This lecture is part of an online course in algebraic geometry about schemes and we will be discussing morphisms of schemes. So there is an obvious definition of a morphism of a scheme, which is to define it to be morphism of ringed spaces. Unfortunately, this doesn't work. It gives the wrong answer. And we have to use a less obvious definition of morphism, which we're going to define a morphism of schemes to be a morphism of locally ringed spaces. So a locally ringed space is just a ringed space such that every stalk is a local ring. And a morphism of locally ringed spaces is not defined to be just a morphism of ringed spaces, but a morphism of ringed spaces with an extra property that we will see later. So first let's start by discussing what is a morphism of ringed spaces. So let's motivate this by taking two topological spaces X and Y and taking a continuous function between them. Now X is open sets U and for each open set U we have a sheaf taking values on U. So the sheaf of X is going to be the sheaf of continuous real valued functions on X. So OX of U is just the continuous real valued functions on Y. And similarly, if we've got a set, open set Y, V inside Y, then we have a ring OY of V. And now suppose that F of U is contained in V. And then we get a restriction map from any continuous function on V to a continuous function on U. So we get a map between these rings. And this data is more or less what you use to define a morphism of ringed spaces. The morphism of ringed spaces consist of first a continuous map from X to Y, where X and Y are the underlying spaces. And secondly, for each U such that F of U is contained in an open set V, we have a map from OY of V to OX of U that has to be compatible with all sorts of restriction homomorphisms and so on. If you unravel this, what it means is we've actually got a map of sheaves from O of Y to F star O of X. If you unravel the definition of F star O of X, you find a morphism from this to this is essentially just the same as a morphism like this. Alternatively, we can think of this as being a homomorphism of sheaves from F to the minus one O of Y to O of X. So these two sorts of morphisms are equivalent. Technically speaking, this functor is a joint to this functor, so it doesn't really matter which you work with. We can define a morphism of ringed spaces to be a continuous map from X to Y together with an element of whichever one of these two sets. You prefer so that these are going to be homomorphisms of sheaves of rings. So that gives us a homomorphism of ringed spaces. And it's hard to see what's wrong with it. Well, if you look carefully, there is a bit of a problem. So suppose we have a homomorphism of rings. So these are rings. And then it's easy to see this induces a homomorphism of ringed spaces from spec of S to spec of R. I'm not going to give the details of this because it's completely routine. For instance, any prime ideal, you can take an inverse prime there. So we get a map from the underlying space of that to the underlying space of that. And then you can define homomorphisms of sheaves. Now, if you've got the spectrum of a ring R, then you can take the global sections of its sheaf. So the global sections of a sheaf just mean the values of a sheaf on the whole space, which is spectrum of R. But it's useful to use this notation gamma for global sections. So gamma just means global sections. And similarly, we have the global sections of O of spec of S. And the morphism of ringed spaces induces a homomorphism of rings from this space to that space. And this space, as we saw, is just a rather complicated way of talking about the ring R. And this space is just a complicated way of talking about the ring S. So we've got a homomorphism of rings from R to S. So let's see what we've got. If you've got a homomorphism of rings, we get a homomorphism of ringed spaces. And if we've got a homomorphism of ringed spaces, we can get back a homomorphism of rings. And it's easy to check that if you start with a homomorphism of rings, go to morphism ringed spaces and then back to here. The composition of these two maps is the identity. So what exactly is the problem? The problem is that this map here is injective, but not surjective in general. And this map here is surjective, but not injective. The problem is, there turn out to be, you can sometimes get morphisms of ringed spaces that don't come from homomorphism of rings. And this is a real headache. So let's see an explicit example of such a funny homomorphism of rings spaces. So I'm going to take R to be ZP. This is the integers localized at the prime P, which consists of all integers M over N with P, not dividing N. And I'm going to take S to be the rational numbers. And you notice there's exactly one homomorphism of rings from ZP to Q, which is just the obvious embedding. So we've got one map from R to S. And now let's look at the spectra of these spaces or spectrums. I'm never quite sure what the plural is. So the spectrum of R has two points. One point comes from the maximal ideal P. And the other point comes from the ideal zero. And we can look at the stalks at these two points. So the stalk here is just the rational numbers Q. And the stalk at this point here is just ZP. And this ring here has just one point because it's a field and the stalk is just the rational numbers. So if this is spectrum of R and this is spectrum of S, we can define a natural map F from the spectrum of S to the spectrum of R. So it has to take this point to a point here. And you can see it actually takes it to the green point because the inverse image of zero is just zero. And now this gives the homomorphism of locally-ringed spaces as a topological map. We've also got to define what it does to sheaves. And the easy way is just to take the map from F from minus one of O of spectrum R. And we want to map from this to this sheaf here. The sheaf over S, you can really just identify it with its stalk because it's only got one point. And this space is just Q. So we've just got the identity map from Q to Q. And this gives us the homomorphism of ringed spaces corresponding to the homomorphism of rings. However, there is a second homomorphism of ringed spaces, which goes like this. So here we can take our blue point. And instead of mapping it to the green point, we can map it to the purple point. And let's call this morphism G. And to define a homomorphism of ringed spaces, we need to say what it does to sheaves. So we look at what is G to the minus one of O spectrum R. And this time it's just ZP. So here we've got the, we pull back the inverse image of this stalk, which is just ZP. And in order to define a homomorphism of ringed spaces, we need to define a map from this to the stalk of this point, which is just Q. And this is easy because we can just take the natural embedding from ZP to Q. So this is a second homomorphism of ringed spaces. So we've got two homomorphism of ringed spaces from the spectrum of S to the spectrum of R, but only one homomorphism of rings from R to S. And this is a good morphism. And this is a bad morphism. That messes everything up. We don't want to have morphisms like this. So we need to figure out what is wrong with it exactly. Well, we need to add a condition that excludes these sorts of homomorphisms. We want to add condition to exclude bad morphisms of ringed spaces. We need to figure out what bad actually means. So let's take a look at a geometric example. Suppose you've got a space X and Y, and we will again think of these as being topological spaces. We might take a point P here. This is a homomorphism from X to Y, and the point P might have an image F of P. And if G is a function on V, suppose F P is contained in some open set V, and it vanishes at F of P, if and only if its pullback G F vanishes at the point P. It's rather obvious. Well, now we can consider a map from the local ring at F P to the local ring at P. This map is just the obvious thing where you just sort of take a function here and pull it back to there. And we see that the maximal ideal here is equal to the inverse image of the maximal ideal here. And this fact is really just the same as what we said here. We said a function vanishes at F P, if and only if it vanishes at P. Well, the maximal ideals of the local rings in this particular case are just the functions vanishing at a point. So when our sheaf of a ringed space is just a sheaf of real valued functions, we see that we have this extra condition that the maximal ideal of a local ring gets pulled back to the maximal ideal. And this is going to be the extra condition we need. So we say that a homomorphism R to S of local rings is called a local homomorphism. If the maximal ideal of R is equal to F minus one, this is F of the maximal ideal of S. So let's see an example where this fails. Let's just take Z P and map it to Q. So here the maximal ideal is nought and here the maximal ideal is multiples of P. So we can see that F minus one nought is not the maximal ideal. So this is not a local homomorphism. And if we go back to the picture we had earlier, we see that we're getting this bad, none local morphism of local rings. So this is not a local homomorphism. So this is this sort of morphism of ringed spaces kind of corresponds to some sort of very weird function of ringed spaces where you take a function that has a zero here and pull it back. And it's no longer zero here or something like that. Very unsatisfactory. So we can now define a morphism of locally ringed spaces is a homomorphism of ringed spaces such that each induced homomorphism of local rings is a local homomorphism. And you can check that if you've got a homomorphism of rings, then you can take the induced homomorphism of locally ringed spaces. Then this is a homomorphism of locally ringed spaces. So you can easily check that it has this property on local rings. I'm not going to check this in detail because it's fairly straightforward. Now suppose A and B are rings and suppose you've got a map from the spectrum of B to the spectrum of A. And we want to know, does this come from a homomorphism of rings from A to B? Well, let's take a look. First of all, F certainly induces some homomorphism from A to B. Remember, A is the global sections of some sheaf over this and B is the global sections. So F induces a homomorphism of rings. And we can take a prime ideal P of B and look at the stalk of P. And there will also be a point F of P here. So we can look at the stalk of A F of P, which will be the localization of A at P. And now there are two possible ways to get a prime of A from P. First of all, we can take F of P, the image under this map here. Alternatively, since P is a prime of P, we can take phi to the minus one of P. And are these the same? Well, in general, they're not. In the example we saw earlier, these are two different maps. One of them was zero and one of them was all multiples of P. But now suppose that this map here is a local homomorphism. Then if we take the point P here, we can pull it back to B. And we can pull it back here to get phi to the minus one of P. On the other hand, if it's a local homomorphism, then its image here is going to the maximal ideal of A F P. And if we pull that back, we will get F of P. So this diagram commutes. So if this is a local homomorphism, this implies that F of P equals phi to the minus one of P. So the two possibly different maps from