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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. We are dancing in the pillow fort. It's a beautiful night. What's up, everybody? I'm Jacquis.
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And I'm Sophia. Welcome to the Nightly from Hatch, a slumber party for pop culture lovers.
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Yeah.
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Tonight we're having a real party in the pillow fort because we're joined by a special guest. We have the hilarious Peyton Dicks with us this evening, and she's a writer and host of the podcast. Let me say this. Hi, Peyton. Hi.
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Oh, my God, I'm so excited to be here. I love a sleepover. I'm very pro sleepover in this house.
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Yes.
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I think sleepovers are amazing.
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Do you sleep better at sleepovers?
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No. And I know that I also make sleepovers probably more stressful for other people because I love a little tap. Like, okay, riddle me this. You know, it's 3:00am and everyone's trying to go to bed. So that's the vibe I bring to the slumber party.
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I think the end of the sleepovers, like, the loss of sleepovers as an adult is one of the saddest things to me in the world.
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I think so, too. I feel like we should bring them back. The action start. It starts now. In this podcast, it does.
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Just go on vacation with your homies.
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Oh, that's tea.
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Like. Cause, you know, sleeping over is whatever. But if you go on vacation with your homies, you know, because I have homies who I go on vacation with, and they're all like, we all want our own hotel rooms, everything, which I'm cool. But go on vacation with the homies who want to share rooms and stuff. Y' all gonna be forced to stay up and talk.
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Yes.
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And do all the stuff you do at a slumber party.
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That's really true. I want to get, like, a mat in my apartment actually, like, where I can just like, roll it out on the floor and my friends can just sleep over really bad.
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Your friends are animals. You make them sleep on the mat.
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So I'm basically gonna get some hay in my apartment and then just put that down and my friends can kind of just like, rest.
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Your friends that are listening to this being like, wait, so they don't love us?
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I would sleep on the mat. They could sleep in the bed, you guys.
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Okay, well, that's sweet.
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And this is why we don't do sleepovers anymore, because my Back can't handle a mat. Full bed. Now, I need a full bed, but.
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I'm also mattress specific, too.
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Oh, what do you mean?
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Like, I like a firm mattress, and I know too many girls that like a soft mattress, but I need to be able to get up in the morning.
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Yeah.
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So I need it. I need it nice and hard.
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I agree.
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I agree with that. I like it depends. I'm. I'm a. I like it just right mattress.
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So you're Goldilocks. Yeah. Okay.
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Goldilocks in the house with us right now.
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Exact. Because, like, if it's too hard, then I still get the issues with the back if it's too soft, you know, that's nice eventually. But I'm a tosser and turner, and so, like, the more soft a mattress is when you're tossing and turning, I wake up, and my neck feels like it's on the floor. But that just right. That's just right. Which is hard to achieve. Which is very hard to achieve.
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I get that the mattress scientists are working overtime to make Jacques the perfect mattress.
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Yeah. I would watch that study unfold me.
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Okay. I mean, we kind of are already touching on this, but we like to always ask our guests, like, Peyton, do you have any tips around your bedtime routine or do you have anything specific that you want to share that you do?
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Actually, I have a very specific thing I would like to discuss, and I'm so glad you're holding the space for me to say it, which is I'm trying to train myself into being a back sleeper. Granted, I'm scared of back sleepers. I feel like they're a little bit too prepared. Like, I feel like back sleepers are ready to, like, get up and fight at any moment, and I don't trust that process, but it's, I guess, better for your back and the symmetry of your face. So, yeah, fun fact. I don't care about things like that.
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Right.
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But. But I do. So what I've been kind of doing. And I'm such a side sleeper. And on my worst days, I'm a stomach sleeper, which makes me feel like a toddler. That's okay. We are all God's children. But I have been into this really amazing. I don't know how to pronounce bio essence overnight face mask. So not only does it force me to sleep on my back because it hardens overnight, so you have to fall asleep on your back wearing it. I also wake up with glowing skin, so it makes it more rewarding in so many ways.
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Amazing.
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So that's my really vain life hack that I'm offering to the space right now.
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Okay. All right.
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That's amazing. You're sleeping like a mummy.
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I am.
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I'm a size sleeper as well. Peyton and I have recently discovered two things that make side sleeping better. Like, as just a general, you know, sleeping position that I would love to share with you. And you may already know these things, but the first thing is, you know, hit or miss. But I got a side sleeping pillow.
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I've heard of her. I've heard of her.
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Yes. That's supposed to keep your neck, like, in the correct position, which helps with tossing and turning and, like, pain and, you know, rest and things like that. Because when you sleep on your side, your spine is not, like, aligned in the right way. So, like, that's one thing. But the revolutionary thing for size sleeper, a body pillow. When you start cuddling that body pillow, your voice.
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The octave of your voice dropping as you said, that was so crazy and appreciated.
