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PODCAST: Episode 778 - Ozzy Osbourne's Funeral Procession Packs The Streets of Birmingham · Ghost Cult Magazine Podcast

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  None. All right, what's up everybody?
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  It's Kefi, regular evening Kefi here from ghostcultmag.com.
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  And we are going to talk about Ozzy Osbourne's funeral today
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  and the massive procession that took place in his hometown of
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  Birmingham, England. Thanks for being here.
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  We have been doing a lot of Ozzy and Black Sabbath content across
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  all our channels and all our related things.
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  So thank you for being here. I know it's overwhelming.
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  It's overwhelmingly sad. And you know, if this ain't for
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  you, I understand. But this is just my way of
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  processing grief is to just keep talking about it and remembering
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  the great man that he was. And it was really something to
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  see. I have to say, I don't think
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  we've had anything like this in metal really since Lemmy died.
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  Bowie for rock, of course, Prince George Michael huge
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  public outpourings of sadness and grieving publicly, not just
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  as a fan base, but the whole world really across you know,
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  lousy really transcended across culture, across music culture,
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  across metal culture, across pop culture.
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  So we're going to talk a lot about that ghost cult.
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  We for those that don't know if this your first time here, we're
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  from ghostcultmag.com 24/7 365 rock and metal news interviews
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  with bands, concerts and metal festivals around the world.
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  That's what we do and we have because we started in Europe as
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  a Zena sizable European staff. Still to this day, some of our
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  senior editors are there. Some of our longest serving
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  members are there and so our own Gary Alcock, who is from the UK,
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  Connor is here. RIP Ozzy, the Prince of
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  Darkness. Of course, of course, my man.
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  Feel free to drop some comments, show some love for Ozzy.
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  Drop your favorite Ozzy moment or Black Sabbath song or Ozzy
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  solo song or moment. And so Gary lives in the UK,
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  goes to a lot of shows in Birmingham, was at the back to
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  the beginning just a few weeks ago, wrote a very heart
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  wrenching tribute to Ozzy and his life experience, being a fan
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  of Ozzy and Sabbath his whole life, basically.
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  And he was there today in the UK and he posted some photos and
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  he's kind enough to share them with me and with us to use.
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  We made a post about it and I'm going to share with you some of
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  those photos as well as some videos.
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  You know, again, it's really hitting me.
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  I haven't seen really a public funeral like this since the Big
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  E funeral in New York City, which was kind of a funeral that
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  was reserved type of funeral was reserved for like heads of state
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  and things. And, you know, it's just so
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  heavy. It's so heavy.
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  Again, we knew he wasn't well. We knew he might pass at any
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  time. The show was so triumphant and
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  really above expectations. And then he slipped away a few
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  weeks later, and we're still not right.
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  It's not OK. It's still not OK.
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  It was never going to be OK for me.
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  Recently, just like a month ago, I had done like the worst deaths
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  ever in rocket metal, not realizing that Ozzy would pass
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  away soon after I let me and Dimebag Darrell from Pantera
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  among my top ones. There's a bunch of others and
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  Chris Squire of yes, Cliff Burton, John Bonham, just so
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  many, so many tough ones for me personally.
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  And we ran through a whole list of them, a whole list of them
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  for everybody to share and see. So, you know, it really is,
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  it's, it's, it's quite a thing to see this stuff that happened
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  today. There was 10s of thousands.
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  Birmingham is, is a suburb of, you know, it's in the suburbs in
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  the Midlands, as they say in the UK.
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  And it's a suburb and you know, it was a, an industrial town.
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  It was a blue collar town and probably still is in a lot of
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  ways, even though it's a little more modern than it used to be.
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  And it seemed like the whole town ground to halt and the
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  entire town was like a museum for Ozzy.
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  It's tribute to Black Sabbath just obviously the last few
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  weeks with this event, but also just this, even just the things
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  they did in the last few days. And so pretty unbelievable.
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  And then globally, every major news network covered this thing.
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  There were, you know, the Black Sabbath bench.com, which is the
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  Black Sabbath bench people, which has sort of now unified as
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  a mourning place for Black Sabbath.
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  And, you know, for Ozzy and Black Sabbath pay tribute to
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  them was really one of the most central places of of the
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  procession. And, you know, Ozzy's family
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  stopped there to place flowers and, and, and have a moment with
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  the crowd and, and thank the fans and, you know, just heart
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  wrenching stuff. Just really whatever.
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  You know, I have been very vocal about some of my displeasure
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  with Sharon Osbourne's antics in the past.
