Brown University manhunt and Rob Reiner murdered (12-15-2025--Hour2)

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The investigation does not seem to be going well, which, by the way, this is remember after Charlie Kirk was murdered, same sort of deal, right, they grabbed a guy, everybody thought they had the suspect, and then it turns out they didn't have the correct person. They had some crank that was claiming to be the shooter in order to give the shooter time to get away. But there was no coordination between the two. He just happened to be a local left wing crank that would show up at these events and just make a nuisance of himself. I don't know if that happened here. I'm not saying that it happened in this shooting that was at Brown University in Rhode Island. But they took somebody into custody and then they released him, and they said the investigation is going in a different direction now, so they're looking. So now they're like doing a manhunt for a man wearing black. So luckily he won't be able to change clothes, and because if he did, then all we would have as a suspect description is that it's a dude. If he identifies as a dude, I don't even know, like what. Yeah. The first victim has been identified as Ella Cook from Birmingham, Alabama. She was a student at Brown University. She was among the two students killed in the shooting. I believe there were nine others injured. She was a sophomore. She was also vice president of the Brown University College Republicans I've seen some reporting, but I don't know if this is confirmed because we don't even know what the you know, who the suspect is or a description, so it's kind of hard to say whether she was specifically targeted, whether the class was targeted, we don't know. The shooting happened inside a classroom in the Barrass and Holly Engineering Building around four pm Saturday. Two students were killed, nine wounded. Police announced that a person of interest was taken into custody, but later last night they released that individual, and so they are actively searching now for the killer. Police say surveillance video shows a man dressed in all black, and that is the most useful image they have to try to track down the gunman. That's that's all they've developed and have been able to release. We also got this story now from USA today, four members of an alleged radical pro palastine group have been arrested. They are accused of plotting a New Year's Eve bombing or a series of bombings in Los Angeles. This is according to the FBI. The suspects are accused of being members of a radical offshoot. They're hamas holes, Okay, that's what they are. That's what these people are. It's not a radical pro Palestinian group. They are Hamas supporters. This is what globalizing the Intifada means. For all you idiots that have been out there chanting this as if it isn't a call for the assassinations and murders of Jewish people and anybody else's collateral damage as well, That's what globalized the Intifada means. I've never had a doubt in my mind about what that chant means. And if you're chanting it, I now have a pretty good understand you as well, if you're out there chanting these things as part of your tenttifada on the college campuses. The suspects are accused of being members of a radical offshoot of the Turtle Island Liberation Front or TILF or TILF, an alleged extremist group motivated by pro Palestinian, anti law enforcement and anti government ideology. That's according to the FBI director Cash Pattel, who posted on social media. The group was allegedly planning coordinated ied bombing attacks on New Year's Eve, targeting five separate locations across Los Angeles. A fifth person was arrested by the FBI in New Orleans for allegedly planning a separate violent attack. That suspect is also believed to be linked to tilf Okay. Over in Europe, in France, I believe they canceled their Christmas parade or their big Christmas celebration. They canceled one of these big and this is not the only location to do it. There was another one I saw a couple of weeks ago, I believe in a town in Germany where they are canceling Christmas celebrations. Why because they cannot protect them from a terrorist attack. They're like, sorry, it's these you know, you get all these Christians gathering together to celebrate Christmas. We can't guarantee your safety, so just cancel the Christian celebration. This is do you see what is happening again? Like to me, this is very clear. In Brooklyn over the weekend, a bunch of Muslims stopped their cars in the middle of traffic on a well, they're all busy roadways in Brooklyn, but they stopped on I don't remember what road it was, and they just stopped the cars. They got out and they were chanting about, you know something about Islam I'm sure there were a few Alahuac bars thrown in there as well. These are shows of force, That's what this is meant to intimidate. Four members have been arrested down in New Orleans as well. Patel said the FBI disrupted a credible imminent terrorist attack, saying that the FBI's work undoubtedly saved countless lives. Law enforcement. Yeah, I mean, can you