April 11, 2024 • 21 mins
OJ Simpson is DEAD. Rhynes wants to know where Jeff, Julie, and Grubes were on the night of the Bronco chase!
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Let's begin the show by starting it. Look at us, Hey, look
at us, Look at us.Who would have thought not me? Two
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According to the Tower of the FriendlyEmergency. Your tuner is set to
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ninety seven to one the Freak andthis is the speakeasy worst greetings to one
and all. We are here toedify you in that way that we do
for the next four hours. Weappreciate you being by the channel, no
matter where you are, no matterhow you may be receiving this radio transmission.
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We are glad and very very appreciativethat you are with us, and
we're going to try and make itworth your while. Today I would be
Mike Reiner, and I'm joined thisafternoon by Jeff Cavanaugh, by Julie dodges
Hi and over there at the Helmproducing the show, the man who makes
(01:53):
it all happen. It is Shoopy. Hello, Hello, here we are.
We are locked in, loaded,aerodynamic and ready to roll, ready
to edify you in that way thatwe do. Everybody happy here today?
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, Ijust want to see how this is going
to go, because it's a bigday it's a big day in a couple
of different ways. There is aranger game on behind me, which means
Shoopy is looking right through you.Correct, while we do the show,
Mike is watching. To promise you, I'm not looking right through you.
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I'm taking only occasional, sporadic glancesat it. That's it. And second,
I'd like to dedicate this show,which will be a tough one to
the Simpson family, like Comer andbart No, to all the loved ones
of oj No. O J.Simpson has passed away. I want to
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send my thoughts in press do you? I don't know. It was kind
of weird, like I think waswhat the heisman? Yeah? Twitter,
I'm sorry if I spoiled it.But fine, They're like, we mourn
the loss of O. J.Simpson, Like do we really everybody said
something along the lines of Dewey orgive Reggie Bush his heisman back? Wait,
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you're sending heartfelt things out to aguy who might have killed a couple
of people. But Reggie when hedies isn't going to get a post from
y'all. So thoughts in press tothe Simpsons. My first thing when I
saw that O. J. Simpsonhad tweeted out on April tenth, our
father, Orenthal James Simpson succumbed tohis battle with cancer. He was surrounded
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by his children and grandchildren during thistime of transition. His family asks that
you please respect their wishes for privacyand grace. The Simpson family. My
first thought was, I don't thinkyou're going to get either of those.
No, I don't think you're gonnaget privacy or gery. Yeah. I
think people might talk about it goodthoughts, maybe a little bit rough in
some quarters, but nevertheless, Yeah, saying to respect our privacy is pretty
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standard. I think, Yeah,I'm in grace because you know, yeah,
I mean, I'll respect your privacy, like I'm not going to reach
out right to y'all. I'll respectyour privacy too, But but uh,
your grace allowance expired with me longago. The glove didn't fit, so
like it must occur went to grace. Yeah. Yeah. The only thing
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I could think of was that todayO. J. Simpson can rest easy
knowing that his wife's killer is dead. Yes, get it? Yeah,
yeah, we see what you didthere. Yeah. One thing I've never
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known is can you actually say onthe radio that, like O J.
Simpson killed two people allegedly. Okay, you say that's what you do.
That makes it okay? Yeah,okay, all right, because I hear
people talk about him like man,they're just saying that he's a murderer.
And I'm like, I don't knowif you're allowed elected, I don't know
how that works. I don't know, but it seems like if you put
allegedly, then it's like you canpretty much say anything after Okay, it
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just becomes like our station. Yousay what you want. Yeah, yeah,
yeah, yeah, but who policesthat. The FCC, they're going
to come after us. We're gonnabe like you called O. J.
Simpson a murderer. I'd be like, well, I mean, you know,
I would imagine number one those No, I can't say that. I
was going to say that those guysprobably have a little bit better, a
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few better things to do than worryabout us. But they really don't.
I'm sure they do nothing all daylong every day, so they're probably out
enjoying a nice round of golf,which is probably what they do every day.
