For what it’s worth, it turns out that EdenPure heaters and Select Comfort mattresses weren't legendary radio host Paul Harvey's only sponsors.

According to a recent story in the Washington Post, Harvey enjoyed a 20-year friendship with FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover who supplied scoops and favors in return for his support.

Harvey wasn’t the only journalist Hoover cultivated a warm relationship with. Renowned columnist Walter Winchell was also granted special treatment. (Winchell features prominently in my Playboy screenplay as mentor to pitcher Bo Belinsky).

In one scene, Belinsky spends a day at the races in '63 at Del Mar, sharing a box with Hoover and Winchell. "With those two on your side, you could do about anything — which I did."

And now you know the rest of the story.