"Murdered By His Own Son" - Rob Reiner's Death ROCKS Hollywood In SHOCKING Killing
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Summary
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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All of us saw this yesterday, as if the weekend wasn't already crazy and tragic enough.
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In Rob Reiner's house, a 78-year-old man and a 68-year-old woman are found dead.
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That's the first reporting where everybody's like, what are they talking about?
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Yeah, but the daughter went in and then called the cops and go find my brother.
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And they even did a documentary or whatever show that they did.
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This is Rob Reiner, who was extremely critical of Trump, but the day Charlie Kirk died.
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He was actually very, what do you call it, respectful about the whole of what happened.
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And even though politically, he cannot stand what Charlie's all about.
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If you want to play this clip with him and Piers Morgan.
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And I unfortunately saw the video of it and it's beyond belief what happened to him.
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And I felt like what his wife said at the service, at the memorial they had, was exactly right.
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And totally, I believe, you know, I'm Jewish, but I believe in the teachings of Jesus.
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And absolutely, you know, she forgave his assassin.
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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.
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But you see that underneath it, there's a human being.
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And there's a human being that's speaking in very measured terms.
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As of one hour ago, the son is officially arrested.
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Rep did not immediately respond to the questionnaire, but that's what was said.
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And allegedly, he slit their throats, and they had multiple stab wounds on top of that.
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Having their throats slit during a heated argument with a family member.
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The duo were declared dead at the scene over the weekend.
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Nick and Romy, they also survived son Jake, as well as Rob's daughter, Tracy, from a previous marriage.
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Family members issued a touching statement in the wake of the sudden loss.
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This shows the importance of parenting, the importance of getting help for your kids when they're out there on the edge.
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But for Rob, it was very, I thought, very appropriate the way he reacted when he talked to Pierce.
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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?
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He was very, very measured, and I appreciated that.
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And when I read this, I read about a family that's got a troubled kid.
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And a troubled kid that struggled with mental illness.
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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,
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that he was homeless, he was struggling emotionally, he had struggled with drugs,
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and that the family did not reach out to rescue him by giving him money that would just, you know, continue it.
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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—
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I mean, I haven't read anything this horrific since the Menendez brothers killed their parents.
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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,
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you've got to get people in the room with you, because this is where it can end.
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The president just tweeted a couple thoughts here, and to his same old way that the president has always been,
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he didn't hold back, and he went straight to it.
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Okay, so a very sad thing happened last night in Hollywood.
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Rob Reiner tortured and struggled him, but once a very talented movie director and comedy star has passed away together with his wife Michelle,
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reportedly due to the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding, and incurable affliction
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with a mind-crippling disease known as the Trump Derangement Syndrome, sometimes referred to as TDS.
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He was known to have driven people crazy by his raging obsession of Donald J. Trump,
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with his obvious paranoia reaching new heights as Trump administration surpassed all goals and expectations of greatness,
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and with the golden age of America upon us, perhaps like never before.
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I remember speaking to Charlie Kirk at the memorial when he went on stage and said,
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Meaning, Rob Reiner has called him a fascist, a Hitler.
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Okay, the guy is dead, murdered by his son, slid him and his wife's throw over an argument during the holidays.
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In regard to Rob Reiner, God rest his soul, that guy gave me and my family so many moments of,
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If you really think about this guy's work, and he was one of the guys that I said years ago,
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if I ever met him, because I saw him once passing in Hollywood,
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Because of his brilliance, he gave us moments where I was in a household where my father drank,
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and it was always pandemonium and crazy and yelling and arguing and drinking.
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He gave me moments where we would sit and watch Stand By Me.
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We would sit there and watch these movies, and it was an escape.
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Stand By Me and a few good men are going down in the top 50.
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So I want to say God rest his soul, and I want to thank him wherever he is in heaven
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for giving me those moments where I got to unplug and not deal with the drama of our life.
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So I've actually dealt with a situation like this before, which is crazy.
