December 16, 2025 • 10 mins
Rhonda shares her grief over the loss of Rob Reiner and his wife. She also provides an update on her “Up All Night” Christmas special.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Mark Simone. R Well, Ronda, you know she's back with
the up all night. It's better than ever. And of
course Ronda shere the fashion Queen, Fashion Empire. You go
to rhondasher dot com and of course follow on Instagram
and the Twitter and all of that. Rhonda shear, how
(00:21):
you doing.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
I am disturbed, but I'm I'm really fine. I'm taking
a little winter vacation in North Carolina right now in
the mountains, so.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Away from the crazy.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
But I do have to talk to you about this
whole murder.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
It's horrible.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
I I really feel like you can't fix a child
like that. And I wonder if a lot of times
that Rob Reiner's distraction and the Trump talk was his
own distraction away from the mental illness and the problems
that that child had from the time he was a child.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Because you know, they.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Threw a lot of money at it, obviously, and they
do what the Hollywood people do and put him in rehab.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
There's no fixing him.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
If you looked at him in the many many interviews
that he had with his dad, especially when they were
promoting the film Charlie, his eyes darting around and the
way he looked at his father with disdain. I mean,
I think that he was very very jealous of his dad.
He couldn't live up, you know, to his siblings and
(01:26):
or his father's success.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Well, a lot of that happens and the Hollywood.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
You've heard a lot of these kids even committing suicide
that couldn't live up to their parents' fame. And I
think that he totally, you know, couldn't live up to it.
Turned to drugs at a very very young age and
addictive personality.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
The thing is that parents, and.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
I've had this discussion with so many people, you know,
I do a podcast and parents, you know, they see it,
but they don't want to put their kid away. And yeah,
he should have been in a mental institution if they
have any of those anymore, But who's going to admit that.
So they feel like if they kept him close, brought
him to the parties, that's why he was at that
party in a hoodie and bringing him there.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
They want him close.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
They know they want him close and nearby, and that
that family was a very close knit family. But he
was very damaged, very damaged, and probably very violent.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
I have a little bit of that.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
I actually have somebody in my own family, not violent,
but similar kind of story that still lives with you know,
actually my brother's son in his forties still lives at
home and has you know, just been very damaged and
there's no fixing it. It's very sad. And what do
you do now? Because he is or those people can
not only hurt themselves and or hurt others. But these
(02:38):
are the people we read about later on the commit
mass murders and shootings or what have you. But this
is just, you know, beyond tragedy. And I looked up
because the curiosity in terms of who the murders of
all the murders of the past in Hollywood, just in murders,
there's no doubt Rob Reiner and his wife Michelle are
the most famous, most iconic of all. I mean, yes,
(03:00):
there was you know, Sharon Tate, you know, going back,
there was a you know, different murders of the years,
but nobody of this. This is this is beyond shocking
and we're going to hear about this for a long
long time. But will it change anything with these kids,
especially kids of Hollywood, not especially, but it should shine
a be light on it, and it won't.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Yeah, but friends of the family say either were They
don't want to describe it or talk about it, but
they said they were earlier violent incidents.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
So yeah, well yes all the way. Since I mean
I was reading about the yoga instruction. My mom had
him as a child, going to yoga and she would
teach him acrobatics and and but she could tell even
as a child.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
I mean, and let's face it, mental illness.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
You know, you can be born with mental illness, you know,
And and then how it manifests of course, then taking
drugs and he was drugged up on he admittedly on
cocaine and heroine. And he had violent incidents at the
house where he crashed his hand for a TV set,
I mean, who and didn't even remember it. So it
is curiousy you brought up the timeline about the hotel
(04:05):
and I had read that, but I thought that was
before the murders. But they say he checked into the
hotel before the murders. So where was the blood? Was
he trying to self harm himself?
Speaker 3 (04:13):
That law come out?
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Oh? Yeah, yeah, no it was. It was the night
of the party.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
It was before the murder, the night of the party.
So was he trying to slit his own resks?
