Distractible - Friday the 13th

Episode Date: March 13, 2026

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Good evening, gentle listeners or watchers, and welcome to Distractable. This episode. Waterlogging Wade maniacally masticates, fanatically flosses, then gets into the Templar's Terror. Magnify Mall Mark teaches movie Mike moments, fires more staff, mentions Magnificent Mary, scrubs scream seven, slaughters Norse words, and fucks Gaston. Brobding, Nagy, and Bob gains high mileage, licks the Lombass, Wade proposes buying peen and dodges horror from ADR to frigatechidecophobia. Yes, it's time for Friday the 13th.

Now sit back and prepare to be distracted and enjoy the show. Hey everyone, welcome back to another episode of Distractable. I'm today's host because fate, solid, fit to be. so. Join is always by my co-hosts, Mark and Bob. This is the show where one of us hosted that you can be performed, whoever has the most of the end,

gets to win and host the next one. Hi, guys. Hello. Hi. All right, that's all I had. That's all I had in my script. So you guys talk now. What's up?

What's new? That's the whole episode. That's the episode. We're done. I mean, I've got a interesting little tidbit about the movie that not many people would know. Great. Apple just announced this whole new line of things.

One of them, which is a new display, which is very expensive, and I'm not saying I recommend it. But I will say this. There are certain moments in the movie where you need ADR. ADR stands for, oh, sure, sure. Yeah, it's where you record a line that wasn't captured on set, either because it wasn't captured well, where you're trying to replace a dialogue or sneak something in, right? So there's a couple of moments where it is.

And the trouble with ADR is that it stands out if it's not done well. right usually in the circumstances i'm working with brad the sound guy and he's got a good microphone or in a good sound environment and i've done it on my own during the edit where i've got i've got access to good microphones i've got good sound environments i know how to do that and i know how to record so i've done a dr uh through a couple times here at the movie where i've done it with like this condenser mic which is you know it didn't work because you know we didn't have this type of mic on set so clearly that isn't right so i got the exact shotgun microphone and lov that we had on set and I tried that and it still wasn't quite a perfect match but you know Brad was able to

massage it a bit better and then I got really high end like shotgun mic that was a stereo mic and I'm like okay it was like let's try to try some else here funky and didn't get well well I got to tell you on that one of the final passes of the edit I recorded some temp stuff because I was like I'm not even going to worry about it I'm not even going to try to make this match I'm not going to set up my big microphone there's a microphone in this monitor I'm just going to going to record it temp so I have it and I know to replace it. It'll sound so bad that it'll be so easy to replace. Gets over to Brad, he messages me or when I show up there for the final say, he's like, man, whatever mic you used for these last ADR was really good. Like it just melted right in.

It was perfect. It just sat so good in there. And I was like, you motherfucker. That was on a monitor. It was a monitor's microphone built in. It was one of Apple Studio displays. And that's not to say that That's the greatest microphone ever. But I have to remember, and this is important about ADR is, if you're recording stuff on set, you have to remember that that is not a perfect sound environment. Especially the Iron Lung. The sub is literally a barrel, right? It's got reverb.

There's no sound dampening. It's kind of a not clean environment. There's also in a warehouse, you know, kind of like bleeds out, bleeds in. The thing about that microphone is like, it's just shitty enough that it replicates the kind of bad environment and it's important because the size of the room I was recording was just a regular bedroom but it kind is roughly the size of that room it's not a barrel shaped but you know it's so it's important to remember it's not about the best highest quality equipment that you could possibly get especially when you're doing ADR because you didn't you might have had good equipment but you

didn't have a controlled environment when you're recording it on set and almost all of the stuff in the movie still sounds good because it just has that room and if you have a clean room with no reverb it's going to sound as good because, well, it won't sound right because it won't match everything else. Right. Okay. There you go. That's my lesson about it.

I do like that. That's very funny. I've definitely watched movies and TV where they're like the dialogue has a certain quality to it. And then you get to a moment where they clearly did it did some ADR or to put something in. And they're like, yeah, no, no. Then we go outside. It's like, whoa, what the fuck?

It's not even like it's bad. audio it's just like jarring when the there's nothing happening but a person talking but you're like do we just teleport do we time travel what happened some water along am i here yeah i've heard of situations where actors sometimes refuse to go into an adr studio to go do something and they just recorded on their phone and sometimes there are a bad adr just because the actor didn't or couldn't make it into a sound booth but at the same time working with caroline who was who's Ava in the movie, I think I can say her name now. I would sometimes say, you know, you could just record this on your phone.

It's going to come through a shitty, it's going to sound like a shitty speaker anyway, so it might work for it. She's like, no, no, no, I'll make time. I'll go to the studio. It's no problem. And I'm like, all right. Like, I totally respect the work ethic and admiration for it. And I'm like, I want you to have a professional environment.

