Hello.

Hey.

How's your weekend?

Um, I don't have anything interesting to say about the weekend.

Great, me neither.

So today we are calling staff writer Derek Thompson who covers the economy.

What did you want to talk to him about?

Derek and I have talked actually a lot about the future of New York and how it could

possibly survive. It's like a magnifying glass on the exact same things that happen in smaller less dense cities.

People wondering whether their city can survive and how the businesses will survive and whether culture there will, you know, are these

restaurants just going to go out of business.

Have you ordered from restaurants?

A tiny bit, but only because I wanted to support local places.

It's just not worth the risk to you? Or you like cooking your sort of like dense sort of vitamin patty's? Yeah I mean is there anything you can't just

blend? For me almost all of the value of going to a restaurant is the experience.

So if you just have the food, I would have just made something myself.

Do you cook for yourself?

Yeah.

Besides the dense vitamin patty's that I know you made.

Everyone should be aware that Jim is always eating like weird sort of like mushed up

healthy things like out of plastic bags. No, this is true. Oh yeah. I don't know what do you call them? We can get into this later. It's patented so. But food for me is not a, uh not really about joy it's kind of just about

sustenance I know it's weird that is so sad I know people say it's sad but you know

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