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know, nobody's burning the place down. I wouldn't say that, okay,
I mean, I don't know ifthey're gonna make a documentary about it years
later. This is what spawned allthe stuff. Is it? I don't
know, is it right? Okay, everybody, it is time for the
flip top story of the day.I'll flip you out. I will put
you out. This is the fliptop story of the day. Oh Tani
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was innocent. That's what everybody's saying. That's what we're sticking with. And
that seems to be the plausible truth. Now that investigations seem to be winding
down, show hail Tani's former andinterpreter, the diabolical Epe Mitsuhara, has
been charged with federal bank fraud forallegedly stealing more than sixteen million dollars from
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Otawi to pay for sports gambling.This is US attorney's details. Martin Estrada
thirty seven page report reads like anovella. His average wager one unit for
Mitsuhara, as the gambler type say, and I am not a gambler.
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Yeah, that's true. It istrue. I have no idea. Tease
it up? How what I don'tknow? Twelve eight hundred bucks, biggest
bet, one hundred and sixty thousand, smallest ten bucks. That's my coming
guy, right there. See that, that's me right there, ten bucks.
Listen and with with the return onthat, it's like nine dollars and
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nine cents depending on the juice.I won that ten dollars bet, I
lost one hundred sixty dollars. Butback the pro record wise, I'm one
and one right, I'm five hundred. I just got to get my priorities.
That's an amazing size of a betthere. The debt incurred was massive,
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Yes, maybe bigger than some islandnations. H bets of nearly one
hundred and eighty three million dollars.That's how much he lost and one Now
you're saying, yeah, that's losinga lot of money. Yeah, it's
still be negative all the time.But how much did you win? One
hundred and forty two million, stilla deficit of forty point seven million dollars
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and you're forty point seven in thehole. Listen, there's a The life
is a swimming pool. There's thenegative side and the positive side. I
like to swim in the positive side. He won one hundred and forty million
dollars scambling, and it looks likethere was all kinds of bank fraud,
which is like the montage part ofthe movie where Ebe is behind a screen
and the Doogie Howser theme is playingand he's said he's touching up, So
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I guess he transferred a bunch ofmoney and impersonated Otani's voice. Can I
ask you a question? All right, let's just say that it did come
out, and obviously it is nothe is innocent. But let's say it
comes out that that Otani mountain,that Otani was gambling on sports but not
baseball. But you really care,no, Like I wouldn't care at all,
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Like this doesn't bother me. Idon't look at if he was like
the guy for the Raptors who's bettingon his under point total in games and
he's deliberately throwing games and saying,all the trouble my eye hurts again.
All of a sudden, he's gotcataracts two games in a row and he
ops out of the game. Andyou look at DraftKings, and that's like
the biggest wager they were getting allall the entire night in the NBA.
That's one thing. But if youfound out that shohe had, you know,
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like to gamble a little bit andwas betting on Juventus in the Italian
League, and then it was bettingon the jaguar, like, who cares?
Who gives a rip? I'm sureif anybody ever found out how much
money Michael Jordan lost gambling over theyears, they their head would fall.
Oh okay, they would be adog. I don't. I don't.
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I don't think I would care.Other than that he would. He stood
up and said, I'd never beton anything in my life. I mean,
when you sit there and say thatI've never had sex with that woman,
miss Lewinsky, you know, yeah, I mean he went pretty aggressive,
yeah on that. So but youhope that, you know, none
of that comes out. He's consideredthe victims. He is considered the victim
in this case. In November twentytwenty two, according to records, ipe
Mintsuhara text in his bookie, I'mterrible at this sports betting thing. Huh
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hell oh el yeah, but youknow this is not a laughing matter.
Listen. The will to keep pushingthrough, okay, even though he realizes
I'm awful and I'm going to goto prison for thirty years, like you
know, there there is something tothat. Real degenerate and gosh. The
bookmaker implied that he was following Otaniaround southern California. He being epe,
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Hey, Epe. It's two o'clockon Friday. I don't know why you're
not returning to my calls. I'mhere in Newport Beach and I see Otani
walking his dog. I'm just gonnago up and talk to him and ask
how I can get in touch withyou. Since you're not responding, please
call me back immediately. That wasright after Otani had adopted a dog,
and he was threatening that he wasgonna out eBay as a thief, that
he is the dirty Leonardo DiCaprio catchme if you can lie, wow,
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chronican habitual lie. What three hundredand twenty four million dollars is how much
he bet over the course of twoyears If you add it all up,
nineteen thousand wagers he plays between Decembertwenty twenty one in January of this year.
So he's got a passion twenty fivebets per day per day. Well,
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I mean, you know, interpreting, I guess, isn't that heart
of a job if you already havethe language figure, Now he's got time
they play games at night. Imean the pitch clock just got implemented two
years ago for the first five yearsin baseball. These games were three and
a half hours long. Just notenough time in the day for this guy
that plays that many bits, isit? Yeah? The dugout it was,
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yes, he I mean, listen, you know I should see me
at Santa Anita. Oh, comeon on the k Yeah, you know
what I mean, Like I getafter it there. I mean, I'm
betting, by the way, Ibet horse races like it's roulette. I
bet the inside numbers. I'm notbetting on one horse to win. I'm
betting on three to win, andthen that way increase my odds. That's
how I do it. Why don'tyou put that in your horse betting pipe
and smoke. Come on down nexttime we're at Santa Anita, Jonas or
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white sponsor. The criminal complaint containsanother text message between Misuhara and the bookmaker
in which he said, technically Idid steal from him being Otani, it's
all over for me. At leasthe has him self awareness. Yeah,
I'm going down hey you and bythe way, said some times, since
I got you here, can Iget two hundred grand on the Lakers mina
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seven tonight? It's all falling apartfrom me why not, you know.
Also in the report September twenty fourth, two thous twenty one, he said,
I've just been messing around with soccer. There's games twenty four to seven,
laugh out loud. I took Uclabut they lost out right now people
have gone to look, there wasno UCLA women's or men's soccer games.
So he's referring to UCLA football.Oh, when Jay Caterer hurt his leg
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and get back forty to thirty seven, Fresno State came to the Rose Bull
and knocked off number thirteen Ucla.That's the game he's referring to. Wow,
look at that take moment for KaylenDebor. I just this whole thing,
you know. Do you know thepeople who are most to add the
biggest red ass about it Angels fans. They wanted him to be guilty so
bad because they're so bitter that theywent from we've got the best player in
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baseball to when's the next monster jamevent? Like they're the ones that are
most pissed, Like I swear toGod and no knock on monster Jam.
