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== Pen Survey Results ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' The BIC is in this list, though, if you want to add more confusion into that.

'''Myke Hurley:''' No, the first one is a ballpoint pen. So the winner of this... So this is a three-month survey that this site does, and they've done it for years. And we've seen some cool stuff come through, and I know we've talked about it. I think the Zebra Saracic Clip won one year. So they ended up with the 48 favorite ballpoint pens from Japan. And the winner... Could you have guessed the winner? I don't even know that you know what this pen is. But if you had to guess, in Japan, so like your basic writing pen, ballpoint gel, anything pen. I know you've looked at this, but would you have been able to have a guess to what that would have been? I don't think I would have picked the winner. I would have picked it probably in the top three. So the winner is just the .7mm Uniball Jetstream Sport, which is one of the greatest pens of all time. That's the pen I recommended to Stephen Hackett that he uses all the time. It's a fantastic pen.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' You recommend that pen to a lot of people.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, it's a great pen. It's the canonical Jetstream to me. Right? They have more famous Jetstreams, but when I talk about Jetstream, this is the one I always refer to as being the best. And it's number one. The problem I have with this list is number two, Myke. What is that? I don't know what it is. Right, okay. This is a problem for me. This is a real problem for me. So I'm going to need someone to get in on number two. If anything, it looks like the Uniball RT1, which is number 10 on this list. But I don't think it is, and I genuinely do not know what number two on this list is. I even went back to last year's top 48, and it wasn't on the list. Like, I couldn't find a comparable pen. I'm trying to figure out what this pen is. No clue. I genuinely do not know. So, yes, listeners, please help me out with that. Number three.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Why don't they say? Actually, sorry. They do say. It's written in Japanese, right? Yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' And it's an image, so we can't translate it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, that's the problem. I wish they had a text list.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Well, I could get the Google Translate app and aim it at it, right? Or something like that. I mean, I can.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' The phone app. You want me to do that while we're here? That would be kind of funny. Oh, please. Let's do it. I mean, that's not going to work, is it? Like, that's not going to work.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Well, it has the text new in English right above it, so it's a little bit weird.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Oh, I guess that means it's a new entrant, right?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. So, like, number two and number nine are new entrants, but I know what number nine is. I know what everything is on this page, except that pen.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So, you want me to go to another couple ones while you pull it up, or you got it?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' You can. Yeah. Yeah, you should do that. I'm still trying to work on this here. Zebra Bren.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Okay, it's a zebra. Yeah. Okay. How do you spell the second part?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' B-R-E-N.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Okay.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I mean, the rest of them, they are translating correctly. Zebra Sarasa Clip, Pilot Juice.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Zebra Blend. B-L-E-N. Okay. It's an emulsion ballpoint, so that's a Jetstream style ink.

'''Myke Hurley:''' What did they call the last emulsion? I think the Zebra Emulsion. Oh, God. It had a specific name. This is a... I wonder if this is their red dot design winner pen design that never made it out. Okay. That's exactly what this is. That was cool.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That was a good idea, wasn't it? To do the translate? What?

'''Myke Hurley:''' So this is the ballpoint ink that's similar to the Jetstream. Very interesting. I have not used one of those. I've used their past... God, it's going to drive me crazy. Whatever the name was that they used for... It was a bad name that they used for their emulsion inks. And they were nice. They were really good. They just didn't stack up to the Jetstream. So I'd be interested to try out the blend. Okay. Cool. Yay. I'm glad we did that. Number three, Zebra Sarasa Clip, which I believe has won this competition in past years at least once. I don't know how many years has been going on. It was called the Surari. Surari. Yeah. Thank you.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Do you know how I found that out? How? This little blog is called penaddict.com. It wasn't yours. It was Amy who contributed.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Okay. Cool. Cool, cool, cool. So yeah. There was a... Yeah. Good times. That was back in 2010 though, Brad.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' This is 10 years old, this article.

'''Myke Hurley:''' They've had one since then. I want to say five years ago they had a different one. But it's been a while since they've had it. I'll say that.

'''Myke Hurley:''' All right. So yeah. Three, Zebra Sarasa Clip has won it before. Number four, the Pilot Juice Up, the retractable needlepoint Pilot Juice, which is great. The regular Pilot Juice isn't in the top 10. Number five is the Pentel Energel. What's interesting about this one is they use like the... This was like an anniversary translucent barrel one, which is just killer looking.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Could it be the Zedmulsion?

'''Myke Hurley:''' That's it.

