Hero or Dick - S3., Ep. 12 - Dan Akroyd

It's time for another episode of everybody's favorite unknown podcast--Hero or Dick! 

This time around, we explore the life and career of Dan Aykroyd, from his early days on SNL to his vodka selling and deep belief in paranormal phenomena. The Canadian-born comedian's journey reveals a multifaceted talent whose personal obsessions with ghosts, law enforcement, and aliens have shaped his creative output. 

We appreciate you!

~ Kate & KJ

Transcript

Welcome to Season 3 Episode 12

Speaker 1 0:02

Are we on?

Speaker 2 0:03

Oh, we're on.

Speaker 1 0:04

Hey, hey.

Speaker 2 0:05

Hey everybody.

Speaker 1 0:06

Welcome to Hero or Dick.

Speaker 2 0:08

Season two.

Speaker 1 0:09

Season three Three you never do the homework. Episode 11?

Speaker 2 0:16

12.

Speaker 1 0:17

12. It's episode 12.

Speaker 2 0:19

But it's overall episode 51.

Speaker 1 0:21

51.

Speaker 2 0:22

51.

Speaker 1 0:23

This is our 51st podcast.

Speaker 2 0:26

We celebrated the last one by doing a BS session.

Speaker 1 0:31

Yeah, that's what it was we did, and it was our 50th. Amazing, that's amazing.

Speaker 2 0:36

Good for us. My wife can't believe we've been at it this long.

Speaker 1 0:39

I think good for us.

Speaker 2 0:40

Yeah, it's good for us.

Speaker 1 0:42

I don't know, nobody else cares, but that's all right. I yeah, it's good for us. I don't know.

Speaker 2 0:45

Nobody else cares, but that's all right, I'm sweating. That's good to have a sweatshirt on. I know I do. Happy belated Fourth of July.

Speaker 1 0:53

Fourth of July happened Yep.

Speaker 2 0:55

You had a banger of a party.

Speaker 1 0:57

I heard I did not.

Speaker 2 0:58

No.

Speaker 1 0:59

But I had some people over. That's cool. I, I had some people over.

Speaker 2 1:01

That's cool.

Speaker 1 1:02

Jenna and Mike visited and then we had a cousin, Lynette, come and visit us. So she was cool, and then a week from now we get an aunt come to visit us. So July is a heavy visitation month.

Speaker 2 1:14

What about Cassidy?

Speaker 1 1:15

Cassidy came over for the day.

Speaker 2 1:17

Did she bring the?

Speaker 1 1:17

She brought a friend. Can we talk about the friend now or?

Speaker 2 1:20

no, I think so Okay.

Speaker 1 1:21

Right now, or no, I think. So Okay, he said I met him for the first time. He said I feel like I know you because I've heard your voice so often and I'm like where? Yeah here it is. And then he said oh, on your podcast. Oh yeah, my 50th podcast.

Speaker 2 1:39

The 50th podcast of Hero or Dick at no. Herodick2023 at gmailcom yeah have you checked it?

Speaker 1 1:48

I have. Um, we asked people to give us some suggestions last week. Remember to pick a topic we got a winner we do have a winner, and only because cassidy is very dedicated.

Speaker 2 2:01

What were the topics?

Speaker 1 2:02

again, the topics we had. Should we do? Elephants, chickens, emo punk, eva Peron, or also known as Evita, or Scientology?

Speaker 2 2:15

And I can see your calculations there.

Speaker 1 2:17

It looks like I have one vote for Scientology, that's it. So Scientology wins, but not today. And today we're sad because we were going to do a podcast on chickens and we had two chicken experts here and by that I mean people who have chickens, and they are experts and my niece was going to visit us in person in studio and then we were going to do a call-in to Lori.

Speaker 2 2:47

Yeah, we were going to have a couple of live chickens.

Speaker 1 2:49

Yeah, and we were going to have live chickens here and then maybe even.

Speaker 2 2:52

Butcher a chicken. If we had.

Speaker 1 2:53

Popeye's chicken. We could have ate that too, but we're not doing any of that because we had to delay it. Emily couldn't make it. Unfortunate, but we hope Steve is better. Steve got in a motorcycle accident, which sounds bad always and it is bad, but he's okay right now.

Speaker 2 3:10

Well.

Speaker 1 3:11

So but the chickens.

Delaying the Chicken Topic

Speaker 2 3:12

They're not going away, they're on the back burner. Oh are they.

Speaker 1 3:16

In a pot or a frying pan. Oh, they'd always be deep fried.

Speaker 2 3:19

But listen, I started doing research on chickens. Chickens are interesting and I fucking feel horrible. I mean fricking feel horrible. Why can you not say that? I just think I've been saying it too much. We've been getting some hate mail.

Speaker 1 3:31

Frickins are a lot better Fricking chicken. But what did you find out?

Speaker 2 3:36

Well, I mean, we're horrible humans. Oh yeah, the way we treat animals in general.

Speaker 1 3:46

I mean we'll talk about it more, but yeah, when we get to chickens I I will just add this one bit of info that I know someone who had gone through a tyson plant chicken processing plant and never ate chicken again yeah, don't do that, don't watch the videos.

Speaker 1 3:58

So yeah I mean yeah but the chicken people we are going to have are chicken lovers. They have chickens in their backyard and I'm telling you, I haven't been to Emily's backyard chicken place. Lori's backyard chicken place is like I would move in there. Yeah, they're living large.

Speaker 2 4:19

Do they eat them too? No, oh, I mean, I guess, whatever People can eat chicken.

Speaker 1 4:24

No, I don't think she doesn't not eat. They don't eat those chickens, and I don't think they're big chicken eaters anyway.

Speaker 2 4:30

Right, but I'm just saying that there's a humane way, or does it even matter?

Speaker 1 4:35

And then there's the fake chicken, like you said.

Speaker 2 4:38

Yeah, once again shout out to Friendly Foodies for their plukya tacos.

Speaker 1 4:44

Cassidy went there when she was in town. She said it was delicious.

Speaker 2 4:48

Hey, have you been to the? We got to talk about town a little bit. Have you been to the Second Avenue coffee shop yet?

Speaker 1 4:54

No, I have not.

