The Death Of Bob Saget - YouTube
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Hey everybody. Uh, welcome to another episode of the podcast. So, we are about I don't know two and a half months away from the 4-year anniversary of the death of Bob Saget, but we are exactly four years removed from when he predicted his own death and in the manner that it was going to happen. And it's on video and I'm going to show it to you in a bit.
But let's go back to Saturday, January 8th, 2022. 8:30 to 10:30 p.m. Bob Saget performs a two-hour stand-up comedy set at the Ponte Vedra Concert Hall near Jacksonville, Florida. Audience members noted he seemed happy and in great spirits, telling his usual foul-mouthed jokes. At approximately 10:30 p.m. onward after the show, Bob Saga chats with staff and a promoter for about an hour and a half.
and a production coordinator stated he seemed perfectly fine. Approximately 1:00 a.m. on January 9th, Bob Saget posted on social media from his rental car, reflecting on his show and expressing his appreciation for the audience. About 2 a.m., he arrives at the Ritz Carlton Orlando Grand Lakes. He appears in a selfie with a valet employee who later tells police that Saget seemed fine and was not slurring his words.
Bob arrived at this hotel, right? He's done this comedy gig. It's 2 hours away. Long drive. The valet Orlando Nunes recognized him, asked for the photo. Bob was more than willing to oblige despite the fact it was past 2 a.m. Probably super tired. And Nunes told authorities, "I didn't see any injuries.
He didn't seem hurt. He wasn't slurring his words. He was exactly as I remembered while watching him on the TV as a child." His 21-year-old valet said he chit chatted with Bob for a couple minutes and then Bob walked inside and Nunes parked his car. Nunes said there was no damage to the vehicle, ruling out some kind of car accident.
There's no evidence of any bruising from the photo, but when his body was discovered that afternoon, first responders saw a bruise under his eye. This is a good time to remind you to go look at the Celebrity Black Eye Club video. 2:17 a.m. Hotel security footage shows Bob Saget entering his room 962 on the 9th floor.
He places a do not disturb sign on the floor on the door. He was alone and showed no signs of distress. Sometime after 2:17 in the morning, Bomb Saget suffers an unwitnessed accidental fall that resulted in fatal head trauma. Authorities could not figure out where he hit his head. They came up with story after story after story.
The final one I'll get to towards the end. But at this point in time, they said, "Okay, well, maybe in the hotel bathroom before stumbling into bed, where he later lost consciousness." 4 a.m. is considered by the medical examiner as the time of death. So, on the morning of January 9th, Bob Saget's family attempted to contact him after his performance, but he doesn't answer. And then about 400 p.m.
growing concern, Bob Saget's family asked hotel security to perform a welfare check. A security employee enters the room and finds Saget unresponsive in his bed with no pulse. They waited a long time to check on him. 400 p.m. And that's kind of important when you when we get to something else. They waited all the way until 4 p.m.
And just after 400 p.m. the Orange County Sheriff's Department receives a man down call and responds to the hotel. They pronounced Bob Saget dead at the scene. An autopsy later confirmed Bob Saget's death was caused by bluntforce head trauma. Investigators found no evidence of foul play or drug use. The connecting door between Bob Saget's hotel suite and an adjacent one was found to be unlocked when authorities performed the wellbeing check.
His own suite door, however, was latched from the inside, requiring a hotel maintenance worker to open it. Now, with this connecting door, yes, it was found unlocked, which has that ever happened to you? Probably not. But records showed no one had been in the adjacent room for 2 days prior. We'll get to more on that in a second.
But his door was locked from the inside, which is why maintenance had to open it for the well-being check. And the police, you know, they investigated it. They had no definitive conclusion. Reached as how the actor hid his head in the Florida hotel room. The Orange County Sheriff's Office final report to the public said, "Well, here's our theory.
The bomb saget fell backward and hit his head on a carpeted floor. Now we're on a carpeted floor, not the bathroom floor, but carpeted floor in his suite causing blunt head trauma. Could be plausible." The Oyela County's chief medical examiner, Dr. Joshua Stephanie conducted Saget's autopsy said the fracture at the base of his skull was most likely caused by something hard covered by something soft. Okay.
Now, a forensic pathologist, Dr. Judy Melanic, reviewed the report said, you know, the absence of a laceration to the back of the head suggests a hard, unsupported fall onto something hard covered with something soft like the carpeted floor. Had he fallen onto the hard wooden floor or the bathroom marble tile, I'd expect a laceration to the scalp.
