July 22, 2025 • 5 mins
"How does a man become a legend three different times in one lifetime?"In this emotionally charged and unexpectedly hilarious episode of The Ben and Skin Show, hosts Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray reflect on the life, legacy, and sheer unpredictability of the one and only Ozzy Osbourne, who passed away at 76—just weeks after delivering a powerful final performance.From his Black Sabbath roots, to his solo metal reign, to his reality TV resurrection, Ozzy’s journey is dissected with reverence, wit, and a few jaw-dropping revelations. The crew shares personal reactions, plays clips from his last concert, and dives into how Ozzy’s voice—“as uniquely identifiable as it gets”—still gave chills in his final days.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We got sad news today the passing of an absolute icon.
Ozzy Osbourne has passed away at the age of seventy six. Yeah,
and battling Parkinson's. And this is just like three weeks
after his final concert. How incredible is that that he
went out on his terms and ended doing a show. Really,
(00:21):
this was I mean, look, anytime someone famous passes it,
it's shocking, you know. But when we I did not
go and watch the footage from that concert. You saw
some of it, didn't you, Christine did it.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
But we played the audio and I remember sitting here going, god,
Ozzie sounds great.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Yeah, you know.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Now he was sitting the entire time in his Prince
of Darkness throne, which you know, I mean with him
and the legend and the legacy and all that, it
made sense and we knew that he was struggling, which
is why you know they did this concert. But that's
what was shocking for me by looking down and see
it is like, man, he's just a couple of weeks
removed from giving a really good perform It's an important
(01:01):
performance and all of his fans being able to connect
with that and love that, That's what I think really
kind of blew us away about it.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
Yeah, And he had been practicing and actually like working
out up to that concert too, so that might have
taken a big toll on him as well.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
It's quick, do you want to hear it real quick? Yeah,
just kind of what he sounded like here. This should
happen now.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
That doesn't sound like a man who's going to be
passing away now, you know. Yeah, boy, they got that
(01:56):
guitar man, so they have. He has certainly one of
the most maybe I don't want to say the most,
but that is about as uniquely identifiable as a voice
as you can have. Like nobody sounds like Ozzy. He
sounds in his own I mean, I can't even think
of another singer that sounds close to that. He's got
(02:18):
his own unique tambre that's unlike really anything else, and
he is so identifiable. Obviously, we've been playing Black Sabbata
and izing music all day long on the Eagle, and
I would imagine that'll be one of our main themes
all week long as well.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
I was just thinking, like the number of tributes and
statements and whatever that's gonna happen the next two or
three days gonna be overwhelming. Oh yeah, we mentioned the
last segment. Even someone is modernist post Malone who did
a song with him which was a huge hit five
years ago, and then with everyone else who's been with
him forever. You know, I really don't think we can
overstate the importance of that reality show. Yeah, in terms
(02:58):
of like, there's no way that a post Malone wants
to do something with Ozzie without that reality show, because
it bridged him to an entirely new audience. Yeah, and
really made a reason for him to continue to make music.
That show came out in two thousand and two.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Wow, twenty three years.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
I mean, I want to say that was one of
the first big like family reality shows. We had Real
World and stuff, but this was a whole new thing
that broke ground for everything.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
What year was that, two to five?
Speaker 1 (03:29):
So in two like seeing that, I was like, wow, man,
he is he's had a hard life. You know, he's
not doing very well and he can't really speak, yeah,
speak very well. But he kept it going for a
lot longer.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Yeah. Obviously his mumble bit was was insane, I mean yeah,
and he leaned into the mumble bit.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
And I didn't watch the show, but like I just
watched the soup that had the recap of all of
the reality shows, and they made fun of that show
so much because Sharon is crazy and then her daughter
Elly was nuts.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Yeah, and Jack would not his name Jack. Jack kind
of looked like the lead singer of Harvey Danger. But
so Sharon Also, she's got a really interesting story because
Ozzy was left for dead in the late seventies. She
got him, cleaned him up, got him back out on
the road, and built And she's obviously a very savvy
(04:22):
business lady. And was she on American Idol. She ended
up being on one of those shows, America's Got Talent.
I can't remember which one, but she was a judge
on one of those shows. Because that platform that was
the Osbourne's or whatever that thing was called, it just
all four of them became famous on their own.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
And and honestly, like if you look at it, Ozzy's
kind of the butt of the joke on that show.
It's like, oh, look at her dumb heavy metal dad
that no one can understand, you know. And and but
that that was an empire onto its own. If you
look at Ozzie, he had a huge career in the
late sixties and the early to mid seventies as the
(05:05):
lead singer of Black Sabbath. He had a huge solo
career as a metal icon solo artist in the eighties,
and then he came back ten years later in the
two thousands as a reality TV show. I mean, he
had three completely separate careers that are all legendary on
their own. Wow.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
She had apparently Sharon had made a post about Malcolm
Jamal Warner about three hours before Ozzie died. Wow, fucking
rip to him. So very weird, very weird.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Rest in peace. Ozzy Osbourne passed away at the age
of seventy six. All Right, we wrap up today's show
with a little Dallas Cowboys action. What is the biggest
controversy in Dallas cowboys land right now? That's coming away
in just about three minutes right here on the Eagle
We got sad news today the passing of an absolute icon.
