December 16, 2025 • 31 mins
Tonight, Andy Reismeyer discusses the shock Brentwood murder of beloved filmmaker Rob Reiner and his wife Michele Singer Reiner, allegedly at the hands of his son Nick Reiner. According to breaking reports, after the double homicide, Nick checked into a hotel in Santa Monica for the night. Some of his most beloved films, whether making them or acting in them, include “The Princess Bride,” “The Wolf of War Street,” “New Girl,” “When Harry Met Sally,” “A Few Good Men,” “Misery” — and “Hannah Montana”! A terror plot involving a series of bombings across Southern California planned for New Year’s Eve has been foiled according to federal authorities, arresting four individuals as part of a pro-Palestine group called Turtle Island Liberation Front.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
I am six forty. We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
I'm Andy Reesmeyer. Will be with you all the way
to ten o'clock tonight. Happy to be back here in
the seat on a very busy Monday here in southern California.
I guess busy news wise all over the world. Lots
to talk about, lots of heavy stuff. We will get
to that. I want to join us with Mark Ronner
(00:27):
right now. I'm going to join us with Mark Ronner.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Join us. Welcome back. That might be painful.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
I'm glad the two of you are back. Yes, me
and myself, no, welcome. Nice to see you. And also
for the first time I've ever been able to work
with them, the one and only.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Food, very first time. I'm excited. It's a bit gentle.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Please you, I feel like I'm in I'm starstruck. Oh please,
just so excited. You know I've obviously heard you, and uh,
you know, we're happy that you're doing so much better
and you're back here on the ones and twos. Yep,
does it feel like are you happy to be back
at work?
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Are you?
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Are you just like this is what I want to
be doing. Or do you would you rather be like
on a beach and mao.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Or something like that. Well those are the questions, but
the choices.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
But no, it was it was good to kind of
like I mean, it wasn't a vacation, but to kind
of just distress a little bit because I was just
focused on getting better the whole time. Yeah, so now
it's just nice to have my routine back, which feels familiar,
but it also feels kind of like new at the
same time, like kind of odd. So I'm kind of
at that stage where I'm like right in between.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Well, I'm really happy to see you, and it's it's
just so so wonderful that you're doing so well, and
there were so many wonderful things that came out of
a really horrible, horrible thing. And I'm sure you were
sick of talking about it and hearing people talk about it,
but you're just such a remarkable guy and and you know,
honored that we're here with you, so very very very
(01:49):
much looking forward to the rest of the show tonight,
Like I said, it's a heavy night. We're going to
talk about the latest and the murder of Rob Reiner
and his wife. There was a terrorist plot for New
Years here in Los Angeles that was debunked today, that
came out of nowhere. We already had the shootings from
the weekend in America. In Australia, we had the Rob
(02:12):
Reiner murder from last night, which was confirmed early this morning.
I guess late last night, But when I was in
the newsroom this morning, we were just people were really
already focused on these very very big stories, these very
serious stories. And then we had this press conference at around
eight thirty. Oh my god, a bombing for New Year's Eve.
(02:37):
The plot had been foiled. We will get into all
of that, and you know, we also will talk about
some lighter things as well. Should you be able to
bet on the news? CNN and CNBC are embracing prediction markets.
Uh oh, don't tell Conway you can make money betting
on the news. I can't think of anybody who has
(02:59):
more instinct in judgment than Tim Conway Junior. He's about
to retire, plus a Twitch streaming star, plays video games
on the internet. He's being sued for a million bucks,
and now he's also threatened with being charged with assault
for damaging a robot. We got civil rights before we
got GTA six for robots, civil rights for robots. And
(03:24):
what is the swag gap? Is your partner cooler than
you do? They have more swag? Does that mean that
it's already over?
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Can you date.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Somebody who's cooler than you are? But first, let's talk
about the news that Conway was just talking about. The
latest in that Hollywood tragedy. I mean, the heaviness that
the city feels today trying to get out from under
this really tragic story out of Brentwood.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
We're just able to confirm that the son of Rob Reiner,
filmmaker Rob Reiner, one of his sons, has been arrested
and booked for the murder of Reiner and of Reiner's wife, Michelle,
his own mother. This information coming to us just in
the last few minutes. Let's show you a picture now
of Nick.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
That was obviously this morning with Eric Spielman, who was
live outside in front of Rob Reiner and Rob Reiner's
wife's home over there in Brentwood, where their bodies were
discovered yesterday according to authorities, by their daughter. Of course,
Nick Reiner, who is in his early thirties. We just
learned from TMZ checked into a hotel early Sunday morning
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in Santa Monica, the Peer Side Hotel, around four o'clock
in the morning, using his credit card is check in.
Of course, hours after he was in a heated argument
with his dad at Conan O'Brien's Christmas party. People who
were there, I guess there were a lot of people
there at four am who said that he seemed to
be tweaked out, but there were no visible signs been
(05:00):
in a violent confrontation. TMZ was told definitely no blood
stains or cuts on his body. He made a reservation
for just one day. He never formally checked out. TMZ
reports when the staff came into the room later on
Sunday morning, we don't know what time, they found the
shower was full of blood and that there was blood
on the bed. The window in the room was covered
(05:22):
by bed sheets. LAPD robbery homicide detectives were at the
hotel on Monday to gather evidence and also interview employees.
Nick Reiner was eventually tracked down and arrested around Exhibition
Park that's near downtown La near usc But this all
(05:42):
obviously the timeline here were not totally sure I think
if you were listening earlier, Conway was saying that he
must have checked in after Maybe that argument, does that
mean that he checked in after the murder? Perhaps strange
though that none of the witnesses that TMZ talked to
seemed to see that he had any kind of blood
(06:04):
all over him. But then if the hotel, if the
bathroom was uncovered in blood and the blood the bed
was covered in blood, he did I don't know. Maybe
he checked in at four am and then he left
and went back home. There's been a long list of
documentation about Nick Reiner's mental condition, his issues, his battles
(06:26):
with addiction. He was homeless for a little bit. He
was on KTLA back in twenty sixteen, or rather, his father,
Rob Reiner was on KTLA back in twenty sixteen talking
to Sam Rubin, and he was talking about the movie
Being Charlie, which is the movie that Rob Reiner directed
his son. Nick Reiner wrote, it's a bit of a
(06:49):
story about his experience as a father with a son
who was struggling with addiction. I'm told Sam, one of
the biggest problems I have with AA is the second day,
which is the anonymous part. He said to me, people
who are struggling with substance abuse, whether it's alcohol, drugs, sex,
or gambling, whatever it is. They're in pain, they're using
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the drugs or alcohol as a way of self medicating.
