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Hero or Dick
Hero or Dick - S3., Ep. 12 - Dan Akroyd
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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.
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Welcome to Season 3 Episode 12
Speaker 1Are we on ?
Speaker 2Oh , we're on .
Speaker 1Hey , hey .
Speaker 2Hey everybody .
Speaker 1Welcome to Hero or Dick .
Speaker 2Season two .
Speaker 1Season three Three you never do the homework . Episode 11 ?
Speaker 212 .
Speaker 112 . It's episode 12 .
Speaker 2But it's overall episode 51 .
Speaker 151 .
Speaker 251 .
Speaker 1This is our 51st podcast .
Speaker 2We celebrated the last one by doing a BS session .
Speaker 1Yeah , that's what it was we did , and it was our 50th . Amazing , that's amazing .
Speaker 2Good for us . My wife can't believe we've been at it this long .
Speaker 1I think good for us .
Speaker 2Yeah , it's good for us .
Speaker 1I don't know , nobody else cares , but that's all right . I yeah , it's good for us . I don't know .
Speaker 2Nobody 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 1Fourth of July happened Yep .
Speaker 2You had a banger of a party .
Speaker 1I heard I did not .
Speaker 2No .
Speaker 1But I had some people over . That's cool . I , I had some people over .
Speaker 2That's cool .
Speaker 1Jenna 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 2What about Cassidy ?
Speaker 1Cassidy came over for the day .
Speaker 2Did she bring the ?
Speaker 1She brought a friend . Can we talk about the friend now or ?
Speaker 2no , I think so Okay .
Speaker 1Right 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 2The 50th podcast of Hero or Dick at no . Herodick2023 at gmailcom yeah have you checked it ?
Speaker 1I 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 2What were the topics ?
Speaker 1again , the topics we had . Should we do ? Elephants , chickens , emo punk , eva Peron , or also known as Evita , or Scientology ?
Speaker 2And I can see your calculations there .
Speaker 1It 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 2Yeah , we were going to have a couple of live chickens .
Speaker 1Yeah , and we were going to have live chickens here and then maybe even .
Speaker 2Butcher a chicken . If we had .
Speaker 1Popeye'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 2Well .
Speaker 1So but the chickens .
Speaker 2They're not
Delaying the Chicken Topic
Speaker 2going away , they're on the back burner . Oh are they .
Speaker 1In a pot or a frying pan . Oh , they'd always be deep fried .
Speaker 2But 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 1Frickins are a lot better Fricking chicken . But what did you find out ?
Speaker 2Well , I mean , we're horrible humans . Oh yeah , the way we treat animals in general .
Speaker 1I 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 1So 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 2Do they eat them too ? No , oh , I mean , I guess , whatever People can eat chicken .
Speaker 1No , 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 2Right , but I'm just saying that there's a humane way , or does it even matter ?
Speaker 1And then there's the fake chicken , like you said .
Speaker 2Yeah , once again shout out to Friendly Foodies for their plukya tacos .
Speaker 1Cassidy went there when she was in town . She said it was delicious .
Speaker 2Hey , 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 1No , I have not .
Speaker 2I was going to text you and tell you to stop there and get coffee .
Speaker 1And they were busy . They have food too .
Speaker 2Oh , do they ? I don't know , maybe not . On Facebook it said they have like sandwiches .
Speaker 1Oh , maybe , I don't know I haven't been in there yet .
Speaker 2It's right next to the Polish corner . They have a new cook there .
Speaker 1At the Polish corner .
Speaker 2I 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 1They did redo the kitchen .
Speaker 2I think Gordon Ramsay was in there .
Speaker 1Yeah , no , it's that guy who redoes Bar Rescue .
Speaker 2Oh man , that guy from the mafia .
Speaker 1He's worse than Gordon Ramsay .
Speaker 2I like that guy . I used to hate him .
Speaker 1Gordon .
Speaker 2Ramsay . When I first watched those shows , I'm like wow , what a prick .
Speaker 1It'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 2Why Was one in America , one in Europe ?
Speaker 1No , 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 1Give me some space , man , yeah so , but it was enjoyable and we had a good time .
Speaker 2So 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 1No , I don't you do .
Speaker 2I've seen this stuff that should be our swag . Knitted goods by Kate . Knitted goods by Kate .