Speaker 3 (04:20):
He probably.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
I mean, you can't be and you can't we can't
be rationalized or rationalize it because we can't think like him,
because there is no rationalizing, especially if he did end
up during drugs that night and at the party. I'm sure,
I'm sure that went on. They say it went on
the sets and Rob Ronner and his wife were loving, loving,
loving people. In terms of family, I'm not talking about
(04:41):
the politics. I know about all the politics, but you know,
they were loving, kept their kids really close, were great parents.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
But what do you do with a son that you.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Know, or daughter or a child that you know? His issues,
but you don't want to believe that he could kill anyone,
to harm himself, and that's why they had him living
there probably or kill you, you know. I mean, it is
it is just very eye opening and and it.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Is partially what's going on.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
The drugs have gotten stronger, the video games have gotten
you know, crazier and more violence. I think these kids
these mass shootings, think they're acting out on video games,
you know, Charlie Christ shooter. I really it's just I know,
I'm more serious today, but very deeply disturbed. I did
not know Rob Reiner. I knew everybody. I worked with
Teddy Marshall, I worked with all those people.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
I knew his dad.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
I mean not well, but I you know, had my
early sitcom h stints out in La like Happy Days.
That was a whole group normally, you know, normally all
those people were really close friends, but it never actually met.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
I used to talk to Rob Reiner a lot. Will
you always talk about old comedians and old show business?
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Amazing, very warm, warm, yes, love. So how does the
guy that's sweet, that warm, how does it become such
a crazy hate field? You know when it comes to politics.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Well, I can tell you I have one in my
own family. So you talked about this. We all came
from the same family for siblings, and I have an
older brother who writes me the most vitriolic words that
you can't even I mean, tearing, like gut wrenching, knife
turning words about me and my husband. And then my
husband turned me into you know, a Republican and a
(06:22):
trunk fan.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
I mean just but that's.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Nothing I mean but the words that come out of
his mouth. And we were my family, oh my gosh,
the most loving, loving family. And I also think though
my brother's the one who has the son who's got problems?
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Is it or was it a distraction for Rob Reiner.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
To then turn to politics to kind of like not,
I mean, you can't what do you do with that son?
It's almost his own distraction, Like they were saying, is
it a distraction that Trump was, you know, came out
with this Twitter because of all the other stuff that
he's got on.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
You don't know. We don't know because we think like
rational people, you and I.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Rob Reiner did a lot of political work for many
many years, did good work for you know, money for
kids programs, and he worked with the governor and very
fine political work.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
But he also took off for the whole Charlie Christing,
he I mean I read about that.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
He was Charlie Kirk, I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
I got to got I'm thinking of Florida politics right now,
So sorry about that.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
But yeah, I'm so disturbed today. I can't think.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
But yes, Charlie Kirk that he took up that and
and was like very spoke about Erica and how she
forgave the killer, you know, because he's just a very
forgiven person. So he did not put it down when
it came to that, when it came to murder or
when it came to family, he put the politics beside.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
He did have that other side.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Well, how come when he talked about Trump he would
go into such.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
A rage because I'm telling you my own brother, we
were born in the same household, at the same parents.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Why does my brother like that.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
I'm sure all of us know people that at some
point were very rational. If I sent you one email
from my brother, you'd go, oh m rage. And by
the way, all the time, all the time. We finally
need to block him from everything. But he does have
a son who is disturbed. I have a nephew that
lives at home in his forties. No, I mean, I
laugh about it because but it's very very it's creepy
(08:12):
because you're like, how do we how are we raised
in the same household, have the same parents, and where
does this vitriolic these words, these incredible language come from.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
I mean, like just trying to take I mean, it's
like hard to believe.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
But I just think we've seen a lot of that
on social media, that people feel like they can hide
behind words now and not acted out where we just
saw it acted out in real time.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
It's just very horrible.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
I didn't need to bring this up, but I had
to talk about it because it is like shocking and beyond.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
I hate to say that we're out of time already.
It's went by really fast. But tell us what.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Okay, but you do have to watch on a much
higher note, happier note, and a comedy note. My Christmas
special of All Night is going to be December the
twentieth on Kingsofhara dot com, which you can find on YouTube.
We will be streaming and other traces too soon and
I will let you know about that very soon after
the new year. But we have gained incredible viewership and
(09:07):
in such a short time, and thank you you're one
of the reasons that's happened for letting all your your
listeners know.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
If people want to watch your new shows up all Night,
you go to kingsof Horror dot com.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Or you can go to YouTube and search Kings of
Horror will be on or any of their other channels.
