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The Superior Sidekick - The Winner and a Look Forward

Mostly Nitpicking

Mostly Nitpicking

Tv & Film, Comedy

4.6617 Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2016

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

It is finally here. After a 128 competitors, we are finally able to reveal the winner of our Superior Sidekick bracket. Everything comes down to Super Mario's Yoshi and Star Wars' R2-D2. Dan Ward joins us to talk about the winner and everything he represents to sidekickery. We also talk about our next bracket and why it should be pretty good.

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0:00.0

What's going on, I'm Nando.

0:11.0

And I'm DJ.

0:11.6

And this is Matt Brackett status.

0:13.4

Woohoo.

0:14.1

Episode 131.

0:15.6

That's right, DJ.

0:16.8

What could that be, Wikimair?

0:18.7

For those who don't remember from last week,

0:24.9

131 is a Sophie Jermaine Prime, an irregular prime,

0:27.3

and the second three-digit palindromic prime,

0:31.0

and is also a permutable prime with 113 and 311.

0:33.6

It can be expressed as a sum of three consecutive primes,

0:35.5

41, 43, and 47.

0:37.0

You'd think I'd be better at reading that since I did the exact same thing last week.

0:39.0

I mean, it was pretty good.

0:40.0

I'm glad we have Dan on this show because Dan loves the numbers and the science and everything

0:44.2

behind that, and he can take us through some of this.

0:46.6

So, okay, what are those first three things?

0:49.6

Well, it's a choice prime.

0:51.8

Some might say it's a Sophie's choice prime. Okay. Irregular prime is obviously because, you know, whenever you hit 131 of everything, it's just irregular. Right. One of the parts of the letter is longer than the other part of the letter. It's marked down a quarter of the price. Yeah. That's pretty good. And palindromic obviously means that no number is higher than three. That's why it's palindromic. Yes. So in case you're wondering, listeners, this is Mad Bracket Status. We're a podcast where we make pop culture brackets and talk about them. This week we're going to close out the superior sidekick bracket. We have the results of that. Very. To help. Don't make R2D2 talk. It's so hard to make him shut up. To help us get through this, we have intrepid fan and friend of the show alike. Star Trek expert, but that's not really that important here. Because we didn't have any star.

1:44.6

Oh, we had Spock.

1:45.6

Yeah, of course he had Spock.

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