Jeff Goldblum does rope tricks for Stephen Colbert, never gets around to promoting anything

Then whipping out a hank of rope, Goldblum shared some nifty knot tricks while regaling Colbert’s audience with tales of how Johnny Carson (who, as it turns out, co-produced Goldblum’s 1983 breakout ensemble drama, The Big Chill) invited the entire cast to his Malibu mansion and showed off his own close-up magic skills. Goldblum also shared one enticing tidbit the actor says he learned from talking to NASA personnel for his show—that some astronauts return to Earth with a mysterious eye defect, but only the male astronauts, and only in their right eye. Colbert noted that that sounds like the setup for a particularly creepy space horror movie, even if, as it turns out, the science behind the phenomenon is a little more mundane.

But “mundane” isn’t really in Jeff Goldblum’s vocabulary, as the star of Thor: Ragnarok and The Mountain waxed Goldblum-ian on everything from Colbert’s salt-and-pepper hair (apparently a dead ringer for the legendary Hollywood manes of both Peter Lawford and Cesar Romero) to the unique power of music. Bandleader Jon Batiste expressed approval for noted jazz enthusiast Goldblum’s description of the intimacy of connection between musician and audience, although whether that extends to Goldblum’s assertion that music “somehow can go right to your gizzard” is unknown. After that, there was just time for a little improvised “You Are My Sunshine” duet from Colbert and Goldblum, and we’re out.

Oh, The World According To Jeff Goldblum, Season 2 is now streaming on Disney+.