OJ Unseen: Exploitation of Evil (2026) s01e04 Episode Script

[rapping] All you player haters
that you suck at MC's
better get on your knees,
and get some of deez!
-[Todd] And cut.
-[music stops]
[dancer] Right here.
-Whoa! [chuckles]
-[dancer] Right here.
Christie Prody, who was O.J.'s
girlfriend at the time,
she was there.
Oh.
[giggles]
[owner's friend]
Here's what you say.
In a situation like this,
you say that --
[Luc] On her bare arms were
finger marks,
bruises all over her arms.
I couldn't help think about
Nicole's abuse by O.J.
[Christopher]
You took these photographs,
is that correct?
[Denise]
Yes, I did. [sobs]
Nicole asked me
to take them for her.
[Christopher] It's clear to me
that what Nicole Brown was doing
was identifying her future
murderer,
and she was trying to
establish for us,
for myself and Mr. Gordon,
and Ms. Clark,
proof of a pattern
of abuse.
[Luc] His hands, they're like
the size of baseball mitts.
They were huge.
Seeing all those bruises,
it seemed to be like a bit of
a wake up call.
You know, it's like, who are we
really dealing with?
[Luc]
Yeah, I got worried that maybe
these are the hands
that killed someone.
Viciously killed someone.
[ominous music plays]
[reporter]
She stood by O.J. for 13 years,
but now, Christie Prody claims
O.J. subjected her
to constant physical
and emotional abuse.
You did try to leave him?
Oh, absolutely, several times.
What happened when you
tried to do that?
He would find me.
I couldn't leave.
A few years after "Juiced,"
Christie came out and said
that he abused her.
I know a lot of victims are
afraid to come out
and say anything,
and so I can't imagine
what it was like for Christie.
[crew]
This is take one, Christie.
Soft sticks.
No.
I know that we were
probably partying
that night,
and I really am pretty
much anemic.
I did bruise very easily.
I'm not justifying
or rationalizing
for any type of anyone
being a --
any man putting his hands
on a woman,
because I don't think
that's right.
[O.J. indistinct]
[Christie] We weren't always
happy and great.
And we did argue.
I'm not saying he's a perfect
boyfriend in any way, shape, or form.
He is a little possessive,
and he was
a little jealous,
but I guess most people are.
I sat there and was like,
"Man, is this really what
we think it is?"
And if it is,
this is a much
larger conversation.
He never raised a hand to me.
Not one time.
[Melissa] She very much
seemed like a victim,
and a lot of times
a victim will protect
the person that is
victimizing them.
This many years later, I'm not
still covering for him
by saying that that never
happened, because it didn't.
I didn't want
to ask her about it.
I didn't want to know.
This Todd would have checked
on her welfare.
That Todd
I couldn't have anything else
go wrong in that.
And if I said something,
what happens?
Does she tell O.J.
and O.J. blows up?
I don't know.
[Tyson] That's the way it is.
When we were in Las Vegas is
where we finished our rap video
and we enlisted the help
of some girls.
-[tense music plays]
-They were like all blonde,
who were all like Nicole
look-alikes.
[stammers]
I'm pimp.
O.J. said, "If I wouldn't
have become
a football player,
I would've been a pimp."
Yeah.
[Martin] Cameras are rolling
and stand by.
Flashlights?
[indistinct chatter]
[Tyson] The guy who rented
the mansion out to us
had invited some buddies
with him.
[screaming]
What''s up!
Like he was trying to show off
to his buddies
that he knew O.J. Simpson or
something like that.
It was really freaking sketchy.
[laughing]
[owner's friend, indistinct]
And the energy just got
really kind of drunk
and really intense.
-[Martin] Yes.
-[Tyson] Oh, boy, O.J.
[Martin]
And you can rub him.
[owner]
Let's get harder, baby.
[Jamele] There's a stunning
lack of self-awareness.