So then you played her voice on a speaker and recorded it on your phone anyway. Yes, exactly. And then I played it again. And we used that to get in there. Anyway, so it's sound is funny sometimes. times. The amount of nuance that people can pick up, especially of like bad sound, quote unquote, bad sound spaces is not bad. It's natural to that space. And I think that, you know, if I'm going into future projects, I've got to keep that in mind like bad sound isn't bad if it

fits what it's supposed to be. And setting yourself away from the highest quality things can allow you to see the options that are there that I never would have considered because it is a goddamn microphone in a monitor. You would never even have used that accidentally. Like, it's weird that that came up. And it wasn't like you recorded on your phone or some on your YouTube setup or something. You were just like,

whatever, this fucking thing. It's plugged in. Let's do it. It's plugged in. That's all I said. Yeah. And it literally sounded exactly like we captured it on set.

It was crazy. And it was only for a couple lines there. But yeah. That's cool, though. I mean, I thought he was being sarcastic. Like, I thought the whole setup was he was being sarcastic.

And that's why you fired him. No, no. Well, yes, I fired him along with the VFX team and literally everybody. Yeah, retroactively fired everybody. That way you didn't have to pay him their bonuses. Yeah, yeah, exactly. That's the hell of know, man, you know me. And also I have things going on.

Great. Because it's your turn. Oh, that was my full update. Oh, okay. It's been the walking. I saw a post on the subreddit of someone who was like, Bob's walking a mile a day this year. and I was like, that's a good idea.

And then I realized that according to their Apple Watch, they already walk like two, two and a half to five miles a day because of work or something. And they were like, well, I'm just going to walk more. I think their goal is like 10,000 steps a day. But it's working.

And I am keeping up. It's been difficult. We traveled and we had other stuff going on. But as of right now, I can get the actual, nope, it's not going to happen. There it is.

I have 58 miles under my belt. and I believe that's approximately the right number of days in this year. So I'm still on track, which is exciting. That's awesome. It's getting to the point now where in the beginning it was exciting, and I definitely got into the point where it was like, oh, this sucks. We're traveling. I don't want to do this.

And I'm starting to finally get back into a rhythm. And it's getting to that point where it's like, I'm succeeding. I just need to make it until the end of the year. Like, I'm getting, it's a habit. So it's not new and exciting, but I'm like invested in it now, which feels good. It's hard to get there with stuff, especially stuff that's like exercise. It's just not a core part of my habitual routines in any way. But it feels good that it kind of is now.

And if I keep going, like it'll build and maybe I'll do more than just walk a mile, hopefully. But that's, you know, keeping the mile a day thing is feeling really good, which is not unsurprising, a little surprising, but I'm glad it's working. Yeah. From what I've learned about when I hated running to when I was okay with running and I still don't like running is so long as you sit in the point where you think you could do more and you don't push yourself too soon to go to the next step, you'll always stay in that kind of, I'm okay with this. You just don't want to be in the I hate everything about everything stage, but I'm not even exercising. It's an easy trap. Like I get on social media and stuff, I get things, you know, influencers, fitness people where it's like, oh, I could do that. What if I add? And part of me is like, oh, no, keep build the habit. Don't add too much.

But then my other brother of my brain is like, you lazy fuck. You could be way more. What are you talking about? And I'm like, no, no, no, right? We're still like, we're sticking to a mile, maybe a couple miles. We're sticking to doable until it's a habit. And then because I, 100% if it becomes a thing where I'm like, oh, I hate this, I stop doing it. I'm awful at maintaining habits like that until it's like ingrained.

This might be the longest I've ever stuck with a new year. resolution was pretty good. It was really good. Best I can relate is I've been a lot better about flossing my teeth. Like brushing I do, flossing was like once or twice a week, but I've been flossing at least once a day. That's a lot of flossing. Jesus. I've been doing it. Yeah, but nobody flosses once a day. I know, but I actually like have been. Well, I floss once a week. I'm like, all right, close enough. I don't know why or whatever reason, but I've just been doing it more. Yeah, well, it's all good. Taking care of ourselves is good because you know why? We're not getting younger.

It's actually what my next episode's going to be about. Can I also say one thing that is very funny that I'm discovering? No. Yeah, go ahead. What's that? Be sure. Be sure you want to hear it. Cut recording.

Mark, just tell me I'm interested. This is one of those things where it's like, even talking about this, I can tell, like, it could cross over into me being pompous and weird and elitist and whatnot. But I find it very funny because the movie came out. So theaters are paying their share. Like I've talked about that before on interviews and stuff. It's like a 50-50 split between theaters and me for the pay minus the percentage that the Centurion films, the people helping out the small company with the small theaters think. They're sending checks.

Almost all of them are sending physical checks. Each individual theater. So that's how I operate still. Is that bad? Do you write checks? I actually have a follow-up on that, Wade. I have an interesting follow-up from the subreddit on that. But Mark, continue your story.

They're sending you physical checks for some fucking reason. And it's not even a problem that I have to deal with, but it's a problem that my accountant has to deal with because Mary is her name. And she's great. We've been working together for years and years and years now. I know Mary. She's the best. Yeah.

