Guessing the Plots for Sinners, One Battle After Another & More

Summary

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The Nightly (Hatch Podcasts)

Episode: Guessing the Plots for Sinners, One Battle After Another & More
Date: March 13, 2026
Hosts: Sophia & Matt

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Overview

This cozy, late-night episode finds hosts Sophia and Matt unwinding in the “Hatch Pillow Fort” with relaxed banter, personal stories, and a playful game: guessing the plots of Best Picture Oscar nominees based solely on their titles—or limited knowledge. It's a whimsical, laughter-filled journey through pop culture, movies, and the relatable misadventures of online shopping. The episode is full of witty exchanges, light mockery, and delightful detours, perfect for bedtime listening.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Casual Catch-Up & Jean Shopping Fiasco

Timestamps: 00:30–05:21

• Personal Updates: The hosts chat about their outdoor activities—Matt’s hilly run and Sophia’s bike outing—emphasizing the joy of getting sunshine before British weather inevitably turns.
• Matt’s Denim Dilemma: Matt recounts ordering “perfect jeans” via Vinted, only to find them mysteriously four inches too small, despite the same brand and cut as a previous pair. Sophia shares a similar pant-sizing struggle.
• Ethics of Reselling: The two grapple with secondhand selling honesty, debating whether to relist the clearly mislabeled jeans using the tag size or the actual fit.
• Quote:
  • “I think they'll just perpetually always be going around this carousel of Vinted.” – Matt [04:42]
  • “You should relist them the proper size and good karma will come your way.” – Sophia [04:31]

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2. The Oscars Game: Guessing Plots from Titles

Timestamps: 05:21–19:43

Introduction to the Game

• Sophia proposes they guess the plots of Best Picture nominees they haven’t seen, then fact-check with real synopses.
• Nominee titles include: Sinners, One Battle After Another, Frankenstein, Begonia, Hamnet, Train Dreams, Marty Supreme, Sentimental Value, The Secret Agent, and F1.

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Sinners

Timestamps: 06:54–10:56

• Matt’s Guess: An “Ocean’s-esque” heist movie about renegade con artists with unique quirks.
  • “That could be me... sort of comedic relief.” – Matt [07:28]
• Dream Casting:
  • Pierce Brosnan, Sophia, and Matt himself. “It's just nice to have someone to sit with at catering, I think." – Matt [07:50]
• Actual Plot:
  • Sophia reveals Sinners is a horror thriller by Ryan Coogler about twin brothers (both played by Michael B. Jordan) navigating 1930s Mississippi, opening a music club, and facing racist, bloodthirsty vampires.
  • “Racist vampires who want them dead. Wow.” – Matt [09:08]
• Reception: Sophia gives it a 4/5, admitting she was scared but found it cathartic post-breakup.
  • “If only there were racist vampires and a ton of gore and guts, that I could just enjoy taking the edge off.” – Sophia [10:48]

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One Battle After Another

Timestamps: 11:02–14:32

• Sophia’s Guess:
  • A Western set in the early 1900s: “a cowboy with a drinking problem,” featuring a one-on-one battle.
• Cast Musings: Leonardo DiCaprio & Sean Penn are mentioned; Regina Hall, Teyana Taylor, and “Chase Infinity” (which they mistake for a credit card)—resulting in a hilarious digression.
  • “Chase Infinity... What is... Chase Infinity? Pain is an actress, apparently.” – Matt [12:40]
• Actual Plot:
  • One Battle After Another is a black comedy action thriller by Paul Thomas Anderson, inspired by Thomas Pynchon's Vineland. Leonardo DiCaprio plays Bob, a “washed-up revolutionary” in a state of “stoned paranoia,” searching for his missing daughter while haunted by his past.
  • “Bob is a washed-up revolutionary... who lives in a state of stoned paranoia, surviving off-grid with his spirited and self-reliant daughter, Willa.” – Matt [14:08]
• Sophia’s Review: Her dad “called and said [she] had to see it,” but she still hasn’t gone.

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Frankenstein

Timestamps: 14:32–15:31

• The hosts riff on the common confusion: “Frankenstein is the doctor, not the monster.” Matt quips, “So what’s the monster called? Clyde?”
• Deciding not to dwell—they move on to a title with less-known connotations.

