dedicated to the strength of the nation. Proudly we hail the United States Army and United States Air Force presentation. Now here is our producer, the well-known Hollywood showman, C.P. McGregor. Thank you, thank you, and greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to your theater of stars, where the top names of motion pictures join us for your entertainment. Dick Faran is our star in the title of our play, Journal of a Hometown Boy. Our curtain for act one will rise right after this important message from Wendell Niles. A man in uniform of the United States Army and the United States Air Force has a job to do.  That job is peace. The mission of today's regular army and Air Force is the preservation of peace throughout the world and the security of our United States of America. That job and the uniform which marks the wearer as one of the men doing that job means honor and satisfaction to all concerned, to the men in uniform and to you whose lives they are helping to make secure. When you show respect to the men in uniform, you are respecting yourselves and honoring your country. Now, once again, our producer. The curtain rises on act one of Journal of a Hometown Boy, starring Dick Faran as Wilbur Hoskins. In an effort to allay his homesickness during his four years in the army, Wilbur Hoskins spent most of his spare time in writing notes to himself about his hometown. High don't suppose strangers think Central City is much of a town, speeding through in a train. About all they see is the water tower, the depot, the grain elevator. But to know Central City, you have to know the people. Like Grandma Fleming, Doc Harris, Mr. Williams. And when Wilbur was discharged from the army, he had Central City down on paper. He showed his notes to Mr. Williams, the editor of Central City Weekly, then promptly forgot them. He had written them for himself, not for publication. And he was amazed when Mr. Williams told him that he had entered Wilbur's notes in a new author's contest, and that they had won first prize. Be welded and a little frightened, Wilbur has just arrived at the offices of the New York Publishing House, which is bringing out his book. Yes? May I help you? Gosh, I hope so. I want to see you, Mr. I got his name on a paper here somewhere. Oh, yeah. Mr. Sherman. Mr. John Sherman. Who shall I say is calling? Wilbur. Wilbur Hoskins. And what is it you want to see Mr. Sherman about, Mr. Hoskins? My book. It was entered in the new author's contest. I'm sorry, Mr. Hoskins, the decision of the judges is final. Maybe you'll have better luck next year. Better luck. My book won first prize. Really? Yeah. I didn't believe it myself at first either. Go right in, Mr. Hoskins. Mr. Sherman's expecting you. It's the first door on your left. Thank you. Thank you very much. Oh, don't mention it. Mr. Sherman. Yes? I'm Wilbur Hoskins. Well. Well. This is a pleasure indeed, Mr. Hoskins. I've been looking forward to meeting you here. Yes, you don't. Oh, that's mighty nice of you, Mr. Sherman. I've been looking forward to meeting you too. Do you have the check? Check? Yeah, Mr. Williams. He's the man who sent my journal to you. He said that I was to get a check for $10,000. Oh, yes. The prize money. It's all made out and waiting for you, Wilbur. We'll pick it up as we leave. Oh, well, shall we leave now? I mean, I'd like to catch a train back to Central City tonight if I can. Tonight? Yeah. Why, my boy, you'll have to stay here at least two weeks. Two weeks? Why, certainly. For publicity purposes. You have to meet the reviewers, the columnists, the leading booksellers, in fact, all the people who can help build your book into the best seller that I know it can be. It'll take at least two weeks. Oh, gosh. Do you know a good reliable laundry with one-day service? We'll worry about laundry later, Wilbur. Right now, you and I are due to meet some of the critics at a cocktail party. Critics? Yes. Well, when I meet them, what do I do? Just what any writer does. Talk about yourself. Oh. Of course, it won't hurt to mention the title of your book a few hundred times.  Well, Wilbur, now that you've met them, what do you think of the critics? Well, that isn't nearly as important as what did the critics think of me? With that attitude, my boy, you should go far. As a matter of fact, the critics loved you. The air was filled with such phrases as exceptionally keen insight, fine perception, and deep understanding of small-town American. Oh, I expect you're just being kind to a stranger. That bunt? They wouldn't be kind to their own mothers. But when Hasselman described you as a new Will Rogers, I knew you were in. Oh, why did he say that, Mr. Sherman? Well, Rogers was funny. No, funnier than you, my boy. But they nearly died when you said that the proudest day of your life was the day when you got the good conduct ribbon. Was the proudest day of my life, Mr. Sherman? It was. Yeah. My outfit was stationed at a whack replacement center, and I was the only man in the company to get a good conduct ribbon. You're serious? Of course I'm serious. Good heavens.  Nancy! Oh, Nancy! What is it, Mr. Sherman? What's happened? Nancy, I want you to meet Wilbur Hoskins. Well, how do you do, Mr.... Oh. Oh, you're the author of Journal of a Hometown Boy? Yes. Her name is Nancy Liebrock Wilbur. You can call her Nancy. Well, that's certainly real generous of you, Mr. Sherman. Is it all right with you, Mrs. Liebrock? Why not? Well, of course I wouldn't feel quite right about it unless you call me Wilbur. Okay, Wilbur. Oh, thanks, Nancy.  Did you have another stroke of genius, or just another stroke? Wilbur is going to be with us for two weeks, Nancy. Well, I should know. I laid out the publicity campaign. And I want you to chaperone him during those two weeks. Chaperone him? Yes. I don't want Wilbur to talk to a single soul unless you're with him. You're to stick to him day and night. Oh, now, see here, Mr. Sherman. You keep out of this, Wilbur. If you think for a second, J.S., that I'm going to play nursemaid to every half-witted author... Nancy, you know what I mean. Yes, I know. But why do you always pick on me? I'll have to break all my dates for the next two weeks. Not on my account, you won't. I suppose you will go on the dates with me? No. I'm going home. You're what? I'm going home. Oh, no, you're not. Your contract calls for your cooperation in publicizing your book, and specifically states that you will remain in New York for at least two weeks while the book is being launched.  I don't have a contract. What? You were going to give me my check in a contract right after we got back from that cocktail party. Right now, I don't have a contract and you don't have a book.  When you entered your material in the new author's contract... I didn't enter my material. Mr. Williams did, and I didn't write a book. I just wrote some notes to myself, and if you'll just give them back, I'll be glad to forget the whole thing. But, Wilbur, think of all the money I've spent. The printing, the binding, the cover. I've been to some expense too, Mr. Sherman. I had to take a whole day off from work and pay my way to New York and then back to Central City. I'm willing to take my loss. You can take yours. I'm going home. Oh, no. Please, Wilbur. No, I don't want to stay around and make Miss LeBrock unhappy. Miss LeBrock would be much more unhappy if you went home. Oh, no, she wouldn't. I heard what she said. Well, she's going to apologize for that. Aren't you, Miss LeBrock? The employer is always right, J.S. I apologize for whatever I said, Wilbur.  Oh, I'd be devastated if he left. Yeah. Wilbur, what do you say to that? I'm going home. Oh, nice try, J.S. Better luck next time. Yeah? It better be better luck this time, Miss LeBrock, or you're out of a job. Oh, no, and now, J.S., you don't mean that. I certainly do. I had the best seller of the century on the presses until you hurt Wilbur's feelings. And if Wilbur goes home, you're fired, Nancy. Okay. I hope you have a nice train ride home, Wilbur, and get tenders in both eyes. Miss LeBrock, Miss LeBrock. Yes, Mr. Hooskins? Well, I just wanted you to know that I feel very badly about being responsible for you losing your job. Well, thank you. Just that one thought is bound to keep me warm all winter while I'm pounding the streets looking for another job. Gosh, I hadn't thought of that. It's a mighty serious matter, costing a fellow human being her livelihood, Wilbur. Yeah. I'd hate to have it on my conscience. Yeah, I hadn't thought of that either. I don't know how you could live with yourself knowing that you were responsible for casting this lovely young woman out on the streets, subjecting her to heaven knows what fate. Yeah. Hey, just a second. I'm not the one who's firing, Nancy. You are. I'm only doing it because she hurt your child's feelings to the point where you decided to go home and take your material with you. All right. I give up. Then sign the contract. Does Nancy keep her job? Certainly. And Nancy is still going to chaperone you. Oh, Wilbur, do you think you can get up to your room without getting into trouble? Oh, I wouldn't get into any trouble, Nancy. I don't know what Mr. Sherman's worrying about. He just wants you to stay away from people, unless I'm with you.  Oh, these are different sort of people, Wilbur. Not the sort who'd give up going home just to keep a girl from losing her job. Oh, shucks. Nancy, you'd do the same for me. Would I? I wonder. Going out? Well, there's your elevator. I'd better be running along. See you in the morning, Wilbur. Yeah. Good night, Nancy. Good night, Wilbur. Good night. Did she kiss me? I say no. What floor do you want? I didn't ask her to or anything. She just kissed me. Well, I guess love comes that way to some people. Yeah. What floor do you want? Of course, it might be just because she's grateful for not losing her job. But I don't hardly believe that can be it.  What? Gosh, imagine my first day in New York and I'm engaged. Well, let me be the first to congratulate you. What floor do you want? Request briefly from our story, Journal of a Hometown Boy starring Dick Fran to bring you a brief message from our government. Man, it's interesting to note that from July 1947 to October 1948, more men chose army jobs and army careers than joined any private industry. Hundreds of thousands of young Americans decided to stay in the army, rejoin the army, or sign their original enlistment contracts. There must be and there are good solid reasons for this. For instance, there are the great army technical schools where trades are learned and you increase your skill and your chance for advancement. There's job security and there's the chance of rapid promotion. Overall, is that good army pay plus 20% extra if you choose service overseas, food, clothing, quarters, medical and dental care at no cost, and the opportunities for travel and education that cannot be duplicated elsewhere. Let these things over. Then learn the details. Visit your nearest U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force Recruiting Station immediately. Our curtain rises on Act 2 of Journal of a Hometown Boy starring Dick Fran as Wilbur Hoskins. It is several days since Wilbur saved Nancy LeBruck's job by agreeing to sign a contract to have his book published and remain in New York. And it's several nights since Nancy gratefully and impulsively kissed Wilbur. He's been in the days ever since and at dinner, Nancy is finding him strangely unresponsive. Every critic in town is raving about your book. Oh, it's nice. Oh, you don't seem very happy about it. Oh, I am. I'm terribly happy about it. I guess. What's wrong, Wilbur? Nothing. You can tell Nancy, can't you? Oh, it's nothing important. I'm just in love. Well, I think that's the most important thing in the world. You do? Certainly. What's the matter? Did you have a fight with your girl? Is that why you're so unhappy? Oh, no. She doesn't even know I'm in love with her. I got the nerve. Why not? You can't take much nerve to say, I love you. It takes more than I've got. Nonsense. Practice it a while and you'll have no trouble at all. I wish I could believe that. Come on. Try it out on me. Huh? Go ahead. Say, I love you, Nancy. I love you, Nancy. Oh, that isn't very convincing. Try it again. I love you, Nancy. Well, that's an improvement, but you can do better than that. Try it once more. I do love you, Nancy. Oh, that's more like it. I could almost believe that myself. Well, oh, my gosh. What's she like? Is she pretty? Beautiful. Intelligent? She's so smart she scares me. She sounds like quite a girl. She's just, just wonderful, that's all. Well, see, if you think that much, Oliver Wilbur, I'd suggest that you pop the question just as soon as you get back to Central City. Oh, she doesn't live in Central City. She, I love you, Nancy. I beg your pardon? Well, you're the girl, Nancy. I know it's hopeless. You could never see anything in a fellow like me, but I, I had to tell you. Oh, I'm sorry, Wilbur. Yeah, so am I, but it's wonderful to dream about. I, I don't know what to say, Wilbur. Maybe we'd better go. It's 7.45. We'll be late for the broadcast. Broadcast? The author and the critics radio program. I told you about it. I guess I was thinking about something else. Gary Peterson and Marissa Evans are the critics on the program here. Pretty vicious when they want to be.  