December 15, 2025 • 32 mins
he discussion focused on the profound impact Rob Reiner and Michele Singer have had on those who knew and admired them, emphasizing their roles as devoted parents and influential creatives. Rob Reiner was praised as a talented filmmaker whose work shaped generations of cinema, as well as for his public service efforts, including founding First 5 to support early childhood education. Michele Singer was recognized for her artistic achievements, including her photography work on the cover of The Art of the Deal.
The conversation also reflected the close friendship between Carl Reiner and Tim Conway, highlighting shared memories and personal stories that illustrated their deep bond and mutual respect. Anecdotes underscored the warmth and humor that defined their relationships, including stories involving colleagues and friends who worked alongside Rob Reiner.
A significant portion of the discussion examined family struggles with mental health and substance abuse, acknowledging how these challenges can deeply affect loved ones. The speakers noted that many families experience similar hardships and reflected on how untreated mental illness and drug use can alter behavior and strain family dynamics.
The program explored themes of parental guilt and reflection, with comparisons drawn between Rob Reiner’s openness about feeling he failed his child and Tim Conway’s father expressing similar feelings about a family member. The conversation emphasized empathy, the complexity of mental health issues, and the lasting emotional toll on families.
The segment concluded by reaffirming Rob Reiner’s enduring legacy as a filmmaker, including projects that explored difficult family relationships, and by underscoring the importance of compassion, awareness, and honest dialogue around mental health.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Water show, water show. It's Conway Show on kf I
AM sixty. Very heavy hearts for this Right and her family,
Carl Reiner's kid, Rob Reiner and his wife murdered and
the suspect is their son, their son. And there's been
a whole rash of these. There was that doctor in
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Simi Valley with his beautiful wife, they're both in their
late sixties, got wiped out by their son. There's another
one in Encino Tarzana area last week.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
I don't know if you remember this. It was a
big story in New York.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
But in Long Island there was a couple that was
killed by their son. They owned a deli for fifty
years and the son came in and killed them. And
then in Evanston, Chicago, another son wiped out mom and dad,
and we even said last week, man, I hope this
isn't the trend. I hope this isn't the trend. And
I'm still hoping that it's not a trend. But I
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was driving last night out to Santa Anita. It is
around I don't know, maybe six thirty last night, and
I'm not driving two low Salamidos where they're running. I,
like all the other winners in life, am driving to
Santa Anita to bet quarter horses off track. That's what
winners do on Sunday, by the way, That's what winners do.
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And I'm talking to an old buddy, a friend of
mine Don named Malibu Dan, and he's talking about a
project he's putting together for autism, and he's got a
great charity that he's working with for autism. And I
hang up with him, and then I'm listening to the
news on kfive and I hear that Rob Reiner's house
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LAPD was called at three point thirty and there's a
seventy eight year old and a sixty eight year old
dead in a home that Rob Reiner owns in Brentwood.
So I call Malibu Dan back because I'm driving. I
don't want to text. I want to, you know, look
this up myself. And I said, hey, buddy, can you
do me a favor? He says, yeah, buddy, what is it?
(02:58):
I said, can you look up to see what age
Rob Reiner is? And he says yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
And then there's a pause, and then there's a pause,
and then he said, you want me to do that? Now?
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (03:14):
You know, I was thinking maybe you could do it
while I'm on the phone. Oh yeah, buddy, Okay, buddy,
all right, sure buddy, And he says Rob Reiner is
seventy eight and his wife is sixty eight. And right
then I knew it. I knew that they were gone.
And I thought, initially it's one of these home invasion deals,
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you know, somebody's breaking in and trying to steal all
of Rob Reiner and the Reiner fortune, and the home
invasion robbery went bad. And then as it comes out
more and more information, there's some rumors out there, there's
some facts that are wrong, but turns out that the
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main suspect is his kid, his son. Now, some cops
will tell you this, and and they've told me this
that quite often when the son. Never daughters, by the way,
never daughters. But when the son goes to kill they
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go to kill their dad. You have that kind of
when you have that kind of anger in you, it's
directed towards your dad, you know, when when when your
when mom's crazy, you just sort of laugh at her,
you know. But when dad's crazy, some of these sons
flip and they want to kill their dad. And so
the cops will tell you this that quite often the
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kid will go to kill the dad, the mom will
try to stop it, and that's when she gets laid
out in trying to stop the murder of her husband
and the father of the son trying to kill the dad.
And maybe that's what happened. I don't know, but I
have a long history with this family. One of my
dad's better friends, or one of my dad's best friends
(05:04):
for a while, was Carl Reiner. They were, you know,
they were very good friends in the seventies and then
sort of in the nineties. You know, they stayed in touch,
but you know, saw one another just at parties and
stuff like that, and then hooked up on a on
a TV show, on that Betty White TV show about Cleveland,
and they were in a couple of episodes of that
(05:25):
Hot in Cleveland. Yeah Hot in Cleveland, Yeah, right, Hot
in Cleveland, and that Carl Reiner was truly one of
the nicest, funniest men you could ever meet in your life,
ever meet in your life. And so was Rob Reiner.
So my dad's very good friend was was Rob Reiner's dad,
Carl Reiner. And every Christmas or Slash Hanikah, we would
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go to a house that was owned by my dad's
best friend, Ron Clark. Ron and Sheiela Clark and then
had a house in Brentwood, beautiful old colonial home and
we'd go to their house and the be there, the Anderson's,
the Egans, the Clarks, all the friends that my dad
had in and around show business. And Carl Reiner was
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always there. Rob Reiner was there, and Rob b Reiner
was there with his older daughter Tracy Reiner. This before
he had these three kids, and Rob Reiner was there.
There's probably about thirty kids at this party. There were
two parties every year. There was a Fourth of July
party where everybody played volleyball or pool volleyball, and then
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there was the Christmas party. And Carl Reiner would be there,
he'd be playing a little piano. Rob Reiner would be there.
And Rob Reiner along with Tom Egan, I remember both
those men. Tommy Egan Joan Eagan's husband, associate producer of
a lot of television show and Rob Reiner were the
only two guys out of all the men and all
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the women at that party, who knew every kid's name,
every kid's name. They would sit at the kids table,
they would talk to the kids. Tom Egan and Rob Reiner,
those are the two guys. They knew everything about all
the kids. They felt more comfortable going with, you know,
playing volleyball to the kids, talking to the kids, you know,
asking what's going on with their life, always spending time
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with the kids. So Rob Reiner was a very successful
director and writer. One of my favorite movies of all
time was a Few Good Men. The opening shot where
the Marines are are, you know, displaying their guns and
you know, lining up and doing the you know, the
the the gun review or whatever that's called. That's one
of my favorite scenes in the movie ever. It's shot beautifully.
