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Speaker 1 (00:00):
In case you hadn't heard, Ozzy Osbourne has passed at
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the age of seventy six. And if we're being honest,
did you think he was good? I didn't think he
would make it this far. I really didn't. And I'm
not trying to be an a hole or a jerk
or whatever, but let's face it, he lived an incredibly
fast life.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
And I've said this on the air before.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
When he had his four wheeler accident, I was like, oh, man,
I don't know how he recovers from something like that.
I don't know how long ago that was, but not
too long ago. And it wasn't like it was a
he was a spring chicken when that happened. But man,
the craziest thing, you know, Chuck and I, you and
I were talking about this just a little bit ago,
and you know, Mike Elliott actually was texting me too
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Columbus Morning News and it was he you know, it
was like he just had a concert July fifth, the
farewell kind of.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
I am so so so glad he did.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Me too, Man, me too. I mean to think about
he did that.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
It was like he was waiting and then he did it,
and he was like, Okay, I can go now.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
You know, yep, Price, that's it pretty crazy. And I
mean Kelly announced her engagement at the concert, which I'm
sorry that that time's out the way it is because
you know, not having dad there for her marriage. It's
a big deal. But I'm so happy. I bet Jack does,
Jack will do it. I bet Jack gives her away. Yeah,
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And I'm so happy he got that chance to say goodbye.
I mean that most of us don't get that he
got an opportunity to sit in front of that audience
one more time and feel that applause hitting his chest.
And I'm sorry he's gone, but I'm happy for him
that he got a chance to do.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
That right right, surrounded by love. He died surrounded by love.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
This is in an article I was reading. This is
a statement from his family.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
It's saying, you know, it's with more sadness mere words
can convey that we have to report that Ozzy has passed.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
That was this morning.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
He was with family, surrounded by love. We ask everybody's
respect for our family privacy, Sharon.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Jack, Kelly, Amy and Louis.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
And news of the death comes more than five years
after he announced his Parkinson's disease. Diagnosis that was in
January of twenty twenty, and then they go on to
talk about, you know, his childhood and some of the
things from his childhood. And by the way, you know,
I thought I knew. I didn't even did I hear
that he had dyslexia, because it's in this article.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Until you said something earlier today, I didn't know.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
It, right, I didn't either. And again, you know, my
entire radio career has been in rock radio, except for
a little blip at the beginning it was oldies, but
other than that, it's been rock radio. And you know,
being around Black Sabbath and Ozzie. Of course, the Lion's
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share of it was you know, when he was solo,
clearly as far as Mike career goes. And I did
get to see him at Vett's memorial a million years ago.
I'll never forget standing in the audience and him on
stage coming out. You know how he jumped around like
a He looked like some sort of a baboon or
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some sort of a primate, the way he would jump
around on stage, kind of almost like collapsing down to
almost like a crouching kind of position, then springing up
and jumping and you know, doing his thing. I'll never
forget this. Literally, almost the whole first song, I couldn't
even hear it. The crowd was so loud.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
I kid you not.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
I have never experienced anything like that as far as
the loudness of that concert, And I'll never forget that.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
But and then I did. I did have the.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Pleasure of interviewing him once when I was on a
different rock station. He called in and it was so
hard to understand. I really had to come with a.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Drink nextion it would be hard to understand him.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
That's my point. It wasn't like I couldn't hear him, it.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Was it, we'll see, and it was like what you know,
I mean he just had between his accent and then
the mumbling forget it. Sharon often would translate for people.
I'm not kidding like you would hear about. That was
one of the things I remember doing rock radio and saying,
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if you ever get backstage with him, Sharon will be there,
and it's she actually will help like translate for some
of the things that he's saying or whatever. But I'll
never forget the show that was on MTV. What an
amazing I mean, you got to see.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
The Prince of darkness take it out the trash. Well,
he can pick it up dog poop, you know, and.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Go down in history as a rock madman or for
just yelling everything, which will be more memorable about us.
BBC had an article about him at the end of
June and the headline was Ozzy Osbourne is the most humble,
ego acomaniacual meat and I just thought that is that's
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got to be just so accurate, because he just seems
like the kind of guy he's The show and the
life were two different things, and I love that. I
love when you go out there and you do your
thing for that audience and then you go home and
you pick up the dog poop out of the yard. Right,
that's a great thing. And Ozzy just seemed like the
kind of guy that did that.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Dude, he's unloading dishes the dishwasher.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
I mean to see that was something and correct me
if I'm wrong, But at that point, had we watched
anybody at his level be a normal mister mom?
Speaker 2 (05:43):
I think so.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
He was the first. And we've talked before about Jean
Simmons family Jewels. I felt the same way about.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Jeane that was after Ozzy's.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Yeah, it came because of the Osbourne's. That's what began
that whole genre of these stars showing you their inside life.
But I absolutely love it and it makes you know,
it makes them more enjoyable as artists for me, yes,
knowing that you know they've got rady old house slippers too.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Yeah, listen, it's that we talk about this all the
time and look not to I don't know tell you
the secret sauce, but I think you already know that
if you're listening.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
It's about relatability, it is.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Yeah, I mean, that's what I try to bring on
the air every day. That's what you try to bring
on the air every day. And then we saw that
in the Ozzy Osbourne, one of the greatest rock minds, voices,
iconic voices in the history of rock. And you got
to see this guy taking out the trash and walking around.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
When like, you know, you'd see Mini Mini would like
poop on the floor and he'd be like shit ru
you know, and you're just like, oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
He goes through it too.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
It's just a few more zeros in his bank account
and where he lives, there's a few more square foot
footage where I live.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
But he's dealing with the same stuff and it was crazy.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
He should be inspirational too, the people who look in
the mirror or whatever and think less of themselves than
they probably should. Because Ozzy Osbourne frankly could not sing.
