Luna brought up the topic on Wednesday’s “The Joe Rogan Experience,” a clip from which “Gutfeld!” played Friday night:

“They call them interdimensional beings,” Luna said. “Very credible people have reported that there have been a movement outside time and space. Have I seen a portal? No. Have I seen a spaceship personally? No. Have I seen evidence of this? Yes. Have I seen photo documentation of aircraft that I believe were not made by mankind? Yes.”

Namesake host Greg Gutfeld took the first swing.

“Finally!,” he said. “There you have it! Proof. Proof that maybe somebody was told something from somebody who saw something that might be something from another dimension or something!”

Judging by the audience laughter, they weren’t convinced, either.

“We do have an expert here, Harland [Williams, the comedian who starred in the 1997 film “Rocket Man”], you were an astronaut in the film where you went to Mars … Harland, do you get the feeling they have nothing they just like teasing us?”

Williams noted that we’re told extraterrestrial beings are “way more smart, more intelligent than us,” but still come to Earth and do … crop circles.

“It’s like, we’re smarter than everybody, let’s go to Earth and do donuts in the corn,” Williams joked.

Fellow panelist Michele Tafoya noted that she’s watched “Ancient Aliens” on the History Channel – which can make you think, “maybe.”

“And are we really the only intelligent life out there?,” she said. “I don’t know. But Anna Paulina Luna is not the representative who makes me convinced.”

Williams joked that he’s witnessed “this time and space kind of thing” when he flies on American Airlines: “I get to the terminal and my flight it seems to shift about five hours.”

Gutfeld made the analogy that the UFO issue which “is like a bad boyfriend who strings you a long and offers you nothing forever. But when he called you for a booty call you always answer. Like the issue he is always there but never follows through,” calling them “recreational beliefs.”

For her part, regular panelist Kat Timpf said that full disclosure should be offered to anyone on their deathbed.

“When you are about to die they should let you see whatever documents you want to see,” she said. “You know how there is like last rites? There should be some sort of portal you can log into at the hospital, were pretty much everybody dies, and you can login and see what you want to see.”

Watch the entire exchange in the video above.

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Paolo told the story of Spencer’s good deed on the “Boyfriend Material” podcast, relaying how he filmed the cult classic horror movie before he’d made enough money to afford a publicist. When Spencer learned about this, the on-camera villain did an off-camera good deed for her young co-star.

“This was pre ‘Ma’ coming out, and I was like, ‘I just can’t spend $5,000 a month for a publicist. I only made $6,000 on the movie, I’m in $20,000 worth of credit card debt.’ So I’m like, ‘Eh, I’m just not going to get a publicist,'” Paolo recalled. Cut to Octavia Spencer having the “Ma” cast over for dinner ahead of the premiere.

“She was talking about doing press for the movie. And this was my first real, big thing, so I didn’t know anything. And she basically was like, ‘Yeah, so you guys all, like, we’re going to do press, publicists.’ And I’m like — ‘I don’t have the money to do that.’

“That was on a Friday. On Monday, she had called her publicist, paid for it completely, and then set me up with her whole team, and then said, ‘Now you have a publicist.'”

You can watch the interview clip below.

“Ma,” directed by Tate Taylor and written by Scotty Landes for Blumhouse, follows Spencer as a woman named Sue Ann Ellington. When a group of teenagers asks Sue Ann to buy them alcohol, she begins to befriend the high schoolers, asking them to call her “Ma.” Over time, this relationship takes on a more sinister nature, revenge for an incident involving Ma and some of the teenagers’ parents in their youth.

“Ma” was a success for Blumhouse upon release, generating more than $60 million off of an approximately $5 million budget. Over time, the 2019 horror film began to develop a strong cult following, with several waves of “Ma” memes taking over social media. One such meme recently appeared in Ari Aster’s “Eddington,” a recent-history period piece set in 2020 during the pandemic.

Paolo said Spencer never asked for the money back, but he eventually reimbursed her the $10,000 after booking “Power.”

“Didn’t ask for the money back. Never,” he said. “I got great opportunities from it. When I booked ‘Power,’ I shot my first episode, got my first paycheck for ‘Power,’ and then I wired her the money back.”

“Holy s–t,” “Boyfriend Material” host Harry Jowsey said. “So she never asked for it? She just did it?”

