Friday the 13th

Good evening, gentle listeners, or watchers, and welcome to "Destractable" this episode. Waterlogging Wade maniacally masticates, fanatically flosses, then gets into the Templars terror, magnifiable mark teaches movie mic moments, fires more staff, mentions Magnificent Mary, scrubscreen 7, slaughters Norse words, and fucks Gaston, prompting naggy and bob gains high mileage, licks the leal and bass Wade, proposes buying peen, and dodges horror from ADR to frigatriska decafobia. 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 "Destractable". I'm today's host, because fate is all it fit to be so. When he's always by my co-host, Mark and Bob is the show where one of his hosts, either to be provoked, 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, but 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, I will say this. There were 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, 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. We're in a good sound environment, and I've done it on my own during the edit where I've like, 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 ADR through a couple of times throughout 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 law 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, I was like, let's try to try some else here, funky, and it didn't get well. Well, I could 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 gonna worry about it. I'm not even gonna try to make this match. I'm not gonna set up my big microphone. There's a microphone in this monitor. I'm just gonna 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. It gets over to Brad. He messages me, or when I show up there for this final stage, like, man, whatever mic you used for these last ADR was really good. Like, it just smelted 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 ADRs. If you're recording stuff on set, you have to remember that that is not a perfect sound environment. You, 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 knocking environment. There's also in a warehouse, you know, kind of like bleeds out bleeds. And 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 roomhouse, recording was just a regular bedroom, but it kind of 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 not going to sound as good because what 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 didn't it did some ADR or to put something in. And they're like, yeah, no, no, no, then we go outside. What the fuck? It's not even like it's bad audio. It's just like jarring when the there's nothing happening. What a person talking, but you're like, dude, we just teleport. Do we time travel? What happened? Some water along in my ear. 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 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, I'll make time. I'll go to the studio. I just know problem. And I'm like, all right, like I totally respect the 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 on your phone anyway? Yes, exactly. And then I played it again. We use that to get in there. Anyway. So it's sound is funny sometimes 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 got to keep that in mind. Like bad sound isn't bad. If it fits what it's supposed to be and 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 so that you were just like, fuck 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 of lines there. But yeah, that's cool, though. I mean, I thought he was being sarcastic. I thought the whole setup was he was being sarcastic. That's why he 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 in their bonuses. Yeah, exactly. That's the whole man. You know me. And also I have things going on. Great. Is it your turn? Oh, that was my full update. 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 know realize that according to their Apple Watch, they already walked 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 no, 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 it's getting to the point now where in the beginning, it was exciting. And I got I definitely got into the point where it was like, oh, 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 till the end of the year. Like I'm getting it's a habit. So it's not like, 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, 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 I'll just 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 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 and part of me is like, Oh, no, keep build the habit. Don't add too much. But then the my other part of my brain is like, you lazy fuck. You could do way more. What are you talking about? Yeah. And I'm like, 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, I just I stopped doing it. I'm awful at maintaining habits like that until it's like ingrained. It's might be the longest I've ever stuck with a New Year's resolution. It was pretty good. That's 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 So we probably fall. and 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 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 my next episode it's gonna be about. - Can I also say one thing that is very funny that I'm discovering? - No, yeah, go ahead. - What's up? - Are you sure? Are you sure anybody is? - 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 it could cross over into me being pompous and weird and elitist and whatnot. But I find it very funny, 'cause 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 paying minus the percentage that Centurion films, the people helping out the small company with the small theaters thing. - They're sending checks. Almost all of them are sending physical checks in the visual theater. So that's how I operate still, is that bad? - Do you write checks? - I actually have a follow up on that way. 