Today on the 5: It's a good bet you've been in some situation where someone mentioned not wanting to talk politics or religion. While this has become socially accepted as a polite way of avoiding disagreement, to me it seems like a sign of how we've degenerated as a free country.

For our landmark 300th show, who else would we want on to celebrate than our good friends from Mysterious Universe? Benjamin Grundy and Aaron Wright join us for the hour as we talk Star Wars, Five Guys, food service workers, and why games dedicated to the PC need to become a bigger niche.

Music for the show provided by Reed Love.

Today on the 5: One of my undying pet peeves when it comes to comics is when they change artists midway through an arc. It typically is a jarring stylistic difference, and it just breaks the flow of a story.

Today on the 5: When I got the new Samsung Galaxy S III last week, it occurred to me that one of the things that has happened with Android is that the OS itself has become less of a consideration. Much like iOS, the biggest thing people wonder about with phones now are the specs. Is that the mark of OS parity?

Today on the 5: I got my hands on the new Microsoft Surface RT last week, and got to play around with it a bit. My impressions of the new tablet offering from the Windows company.

Today on the 5: Privacy has become a mainstay complaint among technology buffs, and there doesn't seem to a week anymore without some news of data being tracked or personal information being disclosed. The angst gets all the airplay, but don't a large number of really end up acting in support of less privacy, not more?

This week:

Hurricane Sandy
Disney Star Wars
Punisher War Zone

Music for the show provided by Reed Love.

Today on the 5: I've noticed that when people talk about bands that have been around a while, a frequent criticism is that they've changed their sound too much. Do we like bands better when they stick to the sound we first liked them with?

Today on the 5: A friend recently told me he's going to be test driving the new WiiU system from Nintendo. I think the WiiU may be the last console Nintendo comes out, or at the very least is the beginning of the end.

Today on the 5: We hear frequently about the hidden costs of the things we buy. Slave labor, child labor, unfair working conditions...do any of these factor into our spending, or do we just pay attention when it's something we don't care about?