This 10th year of Daily Tech News show is made possible by you, the listener. Thanks to all of you, including Chris Allen, Chris Smith and Mark Gibson. On this episode of DTNS, Dolby wants to make your TV speakers sound good without having to change anything or get a soundbar and nothing. The Verge reports on Google's note taking large language model and why the problem with AI is scale. This is the Daily Tech News for Monday, August 28th, 2023 in Los Angeles. I'm Tom Merritt. From San Francisco, I'm Nicole Lee. And I'm the show's producer, Roger Che. Hey, did you hear Open AI just launched its Enterprise version of ChatGPT? That adds you more data analysis, privacy features, things like that for your big enterprise level business. Let's see what else is in the quick hits. More than 500 flights were canceled and even more delayed because of a network-wide computer failure in the UK's air traffic control system. The problem affected the system's ability to automatically process flight plans, meaning all flight plans had to be processed manually, which, as you can imagine, is a lot slower. That severely limited the number of flights that could be authorized for takeoff. The UK's national airspace controller Nats said it identified and remedied the fault after about four hours, but still pretty widespread effects there. Lots of credible Apple leaks out there today. None of them terribly surprising. We're going to get new iPhones next month. Wow, likely on September 12th. That all tracks iPhone might get USB-C, which would be new, but also not that surprising given the EU laws coming. The least expected leak comes from Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, who says an overhaul to iPad Pro is in the works for 2024, which would be the biggest update to the iPad since 2018. He's hearing it would be the first iPad with an OLED display at 11 and 13 inches. Might be a new magic keyboard that would add a larger track pad if you want the iPad Pro to act more like a laptop. And of course, an M3 chip expect iPads to be announced as they usually are in a separate event from new iPhones. So we'll probably get new iPhones in September. And if we get new iPads, those will come in October. DoorDash will offer a product with some language and voice processing so that restaurants can have a machine take phone orders without making employees answer the phones. They found like something like 50% of phone orders get lost because people just don't answer the phone at the restaurant. They're too busy. The service will include humans who can jump in if the automated system runs into trouble with an order, but not the humans in the restaurant like part of the service. And of course, it can plug into DoorDash Drive, which is the company's white label direct delivery product that lets a restaurant manage its own delivery process. Tech News Taiwan reports that ASUS may have shut down its Zen phone division as part of a reorganization. Now that Riorg did not appear to affect the gaming phone team, so we'll still have our ROG phones. You just won't get the Zen phone. Zen phones are loved for having flagship specs in a more compact form factor. And finally, WA Beta Info reports that the latest Android Beta of WhatsApp lets you select original quality photos or videos, no compression. The BA Beta Info's screenshot shows choose from gallery as an option in the document picker and specifically mentions the ability to send original quality photos and videos. This is different than the option to send HD photos through WhatsApp, which launched last month, but still compresses the image. And that's a look at the Quick Kits. All right, let's talk about this new Dolby feature. It's for Atmos, Dolby Atmos called Flex Connect that lets you use accessory wireless speakers along with your TV's built-in speaker to make your home theater sound better. That way you could put speakers anywhere in the room you want to, you don't have to position them just right, and they will work well with your TV's built-in speakers so you don't need to buy a separate sound bar. Dolby uses the TV's built-in microphone to locate and calibrate each wireless speaker, and they think they've got their algorithm tuned, so it doesn't matter what speakers you have and where, they can make it sound the best that those speakers are capable of. It will know the relative capabilities of each speaker, for example. So if your wireless speakers are better at bass than your TV, then it'll push more of the bass out to the wireless speakers. This is similar to Samsung's Q-Symphony. It does a similar thing. Sony's Acoustic Center Sync also does something like this. Dolby is demonstrating this at IFA in Berlin this week and says it will ship in TCL TVs and wireless speakers next year.  The thing that strikes, the thing that pops up to me the first and foremost is that this does require getting a new TV. It sounds like the Dolby Flex Connect technology anyway, only applies to newer TVs. The TCL, as you mentioned, will be the one of the first TV manufacturers to come to technology. But I don't know about you, but I don't get a new TV every few years. I just have to still have the same old TV that I've had. Same here. So for the last few years, so me personally, I would prefer it if just all TVs have this technology versus, you know, some of the new ones. But for me, I'll just get a soundbar because I'm not changing out my TV, which you know, it still works fine the way it is. So I don't know. I think this definitely probably more appeals to the people who are shopping for a new TV. But even then, I wonder about the flexibility of such a technology and sort of the benefit of a separate AV system is that you can swap out your soundbar or your speakers or whatever as technology improves. And I mean, maybe they'll be able to like have a little firmware update. Maybe Flex Connect will get better in the future. But I don't know. Well, that's the idea with Dolby is that hopefully more than just TCL puts this in, more TVs come with it. And as you buy a new TV, it comes with it. And maybe it's cheaper than buying a soundbar to just get a couple of wireless speakers. I think, Roger, where I start to wonder is how many devices is this going to be? And even if it gets in a lot of TVs, you also have to have it in the speakers. And I think that those are two really good questions to raise because, you know, as we all know, you can't adopt a product if there's not enough manufacturers and manufacturers that might not introduce a product if they don't see enough people using. So it's a chicken and egg thing. But what this does, at least in my eyes, is it does sort of standardize this sort of technology, which was mentioned in the read. Samsung and Sony have both introduced, respectively, on their own platforms. It does free up people to say, hey, maybe I don't want a Samsung speaker or I don't want to be tied to Sony's acoustic center sync system. And this allows a little more flexibility. The truth of the matter is, you know, 80% of the people are fine with the TV they have and they're fine with the sound that their TV produces. And when you get into niche or, you know, as you get into a higher element of people who want to select and pick and match products, they tend to either do things, as Nicole says, is I'll just get an AV receiver that supports all the formats, plug my TV into it, you know, then I can move my speakers and get whatever I want. It requires a lot of separate, you know, picking and choosing and buying and cobbling together, which I've done and then I just sold like last year because it got a little too much. This allows kind of a halfway in between getting a sound bar or the simplicity of just buying a sound bar and having the audio and then having something a little more expansive without being so complicated where you have to worry about, well, you know, I can buy from 100 different loudspeaker manufacturers where I can go to Best Buy and select from these five and say, hey, this fits my room. Perfect. I don't have to figure out where the sound's going to get adjusted. Like I have an old Denon, you know, from 12 years ago that had the stick to microphone in the center of the room and will auto adjust everything for you. But it was so Clujie and this, this promises to be... Well, 10 years ago, right? That's old. Well, exactly. But this promises not only to take that and make it more simple, but it also offers a standardized or industry standard that everyone could adhere to and not have to worry, well, this is incompatible. Well, it's not an industry standard. It's Dolby's proprietary thing. But to your point, Dolby's not trying to keep it in their Dolby branded speakers. They're willing to license it out. And they're good at that. Yeah, that's what they do. Yeah, I think that's a good point is that this could show up in more products. And I think that percentage of people who are not home theater aficionados who want to max out quality, but do want something probably just bigger than we think because I think a lot of those people show up to the store and say, that looks too complicated.  I don't want to do that. I don't want to mess with that. So being able to say like, hey, if you buy this TV, if you want a little more surround sound, you could just buy those two speakers over there and they're less expensive than the big soundbar system. Maybe you end up expanding this. It's just a matter of getting it into more products, which is what Dolby wants to do. And Dolby's good at that. So maybe it will. Verges, David Pierce has an article up called Google's AI powered note taking app is the messy beginning of something great. It's a look at Google's Notebook LM. That's the one they announced at Google I.O. in May. You might remember they announced it as project tailwind, but they very quickly changed it to be called Notebook LM. It trains off your own notes. So if you remember us talking about it, we liked it because it was a limited data set. This isn't train off the entire web. This is an algorithm that has been trained to be a large language model that then trains specifically on your things and gives you specific answers related to your own research. So Pierce does an excellent job, of course, at explaining his experience. I encourage you to read that full article, but a few items from it stood out to us. It only accepts imports from Google Docs right now. There are more sources to come, but it is a little limited right now and it isn't beta. For now, each source can only be up to 10,000 words and a project can only use five sources. So again, maybe it'll expand, but right now in the beta, it's a little limited. It generates things like outlines, lists of topics and even comes up with questions you can ask it. Answers to any questions, whether they're the ones that suggests or not, come with citations from your source material. And Pierce said, it does a really good job of identifying the bits of information that are relevant to my question. In fact, he and apparently a lot of people that use this really valued that more than the actual answers it gave. He was like, answers were all right, not anything maybe I couldn't come up with my own, but the citations really revealed some things about my source material that I might not have seen otherwise. It also added info one time that was not in Pierce's sources. So he asked Google about that and they said, yeah, the model has the capability to bring in other information and they're trying to work out what the line is there because they know that in some cases it might be helpful. In fact, in the case with Pierce, apparently it was helpful, but they want to make sure that people know when it's doing that, have some control over when it's doing that, maybe turn it off, turn it on, etc. And they're still trying to work out where that line is. Nicole, what do you think of notebook LM based on this? Honestly, as I was reading this just from a purely selfish perspective, I can see this being a hugely helpful for a lot of journalists out there and the reason is because I remember when I was doing a lot of reporting back in the day, I would interview let's say three to four different sources for a piece and I would have to transcribe all of those interviews, right? So those transcripts can be literally thousands of words long per transcript. Can you, I just imagine just spitting that into this software, notebook LM, and it would just like do a little summary, do a little, maybe pulling out relevant quotes from that transcript and it might be really useful in me doing sort of putting my story together. And not just for journalists, I'm sure like research papers in college or any kind of work and profession that you would use research in. And I think it's just so, it makes things that you would normally do already, but it will make it so much quicker and so much more efficient than you just doing it yourself, you know. Yeah, Roger, you were saying you thought it might be really helpful in educational settings. Actually, now that I think about it, it helps in a couple of ways. One, I was saying like studying, I knew someone who was going to a law school and they just had a bit of not just binders.   