Adam Carolla - "Dan Aykroyd on The Blues Brothers, Asperger’s, and UFO’s"

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[00:02:58.640] welcome to an episode that I'm really
[00:03:00.400] excited about. Mr. Dan Akroyd has joined
[00:03:03.920] me in studio. Uh I was at the Crystal
[00:03:07.440] Head Vodka
[00:03:09.680] we'll call it party at the Magic Castle
[00:03:12.879] uh the other night.
[00:03:13.920] >> Sorry I missed you there. I'm sorry. Uh
[00:03:15.920] the ballet kept asking my car to move
[00:03:18.080] and so I had to move my car three times
[00:03:21.040] and then I gave up and I I didn't go
[00:03:22.800] back inside. I'm very sorry to admit. It
[00:03:24.720] was a fun night.
[00:03:25.599] >> Yeah, I agree. And uh I knew I would see
[00:03:27.920] you today. Here we are. Here we are.
[00:03:30.480] I've been a fan for as long as I can
[00:03:33.040] remember. um always watched SNL, you
[00:03:36.560] know, from from Jump Street and I always
[00:03:40.560] respected your work because you were
[00:03:43.920] such a wordssmith and so concise with
[00:03:47.840] the way you delivered your words. I felt
[00:03:50.480] like you take like uh you and Steve
[00:03:53.280] Martin doing the swing and check
[00:03:54.799] brothers. Um his was a sort of comical
[00:03:58.159] >> I love that man. His was a sort of
[00:04:00.640] over-the-top kind of almost nonsense
[00:04:04.239] version of it.
[00:04:04.879] >> Yeah, he's a very stylish guy, that guy.
[00:04:07.360] >> But you were doing the accent with like
[00:04:10.159] precision and and I always thought as a
[00:04:12.799] young person, I thought, man, this guy
[00:04:16.079] is is concise like all the characters,
[00:04:18.959] you know, even basimatic stuff and you
[00:04:22.320] know, Jane, you ignorant, what' you call
[00:04:25.600] her?
[00:04:26.400] >> Jane, you ignorant [ __ ]
[00:04:27.759] >> [ __ ] right? like it was all you
[00:04:29.919] miserable bag of of slug slug meat you
[00:04:32.560] miserable bag of slug meat that that was
[00:04:34.880] Jim Downy's writing right there though
[00:04:36.720] but uh well to address that about
[00:04:39.360] consision
[00:04:41.199] concision or yeah you know I grew up in
[00:04:43.600] a government town and my parents worked
[00:04:45.600] for the government and they used to my
[00:04:47.360] my mother typed my papers in college my
[00:04:49.759] dad uh wrote up a lot of papers and I
[00:04:52.400] worked for the government writing papers
[00:04:54.320] for several departments uh the
[00:04:56.720] penitentiary service the uh department
[00:04:59.600] of public works and uh there was one
[00:05:02.880] other job that I had there where I had
[00:05:04.320] to write a lot of and you had to be you
[00:05:06.543] [clears throat] had to be very concise
[00:05:08.720] and precise and and articulate in very
[00:05:11.520] little time because you know the average
[00:05:13.759] government bureaucrat above above me you
[00:05:15.919] know the the attention span would
[00:05:17.520] wouldn't be there so you had to grab
[00:05:18.880] them.
[00:05:19.680] >> Yeah.
[00:05:20.080] >> You know but it it
[00:05:21.039] >> slurry seal it's slurry seal asphalt.
[00:05:25.360] Why use it? Why not use it? Cracks in
[00:05:28.639] the road along our Ontario highways. And
[00:05:31.039] then I would, you know, uh, lay it all
[00:05:33.280] out.
[00:05:33.919] >> Yeah. It's interesting how things that
[00:05:36.018] [snorts] wouldn't seem to feed or lend
[00:05:38.960] itself to another profession do like
[00:05:42.880] that.
[00:05:43.199] >> Carpentry.
[00:05:44.479] >> Yes. Carpentry.
[00:05:46.320] >> Yes. I I learned a lot. I mean it's like
[00:05:49.680] being in the military and then sort of
[00:05:52.320] taking things you learned in the
[00:05:53.919] military into the private sector.
[00:05:56.800] >> But I must tell you, you know, having
[00:05:58.560] that as a skill in your in your life set
[00:06:01.520] of skills, uh you will you'll never be
[00:06:05.680] replaced by AI. A carpenter will not be
[00:06:08.560] replaced. I don't see AI picking up a
[00:06:10.720] nail gun or a drill. Uh as far as
[00:06:13.840] electricians and plumbers, best
[00:06:15.600] professions to be in. you know, you're
[00:06:17.120] no no way some AI robot is going to get
[00:06:19.600] in and do a uppipe under a sink,
[00:06:22.000] >> right?
[00:06:22.560] >> Uh so you have that [clears throat]
[00:06:24.720] skill. I I don't really have a
[00:06:27.440] >> a real skill uh like that.
[00:06:29.919] >> Yeah. Well, you don't need it. You're
[00:06:31.520] super talented.
[00:06:32.880] >> Uh well, thank you, sir. I've worked
[00:06:35.440] with great people that were great
[00:06:36.960] collaborators and all the work that that
[00:06:38.720] I did enjoy doing is from that and I was
[00:06:41.600] I got all the right breaks and that and
[00:06:43.280] I backed it up with you know whatever
[00:06:45.280] skills I do have. But uh to have a hard
[00:06:47.680] skill like that it's uh it's quite
[00:06:49.840] admirable.
[00:06:50.720] >> It's funny in Canada they call that
[00:06:53.520] what's under the sink a U pipe cuz it's
[00:06:55.759] shaped like a U. I've never heard it. We
[00:06:57.919] call it a trap.
[00:06:59.120] >> A trap. Yeah.
[00:07:00.319] >> Yes. But uh that's a Canadian versus
[00:07:02.960] American thing. get that II robot robot
[00:07:05.120] to get out there and clean that trap. It
[00:07:06.479] ain't going to happen.
