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Jimmy Failla Sets the Record Straight on the VIRAL "Shots Fired" Clip | The Riley Gaines Show
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I've been to this dinner before, the White House Correspondent's Dinner, and I will tell you, I did not really enjoy my time there. My husband and I, I'll put a picture on screen. Look at us. We look so young. We went back in 2023 under President Biden. Didn't really enjoy it. Did not have a good time. Was kind of underwhelmed. Truthfully, for those of you who don't really know what this night is, it's kind of like a night for all media to let loose. Like, there's jokes being cut, left leaning, right leaning, everything in between. It's just a night for good fun. I don't know if it's like the competitor in me, very, like, driven. I don't like to lose. I did not like hearing the comedian on stage and President Biden and his administration make jokes towards conservatives. So I kind of vowed right then and there that I wasn't really interested in going again. Roll around to the next year. 2024. Was invited, didn't go. Same thing in 2025, same thing even just this past weekend. And boy, let me tell you, I'm did not go. Before we get into this episode, which we're talking to someone who was there, who was in the room, who witnessed all of the chaos unfolding, let me just make it very clear where I stand. Political violence is never okay. I mean, sue me, it seems to be a controversial take nowadays. If you have found yourself in some way justifying what happened this past weekend, again, a third assassination attempt on the president, and for that matter, anyone who was in this wannabe assassin's way of getting to the president, whether that was, you know, the shooter was maga, I've seen that online. Whether that was this was all staged, whether it' syou know, this was just an excuse for President Trump to build his ballroom, whatever it was, then I have nothing in common with you. I honestly don't even know how we coexist. After the three assassination attempts on President Trump, after watching what happened to my dear friend Charlie Kirk, after Kavanaugh Scalise and more, I wake up every single day with, like a knot in my stomach thinking about the future, the trajectory of this country, all of that and more, with one of the funniest people I know, Jimmy Faila. Well, Jimmy Trump seems to ruin everything. Now. You can't even be in a room with him without fearing for your life, fearing you're gonna get shot. You were there at that White House Correspondent's Dinner. First and foremost, can you give us a little context on what the dinner really is, what it' supposed to be about? And then I want you to kind of take us through the moment you heard the shots, what that was like, the chaos in the room.
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Okay. I mean, traditionally the dinner is a celebration of the media, which is kind of ironic. You know what I mean? Imagine if the captain of the Titanic dumped the Gatorade on himself at the end of the game, like, what a good job we did. You see the way we took that iceberg? You know, it's always been a little ironic, but it is the super bowl of the DC party circuit. Cuz DC, of course, runs, you know, on a high octane level of activism and obviously there's a big media presence. So the correspondence dinner is the conflation of those two things. And traditionally it involves the President and a bit of an off ramp, like a detente between the President and the press. That's usually a lot of good natured joking. But as you know, Trump hasn't gone at any point in his presidency because the relationship between him and the media, Trump and the media get along as well as a bathtub gets along with a toaster. You know what I'm saying? There's usually going to be some type of casualty when they get together. And even in the years he didn't go during term one, if you remember, whoever attended from his administration didn't get made fun of, they got attacked. Like Sarah Huckabee was the press secretary when Michelle Wolf famously went after her smokey eye and trashed her appearance. And you know, Michelle Wolf, you know, I'm sure she's a fine Uber driver right now, so I don't want to disparage her completely, but she is the comedy, as O.J. was to marriage. Like, yeah, you could claim that.
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B
I was just saying this in the intro where I went in 2023 when of course, President Biden was still in office. And I found myself, I know it's supposed to be a night of joking and fun and humor, but I found myself angry by the end of it. I found myself angry by the end of it. And that's kind of when I vowed I Was like, I'm not going to this again.