Speaker 2 4:55

I was going to text you and tell you to stop there and get coffee.

Speaker 1 4:58

And they were busy. They have food too.

Speaker 2 5:00

Oh, do they? I don't know, maybe not. On Facebook it said they have like sandwiches.

Speaker 1 5:04

Oh, maybe, I don't know I haven't been in there yet.

Speaker 2 5:08

It's right next to the Polish corner. They have a new cook there.

Speaker 1 5:11

At the Polish corner.

Speaker 2 5:12

I don't know. These are the things I hear, Kate. I don't know firsthand. It was always good food. Yes, A little slow. Well, Apparently it comes out quicker because they redesigned the kitchen.

Speaker 1 5:22

They did redo the kitchen.

Speaker 2 5:24

I think Gordon Ramsay was in there.

Speaker 1 5:26

Yeah, no, it's that guy who redoes Bar Rescue.

Speaker 2 5:29

Oh man, that guy from the mafia.

Speaker 1 5:32

He's worse than Gordon Ramsay.

Speaker 2 5:34

I like that guy. I used to hate him.

Speaker 1 5:37

Gordon.

Speaker 2 5:37

Ramsay. When I first watched those shows, I'm like wow, what a prick.

Speaker 1 5:40

It's just a show, I don't know. Years ago, cassidy and I were in London together and we went to a Gordon Ramsay restaurant and it was fabulous. It was fabulous and the last time we went we went to an exclusive kind of bougie Gordon Ramsay and the food was really good, but it wasn't as good as the other one. Hmm, yeah.

Speaker 2 6:04

Why Was one in America, one in Europe?

Speaker 1 6:07

No, they were both in London. It was, you know, probably 10 years time difference. And the second time we went it was like I said the food was good but you ordered like the chef's menu or something like that, and they just bring you the food. You don't really get a choice and that's fine. I mean, mean, I'm not picky and it was all really good food. I think it was a service. The service was too good, and by that I mean, if you took a sip of water, they're over there for a little bit. It's like back off right back off.

Speaker 1 6:37

Give me some space, man, yeah so, but it was enjoyable and we had a good time.

Speaker 2 6:43

So anyway, yeah, gordon, I like when he does those shows and the people tell him or say that he doesn't know what good food tastes like and I know it is subjective taste buds but you're telling a guy that's got five Michelin star restaurants I think he knows. Yeah, it's like somebody telling you how to knit. You'd be like fuck you, I know what I'm doing.

Speaker 1 7:10

No, I don't you do.

Speaker 2 7:13

I've seen this stuff that should be our swag. Knitted goods by Kate. Knitted goods by Kate.

Speaker 1 7:19

I do have a lot of hats, if anybody needs a hat. I still have hats left over from the 50-year hat. What One year. My knitting goal was to knit 50 hats.

Speaker 2 7:29

Oh.

Speaker 1 7:29

And so I did it, and I still have a few.

Speaker 2 7:32

I thought you might have some from 50 years ago.

Speaker 1 7:34

No, no, oh, that would be cool, though it would be. Yeah, huh, I don't know, I don't know.

Speaker 2 7:45

They don't look that different really.

Speaker 1 7:47

A knitted hat. You know it doesn't really change, it doesn't? Well, I mean it can, but I have knitted a chicken hat too, by the way.

Speaker 2 7:51

Oh my.

Speaker 1 7:52

It's true.

Speaker 2 7:54

No, we can't talk about chickens anymore.

Speaker 1 7:55

But no, no, wash the chickens away, because today's topic is what is it?

Dan Aykroyd's Early Life

Speaker 2 8:03

What is it? Daniel Edward Ackroyd, born July 1st 1952 in Ottawa, canada.

Speaker 1 8:12

So happy belated birthday there, Dan Ackroyd. Yeah, Dan yeah.

Speaker 2 8:16

Ackroyd, the second half of the Blues Brothers.

Speaker 1 8:20

Or is he the first half?

Speaker 2 8:21

Whatever, and Roman from the Great Outdoors, which I started watching again last night.

Speaker 1 8:26

You know I made a list of his movies and almost everyone in the 80s was great. Well, let's talk about him first.

Speaker 2 8:36

Go ahead, go ahead. You said you had all this research.

Speaker 1 8:41

What I mean? I have some.

Speaker 2 8:43

You know well, he wanted to be a priest. Yes, True. That's all I have.

Speaker 1 8:49

He was raised Catholic, he went to Catholic school and he thought for a time he would like to be a priest.

Speaker 2 8:54

He was diagnosed with Tourette's. Tourette's.

Speaker 1 8:57

And.

Speaker 2 8:57

Asperger's.

Speaker 1 8:59

Much later in life which. I thought was interesting.

Speaker 2 9:02

Doesn't everybody have something?

Speaker 1 9:05

Everybody has something.

Speaker 2 9:06

They do it's the truth. I mean, I'm not dismissing anybody. No, no judgment, I don't know if we're really good at diagnosing stuff now, but everybody has something.

Speaker 1 9:14

And probably when he was young.

Speaker 2 9:16

you know Asperger's wasn't really prevalent or they didn't know what it was they didn't know what it was, so but he said that um that has fueled his um obsessions with certain things which we'll get to later, but like ghosts, law enforcement, aliens and science he had topics that he he has topics that he is passionate about, and good for him.

Speaker 1 9:43

Yeah, um, what is, oh, his other thing that he diagnosed? He said this is self-described, a trifle try pofob, pofob, which is the fear of looking at small holes, come on for instance you're fucking with me for instance, he said if he saw a sunflower with the seeds picked out of it, you know how there's like divots in there. He said that would just set him off the edge. Give him shivers, can't do that.

Speaker 2 10:15

I didn't happen upon that information, but that sounds fascinating.

Speaker 1 10:19

And how would you? I didn't know. There was a name for it, for one thing.

Speaker 2 10:22

What's it called again? Say it again no, never mind.

Speaker 1 10:27

T-R-Y-P-O-P-H-O-B-E Phobe, tripop, tripop.

Speaker 2 10:33

Afraid of holes.

Speaker 1 10:35

Afraid of small Small holes Like a deep hole that's subjective too. Same hole as Kola Okay. You know deep space? Fine, Okay, His little little hole.

