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Hi, John.

Hi, Merlin.

How's 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 the feel like I could sleep another very long time.

I feel 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, like, 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 in all the things where like people wonder why I'm such a homebody 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's 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.

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