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Begonia

Timestamps: 15:31–19:43

• Sophia’s Guess:
  • A romantic drama about a gardener in the Swiss Alps, a rapacious land developer, and a hot tub. “I’m basically doing…the movie You've Got Mail.” – Sophia [17:16]
• Matt’s Reveal:
  • In reality, Begonia is a Yorgos Lanthimos film starring Emma Stone about conspiracy-obsessed men kidnapping a CEO, convinced she's an alien bent on destroying Earth.
  • “Begonia: two conspiracy-obsessed men kidnapped the CEO of a major company when they become convinced that she's an alien who wants to destroy Earth.” – Matt [18:00]
• Botany Detour:
  • They debate whether “begonia” is a flower or an ancient Mediterranean practice involving bees, with input from their producer, Molly.
  • “I’ve got begonias in the garden.” – Matt [18:40]
  • “No, you’re right. … Begonias are versatile tropical perennials…” – Sophia [18:48]

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Matt on Pant Sizing Woes:
  • “I've just relisted it as my own now. … I've just got to wait for some other—some other idiot to pay 50 quid for them.” [02:41]
• Sophia on the Real Sinners Plot:
  • “It's about twin brothers…trying to start a club… and they ultimately encounter racist and bloodthirsty vampires...” [08:33]
• On Chase Infinity:
  • “Payne is an actress, apparently, that is literally the name of a credit card.” – Sophia [12:46]
• Matt’s Comic Plot Guess:
  • “I assume it’s about Dr. Frankenstein and Mr. Creature.” [15:23]

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Important Timestamps

| Time | Segment/Highlight | |-----------|-----------------------------------------------| | 00:30 | Hosts greet & discuss their day | | 01:55 | Matt’s saga with Vinted jeans | | 04:31 | Sophia advocates for honest reselling | | 05:21 | Oscars guessing game introduction | | 06:54 | Sinners plot guess & reveal | | 11:02 | One Battle After Another, cast laughter | | 14:32 | Frankenstein confusion | | 15:31 | Begonia’s thoroughly wrong, romantic plotline | | 18:00 | Actual plot of Begonia, producer interlude | | 19:43 | Episode winds down |

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Final Thoughts & Tone

• The episode is light, droll, and gently self-deprecating, filled with dry humor and friendly teasing.
• The structure is relaxed—much like a late-night conversation between friends, moving easily from pop culture to the quirks of daily life.
• Listeners will leave both entertained and relaxed, as intended.

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End of summary.

Transcript

[A]

Hello. You're about to drift into an episode of the Nightly, a podcast designed to help you unwind and relax. For the full phone free immersive light experience, visit Hatch Co. Enjoy.

[B]

Hey there. I'm Sophia.

[A]

And I'm Matt. Welcome to the Nightly from Hatch, a slumber party for pop culture lovers. Good evening, Sophia.

[B]

Good evening. How are you?

[A]

I'm good, thank you. That was. That was far more formal than I meant it to be.

[B]

Good evening to you.

[A]

Good evening. Good evening. How's. How's your cat doing?

[B]

He's good. He's being kind of randomly annoying right

[A]

now, but it's absolutely fine by me.

[B]

You know, it's fine by everyone except for me when they bought into the mic, but it's my cross to bear.

[A]

Yeah, I think the trade off's worth it. We'll get by.

[B]

How are you?

[A]

I'm very well. Nice weather. I know it's not gonna last.

[B]

Not for long.

[A]

And I did go for a. I went for a six mile run this morning.

[B]

Oh, that's so nice.

[A]

Which felt great. Went up a big hill. Felt very sort of like a movie.

[B]

Mm. Like Rocky.

[A]

Yeah, a lot like Rocky, but a sort of countrified Rocky because they went up a hill rather than the steps. And that felt good. But I just trying to get outside while there's a bit of sun because I don't know if you've noticed, Sofia, I have the complexion of a snowman.

[B]

You gotta get it while you can.