And I can honestly say sometimes it's really hard to keep track of what's what and what's where, having everything not just only condensed but also parsed and being searchable and have AI to kind of help you sort all that. And interpretable, right?  I find that compelling. And yeah, that was this. Sorry. Oh, OK. That was this part in the in the story that you said that the the notebook software was able to pull out that, for example, speed was a crucial advantage of the story that he was researching because someone else, the author of one of the papers wrote it because he and because he quoted a bunch of executives saying that speed was a key factor of spreadsheet. So even though he didn't come up with it, the fact that he quoted a bunch of people in the story that mentioned it was a key sort of analytic factor from the story. I mean, also if you're working on a PhD and you're doing your dissertation and you have volumes and volumes of notes from your research from, you know, other other pieces of state, this really does help.  She has a lot of notes she pulls information from. How awesome would it be to just have instead of like, oh, where did I write it? What did I write and when did I write it? And how does it relate to this other aspect of, say, something like archaeology or history? This this is like the assistant you would hire in many ways to help you who start through all the stuff you've collected. I didn't didn't Pierce call it something like like like it like people at Google are calling it a team of infinite interns or something like that. I mean, it's it's it's pretty cool.  I have so many things that could it's weird because I see this. Oh, good. I immediately thought of when you had to go through probate on a house right and and and this kind of thing is like you need to have a lot of information collected in one place. Be able to make it easily interpretable. The sort of thing could be could be really helpful. And it was interesting that Pierce noted that the Google folks just call it notebook not notebook LM. And I have a feeling that whether that's subconscious or intentional that they look at this as a pro a notebook product like instead of using notepad use notebook so that it can take your notes and expand them. And obviously at some point it's going to have to go beyond five sources. It's going to have to go beyond Google docs, but it would be able to to take your notes and make sense of them. I think that's pretty pretty interesting that this could be the first big AI product for Google not search search has got its own path that that it's on. And I'm sure it'll be interesting, but this feels more more useful to me. And you know, if they can offer assurances to potential customers about, you know, privacy about like whatever you stick in there stays within the confines to that account. I think they have a I think they have a winner. Yeah. Well, folks, I taught a course recently. It was just a 90 minute seminar really on how to make a great podcast. And if you weren't able to be part of that, we did have to limit the number of seats. We have it available at the Patreon store. Daily tech news show, sorry, patreon.com slash DTS slash shop. So if you want to get a streamable or a downloadable version, I explained the foundational elements of product podcast producing. I share ideas, my experiences on making a podcast great, how we do our rundowns, things like that. So you can get that class again as a downloadable audio file or a streaming videos depends on your preference. You can get it either way, same price for either one. And you can find that at patreon.com slash DTS. Long time tech reporter and analyst Benedict Evans has a post up that guy kind of buzzy today. It's up there, you know, towards the top half tech meme. Tech meme described it as a look at the ethical and legal issues around generative AI, which makes things that were previously only possible on a small scale practical at a massive scale. And the scale really is the essential part of this. It's a great article. Of course, I encourage you to read the whole thing. We'll have it linked in the show notes. But for now, I want to focus on this paragraph. Evans wrote a person can listen to a thousand hours of music and make something in that style. If a person did that, they wouldn't have to pay a fee to all those artists. So if we use a computer for that, do we need to pay them? I don't think we know how we think about that. We might know what the law might say, but we might want to change that. And then this question Evan puts forward later on. I think really brings that issue into focus. AI makes practical at a massive scale, things that were previously only possible on a small scale. A difference in scale can be a difference in principle. What outcomes do we want? What do we want the law to be? What can it be? I think this is so well put. This is the difference between saying, hey, five or six friends, let's meet up at a bar and putting a notice on Facebook. If you're like a hugely influential Facebook poster and having thousands of people show up at the bar. One's totally fine. The bar loves it. Nobody cares. The other is a problem that you need to plan for and treat differently. Scale makes all the difference. We obviously see that with email and spam. And I think Evan's very clearly puts forward that the problem with AI is that you can't just make an allegory to what we do. You have to look at the scale as well. Nicole, what do you think of this? I think there's an interesting point he made in the article about Taylor Swift and whether you can make it like the, you know, seeing if you tell AI, hey, make this song in the style of Taylor Swift. That's one thing, right? But if you tell the AI, hey, make a song based on the past 10 years of pop music, it might mention Taylor Swift. It might sort of like pull some of Taylor Swift because it's, you know, she's part of the past 10 years of pop music, but it's not specifically about her.  So if that's the case, do they have to pay royalties to the artists of the past 10 years? You know, like how extensive do you want to give that kind of a thing? And I do agree that like a person might be able to do it, like a person might be able to sample, you know, some music of the past 10 years, but a person doing it doesn't have as much, so if a person does it, they're just sampling music, you could argue that, right? They're not just putting from a specific person that say, but yeah, I do think the laws have to be different because it is different. AI is not the same thing as a person and, you know, yeah, I do think that's true. Yeah, and I think he does a great job of explaining in this article that the data that it trained on is not in the model. So when you ask it to do it in the style of Taylor Swift, it doesn't look in its database at Taylor Swift songs, it's just in the model to know what that means and output things. So it's not the same as copying. It used copies to train on, but it doesn't keep the copies of them. So it's a whole different question than copyright at that point. And I think the scale is the place to get at it because like you said, you could say, make us make a song in the style of the last 10 years of pop music. Who do you owe that to? If you say Taylor Swift, it's easy. Oh, okay. I should, if I'm going to owe anything, if we decide that you should owe anything, we know who to pay it to. Although with Taylor Swift, which one are you copying? Taylor's version or the one owned by her original label. Those are two different royalty holders. Like, so it does start to get complicated there. But what if it is multiple things? What if you have changed it? The parameters at what point do you owe any compensation to people and what point do you not? Is it just being trained? I'll throw my opinion out and Roger and Nicole, you guys can bet this around. I think we need to create a very small royalty mechanism similar to what we do for songwriters. There's something called a mechanical royalty that says you don't have to get the songwriter's permission, but if you cover their song and you release it, you owe a fixed royalty to the songwriter. I think we should do something like that for training data. I think it needs to be smaller than the royalty because training data is infinitesimally small in its inclusion in the model. If you remove one song from the training data, it doesn't materially change the model. So it needs to be a smaller rate, but I think there should be a mechanical rate set for if you're in the training data, you're not really being copied, but let's give you something for the privilege of them using your data to create their model. I think for me as well, the question comes to what does the person using the AI, what are they using the final result for? Are they using the sample to release actual music that they're selling? Are they using the result of the art that they create through the AI? Are they selling it through commercial means? Is it kind of an educational thing? So that's definitely part of it. So I do agree that if it's a commercial use of some kind, I do think some kind of royalty is somewhere and needs to be put in place. Otherwise, the whole thing's... You think not just... Because I was saying the creator of the model should have to pay a bit of a royalty. You're thinking the user of the model also might need to pay something if they're selling something. I think that starts to get tricky though. I mean, again, if you're like very clearly copying, sugar of BTS, then yeah, you're gonna owe something to them. But if you're doing something that's a little less identifiable, I don't know. Roger, what do you think? I mean, it's one of those things where there are so many instances where you can think of, well, they should be compensated for this, they should be compensated for that. I think there's merit to both yours and Nicole's suggestion in that a mechanical license, but I'm wondering if that just applies to... Anyone who picks up the data, you have to use this particular set of data. For example, if you're... There could be data that's in the public domain, just like there's... Yeah, well, that's what I'm thinking. So is there a limit? Is there a lifetime to this? That's a good question. My question is, if you sample it, not on the past 20 years, but everything pre-1900s, and you use that as your training model and it generates works from that, do we, would we have the same... No, because those are public domain. I do think it would... Yeah, no, this is a good clarifying question is I do think that royalty would have to apply two things that are protected already, not things that are unprotected. Because, you know, it's so complicated and I do think that that may be one way to deal with it, but at the same time, I agree with Nicole.  