Good afternoon, everybody. Tuesday, December the 16th, 2025, and we're here to talk about

Rob Reiner, happy to get your thoughts about it. As well, it is a horrifying, horrible situation

as a philosopher and particularly as a moral philosopher, I am wedded to examining causation.

I don't believe, and this is sometimes to my detriment, but I don't believe that there are many

accidents in life. I don't believe that there are many coincidences in life. And so looking at

causality is the best thing that we can get out of these kinds of tragedies.

So let's just start with some bare bones facts in case people are listening to this later.

What happened?

Rob Reiner, of course, an acclaimed director and actor and producer, and his wife, Michelle Singer,

Rainer, were found dead in their Brentwood home on Los Angeles,

December 14th, two days ago, 2025 from apparent stab wounds. The story is that they had their

throats slashed, and the prime suspect, of course, who is under arrest and being held on a $4 million

bail is their son, Nick Reiner.

The Los Angeles Police Department has launched an homicide investigation into the deaths.

So reports indicate the couple's throats were slit during a heated argument with a family member.

Now, the first place that I go to, and I did a whole show about this, whole conversation about this,

a true crime thing, was on the Menendez brothers. The Menendez brothers killed their parents

and said that their parents had sexually abused them, in particular their father, for many years.

Now, there's no evidence with this with Rob Reiner. However,

I will say, this is all just speculation, right? And nobody knows for sure. They're all just

speculation. But I will say this, that in my conversations with, in particular, Dr. Gabba-Matte,

who said that every single drug addict he came across when working in particular, Dr. Gabba Mate, who said that every single drug addict he came across

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