They have problems, they have emotional problems. He went on
to say, I guarantee you there's somebody in everybody's either
family or spear or good friend who is struggling with
different issues. He says, he has eating issues. Everybody has something,
and so to be able to talk about it openly,
I think is positive really a fascinating story and just
(07:35):
a tragic story and something I think that it just
feels like.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Impossible.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
There's something very horrifying about the idea of a stabbing
in general, is already something that is very different than
shooting somebody. You have to be very close to someone
when that happens, You have to repeatedly stab them over
and over. It sounds like to kill them. Generally speaking,
(08:05):
what his state was Nick Reiner, what what what kind
of emotional state he was in, We obviously don't know,
but for him to be at that point and so bad,
and I have, you know, friends who are are in
the medical profession, friends who are are mental health addiction specialists.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Things like that.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
We're saying, you know, you can talk about addiction and
drugs and drug usage. It's very unusual for someone even
having some kind of if they're high, if they're going
through some kind of withdrawal or something there, to do this.
This is very unusual, so to have some kind of
mental episode as well. Uh, it's just it's just tragic,
(08:47):
just absolutely tragic. Coming up, we are going to talk
more about this unfortunate story. We're gonna talk about other
things that are happening here in Los Angeles. How some
people in the entertainment industry are remembering the director actor
Rob Reiner. Plus what was going on in that New
(09:10):
Year's Eve terror plot? Are we safe now? And how
about this for fun? What makes a great Christmas song?
Mister Ronner, What a night it is? What a day
it has been in Los Angeles. Yeah, I think I'm
already exhausted and we just started.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
I'll tell you what. It feels bad.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
But I think there's something very important about this kind
of show, shows like this for when things feel crazy.
And I used to think about this a lot during
the pandemic. It's really important for people to be able
to come together and to just talk about stuff that
has happened, to reflect on it, to sit in it.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
To process it.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
I grew up in a pretty waspy family where we
didn't talk a lot about our feelings, and I learned
through a lot of therapy that was a problem.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
No kidding, that was a bummer.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
As a male, I too, am familiar with that problem.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
So we're going to kick our feet up here and
lay down on a Jase lounge and I'll pull out
a piece of paper and take some notes, and I'll
ask you how does that make you feel? I'm not
quite doctor Wendy Walsh, but we'll do our best to
sort of get through all of this insanity altogether. One
in hundred five to two zero one five three four
is the phone number. One one hundred five two zero
one KFI. You can leave us. You can call us. Rather,
(10:21):
we'll open up the phone line so here. You can
give us a call if you have any memories about
Rob Reiner that you want to share, we want to
talk about throughout the show. We'll take your calls periodically
throughout the show. One hundred five two zero one five
three four. You could also use the talkback future. If
you'd like to just leave us a message on the
iHeartRadio app look for the KFI page there and then
look for the little microphone. Like I said, you can
(10:42):
leave a message and we will play that on the show.
Maybe it's just maybe you know you didn't know him,
but you were a fan. You liked some of his movies.
Unbelievable history of film under his belt, everything from Misery
to Spinal Tap. It's an incredible rain which really I
think to find a lot of movies from the last century,
(11:05):
so last part of last century.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
It is Monday, December fifteenth, just past seven to twenty three,
alongside the foosh, Mark Ronner and Nicki.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Nicki.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
We were talking before the show, producer, NICKI, Sure about
your experience meeting Rob Reiner.
Speaker 6 (11:25):
Oh my god, I was such a fan girl. This
happened before I emigrated to the US. My partner and
I at the time were in New York City and
we sat down for lunch and we just so happened
that we were seated next to Rob Reiner having a
business meeting.
Speaker 7 (11:41):
They were him and whoever the other person were.
Speaker 6 (11:44):
They were discussing the film that they were making and
who they could cast in it.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Oo, do you remember any of the movie details or maybe.
Speaker 7 (11:52):
No, I really don't.
Speaker 6 (11:53):
But they were talking like, oh, they'd be good. No,
they wouldn't be good, they wouldn't be right. And we
sat there like, oh my god. And then when they
got up to leave, my partner, he stuck out his hand.
Speaker 7 (12:05):
He went, Rob Ryan, I'm a really big fan. So
nice to meet you.
Speaker 6 (12:08):
And Rob Reiner was so gracious and so nice, and
he stayed and he talked to us for a few minutes,
and he was very very friendly and sweet about the
fact that we were from Australia. He was very interested
and he was just such a decent human being.
Speaker 7 (12:21):
And I was like, that was awesome, that was great.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Oh that's nice.
Speaker 7 (12:25):
Yeah, So he's definitely a nice He was a nice dude.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
I'm glad that you had a positive experience with him.
You know, I knew of him very well. I never
got to work with him or meet him, but I
knew his work. And I think that I was thinking
about you, mister er, mister Mark Ronner, because you're such
a cinophile, such a movie buff and I wonder if
you can reflect on what his contribution to I think
(12:54):
the Hollywood that doesn't necessarily feel like it exists anymore,
but what I would call the golden age of movie making,
at least in my lifetime.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
Well, I mean, this is all just kind of freestyle.
My long suffering one and I were talking last night
about what an amazing legacy he left behind. And like
has has Spielberg, who has made so many movies that
everybody knows and loves. I mean, you ran through a
couple of them before the break. You've got to stand
by me, the American President spinal Tap and I suppose
(13:31):
everybody has their favorite, but really just and not just
an astonishing number of popular, really well made movies, but
kind of a wide range in the kinds of movies
they are as well. And I think that, you know,
as people reflect on his life in these coming days,
people are going to really appreciate what he did a
lot more than they already have. I mean, I think
(13:54):
people who crank out sort of popular, crowd pleasing movies
can be taken for granted sometimes, but these were really
well made, thoughtful things.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
It's very well said. I think other people knew him
also as an actor, whether it was from All in
the Family, as Zoey Deschanel's father in the New Girl
movie or New Girl series. Rather more recently, as the
Jordan Belfort father figure in The Wolf of Wall Streets.
Speaker 7 (14:22):
He was so good in that role.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
It's just incredible to think about, you know, this man
who's obviously a very gifted actor or gifted director also
you know, really did have that thing that you look
for in an actor, which I think is that that
light and that that maybe intensity that a regular old
folk doesn't necessarily have that star power thing. So yeah,
(14:45):
the other ones that I was thinking of, the Princess Bride,
great movie, when Harry met Sally. It's interesting to go
from when Harry met Sally in nineteen eighty nine to Misery.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
In nineteen ninety exactly. That's the kind of range I
was talking aboutout range.
Speaker 7 (14:59):
Throw Mama from the Montana.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
He did he act to that.
Speaker 7 (15:04):
Or he was in an episode that's great?
