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Hollywood Homicide: Son Charged in Rob and Michele Reiner Murders · True Crime with Gavin Fish

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Today has been a bit of a shocking day in the world of
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crime. I actually, I was actually
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pretty sad today. I mean, I, I try to be
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empathetic and sympathetic as much as I can for everybody.
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And each case does affect, it does affect me for sure.
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But this one, this one cut pretty hard.
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And not because I knew the victims, it was because I knew
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their work. And I have so many, so many
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experiences from my life that are tied to the work of Rob
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Reiner that I just, it just, it just cuts deep.
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So stick with me as we get into the murder of Rob Reiner and
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Michelle Singer. This video contains mature
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themes and discussions intended only for adult audiences.
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Viewer discretion is advised. Hello there my friend, Welcome
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back for the second live stream of the day here on my channel.
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My name is Gavin Fish. Thank you for coming here to
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converse and talk about and discuss and dig into the latest
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developments in the in this case, the the murder of 78 year
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old Rob Reiner and 68 year old Michelle Singer, The couple who
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met. I don't know if you guys heard
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this anecdote but you know the the movie When Harry Met Sally
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that that was written by Nora Ephron directed by Nora Ephron
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was inspired by Rob Reiner after his divorce with Penny Marshall.
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As I understand it, getting back into the into the dating game
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and understanding or, or trying to understand, is it possible
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for men and women to truly be friends without sex and romance?
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I I guess that's the theme of When Harry Met Sally and Mr.
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Reiner met Miss Singer while working on that movie and
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completely changed the ending because he became less cynical
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when he found love again. It's a it's, it's a sweet story
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and it makes it that sweetness makes it all the more bitter
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today. Now that we know that the
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Reiners, singer Reiners have been murdered, have been
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murdered in their Brentwood home and it appears that it was done
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at the hand of their son Nick, who himself was the subject of a
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movie. I think it was a documentary.
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I never saw it produced by his dad, His dad's Castle Rock
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Productions studio or I don't know if you call it a studio,
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whatever his production company. Anyway, Nick has been arrested
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and charged. Well, excuse me, that came out
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of nowhere. Oh, sneezy poo there.
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And this is a reportedly A troubled young man who has dealt
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with issues mostly surrounding his drug addiction and drug use.
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So, so sad. Why don't we start with a little
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map time, shall we? Let's let's come over here and
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I'm going to excuse me for just one moment.
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Sorry about that, guys. I was a little had another
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tickle in my nose I needed to get rid of.
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But this is Brentwood. Brentwood is a rather ritzy,
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rather swanky area of Los Angeles to the West of downtown
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LA. As we kind of scroll out, Los
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Angeles is over here on the right.
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Brentwood tucks up against. I think that we would call that
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the Hollywood Hills, I guess, right?
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Yeah, I, I don't know what that entire mountain range is
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actually called, but tucked up against the Hollywood Hills, I'm
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going to go with that. OK.
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It's a rather, rather swanky area, Brentwood and this home, I
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looked it up on Zillow. This is this is their home on S
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Chadbourne Ave. was owned by Norman Lear.
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Mr. Reiner bought it from Norman Lear.
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Norman Lear, of course, the television legend that created
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all in the family and so many others, so many others.
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It's about a 10,000 square foot house.
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It has staff housing it. It's on about a six 10th of an
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acre lot. It's about a $13 million place,
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so not a not a slouch of a house at all.
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But this is our scene. This is the scene of our crime.
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And maybe if we look at it just like this, you can kind of see
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how things are are laid out there.
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We understand the house across the street also belonged to the
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Rhiners as well. But yeah, so kind of Brentwood's
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kind of next to Beverly Hills and kind of everything's so
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weird in LA It's just it's a place that I really not.
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Oh, and for those of you who are outside of the states, this is
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the southernmost part of Southern California, not the
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southernmost. San Diego is really the
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southernmost, but all the way down there at the tip of
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California before you make it down to the Mexican border.
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So that is where we are. That is our little map Timey
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poo. I, I could not find any photos
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of the house where you can see the house.
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Don't don't know that it really matters.
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OK, let's start off with a little bit of reading and then
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we're going to go into some video.
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Join me, if you will, over here on Acrobat.
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This from Rolling Stone, this from today.
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And this will be a little, a little out of order.
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I try to stay, I, I try to stay in chronological order.
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But in this case, it's just really hard because things are
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happening so quickly. But Rolling Stone reports Rob
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Reiner took son Nick to a holiday party day before the
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alleged murder. This is the famous Conan O'Brien
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party. Nick Reiner exhibited antisocial
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behavior while at Conan O'Brien's holiday party on
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Saturday the 13th, just one day before he allegedly killed his
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parents, Rob Reiner and Michelle Singer, sources tell Rolling
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Stone. According to the sources, the
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Reiners asked if they could bring Nick to the party out of
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concern for him and to keep an eye on him.
