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Hear the greatest prank call of all time! ■ O.J.’s 4 secrets to a great life ■ How O.J. launched the Kardashian Empire ■ Why there can never be another star as big as O.J.. ■ How O.J. saved Los Angeles ■ The curse of O.J., and its victims ■ The Dream Team – where are they now? ■ How O.J. became an industry
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How close can you be to the most famous murder in history? It varies. A lot. I dined more than once at Mezzaluna,
the restaurant where Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman were last seen alive. (The location was most recently a Peet’s coffee joint, but that failed. Maybe the land is cursed.
In a macabre twist, Mezzaluna is a type of kitchen knife, like this:
The murder weapon was never found, but forensics guys figured it to be something like this:
Ron’s father, Fred, must have worked or lived somewhere in my vicinity. On several occasions, I saw him crawling in rush hour traffic on the 101 Ventura Freeway. He looked like the saddest man on earth.
I once saw OJ at La Guardia Airport. He was a big guy, but small for a football player. People swarmed him like he was a rock star.
I visited the murder site.
It was a short walk from my office in the Westwood area of LA. It was only a day or two after. Some of the blood had been mopped up, but there was still plenty caked in the grout. The bodies had beeen removed.
One of my listeners, Rich, tells me he lives near Nicole Brown Simpson’s grave. When he shoots a picture, I’ll post it here.
A few months before the murders, LA was pounded by an incredible earthquake. My home was knocked off its footings. The TV was thrown across the room. The violence of the temblor – especially the vertical motion – was beyond belief. It only lasted around 45 seconds, but it knocked Los Angeles off its footings, too.
I had no power in my home for several days and no water for about a week.
The worst thing about quakes is the aftershocks. They continued for many days with no predictability of timing, duration or intensity. Why clean up the house if at any moment, it might be pounded again? I’ll have to do a show on the quake, but where I’m going with this is – in a weird way – OJ was exactly what Los Angeles needed. A massive distraction. With the Northridge earthquake, LA had lived through a real-life disaster movie. The OJ simpson media circus was the comic relief.
For well over a year, Los Angeles was able to forget about the depressed economy, the homes upside down on their mortgages, the raging unemployment – and focus on the nicest guy in the world turned double murderer. When the cameras were not on the relatives of the victims, it was the funniest show ever put on TV. Ever.
Now, a quarter century later, OJ is still providing laughs. Clearly, he loves the limelight, so he just started tweeting. As of this writing, he has 750,000 Twitter followers, growing at about 30,000 per day.
At first glance, one might think, “Wow. He’s still popular.” Until you look at the Tweets.
Brutal.
But then, so was he, some say.
I predict he’ll shut the account down. If you want to visit it, click here https://twitter.com/TheRealOJ32 . Soon.
OJ is nothing if not resilient. But I’m not certain even he can withstand the level of abuse and revulsion he’s getting via Twitter.
Was OJ guilty? It sure looked that way. Do I care? Not in the slightest. The American court system is catastrophically fucked. Anyone who denies this is delusional. (It’s terrifying how many D.A.s deny this fact. At least they could cop to the truth.)
Was OJ all bad? Again, I couldn’t give a rat’s ass. Never met the guy, probably never will. But he has some standout qualities that all of us can emulate and deploy for our own betterment.
Love him or hate him, a weaker, less disciplined person would have folded long ago. So he must know something about survival. I’ve studied OJ for a long time, and I’ve figured out the four secrets that have kept him not only alive, but enjoying life – after all these years.
Listen and discover them for yourself.