Ballpoint pen
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Sep 29, 2026
Scott JohnsonHOST
Do Mothras have brains because I'd like really wanted to know?
Brian IbbittHOST
Happy birthday, ballpoint pen guy.
Scott JohnsonHOST
I like Tordenshields.
Brian IbbittHOST
This is about the jugs of fish sauce.
5 MINS LATER
Scott JohnsonHOST
This was crazy to me.
Scott JohnsonHOST
I learned this today or yesterday.
Scott JohnsonHOST
The birth of the ballpoint pen inventor is today, September 29th.
Scott JohnsonHOST
Really? Okay.
DougHOST
A year after you were born.
DougHOST
He invented the first commercially successful modern ballpoint pen.
AliceHOST
Wow.
DougHOST
He was a Hungarian journalist.
DougHOST
In case you're wondering, John J.
DougHOST
Loud invented the ballpoint pen 50 years prior.
AliceHOST
huh oh but this was the commercially successful
DougHOST
yes john j loud he wanted
DanHOST
But like it's, it's, it's the watermarking of the words in, in the AI generated text too.
DanHOST
You're trying to give credit to the ballpoint pen rather than the writer.
DanHOST
And that's, that I think is like an overall distinction that needs to be.
DanHOST
And like, that's what I believe that's where people are going to get to in their understanding.
DanHOST
The ballpoint
SeanHOST
pen didn't used to be able to write the words for the writer though.
DanHOST
That's why you should not give credit to the ballpoint pen.
SeanHOST
Yeah.
Alejandro DolinaHOST
Sí.
Patricio BartonHOST
Biromes.
GillespieHOST
Souvenirs.
Patricio BartonHOST
Biromes, fibras, todo lo que a mí me sirve para librería.
GillespieHOST
¿Por qué? ¿Usted tiene una librería?
Patricio BartonHOST
No, pero para...
7 MINS LATER
GillespieHOST
En la puerta de donde se tramitaban, no sé si se sigue haciendo, me imagino que sí, las licencias para conducir, allá en Villa Lugano, en la ciudad de Buenos Aires.
Alejandro DolinaHOST
Sí.
Sheila BarnesHOST
See that pen? You can-
TitusGUEST
Ballpoint.
Sheila BarnesHOST
Yeah, you can see the ink in it, and he, and he uses one of those about a month, and he said he sees the ink go down, 'cause he writes a joke a day.
Sheila BarnesHOST
And I said, "Wow." I, I, I've never had good luck with that kind of pen, but...
FitzHOST
Good.
FitzHOST
Tenía el libro, pero no tenía el bolígrafo.
CarmenGUEST
I had the book, but I didn't have the ballpen.
FitzHOST
That's interesting you would say that.
Daven HiskeyHOST
It's one of the most popular consumer products in the world, with over 100 billion sold since 1950, almost 200 units every single second for nearly 70 years.
Daven HiskeyHOST
However, less than a century ago, the marvel of engineering that is the ballpoint pen was an expensive novelty struggling to compete with the established technology of fountain pens.
Daven HiskeyHOST
It took incredible engineering, clever marketing, and even a world war for this newfangled device to achieve global writing dominance.
Daven HiskeyHOST
This is the fascinating story of the rise of the ballpoint pen.
Daven HiskeyHOST
For much of human history, instruments for writing with ink were incredibly simple.
Daven HiskeyHOST
The ancient Chinese used animal hairbrushes, while the ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans preferred reeds with sharpened tips, often featuring a narrow slit to hold ink via capillary action.
Daven HiskeyHOST
They had a tendency to leak or clog up, tore up paper, were fussy and messy to refill, and often malfunctioned in hot and cold weather, and as we shall see later on, at high altitudes.
Daven HiskeyHOST
There had to be a better way to write.