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  But, you know, you just have to feel for a person.
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  She was with the guy for 43 years.
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  They were married, she was with him, you know, resurrected his
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  career and and put him on the map and really, you know, made
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  his life better for better or, you know, whatever you want to
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  say. I had dinner last week with a
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  close friend of mine who was in town visiting for the Air Guitar
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  Nationals for USA. And she brought up a very good
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  point, which is if Sharon was a man, maybe she wouldn't get this
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  much criticism, which is completely possible because, you
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  know, people like her dad, Don Arden and Peter Grant and Rod
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  Smallwood and Q Prime, who manages Metallica and a bunch of
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  other bands and Rick Sales group that manages Slayer and Mastodon
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  and Gojira and Ghost. Nobody criticizes them for being
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  ruthless and and rough, you know, So that's just a hard one.
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  And like I said, I'm going to share this stuff.
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  I made a little deck as I am want to do.
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  This is one of those photos here was on the cover and I will
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  eventually in begin this deck and share the larger photos with
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  you all. So, yeah, I mean, again, just
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  the suddenness of his death and and the spectacle, you know,
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  that has been basically in a positive way made over his
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  passing. I think is, you know, it's a
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  thing to look, you know, the lift us up a little bit in this
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  very tough grim times already. Everybody's regular life is hard
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  enough. As I often say, it's hard.
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  You know, it's hard enough just to get through life.
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  And now we had this big just major loss.
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  But it's nice to see it celebrated communally like this
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  again. I can't really recall the last
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  time something like this happened.
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  Princess Diana, JFK Junior, you know, Anyway, and again, we have
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  been extensively covering back to the beginning.
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  We did a view on our site with all the set lists and all the
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  supergroup listings and everything.
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  We did a big roundtable review. Both of my podcasts had a review
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  of the thing. We sort of a experts breakdown,
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  the concert event. And, you know, obviously since
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  Ozzy died, there's been a bunch of things from our various, our
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  various, you know, activities or different podcasts and articles
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  on the site and all these things.
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  And so many artists have paid tribute to him.
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  I think even today Céline Dion came out and said something
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  about Ozzy being kind of amazing and how sad it is she's had her,
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  you know, her own health and all.
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  She's not really a rock or a metal person, but interesting
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  nonetheless that she, you know, said all these things.
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  Hey, I rate base. What's up, man?
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  I'm still in morning St. It's just, it's just so hard.
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  It's hitting me so hard. And, and like this is on top of
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  just, it's hard to be me. I'm not alone in this.
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  Everybody's having a tough time right now.
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  I've been having my own share of struggles, some private, some
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  very public talk often about my mental health and my physical
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  health issues. There's a lot of stuff going on
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  right now. So just to have him pass so soon
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  after this triumphant thing, but he was very frail.
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  So again, there's a lot of our coverage here on the site.
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  And I did want to point out this thing really quick.
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  So I'm I'm big in this for a second.
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  And this is a screen grab from from one of the videos of the
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  streaming of the procession. And so so there was sort of a
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  basically a hearse with with flower arrangement and a big
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  purple flower cross on the roof that, you know, was to symbolize
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  Ozzy. I think they actually had a
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  private service 1st and then they did the procession.
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  I'm not exactly sure of that order.
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  Hey, thanks. Get rid of fascists.
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  We greatly appreciate you and your support and I will follow
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  you back after the stream is over.
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  I'll follow everybody back that follows us.
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  And what you're seeing here in this photo is except for you all
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  on TikTok, I'm sorry, but Sharon Kelly, Sharon Jack, Ozzy's
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  oldest child, Louis and Amy is on the other end of this.
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  And so basically, they were holding her up while she was
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  just weeping over this arrangement, this outpouring of
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  flowers and merchandise and notes to Ozzy and letters,
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  figures and a statue and all these things, all this
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  outpouring of love, you know, pretty amazing.
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  The entire town basically turned out for this.
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  And then again, hundreds of thousands, maybe of millions of
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  people will have watched this by the end of today on social
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  media, which is just wild to me. And then Sharon and Amy put up
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  the peace sign, which you know, was Ozzy's sort of, you know,
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  was his iconography. I know Dio talked a lot about
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  the devil horns, which he did not admit he didn't invent it.
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  First of all, I know Gene Simmons things.
