I rarely if ever comment, but I've been watching you for about two years now. You have taught me so much valuable information regarding not just gold, but diamonds, and now gems. I'm here for it! Much love from Chile. If I'm ever in NYC I'll definitely stop by and pick up something nice. Oh, I've also watched many of your interviews as well, and learned a lot from them as well. Thank you for the inspiration.
@@_good_for. Nope. You are wrong. See how annoying that is? Dropping in to point out perceived mistakes but providing no context or explanation isn’t helpful. And incidentally, he definitely oversimplified things, but for a non expert, he was actually pretty coherent.
10:59 Diamonds do indeed slow down light more than any known material. But it is not true that MORE light exits the diamond than enters. The law of conservation of energy states that energy cannot be created or destroyed, but it can be transformed from one form to another. Since diamonds are chemically inert, there isn't any interaction happening with light that would create more energy.
Having worked in the jewelry industry for a few years, this movie was 99% spot-on, even down to Howard offering his customers bottles of water. I literally seen that shit DOZENS of times. The anxiety, the rush of making a big sale, the avoidance of certain people, everything.
Hi - the Australian black opals are some of the most beautiful stones ever. When I was a preteen my dad took three months off work and we went to Lightening Ridge to dig opals. I remember the sound of my dad’s pick when he hit a fantastic opal vein. He was so happy but that night at the local pub some guy gave my dad $4,000 for the stone. My mum was so upset with him for selling it but back in those days it was a tremendous amount of money. I still have some opals that my dad cut and gave to me when I married my dear American Army Captain.
Bro, the way you explain, I love it it's simple, a special with Pokemon cards😂 that's why I like watching your channel. You and Adam Sandler are amazing ! I knew it quicker or later that you would be an actor because you're really nice and good 👍 thank you very much for your explanation with things about stones, opals etc
@lorenzoas8500......WHHHHHAAAAATTTT?????? WHERE CAN I FIND THIS AT???.... I ABSOLUTELY HAAAAVE TO SEE IT!!!!........You're Talking about Johnny Hamcheck with the 6 FOOT CHAINS RIGHT????.........Tommy TuffKnuckles Brother!!!
My god, traxnyc just blew my f*ckin mind with some physics, diamonds slow down light to half speed. Thats gonna have some significance in the future i can feel it 🍻 🛸 💎
Max you need to try to get access to a community that isn’t apart of the diamond cartel to get your own source for diamonds to be able to lower the rarity for some of the stones that you’re able to get from the specific sources. I know you would have to look at safety, stability, helping the community in the area, and having trustworthy folks on site that can keep an eye on your investment. I’d definitely put in cameras throughout the mining areas and have everyone go through a check when they leave the site to ensure that nobody is stealing product but I bet if you found a decent source or a source that has diamonds with other desirable gem stones you could make a ridiculous profit brother.
It’s not ethically done but they don’t need the guys with machine guns there to continue the operation. For most people there, it’s their only opportunity for work, so they do it either way.
The thing about looking diamonds in the Dark is school and cool at same time. In the movie Titanic they didn't give the old lady(Rose) the blue diamond she had it all the Time it was in the packet of the coat she wore,and at the end she throws it in the ocean, that's how I remember it I watched the movie 20 years ago..🎉
the Titanic diamond was based on Hope diamond which was stolen from a satue of Indian goddess. later it was said to be cursed and then Harry Winston donated it to a Museum or something
Holy jeez…. Max.. I watched Uncut Gems before I started watching your videos. Actually, your previous feud with Eddie at Harlem Bling is why you’re on my feed…. I didn’t realize it was you in that movie! 😮 You did a great job!!!