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At the party, the sources added, Nick exhibited antisocial
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behavior, such as staring at people.
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TMZ was the first to report that Nick attended the party, with
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their sources claiming that Nick and Reiner got into a very loud
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argument. The outlet further reported that
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in recent months, Reiner and Singer were struggling with how
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to deal with Nick as he continued to battle mental
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health issues and alleged substance abuse.
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This and this is, gosh, you know, parenting is freaking
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hard, right? And as your children grow, I
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mean, these people are in their 60s and 70s and they're still
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parenting. And that, I mean, my parents are
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in their 70s, they're still parenting me, right?
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And the older we get, the more complex it gets.
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And when we add into the mix mental health issues, we add
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into the mix substance abuse, man, that's really tough.
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It's really, really hard. A representative for the Reiner
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family did not immediately return a request for comment,
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nor did a Rep for Mr. O'Brien. Reiner and Singer were found
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dead at their Los Angeles home Sunday afternoon.
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The 14th. Nick, 32, was arrested at 9:15
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local time after a Los Angeles Police Department investigators
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determined that the Reiners were the victims of a homicide and
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that Nick was, quote, responsible for their deaths.
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Nick was booked on suspicion of felony murder and remains in
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custody with no bail. This is Nick again, as the, and
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this by the way, was written earlier today.
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I don't know if the no bail thing is still a thing.
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We're going to, we're going to take a look as the police
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present their case to the LA District, county's district.
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Oh my goodness, Los Angeles County district attorney's
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office. Nick had a complicated
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relationship with his parents and had long battle drug
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addiction. He first went to rehab at age 15
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and spent much of his teenage years rotating in and out of
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facilities. Several years after getting
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clean at the age of 19, he Co wrote the semi autobiographical
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film Being Charlie, largely about the relationship between a
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troubled son and a famous father, which Reiner directed.
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One of Nick's last known public appearances was in September at
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the Los Angeles premiere of Spinal Tap To the End Continues,
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which I've not seen. I'm happy that he made it, and I
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love Spinal Tap, but I've held off.
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Nick was photographed on the red carpet alongside his parents, as
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well as his siblings. Here are just a couple photos of
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the Reiners, by the way. Just, they're just cute little
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old people. Adorable, adorable.
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And then, yeah, Castle Rock is pretty a pretty big powerhouse
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in Hollywood, thanks to Rob Reiner.
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That guy is that was just amazing.
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This next one from the LA Times. Rob Reiner's son arrested on
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suspicion of homicide after director and his wife were found
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dead Rob Reiner's son Nick was arrested on suspicion of
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murdering his parents after the Hollywood legend and his wife,
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Michelle Singer Reiner, were found dead at their Brentwood
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home on Sunday. Los Angeles Police Chief Jim
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McDonnell, we're going to watch. His brief statement, said that
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officers responded to the home about 3:40 PM.
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Detectives from the Elite Robbery Homicide Division worked
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throughout the night and took Nick Reiner, 32, into custody.
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Our hearts go out to the family and friends of the Reiner, as
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McDonald's said during a news conference on Monday.
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A tragic incident. He said.
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Authorities have issued a search warrant for the Reiner home,
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McDonnell said, calling it a critical piece of our
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investigation. The director was 78, his wife
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was 70. I've heard 68, but LA Times is
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saying 70. Family friends told the Times
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that Rob and Nick Reiner got into an argument Saturday
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evening at the party at Conan O'Brien's home and that people
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noticed Nick acting strangely at the party.
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Nick Reiner, who had struggled with addiction for years, was
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living in a guest house on his parents property, family friends
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told the Times. Again, going over to the website
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and it's easier to see like this is the main house looks like,
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but there are, it looks like 3 separate outbuildings.
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If we look at it like this, it shows maybe 2 separate
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outbuildings. So maybe in, in one of those.
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His mother had become increasingly concerned about his
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mental health in recent weeks, according to family friends.
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The family friends, who did not want to be identified because of
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the nature of the crime, said that the Reiner's daughter found
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the parents Sunday afternoon. Law enforcement sources told the
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Times there's no sign of forced entry into the home on the 200
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block of Chadbourne Ave. The source also said the
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Reiner's had injuries consistent with being stabbed.
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I think TMZ reported a cutting of throats, but who knows.