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  I'm Gene Simmons and I invented the devil horns and shoes and
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  error and public transportation. But Sharon and Amy putting up
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  the peace on is like an absolute nod to Ozzie and Kelly wore, I
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  don't know if they were Ozzie's exact glasses, but she wore like
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  the purple tinted John Lennon glasses that Ozzy made famous,
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  especially since the no more tears era.
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  And you know, very classy. And Sharon just absolutely grief
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  stricken here. And then just probably at Fox
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  News had this. I hate, but whatever.
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  Just a little word, you know, we're not corporate backed.
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  I said some somebody DM me today asking me to check out their
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  music. And I was like, you know, I
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  don't really do click bait stuff and I don't bullshit people.
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  And we try to ride with a lot of integrity.
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  Most of us came from the writing world.
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  I came from a journalism background.
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  I went to journalism school for broadcasting and print
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  journalism. And I take this very seriously.
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  A lot of people you can watch now on social media and YouTube
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  and things don't have any journalistic ethics or
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  integrity. They just kind of like click
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  bait bullshit and a lot of fake AI things I saw all over today
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  met Metallica members Dave Mustaine and and James Hetfield
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  and Elton John made a song for Ozzy.
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  It's just such crap, just absolute crap.
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  But if you want to support us, that's cool.
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  Normally I I ask for tips during my main show, which will be
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  tomorrow. So a little bit of programming
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  notes if you want to give us a tip, that's cool.
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  Yeah man. I mean, AI is useful, but like
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  all this over reliance and over hype on it, it's just garbage.
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  Irate based and we'll be talking about AI in a future live
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  stream. I did ask for a poll on our on
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  YouTube. Thanks man.
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  I rate base that means everything.
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  Thank you for supporting us and we'll support you back.
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  So for a programming note, this isn't the official card because
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  I haven't made it yet, but we'll be back tomorrow.
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  A little earlier than tonight, but tomorrow afternoon, usually
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  Thursday in the 5:00 hour, 4 to 5 hour Pacific Time.
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  I have a doctor's appointment that might interfere with the
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  schedule, but I will go live tomorrow with my weekly show,
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  which is our regular breakdown. All the news of the week,
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  interviews and features we've done, concerts and festival
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  announcements, new music coming out, something cool from my mail
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  bag. I got a few things this week in
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  the mail to share. And so please join our show.
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  You have so many choices to get your music information from and
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  your music news. And if you don't like us also
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  let me know, drop a comment and tell what you don't like about
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  us. I get hate comments all the time
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  and I try not to let them affect me, but they kind of do a
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  little. And then just a reminder, also
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  this week, my other podcast, the Glacially Musical podcast, we
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  were already planning before back to the beginning that we
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  were going to do an Aussie solo run of his early albums.
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  So we did an Aussie collab live stream last week where we did an
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  episode of the show, but it was also on Ghost Coast channels.
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  And then with that runs as a podcast.
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  And then this week's we already recorded it and it's a, you
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  know, a deep dive review on Ozzy's early split from Sabbath.
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  What happened exactly? A little bit of Dio, Sabbath
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  history, and then a very deep dive on Blizzard of Oz
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  Obviously, you know, it's not every Ozzy albums.
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  A 9:50 Blizzard of Oz is pretty damn close and it's pretty it's
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  pretty damn great. I think it's pretty great, but
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  yeah, you know, for everybody watching thank you.
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  So that's just some programming knows we'll be back.
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  So here's the city. I'll I'll again, the best
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  experience for this is Facebook, YouTube, Twitch and Instagram,
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  where you can actually see thanks to stream yard, all our
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  stuff. But TikTok, if you're hanging
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  out with us, I'll keep you informed.
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  So this picture kind of shows and again, our writer Gary from
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  the UK was there today, took these photos.
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  These are his photos. Actually, before I even show the
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  photos, I think we'll show a little bit more of the videos of
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  Sharon and the family, if that's cool with everybody.
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  Again, TikTok, unfortunately stream yard doesn't have TikTok
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  yet, so which I can do with that, but let's just for a
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  second see if I can find right window, right tab.
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  OK, so here is the funeral procession rolling up to you
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  guys can see this. This is rolling up to the
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  procession, rolling by the people.
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  So we're seeing this purse with Ozzy flowers in the windows and
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  what I believe is a coffin and then the minivan with Sharon,
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  several days with family, Ozzy's oldest children before Sharon
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  and his, you know, his children and grandchildren.
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  Sid was there from Slipknot with Kelly's fiance.
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  But this is the roar of applause.
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  Yeah, me too, Mark. Mark says I was getting better
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  until I saw the funeral today. Me too.
