Adam McKay | Republicans Freak Out About DC Statehood and the Green New Deal: A Closer Look
Late Night with Seth Meyers Podcast
NBC
4.3 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2021
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Seth takes a closer look at House Democrats voting to admit Washington D.C. as the 51st state while Republicans freak out about everything from voting rights to the Green New Deal.
Then, Adam McKay talks about negotiating to be SNL’s coordinator of falconry, his podcast Death at the Wing and the epic improvised show he did on the streets of Chicago.
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| 0:00.0 | Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday delivered his annual state of the nation address, |
| 0:07.6 | and as always, the state of the nation was none of your business. |
| 0:10.9 | You ask too many questions. |
| 0:12.7 | From 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City, please enjoy this podcast edition of Late Night |
| 0:22.3 | with Seth Meyers. |
| 0:23.7 | On today's show, Seth Chants with writer and director Adam McKay. |
| 0:27.0 | At first, a closer look. |
| 0:37.0 | House Democrats voted to admit Washington, DC as the 51st state, despite some truly dumb |
| 0:42.2 | objections from Republicans who have spent the week freaking out about everything from |
| 0:45.9 | DC's statehood to voting rights to the Green New Deal for more on this, it's time for |
| 0:50.0 | a closer look. |
| 0:54.8 | I have to say it is such a relief to not have to care about what Donald Trump says or does |
| 0:58.9 | anymore. |
| 0:59.9 | I mean, he did a sit-down interview with Sean Hannity earlier this week and we haven't |
| 1:02.6 | mentioned it once or played a single clip from it. |
| 1:05.2 | If he was still president, we would have had to cover it, but now we can just ignore it. |
| 1:08.2 | It's the same kind of freedom I felt once I gave myself permission to stop caring about |
| 1:12.8 | all the various plot lines in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. |
| 1:15.5 | It used to be that when I watched one of those movies, I was trying to retrace every decision |
| 1:19.9 | Dr. Strange made in the time loop that somehow led to the blip and the Avengers defeating |
| 1:24.6 | Thanos. |
| 1:25.6 | And then you know what I gave myself permission to just sit back, relax and enjoy Loki's |
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