From Bondi To Brentwood: Terror, Tragedy, And A Host’s Crossroads

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Some mornings feel like whiplash: a global attack, a campus shooting that goes unanswered, and a Hollywood tragedy that hits uncomfortably close to home. We open the mic to grief and anger, then push into the harder layer beneath the headlines—how leadership frames public safety, when silence functions as consent, and why communities need more than slogans to resist targeted hate.

We start with the alleged terror in Bondi and the spike in antisemitism many have felt since early October. The conversation is blunt about political accountability and the signals leaders send, but it also asks for something deeper than outrage: consistent standards that condemn violence clearly and build prevention that actually works. From there, we pivot to the unresolved shooting tied to Brown University, where surveillance and technology somehow haven’t produced answers. Competence matters; transparent updates matter. When institutions leave a vacuum, rumor and fear rush in.

The hardest turn comes with reports of Rob Reiner and his wife found stabbed, with their adult son named as a person of interest after public struggles with addiction. We talk about the limits of money and rehab, the harsh math of relapse, and why harm reduction and long-term family support are essential if we want fewer headlines like this. None of this is neat or easy, and that’s the point—we’re trying to hold space for complexity without losing our grip on moral clarity.

Before we wrap, we face a quieter question about the future of this show. Daily news takes a toll, but community matters too. So we come up for air with a simple holiday prompt—your gift wrap style: coordinated themes or whatever bag is handy? Share your take, then press play and sit with us through the tough parts. If the conversation resonates, subscribe, leave a review, and pass this along to a friend who needs company in the noise.

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Episode Transcript

SPEAKER_00 (00:30):
Well, hello and good morning, my little love bunnies.
There is a lot going on in theworld today.
I don't even know where tostart, but we'll start with
this.
Happy Monday.
Try to make the best of it thatyou can with all this news out
here.
Over the weekend, uh a terroristattack in Bondi Beach.

(00:50):
I don't know how you pronouncethat, but there whatever how you
pronounce it in Australia, whereit apparently, you know, when
COVID happened, Australiaexposed itself to what it was.
It was captured big time.
And I really had no idea aboutthe Muslim, Islamic um migration

(01:12):
over there.
The influx of the people,apparently, it's been taken over
by Islam Muslims.
And this uh terror attack sitssquarely on the Prime Minister.
And I did write about it at theVictor Girls blog.
I hope you go read it because umit wasn't a surprise, it was

(01:33):
permission, if you ask me.
And I think I lay it out prettygood and hard over there on the
Victor Girls blog.
I hope you go read it, and Ihope you share it a lot.
Please, and I hope you comment.
I've had some I have had somecomments over there.
Um so and I mean I just prettymuch lay it on the Prime

(01:53):
Minister of of Australia overthere because it's his he he
just let this happen.
He put up and with the with thisright after I see again, I
didn't know that they had such aproblem over there with the
influx of the uh Muslims untilthis event until this event,

(02:15):
till this terror attackhappened, and then uh people
started talking on the newsabout how after October 7th, it
just grew.
The Jew hatred over there grewlike crazy.
They just came out of thewoodwork and it's it's insane.
And these two terror terrorMuslims, they had um they had

(02:39):
legal guns.
And apparently over there inAustralia, it's hard to get
guns, legal guns.
So it's quite uh the thing overthere.
It's awful, it's terrible.
10-year-old girl was killed.
I think the I think the count isup to 15 now.
15 people murdered, and the thevideos and the images are just

(03:02):
horrific.
It's awful.
And this is this is not somerandom thing, some random event
of terror.
No, this was targeted.
This was Jew hatred, and it wasdone by Islam and Muslims.
Don't tell me Islam is thereligion of peace anymore.

(03:23):
I don't want to hear it.
If it were, if it was, thenthey're where are where where
are all the Muslims who practicethis religion of peace swelling
up and condemning this?
They're not.
Have you heard anything about itrecently?
Recently, in the past ten yearsof all these things that
happened, all these terrorevents that happened.

(03:44):
Have you heard anybody speak upand say, no, we condemn this of
that religion?
Nope, not a one.
So they are here to kill us all.
I'm just telling you that rightnow.
And it they they are they'restarting with the Jewish people.
I just I just cannot believethis is happening.

(04:05):
I just can't believe it.
And then we in other news, theystill haven't found the Brown
University shooter.
They'll probably never find him.
I cannot believe that.
With all the cameras andtechnology we have today, they
don't know who did this.
He got away?
What in the hell?

(04:25):
I don't know that they'll everfind him.
That is some insane bullshitright there.
Ah, when they started doingthose press conferences, I could
tell they were in way over theirhead the way some of these
people were talking.
Well, I don't know, and I don'tknow this, and I don't know, and
blah, blah, blah.
It's pathetic.
They should all be fired, quit,resign.

(04:47):
It's it's embarrassing and it'ssad for the two people that were
murdered in cold blood likethat.
Shame, shame, shame.
And then we wake up this morningto the news of Rob Reiner being
killed by his son, apparently,allegedly.
Uh, there's a lot of newsstories out there about this.