I've been twice. My son lovesit. You gotta wear the headphones.
Oh yeah, you have to nerds. They're booing Ardy, you know,
he comes up on the screen andthey boo him and now they have to
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take that down. It's just it'sunfortunately though, it really is. But
it's a great waterfall. And OToddi's innocent, you jackals? What did
you think all the guy wants todo? He's played baseball, spend time
with his dog and his secret wife. You know, can you just leave
him alone? And he's betrayed byhis creepy best friend from Diamond Bar.
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If I had a dollar for everycreepy BFF from Diamond Bar that ends up
betraying somebody, I'd be richest.How dB strikes again. H I'm gonna
let you ask the more OJ questionsof the next segment, so don't repeat
the ones you asked earlier. Whywould I be a professional. Yeah,
we'll be right back with more Jonasknots oh J talk Todd, Petrolson money
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Will you be there, Jonas?I mean, I'm getting an invite.
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Have you ever been there? No? I have, not I have.
And the one time I went,there was a guy wearing a T shirt
and it had two cupped hands onthe T shirt on like a drawn and
it said, your boobs look heavy, let me hold them for it.
It's a great, great collection,a real melting pot of Southern California.
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Take those up at Spencer's. Abeautiful shirt you were if you want to
kill twenty minutes of your time seeSteve Hartman this weekend and asking them about
the celebrity race he used to dothem. Oh God, oh thank you
for asking to I'll tell you backwhen Brandon Wallas grasping the water. I've
got something in color with that shirt. I'll help you hold those two.
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Let me check these out right here. Okay, As we said, you're
gonna have the opportunity to ask meOJ questions and try out to be obnoxious.
I won't. You didn't get toask enough earlier. So let's do
it with the top story of theday. Top story of OJ Simpson,
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former NFL star who was later accusedand acquitted of the ninety four murders of
his ex wife Nicole Brown and Goldmanfirst died at the age of seventy six
following a battle with cancer. Turnit out dates take us back to that
day. We are looking at livepictures of Interstate five in Los Angeles.
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We believe that that white vehicle whichis being trailed by a philanx of California
Highway Patrol cars and helicopters, belongsto Al Hollings, who disappeared with O.
J. Simpson earlier today, shortlyafter mister Simpson was informed that he
was going to be formally charged withthe murder of his wife and the young
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man who was with her at thetime. It is the latest bizarre and
a string of bizarre and shocking developmentsthat have been going out all day on.
This is like beginning of L A. Car Chase. I still remember
where I was, so I like, I remember watching it going and my
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mom and brother tried to explain tome the significance of it and not really.
Did you hear Paul Lawyer getting involvedin time friend of O J.
Simpson and disappeared with with him arrestpersonality? You remember guy, I think
you worked at your restaurant. DavidGascon he worked at Fox Sports Radio.
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Yeah, well his father was theguy in the full UNI that said you
know o J is a fugitive ofjustice. Ye yeah, yes, Tom
broke like when they were interviewing himor throwing the sound of David gask On
like had this drop that we haveat Fox Sports Radio when his son started
working at FSR, and the greatTom Looney rolled it in and it's broke
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out going come oder or David Gasconof the L A. P D.
So whenever I hear Brokaw's voice,all think of is that drop that we
would go to that probably people thatit just turned to have no idea,
the reference and the whole, thewhole, I mean, kind of the
impetus of that is this weird relationshipthat a lot of people involved with the
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OJ trial, including OJ himself andall the Kardashians, had with my father's
restaurant. You know, that wasthe crazy thing. It wasn't just that
all these people started hanging out atthe restaurant afterwards. It's that they all
hung out at the restaurant throughout thiswhole time, and then after the trial,
or while the trial was going on, you had Marcia Clark there,
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you had Edo there. It wasjust such a weird, surrealistic pre social
media time. But Gascon was thereat the restaurant, not the Sun,
the dad in his cop Uni,the Commander all the time. And when
he showed up on TV and saidthat, I mean, our jaws dropped
because we knew him, damn it. And we knew OJ. You know,
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he played with my dad and hewas kind of in our orbit ever
since I can remember, you know, as a kid. And that all
changed pretty dramatically in nineteen ninety four, the end of my junior year in
high school. What was OJ's drinkof choice at my dad's restaurant. Yes,
well, you know, usually wewere a beer It was a phenomenal
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thing. And it's a lot easiernowadays, I think, to get a
liquor license, but back then itwas actually quite difficult, and my dad
didn't want one so and he didn'twant to pay for he didn't want to
have a bar, So we wereliterally a beer and wine restaurant the whole
time. So most of the time, what somebody like OJ would do is
they just drink whiskey from my dad'soffice. My dad had case after case
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of a whiskey called fighting Cock theBourbon, and it had the angry bird
on the front, And so theywould whatever was in the office. That's
usually what if they wanted hard stuff. Otherwise they'd drink you know, wine
and beer and go to the bathroomthirty times. Yeah, catch my drink.
Yeah, they'd have to put maybesneak something impossibly. So maybe Oja
had like a flask of the goodstuff. I don't really know, but
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yeah, I saw him down thereall the time, in fact a month.
Maybe I don't remember, Like mygauge of time back then is weird.
At my dad's is worse, sadly, so I think it was maybe
around April. The murders were inJune, so I think in April there
was a huge The patriarch of theKardashian family, right was a They were
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a tuna cannery family, so thesepeople that made a bunch of money off
of tuna canaries. Once World Wartwo came and they started making tuna for
the soldiers, so all of asudden, these people were hardworking kind of
tuna fish people and they became millionaires. The Kardashians are one of those families.
So the patriarch of the family,whose little brother was Robert Kardashian,
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who was OJ's bff. Because thepatriarch of the family was when he was
younger, John McKay's personal secretary atUSC So that's the connection. And maybe
about six weeks I don't know whatit was before the murders, they were
all in the back room at mydad's restaurant for a private party for the
Kardashian I think it was either Tomor Daniel Kardashian. I can't remember his
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name. The older brother who's neverbeen on TV or anything, and everybody
you could think of was there,Oj, Paula Barbieria, all the Kardashian
kids. You know, it wouldbe weird, you know, to look
at it now. Back then,it was just a party that me and
a guy named Panos Panai of Cypriotechain smoking, maybe perhaps the greatest waiter
of all time. We we wewaited on them and then they came down
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and interviewed us after the murders.You know, we had to talk about
it and stuff like that. Wehad to be like deposed to a certain
degree. So it was pretty wildtime around the Yeah, that's why I'm
you know, I don't want tomake this uncomfortable for you, but I
did, you know, John,right, you know, it's not like
we're saying, well, you know, I did jot down some questions that
I had for you, So Idon't want you to feel like you're being
interrogated here, but I want toyou know, I've got you know,
envelopes here with questions inside, soI'll just go ahead and start one at
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a time. Petros was O.J. Simpson the only double murderer that
you've had in the restaurant. No, okay, elaborate on it. I
mean there was a lot of peoplethat were, you know, well connected.
