I'm loving it! Welcome back to another session of Domains21. I'm Jim Groom and I have, I'm going back into the well, the CUNY well as they say, and I have a group of folks from the City University of New York Graduate Center here to talk about OER's infrastructure. We've talked with a few groups from CUNY, so it's been a compelling part of this conference, at least for us on Domains21. So welcome all, I'll let you introduce yourself and I will remove myself from the screen. Hi everyone, I'm Matt Gold, Associate Professor of English and Digital Humanities at the CUNY Grad Center and Director of the CUNY Academic Commons and Co-PEI of the Manifold Scholarship Project. Hi everyone, I'm Luke Walzer, I'm Director of the Teaching and Learning Center at the Graduate Center and I teach in the Interactive Technology and Pedagogy Certificate Program and the MA program in Digital Humanities and work with Matt on the CUNY Academic Commons as Director of Community Projects. Hi everybody, I'm Laurie Herson, I'm an open educational technologist in the Teaching and Learning Center. Hi everyone, I'm Robin Miller, I'm an open educational technologist in the GC Digital Initiatives. So thanks so much Jim for having us on the air here. You know we're really excited to talk about OER at CUNY. For those of you who don't know, the City University of New York is an incredibly large urban public university located in New York City. It has 25 campuses, it has an incredibly diverse student body and it has been supported in its creation of OER in recent years by the State of New York which has contributed funding that has allowed the Office of Library Services at CUNY led by Anne Fiddler and Andy McGinney. McGinney to foster a set of initiatives across the system that have really enabled us to promote not just open education but open platforms and I think one of the things that this group, Luke and Laurie, Robin and I and also our colleague Wendy Borellis who unfortunately couldn't make the session today have been working on is thinking about OER infrastructure and the particular role that CUNY can play in creating open platforms for teaching and learning and the publishing of scholarship and we've done that with the CUNY Academic Commons which is going on 10 years of existence, has almost 30,000 members and Manifold which is a newer digital publishing project and which is being used across CUNY to publish a range of open educational resources. I've been really lucky to collaborate with Laurie and Robin and Luke on this project which has really enabled us to support open education across the entire system. So I can say a bit about our strategy in establishing this the structure for supporting open infrastructure throughout CUNY. When investments came in from New York State into CUNY and SUNY starting about three years ago to facilitate the development of open educational resources they I think smartly prioritized the transition of high cost textbook courses, textbook driven courses into zero textbook cost courses. They're really attempting to save undergraduate students money on the books that they would have to read to participate in their coursework. We at that point didn't know how long these investments would would last within CUNY and because of how the Graduate Center is positioned on a consortium model where our faculty come from all of the CUNY campuses and our students teach at the majority of the CUNY campuses we are very much connected and a connecting node for the entire university. We had the privilege and the opportunity to think about infrastructure at the level of the system and what would be necessary to sustain the investments that were coming in from New York State over time right and not necessarily to be drawn into a semester by semester representation of the impact that we're having but really to build something that we think could foster more critical approaches to teaching and learning with technology that are at the heart of the open movement and we're able to build upon platforms manifold and the commons that were already in existence and really deepen their embeddedness within the infrastructure that people use for teaching learning and scholarship throughout the university. So to do this we were able to to bring on open educational technologists to support these projects full time. Lori Herson joined us in 2017 in this role. Krisha Michael who's now a professor at Hostos Community College joined us and when Krisha left Robin joined us. So we've been able to work on a variety of initiatives to support faculty and graduate students who are building out their work on these platforms and then to take what we learn from supporting them back into the development of those platforms right. Their open source platforms we oversee their development and there's lots to learn from how they're used within the field. So maybe Lori you can tell us a little bit about what that looks like on the commons and how it's evolved over the past few years. Sure so I'm going to share my screen and walk you through a couple pages on the commons that can kind of show the development of how the commons has increasingly supported open teaching over time. Okay so the CUNY academic commons was primarily used developed to support teaching and collaboration across CUNY but in the spring of 2017, wrong one, a lot of tabs here, in the spring of 2017 we hosted a faculty fellows program to explore different ways that the commons might support undergraduate teaching and from that over time the commons releases new versions and new updates twice a year in the spring and in the fall and so in after hosting several faculty fellowship programs spring of 2017 we also hope hosted OER faculty fellowship program in the spring of 2018 and from that came several you know developments on the commons that we increased the platform to better support teaching and learning. So we redeveloped the sort of creation portal which walked commons users through how to develop a group or a site on the commons and this better supported teaching because previously folks were not hosting undergraduate courses on the commons but once we kind of clarified how you start creating on the commons you can have a group, you can have a site, you can have a connected group site and these are the sorts of things that help us host courses and so once folks were hosting courses on the commons we developed the courses directory which is a big move for the commons because