[00:07:07.440] >> No, I I get it. I've been pushing for
[00:07:09.759] this for a while, which is um you know,
[00:07:12.560] when they were taking away all the
[00:07:14.080] trades in schools and replacing them
[00:07:16.639] with music appreciations. As much as I
[00:07:18.639] love music, you know, playing the obo or
[00:07:20.960] the cello is fine, but it's easier to
[00:07:23.360] make a living if you know a trade.
[00:07:25.120] >> Well, the the ideal would be for the
[00:07:26.800] student to go in, make his obo in the
[00:07:28.400] wood shop, and go out and play it. I
[00:07:29.840] mean, but there's no money in schools to
[00:07:32.080] do any programs anymore.
[00:07:33.840] >> So, [clears throat] you and uh you
[00:07:36.400] should know that I had a recovered
[00:07:39.599] memory last night of going and seeing
[00:07:42.000] the Blues Brothers movie when it came
[00:07:45.039] out at in Century City where they used
[00:07:48.560] to have a nice big movie theater.
[00:07:50.000] >> That's a nice screen.
[00:07:50.960] >> And they had the Blues Brothers Mobile
[00:07:53.599] parked in front of the theater. M and
[00:07:57.199] there's a few movies that I I talk about
[00:08:00.400] that are are like seinal movies like
[00:08:02.960] important movies and I I feel that way
[00:08:04.800] about the Blues Brothers. I I thought
[00:08:07.280] you take comedy, you take music, you
[00:08:10.319] take action. Um, you take all these
[00:08:14.160] iconic people of the Cab Callaways and
[00:08:17.199] the Artha Franklin's and Ray Charles and
[00:08:19.039] stuff and you capture them all at sort
[00:08:21.840] of the height of their powers and then
[00:08:25.759] lots of little things in the movie that
[00:08:28.960] I always appreciated and always thought
[00:08:31.199] I was thought was funny even when I
[00:08:33.519] didn't even know what I was going to do
[00:08:35.519] for a living.
[00:08:36.959] Just for instance,
[00:08:39.200] the scene where it's you're in the cafe
[00:08:42.080] with Artha Franklin and Matt Guitar
[00:08:44.720] Murphy's in there and you and John are
[00:08:48.000] sitting there at the counter sort of not
[00:08:49.920] paying much attention, but then at some
[00:08:52.000] point get up and get into the dance and
[00:08:55.600] then slide back down on your stool as if
[00:08:58.080] nothing happened.
[00:08:59.440] >> I just thought that was like weird
[00:09:01.440] little pieces of of genius interspersed
[00:09:04.240] in that movie. I have a crystalline
[00:09:06.320] memory of that exact moment the first
[00:09:08.720] time we uh we were uh rehearsing it.
[00:09:12.640] >> Uh first of all, we had Carlton Johnson
[00:09:15.279] who was the Temptations choreographer.
[00:09:17.200] So really we had the the best there. And
[00:09:20.800] I remember uh being there sitting and
[00:09:24.000] just turning on the stool and just
[00:09:25.839] watching Artha.
[00:09:27.920] >> And when she started to sing and started
[00:09:29.760] to move, she looked so cute. I a
[00:09:31.760] combination of amusement and awe just
[00:09:34.399] hit my stomach and I I froze. I was
[00:09:36.880] paralyzed
[00:09:38.480] watching her uh do her uh her dance and
[00:09:41.360] start and and her and her commencement
[00:09:43.200] of of singing that that part and and
[00:09:47.040] then I see John starting to move and it
[00:09:49.120] was like Marshall Herp when he drew his
[00:09:51.760] six gun,
[00:09:52.720] >> you know, time stopped. He said, "The
[00:09:54.240] reason I was able to get a bullet out as
[00:09:55.920] soon as the barrel left the holster was
[00:09:57.600] because I took my time. I took my time
[00:10:01.519] >> and that was a slow moment for him in
[00:10:04.640] his gunfights and for me a very slow
[00:10:07.760] moment where I didn't think I would be
[00:10:09.279] able to get off the I thought I my knees
[00:10:11.279] would buckle and John moved and then I
[00:10:13.519] overcame it and then we we did it. But I
[00:10:15.760] was awed by her talent and it paralyzed
[00:10:18.880] me in that moment.
[00:10:20.320] >> I my I I love the Ray Charles scene. I
[00:10:24.560] love that song. [clears throat]
[00:10:26.160] I love There's no Action. That song was
[00:10:28.320] written by Philadelphia songwriters. I
[00:10:30.720] don't recall who. U but Ray didn't write
[00:10:33.760] that song, Shake a Tail Feather, but we
[00:10:35.600] needed that song at that point in the
[00:10:37.600] movie for that type of energy as a dance
[00:10:39.839] number also to feature him on the on the
[00:10:42.399] keyboards. And so he's Ray was such a
[00:10:44.800] good sport. He recorded two songs uh for
[00:10:47.200] films that I did that uh where he was so
[00:10:49.760] great and and uh you know there's
[00:10:52.000] nothing wrong with the the action on
[00:10:53.279] this piano, you know. I love that line.
[00:10:54.800] and he plays and and we had to record
[00:10:57.120] the song with him. He coached us through
[00:10:58.640] the vocals all the way through. He was
[00:11:00.160] our producer basically on that track.
[00:11:02.560] >> And also for the film that I directed uh
[00:11:05.600] with Chvy and De Moore and John Candy,
[00:11:07.760] which I I like called Nothing But
[00:11:10.320] Trouble.