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Did the night Stalker ever venture intothe restaurant? No, okay,
that's all you got. Hold on. I got more. Last time you
saw O. J. Simpson wasit? I can tell you exactly before
or after the murder? After,I could tell you the last time I
saw O J. Simpson. Icould tell you verbatim. I feel unsafe.
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I was in Miami working for FoxSports West right, and I was
covering the two thousand and two USCversus Iowa would have been three when they
played the game, but you knowwith New Years that time of year,
USC versus Iowa Orange Bowl, CarsonPalmer just won a Heisman. Sean Green
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was he on Iowa back then?It was a Brad Banks was the name
of their quarterback. And Frentz waslike it was really early in his career.
So we were all out in Miami. I was out there covering the
team. Many of the guys onthe team, Carson Carrie, Colbert Bku,
Matt Gritty Good, you know,they're all guys that I had played
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with. So my connection with theteam was a lot different than it is
now or was even just a fewyears later. And I remember driving to
the Miami Dolphins practice facility, whichis where us he was having practice,
and going in under the little armand watching Jay Fiedler leave as I was
going in the old Fiedler on theriver and I pulled up to like sort
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of like the gate to where practicewas, and I was looking to park
my rental car, and god,I forget who it was, but it
was one of my old teammates.And he put his hands slammed his hands
on the on the hood of thecar, the rental, and he said,
Petros, the juice is here.And I said, and I immediately
thought Junior Rickman was a guy hecalled juice. He played with us.
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I said, Junior rick Wran's herefrom Arizona. Why we graduated years ago,
Why would he be here? They'reno, it's oh J And I
was like, holy s balls.So I remember, you know, parking
getting out to practice, and Iwas right there for that moment Carson Palmer
who just won the Heisman, andthat's a big deal at SC and it
was this big resurgence and Pete Carrollhad just started that whole thing. Carson
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was walking off the field and Ojwas walking toward him and then hear the
camera and you see the hands goingtogether. Should they shake hands? Cover
the La Times the next day,Anthony Davis is livid, jaguarching on ournett
Is is cursing the university. Itwas just it was hard, but I
could tell you right or wrong,and I guess it's wrong. But those
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players were thrilled and those guys andhe was like, hey, Petroz and
I was like hello, Juice,and I just told it walking, you
know, because there was like alot of people around him. But that
was the last time I saw it. It's like it's almost like his celebrity
became such a point that you didn'tlike that overshadowed what he was a celebrity
for, Like Mickey Cohen in Laif you ever know that story, you
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know, the LA Confidential type ofstuff, like you know, or We're
al Capone, you know people likethat. I mean, OJ Simpson was
a huge gregar O. J.Simpson, to be honest, was a
lot like Magic. Not not thatMagic is a double murderer or anything like
that. It feels like he's murderingus when he trolls us with the two
and a half month of Italian vacation. Every every summer here I am in
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Positano a thank you. But everytime OJ walked into a room, it
was like magic, you know,with the big smile, the really outgoing
personality, knew how to be aroundpeople. People loved being around him.
You know, he really came offlike that in person. There's no doubt
about that. He had the cultof personality in a lot of ways.
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But man, he took that prettyfar. I mean, his whole relationship
at USC and that celebrity that hegenerated at USC, Liner and Reggie Bush,
that's what carried him. Of course, he was a great pro,
unlike Liner and Reggie Bush, butthat's really what carried him throughout. It
carried his media career, and itcarried his life pre murders, during the
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murder trial and all that, andpost murder. A guy named Wayne Hughes,
who was USC's biggest under covered donor. He's the guy that paid for
all OJ's defense. I mean,OJ's defense was paid for by a USC
donor and one of the biggest donorsin the history of West Coast Education.
He paid for OJ's defense. Soit's a pretty amazing the connection with the
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university that still exists today and us. He had no trouble taking his money.
Hell, they let him place linzWan as the athletic director and his
bff Max mckeas as president. Whenyou saw Oj the last time, yes,
did he thank you and your familyfor helping him hide the murder weapon?
No? Okay, I'm just tryingto get to the bottom of this
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here, Okay, I don't Idon't want to. Did they ever find
the night I don't know it wasyour dry storage. Wasn't Oj on your
on his way to the restaurant?Though? Well we thought he's not.
He's not kidding. He's The sadpart is he's not kidding. Uh,
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there was a moment. Now,look, because some of these people are
still alive. I don't want tosay anything, but OJ may have been
searching for somebody in Sampedro that thatknew, somebody that had enough connections or
was connected well enough to get himon an uncharted boat and get him out
of the country. Uh. Thatwould only happen in the La Harbor,
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and that would only happen through oneperson who's I'm not gonna say. But
when he went on the he nevergot on the one ten south, but
when he got on the one ohfive I think it was the one oh
five west, which or east,looking like he headed to the onet in
south, whichever way it was.My father started to say, he's coming
here. And we were all atthe restaurant watching on TV. You know,
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it's five o'clock on a Friday.We were just opening up. BIZ
watched and he said, clear thewalk in, freezer. So we went
and started to clear the walk in, to hide Oj, to get him
on a boat. Because at thattime, my father and all the guys,
all the ex teammates, were like, this is an injustice. He
is innocent, you know, Andthen like forty eight hours later, my
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dad was like, he had murderedthose people, you know. But yeah,
you know what I mean. Iknow that this is kind of a
shotgun effect we're given here, butI'm just giving you a little bit of
my history in this situation. Imean, that would have been wild had
he shown up to do you thatwe would have been all jail. Now
do you think that Gascon's eating offglemino soup in the front, We're hiding
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Oj in the back. See,I was gonna ask, like, do
you think that that would have beengood or bad for business? You know?
Okay, yeah, because you knowthat's the spot that's everything was good
for this. I mean, hey, Matt, we killed Natalie Wood and
people kept coming in after that.It's the last place she had dinner.
I drove them through the docks.Really, yes, yes, wow.
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So anyway, there's some OJ historyfor you. We had some earlier too.
