The Coming Manufactured Crisis

We are back into a few days of hot sunny Summer weather, so this afternoon I put in about an hour and 20 minutes of sunning commencing at something like 2:56 p.m., and following my early afternoon nap.

I have one of my nighttime walks scheduled for the early a.m. ─ possibly 5½ miles ─ so I will not be sitting up too late this evening. My cellphone alarm will be set for 2:30 a.m., for I like to try and be on my way by 2:45 a.m.

Consequently, it will be in my favour if my younger brother fails to arrive home from his daily 'socializing' by the 9:30 p.m. deadline that I shall have in place for him. It would be nice to be abed by 10 p.m.

Last evening after he got home, I actually tuned in two episodes of Black Lightning. My brother usually passes out when I play an episode, but he remained conscious because he intended to cook something for his supper, and was first having one of his beers.

I had thought that I had tuned in season two's episode five, but because I was rushed (my brother got home an hour earlier than is currently normal for him), I failed to realize that the episode that was tuned in was a misfiled source for episode six.

Once the realization did arrive, I thought that I would just chalk this one up to bad experience, and forget about episode five. However, when my brother became involved in his cooking towards the conclusion of the episode I had tuned in, and it was apparent that he was going to be involved for quite some while, I decided that I would transition to the correct episode after the one I had on had concluded.

That conclusion seemed a little more abrupt than seemed natural, so it is possible that the link source was faulty and the episode concluded prematurely.

The same thing then happened when I played the proper episode five, but it seemed to occur even earlier in the episode.

No matter. Between the two of them, I gleaned enough of what was taking place over the course of the two episodes. As for my brother, he had no idea that I had played two episodes, and out of sequence.  

Next up was the short 1961 movie Clue of the Silver Key, the latest sequential episode of the old Edgar Wallace Mysteries that we have been watching from the beginning. Last night I used the Yandex browser to find a source for the episode, simply using the search term "watch clue of the silver key online". Google seems designed not to produce free sources for these shows.

I should here make clear that the episode was watched on T.V. via our Android TV Box and one of the browser apps that I have downloaded into it. 

My brother passed out for most of the episode ─ evidently the burden of his supper was more than he could withstand.

He was awake again for the episode of The Man in the High Castle that I thereafter played.

And we finished off our viewing with an episode ─ the first in season three ─ of The Kominsky Method. The episode was initially confusing because it opened at the memorial for the character played by Alan Arkin, yet the character was alive and well at the conclusion of season two. It took us some while before we accepted that we had not missed out on seeing his 'death scene', and that the actual event was entirely omitted in the series ─ it was something that viewers are to assume had occurred 'between seasons'.

But enough about last night.

After my brother and I got together for some T.V. this morning, I led us off with a nearly hour-long (57:10) upload by Laura-Lynn Tyler Thompson of two or three days ago to Rumble: Live with John O’Looney.

UK Funeral Director John O’Looney joins me on the show, for a follow-up interview on what he has been seeing at his workplace.

Visit John's Website here: https://www.mkffs.co.uk/

Watch more of John here: https://vimeo.com/606715432

My brother and I have seen John interviewed before, and he is extremely interesting ─ and clearly a truly nice guy.

Following that video, I tuned in Max Igan's (The Crowhouse) upload of three days ago to Rumble ─ it was an hour and 34 minutes: THE COMING MANUFACTURED CRISIS.

Max can cover a heck of a lot of material, and often loses himself in his own distracting rants. He has at least a couple of views or ideas that I am not in align with, but he is still very interesting and is unquestionably sincere.

This brought us into the noon hour, so I concluded our viewing with the premiere episode of an older (late 1990s) British sitcom titled How Do You Want Me? 

I am going to conclude here. It is already after 7 p.m., and I need to sup and clear away my evening so that I can promptly get to bed if my brother is not here by the very dot of his deadline.