this space to this space, the one given by the homomorphism of ring spaces and the one induced by the homomorphism of rings are in fact the same. And from this it easily implies that the F is induced by the homomorphism phi from A to B. So F does indeed come from a homomorphism of local rings. And I'm not going to give details of this. I'll just leave this as an exercise because the tricky part is showing this condition here. And once you've done that, the rest is fairly straightforward. So to summarize what we've done so far. Homomorphisms of rings from R to S are the same as homomorphisms of locally ring spaces from spec of S to spec of R. What this means is the category of rings is equivalent to the opposite of the category of affine schemes. So saying that opposite just means the direction of morphisms changes. So here we've got a map of rings from R to S, but the map between the spectra goes in the opposite direction. So opposite just means the reverse direction of all arrows. And saying two categories are equivalent means roughly that there's a natural correspondence between homomorphisms of elements in one category and homomorphisms between corresponding elements in the other category. The exact definition of equivalence of categories is a bit technical and hairy and I'm not going to give it, but it's kind of reasonably obvious what's going on. So advantage of this is we can now define morphisms of schemes in, well, we can now handle morphisms of schemes in a reasonably easy way. It may have occurred to you that the definition of a morphism of scheme is really rather difficult to work with. And nobody wants to check that something is a morphism of schemes by going back to the definition, but we can now construct morphisms of schemes much more easily. So suppose we've got a scheme X and a scheme Y. What we do to construct morphism is we just cover Y by affine schemes, by affine sub-schemes, should say by open affine sub-schemes. And then we cover X by lots of little open affine sub-schemes such that the image of each open sub-scheme of X will be in the image of some open sub-scheme of Y. So for each X, so for each open sub-scheme, so open affine sub-scheme. So for each open affine sub-scheme in our cover, choose a map to some open affine sub-scheme of Y. And this is easy because we know the maps from the affine sub-schemes of X to affine sub-schemes of Y because they're just given by homomorphisms of rings. And we are supposed to know that homomorphisms of rings. And now we have just have to check these are compatible on all intersections. And if we do that, then we will get a homomorphism of locally ringed spaces. In other words, a morphism of schemes. So this is why we really want the morphisms between affine schemes to correspond exactly to homomorphisms of rings, because this gives us total control over morphisms of affine schemes. And once we have control over morphisms of affine schemes, we can get good control over morphisms of schemes just by covering them by affine schemes. I'll just finish off with an example. Let's show the plane C squared minus the origin or more precisely the corresponding scheme is not affine. In other words, it's not an isomorphic to an affine scheme. Well, if you take the scheme C squared minus naught, in other words, you just take the scheme spectrum of CXY and remove the origin from it. We've got a natural map from this scheme to that scheme because it's just an open sub-scheme. However, if you look at the ring of global functions on this, the ring of global functions we calculated earlier was CXY and the ring of global functions on this was also CXY. So if this were an affine scheme, the morphisms from this scheme to any other scheme would correspond exactly to morphisms of rings from this ring to this ring. However, since this is an isomorphism, it would mean that this scheme would have to be isomorphic to this ring if it were affine. But since it obviously isn't isomorphic to this ring, this is not affine. Okay, that's all about morphisms of schemes.


In this corner, an undisputed horological icon, clocking in with a 40-millimeter case diameter, bow to the crown, and welcome Rolex GMT Master, CLEPSI. And in this corner, all the way from 1979 and back with a vengeance. At 38 millimeters, a retro look with a modern hook. Please welcome Timexcune Reissue. Let's get ready to rumble. I'm Brian Sakao, and you're watching He Spoke Style, where we give you the information and inspiration you need to dress well, have more confidence, and unlock your potential. One of the things I said in my recent video featuring the Casio A158W that seemed to really resonate with a lot of you is that it's not how expensive a watch is. That's important. It's how that watch makes you feel. So in the spirit of that, I thought it would be fun to put two watches head to head that look very similar, but with very different price points. And in this video, we're going to be comparing the Rolex GMT Master II and the Timexcune Reissue. Table of contents for the video. First, we'll take a close look at the Rolex, then the Timex. I'll review some similarities and differences between the watches, and then we'll put them head to head in a variety of categories, including quality, reliability, functionality, comfort, style, and price. Let's get to it. So here is the Rolex GMT Master II. This is the reference 16710. And want to give a big shout out to Crown and Caliber for loaning me the watch for this video. It's a 40 millimeter steel case on an oyster bracelet. This model has articulated lugs. It's an automatic movement, and the case back is not see-through. Moving on to the dial, we've got a black dial with hour indices all the way around, with the exception of three o'clock, where you can see the date window magnified by the cyclops, hour, minute, and running seconds hands, and then, of course, the red GMT hand. The most distinguishing characteristic of this watch is the bezel, and specifically the insert. This is the classic red and blue Pepsi bezel, blue indicating nighttime, and red indicating daytime. The bezel rotates both ways and is ringed with 24 hours, which is how you would be able to tell time in two different time zones. On the wrist, this watch wears and feels great. The bracelet is very comfortable. All in all, it's a classic sports watch with an unmistakable look and a great history as well, introduced in 1954 for Pan Am pilots making intercontinental flights. Next, we have a watch that looks very similar to the GMT Master. This is the Timex Q-Reissue. This is a modern version of a watch that was first introduced in 1979 during the so-called Quartz Crisis that really forced the mechanical watch industry to kind of reevaluate itself. This watch here has a 38-millimeter stainless steel case and a woven stainless steel bracelet, both of which being 100% true to the original. The case has a brushed appearance on the top and a polished appearance on the side. It is powered by a quartz movement, and you can see on the case back where the battery is housed. The dial is blue, and the cue above the Timex signature does stand for quartz. Hour indices all the way around except at three o'clock where we've got apertures showing both the day and the date. There's an hour hand, a minute hand, and a red seconds hand. The bezel rotates both ways and is ringed with 12-hour time. Now we do have the blue and red on the bezel, but with the absence of a GMT hand, I'm not sure how useful that is. At 38 millimeters, this watch sits really well on the wrist. I feel like 38 millimeters is really such a sweet spot in terms of size. It's very comfortable, though the bracelet does seem to catch and pull on my arm hair a bit. It feels pretty substantial, which was a little unexpected to me, but definitely a pleasant surprise. Now that we've had an overview of both watches, let's take a look at some of the similarities and differences between the two of them. Starting off with the similarities. Both have a stainless steel case and bracelet. Of course, both have hour, minute, and seconds hands. Both have luminescent hour indices, and both have a rotating bezel with the distinctive blue and red coloring. Differences, case size. The Rolex is 40 millimeters and the Timex 38 millimeters. Movement is different as well. Rolex being mechanical and automatic. Timex quartz. The Rolex has just a date window while the Timex has both the day and the date. There's a GMT hand on the Rolex, not on the Timex. The bezel on the Rolex displays 24 hours. Timex, 12 hours. And then the bracelet style, the Rolex having the oyster bracelet, and the Timex having a woven bracelet. However, there is a modification you can do with the Timex bracelet that a few of you picked up on in the Casio video I did. And that is if you take the bracelet from the Casio A158W and put it on the Timex, it actually gives it a much closer resemblance to the Rolex. Now we're going to see how these watches stack up head to head, and our first category is quality. You know, it's kind of hard to objectively compare quality when you're dealing with watches at such disparate price points. Obviously, if you're paying a premium, you expect a certain level of quality, but that doesn't mean that a lower price point watch can't be quality as well. The Timex is certainly quality for what it is. However, the bracelet, in my opinion, takes away from that quality. So in the quality category, point goes to Rolex. Next category is reliability. Although Rolex makes some excellent movements that are superlative chronometer certified, there really is no comparison with a quartz movement when it comes to accuracy and reliability. So point to Timex. Our next category is functionality. Both watches have their own set of jobs that they perform. The Timex has both the day and the date displayed. The Rolex, just the date. However, the Rolex does have the GMT hand, which I feel is more unique and useful. So I'm going to go point to Rolex in the functionality category. Now we're going to talk about comfort. Both watches feel great on the wrist. However, again, the bracelet on the Timex does tend to pull on my hair. So Rolex comes out on top here in terms of comfort. Point to Rolex. Next category is style. From a distance, these watches look so similar, especially if you do the bracelet modification I suggested on the Timex. The Rolex is of course the original, but the Timex has some great retro style. So no clear winner here.  Final category is price. The Rolex GMT-Master II that I have here, the reference 16710. You can currently find at $12 to $15,000. The Timex retails for $179. No contest on price. Point to Timex. Now you can see in my rating that Rolex did come out slightly on top, but that in no way diminishes the incredible value that the Timex Q reissue offers. So if a Rolex GMT-Master II really isn't in your price range, but you like the look, I think the Timex is a great alternative. However, I would highly recommend the Casio A158W bracelet modification, both from a comfort standpoint, as well as a style standpoint. The Casio is only a $19 watch, and it's a pretty cool watch itself, so much so that it has earned a permanent place in my watch collection. If you're new and want to check out my collection, as well as some deeper dives into specific watches I own or have owned, and the stories behind them, click on that playlist right over there.


