Hi everyone, Joe for jaspyscasebreaks.com, coming at you with 2020 Leaf Metal Draft Football, five box serial number break number one from jaspyscasebreaks.com. The next one's in the store, so there you go. You'll be assigned a number right there, and you'll get whatever number is directly to the left of the slash right there, it's a number block break. Make thanks to these folks right here, and there are the numbers right there, and here are the number of boxes right here as well. I'm going to randomize one through fourteen, and then the top five boxes are the ones we're going to do for this particular break. It's a fourteen box case, and Leaf should make these fifteen. Make that a lot easier for us. Alright, let's roll it and randomize it. I'll do the box numbers last after I open up the case, but let's do your numbers first. Let's roll it and randomize it four and a six, ten times for all three lists. Four names first, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, and ten. After ten times, we've got Chad down to Justin, four and a six, ten times for the numbers, and ten, two down to three. Alright, so Chad with two, Ron with seven, Diane with zero. You'll get any and all redemptions. Brett with four, Mike with one, Rob with six, Todd with nine, Diane with five, Ryan with eight, and Justin with three. Sort by column B right there. Now while you're considering trades, let's pop open this case. Here's my knife. This is twenty-twenty, leaf metal draft. Let's number all of these, and I always keep a secret stash of pens every time mine gets stolen. Two, three, four, seven, eight, nine. Alright, so I got all these numbered right there. The nine I underlined, so I mean it looks very different from my six, but just in case. Alright, so there are the box numbers right there. We'll do that ten times, four and a six. One, two, three, four, five, six, and a tenth and final time. After ten times, we've got these five box right here. Five, nine, six, seven, fourteen. Five, nine, six, seven, and fourteen. Got it, five, nine, six, seven, fourteen. Five, nine, six, seven, fourteen. And we'll save these for next time. In fact, I'm almost certain that there are non-numbered cards here. So what we're going to do with a non-numbered card is randomize them individually to someone in the break, and we'll just go in order. So if we pull, you know, non-numbered card X, Y, and Z, for example, we'll separate them out like that, so X will be the one on. You'll figure it out, we'll figure it out. We'll figure it out, name on tops, blah, blah, blah. If there's more than ten, we'll just, we'll just double them up. Shouldn't be more than ten. All right. Trade window closed. Hey, Mike, how's it going? TWC, there are the numbers right there. We've got Harrison Barnes versus Trey Young. All right, we've got T Higgins, 35 out of 50. That'll go to Diane, number five. We've got James Robinson, eight out of 15. That'll go to Ryan Redmond. Redemption going to Diane. Jeff Okuda, I'm going to start learning all these players. The draft's coming up pretty soon. Michael B, what's going on? We've got Josh Kelly, 14 out of 50. Brett with number four. We've got Armed and Dangerous, I know I've heard of Jalen Hertz. Armed and Dangerous, that's one out of 35. That'll go to Mike Costello, number one. And we've got the next, another five boxes of this leaf metal in the store right now. We've got Jalen Régor, 17 out of 20. So that'll go to number seven. We're going directly to the left side of that serial number. Ron Hollins with seven. We've got Chase Claypool, two out of 30 for Chad B. All right, see you, Daddy. We've got Michael Hasty, 49. Out of 60, that'll go to Todd Greenwald and the number nine. We've got Grant Delpete, Tenacious D, autograph, 42 out of 50. Chad with the number two. And we've got Jacob Eason, 15 out of 20. So number five will get that Diane with number five. We've got Leviska Chanalt Jr. I've heard good things about this guy, 18 out of 40. That'll go to Ryan in number eight. We've got James Proche, 22 out of 50. Chad with number two. Tenacious D, CJ Henderson, five out of 30. That'll be for Diane. Nate Stanley, armed and dangerous, eight out of 60. Ryan Redman. And we've got C.D. Lamb, definitely heard of him. Seven out of 10. Ron Hollins with number seven. Feels like now college football, not a big strong suit of mine, but from what buzz I've been hearing, it seems like it's going to be a pretty good wide receiver class. So I'm looking forward to learning about all these wide receivers. Justin needs a three. What about Cam Akers, three? No, that's one out of have all the numbers hit except for yours, Justin. That goes to Mike, number one. Isaiah Simmons, Tenacious D, four out of seven. Brett with number four. Now I think all the numbers have hit except for three. Tenacious D, Derek Brown, Justin. No, not numbered. So this will be first on the randomizer. We got Trayvon Diggs to Fond's brother. There you go, 13 out of 15. Justin Bible with number three. We got Touchdown Kings. Jonathan Taylor, nine out of 15. Todd Greenwald with number nine. JJ Taylor, 53 out of 60. It's another one for Justin. We got Anthony Jennings, four out of four. Brett with number four. Out of fives and under, get the train whistle. Brett, all aboard, the big hit express. Like that design. We got Touchdown Kings. We got Tyler Johnson, Touchdown Kings. 13 out of 25. Another one for Justin. Next up is Claiborne Chason, three out of seven. Another one for Justin. He's heating up. And we've got Jake from State Farm. That goes to six out of 25. Rob with the number six. There you go, nice Jake from only one non-numbered card. So the name on top. We'll get this Tenacious D, Derek Brown. Right, any missed number right now? No numbers? All right, so let's flip back here. Let's use a new dice roll for that too. Everyone has a shot at it. Little bonus. Let's randomize it three times. Name on top gets it after three, two, three. Ryan Redman, there you go Ryan. Tenacious D going your way. And thanks everybody for watching. That was five box serial number break number one. Left side number 2020, Leaf Metal Draft Football from jaskyscasebreaks.com. There's more in the store and I'm Joe, and hopefully I'll break more with you next time. Bye-bye.


Γεια σας! Είμαι Βικη και καλύτερα! Σήμερα θα δημιουργήσω ένα τελευταίο λαϊκό λαϊκό Ξεκωρήσω στο σκέτσο μου Και θα ξεκινήσω να κάνω κάποια σκέτσο στο καλύτερο μου Ξεκωρήσω να χρησιμοποιήσω ένα σκέτσο πολύ τελευταίο που έχω Και θα χρησιμοποιήσω ένα σκέτσο πολύ τελευταίο στο καλύτερο μου με το τεξό Τώρα, εγώ πιστεύω ότι αυτή η σκέτσο είναι by Hero Arts και δεν είναι αυσιασμένη But there are so many text stamps out there available and I'm going to make sure that I'm going to link some of them below Now, I'm going to make sure that I cover up pretty much the whole background As you can see, I'm not going for the perfect impression I don't really mind This is just the first layer on my background and most of it is going to be covered up by paint However, I'm going to use the stress paint, which is quite transparent It's not super opaque and that is going to make sure that some of the text at the background will be visible at the final piece Now, I'm going to do a fun technique today and for that you need to use micro glaze Now, I have micro glaze by Ranger, which is a team holds product and another one by Jutikin, whichever you have works perfect and if you don't have any of these products, you can always use Vaseline Now, I'm going to apply my micro glaze and in this case, I'm using the one by team holds with a very thin and stiff brush and I'm going to apply it in different areas all over my pages Notice that I'm going only top to bottom but you can go ahead and do right to left or any way you like You can also apply it with your fingers, if you wish or with the thicker brush The thicker the brush or the more the application You will end up with a more dramatic look Now, what that does is that when I'm going to apply my paint all over it and that's acrylic paint actually it's going to resist the acrylic paint so I hope you can already see how my paint separates exactly where that micro glaze is underneath I have covered up both my pages and I hope you can see where the paint separates already I'm cleaning up my brushes I'm going to cover up my paint and by the way, that's spiced marmalade if you're wondering which color I used I'm going to drink a little bit of my coffee and I'm going to make sure that my paint is dry So I'm going to build layers upon layers using this exact technique and I'm going to end up with a built paint look at the end So once everything is dry I'm going to bring in a baby wipe so that I can buff off any areas that still have that glaze on top and then I'm going to start over So again, I'm using my micro glaze applying it in different areas and these are the areas that are going to resist my next color and this time I'm going with Broken China one of my favorite colors from the Distress Line Now, as you can see, I'm dropping a little bit of my acrylic paint on my craft mat so you can see exactly how much I take with my brush and I'm going to go over the pages again Now, I still have the Distress paints that have that dabber on top Most of my dabbers are already dry I have them for years but I know that you can get, if you wish you can get new dabbers to replace those dabbers that you might have and they are totally dry or you can even totally change them with new flip top cups In any case, I'm not going to bother with new cups I'm just going to use them as they are and just unscrew the dabber and tip my brushes in or just add a little bit of the paint on my craft mat just like I did now So again, I'm using my heat gun to dry this layer and you can already see how beautiful it looks and I'm going to enhance it even more So I'm going to buff any excess and then I'm going to do the exact same thing on the next page So this is the final look on my background and of course you can go ahead and add even more layers, if you wish I'm going to stop with those two colors as I don't want that to look too busy It's already busy as it is So I'm going to use this stamp that is going to give a good texture on my background This comes from a stamp set by Tim Holtz and I'm using Sepia Archival ink Again, I'm using Archival ink just because it is permanent So no matter what I decide to do on top of those layers later on it's not going