And so why would anybody expect
that they would have any level
of compassion for the people
that they were gonna involve in this?
[Martin] It was very dark.
And O.J. was shining in
that environment.
[indistinct chatter]
[Tyson] Or we're just
gonna wait --
I can only do
my very, very, best.
That was potentially
a disaster waiting to happen.
And so I finally said
-[Todd] Oh, shoot.
-[indistinct chatter]
[Todd speaking]
[bleep]
This show was not savory.
Rick, who he is as a person,
I can't speak for.
But if you're driving a show
like the O.J. Simpson show,
you can't turn on
your morality.
You've got to turn it off.
[Martin] Because you can't pay
attention to the morality of
what you're doing, especially
with someone like O.J.
There's no other way to do it.
These women, they're just
trying to live their dreams
or work, just trying to make
money, trying to make it.
They're living high-risk lives.
Maybe don't give them alcohol
and then have them dance naked
for O.J. Simpson.
[girls, indistinct chatter]
O.J. was essentially
the producer's puppet here,
and they were just
banking on that.
[O.J. speaking]
OK.
That's when he started thinking
about his public image.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Um, well, I think,
you know, man, this is
it's interesting because
It's -- it's different now,
and
[stammers]
I think -- I think what
I would tell anybody is
I'm creating entertainment.
There's hits
and there's misses.
But I got to tell you,
I own who I am.
Yeah.
[Tyson] So at some point
we're on a break,
and I'm not gonna name any names
besides O.J., Christie,
and myself
because I don't wanna
implicate anyone else,
but we went outside
and smoked some weed.
Stop with the
[indistinct laughing, chatter]
[O.J.] Stop.
[Tyson] And so we go back in
to resume shooting,
and O.J. starts freaking out.
He can't find his shirt
that he came in.
Apparently, it was
his favorite shirt.
And he was pissed off about not
being able to find his shirt.
[Martin] Todd was off
putting out fires.
And the girls were coming to me
about being accosted
by this owner.
[Harmon] Suddenly we hear,
like, screaming in the bathroom.
And the guy who -- who owned
the mansion, and he was, like,
screaming something like,
"You can't talk to me
that way, bitch!"
Whatever was happening
with the owner of that place
and the girls, it was bad.
[voices overlapping]
[Todd] There was chaos,
and I heard, like,
"Get the F out,
get out of here!"
[Tyson] O.J. starts
getting paranoid.
And I'm hearing,
"Tyson! Tyson, get in here!
We gotta get the [bleep] out!"
I -- we're done.
[Tyson] O.J., he was just like,
"Christie get in
the goddamn car.
"Let's go!
We got to get
the [bleep] out of here."
[Tyson]
After we left the Mansion,
we were driving to the Palms,
and O.J., he realizes Christie
still has her beer in her hand
in the backseat.
He starts yelling at Christie,
and he's like,
"You got to get rid
of that beer.
"Everybody knows me up there.
"When we get out of the car,
you can't step out
with a beer."
This was the genuinely mad O.J.
that I really saw.
Like "Scandalous."
-Can we ask you
a few questions.
-No!
[Tyson]
Rap session
Those were like acting,
but not acting, kind of.
This was real.
And the whole time
I'm thinking,
they're "juicing" me
right now.
And she's like, "What am I
supposed to do with it?"
He's like, "[bleep] it,
just leave it here.
"That's Tyson's job.
Tyson will take care of it."
That's the one time the entire
shoot that I worked with O.J.
that I felt like
he belittled me,
as opposed to
was working with me.
It was just
kind of rude, you know?
It's this paradox.
There's this generous
nature to him.
And then there's also
this combustible,
volatile, explosive flip side.
It was at his whim,
depending on the mood
that he was in.
[Martin]
After the mansion debacle,
we wrapped and we didn't shoot
"Juiced" anymore,
and I felt a little dirty.
[Luc] I was exhausted.
I was whipped.
