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Mark's 10am Monologue. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Now this is the Mark Simon Show on seven tenor wow,
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  Speaker 1: this ought to be interesting. We'll get to Rob Reiner
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  Speaker 1: in great detail. We'll get to President Trump's attack on
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  Speaker 1: Rob Reiner. Why did he do it? Why did he
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  Speaker 1: have to do that? How could he do such a thing. Well,
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  Speaker 1: we'll get to all that coming up. We'll get to
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  Speaker 1: White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, who usually stays
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  Speaker 1: way below the radar. I don't know why, gave a
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  Speaker 1: big interview to Vanity Fair and it's causing all kinds
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  Speaker 1: of controversy. We'll get to that. We'll get to Howard
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  Speaker 1: Stern he announced he staying but with about one hundred
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  Speaker 1: asterisks on that. We'll get to Bruce Blakeman running for governor.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get to We've got a lot to get to.
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  Speaker 1: Curtis will be with us a little later. Can't wait
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  Speaker 1: to hear what he's got to say about everything. So
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  Speaker 1: here's what we know. More stuff coming out every hour
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  Speaker 1: about the whole Rob Reiner situation. You know, the he
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  Speaker 1: was murdered Sunday afternoon about three o'clock, and that night
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  Speaker 1: he was he and his wife were supposed to have
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  Speaker 1: dinner with Michelle and Barack Obama. They were supposed to
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  Speaker 1: have dinner that night, and that's quite a I don't
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  Speaker 1: mean a group be gruesome, but you know, sometimes you
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  Speaker 1: get a call, Hey, we're gonna have to cancel, not
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  Speaker 1: feeling well or something like that. But to get a
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  Speaker 1: call have to cancel, what's the matter, Well they're dead?
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  Speaker 1: What dad throat slit? They can't come to dinner. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: what a shock that must have been. Now all sorts
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  Speaker 1: of stuff is coming out as we know now it
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  Speaker 1: looks like it's Nick Reiner the Sun. The night before,
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  Speaker 1: there's a big Christmas party thrown by Conan O'Brien, and
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  Speaker 1: I don't know why Rob Righter and his wife are
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  Speaker 1: going to the party. They brought a couple of the kids.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know why they brought the son Nick or
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  Speaker 1: why he was there, because everybody said he clearly didn't
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  Speaker 1: fit in, didn't want to be there. It was, you know,
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  Speaker 1: a nice, fancy Christmas party with everybody dressed up, and
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  Speaker 1: Nick Ryner shows up with a hoodie. You know, it's
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  Speaker 1: like a sweatsuit and a hoodie with the hood up
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  Speaker 1: over his head, looking very very out of place. Also,
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  Speaker 1: in the middle of the crowd, looking very angry, like
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  Speaker 1: he didn't want to be there. He didn't like this,
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  Speaker 1: He resented this, and whenever he would look at anybody
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  Speaker 1: or talk to him, it was always with an angry look.
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  Speaker 1: And he they said, some people he went around said
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  Speaker 1: are you famous? Are you famous? So he just you know,
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  Speaker 1: for a kid with all kinds of mental problems to
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  Speaker 1: be in a very agitated state and to be in
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  Speaker 1: this room was a little bizarre. And then at some
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  Speaker 1: point he got into a fight with his and just
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  Speaker 1: freaked out completely and starts yelling and screaming, and the
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  Speaker 1: father starts yelling and screaming back. And this is in
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  Speaker 1: the middle of the party. I mean, it was a
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  Speaker 1: very loud, screaming argument that went on for a long time,
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  Speaker 1: freaking out everybody else in the party. So at some
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  Speaker 1: point the kid left, and then Rob Reiner and his wife,
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  Speaker 1: realizing they had totally ruined the party and upset everybody,
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  Speaker 1: they left as well. Now we now know that the
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  Speaker 1: kid left the party and did something. For a few hours.
