Hey, everybody. Welcome to another and an Anne. I'm Andy. And I am Manders Jay Lee here.

Welcome to my room. We're going to watch some old episodes of Conan O'Brien today, some old

Conan monologues, and talk about the news and jokes that he's making.

But before that, I kind of want to ask Anders his thoughts on what's going on in D.C.

Because you live there for quite a while, and it sounds like this is a new flashpoint of Trump's fascist

takeover after LA. Yes. I am technically a son of the city. I was born in Georgetown Hospital

where I found out after moving back there in my late 20s that you can't just show up at the hospital you were born at

and get your birth certificate. I don't know why that's a thing I assumed, but good info to have.

You need to go somewhere else. I thought they just had like a records room, but, uh, in most people

who are an idiot, probably can figure that out. But yes, Washington, D.C. is kind of the epicenter of Trump's,

uh,

a sense towards what might be fascism or authoritarianism or whatever you want to call it.

This is kind of the site of whatever the next stage or development is,

although, um,

there are, uh, a lot of it is very specific to D.C.

So if he gets away with certain things, it'll be because it's D.C.

I think that's a pretty big factor. D.C. did not have suffrage essentially until the mid-20th century, 1961, was when the Washingtonians

were allowed to vote for president. They weren't allowed to do that before that. And then they got

electoral votes. And then they didn't get the right to elect their own government until 1973,

the 70s after the Home Rule Act, which is really, I think,

what might be at stake here because it was kind of a grand bargain of sorts for D.C. to have

more autonomy, an elected mayor and a city council, but they're also strings attached.

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