[00:11:11.279] >> He uh he um he recorded uh Tony
[00:11:15.040] Bennett's The Good Life for me, you
[00:11:16.720] know, and uh and so that was such a
[00:11:19.519] pleasure to work with him in the studio
[00:11:21.120] and then to have him just nail it on
[00:11:23.040] film, you know. Yeah. So, you got to you
[00:11:25.120] got to thank the city of Chicago,
[00:11:27.760] African-American culture first, the city
[00:11:29.680] of African-American culture first, the
[00:11:31.519] city of Chicago and John Landis really
[00:11:34.320] for what that that movie really became
[00:11:36.480] because John is a true cineast and it
[00:11:40.000] needed his hand desperately from the
[00:11:41.920] from the original concept uh to have a
[00:11:45.200] real filmmaker come in here in there and
[00:11:47.440] make that movie. you know, the scene
[00:11:49.279] where the Blues Mobile falls apart and
[00:11:52.000] uh at the at Cook County building and
[00:11:54.240] we're about to run in uh he just cuts
[00:11:56.160] away to two statues there, you know,
[00:11:59.200] ruminating. Yes. Looking down just that.
[00:12:01.360] So, the work of a master
[00:12:03.680] >> I agree. Um
[00:12:05.360] >> and the other thing as I was doing my
[00:12:06.959] homework last night about the Blues
[00:12:09.120] Brothers, I was looking at the cast and
[00:12:11.519] you were young. You were 28, I believe,
[00:12:14.959] but I was
[00:12:15.839] >> 27 when we started. I was completely
[00:12:18.560] blown away that Matt Guitar Murphy was
[00:12:21.279] 51. [laughter]
[00:12:23.279] >> That's insane because
[00:12:24.720] >> you look 30.
[00:12:26.000] >> The whole band looked to be about 30
[00:12:29.760] >> at the at the time. Steve Craropper and
[00:12:32.320] Donald Duck Dunn and all that. And the
[00:12:35.600] idea that Matt Guitar Murphy, who looked
[00:12:37.760] to be in better shape than everyone in
[00:12:39.760] the cast,
[00:12:40.160] >> he was he he worked out, you know, he he
[00:12:41.773] [laughter] he pushed weights.
[00:12:43.680] >> Was in his 50s when he did that. I was
[00:12:46.560] comp I mean that's the greatest black
[00:12:48.959] don't crack example on the on the
[00:12:51.440] planet.
[00:12:52.480] >> Garrett Morris is another one.
[00:12:54.079] >> Oh yeah.
[00:12:54.639] >> Yeah. Yeah.
[00:12:55.519] >> Yeah.
[00:12:55.839] >> And it's so true. Yeah. It's so true.
[00:12:57.839] >> He look the same age as everyone.
[00:12:59.440] >> And I have a friend named Bobby Rush.
[00:13:00.959] He's like he's getting up to almost 100
[00:13:03.839] years old.
[00:13:04.399] >> The singer.
[00:13:05.360] >> Yeah. Singer, har player, dancer,
[00:13:08.000] composer, writer, superstar,
[00:13:11.200] uh you know, veteran of the Chitlin
[00:13:13.200] circuit. Ah, I love Bobby. love him.
[00:13:15.839] Yeah. So, another example. He's so
[00:13:17.839] youthful and so handsome and Yeah. God,
[00:13:20.560] it was, you know, the Blues Brothers,
[00:13:22.800] this John was superb in that film, Blue
[00:13:25.360] Sheep, the the scene where we leave the
[00:13:27.839] country and western bar and we haven't
[00:13:30.320] paid for the beer and well and and so
[00:13:32.160] John's little speech walking across the
[00:13:34.639] sir. Well, I usually, you know, I go and
[00:13:36.320] I I the way we do this is I I go to my
[00:13:38.720] brother's car and I take out my
[00:13:40.000] checkbook and I put it on the something
[00:13:41.600] like that. You put it on the dashboard
[00:13:43.040] and I put it on the dash the lid of the
[00:13:46.560] glove box.
[00:13:47.120] >> The lid of the glove box.
[00:13:48.160] >> That's where I make my checks.
[00:13:49.120] >> That's where Yeah. I make my checks out
[00:13:50.480] and I put it, you know, and he and it's
[00:13:52.000] so meticulous. And [laughter] then we
[00:13:53.680] get in and he they he was just
[00:13:55.680] beautiful. The way he played that scene
[00:13:57.440] and uh so then we take off and uh yeah,
[00:14:00.560] that that movie I'm proud of. That's a
[00:14:02.160] that's a
[00:14:04.399] happy about that one. Well, I mean,
[00:14:06.800] there's plenty of funny movies and
[00:14:09.760] there's plenty of serious movies, but
[00:14:11.600] there's not as many important movies. To
[00:14:13.680] me, that was an important movie. I just
[00:14:16.079] thought that was my take on it, even
[00:14:19.600] even at first blush.
[00:14:21.760] >> Um, so it must have been hard to make
[00:14:26.000] >> uh all movies.
[00:14:28.160] >> Yeah, but this concept is sort of
[00:14:29.760] bizarre to explain to a studio.
[00:14:31.920] >> Oh, you'd never make it today. They
[00:14:33.279] would say, "Uh, excuse me. What?
[00:14:35.040] Catholic? What? Uh, wait a minute. Hold
[00:14:38.000] on. Wrecking so many cars and what?
[00:14:40.160] Well, you know, practically no CGI. I
[00:14:43.120] don't know." No, they wouldn't they
[00:14:44.320] wouldn't do it. Uh, by the way, I should
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[00:15:41.600] writer on Saturday Night Live.
[00:15:43.279] >> Was your girlfriend?
[00:15:44.240] >> She was. Yeah. Yeah.
[00:15:45.760] >> And she dumped you.