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Jack Nicholson in that movie is unbelievable. You can watch
that movie and be Republican or Democrat, pro pro military,
anti military, whatever it is, you can come out with
what you want to believe in that movie, whether the
murder was correct or whether the murder was not right,
whether he was prosecuted correctly or not, or prosecuted wrongly,
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whatever you want, you can pull out of that movie
and people can watch that movie and say, oh.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Yeah, you know, my guy one or my team won.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
It's it's very difficult to do in a movie, and
he did it and a few good Men. And so
he did a few good Men, I'm Princess Bride, uh,
you know, a million movies, spinal tap and when Harry
met Sally, Yeah, one of the one of the great
scenes of all time.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
And Harry met Sally.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
And then he had these three kids, and he pulled
back from show business. Not that he was, you know,
unsuccessful in his movies. He just wanted to spend more
time with his kids. And so he got into politics,
which allows you to be spend more time, you know,
at home on the phone. Because when you're doing a movie,
you know, let's say you're doing a few good Men,
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you think about that takes up two years of your life.
Every waking moment you're thinking about that movie. You know,
who do we cast?
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Who?
Speaker 4 (08:52):
You know?
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Is this right?
Speaker 3 (08:53):
You know, should we rewrite this scene, who's gonna do
this scene, who's gonna do the lighting, who's gonna do
the sound, who's gonna do the editing? You always all
you do is you try to find the best people
in the world to make that movie as great as
you can. And it takes up eighteen to twenty four
hours of your day, and so you don't have time,
and you don't have time to, you know, to raise
three brand new kids late in your life. So he
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pulled back from directing and writing and spent an s
loaded time with those kids. He was always with those kids.
Every time I saw him, he was either with I
think her name is Rommy the daughter, or Jake the son,
or Nick the other son.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
And Jake has turned.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
You know.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Jake used to work, I believe in Chicago as a reporter.
Then he went to Phoenix, then he came out here
to CBSLA. I don't know what he's doing now, but
he's like the perfect son, like anybody would want his
son like Jake Reiner just a great kid, you know,
well mannered, you know, well dressed, polight to everybody, smart,
good at what he does.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Great kid.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
I don't know any think about much about Rommy. She
was much younger, and I'm not sure, you know, I
don't know anything about Nick other than the fact that
you know, evidently he's killed as parents. But it was
it was wild to listen to, you know, to all
of the the uh, the information coming in, and it
put a pit in my stomach that is still there.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
It's still there.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
When when I was a kid, I grew up on
Magnolia and palpoa for all you you know, geography nuts
out there, and Rob Reiner lived a block and a
half from us. He was married to Penny Marshall at
the time, and his daughter Tracy was a year younger
than I was. And I remember a million times going
over their house, hanging out in their guest house or
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you know, on their tennis court and having a blast
there on They use live on a street called McCormick
and and it was it's just it was a it's
a real tragedy. I've pitt my stomach that has not
gone away since last night. And I can't imagine if
you you know, knew, or if you were neighbors with
with the Rhiners or worked with them or knew them.
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You're probably going through the same thing, or maybe you
didn't even know them, Maybe just the movies affected you
in a certain way. And you can't believe what's happened
to these two. And then for the young daughter to
have to find her mom and dad slaughtered in their Brentwood,
beautiful mansion. She'll never get over that. And there's a
lot of there's a lot of other victims that have
been left behind. We've got a lot of audio and
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a lot of memories of Rob Reiner, one of the
great guys in show business. Whatever your politics are, that's
not tonight, you know, if that's another night, or maybe
never anymore, but just a really sweet man with a
with a fondness for hanging out and trying to raise
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his kids properly. He did everything he could to raise
those kids properly. Everything, And you can see it in Jake,
you can see it in Ronny. You cannot see it
in Nick. By the way, I've got plenty of to
cover here with Rob Reiner and his wife, and there's
a weird connection with his wife.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
And Donald Trump will tell you about that when come back.
Speaker 5 (12:03):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from kf
I am six forty.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
We've lost Rob Reiner, one of the great directors of
all time. One of my favorite movies ever is A
Few Good Men. If you have not seen it, I
recommend you look at it. It's it's great. Every scene
of that mut movie is perfect, just perfect. He has
a beautiful wife, or I should say had a beautiful wife.
It's always toughness to say to talk about people in
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the past. You know, when you lose a loved one,
or you know your mom or dad, it's always tough
or a friend to say he was or she was
instead of is and and especially if you're really really
close to that family that's going.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
To be a was. It was a complete shock to everybody.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
Anyway, Rob Reiner pulled away from from doing movies and
he got into politics and he started the First five,
which is raising money on everybody in California who's making
over four hundred thousand dollars or eight hundred thousand dollars
as a couple. And there's an extra tax that was
going to raise billions of dollars so kids could go
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to school for free and give them an education and
were and and helped them out with the first five
years of their life. And then he left that because
there was some money that got confused when in proposition
eighty two, which would have funded nursery school or kindergarten.
And then he just pulled away from politics. I think
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it really turned off and went and spent a lot
of time with his kids. His wife is a photographer.
And you may have heard this already that you know,
every the information is swirling around social media. You don't
know which what to believe, went not to believe. But
Rob Reinert really disliked Donald Trump. And he married the
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woman who took the photograph of Donald Trump on Donald
Trump's book The Art of the Deal. How about that marriage, right,
I don't know when that came up, Whether they got
married first and then he found out that his wife
took that picture, or maybe he tried to, you know,
find out who took that picture so he could yell
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at her and then fell in love with her. I
don't know which game first. I don't know. I have
a pretty funny story a friend of mine, a very
good friend of mine, a guy named Robbie Fox, who
is a writer. He wrote the man from Toronto with
Kevin what's his name, the comedian Heavin Cardey, Kevin Hardy. Yeah,
and he also wrote, you know a lot of movies,
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and he's he worked. His first job was working in
the studios as a runner, as a production assistant, and
he was working for I think Oryan Pictures or MGM.
