Valuetainment - December 16, 2025


"Murdered By His Own Son" - Rob Reiner's Death ROCKS Hollywood In SHOCKING Killing


Episode Stats

Length

15 minutes

Words per Minute

187.28725

Word Count

2,861

Sentence Count

279

Misogynist Sentences

3

Hate Speech Sentences

4


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Rob and Michelle Reiner, 78 and 68, were found dead in their Los Angeles home, and their son Nick, 32, has been charged with robbery and homicide, and is being held in jail on $4 million bail.

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00:00:00.000 We get the story.
00:00:00.940 All of us saw this yesterday, as if the weekend wasn't already crazy and tragic enough.
00:00:05.580 All of a sudden, you see the story.
00:00:07.800 In Rob Reiner's house, a 78-year-old man and a 68-year-old woman are found dead.
00:00:14.760 What do you mean?
00:00:15.600 How come you don't say it's them?
00:00:17.100 That's the first reporting where everybody's like, what are they talking about?
00:00:20.100 Rob is 78.
00:00:21.080 His wife, Michelle, I believe, is 68.
00:00:23.720 Yes.
00:00:24.020 No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
00:00:25.260 So, oh, it is them.
00:00:27.660 They were the one.
00:00:28.220 How?
00:00:29.580 Knife.
00:00:30.460 How?
00:00:31.000 Who?
00:00:31.620 Robbery homicide showed up.
00:00:33.000 Robbery homicide.
00:00:33.740 And it's like, no, their son, Nick.
00:00:36.860 Why?
00:00:38.100 Yeah, but the daughter went in and then called the cops and go find my brother.
00:00:41.420 Why the brother?
00:00:42.960 Well, he was a homeless.
00:00:44.000 You know, he was a drug abuser.
00:00:45.160 And they even did a documentary or whatever show that they did.
00:00:48.540 And wait a minute.
00:00:49.940 What are we talking about with all this stuff?
00:00:52.020 This is Rob Reiner, who was extremely critical of Trump, but the day Charlie Kirk died.
00:00:58.580 He was actually very, what do you call it, respectful about the whole of what happened.
00:01:05.080 And even though politically, he cannot stand what Charlie's all about.
00:01:08.240 This is Rob Reiner.
00:01:08.920 If you want to play this clip with him and Piers Morgan.
00:01:12.320 Go ahead, Rob.
00:01:13.100 You've heard about the murder of Charlie Kirk.
00:01:16.660 What was your immediate gut reaction to it?
00:01:20.660 Well, horror.
00:01:22.800 Absolute horror.
00:01:23.720 And I unfortunately saw the video of it and it's beyond belief what happened to him.
00:01:35.680 And that should never happen to anybody.
00:01:38.340 I don't care what your political beliefs are.
00:01:40.620 That's not acceptable.
00:01:42.460 That's not a solution to solving problems.
00:01:46.860 And I felt like what his wife said at the service, at the memorial they had, was exactly right.
00:01:55.760 And totally, I believe, you know, I'm Jewish, but I believe in the teachings of Jesus.
00:02:01.760 And I believe in doing to others.
00:02:04.320 And I believe in forgiveness.
00:02:05.560 And what she said to me was beautiful.
00:02:10.860 And absolutely, you know, she forgave his assassin.
00:02:17.700 So, Tom, thoughts on this story?
00:02:20.440 Well, when you hear, you know, Rob Reiner say that in an interview with Pierce, you say to yourself that below, and he had a lot of anger.
00:02:28.840 You see his tweets.
00:02:29.700 Some of his tweets were really intense.
00:02:31.780 But you see that underneath it, there's a human being.
00:02:34.300 And there's a human being that's speaking in very measured terms.
00:02:39.000 And you can hear his voice.
00:02:40.680 I don't think he's posturing there.
00:02:42.140 By the way, breaking news.
00:02:43.100 I don't mean to interrupt.
00:02:44.560 As of one hour ago, the son is officially arrested.
00:02:48.380 Okay?
00:02:48.920 So, the son, as of one hour ago.
00:02:50.940 Rob Reiner's son.
00:02:51.440 Which is bail patting.
00:02:53.340 It's like $4 million.
00:02:54.640 Yeah, Rob just sent this to me.