“Never asked for it,” Paolo said.

From 2018 to 2024, Paolo appeared on the Starz crime drama “Power” and its follow-up “Power Book II: Ghost.” In the second series, he was elevated to main cast member status for the show’s four seasons. On Aug. 22, he will appear in the Sophie Turner-starring thriller film “Trust.”

Paolo expressed gratitude for Spencer’s help in securing important representation early on — though he told Jowsey that actors who are just starting out shouldn’t seek a publicist as a first priority.

“I would tell everyone, if you want to be an actor, first thing you’ve got to get is a manager, because your manager, now it’s like the lines are kind of blurred, but your manager can get you auditions, and they’ll get you an agent,” he said. “An agent is strictly, like contract and get you auditions, but, like, the more people you have on your team, the more cooks there are in the kitchen that can get you opportunities.”

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Lowe spoke on his podcast “Literally!” (with KJ Apa and son John Owen Lowe) about how the pair, who starred together in Francis Ford Coppola and Kathleen Rowell’s adaptation of “The Outsiders,” used to be quite close. During one hangout, however, Rob recalled how Cruise evaded speaking directly about his part in the then-forthcoming Scorsese picture alongside Paul Newman.

“We’re six hours into hanging out on a Saturday, we’re getting a slice of pizza in Westwood … I’m like, ‘Hey man, what’s gonna go on for Thanksgiving? You gonna be in town?’ He’s like ‘Aw, yeah, no I’m, yeah no I got a thing I’m, I got a thing I’m going to do,'” Rob started. “I’m like, ‘Well, what is it?’ He’s like, ‘Uhh, you know, it’s a thing, it’s a thing with Marty,’ and I’m like, ‘Mar- Mar- Martin, Martin Scorsese?’ ‘Yeah.'”

“‘Holy s–t!'” Rob exclaimed at the time. “‘Wait, what?! Who’s in it?’ ‘Uh, Newman.'” You can watch the clip below.

“The Color of Money” was the 1986 sequel to Newman’s acclaimed 1961 film “The Hustler,” both of which were adapted from books written by Walter Tevis. They follow struggling pool hustler “Fast Eddie” Nelson who, as a much older man in the sequel, mentors a younger hustler played by Cruise.

The conversation started when Rob began teasing Apa about his extensive list of upcoming roles (“I’ve never met anybody, by the way, who has more movies going on that you can’t talk about,” Rob remarked). Apa is currently set to star in Lasse Hallström’s romantic drama “The Map That Leads You,” which will hit Prime Video on Aug. 20.

Apa called out actors who show others their self-tape auditions. The trio discussed the pros and cons of speaking openly about parts they book/audition for and playing things closer to the chest. The former “Riverdale” star said he can see both sides.

“Why would he not be forthcoming?” Apa asked of Cruise. “Well, I know why. I know why I wouldn’t, why I haven’t. It’s because I don’t want to sometimes sound cocky.”

“Bro, I would, the minute, if we could replay that day, the minute I hopped in the car with him, I would’ve been like, ‘Dude! I’m doing a f–king movie with Martin Scorsese,'” Rob said. “I’m that guy.”

“There’s an earnestness to being excited about an opportunity, I think, that’s authentic,” John said.

“I’m not putting it on my Instagram,” Rob said. “Which is a different thing.”

“I would,” Apa replied.

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“The reasons he was I guess, like, ‘away’ or ‘down’ or narrativized in a certain fashion were bulls–t,” Yang said. “It’s like, I mean, the zionism s–t? No.”

“That wasn’t even a thing,” Rogers said.

“And then he came out and was very vocal about the opposite, so whatever,” Yang added.

Platt came up on Wednesday’s episode of “Las Culturistas” as Yang and Rogers recapped the fourth edition of their Las Culturistas Culture Awards, which aired on Bravo last week. The “Dear Evan Hansen” star sang a cover of Rae’s “Diet Pepsi,” which the hosts agreed turned out to be one of the highlights of the ceremony.

Rogers argued it was the kind of performance that shows Platt “will always be famous,” even while weathering social media blowback in recent years for being the son of megaproducer Marc Platt, a millennial-aged actor playing a high schooler in “Dear Evan Hansen” and, amid his family’s reported handling of “Snow White” actress Rachel Zegler’s stance on Israel and Palestine (and his mother Julie Beren Platt serving as chair of the Jewish Federations of North America), being labeled a zionist.