And he was just a gopher, you know. He was
a production assistant and a gopher. And he went into
his screening room to deliver, you know, some lunch to somebody.
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And he looks down and Rob Reiner, Rob Reiner was
working on a movie, and my buddy, Robbie Fox is
a one of the big, you know, biggest fans of
movies in the world. And he couldn't believe it. He
was like tongue tied. He was going to give Rob
Reiner his lunch in this screening room, this dark screening room.
So he said to Rob Reiner, he said, hey, excuse me,
(15:24):
mister Ryaner. He goes, no, call me Rob. He goes,
all right, Rob, my name's Robbie Fox. I'm a production
assistant here and I can whatever you want, I can
get it for you. And he goes, oh, he goes
very nice to meet you, Robbie. What are you working on?
He goes, Oh, I'm working on I'm writing a few
you know, feu Spec movies here. But I really love
your work. And and Rob, I can get you, you know,
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whatever you need, whether you need lunch or or you know,
or packages. And Rob looks up, he goes, oh, well, oh,
then go get me some packages.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
So good, such a grateful lun so quick. Yeah, I delivered.
You know, I can get your launcher packages. Oh, go
get me some packages.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
It's just one of the funniest, you know, one of
the quickest, like the sweetest guys in the world. And
he was just a really cool deal. I ran into
him a lot in ages. I guess I was maybe
I don't know, maybe I was eight until I was,
you know, sixteen. I think I would have to look
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at the years, but I think All in the Family
was nineteen seventy one to seventy eight or seventy nine.
And I know they had an eight year run there,
and they did that show at the exact same time
they were doing the Carol Burnett Show. And I think
it overlapped by about six seven eight years exactly seventy
one seventy one to seventy nine. That was the All
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in the Family, and Burnett was sixty seven to seventy
seven I think sixty seven. I know it was the
start seventy seven they ended think of his anyway, so
there was about seven years that they overlapped there, and
so they shot the Carol Burnett Show in the on
the very same stage that they shot All in the Family.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Sixty seven to seventy eight.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Seventy eight, okay, sixty seven to seventy eight. So from
nineteen seventy one to nineteen seventy eight, both those shows
were going on at the same time, and I would
go in on Friday every Friday to watch the Carrol
Burnett Show being recorded, being you know, taped, and they
would do an early show and a late show, and
all the kids went to the early show because the
late show was you know, adults only. And I remember,
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you know, the offices that my dad had at the
Carol Burnett show, the offices right next door were All
in the Family. The door was probably three feet away,
and so I saw constantly all the actors and actresses
they were on the All in the Family constantly walked by,
and so I saw Rob Reiner quite often, you know,
when I would go into watch the Carol Bernut Show.
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And he was always very nice to everybody. I always uh,
you know, uh, funny as hell. He loved talking about
his dad. He's not one of those guys who, you know,
you bring up his dad and he says, oh, I
have my own career.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
He's never liked that.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
And and when you when your dad is a celebrity,
either you really enjoy when people talk about your mom
or your dad who's famous, or you really hate it.
And I enjoy it every single time. There was a
guy at at a Cadillac Pasadena who came by and
said and talked about my dad for like ten minutes.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
I'm like, oh man, I thought it was beautiful and
taught him.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
I told him how much that my dad affected his
life growing up. And and a very sincere conversation he
and he, you know, he said, your dad changed the
uh uh he this is what he said. And I
know we got to take a break, but this is important,
he said to me at the Cadillac dealership. He said,
there was one hour every week where my dad wasn't
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trying to choke my mom or choke the kids, and
it was the Carabernett Show. He said, we knew one
hour a week Dad would stop being an a hole,
and that was Saturday night watching the Carrabernut Show. He said,
that's the only hour we ever got a break from dad,
and it was all thanks to your dad. So that's
a really cool story. I'll always remember that story as well.
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All Right, a lot more on Rob Reiner and.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
His beautiful wife Michelle.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
They have passed and the Sun is the main suspect
and the daughter Rommy found mom and dad at home.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
It couldn't be more tragic.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on Demand from KFI
Am six forty.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
We continue to talk about Rob Reiner and his beautiful
wife Michelle, who were killed last night or yesterday afternoon
in their Brentwood house. This mansion, beautiful house decorated for
the holidays, and they had gone to a Christmas party
that Conan O'Brien was having, and again I did not
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get an invite, but that's another story. I from what
I understand from somebody went to that party that Nick
the son, had a huge argument with his dad and
his mom at that party and anybody knows anything about
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holiday parties, that's the wrong arena for that, especially somebody
else's home. And so Rob Reiner must have been humiliated,
and that may have sparked what happened yesterday because that
party was Saturday night and this happened on a Sunday.
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I remember two years ago, about a year and a
half or two years ago, we were talking about what
we wished for in show business. You know, a movie
to be remade, or a character to you know, to
be I'm going on to go on to do a
spin off or something. What TV shows you'd like to
see remade, you know, typical hackash talk radio crap that
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I do. And my wish And I went on for
a ten minute saying one of my wishes was that
Rob Reiner would get back into making movies and doing
entertainment because he got into politics for a while and
he was very harsh and very hard on Donald Trump.
And I said on the air, there are fifty million Americans,
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including myself, that could go on the radio or do
a podcast every day on how much they hate Donald Trump.
It's very very simple to do. It is the lowest
hanging fruit. I could do it for three hours a
night and never run out of material if I chose
to do that, right, But there's only one guy that
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could write and direct movies like Rob Reiner. Fifty to
one hundred million people can go off on politics on
how much they hate a certain person, but there are
really two or three guys in the world that are
capable of directing movies as beautifully as Rob Reiner did.
And how many people can do Spinal Tap and a
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few Good Men and Princess Bride, Sleepless in Seattle, all
these beautiful movies. And so my wish was that he
got back into show business and left politics to the
other one hundred million Americans that can do that. And then, miraculously, seriously,
about a month later, you stopped seeing And I'm not
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saying it was me that did this. Maybe somebody else
also got into Rob's ear and said, Rob, you need
to get back into show business. You need to direct
and produce and write again. This world needs more movies
and less politics. And he did Spinal Tap two, and
he seemed to be happier than hell. When he talked
to his neighbors, they all said he was the happiest
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guy on the block. And whenever he stopped somebody and
stopped to talk to somebody, he didn't just wave and
say hi. He stopped and asking him, hey, how you
doing you know, how are you doing money wise?
