May 29, 2026

This week we're talking about Podroll, Media Play, The Medusa Touch, It's Alive, and Fail-Safe. Show music by HeartBeatHero and OGRE. Support the show!

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May 28, 2026

Today on the 5: One of the biggest stories coming out from the 2026 Google I/O conference is the Google search engine becoming an AI first tool that will attempt to do more than just provide simple answers. While accuracy is always a concern with these tools, I don't think that's what most people will react...

May 27, 2026

Today on the 5: For the third film in our final week of "May-be It Won't Suck", Lando and I watched 1964's Fail-Safe. A cautionary tale about the involvement of computers in war as well as the inevitable result of human distrust, this movie is a remarkable triumph of intense storytelling across minimal...

May 26, 2026

Today on the 5: The second film for our last week of "May-be It Won't Suck" was 1974's It's Alive. A movie Lando had never seen and I only remembered the beginning and end of, this could have been a gimmick movie with a lot of boring stretches. As it turned out, it's a deeply tense exploration of how a VERY problematic...

May 25, 2026

Today on the 5: For one of our "May-be It Won't Suck" movies this week, Lando and I watched 1978's The Medusa Touch. It had been a long time since Lando had last seen it, and I had never even heard of it so we were both curious how it would land. Not only was it a great movie, but it had some of the hardest hitting...