Ajax is having an error not working

When the user first goes on website on the index route I will get the user's timezone.

I have an ajax request on my index.blade.html file at the route. "/"

I am posting the ajax route to this route "/custom_sessions".

error im getting

jquery-1.12.4.min.js:4 POST http://127.0.0.1:8000/custom_sessions 500 (Internal Server Error)

// route the ajax is hitting

Route::post('/custom_sessions', 'CustomSessionsController@store');

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// controller

class CustomSessionsController extends Controller
{

    public function store()
    {
        // when i remove this line the ajax request is successful with no errors in the console
        session('timezone' => $request('timezone'));
    }

}

-

// have this in my head in my html

<meta name="csrf-token" content="">

-

// ajax script at the bottom of my index.blade.php file

$.ajax({

  headers: {
      "X-CSRF-TOKEN": $('meta[name="csrf-token"]').attr('content')
  },
  type: "POST",
  url: "/custom_sessions",
  data: {
      "timezone": "PST"
  }

});

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