Hot Ones, the talk show in which hot sauce assists in garnering some truly candid interviews from a wide range of guests, welcomed Honey Boy writer and star Shia LaBeouf to the ring for its latest episode.

There's too much worth your time in the resulting clip to lay it all out in text form here, so you should definitely watch the full thing up top. An arguable highlight, however, arrives around 15 minutes in when LaBeouf is asked to confirm or refute a number of headlines connected with everything from his pre-Even Stevens days to his work with Tom Hardy in the acclaimed 2012 drama Lawless.