July 22, 2025 • 6 mins
The legendary Ozzy Osbourne passed away! Rick Lewis came on to break it down with us.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
On vacation but still made time to talk to us
today because Rick Lewis from The Fox is the man. Rick,
Are you as shocked as we are, even though none
of us should be shocked about this?
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Yeah, you know, I was surprised when I heard the news, Mandy,
because you know, we just watched him perform what two
weeks ago, and yeah, obviously he was struggling, did the
whole show from a wheelchair, and he seemed pretty weak
and feeble. But the fact that he did that two
weeks ago, yeah, I'm shocked that he passed away today. Man,
(00:33):
we lost a total icon in the rock world, the
godfather of hard rock, the godfather of heavy metal. And yeah,
I have stunned. You know, I'm starting to wonder too
if maybe that show was a little too much for him.
You know, I know we had to travel for it,
he had to rehearse for Yeah, he got through it.
But man, I got.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
An interesting text message from a listener earlier who said,
you know, he was in Switzerland seeking treatment for his
Parkinson's but Switzerland also has assistant suicide. And I'm not
saying that's what happened, but it was an interesting thought
because Parkinson's is a terrible debilitating disease, and the fact
that he was able to do that show, I think
(01:16):
in his advanced condition, was pretty remarkable. And to your point,
it had you have taken it out of him.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Yeah, and I wonder, I mean, looking back now, we
could we could pretty much say that he knew the
end was near. I don't know if you heard the
the raw audio of him singing, Mama, I'm coming home,
yeah show, but I got a chance to hear that.
In fact, we played it on my radio show on
the Fox in the morning, and it was it was
kind of hard to listen to because he was trying
(01:46):
real hard not to cry.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
It was really emotional.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Voice was trembling, he got choked up, and it's like
he was saying goodbye, Mama, I'm coming home. Very very powerful.
Your listeners out there can probably find it somewhere on
the internet, and I don't think they'll ever be another
Ozzy Osbourne. He was one of a kind.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
He was one of a kind and talk about doing
things on your own terms. We talked about this a
little bit earlier in the show. This is a guy
who did it his own way for his entire career
and now it seems that he planned his daughter. Kelly
was quoted as saying Kelly or Amy was quoted as
saying that this final show was really his funeral and
(02:30):
that that's how they kind of all looked at it.
It was like the last chance to come out and
celebrate Ozzy. But even in death, the man goes out
the way he wants to. I got to tell you
him a little bit jealous, right, it's not they to
just live with reckless abandon the way he has and
to have so many different phases of his life.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Yeah, that's a good way to put it. He did
it his way and he was true to his authentic self.
He never changed and all the way to the end
at fifty five years, close to sixty years of being
Ozzy Osbourne. And you know, a lot of people were
surprised he made it to seventy six years old. And
then in some ways people were looking at him like, man,
(03:10):
nothing can kill this guy, right, nothing's going to be
able to kill Ozzy Osbourne. Well it's it's eventually, you know,
the Parkinson's as you said, it's such a devastating disease,
and yep, I'm sure that was a big part of
what took him out.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
You know, we should all be so lucky as to
have the career that he's had. You know, I was
talking to a rod Rick because a Rod's young, so
he doesn't remember like we do. When Ozzy was like
this pariah and if you went to church and you
listened to Ozzie, there was gonna be problems, right because
he worshiped the devil and he bit a head off
a bat and did all this crazy stuff. But when
(03:45):
you think about the rest of his life, where he's
been basically like everybody's rock and roll grandpa for the
past fifteen years, right since since the Osbourne's came out.
What an evolution.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Yeah, look at him, the artists he influenced, and just
look at the lineup at that back to the beginning
show a couple of weeks ago, was a who's who
of rock and rollers and they all played for free
reportedly and raised two hundred million dollars for charity. What
a way to go out. You are absolutely right. If
you're going to come to the end of your life
(04:20):
and you can have one last performance and raise two
hundred million bucks for charity, man, you did it right.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
You absolutely did.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Rick.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Why don't you go and enjoy your vacation for a
little bit. You go on vacation for one day and
look what happens.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
I know, man, I'm actually in Michigan right now with
the family. I'm just about to jump on the plane.
But I'm getting calls and requests for the last hour
and a half to appear on various podcasts. Yeah, I bet,
and radio shows, and hey, that's what you do.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Maybe, you know, yep, got to strike while the iron's hot.
If they want to talk to you, you're going to
talk to them back, especially with something it feels as
big as this. Now here's my question. What do you
think the funeral is going to be like for Ozzy Osbourne?
Speaker 2 (05:05):
You know you said something interesting just a minute ago
that really was like his funeral. Yeah that we witnessed it. Yeah,
many people witnessed. I can't imagine it could be any
bigger or better than that. And all those same artists
that you saw at that concert will be in attendance,
(05:25):
and man, it blows me away. Like I said, he
was one of those guys that you never thought was
going to die. Yep, and now you know, you kill him.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Keith Richards is sitting at his home right now, going,
oh crap, Ozzie's gone. They're coming for me next. You know,
they're just these rock icons that are never going to die,
just like Rick Lewis on the Fox and a woven
part of the Denver Colorado fabric. So you too, sir,
are going to live forever. This is my prediction.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
I'm planning on it.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Thank you and a right man, go on the vacation.
I'll talk to you later. Rick, thanks for making time.
Appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
I love that guy.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Talk about a guy that's just as nice off the
air as he is on the air. You know, we
don't really work with any dill holes here, ah Rod,
And trust me, in other radio groups that I've worked in,
there's always a dill hole.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Oh we've all heard stories, Yeah, none of them have
come from here. Now.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
This is just a lovely group of on air people
that are just the same off the air as they
are on the air.