He said a couple of weeks ago, that's what he was going to
be doing soon. Yes, likethat, he was healthy, and he
was thinking a couple of weeks he'dget back out of the course, but
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he died. Now he'll get onthat great course in the sky maybe or
down below it's possible. Wow,Oh no, what's fun? I just
I enjoy watching the things that happenonline. I don't think they play golf
down below, by the way,they might. I bet if I bet
if they play golf down below.It's like, uh, is that happy
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Gilmour on the putt putt where youjust can't get it through the f and
clown's mouth. Maybe you let yeah, just eternally never get in the hole.
You just can't make it. Allof your putts a couple of inches
short. You lip out every timeyou hear that every time it doesn't go
in, But put just nothing goesin. You think it would. Then
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you get to about your third misshotand you're like, oh my god,
you realize what's happening. Yeah,you can't get it in. Like what
the clown mouth isn't even on atimer. It just he always shows up.
The one thing I wondered, Itried to look this up, is
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are they still looking years later?Yeah? Because I know, OJ said
he was gonna look, but thenthat kind of petered out on him pretty
quick, I think. But then, if we haven't found anybody guilty of
murdering two people, surely they're stillinvestigating, right, They got the person
still out there, they got tofind him. Well, I have a
pretty good idea of where they shouldlook now, by the funeral home down
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below. Yeah, look at thePutt Putt down below. I wish I
was old enough to see him playfootball, though, I'll tell you that
I wasn't. I've never seen himplay football. I was I've seen highlights.
But he had two thousand yards ina fourteen game season. Are we
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allowed to do that? Are weall to talk about? Man? He
was good at football, though.Separate the art from the artists, Yeah,
separate a little bit. Well,if I can do that, then
okay? Was he a good footballplayer? Like? He was about the
best there was back then? Yeah, the best at his position. And
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he wasn't really big, you know, one really real physical guy, but
he was fast, he had moves, and he was singular for his time.
I mean, anybody who could comeinto the NFL with a bad team
and do what he did then thatthat kind of tells you all you need
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to know about how good he wasand the kind of player he was.
I don't know if the word isadmire but I something his confidence. Could
you imagine what would your life looklike if you probably murdered two people and
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got away with it, Like,what do you think you would do next?
Because I really try to steal stufffor what happened, Because his plan,
Yeah, his plan was after gettingaway with that to do some armed
robbery and then after trouble, aftergetting in trouble for that to be just
such a public person on the internetand on Twitter. Yeah, And I
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just don't think I would have takenthe same route after after whatever whatever that
was in ninety seven, I feltlike you wouldn't have heard from me a
lot. I've probably been like,you know what, I'm just gonna be
over here. Yeah. I thinkI'd kind of go underground and keep a
very very low profile and put ona wig and a fake mustache and glasses
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anytime I went out. Yeah,Bobby Valentine, Yeah yeah, yeah.
Yeah. He kept doing the Twitterworld thing too, like he was just
a oblivious to the fact that everyonewas laughing at him every time he did
the Twitter world thing. All.I guarantee you he thought everybody was supportive
of him. Yeah, I don'tthink. Well, he might have.
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He had a lot of confidence.He might he Uh. He did some
funny interviews like I don't even knowwhere they're from. You know, people
just post little clips. And oneof them is some interview with some lady.
I have no idea what it is, and she's like, did you
do it? And like he does. If you've ever seen an amateur detective
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movie where they're like, if youlook up into the right, you're lying,
and like she's like you do it, He's like no, He's kind
of smiling and blinking and looking away. No. And then apparently he pulled
a prank on her when it wasover where she opened a door and he's
holding a knife and goes to herit's on the internet. Could he do
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it too? I don't know,O J. Simpson. He shouldn't do
that interview fake stab, you knowwhat, Julie? I agree? Right,
come on, man, I don'tknow who it is, but here
I'm gonna clickle it and can showyou because I have no idea what it
is. And maybe we're just reallygood at AI and I've been fooled.
