Episode from 3-26-2017

Well, I know that I have been trying to get caught up on all of these old episodes that I haven't posted yet. You might be thinking that I'll continue doing that until I'm out of episodes. Well, I'm not actually going to do that anymore like I once thought that I might. You see, I want to make sure that I blog about this show once a month. I'm not even sure yet if this will stay on Sundays and it might be better for me if it doesn't. I have enough posts left with old episodes to fill out each month until the show returns. Then, I promise that I'll be up to date with episodes for a change. I was thinking of doing posts that were purely politically, but I decided not to as this is not a blog about politics even though I do mention it a lot in this blog. Maybe I'll do that sometime next summer. I'm also done with the random posting on other days of the week as I will move my cheat of that back to my TV blog for now. Posts should be on Mondays or Tuesdays in the future. For now, enjoy this next update.

Now we are to the sweet sixteen in March Madness. You might be wondering what teams I care about that are still in the tournament. They are Kansas, Butler, and North Carolina. My field of teams are dwindling and are destined to get smaller still as Butler and North Carolina are playing each other in the next game that they each play. I will see if there are any games before primetime today. If there are, I may start rooting for the winner. If there aren’t, then I guess that my picks to move ahead are locked in until the end of the tournament. This episode could get delayed like the last one, but I might be able to get caught up sooner.

Now there is good news for this show. It was renewed for season 4! That’s cool. I don’t think that its ratings have been all that good so it will need a boost for next season or it will end then. I guess that we will see what happens with that later.

http://www.tv.com/news/cbs-fall-renewals-2017-14902837700030702/

Back to March Madness: Kansas is advancing in the tournament to the elite 8. Now Butler and North Carolina are going to battle it out. Can Butler, the lower seeded team, pull off a victory? I guess that we will see pretty soon. Regardless of who wins, I’ll still have a team between them to root for. I’ll just have one less than possible and I otherwise could have under different circumstances. I’ll see what happens with what CBS might be airing before primetime on Sunday soon.

In the Butler and North Carolina match-up, it is North Carolina that wins and advances to the elite 8. Kansas lost their game to Oregon and won’t be moving on to the final four. North Carolina played Kentucky in their next game that aired before primetime on CBS. I could have actually had a team to root for there in case either team won. But North Carolina won and stayed my only team of interest. Now if they can only win two more games, they will be the champions. I guess we will see for sure what happens with that in the future.

Today’s episode is brought to you by 34 minute delay. We begin with Elizabeth getting a call about the smuggling ring. Is this something that is just now important or does it relate to the asset of Henry’s? Once again, calmer heads prevail as Elizabeth is once again able to convince people not to do something more dangerous. She is going a while without food because of it. Henry then meets with the asset again and he seems to be okay, but he (the asset) is experiencing visions. There is a situation going on possibly causes problems for Elizabeth, only they find the mole in question.

In segment two, they talk to this person that they think is a mole, although I don’t think that he’s actually the mole. Rhinos are brought up for some odd reason. They are trying to work to stop rhino poaching. Elizabeth takes a person’s advice to support Viagra in order to stop rhino poaching. Elizabeth talks more to the lawyer who is representing the accused mole when he stops by her house.

In segment three, Elizabeth thinks that they should take the immunity deal since there are bigger fish to fry. The team tries to work more with the rhino issue. They aren’t making as much success as they should be. The person who was freed via the immunity deal winds up getting shot.

In segment four, Henry wants to get Ian, the asset, out of situation he is in. Conrad doesn’t know what to do regarding the recent death of Milt, the supposed mole. Elizabeth gets Conrad to do an executive order over the rhinos which upsets some other administration official. Henry then tries to help his asset but gets shot at and injured as a result.

In segment five, Elizabeth sees Henry in a hospital. He has leg issues now, which is what they had to write onto the show after Tim Daly (who plays Henry) broke both of his legs in real life. I wonder if they had to change any of the shooting that we’ve seen earlier over this. They continue hunting the possible mole. She talks to the lawyer of Milt (if I have his name right). She then is able to learn that the rhino problem might be solved. Everything seems wrapped up for now except for the asset. We won’t know for sure about Ian, this asset, until later. Elizabeth then meets with the lawyer again who claims that they have a mutual enemy he wants to destroy.