So, he's just slipping on carpet. Now, you'll see in the photos that are popping up while I'm talking that there is a towel or something in the in the tub. So, it does look like he availed himself of a shower. Okay. And look, if they found him, you know, on the the marble floor there in the bathroom, I could see him getting out of there slipping.
It's 3:00 in the morning or whatever it is, I could see that. But then, like Dr. Melanick said, oh, you'd have you'd have a laceration to the scalp because it's stone, right? It's it's not something soft over something hard. But the entire room, the hotel room itself is all completely carpeted. So, you're going to just slip on a carpeted floor? According to the police, there were no signs of blood anywhere on the bed where Saget was found or anywhere else in the suite.
Investigators determined Saget must have fallen when he returned to his hotel room. You know, the the actor could have he drove about two hours. They said he couldn't have done that if he sustained such a severe head injury prior. You know, the valet again said, "Oh, he's looking good. No evidence of injury." But then the sheriff's office contradicted themselves because there was all these, you know, obviously a lot of media and stuff.
And the sheriff of Orange County at the time, John Mina, gave an interview and said that although the injuries were severe, there were no signs of struggle and said, "We do not believe he was struck by anything." And he said that Saget's injuries were likely from a fall where he hit the back of a head on a flat surface such as a bathroom floor.
Well, a bathroom floor is not something soft with something hard behind it. It's just completely hard. Now, the autopsy report also revealed that Bob Saga tested positive for COVID. Though the officer in the autopsy report did not say CO played a role in his death. The fractures around Bob Sak Bob Saget's eye sockets and bleeding around his brain were possibly caused by the comedian hitting again something hard covered by something soft such as a carpeted floor.
When Saget's cause of death was announced, some wondered how he could have gone to sleep thinking nothing of such a severe injury. One medical expert told the New York Times, not the National Inquirer, anything like that, told the New York Times the skull fracture were was consistent with someone with a baseball bat to the head or someone who has fallen from 20 or 30 feet.
Don't forget about that unlocked connecting door. What about that unlocked connecting door? Well, police ruled out any possibility of foul play, but investigators said, "Yeah, we noticed the interior door between his room and the adjoining room was unlocked." And a retired police lieutenant, Lisa Dadio, said the unlocked door is something that stands out.
And she believed though that the de detectives did do a thorough job investigating. She read the full report, said the report was very detailed, stating what was done by the main investigator along the way. Investigators gave a detailed account of lock interrogation reports from both rooms.
The adjoining room was vacant during Bob Saget's day with no activity occurring from January 7th, 2022 at 2:36 p.m. probably when somebody checked out until housekeeping entered at 3:09 p.m. on January 9th, 2022. You guys, that was 51 minutes before he was found. Why was housekeeping in the room next door at 3:09 p.m. on January 9th? Why were they in there? They had been in there 2 days prior, right? Cleaning the room.
Yet, they're in there 51 minutes. That's when they choose to go in there. Do you think maybe somebody called and said, "Hey, it's time for me to get out of here." Oh, let me open up the door. You leave. That is the most bizarre coincidence ever. But it should be noted that the lock interrogation reports show not only the times that the door was opened from the outside using a key, but also anytime the door was open from the inside.
Okay? And you know what? They did a really good job with Bob Saget's room. They didn't do so much with the other room. They said, "According to this report, from the time Mr. Saget entered his room at 21:17 in the morning of January 9th. No one entered or left his room until security entered that afternoon at the request of his fami
ly at 400 p.m. 51 minutes after housekeeping opened up the other door, the adjoining room door, the one that was unlocked into Bob Saget's room. Now, the chief medical examiner said, "Look, had he been with people at the time, they would have noticed confusion, balance, or andor slurred speech. The autopsy again didn't pinpoint a location for Saget's fall, but the chief medical examiner said it would have been impossible with that type of injury for Saget to make a 2-hour drive from the Jacksonville area to Orlando.
I agree with that. And the medical examiner concluded after the autopsy that Saget died from an accidental blow to the head, likely from a backwards fall. Everybody seems pretty consistent with this backwards fall thing. But then remember, the investigators found no evidence of struggle, foul play, or signs that anyone else had been in his suite.
Although, if you've been looking at these pictures, it doesn't look like he was even really staying in the suite. The report ruled out countertops, tables, and nightstands in the hotel room since those all had hard surfaces. It noted that most of the hotel suite was carpeted and that the headboard of the bed was lightly padded, listing the two items as possible mechanisms of injury.