to smudge or smear Again, I'm not going for a perfect impression after all that just good texture So you see, I'm not even using a block to stamp anything I am only using my fingers and pressing my stamp in different areas and I don't know if you can tell through the camera but I can still see the text at the background coming through all those layers of paint and you will definitely going to spot that when you see the final photos at the end So now let's move on to the next step I'm using my scissors and I'm going to cut out a little bit from the outside edges of both the pages all over which is going to create a nice dimensional frame Notice that I'm using my scissors to cut out a slightly wavy line here so nothing is totally straight and perfect and of course I'm not working back to back to the previous page and that allows me to do that Now I usually avoid working back to back and that's because I might get an idea of tearing my pages somewhere or maybe I want to do some piercing, some stitching or even add an eyelet and if you are not working back to back you also protect the previous page, the previous project from possible bleeding of your paints and when I finish my project I can always stick those empty pages together which are going to end up giving me a more sturdier page which I really like Anyway, I am using my distress tool there so I'm going all around the edges to distress them a little bit more Now I'm going to add more details on the look that I'm going for so with my fingers I'm just tearing off some parts of my pages and once that's done I'm going to bring in again my sepia archival ink I'm going to use my craft mat underneath so that I make sure that I don't end up creating a mess underneath and I'm going to ink up the edges As I'm making sure that I'm quite rough with my blending tool this way I curl up the edges and distress them even more Now I'm going to draw a keyhole on this page so for that I'm going to use this die and you can also use any round object that you probably have laying around on your table So I'm going to use my pencil and I'm going to go around that die and then again with my pencil I'm going to draw a triangle just underneath that circle and now I'm going to use my scissors to go all around that pencil line and cut out the keyhole and now I'm going to treat the edges of the keyhole exactly how I treated the edges of the pages So I'm going to distress them and also ink them up and make them look darker Now I'm going to work a little bit at the back of the keyhole and for that I'm using a script text stamp which is quite big and I'm going to cover up the whole background Now the idea is to have text behind the keyhole as well as all around the borders So that's what I'm going to do here Again this script is an old stamp that I have but you will find links down below to a script stamp that is quite big as this is and it's still available online Now I'm going to continue working on this back page and I want it to look like an old book page that's why I'm using a distress oxide ink and that's anti-cleaning I'm going to cover up most of the page with that and I'm also going to add into the mix a little bit of vintage photo Now I'm going to spray a little bit of water This is going to help both those colors to blend in nicely and it's also going to oxidize the ink to give it a more chalky finished look which I think completes the look that I'm going for beautifully and I'm going to do the exact same thing on the other page and here is a close up look on how the keyhole and the paper behind it looks like at the moment So this is where I decided that I needed to ink up the edges with an even darker color just to help them stand up against the background So I decided to go around them with black archival ink and I'm only gik up the edges I'm not going further towards the center of my page Now I'm finally happy with how my background is looking so I will go ahead and work a little bit on my focal points For that I have chosen some of the butterflies from the latest released stamp set by Tim Holtz I'm going to stamp them on mixed media paper with black archival ink which is permanent and I have chosen 3 different designs there and now I'm going to cover up all those images with matte medium I'm using a dry brush to do so and I'm doing that because this is the way to turn a porous surface into a non porous and that's exactly what I need to use my favorite coloring method which is using my big brush markers Now that the matte medium is dry I can go ahead and use my big brush markers I apply a little bit of pink and then smudge it with my finger and I'm capable of doing that just because my surface is non porous and here is how I store my big brush markers I like to keep them horizontally in a clear box so that I can see all the colors and I really love them just because they are super easy to smudge they create shadows but at the same time they are quite transparent so they don't cover up the black lines of the stamped images Another great thing about them is that they dry permanent so when I end up sticking them on top of my project I will not be afraid of any technique that I might use on top of them since they will not smudge or smear Now as you can see I wasn't need white while coloring them at all since I was planning to cut them out with my scissors and once I have cut them all out I will use my matte medium to stick them on top of my background Now as I am doing that just to let you know about a question that I get all the time the big brush markers come in two different ways they are the big brush markers that they have the bigger barrel and the bigger nib the ones that I use but they also come in a smaller barrel with a very fine tip both of them have the exact same ink inside and can be used with the exact same way as I use them So if you have access on the smaller ones then you can get them if you wish so and you will find links down below to both those products so you can check them out see the prices and the colors that you can get Now as you can see I have cut out a few pages as well as the butterflies and now I will go ahead and do a little bit of splashing I have a little bit of white and black gesso on my craft mat I have also cut out a few pieces of scrap paper just to cover up my butterflies and now after diluting the gesso with a little bit of water I am going to create some splashes all over my background very optional I just love them and I like to add them on my pages so I always use black because I end up having a black quote on my pages so the black edges, the black splashes and the black quote is going to bring everything together and at the same time I do white splashes like you see me doing here because I always like to add some white highlights with my white gel pen so I think that these splashes like these really bring everything together and bind your different elements on your page nicely now everything is completely dry so I am ready to use my white gel pen I am adding some highlights around my butterflies and that's just a touch that I always like to do on my focal points I find that it helps them pop against the background and it gives them a nice green-sical look I am also going to add a few highlights around the keyhole and then I am going to use a fine black marker to add antennas for my butterflies since I didn't bother to cut them out now for my quote I am going to use this beautiful sunset this is an alphabets sunset by Concordant 9th and you will find a link to it down below and what I love about that is that you can stamp one letter but if it is one continuous word which is going to give the perfect calligraphy look now I am stamping the word escape and you will see how beautiful it is going to look at the end as one continuous hundreden word so I am going to stamp escape the ordinary and then I am going to use my white gel pen and add some highlights on one side of the letters this is going to help the letters pop against the background but that's what I always like to do on my pages and because I couldn't leave this page alone I just had to use this beautiful dye this is a leaf dye by my favorite things I have cut out a bunch of those leaves out of a green pattern paper and now I am going to use my Nouveau Deluxe glue and I am going to stick them coming out from all those little notches that I have cut out on my paper although I do have quite a bit of dimension on this page it's still going to be able to close and this would also be a great idea to create on a canvas since you can go as dimension as you like there now I am going to stick a few more just to make it look fuller and finally I have some of those white flowers by Tim Holtz which I am going to stick I have already cut them with my scissors so I don't have any stems at the back of them but you can press them as far as you like and they will end up quite flat and I will be able to close the book now I am going to stick them down with matte medium as you can see here I am creating clusters just close to the leaves and I am going to leave them white as they are you can of course match your projects and color them with any type of ink but I just like how that white pops against all those colors I am going however to color the center of the flowers with a yellow marker and now I am going to finish off my page by sticking three different stickers from this Tim Holtz booklet so I am going to stick one of them next to each butterfly and all those stickers complement the main quote so along with escape the ordinary I am going to stick make it happen Adventure I wait you close to my yellow butterfly and finally I am going to use the sticker BU bravely so my layout is ready all that's left to do is to stamp the date and for that I am using a roller date stamp with black archival ink and I am going to find a nice spot to stamp that and that was the layout for today I hope you had fun and caught inspired and if you did don't forget to leave my comment as well as give me thumbs up or my youtube channel here are some close up photos of the project that I made today don't forget to hit the subscribe button if you haven't done so already because this is the way to tell me that you like my videos and you want to see more thank you all so much for watching and see you next time


