Hello and welcome to this episode of Kennedy Saves the World.

Jimmy Phela is here. We were both in the room in Washington, D.C. at the

Correspondence Dinner. Jim, tell me your side of the story, man. What happened? Can I just give you real talk? This is real talk. Yeah. Okay? We were shooting on the red carpet. You did a phenomenal job. We both went into the dinner. Okay? I had wrapped up the red carpet portion of my show and had like a 10 minute window to go into that

dinner and i really just wanted to go to get a roll because i knew i was going to be live for the

next nine hours so i was if you guys watched the long surveillance video probably either the last

or second the last person to go through the mags before the shooter wow because everybody was in

the room by then yeah and mags are really there for people entering the room if you're leaving the room to go through the mags before the shooter. Wow. Because everybody was in the room by then.

Yeah.

And the mags are really there for people entering the room.

If you're leaving the room to go to the bathroom, you don't have to go back through the mags, you're just there. So I went through those mags, made a bunch of jokes to the people about how I was just going to get a roll. I'm the only TV host who actually eats. If anybody was cranky, it's because they're all starving.

These people are miserable.

Nobody eats.

I just want to roll.

So I'm going to get a roll and wound up getting trampled to the ground by the Secret Service. I initially thought it was Fox wardrobe, being like with the carbs already.

You know, that whole thing. But I watched this whole chaos unfold like you did and was like,

good God, what's going on here? And I wound up getting behind a pillar, calling Jenny really quickly, and then holding three

tiny Guatemalan waitresses in my arms who were very upset.

It was really sweet.

And it was how I pictured the night ending, just not because of an assassination attempt.

So it was like I was halfway there.

Small Guatemalan women in tears.

It was sad, but it was real. That was on your bingo card. It was a different context. A thousand percent. What are we talking about here? But it was, listen, it was psychotic. But I think we would both agree, having been to this dinner a bunch and stayed in this hotel a bunch. The old adage is defense wins championships. They were not playing championship ball.

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