Speaker 2 10:47

His dad wrote a book on spiritualism.

Speaker 1 10:51

He has a history, His family history. So let's see was it his great-.

Speaker 2 10:56

Great grandfather was a mystic.

Speaker 1 10:58

Was a mystic, which you know, during that time that wasn't uncommon, you know, during that time that wasn't uncommon. So that's like when, oh Houdini was trying to prove everybody wrong and a lot of people were holding seances. This was before cable TV, you know, before TV really. So what do you want to do tonight? Let's have a seance.

Speaker 2 11:20

We should have one here. We could we should do a podcast in your building in the dark with candles only.

Speaker 1 11:27

Okay, that sounds a little spooky, but I'll do it, it'd be cool. Halloween Halloween, it's important.

Speaker 2 11:34

We say all these things though.

Speaker 1 11:35

And then yeah, so we can have guests then.

Speaker 2 11:39

We could.

Speaker 1 11:39

If anybody wants to do that on Halloween, get ahold of us at the email address.

Speaker 2 11:46

Maybe a sound guy could show up, because I keep getting this buzzing.

Speaker 1 11:50

We can get rid of the buzzing.

Speaker 2 11:54

Well, his whole household, though, is like embrace the spiritualism.

Speaker 1 11:58

And they believed in it, and so he in turn believes that he has the. He is a seer, let's say Right, I guess. So I don't know, I think, I don't know he never really. I don't know if I think, I don't know, he never really.

Speaker 2 12:11

I don't know if he thinks that he never gave it a title. I know that he believes in the paranormal like to a fault almost.

Speaker 1 12:16

And he said he himself has seen or felt things. Sure, yeah, but I mean, who hasn't?

Speaker 2 12:22

And he saw a couple unidentified flying objects. Now they're called something else, though.

Speaker 1 12:27

They are called something else?

Speaker 2 12:28

Unidentified aerial phenomena, okay, whatever, a UOP.

Speaker 1 12:32

And how can there not be? Did we ever do a show on UFOs?

Speaker 2 12:35

I think so. No, ghosts, we did.

Speaker 1 12:39

Because I'm sure that there's. Are we so raggy and think so well of ourselves, or high and mighty, that we are the smartest thing around?

Speaker 2 12:55

Of course we think that no way, but we're wrong.

Speaker 1 12:57

No way. So back to Dan. He, of course, was on SNL and that's probably where people know him best.

Speaker 2 13:07

What years was he on there?

Speaker 1 13:09

He was on there from 75 to 79.

Speaker 2 13:12

In an original season. Original memory, yeah.

Speaker 1 13:14

One of the originals Coneheads the Coneheads was his.

Speaker 2 13:20

Remember the Bassamatic.

Speaker 1 13:22

I think that might be my favorite.

Speaker 2 13:23

That's very funny.

Speaker 1 13:25

It's definitely my favorite Dan Aykroyd one Also, the one where he is talking to Jane, no, no.

Speaker 2 13:32

You ignorant slut. Is that it? Oh, was it, I thought it was. Dan, I don't know, maybe it was Chevy Chase.

Speaker 1 13:41

But they're like in a talk show and he's defending these kid toys oh yes.

Speaker 2 13:48

Yes, yes, yes.

Speaker 1 13:50

Oh, that is hilarious. That one is really oh, yes, a bag of glass. Yes, yes, yes, I didn't think of that. Oh, that is hilarious. That one is really funny too. But that's good bass. That one's really funny. And of course, that's where the Blues Brothers started with his BFF, John Belushi.

Speaker 2 14:06

Johnny B.

Speaker 1 14:08

Love him too. He's dead, he died, he dead, he died, he dead, he dead. But he and Dan and John were kindred spirits, Coworkers and friends and then okay, so after SNL, he did a lot of things. He did a lot of movies In 92, he also co-founded the House of Blues. He did yeah, which they're all over and they're still going strong and they have a pretty good rep too. It's not like what was that other one? Oh, Planet Hollywood was kind of about that same time.

Speaker 2 14:44

Is that still around?

Speaker 1 14:45

I don't think so. I think that one folded.

The Blues Brothers and Music Legacy

Speaker 2 14:47

What is that like a hard rock cafe.

Speaker 1 14:48

Yeah, it was exactly like that. Yeah, he also co-founded Crystal Head Vodka.

Speaker 2 14:54

Oh, that's a whole thing there, eh.

Speaker 1 14:56

Yeah, eh, I like how you added the eh because, he's Canadian. I did that purposely for him, born in Ottawa.

Speaker 2 15:03

Yeah, I was listening to him go on about that and on and on and on and on and on About the vodka. To him go on about that and on and on and on and on and on about everything the guy's got diarrhea of the mouth.

Speaker 1 15:18

He says it's because of his Tourette's.

Speaker 2 15:19

But he just likes to talk. Yeah, and I'm, I mean, I'm annoying, but that dude, I was watching his podcast with Joe Rogan and listen to some other stuff and it's like he has. No, he can't read a room and he doesn't know when to end, wrap it up but anyway, he was talking about the vodka and how there's only like two places that have the specific diamond that they use to filter. Yes, the vodka.

Speaker 1 15:43

What was the name of? It? Had a particular Particular name.

Speaker 2 15:46

Yeah, I hate chicken, that's the particular pouch of Something like that. Oh, herkimer Diamonds, yeah, and I mean, there's no real explanation why it would filter the vodka, you know. But they say they've done taste tests and people like it better when it's filtered. And the thing with Joe Rogan you ever listen to that, yum, yum.

Speaker 1 16:11

I try not to because it's Joe Rogan, but sometimes he has people on there who I like and then I'm like why are they on Joe Rogan Right?

Speaker 2 16:20

But he I don't know. I used to listen to him a lot and once in a while I do now.

Speaker 1 16:25

Okay it was the whole vaccine thing that turned me off with him. Yeah, yeah. Well let's not talk about him I think he's learning that.

Speaker 2 16:32

he's got to learn to shut his mouth sometimes, but he shouldn't have to. But anyway, back to. He had him on there and one good thing I did like is he was like coming back on Dan on a lot of stuff and challenging him so that Dan would have to defend. Why do I believe in ghosts? Why is your vodka taste so good? Don't have to defend.