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I had a very good friend, and there was a brother and a sister,
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and the brother had a massive, massive, massive drug problem,
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and they were trying to help the guy, and they were accommodating him,
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and eventually, in a fit of rage, wanting money and drugs, and the mother wouldn't help him,
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And obviously, just the most tragic, disgusting thing you can think about,
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His sister, who I was friends with back in the day, she has kids.
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Not to bring Charlie Kirk or Erica Kirk in there.
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So, you know, a theme of the show today is this suicidal empathy and being too tolerant.
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I'm not questioning his life at this point, but at some point, you know,
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this suicidal empathy turned into homicidal empathy,
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and the kid that he brought into the world took him and his wife out.
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So the son murdered his parents on some Menendez-type stuff?
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And he's been a drug addict and homeless and the whole deal.
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And I'm not blaming the parents, but at what point, like,
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Well, a lot of drugs do, like, I don't know what he was on at the moment.
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We're not, we have to find out a bunch of stuff with all the,
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they're probably going to drug test them and all that stuff,
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but drugs will ruin whatever he was on your brain and make you crazy.
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This is an article that people did with him in 2016 where Nick Reiner talks about
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being homeless and living on the streets of L.A.,
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but also being taken to his first rehab facility around his 15th birthday.
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Yeah, I mean, that's, unfortunately, this is par for the course in Hollywood.
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I don't know if you remember this, PBD, when we were at Mar-a-Lago maybe two months ago,
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And then we ended up talking to the director afterwards.
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And I want to say he was friends or business partners with Rob Reiner.
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And he was basically saying, what a great guy, but just completely has TDS.
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That's a separate note from what happened to him, tragedy.
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But when it comes to Hollywood, when it comes to movies, he's one of the few good men
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that's made some of the greatest movies of our generation.
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It's absolute tragedy what happened to the guy.
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You're thinking you're, like I said, this weekend was three movies, four movies.
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Like, it didn't feel like it's a real thing happening.
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It was a fictional weekend where, you know, go to some, yeah, it's probably out of a movie
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No, no, these are all true stories of what happened this weekend.
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With that being said, guys, exciting news here on what happened.
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Do you not got the report this morning because of Christmas shopping?
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We've been doing a lot of Christmas shopping ourselves.
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My son's got the longest Christmas shopping list he's ever had.
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And by the way, so many of the items are old dinosaur, what do you call it?
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Since the vault till today, I've only not worn these three days.
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Because the white and the Navy are officially here being shipped out this week.
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So, I want to give you a report that I got this morning on how many countries have ordered these shoes.
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I have to look to see if Pierre won it or not because I don't know if he believes he looks right.
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Australia's diehard fans of the podcast, by the way.
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UAE makes it in the top six of people wearing the shoe.
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Then it's Switzerland, Ireland, Czech, Oman, Norway.
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To everybody that's watching this, I love the amount of people that are ordering the shoes.
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Some interesting people are ordering their shoes and wearing them.
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But for Christmas, folks, Rob, if you can go on a VT merch, I want to show you guys a shirt for Christmas,
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You're going to fall in love with these Christmas hats.
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I'm personally giving these Christmas hats away as gifts to some of the folks that I have.
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These may be the sickest red Christmas hats in the world ever, especially at a time that
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some people are playing the game, Christmas, what it's all about, celebrating it.
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When you flip it, I don't even know if it shows the bottom.
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If you go back to that page, go a little bit lower.
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If you go in a little bit, zoom in, you will see.
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On the back of it, I think it says Peabody Podcast.
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Yes, Rob, if you don't have it or not, if you want to go to the back.
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So go to vtmurch.com, play Steward, and we're about to make a massive announcement
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about Future Looks Bright that I'm excited about.
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Once it closes, I'll make the announcement to you guys here today.
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So again, for Christmas, if you order today, things will arrive to you.
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And anybody that places an order, you get a Merry Christmas Future Looks Bright ornament
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and a Merry Christmas Valuetainment Edition mug that'll be sent to you as well.
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