149 - OJ Simpson

Timesuck with Dan Cummins

Dan Cummins

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4.7 • 21.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2019

⏱️ 151 minutes

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OJ Simpson. It's been twenty-five years since his *alleged* murder of Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman. You've heard about the murders. You've heard about the trial. But how much do you really know about "The Juice"? We dive deep today on the life of OJ and look into his childhood, football playing days, acting career and more to establish just why his trial was so shocking. Feel the Heat album Link: https://bit.ly/2WVJuax Donating $2600 this month: 100+ Abandoned Dogs of Everglades Florida Rescuehttp://100plusabandoneddogsofevergladesflorida.org/ Come to my standup special taping at Crofoot in Detroit on Friday, October 18th. Two shows! First is at 6:30PM: https://bit.ly/2N3E1tP Second show is at 9PM: https://bit.ly/2FoADU6 Happy Murder Tour Standup dates: (full calendar at http://dancummins.tv) July 26-27 Cincinnati, OH West Liberty Funnybone CLICK HERE for tix! August 1-3 Charlotte, NC The Comedy Zone CLICK HERE for tix! August 4 Richmond, VA The Funny Bone CLICK HERE for tix! August 9-10 Orlando, FL The Improv CLICK HERE for tix! *** LIVE TIMESUCK *** August 11th - Orlando, FL The Improve CLICK HERE for tix! Listen to the best of my standup on Spotify! (for free!) https://spoti.fi/2Dyy41d Timesuck is brought to you by the following sponsors: MVMT Get 15% off today w/FREE SHIPPING & FREE RETURNS http://mvmt.com/timesuck The Great Courses Plus! Get an all-access trial, for FREE, with thegreatcoursesplus.com/TIMESUCK Watch the Suck on Youtube: https://youtu.be/o9zyaexmfdo Merch - https://badmagicmerch.com/ Want to try out Discord!?! https://discord.gg/tqzH89v Want to join the Cult of the Curious private Facebook Group? Go directly to Facebook and search for "Cult of the Curious" in order to locate whatever current page hasn't been put in FB Jail :) For all merch related questions: https://badmagicmerch.com/pages/contact Please rate and subscribe on iTunes and elsewhere and follow the suck on social media!! @timesuckpodcast on IG, @timesuckpodcast on Twitter, and http://www.facebook.com/timesuckpodcast Wanna become a Space Lizard? We're almost 5000 strong! Click here: https://www.patreon.com/timesuckpodcast Sign up through Patreon and for $5 a month you get to listen to the Secret Suck, which will drop Thursdays at Noon, PST. You'll also get 20% off of all regular Timesuck merch PLUS access to exclusive Space Lizard merch. You get to vote on two Monday topics each month via the app. And you get the download link for my new comedy album, Feel the Heat. Check the Patreon posts to find out how to download the new album and take advantage of other benefits.

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0:00.0	OJ Simpson, a man whose trial for the killings of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman has been
0:04.6	covered to death, pun, not intended actually. Especially this summer, this past June was the 25th
0:11.0	anniversary of the double homicide and everyone's talking about OJ and the infamous murder trial all
0:15.4	over again. So why also cover it here on time suck? Well, despite the immenseness of the coverage,
0:21.3	the totality of facts and speculation that has been scrutinized over and over by one legal expert
0:26.3	after another, I'm still fascinated. I still want to know more. I'm still curious about the tale
0:31.6	of OJ, the juice Simpson. Also, the overwhelming majority of the coverage of OJ revolves almost
0:37.4	exclusively around the murders and the trial, but there's so much more to this story. I wanted to
0:42.1	know more about the man and I learned a lot this week. Why did this trial become so famous? Not to
0:47.3	be callous, but a lot of people get murdered in America every year. Generally, over 15,000 people
0:53.3	are murdered every year in the United States. So why did the murders of Nicole and Ron get so
0:58.5	much attention in a word, fame, but it's about even more than that. The OJ trial became famous in
1:05.2	part because people generally aren't murdered or aren't accused of being murdered by someone even
1:10.8	in the ballpark of being as famous as OJ Simpson. I can't stress this enough in this episode. OJ was
1:17.3	really, really super duper famous before the murder trial. He was one of the greatest running
1:23.1	backs in the history of the NFL, one of college football's greatest ever athletes. And out of America's
1:28.9	best athletes, no one had successfully navigated into a film, TV, and commercial endorsement deal
1:33.9	career quite like OJ had. Another running back, Jim Brown would appear in far more films in OJ,
1:39.8	but he wasn't in America's face nearly as often as OJ. His exposure not nearly as prevalent.
1:46.7	And OJ was more accessible to why America than Jim was. Jim played tough guys on screen.
1:52.0	Why America was scared of a tough black man. OJ was the picture of likability. Strong,
1:57.2	yet harmless, much more comedic than Brown. He seemed ironically so safe.
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