That whole project emotionally
was intensive,
physically was intensive,
and then you're wondering,
"What the hell was I part of?"
[Todd] I was excited to get
this behind me.
I felt proud that I was
able to pull this off.
[Todd] When I got home thinking
that my fiancée would be there,
I opened the door and there was
nothing in the house.
There was a mattress
and there was a TV.
And I figured out really
quickly that she left.
It was a, "Surprise!
Here's your reward for
doing this project."
I mean, look,
I was quite the ass
during this whole production
to my fiancée.
[Todd]
O.J., say, hi to Carrie.
Hey, Carrie,
what's happening, baby?
I was not making her a priority.
I was making
my career a priority.
I just wanted it.
I wanted that career.
I thought this was the project.
But without my fiancée,
I just wanted to finish
the damn thing.
[Rick] Hidden camera
comedy shows,
even under the best
of circumstances,
aren't necessarily the easiest
shows to make.
While "Juiced" was being made,
I mean, I'm running a business.
I'm putting out three to four
new titles a month,
and I've got a very demanding,
unforgiving schedule.
Rick made a lot of big bets,
and I think this was
his biggest bet
that he had ever made.
With one tainted product
in "Juiced,"
it would affect his whole
distribution channel.
And then you're done.
Oh, they'll jump on it.
They'll dog it.
They'll do what they got to do,
you know, what they always do.
We're preconceived.
"This is the message we got
to put out about O.J.,"
and it just don't jive with
what the facts are.
[Rick] You have to remember,
O.J. was a magnet
for the media,
and it didn't like O.J.
[Todd] But you've never been
victim of negative press
before, have you?
-[laughs]
Skewed press.
Rick had a real big plan
behind the launch.
In fact, there wasn't gonna
be any press before.
We wanted it to go
out there first and then,
let the general public decide
what to do with it.
The marketing plan was,
you have to see it
for yourself.
Part of the key to a lot of
my videos was secrecy.
We need to keep this amongst
ourselves because
"Juiced" wasn't
just another title.
There was a cloud of controversy
swirling around O.J.
wherever he went.
The stakes, they were sky high.
This is my
IED.
My improvised
entertainment device.
This nuclear scale detonation
into the media.
I was gonna have O.J.
in disguise
going on a talk show.
You're about to get"Juiced."
[Rick]
Everybody's talking about
this video that you gotta see.
And there's
nowhere else to get it.
What's the old saying?
Man makes plans and God laughs.
O.J. is back, you know?
He's doing interviews
to celebrate
the 10th anniversary of
not killing his wife.
[Rick] So I'm in a bar and I see
Jimmy Kimmel on TV,
and he's holding a picture
up of a guy
that looks really familiar.
I wish I was making this up,
but this is a picture,
this really is a picture of O.J.
in disguise.
And then he plays tricks
on people.
And I'm like,
"What is going on?"
Great, now
I'm being "Juiced."
[Kimmel] I guess they put
prosthetics on him
like the Jamie Kennedy show.
[Rick] Someone in the crew
leaked this thing.
I'm immediately thinking of
who and how did this happen?
I'm on the cover of this --
I'm in this magazine with O.J.
[Rick] We started to, you know,
kind of go down the list
of suspects.
Mighty Mike doesn't have
a filter, so could Mighty Mike
have said something
to somebody?
Easily.
[Mighty Mike]
That's me.
It's crazy.
[Mighty Mike]
I was in "Stuff" Magazine
with a picture of me and O.J.,
and I'm like,
"Wow, OK, that's weird."
I'm in deep [bleep].
I better start running.
I better start running, man.
"During his extensive search
for the real killers,
O.J. hangs out at a strip club
with a [bleep].
[crew]
Tyson is a super loyal guy.
No way he's the leaker.
Oh.
Traffic.
[Rick] O.J.'s no stranger
to being a suspect.
Maybe the leaker's O.J. himself.
[Rick] Maybe it was Martin.