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Listen, I can go deeper. I can go. When you start. When you start cuddling that body pillow.
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Start cuddling that body pillow.
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Yeah, I'm like, guys, I'm gonna leave.
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I'll just leave you two to.
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No.
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I've heard the pregnancy side pillows slap. Or the ones that go all the way around.
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Yeah, those are the ones that seem amazing. The pregnancy ones to me.
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Yes.
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But similar to the bed with the body pillow, you really have to get the, like, amount of filling I found to be correct, because I have accidentally bought body pillows that are, like, way overfilled. And then it's just, like, there's. This is pointless, and it's horrible.
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I will say I barely even like sleeping with pillows. Like, I have them because I'm a Taurus, and decoratively, like, they obviously serve a purpose, but I mostly will, like, push them up and not sleep on a pillow at all. Or I take all of the filling out. I like it nice and flat.
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You sleep on the. On the pillow cover. You sleep on the flam.
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Okay. Not too much, by the way.
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We're just gonna get you a board to sleep on.
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You know, you come over, it's a stiff board.
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You're describing my mat that I made fun of earlier, but whatever.
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Wait. You would be so grateful for the.
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Matt. I know this mad is for you. That mad is for you, baby.
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Oh, my God. I'm so sorry I yucked you. Yum. Before I realized who I even was. It just. That was nasty.
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I forgive you.
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Thanks. I love that. Well, Sophia and Peyton, as we Kind of transition into half baked ideas, like having just a mat to sleep on.
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Right.
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I thought that it would be funny if we were to share some more half baked ideas that we've come up with lately. And maybe they are business ideas or inventions that we feel are desperately needed in the world. And by that I mean not at all. But I want to do a little bit of bad business, you know, Shark Tank style.
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Yes.
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Does that sound good?
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Love got me through Covid. Favorite show.
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Love it. Absolutely love it. All right, Sofia, you always have the best ideas out of everyone.
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Thank you.
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I would love for you to go first if you would like to.
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That's a quick thank you, by the way, but thank you.
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Peyton, you got. You gonna have better ideas than me, so, you know, you may usurp.
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It's gonna be me, Peyton and Jacquees.
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You can kick us off.
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Let's see. Okay. I have this idea that, like, as I've, like, thought about it, it's kind of. I feel almost that I'm reinventing Snapchat maps. But we're gonna talk about it and we're gonna work through it, which is that I have this idea of, like, basically on I just. Because this is just like me coming off the weekend and thinking about, like, how I wish that I could know what everyone is doing at all times. I wish there was an app where all of your friends say, like, here are my ideas for what we're gonna do tonight, or here are the things that I'm considering doing. And then you can kind of like, there needs to be some system where it's like, you can either vote on, like, what sounds the most fun to you. You can, like, share someone's idea with someone else and be like, should we do this? Should we link up and go to this? You can downvote ideas, things like that. It's not partiful. Like, it's not like invites. It's like a way of pulling and figuring out how to get people together. And it's like, is that a group chat? Is that Snapchat Maps? Kind of, but it's a little bit different.
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Sophia, I'm going to tell you something true.
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What?
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You're young. By the way, that was such a young person thing to say. First bring up Snapchat, Mads. And then. Oh, wait, sorry. Are we even opening the floor for a critique? Were we just going to hear you?
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You just did.
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Sorry.
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Please do.
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No, my Virgo Rising popped out. I'm so sorry. That was nasty. Like, I didn't even ask for consent.
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Now, go on.
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No immediate notes was cruel. Like, this was just. I just did this with your mouth. And now.
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So maybe start with what you like and then move on to what you change or.
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I'm actually feeling, like, literally guilty right now.
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No, no, no, no.
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I'll tell you this. Whatever you gotta say to Sophia, once I get my idea, you're gonna have nothing but bad things to say.
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So I'm creative, a narrat face, and I'm sorry.
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Tear it apart.
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Okay, okay, okay. I love this dynamic. Oh, my God. I love what you're doing, by the way. And I think, like, parallel play and group dynamics are such an important part of the experience of being alive. But here are my notes. That vague affirmation. If you're downvoting someone's pitch, like, the risks that they're taking to be like, here's an opportunity for us to connect. And someone goes thumbs down to it.
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Imagine how I feel right now.
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Oh, fair.
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I'm literally classy. My mouth on both. Okay, well, see, now you know. You felt it, and it goes back. Okay.
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You're like, I had to do this to teach you a lesson.
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Do you know how vulnerable it is to ask people to share time with you and to have a new idea? I do feel like I hear you, though. I'm overstimulated by the amount of partiful links, and I don't. Especially when people hide the invite list, which, like, I think, let's just make it all.
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Make it all public.
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Everyone at the end of the day is a who's all gonna be there kind of girl.
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Yeah.