00:02:56.000 Rob Reiner's son was just arrested.
00:02:59.560 There it is.
00:03:00.040 32 years old.
00:03:01.780 Held at Parker Central Jail in downtown L.A.
00:03:04.580 With his bail set at $4 million.
00:03:07.180 A rep for the L.A. County reported.
00:03:10.900 Rep did not immediately respond to the questionnaire, but that's what was said.
00:03:15.720 And allegedly, he slit their throats, and they had multiple stab wounds on top of that.
00:03:20.240 So, it was bad.
00:03:23.360 It was really bad.
00:03:23.580 Having their throats slit during a heated argument with a family member.
00:03:26.580 The duo were declared dead at the scene over the weekend.
00:03:29.440 Nick is being...
00:03:32.560 What?
00:03:34.900 78 and 16.
00:03:35.880 Nick and Romy, they also survived son Jake, as well as Rob's daughter, Tracy, from a previous marriage.
00:03:41.000 The couple's heartbroken.
00:03:42.960 Family members issued a touching statement in the wake of the sudden loss.
00:03:47.180 Wow.
00:03:47.760 Posted a picture of the entire family.
00:03:49.360 Oh, my goodness.
00:03:51.100 That is...
00:03:52.000 Tom, please continue.
00:03:55.140 This shows the importance of parenting, the importance of getting help for your kids when they're out there on the edge.
00:04:03.100 But for Rob, it was very, I thought, very appropriate the way he reacted when he talked to Pierce.
00:04:17.720 And I saw a human under there, underneath the angst and everything that he would show on Twitter and his opinions in very, very volatile times, aren't we all?
00:04:26.500 He was very, very measured, and I appreciated that.
00:04:29.860 And when I read this, I read about a family that's got a troubled kid.
00:04:33.840 And a troubled kid that struggled with mental illness.
00:04:38.360 And parts of the report coming out, and I hope these are correct, because we're repeating things that have been posted by a variety of usually reputable celebrity magazines,
00:04:50.120 that he was homeless, he was struggling emotionally, he had struggled with drugs,
00:04:55.440 and that the family did not reach out to rescue him by giving him money that would just, you know, continue it.
00:05:02.580 They were hoping he would get into treatment, and ultimately comes home, and there's some volatile argument here that leads to the most horrific—
00:05:11.300 I mean, I haven't read anything this horrific since the Menendez brothers killed their parents.
00:05:17.740 I mean, this is just horrifying.
00:05:20.620 That's how I feel about it.
00:05:21.840 If you've got kids, and you've got kids who are on the edge, you've got to get clergy, you've got to get a faith foundation,
00:05:26.660 you've got to get people in the room with you, because this is where it can end.
00:05:32.580 And this is just horrifying.
00:05:34.720 The president just tweeted a couple thoughts here, and to his same old way that the president has always been,
00:05:43.120 he didn't hold back, and he went straight to it.
00:05:45.760 Can I take a wild guess?
00:05:46.660 He did give his—
00:05:47.280 He loves him, and then he craps all over him?
00:05:49.180 Yeah, you should read this.
00:05:50.300 Okay, so a very sad thing happened last night in Hollywood.
00:05:53.320 Rob Reiner tortured and struggled him, but once a very talented movie director and comedy star has passed away together with his wife Michelle,
00:05:59.900 reportedly due to the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding, and incurable affliction
00:06:06.080 with a mind-crippling disease known as the Trump Derangement Syndrome, sometimes referred to as TDS.
00:06:11.520 He was known to have driven people crazy by his raging obsession of Donald J. Trump,
00:06:16.420 with his obvious paranoia reaching new heights as Trump administration surpassed all goals and expectations of greatness,
00:06:22.240 and with the golden age of America upon us, perhaps like never before.
00:06:25.720 May Rob and Michelle rest in peace.
00:06:27.420 Not a fan of that.
