and welcome to another edition of The Creative Life, an exciting collaboration between Think Tech Hawaii and the American Creativity Association. I'm Darlene Boyd, your host for today. And joining me as our guest is Emily Fimbo. Emily is coming to us from College Station, Texas. And we're doing a little twist today. We have a little different agenda than we normally do. If you follow us, you probably know that we've had a number of experts and long life connectors to creativity. And we're going to, over time, and starting with Emily, bring in some folks that are not necessarily new to creativity because they're creative themselves in their everyday life, but they're new in their efforts in how they are mentoring other people. So Emily is the assistant director of something called Launch at Texas A&M and College Station. So Emily, welcome. Welcome to The Creative Life. I'm so glad you're with us today. Thank you so much. Perhaps a good place to start would be to just give us an overview. What is Launch? So Launch is part of Texas A&M University. It's a collection of programs. So Launch is actually an acronym. It's Learning Communities, Academic Excellence. That's where my programs fall. Undergraduate research, national fellowships, capstones, and honors. So in one way or another, we work with a huge amount of different students on campus trying to get them involved in lots of different programs. How long has Launch been going on? In various iterations, honors and undergraduate research have always been around. But I think Launch itself, it's definitely been it for at least eight or nine years. I just joined one year ago, so I'm about to have my one year anniversary there. But even before I got to be a part of it, I got to work with the people from Launch. So I was pretty excited when I got to join because I knew they were a good group. OK, so how many participants are there in Launch? So in terms of employees, I want to say we have probably around 15 students. It's probably within any given year, it's hundreds and thousands. Whether it's people involved in the programs that I work with like InnovationX, the Maroon-based app, that would be thousands of students who use that, or students in the honors program, which come from all over the university. So we definitely get a chance to touch a lot of lives. Now we're here, of course, to talk about creativity. When Launch was launched, what would creativity play other than in the creativity of its assistant director, perhaps director? So I would say from what I've seen so far, every person that I have worked with and based on their history who they've worked with seems to be a pretty creative person. They have really embraced the idea of mentorship and using creative methods to match students up with faculty members to make sure that they are interacting with people of different majors and minors. I think it's definitely seen as a way for them to actually interact with people outside of their normal world. So sometimes you only get to do that like when you're sitting in the library or when you're at a football game. So this would be the chance otherwise to get to work with people in a creative aspect. Emily, I know you glanced into a few of our previous shows and our viewers know also that we've been doing a lot recently on innovation as anyone being responsible in the field of creativity certainly should be addressing innovation in its many ways of delivery. And some of the people we had, for example, Cal State, Dominguez Hills has an incubator program that is very well respected and recognized naturally. So we were so pleased that we could have the director come in and speak with us. So we do have a session on that. And then we've had some others that are innovators. And of course, in innovation, our guests have been split not all academic, Emily. They've been split coming from the corporate world, consultants, and then some of the academic programs which turn out not necessarily those that are held on a campus, not necessarily to be academic linked perhaps with a school of management, a school of business, and they have a real strong link in the community. So Emily, how does your program compare with some of the other programs? Sure. Well, InnovationX itself started really, it's a way to get both faculty and students to get to work with people outside of their discipline together on a project to solve a problem. So it does involve a lot of faculty members, including professors of practice. Often they do partner with outside groups related to maybe like this year we have one related to the Audubon Society, a project called Lights Out Texas. We also have ones that deal with local shelters in terms of food insecurity. And then we even have some, I'm really proud to say, that are former students who have set up their own nonprofits or groups outside who have then kind of come back as mentors to be team contributors to the project. So what we do is we ask the faculty to kind of partner up or pair up in a group and they have to be from different majors in different schools actually. They come up with a proposal for us. We have a large group of faculty who very generously give their time to read the proposals and we see how many we can fund. And then we open it up and have students apply. And we're very clear that it can't just be, I'd like to fund my chemistry project and here are the five chemistry students that I already know who are going to be joining me. We want it to involve people from liberal arts, from agriculture, from engineering, to really make sure that this is something that involves multiple viewpoints. So do you have very much external funding? And if so, is that something that you're driven to do yourself? Sure, so we do have some funding that's internal from the university. And then we've been very fortunate to have funding from the Texas A&M Foundation. So before I was kind of in charge of this program, I wasn't really involved in the fundraising aspect. It was more like here's the amount of money that we have to fund, go forth and figure out how many that we can do this year. And this year was one of the first times where it was kind of like, all right, well, so I'm in charge, a better figure out, let's get some money. So that was one of my new activities that I was able to approach the foundation and kind of pitch them some of the projects and talk about, here's some of the really cool things that our faculty pitched that students, I know would be very interested in and that this would make a big impact. And I was very happy they were so supportive. I think impact is something that comes up frequently with similar programs or those that are external and are driven to have mentors. So impact being the long-term goal. So it's pleasing to hear you say impact. It's an important time. I'm not sure if our viewers are aware of this, but the attention to creativity at the federal level, at the governmental level, it still remains, but not to the degree that it did at the time of Sputnik because as you may know, Emily Sputnik caused people in the government to think that this is a space race and we have to beat that little satellite out and do that is to have programs and creativity.  So there's not really that commitment. So with that disappearing at that level, even though there are things that we know that should be going on right now that creativities would play a major role in getting us through some of the strife that we have and maybe in a few minutes, we'll talk about the impact of some of the therapy positions that you've had. But it's just very important at this point to have that connection of mentors and those that really want to give back to students. So what kinds of influences do you think really hold you back or barriers or stand in your way, societal influences? You know, I would say faculty have so many responsibilities that they need to be working on teaching and research and service. So the amount of mentorship that they're able to do through the InnovationX program is fantastic. We try to keep the student amount relatively limited. So it's usually like 10 to 12 students with maybe four or five faculty members. But in terms of matching them with outside people, it takes a lot of legwork to make sure that this is somebody that you want speaking to students to vet them and then also to make sure that you brief the student on what kinds of questions they can be asking. Luckily A&M has a very strong former student network. And I think like you were talking about in the beginning, there is a group of former students around my age or a little older who are really looking to give back in terms of talking about their experience. So it's not just about let me give thousands of dollars, it's been 10 years since I graduated. Let me talk about what that's actually meant in the workforce and what you might not expect when you get out there. When you and I talked a little bit off camera and regretfully it was just a little bit and you mentioned, and I'm gonna glance down here some of the things that you had mentioned about the life choices that so many of young people now coming along face and the influence is such you mentioned pop cultural career dramas and sometimes even breakthroughs and therapy that contribute to the present. Tell us a little bit more about that. Sure. So for me, coming at this from where I am kind of in the middle, I'm not a faculty member. I'm not a student. So I'm obviously still not in the 18 to 22 range. I've been out about 20 years and I've had enough work experience to see in a variety of industries to see here's what can affect your day-to-day life in work. Here's what tends to make the difference and move you in and out of different career perspectives. And I found like you were mentioning pop culture, no matter who you work with, even if you're in a creative area and they're in the accounting department, if you only ever see each other in the elevator, you getting to have that conversation with them about did you see last week's Game of Thrones can be really fulfilling whenever you're having a stressful week. I've been involved, you know, lots, especially when it's a reality show, there are always kind of who's your favorite for project runway kind of internal sort of competitions in the office. And I found that that's a really nice way to break through barriers of different levels of power. Maybe you don't really get a chance to talk to people who are levels above you that often, but everybody tends to have an opinion on who should be the next American Idol or something like that. That's often true, isn't it? Right, right. In terms of career dramas, I do have a background where I worked in the entertainment industry for a bit in New York. So some of it was kind of in the trenches sort of sharing with your coworker, like, hey, did you hear what so-and-so boss did? They threw their phone at the assistant down the hall, kind of stuff like that. I was an intern at Miramax when Harvey Weinstein was there. So just hearing different stories and kind of seeing both as an intern and then, you know, as a full-time employee at some places, school might not prepare you for some things. And it's like, we didn't have a lesson on, this is what you should do when this happens in your internship. So I think that kind of on-the-ground learning was helpful and I'd like to be able to talk about that with the students that I work with to explain, like, this might never happen and I hope this never happens, but just in case. Maybe this will be a thing, ethical dilemmas. I think at least perhaps me being naive, when I graduated, I'd always been raised to think, like, if there's a problem, find an adult. The adult will be the one to help you understand and fix it. And in one of those situations, it was someone in the office who wanted to see if I could fix the American Idol Pool. And- How would you do that? I have no idea. I said, one, like, I definitely don't know how to do that. But two, no. And that was one of the things that made me think, like, I don't know if this is the right place for me. Like, if I had just such a visceral reaction to that. And you think where you want to work is based so much on what you would do in the topic. But sometimes it's a moment like that that hits you and you're like, I don't even think this topic is important enough to me to have to deal with that question on a daily basis. And then I do like to talk about with