[00:15:46.880] >> She dumped me for John Alexander. And
[00:15:48.320] then uh then John and I became good
[00:15:50.560] friends and started this company. So
[00:15:53.040] that's our bone bottle. That's corn. Uh
[00:15:55.199] peaches and cream corn. Their black uh
[00:15:57.360] is made out of blueber agave that is
[00:16:00.079] made uh from the plant that tequila is
[00:16:02.320] made out of. Now we've there's no other
[00:16:04.399] tequila no other vodka made out of the
[00:16:06.880] tequila plant that we know of. So you
[00:16:09.440] can do anything you want uh margaritas
[00:16:11.600] or that with it. It's very long and
[00:16:13.440] earthy. And uh the corn again is uh is
[00:16:17.199] uh dry crisp vanilla sweet. And then we
[00:16:20.160] got the wheat bottle there. uh the
[00:16:22.240] iridescent bottle that's sunset wheat
[00:16:24.160] that's more of a peppery anise kind of
[00:16:26.639] flavor and you'd have uh a good
[00:16:28.800] margarita out of that and then our
[00:16:30.079] spatter or our pride bottle at that
[00:16:32.320] season of the world of the year but you
[00:16:34.639] know we should all be proud all the time
[00:16:36.000] but at this pride season of the year we
[00:16:38.399] do we do uh uh in June we do uh uh
[00:16:41.920] bottles and uh that was one that uh we
[00:16:44.240] did a survey and there was a contest and
[00:16:46.240] uh that design was come up with it's
[00:16:48.240] very Jackson Pollock and kind of uh
[00:16:50.959] >> uh Jasper John's.
[00:16:52.399] >> Yeah, it's a these uh
[00:16:54.320] >> there's a lot of vodka out there, but
[00:16:56.000] this is a conversation piece,
[00:16:58.880] >> you know what I mean? This Yeah,
[00:17:00.639] >> this isn't for drinking in the park
[00:17:02.240] alone out of a bag.
[00:17:04.480] >> I don't know. Uh you could I would say
[00:17:06.480] you can drink it with five people. I
[00:17:08.720] wouldn't drink.
[00:17:10.079] >> I think that's a Is there a park? And is
[00:17:12.480] there a bag? And there's one, two, three
[00:17:15.360] of us. Let's go.
[00:17:17.120] >> Yeah. And it's good cuz I
[00:17:18.400] >> I put it on ice.
[00:17:19.439] >> I was drinking it all. uh all Monday
[00:17:21.520] night at the at the event.
[00:17:23.439] >> Yeah, it's tasty. It's tasty. Yeah.
[00:17:25.439] Yeah. I'm proud of it. I really am. It's
[00:17:26.959] made in Canada. I love going around the
[00:17:28.400] world and saying that. I like Canada
[00:17:30.240] where I was born and where I live part
[00:17:33.280] of the part of the year. And uh you
[00:17:35.840] know, and it's great to be living in the
[00:17:37.520] Western world. You know, there's an old
[00:17:38.880] blue song.
[00:17:41.039] Oh, this world is in an uproar. Things
[00:17:43.440] all going wrong. The way the reds is
[00:17:45.440] cutting up. We ain't going to be here
[00:17:47.120] long. I'm going to dig myself a hole.
[00:17:49.840] move my baby down underground. When I
[00:17:52.799] come up, ain't going to be no wars
[00:17:55.200] around. Had a friend from Israel in the
[00:17:57.760] other day, uh, from Tel Aviv. He stayed
[00:17:59.600] at the farm and he said, "Dan, what is
[00:18:02.400] it like to live in a land where there's
[00:18:04.320] no war?"
[00:18:06.160] I his question here I am, you know, in
[00:18:08.480] my 193 uh2 Pierce Arrow 1604 limousine
[00:18:13.360] uh driving him for a little ride and and
[00:18:15.827] [snorts]
[00:18:16.080] >> 16 cylinder
[00:18:17.120] >> uh not 12, but they uh Pierce didn't
[00:18:20.000] make it 16, but the Cadillac Cadillac
[00:18:21.760] did
[00:18:22.320] >> and I believe Packer did as well.
[00:18:24.240] >> But and here I am driving through the
[00:18:25.760] Bucllic countryside and in Canada. We're
[00:18:29.039] in Canada.
[00:18:29.919] >> In Canada, I'm in the this summer I'm in
[00:18:32.160] the Pierce. We're driving to the
[00:18:33.360] drugstore to get an ice cream and and he
[00:18:35.520] tells what is it like to live in a world
[00:18:37.440] without in a country without war and I
[00:18:40.400] oh I thought to myself boy do I think
[00:18:43.440] take things for granted you know around
[00:18:45.280] this place
[00:18:46.640] >> well you know unfortunately the way
[00:18:48.799] we're wired is when we're out of real
[00:18:52.080] problems we just find problems and call
[00:18:54.880] them problems we're we're on a constant
[00:18:57.679] quest for problems but our problems
[00:19:00.480] >> are not the world's problems and They
[00:19:02.480] would love to have our problems. I say
[00:19:04.400] our I mean US and in Canada. So we just
[00:19:07.919] move on to oh we got a male who's a
[00:19:11.440] biological male and he's swimming
[00:19:13.120] against females and that's that's that's
[00:19:15.280] our war. You know we we create we'll
[00:19:18.480] find it.
[00:19:19.120] >> Yeah.
[00:19:19.440] >> It's it's the you know rich Beverly
[00:19:21.760] Hills housewife syndrome. Oh what a
[00:19:23.600] disaster today was that the pedicure and
[00:19:26.640] the manicure van that came by was 20
[00:19:29.280] minutes late and then the sushi was dry.
[00:19:31.919] It's horrible. Yeah, but that's what
[00:19:33.919] these are real crises to real people.
[00:19:36.240] Yeah. It helps distract, I suppose.