00:06:28.760 I'm going to say that right now.
00:06:30.580 There's a better way to do that.
00:06:32.960 I remember speaking to Charlie Kirk at the memorial when he went on stage and said,
00:06:37.080 Charlie's cool with his enemies.
00:06:38.500 I'm not.
00:06:39.440 I'm not.
00:06:40.720 Meaning, Rob Reiner has called him a fascist, a Hitler.
00:06:44.100 Okay, the guy is dead, murdered by his son, slid him and his wife's throw over an argument during the holidays.
00:06:52.980 I do not like that at all.
00:06:55.060 Let me just say that.
00:06:56.580 In regard to Rob Reiner, God rest his soul, that guy gave me and my family so many moments of,
00:07:03.960 Pat, stand by me.
00:07:06.140 The spinal tap.
00:07:07.840 A few good men.
00:07:09.320 When Harry met Sally.
00:07:10.940 Misery.
00:07:11.460 If you really think about this guy's work, and he was one of the guys that I said years ago,
00:07:16.840 if I ever met him, because I saw him once passing in Hollywood,
00:07:20.100 I was going to say thank you.
00:07:22.060 Because of his brilliance, he gave us moments where I was in a household where my father drank,
00:07:26.620 and it was always pandemonium and crazy and yelling and arguing and drinking.
00:07:31.380 He gave me moments where we would sit and watch Stand By Me.
00:07:34.240 We would sit there and watch these movies, and it was an escape.
00:07:36.960 Stand By Me and a few good men are going down in the top 50.
00:07:43.840 So I want to say God rest his soul, and I want to thank him wherever he is in heaven
00:07:47.140 for giving me those moments where I got to unplug and not deal with the drama of our life.
00:07:53.860 And I want to say God rest his soul.
00:07:56.240 Adam.
00:07:56.400 So I've actually dealt with a situation like this before, which is crazy.
00:08:02.760 I had a very good friend, and there was a brother and a sister,
00:08:07.180 and the brother had a massive, massive, massive drug problem,
00:08:11.440 and they were trying to help the guy, and they were accommodating him,
00:08:18.080 and eventually, in a fit of rage, wanting money and drugs, and the mother wouldn't help him,
00:08:25.000 he took a baseball bat and murdered his mom.
00:08:29.060 Jeez.
00:08:29.920 Straight up.
00:08:31.120 This was in Miami.
00:08:32.180 You told me this story once.
00:08:33.080 Yeah.
00:08:33.440 Yeah.
00:08:34.160 And obviously, just the most tragic, disgusting thing you can think about,
00:08:41.360 but it goes further.
00:08:43.320 It's like, all right, so he's still in jail.
00:08:46.160 What does he think about every single day?
00:08:47.940 I murdered my mom with a baseball bat.
00:08:50.340 His sister, who I was friends with back in the day, she has kids.
00:08:54.700 What does she say to her kids?
00:08:57.260 You know?
00:08:57.680 Not to bring Charlie Kirk or Erica Kirk in there.
00:09:00.300 What does Erica Kirk say to her kids?
00:09:02.560 So, you know, a theme of the show today is this suicidal empathy and being too tolerant.
00:09:11.060 I don't know what happened with Rob Reiner.
00:09:12.480 I'm not questioning his life at this point, but at some point, you know,
00:09:17.220 this suicidal empathy turned into homicidal empathy,
00:09:20.660 and the kid that he brought into the world took him and his wife out.
00:09:29.200 So the son murdered his parents on some Menendez-type stuff?
00:09:34.280 Allegedly.
00:09:34.720 Over an argument.
00:09:35.220 Over an argument.
00:09:36.100 Allegedly.
00:09:36.640 He's been charged with them.
00:09:37.600 And he's been a drug addict and homeless and the whole deal.
00:09:40.440 And I'm not blaming the parents, but at what point, like,
00:09:43.540 did you allow this kid to get this bat?
00:09:45.480 Well, a lot of drugs do, like, I don't know what he was on at the moment.
00:09:49.120 We're not, we have to find out a bunch of stuff with all the,
00:09:51.260 they're probably going to drug test them and all that stuff,
00:09:53.060 but drugs will ruin whatever he was on your brain and make you crazy.