Speaker 1 16:50

Why do I believe in ghosts? Why is your vodka taste so good does?

Speaker 2 16:52

do the diamonds really do? And how did he do defending pretty good, yeah, but nothing concrete, you know which is fine.

Speaker 1 16:57

What does that mean?

Speaker 2 16:58

he believes yeah, yeah so, but it was interesting and that's that's where I heard the whole spiel about the booze the booze and he got in trouble. I think some stuff with that with the booze, yeah I don't know, there was some there was a controversy With the booze.

Speaker 1 17:08

Yeah, I don't know, there was some kind of there was a controversy with the booze yeah what was it?

Speaker 2 17:12

again the marketing. I'm trying to stop the buzz and get my notes to say that we should have got some of that here for you to drink while we're doing this.

Speaker 1 17:26

Is it vodka?

Speaker 2 17:27

Yeah, you don't like vodka I do like vodka.

Speaker 1 17:31

I like gin better.

Speaker 2 17:32

Oh, that's right, Gin's your drink. I keep forgetting, but anyway, there was a movie that he was pretty famous for. 1984 came out. I don't know if you saw it. Do you remember it?

Speaker 1 17:49

Was it Ghostbusters? It was, and he co-wrote that.

Speaker 2 17:54

I think yes, he did.

Speaker 1 17:56

And he used his paranormal background and I think that played into it very well.

Speaker 2 18:05

They had to reign him in.

Speaker 1 18:06

Did they Because he wanted to do it even more.

Speaker 2 18:08

It went a little wild. Yeah, he wanted to. His original script involved space, alternate dimensions, and then the director I think it was, or one of the other guys helped rein it in because he was going off the rails. It was too much, but look at it it turned out great For another movie. But it was his idea of a public service to people fighting spiritual evil with science.

Speaker 1 18:34

I wonder if he really wanted to do that and it's like, well, that's not going to happen, so let's make a movie about it.

Speaker 2 18:40

Could be, yeah.

Speaker 1 18:41

Maybe you know the best fact that I found about Dan was twofold. He has webbed feet. Come on, it's true. I saw a picture of it.

Speaker 2 18:57

Really.

Speaker 1 18:58

They're not really webbed, they're just like the middle toes on both of his feet are together.

Speaker 2 19:09

I guess that's called webbed.

Speaker 1 19:10

It is called so there's not like a physical web like Waterworld. Remember his webbed?

Speaker 2 19:16

feet, oh man.

Speaker 1 19:17

But they are funky feet for sure. And his other thing is he has two different colored eyes. So does my dog. Does he? What kind of dog is it Spindle? Because I think a lot of.

Speaker 2 19:33

She's bulldog.

Speaker 1 19:36

One kind of dog is bulldog.

Speaker 2 19:39

Hold on Pug and beagle.

Speaker 1 19:41

I think it's pug, but I don't know. One kind of dog is more susceptible to have that, but he has one green eye and one brown, so I wonder what it says on his driver's license.

Speaker 2 19:54

Yeah, what does it say? Green, brown, brown green, brown green.

Speaker 1 19:58

I don't know how you're looking at him. Not really, you can only look at his ass one way, but I thought that was interesting. He's got webbed feet, I mean, and that's what he says about aliens. He said if there's ever an alien, it's me, because I got webbed feet and two different colored eyes. Who knows, maybe he is Ottawa. I just watched the old old Superman last night part of it.

Speaker 2 20:25

With Christopher Reeves.

Speaker 1 20:26

It's Christopher Reeves, and when he gets plunked down in the middle of that field, how many people do we know that's happened to?

Speaker 2 20:33

You don't know Six, I know six.

Speaker 1 20:35

You know six, right off the bat.

Speaker 2 20:37

And three of them got struck by lightning.

Speaker 1 20:40

At the same time, yeah.

Speaker 2 20:42

People are getting probably dumped off. Who knows People are getting taken. Where are they going?

Speaker 1 20:47

They're getting probed and thrown back. They don't like that one, no well, or do they? Oh, also, another fun fact about uh dan is that he was doing a movie called dr detroit and he met his wife, donna dixon donna dixon, hey she blonde she's very blonde she was on.

Speaker 2 21:13

Ah, what show was it? Was she on three's company?

Speaker 1 21:16

no oh no, uh, I think she was on that tom hank show where he dressed up like a she was yes, that's what's that called uh, bosom buddies, some buddies, oh my god that's, oh, that was a. And what's that called Boozlem Buddies, boozlem Buddies, oh my.

Speaker 2 21:31

God, that's old. That was a good show.

Speaker 1 21:32

It was funny for its time. I don't know if it still holds true.

Speaker 2 21:35

No, it won't, Don't watch it again.

Speaker 1 21:37

So she was on that show and she is also Garth from Wayne and Garth on their movie what's it called.

Speaker 2 21:46

Wayne's World. Wayne's World.

Speaker 1 21:48

Yeah, she's his dream girl, oh, okay.

Speaker 2 21:52

You know and she's walking.

Speaker 1 21:53

fucks it lady. Fucks it lady. Uh-huh, that's Donna Dixon. Blonde they're actually separated right now, but they've been married for years.

Speaker 2 22:01

Yeah, 30-some years They've been separated. Married for no, just for a couple years.

Speaker 1 22:08

But we're going to stay married. We're just not together. Sure, yeah, it sounds perfect.

Speaker 2 22:14

I don't know His thing with the police culture. He's got honorary badges, he travels with a police radio and he has responded to emergencies.

Speaker 1 22:24

Really yeah, he takes it seriously. Get out of here. You're Dan Aykroyd.

Speaker 2 22:27

He took his badge out on that podcast. Get out of here. You're Dan Aykroyd. He took his badge out on that podcast.

Speaker 1 22:30

Joe Rogan showed him he has a real badge.

Speaker 2 22:31

Yeah, he's got a sheriff's badge. He's like an honorary sheriff.

Speaker 1 22:34

Okay, probably in Roswell?

Speaker 2 22:36

I'm not sure.

Speaker 1 22:37

Somebody actually issued it to him. Yeah.

Speaker 2 22:39

A law enforcement agency. Huh, it's like Elvis was an FBI agent, wasn't he? Mm-hmm, okay, he was probably dropped.