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Who knows at this point. Nick Reiner was taken into
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custody at 9:15 PM. Sunday and booked at 5 O 4:00 AM
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Monday. Jail records show He's being
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held on a $4 million bail. So and I couldn't find those
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jail records, but maybe now that he's charged with murder,
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there's no bail. I don't know.
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In interviews, Nick Reiner is described as has described
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cycling in and out of rehab centers and experienced bounce
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of homelessness as a teenager. By 2015, he had gotten clean.
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Yeah. And I'm not going to go through
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all of the stuff that Rob Reiner and Nick Reiner did because we
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all know it and we can talk about it a little bit.
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Put your comments in the live chat, GF.
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Put GF in your comments. And I mean, just make sure that
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we are. Yeah, I've got got lots of
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comments going on. Good.
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And then the last thing that I wanted to read for you was an
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actual release from the LAPD and then we'll get into some video.
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I'll go over your comments a little bit here too.
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I'm feeling really down on this guys, just feeling really down.
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Detectives announced arrest in the murder of Robert Michelle
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Reiner Los Angeles. The Los Angeles detective, or
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I'm sorry, it's written weirdly. Detectives from the Los Angeles
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police department's robbery homicide division announced the
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arrest of nick Reiner following the murder of Robert and
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Michelle Reiner on December 14th, 2025 around 3:40 PM.
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Los Angeles Police Department officers assigned to West Los
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Angeles Division responded to a call of a death investigation in
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the 200 block of S Chadbourne Ave.
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Once inside the residence, officers discovered 2 victims
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who were subsequently identified as Robert and Michelle Reiner,
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Robbery Homicide Division. Homicide Special Section
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responded to the residence and initiated an investigation
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regarding the circumstances of their deaths.
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As a result of the initial investigation, it was determined
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that the Reiners were the victims of homicide.
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The investigation further revealed that Nick Reiner, the
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32 year old son of Robert and Michelle Reiner, was responsible
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for their deaths. Nick Reiner was located and
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arrested approximately 915 PMI understand he was on the campus
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or near the campus of the University of Southern
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California. He was booked for murder and
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remains in custody with no bail according to the LAPD under
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booking number 714-4668. On Tuesday, December 16th, the
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case will be presented to the LA County District Attorney's
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Office for filing consideration. Anyone with con information
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about this investigation can contact 1877 LAPD 24/7.
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That's 877-527-3247. Anyone wishing to remain
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anonymous should call the LA Regional Crime Stoppers AT80222
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Tips or go directly to lacrime-stoppers.org.
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Lastly, tipsters can may also download the P3 Tips mobile app
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and select the LA Regional Crime Stalkers as their local program.
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All right, let's see what you guys are talking about.
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Before we go into our video here, just a couple things.
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Susie Payne is joining us from Devon, UK.
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So glad you're here. I always ask where you're from.
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I just got into this and kind of like down mode, melancholy mode,
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and I forgot to ask you. So thank you for saying that.
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Susie. You know what?
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What's happening? You know what's up?
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Julie Martino. Hey, Gavin and Fishies.
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This is so very sad. Yeah, it really is content.
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Angel says thanks for doing 2 hours tonight.
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Well, I'm happy, happy to do it, though I'm not really happy
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about the circumstances under which we are doing.
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Just Ducky. That's pretty funny.
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Hey everyone, missed you over those 8 minutes between our last
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video and this one. That's funny.
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Yeah. Brentwood, not Redwood, is the
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home of UCLA. It's kind of on the edge of it,
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right? Is it in Brentwood though?
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I don't think so. I think it's it's close.
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Man, it's been so long. Maybe you're probably right.
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Yeah. Pam Tucker, so many heartbroken.
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I grew up watching All in the Family and still love reruns.
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Yeah, that's pretty tough. Parenting is a forever job.
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This is so heartbreaking. Crime, addiction.
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Welcome to Fanatic. Thank you very much for joining.
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Appreciate you doing that. Jenny says I cannot imagine
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seeing my child come at me like what they went through.
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Yeah oh so so tough Oh I clicked the wrong one pill 9371 also a
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new member. Thank you very much content
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Angel says I just found his inmate data.
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Thank you actually shoot that my way, will you or put a link in
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the in the description and it says no bail.
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Good. Seattle, WA in the house autumn
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20 months is a fanatic. Thank you very much.
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So yeah, send me that. Actually I can probably look it
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up based on that booking number. Let me let me see if I can find
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it here real quick guys. LA County booking number search.
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Let's see. It doesn't ask me for.
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Yeah, there it is. Booking number.
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I'm not a robot. Continue.
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So we come over here all right so date of birth 9/14/1993, just
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a couple months after I graduated high school.
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I'm an old guy, white male, charged with a felony height 6
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foot 3, weight 230. Arrested at 9:15 PM on the 14th.