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  Speaker 1: He was living, apparently in a guest house on the
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  Speaker 1: Rob Reiner estate. On the compound, there's a guest house.
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  Speaker 1: He was living there, but he may have gone back
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  Speaker 1: there to get some things, but he didn't stay there. Instead,
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  Speaker 1: later that night, in the middle of the night, actually
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  Speaker 1: about four in the morning, he checked into a motel
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  Speaker 1: in Santa Monica. So he left Brent Would went to
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  Speaker 1: Santa Monica. Checked into this hotel at about four in
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  Speaker 1: the morning. The staff thought that he looked a little well,
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  Speaker 1: let's just say, wound up a little nutty. But you
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  Speaker 1: know who checks into a Hollywood hotel at four in
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  Speaker 1: the morning, but a nutty looking guy in a hoodie.
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  Speaker 1: So he checked in and then it was the next day.
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  Speaker 1: He was still probably all crazed over the fight, whatever
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  Speaker 1: that was. The next day, went back to Rob Reiner's house,
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  Speaker 1: had an extremely loud argument. The daughter could hear it
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  Speaker 1: from she was also living in another guest house on
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  Speaker 1: the property. She could hear the argument and it went
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  Speaker 1: on for a while, and then I guess it stopped,
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  Speaker 1: and that's why she decided to go check on her
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  Speaker 1: parents and she found them dead. Imagine the daughter goes
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  Speaker 1: and finds them dead, their throat slit, blood everywhere, was
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  Speaker 1: just awful. She immediately calls the police. And then I
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  Speaker 1: didn't realize it were really really the family was really
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  Speaker 1: close to Billy Crystal and his wife. So as soon
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  Speaker 1: as she calls the police and hangs up, she then
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  Speaker 1: immediately calls Billy Crystal and tells him what's happened. He
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  Speaker 1: and his wife jump in the car and race over
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  Speaker 1: to Rob Reiner's house and get there about the same
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  Speaker 1: time as the police. So they came in as the
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  Speaker 1: police are getting there. So Billy Crystal and his wife
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  Speaker 1: as they come in, see the bodies on the floor,
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  Speaker 1: the throat slit, the blood, every it must have been
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  Speaker 1: just horrifying. And that's why reporters said when they saw
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  Speaker 1: Billy Crystal come out of the house, he and his
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  Speaker 1: wife were very shaken up. We're crying and so imagine
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  Speaker 1: this is your close friend. You see the bodies like that.
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  Speaker 1: So the police are there, a huge response from the
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  Speaker 1: police department, and then she, the daughter, tells them, you
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  Speaker 1: got to look at the sun. He's crazy. He's got
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  Speaker 1: a history of violent, crazy behavior, and they've had a
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  Speaker 1: big fight. I heard fighting. She tells me to look
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  Speaker 1: for him. They go look for him. It took a
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  Speaker 1: while to find him. They finally released the pictures of
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  Speaker 1: them arresting him. I think he was at a train
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  Speaker 1: station or a bus station. They find him, arrest him.
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  Speaker 1: You can see a picture of him being thrown to
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  Speaker 1: the ground and handcuffed and then pushed up against the
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  Speaker 1: car frisked, I guess, and then they throw him in
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  Speaker 1: the car. He's a troubled kid. He's been in rehab
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  Speaker 1: over seventeen times since the age of fifteen. They've talked
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  Speaker 1: before about whether or not he was a danger, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, experts will tell you that these kind of situations,
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  Speaker 1: the family never fully understands the danger. They always underestimate
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  Speaker 1: the violent danger of the kid.
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  Speaker 2: This doesn't just start the day before yesterday, so there
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  Speaker 2: was ongoing issues between them. And when I've seen cases
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  Speaker 2: like this in the past, oftentimes the family underestimates the
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  Speaker 2: potential of their loved one in terms of what they
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  Speaker 2: could do to them. But I think we're going to
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  Speaker 2: see the patterns begin to come to the surface over time,
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  Speaker 2: because that is a lot of anger. That's a lot
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  Speaker 2: of rage. It doesn't just start on the night of
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  Speaker 2: the attack.