This is State Tech Hawaii. Community Matters here. Welcome. Jay Fidel is out, so I'm going to be co-hosting our Energy in America series today. And we've got our guest, Lou Puliarisi, and he's going to talk about energy in America. So welcome, Lou. What do you have for us today? Okay. Thank you. I'm glad to be here. One of the things I thought I'd talk about in light of rising oil prices, a lot of turmoil in the world, oil market, sanctions on Iran, the remarkable resilience and continued growth of what we call the North American oil and gas production platform. And I think this is a story which we've sort of touched on in the past, but I think it's time to revisit it a little bit to see why, understand why it's so resilient and why it's continuing and how it's continuing and how it fits into a larger kind of strategic vision for the United States and even its importance, even it demonstrates its importance of a strong relationship with Canada and Mexico. Awesome. With that, I thought we would take the audience through this short discussion on this today. Okay. Do we have some graphics? So let's put up the first, so we have a couple of pictures we're going to start with. Let's put up the first picture, which is not too geeky, but it does have a kind of cartoon representation of a very prolific basin. Part of something we call the Permian basin in Texas. Can your audience see that now? Yes. And I think a lot of us, if you take a look at that, this is a play in the Permian. We won't spend a lot of time on this, which is called the Wolf Camp. And what I want to, most people who talk about the oil and gas, they talk a lot about horizontal drilling. So you've got to drill down into the pay, and then you move your drill bit, and then about to your production pipe horizontally. Maybe as much as 5,000 to 10,000 feet. But what this shows is something a lot of people have not fully understand, is that there are pay zones at very different levels. And this is a very famous region of the Permian called the Wolf Camp. And you see these different layers here, Wolf Camp 1, 2, 3, 4. And you see a vertical drilling rod, a drill bit has come down into the geologic earth. And what is happening at each of these levels, the green, the red, the blue, they're now able to produce from different zones, and each one, they can shoot the drill pipe out horizontally. So this enormous productivity you're going to see now in a few minutes of this production profile in the United States continues to be not the traditional way that which we found the oil and gas, which was in reservoir traps, but producing it from what we call source rock, right? This is the geologic formations that occurred 10 million years ago, in which all these deposits were embedded in these rocks. And have historically, some of them would migrate to traps that were difficult to find. And today, that's not the case in the U.S. We have source rock, it's very ubiquitous, it's in other places of the world. And so nobody in the U.S. is drilling a dry hole. Everyone can find oil. They just have to find it at a cost that is less than its price. And because this has now become a manufacturing process, the United States is no longer reserve limited. The future of U.S. oil and gas production is going to be entirely determined by not how much oil we can find, but the manufacturing process for producing it. And I want to show you, let's go to the next picture. And this is a kind of, is that picture up now? Yeah. And if you look at this next picture, you can see literally two dozen pumping trucks.   And at that point, you need to pump lots of water and sand down there. That water, water and sand, which these trucks are all doing, is opening up the pores of this shale line.  You would be shocked if they could ever produce oil for them. But under these great pressures, 7, 8, 10, 12,000 feet below the surface, you know, you know, below the surface, we are able to open up those pores and the oil then flows out. This scene you see in this picture does not last long, just for two to three months. At that point, all the trucks leave, all the water facilities leave, everybody leaves, and all you're left with is a series of vows, which they call a Christmas tree, and it then produces naturally over a period of time. At some point, they might bring in an artificial lift, a pump jack or something. Now the next slide, let's go to the next slide. And I think, you know, a lot of us don't understand how unusual this development is. This is a slide from the Energy Information Agency. And I don't want to blame the, actually, they were right in the path with everyone else. And you see the black, the black sort of figure in that thing. The black zone there is what the Energy Information Agency and actually most analysts in the world, particularly most analysts in the U.S. said would be the likely protection in the United States between 2010 and 2020. The red is what we actually produced. And this shows you the remarkable kind of achievement of technology, ideas that man has, and its ability to expand production. We see here, in a remarkably short period of time, the U.S. went from, you know, five and a half million barrels a day to over nine million barrels a day. In fact, probably in the next year, we will be the largest oil producer in the world. The world produces about 100 million barrels a day. The U.S. is now 10% of that production. Wow, that's, yeah, yeah. Okay. Now, the other interesting thing is that this growth rate, if we go to the next slide, this shows oil productivity by major play. And these areas here, the Permian, Hainesville, Eagle Ford, they're all in Texas. The Bakken is in North Dakota, Appalachia is in Pennsylvania, West Virginia. And the Darko and Nibara are all in New Mexico. Okay. And some Nibara is up in Colorado. And what this shows you here that all these unconventional problems, these places in the prior to 2010, which were not producing anything, continue to expand production. And what's unusual about the U.S. oil production today is that it is probably one of only two places in the world in which we have something called short cycle production. Historically, oil production would go through something like this. Producers would believe that the long run price of oil was high enough to justify massive investments. Those investments would take up to 10 to 12 years. They would produce a lot of oil. The price would fall. They would not often be recovering their capital cost, but the incremental cost of production was quite cheap. And investment would fall off. So we had big cycles of boom and bust. But with the U.S., if you see the downturn there, that's when oil prices fell in 2014. And the U.S. production retracted right away. And soon after they recovered, the U.S. came back very quickly. This is very unusual in the production cycle of the United States. The world oil market, anywhere in the world oil market. And because of this, it has tended to moderate these boom and bust cycles now. Whether the U.S. is a big enough producer to do that for the world oil market is something that remains to be seen. But so far, it's had a very important balancing effect. Largely due to this very unusual short cycle capacity. Yeah, interesting. It sounds like a systemic change in not only the technology, but also the financing of these products. Exactly, exactly. It's very, very interesting. And by the way, I've always said the U.S. does not have the best share of resources in the world. But we have the best above-the-ground rules. Because we have a free market or, let's say, private ownership above the ground in most of these provinces. A great deal of oil and gas is found on the federal land, of course. But the Shale Revolution takes place largely on private land. So you can go to the Vachomerka in Argentina or the Bosnets in Russia and see very promising Shale deposits. But they have above-ground conditions that are not amenable to quick production. In the U.S., people can move very quickly. Okay, so you're, and I'm always learning a lot from your explanations and your slides. I really appreciate the graphics and the diagrams. Yeah, sure. Thank you. Okay, so any questions or shall we move forward? No, I want to hear more and see more of your graphics. Okay, so the next one is, I think this is very important because this next one shows something I call net income. But if you think about the United States, we consume 19 million barrels a day. 19 million barrels a day. And yet people say, well, we still import a lot of oil. We still import 9 million barrels a day. But that's really not the way to think about this. If imports and exports are how you're going to measure energy security, not how we would do it, but it is what somebody looks at. You have to also remember that the U.S. exports a lot of petroleum products. We can import crude oil from Venezuela or Mexico or Saudi Arabia, but then we process it in the U.S. because we're a very sophisticated refining industry and we re-export it. So the real way to think about this issue of the U.S. trade position is to look at net exports. The U.S. is a large continental land mass. It doesn't make sense for Hawaii to buy its crude oil or its heavy fuel oil for its power sector from Louisiana. It's cheaper to get it from Indonesia. So transportation efficiencies means you sort of move things around in the most efficient way. So if you look at this graph there, you can see, yes, the U.S. imports a lot, but we export a lot. So what is our actually net imports? Net imports in 2017 and they're falling now in 2018 was three and a half million barrels a day. So out of 19 of the lines of foreign supply in effect is only three and a half million barrels a day. And most of that is coming from Canada and Mexico. Ah, okay. And that means that the U.S., the U.S., but Canada and New Mexico are going to become very soon a net exporter to the world oil market and a net natural gas exporter, which doesn't mean we will disconnect from the world oil market, but we will be a new source of stability in the world oil market and we still have interest in the Middle East and everyone else. Although our politicians may not understand that when they look at these charts. The next thing is to look at, the next chart looks at the crude and consumption and production of crude oil and products for what we call NAFTA. These are the countries of the North American pre-trade agreement, which even though they're undergoing enormous renegotiation now, these agreements are still in place. And the U.S., if you take