Okay, we're back. We're live. We're here on Energy in America, our show on Wednesdays at 3 o'clock Rock with Lou Pudirisi, and he is the CEO, president and CEO of Ebrink, which is an energy think tank in Washington, D.C., and that puts him very close to Congress. It puts him close to the White House. He can hear, see, smell, and otherwise sense all the stuff that's going on in Washington. We love to talk to him about what he sees and smells and hears about things in Washington these days because it's fairly unreliable or unpredictable, I should say. So we're calling this show how energy decision process has changed over the past 18 days or so. Welcome back to the show, Lou. Nice to have you here. Good to be here. Good to be here, too. So let's talk about, let's see, what do we talk about first? Let's talk about integrated energy market phenomenon. Let's talk about Mexico, which we have a little rocky road with them, and let's talk about Canada, which we also have a rocky road with. How is the energy market affected by our recent... Let's just start with the North America's over 9 million square miles. So it is a huge land mass, and it lends itself to all kinds of transportation efficiencies and solutions. So you may see big numbers in gross imports and exports, crude oil and petroleum products and natural gas, but the net numbers are quite different just because everyone's trying to solve these transportation efficiencies. So North America, U.S., Canada, and Mexico consume 22 million barrels a day of crude oil, about a quarter of the world's total consumption. But out of that 22 million, if you treated NAFTA, these three countries as a single country, as a single market, net imports are only 4 million barrels a day. Not only that, but because Mexico has undergone a massive privatization and energy reform program, U.S. exports of natural gas to Mexico are rising. There are about 4 billion cubic feet a day and expected to rise to 8 billion cubic feet a day in the next 4 to 5 years. The pipeline market in Mexico now is highly privatized and most of that gas is replacing oil-fired power generation stations like you have in Hawaii. So in a way, this North American production platform, in addition, Canadian oil sands are expected to increase by about a million barrels a day over the next 10 to 15 years. Finally, the U.S. production profile, Trump's strategy to release more production to private sector development, accelerated permitting of pipelines, more certainty in the permitting process, is likely to see U.S. production grow as well. And most analysts think that under a reasonable scenario, within the end of the decade, U.S., Canada, and Mexico combined will be a net exporter of crude oil. So the point I'm trying to make here, as the administration enters into trade negotiations with both Canada and Mexico, largely over-concerned of manufacturing disparities, let's say, and what they believe is unfair trade in manufacturing, they have to consider this energy sector, which is highly successful, and by the way, largely outside NAFTA. Many people don't realize when NAFTA was created, the Mexican energy sector was wholly owned by the Mexican government, and so was not part of the NAFTA negotiations. Okay, so what effect then will the changes in American energy policy have on this integrated market in North America? So on the one hand, we could have a very technical discussion in which modest changes are made to the structure of how manufactured entities are, you know, how they're negotiated with the tariff structure look like, or how, what adjustments we make on non-tariff barriers or labor, whatever that is. And we do this without sort of damaging Mexican pride or creating a populist uprising in Mexico. That outcome is fairly benign, could be quite positive. On the other hand, if this is done in a way I believe in which the Mexicans feel they are disrespected, let's say, or that they are really treated poorly, it could feed populist resentment in Mexico, which could upend all the reform program that has taken place there over the last few years. And that's energy reform you're talking about. It's supposed to get you to speak. There were demonstrations, not against Trump, high gasoline prices. Managing that problem is a big, big deal. So what we have then is the risk that, I mean, it's hard to say from what you say whether it'll go in one way or another direction, but it could go into uprisings and rolling back effectively of the energy reforms that have taken place over the past few years. Where does that leave us if we have an uprising and rolling back of the energy reforms in Mexico? So I think that would leave the world oil market worse off because the potential to halt the decline in oil production in Mexico would be harmed. They're ready to decline. One of the reasons they're privatizing in Mexico and bringing in foreign investment is to halt the decline in oil production. It would harm the efficiency of the production platform in North America and probably would reduce world supplies because North America would not be as efficient, which would mean higher prices. And also there's an energy security component because if North America is a prosperous energy producing platform things like sea lanes of communications, the things the Navy have to worry about are much smaller because the Western hemisphere is not so connected to the Middle East. It doesn't say the Middle East isn't important. The Pacific Rim is very important. All these things are very important, but from just the physical management, the physical flows become a lot easier. Yeah. So you mentioned though that on balance your thought was, your expectation was that energy prices, oil prices would go up over the near term or maybe the intermediate term. So I guess you're making some judgments there on how things will go in Mexico and how things will go between the Trump administration in Mexico. I'm basically an optimist and I believe they'll figure this out, that cooler heads will prevail and that Trump is largely, it's not really ideological person in my view, he's a really transactional guy. We have the Abe visit coming up in which he's likely to have a very ambitious engagement with the U.S. And two or three other things that I think people have not realized yet. In terms of U.S. energy security and the importance of Mexico-Canadian relationship, General Mattis, General Kelly and Rex Tillerson, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of Homeland Security and the Secretary of State are very well-breed on this top and are likely to play a central role in managing it to a productive outcome. So if that happens, then you would expect better energy policy than maybe other people might predict and therefore- Compared to what people mean by better energy policy, if you are a climate enthusiast, you don't like to see any development, you want to keep it all in the ground. If you're, the U.S., as I say, a nationalist or maybe a Steve Bannon type, you want to see the U.S. and Mexico and Canada be big producers of fossil fuels, particularly oil and gas. And that's the question, isn't it? Whether you peep it in the ground or don't. And so I'd like to explore with you that if the price of oil goes up or down that has an effect on the production of renewables and the incentives to renewable developers around the country, right now renewables are competitive, aren't they? And as a result, renewable development is happening at an acceptable rate. But is that going to change? What's the factor there? We've talked a lot about this in the past. If you're California and you can reach your grid network farther and farther afield and grab dispatchable power in Nevada or Arizona, you can probably push the envelope on renewables and, let's say, the power sector. But in Hawaii, you can't really find, if you decide to go without dispatchable power, you're going to run out of the string very quickly. So Hawaii is going to need, Hawaii can't go to California or to Idaho and say, well, you know, we've got a great renewable program. And in the dead part of the day, when our renewables aren't working, we'll just turn the switch on in Idaho. Well, that doesn't work very well in Hawaii. So I think you have a unique issue, which we've talked a lot about. And I do think, as I said before, that we really need to continue research on batteries. Batteries is the key to this renewable debate. And if we can get the battery cost down, if we can get them efficient, and so renewables are cost competitive when the sun shine. Renewables are cost competitive when the wind's blowing. It's when those things are not happening that they're not so good. Yeah. So, you know, where I'm where I get curious is, we have an administration that is clearly committed to ignoring climate change. And an administration which would like to see, you know, the traditional oil and coal fuels, you know, dominate the market, dominate energy production in the United States. And what effect does that have over the long term on renewable production that was, you know, that was in place before this election? Because there was a certain amount of it that was, Obama was trying to incentivize it. There were companies coming up. Some of them did well. Some of them did not do well. After all, this is a transformation in energy in many places, just as it has been in Hawaii is, you know, it's not without its challenges. So if you have now this policy of favoring fossil fuel and favoring coal, what does that do to an otherwise, what has been an otherwise improving market, improving development environment for renewables? So as we spoke before, let's take the power sector. In the power sector, the I would imagine the clean power plan, the CPP is defunct. It's