I must say I appreciate the fully audible encode, even though it's still one of the weaker-sounding episodes I've heard--rather slow and warbly.

This story was entertaining and, at least for a while, unpredictable. I'd thought it was heading into a straightforward middle-aged marriage crisis plot, but instead it became a "message from space" piece. Fairly amusing, though as science fiction, as usual with the RMT, it leaves a lot to be desired. (The aliens themselves are unbelievably stupid; if you want to warn heads of state etc., why not pop up on *their* TVs?)