the U.S., Canada and Mexico together as a single production platform, which by the way, we are shipping over four billion cubic feet a day by pipeline to Mexico. Some gas goes to Mexico through liquefying natural gas through the Panama Canal and then is unloaded along the west coast of Mexico. Cude and product supplies, gasoline diesel, move back and forth across both borders freely. And when you look at the, you sort of sort that out, you can see that NAFTA, the NAFTA countries, if you take a look at here, you'll see the blue is total consumption, the red is total production. See that net imports for NAFTA are even smaller than the U.S., 1.3 million barrels a day. So now we have a production platform. U.S., Canada and Mexico that produce about 24 million barrels a day. But their net reliance on the world market is only about 1.3. But once again, we are not disconnecting from the world market. That's very important to understand. But we are not a major source of new demand for foreign oil. Okay, so we're not driving the price up. We're not. We're doing our part. We're doing our part. I mean, the higher prices now are largely related to disruptions in the oil market. The loss of production on the Venezuelan, the ongoing turmoil in Libya and the recently imposed sanctions on Iran. All of these are reducing world supply. Well, let's take a quick break, and then we can get into that when we come back. Okay, great. Okay, thanks. This is Think Tech Hawaii, raising public awareness. Do you want to be cool? If so, watch my show on Tuesdays at one called Out of the Comfort Zone. I sang this song to you because I think you either are cool or have the potential to be seriously cool. And I want you to come watch my show, where I bring in experts who talk all about easy strategies to be healthier, happier, build better relationships, and make your life a success. So come sit with the cool kids at Out of the Comfort Zone on Tuesdays at one. See you then. Welcome back to Energy in America. I'm Maria Tome, hosting for J-Fiedel temporarily. And my guest here is Lou Pugliarisi. And we were talking about the resilience of North American production platform for oil. And you were going to continue and tell us a little bit about how other parts of the world are connected with this whole oil production. Yeah, so I think we were talking. We have a couple of more pictures to look at here, and then I think we can go into it. I want to show, I mean, a big issue, an important development is the growth in US LNG exports, which are now, in the last 18 months, US has exported liquefied natural gas, which is gas that has compressed so much that it becomes a liquid. It's put on specialized tankers. And in the last 18 months, we've shipped our cargoes to over 360 destinations. 360 cargoes have been shipped to literally everywhere in the world. And one of the reasons for that, the next picture is the growth in production of US natural gas. In fact, the United States is swimming in natural gas. And the reason we're swimming in natural gas is because the shale gas reserves are so prolific. They can be used so cheaply that the... And if you look at this slide, if you look at this picture here, this shows you through 2018. Actually, it shows it approaching like 80, 80 billion cubic feet a year. I saw some work recently that they think were going to be well about 95 billion cubic feet at the end of 1992-19. This is actually becoming a sear for two reasons. One, lots of producers look for oil. But when they produce the oil, because unconventional resources require some mechanism, mechanism to move it to the surface, it's often gas, not just water, but it's gas. And this gas is a by-product. You know, as economists, we try to think about that like beef and leather. You might want more beef, but you can't get more beef without getting more leather, okay, more hide. In this case, you can't produce more oil in much of the unconventional resources without getting more gas. But this gas needs to find a home. So the U.S. is looking for export markets. And LNG is a potential important development because it helps us reach out to allies with a very strategic effort. We're working very closely with Japan to, in fact, expand LNG exports throughout the Pacific Rim. Hawaii has decided to take a path in LNG. And let's go to one more, I think one more slide we'll give us is, why will natural gas, if you look at this last slide, why will natural gas in the U.S. remain cheap? And what's important to understand, you see this last one, this is from Advanced Resources International, good friend of mine, Bella Kuzka. And I don't want to spend a lot of time on this, but one of the things is you can see certain aspects of, well, he did some interesting modeling between 2017 and 2025. And we don't need to go through the whole chart, but even though many aspects of drilling for gas have gone up in price, right, the productivity of the new wells are such that in his estimates, which are quite well respected, and this is from the Hainesville, which is a very interesting development in Texas. He showed that between now and 2017, with just off-the-shelf productivity improvements, the cost of producing natural gas in the United States, in the Hainesville anyway, and almost all the reasons are like this in the unconventional area, is not likely to increase more than 10 cents. So we have this remarkable, you know, from 250 to 260,000 people feed a million BTU. So we have this remarkable development in the U.S. where we are using a lot more gas, we're exporting a lot more gas, but the price of gas is not going up. Okay, yeah, I remember many years ago when there was a natural gas price spike, and I think, you know, and so there was a lot of concern from the folks who have shifted over to that. So I have a couple of questions for you. One, in the short term, you mentioned NAFTA is being renegotiated. Do you have any insight to how that might go? Do you think they're not going to touch the fuels part of this? So I think there are two or three issues here on the fuels part. First, because, if we talk about Mexico for starters, because Pemex, which was the state, still is the nationally-owned state oil and gas company of Mexico, was a completely state-run entity in Mexico when they originally signed NAFTA. Most of the energy provisions were not even included, right? So energy, oil and gas, electricity moved across the Canadian and the Mexican border as if there were free trade agreements, in other words. Each country could do something that they chose NAFTA. So I think the big issue for Mexico is when, you know, MNLO or, you know, Mr. Obrador took over, he has suggested that he wants to look at these very important energy reforms which actually were part of the constitution, constitutional change in Mexico. And they have brought in large investment, not just in offshore-owned gas development, but in renewables, solar and wind. So I don't think that those are really at risk. I think the Mexicans will continue to move forward with those energy reforms. However, Obrador has raised concerns about all the petroleum products and natural gas and Mexico imports from the U.S. Now, our research suggests that he cannot produce those imports cheaper in Mexico, but it is a very nationalistic thing, you know. So it's possible, much like, I believe, much of the trade work the U.S. is doing, people do something counterproductive. And so we are involved in some discussions as a think tank with the Mexicans, sister think tank down there, on how to engage the Mexicans on some of these issues. So I do think that's of concern. It's really not wrapped up enough to so much as it is with the election of Obrador who threw out the PRI and came in with a much more left-of-center view of energy development. How about Canada? Canada is... Canada, we are having still traditional problems with autos and dairy products. However, I believe that I'm hopeful that this NAFTA issue will get resolved within the next six to 12 months. And there will be some issues having to do with autos and manufacturing. It was never... NAFTA was never aimed at the energy sector, but it's important to understand that a disruption of energy trade between the U.S. and Canada and the U.S. and Mexico would not be good for the U.S. It would harm the... it would harm the efficiency of this wonderful production platform and could actually put some constraints on our ability to expand production. I'll give you one simple example. If you can't find... If you're in the Permian Basin, which is Texas, a large play in Texas, you're producing a lot of oil, you're shipping it, maybe you're exporting it to a binder, but you're also producing gas. If you can't find a home to that gas, you have to flare it. The Texas Railroad Commission, they don't like you to flare that gas.  And the Texas Railroad Commission, oddly enough, is the main oil and gas regulator in Texas. And we're going to say, look, you're going to have to... you're going to have to restrict production because we don't want you flaring that natural gas into the atmosphere. It's not good to the environment, and it's wasteful. So I think that this is an example where at the trade relation deteriorate to one side of the border, it's not like we can sell it to somebody else. Everybody who wants gas in the U.S. can get it now. I mean, we do have some infrastructure issues of moving more gas out of Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, other parts of the country, and those things are slowly getting worked up, worked out, and there's lots of opposition to some pipeline. Closing off Canada or Mexico is really a bad idea. Well, I regret that we have actually run out of time. Okay. So I wanted to ask, is there one more thing that you wanted to mention that you hadn't mentioned yet, or... Well, I think that we want to watch this space. People talk a lot about renewables. They talk a lot about... and renewables are very important, but it turns out that you're going to need a lot of that gas to deploy the renewables because renewables are still intermittent, and, you know, and they're interruptible and, you know, so we need strong backup to make renewables work, and for the meantime, that's largely going to be matched up. Okay. So you heard it from Lou, and thank you so much for your very informative, interesting, and timely presentation on the resilience of the North American oil and gas. Thank you.