current students, especially during the pandemic, there has been such a rise in need for mental health services or our students, and I'm sure students everywhere. But I know there's kind of a hesitancy for students, especially the ones that we work with sometimes, like in the honors community, to kind of reach out and say that they need that help because it's a little bit like saying, can't do this all on my own. I might need an extra hand. So I've been honest about saying, like, when I was in college, I did go to school in New York, so it was a different environment, but it was very much like, oh, do you like your therapist? Is that a good one? Can you give me the card? It was much more loud that this was a tool that you would use just like anything else, just like going to the library and studying. So I've had conversations with them about, think of this as a competitive advantage. If you and the guy next to you are taking the same classes, reading the same books, but you have this extra sounding board that he doesn't have to help you collect your thoughts each week, to help you figure out, what am I going through? What am I up against that maybe seems bigger in my head than it is in reality? Then you have a look up on them. So I like to be touchy-feely, but also sometimes it can be kind of competitive if you need me. It makes sense. You used to term also in a conversation that I actually like, and you put it in the context of saying, doing something without succumbing to analysis paralysis. Tell us a little bit about analysis paralysis. Sure, so for me, whenever I graduated from high school, I started taking some career tests. I didn't have any idea because I knew I didn't want to be a lawyer or a doctor or something that was just a single noun. So I thought, okay, I'll take these tests and it'll give me the information, it'll tell me what I should do. And it gave me some results, most of them involved librarian. And then it said on what not to do, don't be a caretaker, which in hindsight, I'm kind of like, that's a little offensive to say like, you are not a caring person, this is not the field for you. But I really kind of emotionally and mentally pushed back against that because I thought like, well, no, I don't want to go to my 10 year high school reunion and say, I'm a librarian, that's too on the nose, that's too much, nerd Emily in high school, I'm not gonna do that. And then as my grandmother would say, come to find out years later, I have a master's in library science now. Some things you don't fight. So they were actually correct about that. Why did that happen? So the pendulum sort of swung after the entertainment industry. And I think in my mind, it was like, I want to be able to provide all information to everyone at an access, there's no velvet rope, there's no, do you know who I am? Are you important enough to get this? There's not a hierarchy in that sense. So that's one reason that I found it interesting to go and learn more ways about organizing information. In terms of analysis paralysis, I assume a lot of other people deal with this too and especially in college, there are so many choices now for ways to tackle a problem, for ways to get help. I was telling you guys before, I have searched sometimes on Google, how to get your beep together, like how to get your life together essentially, as if there would be one perfect source that would have steps that would tell you like, well, here's exactly what you do. So analysis paralysis for me means you get to the point where you have to stop searching, stop collecting sources, start writing, make a decision, and at least start on a path because I could collect a million sources for my thesis before I actually started writing anything and just be happy, just pull in articles and highlighting, but sometimes you need to kind of get a hold of yourself and that for me was a challenge that I know students have as well.  I think she's so cool, Emily. Well, so that's specifically for mean girls. So the fact that I'm quoting mean girls automatically means I'm cool. But I guess I'm an introvert in that I'm not nearly as outgoing or getting recharged being around other people that much. So in some ways, unfairly so, the pandemic wasn't as hard initially because I was like, I am used to being at home watching Netflix with my husband. This is not too hard to not have to go to parties and like, oh no, we can't go, that's too bad.  And the biggest, the dream is to get to talk to somebody and have the long conversation of, oh my gosh, did you watch The Good Place? Okay, let's talk about that for the next half an hour. So I think cool introvert is somebody who when you find the right topic, we're okay with breaking out of our shells and bonding with somebody. And implying by being cool that you're probably a very articulate conversationalist. Yes, yes, when you find the right thing, absolutely, you can turn it on. That's good to know, good to know. You also, you really have some striking comments that I've picked up from you and you have another one that intrigued me, we're all lost, don't be afraid to ask for directions. Yes, I don't know if it's my personality or being an only child. So I talk to adults a lot growing up, but I've never really been embarrassed too much about asking for help or asking a question or asking why is this so a way to do it, including, hey, what do you think I should do with my life? Or, hey, do you have suggestions as if this was some sort of magical Sphinx riddle that someone was going to be able to answer for me? I was mentioning, I did go to a job interview one time for a movie studio and it was for a publicity job. And I interviewed and I thought it went pretty well. And then in the end they called and they said, you know, we gave it to someone and she just had publicity written all over her. And I said, completely unembarrassed at the time, do you know what I have written all over me by any chance? Could you, do you have any ideas there? And I think they were just very nice and like, oh, you'll figure it out, it just takes a while. So I think I'm not ashamed of asking, hey, what do you think about this project? Do you have any ideas? Does this seem near to you? Does this seem like, what does this student seem like they're asking in this email when I'm answering this back? Does it seem like I'm really solving the problem that they're talking about? I think also because we're working with students, you wanna make sure that you are recognizing whatever privilege that you have, whatever ways that you're different from that student, aside from the, like, obviously I'm 20 years older than them. Yes. As a white cis, hetero, female who's employed now who had a different college experience that was 20 years ago before Facebook existed, that actually did shock one of my students. They kind of didn't put that together, that that was a time. Yeah, they really don't believe that we didn't have that or Post-it notes was one I experienced. Oh, no. Referring to, I said something like, what did we do before Post-it notes? And she just said, Charlie, was there ever a time it wasn't before Post-it notes? I love Post-it notes, so that would have been a desert. I think it takes a while for anyone to recognize and those of us that do work in creativity and just have a whole background in all dimensions of creativity. We've come across some people that were quite renowned and that normally you would think, oh, they'll never talk to me, Paul Torrance and we're Devono. But I think you've learned very early on that of course we're all people, but they're very flattered. And at the same time, and I expect your students feel that way too, where faculty seem to be on a higher plane. But if you ask them a question, they just, they love to talk about what they're doing and they're the friendship begins. Would you agree? I absolutely would agree. I think, especially with the Innovation X program, that's some of the comments that I've gotten back is that they hadn't had a chance before to really talk in depth about a subject that they were interested in, especially if it didn't have anything to do with their major. Sometimes it's just a topic that they feel passionately about like food insecurity or teaching philosophy to children. That's one that's come up this year or helping junior high girls learn how to make design video games. Sometimes it's just something that they click with the faculty member on. And I think they connect on a different level. And that opens the door for conversations about how did you get to where you are? What are you interested in doing whenever you graduate? And that kind of starts the bond without forms. How do students aspiring to be part of launch and maybe in particular to have a mentorship with a faculty person? Is it open access or is it competitive? Is there an application process? I assume there's an application process. So I think each letter probably has a different process. Sometimes it's, for honors, it's determined by what, yeah. Each letter of launch, you mean, right? Each letter of launch, yes, like each letter of the acronym of launch. Sometimes it's if you sign up for a class that's related to a capstone. Sometimes it's if you kind of opt in and wanna do an undergraduate research and you do kind of work with our undergraduate research people to match you up and find a faculty member that you could work with. Unfortunately for Innovation X, there are always more students that wanna participate than there are spots on the teams. So typically I would say about 50% or yeah, about 50% of the students who apply are able to be on an Innovation X team. So the dream would be at some point to have enough money to where I can fund enough teams to where all students who are interested in this kind of experience wanna have this mentoring and wanna have this chance also to be a mentor because we have undergrads, grad students, professional students and faculty. So there's a lot of chance for them to kind of mentor up and down. So that's the hope is to have more opportunities to do that. This may be a question in the category of perhaps odd. What does your center look like? For example, the incubators center at Cal State Dominguez Hills is bright and here at UCI University of California Irvine, they have a center, the Entrepreneur Center because the anti-grief in the mascot and their surfboards hanging and their Trinitrons up and electures are given and Adirondack chairs. And of course, that doesn't necessarily make the production of that center just because it looks that way but it is inviting. Right, right. So we're bound to wind down here. So if I walked into your center, what would it look like? So for us, it's funny, because of the pandemic, especially a lot of our being a center has had to be over Zoom in the last couple of years. Our building actually is a little bit older and apparently it used to be like an athletics dorm building. So it sort of looks like a high school PS 152 from the 1950s, I would say, but we have definitely decorated it to where it looks like a creative space. I was really excited when I was hired because everybody has their door decorated with any kind of like stickers and labels and picture to indicate whose office this is. Everybody pretty much has an open door policy. So even if we don't have the actual surfboards, we might have some cool surfboard decals to indicate like if you're into this, this guy is the person to talk to. And we know that's not necessary for creative bloom, but it tends to be that way. Emily, it has been such a delight talking with you and I hopefully get to know more about you down the line and you came to us via a very well-known person in the field of creativity and that's Dr. Joyce Jantun. I know that she heads up and we're very grateful to Joyce for suggesting that you join us today. And with that, Emily, we have come to our close and I thank our viewers for joining us today and you have been watching the creative life with Emily Finbow and myself, your host, Darlene Boyd and we return in two weeks and I look forward to having our viewers join us again and until that time, we welcome you back and Aloha. Thank you so much for watching Think Tech Hawaii. If you like what we do, please like us and click the subscribe button on YouTube and the follow button on Vimeo. You can also follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn and donate to us at thinktechhawaii.com. Mahalo.


