August 4, 2025 • 7 mins
"Can a single rumor define a rock legend’s legacy—even decades later?"In this outrageous and unforgettable episode of The Ben and Skin Show, hosts Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray dive headfirst into the wild world of music news, where AI tributes, urban legends, and record-breaking concerts collide in the most unexpected ways.🎸 Rod Stewart vs. Ozzy? Rod Stewart, still rocking at 80, dedicates his hit “Forever Young” to Ozzy Osbourne during a live show—complete with a surreal AI video montage of Ozzy soaring through the clouds alongside music legends like Prince, Tupac, and Freddie Mercury. But then Rod drops a line that has everyone raising eyebrows:“Very sad. A lot of those people died because of drugs. I’m still here though.”Was it a tribute… or a subtle shot?Plus, The crew revisits one of the most infamous (music rumors of all time: the Rod Stewart stomach pump story. Ben dives into the origins of the tale, revealing it may have been revenge-fueled sabotage by Stewart’s former publicist.
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Yeah, tremendous. A lot of music news over the weekend.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
We will start with weirdly, someone maybe taking a shot
at Ozzy.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Shouldn't be doing that.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Why would you do that?
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Rod Stewart is still touring.
Speaker 4 (00:25):
Oh, it's like that dude that they stood up there,
the ninety year old guy. They stood up there with
the high pitch singing.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Is that on a freaking valley level? Yet we're getting there.
Doesn't have his age there? Eighty?
Speaker 3 (00:37):
And how many times he getting his stomach pumped for
vocal chords?
Speaker 1 (00:45):
They do that?
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Right?
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Does that help?
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Yeah? And you get older, you get your stomach pumped.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
And that to you and you had throat cancer, Yeah,
might have caused it, probably, So of course he's playing.
He dedicates his nineteen eighty eight hit Forever Young to Ozzy.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
That song is a beating I would agree. I would
agree it's him is worst.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
So as he he does that, and then there's a
photo of Ozzy on the screen behind him.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
But then.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
The photo starts moving and it's just some AI.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Type of video and it's basically soaring through the clouds.
Is Ozzy with other people just look like they're taking
a selfie?
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Is it Ozzy and Chubbs and Abraham Lincoln.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Cannis Joplin, Prince, Tina Turner, Bob Marley, Tupac, Aliah, Michael Jackson,
Freddie Mercury, Hendrick, George Michael, Kurt Cobain, Jimmy Hendrix, Whitney Houston,
Amy Winehouse like and they're all just like one at
a time, and it's all changed. So at the end
of it, after it plays, Rod Shirt goes, that is
(02:00):
a lot of those people died because of drugs.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
I'm still here though.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
I survived.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
My drug use is the weirdest video.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
If you have a chance to see it, I encourage
everyone in your spare time just go find it.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
I just looked up.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Is the Rod Stewart's stomach pump story true? And I've
always thought of it as being true, right.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
I never once thought it.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
So prevalent.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
The AI says, the story about Rod Stewart having his
stomach pump to remove yep, baby.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Yeah, DNA is not true.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Well, it's still undetermined because the story claims Rod Stewart
had to have his stomach pumped after allegedly engaging in activities. Yeah,
with a large number of sailors. I never heard that
far and ingesting their stuff. And he has had to
(03:07):
deny it. He had to address it in his autobiography,
He's had to address it in several interviews. Now. The
origin of the rumors believed to be his old agent,
his publicist, a guy named Tony Toone who fabricated the
story allegedly as revenge after being fired.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
And then he did the same thing to Richard Gear.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
That's the other urban legend stands the test of time,
and quite frankly, it becomes your legacy.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Think about also the premise of it. The premise is
so dumb that he had the size of Here's here's
Rod Stuart, Here's Rodster. Stewart says, I'm as heterosexual as
they come. He says his his former publicist, was inspired
(04:01):
by being fired. He fed the press story in which,
as a consequence of an evening spent getting with these
sailors in a bar.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
In San Diego, he had to be required to check
into a hospital emergency.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
At the stomach pump.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
He said, I have never done that with a solitary sailor,
let alone of ships worth in one evening, and I've
never had my stomach pump either of naval issue stuff
or any other kind.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
And then he said, but don't ask me about marines.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Is he gay?
