Editing The Pen Addict 178/transcript (section)

== Favorite Pens ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' So what's your favorite pen, Myke?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Oh, that's difficult. Well, I think, you know, I've been saying for a while that I think that the Sailor Pro gear, the Orange Pro gear that I have is probably the best pen. Favorite is a really difficult question. Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. So that's a loaded question always. But there was a link out that's been going through all of our friends and all of our networks. There's an article. Well, I don't know if it's an article on Kenja for, you know, whatever Gawker World does. I don't really follow them, but this is one of their things. But there's an article called Your Five Favorite Pens. And it's basically they did a poll of all their readers on this article. And it ended up being it's basically a list of what I would call my five favorite pens in the store that you can just go get. Right. That's what type. That's what the answers were. The you know, the winners were Pilot G21, Fisher Space Pen, Zebra F301, Uniball Jetstream and Sharpie Pen. And they actually did a pretty good job just randomly picking these these things. This is like the list you'd get off the store shelf. Like the F301 would never make my list because the grip is really, really bad. But if you had to go walk into Staples and pick out a good pen, this is a pretty good list. I mean, you know, it's just something to share. This is I just wanted to link this to show this is the the general public's idea, you know, the non pen junkie like we have that listen to us and read our stuff and buy Dan's products. You know, this is what they're running into out there.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' You know, my only issue with this is five years from now, it's going to be the same list. Right. Like, that's that's why we that's that's why we love that's why we love Dan Bishop, because he makes new stuff for us to to to buy and to use. That's way cooler and way nicer than stuff like this. So, Dan, when you go when you go to Staples, do you tool around the pen aisle? Do you ever come away with anything, you know, just right off the shelf? If you had to grab one of these pens, if you didn't have one of your pens laying around, what would you grab off the shelf?

'''Dan Bishop:''' You're not going to like that answer. No, it's good. I know in design school, everything we used was pretty much just a cheap, like the cheapest ballpoint you could find.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yep.

'''Dan Bishop:''' And so I'm because mostly I doodle. I don't do a lot of note taking. But if I do maybe a G2, a Pilot G2. But I like the cheap, cheap Bix because you can draw really well with them.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So, yeah, no, that's a hugely popular pen. And actually, I've never reviewed one. And someone's been emailing me to review just the, you know, the basic Bic Crystal. So I bought.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Oh, yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I bought one. Well, I bought a 10 pack because you can't just buy one. But, you know, I mean, 10 of them for $1.50. I mean, that's a legitimately good pen for such a cheap price. And it's one of the best drawing pens out there that people don't realize is actually a really good drawing pen, right? Because you can do shading with these type of ballpoint pens. And you can actually have some line variation. And you can do a lot of good work with just a basic Bic ballpoint. So that's cool. No, I'm totally on board with that. I'm surprised that didn't make the list now that you say that.

'''Dan Bishop:''' Well, they smell weird when you use them. They really.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, as a strange smell. Yeah.

'''Dan Bishop:''' Yeah, when you really get on it and, like, you know, move your hand really quickly and get a lot of ink on the page, there's this, like, definite aroma that's, I wouldn't call it pleasant.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, it's not at all. It's basically, I mean, it's basically oil. I mean, it's what it is. It's kind of gross. It is kind of gross. But, yeah, I just thought I wanted to share that because I thought it was, number one, they actually did a pretty good job on the list, which I'm pleasantly surprised about. And number two, it's the same list from five years ago. And five years from now, it's going to be the same list, too, which is, you know, why we're in existence to spread the word about all kinds of other good things that you can use to write with. Like one of our good friends, Myke, at Penshalay, they have all kinds of good things to write with, right?