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Yeah. Well, can I tell you something about the 23 dinner that you were at? Is. I was there. I was laughing because I did a red carpet show that year. I actually have a year laugh. I saw you before that dinner, too. I had a picture. But hold on. Okay, this is important. That was the dinner where they were, you know, they had this huge banner up about protecting the First Amendment. And it was in the same week that the Biden White House had just launched its Ministry of Disinformation. Do you remember that? Nina Jankowicz, Mary Poppins girl? And they were starting to throw people off the Internet because of their takes on vaccines and stuff like that. So it was kind of infuriating. But you saw the performance art of what the established media has become. They were literally giving themselves awards for protecting the First Amendment in the same week they were taking away speech rights. So it was very 1984. But the way the open bar situation goes, it was like point 1984, you know?
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B
Right, exactly.
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Okay. And I knew what we were walking into, but knowing the stakes being what they were, because Trump was going, and there was gonna be this kind of free for all where he would get them alone in a room in a good natured way, hopefully, and have a little fun and maybe have an off ramp. I was hoping for a feel good night, and I was trying to deliver one. Like, I had Brian Stelter on my red carpet show. I had Comedy Central. I tried the insult comedy show. I was trying to get as many non Fox people as I could to get people into a good headspace so they could fathom a 12 minute world where it was okay to get along with Donald Trump, just pretend he's not Hitler, pretend he's not oppressing women, and democracy's not hanging in the balance. None of the, you know, performance manufactured hysteria pieces that we know to be bs. So I was trying, like, legitimately trying. And I went into that room in hopes that we were going to actually have, like, this moment I grew up in, where for one night, just for like a few minutes, like, people stopped taking themselves so seriously. Because that's what I find so exhausting. Like, I can handle people who disagree, but I can't handle the sociopathic aspect of this. And it's the one we inhabit right now. Even after the shooting, it's like Hitler has to tone down the rhetoric. And if all of his white supremacist misogynist followers could just learn to coexist with us, maybe we wouldn't have these problems, and that's what I hate. So in terms riles of what my experience was, I taped a really bipartisan red carpet show that I was psyched to show. People walked into the. Into the actual room. This is all true, okay? I went through the same mag the shooter ran through probably two minutes before he did. And I told the people working the mags, I just want to go eat one roll. I said, I'm about to host three hours of live tv. Unlike the people you've met tonight, I actually eat food. I said, that's why I'm pleasant. I said, because I'm the only guy in the media who's allowed to eat in this contract. I said, and that's why these people are hostile and they're angry. Maybe if they had a few more roles like I'm about to have. So I went into the frickin into the banquet room, grabbed a roll, and before I bit it, a Secret Service agent had me on the ground. My first thought it was that it was the Fox wardrobe department being like, that's enough carbs, Fats. And then of course, I saw the chaos and the people rushing the stage and was like, my God. And I butt walked on my butt to a pillar. I got behind a pillar with my back to the stage while the Secret Service was shouting commands and people were on the ground. And there were three waitresses that were about 2ft tall each, okay, that didn't speak English, that were weeping and I legitimately was holding them. I had my arms around three women at once. Three tiny Guatemalan waitresses. Which, to be honest, is how I was hoping the night would end. But I just didn't think there'd be an assassination plot along the way.
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Nuts. Oh, my gosh, it sounds like chaos, at least for the president, the vice president. We've seen pictures circulate online now, which I kind of want to get your take on this too, of people like Hegseth or Cash Patel. One of my favorite that has surfaced from this is you have Bobby Kennedy. I don't know if you've seen like the text screenshot. I don't know if it's real. I really hope it's real. I think it's real. Posted from RFK Son. It's a group chat with Cheryl Hines, of course, his wife, and saying like, you know, mom, dad, are you okay? Cheryl responds back, and it's like, yeah, you know, that was terrifying. And Bobby responds back, I'm really hungry. But you see this footage of him. He's just sat at his table, like, still eating. But you've got Hegseth. He looks like a total BA Walking around, like, not scared at all. You've got Stephen Miller, who's protecting his wife. I thought that was a pretty cool visual to see all, like, manly men. I don't think you would have seen that with the previous administration. The previous Cabinet. Yeah.
