when someone famous from your childhood dies

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
Michael Madsen, Ozzy Osborne, Hulk Hulgan, Malcolm Jamal Warner. Within
the last week or so, we've a couple weeks we've

(00:24):
been losing. There's a lot of people just go facey all.
I mean people die of course, right, I don't know
this this this go around. If you're a gen exer
like I am, they're hitting very differently. I the two
that hit me the most, and surprisingly Ozzie and macau

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Jamal Warner. Mine. Jamal was around my age, couple of
years younger when he passed, when he drowned on vacation.
That's just sad right there. And you heard nothing while
he was alive. You heard nothing bad about him ever ever,

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and from his death you do not hear anything bad
with some of the others. Yeah, there are bad and
good things of hold especially, but when Marjoe warned, it
was all love. It's one of the few times in
society and online it happens me once in a while

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where everybody comes together. And even with that complicated Cosby past,
because mostly that's Bill Cosby. The show is still known
for being one of the best sitcoms ever released, and
theo was one of the best characters on that sick
he was I was older. She was the younger brother

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type friend like Todd Bridges was the big brother, always
wanted theo was a younger on her in the family,
so to speak. Because the College Show came out. I
was fifteen when it came out, so I was older,
and by time it is Heyday, I was already becoming
an adult. But I'm like all those kids. It really

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hit me how iconic the cosmic kids are. We all
about filictery Seoan, how much you love her and all that,
but like the kids, it feels like one of it
feels like one of our family members got ripped from
us way too soon. I really found myself really sad

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more than I you know, more than I thought I just,
you know, of course, to be sad someone dies and
it's my fingers, you know. But it just kind of
like that was a really hit in the way that
was generational, say with Ozzie. I mean, I grew up
with this, you know, Black Sabbath. Of course, I spent
the eighties him by batch off heads and things and
you know, all stuff, But it's the Prince of darkness

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for me. It was his duet with Leada Ford close
your eyes Forever. That duet was the top ten duet kids.
It showed us Ozzie in a way that you never
saw for a soft ballad that was about love and
love lost and and stuff. It was. It was. It
was magical. I mean Leada's voices just and then you

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hear the story how he wrote it together, and it
was all night. It was just and of course the
OSWA was last stuff later. But it's just kind of
like Ozzie. It's it's tough when our people we grew
up with and watch an aid. Myre past for me

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was fair Fawcett and Michael Jackson, Prince There and Bowie
Tuesday in summers. You know, I just there's images that
you just are so used to. When they're gone, you're like, really,
they're gone. And that's something. If you're fifty plus, you're

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deal with it. You get older because a lot of
your childhood heroes and fan favorites either they're older than
you are when you fall in love with them, where
they' around your age, they start to go and just way,
he's sad, and I just want to address this. I've

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for people. Some people will say, well, you know, how
are you sad about somebody you've never met. I'm learning
this as a person who does this for loving myself.
There are people who do connect to your spirit through
your work, and that's meaningful. That means you're doing something

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that brings them joy or peace or a respite from
real life. They enjoy your work, they fall in love
with that. You don't have to know them personally to
fall in love with their work or how they are.

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And I feel like that's what you're borning. You're more
in the loss of that feeling. You're more the loss
that you won't get anything new from them ever again,
Like this is it, and I think it's legit. I
think it's okay. I think it's okay. It's more a
loss of someone who you don't know. To me, it

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kind of explains that I have, you know, and some
people they do end up just fan clubs and now
cameos and we're online and stuff. So now sometimes you
get to talk to them through online or dough fan
events them you can make connection. I have connection with

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made my lotties out there. I have connection with several
of them, like personal connection because remember you know, and yes,
it may seem strange to some people, but it's to me,
it's legitimate and it's real. I ain't talking about the fanatical,
crazy people. I'm talking about. What I'm talking about just

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average people who like someone's work. There you go. So
it's just it's just it's just it is. It is
such a it's just such an interesting thing. But I
am completely understanding of just feeling like parts of your

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childhood or a younger part era of your life that
you just hold dear takes the hit when someone from
that time period goes totally get it, totally get it.
That's all I mean, that's that's I mean, I just

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that's I just recipes all of them. And you know,
we notice is not the end. More gonna be going
we all we all leave this life alive, so you
know more can be coming. But it's just it's there's
these rumors about Phil Collins being in bad health. We
speak again with another sad time from my time period.
It's like, oh, you know, so yeah, life just marches on.