Ma I love your knowledge and passion for the world you live in and things you do. You deserve everything that you’ve worked for good sir. God bless you
I love hearing him explain scientific concepts to Jewelry, while thinking he's an expert in the scientific matters, while also getting it extremely, extremely wrong. Firstly, the concept of light in a diamond has nothing, and I mean nothing, to do with general or special relativity. Special relativity and general relativity is about gravity, fail. It has more to do with the structure and how light bends. A diamond takes the incoming light from a large surface area, bends the light due to something called refraction, which slows it down, and it also slows the different colors of white light by a different amount, thus creating essentially a rainbow effect like a prism. It then focuses the light down to a narrow point, which then bounces it out again, giving it its sparkle of different colors. So you are essentially creating a reflective telescope that, instead of focusing the light down to a single point so you can view it, it focuses the light down and then spreads the light out to give you a sparkle of colors. Secondly, mass extinctions have nothing to do with the dispersion of gems. Mass extinctions refer to events that kills organisms. Organisms have little to no impact at all over how the geological activities disperse the gems from the mantle of the earth. So when you explain scientific concepts, make sure to actually know what you talk about before trying to explain it. It makes you sound unknowledgeable when you can't even get basic scientific facts right.
@@Acehood12 I haven't seen this video in a while so I don't remember the exact phrase but there was something along the lines of the earth is turning and god sprinkled diamonds and said go find them and mass extinction is happening that's not how gems are formed all gems have different processes to how they occur and it's not as simple as he makes it seem and he also gets the fact wrong about what is involved in the process as well
Relativity has nothing to do with why diamonds sparkle. Relativity is about gravity. While a diamond sparks due to structure and refraction, bending and focusing the light down to an arrow point from a wider surface area, giving it more energy, thus sparkle.
Happy to hear you actually name off the red beryl from wah wah in Utah, I was yelling at you before you said that but talked about rare deposit of minerals In America… lol. Now if you would have mentioned benitoite from Cali, single source mineral and state gem of California, I’d of subbed
Rambam says in his memoirs that he met an Ethiopian Jew in Egypt once when caring for Saladin. He said the man’s sirname was Ben Dan - and the Ethiopian man had told Rambam that the Ethiopians were the descendents of a small portion of tribe Dan who had fled the Selucids after the destruction of Shechem which was later renamed to Neopolis and then Nablus. They came to Ethiopian in hopes that Queen Sheva’s small tribe had lived on. The small group of Dan would settle and mix with local Ethiopians to today become Beta Israel. It’s quite interesting to hear Rambam’s tales of Jewish identity in the MENA and Southern Europe.
the "Red emerald" that you're referring to is called Bixbite which, just like emeralds, are a variety of beryl. They are like you said pretty rare to come by, but incredibly more rare to find clear and facetable specimens. I'm extremly happy that I got to buy a faceted 0.26 ct Bixbite from an old gemcutter that lives near me for a very pretty penny. And I do really appreciate that you're learning more and more about colored gemstones. The world of gems is truly amazing if you ask me
@@AayushDotiya haha yeah I usually just call Bixbite red beryl myself, because I just find it easier. I think most people that are into beryls just go with red beryl, but just wanted to write the name for anyone that wasn't familiar with it :). But I do agree with you on that one ;)
Thank god GIA doesn’t call it bixbite, otherwise the market would be getting it confused with “bixybite” another less desired mineral. During my time at GIA a lot of colored gemstone specialists would make jokes of the name like bixyshit, etc. red beryl is gorgeous and actually does have some better deposits being discovered outside of the Thomas mtn range in Utah, though the owner of said claims has remained private and is not selling the specimens we would get in to appraise
I like watching Nico a lot so I don't know much about Trax besides his little beef with Nico but this dude really knows his shit. I see why him and Nico are cool now. They're both at the top of their fields and have tons of knowledge
Uncut Jems was such a good movie ... Most people dont understand the art of jewelry making . Its a science and an art form . Like Picasso with a paintbrush.
Oberon , where they dug up the biggest diamond found in Australia. Dog Rocks location is very close with the party sapphires & Bathurst nearby for gold. All 3 hours from Sydney.
