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December 15, 2025 • 17 mins
Actor Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele, were tragically killed over the weekend by their son, according to reliable sources. Mark provides the latest updates on the Bondi Beach shooting in Australia.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Fly from Midtown Manhattan. Here comes the Mark Simone Show
on SEVENOA. Well, oh, we got a lot to get
to today, a lot of things happening. We bring you
all the latest on Rob Reiner, on Brown University, on Australia,
and then we'll get to of course Trump, the political stuff.

(00:24):
We'll get to all of that coming up. We'll get
to New York, we'll get to the tourists, we'll get
to Epstein, we'll get to twenty twenty eight, and all
sorts of stuff to talk about. The Rob Reiner well,
you know, it's the whole weekend was strange. It wasn't
much of a big news weekend, and then all of
a sudden you had Australia the terrible shooting. Then you
had Brown University the terrible shooting, and you had these

(00:47):
two things just taking everybody's attention, and then all of
a sudden the Rob Reiner situation. Here's the latest on
Rob Reiner. He lives in Brentwood. This is at a
mile and a half from Ojay's house where Nicole Simpson
was killed and almost stabbed. Wasn't she decapitated? So this

(01:10):
is another stabbing in Brentwood in the same neighborhood. Now,
Rob Reiner has a big, huge house in Brentwood, but
it's sort of a compound, and on the grounds is
another couple buildings. One is a guest house. And Rob
Reiner had three kids with the wife Michelle. But remember

(01:31):
he had previously been married to Penny Marshall, and he
had another child. He had a daughter with Penny Marshall,
and that daughter lived in the guest house. And the
police are not revealing much of anything right now, they're
keeping very quiet. Later today they'll have a press conference
and maybe explain some of this. But here's what I've heard, again,

(01:55):
not confirmed, but the daughters in the guest house. This
is yesterday. It's a Sunday morning, Sunday afternoon, and she
hears incredibly loud arguing in the main house, real arguing,
and at some point later she goes over to check
and finds Rob Reiner, her father, and her stepmother dead.

(02:18):
Calls police immediately they show up. There's recording these nine
to one one calls that I think there was a
fire department of something that responded first, calling for more backup,
and then the police show up. She tells them about
the arguing. She believes it was the son Nick, son
of Rob Reiner, who's thirty two years old. Now, this

(02:41):
son is a very, very troubled son. Drug addiction, mental,
all kinds of mental problems. He'd been so bad with
the drug addiction. Seventeen times in rehabit didn't work. He
ended up homeless on the street and Texas, homeless, in Maine,
homeless all over the place. I knew Rob Reiner. I

(03:03):
didn't know the kid, but if you look at any
picture of the kid, his eyes look a little psycho,
a little crazy. And I don't know the situation of
how this all started, with the drugs and everything, but
he just spiraled out of control and it was so hopeless.
There was absolutely no saving this kid. I'm sure Rob
Reiner tried, and at one point he came back to

(03:25):
Los Angeles. They thought they straightened him out, and he
made a movie about his drug addiction and about his
rehab and all of that stuff. But I guess this
went crazy again and there was no hope for this kid.
So it looks like he was the one in this crazy,
loud argument with the parents and then stabbed them and

(03:46):
slit their throats again. This is a mile and a
half from where Oj slit the throats of the wife
and Ron Brown. But now from what I've heard the police,
this is not confirmed, but police have taken the kid
into custody. He's thirty two. The son's name is Nick.
They have earlier an hour or two ago taking him

(04:07):
into custody, So that would indicate they have the evidence
they need, or they think they have the evidence that
he's guilty. So it was a terrible scene at the
home yesterday, Police all over the place, the crime tape
up close. Friends of Rob Brner, Billy Crystal, Larry David
was seen coming to the house leaving crying upset. So

(04:30):
there'd be a press conference of some kind. They'll announce
something later today. But apparently the son is in custody
and we'll see what happens. So you got that going on.
You also got Brown University terrible situation. Now. The first
reports indicated it was some sort of something to do
with anti semitism, anti Semitic attack, small Jewish community at

(04:54):
Brown University, but a lot of people there are also
saying the with a very small conservative bunch of people
at Brown University students and some are not so sure
this was anti semitism. It might have been anti conservatism.
One of the people shot turns out to be the
president's student, but the president of the Republican Club at

(05:16):
Brown University. So it could be anti semitism as a motive,
but there could also be an anti conservative attack. We'll see.
It's the Providence police department. Yeah, not the sharpest police
department on Earth. And Brown University very prominent university. I'm
not a big fan of their security director. You know,

(05:39):
a lot of times you're a university, when you hire
a security director, you hire somebody with incredible law enforcement experience. Ex.
Police x FBI is something like that. This guy his
whole life was campus security. You'll see somewhere in his
bio he was a policeman, a police captain. It was
campus police forces. So he's not a guy with any

(06:00):
real law enforcement experience. He spent his whole life in
campus police departments, then becoming a campus security director other
universities and Brown hired him a couple of years ago,
so he's the security director. You know, it may not
have been anything. There might not have been anything anybody
else could have done to protect this campus, but you

