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Hello.
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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.
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Well, well, well. You're back. Or maybe you're here for the first time. Either way, I'm Jacquees.
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And I'm Sophia. Welcome to the Nightly from Hatch, a slumber party for pop culture lovers. How are you, Jacquees?
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What is going on, Sophia? I am great.
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You're great? That's amazing.
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I'm great.
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Not much is going on on my end. I'm good. I'm reading a new book that I'm enjoying. Actually, I did something really silly, which is that I'm reading this book called Clutch about these, like, five women. And it's about they were friends from college and it follows their life after or whatever. And I'm reading it on my Kindle, and I have a thing where sometimes when it's like multiple storylines of different people, I get very confused. And so I'm like, have a hard time tracking. And I was reading it for, like, five or 10 minutes being like, wow. Like, I feel like I've, like, missed something. Like, I really feel like I'm confused on, like, there. There's pieces that I've missed of this story, and I don't know what's going on. And then I realized that I had accidentally skipped to basically the very end of the book. And I was just like. I was reading, like, 200 pages, like, past where I had previously left off, and I was like, okay, so funny. This is an interesting artistic choice that the author has made to make me confused.
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It was like. And John met the love of his. Of his life. And then the next page, and after 40 years of being together, his love passed away. But said the baby's not yours. You're like, wait, what?
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No, it was very. That I literally was like, I. Someone had basically had, like, an insane mental health crisis. And I was like, I. I. In my brain that was trying to rationalize what was going on is I was like, oh. I guess they, like, didn't like. I guess the. The author was writing from the perspective of the woman who had to go to the mental hospital and just, like, didn't include what happened because she was so out of it. And then I was like, actually, it was included and I skipped about 200 pages forward, which was. Felt good to do.
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Feels good to do. I don't. I'm not embarrassed by this because I'm almost 40, so I don't care. But I'm not. I don't read much. I don't read many books anymore. Um, I used to read a lot. And then as I was growing up, my mom, like, would force me to do book reports in the summer. And look, I appreciate it, you know, now as an adult and I get what she was trying to achieve. And I can read. I read scripts, I read screenplays, I read, I read stories like that, I read articles. It's just like my, my brain is not like reading like books now. Like, I just start to like, I lose focus so quickly. Like I can barely get through two pages before I lose focus and I'm just like, I don't know what I'm reading anymore. I'd rather do something else. But I am interested in starting ebooks because, like, I do like the story aspect of books. It's just the actual feat of reading the lines and staying focused long enough to get through a significant part of a book. This was difficult to me, like just the electronic book. You mean audiobooks? I'm sorry.
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Oh, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay.
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Yeah, not ebooks.
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I feel like for audiobooks where I, I like them but I struggle with honestly like processing auditory information sometimes. So I feel like if I'm gonna listen to an audiobook, it has to be. I like it. I like it to be more like a podcast even. Like, I like nonfiction, I like memoirs when they're like narrated by. That like draws me in. But I have a hard time listening to like a novel that is maybe a little bit more literary or dense because I just get, I can't process what's going on.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because it's coming too fast, probably.
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It's coming way too fast, literally. And like my mind wanders. I'm like, with what I'm reading, I'm like, I'm looking at the words. This is exactly what it is. But with an audiobook, I do think if I'm going to listen to one, it has to be one where if I get distracted for a couple seconds, it's actually okay. And I can like sit down, still follow what's going on. Basically that's fair. And in fact, if you are a lover of audiobooks, we have Hatch classics, which are really cool. They're kind of like a little like truncated or a bridge version of some of like your favorite classic books. They're just short little episodes that, yeah, basic. It's like a little bite sized audiobook and it's perfect to listen to while you fall asleep. Or whenever.
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Well, look, an audiobook or an ebook. You have a Kindle is something that some people would call an essential to something like a road trip. Which leads me to an idea of us playing a fun game that we like to call Snooze Pack. You know, we love our games here in the pillow fort and you know me and you know how this work. But in case somebody who is listening to us drifting away asleep doesn't know, we're going to assemble our ideal collection of six things with a theme. And that theme tonight, as I just said, is road trip essentials. Sophia, what do you got? I'll let you kick this thing off.
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Okay. I said one to two friends, but I honestly think I would say two friends and that's going to count as one essential. I feel like with one friend, I've gone on every time I've done a road trip, it's been with one other person, which I've had like a lovely time. So one friend is totally workable as well, of course, and we have like amazing conversation. But I do think that I would have more fun with two people. Just in terms of like, if someone's sleeping, maybe someone else is awake. Two people can still talk. Also there's more people to drive, which is nice. And I think it would just keep things like, fun and interesting to have a three person road trip.
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Yeah. Yeah, no, you're right. I don't think it's really a work a road trip if you're solo. And I know somebody is gonna disagree with that, but for me, at that point, it's just a commute.
