Tom Cruise says he jumped out of a helicopter eight times on the first day of filming Mission: Impossible, calling the dangerous stunt “wild” “Today is day one of principal photography, and we are starting in classic Mission form with the biggest stunt in the film.” “What we're doing here is I'm just doing jumps just to warm up the body. I'm trying not to smile.” “I jumped off that eight times. Eight times, I know. It was wild. It was wild.”

Caller: Dave, I’m 69, and my 79 year old husband has secretly gambled away over $1 million of our savings. We used to have more than $1 million, but now we have just $15,000 left. He makes $350,000 a year as a pharmacist, yet he insists he can control his sports betting. Dave: He gambled away a million dollars, and he still thinks he has it under control? Caller: He says he can limit himself to $700 or $800 a month. He doesn’t seem to understand how serious this is. Dave: That’s not control. That’s denial. You don’t lose a million dollars gambling and fix the problem by promising to lose less next month. Caller: I love him, but I’m terrified we’ll lose everything. We’re almost 70, and I don’t know how to get through to him. Dave: He needs professional addiction treatment immediately. You need to protect whatever money you have left, and he needs to stop gambling completely. Caller: What if he refuses to get help? Dave: Then you have to be prepared to leave. You cannot save someone from an addiction when they refuse to admit they have a problem. And you cannot sacrifice your entire financial future trying. Caller: So I have to choose between my marriage and protecting myself? Dave: He’s the one making that choice every time he gambles. You’re not responsible for his addiction, and you don’t have to let it destroy the rest of your life.

Glen Powell says he puked inside a Navy jet while filming Top Gun, only for the pilot to flip the plane upside down and send his vomit flying straight back into his face “I didn't want to embarrass myself in front of this naval aviator. These guys are tough, they're cool. I'm the actor in the back of the plane.” “As I'm violently puking in this bag, I hear him say, ‘Well, buddy, if you're ready to rock and roll, let's rock and roll.’ Then he inverts the plane.” “I'm looking at the ground, and the puke that I just puked is being puked back into my face.” “I don't think we're going to make a sequel because of this reason. It's probably just me.”

Glenn Powell says Tom Cruise pushed him to skydive solo, and when he couldn't find his parachute tab mid freefall, he thought Tom had just killed him. “Tom hit me up a couple weeks later and was like, ‘Hey man, like, what are you scared?’” “Tom's only request was that I couldn't go skydiving with another person. I had to go solo the first time.” “My first thought was like, ‘Oh, Tom just killed me.’” “I'm looking for the tab and I'm like, ‘You're not Tom Cruise. You'll never be Tom Cruise. Why did you do this?’” “I finally pulled it. It was way below altitude. Came in hot. Made it. Went back up, did it again.”

Miles Teller says he broke out in hives after a flight while filming Top Gun: Maverick, and was shocked to discover he had flame retardant, pesticides, and jet fuel in his blood. Tom Cruise’s response was priceless. “I landed, we got done, and I was like, ‘Man, I’m not feeling too good.’ I was really hot, and I just started itching like crazy. I get out of the jet, and I’m covered in hives. Like, head to toe.” “My blood work comes back and I have flame retardant, pesticides, and jet fuel in my blood.” “I told Tom, ‘Well, Tom, it turns out I have jet fuel in my blood.’ Without even skipping a beat, Tom just goes, ‘Yeah, I was born with it, kid.’” “I thought, wait a second, this is actually kind of cool. And it was ,there’s your Top Gun. That was a very Tom moment for me.”

Caller: Dave, my wife graduates dental school in May. We owe $750,000 in student loans, plus I have another $40,000 in consumer debt. Where do we even start? Dave: You two don't understand how bad this is yet. Her debt is double what it should have been for that degree. Caller: We were told dentists make good money and can handle it. Dave: That's the trap. Dentists carry this stuff for 20 years and call it normal. It's not normal. It's a mess you made, and you have to own that. Caller: Okay. So what do we do? Dave: You live like absolute poor people. Rice, beans, no vacations, no new anything. Caller: How long are we talking? Dave: You're about to make $300,000 to $400,000 a year combined. Live like this and throw everything at the debt, and you can be done in about three years. Caller: And if we don't? Dave: Then you're paying on this until your kids are in college. Three years of misery, or twenty years of payments.

Caller: “I’m 65. I have a $300,000 paid off house, $70,000 in savings, and I’m working as a receptionist making $1,600 a month.” Dave Ramsey: “Keep $20,000 as your emergency fund and invest the other $50,000.” Dave Ramsey: “You could sell your house, buy a $150,000 condo, and invest the remaining $150,000 for your retirement.” Caller: “But isn’t it too late for me to start over?” Dave Ramsey: “You used to be a medical lab technician. Why are you settling for a receptionist job? Go back and use the skills you already have.” Dave Ramsey: “And never let your spouse make major financial decisions without full transparency. Day trading is not a retirement plan.”

Eddie Murphy recalled how Keenen Ivory Wayans ended up wearing his iconic red leather suit out to Studio 54 back when they were teenagers. “Keenan's like 6'4", with muscles, so the suit was busting off him. And I said, 'I dare you to go out with that suit on.'” “He was 'Frenchy' one night from 10:00 to 6:00 in the morning, and didn't come out of character... and at the end of the night the suit was destroyed.” “Girls would call the house to be like, 'Is Frenchy there?' He was like, 'I can't go out with her. She met me as Frenchy.'”