On the next Madam Secretary, they are going in after child trafficking victims and a possible person might be put in danger because of this. I’ve already seen this episode and have seen everything now until the season finale. So I’ll be back then with the next episode at some point in time. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.

Episode from 5-7-2017

The list of shows that I’m trying to watch on DVD is always done differently. There was a point in which I added a new list full of six choices which were the next six in line to be added. I added them all at once and switched between them and the other list of choices that I still had. Those six choices were VeggieTales on VHS, The Muppet Show season 1, Family Guy Star Wars parodies also called the Laugh it up Fuzzball trilogy, Invader Zim, Flashpoint, and Survivor: Palau.

Gradually, I moved those choices over to the main list when the older choices were replaced and had newer things replace things on the other list with the next set of choices. I got rid of the other list at some point, although I still wait for three of those choices to be transferred on to this one. Ultimately, everything older than those six choices except for shows on tape were removed from this list. Four of those choices were removed from this list in this order: VeggieTales on VHS, Family Guy Star Wars parodies, Invader Zim, and Survivor: Palau, leaving The Muppet Show and Flashpoint as the two oldest choices on the list. We’ll see which of them gets removed first. But there will probably be other choices that get removed before them.

Now that I can finally start talking about politics again, I have to mention who I believe is the worst Republican’t alive right now: Mitch McConnell. He prevents Obama from getting his rightful nomination to the Supreme Court saying that it shouldn’t happen during an election year when we all know that it is really about Republican’ts losing control of the court. He then has the audacity to say that the Democrats are doing an unprecedented thing by using a filibuster on a Supreme Court justice nominee when the Republicans lead by him did the unprecedented thing of refusing to hold hearing on Merrick Garland. I will be so glad when he’s gone from office. If you live in Kentucky, then be sure to vote that Mitch out when you get the chance. Progress is what he always works against.

The Supreme Court nomination process is now going to be easier for whoever happens to be in the majority party since they did the nuclear option. The Republican’ts are going to regret using that option, hopefully sooner rather than later. It was a bad thing to even be there and even worse that the Democrats did it and made it seem okay. That’s not to say that it wouldn’t have happened without the previous vote. They just wouldn’t have been able to blame anyone for it.

I had heard rumors that Anthony Kennedy may step down from the Supreme Court. I don’t know yet if this is true or something that will happen or not. I do wonder if he is the last moderate currently left on the court. I would like more moderates on the court, especially since the Democrats haven’t held control of the court since the 1970s. Hey, if Trump felt that Scala’s replacement had to be an ultra conservative like him, then maybe he’ll have to replace a moderate with another moderate. Remember that Merrick Garland is still available. Of course, with the current turmoil, only death will take another justice off the court right now.

Switching political sides entirely, you may have noticed from my March Madness posts (should they be published) that I rooting for all of the North Carolina teams since they weren’t playing any of the tournament there in objection to something called HB2. This means that I would support something like HB2. I find the opposition to the thing to be ridiculous.

Let’s just do a quick reminder of what this is for those of you that don’t know or remember. It is called a bathroom bill and makes people use the bathroom of the gender that they were born with. I think there might be more to the bill than that alone. But so many people think that people who aren’t transgender wouldn’t abuse the law. I bet these are the same people who would criticize Trump for the countless things that he has said without any prove. There are cases known already of none transgender people who have taken advantage of it to commit crimes or at least make people uncomfortable. If you aren’t a man anymore, then you can go to the woman’s restroom. But if you just identify as a woman but aren’t, then you shouldn’t be in that bathroom yet.

So many people criticized Hilary Clinton for her lies. Yet these same people are awfully silent about all of Trump’s constant lies. I also like how a person with a pre-existing condition can be denied coverage again in the future. I turn 26 in the summer and could lose coverage. So I better hope that any major health issues I have are before then. Republican’ts tend to blatantly ignored all of the benefits that Obamacare has given people. They would never mention the 45,000 people who died every year due to preventable things simply because of lack of health care coverage before Obamacare became law. They insist that people have lost coverage because of this yet never mention one single person who this has happened to. They could make up someone and I wouldn’t know. And they seem to be forgetting that even if it is true, they still can get Obamacare as a replacement and they won’t have that if the law no longer exists.

