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Houselights: Is your phone good or bad?

For their final episode of Houselights, Liz Nass and Claire Donohoe bring on a slew of guests to answer the age old question: phone good or phone bad? Stick around till the end for a best of Houselights highlight reel. 

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Reeling It In: CHICKEN JOCKEY | A 'Minecraft' movie

Hosts Jack Williams and Shakyra Mabone, with guest Robin Han, share their thoughts on the new Minecraft movie, whether or not kids' movies should be entertaining to adults and if the quality of children's media has deteriorated due to the nature of the film industry.

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Reeling It In: Behind the scenes with a filmmaker

Host Jack Williams is joined by Anish Topiwala and his brother Matt Williams to step behind the scenes of student filmmaking at MSU and get an exclusive look at Matt's film capstone: a sci-fi thriller called ME.EXE, premiering at NCG Cinema in East Lansing in April.

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The 1909: MSU professors on research hit-list

Academics reporter Hannah Locke joins the show to discuss federal threats to MSU research from U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, who spearheaded a database in October 2024, which flagged more than 3,400 grants funded by the NSF that "promoted Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) or advanced neo-Marxist class warfare propaganda."