But don't let them do it, Wilbur. The way I feel now, nothing can make me feel any worse. Say, what's this all about, Nancy? Do I have to talk on the radio? Well, just answer the questions they throw at you and don't volunteer any information. Gary, darling, Marissa, are we late? Oh, how can you even suggest such a thing? We won't go on the air for at least another 30 seconds. Oh, sorry, Gary. Well, what a lovely gown, Marissa. Did you make it yourself? Oh, no, no, darling. My maid gives me overcast thoughts. The thoughtful, isn't she? Hmm, very. Is this the boy wonder? Oh, sorry. With all the parties we've thrown, I've felt certain you must have met Wilbur Evans, an old, old friend of mine. Not that old, Wilbur. Now, if you two kittens will take your claws out of each other for a second, I'd like to show Wilbur where to stand in relation to the microphone. Have you ever been on the air before, Wilbur? Well, no, Mr. Peterson, but I listen a lot. Well, that should help your mic technique no end.  Let's get this little room here. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. This is the author. Wilbur Hoskins. Evans. And yours truly, Gary Peterson. Tonight, we take what pleasure we can in discussing Mr. Hoskins' book, Journal of a Home Town Boy. How did you ever happen to write your book, Wilbur? Well, I didn't really write a book. Sales seem to prove that you did. Go on, Wilbur. You're saying that you didn't really write a book. Well, no. You see, while I was in the Army, I'd get kind of lonesome and homesick and I'd write down things that I remembered about Central City and its people. Oh, it was one of the finest pieces of satire I've ever read. Satire? Well, it was really perfect, Wilbur. Even your choice of a name for the town, Central City. It wasn't too obviously fictitious and yet no one could really believe that any such town exists. Oh, no, I was born and raised in Central City. Well, I'll bet there are people in Central City who are listening to this program right now. Well, is there anything like the characters in your book? I'll bet they don't understand it. What do you mean by that? Well, Marissa meant that in some of your descriptive passages, your satire became a little broad, Wilbur. The people were too, shall we say, corny and unbelievable. Corny, unbelievable? Exactly. Although they were rather to look funny, no one could ever believe that those characters were real people. I don't know what you're talking about. I don't write about characters and I write about people I know, people I was brought up with. Every person I mention in my book is a living, breathing human being. They may be living and breathing, but I doubt that they're human beings. I suppose you're entitled to your opinion. Well, we're not only entitled to it, Wilbur, we're paid for it.  It gives me an entirely new concept of your book, Wilbur. The section I found particularly appalling, and I think you'll agree, Gary, was that part where Wilbur describes the funeral telling about the entire town literally moving in on him, taking over his whole house, running everything without so much as a bar you leave. Well, anyone who could believe that I thoroughly agree with you, Marisa. People just don't do that sort of thing. Exactly. At least the people I've known have all had the good taste to leave others alone in their time of grief. You call that good taste? Well, certainly, old boy. After all, one's not one's brother's keeper, you know. Well, we are in Central City.  Everybody in town is worried about it and tries to help. We don't stand around while some fellow drowns or his wife and kids go hungry and say to ourselves, it's none of our business. We try to help each other. And if that's corny, if that's unbelievable, then most of the people in this country are corny and unbelievable, and thank God that they are. And as for you, Mr. Peterson and Miss Evans, I just wish to goss it either one of you as a man. No, see, here, Hoskins, I'm just as much of a man as you. You're entitled to your opinion, Mr. Peterson, and I'm entitled to mine. Good night. Good night. Why didn't you wait for me? You really shouldn't have walked out on Gary and Marissa that way. They're lucky I did walk out. Well, I suppose you realize this finishes you in New York. Do you think I care? Oh, they'll murder your next book, Wilbur. The critical fraternity doesn't like authors who talk back. What of it? I'm not going to write any more books. I'm going back to Central City and try to forget that I ever saw in New York. Oh? I haven't had a single happy moment and, except for you, I haven't met a single real person in the two weeks I've been here. If this is culture and civilization, they can take it and put it in the Hudson. Oh, there are nice people in New York, Wilbur. Friendly people. Kindhearted. I didn't say there weren't. I said I hadn't met any. And I'm giving them the benefit of the dot, which is more than the critics have given my people. I see. As a matter of fact, when I get back to Central City and tell them about these people, they won't believe me, because funny as we may look to them, they look twice as funny to us. I, uh, know what you mean, Wilbur. I'll bet you do. Well, as long as I've followed you to your hotel, you might at least ask me to sit down and let me tell you about it. Well, sit down. You were going to tell me something? I came to New York from a little town, Wilbur. Arrowsmith. It's a little further west than Central City and a lot smaller. You're kidding. I went to college, majored in journalism, and came to New York to become a writer. Gee. Is that how you started to work for Mr. Sherman? Yeah, directly. I got a job as a book reviewer.  Then Mr. Sherman hired me as a press agent to keep me from reviewing his author's books. Well, I'll bet you could have torn my book apart. The first time I read it, yes. Oh, but I hated myself in the morning. I've read Journal of a Hometown Boy three times now, Wilbur. And I feel that I know Grandma Fleming, Doc Harris, Mr. Williams, almost as well as you do. Really? Do you like them, Nancy? Oh, I love them. I'd like to meet them, know them, have them as neighbors and... Wilbur, would you like to rehearse that line again? Line? That you were afraid to say to the girl you loved. Oh, you mean I love you? Oh, and I love you too, Wilbur. Did you say what I thought you said? Yes, darling. Well, earlier this evening... Oh, the girl can change your mind, can't she? No, not after she's married. All right, I accept. I could never wait for you to get up nerve enough to propose, so I accept. When should we get married? Well, I don't believe in long engagements. What about tonight? Oh, not in New York, Wilbur. We'll have to wait at least three days. Well, come on. To Central City. Oh, that sounds wonderful. When can we start? Just as soon as I get my things and check out. Going up. What floor do you want? I'm engaged. Again? Well, yeah, no, that isn't love wonderful.  What floor do you want? The city falls in the final act of Journal of a Hometown Boy. Our star, Dick Faran, will return for a curtain call after this important message from Wendell Niles. Find out if you can measure up with the best, the aviation cadets. You must be between the ages of 20 and 26 and one-half with two years of college or the ability to pass an equivalent examination, and you must be physically fit. If you fulfill those qualifications, you may be able to become an aviation cadet. Once you're in, it's a future unlimited. After graduation, you'll have your pilot's wings and a commission as second lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force Reserve. If you're especially good, you'll receive a regular commission in the Air Force immediately. At any rate, you'll have a good opportunity to qualify for a regular commission while on active duty. Don't miss this chance to widen the horizons of your future. Go to your nearest Air Force base or recruiting station immediately. Remember, only the best can be once again our star, Dick Varan, and our producer. Dick, we tried to get you a rousing good fight for you and our play just to keep you happy, but the heavy did it with words instead. Oh, that's all right. The same effect without the bruises, CP. I've had my share lately, you know. There's a lot of punching in El Paso. That's right. You're playing the heavy in El Paso. Co-starring John Payne, Gayle Russell, Sterling Hayden and me. John and I mix often. We get plenty of lumps in the scraps, so it's a new twist and change and we'll all be looking out for El Paso and your technicolor lumps. And do that, and I hope you enjoy every one of them. But, by the way, thanks for asking me over. I know your picture work is keeping your nose to the grindstone. No, no, not the grindstone. I hit John Payne's fist with it. The same results. Oh, seriously. I really am glad to be a part of this program. It's doing a lot to attract fine men into both the Army and the Air Force. I've been listening to the opportunities both branches of the service offer. Good pay. And prestige. That's what I mean. A fella can make a career out of either the Army or the Air Force, which may be one reason why they attract the finest lads in the nation. Well, these are the young men this country looks to as protectors of our free way of life. They not only take their jobs seriously, but a uniform on a man gives them the satisfaction of being on the world's biggest job in a business where everyone respects him as a gentleman. You're right. America entrusts these men to keep the peace.  But now, what's your job for next week? Next week, Dick, and ladies and gentlemen, we bring you John Payne in a highly dramatic story The Meadowlark. It is the story of hardship in a wind-blown and dust-laden country town and a constant struggle even among the strong for a survival which they call living. I know you like it. Good deal. And don't forget to ask me back. Well, so long, CP. Good luck. Dick Faran. Please say to join us next week, ladies and gentlemen, when we bring you John Payne in the Meadowlark. Until then, this is CP McGregor saying thanks for listening and Cheerio from Hollywood. Dick Faran appeared to the courtesy of the Hollywood Board in the committee, which arranges for the appearance of all stars on this program. Script was by Bill Hampton, with music under direction of Eddie Scrivenic. This program is transcribed in Hollywood for release at this time. Thank you for your time.