Yes fish and meat is used to smuggle everything....i know a fisherman that had a important export business he use to send hash out in fish crates ...now he sells it legally since it got legalized in Canada
I knew you looked familiar outside of videos lol wow that's cool now I'm literally just now realizing this,that you were in uncut gems ...that's good movie
Someday I would love to work for you Sir, your crude honesty is respect. It’s a disgusting world, all we want are fair numbers. The line that i liked the most was: that’s what they do they collect all these toys before they die…
It would be so easy for this dude to be unlikable but he's so straightforward and seemingly sincere its very cool
Wow i need to rewatch uncut gems again i had no idea trax wss in it lol
OG trax fans know 💯
There’s a shot of him in his actual store window too, it’s awesome 😂‼️
How did u not know?! Lol
@@questionmark1152 when i saw it like 5 years ago i had no idea who trax was 😅 have only started following him on youtube a year or so
"You're here looking at a fish!"
Trax one of the best personalities on youtube.
You must not see…ANYTHING ELSE!!! Trax sucks!!! He is the biggest con men!!!
True 100%
he ain’t gonna let you hit bro
@@Jackonda21nob slover
Yeah he seems chill af
I rarely if ever comment, but I've been watching you for about two years now. You have taught me so much valuable information regarding not just gold, but diamonds, and now gems. I'm here for it! Much love from Chile. If I'm ever in NYC I'll definitely stop by and pick up something nice. Oh, I've also watched many of your interviews as well, and learned a lot from them as well. Thank you for the inspiration.
Bro I swear I learn something about gems every time I listen to Trax talk
He is a little wrong at 11:00
@@_good_for. Nope. You are wrong.
See how annoying that is? Dropping in to point out perceived mistakes but providing no context or explanation isn’t helpful.
And incidentally, he definitely oversimplified things, but for a non expert, he was actually pretty coherent.
@@Justin22139 i can't give you an explanation son but I can give you the absolute that i know what I talking about
The Sarcasm at the end was unparalleled Max! Great Video ... 😊
damn commentary is so on point, love the uncut gems behind the scenes insight. That movie a cult classic, gonna be remembered forever.
Trax talking about Pokemon cards is the last thing I expected
10:59 Diamonds do indeed slow down light more than any known material. But it is not true that MORE light exits the diamond than enters. The law of conservation of energy states that energy cannot be created or destroyed, but it can be transformed from one form to another. Since diamonds are chemically inert, there isn't any interaction happening with light that would create more energy.
Yeah.
He maybe thought diamond shows more light because inside theres more light stuck
Just like our eternal energy/souls. We are immortal beings and our energy will not be destroyed upon death, only transformed.
Bruh....."if i wanted to start a militia out there I could...and I might, it's a bargain." 🤣
Straight business 😂
When I seen you in uncut gems I genuinely smiled and said outlout, that’s the real trax! 🤣🙏🏽
Having worked in the jewelry industry for a few years, this movie was 99% spot-on, even down to Howard offering his customers bottles of water. I literally seen that shit DOZENS of times. The anxiety, the rush of making a big sale, the avoidance of certain people, everything.
Man I'm broke as shit and have no desire for anything but stainless steel watches but i fuckin love listening to this dude talk
How did I not realise that was Trax, who I've watched for years, in one of my favourite Netflix movies Uncut Gems 😅. No wonder it was natural
Cuz he looks like 1000 other jewelry shop owners lol
The comparison of rough opal to packs of cards was very clean and brought me and easier understanding of valueing gems.
I just finished Uncut Gems First thing i noticed was Trax!! That movie was stressful the whole time.
Hi - the Australian black opals are some of the most beautiful stones ever. When I was a preteen my dad took three months off work and we went to Lightening Ridge to dig opals. I remember the sound of my dad’s pick when he hit a fantastic opal vein. He was so happy but that night at the local pub some guy gave my dad $4,000 for the stone. My mum was so upset with him for selling it but back in those days it was a tremendous amount of money. I still have some opals that my dad cut and gave to me when I married my dear American Army Captain.