I really hope that Obama can consider running for governor of Illinois so I can have his great self in office again. But 2018, things can change and might move smoother for a change. Or it could be as bad as always. Trump wants to build a wall even though 48% of illegals come to this country by airplane. That percentage is just going to increase if a wall gets built. And I really don’t think that it will. If it does, then one can hope that it can come down like the Berlin Wall did. I wish that we could have someone more responsible in office who would want to tear down walls instead of building them up. Also, as of 5-7-2017, there are 1,264 days until the next presidential election. We could potentially get rid of Mitch McConnell in that election as well and we can have two bad people out of office at once.

Well, in all my threeish years of recording this show on my laptop, there has never once been a problem with it outside of episodes that were glitchy instead of coming in well. For the first time ever, it had a problem with playback. The episode was there. The audio was fine. There was no picture and seemed to just be just a black screen with the audio. (Honestly, I have watched some shows in the past where the picture quality was so bad, it looked like the television set was off even though the sound came in perfectly fine.) I decided to just delete the recording and will watch the episode later online.

Today’s episode is brought to you by no delay. We begin with Blake being told about this journalist who is imprisoned oversees on trumped up charges. Boy I hate things that are Trumped. This episode seems to be a day in the life of Blake.

In segment two, there is more trying to get the journalist back. A reason that they might not be able to help is to keep future child soldiers from happening. Blake then gets a visit from his mother who might be a bit clingy. Blake goes to the embassy of Sudan. He then goes elsewhere where he seems to want to hook up with some random woman that I can’t tell that much about. I don’t think that he’s successful with that, for now at least.

In segment three, Nadine talks about the conflict growing potentially worse as usual. This fomer child soldier or whoever might be dying, if I’m understanding this right, which I don’t think that I am. Elizabeth and Nadine talk to a family who is fed up with the US government and a perceived lack of help. Daisy might be pregnant, but it can be hard to tell for sure since the characters aren’t explicitly saying it.

In segment four, Matt is called in for Elizabeth to give a speech to release the journalist. Even after trying to use a song to help him with writing, he doesn’t have anything to help the secretary. Daisy is, indeed, pregnant, but I’m not sure if we know who the father is. Is it from her Election Day hook up? A random conversation leads Matt to write his speech which Elizabeth then gives.

In segment five, someone yells and Elizabeth and then she gets everything that she wants. The father of Daisy’s baby was the undercover operative from earlier who wound up dead. The journalist gets reunited with his family. There are no scenes from next time so I’ll be back later with the next episode. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.

Episode from 3-19-2017

A lot of different things relating to the March Madness tournament this year seem to be going through my mind. For one, I might make Oklahoma State my first ever anti-team where I would root against it until it is possibly gone from the tournament. I don’t know yet if I’ll do that or not. Another thing to consider is the fact that the NCAA has decided that they will not be hosting any part of the tournament in North Carolina due to a passage of a bill they deemed controversial. The planned games in North Carolina are now in South Carolina which may have also been out of contention for hosting it if they had never gotten rid of the Confederate flag.

I think that the whole not letting a state host part of the tournament over a law that people are really dumb about objecting over is really dumb. I may look up all of the colleges and make a note of which ones are from North Carolina. That way, I might add them to the support list, or teams I would root for. We’ll see what happens with that for sure later. Teams in the tournament from North Carolina are Wake Forest, North Carolina Central, UNC Wilmington, Duke, and North Carolina. Guess that I might be rooting for Duke after all. We'll see what all I root for in the future and who I don't.

Now if you get only a dollar a year doing your job, would it benefit anyone to donate all that money to charity? Now if Charity was the name of a stripper, that dollar might work. But it doesn’t make sense to me, this story I’ve heard. Also, if you are a politician and you want to give back money you would otherwise earn, why not give the money towards getting rid of the national debt?

Now for the first update regarding the tournament. We’ll start with the play-in games. Wake Forest lost its play-in game to Kansas State so they will not be advancing to round one. North Carolina Central also had to win a play-in game in order to get to round one. They lost to UC Davis.

As of now, my sister’s baby has been born. I don’t know how this will affect this blog or not. I know that there will be a baptism of the baby at some point and I will probably be there for it. I also know that my brother-in-law’s birthday is coming up soon so I could go and visit him then. I guess that we will see for sure what happens with that later.