imagine a series of bombings across Los Angeles and New Orleans on New Year's Eve? Law enforcement investigation prevented what would have been a massive and horrific plot in the Central District of California. The planned series of bombings by the suspects included multiple targets and California on New Year's Eve. They were allegedly going to target US Immigration and Customs enforcement agents and vehicles. If only there was some sort of a connection, because I'm not really following the the Ice the anti Ice pro Hamas connection if of course, no, of course there's a connection. It's about the tearing down of the Western civilization. See again, this is very clear to me. Now you may have a different view of it, totally fine, But to me, that's the nexus point it's about tearing down the institutions, destabilization, demoralization. That's the fight, right The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution. You know. Stories are powerful. They help us make sense of things, to understand experiences. Stories connect us to the people of our past while transcending generations. They help us process the meaning of life and our stories are told through images and videos. Preserve your stories with Creative Video. Started in nineteen ninety seven in Minhill, North Carolina. 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First off, the shooting occurred on a Saturday, Like, that's not exactly a day of the week that you would expect to find a classroom full of students, right unless you knew something about the class and what was going on there. Because final exams were taking place in the building at the time of the shooting. An economics professor told the local media outlet, Ocean State Radio that the shooting had taken place during a review session for her course, which was being led by her teaching assistant, so she was not there. Her TA was, the TA told her, which she then conveyed to the media. The TA said that the shooter came in the doors, yelled something. He couldn't remember what he yelled, and then he just started shooting. Okay, so we don't know what the shooter yelled, but he yelled something, according to the teaching assistant investigators. Later on in the story, it says investigators have said they are not immediately sure how the suspect got inside the first floor classroom because while the outer doors of the building are unlocked. You you got to have a badge, you got to have like a key card or something to swipe into the room for the final exams. And this is like the classroom is like one of those stadium seating huge classrooms. So how did he get in? Right? Like, hopefully they'll give us more information, but there's a lot of outstanding questions I've got on that case. Also, this morning, we find out that Rob Reiner and his wife were butchered and the police have now arrested their son, Nick Reiner. Rob Reiner and his wife, Michelle Singer Reiner, were found dead in their Los Angeles home yesterday. Authorities responded to a medical aid call at about three point thirty pm local time and discovered their bodies. People Magazine, People dot Com. They were the ones that had multiple sources saying that the killer was the couple's son. On Sunday, LA Fire was called to the home to provide medical aid. They found Rob Reiner, seventy eight and Michelle Singer Reiner, sixty eight, both dead, stabbed to death. And this was this is this is awful. It's just an awful story. And I am like I am well aware of his politics. I am well aware that he's a big time donor to the Democrats, and it doesn't matter because he was, you know, he was a human being and it's just awful he had Obviously, he was a you know, an actor first when he was on the All in the Family sitcom, the Norman Lear TV sitcom All in the Family, where he played Mike or Meathead. He was born in the Bronx nineteen forty seven. His father was the legendary comedian Carl Reiner. His mother was an actress and singer. Her name was a Stelle Labost. Rob and Michelle met on set when Rob was directing when Harry met Sally, and the couple got married in nineteen eighty nine and had three children. Previously, he was married to the late Penny Marshall Laverne from Laverne and Shirley Right. She died in twenty eighteen. Rob Braner then went on to be director producer as well. In nineteen eighty four, he made his directorial debut with This Is Spinal Tap. I mean it's like his run of the first what seven years, This is Spinal Tap, The Sure Thing, Stand by Me, The Princess Bride, When Harry Met Sally, Misery, and a Few Good Men. Those were the first films he directed. He also acted in Throw Mama from the Train. He was also in The Wolf of Wall Street. But I mean been in stuff you know ever since. But I mean, what, like, what an amazing run to start directing, And these are the movies you direct. All of these are classics. I mean I've seen I've seen every one of these movies. And I'm not even a big movie guy, but these, like I actually got Christy to watch spinal Tap A couple within the last year. I finally got her to watch that. Let me see here. This is from People magazine in twenty sixteen. In interview with People, the son Nick spoke about his years long struggle with drug addiction, which began in his early teens and eventually left him living on the streets. He said he cycled in and out of rehab beginning at around age fifteen, but as his addiction escalated, he drifted farther from home and spent significant stretches homeless in multiple states. He actually then did a semi autobiographical film called Being Charlie. He co wrote and it documented some of those experiences. Here's a great idea. How about making an escape to a really special and secluded getaway in western North Carolina. Just a quick drive up the mountain and Cabins of Asheville is your connection. 