Hey everybody, guess what? Yes, we are here for you. As always, coming at you today, Bob Lorenz, Ryan Rucco, for the first time. Bob and Ryan paired together. Ryan, I'm excited to talk about a variety of things, including, I'm not sure I'd call it a guardian angel over your shoulder, but a guardian force maybe? A guardian sith lord, how about that? Yes, I love it. Nobody on earth has one of those. Ryan Rucco has one of those.   So let's talk a little bit about your time that you've had right now.  Have you rewatched to any of them in the time you've had off? So I haven't yet, but I do think like I need to do a full marathon at some point during this, and I'm just assuming, you know, that at some point we're going to run out of fresh Netflix content, and it'll be an obvious choice. The one thing I have done, I've watched, so they've been releasing, they've done the final season of Clone Wars on Disney Plus, which is an animated series, you know, so I've done that, and my fiance, Andrea and I, like we made kind of lists for movies like we wanted to watch, the other one hasn't seen or whatever. And number two on my choice is Rogue One. So that Star Wars movie will be on deck sometime soon. She's seen 789, but she hasn't seen the rest, and I feel like even though it's sort of out of order, Rogue One will be the next one that like, I think she'll enjoy. If you haven't seen The Mandalorian yet on Disney Plus, that's a great one where whether you're a Star Wars fan or not, that show is just an awesome show. Okay, that's a good tip. All right, so let's pivot just a little bit. First of all, this is the first time I've done one of these social distancing with somebody sitting on a peloton. Might not be the last, if we're gonna do this again. But I do know that you've done a good job of that. We encourage everybody to do the same. And I know you're also a big proponent. I don't like the word germaphobe necessarily, it might not sound like that, but your big hand sanitizer, hand washer, so that part is easy for you, right? Yes, 100% man, I'm nutty with it. I'm crazy about it. And even when I, so as I was traveling, because March is normally my busiest month, and so the first couple of weeks of March, I was all over the place. And I was tracking Italy really closely because I'm due to get married there in June. So I've been following it incredibly closely. So I knew we were about to shut everything down. And I'm traveling thinking like, we really all shouldn't be out here right now, et cetera, et cetera. And so because of it, my normal germ OCD was like magnified to the 11th power. And I'm getting on the planes, wiping down everything, like the second I get in my hotel room, wiping down everything, like I won't, even like now here at home, where it's just me and my fiance, like I won't eat with my hands unless it's immediately after I've washed them. And so I just like, I do think that like, whenever we come out of this, and we will, we will all get to the other side of this, I do think we're all gonna have better hygiene habits.  I think people actually will take some of the habits from this. And maybe not be as obsessive as I am, which at times this is a turn, although right now helpful. But I feel like we're all gonna be a little bit more aware of our hygiene moving forward. Yeah, I agree with that. I think it's because if, I mean, listen, hopefully we all wash our hands anyway, but if you didn't do it maybe as much as you used to, it will be just become, it's become more of the new norm, the habit. Even for us staying in first day, I was really going stir crazy. I wasn't used to being in the house this often, especially during the baseball season, I'm gone from three in the afternoon till midnight, whatever. And so you're used to being out and all of a sudden, boom, you're in. But then after that period, you start to get in a new routine. And I think that's been the most helpful thing is we've adjusted our lifestyle, but then, okay, how do we do that to maximize our time, our time together, doing things at the house, getting stuff done, it's just a new routine. That's all it is. Once you get on that, it's pretty easy. Bob, you're 100% right. It's so weird for all of us who work in sports because we're used to, sort of our normal is no routine, right? Like because games are different times, games go different lengths, we're working off hours and off days from people, holidays, weekends, whatever it is. And so it is, it's weird to have some sort of routine where you're at home. And I agree with you. I found now this week, I kind of know what that routine is. And it's like, okay, normally I can't do a nine am workout every day or whatever or like, I can't definitively get eight and a half hour of sleep, but right now I can. So trying to find that silver lining within it all to keep us sane and also kind of like, settle in to the new routine.  That you're like, I didn't realize I was gonna crush this, much during this time, but I am. Anything that's not nailed down. No, what I found was, and this was another part of the challenge, when you're home, it almost feels like you're, like it's when you were home from school and you were sick. Yeah. So you wanted like comfort food and you wanted, so we started eating like some comfort foods and some other stuff. We're like, okay, we gotta get back to eating healthier and doing what we do.  So we got better about that. Yeah. We do cook more. I find that we're trying to support local businesses. So we'll order out, but we do cook more and that's been a good thing. You know what? That's a great point, Bob. And this is something I've been trying to say too, cause I have a lot of friends who are in the hospitality business and some who have like incredible restaurants. I mean, we're talking about restaurants where, they're top 10, 15 restaurants in New York and they're normally packed every night, reservations months out. And they're going through incredible struggles right now because of this. So just picture the way it is for any restaurant. And that's just restaurants. Obviously there are a variety of different tentacles to hospitality businesses. And so I'll keep saying this anytime we have the platform, like for everybody who happens to be in the fortunate position where they can continue to support these local businesses, do that. I mean, even if it's like somebody who you normally see weekly and now you can't because their business is shut down, if you can afford to still spot them the money as if you're going to see them, do that. Because it's amazing just how many businesses are completely halted. And, you know, obviously we all want to do our part so that when we do get to the other side of this, everybody still has the jobs that they left. So, you know, I love hearing that, Bob, because it's so important for all of us to support our local businesses, you know. And if it means getting some comfort food as well, there's nothing wrong with that. Hey, once in a while, right? Just portion control, Bob. Portion control, I have to tell myself that. And the one other thing about that too that I've realized is these restaurants, most of them are doing a really good job sanitizing what they're sending out. So, you know, you don't have to think you're picking up this bag that's like, ah, what's going on here? I need to leave it outside for three hours. It's like, you know, they're doing a really good job about that, so I commend them. So, we've talked a lot and I have to go to this. We cannot go without talking about this.  And that was in March 11th or 12th, broadcasting the Nuggets Mavericks game. And you went from just being a play-by-play guy to being, as you put it in one article, and I was saying that, I read it, Walter Cronkite. He had to put Walter Cronkite hat on. You'd go back to the old journalism school. And start breaking the news while you were doing a game with Doris Burke and Tom Bernaldi about the fact that the NBA not was just gonna, you know, stop some things. It was shutting down indefinitely. What was that like for you? Yeah, man. It's funny because like, I honestly did, first of all, Doris and I went into the game feeling like this was probably going to be the last game we were doing for a while with fans and on-site. So it already had sort of this eerie, surreal feel. And then as the news develops and as it breaks, you know, you just realize that obviously the game is now secondary, right?  