So you don't have to worry about it from that point forward. And I think that, you know, that you pay to play. So if you use it in a work, whether it's a game, it's a novel, it's a movie... Yeah, but that, again, go back to our earlier conversation. Those are more clear, but what if you're just using the training data to create something that's the last 10 years of images? Do they get nothing for that? I mean, that's the problem that becomes trickier, is like, it's not about... I think current law can deal with I created something that's exactly the same. I think when it starts to become like, well, it's in the style of, or it's kind of like, that's where it gets trickier. I guess based on the stock image example, it would be like, not a real person, but like an AI generated. Yeah, like... And not a copy, but something that kind of looks like that. You know, make this photo look like Van Gogh, or in the style of Van Gogh. And so... Is there something... Right now, that's fine. If it's in the style of Van Gogh, you don't own any... Well, Van Gogh is a bad example because he's public domain, but if it's in the style of Scott Johnson, you don't own Scott Johnson anyway. But when you can do Scott Johnson at the kind of scale that machine learning does, maybe we do need a different mechanism. Scott would agree, I think. Yeah, I think so. Well, folks, I'd love to hear, what would you do if you were the person in charge of setting policy? What would you recommend? Feedback at DailyTechNewsShow.com. All right, one last story here that I think is really interesting. You might know that magnetic tape storage is not just a cool retro thing Gen Z uses to play old music. Oh, no, it has consistently provided a compact way for large organizations to make long-term backups for a long time. Something you don't need to access fast. You just want it reliably stored. They call it cold storage. And it's still being developed. IBM just announced its new TS1170 drive that can store 50 terabytes uncompressed on one cartridge and up to 150 terabytes if you compress it. And that's a big jump. The previous model, the TS1160, could only do 20 terabytes uncompressed. So I know for some of you, you might not have realized that magnetic tape storage was still a thing, which it absolutely is. And for those of you who do know and work with this, hey, you've got a brand new IBM product that's going to increase the ability to store stuff, they're still developing it. Tape is always one of the recommended long-term storage formats for large database. I mean, I'm talking about your home, you know, two terabyte NAS. No, this is for companies. I mean, you could try to get one. It's a little expensive. Even medium-sized companies say if you're like an internet-facing company that deals with a lot of online clientele, you got to store that data. And sure, maybe only a few years doesn't add up to much, but once you start going into 5, 10, 15, that's a lot of stuff you got to keep track of. Yeah, and I say it's expensive for the individual, but for an enterprise, it's actually quite affordable. All right, let's check out the mailbag. TJ Asher liked our discussion on the extended show on Friday about whether it's better to see the movie first or read the book first. TJ wrote, I have always been and still am in the camp of movie or TV show first. The book is always better because it can explore more and go into more detail than a movie. Take Jurassic Park, a movie which holds a special place in my heart. The movie was amazing, but the entire subplot of the industrial espionage and morality of genetic engineering was represented by one silly scene and a single line of dialogue by Jeff Goldblum. The exception that proves the rule is Song of Ice and Fire. The books are so ridiculously drawn out and overly detailed that the synopsis of the TV show is superior for a good portion of the story season eight excluded. Looking forward to the next Friday quiz or debate. Thank you, TJ. You know, through George R. R. Martin under the bus there at the end. Oh, gosh. You don't like the several pages on lemon tarts. I find that refreshing and delectable. I really do actually. I really like George R. R. Martin's writing. I would say you still want to see the TV show first and then read the books. Some of the books still need to be written. I understand that. But the ones that are, I think that's infinitely preferable. Well, Nicole, first of all, where do you stand? Book or movie first? I would say book first if you can swing it. But I don't. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. First. All right. First, but I'm not a hard line. I'm not a hard line. You can if you watch a movie first, that's fine. I'm not against it. Well, don't hold that against Nicole either. And go enjoy her other fine works. Where can they go, Nicole? The easiest way to do is just go to my link tree username Nicole nerd. Excellent. Patrons stick around for the extended show, Good Day Internet. Dear Abby, the venerable newspaper advice column is still around and handled the question this week of whether you have to get a smartphone in this day and age or whether companies should just remember there are folks out there with their $30 feature phones answer may surprise you. You can also catch the show live Monday through Friday 4 p.m. Eastern 200 UTC find out more daily tech news show com slash live. Sarah Lane and I are back tomorrow with more tech news. Please join us then. This show is part of the frog pants network. Get more at frog pants dot com. Time and club hopes you have enjoyed this program.


I've never really answered directly and I answered in my previous video So if you want to see my my answer, please go check that out But in the meantime, we're gonna talk about pro kick Another question I get asked a lot, you know, I've I went down to to Melbourne recently twice actually but the second time I managed to link up with An American Football Academy here in Australia that has relationships with D1 teams and NCAA coaches and trains up Punters who've come from other sports here in Australia down in Melbourne. They get trained up for for six to twelve months It's a course Academic course as well. You learn the game of football as well. You come out of that hopefully fingers crossed with an offer of a full-ride scholarship for four years to a D1 University or college in in America. That's the path that they set out in front of their athletes The first step is going down to Melbourne and having an assessment a $100 assessment It's almost like going for a PT session Okay, but it's kicking and it's football related and you're with all the other fellas that are already on the course So what happened? I went down. I paid $100 and I came in with three other new boys There's probably about 25 lads down there We came in and basically just joined in to a normal Sunday morning session It was from 6.30 to 9 o'clock two and a half hours and I'll tell you what man Regardless of what happened regardless of how my performance went. I had so much fun. I loved it I was in my out. I felt like I was in my element. I really did and I think the coaches Saw that as well. So I came out of that feeling amazing. I felt like man I just want to come back tomorrow and do it again But I couldn't because I had to come back to Alice Springs where I live so that was a quick trip, but it It got me involved in this in the program and so from there obviously I've talked to the coaches now the coaches have told me and multiple other people If you get an offer you come down you do your assessment if we give you an offer That is us Putting our belief in you and saying look if you come down if you commit and You do what we believe you can do We are pretty much get well, you know I Think they said we are guaranteeing you a D1 scholarship if you get accepted So I came back up to Alice Springs.  Anyways, they eventually did and lo and behold. I have been offered a place In the Academy for next year So in the previous video I Talked about the fact that I've worked in my in my current full-time job up here in Alice Springs and Being able to being able to accumulate three months worth of annual leave Now that's taken years And a lot of disciplines not take it, but I do have 12 weeks of annual leave Okay, and that starts the end of February. So what I've said to the coaches is look I can commit I'm gonna keep training up here keep making my videos Keep working obviously keep you know trying to get trying to build up my my bank balance as a bit of a buffer So that when this holiday time does come around I can make a decision and commit somewhere and go and live somewhere else And train and do whatever I need to do. So in the previous video we talked about the NFL. Okay, that is That's a dream But I do have belief in that dream and that's that's all you really need You need to be able to dream then believe and then achieve So we're talking about college football now. We're talking about pro pro kick Australia. So I've been accepted into the program It's going to be up to me whether at the end of February on My three months leave I choose to go Overseas and do other things or I choose to commit to pro kick Okay, so I'll be going there from the end of February to the end of May for those three months Training as hard as I can doing as much as I can and I guess at that point I've still got my job up here as a backup But at that point I can choose to either go fallen like well I mean I'm already head first in at that point But to really commit say quit my job up here and say look I'm committing to Melbourne.  I see this as my second chance. I see this as a second life I'm 27. I moved to Australia when I was 19. I've been in the workforce full-time since I was 17 I've worked 10 years full-time work different jobs My last job I've been in for five years now.  My daughter's not gonna be here My sister's here. My friends are here, but as far as, you know As far as networking as far as rubbing shoulders with the right people levelling up my life and The people in it.  So I Feel as though As the new year rolls around I will become, you know Closer to making my decision as to exactly what I want to do. But honestly, I feel like it's already made I feel like, you know, we've been in contact with the coaches of I've said to them I will commit well, I basically said look I Appreciate you accepting me into the into the course.  They know I'm keen You know, we've been through the age factor I think they've got they've got they've gotten a 32 year old a full-ride scholarship before so me being 27 28 next year It's it's it's no big deal. And that was that was a concern for me. So to get past that is good I'm not concerned about that anymore. Like I said in the previous video I've played almost 20 years of rugby, but for the last three or four, I haven't so my body hasn't taken any hits I'm fresh. I feel good. I feel ready to start training towards something And so going back to what I was saying before I feel like this is a second chance I feel like this is a second life. Can you imagine it? 10 years of full-time work. Just had my first kid To move down to Melbourne commit to that and then get a full-ride scholarship have four years in America having an amazing time Come back with a free education. I might not even come back to Australia You know, what if I met someone over there? You know, what if I met the right people? What if I got an awesome job? What if I got an awesome opportunity to work Somewhere who knows man? You've just got it. You've got to be there for it to happen You've got to be there for anything to happen.  It's got to end soon And I would so much rather be putting my time and effort into something physical like a sport like an amazing sport like college football and Trying to have my second chance at life trying to have my second chance at playing top level sport That's what it's about So I'm gonna leave it there.  I don't know exactly what's happening But I think after talking you guys probably can tell you know, I've basically said to the coaches look end of February That's when I can commit In the previous video I talked about you know traveling during those three months that I've got off work but if There was no if I was convinced there was no hope in me even getting a sniff in an NFL team Then I would cut that I'd say fuck that I'm gonna stay in America. I'm gonna stay in Australia I won't travel to America. I'll stay here. I'll commit to pro-kick and see what happens there I feel like I think pro-kick actually has a trip to the US with their boys Throughout the year just to check out some facilities and stuff So I guess that might be my first trip to the US Which would be sick, you know, I'd be showing around and showing the facilities a few a couple universities Maybe the ones that are actually interested in me at the time, but that would be you know later next year So anyways, that's it guys if you want to support me you want to support the channel hit like If you want to subscribe and see where this journey goes. I couldn't tell you where but it's gone somewhere Subscribe and I'll see you in the next one. Peace out everybody