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She was at one time a photographer and she's the one who took the photo of Donald Trump for the cover of his book The Art of the Deal. Now Rob Reiner over the last decade has just savaged Donald Trump on air on social media, right, just constant drum beat. He's a fascist, he's this, He's a just awful things. And Donald Trump took the occasion of Rob Reiner's murder to return the favor today. I don't know why, and I don't know why. I don't I don't, I don't know why this is. But this is who he is. So here's what he said. Posted on truth Social at nine fifty one am today. A very sad thing happened last night in Hollywood. Rob Reiner, a tortured and struggling but once very talented movie director and comedy star, has passed away together with his wife Michelle, reportedly due to the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding and incurable affliction with a mind crippling disease known as Trump Derangement syndrome all capitalized, sometimes referred to as TDS. He was known to have driven people crazy by his raging obsession of President Donald J. Trump, with his obvious paranoia reaching new heights as the Trump administration surpassed all goals and expectations of greatness, and with the Golden Age of America upon us, perhaps like never before. May Robin Michelle rest in peace. Thomas Massey responded to this. Massey obviously and Donald Trump they don't get along either, Massey said, regardless of how you felt about Rob Reiner, this is inappropriate and disrespectful discourse about a man who was just brutally murdered. I guess my elected GOP colleagues, the vice president, the White House staff will just ignore it because they were afraid. I challenge anyone to defend it. I can't and I won't. I'm going to hold the same standard, a consistent standard. Right. I saw what people said after Charlie Kirk was assassinated. I saw all of that, and that was also completely disrespectful, inappropriate, hateful, vile, evil even right, we all saw a lot of the comments and heard these, you know, heard the I'm not saying you should have been killed, but rationalizations all over the the news stations and such an on our social media feeds. So like, I reject that. That is that is corruption of your soul, and I reject this. I won't defend what again, like, oh, that's just Donald being Trump. But I get it, and that's that's unfortunate. What's amazing is that nobody had the sense to say, probably don't send this, Let's not then retweet it out, Let's not you know, publicize it and publish it to multiple platforms and such like. Sometimes just you know, don't say anything. If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all. Let me see here there was oh this from the Los Angeles Times. Family friends told the LA Times that Rob Reiner and his son Nick got into an argument on Saturday evening at a party at Conan O'Brien's home, and that a lot of people noticed that Nick was acting strangely at the party. So they had some fight on Saturday night at Conan O'Brien. Conan O'Brien's house, at a party. That's just awful. I mean, just because now everybody that was at that party, right, anybody who had, you know, a feeling that something was off and this isn't good. Whatever they're now, you know, they're going to have survivor's guilt. Maybe if I had done something, said something, whatever. It's just awful. Reiner's first seven films, nineteen eighty four. This is spinal tap. It did not invent the mockumentary form, or even the rock mockumentary form, but spinal tap is still the standard against which all others are judged. Some forty years later, again, this is Alan Sepinwall at What's alan watching dot com? The sure thing some people hadn't seen it, He says he hadn't seen this one. This is with John Cusack, a road trip romantic comedy starring Joan John Cusack and Daphne's Zuniga or Zuniga. They remember, they're riding together to go home for the holidays or something they're from. They're in college together, and you know, they bicker the whole time, they get into fights and stuff whatever, and then inevitably, spoiler alert, they fall in love. It's a road trip romantic comedy that was apparently John Cusack's first real lead role fun movie. I remember this funny movie stand by Me like of course this and stand by Me like that, I think was the first time that. That's what introduced me to Stephen King's books. And I've read when I was growing up, I read all of