Speaker 1 22:47

He probably was in the middle of a, I think, when nixon gave him that.

Speaker 2 22:51

Yeah nixon boy. He was a good one oh, he's looking, yeah, I'll bring him back. He did um, what else you got?

Speaker 1 23:02

well, I got a list of movies I want to hear these okay, it's a long list but and I probably won't say all of them, but they're so good. So his first movie was Love. At First Sight probably not that great of a movie. Some about he was blind and I don't know. I didn't really watch it. Maybe at the time I did. But then in 1979, I love this movie, 1941, with John Belushi, and it's a spoof of the war, of course, and it's are the Germans or the Japanese are invading California, I think is how it goes. Anyway, it's a comedy.

Speaker 2 23:48

I've heard of it that was in 79, then 1980 was the Blues Brothers.

Speaker 1 23:50

I can watch that movie over and over and I've heard of it. That was in 79. Then 1980 was the Blues Brothers. I can watch that movie over and over and over again.

Speaker 2 23:53

I've never seen it.

Speaker 1 23:55

Are you fucking kidding?

Speaker 2 23:56

me, I'm not kidding. You Put it up there with the Simpsons. I haven't seen much of that either, remember, and you were mad about that.

Speaker 1 24:01

We might have to break up right now, yeah, we're done.

Speaker 2 24:03

I'm finding. Am I the co-host or are you the?

Speaker 1 24:07

co-host, I think we're both co-hosts, okay, but Blues Brothers, really, you haven't seen it. It's a wonderful movie, I mean.

Speaker 2 24:15

I've seen parts of it. I might have watched it too much of the old drinking in the past. You should watch it.

Speaker 1 24:21

It's a very good movie. There's so many great blues people in it, and so, when it happened, the lore is that the Blues Brothers were doing this movie and they were going to bring everybody that they could back into not publication. What do I want to say? Into the spotlight? So you know, there's John Lee Hooker, and I can't think of that guy's name. Aretha Franklin's in it, though, and all their band members are so good, I don't think Bebe is in it, but there's people like that in it.

Speaker 1 25:11

And who were kind of, you know, going on the wayside Like people didn't really remember it, and it brought some of them back, Revived them eh. It revived them.

Speaker 2 25:21

Probably a great soundtrack.

Speaker 1 25:22

Oh my God, the soundtrack is so good, so good, mm-hmm, mm-hmm. Well, who else was so good. Well, this was in there, little Richard. No, I think. James Brown might have been in there, but James Brown is in there. Being James Brown, I mean just dancing.

Speaker 2 25:39

He's a little over the top.

Speaker 1 25:41

I love him.

Speaker 2 25:42

He'd be a good topic. Yeah, he's probably a dick.

Speaker 1 25:46

He's a dick we might have to investigate. Okay, I'll add him to the list.

Speaker 2 25:52

Put him on there.

Speaker 1 25:54

Right after that he did another great movie called Neighbors. Oh Very good movie.

Speaker 2 25:59

Wait, who was in that?

Speaker 1 26:01

Oh my gosh, who was in that?

Speaker 2 26:03

I think I saw that too. Damn it.

Dan's Filmography and Career Highlights

Speaker 1 26:06

Yeah, it's from 81. But then he did Dr Detroit, met his wife and then in 83, he did two movies came out Twilight Zone, which a lot of people were in that. So he doesn't have a big part in that one, but this movie Trading Places.

Speaker 2 26:23

Yep with Eddie Murphy.

Speaker 1 26:24

Yeah, and Jamie Lee Curtis, great movie, really cool movie. Then he was in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom what. I don't remember this, I don't remember that. Then Ghostbusters, then he did Spies, like Us.

Speaker 2 26:39

Man, he did that many movies before Ghostbusters.

Speaker 1 26:42

Yeah, before Ghostbusters. Then in 85, he did Spies Like Us, and then in 88, he had Great Outdoors Caddyshack 2. Then in 89 came Ghostbusters 2. Then in 90, he kind of changed it up. He was in Driving Miss Daisy what was he doing? He was the son of Miss Daisy.

Speaker 2 27:01

Okay, I'll trust you on that one. It was a good one. I've seen that too.

Speaker 1 27:07

Then he had a movie that Cassidy loved in her day. Don't deny it, cassidy, nothing but trouble.

Speaker 2 27:09

That one got panned.

Speaker 1 27:11

It was pretty bad.

Speaker 2 27:14

He said the reason it happened was because two other blockbuster movies opened on the same weekend, and that's why it got.

Speaker 1 27:21

It was not that great.

Speaker 2 27:22

Okay, well, sorry, I mean it was weird for sure.

Speaker 1 27:26

Yeah, nothing but trouble. I don't remember that one, my Girl that was a big movie sneakers cone heads. Cone heads, dan said, is his favorite movie role probably because it's true, because it's true, to truest to his life because he's an alien. Uh, my girl too, tommy boy. He was in sergeant bilko celtic pride. Here's a good one he was in, uh, gross, point blank that was yes, that was great. He was really good and he was really good in that and it wasn't a comedy, although there were some funny parts in it.

Speaker 2 28:01

But there is dark comedy it's a dark comedy, yeah put him on the list. Q sack jonathan, q he's a dick, I think. Who was the?

Speaker 1 28:10

other one. We just said oh, James Brown.

Speaker 2 28:12

You didn't write it in the first.

Speaker 1 28:14

No, I wasn't.

Speaker 2 28:15

I make you write them all down. I don't do anything.

Speaker 1 28:19

After Gross Point Blank. It was an ants with a Z on the end.

Speaker 2 28:23

A voice or something he must have been.

Speaker 1 28:26

And then came Blues Brothers 2000.

Speaker 2 28:28

Who was in that? Was Belushi in that, or is he already dead?

Speaker 1 28:32

Oh, he's way dead. His brother was in it, though.

Speaker 2 28:35

John.

Speaker 1 28:36

Jim.

Speaker 2 28:36

Jim. Sorry, jim Jim. According to Jim, yeah. You don't like Jim, do you?

Speaker 1 28:45

I like John a lot, yeah, yeah. So Jim is like.

Speaker 2 28:48

You got to take him. I don't know, I don't have to. He has a cannabis company.