not going to happen. But all the research shows that the clean power plan would have no effect on climate. It was basically a demonstration effect to tell the rest of the world, look, we can do this. And so this is our leadership contribution. But it's net effect on climate was immeasurable. It was too small to measure. So I think and then the second part of this debate here is, you can get a lot of people to agree that CO2 loadings are increasing. You cannot get people in the new administration to agree that they have a workable model that tells them what the implications of those CO2 loadings are on the human environment. Now, but even Governor Perry at his hearing said, well, I think there's uncertainty, but I think man is contributing. And I also think there's part of it, which is not caused by man. And there is going to be a big fight over the working of these models and everything. And my view is that should be largely aside show. If in fact renewables are cost effective in the power sector, right? Then and the real problem is we don't we don't have a solution for the intermittency. We should spend research on the immittency research. And I was going to ask you about research, you know, here in Hawaii, we have a lot of research projects having to deal with the environment. We have really hundreds of them that await funding from one source or another. And a lot of researchers are very concerned that federal funding is going to dry up on those areas of research, which are important at University of Hawaii and which have, you know, University of Hawaii has an enormous number, a really credible number of quality top quality researchers in that area. And of course, they need they need funding. And I suspect that it will come true soon enough that they don't get funding. Well, part of that research is energy funding. I mean, there's energy research and therefore requires energy funding. And I, I would imagine that the federal government, who is not in the same place as it was, will will not will not fund energy research as much. You know, you spoke about batteries, for example, we need we need research in batteries, we needed the very fringes of, you know, the technology involved, you know, right down to the atomic level. But how to, you know, do things, for example, like graphene and make that work. And this this is the key to an expansion, a long term and significant expansion of renewables on the grid. So I'm worried about that. And I wonder if you have any thoughts about that government going to continue to fund research and energy? I actually think they will continue. We're going to see some cuts. But I would, for example, there's a great program I know by encourage you to watch it on batteries, where they look at these competing research centers are in the you know, around the United States, looking at and it's all based on the utility sector, what kind of battery technology should they try? Some people are using the low tech, but very stable is more high tech. And my guess is, that's so important to the future of the grid, that the Congress is really not going to let a lot of that to be cut back dramatically. But I wouldn't be surprised to see CCS, you know, carbon capture storage, which has become very expensive.  I suspect that will get cut. But we have joint projects with both the Japanese and the Saudis on CCS. So there's some international commitment. So there's always going to be limits on how much the stuff can be cut. And in addition, members of Congress have their own hobby horses there. So let's take a short break. That's Lou Pugirisi of a prank in Washington, DC. We're talking about energy in America, and how energy decision process has changed in this administration. We'll be right back. Aloha and Happy New Year. It's 2017. Please keep up with me on Power Up Hawaii, where Hawaii comes together to talk about a clean and just energy future. Please join me on Tuesdays at one o'clock. Mahalo. Hello, this is Martin Despeng. I want to get you get excited about my new show, which is humane architecture for Hawaii and beyond. We're going to broadcast on Tuesdays, 5 p.m. here on Think Tech Hawaii. Good afternoon. Howard Wigg, codegreenthinktechhawaii.com. I appear on Mondays at three o'clock and my gig is energy efficiency doing more with less. So most cost effective way that we in Hawaii are going to achieve 100% clean energy by the year 2045. I look forward to being with you. Aloha. Okay, we're back. We're live with Lou Pugirisi of E-Pring, energy policy think tank in Washington, DC, here on Energy in America. And we're talking about how national how energy research process has changed in this administration. But one of the things you mentioned before we started the show Lou was the possibility of a carbon tax. And there has been some discussion of that. What's the state of discussion? So a group of conservative economists, thought leaders, proposed today in the Wall Street Journal, including George Schultz, former secretary of state, secretary of treasury, had a Bechtel, Mancow, a well known conservative economist that the US deal with carbon, deal with climate through a tax, a carbon tax, and that the $40 a ton, which would be something like 25 cents a gallon, I think something like that, maybe less. And it would be different for coal and other other other things. And that the funds collected from this carbon tax would be refunded to the American people quarterly. And then the second part of this is in exchange for the carbon tax. All the environmental regulations, the mandates, the volumetric targets for CO2 control would be removed. So we'd have a pure market solution. This is actually a theoretical, elegant solution. It's also politically a fantasy. It's not going to happen in Washington. There is no way the Congress is going to agree to this massive shift of money unless they can get their hands on it and do something with it. It has a certain appeal because it simplifies the whole affair and focuses on one solution. Yeah, it allows the market competition in the market to seek out the cheapest solution. So it has a lot of merits, if this is your thing. I think in the interim, we're going to see the administration take a number of specific measures on the regulatory side, which are not necessarily related to climate. But I believe a lot of environmentalists would argue that it would permit development, more rapid development of fossil fuels. But by the way, it also provide more rapid development of wind energy and solar energy. The first thing they're going to do is change the way the National Environmental Policy Act treats new projects. In the Obama administration, if I was building an LNG export facility, and it was a major federal action because I used to cross federal land with a pipeline or I needed a port dredged by the Army Corps of Engineers or something, you would be required to write an environmental impact statement. But in the guidelines in the Obama administration, you would have to figure out all the upstream implications from that, like where the gas was produced to feed this facility, what happened to the dinosaurs that died, that turned into gas, so you'd have to go way back. And I think that's going to get narrow down. What the administration is going to say is, you have to just look at the immediate impacts of this facility. That's it. Second, the social cost of carbon. The government has been working on a program called the social cost of carbon. And that is a way for decision makers to calculate the climate effects of their projects, that they're approving or not approving. And that calculation in the Obama administration had a low, what we call low discount rate. That means it like a low interest rate. That means that you would get a bigger number, a bigger number in the current period if you looked at stream of benefits and costs over time. It also measured the benefits worldwide, not just in the U.S. I'm pretty sure how the Trump administration will change that, is they will use a higher discount rate, and they will only allow you to take benefits in the U.S. And then third, I think a making everything smaller as they have done in other areas. I think it's going to be either someone in the White House or someone in the administration is going to ride herd on permits. I try to provide federal primacy on projects so that they are not, they will, I think they would argue that the Obama administration left the door open for all these NIMBY initiatives, like Sue Indians and the Dakota Access Pipeline case or endless review of the Keystone XL Pipeline. I think the view from this administration is one of the reasons we have low economic growth is the regulatory state is out of control and it needs to be reined in. Those are the big changes I see in the kind of functioning of the regulatory oversight. What chance do they have a pass? It sounds like it's a pretty good chance. Those are pretty good. Now other things like if you want to promote a new regulation or probably want to get a new regulation, you have to remove two. Two for one? A mathematical test? That's cute. And it turns out that's not so easy to do as it appears because I think OMB has issued, the Office of Management Budget has issued guidance saying, well, you have to have twice, you know, if the new regulation is a billion dollars, you have to go and find two billion dollars worth of saving somewhere else by getting rid of older regulations. But these regulations are often embedded in law. They're not that easy to dig out of the system. Well, I mean, well, just make it part of an executive order. You can strike all kinds of regulations and change them overnight without any, without any problem at all. In fact, you can ignore the Administrator