Volume 4: White Devil Chapter 186 Things are getting interesting (Part 1)
Tommy was going to personally treat Rick, who came up with the idea of "How to Marry a Millionaire", and his team to a nightclub to have some fun in the evening, but the plan was canceled because of a call from Sean, the vice president of public relations.
In the end, Tommy could only let Rick apologize to his employees on his behalf, and let them go to the nightclub for entertainment instead, and he would pay the bill since he couldn't go in person.
Sean's tone on the phone was very hurried. He just told Tommy not to attend any social events tonight and to wait for his call at the company at any time, or to rush back in person. His original words were:
"Tommy, we have to be prepared to help a widow."
This sentence made Tommy excited.
Yes, how could a man refuse to lend a helping hand to a widow, so Tommy deliberately canceled his evening swimming and fitness classes, stayed in the company to work overtime and waited for Sean to give him a chance to help the widow.
The vice president in charge of public relations does not have a strong presence within the TV station. To be honest, people in other departments of BTTV have almost forgotten this chubby middle-aged man with a simple smile, because he almost never appears in the TV station. His office is vacant most of the time. Only a few ordinary clerks from the public relations department shuttle around the company to handle various documents during work every day, proving that BT TV station still has such a department.
But Tommy knew that Sean was probably the busiest person in BT TV station. If others just carried out their work according to his instructions, then Sean was the tentacle of the little ant of BT TV station. He was released by BT TV station to explore all the unknowns and then pass back the news he learned.
He has to fly to Washington once a week to ensure that he can track or obtain the latest developments, policies and regulations from government departments, industry associations and other institutions as soon as possible. Because if he expects to get these seemingly insignificant but shockingly impactful developments on the industry from newspapers or news that everyone can buy like an ordinary American, he will have to wait at least half a year.
He is also responsible for helping BT TV establish communication channels with state governments, municipal governments, local television industry associations, and national television industry associations.
He is responsible for checking whether there are sensitive points in the programs of his own TV station that may easily offend people of color. He needs to communicate with Rick's program department in a timely manner, help Rick build the program library of BT TV bit by bit according to Rick's needs, deal with various sellers in the syndicated program market for Rick, and communicate with other local friendly stations in California that are truly powerful and not the small TV stations that the three Big Jack brothers deal with, and look for opportunities for cooperation, such as CBS, NBC, ABC, the flagship TV stations of large TV networks in California.
We even have to formulate contingency plans for various emergencies that may arise after the official broadcast of each BT program.
So when he told Tommy that he wanted to help a widow, it was definitely not as simple as he saw a beautiful widow and wanted to find an opportunity to pimp her out for Tommy.
It was not until 9:40 that Sean showed up at the company with a drunken face. He first pushed open the door of Tommy's office, gestured to Tommy to wait, then quickly walked into the bathroom to vomit out the wine, splashed cold water on his face, wiped it clean, chewed two pieces of gum, and then sat down opposite Tommy, staring at Tommy.
But soon, he stood up again, dragging his fat body in the office, moving in front of Tommy in a Z-shaped step. His clumsy steps combined with his body made Sean look like a lame duck.
"Do you know what this is, Tommy?" Sean finished his ridiculous moves, sat back down, and said to Tommy, "Marko, the public relations expert from KNBC, sat across from me and spent the last three hours bragging about his bravery when he was a kid in a school shooting. When he was done, he even demonstrated to me how he evaded the gunman's bullets with his nimble footwork."
KNBC is NBC's flagship TV station in California and one of the seven main TV stations owned by the NBC network. It is considered to be the real main force within the NBC network.
Throughout the United States, there are nearly 200 TV stations that broadcast NBC programs and are classified as the NBC television network, but the NBC Group actually owns only seven TV stations. The other more than 100 TV stations are all under NBC's control through cooperation.
Tommy looked at Sean with amusement, then stood up and poured him a glass of water himself: "I don't care about how the man survived, Sean, I care more about how to help the widow."
"To help the widow, you need to watch that bastard wiggle his ass for three hours. You're lucky, boss, you only need to watch me wiggle once, and my ass is obviously more perky and plump than that old guy's shriveled buttocks." Sean took out a cigarette from his suit pocket, lit it, and said with a smile:
“After watching our pilot, KNBC was willing to help us convince their sister TV stations in Philadelphia and Chicago to purchase the regional broadcasting rights for our program through the syndicated program market. They thought that the large black population in these two regions would like our program, but the prerequisite was that the price was favorable enough and they had to do a small thing for KNBC.”
"Help a widow?" Tommy asked, nodding slightly.