But it was sort of finding that balance of, okay, when is it appropriate? And what is the appropriate tone in addressing the game and the action and the play-by-play versus making sure we calmly convey the news? And the reason, like the example I used in my head of what was kind of the aspiration, although an aspiration I will never reach, but was my sort of my guideline to try and follow was Cronkite because Apollo 13 is one of my absolute favorite movies. And I always think about like just the way Cronkite kind of guided America through the news that night, right? And while my job was certainly not what Cronkite's was at the time, I loved the way he calmly conveyed what was going on and kept people informed, right? And that was kind of our whole mentality was, okay, everything is shifted. Now, how do we just calmly give people the information and the new information and let them know we have resources to get even more layers of this as the game's going on while also addressing the action? And it was weird because it became more of a news show, obviously, for the vast majority of it. And then at the end of the game, almost as if the players realized, whoa, this is our last chance to play for who knows how long, they then sort of re-engage and I think had a higher level of intensity and focus. And then that allowed us to sort of dip back into the action with a little bit more energy than we had throughout the rest of the broadcast. So it was surreal, man. It was a totally wild experience. And like you said, I hope that that's a one-shot deal for the rest of my broadcast career. Yeah, so was it easy for you or odd for you going from that? We're kind of at a measured tone and all of a sudden, you still got to call a game. You can't be any different, can't be a different Ryan, so to speak. You got that energy and the excitement to do. So was that easy to kind of bounce between the two? Yeah, I think it helped. Like Doris was so great to work with Doris Burke. And I thought she was also able to like seemingly transition on her own. So it wasn't me just having to shoulder that load which made it easier. And then also like, I don't know if you do this sometimes like, cause you know, when you're, if you're, let's say you're hosting a pregame or a post game or any kind of show and all of a sudden there's like some sort of sobering news story or somebody's passed away, whatever it might be. And you got to kind of shift into that and then back into the action. And I always feel like there's like sort of like, when you're in those modes, you're so careful with every word you choose, right? Like you want to make sure that's not the time you stumble or you have the wrong energy or whatever. And then kind of just using a pause and like you're gradually lifting the energy back up as you get into it so that it makes sense. So I think we were able to do that. There was maybe like one or two times where we were in the middle of like really getting news briefs so to speak, whether it was back in the studio with Van Pelt or it was Tom Bernalde talking with Mark Cuban or me and Doris ourselves talking about it where there might have been something really exciting happening where it would have made no sense for us to jump in and address it where we just kind of had to ignore it and stay on the news. But for the most part, I thought we could kind of dip back in and then sort of accelerate into the action, whatever was happening on the floor at that time. I'm going to take a wild guess.  Yes, 100%. And I'll give a big shout out to Ian Bruca who actually he worked with at some time certain guys that we have a yes because if so many people were from the ABC family and Ian started there as well, he's also been a Yankee fan so he watches yes all the time. But he did an amazing job. Bob, you know what it's like if like, you're kind of getting that stuff in real time. Like you need it so clear and so digestible and he had the perfect tone and like the perfect timing and also he didn't give me too much too early. Like he gave me the stuff once it was okay for me to say it, you know? So I was very grateful and it was definitely as much as I've ever had communication with the producer during the game. Okay, we're going to wrap this up with one just kind of bring it back to that upbeat feeling. We don't know when the NBA and baseball is baseball is going to start, NBA will resume yet. But John Flaherty brought this up the other day. If you look at it from the glasses half full perspective, there's going to be a massive amount of excitement. You think of the baseball season, we don't know what it's going to be yet but let's say it's condensed. It's more of a sprint and not a marathon and the NBA certainly, those guys are going to be amped up to get back on the court. There's going to be an incredible energy. Don't you think when it comes to the time when sports resumes? I do, I do Bob. I think, you know, there's going to be the convergence of all these sports at once, which is going to feel incredible. There's going to be all of us, you know, kind of peeking our head into the sunlight again, getting to watch sports. And then there's just what you said, like the import on each game is going to be a different degree.  But like there are games where you're just like, you know, a winner or a loss today. It doesn't really matter. I feel like every night we're going to be like, hey, this game matters. Yeah, totally agree. It's going to be a lot of fun. This was fun. Thanks for the perspective of calling the last NBA game before the next first NBA game. Good stuff and may the force be with you. And may the force be with you, Bob. Oh, hey, Ryan, before we get away, I did want to mention, we're going to try and get a lot of our viewers engaged that are watching this. There is a way that they can do that, get their questions in for a Bob, a Ryan, a Flash, a Jack, whoever is doing these things. So how do they do that? Yeah, we're going to do some fun mailbag stuff I think as this develops. All they have to do is tweet at yes network with the hashtag yes mailbag. So tweet at yes network with the hashtag yes mailbag and we'll have your questions on some future episodes. All right, start lining them up, folks.


In this example, we are provided with a port via Soledge portal and are tasked with making a couple of modifications. Soledge portal is a great free tool for design sharing and collaboration. The first two changes in the portal are to align the holes and make two faces go planar. In Soledge, what if we accidentally delete our sketch? No worries, as Soledge with synchronous technology is not a sketch dependent. However, the question still remains on how we will make the changes without a sketch. That is not a problem, as Soledge has face relay commands for easy modifications on the fly. We have the option to make face relay commands in Soledge temporary or permanent. If the persist option is turned on, the relationships are permanent and Soledge always recognizes them in design modifications. We can align the holes on our part with Align Hole command. When using Align Hole face relay command, Soledge will create a theoretical plane that is used for aligning the holes. The first hole we pick is where the plane will go through. Then we can simply pick the other hole or holes that we need aligned and select on any reference face or plane that is parallel to the theoretical plane we would like the holes to be aligned with respect to. Next, we will use the coplanar face relay command. We can just click on coplanar face relay, choose a face to relate, right click or enter to accept then choose the face to be related to. Quick and easy. Permanent relationships can be deleted from Pathfinder. Back to the Soledge portal, we are tasked with making symmetry and offset changes at our next two changes in the part. The symmetry change is very simple to do with the help of synchronous technology. Picking the symmetric face relay, we can define the face to be symmetric, the symmetric partner face and define the plane of symmetry. The fourth change is to make sure the two faces at the back of the part remain at an offset in case designer make changes to the part. Offset face relay takes care of this and we can even define the offset distance. Please notice as we move one face, Soledge recognizes the offset relationship and upholds it for us. Finally, we need to perform two more changes as requested in the markup of the design. These changes are related to size and orientation of different features on our part. The next change is to make the two arcs have the same size. We can quickly use the tangent command to achieve these. However, the equal face relay also does the job in this case. The workflow for the equal face relay command is similar to previous commands, but we can always look at the prompt bar for the next step if we ever get a stuck performing these commands. Finally, we will make the two faces perpendicular. Don't blink or you'll miss it. Using the perpendicular command, we can select the face and make it perpendicular to another face. Please also notice we can use the same face relay commands at assembly level in Soledge. For example, we can set these two faces to be in line very quickly. To take this a step further with pressing shift and space bar, we can ask selection manager to identify all the coplanar faces. Then we can simply ask Soledge to just as easily snap all these coplanar faces to this back face. Job well done. In this video, you'll learn more about face relay commands in Soledge.


