movie night. Put 37 books on my TBR. Next up I have an unpopular opinion. I'm about to give you a hot take. Hey guys it's Leanna and I'm here today. Movie night. So I know this is a booktube channel but spooky season is my favorite time of year and I very unwisely put 37 books on my TBR which means I can't watch any of my favorite spooky season watches because I'm very very busy reading. So instead I'm just gonna tell y'all about them so you guys can go watch them for me. I have 30 things on my list and I know this isn't all the things because I just kept adding to the list and then I created separate lists because like one was on my computer one was on my phone and it couldn't be ours to get my computer. I started a fresh list so like I'm pretty sure I have more than 30 things that I like to watch and spooky season but we're going with 30 today. So there's some of the things on the list are like totally halloween classics that you've probably heard of probably seen them you probably also are like yes that's one of my favorite halloween things to watch but I have some things on the list that I only think that may be very very possibly new to you and some things that like you wouldn't necessarily maybe think of automatically as a halloween movie or halloween show or whatever that I'm gonna make a good case I'm gonna convince you that it is actually a good halloween movie. So um I'm just gonna read them off in the order that I thought of them. So first on my list is Casper. Casper the Friendly Ghost the original with Christina Ricci that movie you ever want to see me cry there's there's a lot of things to make me cry honestly your best bet is always anything to do with Peter Pan. Casper the Friendly Ghost is obviously a halloween movie I don't need to explain why I just want to gush about it and I will probably squeeze that movie in because I love it so much so I will make time for it. I will sacrifice a book that I will get read because of Casper watching. If you've never seen it you should see it I think it still holds up even like the effect of like how to do the ghosts Casper and his uncles are pretty good like they don't look bad I mean we could do it a little better nowadays but it still looks pretty solid if you feel like crying halloween Casper is a great movie for that but it's also like really funny and uh lots of dad jokes in Casper so number two we're already hitting something that you probably wouldn't have thought of or put on your list but Pushing Daisies the show I just love that show and I'm so sad that it was canceled after two seasons but if you've never seen it in particular I would say the halloween episode is you know obviously a great thing to watch around halloween times but in general the show is about a pie maker who can raise the dead but if he lets them stay alive for longer than a minute then something else equal and opposite has to die to like to balance it out this private detective finds out about this ability that he has so he decides that they should work together because being a private detective is so much easier if you can just like ask a victim who killed them so the pie maker and his like partner emerson cod they wake up dead bodies to find out who killed them and try to make one of it but it's like really sweet and charming and cartoonish like the dead bodies like if you were killed by like if like a car ran you over then it looks like a loony tunes version where you're like flattened out into like a pancake like it's like very silly and then there's like a little romance between Ned and his childhood friend who she is actually dead and he alive to her again and if he ever touches her again she'll be dead again because if he alive again a thing then if he touches it again it goes back to dead so anyway it's a quirky charming weird slightly macabre show because they keep waking up dead people and dead people are walking around and his girlfriend is technically the undead they have whole conversations about how like you know she doesn't want to be called undead she doesn't want to be on anything and maybe she can just be called alive again but I mean in essence he has a dead girlfriend so you see why I feel like this is a good spooky season watch I mean some of the episodes I'll grant you are kind of very summery and pretty and you know whatever but the Halloween episode is one of my favorite episodes and just in general the show is very charming um so I recommend you watch it so that you can be sad with me that it was canceled next I have something that I bet most of you haven't heard of um it's a mini series called the living and the dead and I think it was originally done on like BBC or ITV or something like that one of those and then I think at some point they might have aired it on PBS in America I'm pretty sure I saw it on like a streaming service like a that shows British stuff anyway anyway anyway it is I think in six parts and to my knowledge is not based on a book like a lot of these types of things usually are based on some classic novel this isn't it's kind of a tough one to explain this man with his wife moves I believe he's moving back to his ancestral home or it's just a brand new house he's never lived in before I can't remember if he's coming back or it's his first time living there but regardless he and his wife move to this very rural house in the countryside um it's around like sort of harvest time so you have all the sort of like fall vibes of like gathering the harvest and people with like rural traditions surrounding harvest time so like that version of fall and and Halloween vibes you know like the scarecrows and this sort of thing but there's a sort of apparitions of the dead that keep like being a problem and our main character I think he's like a psychologist or something like that I have I can't remember now but so he's a you know a man of science so he doesn't believe like that there can be ghosts or anything like that I think there's always you know reasonable explanation and so there's kind of like an episodic nature where like in sort of each of these episodes there's some kind of a mysterious thing that's hanging around that's like a ghost-like thing and they're trying to figure out what this is or why it's here or why there would be a haunting and there's usually some you know figuring out what person who was alive might have unfinished business and that kind of thing there's an overarching mystery and an overarching thing that is unexplained or unexplainable that is a part of it it's a standalone series so it wraps up at the end your questions are answered as much as they're ever going to be and it's just it's very vibey and spooky and sinister my favorite style of halloween is rural my favorite style of christmas is rural I like the idea of like cornfields with a ghost and like uh folk legends like the local lore the local spooky stories the haunted farmhouse this kind of thing so if you like that I highly highly recommend living in the dead oh and it has great music very good music very like set the scene type music next on my list is a new addition to my list and that is miss peregrine's health repeal your children I've already watched it this movie season kind of because I watched it the movie after finally reading the book and um I saw the movie when it came out and I remember not really loving it and now that I read the book I didn't love the book so I was like let's see how the movie goes and the movie I don't know why I didn't like it and I mean I didn't dislike it when I first saw it I just remember being underwhelmed and uh I really really enjoyed the movie this time so honestly like I think it's gonna become like a yearly wash from your own halloween time because like it's got this very sort of gothic tim burton vibe because it's done by tim burton and the children are you know sweet but creepy everything about it is just such a good halloween vibe that yeah and I mean I love everything with avid green in it it's actually it's a really good movie and it's it's quite dark so yeah miss parents home I don't know why I didn't like I've added it to my list you should add it to yours next up I have Coraline I know Coraline doesn't take place in the fall but who gears that doesn't define what a halloween movie is like slashers don't necessarily take place in the fall when people watch around halloween so I don't want to hear any of that Coraline is terrifying the book is terrifying the movie is terrifying I know it's for kids but scares the bejesus out of me so if you've never seen Coraline this is a great time to do it it is perfect for spoopy season I guess I'd say it's for the whole family except honestly like scares me as an adult so I'm just saying if you don't know anything about Coraline the film is done by lyca studios which is one of my favorite studios they do these amazing stop action movies that are just like from a technical standpoint an absolute masterpiece but Coraline the movie is based on Coraline the book by nail gaming where this young girl goes with her family to this new house and um she's bored because her parents are ignoring her so she finds she's like roaming around the house and she finds this little like doorway that's like to nowhere it's like a leftover from the houses where um it's like a duplex and like when they were like combined or or when they were split into two and like that now the door goes nowhere it's just still there except when Coraline opens the door it does go somewhere it goes to this sort of like weird other mirror world that's like our own world but not and there she has her other mother and her other father and it all seems wonderful over there a little too wonderful I mean I think it's probably a widely known Coraline it's about but nevertheless I don't want to spoil it in case you haven't seen it so definitely check out Coraline if you have not and if you have checked it out well then here's your reminder it is the season to watch Coraline next up is another stop action movie Corpse Bride is in my temper anyway Corpse Bride I like better than Nightmare for Christmas I know kill me and I mean I like Nightmare for Christmas don't get me wrong but I like Corpse Bride better which is I know is an unpopular opinion I also think I feel less confusion about Corpse Bride because Nightmare for Christmas I won't whenever it's like if I'm watching it during Halloween time I'm like this is too dang Christmasy and then if I watch it around Christmas time like this is too dang Halloweeny so there's just like never a time when I feel like super comfortable with it like maybe on like November 1st when I'm fresh off of spooky season but I'm willing to consider that we're approaching Christmas season maybe