With round one, three teams I’m following are UNC Wilmington, Duke, and North Carolina. Well, those are three of the five teams that I’m now following. But I’m wanting to keep them separate from Wichita State and Butler plus whatever team(s) I’ll be adding later. I won’t know what teams advance instantly, but I will know as time goes by. Butler is going to round two having won their first game. UNC Wilmington lost to Virginia. Wichita State won their game and is continuing in the tournament. Duke continues by winning their game. North Carolina won their game. And the only team I was rooting against, Oklahoma State, lost to Michigan. But other teams I'm rooting against will be added later.

Next comes round two. Butler won and made it to the sweet sixteen. TNT aired North Carolina’s game at the same time as the game I am about to tell you about. I don’t have that channel so I won’t be able to watch it. They were winning at the time, although I won’t see the final score until later. North Carolina advanced in the tournament meaning that they will now play Butler in the sweet sixteen. You might be wondering who I would rather have win. I’m supporting North Carolina for political reasons. I’m supporting Butler since my cousin went there. I would rather Butler win, although I’d be okay with either as a winner.

Since I’m rooting for North Carolina teams, Duke was a team of interest. Instead of playing their games in North Carolina, they wound up playing them in South Carolina. Something interesting that happened is that they, a higher seeded team, lost to South Carolina. The parallels are interesting even if the change of venue would likely have no ultimate bearing on who would win over the other. In the meantime, Wichita State lost to Kentucky.

It is around 5:40 when I check what is on CBS. They are airing a game of Michigan State versus Kansas. Kansas is winning. Kansas is also the higher seeded team. They are seeded number one while Michigan State is seeded number nine. I should be watching most of this until 6. It looks like there’s a lot of game still left to be played. I wanted to watch what was on FOX, until I learned that it was delayed Nascar which is dumb considering how the race is over. Hopefully they can get back to shows at 6:30. Actually, they get to a Bob’s Burgers episode that they probably cut off the beginning of.

Kansas ends up winning the game and they are now a team that I root for. Also, why wasn’t Tru TV airing a game at this time? I guess that they would be airing one later. Kansas won’t face any teams of interest until the final four if all of them make it that far. We’ll see if another game airs before primetime next week. I won’t have to worry about Kansas playing another team of interest unless both are in the final four. We’ll see what happens later.

Today’s episode is brought to you by 35 minute delay. We begin the siblings are fighting with each other. Stevie insists on being caught up on current events. Elizabeth is meeting with the Dalai Lama soon. Russell might have been mansplanning. Elizabeth is told not to do something at her foreign meeting. Knowing her, this will mean she probably does it. Henry is looking for a missing asset. Different Tibetans are over at the white house, I think. They do some sort of ritual. Jay, I think, has possible problems over custody over his child. There is a lot going on and I have no way of knowing how to recap all of it. The Dalai Lama names a successor which makes wave.

In segment two, people don’t want to pick sides between Tibet and China. This could break an ongoing climate deal. How is this related? A senator supports the Dalai Lama having an American successor and this is a problem. Henry is able to meet with the asset again. This asset is concerned that he might be caught soon. The female vice-president who looks more like Hilary Clinton than Téa Leoni does appears to talk more about the issue at hand.

In segment three, there is more talking about the issue at hand. Jay has more arguments with his ex-wife? Elizabeth talks with a person of some sort online who offers advice over the ongoing issue. The senator talks with the president and vice-president. Conrad threatens to kick this person’s ass. My mother doesn’t think a president is allowed to do (or even say) that. I wonder what Trump might do regarding something like that. Hopefully there won't be too much more of the Trump administration even if it would lead to a still less than ideal Mike Pence administration.

In segment four, they think that the deal is fixed, only there is another problem when the Chinese people think that another person should be endorsed as the new Lama. Elizabeth is a bit childish over this. They still try to work on a solution. After advice from Henry, Elizabeth tells the current Lama that she thinks they should do the test and then see what the results are.

In segment five, the Lama ends up dying. Jay wants to be more involved with his child’s life than he has ended up being. The asset goes through some sort of inauguration. They couldn’t find a new Lama based on the American child as he failed their test. If the test is what I think it is, it seems very random and ambiguous. The Tibetans pay tribute to their fallen leader.

On the next Madam Secretary, there are missiles missing and it seems that a lot of danger possibly looks like it is happening everywhere. It looks like an interesting episode and I look forward to watching it in the near future. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.

