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Wicked Radio 7-23: This One Is Dedicated To Ozzy · Wicked Radio with Bill Adams

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  Speaker 1: And I got one note one name written on my
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  Speaker 1: little note card usually have like three or four try
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  Speaker 1: to keep my notes straight for the for the live
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  Speaker 1: stream of the podcast. One note that says, let's see
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  Speaker 1: you right there, Ozzy. I don't everything else just seems
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  Speaker 1: stupid to talk about today. I mean from a news perspective,
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  Speaker 1: Losing Ozzy Osbourne is the number one trending story in
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  Speaker 1: the world right now, I mean worldwide, So there's that,
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  Speaker 1: But also everything else just seems so stupid. And I
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  Speaker 1: know that there's people out there saying, oh, it's God,
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  Speaker 1: it's one guy, it's a it's a rock star who
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  Speaker 1: abused his body. There's got to be something more important
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  Speaker 1: out there. Well, first of all, an iconic, an iconic name,
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  Speaker 1: and people who don't understand that don't really get anything
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  Speaker 1: really truly. But everything that's come out from this when
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  Speaker 1: the news hit yesterday, like the dedication, the surprising uh
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  Speaker 1: names that you maybe wouldn't have expected that were massive,
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  Speaker 1: massive Ossie and Black Sabbath fans and music fans in general,
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  Speaker 1: the outpouring of support. To me, the takeaway is where
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  Speaker 1: it goes from here, the call for I couldn't believe
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  Speaker 1: how much I saw this yesterday and it was so
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  Speaker 1: good to see the call for real music again, you know,
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  Speaker 1: real rock, not what you see in Super Bowl halftime
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  Speaker 1: shows now, not all the disposable pop that the music
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  Speaker 1: industry pushes on us. Right now, I'm telling you, the
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  Speaker 1: best band that's ever been is in a garage in
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  Speaker 1: the Midwest somewhere or somewhere in the country right now,
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  Speaker 1: and they can't get signed, they can get no promotion,
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  Speaker 1: because that's not what's pushed these days. It really is true,
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  Speaker 1: like rock, real music will never die. And I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know this is just speculation, but just reading
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  Speaker 1: the tea leaves and trying to get the pulse of
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  Speaker 1: what's happening here, I got a really good feeling that
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  Speaker 1: the light from this horrible loss of Aussie, if you're
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  Speaker 1: a music fan, will be a real push for real
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  Speaker 1: music again. I just I don't know. Maybe I'm wrong,
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  Speaker 1: but hope I'm not. I think that's gonna happen. But anyways,
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  Speaker 1: so as you can guess, this one's dedicated to Ozzie,
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  Speaker 1: because I don't really feel like talking about anything else.
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  Speaker 1: I really don't sure as a fan, but just as
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  Speaker 1: the takeaway to the outpouring of support it was. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it continues this morning, it'll continue into the weeks ahead. Massive,
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  Speaker 1: So that's what we're talking about. I got a couple
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  Speaker 1: of takeaways on this that maybe we'll give you food
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  Speaker 1: for thought from the Prince of Darkness. Isn't that funny? Oh?
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  Speaker 1: The irony for a guy whose moniker was Yeah, from
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  Speaker 1: self promotion to the Prince of Darkness, a guy that
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  Speaker 1: sure did bring a lot of light to the world
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  Speaker 1: and a lot of help to a lot of people.
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  Speaker 1: So we got that to talk about too, before we
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  Speaker 1: get into that. Thanks for finding the podcast and the
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  Speaker 1: for all that good stuff when you know we're coming right. Well,
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  Speaker 1: we all know we lost Ozzie, but to me, it's
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  Speaker 1: all about where we go from here. This is my
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  Speaker 1: first I've said this before, and I said this right
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  Speaker 1: around the back to the beginning concert, which, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: here's another irony. Seventeen days was it? We lost Ozzie
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  Speaker 1: seventeen days after his final show. It's stunning how often
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  Speaker 1: that happens to people in your real life and also
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  Speaker 1: on the stage. I think Lemmy from Motorhead, a friend
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  Speaker 1: of mine, pointed this out last night. I think it
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  Speaker 1: was a similar thing, like days, or at least within
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  Speaker 1: weeks after his final show. It's kind of like, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know something about the human spirit knows when you're
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  Speaker 1: wrapping things up, you just do. But I said this
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  Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago when we were talking about
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  Speaker 1: the result of that back to the beginning show, the
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  Speaker 1: final Black Sabbath performance, because they knew it was going
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  Speaker 1: to be the last show for Ozzy back in Birmingham
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  Speaker 1: where it all began, and then all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 1: all these other metal bands, all this other support came
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  Speaker 1: out because they all wanted to be part of it.