Procedures Act and do it instantly. Isn't that, isn't that what's happening? That's what Obama did routinely. So there's a kind of, they both do it, but you can overdo things as this recent immigration order shows. We still have a court system in this country and it's quite independent. Yes, well, we'll see what happens. That's still pending in the Ninth Circuit. You know, they had a hearing the other day and now we're going to hear from them and we're going to see exactly what the Federal District, Federal Appeals Court is made of. Of course, we're also going to see what the Supreme Court is made of. But let me, let me, let me go back to the pipeline you mentioned, Keystone. He was able to reverse what was a very problematic situation for Keystone in almost no time at all and caused the Corps of Engineers to issue a permit and almost no, how did he do that? There are two issues here. The Dakota Access Pipeline had a core issue, a 404 permit, to go under the water. And that's separate from Keystone. And that, in all fairness to energy transfer partners, they had completed the entire process when the Obama administration stepped in and said, well, the Indians are upset, the Sioux are upset. So let's sit down and talk about this a lot more. And I think the developers of that pipeline said, look, we did everything. We, we offered numerous times to engage with the Indian tribes. They refused to come. And now at the last minute, everybody wants to come and disrupt the process, right? And you know, I think there should be some, you know, some rethinking of this. I would love everyone to see a map of the U.S. with the pipelines under it. It's just, we're just covered in pipeline. So the notion that one more pipeline is going to upset the balance is just ridiculous. Now Keystone is a separate issue. Keystone, the sort of the Obama administration kind of killed that problem, project with a thousand cuts, you know, they, they stretched it out for six to seven years and then in the end, even though the State Department said the project was relatively benign in terms of climate, they needed a win before they went to Paris to negotiate the climate agreement. Keystone has come back because people forget the Canadians pre-bought the pipe and the compressors. So the incremental cost of finishing is not, is not that high, but they still have to get permission to move it through Nebraska and they don't have that yet. So the administration can do lots of things to speed along, but that project is not going to be solved for a few months. Oh, and that, and what, and that depends on Nebraska, but Nebraska is, you either have to rewrite it or condemn, I don't know how they're going to do that, but they have to work through Nebraska. Isn't, isn't there a federal preemption on such a thing? I mean why, is that any state could hold it up, yeah? There is a possibility to use a condemned condemnation, but I think Keystone does not want to do that. The Canadians don't like it. Well, it's very interesting because it says the pendulum swings, you know, arguably the Obama administration went too far one way and now maybe Trump is going too far the other. It's maybe. It depends on your point of Of course. Well, tell me, you know, how you think it is evolving? I mean, are the outlines clear yet about exactly what Trump is doing with energy or as in many other areas, do we have inconsistent messages and kind of a waiting game to see how they ultimately settle down if they do on all, not only the, you know, the general principles, but on the outline of what they plan to do in policy going forward. The first thing is the U.S. government is like the forestall. It doesn't turn on a dime and everybody's worried about, you know, always say if you have to, if you have to bet between the new political masters and the bureaucrats, always bet on the bureaucrats. They'll outlast any administration. So, you know, the ability of the new administration to turn things completely upside down overnight is actually much more limited than anyone wants to believe. So, I think what the administration can do is change the emphasis. I actually don't think they will succeed in removing two regulations for every new regulation, but I do think they will create a different environment based on Trump's view that the real cost to the country is slow economic growth and that a lot of these rules and the way our procedures work harm the capacity of the, you know, the government to grow. I mean the economy to grow and it's kind of out of his guy Steve Bannon who sees, you know, he has this kind of vision of the world that, you know, we're sort of monitored by academics and elites and that these folks are trying to get rid of all the, all the, you know, upside risk and downside risk and we sort of have to blow that up a bit in order to get the, get the risk taking and higher economic growth. And I think that discussion hasn't taken place yet. Everyone is operating on an old paradigm on how to think about Trump and how to think of, I think about the Republicans and the Democrats and I suspect Trump isn't out of that paradigm. We haven't really figured out what it is yet, but. Yeah, what an exciting time we live in or as they say in China an interesting time. Yeah, but we'll follow it, Lou. We'll keep on following it as the outlines emerge. I really appreciate your thoughts on this, all these great analyses that you have. Let's come back in two weeks and do it again.


I've addressed how cell phones may affect brain function and how both cell phones and Wi-Fi may affect male fertility, but what about the effects of Wi-Fi on brain functioning? The possible existence of cognitive effects in these kinds of radiofrequency energies has been one of the more contentious discussions in the forever contentious issue of whether exposure has any health consequences whatsoever. Wi-Fi has been called an uncontrolled global experiment on the health of humankind. The effects of radiofrequency fields gained new urgency, as the World Health Organization officially declared cell phone radiation to be a possible human carcinogen based on brain tumor risks. But their decision has no direct relevance to the possible health effects of Wi-Fi, since the exposures are so much different. We may absorb 100 times less radiation in a typical exposure to Wi-Fi compared to cell phones. But you don't know if there are effects until you put it to the test. Can Wi-Fi affect brain function? To date, more than 100 studies have been published on the effects of these kinds of emissions on human brain wave patterns as measured by EEG, while the results are mixed, a fairly consistent finding is that even a short duration of exposure to the head can produce small but statistically significant changes in the EEG of resting and sleeping subjects. This effect is acknowledged by most health agencies, but the question is, what do you do with that information? For example, a review sponsored by the European Governing Body concluded that the relevance of such small changes remains unclear, and we don't even know how it's happening at all. Some have suggested it's an artifact of the test, and that EEG wires may be acting like antennas that carry the wave straight to the brain, in effect, contributing to the changes that it's been set up to measure. Either way, you don't see the kind of neurocognitive effects with Wi-Fi exposure that you do with cell phones. For example, no measurable effects were found on reaction time or sustained attention. Now this was testing 2.4GHz Wi-Fi, but if anything, we would expect even lower levels of exposure from the newer 5GHz Wi-Fi due to the shallower penetration depth. Although more accurately, a person who spends hours a day glued to a smartphone or tablet may very well experience all sorts of neurocognitive effects, but from the use of this technology, not from the radiation. It's interesting, there's a large literature out there about the health implications of these new technologies for young people, but it's about the content. For example, never before in history has such sexually explicit material been indiscriminately available to youth, and we need to ask ourselves as a society what effect this may be having. Girls and boys are being exposed to a colossal amount of digital media on smartphones, which makes access to pornographic material all too easy, cheap, and anonymous. No longer confined to homes and bedrooms, young people can now watch pornography in school, in public just a touch of a button away, and researchers only begun cataloging the effects this may have on young people's attitudes and behaviors. Most college students these days report seeing online pornography as a minor before age 18, of 1,500 high school boys surveyed, the vast majority admit to accessing web porn, nearly one in three for more than an hour at a time. What is that teaching our next generation of men? Researchers sat through and content coded 400 videos from mainstream porn sites and more than a third of the videos displayed acts of physical violence against women, such as gagging or choking. Yeah, but does watching such material lead to sexually aggressive behaviors? 1,510 to 15-year-olds were followed for years to see if there was a link between intentional exposure to such material and later sexually aggressive behaviors such as sexual assault.  The question, of course, though, is, which came first, right? A major difficulty with interpreting this kind of research is, you know, that teens predisposed to that kind of behavior, of course the ones who may be drawn to that material in the first place, so no cause and effect link can be established. All we can do as parents is closely monitor what our children are doing to the best of our abilities.