(06:21):
got that going on then you got the awful, horrific
Australia shooting. It was a Muslim terrorist attack. The shooters
a father and son, both Muslim terrorists, at this beach
in Australia, using one of those assault rifle you know,
you know the kind that Chuck Schumer and the others
yell about. Remember whenever there's a shooting with one of

(06:41):
those rifles, all they do is scream for more gun laws.
They act as if gun laws would prevent shootings. Now
nobody has tougher gun laws than Chicago, and they have
more shootings than any place in America. The problem with
the thinking gun laws as a solution is shooters a crib,
all those maniacs, criminals who don't follow laws. They don't

(07:03):
get a law book and look it up to see
if it's okay to do what they're doing. So in
this situation, nobody, nobody in the world, no country had
tougher gun laws than in Australia. They've been passing gun
laws since nineteen ninety six. Huge gun laws, tremendous gun laws.
So it has nothing to do with stopping shootings. It

(07:23):
was a horrible situation. You got one guy who was
a hero who hid between two parked cars, waited for
the right moment. The video is amazing. He runs out,
tackles the shooter with the rifle, somehow wrestles the gun
away from him and stops the shooter makes him lie down. However,

(07:44):
remember there was a second shooter, the Sun, who sees
what's going on and shoots the hero, hitting him twice.
But the hero has just had surgery. It looks like
he'll be okay. He's doing well. It looks like he'll
survive and be just fine. So an incredible hero in Australia,
an amazing act of bravery. He said to he was

(08:04):
with somebody else and he said, I'm not going to
survive this. He decided he would go tackle the shooter
and stop and he said, I'm not going to come
out of this alive. Tell my family this. And that's
but an amazing, amazing situation. So things could develop this morning.
There's going to be press conferences in La more details
about Rob Reiner. But from we know, the Sun is

(08:26):
in custody. It looks like he is the stabber. It's
a horrible, horrible situation. I knew Rob Reiner. He was
a very nice guy. I know he was a crazy
left wing nut politically, but I had a million conversations
with him. Never once talked about politics. We loved We
would talk about old show business and old comedians and

(08:48):
Sid Caesar and Dick Van Dyke Show and that kind
of stuff. But he's like a lot of Hollywood people,
he just got into the cult. You know, they sit
there and they watch MSNBC all day and they believe everything,
and they're hearing they think all this crazy stuff is true.
You know, it's like people who listen to those flying
saucer shows in the middle of the night, which are great,
they're entertaining, but these people start to believe it. They

(09:10):
think there's flying saucers everywhere. So it's the same thing
with the MSNBC crowd. And then they got all these
echo chambers where you know, it's reinforced from MSNBC. Then
they watch Colbert, they watch the crazy ABC Sunday shows.
They think Trump is a crook, a maniac, a dying,

(09:30):
he's a lunatic, he's a dictator. They start to believe
all this stuff. Listen, there's stuff you could not like
about Trump. I understand that, but you know, if they
ever stepped away from all that and got out of
the echo chamber. These Trump derangement syndrome idiots, they might
realize Trump is actually one of the most fascinating guys

(09:51):
in history. You know, there's a at a party yesterday,
a left wing nut, very prominent left wing nut, comes
over to me and he said, you know, I was
I remember you. It was a dinner party a couple
of years ago, and you were telling everybody Trump is
the most successful man in history. And I thought you
were crazy. I said, well, but I laid it out.

(10:13):
He conquers the business world. He then conquers publishing, he'd
be four best sellers. He goes into television, a total
amateur conquers that as the number one show on television.
He goes into politics. You know, usually a total amateur
tries to run for mayor or core. This guy tries
to run for the president. Total amateur wins, beats the

(10:34):
Clinton machine and the Bush machine, to go on and
on listing. I said, you can't name another guy, anybody
who's conquered like all six of these things. And the
guy said, well, yeah, you might. You might be so anyway,
And then I tried to explain to him I said,
you know, if you guys would stop hating him, going
nuts with your rage and start studying this guy, you

(10:56):
could learn stuff from him. You really could learn a
lot about how to succeed, how to do well. It's
a more interesting story besides making up stuff about he's
dying or he's a mania, a crook's. Instead of making
up all this stuff, it's actually a fascinating story to cover.
We've never seen anything like this. A president that works

(11:16):
like nineteen hours a day, a president that holds like
seventeen press conferences a day, a president that's flying all
over the place, having a million it's fascinating. And just
to study this guy's whole life and how he did things,
how he got so successful at everything. You think back
a year and a half ago. The guy's on trial

(11:37):
in four different cities. Can you imagine if you were
on trial. Imagine if you had been brought into court
they put you on trial, you wouldn't sleep at night,
you wouldn't be able to you'd be in there so much.
This guy's in four trials in four cities. Looks like
he's going to go to jail forever. He's going to
get convicted six thousand times. Guy didn't even blink, didn't
even flinch, fights right through that. Can you imagine you're