With that said we're going to start here in chapter 8. I'll read verses 1 and 2 and I'm going to give you a review Excuse me. I'll be at the door hugging people when you leave Want to get out of work? Reading chapter 8 verses 1 and 2 and getting getting into our introduction on that day King Ahasuerus gave Queen Esther the house of Haman the enemy of the Jews and And Mordecai came before the king for Esther had told how he had how he was related to her So the king took off his signet ring which he had get which he had taken from Haman and gave it to Mordecai and Esther appointed Mordecai over the house of Haman so let me give you a review because we're going to be closing the book today Haman's plot to destroy the Jews had been revealed Remember out of petty spite Haman had plotted to destroy all the Jews now This wasn't just the Jews in Persia. These were Jews anywhere that they might be found We saw in chapter 3 verse 13 how it says that messengers went throughout all the king's Provinces with orders to destroy to kill and to annihilate all the Jews both young and old Little children and women in one day. The order was complete annihilation Now remember when the request is made that Haman had left the people unnamed He didn't say that this people that was in his words causing problems to to the king He didn't say that it was the Jews.  They fail to act wisely or to do good And so the order was one of complete annihilation We want to destroy all of the Jews Obviously, we know that's not the only time this this sentiment has been enacted We know that a Hitler not that long ago really In our history Wanted to destroy to annihilate all the Jews But before we think that this only happened once or twice. We need to remember that this has happened even in recent times We're hearing a lot about Hamas and and all that's going on there in Israel Let me read to you from the covenant. It's called the Hamas Covenant. It was originally issued on August 18th in 1988 and It outlines the founding identity stand and aims of Hamas The original Charter declares its members to be Muslims who fear God and raise the banner of jihad in the face of the oppressors The Charter states our struggle against the Jews is very great and very serious and Calls for the obliteration of Israel It emphasizes the importance of jihad stating in article 13 There is no solution for the Palestinian question except through jihad initiatives proposals and International conferences are all a waste of time and vain endeavors So what's going on right now is very similar in spirit to what took place with Hitler and what has taken place in history All the way back as we're looking today at the book of Esther now Some of you have seen the news. I'm not going to stay on this I'm making a point but some of you have seen in the news that these there are people who are in mostly in college As many college people are carrying banners and it says from the river to the sea They're speaking of the River Jordan to the Mediterranean which makes up all of Israel and What they're asking for is to obliterate the nation of Israel There are those who are apologists are heard one recently who is claiming that's not what they meant No, that's what it is according to the Charter They want to obliterate Annihilate destroy and kill all Jews that took place in the time of Esther took place in the time of Hitler It's taking place in our day. And so that's what's taking place a mass rather. Heyman desire was to kill all the Jews Why well, he couldn't stand the fact that Mordecai would not honor him It says in Esther chapter 5 verse 9 when Heyman saw Mordecai in the Kingsgate and that he did not stand or tremble before him He was filled with indignation against Mordecai now Esther had been informed that Heyman had planned on killing all Jews and Mordecai or fit her life so when the Kings command was issued in ratified it couldn't be changed and that Command had been sent out and had been Ries of a Persian king were unchangeable Because he was thought to speak for the gods who could never be wrong and thus never needed to change their minds We saw an example of that in the book of Daniel in chapter 6 verse 8 when the king was asked Requestors made of the king it says oh king established the decree Signed the writing so that it cannot be changed according to the law of the Medes and Persians Which does not change so Heyman knew that if he could get a decree to annihilate all the Jews that he couldn't change his mind that the king would not change his mind So Mordecai had told Esther that deliverance was going to arise and it would arise for the Jews And we saw in chapter 4 verse 14 how he said who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this So Esther knew that appearing before the king without invitation was dangerous But she took the chance and as we saw her husband welcomed her and listened to her She had devised the plan and she wanted to get his approval so she decided to give her husband a banquet and She issued an invitation for Heyman Now this is something that appealed to Heyman's ego. He was thrilled about it So he rushed home to tell his friends and his family that he'd been invited to a banquet Now this was a very extremely high honor But he was passing by Mordecai and Mordecai didn't stand or tremble before him He didn't give him the respect he desired and it ruined everything for him So Heyman told his friends and told his wife How much he hated Mordecai? So his wife Zoresh gave him advice. She said build him a gallows and hang him on it Thank You sweetheart. I'll do that in the morning She was saying the king respects you So suggest to him that Mordecai should die on it Well as we have already seen the advice pleased Heyman and he had the gallows made to hang Mordecai He attended the banquet and he was going to make his request to the king Now Esther was well aware of the plan to exterminate all the Jews Mordecai was her cousin and he had told her not to reveal that she was Jewish That means that Heyman did not realize that she was Jewish Now Esther had asked her husband to grant her a request and he told her she could have anything she asked to ask for Even up to half of the kingdom Well, she finally made a request When she made that request he was stunned Esther in chapter 7 in verse 3 following said it says that Queen Esther Answered and said if I found favor in your side, oh king if it pleases the king Let my life be given me at my petition and my people at my request For we have been sold my people and I to be destroyed killed to be annihilated Had we been sold as male or female slaves I would have held my tongue Although the enemy could never compensate for the king's loss so King Osso eras answered and said to Queen Esther, who is he and where is he? Who would dare presume in his heart to do such a thing and Esther said the adversary and enemy is this wicked Heyman and Heyman was terrified before the king and queen imagine how he felt at that point He's just lounging around thinking he's very cool and very important and then she just We used to say drop the dime. She dropped a dime on him and that was it What did she say let my life be given to me at my petition as well as the life of my people Well, Esther informs her husband. It's Heyman. Heyman has instigated Jewish genocide We already saw how the king was so furious he left the room to cool off and while out of the room Heyman had begun begging for his life and he fell on the couch that Esther was on it appeared that he was attempting to Physically abuse her when the king came in he saw Heyman and that was the end of Heyman a Hoss wear us ordered Heyman to be put to death In the book of Job in chapter 18 verse 5 it says the light of the wicked shall be put out and The spark of his fire shall not shine So that brings us here to chapter 8 and in chapter 8 verses 1 and 2 as I just read Those verses open with Heyman's property being disposed of Scripture says that a Hoss wear us gave Esther the house of Heyman Now that was to compensate for her Compensate her for the fear that she had been enduring all this time You see in Persia when a criminal was executed his property was forfeited to the king and the king could give it to him Ever he wanted so he gave his he gave Heyman's property to Esther now in Verse 1 I'll read again. It says on that day king a Hoss wear us gave Queen Esther the house of Heyman The enemy of the Jews and Mordecai came in before the king for Esther had told how he was related to her So she finally has revealed that she's a Jewess and also reveals that Mordecai is her cousin So verse 2 the king took off his signet ring Which he had given he had taken from Heyman and gave it to Mordecai and Esther appointed Mordecai over the house of Heyman So a Hoss wear us had given his signet ring to Heyman in chapter 3 verse 10 He now gives Heyman's authority to Mordecai that made him a high official in the Empire He became what would be called today a prime minister Now remember he's already earned the trust of the king. He had exposed a plot to assassinate him And so he's already trustworthy to him. And so Esther gave Mordecai stewardship over the house He didn't give him ownership, but she gave him Responsibility as a steward over that house. So verse 3 says now Esther spoke again to the king Failed down at his feet and implored him with tears to counteract the evil of Heyman the aggagite and the scheme Which he had devised against the Jews. So she used a nuclear-style weapon against her husband She cried It works every time And so as a result of that in making this very heartfelt plea verse 4 the king held out the golden scepter toward Esther Esther arose and stood before the king so The scepter is offered as a symbol of Demonstrating a favor to her and so she begins to speak in verse 5 and says if it pleases the king and If I have found favor in his sight and the thing seems right to the king and I'm pleasing in his eyes Let it be written to revoke the letters devised by Heyman the son of Hamidotha the aggite Aggite which he wrote to annihilate the Jews who are in all the king's provinces counterman Heyman's evil order to annihilate all the Jews everywhere It's interesting that though Heyman was dead the order was still in place Just because the people Who established that law died doesn't mean the law is not still in force That happens to this day a bad law has passed and the ones who initiated that law have died But it remains in force and so that's what was taking place So you need to do something she's saying we need you to stop that evil law She says in verse 6 for how can I endure to see the evil that will come to my people? Or how can I endure to see the destruction of my countrymen? This isn't just oppression This isn't simply persecution. We can handle that What we're looking at here in verse 6 is complete annihilation All of my people destruction of all of my countrymen and by implication The death of all the Jews would include her and Mordecai And so I'm asking for you to save my people, but that includes us those you have shown favor to Well verse 7 King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther and Mordecai the Jew indeed I have given Esther the house