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#172 - A Tribute to Legends: Hulk Hogan and Ozzy Osbourne's Impact on Entertainment · Brandon Fogal Evolution

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  We're going to talk today about Hulk Hogan and Ozzy Osbourne,
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  and you might hear some background noise.
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  We got some Fortnite playing in the background by Sophie. You probably can't
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  hear her back there, but it might be coming through. I don't know,
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  but I wanted to talk about this.
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  Ozzy Osbourne recently passed away on July 22nd, and then Hulk Hogan passed
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  away today, July 24th, 2025.
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  I don't think anyone is ever ready for it. I think everyone is always caught off guard.
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  Death comes at a very hidden time for all of us and hulk hogan he was just getting
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  ready he was 71 years old and he was just about to release this new i saw this
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  thing that he was it looks like almost given hope and an opportunity for wrestlers
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  that wanted to do kind of what he did,
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  and this kind of program he was getting set up and i just saw he he's like going
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  to do like a The first event was going to be at the end of August,
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  but Hulk Hogan dead at 71 years old after cardiac arrest. Latest updates.
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  And then Ozzy, Ozzy, he was, how old was he?
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  Born in 1948, 76 years old.
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  So Hulk Hogan, 71, and Ozzy Osbourne, 76 years old.
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  Oh, man. Sophie, did you know much about either one of them,
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  Hulk Hogan or Ozzy Osbourne? Sophie said she didn't know really much about either one of them.
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  You're more familiar, I'm assuming, with Hulk Hogan, right?
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  Was he still kind of in the wrestling game when you were watching it with WWE?
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  A little bit. I mean, you saw him every now and then? Yeah.
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  I wanted to talk about this because both of these guys, they were very different,
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  it seemed like, in the way that they conducted themselves, the way I hadn't
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  kept up with Ozzy since his show back in the early 2000s.
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  He was pretty widely known on the Osborne show that they were doing for a long time.
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  And he was always just, I'm mostly drawn to him, as most people are, by his music.
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  His music was very... I thought it was very... He taped the way for a lot of
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  people that are interested in metal music and people that like that genre, that style.
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  And he was authentic. He was real. He was known as the Prince of Darkness,
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  which, I mean, that might not be a claim to fame for a lot of people.
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  A lot of people might not like that necessarily.
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  But overall, I think he owned it.
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  I don't know where he went towards the end of his life if he was
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  still kept kind of that dark kind of attitude or
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  if he was i think he was just a regular guy it was
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  just a lot of just playing a part being a person that kind of because i always
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  hear stories about him in his concerts he would do he was just wild at his concerts
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  and he would i heard that he bit off the head of a bat that's what that's the
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  thing that always stands out to me that he that he did that.
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  Hulk Hogan, on the other hand, I grew up watching Hulk Hogan.
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  He was America's boy. He was America's man.
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  Whenever any Royal Rumble back in the, I think of the 90s, early 90s,
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  late 90s, Hulk Hogan was the guy that was going to go in and he was going to end the Royal Rumble.
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  If he was going in, you knew he was going to take it up, take it all. He was going to win.
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  He was on the other hand, he represented kind of like the United Kingdom.
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  You can definitely tell his accent. He had that accent, that deep drawl he had.
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  I love their show, The Osbournes. That was a good show on MTV.
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  It was very funny. That was when reality TV was just taking its form.
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  It was different. It was unique.
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  It was something that there was a storyline happening every episode with his
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  wife, his children, It was funny.
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  He and Ozzy was just kind of out of it most of the time.
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  He was just walking into any situation and he was just, you know,
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  he had that Ozzy aura about him that was just different than anyone, different than anyone.
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  And he owned it. He lived it.
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  I mean, now I just think about I don't know where they are.
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  Where they were at in their lives, especially Ozzy Osbourne.
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  I don't know his kind of his personal relationship with the Lord,
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  how he like, I don't know anything about his religious beliefs, any beliefs that he had.
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  Hulk Hogan, on the other hand, I do know that he was a professing Christian.
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  He was a person that claimed Jesus as his Lord and Savior.
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  And I just, I was just watching videos about this because this is out there now.
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  He was like, whatever I'm going to do, I'm going to do it 110%. I am all in brother.
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  And that's what Hulk Hogan was. He was all in when he embraced the Lord.
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  So I pray that both of these guys are with the Lord right now.
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  We don't, God knows everyone's hearts. God knows where people are at.
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  And it's not for us to even, it doesn't
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  even matter for us on this side of eternity, on this side of heaven.