Harmon was a bit of
a wild card,
and he wasn't super vetted.
Could've been Luc?
Todd?
Rick, come on.
I'm not gonna deal with that.
You know, sometimes I think,
"Man, did I push him too far?"
[Rick] Go make it work.
Go make it work.
[tense music builds]
I'm the infiltrator.
[Mighty Mike]
Ah, [bleep].
[Harmon] I wrote the story,
and the intent was this
character study of this man
who's fallen from grace,
trying to make this comeback
project with the worst
conceived idea for a hidden
camera prank show.
I thought people would
be outraged.
Like, "How dare you have
this double alleged murderer
out there pulling wacky hidden
camera pranks."
And I thought,
"This is like the best story
I've written."
[Todd] I think it was
like a week before
it was supposed to launch.
-[phone rings]
[Todd] Rick calls me.
I'm thinking,
"Great! Oh, I finally get
to see it cut."
The minute I pick up the phone,
he is screaming at the top
of his lungs.
I didn't know Harmon
had leaked it.
"I thought you had NDAs."
I'm like, "I do."
"I thought you told this guy
not to talk."
I did.
[Tyson] Harmon kind of
spilled the beans
before the beans were
supposed to be eaten.
[Todd] When Harmon's article
came out,
all the media picked it up.
[ET News]
Believe it or not, this is O.J.
The photo from "Stuff" Magazine.
shows the former
gridiron great --
[Todd] Jimmy Kimmel
picked it up.
Does "Juicing" mean
cutting people open
and squeezing
the fluids out of them?
Howard Stern picked it up.
[Stern] So I'm reading this
article in "Stuff" Magazine.
It's the most kick-ass article
you'd ever want to read
about O.J.
[Harmon] The story published.
Next thing,
I'm on "The Howard Stern Show."
-[Stern] Hey, Harmon.
-Hey, how are you, Howard?
[Stern] How you doing, man?
I read your article.
I had to get you on the air.
[Harmon]
I mean, you haven't lived
until you actually heard
O.J. jokes from O.J. himself.
[laughing]
-[Robin] He tells O.J. jokes?
-[Harmon] Yeah, yeah.
Like, one time, he's just like,
"Who's the first Jewish guy
to get a Heisman?"
-[man] Yeah.
-[woman] You should tell me.
[Rick] I didn't see it coming.
He wasn't on my radar screen.
[Harmon]
I had, like, 20 messages
on my phone from Rick.
He's like, "I'm not angry
you're on Howard Stern.
"I'm angry because
you're bad mouthing the product.
You're calling the product
not funny."
Do you know why?
It wasn't funny.
[Harmon] I got this.
[Tyson]
After watching all the footage,
I see the seed being
planted there,
and I feel like an idiot
for not seeing those signs.
[Harmon] You know, it's just me
off on the sidelines,
constantly taking notes.
I had a disposable camera,
taking pictures the whole time.
Got a photo of me and O.J.
in the hotel room.
Those are the photos
for accompanying my story.
[Todd] During production, you
start to become really tight
with your crew members.
Harmon wasn't in on that.
You know, we'd go out
and have drinks at night,
he wasn't there.
Probably by design on him,
I assume.
[Harmon]
At night, I would just compile
the notes from the day
and write that up.
It was already written
in my head
and I just needed to finish
putting it on paper.
Before "Juice,"
I was doing comedy,
but I was also working
as a journalist.
I'd go out undercover and
I'd infiltrate extremist groups
and subcultures,
white-supremacist hate groups,
the Westboro Baptist Church,
anything horrible.
I was also infiltrating a lot
of reality TV shows.
-You're telling the truth.
-Hey! [laughs]
[Harmon] I already had
like one book out.
It was a collection of all
my best infiltration stories.
[Rick] He presented himself
like he was a above it,
yet all he ever wanted was
more camera time.
Sure, but you're also benefiting
from "Juiced."