Thank you for joining me on Think Tech Hawaii. I am Shonda Park, your host for Money Talk. And today we will continue on the topic of June, being US National Home Ownership Month. I am a business owner and an investor, passionate about helping people understand how money works. I am a mom of three wonderful children and my net worth was about $0 when I became a single mom about 10 years ago. Education has helped me build a strong financial foundation and create a net worth in the millions. Like me, my guest today has gone from zero to million. And he used to be my patient starting in 2011, up until the time I retired as a dental hygienist in 2020. He has been a licensed realtor since 1973, developing more than 150 projects, including CPRs. He got his brokerage license, started his own brokerage firm, which in 2017 became a franchise partner of Century 21, one of the most recognized real estate brands in the world. So his company is Century 21, I Properties Hawaii. He is also the founder and owner of Abley seminars, the largest real estate school in Hawaii, providing a pre-licensing and continuing education classes. So Abe, he is a longtime advocate and creator of affordable housing. He wrote the book, How to Become a First Time Home Buyer to help Hawaii residents buy their first home. He has helped many families, including mine. He is someone that I look up to that I have a great deal of respect for. And he is someone who truly inspires me. Welcome, Abe Lee to the show. Hi, Abe. Thank you very much, Chanda. I appreciate it. It's an honor. Thank you so much for being on the show today. I appreciate you agreeing to be interviewed today. Thank you. So I remember when I first met you back in 2011 and right away I knew that you were someone that I could learn a great deal from. And so I would be picking your brain while picking at your teeth.  So I'm really excited to have you here. And I wanted to just first ask you to share a little bit about your background, where you're from, about your family and then how you chose your career. Sure, thank you. I'll make it short. I know you have other questions and things, topics to talk about. But I came from Korea when I was eight years old in 1956.  And my father was a professor at the University of Hawaii and he came in 1947. And we came in 1956. So having been born in February, I did not see him for almost eight years and had no knowledge of the English language. It was hard for me, but we're immigrant families. I went to University High School and then to University of Hawaii. Went to University of Utah for a master's degree in education. And so I have a very background in education. My mother was a teacher in Korea and my father of course was a PhD now all back then and a CPA as well. So I had some really good upbringing as far as education was concerned. Oh yes, definitely. And your background too for your master's? Yes, in education. In education. In education and administration on creative thinking processes. Okay, so with that, how did you choose the career that you chose? Actually, I didn't choose it, it just happened. I got a bachelor's degree in agent studies, which is what I call, what do you do with this degree? Yeah. But I always knew that I would be doing business somehow. So I just got my degree in agent studies because I was the fastest way to graduate from college to satisfy my mom and dad because they're Asians and they want you to graduate from college. So in my senior year in college, I went door to door selling products like brochures in Kahala, because I figured rich families, they need to protect their home. I knocked on doors and so far I sent brochures door to door. I got a call from a guy and the gentleman and he says, hey, my wife says I should hire you. I said, who are you? Because when you saw my wife, three fire extinguishers and she says, this guy's really good, you should hire him. He's a life insurance agent. I had no idea about life insurance. So I interviewed with him and I got intrigued about how you make work or are living selling insurance. I was interested. I interviewed with three different companies. I didn't join him unfortunately, but I joined Connecticut Mitchell. And back then they gave me a draw, $1,000 a month. As long as you sold enough insurance to satisfy the draw, then you kept your job. After three months, I sold enough insurance to qualify for one year's worth of salary.  And he said, you can't do that. I said, but I'm nine months ahead of schedule. No, you can't. I said, I thought I was a free agent and I could do whatever I wanted as long as I kept up with your draw. And I said, when did I turn in my resignation? So then I went to real estate and gave up my insurance career after six months or something. That was very hard-lived. Yes, it was. So I got my license and for somehow, very fortunately, I met a lady named this baker, whose husband developed real estate and she sold his projects. So first preference was always given to first-time home buyers. So I rounded up eight buyers. They were first-time owner occupants and I sold the most owner occupant units in that project called the Canal House on Alawai Boulevard. So that got me started.  So I had eight buyers that were total strangers and but they bought. So then I went to graduate school in Utah, came back before my master's, came back and worked for a fellow named Bob Allen to develop Century Center, Century Square Executive Center. So I had heard about Bob Allen because he's a very good developer, very nice man. And his daughter was a broker. So I called Judy Allen Dang. I said, hey, Judy, I understand you think this project, can I meet with you? And she goes, well, we're not hiring any agents, we have enough. I said, well, can I just meet with you and just see what the project's about? So we met and it was the Executive Center on the corner of Hotel and Fisher.  So even though she told me there was no opening, she took me and I sold 50 units in that project. And that was number three in sales. But it took me two years and a half to get that many buyers because we're selling off of plans. And we're just seeing if we can find buyers based on the plans. But I sent out a thousand letters. I got 200 interviews and 50 bucks. So that's the numbers I use when I tell my agents, you got to talk to a lot of people before you get to meet them and then you get to sell them. But I met a whole bunch of people along the way. And it really helped me to learn how to... It's a lot of large numbers in any business you're in, right? So you had a very early on in your career.  So would you mind sharing about you being a father of six, a grandfather of 11 and share about your secrets to marriage being that you're gonna be celebrating your 50th wedding anniversary next year? Yes, I was very fortunate. I met a beautiful young lady named Sally Okura from Hilo. And she was at the University of Hawaii for a master's degree in social work. We met, fell in love. Three months later, we got engaged. Six months later, we got married, which is pretty quick. That is really quick. Yeah. Then we had our first child. Then our second, I said, do you think that's enough? She goes, no, there's more. And I said, no. So we had our third and fourth. And I said, do you think that's enough? She goes, no, there's somebody missing. So when we're out of a sixth child, she was like, okay, I think we're done. Thank goodness. But I always tell people the success through our wedding marriage. One, I don't yell and scream at her. I've never sworn at her. And we just don't fight. Now we disagree, but we don't fight. And the two words I always tell people that you have to learn as a husband, you say, yes, dear. And that's it. That's a secret. That's great advice. That's the secret. Okay, just yes, dear. That's right. She took care of the home and was very supportive in you in building your career and your businesses. She was working full-time as a social worker, raised six kids, we had two miscarriages. I don't know how she did it, but she took care of the family. I mean, we had kids doing hula, basketball, music, piano, you name it. She arranged for the rides for all these kids. And I did it once in a while, but she really did most of the work. So I give her credit for having been able to manage six children, a full-time career, and still run a house.  Yeah, she's so amazing. She's really, so amazing. Thank you for sharing about that. And I wanted to ask you, I know in 1980, you made a lot of things happen, getting your broker's license, starting Abley seminars, and then also purchasing your first home. So how did you do it all? Well, when we had three children, we were asked by our landlord to leave. And the store is too long to give you now, but my wife started calling everywhere to see if we could rent a place. And every landlord said, how many kids you got? Three, too many. So she started to really get this funded. And then she called on this one ad and the lady that answered said, come on down, let's talk. Come to find out that she was a nun for the Catholic church, her husband was a priest for the Catholic church, and they both decided to get married, and they had five or six children, and they're managing this apartment building. He said, ah, three kids, plenty, okay. So she let us rent, otherwise we would have been homeless. So we'll be forever grateful to her for allowing us to live in a two-bedroom with three children. And I told my wife, the next time we move, it is not going to be to a rental. We're going to be moving into our own home. And I made a pact with her. Fortunately, one of my clients, her husband inherited six homes under the Lunar Literary by Peacoy, by the post office. And this is your first that you purchased? Yeah, what happened was, they had six homes and he inherited the property, but he had inheritance tax that he had to pay. And so he felt like he had to sell this property to get out from that debt. So I brought in some developers and they made presentations to my clients. And as I listened to the presentation, I said, they're not giving them my clients very much of a good deal. So it was like a dummy, I said, let me develop this for you. And I can give you five homes with 400 grand cash and you can have your house pretty clear and you can pay your taxes. And they go, really? Can you do that? I said, I think I can. I didn't know, but I did it. We condominiumized six homes. They kept the house in the back and I sold four and I bought the fifth house. So my deal was I got 15,000 consulting fee. Each cottage was selling for 80,000. So I bought my cottage for 30,000. Wow, wow, that's amazing. I was lucky. Like you said, you didn't know. I didn't know what to do. You just took that chance. Yeah, so we borrowed money and we built a four bedroom, two bath house, 1,400 square feet on 1,400 square feet of land. That was our mansion. 1,400 square feet? Yeah, 1,400 square feet of land now. There was two-story home, right? 