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  You know, we can't, we don't even need to really speculate
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  about that because we will be reunited
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  with with our family our friends in heaven
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  you know for anyone to trust in the lord so i i
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  hope that both of them were you know
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  i don't know what ozzy professed i don't know if he professed to be any type
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  of faith or not or what a lot of his heavy metal i mean you could say what definitely
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  went against the grain of religiosity and faith having black sabbath i mean just,
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  I was I wasn't alive when he was doing all that kind of stuff,
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  but even if I was watching it, or even had gone to those concerts,
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  I wouldn't have put two and two together I wouldn't have understood like and
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  I don't even know if he really understood the depths of Black Sabbath calling it that
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  if it was just something to be sparked difference, be different than everyone
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  or if he was really if it really was something dark really was something dark,
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  I don't know because I think a lot of people.
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  We are all dark everyone is dark in
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  in a sense you know we all we it's it
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  calls us we are darkness you know until god shines on us god we are darkness
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  so it's like we all have that in us and even if you become a christian you're
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  still gonna have a little dark you're gonna probably a lot of darkness still
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  in you know that so him being called the wow that is loud sophie that was loud.
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  Try not to be that was that was very loud yeah
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  so i mean i don't know where he where he stands i don't know
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  where he his views or the kelly
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  osborne i wanted to see she said break silence on
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  dad aussie's death she said i lost my best friend
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  i just remember both of them os kelly and
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  then the other one i liked kelly a lot
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  i did for some reason i liked kelly a lot especially on
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  their show the osbornes and her whole
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  like the way she looks completely changed from when she was on that show compared
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  to where she is now uh she's always been different she's always had kind of
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  the crazy hair the different dues the different all that and but it's you can't
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  it's hard not to love anyone when you hear that british accent that british accent can just win
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  anyone over so stelly who is stelly stelly 38 i don't know who that is no kelly
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  Did she change her name to Stella?
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  So it was Jack. Jack was the one. That's what it was.
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  Jack was the boy. He was the son of Ozzy. But, I mean, you think of Hulk Hogan
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  and you think of Ozzy Osbourne.
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  I mean, one is hardcore America. The other one just got the sweetest British accent ever.
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  You know, and he does seem like his drugs took a toll on him.
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  You know, I don't know all of that, you know. But anyone that's in rock,
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  that was a rock star, it would have been hard not to be heavily into drugs.
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  I mean, I think a lot of people take drugs just to get by. A lot of people just
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  take drugs just to survive sometimes, just to numb the pain that we all have.
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  We all have a lot of pain going on in here, and sometimes drugs is the only...
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  The only thing keeping us sane, I guess. I don't know.
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  I know for me, medically, taking prescription drugs, I hated that because it
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  puts you in a different world, puts you in a different trance.
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  You're no longer tied to reality. You're just numb to this world.
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  You're not experiencing it. You're not in the game. And sometimes you just want
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  to check out. Sometimes you just want to check out.
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  So I'm bouncing back between Hulk Hogan because I like both
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  of these guys a lot Ozzy my some of my
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  favorite songs or Ozzy Osbourne song Ozzy
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  Osbourne songs I I go to
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  as my favorite all time is the mama I'm
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  coming home that one just puts me it takes me
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  back it takes me back to just a a time
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  you know just when I was just free falling
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  and just flying down and just just trying
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  to make sense of life and you know it's just
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  you you go you get that nostalgia hearing that
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  song mama i'm coming home man i
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  mean a lot of the other songs i would i i after when
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  i heard that he had passed away i did go to trying to
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  listen to just some of the other stuff i really didn't get into
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  a lot of it i know his biggest one ever was crazy train that
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  was the one that like that was the one that you if you're
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  going out on a football field you're listening to crazy train
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  and then the whole i couldn't probably name half of
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  the songs he did but uh and he did so like he was
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  doing like probably like 70s 80s you know and then in the 90s he's probably
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  cooling off he was a part of like black sabbath was not just him as any rock
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  star group they all start together and then the big guy the name usually goes
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  off and does his own thing.
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  And I think that's what happened with Ozzy. You know, he he became he was the
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  guy, the face, and he didn't stay with his Black Sabbath crew.
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  That's what I'm guessing. You know, I wasn't I wasn't watching whenever he was
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  there. I wasn't alive when Ozzy Osbourne was a part of Black Sabbath.
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  So I couldn't name the drummer. I couldn't name the guitarist.
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  I couldn't name any of that stuff.
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  But when Ozzy Osbourne, he stepped out, he took a leap of faith and he stepped
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  out on his own and he became Ozzy, Ozzy. And then Hulk Hogan,
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  man, he, I just, Hulk Hogan, he did some, he did some movies in his heyday.
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  I remember he was doing some movies, you know, Tropic Thunder and Suburban Commando.
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  And wrestling has went ups and downs. It has been a rollercoaster ride.
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  There's been some things that are great, some things that are just,
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  you know, it's, you know, just something to watch.
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  But, like, I think the best wrestling ever was definitely with Hulk Hogan.
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  When he was doing it, he was like the wonder boy.
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  He was the guy that saved the day. He was the hero.
