Joining Mario for the panel this morning was Hugh Wallace architect and judge on RTÉ's 'Home of the Year' and Aileen Hickie , journalist and barrister.  Cooking up many things for the roast including the decision by a school in Dublin to get rid of written homework on a trial basis last month. Aileen says that having kids from 20 years down to 12 years she think no written homework for younger kids is a great initiative.

Hugh is planning to buy a bike and start cycling. As a result he has been watching cyclists and their behaviour more closely and is very concerned about what he is seeing. The relationship between cyclists, pedestrians and cars is far from what it should be. Many cyclists either don’t know the rules of the road or completely ignore them – he regular witnesses them cycling through pedestrian lights and knocking people over - this of course led to many contributions from listeners who were both cyclists and drivers and have experienced the frustration on both sides!

Mario is perplexed by Netflix as it  has confirmed and also downplayed a report that it is testing a feature on cellphones that allows users to speed up (or slow down) its videos.

It has become standard to accelerate podcasts and videos, including on YouTube. But it’s one thing to listen to listen to a podcast like “Fantasy Focus Football” at double speed, and another to brute force your way through “Russian Doll.” Is our attention span getting even more shot , we need to slow down not speed up!

This prompted Mario to see what it would sound like if we decided to do that to some presenters! You will need to listen back for this one!

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