Yeah. Well, it's good thatwe got. Did you enjoy that
you got anything else? I'm assuranceListen, I've got you know, I've
got all sorts of stuff. ButI don't want to I don't want to
get anybody in trouble here. I'mjust trying to get to the bottom of
it, you know, I justwant to know what happened. I mean
I found out earlier that Kato'kalin shopsat a Von's Locally, our producer for
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two pros lead to lap he seesthem all the time, yes, around
man, Yeah, he's just kindof kind of hanging out, still a
local douche. Locally, he's aVond's. We'll be back with a secret
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us a hot thank you everybody forlistening, Petro and Money here in our
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and we have Dodgers and San Diegotomorrow. A big thank you to Jonas
Knox for being here all day.We appreciate that it's not every damn night.
Not easy to get up at oneam and do the two pros and
a cup of Joe and come inhere and chop it up. And he
was dying like Lawrence of Arabia,dying for coffee, and almost said that
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he would suck a d That's howbad, That's how bad he wanted.
Kates had to go get him coffeebecause Jonas doesn't understand the building and it
was a little awkward there and wecouldn't find Brady worth it, but we
ended up with Brady and Dave Dousick, both scheduled guests, and even Vic
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were any of them on time,only one, Dave Dousick. But we
got everybody at a certain point,and we still have another hour of great
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on you. With the death ofOJ, you now have the mantle of
the most hated alum of USC.I don't know, I mean, who
else is in the running? Like, who's second? When somebody goes that,
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you know, hyperbolic, who's secondon that list? The most hated
USC alum? Who'd you think itis? Is there any other criminals I
can think of or that's known thatwell? I can't think of anything.
I mean, Mike Garrett, whoscrewed up the program. You know,
they got those big sanctions because helet Pete Carroll do whatever he wanted.
But that's post playing career. Butso is Oje Lynn Swan, who now
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doesn't show up like the guys whowere all ad and failed and looked like
idiots were all. Well, youcan't really say that about Garrett because he
hired Pete Carroll although he oversaw areal lack of institutional control. And then
Pat Hayden, who hired Clay Heltonfor God's sakes, and Lynn Swan and
the Varsity Blues scandal and all thatstuff. So three big time x USC
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superstars, the first Heisman winner inthe history of LA and Mike Garrett,
local guy East LA and Pat HaydenSaint Pat from beautiful Bishop of Mott High
School Go Lancers and Lynn Swan oneof the greatest receivers that ever played though
and Lyn Swann went to Sarah HighSchool up north, same as Tom Brady
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and Barry Bonds. Those three guysare hated because they failed as ads there
and they brought USC down to thebasement. Now was the Bonarino around long
enough to get on that list,So Bonarino never played at SC and we're
talking about people that played football atUSC. I'm just a nuisance to people,
But I don't think I'm the mosthated alum at USC. I don't
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think people think about me enough forthat to be the case. So you're
saying Joel Klatt, your former TVwife as you used to call him,
asked for a divorce. I thinkit was just kind of implied. Like
when Marilyn Monroe when her name wasNorma Jean, like married some high school
guy or something, and then ata certain point she's got like missile boobs
(32:07):
and she's a gigantic movie star,nimfo maniac, addicted to bills. Yeah,
it's like she's gonna move on,right, you know what I mean,
She's gonna marry Joe DiMaggio. Youknow, I mean he stands there
next to Gus Johnson. It's hangingout with Jenny Taft, America's sweetheart.
You know, at a certain point, he can't be my TV husband,
so he outgrew you. He outgrewme, His fame outgrew my husbandry.
(32:29):
If that makes any sense. Yeah, I mean it's it's still a little
bit disrespectful you know, a halfto home. No, I mean yeah,
just like I know you want tohang out with the kids, but
like, there are you know,certain sacrifices you've got to make to keep
a relationship together, and some peoplearen't. But again, as I said,
nothing wrong with that. The morepeople fall out, the more I
rise up looking around at everybody elsegetting tossed over the top rope pee.
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God, this show's great, everybody. I guess I'm the only one left.
Wow. The echo on Vick isterrible today. I don't usually hear
it on the radio, but it'sloud and clear today. Could warrant another
suspension. Whoa Kates, I don'tknow. I didn't think it was that
bad. I didn't think it wasthat bad either. I mean, did
you that Is that the first timeyou really felt vics echo and the lip
(33:13):
smacking live? I mean I've heardit a little bit when he comes on
when I'm filling in for Fred orRodney, But and they do less to
cover it up. Oh no,Fred like showcases. Yeah, and it's
like, what are we doing?Yeah, we're like a professional radio station.
What are we doing? Fred's likethe person who won't get on the
roller coaster, but he'll stand nextto it when the water spots? Are
you gonna barf? Can we geta clip of that fat ass fart or
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what? Apparently there was a fartthis morning that ruined Jonas's big opportunity on
the Dan Patrick Show. You know, you go to the Dan Patrick Show
and your producer wrecks it with afart. You get a big local TV
opportunity and they wreck it with somefake Latino guy stopped us dead dar trap.
(33:58):
You're gonna be working with Brent sortskyO. Great love, Brett.
We'll be right back with more petrosand money on m FI seventy l a
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what about the Beach Life Fast?I work there. Yeah, Redondo beat
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stand up. You could have hadit, Hermosa. How does it feel?
How does it feel to be dwarfedby Redondo's big boots? You could
have had this Hermosa? Yeah,look at you. Anybody talking about you
now? Hermosa? No is wildon showing up Peter Avenue. No,
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but everybody's going to Beach Life andyou should too. I've worked this event
since its inception. I know thefounders. It's a great event and it
embodies the South Bank. They letyou have a couple of throw burners while
you're doing that event, p ableto take in the sights and sounds or
what a couple two trees? Yeah, unless they would say I also have
access to the artists on our baroo. Do you ever eat shramp and
(02:40):
drink tequila next to the guy fromUB forty? Unbeknownst to him why they
don't have that off the twenty threeFreeway for something? Usually Donovan Franken Ryder,
I had that kebab in mind.Steve Pulse is gonna play you see
Me punch that guy's big dreadlock.Get tickets now. It beats live festival
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dot com. It really is agreat event. Of course, I've never
really been to any other festivals,so I have no gauge. I mean,
it sounds better than some of theother ones. It's amazing to see
how they do it. It movesreally well and everybody doesn't suck, so
it's done better than like Woodstock ninetynine. You're saying, well, I
can't go that far. I'm justgonna say I can't go that. You
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know, nobody's burning the place down. I wouldn't say that, okay,
I mean, I don't know ifthey're gonna make a documentary about it years
later. This is what spawned allthe stuff. Is it? I don't
know, is it right? Okay, everybody, it is time for the
flip top story of the day.I'll flip you out. I will put
you out. This is the fliptop story of the day. Oh Tani
(03:46):
was innocent. That's what everybody's saying. That's what we're sticking with. And
that seems to be the plausible truth. Now that investigations seem to be winding
down, show hail Tani's former andinterpreter, the diabolical Epe Mitsuhara, has
been charged with federal bank fraud forallegedly stealing more than sixteen million dollars from
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Otawi to pay for sports gambling.This is US attorney's details. Martin Estrada
thirty seven page report reads like anovella. His average wager one unit for
Mitsuhara, as the gambler type say, and I am not a gambler.