but mostly I'm just like I just I am confusion when I watch Nightmare for Christmas Corpse Bride love it I love the humor I love the songs I love the just the general music of it I love the look of it I love the story of it if you've never seen Corpse Bride highly recommend I mean it's the same style as Nightmare for Christmas so again it's much like with Coraline from a technical standpoint it's a masterpiece and yeah I just love Corpse Bride so check it out next up is something that's probably already on your list or you probably already saw it you probably definitely heard of it probably definitely the haunting of Bly Manor I watched this last year when it came out on Netflix as did like the nation so this is not news to you probably but I am just giving it my seal of approval I really really enjoyed haunting of Bly Manor I then went and read Turn of the Screw which is what it's inspired by and I was like haunting of Bly Manor is way better so if you haven't seen haunting of Bly Manor it's got my seal of approval I have not watched the haunting of Hill House because I'm too chicken but I have talked my brother into watching haunting of Hill House with me because I wanted to see it oh I mean ever since it came out I've just been too chicken I don't know why I decided I guess I heard a lot of people who had seen Hill House complain that Bly Manor wasn't scary enough and I was like okay I watched Bly Manor and Bly Manor is not scary at all really in my opinion it has like a few like startling moments but it's not scary the point being I do want to watch Hill House and so I've talked my brother into it and he's like okay I'll watch it with you so this this month it's happening so I can't tell you if it's Bly Manor is better than Hill House maybe Hill House will be on my list next year probably will be since everyone says it's great I can tell you that Bly Manor is great and even though I don't think it's scary it is very spooky and it has all that sort of like gothic eerie unsettling vibes and it's more of a sort of like emotional psychological thriller it's it is a haunting story I mean I know it's called the haunting of Bly Manor when people say like a haunting melody Bly Manor is haunting in that way it sort of stays with you and it is more sad than scary but it is nevertheless again dark and spooky so haunting of Bly Manor watch it next time this is something that I guarantee I guarantee no one has guessed that it's on this list slaughterhouse rules I would even guess that most of you probably haven't even heard of slaughterhouse rules it's a movie with Simon Pegg I don't know if it was done by Simon Pegg the way that Shauna the dead was but he's definitely one of the major characters in it and it's in the style of those movies so even if it isn't a Simon Pegg movie it is a Simon Pegg movie for all intents and purposes as a viewer so slaughterhouse rules is it is an elite British boarding school and at this school they're fracking like to make money the school has agreed to let them you know drill for oil on the the lands that school is built on so there's these like elite kids like our main character he's you know a poor kid who got in to a slot that opened up because uh well the guy died who was at the school so he shows up and he's you know trying to figure out what the school is all about and then learns about fracking and then um it seems like they might have unearthed something that's not oil when they were fracking like a literal monster which is now attacking the students at the school so it's like horror comedy comedy horror I mean it is quite gory I'm not gonna lie but it is very cartoonishly gory but it is genuinely gory like pushing daisies is like sweet and charming this is not sweet and charming it is gnarly but it's like played for laughs arm being torn off and it's bloody but everyone's like that kind of vibe I've watched it several times I honestly really love that movie just generally but Halloween is a great time to watch what is in essence it's kind of I guess like a slasher kind of maybe sort of ish I don't really know what a slasher is let's let her house rules great movie watch it next two on my list I'm gonna do together because like I don't know they seem like the same thing I almost wanted to be like you can't put both on your list pick one or I'm like why the fuck not so Sleepy Hollow and Sweeney Todd both directed by Tim Burton both starring Johnny Depp so if you haven't seen Sleepy Hollow is the older of the two obviously maybe not obviously but Sleepy Hollow the movie by Tim Burton takes the legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving and sort of really expands on it and kind of gives it some more lore and gives it more of a full story it's quite a short story originally like a body's no longer a school teacher he's there to sort of investigate the the deaths that are occurring in Sleepy Hollow that are caused by the headless horsemen I mean I'm explaining it because I feel like a duty too but I'm assuming you've seen Sleepy Hollow or you at least know what it's about and it's another movie that I really feel like holds up even though it's a little bit older so like some of the effects are like a little dated but I mean they built an entire like the forest of Sleepy Hollow is a sound studio they built that entire forest in a sound studio so they could control you know sort of all the gnarly looking trees and all of the like weird lighting and the fog effects and I just you know it's it's another one of those movies where like it is quite gory at times and I was quite scared of it when I was a kid I mean not a little kid I wasn't allowed to see it when I was a little kid but like I was when I first saw it I was like a bit scared of some of the parts of it but overall I mean the costumes are amazing Johnny Depp is kind of hilarious and quirky as like a body crane Christina Ricci is wonderful there's like a lot of famous like basically like you know all those British actors that are in Harry Potter movies they're like all in it at some point and it's just it's a real Halloweeny movie you know there's like Jack O'Lanterns everywhere it's one of the most classic Halloween stories it's got this amazing soundtrack which I'm pretty sure is Danny Elfman isn't it always Danny Elfin it might not be I'm not sure but even if it's not Danny Elfin it's got that vibe so it's great and the Sweeney Todd the demon barber of Fleet Street well for one I think is one of the most successful stage to film adaptations of a musical I'm about to give you a hot take but I think Tim Burton would have been a better choice as a director for the film adaptation of Les Mis then what's the fuck his name is Tom Hooper because Tim Burton demonstrates an understanding of the medium of film and how the medium of film needs to be used and how it can do things the stage cannot and that there are things that cannot do that the stage does and what are its strengths and how to adapt to stage play for film that plays to films strengths that doesn't make it a good spooky movie that just makes it a good movie it's a great musical I love Sondheim's lyrics it's one of the most macabre musicals there is I mean if you don't know the story of Sweeney Todd he is he and Mrs. Lovett have like a deal going where he kills all the people not all the people but he kills the people that come to him for a shave and then she bakes them into pies and sells them so good to go it's obviously more to the story than that as to like the motivations behind this and then just generally things going on but that's that's who Sweeney Todd is if you didn't know so I don't think I need to explain why that would be a good Halloween time movie and the songs are great and you can just sing them the whole rest of Octo because they will be stuck in your head next up I have Penny Dreadful the show the original show I never actually saw the new one it didn't look very good and I heard it wasn't very good Penny Dreadful the original show on show time I'm pretty sure they had three seasons and Penny Dreadful you haven't seen it you don't know what it is it's tanking basically characters and figures from gothic literature and from Penny Dreadfuls which were like tales of suspense and horror that cost a penny back in the Victorian era and it's sort of like mashes them all together into like one big story so you have main characters and there's an overarching plot and a thing that they're trying to try to achieve or trying to discover but they are constantly meeting with and interacting with and coming upon characters like Dracula or Victor Frankenstein or both Frankenstein's monster I think did they do yeah they do Jekyll and Hyde and yeah just like a lot of spooky spooky things and it is basically like the show just I like the story and I like the actors but the aesthetic of it honestly like it could just be like a gothic Halloween time ambiance on YouTube because at all times it is just black lace and the memento mori and the it's just it just looks like you know haunted mansion vibes so it is just a very vibey show and if you want that if you want to feel like you're in a haunted house basically like a Victorian manner or there's like demons and spookies and there's corsets and there's whatever oh there's also werewolves then it's perfect it is literally perfect for october next up I have over the garden wall which I've already watched like three times in this spooky season if you haven't seen over the garden wall you're missing out it is so charming I keep forcing other people to watch it that's mainly why I've seen it so many times already because I wanted to watch it so I just watched it and then my brother never seen it so I made him watch it and then my friend had never seen it so I made her watch it my mom had never seen it so then I made her start watching it anyway this was a cartoon miniseries on Cartoon Network some years ago and that's quite a voice cast like Elijah Wood and John Cleese and Christopher Lloyd um and it's basically a story of two brothers who get lost in the great unknown in the woods they're trying to find their way home and so each little episode because they're quite short is something along the way some quirky bizarre hilarious but somewhat sinister sometimes sort of stop along the way where it's someone that they think could help them or someone that they're trying to run from or whatever that's what that little episode is about as they keep making their way and trying to find their way home it really has the feel of sort of just like old folklore and like old stories and it has a very quirky sense of humor that I guess you may love or you hate and if you love it's great and yeah it's just a charming little show that