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Neil deGrasse Tyson called out the biggest plot hole in Project Hail Mary, and Andy Weir had to defend it live. Andy Weir: You and I are enemies now. Neil deGrasse Tyson: It was a stretch for me, as an academic, to completely embrace the idea that the entire world of biochemists is insufficient to handle this mission. And they need the one guy who has the expertise no one else has. And he’s a middle school chemistry teacher. Andy Weir: Right, so to be fair, he was a speculative xenobiologist, he’s a PhD astrobiologist, and he had done that, and then he’d left that field. He’d written papers. Neil deGrasse Tyson: But he wrote papers, so the papers are out there and other people are still active, and he’s no longer active. So why does he still become the guy? Andy Weir: Because he’s been part of the mission and the mission planning the whole time, so he understands all the other aspects of the mission as well. He knows all about the Hail Mary itself. Chuck Nice: And they don’t have time to train someone else up on all the other stuff. Andy Weir: And he’s as well trained as any of the other biologists need him to be in the field they need. Neil deGrasse Tyson: Okay, all right. He got out of that one. Andy Weir: I wriggled out of that one.

feat @jimmykimmel x Eddie Murphy

Jimmy Kimmel relays a story from Todd Bridges about Eddie Murphy sending Rick James to help him get clean, and Rick James ended up doing all the drugs himself. Jimmy Kimmel: You were friends with Todd Bridges, who played Willis on Different Strokes. Eddie Murphy: I wasn’t friends with him. I knew him. Jimmy Kimmel: You knew him enough, according to Todd anyway, to say, “Hey, this kid’s got a problem and we need to do something to help him.” Todd says that you called, and did an intervention, and had Rick James go to him. Eddie Murphy: Now, I don’t doubt that that may have happened, but I would never have sent Rick to— Jimmy Kimmel: Send Rick? Eddie Murphy: Yeah. But that may have happened, cause he did— I know he said that I sent Rick, but I didn’t send Rick. Jimmy Kimmel: Bacause he did say Rick came to his house and said, “Hey, where are your drugs?” And he brought out his drugs, and then he did all his drugs. He took his drugs and went home. Eddie Murphy: That’s hysterically funny. I wish I would have sent him. That’s such a great story.

feat @BBCR1 x @TomCruise

Tom Cruise explained what really happens to his body hanging off a biplane at 145mph. It’s not what you think. Interviewer: You sort of… what was happening? Tom Cruise: It was… it’s not even just passing out. It was exhaustion. It wasn’t that I literally went unconscious, but I went to a different state where I wasn’t as present, and I’d just fall asleep so my body could recharge and get enough fuel. I went so hard on that wing, and it happens so quickly. The force of that… I mean, if anyone has ever stuck their hand or face out of a car window going 145 mph and tried to breathe, then imagine trying to move around on that plane or hang on. It’s like lifting the heaviest weights with your entire body. At a certain point, your body just can’t move anymore. That’s it. There’s no way around it, you cannot move. The first time I hit that wall and it happened very quickly, I thought, “Okay, now I have to get from this wing to that cockpit because I can’t land on the wing. It’s too dangerous.” I had to really mark my hand and foot positions so I could be as economical as possible. But I knew I had to rest, so we had hand signals. We couldn’t talk because of the helicopter and everything, so we used hand signals. I’d signal to McQ and he’d be there, and I’d just gesture, “I’m resting. It’s okay.” I didn’t want anyone worrying. I’d be on the wing and I just couldn’t move. I’d rest for 10 to 15 minutes, then I’d have enough energy to be able to go back in. Interviewer: Can I just say to him, you deserve the rest now. Tom Cruise: But I never want to rest. Ever.

feat @voguemagazine x Dakota Johnson x Pedro Pascal

Dakota Johnson said she got whiplash from filming 50 Shades when asked about her worst on-set injury. Pedro Pascal: What did you get hurt on? Dakota Johnson: I got I got whiplash. Pedro Pascal: You got whiplash? Dakota Johnson: I got whiplash from 50 Shades. [laughter] Dakota Johnson: Oh. Oh, God. Pedro Pascal: That’s my favorite. That’s my favorite thing. Um, it’s all meaningless after that. [laughter] Pedro Pascal: What’s the best piece of advice you’ve been given about acting? Dakota Johnson: To stop. Pedro Pascal: Please stop acting. Me, too.

feat @RealCandaceO x @HunterBiden

Hunter Biden says he hit a point where the only choice left was to get out of bed and live, or die, and it’s why he says he has no fear left. Hunter Biden: And it wasn’t easy and and maintaining sobriety in in that kind of like a pressure cooker — Candace Owens: Mhm. Hunter Biden: It’s often the thing that triggers you, but something broke me in a good way, which was that I no longer have any fear. I like, you know, sitting down with you is to me an all an opportunity for you to see me as a human being and not um you know, Hunter Biden laptop. Candace Owens: Yeah. Hunter Biden: And the pictures that you know, uh Congressman Green uh like put up in Congress or the New York Post, you know, I think I was on the cover of the New York Post in one year more than any uh anybody in the history of the paper. And none of it was good. Candace Owens: [laughs] Hunter Biden: None of it was good. But what it’s given me is the opportunity to own it all. Is to own all of my story without shame or fear.

feat @LoganPaul x @jakepaul

Jake Paul roasts Logan Paul for going soft since becoming a dad, and Logan fires right back. Jake Paul: You shut the up while my jet’s in maintenance. You freeloading b**ch. Logan Paul: I’ll never stop freeloading or complaining. Jake Paul: I’m not even going to lie, bro. You were cool until you had a kid. Logan Paul: What’d you say? Jake Paul: I said we were friends and you were cool until you had a kid. Now you’re just a one-armed b**ch. Logan Paul: This isn’t a safe space. Jake Paul: Is it me or the vibes just got better.

