The MP3 Pen.

[@kshadehyaena]

MP3 players really went the way of the calculator, from being expensive, heavy, dedicated devices to becoming a gimmicks in watches, pens and whatever to just being an app.

[@selfloathinggameing]

I'm 100% in the minority here but I will always defend having an actual calculator on hand, at least if you're the kind of person that regularly needs a graphing calculator. (I'm a student, sue me) Even old calculators are always a better experience than any app like Desmos. Maybe I just have the same passion for being able to punch numbers that Dank has for critical listening

[@noraunhappy]

@@selfloathinggameing but what person aside from a student or a very specific set of people actually regularly needs a graphing calculator? And if you’re the type of person to need one regularly then of course you should get one, but otherwise why bother?

[@Synthetica9]

@@selfloathinggameing I dunno, seems to me like calculators have stranded in a sort of awkward middle spot where everyday joe doesn't need to carry one around, and whoever does need one probably also needs a laptop that can run Sagemath/Python/R/Matlab/Mathematica/whatever...

[@kaitlyn__L]

@@selfloathinggameing in the UK, graphing calculators were banned in school (dunno if they still are, I haven’t gone for a decade), because you might program in answers and cheat!! Seriously. We were only allowed non-programmable, non-graphing scientific calculators. (At least that kept the cost down though. £10 or £20 instead of £150)

[@arnox4554]

Unless you have an HP Prime. That thing is for pimps.

[@Xerpocalypse_]

They sold these at "book fairs" at school when I was a kid. I remember holding one of them. Absolutely hateful device.

[@RockyFoxxowo]

Woa

[@theshpee1214]

How is a device hateful? Did it kill your family while you were asleep?

[@_invencible_]

@@theshpee1214 i mean with these nuggets you never know

[@STICKOMEDIA]

Lmao

[@jameswilson8907]

Thank you! I was watching this like, "I owned one of these, where the hell did I get it and why?"

[@Azeria]

Love that the inside packaging was made of vantablack

[@rhysswildlifeanimalsandmor9903]

Same haha 😂 your funny bro

[@hlmdl]

*vandalized black on a box full of amazing mp3 things

[@bokieiey]

that is not vantablack

[@rhysswildlifeanimalsandmor9903]

@Don't Read My Profile Photo shush

[@hlmdl]

@Don't Read My Profile Photo shut up bot

[@linusl4710]

Seeing those Chinese tracks really had me on floor, these are genuine pop classics in mid 2000s China(and yes they are copyrighted) and further confirmed that these nuggets are probably from some random factory in Shenzhen 🤣.

[@Zoogler]

What was the name of the second song?

[@linusl4710]

@@Zoogler “好姑娘” , which basically means “good girls”

[@Zoogler]

@@linusl4710 thanks man !

[@Moojingles_]

What was the first one?

[@rolling_buns]

@@Moojingles_ 故乡的云by周笔畅，GuXiangDeYun by BichangZhou，it translated to hometown cloud

[@nitrogenFox]

my Aussie friend, please don't feel pressured to put out tons of videos. I've seen so many good KZbinrs burn themselves out trying to appease the greedy ones and end up either quitting or taking a long break. I think most of us are happy with the pace you have now

[@kendarr]

Its about the algorithm, if you don't post constantly your channel is slowly trown into limbo

[@erentar2002]

publish or perish

[@chewycornell]

Yep 👍

[@unfortunatecheese1329]

I find his videos very rewatchable too

[@Pickelrye]

sir, he has this shit planned for years to come.

[@Photo0021]

Oh perfect, a pen to write down all my regrets while vibing to Scarlet Fire.

[@Mcphilmerti]

XD

[@dundy96]

You can write about how you regret buying the product.

[@elfedorausado]

No regerts

[@doomslayer558]

@e literally everyones reaction to Kurtis' comment:

[@silentdissonance]

The song on the pen, according to Google Lens, is "Clouds of Hometown" by Zhou Bichang. The WMA is "Good Girl" by Li Xiao.