it really showcases and surfaces all the courses that are running on the commons and when you look through the courses directory you can search by campus and semester and disciplinary cluster and that has developed over time at first the courses directory was sort of just a listing of courses and now we're able to better filter helping faculty and students find their courses on the commons and you can kind of scroll through and see that over time the commons has now hosted over 1200 courses across CUNY in all sorts of disciplinary clusters, humanities, the sciences, social sciences and they're all filterable through here and with the development of like OER use throughout the commons we also were trying to support courses that are primarily using open educational resources to to to run the class and so we I'm just going to show you a course right now that was developed out of Brooklyn College as part of their OER fellowship program this language loss culture politics and the self and so on these on these sites there if it's a completely open site anyone can go see the sorts of open educational resources that are being used the sort of units and the way that the site has been developed and you can click into all these places and see see the the content that's being shared there and there's also a lot of student work happening on the commons I want to just jump over to another completely public course which was a linguistic landscapes course that was run at LaGuardia Community College where students actually did an oral history of a neighborhood so they developed they you know explored neighborhoods across New York City this was pre-pandemic but it was a completely open course where they produced audio and oral histories they produced gifs and all this work was shared publicly through this common site so this is kind of an example we have this language loss course which is using open materials which is one way to do open on the commons to doing completely open and public projects on the on the site and so courses can be you know there's various privacy settings so a course could have a private site so you might be running an open course on this open platform but you only want it available to your students and then you can go you can even have a public site so there's different levels of privacy that you can have on the commons as well yeah so there's courses running on the commons but I also want to point out a couple other things where the commons is not just hosting courses it's also actually hosting open educational resources themselves so one project that we did at the TLC where I work with Luke is we are releasing all of our workshop content openly we've categorized them and each and each of these workshops is available here and then they can be used by anyone across CUNY anyone doing any sort of faculty development in higher ed and you can click in and see these workshops and this is happening throughout CUNY this is another example of an OER kind of resource that's hosted on the commons where folks from LaGuardia are collecting natural science OERs and sharing them with folks at LaGuardia but also across across CUNY for anyone who might be trying to teach an open science course so in that way the commons is kind of hosting both open courses and hosting you know OERs themselves and one thing I would just you know add on to what Laurie has said is that you really see the kind of the power of building openly at CUNY in those examples that you know we have so many different campuses you know from graduate and professional schools to senior colleges to community colleges located in you know all the five boroughs of New York City and when you have faculty working with students not just to teach online but to use the course as a way to generate open resources that becomes really powerful because and then the commons as the content accretes over time as more and more people build openly we've really been able to develop a feeling and a sense of community in the space which is why we've been able to keep the project going for so long. So Manifold is another fantastic project that we have at CUNY where we provide a digital publishing platform for anyone within the CUNY community to build OER to use it as a way to bring public domain texts into the classroom which helps students by bringing textbook costs down to nothing as part of our zero textbook cost initiative within CUNY. We've had a lot of amazing projects that have come out especially over the past year and with the pandemic as instructors have kind of struggled with student engagement and working everything over Zoom but we've had just some really great things that have been happening on the Manifold platform from this one great books that has been done at Queensborough Community College which is a brand new project fabulous bringing in public domain texts that can be used across the CUNY system. We also have had a lot of coursework projects that are put on to Manifold so we have instructors that working with their students building content that is you know openly available for anyone to read and to use within their courses or just to enjoy themselves if they'd like to read it. There's a few of these here you can see I wake up counting this is a guide for teaching and learning and humanities and social sciences. Part of the Haystack group produced this along with the Graduate Center and the Futures Initiative. One of the things about Manifold I'll say because I got to see it in another talk that you can see here at Domains 21 but the fact points to Robin the way in which you all have built another infrastructural piece to build community around particular texts and it's the idea of the text as the building block of community whereas Lori you did a brilliant job showing the whole idea of you know what we've known the CUNY Commons for as websites as a space that is open educational resources I mean that's been that case since the mid 90s and like you're balancing these by not just saying oh websites or die but introducing new applications as well and have a diversified infrastructure for your community to use is a really like unique and I think part of that uniqueness Matt you kind of alluded to earlier was saying that you guys have been playing the long game you know and I mean that like this has been going on CUNY for a long time and that is starting to pay off in some powerful ways as we're starting to say and Matt maybe that's a