Ah, here we go. Finally. And that took a little dune. For some reason today, when I'm streaming, it's not connecting directly right away. So nice. We've got our stream going. So we're all set. And this is stream number three for today. And again, we've called this math open discussion, and sort of give people opportunities to drop in and, you know, review mathematics, if I can help you guys out, I will. But we did mainly math, basically, for the first stream earlier today at 9am. For the second stream, I just presented a little data for our monopoly that we've been collecting with our gaming group of how many wins and losses people have. And we made a table back here, and we looked at that, and I'll present that information at some point. And towards the, I guess, midway through the last stream, there weren't any real math questions, or there weren't any math questions that I didn't. I don't really want to teach anything right now. I'd rather just deal with questions, make an open discussion, because it's the end of the year. So we started talking about comic books. And what I did was show you, I have a stack, I brought over a stack, which is double this. We looked through half the stack of what comic books, hey, index, how are you doing? What comic books I've read. And it was an hour, so we thought we'd go through the rest here. Hello, Ethan, doing good, brother, welcome to the stream. And index asked the question regarding cognitive, where are we, regarding streams of consciousness narrative mode for comic book storytelling. And I had to look up what streams of consciousness is and how Blazer was one that came to mind. And I went to my bookshelf and I was trying to find my Hellblazer trade. I have a couple Hellblazer trades, but I couldn't find them. I've read a fair bit of Hellblazer. I just wanted to make sure Hellblazer, John Constantine did have a cognitive, what do you call it, stream of cognitive, stream of consciousness narrative mode and stream of consciousness narrative mode. I'm just going to mention what it is again, index, just because this is a new stream that's going to be loaded on differently than the previous one, previous stream. So I'm just going to do a little recap. So index asked if there was any comic books that I knew of that has, let me read this again, stream of consciousness narrative mode, right? And I had to look up stream of consciousness. Initially, I thought it was more to do with consciousness, definition of consciousness and whatnot. And stream of consciousness is this from the wiki page, right? It says in literally, literary criticism, stream of consciousness is a narrative mode, or method that attempts to depict the multitudaneous thoughts and feelings which pass through the mind, right? So I'm assuming that's sort of the person talking, Jicho, Bat, Weasley. I thought I missed the stream. No, you haven't missed the stream. We're doing four streams today, right? This is number three. We did two streams, hour long streams, sort of open discussion math. But in the last stream, halfway through, we started talking about comic books. There weren't anybody, there wasn't anybody that wanted any math help. And I didn't really want to teach any math lessons. So we started, I brought out some comic books, showed you guys some comic books I've been reading. If you have any math questions for sure, post them, we'll cover it. But if there are no math questions, we'll just keep on talking about comic books or whatever, right? And basically, stream of consciousness narrative mode for storytelling, I'm assuming it's supposed to be the person talking about what they're feeling. And I know, I'm pretty sure, I try to find my Hellblazer trays that I have. I have the Hellblazer series, but I wanted to find the Hellblazer trays just to confirm. And I couldn't find them. So I pulled out some other comic books and index, correct me if I'm wrong. The stream of consciousness, I'm assuming, one of the ones was Adventures or Berry Win. And I have the whole collection here, but I pulled out the number one. Okay. And here's the link to the video we put out for Adventures or Berry Win. That should be it anyway. Let me make sure that takes you to the right place. Yeah, Adventures or Berry Win. And we read issue number one. And basically, I'm assuming stream of consciousness would be something like this, right? This is the first page. Okay, if you want to see, we did the reading of this first issue. Hopefully, that's the one. But it basically says this. This first page is brilliant, by the way, for Adventures or Berry Win. That's the trade. There's single issues for this. But basically, it's this guy, right? And I do actually have, let me, Adventures or Berry Win. And the pages of Adventures or Berry Win. I actually put an article together for Adventures or Berry Win. Let me post this as well. So you can see the actual page and you can confirm if this is what you mean by, let me read that phrase again, stream of consciousness narrative mode. So if you go, oh, interesting. I haven't seen that video. I'll have to watch it. Well, I don't know if this is what you mean. But if you click on the second link that takes you to block spot. And if you scroll down a little bit, there's, I scanned, basically, I scanned this first page, right? Let me make sure I'm showing up on this. I scanned this first page and I have them double, double. Okay. And it basically reads like this. I should probably start at the beginning. I was born a genius. And then there's a little word balloon coming out from Berry Win being born, right? And it says, Jesus, it's cold out here. And then the next thing here says, well, I was smart even before birth. And I'm not talking a little smart. I mean, way smart self awareness in the womb smart. Whoa, is this my, well, it keeps on going, right? So I'm not sure if that's the style. Wow. Oh, wow. Yes, that's exactly kind of thing I'm looking for. Perfect. Okay. Adventures of Berry Win, if you like humor. Absolutely fantastic. You can read that first or watch the first video and read some of the pages in that block spot. I posted some of the pages. It's not all like that. It's just the first page that was like that. Who's the author? The author is Jud Winick. Okay. He did like three mini series of Berry Win for this. Okay. So that's one that I could find. So I couldn't find my Hell Blazer. So I can't confirm Hell Blazer is one. Okay. But Hell Blazer, there was 300 issues of Hell Blazer. And there's a lot of dialogue for Hell Blazer with John Constantine seeing what's happening and explaining things and stuff like that and his feelings, right? I don't know if it's in every issue, but I'm almost 100% positive. Hell Blazer definitely has stream of consciousness narrative mode. Okay. If that is what you're looking for. Another one I found was this one, which is, I really enjoyed this. Okay. Midnight Nation. I don't know if this is the case as well. Awesome. We'll check it out. Thanks. I know it has parts of it. So for example, this is, you know, I flipped a little bit in. So, you know, there's boxes, dialogue boxes stating what it is. It says suddenly I had my life back, but I didn't know what to do with it, what I was supposed to do, what was supposed to be doing. So I asked them, heck, what's my, what's, wasn't my doing? I was just laying around dead, not bothering anybody. He was responsible, right? So there's a little bit of that in Midnight Nation. Okay. And the writer for this, the creator for this is Michael Strozowski. And he is, I don't think you can see it. And his work is amazing. I've read a fair bit of some of his stuff anyway. Another person is the person that came, came about with comic book journalism. He gave birth to comic book journalism. And it's Joe Sacco. And because it's journalism, there's a lot of his perspective in the comic books, right? So it's more of a historical piece to a certain degree, but he does provide feelings and stuff. And it's political. So Midnight Nation, and Midnight Nation is sort of, I don't know if it's horror, sort of post-apocalyptic. Hal Blazer is considered to be horror to a certain degree. Barry Winn is humor. Okay. Joe Sacco's work is comic book journalism. And it's historical. So again, the dialogue, just reading one of the boxes. One of the women seems put off by my questioning, like who am I to strut, strutting with my Western patronizing air, right? So his first person, he's talking, explaining what's going on with him. And if you can handle it, Joe Sacco's Palestine. Okay. The sun is shining now. So the lighting might be a little weird. Okay. Joe Sacco's Palestine, if you can handle it. I've only read about a third of it and it's just heavy, very, very, very, very heavy. Okay. Another one of Joe Sacco's work, and we read a little bit of this, took a look at it, is Joe Sacco's The Fixer and Other's War Stories. Fantastic. Okay. If you look at my comic book playlist, reading comics, you'll find it, but let me get the link for you if you want. You can get a feel for it. If this is what you're looking for, then, and if you want sort of historical history in terms of politics, and this, Joe Sacco's The Fixer is about Sarah Abel. Okay. Fantastic read and we