It started at dawn in a Los Angeles taxi and wound up that night on a cliff in the middle of the Pacific All because of a Dutchman with $50,000 a corpse and a lily pond and an oriental with a chauffeur who wanted a cloak Made of nothing but feathers From the pen of Raven Chandler outstanding author of crime fiction comes his most famous character in The Adventures of Philip Marlowe With Gerald Moore starred as Philip Marlowe. We bring you tonight's exciting story the cloak of Kamehameha The message that a repulsively wide-awake boy was missing a tooth front row center at delivered at 6 in the a.m Had come in two parts the first crawled in black ink on a wrinkle piece of paper said Marlowe get hold of a taxi cab Poses the driver yourself and at exactly 8 o'clock this morning come past 8840 North Ogden Drive Signed Pollard Schindler The second half made more sense It was printed in neat letters on need a green paper and under an engraving of Benjamin Franklin Red 100 silver dollars payable to the bearer and the man So at exactly 8 o'clock. I was behind the wheel of a hired cab Leather jacket peak cap toothpick and all and within hey taxi distance of number 8840 Mr. Pollard Schindler round man in square clothes with haircut to match was not late Yes, sir Oh to the municipal airport you understand the municipal airport at Englewood. Okay, okay Englewood municipal airport it is Marlowe the meter quick put the flag down every minute. I'm being watched. Oh, yeah Watched by who mr. Schindler. I do not know now listen carefully Marlowe later You are to go to the Halema Anna hotel and wait for a young lady named Lonnie Collier Then at the hour she designates you go to her house number 44 diamond head circle and pick up the Oh, wait a minute. Holly Moana diamond head all those places this hotel isn't by any chance in Hawaii Didn't I mention this in my note? No, you didn't know did you mention picking up a cloak? That just proves I haven't been myself ever since yesterday when I received this anonymous letter. That's postmark on the Lulu All it says is camea mayors cloak of golden feathers will bring no less than death Marlowe have you ever been to the islands? Yeah twice once business once pleasure then surely you've heard people speak of King Oh, sure. He was back in the 1780s, right? Yeah, big organizer conqueror who by driving the defenders over that cliff that divides the island Yeah, yeah, that's it. Marlowe the feather cloak that camea may I was about a hundred square feet and every inch of it A golden yellow feather and value that more than half a million dollars. Really? How come? Well, the feathers. Oh, yeah, they are from the now extinct black Marmo bird Marlowe And there was only one yellow feather on each bird. I could explain why they're now extinct Don't tell me this is all a game of call you tomorrow to Schindler with a cloak that belongs to the museum Oh, no, no Marlowe. No, it isn't there with the cloak you speak of but Lonnie Carlyer has another one less valuable Of course, it's one quarter the size, but it also belonged to the king and it also is made of the priceless feathers And is this a property they haven't a whole legal like yeah, yeah, yeah, Lonnie is wealthy young. Oh, yeah About 25. Oh You went to a fashionable schools here in California and as a result cares more about fun and furs from IJ Fox than she does priceless heirlooms So for $50,000 I have bought the cloak to resell to a New York millionaire for almost twice that some it's a lot of loot Well, yes, he loves island law and figures Marlowe. I was right. I am still being followed. Don't look back Just drive fast. No, no, no, nothing. This is exactly as I want it Whoever it is will follow me not you and when I am in Honolulu, they will still follow me well I take care of the business on hand. Yeah. Yes.  I'm sure but Marlowe from which specific direction it will come. I Do not know I Got the 500 bucks, which was the cover expenses for my Honolulu trip and I was told to keep the change So after I'd returned both cab and costume to their owner I added 10 to the original hiring price and had him drive me back to my apartment and wait while I pack Then I got into the cab again rear seat said municipal airport Inglewood and settled back to think about the crossroads of the Pacific Lovely hula hands and what shouldn't be too rough a job But there I was wrong because in the next minute and those that followed everything was done the hard way First we ran out of gas then got tied up in a traffic jam and after that got stopped for speeding All of which added up to me at the airport just in time to watch my plane take off without me But then when I told a cherubic clerk and a great flannel and insipid smile that my name was Phillip Marlowe that I wanted a reservation on the next flight, which was leaving in an hour Things got even worse, but you can't be Phillip Marlowe sir That is not the Phillip Marlowe who was on flight 21 that just left You have a reason for saying that Certainly do there were 36 seats on that plane sir and when she took off all 36 were full now I know I checked to myself and I don't make mistakes well bully for you boy But I happen to be both Phillip Marlowe and the man who was supposed to be on that plane Also, buster. I'm out of patience now. I get the next plane or don't I come on I can't stand in decision. Well, I am you're what well I think it could be arranged mr. Marlowe as a matter of fact. I know it can well in that case my friend Thank you when we took off my frame of mind left me ready and waiting for at least a crack up at sea But an hour later the last of California. It slipped over the horizon and there was only clear sky ahead I began to relax my mind drifted pleasantly the flavor of the lime lifesaver in my mouth made me think of tall wondrous frosted Hawaiian punches And the sinuous grace of lovely And I open my eyes again Diamond head was in front of us and majestic in the red glow of evening Sun It gave all of the lush Moana Valley. I could see the texture of thick velvet We landed like the airport was made of marshmallows The half hour later. I was in the lobby of the Halimoana hotel It was cushioned right tan in Filipino mahogany of a cool tile and everywhere laughing sunburned faces wearing bright splashes of color So smiling both inside and out I walked briskly to the reservation desk and told a good-looking Hawaiian and white flannel that I was Philip Marlowe That is reply. I stopped smiling both inside and out, but sir your reservation was taken two hours ago There must be some mistake. I doubt it, but you are Philip Marlowe of Los Angeles, sir That's right. And I've been through this before today because of what I thought was an error due to a You too what sir? Hmm. Nothing. No, I'll talk to you later There was a large circle of mirror on the wall behind the clerk And even as we had talked I caught the reflection of a beautiful tan girl in a cocoa brown suit white pearls and no stockings With the mention of my name had done a take that had made a long blonde hair whip straight out When she saw me watching as she pivoted sharply on a spiked heel and hurried total and I under a banyan tree Where there was Hawaiian music and a lot of different looking people drinking a glass top tables under a three-quarter moon I Stayed near the reservation desk long enough to light a cigarette and then I followed her She was seated away from the lobby entrance and honor hunched that she might be Lonnie Kalyah I started for an empty table next to hers But a middle-aged Chinese and great gabardine and Panama to match slipped into the chair that I was after So I forgot about being subtle and addressing hers miss Kalyah Introduced myself as an old and dear friend of Pollard Schindler's One Leland done. Well, this is a pleasant surprise mr. Dunn But tell me how did you know what I looked like? Well, Pollard Schindler's accent doesn't hamper his vocabulary miss Kalyah He used the right adjectives believe me I'd love to believe you But I can't mr. Dunn because Pollard Schindler never saw me in his life. All our business was done by telephone Okay, my mistake. I'm Philip Marlowe Lonnie and I want to know when we rendezvous at 44 diamond head circle for the cloak of Kamehameha You are no more Philip Marlowe than you are Leland Dunn And if you need a reason it's that I just left Philip Marlowe upstairs. Oh, wait a minute, baby. There's only one Marlowe That's me. I can prove it. I'll bet you can forged papers and all I've already been warned to watch for imposter. So quit wasting both your time and mine and get out of my way I've got things to do. Wait Lonnie. I for what proof that you're neither done nor Marlowe But Kamehameha himself no thanks and goodbye If there had been a door she'd have slammed it Well, now I had two clues one an obvious party who would assume the name of Philip Marlowe and the other Lonnie Kalyah less obvious but more intriguing So figuring the road company Marlowe would keep I followed Lonnie who by this time was getting into a new yellow Nash convertible Before I got to where she stepped on the gas threw her lights on and lurched from the curb So I ran across the street to what I thought was a taxi But I was wrong because it turned out to be a chauffeur limousine and being helped in by a small Swarthi item of dubious lineage in a wrinkled cotton uniform Was the chinese and greg gabardine and panamata match would have been sitting near us on the lanai What counted more was that he obviously sensed my problem. You wish to follow the girl, sir Yeah, it's a lovers spat. You know what I mean? I think so. But Jollo quickly. Yes, sir You know where she's going I'm not sure maybe diamond head circle lady is gaining sir Let's make a diamond head circle. Is there a faster way there a shortcut? There is Which means what means never mind diamond head circle drive fast to the factory instead and do not move mr. Marlowe Oh Comes the heavy artillery, huh Okay, full man. Sure. What's with the factory you out of the way until the cloak of kamehameha is mine Which won't work because believe it or not clever one There's another philip malo who at the moment is a lot closer to that collection of fancy feathers than either of us You lie stupid bit for freedom.  