point of contention so I'll let you all talk about that but that's how I'm seeing it from the outside is that fair well I mean I think so many of us are at CUNY and believe in CUNY because of its mission of serving you know like the children of the whole people of the city of New York it's kind of got this idea of openness and equity that is built into the institution or you know which is not to say it's not problematic because there are multiple ways in which is problematic but you know in all of its kind of messiness in all of its diversity CUNY is sort of open in its in its kind of instantiation from you know open admissions in the in the past to just this this mission of serving the entire city and so you know we've been able luckily I think in some ways kind of in the margins to build out these spaces and I think it's a credit to you know the teams that we have the people that we have people like Luke who really you know see this as a kind of strategic move to build out this this infrastructure over time and the amazing thing at CUNY is that you know first of all we prioritize community like a lot of our projects begin with a really rich and well thought out articulation of what community is and how we can connect to people and then once you start opening these platforms and encouraging students and faculty to use it I mean they just they they are so much amazing content being created because the the the people the the students and the faculty do do such incredible work here I like to add to that by you know just emphasizing the point of of community that emerges around these platforms and the tagline for the commons and it has been since it was launched is what will you build and I think it's really important at this conference and in other spaces for us to to critically consider the ends that we seek with openness right it's great to save students money on textbooks that's a really valuable pursuit right it's great to have open access publications and to let knowledge be free these are positive things we but we feel also that a lot is asked of openness and I'd like to thank one of my students Joe Thompson who's an open educational resources librarian at CUNY and adjunct who wrote a blog post about this just this week in our ITP course that I'll that I'll share I think it just does a wonderful a wonderful job of of raising this question right because we are very much in a conflict over the future of the university system we've been everyone knows we've been fighting austerity for a generation and and this team and the work that we do in our our comrades at the open lab at city tech and at BMCC and in other spaces throughout CUNY very much see open infrastructure as the space from which we can think and organize our response to proprietary incursions on the work that we do in the university and we're frankly we can fight for the soul of the university in the future of the university it allows us to exert more influence over the the labor dynamics and the intellectual property dynamics of the work that happens and not to cede those questions to the administrative spaces that are disconnected from the the core ethos of the university which which Matt laid out so we very much see this open infrastructure as a necessary precondition for the work that that we want to do right openness is a valuable end in and of itself but openness itself is not going to transform the university and and these platforms have allowed us to bring new populations new disciplines new learners and thinkers into that conversation with us and it is a long game it takes a long time for you to build community and for that community to develop trust and ways of ways of working and you know i'm just really appreciative of of Matt's leadership on this at the commons since you know late almost 15 years he's been working on this stuff from from the perspective of the commons and it takes that kind of persistence commitment and vision to break us out of the semester by semester cycles of reporting an impact demonstration that you know open investments often require to justify themselves and ramp big fan thank you all very much thank you


Hi, and welcome to a session where we discuss the following question. The question says, prove that integral of sin x minus cos x by 1 plus sin x cos x from 0 to pi by 2 is equal to 0. Let's now begin with the solution. Let i is equal to integral of sin x minus cos x by 1 plus sin x cos x from 0 to pi by 2. We know that integral of fx from 0 to a is equal to integral of f a minus x from 0 to a. Now by using this property, we get i as integral of sin pi by 2 minus x. Now here a is equal to pi by 2 minus cos pi by 2 minus x by 1 plus sin pi by 2 minus x into cos pi by 2 minus x from 0 to pi by 2. Now this is equal to integral of sin pi by 2 minus x is cos x minus cos pi by 2 minus x is sin x by 1 plus cos x into sin x from 0 to pi by 2. Let's name this equation as equation number 1 and this as 2. On adding 1 and 2, we get plus i equals to 0 pi by 2 integral sin x minus cos x by 1 plus sin x cos x plus integral of cos x minus sin x by 1 plus cos x sin x from 0 to pi by 2. And this is equal to integral of sin x minus cos x plus cos x minus sin x by 1 plus sin x cos x from 0 to pi by 2. This is equal to integral of 0 with respect to x is 0. Now here the lower limit is 0 and upper limit is pi by 2 so this is equal to 0. This implies i is equal to 0. Hence we prove that integral of sin x minus cos x by 1 plus sin x cos x from 0 to pi by 2 is 0. So this completes the session by intake care.


