Lia Lewis’s controlled kick sends the ball shooting much farther than she’s used to. Inside her helmet, a screen is dotted with the trajectory of the ball as it flies past a holographic referee and into a large, rectangular net. “Goaaaaaaaaaaaaaal” echos inside the fishbowl around her head. A moment later, Lewis and her fellow players head to safety before solar flares reign down on the surface of the Moon.

“Never mind Wembley Stadium in London or Camp Nou in Barcelona, could there be anywhere more spectacular, challenging, and enthralling than to be among the first to play football on the Moon?” Lewis, a football freestyle world champion, tells Inverse.

It may sound like science fiction, but the fantasy of playing soccer on the Moon could be less than two decades away. As NASA looks to set up a Lunar Gateway for business on the Moon’s surface by the late 2020s, and China plan to inaugurate a permanent, inhabitable Moon base by the mid-2030s, life on the Moon suddenly seems within reach. The first lunar soccer match could kick off as soon as 15 years from now, according to a panel of scientists from The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET).

The panelists have already done the Moon math to figure out exactly how a game of footie could be played on our favorite satellite. The results were recently published in a Lunar Football Rule Book, but whether we should be indulging in such an endeavor is a whole different game.

I’m a huge Adventure Time fan. The trippy cartoon that was marketed for kids, but seemingly made for stoned college students, premiered in April 2010, smack dab in the middle of my own college education. And by the time the series was coming to an end in the late 2010s, I was watching each new entry in the increasingly complex saga like it was a fresh episode of Game of Thrones. This was appointment viewing, often followed by A.V. Club recaps and YouTube analysis videos.

So when the opportunity to interview showrunner Adam Muto (who took over from creator Pendleton Ward during Season 5) came up, I leaped at the opportunity. And then, I panicked.

This long rambling preamble is basically an excuse for the fact that the below interview with Muto is more rambly than usual. We talked about the new spinoff series Fionna and Cake, but I also peppered him with some random Adventure Time questions that have been stuck in my brain for years. And sometimes I forgot to ask questions entirely and just shared my own thoughts on the show.