He also keeps calling it a "scourge", which is a term from the video game series Mass Effect.
The Scourge is the colloquial term for a huge and extremely dangerous interstellar phenomenon sighted across much of the Heleus cluster. It appears to be a cloud spreading in "tendrils" that affect planets and surrounding space, destroying starships that attempt to pass through or near it.
https://masseffectandromeda.gamepedia.com/Scourge
He played a serial killer in From Dusk Til Dawn, and there was that cdan awhile back about him poisoning a rival's batch of alcohol, if I remember right.
Correction, he played a bank robber in that movie.