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  Speaker 1: So the police find out the kid, Nick Reiner, was
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  Speaker 1: in a hotel room. They go to the hotel and
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  Speaker 1: they find the hotel room is got blood everywhere, there's
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  Speaker 1: blood on the sheets. There's blood everywhere in this hotel room.
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  Speaker 1: And he had taken some sheets and put them up
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  Speaker 1: over the window to cover the windows, and then there's
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  Speaker 1: blood all over the hotel room. Now, what could you
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  Speaker 1: be doing in there that would cause all this blood?
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  Speaker 1: He might say, Well, when he was stabbing his mother
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  Speaker 1: and father, he might have gotten blood all over him,
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  Speaker 1: But when he checked in, they didn't see blood all
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  Speaker 1: over him. So who knows what he did in that
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  Speaker 1: room to cause all that blood to be everywhere. The
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  Speaker 1: kid obviously completely psycho, just literally just a raging maniac.
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  Speaker 1: So he's under arrest, he's in custody. He's on suicide
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  Speaker 1: watch right now. Believe he's suicidal. He's being held in isolation.
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  Speaker 1: He's now being Originally there was bail, he's now being
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  Speaker 1: held without bail. There is no bail, and he's on
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  Speaker 1: suicide watch. Rob Reiner, the friend's family, they say they
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  Speaker 1: family did everything they could for this kid. The problem is,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think they fully understood how dangerous the situation
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  Speaker 1: was and that they probably had to have this kid
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  Speaker 1: committed in some kind of mental institution. But when you're
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  Speaker 1: wealthy in hollywoodish you know, sometimes you're you're not really
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  Speaker 1: very realistic about things, and to let this kid live,
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  Speaker 1: you know, in your guest house and let him just
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  Speaker 1: be free in but somebody should have realized this kid
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  Speaker 1: needed to be committed. I mean, obviously now we know
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  Speaker 1: he needed to be committed. So but they said they
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  Speaker 1: spared no expense in trying to rehabilitate them countless facilities.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, sometimes these these are these Hollywood rehabs.
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  Speaker 1: Then aren't that great? You know, you see everybody that
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  Speaker 1: goes to these Hollywood rehab centers, every Charlie Sheen type.
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  Speaker 1: Have you ever seen anybody actually cured? Not really, not
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  Speaker 1: a lot. So it's just a horrible situation. Now, Rob Reiner,
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  Speaker 1: he was great and all in the family. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you go back check out my Twitter, there's some clips
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  Speaker 1: up there, but you can see there were moments of
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  Speaker 1: really great acting there. Then he goes on to be
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  Speaker 1: a director. I think Spinal Tap was first, but when
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  Speaker 1: you look back on his history as a director, producer
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  Speaker 1: making films, it's an incredible career. He was just brilliant
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  Speaker 1: at it, brilliant at it. Misery A few good men.
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  Speaker 1: When Harry met Sally I mean, he was incredible a
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  Speaker 1: director and producer, great, great talent, and you got to
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  Speaker 1: give him credit. For Seinfeld, it was his company castle Rock,
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  Speaker 1: which you named it after a town in Maine. Castle
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  Speaker 1: Rock produced signed and nobody remembers this. But Seinfeld didn't
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  Speaker 1: do very well the first couple of years, and after
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  Speaker 1: the first year, NBC was going to cancel it, and
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  Speaker 1: Jerry Seinfeld said, he owes everything to Rob Reiner. Rob
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  Speaker 1: Reiner went to NBC and yelled and screamed and cried
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  Speaker 1: and pleaded and begged for them to give Seinfeld another season,
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  Speaker 1: give it another chance. It'll come together, and it worked.
