After Things Podcast

The episode opens with a long speculative discussion about rogue planets as possible interstellar transports. The hosts describe free-floating planets as something a civilization might ride by mapping trajectories, using geothermal heat under ice, and treating the whole planet like a generation ship. They extend the idea with VR and slowed subjective time, imagining a moving habitat that could carry people between star systems while keeping them entertained or comfortable. From there the conversation moves into metaphysical speculation about simulations and nested realities, then into a stretch of joking about Avatar, tentacles, and the Papyrus font meme. The back half of the episode becomes a broad grab bag of science-fiction and pop-culture commentary: praise for Meg as a self-aware giant-shark movie, discussion of megalodon extinction theories, fusion-powered planetary engineering, moon-etched information archives, criticism of expensive entertainment projects being asked to be charity, and recommendations