of Heyman and and they've hanged him on the gallows because he tried to lay hand on the Jews You yourselves write a decree concerning the Jews as you please in the king's name and seal it with the king's signet ring For whatever is written in the king's name and sealed with the king's signet ring No one can revoke So he's saying I've already executed Heyman that shows that I will protect you So you can write a decree concerning the Jews you see I can't change this decree But I grant permission to any plan that you may have to to safeguard them So you write the order once again, I can't revoke my decree. They're binding So surely you can devise a way to save them in a way that does not shame me and Fits within the law so verse 9 So the king's scribes were called at that time in the third month, which is the month of Svan on the 23rd day And it was written according to all that Mordecai commanded to the Jews to say traps the governors and the princes of the provinces from India to Ethiopia 127 provinces in all to every province in its own script to every people in their own language and to the Jews in their own script and language now This was over two months after the first order had been issued While aware of the decree the Jews would have been humbled they would have been in prayer So he writes verse 10 he wrote in the name of King Ahasuerus He sealed it with the king's signet ring sent it sent letters by couriers on horseback Riding on royal horses bred from swift steeds So they took the fastest form of transportation and they delivered this message Well verse 11 by these letters the king permitted the Jews Who were in every city to gather together and protect their lives to destroy kill and annihilate all the forces of any people Or province that would assault them both little children and women and to plunder their possessions on One day in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus on the 13th day of the 12th month, which is the month of Adar a Copy of the document was to be issued as a decree in every province and published for all people So that the Jews would be ready on that day to avenge themselves on their enemies The couriers who rode on royal horses went out hastened and pressed on by the king's command and the decree was issued in Shushan The citadel and so the Jews are given permission here to protect themselves Now notice with me. They were not given permission to take the offensive. They were not given a command go out and attack your enemies They were given permission to defend themselves They were also given permission to plunder those who were attempting to kill them So all the people had been made aware of this and they were now prepared Now it says in verse 15 Mordecai went out from the presence of the king in royal apparel of blue and white With a great crown of gold a garment of fine linen in purple and the city of Shushan rejoiced and was glad and So Mordecai is arrayed as a great Persian prince as he's walking out He's just look at amazing he is great in honor now He's not equal in status obviously to the king But he was arrayed in very beautiful clothes and and it caused everybody to be to be rejoicing verse 16 The Jews had light and gladness joy and honor the tables have turned Instead of afraid being afraid and they had been because they knew that an issue had an order had gone out They knew they were going to be slaughtered But now they're filled with joy Because their fear has been replaced with it and they're rejoicing like it says in Psalm 97 11 Light is sown for the righteous gladness for the upright in heart Psalm 112 verse 4 even in darkness light dawns for the upright for those who are gracious and compassionate and Righteous so they they're filled with with light spirits Gladness joy joy and gladness a feast and a holiday Then many of the people of the land became Jews because fear of the Jews fell upon them The Jews had been trembling But the people in the land are now afraid Perhaps their anti-semitism had been voiced out loud and now they're in fear Now I want you to see something notice how they became many became Jews for fear of the Jews had fallen upon them That's pretty That's that's a statement that that we Christians wouldn't really understand very deeply because It's more it was more than simply saying okay, I'm a Jew They had to go through particular rights including circumcision and The idea that they would go that far tells you how afraid they were and how much they wanted to be in the favor of the God of Israel they submitted even to that the Bible in in Psalm 18 for this 43 says You have delivered me from the attacks of the people you have made me the head of nations People I did not know now serve me And so things are going pretty good Chapter 9 verse 1 now in the 12th month that is the month of it are on the 13th day the time came for the king's command and and his decree to be executed on On the day that the enemies of the Jews had hoped to overpower them the opposite occurred in that the Jews themselves Overpowered those who hated them so the day decreed that was to have The people upon the Jews well the day has come now that the Jews have defended themselves and they're victorious The people are not Conquering the Jews the Jews are now conquering their enemies. They thought they were going to exterminate the Jews It didn't happen instead the Jews defended themselves and are victorious So I'm 41 11 I know that you're pleased with me for my enemy does not triumph over me So in verse 2 the Jews gathered together in their cities throughout all the provinces of King Ahasuerus to lay hands on those who sought their harm and No one could withstand them because fear of them fell upon all people So the laying hands on them, but not the way Christians do They're killing them Sometimes we want to do that, but that'll be a different study some other day And this is interesting it's pointing out to us that they took advantage of their freedom to fight and they fought valiantly Now they fought this way because their nation their lives were at stake and Like is true in every Every military man understands this military woman would understand this They were fighting not only for their own lives They were fighting for the lives of their wives for their children for their cities and for their nation and That's part of what is a just a just war is fighting in that way They're fighting to protect themselves But they're also fighting with the cause and the cause was to protect their children to protect their their wives and To protect the cities to protect their nation and they're fighting against those who sought their harm And no one could withstand them and notice that God provoked these people to fear They became afraid verse 2 it says Fear of them fell upon all the people as I was preparing the study I was thinking of of the book of Joshua how that in the book of Joshua when the The Jews sent a couple of two spies into Jericho and As they went in there was a woman there by the name of Rahab and she's referred to to us in scripture as Rahab the harlot And these men had come in we know the story they had come in and There was an order that Because they had heard that there were foreigners that entered in there was an order for them to be turned in And so they began looking for these two spies and and they couldn't find them Rahab had taken these two Jewish spies And had hidden them in her attic well the king ordered her to bring out these men But she said well they've already gone and then when everything was clearing up for a moment She spoke to the spies in Joshua 2 9 through 11 and she said to them I know that the Lord has given you this land and that a great fear of you has fallen on us So that all who live in this country are melting in fear because of you We have heard how the Lord dried up the water of the key of the Red Sea For you when you came out of Egypt and what you did to see on and aug the two kings of the Amorites East of the Jordan whom you completely destroyed And when we heard of it our hearts melted in fear Everyone's courage failed because of you for the Lord your God is God in heaven above and on the earth below and So this word had come and it had caused fear well It's doing the same thing here fear fell on all of these people in verse 2 Or verse 3 all the officials of the provinces the satraps the governors all those doing the king's work Help the Jews because the fear of Mordecai Alice and his fame spread throughout all the provinces For this man Mordecai became increasingly Prominent so all government officials are now helping because of his position They're afraid not to support him or his people and this is how it often happens People don't do what is right, but what is expedient for them? They didn't side necessarily with the Jews. They were simply afraid of retribution from Mordecai He was powerful powerful due to his relationship with the king and powerful due to his relationship with Esther And so verse 5 thus the Jews defeated all their enemies with the stroke of the sword with slaughter and Destruction and did what what they pleased with those who hated them So what they did is they retaliated against their enemies who had tried to kill them Verse 6 in Shushan the citadel the Jews killed and destroyed 500 men Also verse 7 partial here we go also Philip and George and Bill and Mike and Terry and Craig Here we go. Let's try and pronounce these words Also, Parshin don't Parshin Dotha Dolphin as Potha Paratha Adalia eridata Parmashta arasai aradai Fred and Vajas Vajasatha the ten sons of Haman the son of Hama Dotha The enemy of the Jews they killed But they did not lay a hand on the plunder They didn't plunder Shushan because personal enrichment was not their goal Verses 7 through 10 are actually giving us that the names of the ten sons of Haman and So these are the ones whom they killed again notice in verse 10. They didn't lay hand on the plunder This all came under Esther's ownership and Mordecai stewardship They didn't want to do that plus they didn't want to be malicious and they didn't want to appear greedy first 11 on That day the number of those who were killed in Shushan the citadel was brought to the king and the king said to Queen Esther The Jews have killed and destroyed 500 men in Shushan the citadel and the ten sons of Haman What have they done in the rest of the king's provinces? Now what is your petition? It shall be granted to you or What is your further request? It shall be done and So they informed the king how many have died he would want to know how many subjects have died and Then he speaks and says in verse 12 that 500 have died and the sons of Haman are dead Who knows how many others now it may be a question Not so much a question, but a statement. So what else do you want? What else will please you? Well verse 13 Esther said if it if it pleases the king Let it be granted to the Jews who are in Shushan to do again tomorrow according to today's decree and Let Haman's ten sons be hanged on the on the gallows So the king commanded this to be done the decree was issued in Shushan and they hanged Amon's Ten son now his ten sons were already dead What they did is they had these sharpened stakes and they they