If "Juiced" didn't exist, none
of us would be sitting here.
Oh, man, I can --
We'll knock it out.
While I knew it was going
to piss a lot of people off,
I knew that.
Let's be honest.
Like, I'm not trying to get
away from that.
I did think it was going to be
eyeballs no matter what.
This illusion of these eyeballs
were going to see past the fact
that it was O.J.,
and for whatever reason,
I thought that it would have
been OK to do this.
[indistinct speaking]
[Harmon]
You know, maybe they were
taking what they were doing
out of the equation, and
they were thinking more like,
"Oh, we're going to one up
and be the most ruckus of
all ruckus videos of all time."
So they're really not
thinking about,
well, who would this affect?
This is wrong with families of
the victims out there.
You're using our stories to
move your own career forward
or to profit from it.
The level of humanity is just
in the toilet,
if I can be honest.
[announcer] Get prepared to
witness the most highly anticipated
video of the year.
Get "Juiced."
Part of what the leak did was
it extended the release time.
My mindset was the farther away
I got from that leak,
the better.
But we started running into
some speed bumps,
distribution-wise.
[announcer]
Ron Goldman's father, Fred,
opened up about his reaction
to the DVD.
[Fred] I find it morally
reprehensible.
Disgusting.
Do you look at this
as blood money?
[Fred] Oh, absolutely.
The way things unraveled
with our media leak,
it took the atomic detonation
out of the equation.
There was a lot of pressure
to finish this thing.
In general, I've always been
pretty much of a team-player,
and once I see the product --
finished product,
you know, I already feel
that I'll be proud of it.
I think it's something
that is entertaining.
[Rick] O.J. didn't do "Juiced"
for it not to be seen.
O.J. was getting frustrated.
He was getting impatient.
Let's get on with this.
[answering machine]
Next message.
We were getting calls and texts
and whatever from O.J.
wanting to know
where we're at with the project.
"Juiced," at least in his mind,
was his comeback tale.
I've already read in one tabloid
that I was trying
to resurrect my career.
That's not
what I was doing at all.
I'm not looking to get back
in any, you know, full-time,
a lot of working,
even in this industry,
as much as I enjoy
this experience.
[Rick] It was high-risk,
high-reward, and if I miss,
there are gonna be
repercussions.
[answering machine]
End of message.
Rick tried to do damage-control,
but the damage was
already done.
[Rick] Because of the leak,
things started to unravel
in real-time.
And we're dealing with
the biggest media conglomerates
on the planet.
I had cable operators,
satellite providers,
retail outlets, where before
it was all gas, no brakes,
but everything O.J. touches
is radioactive.
Turn this goddamn camera off.
Turn the camera off, man.
The show wanted to play with
what we knew about O.J.,
what we know about O.J.
-I made this car famous.
-[laughing]
[Scaachi] Without fully
engaging in it.
This is a production that
seemed to think that
their viewer was stupid
and would flock to anything,
just because it was fame-driven.
It became this totally
negative thing,
and all the distributors
Rick lined up,
all ran for the hills.
At that point, nobody
wanted any O.J. content.
[Rick] All these things created
a circumstance of,
"Wait a second,
I got to make the tough call."
And I canceled the show.
Well, there you go.
And maybe it's done its job.
[Rick]
When I pulled "Juiced" in 2006,
that was an accelerant
in O.J.'s downfall.
He started to lose
some perspective,
and things would get even
more extreme for him.
That also led to him going off
and doing that other
book circus.
[reporter]
Welcome back to "Hardball."
You may remember the controversy
about O.J. Simpson
writing a book
about the murders of
Nicole Brown Simpson
and Ron Goldman called,
quote, "If I Did It."
Ultimately, what this book is,
is it is his confession.
I just remember Nicole fell
and hurt herself.
And I remember
I grabbed the knife.
I don't see guilt,
I don't see compassion.
I see somebody who has decided
that the murder of his ex-wife
is fodder and entertainment.