That Pokemon analogy makes sense
Really enjoyed your insight on these iconic pieces! 💎
I like how you made the video look just like the video from Insider 😂
Extremely well spoken and informative, easy to see why he is successful. The Pokémon example was easy to understand
The pokemon reference. Let me know im in the rite place.
blew me away when he mentioned Zard the man knows show much.
facts
Trax had me 💀 when he said $55 bucks and I’ll make it happen 😂
Pokémon unopened pack analogy was really good to explain the risk of the rough gem.
I really enjoyed this video thanks, also I seen uncut gems b4 I found your channel and I never would have noticed it was you lol
Same here I didn't even notice he was in that movie
Lowkey same bro and i been watching him for a minute
Bro, the way you explain, I love it it's simple, a special with Pokemon cards😂 that's why I like watching your channel. You and Adam Sandler are amazing ! I knew it quicker or later that you would be an actor because you're really nice and good 👍 thank you very much for your explanation with things about stones, opals etc
That Link pendent is so cool man
Yooooooo. I was super impressed when he started talking about the relativistic color of light that’s been bent. Smart man
I love your collab with Hamcheck Productions!
@lorenzoas8500......WHHHHHAAAAATTTT?????? WHERE CAN I FIND THIS AT???.... I ABSOLUTELY HAAAAVE TO SEE IT!!!!........You're Talking about Johnny Hamcheck with the 6 FOOT CHAINS RIGHT????.........Tommy TuffKnuckles Brother!!!
Trax, you should do a video of historical jewelry, like popes, kings, etc.
great video as always looking forward to the next drop.
My god, traxnyc just blew my f*ckin mind with some physics, diamonds slow down light to half speed. Thats gonna have some significance in the future i can feel it 🍻 🛸 💎
Trax ....is a KNOWLEDGE channel 👍
Trax if a producer said can they borrow your gem or stones to have a authentic look would you consider lending the product?
Thank you for the information
I appreciate you taking the time to watch
Bro broke it down so us brokies can understand lol
Max you need to try to get access to a community that isn’t apart of the diamond cartel to get your own source for diamonds to be able to lower the rarity for some of the stones that you’re able to get from the specific sources. I know you would have to look at safety, stability, helping the community in the area, and having trustworthy folks on site that can keep an eye on your investment. I’d definitely put in cameras throughout the mining areas and have everyone go through a check when they leave the site to ensure that nobody is stealing product but I bet if you found a decent source or a source that has diamonds with other desirable gem stones you could make a ridiculous profit brother.
Some of the best content, funny and relatable dude! keep up the good work @TraxNYC!
This is the first time watching of these videos and its only because I saw Trax is the one speaking. Guys freakin awesome
This was very entertaining🔥
This was a great idea.. Good video
"Do you want to sell a bunch of unopened packs or do you want to look for the Charizard yourself?"
I like this style of video, Salute Max
yoooo i watched that movie before i watch TRAX and i never remembered you were on it thats soo coool congrats
He tried to act like it's weird that guys mining in ethiopia would be surrounded by machine guns like mining gems is an ethical business lol
It’s not ethically done but they don’t need the guys with machine guns there to continue the operation.
For most people there, it’s their only opportunity for work, so they do it either way.
You should do more videos like this. I really enjoyed your explanations of the trade and your experiences.
The thing about looking diamonds in the Dark is school and cool at same time.
In the movie Titanic they didn't give the old lady(Rose) the blue diamond she had it all the Time it was in the packet of the coat she wore,and at the end she throws it in the ocean, that's how I remember it I watched the movie 20 years ago..🎉
I love the science behind gemstones. I also love Trax describing the science behind gemstones
the Titanic diamond was based on Hope diamond which was stolen from a satue of Indian goddess. later it was said to be cursed and then Harry Winston donated it to a Museum or something
Loved this video!!