impaled them and That would have been a declaration of what happens to the king's enemies That's a very ancient tactic by the way because even during the time of Christ when people were crucified They were done so outside of the city and they were done in a public place So that the people would walk by and see these people who had been crucified writhing sometimes they would last on the cross three or four days and They would walk by hearing them writhing Screaming in pain and it was a terrible warning to all people if you if you commit a crime This is what can happen to you and so Esther has them posted So that the people will see and see that as a warning that you don't come against the king And you don't do the kinds of things that Haman was guilty of and it was demonstrated by hanging his sons in that way So she's saying let's make sure the job is finished. We don't need any to survive Which is by the way part of The original orders of the children of Israel when they were first entering into the land They were conquering the land and they were given orders to show no mercy in Deuteronomy 7 Verses 1 through 3 when the Lord your God brings you into the land that you're entering to possess and Drives out before you many nations the Hittites Gurgashites Amorites Canaanites Parasites Hivites Jebusites Seven nations larger. I won't say cellulites seven nations larger and stronger than you and When the Lord your God has delivered them over to you and you have defeated them You must destroy them totally make no treaty with them show no mercy Wipe it out. Wipe out the evil completely was the command. So finish the task Now undoubtedly the leaders of the enemies were still alive. They could attempt to rally and destroy the Jews So finish this hang Verse 13 hang his 10 sons so that all will see and fear the king well Verse 15 the Jews who were in Shushan gathered together again on the 14th day of the month of Adar and killed 300 men at Shushan, but they did not lay hand on the plunder The remainder of the Jews in the king's provinces gathered together and protected their lives and and and had rest from their enemies killed 75,000 of their enemies that is like almost filling up The Coliseum or closer filling up the Rose Bowl And that's just a huge amount for us to try and get our mind around but they killed 75,000 of their enemies again. They did not lay hand on the plunder They were not doing this out of greed. They were doing this because they needed to do it well Verse 17 This was on the 13th day of the month of Adar and on the 14th of the month They rested and made it a day of feasting and gladness But the Jews who were in Shushan assembled together on the 13th day as Well as on the 14th and on the 15th of the month They rested and made it a day of feasting and gladness therefore the Jews of the villages who dwelt in the unwalled town celebrated the 14th day of the month of Adar with gladness and feasting as a holiday and For sending presents to one another So that gives a general Consensus or order of the things that happened the slaughter the enemies enemies occurred on the 13th and the 14th and they rested on the 15th They celebrated their victory as well as their survival and after war comes a victory feast It's been said after work comes rest but after escape comes joy and so they're rejoicing So verse 20 Mordecai wrote these things and sent letters to all the Jews Near and far who are in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus who established among them that they should celebrate yearly the 14th and 15 days of the month of Adar as the days on which the Jews had rest from their enemies as The month which which was turned from sorrow to joy for them and from mourning to a holiday That they should make them days of feasting and joy if sending presents to one another gifts to the poor So the Jews accepted the custom which had which they had begun as Mordecai had written to them Because Haman the son of Hamadathah the agate agate the enemy of all the Jews had plotted against the Jews to annihilate them and Had cast her her is a lot to consume them and destroy them But when Esther came before the king he commanded by letter that this wicked plot which Haman had devised against the Jews Should return on his own head and that he and his son should be hanged on the gallows So they called these days Purim after the name poor therefore because of the all the words of this letter what they had What they had seen concerning this matter and what had happened to them the Jews established and imposed it upon themselves and Their descendants and all who had joined them that without fail They should celebrate these two days every year according to the written instructions and according to the prescribed time That these days should be remembered and kept throughout every generation Every family every province and every city that these days of Purim Should not fail to be observed among the Jews and that the memory of them should not perish among their descendants So they wanted their descendants to always remember and to never forget this great victory Psalm 105 verses 4 and 5 look to the Lord in his strength Seek his face always Remember the wonders he has done his miracles and the judgments he pronounced Deuteronomy 32 7 Remember the days of old consider the generations long past ask your father He'll tell you your elders they will explain to you Psalm 77 11. I will remember the deeds of the Lord I will remember your miracles of long ago If there's anything that we need to do is we need to learn even as they are commemorating this great victory That God had had delivered their enemies into their hands. We need to as believers Never never cease to remember the things God has done in our lives There's one of the things that I think that it's very easy is to begin to live a Christian life That is so blessed that you think that that's just the way it's always been and you forget what it was like before One of the best things that I try to do is to remember where I came from I I never want to forget where I was I never want to forget what I was and the things that I didn't not with a Desire to go back to those things. Those are the things God saved me from But to remember those things and and we ought to have within our own hearts and memorials You know the the children of Israel when they crossed over the river they they they had a stones of remembrance That they would they would be able to tell their children. This is where God met me in a special way. I Have on on occasion. I have driven in in my own personal stones of Remembrance I have driven by the the house that that our church began in I've driven by The house that we began meeting on Sunday mornings. I've driven to the first little church that we rented When we first began I've gone by the other properties the central school in Ontario Christian elementary and small place there on Maple Street in Ontario on and Ontario High School Those are all places that I have memories I drive by an occasion I wish I could remember the name of the street at the moment for some reason I'm I'm not remembering the name of the street, but it's it's it's off of Holt just before you get to Euclid and Anyway, my brother had an apartment in this this this area and and it's by a park and On occasion I will drive by and I'll even pull over and just look at this little teeny It's a small apartment. His apartment could have been 600 square feet and I'll sit there now. Just look at it and My mind would just travel back all these years Back to 1974 And I'll just look at this little I'll look up and I'll see the little the room that the little apartment that That I taught a Bible study there to my brother And I have fond memories of that place because that's where I met my my girl who became my wife in that little Bible study There and I'll sit there now look at that and and and I get sentimental over and I'll think oh God Look at what you have done never forget what the Lord has done in your life Don't long for the days that you were lost Don't be looking back saying oh, I remember at least I had something to do on Friday nights then you know Yeah, yeah, you had things to do and on and on Saturday morning And you had you were hung over or regretting what you did. Yeah, remember those things too remember the things that that the price you paid for the false memories you had have sometimes we think It was such a great time. I don't forget those things I don't forget those things. I could go into but I don't forget them. I don't forget what I did I I never have it's not that I want them. It's not that I I even sorrow over them God has wiped away those things from from my heart in terms of guilt.   Remember? The enemy says that to me all the time. He doesn't say remember. He'll say member Remember when you used to do that No It's important to keep in mind the things that God has done for you Forgetting those things is very common We need to be aware of that In Jewish history very often the people seem to forget what God had done for them And you look in the book of Judges in chapter 2 verse 7 It says the people serve the Lord throughout the lifetime of Joshua and of the elders who outlived him and Who had seen all the great things the Lord had done for Israel? But it goes on in verse 10 and says after that whole generation had been gathered to their fathers Another generation grew up who knew neither the Lord nor what he had done for Israel in one generation They forgot in one generation God had done so many wonderful things for them Bringing them into a promised land and within a generation. They forgot You might find this interesting. I'll say it briefly The Jesus movement is very much like that a Lot of people who got saved in that era that is called the Jesus movement Didn't raise their children in the ways of the Lord and their children Do not know the things that God did for their parents because the parents did not raise the children in the knowledge of the Lord Parents got caught up with other things a lot of things I think there were anywhere from eight to ten people in the van when I got saved and out of the eight to ten people That were friends of mine. I only know three of us that continued with the Lord The other six seven people walked away a long time ago And so this is the establishment of perma I'll say a couple of things and we're gonna close because chapter 10 only has three verses But perma we've been in Israel when they're celebrating perum They walk around in costumes We asked why are they running around dressed in in costumes, you know, I know they don't celebrate Halloween So what is this and you'll see them they're dressed up like kings or queens or things like that, you know and so one one rabbi Says and I looked this up in some Jewish sources One rabbi says it is because the Jews pretended to be something else during the time that That they were going to be slaughtered Another writer said on perum we wear costumes to recall that everything that happens is driven by God's guiding force leading every event towards his master plan for his creation it shows how God hid his work behind ordinary events Also, another writer said it's a day when the poor receive charity and so it helps to minimize The embarrassment of those who are receiving charitable gifts because they give gifts It minimizes their embarrassment, but to this day they continue celebrating that particular feast It says finally Queen Esther verse 29 The daughter of Avahal Avahal With Mordecai the Jew wrote with full authority to confirm the second letter about perum and Mordecai sent letters to all the Jews to the 127 provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus With words of peace and truth to confirm these days of perum at their appointed time as Mordecai the Jew and Queen Esther had prescribed for them and as they decreed for themselves and their descendants concerning matters of their fasting and Lamenting so the decree of Esther confirmed these matters of perum and it was written in the book Finally first one of chapter 10 King Ahasuerus imposed tribute on the land and on the islands of the sea all the acts of his power and his might and The account of the greatness of Mordecai To which the king advanced him are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of media in Persia? For Mordecai the Jew was second to King Ahasuerus and was great among the Jews as well And well received by the multitude of his brethren seeking the good of his people and speaking peace to all his countrymen so Queen Esther Established perum the king imposes tribute. He has a new sense of power and authority He's increasing his revenue revenue and he's saying finally all of these things are written in the Persian history books Mordecai used his power to encourage and Mordecai Helped to secure peaceful existence and thus we conclude the book of Esther