700 square feet each. Yeah, that was our mansion. That was our first home in Hawaii. Our kids were so happy that they actually had a house to live in. That was brand new. A house to own, yes. So share about that being your stepping stone and how that moved you up the ladder to your next home. Yeah, so I'm developing River State and I'm buying and selling and I saw another property on East Manawa Road and it was on sale for $250,000 back then. So the front lot had a big house. The front of the lot had the big house and there was a back street called Lipeoma Way and there was an empty lot. Space in the back was about 100 feet wide or 45 feet deep. So I thought, we can put a house in there and back then they had what they call Ohana units. They're available that you could see PR and they get separate mortgages. I made an offer and I called my wife up and said, hey, come meet me. We just bought a place. And I don't know how I'm gonna do it because I don't have money, right? But we were lucky. We got back to finance a deal. We sold the front house for $280,000. We bought the back lot for $70,000, very similar to the Nalilo and then we built a six bedroom four bath house. All the house, no yard, but that was our next house. And it was amazing, a miracle that we're able to get a loan to buy the property. So we stayed there for a few years and then a friend of mine who's a real tech called me up and said, hey, there's a house for sale. A lot for sale in Manoa. It's on acre of land with four houses. So I said, oh man, I just moved into this house and I can't afford it. He goes, but you gotta take a look at it. I tell people, you don't have to buy where you should always look. That's advice. That's good advice. Yeah, so I went up there to take a look at the home and it was three really dilapidated houses. If there was a slum in Manoa, this was it. And one house that needed to be fixed. But it was on sale my new 32, 31 years ago at 1.6 million, which is really expensive. I couldn't afford it.  Yeah. Which is what we did. We throw down two homes, three homes actually, my house and two others and we remodeled one. So three kept one and that's our current home. That's our current home. Can we bring up the slides? Let's see that first home from where you started on Lunalilo. So that's your first home and then your second home is this blue home. Yes, actually they change the color. It used to be beige or something. And then your third home.  It sits on 11,000 square feet of land. So I need to give my whole family plus my mother and mother-in-law. So we're very fortunate. I don't even tell you, but it's 55 on just their feet. Wow, that's beautiful. So I love your story because everybody starts from somewhere and to look at the things that you went through, the risks that you took in life and just building and building upon, finally getting your dream home. And it didn't really take you that long. Some people may have to take 10 steps, right? And this is your third home and you've been there for 31 years. And we're very fortunate. And you're right. You took a lot of guts to do it. And I didn't know how I was gonna do it, but we didn't have much money. And I was not flush with cash. My parents were not rich, we're immigrants. So it was a gutsy move on the two homes. The first one was easy because that was a small deal. But the other two, oh my goodness. I was sweating it. I didn't know if I could pull that off. I was very fortunate. You get big rewards, right? And when you look back, you never regret the chances that you took in life, correct? Oh yeah, our house is so good. And we have had tons of parties. Our children have brought their classmates over. We have family gatherings. And it's a dead end with lots of parking level. And so we really don't have to worry about people running over our children. It was a wonderful place to raise our children. That's wonderful. So I talk about my own personal situation and going from zero to millions in my network through financial education. And you've gone from zero to millions as well. What you did back then, would you say that it's still possible for people to do the same as you did and do it today? Yes, I believe so. Of course you need a lot more money to start with. But back then, my starting wages was a dollar and a quarter an hour. And now it's $16 an hour. Yes, huge difference. Yeah, so relatively, yes, it's more expensive, but it still can be done with some frugality, saving money. And of course, going through places like Hawaii Home Ownership Center to learn how to become a first-time home buyer, which I think you went through. Yes, I did. Yeah, I mean. Relationship with them and just about your passion about helping first-time homeowners. Sure, because of my experience as being a tenant and having almost been homeless. And by the way, the basement apartment that we were living in had huge cockroaches that I had to go out at night with a flashlight and shoot them with a specter sight. That's how many they were on the walls. Oh, gosh. And my wife did not like those big brown bombers. I wouldn't eat it. That would be a nightmare for me. Yeah, but I learned about Hawaii Home Ownership Center, which I have affectionately called H-H-O-C. It's a wonderful nonprofit. They teach people how to prepare to become a homeowner. And they have a nine-hour course and it teaches you about credit, about how to find a real estate broker, how to find a real estate loan officer, and the whole bit about becoming a first-time home buyer. And I have a client that had three kids and he was working, she wasn't. And they could only afford a $125,000 condo in Uluwehi out in Anakuli. And he said, that's not my first plate choice, but that's the only thing we could afford. And sure enough, he was able to buy that. $125,000 now, back then. Several years later, he calls me up and says, hey, we can afford a $700,000 house now because the wife is working and he had a better job. So then we found a place in Kaliki with two homes on it. So his red is covering most of his mortgage. And his mortgage was about the same as his Uluwehi house. Wow. You can believe it. That's really awesome. I just talked to him a few days ago. He said, hey, AJ, how you doing? He goes, oh man, we love it. And he's introduced me to several of his friends that are in the same boat and are first-time buyers. And I sent him the HHOC. So I have a real fun relationship with HHOC. Their people are wonderful.  Yes. I love that. And I love that you have a relationship with them and together that you help people become first-time homeowners again. And just like me, even though I owned property before, I owned it when I was married. And through divorce, I ended up being a renter. So through the Hawaii Home Ownership Center and with, of course, your help, Abe, that I was able to be what I consider a first-time homeowner again at the end of 2020 with your help. And I just want to say that you've given very generous donations to me as a qualifying first-time homeowner again. And then you've also given to my nonprofit, Azalea's Legacy Outreach, which is the main sponsor of Safe Ride Hawaii, a service that gets intoxicated drivers and their cars home safely. So I want to just thank you again for your generosity to me in buying a home and then to my daughter's foundation. And I want you to just share about your charity program. Sure. Well, it was a no-brainer as far as giving back to you, because I knew you were a first-time homeowner, single-mother, with three children. And I had great empathy for people like you and you worked hard. So I was glad to give back part of my commissions to you and a way of credit so you could come in with less cash available. And I've done that to quite a few of my clients. But one of my passions is to donate back to charities. So we had an agent who had a house listing in Luano for $1.8 million. And the thing that got us the listing was we told the owner, we donated part of our commissions to our favorite charity, which was our church. So the buyer walked in and didn't have an agent. So now we have two sites that we could give part of our commission to. But my agent, so generous, she says, what do we do with the buyer's commission? I said, Luano, what do you want to do? She goes, let's donate both sites. So we donated the seller's site and the buyer's site to her favorite charity. We donated over $20,000 to our church. That's really amazing. Yeah, it's amazing. One sale, $20,000. So we've done this many times over, not that much. But we donated $10,000 to make a wish, $10,000 to big brothers, big sisters. We're doing something for an Institute of Human Services for the mothers and the children so they can have some shaded area to play in. And that's our next project. But we donated about $75,000 to 50 charities last year.  The charities now love us because when they have a property that they want to sell or they have a supporter that wants to buy or sell, they'll say, who use these guys? Because they'll donate part of their commission back to us. We've had some listings because of that. We have some buyers and sellers that said, oh, you're going to donate? Yeah. And they said, well, we'll use you. And so that's what's been inspiring my agents to say, wow, this thing really works. Yes, yes it does. Will you bring up the slide for the charity? And Abe, how long have you had this program? Oh, it's been decades. Yeah, but in the last, it's the last year or two, I had a fellow named Patrick Bullard who runs Heinrich and Bullard. He's one of the largest advertising firms in Hawaii. He and I sit on the same committee for Hawaii Moonship Center. I told Patrick about this idea. He says, hey, I'll help you make a brochure. And so we have a professional brochure that he made for us to promote this charity donation program. The way that people just support us, you know, from different groups. And so we're very fortunate that we're able to do this. And we hope that more and more businesses would do that. And we'd be glad to work with anybody that has a buyer seller who donate part of our commission to their favorite charity. Thank you for that. Including Azalea's. Yes, and if you would bring up that slide as well, this is Abe Lee with his very generous donation to Azalea's Legacy Outreach. So it's greatly appreciated. I didn't even know about this charity program until you helped me buy my home and, you know, having the discussion about it, I was able to find out about this charity program. So thank you again, Abe, and thank you for your very generous donation, everything that you do in the community, helping first-time home owners. And the book that you wrote, I'm sure that it helped many Hawaii residents purchase their first home. So I just wanted to thank you again for being a guest today. Thank you. Thank you for your knowledge, for sharing your wisdom, for sharing your experiences of going from zero to millions. So is there any last minute words that you would like to share with the viewers? Yes, people are afraid the same, you know, we're overpriced in the marketplace. So when they see the median price of a million dollars for homes, they forget that half the homes are under a million dollars and half the homes are over a million dollars. So there's still homes out there that could be somewhat affordable, although they're more expensive than the mainland. Right. Well, condominiums, same thing, $500,000 or $400,000, sorry, median price, half of them below $400,000. So there are opportunities to buy first-time homes. Now, obviously you can't be in Hawaii Loa or in Manoa on the first buy, but you got to start off somewhere. You have to start somewhere. You got to start somewhere, and we want to help people do that. Thank you, Abe. Thank you. And I'm gonna give a lot of families hope. Thank you again for joining me today and being my guest. And viewers, please join me again on Monday, July 11th for another episode of Money Talk. Aloha. Thank you so much. 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 thinktechawaii.com. Mahalo.


