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DHQ. Hello and welcome to The Watch. My name is Chris Ryan. I am an editor at TheRinger.com

and joining me on the other line. He's got Hokies from Las Padas and Chee Stakes from Coco's.

It's Andy Greenwald! Good morning. Obviously we're talking about Maraville's town today and

we'll get into it, but I don't think it's a spoiler to say Chris is referring to a gift basket

that was prepared by one character to another. I won't get into the specifics until we get into

our spoiler conversation. I have to ask Chris, I didn't intend to start here, but you did.

So here we are. Is there any other city that fully embraces the

nerliest cliches of itself like our hometown? My thing is, as a New Yorker, when I was a New

Yorker for many years, if I, let's say I sprained my ankle, right? Yeah. And someone was like, I'm

going to make you a gift basket. Would they make a gift basket with like a bunch of dirty water hot

dogs from the cart by Central Park, right? And some hot nuts from the vendor on the Upper West Side.

And what else am I missing here? Like, like, like, like, like, a Nixon World Town?

In a rent increase? Okay, right. And then I'd be like, thank you. Uh-huh. This is what I missed

though I live here my whole life. Do you know what I mean? Yeah. No, I mean, I think definitely

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