Nathan Fielder hilariously claims his real Boeing 737 flight over the Mojave Desert could become a turning point in aviation, even comparing it to the “Miracle on the Hudson” “I found someone who would lease me a 737, and it’s very hard to convince someone to lease a comedian a 737. But I found someone to do it, and we chartered a real flight over the Mojave Desert.” “When people look back at this miracle over the Mojave, they will see that this might be a turning point in aviation.”

Jenna Ortega says she’s been comparing herself to the biggest action stars in Hollywood, Tom Cruise and Arnold Schwarzenegger while training for her upcoming gymnastics film “Arnold Schwarzenegger. We’ve been doing a lot of Arnold Schwarzenegger movies.” “Tom Cruise, there’s two people who operate at this athletic level that I’m on right now, and I think it’s me and Tom going back to back. Neck and neck.”

Eddie Murphy reveals how Rudy Ray Moore turned low budget movies and hilarious mistakes into a legacy that inspired him as a filmmaker. “You could see the microphone coming in the shot. And that’s what made everybody start watching them initially.” “When I got into movies, I found out how he made his movies, he became an inspirational figure to me. He’s a guerrilla filmmaker.”

John Oliver claims he once cooked breakfast for the Queen at Buckingham Palace, then reveals an even crazier story. “I made the Queen an omelette for breakfast.” “The Queen would not eat feta cheese!” “I flew in on an umbrella, you racist!” “At 19, I was thrown out of a Tokyo sauna for not being naked enough.”

Helen Mirren says she was nervous about having to smoke on camera because she does not smoke at all in real life, but she discovered a trick to make it look believable. ​“I’ve discovered actually, all you really need to do is have a lit cigarette in your hand,” Mirren explained. “And just once, in the whole two hours, you have to [exhale smoke]. But only once. The rest of the time, you just have a lit cigarette in your hand.”

Jenna Ortega says horror films felt like a dream job because they gave her the chance to portray intense, insane emotions, and reveals how deliberately pursuing the genre helped shape her career, leading to Scream, X, and Wednesday. “I just signed to a new agency, and they asked me what I wanted to be doing, and I said, ‘I really want to get into horror films.’ “When I was younger, when I was really little, I was always interested in dark things, but I would freak myself out and not sleep for weeks. “I thought that it was a great opportunity for an actor to portray such high, intense, insane feelings. Horror just seemed like a dream job. “I think Scream came around first. I filmed my X tape in the hotel room while shooting Scream, right after we had shot the opening sequence.”

Tom Hiddleston shares the powerful advice that shaped his approach to filmmaking and why every creative project deserves your whole heart “Whenever people argued about not having enough time or money to make a film, Gary Goetzman would quietly say, ‘It’s only forever.’” “I love that, and I’ve taken that with me. I must have heard that story in 2009.” “You never know which ones will connect, but you owe it to yourself, to the audience, and to each other to commit your whole soul to it while you have the privilege of bringing an idea to life.”

Tom Hiddleston reveals how Loki’s final scene in Season 2 became a reflection of his own 15 year journey in the MCU “Aaron Moorhead and Justin Benson told me, ‘Have a think about the journey that it's taken to get here, for you. Not for Loki, but for you.’” “I thought about Kenneth Branagh, Chris Hemsworth, all the original six Avengers, every director, every crew member, every makeup artist, and the stunt people I'd worked with.” “Loki was holding all the timelines together, but for me, that moment represented 15 years of memories, friendships, and experiences.”

Tom Cruise reveals he came up with Les Grossman’s bizarre look in Tropic Thunder himself, insisting on fat hands and a dance routine for the character “I said, ‘Well, I got to play this character.’ But I said, ‘I’ve got to have fat hands, and I want to dance.’” “He doesn’t think so. Les doesn’t think so. He thinks he’s a player. He’s a player.” “I just started dancing. In the makeup test, I was like, ‘Look, this is how I think he’s going to want to move.’ We just ad libbed and played around.”

A little girl asked her father why they never went on vacation like her classmates. He told her they were saving money for something special. The truth was much harder. Her father had been working overtime for months, but after rent, groceries, transportation, and debt payments, there was barely anything left. He had started eating lunch at work only when someone brought extra food. His wife thought he was skipping meals to lose weight. He didn't correct her. One evening, he showed me his bank balance. $41.27. He smiled and said, “As long as my kids don't feel like we're struggling, I'll figure something out.” But how long can a person keep pretending everything is fine when the numbers say otherwise? Some parents aren't trying to give their children a luxurious life. They're just trying to make sure their children never feel how scared they are. How many families look financially stable from the outside but are barely holding things together behind closed doors?

Tom Cruise reveals he literally caught fire while performing a real life stunt for Mission Impossible and casually admits the crew doesn't tell actors how dangerous it is “If your hair catches on fire, if you catch on fire, please don't let go. I'll put you out.” “The explosion happened and I'm burning. Embers are flying off my hair, and I look at her and she's going, ‘Oh my gosh.’” When David Letterman asked if the stunt was safe, Cruise admitted, “No, it's not. We don't tell them that it's not safe.”

Anna Kendrick reveals the hilariously awkward thing she had to say after three of her films premiered at Sundance on the same day “Somebody would be like, ‘Oh, you did such a great job in your film. Congratulations.’ And I would have to say, ‘Which one?’” “She called me one night and was like, ‘Do you want to go to Mexico tomorrow?’ And she's a weirdo, so I was like, ‘This'll be great.’” “I would tell the escort that she should say something nice to Aubrey because Aubrey gets really jealous of how famous I am.”