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y bore me. They don't care about the people in the present day. I just wanna go back and see Ben time traveling and find him like the same sort of thing Sam Beckett used to be in, like he's in a boxing ring and someone's punching him and he doesn't know what's going on. But it turns out he has to save his brother and blah blah blah and they're good stories but I'm bored by the present day. So I'm giving it a sort of a six because I wish there was more of the time travel. So if you're saying to someone that listens to this and they go, well, I might give that a go. Would you say, do you know what? Go to the first episode of the original Quantum Lean. It might be not in a 16-9 ratio and it might not be in full HD. But if you like the concept, what's the original maybe? And it's on, it's on every day on. Is it sky something? They have it on, it's on. They're in season two or three at the moment. I was checking it up. Another thing about the new American version is the ratings are not great. The show that it replaced from last season, which was canceled after 13 weeks, it's getting slightly lower ratings. So that bodes not well for it to last beyond 13 episodes. But I'm gonna stick with it for the 13 because it's Quantum Leap. And one thing I'll definitely say about the new show, it's not a bad show. I just wish that they had exclusivity focused on the past.  If you had never watched the original, would you be raving about this? But I mean... That's a really good question. The answer is, because I like time travel anyway, Doctor Who, coming up soon, because I like time travel shows, I probably would feel the same. I don't want to see those two words on any of these sheets of paper any time soon. Oh, but I would say I'd still be bored by all the stuff. I like, if you're telling the story... But they're probably saying, how can we make this different? Now, I haven't seen it, but say, well, what about if, you know, it was a wee bit coordinate? Like, in other words, can they direct where he goes or...? The original one did occasionally go back to... Very seldom, yeah, very seldom. But I would have taught with this one, they wouldn't have needed to do anything to make the story better, because the original one was made, like, I'm going to say graphics, but I don't mean graphics, like, you know, the way they could do this... Yeah, especially... Like, how they could bring him back, you know, because they always brought him back to a moment in history. Yes. How often in the episodes did he look in the mirror and they did that, you know... Oh, at the start of every episode. I had to do it, I had to do it in every episode. I had to see his reflection in the beginning of every episode, because he could be a woman or a man, or he could be any race or anything like that. And the new show was doing the same, like... Yeah, yeah. Some big things in it. Well, somebody said to me, a friend of mine said on Facebook, or they had posted rather that it was woke before anything was woke, because it had... Woke is actually a word, a commonly used word, now that's completely missed. Yeah, probably, yeah. But it was a show that was aware, it was socially aware, it was a show that was very much... But you know what's the problem with the... In the last 20 years, much as I love CSI, the impact of CSI on television has been that so many shows that don't need to have an extended supporting cast are given.  Actor seeks coal of actors. Well, now they have to do... Sometimes I feel like they're looking for places to stick in diversity. Yes. And you're like, I fully appreciate what you want to have. We need that, we want to have diversity, but don't be creating places to drop them and say, oh my God, this is great. Yeah. Oh, I know, and I can understand why, I was listening to a bit of radio during the week, and I don't want to phrase it, because I don't want to phrase it incorrectly, but that was being heralded and celebrated, something close to what you're saying, and it was three white people sitting around going, this is great, do you know what I mean? And I think it was tone deaf really, but anyway. Okay, I can imagine. Yeah, I mean, we all want to see diversity. Of course we do. But there's no point in just dropping a character in for absolutely no reason. That's exactly. Or having a character there that's a completely edge, like on the edge of things, and then suddenly we end up in the middle of an episode, in the middle of nowhere, the series, having a 10 minute conversation about their sexuality, just so that we know that there's somebody there. Well, there's two obvious examples and one show that I, two shows that I watch, Star Trek Discovery does this terribly, and the Orville is so good. It's so good, it nails. I missed the Orville, I really enjoyed that. The Orville does it authentically, and it never feels like it's contrived. It feels like they actually have a point to make, whereas Star Trek Discovery is just like, we put this character in and we'll be able to do scenes about this thing. Dahmer's not in any of your lists either. Another big Netflix show, I know you have a lot to watch. Everybody's watching it. I missed the name of Dahmer. It's a 10-part, 10-part on Jeff, but it's not about him, it's about his victims, and I know that's great. It's getting quite a backlash about inaccuracies, do you see that? What's your backlash? What can it be? And we've seen so much stuff. I mean, we had the actual tapes, Netflix is obsessed with them. They have like the tapes of his actual interviews when he was arrested. There was another three-parter about how he was arrested and caught and the police officers. Then there was another thing about him being interviewed, like in the man-hunt type situation, you're like, in fairness, what's this man doing? It was horrendous, and they've made this kind of a, I just know it's a lot of people. There must be an audience there. There is, but you see the thing, the thing is is- All of my daughter's friends are all watching it because they just can't believe that it's true, and I'm like- But my son said to me, my son said to me, because I didn't realize, you know, when you don't realize your age, I think this happened in the late 90s, wasn't it? Early 90s, sorry. And he says, Dad, do you remember, what was the reaction to this story at the time? And I think, wow, I was actually of an age that I didn't even know about it and never heard about it. Maybe I wasn't watching or consuming news, but I don't really remember being- We weren't watching the BBC the way we watch it now or watching the news. The news wasn't as worldwide. I do remember him watching him on the actual news, being brought out, and I remember knowing about it I remember knowing about it, yeah. The thing I feel bad about it, it is, it's horrific, right? Horrific. But the focus is on the victims and the victims' experiences, okay? And to some extent, like, I like the sort of investigative stuff, getting caught and all that kind of stuff, and maybe I'm being a bit dispassionate here, but it goes on an awful, it goes on for a long time. I know it's- Well, I agree with you. I know what you mean. I also like investigative shows, and it does sound like, it almost sounds like they're just dwelling on the misery, is that kind of what they're doing? Yeah, well, maybe they