Mary's the best. Right. So Mary has to make trips to the bank with like bundles of checks this big. And I'm like, do you need like security or something? Do you need someone to help you with it? And it's like, they're, they're, there, it's really wonderful. It's so cool. Like, gave paid and obviously I would give a bonus to the crew and this is great.

The dollar amounts to kind of like make your mind explode sometimes. But the, I haven't seen a picture of it, but it's a visual imagery of just like a bundle of checks like in, in, in, there's some blowing away because you just can't carry them off. Yeah. Like in the wind. Anyway, it's 2026 and there's still sending checks, which is perfectly valid. It's a very okay thing to do. I think it's just funny. Mary's office is like that scene from Harry Potter where they're trying to get him the invitation to Hogwarts.

The owls are in the office like, fuck, oh, it's God. Yeah, yeah. So it's an interesting time because right now is like a month after the movie came out, which is weird to think. Like, I feel like it's been out for months now. That is crazy. It still feels like it just happened. It's been just about one month, which, you know, things usually get paid on a next month basis. So it's a fun novel thing that I am experiencing.

That's so silly. And Wade, the subreddit, a banker wanted you to know. Using checks is actually the least secure way you can deal with money in the modern world. Because on a check is your bank account. Generally, your full name and address. Any information they might need to fully impersonate you. And also, apparently, thieves, whatever, forgers, whatever they are, can just take a check. check that you've written for some actual thing and wash the ink off or whatever, some wash it,

whatever that means, and then just make it a check to themselves from you. I thought it was weird that I had bought an island in the middle of the Pacific. So anyway, you're wrong, and you should stop with that. And so should movie theaters. How, who wants to write a check? I don't even know if I have physical checks. If someone, if I had to do something and they were like, oh, you need to write a check, I'd be like, nah, never mind.

whatever this is I'll figure it out I'll go somewhere else that's fun all right I'll make a note of that I'll still do it some companies you have to like there's no online payment so like they force you to I have zero interactions with companies that require me to send them physical money we had like a lawn care company come through because we had like a couple trees go down and whenever they sent the bill like the only option to pay them was mailing a check that's like my first question when I hire like so enough work on the house or like do like fix you know whatever handyman whatever. I get the reviews and then I message them and I'm like, hey, can you fix a broken

sink and also do you take digital forms of payment? And if the answer to either of my questions is no, I'm like, ah, it fixed itself and talked to the next one. I've never thought to ask that follow up. I'm always like, review good. You do a good job. You know what tree is? You can remove the tree. Great. We work together. That's crazy, man. That's crazy work. I could never. It's not hard. Writing a check really is not that difficult. I mean, I know how to do it. The problem is not that's difficult. The problem is, why the fuck would you want to do that? It means you got to mail it?

Means you have to have stamps? I don't have stamps. Who the fuck has stamps? Oh, we got some Betty whites right now, and I forget the other one. We got some stamps. You have kinds of stamps? What? You're in the wrong generation, man. Are you as old as you look? Yes! Man, he's been insulting the host so much this episode. Usually, that's

devastating. Wait, Mark's not hosting? Ah, that's right. Damn it. No, anyway, I mean, do what you want. I don't actually care, but I just think it's crazy that the, they're so, because you're not the only one. There are still so many people in clearly industries, like the movie theaters or whatever, that use paper checks. And I'm like, oh. I should be working with the movie industries. Mark, you cut down trees.

I will take your checks. We'll switch roles. We will buy a movie theater. Yeah, no. Wade, you would be perfect to run the movie theater. Mark was right. If all I have to do is sit back and write checks, yes, I'm your man. Apparently, that's a huge part of it.

Huge. That's one of the biggest things movie theaters do. They show movies and then they write checks. I mean, it's got to be because they're writing to all the different movie companies. Like, they're showing a bunch of them. I'm not going to lie, Bob. I thought you were about to tell Mark about the town. No, I wasn't going to bring that up.

That's, well, now you did. Yeah, I guess I did. What the town? I feel like you have to tell them about it now. So there's apparently a whole town for sale. It's a village. Yeah. It comes with a church, some houses, some other stuff.

It's in Maine. And it would have like 26 structures or something? Wait, $6 billion. for how much stuff? For a whole village. A whole village? A whole little, cute little town up in Maine. Six million dollars.

It had like 20, it had like 30 structures, 26, 30, some number of structures. Buildings, houses, like Wade said, like there's a church. Oh my God, it's not six. It's 5.5. 25 structures, 50 acres. Oh, and you know what we could put in that town. A movie theater. Wait, it's delightful.

Also, it looks fake. There's this like facade of what. It looks like a row of garage doors. Have you seen this? I didn't really look at it. What's it called? What did you search? If you just scroll down, it looks like, oh, this is charming.

It's charming, charming, charming. And then get to like the fifth picture that just says garage. Wait a minute. Whoa, wait. Yeah, what the fuck? It's a Realtor.com article, charming antique village in Maine for sale. But that is just actually a facade of a fake, it's like a fake stable house. It's just the front wall.