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I don't know. Oh, oh, I'm not plugged in. Okay,
just here's this is the lady talkingand he shoves the door. No,
oh, my gosh, I sawsome crazy in his eye too when he
was doing that. All the wayfrom here he found he wrote a book
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and said if I did it,and I bought that book, but I
never read it. But you sawa lot of crazy in his eye.
So there is one thing I wantto know, what man? That is?
Oh, you want one? Youcan't say, I'll know when you
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said the one thing you want toknow? You called for the Paul all
right, trying to delay it togive you the out ran away. What's
on mixmine to day. Mike's mindis fueled by Celsius Essential Energy drinks.
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What I want to know is whereyou guys were that night that the Bronco
ran from the police through the streetsof Los Angeles. Where were you?
How old were you, What wereyou doing, What were your parental units
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doing, if that applies, whatwere you thinking? And what were you
talking about with your friends about allthis? Gosh, my parents listened a
lot, so they might know whereI was during the Bronco Chase that I
don't remember, like I remember whereI was when the verdict was read.
I remember that because that was whatninety seven. So I was thirteen,
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and I remember from what I hadkept up with in the trial, which
wasn't much. I just knew itwas a really big thing, but that
it sure seemed like this really famousguy killed a couple of people. And
then they read not guilty, andsomehow at thirteen, I still didn't know
much about much because I'm slow onthe uptake, and so when they said
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that, I was like, wow, I thought he did. But in
my mind, if a Jerry acquittedyou, that meant that you factually like
he didn't do it. I waslike, wow, I was wrong.
I thought he did. It turnedout he didn't kill anybody. And I
thought that, yeah, that ifa court ruled it, that that is
absolutely what happened. And so Iwas like, wow, I really thought
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he did, and I was surprisedthat it turned out he didn't kill anyone.
Either of you two remember Bronco night. I don't remember the night.
I remember definitely the trial because itfelt like it went on forever, especially
when you're a kid. Time tendsto feel a little bit longer. But
you know, I remember hearing thedifferent jokes about the trial and all that,
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but I don't specifically remember the Broncochase. Man, that was the
most one of the most exciting thingsI have ever seen on TV. Oh
yeah, yeah, I'm watching itright now. It was all live,
all in the moment, and youjust knew that any at any turn,
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something was gonna happen. He waseither gonna hit somebody, or they were
gonna put up a blockade and theywere gonna trap him or catch him or
something like that. And none ofthat ever happened. It just went on
and on and on. And thelonger it went. I don't know if
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it was this way for everybody whosaw it, but the longer it went,
the more into it I got,and the more rivetted to it I
became. Now, I was ofan age back then where you know something
like that happens, you know what'sgoing on, and that's what you do.
But man, it was one ofthe most incredible and yeah, I'll
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say it, exciting spectacles I've everseen on television. More exciting than watching
him play football. Yeah, ohyeah, of course, Oh yeah,
could you imagine, I could youimagine if like there was social media back
then? Oh, man, likeduring the Bronco chase, Dallas Texas TV
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over that. But during the trial, if we were just everybody was on
Twitter debating that OJ trial, Oh, it would have been incredible. Yeah,
Dallas take his TV. Would haveprobably found a way to get between
the Bronco and the cops that werechasing him. Why could the cops not
get him? But Bronco was goingthat fast. I don't know if it
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was going that fast, not thatmuch ahead of them, and they're all
just lagging behind. It's because ofwhat was going on in this great land
of ours at that time. Thepolice knew huh that everybody was watching them,
huh. So they had to playthis as straight up as they possibly
could, you know. So itwas like a chase, but not a
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chase. It was kind of likea chase, but let's not play too
rough, right. I'm sure theinstincts of every cop in that chase would
were to let's do whatever we cando, whatever we have to do,
keep them stop this. Yeah,yeah, just stay on his tail.