[A]

It cannot be good for you. Yeah, I think I need some sort of vitamin D. That's wise. Yeah. So that's what I'm trying to do while the going's good.

[B]

Very nice. Yeah. I was biking around and that was so nice. It's just lovely to be outside.

[A]

It is nice also. What? Do you know what's absolutely killed me today? I just want to get this off my chest before we carry on with anything else. I bought a pair of jeans off of Vinted. I discovered a brand that I really like of jeans and there was a pair on there. Paid 50 quid for them. They're nice like Japanese denim. I've already got one pair of them in a 33 waist that were a little bit tight and I thought, no, a 32 waist. Sorry. And so I thought, I'm gonna get a 33 WA because that'll be slightly more comfortable. Got them. Not kidding you. They're about 4 inches off of fitting. But they're so small.

[B]

Oh, they're even smaller.

[A]

Yeah. But they're the exact same make. Exact same cut.

[B]

What do you think happened?

[A]

I've no idea, but I just, I literally, I took the guy's pictures from Vinted and I've just relisted it as my own now.

[B]

Dang, you got got.

[A]

I've just gotta wait for some other. Some other idiot to pay 50 quid for them.

[B]

And the tag says they're 33.

[A]

Yeah, 33. 33 waist, 32.

[B]

You know, I actually had the exact same thing happen to me last week. I got a pair of pants, 32 inch waist, and they're just a little bit too tight and that.

[A]

But that would be your normal.

[B]

I guess so. I mean, it's so hard for me to say. I never really know what my size is, but I, I took out the fabric, I took out the measuring tape because I was ordering pants from a new place and that is like one of the scariest things you can do without being able to try them on in real life. And so they do fit, but I just wish, I wish that they were literally like just a half size bigger or something. And it's tough.

[A]

Yeah, that's exactly what I thought. I thought, these are the most perfect jeans I've ever had. If they were a half a size bigger, they'd be great. Bought that. Awful.

[B]

So I wonder what happened.

[A]

I think this guy, he's just washed them terribly.

[B]

Or maybe he got them altered.

[A]

Maybe. Can you alter the waist?

[B]

I think that I feel like I've heard of that happening. People where they're like, I ordered something online and it came and it had definitely been altered because like 4 inches is like, you can't even do that in the, in the dryer unless it's like a wool sweater.

[A]

That's a very good point, actually. Yeah. Because it is good denim too, but it felt like a 28 inch waist.

[B]

Oh, my God. You got. You got got. This is why everyone has to list the. When selling secondhand, it's important that they put the actual. That they measure themselves.

[A]

Yeah, but what's bad now, though, is that I. I'm gonna be a part of the problem. You're gonna do it because I've just re listed it as he listed it.

[B]

You should relist them the proper size and good karma will come your way.

[A]

Yeah, but I feel like they're less likely to sell then because it says on the tag they're 33.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And if I say. But actually they feel more like a 28.

[B]

No, but you could.

[A]

Then people will go, I'll just wait and buy a 28 inch, waist. If that's what I want. I think they'll just perpetually always be going around this carousel of vinted.

[B]

This pair, it's a cycle.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Dang. What's the brand?

[A]

Nudie.

[B]

Nudie, okay.

[A]

I've never heard of jeans.

[B]

Sounds good.

[A]

I highly recommend them.

[B]

Okay, I'll check them out.

[A]

If Nudie are listening, please, please send me a pair of 33 inch waist. Can't stress that enough. Actual 33, please. Anyway, well, big week, big weekend coming up.

[B]

Sophia, Big weekend coming up. Because guess what this weekend is? It's the Oscars. And basically I thought it'd be funny if we went through some of the best picture nominees and tried to guess the plot of the movies that we haven't seen based on their titles. And then maybe at the end we can look up the synopsis and see how close or far off we were.

[A]

It's definitely going to be the latter, isn't it?

[B]

Yeah, probably. Okay, so we have Sinners. I saw that. One battle after another. Frankenstein, Begonia, Hamnet. I also saw that. Train Dreams. Marty Supreme. Sentimental Value.

[A]

I saw that.

[B]

You saw Marty Supreme. Amazing.

[A]

That's the only one from the list that I've seen.

