Ep. 7 – You Got a Friend in Tech: Toy Story 5
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Ep. 7 – You Got a Friend in Tech: Toy Story 5
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Toy Story 5 is out, and it's basically a Two Factor Parenting episode in movie form. Bonnie gets a tablet called Lilypad, and the toys have to figure out whether tech is the enemy — or whether the real question is more complicated than that. Matt and Val break down what the movie gets right: the parents on their own screens, the speed-versus-depth tension, the "Hey Lily" voice-assistant gag that's funnier than it has any right to be. They also talk about what it skips — the tantrums, the attention crashes, the hard stuff real parents deal with when screen time ends. Val asked the kids mid-movie whether the tablet was good or bad. They gave different answers. Val goes on a genuinely sharp tangent about why the Buzz Battalion flying is the best nostalgia payoff in years — not just fan service, but a callback that actually serves the story. No guest this time. Just two parents who've been having this conversation since before the pandemic, watching a kids' movie that finally caught up.