lot of cast and stuff like that involved. So it's just a really good watch. That's why I like it. Excellent. So that's Vera on ITV. In the theatre, darkness echoing. I went over to see this in the baller during the week. This is... I know it's shocking. It's too cold for you. When it was a drama group excursion, there was members of the audience. Or even more painful. We went... Have you ever met anyone more dramatic than this lady? Never, ever, ever. Even before I started my reviews, it was being dramatic. So, yeah, this is the But Drama Circles new play for this season. They're about to go on the festival circuit. So they did a couple of nights, Wednesday and Thursday night, to get up and running. Sean Byrne is the man behind this. He... Same as last year with Dave Cotter. He wrote it, he directed it, and he stars in it as well. He's a triple threat. If he gets out the banjo and does a song, he'll be a quadruple threat. I loved it. It's a great piece of theatre. I thought it was... I think it's better than last year's. And last year's was an award-winning acclaimed production that went round the festival circuit and did very well. This one, it'll be in a skill and it'll be in Straban. The dates are up there, you can check them out. Basically, gentlemen... Original pieces, OK. Yeah, Sean wrote it, he wrote it. It was written a few years ago, it's set in 2015. So I think it was written around then as well. Chatting to him afterwards, just for a few minutes. Very straightforward, high-concept story. A man returns from London to find, much to his surprise, that his elderly father is much more seriously ill than he had realized. And he even has a home help coming in. And he lives in a cottage in the country. Our hero didn't realize any of that. And he has his own baggage to deal with, I won't go into it. But basically, it's then the three characters and it follows their set number of weeks as he learns that his father is, as I say, very seriously ill and how that impacts on both of them. And the home help, the lady who's the home help. One of the... So many things I didn't really enjoy about this script, I love Sean's grasp of language, his great ear for dialogue, et cetera. But I love the fact that all three of the characters have their stories and they all get a chance to tell their story. And we get invested in all of them. I loved the couple of hours I spent in that kitchen the other night, I really enjoyed it. I saw Dave Cotter twice. I hope to see this on the Festival Circuit again as well. I can only imagine, well, I mean, it was brilliant. I thought it was sharp, but for a first night, it'll get better and better, I'm sure. And I think they'll do very well on the Festival Circuit because, again, they have forum. Sean did very well last year with Dave Cotter. So huge thumbs up from me, as I say, I was in there for two nights and it's on the Festival Circuit and it'll be in Straban, which is probably our closest and then it's in the skin and a few other festivals. They usually hit about six, seven festivals. So they'll be in the Northwest, coming now through February and March. And Fingers crossed, I wish, but all the very best. Odd, my interest, do we host significant festivals? We do, we have the one-axe. We host them in Letter Kenny. That's what has been happening here. Only one-axe, no? Only one-axe. It's a Balochana as well. Balochana, yeah, they, yeah. To you, that's like South Mexico, your attorney. But actually, believe it or not, it is part of Donegal. They've got their accents and all that kind of stuff. Yeah, and they're big brimmed hats. But you're talking about hosting the festival, right? You, that's what you mean. Any festival, like, other than the one-axe, do... Well, we don't host three-act festivals in Letter Kenny. Sorry, it's... No, you're okay, ask away. Three-act, is that three-act or something? Two-act, two-act, it means it's a two-act. So what's one-act then? A one-act play is a half-hour play, roughly. I'm bending the rules, it could be 45 minutes. I think the rule is something like 50, but... So, short play. So when the one-act festival is in Letter Kenny, which I rarely miss, I love it, you go along and you see maybe three... You do, you see three completely different plays on the night, on Friday night, Saturday night, and Sunday afternoon. So you get nine plays of a weekend from all over the country. We do the all-way. And if that's your thing, this is just... Oh, yeah, it's brilliant. ...bundling to a B, okay. Big tip. So you're highly recommending... I am, I really am. I mean, obviously, I know the... You know, I know JSC, but I know these people. But I'm being honest, I mean, I really did enjoy it. I think it was better, maybe even better than Dave Cutter. It'd be interesting to chat with. We, the gang from our drama group went over. We were sitting outside afterwards. We were like, wow, that's so good on the first night. What's it gonna be like on the third, fifth, seventh, ninth night? It's a really sharp production, and it deserves to do well. Lorna says, hi, Greg and Friday gang. Haven't watched Vera for a while as repeats. I love her. Must watch again. Thanks for reminding me. Yeah, no, it's what it... As you said, it's one of those solid things that it's just when it's on.  The Bali Shannon Festival just when we asked there, I checked it out there, it's on the end of March. Yeah, brilliant, okay. It's on the down the road. Fantastic must-see productions listed below. So you can actually go online and see what they're gonna have on. It's on from the 11th to the 19th of March. Right, so Happy Valley did wrap up. It's not a show I've watched. If you are a big fan, tell us how... Are you happy with the ending? I shot myself in the foot with it. I decided... You wound it? No, I decided I'd go back and re-watch it because it's so long. There's a huge gap. It's on Netflix, you can watch the earlier ones. There's a three series, but there are many years off between them, isn't there? Yes, there is, yeah. So I said, oh, no, I won't watch this. And now everybody I know that's watching it... Spoilers. No, they absolutely are dying to spoil it because apparently it was amazing. Wow. The Acting in Happy Valley was the best I've watched in a long time, very good, but too long. Oh! So that goes weekly, doesn't it? It does, and it's finished, and it was only six episodes. That's amazing. That's the first even partially negative thing I've heard about it. Yeah. People on Twitter again, I follow various... Dave, this guy writes for the Radio Times, raved about it. They were really singing its praises and saying, what a fantastic... Two of my family members called me to discuss episode four. Yeah. And you were like... You didn't time this very well at all. You didn't time this very well at all with re-watching. I know, I kind of forgot it was coming. You know the way he's in, and then... But it shouldn't take you long to... You're the queen of re-watch those. You'd get up at 5 a.m., watch the first season, and then be in for work. But you see, there comes... I know what I find, and I'm sure it's the same with Phinewne, and everyone else, there's periods in your life where you're astonished how much you can fit in. Yeah, like the 1970s.  I know, yeah. There's way more periods. Just little things happen. Yeah. Right. Okay, so I'll go to you again, because you actually bothered to write a list out for me, right? LAUGHTER Beauty and the Beast, 30th anniversary. That's a big deal for a lot of people, isn't it? Ah, well, it is for me, on numerous levels. A lot of person. A lot of person. Right. I love Beauty and the Beast. It's one of the greatest movies ever made. Is there? Do you know what? Do not. Do not push me. I have power in this organisation. I will sack you. Also, make a different face. You might not just sack you. That could be worse. You might end up in a sack. Could be worse. I would definitely. Beauty and the Beast is an awesome... The original one now, I'm talking the original cartoon version that Disney put out. I actually thought it was way older than 30 years. Me too. I couldn't believe it was that many. 30s, I would have said. 40s, something like that. I would have thought it was... Oh, yeah, no. Oh, no, it definitely wasn't that far back, because they didn't... No, I would have guessed it. Yeah, but they didn't have the ability to do it. That was it. Walt Disney himself came up with the... was involved in the original kind of idea of what they were going to do with it. They didn't know how they would do it, but they didn't have the technological advances and the animated one to name it. So is this one of the first done, then, in that animated style in the long format? I think it might... Well, no, no, he didn't. No, no, because he did... Cinderella is a very old one. Very old, yeah. Back in the day. Beauty and the Beast is just one that kind of hung around. And then, all of a sudden, then it kind of... In the 80s, it got re-looked at by Disney, and then they put it out. And, like... Can I just say one thing further, the 80s was 30 years ago? Yeah. What? Is it not more? It's 40 years ago now. 40 years ago, yeah. That's scary. I know. I remember when I was young, er, I'm still pretty a bit of a nipper, but a long time ago, you know, like, say, in the early 90s, like, a long time ago would have seemed the 50s. Yes. It seemed like a different era. It would have seemed like, you know... It would. Completely. Do you know where I'm trying to get at? Here we are, and this is the reality of life in 2023, talking about the 80s, and for people, you know, of 20 age... One third of the people in this building were not alive then. Did you work that out? All the time. It's just amazing how you become... You become your parents, or... Yeah, you do. You merge into the... Yeah, you don't just become them, because then that reality hits you. Also, at this age now, are the same age that our parents were in the 80s. Yeah. You know what I mean? When we taught... You know what I mean? When we taught and when we were all young teenagers, going, Oh, my God! I was watching a really old episode or something, or what I thought to be really old, and they were on laptops with flat screen monitors and regular-sized mobile phones. And in my head, I thought this was... Is it an old thing? This was... I lived with a lot of that technology.  