In short
Distractible’s “Friday the 13th” episode mixes horror/superstition trivia about why 13 and Fridays are unlucky with behind-the-scenes film production talk (ADR). The hosts also riff on walking/flossing habits, movie-theater check payments, and a “village in Maine” for sale idea for filming.
Guests
No guests. Hosts only: Wade (speaking as “Wade”), Mark (Markiplier), and Bob (Bob/Wade’s co-host).
Key claims
- ADR should match the on-set room’s imperfections; even a “bad” monitor mic can blend if it replicates reverb/bleed.
- Friday the 13th is always at least once per year and never falls on Monday (as stated).
- Unlucky-13 origins discussed: Norse myth (Loki as 13th guest) and Christian link (Judas as 13th disciple).
- “Happy numbers” and “perfect digital invariants” get a long, mostly-joking math tangent.
Notable examples
Loki/Valhalla dinner; Judas; “13 Ghosts,” “13 Dresses,” “13 Going on 30,” “The Number 23”; Costa Concordia wreck (Jan 13, 2012); “baker’s dozen” medieval punishment theory.
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Chapters
Tap a time to open that second in VOExploring Friday the 13th
2:14 to 2:54
Discussing the theme and highlights of Friday the 13th.
“Now sit back and prepare to be distracted and enjoy the show.”
The Challenges of ADR
2:54 to 6:00
A deep dive into the intricacies and quirks of ADR in film.
“Apple just announced this whole new line of things.”
The Importance of Sound Environment
6:00 to 10:14
Understanding how sound quality affects film and audience perception.
Walking Challenge Update
10:14 to 12:02
Bob shares his experience with a walking challenge.
Checks and Balances in Film Payments
12:02 to 14:00
Discussing the humorous process of receiving payments from theaters.
“Almost all of them are sending physical checks, each individual theater.”
Checks in 2026
14:00 to 17:28
Discussing the modern use of checks and payment options.
“It's been just about one month, which, you know, things usually get paid on a next month basis.”
The Town for Sale
17:28 to 20:16
Exploring the quirky idea of buying a village in Maine.
“If all I have to do is sit back and write checks, yes, I'm your man.”
Friday the 13th Discussion
20:16 to 23:06
Digging into the lore and significance of Friday the 13th.
“Because do you know what I think today is if I did my math correct?”
Fear of the Number 13
23:06 to 28:01
Discussing the superstition and myths surrounding the number 13.
“It's because that's when all the scary movies come out Come out on Friday Is that true?”
Movies with 13 in the Title
28:01 to 29:04
A humorous discussion about various movies featuring the number 13.
“And the movie 13 Ghosts with the guy who played Monk.”
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Friday the 13th Facts
29:04 to 31:15
Exploration of superstitions and facts about Friday the 13th.
“I think not Or no I do think Is it correct inverse of that statement I think is then?”
Baker's Dozen and Its Origins
31:15 to 33:18
Discussion on the concept of a baker's dozen and its historical significance.
“In medieval England, there were laws related to the price of bread and the price of the wheat used to make it.”
The Significance of Fridays
33:18 to 34:23
A look at why Fridays are often considered unlucky due to historical events.
Mathematical Concepts of 13
34:23 to 40:00
Exploring mathematical properties related to the number 13, including happy numbers.
“1979, 1990, 2001, and will occur again in 2063.”
Points and Final Thoughts
40:00 to 42:01
Wrap-up discussion with points awarded based on the conversation.
“Yep, uh self-care good weight identity theft because you're telling about the checks Uh, you were mean to the host but funny.”
Friday the 13th Movie Puns
42:01 to 43:13
The hosts share their thoughts on the significance of Friday the 13th and engage in humorous movie puns.
“If there's anything I know about science, it's that it likes to be useless but funny.”
Game Points and Fun Discussions
43:44 to 50:02
The hosts discuss game points, trivia, and share anecdotes related to sleep and health metrics.
“It's sensor automated dialogue replacement.”