might argue they're giving the victims a voice and giving the police a slap for ignoring the signs, and also maybe speaking out for the African-American community a little bit who would justifiably feel somewhat, you know, agreed by the investigation. But I just, I don't know, I just, I watched it and I watched it to the end, but I was glad it was over, do you know that sort of way? Mm-hmm. But anyway. Most people that have said to me that I've watched it, they're like, because I'm very full of lovely light and fluffy TV programs that I watch, and I keep getting texts, I've just finished Amher. What am I watching? Give me something that just cleanses the mind. Focus, focus, please. Exactly. But not if you've got scary children. Yeah, scary children. How is Evan Peters? I bet he's brilliant, the lead. He's- I don't know. He's a good actor. You see, if you watch a lot of the stuff about Dahmer, right, there was certain times he spoke the way the lead actor does, but the rest of the time he didn't always speak like that. Do you know what I mean? There was quite some variation in his character. He quite often didn't wear the glasses that, well, particularly in the court case, he didn't wear the glasses. But I just thought he got a impression of him and stuck through it all. Stuck through it all. Yeah. There is no variation in him at all. Right. Even in his, even during his horrible acts to when he's pretending to be happy, to when he's feeling- It's the same. But obviously- And apparently he was an extremely charming, attractive, you know, very attractive to people when people met him, even though he was, I didn't have a lot of close friends and stuff like that. Obviously, these type of people don't. But like, that's why, do you remember, they did one before and they put, I think it was Zac Efron or somebody in there, this like beautiful person playing him. Another Netflix one that they did. But apparently that was the thing with him, that even when everything was going on, even when they were digging up the pipes and doing everything, all the neighbors were like, no way, absolutely, no way. And then of course you had a huge fan base as a lot of these people do. Oh God, the ladies, oh yeah, the ladies are- Yeah, right. So would I recommend it? Akola wants to know really what they want as a mug. Would I recommend it? The answer to that would be yes, but would I recommend it to me? And the answer to that would be no. Because- That's deep. Yeah, you know, it is disturbing and you do get the horror of what his victims must have went through, but so yeah. Okay, I'm saying yes, I'd recommend it. Yeah, that's a good recommendation. Right, Lou was very good and I thought she was very kick-ass. Okay, yeah, I'm very conscious that sometimes my mood changes how I- Yeah, but we're all, no, I think we're all, like I'm very much like at a certain time, like later on in the night, I've said before I just prefer something light, like a Starsky and Hutch is my go-to. I don't want a heavy thing, the mood does affect. I can't explain why I feel the way I do without sort of giving it away. She, and there's a journey there as well, which I can't give away and that's done quite well. I just think she could have just been more brutally kick-ass, but anyway, Greg, I'm watching Star Wars and or at the moment on Disney Plus, just wondering if any of you've seen it, not only have I not seen it, I've never heard of it. Well, I'm well aware of its existence, but I- Oh, that's good. Yeah, but beyond that. Michael is aware of its existence. But I haven't watched any of the Star Wars TV shows and I don't see myself doing that anytime soon. Over to you, Finula. No, it lost me as well. I do love a bit of outer space. But in the past, would any sort of Star Wars film or program not have been massive that everybody's talking about? Oh, no, there's loads of them now. There's loads of them. Yeah, the thing about Star Wars is, and I think for an awful lot of your common fans, they kind of shot themselves in the foot. When he went back and he started doing the prequels, there was a cup of them, and then he went from the prequels to going back into the future again, and then he went somewhere in the middle, and then he went, and I just got, I was like, I don't know where Rogue sits. I don't know where, there was another one that came out. I've never seen that one. Someone read it and said, yeah. Then I spent an hour with my brother-in-law while he tried to explain it to me in fast detail. And I went, and I'm out. I'm still- I know some hardcore fans as well. And I haven't spoken to him since. Yeah. That's great. They've lost a lot of the periphery kind of people that work. They've lost me. Andor is getting good reviews, but it's not, I know that in the streaming charts in America last week, the number one show deservedly is She-Hulk. And I know that Andor is like number four. How do they say that to you? It's four. That's two and three. I think the Lord of the Rings one is two or three, and I think Dahmer was two or three. So I think it was like Hulk, Dahmer, Lord of the Rings, and then it was Star Wars Andor. Oh, don't. Oh, okay. But Disney- Texting numbers between one and 10. And you could win them all. You could win them all. Randomly, if you can answer it. So it's getting good reviews, but it's not the biggest thing on TV. And I don't think, I think they've saturated the market. How much would you say, sorry, go on for another one. No, no, the thing is that it's very difficult to jump in to their things. I find anyways, it's like they did Boba Fests and they've done all those, you know, they've done a few of them there. But like, if I don't know who that character already is. Yeah, I got you. You know, a lot of the characters. But I don't think then you're very loyal because if we talk about the Marvel stuff, isn't it Marvel? Yes, Marvel. You know, you could be your brother or was it your brother-in-law? Oh, God. And could describe every character. Oh, yeah. I mean, you guys talk about characters that are being just dropped. Yes. Four years away. Do you know what I mean? So I suppose it depends on which. Yeah, I'm passionate about Marvel and I'm passionate about Star Trek. And I watch all the Star Tricks. Star Wars Space. Yeah, Star Wars just isn't for me. Right. Let me see here. What was I going to say? Oh yeah, very briefly before we take a break. How much would you say Blackbird made in the British cinema since last week? Well, you had looked. Michael Flatley's film, do you know? Fadoula had, you had looked it up at the start and it was like two, two and a half million. Yeah, but how much did it get made last week? Did it have a big start? Probably half of it. It's probably dwindling. I took over a hundred grand. I think that's all right. That is all right. I was phrased in the report I was listening to as it was bombed. No. I think at this stage. But you're sorry for, it's been after a week. That's what I'm saying. I was wondering what you guys thought because you should be more cinema focused than I am. I thought, why? I did another hundred grand last week. That's all right. You thought it was pretty important. I mean, it's six or seven weeks out. He's definitely made by his, it wasn't a three million we saw at the budge. Not that he cares.  