[00:19:38.400] >> Uh but we I think God, what are we going
[00:19:40.799] to do? We just have to have positive
[00:19:42.640] eyes out there, the cone of positivity
[00:19:45.760] and we have to get with like minds to uh
[00:19:50.000] to try to do something about about all
[00:19:51.919] of us. Um and uh and and just be kinder
[00:19:56.240] to to everywhere in humankind. I don't I
[00:19:58.720] I I don't know if we're going to require
[00:20:01.200] some kind of DSX Machina intervention
[00:20:05.280] from somewhere to smarten us human
[00:20:07.120] humans up because we're a pretty heinous
[00:20:09.360] species right now generally. Well, as
[00:20:11.600] you and I were talking about off the air
[00:20:13.440] and as I've brought up a million times,
[00:20:15.440] I never thought in the year 2023 we'd be
[00:20:18.559] dealing with human trafficking and
[00:20:21.280] tunnels under borders and, you know,
[00:20:24.000] terrorism and and fentanyl and and, you
[00:20:28.240] know, squalor and poverty and I I
[00:20:32.000] thought we'd be flying around in George
[00:20:33.760] Jetson's, you know, car and we'd be in
[00:20:36.960] some everyone would be wearing a myar
[00:20:38.640] jumpsuit and it'd be some sort of
[00:20:40.159] utopia. Yeah, because
[00:20:43.520] hoverboards I guess. Yeah, there are,
[00:20:45.600] you know, there are pockets of the world
[00:20:47.120] where that are at peace
[00:20:49.360] >> and that are there is harmony. Uh, you
[00:20:52.480] know, Santa Monica, California, harmony,
[00:20:55.200] peace, joy by the sea. It's beautiful
[00:20:58.240] there. Beautiful houses and beautiful
[00:21:00.640] shops and and lovely wide boulevards and
[00:21:03.280] 60,000 homeless. So, the underside and
[00:21:06.799] the overside will always always be
[00:21:08.880] there. We're living in frankly medieval
[00:21:11.440] times. Uh you go I I drive very
[00:21:13.760] carefully in the car. I don't drive at
[00:21:15.360] prison hours at night. Have a gated
[00:21:17.440] place to to live. Lock up at night.
[00:21:20.000] Bring my family close. Uh whereas what
[00:21:23.679] really I would like to take my family
[00:21:25.120] and let them run in the park at at at
[00:21:27.039] 1:00 in the morning
[00:21:28.799] >> with a bag and a bottle.
[00:21:30.559] >> Well, hopefully. Yeah. But no,
[00:21:33.919] >> we have to be so so guarded now. Well,
[00:21:37.360] what we're living in, especially in
[00:21:39.200] California, is you have Jay-Z and
[00:21:43.039] Beyonce buy $200 million house in
[00:21:45.840] Malibu, but in order to get there, you
[00:21:48.080] have to drive through a homeless
[00:21:49.280] encampment.
[00:21:50.080] >> They got a deal, by the way. It's worth
[00:21:51.600] 700. So, [laughter]
[00:21:53.520] >> so that's where we're at, which is ultra
[00:21:56.159] rich and then people just expiring on
[00:21:58.720] the streets in squalor. Well, thankfully
[00:22:01.200] knowing people like that, they're going
[00:22:02.640] to drive through their driveway, see
[00:22:04.000] that, and immediately start to act to
[00:22:06.159] try to alleviate and help in some way
[00:22:08.320] because that's the kind of people they
[00:22:09.679] are. Um, uh, there are other owners of
[00:22:12.559] $200 million mansions in the world that,
[00:22:15.919] uh, that I don't think would think the
[00:22:18.000] same way.
[00:22:19.039] >> So, I was reading up on you and I saw,
[00:22:22.240] uh, Asberger syndrome and I saw some
[00:22:25.360] >> that's a self diagnosis. I was never all
[00:22:27.520] right, that's that's me. That's me
[00:22:29.280] going, why do I do this sometimes and
[00:22:31.120] why do I do that and and and reading
[00:22:32.799] books and that, but I've had no medical
[00:22:35.039] uh uh opinion for formally. Uh I've had
[00:22:39.280] no one uh you know, have never had a
[00:22:41.520] doctor say it to me. It's just a
[00:22:43.520] >> No, I I know I've been described I've
[00:22:45.840] had it for voiced it on me, but
[00:22:48.310] [clears throat] I've I've never had been
[00:22:50.080] diagnosed officially, and I'm not sure
[00:22:52.640] if you can officially totally diagnose
[00:22:55.360] it, but I have some questions for you.
[00:22:57.039] Do you have hypervigilance
[00:23:00.480] disorder?
[00:23:02.320] >> Um, I am vigilant. I am aware. Um, I uh
[00:23:07.520] but I don't think I'm hypervigilant or
[00:23:09.520] paranoid, but I'm definitely aware of
[00:23:11.600] surroundings of vehicles of being uh
[00:23:15.039] followed sometimes uh aware that make
[00:23:17.840] sure that doesn't happen. uh walking in
[00:23:20.240] a big city, someone clocks me because of
[00:23:22.720] my [clears throat] profile or they know
[00:23:24.000] the face, I immediately become aware of
[00:23:25.679] that and I'm ready for the encounter
[00:23:27.360] whether gentle or not.
[00:23:28.960] >> Right. No, I I have that too. It's not
[00:23:32.000] paranoia. It's just a sort of noticing
[00:23:34.960] of everything.
[00:23:35.840] >> Oh, and I think I tell my daughters
[00:23:37.520] always, you know, be aware of where you
[00:23:40.000] are, where where you what you've who's
[00:23:42.559] watching you as you go from your door to
[00:23:44.400] your car. What car is familiar the next
[00:23:47.280] day? Is it is it that one always there?
[00:23:49.120] at a neighbor or you know and when you
[00:23:51.520] you go in at night you know get in
[00:23:52.799] quickly lock the door don't doawle with
[00:23:54.640] the groceries and you know and be be
[00:23:56.720] aware but one of the things that
[00:23:59.059] [clears throat] I've realized when I
[00:24:00.320] talk to people who have this sort of
[00:24:02.320] hypervigilance thing um one of the
[00:24:05.919] markers for it is sleep it's when you
[00:24:10.480] sleep do you have to have some white
[00:24:12.960] noise going do you have to have an eye
[00:24:15.440] shade on does the room have to be cool
[00:24:18.240] and dark cuz I know people who can just
[00:24:20.400] fall asleep on any airplane on their
[00:24:22.240] back.
[00:24:22.799] >> Jimmyi, there he is. Flip flops in
[00:24:26.080] commercial tiny little bag dog now he
[00:24:29.200] travels with and the and the and the eye
[00:24:31.440] shades
[00:24:32.400] >> and he can do it right just like that. I
[00:24:34.240] I I envious.
[00:24:35.520] >> No. Yeah.
[00:24:36.240] >> But what about you?