Speaker 1I 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 2Oh .
Speaker 1And so I did it , and I still have a few .
Speaker 2I thought you might have some from 50 years ago .
Speaker 1No , no , oh , that would be cool , though it would be . Yeah , huh , I don't know , I don't know .
Speaker 2They don't look that different really .
Speaker 1A 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 2Oh my .
Speaker 1It's true .
Speaker 2No , we can't talk about chickens anymore .
Speaker 1But no , no , wash the chickens away , because today's topic is what is it ?
Speaker 2What
Dan Aykroyd's Early Life
Speaker 2is it ? Daniel Edward Ackroyd , born July 1st 1952 in Ottawa , canada .
Speaker 1So happy belated birthday there , Dan Ackroyd . Yeah , Dan yeah .
Speaker 2Ackroyd , the second half of the Blues Brothers .
Speaker 1Or is he the first half ?
Speaker 2Whatever , and Roman from the Great Outdoors , which I started watching again last night .
Speaker 1You know I made a list of his movies and almost everyone in the 80s was great . Well , let's talk about him first .
Speaker 2Go ahead , go ahead . You said you had all this research .
Speaker 1What I mean ? I have some .
Speaker 2You know well , he wanted to be a priest . Yes , True . That's all I have .
Speaker 1He was raised Catholic , he went to Catholic school and he thought for a time he would like to be a priest .
Speaker 2He was diagnosed with Tourette's . Tourette's .
Speaker 1And .
Speaker 2Asperger's .
Speaker 1Much later in life which . I thought was interesting .
Speaker 2Doesn't everybody have something ?
Speaker 1Everybody has something .
Speaker 2They 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 1And probably when he was young .
Speaker 2you 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 1Yeah , 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 2I didn't happen upon that information , but that sounds fascinating .
Speaker 1And how would you ? I didn't know . There was a name for it , for one thing .
Speaker 2What's it called again ? Say it again no , never mind .
Speaker 1T-R-Y-P-O-P-H-O-B-E Phobe , tripop , tripop .
Speaker 2Afraid of holes .
Speaker 1Afraid 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 2His dad wrote a book on spiritualism .
Speaker 1He has a history , His family history . So let's see was it his great- .
Speaker 2Great grandfather was a mystic .
Speaker 1Was 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 2We should have one here . We could we should do a podcast in your building in the dark with candles only .
Speaker 1Okay , that sounds a little spooky , but I'll do it , it'd be cool . Halloween Halloween , it's important .
Speaker 2We say all these things though .
Speaker 1And then yeah , so we can have guests then .
Speaker 2We could .
Speaker 1If anybody wants to do that on Halloween , get ahold of us at the email address .
Speaker 2Maybe a sound guy could show up , because I keep getting this buzzing .
Speaker 1We can get rid of the buzzing .
Speaker 2Well , his whole household , though , is like embrace the spiritualism .
Speaker 1And 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 2I 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 1And he said he himself has seen or felt things . Sure , yeah , but I mean , who hasn't ?
Speaker 2And he saw a couple unidentified flying objects . Now they're called something else , though .
Speaker 1They are called something else ?
Speaker 2Unidentified aerial phenomena , okay , whatever , a UOP .
Speaker 1And how can there not be ? Did we ever do a show on UFOs ?
Speaker 2I think so . No , ghosts , we did .
Speaker 1Because 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 2Of course we think that no way , but we're wrong .
Speaker 1No way . So back to Dan . He , of course , was on SNL and that's probably where people know him best .
Speaker 2What years was he on there ?
Speaker 1He was on there from 75 to 79 .
Speaker 2In an original season . Original memory , yeah .
Speaker 1One of the originals Coneheads the Coneheads was his .
Speaker 2Remember the Bassamatic .
Speaker 1I think that might be my favorite .
Speaker 2That's very funny .
Speaker 1It's definitely my favorite Dan Aykroyd one Also , the one where he is talking to Jane , no , no .
Speaker 2You ignorant slut . Is that it ? Oh , was it , I thought it was . Dan , I don't know , maybe it was Chevy Chase .
Speaker 1But they're like in a talk show and he's defending these kid toys oh yes .
Speaker 2Yes , yes , yes .