“No matter what media narrative happens, the ups and downs of really anyone’s career that has longevity in this business — Ben Platt, you will always be famous. Because no one can sing like that,” Rogers said.

He continued: “Anytime anyone in the media gets a hard time and then comes back because they’re just that f–king good. And I’ve been loving seeing that narrative just like, some of you had fun ripping him up when you had the opportunity to, but the fact is, listen to this song, see this performance, watch him on this show, it’s like, he has proven it so many times.”

As recently as April, Platt distanced himself from Israel’s military action against Hamas in Gaza, writing on Instagram, “As a queer Jew, whose personal connection to Judaism is cultural, emotional and interpersonal, and is not defined for me by the state of Israel, I have felt long alienated from this conversation and from a lot of people in my earliest community who feel differently sometimes, to a dogmatic extent.” With the post, he shared “Hacks” star Hannah Einbinder’s pro-Palestine speech while being honored by the Human Rights Campaign in March; she said in part, “I see it as antithetical to our deepest Jewish traditions to fall in line and not question the actions of a state enacting atrocities in our name.”

In regards to accusations of Platt being a nepo baby, Yang paraphrased “M3GHAN” star (and famous daughter of Brian Williams) Allison Williams, agreeing that Platt “started on third base and most other people start at home plate. And that’s just how it is. And it’s not any one person’s fault for opting in if they have the drive, the interest, the talent, the work ethic.”

Platt has come under fire in the past for refusing to address any career advantages he’s experienced thanks to his parentage. (Marc Platt produced features like “Wicked,” “La La Land” and, yes, “Dear Evan Hansen.”) He later spoke out about the blowback in a May 2024 interview with Elle.

“Of course, I acknowledge I’m an absolute nepo baby through and through by definition. My dad is a producer. I did grow up with an understanding of the business and an access to it. I will say that was the benefit, more so than it has been getting individual jobs as an adult,” he said. “I think it really helped me to give me the tools and the foundation to build my career. Now that I have started to build it and really show what I can do … I do think it’s become much more a journey that I am the sort of autonomous leader of.”

On “Las Culturistas,” Rogers continued his appraisal of Platt by speaking to his talent and character, adding that “if the person keeps working, it’s because people wanted to keep working with them.”

“We’re talking about someone who is one of the best singers on Earth. And it’s not like he’s not also an incredibly lovely person, so kind, so supportive of us, always the best energy, best vibe ever. And is also an incredibly talented actor. So it’s just kind of tired and boring to even have, like, done this in the first place, but I guess I’m glad that everyone is, you know, appreciating him for what it is, because it’s just so dumb.”

“Las Culturistas” is an iHeartPodcast and Will Ferrell’s Big Money Players Network. Listen to the full episode here.

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The singer stopped by boyfriend Travis Kelce and his brother Jason’s podcast “New Heights” podcast on Wednesday for a rare in-depth interview, during which she recounted in detail the experience of reclaiming the rights to her music, and why it was so important to her.

“So to catch anyone up who doesn’t know about this saga, like I signed a record deal when I was 15, and I always kind of refer to it as I got my music back this summer. But I never owned my music at all,” Swift explained. “So traditionally, a lot of record deals are set up in a way artists don’t own what’s called their master recordings. Owning your master recordings means that you have complete control and power over distribution, licensing and essentially, the way your legacy is shaped. It’s a huge thing. It’s always been huge thing for me.”

The 14-time Grammy winner said she had been actively saving up since she was a teenager to buy the recordings back and recounted when her music was first sold that it “ripped” her heart out of her chest. In 2021, Swift set out to re-record her albums since it was the only way to own a piece of them. The “Taylor’s Version” of her albums became massive successes due to previously unreleased “Vault” tracks. However, the thought still prayed on her to get back her original recordings.

“I thought about not owning my music every day. It was like an intrusive thought that I had every day,” Swift said. “After the Eras tour, I had a meeting with my team, and we decided this might be a good time to approach the current owners of it. The owners of it was a private equity firm called Shamrock Capital. I knew them to be above board people.”