But they don't actually know what todo if they were to get to him
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or he was gonna shoot himself,right, Yeah, yeah, they were
worried about that too. Yeah.So I was nine, like when all
this went down, it was ninetyfour. Yeah, so I remember it
being a thing, but I wasby no means glued to the TV and
following along. And if I knowmy mom, she was probably trying to
protect me from the whole story andnot let me know that this person allegedly
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murdered his wife. I didn't atnine years old. You don't know that
that's a thing. No, youdon't. And if it was my kids
now, I would probably protect themfrom that situation, be like, don't
look, like, don't look atthe TV, don't listen, because you
don't want your kids to think aboutthe fact that humans even kill other humans,
let alone married people killing their spousalunit. Yes, yes, agly
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allegedly good safe. Yeah, criminally, he did not kill them civilly he
did. Geez crazy. It wasone of maybe the most incredible television spectacle
that certainly that we ever had untilnine to eleven came along. Now nine
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to eleven might have won uped it, but still it was. You couldn't
turn it off. You couldn't walkaway from it. You just had to
stay. Yeah. I think thething that I hate the most about O.
J. Simpson is that without him, maybe we don't have the Kardashians,
maybe because he might be close deadwell, well, because there Robert
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Kardashian was one of the attorneys inthe trial, which lent that name a
little bit of weight. So thenwhen Kim did the oral thing, don't
I don't know how they got sofamous, Yeah, but that plays so
much that that name was known fromthe trial. Yes, that was the
gateway for the for them. Yeah, and then she had some fun with
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a random rapper and then somehow thatvaulted their family to billionaire status everywhere.
I don't know. Very confusing,but it's true. It doesn't happen without
Robert Kardashian. Well, and thereare rumors that Chloe was a fun baby
Chris and o J. Yess yes, there are. She does kind of
look like it's possible allegedly. JustMy favorite tweet of the day that I've
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seen a lot of people shared isjust poor Chloe today. She lost her
dad, which is probably not true, probably her other dad what former dad.
Caitlin tweeted good riddance. Okay,yeah, I did see that,
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and I'm sure a lot of peoplefeel that way. I just I just
fired off. So y'all think hedid it or what? Just to watch
people that worked out for you,people went crazy. It's fun to watch.
I what was the last thing thatyou just said, Julie, because
it made me think of something thatI forgot it. I was talking about
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Chloe Chloe, because yeah, thatdid. Oh goodness, whoa, whoa,
Holy here we are there there,look at him. That's a nice
rug in the rooms to go loud. I'm moving on up in the world.
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Sorry, Caitlin. Yeah, I'mlooking for I'm looking for guidance from
our transgender listeners if you could sendin a talkback, because, like you
said, her dad, but heis obviously transitioned to being a female,
which is now she what do youhow do you say that? Is that
her dad? Is that her formerdad? I think as she was growing
up he was like he was Brucethat whole time, right, But now
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is he her dad? Is sheher dad? Because she did make him?
I think she's you have to answerthis. I think now she's her
mom, second mom, they're bothmom so they got two moms working.
Huh. Okay, yeah, I'mjust trying to give a square away.
I think I think that's what Caitlynwould prefer. But Kaitlyn's like pretty down
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with whatever. Man Like, Caitlyndoesn't get too worked up about it all.
What I understand, She's just livingher truth. Yeah. I think
she is probably a very interesting personbecause she seems to not align with the
thinking of what you would picture someonewho has transitioned would think. Yeah,
about lots of things. He's likea big Trump person. Yeah, there's
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a lot there. I don't know, man, I don't know, man,
all right, I don't know,man, I'll remember. Okay,
Well, we're off and running.Coming up next time for the sports desk,
Julie. Where we're going. Thingsare still very hot here in DFW
sports. And I just got tosay, probably MVP. Ah yes,
I saw that word today.
Let's begin the show by starting it. Look at us, Hey, look
at us, Look at us.Who would have thought not me? Two
(00:44):
o five It is our time,five minutes past two pm Central daylight time.