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  I'm just wrecked. I'm lucky I got good people
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  around me to check in on me and lift me up.
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  This is just the thunderous applause of main strip in
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  Birmingham, in this building that they're passing as a
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  university. But also, I guess, and there's a
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  second video of or I guess it's another video, there was like a
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  marching band that also played. So also also put me back in Hay
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  also. Yeah.
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  Hadfield. Yeah.
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  Like basically a lot of people flew back for the funeral.
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  Pantera, Metallica, A lot of people went back to be part of
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  the private funeral ceremony. I doubt there will be photos.
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  I think it's very ghoulish to have personal a personal
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  experience like a funeral taped or video or selfies.
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  I think that's kind of gross. But I understand why this is
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  like so many people cherish Ozzy and so many people really, you
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  know, went all out to be part of this today.
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  So like, I mean, this looks like 10s of thousands, like 20,000
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  people just in this little square alone.
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  And basically the main Museum of the City of Manchester became an
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  Aussie museum for the day. So this is some wild, absolutely
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  wild shit. And again, there were there were
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  already murals all over town specifically for the back to the
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  beginning that are maybe going to be permanent, I hope.
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  But they all basically turned into public memorials for Ozzy
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  and and, you know, respect for Sabbath, which is great to see.
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  So all these, you know, photos are here, this one, this Black
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  Sabbath with the lightning bolts, with the classic Black
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  Sabbath WAVY, you know, like you took a puff of a joint and then
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  saw the logo and it was like, is it moving or am I moving?
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  You know, every public transportation in the town had
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  like an Aussie logo on it or a Black Sabbath logo.
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  Mark says. I did YouTube 82 Irvine with
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  Gillis on guitar. Nice.
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  You know, I interviewed Gillis recently last year about Night
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  Ranger, who I love, and Brad talked openly about the Aussie
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  thing and how much he still respects them and how good they
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  treated him and all this stuff. I mean, Brad is an incredible
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  guitar player and a real sweetheart.
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  I hope I get to talk to him again sometimes.
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  I'm such a huge fan, but basically all the the whole town
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  was like rebranded as even more than it was 2 weeks ago.
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  It was over branded for Sabbath and Ozzy today.
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  Like they really went all out. There were trucks riding around
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  town with Ozzy's image on it. These things went up everywhere.
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  Ozzy forever and Birmingham forever and and all these
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  things. There's the Black Sabbath
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  Bridge, just kind of obliterated by balloons and and and messages
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  and bats and everything, man. So this is like this Brit major
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  bridge over town has Ozzy forever on it.
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  You know Birmingham will always love you.
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  Is the message on that Ozzy picture just unbelievable.
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  Ozzy was one of your first concerts in the 80s when you
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  were in high school. That's amazing.
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  I didn't see Ozzy till the No More Tears for which was a
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  fucking game changer. Honestly.
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  I love Mike Inez, ever since then, before he even joined
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  Alice In Chains. And so I'm with Randy Castillo.
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  Super sad that that guy's passed away.
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  So yeah, man, these, these things.
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  So again, there's like the block where the procession was
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  ultimate sin, Metallica. Sick.
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  I did not see that Torah, which I had because I never saw Cliff.
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  I love Cliff. So they turned this Museum of
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  Birmingham into an Aussie museum basically for the day, which is
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  crazy. Or maybe even this, this whole
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  month, here's people just queuing into the museum, as they
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  say in the UK, queuing to be part of this thing.
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  And they created exhibit halls and some of his memorabilia was
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  donated. This might have been related to
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  the big, you know, the the big back to the beginning show that
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  working class hero. This poster, if you're watching
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  this on this on the stream Yard channels, working class Sarah
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  was a John Lennon tribute that Ozzy was part of.
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  And he loved The Beatles, as you know, and he loved John Lennon.
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  He talked a lot about Ozzy's underrated musicality and
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  artistry. He doesn't get any credit or
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  enough credit because so and so wrote the lyrics and this and
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  this and that. And Dio is a better singer.
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  I really don't want to hear about it right now.
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  I love Dio and I miss him. And I saw Dio also, but yeah,
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  you don't have to punch down at Ozzy to lift up.
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  DODO stands on his little 2 legs by himself, a giant first rimpy
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  guy. These are some awards that Ozzy
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  had won. MTV award.
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  There's AI think it's the revolver award is a big middle
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  finger. The Devil horns Moon Awards, all
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  kinds of different things. Incredible Grammys.
