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Pat Buchanan & Company radio show, July 6, 1994

If you’ve been with me for a while, you will know that I hold Pat Buchanan in high regard. I read his weekly column and have read most if not all the books he has written.

This morning, by the strange power of the Internet Wormhole™, I discovered an old broadcast of the Pat Buchanan & Company radio show, simulcast on C-SPAN on July 6, 1994.

That summer, I was heading into my senior year of high school and had no particular regard for the news of the day, except the O.J. Simpson case. The Simpson case filled up the airwaves the entire summer and for another 14 months or so.

I’d go over to my grandparents’ house and plow through their magazines—Time or Newsweek for instance—to get a debrief on the news. We got Sports Illustrated and The Sporting News at my house. People Magazine, too.

This was fine by me, because I had a one-track mind. Sports were the only thing that mattered. It crushed me to see O.J. in that Bronco.

In the second hour of the show, Buchanan talked about the O.J. case with …