The Rich Eisen Show Top 5’s Big Question: Are Ice Cube & O’Shea Jackson Jr Related to Genghis Khan??

O'Shea Jackson Jr. had things to get off his chest, so the show handed him a graphic and let him run his own Top 5: the things that genuinely keep him up at night. The result was equal parts conspiracy board and stand-up set.

The headliner, fittingly at number five, was personal. Jackson noted that roughly 1 in 200 men on the planet are related to Genghis Khan, a fact made far more interesting by his own name. His given name, Temüjin, is Genghis Khan's real name, because his father named him after the conqueror. Jackson is now almost certain there is some Genghis Khan in his DNA, and a statue he saw a while back has been bothering him ever since. A paternity test, the room joked, might not go the way he expects.

From there he spiraled outward into the great unsolved mysteries of modern life. Number four was the sudden disappearance of the PT Cruiser, a car that was once everywhere and that Jackson has not spotted since around 2013, like the simulation quietly deleted them. He extended the grievance to the Plymouth Prowler, before someone pointed out a yellow one parked behind the building.

Number three sent him across the globe to a spot off the coast of Australia near the Tiwi Islands, where a 12-mile-high thunderstorm reportedly forms every day at 3:00 p.m. for months at a time. They call it Hector the Convector, and pilots use it to navigate. A storm that punctual, Jackson marveled, is clearly hiding a portal that needs investigating, and as the show noted, Hector is not running on anyone's time but his own.

His number two was a personal favorite kind of unsettling: scientists genuinely do not know where eels come from. American and European eels, he explained, all head to the Bermuda Triangle and come back with more eels, which only deepened his real frustration that nobody seems alarmed enough about the Bermuda Triangle itself.

The number one offense was the most poetic. Jackson cannot abide whoever invented the word hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia, which, cruelly, is the fear of long words. TJ's guess that it meant a fear of hippos was reasonable but wrong, and the segment dissolved into a breakdown of its Greek and Latin roots and the agreement that naming it that was an act of genuine evil.

For an honorable mention, Jackson dropped his most unhinged take of all: pandas, he insisted, are not real. They are a man-made bear, in his telling, incapable of basic survival, absent from the Chinese zodiac, and somehow the national animal of a country whose ancient art never depicted them. With that, Ice Cube Jackson Jr. rested his case.