That's really weird. I've never seen anything like it. But like the rest, tons of these look super awesome. Some of these have cars parked in front of them like people live there. I don't understand what this is exactly. We could buy this and then have a permanent town to film things in forever. Oh.

My DM over at Lost Initiative is when he told me about this. And he's like, you could tell Mark, he could film there. I was like, they have a pond. We could do our boat episodes on the pond. Oh, moving to Maine.

Peen House. Peen Town. Peen Town, Peen Town, Bean Town. We're really upgrading, guys. We're going to have a Kickstarter going for no other reason than to give us money so that we don't have to spend our own money. Oh, I hope they take checks. It'll be a great investment for anyone who wants to send us a paper check in the mail like it's 1937. Yeah, the entire distractible audience is going to live in this 50-acre spot.

I think we can make it work. Taxes will be crazy high. Can we start a cold? Sturt. Yeah, just five and a half million. million dollars and you could own your very own town not you mark were like listeners you could own your very own village in maine called tuthill what's it called tutthill tut hill tuth you think he knows this place it's it's uh he was in main right he's from main he's a main boy right he was probably

born here well there you have it some of you can look it up and see what we're talking about the rest of you just use your imaginations hopefully no ampha fan a fantasia i'm fine hopefully no amphetamaniacs. Everyone slam your amphetamines. Get ready. The episode's about to go wild. It is. Because do you know what I think today is if I did my math correct? Friday the...

That wasn't as creepy. That was more weird than creep. Editors make me creepy. I'm scared. So other than the franchise, Friday the 13th, right? We all know Jason Voorhees and all that and his mom and whatever. Why the hell is Friday the 13th a thing? Why is that franchise?

Why Friday the 13th? Like, what's the deal? Friday the 13th. What we're going to do is we're going to dig deep. We're investigative reporters. And by we, I mean, you too. And you're going to just let me know why Friday the 13th, why is 13th bad? Why Friday the 13th? Why not Tuesday the 13th? I want to know all the things about 13th, Friday the 13th, luck, luck, misfortune, anything tangentially related. Tangent. I call tangent rights. Okay. A bob sign and cosign are still available. Math jokes. That's funny, Wade.

Scream 7 Saw that Great What do you mean Saw that? Is that new? I saw it Oh

Do you have any thoughts? I look Do I have any more opinions On horror movies Now that I've made one Can I officially have Stronger opinions about that? You're a professional

Yeah you're You made the number one Horror movie in America And definitely Australia, New Zealand and Canada That's true That's very true Scream 7

Did they do Friday the 13th Is with Jason right not with Michael Myers that's Halloween Halloween Halloween that's Halloween yeah and then Scream 7 is but those are like the three right uh Texas Chainsaw Masker has a leather face scream has ghost face no I mean like of the same era right didn't they all come out roughly the same no scream one came out later scream is 90s uh you're thinking of uh your nightmare in elm street yeah nightmare and um street and and Halloween and Friday the 13th I would that never mind this has nothing to do

with anything I think it was a it was it was a movie Great. This just in, filmmaker, Markiplier blasts new scream movie for not even being scary, quote, whatever. Slam, Scream 7. I give you a point mark, it just says Scream 7 equals exists. This is from an expert in horror movie making. That's math.

I can honestly say I've never actually watched a whole Scream movie start to finish. Oh, the first one was really good. The second one was, I mean, I remember enjoying the first few. It's a horror movie. It's a scary movie, right? It's scary. Yeah. Yeah, pass.

You guys would probably judge me very harshly for the movies I have not seen because they are scary and I don't watch scary movies. The notebook. Dude, that's the most terrifying movie. I have seen the notebook and I fucking hate it because my mom's mom had Alzheimer's and that is one of my greatest fears in existence. I think we talked about that. That's one of my biggest fears in life is that I'm going to lose my mind and forget the

people who care about me and forget. Like, that actually, that movie actually does. Like, it's supposed to be like a love story, whatever, and it's kind of sad. But that movie makes me more depressed and terrified than anything I've ever watched. And I hated. Then you'd be fine with Scream 1. Pass. Okay.

I thought I had them there. I thought I had them there. I feel like I probably should watch that, though. Like, it's sort of in the lexicon. I've only ever seen Scream 7 now. That's the only one I've seen. Okay. Podcast out.

We're going to go watch some screen movies together. You know why everyone hates Friday? Because that's when all the scary movies come out. Come out on Friday. Is that true? Except for Thursday where they have preview night, but that's officially every theater does it. That's not the release, though.

The release date is on Friday. I tried to see Iron Lung on a Thursday, but it was sold out. In like a couple more decades, it would be like, the movie comes out on Friday. See early release screenings Tuesday night. That's like Black Friday sales that then became Thanksgiving, that then became the day before Thanksgiving. Wasn't there an Ice Cube series that was called like Friday?

or something. I'm having a memory of something that was, I feel what you're, I feel what you're rememberizing. Uh, I have an update breaking news. Trisca decaphobia.