On vacation but still made time to talk to us
today because Rick Lewis from The Fox is the man. Rick,
Are you as shocked as we are, even though none
of us should be shocked about this?
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Yeah, you know, I was surprised when I heard the news, Mandy,
because you know, we just watched him perform what two
weeks ago, and yeah, obviously he was struggling, did the
whole show from a wheelchair, and he seemed pretty weak
and feeble. But the fact that he did that two
weeks ago, yeah, I'm shocked that he passed away today. Man,
(00:33):
we lost a total icon in the rock world, the
godfather of hard rock, the godfather of heavy metal. And yeah,
I have stunned. You know, I'm starting to wonder too
if maybe that show was a little too much for him.
You know, I know we had to travel for it,
he had to rehearse for Yeah, he got through it.
But man, I got.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
An interesting text message from a listener earlier who said,
you know, he was in Switzerland seeking treatment for his
Parkinson's but Switzerland also has assistant suicide. And I'm not
saying that's what happened, but it was an interesting thought
because Parkinson's is a terrible debilitating disease, and the fact
that he was able to do that show, I think
(01:16):
in his advanced condition, was pretty remarkable. And to your point,
it had you have taken it out of him.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Yeah, and I wonder, I mean, looking back now, we
could we could pretty much say that he knew the
end was near. I don't know if you heard the
the raw audio of him singing, Mama, I'm coming home,
yeah show, but I got a chance to hear that.
In fact, we played it on my radio show on
the Fox in the morning, and it was it was
kind of hard to listen to because he was trying
(01:46):
real hard not to cry.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
It was really emotional.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Voice was trembling, he got choked up, and it's like
he was saying goodbye, Mama, I'm coming home. Very very powerful.
Your listeners out there can probably find it somewhere on
the internet, and I don't think they'll ever be another
Ozzy Osbourne. He was one of a kind.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
He was one of a kind and talk about doing
things on your own terms. We talked about this a
little bit earlier in the show. This is a guy
who did it his own way for his entire career
and now it seems that he planned his daughter. Kelly
was quoted as saying Kelly or Amy was quoted as
saying that this final show was really his funeral and
(02:30):
that that's how they kind of all looked at it.
It was like the last chance to come out and
celebrate Ozzy. But even in death, the man goes out
the way he wants to. I got to tell you
him a little bit jealous, right, it's not they to
just live with reckless abandon the way he has and
to have so many different phases of his life.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Yeah, that's a good way to put it. He did
it his way and he was true to his authentic self.
He never changed and all the way to the end
at fifty five years, close to sixty years of being
Ozzy Osbourne. And you know, a lot of people were
surprised he made it to seventy six years old. And
then in some ways people were looking at him like, man,
(03:10):
nothing can kill this guy, right, nothing's going to be
able to kill Ozzy Osbourne. Well it's it's eventually, you know,
the Parkinson's as you said, it's such a devastating disease,
and yep, I'm sure that was a big part of
what took him out.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
You know, we should all be so lucky as to
have the career that he's had. You know, I was
talking to a rod Rick because a Rod's young, so
he doesn't remember like we do. When Ozzy was like
this pariah and if you went to church and you
listened to Ozzie, there was gonna be problems, right because
he worshiped the devil and he bit a head off
a bat and did all this crazy stuff. But when
(03:45):
you think about the rest of his life, where he's
been basically like everybody's rock and roll grandpa for the
past fifteen years, right since since the Osbourne's came out.
What an evolution.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Yeah, look at him, the artists he influenced, and just
look at the lineup at that back to the beginning
show a couple of weeks ago, was a who's who
of rock and rollers and they all played for free
reportedly and raised two hundred million dollars for charity. What
a way to go out. You are absolutely right. If
you're going to come to the end of your life
(04:20):
and you can have one last performance and raise two
hundred million bucks for charity, man, you did it right.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
You absolutely did.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Rick.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Why don't you go and enjoy your vacation for a
little bit. You go on vacation for one day and
look what happens.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
I know, man, I'm actually in Michigan right now with
the family. I'm just about to jump on the plane.
But I'm getting calls and requests for the last hour
and a half to appear on various podcasts. Yeah, I bet,
and radio shows, and hey, that's what you do.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Maybe, you know, yep, got to strike while the iron's hot.
If they want to talk to you, you're going to
talk to them back, especially with something it feels as
big as this. Now here's my question. What do you
think the funeral is going to be like for Ozzy Osbourne?
Speaker 2 (05:05):
You know you said something interesting just a minute ago
that really was like his funeral. Yeah that we witnessed it. Yeah,
many people witnessed. I can't imagine it could be any
bigger or better than that. And all those same artists
that you saw at that concert will be in attendance,
(05:25):
and man, it blows me away. Like I said, he
was one of those guys that you never thought was
going to die. Yep, and now you know, you kill him.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Keith Richards is sitting at his home right now, going,
oh crap, Ozzie's gone. They're coming for me next. You know,
they're just these rock icons that are never going to die,
just like Rick Lewis on the Fox and a woven
part of the Denver Colorado fabric. So you too, sir,
are going to live forever. This is my prediction.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
I'm planning on it.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Thank you and a right man, go on the vacation.
I'll talk to you later. Rick, thanks for making time.
Appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
I love that guy.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Talk about a guy that's just as nice off the
air as he is on the air. You know, we
don't really work with any dill holes here, ah Rod,
And trust me, in other radio groups that I've worked in,
there's always a dill hole.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Oh we've all heard stories, Yeah, none of them have
come from here. Now.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
This is just a lovely group of on air people
that are just the same off the air as they
are on the air.
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