is quite unique and really stands out both in the art style of the animation which is a big draw for it there's a lot of um weird little songs in it and it's just it's just so charming so highly recommend it's not a big investment of time either because like the episodes are super short so you just kind of like watch one here and there as you wish or just binge the whole thing also a great option next up I have a classic interview with a vampire I love that movie I I guess it gets criticized I just think it's great and it is I mean those are vampire vampires Brad Pitt is phenomenal as Louie Tom Cruise is amazing as Lestat and not just like I'm he was amazing as Lestat and it's also amazing that it's Tom Cruise because he's so not Tom Cruise as Lestat it's just so outside of the kind of character that he usually plays he's really good and in this character in this role Kristen Dunst is amazing as this like little girl who's like matures into a woman but it remains in the body of a little girl she's very convincing at that Antonio Manderas is in it and if you don't know what interview the vampire is well it's based on the classic book by Anne Rice modern classic I should say and um in essence in the present day Christians later who is he's a journalist he has the opportunity to interview a vampire Louie Brad Pitt and so Brad Pitt Louie the vampire is going to tell Christians later his story from birth to rebirth as a vampire up to the present moment and so it goes way back in time to the bayou and most of the story takes place sort of in the past until we finally got chopped to the present and it is a twisted dark tale and it is just dripping with scenery every single shot is just so lush and the acting does not hold back they are just so vampiric it's just so much vampirism going on and the performances I think really are quite excellent um I recommend next time I have a movie that I saw for the first time last year and loved it I think I watched it twice um and that is Blade 2 so Blade 1 I had seen years before and had not liked it and I rewatched it last year because I was dressing as Blade for Halloween or for our Blade Spot of Surface live show and I was like I should do my character research so I watched Blade 1 again and I was like this movie is not very good but everyone was saying the Blade 2 is so much better and Blade 2 is directed by Guillermo del Toro and it is almost like a standalone like a kind of reboots blade it doesn't really like follow off of the events of the first movie so you really don't need to have watched Blade 1 at all you just give that a miss entirely because it's not very good just watch Blade 2 which is it is not surprising to learn that it is directed by Guillermo del Toro it feels like it and it is just so miles in a way better than the first movie I cannot even put into words how much better it is and it is again one of these were like the imagery like it is quite a bit so if you're squeamish then don't watch it but it is more sort of artsy and cartoonish um well I mean while still being quite gory and gross but if you've seen a Guillermo del Toro movie I think you know what I mean we're like it's it's so over the top in its gore and it's like weird grossness that I can't take it too seriously so I can't be that grossed out by it and I know Blade just gets to be a slightly more fun character I mean he's still Blade but I don't know it's just more fun more like dynamic yes in the movie and it actually has a better story it has more interesting lore and it has amazing action I think it had a much higher budget than the first Blade movie I mean as much as interview of the vampire is like vampirey vampires with like cravat and being aristocrats so blood blade is like if vampires were in the matrix I mean it's just it's cool it's so cool and the action is honestly so good if you are a connoisseur of like action choreography a plus action choreography so blade two don't watch blade one watch blade two next up I have and then there were none the new adaptation then by new I mean it came out like at this point like five years ago I think it was made for TV so I think it's in the US they split it into two parts and in the UK they split it into three parts I mean it's the same story it's just like where they did the cutting off it's an adaptation of Agatha Christie's book and then there were none and this this like screenwriter and director or this team they took an already amazing book and the book already is dripping with atmosphere and suspense and just mood and they just through the cinematography and through like the slight changing of the order of the information that's delivered to you and they do they mean they change the story a little bit but they just really captured that that feeling of dread and isolation and suspicion I mean the book already does that and they just really amped it up and how they shot it and how they did it that it is quite chilling it's honestly very chilling even if you know the story and even if you've watched the adaptation several times it's still chilling so well done I mean if you haven't read the book I recommend the book for any time of year but spooky season is all agreed a great time of year and if you don't know what and then there were none is again it's a bookbag of the Christie and it's about this island where all these strangers are invited to come to this island and then when they arrive at the island they I mean none of them really knows why they were invited there and then they begin to die and they don't know who is doing it or why but there is a little rhyme that's there's different versions of it I think the original one was not okay there's different movie adaptations that have also changed but it is sometimes it's 10 little soldiers sometimes it's 10 little indians sometimes it's 10 little something that the original one was though we're not going to say what it was but the there's a little rhyme it's like part of the island's lore so they all iterations of the story they they learn what that rhyme is where it's like there were 10 little whatever's playing and then one had x happened to them and then there were nine and nine little whatever's were doing whatever and then they had x happened to one of them and then there were eight until blah blah blah blah blah blah and then there were none um and that's basically what's happening to them they're all dying and they seem to be following this rhyme who's next um and they're on this island they can't get off and no one knows why they're there and this house is pretty isolated itself where they're at they can't trust each other because no one knows who invited them and if it's one of them so it's just a it's a great book and then this adaptation of it it does such a good job capturing that vibe of like who is it though is it you who's next oh so so good continuing on with agatha christie my next recommendation is puro halloween or puro's halloween i don't know if it's possessive there's a puro the tv series um with david sushi playing the eponymous detective the episode that is the halloween episode where there is a halloween murder mystery is a wonderful spooky season thing to watch where again you have uh jack-o-lanterns and like spooky children's games and you have a murder it's just what poor could you ask for and a murder mystery set at halloween with puro himself there to solve it that's perfect next up i have pride and prejudice and zombies i really love pride and prejudice and zombies just in general low key my favorite version of pride and prejudice but also zombies i actually i mean i hate zombies i think i've mentioned that before like when i talked about dread nation something about putting zombies though in a historical time period which is what dread nation does and is what pride and prejudice and zombies does i just don't mind plus those movies are quite camp or that movie is quite campy so i mean an actual zombie movie i did watch and i did like 28 days later but like but no but so pride and prejudice and zombies i think is like a fun messing around with the story of pride and prejudice like fun use of some of the original text and dialogue charles dance and lina heady or heady however you say it isn't it and lily james is great is as lizzie and it's it's so good and it's so uh gothic and vibey and spooky because there's there's zombies i don't think i need to explain why this is on the list next up i have the black cauldron which is one of disney's most underrated movies partly because disney themselves shafted it and and butchered it and there's like okay there's lots of videos on youtube you can watch about how like the original animations for it were like gutted by the studio for no reason i mean they had reasons but not good reasons and then they had to scramble to kind of like make it still work and even though the story couldn't be the same anymore and then they had to like rush the animation for those parts and then they didn't even like promote the movie because they thought no one would like it ran to side the movie we got even though it wasn't as good as it could have been because of aforementioned reasons it's still a good movie it could have been great it was still a really good movie and the horned king have you seen the horned king that is the scariest disney villain i don't care what you say and he's literally like his his master plan like his his his villainous evil whatever is to raise up skeletons raise up an army of the dead to take over the world basically and our heroes have to try to prevent him from doing that so again i think it's clear why this is a good spooky season movie next up i have one that you've probably seen definitely heard of the adams family i love the adams family i think the movie is so good i think the casting is perfect i think the jokes are perfect the vibes are perfect the visual gags are perfect it's a really fun like for the whole family type movie and i really get sick of it it's one of those ones like kasper we're like i'm sure you've heard of kasper i'm sure you've heard of the adams family but you know what they're so good so i just want to remind you don't forget to watch the adams family because it's really good next up i have crimson peak another game of del Toro movie and if you haven't seen crimson peak it's kind of in the category of penny dreadful where like the entire thing is an aesthetic where i mean honestly crimson peak is like if a gothic victorian pinterest board became a movie because i mean it has a plot don't get me wrong it has a plot but like that's not really like the point the point is to look at amazing sets and these amazing costumes and these like very artistically rendered bizarre ghosts and specters