I use his name for another purpose

Chase Carey was the architect of Fox Sports, and, with Murdoch, pried the NFL from CBS.

Chase was one of my two closest friends growing up, and although we lost touch after his father moved the family to New Canaan, I’ve kept an eye on his career. Which is particularly useful when showing modest houses in Riverside, with clients who insist that they need separate bathrooms, with tumbled marble surrounds, for each precious child.

As we pass up Summit Road, I point out the Carey family’s former residence, and explain that Chase, his brother Dougie, a sister whose name I forget, and two parents all lived there, sharing a single bathroom between all five, and a single bedroom for the kids. “Chase managed to grow up to be Rupert Murdoch’s top man”, I say,’ before being lured away to start Direct TV. Last I heard, he was making $50 million a year, plus options”. *

The clients usually still insist on that tumbled marble bathroom for their Little Lord Fauntleroys, but I feel better, knowing that I’ve tried.

*I don’t mention, however, unless I sense that the client is a germophobe, that he also had a practice of finding discarded chewing gum on the side of the road and popping it in his mouth, without any obvious long-term delirious effect.