If I believe in once saved always saved and someone comes into the church and then they backslide or regress or go back into the world whatever you want to call it and if I believe in once saved always saved do you know what I believe about that person? I say well they were never saved to begin with but they need Jesus and if I believe you can lose your salvation and I watch that same man come into the church and then backslide or go back into the world or again whatever you want to call it do you know what I'm going to say? I'm going to say oh my goodness he lost his salvation but my conclusion will be the same I'll say that man needs Jesus both sides agree that if someone's living in darkness they need Jesus so never mind that debate


So today people, we will recap Night City Wire 5 for those who did not catch it and geez, it showcased some incredible new things. We had a brand new trailer behind the scenes with Keanu Reeves on Johnny Silverhand and what it's like to work alongside Keanu Reeves. The music of Cyberpunk with the score and the soundtrack from the game's composers. A special mould for content creators which will stop us getting into trouble in terms of copyright. Charlie Technology which is a special software used for facial performance in terms of multiple languages this game will ship with and how this amazing tech adapts to said language and applies it to each character. New digital and in-game rewards which consist of in-game clothes and so much more which are rewarded for connecting certain accounts. News media having early access and brand new gameplay. All timestamps can be found within that video description and pinned at the top of that comment section for those who want to skip to certain parts. Now I may bring a couple of breakdown videos later on today but for those of you who miss Night City Wire Episode 5, catch it right now. If you enjoyed this video leave a like really helps out, subscribe for more Cyberpunk and hopefully I will see you on that next one. And welcome to Night City Wire Episode 5. The show from us at CD Projekt Red where we talk about all things Cyberpunk 2077. Now we're going to start today's episode with a new trailer that will take a closer look at Johnny Silverhand. Before we go behind the scenes with Keanu Reeves I'll have a chat to English adaptation director Boris who will tell us exactly what it was like to work with him. Then we'll be exploring the original score and talking about some of the radio stations you might listen to while driving around Night City. Before we take a look at the Jolly technology which is powering facial animation in Cyberpunk and unveil a new My Reward scheme which anyone can take part in no matter which platform you'll be playing Cyberpunk on. We'll then wrap up today's episode with a brand new gameplay trailer. It's a busy episode and it will be our final episode of Night City Wire before the game launches on December 10th so let's get going. You two are connected in a way I can't make head or tail of. Who? Me and a who, Vic. Silverhand. Johnny Silverhand. A real talk of the town back in my day. He died like forever ago. You need to say there's an actual terrorist in my head right now. He'd burn down half the city just to pray he was right.  What do you want from me? Huh, Arisaka. I don't even know what that means. Do whatever it takes to stop him, defeat him, gut him. He already tried to take over your body. You know, just for a little while. Hear me out, Paul?    See how to get rid of it? Not much time left.  And you're a... Maybe we'll fit together after all. Sometimes we like to share things with you, and other times we like to keep secrets, and it can be worth it for that big reveal. Pretty sure nobody was expecting to see Keanu Reeves on stage at E3 2019. So let's go behind the scenes to see how Keanu Reeves bought Rockerboy Johnny Silverhand to life. You could say it's breathtaking. Cyberpunk 2077 Johnny Silverhand. I've had the opportunity to do voiceover a few times. I'd worked on a cartoon. I had done some documentaries. I'd never done this much. You know you don't gotta speak out loud to talk to me.  Changed my mind. Don't watch it dead anymore. You know, it got to play a character in so many kind of different ways because of different paths or threads or choices. So you almost get to play one moment, say you have a decision. Would you take a bullet for it? With three different behavioral attitudes. So that was fun.  Know why?  So it's been fun. And that was kind of what I was interested in. You know, the different options that the game could play. You know, playing the same person, but with different versions of it. Motion capture, baby. Johnny Silverhand. So one of the first elements that I was involved in with the game was motion capture. I've done a fair bit of motion capture. I did it in the Matrix films. So to start doing the motion capture for Johnny, it was all very familiar to me. The only difference, I think, technologically was how close they were going to real-time review. But creatively, it was very familiar in the sense of starting a library of gesture and the toolbox, let's say, for the animators to work with for the character. So you get to see Johnny as the rock star. You know, you hear about his military past. You know, and he's fighting for his survival. So he's kind of got all of these things leading into the moment of this guy. It's really kind of an interpretation, because I think there's a Johnny Silverhand in all of us. He's got a lot of energy. He's got a good sense of humor, if not a little dark at times. He's very passionate, he cares. You know, he's kind of naive, but he's also super experienced in life. He's got certainly an appetite for life. Oh man! No, you're wrong. He wants to change the world, you know? But he has a cause that he wants to fight against the corpocrats. Come on, don't tell me you're not interested. He's kind of looking for a different kind of freedom. Corps have long controlled our lives, taken lots, and now they're after our souls. At least I believed in something bigger. At least I had a cause. What CD Projekt Red has shared with me in the way that they talk about the game, and what I've seen is that it's got a lot of freedom. There's so many different paths that you can play the game on. But it's not just quests of paths. It's like, who are you? How do you want to play the character? If I got a kill, I'll kill.  You can go into action, you can go into mystery, you can problem solve in different ways.  There's so many different things that you can go off into that are really interesting and fun. There's a real drama to the game and emotional stakes to it. And then there's lighter sides to it. And of course the music, production design, technologically, how cutting edge it is. I don't think there'll be a game that looks like this. Yeah, it's intense. I take the driver. You get his side. Bye bye. We get into what it was like to actually work with Keanu Reeves. Was it always him that you imagined as Johnny Silverhand? Was it anybody else that you ever considered having for the role? Yeah, Holly, it was a long, arduous, extended process to imagine what Johnny Silverhand is supposed to look like, what he's supposed to sound like, what he's supposed to act like. Everybody and their great-grandmother seem to have an idea. And the process actually involved a lot of people, the game director, character artists, writers, marketing staff. I could go on. We cast a pretty broad net initially. We considered actors. We considered enlisting actual rock stars, band front men to play the role. At one point we even toyed with the idea of taking and reviving a recently deceased, long-time luminary of the recording industry. Now, some might say that it was a pipe dream to assume that we could do that technologically or otherwise. Well, I'll see you that pipe dream and raise you another, because one could easily say that it was a pipe dream to assume that we could successfully pitch to and ultimately enlist Keanu Reeves to play the role. Now, I'm sure this is on everybody's mind right now, but what was it actually like to work with Keanu Reeves? Because even he said in the video, this was like nothing he'd ever done before. A question that I'm sure anybody who gets to work with Keanu has to answer. And I get where it comes from. Keanu is a consummate professional. When he's at work, he's at work. He's completely and utterly focused. To that work, he brings his talent. He brings his art, his technical skill and overwhelming charm. And yes, the scale and the complexity were and are dazzling. Non-linearities, the variation in attitude, mood, emotion that are required to achieve them, they can be difficult to get your head around. And if you take all of Johnny Silverhand's bits, his screen time, it's like doing the equivalent of many, many feature film roles put together. And we covered all that in a handful of mocap sessions and under two dozen VO recording sessions of four to six hours each. And that took focus. It took control. It took dedication, all of which Keanu provided in Heaps. So tell us a little bit more about the character of Johnny Silverhand and why he's important to the story, but also why it's important to have him played by such a powerful personality. Okay, how do I do this without spoiling too much for gamers? In the broadest sense, I'd say Johnny Silverhand is a co-protagonist of the game rather than a sidekick. I mean, there are buddy bits in the game, but in the end, Johnny has an agenda and he pursues it. And V has an agenda and has to pursue that. And to get things done, V and Johnny have to work together. Some of the things they do are V's and some of the things they do are Johnny's and some of them are important to both of them. That bonds gamers, I think, to both characters. Both characters' agendas become equally important. Both characters' continued existence becomes equally important. For any gamer or viewer or reader, what you have to do is create that bond between them and the protagonist or protagonist. You have to make those characters understandable to them, likable to them, lovable to them. With that understanding, even when they do something not entirely admirable or say something reprehensible, you stay committed. You stay involved. You stay bonded to them. And there's no denying, casting a powerful personality, somebody who exudes charm by the truckload, helps to further all that. So Boris, can you tell us, like, what does Keanu bring to Johnny Silverhand? What Keanu brings to Johnny Silverhand is nothing more and nothing less than Keanu. I could parse that into a string of adjectives, but I kind of think that would be borderline insulting, because it wouldn't begin to do injustice. To anybody who's seen the applicable movies, Neo is Keanu, Keanu is Neo. John Wick is Keanu, Keanu is John Wick. John Constantine, Johnny Mnemonic, Jonathan Harker, Johnny Utah, they're all Keanu. And to anyone who will play Cyberpunk 2077, Johnny Silverhand will be Keanu. To my mind, at least, star power is a fact and an important factor for broad sections of the audience out there. So can you give us more information about the process of motion capture, right? Because we saw you in the video, you know, doing some of it, but really, how does it work? But I wish I could, Holly, but I'm really no mocap expert, and I can basically tell you what the day looked like, what the process looked like to me. To me, it was a fine day in LA, and I put on a wonky looking body suit with globules all over it, and I put on the head cam, and then we proceeded to block and then play out scenes between V and Johnny, and we did it over and over and over again.  