This week John spent two days in court in a wig and gown, forgot his pen, and used ChatGPT to find a case while the other side was talking. We also ask why courtroom sketch artists still exist in 2026, and suggest MrBeast’s thumbnail team take over.

Alex ran the Amsterdam marathon and brings news from tech Twitter: people are using AI to reverse-engineer software and hardware they already own. That means cloned Adobe apps, fixed DJ software, unlocked tractors and smart TVs with the bloatware ripped out. We also design a car horn that plays fart noises.

Plus: what a Melbourne “magic” is, and why John feels like a goose ordering one.

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Hollywood Is Out of Ideas. The Internet Kids Are Taking Over. Tom Cruise’s Digger is on track to lose around $245 million. In the same year, two horror films from people who started out on YouTube have made close to a billion dollars between them. The Backrooms cost $10 million, came from a 4chan photo of an empty furniture store, and has taken $400 million. Obsession cost $750,000 and has grossed over $500 million, the most ever for a film made on under a million. Alex and John look at how a generation raised online is getting films made without asking Hollywood first, why a meme nobody owns turns out to be great business, and whether this is cinema’s new 1970s or a short detour before the next He-Man reboot. Plus Chiwetel Ejiofor’s secret Love Actually sequel, and the question the film never answers: how come you can eat them?

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If you grew up leaving the TV on past midnight, you remember them. The stadium crowds with their hands in the air. The soft music. The man on stage who could heal your bad back, provided you called the number on screen.

The death of Jim Bakker sent us back to late-night Channel 10 Australia, and we came out with a lot of questions. How did a guy with a puppet show become one of the most powerful men in American television? How did a Christian theme park with a water slide end up the third most popular in the country? And how did it all end with five years in prison and a second career selling buckets of freeze-dried food for the end times?

Along the way we meet Aimee Semple McPherson, who did sermons on a motorcycle in the 1920s, Fulton Sheen, the bishop who beat Frank Sinatra in the ratings, and Oral Roberts, who told viewers God might take him if he didn’t hit his fundraising target. Then there’s Benny Hinn, whose healing technique Alex can still do from memory.

We look at where televangelism lives now. Spoiler, it’s on YouTube, and the thumbnails are better than ours.

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