One of the things I always think of is... In the late 70s, early 80s, I would have been watching Happy Days, you know, Fonsi and all those guys. And it was in the 50s, and that seemed like so long ago, to like 10... Long time ago. But then in the 90s, we had that 70s show, which was set, obviously, 20 years earlier, and it didn't seem so bad. But now we have that 90s show, brand new on Netflix, which I love. It was on the list for a couple of weeks. But the thing is... It's set in the 90s, and I'm low... It's exactly like you just said. It's like, what? That's not long ago. That's not 20 years ago? I think I was the exact same in the 90s as I am now. I genuinely believe that to be the case. I do too, yeah. But clearly not. Yeah, well... I feel if we asked people around you, they would think probably differently. No, for a fact. But it's me who has to live alone in this head of mine. I know. Well, I have a... My relationship with time is such that in 1994 I, to VHS tape, recorded the last episode of the Planet of the Apes TV show. And I thought to myself, well, it's the last episode. I'll keep that for a while before I watch it. And one of these days, I'm going to watch that episode. You have problems. But it hasn't been that long. It's only a year. Back on to Beauty and the Beast, 30th anniversary Beauty and the Beast. Look, it's absolutely fabulous. To be honest, for me, growing... Not growing up, I was a teenager then and on for it. It was one of my favourite movies. It was the movie all through the 90s when you wanted to have a day lying on the couch and you weren't feeling well. There you go. I think I got the DVD shipped in from Japan because you couldn't buy them anywhere else. Closer you could get to illegally streaming it. Exactly. Exactly. I had to get it shipped in. That's impressive. That's pretty cutting edge. I absolutely loved it. But because you couldn't get it anywhere else, you had to get it shipped to Japan. That's right. They would only release them for a year and then stop. So it was very hard to get stuff. Even better with this is that this is the 30th anniversary. So what they're doing is they're going through the main points of the movie and the main songs and that kind of thing. They're also talking a little bit about how it was made. But it's all done in a lovely way that you can really enjoy it. And Josh Groban plays the... Does the Beast. And in fairness, he's awesome. So amazing. So he's singing the songs from the Beast. There's lots of other different people in it. Her, which I think is at h.e.r. Is that just pronounced her? Having a clue. Well, she is some hip-hop lady. Obviously it's just called her, yeah. Yeah. So she does the voice of beauty in it. Amazing voice as well. Shania Twain is in it. She's taken over from Angela Lansbury. So it's just one of those little things. You can have it on when you're kind of doing get all nostalgic about Beauty and the Beast. All right, OK. And lots of people will. OK. And, you know, it'll introduce it to a new audience as always happens with stuff that stands the test of time. That's the truth, yeah. Yeah, it's much better than the... Because they keep doing these things down live, you know, instead of the animation. Yeah, they're doing it with... I don't know how to do that with real people. Go back to the animation. So to be clear, Beauty and the Beast's 30th anniversary, have they made it again? It's a remake? No, no. What it is is it's like a mix of the original footage, new footage, and then they have, like, live dancers, live singers and all that kind of stuff in it together. Yeah, that's structured. So it's kind of like how they did... But it's actually just really... You get the whole feel of the story because it flows through the story, but it shows you, like, clips from the original guys doing the music, the original people that did the animation, that kind of thing as well. I call this as Watch Jared Butler's new movie, Plain. Now, this keeps popping up on my For You page. Let me call it that. The review of it is as follows. A good pop-call movie where he plays a Scottish airline captain trying to save his passengers after being taken hostage in Asia. Best line in the movie is when his co-pilot asks him if he is English, OK? That's not probably what I'm asking. A person from Canada if they're American. Yeah. It might be a good weekend film. I'd quite like to see it here. It just keeps popping up. Seems like a good action-y kind of thing, you know. He did all those London's burning or London's dying or... Yeah, has fallen. Yeah, that's fine, yeah. And Mike Coulter is in this one. I'm not really sure what the relationship between those films is. You know, London's White House, Dan London's... I think it's just him. He's the relationship. He's the same. He's the character, yeah. Yeah, yeah, he's... I love this from a guy who's watched every season of 24. And you think Jared Butler... You think Jared Butler's just unlucky. I mean, seriously. That's quite true. That's quite true.  I mean... OK. That was a guy who found 24 utterly believable with Jared Butler. I'd love to start at... 24 is believable. It's literally a documentary. It is, I agree. We'll be back with more shortly. There's only one garage to visit for your next purchase, and that's iMotors. Visit us in letter Kenny or Malin, or visit iMotors.ie. You can apply for factories pushing bee farmers to cut emissions by 30%, and we examine how farm partnerships can break down. Only inside this week's Irish Farmers' Journal. Connect hearing is open for free hearing tests. Our audiologist is available Monday to Friday for wax removal services at our letter Kenny clinic in the Courtyard Shopping Centre. We also offer a home visit for those who aren't able to visit us. Our hearing is our social sense. Are you finding hearing more of a challenge? Call Ursula today on 07491 132. Good hearing helps us to connect to our family, friends and loved ones. Connect hearing, connecting you to life. Clonid, in a lifetime. The farewell Dublin show. Live at 3 Arena, Saturday, February 18th. Tickets from 49 Euro are on sale now. Maybe subject to fees presented by Singular Artists. You can transfer to homes for over 45 years. With our biofuel compatible condensing boilers, heat pumps and underfloor heating, you can trust Grant to heat your home now and into the future. Think heating, think grant. Visit grant.eu. All right, we're in the company of Michael and Funula for that entertainment on a Friday. A caller says my satellite dish decided to fly away in high winds, which they do tend to do because they get a bit rusty, don't they? But anyway, there's a happy ending to this story. I've been watching YouTube and found a great wee series of movies from 1939 called Jackie Chan, or Charlie Chan, I beg your pardon. I enjoyed it. I didn't realise they were that advanced back then. Great quality video. This isn't almost about us losing a wee bit track of time. 1939, you know, Hollywood and cinema was getting more and more advanced at that point. There are a number of detective series like Boston Blackie, Mr. Motto, The Thin Man, The Falcon, The Saint. I share like Holmes movies. They're all from the 30s, the 40s. Some of them had like 14 movies in the series, like Boston Blackie. The Whistler, they're on YouTube. They're really good. They're really, really good. Mr. Motto, if you like Charlie Chan, you'll like Mr. Motto. All right, it's okay. I want to say a quick hello now to Madeline McDade, who's a director and actor for the film tour with the Termin Drama Club. And back on stage after quite a break, Madeline, good morning to you. Good morning, Greg. How are you? And thank you very much for having me on. No, it's great to have you on. Right, so tell us what's coming up in Kilmachranon. So on Saturday the 18th and Sunday the 19th and Saturday the 26th and Sunday the 26th of February, the Termin Drama Group are back on stage because I'm the one from you from Jim Carrey. So it's very funny and anybody who needs a good laugh come along and support us. We would appreciate it very much. Our night on Saturday the 25th of February is the night of the Irish Air Ambulance, Dr. Gerry Lane's emergency vehicle and appreciation of the work they've done in the recent Chrysler tragedy. Talk to us and it couldn't go to a more worthy cause. Talk to us about the plot of this show. I'm the one for you. Please, Madeline. It's set in a country farmhouse and the owner of the house is Mr. Gerry O'Malley, played by Henry Gallagher. And Gerry has a very facetious housekeeper called Dory Sennett, who is after Gerry but a newcomer comes into town who is myself, Bruce Hickey. And I'm a very posh devotee who also takes a shine for Gerry O'Malley. And there's another farmer, Jack Todoud, who has a shine for Dory. And then we have a very upcoming daughter, very business-influential businesswoman of Gerry O'Malley and her husband. And it's all mixture-maxed her and it's very funny and very good. And then you throw in the nosy next-door neighbour who happens to be Dory Sennett's best friend, Mona. And she's played by Deirdre Gallagher. So she needs no introduction to stage. She's well equipped to be there. Brilliant stuff. And it sounds like there's a great bit of situation, comedy and what have you in there. It sounds like it's well set up for that. If people want to get tickets, Madeline, how do they do so? Well, tickets are on sale in the Milbridge shop Kilmachrennan and I'd like to thank the staff there for selling the tickets for us. They're also on sale in Gracie Source. That's the shop beside the Lagoon and Termin. I work there myself, so I just want to thank my boss and my workmates for selling the tickets for me. And anybody can contact me. If anybody knows me on Facebook, they can send me a message on Facebook or the Termin Drama Group have their own Facebook page. So if anyone would like to message them, they can contact us there and I'll sort them out with tickets. No problem at all. The only thing is, Saturday the 25th is now sold out. Well done, that's good. The night that we're doing for the charity is now sold out. But I am going to be running a hamper in association with that night. I'm going to have it up in the shop in Termin. If anybody wants to buy a line, all the donations, everything in the hamper has been donated by local businesses, who I thank as well. And we're going to put all that money on Saturday the 25th as well. And just remind us of the nights that tickets are still available. They're available for Saturday the 18th and Sunday the 19th and they're available for Sunday the 26th. All right, well done. Madeleine, I'm sure you're all very excited to get back on the stage too after the enforced break. So I'm sure you're all buzzing with that as well. Well done and best of luck with you to you. Thank you. Thank you, Greg. It's our pleasure. Madeleine McDay, director and actor there, Termin Drama Club. They're all very excited, of course, to be back on stage. I think it's the first one since COVID. So that's good to see. When is that beauty and the beast thing on? My 18-year-old is obsessed with it and it sounds just up her street. Thank you. Oh, it's on Disney. So you can go on to Disney. Whenever you want to watch it. Like we said, whenever you want to watch it and you can get the free trial or sign up, log on to Disney for a while. Someone lost his account. Yeah, dude, I'm fairness. Actually, if anybody knows somebody called Daniella, please let me know because apparently I've given them my Disney passwords. I don't know who they are. For real? For real. I have no idea. It just suddenly popped up and I'm