Tom Hanks reveals the one moment in Cast Away he cannot watch because he wasn't there “There is a moment in Cast Away in which I am back and Chuck is back in Kelly's house, and he gives her her watch back. And there's a moment where I just think, I'm not there.” “I do this gesture that I just think is false and is me and is not Chuck. If the movie is on, I will get up and leave the room before that scene comes on.”

feat Amy Poehler x Steve Carell

Steve Carell said the first sketch ABC ever aired on The Dana Carvey Show, which had Dana Carvey playing a lactating President Clinton nursing puppies cost the show its entire audience before the cold open even ended. Steve Carell: The first scene of the first Dana Carvey Show was Dana playing Bill Clinton. He was sitting at a desk in the Oval Office talking about how he was the nurturing president. At a certain point, he opens his shirt to reveal a prosthetic breast plate… if you will. Steve Carell: And I think he had eight nipples. Amy Poehler: Yes. Which had real milk. Steve Carell: They were rigged to lactate. And so they brought a bunch of puppies and stood them on the desk. The puppies started suckling because he was the nurturing president. Steve Carell: Right. And we were following Home Improvement. [Laughs] Steve Carell: They said the ratings went from Home Improvement and you could actually chart it. At the beginning of this sketch, it just… [laughs] You could literally see the drop-off. It was so sharp. That was it. The show was over. Amy Poehler: [Laughs] Steve Carell: And that was the first episode, first scene. At that point, ABC was not happy. Amy Poehler: But somebody had to approve that as the first sketch. [Laughs] Steve Carell: I think, to their credit, ABC allowed it to happen. Yeah, they took some huge swings. And it was fun because Colbert and I shared an office. We worked together a lot at Second City. We were in a bunch of casts together. We’d come up with an idea, go down to Robert Smigel’s office, and just pitch something. Amy Poehler: Mm-hmm. Steve Carell: And he’d say, “Yeah, let’s go.” We’d do it on the show that night. It was as close to live as you could get without being SNL.

feat @calebpressley x @SHAQ

Shaq just admitted he turned down a Starbucks investment because of a stereotype he made up in his own head. Caleb Pressley: True or false. You turned down an early investment opportunity with Starbucks because you thought people don’t like coffee black. Shaquille O’Neal: No, I turned down my initial investment in Starbucks because I thought Black people didn’t like coffee. Caleb Pressley: Oh. Shaquille O’Neal: I was wrong on that one. Caleb Pressley: Would you have invested if Starbucks was selling people talking on speakerphone in public spaces? Shaquille O’Neal: No.

Neil deGrasse Tyson called out the biggest plot hole in Project Hail Mary, and Andy Weir had to defend it live. Andy Weir: You and I are enemies now. Neil deGrasse Tyson: It was a stretch for me, as an academic, to completely embrace the idea that the entire world of biochemists is insufficient to handle this mission. And they need the one guy who has the expertise no one else has. And he’s a middle school chemistry teacher. Andy Weir: Right, so to be fair, he was a speculative xenobiologist, he’s a PhD astrobiologist, and he had done that, and then he’d left that field. He’d written papers. Neil deGrasse Tyson: But he wrote papers, so the papers are out there and other people are still active, and he’s no longer active. So why does he still become the guy? Andy Weir: Because he’s been part of the mission and the mission planning the whole time, so he understands all the other aspects of the mission as well. He knows all about the Hail Mary itself. Chuck Nice: And they don’t have time to train someone else up on all the other stuff. Andy Weir: And he’s as well trained as any of the other biologists need him to be in the field they need. Neil deGrasse Tyson: Okay, all right. He got out of that one. Andy Weir: I wriggled out of that one.

feat @GQMagazine x J.K. Simmons

J.K. Simmons revealed Stan Lee told him he was jealous he never got to play J. Jonah Jameson himself. J.K. Simmons: I had never met Stan and didn’t even know, and this is kind of obvious to anybody who’s really paying attention or smarter than I am, that JJJ was kind of based on Stan. You know, comic version of himself. He confessed to me at the time that he was a little jealous that they didn’t ask him to play the part in the movie. “But having seen you do it, I thought you were fantastic.” And it was very, very nice things, which obviously coming from the man was a great, great compliment.

feat @GQMagazine x Denzel Washington x @asvpxrocky

A$AP Rocky asks Denzel Washington if rapping could have been his destiny, and instead of answering, Denzel recites Othello’s Act 1 monologue from memory, unprompted. A$AP Rocky: What if rapping was low-key your destiny? Like, you would’ve been an ill-ass rapper? Denzel Washington: Her father loved me, oft’ invited me, still questioned me the story of my life. From year to year, the battles, sieges, fortunes that I have passed. I ran it through, even for my boyish days, to the very moment he bade me tell it, wherein I spake of most disastrous chances. That’s “Othello.” So I’m a wordsmith, too. A$AP Rocky: I don’t know how you did “Othello.” Look, I watched the film and everything, and I used to have to pause it just to Google, “What is this old Latin?” talking about “Macbeth” it was so eloquent, and you killed it to the fact that I didn’t realize the whole “Macbeth” thing. It was a Black man portraying it, it didn’t even matter, it was just so eloquent. Your vernacular was crazy. The acting was insane. Spike Lee: Were you ever intimidated? Any scene with the master right here? A$AP Rocky: Hell no. I was just fanned out.