[@pook21M]

thanks

[@ProgressOnly]

All hail Google lens

[@nebulamachine]

Thanks

[@finnisnotafish]

@@ProgressOnly or just speaking chinese... learning it just to translate it is so much more fun! 🤪

[@vortexgaming7357]

i couldnt bear to go on without these

[@JLeCrone]

Man it's amazing that the change of storage went from choosing 128 or 256 megabytes for our portable devices to 128 or 256 gigabytes for our portable devices. That's so amazing

[@bannedthricelol8799]

can you imagine that it used to be kilobytes instead and it's gonna be terabytes in the next few years

[@UserAccount-ThisOne]

@@bannedthricelol8799 every single generation that passes we enter an age of next level storage capacity, by gen beta terabytes will be looked down upon like megabytes are today.

[@LCRkoinu1]

I once had a microphone pen that I had gotten from Thailand. It was pretty much the same, except it was all black, lacked the buttons on the side, and had a bigger power button on the top where the headphone jack on the MP3 pen is. The manual also had the word "elephant" in it.

[@Danse_Macabre_125]

I love it when he pronounces stuff differently depending on the font

[@thatguyfrye]

*MP3* pen

[@Shadowknight5578]

MP3 ^pen^

[@STICKOMEDIA]

Same

[@OrangeDied]

*EMM PEE THREE* 𝓹𝓮𝓷

[@Danse_Macabre_125]

@@Shadowknight5578 p e n

[@stuff31]

We got: The first "oh my 1 grit" The first tiny jack Dank making history today

[@powerrulez8865]

"Oh my table"

[@NeffSang]

Not to mention a spicy pillow

[@SketchTurnerZero]

also MP3!!!⋌༼ •̀ ⌂ •́ ༽⋋ pen♡´･ᴗ･`♡

[@deathsyth8888]

@@NeffSang I'm pretty sure he's said "spicy pillow" before.

[@elfedorausado]

@@deathsyth8888 maybe on Patreon... I don't recall him ever saying it on regular YT videos

[@Ben-ed4wx]

Ah, I remember when I would always wonder when mp4 was gonna come out and think about how much higher quality it would be.

[@myrealusername2193]

Lol I can’t wait for mp5

[@jamesjohnXII]

@@myrealusername2193 MP5 came out a while ago it's deathly good

[@menacingthinker4322]

@@myrealusername2193 oh yeah it's been out already, it's to die for

[@thedarkcod4824]

@@myrealusername2193 Mp5 is out, and it really is killing it

[@Steyr6500]

I'm still stuck with MP2, you guys are so lucky with your fancy MP3 players

[@dx2tophat599]

Tip: if you have a pen that has dried out, try using a lighter and lightly move it along the pen. It’ll free up the ink and make it usable again. Though in some cases it’s not a permanent fix.

[@GatileoGatilei]

Also try scribbling on your shoe sole, idk y but it works

[@lunlunnnnn]

​@@GatileoGatileiI'd guess that's probably because shoe soles are pretty grippy, and so the ball in the pen is easier to get to spin again and let the ink to the other side if it's stuck

[@Soulraven2735]

​@@lunlunnnnnAnd the rubber on the soles is good at making friction, meaning it also heats up the pen ball and the ink.

[@gavin5861]

Full size USB? Yeah, duh. Full size headphone jacket? What!? Are you crazy? Can't fit that in there

[@waldspitzegamingsociety7411]

I was dragging through the depths of eBay and found that some Geiger counters could store MP3s, if you want a comedy convo piece could be funny

[@Synthetica9]

wtf, as a custom clicking tone? "ok boys when the Scarlet Fire gets too intense drop everything and run"

[@ccrum32]

@@Synthetica9 im pretty sure its just the song, but as clicking sounds lol.

[@plaguis1391]

@@Synthetica9 If my only warning of imminent death is Scarlet Fire, I'm fucking dead

[@soulnomad5231]

Be sounding like something you see in STALKER 2.

[@evil1st]

All this radiation is making me wanna BOOGIE. HIT THE DISCO BUTTON!

[@abzy4035]

They really missed a trick not calling it MP3N. It would have outsold the iPod if they did.

[@Kaleisbord]

Take my like and leave😂

[@chrisjamesr77]

I was gonna say "MPen3"

[@HelloThereUniverse]

MSCN!!

[@renanzinZS]

@@chrisjamesr77 MPen3 is much nicer hahaha

[@funghiman8492]

@@chrisjamesr77 Was about to post the same, Bravo for beating me to that 🤣

[@unruler]

I can imagine this appealing to students: rocking out in class and when teacher comes to take your player away you go: What you mean? It's my pen! How am I supposed to study without a pen?!