Speaker 1 28:53

He does. Yeah, he had a reality show for a while, oh, and it showed how his wife particularly, but his whole family, was like you're high, why are you having, why are you doing this? Jim Belushi and he went out looking for weed and seeds and it was kind of interesting.

Speaker 2 29:14

And then it wasn't on anymore, so I don't know if he lost it. It's like an alcoholic opening a bar.

Speaker 1 29:17

Maybe it is yeah, because I think he was smoking all the profits. So many, many movies. Still has some, and now on TV he's got.

Speaker 2 29:27

You only had like two more to go, didn't you?

Speaker 1 29:30

I got Pearl Harbor Bright Young Things, christmas with the Cranks.

Speaker 2 29:35

Oh yeah, I kind of like that movie and it's really not that good it's.

Speaker 1 29:42

Laurie's favorite Christmas movie.

Speaker 2 29:45

It's got Tim Allen in it.

Speaker 1 29:46

Yeah, you know what?

Speaker 2 29:47

He was good in Santa Claus. Yeah, we've mentioned Tim Allen before. Yeah, and you don't want to do a show on him Because you guys have that altar.

Speaker 1 29:56

We had that too.

Speaker 2 29:58

Kate and Tim Allen met. I won. What's that? Irish bar O'Malley's in Detroit or whatever.

Speaker 1 30:05

Oh no, On Mackinac Island.

Speaker 2 30:06

Was that where it was? Yeah, yep, we had to throw it out Mm-hmm, you threw like gin in his face, Yep, and he went er, er, er.

Speaker 1 30:19

And I did not care for that.

Speaker 2 30:21

Don't Anyway.

Speaker 1 30:22

Next Okay, oh, you're so funny so what else do we have on Dan Aykroyd?

Speaker 2 30:27

Well, reportedly he's controlling and obsessive on set. Some say he's difficult to work with.

Speaker 1 30:35

Which, okay, does that play into? You know, Tourette's and Asperger's?

Speaker 2 30:38

Could be because they say he goes on long bizarre rants about aliens and ghosts and science that only he half understands.

Speaker 1 30:45

And he's perfect on that show that I started to mention. But on TV he's got a show called Dan Aykroyd's Paranoia or something.

Speaker 2 30:55

Yeah.

Speaker 1 30:55

And he is really good on that, but he has an editor, so that probably helps.

Speaker 2 31:01

The Ghostbusters one, the last one with Paul Rudd.

Speaker 1 31:05

The girl one. No, because Dan Aykroyd didn't like the girl one.

Speaker 2 31:10

No, the Ghostbusters one where?

Speaker 1 31:12

Oh yeah.

Speaker 2 31:12

Ice something, or I liked that one, you didn't like it.

Speaker 1 31:14

It's okay. I like Paul Rudd too, yeah it was okay, I didn't see the middle one in between that one. What Somebody said you don't need to and I'm like what middle one.

Speaker 2 31:30

Oh, kind of set it up. Oh, I saw, okay, so there was a late latest one with paul rudd, but there was one before that, right? Yes, okay, that's the one I saw and it was actually pretty good. In his his part he said he plays this um guy who has this shop of paranormal and mystic stuff and he played that like really well, probably because that's who he really is and it it was like man, I want to shop, like that. It was like that cool, you know.

Speaker 1 31:52

Yeah, so I think I saw the latest Ghostbusters and, much as I love you, bill Murray, I kind of felt like you phoned in your performance on that one, but maybe he didn't really want to do it.

Speaker 2 32:06

Yeah, you can notice that sometimes on movies.

Speaker 1 32:09

I just felt like he didn't really want to do it. Yeah, you can notice that sometimes on movies and I just felt like he didn't really want to be there and it showed why did they?

Unique Facts About Dan Aykroyd

Speaker 2 32:14

still got popcorn, so I don't care and they got money they got money it was like when here here I go, squirrel but phone it in. We went to see blink 182. Oh, did you sometime? I think it was last year, now okay and or in the fall and dude did they phone it in?

Speaker 2 32:32

uh, big time they must have been fighting or something. They could give a shit less, especially tom. They everyone loved. Everyone loves him. He had a cold or something and he was being and maybe the cold was really bad. But I'm going to tell you this I saw zach de la rocha, from fucking rage against the machine, jumping around the stage with a broken ankle, you know what I mean. And he had a cold and he was pissing and moaning the whole time about it and it's just like dude sack up.

Speaker 1 32:58

I think that people who do a lot of concerts forget that I'm only at your one concert.

Speaker 2 33:05

Yeah.

Speaker 1 33:06

I know you do this all the time, but I'm here at this one concert and I saw Paul McCartney being interviewed and he said as much, Because somebody said don't you get sick Singing Blackbird? And he's like but you're here.

Speaker 2 33:20

Today.

Speaker 1 33:21

I know you want to hear that song. You're only here today.

Speaker 2 33:25

When was this interview?

Speaker 1 33:28

It was a while ago.

Speaker 2 33:29

Because maybe early in his career he didn't think that, but that like when he was old or older, Older. So by now they should be like appreciative that people are still willing to.

Speaker 1 33:40

Dole out some money to see him.

Speaker 2 33:41

No, I'm bashing him, I shouldn't. But my wife it was like she loves them. My daughter loves them, like I'm getting tickets.

Speaker 1 33:50

At some point in her life.

Speaker 2 33:51

Anyhow.

Speaker 1 33:52

So did they enjoy. It.

Speaker 2 33:54

They did, but they commented too. They're like they don't want to be here. There's something going on.

Speaker 1 34:01

That's too bad.

Speaker 2 34:02

Yeah, and you're in Rock City. I think it was too Detroit, rock City. Oh my God, sons of bitches.

Speaker 1 34:08

Was it a smaller place?

Speaker 2 34:12

Nope.

Speaker 1 34:12

Was it at the big one?

Speaker 2 34:13

The pizza place the pizza, what is it? Caesars?

Speaker 1 34:16

Little Caesars. That's where I saw Paul McCartney no.

Speaker 2 34:18

Wait, fuck Joe Louis.

Speaker 1 34:21

I don't even know what's going on anymore?