[B]

I saw Sentimental Value. And then there's the secret agent and F1. Okay, I've heard of all of these except for the Secret Agent, but even though I have name recognition, I will say I don't know really what they're about.

[A]

Yeah, the Secret Agent's probably going to be the most on the nose one there, isn't it?

[B]

That one's probably going to go ahead and be about a secret agent.

[A]

Actually, other than Frankenstein.

[B]

Well, who knows what Frankenstein's about? And F1. Do you know that? Because I think F1 is just about F1. Right.

[A]

It's either that or printing.

[B]

Oh, yeah? Yeah. It could go either way. So we'll figure it out. Okay. Well, I wonder which one I should start with.

[A]

Let's work down. Although you've seen Sinners, haven't you?

[B]

Yeah. Do you want to take a stab at sinners?

[A]

I'll take a stab at Sinners because I've not seen that. I would guess it's some sort of group of renegade con artists who are gonna do one last job. But they've all got their own kind of specialities and shortcomings. There's a funny one who has sort of witty lines and stuff.

[B]

That could be you.

[A]

That could be me. Yeah, sort of. I reckon it's that kind of like

[B]

an ocean's esque Movie.

[A]

Yes.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

Exactly like that. That's what's in my head.

[B]

Who would you cast in it? Other than yourself, obviously, as the comedic relief in that. In that take?

[A]

Ooh. Well, you for a start as well, because I'd like to know somebody. I don't like doing things for people that I don't know.

[B]

We got to have a friend on set.

[A]

Yeah. It's just nice to have someone to sit with it. Catering, I think.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And then Pierce Brosnan came to mind.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

Love to see him. Sort of one last big thing. I'm terrible with actors, to be honest. If I could list you some of the faces that I've got in my

[B]

head, if only you could see the people I'm thinking of right now.

[A]

But I think. Yeah, I'll leave it. I think it's you. It's me. It's Pierce Brosnan.

[B]

That's perfect.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

I think someone should make that. I think that's amazing. Okay. Do you want to know what it's actually about?

[A]

I do, yeah.

[B]

Okay. Okay. Okay. I'm just gonna read this to you. Sinners is a horror thriller. I guess. Spoiler alerts for anyone who hasn't seen this, but directed by Ryan Coogler, and it is about two. It's about twin brothers. Michael B. Jordan plays both of them, and they return to 1930s Mississippi to start over. They're, like, trying to start a club, like, a place that people can hang out and listen to music and dance, and they ultimately encounter racist and bloodthirsty vampires who.

[A]

Racist vampires who want them dead. Wow.

[B]

And it's kind of.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

It's a bit supernatural, obviously, due to the vampires, but also, like. I don't know. It's. It's. There's, like, elements I would say of, like, magic maybe, and. Yeah, it was scary, but I also. People say it wasn't that scary, but I was quite scared, and I'm bad with scary movies.

[A]

What sort of scary are we talking that? Like, it's psychological or, like, the jump scare?

[B]

Definitely, like, action. I mean, I think that there are parts that are a bit, like, creepy. I mean, tonally, the whole thing is creepy. So in that way, it's a bit like psychological thriller. Y. But it is. There's a. There's much bloodshed. There's a lot of.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

There's a lot of bloodshed.

[A]

Overall, are you. What would you say out of five? Let's give it a rating. That. Should I go and see?

[B]

Oh, you would like it. Do you like scary stuff?

[A]

No.

[B]

Okay. Well, Me neither. But I still liked it.

[A]

No, I do. I don't mind.

[B]

No, you would like it. It's like. I mean, I would say like a four. It was a really good movie. It was a little bit long at parts, but other than that, I mostly enjoyed myself. I saw that movie in a terrible mood also. And I'm now remembering I was so tired and I had just basically just gone through a breakup. And I was sitting there being like, this is just. This is what's going to heal me. And it did heal me a little bit.

[A]

Yeah. That's always. Whenever I've suffered heartbreak, I always think, if only there was racist vampires if

[B]

only there were racist vampires and a ton of gore and guts, that I could. That I could just enjoy taking the edge of this.

[A]

Yeah. Okay, well, that's. That's kind of the experience then. But overall worth watching.