Most of what he did was electronic. He had that
flange on his voice on everything, whether it kind of a
ballad or a rocket. But he took what he had
and he turned it into something people wanted and created
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international start amount of it that should be inspirational with
everybody out there. I don't sing the best, I'm not
the smartest, I don't look the best. He's I know
he's weird. I know. There was a lot of controversy
about him, but in many ways he could be a
role model for a lot of people.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Qup Q up Zach if you would No More Tears
and I remember when this record came out from Ozzy
because I was in rock radio, and I remember thinking
the production value on this record and because No More
Tears and Mama, I'm Coming Home, and it had a
slew of hits on but I just remember the the
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production on this record was just so it sounded if
this makes sense when you're it sounded like the speaker
could be across the room from you, yet it felt
like the sound of it was right in your face,
yet the speaker was over across the room. If that
makes any sense. It's the only way I know to
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describe it. But when when you like when you when
you start to hear doom, you know, like the beginning
if it ever comes up, I know, zex.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Oh, oh, he just told me we're off the internet.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Okay, they finally heard we were on the air. That's
what's happened. Al Gore and his people who own the Internet,
you know, they heard that we were broadcasting over the
iheartstream and they had to shut the whole Internet down.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
But I I just yeah, I remember that solo record
from Ozzy, which clearly sold a gagillion bajillion records for
him and I when that came out, I just said,
this guy is so far from done.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
I mean, so far, so far from done.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
And to watch Jack and Kelly kind of grow up
on that show too was iconic as well, because you
saw these kids who you know with their parents and
you just said, oh my gosh, they have the normal
things that and then I always you know what, I
also used to think, like as like I'd watched Jack
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and I'd be thinking to myself, can you imagine him
growing up and his friends and look to Jack, Ozzy's
oz is just it's just his dad. But you're going,
your dad's the prince of darkness.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Did you see his grandson on TV watching the concert?
Goal that's Glemple. That's good. I mean, I'm like, wow, man.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Yeah, isn't it like when you get a snapshot into that,
it really drives it home. And you know what, I
actually have a similar feeling when I was watching forty
seven at the Republican National Convention and his little grandkid crawling.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
All over and picking his nose on.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Camera and there with grandpa and I think it's Don
Junior's kid maybe or may have been Eric's kid.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
I can't remember.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
But that's the kind of thing like when I look
at Ozzy and I think about his kids and his grandkids,
and his kids are just going and that's his dad,
and his friends had to be like, dude, your dad's Ozzy,
you know, like he bit the head off of a bat,
you know, or whatever.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
You know, kind of a thing.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
As you're slinging the fries and getting the fresh fries
and stuff and looking at the dead end. I also
when it comes to role model stuff, construction worker, a prittist, plumber.
He was a horn tuner at a car factory.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
This was Ozzy.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
This was Ozzy. Yes, his background worked in a slaughterhouse.
He was convicted of robbing a clothing store. Dad left
his butt in jail because Ozzy didn't have the money
to pay a fine six weeks. Yeah, Dad didn't keep
him in.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
There, Winson Green Prison. I was just looking at that too.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
So so all of the adversity that you face again,
you know, you find inspiration in the oddest places. Man,
this he did not have the easiest upbringing, and he
messed up along the way. And here we are talking
about him today as the legend he became. That's pretty awesome.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
I mean it's crazy when you start following the trajectory
of his career, all of the hits, all of the
I mean, just the influential music. Think about what what
Black Sabbath did for a lot of people coming up
that ended up in other bands, and how many people
they influenced, how many different bands, The sounds and.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
They said he was heavily influenced the team when he
heard the beatles she loves you, and I'm thinking, okay, now, see,
had had the Ozzie we came to know what had
been there listening, it would have been rewritten as she
loves you and I killed her. But you know, that
whole Prince of Darkness thing kind of went by the
wayside As you said, when the Osbourne's premiered, you started
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seeing him not as this this vampire esque caricature, but
as a guy and people. It's it's odd how, you know,
people who make their their bones, as they say, as
something that is that scares parents or makes them run away,
become this this entrenched part of our life. Eddie Murphy
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was a foul mouthed son of again, now he's a
Disney character. And we've watched people evolve like that during
our lifetime. I don't know of any other generation honestly
has seen that kind of evolution of their their film
characters or their singers or whatever change into something like
you and I have. We've seen that kind of stuff
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from the eighties to today. We've seen this complete change
in the same people. They're still there and what they
do but how they are perceived has changed. And I
don't know if those that came before us saw that
same kind of thing.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
You know what, I hope.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
I hope some of the greats, and I'm talking greats,
the heavy hitters of the rock industry get together and
do some sort of a podcast on somebody's podcast, maybe
with Rogan, I don't know, with some and tell stories.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Because I'm telling you.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
For the amount of time that Ozzy, I mean, it
feels like there really hasn't been a section of history
where he was not on the road performing and as
a result, I mean one you know, the Heroin Diaries
from Nikki six, he has some Ozzy stories in there,
and I'm telling you it's fascinating to watch or to
even almost feel like you're watching it as you're reading it.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
But what an.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Amazing career that Ozzy Osbourne. His life is spanned from
the beginning to clearly now as we say goodbye to
the Prince of Darkness but legend, Ozzy Osby has passed
at the age of seventy six and rest in peace, Man,
holy Cow, just a concert of you imagine if you're one.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Of the people at that last show that's pretty.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
Out yeah gets get laminated, framed, and enclosed in something
real quick.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Pretty incredible, pretty incredible, Rest in peace, Rest easy, Azzie,