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He was booked at 5 O 4:00 AM on the 15th.
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The agency that arrested him was LAPD gang activity and the
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booking location was at the jail.
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No bail. So we've thank you very much
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content Angel for for pointing me in this direction.
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He is at the Twin Towers Correctional Facility.
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Let's look up where that is. All right.
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And then so that's like downtown LA.
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Let's get directions. I think his house is 255 S
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Chadbourne Ave. Yeah.
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So due West to go. What is that?
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How far is it? It's 18 miles.
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Take you an hour and a half to do it.
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So yeah. Thank you.
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Thank you very much for that. Let's bring up our victims faces
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again here. See if anything else.
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Yeah. Ananya Mao says All in the
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family represented an honest breakthrough show about changes
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in society. And Rob Reiner really added the
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warmth to it. That was unique.
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Yeah. And Norman Lear, I mean, he when
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you think about Norman Lear shows, of course, The Jeffersons
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was a was a spinoff. The ones that I grew up were it
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would be like facts of life. What different strokes.
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I mean, Norman Lear, he was all about social change, right.
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And I think Rob Reiner fat fit into that very, very well.
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Joan Joanne Marie, why the gang unit?
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I think it's probably because of where he was.
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My understanding is he was near the USC campus now.
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Yeah, doesn't matter. I, I think, I think that's why.
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So, yeah, let's the kind of torn about watching this is about 10
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minutes long because we don't get very much information, but
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we might be able to glean something.
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So let's go ahead. And just, this was a, this was a
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press conference that that was set up in Brentwood the last
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night. OK, so here we go.
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Information regarding the investigation that is occurring
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here in Brentwood tonight, our detectives will be responding
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along with our Forensic Science Division and our Technical
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Investigation Division investigators to conduct a full
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crime scene investigation and determine the appropriateness of
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the investigation moving forward.
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This is obviously before. At this time, the Los Angeles
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Police Department is not asking anyone as a suspect or as a
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person of interest or in any other manner, and we will not be
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doing that until we conduct our investigation and we move
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forward. That's all I have right now at
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this early preliminary stage of this investigation.
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If you have questions that I can answer, I will answer them.
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I would just ask you, please, if we do not have the ability to
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answer the questions that you remain patient over the coming
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hours and over the coming days. Starting tomorrow morning, we
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will be responding and providing additional information as it
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becomes publicly available. Pete Family.
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Who actually made the call that brought fire department and
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police officers here? Has that person known and to
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release who it was? So we understand that the person
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reporting was here at the location.
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We're not going to release any information regarding the
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identity of that individual at this time.
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We know it was Nick Reiner. Hold on one at a time please,
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can you? Confirm that and is that.
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Family member There are going to be many family members
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interviewed. I'm not going to confirm whether
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someone's being interviewed at this time or not.
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We're going to try and speak to every family member that we can
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to get to the facts of this investigation.
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Why? Are you not looking for?
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A suspect. I'm sorry, why are you not?
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Exactly. Looking for a suspect?
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Are you confident you know who? Did this We have not identified
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A suspect at this time, but. Then shouldn't you be looking
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for one so these neighbors aren't worried about their own
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lives and their own safety? Yeah.
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So at this time, after we determine, so I need everyone to
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understand something in order to to comply with the legal process
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before we do anything here, we have to get a search warrant
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because there are issues regarding standing at this
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residence. So as long as those legal
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requirements are met, we can continue the investigation.
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Now when I tell you that we have not identified A suspect, it
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doesn't mean that we're not working the case.
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We will not identify a suspect until that person is identified
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as a suspect and we're legally seeking them if there is a crime
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to be reported and if that person is a suspect in that
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crime. Did that.
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Hold on, hold on, hold on. Did that answer your question,
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Sir? No.
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OK, go ahead. Has.
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Anyone been detained yet for questioning?
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Are you questioning people now that could be possible suspects
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and or a person or. Person.
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Specifically your first question, no one has been
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detained. Specifically your second
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question, no one is being interviewed as a suspect.
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Hold on. Wait a minute.
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Oh my goodness, I need to sneeze again.
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Hold on, hold on a second. I please excuse me.
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They booked him at 9:15. So when he said no one had been
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detained, detained, that was like probably 8 minutes before
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somebody was detained. Come on.
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We're not going to. Yeah.
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So we're not going to comment on the injuries at this time.
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That information will be coming forward in the coming days as
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it's publicly releasable. If it is part of the
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investigation and it is not publicly releasable, we will not
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be releasing it. Hold on, Hold on.
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Hold on. One at a time.
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Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Hold up one at a time.