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I mean, in the last administration, I'm. I've listened. To be clear, they might have distracted a potential shooter with a drag show, but I'm not sure it would have worked. You know what I mean? You'd rather have. Yeah. When the game's on the line, you'd rather have Pete Hegseth than a guy named Cinnabuns. Okay. I mean, we know that about the military. That's why the recruiting numbers are so much higher. So, yeah, there were some reassuring elements to this. That being said, the security primer around this president needs to be better, given the stakes and what we've already seen. So that's the part that I was kind of bothered by. And to Trump's credit, he is absolutely going to do this again. There is no world where he doesn't do this, because it's like Butler, he will not concede real estate. When they said, like, no more outdoor rallies, he's like, hell, no. Because what is the message that sends to the world that here in America, we have to compromise because there are nut bags that are, you know, kind of galvanized by this inflammatory rhetoric. So I think there'll be another dinner. I. You know, I don't know if it'll be the full scope that this one was in terms of a week of partying. I would like to think you'll need more to get into this dinner than a room key and that maybe the magnometers will be outside the hotel and not 10ft from the dinner itself, which was kind of crazy. Yeah.
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You know, I think that's why people say that this was staged or whatever, because of President Trump and his attitude, his charisma, his resiliency. Yeah. You think back to Butler. I mean, what I was watching online as this was happening, what they're reporting on Fox News is like, look, this dinner is going to continue if it's up to President Trump. He wants to get back out there. It's amazing the attempts on his life. And while certainly I'm sure he's scared to a degree, he probably would never admit it. He's willing to continue to put himself in the position so long as impact is Being made and good things are being done, which of course, they certainly are. What about, again, taking this to someone who was not in the room? There was a lot of confusion in the immediate, you know, we were hearing reports that the porter that the shooter was down had been eliminated and neutralized. Some reports saying the shooter was still alive. We. What about in the room? Did you guys know pretty immediately what was happening and what the outcome was if he had been shot, if he was alive?
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Listen, between us, a lot of people on the right side of the room, I think Brian Kilmeade might have mentioned this too. We thought the President got shot, like straight up. And I'll explain why. Okay. The shots happened behind us. It's basically the left side of that ballroom is where the magnometers are for all intents and purposes. Cause it's an oval shaped room, if you remember. You come in on one side of that ballroom and then you make a left and go down a set of stairs and you're now in the ballroom standing at the back of it. Okay? So in that ballroom, which is very wide, 2,500ft wide, you kind of come into it on one side. So understand the minute those shots rang out behind us, that immediate response team that's there to shield the President, we're talking about the guys in suits with machine guns, they just sprinted towards the stage and they're trampling over tables and they're obviously trying to secure cabinet members, but they're making a rush to kind of insulate the President from whatever the heck is happening outside the room. And because a lot of us showed up there thinking there was going to be some type of physical disruption, a lot of our initial reaction was these people, whoever these people are, are storming the stage. And the reason I think we felt that way was, is because when President Trump was picked up to leave the room. Anybody can go watch the video. He fell on the ground. And I truly believed, like, my God, he's been hit in a way that he can't be held up. And that was. That's when I butt walked, like on my butt, anyway, over to a pillar and I called my wife immediately. And I was like, jenny, this will be on the news within like three minutes. There was a shooting at this dinner. I'm fine. But I just want you to know that in case everyone's cell phone signal goes on the fritz and I don't want you watching this for two hours won where I am, you know what I'm saying? So that was psychotic. And then we got. Because my show was supposed to be live, I knew we weren't doing comedy at that point, but I couldn't get to the actual area of where the red carpet was that I had just left because that's where the Secret Service ran through in a lot of those videos with guns drawn. Giano Caldwell had a good video. They shot right past the red carpet area and shot at the shooter. So we couldn't get back to the camera because at that point they had everyone barricaded in the ballroom. Like, we opened the back door of the ballroom room and they had guns drawn, pointed right at us like, get down, get down, get down. And we got right down, obviously, and didn't give him a hard time. So at that point, there was probably a 5 minute, maybe even a 10 minute window of we didn't know what happened other than there were shots by the magnometers. And then it was explained to us that there were multiple Secret Service shots. Everyone in the room, probably for the first hour, believed the guy was dead because that's all anyone was saying is, we heard the Secret Service got him. We all got that same message from the head of the Correspondents association that Trump was coming back out. And then apparently he got a second message once they had ascertained that the guy was staying in the hotel, that we couldn't come back out because what if there was another guy in the hotel? So that was the wrap.