Episode from 3-12-2017

There are special tapes that I have for personal use. One of them relates to episodes of the show The Big Bang Theory. I was watching through season 5 and when I got to the third disc, it started failing for some odd reason. I finished the disc and then realized that I could record the syndicated versions of these episodes. Ultimately, I got all of them on a tape, but I ran into a bit of a problem regarding it: there was still room on the tape after it. I decided to use it to record a crossover of Brooklyn Nine-Nine and New Girl. I don’t know how much room is on it still. But, learning that there would be a crossover between MacGyver and Hawaii Five-0, I thought that I would put them both on the tape as well. I may tape over the Hawaii Five-0 part should it not turn out to be a crossover after all. With luck, I’ll be able to get a rerun of the Pandora’s Box crossover between NCIS and NCIS: New Orleans.

They are revealing the teams that are in March Madness today before primetime. I may have to watch this to see if any of the teams from previous years that I care about are in the tournament this time as well. Depending on how things go, I’ll add other teams to root for depending on who ends up winning what games that air before primetime on Sundays. Meanwhile, I’ll have to put any episode that delays the airing of this show on tape so hopefully this and the Masters don’t cause too many problems.

I didn’t get to see most of the reveal of teams. I will just look up what the teams are later. I know that I will add future teams in future weeks based on who plays in the games before primetime on Sunday. I know that only one of my teams can win, but more than one team to root for would give me more chances of a team I support winning. I know that the games will air on Saturdays and Ransom won’t air then as a result. What I don’t know is if it will be ending before the games start or not. It’s also interesting how CBS is planning on burning off Training Day on Saturday but still not have the balls to tell us that it is cancelled. At least they owned up to Doubt’s cancellation which happened a record late time for a first official cancellation. Of course, there are shows that are unofficially cancelled like Frequency, Conviction, Pure Genius, No Tomorrow, Notorious, and maybe others.

After the reveal of teams, here are the ones that I’m possibly rooting for: Wichita State and Butler. I might root for Duke again, but I really don’t have to since they have already won the tournament once when I was rooting for them. If these two teams keep advancing, they will face each other in the elite 8. There was also confusion about another potential team for me to root for. If they were in the tournament this year, I was going to root for Oklahoma as I was rooting for them at one point last year. Only they aren’t in the tournament this year. But Oklahoma State, a completely different team (which it really is, I checked) is in the tournament. I don’t know if I will check up on them or not. I doubt it since they are a different team and I don’t want to confuse myself. Only if they are part of the game before primetime on Sunday on CBS will I root for them (providing they win).

Today’s episode is brought to you by no delay. We begin with Elizabeth having a scheduled visit to Singapore. But she’s also planning on stopping by the Philippines. The Philippines has a new president who appears to be like Trump. (If possible, I’m going to avoid discussing politics in this blog until Easter.) Henry works on finding his lost asset. Is it just me, or does that happen a lot? Elizabeth talks to the president of the Philippines and he winds up sexually harassing her which leads her to immediately retaliate by punching him back in the nose.

In segment two, Elizabeth talks to some people about what happened. For some odd reason, the Philippine president decides to go with a cover story that he was injured boxing someone. People wonder what they are supposed to do now. The president’s team learns from some important foreign diplomat that they might want to kill the Philippine president.

In segment three, there is more talk on what to do with the Philippine president. They learn that there might have been more women that he harassed that were paid off. Nadine thinks that Elizabeth should step forward about this and that would inspire others to come forward as well. Henry finds his asset and talks to him about what’s going on and where they can find a potential bomb, I think.

In segment four, there is a plane that is being investigated. Did I miss something? I didn’t think that I did, but I might be. As of writing this post, I don’t have any unseen episodes on tape yet, but that could happen again soon. Anyways, they realize that some sort of plane had been messed with as it had to refuel when it otherwise should have been okay without it. A woman comes forward and seeks asylum from the Philippine president with even more damaging news than what they thought.

In segment five, the Philippine president and Conrad come up with a deal after Elizabeth has talked to him some. What we don’t know yet, I don’t think, is what the information was that was revealed. There were people with the president of the Philippines and Elizabeth when they were talking so I don’t know if they were confused about the conversation or not. Maybe I wasn’t supposed to notice them. Anyways, Henry’s asset learns of a drone that could carry a bomb and he had to kill a guy in order to reveal the information.

On the next Madam Secretary, I don’t fully understand the promo. Someone is dying. There are more international problems as usual. Elizabeth may have done a childish thing that results in problems. I guess we’ll find out more of what happens later. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.