[@bobbyhiggins6366]

fr

[@yosh_eg]

LMAOOOOOO

[@Colton_b15]

Who else isn’t actually an audio enthusiast and just watches for his amazing character 😂

[@electricheartpony]

I need my stuff to sound alright. But, I'm no audiophile.

[@littlered6340]

🖐️ I come here for the man, I only just learned what dark/bright/balanced/etc meant like two weeks ago and I've been watching these for years 😩

[@SmugOcelot]

I enjoy learning about old nuggets, but I definitely enjoy his vids because they’re funny

[@SpiceKingsSuck420]

Me

[@iamcool322]

We have the mp3 *pen* now we need the mp3 *paper*

[@Trueffelguy]

Your videos helped me in school a couple days ago, we were doing a roleplay discussion in geography about wether the price for sugar should increase or decrease, and I was a represantative fo aussieland, so I told them how we need low sugar prices for making tim tams, vegemite and tick tocks and how they shouldn't even dare to talk about raising onion prices because what about snags etc....It was great fun! Thanks mate!

[@OrangeDied]

The Law of Dank: Everything that is mentioned, no matter how long ago, WILL get a video.

[@STICKOMEDIA]

Fax

[@SAjimclose]

Except the rockbox vid he promised. Still waiting on that one.

[@yujiadekok]

@Just anything happens cap

[@12pagani]

Agreed, he did tbe xb1000 and the stax lambda eventually but we need the jecklin floats

[@AidenRKrone]

This MP3-player pen reminds me of that "smart" pen that was advertised constantly on Nickelodeon around 2009 and Best Buy used to sell.

[@weeseet]

Say hi to Fly, the world's first pentop computer!

[@mar.miller6376]

I remember the adds for the leapfrog smart pencil. I never got one but I was jealous of the people that had it

[@tylern6420]

@@mar.miller6376 like a thing using batteries and playing sound if it touches certain areas on a mat thing?

[@onewhitedude]

@@tylern6420 He's talking about the LeapFrog Tag.

[@tylern6420]

@@onewhitedude wasnt the vtech dingus the same thing

[@legendarysoil1064]

“Don’t call GNBI on that one call GNBI on this one” a truly inspiring and motivational quote to live by

[@keith.s7139]

You should do a video where you call all of the helpline numbers from some of the MP3 players you have unboxed in the past and see who answers. Thank you for the video, love these unboxings!

[@CarrieTells]

Found my way here after The Verge's article, and I'm sorry I didn't discover it sooner. Having been obsessed with mp3 players in the past (my fave being the Sansa Clip, for some reason), this is right up my alley. Favorite part is the "AHHH" for the batteries. Your videos are making me smile during some not-so-fun times, so thank you for that!

[@Sego763]

I actually had one of these, when I was really little. I don't remember what happened to it. But thanks Dank for unlocking a memory from my childhood haha

[@coler154]

same, my grandma bought me one when i was a little kid

[@REDFURR]

I genuinely had something like this when I was younger it was at a dollar store, unfortunately the one I had could only do FM radio. I thought it was pretty cool at the time it didn't really last a week though. I had one around the year 2002 to just give you a general idea of the year.

[@haralds.5832]

Me too:) sucked that it also had a 2.5mm jack tho

[@toomdog]

I definitely had a radio pen in high school. Worst reception you could ever imagine. It was absolutely useless.

[@emmitbrown3851]

Yup. I just found one on the ground; thought it was pretty neat back then. 2 months later it died. To this day I still can't figure out why it died - even with new batteries and not a sign of liquid damage it never turned on again. No dead caps, no leaky batteries, no corrosion.

[@darcybowyer5743]

Somewhere I've still got one too. Rubbish reception but I was amazed by it when I was a kid

[@andrihusainsudra]

6:04 that file on the right really sums up his reaction to the sample music

[@keyzarv5544]

FINALLY I was really hoping that the MP3 𝓟𝓮𝓷 would appear, and i absolutely love it, also nice gloves

[@hiddenguy67]

yes the pen

[@Nosttromo]

love that you took the time to write "pen" as "𝓟𝓮𝓷" instead of just "pen"

[@STICKOMEDIA]

@@Nosttromo ikr

[@fireballfurby]

I too love the 𝗠𝗣𝟯 𝒫ℯ𝓃!

