Trump's Heartless Rob Reiner Rant: Why Empathy Dies in Politics

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🗓️ 16 December 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Dive into the firestorm over Donald Trump's insensitive tweet blaming Rob Reiner's tragic murder on "Trump Derangement Syndrome," as Opie and Ron the Waiter unpack the raw hypocrisy, media madness, and why even shock jocks draw the line at dick moves. Discover how this controversy exposes America's empathy crisis, blending irreverent takes on vaccines, AI slop, and Ron's chilling eyewitness account of a 40-year-old school shooting. Get ready for unfiltered laughs and eye-opening truths that challenge your views on power, politics, and human decency.

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0:00.0	Do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do.
0:06.9	Good morning, everybody.
0:08.0	Welcome to the Opie Radio podcast.
0:12.0	Yes, it's December.
0:13.7	What is it?
0:14.2	December 18th.
0:15.2	I got two more days before.
0:17.1	Wait, it's December 16th.
0:18.9	Oh, my God.
0:19.9	All right.
0:20.3	We can still skate. I skate until about
0:23.2	December 20th and then I start my Christmas shopping. So I'm good, I'm good. I still got a few
0:27.8	days before I even have to start the panic of getting all the Christmas shopping done.
0:32.7	Hope everyone's doing all right. We're going to have a sunrise behind me eventually. We've got to
0:37.0	say hi to Ted Paloata. We got to say hi to Gail. One of my, John Quartz, down there in Philly. And I've been up for hours. What's up, Tom Taylor? Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. We're going to have, we're going to have Ron the waiter on in a minute or two. He's setting up. But, oh, my God, just something the parents can relate to. you're in the relate to you're you're in the middle of a nice
0:58.0	a nice winter's slumber you're dreaming ah the dreams were good i felt warm the dog was sleeping
1:07.5	at my feet everything was good and you know, our door opens because
1:12.8	my daughter is very, very sick. And she was panicking for the last few days because she's like,
1:18.9	mommy, daddy. She's like, everyone is sick at school and they're still coming to school.
1:24.8	And she was panicking. She's like, I'm going to get sick. I'm going to get sick. Everyone around
1:28.5	me sick. And I'm like, oh, my God, hopefully that's not true. But it is now officially true.
1:34.7	And it's so annoying because I don't know what, I don't know what the protocol is. I really don't.
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