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Some moments are meant to be private — but when a hot mic catches you off guard, the world hears your unfiltered thoughts. From politicians to broadcasters, these shocking slip-ups reveal some unforgettable candid confessions, awkward insults, and unexpected humor. Brace yourself for some jaw-dropping behind-the-scenes moments that sparked controversy, laughter, and sometimes serious consequences!
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00:00You know, I'm automatically attracted to beautiful. I just start kissing them. It's like a magnet.
00:04You just kiss them.
00:05Welcome to Ms. Mojo.
00:06And today, we're counting down our picks for the most stunning moments
00:09when somebody was caught live on a hot mic at an inopportune time.
00:13Here it is. You're according.
00:17Hunter College Professor.
00:18A New York City college professor has been placed on leave after a hot mic moment during a public school
00:23meeting.
00:23An eighth grader discussing a possible school closure interrupted.
00:27Allison Friedman, a tenured associate professor at Hunter College in New York City,
00:32made racist remarks during a Zoom meeting, appalling the community.
00:35The comments in question were made during a community education council meeting on Manhattan's west side,
00:40where families conveyed concern about plans by the city to close schools.
00:44Allison Friedman is a tenured biology associate professor here,
00:47and now her employer is reviewing what happened,
00:50explaining that she was on a call as a parent private citizen,
00:53the school issuing a statement describing her comments as abhorrent.
00:56As a black student appealed for her school to be saved from closure,
01:00Dr. Friedman was caught on a hot mic saying,
01:02They're too dumb to know they're in a bad school.
01:05She then continued,
01:06Apparently, Martin Luther King said it.
01:08If you train a black person well enough, they'll know to use the back.
01:12You don't have to tell them anymore.
01:14Allison Friedman, what you're saying is absolutely hearable here.
01:19You've got to stop.
01:24There was a hot mic moment right after we thought we had gone off the air.
01:28And I turned to my co-host Todd Harris, and I said,
01:31That was boring. That was so boring.
01:34Some people are never impressed, even while watching Olympian-level talent.
01:38This was the case for NBC Sports host Todd Richards,
01:41who was expecting a little more from the men's snowboard big air final
01:45and let the entire world know due to a hot mic mishap.
01:48Thinking he was off the air, Richards remarked,
01:51That was boring. That was so boring.
01:53Adding,
01:54The qualifier was way more exciting.
01:56I did think the qualifiers were more exciting.
01:59This had nothing to do with the athletes.
02:01It had everything to do with the drama that went down in the qualifiers.
02:04Briefly after the mistake, Richards, a former Olympic snowboarder
02:08who previously competed in Nagano in 1998,
02:11chose to stick by his evaluation in a video posted to Instagram.
02:15I apologize if anyone took that as I was calling out any of the riders here
02:22because it truly wasn't about that.
02:23These guys are my heroes.
02:25Number 8.
02:26Bush's Major League Mistake
02:28You always want to be underestimated by your adversaries.
02:31He consistently benefited by being underestimated.
02:35During his 2000 electoral campaign,
02:37George W. Bush and his running mate Dick Cheney
02:40were caught on a hot mic lambasting New York Times reporter Adam Clymer.
02:43In a low whisper,
02:45Bush described Clymer as a, quote,
02:47Major League butthole,
02:48except he didn't use the word butt.
02:50George Bush forgot the open mic more than once.
02:52During the 2000 campaign,
02:54he trashed a leading political reporter.
02:57Who's Adam Clymer?
02:58Major League a**hole.
02:59Oh, yeah, yeah.
03:00Cheney responded, quote,
03:02Yeah, big time.
03:03Asked later whether or not he felt Clymer was owed an apology,
03:06Bush did not answer the question directly,
03:09instead stating bluntly that he, quote,
03:11regrets that it made it to the airwaves.
03:12In response,
03:14Clymer himself simply said that he was, quote,
03:16disappointed in the governor's language.
03:18Fluency in English is something that I'm not often,
03:20I'm often not accused of.
03:23It's gotta be me.
03:24It's gotta be you.
03:26Number 7.
03:27NHL's Not Suitable for Work Blunder
03:29Sometimes the Flyers get a sense of urgency
03:32when they're playing from behind.
03:34Now they're gonna take the TV timeout.
03:35We'll take it as well.
03:36Seven gone in the third.
03:38It's 3-2 Buffalo on the Philadelphia Flyers broadcast network.
03:41Despite his 25 years of experience
03:43calling Philadelphia Flyers games,
03:45broadcaster Tim Saunders neglected to check
03:47if he was on air during a third period ad break.