They're not doing it off the back of pulse. I'm still putting the word out. I'm still putting this on response.  I tell everybody this, don't see it. And in the cinema as well, because I think you cannot be distracted by going to make a cup of tea. I'm crossing my fingers for Blackbird 2. That's definitely happening. We'll get you a glass of water or something. Okay, we'll be back with more from Michael and Fanuda after the break. The Ninetal Noon Show with latter Kenny Credit Union. Do you need to switch your current account or loan? 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Congratulations on getting this gig and getting through the first round. Oh, thank you. How did you get in? Well, tell us, when did you leave Castle Finn and was it to pursue your career as a hairstylist? Was it...? So, I moved to London maybe 11 years ago, Greg, and I was to do hairdressing. I was in Dublin prior to that, but I was studying at university, and then I came over to London then to start hairdressing. And what's it like being involved in this show? It was a great experience, like I'm a lifelong friend. It was quite challenging at times, but overall it was quite a fun experience. And this is about a group of you, I think, 11 in total. And you are... Is it like, you know, the great bake-off, but you're doing hairstyles instead of cakes or something like that? Is it always like that? Yeah, literally, it was like the bake-off, but just watch out the cakes for a hairdressing and hair. Very good. And what was your first... Can you describe your first hairdo that got you through the first round? So the first...  You don't have a great deal to work with. So they gave us a brief for our first week, and it was like we had to use a prominent item in our lives that was a reflection of us and they showcased our work. And so the first one didn't quite go the plan as much as I thought because we were still kind of trying to... The whole cast was trying to understand actually the whole layout of the show and what was going on in the production team. But it was basically like my... I used the reference from Alopecia, having Alopecia, and I tried to create this kind of quite conceptual, avant-garde, abstract hair. It didn't actually go the plan, but yeah, that was my original idea for the first week. And how... And I mean, we can talk a bit about how important... I don't think my partner's a hairdresser, so I understand how important hair is to people and I don't think... For those who it's not important to, they don't get it necessarily, do you know what I mean? But I think hairdressers and hairstylists certainly do. But then with your experience as a young person, with you having Alopecia for two years, was it important to you to try and incorporate that element of view into of all things hairstyling? Yeah, well, I thought like... Definitely, I was a great opportunity for me to be able to showcase that on such a white platform. And I thought like, now's the time when they asked us, when they give us this brief initially, I thought that it's fitted so well because obviously I'm a hairdresser. I had Alopecia, the two of them go hand in hand and just to kind of shine some light on it because obviously even a lot of hairdressers don't know a lot about Alopecia, so I thought it was like a great platform that I actually could bring that to light and talk about it and then use that as my theme for the initial episode. Yeah, exactly. And the more people have that conversation in public, it's more relatable to different groups of people. I mean, if I'm thinking about who's spoken out about Alopecia publicly in Britain in the past, you know what I mean? It's often females or people that are older or what have you and you sort of are going to be more relatable to a different cohort of people and the more that do that, there's a great... There's a great comfort or support for people with Alopecia if it's more relatable, I think. Yeah, true, because obviously I see Alec and me lots of clients every day and see lots of heads of hair. And I didn't even have a lot of knowledge on it or any of me having it.   So has it all been recorded yet, Raymond? I'm not going to entice you into giving anything away because that would spoil the fun for everyone. But are you still recording or is it all in the bag now and we just have to watch and wait and see? Yeah, it's all been recorded. It's all done and dusted with. So we filmed it all early this year. So you can watch it all now every Monday night. I have a few questions, I would like trick questions like, you know, how many hairstyles did you do or I'm not going to be like that. So it's on Monday night and E4 and then probably different times every other day on E4 as well, because you know, they tend to rerun things. And I'm presumed it's on all four as well. Yeah, it'll be on all four then. All four, sorry. Like you can watch it on catch up and stuff like that. All right, do you get home often, Raymond? I probably get home maybe a few times a year, maybe sometimes somewhere in the back of Christmas time again. Lovely, and you're loving life over there. Yes, great life. It's a busy life, but all good. Yeah, you like that. All right, good stuff. Well done, Raymond. Keep flying the flag for Donagall. Take care of yourself. All right, thanks, Raymond. The contestants on the big blowout. Unfortunately for Nula, they do not cut through there at some point and you have to guess whether or not it's a cake. But listen, like every time I try and take the you know what from you, it ends up being probably a decent idea for a program. That sounds like a great idea for sure. Yeah, I was going to say pitch that. Pitch that immediately. I'm fair enough. There's a news cake on coming to Netflix as well. I can't wait. I watched all the Marvel series with my teenage daughter. We both gave up on She-Hulk after two pitiful episodes, which I think is a sort of where for Nula's... I'm stuck with it now and it has improved a little bit, but I am losing you completely. I love it. I love it. 10 out of 10 for me. I love it. And as the top TV program at the moment. Number one, streaming show.  