He admitted on X that during his stint at a firm called WebMaster, technical glitches and a lack of interest in the full band forced him to improvise.
Schwartz said that moderators were supposed to relay fan queries by phone and then transcribe the band’s replies. But when no one asked about Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler or Bill Ward, he slipped in “canned” questions to each member in turn.
I typed up Ozzy’s answer as closely as I could, probably getting it way off due to the poor connection quality. I censored the C-words.
And then I cheated. I passed a canned question to each of the other band members in rotation. And I mixed what I could make out of what they…
Only “two or three” genuine fan questions ever made it through. At one point, Schwartz mixed what he could hear with answers provided by the band’s manager. He later confessed feeling bad that the session wasn’t the real, unfiltered chat he had hoped to run.
Poor audio meant much of Ozzy’s legendary profanity was barely audible. Schwartz typed out the “C‑word” many times over, but then scrubbed it at the request of his bosses.
He said the bad C‑word was pretty close to the only word he could hear clearly, so he censored it to make the conversation fit a family‑friendly format. The episode left him disillusioned about how hard it was to pull off an authentic live event online.
One token, The Mad Man (OZZY), rocketed more than 16,000% to trade at $0.0039, briefly topping a $3.80 million market cap before investors began to worry about scams and sudden dumps.
The SEC is also expected to drop its appeal. That move cements Ripple’s original $125 million civil penalty but brings both sides closer to ending a nearly five‑year fight over whether XRP sales counted as securities transactions.
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