Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - 7/22/17 - The Country Stopped For OJ ... Again

Episode Date: July 22, 2017

This past week, OJ Simpson was granted parole after serving nine years in prison. Jeffy talks about how the world stopped for OJ during the chase in the white Bronco in the '90s, and they stopped again to see the parole decision.Follow Jeffy on Twitter: @JeffyMRALike Jeffy on Facebook: www.facebook.com/JeffFisherRadioFollow Jeffy on Instagram: @jeffymra Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Blaze Radio Network On Demand. The Jeff Fisher Show. Saturday mornings, 9 to noon Eastern. On the Blaze Radio Network. You know, every Friday, I think to myself, tomorrow's the show. What are we going to talk about?

You know, there's so many things that everybody's already talked about. And I try to make the Saturday show. You've got to cover some of the stuff. But I know I hate to cover the same stuff that everybody is, has always covered over and over again. a week long. And I sit down and then I've got, you know, eight hours of material of just stuff that's weird,

that's good, there's good, bad, and the ugly forever. But then there's stuff that you have to talk about, right? I mean, for those of you that were two, when the O.J. Simpson trial was going on. And there's many of you, I know, believe me. Hey, yes, my kids. Hey, you know who OJ is? Who?

I didn't ask them because I didn't want them to answer that way, so I have to tell them, I'm going to give them the complete story, and then I'm going to ask them, who's OJ? So they'll actually know. But the country was, you know, a completely different country at the time of the original OJ trial where he was found innocent, found not guilty. Everyone seems to forget that.

Yeah, I heard about the civil trial. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, so what. That little thing, a little civil trial. I mean, I want to believe that O.J. didn't do it. I really do. You know, growing up, OJ. was the juice. OJ. Simpson, O'Hol, James, Cisson. He was the man.

It was a different world. And that's why the press is so infatuated with it today. Right? He got in trouble. he had to go back in prison. He rolled the dice. They apparently tried to make a deal with him this last time and said, look, you know, plea bargain, you do a couple of years,

maybe a year and a half, two years, maybe three tops you get out. And OJ was like, no, no. And so, what you get? You roll the dice. And, you know, nine years later, there was all kinds of reports on how bad he was looking. I mean, he came out for the parole board. He looked good.

I mean, obviously he's got, you know, he's beat up from the NFL, beat up from, you know, 70 years of life, and, you know, slow walking on those knees like the rest of us. But he looks great. He looked great. And he got his, and they paroled him as expected. There are a couple of things, though, that were surprising in the coverage of the O.J. Simpson. in parole case.

He got, he had, you know, his daughter spoke and his kids, and, you know, his kids are living in Florida now. His son, I believe, is selling real estate in Tampa Bay Area. His daughter, I think, is living down in, you know, Miami, Fort Lauderdale, neck of the woods,

where O.J., I believe, was living at the time when he got in Drubble in Vegas. But it was, it was definitely a different, I mean, it was O.J. Simpson, this guy, it was part of the, That's why, and that's another reason why it was so big, is that he was kind of part of the media. You know, he was doing football games. He was the face. He was this face of OJ.

He was the face of the NFL and this guy that was up on a pedestal. Now, behind the scenes, we find out that he wasn't that, wasn't that good of a guy. There was, you know, a little rage issues. Come along with being OJ. I'm sure there's some people that think maybe there's. range went too far, like Nicole Brown's symptoms, those two people. But he said a couple of things in front of the parole board that I found strange. And I thought, maybe he just misspoke, you know.

But let's give a listen to the one thing you talked about was conflict-free. I've always thought I've been pretty good with people. and I've basically spent a conflict-free life. Right? Right! Juice. I love you. But, dude, I'm not sure what the whole,

maybe we need to rethink what conflict means. Because, uh, ooh, bro. Uh, that he, uh, he went on. I'm no danger to pull a gun on anybody. I've never had in my life I've never been accused of it in my life nobody's ever accused me of pulling any weapon on them

uh well that's not really true isn't OJ now the case that he's specifically talking about in Vegas he did not he got the weapons charge and everything but I don't think it was if I remember right it wasn't him that had the weapon right

he was the one that was in charge telling them all all these people with me you have weapons don't move, but I don't have a weapon. And when you break into, let's say you break into a hotel room and you're looking to take things. Is that a conflict-free life? Because he said, I basically spend a conflict-free life.

Right? Right. And then, uh, I mean, there was that whole murder trial we watched on TV endlessly in the 90s. I mean, we all, look, and I say we all. I know that many of you, if you were alive, were way too young. And it was your parents or your older siblings that were infatuated with the OJKs. But those of us that were alive like my grandfather who told me all about it,

because I was way too young to remember. We were all doing the same thing. All the radio stations, all the radio stations, where at the time there was a thing about ice cream melting and how long it takes to, I should have, I wasn't going to talk about OJ. Because I know you, look, you're inundated with OJ this past week. And ever since they were going to go up in front of the parole board,

the world's been on fire. Because he was one, you know, he's one of the press and they all loved him. And the people who are older are still infatuated with them. the younger people who were two and three at the time in the 90s or maybe five are like so so yeah he's in the Hall of Fame so I mean at the time he was great over 2,000 yards rushing 14 games. OJ Simpson and the Buffalo Bills broke him down man they rode him like a workhorse but he did

it and he I mean he rose above bros above at all But then when his Nicole Brown Simpson, when they were tragically killed, and he was put on trial for tragically killing them, wasn't their weapons used? Wasn't their weapons used? Because he said, he said that no one ever accused of him. no danger to pull a gun on anybody.

You know, I've never had in my life. I've never been accused of it in my life. Nobody's ever accused me of pulling any weapon on them. See, I'm trying to remember, was there some sort of weapon used? Some sort of weapon used with that crew. Some kind of, some kind of weapon. I don't remember what it was. Anyway, congratulations, O.J.

You're out on parole. You got the NFL pension. You're living large. There's conflicting results on how much money he's going to get. Some reports are talking about $25,000 a month. I think it broke down. ESPN broke it down to about $10,000 or $12,000 a month from the NFL that nobody could touch because that's part of the agreement with the union

and the pension plan with the NFL. Because all the money that he makes is supposed to go to the Goldman. right? I mean, they get all that money, millions of dollars and everything, and that was part of the deal with the robbery in Vegas, is that he was taking their stuff because he was making all this money on the side. And he was trying to make some cash on the side, and he was taking his property back.

So, I mean, it was at the time when the O.J. Simpson case broke, it was the deal. I mean, the world stopped for that stupid white bronco. And I don't know that there's, you know, 9-11, right? The world, I mean, the world stopped, and it was horrific.

But it was kind of a different kind of stop. You know, we were under attack, and it wasn't stopping for just a particular story. I mean, it just felt like, I don't know that there is something that would make us do that again. I mean, with all of us just stopping and looking at, watching a stupid white Bronco drive down the highway in California, agonizing and dumb.