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Everyone is like, no matter what. So it's like, just let me see. But I do think that, like, I find myself overwhelmed with that and knowing who's going to what. But in New York, that's just always gonna be a thing, I think. Like, you're just always gonna have multiple things going on at once, and I think you're actually gonna have to learn the skill to just let some things go. Just miss out my life.
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I know.
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Okay, I'll take that on the channel.
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I do song 55 being like, shut up and stay inside.
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I don't want to stay inside.
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No, I think you should be outside.
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I want basically, like, a huge group chat. Do you know what I mean?
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No, that sounds like a nightmare. I. No, I'm muting every group chat I'm in.
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So it's not actually a huge group chat. It's not people talking, but it's literally just like, here are my ideas. And now we can sort and figure out.
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Do you have friends of friends that you don't like?
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Of course.
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Okay, well, they're in that group chat. Then what do you do?
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Well, then I'm like, I'm not going to that.
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Right.
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I'm downloading their idea.
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Okay. I don't know who's a bigger bully, me or you.
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So in this instance, Sofia, are you saying that if, like, somebody pitches an idea, but you don't want to go to theirs, but now you have the idea, you can do it on your own or with your own selected friends?
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Oh, I wasn't even thinking that. I was thinking even, like, one person could say, like, here are, like, options that I was thinking of. And you could be like, I want this one. I don't want this one. I want this one. I don't want this one.
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Okay, okay, okay.
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It's more like what sounds fun to you that night. So I don't think it'd be downvoting being like, I don't want to go with you. I don't know. I'm creating a social media app right now, you guys. It's.
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I like, the mystery of not knowing where people are sometimes, though. Or, like, that's the chance that you might run into somebody or, you know, I feel like a little joie de vie. Is that, like. Does that mean. What does that mean?
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Yeah, it's like joy of life or something.
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Oh, okay. Oh, I love. I'm gonna get that tattooed later. I love that.
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Please do.
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Okay. Now that I've been properly taken to task, I would love for Jacques, for you to share your idea. Yeah, Peyton's gonna love it.
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Now, this one's gonna be bad, too, but this one's gonna be bad. But I'm a firm believer that we need this. You know the most annoying part of the. Of the night?
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What?
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When you're sleeping is if and when you have to get up to go to the restroom.
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Yes.
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Right. And I'm the type of person. I'm the type of person that, like, thankfully. Thankfully, like, I know my layout of my, like, place that I live. So I can't turn on because if you turn on lights, then my brain is gonna wake up. I gotta turn the lights off. I gotta keep them off. I gotta be in the dark. But sometimes you, like, stub a toe, right? So this invention is. You ever seen those chairs that take folks who may not be able to walk up and down steps quickly? They take them from the top of the steps to the bottom of the steps.
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Yes.
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This invention is connected to your bed, and you just kind of roll out, you know what I'm saying? You roll out, and then, you know, you just kind of on it, and it gets you up, but you in the dark still, and you still resting. You ain't gotta walk. And then it just rolls you to the bathroom. You know what I'm saying? And then you ain't even gotta do nothing. It just, like, locks into, like, the top of a plumbing hole. And then you just do your thing right there. And then it rolls you back, and you just roll over back into the bed. So I'm calling this. I'm calling this the lazy man's.
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Yeah, A man for sure. I'll tell you that.
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It could be for everybody.
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It's also kind of porto potty, because it's making you portable to the potty.
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No, I honestly think this is a great idea. And I'm asking for $5 million with 10%. With 10% stake in the company.
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I'm asking for $5 million for my time back on that trip. Did we not watch the movie Wall E? I was so confused.
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We don't have this all day.
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Just at night.
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Just at night when you don't want to get up.
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You are describing simply an electric wheelchair that you only use at night. Right.
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Those are so nightmare.
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But you ain't got to put your feet on the ground. You just roll over.
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Right? Right.
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Just roll over. You roll into it, and it. It props you up and takes you to the bathroom.
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Right? Okay. Got it.
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Listen, I'm gonna need you to get up.
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That is so.
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That is the craziest thing I've ever heard. I don't even know I. With a clean answer. But wait, I. Actually, you guys, I have a pitch, but it's. I don't know if we had time for it, though.
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We really do. So please share.
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Okay.
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Especially because we have two pitches that aren't going, so you may be the only pitch.
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We need a winner.
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We need a winner.
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Okay. Thank you for opening that way after I've torn you both to shreds. I apologize, but I'm just a Taurus. I can't help it. Yeah, yeah. So I kind of move from this, like, Marty supreme mindset where it's like, I only have good ideas and I've only ever been correct. So that's just how I operate. Okay, Here is my idea. I think that there are plenty of, like, apps that block your social media, which is great. We love that. Especially at night when we're going to bed. But here is my pitch. I think that these apps should include a social media component, which might sound a little contradictory, but the social element is just knowing. Like. Like, my friend Meg is off Instagram right now, and that makes me want to also compete and be off Instagram longer than Meg. Like, I do think that we need a competitive. Unfortunately, that's how we are made to be. We have competitive natures and spirits. If I'm just, like, logging off alone, I'm kind of just thinking, okay, loser. Like, but if I'm logging off longer than everyone else is logging off, then I'm a winner.