It doesn't make it really very, very good. We can have a fax and opinion type conversation. That's deep. You know what? That's deep. It's quite true just because there's a mass point. Look, there's loads of people like me that just watch it because I could never not finish... A Marvel show. A Marvel show because... The big excitement for Marvel Heads is We're Wolf by Night this weekend. It's a one-off. It's getting rave reviews. Of course, just because reviewers say it's good doesn't mean it is good, Greg. We know that deep. But no, the reviews for this are amazing because I am counting the hours until I watch We're Wolf by Night. Right, okay. That's coming out. I'm surprised they didn't hold off for another week or two. Are we going to review Daniel O'Donnell's horror flick? I know. Didn't know it was coming out. Didn't know it was coming out. No, apparently they were shooting scenes on the streets of Dunlowe and there's a... For a video? Is it like another video? No, well, I don't know. He's worked with the same people who worked on the La Di Da. Oh, that was great. Wow, it must be a video. I don't know if it's a short feature or music video. That video is fantastic. So presumably the bar is... There's a lot of expectations around this one. Whatever it is, whether it's a short or it must be a video. Well, he does nothing that's not done well and professionally. Agreed. And what I was like about him is he doesn't mind kind of taking the mick of his persona. You know that sort of way. Which is always entertaining. He will defy the critics once again. You can be sure of that. Right, okay. What should we talk about next on your list? What about something on terrestrial TV? This England on Channel 4. Kenneth Branagh. Well, I started watching it because I haven't really been watching much this week and I said, oh, God, I better watch something. Always a good reason. I know, I know. I'm deep in my mills and booms at the moment. So I started watching this thing and I've kind of gone off Kenneth Branagh a little bit so I was reluctant to get involved in it. A lot of people kept saying, oh, I'm going to watch it because Kenneth Branagh is in it. He's done those two movies that he did for, I can't remember whether it was Disney or for the other one, but it was, you know, like Death on the Nile, the two Agatha Christie's that he did, The Orient Express and Death on the Nile. He upset me with Belfast because I really thought it was going to be awesome and there was a lot of bits and pieces that didn't work. That didn't work for me, much as people love it. So I was kind of, oh, God, Kenneth Branagh now doing this. But actually, he's not around to set it. Kenneth Branagh plays Boris Johnson in it. Oh, that's what this is. I just saw the trails for it, okay. Yeah. So this is Kenneth Branagh playing Boris Johnson. It starts in, like, probably November, December of 2019 when he gets elected as the leader and then they try to oust him shortly afterwards and then they call for the general election. He wins the general election. So Kenneth covers all that in which would have been sort of late 2019 if I'm thinking correctly. It's very much then, moves then swiftly into 2020 and he's like, oh, 2020 is going to be our year. Let's get Brexit done and all this type of stuff. And they're moving away, tipping away nicely at their Brexit thinking their lives could not be better. Dominic Cummins is walking around like a man who's won and it's all about them, all the whole thing and then all of a sudden, just kind of in the background, you can hear some of the staffers suddenly start going, what's the story with this virus that's going on there in China? Is this something we need to worry about? And then it just goes right kind of suddenly after the first episode, you're in the middle of the virus. It is done in a very unusual kind of a way because I expected this to be like, after Brexit the Channel 4 did one as well. And again, I only mentioned that because of the lead guy because it was Benedict Cumberbatch that ended up playing Dominic Cummins in it. But in this, in that, that was all just kind of very much acted and it was very much in, if anybody ever watched, BBC did a thing like the Olympics and they did, I think it used to be called CW4 or something like that, which is some area in London. And it was very much in that kind of a style. This is done completely differently.  Nobody'd walk that thing. But do you know how it's very recent history and even as you're talking, you almost remember the press conferences and then playing this down and that down. Yeah. And it's a lot of behind the scenes stuff as well. There were so many leaks from number 10 at that time and then we had Cummings speaking publicly and sort of outlining what was going on at that time. What does a dramatisation of this bring to it? Is it just the fact that it kind of presents what we know? If this... Well, the thing what they've done with this which is different is they also have different, different characters because it's supposed to be done like as if it's a documentary type of thing. Okay, interesting. But they have like a nursing home that they go to. They have two or three hospitals and they have some hospital staff. They have people who've actually just general people on the street who contacted COVID. They show their families and they're in their houses and they're afraid to leave their houses or trying to get to the GP and the GP wouldn't take you unless you had an appointment prior to that and people thinking, oh no, I'll be grand, I'll be grand and then suddenly being so ill and they talk about when they tried to... they built a nightingale hospital in the... which I couldn't remember whether they actually ended up using it or not. I don't believe they did. But it's a lot... So that's what I'm saying about it which made it different is instead of it just being like a yes minister type thing or whatever, just concentrating