Sean nodded as well: "Yes, Georgia Roseblum, the widow of Carol Roseblum, the deceased owner of the NFC (National Football League) Los Angeles Rams."
"I'm sure that the money in my pocket right now is not enough to play the game between television giants such as the broadcasting rights of major sporting events. Sean, you should know that as well." Tommy frowned slightly when he heard Sean's words, and then spoke to Sean frankly.
Sports events have always been a game of competition among the three major television networks. In order to fight for the most lucrative food and keep their competitors out, the three major television networks rack their brains, so the consequence is that the way sports events are broadcast has been played out in various ways by them.
If an outsider rashly enters the competition with tens of millions of dollars, the result will be that he thinks he has bought the broadcasting rights of some well-known teams' games, but strangely finds that he can't even broadcast a single game for the entire season, and has to lose all that money in vain.
Why? Because the cooperation between the team and the TV station has an attendance clause, that is, if the attendance of fans watching the game on site does not reach a certain percentage, the team has the right to consider the interests of the club and ask the TV station not to broadcast the game, which can stimulate more fans to buy tickets to watch the game on site.
In fact, it is impossible for the attendance to be bad for an entire season. It is very likely that a TV network colluded with the club to falsify the data. But if it is an outbreak of an amateur, there is no evidence at all, and the only response from the club is that the attendance does not meet the standard . Then the team club can find various loopholes in the contract. In the end, the club will terminate the contract with the stupid amateur unscathed and turn to other TV networks. The three major TV networks watched the amateur TV station lose a lot of money and finally left in disgrace.
There are many perverted clauses similar to the attendance clause, all of which are traps set by the three major TV networks in collusion with event organizations. The three major TV networks have stepped on each other's landmines and tried and failed for decades before they have reached the point where they know each other well.
Let's put it this way, other small TV networks and TV stations don't even have the courage to participate, because the three major TV networks have accumulated experience with money and experience, and other TV stations want to step into this broadcasting business, they have to pay three times the price. You have to step into all before you understand all the rules, and the price you need to pay is an astronomical amount of money.
"I know we don't have it, but Murdoch does. NBC has received news that FOX has loaded 125 million bullets in the battle for sports broadcasting rights this year and is ready to make a big move. The three major TV networks are all scared. They don't know where Murdoch will raise the funds. You know, not long ago, Murdoch just used 3 billion to acquire the American Triangle Media Group. Before that, New York magazine lost 200 million, Country magazine lost 90 million, and the Chicago Sun-Times was sold cheaply due to heavy losses. He held the New York Post for twelve years and lost 150 million. It was sold cheaply, not to mention his series of bad investments in the UK. In short, everyone believes that this Jewish guy is definitely not a business genius, but what is curious is who can make Murdoch continue to lose money while continuing to provide him with funds, a money printing factory? 125 million is equivalent to raising the current price by one third, forcing the three major TV networks to bid with him." Sean picked up the glass of water that Tommy poured for him, took a sip and said.
Tommy shrugged. "If NBC wants me to seduce the widow for them and make her change her mind and not work with Fox, I think the chances of me agreeing are not very high because I have a girlfriend. The reasons why I might agree depend on the widow's age, whether she is beautiful, and how much inheritance she has. If I am satisfied with all these, I might take the time to do it."
"Fox's flagship TV station in California, KTTV, is negotiating with the Los Angeles Rams for the broadcasting rights of away games in the new season. Previously, the broadcasting rights of the Los Angeles Rams' home games belonged to CBS, and the broadcasting rights of away games belonged to NBC. However, the home broadcasting rights are long-term contracts and will not expire until five years later. CBS does not need to worry about losing the home court at all, but the away game broadcasting rights in the hands of NBC are calculated on a season-by-season basis. In other words, Fox is now snatching the fat meat from KNBC. The problem is that Marco has always been a good friend of the team owner Carroll. If Carroll was still alive, he would not worry that Fox could snatch it away, but now... the team owner Carroll accidentally drowned while on vacation in Florida. There is a will, so the team fell into the hands of his five children with his ex-wife and his widow Georgia Roseblum. Currently, Georgia and her husband have completely torn their faces with Carroll's five children for the Los Angeles Rams worth 56 million and other assets worth billions of dollars that Carroll did not leave any will. FOX's public relations have dealt with Carroll's five children and promised to provide the necessary support to help the five people get the ownership of the club. The best way for BNC is for the widow Georgia to cooperate with them. The problem is that Georgia now ignores NBC's Marco because he helped her husband Carol pimp, and even the wild woman who accompanied her husband when he died was introduced by Marco. "
"Wait a minute, what do you mean Georgia and her husband have fallen out with Carol's five children? Isn't her husband dead?" Tommy keenly caught the problem in Sean's words and asked. Sean is a public relations person and it is impossible for him to make such an exaggerated mistake in the conversation.