03:50This resulted in him being caught on a hot mic
03:52making a sexual joke to fellow commentator Todd Fedoruk,
03:55to which he responded, quote,
03:57I think we're still on the air, Tim.
03:59Saunders burst out laughing before asking, quote,
04:02no, we're not, are we?
04:03I'm glad you can laugh about it.
04:06That's the best part about this.
04:07I was partners with you, so I, you know,
04:08it's kind of like old hat to me, you know.
04:10That's the best part about this
04:11is that you've laughed about it a lot.
04:13Alas, the answer was yes.
04:15Because of this,
04:16he was given a two-game suspension
04:18and issued a statement
04:19taking responsibility for his remarks.
04:21These aren't on, are they?
04:22Are all these mics on?
04:23These are, they're all, I check now,
04:26everywhere I go.
04:27Number six, Prince Charles' Royal Pain.
04:30A few years back,
04:31during a photo opportunity with his sons,
04:33the Prince of Wales quietly sneered
04:35at the BBC's royal correspondent
04:37for getting those sensitive microphones.
04:40In 2005, over 50 journalists met at Closter's,
04:43a ski resort in Switzerland,
04:45for a photo call observing Prince Charles'
04:47soon approaching wedding to Camilla Parker Bowles.
04:49During the event,
04:51Charles was unable to conceal his disdain,
04:53muttering to his sons, Harry and William,
04:55quote,
04:55I hate doing this.
04:57I hate these people.
04:58Mutters, unfortunately, picked up by his mic.
05:00What have we done wrong?
05:02I'm coming up.
05:04Give me a hand.
05:07You've got it very carefully planned, I see.
05:10When asked by the BBC's royal correspondent
05:12for his feelings on his upcoming marriage,
05:14Charles replied with sarcasm, saying,
05:16quote,
05:16I'm glad you've heard of it.
05:18After this,
05:19he tilted his head towards Harry,
05:21whispering, quote,
05:21Bloody people.
05:22I can't bear that man.
05:23He's so awful.
05:25He really is.
05:26I got better than you.
05:29So, really?
05:31Yes, very much so.
05:32Definitely.
05:32As long as I don't lose the rings,
05:33I'm all right.
05:34Number 5.
05:35Billy Bush and Donald Trump
05:37I said, if you're famous and rich
05:39or whatever I said,
05:40but I said, if you're a star,
05:43you are,
05:44and I said,
05:45women let you.
05:46In 2016,
05:48footage was released of a 2005 discussion
05:50between TV and radio host Billy Bush
05:52and then-presidential candidate Donald Trump,
05:55during which neither man realized his mic was on.
05:57Trump was heard on the tape
05:59making sexual and misogynistic remarks
06:01regarding women,
06:01while Bush laughed alongside him
06:03while on a bus waiting to film
06:04an Access Hollywood episode.
06:06And I moved on her very heavily.
06:08In fact, I took her out furniture shopping.
06:10She wanted to get some furniture.
06:11I said, I'll show you where they have
06:12some nice furniture.
06:13While Billy Bush was dropped by today,
06:16Donald Trump, of course,
06:17became president of the United States.
06:19It just goes to show that
06:20while people may say some shocking things
06:22when they don't think others are listening,
06:24it doesn't always matter
06:25as much as you would think.
06:26Now, they said,
06:27will you take that back?
06:28I said, look,
06:30for a million years,
06:31this is the way it's been.
06:32I want to be honest.
06:34This is the way it's been.
06:35Number four, Jacques Chirac's food review.
06:37He loved France.
06:39He loved farmers.
06:40He adored his region.
06:41He liked to guzzle wine.
06:43He devoured cheese.
06:44He was happy when the air smelled like cow dung.
06:47While awaiting a decision
06:49as to which nation would host the 2012 Olympics,
06:52France's president Jacques Chirac
06:54tucked down to rival country Great Britain
06:56during a private conversation,
06:58chatting with Russian president Vladimir Putin
07:00and German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder,
07:02he stated, quote,
07:03the only thing that they have ever done
07:04for European agriculture is mad cow disease.
07:07He even insulted their food,
07:09continuing, quote,
07:10you cannot trust people who have such bad cuisine.
07:13Right, the most amazing fish and chips,
07:14which is my go-to comfort food,
07:16served with incredible fries
07:17and the most delicious mushy peas.
07:20London got the last laugh
07:21at the end of the day, however,
07:22as they are the ones
07:23who actually ended up hosting the Olympics in 2012.
07:29Yeah, one of the things that, you know,
07:31I did admire about him,
07:33even when I disagreed with him,
07:36is, you know,
07:37he had no hesitation in expressing himself, let's say.