read parts of it. All of it doesn't have dialogue box, but it does a fair bit. The television images serve up the essential truth. The city is trapped. Its citizens shelled in their apartments and shot down in the streets by Serb nationalists who have already, so he gives a little historical background and he shares his feelings, what he's been going through. I mentioned Valiant Comics. Okay. And Valiant Comics, my single issue of Book of Death, Fall of Bloodshot, I'm pretty sure Fall of Bloodshot fits into that category and it's a fantastic read for a single read, but I believe this is, let me show you this. This is the Divinity Omnibus. It basically puts together three four-issue mini-series, comics that were put out by Valiant Comics called Divinity. Divinity 1, which was four issues. Divinity 2, which was four issues. Divinity 3, which was four issues. And then there's Divinity 0. Okay. And Divinity, this one, the first three don't have it, but Divinity 0 is the first person. He's basically explaining what's going on. Let me read a dialogue box. Let me make sure I got Divinity 0 here. And it's a brilliant read. And the artwork is absolutely magnificent. It's painted, painted work, finally able to catch you live. I've been watching your YouTube channel. Awesome. Thanks for being here once. We're sort of, it was supposed to be open discussion about mathematics, but there isn't too many math questions coming in. So we're going into comic books. And right now there's a question that Index asked if I could recommend any stream of consciousness narrative mode of storytelling for comic books. I'm sort of going through that right now, because initially I couldn't think of anything. But let me read you this one. This is basically, here's Divinity 0, right? That's the one of the covers. And then it opens up here, the first page. But let me read you, you know, some of the dialogue box from the second page, right? When I was younger, I would pour over each word, reading up, rereading every line. I would study the cover until I could recreate every detail with my eyes closed.  So it was not, it was no surprise to me that in 1960, the Soviets launched me into space on a top secret mission to the furthest reaches of the galaxy. I made Motherland proud. At the end of my journey, I encountered the fantastic and the terrible something truly unknown. Whatever it was, gave me the power to return home over 50 years later. And it continues on there. And Divinity 0 is sort of recapping Divinity 1, 2, and 3, 12 issues that came previously, but giving out Divinity's feelings and emotions, and why he's going through the motion. Beautiful read, beautiful read, beautiful artwork. If you like science fiction, and this is categorized as science fiction, and superhero as well, but mainly science fiction, I cannot recommend this highly enough. Beautiful, and it's a nice read, heavy read. There was, here's the omnibus for berry wind. This contains everything that you put out with berry wind if you like that, and it's fairly a cheap, inexpensive way to get all of the berry wind story. It's all black and white. And it's not all like that where he's giving his perspective. There's a dialogue box. I know issue one has it, but I don't think all the issues have it. So be warned on that. I'm reading in March right now, and the narration is mostly John Lewis remembering his life, cool. I still haven't read that, the March book or the trade and singles or whatever they came out, right? Here's another one by Josako. Okay, this is conspiracy. If you like conspiracies, Josako's bump is brilliant. I don't think it has, what can we conclude from the fact that she does not, it doesn't have the dialogue. I don't think it's, what do you call it, stream of consciousness narrative mode. I have to reread it every time, but it is Josako, and it is crazy. Okay, so those are the ones I could pull out in a little break that I had before, the last stream between this stream and the previous stream. And as far as single issues, there was somebody that asked me about single issues, fantastic reads. Okay, this is one that I mentioned, and I just pulled it off, Sky Doll. Okay, this is the sort of a trade collection that came out that put together two issues. It was like a two-issue mini-series that came out. Absolutely brilliant science fiction. Okay, the artwork is, let me see if I can show you this. Hopefully you can get an appreciation for how brilliant the artwork is. Okay, this doesn't have, that's great, quite a few things to check out. Yeah, hopefully, hopefully they are. As for Sky Doll, it's not stream of consciousness narrative mode. It's just a single issue of a comic. Someone asked, you know, something that stands out by itself is a beautiful read. I highly recommend this. Okay, if you haven't read this, if you want beautiful work, beautiful science fiction. Okay, so those are the ones that I could pull off. Speed goes out style, look for them. And I think how Blazer is one as well. And I actually went to, let me put these guys away for now. So they're out of the way. And I went to Reddit, the comic book forum, and I posted a question, what are some good examples of streams of consciousness narrative mode and storytelling? I was hoping there'd be some comments, and there are. I mentioned how Blazer in my post. Okay, and someone here has mentioned, here, actually, I'll just read it to you. I wanted, some person here has mentioned Spiderman Blue has some parts that could be labeled as such minor spoilers ahead. Okay, most pre-modern age comics, I guess so. Oh, hey, did they lift them? Yeah, and on comic book, someone's mentioning something else, that I was banned from the comic book forum on Reddit for posting a link to Valiant's Geomancer storyline, because they said they were no going to publish it and stuff like this. And I got auto banned because it was a pirate sign. And I was just like, dude, like, that's crazy. And I didn't unban me for a while. And then I found out I was unbanned. I don't know why, but maybe there's a time limit on it or something like this. So that's why I was able to post that thing there. Okay, as someone, I have to reply to that person saying, hey, you got unbanned because of a couple of advocates trying to get me unbanned, but the mods wouldn't have it, right? Censorship is insane. And I was okay being banned. It is what it is, right? There's lots of forums out there. But that is a good forum for comic books. It's very, very related to the big two, mainly Marvel and DC. There's lots of just artwork who did discover variant covers and stuff like this, which is cool to look at. It's just not something that I'm collecting. So it's more of the mainstream level, right? And there are some nice posts being put up. For sure, there are some nice stuff. I don't want to trash talk it. It's worth checking out, as well as some other forums. Hello, Kang. How are you doing? Kang Klatan. How's life? So we're doing comic book talk. Again, I'll put this out there. If there's anybody that has any math questions, for sure we'll be. But if there isn't, we'll continue with our comic book discussion and anything else that might come up. But one thing I should do is, in the last stream I showed you guys, I hope that helps you out the index. I hope that points you in the right direction. There's a lot. After I started looking at it, I'm like, man, I've read a Gizillion comics that have, what is this thing again? Streams of consciousness narrative mode. There's a lot of them out there. I've read a lot. And I actually enjoy it a lot because it gives you, there's more substance to that type of storytelling. Because you get a feel for what the characters are going through. Their state of mind, their emotional state, and what they've been through. You get history from them. So it is, it is one of my preferred comic book reads. I just didn't know it was called strings of consciousness narrative mode. Why remember that? Cool. Just had to read it like 20 times. So we've already, I've already shown you guys in the last stream these comics that I've been reading for the last little while. Okay, let me put these ones back. And here's these guys. Okay, I had a good eighth grade math teacher that showed me a stack of papers that a student wrote on a Google Plex. Google Plex on. It was like 10 pieces of paper. Google, Google, Google Plex, Google Plex, Google Plex, Google Plex. Why is that? I don't know what that is. It's the number 10 or equivalent 10 written out in ordinary decimal notation. It is one followed by, that is, oh, I don't know this. Oh, this is Google. This is a number. Oh, okay. This is where Google got their name from, right? Google Plex. Google, Google Plex. Oh, yeah, that's right. Initially, Google wanted to name it Google, but it didn't look nice. So they changed it to Google. He wrote a, he wrote out all of it. In eighth grade, eighth grade math teacher that showed me a stack of papers that a student wrote out a Google, he wrote out Google Plex, all of it with all the zeros in there. That's crazy. The largest name number. That's cool. That kid must have, how many pieces? 