This is not him crying out
and saying,
"Oh, I really want
to confess to people."
It's like he's taunting
people with it.
After that, I don't remember,
except I'm standing there
and there's all kind of stuff
around and, um, um
[Judith]
What kind of stuff?
Blood and stuff like that.
-I'm wanna back up.
-This is hard.
-This is hard, I know.
-This is hard, yeah.
[Judith]
I want to back up to
He had much as admitted it
in a third-person.
And it was almost like he was
watching it,
and not part of it.
Hey, guys.
[Robin]
I believe, it in his own mind,
he disassociated,
and he really believed
it was someone else,
but he just knows
how they probably did it.
[Scaachi]
The only thing keeping him
relevant was the question of
if he had committed a double
homicide or not.
What a bleak last act.
That showed just how greedy
and selfish that he was,
that he was willing to write
a book like that
with his, Nicole's children
living right there in the house.
The Goldmans were later awarded
the rights to the book.
We made the decision
to ultimately publish the book
because we read it, and it read
just like a confession.
He was constantly striving
to return to the universal love
and adulation
that he received before,
and he seemed to not understand
that was never coming back.
[Scaachi] If he thought
he was gonna get that from
a hidden-camera reality show,
that's ludicrous.
If he thought he was gonna
get that from the book,
that's outrageous.
He just decided, "They already
think I'm a murderer.
They already think
I'm a villain, so why not?"
[Todd] After "Juiced,"
you know, I had some maturing
to do and I did it.
After about two years
of not talking,
Carrie and I reconnected.
We've been married
for 17 years in June.
And I think she loves
the new Todd
versus the Todd of 24 years ago.
I mean, look, I think you can
answer that question.
Nobody wants to be associated
with O.J. Simpson.
[Scaachi] O.J. just had to wait.
And there would be glossy
profiles written about him.
And he would have found
another act.
But he was impatient.
He was always in the zeitgeist.
That was his flaw.
He wouldn't shut up for a second
and let us miss him.
[news anchor]
Las Vegas police have named
O.J. Simpson as a suspect
in a break in at
a casino hotel room.
Knowing O.J. Simpson
affects my life to this day.
[news anchor] The victim,
a sports memorabilia auctioneer,
claims O.J. took off some
of the items.
When I get to Las Vegas,
I'm told O.J. wants me
to come see him.
And he said,
"Man, there's some guys in town
"who are trying
to sell my [bleep]
"and I just set up a meeting
where we'll be able
to go in and get my stuff back."
I said, "Well, cool."
He said, "Would you come along
and watch my back?"
[news reporter]
This is surveillance video
from that night
when O.J. and a group of men
went into the Palace Station.
[Walter] I'm thinking that
he just wants us to go help
carry the stuff.
And then after I said yes,
then he says,
"By the way,
can you get some heat?"
[news anchor]
The former football star
broke into the room
with five other men,
one of whom had a gun.
[Walter] We go in
and O.J.'s been drinking all day
and he comes through the door
and he's yelling,
"How you gonna steal my [bleep],
you mother[bleep].
Just roaring, you know?
[indistinct arguing overlaps]
[Walter]
I'm seeing what's happening.
I'm like, "Oh, my God,
this looks like a robbery.
This is going to be on every
major channel tomorrow."
[Scaachi] I listened
to the audio around the heist
and around him trying to get
this memorabilia back.
And it's just so clearly
someone who's mad about
his legacy being traded
by somebody else.
His defense was pretty much
to say that it was my idea.
He didn't know that
we had guns.
You know, he threw us
under the bus.
[news anchor]
Exactly 13 years after
O.J. Simpson was acquitted
in that infamous double
murder trial,
he was found guilty of
conspiracy to commit
armed robbery and kidnapping
in Clark County.
You know, I wasn't there
to hurt anybody.
I just wanted
my personal things.
And I realize now
I was stupid of me.
I am sorry.
