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Interesting Times with Ross Douthat

Does New York Survive the Coronavirus?

Interesting Times with Ross Douthat

New York Times Opinion

New York Times, Journalism, News, Society & Culture, Ross Douthat

4.07.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

How will the coronavirus change New York City — and what does the city’s response to the pandemic say about the rest of the country? In a special episode, Frank Bruni talks one-on-one with Ginia Bellafante, who writes The Times’s Big City column. For background reading on this episode, visit nytimes.com/theargument.

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0:00.0

Hey Dad, yeah, for dinner tonight, what do you want?

0:05.4

I can bake you some chicken.

0:06.4

Yeah.

0:07.4

Uh, we can have tomato cheese Mac, or we can throw out all the rules and we can do breakfast

0:14.2

for dinner and I can make some egg sausage and toast.

0:16.7

We have some breakfast for dinner.

0:19.7

You want to break all the rules too, bachelor?

0:23.8

I'm Frank Gourney.

0:25.1

That was my dad.

0:26.3

And this is the argument.

0:47.0

I like to, uh, I like to put a little, uh, milk in with them and, uh, I like to add some,

0:55.4

uh, some cheese and, uh, I hope he's, uh, I hope he's down with that.

1:00.4

Uh, we will find out.

1:02.2

Michelle and Ross are off this week, so I'm taking over the show.

1:05.9

I'm recording today from my dad's house just outside New York City.

1:09.7

He's 85 years old and I've been taking care of him since the country went on lockdown.

1:13.8

Oh, you're going to help set the table?

1:16.4

No, you've already done it.

1:18.4

I just, I just can't see having, um, the question of whether red or white wine goes with scrambled

1:24.7

eggs I think is answered by neither, right?

1:26.7

No, I think not with you.

1:27.7

Yeah.

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