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Fri. 11/13 - How Did Friday the 13th Become Unlucky?

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

News, Science, Tech News, Society & Culture

4.6739 Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2020

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Why do we associate Friday the 13th with being unlucky? The weird and creative solutions some offices are coming up with for virtual holiday parties this year. And don’t miss the next, and first official, SpaceX astronaut flight launch tomorrow. Sponsor: BitTrust IRA, Waive your signup fee BitTrustIRA.com/kottke Link: 2020’s second Friday the 13th is this Friday (EarthSky) Friday the 13th isn’t unlucky. It’s a meme disguised as superstition. (Vox) Why is Friday the 13th So Unlucky? (Snopes) These companies are hosting the weirdest office Christmas parties (Wired) NASA certifies SpaceX's Crew Dragon for astronaut flights, gives 'go' for Nov. 14 launch (Space.com) SpaceX-NASA launch: What to know ahead of Saturday's Crew Dragon astronaut mission (CNN) The 50th Anniversary of the Iconic Exploding Whale (Kottke) Thu. 07/02 - The Exploding Whale Memorial Park (is a real thing) (Kottke Ride Home) Kottke.Org Jackson Bird on Twitter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:01.0

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0:07.0

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0:25.5

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0:35.7

Welcome to the Kotky Ride Home for Friday, November 13th, 2020.

0:41.4

I'm Jackson Bird.

0:43.0

Why do we associate Friday the 13th with being unlucky?

0:48.4

The weird and creative solutions some offices are coming up with for virtual holiday parties this year, and don't miss

0:57.4

the next and first official SpaceX astronaut flight launch tomorrow. Here are some of the cool

1:04.0

things from the news today. Today is Friday the 13th. The second Friday the 13th of 2020. You may remember the previous

1:16.5

Friday the 13th. Maybe it feels like yesterday or it feels like 10 years ago because it was in

1:23.1

March. And if you lived in some parts of the world, that was probably the exact day that you got a ton of emails telling you various events had been canceled and businesses were closing.

1:35.1

It might have been the first day you worked from home, thinking it would only last for a couple of weeks.

1:40.9

Maybe it was the day you stood in the longest grocery store line of your life, clinging to a four pack of off-brand

1:46.7

toilet paper that you just fought someone for. Here in New York City, it was the day that a rumor

1:51.4

circulated that the bridges and subways were going to be shut down. Friday, March 13th,

1:56.9

2020 is perhaps the closest I have personally ever been to a cursed Friday the 13th.

2:03.8

And I don't want to curse it today.

2:06.0

I'll knock on wood.

2:07.4

But I don't think today will be quite as bad.

2:11.3

I mean, in some ways for a lot of people, it is much worse, actually, of course.

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