Speaker 4 (15:07):
And doesn't doesn't everybody love a few good men? I mean,
I know that a lot of people have have, you know,
not been crazy about his politics, and I don't care
about that, but it seems like everybody loves a few
good men and can recite lines from it.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
I know absolutely, And I think that your point about
the politics thing is like, I think there should be
this this moratorium and death about someone's political opinions, especially
if they die in a heinous, horrible way.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
Yes, I'm for basic human decency, especially during an incomprehensible tragedy.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
If you put me to the wall, that's what I'll say. Yeah,
I mean, I just you know, I don't do a
lot of political stuff.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
I try not to make my agenda about politics. I
don't think that I'm smart enough to be able to
really make any salient points. My My whole thing is like,
let's try to just my agenda is to make you
feel good.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
That's it. And I feel like, especially.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
When we're talking about these kinds of things, nothing exists
in a vacuum anymore.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
I'm not dumb.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
I understand that everybody has some sort of political opinion
about something. Everything can be politicized. But I've seen a
lot of conversations today. I've had a lot of conversations today,
and I always.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
Thought, you know, like, can you give the guy at
least twenty four hours before you start get going in
on a political thing seems decent.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
I don't know. News is a strange thing.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
It's a weird Days like today remind me of the
old days when I think the news, at least the
news that I was doing was a lot heavier and
it was inescapable. And I think the pandemic really felt
like that too. But more on that and just a
little bit. I didn't realize how out of time we
were for this segment. Coming up, we'll talk about that
(16:52):
terror plot where where that these four people who were
arrested were planning on detonating bombs in southern Cali on
New Year's Eve.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Yikes.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Plus, in the eight o'clock hour, we will talk to
Shotgum Tom Kelly, how about that coming on from all
the way from San Diego. Of course, you know his
voice for many years on k Earth one oh one,
that's a radio station. We'll talk to him about his
new book. All I want to do is play the hits.
You don't want to miss it.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Continuing to talk about the crazy amount of stories that
were breaking this morning, yesterday and throughout the weekend. Here
it just doesn't stop. A terror plot involving a series
of bombings across southern California has been thankfully foiled, according
to federal officials who announced all of that in a
(17:47):
press conference earlier today.
Speaker 8 (17:49):
The FBI is saying that they foiled the planned New
Year's Eve terror plot, saying breaking. FBI announces it foiled
a planned New Year's Eve terror plot that would have
targeted Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
That's where we are. Four arrested.
Speaker 8 (18:04):
So let's dive a little bit deeper into what we know. Again,
this is a developing story. Federal authorities say they disrupted
a credible terrorist threat over the weekend, arresting four alleged
members of a radical pro Palestinian extremist group accused of planning.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
They are called the Turtle Island Liberation Front. Have you
ever heard of the Turtle Island Liberation Front?
Speaker 4 (18:24):
And No, that really caught my attention when I came
across it the first time today.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
I don't know if I should google it, but I'm
going to right now just to see what kind of
information I mean.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Obviously, all of.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
It now is related to the stories the news about
this terror cell, this group of people who were arrested
for planning this attack.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Allegedly.
Speaker 7 (18:42):
Are they promus or pro Palestine?
Speaker 2 (18:44):
They are pro well, let's see Pambondi. Attorney General Pambody
described them as far left, pro Palestine, anti government, and
anti capitalists. So they kind of just got the whole
just the whole bingo board there. The series of bombings
the group was planning were multiple targets in California, as
(19:05):
you heard, set to occur on New Year's Eve. They
were also targeting US Immigration and Customs enforcement agents and vehicles.
They were going after the ice trucks. An incredible effort
by our US Attorney's office in the FBI, the Attorney
General said. FBI Director Cash Pttel also said that it
was a credible imminent threat arresting those four people in
(19:27):
the LA area. Fifth person was arrested in New Orleans.
We don't know a lot about that fifth person, but
the four people who were arrested here in the Los
Angeles area, a thirty year old named Audrey Carroll, a
thirty two year old named Zachary Aaron Page, a twenty
four year old named Dante Gaffield, and a forty one
year old named Tina Lay charged with conspiracy and possession
(19:49):
of an unregistered destructive device. Carrol Audrey Carroll thirty alleged
to have organized a more radical offshoot, the Turtle Island Group,
a sect known as the Order of the Black Lotus.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
So this is a very fringe, fringe fringe group.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
It sounds like she was the one who is alleged
to create theme the detailed bombing plot. They were arrested
near twenty nine Palms because they were rehearsing the attack.
Footage captured by a surveillance plane showed chemicals and bombs
(20:30):
inexplosive devices being tested in the desert on December twelfth.
Can't go blow step up out the desert anymore, they
will find you. This has must have been like one
of those things where like you drive in on the
freeway and you look over and there's a sign where
it's like monitored by aircraft, speed monitored by aircraft, and
you look up. You're like, what, like you're in Goodfellows
or something?
Speaker 3 (20:51):
What is that up there?
Speaker 2 (20:54):
As for where they were going to be detonated, not
a lot of specific locations. However, the bombs were said
to be blown up at the same time at midnight
on New Year's Eve Amazon type logistics centers in Orange
County and Los Angeles County, though they didn't say if
(21:16):
it was Indeed, Amazon Logistics centers are just Amazon type
logistics centers, but they have been captured and it's just
another day here in southern California.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
Pretty wild.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
I was gonna go in here. I want to talk about.
I want to talk about. What do I want to
talk about?
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Where was I? Where did I lost my train of thought?
Speaker 4 (21:47):
Here?
Speaker 3 (21:47):
But I lost my script there? It is? I lost
my rundown Mark Ronner, I got you back. Go ahead,
You're good, all right? Thanks?
Speaker 4 (21:54):
What are you doing for New Year's Now that you
know you can go to the Amazon logistics places without
any any concern?
Speaker 3 (21:59):
Likely working? You think you're gonna work New Year's Eve?
I'll have to check, but it's not out of the question.
Oh no, am I working New Year's Eve?
Speaker 4 (22:06):
You might want to find out what day of the
week is it. Let's see here, it is a Wednesday,
so I would not be I wouldn't be working. I
believe I'll be working unless something DIO SX something.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Well you're off at ten, right?
Speaker 4 (22:21):
No?
Speaker 3 (22:21):
No, no, I work till midnight every night. You work
here until midnight? I do. Why did you tell me this?
You didn't ask? Oh my god, Fush, do you work
until midnight?
Speaker 1 (22:31):
Two?
Speaker 4 (22:31):
No, I'm here till ten, but I get here earlier
than Mark. Now I got the place to myself the
last two hours, and Fush routinely tells me that it's
okay to take off my pants as he's leaving.
Speaker 7 (22:42):
Yeah, you always try to make us stay with you.
It's like, no, I'm getting home.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
I'm so lonely.
Speaker 7 (22:46):
I I'm so shy.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
I'm not. It's like a Maytag repair man. I don't
want to be alone. Do you get to pop in
with Nori ever?
Speaker 3 (22:56):
No? No, I don't. Well, we should write a note
to George about that.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
We should, now that you brought that up, I'm filled
with bitterness because I like that show and I've been
a listener most of my life.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
Isn't it funny?
Speaker 2 (23:06):
How similarly, where like for some reason, if you are
maybe it's just if you're like us and they lived
on the fringe a little bit in your life, you know.