I've been dying for somthing like this😊
Holy jeez…. Max.. I watched Uncut Gems before I started watching your videos. Actually, your previous feud with Eddie at Harlem Bling is why you’re on my feed…. I didn’t realize it was you in that movie! 😮 You did a great job!!!
W video concept. Love the content direction
Homie pulled out the Pokemon card analogy... Respect
This was a really good learning experience! thanks, Max!
i could listen to this guy talk for days. hes super smart and says it like it is. i follow him on IG.
Hey!!! I saw this movie but never finished it. I NEVER knew Max was in it. Now I’m going to watch it again
All the bots in the comments 😂😂😂
Init wtf 😂
Bahaha gotta stay relevant somehow.
How do you know there bots?
I can confirm I'm a bot
I’m a bot. 🤖
This what Nico thinks of himself when he's talking about watches
I ththis was one of the insider episodes at first. Very professional looking max! Shit looks great
i really love your video and sharing a gold ounces more blessing to come trax 😊 im a big fan from philippines
You know better and you inspire us!
Need to talk about that diamond from the movie blue streak😂
Ma I love your knowledge and passion for the world you live in and things you do. You deserve everything that you’ve worked for good sir. God bless you
I love hearing him explain scientific concepts to Jewelry, while thinking he's an expert in the scientific matters, while also getting it extremely, extremely wrong. Firstly, the concept of light in a diamond has nothing, and I mean nothing, to do with general or special relativity. Special relativity and general relativity is about gravity, fail. It has more to do with the structure and how light bends. A diamond takes the incoming light from a large surface area, bends the light due to something called refraction, which slows it down, and it also slows the different colors of white light by a different amount, thus creating essentially a rainbow effect like a prism. It then focuses the light down to a narrow point, which then bounces it out again, giving it its sparkle of different colors. So you are essentially creating a reflective telescope that, instead of focusing the light down to a single point so you can view it, it focuses the light down and then spreads the light out to give you a sparkle of colors. Secondly, mass extinctions have nothing to do with the dispersion of gems. Mass extinctions refer to events that kills organisms. Organisms have little to no impact at all over how the geological activities disperse the gems from the mantle of the earth. So when you explain scientific concepts, make sure to actually know what you talk about before trying to explain it. It makes you sound unknowledgeable when you can't even get basic scientific facts right.
When?
@@Acehood12 I haven't seen this video in a while so I don't remember the exact phrase but there was something along the lines of the earth is turning and god sprinkled diamonds and said go find them and mass extinction is happening that's not how gems are formed all gems have different processes to how they occur and it's not as simple as he makes it seem and he also gets the fact wrong about what is involved in the process as well
@@patricklouie7737 no, I meant when did anyone ask... 🤣
@@Acehood12 ask mommy
@@patricklouie7737 I did.. she said only losers take that much energy to type out paragraphs to complete strangers 😅😭
8:00 Pokemon analogy went hard😂💯
Relativity has nothing to do with why diamonds sparkle. Relativity is about gravity. While a diamond sparks due to structure and refraction, bending and focusing the light down to an arrow point from a wider surface area, giving it more energy, thus sparkle.
Happy to hear you actually name off the red beryl from wah wah in Utah, I was yelling at you before you said that but talked about rare deposit of minerals In America… lol. Now if you would have mentioned benitoite from Cali, single source mineral and state gem of California, I’d of subbed
Never thought I’d get a physics lesson from Trasc 😂
hell yes a long trax video, what a treat,
You don’t get out much!!! Your treat is torture!!! Lol
this was sick you gotta do more of these videos and movies bro i felt that acting
Rambam says in his memoirs that he met an Ethiopian Jew in Egypt once when caring for Saladin. He said the man’s sirname was Ben Dan - and the Ethiopian man had told Rambam that the Ethiopians were the descendents of a small portion of tribe Dan who had fled the Selucids after the destruction of Shechem which was later renamed to Neopolis and then Nablus. They came to Ethiopian in hopes that Queen Sheva’s small tribe had lived on. The small group of Dan would settle and mix with local Ethiopians to today become Beta Israel. It’s quite interesting to hear Rambam’s tales of Jewish identity in the MENA and Southern Europe.