on the whole... Is it all dramatised or is there a mixture of...? No, it's all dramatised except then for bits of it which is the only bits I don't like about it which is they start going into... like when he's asleep he's suddenly dreaming about stuff and it's like flashes of... The thing about it is it definitely had an agenda, right? Now, not a fan of ours as I'd say that hands up straight out but this definitely had an agenda of not being a fan of ours. And how does Cummings come out of it then? Oh, Cummings comes out of it terrible. He's bullying everybody. He's firing them for any priests. They just did now where his wife got sick and he drove down to Dover or wherever he went that time in the car. But look, I started watching this and I was like, oh, I wouldn't watch this. It's too close to it. And now I'm four into it. And there's only six in it. And it is heart-wrenching to watch just when they do general... the general members of the public. You see people working in nursing homes having to leave their kids all kind of clubbing in together. They're the only people there to hold hands with the other. I definitely think this is worth it. Had this been done closer to COVID or had it come out around that time there may be a lynch mob outside number 10. I think it would be detrimental to the Conservative Party. They've ever been hoping there isn't going to be an election in my opinion after this. There are chances of re-elections if that vote's already selling. But if you are somebody who was personally impacted by COVID this is a tough watch. And I'm just going to give people their heads up with that. It does delve into a lot of loss. It does into that idea of people not being able to be with their loved ones. Things like that that happen. If you don't think that COVID was a real thing keep this a watch and see how you collect the other side of it. People have opinions on lots of different sides. I didn't get that from the promos for it interestingly. Just thought it was Branagh doing a... 100% and actually he's not in it as much as you think. That's why I kind of watch this. There's a lot more to it than there was with the Brexit one which was very much just how do we do it. But when you see them sitting around in the middle of all this crisis trying to come up with the catchphrase that's really going to work that's going to make it sound... If you were somebody that's actually lost somebody I can only imagine and then bits of it is just heartbreaking. And you know what? You don't have to necessarily go to Britain to see stuff that went on too. No absolutely. I'm sure if they did it for the Irish government we'd all be... There'd be a lot of similar conversations. Yeah for sure. Well done Raymond from Ann and Paddy Foy. All of Castle Finn must be so proud of you Raymond is a real winner. I'm not only finished watching the American office and I think it's brilliant for the fact it's just silly and all weird things you only wish you could do and get away with when working in an office. Quantum Leap brings me back to my younger years. The reboot is pretty good says the caller. Watching House of Dragons absolutely brilliant says another. Yes I watched Lou. It was fantastic. Well worth watching that comes in from Bernie. Another text of those says yes watched it not great at all. We are really quite different us humans aren't we? Don't bother watching all this big screen stuff. Watch Simon a bloke in the woods or the outdoor boys in YouTube and show the children how to go camping and enjoy the outdoors. Well listen there's very few people under 20 watching scheduled TV. YouTube is their channel of choice. 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I am a big fan of American TV movies of the 70s and 80s, and there's a new streaming platform that's legal, 100% free and legal, called Filmsy. And they've got some of these old movies. I watched Satan's School for Girls. The reason I watched it is it's a pop culture thing, Kate Jackson and Cheryl Ladd. A couple of years before they were both in Charlie's Angels. They were in this TV movie, which is a very old-fashioned, not really a horror, more of a thriller. A woman, her sister, dies under mysterious circumstances. She goes undercover at this exclusive boarding school. Is this the second girls' boarding school thing you've recommended in two weeks? Is it? Oh, you're thinking of Mallory Towers. Yeah, well, these are all in their 20s. These are all older ladies. Oh, I'm not. Sorry, I was not... I totally was. I totally was. No, Phyllulah's been giving me grief on here, but I'm going to ignore both of you, and I would say that this is a very old... Conveniently landed on a school guard TV program. Even one of my housemates, I mentioned that I watched Satan's School for Girls, and he started sniggering. He's like, what's this? I was like, it's an old-fashioned thriller. It's a big old building. There's Baywatch now.  There are power cuts, and she spends a lot of time with a lantern going around this spooky building, and the students start dying one by one. It's a TV movie. There's no blood. There's no gore. It's not like that. It's just the tension of what's going on. And if you're into old TV shows like Charlie's Angels, you get to see Kate Jackson and Cheryl Ladd. You get to see Roy Thennis from The Invaders and Falcon Crest and stuff. I thoroughly enjoyed it. I give it 6 or 7 out of 10. It's old-fashioned, as I say. No blood, no gore. And it's only an hour and 15 minutes, and it's like lots of creepy wandering around this place at night. And if you're interested, then Filmsy, which is brand... Well, it's not brand new. It's actually been around a couple of years, but it's new to me, and it's free and it's legal. And it's just F-I-L-M-S. F-I-L-M-Z-I-E. Why do they do that? Name something that you have to spell it to get people to find it. Why? I'm going straight, Filmsy. That's exactly what I'm doing. I was putting S-Y at the bottom. Filmsy, okay. It does look to have... I only give it a quick cursory examination. It does look to have a... It says itself in its own... He writes the story. He does.  Mostly... Mostly independent warrior. Michael is a good friend. Listen. Thank you so much, Michael, as always. And thanks for being a great sport. Michael, Leddy, writer and blogger. Finula, Rabbit. Thank you so much, as well, for your input. And thank you to all of you who listened.


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