And well, I never expected to be doing any of that. No, I never imagined I'd be doing any of that. Well, Boris, thank you so much for joining us. Your voice in the studio is quite iconic. So whenever I talk to you, I feel like I'm in a trailer. It's amazing. It's not all that. It's not all that, Holly. Thank you. Well, from Soviet era synthesizers to body heat radio, it's time to explore the original score and just some of the radio stations you'll be listening to when you're driving around Night City. Score is the main vessel of emotions in both movies and video games, and Cyberpunk 2077 is no different. It actually took us a long time to find the right color of the music. Getting that sound together is almost as important as the actual look of the game itself, because music is really helping you feel this emotional connection to the game. So one of the main ideas was to take the cyberpunk genre out of the 80s and give it a 90s flair. We took elements from rave, IDM, industrial, and make them fit our narrative purposes. We've decided that close to 100% of our music would be purely electronic. That's why we tried to stick to analog since as much as possible. So it's got a warmth to it. I'm super proud of the team we've managed to gather for this project. For me, it was basically my own personal aesthetic, matching the aesthetic of the game. When I read the brief, I was like, oh, this is going to be great. I can be myself. I can make music, and it comes from an honest place. I love the fact that the music in this game is so varied. So we have some tracks that are super dirty, super heavy, and then we have some tracks that are very beautiful and ambient. I'm using all kinds of different effects, so it's been great to be able to experiment with the sound and the style. It's my first time actually doing any drum tracking for a video game. It's been really exciting. It's been a lot of fun. It's all about making you feel like a perfect killing machine, because that's what you are basically. Well, I can do that all day long, so you'll just have to tell me what you like and what you don't like. Cool. Okay. It's not going to sound like one thing, depending on what part of the city you're in. We basically scored every quest, pretty much with custom assets created specifically for that quest. We ended up having over seven and a half hours of music in Cyberpunk. Working on Cyberpunk has just been insane.  The gear that we used comes out of boutique shops or their vintage synthesizers like this PoliVox. I really hope all this effort put into creating this score pays off with satisfying and enjoyable listening and gaming experience. Hello, Night City. What's shaking, Night City? Good morning, Night City. Your man Stan here. Oh, I love this town.  And now a shout out to all the lowlives over at the Atlantis. Ladies and gents, here's that all-time classic in Night City. The soundtrack is one of the key elements we use to build believable world. We've invited artists from around the world, incredible talents, incredible musicians, to write and produce songs just for us for this project. The soundtrack for Cyberpunk is insane. So the soundtrack being all the songs that they've got going on, whether it's on the radio or on the background, all these just amazing bands. We've got over 150 custom genre-bending tracks all waiting for you to discover them by yourselves.  I've always wanted to do something connected to a video game so I was pretty excited when this came in and it was like an incident, yes. I was kind of imagining what it would be like being a character in that game. The person that's a musician in this world and this time has grew up in that space.  There's also an intellectual and spiritual history to this world that's been constructed for you, you know?  Like how could you not want to be a part of that? For those of you who can't wait to hear more from our composers, we're going to be releasing a special six-track Cyberpunk 2077 EP featuring tracks from the game's original score on the streaming services for you to enjoy for free and they'll be live at the end of this episode so you can give them a listen later. In addition, if you're planning on live streaming Cyberpunk or if you just want to make videos, we want to introduce you to a new mode that will allow you to disable certain copyrighted tracks. We know that for content creators, licensed music can sometimes be problematic. So with this new mode, you'll be able to disable a small number of selected tracks which could cause some issues, replacing them with a different song, helping to avoid any problems. If you're going to be live streaming from console, this will start automatically but you can toggle it on and off in the options as needed and for PC players, you'll be able to turn it on and off in the game options. Don't forget, as with all episodes of Night City Wire, if you're tuning in late or if you just want to watch anything again, we will be uploading everything to our channels soon. Now from Polish to Chinese, when Cyberpunk launches, it will have VO in 10 different languages. So we're going to take a closer look at the Jolly technology which is ensuring each and every one is as authentic as possible. So hi, my name is Sarah Wotling. I am the CEO of Jolly Research in Toronto, Ontario. In this video, we're going to show you a little bit about Jolly the software and Jolly in action within the world of Cyberpunk 2077. Now, you're going to answer my questions honestly, without a doubt. Rayfield's mine. Jolly is a suite of tools and a suite of services that result in what we think is the coolest and best and highest quality facial performance on characters. Oh, is that supposed to sound familiar? It's automatically generated on a face based on audio dialogue, audio speech from a voice actor. Slow, deep breaths. Your cord is all in adrenaline spiked, but the soft activated your hormone blockers. Nothing happened. You're alive and well. What Jolly tries to do is it tries to get to the root of what is being expressed in the vocal performance and put that on a 3D character. That's rogue, best fixer in all of Night City. There is just an incredible amount of performance in this game. A procedural solution allows you to animate over and over and over again at tremendous scale. Jolly is what powers every single character in the game of Cyberpunk 2077, in all of the languages that the game has been localized for. All you're doing is changing an attribute. For example, speech style. If you wanted your character to shout instead of mumble, instead of issuing a set of commands that redo the animation, instead you click an attribute going from in this case mumble to shout. But you walk, you breathe. But you walk, you breathe. But you walk, you breathe. If the lip sync is right, you don't notice. If the faces match and match the performance, you don't notice because you're too busy paying attention to how awesome the game is. How much you care about these characters? How much, what you're going to do? And that's what we want. That to me is, that's, that's the sizzle.  To tell him what's brought you here. Maybe even over a cup of coffee. Now we're excited to reveal digital and in-game rewards for Cyberpunk 2077. It's our way of saying thank you for your support. Now every copy of the game comes with digital downloadable goodies such as the art book, the original score, and a digital comic all from the Cyberpunk universe. But there's more. You can also claim in-game items for Cyberpunk 2077. For example, you could be rocking the Wolf School jacket for simply connecting the game to your GOG account. And if you have other CD Projekt Red games such as the Witcher or Gwent, you can get even more. And it works both ways. If you connect the game to your GOG account, you can also unlock special in-game items for Gwent, the Witcher card game, such as the Samurai inspired card and coinback and the breathtaking title. Now this new My Reward program is for everybody.  Now this is just the beginning and there'll be more items coming in the future and we'll have more information on My Rewards soon. As always, don't forget that if you've missed anything or if you just want to watch again, we will be uploading everything to our channels soon. So before we take a look at that new gameplay trailer, we just want to reveal that a number of games media from all over the world have been playing Cyberpunk 2077 and you'll be able to read their latest impressions when this episode of Night City Wire finishes, so you can go and check them out. So now let's wrap up this episode and take a look at that brand new gameplay trailer. Yet with every new project, we set out to make our games bigger, more complex, deeply engaging. Come on V, let's get you home. Cyberpunk 2077 marries exploration of a vast open world with kinetic combat, story changing player choices, and robust character development, all to bring you into our vision of the dark future.  You had to burn alive in it. It never existed at all. The year is 2077, an economic crisis culminating in nuclear conflict has left America in pieces. With most of the continent degenerating into lawless war zones, people from all over have converged on the already overcrowded Night City, one of the world's last great megalopolises. A hub amassing the best in resources and know-how, and home to manufacturers of cutting-edge technologies, Night City continues to offer the promise of a civilized future. What? No, no, this isn't happening. Oh, but it is. But in the city's streets, a merciless struggle for power rages. Games, corporate agents, hustlers, religious cultists, politicians, and all manner of criminals strive to outplay one another. Ordinary people get caught in the crossfire. Looking for justice in Night City, I seek revenge, much more feasible here. In this world, consumed by never-ending conflict, sometimes only an outsider will get the job done. Elizabeth tells me you have answers for us. I'm all ears. And that's you, an urban mercenary, a cyber-enhanced gun for hire. You seem to understand each other. Take this, too. As a mercenary, you swear no allegiance. You've chosen the outlaw life and trust that your abilities will carry you up Night City's ruthless, underground social ladder. Harder Night City! That's it, right there. To thrive as a merc, you need the right combination of gear, skills, and reputation.  I hope you wasn't over-sourced. With the money you earn, you can turn yourself into a living weapon, buying guns and enhancements in the hundreds. As you roam the city's streets, you gain the experience you need to upgrade abilities and acquire perks, combine the right skills and gear to create a gunslinger within human reflexes, a stealthy netrunner with command of all-surrounding tech, or practically anyone in between.   When its sealed container is ruptured, the only way to prevent the biochip from failing is to slot it into your head. It turns out it contains the digitized soul of Johnny Silverhand, a dead rocker boy with violence on his mind. I mean to say there's an actual terrorist in my head, right now. He's out for revenge, aims to bring down the megacorp that made the chip. Do whatever it takes to stop him, defeat him, gut him. What is in your head can shift the balance of power in Night City. The High and Mighty will do anything to lay their hands on it. Told you I'd end you someday. The choices you make will shape your story and determine how events unfold. V, you gotta take him down, that's why we're here. But not everything in Night City is a matter of life and death.   Welcome to the next generation of open world adventure. Immerse yourself in Cyberpunk 2077.