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Yeah, Makes sense. What do you make of the fact that this guy's a teacher?
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I mean, none of us are shocked by that. We saw the whole pronouns in the bio and the potential Kamala donation. These are the people. And it's worth pointing out, okay, there are a lot of people on the left that are kind of like, you know, the term they use suicidal empathy to describe, like, mass migration in Europe, like that. There is a lot of that. On the left, I believe there are decent people that truly believe they're helping the world. But what they don't get is they've made an emotional investment in a fallacy, meaning they believe they're helping the world by killing Donald Trump because he's Hitler, he's a threat to democracy, he's oppressing women. You know, there have been two women, as you know, who have led a winning presidential campaign. Their names are Kellyanne Conway and Susie Wiles. We are in a 250-year-old country. The only guy who's ever won the White House with a female campaign manager is the one supposedly oppressing the women. You know, the guy oppressing the gays is the one that went to Elton John's wedding in 2005, 10 years before the Democrats came out in favor of the gays. The guy who hates black people is the guy who gave Jesse Jackson and the Rainbow Coalition office space in 1984. But the point is, if you live in this manufactured hysteria that the omnipotent liberal media has created over the last 10 years of politics, that empathetic side of you that's emotionally invested in this lie might be willing to act on it. And that's a lot of what we've seen. It's no different when we talk about, you know, your relationship with women's sports and the Met and the men trying to gain access to female spaces. A lot of people who are hopped up on hormones that might not otherwise occur in their body are being told the rest of us want to kill them. Okay, we don't, we don't necessarily want to share a locker room or a swimming lane, but the fact that it's portrayed that way is creating a level of unrest in a lot of people who might not be stable people. And that's what we're watching now.
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B
Yes, that's right. I saw this week where Hasan Piker, who I guess is a twitch streamer wasi don't know what the format was. I think he was talking to the New York Times, actually, and said that murder, specifically in talking about the UnitedHealthcare CEO, that murder was justified because he had committed what he called social murder. We've got a clip of it here. Let's play it really quick.
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Engels wrote about the concept of social murder, and Brian Thompson, as the UnitedHealthcare CEO, was engaging in a tremendous amount of social murder. The systematized forms of violence, the, the structural violence of poverty, the. The for profit, paywalled system of health care in this country. And the consequences of that are tremendous amounts of pain, tremendous amounts of violence, tremendous amounts of deaths. And that was a fascinating story from, for me, because Americans are very draconian about crime and punishment. They're very black and white on this issue. And yet because of the pervasive pain that the private health care system had created for the average American, I saw so many people immediately understand why this death had taken place.
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So many big words, draconian, pervasive. I thought it was so telling. You have these New York Times reporters or journalists or hosts or whatever this setting was, who are kind of just like nodding and smiling along, seemingly agreeing, never pushing back on this. What do you make of it?