Transcript
Automatic transcript. May contain errors.0:00Ethan Nestor:This episode is brought to you by ChatGPT. Hey, it's Bill Simmons from the Bill Simmons Podcast. Have you guys heard about ChatGPT work? It's the new way to use ChatGPT for bigger multi-step projects. And when you need more than just answers, give ChatGPT work access to your apps and files, and it can create real work documents like spreadsheets, slides, and structured reports. Get started at ChatGPT.com by selecting work mode available on Plus and Pro Plans. Can you hear that? It's the calm, sugar-white, sandy beaches of St. Pete Clearwater. And if you listen closely, you'll hear the mmms coming from the epic restaurants, the cheers from sun-soaked music festivals, and the beat of our legendary nightlife scene.
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1:00Mark Fischbach:Who says Halloween only lasts one day? With Wayfair, one night of Halloween becomes a whole season at home. From larger-than-life yard decor and moody lighting,
1:10Ethan Nestor:to festive accents for every room in the house, Wayfair has what you need to make Halloween feel like magic all in one place. Because the best Halloween memories aren't made in just one night. They're made all season long. Shop Halloween decor now at Wayfair.com. Wayfair, every style, every home. 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. Magnifier Mallmark teaches movie mic moments, fires more staff, mentions Magnificent Mary, Scrub Scream 7, slaughters Norse words, and fucks Gaston.
1:53Robding Nagy and Bob gains high mileage. Lengthily Lambass Wade proposes buying peen and dodges horror. From ADR to Frigatriscodecophobia. Yes, it's time for Friday the 13th. Now sit back and prepare to be distracted and enjoy the show.
2:23Mark Fischbach:Hey everyone, welcome back to another episode of Distractable. I'm today's host because fate saw it fit to be so. Joined as always by my co-hosts, Mark and Bob. This is the show where one of us hosts the other two compete performance. Whoever has the most at the end gets to win and host the next one. Hi guys. Hello. Hi. Alright, 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. Um, great. Apple just announced this whole new line of things.
2:58One 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.
3:12Oh, 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. 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.
3:41And 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 lav 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. I'm like, OK, let's try to try something else here. Funky and didn't get well. Well, I can 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.
4:19I'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 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 this final stage, 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's studio displays.
4:54And 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. 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 knockly 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, it was just a regular bedroom, but it kind of is roughly the size of that room.
5:34It'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 well it won't sound right because it won't match everything else right okay there you go that's my lesson about i do like that that's very funny i've definitely
6:06Ethan Nestor:watched movies and tv where they're like the the dialogue has a certain quality to it and then you get to a moment where they clearly did it it did some adr or to put something in and they're like 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 but a person talking but you're like did we just teleport did we time travel what happened some water along in my ear yeah i i've heard of situations where actors sometimes refuse to go into an adr studio to go do something um and they just record it on their phone and sometimes there are bad adr just because the actor didn't or couldn't make it into a sound booth um but at the same time uh working with caroline who was who's uh ava in the the movie i think i can say her name now um i would sometimes say you know you could just record this on your phone it's gonna come through a shitty it's gonna sound like a shitty speaker anyway so it might work for her 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 the work ethic and admiration for it and i'm like
7:14Mark Fischbach: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 used that to get in there anyway so it's uh 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
7:50Ethan Nestor: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 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 and it it literally sounded exactly like we we captured
8:12Mark Fischbach:it on set it was crazy yeah and it was only for a couple lines there but yeah that's cool though i I mean, I thought he was being sarcastic. Like, I thought the whole setup was he was being sarcastic. 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 whole thing. Oh, man, you know me. And also, I have things going on.
8:36Ethan Nestor: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 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.
9:14Ethan Nestor: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, Ugh, 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 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 is 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.
10:09Ethan Nestor: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 and but i'm not even exercising it's a 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 i'm 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 you 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 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's resolution it's pretty good it's probably it's really good best i can relate is i've been a lot
11:22Mark Fischbach:better about flossing my teeth like brushing i do flossing was like once or twice a week but i've floss in 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 when 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
11:43Ethan Nestor:all good taking care of ourselves is good because you know why we're not getting younger it's actually what my next episode is going to be about can i also say one thing that is very funny that i'm discovering um no yeah go ahead what's up are you sure are you sure you want to hear cut recording mark just tell me i'm interested this is one of those things where it's like even talking about this i could i can tell like it could cross over into me being pompous and weird and and elitist and 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 Centurion Films, the people helping out the small company with the small theaters thing.