[00:24:37.440] >> Uh cool and dark for sure. I like that
[00:24:39.679] much better. Um uh don't have to have
[00:24:42.240] the white noise. Don't need don't want
[00:24:44.159] any clock radios near me. Uh usually a
[00:24:46.559] good book. Mhm.
[00:24:47.919] >> Uh is uh will will put me put me out,
[00:24:50.960] you know.
[00:24:51.520] >> Uh so you don't need like the ceiling
[00:24:53.679] fan going even during the winter time.
[00:24:55.679] >> I don't like fans. And in fact that uh
[00:24:57.600] you know that was a big contention in my
[00:24:59.360] marriage with with Donna was uh
[00:25:01.279] >> you don't like fans.
[00:25:02.320] >> I don't like fans or air conditioning.
[00:25:03.919] She's from the south southern girl.
[00:25:05.600] Loved them. And I and that uh we had a
[00:25:07.520] lot of squables over that. I'd turn it
[00:25:09.279] off when she'd go to sleep then she'd
[00:25:10.880] wake up and put it back on. This is a I
[00:25:13.520] got to say this is an alltime first and
[00:25:16.000] the reason is is guys normally get
[00:25:18.640] married to the fan and women say it's
[00:25:21.840] too cold. I've never seen the the script
[00:25:24.640] flip.
[00:25:25.039] >> No, not for Miss Donna. No way. No way.
[00:25:27.120] No. No. But I I do like uh I do like a
[00:25:30.080] book and I like quiet and dark and cool.
[00:25:32.559] And I am so fortunate that uh even with
[00:25:35.120] the multiple times that I arise to
[00:25:37.279] urinate at night, I can get right back
[00:25:38.799] to REM Delta within, you know, a minute
[00:25:41.279] or two. And I have deep, beautiful REM
[00:25:43.679] delta episodes, 45 minutes to 50,
[00:25:46.480] sometimes a little longer, you know,
[00:25:48.080] mini ones spurt. And I I wake up and I
[00:25:50.400] feel extremely rested. Uh because when
[00:25:52.559] you know, you know, when you're
[00:25:53.440] dreaming, you're you're in REM Delta.
[00:25:55.200] You're you're out when you're dreaming.
[00:25:56.880] You're you know, you could put a pin and
[00:25:58.480] and and they wouldn't you wouldn't feel
[00:25:59.919] it. So uh let's uh let's go back uh with
[00:26:03.679] you a little bit. Um what do you think
[00:26:06.559] you're going to be doing when you're in
[00:26:08.480] high school? What's the plan? If there
[00:26:11.360] is a plan
[00:26:13.279] >> uh in high school, like if
[00:26:14.960] >> Yeah. When you were in high school?
[00:26:16.159] >> When I was in high school?
[00:26:17.279] >> Yeah.
[00:26:18.480] >> What' you think you'd be doing for a
[00:26:20.159] living?
[00:26:20.960] >> Oh, well, uh I was uh I was studying.
[00:26:25.200] Well, I I didn't really know in high
[00:26:26.720] school. I' done done some plays and I'd
[00:26:28.400] done some theater and and it was fun and
[00:26:30.080] that, but I knew that's you can't make a
[00:26:31.679] living at doing show business. Not if
[00:26:34.640] you're in Ottawa. There's no way to make
[00:26:36.640] a living in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. And
[00:26:38.720] now that's changed. There's a big film
[00:26:40.240] industry up there and lots of actors and
[00:26:42.799] and a big community. But then there were
[00:26:44.559] very few outlets. I did plays. I worked
[00:26:46.880] with Ottawa Little Theater, but I
[00:26:48.240] thought, you know, as a profession, how
[00:26:49.760] no. So I worked and apprenticed at the
[00:26:52.559] uh Solicitor General of Canada um
[00:26:55.919] penitentiary uh service uh as a clerk
[00:26:59.200] and I looked at Carlton University and I
[00:27:01.840] looked at some of the courses, abnormal
[00:27:03.279] psych, deviant psych. So, I thought I
[00:27:05.520] was really I was uh I was headed towards
[00:27:07.679] a career in corrections.
[00:27:09.679] >> Uh and uh probably would have ended up
[00:27:11.520] as a a low-grade prison guard. Uh you
[00:27:14.400] know, drinking with my buddies uh you
[00:27:16.480] know, at at the local tavern and and
[00:27:18.400] going into work and trying to get
[00:27:20.720] through the hell of working in a uh in a
[00:27:23.200] in a federal prison. And was the comedy
[00:27:26.480] always kind of in you, but you just
[00:27:29.039] hadn't realized it
[00:27:31.360] >> and and the environment wasn't conducive
[00:27:33.600] to realizing it?
[00:27:34.720] >> No, it was. My parents were very funny
[00:27:36.720] and there was always humor there. And I
[00:27:38.640] did take some improv classes and I had
[00:27:40.720] very funny friends in high school who
[00:27:42.480] were great influences on me, really
[00:27:44.559] absurdists and, you know, monologists.
[00:27:47.679] And uh I I took a lot of the characters
[00:27:50.480] out of high school and sort of you know
[00:27:52.240] and and uh I used them kind of later on
[00:27:55.360] uh just in terms of the rhythm of speech
[00:27:57.120] and my uncles were very funny you know
[00:27:58.880] do you know that great outdoors the
[00:28:00.320] movie I made with candy.
[00:28:01.600] >> Sure.
[00:28:02.000] >> Yeah. So that character Roman Craig is
[00:28:03.919] my uncle Peter and my uncle Andy but
[00:28:05.840] that's you know that they chop like like
[00:28:08.399] Bert Lancaster. They they chop you chop
[00:28:10.640] the words like that. There's always
[00:28:13.200] something's going to come out of the
[00:28:14.240] mouth. It's going to be precision
[00:28:16.559] there. you're going to hear it. They'll
[00:28:17.600] be it'll be loud. You know, make sure
[00:28:20.000] they're heard. You know that you could
[00:28:22.240] say, "Can can you make sure I'm heard?"
