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This week the Professor and the DJ have the tables turned on them and become the targets of an interview by Mr Rant!

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LIGHTS CAMERA RANT CONTACT & SOCIAL INFO ⬅

BUSINESS EMAIL - [email protected]

SOCIAL MEDIA

YouTube: Lights Camera Rant - YouTube

Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/lightscamerarant

Instagram: Leigh “Mr Rant” Morgan (@lights.camera.rant) • Instagram photos and videos

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lightscamerarant/

Twitter: Mr. Rant (@LightsCameraRNT) / X

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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Podcast.LCR/

Linktree : Leigh "Mr Rant" Morgan Official: Instagram, Facebook | Linktree

Full Show Notes : https://docs.google.com/document/d/1upE0fVcyNLEB4mPvvBxDBmOS7miabZZOhkBXUjbc4W0/edit?usp=sharing

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Only a year after release, a hacker has found a way to run arbitrary code on the Nintendo Switch 2. Nintendo have already cracked down on it, but might AI actually have a use in reverse engineering?

People seem to like AI stories better than human written stories, as long as they don't know it's written by an AI. Welcome to the future, old man.

Apu has returned to the Simpsons. Has it been long enough for the controversy to blow over, or should he have stayed away?

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Resources Mentioned

• Nintendo Switch 2 hack (Pepsipu.com: ns2jb Switch 2 jailbreak)
• Can people tell the difference between stories written by a human or by an AI system? (Bot or not: Can people tell the difference between stories written by a human or by an AI system? | Judgment and Decision Making)
• Apu Strikes Back! (‘The Simpsons’ Surprise: Apu Is Heard for the First Time in Nearly a Decade, as Sunil Malhotra Takes Over for Hank Azaria (EXCLUSIVE))

Full Show Notes : https://docs.google.com/document/d/17OKcEKVOkMEO1Ee2s070BiSLoASDtEon0fT75GZtpEw/edit?usp=sharing

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This week we're back with an interview with Ventriloquist Noir creator Jonathan Geffner about his new feature film The Dummy Detective, a noir film featuring Jonathan Geffner and his ventriloquist dummy sidekick Sam Suede.

Dummy Detective Website : https://www.gothikhouse.com/thedummydetectivemovie

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The Dummy Detective social media

FACEBOOK - https://www.facebook.com/thedummydetective

INSTAGRAM - https://www.instagram.com/thedummydetective/

YOUTUBE - https://www.youtube.com/@TheDummyDetectiveMovie

Jonathan Geffner Social Media Contacts

TIKTOK - https://www.tiktok.com/@jonathangeffner

LINKEDIN - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jongeffner/

YOUTUBE - https://www.youtube.com/@TheDummyDetectiveMovie

- https://www.youtube.com/@JonathanGeffnerPianist

FACEBOOK - https://www.facebook.com/jongeffner/

INSTAGRAM - https://www.instagram.com/jonathangeffner01/

TWITTER - https://x.com/jongeffner

GOTHIK HOUSE / TIERNEY

FACEBOOK PAGES:

https://www.facebook.com/tierney.boorboor

https://www.facebook.com/gothikhouse

INSTAGRAM - https://www.instagram.com/gothikhouse/

LINKEDIN - https://www.linkedin.com/in/tierneyboorboor/

YOUTUBE - https://www.youtube.com/@GothikHouseFilms

TIKTOK - https://www.tiktok.com/@gothik_house?lang=en

Where can they watch The Dummy Detective

Amazon -- Watch The Dummy Detective | Prime Video

Relay – The Dummy Detective (2025) - Filmhub

Tubi – The Dummy Detective (2025) - Stream Free | Tubi

Xumo – https://play.xumo.com/free-movies/the-dummy-detective/XM0JVUQTMOU03Q

Fawesome – Watch The Dummy Detective Full Movie Free Online - Fawesome TV

Plex – Watch The Dummy Detective (2025) Full Movie Free on Plex

Stash on Youtube – A Ventriloquist and His Dummy Hunt a Killer | The Dummy Detective | Murder Mystery

Full Show Notes : https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UmH-UxVsbmobCm66tD3UYkTwm40tA7Il-evsqojGbcg/edit?usp=sharing

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Apparently, the market for gamers who don't actually play games is now bigger than the market for gamers who play them. That's probably not surprising though.

Concrete with poo sounds like something you'll never get clean, but it's actually stronger than regular concrete.

Card shops are dying. Somehow, comics returned.

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Resources Mentioned

• The rise of the non-player (Sega president says there's been a rise in "fans who don't play the games," and their engagement with IPs can be even higher than that of gamers - AUTOMATON WEST)
• Introducing poop-crete (Scientists Are Making Concrete With Human Poop – And It Gets 42% Stronger : ScienceAlert, Mechanical, durability, and microstructural performance of biochar-modified concrete using faecal sludge–derived biochar | Scientific Reports)
• Are we seeing the death of the card shop (Comic Store In Your Future: Goodbye To Gaming So... More Comics?)

Full Show Notes : https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rThPHvVgLemwOVeRVrtjWdu6E9NbAsArS02cB5bhFlk/edit?usp=sharing

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Tim Sweeney thinks the games industry is crashing like it's 1980 again. Which game will we bury in the desert this time?

The Ig Nobel prizes have been awarded. This year, we have scientific definitions of kissing and splashless urinals.

A movie about a talking cow has taken the world by storm. The weird thing is, they had a budget of about $200.