12:31They're sending checks. Almost all of them are sending physical checks, each individual theater.
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13:09Mark Fischbach:That's how I operate still. Is that bad?
13:11Ethan Nestor: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 do you need like security or something do you need someone to help you with it and it's like they're they're they're it's really wonderful it's so cool like get 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 there's some blowing away because you just can't carry them all yeah like in the wind anyway it's 2026 and and they're 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 she's like in the office like fuck oh god yeah yeah so it's it's uh 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.
14:36That 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.
14:49Ethan Nestor: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 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 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 ah never mind whatever this is i'll figure it out i'll go somewhere else that's fine
15:46Mark Fischbach:all right i'll make a note of that i'll still do it some companies you have to like there's no
15:50Ethan Nestor:online payment so like they force you to i have zero interactions with companies that require me
15:55Mark Fischbach: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
16:03Ethan Nestor: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 talk to the next one i've never thought
16:26Mark Fischbach:to ask that follow-up. I'm always like, Review good. You do a good job. You know what tree is. You can remove tree. Great. We work together.
16:35Ethan Nestor: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, why the fuck would you want to do that? It's such a pain. It means you gotta mail it. It means you have to have stamps. I don't have stamps. Who the fuck has stamps?
16:50Mark Fischbach:Oh, we got some Betty Whites right now and I forget the other one. We got some stamps.
16:53Ethan Nestor: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 Uh no anyway I mean do what you want I don't actually care but I I just think it's crazy that the They're so there because you're not the only one there are Still so many people and in clearly industries Like the movie theaters or whatever that use Paper checks and I'm like
17:19Mark Fischbach:I should be working with the movie industries Mark Mark, you cut down trees. I will take your checks. We'll switch roles. We will buy a movie theater.
17:27Ethan Nestor:Yeah, no, Wade, you would be perfect to run the movie theater.
17:31Mark Fischbach:Mark was right. If all I have to do is sit back and write checks, yes, I'm your man.
17:36Ethan Nestor: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.
17:42Mark Fischbach: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.
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17:49Ethan Nestor: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.
17:56Mark Fischbach:So there's apparently a whole town for sale. It's a village. Yeah. It comes with a church, some houses, some other stuff.
18:03Ethan Nestor:It's in Maine. And it had like 26 structures or something. Wait, six million 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 30 structures. 26, 30, some number of structures. buildings houses like weight 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 looks like a row of garage doors have you seen this i didn't really look at it what's it what's it called what did you search if you just scroll down some it looks like oh this is charming it's charming charming me 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 the front wall that's really never seen 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
19:18Mark Fischbach: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 he's like you could tell mark he could film
19:28Ethan Nestor:there he could and i was like they have a pond we could do our boat episodes on the pond oh moving to maine peen house peen peen town peen town town town town we're really upgrading guys we're gonna 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 call? Yeah, just five and a half million dollars.
20:08Ethan Nestor:And you could own your very own town not you mark but 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 it's uh he was in maine right he's from maine he's a maine boy right he was probably born here
20:29Mark Fischbach: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 amphi a 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 13th. That wasn't as creepy as it was more weird than 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?
21:05Mark Fischbach:Why is that franchise? is 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 two. 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 13, Friday the 13th, luck, unluck, misfortune, anything tangentially related. Tangent, I call tangent rights. Okay, a bobside and cosign are still available. Math jokes. that's funny win uh scream seven saw that great what do you mean saw that is that new i saw it oh do you have any thoughts i look i 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
21:56Ethan Nestor: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 that's halloween and then scream 7 is as is but those
22:12Mark Fischbach:are like the three right uh texas chainsaw massacre has a leather face scream has ghost face no but i mean like of the same era right didn't they all come out roughly the same no scream 1 came out later scream is 90s uh you're thinking of uh your nightmare on elm street yeah nightmare
22:26Ethan Nestor:Marin Elm Street and Halloween and Friday the 13th, I would... Never mind. This has nothing to do with anything. I think it was a movie. Great. This just in. Filmmaker Markiplier blasts new Scream movie for not even being scary. Quote, whatever.
