Hey there, everybody. It's Audie. This is the assignment. And these days politics, you know, it feels

unsurious until it becomes deadly serious.

I'm here at the White House Correspondence Dinner. Just a few minutes ago at the start of the program,

after the colors, after the Pledge of Allegiance,

we were all eating salads, listening to the preliminary speeches, when all of a sudden,

from the back of the room, people are getting up from their tables and running.

I didn't record video, but this audio is from table 109 of the White House Correspondents

dinner.

And next to me, like, crouch down in a tux with Shane McMahon, former wrestler of WWE family

fame, which is why Washington can be so surreal.

Like this weekend in general can be so surreal where the line blurs between serious politics and

unserious pop culture.

So I was not at the White House Correspondence Dinner.

Neither were my colleagues.

I was actually at the substack party where there were a lot of new media.

I want to introduce you to Jacob Wasserman. He's co-managing editor of TMZ DC.

Yes, that TMZ, the Hollywood tabloid.

It feels a little surreal, right? I mean, here there's the president about to be an attempted assassination, and the party kind of goes on.

And TMC has been in Washington, officially here for less than a month, making those blurred lines even more blurry.

And Jacob, he's going through a bit of a culture shock.

So as we were talking, we actually moved on pretty quickly from last weekend's events,

you know, kind of like Washington itself.

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