[B]

It was. It was good people and people really, really love it. Okay, now it's my turn, I guess, to guess about one battle after another.

[A]

Yes.

[B]

So obviously one battle after another is about a war. Duh. Obviously about a battle. I would say it's about a battle. In what time period shall I choose? The early 1900s? Why the hell not? And it is about a. A soldier who's going to go fight in. I actually think it's going to be old Western to me, and maybe this is. Is that true? I'm like. I don't know. It's old Western. And I'm also going off what I've seen of the poster, and it's a guy. Okay. Actually, it's not a war. It's a battle in the west and there's a. It's basically a cowboy and he is fighting another cowboy and he has a drinking problem.

[A]

Right. Okay. So it's a kind of a one on one situation.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Cowboy versus Cowboys. Are you aware of the. Of the cast for this one?

[B]

That one I do know. Right. It's. Wait, it's Leonardo DiCaprio.

[A]

It is Leonardo DiCaprio.

[B]

Yeah. Okay. I almost said Brad Pitt and I was like, that's not right. It's Leonardo DiCaprio and someone else. I don't know.

[A]

Sean Penn.

[B]

Okay. Two cowboys.

[A]

Regina Hall. Yeah. So that could be the two Cowboys.

[B]

That could definitely be the two Cowboys.

[A]

Would you like me to put you out of your misery?

[B]

Yes. Oh, it's also Teyana Taylor.

[A]

Yes. And Chase Infinity.

[B]

It's not a bank. That's a credit card.

[A]

What is Chase Infinity? Payne is an actress, apparently that is

[B]

literally the name of a credit Card.

[A]

Yeah. I mean, we don't have Chase bank over here, but. Chase Bank, I'm aware of Chase Infinity. That's not a proper name, but she was born and raised in Indianapolis. She was named after the Batman Forever character Chase Meridian.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

And Buzz Lightyear's catchphrase to infinity and beyond from Toy Story. Oh, wow.

[B]

To be named after that is crazy.

[A]

Anyway, one battle after another.

[B]

Good to know. Good to know.

[A]

It's a black comedy action thriller film by Paul Thomas Anderson. It's Inspired by the 1990 novel Vineland by Thomas Pynchon.

[B]

Okay, so I'm getting word that I was right, that Leonardo DiCaprio's character is an alcoholic.

[A]

Okay, I got that.

[B]

But everything else I was completely wrong about. But that's like I said, like three things, so that's like a good average.

[A]

That's. If you were like Derren Brown or somebody, that'd be a decent hit rate.

[B]

That'd be good.

[A]

Okay. Bob is a washed up revolutionary. Bob is Leonardo DiCaprio, I think, who lives in a state of stoned paranoia, surviving off grid with his spirited and self reliant daughter, Willa.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

When his evil nemesis resurfaces and Willa goes missing, the former radical scrambles to find her as both father and daughter battle the consequences of their past.

[B]

Okay. Sounds amazing.

[A]

Does sound quite good actually, doesn't it?

[B]

It does. I mean, I heard it was amazing. My dad called me and was like, you have to see this movie. And then I like never went to go see it.

[A]

Oh, really? Oh, it was. It was 2025, wasn't it?

[B]

Yeah. So I hit that out of the park. Do you want to do Frankenstein or do you want to do Begonia?

[A]

I still think there's stuff we can because it might be like the prequel

[B]

or something of Frankenstein.

[A]

Yeah. Who's the person that made Frankenstein? As in the actual green haired monster?

[B]

Like Frankenstein is the Frankenstein's monster? Is that what you mean? Frankenstein is a doctor.

[A]

That's what I always get wrong. Frankenstein is the doctor, not the monster.

[B]

Yes.

[A]

So what's the monster called?

[B]

I think the monster is just called Frankenstein's monster. Oh, it's called the Creature. That's the name I was waiting for to find out. The creature is called something. No, it's just. It's the creature.

[A]

The creature is called Clyde.

[B]

The creature is the creature.

[A]

Right, okay. Well, we might as well rattle through this one. I assume it's about Dr. Frankenstein and Mr. Creature.

