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The Joy Reid Show

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4.8 • 724 Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2025

⏱️ 122 minutes

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Tonight on The Joy Reid Show, this past weekend has given us numerous tragedies. We cover the shootings at Brown University, and at a Hanukah party in Sydney, Australia. Our guest Abbas Alawieh, who is running for State Senate in Michigan, joins us to discuss his campaign, as well as to respond to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's disturbing comments about the Australia shooting. On the subject of Islamophobia, we sit down with our partner in trolling the right: Wajahat Ali, who once again lays waste to white supremacy and the mediocrity behind it. We also cover the shocking and heartbreaking murder of Rob Reiner and his wife Michele in their LA home. We are joined by actor John Cusack, who shares his memories of Rob Reiner and the legacy he leaves behind. All of this and more tonight on TJRS. Support Abbas Alawieh's campaign here: abbasformi.com Follow Wajahat Ali here: https://thelefthook.substack.com/ Thank you to our sponsors! MSI United States: To give, you can text REID to 511-511 or visit msiunitedstates.org Freedom From Religion Fund: FFRF.US/Winter25 or text my first name, “JOY” to 511-511 and take action before the year ends Cards Against Humanity: Purchase their games wherever you get your fun --- ABOUT JOY REID: Joy-Ann Lomena Reid (AKA Joy Reid) is a best-selling American author, political journalist and TV host. She was a national correspondent for MSNBC and is best known for hosting the Emmy-nominated, NAACP Award-winning political commentary and analysis show, The ReidOut, from 2020 to 2025. Her previous anchoring credits include The Reid Report (2014–2015) and AM Joy (2016–2020). STAY CONNECTED WITH THE SHOW: Website: https://www.joyannreid.com Merch: https://shop.thejoyreidshow.com/ Substack: https://substack.com/@joyannreid Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/people/The-Joy-Reid-Show/61576759980854/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joyreidshow/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thejoyreidshow Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/joyannreid.bsky.social FOLLOW JOY ON SOCIAL: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/joyreidofficial/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joyannreid/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@joyreidofficial Want to hear more of our theme song? Check out the Foodchain page on BandCamp: https://thefoodchain.bandcamp.com/track/the-foodchain-basically-ft-jd-era ============================= Copyright Notice: This video and my YouTube channel contains content that is property of The Joy Reid Show, a production of Image Lab Media Group. You are authorized to share the video link and channel, and embed this video in your website or others as long as a link back to this YouTube Channel is provided. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today, everybody, welcome to the Joy Read Show.
0:15.2	Big up to everybody in the chat.
0:16.4	You guys, you get in early and you're already spicy and hot.
0:19.8	We love it, love it, love it.
0:21.3	Thanks to everybody who's watching on YouTube, on Substack. Those of you who are listening,
0:25.0	wherever you get your podcast, we appreciate and love you so, so much. I want to remind you
0:29.6	all that this is the redate where we're going to do the after party. So after this podcast is over.
1:11.5	Those of you who are members, if you are Team TJRS, or if your readers, meaning you are a paid member over at Substack, you can join me for a one hour. Ask me anything. Friends only chat. So this is going to be an insider's only chat. We're going to have, we can talk about anything you like. We can talk about the vile, gross Donald Trump insult against Rob Reiner. We can talk about whatever you guys want to talk about. How the state of our democracy, you can ask me questions, whatever that is. And of course, I do have many thoughts about the death of the wonderful and lovely Rob and Michelle Reiner, including some personal pictures, which you may have seen on my social media, and also Donald Trump's reaction,
1:16.1	which I can only describe as demonic. It was demonic. But before we get to that, this past weekend
1:22.5	was just chock full of tragedy, not just the murder, apparently, by the closest possible family member
1:28.6	inside of the Reiner's home in L.A. It was also a weekend that had kind of equal parts heroes and
1:36.4	zeros, hence the name of this podcast today. I want to start with what has become a familiar
1:43.4	theme in America.
1:44.5	Our children having to shelter in place and hide from a mass shooter at school.
1:49.2	In this case, at Brown University, my sister's alma mater in Providence, Rhode Island.
1:53.9	We now have the names of the two students who were tragically killed.
1:57.8	This post is from students demand action.
2:00.5	The names of the students are Elta Cook,
2:03.7	a 19-year-old second-year student and beloved church girl from Alabama, and Mukhamad Aziz,
2:10.5	a first-year student who dreamed of becoming a neurosurgeon. There are their wonderful pictures.
2:15.7	Deepest condolences to their families. It's a horrible thing to lose your
2:20.1	child for having done the thing you wanted them to do, which is to go to college and to aspire
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