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Hello. Hi John. Hi John. Hi, Merlin. How is it going? Oh, it's going really well. It's pretty early. It's pretty early. I slept a very very very long time last night and I feel like I could sleep another very long time I feel like like the Merlin that used to sleep a long time was an earlier version of Merlin.

It was Merlin 1.0.

And lately all I think of is Merlin just never getting enough sleep. But you're telling me that Merlin 2.0 sometimes

sleeps for 11 hours? Well, Merlin 2014 has started to find a lot of value in sleep. I will tell

you that. And this is super interesting, I'm sure, to people, but I realize how many of my afflictions I could write down to the fact that I just wasn't sleeping very well. So I try to make myself sleep well now and it has definitely helped my old man

quotient and all the things where like people wonder why I'm such a home body and never

go anywhere. I'm like but I'd have to go to bed at 11 if I do that.

My dad, I mean, you know, my mom sort of famously only sleeps.

I guess she gets a full night sleep but she wakes up at 4 in the morning.

My dad would stay up all night and wake up in the morning just fine and you know like get

by on four or five hours of sleep and I remember

when I was young hearing that older people didn't need as much sleep. I do

not know if I am finding that to be personally true.

That means you're still young.

Of myself.

That's exactly right.

I'm still young.

I still need 12 hours of sleep like a four-year-old.

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