Eh? Tris, triscaidecophobia. That's the fear of 13. And then fear of Friday the 13th is called pariscavedecadriphobia. Can I just say, I typed Triskeidecophobia into Google and spelled it right? on my first attempt.

Really? Can I just say that? Holy shit. Wait, why is this in Spanish? Como? You spelled the Spanish version of it. I typed it into Google. I just typed Triske decafobia,

and Google's AI overview is La Trisca decafobia. S. El Miedo a version. I don't speak Spanish, so you can normally pronounce it. Why is it in Spanish? It's like I'm in Spain right now. AI always works.

It's why it's everywhere. It's so good. There's also pariskevedecca triopobia. There's Friga tree skydeca phobia, which is Old Norse for the fear of 13. Trey Skydeca, which is 13 in ancient Greek and Phobos, which is fear. That's where it's all near written. Sorry, I was really allergic to Norse, old Norse. It doesn't seem like that bad of a number to me.

Like, I know that that's the superstitions. And like that's just kind of seems fine. Seems like a fine number. I feel like there are way worse numbers. Two of the best years I ever had playing basketball. My number was 13 and 22. So those have always been numbers I've liked. 17 seems like a terrible number to me.

17 has a bad vibe about it. And I don't care for it. But nobody gets all up in a twist about 17. They're all focused on the wrong one, I feel like. I've never picked up that on 17. I don't, then again, I haven't really picked up that 13's unlucky. But 17's a waste of a year. 16, you can drive 18.

You're an adult. 17, just a number in between. 17 is just a number. I feel like I'm walking closer to a moral area I don't want to with words like that. Yeah, yeah, that's what I mean. After Mark's reaction, I was like, maybe.

I can see the headline now, Wade, distractible co-ho says 17's just a number, everyone. 16, you can drive. I have 18 you're an adult, 17, just a number. I have on the unluckiness of 13, according to the Wikipedia,

One source mentioned for the unlucky reputation of the number 13 is a North Norse myth about 12 gods, which has been said is like the perfect number. I don't know why. Tyler loves the number 12. Oh, he does. Yeah, that's true. Having a dinner party in Valhalla, the trickster god Loki, who is not invited, arrived as the 13th guest and arranged for...

Hoar! H! Excuse me? Hoar! The god of darkness. Oh. H. O with two dots, oh with a whole fuck tonnery of things above it, and are,

the god of darkness to shoot balder, the god of joy and gladness, with a mistletoe-tipped arrow balder. I saw this in God of War, triggering much suffering in the world, which caused the number 13 to be considered unlucky. Coincidentally, the Christian Association of this same dinner with 12 disciples and the 13th being Judas, I didn't know the similarities between those two mythologies. And the movie, 13 ghosts with the guy who played monk. And the movie, 13 candles. And the movie, Jim Carries the number 23 minus 10. Oh, I remember the sequel, yeah.

Oh, there's that Catherine Heigel chick flick, 13 dresses. 13 going on 30? The Disney sequel, 13 Dalmatians left. Oh, fuck. Who could forget the classic M. Knight Sharmelon movie, 13th Sense. I think Dead Peel. I fnees dead people. I fnees dead people.

It's when you feel a sneeze. What about my favorite Stephen King book turned into movie? Shawshank 13. Oh, I thought you were talking about. It's 13. What was that movie on the boat with Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet? Tit 13? I loved the green 13.

The Eminem movie, 13th Mile. 13th mile. That's all. I don't have any more. Guys, I got a meme. Did you know the wreck of the Costa Concordia cruise ship happened on Friday, January 13th, 2012? Hmm. I did not.

Coincidence? I think not. Or, no, I do think. Is it correct inverse of that statement, I think is then? I would have thought I think so, but I guess is. Okay, this is a funny thing. I was just preparing myself. Wait, keep your real laugh to yourself.

It's terrifying. God, I hate that. Funny! No, okay, just wait till I say the thing, man. Just wait, you'll see, you'll see. All right. There is always at least one Friday the 13th per calendar year, but it can be as long as 14 months between two Friday the 13th.

But there will always be one, except that it could be 14 months in between each one. So if one was in December, 14 months later would skip a year, though. One could be in March and then one could be in November or something, right? But it says that there, at least Wikipedia is saying that there will always be one Friday the 13th per calendar year. Also, Friday the 13th has never fallen on a Monday. Is that just true of every day and every number of the month?

Is that one of those things where you read it and you're like, wow. And it's like, oh, wait, that's just how number. I do see that there was a book that came out in the early 1900s about Friday the 13th, which apparently maybe added to the superstition about it. What about a Baker's Dozen? A Baker's Dozen is 13 items, but that's good thing. Why do bakers have immunity to the curse of 13? Well, because bakers are good and dozen is good.

Therefore, you put them together and it makes something bad. Two positives to make a negative, right? I see what Mark's getting at. Bakers are evil. You want to rebrand Friday of the 13? It's just making it a little more palatable. But there where you're born. Ah, April Baker's Dousin, 1902.