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  Speaker 1: I said it at the time. This has always been
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  Speaker 1: my takeaway about Ozzy. Threw out everything he did right.
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  Speaker 1: Self abuse and just abuse of the rock and roll lifestyle.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, physical problems, had Parkinson's that terrible ATV accident
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  Speaker 1: which ruled his back and basically crippled him. The drugs,
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  Speaker 1: I mean alcohol and drugs obviously. I mean, my joke
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  Speaker 1: about Ozzy has always been repeated. Again, he's been on
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  Speaker 1: everything but roller skates, and he'll tell you he would
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  Speaker 1: have told you that. But through all of it, the
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  Speaker 1: amazing thing, the first amazing takeaway on a surface level
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  Speaker 1: for Ozzie from me was he never lost his voice.
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  Speaker 1: What ever, even go back to that, back to the
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  Speaker 1: beginning thing, he's in his chair, he did that performance
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  Speaker 1: for the solo stuff and the black Sabba and stuff,
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  Speaker 1: he still sounded great. I mean throughout the years. Tell
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  Speaker 1: me that the oldest stuff you'll hear here, compared to
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  Speaker 1: newer songs, didn't still sound good. Yeah, his voice was
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  Speaker 1: maybe a little bit deeper with age, but he still
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  Speaker 1: sounded great. I mean, when you hear it back to
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  Speaker 1: back like that, that's an amazing testament to that guy's
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  Speaker 1: talent and ability despite it all, and a lot of
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  Speaker 1: that was self abuse. I think his family would be
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  Speaker 1: the first people to tell you that still sounded great.
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  Speaker 1: Including what we just talked about. It was eighteen days ago,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, within weeks the back to the beginning
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  Speaker 1: final show, and this was the sendoff in Birmingham and
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  Speaker 1: a weird thing because nobody knew it at the time.
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  Speaker 1: Officially you'd think, maybe, well, it sounded really good. I
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  Speaker 1: think he was really He had said apparently in private,
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  Speaker 1: that he was really happy with that. He was proud
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  Speaker 1: of the fact that he's still in a chair. Sounded great,
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  Speaker 1: did a great show. Everybody loved it. By the way,
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  Speaker 1: let's not forget about this. It goes down that back
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  Speaker 1: to the beginning charity show. Benefit show wound up being
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  Speaker 1: the biggest benefit concert of all time and it blew
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  Speaker 1: everything out of the water. I think second place was
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  Speaker 1: the La Fires benefit for the first responders and people
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  Speaker 1: lost their homes and blah, but you know all that stuff,
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  Speaker 1: and this blew it out of the water. The biggest
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  Speaker 1: of all time for several charities, and right there with
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  Speaker 1: the sendoff, nobody really knew where it was going after that.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody really knew. But you had that feeling, didn't you.
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  Speaker 1: You had that feeling like we're gonna lose Aussie someday.
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  Speaker 1: But then it hits you, and it hits you for somebody,
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  Speaker 1: for somebody like me of like gen X, right, you
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  Speaker 1: start to lose heroes like this. It could be anybody,
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  Speaker 1: could be an actor, it could be somebody else in
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  Speaker 1: the public eye, whatever it is. Boy, if you're my age,
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  Speaker 1: it really starts to hit you because it's like, this
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  Speaker 1: isn't like the old guys, this isn't the old stars.
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  Speaker 1: This is somebody that we happened to grow up with,
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  Speaker 1: and you're losing these people. Even though you know physically
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  Speaker 1: you knew it was coming. Boy, it still hits. But
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  Speaker 1: what's amazing is what happened throughout all this whole thing.
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  Speaker 1: So obviously this was the number as soon as the
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  Speaker 1: news yesterday was one of the number one, it was
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  Speaker 1: the number one trending story and it still is, like
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  Speaker 1: I said, worldwide. And then all the dedications came out
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  Speaker 1: from sure, people that worked with them, you know, contemporaries
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  Speaker 1: in the music industry, people that had worked with them,
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  Speaker 1: people who were even actors, anybody that was involved with
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  Speaker 1: you know that back to the beginning show, all of them.