his books. I had all of his books. This one because stand by Me was based off of novella. I think it's called called The Body, and it was a short It was like a shorter story basically. It was a collection. I think it was called Different Seasons, and there were four different stories in the book, and the Body was one. I think Shawshank Redemption was also a short story like that. Hm, maybe not, Yeah, maybe I think it was. It may have been from Different Seasons. I don't remember, but this was the one. I mean, all of those kids, Jerry O'Connell and River Phoenix, right, like great talented actors that came out of that movie Coming of Age. Tao again didn't invent this subgenre, but it is the standard that everything else gets judged by. All Right, if you're listening to this show, you know I try to keep up with all sorts of current events, and I know you do too, And you've probably heard me say get your news from multiple sources. Why Well, because it's how you detect media bias, which is why I've been so impressed with ground News. It's an app and it's a website and it combines news from around the world in one place, so you can compare coverage and verify information. 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It's kind of shorter because they get too long, and then you've got to leave a bunch of stuff out except Misery, which that was Kathy Bates's first movie that came out in nineteen ninety and that was that was a really good book too, but it had the body, Shawshank, Redemption, apt Pupil, and then I think it had it had it had a book of out. I thought it was. The fourth story was like Missus Smith's shortcut or something, where she would drive her car and like kept always trying to find a shorter way to get someplace, and then was like breaking through, like the time space continuum or something. It was a weird story anyway. Jordan says the first edition had the breathing method, which is garbage. They replaced it in later editions, but the first three are the ones that made the book famous. All got movie adaptations. Shawshank and The Green Mile are Stephen King's best adaptations in my opinion. Yeah, I'd agree with that. Jeff says, I always support President Trump, and I am thankful for all he's done and sacrificed for our country. But dang, that post of his about the Rhiners was in truly poor taste. Mama always said that if you have nothing nice to say, then say nothing at all. Kim says, I just heard you read Trump's comment about Rob Reiner. I have tried to be neutral about him, as I consider myself a Republican on on the border of libertarian. But his comment has sickened me. And then she says, correction to my last comment. My son has informed me that I am a moderate conservative independent. Okay, So, and then Andy says, I agree with Thomas Massey. Let's not retweet this or talk about it. Nobody said that, Andy, right after you read the entire post face Pump. So I do agree with Thomas Massey. Massey said nobody should defend this or is everybody just going to ignore it and move along? That's what That's what Massey said. And yeah, that raises a valid point. People are just going to ignore that he said this and pretend like it didn't happen. What I said then was what's amazing is that nobody in the White House said, let's not amplify this overall of our media. You know, let's not send this out. Let's not then you know, retweet it and stuff. But nobody did. I didn't say let's not. I didn't say you shouldn't talk about it, you shouldn't hear it. So I'm not really sure if that came through anyway. So there's that, all right. So I'm going through these movies, these Reiner movies, because these movies have shaped Hollywood and a lot of people's understanding of film and storytelling and all of that. And these were the first movies that he directed, right out of the gate. So Spinal Tap, the Sure Thing, stand by Me, then The Princess Bride. He says. It's that rarest, most delightful of movie miracles, a hilarious parody of a particular genre, the swashbuckling adventure and romance. But it's also a brilliant representative of the real thing. At the same time. Then he did when Harry Met Sally with Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan, right, the only debatable point is whether it's the greatest romantic comedy movie of any era. Then Misery, and then A Few Good Men. And when you hear people lament the death of the mid budget movie for grownups, a Few Good Men is the exact kind of film they're thinking of, he says. And these are his first seven films. This is impossible. Steven Spielberg's first seven includes the bloated Farce of nineteen forty one, for instance. Even when Hall of Fame directors managed to churn out seven good ones at the start of their career. They are rarely as varied or as consistently outstanding as these. All right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you so much for listening. I could not do the show without your support and the support of the businesses that advertise on the podcast, so if you'd like, please support them too and tell them you heard it here. 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