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  Yeah. This billboard is a devil horns
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  touring award. The legend of live.
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  This is from back in the 2000s, might be 2010 or 2009.
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  Yeah, man, just unbelievable. And then some actual original
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  photography. Here's a photo of Ozzie rocking
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  out with the fringe. You know what that's all about?
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  Badger says. I'll just always say that I
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  still do the Tony Martineau or Sav Sav.
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  Yeah, man, I love Tony. Me.
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  I bought the Tony Martin box set.
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  It was an indulgence for me to buy such an expensive thing for
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  myself. You know, those records aren't
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  all great, but Tony is great. And I'm glad that I only put the
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  love in to do that box set. And it's worth, I think, you
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  know, if you're a die hard, it's worth having.
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  Is it essential as Dio and Ozzie?
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  It isn't. I love, you know, I love the
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  Born Again album with Ian Gillen from Deep Purple.
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  That's really one of my favorites actually.
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  You know, right outside the obvious classics of Ozzy and
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  Dio. So I don't even love Dehumanizer
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  that much. I know that's kind of a hot
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  take. I'm not insulting the record.
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  It's just like by 94 I was listening to so much other
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  stuff. Pantera 9 inch nails simple to
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  her Fear Factory Type O Negative porn came along and I was like,
• 23:43
  I don't really need Wizards and swords and shit much but you
• 23:47
  know this is pretty damn amazing.
• 23:49
  Also, here's the original concert photo.
• 23:53
  I believe Ross Hoffman shot this that became the cover of tribute
• 23:57
  and obviously on a ton of shirts.
• 24:00
  Ozzy lifting up little ass Randy Rhodes while he solos crazy shit
• 24:05
  and Ozzy's incredible face during that pose.
• 24:09
  Just unbelievable. Some more stuff from Birmingham
• 24:16
  again, there are murals all over the city of the band and people
• 24:20
  were putting personal drawings and wood carvings and messages
• 24:23
  and music and all kinds of photos and their own mirror and
• 24:27
  villain. You just got Eternal Idol
• 24:29
  ordered that. I owe you a mastered.
• 24:30
  Nice job. Nice.
• 24:31
  Also, again, not necessarily a great album, but if you love
• 24:34
  that era and you're a completist, you do want it
• 24:37
  again. Waiting for the Born Again to be
• 24:39
  the next thing. Hopefully this is pretty the
• 24:44
  same shot but a little bit differently orientated with, you
• 24:47
  know, footballs and trophies and shirts with audio messages
• 24:52
  scrolled on them and guitar picks and big caps and beautiful
• 24:56
  flowers and all this. I mean, pretty damn
• 24:59
  unbelievable. And again, further up on the
• 25:04
  wall with just a tons of, you know, I think this sign in the
• 25:12
  backpack says lived as a Prince, remembered as a hero because
• 25:16
  I've seen it a few times. It's pretty damn great.
• 25:21
  And then again, here's some different shots of the wall and
• 25:23
  the bridge just obliterated by flowers and memorials.
• 25:27
  Here's again, that those shots of the of the hearse pulling up,
• 25:34
  people are flinging flowers on it as it rides by, almost like
• 25:38
  royalty. And then, yeah, man, that's, you
• 25:42
  know, I don't know if anybody else has any more memories they
• 25:45
  want to share, but that's kind of all the pictures that I felt
• 25:52
  were appropriate to share. I left out any personal pictures
• 25:54
  of Gary and his family because I just feel like that's intrusive.
• 25:59
  Gary's incredible. He's one of our best writers.
• 26:01
  Usually when there's an important review to write, he
• 26:03
  writes it. There'll be 1 going up tonight
• 26:06
  that Gary wrote and reviewed. But you know, I'm just grateful
• 26:11
  to this community, all of you, anybody who's watched even for a
• 26:15
  second, to be able to come on here and and open up my heart
• 26:19
  and share this stuff and talk. Hey, thanks, Anarchy Faye, I
• 26:23
  appreciate you. Thanks for being here.
• 26:26
  All the Twitch folks, you know, we're just talking about Ozzy
• 26:30
  and the funeral today and the procession and you know, I'm
• 26:34
  sure we'll get the official total.
• 26:35
  I mean, Birmingham can't even, and maybe it has a few 100,000
• 26:38
  people. I can't imagine there's a
• 26:39
  million people that live there. Maybe I'm mistaken.
• 26:42
  I guess I should have my facts right.
• 26:47
  I mean, surely Ozzy is the most notable person ever to come from
• 26:51
  there. Oh, this is interesting.