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Yeah, that's true. Kind of like Strava almost for, like, being off your phone.
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Yeah. It's like competitive 90s. Like, we're going back to the 90s. We were all offline, but we're making it competitive. And I kind of love this. I love this.
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It's a healthy, healthy element of competition.
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Yeah, I agree.
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Who can be the most offline?
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Exactly.
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With an online component, we could make it really annoying to look at and intentionally difficult to use.
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Yeah, it's like, in black and white.
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Yeah.
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Yes. It's in black and white. The user interface is trash.
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Yeah.
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No, exactly. It never works.
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That's what we need. It's impossible to navigate.
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I think we've just come up with, like, a really brilliant idea that we could sell right now.
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Okay, okay, Now, I. I want you guys to hear me out just real quick. There is a way that all three of our things can work together, right? So, like, listen, hear me out. Hear me out.
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No. I have an open heart and open mind.
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Open heart, clear eyes. Open heart. Here we go. So there is Sophia's app, which is just an app. And, like, it's popular. We talked about it badly. But we really actually love this app. We love this app. It's working. But we're on it so much. We're on it so much that it's, like stopping our sleep.
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Right.
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And we're not doing things that we need to do, like go to the restroom. So you just roll over. You just roll over and it takes you to the bathroom. Right, Right. And then when you coming back, it's time for bed, you go on. You go on Peyton's app, you'd be like, oh, so and so. Not on the app no more. But I'll go to sleep. I'll turn on Hatch. We'll get these nice thunder sounds, and we'll fall asleep for the night.
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Exactly.
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I think this works. I think this works.
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No, I Agree. Okay, great.
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I love the way you stretched before that reach. That was beautiful. That was poetic.
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It's all synergy. Totally.
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I love it. Well, Peyton, this has been a lovely time here in the pillow fort. Before we lay our heads down to sleep and drift away into dreamland, is there something that you want people to know about, something you've been working on that the world has to know and check out?
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Just follow me on social media, Aytondix on Instagram and homohoneyzero on TikTok. Period.
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I love that.
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And before we go, we always like for our guests to say a good night. It can be a good night to anyone in your life. Friends, enemies, family, whatever. So, Peyton, would you like to grace us with a good night?
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I would like to say goodnight to a man named Mark Sinclair, which is Vin Diesel's government name. That is a man. If you go on his Instagram right now. Actually, no. Go on his Instagram in the morning. Start your day off on the right note, because he has inspired me, he has inspired a generation, and he is a man that I owe my entire sexual identity to. And I love how he shows up in the space. And I would like to embody that as well. So thank you.
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Thank you. Good night to Vin Diesel. To Mark Sinclair.
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Yes, Mark Sinclair.
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And we know you're listening.
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We know you listening. We know you listening.
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He really. He has a hatch.
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I know it. Oh, of course.
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Absolutely.
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Of course. He's doing everything right, so of course he has a hatch.
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He takes care of himself.
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Yeah, exactly.
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It's all about family. It's all about family.
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Exactly.
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I've always said that. And I've always said exactly.
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Well, thank you so much again, Peyton, and enjoy your $5 million for your new idea.
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Yes, I'll be spending it all in one place.
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All in one place.
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Going straight to Vin Diesel. Thank you so much for being on tonight, Van.
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Yes, thank you.
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Good night, you guys.
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Good night, you guys.
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Good night.
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The Nightly – "The Worst (Best?) Inventions Ever" w/ Peyton Dix
Release Date: December 17, 2025
Host: Hatch Podcasts (Jacquis & Sophia)
Guest: Peyton Dix
On this cozy, playful episode of The Nightly, hosts Jacquis and Sophia welcome guest Peyton Dix (writer, podcaster) into their fabled “pillow fort” for a late-night slumber party chat. The trio bonds over grown-up sleepovers, bedtime routines, and hilariously half-baked invention pitches—both disastrous and inspired. Their relaxed, witty banter explores everything from mattress wars to “competitive not-doing-stuff apps.” It’s the kind of low-stakes, lighthearted conversation designed to help listeners unwind before bed.
The episode wraps with lighthearted gratitude, celebrating ideas both awful and amazing and giving Peyton the last word in the form of a heartfelt “goodnight” to Vin Diesel/Mark Sinclair—setting the perfect quirky, cozy vibe to send listeners off to sleep.
Summary by The Nightly, your nightly source of pop-cultural pillow talk and half-conscious genius.