[B]

Yeah, I would assume the same. Okay, we should try Begonia, which I Think will be hard for me. Do you know anything about this movie? And there's nothing in the name.

[A]

Basically, no. Now you've said it. Begonia. Like the flower. Isn't it before that, when I saw it written down.

[B]

Oh, is it? Is that a flower?

[A]

I think so, but I thought when I just saw that written, it sort of sounded like cough medicine.

[B]

It does.

[A]

Begonia. If it is begonia, I'm pretty sure that's a flower.

[B]

Okay. Okay. So if begonia is a flower, then this is a movie about. About a gardener. This is a movie about a gardener who lives in the mountains in the Swiss Alps, of course, and is has fields and fields of rolling flowers that she tends to every day. And then a man comes by and he says, I want to buy all your land. He says, I'm going to buy all your land, and I'm going to. I'm going to destroy it and I'm going to raise this. And she says, no, don't do that. Don't do that. And then, of course, over a series of meet cutes and clandestine encounters and accidents, the two fall in love. And then the man doesn't buy her flower fields, and instead he moves into the house and he buys them a hot tub, and they live happily ever after.

[A]

Okay, nice.

[B]

That was good.

[A]

That was pretty good. Out of interest, what's the guy gonna. What's he gonna use the land for? Is he flattening it for?

[B]

He was going to make a huge bank.

[A]

Oh. I chase. Chase him to the street.

[B]

I'm basically doing, like. I'm basically doing, like, the movie you've Got Mail. I think there's a lot of movies like that where it's like, man tries to buy woman owns independent business. Man tries to buy independent business. He is unsuccessful, they fall in love. And that was just a Begonia was a take on that classic trope that we all love so much.

[A]

I liked. I liked what you did with it.

[B]

Thank you. Okay.

[A]

You couldn't be more wrong if you tried.

[B]

I mean, I know it's going to be so different because I know that it's a Yorgos Whatever movie with Emma Stone and that it's going to be something twisted. It's always something twisted with that one.

[A]

Okay, well, Begonia two conspiracy obsessed men kidnapped the CEO of a major company when they become convinced that she's an alien who wants to destroy Earth.

[B]

Oh, my God.

[A]

Sounds pretty good. I think that's pretty appropriate for current climate.

[B]

Okay. Something that someone is. I'm being fed from the spiritual Realm is that begonia is not a flower, but was a folk practice in the ancient Mediterranean region based on the belief that bees were spontaneously generated from a cow's carcass.

[A]

So just for the benefit of the listener, that is a producer that's passing that knowledge along, and I want to put it on record right now that as much as I really like and respect Molly, our producer, she's absolutely wrong. I've got begonias in the garden.

[B]

Wait, we need to settle this. I wonder if it's.

[A]

Is there a different kind of begonia?

[B]

No, you're right. It's just spelled differently. It's called. It's. It's.

[A]

Oh, it's bega. Completely different. Sorry, Molly.

[B]

Those would be phonetically the exact same. Begonias are versatile tropical perennials often grown as annuals. Okay. Price for their vibrant flowers and colorful foliage. Look at that.

[A]

Yeah, there we go.

[B]

Look at that.

[A]

Different. Different kind of begonia.

[B]

Yeah. So that's the. The. The movie that I created was spelled differently than the movie begonia that is out. The one that I created is the. The floral spelling, of course.

[A]

Yes.

[B]

And it's been a runaway hit. It's taken the nation by storm.

[A]

We'll do it. That'll be next year.

[B]

Yeah. Begonia with an E dropping next year. Watch out. It's going to be confusing for people, but I think in the end everyone will be fine and understand where we're coming from.

[A]

I. I don't think they will shoot.

[B]

Okay. That's not good for me.

[A]

On that note, I. I think we might have to. We might have to follow this up. Another point, because it's. I don't know about you, Sophia, but it's. I'm getting to that sort of time. I think I'm ready to.

[B]

Me too.

[A]

To pack it in for the evening.

[B]

To be honest, I'm ready to pack up. I've smelled the flowers, I've seen what they have to offer, and I'm. I think it's time for me to go to bed. So. Good night, Matt.

[A]

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