BUCK: Broadway in New York City — where all the Broadway theaters are — is dropping its mask mandate July 1st. Clay, I live adjacent to a Broadway theater.

CLAY: Yeah.

BUCK: My apartment in New York is adjacent to a Broadway theater, so every day that they’re doing shows, I would see people lined up. They made people put their masks on outside to ensure compliance as they walked in.

CLAY: This is, I think, a big move. And to your point, you do live right on top of the Broadway theaters. And as we are walking by to come to your place to go dinner on Friday, my wife, who… When we were in New York City, if there were no mask mandate, we might well have looked at going to a Broadway play together, as many couples do, and families, when they go on vacation to New York City.

To me, this is a sign that overwhelming majorities of their customers are saying the mask mandate is insanely dumb. And every time one of these otherwise left-wing bastions of masking drop their masking requirement, we get back to one more semblance of normalcy. And I think this is a straight business decision. I think they were looking and saying, “We’re losing money based on having this. We’re not protecting anybody.” It’s a little bit of sanity returning in an insane world.