According to the Tower of the FriendlyEmergency. Your tuner is set to
(01:07):
ninety seven to one the Freak andthis is the speakeasy worst greetings to one
and all. We are here toedify you in that way that we do
for the next four hours. Weappreciate you being by the channel, no
matter where you are, no matterhow you may be receiving this radio transmission.
(01:30):
We are glad and very very appreciativethat you are with us, and
we're going to try and make itworth your while. Today I would be
Mike Reiner, and I'm joined thisafternoon by Jeff Cavanaugh, by Julie dodges
Hi and over there at the Helmproducing the show, the man who makes
(01:53):
it all happen. It is Shoopy. Hello, Hello, here we are.
We are locked in, loaded,aerodynamic and ready to roll, ready
to edify you in that way thatwe do. Everybody happy here today?
(02:15):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Ijust want to see how this is going
to go, because it's a bigday it's a big day in a couple
of different ways. There is aranger game on behind me, which means
Shoopy is looking right through you.Correct, while we do the show,
Mike is watching. To promise you, I'm not looking right through you.
(02:38):
I'm taking only occasional, sporadic glancesat it. That's it. And second,
I'd like to dedicate this show,which will be a tough one to
the Simpson family, like Comer andbart No, to all the loved ones
of oj No. O J.Simpson has passed away. I want to
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send my thoughts in press do you? I don't know. It was kind
of weird, like I think waswhat the heisman? Yeah? Twitter,
I'm sorry if I spoiled it.But fine, They're like, we mourn
the loss of O. J.Simpson, Like do we really everybody said
something along the lines of Dewey orgive Reggie Bush his heisman back? Wait,
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you're sending heartfelt things out to aguy who might have killed a couple
of people. But Reggie when hedies isn't going to get a post from
y'all. So thoughts in press tothe Simpsons. My first thing when I
saw that O. J. Simpsonhad tweeted out on April tenth, our
father, Orenthal James Simpson succumbed tohis battle with cancer. He was surrounded
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by his children and grandchildren during thistime of transition. His family asks that
you please respect their wishes for privacyand grace. The Simpson family. My
first thought was, I don't thinkyou're going to get either of those.
No, I don't think you're gonnaget privacy or gery. Yeah. I
think people might talk about it goodthoughts, maybe a little bit rough in
some quarters, but nevertheless, Yeah, saying to respect our privacy is pretty
(04:11):
standard. I think, Yeah,I'm in grace because you know, yeah,
I mean, I'll respect your privacy, like I'm not going to reach
out right to y'all. I'll respectyour privacy too, But but uh,
your grace allowance expired with me longago. The glove didn't fit, so
like it must occur went to grace. Yeah. Yeah. The only thing
(04:34):
I could think of was that todayO. J. Simpson can rest easy
knowing that his wife's killer is dead. Yes, get it? Yeah,
yeah, we see what you didthere. Yeah. One thing I've never
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known is can you actually say onthe radio that, like O J.
Simpson killed two people allegedly. Okay, you say that's what you do.
That makes it okay? Yeah,okay, all right, because I hear
people talk about him like man,they're just saying that he's a murderer.
And I'm like, I don't knowif you're allowed elected, I don't know
how that works. I don't know, but it seems like if you put
allegedly, then it's like you canpretty much say anything after Okay, it
(05:15):
just becomes like our station. Yousay what you want. Yeah, yeah,
yeah, yeah, but who policesthat. The FCC, they're going
to come after us. We're gonnabe like you called O. J.
Simpson a murderer. I'd be like, well, I mean, you know,
I would imagine number one those No, I can't say that. I
was going to say that those guysprobably have a little bit better, a
(05:36):
few better things to do than worryabout us. But they really don't.
I'm sure they do nothing all daylong every day, so they're probably out
enjoying a nice round of golf,which is probably what they do every day.
