Book is called Ozzie and Me, Life Lessons, Wild Stories, Unexpected Epiphanes from 40 Years of Friendship

with the Prince of Darkness written by this man, Stephen Ray. Hi, Stephen.

Morning, Stephen. Thanks for joining us.

Hello. How are you, sir?

Good, man. Steve, explain to me, because I you, it didn't say actually how you met him,

it said where you met Ozzie, and you were a really young dude in 1984 at the Rock in Rio.

Were you a journalist at the time?

No, no, I was only 15 years old. It was January 85, actually. It was Rock in Rio,

maybe the greatest rock show the world's ever seen

it had Aussie of course

at ICDC and Arn May and Queen

and Rod Stewart and yes and all these crazy bands

to the 10-day rock festival in Rio

and I was only 15 but I was a huge Aussie fan

and would you believe my mom

wrote to the Aussie Osborne fan club

and said look Stephen's dad he's

always he's big into soccer for Brazil and music and we're seriously considering going to

Brazil to see this festival can you help us with tickets can you tell us where we I mean this is

you know years before the internet of course so we get really a letter to the fan club. And you're from Northern Ireland, right? So you're, you're in Ireland when this is happening. Exactly. Exactly. So I'm in Belfast, Northern Ireland, during the troubles where we're killing each other, and we're stuck on the edge of Europe. And everything's horrendous for us. But so my mom writes a letter to the fan club, and Ozzy secretary picks up the phone and calls

my mom.

Wow.

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