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Yeah, that's true. It istrue. I have no idea. Tease
it up? How what I don'tknow? Twelve eight hundred bucks, biggest
bet, one hundred and sixty thousand, smallest ten bucks. That's my coming
guy, right there. See that, that's me right there, ten bucks.
Listen and with with the return onthat, it's like nine dollars and
(04:51):
nine cents depending on the juice.I won that ten dollars bet, I
lost one hundred sixty dollars. Butback the pro record wise, I'm one
and one right, I'm five hundred. I just got to get my priorities.
That's an amazing size of a betthere. The debt incurred was massive,
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Yes, maybe bigger than some islandnations. H bets of nearly one
hundred and eighty three million dollars.That's how much he lost and one Now
you're saying, yeah, that's losinga lot of money. Yeah, it's
still be negative all the time.But how much did you win? One
hundred and forty two million, stilla deficit of forty point seven million dollars
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and you're forty point seven in thehole. Listen, there's a The life
is a swimming pool. There's thenegative side and the positive side. I
like to swim in the positive side. He won one hundred and forty million
dollars scambling, and it looks likethere was all kinds of bank fraud,
which is like the montage part ofthe movie where Ebe is behind a screen
and the Doogie Howser theme is playingand he's said he's touching up, So
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I guess he transferred a bunch ofmoney and impersonated Otani's voice. Can I
ask you a question? All right, let's just say that it did come
out, and obviously it is nothe is innocent. But let's say it
comes out that that Otani mountain,that Otani was gambling on sports but not
baseball. But you really care,no, Like I wouldn't care at all,
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Like this doesn't bother me. Idon't look at if he was like
the guy for the Raptors who's bettingon his under point total in games and
he's deliberately throwing games and saying,all the trouble my eye hurts again.
All of a sudden, he's gotcataracts two games in a row and he
ops out of the game. Andyou look at DraftKings, and that's like
the biggest wager they were getting allall the entire night in the NBA.
That's one thing. But if youfound out that shohe had, you know,
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like to gamble a little bit andwas betting on Juventus in the Italian
League, and then it was bettingon the jaguar, like, who cares?
Who gives a rip? I'm sureif anybody ever found out how much
money Michael Jordan lost gambling over theyears, they their head would fall.
Oh okay, they would be adog. I don't. I don't.
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I don't think I would care.Other than that he would. He stood
up and said, I'd never beton anything in my life. I mean,
when you sit there and say thatI've never had sex with that woman,
miss Lewinsky, you know, yeah, I mean he went pretty aggressive,
yeah on that. So but youhope that, you know, none
of that comes out. He's consideredthe victims. He is considered the victim
in this case. In November twentytwenty two, according to records, ipe
Mintsuhara text in his bookie, I'mterrible at this sports betting thing. Huh
(07:35):
hell oh el yeah, but youknow this is not a laughing matter.
Listen. The will to keep pushingthrough, okay, even though he realizes
I'm awful and I'm going to goto prison for thirty years, like you
know, there there is something tothat. Real degenerate and gosh. The
bookmaker implied that he was following Otaniaround southern California. He being epe,
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Hey, Epe. It's two o'clockon Friday. I don't know why you're
not returning to my calls. I'mhere in Newport Beach and I see Otani
walking his dog. I'm just gonnago up and talk to him and ask
how I can get in touch withyou. Since you're not responding, please
call me back immediately. That wasright after Otani had adopted a dog,
and he was threatening that he wasgonna out eBay as a thief, that
he is the dirty Leonardo DiCaprio catchme if you can lie, wow,
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chronican habitual lie. What three hundredand twenty four million dollars is how much
he bet over the course of twoyears If you add it all up,
nineteen thousand wagers he plays between Decembertwenty twenty one in January of this year.
So he's got a passion twenty fivebets per day per day. Well,
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I mean, you know, interpreting, I guess, isn't that heart
of a job if you already havethe language figure, Now he's got time
they play games at night. Imean the pitch clock just got implemented two
years ago for the first five yearsin baseball. These games were three and
a half hours long. Just notenough time in the day for this guy
that plays that many bits, isit? Yeah? The dugout it was,
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yes, he I mean, listen, you know I should see me
at Santa Anita. Oh, comeon on the k Yeah, you know
what I mean, Like I getafter it there. I mean, I'm
betting, by the way, Ibet horse races like it's roulette. I
bet the inside numbers. I'm notbetting on one horse to win. I'm
betting on three to win, andthen that way increase my odds. That's
how I do it. Why don'tyou put that in your horse betting pipe
and smoke. Come on down nexttime we're at Santa Anita, Jonas or
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white sponsor. The criminal complaint containsanother text message between Misuhara and the bookmaker
in which he said, technically Idid steal from him being Otani, it's
all over for me. At leasthe has him self awareness. Yeah,
I'm going down hey you and bythe way, said some times, since
I got you here, can Iget two hundred grand on the Lakers mina
(09:54):
seven tonight? It's all falling apartfrom me why not, you know.
Also in the report September twenty fourth, two thous twenty one, he said,
I've just been messing around with soccer. There's games twenty four to seven,
laugh out loud. I took Uclabut they lost out right now people
have gone to look, there wasno UCLA women's or men's soccer games.
So he's referring to UCLA football.Oh, when Jay Caterer hurt his leg
(10:16):
and get back forty to thirty seven, Fresno State came to the Rose Bull
and knocked off number thirteen Ucla.That's the game he's referring to. Wow,
look at that take moment for KaylenDebor. I just this whole thing,
you know. Do you know thepeople who are most to add the
biggest red ass about it Angels fans. They wanted him to be guilty so
bad because they're so bitter that theywent from we've got the best player in
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baseball to when's the next monster jamevent? Like they're the ones that are
most pissed, Like I swear toGod and no knock on monster Jam.