I like to think of myself as a bit of
an outsider who's trying very hard to fit in. But
I think that that show finds you. It just finds you,
because if you're an insomniac. I was always up real
(23:26):
late when I was young, same I would watch I
would watch a Red Eye with Greg Guttfeld, which came
on at three o'clock in the morning as like a
teenager in high school to show you how cool I was.
And George Norri's show, I just would. I'd tune on
in listen to it, and I think that guy, he
knows all the secrets. And this is back when you
(23:47):
couldn't really get secrets. The internet didn't exist like it
does now, you know. Oh yeah, And I was a
listener way back in the Art Pelt days. It is
the ultimate show for keeping you company if you're a
solitary weirdo, which I was, and I guess to an
extent still am old Habits brother.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Yeah, you're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
We are taking your calls one, one hundred and five
because you're a one five, three four. If you have
any memories of Rob Reiner that you would like to share,
maybe some of your favorite movies, some of your favorite
things he directed, maybe acted in sushi. I didn't mean
to be rude. I didn't ask you if you had
any specific memories of Rob Reiner movies or things that you.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
Liked about I do not.
Speaker 4 (24:30):
It just kind of sound like on repeats everyone else.
I mean, he was just just incredibly talented. I didn't
know he did. I well, I just learned today that
he did misery. I didn't know that. Isn't that I
didn't know that. I mean, that's what I learned today.
So you know, it just proves how versatile he was
is I mean as just an entertainer. He could direct,
you could act, you could go from comedy to trauma
(24:50):
too well or I mean, so yeah, it's just kind
of just an all encompassing thing. I just didn't know
what the amount of talent he really possessed.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Yet how ubiquit he was, you know, how he showed
up often in movies, these specific characters, obviously going all
the way back to all in the Family. I want
to talk about misery for just a second because it
is like you can't say that word. And obviously director
is a big part of the movie, is the head
honcho in the movie. But there's so much with all
(25:19):
the acting, the writing, the set design, the editing, the pacing,
the music, the production design, the sound design. You cannot
talk about that film without your ankles hurting just a
little bit, true, Oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
Just can't.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
It's like makes me squirm every time I saw it
as a kid, like I was like maybe eight seven,
eight years old. It was on at my grandparents' house,
and it basically wrecked me. I was like, what is
this move? How can this be a thing? And then
learning that it's called Misery, you know, which is basically
(25:54):
just exactly how it feels to watch. Is such an incredible, uh,
incredible piece of movie which I just don't feel like
gets made anymore.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (26:04):
Also kind of a weirdly counterintuitive role for James Khan,
who you don't really associate as a writer. Ooh, that's interesting,
is that that was the hang up that you had
with it.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
I mean I liked him in it.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
I mean I'll watch him in anything, because he's an intense,
magnetic actor. But you know, you don't think of Sonny
Corleoni as the contemplative share.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
Then do you take that? Does that to mean that
Kathy Bates is the sort of psychotic I guess torture? Torturous?
Speaker 4 (26:35):
You're asking why I took her side, aren't you The
answer is no, no. But she was a great psycho
in that. I mean that made her career, didn't it.
She's so good? So I mean you could say that
that Reiner has an eye for talent because nobody knew
who she was at the time.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
Was that really kind of the thing put her on
the map? I think? So? Wow? Unless I missed something, No,
I don't. You know.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
I have to admit my knowledge of Kathy Bates early
cinema experience and her filmography, I'm limited on it.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
I know.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
I could tell you all about Titanic. Really, I can
tell you all about the Unsinkable Molly Brown. I can
tell you about Mattlock. Oh, she's still doing it.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
She'll tell you that Mattlock thing. Watchable. I don't know.
I don't. I don't. I don't do a lot of
TV stuff. You know, Okay, don't watch TV now. I'll
tell you what. I'm sure it's good because she's great?
Is it?
Speaker 4 (27:22):
Is it good because it's a network drama? Is it
bad because it's a network drama?
Speaker 3 (27:28):
You know?
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Is she able to overcome the cheese factor of a
network drama?
Speaker 3 (27:31):
Perhaps? Well?
Speaker 4 (27:32):
But it's I have similar feelings to that that I
do of the female led Equalizer reboot. I don't really
need that, but if I find out that it's really good,
I'll get around to it.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
I would say, if anybody's gonna make it work, it's
hurt ninety five percent on Rotten Tomatoes, so seven point
five percent on IMDb.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
Not sold yet, so not sold yet? All right, Nope.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
The FBI has released photos of the suspect of the
Brown University shooting. There are a couple of pictures that
you can see if you basically just google it and
you'd like to look at the photo of a man
who I guess they think is about five foot eight.
He's a covered head to toe, looks like he's bundled up.
I don't want to be rude. He's I wouldn't say
(28:14):
he's in peak physical shape. I don't think he's on
the GLP ones, doesn't look like he's going to be
running too far. Somebody definitely can identify this guy, and
I hope that they do. That shooting left two students
dead nine other injuries at Brown University, which is an
Ivy League school there in Rhode Island. Approximately five foot
(28:39):
eight with a stocky build. Remember they had somebody a
person of interest in custody after that shooting on Saturday
that feels like a million years ago, but then released
that person.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
Now they think that they know who it is.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
Of course, if you do recognize this person, the five
eight stocky man who's bundled up head to toe in
some of these new photos, you are asked to contact authorities.
One more story before we go to the break here,
can you bet on the news? Moreover, can you make
(29:15):
money on the news? This is something I've been wondering
for my entire life.
Speaker 4 (29:21):
I've been asking myself this since I started doing it professionally.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
Can you make money on the news? And I think
the jury's in on that.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
Yes, yeah, yeah, it's twenty five to life, I'll tell
you that much. CNBC is CNN partnered with online gambling
platform call she. They are allowing you to bet on
current events in real time. CNN will use call she
as an exclusive source for prediction markets. This of course
(29:49):
started in the sports world, but this is their first
partnership with the major news organization. Hosts and anchors and
journalists will use the data in reporting the news as
another data point to.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
Sentiment. Does it work?
Speaker 2 (30:02):
One French prediction market seem to have anticipated the French
presidential election far better than traditional polling. But coming up
after the break, we will tell you what kind of
things people can bet on. What are the top trending
bets on call?
Speaker 4 (30:20):
She?
Speaker 3 (30:20):
This is fascinating stuff.
Speaker 4 (30:21):
Was there a betting line on how soon Barry Weiss
would ruin CBS?
Speaker 2 (30:26):
That's a great question. Let me see I did. I'd
hear a couple of them. I will very won Nope,
she's uh, she's not on call she yet? Maybe on
policy market or polymarket or whatever it is? Okay, Things
like will Trump delead his Rob Reiner post?