To make her pitch to Shamrock, she said she realized she needed a creative approach.

“It’s a huge decision for them to make, to sell that to anyone, including me. I decided that, rather than this be like a business conversation, I, I’m in the business of human emotion,” Swift explained. “I would so much rather lead heart first in something like this. Because for me, this is not, oh, I want to own this asset because of its returns, because of the dividends that I will receive over the years, this was because this is my handwritten diary entries from my whole life. These are the songs I wrote about every phase of my life. This is my photography, my music videos, my most of which I funded. You know, my artwork, everything that I’ve ever done is in this catalog.”

Instead of sending her lawyers or her management team, the singer decided to send her mom and brother. When they called her with the news that Shamrock had agreed to the sale, she could not hold back her tears of joy.

“It was a couple months after the Super Bowl. We’re in Kansas City, and I get a call from my mom, and she’s like, ‘You got your music,'” she said still visibly emotional about the memory. “And so sorry that this is, it’s literally been so long since this happened. It’s every time I talk about it, um, she’s like, You got, you got your music, and I just, like, very dramatically, hit the floor for real, like, honestly, just starting balling my eyes out.”

Swift, through tears, explained she quickly ran to Travis, who was playing video games at the time, screaming so much he thought something was wrong. When she told him, she recalled collapsing in his arms while he cried with tears of joy as well.

“This changed my life,” she said. “I can’t believe it still, every time I think about it, it’s like I have to tell the short version to everyone, because it is still like this. This will affect the rest of my life, as I think about this every day now. But instead of it being like an intrusive thought that hurts me, it’s I can’t believe this happened. Like, how lucky am I? How grateful am I? I’m so grateful.”

You can listen to Swift’s full “New Heights” episode in the video above.

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“He’s yet another leftist who’s thinking about about fleeing America, so afraid is he of Trump,” Kelly said during “The Megyn Kelly Show,” spotlighting Kimmel’s recent sit-down with comedian and ex-girlfriend Sarah Silverman on her namesake podcast.

“The absurdity of this. I would say go, but I love Italy too much to say that,” Kelly continued. “They don’t deserve this. I’m sorry, but he should go to Ireland. They do deserve this. They’re as woke as they come.”

The conservative commentator then took a beat to criticize Ireland on the whole — “My people, who are among the toughest people on Earth, or were, have gone completely woke,” she said. “But I’m Irish and Italian, so I have empathy, and I really, he should not go to Italy. It’s too beautiful a country to host Jimmy Kimmel. And why would they have given him citizenship to begin with?”

Watch the full segment below:

Kelly’s remarks came after Kimmel revealed to Silverman that he’d copped himself dual citizenship while appearing on her “The Sarah Silverman Podcast.” Kelly played a clip of the moment, which aired itself on Thursday.

“I did get Italian citizenship,” Kimmel shared at the time. “I do have that, and what’s going on is as bad as you thought it was going to be, it’s so much worse. It’s just unbelievable. I feel like it’s probably even worse than he would like it to be.”

Coming back in Kelly, dragged the late night host for suggesting he knows what’s going through Trump’s mind.

“Oh, sure. ‘Cause we looked at Jimmy Kimmel to figure out insights into how Donald Trump is thinking,” Kelly said.

At the end of the day, Kelly concluded that she supports Kimmel leaving the U.S. — but challenges whether or not he actually ever would.

“In any event, he should go, he should definitely leave. He won’t, he’s just saying that to get plaudits from fellow leftist Sarah Silverman and from people who listen to that show,” Kelly said. “He will never leave his very lucrative but loser of a show on ABC late night. He’s not going to abandon that because feeling important and like he matters is too important to Jimmy Kimmel. But he’s got to get stroked by leftists by saying he’s gotten Italian citizenship and he may indeed exercise it by leaving a United States that even Donald Trump feels has gone too far. Not our guy for insight’s on Trump’s thinking, I think we know that.”

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That was his ask on a 2021 episode of “Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend” in promotion of the first “Nobody” — but alas, audiences can’t expect the comic to pop up in its sequel either, which hits theaters Friday via Universal Pictures.

