Smith Corona
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Sep 18, 2026
Darian BorgesHOST
Yeah.
Darian BorgesHOST
You're Smith Corona.
Ismael LlanoHOST
The little white out, it looked like a thin, what is it, the mint strips?
Darian BorgesHOST
But we, again, our age, the zillennials, millennial thing, we really missed out on typing.
Elizabeth R. BlackburnGUEST
I mean, well, it's, it's a real typewriter.
Elizabeth R. BlackburnGUEST
It's a Smith Corona from 1960.
Elizabeth R. BlackburnGUEST
It's one of the earliest electric typewriters, so it does-
Jason MilesHOST
Ah
Patrick BoyleHOST
There's a parable that Munchau reaches for in that same Hidden Forces conversation, and it's not even a German example that he uses.
Patrick BoyleHOST
He brings up the American typewriter company Smith Corona.
Patrick BoyleHOST
By 1989, the personal computer was clearly on the rise, but it was still an expensive office machine, and for most people, the word processor was a perfectly sensible thing to buy.
Patrick BoyleHOST
Smith Corona was the global market leader in them.
Patrick BoyleHOST
A word processor was essentially a typewriter with a small screen and a floppy disk drive bolted into the frame.
Patrick BoyleHOST
It was a triumph of incremental engineering.
Patrick BoyleHOST
Six years later, they went bankrupt, finished off by the cheap home computer and printer.
Patrick BoyleHOST
It's not unlike the way the smartphone killed the BlackBerry 20 years later.
JamesHOST
And then this one, this sold for the most money on this auction.
JamesHOST
The title says Apple one computer, the new Mark Apple one bite shop style and a unique Smith Corona typewriter case with documentation sold internationally in 1977.
JamesHOST
Wow.
JamesHOST
This thing, this is wild.
Rick GlassmanHOST
It seems it might be-
Ike BarinholtzGUEST
Not the way I type on the Smith Corona.
Ike BarinholtzGUEST
[laughs] I write all my scripts-
Rick GlassmanHOST
Be serious
Skip SimmonsHOST
I got another person who's going to buy one for a kid, right? Oh, three-year-olds hammering frets? You should see any kind of kid with a typewriter.
Skip SimmonsHOST
In fact, why isn't there a beautiful Smith Corona on a little pedestal you can walk up to in the entry at at the fretboard journal summit where people can type their comments.
Skip SimmonsHOST
I bet you'd get a hundred pages of stuff typed.
Skip SimmonsHOST
If you had one sitting there.
BradHOST
Ashley and Brad.
BradHOST
Well, time to break out the old Smith Corona here because I've got a letter to type.
BradHOST
Dear Mall, once upon a time, you were the gathering place of an entire generation.
BradHOST
Oh, yeah.
speaker_2SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
methadone And they cut off your welfare check Comrade, hold me tighter I think I'm sinking down And I'm all strung out on heroin On the outskirts of town . .
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And I bought my Smith Corona And I went to meet my man He hangs out down on El Dorado Street By the Pioneer Chicken Stand Call my leader Hold me tighter I think I'm sinking down And I'm all strung out on heroin On the outskirts of town Karma leader Hold me tighter I think I'm sinking down On the outskirts of town
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Take a long shower Don't eat in bed Don't stop for flowers You gotta tell me where you're going How long you'll be there Girl, you should be home by now Let me make it clear to you Don't go visit family You saw them back a week or three My whole family wanted me at all I know it's not me, it's most definitely you And I say, man, man, you got some work to do I know it's not me, it's most definitely you You look quite ridiculous, what are you wearing now? Who are you wearing that for? I'm embarrassed by you anyhow.
speaker_6SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
You've put on a few pounds.
Joe ManganielloGUEST
And you can say whatever you want about what Gary said personally or all of that, but, like, you can't argue with that fact.
Joe ManganielloGUEST
D&D and tabletop gaming would be something played in basements in Minnesota if it wasn't for Gary sitting down at that Smith Corona typewriter and banging out those three packets that became...
Joe ManganielloGUEST
the D and D brown box set.
Joe ManganielloGUEST
And so, you know, he's a genius.
speaker_9SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
On the outskirts of town.
speaker_9SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
[gentle music] Well, I put on my Smith Corona.
speaker_9SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And I went to meet my man.
speaker_9SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
He hangs out down on Everado Street.
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