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Welcome back everybody to the Michael Steele podcast.

I'm here with my friend K.

K. U.S. Special Correspondent for BBC Studios.

We've got some breaking news right here in our podcast.

The word is coming through that O.J. Simpson has died at the age of 76 from cancer. O.J. a polarizing, interesting, complicated figure for quite some time that sort of really put a huge shadow on his illustrious football and movie career

with the murder of his wife and friend back.

What was that about the time you got here to the US?

1994.

It was

his former,

his former wife, Nicole Brown,

and the world was completely gripped by the trial. I mean it was I was living in Tokyo at the time

and even in Japan that news traveled right I mean this was before the days of non-stop 24-hour television, but I remember that white car chate, you know, the car chases,

with the white bronco, I mean, seems that a kind of stamped on my memory and then of course we've all watched the recent TV drama series that kind of brought the whole thing back to life again. And this guy who had been incredibly

popular, well known, and then this trial started and it was complicated and messy and Nicole Brown was white. He was black.

Race came into it, abuse came into it. it was a really messy picture and in the end of course he was acquitted right?

Yeah. Of the murder. Yeah and and that divided the country and divided the country and like anything we've seen at that time, yeah.

It was absolutely amazing and it, you know, in it really in one sense, it's one of those pieces of the cornerstone for a lot of what we see today in politics and media, how stories are covered,

the sort of click-bait nature of it,

even though you didn't have that infrastructure

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