Ozzy Osbourne has passed away at the age of seventy six. Yeah,
and battling Parkinson's. And this is just like three weeks
after his final concert. How incredible is that that he
went out on his terms and ended doing a show. Really,
(00:21):
this was I mean, look, anytime someone famous passes it,
it's shocking, you know. But when we I did not
go and watch the footage from that concert. You saw
some of it, didn't you, Christine did it.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
But we played the audio and I remember sitting here going, god,
Ozzie sounds great.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Yeah, you know.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Now he was sitting the entire time in his Prince
of Darkness throne, which you know, I mean with him
and the legend and the legacy and all that, it
made sense and we knew that he was struggling, which
is why you know they did this concert. But that's
what was shocking for me by looking down and see
it is like, man, he's just a couple of weeks
removed from giving a really good perform It's an important
(01:01):
performance and all of his fans being able to connect
with that and love that, That's what I think really
kind of blew us away about it.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
Yeah, And he had been practicing and actually like working
out up to that concert too, so that might have
taken a big toll on him as well.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
It's quick, do you want to hear it real quick? Yeah,
just kind of what he sounded like here. This should
happen now.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
That doesn't sound like a man who's going to be
passing away now, you know. Yeah, boy, they got that
(01:56):
guitar man, so they have. He has certainly one of
the most maybe I don't want to say the most,
but that is about as uniquely identifiable as a voice
as you can have. Like nobody sounds like Ozzy. He
sounds in his own I mean, I can't even think
of another singer that sounds close to that. He's got
(02:18):
his own unique tambre that's unlike really anything else, and
he is so identifiable. Obviously, we've been playing Black Sabbata
and izing music all day long on the Eagle, and
I would imagine that'll be one of our main themes
all week long as well.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
I was just thinking, like the number of tributes and
statements and whatever that's gonna happen the next two or
three days gonna be overwhelming. Oh yeah, we mentioned the
last segment. Even someone is modernist post Malone who did
a song with him which was a huge hit five
years ago, and then with everyone else who's been with
him forever. You know, I really don't think we can
overstate the importance of that reality show. Yeah, in terms
(02:58):
of like, there's no way that a post Malone wants
to do something with Ozzie without that reality show, because
it bridged him to an entirely new audience. Yeah, and
really made a reason for him to continue to make music.
That show came out in two thousand and two.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Wow, twenty three years.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
I mean, I want to say that was one of
the first big like family reality shows. We had Real
World and stuff, but this was a whole new thing
that broke ground for everything.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
What year was that, two to five?
Speaker 1 (03:29):
So in two like seeing that, I was like, wow, man,
he is he's had a hard life. You know, he's
not doing very well and he can't really speak, yeah,
speak very well. But he kept it going for a
lot longer.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Yeah. Obviously his mumble bit was was insane, I mean yeah,
and he leaned into the mumble bit.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
And I didn't watch the show, but like I just
watched the soup that had the recap of all of
the reality shows, and they made fun of that show
so much because Sharon is crazy and then her daughter
Elly was nuts.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Yeah, and Jack would not his name Jack. Jack kind
of looked like the lead singer of Harvey Danger. But
so Sharon Also, she's got a really interesting story because
Ozzy was left for dead in the late seventies. She
got him, cleaned him up, got him back out on
the road, and built And she's obviously a very savvy
(04:22):
business lady. And was she on American Idol. She ended
up being on one of those shows, America's Got Talent.
I can't remember which one, but she was a judge
on one of those shows. Because that platform that was
the Osbourne's or whatever that thing was called, it just
all four of them became famous on their own.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
And and honestly, like if you look at it, Ozzy's
kind of the butt of the joke on that show.
It's like, oh, look at her dumb heavy metal dad
that no one can understand, you know. And and but
that that was an empire onto its own. If you
look at Ozzie, he had a huge career in the
late sixties and the early to mid seventies as the
(05:05):
lead singer of Black Sabbath. He had a huge solo
career as a metal icon solo artist in the eighties,
and then he came back ten years later in the
two thousands as a reality TV show. I mean, he
had three completely separate careers that are all legendary on
their own. Wow.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
She had apparently Sharon had made a post about Malcolm
Jamal Warner about three hours before Ozzie died. Wow, fucking
rip to him. So very weird, very weird.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Rest in peace. Ozzy Osbourne passed away at the age
of seventy six. All Right, we wrap up today's show
with a little Dallas Cowboys action. What is the biggest
controversy in Dallas cowboys land right now? That's coming away
in just about three minutes right here on the Eagle
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