Following Oliver Tree’s untimely death, fans will be treated to another conversation with Oliver Tree. Singer-songwriter Oliver Tree was a guest on Bobby Althoff’s Really Good Podcast before he was killed in a helicopter crash earlier this month.
In the episode posted on Monday (June 29), Tree wore his usual comedy costume, this time an Elmo suit and red face paint, and talked about a wide range of topics, including his “high-risk” lifestyle. Although Tree often gives long interviews with outlandish interpretations, he made a prescient comment in one of his final interviews when explaining why he likes to live as adventurously as possible.
“My parents say, ‘Oliver, it’s hard to travel all the time,'” he says. “It’s like, ‘Guys, look. I don’t know if I’m going to be alive next year and I don’t know if you’re going to be alive.'”
“No day is promised,” he added. “Do you know what a high-risk life I lead? I’ve been living in a poop shack in Africa for the past two years, staying in a mud house in Iraq.”
Tree died at the age of 32 on June 14, along with two pilots and three other passengers on board two helicopters that collided in Rio de Janeiro. The musician was overseas on a world tour in support of his April album Love You Madly Hate You Badly, and played his final show in São Paulo on June 6.
Shortly after Tree’s death, it was announced that his estate would be used to launch Dr. Oliver Tree’s very grand grant for gifted children. This is a grant to support the creation of art that he had publicly discussed establishing before his death. “I don’t take credit for anything I’ve ever done,” Tree said on the Zach Sun Show in April. “I don’t believe that any wealth or material that comes out of it is mine. My will is set up so that when I die, my family and no one else will get a penny from it. All the money is going to go back to the artists.”
In a disclaimer at the beginning of his video interview with Tree, Althoff said all profits from the conversation would go toward his grant. “I am grateful to have had this conversation with Oliver,” it read. “I share this article out of love and respect for his life, his art, and the unforgettable world he created.”
Watch her full interview with Tree below.
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