Mike Jones Minute-Con 9/23/25

In the #MikeJonesMinuteCon, we'll talk about GTA college classes and big plans for the new Netflix studios! 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Movies, video games, tech. Get the nerd news you need
with the Mike Jones Minnicon one oh four to five.

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Plenty of college students play video games, so why not
learn about them too. University of Tennessee will have a
Grand Theft Auto class starting in twenty twenty six. The
class is called Grand Theft America US History since nineteen
eighty through the GTA video Games and will show how
the games are a snapshot of different time periods over
the last forty five years. Professor Tor Olsen will teach

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the GTA class beginning in January, and he's done this
before with the history class using red dead redemption. When
you put out as much content as Netflix does, you
need the physical space to do it. They gave us
a look at the plans for the massive studio complex
that's being built on the Jersey Shore at the former
Fort Monmouth Army Base. The new Netflix studios will have

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twelve sound stages, production facilities, offices, plus a hotel and restaurants.
These Netflix studios will be completed in fis and the
estimated cost is around nine hundred million dollars. Get your
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