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At that point, it's about the 24 hour commute.
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Yeah. A friend is an essential part of the road trip, in my opinion. So I think that's a very good one, especially.
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Cause like during your road trip, I feel like there's. I don't know, I just feel like a road trip in particular is like, well, you could do one alone and that would be a beautiful, like, journey of like self discovery and whatever. Like you can do whatever you need. But I just feel like with a road trip you're like, things are also going to go wrong on a road trip. And I think it helps to have someone there to be problem solving or even just like to laugh it off with. Because like, it's. There's a lot, there's a lot of variables. And I feel like with the road trip it's just, you want a buddy, A buddy or two.
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Love that. Love that.
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What's your, what's your first essential.
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Well, here's the thing. Let me just say this right off the bat. So this may inform you as I go through my essentials. Cause I feel like you're gonna pick essentials that are not common, but, you know, people are gonna be like, yeah, of course. Yeah, yeah. I hate road trips.
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Okay.
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I don't get. I put me on a plane, let's get there. Like, let's enjoy. Let's enjoy where we're going once we're there, and let's get there as quick as.
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Yeah.
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Now, I do know, you know, a fun part of road tripping, I assume, is like, seeing all the places on the way, like you said, the conversation, all that. So that's. That's fun as well. But I do, as a comedian, sometimes I'm on a road and we will have to drive between city to city. So that's essentially a road trip for me. The most important essential of a road trip is a comfortable vehicle.
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I mean, completely.
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The vehicle is. We can't just road trip in anything. It is.
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No, you really can't. You really.
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Vehicle has to be comfortable. Like, if your seats don't go back, I can't be in your car.
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No, no.
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You gotta have good air conditioner. You gotta have, like, comfort. Like, you know, we just need good actual vehicle for a road trip. Without that, I would rather walk.
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Of course. Of course. No, I completely agree. In fact, I put two of the things I put down, which I think are kind of related to this is I put a pillow I think is an essential. And honestly, like a cushion for underneath your butt.
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Yeah.
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Like, I really think that can change the game. I do think, like, a spacious vehicle is 100% needed. You don't want to be cramped. And also, like, I feel like a. A car in particular that has a nice backseat, if you need to, like, stretch your legs a bit is huge. Yeah, we have to have AC working. We gotta have. The audio has to be working. In fact, the audio has to be good. We need a high quality audio system.
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We need Bluetooth now, like, it's 20, 26, you know what I'm saying? Like, let's get this Bluetooth hand so we can get a jam going. You know what I'm saying?
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I completely agree. Yeah, I think that's Paramount. Yeah, that's a good road trip.
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A good road trip. And the AC got to be on, you know, And I'm talking about, like. Yeah, I don't mean for the people up front. That AC got to reach the back.
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Yes. We need we need a full circulation in here.
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Yeah, yeah. Should we put all of those under just, like, comfort.
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Yeah, general comfort.
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General comfort essentials. Yeah.
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Our comforts.
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Yeah. That's great. That's great. All right, we're set. All right, what you got? What you got next?
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Okay, my next one. Pretty basic, honestly, I'm gonna say it. Sunglasses. If you're driving, I've found, I feel like on road trips and you're driving so long, you're driving at God knows what time of the day. It's. The sun is rising, the sun is setting. Whatever's happening, you need sunglasses because you got to protect your eyes. We got. It's safe and it's more comfortable for everyone. And so that's one of my essentials as well.
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Yeah, yeah, That's a big one. And. Yeah, especially too, because, like, even though if you in the car with everybody and, you know, and it's usually people you trust, that's fine. But like, for me, eye mask sunglasses are also, like, helpful for sleeping.
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Yes.
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As well. So when this is like a siesta. Yeah. I need something that's gonna, like, drown out everything around me.
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Yes.
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You know, sometimes I don't like people seeing my eyes when I'm sleeping. Like, don't be looking at my closed eyes. I can't see what you're looking
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mean. It's very vulnerable. It's very personal attention. Do not look at my peepers.
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Yeah, so. So, yeah, I get that. Here's something that I think is an essential, and I'll put this under, like, one full category because, like, obviously snacks, drinks is on there. I think, like, unless you are clinically insane, like, snacks and drinks probably need to happen.
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Superhuman.
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Yeah. You gotta something. So to expand that an essential for a road trip is we need points of interest to stop wrestling.
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Yes, of course.
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Fun little. Like. Like, I need. We need to do research. So we know. Because there's multiple ways to get to some places. Like, for instance, like when I drove from Chicago to Los Angeles, when I moved to la, you know, there is. There is like, a northern and a southern, like, route you can take. And it just depends on what you kind of want to see, you know, and maybe it'll take you an hour out of the way if there's something, like, I really want to see the Flintstones town in Arizona, I was like, I just want to see it. Right.