like, who are they? They created an actual user profile. Yes, they did. Can you not go in and see what they're watching and try and profile them? Oh, they like it. I do. It's a mix of things. It's the same kind of stuff that I've been watching. Are you sure you're not sleepwalking? Yes, I do. You know yourself as Daniella at night and you dress in 18th century... That's the best explanation I've had for you. It's the most plausible. Because I have no idea who these people are. Happy New Year to you all. Oh, that's from Madeleine. Thank you. Sorry, that's the piece of the information that was with Madeleine. Slow Horses on Apple. Another one whereby, as I said, I'd be a big advocate if, you know, especially in this day and age, do two months with one of these crews, do two months. You know what I mean? Because there's not enough stuff on any of them individually. I personally don't think, right? Go from Apple. Let's not be brand loyal to these people. Go for Apple, do a bit of Amazon, do a bit of Disney. Do you know what I mean? Switch it around. Allocate yourself. You're $9.99 a month. And by the time you get back to the beginning, you've got a whole new plethora of stuff to watch. If you like the good drama, the Apple seems to be really concentrating on serious drama. They have a lot of, like, you know, detective-y kind of mystery things, but just some really good drama. Great stuff, yeah, I think, yeah. Right, one of them, Slow Horses. But you're right, because one of the lads I share the house with, he switched from Netflix to Amazon. Yeah, exhausted. He's exhausted. He's loving it. And then tried Disney and then tried Apple. Yeah, but he just loves all that. And there's some things that he missed from Netflix that are on Amazon. He's delighted. I think the only one with an identity, up until now, and I want them to correction, because I haven't watched them all, but he does have kind of an identity, doesn't he? I think it has a target. I don't think it's just generally streaming services, some of the others. Yeah, I think... Do you think? Well, because it's actually technically three different radio... sorry, three different television stations in the U.S. I don't think they're still... I don't think they're very good at pushing what I might like to watch. Do you know what I mean? No, they don't really have that. Yeah, they're not great at... like, although in fairness, I don't really think that Netflix is as good as it was in the beginning, whether it was so much content. No, it's not. No. But in the beginning, Netflix used to pop stuff up all the time, and you would like, and outside, you'd like it. It was upsetting to think how much they knew me. But Disney... Or Daniela. It's not great with that. You do have to kind of search Disney a small bit for stuff. They're not great at kind of promoting the stuff that they have on. It always seems to be behind the click. It is, and because of the fact that there's like... I think it's at least four different, because they have their Disney stuff, then they have their Marvel stuff. Star. Then they have Star, which is most of their dramas. You can find Grey's Anatomy and a lot of those kind of shows. Stuff that goes out on ordinary TV in America, like Big Sky and stuff like that. Yeah, they do. They have all that kind of stuff on it. They have all the NCISs, all that, you know... Never come across them. I am going to have to dig in a bit deeper. That's the thing about it is that stuff only kind of comes up if you've watched preview. You know what I mean? Stuff will pop up in it, but it is absolutely massive. The more you dig into Disney... There's a lot of stuff there. There is a lot of stuff there. Because it's got so many different things in it. Disney owned the ABC network, so that's where you have Grey's Anatomy and all those shows. So they have that... Chicago PD and all that. Yeah, they have that... What's the word? I'm looking for catalogue. They have the bad catalogue on all those shows. Okay, let's switch to Apple then. Apple, yes. Slow horse. So make sure if you've got an iPhone and a contract that you're not getting Apple for free and you don't realize it, but go ahead. Because they bundle a lot of these things in. This is an action thriller. A espionage series with Gary Oldman, who has announced recently that he's on The Verge of Retirement. He wants to do a lot of other things. We're on The Verge of Retirement. Well, he has specific plans. It's the only thing we're on The Verge of. So he feels that this is his swan song and he's quite happy to do a few series of this and wrap it all up. This is based on a series of novels by a guy called Mick Hutton, I think, Mick Herron. Mick Herron is his name. He's written eight novels on this series and five novellas. And the TV show has been, and this is what brought me to this TV show, Graham Yost is the guy behind the show. He's the guy behind Justified. He's the guy behind Boomtown, one of the great cop shows of the last 20 years. So once I saw that Graham Yost was doing the show, I was all over this and I'm giving this every episode. I finished season one last night. Every episode is 10 out of 10 for me. It's one of the two best things I'm watching this year and I'm with the bear. So who likes it? What other shows do I like to watch this? 24 is a good one to compare it to. Okay. So basically I'll tell you the story without any major spoilers. It's set in a place called... See, I need a little side hustle. Yeah. You know what I mean? Just bring it in. I need a side hustle to watch. Do you know when I have time tomorrow? Oh, you need some. Well, six episodes. Only six episodes in the season. Slough House is where MI5 agents get sent when they've made a mistake. So one of them, for instance, sent a joke about his boss on the inter-office email. And because of that, that joke, his career is over, basically, and he's shunted off to this place called Slough House. And they make these agents...  So they make them do mundane tasks, like they come in and they say, okay, you have to go through all the parking tickets in Birmingham for 2002 and spot any trends, and they have to spend, like, days doing this kind of stuff. So Gary Oldman is the guy in charge of Slough House. He hates everybody in it. If you think of Gregory House and the way he was always insulting his people, this guy is like to the max. It's like Gregory House to the max 10. It's a really funny series as well. It's really funny. So basically, one of the agents, a guy called Carr Michael, we're invested in him. We can see from the first episode that he actually did make the mistake that he was accused of. Someone else blamed him, and he got shunted off to Slough House. He's been given a very... What are you saying, Slough? Slough, S-L-O-U-G-H. They call it Slough House, yeah. It's a little written here. Okay, go ahead. So basically, what happens is, well, Slough Horses is what they call the guys who work there. They're Slough Horses. They're not good enough to...  His job in the show starts is he has to go through the trash of a right-wing journalist. That's how he starts the show. And it's just... He's not expected to find anything.  And at the same time, a young boy, teenager of a Pakistani background, is kidnapped by a right-wing extremist group. And in 24 hours, they're going to assassinate him. So the whole season is 24 hours.  And our guy has found something in the trash. But no one's going to listen to him, because he's in Slough House. So basically, everybody scrambles through the night. It runs through that evening, through the night. Everything goes... One of the team has killed. The guys have to go on the run. There's traitors in their midst. The villain is one of the best villains. The most manipulative, smart, incredible villain. The story is self-contained, at the end of the six episodes. But the final couple of minutes have two major twists. One of them, I sort of predict it. One of them, I sort of predict it. I'm going to have to wait now to forget what you've just said before I can watch this. And they're setting up season two. They're setting up season two. So season two is already up there. Season three and four have... Oh, right, okay. Yeah, you can watch the 12 episodes. Obviously, in the middle of the two seasons. Yeah, so basically, season one, season two are up there. Season three and season four, I think are either filmed or in the process. Maybe I'll wish you if I've never heard of it. It's highly filmed. Well, a lot of people have said to me that I should watch it. On Latin tomatoes, it has 97% from critics and 93% from you. Wow, okay, that's my next watch. It's slow horses. It's a good thing about Apple, which is that even though we... so many people have Apple phones and would, at some point or another, been given free access to it, people don't seem to be going on to it as much as they should. They should, yeah. Some of the high-quality stuff that they're doing. I'm giving that absolutely 10 out of 10 every week. Brilliant, okay. But it's not even Apple's best show. No, they've used the stuff. I mean, it's not. Ted Lasso or... For All Mankind. For All Mankind. You always loved that one. For All Mankind is the best thing they have. It's amazing. There's loads. That prison one is in it, Dave. What's the one that you like? The one where they put the gun. Like a Flatley's film. No, the... Yes, Blackbird. Yes, that's the one. Not a microphone. Yeah, you remember it. Everybody's always raving about that. That's a great show. They're lately in love. So, Slow Horses. There's Watches. Watches. TV Spencer has an awesome show about like podcasting. You know, she has a podcast and she's like... Yeah, you talked about it before. What's that one called? I don't know. I need to find... It's so long since I've seen it. Show the podcast. This girl, she is a podcaster. And she stumbles upon... And she stumbles upon stories. And it's about the stories then that she tells. I'm definitely going to watch some Slow Horses this week. Oh, you'd love it, yeah. You're excited to stream at your leisure. Greg Madlyn McDait is an amazing woman. This year, she's the director, the ticket organiser, the PRowan actress on top of this. She works full time. Thank you from the cast of I'm the One for You. Again, I was referencing these many individuals that we have, not just in ... Remain. But elsewhere as well. That just do amazing stuff from the community. It's astonishing... Kevin from Dunlowe, Good morning to you. Hi, Greg and TV duo. Down to the last episode of The White Lotus, it's been a set of series. notice it's been a slow but wacky watch, but having watched Jennifer Coolidge at the Globes, she's facing her own Greek tragedy. By the way, Greg, E.T. was 40 years ago too, but thankfully phone lines have improved. I took a second for me to get that. It's must be an awful thing actually making films now with phones. It's a direct reference to that because you always have to give an excuse as to why the phone doesn't work. Because it solves so many problems. Alright, let us take a very quick break. Back with more from Michael and Fanula in a sec. Keep out the cold, cold, cold and ring Fleming for their full range of garage doors, agri doors, insulated doors, milking parlour doors. Fleming, 9148234. Do you suffer from high cholesterol, menopause symptoms, digestive issues, anxiety, aches and pains, or a lack of energy? 