and like how red that blood looks against that pale skin and that snow that's it like that's it's seeing tom hiddleston in victorian garb like that's that's what crimson peak is about that's the plot it is again it's our i think it's and it's got to be R rated maybe it's not i don't know but it is another one where like if you are very screen squeamish it is actually quite bloody and um there are it is some sort of like violent troubling imagery that again that if that's gonna bother you it's it's a little much but overall it's not really a scary movie it's not the point of it the point of it is to be like artsy and beautiful looking in a very like gothic aesthetic so if you feel like watching an entire movie of aesthetic crimson peak that's the one next up i have an unpopular opinion um haunted mansion the disney movie based on the ride this is like miss peregrine's except it happened last year i remember seeing it in theaters with my family and all of us being like that was garbage and then last year we were looking for a halloween movie to watch that we didn't have to pay extra for like we didn't want to rent it we're like well what's available stream and we were like well haunted mansion and we were like but that movie is terrible and but i was like it has been so long since we've seen haunted mansion it would be like a new movie and we couldn't really think of anything else to watch so we're like all right whatever we put it on we can always turn it off and all of us were like it's that movie still isn't great but it's a lot better than we remembered it was actually a good time and i still wish they made like a proper haunted mansion movie that's like legit like like the best kind like like a crimson peak kind of movie but for what it is haunted mansion has some funny moments it definitely has so many nods to the ride i recently learned which makes me like it even more that a lot of things in the movie are actually uh nods to original concept for what was the haunted mansion walkthrough before it was ever going to be a ride and then the original ride before they changed a lot of it so there are a lot of things that i didn't even realize in the movie are actually nods to that so that's really cool if you're just like into like being parkalore which like i kind of am yeah it's not as bad as i remember so it may not be as bad as you remember so try watching it again um and then if you don't like it you can always start it off next up i have something super super short like literally like five minutes and it is a short i think it was like one of those cartoons that used to like do in the movie theater when way way back in the day you went to the movie theater and you've got a cartoon and a newsreel and whatever so this this short is called trick or treat and it's available on disney plus now that's how i first saw it last year and it's a hui dui and louis and it's just this little short about them wanting to get candy from donald duck and he's he keeps insisting on giving tricks instead of treats and this like old witch takes pity on the boys who just want candy and they're so cute and they're little costumes so then like the witch helps them pull pranks on donald because he's being mean and not giving them candy and that's the whole thing and it's the cutest thing and it's only like 10 minutes if that long anyway i mean i think it's worth watching slightly longer but still quite short next on my list is garfield's halloween everyone always watches the peanuts the great pumpkin charlie brown and like honestly it's a news fest i'm sorry but the great pumpkin charlie brown is so boring garfield's halloween honestly kind of scared me when i was a kid and like a little bit now like a little bit like not actually but like it's kind of creepy i mean it's like what like half an hour or whatever however long a garfield episode is and you know it's garfield and odi going trick or treating and then going off course and then ending up in this like haunted riverside lakeside i mean this this haunted place and there's like this really creepy guy there and there's just like whole story about like returning from the dead for the buried treasure on this like on halloween night from however many years ago and like they're just like common middle of it and odi is so cute doesn't understand what's happening and just wants candy and then he gives it off garfield and uh garfield is garfield but uh it's honestly like a spooky little story that i think is really good so yeah don't forget about great pumpkin watch garfield next up i have lock and key um the adaptation of the graphic novels that they did on netflix i still want to read the graphic novel i haven't but the adaptation is really really good and if you don't know a lock and key is um it's this this family who the father died uh in tragic circumstances so now they've for a change of scenery because they need to sort of reset their lives they move into what i guess was the father's family home a sort of ancestral home in this like really small town rural kind of area and this is really old kind of mansion house and they begin to discover that there are all these sort of like magical keys that open magical doorways but it's not magical in like um wow it's magical it's kind of dark and sinister and these magics are like possibly nefarious and there are other people after these keys and so when the kids start finding them and the people are after the kids because they want the keys so it's like the house is a really cool like setting to be in and it's the mysteries of the keys and the the drama and the suspense and the danger of the keys and the doorways and the magic and all that so yeah i really enjoyed it and i'm excited for the next season which i'm pretty sure they're gonna have at some point next up i have riverdale i'm just trying to sneak it in there because i love riverdale but riverdale is also kind of creepy the very first season is about a murder that takes place in the town subsequent seasons have other scary overarching plots like cults and um there's a dark academia arc in the fourth season with like with murder so there's always like investigation of something and there's like very creepy people that live in a town of riverdale and they're always encountering unsettling creepy things and they're always going to the morgue to look at bodies and um i'm just i mean it's pretty dark honestly so you know just maybe watch riverdale next up i have stranger things which again you've definitely heard of it i don't think you don't know what it is i don't think i need to super explain why it's on my list because i mean it's basically a horror show with like a very scary alien creature thing i mean alien just in terms of it is alien to us i mean it's not from outer spaces from like a different dimension of the upside down here's your reminder to watch stranger things next up i have the movie seven with brad pit and morgan freeman if you've never seen it um should because it's a really good movie it is also it is very dark and it is quite rated r very like gory and yeah not for the things of heart like if you're squeamish don't watch that but um it is about like a serial killer and brad pit and morgan freeman are investigating the serial killer and they're the killer is the the pattern of the killer is killing people based on the seven deadly sins and killing them in the manner that like punishes the sin and it's very dark and twisty and kind of gross but again very dark so a good spooky season watch on the lighter side next up i have young frankenstein by mel brooks i say bye like it's a book but if you've never seen mel brooks is young frankenstein it makes fun of all those terrible frankenstein movies the totally butchered mary shelly's phenomenal story and i think it actually of all mel brooks movies it might be the one that has bests to the test of time and best lived up in terms of like the jokes still landing and the humor is still landing and nothing being too offensive it's both making fun of that type of movie while also being enough that type of movie that it's perfect for spooky season because it's this you know black and white movie with this like haunted castle and this mysterious laboratory and howling wolves in the night i mean they're making jokes about all of that but it also has that vibe so if you haven't seen it or haven't seen it in a while watch young frankenstein two more left i have carnival row which is a show that amazon did a couple years ago and i really hope they do in their season i haven't heard for sure that they have or haven't planned to do it but um it feels like it was based on a book because there's such amazing lore going on but it kind of has this sort of dakenzian industrial city vibe there's also these sort of fey creatures and other kind of magical beings that exist but they're all kind of second-class citizens in this sort of city that feels like industrial london and so you have like there's there's this dark sinister mystery of like someone killing these creatures and then you also have all these creatures around that add you know that kind of like penny drenful almost vibe to it and it has a really great story and amazing lore again amazing cinematography great performances ask some interesting sort of like social questions and overall it's just like a really excellent show i feel like i've seen a lot of people talk about it and it's really good and last on my list is ruby in the smoke which um is based on a book and it is a murder mystery one of the sally lockhart murder mysteries and it is very dark and sinister and she's it's very it's she's in the victorian era and she's solving a murder but like the vibe of it and her there's some very sort of like creepy people involved and it's her investigating it and just like the clothing of the era and then there's this the fact that they're being a jewel that is important to this somehow and she's kind of personally tied to it and i just think it's a good fall spooky season type of thing to watch so yeah that's all 30 things on my list i definitely have probably like 10 more things but that'll do so let me know in the comments down below you've seen these things if you want to see these things if you plan to see these things what if you want to let me know i post videos on saturdays other random times as well but nothing saturdays so like 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It's a template. I have a proximal phalanx. I Have a metacarpal And then I have collaterals I'm gonna change the color for my collaterals. I've got a radial collateral, which I see right here There's some signal in the radial collateral, especially on gradient echo imaging And that's okay in people