10 pieces of paper. I wonder how tight the zeros were, right? That's cool. That's cool. And the teacher kept it. I can't believe the student didn't keep it. That would be cool to have as a teacher. Fun. I think it's fantastic that Google got their name from math, from the largest number that has a name, I believe, right? Is the number written out? Yeah, wherever you read it, I think it's the largest number that has a name, right? As far as the rest of the comic books I've been reading, the rest of the comic books I've been reading, let me show you these ones. Tank girl, comic book, free comic book day. Tank girl, I liked it. I like Tank girl, I like the concept of Tank girl. The artwork is zany, it's like little bits here and there, you know, sometimes it's just like that. Some of it was, I like this style the most for Tank girl, where they do, you know, it's the background is sort of colored and stuff like this. Okay. So this, a brief history of Tank girl from free comic book day, it was fun, it was a good read. Okay. Now, I picked this one up to Image First, Moonshine, and I read the first, I don't know how many issues of this, it took a huge pause. I was reading this, this was on my poll list. And then I think it got to issue number five, and I read up to issue number four or five or six, maybe, and then there was a huge pause for months, nothing came out. So I pulled it off my poll list, but I bought this for one dollar, just to have as a stack, just in case, you know, someone says, hey, do you have any crime, sort of gangster stuff, comic books that are well written. This would be Brian Azarello's Moonshine. I like Brian Azarello's work. Well worth the read. I have seen in the manga comics of actual SpongeBob episodes. Really? I've read some SpongeBob's. SpongeBob is fun. SpongeBob is fun. I love this first SpongeBob movie. And the episodes, the shows, the first two seasons are pretty good. Another one I read recently is True Believers. Okay. Again, Wolverine, this one. It was whatever. It was the story I didn't mind. I liked the story. I wasn't too fond of the artwork. I don't know what to cover of this. It's the reprints. Oh, it's reprint of X-Men Velux. It's reprint of this. What decade of cartoons is the best? What decade of cartoons is the best? I think every decade has their phenomenal cartoons. The 90s had an amazing run of some fantastic comic book animation. Okay. Batman is one of them. The Max. Spawn was really good. Max was fantastic. The Tick in the 90s was amazing. Oh, I have that one. There's a spread splash page, right? Yeah, there's a spread. This is like the skate full cover, right? And then there's a lot of... The story was good. The artwork, I didn't like it that it was using up too much white space. They're trying to be really artistic about it. I don't like reading the comics like this. What's the best movie adaptation? Best animation movie adaptation? Or best movie adaptation of a comic book? There's a few of them. Yeah, there's a lot of pages like this. So I didn't like the layout of the art for this. I like the art style. I didn't like the layout. Like this one was just too much. I think it could have been presented better. But I did like the story with Saber Tooth and Wolverine sort of just going at it, right? As far as best adaptation, movie adaptation of comic books, I liked The Watchman. I know a lot of people didn't like it. I liked The Watchman. I think it was really good. I liked the history of violence, even though the comic book was way more brutal than the movie. I thought the movie was very good. I liked the movie. I think it's the beginning of the age of apocalypse. This one is, eh? Is this one the beginning of the age of apocalypse? Possibly. I don't know. I can't remember. I can't go back. I can't remember that far. I'll have to sit down and read them. But it is around that period, right? I read Game of Thrones. Okay, it was okay. No, the show is better. I don't know what the books are like. I haven't read the books, but I do like the show. The comic book was basically recapping parts of the show. I think we need illogical people because they make the world interesting. They create stuff. Illogical. There's a lot of logical people that create amazing work as well. I think we need way more diversity in ways of being, consciousness, in ways of thought than we have. And one of the reasons that's the case is because we don't have that diversity as much as we should have in the mainstream. It's because a lot of countries have outlawed certain ways of being, certain ways of thought, right? So governments have come into our lives and taken away liberty saying you can't express yourself in this way. So I agree with you. I don't know if I would use the word illogical. I would use the word, what would I use? I don't know what I would use. Not annoyed by the sun. The sun? No, I'd like the sun. If we're into a live stream, I get my whole body to get some sun, right? But unfortunately, I can't cut the sun off on this one because it's a skylight coming in, right? We don't have what do you call it, the blocker visor. I don't, it's not a visor, but whatever set up for the skylight. So my apologies. Hopefully it's not annoying to you guys. The shadow effect is crazy. Whoop. I think it's getting on. That's why it took off like too. It's a different look. It's a different look. If I was shooting video for sure, I wouldn't do this. And I didn't know because we're going into the summer, the sun is changing and I wanted to do this all day. I hadn't planned on the sun being on me at this time, right? There are illogical and illogical creative people. Take for example Andy Warhol, the author of The Martian. I don't know Andy Warhol. I thought I was going to read Andy Warhol. Andy Warhol was just a marketer. Andy Weir, the author of The Martian. Let me check this out. Andy Weir. Would you consider him to be illogical or illogical? What else has he written? It doesn't look like I've read anything from him. Just checking it out. So would you consider him to be illogical or illogical? Miles. Another book I read was The Ultimates, number one. Marvel now. Generic. It was, I mean, I read it but because I didn't read, this is Ultimates 2. Sorry, my apologies. Ultimates 2, right? The 2 is up here. So I hadn't read Ultimates and this thing referred to Ultimates a lot. What happened during the Ultimates, I recapped some of it. But it was okay. It didn't really intrigue me too much. The artwork was so-so. So I couldn't recommend this. In humans versus X-Men, number seven. Read this one. The Martian was a very scientifically accurate book and movie. So would that be illogical? Modern Marvel. Modern Marvel. Yeah, that's Marvel now. This one was Marvel now. I would not recommend this. Yeah, that's funny. This one too. In humans versus X-Men. I wouldn't recommend. I wouldn't recommend. Hi, man. Hi, Osaka. Osaka, 200. How are you doing? Welcome to a live stream. It was supposed to be math, but we're talking comic books. There was no math questions. And again, if anybody's here for mathematics, if you have math questions, let us know. We'll do some math, okay? We'll take a break from comic books and do some math. But yeah, this one, too many characters. Too much. Too much. Too much of nothingness, really. Empty for me, anyway. Redneck from Image Comics. It definitely intrigued me. This is Image First. I believe I have the first issue of this, first two or three issues of this, but I didn't read them. They were on my playlist. Usually what I do, I add stuff to my playlist. And if I end up reading them after two or three issues, I keep them on there. If I don't, I take them off. And I didn't get a chance to read this. So when Image put it out for one dollar, I grabbed it and I read it. And it intrigued me. It's fun. It's just to give you spoilers. It's basically vampire story. But I guess, I don't know if it's a derogatory term or not. But, well, it's like a redneck vampire story. It's set in a small town. It's very good. Fantastic read. And I like these types of stories. Sort of set up in the same place as same style as Southern bastards. What would you recommend for someone who hasn't read very many comic books? What kind of books do you want to read? Like, that's the thing. Comic books is like saying, what kind of book do you recommend? So my first question to you would be, do you want to read humor? Do you want to read horror? Do you want to read science fiction? Do you want to read crime? Do you want to read noir? Do you want to read superhero stories? Do you want to read historical pieces? What are you interested in, Miles? I could possibly recommend something. Here's another one that I picked up from Aftershock Comics and my comic book store, sci-fi. Here, sci-fi. Let me show you this. I don't know if you popped in Here's two books I brought out at the beginning of the stream to talk about. Let me see if I can say it without looking it up. I can't say it without looking it up. Streams of consciousness narrative mode. We're talking about that. First one would be pick up. First, good science fiction, heavy read, big read. Divinity by Valiant Comics. This is the omnibus. It contains basically 13 issues and it's got some extra stuff in there as well. It's basically Divinity 1 to 4, Divinity 