• 26:56
  OK, so Birmingham or Birmingham is a city in metropolitan
• 27:01
  borough in the county of West Midlands in the region of
• 27:04
  England, is the largest local authority district in England by
• 27:07
  population, second largest in Britain.
• 27:09
  OK, they do have 1.6 million people.
• 27:12
  So the urban area has a population of two and a half
• 27:16
  million. So OK, I stand corrected.
• 27:18
  I thought it was a little smaller and more intimate, but,
• 27:23
  yeah, I mean, you know, I'm with you on that.
• 27:26
  And Ricky Fay, I'm also thankful the Osborne family led the
• 27:29
  public mourn with them again. You know, Sharon, for all of my
• 27:34
  criticism about certain things in the past, she's just broken
• 27:39
  by this. She was with him for 43 years,
• 27:42
  knew him her whole life, basically there.
• 27:46
  He's just a few years older than her.
• 27:48
  You know, her dad managed them. She was in her 20s at the same
• 27:52
  time as Ozzy, just a few years younger than him.
• 27:55
  She's 72 and, you know, she knew Ozzy, you know, as a young girl.
• 28:03
  And her support and love of Ozzy actually cost her about 20 years
• 28:07
  of her relationship with her dad, which she did end up
• 28:10
  preparing that before he was ill and passed away.
• 28:13
  And we're reading today that she took care of him and and paid
• 28:17
  for her father's care, even though they had been some
• 28:20
  acrimony for a long time. Obviously, the Osbourne Show has
• 28:23
  her dad just what an insane time.
• 28:28
  But like, you know, as bad as social media can be at its
• 28:31
  worst, this is the best of social media.
• 28:33
  We were able hundreds of thousands, millions of people
• 28:36
  were able to live stream this funeral procession in in this
• 28:39
  town in England all day long started it, you know, like those
• 28:44
  it was like, you know, England is five hours ahead of New York
• 28:49
  City and eight hours ahead of California where I live.
• 28:52
  And so I'm just really grateful for this opportunity.
• 28:57
  Talk about bringing world together.
• 28:59
  That's right. I'm just really grateful that I
• 29:01
  was able to have this time with all of you and I was able to
• 29:04
  watch this, you know, on and off today.
• 29:07
  It was very nice that all of Ozzy's family was there because
• 29:10
  he does have kids from the previous marriage before Sharon,
• 29:13
  and he had made a point to reconnect with them and bring
• 29:16
  them into his life again. Seeing Kelly rock the Aussie
• 29:21
  glasses, the No More Tears glasses as a tribute to John
• 29:25
  Lennon. That was Ozzy's way of honoring
• 29:26
  The Beatles, her way of honoring her dad, among many things.
• 29:31
  Amy and Sharon throwing up the peace sign, which was Ozzy's,
• 29:36
  you know, kind of his thing. Just what a so heavy, so heavy.
• 29:44
  Tomorrow we'll be back. Tomorrow afternoon, I'll be back
• 29:46
  on my weekly show, Ghost Cult. Does our interviews wind up on
• 29:51
  our YouTube podcasts and our website?
• 29:54
  You know, anybody that's following around the world?
• 29:56
  Thanks for watching. And yeah, I'll be back tomorrow.
• 30:01
  And we have an ending for this. So I'm just going to say thank
• 30:05
  you all. As Ozzy would say, I love you
• 30:07
  all. And.
• 30:09
  And if You fail also chimed in and says I watched a video of
• 30:12
  Kelly and Ozzy singing changes. Yeah, absolutely.
• 30:15
  Yeah, thanks so much. Appreciate you.
• 30:17
  That's what you got to do. I say that every week at the end
• 30:20
  of my regular show, which is take care of yourselves and take
• 30:23
  care of everybody else because thank you, Mark.
• 30:26
  We, you know, you're supposed to judge a society by how we pull
• 30:30
  together in a crisis and how you treat the weakest people in a
• 30:33
  society and not shit on them. That's how I was raised.
• 30:36
  That's how the rest of the world does in America, not so much
• 30:39
  sometimes, But I want to believe in the good in people.
• 30:42
  This showed me the good in a lot of people who interrupted their
• 30:46
  life to do this. So thank you all for being here.
• 30:49
  Thanks for watching our channels and stuff.
• 30:51
  We'll be back tomorrow. I'm Kefi from ghostcoldman.com
• 30:55
  and as Ozzy would say, I love you all.
• 30:57
  Take care and peace.