I had to listen to this story twice, because I thought I missed something. That Something-that-I-didn't-actually-miss was: Why did this society who seemed to want their isolation and independence suddenly decide to become hostile and start an interstellar war? The young men of this New Earth thought they were going to have something valuable in the way of wisdom/philosophy to offer the Civil Worlds. I personally don't think "Wisdom, thy name is BFG" is what they had in mind. If it was, as Steve suggested, merely because they were bored, then there needed to be more evidence of that in the narrative, imho. Or was the writer's point that, if mankind had an opportunity to re-evolve, he would still take just as violent a path as the first time?
Also, I was very unclear on the clipper/box/ship references. I thought the box he was in was jettisoned from the clipper (he makes reference to his position relative to the clipper), but then after he landed, he returned to his "ship" which I thought meant the box, but then why change the reference when it had been "box" the whole time... anyway, I was just confused about that whole thing. I didn't try to get as technically accurate as Winter did (who made some very good points about a tube necessarily having to be dedicated to only one other tube), but it still left me unable to form a mental image.
And did he say "grow me from a bean" at 11:38-39? What the heck does that mean? Is that just some taken-for-granted, intentionally-unexplained technology from this future universe? That's cool if it is, I just wondered if I misunderstood or if I was missing something.
I did enjoy the humor, and I liked the writing despite the omissions of some important details, but those important details hurt the story enough to where it was just "pretty okay" for me.
I also liked the song at the end. Very Ben Folds-ish in the lyrics and hooks.
As to the "meta-chat," I'm new enough to remember my take on it when I first became a listener to now. When I first started listening, it was just to hear a story, so I was less interested in the intro and usually skipped the outro altogether. However, as I listened to the intros more, and the feedback caught up with the stories I was familiar with, I became more interested in both, and I eventually joined the discussion on the forums. Now it's become more of "being part of a community" than "listening to a story," and there've been a couple of times I've actually skipped ahead to listen to the feedback first. All that to say, I'm okay with however you decide to format the intros and outros, as long as you don't leave out anything you currently use now.
<edit: typo>