Jollo the truck.  So I ran for a taxi gave the driver 10 bucks the address. I wanted and took off The street on which lani kaya lived was a neat curving strip that rose sharply from sea level up to the shadow of diamond head itself And we were there in less than 10 minutes But finding number 44 was something else and another 30 minutes disappeared before we finally parked away from the place Which was glass conor wood and you can't find the front door without a blueprint tucked deep behind a thick grove of date palms I told the driver to back down the hill without using his motor Then I slipped into the grounds and carefully moved toward the house Until what I thought was the trunk of another palm tree stepped into my path fast. Stop where you are At the top which was over six and a half feet There was a shock of flaming red hair the whole frame was half covered in dirty yellow shirt once upon a time White ducks and battered brown sandals And broad daylight it would have looked worse you Who are you? Eh someone with an appointment to see miss kalia. Why you belong to this place? Yes, and this place belongs to me as well all of it Miss kalia included she's mine to protect you understand that malahini Malawitch malahini greenhorn tourists the kind that I hate Kind that's ravaging all this beautiful Stealing the islands from those to whom they belong Take it easy red. I'm not here to ravage or stick your pretty island into my pocket when you're not looking All I want is words with lani kalia You are like the rest of them trying with cunning a deceit to turn her head away from these shores and toward the mainland where you come from I won't stand for it. Look, why don't we break this round table up and get to the house? I'm in a hurry. All right But i'm sure that lani will be on my side So sure in fact that we really shouldn't disturb the flowers should we Should we Malahini In just a moment the second act of phillip marlowe, but first if mystery and detection are your dish Don't forget you can get more of the same over cbs Tomorrow for instance is the day when two unique and widely differing sleuths make their weekly appearance One is that well-known character sam spade dashill hammits hard-boiled private eye The other sleuth whose adventures are yours every sunday is danny clover an old hand on that gaudy street called Broadway broadway is my beat says danny clover and it's a beat where anything can happen Both broadway is my beat and the adventures of sam spade come to you over most of these same cbs network stations Now with our star jerald more we return to the second act of phillip marlowe and tonight's story the cloak of kamehameha A red-headed lunatic with a slow soft voice and fast hard fist took me by surprise and i wound up flat on my back Before i realized he's so much as moved At the time i got to my feet and took after me was sprinting for a bamboo thicket And had a 30-yard lead which was all he needed to lose me completely When i finally untangled myself in the jungle i came out on the road But then i heard a motor behind me so i dove for the underbrush again just as a heavy car roared by I'd seen it before in fact i'd been in it It was the limousine that belonged to the china man The back seat was empty but the half-care chauffeur jollo was crouched behind the wheel drove out of sight like his life depended on it As i walked back toward the house I saw that a door was standing open and spilling a shaft of yellow light across the dark grounds And started up the walk when it came Then a second later lani calia burst into the path of light and ran for the open door I went after a quarter by one arm and spun her around. No. No. Let me go. What happened. Why'd you scream lani? I'm back there in the pond. Yeah I heard a noise and When i came outside i i found him found who come on show me I talked to him just a few minutes ago I gave him the cloak.  What? There Look there in the water Oh brother Who is it lani? Do you know her? Yes That's philip marlowe Skinner my neck crawls lani tagged the thing in the lily pond with my name It was face down in the shallow water and three inches of crooked steel The ugly carved handle of a crisp stuck straight up between his shoulder blades Somebody had made a very grim mistake But it took five minutes of argument and a thorough checking of all the credentials i carried to convince the badly frightened lani I dragged the body out of the water and up onto the grass And then i went through his pockets What did you find a card? Yeah From the hawaiian island art products company limited Number 12 harbour street Mean anything? No, i've never heard of it What's that on the back flight number and departure time of the plane i was supposed to take out of los angeles Over years he's been one jump ahead of me all the time Right up to your lily pond here Was anyone with him when you gave him the cloak a half cast in the chauffeur's uniform for us? No, no he was alone I I gave him the cloak just as schindler had instructed me to and listen lani There was a down at the heel redhead here just before you came out He claimed to be a friend of yours. Oh, that was laurence cocker in the poet that guy's a poet Yes, at least he was going to be He wrote one great poem years ago about two lovers who leaped to death over the poly To keep from being separated and their souls turned into birds It's still very popular here on the island. What happened then? Oh, then he got the habit of drowning himself in gin Now the natives call him papuli the crazy one that's closer Oh, he's always hanging around. I suppose he still believes he's in love with me.  He thinks he should look after me Okay, lani let him keep thinking so What do you mean? Well, I mean you can use a good watchdog right now So when cocklin comes back you make him park on your doorstep and you stay inside and be careful With guy's name philip mollo getting knives in their backs. I've got a few things to do myself But fast I'd like to borrow that souped up convertible of yours. Where are you going? number 12 harbour street and the hawaiian island art products company limited Harbour street was a narrow twisting alley two blocks below king street A kind of social sargasso where the derelicts of the pacific quietly founded and dives built into the damp crevices between warehouses However, number 12 turned out to be practically a blank wall There was one small window high up a door with a heavy iron grill over the glass On which hawaiian island art products limited ik lee president was painted in small black letters And a thin passageway blocked by an iron gate at the side of the building A light burned inside but the door was locked So after I'd ruined my shoe shine and skinned all my knuckles I managed to climb over the gate and edge down the passageway to the rear Where I could hear water run It was a marble fountain playing in the center of a walled garden as oriental is a forbidden city I eased across its rigid dainteness to an open door peaked in and then Reached for my gun because sitting inside at a sleek white mahogany desk Was the china man in the gray panamar Where where This is a somewhat unexpected ton of events Please be careful with that gun.  Why'd you break your neck to get kamehameha's cloak anyway? You know, it'll happen if you ever try to sell it. Oh by good man I can sell that cloak every day for the rest of my life A few feathers at a time.  But it is I manufacture the beautiful feather lays islanders wear on the heads And while the bird is extinct the desire for its gleaming feathers is not One or two golden mambo feathers in each lay and instead of a mere hundred dollars a piece I can get double that triple that Now do you understand mr. Malo? You um, you've got things a little mixed up, haven't you lee? Mixed up household.  Blake and easily accessible gentleman. I hired on main street in trough angeles He only pretended to be you For obvious reason to intercept the feather cloak, huh? Oh, yes I've known all about pilot chindler's plans since their inception. I followed every move he made in fact It was I who caused all the other over on the way to the airport this morning By means of a bribe to your driver. Yeah, aren't you the one? Yes Too bad you won't be able to keep your nest lined with kamehameha's bathrobe after all lee Because i'm gonna walk out of here with it or big chunks of your puss now name it. Where's the cloak now? I'm together from this. You don't have it malo Shrewd observation and the chindler as I suspect it has tricked us. You're stalling lee. I'm warning you start talking All I wanted to find out go ahead jollo Oh That is judo mr. Malo almost like magic isn't it jollo can break your back if I tell him to malo So you behave Shindler has the cloak no doubt about it. So I must find him at once with no interference from you So jollo, you have his gun. Yes Lock him inside keep malo until I call. I may need him later I'm something that have casted down to my spine With the edge of his hand my legs were paralyzed I felt like the practice dummy in a school for chiropractors Every joint in my body ached when I moved So I didn't move until a feeling owes back into my legs And then I wobbled to my feet and looked around There was the small high window I'd seen from the street The heavy chair at desk with a lamp and something like a picture framed in bamboo on the wall I glanced at it and then And I looked back And kept looking hard for a long long time until I finally realized what it meant The answer to the whole thing was contained in that bamboo frame.  