1, Divinity 2, Divinity 3. Each one of those had four issues associated with it and it's got Divinity 0 from Valiant Comics. Fantastic read. Really good sci-fi. I highly recommend this. Another sci-fi from Valiant Comics would be Rai. Pick up Rai. The first issue of the relaunch that came out. Fantastic science fiction. Beautiful science fiction with some amazing art. It's spelled R-A-I from Valiant Comics. Fantastic. Another science fiction which I would really highly recommend is Sky Doll. Sky Doll is beautiful. It's basically sort of like other worlds. Divinity is related to Earth. So Divinity and Rai from Valiant Comics, they connect to Earth. They don't go galactic. Divinity does go galactic a little bit. It comes back. This one is galactic. Multiple worlds, different types of creatures and all that jazz. Beautiful stuff. The artwork is mesmerizing. Let's see if I can show this to you properly. The artwork is beautiful. The first time I bought the single issues of this and this is only two issues put together. When I bought the single issues I read a little bit but I just flipped through the pages just to look at the artwork. Very beautiful. If you like those recommendations then let me know. I'll recommend other things for you as well. Hi Chishou. Could you please show X2, X-1, and 3 on a number line. It was on my test and I realized I had forgotten how to do it for sure. Okay guys, we're going to take a little break from the comic books. We've got this much to go through and I'll show you the little mathematics. Let's do a little math. So 2X-1 greater than 3. We'll solve this and put it on a number line. Okay. So I'm going to change the angle view. Let's put it here. So 2X-1 greater than 3. Let's bring out the pen. So basically this is sort of, there's two different types of questions you can get when it comes to solving things. If you have an equal sign in mathematics, you're going to get an absolute value of X equaling something, that's it, or X equaling a few different things but they're at that dot, at that point. When you have inequalities and that's what it is, inequalities, you're talking about zones, greater than, less than. And whatever I read these things, I always read it from the letter, right? So X is greater than, the opening is what I read. This opening is bigger than that, so bigger than, greater than whatever number is here, let's say 2. Or X is, you're hitting the small one first, X is less than 2. You could write it here too. This would be X is greater than 2. X is less than 2, right? So just clear that, get that out of it. As for the question is this, 2X is a minus 1? Yeah, the frame rate is better on this one. 2X-1 greater than 3. 2X-1 greater than 3. Yeah, the frame rate, this is an external camera that I have. The camera on the computer is not that great, but using that one because this is where we're going to do the work, that's, it's easier for me to read comments on the computer and have the camera use the computer camera. There are times where I set up, I got two of these external mics there, I set it up and I sometimes use that as well. And usually try to use the external ones, not the internal computer mic or camera. So to solve for this, basically what you got to do is get X by itself. That's what it means to solve for an equation.  So the X is being multiplied by 2 and 1 is being subtracted. So what we do, we grab this guy, bring it over first, which is basically add 1 on this side to kill the negative 1, so we add 1 here. So this kills this, right? Negative 1 plus 1 is 0, it's gone. So all we got left on this side is 2X is greater than 4, right? What we got to do now is undo the X being multiplied by 2, and that's a division. So divide by 2, divide by 2. So X is greater than 2, right? And we need to put this on a number line. Now usually they ask you to put it on a number line, sometimes they don't. When you're starting out, they do. Later on in higher level mathematics, you don't need to put it on a number line. This is what it is. You don't have to state it visually. But to put this on a number line, basically draw a number line. And some teachers say, oh, you have to put your zero marker there and stuff like this. I don't, right? I put 2. So I put my marker and go, this is 2. X has to be greater than 2, and greater than 2 is this way, right? This side is all the numbers that are bigger than 2. So we know we're on this side, and this is only X is greater than 2. It doesn't have to equal to sign as well, right? If it had to equal to sign, we would make it a solid circle. But it doesn't include 2. So what we do, we do an open circle. And an open circle means it doesn't include this point, right? So X has got to be greater than 2. So you draw it this way. So any number from that's bigger than 2 satisfies this equation. And you can do a check on this as well, if you want. Sometimes you're asked to do a check. So pick a number, any number that's bigger than 2, right? Let's say we pick 3, okay? And if you want to put your zero here, that would be 1. Here's your zero, right? Doesn't make a difference. So let's put the number 3 in our equation. So this is 2 times 3 minus 1, and this has to be greater than 3, right? So we're checking to see what the outcome is here, right? 2 times 3 is 6, minus 1 is 5. And 5 is greater than 3. So this works. So this is legit. If you want to test a number that doesn't work here, let's try it out. Let's pick the number 1, right? So we're going to do the same thing, 2 times 1 minus 1. We need it to be greater than 3, right? So let's just check. 2 times 1 is 2, minus 1 is 1. Is 1 greater than 3? No, it's not, but we already knew that because any number on this side of 2 is not going to work for the original equation. And that would be your answer. I hope that works. I hope that answers your question. I hope you did it right. I hope you got this right. Have fun. And on this camera, we're getting the sun shining as well, so that's probably throwing it off a little bit. Thanks, Uchoa. You're welcome. Did you get it right? A dwarf. A dwarf. Did you get it right? I hope so. I hope you got it right. And should we continue with complex? Any more math questions? Mathematics? Should we do mathematics? We've got like another 15 minutes or so, 10 minutes or so left on this stream, and then we're going to do another one. So if you do have any math questions that are longer questions or anything you want to go over, then we're going to do another live stream. Again, open discussion math or whatnot at 4.30, basically an hour and a half from now, right? So let's go through the rest of the comic books that I've been reading. And these are just my reading comics that I'm not bagging, boarding, and just laying around, right? Now, another comic book publisher that I check out a lot is Aftershock Comics, right? And Aftershock is putting out some fantastic books. And this is one of them. I didn't read this before I picked it up. I thought that you flip the sign when dividing. Oh no, you only flip the sign if you divide or multiply by a negative number, right? When it is actually only when multiplying or dividing by a negative number. Yeah. To do STEM, you have to be curious. To do STEM, you have to be curious. STEM is, what is it? Science? I don't know what the T stands for. Technology? E? I don't know what the E stands for.  Math? You have to be curious. I think we're all born curious. I think human beings are curious. To study music, you have to be curious to see what type of music you can create and the different sounds that come at you, right? So I think human beings were born curious. That is our mission in life, to learn, to grow, to experience, and to create. Now what our education system does, unfortunately in our society in general does, the first thing it does, it takes curiosity and crushes it, right? It takes being, it makes making mistakes a bad thing. Like the way we learn is by making mistakes. If we, if we did everything correct right in our lives, that means we know everything. So there is not nothing new to learn. So there is no curiosity because we know everything. We're never making mistakes. So our education system, when you start making mistakes, you get punished for that. Not, you know, some, if you have a good teacher, they'll direct you and correct you and explain to you why certain things may work a certain way instead of the way you thought they were. But in general they give you marks and they say bad, bad student, right? And slowly if you continuously get bad, bad, bad, bad, you stop asking questions, you stop participating. So they take away curiosity, right? And they pigeonhole people. It's unfortunate, it's disappointing. Some people will say that life gets in the way and they aren't as curious. It's not life that gets in the way, it's society, control mechanisms that get in the way. It's people's choice. And really, I'm a little harsh on this. Teachers that are positive and have patience makes such a difference. It's insane. Yeah, huge, huge. As far as what you mentioned is life, curiosity, I don't disappoint, some people get life and it's our society that takes curiosity away. Okay. And it's a form of control. It's a control mechanism. Okay. And that's one thing people have to appreciate. And a lot of people use that excuse, the way our society set up, the way our education system set up to not take responsibility for their actions, right? To not take responsibility for their own well-being and their own state of mind and their own desires, right? So when they try to do something and they have to go through hurdles to be able to get to where they're going, maybe learn mathematics, maybe learn a language, maybe get a certificate, maybe get you know, fill in applications, go through a process, the song and dance that you have to go through, the obstacles that society are. It's not even society is those in power that put into place to prevent you from being who you were meant to be. Once people use them, point to all the obstacles put in front of them by control mechanisms to sort of use as an excuse for not being who they can be, right?  