He said a couple of weeks ago, that's what he was going to
be doing soon. Yes, likethat, he was healthy, and he
was thinking a couple of weeks he'dget back out of the course, but
(05:57):
he died. Now he'll get onthat great course in the sky maybe or
down below it's possible. Wow,Oh no, what's fun? I just
I enjoy watching the things that happenonline. I don't think they play golf
down below, by the way,they might. I bet if I bet
if they play golf down below.It's like, uh, is that happy
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Gilmour on the putt putt where youjust can't get it through the f and
clown's mouth. Maybe you let yeah, just eternally never get in the hole.
You just can't make it. Allof your putts a couple of inches
short. You lip out every timeyou hear that every time it doesn't go
in, But put just nothing goesin. You think it would. Then
(06:48):
you get to about your third misshotand you're like, oh my god,
you realize what's happening. Yeah,you can't get it in. Like what
the clown mouth isn't even on atimer. It just he always shows up.
The one thing I wondered, Itried to look this up, is
(07:11):
are they still looking years later?Yeah? Because I know, OJ said
he was gonna look, but thenthat kind of petered out on him pretty
quick, I think. But then, if we haven't found anybody guilty of
murdering two people, surely they're stillinvestigating, right, They got the person
still out there, they got tofind him. Well, I have a
pretty good idea of where they shouldlook now, by the funeral home down
(07:39):
below. Yeah, look at thePutt Putt down below. I wish I
was old enough to see him playfootball, though, I'll tell you that
I wasn't. I've never seen himplay football. I was I've seen highlights.
But he had two thousand yards ina fourteen game season. Are we
(08:01):
allowed to do that? Are weall to talk about? Man? He
was good at football, though.Separate the art from the artists, Yeah,
separate a little bit. Well,if I can do that, then
okay? Was he a good footballplayer? Like? He was about the
best there was back then? Yeah, the best at his position. And
(08:22):
he wasn't really big, you know, one really real physical guy, but
he was fast, he had moves, and he was singular for his time.
I mean, anybody who could comeinto the NFL with a bad team
and do what he did then thatthat kind of tells you all you need
(08:46):
to know about how good he wasand the kind of player he was.
I don't know if the word isadmire but I something his confidence. Could
you imagine what would your life looklike if you probably murdered two people and
(09:07):
got away with it, Like,what do you think you would do next?
Because I really try to steal stufffor what happened, Because his plan,
Yeah, his plan was after gettingaway with that to do some armed
robbery and then after trouble, aftergetting in trouble for that to be just
such a public person on the internetand on Twitter. Yeah, And I
(09:28):
just don't think I would have takenthe same route after after whatever whatever that
was in ninety seven, I feltlike you wouldn't have heard from me a
lot. I've probably been like,you know what, I'm just gonna be
over here. Yeah. I thinkI'd kind of go underground and keep a
very very low profile and put ona wig and a fake mustache and glasses
(09:50):
anytime I went out. Yeah,Bobby Valentine, Yeah yeah, yeah.
Yeah. He kept doing the Twitterworld thing too, like he was just
a oblivious to the fact that everyonewas laughing at him every time he did
the Twitter world thing. All.I guarantee you he thought everybody was supportive
of him. Yeah, I don'tthink. Well, he might have.
(10:13):
He had a lot of confidence.He might he Uh. He did some
funny interviews like I don't even knowwhere they're from. You know, people
just post little clips. And oneof them is some interview with some lady.
I have no idea what it is, and she's like, did you
do it? And like he does. If you've ever seen an amateur detective
(10:35):
movie where they're like, if youlook up into the right, you're lying,
and like she's like you do it, He's like no, He's kind
of smiling and blinking and looking away. No. And then apparently he pulled
a prank on her when it wasover where she opened a door and he's
holding a knife and goes to herit's on the internet. Could he do
(10:56):
it too? I don't know,O J. Simpson. He shouldn't do
that interview fake stab, you knowwhat, Julie? I agree? Right,
come on, man, I don'tknow who it is, but here
I'm gonna clickle it and can showyou because I have no idea what it
is. And maybe we're just reallygood at AI and I've been fooled.
