Editing The Pen Addict 484/transcript (section)

== Survey Results ==


'''Myke:''' All right. Well, we've got some stuff to talk about later on. Today, people might be aware, they might not be aware, but we'll get to that when we get to it. But just as a last reminder, we want to let people know that the Pen Addict Slack survey, which doesn't require you being in the Slack, we've mentioned it a couple of times over the last few weeks, that's coming to a close now. So if you do want to get your entrances in and get your information and build up this really cool database, I don't really know how to describe it.

'''Brad:'''  Well, it's a data point. It's a point in time of a very much shooting fish in the barrel survey, right? It's not an open managed survey, but we know the restrictions of people who are listening to this content or taking the survey. So it's a little bit skewed that way, but it's just a fun look at people who are into this hobby and the things that they're into. Yeah. This is the last week. We'll have more on it once Kat and Michael, they'll analyze it. They'll do some, I think, video analysis of it. And I know the point we were on last week about the top brands, that's definitely going to be a thing. And we got the big pen show bump on the survey as well. They went from like 400 and something to 600 and something responses, and I'm spending a couple of days. So if you haven't taken it, go take it. It's fun. It just talks about what you think about fountain pens and brands and things like that. So it's good stuff. It's good stuff. I believe it's anonymous too, right?

'''Myke:''' It's anonymous. Yeah, yeah.

'''Brad:'''  Because they do ask some age and data, like some personal data, but it's all anonymous. Just to kind of map in what this community is built upon.

'''Myke:''' Which is just interesting stuff, and I really look forward to digging through some of the results. I had a few people contact us about our confusion about Pilot. Yeah, yeah. I did too. I did say like Vanishing Point is probably like a big point, like as like a big contender. I wasn't really thinking about, but obviously makes a lot of sense, right? The Pilot Vanishing Point is a very popular pen, and it's also like a really good pen for its money for most people. So that could really be a big sway. I still don't, it still doesn't feel number one worthy for me, but we're all different.

'''Brad:'''  Well, again, like it's a multiple selection question, which we missed in the beginning. But still. I'll stick to my comment that it's just, it's such, it's a brand with a very high floor, right? There's very few bad Pilot products, and so people tend to latch onto those and keep them for a long time. So it's good. Kat and Michael did let me know we have respondents from all continents now except Antarctica. So I would like to give a special shout out to those of y'all stationed down there at any of the substations in Antarctica. We have to have one pen addict listener down there, right? But like, like, number say, we got one on that continent. So I'm going to need them, like in the next few days to number one, download and listen to this podcast. And then number two, go answer this survey. But number three, don't lie about being in Antarctica. I don't, all of a sudden, if we get five. Hang on, there were 9,000 people from Antarctica. You know, if we get five respondents from Antarctica, we know you're full of it. So here's the thing.

'''Myke:''' Here's the thing.

'''Brad:'''  Let's just up the ante.