(05:08):
Rob Reiner and his wife werestabbed, apparently, uh, to
death by their son, or the sonis the suspect.
And apparently the son is uh hasa history of guess what?
Drug addiction.
Oh, y'all, this is some insanecrap happening today.
Um, it's just I don't even know.

(05:30):
I don't even know.
Legendary director, this is fromthe New York Post, legendary
director Rob Reiner and hislongtime wife have been found
stabbed to death inside theirBrentwood home, and
investigators are eyeing thecouple's troubled adult son as a
person of interest, according tolaw enforcement.

(05:50):
Officers were called to the homeSunday afternoon where they
discovered a man and woman withstab wounds, according to the
sources.
The Los Angeles Fire Departmenttold NBC Los Angeles that a
78-year-old man and a68-year-old woman were found
dead inside the home.
Post sources confirmed thebodies discovered were the
longtime couple who married in1989.

(06:11):
The couple's 32-year-old son andscreenwriter Nick Reiner is a
person of interest in the deadlystabbing, the sources added.
It is with profound sorrow thatwe announced okay.
Yeah, yeah.
I was trying to get to the partabout the son.
Here we go.
Nick has been open about hisissues battling drug addiction

(06:32):
and homelessness in the past.
He says I was homeless in Maine,I was homeless in New Jersey, I
was homeless in Texas, I spentnights on the street, I spent
weeks on the street.
It was not fun, he told peoplein an interview in night 2016.
Officers had the street blockedoff in front of Reiner's house,

(06:53):
and detectives could be seengoing in and out uh of the
residence.
The let's see.
It's just the the neighbor toldthe post, comedian Billy
Crystal, a longtime friend ofReiner, was spotted arriving to
the home.
Why?
And so was Larry David.
Why?
Why did they come to the home?
Why do they need to come to thehome?

(07:13):
When the police are there tryingto investigate?
I don't know.
I mean I love Billy Crystal, butstay out of it.
Um it's just in a shambolicpress conference outside the
Reiner home, LAPD detectivechief Alan Hamilton shared the
department was still in theprocess of obtaining a search

(07:34):
warrant for the property sixhours after 911 was called to
fully investigate the murders.
What?
You need a search what?
Why do you need a search warrantto go in if there's I don't
understand?
Hamilton assured reporters thepeople of Brittwood were safe,
but said a suspect had not beenyet arrested in connection to
the murders.

(07:54):
Hamilton would also not confirmthe identities of the deceased.
So there you go, but thereeverybody's reporting that it
was Rob and his wife.
God bless goodness heavens.
And you know, this just goes totell you that drug addiction
doesn't care who you are.
Now I don't know the story withthat whole family, but Rob

(08:15):
Reiner has money.
I'm sure the son was sent torehab several times, but it you
know, the person has to want toget better.
And who knows?
I mean, Rob and his wife mayhave cut him off, may have tried
the tough love business.
Or the guy could have, or hecould have been in the house,
they could have taken him in.
Who knows what is who knows?

(08:35):
But there we do know there aretwo dead bodies.
There are two dead people fromthis.
It's just horrible all around.
I don't understand.
Oh, I don't know.
I don't have I only have a fewmore.
I've got probably 40 somethingmore episodes to go before I
shut this podcast down.
I don't know what I'm gonna dothen after that, because I do

(08:58):
kind of enjoy this.
It's become a habit.
It's become part of my dailylife.
Maybe I'll just get in.
I don't know.
I can't read stories live onTwitter though, because it'll
one feed'll cut me off from theother.
I can't actually open up theTwitter app and start a live
feed and open up the New YorkPost and read stories.

(09:19):
So I don't know.
I don't know.
Maybe I don't know.
Maybe I don't know what to do.
Maybe I will continue this,maybe I won't.
We shall see.
Um, let's see, what else?
I really don't have anythingelse.
That's enough, don't you think?
I think that's enough.
We need to move on to thequestion of the day.
Okay, it's gonna be Christmasrelated.
When you wrap your presents, doyou have to have matching

(09:42):
coordinating wrapping paper?
Do you uh have like certainwrapping paper patterns for
certain people in your lives?
Like for years we've done like acertain wrapping pattern for our
son and his wife, and then wehave a different wrapping
pattern for our daughter and herhusband.
And we'll have differentwrapping paper for the in-laws.

(10:03):
But this year we've gone withall the same color with
everything.
We just put tags on them.
So what have do you have?
Do you have are you a fancywrapper or just slap it on there
and give it to them in a giftbag?
Um, all right.
I gotta go.
This is horrible, horrible newsout there today.

(10:23):
Try to stay safe, try to staywarm.
It is freezing cold in here inAlabama.
It's in the teens.
Um, so yeah, pretty cold.
Pretty cold.
I'm trying to see uh what thetemperature is.
Oh my no, let's see.
Uh 14 degrees Fahrenheitoutside.
Woo! Chilly, chill, chilly.

(10:44):
Uh all right, gotta go.
Thanks for listening.
Bye.