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. 'Cause Mary's 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, it's really wonderful. It's so cool, like gave paid. And obviously I would give bonus to the crew. And this is great. The dollar amounts to kind of like make your mind explode sometimes. But I haven't seen a picture of it. But it's a visual imagery of just like a bundle of checks. Like in there's some blowing away 'cause she just can't carry them all. - Yeah, like in the wind. - Anyway, it's 2026 and there's still sudden checks, which is perfectly valid. It's a very okay thing to do. I think it's as funny. - Mary's office is like that scene from Harry Potter where they're trying to get him the invitation to Hogwarts. - He owls. - Oh my god, she's like in the office like fuck all of God. - Yeah, so it's an interesting time 'cause right now it's 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. - But 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, you 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 that you've written for some actual thing and wash the ink off or whatever, wash it, whatever that means and then just make it a check to themselves from you. - I thought it was weird that I applaud 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, blah, never mind. (laughing) - 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 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 'cause we had like a couple of 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 when they work on the house or like do, like fix, you know what I mean, 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 have never thought to ask that follow up. I'm always like, if you good, you do a good job, you know what tree is, you can remove 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 it's difficult. The problem is, what the fuck would you want to do that? It's such a pain, it means you gotta 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 got 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, dammit. - No, anyway, I mean do what you want. I don't actually care, but I just think it's crazy that the, 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, - 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, wait, 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 gotta be 'cause they're writing to all the different movie companies, they're showing a bunch of them. - I'm not gonna lie, Bob, I thought you were about to tell Mark about the town. - No, I wasn't gonna 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 what it had like 26 structures or something. - Wait, six village for how much stuff? - For a whole village. - A whole little, cute little town up in Maine. $6 million, it had like 30 structures, 26, 30, some number of 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 facade of what 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." And then get to like the fifth picture that just says, "Garage." - Wait a minute. - Whoa, wait, yeah, what the fuck? What? It's a realtor.com article, charming antique village in Maine for sale, but that is just actually a facade of a, it's like a fake stable house. - It's just a farm wall. That's really what you never see anything like it. But like the rest, a lot of 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 Initiatives when he told me about this, and he's like, "You could tell Mark, you could film there." Or he could, and I was like, - They have a pond. We could do our boat episodes on the pond. - Oh, moving to Maine. - Pean house, Pean town, Pean town. - Pean town, town, town. - Yeah, we're really upgrading, guys. We're gonna have a kickstarter going for no other reason than to give us money so that we don't have to spend our own way. - 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 distractable audience is gonna live in this 50 acre spot. I think we can make it work. Taxes will be crazy high. Can we start a call? (laughs) - Start? - Yeah, just five and a half million dollars, and you could own your very own, not you, Mark, like listeners. You could own your very own village in Maine, called Tuffle. What's it called, Tut Hill? - Tut Hill. - Do you think he even knows this place? It's, he was in Maine, right? - He's from Maine. He's a main boy, right? - He was probably born here. - Yeah. - 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 fan, a fan, a fan, Tasia, I'm fine. Hopefully no infetomaniacs. - Everyone slam your infetomines, get ready. The episode's about to go wild. - It is, because you know what I think today is, if I did my math, correct? Friday, the-- - The teens. - That wasn't as creepy, so it was more weird than, the 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 the thing? Why is that franchise? Why Friday the 13th? Like what's the deal with Friday the 13th? So what we're gonna do is we're gonna dig deep. We're investigative reporters, and by we, I mean you too. And you're gonna just let me know why Friday the 13th, why is 13th bad? Why Friday the 13th? Why not Tuesday the 13th? I wanna know all the things about 13th, Friday the 13th, lock, unlock, misfortune, anything tangentially related. - Tangent, I call tangent rights, okay? A Bob signing co-sign are still available. - That's jokes. - That's funny, Wade. Scream seven, saw that. (laughs) - 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. movie in America and definitely Australia, New Zealand and Canada. That's true, that's very true. Scream 7, they do, Friday the 13th is with Jason, right? Not with Michael Myers. That's Halloween. Halloween, yeah. And then Scream 7 is a, but those are like the three, right? Texas State's Home Asker has leather face. Scream has ghost face. No, I mean, like of the same era, right? Didn't they all come out roughly and say, no, Scream 1 came out later. Scream is 90s. You're thinking of, you're not wearing Elm Street. Yeah, not wearing Elm Street. And Halloween and Friday the 13th, I would never mind. This has nothing to do with anything. I'm thinking it was a, it was, it was a movie. Great. Let's just in filmmaker, Markiplier, last new screen movie for not even being scary, quote, whatever. Slams, Scream 7. I give you point markets just as Scream 7 equals exists. This is from an expert in a horror movie making. That's math. I can honestly say I've never actually watched a whole screen movie start to finish. Oh, the first one was really good. The second one was, I mean, I remember enjoying the first view. It's, it's a horror movie, it's a scary movie, right? 