I didn't mean to steal
anything from anybody.
And I didn't know I was doing
anything illegal.
[judge]
Earlier in this case,
I said to Mr. Simpson,
I didn't know if he was arrogant
or ignorant or both.
And during the trial,
I got the answer,
and it was both.
O.J. was sentenced to 33 years
in prison with
a chance of parole after nine.
They wanted to punish
O.J. Simpson
for the murder
of Nicole Simpson.
And that was payback for him
getting away with murder.
[producer speaking]
Hmm, that's a
that's a whole other story.
When you see the evidence,
and when you hear
the witnesses
And when you put it
all together,
the answer will be clear
to you, as well.
God, could this be the last
piece of the puzzle
of the whole
O.J. mystery?
[Extra reporter]
In New York, traffic stopped
cold in Times Square.
Thousands watched the verdicts
on a huge Sony JumboTron.
[Luc] Working with him confirmed
what I initially thought
when I first saw the live
Ford Bronco chase.
I think he did it.
Mr. Simpson, would you please
stand and face the jury?
If I were to unravel every
moment of O.J. giving me
dirty looks and him
being unsavory
and doing all these things,
I think he did it.
He didn't do it.
O.J. didn't do it.
And it's shitty that people
give him a [bleep] bad rep
and they call him a killer.
[Todd] I'm, like, mixed.
You know, I don't want to get
conspiracy theories,
but I don't think he was alone.
And I -- he's complicit.
Look, and for that,
you're guilty.
[juror] We, the jury,
in the above entitled action,
find the defendant,
Orenthal James Simpson
Maybe -- I will say, maybe --
look [stammers]
listen, listen, listen.
There -- there's no, uh
-[producer speaking]
-[stammers]
No, I
Do you really think
it's that simple?
[officer] All right, right over
here, Mr. Simpson.
[officer]
Hi, how you doing?
[officer]
Yeah, you got it.
[O.J.] If you're in jail,
you're in jail.
I mean, you're sitting on
a toilet without a toilet stool.
You know, cold, cold, steel,
stainless steel.
Trust me, there's no such
thing as country club jails.
Jail is jail.
[Scaachi] You know, even when
O.J. went to prison,
he was never out of
our consciousness.
We were always thinking
about him.
The O.J. frenzy is back
in full force.
[reporter] We're talking about
the O.J. Simpson case.
Are you saying this is the knife
that was used?
This is the knife that was used
to murder Nicole and Goldman.
I'm not black.
I'm O.J.!
And the Oscar goes to
"O.J.: Made in America."
It's this transcendence
of O.J. the man
into O.J. the myth.
And that's
the base that I was working
from with "Juiced."
[Lester]
And there is Mr. Simpson now
being brought into the room.
First time we have seen him
in many, many years.
23 years after
the Bronco chase,
14 million people watched
O.J.'s parole hearing, live.
Like they really care about
this guy and his inability
to stay out of the legal system.
[woman] Mr. Simpson, I do vote
to grant parole
and that will conclude
this hearing.
Thank you.
What is your reaction to O.J.
being granted parole?
Exhaustion.
Like, honestly, I've had enough
with this story,
at least, in the way
we consume it
or the way we push it.
This is a ratings grab
for sure.
O.J. just continued to add
to stranger turns to his life.
He joined social media.
He has over 100,000 followers,
like within hours.
Hey, Twitter world.
It's me, yours truly.
Happy Sunday.
Well, it's my Twitter site,
so it's my opinion.
Let's start
with Roe vs. Wade.
You know, O.J. was
so narcissistic
that he thought everybody
would just want to hear
anything that came out
of his mouth.
Transgender girls competing
against natural-born girls,
I guess.
Because, in his mind,
he was a celebrity still.
[O.J.] I don't believe
in looking back.
I always made it a point.
Don't introduce me as a former
football player.
I mean, you can --
They want to say, "Oh,
he was this and that." Fine.