“When the first ‘Nobody’ came out, I had you on, I loved it, we had a great interview, and I said at the end, ‘If you ever make another one, you’ve got to put me in it.’ You went, ‘Yeah! Yeah!’” O’Brien recalled on Monday’s episode before lamenting: “I’m not in it! I just want to be beaten. I want somebody to beat the s–t out of me.”

The host’s actual 2021 pitch went a bit differently: He positioned himself as a potential “sexual dynamo” for the still unconfirmed sequel, pressuring Odenkirk to find a role “for an old friend.” The Emmy nominee did seem interested in the idea.

“I’m hoping there are sequels. I’m also hoping if there is a sequel, you’ll find a role for an old friend,” O’Brien said at the time. “With maybe a little makeup I could not look like myself and I could play a guy who’s a sexual dynamo.”

“OK — will you start training for that?” Odenkirk asked, playing along.

“Yes I will. Yes I will,” the host assured. “I’m taking the medication now.”

Unfortunately, their game plan didn’t come to pass. But on Monday’s episode of “Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend,” the two longtime pals began looking ahead to a potential third installment to round out a “Nobody” trilogy.

“When ‘Nobody 3’ comes out, I just want to be — put me in clown makeup, it won’t be me, and I’ll be a small … But I just want someone to beat me to death,” O’Brien insisted, to which Odenkirk responded: “We’ll make it happen.”

So, here’s to hoping.

Elsewhere in the interview, O’Brien enthused over Odenkirk’s chameleonic career — one that he admittedly never saw coming. (The two met in 1988 comedy circles and eventually worked together on “Saturday Night Live.”) The actor also opened up about his scrape with death on the set of “Better Call Saul” after suffering a heart attack in July 2021, and more.

Watch the full episode below:

“Nobody 2” hits theaters nationwide on Friday.

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“We paddled 13 miles down the coast, and you’re kind of almost a mile offshore, and then my leash snapped,” Momoa recalled of his trip with friends. “It’s so windy on Maui, and so the board just went. I couldn’t even see it anymore.”

He sat down with “Smartless” hosts Will Arnett, Jason Bateman and Sean Hayes to discuss his career amid the premiere season of his new Apple TV+ project, “Chief of War.” Roughly 17 minutes into the episode, Momoa talked about the nearly fatal trip that changed his life.

“Wait, so tell me, when you’re in that position of almost drowning, what is your brain … you know it’s happening. Do you have a protocol of what to do in that moment? Are you even thinking clearly enough to know how to save yourself?” Hayes asked.

“Yeah, yeah, yeah, well, I was trained pretty well, so it was fine. So it was just, I took quite a few on the head. They were pretty big, like 10-foot Hawaiian waves, but I’m literally probably a mile offshore,” Momoa said. “It’s actually, this place is called S–tf–ks, and it’s literally because there’s all this water that pulls out, and it just pulls you out and you just get hit with these waves. So I was stuck in this crazy spot, which is probably the outer reef, and unknown to me, I was really on the outer reef, and they couldn’t see me, and I had my paddle and I was waving it, and they couldn’t see me.”

“The waves were so big, it was basically, it took my shorts off they were so f–king big,” Momoa continued.

“‘Shorts off at S–tf–ks.’ I’m pretty sure that’s in the Village,” Bateman quipped.

Momoa thought of his daughter, who was three months old at the time. The former Aquaman and future Lobo said he remained in the water long enough that he could no longer move his arms or legs.

“I literally gave up and I’m screaming inside, and my foot just hits the outer reef, and I don’t know if it was a f–king whale or like just could be one rock, but I just reached down, grabbed it, I jump up, I get hit by another wave,” he said. “I dig my feet into the coral and I’m literally in the middle of the ocean, and I’m just, I could barely put my lips above it just to breathe and get a break, but I had already given up, so it’s like, you’ve already given up and died and have a second chance at it.”

Momoa said he stayed in this spot for another 10 minutes before his friend rode in on his surfboard, the other board in tow. Momoa also spoke about the journey home, with his feet covered in blood, trying to go over the waves.

In fact, the actor said it’s the only thing that’s ever gotten him to quit smoking.

“I used to smoke like two, three packs a day. I had a roller pouch. I couldn’t stop for my kids, I couldn’t stop for my ex, I couldn’t stop smoking,” he admitted. “The moment I came out, I never smoked again. I just died. I just died. I tried and tried, but I couldn’t do it again because I just, I gave up. Like, I gave up my life.”