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• Another games crash scare ("This is the worst crash we've seen since the 1980s," says Tim Sweeney | GamesIndustry.biz)
• The 2026 IG Nobel awards (Rich people more likely to steal children’s sweets, finds Ig Nobel prize-winning study, Meet the 2026 Ig Nobel Prize winners - Ars Technica)
• The Chinese talking cow vs the world (Niu Lai movie: I watched the Chinese cow film. It sure is something.)

Full Show Notes : https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zE3nOuqNCGo0rbenylGbDIAa2ju-swz1VQPuDC-wlUA/edit?usp=sharing

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GTA6 has been leaking like a sieve. Why are people even excited for this?

People love monsters. Is it because they provide an outsider view of society, or is there something else going on?

A study has suggested that Australia is the most resilient country to anything from global thermonuclear war to another pandemic. So where the bloody hell are you?

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Resources Mentioned

• The GTA 6 Saga (Take-Two Interactive files subpoenas against Microsoft, Discord, and X amid ongoing GTA 6 leaks | GamesIndustry.biz)
• Australia can survive…..THE APOCALYPSE (No Place to Hide? Regional Resilience and Vulnerability to Global Catastrophic Risk - Jehn - 2026)
• Why do we love monsters? (Why We Love Monsters, Metaphorical and Otherwise)

Full Show Notes : https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gcYaqUlxZpB2o-cuiO76TNf9HtHad6spFuAHsAiXkjE/edit?usp=sharing

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Stop killing games is going from strength to strength, and now has joined the fight against Sony in a fresh new lawsuit

We then started flexing our cooking muscles while discussing how to save our vegetables and the solution was.......birdseeds...and plenty of it

Then we came to the conclusion that instead of buying paper comics...online comics is the way to go

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Resources Mentioned

• Stop Killing Games...the saga continues ("It's time to sue Sony": Stop Killing Games joins lawsuit over PlayStation's digital "monopoly" amid death of physical games | GamesRadar+, Stop Killing Games Joins Lawsuit Against Sony Over Its 'Total Control Of PlayStation Store Pricing')
• Something is killing the veges (The World's Vegetables Are Vanishing, And It's Quietly Wrecking Our Diets : ScienceAlert, Reversing vegetable biodiversity loss to diversify diets | PNAS)
• The rise of online comics (In an Online Era, Digital Comics Are Still Loading Up)

Full Show Notes : https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oDJgSK0-Te4sWXJK1RDHtyMX4R8lo6z5CVJ10TQv3XQ/edit?usp=sharing

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Finding the needle in a haystack of a good game is getting more difficult as more releases come out. A workgroup has come up with a plan to fix that.

The Cambrian Explosion may have been caused by the accumulation of feces. Food for thought.

Why are people turning to miniseries and one shots instead of ongoing comics? Maybe they're just too long. We're talking about you, One Piece.

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Resources Mentioned

• Why it's hard to find a good game (The industry makes great games, but nobody can find them | GamesIndustry.biz)
• Its official poop fueled evolution (An Ancient Poop Explosion Could Have Helped Complex Life Evolve : ScienceAlert, The Cambrian fecal revolution: Fueling the Cambrian Radiation: Trends in Ecology & Evolution)
• What killed ongoing comics (Whatever Happened to Ongoing Comics?)

Full Show Notes : https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cLHOB-5sJWBXsKcdVPsVtmWtatE1YC9-JoRlOaqpN74/edit?usp=sharing

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Xbox doesn't have much left to offer after the recent cuts. So can their tentpole franchises support the entire business?

New research suggests that a massive fireball killed all the dinosaurs in hours, not weeks. Which means there was a point where a time traveler could have an all you can eat dino buffet.

Getting your book adapted to a movie sounds like a dream come true. But letting someone else touch your baby has led to many crushed dreams, the latest being Children of Blood and Bone.

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Resources Mentioned

• Can Xbox recover (Xbox Is Dismantling Its Future To Rebuild a Past It Can Never Recapture)
• Dino-Instadeath (Dinosaurs died out within hours, new study suggests | Popular Science, Heat and Wildfires During the K‐Pg Mass Extinction Enhanced by Fine Dust - Johnson - 2026 - Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences - Wiley Online Library )
• Heat from Blood and Bone (Children of Blood and Bone Author Tomi Adeyemi Left Film Set Sobbing)

Full Show Notes : https://docs.google.com/document/d/1j2_WWO1rT4YhqB9qrMIPk0ol1NjL7L8kC0SBUdw8uvM/edit?usp=sharing

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Xbox has fired massive numbers of devs. Who's actually left to make games?

Can you sleep through a trip to Mars? Probably not, but it won't stop scientists trying.

George Lucas thinks AI is the big new thing. But when was the last time George Lucas was relevant?

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Resources Mentioned

• The Death of XBOX...via a thousand cuts (Microsoft cuts 4,800 jobs and shrinks Xbox in 'significant restructure')
• Can you sleep through a trip to mars (NASA Seeks Volunteers for New Yearlong Simulated Moon, Mars Mission, Can humans hibernate their way to Mars? | Science | The Guardian )
• George Lucas ‘s love for AI (George Lucas Says AI Makes Filmmaking ‘Easier’ and ‘There’s Nothing You Can Do About It,’ Criticizes Hollywood for Giving Fans Too Much Power, The Last Picture Show: a conversation with George Lucas - A Rabbit's Foot )

Full Show Notes : https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LMdQoAu58ImxNC2HV_71mmHUCf4RNm0LCIhDscA7h-4/edit?usp=sharing

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