22:48Mark Fischbach:Slam Scream 7. I'll give you a point mark. It just says Scream 7 equals exists. This is from an expert in horror movie making.
22:56Ethan Nestor:That's math I can honestly say I've never actually watched A whole Scream movie Start to finish
23:02Mark Fischbach:Oh the first one was really good the second one was I mean I remember enjoying the first few
23:06Ethan Nestor:It's a horror movie it's a scary movie Right scary 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 exist i think we've 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 hate it then you'd be fine with scream one uh pass okay i thought i had him there i thought i had him there i feel like i should i probably should watch that though i like it Sort of in the lexicon I've only ever seen Scream 7 now That's the only one I've seen
24:02Mark Fischbach:Okay, podcast out We're gonna go watch some Scream movies together
24:04Ethan Nestor:You know why everyone hates Friday? It's 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 Lone on a Thursday But it was sold out In like a couple more decades It's gonna be like the movie comes out on Friday.
24:25Mark Fischbach: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?
24:35Ethan Nestor:I'm having a memory of something that was I Feel what you're I feel what you're remember rising. Uh, I have a update breaking news Triska
24:49Triska Triskaideka phobia. That's the fear of 13 and then Fear of Friday the 13th is called Parascavideca-daphobia.
24:58Ethan Nestor:Can I just say, I typed Triscaideca-phobia 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 Triskydecaphobia and Google's AI overview is La Triskydecaphobia es el miedo aversión I don't speak Spanish, so you can hardly pronounce it. Why is it in Spanish? It's like I'm in Spain right now. AI always works. That's why it's everywhere. It's so good. There's also Paraskevideca Triaphobia. There's Frigatriskydecaphobia, which is Old Norse for the fear of 13.
25:48which is 13 in ancient greek and phobos which is fear that's where it's all in the original
25:53Ethan Nestor:all right i was really allergic to norse old norse doesn't seem like that bad of a number to me like i i know that that's the that's the superstitions and like that's just seems fine
26:03Mark Fischbach: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
26:11Ethan Nestor: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
26:30Mark Fischbach:but 17's a waste of a year 16 you could drive 18 you're an adult 17 just a 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 go to with words like that. Yeah, yeah, that's what I mean. After Mark's reaction, I was like, maybe I should. I can see the headline now. Wade, distractible co-host, says 17's just a number, everyone. 16, you can drive. 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.
27:12I don't know why Tyler loves 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 excuse me whore the god of darkness oh h o with two dots o with a whole fuck tonnery of things above it and r to 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.
27:58I didn't know the similarities between those two mythologies.
28:01Mark Fischbach:And the movie 13 Ghosts with the guy who played Monk. And the movie 13 Candles. And the movie Jim Carrey's the number 23 minus 10.
28:10Ethan Nestor:Oh, I remember the sequel, yeah. Oh, there's that Catherine Heigl chick flick, 13 Dresses. 13 going on 30.
28:19Mark Fischbach:The Disney sequel, 13 Dalmatians left.
28:23Ethan Nestor: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?
28:45Ethan Nestor:Oh, I thought you were talking about, it's 13.
28:49Mark Fischbach:what was that movie on the boat with leonardo dicaprio and kate winslet tit 13
28:55Ethan Nestor: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 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?
29:21Mark Fischbach:I would have thought I think so but I guess is Okay this is a funny thing Um I was just preparing myself
29:30Ethan Nestor:Wait keep your real laugh to yourself it's terrifying God I hate that Funny Okay 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.
29:57Mark Fischbach:So if one was in December, 14 months later would skip a year, though.
30:01Ethan Nestor: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.
30:13Mark Fischbach:Also, Friday the 13th has never fallen on a Monday.
30:15Ethan Nestor: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 numbers work.
30:26Mark Fischbach:I do see if 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 a 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 rebrand for the 13th? Let's just make it a little more palatable. What day were you born? Ah, April baker's dozen, 1902.
31:02I'm very old. We know. Oh, wait. Okay, wait, no, it's not as good. Hold on a second. Baker's Dozen might actually also be cursed. There are a few theories as to why Baker's 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.
31:40For 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 baker's dozen, which I thought as the recipient is a good thing, it's the bakers trying to avoid a bad thing.