Martin answer right here jollo Come on get up. I've got some magic to show you now a trick I learned in kansas called a haymaker And on the hold of the street door and out to the car There was no traffic problem at that Oh, I saw I jammed the gas pedal of the floor and held it there right through the heart of hannolulu and up the Twisting road that led to the mountains back of the city The echoing roar of the motor is a tunnel through the forest lining the road was finally replaced by another roar wind The unending gale that shrieks through a precipitous pass three thousand feet above the city the poly I swung the car to the side of the road and ran the rest of the way out to where the rocks rose to a knife edge That dropped a sheer thousand feet to the valley floor Then I spotted them lani lying stunned at the cliff's edge and standing over her His red hair ripped by the wind was the mad island poid drunk as a lord And flapping around his shoulders like a pair of huge gold wings was the cloak of kamehameha Harkin must have lost it as he fell The wind brought it back here to me and touch it ever again. I know what you mean Come on, baby I'll carry it for you.  Absolutely right mr. Schender more coffee. Thanks, lani. So lee was picked up on the hannolulu police You're sure I had it all set up. He'll spend some time in prison and that cholo too By the way, he was still unconscious when we got to him. What in the world did you hit him with? Enthusiasm mostly That's when you got away and came up to the poly Yeah, but feel how did you know it was lauren said and where he'd be Well, it all tied in with that one popular poem. Cochran had written lani that anonymous letter you got in los angeles Mr. Schindler was a lion from that poem. Yeah Kamehameha's cloak of golden feathers will bring no less than death How did you find that out marlowe? Well when I was locked up in lee's factory I saw a full copy of that poem on the wall and a little bamboo frame Oh when I came to the line you just quoted it stuck out like it was printed in neon That peg Cochran is the killer once I had that I tried to look at things from his angle He was a murderer sure to be caught Desperately in love insanely possessive of everything he thought belonged here in the islands And he was an unbalanced lush as well. So the rest of it figured that's all and when he was cornered He went back to the one important thing he'd ever done. Exactly baby. He was lost So he identified himself with the hero of his poem and took that as the only way out Amazing truly an amazing thing and a terrible thing too, mr. Schindler. Yeah, who knows We all got what we went after didn't we each of us even laurence cochran After schindler left to catch a plane for the mainland And lani said aloha and left to get ready for our date I sat on the lani of the hotel And watched the sweep of the pacific from diamond head to the hills across the harbor From the white sands of wiki-ki And the green shallows over the reef To the purple depths beyond And as a warm wind whispered through the palms And the native strummed the ukulele under a banyan tree I heard lani whisper aloha. What does aloha really mean? Adventures of philip marlowe created by raymond schindler star jerald moore and are produced and directed by norman mcdonnell Script is by melden l. A robert mitchell and gene levitt featured in the cast was barry kroger with laurette philbrant john daner paul frieze byron cain and clark gordon the special music is by richard oran Be sure and be with us again next week when philip marlowe says The thick fog that clung to los angeles made searching for the girl who was going to kill herself slow and easy But in the end i'd have settled for that and more because Murder happened twice before i found the lady in mink 52 000 a nice pocket full of chains to have around isn't it well the chance to win it comes your way again Just a little later tonight when cbs's giant one-hour quiz show sing it again comes to you over most of these same stations This is roi roan speaking Now stay tuned for gangbusters which follows immediately over most of these same stations This is cbs the columbia broadcasting system


I wish for some epic Yu-Gi-Oh cards. Oh! What's this? Epic Yu-Gi-Oh cards? From Wish? What's up, guys? We're back with another epic video. Today we're going to be opening some cards that I bought from Wish. Yeah. So I wished that I had some Epic Yu-Gi-Oh cards. And what better place to go than Wish? Okay, that's a joke, obviously. Wish is... We don't know. I don't know what Wish is going to be like. So I went down to Wish.com and I decided, you know what? Let's buy some Yu-Gi-Oh cards because I've seen some crazy things come from Wish.  So I decided let's spend a few dollars on Wish and see what we get. I think I spent $38. So I didn't spend too much and I bought a 200 card lot. Let's see if we can find any actually good cards in this lot. But before that, we do have a quick giveaway. I'll be giving away these three original print cards. Just like the video, be subscribed. And let me know if you enjoyed this video. And let me know if you want to see us try this again with maybe spending more. Because I only spent $38. Maybe if we spend like $200 or $500, something crazier would happen. If we don't get anything great out of here, maybe we do get something great and we're going to try and get more great stuff. So let me know in the comments. Alright, so from this package, yeah, it's opened. And the reason is I didn't know what this was when I got it. Because it was from an individual seller. So it just had somebody's name. So I thought maybe it was a special edition or something. So I opened it up and I was like, what is this? And I was like, oh, this is the wish. These are the wish cards. So I have not looked in there. I saw like a couple of cards. I don't remember what they are anymore. So we're going to pull them out and see what's inside. Okay, you guys see this is very interesting packaging. They're like taped up and they're sleeved in like multiples. So it's honestly not a horrible way to do it. But the problem is it was, you know, there's no protection or anything. So they could have been damaged kind of easily. So it's going to be an absolute nightmare to open these up. You guys see this? Look at all this tape. How are we going to get into this? Like, look at this. I'm going to have to take a knife and just cut down this way. I think I think that's the only way this is. All right. This is starting off weird. Okay. So let's just try and dissect these real quick without cutting any cards. Actually, wait, maybe I can pull this. Okay. Wait, wait, wait. Is this going to unravel the entire? Okay. Maybe not. Okay. One piece down. All right. Um, many to go. Okay. Let's try this part. Okay. Two pieces of tape down. This has to be in the video because it's just part of the experience of buying on Wish. This guy like left it so you could tear it off. Like there's so many, that could just go so wrong. You know, it just gets folded down in the package. Uh, doesn't seem like a good idea to me. Okay. But it's, it's actually not going to lie. It's working out pretty good. Honestly, look at this. It actually worked out way easier than I thought it was going to. We got the four, you know, the four corners of the Wish order separated, but now we're still taped off. They're taped up here too. Oh my goodness. Um, these are not going to be quite as easy. So, uh, yeah, I hope you guys are enjoying this unpacking video. I hope you like the sound of undaping stuff because it's kind of painful to be honest, but we're getting these cards out guys. Put your guesses in the comments if you guys think that we're going to get any good card. Like I'm talking like, by good, I mean like five plus dollars. You know, not crazy, but like decent. So we'll put your guesses in the comments. Will we get hollows? Will we get any hollows? We could get all comments for all I know. Could you imagine if there's like a ghostry in here or a starlight? Okay, we're just going to go one at a time. Actually, no, we're going to unpack all these in the beginning. So just in case, you know, I'll probably skip through some of it so that you guys don't have to watch all of this because it's a little crazy. And speaking of watching, you guys did not see the PSA return video yesterday. You might want to check that one out. It was pretty crazy. Also check out the every 10 opening from Saturday. That was a great one as well. We've had some pretty epic videos. Hope you guys have enjoyed them. I think we're at 85K now. I'm recording this. We're like six subscriber short. So we should probably be there by the time you guys see this, which is pretty, pretty awesome. So to celebrate, we're going to open up some wish cards. Okay. But yeah, seriously, we do have some big openings. Like the special edition opening is coming up. Don't forget about that. That's going to be a lot of fun. And then, of course, the 100K special in a few months whenever we get their retro pack, too, is going to be awesome as well. Let's see what we can do here. We're getting close to being able to open these. Okay. First set of four. This might give us a clue. Maybe they're hidden in the middle. Maybe they're like packs. What are you guys saying? Do you think there's packs? I've never, have I ever seen this card? This is Mega Pack 20, but I don't remember it. Hop ear, tinny. Let's see if there's any good cards in here. That's what we want. We're just looking for some good cards. It was only $38. Sunlight Wolf. Cool. So I'm not expecting too much, to be honest. But you never know with these lots. Sometimes you get some decent cards. Let's see. We've got the World Chalice Guard Dragon. Dino wrestler, Time Thief. Okay. A lot of new stuff. Will we see any old school cards? That's interesting. We've got some. I'm guessing no so far though. Looks like a lot of newer cards. We've got a Wicked Dreadroot. That's from Kyco. This is very new.  