Rick Sanchez’s Poignant Last Behind The Scenes Video Before Fateful Interview

Here’s something for the morbid out there. During his brief time as the host of Rick’s List, Rick Sanchez released a series of behind the scenes videos on Twitter that showed he and his team putting together the program. The last video, put together hours before the fateful interview that caused him to get fired, is a poignant reminder that, at the bottom of all of this, is the sad story of a man who said some stupid things and lost a job he clearly loved.

In the video we see Sanchez tinkering on the day’s episode, taking happily with his wife over the phone, working on a segment with Brooke Baldwin (who’s now taken over the time slot this week), and discussing how well the show’s been going. Watching it now, one gets the same feeling you get watching a supporting character in an 80s action movie talk about how happy he is to be one day away from retirement and knowing he’s about to get killed by a drug lord or something.

Sanchez’s Twitvids used to be great for showing the human side of a flashy TV show. Now they show the human side of the week’s biggest enormous media scandal.

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