[00:28:24.000] Or, "Can you pass the salt?" Pass the
[00:28:26.320] salt [laughter] and get it over here
[00:28:28.240] now. You know, it's that that clipped uh
[00:28:31.360] you know, so I I recently saw Uncle Buck
[00:28:34.399] for some reason about two weeks ago and
[00:28:37.279] I thought, I miss John Candy.
[00:28:40.080] >> There's certain performers you never
[00:28:42.320] want anyone to go before their time, but
[00:28:44.159] there are certain ones I don't need.
[00:28:46.240] John Candy when he passed I was like,
[00:28:49.279] "Oh, I mean, look, uh, the two John's,
[00:28:52.399] Belucian Candy, those guys were like,
[00:28:54.320] "Oh, man. I'm gonna miss these guys
[00:28:56.640] there. There's a lot of work ahead of
[00:28:59.200] those guys."
[00:29:00.159] >> I know. I know. I I uh I think about it
[00:29:02.720] often. Um,
[00:29:04.399] >> did you know John Candy? Well,
[00:29:06.000] >> oh yeah, we made the Great Outdoors and
[00:29:07.919] also he was in the Blues Brothers, if
[00:29:09.679] you'll remember, he played Burton
[00:29:10.720] Mercer, the parole officer, and
[00:29:12.640] >> Oh. Oh. Oh, he was the guy. Let's see.
[00:29:15.919] Officer.
[00:29:16.640] >> Yeah. Orange Whip. Orange Whip. That was
[00:29:18.640] Orange Wendy. Yeah.
[00:29:19.760] >> Yeah.
[00:29:20.399] >> And [clears throat] uh we did Second
[00:29:21.440] City together in Toronto. So, we were
[00:29:23.039] very old friends. In fact, when the
[00:29:24.640] first day we met, uh he was a Kleenex
[00:29:26.880] salesman for Kimberly Clark. Turned out
[00:29:28.960] he was a clothes master of clothes. He
[00:29:31.440] looked he was always turned out
[00:29:32.799] beautifully. you know, the the beige
[00:29:35.840] blazer and the beige, you know, pants
[00:29:38.240] and brown shoes and the beige Pontiac
[00:29:40.640] Laurent in to match, you know, and he
[00:29:42.320] sold Kleenex for Kimberly Clark and on
[00:29:44.480] the first day we met and I was a male uh
[00:29:46.640] truck driver in Toronto. So, we were
[00:29:49.200] both uh you know, working in other
[00:29:51.360] things that uh that we didn't think
[00:29:53.360] would lead into show business. But then
[00:29:54.799] we auditioned for Second City that and
[00:29:57.039] got into that first Toronto company with
[00:29:58.720] Gilder Rner, Jerry Salsberg, Eugene
[00:30:00.880] Levy, and then eventually Katherine
[00:30:02.480] O'Hara. Our teachers were Joe Flity and
[00:30:05.200] Brian Doyle Murray.
[00:30:06.480] >> Wow.
[00:30:06.880] >> Yep. And did you always see something in
[00:30:10.159] him
[00:30:11.919] like you went, "Oh, this guy's he's got
[00:30:14.480] the goods."
[00:30:15.039] >> Oh, no. Everyone loved Aunt Candy, as we
[00:30:17.919] used to call him. He was uh he was such
[00:30:19.919] a great host. Uh, you know, he'd be, you
[00:30:22.720] know, he'd be the one to leave the
[00:30:23.919] humugs like your aunt have out at
[00:30:25.760] Christmas, you know, the little candies
[00:30:27.120] and, you know, always offering
[00:30:29.120] soliciting a drink, you know, get a
[00:30:30.640] drink for you. Uh, yeah, Johnny Johnny
[00:30:33.919] Toronto, Johnny Laru, for sure. Uh,
[00:30:36.399] yeah, of course. Uh he you know we we
[00:30:39.600] all we started in sort of you know as at
[00:30:41.679] the you know the the day we met doing
[00:30:43.360] voices and people from our past and
[00:30:46.466] [sighs and gasps] and uh you know we
[00:30:48.960] were of like mind and uh and went on to
[00:30:51.760] a great friendship until he died because
[00:30:53.760] he had a congenital heart defect. Plus
[00:30:56.080] he he did like to to drink but uh it
[00:30:58.240] wasn't so much that it was the the the
[00:31:00.799] thing that killed his dad very early.
[00:31:03.360] Did you um did you have that same
[00:31:06.799] kinship when you first met with uh John
[00:31:09.919] Belalushi? Did you feel like oh
[00:31:12.880] >> like when I met Jimmy Kimmel I was like
[00:31:15.039] oh this guy's the guy
[00:31:16.240] >> I know great buddy.
[00:31:18.080] >> I got to stay close to this guy and and
[00:31:21.039] I recognized it in him even though I was
[00:31:23.440] I was
[00:31:24.720] >> let's be honest it's love. I mean uh you
[00:31:26.480] know you love him and he and he loves
[00:31:28.720] you.
[00:31:29.279] >> Yes. What a great thing to have a friend
[00:31:31.120] like that. But I didn't I didn't feel
[00:31:33.679] that with a lot of people. I meet a lot
[00:31:35.840] of people and they go, "Okay, this is
[00:31:37.600] not going to go on forever."
[00:31:39.120] >> I I It's the three It's the 3 to 10
[00:31:41.679] minute rule. You give them 3 to 10
[00:31:43.039] minutes and uh you know, if they can't
[00:31:45.519] eng you know, you don't feel engaged by
[00:31:47.360] then, then they should move on with
[00:31:48.720] their lives,
[00:31:49.440] >> right? So, we had a mutual feeling even
[00:31:51.919] though he wasn't doing much. He was
[00:31:54.240] doing sports, local sports on a FM radio
[00:31:57.440] station out here and I was doing
[00:31:58.799] nothing. I wasn't in show business at
[00:32:00.640] all. as a boxing coach, but we met each
[00:32:03.440] other and we're like, "This is something
[00:32:05.279] and we got to do something with this."