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. 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 it. Then you'd be fine with Scream 1. Pass. Oh, OK. There it is. Thought I had him there. I feel like I should probably should watch that, though. Like it's sort of in the, it's sort of in the lexicon. I've only ever seen Scream 7 now. That's the only one I've seen. Oh, god. OK, I'm so podcasted out. We're going to watch some Scream movies together. You know what? You know, everyone hates Friday? Because that's when all the scary movies come out. Come out on Friday. That's 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 Long on a Thursday, but it was sold out. In like a couple more decades, we'd be like, the movie comes out on Friday. See early release screenings Tuesday night. It's like Black Friday sales that then became Thanksgiving, that then became the day before Thanksgiving. Was 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 memorizing. I have an update breaking news. Triscadecaphobia. Triscadecaphobia. That's the fear of 13. And then fear of Friday the 13th is called Periscavidacabria. Can I just say, I typed Triscadecaphobia 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 Triscadecaphobia. And Google's AI overview is-- Triscadecaphobia, S-L-M-E-D-O, a version. I don't speak Spanish, so I can order the pronunciation. Why is it in Spanish? It's like I'm in Spain right now. AI always works. That's why it's everywhere. So, so good. There's also Periscavidacabria. There's Fregatricecadecaphobia, which is old Norse for the fear of 13. Triscadecaphobia, which is 13 in ancient Greek and Fobos, which is fear, that's where it's all in the original. All right, I was really allergic to Norse. Old Norse. Doesn't seem like that bad of a number to me. Like, I know that that's the superstitions. And that's just kind of-- it seems fine. It seems like a fine number. I feel like there are way worse numbers. Who are the best years I ever had playing basketball? My number was 13 and 22, so this has 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 and 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 looking closer to a moral area. I don't want to go to one of the 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 Distractable Co. says, 17's just a number, everyone. 16, you can drive 18 year adults. 17, just a number. I have on the unluckyness of 13, according to the Wikipedia, one source mentioned for the unlucky reputation of the number 13 is a North-- North Smith, 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-- Hoor, hoor. Excuse me. Hoor, the god of darkness. Oh. H, O with two dots, O with a whole fuck tonnery of things above it, and R, Hoor, the god of darkness to shoot Balder, the god of joy and gladness, with a mistletoe-to-tiped arrow, Balder. I saw this and got a war, triggering much suffering in the world, which caused the number 13 to begin to turn nonlucky. Coincidentally, the Christian association of this same dinner with 12 disciples and the 13th being Judas-- I didn't know the similarity between those two mythologists. 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. But there's that cathart high-goal chick flick, 13 dresses. Mm-hmm. 13 going on 30. The Disney sequel, 13 Dalmatians left. Oh, fuck. Who could forget the classic M Night Shyamalan movie? 13th Sense. I think dead people-- I sneeze dead people. It's when you feel a sneeze. What about my favorite Stephen King book turned into movie? Shawshank, 13. [LAUGHS] Oh, I thought you were talking about it's 13. What was that movie on the boat with Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, tip 13? I loved the green 13. The M&M movie, 13th Mile. That's all. I don't know anymore. Guys, I got a meme. Did you know the wreck of the Costa Concordia cruise ship happened on Friday, January 13, 2012? I did not. Who wins it is? I think not. Or-- no, I do think. Is the correct inverse of that statement, I think, is then? I would have thought I think so, but I guess is-- OK, this is a funny thing. [LAUGHS] I was just preparing myself. Wait, keep your real laugh to yourself. It's terrifying. God, I hate that. Funny! Oh, yeah. No, OK, just wait till I say the thing, man, just wait. 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 what could be to you 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? It's at one of the last things where you read it, and you're like, wow. And it's like, oh, wait, that's just how numbers work. 