Speaker 2 (23:18):
How you doing food? How you doing this? How you doing?
Speaker 3 (23:20):
How are the kids really really concerned? One of the
great ambassadors of show business of all time was Rob Reiner,
and so I'm glad that he got back into into
doing movies and then having to deal with this, you know,
crazy kid. I think a lot of families have a
kid like Nick in their family.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
I know that we did.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
And I'm not gonna say his name, but I was
at my dad's house about twenty five.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Years ago and two guys come.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
And they knock on the door, and they're dressed in suits,
and they knock on the door. My dad answers, and
they say, can we speak to Thomas Daniel Conway. Thomas
Daniel Conway is my dad's legal name. He was born
Tom Conway, but had to change it to Tim because
there was already a Tom Conway and show business and
back then you could not have the same name as
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another person if you were in the union. So I
knew it was trouble so he said, I'm Thomas Daniel Conway.
And the two guys looked at it. You go, oh, no,
you're Tim Conway. He goes, no, no, my legal name,
and he showed his license on his license said Thomas
Daniel Conway.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
So they said we need to speak to you.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
And he said, okay, come on in, fellas, and they
introduced themselves and they showed badges and they were both
from the Secret Service, both of them, and they said
we need to talk to you. So the four of
us sat in the living room and one of the
Secret Service guys said who is him? Who is this
guy and pointing to me, and my dad said, that's
my son Tim. And he says, well, with all due respect,
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he can't be in the room when we talk to you.
And so I split and went down the block, went
to have a sandwich, called my dad out. About an
hour later, went back to his house and I said,
what was that all about? And he said, somebody in
this family was a me threatened to kill the president.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Of the United States. Was not you. It was not
me threatened to kill the president.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Of the United States. This is about twenty five years ago.
And so my dad had the exact same problems that
Rob Reiner had, the exact same problems on this on
almost the same level. As a matter of fact, I
would call my dad every once in a while and
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I go, Wow, you're still alive.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
How did that happen?
Speaker 3 (25:50):
And you know, he found the humor in that sort
of But there are chemicals in your brain, and you're
born and you're susceptible to it. Your brain chemical changing
with drugs and alcohol in a way that when you're sober,
you would never do anything. And I think that's what
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happened with Rob Reiner's kid, Nick. He's now sitting in
jail four million dollars bond, and he's accused of killing
his mom and dad with a knife, which means a
ton of anger. If you're going to kill somebody and
you shoot somebody from far away, there's a difference between
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that and taking a knife and slitting the throat of
your mom and your dad. And I hope this is
not becoming a trend. We've been talking about this for
the last two weeks, and I pray to God it's
not becoming a trend.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
All right, welcome back.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
We got some audio here Rob Reiner talking about the
movie he did with his son Nick being Charlie, and
also Rob Reiner on The Howard Stern Show with his
son Nick. I think both of those pieces of audio
you'll want to come back and listen to him after
this break.
Speaker 5 (27:08):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
Rob Reiner is no longer with us, his beautiful wife Michelle,
both of them killed last night in Brentwood. The main
suspect and the only suspect is their son Nick Nick Reiner,
who I believe they caught at USC on the campus,
but there I don't know anybody in Los Angeles or
(27:35):
in the entertainment world that has the range that Rob
Reiner had to be able to do a very funny
movie Spinal Tap, which is if you've not seen it, please,
you know, look for it and watch it is.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
It is very, very funny.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
He also did When Harry Met Sally, A Few Good Men,
which is one of my favorite movies of all time, Misery,
Princess Bride, and stand By Me. Who has the range
to do all those he did? Misery, Yeah he did.
I didn't know that one. Yeah, But who has that
kind of range other than Rob Reiner.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
I don't know anybody. Anybody.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
This is Rob Reiner with his son Nick talking about
the film called Being Charlie, which is all about the
relationship that Nick had with his dad. They change a
little bit in the movie, made him a politician as
opposed to a director. But here's Rob Reiner talking about
his son Nick Nick Reiner, who is the main suspect
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in the murder of both of his parents.
Speaker 4 (28:41):
If your kid is going through rough times, the parent
is your main job is to keep a child safe.
So I would do anything even I felt out a loss,
So I would do anything that, as we say in
the film, anybody with the desk and the diploma, I
would listen to them and the whole idea of tough
love and you have to be a certain way, and
it's not my nature, it's not the way I am built.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
But I went and did that.
Speaker 4 (29:03):
You know, And I think that, you know, at the
end of the day, I know my child better than
an expert does, and I probably should have trusted my
own instinct. And that's one of the things I did
learn about the whole experience.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
So Rob Reiner's instinct is to really love your child,
help your child, and yet he went out of his
comfort zone and talked to psychiatrists after psychiatrists after psychologists,
and tried to figure out how to make his kid's
life better. And he probably spent millions of dollars in
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doing that, and spent you know, thousands, maybe tens of
thousands of hours trying to get his kid the help
that he needed. And some kids they never warm up
to help at all. And this I think was one
of those cases where he tried everything and listen to
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this part right here.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
As we say in the film, anybody with the desk
and the diploma, I would listen to them.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
Okay, but that's not his nature to do that. His
nature was the same thing he learned from his dad,
you know, his dad, Carl Reiner, is just to be there,
love your kid, try to help him out. And then
they tried to talk him into tough love, and he
wasn't comfortable doing that. And so he at the end
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when he says, you know, I should have listened to
my instinct. You can hear in his voice. I'll play
it for you again. Where he felt he failed his kid.
He felt my and my dad went through the exact
same team. My dad felt like he failed my brother,
and he didn't and Rob didn't either, you know, they
just they just there are some people in this world
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that just don't get better as much as you try.
And Rob spent thousands of hours. My dad spent thousands
of hours trying and trying and trying.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
And it drains you.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
It drains all the energy out of you when you
can't help your kid, when you know that your kid
is homeless, and it's it's you know, it's raining out
and it's dark out, and your kids sleeping on the street.
That happened to us, It happened to Rob, and so
I know what this is like. And I know you
know the countless nights that Rob Reiner probably went to
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sleep crying over this.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
I guarantee you that happened.