Hello, and welcome to today's edition of Frightfully Forgotten Horror Films. But to start things off, what are we drinking? Wolf's Bane English Black Bitter. Today we're going to feature 1988 Bad Dreams. Andrew Fleming directed this movie. He also co-wrote it. He did the craft. Jennifer Rubin is in this, and she was in Dream Warriors. How fitting. Yeah. Richard Lynch is in this. Fuck, he's been in a million things. Just to mention a few, The Sword and the Sorcerer, Puppet Master 3, and Deathsport. And the reason I wanted to mention Deathsport, it's a movie with David Carradine. David Carradine plays a good guy, and his name is Kaz O'Shea. In my old band from back in the day, we named her a band after David Carradine's character. But we're also thinking about naming the band after Richard Lynch's character, which is Ankar Moore. Harris Eulen is in this. He was in Scarface. It captured me. Yeah, my cop. Whoever said you was one. And Ghostbusters. Have you burned at the stake? The movie starts off in 1975, and our main character, Cynthia, has just joined a cult. The cult is called Unity Fields. The cult is ran by a man called Franklin Harris. The final night of Unity Fields, baptizing them with this gasoline. On the floor in the living room, can't they do this outside? Yeah.  Then of course later you know why. Starts everything on fire. The house blows up. Fire department comes, and they find one survivor, while it's Cynthia. They take her back to the hospital, and she's in a coma now. 13 years later, it's 1988, she finally wakes up from the coma. The cops are there, right? They want to know what happened. But she doesn't remember. They send Cynthia to this group therapy, ran by this nice, good-looking, young psychiatrist. It's at this group therapy, we meet all the colorful characters of the movie, you know.  He is super thick. It's during this group therapy she gets a flashback, tells us the cops, the cops finally find out what happened. It's a goddamn Jonestown.  You're in a robe, and you're smoking. Cynthia has this kind of like vision, Harris taking one of her friends that she's made through therapy, Lana, giving her this baptism, and then he starts drowning her. Lana is actually really drowned in real life in the pool. Starting to have more visions, right, of this Harris. He's all burned up too, and like all mutilated.  Cynthia's friends from the therapy group start getting picked off one by one, committing suicide. Each one is kind of linked to a vision that Cynthia has. There's a lead doctor at Beresford, his name. He fires Dr. Carmen, who's the young, good-looking doctor. He's outside, he's got his box full of all his belongings and everything.  So he reaches into his pocket, and he pulls out a pill, like one pill that he has left. He's like, doctor, I'll write myself a prescription in the morning.  He creeps him in. Then he backs up, and Beresford is like against this wall. Then he runs into him again, like, you can hear his bones all crunching. Then again, like, he's listening to all that like, that classical music. It was all a big vision. These pills that Beresford's been administering to the group give hallucinations. Dr. Carmen goes back to the hospital, even though he's fired, to confront Beresford on what he's been doing and to save Cynthia. That's where we're gonna end it, because the shit's gonna hit the fan big time. Keep watching the movie to find out what happened. Obviously, this movie parallels Nightmare on Elm Street, plain as day. Yeah, not only do you have an actress from Dream Warriors in it, a main bad guy who's coming back to haunt you in your dreams, who is burned to death in a fire, and he's all melted up. Which is funny, because the actor in real life was in a fire. And he, in real life, he's melted up, and then they make him look even more melted up for the movie. So he's twice melted up. It's like he was made for the part. Freddie Cougar at this point is no longer a scary villain.   Stuff like this actually did happen, right? There's cult leaders and cults in it. Exactly, like Jonestown, right? So I mean, this kind of shows the dynamic between that and the hold that like a cult leader can have on somebody, right? Cynthia still believes in the values of the cult. Yeah, and still defends him to a degree, right? Even though she knows he was wrong and killing people, they still believe in the values, which is kind of scary. Exactly. That's how powerful these cult guys are. It's truly horrifying, right? Does this heiress really exist in reality? Yeah. Is Cynthia doing his bidding and killing people? Yeah. Or are people just committing suicide plain and simple? Or is Beresford's drugs causing all this to happen, you know? You don't know. That's the cool thing about the movie is the mystery. The casting is really good in this movie. Richard Lynch as the bad guy, all of the 80s teens. Yeah, exactly. We're having issues, right? And they're all quirky, out there characters. Yeah. The masochist Ralph really stands out. He's wild and crazy and has all the cheesy one liners. The actor who plays Carmen sat in on some psychiatric evaluation to see how the doctor conducts himself. The actor who plays Ralph went to Cedar Sinai to study people who had like the same mental inflection his character is supposed to have. So they actually did do their homework.  One of the first effects you see is when Harris sets fire to all the people in the cult.  Looks like these people are on fire. Yeah.  Yeah, John Carpenter fire suit. You see the people's faces and they're in flames. It's really good. The kills. Exactly, which leads us to the kills. Turbine deaths. I guess they kind of want to get a little busy in the woman's room and the guy's like, no, I know a better place. They go to like some boiler room. Turbine room. I like that shot where they're sitting by the turbines. The lights coming through the turbine and they're kind of in the shadows. You don't see them go into the turbine, but you know exactly what's going to happen. Exactly. From the ducks to start spraying blood. So you know what happened, right? Maintenance, man. Yeah. He's all trying to find out what's going on.  That latch all pops open and all that blood and guts. All the shittles sprays at him. One of the patients murium like jumps out of a window and just falls on the cement. And he's like, I like the quick cut of it.  Ralph is wicked. Starts cutting himself with a scalpel. Yeah, and you can feel it. Anything with a scalpel, you can feel it. Jaws! This movie also has an alternate ending, which is kind of cool to know about, right? Yeah, it's not actually really so much an alternate ending as it is kind of an extended ending, where there was more, there was film that happens after, which is way better than the actual theatrical ending. Like they should have put that in because it ties things up nicely, but also leaves things open for maybe a possible sequel, right? Yeah. It was supposed to be like a franchise. They wanted to get a franchise out of it, but I guess the movie didn't do good enough at the box office, but it still did well. They should have kept going, but on the flip side of that, how? I don't see how they could have done it. So if you haven't seen Bad Dreams and you're fan of 80s horror, man, you have to check it out. It's colorful, and it's fun, and it's smart. So please check out Bad Dreams. And until next time, keep drinking till you pass out and have some bad dreams. That's always when I know I'm going to wake up feeling not bad is when I'm dreaming. Yeah.  I usually do any worse.