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This gentleman is next. Are your detectives inside the
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home right now? Are are they getting access to
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the home right now as we speak? We're waiting for the legal
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process to move forward. We have to obtain a search
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warrant for the residents. As soon as that is complied
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with, we will be conducting a full crime scene investigation
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of the interior and the exterior of the residence and the
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surrounding neighborhood just. A follow up, Deputy Chief, is
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there somebody from the family not allowing detectives inside
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the home right now? That that's inconsequential.
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We have to comply with the legal process.
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It doesn't matter whether the family allows us in or not.
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Hold on ma'am. Have the family who's been
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notified of what that an incident occurred here?
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I believe the family's aware in other.
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Words why you were not. Releasing their names that
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that's going to be the Los Angeles County coroner that
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releases the information. Ma'am, go ahead.
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Your your question first. At this time, it's a death
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investigation. Again, until we get inside and
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we make a determination, we can't call it anything.
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So we're going to conduct that invest.
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Hold on. We're going to conduct that
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investigation at the appropriate time.
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We will identify what kind of incident it is and if it's
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determined to be a crime, we will seek the suspect.
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I actually sympathize with this guy a little bit.
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I get a little bit because there are legal issues that they have
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to navigate and they don't want to hurt their investigation.
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But with something just so, I mean, with something involving
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somebody just so famous, it's going to be hard for the LAPD
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to, I mean, people will be able to say, hey, that's Rob Reiner's
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house. Come on.
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We will bring them to justice and we will take them into
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custody, Mayor. Has one more question the mayor
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has already? Confirmed it's the Reiner's.
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I, I can't speak for the mayor, but I can't speak for the Los
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Angeles Police Department. The Los Angeles County coroner
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will identify the decedents that are inside of the residence and
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that will be hold on. That will be the official
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notification and the official identification of the decedents
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inside of the residence. I'm not going to address that,
28:45
ma'am. Sure.
28:50
There's a, there's a legal process whenever you're going to
28:53
conduct an investigation in a, at a crime scene in the state of
28:55
California. You, you, there are certain
28:57
requirements that you have to meet in order to conduct a
29:01
thorough investigation. So you don't want to start a
29:03
crime scene investigation and then have someone say I need you
29:07
guys to leave the residence right now.
29:09
So we're going to hold on. You asked a question I'm going
29:11
to answer. So we have to comply with the
29:13
legal process. Once the warrant is signed and
29:15
delivered, we will have access to the crime scene.
29:17
We will conduct a full, thorough, impartial
29:19
investigation. We will conduct additional
29:23
investigations in the neighborhood around this area
29:26
and then with that information we will go forward with the
29:28
investigation, whether it is a death investigation or some
29:31
other type of investigation. And we and I do want to be
29:36
clear, hold on, I want to be clear with one thing.
29:39
Wherever we can be transparent and provide information to the
29:41
public, we will release it as soon as we can, one at a time,
29:44
do. We have.
29:46
Any understanding about when the?
29:49
Decisions may have. Passed.
29:53
No, that's going to be determined by the coroner.
29:55
The coroner's not here. It's been about 6.
29:57
Hours since the first report. Why is it taking so long to
30:00
gain? Access to start I don't
30:03
understand. That is a dumb question.
30:05
Six hours since. Police were first called.
30:08
Yeah. So, OK, So just to be clear,
30:10
just to be clear, there's an initial investigation.
30:12
When the patrol officers arrive, when they make a determination
30:14
that detectives are needed, they will back out.
30:17
We will conduct a sweep of the area to make sure that it's
30:20
safe, and then we will comply with the legal process and then
30:23
we move forward. I'm not giving you the exact
30:25
timeline on that, but I'm telling you that it's moving.
30:27
Forward, I agree with you, Cassie.
30:28
Question one. How soon do we anticipate
30:32
getting a warrant to where you're able to search the entire
30:35
property, interior and exterior? Second, do we have an ETA on the
30:39
coroner's arrival and once they arrive and make an initial
30:42
determination, will they be able to give you identification that
30:44
you can then? Release we'll be obtaining the
30:47
warrant in real time very shortly if we have not obtained
30:50
it already in terms of the coroner's etai cannot tell you
30:54
when their estimated time of arrival is, we're already hold
30:59
on we're already in communication with the coroner's
31:01
office as. Far as the content Angel, the
31:12
yeah, I'm sure a lot. I'm sure there were a lot of Tik
31:16
Tokers, you know, would be would be journalists, I guess there,
31:27
but they also had the major networks, they had the AP they
31:29
had, they had a lot of people there.
31:31
I mean, and, and you can tell there are some good questions,
31:37
right, some good reporter style questions.
