Editing The Pen Addict 395/transcript (section)

== OKB General Election ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. But again, like this is something that excites me just as much as the Curie DOS. Like these gel pen companies just don't do this. Right. It's just kind of random. Yeah. Um, so, all right, last thing I want to talk about, and we've covered the OKB general election in the past, Myke. Do you know what that is if I say it out loud? Honestly, I have no memory of it, bro. So it's the OKB 48. And I remember it from a few years ago. It's an annual ranking of Japan's favorite ball pens or ballpoint pens. And they don't mean it as ballpoint ink technology. They mean it as a ball-tipped pen, right? So it could be gel, um, rollerball, ballpoint, things like that. A ballpoint pen means two different things. There's ballpoint ink, which is your oil-based ink like you find in a BIC.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Or you have a ball tip pen, which is pretty much every pen that's a gel pen, a rollerball pen. There's a ball in the tip that rolls and applies the ink to the page.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Okay. Yeah. I never think, that's how I always think of ballpoint. I don't think of ink.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Right. Okay. I do think of ink. So that's why I always make sure to clarify. Because if I say ballpoint, I mean ink technology. If I say gel, I mean ink technology. I don't mean ballpoint as... You don't mean rollerball. Yeah. So...