That's what it seems like. It's a strong chance that it's bulk. But you never know if there's a, you know, something good slipped in. Super Rare. We got a Medulche. We got Dino Wrestler. Yeah. So we got to see if we think these are like a scam or not. Because $38 is a lot for some bulk. So we're going to find out it's on wish. So, you know, it could either be awful or it could be amazing. You know, and that's kind of what we're looking for. Auster the South Wind. Simonetic Revolution. Cool. Named after the set. It's always nice. Prime Photon. Malefic Blue Eyes is pretty cool. It's just a common, but it is pretty cool. Decoy Dragon. That's my favorite card so far. We're going to set out our favorite card and see what it's going to be. We are officially halfway through. Our value is at about $0. Maybe even lower.  The bulk is like almost worth less than nothing because it just takes up space, but check this out. Battles of Legend Arm again. I only open like 30 boxes of this. So we got a few things, but look at this. Ooh. Blue Eyes. That's pretty cool. A green Blue Eyes. That's, okay. All right. I think it's worth about a dollar. But hey, it's something. It's not nothing over Destiny. What is this? What is SDCH? I don't remember what that is. Is that like a deck or something? Ooh. Odd Eyes Pendulum Dragon from Dupo. Pot of the, pot of awesome. Yeah. Okay. We've got a Gravekeeper's Spy. That's a cool card. Idol and Utopia and Utopia Ray. All right. Little better. It was a little better. But it's definitely better than what we were seeing, which was pretty rough. FA winners. We've got the Crusadia, Rainbow Refraction, Necrofusion, Ultra Guys. All right. So far, only a few foils out of the whole thing, but that's kind of what we're expecting. We're hoping that it's not, but it might be. All right. We've got a Chimera Tech over here. Or, not Chimera Tech. Chimera. Sorry. Too much power. The duelist recently. Okay. Chimera. Gaia. Summon Skull. A Curse of Dragon. These are cool old school. So we're getting some old school. They are from Yugi's Legendary Decks. So they're not like Super Rare or anything, but really cool. Wing Dragon Guardian. The Fortress. The Feral Imp. Beaver Boy. Oh, this guy's classic. I love this guy. Grifford, the monster's tough hide to flex almost any attack. Let's try another one. Oh, look at that. We've got ourselves a Stardust Spark over there. Very nice. It's from Dude. It's from Duel Devastator. Mirror Force Launcher. We've got the Magic Cylinder. Not bad. Not bad. Rocket Recharger. Exploder Rocket Dragon. Check some. Auto Rocket Dragon. And Shell Rocket Dragon. Okay. This looks like it has some foils in here. I mean, it's got one at least. So we've got the Stardust Spark Dragon. I'm going to use this in my Duel Links deck with my blue eyes. Pretty cool. I have a ton of these, uh, dude cards because I have like 15 of them back in the day. Ooh, Gandoor X. Cool. It's from MVP One. So not super crazy or anything, but it's really nice. Sunseed Twin. Look at that. Abyss Megalo is a pretty decent card. Abistius. Okay. They're not bad cards. Full Armored Lancer. Okay. Halfway to Forever. Oh, look. Duel of Saga. Everyone's new favorite. Old, old new favorarity. Dimension Sphinx and a Deco Talker. Okay. Deco Talker. Pretty cool. It's from Dupo. All right. We've got an Arm Sage. Okay. Cool. Chronic Guardian. Hidden Springs. We've got the Zero Maxwell. Oh, this guy is the guy who looks like the otter from Pokemon. S-Force Dog Tag and Binary Blader. Okay. Ancient Gearframe. Interesting. Ancient Gearframe. We've got the Cyber Dark Edge. Reactor Dragon. Wait, where did these from? Legendary Duel of Season One. Mixeroid. Tortoise. Legendary Ocean. Gear Golem. Sapphire Pegasus. Gear Golem. Oh, the real Gear Golem. Ancient Gear Golem. And the Cyber Deck. Cyber Dark Claw. Okay. A few more of these left. Let's see if we can get anything crazy. So far, Blue Eyes with Green Text is our best. We've got some Charmers here. A lot of Charmers. Deferiousness. We've got a Gigabyte. Ran Ryu. Sleeper. And Rella. So far, our value is probably not there, but we're still hoping for something big. We've got a Scarlet Scourge. Mirror. Dragesis. Dragon. We've got a Voli. Spiritualist. Teen. Claw. Sentences. And Tag Barrier. All right. This looks like it has some Yu-Gi's Legendary Decks in here. So let's see if there's anything cool like a Hollow from the set. Giant Soldier or so. We've got a Mammoth Graveyard. Caribo. Caribo. Swords of Revealing Light. Mystic Box. Brain Control. Monster Recovery. Spell Shot. Oh. Where's the Mammoth Graveyard? Wait. Is he in here? Oh, yeah. The Ultimate Combination Yu-Gi-Oh. The only way to defeat Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon and still lose somehow. Right here. That's it. Even though I think it's called Living Arrow. I don't know if it's actually the same card, but pretty close. All right. We've got the Fairy Tail Luna. Let's see. The Dark Doriota. Which of the Black Forests? Not a bad card. Terra... Oh, Terraforming. That's actually one of the better cards of our Book of Eclipse. And then we've got the Spiritual Water Arts and Earth Art. Four more mini-packed things. Whatever you want to call these. We've got Photon Hand. So far, it looks like it's mostly bulk from newer sets. And not even great sets, to be honest. So that's what we're looking at for the most part. But it is wish. Kind of what we expected. And I wonder what would happen if we bought a more expensive lot. You guys think we would get something actually good? Or you think it'd just be a ton of this? It's hard to know. It's hard to know. So it could be a fun video. And Cyber Egg Angel. Dark Rose Factory. All right. Two more. Infinite cards. Actually a pretty good one. From Kaiko. At the Cloud Castle. Ultimate Shield. And Stardust. Zeng Long. And the final pack. So far our best card is a Blue Eyes of Green Text. About a $1 card. Here we go. Only spent $38 though. So not that expensive. Ancient Cloak. Here we go. We got our Phantom Knights. All right. Yeah. I was playing with this the other day. And look at that. Silent Boots. Look at all these. Kurenai. Miyabi. Asa. Area. Could you buy cards from Wish? Based on this experience. I'm going to have to go with no. Because most of this bulk is worth about nothing. For the most part. Almost all the cards are probably worth a couple bucks. So spent $38. Got a couple bucks back. Could happen if you buy packs as well. You could buy and get nothing. But I like your chances at buying packs and potentially pulling something rather than potentially getting something good in here. It is pretty fun though to check it out. Maybe sometime we'll do a more expensive one and maybe they'll be upgraded actually. I have hollows in them. There's only a few hollows in the entire thing. This was a lot of fun to do though because I've never bought anything at all on Wish. So I've seen some funny stuff come out of there. And I hope you guys enjoyed it. My Wish for Epic Yu-Gi-Oh! cards. Didn't really come true. So maybe next time. Thank you guys for watching. I'll see you guys later. Peace. Shining of this. Ooh, the Revival Jam. Oh no!


My name is Sergeant Graham. My parent unit is Alpha Company First Battalion 25th Marines. I'm out here competing in a competition in arms program FY 2021. It's a program designed to make Marines more lethal and grab Marines from all over the globe. Put them together here at the end for championships and see who's the most lethal. My impression of the guys that are out here is that there are some phenomenal shooters out here. I'm humbled to be a part of it. I'm grateful to have a chance to come here and compete and see who's the best. Every day is a learning experience. Just trying to stay humble and stay focused. So this is the final competition of the year. However, we still have another four or five days of competing against each other. It's a total about a week of competition. So the weapons will change. Absolutely. There's also several different styles of matches. There's a steel challenge match. There's USPF style shooting. There's also a PRS style match and to add in some more three guns as well.


My name is Seya Tokura from Abuja, Nigeria. I am a land rights activist. I work with the indigenous people of FCT who's land rights have not been protected. I help to mediate between land grabbers and the community. We're presently working on a policy. We're proposing a policy. Now that we give access to farmlands for indigenous people. And with Encounter 2020, I expect to actually learn from best practices and to learn from others as well on how best to research and put in this policy framework. Thank you very much.