Okay, now I want you to watch this video. This is the one I teased at the beginning. It's not long, 20 seconds, something like that. And actually, the prediction that he does is at the end of the 20 seconds. But like I said, it was in October of 2021. And he predicted exactly how he would be found dead and predicted it. Now, okay, so take a take a watch.
You love Big Labowski every day. You could watch Big Labowski four times a day. Godfather, uh, Wayne's World, uh, Godfather 2, Good Fellas, Casinos, Scarface. Um, but so I don't have long to live if these are your favorites. I'm going to be found dead in bed. You better watch out. Um, so now when you think about it, there's no way Bob was injured in the back of the skull after a show, yet made it to his bed after the night without any drugs or alcohol in his system, right? He went on to die with his left arm on his heart while in bed.
Kind of then maybe feels like a heart attack, right? And then they go looking for him. 400 p.m. The amount of reported skull and brain trauma do not match any type of accidental fall in the hotel room, bathroom, or otherwise. The autopsy noted fractures around the orbits of the eyes and both sides of the brain with significant bleeding.
Think about this for a second, you guys. And hopefully I have the headboard photo up and I probably have it again in case I don't. I'll just pause it. But even if he ran full speed, full speed, dove head first into the headboard on the bed, it wouldn't have had that degree of trauma, let alone being able to end up on the bed in a resting position on his back.
Something more happened that's not being investigated. But I want you to think about it because remember they said a baseball bat or somebody who fell from 20 to 30 feet. How do you you you're running at this headboard. can't do it at all. And you would think that Bob Saget's wife, Kelly Rizzo, you know, maybe she would sue the hotel for having an abnormally dangerous headboard on the bed, right? If you look at these pictures, it's all well cushioned. Now, don't be misled.
Sometimes you'll see pictures from the same Ritz Carlton where there's a photo. It's a different room and it has like 25 pillows like you know ornamental pillows above the the ones you would normally sleep on. That's not the case with this. There have been people who stayed in 962 since and you know made videos and things like that.
There's not the 20 extra pillows because if there were then I'd really have some serious questions because I'd be asking where the heck are the pillows because they're nowhere in the room. But they didn't have those. The police, this is what they ended up with. This is their final thing. Okay. Well, here's what we finally finally finally think in our final final final report.
That Bob likely slammed his head on a wooden portion of his hotel headboard and was knocked unconscious. Again, how did that happen? Uh, pause it right here. I know I'm going to have the headboard picture. Take a look, you guys. Does anybody see any wood anywhere? All I see is padding. I see no wooden portion of the hotel headboard.
It's not even one where it's like a the headboard and then underneath there's wood. It's two sections of padded headboard. Besides the fact that his injuries are consistent with a baseball bat to the back of the head or a car crash trauma, his family fought tooth and nail to keep all full autopsy reports and photo sealed. If this was a slip fall and a very hard surface, where's the bloody mess? The room was in perfect order.
You can see it was in perfect order. Experts say that even a fall on ceramic tile wouldn't cause that amount of damage. His skull was crushed and the point of impact was the back of his head. Again, if you told me that he was in the shower or got out on the marble floor and slipped backwards, I'd say okay. But he didn't because he would have lacerations and there would be blood.
You will never be able to convince me in a million years that he slipped on the carpet, fell backwards completely, and then slammed his head without, you know, holding his arm down or anything like that. I could see it. Like I said, if there was this marble floor or whatever, but everybody is, you know, fighting tooth and nail to say it wasn't the marble floor.
It was something hard with something soft on top of it. Did he have a female visitor and then was robbed and murdered? Right. Little female escort, a little middle of the night company. Did he have some kind of drug dealer? I don't think so. Because I'm going to believe that the toxicology reports really didn't show anything.
Because if they did, even though it'd be embarrassing to the family, they could say, "Oh, you know what? You know, he was drunk or whatever. That's what happened. You know, there's just no good theories that except for the fact that somebody did this to him and then slipped out the unlocked door. Somebody had to unlock that door on both sides, right? And then 3:09 p.m.
for whatever reason housekeeping goes into that adjoining room and the family sued. They filed a lawsuit to block the release of records related to his death because quote the family would suffer irreparable harm in the form of extreme mental pain, anguish, and emotional distress if more details about his death investigation are released.
no legitimate public interest would be served by the release or dissemination of the records to the public. They just said, "Oh, you know, he accidentally hit the back of his head on something, thought nothing of it, and went to sleep." I would argue there's so much more to it.
Okay, you guys, that is it for this one. I will talk to you later.