When you find yourself in a bad situation, something you don't like, you can always adopt the style of thinking which I like to call structural thinking. So, any type of life situation that we have is like a box. It's like a box that we're in. You're living in a certain apartment for a while. It's your new box. So now you're always thinking, how do I make this box better from the inside? Oh, let's say for example the pipes are leaking.   How do I fix this apartment? How do I make myself enjoy this apartment more? Or you have a relationship with someone who's bad for you? It could be a family member, it could be a friend. Same thing. Oh, this person is so negative. How can somebody be so negative? It's so hard to be with that kind of person.  I'm basically introducing you to a whole new level of thinking about things. So instead of thinking about things from the position of this is how it is, start thinking in what I call structural thinking. Structural thinking means this box that I'm in, I chose to be in it. And I can always change a box. I can move it around. So you don't like your job, you complain about your job. Oh, the job is this, the job is that. Increase the thinking, make it bigger. Structural thinking. And start saying, do I like this job in general? Should I get another job? So basically start asking questions that apply to bigger areas of focus. Instead of saying, oh, these people in my life are so negative. How do I deal with this negativity? That's in the box thinking. Because it means, okay, that's my life situation. That's the way it is. How do I deal with it? Out of the box thinking, structural thinking is, okay, should I get rid of these people? Should I move to another apartment? Should I change jobs? We do that in business as well. There's a certain way that the business works and once you get used to it, it's very easy to just say, oh, that's just how the business works. That's just the model. So we get used to a certain way of something working and that's just how we're trying to work with. For example, I did a course recently and where I do the courses, you have to get tested for every chapter. So I got tested and the tester doesn't like my answer. He thinks it's not good. He thinks it shows that I don't understand the subject. So instead, I didn't like the answer, by the way. It was an okay at best answer that I wasn't even that proud of. So I try to defend my answer and there's this answer and it's written. If you look at it like this, because it asks you to give an example of when a business doesn't treat its resources properly. So I took a very complicated example and really complicated the answer. So he was like, yeah, I mean, that's what it means. It's like this and we literally sat for maybe 15 minutes as I was trying to make sense of the answer. And then I remember structural thinking, oh wait, you don't have to rely on what you have right now. You don't have to actually depend on it or change it. You can actually think out of the box. So I thought, hey, why not just write a new answer? So instead of trying to justify, justify, justify the current answer, you have examples and explain it, which is a very tough example to explain. I just took the, I crossed it off everything, wrote another example in two sentences and he said, oh, perfect. Okay, so you get the subject. So it's a funny example because people do that so much in business, for example, again, they get used to a certain way of things working and that's just the way it is. So when they need to maybe increase sales, make more money, they completely disregard the fact that there's a million other ways to do it. There's a million ways to market, a million ways to sell, million products to sell. There's an infinite variation and abundance of everything and it's like, no, it's this way, this way. How do I improve this way, this way? And if you take upon using structural thinking, you change the thinking from how do I improve this thing, this, to how do I make more money, for example. It's good because in this case it's general, so you can think bigger. Instead of being, oh, how do I deal with negative people, you expand thinking. Oh, maybe I should just remove negative people. So you don't just treat what's inside the box as sacred. Not like, oh, this is what I have, this is what's inside the box. I have to manage what this is. You start thinking about it as a thing you have in your life that you can actually change and move and manipulate. So you don't have to stay with it. So next time you find yourself limiting your thinking into a small problem. How do I solve this? How do I change that? How do I deal with this? How do I cope with that? How do I succeed with this type of, with these circumstances or these limitations? Ask yourself, what is the structural thinking model? What is the structural perspective on this? You have a bad relationship. Oh, she's so like this. You know, how do I make her less angry? How do I make her less annoying? How do I make her not cheat on me? Expand the thinking. Oh, how do I get rid of her? How do I find a better girlfriend? How do I get 10? 10 girlfriends. Expand thinking.   They're all negative. How do I deal with it? How do I cope with them? How do I fight negativity? Make it bigger. You have to have negativity in your life. And I know some of you are like, everybody has negativity.  There's a big, big difference between the two. So, again, finally the same with business. Your business structure is just what you're kind of, you got used to. You can always change it. Instead of thinking, how do I, for example, imagine for me, oh, how do I make the videos better to get more views? Structural thinking would say, how do I get more views in general? How do I get more attention? Maybe it's Facebook. Maybe it's Periscope. Or you could say, how do I make these videos better? It's like, again, who said you need to make these videos? You said you can do another type of video. So never limit yourself to the structure in terms of the structure. Okay, you see there's a building here and people are trying to change, never mind, so there's a building and maybe I can use it. There's a building, as you can see, and people are trying to change this, trying to change, how do I change the floor? How do I change the window? We'll move on to the next one. How do I change the window? How do I change this? How do I change this? What I'm thinking is, how do I change the whole structure? Maybe I want to completely remove the building. Not just, okay, this is the building. It's immovable. That's the way things are. No, it's flexible. You can always change it. How do I improve my shitty life?  Maybe you can just pack your things and travel.   How do I get more money as an employee? Do you like being an employee? No. So ask yourself, how do I make more money, period? The bigger you think, you realize that your life is choice, is by choice.  And try asking yourself, right now, what would it feel like to hold a different phone right now? Or to hold a different computer? What would it feel like right now to live in a completely different place? To maybe have a reality where I don't wake up where I am. I wake up in a beach in Thailand for the same amount of money. Just start lightly asking yourself questions about this reality. And actually, who said it has to be this way? So that's really the message I want to leave with you is again, the question, who said it has to be this way? That's structural thinking in a nutshell. Not just, this is the way I need to improve it based on the way it is. Who said it has to be this way anyway? It could be something else entirely. So let me know if the video helps you. I'd love to help you more. Subscribe to the channel. Like, comment, and I do coaching. So contact me.


All right, let's go ahead and get started with session seven. Again, just to remind you where this is room B. And our next talk is entitled Innovative OER for Spanish ELL writers. And our speakers, Susana Rodriguez from Excelsior College and Lori Aldrich also from Excelsior College. So you guys have the floor, take it away. Thank you so much, Carl. Thank you and hello to everyone here. We are thrilled to be a part of this weekend's conference, Lori and I. As Carl mentioned, we both work at Excelsior College, which is a fully online fully accredited college that provides degrees in nursing business technology and criminal justice as well as some a variety of liberal liberal arts. We also have degrees. We also just included a new cybersecurity program in our, in our technology field, but we're fully online and we have students from all over the world. Many of our students are in the middle of their lives and they're going back to school to change careers or to take a shift. But our students are fully online. So OER is something we are very fond of and something that we feel very passionate about. And we also at Excelsior have something for the writing world that we are really proud of. We have, I'm going to share my screen in a minute, but we have an OER called the Excelsior OWL. OWL stands for Online Writing Lab. As I mentioned, I'm going to showcase it in a minute and we just recently created a program called Adelante for students who are trying to reenter or enter for the first time. The higher education world who speaks Spanish, whose aim is to finish their degree in English. These students come to us if they are entering and they need to take a few semesters worth of courses in both Spanish and English in order to get where they want to be. They can do that. If they want to hit the ground running and take their courses in English, they can do that too. But most of the students that we expect to be admitting into this new program at Excelsior will be mostly fluent in Spanish and wanting to conduct their academic lives in Spanish. And so one of the things that we did in anticipation of this program is we had our OWL website translated into Spanish and it was a very, it's a large undertaking. Lori and I have both been working on it together because as you'll see in a minute, our website offers both text and video as well as some H5P interactive lessons in which the students can answer questions and get us for. We had a lot of hands on translating that we've had to do it to make sure that the translation machine effectively did as because as you all know machines don't always translate very well. So I'm going to share my screen. Let me make sure I'm sharing the right one. Hang on one second. Before I do, and as I do, so I'm going to introduce both me and Lori in a in a more thorough way than I have done. I just want to make sure I'm remembering to share sound as I do this. So everyone tell me by nodding your head, can you see our Excelsior OWL online writing lab. Yes. Yes. Okay, great. Thank you, Carl. So, before you jump in our plan is to talk for about 15 or 20 minutes. And we hope to have we when we present on the owl, which only recently became a Spanish resource for folks. We often have lots of questions so we want to save at least 10 minutes at the end for questions but before I jump in and explain a little bit more about the owl I want to talk about how the owl came to be. Our team currently consists of three people. So I'm the director of the writing center. It's a virtual writing center it's not an actual place that people can come like in many colleges brick and mortar colleges but it's a virtual writing center and we offer writing to tutoring.  