That's why I'm not doing it.  That's why I don't know mathematics.  That's why I don't know how to read and write properly. Once people don't take that responsibility on themselves and put it on others, then that, in my opinion, is what really takes life away from people, takes curiosity away from people because they have an out, right? They're playing the victim, right? That's the problem with our western society. Everybody wants to be a victim, right? It wasn't my fault. Well, if it wasn't your fault, do something about it. Being harsh, but I think we need a little harshness in our lives. We should teach more critical thinking. There should be a class on just what science is. 100% agree with you. 100% agree with you. Right now, the way it's working is that our education system is making science a religion. They're saying, oh, science says this. Therefore, it is absolute. Well, science changes. Science is a way of experimenting, right? Looking at a situation and going through point form and making sure whatever you're experiencing using the scientific method can be recreated, right? So, I was recently, a few weeks ago, I was talking with someone. They were saying that, well, I won't go into the specifics of it, but they were saying that certain people have come out and they changed their perspective on things that they had stated 20 years ago. And that was wrong. Well, that is not wrong because we know a lot more about science, about the, not about science, but about the world around us as compared to 20 years ago, right? So, science should continuously be evolving. So, I 100% agree with you, Miles, that we should teach a whole class on what science is and the scientific method. Not just what we've learned by using the scientific method, but the actual method itself. And that should be constantly reviewed every two years or so, right? One of the things I learned that got me going into geophysics was my earth science teacher in grade 11. It was the same teacher that I had as geology, grade 12, right? And one thing he told me, which was brilliant, that made me realize how little we know, was that when he was in university in the 1960s, when it was 25 years after information was made available based on military records from World War II, right? And in World War II, submarines, U.S. submarines and submarines from other countries were collecting data from the ocean floor, right? They were collecting gravitational, geomagnetic, all kinds of data from the ocean floor. And 25 years, there's a 25-year sort of a seal on anything that the military doesn't need to release the information. So, in the 1960s, this information got released. And what they started seeing was striations in the seabed, seafloor, and the striation correlated with the seafloor splitting and the magnetic poles flipping, right? And what he said was, he was in university and one day his professor came in and said, okay, everyone bring out your textbooks, so they brought out your textbooks. And what the prof said was, okay, go to chapter 10 to 13. So everyone went to chapter 10, you know, 10 to 13.  Because that stuff is irrelevant now because it is wrong, because we have new information telling us about the continental drift, right? That is science. We should be changing our perspective, improving our understanding of the world constantly. And when information comes to us, where we learn something new that makes something obsolete, then we should be willing to change our framing mind, change our perspective on things. It's amazing that gravitational waves were discovered a hundred years after I started predicting them. Yeah, that was super cool. That was a year ago or two years ago that we actually had the measurement of the gravitational wave going through, right? Amazing. There's so much we don't know about the universe, about us, so much we don't know about human consciousness because governments had criminalized certain types of activity, right? So hopefully we're past the dark ages, as Robert Anton Wilson would say, we're just coming out of the dark ages now, just coming out of them. Okay. So on that note, gang, we still have this many comic books to go through. And this is an hour stream. And we're going to do another stream at 4.30 in about an hour and a half. So how about we call it there? And then we'll come back in about an hour and a half and do more mathematics, life, whatever it is, right? In the US. Was it measured in the US? I believe so. Or was it Europe? I can't remember who the scientists were that measured this, but it was super cool. Oops, didn't know meant to type that. Okay. So what time? What time? Yeah, it's three o'clock. So we'll do another live stream at 4.30 PST or PDT in my time. Okay. Thank you for the math question, by the way. Who wasn't asked it? A dwarf. Thank you for the math question. It's good to do at least one math question during these math live streams. All right. So that's fun. And definitely always a pleasure talking about comic books. And if you guys can make it at 4.30, I'll see you guys at 4.30. If you can't, I'll see you guys in previous, in future stream. Assisted stage four. Hello, assistant. We're about to end the stream. We're going to be back in an hour and a half if you can make it. Okay. And for most of the stream, we talked about comic books and we did a little bit of mathematics in an hour and a half. We'll do a little bit more comic books and more mathematics. Okay. Thanks for popping by. I'll see you guys in about an hour and a half or in future streams. Bye for now.


What's going on everybody? Got Kyle here. We're late in sports cars. There have been two boxes for Jeremy H. Both of these are going to be 2023 Topscore and Baseball Logofractor. Good luck here Jeremy. Let's see what we got. See some nice Logofractor parallels. Good luck, good luck. Hey, what's up, me? How you doing today? What's up, King Meat? What's going on, sir? What's going on, man? Come on. Come on. So I'm saying, I'm saying what the Logofractor packs last. Base packs first. Vaughn Grissom, Gabe Moreno, Kate Cavalli. You know, if everybody's having a good Sunday to start, we've got some good football today. So I'm excited. I'm excited. Championship Sunday. There's a Shohei. Get a buyback on that one to the end of the month. Shohei in the next month, I guess. So Riley Greene. Riley Greene. Paul Goldschmidt. Sean's boy. Go Huskies. Go Niners. Mike Trout. Andres Jimenez. Bertie MVP. Max Scherzer. Alrighty, Mr. Chairman. We'll do the two Logofractor packs. Got two color. Got a rookie carer, Mitchell. Logofractor rookie. We got a Saiyong Shane to 250 for the race. Go race. And we got the 199 Jose Altuve on the Fuchsia Logofractor. Michael Tuglia rookie base and Kate Cavalli. One more. That is true, FM. That is seems how it's been. As well though, Cabrera. Got Marc Vianzos. Got Shae Langlears on the Rookie Blue to 150. Logofractor. Got Jordan Groeschans and Mookie Betts. Alrighty, Mr. Jeremy. One down. One down. Good luck, Jeremy. Start with the base packs again.  Max Meyer. It's true. Maybe there's no hydra. Yeah, dude. I don't want to, I wouldn't want to be Jake. I wouldn't want to be Jake. Sam's already, Sam's already got some, uh, some anger for Jake from last night. Josh Young. Oh man, I can come in here and we can stir it up. Shaba. What's going on? What are we doing? Sab. Cabrera. Sab, we've been on today. Sabarese. What have we been on today, Sabarese? Sabarese. Sabarese. Oh, hoppy. What's the name? Castellanos. Castellanos. Sabaroni. Go Ravens. Mark Vienzos. Go Niners. Go Ravens says Shady. Okay. Let's go. Two more Logofractors. Good luck here, Mr. Jeremy. Mr. Jeremy. Got a Wander Logofractor. Carlos Correa. There's Oscar Coloss, 2199 Rookie on the Pink. Rookie Pink. Got Dalton Varsho and Chef G. Garrett Colt. Kelsey Over Yards.  Sab's on the team, Swiftie, huh? Just trying to see her all game. That's an L. Does run hot. Sab, how hot does our microwave run? It's hot, right? Runs hot. It's Shay Langler's. Maggie Rosario and Alzuvek to 250 on the Purple. I'm gonna tell you something right now. Purple Logofractor. That microwave right there. Goldie and Josh Young. That microwave right there does work. All righty there, Jeremy. That'll do it for your two boxes of Topps Chroma Logofractor. Appreciate you, my man. We'll get it right out to you.