07:40Number three, Obama wants some space.
07:42And President Obama was overheard
07:44giving Medvedev a very candid political assessment
07:47of his ability to deal with the major problems
07:50between the US and Russia.
07:52Following a meeting
07:53with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev
07:55in the lead-up to the 2012 election,
07:57President Barack Obama huddled
07:59with the fellow leader
08:00to faintly continue their talk.
08:01Journalists could overhear Obama
08:03telling Medvedev to afford him, quote,
08:05space regarding missile defense,
08:07stating, quote,
08:08this is my last election.
08:09After my election,
08:10I have more flexibility.
08:12Medvedev replied, quote,
08:13I understand.
08:14I will transmit this information
08:16to Vladimir Putin.
08:17Well, in case you didn't quite gather
08:18what the two were saying to each other.
08:20Obama basically was saying
08:21that he would have much more flexibility
08:22to deal with the missile defense scheme in Europe.
08:25At the time,
08:26the overheard conversation
08:28was used by Obama's Republican rival Mitt Romney
08:30to show that he would, quote,
08:32cave to Russia on missile defense.
08:34This wasn't Obama's first hot mic debacle.
08:36In 2009,
08:38Obama was caught calling rapper Kanye West
08:40a, quote,
08:41jackass following the infamous
08:42MTV Video Music Awards incident.
08:44He's a jackass.
08:52I'm assuming all this stuff.
08:54Where's the pool?
08:55Number two,
08:56Robert Durst confesses.
08:58Being America,
08:59this has all played out on TV.
09:01The documentary series,
09:03The Jinx,
09:04had been investigating Durst.
09:06In 2015,
09:07HBO was in production
09:08on a six-part documentary series
09:10titled The Jinx
09:11about the murders
09:12that real estate heir Robert Durst
09:13was accused of committing.
09:14At the end of the season,
09:16we hear what appears to be
09:17a confession from Durst,
09:19who talks to himself in the bathroom,
09:21unaware that his body mic is still on.
09:23What the hell are you talking about?
09:33Killed them all?
09:35Of course.
09:36Despite being on mic saying he, quote,
09:39killed them all,
09:40there remains some doubt
09:41as to its admissibility in court,
09:42especially given that Durst
09:44was supposedly on crystal meth
09:46when the interview took place.
09:47Excuse me.
09:50So, I want to ask you
09:52about a bunch of photographs and stuff.
09:54Before we unveil our top pick,
09:56here are some honorable mentions.
09:58Jesse Jackson's graphic threat.
10:00Jackson made a crude remark
10:02about Barack Obama
10:03on live television.
10:04Well, Jesse Jackson tonight
10:05has apologized to Senator Obama
10:07for his remarks.
10:08Jackson said he strongly supported
10:10Obama's campaign with what he called
10:12passion from the very beginning.
10:14Mama Gingrich on Hillary Clinton.
10:15Newt Gingrich's mother gave out
10:17his unfiltered Hillary Clinton opinion
10:19while hot mic'd.
10:20They were a little embarrassed
10:21because I decided to react
10:24to what they said about me
10:27without being retaliatory.
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11:03Number 1.
11:04Reagan Outlaws Russia
11:05Signed legislation
11:06that will outlaw Russia forever.
11:09We begin bombing in five minutes.
11:11In August 1984,
11:13at the height of the Cold War,
11:14President Ronald Reagan
11:16gave one of his weekly radio addresses
11:17to the country
11:18from his vacation home
11:19in California.
11:20During a sound check
11:21before the broadcast,
11:22he joked,
11:23quote,
11:23My fellow Americans,
11:24I'm pleased to tell you today
11:25that I've signed legislation
11:27that will outlaw Russia forever.
11:28We begin bombing in five minutes.
11:30It was the joke
11:31heard around the world,
11:32the one by President Reagan
11:33about bombing the Soviet Union
11:34and it resulted
11:35in a Soviet red alert
11:37and it became a campaign issue
11:38in this country.
11:39These remarks
11:40were later leaked
11:41to the public,
11:42becoming world news
11:43despite their joking nature
11:44and were criticized
11:45by both the Soviet Union
11:47and Reagan's political opponents
11:48at the time.
11:49By August 14th,
11:50the story became world news,
11:52a major item on Moscow television
11:54where the joke
11:54was not treated
11:55as a laughing matter.
11:57Did we miss
11:58your favorite moment
11:59where somebody burned themselves
12:00on the hot mic?
12:01Let us know in the comments.
12:02We'll see you in the comments.
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