In my background, I've taught writing in a variety of ways for the last 30 years or so. I started as a high school English English teacher. I spent much of my career being a professional editor. Living on a teaching salary is not easy in this country so I found ways to augment that and it always ended up back with teaching people how to write. That's my passion. I've added a couple of sections to the owl since joining Excel here about two years ago. And Lori is my partner on the owl. She is the magic behind what makes the website function and live and breathe. If a link is broken Lori knows how to fix it. She can't fix it she knows who to contact, which is Mark the person below her. But she's really the person that makes sure she keeps tabs on the owl she makes sure it's functioning the way it should as you all know having OER resources sometimes requires a lot of background support and she really gets the credit for providing all of that. If we add a new page, I write the content but we always talk together because Lori always also has an eye for accessibility in mind. So she always she corrects me if I write a sentence says something like for more information on this click here and she'll tell me well you can't say click here because that's not good for a reader for somebody who can't actually read themselves. So she's got a really lovely perspective on accessibility. And then Mark, who is the our current he's sort of the IT guru we like to call him the IT guru at Excelsior he can stick. When the websites go down he's there to make sure they go back up and in the background he's there to make sure they stay alive and functioning on a day to day basis. So, going back to our homepage for the owl. The owl in English offers writing resources for students in everything from soup to nuts, as I've already said so if you need help and just brushing up on your grammar, you can find that under grammar essentials. If you're a graduate student and you're at a new school and they require MLA and your former school required the Chicago manual style, you can come here and find how to figure out how to format your paper properly that you need all the requirements. If you are getting a degree in something that isn't a traditional liberal liberal arts topic and you need support and figuring out how to do that, you can come to our writing in the discipline section and figure out about how to write in specific subjects. We hope to add more subjects to this section but right now we offer a menu option of business, health sciences professions and also nursing all of which are degree programs at our college. So we're already proud of what we offer students and by the way we have people we have instructors and students, literally across the globe who use this OER and we're really proud of it. But with the advent of Adelante and our admission of students into the program, who are Spanish speakers now and who need help and support now in Spanish. So we have this new feature up here in the upper right hand corner, you can switch from the English version of the owl over to Spanish just by clicking right here. And this is the thing we're here and mainly to talk about today. So one of the things that makes this website distinctive and unique is that it really offers. All of the same resources that it offers writers in English, who speak in English and can write in English fluently already, but in Spanish, but it's all geared toward learning how to write in English so as many of you know I'm seeing some names on the attendee list. Those of you who write and speak Spanish, especially academic Spanish you know that the conventions are somewhat different, and the things to pay attention to in terms of grammar are very different. One of the things that we have at Excelsior is all incoming students have to take a course called the cornerstone course. And the cornerstone course sort of takes meet students where they are. And the aim of the course is to both teach them about Excelsior and how things work and function at Excelsior, but also kind of give them a really kind of boots on the ground remediation and academic writing and academic higher higher education skills that you need for your college career. And where this cornerstone points to in most of its courses are these two sections in English this is called the writing refresher. The grammar refresher and the APA refresher because it excels here we use across the board we use the APA manual for style. So, one of the things that Lori and I have worked really hard on in this section is some of what makes our OER kind of fun for students is we have we use a lot of H5P presentation. It's taking a minute to get to to open up this next page, but these what you see down here all of these. This is in text citations references formatting and style, but in Spanish.  If you're an APA in English, you can come here. And right here is the English page seventh edition is the most current edition of APA, but if you click over here, it brings you to the same presentation but in Spanish. We also try to make a point of talking about how not all conventions are going to be the same in English as they are in Spanish, but this is an example of the kind of presentation that students who write in English can go through and now we've updated it so that students who write in Spanish can go through. This is our index page talks about all the different kinds of needs a person would have how to site, how to punctuate why and where to site, how to site a personal communication like an email all of the things can be found here and if you speak Spanish you don't have to worry about looking at the English H5P. You can just come to this presentation. We also have questions that precede the following lesson. But just ask things like why or how would you use the Latin phrase at all when you're writing, when you have a in and text citation. And all of these questions are also interactive so you choose an answer. This bar down here means check your answer. Oh, got it wrong. I'm going to try again. And there's always an explanation for why the answer is wrong or why the answer is, is right. You can click try again. I'll choose another one. We got it right. This one doesn't explain why it's right but we got it right because we punctuated properly we put the comma in the right place to put the question the quotation marks in the right place, and the period in the right place. And it goes through all of these different, the various different layers of how to do in text citations. It's important to APA. There are also presentations on references, the references page how to format it as you all know it's very. It's very, you have to pay attention to all the rules and some, some instructors are stickier than others but if you get it wrong it can affect your grades and these things are all really important. Before I showcase the grammar refresher which Lori wants to talk about a little bit. I also want to show you something that we have if I go back to, well actually I'm going to stay on the Spanish site. One of the things that makes our site kind of fun that we're really excited about going back to APA formatting. If you go, some of the pages have videos. So one example of that is, if I click on in text citations and APA, it brings me back to the page this, this video is actually in English, but what we've added is closed captioning in Spanish. So when I press play which I'm going to do in a second, you'll see the experience that the student will have, in which case he or she is hearing the video in English, while the slides are being shown, but seeing on the screen, the closed captioning in Spanish which we feel is a good instructional tool, so that the person who's trying to learn English can hear the native English, but if they need the support, the Spanish closed captioning is below. If you don't mind, I'm just going to play a couple of seconds of this so you can see how it looks and how it feels. This short video will focus on the basic setup for in-text citations in APA format. It is first helpful to get an idea about why in-text citations are important and when they should be used. In APA, you should use citations in parentheses within the text to let your audience know when you have borrowed information and where that information has come from. Most students know to cite direct quotes, but it is important to remember you must also include in-text citations for summarized and paraphrased information. You are not just citing words, you are citing ideas. For more information about what kinds of information must be cited within your text, be sure to review the avoiding plagiarism tutorial in the Excelsior OWL. So this is just a sort of sampling of the kind of resources that the Spanish site offers. We're really proud of being able to provide both the video content where the student can hear the English because for the Adelante program at Excelsior, our goal is to get students functioning in their writing and in their speaking of English fluently. But even someone who isn't in our program who is still trying to learn how to format or how to write or speak or all of the above in Spanish can come here and these sorts of interactive H5P resources will be helpful in supporting that effort. Going back to- Before you go back, may I interject? Of course. Also that I think that is fabulous that we've done is we have a transcription of video on all of our video pages so that the students can read through it. And what I love too that we've done is that sometimes there are things on the screen in the H5Ps and the videos that is not necessarily auditory, but it's important for the understanding. So we've tried to incorporate that as well into the transcriptions. So I just thought that was a nice piece of information to know that they're there. Absolutely. And thank you for that, Lori, because going back to what I was saying about your skills, Lori, in terms of always having accessibility in mind, some people do better by being able to read. Some people do better by being able to hear and some people do better by being able to see and we kind of have all free in these kinds of, in these videos and these resources. So thank you for interjecting that. I'm going to turn it over to you in a second. Lori. So going back to what we were talking about about our cornerstone course in the very first course that the Adelante program will take in Spanish includes links to our grammar refresher as well as our APA refresher. And we are in the process of getting all of the H5Ps translated, as some of you probably can emphasize with, it's hard to talk about super esoteric concepts of grammar in a smooth and comprehensible way when you're using a translation machine. So Lori and I have been going through and reading everything and making sure the translations make sense. And the way we talk about grammar in English is a little bit different from the way one talks about grammar in Spanish. So for example, our presentation on apostrophes, they don't, you don't really see apostrophes in Spanish, but we use them a lot in English in different situations. So we've translated our presentation, our H5P, into Spanish. And we make a point of saying this refresher or this lesson will teach you about using apostrophes in English. And bear with us. We're going to walk you through a lot of different things. And Lori, I'm going to pass the torch to you. I will be happy to drive and I will click on any of the slides that you want. But you take it away and tell us about what you love about these kinds of presentations. Okay, so one of the things before we even click off this slide that I love is that with H5P and forgive me that I get a little excited with technical things. And H5P lets you build these things with the shell, meaning in English, we'll have English words like check. And in Spanish, you'll have if you hover over like the print button or the forward button. All of them are in Spanish. And I love that. And H5P actually lets you do that with 42 different languages. So we love this because it helps the user to feel more comfortable. And I love it because I think that user, the interaction with the user is super important for me. And if you were to go to, and what I also love is that H5Ps, we have a creative common license. So as long as you cite, you can use this and embed this in your course or wherever you want to use it. And so, you know, it's there and I love that. And also, I think that Nan, actually, I must get further credit for making this so that so individualized for the Spanish learner, because, as Nan was saying it's so different for apostrophes in Spanish, as in they don't use them and in English. So if you want to go through to the question, if you could, thanks. What we've done is all of the questions that we've built, and this is a slideshow presentation in this type, we have the questions are all in English, because that's what the students, that's what we're teaching right how to use apostrophes in English. We want to make sure that it's not a difficult thing for the, we want them to be able to focus on the apostrophes not necessarily of what the sentence means so we have the Spanish translation afterwards. And then the questions are in Spanish, and then all of the feedback that they get are also in Spanish. This helps the learner to be able to focus on the content, and not necessarily on the having to comprehend what we're talking about what can focus on the apostrophes themselves in this. Also, since we're on this slide, as Nan said, I'm, I'm thinking to accessibility so one of the other things that we've made sure to do is that as we were building this, all of the pictures it's really important to have all texts, and all of the images you can't see it now because she's hovering over it but if you were to be using a screen reader, all of the alt text is in Spanish for our Spanish H5 piece. And I think that's important because if you are a Spanish learner but needed to use a screen reader you needed something else you would want, you would hope that a Spanish presentation would be have Spanish assistance. So if you try to think about all of the different ways and all of the different types of learners and be very focused and detail oriented on trying to make sure that we have a lot of these things covered for our users. So to the point I think if you were to go to the last slide actually right after the last slide, the final right after that. So the last one is a gives you the score that you've taken so see you can see that she did the first question, she has the total there, and then all of the side titles and the question titles are in Spanish. That way, hopefully that'll be an easier trigger for help to help them remember which the question, what the questions were and what they did. I believe the answer to that last question I decided yes it can be embedded into canvas. So, oh I'm not seeing the chat. Oh there's a lot of chat. I just happen to see that one. So, yes, it can be embedded into canvas, you just have to give us a very brief creative comments 4.0 attribution and then you can use, you can embed videos you can embed whole pages one thing I didn't mention at the beginning is in our. I think it's, I forget if it's an educator resources, you can create a custom thing called an outlet where if you're an instructor of writing and you have ELL students to speak Spanish you can pull different pages from different