31:57Ethan Nestor: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 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
32:18Mark Fischbach:of the beast there goes the baker with her tray like always the fear and trepidation in the voice that she 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 uh whenever bell's walking around like the town 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
32:37Ethan Nestor:the lyrics but that uh that movie is forever tainted by redacted for me because there was an episode of unisonous where for some reason you and ethan were i think you were making a whole shitload of eggs or something you were doing and in the middle of the episode out of nowhere you were just like no one no fucks like gaston no one cucks like gaston i'm especially good at ejaculating ruined forever ah good times good times have we answered your question wade
33:13Mark Fischbach:you have not because there's still like 15 minutes left what was the question now bring us back okay we've covered some of the 13s have we covered why friday other than bob did say friday bad because
33:23Ethan Nestor:bad scary movies come out movies come out on friday bad movies everyone hates movies i think
33:28Mark Fischbach:fridays were seen as like bad even before they were movies like that dates back i have no idea
33:34Ethan Nestor: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 uh jesus was crucified on friday isn't that what good friday is and then doesn't sound very good for him i i can imagine i feel like that makes fridays bad which is funny because it's called good friday but whatever yeah call it call it whatever you want i guess but uh i don't i don't actually know if that's true or how that lines up with the calendar gear cassette you think you can
34:02Mark Fischbach: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.
34:34Ethan Nestor: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 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 then it gets to be friday and then parents are like oh god oh fuck it's like it's like a nighttime and 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 art everything's already fucked right it's not already
35:36Mark Fischbach: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
35:48Ethan Nestor:think that was will smith was it i am legend and i am robot those two will smith movies it's called
35:53Mark Fischbach:it's called i robot oh okay it's like wait that sounds right but it doesn't sound right which is
35:58Ethan Nestor:100 what apple's uh 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 imagine i could see why you mix them 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 track of phobia out of nowhere okay 13 is 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'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.
37:00Okay, 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? A happy number.
37:19Ethan Nestor: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? Tell us. for base b greater than 1 n power p greater than 0 f parameters p b colon n to n is but fancy n's is defined as f pb parentheses n equals the sum of k minus one on top these functions function of n
38:12Mark Fischbach:I don't fucking know 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 a It's an L But in the shape of a bracket But it doesn't have a top Topless bracket Topless bracket B log Log below To the N Other bracket Hockey stick the other way Plus one is the number of digits and 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?
39:00Don'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 FPB. which occurs in FPBN equals N, O, and 1. Zero and 1 are obviously trivial perfect digital invariants for all B and P. Obviously. Perfect digital invariants are non-trivial perfect digital invariants. For example, the number 4150 in base B equals 10 is a perfect digital invariant of P equals 5 because 4150 equals 4 to the 5th. 4 to the power of 5 plus 1 to the 5, 5 to the 5 plus 0 to the 5. A sociable digital invariant. Bring all your digital invariants to the party so you can socialize them.
39:42Ethan Nestor:Oh my god, I hate mathematicians. Where's the introverted digital invariant? Your mom's a non-trivial perfect digital invariant.
39:50Mark Fischbach:Dude. Just wait till you get to the pre-periodic points for FPB regardless of the base. You don't have to tell me about PPP FPBs. I just don't know what this is trying to prove. I'm sure it's useful in some way.
40:03Ethan Nestor:No, that's the thing. Useful's the wrong word. I don't know I'm not going to pretend 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 is a 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 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 that all that stuff you said is mathematically provable i don't even remember what led us to
40:45Mark Fischbach: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 They've got amicable narcissistic numbers
41:08Ethan Nestor:Wait but do they have non-trivial amicable Narcissistic numbers They do they do they have trivial Narcissistic numbers and non-trivial Narcissistic numbers Then I'll allow it
41:23Mark Fischbach:Oh man I'm really glad we got down to the roots of why 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 I P L O M N G we're tasty Then you're gonna fail That's funny We go through the points for no no particular order Bob you're first you got points I wrote down he's a walking But just because you're walking that's good. Yep, uh self-care good weight identity theft because you're telling about the checks Uh, 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 13 movie puns that we just kept going down the rabbit hole of I was so busy contributing I didn't really keep track of the different ones we made 13 days later 13 weeks later 13 months later It's too late 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.