31:42
That's correct. We've only done preliminary.
31:44
We've only done preliminary investigation at this point.
31:46
Are. The bodies.
31:48
Still there at the houses. OK, so nothing has occurred
31:51
inside the house. The house is in the exact same
31:52
state it was when the officers arrived.
31:54
Just to be clear. I'm sorry.
32:00
I can't hear you. Oh, are we safe in Brentwood?
32:04
I'm sorry. Yeah.
32:05
So we have. We have officers here at the
32:06
scene. We have officers in the area.
32:09
We're we're not looking for anyone in the Brentwood area at
32:12
this point. We're not, we're not looking for
32:13
anyone because we're still working on that part of the
32:15
investigation. Hold on, hold on.
32:17
Someone over here adding a question, say.
32:19
About the fact that he's been reported to the.
32:23
Son of the family. I don't understand.
32:26
But reported by who? OK.
32:28
I don't. I don't know people, People
32:30
magazine or people in the. I don't know anything about
32:33
that. Yeah, that that did not hold on.
32:35
That did not come from the LAPD. Go ahead.
32:37
Can. You give us a sense of how many
32:39
witnesses, if any, you guys have been able to talk to other
32:42
people you've been able to already touch base with, who'd
32:45
be giving you useful information in terms of what unfolded inside
32:48
that home. So we've already been talking to
32:51
the neighbors, we've already been canvassing the neighborhood
32:53
and speaking to residents that live around this area.
32:55
So that's part of our investigation.
32:57
In terms of someone that may have information regarding what
33:00
happened inside the residence, we're not going to release that
33:02
information. That'll be part of the
33:03
investigation were there. Other Were there other family
33:06
members? There's been no reports from the
33:07
neighbors regarding hearing anything or seeing anything that
33:09
we can release to the public. Were there other?
33:11
Family members. Living interesting qualifier
33:13
there at the end that we can release to the public.
33:15
Timeline of this of this murder do we haven't established that
33:19
yet. We will.
33:20
We will. We will establish that soon and
33:22
then that'll be part of the investigation.
33:24
The part that is publicly releasable.
33:25
We will release the cause of death will be released by the LA
33:28
County coroner. Are you?
33:29
Looking into them being. Stabbed.
33:31
We're looking into getting the information from the LA County
33:33
Coroner when it's available. He's tough.
33:38
We didn't say, we didn't say anything about weapons either.
33:44
OK. All right.
33:45
Thanks, everybody. We'll release.
33:48
So we're calling it a death investigation at this point.
33:51
So just to be well, it's a homicide.
33:58
Yeah. Oh, I so I'm sorry.
34:02
I didn't. I didn't mean to be flippant.
34:03
Let me be specific. There was recently a change
34:06
within the department. Robbery Homicide Division
34:09
handles all homicides now in the city of Los Angeles.
34:11
So I apologize that I didn't know if you knew that or not.
34:14
All homicides occurring in the city of Los Angeles are now
34:17
handled by Robbery Homicide Division as of the end of
34:19
October. So we handled them all.
34:22
OK. All right.
34:23
Thanks, everybody. The next update will be after
34:26
tomorrow morning. Interesting little presser.
34:31
I mean, and it is a lot of we're not going to release that.
34:34
We can't say we're not going to say that didn't come from us, A
34:38
lot of that. But I kind of sympathize with
34:41
this guy. Like they're just things that
34:45
you can't you can't let out, right?
34:48
It jeopardizes the investigation though.
34:51
I also sympathize with all of us who want more information.
34:55
I think, I think that because of the nature of the case, they
34:59
will be moving pretty quickly on this.
35:03
Let's see what happened. Content, Angel.
35:05
Yeah, You took the right words right out of my mouth.
35:08
Yeah. That's Julie.
35:12
Martino says he should have just not spoken.
35:14
That made zero. That made.
35:16
We're calling this a death investigation.
35:18
Oh, we're here because it's a homicide, rubber homicide.
35:21
We always do homicides. It's pretty funny the panic when
35:26
the journalist asked about the sun.
35:28
There's no keeping a lid on this case.
35:33
Redondo Beach says it makes sense now why the search warrant
35:36
hasn't been served by 9:30 at night.
35:39
The daughter went with the mom in the ambulance and Michelle
35:42
passed away on the way to the hospital.
35:44
I hadn't read that yet. Man who?
35:52
The area is safe, but we're not looking for a suspect.
35:54
Yeah, what that means is they have a suspect.
35:57
They don't have an official suspect.
35:58
We can't tell you who the suspect is because we don't have
36:00
a suspect, but we know who did this.