(11:59):
standing there in a bull that hits you in the head,
takes part of your ear off, and all he can
think to do is jump up and pump his fist
and y'all fight. I mean, it's a guy to study.
You could hate him, but study this guy. You could
learn a lot from this guy. What else James Comer.
They're having these hearings in Congress about Epstein. They've allowed

(12:21):
some people to submit written statements about what they had
to do with Epstein. In the case of Bill Clinton,
he's demanding that Bill Clinton come testify in person. Hillary
and Bill. I don't think Hillary knows much about Epstein.
Other you might know something, but it's Bill that was
really involved. But the Clintons apparently are adamant they will
not come and testify, and they may have to at

(12:42):
some point, but they're going to fight this like crazy
not to come and testify. They know it's a circus,
it's a theatrical show to get you know, cameras there,
to get Bill Clinton under oath testifying, So they don't
they don't want to do that. Now, remember, left wing
media will not show Clinton testifying. They'll show you one
second clip. You know, there's a deposition in the Monica

(13:05):
Lewinsky case. You can go on YouTube and see it.
A deposition where they go into graphic detail, graphic detail
about the sex he had with Monica Lewinsky. You wouldn't
believe the detail. And Clinton's right on camera having to
talk about this. You know, left wing media, they never
showed it, never showed it. If that was Trump, you'd

(13:25):
be seeing it all day and night. It'd be primetime specials. Clinton,
they buried it, So if he testifies, they'll bury this testimony. Now,
he could try to avoid testifying, but remember the last
two guys that tried that were Peter Navarro and Steve Bannon,
and they were sent to prison for not showing up

(13:47):
in person to testify. So the last two, now they
were Trump people, but they were sent to prison. So
that's the precedent that's been set. So Clinton had better
show up for this testimony. Hey, we're kind of keeping
the secret, but I just saw a press release went out.

(14:07):
I'm taking the last two weeks of the year off.
Next week I'll be off, and the week after two
weeks I'll be off. It'll be the Christmas break. I know,
I hate to take that much time off, but you
get you know, I have all these vacation days. You
got to use them. So I'll be taking the last
two weeks off. It'll be the Christmas break. I guess
I can say it. There's a press release that went out.
It's been announced. Guess who's going to fill in for

(14:28):
me for two weeks. Curtis Lee. Curtis will be here
for two weeks doing the show. That'll be great. He
hasn't been heard on radio in a while. He had
to go off the air course to run for mayor,
and he's mad at his old station. I don't know
what will happen there, but you'll be able to hear
Curtis next week and the week after. Two weeks he'll

(14:51):
be filling in for me. You know, for many, many,
many many years, he had the number one morning radio show,
morning talk show in New York City. So that'll be
great to hear them again. That's coming up. Hey, if
you're saying I gotta get out of New York, who
the hell wants to live here anymore? It's too cold,
the snow it's awful here. Maybe I'll move to Florida.

(15:13):
Maybe I'll move to North Carolina. Go walk around the
streets of New York in the next week or two
and look at the tourists. Normally I'm not here on
the weekends, but I was here yesterday. I had to
go a lot of Christmas parties. But all over the
place yesterday. The tourists are everywhere, and they've paid a
fortune to come to New York. You know, if you
come to New York right now at Christmas time, hotel

(15:34):
rates are huge. You can't even get a hotel room
right now. But watch these tourists, Watch them with their kids,
Watch them walking around looking at everything we take for granted.
Watch them look at it with just their eyes light up.
They can't believe the things they're seeing, stuff they've only
seen on Instagram. Not just the tree, but all the
great restaurants, hotels, stores, the streets. They just they paid

(15:59):
a fortune to come here. So don't take it for granted.
Don't get it's terrible. It was freezing cold yesterday, wash snow,
black ice. They were walking around so thrilled to be here,
thrilled to be here. Don't take it for granted. He
should really be thrilled that you're in the middle of

(16:21):
New York City. You know, people take things for granted.
I got a friend who's a big comedian. He's appearing
on cruise ships, luxury cruise ships. They pay him a
lot of money, and when you're the star performer, they
give you the most beautiful state room. Everything is free,
meals everything. This is going on for weeks, he's on

(16:43):
different ships, calls me, wants to kill himself. Once I
got to get out of it's the worst. I can't
stand that, I said. You know, everybody else in the
ship saved up for years though afford this cruise. It's
the dream vacation, and you're complaining that. People start to
take things for granted. Friend of mine's a travel agent.
You know, you're a big travel agent. The top hotels
of the world will fly you over there. It's they

(17:04):
call it something site inspection or something super luxury hotel
in Europe. You have to go stay there for a
few days. They fly on the finest first class airline,
biggest hotel. They take it. All the top restaurants. So
you know, as a travel consultant, you can tell everybody
they call me from there. Oh God, I got to
go to another hotel. Huh. I just want to go home.

(17:26):
I just this is a dream vacation for people, and
they're complaining about it. So it's the same thing with
New York. Stop complaining. Go out today and look at
all the tourists and the wonderment in their eyes as
they look around in New York. Hey, we'll take some calls. Next.
Eight hundred three two one zero seven ten is the number.
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