Speaker 1Oh , 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 2Johnny B .
Speaker 1Love 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 2Is that still around ?
Speaker 1I don't think so . I think that one folded .
Speaker 2What is that like a hard
The Blues Brothers and Music Legacy
Speaker 2rock cafe .
Speaker 1Yeah , it was exactly like that . Yeah , he also co-founded Crystal Head Vodka .
Speaker 2Oh , that's a whole thing there , eh .
Speaker 1Yeah , eh , I like how you added the eh because , he's Canadian . I did that purposely for him , born in Ottawa .
Speaker 2Yeah , 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 1He says it's because of his Tourette's .
Speaker 2But 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 1What was the name of ? It ? Had a particular Particular name .
Speaker 2Yeah , 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 1I 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 2But he I don't know . I used to listen to him a lot and once in a while I do now .
Speaker 1Okay 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 2he'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 1Why do I believe in ghosts ? Why is your vodka taste so good does ?
Speaker 2do the diamonds really do ? And how did he do defending pretty good , yeah , but nothing concrete , you know which is fine .
Speaker 1What does that mean ?
Speaker 2he 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 1Yeah , I don't know , there was some kind of there was a controversy with the booze yeah what was it ?
Speaker 2again 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 1Is it vodka ?
Speaker 2Yeah , you don't like vodka I do like vodka .
Speaker 1I like gin better .
Speaker 2Oh , 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 1Was it Ghostbusters ? It was , and he co-wrote that .
Speaker 2I think yes , he did .
Speaker 1And he used his paranormal background and I think that played into it very well .
Speaker 2They had to reign him in .
Speaker 1Did they Because he wanted to do it even more .
Speaker 2It 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 1I 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 2Could be , yeah .
Speaker 1Maybe 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 2Really .
Speaker 1They're not really webbed , they're just like the middle toes on both of his feet are together .
Speaker 2I guess that's called webbed .
Speaker 1It is called so there's not like a physical web like Waterworld . Remember his webbed ?
Speaker 2feet , oh man .
Speaker 1But 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 2She's bulldog .
Speaker 1One kind of dog is bulldog .
Speaker 2Hold on Pug and beagle .
Speaker 1I 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 2Yeah , what does it say ? Green , brown , brown green , brown green .
Speaker 1I 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 2With Christopher Reeves .
Speaker 1It'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 2You don't know Six , I know six .
Speaker 1You know six , right off the bat .
Speaker 2And three of them got struck by lightning .
Speaker 1At the same time , yeah .
Speaker 2People are getting probably dumped off . Who knows People are getting taken . Where are they going ?
Speaker 1They'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 2Ah , what show was it ? Was she on three's company ?
Speaker 1no 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 2God , that's old . That was a good show .
Speaker 1It was funny for its time . I don't know if it still holds true .
Speaker 2No , it won't , Don't watch it again .
Speaker 1So she was on that show and she is also Garth from Wayne and Garth on their movie what's it called .
Speaker 2Wayne's World . Wayne's World .
Speaker 1Yeah , she's his dream girl , oh , okay .
Speaker 2You know and she's walking .
Speaker 1fucks 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 2Yeah , 30-some years They've been separated . Married for no , just for a couple years .
Speaker 1But we're going to stay married . We're just not together . Sure , yeah , it sounds perfect .
Speaker 2I 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 1Really yeah , he takes it seriously . Get out of here . You're Dan Aykroyd .
Speaker 2He took his badge out on that podcast . Get out of here . You're Dan Aykroyd . He took his badge out on that podcast .
Speaker 1Joe Rogan showed him he has a real badge .
Speaker 2Yeah , he's got a sheriff's badge . He's like an honorary sheriff .
Speaker 1Okay , probably in Roswell ?
Speaker 2I'm not sure .
Speaker 1Somebody actually issued it to him . Yeah .
Speaker 2A law enforcement agency . Huh , it's like Elvis was an FBI agent , wasn't he ? Mm-hmm , okay , he was probably dropped .
Speaker 1He probably was in the middle of a , I think , when nixon gave him that .
Speaker 2Yeah 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 1well , 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 2I've heard of it that was in 79 , then 1980 was the Blues Brothers .
Speaker 1I 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 2I've never seen it .
Speaker 1Are you fucking kidding ?
