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155: O.J.: Made in America - Part 2 (with Karen Geier) (Patreon)

Published:
2023-12-31 16:46:47
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2023-12-31 16:58:28
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2024-11
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In the second part of our salute to Ezra Edelman’s 2016 documentary O.J.: Made in America, Karen Geier and I discuss the back half of the film; from the beginning of the criminal trial, to the ways the prosecution messed up their argument and allowed the “Dream Team” to successfully change the subject of the case to the racist conduct of the LAPD, to the shocking verdict and the aftermath.

The last chapter of the film is a breathtaking descent into hell, with O.J. eventually found liable for the deaths of Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman in civil court and his desperate attempts to resuscitate his showbiz career (while hiding the money from the Goldman family), finding himself at the absolute bottom of the entertainment food chain, including the exploitative hidden camera prank show “Juiced” and finally his arrest for what amounted to petty larceny in the demimonde of sports memorabilia collectors, where the judge threw the book at him.

Karen and I discuss how the culture was forever changed by the O.J. Simpson media circus and how this film is a masterclass in the study of a narcissist who felt none of the rules of the world applied to him, and how understanding personality cults helps to explain why O.J got away with it for so long and yet still could not avoid the fate of most sociopaths, in a film that is ultimately about white privilege as much as it is about justice denied and toxic celebrities.

Happy New Year to all Junk Filter patrons and thank you so much for your support of the show.

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TV commercial for “Juiced”, 2006

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Jesper Ohlsson

...My cunt-quip was "serial killers usually keep it to a double spaced letter when they want to dab on people, but this guy went the extra mile of doing it in book-length". ...it was interesting to learn that a lot of the "If I did it" book was less about public gloating, and more (seemingly) as a precursor-thing as profit-horizons were rapidly closing off for him. As a european observer - who at the time had no contextual understanding of deeper race relations in the US, and certainly no knowledge of the fact that LA police has de-facto gangs like Lynwood Vikings as part of their whole deal - the main pop-takeaways from that trial was a) the glove, and b) that "he wrote a book gloating about getting away with it". I briefly looked up why some american trials are televised and some are not, and the short answer seems to be "it's up to the judge's arbitrary decision whether or not the case is of sufficient public interest" (which opens up other questions, like, "is the sitting judge trying to pivot into politics?", for example). Good two-parter, and the second part landed perfectly for me as I was gearing up for New Year's celebration.