Speaker 3 (30:42):
We have a.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
Yes, so probably not. Other things like who's going to
get the Oscar for Best Actor? How low will bitcoin
go this year? And who will be on Times twenty
twenty five Person of the Year shortlist. You're gonna have
to stick around after the break to get the answers
to those burning questions. Plus an interview with shotgun Tom Kelly.
(31:07):
Right on the other side of eight o'clock. I'm Andy Reesmyer.
This is KFI AM six forty. We're live everywhere on
the iHeartRadio
Speaker 1 (31:12):
App Kfi AM six forty on demand
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
I am six forty. We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
I'm Andy Reesmeyer. Will be with you all the way
to ten o'clock tonight. Happy to be back here in
the seat on a very busy Monday here in southern California.
I guess busy news wise all over the world. Lots
to talk about, lots of heavy stuff. We will get
to that. I want to join us with Mark Ronner
(00:27):
right now. I'm going to join us with Mark Ronner.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Join us. Welcome back. That might be painful.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
I'm glad the two of you are back. Yes, me
and myself, no, welcome. Nice to see you. And also
for the first time I've ever been able to work
with them, the one and only.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Food, very first time. I'm excited. It's a bit gentle.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Please you, I feel like I'm in I'm starstruck. Oh please,
just so excited. You know I've obviously heard you, and uh,
you know, we're happy that you're doing so much better
and you're back here on the ones and twos. Yep,
does it feel like are you happy to be back
at work?
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Are you?
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Are you just like this is what I want to
be doing. Or do you would you rather be like
on a beach and mao.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Or something like that. Well those are the questions, but
the choices.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
But no, it was it was good to kind of
like I mean, it wasn't a vacation, but to kind
of just distress a little bit because I was just
focused on getting better the whole time. Yeah, so now
it's just nice to have my routine back, which feels familiar,
but it also feels kind of like new at the
same time, like kind of odd. So I'm kind of
at that stage where I'm like right in between.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Well, I'm really happy to see you, and it's it's
just so so wonderful that you're doing so well, and
there were so many wonderful things that came out of
a really horrible, horrible thing. And I'm sure you were
sick of talking about it and hearing people talk about it,
but you're just such a remarkable guy and and you know,
honored that we're here with you, so very very very
(01:49):
much looking forward to the rest of the show tonight,
Like I said, it's a heavy night. We're going to
talk about the latest and the murder of Rob Reiner
and his wife. There was a terrorist plot for New
Years here in Los Angeles that was debunked today, that
came out of nowhere. We already had the shootings from
the weekend in America. In Australia, we had the Rob
(02:12):
Reiner murder from last night, which was confirmed early this morning.
I guess late last night, But when I was in
the newsroom this morning, we were just people were really
already focused on these very very big stories, these very
serious stories. And then we had this press conference at around
eight thirty. Oh my god, a bombing for New Year's Eve.
(02:37):
The plot had been foiled. We will get into all
of that, and you know, we also will talk about
some lighter things as well. Should you be able to
bet on the news? CNN and CNBC are embracing prediction markets.
Uh oh, don't tell Conway you can make money betting
on the news. I can't think of anybody who has
(02:59):
more instinct in judgment than Tim Conway Junior. He's about
to retire, plus a Twitch streaming star, plays video games
on the internet. He's being sued for a million bucks,
and now he's also threatened with being charged with assault
for damaging a robot. We got civil rights before we
got GTA six for robots, civil rights for robots. And
(03:24):
what is the swag gap? Is your partner cooler than
you do? They have more swag? Does that mean that
it's already over?
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Can you date.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Somebody who's cooler than you are? But first, let's talk
about the news that Conway was just talking about. The
latest in that Hollywood tragedy. I mean, the heaviness that
the city feels today trying to get out from under
this really tragic story out of Brentwood.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
We're just able to confirm that the son of Rob Reiner,
filmmaker Rob Reiner, one of his sons, has been arrested
and booked for the murder of Reiner and of Reiner's wife, Michelle,
his own mother. This information coming to us just in
the last few minutes. Let's show you a picture now
of Nick.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
That was obviously this morning with Eric Spielman, who was
live outside in front of Rob Reiner and Rob Reiner's
wife's home over there in Brentwood, where their bodies were
discovered yesterday according to authorities, by their daughter. Of course,
Nick Reiner, who is in his early thirties. We just
learned from TMZ checked into a hotel early Sunday morning
(04:37):
in Santa Monica, the Peer Side Hotel, around four o'clock
in the morning, using his credit card is check in.
Of course, hours after he was in a heated argument
with his dad at Conan O'Brien's Christmas party. People who
were there, I guess there were a lot of people
there at four am who said that he seemed to
be tweaked out, but there were no visible signs been
(05:00):
in a violent confrontation. TMZ was told definitely no blood
stains or cuts on his body. He made a reservation
for just one day. He never formally checked out. TMZ
reports when the staff came into the room later on
Sunday morning, we don't know what time, they found the
shower was full of blood and that there was blood
on the bed. The window in the room was covered
(05:22):
by bed sheets. LAPD robbery homicide detectives were at the
hotel on Monday to gather evidence and also interview employees.
Nick Reiner was eventually tracked down and arrested around Exhibition
Park that's near downtown La near usc But this all
(05:42):
obviously the timeline here were not totally sure I think
if you were listening earlier, Conway was saying that he
must have checked in after Maybe that argument, does that
mean that he checked in after the murder? Perhaps strange
though that none of the witnesses that TMZ talked to
seemed to see that he had any kind of blood
(06:04):
all over him. But then if the hotel, if the
bathroom was uncovered in blood and the blood the bed
was covered in blood, he did I don't know. Maybe
he checked in at four am and then he left
and went back home. There's been a long list of
documentation about Nick Reiner's mental condition, his issues, his battles
(06:26):
with addiction. He was homeless for a little bit. He
was on KTLA back in twenty sixteen, or rather, his father,
Rob Reiner was on KTLA back in twenty sixteen talking
to Sam Rubin, and he was talking about the movie
Being Charlie, which is the movie that Rob Reiner directed
his son. Nick Reiner wrote, it's a bit of a
(06:49):
story about his experience as a father with a son
who was struggling with addiction. I'm told Sam, one of
the biggest problems I have with AA is the second day,
which is the anonymous part. He said to me, people
who are struggling with substance abuse, whether it's alcohol, drugs, sex,
or gambling, whatever it is. They're in pain, they're using
(07:11):
the drugs or alcohol as a way of self medicating.
They have problems, they have emotional problems. He went on
to say, I guarantee you there's somebody in everybody's either
family or spear or good friend who is struggling with
different issues. He says, he has eating issues. Everybody has something,
and so to be able to talk about it openly,
I think is positive really a fascinating story and just
(07:35):
a tragic story and something I think that it just
feels like.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Impossible.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
There's something very horrifying about the idea of a stabbing
in general, is already something that is very different than
shooting somebody. You have to be very close to someone
when that happens, You have to repeatedly stab them over
and over. It sounds like to kill them. Generally speaking,
(08:05):
what his state was Nick Reiner, what what what kind
of emotional state he was in, We obviously don't know,
but for him to be at that point and so bad,
and I have, you know, friends who are are in
the medical profession, friends who are are mental health addiction specialists.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Things like that.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
We're saying, you know, you can talk about addiction and
drugs and drug usage. It's very unusual for someone even
having some kind of if they're high, if they're going
through some kind of withdrawal or something there, to do this.