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Yeah.
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But also good places to eat, like that. That's essential. So, like, the research.
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Yeah.
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To get points of interest. Food especially. Yeah.
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And it's really important. It's good for morale. You need to have a way to break up what you're doing. And, like, I think a good road trip is not simply about the destination. It's about the journey that you're going on. And so we gotta make the most of the journey, I think.
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Yeah. Yeah. 100%.
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Yeah.
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Like, I was just in Texas, and we had one stop and one stop only between one of our cities, and that was Bucky's. And it was the most exciting time
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of the trip, I'm sure.
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So it was like. We went to Disneyland. It was great. Yes, yes. So you need that. You need that. So that's my next one.
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You got to have it. The next one I have, which I think is, like, completely obvious and maybe we've even touched on it a little bit, is good music.
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Yeah.
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I think my favorite part of a drive with friends, like, a longer drive, is when. Yeah, when everyone kind of locks in. I love watching, I guess, like, the progression of where the music goes. Like, you start with one genre, you cue a couple songs, and then you see where it takes you. And I think that is, like, a beautiful journey to go on with everyone. I feel like my friends always end up at, like, emojis, like, pop. Emo music is a. Is a big one. We were listening to. We drove. I, like, was on a long drive with my friends recently, and we listened to some 303. I don't know if you're familiar.
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Is that amber is a color of your energy. Is that who.
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That's the one that's like, don't, don't, don't kiss me. They're like, my first kiss went a little like this. And I just think it's just fun to see, like, where everyone ends up, where you end up. We are always hitting, like, it's always going to be some, like, early 2000s hits for us. I think is. Is what's fun. And it's fun to oscillate between, like, music that you're like, oh, this is actually, like, good music, and music where you're like, we're just screaming along in the car.
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Yeah, always. I mean, also, you know, depending on what streaming music service you have, I know Spotify has this. Maybe some other ones do. You can do a jam.
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Yes, we are doing the jam.
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Yeah. Everybody links up to a jam.
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Yes.
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And, you know, if you have that music service and you can add songs to the queue and so everybody is in on it.
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Yes.
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Which is also really fun because you don't know what's coming up.
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No.
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And. And then, like, also, when somebody hears a song, it makes them think of a song within that same.
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Exactly. That's what's so fun.
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So that's fun. So you. You. You don'. One genre too long, but you definitely get multiple, like, you know, bumps from.
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Yes.
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A genre as well. So it's really fun. It's.
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It's special.
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I love it.
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Yeah.
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Here is the next thing.
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Okay.
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An essential. My last essential.
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Okay.
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For a road trip. And this is the most important part.
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Oh, I'm excited.
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A place where you decide that this road trip is over.
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You, like, hating road trips. You're like, basically, the most important thing to me is just to know that when it's gonna be over. And, like, hopefully soon, when you need.
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When you can tell it's ending and not even the destination, but when you can tell we're on the last leg of this thing.
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Right, right, right.
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Like, the only thing is get there. Right. And never do this again. Right.
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Never, ever.
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You need the beginning of the tunnel so you can see the light. That is the most essential part of a road trip for me.
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Yeah. And I think the preference for that would even be that it's like, a physical landmark. Do you know what I mean? Like, I think it's also so poetic of, like, driving into. I feel like on my road trips that I've done, like, what I'm thinking of is, like, when I've reached, like, the Pacific Northwest where I'm from, I'm like, oh, I'm, like, almost home. Like, to have that feeling of being like, I know where we are. We're almost there.
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We're almost there. I see something that I know is, like, we were in the home stretch.
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Exactly.
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It's almost time to get to where we're going. And that's it.
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That's it.
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That is. That's a beautiful part of the road trip when it's over.
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And the most beautiful part of the road trip is when it's over. I love that.
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Yes. Yes. Let's get out of the car.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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Get out.
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The most beautiful part of the road trip is when you get out of the car and you don't have to get back in.
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You don't have to get back in. That's it. That's done. This is done. So that's mine.
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Well, I feel like that might be the perfect place to wrap up. Honestly, I feel like I'm seeing the light at the end of the tunnel now. I feel like the only other thing that I my last, my last under the wire submission is like and you, you said this with like places to stop is like I better see some good sunsets on the road trip. I'll say.
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I love that places like places where you can just enjoy the, the beauty around you.
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Yes, exactly.
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Yeah, absolutely. I love that. I love that. Sophia, this has been truly a beautiful snooze pack.
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It's been, we've gone on a beautiful journey, we've, we've seen some sunsets and we've actually reached the light at the end of the tunnel.
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Now it's time for sleep. So I'm gonna go ahead and do that. It's always a good time with you and the pillow for Sophia. Hope you have a good night.
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You too Jacquis. Sleep well.
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Sam.
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