[@SimonWillRun]

@@fireballfurby My favorite thing ever is the 𝙈𝙋3 𝒫ℯ𝓃

[@Joreg_Catapang]

5:35 I can't stop laughing on that part

[@maricthehedgehog]

M-MSSc-CN....MM-MSsSCN

[@jady1715]

7:13 it sounds like a interrogation room microphone

[@Free-4554]

Thank you for reminding me dank. I have now acquired $50,286 in debt because of that snake.

[@nizzan91]

This nugget is a perfect example of how crap early 2000s to ~2010 electronics were. Literally manufactured e-waste and so were most of the garbage iPod and phone accessories of the time. I remember whatever cheap-ish gadget I got as a kid not lasting more than 2 weeks in the best case, unless it was something like a Panasonic or Sony caliber brand.

[@harrison00xXx]

panasonic 👍 The masters of Plasma TVs, im still using a VT60 in 50" and S20E in 46" today!

[@mako3951]

That trend is still going strong honestly. Shitty e-waste will be overproduced forever

[@stynix5042]

5:50 : *slightly exhales* “.mp3”

[@stenanderson1695]

I could've used that eye poking feature in some of my college classes that's for sure. Joys of working overnight shifts for a while.

[@blackwater8607]

I love your content. It's been ages since I've watched you (you were around 90k) but I'm so happy to see where you are now and you got me into audio which is awesome! Hope you keep growing and growing 🙏🏽

[@CorduroyTheBoy]

I swear this is one of the higher tier prizes when selling magazines/chocolate for a school fundraiser. I wanted it so bad when I was little.

[@ZudeXbox360]

I can relate, I remember doing fundraising efforts for trinkets during PE back in elementary school!

[@bruddanecessity34]

Finally, I was waiting for a review on this when it was brought up in the mp3 drumstick video

[@youwouldntclickalinkonyout6236]

hes definitely shown this before I remember him saying "pen" Idk if it was an aftershow now becoming a show.

[@thealmightycrisprat]

@@youwouldntclickalinkonyout6236 no, its just that he showed it off in a previous video. however he didnt make a full video until now

[@timothygeorge5806]

0:53 - Me getting kicked in the groin

[@brominete9]

u got kicked in ur eggs and sausages

[@Tabitha569]

Pain

[@freemansfreedom8595]

9:40 that was the point. They put one of those, just so you could not blow the headphones. Making big grain moves before someone on the internet decides to screw them. Jokes aside, would it really be able to fit a 3.5mm one? It does look like it's mini jack is already against the lipo cell and the 3.5 might go over it. Or, if it fits, be too close in case someone stabs hard the headphone jack, dislodging it and puncturing the cell.

[@18436Melissa]

He can still blow it up either way, You can get one of those 2.5mm jacks to 3.5mm jacks, So its not a HUGE roadblock.

[@MauiTheMan]

Finally, I can write lyrics while listening to a song, all without another device.

[@baneq105]

write lyrics of sandstorm m8

[@letsgoplay821]

@@baneq105 scarlet fire

[@Cart1416]

I was about to watch "The iPod turned 20" but then I just had to watch this right after it is released.

[@Wefty]

I love these videos so much. Keep ‘em coming!

[@youwouldntclickalinkonyout6236]

This is a reupload?

[@realhuman5688]

2:46 that laugh’s fucking incredible

[@TechNerd51]

2:15: A- That made me giggle. Dankpods never EVER fails to make me laugh.

[@WanArk86]

Viewers: Say the word, Wade Wade: 1:21 Viewers : yeeeaAAAAHH!!!

[@Lunarrbase]

6:12 by playing the music from the cursed pen, he somehow spawned in a demon his desktop on the top right

[@seraaron]

5:17 one for the history books here boys!

[@alixcozmo]

These things are still being made, not this exact one but you can still buy a brand new mp3 pen online

[@techbaffle]

People: You know those MP3 players that look like a pen-drive? Global: *Say no more*

[@yordandoykov3181]

Petition for Dank to start using green gloves when handling nuggets

[@rashira9610]

So apparently, according to the translator built into Google Lens, the music you have build into the player are: Zhou Bichang-Clouds of Hometown.mp3 and Li Xiaojie-Good Girl.wma Just randomly felt like translating that for no reason.