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 make a negative, right? I see what Mark's getting at. Bakers are evil. You want to re-brand friends of the 13th month? Just make it look like hell. But there you're born, ah, April Bakers dozen, 1902. I'm very old. We know. Oh, wait, okay, wait, no, it's not as good. Hold on a second. Bakers dozen might actually also be cursed. There are a few theories as to why bakers dozen 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. Seems bad. So even in a Bakers dozen, which I thought as the recipient a good thing it's the baker's trying to avoid a bad thing. Well, they should. and 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, don't, 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 fryer's dozen, which is just 12. - I don't know, I just think back to the Beauty and the Beast. - There comes the baker with her tray, like always. - The fear and trepidation in the voice that she had the song is saying. I don't remember that line at all, where it was in the movie. Give me a timestamp. - Oh, very early. It's whenever bells walk around like the town, everyone loves her and stuff. - I actually don't know any of the 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 Unisonis where for some reason, you and Ethan were, I think you were making a whole shitload of eggs or something, you would do it. And in the middle of the episode out of nowhere, you were just like, no, what? No fucks like Gaston, no fucks like Gaston. (laughing) - I mean, especially good intershocculated. - Yeah, it's ruined forever. (laughing) - Ah, good times, good times. - Have we answered your question, Wade? - You have not, 'cause there's still like 15 minutes left. - Well, it's a question, now bring us back. - Okay, we've covered some of the 13s. Have we covered my Friday? Other than Bob did say Friday bad, 'cause 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's bad, which is funny 'cause it's called Good Friday, but whatever, 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 because-- - Do you think you can condemn yourself to hell by just writing a description for a single point in a game like this? - Yes. - It's only wrote was one point for Bob Friday, Jesus. Bye bye. (laughs) - 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, and I loved the '80s. - You banged, you don't even-- You've lived in the '80s for like the 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 gotta 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 that it gets to be Friday, and then parents are like, "Oh, God, oh, fuck." It's like a nighttime, and I am legend. They lock the house down, and then they get the dog, and they sit in the bathtub with a gun, and they 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 a-- - I don't know if we got to see like a normal night, 'cause the first night, he wakes up, and then the first night you actually see in the movie is everything's already fucked, right? Is that already crazy? - But movie time up? - 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 all so in. - I am robot. (laughing) - I don't think that was Will Smith, was it? - I am legend, and I am robot. Those two Will Smith movies. It's called, it's called "I Robot." - Oh, okay, that's like, wait, that sounds right, but it doesn't sound right. - Which is 100% what Apple's home robot assistant is gonna 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 imagine. - Ah, I can see why you mix them together, 'cause 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. (laughing) - Well, I didn't Google 13, or, no, no. - Okay, then you pulled up like, "Trip a track of phobia," I was like, nowhere. - Okay, 13's a natural number, following 12 preceding 14. - Yeah. - 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 think. - And a lucky number? Okay, I don't know, okay, happy number. In number theory, a happy number is the number which eventually reaches one when the number is replaced by the sum of the square of each digit. (laughing) - Does it breath, huh? - Okay, for instance, 13 is a happy number because one squared plus three squared equals 10 and one squared plus zero squared equals one. 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 fuck is a 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 beautiful, except for the things that don't, oh, look at the happy number. Look at the happy little number. Perfect digital invariant. What the fuck is perfect digital invariant? - How else? (laughing) - For base B greater than one N power P greater than zero F, parameters P, B, colon N to N is, but fancy N's is defined as F, P, B, parentheses N equals the sum of K minus one on top. - These functions function of N. (laughing) - D to the P under the, to the lower I period. - D to the P to the lower I, baby, I'm Fergie. - 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. - Low B log, log B low to the N, other bracket, the hockey stick the other way. Plus one is the number of digits and the number of 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 invariant if it is a fixed point for F PB, which occurs in F PBN equals N, O and one, zero and one are obviously trivial perfect digital invariants for all B and P, obviously perfect digital invariants and non-drivial perfect digital invariants. For example, the number four, one, five, zero, and base B equals 10 is a perfect digital invariant of P equals five because four, one, five, O equals four to the fifth four to the power of five plus one to the five to the five plus zero to the five, a sociable digital invariant, bring out your digital invariants to the party so you can socialize them with the party. Oh my God, I hate mathematicians. Where's the introverted digital invariant? - Your mom's a non-trivial, perfect digital invariant. - Dude. - Just wait 'til you get to the pre-periodic points for F PB regardless of the base. - You don't have to tell me about PPPF PBs. - 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. These are also wrong words. Like, I don't know. I'm not gonna 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 many is statistician, 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 proved 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 this 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. Oh, you know how that was an insult. Oh my God, they've got sociable narcissistic numbers. (laughing) - They've 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, I'm then I'll allow it. - Hi, 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 learn something today. There will be a quiz, and if you can't do the function of N to the D to the IPLO-MNG, we're tasty, then you're gonna fail. - That's funny. - We're gonna go through the points for no, no particular order, Bob, you're first. You got points, I wrote down he's a walkin' for, but just 'cause you're walking. That's good. Self-care, good. Wait, identity theft, 'cause you're tellin' 'bout the checks. You remain to the host. What funny. Oh, yeah, give you a point instead of taking one for once Friday bad because scary movies I give you both points from 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 all 13 days later. Oh, yeah 13 weeks later 13 months later. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. It's too late. Eunice Gaston reference Friday, Jesus buy buy Friday bad because kids No, not useful to mark 10 minutes of numbers and I give you total of 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 points There's anything I know about science is that it likes to be useless but funny. That's why science exists Oh, Mark, you got points and I'm gonna offer a bonus point if you can remember what 80 R stands for But if I didn't know it before you still get one point I don't know automatic automatic dubbing recording or something like that. I don't remember. Isn't it alternate dubbed recording or something like that? No, it's it's not alternate, but it's 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 American depository or sorry, that's not it. It's censored automated dialogue replacement That makes more sense than what I got. All right, Mark. Well, you know mediation arbitration math numbers. You're pro thanks You also got points for your piles of checks, which is very relatable all of us out here can relate to carry around piles of checks to having people that carry our piles of checks to the bank for us very relatable stuff You told us that scream seven exists. You say different phobia words funny. You told us about Norse history more of the 13 movie puns The Friday the 13th Easter conspiracy with Jesus and the different years of which those things aligned Happy numbers and I gave you a point for the last 10 minutes of mark math that we listen to. Oh, cool. Thanks Seven eight that's a total of nine fuck, but I had your name written first and the point total is nine to eleven Is that also a coincidence because the Friday the 13th probably? No, the 9/11 happened on Friday the 13th. I think not We could 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 nine. You're up by two. How many spins will there be? Had a lady can there be two spit of the shall be three. Oh, yeah, I got a chance. Oh, I got a chance You always got a chance, babe. Uh, wait. What are you adding to the wheel of fun happy times? Do we already have something for like 10 foil hat or person that's like the most conspiratorial? I Think may be 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 10 foil hat point It'll make no sense in about two months, but for right now, man Let's do this Hmm. Oh, I got so many tabs. I got so many tabs. I'm so distracted. Were they related? Uh, I have cheaper by the dust and They let us for sale main. 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 markets the point gmfst black magic design Cinema site is open ADR I guess that has related Bakers dozens related 23 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 Yes, pin number two Point for viewers. Oh, okay. All right. That's doesn't uh that limits your chances But that does not preclude you from sweeping this away from me still. No, this is 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 in arguable A block mark slept in today. I just said I slept there 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 need I got nine hours. Oh since last episode though. Wait. No, wait. All right. We need okay. Yeah. Yeah. Hold on So wait since 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 a slept in the Break between this episode and the immediate previous episode. So it must it must be the the previous one Oh, no, my sleep's fitness score is so big. Oh, I did not get a lot of sleep this week here in trouble mark Shit, I'm sleeping so good 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 Bob Damn it. Damn it. Why do I have to not be working on a movie and sleep and so good? I dodge the one-man show wheel. Congratulations. Wait. What else can we compare? What about your heart rate? I bet your heart rates way better than mine. Yeah, go ahead. I don't care about that. I go think think whatever So the resting heart rate is 67 been going down on us. We did no wow man. My metrics are looking great Yeah, my resting heart rates only 72 kick my ass. I don't monitor any of this stuff. So uh, uh Whatever god wants me to have you mean for your heart rate or sleep heart rate. Yeah. Okay. Good. Okay The band upstairs real involved in my sleep schedule. It tells me when to snore. It didn't say shit to me. All right So uh Mark loser speech Well, let's just say that uh if the trade-off for losing is uh having higher quality of life and um 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 Uh you need to send them one paper check for five and a half million dollars 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 oversteal this one brief moment of joy I get once a week I don't know what I'm going to 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 Anyway, this is fun time guys good episode Mm-hmm follow these guys uh especially Bob just in case uh my skirm market market supplier Eight million seven seven one million seven seven Uh merch keep an eye on distractable dot shop because it's common or it's there Or you missed it until the next one we're Bob will host another banger I'd cast out