Sean answered Tommy's question, "Yes, it was her ex-husband who died. This woman just turned 60 this year, but she had been married six times. Carol was her fifth husband. Three months after Carol's death, she moved in and married a white man who was a dozen years younger than her. The wedding has not been held yet, but this does not prevent her from fighting for the family property as her ex-husband's widow."
"This woman must not be white. Even those low-class white women in Warwick can't have such exaggerated desires that they would always want to find something to stuff down there." Tommy was stunned after listening to Sean's explanation and said with admiration.
Sean nodded. "That's a good guess. She's a mixed race of black and white. She seemed to have been a beauty pageant winner when she was young."
"So, we have to think of a way to contact that restless Black Widow, and then use the name of BTTV to deceive her into giving us the away broadcast rights for the new season, but in fact we will give it to NBC, right?" Tommy sorted out the news Sean brought back and asked.
"The gist of it is this. What I need to emphasize is cooperation, not deception," Sean said.
Tommy then continued, "Were her dead ex-husband Carol and his first wife both white?"
"Carol is of Jewish descent, and his ex-wife is of German descent."
"Does the widow have any money now?"
"Of course, there must be about two or three million in private money, otherwise what man in his forties would be willing to fuck a sixty-year-old black woman in bed?"
"What about the other party's five children?"
"They are not as rich as her, otherwise they would not be in a hurry to reach a cooperation intention with FOX, but they are likely to get the largest inheritance in the end. The lawyer's judgment is that the five of them together can probably get 85% of the team's shares."
"Do you think our Earl would be willing to fuck a sixty-year-old black woman in bed?" Tommy thought for a moment and looked up at Sean and asked.
Sean was stunned for a moment, then said: "I don't think he would be willing. He is not short of money."
Tommy laughed. "You don't know enough about the elite blacks. They are even more shameless than the lower-class blacks. They are probably the same as the Indians. As long as the price is generous enough, they will do anything."
"You mean, let Earl use the excuse of providing free legal help to get close to that woman? Tommy, it's hard for Earl to help Georgia get enough ownership of the team, and the other party doesn't need free legal aid. If it were feasible, NBC would have solved it itself long ago, and would not have thrown it to us, treating this matter as a difficult problem and giving us a chance to cooperate." Sean shrugged, thinking that Tommy's thinking was a little too simple and his words were far from standard.
Tommy looked at Sean with sparkling eyes and said seriously, "I know that Earl alone is certainly not enough, but I have more than just Earl. I also have an omnipotent girlfriend and my girlfriend's huge circle of friends."
…
With Tommy's funding, Earl Rush recently started a non-profit organization called Leaping Over the Races in Los Angeles, California with some long-time friends. The organization advocates boycotting the work welfare system and calls on large companies to provide equal employment opportunities to American citizens of all skin colors, rather than giving priority to white people.
In fact, there are three or five similar organizations in any city in the United States. It is not new. If they want to be different and stand out and let Americans know of their existence, the answer is very simple. There must be capital willing to pay for this organization.
Tommy, the financial backer behind LeapFlight, is willing to pay for this. First, he can pay for Earl to appear on major TV stations to explain the organization's philosophy. Second, he can make the organization's slogan a reality.
For example, Earl listed a large number of Silicon Valley technology companies and told the black people in front of the TV that these technology companies responded to the Leaping Race initiative and were willing to provide more convenient job interview procedures for computer science majors than for white people to show their support for the Leaping Race initiative.
However, Tommy will not tell the black people in front of the TV that people of color are not just black people, and technology companies are actually very welcoming to Asians.
In short, the organization's main support base consists of those who have been harmed by the Reagan administration's policies, such as people of color, the poor, single working mothers, the unemployed, workers who have lost their jobs due to policies, homosexuals, and so on.
As Earl appeared on TV, many white people in the Democratic Party finally remembered that this black man with a financial sponsor seemed to be one of their own. Naturally, Earl's social circle within the party also slowly expanded.
While enjoying his success, Earl was instead overwhelmed by a sense of absurdity. Yes, he felt that the world was so absurd that it was ridiculous. You know, he had really provided free legal aid to his compatriots before, and he joined the Black Panther Party with great enthusiasm to change this unequal country, but at that time, no one even looked at him. As a result, now that he was middle-aged, he had become a greedy person who only wanted fame and fortune, and instead became a promising black person worthy of respect and worth interacting with in the eyes of everyone.