Speaker 2me , 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 1We might have to break up right now , yeah , we're done .
Speaker 2I'm finding . Am I the co-host or are you the ?
Speaker 1co-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 2I've seen parts of it . I might have watched it too much of the old drinking in the past . You should watch it .
Speaker 1It'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 1And 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 2Probably a great soundtrack .
Speaker 1Oh 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 2He's a little over the top .
Speaker 1I love him .
Speaker 2He'd be a good topic . Yeah , he's probably a dick .
Speaker 1He's a dick we might have to investigate . Okay , I'll add him to the list .
Speaker 2Put him on there .
Speaker 1Right after that he did another great movie called Neighbors . Oh Very good movie .
Speaker 2Wait , who was in that ?
Speaker 1Oh my gosh , who was in that ?
Speaker 2I think I saw that too . Damn it .
Speaker 1Yeah , 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
Dan's Filmography and Career Highlights
Speaker 1a lot of people were in that . So he doesn't have a big part in that one , but this movie Trading Places .
Speaker 2Yep with Eddie Murphy .
Speaker 1Yeah , 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 2Man , he did that many movies before Ghostbusters .
Speaker 1Yeah , 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 2Okay , I'll trust you on that one . It was a good one . I've seen that too .
Speaker 1Then he had a movie that Cassidy loved in her day . Don't deny it , cassidy , nothing but trouble .
Speaker 2That one got panned .
Speaker 1It was pretty bad .
Speaker 2He said the reason it happened was because two other blockbuster movies opened on the same weekend , and that's why it got .
Speaker 1It was not that great .
Speaker 2Okay , well , sorry , I mean it was weird for sure .
Speaker 1Yeah , 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 2But 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 1other one . We just said oh , James Brown .
Speaker 2You didn't write it in the first .
Speaker 1No , I wasn't .
Speaker 2I make you write them all down . I don't do anything .
Speaker 1After Gross Point Blank . It was an ants with a Z on the end .
Speaker 2A voice or something he must have been .
Speaker 1And then came Blues Brothers 2000 .
Speaker 2Who was in that ? Was Belushi in that , or is he already dead ?
Speaker 1Oh , he's way dead . His brother was in it , though .
Speaker 2John .
Speaker 1Jim .
Speaker 2Jim . Sorry , jim Jim . According to Jim , yeah . You don't like Jim , do you ?
Speaker 1I like John a lot , yeah , yeah . So Jim is like .
Speaker 2You got to take him . I don't know , I don't have to . He has a cannabis company .
Speaker 1He 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 2And then it wasn't on anymore , so I don't know if he lost it . It's like an alcoholic opening a bar .
Speaker 1Maybe 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 2You only had like two more to go , didn't you ?
Speaker 1I got Pearl Harbor Bright Young Things , christmas with the Cranks .
Speaker 2Oh yeah , I kind of like that movie and it's really not that good it's .
Speaker 1Laurie's favorite Christmas movie .
Speaker 2It's got Tim Allen in it .
Speaker 1Yeah , you know what ?
Speaker 2He 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 1We had that too .
Speaker 2Kate and Tim Allen met . I won . What's that ? Irish bar O'Malley's in Detroit or whatever .
Speaker 1Oh no , On Mackinac Island .
Speaker 2Was 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 1And I did not care for that .
Speaker 2Don't Anyway .
Speaker 1Next Okay , oh , you're so funny so what else do we have on Dan Aykroyd ?
Speaker 2Well , reportedly he's controlling and obsessive on set . Some say he's difficult to work with .
Speaker 1Which , okay , does that play into ? You know , Tourette's and Asperger's ?
Speaker 2Could be because they say he goes on long bizarre rants about aliens and ghosts and science that only he half understands .
Speaker 1And 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 2Yeah .
Speaker 1And he is really good on that , but he has an editor , so that probably helps .
Speaker 2The Ghostbusters one , the last one with Paul Rudd .
Speaker 1The girl one . No , because Dan Aykroyd didn't like the girl one .
Speaker 2No , the Ghostbusters one where ?
Speaker 1Oh yeah .
Speaker 2Ice something , or I liked that one , you didn't like it .
Speaker 1It'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 2Oh , 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 1Yeah , 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 2Yeah , you can notice that sometimes on movies .