Speaker 4 (31:28):
And the whole idea of tough love and you have
to be a certain way, and it's not my nature,
it's not the way I am built. But I went
and did that, you know, And I think that, you know,
at the end of the day, I know my child
better than an expert does, and I probably should have
trusted my own instinct. And that's one of the things
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I did learn about the whole experience.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
Yeah, when he said, you can hear in his voice
that he felt like he failed as kid, and he didn't.
He didn't, you know, just there are some people in
this world that just don't get better. The treatment doesn't work,
they don't want treatment, they rebel. Their chemistry is just
off and nothing, nothing works, and sometimes it comes to
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an end like this. It's horrible and I hope this
is not a new trend. We're live on KFI AM
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AM sixty. Very heavy hearts for this Right and her family,
Carl Reiner's kid, Rob Reiner and his wife murdered and
the suspect is their son, their son. And there's been
a whole rash of these. There was that doctor in
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Simi Valley with his beautiful wife, they're both in their
late sixties, got wiped out by their son. There's another
one in Encino Tarzana area last week.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
I don't know if you remember this. It was a
big story in New York.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
But in Long Island there was a couple that was
killed by their son. They owned a deli for fifty
years and the son came in and killed them. And
then in Evanston, Chicago, another son wiped out mom and dad,
and we even said last week, man, I hope this
isn't the trend. I hope this isn't the trend. And
I'm still hoping that it's not a trend. But I
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was driving last night out to Santa Anita. It is
around I don't know, maybe six thirty last night, and
I'm not driving two low Salamidos where they're running. I,
like all the other winners in life, am driving to
Santa Anita to bet quarter horses off track. That's what
winners do on Sunday, by the way, That's what winners do.
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And I'm talking to an old buddy, a friend of
mine Don named Malibu Dan, and he's talking about a
project he's putting together for autism, and he's got a
great charity that he's working with for autism. And I
hang up with him, and then I'm listening to the
news on kfive and I hear that Rob Reiner's house
(02:37):
LAPD was called at three point thirty and there's a
seventy eight year old and a sixty eight year old
dead in a home that Rob Reiner owns in Brentwood.
So I call Malibu Dan back because I'm driving. I
don't want to text. I want to, you know, look
this up myself. And I said, hey, buddy, can you
do me a favor? He says, yeah, buddy, what is it?
(02:58):
I said, can you look up to see what age
Rob Reiner is? And he says yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
And then there's a pause, and then there's a pause,
and then he said, you want me to do that? Now?
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (03:14):
You know, I was thinking maybe you could do it
while I'm on the phone. Oh yeah, buddy, Okay, buddy,
all right, sure buddy, And he says Rob Reiner is
seventy eight and his wife is sixty eight. And right
then I knew it. I knew that they were gone.
And I thought, initially it's one of these home invasion deals,
(03:38):
you know, somebody's breaking in and trying to steal all
of Rob Reiner and the Reiner fortune, and the home
invasion robbery went bad. And then as it comes out
more and more information, there's some rumors out there, there's
some facts that are wrong, but turns out that the
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main suspect is his kid, his son. Now, some cops
will tell you this, and and they've told me this
that quite often when the son. Never daughters, by the way,
never daughters. But when the son goes to kill they
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go to kill their dad. You have that kind of
when you have that kind of anger in you, it's
directed towards your dad, you know, when when when your
when mom's crazy, you just sort of laugh at her,
you know. But when dad's crazy, some of these sons
flip and they want to kill their dad. And so
the cops will tell you this that quite often the
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kid will go to kill the dad, the mom will
try to stop it, and that's when she gets laid
out in trying to stop the murder of her husband
and the father of the son trying to kill the dad.
And maybe that's what happened. I don't know, but I
have a long history with this family. One of my
dad's better friends, or one of my dad's best friends
(05:04):
for a while, was Carl Reiner. They were, you know,
they were very good friends in the seventies and then
sort of in the nineties. You know, they stayed in touch,
but you know, saw one another just at parties and
stuff like that, and then hooked up on a on
a TV show, on that Betty White TV show about Cleveland,
and they were in a couple of episodes of that
(05:25):
Hot in Cleveland. Yeah Hot in Cleveland, Yeah, right, Hot
in Cleveland, and that Carl Reiner was truly one of
the nicest, funniest men you could ever meet in your life,
ever meet in your life. And so was Rob Reiner.
So my dad's very good friend was was Rob Reiner's dad,
Carl Reiner. And every Christmas or Slash Hanikah, we would
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go to a house that was owned by my dad's
best friend, Ron Clark. Ron and Sheiela Clark and then
had a house in Brentwood, beautiful old colonial home and
we'd go to their house and the be there, the Anderson's,
the Egans, the Clarks, all the friends that my dad
had in and around show business. And Carl Reiner was
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always there. Rob Reiner was there, and Rob b Reiner
was there with his older daughter Tracy Reiner. This before
he had these three kids, and Rob Reiner was there.
There's probably about thirty kids at this party. There were
two parties every year. There was a Fourth of July
party where everybody played volleyball or pool volleyball, and then
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there was the Christmas party. And Carl Reiner would be there,
he'd be playing a little piano. Rob Reiner would be there.
And Rob Reiner along with Tom Egan, I remember both
those men. Tommy Egan Joan Eagan's husband, associate producer of
a lot of television show and Rob Reiner were the
only two guys out of all the men and all
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the women at that party, who knew every kid's name,
every kid's name. They would sit at the kids table,
they would talk to the kids. Tom Egan and Rob Reiner,
those are the two guys. They knew everything about all
the kids. They felt more comfortable going with, you know,
playing volleyball to the kids, talking to the kids, you know,
asking what's going on with their life, always spending time
(07:14):
with the kids. So Rob Reiner was a very successful
director and writer. One of my favorite movies of all
time was a Few Good Men. The opening shot where
the Marines are are, you know, displaying their guns and
you know, lining up and doing the you know, the
the the gun review or whatever that's called. That's one
of my favorite scenes in the movie ever. It's shot beautifully.