This is very unusual, so to have some kind of
mental episode as well. Uh, it's just it's just tragic,
(08:47):
just absolutely tragic. Coming up, we are going to talk
more about this unfortunate story. We're gonna talk about other
things that are happening here in Los Angeles. How some
people in the entertainment industry are remembering the director actor
Rob Reiner. Plus what was going on in that New
(09:10):
Year's Eve terror plot? Are we safe now? And how
about this for fun? What makes a great Christmas song?
Mister Ronner, What a night it is? What a day
it has been in Los Angeles. Yeah, I think I'm
already exhausted and we just started.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
I'll tell you what. It feels bad.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
But I think there's something very important about this kind
of show, shows like this for when things feel crazy.
And I used to think about this a lot during
the pandemic. It's really important for people to be able
to come together and to just talk about stuff that
has happened, to reflect on it, to sit in it.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
To process it.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
I grew up in a pretty waspy family where we
didn't talk a lot about our feelings, and I learned
through a lot of therapy that was a problem.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
No kidding, that was a bummer.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
As a male, I too, am familiar with that problem.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
So we're going to kick our feet up here and
lay down on a Jase lounge and I'll pull out
a piece of paper and take some notes, and I'll
ask you how does that make you feel? I'm not
quite doctor Wendy Walsh, but we'll do our best to
sort of get through all of this insanity altogether. One
in hundred five to two zero one five three four
is the phone number. One one hundred five two zero
one KFI. You can leave us. You can call us. Rather,
(10:21):
we'll open up the phone line so here. You can
give us a call if you have any memories about
Rob Reiner that you want to share, we want to
talk about throughout the show. We'll take your calls periodically
throughout the show. One hundred five two zero one five
three four. You could also use the talkback future. If
you'd like to just leave us a message on the
iHeartRadio app look for the KFI page there and then
look for the little microphone. Like I said, you can
(10:42):
leave a message and we will play that on the show.
Maybe it's just maybe you know you didn't know him,
but you were a fan. You liked some of his movies.
Unbelievable history of film under his belt, everything from Misery
to Spinal Tap. It's an incredible rain which really I
think to find a lot of movies from the last century,
(11:05):
so last part of last century.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
It is Monday, December fifteenth, just past seven to twenty three,
alongside the foosh, Mark Ronner and Nicki.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Nicki.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
We were talking before the show, producer, NICKI, Sure about
your experience meeting Rob Reiner.
Speaker 6 (11:25):
Oh my god, I was such a fan girl. This
happened before I emigrated to the US. My partner and
I at the time were in New York City and
we sat down for lunch and we just so happened
that we were seated next to Rob Reiner having a
business meeting.
Speaker 7 (11:41):
They were him and whoever the other person were.
Speaker 6 (11:44):
They were discussing the film that they were making and
who they could cast in it.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Oo, do you remember any of the movie details or maybe.
Speaker 7 (11:52):
No, I really don't.
Speaker 6 (11:53):
But they were talking like, oh, they'd be good. No,
they wouldn't be good, they wouldn't be right. And we
sat there like, oh my god. And then when they
got up to leave, my partner, he stuck out his hand.
Speaker 7 (12:05):
He went, Rob Ryan, I'm a really big fan. So
nice to meet you.
Speaker 6 (12:08):
And Rob Reiner was so gracious and so nice, and
he stayed and he talked to us for a few minutes,
and he was very very friendly and sweet about the
fact that we were from Australia. He was very interested
and he was just such a decent human being.
Speaker 7 (12:21):
And I was like, that was awesome, that was great.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Oh that's nice.
Speaker 7 (12:25):
Yeah, So he's definitely a nice He was a nice dude.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
I'm glad that you had a positive experience with him.
You know, I knew of him very well. I never
got to work with him or meet him, but I
knew his work. And I think that I was thinking
about you, mister er, mister Mark Ronner, because you're such
a cinophile, such a movie buff and I wonder if
you can reflect on what his contribution to I think
(12:54):
the Hollywood that doesn't necessarily feel like it exists anymore,
but what I would call the golden age of movie making,
at least in my lifetime.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
Well, I mean, this is all just kind of freestyle.
My long suffering one and I were talking last night
about what an amazing legacy he left behind. And like
has has Spielberg, who has made so many movies that
everybody knows and loves. I mean, you ran through a
couple of them before the break. You've got to stand
by me, the American President spinal Tap and I suppose
(13:31):
everybody has their favorite, but really just and not just
an astonishing number of popular, really well made movies, but
kind of a wide range in the kinds of movies
they are as well. And I think that, you know,
as people reflect on his life in these coming days,
people are going to really appreciate what he did a
lot more than they already have. I mean, I think
(13:54):
people who crank out sort of popular, crowd pleasing movies
can be taken for granted sometimes, but these were really
well made, thoughtful things.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
It's very well said. I think other people knew him
also as an actor, whether it was from All in
the Family, as Zoey Deschanel's father in the New Girl
movie or New Girl series. Rather more recently, as the
Jordan Belfort father figure in The Wolf of Wall Streets.
Speaker 7 (14:22):
He was so good in that role.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
It's just incredible to think about, you know, this man
who's obviously a very gifted actor or gifted director also
you know, really did have that thing that you look
for in an actor, which I think is that that
light and that that maybe intensity that a regular old
folk doesn't necessarily have that star power thing. So yeah,
(14:45):
the other ones that I was thinking of, the Princess Bride,
great movie, when Harry met Sally. It's interesting to go
from when Harry met Sally in nineteen eighty nine to Misery.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
In nineteen ninety exactly. That's the kind of range I
was talking aboutout range.
Speaker 7 (14:59):
Throw Mama from the Montana.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
He did he act to that.
Speaker 7 (15:04):
Or he was in an episode that's great?