On today's Visual Studio Toolbox, Allison shows us how Visual Studio can improve your coding speed. Don't worry, we won't get too crazy. I'll keep it IntelliSensible. Excellent. Hi, welcome to Visual Studio Toolbox. I'm your host, Robert Green, and joining me today is Allison Buchholz-Au. Hey, Allison. Hey, how are you? Great. Welcome to the show. Thank you. First time guest. Excellent. I'm very excited to be a guest here today. It's awesome. We're going to talk about some more Visual Studio productivity tips and tricks. Last week, Kendra was on showing us some of the things a Visual Studio does to add to productivity, but we focus on the IDE. Okay. Today, we're going to focus on coding, is our part two of this, particularly around IntelliSense. All right. But as we go along, I'm sure you're going to talk about other things. Sure. I've been using the product since it was invented, but just practicing here, I learned two or three things. I know. I'm excited to see if- There's cool stuff to see. Yeah. It is pretty exciting that in our practice, there's already two things that you did not know. Yeah. So I'm excited to share those with you. I think first off, it probably makes sense just to talk about what even is IntelliSense. Right. Right. For any viewers who are just starting to get their bearings in Visual Studio, I definitely had no idea what IntelliSense was. I was like, oh, is it some intelligent thing that's going to help me and it definitely is. The name and imply? Yes. But in IntelliSense, I always like to think of it as our version of autocomplete. It's giving you suggestions. It's giving you options. It's not quite like the autocomplete on your phone where you only get three suggestions. It's really about giving you everything that might be relevant at that point. Right. It's not so much an autocomplete because it doesn't guess what you meant. It doesn't guess. No. It doesn't just make stuff up. Exactly. Therefore, get half of it wrong. It says, is this what you meant? If so, you don't have to do all this typing. Exactly. Yes. As many of our developers know, so much of our time here on the Visual Studio team is about saving you those extra keystrokes because those add up. They add up. You save someone one keystroke a minute when they're at their machine for eight hours a day like that compounds. Yes. IntelliSense is really meant to help you do that. All right. Let's take just a quick example here to see what IntelliSense does. So, I'll zoom in here. You'll see this box here that just appeared when I typed if. So, this is our IntelliSense box. Right now, it gives us any suggestions that might be what we want. So, you'll see here it highlights. Including the code snippets. Including a code snippet. That was one of the things that I did not know. Yeah. 20 minutes ago. Yeah.  IntelliSense does have code snippets. Actually, if you were to press this button down here, it would filter to the code snippets that match if, which I think is pretty cool. So, what's pretty great is that IntelliSense will try to highlight what it thinks is most likely. So, in this case, we've got a perfect match with if. But we also have things like iCustomFormatter so it does camel case matching. It says, hey, maybe you want an iFormat table. It does matching on a variety of things here. So, you've got members and classes and interfaces, and it'll search everything in your code base to give you a list of suggestions that might help you out. And you can just scroll through with the arrow keys or with your mouse depending on how you like to code. Right. Cool. So, now it's gone here. If you ever accidentally get rid of your IntelliSense window, you don't have to backspace and retype it to get it back. You can just do control space and it's back again. So, here you'll see we've got classes, delegates, namespaces. These are all filters. Let me go ahead and zoom in there real fast. So, these are all IntelliSense filters. So, I mentioned it pulls a wide range of things from your code base to help inform you of what you'd like. But in this case, there's a ton of them. If you wanted to filter them down, you can either select any of these filters with your mouse or they all have shortcut keys available to them. So, if we were to activate that again, you'll notice when you hover over them Alt-C, if I did that here, would do the classes. You can always escape to get out of it. So, I think that's pretty great. And then, I know one of the other things I was showing you today is if you have your IntelliSense window here and maybe we're not in an if-loop. Maybe we are in a method, right? We're trying to fill in our parameters. There's an example. But it's hidden behind my IntelliSense box here. What would you do? Normally like escape and look. Escape or hope that it fades or wish that there was a way of getting it to briefly disappear. Well, do I have a trick for you? If you just hold down control, it will go transparent enough for you to be able to see the code underneath. Which, again, one of those hidden gems, I use this all the time when I've got a really unwieldy method that's got a ton of parameters. And I'm trying to look at the example right underneath it and it has saved me so many times from having to exit out, write it down on another piece of paper or add in a bunch of enters. Or scroll the window or something. Yes, that is exactly right. So, that's sort of a nice, I think, quick overview of IntelliSense. Another great thing, let's see if I go up here. You'll notice we have some regular expressions up here and, unfortunately, we're in our GA release, the Visual Studio right now. But in our latest preview, we actually give you IntelliSense off of Regex expressions, which is pretty cool. But what I think is even cooler about this for our users sort of new. And that's coming in 16.1, which is not that far away. It's not that far away. I actually think that might have been released last week. Oh. Maybe. Okay. The preview is definitely out. 16.1 might be out fully. But it is in 16.1. If we were to try and activate IntelliSense, if we were in 16.1, it would give us some nice little IntelliSense there. Cool. But what I think is sort of cooler about this is that you're not just getting IntelliSense for Regex, right? Because we decided to. There's these great things called textmate bundles. And those allow for any language to sort of add in to their language service. And it allows you to get simple colorization and simple IntelliSense for that language. So things like Go, right? It has a textmate bundle for Visual Studio. So you get basic IntelliSense. So you don't have to just stick with the languages that our team supports. So that's an extension somewhere. You can get that in the marketplace. It's part of just like if you open a folder with Go, Visual Studio just knows that there's a textmate bundle for that and pulls it down. And it will give you that automatic colorization as it is, which is really cool. It's great to know that IntelliSense is not just something we support for our own native languages, but for our community. Visual Studio is really a tool for any developer, I'd like to think. Cool. Let's see. Do we have, oh, one other great thing that we get with IntelliSense is this little box here, which is our signature help. So it gives us a little bit of information about what this method might do. And I don't know about you, but I definitely don't know all the methods and what they do off the top of my head. So it gives you information about the parameters you'll have in there or the arguments you'll have in there. It gives you a little bit of a description of what it will do. And even if those are your own private classes, as long as you sort of have those descriptions as part of it, IntelliSense can bring those in. And that window was became color coded, I think in 2017. I think it was just all gray. It was all gray. It was really hard to tell where things were separated, but we've tried to make it a little easier to scan. Cool. So that's typing great things to help you have less keystrokes. Another thing that I sort of like to show and I know always helps me code a little bit faster is the ability to navigate really quickly. So I know what last week you guys learned about GoTo. We did navigate backwards. Navigate backwards.  I know we did those, but that's not all of them. That's not all of them. Yeah, so those involved you sort of flipping back and forth between different files, right? But sometimes I feel like I just want a little peak into what this method is doing without having to leave my context. So what I can do is I can go right click peak definition, which is also Alt-F12, keyboard junkie. And it gives you a peak into this file. So here I can see what specific emoji does. I can investigate how it works. And great thing is that IntelliSense also works within this window. That window is editable. Yep. Totally. Can you set break points in there? I do believe you can. No, you cannot. Yeah. There you go. There's my feature request for the video. All right. I'll be sure to relay that to the team. I thought you could, but apparently not. But yeah, it's totally editable. I can go back space here, bring up IntelliSense. It says yes, we want to do our success. And I can even save it.   If you want the full, you know, file flip, so you can investigate more fully, you can also just do control click, which is go to definition at that. Which is also F12, if I remember correctly. It is F12 is, yep, yep. So F12 will bring you to the file. Alt F12 will give you just the peak. So hopefully a nice complimentary keyboard set. All right. Yeah. So that's just a quick overview of IntelliSense. Awesome. And I hope anyone who, you know, either has been using IntelliSense for many years, learned a new trick, and anyone coming to Visual Studio for the first time just has a better understanding of why it's such a powerful tool. Yeah, that's great. So let me ask you a question. So looking ahead, what are some of the things that we can expect to see moving forward in IntelliSense if you can share some future stuff with us? Yeah, so one of the coolest things I think, and I'm definitely a little biased because it's my area, but we just released for general availability something called IntelliCode, which takes IntelliSense and super charges it, is what we like to say. So it takes all the great things about IntelliSense of producing your keystrokes and takes it to another level by infusing it with machine learning. So we take the wisdom of the community of over 2,000 open source repositories, and instead of just an alphabetical list, we give you a starred recommended list. So it takes your context into account in order to give you much more similar to autocomplete where it says, hey, this is probably what you want next, and it's not just an alphabetical list. This is the 12th project in a row that you've created a method like this. Do you just want me to autocomplete the whole thing for you based on? We're a little far away from that. But that's kind of like where you can see it ending up someday, right? Fingers crossed. Right. But yes, yeah, right now it's more of just we notice you're using this class and within an if statement, you always call this method. That's sort of the thing we tend to do. Or it could potentially detect antipatterns, right? Maybe soon. Okay. Maybe soon. We're hoping. There's a long road ahead. And I will be excited to do a deep dive of that with you. We'll definitely do that in a few months when it's, there's a little bit more. Stability. I was going to say when you've thought about it more, you've seen how it's being used, you've got a sense of what it can do. And then we can talk about how it works, but also some tips and tricks on using it. And then we can talk about science fiction in future worlds where this thing could go. Yeah, I'd love that. And maybe we'll be extra lucky and we'll finally have that code snippet on demand for you. It probably won't be a clippy thing where it says, hey, it looks like you're writing an expense report app. Hopefully not. We're going to try to avoid becoming a clippy, but hopefully people will find it a little more useful than a non-machine learning intelligence. Yeah, totally. We've seen a couple of demos of it and we had Mark Wilson-Thomas on the show a while back giving kind of a preview of it. It's really, really cool stuff. So we'll definitely revisit that. That must have been like a year ago, right? Probably. Yeah, we've come a long way in a year. All right, thanks so much for doing this. Thanks so much for having me on. Hope you guys enjoyed that and we'll see you again next time on Visual Studio Toolbox.