Adam and Kyle strap in for a full interstellar mission, only to realise they have no idea where they’re going. The big question is why we’d leave Earth in the first place, and whether the real goal is a new home for when things go wrong here. That leads to the Goldilocks zone, a very long list of exoplanets, and Adam falling down a Wikipedia hole of planets with names that neither of them can pronounce.

Kyle isn’t convinced by any of it. How do scientists know what temperature a planet is, or what it’s made of? And has anyone actually looked at Mars through a telescope? From there it’s eclipses, star signs, the real difference between astronomy and astrology, and a new theory about how planets are made that Adam is not ready to accept. The big questions follow: is the universe expanding, where is its centre, and what would we do if we ever got somewhere light years away?

The guys end up at a possible answer in wormholes and a lot of confusing physics, and decide that the speed of light deserves its own episode. Next time, they go faster.

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Kyle opens with an emergency announcement: the aliens are here. This week the guys work out what an invasion would actually look like. Is it all Independence Day explosions and humanity uniting against a common enemy, or would a smarter race take a slower, subtler approach and ease us in without us noticing? And is it just coincidence that “alien invasion” is initialed “AI”?

They weigh up our best defences, from drones to the question of what kind of alien you’re even fighting. Starship Troopers, Independence Day and a few other sci-fi favourites get dragged in as evidence. There’s also a debate about whether we’re being drip-fed the truth, and whether you’d be more willing to hop on an alien spaceship or one of Elon’s rockets.

It ends up a long way from where it started, with a few shaky facts about our solar system and one very confident planet-temperature theory that Kyle refuses to believe. Next time, we leave the planet: space travel is up.

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Adam opens the show with Kyle in the back of the police van, and the guys spend the week on the right side of the law, or at least close to it. They compare their brushes with the police, from being pulled over to one story that proves you should never let a rookie try out his new handcuff move on you. One of them also ends up giving a very unexpected statement.

From there it’s a debate on what the police are really up against: pay, hours, budgets, and whether a world with no crime could ever exist. Along the way, one of them brings in a book recommendation that, once again, has aliens in it.

It’s part true crime, part society-fixing, and part “do you ever read anything without aliens?” Next time, the invasion begins.

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