Arizona Cardinals draft pick Josh Rosen, an excellent quarterback who’s also famous for having opinions like a human or something, gives a fascinating interview to ESPN in which he drops such polarizing statements as “I want to be the best QB that I possibly f---ing can be. When the NFL decides I suck, I want to be the absolute best at the next thing in my life.” The gall!

During one segment, in which interviewer Sam Alipour is running through Rosen’s many character critiques (some of which Rosen acknowledges as fair), this happens as part of the “Rosen’s too smart for football” discussion:

What else are you curious about presently? Film. I’m a big documentary guy. I just saw Icarus. That was pretty good. And I love every Christopher Nolan movie. Especially Interstellar. I’m a big Neil deGrasse Tyson fan. I’ve read all his books — now I’m on Astrophysics for People in a Hurry. I watched the whole Cosmos series. And I’m a huge fan of Elon Musk. I think he’s getting ready to nuke the poles, spark some global warming over there — Wait, slow down, bro. What are we talking about right now? [Laughs] Not to sound like a nerd, but Elon’s goal with Mars is to find a way to speed up the greenhouse effect, heat up the planet and grow vegetation, possibly by launching nuclear warheads at the poles. You know how a volcano erupts and ash suffocates Earth? If you do that on Mars — see, now people will go, “He’s too smart!” No, I just think it’s cool! [Laughs] I’m not smart enough to be an astrophysicist. I’m curious enough to read what they want to tell me.

Live your life in such a way that your interviewer has to ask you what question you’re even answering.

Is that Mars thing real?

Oh, like Josh Rosen would tell you lies. Of course it’s real. In Elon Musk’s head. Which is a simulation in which we all live.

[Musk] doesn’t want to nuke the surface of Mars; he just wants to nuke the sky over the Martian poles every couple of seconds. The idea, he said, is to create two tiny pulsing “suns” over the regions. “They’re really above the planet, they’re not on the planet,” Musk said at an event for Solar City in New York City’s Times Square this morning. Every few moments, he wants to send a large fusion bomb over the poles, to create small blinking suns. “A lot of people don’t appreciate that our Sun is a large fusion explosion,” he said. The tiny suns would then warm up the planet and turn any frozen carbon dioxide into gas. CO2 is a potent greenhouse gas, meaning it absorbs and traps heat. The more of the gas that’s in the atmosphere, the warmer the surface of Mars becomes.

Rosen’s UCLA career is a Rorschach test in which some see really underwhelming production and others see brilliant mechanics doomed by injuries and a bad team. But this draft has four guys I saw as a legit No. 1 — Baker Mayfield would be my pick, I’m cool with Rosen and Lamar Jackson, and I’m coming around on Sam Darnold — and not really any actual character concerns that we know of in the bunch.

Rosen’s said a lot of stuff, and he admits he wouldn’t say things now the same way he did as a college sophomore. Imagine having to defend some of your wildest opinions from when you were an underclassman. Right?

Now can I show you something?

Thank you.