that use their thumb a lot or older individuals as long as it could it's a continuous curvilinear structure I'm sure you've already noticed that the contiguous curvilinear structure is disrupted on the owner side But in the normal state we want to see something that looks a bit like this With about two millimeters of coverage on either side of the joint Okay, let's take our our lines away and look at the signs of an unstable ulnar collateral ligament tear first sign the metacarpal is falling off the face of the earth towards Your right or in other words the metacarpal looks like it's drifting eastward That's an indicator of instability Next sign obvious sign RCL No discernible clear-cut UCL just a ghost The next sign if we look at the adductor epineurosis, and I'm gonna draw There's the adductor epineurosis And we look at the stump of the UCL, which I see on my T1 weighted image right there and my fast-spin echo fat suppression image right there They look like they're crossing each other For normally the adductor epineurosis would be in this orientation the UCL would be in this orientation So the orientation has changed I call this the crisscross sign Another sign of UCL tear or rupture would be the yo-yo on a string sign. I Think that's probably best seen on this gradient echo image Here is the string of the yo-yo right here I'm gonna use my pen to show it Here's the string of the yo-yo, and there's the yo-yo right there The yo-yo on a string sign better seen on this thin section gradient echo image Another sign that I use Is called the fold over sign in other words it looks like the UCL has folded backwards on itself That's not easily appreciated here There's a glob of gray signal intensity tissue here, but on the gradient echo. Oh, there's the fold over It's going backwards This structure. I'm going to draw again You see I get my pen to work here we go this structure which normally should be going this way is going this way the fold over sign Another sign that I use quite readily is what I call the lollipop sign It looks like the stick of a lollipop is pointing straight out Let me draw again straight out from the metacarpal There's the base or stick of my lollipop or the base of my ice cream cone Then as I scroll more dorsally That area of interest here's we're going palmarly now towards the Sessamoids just to get oriented There are two sessamoids now. Let's scroll dorsally just so you get your bearings we go dorsally and there is our structure our UCL right there sticking out medially and It should not be present perpendicular to the axis of the proximal phalanx in the metacarpal it's sticking straight out Towards the adductors We are on the most dorsal aspect of the thumb So an exaggerated appearance of our lollipop sign in the dorsum of the thumb Finally, let's pull down our axial projections Take me a second to do this, but just trying to be as efficient as possible with your time Let's blow them up. We have a short axis t1 and a short axis gradient echo and We should see curvilinear radial collateral ligaments on both sides We do have a curvilinear. Sorry. We should see curvilinear collateral ligaments on both sides We do have a radial collateral ligament But only a ghost of our own or collateral ligament and where is it? It's pointing Dorsal and medial. I call this the dorsal medial lollipop sign Short axis view here it is right there There should be no structure there Pointed along the edge of the metacarpal that is a total clincher for the diagnosis of a Stener lesion So you've got lollipop sign dorsal medial lollipop sign yo-yo on a string sign Fold over sign Empty ulnar collateral ligament Fossa sign just to name a few as Indicators of the high-grade UCL or grade four stener type form of ulnar collateral ligament tear and by the way This injury has been so violent that we have affected other structures like the adjacent interosseous muscles and the adjacent abductor muscles as an aside there are four dorsal interossei and three palmar interossei Although the interosseous next to the thumb is not really an interosseous It is formed by the abductor policies. That's why there's only three along the palmar side and four along the dorsal side that is An example of a stener lesion with all the signs wrapped in a neat package


Hey, what's good y'all should wait down for the down show of France and we're back for another cake pop reaction Yeah, we're back again. Yeah, I And it's another BTS here we go. We have no more dream dance practice Can't believe we missed this. Yeah, honestly, so a throwback a throwback throwback. Oh, I'm a sneeze and we'll start to do Hey, thank you, and here we go All right, so boys green Can they got right to it? Oh? Maybe don't miss man. Yeah, I'm a little space and it spazzing up. Oh Man, they grow. Oh Yeah, that was the APDC time, bro. This was the one of them. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Whoo. I remember this time. Yeah Let's go believe that Yeah We'll go back and see that again. Oh, it's over for you. Oh nice No, it's really is the band time Bands and Chucks.  Yeah Yeah, I know it's just around that time of choreography a lot of people was making exits and lines Remember that time? It wasn't really a type. It was more so like All the time Yeah, like real like you I mean seriously like that's this is this is real dance talk right now. Like most what I grew Oh, yeah, oh my god. This is this is what a time this was man. Look at I like that transition.  He made pop I might have read that back that boss. I wasn't ever the tank top. Yeah, we did the very different type of BTS I look at this totally different, but you can see that they was gonna be a problem later. Yeah The majority happens Yeah This is how the home group. Yeah a lot of attitude with the texture I didn't realize the teacher is that every JJ man look what hip-hop was doing to the culture around the world, man We got everybody dressed in certain way Look at this. Yeah, I bet the music video was stupid, lit Yeah, you can tell you can tell the young congregants that they kind of find their stuff This is teacher talk now. Yeah teachers can see it And I mean don't get it wrong You could be somebody that just like y'all like videos But as from a dance teacher perspective, you can see them building that character Building the attitude and then what they are now is the confidence. Yeah, like I came a long way But look at me at now that prime example are you'll see it like You watch this video and then you're the butter Making the stallion joint the confidence they had in that video Watch our reaction to that one. That was the one that we got done after that And it was like, yo They just in their bags like it's not for them We're supposed to a couple of the videos too. Yeah, we just start with a little can't watch There's nothing was gonna match that I've been fancied to the people already have to watch me do I was that the time Not me I had it good. I didn't like taking my shirt off I like that little trick they did.  I like it. I'm biased Got me a ripple you got me Yeah, that was a big and music video ready Like the way they're standing the way that it's choreographed.   Yeah, I was super because at that time that was the pride really really crazy I mean what BTS now? Yeah, BTS now. Oh, what's what's that? Smoked them cats. Yeah, they would have recreated that choreography. What a thank So, but listen y'all, that's our trilogy is the BTS got more on the way. We always complete they draw a lot Let's continue to be great out here for all the commas all the suggestions, please Thank you, man. We've been we appreciate everything. Yeah So we got more on the way, um, yeah, just stay tuned to the page and we just gonna see what happens from here Yeah, see y'all later


Hey man, John chapter number 11, so a very famous story in the Bible, the story of Jesus and Lazarus. So we're going to look at the story in weeks to come, but I want to focus this evening on something that Jesus says at the beginning of this story tonight. Look down at John chapter 11 in verse number 1, where the Bible says now a certain man was sick named Lazarus of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha, and it was Mary which anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick. So here we have a brother and his sisters, and of course Jesus is very close to this family which we find out a little bit later. Look at verse number 3, therefore his sisters sent unto him saying, Lord, behold he whom thou lovest is sick. When Jesus heard that he said this sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God that the Son of God might be glorified thereby. Here we see a similar type of methodology that Jesus is going to use this miracle to show who he is, to show his power as the Son of God. Look at verse number 5. It says, now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus, they were very close. When he had heard therefore that he was sick, he abode two days still in the same place where he was, then after that he said to his disciples, let us go into Judea again. His disciples say unto him, Master, the Jews of late sought to stone thee, and goest thou thither again. So he wants to go back where he was having all the trouble before into Judea where the Jews were after him, and Jesus answered, oh they're not twelve hours in the day. If any man walk in the day, he stumbleeth not because he seeeth the light of this world. But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleeth because there is no light in him. These things they said he, and after that he said unto them, our friend Lazarus sleepeth, but I go, then I may wake him out of sleep. So I want to look at these two verses, verse number 9 and verse number 10 where Jesus gives kind of this ominous statement to the disciples after they asked why he wanted to go into Judea and to understand what he was talking about, just flip one chapter over into John chapter 12 and look at verse number 35. Look at John chapter 12 and verse number 35. So you kind of understand why the disciples didn't really understand the depth of what Jesus was saying much of the time, but we kind of have this advantage of having all the words that the Bible has for us that Jesus spoke in front of us so we can do things like this. Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you, for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth. So what Jesus is saying in verse number 9 and verse number 10 and he explains further in John 12, 35 is I'm not going to be with you always. He's saying I'm going to only be here for a little while. The light he is referring to is himself and we've looked at that in depth in a whole other sermon that I preached on Jesus being the spiritual light and the actual light.  