Have you seen the new documentary about OJ Simpson, the ESPN documentary?

If you haven't seen it, it's amazing. It's not only about OJ Simpson, but it's also about

American culture and what it was like in the 60s and 70s and 80s regarding

black, white relations and politics. It just involves so many different things, the law.

And it comes on the heels of a pretty good mini-series on FX about the OJ Simpson trial,

if I could get what it's called American Crime Story or something. I thought it was a little

cheesy at times, but I thought it was also quite gripping. You have to take it with a grain of

salt, this recreation, the mini-series on FX because of course the writers are interpreting things

and taking things out and that kind of stuff. But from what I understand, it seemed like a fairly

accurate picture of what might have happened during the trial. So after watching these two

incredible TV experiences for lack of a better term, I have just been obsessed with the OJ

Simpson case. It was alive in an adult in the 90s and experienced the whole OJ Simpson thing

as an American, but I didn't follow it. It was something that I heard about and people I could,

I heard people talking about it, but I never really looked into it. So this is really the first time

I've ever learned the details about it and I just find it fascinating. Plus I received a lot of

emails from patrons asking me to do an episode about OJ because of these two mini-series

documentaries that have come out. So here we are and this is what I'm going to talk about today.

I'm going to dive deep into the topic. I'm going to talk about some of the history and I'm going to

talk about possible psychological factors behind the behaviors exhibited by OJ Simpson.

This is the psychology and Seattle podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Kirk Honda. I am chair of the

couple and family therapy program at Antioch University, Seattle, and I'm also a licensed

marriage of family therapists. Before I go any further, I have to say that all of my facts

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