But if you go to Rondasheer Up all Night dot com,
that will also take you to all the channels. But
hundreds of thousands of views only in our third fourth
show now and it's very exciting. And we go to
every other week after January first, so exciting times.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
And I've told you you have to come on. We
have to get you, have to get you on.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
I did the last time. I liked that Roner. Just
go to rhondashere up all night dot com, rhondashere up
all night dot com at rhandas here. Thanks, we'll do
it again, so.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
We'll talk funny stuff the next time.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
A talk to you later. Take care and don't forget
that Buck and Clay noon today. And you know what
you gotta listen. You gotta listen to Jimmy Fayla every
night at nine. Excellent show here on seven ten. Woar
Mark Simone. R Well, Ronda, you know she's back with
the up all night. It's better than ever. And of
course Ronda shere the fashion Queen, Fashion Empire. You go
to rhondasher dot com and of course follow on Instagram
and the Twitter and all of that. Rhonda shear, how
(00:21):
you doing.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
I am disturbed, but I'm I'm really fine. I'm taking
a little winter vacation in North Carolina right now in
the mountains, so.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Away from the crazy.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
But I do have to talk to you about this
whole murder.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
It's horrible.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
I I really feel like you can't fix a child
like that. And I wonder if a lot of times
that Rob Reiner's distraction and the Trump talk was his
own distraction away from the mental illness and the problems
that that child had from the time he was a child.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Because you know, they.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Threw a lot of money at it, obviously, and they
do what the Hollywood people do and put him in rehab.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
There's no fixing him.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
If you looked at him in the many many interviews
that he had with his dad, especially when they were
promoting the film Charlie, his eyes darting around and the
way he looked at his father with disdain. I mean,
I think that he was very very jealous of his dad.
He couldn't live up, you know, to his siblings and
(01:26):
or his father's success.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Well, a lot of that happens and the Hollywood.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
You've heard a lot of these kids even committing suicide
that couldn't live up to their parents' fame. And I
think that he totally, you know, couldn't live up to it.
Turned to drugs at a very very young age and
addictive personality.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
The thing is that parents, and.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
I've had this discussion with so many people, you know,
I do a podcast and parents, you know, they see it,
but they don't want to put their kid away. And yeah,
he should have been in a mental institution if they
have any of those anymore, But who's going to admit that.
So they feel like if they kept him close, brought
him to the parties, that's why he was at that
party in a hoodie and bringing him there.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
They want him close.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
They know they want him close and nearby, and that
that family was a very close knit family. But he
was very damaged, very damaged, and probably very violent.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
I have a little bit of that.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
I actually have somebody in my own family, not violent,
but similar kind of story that still lives with you know,
actually my brother's son in his forties still lives at
home and has you know, just been very damaged and
there's no fixing it. It's very sad. And what do
you do now? Because he is or those people can
not only hurt themselves and or hurt others. But these
(02:38):
are the people we read about later on the commit
mass murders and shootings or what have you. But this
is just, you know, beyond tragedy. And I looked up
because the curiosity in terms of who the murders of
all the murders of the past in Hollywood, just in murders,
there's no doubt Rob Reiner and his wife Michelle are
the most famous, most iconic of all. I mean, yes,
(03:00):
there was you know, Sharon Tate, you know, going back,
there was a you know, different murders of the years,
but nobody of this. This is this is beyond shocking
and we're going to hear about this for a long
long time. But will it change anything with these kids,
especially kids of Hollywood, not especially, but it should shine
a be light on it, and it won't.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Yeah, but friends of the family say either were They
don't want to describe it or talk about it, but
they said they were earlier violent incidents.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
So yeah, well yes all the way. Since I mean
I was reading about the yoga instruction. My mom had
him as a child, going to yoga and she would
teach him acrobatics and and but she could tell even
as a child.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
I mean, and let's face it, mental illness.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
You know, you can be born with mental illness, you know,
And and then how it manifests of course, then taking
drugs and he was drugged up on he admittedly on
cocaine and heroine. And he had violent incidents at the
house where he crashed his hand for a TV set,
I mean, who and didn't even remember it. So it
is curiousy you brought up the timeline about the hotel
(04:05):
and I had read that, but I thought that was
before the murders. But they say he checked into the
hotel before the murders. So where was the blood? Was
he trying to self harm himself?
Speaker 3 (04:13):
That law come out?
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Oh? Yeah, yeah, no it was. It was the night
of the party.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
It was before the murder, the night of the party.
So was he trying to slit his own resks?
Speaker 3 (04:20):
He probably.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
I mean, you can't be and you can't we can't
be rationalized or rationalize it because we can't think like him,
because there is no rationalizing, especially if he did end
up during drugs that night and at the party. I'm sure,
I'm sure that went on. They say it went on
the sets and Rob Ronner and his wife were loving, loving,
loving people. In terms of family, I'm not talking about
(04:41):
the politics. I know about all the politics, but you know,
they were loving, kept their kids really close, were great parents.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
But what do you do with a son that you.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Know, or daughter or a child that you know? His issues,
but you don't want to believe that he could kill anyone,
to harm himself, and that's why they had him living
there probably or kill you, you know. I mean, it is
it is just very eye opening and and it.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Is partially what's going on.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
The drugs have gotten stronger, the video games have gotten
you know, crazier and more violence. I think these kids
these mass shootings, think they're acting out on video games,
you know, Charlie Christ shooter. I really it's just I know,
I'm more serious today, but very deeply disturbed. I did
not know Rob Reiner. I knew everybody. I worked with
Teddy Marshall, I worked with all those people.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
I knew his dad.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
I mean not well, but I you know, had my
early sitcom h stints out in La like Happy Days.
