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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 negatively to.

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 scenes.

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 pregnancy can push people to the breaking point.

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 scenes we've witnessed it a while!

This week we're talking about Project Hail Mary, Pebble, Mike Tyson, The Humanoid, Shocking Dark, and Dark Angel: The Ascent. Show music by HeartBeatHero and OGRE. Support the show!

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Today on the 5: I picked up Star Wars: Outlaws during a recent PSN sale, and have been playing it in short burst sessions for the last few weeks. For a game that seemed to come and go without much love or hate, I have to say I'm enjoying it as some of the best Star Wars related material in a long while.

Today on the 5: For the latest selection in TWiT's "Stacey's Book Club" series, I read A Psalm For The Wild-Built by Becky Chambers. This might be the most fun I've had reading a book in a very long time!

Today on the 5: As part of "May-be It Won't Suck" month, we watched a 1994 movie I just barely remember titled Dark Angel: The Ascent. Starting a Full Moon production is always a dice roll, but this movie rises above budgetary limitations by presenting a "Heaven & Hell" story that works very differently than you might expect.

This is the bonus content with Andy Last of Beyond Synth that would originally have been exclusive to Patreon. Seeing as how that platform is busy figuring out new ways of flushing their value to creators down the toilet, I figured I'd just post it on the main feed. Enjoy!

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