Speaker 1I 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 ?
Speaker 2still 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
Unique Facts About Dan Aykroyd
Speaker 2phone it in ?
Speaker 2uh , 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 1I think that people who do a lot of concerts forget that I'm only at your one concert .
Speaker 2Yeah .
Speaker 1I 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 2Today .
Speaker 1I know you want to hear that song . You're only here today .
Speaker 2When was this interview ?
Speaker 1It was a while ago .
Speaker 2Because 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 1Dole out some money to see him .
Speaker 2No , 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 1At some point in her life .
Speaker 2Anyhow .
Speaker 1So did they enjoy . It .
Speaker 2They did , but they commented too . They're like they don't want to be here . There's something going on .
Speaker 1That's too bad .
Speaker 2Yeah , and you're in Rock City . I think it was too Detroit , rock City . Oh my God , sons of bitches .
Speaker 1Was it a smaller place ?
Speaker 2Nope .
Speaker 1Was it at the big one ?
Speaker 2The pizza place the pizza , what is it ? Caesars ?
Speaker 1Little Caesars . That's where I saw Paul McCartney no .
Speaker 2Wait , fuck Joe Louis .
Speaker 1I don't even know what's going on anymore ?
Speaker 2Joe Louis is gone . What is the one . Are they the same ?
Speaker 1No , louis is gone .
Speaker 2What's the new hockey one ?
Speaker 1It's the Little Caesars Pizza .
Speaker 2Do , they do ?
Speaker 1everything there . They do all the big things .
Speaker 2Okay .
Speaker 1I mean , and it's been open for five years .
Speaker 2It was that then , because when we saw Paul McCartney there and it just opened .
Speaker 1But that's where the Red Wings play too .
Speaker 2Okay . 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 1He's got a cold .
Speaker 2Anyway . So back to Dan . He phoned it in there , eh .
Speaker 1No , bill Murray phoned it in .
Speaker 2Bill Murray did .
Speaker 1I 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 2Out 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 1Even though he's an asshole .
Speaker 2Not that many .
Speaker 1He's got . Yeah , because he's got all the vacation movies .
Speaker 2Oh , true , true .
Speaker 1And what else does he have ? He had some other ones . Fletch Fletch was popular in its day .
Speaker 2Bill Murray . Lost in Translation .
Speaker 1Mm-hmm , that's an interesting movie .
Speaker 2Mm-hmm Anyhow .
Speaker 1Okay , we're off topic . All right , we totally are off topic .
Speaker 2Sorry , my fault .
Speaker 1What else do we want to say about Dan ?
Speaker 2Um , 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 1He 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 1So 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 2Well , there we go .
Speaker 1I added that last part and he said but I want people to know I'm 100% optimistic .
Speaker 2He really is .
Speaker 1And so I say hero for that .
Speaker 2Yeah , 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
Ghostbusters Legacy and Final Thoughts
Speaker 2might have too , but the aliens covered for him Covered it up or the law enforcement covered for him .
Speaker 1We all got the not the truth serum , but the forgetful .
Speaker 2Yeah , well , that's what happened to us the forgetful wand . They put that thing in front of your face .
Speaker 1All right , did you want to say something else ?
Speaker 2No , I'm thinking about car accidents now . Matthew Broderick .
Speaker 1Oh yeah , he got in a bad one . He was in Europe .
Speaker 2He killed a woman and a kid .
Speaker 1Yeah , and that kind of just went yeah , they paid a hundred dollar . Fine , they said it's an accident .
Speaker 2Yeah , I think too , he was in europe .
Speaker 1He was on vacation with jennifer gray he was driving on the wrong side of that's what it said the road .
Speaker 2So how do you get over there ?
Speaker 1maybe 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 2Yeah .
Speaker 1And it's like , oh shit , did I do that ?
Speaker 2I'm sorry , right .
Speaker 1Let me pour you a tequila Mm . Hmm , so Do that .
Speaker 2I'm sorry .
Speaker 1Right , 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 2The 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 1Yeah , yeah , he's a hero . He's a hero . He died of cancer . He did , he did . How about Annie Potts ?
Speaker 2Man , she was really good , even in the last one . Was she in the last one ?
Speaker 1She was yeah .
