Rob Reiner & the Ugly Side of Empathy

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3.6 • 4.8K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Dive into a chaotic Monday rant on Rob Reiner's tragic rumored family murder during Hanukkah, mass shootings, terrorist attacks, and the total lack of online empathy—especially for Trump haters like Reiner. Joined by comedian Tony P, Opie unpacks why social media's turning us into monsters, shares hilarious takes on bad Netflix flicks and celebrity runs, plus a surprising NFL upset that left one co-host in hiding. Discover how focusing on snow globe walks over doom-scrolling could save your sanity in this witty, no-holds-barred episode.

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0:00.0	Good morning, everybody. Welcome to the Opie Radio podcast. It's a cold, frigid Monday morning here in New York City after we had a fine snowstorm. We did about three to four inches. It was like a snow globe outside. It was absolutely glorious. I took a very, very long walk
0:25.2	with my daughter as the snow's coming down all fluffy and nice and sticking to all the trees.
0:30.0	Everything is white and beautiful. And then I had my dog and my dog was sniffing genitalia and humping other
0:37.1	dogs and licking balls and licking
0:40.0	a-holes and taking shits and turning the beautiful white snow into yellow snow.
0:48.0	That's what I want to remember as far as the weekend goes.
0:51.9	Not all this just terrible stuff that happened. Oh my God.
0:57.7	Just scrolling as we watched this shitty movie last night called Gifted with the Chris Evans.
1:05.6	I'm scrolling and I'm scrolling and I go to my wife, the Rob Ryder died?
1:14.3	What the F!
1:16.8	Him and his lovely wife, Michelle.
1:18.0	That's what they're saying.
1:18.4	I don't know.
1:20.4	I've never met the Rob Reiner or the Michelle.
1:23.2	And, you know, they're celebrating Hanukkah in their home.
1:26.4	And something dramatic and tragic happened.
1:33.1	All the lower media outlets are saying it was Rob Reiner's son.
1:39.0	The lower media outlets will probably be right in the end,
1:43.6	but the mainstream media, they're not saying anything right now.
1:45.7	They're not saying anything right now. They're not saying anything right now.
1:48.3	They're still investigated.
1:52.9	But, you know, the lack of empathy online.
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