Damn I've seen uncut gems 3 times never knew that was you
the "Red emerald" that you're referring to is called Bixbite which, just like emeralds, are a variety of beryl. They are like you said pretty rare to come by, but incredibly more rare to find clear and facetable specimens. I'm extremly happy that I got to buy a faceted 0.26 ct Bixbite from an old gemcutter that lives near me for a very pretty penny. And I do really appreciate that you're learning more and more about colored gemstones. The world of gems is truly amazing if you ask me
Good that GIA doesn't call Red Berlyl as bixbite or we would have started laughing hearing that name in the class 😂
@@AayushDotiya haha yeah I usually just call Bixbite red beryl myself, because I just find it easier. I think most people that are into beryls just go with red beryl, but just wanted to write the name for anyone that wasn't familiar with it :). But I do agree with you on that one ;)
Thank god GIA doesn’t call it bixbite, otherwise the market would be getting it confused with “bixybite” another less desired mineral. During my time at GIA a lot of colored gemstone specialists would make jokes of the name like bixyshit, etc. red beryl is gorgeous and actually does have some better deposits being discovered outside of the Thomas mtn range in Utah, though the owner of said claims has remained private and is not selling the specimens we would get in to appraise
Bixbyite* damn auto correct lol
@@Quantum_Designs yeah i’ve seen a lot of people mix Bixbite and Bixbyite, and like you say, they are two very different minerals😅
I like watching Nico a lot so I don't know much about Trax besides his little beef with Nico but this dude really knows his shit. I see why him and Nico are cool now. They're both at the top of their fields and have tons of knowledge
Uncut Jems was such a good movie ... Most people dont understand the art of jewelry making . Its a science and an art form . Like Picasso with a paintbrush.
Awesome vid
I want a TraxNYC shirt like that!!!
blood diamonds is such a fire movie, leos accent in that movie got my dyin every time
Trax talking about general relativity out here, bro knows EVERYTHING
Red Beryl from Utah. Extremely rare and expensive, in USA
Wow you're a movie star!!! TraxNYC you're a legend🎉
Beautiful video. Your improving
Holy cow trax is in uncut gems!!? How did I not realize this 😭
Oberon , where they dug up the biggest diamond found in Australia. Dog Rocks location is very close with the party sapphires & Bathurst nearby for gold. All 3 hours from Sydney.
This dudes got the vision and the motive, keep moving Trax love the original content .you are your best advertisers for free
HOLY SHIT.. I love uncut gems and your channel… but tell me why it took me this long to realize u was in that movie?🤣💀
In USA Colorado there are high quality Aquamarines
Bro i JUST watched uncut gems yesterday snd saw young lad Trax in it. Cool shit to see
Love videos like this well done creativity
Yes fish and meat is used to smuggle everything....i know a fisherman that had a important export business he use to send hash out in fish crates ...now he sells it legally since it got legalized in Canada
Awesome video, very informative
I knew you looked familiar outside of videos lol wow that's cool now I'm literally just now realizing this,that you were in uncut gems ...that's good movie
Uncut gems fits the right profile for trax nyc 😂😂
This channel is a school 🏫 just learned about lightning slow at half speed inside a diamond 😮 so interesting
Trying to explain general relativity, and he's a jeweler. That's when you know he's serious about this ish
Love your videos boss 💎
Someday I would love to work for you Sir, your crude honesty is respect. It’s a disgusting world, all we want are fair numbers. The line that i liked the most was: that’s what they do they collect all these toys before they die…
I think opals are nicest. They have so many colors
MAX, Humans are Not thinking these days, everyone has gone f mad, peace out bro, JH ✌🏻
And I thought I knew a little bit about gems and diamonds.
I like how u were the gold chain on movie and on set with us..