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