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Hi everyone, this is Chih-chou. Welcome to my channel and welcome to another comic book related video. And what I thought I'd do in this video, in this short video, is I give you my take regarding the Bloodshot trailer that was released a few days ago and I just watched it again on the laptop and as you can tell from my grin, I love the trailer. So those of you who are interested in just my take regarding the trailer, I thought it was absolutely brilliant. I'm super psyched, super excited for the movie and personally, I cannot believe we're getting a Bloodshot movie at this caliber, at this level with so many unique people involved in the production of it, right? And so much history behind it and so much blood, sweat and tears going into it to bring us this movie, right? So I'm crazy excited and I thought the trailer looked amazing. Okay, for those of you who want a little bit more, right? Just to let you know where I'm coming from, where this perspective is coming from, right? I've been a comic book collector for a long time. I did a little bit of comic book publishing and as far as the Valiant Universe is concerned, I started reading their comics right off the get go in the early 1990s and I followed some of their history, some of the chaos associated with the comic book industry in general, but really amplified with Valiant Comics, right? And I fell in love with these characters with Bloodshot and the rest of the Valiant Universe. Since reading their first issues that they put out with Harbinger, XO, Magnus, Solar and all that jazz and I have all those early issues, right? I have that whole collection. And if you've been following the type of work I'm putting on this channel, the comic book related work, the videos I've been putting out, may they be collecting comic books, right? May they be buying comic books online, getting shipments here, doing unboxings? May they be just talking about the history of comic books? May they be reading the comic books readings that we've done, right? Because we put out a reading, we put out a handful of readings from Valiant Comics, but one of the readings we put out a while ago before, I don't think the Bloodshot movie was even announced back then, right? I forget. I think we put that out in 2015, 2016 maybe, but we put out a reading of Eternal Warrior number four, Rye number zero, and Eternal Warrior number five, we're flipping through Eternal Warrior number five anyway. We did a full blown reading of Rye number zero and looked at the cameo appearance, the first cameo appearance of Bloodshot and Eternal Warrior number four, right? And that's one of the longest comic book readings we've ever put out, right? So if you want to know about the history of Bloodshot, who this character is, where he makes his first appearance, you can definitely check out that video. There's a fair bit of information there that you can you can get caught up with the character if you don't mind spoilers for the movie, right? So I don't want to get into that aspect of it. I just want to get into the politics, the economics and how excited really some of us comic book aficionados and valiant fans are for this movie, okay? And for me, like I haven't been this excited about a comic book related movie being released for a very, very long time, maybe since the first X-Men movies were announced back in, you know, 20 years ago, yeah, 20 years ago or so that when they were announced, right? Because X-Men being X-Men, it got everyone hyped up, right? So I'm hyped for it, right? I loved it. I thought the movie looked, the trailer looked amazing. If you know the some of the stories with the this character bloodshot that have been presented written in the comic books and I haven't read all of it. I've read a nice chunk, but I haven't, I'm way behind on my readings and stuff like this. There is an element of the comic books, huge element of the comic books in there. There's a story. It appears like they're telling the story that was related to the relaunch of valiant comics back in 2012, which connected up into the harbinger wars, right? So there's an element, it appears like they're telling that story where, well, from the trailer you can take a look at it and see what it's about, right? But it appears like that's the story being told in this, in this movie. That's what I got out of the trailer, okay? So I'm super excited for this. As far as the history of the valiant universe, valiant universe in the early 1990s when it came out, it really took the industry by surprise, right? They quickly rose up to be the third largest comic book publisher in the industry within like two, three years, right? Which was unheard of, right? Because people were just dying for amazing stories to be told in comic books again, right? Because Marvel and DC weren't. We're just in the, there was a lot of noise, a lot of low quality comics that were being put out by Marvel and DC, right? So the caliber of comics had dropped dramatically, especially considering what we had been seeing with independent comic books coming out in the 1980s where the type of stories that could be told, right? And pre that in the golden age of comics with EC comics and whatnot, right? So valiant comics when it hit the stage in the 1990s, it really filled a vacuum that existed for people that were looking for amazing stories to be told in comic books again, right? So everything that they were basically putting out the first couple of years of valiant comics was putting out, basically all their comic books, they were amazing reads. You couldn't go wrong picking up a valiant comic book, having to read through it and going, wow, what? That was incredible, right? You could not do the same with Marvel or DC. You really had to be selective with what you picked, right? So that's sort of the history of valiant comics when it hit the stage in the 1990s. And in 1990s, the comic book industry went through tremendous amount of turmoil, right? A bubble was created and in on every level, right? And then the bubble burst and certain companies went under, right? Valiant comics being one of them. And as well as Marvel comics, Marvel comics basically went into bankruptcy and it had to be bought out like Toy Biz and whatnot. It was following the information back then. So there was a lot of things happening, right? And when the dust settled, basically the industry started picking up again, right? And it was a sort of a before the bubble bursting, it was sort of an attempt at relaunching valiant comics that failed, right? And then into the 2000, we saw sort of the comic book medium picking up again, right? And excitement being built. And a lot of that was driven by the cinematic universe that Marvel comics was putting out, right? With the X-Men, with Spider-Man, and whatnot, right? That sort of got people excited in comic books again. The aficionados, anyway, that had stepped away and once the bubble burst. And then you saw more people coming into the comic book realm and reading more comic books and there's more overlap with the comic book industry and movies and TV shows and whatnot, right? And then for me, I was one of the people that walked away and has walked away from the industry. I go through cycles where I buy a lot of comic books and I don't buy a lot of comic books or I read a lot, don't read a lot, collect a lot, don't collect any salsa on my collection or whatnot, right? Everything goes in cycles. We've talked about this, right? But for me, the driving force that brought me back into comic books was the relaunch of valiant comics in 2012, right? So it was valiant comics that really piqued my interest again or got me into hardcore collecting in the early 1990s, right? And has kept me there for the last 30 years. And it was valiant comics that did it again for me in 2012, bringing me back to buying comic books where when I found out that valiant comics had done a relaunch with all these amazing characters being revamped, right? And staying true to their original story and finding out that this was being done because there was a comic book fan that loved valiant comics and he had the means available to him to build up some connections, get some funds together to buy out the rights to these characters and relaunch them and start introducing new stories based on these characters, right? So huge, huge props, huge thank you goes to, and I'm going to brutalize his name, Dinesh Sham Dasani for having enough faith to bring this universe to this stage where we are right now, which being a valiant fan and really comic book collector for last 30 years, there wasn't very many people who believed, who had faith, right, that we would ever see this day. And this is sort of placed true to the character of Bloodshot because one of the, and Bloodshot is an amazing character really. It wasn't the first character that valiant comics created, but it was derived from the first original character that valiant comics created, right?  