36:04
Very, very interesting. OK, the next little piece of
36:08
video that I want to show you is only about a minute and 44
36:12
seconds long. This from this morning, let me
36:16
bring it up here for you guys. Look at this is the chief of the
36:20
LAPD. Thank you.
36:21
Thank you, Captain. And by the way, I'm very sorry
36:24
about the different levels of things.
36:26
This this one is pretty loud. And as as he said, the
36:30
information at this stage is still limited, but I'll share
36:33
what we can. First of all, our hearts go out
36:35
to the family and friends of the Rhiners.
36:38
Tragic incident yesterday at 12 December 14th, about 3:40 in the
36:45
afternoon, LAPD responded to a residence the residents of Rob
36:52
and Michelle Reiner located in West Los Angeles Division.
36:55
At that location they found two deceased adults, a male and a
36:59
female. Through the night, working with
37:01
the coroner's office, they were able to identify them
37:05
definitively as Rob and Michelle Reiner.
37:08
We have our robbery Homicide Division handling the
37:11
investigation. That doesn't sound like she was
37:13
taken by hospital. It sounds like she was deceased.
37:17
So there there is some conflicting information coming
37:20
out which will happen. We will get to the bottom of
37:24
this overtime. And they work throughout the
37:27
night on this case, and we're able to take into custody Nick,
37:34
Nick Reiner, a suspect in this case.
37:37
He was subsequently booked for murder and is being held on $4
37:41
million bail. Pretty much that's what I can
37:44
share at this point. But again, of every very tragic
37:47
incident. So that's where the $4 million
37:49
came from. But we looked at the, we looked
37:53
at the inmate locator and says no bail.
37:56
Can you talk about I? Know you?
38:00
Talked about the search warrant. Yeah.
38:08
You know, we, we use search warrants to be able to further
38:11
our investigation as you know on on all of these cases.
38:15
I wouldn't be in a position to talk specifically about what the
38:18
object of the search warrant was, but it's a critical piece
38:22
of our investigations to be able to ensure down the road of
38:25
prosecution. Thank you all very much.
38:29
I was short and sweet, short and sweet.
38:34
So yeah, I the thing about LA is that because of California law,
38:41
unlike other places, we're not, we're probably not going to get
38:45
very much information, including like the search warrant
38:48
application. We probably won't get that.
38:51
California is just a very difficult state when it comes to
38:55
transparency. And so I I would love to know
39:00
what that search warrant said. I would love to know what the
39:04
probable cause affidavit against Nick Reiner says, but we
39:08
probably won't be able to get that, Mooney says.
39:13
I kind of feel bad for the guy at the presser.
39:14
It's a high profile case involving very famous people.
39:17
No one wants to misspeak and screw this up.
39:20
Yep, Ronaldo Beach says You can take the girl out of The
39:23
Newsroom, but you can't take The Newsroom out of the girl.
39:25
That's funny. Let's see.
39:31
Yeah, I'm reading. Yeah, the LAPD said they were
39:36
they were DOA. So anyway, I don't know, guys.
39:42
I don't know about this case. This is 1 where we're going to.
39:45
We're going to get a lot of TMZ investigation.
39:48
We're going to get a lot of local news investigation, and
39:50
we'll keep on it. We'll keep on the case.
39:54
Before we go though, before we go, let's just real quick.
40:00
Check a headline or two, shall we?
40:02
I think it's one true. Crime headlines.
40:10
Pow. OK.
40:14
In our last live stream, somebody asked me if I'd found
40:18
out about the update on Jean Benign Ramsey.
40:22
I did find this. Search for Jean Benign Ramsey
40:25
Killer still active. New evidence gathered Nearly 3
40:28
decades after Jean Benet Ramsey's mysterious killing,
40:31
Colorado police said her cold case is still a top priority.
40:35
In an annual update, the Boulder Police Department urged anyone
40:37
with information to come forward about the killing of the six
40:40
year old child beauty queen in her childhood home in 1996.
40:44
Ramsey's killing has captivated international audience for
40:47
decades. You know what just occurred to
40:49
me? Why I never got into the Ramsey
40:52
case. I I did not live in the country
40:54
in 1996. I wasn't here for any of this.
41:00
Yeah. Anyway, in the past year, Police
41:03
Chief Steven Redfern said detectives have conducted
41:06
several new interviews based on tips received and collected and
41:09
tested new evidence. They did not release information
41:12
about what that new evidence has been about.
41:14
What new evidence has been gathered?
41:17
Meanwhile, police have re interviewed people and retested
41:20
other pieces of evidence using evolving DNA technology.
41:26
This is the house never too late for people with the knowledge of
41:28
this terrible crime to come forward.
41:30
And I urge those responsible for this murder to contact us.