42:35Ethan Nestor:If there's anything I know about science, it's that it likes to be useless but funny.
42:39Mark Fischbach:That's why science exists. Oh, Mark, you got points? I'm going to offer a bonus point if you can remember what ADR stands for. What if I didn't know it before? You still get one point. I don't know. Automatic dubbing 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 or automated or something like that. Alternative dispute resolution. I don't think that's what I'm looking for.
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43:47Mark Fischbach:American Depository? Sorry, that's not it.
43:49Ethan Nestor:It's sensor automated dialogue replacement.
43:53Mark Fischbach: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 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 align. Happy numbers.
44:28Mark Fischbach:And I gave you a point for the last 10 minutes of Mark Math that we listened to. Oh, cool. Thanks. Five, six, seven, eight. 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 of Friday the 13th? Probably. No. Did 9-11 happen on Friday the 13th? I think not. No, I don't. I think we can safely say that one. All right, fair enough. Right now, Bob, you're up and it's time for the wheels.
44:58Ethan Nestor:Yeah, wait, I'm up by three points? Two points. 11 to nine, you're up by two.
45:02Mark Fischbach:How many spins will there be? Hi, diddly-dee. Can there be two spins? Oh, there shall be three. Oh, yeah, I got a chance. Oh, I got a chance.
45:12Ethan Nestor:You always got a chance, babe. Wade, what are you adding to the wheel of fun, happy times?
45:17Mark Fischbach:Do we already have something for like tinfoil hat or person that's like the most conspiratorial?
45:23Ethan Nestor: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.
45:34Mark Fischbach:Hmm. If you 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.
45:41Ethan Nestor:Three spins. Let's do this.
45:48Oh, I got so many tabs. I got so many tabs. I'm so distracted. Were they related? I have cheaper by the dozen. For sale, Maine. I got 13.
46:01Ethan Nestor: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. I guess by default, Mark gets the point. GMFST, Blackmagic Design, CinemaSite is open. uh adr i guess that's related baker's dozens related 23 the movie yeah that's related to ubiquity uh websites open and my youtube channel your youtube channel not related officially that's
46:28Mark Fischbach:one thing at least that makes you more distracted yeah spin number two
46:37Ethan Nestor:point four viewers okay all right this doesn't 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
46:49Mark Fischbach:all right no matter where this ends it's bob's point come on shortest
46:56Ethan Nestor:that's inarguable
47:00Mark Fischbach:oh mark slept in today i just said i slept
47:03Ethan Nestor:i mean i could also say i slept in but i also didn't go to bed until late i i know exactly how much sleep i got if you really want to compare but no no no i got nine hours oh since last episode though wait no we 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 us 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 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 my seven day average it says is about six and a half hours but uh last night i got eight hours and 47 it says my seven day average since last Tuesday is six hours and 20 minutes.
48:09Mine's 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 sleeping so good? I dodged the one man show wheel.
48:21Mark Fischbach:Congratulations.
48:23Ethan Nestor:Wait, what else can we compare? What about your heart rate? I bet your heart rate's way better than mine. Yeah, go ahead.
48:27Mark Fischbach:I don't care about that. Go take more time. Whatever. So the resting heart rate is 67. I've been going down a lot. That's good. Wow, man, my metrics are looking great.
48:37Ethan Nestor:Yeah, my resting heart rate's only 72. Kicking my ass. I don't monitor any of this stuff, so, uh, whatever God wants me to have.
48:44Mark Fischbach:You mean for your heart rate or? Sleep, heart rate, yeah. 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, uh, Mark, loser speech. Well, let's just say that if the trade-off 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.
49:13Ethan Nestor:Fuck. You need to send them one paper check for five and a half million dollars. Damn. Bob, winner's 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 going to do. I'll probably have to take it out on whoever steals it from me, I guess. I guess this is kind of a warning, huh? Anyway, this is a fun time, guys.
49:56Mark Fischbach:Good episode. Mm-hmm. Follow these guys. especially Bob, just in case. My skirm, Market Markiplier, Minion77, LordMinion777. Merch, keep an eye on distractible.shop because it's coming, or it's there, or you missed it. Until the next one, where Bob will host another banger. Podcast out.
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