Speaker 4 (15:07):
And doesn't doesn't everybody love a few good men? I mean,
I know that a lot of people have have, you know,
not been crazy about his politics, and I don't care
about that, but it seems like everybody loves a few
good men and can recite lines from it.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
I know absolutely, And I think that your point about
the politics thing is like, I think there should be
this this moratorium and death about someone's political opinions, especially
if they die in a heinous, horrible way.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
Yes, I'm for basic human decency, especially during an incomprehensible tragedy.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
If you put me to the wall, that's what I'll say. Yeah,
I mean, I just you know, I don't do a
lot of political stuff.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
I try not to make my agenda about politics. I
don't think that I'm smart enough to be able to
really make any salient points. My My whole thing is like,
let's try to just my agenda is to make you
feel good.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
That's it. And I feel like, especially.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
When we're talking about these kinds of things, nothing exists
in a vacuum anymore.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
I'm not dumb.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
I understand that everybody has some sort of political opinion
about something. Everything can be politicized. But I've seen a
lot of conversations today. I've had a lot of conversations today,
and I always.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
Thought, you know, like, can you give the guy at
least twenty four hours before you start get going in
on a political thing seems decent.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
I don't know. News is a strange thing.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
It's a weird Days like today remind me of the
old days when I think the news, at least the
news that I was doing was a lot heavier and
it was inescapable. And I think the pandemic really felt
like that too. But more on that and just a
little bit. I didn't realize how out of time we
were for this segment. Coming up, we'll talk about that
(16:52):
terror plot where where that these four people who were
arrested were planning on detonating bombs in southern Cali on
New Year's Eve.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Yikes.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Plus, in the eight o'clock hour, we will talk to
Shotgum Tom Kelly, how about that coming on from all
the way from San Diego. Of course, you know his
voice for many years on k Earth one oh one,
that's a radio station. We'll talk to him about his
new book. All I want to do is play the hits.
You don't want to miss it.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Continuing to talk about the crazy amount of stories that
were breaking this morning, yesterday and throughout the weekend. Here
it just doesn't stop. A terror plot involving a series
of bombings across southern California has been thankfully foiled, according
to federal officials who announced all of that in a
(17:47):
press conference earlier today.
Speaker 8 (17:49):
The FBI is saying that they foiled the planned New
Year's Eve terror plot, saying breaking. FBI announces it foiled
a planned New Year's Eve terror plot that would have
targeted Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
That's where we are. Four arrested.
Speaker 8 (18:04):
So let's dive a little bit deeper into what we know. Again,
this is a developing story. Federal authorities say they disrupted
a credible terrorist threat over the weekend, arresting four alleged
members of a radical pro Palestinian extremist group accused of planning.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
They are called the Turtle Island Liberation Front. Have you
ever heard of the Turtle Island Liberation Front?
Speaker 4 (18:24):
And No, that really caught my attention when I came
across it the first time today.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
I don't know if I should google it, but I'm
going to right now just to see what kind of
information I mean.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Obviously, all of.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
It now is related to the stories the news about
this terror cell, this group of people who were arrested
for planning this attack.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Allegedly.
Speaker 7 (18:42):
Are they promus or pro Palestine?
Speaker 2 (18:44):
They are pro well, let's see Pambondi. Attorney General Pambody
described them as far left, pro Palestine, anti government, and
anti capitalists. So they kind of just got the whole
just the whole bingo board there. The series of bombings
the group was planning were multiple targets in California, as
(19:05):
you heard, set to occur on New Year's Eve. They
were also targeting US Immigration and Customs enforcement agents and vehicles.
They were going after the ice trucks. An incredible effort
by our US Attorney's office in the FBI, the Attorney
General said. FBI Director Cash Pttel also said that it
was a credible imminent threat arresting those four people in
(19:27):
the LA area. Fifth person was arrested in New Orleans.
We don't know a lot about that fifth person, but
the four people who were arrested here in the Los
Angeles area, a thirty year old named Audrey Carroll, a
thirty two year old named Zachary Aaron Page, a twenty
four year old named Dante Gaffield, and a forty one
year old named Tina Lay charged with conspiracy and possession
(19:49):
of an unregistered destructive device. Carrol Audrey Carroll thirty alleged
to have organized a more radical offshoot, the Turtle Island Group,
a sect known as the Order of the Black Lotus.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
So this is a very fringe, fringe fringe group.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
It sounds like she was the one who is alleged
to create theme the detailed bombing plot. They were arrested
near twenty nine Palms because they were rehearsing the attack.
Footage captured by a surveillance plane showed chemicals and bombs
(20:30):
inexplosive devices being tested in the desert on December twelfth.
Can't go blow step up out the desert anymore, they
will find you. This has must have been like one
of those things where like you drive in on the
freeway and you look over and there's a sign where
it's like monitored by aircraft, speed monitored by aircraft, and
you look up. You're like, what, like you're in Goodfellows
or something?
Speaker 3 (20:51):
What is that up there?
Speaker 2 (20:54):
As for where they were going to be detonated, not
a lot of specific locations. However, the bombs were said
to be blown up at the same time at midnight
on New Year's Eve Amazon type logistics centers in Orange
County and Los Angeles County, though they didn't say if
(21:16):
it was Indeed, Amazon Logistics centers are just Amazon type
logistics centers, but they have been captured and it's just
another day here in southern California.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
Pretty wild.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
I was gonna go in here. I want to talk about.
I want to talk about. What do I want to
talk about?
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Where was I? Where did I lost my train of thought?
Speaker 4 (21:47):
Here?
Speaker 3 (21:47):
But I lost my script there? It is? I lost
my rundown Mark Ronner, I got you back. Go ahead,
You're good, all right? Thanks?
Speaker 4 (21:54):
What are you doing for New Year's Now that you
know you can go to the Amazon logistics places without
any any concern?
Speaker 3 (21:59):
Likely working? You think you're gonna work New Year's Eve?
I'll have to check, but it's not out of the question.
Oh no, am I working New Year's Eve?
Speaker 4 (22:06):
You might want to find out what day of the
week is it. Let's see here, it is a Wednesday,
so I would not be I wouldn't be working. I
believe I'll be working unless something DIO SX something.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Well you're off at ten, right?
Speaker 4 (22:21):
No?
Speaker 3 (22:21):
No, no, I work till midnight every night. You work
here until midnight? I do. Why did you tell me this?
You didn't ask? Oh my god, Fush, do you work
until midnight?
Speaker 1 (22:31):
Two?
Speaker 4 (22:31):
No, I'm here till ten, but I get here earlier
than Mark. Now I got the place to myself the
last two hours, and Fush routinely tells me that it's
okay to take off my pants as he's leaving.
Speaker 7 (22:42):
Yeah, you always try to make us stay with you.
It's like, no, I'm getting home.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
I'm so lonely.
Speaker 7 (22:46):
I I'm so shy.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
I'm not. It's like a Maytag repair man. I don't
want to be alone. Do you get to pop in
with Nori ever?
Speaker 3 (22:56):
No? No, I don't. Well, we should write a note
to George about that.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
We should, now that you brought that up, I'm filled
with bitterness because I like that show and I've been
a listener most of my life.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
Isn't it funny?
Speaker 2 (23:06):
How similarly, where like for some reason, if you are
maybe it's just if you're like us and they lived
on the fringe a little bit in your life, you know.
I like to think of myself as a bit of
an outsider who's trying very hard to fit in. But
I think that that show finds you. It just finds you,
because if you're an insomniac. I was always up real
(23:26):
late when I was young, same I would watch I
would watch a Red Eye with Greg Guttfeld, which came
on at three o'clock in the morning as like a
teenager in high school to show you how cool I was.
