Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily Podcast.

I'm John Pudhord. It's the editor of commentary with me as always.

Senior Editor Abe Greenwald. Hi Abe. Hi John.

Senior writer Christine Rosen from Washington. Hi Christine.

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So see the editor, Noah Rothman from New Jersey. Hi Noah.

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And in New York's own Washington Heights,

a critical large Terry Teachout today's guest. Hi Terry.

Nice to join you all.

Thanks for being with us and you get to join us for our morning complaints about the new reality.

Terry, if you are venturing outside, you are in one of New York's most dynamic and vivid neighborhoods.

Is the street, is it a ghost town like everywhere else is?

Literally empty the only thing you can hear from my window is the sound of the softy truck, which is so worth selling ice cream.

Yeah, I haven't looked out to see if anybody is lining up for it, but other than that, everybody's inside.

Well, I took my son, my nine year old son to the playground yesterday. I'm sorry. I know I'm not allowed to.

Apparently, we're not allowed to go outside. That's, you know, that seems to be the new dispensation.

But we are not yet in lockdown in New York and we're not in quarantine. So I took him to the playground. He was like, I'm hungry.

Let's go find an ice cream truck. And I said, honey, there ain't no ice cream truck anywhere.

But apparently we should have just gone, you know, five miles north of where we were and we could have gone to your Mr. Softy truck Terry.

There aren't any and there aren't any on the upper west side that much I can that much I can tell you.

There are like the food carts like the muffin and bagel guys on the corner. Those carts are out there.

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