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  Speaker 1: Then there's a second layer of people that are kind
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  Speaker 1: of sort of well known, but you never would have
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  Speaker 1: thought would have been such fans, which tells me the
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  Speaker 1: reach he had in reaching people like that. So just
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  Speaker 1: as a side note, just doing this and keeping an
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  Speaker 1: eye on all these different things and follow a lot
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  Speaker 1: of different people on social media to see like, for instance,
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  Speaker 1: sure keep it, pay attention to like the CNN's MSNBC
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  Speaker 1: to see what's going on in that crazy world. But
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  Speaker 1: also the really really really conservative side of things. And
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  Speaker 1: I've just thrown out this one name as an example.
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  Speaker 1: Jack Pisobic is big conservative media personality, right, and he
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  Speaker 1: was somebody who's i mean, very straight laced, very religious.
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  Speaker 1: You should have seen, just as an example, his dedications
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  Speaker 1: to Ozzie. It was just and how he affected his life.
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  Speaker 1: I thought that was interesting and I'm like, wow, I
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  Speaker 1: always would have taken him. My bad misconception is somebody
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  Speaker 1: that would have seen him as like prince of darkness.
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  Speaker 1: That's all evil and that's all bad, and that's all
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  Speaker 1: you know, he worshiped the devil, you know, that stupid
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  Speaker 1: old line. Not the case. And then dig a little
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  Speaker 1: bit deeper, my god, just listening because listening to this channel,
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  Speaker 1: Ozzie's Boneyard in SiriusXM, listening to that yesterday, the dedications
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  Speaker 1: they did, and they took calls like remember radio like
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  Speaker 1: Real Radio used to do that all the time. It
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  Speaker 1: was fantastic and I'm listening to iHeart yesterday and they
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  Speaker 1: had a dedication on it was great and getting people's
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  Speaker 1: bottom line being the lifetime of music that Ozzy provided
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  Speaker 1: through Black Sabbath and the solo stuff and a ton
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  Speaker 1: of collaborations with other artists. It affected so many people
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  Speaker 1: in a bright light kind of way. And that was
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  Speaker 1: the thing. And that was the other takeaway yesterday, which
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  Speaker 1: I finally, I've always wondered this. I go back to
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  Speaker 1: the eighties again with this one. And if you're like
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  Speaker 1: me you lived through do you remember early to mid
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  Speaker 1: eighties the PMRC Let's see if that rings a bell,
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  Speaker 1: Tipper Gore and her Washington Wives contemporaries who were trying
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  Speaker 1: to tell all us kids and all the parents that
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  Speaker 1: the heavy metal is devil's music. It's all, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's all it's all these Bible thumpers right in a
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  Speaker 1: bad kind of way. Nothing against people who worship the Bible.
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  Speaker 1: That's fine. I think that's gone because there's a very
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  Speaker 1: few there's a few people out there, of course, who
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  Speaker 1: had to chime in. A couple of church ladies who
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  Speaker 1: had to say, oh that us he was a devil worshiper.
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  Speaker 1: He bit the head off a he bit the head
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  Speaker 1: off a pigeon or a dove or whatever. Okay, right,
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  Speaker 1: this is always going to be idiots who still believed that.
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  Speaker 1: But for the most part, through the test of time
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  Speaker 1: and through the real work that the guy did him
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  Speaker 1: and others, they saw through that, and they saw that
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  Speaker 1: he was actually at the prince of darkness. He brought
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  Speaker 1: a whole ton of light. That was the other major
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  Speaker 1: takeaway me besides the fact that people are calling for
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  Speaker 1: real music again, the fact that people saw right through
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  Speaker 1: all of that. Because I will tell you, just being
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  Speaker 1: a fan of this kind of music and lifestyle for
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  Speaker 1: so long as I have, you will find heavy metal fans, bands, personalities,
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  Speaker 1: media people, you know, radio people who do radio shows
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  Speaker 1: that feature metal, some of the most giving, loving, spiritual
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  Speaker 1: people you will ever find. Because it was never about
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  Speaker 1: like devil worship and all this dark stuff. They represented
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  Speaker 1: dark themes to ward off the bad stuff. I saw
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  Speaker 1: it with a buddy of mine Metallica, just a couple
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  Speaker 1: of months ago over in Tampa, and James Hetfield says
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  Speaker 1: it said it right in the middle of the show.