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  Speaker 1: He kept it on the air. They were going to
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  Speaker 1: cancel it the first season. Second season they were going
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  Speaker 1: to cancel. It was Rob Reiner that went and fought
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  Speaker 1: and screamed apparently got in a huge screaming fights with
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  Speaker 1: NBC president Brandon Tartakoff, and he kept Seinfeld on the air.
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  Speaker 1: And Seinfeld yesterday said, I it wasn't for Rob Reiner,
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  Speaker 1: it wouldn't have happened. Seinfeld wouldn't have happened. Now he
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  Speaker 1: turned out to be right. Seinfeld went on to be
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  Speaker 1: the biggest show in television for seven eight years. It
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  Speaker 1: went on to be the biggest show in syndication, making
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  Speaker 1: over a billion dollars. Everybody made a fortune, and one
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  Speaker 1: of the guys that made some of that money was
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  Speaker 1: Steve Bannon. Believe it or not, an unknown Steve Bannon
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  Speaker 1: at the time, who had come from Goldman Sachs, was
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  Speaker 1: one of the investors in Castle Rock, and then when
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  Speaker 1: they sold Castle Rock, he advised people to keep a
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  Speaker 1: percentage of the show, and they gave him a percentage.
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  Speaker 1: So to this day, Steve Bannon makes a lot of
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  Speaker 1: money in payments off the syndication of Seinfeld, which always
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  Speaker 1: upset the hell out of Rob Reiner. Drove nuts that
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  Speaker 1: Bannon was profiting from this. There are other people. James
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  Speaker 1: Woods was on TV last night talking about how when
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  Speaker 1: his career was over, he was finished. It was Rob
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  Speaker 1: Reiner that believed in him gave him a part in
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  Speaker 1: a movie. Studio said absolutely not, that guy's washed up. Again.
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  Speaker 1: Rob Reiner went and fought for him, got him the part,
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  Speaker 1: and he ended up getting an Academy Award nomination for it. So,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, Rob Reiner's father was the same way. You know,
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  Speaker 1: the Dick Van Dyke Show was canceled after the first year.
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  Speaker 1: At that time it was the greatest went on to
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  Speaker 1: be the greatest sitcom of the early sixties, but it
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  Speaker 1: was canceled after the first year. Carl Reiner got on
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  Speaker 1: a plane flew to Ohio to meet with the sponsor.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't Johnson and Johnson, one of the big big
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  Speaker 1: companies was the sponsor. He went and saw them, burst
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  Speaker 1: into their office, yelled and screamed, begged and pleaded, and
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  Speaker 1: somehow convinced him to just give it one more season,
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  Speaker 1: and sure enough it went on to become huge. So
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  Speaker 1: Rob Reiner must have remembered all that did the same
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  Speaker 1: thing for Seinfeld. And if you watch the Dick Van
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  Speaker 1: Dyke Show, it's about the comedy writer of the big
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  Speaker 1: variety TV show who lives in Newest Shell and he's
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  Speaker 1: got a son. Well, that was Rob Reiner. Carl Reiner
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  Speaker 1: wrote that show based on his real life, and that
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  Speaker 1: was Rob Reiner. Grew up in the same kind of
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  Speaker 1: house with the Rob Petrie and Newest Schell at that time.
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  Speaker 1: His father was actually Carl Reiner and he was writing
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  Speaker 1: for Sid Caesar. But it's an amazing story. Now, this
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  Speaker 1: is a horrible tragedy, the most awful tragedy imaginable. And
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  Speaker 1: then President Trump tweets out I don't have in front
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  Speaker 1: of me, but he just said Rob Reiner was a deranged,
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  Speaker 1: you know, maniac with Trump derangement syndrome. He was spewing
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  Speaker 1: hatred all the time. You know. He said basically something
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  Speaker 1: about the hateful energy they put out, the hate, the
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  Speaker 1: rage must have infected other people around him. Now, you're
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  Speaker 1: not supposed to do that in a tragedy like this.