I'm very old. We know. Oh, wait. Okay, wait, no, it's not as good. Hold on a second. Baker's Dazen might actually also be cursed. There are a few theories as to why Baker's Dazen became 13, but the most widely accepted one has to do with avoiding a beating.

In medieval England, there were laws related to the price of bread and the price of the wheat used to make it. Bakers who were found to be cheating their customers by overpricing, undersized loaves were subject to strict punishment, including fines or flogging. Even with careful planning, it is difficult to ensure that all of your baked goods come out the same size. There may be fluctuations in rising and baking and air content, and many of these bakers didn't even have scales.

For fear of accidentally coming up short, they would throw in a bit extra to ensure that they wouldn't end up with a surprise flogging later. It seems bad. So even in a baker's dozen, which I thought as the recipient, And it's a good thing. It's the baker's trying to avoid a bad thing. Well, they shouldn't try and screw us out of that extra money, should they? I told you bakers are evil. I've always thought this. What are they up to back there?

Also, well, some donuts are baked, but like a lot of donuts are fried, right? Is that still a baker? It's not a baker's dozen. It's a friar's dozen, which is just 12. I don't know. I just think back to the Beauty and the Beast. There goes the baker with her tray, like always. The fear and trepidation in the voice, the song is saying? I don't remember that line at all. Where was that in the movie? Give me a timestamp.

Oh, very early. It's whenever Bell's walking around like the town and everyone loves her and stuff. I actually don't know any other lyrics to that song other than that. I don't know many of the lyrics, but that movie is forever tainted by redacted for me because there was an episode of Eunice on us where for some reason you and Ethan were, I think you were making a whole shitload of eggs or something. And in the middle of the episode out of nowhere, you were just like, no one fucks like Gaston. No one cucks like Gaston.

I'm especially good at ejacculating. Yes. It's ruined forever. Ah, good times, good times. Have we answered your question, Wade? You have not, because there's still like 15 minutes left. Whoa, it's a question. Now bring us back.

Okay, we've covered some of the 13s. Have we covered why, friends? Friday? Other than Bob did say Friday bad because bad scary movies come out. Movies come out on Friday. Bad movies. Everyone hates movies. I think Fridays were seen as like bad even before they were movies. Like that dates back. I have no idea if this holds up, but I've heard this as a, I don't know how it was story, superstition. Isn't it the story that Jesus was crucified on Friday? Isn't that what good Friday is? And then doesn't sound very good for him.

I can imagine, I feel like that makes Friday. Friday's bad, which is funny because it's called Good Friday, but whatever. Yeah. Call it whatever you want, I guess. But I don't actually know if that's true or how that lines up with the calendar gear cassette. Do you think you can condemn yourself to hell by just writing a description for a single point in a game like this?

Yes. All I wrote was one point for Bob. Friday, Jesus. Bye, bye. Accurate. Like, if you were telling a child that, I think that that might make sense. You know, it's not really offensive. Anyway, Good Friday has been on Friday the 13th.

only if Easter is on April 15th and it has occurred in 1900, 1906, 1979, 1990, 2001, and will occur again in 2063. I mean, we left the 80s in 1990. I love the 80s. You beg you don't even, you lived in the 80s for like nine months. Oh, and it was so much better. I think people dread Fridays because for parents, it means that it's the weekend, which means that you got all day, both

days, and if it's a long weekend, all day, all three days, you got to entertain those little ankle biters that you've done made. And kids just go crazy on the weekends. It's just full-on psychopaths. But during the rest of the normal week, they're totally chill.

It's great. So then it gets to be Friday, and then parents are like, oh, God. Oh, fuck. It's like nighttime in I Am Legend. They like lock the house down and then they get the dog, and they sit in the bathtub with a gun

and rock back and forth until they survive the night. Is that every night in that movie? No, I guess that was only the bad one when he was hurt or what, I don't know. I don't know if we got to see like a normal night because the first night, he wakes up and then the first night you actually see in the movie

is everything's already fucked, right? Isn't that already crazy? What movie we're talking about? I am 13. For some weird reason in my brain, I conflate scenes from I am legend with the one with the robots that Will Smith was also in.

I am robot? I don't think that was Will Smith, was it? I am legend and I am robot. The two Will Smith movies. It's called I-Robot. Oh, okay. It's like, wait, that sounds right, but it doesn't sound right. Which is 100% what Apple's home robot assistant is going to be called in 50 years when it releases.

And they'll totally miss that that's hilarious, but also terrifying. But no, I get those movies aside from aesthetically and thematically being pretty far apart and almost as unrelated as you could have I could see why you mix it together, because Will Smith's in there. Will Smith in it up. All right. I'm getting to the point where I'm Googling 13. Oh, you knew all the rest of this on top of your head? That's crazy.

Well, I didn't Google 13. Okay, but you pulled up like trip a trackophobia out of nowhere. Okay, 13's a natural number following 12, preceding 14. Wow. That tracks. It's a prime number. A happy number. Wait, what the fuck is a happy number?