That was a whole group normally, you know, normally all
those people were really close friends, but it never actually met.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
I used to talk to Rob Reiner a lot. Will
you always talk about old comedians and old show business?
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Amazing, very warm, warm, yes, love. So how does the
guy that's sweet, that warm, how does it become such
a crazy hate field? You know when it comes to politics.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Well, I can tell you I have one in my
own family. So you talked about this. We all came
from the same family for siblings, and I have an
older brother who writes me the most vitriolic words that
you can't even I mean, tearing, like gut wrenching, knife
turning words about me and my husband. And then my
husband turned me into you know, a Republican and a
(06:22):
trunk fan.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
I mean just but that's.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Nothing I mean but the words that come out of
his mouth. And we were my family, oh my gosh,
the most loving, loving family. And I also think though
my brother's the one who has the son who's got problems?
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Is it or was it a distraction for Rob Reiner.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
To then turn to politics to kind of like not,
I mean, you can't what do you do with that son?
It's almost his own distraction, Like they were saying, is
it a distraction that Trump was, you know, came out
with this Twitter because of all the other stuff that
he's got on.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
You don't know. We don't know because we think like
rational people, you and I.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Rob Reiner did a lot of political work for many
many years, did good work for you know, money for
kids programs, and he worked with the governor and very
fine political work.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
But he also took off for the whole Charlie Christing,
he I mean I read about that.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
He was Charlie Kirk, I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
I got to got I'm thinking of Florida politics right now,
So sorry about that.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
But yeah, I'm so disturbed today. I can't think.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
But yes, Charlie Kirk that he took up that and
and was like very spoke about Erica and how she
forgave the killer, you know, because he's just a very
forgiven person. So he did not put it down when
it came to that, when it came to murder or
when it came to family, he put the politics beside.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
He did have that other side.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Well, how come when he talked about Trump he would
go into such.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
A rage because I'm telling you my own brother, we
were born in the same household, at the same parents.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Why does my brother like that.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
I'm sure all of us know people that at some
point were very rational. If I sent you one email
from my brother, you'd go, oh m rage. And by
the way, all the time, all the time. We finally
need to block him from everything. But he does have
a son who is disturbed. I have a nephew that
lives at home in his forties. No, I mean, I
laugh about it because but it's very very it's creepy
(08:12):
because you're like, how do we how are we raised
in the same household, have the same parents, and where
does this vitriolic these words, these incredible language come from.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
I mean, like just trying to take I mean, it's
like hard to believe.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
But I just think we've seen a lot of that
on social media, that people feel like they can hide
behind words now and not acted out where we just
saw it acted out in real time.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
It's just very horrible.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
I didn't need to bring this up, but I had
to talk about it because it is like shocking and beyond.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
I hate to say that we're out of time already.
It's went by really fast. But tell us what.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Okay, but you do have to watch on a much
higher note, happier note, and a comedy note. My Christmas
special of All Night is going to be December the
twentieth on Kingsofhara dot com, which you can find on YouTube.
We will be streaming and other traces too soon and
I will let you know about that very soon after
the new year. But we have gained incredible viewership and
(09:07):
in such a short time, and thank you you're one
of the reasons that's happened for letting all your your
listeners know.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
If people want to watch your new shows up all Night,
you go to kingsof Horror dot com.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Or you can go to YouTube and search Kings of
Horror will be on or any of their other channels.
But if you go to Rondasheer Up all Night dot com,
that will also take you to all the channels. But
hundreds of thousands of views only in our third fourth
show now and it's very exciting. And we go to
every other week after January first, so exciting times.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
And I've told you you have to come on. We
have to get you, have to get you on.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
I did the last time. I liked that Roner. Just
go to rhondashere up all night dot com, rhondashere up
all night dot com at rhandas here. Thanks, we'll do
it again, so.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
We'll talk funny stuff the next time.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
A talk to you later. Take care and don't forget
that Buck and Clay noon today. And you know what
you gotta listen. You gotta listen to Jimmy Fayla every
night at nine. Excellent show here on seven ten. Woar
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