(11:18):
I don't know. Oh, oh, I'm not plugged in. Okay,
just here's this is the lady talkingand he shoves the door. No,
oh, my gosh, I sawsome crazy in his eye too when he
was doing that. All the wayfrom here he found he wrote a book
(11:41):
and said if I did it,and I bought that book, but I
never read it. But you sawa lot of crazy in his eye.
So there is one thing I wantto know, what man? That is?
Oh, you want one? Youcan't say, I'll know when you
(12:01):
said the one thing you want toknow? You called for the Paul all
right, trying to delay it togive you the out ran away. What's
on mixmine to day. Mike's mindis fueled by Celsius Essential Energy drinks.
(12:26):
What I want to know is whereyou guys were that night that the Bronco
ran from the police through the streetsof Los Angeles. Where were you?
How old were you, What wereyou doing, What were your parental units
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doing, if that applies, whatwere you thinking? And what were you
talking about with your friends about allthis? Gosh, my parents listened a
lot, so they might know whereI was during the Bronco Chase that I
don't remember, like I remember whereI was when the verdict was read.
I remember that because that was whatninety seven. So I was thirteen,
(13:13):
and I remember from what I hadkept up with in the trial, which
wasn't much. I just knew itwas a really big thing, but that
it sure seemed like this really famousguy killed a couple of people. And
then they read not guilty, andsomehow at thirteen, I still didn't know
much about much because I'm slow onthe uptake, and so when they said
(13:35):
that, I was like, wow, I thought he did. But in
my mind, if a Jerry acquittedyou, that meant that you factually like
he didn't do it. I waslike, wow, I was wrong.
I thought he did. It turnedout he didn't kill anybody. And I
thought that, yeah, that ifa court ruled it, that that is
absolutely what happened. And so Iwas like, wow, I really thought
(13:56):
he did, and I was surprisedthat it turned out he didn't kill anyone.
Either of you two remember Bronco night. I don't remember the night.
I remember definitely the trial because itfelt like it went on forever, especially
when you're a kid. Time tendsto feel a little bit longer. But
you know, I remember hearing thedifferent jokes about the trial and all that,
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but I don't specifically remember the Broncochase. Man, that was the
most one of the most exciting thingsI have ever seen on TV. Oh
yeah, yeah, I'm watching itright now. It was all live,
all in the moment, and youjust knew that any at any turn,
(14:41):
something was gonna happen. He waseither gonna hit somebody, or they were
gonna put up a blockade and theywere gonna trap him or catch him or
something like that. And none ofthat ever happened. It just went on
and on and on. And thelonger it went. I don't know if
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it was this way for everybody whosaw it, but the longer it went,
the more into it I got,and the more rivetted to it I
became. Now, I was ofan age back then where you know something
like that happens, you know what'sgoing on, and that's what you do.
But man, it was one ofthe most incredible and yeah, I'll
(15:24):
say it, exciting spectacles I've everseen on television. More exciting than watching
him play football. Yeah, ohyeah, of course, Oh yeah,
could you imagine, I could youimagine if like there was social media back
then? Oh, man, likeduring the Bronco chase, Dallas Texas TV
(15:50):
over that. But during the trial, if we were just everybody was on
Twitter debating that OJ trial, Oh, it would have been incredible. Yeah,
Dallas take his TV. Would haveprobably found a way to get between
the Bronco and the cops that werechasing him. Why could the cops not
get him? But Bronco was goingthat fast. I don't know if it
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was going that fast, not thatmuch ahead of them, and they're all
just lagging behind. It's because ofwhat was going on in this great land
of ours at that time. Thepolice knew huh that everybody was watching them,
huh. So they had to playthis as straight up as they possibly
could, you know. So itwas like a chase, but not a
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chase. It was kind of likea chase, but let's not play too
rough, right. I'm sure theinstincts of every cop in that chase would
were to let's do whatever we cando, whatever we have to do,
keep them stop this. Yeah,yeah, just stay on his tail.