I'm no former anything.
I am what I am.
I'm Popeye.
"I am what I am."
Hey, Twitter world,
it's me, yours truly.
I'm on vacation playing golf
from playing golf.
My life is fine.
Don't worry about me.
I live a very nice life.
I play golf.
I don't know what's next.
But for now, I truly like
the life that I'm living
right now.
[Jamele]
I do think about the victims,
and I think about
their families.
That's probably a level
of gut-wrenching
I probably can't
even understand.
In their mind, O.J.'s
post-acquittal life
should have been O.J., frankly,
just disappearing
from our collective
consciousness
because they expected him to be
more humble.
They expected him not to be
visible at all.
And he did literally
the opposite of that.
[Stern]
When somebody kills your brother
and they're on the golf course,
living a life that,
I mean, most people
don't get to live,
it's got to be maddening.
It's insane.
I think when he, you know,
the "yours truly,"
and the laughing and
the chuckling about everything,
I just, that part is really hard
to stomach
because I look at him and think
rage, murderer,
domestic violence abuser.
It's kind of a Greek tragedy
at times.
Do unto others.
Treat everybody the way
you want to be treated.
I think your life would be
a lot easier.
Breaking news.
Just moments ago,
NBC News confirmed
that O.J. Simpson has died
at the age of 76.
He succumbed to his battle
with cancer, surrounded
by his children
and grandchildren.
After O.J. died,
his estate accepted
a $58 million judgment
that covered the $33.5 million
that was from
the original civil case,
but also tacked on more
for interest.
Does anybody think
O.J. Simpson's estate
has $58 million to pay
the Goldmans?
Of course they don't.
As of 2015,
the Goldmans received
roughly $132,000,
which was not even 1%
of what O.J. owed them,
which is why they've been
auctioning off his memorabilia
and whatever they can to pay
this judgment.
[Jamele] They tried to auction
off O.J.''s Hall of Fame ring,
but they couldn't find it.
He's long gone, and
we're still talking about him.
He won.
It's exactly what he wanted.
He just wanted us to talk
about him.
So I'm sure he's
looking up, delighted.
[Rick] Some would say, ah,
maybe the world wasn't
ready for "Juiced" back then.
Too soon.
The fact that he was given
a forum, whatever it is,
I think all of it's wrong.
Any time that he gets,
whether it's just viewing him
on the golf course,
that's wrong.
It's been in a vault
for 20 years,
and no one's ever
seen it until now.
A lot has happened since then.
[reporter]
It is as if the most fundamental
laws of the media universe
have been utterly overthrown.
[reporter #2]
YouTube seems to be everywhere.
[reporter #3]
It's a phenomenon that some
are calling viral video.
Introducing iPhone.
Now that we have blogging
and Facebook and Twitter,
everybody can have influence.
[reporter #4]
TikTokers can broadcast
directly to their fans.
I do think the culture
has shifted.
Would you risk burning alive
for half a million dollars?
Things that used to be
shock video.
We just call it content today.
[Jamele] America is
an attention economy.
If you have the ability
to attract audience,
that's all that matters.
[Logan Paul]
This forest is also known as
the Japanese suicide forest.
Look around you.
Look what gets the clicks.
Look what gets the views.
The "I did it
for the clicks" mentality.
"Juiced" is light work now.
There are no guardrails anymore.
Whether you agree
with it or not,
I felt like I was giving
the culture back
what it said it wanted.
"Juiced" was holding up that
mirror to ourselves.
It's you going, "Hey, man.
What's happening, Rick?"
[Jamele] The unfortunate
part is, like,
I don't think we're getting
that line back.
If we're looking for a line or
if we're looking for a bottom,
I think that time is over.
Everything's wide open.
Yes, why do people,
why do people wonder
about my intentions?
Maybe "Juiced" was a --
was a warning
of what's to come.
[Todd] Yeah, go ahead
and wave, O.J.
Back up on all four.