I've been twice. My son lovesit. You gotta wear the headphones.
Oh yeah, you have to nerds. They're booing Ardy, you know,
he comes up on the screen andthey boo him and now they have to
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take that down. It's just it'sunfortunately though, it really is. But
it's a great waterfall. And OToddi's innocent, you jackals? What did
you think all the guy wants todo? He's played baseball, spend time
with his dog and his secret wife. You know, can you just leave
him alone? And he's betrayed byhis creepy best friend from Diamond Bar.
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If I had a dollar for everycreepy BFF from Diamond Bar that ends up
betraying somebody, I'd be richest.How dB strikes again. H I'm gonna
let you ask the more OJ questionsof the next segment, so don't repeat
the ones you asked earlier. Whywould I be a professional. Yeah,
we'll be right back with more Jonasknots oh J talk Todd, Petrolson money
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next. Thank you for listening,everybody. It is a crutching griven Thursday
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(12:03):
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looking forward to it, all right. And don't forget about Southern California's two
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Will you be there, Jonas?I mean, I'm getting an invite.
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Have you ever been there? No? I have, not I have.
And the one time I went,there was a guy wearing a T shirt
and it had two cupped hands onthe T shirt on like a drawn and
it said, your boobs look heavy, let me hold them for it.
It's a great, great collection,a real melting pot of Southern California.
(13:09):
Take those up at Spencer's. Abeautiful shirt you were if you want to
kill twenty minutes of your time seeSteve Hartman this weekend and asking them about
the celebrity race he used to dothem. Oh God, oh thank you
for asking to I'll tell you backwhen Brandon Wallas grasping the water. I've
got something in color with that shirt. I'll help you hold those two.
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Let me check these out right here. Okay, As we said, you're
gonna have the opportunity to ask meOJ questions and try out to be obnoxious.
I won't. You didn't get toask enough earlier. So let's do
it with the top story of theday. Top story of OJ Simpson,
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former NFL star who was later accusedand acquitted of the ninety four murders of
his ex wife Nicole Brown and Goldmanfirst died at the age of seventy six
following a battle with cancer. Turnit out dates take us back to that
day. We are looking at livepictures of Interstate five in Los Angeles.
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We believe that that white vehicle whichis being trailed by a philanx of California
Highway Patrol cars and helicopters, belongsto Al Hollings, who disappeared with O.
J. Simpson earlier today, shortlyafter mister Simpson was informed that he
was going to be formally charged withthe murder of his wife and the young
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man who was with her at thetime. It is the latest bizarre and
a string of bizarre and shocking developmentsthat have been going out all day on.
This is like beginning of L A. Car Chase. I still remember
where I was, so I like, I remember watching it going and my
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mom and brother tried to explain tome the significance of it and not really.
Did you hear Paul Lawyer getting involvedin time friend of O J.
Simpson and disappeared with with him arrestpersonality? You remember guy, I think
you worked at your restaurant. DavidGascon he worked at Fox Sports Radio.
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Yeah, well his father was theguy in the full UNI that said you
know o J is a fugitive ofjustice. Ye yeah, yes, Tom
broke like when they were interviewing himor throwing the sound of David gask On
like had this drop that we haveat Fox Sports Radio when his son started
working at FSR, and the greatTom Looney rolled it in and it's broke
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out going come oder or David Gasconof the L A. P D.
So whenever I hear Brokaw's voice,all think of is that drop that we
would go to that probably people thatit just turned to have no idea,
the reference and the whole, thewhole, I mean, kind of the
impetus of that is this weird relationshipthat a lot of people involved with the
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OJ trial, including OJ himself andall the Kardashians, had with my father's
restaurant. You know, that wasthe crazy thing. It wasn't just that
all these people started hanging out atthe restaurant afterwards. It's that they all
hung out at the restaurant throughout thiswhole time, and then after the trial,
or while the trial was going on, you had Marcia Clark there,
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you had Edo there. It wasjust such a weird, surrealistic pre social
media time. But Gascon was thereat the restaurant, not the Sun,
the dad in his cop Uni,the Commander all the time. And when
he showed up on TV and saidthat, I mean, our jaws dropped
because we knew him, damn it. And we knew OJ. You know,
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he played with my dad and hewas kind of in our orbit ever
since I can remember, you know, as a kid. And that all
changed pretty dramatically in nineteen ninety four, the end of my junior year in
high school. What was OJ's drinkof choice at my dad's restaurant. Yes,
well, you know, usually wewere a beer It was a phenomenal
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thing. And it's a lot easiernowadays, I think, to get a
liquor license, but back then itwas actually quite difficult, and my dad
didn't want one so and he didn'twant to pay for he didn't want to
have a bar, So we wereliterally a beer and wine restaurant the whole
time. So most of the time, what somebody like OJ would do is
they just drink whiskey from my dad'soffice. My dad had case after case
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of a whiskey called fighting Cock theBourbon, and it had the angry bird
on the front, And so theywould whatever was in the office. That's
usually what if they wanted hard stuff. Otherwise they'd drink you know, wine
and beer and go to the bathroomthirty times. Yeah, catch my drink.
Yeah, they'd have to put maybesneak something impossibly. So maybe Oja
had like a flask of the goodstuff. I don't really know, but
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yeah, I saw him down thereall the time, in fact a month.
Maybe I don't remember, Like mygauge of time back then is weird.
At my dad's is worse, sadly, so I think it was maybe
around April. The murders were inJune, so I think in April there
was a huge The patriarch of theKardashian family, right was a They were
(18:12):
a tuna cannery family, so thesepeople that made a bunch of money off
of tuna canaries. Once World Wartwo came and they started making tuna for
the soldiers, so all of asudden, these people were hardworking kind of
tuna fish people and they became millionaires. The Kardashians are one of those families.