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Highland radio weather updates with Ireland West Airport from March 26th Erlingas will operate a daily service to London Heathrow providing onward connections to any plus destinations worldwide. Ireland West Airport, don't just take off, take it easy. OK, we'll get to the more immediate weather in a moment but we want to talk about a weather event or potential weather event that a lot of people out there are talking about. And Alan O'Reilly from Carla Weather Channel joins us now to discuss this. Good morning, Alan. Thanks for your time again this Friday morning. Good morning, Greg. Right, OK, so listen, paper never refuses ink and I'm reading an awful lot of stories about something that's happening now, happened before the east, a beast from the east and that it could be replicated and we could see some extreme weather. So let's break it down. What is happening in our stratosphere now that happened before Beast of the East and the relationship to the weather and all that kind of stuff, Alan? Yeah, so we have what's called a sudden stratospheric warming or just SSW for that mouthful, which basically means that temperatures in the stratosphere are increasing or going to increase in the next week, which creates a different kind of scenario on top of the polar vortex, open the stratosphere. So when the temperature changes dramatically, it can reverse the winds, which is what we call a major sudden stratospheric warming event. In simple terms, things very high up in the atmosphere are going in reverse, are going to go in reverse. Now, the thing about it is that did happen in 2018 and that was followed by the Beast of the East and very cold weather. However, it also happened in 2019 and it was followed by not knowing normal weather. So the first thing is you're not going to see any headlines telling you that this is going to be the same as 2019 when nothing happened. So if you're, you know, because I've got a lot of people messaging me, Greg, we're worried about the heating bills and they're worried about the cost of this to get the RSP bills and their gas bills and fill up the oil tanks after Christmas. The main thing is not to panic, not to worry. There is no guarantee that we're going to see a Beast of the East. In fact, it's probably at least less than 50-50 chance that we'll see cold. I don't even mean Beast of the East, I just mean cold. So it does increase our chances of seeing more blocked, northern kind of colder weather like we saw in December, but it doesn't mean it's going to happen. And even if we do see colder weather with blocked, it doesn't mean it's going to be anything like what we saw in 2018. So for the moment, it's wait and see. It takes about two to three weeks for any impacts if there are any impacts to come down and really see it on our levels. And you make a really good point to, in terms of, you know, weather forecasting or that sensation or weather stuff, which we all kind of love, Alan. It's some of the most clicked stuff on websites and what have you, but it's because it means so much to people now in terms of the cost of living and what have you. I think those newspaper headlines or wherever they are take on a different, you know, importance for people. So when we talk about us, right, is it likely that this event in the stratosphere will create cold weather somewhere? Do you know what it means? Is it that it might not reach us or it might not generate this weather event anywhere at all? It may not reach the stratosphere, which is the area closer to us, which means it won't really have any impact at all. But there are chances, the chances of it having some impact are higher than normal. But even if it does have an impact, you're dead right in terms of that. It could bring very cold weather to parts of say, for example, east of England. You know, we could see the beast from the east come as far as England and not reach us. I mean, this morning it was 10 degrees in many parts of Ireland. It was minus five degrees in parts of central UK. So, you know, we have to be careful as well because I know a lot of, especially, you know, a lot of people looking for weather stories will find stories from the UK and they'll find headlines in the UK and that may not apply to us. So yes, even if we do see an impact on the lower atmosphere, it may not reach us. But really the main thing for now is let's enjoy the next couple of days where it's going to be mainly dry and let's not worry about what's going to happen in two weeks time because if I could tell you that, Greg, I wouldn't be talking to you, I'd be off doing the lottery. You could still talk to us. Come here. Funny you mentioned, you know, weather stories from England being sort of transcribed for us here. We get that in the northwest, weather events in Dublin because they obviously get more attention in the national media and then people presume whatever's about to happen in Dublin is presented as if it will happen everywhere but sure, we know that's simply not the case all the time. Listen, Alan, thanks for your time. Have a great weekend. Cheers, you too, Greg. Take care. Bye-bye. So we may see the chances of extreme cold weather have slightly increased but there's no guarantees because this event in the stratosphere has happened in the past and nothing came from it. All right, there you go. But we have an obsession with the weather. We love talking about the weather, Michael, don't we? Big time, yeah. It's a, it's a comfort area in conversation, you know, it's something you comfortably chat about, you know. Okay. You mentioned, it was unfair you mentioned that you tried the Pamela Anderson documentary but you just weren't involved, is it? Or was it a turn-off? Yeah, I know we talked about it last week and we kind of said naturally you boys didn't bother. We didn't. We talked about it last week and we said we would watch it and talk about it this week but I kind of watched the first beginning of it and I was just... Just weren't it in the zone or just was not really engaging? Look, I suppose it's kind of a story that you already know so it's very much, like, it's getting very good reviews and she's coming across very well and she's getting very positive. Friends of mine two guys who, neither of them would be into Baywatch or into her and watched it and said to me, you'd love it. She comes across as a lovely person in it. This is what it both said to me. To some extent I think even in the show she did come off as a sympath... I don't want to rehash what we said but she did come off quite a sympathetic character I think in the TV show. I watched the first episode of that dog show that you mentioned as well. Oh yeah, it's insane.  The rich dog, the dog who has yachts and things. I mean, it's probably interesting. Didn't you find the Italian... What I don't understand is, and maybe it becomes clear as it goes on, what's someone's millions, what's the name of the dog's millions? Gunther's millions. I'm not clear, people aren't whistleblowing. The organisation seemed very complicit in it in the making of this obviously. It's kind of warts and all as if they've said, right, this has been a secret long and off, let's just throw it out there. You've got the lawyer who's still quite honest. Oh yeah. And then you've got the head guy whose name is Kate Smith at the moment. And it's all like, we thought he needed the yacht. I thought it was all going to be cloaks and daggers, but it's really quite out there.  And then they get rid of it and they move on to the next thing which in turn slowly starts everything towards the direction of becoming a sex cult. And then they stop and they do something else again. Money is so corrupt. Basically that's really what it is. It's not that any of them kind of feel bad about what they're doing or it's not like it's like somebody who's escaped from this life. In the first episode there's a spokesperson who's still the spokesperson. Of course, exactly. And the girl that she speaks negatively of her boss hold on a second, but anyway. Also, there's this bit where the dog, they buy Madonna's mansion and the dog goes over to buy the mansion. And it's just a dog, right?  It was a clone dog or a replacement dog or a stunt dog. But they're the stunt dog. The press were really upset that the dog that was buying the mansion wasn't the actual dog. Anyway, that's how bizarre it is. That's what I mean, go for the dog, stay for the crazy. It's just the bizarreness of it is what will keep you watching. And there is good access and I think the best documentaries have good access to the subject matter or good footage of it. Not for me, he's always the under. But I'll tell you one thing, right? The next documentary maker that knowingly asks questions on camera, but doesn't put a microphone on. You're just going to track them down and give them a good answer. It's just you don't understand what the point is. So many of them do it. You just think it must be something that they're taught in film school. It's 100% that. I don't understand what the reasoning is. It feels like they feel like, oh, I'm a journalist and I just thought it was a good question. I didn't know I was going to ask the question because it just come to me and I didn't have a mic and just put a microphone on. It's just that I can never understand exactly why I had it. Because everything has a reason behind it. Michael, that is gone because he only had two things which I think he's trying to send us a message. So what do you want to pick out here? Because as I say, stuff goes down here and then just want to both talk about the 90 show because you've got it down on this. You've got it down previously. So is it any good? What is the basis of these shows? Basically, if you remember back in the day, the 70 show was out and the 70 show was just all about a group of teenagers. The 70 show came out in the 90s and it was about a group of teenagers in the 70. It was really a sitcom. It was very like friends. It was about this small group of friends. It's where Ashton Kutcher, Mila Kunis, Topal Grace, the redhead one was already something. Laura Preppin, the idea being you watch it and you sort of remember the 70s. That's exactly what it was. What the main character was obsessed with a brand new film called Star Wars and he kept talking about it. And it just was all these and they were sitting around in their basement playing. It was just very nice, really fun. Now, obviously, we had connections to people of our age because we would have been I was younger in the 70s and a teenager, but you still would have memories of stuff like that of things that they were talking about, things that were happening. The parents, Deborah Jo Rupp and Kurt Woods Smith, the parents were fantastic. Red is the best character in the show, the father. What they've done now is they've moved forward and basically two of the characters in the 70s show got married and they had a kid and this is that kid doing the exact same thing. Not so progressed. Staying with her grandfather and grandmother for the summer. Of 1996, isn't it? This is a very funny show. It's every bit as good as the original. That includes a lot of the cast of the original and particularly Kurt Woods Smith as Red who is so good in this and Deborah Jo Rupp is fabulous. And I'm slowly I'm about halfway through the season. I'm warming to the new kids. Warming to the new kids. It's 50-50 on you. We'll arm wrestle it out and decide whether this is a good show or not. Let's do it. I don't want to humiliate you on that. What about edgy journalism, Greg? What about edgy journalism? It's worth checking it. Maybe wrestling in the sports entertainment but it's not journalism. You gave that a lot of thought. It's on Netflix. People can watch it and judge for themselves. But don't. If you back Michael, you do. Listen, thanks so much for joining us. We really appreciate it. Michael, Ledy, Finula, Rabbit back with you all being well next Friday. That's where we have to leave it on the show. Thanks very much for listening to the program and getting involved in it. Thanks to Donna Marie who researched and produced. Have a great weekend. We're back with you on Monday at 9. Stay tuned. John Bresen is coming up around the Northwest. Thank you.


