The Lasting Impact of O.J. Simpson: How the Trial Still Impacts Media, Culture, Race & More
3 Martini Lunch – Political Humor & Commentary
Radio America
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Younger Americans may know him only as an accused murderer, if they remember him at all. If you're a bit older, you remember the star athlete, actor, and football commentator who was beloved throughout the nation. It's a fall from grace that Jim and Greg chronicle to explain just how stunning it was that Simpson was accused of murdering ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and Ron Goldman.
From there, Jim and Greg dig into the legal and media circus that played out in the murder trial, on the news, in late night television and beyond. The story engulfed our culture in ways that we still feel today - and not for the better.
Finally, they examine the legacy of O.J. at his death - nearly 30 years after he was accused of two savage murders.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Three Martini lunch. |
| 0:04.7 | Grab a stole next to Greg Carumbus of Radio America and Jim Garrity of National Review. |
| 0:09.4 | Three Martini's coming up. |
| 0:11.6 | Hey glad you're with us for the Thursday edition of the Three Martini lunch. |
| 0:16.8 | So there I was minding my own business trying to find topics for the Thursday edition. |
| 0:21.7 | And then I get an email from Jim Garrity saying let's do all OJ today and I'm thinking well why and then I'm like well there must be a reason so I Google it and yes |
| 0:29.7 | OJ Simpson is dead at the age of 76 after a cancer battle that I was certainly not aware of. |
| 0:36.3 | And so we're going to talk about OJ today in a number of ways. |
| 0:39.7 | One of the reasons we're going to organize it this way is because every American of a certain age I would say probably |
| 0:45.8 | late 30s and older knows of OJ in a significant way if you're that young it's probably just the sensational trial and the downward |
| 0:55.9 | spiraling life that OJ had after that. If you're of our age and certainly older, |
| 1:00.8 | you've got of course his incredibly popular football and media and acting career and so |
| 1:07.6 | Jim I remember about a I don't know about a handful of years maybe a decade after the murder trial with OJ. I had interns who had not understood who OJ was before the trial, |
| 1:18.0 | and then about a decade after that after OJ had been paroled from when he actually was sent to prison for stealing his stuff |
| 1:25.2 | back and with by force by guns if that even was his stuff he got paroled and I said |
| 1:30.8 | oh I bet the interns will just know him as the murderer. |
| 1:33.0 | They didn't know who he was at all because he had been incarcerated for the last several years and he was off the radar. |
| 1:38.0 | So any initial quick thoughts here before we get to why he was so beloved in the first place? |
| 1:43.6 | Well, I think, because for anybody who's like, oh, you know, I hate that guy, killed two people, |
| 1:49.6 | I don't care what the jury said, why are Jim and Greg spending, spending you know the podcast talking about him today |
| 1:54.7 | I think you can make an argument that O.J Simpson was one of the most influential and |
| 1:59.9 | significant Americans in the last quarter of the 20th century, |
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