parts of our website into your own, what we call a custom outlet. And then once you have that you can use that in your courses, or if you prefer you can embed, you can just embed specific pages wherever you like. This is totally as as the OER definition would would describe it's free. And you can find it on the creative comments website, but I can also happily send it. You can come in 4.0 at the bottom here. If you go to the website it will take you and it was there's just a sentence you have to write using certain words wording, and then you've given us attribution and you can, you can reproduce or use whatever we have. You can even take what we have and rewrite it that's how free the licenses. Lori am I missing anything in that regard. Okay, it's super open super easy to use. We've had people all over the world right to us and double check with us is it okay. Yes. Yes, it's okay. Just make sure you use attribution and, and we're super excited when people like to use our contents. I'm seeing and we are we do love it when people use it, and I'm seeing Naili's comment. We worked really hard and just so you know in advance, not every page has been proof read yet so I go in and I proof read and I try to make sure that the translations actually work, and that was especially when they're translating idiomatic English. They're not doing it word for word but they're capturing the meaning of whatever the idiom may have been. If you ever find an error feel free to, to email us and tell us you didn't do such a good job on that one we may have just not gotten to it yet. Yes, we are always open to suggestions Alejandro, trust me there are we know there are typos we know there are mistakes. I'm trying to scroll through. I think it's a question for what level do you use the resource but I can say it's, I think it's fair to say that this can be used by high school classroom and ESL instructors all through higher ed graduate or bachelor's degree in graduate school level. We have, because we only had 30 minutes we didn't have time to showcase every single page but we have the writing process. It's a basic form from just figuring out what you're going to write about brainstorming activities, figuring out what voice to write in figuring out who your audience is. We have a whole section on research, and all the various different stages of research, all the pages have been translated in Spanish. Again, we've talked about we have citation and documentation, the three main academic style guys. We have a section on rhetorical styles and why we need to know about rhetorical styles and writing. We have a very extensive section on argumentative and critical thinking translated into Spanish. We have a section on writing on doing online writing it whether it be social media or a blog, or an online presentation. We have pages on all of those. We have a basic, we have a more thorough description of grammar and how grammar works in English, which as we all know is a tricky beast. How to avoid plagiarism, we have a section there. Writing academic writing 101 so this takes students who are just back to the classroom and college and they need a refresher on how do I get my mind out of texting my best friend and back into academic writing. We have a section that I showed and on the English page writing in the disciplines, and then back to where we are here. And I see a lot of messages have come through. Yes, I was wondering is that we have about five more minutes if it up to people seem to want to interact with you. Great. And I, and probably just tell you how wonderful this is and thank you so much for opening it up to the rest of us. I think that the LED you want to tell them what your thought what you're thinking about in terms in terms of Spanish translation. I do like I'm my I like you blow my mind like it's really really nice word that you're doing I'm so happy that you're opening up and so many times I teach heritage speakers, Spanish translation into Spanish and I always thought that it was necessary to have this kind of research for Spanish and I see a lot of potential I, I, I honestly do think that this is very very helpful because I always, you know, my rubrics always. I would some points for students who really respect the citation style and, you know, not the most of the word but I always value you know the students are able to have that kind of attention to detail. I really applaud and commend you for this is really great. And it also makes me think of so many, and you know, questions that I think of when I'm teaching for Spanish speakers because I'm not trying to, I teach I'm not trying to reinforce their English I'm trying to reinforce their Spanish. So, while I recognize this is an excellent bridging research for them to produce academic writing in Spanish, I think that it would be also great to help them, you know, reinforce the Spanish skills in academic writing in Spanish. So, I don't know what I think it is complicated because as you said in your presentation the conventions are very different but do you see any potential for going into that direction and adapting this material for students who also want to reinforce their academic writing in Spanish. That's an excellent question. We've been having lots and lots of conversations at Excelsior about two other things we really want to try to do in that perfect world where we have an extra day in the work week. One of the things that's on the docket for our next project for the owl is to create a section that is specific to specific to Spanish speaking speaking students who are doing both Spanish and English writing that supports both. In order to be able to translate the h5p that I just showed you I bought the API guide in Spanish so I could make sure I knew how academic academic admissions in Spanish actually say really weird things like hanging in that for other esoteric academic language that I might not be able to translate off the top of my head. We do want to build that we were in major talks with the rest of the college about being able to try to support that, although as you can probably also understand we're really focusing on the Alante program for our students who are coming in trying to learn English, but I hear you, and I want you to know that yes, the answer is yes, but we're not sure when or how long it will take to get there. It's nice to see you. I find that your picture came up to the top now. We only have a minute left. I'm wondering if anybody else has constructive feedback or questions. Here's one question in the chat about how you created the interactive slides. Lori, do you want to answer that one. Yes, if I may. So we have a h5p if you, if you were in the English site and welcome Spanish site to but in the top right section. So the first part is a thing about h5p what h5p is, and what it does. And we have that integrated with the owl, and these are all h5p. So in h5p, you can build the slide presentations, you can put videos, you can build just interactions with just questions like a question set. You can see brilliant. You can build sliders that are shown before and after pictures or flashcards or there's so many things that you can do with h5p and it's brilliant, and it just integrate so I build all of the content that you saw in h5p. That's the name of. Well, um, that takes us. We are right on time. I want to thank both of the speakers today. This is the owl is a really impressive website. I love how you've thought about accessibility issues. And of course the design issues it looks very easy to navigate and as the other speakers have said I think are commented. I think that people and in heritage Spanish, because it's, it's aiming at a higher level they're going to be very interested in this so I see this as really a winner for a lot of different people who are going to be very happy to find out about this so we'll do our best to spread the word. Thank you guys so much, and


Hi, my name is Vishal Kumar, I hail from Nasek. This is my peripheral centre at Ikatpuri. My expertise are ultrasound and guided intervention. Today, my first topic is panoramic view and its advantages. So, I will be speaking on the practical aspects of panoramic view and how it is taking. Okay, I will just do a panoramic view of a normal thyroid from right to left. Incidentally, this lady has multiple right-side cervical nodes also. Okay, we will just try and take a nice panoramic view. Just look at my hand as I graze through. Okay, this panoramic was not complete because one important thing I did not do in this view was cover the entire area with a good jelly bath. I am doing it again, just doing the horizontal thyroid clip again. If you can see well, the entire thyroid has been covered and the part which was not seen in the last clip is well seen because I have used lot of jelly bath and good opposition on the left side too. This is my second patient, this is the male patient. We have done the ultrasound before for this patient and we got a working diagnosis of dendritic mastitis in the left cervical region. I will just try to show you, in this case, can we get a good panoramic view to show the entire involvement of the disease around the subareolar region. Okay, I will just try to slide my probe with the use of good jelly bath. So, here we have a nice picture of dendritic mastitis and the tentacles which are shown and everything is seen in one image with the help of panoramic view. So, this view can be helpful in any kind of pathologies. Only thing learning point here is whenever there is a bump or an irregular surface, you use lot of jelly to counter it so that you get a smoothness. This is case 3, this is an interesting case where there is an abnormal node which is very close to the submandibular gland and it has calcifications and is close to the carotid vessels also. Okay, this is the second view I have taken for this patient. The first view we had multiple broken lines in the panoramic view. So, I tried to correct it. What I did was I took some extra jelly and the jelly bath created on the node was around half a centimeter and when I used my probe and locked it downstairs and it was in a smooth manner without any jerky movements. So, I got a very clear image where the submandibular gland, the node and the carotid are seen very clearly. We have seen that we have done panoramic views with the linear probes of different frequencies. I want to state that we can do panoramic views for large lesions in the abdomen using the convex probe too. So, even if you have a low frequency convex probe, you still can do a panoramic view for a large lesion. I will just show you how. Okay, so we have a good panoramic view taken here. I will just show what is what. This is the liver, this is the aorta, these are the bowel loops with gas within and these are the branches of the aorta in the inguinal region. So, we have covered you can say approximately 20 to 25 centimeters of the abdomen using the panoramic view. So, what is the learning point here is even in large abdominal lesions like ovarian masses or misandroxists, we can show the relation with adjacent organs using the panoramic view. This technique is used to measure objects or masses which are larger than the field of view by stitching the images together, gives large field of view by sliding the transducer across organ surface by adding new data to the existing one. Panoramic imaging broadens the scope of spatial relations, thereby sequentially aligning individual images in their anatomical content. This has the ability to display an entire abnormality and show its relation to the adjacent structure in a single static image. It is also one of the key technologies used in widening the field of view for medical ultrasound images, clinical diagnosis and measurements. Two-dimensional ultrasound panoramic view has been prevalent in routine practices including precise measurement and tracing, the tubular structures in abdomen, distant measurement in phantom studies, detection of muscle tears, visualization of musculoslegament tissues, structures of the neck and the anatomical structure in obstetrics. One of the prerequisites for having a panoramic view, you have to check whether you have the software in your machine or not, select your patient wisely. Difficult patients with bumpy areas you will be having a hard time doing a panoramic view. Best results are obtained with linear probe, connex probe can also be used for such cases. The most important technique which I use is a stable and gentle hand, good jelly bath for bumpy lesions or where there is lesion, there is acute or obtuse angles and scanning movement should be smooth. Some people prefer scanning slowly, some prefer doing it fast like me, but whatever movement should do have to be smooth, post-processing possible in high end machines. I will just sequentially tell you how a panoramic image is obtained, position the probe along the long axis of the lesion with copious jelly interface, go in the panoramic mode and start the software, move your hand in a non-jerky fashion along the desired lesion, preferably go in a single smooth movement without stopping the probe, take complete acquisition with pre-desired endpoint, post-processing if required can be done and yes you have a perfect panoramic image. Copious jelly bath is very important when you are dealing with difficult areas and areas which are not smooth or tubular, thank you.


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