00:09:57.600 Maybe he was asking for money or something.
00:09:59.460 And then in the heat of the moment, who knows?
00:10:01.860 In and out of rehab since 15th birthday.
00:10:04.340 This is an article that people did with him in 2016 where Nick Reiner talks about
00:10:09.300 being homeless and living on the streets of L.A.,
00:10:11.540 but also being taken to his first rehab facility around his 15th birthday.
00:10:15.500 That's it.
00:10:15.920 That's wild.
00:10:16.800 Horrible.
00:10:17.220 You know what that means?
00:10:17.820 You've been going at it for a couple of years.
00:10:19.700 Yeah, I mean, that's, unfortunately, this is par for the course in Hollywood.
00:10:23.360 I don't know if you remember this, PBD, when we were at Mar-a-Lago maybe two months ago,
00:10:27.660 you were filming for that movie.
00:10:30.100 Yeah.
00:10:30.260 You were sitting there.
00:10:30.920 Yeah.
00:10:31.480 And then we ended up talking to the director afterwards.
00:10:33.440 And I want to say he was friends or business partners with Rob Reiner.
00:10:37.880 And he was basically saying, what a great guy, but just completely has TDS.
00:10:42.520 And there's no coming back from it.
00:10:44.660 That's a separate note from what happened to him, tragedy.
00:10:48.160 But when it comes to Hollywood, when it comes to movies, he's one of the few good men
00:10:54.020 that's made some of the greatest movies of our generation.
00:10:56.680 And rest in peace.
00:10:57.720 It's absolute tragedy what happened to the guy.
00:11:00.140 Yeah.
00:11:00.440 There's no question about it.
00:11:01.660 You hear stories like this.
00:11:02.860 You're thinking you're, like I said, this weekend was three movies, four movies.
00:11:07.540 Like, it was a fictional weekend.
00:11:10.420 Like, it didn't feel like it's a real thing happening.
00:11:14.940 It was a fictional weekend where, you know, go to some, yeah, it's probably out of a movie
00:11:19.820 you watch.
00:11:20.900 Yeah.
00:11:21.100 So, you know, that's a pretty bad movie.
00:11:23.120 That sucks for some.
00:11:23.940 No, no, these are all true stories of what happened this weekend.
00:11:26.720 With that being said, guys, exciting news here on what happened.
00:11:30.340 I got a report this morning.
00:11:31.420 Let me tell you what this report is.
00:11:33.180 Do you not got the report this morning because of Christmas shopping?
00:11:35.480 We've been doing a lot of Christmas shopping ourselves.
00:11:37.480 My son's got the longest Christmas shopping list he's ever had.
00:11:41.760 Dylan?
00:11:42.060 Oh, my God.
00:11:42.880 And by the way, so many of the items are old dinosaur, what do you call it?
00:11:48.040 Legos.
00:11:48.100 He's all into dinosaur.
00:11:49.200 Dinosaur Legos that we got to go try to find.
00:11:51.880 Oh, my God.
00:11:52.400 We got to go find.
00:11:53.060 We got to tell Santa to go find.
00:11:54.240 Of course.
00:11:54.680 And he's been doing a lot of stuff.
00:11:55.580 So, Christmas shopping.
00:11:57.280 You know what this is?
00:11:58.540 Since the vault till today, I've only not worn these three days.
00:12:03.500 Every day I've worn these.
00:12:04.660 And you know why this is a special week?
00:12:06.160 Because the white and the Navy are officially here being shipped out this week.
00:12:11.580 They're being shipped out this week.
00:12:13.440 So, I want to give you a report that I got this morning on how many countries have ordered these shoes.
00:12:21.460 You ready?
00:12:22.340 In order, okay, of orders.
00:12:24.880 Of who's ordered the most.
00:12:26.000 Obviously, U.S. is number one.
00:12:27.800 Number two is Canada.
00:12:28.840 Surprisingly, Canada's number two.
00:12:30.560 I have to look to see if Pierre won it or not because I don't know if he believes he looks right.
00:12:33.900 I hope he did.
00:12:34.420 But Australia, 23.
00:12:36.940 Interesting.
00:12:37.760 Australia's diehard fans of the podcast, by the way.
00:12:40.420 Australia, 3X UK.
00:12:43.020 Okay?