Wait. Oh, it's the opposite of what you'd think And a lucky number? Okay, I don't know Okay, happy number In number theory, a happy number is a number Which eventually reaches one When the number is replaced by the sum of the square of each digit

Okay, for instance, 13 is a happy number because 1 squared plus 3 squared equals 10 and 1 squared plus 0 squared equals 1 So if you eventually reduce it down Through the sum of the squares This really is the Jim Carrey movie It's 20 fucking three.

What the fucking happy number. Why is that? You know, I really prefer melancholy numbers. That's where when you replace them with the square root of each digit separately, but added together, it stays the same number forever. I think that mathematicians sometimes get this weird hard on to, wow, our number system that we made is really so perfect and it's so circular and everything. Oh, it lines up so beauty, except for the things that don't. Oh, look at the happy number. looking to happy little number.

Perfect digital invariant. What the fuck is perfect digital invariant? How was. For base B greater than one end power P greater than zero F parameters P, B colon, N to N is, but fancy ends, is defined as F, PB, parentheses, N equals the sum of K minus one on top. Are these functions? Function of N?

P. Ff. I don't know. D. To the P under the to the lower I period. D to the P to the lower I, baby, I'm purgy. And where K equals, what is that symbol? It's not a bracket.

It's an L, but in the shape of a bracket, but it doesn't have a top. Topless bracket. Topless bracket. Lod. B log. Log below to the N other bracket. A hockey stick the other way. Plus one is a number of digits in the number in base B and D.

lower i equals n mod b to the i plus one minus n mod b to the i divided by b to the i and that is literally the first four lines in this definition there are about 12 more do you want me to read them don't stop i love this dude i need to get something to sleep to tonight yeah please a natural number n is a perfect digital variant of it is a fixed point for f pb which occurs in f p b equals n o and one zero and one or Obviously, trivial perfect digital invariance for all B&P. Obviously. Perfect digital invariants are non-trivial perfect digital invariants. For example, the number 4-1-5-0 in base B equals 10 is a perfect digital invariant of P equals 5-1-5 equals 4-1-5-to-the-5 equals 4 to the 5 to the 5-to-the-5.

A sociable digital invariant? Bringing all your digital invariants to the party so you can socialize them. Oh my God, I hate mathematicians. Where's the introverted digital invariant? Your mom's a non-trivial perfect digital invariant. Dude. Just wait until you get to the pre-periodic points for FPB regardless of the base. You don't have to tell me about PPPFPs.

I just don't know what this is trying to prove. I'm sure it's useful in some way. No, that's the thing. Useful is the wrong words. Like, I don't know. I'm not going to tell like I know anything about what you just said or about math, but I can tell you from being around a lot of scientists and Mandy,

mani does, is statistician and does math and data science stuff. There's a lot of shit that exists where you're like, oh man,

that sounds complicated, but actually it's fucking useless. Like, it's true, and somebody prove that it's true and it's a thing and it isn't good

for anything. Somebody was just like, this is true, look, and that's it. And that's it. And that sounds like one of those things

where it's like, yep, all that stuff you said is mathematically provable. I don't even remember what led us to reading all of that, to even knowing why we cared. Mark was teaching us about numbers. Oh, the happy numbers. That's right.

There's also narcissistic number. What's your height? Whoa. What the hell? Sorry, sorry, man. I came out swinging. I don't even know how that was an insult. Oh, my God, they've got sociable narcissistic numbers. Got amicable narcissistic numbers?

Wait, but do they have non-trivial amicable narcissistic numbers? They do, they do. They have trivial narcissistic numbers. and non-trivial narcissistic numbers. All right, well, then I'll allow it. All right, man, I'm really glad we got down to the roots of why it's unlucky and lucky and Friday and 13. I hope you all out there watching and listening

and learn something today. There will be a quiz, and if you can't do the function of N to the D to the IP-L-O-M-N-G, we're tasty, then you're going to fail. That's funny. We go through the points for no particular order. Bob, you're first. You got points.

I wrote down, he's a walk. for but just because you're walking. That's good. Self care, good. Wade identity theft, because you were telling me about the checks. You were mean to the host, but funny. So I'll give you a point instead of taking one for once. Friday, bad, because scary movies.

I gave you both points for movie, 13 movie puns that we just kept going down the rabbit hole of. That was so busy contributing. I didn't really keep track of the different ones we made. Oh, 13 days later. Oh, yeah, 13 weeks later, 13 months later. Sorry, sorry. It's too late. Eunice Gaston reference.

Friday Jesus. Bye-bye. Friday bad because kids. Nope, not useful. To Mark's 10 minutes of numbers and that gives you a total of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 points. If there's anything I know about science, it's that it likes to be useless but funny. That's why science exists. Oh, Mark, you got points and I'm going to offer a bonus point.

If you can remember what ADR stands for. But if I didn't know it before, you still get one point. I don't know. Automatic. It's automatic doving recording or something like that. I don't remember. Isn't it alternate dubbed recording or something like that? No, it's not alternate, but it's automatic and I don't know why.