As Brett and this brand new 2022 Ram 2500 Mega Cab Short Box Limited Night Edition is stock number 22T189. I am here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, your new and used heavy-duty truck headquarters. This 2022 Ram 2500 has the 6.7 liter Cummins diesel. It's paired up with the 6-speed 68 RFE automatic transmission, and this truck is really sharp. We're going to go all the way around in it, around it, in it, underneath, check out the air suspension on it, all that good stuff. This one has a max tow rating of 12,240 pounds and has a max payload of 1,700 pounds. Found those on Ram's tow guide website, I'll link that in the description below. So starting off here, you'll notice that you get the painted bumpers, all part of that night edition. The black grille is also part of the night edition. The limited package is going to give you those special LED headlamps, running lights, and fog lights. Note that it does have the front bumper parking sensors, and this one has the 360 camera as well. Being a limited, it's going to be pretty optioned out. You get the cab lights up top, the fender flares. Also note for the night edition, you get the blacked out 2,500 Cummins and Ram logos there. This one comes also with the 20-inch gloss black painted alloy wheels, and it has Firestone Transforce AT tires. These are LT2 8560 R20s, definitely an all-terrain tread pattern to them. And we'll take a look at the original window sticker here. Feel free to pause this, I'm not going to go through everything, but most of it.  Now everything on your left here is your standard equipment, so feel free to pause that. It does have the Uconnect system on it, but here it says you get the, oh that is a 12-inch display, my bad. 31-gallon fuel tank, and then your optional equipment starts with the granite crystal metallic, which is 250. The tow technology group, which gives you the surround view camera and the trailer reverse guidance, is 1,040 bucks. The night edition is 1,545 bucks.  Also the tow hooks, 6.7 liter Cummins diesel is a $9,695 option. This one does have the sunroof for $1,195 clearance lamps, center stop lamp with cargo view, which is 345, engine block heater, which is 95 bucks, automatic leveling rear air suspension, which is 1,705, and adaptive steering system, which is 300 bucks. You do get Rambox delete credit of 490 bucks. Total MSRP on this truck is 94, 455 if you want to get your summit price with all the rebates and incentives on this particular truck, and the upper right-hand part screen is a link to our website to this particular truck. Three-year 36 bumper-to-bumper and five-year 60 powertrain, or I'm sorry, five-year 100,000 powertrain warranty, and then your gas, greenhouse gas and small grains are both bees, so pretty clean truck overall. So first thing to note with the 2,500s is that they normally come with the rear coil springs, but this one has the rear air suspension, so you get those big airbags right there. What happens is your sensor is right there, so when you get a heavy load, it pushes on that sensor, tells the airbag to pump up, and that all happens automatically. Towing package, you get the receiver hitch and seven-pin wiring back here. Now this is a hook-up for cameras, or for the trailer guidance system, so that's pretty cool. You get the limited RAM and 4x4 badges all blacked out, and the LED tail lamps. So it also comes with the spring and bed liner, and the LED bed lights and side box tie-downs. Let's check out that interior, because that is one of the best things about this truck. It does have the heated mirrors, blind spot monitoring, they fold up, they power fold in, and all that good stuff. So the limited package just gives you these really nice, fully leather bucket seats. You get kind of the white stitching on there, you get the gray piping. Really good looking. Both of these seats are heated and cooled, you get the special limited floor mats, and you can take these carpet sections out to make them truly all-weather. They're actually really hard to get out. Power pedals, auto headlamps, wood-grain trim, get the special stitching on the doors, power windows, locks, and mirrors.  And then these mirrors also power fold in. So that's pretty cool, too. We'll get to the front seats and radio and everything in just a second. You do get the second row heated seats on the outboard side.  These seats fold down like so, and you can see that the whole back to the cab, to the back of the cab, is nice and flat. So if you needed to take a nap back here, if you got pets, put both sides down, you got a nice flat place to lay. There's also some storage bins behind there.  It also gives you a kind of a confined storage area back there as well. You do get two USBs, two USB-Cs, heated seat buttons, and a 115-volt 400-watt plug-in. You get the all-weather floor mats back here. Add safety locks on the back doors, and the back doors are trimmed out just like the front doors. You do get the power step bars, hop inside, check out the miles, radio, instrument cluster, all the good stuff. And then we'll check out all those LED lights at the end of the video here. So you can see you get these 7-inch LCD display, digital spinometer compass. You can change those corners to read whatever you want, range to empty. That's a special instrument cluster for the limited package. Which looks really good with all the blue accents. You get the heated, leather-wrapped, and wood-grain-trimmed steering wheel. Cruise controls on the right, gear selector on the right, Bluetooth and information center controls on the left, and audio controls in the back of the steering wheel. I do like kind of the black chrome RAM logo there. Here is the UConnect 5, 12-inch radio. So this is run on Android operating system. You can see it does have Android Auto as well. Of course, it's going to have the factory navigation system. And that's a pretty sweet system because it gives you the whole screen. AM, FM, and Serious Satellite Radio capabilities. You also get USBs, USB Cs, and an AUX jack. Of course, it connects with Bluetooth and Android Auto and Apple CarPlay as well. So you can see you get some auxiliary cameras that you can do. And we're going to have that on so you can check out. So these are all the cameras that we have. So there's your cargo cam. This is my favorite cam on the Ramses. You can see what's going on behind you. You can see what's going on. And you can change that camera to view. So if you're backing up a camper or a trailer, boy, that would be just really handy. And it's actually the one feature I wish my truck had. So there's your backup camera. You can zoom in on that receiver hitch. And there's the surround view camera. So you can see that gives you a visual of what's going on around you. You also have your wide view backup, wide view front, and narrow view front. And then that goes back to those cameras right there. So a lot of cool stuff you can do with this radio, a lot of cool stuff that you can do with those cameras. You also have the factory brake controller, push button, four-wheel drive, your alternate trailer height that's part of that rear airbag suspension. You can program different trailers that are heavier so it automatically knows where to go. Factory exhaust brake, tow mode, front and rear parking sensors, and then you have your wireless cell phone charge pad. You also have a 115 volt 400 watt plug-in, keyless entry with remote start and power drop-down tailgate. Get coin holders and cup holders. You get the limited center console trim there that looks really good, limited on the dash. And like I said before, this one does have power sunroof. And you get speakers in the ceiling, map lights, assist and SOS buttons, and sunroof and sliding rear window controls. Does have the home link buttons for your garage door security systems and lighting systems. And we'll go check out all those lights in the front, and I'll also start it up so you can see here how quiet it is. Cummins are actually really, really quiet compared to what they used to be. You do get the LED side lights there, as well as the LED box lights. Turn those on with the cargo lights. Here are all those LED headlamps and fog lights. They are super bright. What I'm going to do is I'm going to turn all the lights off in the studio. We'll do one more final walk around here. See all those lights are extremely bright. They look really good. Even the tail lights are LEDs. License plate lights, LEDs as well. And just a really good looking truck. Very nicely optioned out. And I would personally like to thank you for checking out the video today. 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This course is titled an Invitation to Mathematics and my objective is to showcase some of the beautiful ideas, concepts and methods of mathematics. The level of the course will be such that a motivated high school student or a lower undergraduate can follow, we will cover a little bit from each of several different topics as you can see from the course outline that is there on the course website. This course is not designed to be an exhaustive course on a single topic rather it is designed to be something where one can get a taste of what is there in various different topics. One other important focus for us will be on trying to understand the interconnections between various parts of mathematics and we will see numerous examples where techniques and ideas from one part play a very important role in trying to understand a problem in a very seemingly very different part of mathematics. Towards the end of the course there will be brief introductions to topics which can serve as exploratory self study projects and I hope that students will be able to pursue these long after the course is over pretty much on their own and I very much hope that you will find this course interesting and enjoyable.