00:12:43.400 Damn.
00:12:43.820 Then you got Slovenia.
00:12:44.920 Then you got UAE.
00:12:46.720 UAE makes it in the top six of people wearing the shoe.
00:12:49.800 Do you know who's next?
00:12:50.900 Saudi Arabia.
00:12:52.400 Then it's Malaysia, Poland, Croatia, Bulgaria.
00:12:55.460 Then it's Switzerland, Ireland, Czech, Oman, Norway.
00:12:58.480 And guess who's last?
00:12:59.320 Oman.
00:12:59.840 Little old Oman.
00:13:00.680 Israel is last.
00:13:01.500 They did buy though, but they're last.
00:13:04.500 But they get a good discount, yes.
00:13:06.500 No, no discount for the shoes.
00:13:07.740 But guess what?
00:13:08.700 To everybody that's watching this, I love the amount of people that are ordering the shoes.
00:13:12.280 Some interesting people are ordering their shoes and wearing them.
00:13:14.560 I'm in love with them.
00:13:15.580 But for Christmas, folks, Rob, if you can go on a VT merch, I want to show you guys a shirt for Christmas,
00:13:19.900 especially those of you guys that watch it.
00:13:21.520 Whatever you do, stay up a little bit, Rob.
00:13:23.940 Get yours.
00:13:24.520 You're going to fall in love with these Christmas hats.
00:13:26.280 I'm personally giving these Christmas hats away as gifts to some of the folks that I have.
00:13:31.640 These may be the sickest red Christmas hats in the world ever, especially at a time that
00:13:36.960 some people are playing the game, Christmas, what it's all about, celebrating it.
00:13:43.100 Whether it's the green, this is a hot item.
00:13:45.440 Buy five, buy 10, buy 20.
00:13:47.320 Gift them to others.
00:13:48.460 You will not be disappointed.
00:13:49.640 On the right, it says Future Looks Bright.
00:13:51.240 But on the side, it says VTN.
00:13:52.820 When you flip it, I don't even know if it shows the bottom.
00:13:54.620 Future Looks Bright.
00:13:55.380 It's a sick hat, Rob.
00:13:56.320 If you can go back.
00:13:57.020 Sold out last year.
00:13:57.480 Yeah, I know it did.
00:13:58.280 But we got a few left.
00:13:59.360 If you go back to that page, go a little bit lower.
00:14:02.540 I want to show you that shirt.
00:14:03.720 Do you see that shirt right there?
00:14:04.720 Those of you guys are the one to the left.
00:14:06.460 Can you zoom into that one and go in, Rob?
00:14:08.000 Who the hell is on that?
00:14:08.720 Well, you have to zoom in a little bit, folks.
00:14:10.700 This is like OG.
00:14:11.840 Who's that?
00:14:12.300 If you go in a little bit, zoom in, you will see.
00:14:15.160 Will it go in a good quality zoom in?
00:14:17.260 Zoom in, zoom in, zoom in.
00:14:18.580 Can you see it?
00:14:19.240 That's me in the middle.
00:14:20.360 Is that me as an elf?
00:14:21.720 That's Vinny as an elf.
00:14:23.460 Adam.
00:14:24.080 That's Adam as a Jew.
00:14:25.460 Adam as a Hanukkah.
00:14:26.640 That's Rob in the back.
00:14:28.420 Another elf.
00:14:29.100 And then you got Tom to the right.
00:14:30.960 Dude, that's hilarious.
00:14:31.500 And yours truly in the middle.
00:14:32.520 I love that.
00:14:33.860 On the back of it, I think it says Peabody Podcast.
00:14:35.500 Yes, Rob, if you don't have it or not, if you want to go to the back.
00:14:38.960 Yeah, right there.
00:14:40.440 There you go.
00:14:41.220 All right.
00:14:41.860 So go to vtmurch.com, play Steward, and we're about to make a massive announcement
00:14:45.540 about Future Looks Bright that I'm excited about.
00:14:48.220 Once it closes, I'll make the announcement to you guys here today.
00:14:50.860 So again, for Christmas, if you order today, things will arrive to you.
00:14:56.240 And anybody that places an order, you get a Merry Christmas Future Looks Bright ornament
00:14:59.680 and a Merry Christmas Valuetainment Edition mug that'll be sent to you as well.
00:15:04.160 So go place your order.
00:15:05.740 Represent.
00:15:06.820 And we'll send the gifts over to you.
00:15:08.520 We'll send your merch over to you this week.
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