We did a couple plays together, and we used to go to the O'Neill Playwriting Festival when we were younger and like...

I don't know, you can have dogs in here.

I know.

As long as the dogs vaccinated.

Yeah.

This is death, sex, and money.

The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot and need to talk about more.

I'm Anna Sale.

When I'm lived in New York, I frequently ate at a diner at the corner of 6th Avenue and Waverly Place in Manhattan,

just a few blocks up from WNYC's offices.

And I was back there a couple of weeks ago with Annabel, one of our producers. Hello.

Hi, how'd you know?

We're going to see three of us, but we're still waiting on our third person. Can we sit down?

Yeah, yeah. They all have a chance card, right?

Yes.

Vaccine cards weren't the only thing that was different than the last time I was here.

Between the lines of booths are plexiglass barriers, and everyone working was wearing masks.

But the restaurant did still have real menus instead of QR codes, those oversized diner kind, a dozen pages long or so, in plastic sleeves.

Annabelle and I were at the Waverly Diner to meet actor Jay Smith Cameron.

You may know her from the HBO show Succession. She plays Jerry, General Counsel for a multi-billion dollar media conglomerate, who's the only adult in the conference room. She takes

care of business while everyone around her acts like a maniac. In person, Jay comes

off as warm and chatty and not even a little bit cutthroat. Hi. I'm so scared to be nice.

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