Speaker 2 (04:37):
He just said the heterosexual as they come, heterosexual as
they come.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
He was only speaking to women when he said, if
you like his buddy and you think it's sexy, he
was only speaking to women.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
That's a great song, by the way, Yep, God a
legacy piece. You can your whole career ground un to
nothing because someone started that.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
And same thing for Richard Gere. Fine actor.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
You know, I'm not trying to cast him in my movies,
but you know he's not on my call list.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
But I could come up with a role for him
if you had to.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
But you're not seeking him out. It's also not nineteen
ninety three.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
It is legit in his prime.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
I agree, Fan, he's been in some compelling movies. That
Richard gear.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Fan fell to his death at the Oasis show yesterday.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Yep, what happened?
Speaker 1 (05:24):
He fell good? We actually don't know. There's no Weirdly,
it's one of those situations.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
I guess everyone was filming the stage because everyone definitely
had their phone out. See no update on any witnesses
or things like that. So did This happen at a
big stagium, Wimbley, Okay, one of the biggest.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Stadiums, by the biggest.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
The other news on that show is that Oasis set
a beer record because they sold over two hundred and
fifty thousand pints of beer at that show at Wimbley, and.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
It broke the record held by who. Do you think
number two was?
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Fighturs?
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Nope?
Speaker 4 (06:03):
Who sings Hey now you're an all star smash smash MoU.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
It's a big beard drinking crowd. Big for a concert
or for a game. Okay, I'm trying to think of
a band big enough to play a Rolling Stone.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
I'll just tell you they doubled up the old record too.
Stones is a great guest.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Are they like encouraging people to go drink? Like, uh,
you know, I don't know. They're a rowdy. You know
it's in the UK and it's a rowdy, you know,
Like they're big soccer guys. They're big man, you guys,
aren't they?
Speaker 4 (06:36):
I imagine big soccer guys and bands performed there before.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Why did they double the record?
Speaker 1 (06:42):
This is a big show. This is a big deal.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Everyone who's going and is like the reviews are writing
about this or like it's the greatest show I've ever seen.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Wham uh no.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
But you're on the right, not era even, but just
like vibe that they're putting out. They've been in the
news a lot lately. Yeah, Neil Diamond, they've been in
the news a lot lately. Depeche Mode, they've.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Been in the news a lot.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Neil Diamond.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Cold play, Yeah, one hundred and twenty thousand times for
coldplays on shows last year.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
A lot of light.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Beer Third One was shocking to me though. Taylor Swift, Yeah, yeah,
a lot of people. Yeah, the moms a lot like
that's just weird to me. So there you go.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
There's your There is fantastic music news
Yeah, tremendous. A lot of music news over the weekend.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
We will start with weirdly, someone maybe taking a shot
at Ozzy.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Shouldn't be doing that.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Why would you do that?
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Rod Stewart is still touring.
Speaker 4 (00:25):
Oh, it's like that dude that they stood up there,
the ninety year old guy. They stood up there with
the high pitch singing.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Is that on a freaking valley level? Yet we're getting there.
Doesn't have his age there? Eighty?
Speaker 3 (00:37):
And how many times he getting his stomach pumped for
vocal chords?
Speaker 1 (00:45):
They do that?
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Right?
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Does that help?
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Yeah? And you get older, you get your stomach pumped.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
And that to you and you had throat cancer, Yeah,
might have caused it, probably, So of course he's playing.
He dedicates his nineteen eighty eight hit Forever Young to Ozzy.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
That song is a beating I would agree. I would
agree it's him is worst.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
So as he he does that, and then there's a
photo of Ozzy on the screen behind him.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
But then.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
The photo starts moving and it's just some AI.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Type of video and it's basically soaring through the clouds.
Is Ozzy with other people just look like they're taking
a selfie?