But Bloodshot, right? And Rai are very much connected together and Rai is the first original valiant character that valiant comics created, right? So there's a brilliant little link there, right? And Bloodshot was really introduced when valiant comics just took the industry by storm and their orders just went through the roof and everybody was chasing valiant comics, right? So there is a tremendous amount of history associated with valiant comics, but Bloodshot and sort of the core essence, the core character of Bloodshot is he's a soldier that has, through nanotechnology, nanites has been made invincible and almost immortal, right? If you want to read, just to let you know, if you want to read an amazing one-shot story of this character, pick up Book of Death, okay, and follow Bloodshot, right? So we did a reading of, and this is sort of a four one-shots that valiant comics put out with that were related to the Book of Death mini series that they put out, which kicked us off into the wrath of the eternal warrior, right? So for those of you who've been following valiant comics, if you want to know how this plays out, right? But one amazing standalone read for Bloodshot is Book of Death, Fall of Bloodshot. And if you want to get a feel for the caliber of comic that you would be reading with Fall of Bloodshot, it's on the same level of another reading that we put out for valiant comics, which was Book of Death, Fall of Harbinger. And that standalone for the harbinger characters, I guess you want to think about it, the renegades and Peter and whatnot, that standalone comic we did a reading for as well. And that is for me one of the greatest single issue comic books that has ever been put out, one of them anyway, okay? As far as the people involved from the movie side of things, and there's other people that are involved from the comic book, from the creation of this character, from the comic book rounder involved with the movie as well, one of them being of course Bob Layton, right? He was one of the original creators of Bloodshot, right? And there's, I wrote the names down here, Don Pearl, Kevin, Hanhook, and Hanhook, and Jeff Matlow, those are the people that have been credited for from the comic book side of things on IMDB, right? But Bob Layton is one of the main players and Dinnish is one of the main players, right? Outside of the comic book round, these are the people that are involved with this movie, right? First person is Dave Wilson, he's the director of this movie, okay? And I didn't know Dave Wilson as I didn't look into who was behind creating Bloodshot before, not too deep anyway, I knew about the screenwriter, okay? I didn't know about Dave Wilson, I didn't really care too much about who was involved with the Bloodshot movie, I was just excited that there was going to be a Bloodshot movie, really. It's something that I never expected would ever happen, ever, right? And we're seeing it in 2020, 18, 17, 27 years after Bloodshot was created, right? Wow, what a ride, right? What a ride, okay? So that's from the comic book perspective, the people involved in the production of this movie. Dave Wilson, okay? I didn't know about him. Dave Wilson put out an animated short that I had seen that I didn't know with him, and I thought the animated short was amazing. And the animated short is called Love, Death and Robots, watch it, you will love it if you love animation, right?  And then I looked down his history of what he's worked on, this is his first directorial debut, right? The first major movie or TV series or anything short, live action that he's directing as far as I know, right? Holy Kamolis, right? Now, who is Dave Wilson? This got me crazy excited about it, especially after watching the trailer. He's a visual effects person. He worked on Avengers, the 2015 Age of Ultron. He's done a lot of video games, Star Wars related video game stuff on the visual effects front, right? So that explains some of the visual effects we're getting in this trailer. So just on that front, it should be absolutely amazing. As the directing front, what I've seen of him, which is just a short animated thing called Love, Death and Robots, was brilliant. And the storytelling was fantastic, okay? That's the director. Here is the screenwriter and writer. Bob Leighton is there as the comic book front. I'm pretty sure Dinesh had a huge role to play in that as well. I don't know if he did any writing, but he would have been definitely involved in the consultation, right? And there's a handful of other people from the comic book round of involved with that. I apologize if I don't know your names right off the bat and I'm not mentioning them, right? But here is the person that wrote the screenplay, okay? Eric, I'm going to brutalize his name. Eric Hesserer. Hesserer. I can't pronounce the name, right? And who is Eric? He was a screenwriter for a few movies, right? Some that have done well. But the main one that I knew was Arrival, right? And if you want to know the movie Arrival, if you haven't seen it, it's a great science fiction movie, okay? It's about alien communication, right? Interaction, right? And we put out a movie and this is how intelligent his screenwriting was for Arrival. So I'm super, super excited about Bloodshot because I got a feeling it's not just going to be wow, bam, the visual effects and the character and the universe and us as comic book fans and valiant fans seeing Bloodshot brought to life, right? We're actually getting against something should be intelligent. Reflecting what we've been seeing in the comic books, right? Why intelligent? Because Arrival was an intelligent science fiction movie. It didn't rely on visual effects to wow you, to blow you away, to make you think about the movie days, weeks after you finished watching it, right? It was a script. It was a screenplay. It was a story being told, right? And the way it was being told. And Arrival, if you're if you've seen some of the other videos we put out, I actually put out a video on Arrival and the title of the video, we called it Mathematics and Movies Analyzing Arrival, right? The implication of their time travel and we linked it up for ASMR mathematics because there's a certain perspective they're introducing in Arrival in regards to how time travel is done, which I thought was brilliant and very unique and needed a little bit of sharing, right? So I was super excited to find out that he was the screenwriter for Bloodshot and I knew he was the screenwriter for Bloodshot before the trailer came out as soon as he was announced, right? And that was my initial, whoa, this might get really exciting, right? Okay. And the other main person involved with this is someone that I've personally, an actor that I've personally loved, which is a main character, which is Vin Diesel, right? And who is Vin Diesel? My first introduction that where he really etched himself in my memory, right? That I realized, okay, this person, I meant to watch him on the screen, specifically related to science, fiction and action, which is Vin Diesel, right? And the movie that he put out that I saw and I've seen multiple times now and I highly recommend it. If you like science fiction, Pitch Black is an amazing movie to see, right? And he's the main actor in it and he did an amazing job in it. And as soon as I found out that Vin Diesel was going to be playing Bloodshot, there were a few people out there in the comic book realm or in any realm, there's a certain amount of criticism that comes out. I personally was excited about it because I love them from Pitch Black. After looking into Vin Diesel, and of course Vin Diesel is known for Fast and Furious and Chronicles of Riddick, which is a follow-up to Pitch Black and stuff, right? But one place that I didn't realize Vin Diesel was involved in, which is one of my favorite movies of all time, out of a few hundred favorite movies that I have of all time, just like Bloodshot, what do you call it, Book of Death Fall of Harbinger and Fall of Bloodshot being one of a few hundred standalone comic books that I consider to be some of the best in the industry, right? Vin Diesel was the voice of the Iron Giant. Are you kidding me, right? So we got Dave Wilson, a huge visual effects person that has worked on a tremendous number of Star Wars video games, has worked on Avengers, right? And he's put out an amazing little short. We got Eric Hesser Serer that has written, from what I've seen anyway, an amazing screenplay for a phenomenal science fiction movie. We got Dinesh involved with it, which is it would be taking a superfan and allowing him, allowing them to re-create, reintroduce, bring together characters from a universe that you thought were long dead, right? Put his heart and soul into it and see it through, get all the funding together to produce the comic books, cut the deals that he needed to cut to bring this movie to realization. And we've got Vin Diesel, which is one of the best science fiction, specifically for me as far as I'm concerned, actors and action, action movie actors out there working on this movie. And this is what we're going to see in February 2020, right? Being someone that's been a comic book collector for 30 plus years, who has published his own comic books and had them, whoop, had the company go dot dot during the bubble, realizing how hard it is to see projects through for multiple years, bring the funding together, bring the people together, right? Dinesh was able to do this, right? Coming to it from this perspective, right? Loving the bloodshot character in the valiant universe in general, being, you know, a lot of people ask me all the comic book videos we put out, you know, showing you guys my comic book collection, us doing comic book haul videos, us listing comic books on eBay, selling them, connecting it up. Slowly we're collecting it up to ASMR mathematics and the mathematics of collecting comic books and we're going to use the mathematics of publishing comics and looking through the other mathematics aspects of comic book industry. Coming from a, from this perspective, looking at this trailer from this perspective, I am absolutely blown away. I am giggly. I am excited. I am, I can't wait for the movie to come out. Okay. And to see what is to follow. Okay. So that's sort of my long-winded take on the bloodshot trailer. Maybe we'll make another one of these videos once the bloodshot movie comes out. And we'll see where it goes. Good or bad, right? But I got my fingers crossed. I think it's going to be phenomenal personally. And I'm looking forward to seeing more of these characters come to the cinematic universe from valiant comics. I'm excited. I'm excited. Huge thank you to the people that are involved with this project and props, Danish, man, never thought it would go this far. Never thought it would go this far. Okay. That's it for now, gang. I'll see you guys in the next video.