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Well, you know what I think? I think there's like an emotional convenience as psychotic as it sounds, to agree with something so psychotic, because it's easier to tell yourselves, hey, this healthcare CEO is an evil dude harming people than it is to go, hey, I consistently voted for the party that made this healthcare so unaffordable, that gave them so much money and so many subsidies, and in the process reduced all the consumer choice from the market that's causing the very hardships this guy tried to avenge. I mean, the Democrats passed Obamacare without a single Republican vote. Those Obamacare subsidies that they passed during COVID happened without a single Republican vote. So if you are bearing the brunt of the inadequacies in our healthcare system and you're a Democrat voter, isn't it easier to say Brian Thompson was evil and Luigi's a good guy than it is to go? You know, if only there was some choice in the market and some competition for your health care dollar, they're never going to do it. And that's the biggest challenge we face, is there's a lot of people and you know this. And this comes back to the assassination. Everybody watching this has friends who absolutely, positively dislike something about themselves in a severe way. So they've outsourced it to Donald Trump. Okay. It is convenient to buy into whatever the narrative is. Threat to democracy, threat to women, threat to minorities, Jim Crow on ste. It's so much easier to pedal that and traffic in that every day than it is to look inward at that one thing you don't like about yourself, and that's where the Hasan pikers of the world and the members of the media are doing that thing where they sound like their pool of knowledge is a mile wide, but it's like not even a quarter of an inch deep. But it doesn't need to be, because that person looking for that convenient outsource. Oh, Brian Thompson. United Healthcare has got all this leverage over my life. Yeah. If you look an inch deeper, you realize you voted to give them that power. That's the biggest problem we face right now.
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B
Okay. You know the George Orwell book, Animal Farm? I read it my freshman year of high school. You probably did, too. I feel like most people read it in school and then just kind of like, move on. But watching the animated adaptation as an adult, it really just hits completely different. My husband and I got early access screening to the new Animal Farm movie. It was done by Angel Stewart Studios. It's not really about animals. If you read the book, then you know this. It's about how fast things change when people stop questioning what is actually happening. Like, the rules slowly shift, language gets twisted, and suddenly everyone's just expected to go along with it. Sound familiar? And what stuck with me most in watching this film is how uncomfortable it is to be the person who actually says, wait, this doesn't really make sense. That's kind of the whole point. It's actually a really good watch, especially with older kids, so you can watch it as a family. If you have kids in middle school, high school, it's fantastic. And opens the door to having conversations that most people avoid. Certainly what most kids programs or kids films avoid. You can have these conversations, not really in a heavy way per se, but just in a pay attention to what's real kind of way. Animal Farm, it is in theaters on May 1st. And I'm telling you, this is the one people are going to be talking about. You mentioned it's. It's never going to change. And these people who are riddled with tds, do you think TDS carries on beyond Trump? Like, is the next thing going to be like, jdds? Like, is it going to keep going? Or do you think kind of the buck stops with President Trump? Or do you think we're too far in now?
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No, I mean, one thing to keep in mind is it didn't start with President Trump. They treated every Republican like this. Trump's just the only guy who got his money's worth and gave him some good soundbites along the way. Like, George W. Bush was a fascist. You know, hell hole. They were calling John McCain Hitler in some circles. Do you remember Mitt Romney? Like Mitt Romney, man in mom jeans. They said, you know, it was a Joe Biden commercial. He's gonna put you back in chains. Do you remember that? The only thing Mitt Romney ever chained was his dog to the roof of the car. Seamus the dog. That was a controversy. But the point is, they've treated every Republican nominee like Hitler because this is what the Democrats do. They run so aggressively on social pressure. If you say someone is the devil enough, it creates a social pressure not to publicly support them. You just want the problem to go away. Isn't that kind of how they created the divide between what people believed to be true and what they were willing to say in public when it came to men competing against women? That's how this started.
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You think that. You think Covid. You think of how many people were fearful during COVID to admit they weren't vaccinated or how many people got those fake cards because they didn't want anyone else, their peers or their friends or their family, not knowing they actually weren't vaccinated?
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So absolutely, yeah, it's a part of the problem. But you want to know something, Riles? I do think people will outgrow this because it's exhausting. Like, nobody you really like, nobody wants to be at the party waiting for the guy who gets offended at everything to show up. You know what I'm saying? You're never going to be at the party and be like, well, I can't wait till the guy who gets upset gets here. And you can't because that guy doesn't get invited to parties. So I actually do think, well, truly, I'm optimistic that it can evolve and it will improve, but it's not gonna happen anytime soon. Cuz this is the second time we are post shots fired in Donald Trump's vicinity. You could say a third if you count the nut bag waiting in the tree. And nothing's changing. We're getting told it was gun laws, it was Trump's rhetoric. They're not backing off the throttle. Like my over under in Vegas on a Hitler reference is tomorrow at noon. And I'm sure I'm gonna win that bet.