41:33
I don't think that was going to happen.
41:35
So yeah, that's that is the update on Ramsey.
41:40
And because we're just going to kind of roll with it, let's move
41:44
into three questions. It's 3 questions.
41:53
Guys, while during the 8 minute hiatus between our last video
42:00
and this video, three more questions came in.
42:03
Now three this, in this segment, everything's on the table.
42:07
You can ask me anything, anything you want, and I promise
42:11
to you that I will honestly answer it.
42:15
Most people are taking the opportunity to learn a little
42:17
bit about me, but you could ask anything and I will tell you my
42:20
opinion. All right, first question, did
42:25
you ever jump ramps on your bike when you were young?
42:27
OK, First off, I was born in 1975.
42:33
Of course I jumped bike ramps. Yeah.
42:37
No, I'm not. I'm not saying duh to you, but
42:39
yeah, that there just wasn't a lot to do there.
42:43
Like, yeah, there just wasn't a lot to do.
42:46
Video games were a thing in my childhood, but they were
42:48
expensive, man, expensive. I remember we had Pong.
42:53
We later got an Atari, but we later got a Nintendo.
42:58
But basically all I did was play in the fields, ride bikes, jump
43:05
bikes and and play baseball. That that was my childhood up
43:11
until I learned that girls were really interesting.
43:18
And I was so stoked when we moved to California because we
43:21
graduated from like making ramps out of like scrap pieces of
43:25
plywood and two by four lining up neighborhood children past
43:29
the ramp. See how many children we could
43:30
jump right to living in a place that had a Creek area where
43:36
people would make BMX style ramps and jumps and tracks and
43:43
man, it it got it got serious. Then I went from having like,
43:50
just the junkiest hand me down to having like a nice
43:54
Diamondback BMX bike. And I spent so much time on
44:00
those ramps. And it would, it destroyed us
44:03
when like there was one time where one of our favorite places
44:08
because it had an old pool in the ground so we could
44:10
skateboard and stuff like that in there, ride our bikes,
44:12
skateboard in this old pool that I don't know from some house
44:16
that was there decades before. And there were just dirt ramps
44:21
all over the place. And then somebody bought the
44:24
land and developed it and it took away the best place for us
44:27
to ride our bikes. Oh, my goodness.
44:29
So yes, the answer is yes. Question #2 Did you ever climb
44:33
trees when you were young? Oh, my goodness.
44:35
Yeah. I I neglected to say that was
44:38
the third thing I did. I climbed trees.
44:40
Yes. And in fact, that that was where
44:45
my mom just always knew to look first.
44:48
Where's Gavin? Go check the tree.
44:50
Because we had a giant tree in our front yard.
44:53
And I I spent a lot of time up in that tree out in the Creek
44:59
area. See, in Northern California, we
45:01
have these giant black oaks. And I mean, they are giant.
45:08
Some of those in that Creek area had to be 200 and 5300 years
45:11
old. And we would climb them.
45:14
And as we were climbing them, we would nail in like 2 by fours so
45:20
that we could easily climb them later, you know?
45:22
And once you, I mean, you get up into that tree, you're 30 feet
45:26
off the ground. Oh, yeah.
45:28
That was a blast. That was a blast.
45:31
When I was really little and living at my grandparents house,
45:34
they had crab apple trees in their in their front yard.
45:37
I did a lot of climbing there and then in their backyard they
45:41
had a giant tree. I don't know what it was.
45:43
It must have been a Birch or something like that.
45:46
I don't know what it was, but my dad, my Uncle Don, and my Uncle
45:51
Phil made us a tree house by by nailing like old doors up on
45:56
branches and we had like 3 or 4 of them so that we could hang
45:59
out up in the tree. And grandpa and grandma had a
46:02
big, big rope swing from another one of those exact trees that we
46:08
could swing on. That was just, it was magic.
46:11
It was magic. Yes.
46:14
Trees are the best. And the third question, when you
46:18
think about the version of yourself from your early 20s,
46:21
what do you wish he knew? Oh my goodness, that is a tough
46:27
question. I wish that I knew that you
46:31
can't ignore or run away from problems, especially those of
46:35
your own making, and that it is better to face hard things.
46:48
I wish I knew that now. I learned that by the end of my
46:51
20s, but in my early 20s when I was 20, when I was 21, I had a
46:59
real hard time with that. And, and there are still
47:04
consequences of that that I'm that I'm living with now.
47:08
So those are our three questions.
47:21
All right, so if you would like to ask me any question, any
47:25
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47:28
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47:31
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47:34
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47:36
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47:50
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48:38
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48:40
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49:00
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49:04
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49:10
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49:13
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