Editing The Pen Addict 430/transcript (section)

== Pen Comparison ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. On this list that I'm going to go through, there's two pens that are immediately noticeable when you see them. It's the G2 and it's the Precise V5 or V7. But V5 and V7, the only difference is tip size. That's why I say them both. Because the V5 is 0.5, V7 is 0.7. So they're both the same pen. So it's an awesome pen. It's rollerball. So it's not going to work great on some papers. But like a pen like this, I find it to be the best Moleskine journaling paper. You know, because Moleskine paper is historically not a great paper for some inks. And I've always found the Precise and that liquid ink to work surprisingly well on the Moleskine paper. The one rollerball I didn't link in this that I will get a lot of feedback on because a lot of people love it. But I despise it is the Uniball Vision. And this is a regional naming one, Myke. In the UK, it's the Uniball Eye. E-Y-E, like eyeball. You know, vision, eye, whatever.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I don't like calling a rollerball an eye.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It's the Uniball Eye.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Oh, I know this pen.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's a classic. The Vision Elite is a good pen. The Uniball Vision is not a good pen. It is very, very wet, bleedy. It's like a huge, huge just ink sink going onto your page.

'''Myke Hurley:''' You left out the best rollerball ever, though.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Which is?

'''Myke Hurley:''' The Retro 51 Tornado.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, but like that's not the categories. We're not shopping on the Retro 51 aisle today. And I'd argue that it's the refill.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, that's what I'm talking about mainly.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It's the Schmidt PA 126, 127. Yeah. Yeah. No, there's no doubt. But like that's not the category of the people who are replying to the. I know what we're doing today. Yeah. This is the best pen ever. Let's argue that one's not going to rank. Right? In the context of this tweet. Yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' You know, Brad, I think I would really struggle. I would really struggle to answer this question definitively. Like if somebody asked me. Mm-hmm. Like this thing. I don't really feel like I have a good answer for this person. Like this list that you put together is fantastic. And there's a bunch of stuff in there that I think is better. Like even the Sharpie pen I think is a better pen than the G2. Right. But I do really like the G2. But I think I would really struggle to answer this better for the mass audience. Because I'm not as familiar with some of the ones that you've mentioned, right? That you think are better. Like the G2 is something that I really know.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. That's why I at least wanted to put a couple shout outs for these gel pens that are an option. Like the Energel. The 307.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I love the 307 though. I do love the 307.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Like if you want a basic black gel ink pen in 0.5 or 0.7 millimeters. I'd pick the 307 over the G2 every time. If you want a 0.7 millimeter gel ink pen and it comes in a lot of good color options. I'd pick the Penantel Energel every time over the G2. So yeah. Like that's the point I'm trying to get across. Not that the G2 is bad or it shouldn't be the best pen ever. It shouldn't be someone's favorite. I'm just saying I think these other two or three pens are actually better than the G2. And the G2 at already a high level. Right.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So that's why. That's why it's honestly it's a pretty short list because nothing else. Like the G2 is such a good baseline of a pen for being a good pen. There's only a few pens that I would think that are better. But I think these pens are demonstratively better. Like I think in a side-by-side test these would people would go oh okay. Yeah. Let me let me think about this a little bit more. So let me hit a few other ones that we find on the shelf. Yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I mean there's one there's one big one we haven't spoken about yet which is of particular importance to you.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Uh is it the last one on the list or the next one on the list? Yeah. The last one. We're going to talk about that. I have a very specific conversation about the last one. But the next one on the list you have to mention and it's the Uniball Jetstream. Now I'm a huge I'm as big a Jetstream fan as anybody. I recommend it across the board for so many situations. If I had only one pen to choose I would always choose one of the gel ink pens ahead of the Jetstream. Right. But the Jetstream is the answer to a lot of questions. It solves a lot of problems for people being a ballpoint pen. It's high quality non-skip smooth. It has a refill that you can write forever with. You're not going to have to refill it or replace it as often as a gel ink pen. But there's also limitations right in color in richness of the color and you know various various things like that. So I am as you know I will go to bat to the Jetstream as much as anyone in the world. But I do understand that I think most people would prefer a gel ink pen over the Jetstream. It's just that the Jetstream ticks so many boxes that are very very particular. You know I find like students want to know I want a really good quality pen that can write forever and I will enjoy using. Well it's I'm generally going to pick the Jetstream for that right.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I don't like the Jetstream.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah no I agree. Like I understand why people do not like the Jetstream. I think that's a totally fair stance.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It's just not my thing.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It's just not it's just not my thing. It's uninteresting honestly. Yeah. But what it does it does extraordinarily well. So there's things there are use cases for it that I will that I will absolutely make and I'll always stand up for the Jetstream. This next batch of pens you kind of alluded to the Sharpie pen. These are all on the same store shelf area. You know you're shopping around and you see these other pens. These are really good pens that are just different than gel ink pens or different from the rollerball pens. And that's the Paper Mate Flare and the Sharpie pen. I kind of lump those together. They're both a marker style pen. The Sharpie pen is a more traditional tipped plastic pen. Plastic tip pen I should say.

'''Myke Hurley:''' They have three now. They have the art pen, the brush pen, and the grip pen. The grip pen is the one that we're mostly focusing on. Correct. When talking about this. When we always talk about the Sharpie pen because it was the only one. The grip pen used to be the only one.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Which is now, no, it used to only be the art pen, which was the original Sharpie pen. And then they introduced the grip pen. And then they changed the name of the Sharpie pen to the art pen.