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911 Calls Podcast

11:59 Media

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.8 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

On this episode we review the history of the pen. And naturally, that transitions elegantly into the case of a guy who un-alives his family, and then has the audacious cowardice to un-alive himself using a train. We end it with a WalMartian who might be the president of WalMartians.

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0:00.0	Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. So, you're going to be. You're going to be This is the 911 calls podcast with the operator. 911, where is your emergency?
0:36.0	Uh, I need to report a murder. Oh, hello Jessica.
0:57.0	Are you trying out new greetings? Yeah, my mom was like, you sounded so...
0:59.0	Hello, Op?
1:00.0	Thank you.
1:01.0	Yeah, my mom was like you sound so sultry. Like, okay, fine, I'll change it.
1:05.6	We've been here for like three hours now. It's hard. It's like all the, it's really hot in here.
1:11.4	It's like all the H.G. TV shows when the house is finished and they want to reveal it to the people, but somehow oddly there's cameras already inside the house and it's like, oh, we're surprised. Anyway, moving on right into this thing. We're going right into it.
1:27.3	Well, we're going right into some facts about the pen. That device we use every day to write. Why?
1:37.7	You'll see. Did you know that that pens have been used since almost they've found evidence of pens being used back as far as 5,000 years ago and they would make ink out of soot mixed with beeswax and then that's what they would use to write.
1:57.6	You know, they would have a stylus of some type.
1:59.6	Usually like in Egypt, they used Reed straws and then they would use ink mixed out of water, so
2:07.1	so it and beeswax. So I'm blowing your mind already, I can tell, but.
2:18.0	Mind blowing. Here's here's a weird one. I didn't I never kind of knew why this was the case but ballpoint pens as we know don't leak, they don't leak at high altitudes.
2:26.3	So during World War II, ballpoint pins became pilot's favorites as they didn't leak while the
2:32.1	pilots were flying at high altitudes and they could
2:35.3	you they so they had a writing instrument because remember before a ballpoint pen the
2:39.6	only thing you had was a fountain pen and the way that they did fountain pens at that time was you put the end of
2:46.4	your fountain pen in and then there was a little handle on it and you grab the handle and you
2:50.6	pull the handle and it sucks the ink into the chamber inside.
2:54.4	You take that and you put in your pocket and then you go up to 30,000 feet and suddenly the pressure
2:58.7	inside that pen changes and you have a wet shirt full of India ink.
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