So the patriarch of the family,whose little brother was Robert Kardashian,
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who was OJ's bff. Because thepatriarch of the family was when he was
younger, John McKay's personal secretary atUSC So that's the connection. And maybe
about six weeks I don't know whatit was before the murders, they were
all in the back room at mydad's restaurant for a private party for the
Kardashian I think it was either Tomor Daniel Kardashian. I can't remember his
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name. The older brother who's neverbeen on TV or anything, and everybody
you could think of was there,Oj, Paula Barbieria, all the Kardashian
kids. You know, it wouldbe weird, you know, to look
at it now. Back then,it was just a party that me and
a guy named Panos Panai of Cypriotechain smoking, maybe perhaps the greatest waiter
of all time. We we wewaited on them and then they came down
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and interviewed us after the murders.You know, we had to talk about
it and stuff like that. Wehad to be like deposed to a certain
degree. So it was pretty wildtime around the Yeah, that's why I'm
you know, I don't want tomake this uncomfortable for you, but I
did, you know, John,right, you know, it's not like
we're saying, well, you know, I did jot down some questions that
I had for you, So Idon't want you to feel like you're being
interrogated here, but I want toyou know, I've got you know,
envelopes here with questions inside, soI'll just go ahead and start one at
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a time. Petros was O.J. Simpson the only double murderer that
you've had in the restaurant. No, okay, elaborate on it. I
mean there was a lot of peoplethat were, you know, well connected.
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Did the night Stalker ever venture intothe restaurant? No, okay,
that's all you got. Hold on. I got more. Last time you
saw O. J. Simpson wasit? I can tell you exactly before
or after the murder? After,I could tell you the last time I
saw O J. Simpson. Icould tell you verbatim. I feel unsafe.
(20:30):
I was in Miami working for FoxSports West right, and I was
covering the two thousand and two USCversus Iowa would have been three when they
played the game, but you knowwith New Years that time of year,
USC versus Iowa Orange Bowl, CarsonPalmer just won a Heisman. Sean Green
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was he on Iowa back then?It was a Brad Banks was the name
of their quarterback. And Frentz waslike it was really early in his career.
So we were all out in Miami. I was out there covering the
team. Many of the guys onthe team, Carson Carrie, Colbert Bku,
Matt Gritty Good, you know,they're all guys that I had played
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with. So my connection with theteam was a lot different than it is
now or was even just a fewyears later. And I remember driving to
the Miami Dolphins practice facility, whichis where us he was having practice,
and going in under the little armand watching Jay Fiedler leave as I was
going in the old Fiedler on theriver and I pulled up to like sort
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of like the gate to where practicewas, and I was looking to park
my rental car, and god,I forget who it was, but it
was one of my old teammates.And he put his hands slammed his hands
on the on the hood of thecar, the rental, and he said,
Petros, the juice is here.And I said, and I immediately
thought Junior Rickman was a guy hecalled juice. He played with us.
(21:59):
I said, Junior rick Wran's herefrom Arizona. Why we graduated years ago,
Why would he be here? They'reno, it's oh J And I
was like, holy s balls.So I remember, you know, parking
getting out to practice, and Iwas right there for that moment Carson Palmer
who just won the Heisman, andthat's a big deal at SC and it
was this big resurgence and Pete Carrollhad just started that whole thing. Carson
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was walking off the field and Ojwas walking toward him and then hear the
camera and you see the hands goingtogether. Should they shake hands? Cover
the La Times the next day,Anthony Davis is livid, jaguarching on ournett
Is is cursing the university. Itwas just it was hard, but I
could tell you right or wrong,and I guess it's wrong. But those
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players were thrilled and those guys andhe was like, hey, Petroz and
I was like hello, Juice,and I just told it walking, you
know, because there was like alot of people around him. But that
was the last time I saw it. It's like it's almost like his celebrity
became such a point that you didn'tlike that overshadowed what he was a celebrity
for, Like Mickey Cohen in Laif you ever know that story, you
(23:07):
know, the LA Confidential type ofstuff, like you know, or We're
al Capone, you know people likethat. I mean, OJ Simpson was
a huge gregar O. J.Simpson, to be honest, was a
lot like Magic. Not not thatMagic is a double murderer or anything like
that. It feels like he's murderingus when he trolls us with the two
and a half month of Italian vacation. Every every summer here I am in
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Positano a thank you. But everytime OJ walked into a room, it
was like magic, you know,with the big smile, the really outgoing
personality, knew how to be aroundpeople. People loved being around him.
You know, he really came offlike that in person. There's no doubt
about that. He had the cultof personality in a lot of ways.
(23:52):
But man, he took that prettyfar. I mean, his whole relationship
at USC and that celebrity that hegenerated at USC, Liner and Reggie Bush,
that's what carried him. Of course, he was a great pro,
unlike Liner and Reggie Bush, butthat's really what carried him throughout. It
carried his media career, and itcarried his life pre murders, during the
(24:15):
murder trial and all that, andpost murder. A guy named Wayne Hughes,
who was USC's biggest under covered donor. He's the guy that paid for
all OJ's defense. I mean,OJ's defense was paid for by a USC
donor and one of the biggest donorsin the history of West Coast Education.
He paid for OJ's defense. Soit's a pretty amazing the connection with the
(24:38):
university that still exists today and us. He had no trouble taking his money.
Hell, they let him place linzWan as the athletic director and his
bff Max mckeas as president. Whenyou saw Oj the last time, yes,
did he thank you and your familyfor helping him hide the murder weapon?
No? Okay, I'm just tryingto get to the bottom of this
(25:02):
here, Okay, I don't Idon't want to. Did they ever find
the night I don't know it wasyour dry storage. Wasn't Oj on your
on his way to the restaurant?Though? Well we thought he's not.
He's not kidding. He's The sadpart is he's not kidding. Uh,
(25:22):
there was a moment. Now,look, because some of these people are
still alive. I don't want tosay anything, but OJ may have been
searching for somebody in Sampedro that thatknew, somebody that had enough connections or
was connected well enough to get himon an uncharted boat and get him out
of the country. Uh. Thatwould only happen in the La Harbor,
(25:44):
and that would only happen through oneperson who's I'm not gonna say. But
when he went on the he nevergot on the one ten south, but
when he got on the one ohfive I think it was the one oh
five west, which or east,looking like he headed to the onet in
south, whichever way it was.My father started to say, he's coming
here. And we were all atthe restaurant watching on TV. You know,
(26:08):
it's five o'clock on a Friday.We were just opening up. BIZ
watched and he said, clear thewalk in, freezer. So we went
and started to clear the walk in, to hide Oj, to get him
on a boat. Because at thattime, my father and all the guys,
all the ex teammates, were like, this is an injustice. He
is innocent, you know, Andthen like forty eight hours later, my
(26:29):
dad was like, he had murderedthose people, you know. But yeah,
you know what I mean. Iknow that this is kind of a
shotgun effect we're given here, butI'm just giving you a little bit of
my history in this situation. Imean, that would have been wild had
he shown up to do you thatwe would have been all jail. Now
do you think that Gascon's eating offglemino soup in the front, We're hiding
(26:52):
Oj in the back. See,I was gonna ask, like, do
you think that that would have beengood or bad for business? You know?