But they don't actually know what todo if they were to get to him
(16:56):
or he was gonna shoot himself,right, Yeah, yeah, they were
worried about that too. Yeah.So I was nine, like when all
this went down, it was ninetyfour. Yeah, so I remember it
being a thing, but I wasby no means glued to the TV and
following along. And if I knowmy mom, she was probably trying to
protect me from the whole story andnot let me know that this person allegedly
(17:19):
murdered his wife. I didn't atnine years old. You don't know that
that's a thing. No, youdon't. And if it was my kids
now, I would probably protect themfrom that situation, be like, don't
look, like, don't look atthe TV, don't listen, because you
don't want your kids to think aboutthe fact that humans even kill other humans,
let alone married people killing their spousalunit. Yes, yes, agly
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allegedly good safe. Yeah, criminally, he did not kill them civilly he
did. Geez crazy. It wasone of maybe the most incredible television spectacle
that certainly that we ever had untilnine to eleven came along. Now nine
(18:04):
to eleven might have won uped it, but still it was. You couldn't
turn it off. You couldn't walkaway from it. You just had to
stay. Yeah. I think thething that I hate the most about O.
J. Simpson is that without him, maybe we don't have the Kardashians,
maybe because he might be close deadwell, well, because there Robert
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Kardashian was one of the attorneys inthe trial, which lent that name a
little bit of weight. So thenwhen Kim did the oral thing, don't
I don't know how they got sofamous, Yeah, but that plays so
much that that name was known fromthe trial. Yes, that was the
gateway for the for them. Yeah, and then she had some fun with
(18:52):
a random rapper and then somehow thatvaulted their family to billionaire status everywhere.
I don't know. Very confusing,but it's true. It doesn't happen without
Robert Kardashian. Well, and thereare rumors that Chloe was a fun baby
Chris and o J. Yess yes, there are. She does kind of
look like it's possible allegedly. JustMy favorite tweet of the day that I've
(19:18):
seen a lot of people shared isjust poor Chloe today. She lost her
dad, which is probably not true, probably her other dad what former dad.
Caitlin tweeted good riddance. Okay,yeah, I did see that,
(19:42):
and I'm sure a lot of peoplefeel that way. I just I just
fired off. So y'all think hedid it or what? Just to watch
people that worked out for you,people went crazy. It's fun to watch.
I what was the last thing thatyou just said, Julie, because
it made me think of something thatI forgot it. I was talking about
(20:04):
Chloe Chloe, because yeah, thatdid. Oh goodness, whoa, whoa,
Holy here we are there there,look at him. That's a nice
rug in the rooms to go loud. I'm moving on up in the world.
(20:25):
Sorry, Caitlin. Yeah, I'mlooking for I'm looking for guidance from
our transgender listeners if you could sendin a talkback, because, like you
said, her dad, but heis obviously transitioned to being a female,
which is now she what do youhow do you say that? Is that
her dad? Is that her formerdad? I think as she was growing
up he was like he was Brucethat whole time, right, But now
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is he her dad? Is sheher dad? Because she did make him?
I think she's you have to answerthis. I think now she's her
mom, second mom, they're bothmom so they got two moms working.
Huh. Okay, yeah, I'mjust trying to give a square away.
I think I think that's what Caitlynwould prefer. But Kaitlyn's like pretty down
(21:11):
with whatever. Man Like, Caitlyndoesn't get too worked up about it all.
What I understand, She's just livingher truth. Yeah. I think
she is probably a very interesting personbecause she seems to not align with the
thinking of what you would picture someonewho has transitioned would think. Yeah,
about lots of things. He's likea big Trump person. Yeah, there's
(21:33):
a lot there. I don't know, man, I don't know, man,
all right, I don't know,man, I'll remember. Okay,
Well, we're off and running.Coming up next time for the sports desk,
Julie. Where we're going. Thingsare still very hot here in DFW
sports. And I just got tosay, probably MVP. Ah yes,
I saw that word today.
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