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Olyphant’s slip up happened while he was appearing on Conan O’Brien’s podcast “Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend” on Friday. At the time O’Brien mentioned that he had heard whispers about there being a second chapter to the 2019 film.

“There was talk of maybe being other projects coming out …,” O’Brien said.

“There is! There’s a sequel that Tarantino wrote and [director David] Fincher’s directing about Brad Pitt’s killer,” O’Brien’s co-host Matt Gourley said.

That’s when Olyphant silently mouthed “I’m in it” to Gourley.

“Are they filming this?” Olyphant questioned, realizing he was on camera while sharing the supposed reveal.

He quickly cleared the air by saying he’s not sure if he’ll actually be in it.

“I don’t know,” Olyphant said trying to change the subject.

“Do you want us to cut it?” Gourley asked, offering to edit the moment out of the podcast episode before publishing.

“I don’t know … they’ll be … let’s see,” Olyphant answered, trying to find the right words.

“I’m hoping I’m in it,” Olyphant added. “You never know. It only is what it is.”

Jokingly offended that Olyphant withheld the information from him as his friend, O’Brien called Olyphant out on his secret.

“That’d be a big deal that you’d probably tell your friends about, right?” O’Brien asked.

“I haven’t seen you!” Olyphant exclaimed.

“You haven’t seen me?!” O’Brien said in mocked shock. “Yes, you’ve seen me. You saw me like a month ago … Are you telling your friends? Are you telling your friends?”

By the end of the conversation, O’Brien shared that he would have thought Olyphant would tell him about his casting given how much the late night host loved the first “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.”

“Anyway, I think you would have told me that. You knew what a huge fan I am of
the first film,” O’Brien said. “Uh, you think you might mention that to me?”

Olyphant said it was “just a few weeks ago” that he had learned about the opportunity, adding that he still isn’t sure about the role.

“I’m still not sure,” Olyphant said.

So far, there are not many details about Tarantino’s sequel other than it has been titled “The Adventures of Cliff Booth,” and the film will be focused on the character Cliff Booth, with Brad Pitt reprising the role, per reports.

You can watch the full exchange in the video above.

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The series champ appeared on Tuesday’s episode of the “Games With Names” podcast, hosted by New England Patriots Super Bowl MVP Julian Edelman. Mid-conversation he was asked whether he liked “Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby,” the 2006 hit comedy starring Will Ferrell as a wildly successful but dim-witted NASCAR driver who coined the phrase “If you’re not first, you’re last.”

“Do (drivers) like ‘Talladega Nights?’ Is that movie funny or is that dumb for you guys?,” co-host Sam Morrill asked Larson, who somewhat hesitated to answer.

“I — I mean I like the movie,” Larson said. “I think it did not do anything good for our sport. I think it turned our sport into like a joke unfortunately. But uh, it is — I mean that’s got to be like the most — one of the most popular race movies.”

Edelman tried to block-and-tackle for the 2006 hit by Adam McKay – “It’s just a funny comedy with those boys,” he said – but Larson stayed in the gas.

“Yeah. But that’s just — I feel like it — just the rest of the world, like that’s what they think about our sport now,” Larson said.

[Note to Larson: They already thought that.]

“I still think of … one of the hottest short men of all time getting pulled over by some really smoke-show scene after winning the Daytona 500,” Edelman said. “Yeah, that’s what I think of. The coolest.”

“That might be one of the best movie scenes in the history of movies, dude,” Larson said.

Alright, so maybe not great for NASCAR, but good for short dudes.

“That’s what I always used to say when I had a taller girlfriend,” the relatively diminutive (for the NFL) Edelman said. “Real relationship right there, baby. I feel like a NASCAR driver right now. I’m about to get in my car.”

Larson also noted that his friend (and Hendrick Motorsports boss) Jeff Gordon told him the other night that a “Days of Thunder” sequel is seriously on the mind of Tom Cruise.

“[Gordon] is good friends with Tom and he went to … the premiere or whatever of ‘Mission Impossible,'” Larson said. “When [Gordon saw] Tom, he’s like, ‘We’re doing it. We got to do another ‘Days of Thunder.’ So, let’s go.”

Watch the entire exchange in the video above.

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