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B
Yeah, I think so too. My money is on you winning that bet. Okay. The much less funny Jimmy. Jimmy Kimmel, of course, had a joke that went viral in the days leading up to this White House Correspondent's Dinner. Let's watch it really quick.
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Our first lady Melania is here. Look at Melania, so beautiful. Mrs. Trump, you have a glow like an expectant widow.
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Okay, so Melania took to X to say this. She said Kimmel's hateful and violent rhetoric is intended to divide our country. His monologue about my family is not comedy. His words are corrosive and deepens the political sickness within America. People like Kimmel shouldn't have the opportunity to enter our homes each evening to spread hate. A coward, Kimmel hides behind ABC because he knows the network will keep running cover to protect him. Enough is enough. It's time for ABC to take a stand. How many times will ABC's leadership enable Kimmel's atrocious behavior at the expense of our community? Now, as a comedian yourself, I wanted to get your take on this because I think oftentimes on both sides of the aisle here, it's hard to find that line of what comedy really is. I've certainly taken issue specifically with some of the things that have surfaced surrounding Erica Kirk. But I wanted to ask you, what's that line look like? And what's your take on this Jimmy Kimmel response?
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Well, I mean, my biggest frustration with late night shows is not that they're political, it's that. That they're purposeful. Okay, Everybody's political. Like there's not a late night show going back to Jack Parr or Steve Allen that wasn't making fun of whoever the President was or whoever his competitor was or whatever the potential scandal of the week was. The difference between those guys and Jimmy Kimmel and Colbert is they are purposeful. It's not just that they tell a Trump joke, it's that they then editorialize and say, that's why we can't vote for this. That's why democracy's under attack. That's why the fascists are here. So my frustration on a personal level is that they're ruining this medium, which was supposed to be common culture, which was supposed to give us an off ramp at the end of a day to just kind of laugh and not take life seriously. And they've kind of polluted the narrative around comedy because now there is this small scale expectation that we're somehow soldiers in a larger war, when in fact we're not. So, you know, we're people who entered a profession where we get paid in chicken fingers and drink tickets the first five years and then they take away the drink tickets. Cuz people are usually alcoholics. By year five, they throw in some dipping sauce instead. So on a personal level, that's my frustration. On a larger level, like I completely empathize with the Trumps because they're actually getting shot at. But I feel like when you actually call for his dismissal, it almost makes him a little more punk rock in his circle. It's like if you ban a rap album, people are more likely to buy it. So I don't actually like the call, you know, to kind of maybe disbar him or whatever. I think that call should be coming from abc. I think it should be coming from the viewers based on the ratings. We should never have a night in the ratings where a weekday primetime show loses to me on a Saturday at 10pm but it's happening. Okay? It shouldn't because I'm on Saturday night at 10 o', clock, 70% of the TVs are off and we're still beating a guy who's on the air when a hundred percent of them are on. That's not a good sign for him. But it shows you just how a lot of these Networks are activists masking, rating as journalists, just the way Kimmel is an activist masquerading as a journalist. So I get every side of this frustration. I just wish, in all honesty, like, ABC would invest in comedy instead of activism, because they could help and they could help themselves, because people want to laugh. Like I am proof that people want to laugh. They just need something to laugh at. They don't need a rally. And that's the difference Kimmel is having. For all intents and purposes, it's a no Kings protest. But if you're protesting something we don't have, Riley, this is like the View protesting abs. Okay. You don't need to.
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B
That's so good. Oh, my gosh. Well, Saturday at 10pm People know where to find you.
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A
Hey, girl.
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B
Last thing for you, you had this clip, this interview with Caroline Levitt that went viral, I think, following the events of that evening that made it seem like she knew what was going to happen. I don't think we have it here, but I'll insert it in post. It's pretty crazy, right? What's kind of been the discourse online in response to her saying, you know, there's going to be shots fired.
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It'll be funny.