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  He was that size 13 in your face, you know, and he just thrown up those guns, you know.
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  Nobody had guns like Hulk Hogan. Nobody had guns like Hulk Hogan, you know.
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  And he probably got into the steroids, you know. Everyone did.
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  I'm assuming. I'm assuming he did. But to live to about.
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  71 I mean he still
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  lived a long time He still looked good At the end of his life He wasn't just
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  In a wheelchair He was walking around still doing good He was still doing business
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  And he was still doing a lot of good things for America He loved America And
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  like I said earlier He loved Jesus.
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  And that's the most important thing But I can remember him running out there for the Royal Rumbles.
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  And it's like when you when Hulk Hogan stepped on the stage, game over, game over.
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  You know, he was the one that people got behind. He was the one that just inspired the crowds. He was.
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  This is crazy. I did not realize he is. He was 300 pounds, 300 pounds,
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  six, seven, 302 pounds. That's crazy.
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  That is a big man. He was also in the Rocky Was it Rocky 4?
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  It was one of the Rockies Was it Rocky 3 he was in?
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  But he looked like, compared to Sylvester Stallone, and Sylvester Stallone is a pretty loaded guy.
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  Hulk Hogan got on there, and he looked like 7'5", you know.
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  But as we can see here, he was 6'7". So he wasn't over 7'0",
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  but still a beast of a man.
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  And I just remember Hulk Hogan, whenever he was in wrestling,
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  and he was the good guy. He was the protagonist.
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  He was the guy you rooted for. And then he went off the rails.
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  You know, I can say, you could say it's a little bit fixed.
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  But he went off the rails when he went to the NWO, and he became the bad boy.
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  He became a bad guy, you know?
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  And those guys, they were the bad crew, the bad posse that was out there.
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  But it was a role, as I came to learn later on in life.
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  Wrestling is kind of, it's fixed. It's not real in a sense.
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  It's not fake. It's not fake.
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  It's real, but it's fixed. Both of these guys, I know, I mean,
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  they're both different. They both led a lot different lives.
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  They both came from different backgrounds, and they went different directions.
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  One was a wrestler. One was a musical artist, but they were both entertainers.
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  That was the biggest thing. They were big entertainers.
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  They wanted to give everyone a show, a good show.
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  Probably better everyone else's life. Make everyone else feel good about life.
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  You know, I hope one day we will see them both again in heaven and be with them.
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  You know, I don't know. Like I said, Hulk Hogan, he was a professing Christian.
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  I don't know what Ozzy Osbourne professed, but either like I don't want to just
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  tread lightly over that and just say, oh, either way, it doesn't really matter
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  because at the end of the day, that is the only thing that matters.
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  So it is just it's it is weird.
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  You know, people die every day, but people and people go on,
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  you know, and you just when they're not on, they're not on the screen.
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  You just forget about them.
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  You don't think they're out. They don't exist anymore.
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  Whereas people, there's so many famous people out there. You know,
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  they're just not doing their thing anymore. They've cooled down.
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  Their careers are slowing down.
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  And then we hear later on that they pass away. But these two guys were people
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  that were very good at what they did Very good at what they did And they were very unique,
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  talented individuals And I'm glad
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  that we got to experience Hulk Hogan And I'm
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  glad we got to experience Ozzy Osbourne Because
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  both of them were amazing people And
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  amazing artists And creators
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  And entertainers you know before this
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  whole new wave that we were stepping into of like
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  this is the internet on hyper
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  speed hyper drive you know they were doing
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  it when it was just a one eye in the sky and
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  they were like Ozzy Osbourne just being the face on a concert out on the stage
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  and doing his thing you know and he was that was when rock was rock hardcore
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  metal he was doing it like hardcore metal and he made a name for himself.
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  Just, yeah, just a following, a huge following, a huge, just people wanted to
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  see Ozzy and he, I mean, both of these guys, you could say anything that they
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  were even into their late in life.
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  People were very always interested in them. They were always doing something.
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  They were all like, till, till about the day they died, they were always doing
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  something. It seemed like something that was making people's lives better,
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  trying to do something to entertain, inspire.
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  So like I said, I'm very glad we got to experience Ozzie and we got to experience Hulk Hogan.
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  I hope one day that I hope they're with the Lord, but they led very different
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  lives and they were both very different human beings.
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  But I'm thankful we had them.
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  I'm thankful God gave them to us and we got to see them.
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  We got to live with them We got to experience both
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  of them So I hope you I hope you
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  realize and you're You were able
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  to experience the The careers that they had and you were able to watch them
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  You were able to just live it Be a part of it because I don't want to just Like
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  anyone you know anyone passes away It's it's a it's a It's a very it's a tough
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  thing For the ones left behind it's not tough for the ones That leave but it's
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  tough for the ones that Remain behind,
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  Alright we'll leave it at that have a great day everyone peace.