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Jack Nicholson in that movie is unbelievable. You can watch
that movie and be Republican or Democrat, pro pro military,
anti military, whatever it is, you can come out with
what you want to believe in that movie, whether the
murder was correct or whether the murder was not right,
whether he was prosecuted correctly or not, or prosecuted wrongly,
(08:00):
whatever you want, you can pull out of that movie
and people can watch that movie and say, oh.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Yeah, you know, my guy one or my team won.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
It's it's very difficult to do in a movie, and
he did it and a few good Men. And so
he did a few good Men, I'm Princess Bride, uh,
you know, a million movies, spinal tap and when Harry
met Sally, Yeah, one of the one of the great
scenes of all time.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
And Harry met Sally.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
And then he had these three kids, and he pulled
back from show business. Not that he was, you know,
unsuccessful in his movies. He just wanted to spend more
time with his kids. And so he got into politics,
which allows you to be spend more time, you know,
at home on the phone. Because when you're doing a movie,
you know, let's say you're doing a few good Men,
(08:45):
you think about that takes up two years of your life.
Every waking moment you're thinking about that movie. You know,
who do we cast?
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Who?
Speaker 4 (08:52):
You know?
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Is this right?
Speaker 3 (08:53):
You know, should we rewrite this scene, who's gonna do
this scene, who's gonna do the lighting, who's gonna do
the sound, who's gonna do the editing? You always all
you do is you try to find the best people
in the world to make that movie as great as
you can. And it takes up eighteen to twenty four
hours of your day, and so you don't have time,
and you don't have time to, you know, to raise
three brand new kids late in your life. So he
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pulled back from directing and writing and spent an s
loaded time with those kids. He was always with those kids.
Every time I saw him, he was either with I
think her name is Rommy the daughter, or Jake the son,
or Nick the other son.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
And Jake has turned.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
You know.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Jake used to work, I believe in Chicago as a reporter.
Then he went to Phoenix, then he came out here
to CBSLA. I don't know what he's doing now, but
he's like the perfect son, like anybody would want his
son like Jake Reiner just a great kid, you know,
well mannered, you know, well dressed, polight to everybody, smart,
good at what he does.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Great kid.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
I don't know any think about much about Rommy. She
was much younger, and I'm not sure, you know, I
don't know anything about Nick other than the fact that
you know, evidently he's killed as parents. But it was
it was wild to listen to, you know, to all
of the the uh, the information coming in, and it
put a pit in my stomach that is still there.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
It's still there.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
When when I was a kid, I grew up on
Magnolia and palpoa for all you you know, geography nuts
out there, and Rob Reiner lived a block and a
half from us. He was married to Penny Marshall at
the time, and his daughter Tracy was a year younger
than I was. And I remember a million times going
over their house, hanging out in their guest house or
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you know, on their tennis court and having a blast
there on They use live on a street called McCormick
and and it was it's just it was a it's
a real tragedy. I've pitt my stomach that has not
gone away since last night. And I can't imagine if
you you know, knew, or if you were neighbors with
with the Rhiners or worked with them or knew them.
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You're probably going through the same thing, or maybe you
didn't even know them, Maybe just the movies affected you
in a certain way. And you can't believe what's happened
to these two. And then for the young daughter to
have to find her mom and dad slaughtered in their Brentwood,
beautiful mansion. She'll never get over that. And there's a
lot of there's a lot of other victims that have
been left behind. We've got a lot of audio and
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a lot of memories of Rob Reiner, one of the
great guys in show business. Whatever your politics are, that's
not tonight, you know, if that's another night, or maybe
never anymore, but just a really sweet man with a
with a fondness for hanging out and trying to raise
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his kids properly. He did everything he could to raise
those kids properly. Everything, And you can see it in Jake,
you can see it in Ronny. You cannot see it
in Nick. By the way, I've got plenty of to
cover here with Rob Reiner and his wife, and there's
a weird connection with his wife.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
And Donald Trump will tell you about that when come back.
Speaker 5 (12:03):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from kf
I am six forty.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
We've lost Rob Reiner, one of the great directors of
all time. One of my favorite movies ever is A
Few Good Men. If you have not seen it, I
recommend you look at it. It's it's great. Every scene
of that mut movie is perfect, just perfect. He has
a beautiful wife, or I should say had a beautiful wife.
It's always toughness to say to talk about people in
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the past. You know, when you lose a loved one,
or you know your mom or dad, it's always tough
or a friend to say he was or she was
instead of is and and especially if you're really really
close to that family that's going.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
To be a was. It was a complete shock to everybody.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
Anyway, Rob Reiner pulled away from from doing movies and
he got into politics and he started the First five,
which is raising money on everybody in California who's making
over four hundred thousand dollars or eight hundred thousand dollars
as a couple. And there's an extra tax that was
going to raise billions of dollars so kids could go
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to school for free and give them an education and
were and and helped them out with the first five
years of their life. And then he left that because
there was some money that got confused when in proposition
eighty two, which would have funded nursery school or kindergarten.
And then he just pulled away from politics. I think
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it really turned off and went and spent a lot
of time with his kids. His wife is a photographer.
And you may have heard this already that you know,
every the information is swirling around social media. You don't
know which what to believe, went not to believe. But
Rob Reinert really disliked Donald Trump. And he married the
(13:57):
woman who took the photograph of Donald Trump on Donald
Trump's book The Art of the Deal. How about that marriage, right,
I don't know when that came up, Whether they got
married first and then he found out that his wife
took that picture, or maybe he tried to, you know,
find out who took that picture so he could yell
(14:18):
at her and then fell in love with her. I
don't know which game first. I don't know. I have
a pretty funny story a friend of mine, a very
good friend of mine, a guy named Robbie Fox, who
is a writer. He wrote the man from Toronto with
Kevin what's his name, the comedian Heavin Cardey, Kevin Hardy. Yeah,
and he also wrote, you know a lot of movies,
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and he's he worked. His first job was working in
the studios as a runner, as a production assistant, and
he was working for I think Oryan Pictures or MGM.
And he was just a gopher, you know. He was
a production assistant and a gopher. And he went into
his screening room to deliver, you know, some lunch to somebody.
(15:04):
And he looks down and Rob Reiner, Rob Reiner was
working on a movie, and my buddy, Robbie Fox is
a one of the big, you know, biggest fans of
movies in the world. And he couldn't believe it. He
was like tongue tied. He was going to give Rob
Reiner his lunch in this screening room, this dark screening room.
So he said to Rob Reiner, he said, hey, excuse me,
(15:24):
mister Ryaner. He goes, no, call me Rob. He goes,
all right, Rob, my name's Robbie Fox. I'm a production
assistant here and I can whatever you want, I can
get it for you. And he goes, oh, he goes
very nice to meet you, Robbie. What are you working on?
