experiencing the news each day can feel like a journey with up first from npr though it doesn't have to be welcome to 15 easy minutes of breaking news clarity on international and national affairs and a casual tone that you can take in with breakfast begin your day informed ready and refreshed Begin your day with Up First.

Subscribe to Up First from NPR on the IHeart Radio app or wherever you get your podcasts.

This is the best of the Ben Mallor show on Fox Sports Radio.

We begin with Ornthal James Simpson.

The man was granted parole.

Now yesterday we previewed what was going to take place, and now we can do the post-mortem on OJ's day in court in beautiful Love Lock, Nevada.

He served almost nine years of a 33-year sentence on robbery charges.

Now, I gave up sleep to see a good chunk of this.

And I don't know that that was the proper decision.

And there were some highlights.

There were some highlights.

Let's talk about it.

And to give you some flavor, because I would assume that if you're listening to this time period on radio live, not the live on demand version of the show.

If you're listening live, then you likely were not of a comatose state or a awake state, I should say, when this was all going down.

But there were several highlights.

One of them was a rambling, mumbling, and bumbling all over the place.

O.J. Simpson's.

He tried to explain what was a Keystone Cops like memorabilia heist.

After a period of time through what he described in court as a perfect storm,

we all ended up in Las Vegas.

I was there for a wedding,

and he told me that the property was there.

...