Welcome to the Dispatches.

I'm Paul Reichoff.

These are quick-hit conversations with important frontline fighters in our global war against the coronavirus.

Last time I brought you Chris Fussell, who gave you a strategic update on what's happening in the fight.

Now, we're going to talk to one of the most iconic guests we've ever had on Angry Americans.

Legendary Chef and Top Chef host, Tom Colicchio, joined us back in ever had on Angry Americans. Legendary chef and top chef host Tom Colicchio joined us back in episode eight of Angry

Americans.

If you haven't heard that, go check it out.

But he's been at the intersection of food and politics for many, many years.

Now, restaurants are being devastated nationwide and globally, and Tom Colicchio is

stepping up to lead the fight.

He started a new organization.

He's lobbying Congress.

He's out in the media, and he's feeding people.

He's a perfect person to talk to about how the coronavirus will impact your community.

No matter where you live, whether it's in Manhattan or Kansas or Oregon,

everywhere you are, you are going to have a local restaurant impacted by the

coronavirus. So I got a quick hit conversation with Tom Colicchio to break down what's happening

in the restaurant industry and how you can help. Here's my conversation with the great Tom Colicchio.

All right, ladies and gentlemen, as a part of our ongoing series of dispatchpatches, I want to bring you engaging, important, inspiring leaders from the front lines of our fight on the coronavirus. And I'm very happy joining us right now. Our guest from episode eight on Angry America, it's almost a year ago right now. You joined us, the great and powerful Tom Colicchio. How are you, my friend? Good, Paul. How you doing?

I'm good, man. I'm so eager to talk to you because as soon as this whole thing hit, and I saw what was happening to the restaurant industry, I thought of you, and you were already, you know, taking action, doing what you do. You're a powerful activist. You're a great patriot. You're an entrepreneur, but maybe you could, first of all, tell us where you are and what it's like

where you are for you and the people around you. That's my first question. Maybe you can give us a sense of what it's like where you are. Yeah. So I live in Brooklyn and we stayed there for the first couple weeks. But we have a small little farmhouse out in Matatuck, Long Island. So it's on the North Fork of Long Island, a small little town. So it's pretty quiet out here. I came out here because, you know, I got a garden that I can at least tinker around and to take my mind off this. And it just gives the kids a little bit to, you know, get outside and run around. You know, Brooklyn was tough. The hardest thing about Brooklyn was it was so quiet and yet all night long you heard

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