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  Speaker 1: He said, you know, this music is about getting the
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  Speaker 1: bad stuff out. That's why it's so heavy, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And I heard somebody else say years ago, and I
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  Speaker 1: think when I was like a teenager. You know, metal
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  Speaker 1: music is about it's not about evil. It's about looking
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  Speaker 1: evil right in the eye and kicking it right in
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  Speaker 1: the balls. That's what this music is about. And that's
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  Speaker 1: why I think it's helped so many people, and it's
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  Speaker 1: brought so many lights to so many people. Despite what
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  Speaker 1: it looks like on the outside, it's about it's really
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  Speaker 1: some of the most spiritual stuff you can get into.
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  Speaker 1: Is there some bad stuff out this, sure or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: But here's the other thing. The effect that Ozzie had
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  Speaker 1: on other bands. So this was so there are other
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  Speaker 1: bands touring out there that dedicated their shows to Ozzy, obviously,
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  Speaker 1: and one of those artists is Alice Cooper on the
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  Speaker 1: road and another one and this is a great example
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  Speaker 1: to put back to back on a mashup Alice Cooper
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  Speaker 1: and a new metal band called Ghost, which is really popular, right,
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  Speaker 1: they were both on the road and they both dedicated
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  Speaker 1: their shows. And then sure there are others like Hailstorm
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  Speaker 1: dedicated to their shows to Ozzie last night, here's Alice
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  Speaker 1: talking about it, and then this band Ghost at the end.
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  Speaker 1: But listen to the crowd of this newer metal band
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  Speaker 1: Ghost at the end when you hear this.
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  Speaker 2: Even though you know everybody saw it coming with Ozzie,
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  Speaker 2: took our breath away when it happened, Solazzi and family
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  Speaker 2: music and your legend, the humor, all that you've brought
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  Speaker 2: to the rock business will live on forever, and you're
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  Speaker 2: gonna miss from that.
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  Speaker 3: We're God dedicate tonight's show to the memory of the
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  Speaker 3: Abzek for being the prince of darkness. He sure gave
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  Speaker 3: us a lot of lights.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, lead singer of Ghost set it right there.
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  Speaker 1: But listen to the crowd of a newer band. That's
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  Speaker 1: what tells me that there's a real call for real
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  Speaker 1: music again, because we've all said it. Everybody watches the
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  Speaker 1: super Bowl and complains about the halftime show. They're like,
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  Speaker 1: can't we have rock? I mean, can't they or will
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  Speaker 1: even take country or a mashup or anything instead of
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  Speaker 1: this disposable power pop crap that they're pushing on us,
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  Speaker 1: which is garbage music. Can't we have some real rock
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  Speaker 1: and roll? And then you listen to a younger crowd
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  Speaker 1: and that sound cut right there at that ghost show
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  Speaker 1: chanting Ozzie's name. They know, they know it's a call
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  Speaker 1: for real music again, which is a great thing to see.
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  Speaker 1: So again, try to look at the at least what
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  Speaker 1: I try to do with these news stories. You try
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  Speaker 1: to look at the light through the darkness and turn
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  Speaker 1: it into a win. I'm bummed because we lost Ozzie.
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  Speaker 1: Like allis said, even though you knew it was coming,
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  Speaker 1: it still hits you pretty hard. And it's not gonna
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  Speaker 1: be making music anymore. But he wasn't doing well. But
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  Speaker 1: still throughout all this, through that loss, that loss of
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  Speaker 1: an icon, I think anyway, and I'm just taking a
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  Speaker 1: guess here, I think, and I'm gonna hope, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna go this is what I'm holding on to. I
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  Speaker 1: think it's gonna bring a call that's already there for real,
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  Speaker 1: real musicians and real music again and getting that to
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  Speaker 1: the forefront, you know what, Let's make that happen. How
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  Speaker 1: about that? Because this guy reminded us of all of that.
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  Speaker 2: I'm as the Osborne and I'm the Prince of Dogmas.
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  Speaker 1: But you weren't, man, You really weren't. You brought an
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  Speaker 1: awful lot of light for a guy called the Prince
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  Speaker 1: of Darkness. Thank you for everything, Ozzy. Music never dies,
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  Speaker 1: Rock never dies. You can't kill it. All right, exit
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