And George Norri's show, I just would. I'd tune on
in listen to it, and I think that guy, he
knows all the secrets. And this is back when you
(23:47):
couldn't really get secrets. The internet didn't exist like it
does now, you know. Oh yeah, And I was a
listener way back in the Art Pelt days. It is
the ultimate show for keeping you company if you're a
solitary weirdo, which I was, and I guess to an
extent still am old Habits brother.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Yeah, you're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
We are taking your calls one, one hundred and five
because you're a one five, three four. If you have
any memories of Rob Reiner that you would like to share,
maybe some of your favorite movies, some of your favorite
things he directed, maybe acted in sushi. I didn't mean
to be rude. I didn't ask you if you had
any specific memories of Rob Reiner movies or things that you.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
Liked about I do not.
Speaker 4 (24:30):
It just kind of sound like on repeats everyone else.
I mean, he was just just incredibly talented. I didn't
know he did. I well, I just learned today that
he did misery. I didn't know that. Isn't that I
didn't know that. I mean, that's what I learned today.
So you know, it just proves how versatile he was
is I mean as just an entertainer. He could direct,
you could act, you could go from comedy to trauma
(24:50):
too well or I mean, so yeah, it's just kind
of just an all encompassing thing. I just didn't know
what the amount of talent he really possessed.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Yet how ubiquit he was, you know, how he showed
up often in movies, these specific characters, obviously going all
the way back to all in the Family. I want
to talk about misery for just a second because it
is like you can't say that word. And obviously director
is a big part of the movie, is the head
honcho in the movie. But there's so much with all
(25:19):
the acting, the writing, the set design, the editing, the pacing,
the music, the production design, the sound design. You cannot
talk about that film without your ankles hurting just a
little bit, true, Oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
Just can't.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
It's like makes me squirm every time I saw it
as a kid, like I was like maybe eight seven,
eight years old. It was on at my grandparents' house,
and it basically wrecked me. I was like, what is
this move? How can this be a thing? And then
learning that it's called Misery, you know, which is basically
(25:54):
just exactly how it feels to watch. Is such an incredible, uh,
incredible piece of movie which I just don't feel like
gets made anymore.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (26:04):
Also kind of a weirdly counterintuitive role for James Khan,
who you don't really associate as a writer. Ooh, that's interesting,
is that that was the hang up that you had
with it.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
I mean I liked him in it.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
I mean I'll watch him in anything, because he's an intense,
magnetic actor. But you know, you don't think of Sonny
Corleoni as the contemplative share.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
Then do you take that? Does that to mean that
Kathy Bates is the sort of psychotic I guess torture? Torturous?
Speaker 4 (26:35):
You're asking why I took her side, aren't you The
answer is no, no. But she was a great psycho
in that. I mean that made her career, didn't it.
She's so good? So I mean you could say that
that Reiner has an eye for talent because nobody knew
who she was at the time.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
Was that really kind of the thing put her on
the map? I think? So? Wow? Unless I missed something, No,
I don't. You know.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
I have to admit my knowledge of Kathy Bates early
cinema experience and her filmography, I'm limited on it.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
I know.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
I could tell you all about Titanic. Really, I can
tell you all about the Unsinkable Molly Brown. I can
tell you about Mattlock. Oh, she's still doing it.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
She'll tell you that Mattlock thing. Watchable. I don't know.
I don't. I don't. I don't do a lot of
TV stuff. You know, Okay, don't watch TV now. I'll
tell you what. I'm sure it's good because she's great?
Is it?
Speaker 4 (27:22):
Is it good because it's a network drama? Is it
bad because it's a network drama?
Speaker 3 (27:28):
You know?
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Is she able to overcome the cheese factor of a
network drama?
Speaker 3 (27:31):
Perhaps? Well?
Speaker 4 (27:32):
But it's I have similar feelings to that that I
do of the female led Equalizer reboot. I don't really
need that, but if I find out that it's really good,
I'll get around to it.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
I would say, if anybody's gonna make it work, it's
hurt ninety five percent on Rotten Tomatoes, so seven point
five percent on IMDb.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
Not sold yet, so not sold yet? All right, Nope.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
The FBI has released photos of the suspect of the
Brown University shooting. There are a couple of pictures that
you can see if you basically just google it and
you'd like to look at the photo of a man
who I guess they think is about five foot eight.
He's a covered head to toe, looks like he's bundled up.
I don't want to be rude. He's I wouldn't say
(28:14):
he's in peak physical shape. I don't think he's on
the GLP ones, doesn't look like he's going to be
running too far. Somebody definitely can identify this guy, and
I hope that they do. That shooting left two students
dead nine other injuries at Brown University, which is an
Ivy League school there in Rhode Island. Approximately five foot
(28:39):
eight with a stocky build. Remember they had somebody a
person of interest in custody after that shooting on Saturday
that feels like a million years ago, but then released
that person.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
Now they think that they know who it is.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
Of course, if you do recognize this person, the five
eight stocky man who's bundled up head to toe in
some of these new photos, you are asked to contact authorities.
One more story before we go to the break here,
can you bet on the news? Moreover, can you make
(29:15):
money on the news? This is something I've been wondering
for my entire life.
Speaker 4 (29:21):
I've been asking myself this since I started doing it professionally.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
Can you make money on the news? And I think
the jury's in on that.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
Yes, yeah, yeah, it's twenty five to life, I'll tell
you that much. CNBC is CNN partnered with online gambling
platform call she. They are allowing you to bet on
current events in real time. CNN will use call she
as an exclusive source for prediction markets. This of course
(29:49):
started in the sports world, but this is their first
partnership with the major news organization. Hosts and anchors and
journalists will use the data in reporting the news as
another data point to.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
Sentiment. Does it work?
Speaker 2 (30:02):
One French prediction market seem to have anticipated the French
presidential election far better than traditional polling. But coming up
after the break, we will tell you what kind of
things people can bet on. What are the top trending
bets on call?
Speaker 4 (30:20):
She?
Speaker 3 (30:20):
This is fascinating stuff.
Speaker 4 (30:21):
Was there a betting line on how soon Barry Weiss
would ruin CBS?
Speaker 2 (30:26):
That's a great question. Let me see I did. I'd
hear a couple of them. I will very won Nope,
she's uh, she's not on call she yet? Maybe on
policy market or polymarket or whatever it is? Okay, Things
like will Trump delead his Rob Reiner post?
Speaker 3 (30:42):
We have a.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
Yes, so probably not. Other things like who's going to
get the Oscar for Best Actor? How low will bitcoin
go this year? And who will be on Times twenty
twenty five Person of the Year shortlist. You're gonna have
to stick around after the break to get the answers
to those burning questions. Plus an interview with shotgun Tom Kelly.
(31:07):
Right on the other side of eight o'clock. I'm Andy Reesmyer.
This is KFI AM six forty. We're live everywhere on
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