Speaker 2Because that was , I'm sorry , the second to the last one that I saw . She was hilarious .
Speaker 1I say she's a hero . Harold Ramos there . How Sigourney Weaver , she was in it too .
Speaker 2Yeah , I don't know enough about her .
Speaker 1I don't know enough about her . Maybe she's a big dick .
Speaker 2Wasn't she in the Alien movies ?
Speaker 1She was , yeah , she was big for her time frame .
Speaker 2What about the other fella ?
Speaker 1Rick Moranis .
Speaker 2Yeah , but what about ?
Speaker 1the other guy , the other buster , oh .
Speaker 2Ernie Hudson . Ernie Hudson .
Speaker 1Yeah , did he write the unsung ?
Speaker 2hero of the show ? I don't know .
Speaker 1Because 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 2Ah , there see .
Speaker 1Mm-hmm .
Speaker 2Man , that album was not that good Sports . I want a new drug .
Speaker 1I liked it . When it came out . I was a big Huey fan .
Speaker 2Oh yeah , you had to be , it was everywhere .
Speaker 1You had to be . He was everywhere . He wanted a new drug . Rick Moranis , rick Moranis .
Speaker 2Honey , I shrunk the kids .
Speaker 1I love him .
Speaker 2What's he doing ? Let's see . I love him .
Speaker 1Mm-hmm , howie , what's he doing ? Let's see . I don't know . He hasn't called lately .
Speaker 2No .
Speaker 1No , but I bet he's still doing stuff . He's probably dead .
Speaker 2Maybe , 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 1Toronto .
Speaker 2Hoser , hey , hoser Him , and I don't know . Yeah , dave Thomas yeah yeah , drinking beers , yeah , hey , hey , hoser .
Speaker 1Oh , rick Moranis , what do you do ? When he was in Spaceballs .
Speaker 2Oh God , people love Spaceballs .
Speaker 1Strange Brew .
Speaker 2Well , that's those two guys right .
Speaker 1Yep , that's them .
Speaker 2Little Shop of Horrors .
Speaker 1I haven't seen anything lately so I don't know . He's just living off his residuals .
Speaker 2I guess Good for him . Are you living off your residuals ? You are .
Speaker 1Yeah , that's awesome .
Speaker 2Off of this podcast . Crypto's up .
Speaker 1Is it ?
Speaker 2You 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 1Oh , uh-oh .
Speaker 2Yeah , that's going to be bad .
Speaker 1My $25 .
Speaker 2Yeah , down the tube .
Speaker 1I'll have to look .
Speaker 2Stuff's ripping right now . Bitcoin hit its all-time high . I don't have any of that Ethereum's
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Speaker 2up . Everything is up honestly , oh , I'm down .
Speaker 1On your regular stocks ? What or Bitcoin ? Oh ?
Speaker 2what are we talking about ?
Speaker 1Regular stocks versus Bitcoin .
Speaker 2Oh , 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 1I should have bought Apple . You know , shoulda , woulda , coulda .
Speaker 2Tesla .
Speaker 1I'll say one more thing about stacks , and then we're gonna wrap it up we are should about .
Speaker 2Seems so early general oh my god , they put those up in every podunk corner and 10 years ago .
Speaker 1I'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 2Yeah , 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 1Got it .
Speaker 2You want a frozen pizza Enjoy .
Speaker 1During COVID , dollar General was my like store .
Speaker 2Why .
Speaker 1Because 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 2It's called Meyers .
Speaker 1Meyers , walmarts , walmarts . We just have one each in our vicinity .
Speaker 2How many Dollar Generals do we have ?
Speaker 1here Three .
Speaker 2And then we have a Dollar Tree .
Speaker 1Mm-hmm , which everything's not a dollar .
Speaker 2No , it's $1.25 .
Speaker 1You know , when we went to Canada , the Dollar Tree was called a buck or two .
Speaker 2I like that . All right . What's the fast five ? You said we did it .
Speaker 1Those people , the people Okay , we did it .
Speaker 2Man , we're good .
Speaker 1We 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 2What is it ? She should be doing it . It's the surprise . You can't .
Speaker 1You need to just take this over .
Speaker 2Yeah , we're done . We were tired .
Speaker 1You 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 2Yeah , 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 .
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