He goes, Oh, I'm working on I'm writing a few
you know, feu Spec movies here. But I really love
your work. And and Rob, I can get you, you know,
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whatever you need, whether you need lunch or or you know,
or packages. And Rob looks up, he goes, oh, well, oh,
then go get me some packages.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
So good, such a grateful lun so quick. Yeah, I delivered.
You know, I can get your launcher packages. Oh, go
get me some packages.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
It's just one of the funniest, you know, one of
the quickest, like the sweetest guys in the world. And
he was just a really cool deal. I ran into
him a lot in ages. I guess I was maybe
I don't know, maybe I was eight until I was,
you know, sixteen. I think I would have to look
(16:29):
at the years, but I think All in the Family
was nineteen seventy one to seventy eight or seventy nine.
And I know they had an eight year run there,
and they did that show at the exact same time
they were doing the Carol Burnett Show. And I think
it overlapped by about six seven eight years exactly seventy
one seventy one to seventy nine. That was the All
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in the Family, and Burnett was sixty seven to seventy
seven I think sixty seven. I know it was the
start seventy seven they ended think of his anyway, so
there was about seven years that they overlapped there, and
so they shot the Carol Burnett Show in the on
the very same stage that they shot All in the Family.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Sixty seven to seventy eight.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Seventy eight, okay, sixty seven to seventy eight. So from
nineteen seventy one to nineteen seventy eight, both those shows
were going on at the same time, and I would
go in on Friday every Friday to watch the Carrol
Burnett Show being recorded, being you know, taped, and they
would do an early show and a late show, and
all the kids went to the early show because the
late show was you know, adults only. And I remember,
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you know, the offices that my dad had at the
Carol Burnett show, the offices right next door were All
in the Family. The door was probably three feet away,
and so I saw constantly all the actors and actresses
they were on the All in the Family constantly walked by,
and so I saw Rob Reiner quite often, you know,
when I would go into watch the Carol Bernut Show.
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And he was always very nice to everybody. I always uh,
you know, uh, funny as hell. He loved talking about
his dad. He's not one of those guys who, you know,
you bring up his dad and he says, oh, I
have my own career.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
He's never liked that.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
And and when you when your dad is a celebrity,
either you really enjoy when people talk about your mom
or your dad who's famous, or you really hate it.
And I enjoy it every single time. There was a
guy at at a Cadillac Pasadena who came by and
said and talked about my dad for like ten minutes.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
I'm like, oh man, I thought it was beautiful and
taught him.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
I told him how much that my dad affected his
life growing up. And and a very sincere conversation he
and he, you know, he said, your dad changed the
uh uh he this is what he said. And I
know we got to take a break, but this is important,
he said to me at the Cadillac dealership. He said,
there was one hour every week where my dad wasn't
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trying to choke my mom or choke the kids, and
it was the Carabernett Show. He said, we knew one
hour a week Dad would stop being an a hole,
and that was Saturday night watching the Carrabernut Show. He said,
that's the only hour we ever got a break from dad,
and it was all thanks to your dad. So that's
a really cool story. I'll always remember that story as well.
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All Right, a lot more on Rob Reiner and.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
His beautiful wife Michelle.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
They have passed and the Sun is the main suspect
and the daughter Rommy found mom and dad at home.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
It couldn't be more tragic.
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Am six forty.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
We continue to talk about Rob Reiner and his beautiful
wife Michelle, who were killed last night or yesterday afternoon
in their Brentwood house. This mansion, beautiful house decorated for
the holidays, and they had gone to a Christmas party
that Conan O'Brien was having, and again I did not
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get an invite, but that's another story. I from what
I understand from somebody went to that party that Nick
the son, had a huge argument with his dad and
his mom at that party and anybody knows anything about
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holiday parties, that's the wrong arena for that, especially somebody
else's home. And so Rob Reiner must have been humiliated,
and that may have sparked what happened yesterday because that
party was Saturday night and this happened on a Sunday.
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I remember two years ago, about a year and a
half or two years ago, we were talking about what
we wished for in show business. You know, a movie
to be remade, or a character to you know, to
be I'm going on to go on to do a
spin off or something. What TV shows you'd like to
see remade, you know, typical hackash talk radio crap that
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I do. And my wish And I went on for
a ten minute saying one of my wishes was that
Rob Reiner would get back into making movies and doing
entertainment because he got into politics for a while and
he was very harsh and very hard on Donald Trump.
And I said on the air, there are fifty million Americans,
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including myself, that could go on the radio or do
a podcast every day on how much they hate Donald Trump.
It's very very simple to do. It is the lowest
hanging fruit. I could do it for three hours a
night and never run out of material if I chose
to do that, right, But there's only one guy that
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could write and direct movies like Rob Reiner. Fifty to
one hundred million people can go off on politics on
how much they hate a certain person, but there are
really two or three guys in the world that are
capable of directing movies as beautifully as Rob Reiner did.
And how many people can do Spinal Tap and a
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few Good Men and Princess Bride, Sleepless in Seattle, all
these beautiful movies. And so my wish was that he
got back into show business and left politics to the
other one hundred million Americans that can do that. And then, miraculously, seriously,
about a month later, you stopped seeing And I'm not
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saying it was me that did this. Maybe somebody else
also got into Rob's ear and said, Rob, you need
to get back into show business. You need to direct
and produce and write again. This world needs more movies
and less politics. And he did Spinal Tap two, and
he seemed to be happier than hell. When he talked
to his neighbors, they all said he was the happiest
(23:08):
guy on the block. And whenever he stopped somebody and
stopped to talk to somebody, he didn't just wave and
say hi. He stopped and asking him, hey, how you
doing you know, how are you doing money wise?
Speaker 2 (23:18):
How you doing food? How you doing this? How you doing?
Speaker 3 (23:20):
How are the kids really really concerned? One of the
great ambassadors of show business of all time was Rob Reiner,
and so I'm glad that he got back into into
doing movies and then having to deal with this, you know,
crazy kid. I think a lot of families have a
kid like Nick in their family.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
I know that we did.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
And I'm not gonna say his name, but I was
at my dad's house about twenty five.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Years ago and two guys come.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
And they knock on the door, and they're dressed in suits,
and they knock on the door. My dad answers, and
they say, can we speak to Thomas Daniel Conway. Thomas
Daniel Conway is my dad's legal name. He was born
Tom Conway, but had to change it to Tim because
there was already a Tom Conway and show business and
back then you could not have the same name as
(24:16):
another person if you were in the union. So I
knew it was trouble so he said, I'm Thomas Daniel Conway.