Good day, fellow investors. Very interesting times, and we have to assess those times where there is a lot of panic with rationality. We have to be the ones that look at what's going on, add the data, add the facts, and then try to see what is most important for long-term investors. Because even Benjamin Graham says in the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run, it is a weighing machine. What does this mean? The market now reacts as a complete voting machine. Fundamentals are forgotten. The market is just voting on the last piece of information and then panically reacting in fear of missing out on the upside, as we are seeing probably today when stocks rebounded, or in complete fear and panic and distress as it was the case yesterday. So that's the market, voting machine, short-term time span, and then we have investors, long-term market, weighing machine, fundamentals, see where this is really going and what will the world look like in the next 10 years. So we're going to discuss how the market is a voting and a weighing machine, explain the difference, what's very important for you, the economy, what will be the repercussions on the economy, what are the repercussions on the economy, how is that important, how has that been dealt with from fiscal and monetary policy? We have seen the Fed slashing rates to zero. And then the most important thing, it is about your strategy. It is about you, nothing else matters. It's how you deal with what's going on, how you are ready for whatever might come in the future.  Let's start. If we look at what's going on in the market and if I look in the comments on my platform, on YouTube, on Facebook, wherever, it's all about survival, bankruptcy, nationalization, the listing, stock market shutdown, depression, running out of cash, et cetera, et cetera. This will go down, this will go even more down. This is just the beginning, et cetera, et cetera. So a lot of such words, well, where people try to justify their actions. And that's completely rational and normal. However, if we look at the market again, yesterday, down, big time, today again, up, the other day, up, especially Friday, with the peak in the late hours of trading. So what we see is a lot of volatility and the volatility is the result of uncertainty. The market doesn't know what will happen, how to react, and therefore it reacts on anything, trading, a lot of trading going on, et cetera, because the market doesn't know. We also don't know, which again leads me to my conclusion later, it's all about you and how you approach this uncertainty. If we look at what the Wall Street Journal says, US futures rarely as global markets see so, and then every topic is just about the market, nothing about fundamentals or the economy, because this is what people are interested in now, the market, the market, the market. The Dow falls nearly 3,000 points, Fed takes new action. Okay, US world leaders step up a force to slow spread of coronavirus, okay, why are the markets so volatile? And then US banks borrow from the Fed. No real discussion on what will be the impact on the economy and what are the fundamentals. Similarly, Bloomberg, again, US futures market route, doesn't stop market route, et cetera, et cetera.  There will be definitely an impact, what will be the long-term consequences, the short-term consequences, and what does that mean to us, if you're a speculator or an investor? And this week, there was, or last week, there was a Goldman Sachs conference for their top 5,500 clients, and a lot of notes came out and I found these notes from investors that listened to the conference call with the Goldman's head of economy and medicine, and they gave a perspective on what happened, and it's a very interesting expected because it sheds a different light on what's going on. It is a very, very, let's say, no emotional perspective, so if you are an emotional person, sensible person, stop watching this video, that's something, you cannot have emotions when it comes to investing. That's unfortunate, that sounds harsh, but that's how it is, I'm sorry, I know, as they say, the truth is like poetry and nobody likes poetry, right? So let's dig into what Goldman Sachs has to say, 50% of Americans will likely contact the virus, so it's like common cold, really spreading fast, 70% of Germany is also possible that it will contact the virus, peak virus expected over the next two months, declining thereafter, so it is concentrated in a band between 30 and 50 degrees north latitude, which means like the common cold and flu, it prefers cold weather, which is a positive, and it's likely that it's seasonal, this is all Goldman Sachs, so 80% early stage, practically common cold, a little bit like the few, and unfortunately, the elderly or those that have their immune system compromised, up to 3 million people will be hit severely, especially let's say in the US, and that's something, unfortunately, but also what is the truth? The truth is that 3 million people die in the US due to old age and disease per year, so 3 million people die per year, and whether they will die because of the coronavirus or not, that's something to be discussed, and that's an ugly discussion, because it's never nice to talk about that, but that's a discussion that unfortunately, we need to have in order to try to grasp the consequences of this. The truth is, and the effect is, something I'm very certain of, people die, life you live and then you die, and that's harsh, I know, but that's how it is. We just have to see how this new virus will impact what's going on in the world, and each that I know it is not nice, well, depending again on the culture, you're looking it from somewhere that is celebrated somewhere is not, but that's something not related to this channel, not related to investing. So the fact is that people will die, and that also the economies will be impacted, even if this lockdown shuts down everything, and there is, I don't know, unemployment rate goes up by 3%, that's 120,000 people on average dying just in the United States, not even to mention globally, just because the unemployment rate goes up. So that's also something you have to think about. It's not just about the coronavirus as it is the case in economy. There is no free lunch.  So again, harsh, but that's the truth. If we look more at the economy, Goldman growth GDP rate will be the lowest in 30 years at around 2%, but then it may take six months for the Chinese economy supply chains and everything to recover, and we are already seeing them recovering. So there will be economic damage, but the real damage is driven mostly by market psychology. Stock markets should fully recover in the second half of the year. Very harsh to comprehend that, to think about that, but it is mostly likely as we learn to live with the virus, we learn to deal with it, we accept it as a new part of our lives. So that's it. On the market, technically, the market generally has been looking for a reason to reset after the longest bull market in history. So as for Goldman, there is no systemic risk. No one is even talking about that. Governments are intervening in the markets to stabilize them, and the private banking sector is well-capitalized. It feels more like 9-11 than it does like 2008. Also, something I'm looking, copper prices have been hit, but it's not a real disaster. Those will probably go lower to perhaps two dollars a pound, but it's not a disaster, it's not something uncommon. Also, if we look at the reaction, the Fed, ECB, the Bank of China, Bank of Japan, everybody is reacting. The Fed cuts the rates to zero to help with the liquidity. And they said they will buy more, they will buy more. So buy more bonds, 700 billion quantitative easing program. So there is the reaction against something that wasn't there in 2008. Then we can debate also what Ray Dalio says about the interest rate floor. Interest rates are not so efficient anymore. So governments and monetary policy, central banks, will have to do more, will have to have a coordinated intervention. And we'll see also how that evolves. It's also all uncharted territory for most of us, even Ray Dalio missed taking advantage of this downturn. So that's how the world is and we'll see how it evolves. How long it will last? The virus, the reaction of the market, the help of the government. Well, everybody's saying that, well, most are saying that with immunization, 60% of people getting the virus, things should cool down, should narrow down, which is then a positive. How long will that happen? Well, if warmer weather comes and helps, and then you say, why in Australia people catch it? Because when you land in Australia, you are in the climatized aircraft, climatized car, climatized building, climatized hotel. So you don't really see those heats that kill everything. So there is plenty of room to spread. If it is under the influence of temperature, but that's something else. So there is stimulus. It's impossible to know exactly how long will this last. If there is three months, six months, 12 months, some businesses will be hurt more, some businesses will be hurt less. But it's likely that over the next 10, 12 months, two years, things will return to normal and then we'll have to deal again with the normal issues that we have from the debt, from the money printing, from the bankruptcies. That's always normal. You always deal with trouble in life and then that's life. You go ahead by solving issue by issue. So it's now about strategy, your strategy. How are you dealing with this? Because the most important thing now is what you are going to do. How are you going to react? Is this going to be an opportunity for you? Or it's going to be an opportunity for you to lose money that you have gained in the past? Let's discuss. As we said in the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run, it's a weighing machine. So fundamentals are not in sight. So we have to look at fundamentals. If this lasts a year, okay, I have to deduct the cash flows from my valuations for one year or even put negative cash flows that lowers my valuation of a business. But then the market is already done down significantly. So okay, I have just to readjust for debt. Now, when it comes to your strategy, it's all about your liquidity, your horizon and your investing or speculation. The key when it comes to a downturn is how liquid you are. So what is your job security? Will you be able to add money to a portfolio like we are doing with our model portfolio on my stock market research platform? Just add that 1,000 yesterday, bought something, next month we'll add more, buy something, buy something, buy something. Over the next 20 years, we'll build a great portfolio and these downturns are an opportunity to buy on the chip for those that have such a strategy. So it's all about you and the liquidity. If stocks fall 50%, I have more liquidity to add, look at the situation, et cetera, et cetera. And then such we as investors tend to end up much better off after such a situation rather than the market just keep going up like it was the case up till a few weeks ago. So it's just a few weeks, put that into perspective when it comes to making decision. We are just a few weeks into this seriously as it hit the globe globally and that's something also to be taught about and put into perspective. So on your horizon, also nobody knows when the market will recover. So it's again, always the first rule of investing, never put the money you need in the next five, 10 years. If you did put money that you need in stocks the next five, 10 years, then well, you didn't listen to the first rule of investing. You were gambling and you know how it usually ends up with gambling. The key is can you add to a falling market if yes, you accumulate wealth, you accumulate stocks and you accumulate good businesses that will deliver returns over the long term. The key is always don't put yourself at risk. Don't put money that you need at risk because the key is always that you sleep well. And that's also the message of this channel. So please subscribe and click that notification bell. Sleeping well, thinking about liquidity and everything else about the investor mindset which is sometimes always more important than what happens in the markets. And then there is always investing and speculation. If you miss the best days, 25 days in the stock market, you lose money even if stocks keep giving you returns. And if you look at the 10 worst days and 10 best days, those usually happen when it is a great opportunity to buy long term. 1987, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2009, every 2008 and 2008 everything was going up and down but missing those 25 best days in the history of the stock market actually leads you to lower, lower, much lower returns long term. So as investors who can't really time the market we can just think about ourselves and see how that fits our situation and what are the opportunities? How can we take advantage of this not being taken advantage of it? And that's what I do as said I sent a message to my stock market research subscribers yesterday how I invested some personal money, some money for the portfolio that I manage. Last week I bought something else for the lump sum portfolio. So I can tell you what I do. I have liquidity, relative job security and that's what gives me the security that I will pass this through. We will wait it out and the world will be a better place in a year or two years and who knows what will we be thinking about the new things, the new issues down the road. In the meantime, we just keep buying businesses, buying, buying, accumulating wealth and as there are lower prices, well, thank you for lower prices and I'm really sorry for all those that have been personally hit by the virus from losing a job just get an email about if you were losing his job about losing your dear ones but then again, emotions and rationality will try to stay rational here because in the long run, that's how you get the highest value out of this channel and investing. So to finish with Benjamin Graham, the investor's chief problem and even his worst enemy is likely to be himself.  Subscribe, click that notification bell, looking forward to your comments and I'll see you in the next video.