Speaker 2 34:21

Joe Louis is gone. What is the one. Are they the same?

Speaker 1 34:24

No, louis is gone.

Speaker 2 34:26

What's the new hockey one?

Speaker 1 34:28

It's the Little Caesars Pizza.

Speaker 2 34:30

Do, they do?

Speaker 1 34:30

everything there. They do all the big things.

Speaker 2 34:33

Okay.

Speaker 1 34:33

I mean, and it's been open for five years.

Speaker 2 34:40

It was that then, because when we saw Paul McCartney there and it just opened.

Speaker 1 34:46

But that's where the Red Wings play too.

Speaker 2 34:47

Okay. So Tom from Blink-182, when he hears this, he'll be like okay, you dickhead, You're bitching about me. You don't even remember where the concert was. He's going to be so upset.

Speaker 1 34:56

He's got a cold.

Speaker 2 34:58

Anyway. So back to Dan. He phoned it in there, eh.

Speaker 1 35:01

No, bill Murray phoned it in.

Speaker 2 35:02

Bill Murray did.

Speaker 1 35:03

I thought Dan was. He was into it, you could tell, and he had a bigger part though too. I think he wrote part of it too.

Speaker 2 35:12

Out of that trio there Chevy, we did him. Chevy. Chase, right, we did him. Yeah, we did, did we. Yeah, because I really liked him, even though he's a giant asshole. I shouldn't like him. But out of those three, who's more successful? Bill Danubby's, not so much, I don't think he's got a lot of popular movies. Yeah.

Speaker 1 35:31

Even though he's an asshole.

Speaker 2 35:32

Not that many.

Speaker 1 35:34

He's got. Yeah, because he's got all the vacation movies.

Speaker 2 35:37

Oh, true, true.

Speaker 1 35:39

And what else does he have? He had some other ones. Fletch Fletch was popular in its day.

Speaker 2 35:48

Bill Murray. Lost in Translation.

Speaker 1 35:51

Mm-hmm, that's an interesting movie.

Speaker 2 35:53

Mm-hmm Anyhow.

Speaker 1 35:55

Okay, we're off topic. All right, we totally are off topic.

Speaker 2 35:57

Sorry, my fault.

Speaker 1 35:59

What else do we want to say about Dan?

Speaker 2 36:01

Um, I don't think I have anything else I want to say about him. I think that what makes him admirable and heroic is that he believes in what he believes and he doesn't shut other people out when they try to bring their point of view. And he still sticks to his beliefs and pursues that, but he's not dismissing of them. You know what I mean, where he comes up against people all the time that just dismiss him.

Speaker 1 36:32

He said and so this is why, yeah, he's done a couple dickish things. Who hasn't? Especially in the 70s when you're on drugs, because he did get in a car accident. You know, when you look for a scandal on him you can't really find anything there's like well, he was in a car accident.

Speaker 1 36:53

So it was everybody else it was everybody and he may have had an affair with somebody we don't know. They couldn't. It's like some people accused him of it and the woman didn't and anyway. So he may or may not have and that's between him and donna dixon and then. So, yeah, he did a couple dickish things but like like a lot of people, but I think he's a hero overall because of this quote. He said I regret I didn't listen enough. I was too busy talking and being a clown and I didn't listen. I should have shut my mouth and listened.

Speaker 2 37:36

Well, there we go.

Speaker 1 37:36

I added that last part and he said but I want people to know I'm 100% optimistic.

Speaker 2 37:43

He really is.

Speaker 1 37:44

And so I say hero for that.

Ghostbusters Legacy and Final Thoughts

Speaker 2 37:49

Yeah, I'll give him the hero badge. He's never really done anything horrible. You look at the stuff we learned about some of these other Yahoo's that we've talked about. They really did some horrible things. Yeah, I mean, he might have too, but the aliens covered for him Covered it up or the law enforcement covered for him.

Speaker 1 38:04

We all got the not the truth serum, but the forgetful.

Speaker 2 38:09

Yeah, well, that's what happened to us the forgetful wand. They put that thing in front of your face.

Speaker 1 38:14

All right, did you want to say something else?

Speaker 2 38:17

No, I'm thinking about car accidents now. Matthew Broderick.

Speaker 1 38:20

Oh yeah, he got in a bad one. He was in Europe.

Speaker 2 38:23

He killed a woman and a kid.

Speaker 1 38:24

Yeah, and that kind of just went yeah, they paid a hundred dollar. Fine, they said it's an accident.

Speaker 2 38:34

Yeah, I think too, he was in europe.

Speaker 1 38:34

He was on vacation with jennifer gray he was driving on the wrong side of that's what it said the road.

Speaker 2 38:39

So how do you get over there?

Speaker 1 38:40

maybe him and jennifer were I don't know sightseeing, searching for sausage so sorry we're fast five yes, I got that okay, so we're gonna do the ghost buster people oh, okay so we know dan's a hero. How about bill? Hero I say hero, even though he too has done a couple dickish things. Sure, I don even think. Sometimes I think that people who are so not into themselves but you know, he's not like, I don't mean he's into himself, like he's braggy- Confident. I just think he is in his own world.

Speaker 2 39:22

Yeah.

Speaker 1 39:22

And it's like, oh shit, did I do that?

Speaker 2 39:24

I'm sorry, right.

Speaker 1 39:27

Let me pour you a tequila Mm. Hmm, so Do that.

Speaker 2 39:28

I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 39:28

Right, right, let me pour you a tequila, mm-hmm. So, and then you have. I didn't write it down what's the eyebrow guy.

Speaker 2 39:35

The guy with the glasses? Yeah, I don't know, kramer from. Seinfeld. He looks like Raymond Remus. Yeah, that's the guy who was trying to reign him in.

Speaker 1 39:44

Yeah, yeah, he's a hero. He's a hero. He died of cancer. He did, he did. How about Annie Potts?

Speaker 2 39:51

Man, she was really good, even in the last one. Was she in the last one?

Speaker 1 39:54

She was yeah.

Speaker 2 39:55

Because that was, I'm sorry, the second to the last one that I saw. She was hilarious.

Speaker 1 40:00

I say she's a hero. Harold Ramos there. How Sigourney Weaver, she was in it too.

Speaker 2 40:08

Yeah, I don't know enough about her.