'''Myke Hurley:''' That's exactly... That's what I'm thinking of. Thank you. Is that also on my blog? No, I just started searching.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And that is a pen that is available now. The Zebra Zedmulsion.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yep. That's the one I'm thinking about. I guess it's... I knew.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Zedmulsion, right?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Zedmulsion, right. Yeah. That's terrible, right?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Oh, it's not available anymore. The Zedmulsion. Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It's Zedmulsion.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. That's the one that I did not care for the naming of.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Zedmulsion in the ocean. Mm-hmm.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Number six is the Zebra Sarasa Dry, which apparently that's a big deal in Japan, right? That's what Uni is coming out with, this quick drying gel ink. That's what the Zebra Sarasa Dry is, number six on this. Number seven, Myke, Signo DX. Uni Ball Signo DX, one of the greatest pens ever made. Ever. Ever. Ever. Number eight, I don't know the exact model name, but it's the Fancy Barrel Jetstream. Um, it's, you know, how they make like the Executive Jetstream barrels and some of these other gel pens have like the Executive Model Metal Barrel that's like $15. That's what that one is. Um, number nine.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Jetstream Prime. Prime. There you go. Well, that's that again. That's what Google Translate is telling me.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I love that we did this. Yep. Uh, number nine is the, uh, the Friction Ball Knock, I think is what that one's called. It's probably the best Friction pen. I'm surprised still. This is just, this goes to show you how these very unique pens are super popular in, in Japan.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I have a Point Knock.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Point Knock. Okay. Sounds right. And then number 10 is the Uni Ball Signo RT1, which is basically your retractable version of the DX. Um, so this is a killer top 10 list. Like I, I love it. Um. Um.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I can't believe how well this, uh, translating is doing, even the brand names. This is a surprise to me how good this is.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So let me see if there's any other ones that I don't know what they are.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Oh, maybe. I'm going to go back to that chart we were talking about earlier now. Oh yeah. See if I can work out what that means. We have unearthed the new technology here on the Pen Addict.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I love it. So I know we talked about the last release because I was surprised at the, um, Lamy Safari Rollerball made the top 10 last year. This year it's down to number 12. Like last year was like number 5 or something like that. I found that to be just extremely strange, but it also coincided with Lamy making a bigger push into Japan. So I thought that was interesting.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So yeah, like the, the next 20, it's all your pretty standard stuff. The Uni Ball Air is in there. Um, one of the Oto Rollerballs is in there. The Dr. Grip is in there. Um, Energel Needle, bunch of pens that I like. And then we have, let's see, in the 21 to 30.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Then you start getting into some random stuff. The Oto, gosh, I can't remember the name of this Oto that I like. It's really good.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Memory Up. That's what, that's what, that's what that chart is saying. The, the Uni chart, that new Uni Ball. With the arrow? Yeah. The .5? Memory, memory up.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Oh, okay. So, I'm not still looking at this, but when I read the documentation, the science, Myke, says that the darker the writing is, the better your memory retention is. Yeah. No, the better your memory retention is. Oh. The darker the markings are. So, this is, you're going to get .5 memory on this, on like your, uh, this is like an RPG.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' There is no labeling to the axes. So, like, it just means that you're going to go from 0.25 to 0.3 on your memory as compared to the conventional product. Yeah. So, that's good.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It's an RPG.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That's really great. You've just leveled up.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Oh, my God. Okay. We need to keep this handy for all the Japanese products, uh, we have. And I'll start doing it beforehand, uh, if I think about it. I think that's a wrap today, Myke. I think I, I've had enough fun, uh, even though we could have more fun with that, with, with the app and on these pen pages. But that chart was the best. That chart wins for 0.5 memory.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. I'm so pleased we did that today. All right. If you want to find our show notes, you can go to relay.fm slash pen addict slash 395. Thanks so much to Pen Chalet for their support of this show. And as always, thank you for listening. We'll be back next time. If you want to find Brad's work in the meantime, go to penaddict.com. You can also go to knock.co to see Brad's wares and spoke pen, spoke design, spoke design.com. Yep. One day I'm going to remember that one. It's the only one I can't remember. Brad is penaddict on Instagram. Dowdy is on Twitter. He streams live Tuesdays, Thursdays, 10 a.m. Eastern at twitch.tv slash penaddict. I am iMike, I-M-Y-K-E. Follow me there on Instagram. Uh, we'll be back next time. Until then, say goodbye, Brad.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Goodbye, Brad. Goodbye, Brad.

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