Hello and welcome to today's edition of Frightfully Forgotten Horror Movies. But before we get started, what are we drinking? Bob Light. You have two men in your life here.  Today we are featuring 1981's Night School. Night School was directed by Ken Hughes. He did Casino Royale, the original one with Peter Sellers. And he did Chitty Chitty Bang Bang too, just to mention another one. Leonard Mann is in this, and he was in Flowers in the Attic. Rachel Ward plays the main female lead in this. Drew Snyder is in this. He was in Fire Starter. Commando. Don't bother my friend, he's dead tired. Let off some steam, Bennett. Night School starts off in this playground. One of the teachers, Ann, is kind of seeing all the kids off to make sure they get picked up properly by their parents. The last kid is let off, and Ann is just kind of on this merry-go-round. This weird motorcycle person shows up, kind of like in Nightmare Beach. Right, yeah. Got the helmet on and the leather suit starts turning this carousel while she's on it. With this curved knife, she's got to dodge it. He's spinning this carousel and finally, ding! They find the body first. A couple of yards over, they find the head, and the head is in this bucket of water. That's a lot like this case that came up last week, too. It's actually the second murder. The main detective, Jud, talks to Ann's boss, and she doesn't know Ann too well, but she does know that she's been attending Night School at the college. Then Jud goes to the college, he walks in on this lecture by Professor Millett. He's giving a lecture on anthropology and he's showing all these slides of pictures he took on a trip to, like, Africa. The lecture's over and the professor instantly starts to give Jud shit, like, what are you doing interrupting my lectures? Like, he didn't interrupt nothing, he just slid in quietly. He didn't say anything to stood in the back. So he talks to Professor Millett and his assistant, Eleanor. They didn't know her too well, but they didn't say, well, Kim knew her pretty well and Kim's kind of packing up and he starts talking to Kim. He said, well, I didn't know Ann too well either, but, you know, she did have his boyfriend she was always talking about. I can't suspect he was probably having an affair with her, maybe an older man. After school, Eleanor, who is the assistant to Millett, goes to, like, the local diner. She starts talking to the waitress, like, oh, I heard lots of things about Professor Millett. He gets around a lot. He's a bit of a hound dog, that guy. But I wouldn't turn him away either. She leaves the diner and the bus boy there, who's kind of been watching her the whole time, leaves. He just abandons his ship and he starts following her home. Played out great where he's always kind of, like, whenever she stops to look by her shoulder, he peeks into the shadows. Eventually he follows her right home. So Eleanor gets in the shower, of course. You see everything of course, but she can kind of faintly hear someone, like, ringing the doorbell and trying to get into the apartment. Somebody actually is in the apartment. In the bathroom. Yeah, and just moves the curtain over and it's Professor Millett. And she's really happy to see him so happy that they end up getting into the shower together.  Some bowl of fruit or something. Some sig-ritual in the tub. Like, we see a shot of this aquarium tank. This person gets out and she takes her scuba gear off and it's Kim. That curved knife, that kookery knife. Dragging it against the chain link fence. He comes, like, out of that locker. Like, starts slashing at her.  There's people looking in the aquarium, watching the, you know, the sea turtles and stuff. And there's the head that kind of comes down, slowly and bobs down. Meanwhile, back at the diner, Eleanor has come back. Professor Millett follows her in and we learned that Eleanor is pregnant. For three months already. Yeah, exactly. So she's been keeping it kind of a secret. Oh, that's why you've been acting so crazy. That night, the diner is closing up. The waitresses, she was tasked with, you know, putting the chairs in the tables. And somebody barges in and starts chasing her down and throwing the chairs around. Chases her into the kitchen downstairs and outside. The killer's all right in front of her outside after, like, super quick.  Let's get some coffee here. They're all demanding. The guy just opened, he just walked in the door. They're like behind him. Like, let him turn on the lights first. Yeah, he's like, I only got two hands here, guys. Come on. Can we get some hot food here? Come on, come on. So I got some stew for you. You want some stew? That's good. So I pour some stew to start eating it. And the one guy's like, I want this, all his hair. But they keep eating. The other guy's like, oh, yeah. This is real good.  Oh, there's nothing. He goes to pull the bung out of the sink. And as the water's draining, he sees the waitress's head show. I love that shot. Detective Judd and his partner, Taj, they've been suspecting Gary, the guy that followed Eleanor home. Taj starts to kind of stake him out. Judd goes back to Professor Millett's house to kind of get more clues and to ask more questions. Nobody's there. He just kind of barges in. He walks in.  Like you can't do that.  And there's all these skulls and everything. Yeah. And that's where we're going to end it because there's a lot more that happens with the characters and there's a lot more that happens with the investigation. And there's a few more kills, too. And a few more twists and turns. One of the best things about this movie is the dynamic between all the characters. Yeah. And how they all work and weave together and there's all these different relationships they have, right? Yeah, yeah, exactly. They're quite deep, right? Yeah, yeah. And the really fleshed-out plot of the main side characters feed in perfectly to the story. Like the Dean, right? Yeah. One of the girls is seduced by Millet. She complains to the Dean.   Which is like, yeah, I love that kind of like dynamic. It's like, well, this poor girl is being taken advantage of no matter where she turns, right? Yeah, yeah. There's a lot of subject matter in this movie that the movie deals with. Right, yeah. It's more than just a slasher. Exactly. It's a very smart movie. And one of them is like how power corrupts, right? Power in high places. The way they start off the movie, you think that it's kind of a commentary on how women are being suppressed by men a bit? Because Millet's taking advantage of all the girls. Yeah. But then when you find out that the Dean, who is a woman, is doing the same thing, it's kind of like saying, ah, it's not just a man-woman thing. It's a human nature. People are either, they're just bad. You don't need to be a woman or a man. You're bad either way. Because women are being killed and being beheaded, the cops naturally suspect a man. They're like, oh yeah, well, he's the killer. It must be him. He's a pervert. Yeah, they suspect that poor Gary, too, right? Because he's maybe a little weird and he's eccentric. And there's a double standard there because these guys really aren't doing their job properly. They just naturally come to a conclusion, right? The culture clash, too, in this. These headhunting rituals in different countries. Somebody in North America that's interpreting their own way, their own methods on this, right? Which isn't seen the same way by outsiders. Right, yeah. Which is cool.  Exactly, it's not right. Another great thing about this movie is the kills. They're awesome. And it's not because they're like super gory. It's because, like, first of all, they're kind of fun and inventive. But you don't actually see any beheadings, which is neat. You just always see them. Yeah. But that's it. Then it cuts and later on you see the aftermath.  And that effect of that head looks great. Exactly.  Yeah. You don't need a lot of gore and blood to get the effect across. And the way that they build the tension, too, is really neat because, you know, that first kill, she's on that merry-go-round thing and he's spinning her. Right. And the knife is kind of getting close. Yeah, it's pretty tense. The acting is really good in this movie, too. With the exception of the actor who plays Jot, he's kind of not so great. It's kind of like, it's a little cheesy.  He makes all this effort to go down to someone's house and get into their house to question them and ask them two things in his leave. Yeah, he's like, okay, that's all right. Don't you want to do more digging in here? Don't you want to ask more questions? Especially when you suspect somebody, right? Yeah, exactly. One thing that really helps this movie, too, is the score. Yeah. And it's done by Brad Fidel, who did The Terminator. Yeah. And a few other movies we've covered over the years, right? That's right, yeah. As soon as someone's being stopped, that synth score comes into... Yeah. It's like, hmm, that sounds a lot like The Terminator Chasey. Yeah, The Tunnel Chase, yeah. Yeah. This movie does have kind of a neat twist at the end. Kind of two. Yeah, two twists, in fact, if you want to really count them. Night School is like a really good mix between 80 Slasher and Murder Mystery, who done it. I think it takes both things and meshes them together very well. It does, yeah. And it flips the whole dynamic, right? The whole male-female dynamic right on its head. Yeah, which is nice. On its head. Yeah. Yeah. And until next time, keep drinking. Well, it's not worth losing your head over. You got it.