Brad and Jacqui cannot believe what continues to come out of 2020, after you thought things couldn’t get worse. Apparently even the sun is also trying to destroy the Earth.

Jacqui has a hypothetical for Brad this week, after having two encounters with average Joes who have famous names. It must be the most annoying thing in the world to share a name with a celebrity. Whose name would Brad choose? And it’s trivia time again. Brad keeps the movie theme to test Jacqui on ‘villain narratives’. Can Jacqui guess these movies, as told from the antagonist’s point of view?

Brad has actually found good news this week. He wants to talk about the successful SpaceX launch, with its ‘reusable Falcon booster’ and two astronauts now in the International Space Station. It’s the next exciting step in commercial space exploration, and he tells the podcast what’s to come.

Jacqui wants to talk all things G7, with President Trump recently announcing he is postponing the summit and is inviting a few other countries to attend. The invitation to Russia has waggled a few eyebrows, and Jacqui talks about the power of advanced nations discussing macroeconomic policy in the time of looming recession.

Finally, after teasing it the whole episode, Brad and Jacqui want to address the current US protests in this week’s ‘Blue Sky Thinking’ segment. It’s a hard topic to discuss, but important to them to acknowledge the institutionalized racism which Black people experience every day, and the pain and anger of the protesters. Brad talks through some of the protest demands to address police brutality, and Jacqui notes the importance of taking action to address some of the wrongs we are now only seeing thanks to cameras and video.

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https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/30/21269703/spacex-launch-crew-dragon-nasa-orbit-successful