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  Speaker 1: You're the president of the United States. You're supposed to
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  Speaker 1: be very, very, very gracious. But that's not Donald Trump. Now,
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  Speaker 1: if for me, I would have been gracious about it,
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  Speaker 1: or I would have just let it go, not say it.
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  Speaker 1: But that's not Donald Trump. So it upset a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people that he attacked Rob Reiner in death. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: of course saw the Hollywood people tweeting furiously all night
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  Speaker 1: about how Trump is obviously and this is one of them,
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  Speaker 1: said the twenty fifth Amendment. CNN, MSNBC and even Fox,
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  Speaker 1: Fox News panels, you know, totally denounced Trump for doing that,
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  Speaker 1: and they're right, they're not wrong. I mean, Fox is
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  Speaker 1: a classic place. They would never do anything like that.
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  Speaker 1: I would never do anything like that. But that's Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 1: That's what he does, that's what he's always done, that's
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  Speaker 1: what he'll continue to do. For a number of reasons. One,
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  Speaker 1: he has absolutely no filter. He will always say what
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  Speaker 1: he really thinks. Now, if you do that in this situation, boy,
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna be the You're gonna get bombarded. But he
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  Speaker 1: also loves to be the lead story of the day.
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  Speaker 1: And with this Rob Reiner stuff, you know, nobody would
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  Speaker 1: think of him. It would just all be about Robert.
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  Speaker 1: So he puts himself right back on top of the
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  Speaker 1: of the news. That's one reason he does it. Again,
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  Speaker 1: it's not right to do it. I wouldn't do it,
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  Speaker 1: but I understand why he does it. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: you can't say, hey, don't do this, don't do that.
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  Speaker 1: The guy's the most successful guy in the world. Who's
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  Speaker 1: to tell him what to do? And I've seen this before.
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  Speaker 1: You know, a lot of Trump is based on Frank Sinatra.
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  Speaker 1: He was a big studier of Frank Sinatra. I used
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  Speaker 1: to talk to him about this years ago. Sinatra techniques, methods,
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  Speaker 1: the way that was Sinatra. So who had no filter,
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  Speaker 1: he would and he Sinatra was in the same situation.
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  Speaker 1: Earlier in his career, there was a guy named Lee Mortimer.
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  Speaker 1: He was the biggest columnist and he wrote the most
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  Speaker 1: vicious things about Frank Sinatra. Vicious. He tried to tie
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  Speaker 1: him to the mob. That's where actually all that mafia
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  Speaker 1: stuff started from Lee Mortimer's columns. He tried to get
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  Speaker 1: the guy just, you know, just totally disavowed by Holly.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, nobody went after more than this columnist, Lee Mortimer.
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  Speaker 1: Sinatra saw on was in a restaurant and punched him
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  Speaker 1: right in the face and was put on trial. He
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  Speaker 1: was actually convicted of assault, but Sinatra was so powerful
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  Speaker 1: that he managed to avoid jail. Instead, he had a
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  Speaker 1: pay a fifteen thousand dollars fine, which was a fortune
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  Speaker 1: back then, and for the rest of his life, Sinatra
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  Speaker 1: carried in his pocket a certified check for fifteen thousand dollars.
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  Speaker 1: He said, if I ever see that guy, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: punch him again and hand him the check. But years later,
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  Speaker 1: Lee Mortimer died and he was a big columnist in America.
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  Speaker 1: Said there was a huge funeral, and Sinatra didn't go
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  Speaker 1: to the funeral. But later that night, at about two
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  Speaker 1: in the morning. He brought a lot of friends to
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  Speaker 1: the cemetery in the dark, in the middle of the night.
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  Speaker 1: He wanted them to watch as he pissed on the
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  Speaker 1: grave of Lee Mortimer. So that's Trump, that's Sinatra. There's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of similarities. They just there was nothing phony
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  Speaker 1: in these guys. They just couldn't do it. Hey, well,
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  Speaker 1: take some calls. Next eight hundred three to two one
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