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Jaqueline from Brooklyn, NY, reaches out to Mark to ask whether Nick Reiner suffered from a mental illness that might have led to the tragic deaths of his parents. Mike in Florida calls Mark to discuss how many drug addicts self-medicate, highlighting that self-medication can be particularly problematic for those struggling with mental illness.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
So Mark Simone show on seven tenor Hey, let's take
some calls eight hundred three two one zero seven tennis
and I'm going let's go to Jacqueline and Brooklyn. Jacqueline,
how you doing, Hi? Mark?

Speaker 2 (00:14):
Good? A little cold, but okay, I have a question
for you.

Speaker 3 (00:19):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
Nick Reiner, the son of the late Rob and Michelle Reiner.
I don't know if you knew them at all. No
one is talking at all about whether or not he
had any type of mental illness or whether he was
on the spectrum Asperger's anything like that.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
Yeah, Nick Reiner, Yeah, obviously he was completely psycho, had
a million mental problems. I never met, I knew Rob Reiner,
I didn't know the wife. I never met Nick, But
just looking at pictures and behavior, yeah, exactly, completely psycho
this kid, yep, yep.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
He looked like there was something very wrong with him.
And everyone keeps talking about his drug addiction, his homelessness,
but no one ever mentioned anything. And there's no information
available online about whether or not he had any type
of problems.

Speaker 1 (01:06):
No, no, no, no, no, of course there is. And he
was in rehab seventeen times and he was treated by
all kinds of healthcare professionals. And you could look back
and say Rob Reiner should have done more, done something differently.
But he Rob Reiner said, you know, I'd meet with
these experts at the clinics and the doctors, and he
said they had all their diplomas on the wall. So
I just listened to them. I don't know if you're

(01:28):
if you had a kid who was homeless, sleeping on
the streets, if you were a wealthy person and your
kid was sleeping on the streets, and apparently he was
homeless many different times through the years, and you know why.
He was homeless in Texas, he was homeless, in Maine,
he was homeless. I don't know, would you leave your
kid out there? Would you do something which you haven't
committed in some I mean, whatever Rob Reiner did, and

(01:52):
I'm sure he did a lot, it just obviously wasn't enough.
He didn't do enough. Let's go to Mike in Florida. Mike,
how you doing, Yes, Mike.

Speaker 4 (02:02):
You know, just.

Speaker 3 (02:05):
Talk about what you were just speaking about. You know,
many drug addicts are self medicating because of their mental illness.
They go they get treatment, they don't like the drugs
that they are traditionally prescribed, and they like to self medicate.
So that's sort of like the vicious cycle of many
of them. Me in it's mental illness that causes drug addiction.
But you know the other thing about this story that,

(02:25):
besides the gruesome nature of it and the circumstances, is
the plaudits he's receiving. Deservedly of course, but I wonder
sometimes if the gods have been the president were killed,
he would receive the same growing. I know it's a
macabre thought, but it's it's I can't help thinking about
it in those terms.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
No, it's a good point. You know. Obviously, if President
Trump died, you'd see them calling him every name in
the world, these same people. How could he speak like
that about Rob Reiner after he died. They do the
same thing with Donald Trump, And by the way, most
of them did the same thing to Rush Limbaugh. If
you go to my Twitter, we have a clip up

(03:05):
of the view where everyone on the panel, this is
the day after Rush died. Trashism calls them all kinds
of I mean, just awful, And you could find a
million of these same people said horrible things about Rush
right after he died. So to be outraged about what
President Trump said. Again the hypocrisy Democrats are famous for.
Let's go to Pam and Patterson. Pam, how you doing?

Speaker 3 (03:28):
Hi?

Speaker 4 (03:29):
I think the other members of the Christmas party at
Conan's house can consider themselves lucky because I think he
was gearing himself up at that moment, and Bill Hayter
seems to have gotten his attention and wearing that hoodie,
so I think he was raging right then and there.

(03:50):
And I think when his parents decided to leave, you know,
that broke his momentum for that.

Speaker 1 (03:56):
Yeah, well it's interesting. You know, had he not killed
his parents gotten arrested, who knows that this kid would
have done. Who knows who he might have killed, hurt, maimed.
Who knows what this kid might have done had he
just been left to be walking out on the streets
and be free, he should have obviously been committed someplace.

(04:19):
I mean, he was just a time bomb waiting to
go off, waiting to kill somebody. Just unbelievable story. The
most people have been checking into this. The most famous
murder of anybody in Hollywood, I mean, the most famous
victim murdered in Hollywood ever. Anyway, when we come back,
Bill O'Reilly will be with us and we'll talk to
him about all of this. Coming up next on seven

(04:39):
to ten wor