He's talking to them about utilizing the time that they have with Jesus to the fullest and that's what he says in verse 35 of John 12. He's saying I will not always be with you, use the time that you have. So that's what I want to preach about this evening. I want to preach about three things that you have limited time with in this life. That's what I want to talk about. I'm going to look at starting out with what Jesus said and I'm just going to apply this concept that Jesus says to three things tonight in your Christian life. Look down at verse 35 once again where Jesus says walk while you have the light.  And the first one is this and it applies directly to what Jesus says in verse 35 of John 12. The one thing that you have limited time with in your life and Jesus is literally using this as an example, a literal example in John 12 and John 11, you have limited time to labor in your life and that's what Jesus is really getting at with the disciples. He's saying walk. He's saying walk while I am with you. Why would we waste time? We have to walk while the light's here and he's talking about himself. Go to Colossians chapter one. Go to Colossians chapter one.  I mean look your physical life is only so long and you know depending on when you got saved your Christian life is even shorter than your physical life. So your Christian life is something that you only have a limited amount of time to work with. Look at Colossians chapter one and look at verse number 10. What is Jesus talking about? He's talking about walking while the light is with them. Look at Colossians 1.10. The Bible says that you might walk worthy of the Lord until all pleasing being what? What will happen if you walk worthy in your Christian life? Being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God. So two things will happen.  The first thing is you will be fruitful. Turn to Matthew chapter number nine. So start walking now in your Christian life. That's what Jesus is saying. Obviously we need to not waste our Christian lives because it's a limited amount of time that we have to deal with. Look at Matthew chapter nine verse number 37. This is the problem right here. Matthew chapter nine verse 37. Then he said unto his disciples, the harvest truly is plenious but the laborers are few. Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest that he will send forth laborers into his harvest. So the first thing that you have limited time with in your life is your labor itself. The work that you can do. You can only do a limited amount of work in this Christian life, in this life. It's I mean literally Jesus is saying here is the harvest is too big for the number of laborers that we have. And I've said this before I've used this comment before but it's like we're trying to gather up all this grain but we don't have enough people to do it. What does that mean? That means we will leave grain behind. We will leave grain on the ground. So we don't have time to have people that are not walking now. People that are not going to start walking, not going to walk at all. We need to get walking as soon as we possibly can. So after salvation people need to be discipled. They need to get baptized. They need to be discipled. They need to be encouraged to start walking in this Christian life because look already Jesus tells us that we're not going to get it all. We're not going to get everything that is out there for the getting. Turn to Job chapter number 32. So again, John chapter 11, John chapter 12, Jesus is like start walking. Start walking in your Christian life. There's only so much time. What's the second thing that we see in Colossians chapter 1 and verse number 10? It says as far as our labor goes, we're talking about being fruitful, going out and gathering the harvest, going out and getting people saved, preaching the gospel, talking about being fruitful. But the next thing it says, it says, and increasing in the knowledge of God. Look at Job chapter 32 and look at verse number 9. This is another thing that your labor is limited. You have limited labor to do this, to do what? To increase in knowledge as Colossians chapter 1 and verse number 10 says, Job 32, 9 says, great men are not always wise. Isn't that interesting? Neither do the aged understand judgment. So the Bible here is saying, I mean you kind of have to look at what it's inferring here. The Bible is saying that great men are not always wise, neither do the aged understand judgment. It's implying that great men, aged men, should be wise. It's implying that the older you get, the wiser you should be.  Why? Because great men are not always wise. The aged don't always understand judgment. So we should use our limited labor in this life to increase in knowledge, and increase in the knowledge of the Lord. Look, I don't know about you, but I want to be a wise old man. When I'm old and gray-haired, or grayer-haired than I am now, I want to be able to have my kids and my grandkids, maybe even my great grandkids someday, saying, you know, grandpa has a lot of understanding of things. I would like to be a wise old man, but guess what?  If you just completely waste everything that you do now, and don't use the limited labor that you have to increase in knowledge. Look, I want to gain understanding of things. I want to read the Bible, I want to understand the Bible, then I want to read a bunch of other stuff, and I want to apply the Bible to those things, and understand all those things through the lens of the Bible. And you know what I want to do? I want to pass that on to future generations. I want to help give the future generations of my family, of this church, a boost in wisdom. And you know what, that's fruitful. That's fruitful for the next generations. We need to be people that are increasing in knowledge with that limited labor that we have in this life. So we need to be walking in the Christian life, we need to be fruitful, we need to be out there preaching the gospel as much as we possibly can, and we need to be increasing in the knowledge of the Lord. Because guess what? It's not, it's finite, folks.  You should think of this, but I've thought about this in my life, especially times in my life when I was really, really busy, and I was really working hard, maybe I was doing two things. Again, I've done two things for all you guys that work 40 hours a week. I've done two things for as long as I can remember. 70 hours a week, easy. It should be easy for you, especially if you're under, you know, 70. But the point, I don't even know where I was going with that. But the point is this, I've thought so many times when I was in those busiest fights of my life, maybe things were really tough, I was trying to get a business off the ground or whatever it was in actual labor in my life, and I thought, you know, I can run this hard, I can run this hard for about another 25 years. I've literally had those thoughts. And look, I don't know how many more years I can run the way I run, or you can run the way you run, but the point is it's limited. It's limited. You will not be as sharp today when you're 90. You will not be as sharp as you are today. You will not be as strong as you are today. And use the limited time that we have to labor for the Lord, to labor for your family, and to what? To increase in knowledge. To sharpen yourself so you can be that blessing, you can be that wise, aged old man or that wise lady for the next generation of your family, your church members, your brothers and sisters in Christ, whatever it is. Because guess what? It's limited. It's limited. It is not infinite. You have eternal life, but you don't have infinite time to labor on this earth. So that's the first one. It's just your labor. Don't be thinking that you're going to labor tomorrow and you can learn things tomorrow. It is limited and you have less time tomorrow than you had today. There should be some urgency there. This is a sermon of urgency tonight. Here's another one. I'm going to just, y'all are just going to be knocked backwards, especially in this church in your chairs this evening. But here's another one, kids, kids. We are a church of young children. Everybody, I'm going to throw a blanket statement over this one. Everybody has this exactly backwards today. Everybody with young children thinks, everybody with young children thinks, my kids are young, I have time. The opposite is true. Because you have limited, turn to Proverbs chapter 22, you have limited time with your children being young. And there should be an urgency. Look, my children are older than, I have the oldest children in this church. And my time, I should have less urgency than you. You say why? Because you have young children, but people have the opposite attitude today. People have the attitude like, yeah, I got some time to get things right because my kids are young. Wrong. The Bible teaches that the opposite is true. Turn to Proverbs chapter 22. There's a lot of young kids here. My kids are older, but people have the exact wrong idea. Look at Proverbs chapter 22 and verse number 6. People think my kids are young. It's not serious. I can figure things out as I go here. I'm telling you the urgency is now because your kids will not be young for very long. The children, when they are young, that is the key in their life right there. Look at Proverbs 22.6. The Bible says train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it. So, you've got to read the Bible here, okay? What does it say? Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old. So when should you train the child? When he's old? No. When he's young. When he's old, he'll not depart from it. If you train him when he's young. You must train them when they are young. That's when the training needs to occur. Turn to Proverbs chapter 13. You're like, how do we train them? How do we train our children? Well, the Bible is very clear about how to train young children. The Bible says he that spareeth his rod, hateeth his son, but he that loveth him, chaseneth him, be times. That means early. Children need to be chasened. This is talking about spanking your children when they are young. You don't see me spank my children because they're older.  You need to be training them.  