Speaker 1 40:10

I don't know enough about her. Maybe she's a big dick.

Speaker 2 40:12

Wasn't she in the Alien movies?

Speaker 1 40:13

She was, yeah, she was big for her time frame.

Speaker 2 40:17

What about the other fella?

Speaker 1 40:19

Rick Moranis.

Speaker 2 40:20

Yeah, but what about?

Speaker 1 40:20

the other guy, the other buster, oh.

Speaker 2 40:21

Ernie Hudson. Ernie Hudson.

Speaker 1 40:23

Yeah, did he write the unsung?

Speaker 2 40:27

hero of the show? I don't know.

Speaker 1 40:30

Because I think he made a lot of money and Huey Lewis sued them and said you stole that from me. Huey, no they went to court and Huey didn't win.

Speaker 2 40:42

Ah, there see.

Speaker 1 40:44

Mm-hmm.

Speaker 2 40:47

Man, that album was not that good Sports. I want a new drug.

Speaker 1 40:53

I liked it. When it came out. I was a big Huey fan.

Speaker 2 40:57

Oh yeah, you had to be, it was everywhere.

Speaker 1 40:58

You had to be. He was everywhere. He wanted a new drug. Rick Moranis, rick Moranis.

Speaker 2 41:04

Honey, I shrunk the kids.

Speaker 1 41:06

I love him.

Speaker 2 41:06

What's he doing? Let's see. I love him.

Speaker 1 41:08

Mm-hmm, howie, what's he doing? Let's see. I don't know. He hasn't called lately.

Speaker 2 41:12

No.

Speaker 1 41:14

No, but I bet he's still doing stuff. He's probably dead.

Speaker 2 41:17

Maybe, not he is probably. That's not funny. He's not dead, he's 72 years old. Oh, my, that's it. He's yeah, he used to be on.

Speaker 1 41:27

Toronto.

Speaker 2 41:28

Hoser, hey, hoser Him, and I don't know. Yeah, dave Thomas yeah yeah, drinking beers, yeah, hey, hey, hoser.

Speaker 1 41:41

Oh, rick Moranis, what do you do? When he was in Spaceballs.

Speaker 2 41:44

Oh God, people love Spaceballs.

Speaker 1 41:46

Strange Brew.

Speaker 2 41:48

Well, that's those two guys right.

Speaker 1 41:50

Yep, that's them.

Speaker 2 41:51

Little Shop of Horrors.

Speaker 1 41:52

I haven't seen anything lately so I don't know. He's just living off his residuals.

Speaker 2 41:56

I guess Good for him. Are you living off your residuals? You are.

Speaker 1 42:00

Yeah, that's awesome.

Speaker 2 42:01

Off of this podcast. Crypto's up.

Speaker 1 42:03

Is it?

Speaker 2 42:04

You know, I think you had we'll talk about it later but you had some stuff on an exchange that no longer I don't think you can get to.

Speaker 1 42:11

Oh, uh-oh.

Speaker 2 42:12

Yeah, that's going to be bad.

Speaker 1 42:14

My $25.

Speaker 2 42:16

Yeah, down the tube.

Speaker 1 42:18

I'll have to look.

Wrapping Up and Future Topics

Speaker 2 42:19

Stuff's ripping right now. Bitcoin hit its all-time high. I don't have any of that Ethereum's up. Everything is up honestly, oh, I'm down.

Speaker 1 42:26

On your regular stocks? What or Bitcoin? Oh?

Speaker 2 42:31

what are we talking about?

Speaker 1 42:32

Regular stocks versus Bitcoin.

Speaker 2 42:35

Oh, I don't know. I haven't looked at my stocks. I don't have much, Not like you. You have Apple McDonald's.

Speaker 1 42:41

I should have bought Apple. You know, shoulda, woulda, coulda.

Speaker 2 42:45

Tesla.

Speaker 1 42:46

I'll say one more thing about stacks, and then we're gonna wrap it up we are should about.

Speaker 2 42:49

Seems so early general oh my god, they put those up in every podunk corner and 10 years ago.

Speaker 1 42:56

I'm like god. I wish I would have bought stack in there and I should have bought it then when I was whining about it, but no it's um, you know, remember the grand lake lounge.

Speaker 2 43:04

Yeah, it's now a dollar general and it needs to be. For you, it sure the hell is. It's not $1, you know it needs to be for you, right it sure the hell is. It's not even a mile away and you need whatever. I mean you need toilet paper.

Speaker 1 43:14

Got it.

Speaker 2 43:14

You want a frozen pizza Enjoy.

Speaker 1 43:17

During COVID, dollar General was my like store.

Speaker 2 43:23

Why.

Speaker 1 43:24

Because it was right by where I worked. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah I would have to go to Big Meyer and walk through Walmart and walk up and down their aisles.

Speaker 2 43:32

It's called Meyers.

Speaker 1 43:33

Meyers, walmarts, walmarts. We just have one each in our vicinity.

Speaker 2 43:39

How many Dollar Generals do we have?

Speaker 1 43:41

here Three.

Speaker 2 43:42

And then we have a Dollar Tree.

Speaker 1 43:44

Mm-hmm, which everything's not a dollar.

Speaker 2 43:46

No, it's $1.25.

Speaker 1 43:49

You know, when we went to Canada, the Dollar Tree was called a buck or two.

Speaker 2 43:55

I like that. All right. What's the fast five? You said we did it.

Speaker 1 43:59

Those people, the people Okay, we did it.

Speaker 2 44:01

Man, we're good.

Speaker 1 44:02

We do have Cassidy remind me, to tell you. I don't want to ruin the surprise, but she gave me a really good topic.

Speaker 2 44:09

What is it? She should be doing it. It's the surprise. You can't.

Speaker 1 44:12

You need to just take this over.

Speaker 2 44:13

Yeah, we're done. We were tired.

Speaker 1 44:16

You can dunk and do it 50 and done Amazing. But we will talk to you next week, where it probably won't be chickens yet. No, but they're coming, chick, but they're coming. Chickens are coming.

Speaker 2 44:27

Yeah, and you know, as we say always, shoot us an email. Yeah, tell us what to talk about 2023 at gmailcom. All right, thanks, bye.