And the two guys looked at it. You go, oh, no,
you're Tim Conway. He goes, no, no, my legal name,
and he showed his license on his license said Thomas
Daniel Conway.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
So they said we need to speak to you.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
And he said, okay, come on in, fellas, and they
introduced themselves and they showed badges and they were both
from the Secret Service, both of them, and they said
we need to talk to you. So the four of
us sat in the living room and one of the
Secret Service guys said who is him? Who is this
guy and pointing to me, and my dad said, that's
my son Tim. And he says, well, with all due respect,
(24:58):
he can't be in the room when we talk to you.
And so I split and went down the block, went
to have a sandwich, called my dad out. About an
hour later, went back to his house and I said,
what was that all about? And he said, somebody in
this family was a me threatened to kill the president.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Of the United States. Was not you. It was not
me threatened to kill the president.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Of the United States. This is about twenty five years ago.
And so my dad had the exact same problems that
Rob Reiner had, the exact same problems on this on
almost the same level. As a matter of fact, I
would call my dad every once in a while and
(25:47):
I go, Wow, you're still alive.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
How did that happen?
Speaker 3 (25:50):
And you know, he found the humor in that sort
of But there are chemicals in your brain, and you're
born and you're susceptible to it. Your brain chemical changing
with drugs and alcohol in a way that when you're sober,
you would never do anything. And I think that's what
(26:11):
happened with Rob Reiner's kid, Nick. He's now sitting in
jail four million dollars bond, and he's accused of killing
his mom and dad with a knife, which means a
ton of anger. If you're going to kill somebody and
you shoot somebody from far away, there's a difference between
(26:33):
that and taking a knife and slitting the throat of
your mom and your dad. And I hope this is
not becoming a trend. We've been talking about this for
the last two weeks, and I pray to God it's
not becoming a trend.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
All right, welcome back.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
We got some audio here Rob Reiner talking about the
movie he did with his son Nick being Charlie, and
also Rob Reiner on The Howard Stern Show with his
son Nick. I think both of those pieces of audio
you'll want to come back and listen to him after
this break.
Speaker 5 (27:08):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
Rob Reiner is no longer with us, his beautiful wife Michelle,
both of them killed last night in Brentwood. The main
suspect and the only suspect is their son Nick Nick Reiner,
who I believe they caught at USC on the campus,
but there I don't know anybody in Los Angeles or
(27:35):
in the entertainment world that has the range that Rob
Reiner had to be able to do a very funny
movie Spinal Tap, which is if you've not seen it, please,
you know, look for it and watch it is.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
It is very, very funny.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
He also did When Harry Met Sally, A Few Good Men,
which is one of my favorite movies of all time, Misery,
Princess Bride, and stand By Me. Who has the range
to do all those he did? Misery, Yeah he did.
I didn't know that one. Yeah, But who has that
kind of range other than Rob Reiner.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
I don't know anybody. Anybody.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
This is Rob Reiner with his son Nick talking about
the film called Being Charlie, which is all about the
relationship that Nick had with his dad. They change a
little bit in the movie, made him a politician as
opposed to a director. But here's Rob Reiner talking about
his son Nick Nick Reiner, who is the main suspect
(28:38):
in the murder of both of his parents.
Speaker 4 (28:41):
If your kid is going through rough times, the parent
is your main job is to keep a child safe.
So I would do anything even I felt out a loss,
So I would do anything that, as we say in
the film, anybody with the desk and the diploma, I
would listen to them and the whole idea of tough
love and you have to be a certain way, and
it's not my nature, it's not the way I am built.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
But I went and did that.
Speaker 4 (29:03):
You know, And I think that, you know, at the
end of the day, I know my child better than
an expert does, and I probably should have trusted my
own instinct. And that's one of the things I did
learn about the whole experience.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
So Rob Reiner's instinct is to really love your child,
help your child, and yet he went out of his
comfort zone and talked to psychiatrists after psychiatrists after psychologists,
and tried to figure out how to make his kid's
life better. And he probably spent millions of dollars in
(29:38):
doing that, and spent you know, thousands, maybe tens of
thousands of hours trying to get his kid the help
that he needed. And some kids they never warm up
to help at all. And this I think was one
of those cases where he tried everything and listen to
(30:00):
this part right here.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
As we say in the film, anybody with the desk
and the diploma, I would listen to them.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
Okay, but that's not his nature to do that. His
nature was the same thing he learned from his dad,
you know, his dad, Carl Reiner, is just to be there,
love your kid, try to help him out. And then
they tried to talk him into tough love, and he
wasn't comfortable doing that. And so he at the end
(30:25):
when he says, you know, I should have listened to
my instinct. You can hear in his voice. I'll play
it for you again. Where he felt he failed his kid.
He felt my and my dad went through the exact
same team. My dad felt like he failed my brother,
and he didn't and Rob didn't either, you know, they
just they just there are some people in this world
(30:48):
that just don't get better as much as you try.
And Rob spent thousands of hours. My dad spent thousands
of hours trying and trying and trying.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
And it drains you.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
It drains all the energy out of you when you
can't help your kid, when you know that your kid
is homeless, and it's it's you know, it's raining out
and it's dark out, and your kids sleeping on the street.
That happened to us, It happened to Rob, and so
I know what this is like. And I know you
know the countless nights that Rob Reiner probably went to
(31:22):
sleep crying over this.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
I guarantee you that happened.
Speaker 4 (31:28):
And the whole idea of tough love and you have
to be a certain way, and it's not my nature,
it's not the way I am built. But I went
and did that, you know, And I think that, you know,
at the end of the day, I know my child
better than an expert does, and I probably should have
trusted my own instinct. And that's one of the things
(31:48):
I did learn about the whole experience.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
Yeah, when he said, you can hear in his voice
that he felt like he failed as kid, and he didn't.
He didn't, you know, just there are some people in
this world that just don't get better. The treatment doesn't work,
they don't want treatment, they rebel. Their chemistry is just
off and nothing, nothing works, and sometimes it comes to
(32:12):
an end like this. It's horrible and I hope this
is not a new trend. We're live on KFI AM
six forty It's Conway Show.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
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can always hear us live on KFI AM six forty
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