[@Nadia1989]

I was about to post the same thing!!!

[@kelvinoverbeek]

Thanks for that, was actually quite interested in listening to the second song and found it thanks to you.

[@661250]

Also, Zhou Bichang literally means Zhou "smooth pen".

[@134343]

For me the top one writes Flash Pen Account - Hometown Cloud.

[@funghiman8492]

And those, if published/released/got covered in the west and received equal popularity as they did in mainland China, are BOUND to get content-matched and demoneytize the shit out of this episode. Many thanks for the Great Fire Wall, I guess......?

[@H_00_K-IA]

2:15 I relate to that sound

[@patrickmartin3322]

The middle but between the pen an MP3 player is where an ink cartridge is supposed to go, the lack of ink is probably why the pen didn’t work

[@GROENAASMusic]

Ah yes, the Craig DankPods Zip-Tie Marker. The MP3-player-marker we all didn't know we needed!

[@merchkerns]

This felt a lot like good old classic DankPods videos. I mean your content is great now as it was then, but there’s a certain charm in wrecking a nice ridiculous nug. ❤️

[@fren111]

I must say... for someone like me who is studying a lot... I liked this thing, I usually record classes, this would be very useful for when I transcribe the notes

[@Pomnik_Czynu_Medycznego]

I guess that recording classes via a pen that is used in the same time to transcribe the notes is a terrible idea. You'll probably end up with shitty quality of recording with a lot sounds of scratches from transciribing.

[@Kyuuwai]

If Wade says "Can you believe no one bought this" you know this will gonna be a good video

[@thejohnkaufman]

"I wish more important dreams came true" lmao oh god I feel that

[@FinntheSquire]

0:58 Missed opportunity for not calling it the MP3N

[@SlowMenThinking]

I bought one of these long time ago. From a Chinese website! The ones I got had 1GB storage and a FM Radio! Ended up replacing the small socket with a conventional sized one. In the end it was just used as flash card storage after all it was a gigabyte in storage though slow storage. It was great for recording meetings! Other than that total e-waste today! Yea my battery pack still works in the one I have here still total e-waste today!

[@tylern6420]

♪

[@caffeinecreature]

"I wish more important dreams came true" That cut surprisingly deep.

[@SpiritedSpy]

6:52 "Welcome back boss!"

[@kofi8259]

they would poke it and awake your aaa.. noise man,,, love your stuff

[@jiddy30]

We need a "can you believe nobody bought this" compilation

[@ooh1r5too44]

Gotta love this channel, always brings out great vids, best KZbin I’ve seen in awhile

[@nathancooley7362]

I feel bad for that customer service line now that Dank has more or less asked all of his viewers to call that number (I called it, it's still the same company, you should DEFINITELY not call it)

[@newendos1449]

ok im curious, what happened? lol

[@the_cutter8485]

What happened?

[@SquishyZoran]

What happened?

[@rubberduck01]

Tell us what happened please

[@KristenZianourry2015]

What happened

[@MS-PAINT-2024]

I was waiting for this for ages

[@Photo0021]

One week?

[@RandomPyroYT]

Same

[@RandomPyroYT]

@@Photo0021 no nigga

[@damienkubicz3045]

With the size of the actual pen part frank will finally be able to write and say “whatever I don’t need your stupid loan and niki that used to barely run, you dingus idiot who loaned money to a literal snake”

[@Trepidity]

that recording about cooking class was so funny i had to stop what i was doing and come back and listen. great laugh thanks!

[@rrlstudios7512]

3:56 Don't call GNBI on that one, you call GNBI on this one.

[@97nelsn]

8:45 *Intense Batman Dummy MP3 Player Flashback*

[@sobari745]

You know, if this came out in the Bluetooth era, I feel like this would have been alright for the classroom. Would have been much easier to hide the fact that you're listening to music too, letting you cycle through tracks without raising suspicion.

[@TheGuyWhoIsSitting]

Unless you're just absolutely forbidden to have your phone with you, it'd be a quite niche product. Even still, it has a recording function and most businesses/schools don't like that.

[@evil1st]

@@TheGuyWhoIsSitting Thats why you should have one. If a school or business doesnt want you recording audio, you best be recording every second...