You need to be chasening them, and guess what? You don't reason with a three-year-old. They only need to learn one thing when they are young, and that one thing is to obey. That is it. It's the whole point of spanking. The whole point of spanking is really it's twofold. Number one, they understand it. And number two, they just need to learn to obey. From one to one and a half to two to three to four, what do I need to teach my kids? They need to obey. That's it. They need to learn how to obey. Obey what? Obey what? Turn to Ephesians chapter six. I was just going to read it to you, but I want you to turn there for a second. You say, obey what? What do the children need to obey? They need to obey your commandments, whatever, what you say to do. You say, well, what does that mean? Look at Ephesians chapter six and look at verse number one. And I want to explain to you tonight, look, I want to reason with you parents. I want to reason with the parents tonight, but what? You should just obey too, and I kind of just gave it away. But you should just obey what the Bible says. But I just want to reason with you and show you why it is so important that they learn to obey when they're young, when they're small. Look at Ephesians chapter one of verse number six. What does the Bible say there? It says children, what? Obey your parents and the Lord, for this is right. So what do your children have to learn to obey? Your commandments, that should be what? They should be in line with the Lord. Now it's the parent that just goes and makes up a bunch of other commandments that are like outside the Lord, that, you know, this is the parent in Ephesians chapter six and verse number four that provokes his children to wrath. Because guess what? When your children are young, I'm just going to give you the whole stretch of your children's life here this evening. When your children are young, they need to learn how to obey. That's it. You don't have to explain why, just do it.   Does God reason with us? This is the problem. It says children, obey your parents and the Lord, for this is right. Because what is going to happen, see, is your children get older, you're going to start giving them more explanations of things. You know where your explanations are going to come from, Ephesians chapter six and verse number one? Your explanations for things are going to come from the Bible. And what is required in order for them to follow what the Bible says. You're going to say, hey, this is where my rules came from, son, when he's six, seven, eight, nine, ten years old. They get saved. They can understand the simplest thing in the Bible. They understand salvation. They trust in Jesus Christ. They get saved when they're six, when they're seven years old. They start learning the Bible and growing as a Christian. They start doing what? They start walking. They start walking in the Lord. They start walking in the light of God's Word. They start to understand more and more of the Word. But guess what? That's just where your commandments came from. They still have to look at those things that they understand and do what? Guess what you have to do as a Christian in your life? You have to read the Bible and what? You have to obey.  It's just like, do this. Don't do this. God doesn't explain. He doesn't have to explain a lot of things. John 15, 14, if you love me, keep my commandments. If you love me, what? Obey. The more your children understand where your commandments came from by looking at the Bible and reading the Bible, if they don't know how to obey, it will do them no good. This is why you see adults that cannot function and cannot succeed in the Christian life. You say why? Because no one taught them to obey. No one taught them when they were what? When they were two. I'm like, yeah, that early, yeah, that early. No one taught them because guess what? As you get older in this Christian life, the excuses for me to do what I want to do, they just get more and more elaborate. I know I should do that. I know the Bible says that. But I have all these other things and all these other reasons and excuses and all these different things. They just get more and more elaborate. This is the danger of telling your child when they have a candy bar and you say, no, you can't have another candy bar. Why not, dad? I already had one. Well, son, the thing is, the pancreas and the stats on diabetes in the United States today are 33% of children under the age of 10. No, obey. That's it. Obey. God just tells us obey. Success in the Christian life when they get to be a 15-year-old, a 16-year-old, a 17-year-old, it depends on them obeying. This is always going to come down to, hey, kids, this is where my rules came from. This is where, this is why you shouldn't be some psycho-legalist holier-than-thou that makes up his own extra-biblical rules. Because sooner or later, especially if you stay in this church, your kids are going to figure out what the Bible says and they're going to be like, yeah, dad, we're not doing any of this stuff. They're going to be like Josiah. They're going to figure out that none of the things that you do in your house are biblical because you want them to learn the Bible. I can't tell you how many times I've seen that. Kids start figuring out that their parents don't have it right. Now what do you do? Now you got a mess. But the point is this, obey your parents in the Lord, teach them to obey, and then you're going to teach them just where those rules came from, those commandments that you gave came from, but they have to have the obedience trained in, or it's a complete waste of time. Because the older you get, the better you get at justifying sin. I mean, this is libertarianism. This is libertarianism. What is libertarianism? Libertarianism will destroy the country just as completely as communism will. Because libertarianism will destroy it through the loss of man's flesh.  And I'm free to do whatever I want. And they have no ability or desire or even interest in obeying God's word. So it always had to be, the only reason it worked with the limited government, it always had to be a limited government, but the people themselves in their hearts, they obeyed the word of God. They obeyed. It had to be those two things together.  And look at us today. Look at us today. So look, the explanations on where the commandments came from come later in their life. Right now it's easy. They just need to obey. Look, and you've got to watch out for the signs of defiance. The opposite. Look, the opposite of obedience is no. A child saying no to their parents, that should be taken as a very big deal as a parent, especially of a young child. A child that would say no to his father or his mother, especially to his father. But it's just as bad to his mother. It's a sign that they're rejecting obedience. A temper tantrum is rejecting obedience. It is just outright rejecting obedience. Those things need to be handled quickly, swiftly. And as the Bible says, we're not talking about child abuse, we're talking about spanking your children. And ideally, every time a child is spanked, it should not be something that's done out of anger. It should be something that they're getting spanked because they did something and then they'll know not to do that thing again. And look, it's very effective. It's very effective. It works very well. But obedience is necessary. Folks, look, this is me, but I didn't spank my children past 10, 11 years old. I think it was around that age. But the urgency is this, folks. As they get older, as they get older into the 10, 11 and up and into the teenage years, there will be more explanation. There will be more understanding. And it all is built on the foundation of obedience to God's word. They will just know where the commandments came from when they get older.  We've all seen that.  That's strange. To me, at that point, you've lost control if they have no obedience at that point. So look, turn to Isaiah chapter 3, but people have it backwards today. People with young kids have it backwards today. This time is limited. This time, when your children are young and need to be taught, straight obedience is very limited. These children are coming, they're developing their character early and quickly. People have it backwards. When your kids are young, they need a parent, not a friend. And the irony of this is as my kids get older, and my wife has said this many times about my oldest, but you know, if you want to be their friend when they're 30, you will be their parent when they're 3. That's what you need to understand. They have friends here. This is where their friends are. They need you to be their parent. And look, turn to Isaiah chapter 3. Look at verse number 12, and men need to be the leaders of this in their home. Because women are there to pick up the pieces. Women are there to be that emotional support. Women are there to comfort, and they're never going to lead the charge on this. This is to be the man's, it's to spearhead this obedience goal for his children. Look at Isaiah chapter 3 in verse number 12. It says, as for my people, you know, as men get weaker, these generations in front of us are going to get worse and worse. And Isaiah 3 verse 12, it says, as for my people, children are their oppressors. Tell me this isn't us today.  A man needs to spearhead this in his house.  I can't tell you how many times my wife called me at work and said, so and so did this, and they need a spanking. And then I would come home from work, and she'd be like, well, you know, they made peace and everything's all good, and they're doing crayons and play-doh. And I'm like, no, the spanking still has to happen. The punishment still has to take place. And then, of course, the mom is there to comfort, and look, it's all good. It's not this angry situation. It was just, this is what you did, and this is why you're getting spanked. And bam, it's done, and in 15 seconds, we're all good. That's the nice thing about a spanking. All these other modern things that time out and all these disasters of putting somebody in a corner for hours on end or whatever it is. Spanking is like, done, everybody understands, we can now move forward, and we're all wiser and smarter, especially the child that just learned to obey. But look, there's only so much time for this. That is why it is making the list for tonight, and the critical time is now. You say, well, it's kind of a new way. People don't really spank their kids anymore, and it's kind of a new thing. Nobody's really doing that anymore. Well, you know what? Gen Z is here, folks. Your kids aren't even Gen Z, I don't think. You're the next, next one. So do you like the results that you're seeing? That's what you have to ask yourself. I mean, it doesn't take a lot of faith in the Bible to follow just what God says on this one. You look at this train wreck that is coming as this next generation, and it should be easy to just follow the Word of God on this one. Turn to Matthew chapter 22. So look, have some urgency. Don't be these parents that are like, my kids are young, no problem. I'll get these things fixed when they're older. Because guess what? There's no, you know, the corrections, and I've said it this way, the corrections get smaller and smaller and smaller as they get older. The more you can steer better when they're younger. So you have more control, you have more influence today than you will have tomorrow. Think about it that way.  