Randy Blythe
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
which is a lamb of god song i wrote about this young man wayne ford and i've talked about this before wayne was a young man i'd met outside a show in phoenix arizona and he had been diagnosed with leukemia recently and was starting his chemo treatments and radiation and all this stuff and i had a talk with him and his wife outside the show and wished him the best of luck and i thought
which is a lamb of god song i wrote about this young man wayne ford and i've talked about this before wayne was a young man i'd met outside a show in phoenix arizona and he had been diagnosed with leukemia recently and was starting his chemo treatments and radiation and all this stuff and i had a talk with him and his wife outside the show and wished him the best of luck and i thought
man good luck i hope this guy makes it and pulled away and didn't think much more of it and then five years go by and one of his friends wound up emailing me through my publicist and was like Wayne, I don't know if you remember meeting him, but he's not going to make it, dude. He's fought this thing for five years and he's done.
man good luck i hope this guy makes it and pulled away and didn't think much more of it and then five years go by and one of his friends wound up emailing me through my publicist and was like Wayne, I don't know if you remember meeting him, but he's not going to make it, dude. He's fought this thing for five years and he's done.
man good luck i hope this guy makes it and pulled away and didn't think much more of it and then five years go by and one of his friends wound up emailing me through my publicist and was like Wayne, I don't know if you remember meeting him, but he's not going to make it, dude. He's fought this thing for five years and he's done.
So he's decided to spend out the last of his days at home, not undergoing any more chemo or trips to the hospital and enjoy his life. with his family the way he wants to, the way he's going to live the way he wants to, because he had spent the last five years in and out of hospitals, unable to eat what he wanted to eat, just a miserable existence. But he was fighting for his life.
So he's decided to spend out the last of his days at home, not undergoing any more chemo or trips to the hospital and enjoy his life. with his family the way he wants to, the way he's going to live the way he wants to, because he had spent the last five years in and out of hospitals, unable to eat what he wanted to eat, just a miserable existence. But he was fighting for his life.
So he's decided to spend out the last of his days at home, not undergoing any more chemo or trips to the hospital and enjoy his life. with his family the way he wants to, the way he's going to live the way he wants to, because he had spent the last five years in and out of hospitals, unable to eat what he wanted to eat, just a miserable existence. But he was fighting for his life.
This guy wrote me this letter to let me know that Wayne was dying. And he said, can you get the guys in lamb of god together to say hello to him and i said unfortunately that is not possible because they were in california recording an album and i was in richmond virginia working on lyrics we weren't all together and they were in different studios i said look I'll call him though.
This guy wrote me this letter to let me know that Wayne was dying. And he said, can you get the guys in lamb of god together to say hello to him and i said unfortunately that is not possible because they were in california recording an album and i was in richmond virginia working on lyrics we weren't all together and they were in different studios i said look I'll call him though.
This guy wrote me this letter to let me know that Wayne was dying. And he said, can you get the guys in lamb of god together to say hello to him and i said unfortunately that is not possible because they were in california recording an album and i was in richmond virginia working on lyrics we weren't all together and they were in different studios i said look I'll call him though.
I would love to talk to him for whatever that's worth. So I wound up setting up this video call where I was going to chat with this terminal young man, Wayne Fort, he's 33 years old. And before the chat, I became overwhelmed. We were talking about fear. I became overwhelmed with fear and anxiety that I'm not a grief counselor. I'm not a psychiatrist. I don't know anything.
I would love to talk to him for whatever that's worth. So I wound up setting up this video call where I was going to chat with this terminal young man, Wayne Fort, he's 33 years old. And before the chat, I became overwhelmed. We were talking about fear. I became overwhelmed with fear and anxiety that I'm not a grief counselor. I'm not a psychiatrist. I don't know anything.
I would love to talk to him for whatever that's worth. So I wound up setting up this video call where I was going to chat with this terminal young man, Wayne Fort, he's 33 years old. And before the chat, I became overwhelmed. We were talking about fear. I became overwhelmed with fear and anxiety that I'm not a grief counselor. I'm not a psychiatrist. I don't know anything.
how to handle this sort of situation. And then I started worrying, well, what if I make it worse? What if I say something wrong or stupid? And this sends him, it shortens his life even more. What if I offend him? And it was, I had this realization as I'm thinking about all this, I'm not thinking about this young man. I'm thinking about myself. I'm thinking about myself.
how to handle this sort of situation. And then I started worrying, well, what if I make it worse? What if I say something wrong or stupid? And this sends him, it shortens his life even more. What if I offend him? And it was, I had this realization as I'm thinking about all this, I'm not thinking about this young man. I'm thinking about myself. I'm thinking about myself.
how to handle this sort of situation. And then I started worrying, well, what if I make it worse? What if I say something wrong or stupid? And this sends him, it shortens his life even more. What if I offend him? And it was, I had this realization as I'm thinking about all this, I'm not thinking about this young man. I'm thinking about myself. I'm thinking about myself.
fear of looking ineffective or of doing the wrong thing. It's entirely fear-based. And I came to, I asked my dad who wasn't minister and had a lot of experience with grief counseling. I asked another friend of mine, actually he was a rabbi who had experience with grief counseling.
fear of looking ineffective or of doing the wrong thing. It's entirely fear-based. And I came to, I asked my dad who wasn't minister and had a lot of experience with grief counseling. I asked another friend of mine, actually he was a rabbi who had experience with grief counseling.
fear of looking ineffective or of doing the wrong thing. It's entirely fear-based. And I came to, I asked my dad who wasn't minister and had a lot of experience with grief counseling. I asked another friend of mine, actually he was a rabbi who had experience with grief counseling.