[@cardinalhamneggs5253]

I'm going to buy the 512 gig version for my pen collection.

[@StickMan10Blue]

What a great idea! now you can listen to your favorite music in 144p while writing with a pen that dried out years ago, brilliant!

[@dustarma]

I don't think audio files have ps

[@RaYYTraYY]

music having pixels is a new concept to me

[@maxonheadrick9339]

never in my life have i heard a Li-on batt be called a "spicy pillow". ill take that one with me

[@Keeeeeeeeeeeeeee]

5:56 Huh, well what do you know? That’s exactly the date after my birth. Coolio

[@Greeno961]

I love how the homemade nugget is made with a Craig

[@soupappreciator8977]

9:49 OHHHHH THERES HEAPS OF ROOM 🦧

[@TheIshakuro]

I just want you to know, when the egg fell, that pause had me so invested I spilled my drink on my chin because I forgot to move the can all the way to my mouth. No word of a lie.

[@_invencible_]

thank you for sharing

[@ccrum32]

I love danks care and love for every silly little dinky thing on his desk. :)

[@IcehawkWill]

You sir are quite the gem in this devolving society. Thank you for doing what you do soldier!

[@LambdaMiscellaneous]

@Don't Read My Profile Photo if you insist

[@Lulu_Lime]

"Devolving society" 🤨

[@SolarFlare307]

@@Lulu_Lime reminds me of the whiny Critical Drinker guy lmao

[@gigithecatperson]

"I refuse to trim these. Ey? When they poke your eye balls-" I legit chocked on nothing here. Couldnt even laugh, just got me off guard 100 😂.

[@real_swiftydragon]

4:04 always makes me chuckle with those "EWWWS"

[@ImPattMan]

Ok, so I definitely had one, and it had trouble with the button from time to time, but I absolutely LOVED this thing. I didn't use it for writing, it was more just because it was unique, and incredibly compact.

[@Brandatello]

I’m pretty sure that’s the “listening device” Dwight planted in Jim’s office on the office.

[@nfabian5100]

Except that it’s a Pen and not a duck

[@traviscombs6947]

@@nfabian5100 Dwight planted both a pen and a mallard.

[@Brandatello]

Mallard. But I was talking about the pen at the end of the episode.

[@nfabian5100]

@@traviscombs6947 oh yeah i must’ve forgot abt that part lol

[@Spootnik]

This pen and MP3 player are just too much in my pocket, if only I could combine them into one...

[@missingno2401]

weve got * inhales exhales *.mp3

[@LGEEZZA]

Finally you can listen Lo-Fi when studying

[@xProErax]

1:21 MP3-pen will always be a classic, just hearing it after seeing the after show months ago it's still fun to hear!

[@squidud]

Your videos never fail to brighten my day. Seriously, man. Nuggets forever and long live haitch pea!

[@YuriChan-428]

2:18 This literally looks like salad! Carrot gloves, lettuce Apple thing, tomato pen box...

[@TheyCallUsCanadians]

Man...I had that exact pen as a kid. You were actually the cool kid for having an MP3 pen.

[@robertoXCX]

That exact Craig you saddled with a pen was my first mp3 player. Absolute garbage, took very little time to convince my parents that an iPod was a far better investment.

[@Smashvillain]

I actually had this. I was that desperate for music in school and my walkman was just too conspicuous. ...it still sucked--

[@sadasdasda6978]

gotta admit, mp3 pen plugged in into a power strip looks fancy

[@theliquidllama1]

This is too current. Back in my day MP3 Pens weren't recharged, you needed to buy those weird watch batteries that no store had. It was awesome. I had 6.

[@cirruschree6488]

0:10 and it’s a Craig 😂😂

[@GTechOfficial]

As a child in 2006 I can confirm I had one of these and the mini headphone jack bothered me back then too

[@nachiopistachio]

I adjusted my laptop’s screen at 2:33 because of the glare. I demand a compensation for my own stupidity even as just a wall of text. My cat stinks too

[@Starribruins]

Omg it's you

[@nachiopistachio]

@@Starribruins Apparently

[@Starribruins]

@@nachiopistachio lol

[@youraveragesocialist84]

Had three of these bastards, had entirely forgotten they existed, don’t remember ever using it to listen to much, but made me feel like a really crappy little spy.