Did Ozzy Osbourne REALLY Bite the Head Off a Bat?

The Rich Zeoli Show

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🗓️ 23 July 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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The Rich Zeoli Show- Hour 4: 6:05pm- Yesterday, Ozzy Osbourne, the lead singer of Black Sabbath, died at the age of 76. Did he really bite the head off a bat mid-concert? 6:30pm- During Wednesday’s White House press briefing, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard stated, “there is irrefutable evidence that details how President Barack Obama and his National Security team directed the creation of an intelligence community assessment that they knew was false” when linking the 2016 Trump campaign to Russian government officials. Gabbard also revealed that according to intelligence, Russia had evidence that Hillary Clinton suffered from “psycho-emotional problems, uncontrolled fits of anger, aggression” and took a “daily regimen of heavy tranquilizers,” though they were saving the public release of this information until after her presumed victory.

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0:00.0	The Rich Zioly Show podcast is sponsored by Mike Vaneria Jr. with Osparity Private Wealth.
0:05.4	Hi, I'm Mike Vaneria Jr., wealth management specialists. Make your retirement dreams a reality by creating your retirement plan today.
0:11.7	Call me at 856-252-0107.
0:17.1	Well, it's obvious that the Russians wanted Hillary Clinton.
0:21.7	That's very, very obvious.
0:23.9	As we continue the show in our fourth and final hour on Talk Radio 1210, WPHD, 855, 839, 1210 on X at Rich Zioly.
0:33.2	Still the tributes for Ozzy Osborne coming in.
0:37.4	Front page of the New York Post today.
0:41.7	That's all, folks.
0:44.3	Night over for Prince of Darkness.
0:46.4	You know, the biting tale is interesting about the bat.
0:50.0	Of course, I made some, you know, quip yesterday about how he was patient zero with COVID because he bit the head off a bat.
0:57.1	So here's the story about that.
0:58.7	It's very interesting.
0:59.8	Ozzy Osborne will be remembered as a Prince of Darkness, but even in death, his infamous in 1982 bat-biting incident will be cemented in rock history.
1:09.7	The wild event unfolded on January 20th, 1982 at the Des Moines Veterans Memorial Auditorium
1:15.8	during his diary of a madman tour.
1:18.7	At the time, the rocker developed a sickening ritual where he'd throw raw meat at concert
1:25.0	goers and they'd toss whatever bizarre item they snuck into the show right back.
1:29.2	During this performance in particular, someone chucked a real bat on the stage, which the Black Sabbath singer mistakenly thought was fake.
1:38.8	To the audience's horror, Osborne's mouth filled with blood, and he immediately knew he had been fooled.
1:45.2	The paranoid singer spoke about the moment in 2020 documentary The Nine Lives of Ozzy Osbourne
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