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Is it Ozzy and Chubbs and Abraham Lincoln.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Cannis Joplin, Prince, Tina Turner, Bob Marley, Tupac, Aliah, Michael Jackson,
Freddie Mercury, Hendrick, George Michael, Kurt Cobain, Jimmy Hendrix, Whitney Houston,
Amy Winehouse like and they're all just like one at
a time, and it's all changed. So at the end
of it, after it plays, Rod Shirt goes, that is
(02:00):
a lot of those people died because of drugs.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
I'm still here though.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
I survived.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
My drug use is the weirdest video.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
If you have a chance to see it, I encourage
everyone in your spare time just go find it.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
I just looked up.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Is the Rod Stewart's stomach pump story true? And I've
always thought of it as being true, right.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
I never once thought it.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
So prevalent.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
The AI says, the story about Rod Stewart having his
stomach pump to remove yep, baby.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Yeah, DNA is not true.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Well, it's still undetermined because the story claims Rod Stewart
had to have his stomach pumped after allegedly engaging in activities. Yeah,
with a large number of sailors. I never heard that
far and ingesting their stuff. And he has had to
(03:07):
deny it. He had to address it in his autobiography,
He's had to address it in several interviews. Now. The
origin of the rumors believed to be his old agent,
his publicist, a guy named Tony Toone who fabricated the
story allegedly as revenge after being fired.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
And then he did the same thing to Richard Gear.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
That's the other urban legend stands the test of time,
and quite frankly, it becomes your legacy.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Think about also the premise of it. The premise is
so dumb that he had the size of Here's here's
Rod Stuart, Here's Rodster. Stewart says, I'm as heterosexual as
they come. He says his his former publicist, was inspired
(04:01):
by being fired. He fed the press story in which,
as a consequence of an evening spent getting with these
sailors in a bar.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
In San Diego, he had to be required to check
into a hospital emergency.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
At the stomach pump.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
He said, I have never done that with a solitary sailor,
let alone of ships worth in one evening, and I've
never had my stomach pump either of naval issue stuff
or any other kind.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
And then he said, but don't ask me about marines.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Is he gay?
Speaker 2 (04:37):
He just said the heterosexual as they come, heterosexual as
they come.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
He was only speaking to women when he said, if
you like his buddy and you think it's sexy, he
was only speaking to women.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
That's a great song, by the way, Yep, God a
legacy piece. You can your whole career ground un to
nothing because someone started that.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
And same thing for Richard Gere. Fine actor.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
You know, I'm not trying to cast him in my movies,
but you know he's not on my call list.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
But I could come up with a role for him
if you had to.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
But you're not seeking him out. It's also not nineteen
ninety three.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
It is legit in his prime.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
I agree, Fan, he's been in some compelling movies. That
Richard gear.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Fan fell to his death at the Oasis show yesterday.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Yep, what happened?
Speaker 1 (05:24):
He fell good? We actually don't know. There's no Weirdly,
it's one of those situations.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
I guess everyone was filming the stage because everyone definitely
had their phone out. See no update on any witnesses
or things like that. So did This happen at a
big stagium, Wimbley, Okay, one of the biggest.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Stadiums, by the biggest.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
The other news on that show is that Oasis set
a beer record because they sold over two hundred and
fifty thousand pints of beer at that show at Wimbley, and.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
It broke the record held by who. Do you think
number two was?
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Fighturs?
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Nope?
Speaker 4 (06:03):
Who sings Hey now you're an all star smash smash MoU.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
It's a big beard drinking crowd. Big for a concert
or for a game. Okay, I'm trying to think of
a band big enough to play a Rolling Stone.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
I'll just tell you they doubled up the old record too.
Stones is a great guest.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Are they like encouraging people to go drink? Like, uh,
you know, I don't know. They're a rowdy. You know
it's in the UK and it's a rowdy, you know,
Like they're big soccer guys. They're big man, you guys,
aren't they?
Speaker 4 (06:36):
I imagine big soccer guys and bands performed there before.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Why did they double the record?
Speaker 1 (06:42):
This is a big show. This is a big deal.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Everyone who's going and is like the reviews are writing
about this or like it's the greatest show I've ever seen.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Wham uh no.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
But you're on the right, not era even, but just
like vibe that they're putting out. They've been in the
news a lot lately. Yeah, Neil Diamond, they've been in
the news a lot lately. Depeche Mode, they've.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Been in the news a lot.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Neil Diamond.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Cold play, Yeah, one hundred and twenty thousand times for
coldplays on shows last year.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
A lot of light.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Beer Third One was shocking to me though. Taylor Swift, Yeah, yeah,
a lot of people. Yeah, the moms a lot like
that's just weird to me. So there you go.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
There's your There is fantastic music news
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