Look at Matthew chapter 22, look at verse number 30. Here's another one. Here's another one that you know you don't have infinite time with that you need to understand in this life. Look, your marriage is not going to last forever. So you need to work on that and pay attention to that now, not later. Look at Matthew chapter 22 in verse number 30, and this will especially apply to parents, married people that have younger children, again. When I look back at my marriage and the time that my wife and I had just us alone, between us, when our children were younger, it was more difficult. When children were younger, it was more difficult to have one-on-one time with my wife, and it was more difficult for her to have one-on-one time with me where we could just talk and just be married together. When the children are young, it's the most difficult, but look at Matthew 22 in verse number 30. In the resurrection, they neither marry nor are given in marriage what are as angels of God in heaven. So look, you're married on this earth.  So tomorrow is not the day to work on your marriage. Today is the day to work on your marriage, no matter what stage in your marriage you are in. Because you only get one shot at this. This time to be married in this life. And think about it this way, every day that goes by, your marriage either gets stronger, that relationship either gets stronger or it gets weaker. Look, to never get divorced is a low goal. I mean great, don't get divorced, but to just say I'm never going to get divorced, that is a low bar. That should be a bar that you could just kind of like, you know, just step over just like that. I mean you want to have a good relationship just because you don't get divorced does not mean you are guaranteed to have a good relationship with your spouse. I mean you could get to be 60 and you've ruined the whole relationship. You could get to be 60 where your kids are grown up and they're out of the house and all these things, but then you, you know, you spent 40 years destroying something, you're not going to fix that in one day. This is the problem. This is why you need to work on your marriage while the light is here, now, during this time. You can't, I mean, it's best since time is limited to not ruin it in the first place. But don't take a break from your marriage until the kids grow up. That's the lesson for people with younger children in the church this evening. Because if you say, you know what, I just got to take a break from my marriage and I just can't work on my relationship with my wife or my husband, you know, right now. Until the kids grow up, things are just too chaotic right now. Look, it just might not be there for you when you think you're ready for it again. And I've seen that happen so many times too. Make time for each other now, not tomorrow today. What do I mean by that? Look, you have to have a, you have to have a time. You have to have a time in your marriage where you, look, we've all messed up at this. We've all gotten busy and things have gotten out of control. And I'd be like, oh, I haven't talked to my wife for several days. But I bet she knows that you haven't talked to her for several days. You have to make time. You know what a great time to talk to your wife and your family in general is? Dinner time. You know the old-fashioned thing? It was a tradition that Americans used to do. Way back, like in the 1700s, they used to sit down and have dinner together as a family. You laugh, but it's super important. It's super important that the family sits down and has dinner together. It's not just cheaper and it's not just more economical for your wife to make food for everybody than to go out to a restaurant or whatever, but it is just a time where it can be calmed down and you can just talk to everyone in your family about how their day was, where you can connect with your wife, how was school, how are the kids doing? And you can just, look, you have to make time for each other. In your marriage, you have to block out time for each other.  Like the thing we do. Want to go get a Coke? Neither of us are probably even thirsty. But we just like to drive and drive for 10 or 15 minutes and sit in the drive-through line because McDonald's is horrible and they can't even move three people through a drive-through in half an hour. But it's nice because I get to, it were in an enclosed space, there's nobody else. We can leave the kids because they're older and we can just go and we can just talk. But I don't care how old your kids are, you have somewhere you can go, make time for your husband every single day, make time for your wife every single day. You have to keep a relationship with each other. Or you'll wake up in two, three, four, ten years and you won't have a relationship.  Put the kids to bed and just block out 30 minutes where you can just have time with your spouse or you can just talk. You can just connect, you can just keep that relationship going and look. Schedulant, that's what I'm saying. Do it on purpose. It's not going to accidentally happen because we're all busy, we're all busy. So look, the point is tonight. The point is tonight with your family, with your wife, with your children. The point is, is that you only have, with time, Jesus is saying, you only have so much of this stuff. That's the whole point of time that God uses time in the Bible is to show us, we don't have enough of it. Turn to Proverbs chapter 18. Look, and the irony of time is it doesn't matter if you're sitting here tonight and you're 75 or you're 25. You can't say that one person has more time than the other because nobody knows. Nobody knows how much time they have. So here's the point. Don't waste it. That's what Jesus is saying to the disciples. Walk with me while I'm here. Don't waste time. But look, people waste time. Look at Proverbs 18, verse number nine. It says, he that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster. I always think that's such an interesting verse. Somebody that's just lazy is very similar to somebody that wastes everything. What does that mean? You know what those two things have in common? You know somebody that wastes everything, has in common with somebody that is just really lazy. Neither of them will accomplish anything. That's why they're brothers. One wastes everything, including all his time, and the other one just is lazy. And neither of them will accomplish much, if anything, at all. Think it's social media.  You know what that is? That is a complete waste of time. Screen time in general. I did a 2024 update. Screen time in general is seven hours a day for the average American adult. So yeah, but I'm learning things on YouTube. I'm learning wrong. You aren't accomplished anything by watching that much screen time. You are watching some, a best case scenario, you're watching somebody else accomplish something.  Just think of the evil that you bring into your house. Your house should be like this portrait of solitude that you protect, that you try to keep things out.  What's the point? Why would you do that? At best it's a complete waste of your whole life.  Look, I mean Gen Z is nine hours. Nine hours, that's Gen Z. Those are kids. Nine hours of screen time every day, zero to two year olds. 50% of them regularly watch a smartphone. I believe it. We went out to eat the other night and we were waiting. We were waiting because somebody didn't make reservations. We were waiting forever to get into the restaurant, it was me. And there was this one and a half, two year old, whatever it was, just throwing a fit. You know where the parents are trying to grab them and they're doing the board thing where they can't control the kids doing this thing and just screaming? What do they do? They just give them a phone and the kids just powers down, just right into the phone. And everybody was like, even me, I was like, good thing for the phone. But I mean, zero to two year olds, 50% of them regularly watch something on a smartphone, just put that screen right next to their face.  Everybody is wasting all of their lives. And you know what I've found in this life, in this Christian life? And I've had, you know, you'd be shocked how much you can accomplish.  Seven hours a day? I've had this two hour rule in my life for years where if you get, I just need two hours of uninterrupted time. My wife will tell you, if I get into something for an hour and I get jumped out of something, it just like, it just frustrates me. Because you give me two hours of uninterrupted time and I can make some stuff happen.  How do you accomplish things in your life? How do you walk in the light? How do you have a successful Christian life? How do you have time to spend with your children? Don't waste all this time. Just utilize the time that you have. How do you have a good marriage? Make some time. Hey, maybe let me just put the phone down for one hour and only do six hours a day and spend an hour with your wife and your life would be infinitely better. It seems ridiculous to even say that. Think about the video that we give people. I often say that to people out soul winning.   And I'm like, this video is only 15 minutes long. Waste some time watching that. Because you know everybody's just wasting time watching screen after screen after screen after screen after screen. You want to accomplish things? I mean, look, think of it this way too. So little of our time in this life is spent serving the Lord anyway. Think of the time that you do have. You say, Pastor, I don't watch any screens.  Yeah, but what's the percentage of the time in your life that even though you're super productive, that you spend serving the Lord? Most of the time in our lives is spent enjoying the blessings that God has for us. And yeah, your job is a blessing. Teaching your children, even though that may be frustrating and drive you bonkers some days, that is a blessing. Most of the time, because guess what? Your children themselves are blessings from the Lord. Most of your time, especially you ladies that spend all the time with the children, that is just enjoying God's blessings right there. That is just enjoying the heritage from the Lord that God gave you. How much time do we really spend serving the Lord? It's a small fraction. So the least we can do is not waste it. And use it to the best of our ability.  People need us. There's, I mean, they're not figuring this stuff out for themselves. That's what we're here for. Let's bow our heads and have a word of prayer.