But no matter how absurd the world is, it is not as absurd as it is now, when Tommy asks him to play golf while asking him if he is interested in hooking up with a sixty-year-old mixed-race widow.
"Didn't you suggest to me to find a black woman from the lower class? There's no way the widow of the owner of the Los Angeles Rams has anything to do with the word lower class." Earl returned the golf club to the caddy next to him, took the water cup handed to him, took a sip, and asked Tommy who was concentrating on observing the distance next to him.
After Tommy calculated it, he used a standard swing to hit the golf ball onto the green, then threw away the club and sat under the parasol next to him: "No, she is a low-class woman, a low-class single mother, but she is older, sixty years old."
"No one believes that she is a lower-class black person. Not even Tommy or the black community will believe it." Earl sat down next to Tommy, turned his head to look at him, and said seriously.
Tommy cast his eyes towards the green in the distance. "Of course she is not a low-class black woman, but she can fall to a level lower than that of the low-class black women in a short period of time, and then become a rich woman again, so you should be happy about this, because you don't have to really fuck a black woman from the bottom of society and worry about whether she has dirty diseases. Although this sixty-year-old lady has slept with many men, I guarantee that she is definitely cleaner than those low-class black women. At least she has regular physical examinations."
"How did you end up like this?" Earl ignored Tommy's teasing and asked about a topic that concerned him more.
If the other party can present such a sympathetic image, I would not be too repulsive. After all, the other party has a lot of wealth. No one can resist the temptation of an older wealthy woman, not even a lawyer.
Tommy picked up the cigar and threw one to Earl: "She hopes to get half of the inheritance, and the other five children of her ex-husband will share the other half. To achieve this, she is willing to do anything, such as making herself look like a poor, desperate poor person in the short term."
"I need more specifics."
"I asked Sean to persuade her to disband the legal team responsible for fighting for her inheritance on the grounds of insufficient financial resources. And you will provide her with legal assistance for free."
"Didn't you just say that she had accumulated about two to three million in private property during her marriage to her ex-husband over the years?"
"She felt that her husband would not want to see her quarreling with his children, and she was kind and those children were like her own children, so she chose to give up. But at the same time, she felt very disappointed, so she donated her assets to the American Children's and Women's Legal Defense Fund, hoping that there would be no more tragic stories like hers where her husband died and she was immediately kicked out by her non-biological children. Yes, so she has nothing now."
"Why would she trust Sean and willingly donate all her wealth?"
"Because of me." Tommy looked at Earl and said lightly:
"Because I asked the chairman of the board of directors of the New World Foundation, the chairman of the board of directors of the American Children and Women's Legal Defense Fund, and Hillary Clinton, who was ranked fourth in the United States as the most powerful lawyer in 1987 by American Lawyer magazine, to personally call her and tell her that I would help her get the wealth she deserves."
When Earl heard the name, he immediately reacted: "My free aid is just a warm-up, right? And it is unlikely to be the climax of the inheritance dispute."
"Yes, the free assistance you provided to her was when the ownership of the club was unclear. She asked her current husband to pre-sell tickets. Her husband would privately sell tickets for the home games of the Los Angeles Rams next season. The five children would soon discover this problem and seize the opportunity to send their stepmother and her mistress to prison. You and the Leaping Race organization need to portray her as a victim of persecution, a stepmother who has withdrawn from the inheritance dispute and just wants to sell the last part of the tickets for profit and live in a different city, but is killed by the cruel and vicious children of her ex-husband." Tommy looked at Earl:
"She is black, she is a woman, and she is being persecuted. As long as the trend starts, Ms. Hillary will naturally intervene and provide legal assistance to this poor widow. Until now, she has never lost a lawsuit involving women's rights."
"You are really a friend of black people, Tommy. You help older black women fight for their family property and introduce them to young black boyfriends." After listening to this, Earl grinned and teased.
Tommy also laughed: "If you don't want to, I will introduce Martin to her. To be honest, Martin is much stronger than you."
"Of course I would, as long as she can accept a sexless marriage and doesn't object to me going out to solve my physical problems," Earl said frankly.
"You have no objection to her fooling around, and she won't object to you fooling around. You are two kind black men and women, the most perfect and ideal combination."
"When does it begin?"
Tommy took out a business card and handed it to Earl: "You can drive her to your house now, because she has moved out of her ex-husband's house and is homeless."