Okay, yeah, because you knowthat's the spot that's everything was good
for this. I mean, hey, Matt, we killed Natalie Wood and
people kept coming in after that.It's the last place she had dinner.
I drove them through the docks.Really, yes, yes, wow.
(27:15):
So anyway, there's some OJ historyfor you. We had some earlier too.
Yeah. Well, it's good thatwe got. Did you enjoy that
you got anything else? I'm assuranceListen, I've got you know, I've
got all sorts of stuff. ButI don't want to I don't want to
get anybody in trouble here. I'mjust trying to get to the bottom of
it, you know, I justwant to know what happened. I mean
I found out earlier that Kato'kalin shopsat a Von's Locally, our producer for
(27:37):
two pros lead to lap he seesthem all the time, yes, around
man, Yeah, he's just kindof kind of hanging out, still a
local douche. Locally, he's aVond's. We'll be back with a secret
text till so Rodeo round up.If you're at the Von Store, give
us a hot thank you everybody forlistening, Petro and Money here in our
(28:02):
third hour. Don't forget. TheBeach Life Festival returns to the sands of
Redondo Beach May third through May fifth, with performances by Sting Steel, Pulse,
My Morning Jacket, zz Top.Get tickets now at Beachlife Festival dot
com and I will be there.I worked that event since its inception,
(28:23):
and we have Dodgers and San Diegotomorrow. A big thank you to Jonas
Knox for being here all day.We appreciate that it's not every damn night.
Not easy to get up at oneam and do the two pros and
a cup of Joe and come inhere and chop it up. And he
was dying like Lawrence of Arabia,dying for coffee, and almost said that
(28:45):
he would suck a d That's howbad, That's how bad he wanted.
Kates had to go get him coffeebecause Jonas doesn't understand the building and it
was a little awkward there and wecouldn't find Brady worth it, but we
ended up with Brady and Dave Dousick, both scheduled guests, and even Vic
(29:08):
were any of them on time,only one, Dave Dousick. But we
got everybody at a certain point,and we still have another hour of great
sports talk still to come. Butright now it is time for some secret
text dosos. The secret texts fine, brought to you by your so called
(29:29):
Toyota dealers. We make it easythat changed. I jumped to Toyota.
I'm happy you know me and mysix to coma. I'm a taco truck
guy myself. I feel pretty goodabout it too. I like when people
are like, how's the transition,It's like it's a free car. You
shut up. Okay, here's atext, the secret text sa fine,
(29:51):
brought to you by your so calledToyota dealers. We make it easy easy
on you. With the death ofOJ, you now have the mantle of
the most hated alum of USC.I don't know, I mean, who
else is in the running? Like, who's second? When somebody goes that,
(30:12):
you know, hyperbolic, who's secondon that list? The most hated
USC alum? Who'd you think itis? Is there any other criminals I
can think of or that's known thatwell? I can't think of anything.
I mean, Mike Garrett, whoscrewed up the program. You know,
they got those big sanctions because helet Pete Carroll do whatever he wanted.
But that's post playing career. Butso is Oje Lynn Swan, who now
(30:36):
doesn't show up like the guys whowere all ad and failed and looked like
idiots were all. Well, youcan't really say that about Garrett because he
hired Pete Carroll although he oversaw areal lack of institutional control. And then
Pat Hayden, who hired Clay Heltonfor God's sakes, and Lynn Swan and
the Varsity Blues scandal and all thatstuff. So three big time x USC
(31:00):
superstars, the first Heisman winner inthe history of LA and Mike Garrett,
local guy East LA and Pat HaydenSaint Pat from beautiful Bishop of Mott High
School Go Lancers and Lynn Swan oneof the greatest receivers that ever played though
and Lyn Swann went to Sarah HighSchool up north, same as Tom Brady
(31:22):
and Barry Bonds. Those three guysare hated because they failed as ads there
and they brought USC down to thebasement. Now was the Bonarino around long
enough to get on that list,So Bonarino never played at SC and we're
talking about people that played football atUSC. I'm just a nuisance to people,
But I don't think I'm the mosthated alum at USC. I don't
(31:42):
think people think about me enough forthat to be the case. So you're
saying Joel Klatt, your former TVwife as you used to call him,
asked for a divorce. I thinkit was just kind of implied. Like
when Marilyn Monroe when her name wasNorma Jean, like married some high school
guy or something, and then ata certain point she's got like missile boobs
(32:07):
and she's a gigantic movie star,nimfo maniac, addicted to bills. Yeah,
it's like she's gonna move on,right, you know what I mean,
She's gonna marry Joe DiMaggio. Youknow, I mean he stands there
next to Gus Johnson. It's hangingout with Jenny Taft, America's sweetheart.
You know, at a certain point, he can't be my TV husband,
so he outgrew you. He outgrewme, His fame outgrew my husbandry.
(32:29):
If that makes any sense. Yeah, I mean it's it's still a little
bit disrespectful you know, a halfto home. No, I mean yeah,
just like I know you want tohang out with the kids, but
like, there are you know,certain sacrifices you've got to make to keep
a relationship together, and some peoplearen't. But again, as I said,
nothing wrong with that. The morepeople fall out, the more I
rise up looking around at everybody elsegetting tossed over the top rope pee.
(32:50):
God, this show's great, everybody. I guess I'm the only one left.
Wow. The echo on Vick isterrible today. I don't usually hear
it on the radio, but it'sloud and clear today. Could warrant another
suspension. Whoa Kates, I don'tknow. I didn't think it was that
bad. I didn't think it wasthat bad either. I mean, did
you that Is that the first timeyou really felt vics echo and the lip
(33:13):
smacking live? I mean I've heardit a little bit when he comes on
when I'm filling in for Fred orRodney, But and they do less to
cover it up. Oh no,Fred like showcases. Yeah, and it's
like, what are we doing?Yeah, we're like a professional radio station.
What are we doing? Fred's likethe person who won't get on the
roller coaster, but he'll stand nextto it when the water spots? Are
you gonna barf? Can we geta clip of that fat ass fart or
(33:37):
what? Apparently there was a fartthis morning that ruined Jonas's big opportunity on
the Dan Patrick Show. You know, you go to the Dan Patrick Show
and your producer wrecks it with afart. You get a big local TV
opportunity and they wreck it with somefake Latino guy stopped us dead dar trap.
(33:58):
You're gonna be working with Brent sortskyO. Great love, Brett.
We'll be right back with more petrosand money on m FI seventy l a
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