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It'll be entertaining. There will be some shots fired tonight in the room, so everyone should tune in. It's going to be really great. I'm looking forward to hearing it.
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It's so goofy. Like, it's such a dumb time to be alive. So we were previewing the speech, and I said, you know, you fired up for the speech. How's it going to go? She's like, oh, I think he's going to bring the heat. I think there's going to be some shots fired in that ballroom. And in comedy parlance, shots fired means personal attacks. And that phrase came up multiple times on the red carpet because every time I interviewed a Cabinet member, I said, hey, everybody's in the splash zone. I said this to Pete Hegsett. I said, everybody's in the splash zone. You know, you're gonna be the subject of a joke. He goes, oh, God, absolutely. There's no way. I'm not gonna be like, you know, I said, you know, if this is Sea World, Shamu's swimming right after you. And we died laughing. Everybody expected a lot of personal attacks at both his Cabinet members, himself, and, yes, members of the media. And every single person who clipped that and was like, look, the Illuminati told us it was coming. Caroline Levitt said, shots fired. I'm like, come on, and this is the biggest problem with the world we live in. People want clicks more than they want dignity. Okay? Dignity is you look at that in the parlance and the context that occurred in and go, ah, that's a silly, silly timed remark given what came next. If she said it after the fact or she said it while she was distracting security to let some nut bag with pronouns in his bio run into the room, then you got something to talk about. But she said it to a fat guy in rhinestones. Hardly the coup attempt it's being portrayed as.
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B
All right, you guys, let me tell you about my friends over at Y Refi. They have been changing lives for people who are buried in private student loan debt. So if those payments are keeping you up at night, if the minimum due is more than what you can actually afford each month, or if you're already in default and you feel like there's no way out, there is real help. And that help's name is why Refi. They do what most lenders refuse to do. They refinance private student loans that others won't even touch. They will sit down with you personally and look at your actual situation. They will build you, craft you truly a custom payment plan around what you can actually afford. They can cut your monthly payment way down. They can reduce the total amount that you're paying every single month and you will get a rock bottom fixed interest rate. Some borrowers are locking in rates as low as 1%. And the best part is they do not care what your credit score is. If this debt, these private student loan debts, if they have been weighing on you, if they have been stealing your joy, if they have been holding your future hostage, it is time to finally breathe again. Go to yrefi.com that is yre f y.com and be sure to tell them that Riley from the Riley Gaines show sent you. It is so true. I think people nowadays, at least from what I've seen in my own personal experience, people are just chronically online. They are like so invested in the conspiracy things. Yeah, crazy. We appreciate you. I think you're awesome. I tune in every Saturday at 10pm and I think everyone watching this should too. How can we support you? Follow you. What's kind of next for you? Personally?
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A
This week I'm on tour. I'm in Des Moines and Omaha, in Reno, because I need to get a better agent. I kid. I love all of those towns. You guys can always get tickets to see me live@foxacrossamerica.com and you guys can help me pressure Riley Gaines to do the show when she's in New York.
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B
Yeah, I'm there.
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A
We owe this to the American people, Riles.
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B
That's what I think, too. You know, people don't know I'm actually, deep down, I'm really, really funny. And if you have to tell people that, it means it's true, right? Like, if I have to tell you I'm funny, it definitely means I'm funny.
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Thousand percent. That's usually how most comics I know open shows. They walk right on Madison Square Garden. They're like, I promise I'm really funny. No, you got this. And you will absolutely kill on our show. We owe this to the American people, Ros. Let work it out.
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B
That's so good. You're the best, Jimmy. Thank you. Thank you.
- [33:55]
A
See you soon. I've coached the game. I've played the game. So when I break it down, I don't at me. You're getting more than opinions. You're getting experience. We've put really dumb, racist people, people on the air. That's the ESPN model. Right now, the show is about winning, accountability, and truth, not the usual nonsensical soft takes. If you want real analysis from someone who's been there, join me. Search. Don't at me on Spotify or Apple Podcasts, subscribe right now. It's free, it's portable, and most importantly, it's as real as it gets.