I know the first one's automatic, but are automated or something like that. Alternative dispute resolution. I don't think that's what I'm looking for. No, it's not. American Depository? Sorry, that's not it. It says her automated dialogue replacement. That makes more sense than what I got.

All right, Mark, well, you know, mediation, arbitration, math numbers, you're a pro. Thanks. You also got points for your piles of checks, which is very relatable. All of us out here can relate to carrying around piles of checks. Having people that carry our piles of checks to the bank for us. Very relatable stuff. You told us that Scream 7 exists. You say different folks.

Obie a word's funny. You told us about Norse history. More of the 13th movie puns. The Friday the 13th Easter conspiracy with Jesus and the different years of which those things align. Happy numbers. And I gave you a point for the last 10 minutes of Mark Math that we listen to. Oh, cool. Thanks. 5, 6, 7, 8. That total of 9. Fuck. But I had your name written first and the point total is 9 to 11. Is that also a coincidence because of Friday the 13th? Probably. No?

Did 9-11 happen on Friday the 13th? I think not. No, I don't think it did. I don't think we can safely say that one. All right, fair enough. Right now, Bob, you're up and it's time for the wheels. Yeah, wait, I'm up by three points, two points. 11 to 9, you're up by two. How many spins will there be? Ha, didlidliddy, can there be two spit? Oh, this shall be three.

Oh, yeah, I got a chance. Oh, I got a chance. You always got a chance, babe. Wade, what are you adding to the wheel of fun happy times? Do we already have something for like tinfoil hat or person that's like the most conspiratorial? I think maybe. Scariest contribution. He who is immortal wins a point. I forgot I had one of those lurking in there.

That's fun. Oh, right. Yeah, you're still immortal. Hmm. If we don't see it, what is called the tinfoil hat point. It'll make no sense in about two months, but for right now, man. Chauph, shuff, shah, shah, shah, shah. Three spins.

Let's do this. Oh, I got so many tabs. I got so many tabs. I'm so distracted. Were they related? I have cheaper by the dozen. Builders for sale, Maine. I got 13.

There's 13 in there. That's 13. I have two tabs open and they're both directly related to what we're talking about. So I guess by default, Mark, gets the point. GMFST, Black Magic Design, a cinema site is open. ADR, I guess that's related, Baker's Dozens, related, 23 of the movie. Yeah, that's related to ubiquity

websites open and my YouTube channel. Your YouTube channel, not related. Officially, that's one thing at least that makes you more distracted. Spin number two. Point four viewers. Okay, all right. That limits your chances,

but that does not preclude you from sweeping this away for me still. No, that's actually a terrible spin for me. All right, no matter where this ends, it's Bob's point. Come on, shortest. That's inarguable. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. Mark slept in today.

I just said I slept in. Mark started this by saying he slept late. Ooh, dodged that one. Oh, well, you win some, you lose them. I mean, I could also say I slept in, but I also didn't go to bed until late. I know exactly how much sleep I got if you really want to compare, but... No, no, no, no, need. I got nine hours.

Oh, since last episode, though. Wait, no, we need... Okay, yeah, yeah, hold on. So, wait, since yesterday was since the last release or since the last recording? Recording, I think is what that would imply. I don't think either of us slept in the break between this episode and the immediate previous episode. So it must be the previous one. No, my sleep fitness score is so big.

Oh, I did not get a lot of sleep this week. You're in trouble, Mark. Oh, shit. I'm sleeping so good, man. My seven-day average, it says, is about six and a half hours, but last night I got eight hours and 47, it says. My seven-day average since last Tuesday is six hours and 20 minutes. My six hours and 35 minutes average. All right, point for ball.

Damn it. Damn it, why do I have to not be working on a movie and sleeping so good? I dodged the one-man show wheel. Congratulations. Wait, what else can we compare? What about your heart rate? I bet your heart rate's way better than mine. Yeah, go ahead.

I don't care about that. Go take more time. Whatever. So the resting heart rate is 67. I've been going down all that. That's good. Oh, wow. Man, my metrics are looking great.

Yeah, my resting heart rate's only 72. Kick my ass. I don't monitor any of this stuff. So, uh, whatever God wants me to have. Do you mean for your heart rate or sleep? Heart rate? Okay, good, okay. The man upstairs real involved in my sleep schedule.

He tells me when to snore. He doesn't say shit to me. All right, so Mark, lose your speech. Well, let's just say that if the tradeoff for losing is having higher quality of life and the other things. And if that means that I can get a village in Maine, I'd say losing is pretty good. I say losing is okay. Unfortunately, the village takes checks only. Fuck.

You need to send them one paper check for $5.5 million. Damn. Bob, winner speech. My life is terrible, and that's how I keep winning. The worse it gets, the more I win. This is all I have. I have no joy. I have no other sources of anything other than sadness and pain.

So I put it all here. I leave it all on the table. And if I ever don't win, if you ever steal this one, brief moment of joy I get once a week. I don't know what I'm gonna do. I'll probably have to take it out on whoever steals it for me, I guess. I guess this is kind of a warning, huh?

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