[00:32:07.600] And and if you're lucky enough, you'll
[00:32:10.080] have a few of those in your life.
[00:32:11.760] >> Was it that with Belushi?
[00:32:13.840] >> It was. It was [snorts] uh first night I
[00:32:16.000] met him, it was a blizzard, February,
[00:32:18.320] Second City, Fireh Hall.
[00:32:20.880] >> Uh we heard legendary Belushi coming up
[00:32:23.440] to recruit for National Lampoon. He
[00:32:25.200] wanted to get Gilda to go down there to
[00:32:26.640] the radio show. And uh so we hosted him
[00:32:29.679] at Second City and the first moment I
[00:32:31.440] saw him, he opened the door to the
[00:32:33.360] alley. He flung the door open, walked in
[00:32:36.720] completely inadequately dressed for the
[00:32:39.120] uh weather in a cable knit sweater and a
[00:32:41.760] silk scarf scarf around his neck and a a
[00:32:44.960] driver's cap, that Octagonal Lej Cobb
[00:32:47.600] type driver's cap, you know, that you
[00:32:49.279] see in the old movies. and and jeans and
[00:32:52.399] white snick [clears throat] sneakers and
[00:32:53.679] a pack of butts in his hand and smoking
[00:32:56.159] one and uh he he made an entrance uh
[00:33:00.080] such as a great actor should enter a
[00:33:02.159] room and you know as impactful as I'm
[00:33:04.880] sure he would have wanted it to be even
[00:33:06.240] though he wasn't conscious of it being
[00:33:07.760] impactful and uh then that night I think
[00:33:10.640] he did all some favorites he hit the
[00:33:12.799] wall he did uh he yeah the angel he did
[00:33:17.360] oh he did cocker I think and he did Lee
[00:33:19.600] Jay [ __ ] He did a lot of great stuff
[00:33:21.760] that we'd heard about that he'd done in
[00:33:23.840] Chicago. And um we [clears throat] that
[00:33:26.799] very night went back to my after hours
[00:33:30.080] club at 505 Queen Street East, the Speak
[00:33:32.240] Easy. And there was a record there
[00:33:34.480] playing uh Straight Up by Down Child
[00:33:36.399] Blues Band. And he asked me, "Oh, that's
[00:33:38.320] that's really good music." I said,
[00:33:39.440] "Well, John, you're from Chicago. You
[00:33:41.200] know about blues." He said, "Yeah, that
[00:33:42.480] but that vocalist is good and that harp
[00:33:44.000] and that you know and uh" and I said,
[00:33:46.480] "Well, it's it's it's blues, just good
[00:33:48.159] old blues." He said, "I'm into heavy
[00:33:49.440] metal, you know, mainly, you know, grand
[00:33:50.960] funk and and cream." And I said, "Well,
[00:33:52.799] that all comes from the blues, as you
[00:33:54.240] know." And yeah, he and he really
[00:33:55.760] listened to that record. And by God, we
[00:33:57.919] came up with the Blues Brothers that
[00:33:59.519] very night, like, "Well, we should put a
[00:34:00.960] band together." I said, "You sing. I
[00:34:02.640] play a little harp, you know. Come on.
[00:34:04.399] Let's" And by the time I got to Chicago
[00:34:06.799] to New York to do SNL, he had a stack of
[00:34:09.839] records that come up high as the desk
[00:34:11.520] here. And he started to do his research
[00:34:14.159] >> into the blues.
[00:34:14.879] >> Into the blues. And so from that we
[00:34:16.800] built uh built the act. So so the very
[00:34:19.359] first night we met we got to see his
[00:34:21.760] comedy firsthand and get to know the guy
[00:34:23.760] and come up concoct the Blues Brothers.
[00:34:26.560] So that was pretty
[00:34:27.919] >> What sold him on on you?
[00:34:32.320] >> Um I think the love of the music and
[00:34:34.639] just the kind of anarchy of the way I
[00:34:36.320] lived. I lived below this speak easy on
[00:34:39.040] a main street 505 Queen uh had a store
[00:34:43.359] window [clears throat] there and uh so
[00:34:46.159] we ran the we ran the bar wide open like
[00:34:48.639] right people you could look in and see
[00:34:50.720] you know a bar a full open unlicensed
[00:34:52.800] bar running there and I I slept
[00:34:54.320] downstairs uh and sometimes upstairs and
[00:34:57.119] and and just uh just the people we had
[00:34:59.440] coming and going the artists the scene
[00:35:02.000] uh he liked that and uh I I think he saw
[00:35:06.320] also kind of um a a soul and a creative
[00:35:10.400] spirit that maybe needed a little
[00:35:12.000] guidance and rescuing, you know. So, and
[00:35:14.640] that was me. Well, I want to talk about
[00:35:17.280] uh [clears throat] the formation of the
[00:35:19.119] Blues Brothers and the band and Booker T
[00:35:21.200] and the MGs and all that stuff. We'll
[00:35:23.040] take a quick break. We'll be right back
[00:35:24.560] with Dan Akroyd right after this. Oh, O
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[00:37:20.320] >> We're on a mission for God.
[00:37:25.359] If you said the Blues Brothers,
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[00:37:32.640] >> Dan Akroyd is in studio. Crystal Head
[00:37:35.680] Vodka is uh a wonderful product that
[00:37:39.120] [clears throat] uh Dan has created, and
[00:37:41.040] I'm here to tell you it's the real deal
[00:37:42.880] because I sampled my share of it
[00:37:45.040] >> at the uh at the party, the uh Magic
[00:37:47.359] Castle the other night. So, it's
[00:37:48.720] wonderful. and you can go to
[00:37:49.760] crystalheadvodka.com
[00:37:52.160] and uh treat yourself. So, I was doing a
[00:37:55.440] little research and I was I didn't know
[00:37:58.240] that the Blues Brothers had the Booker
[00:38:01.200] Teen and some of the Booker Teen the MGs
[00:38:03.760] in it and so I was looking up uh Steve
[00:38:07.599] Craropper and um Donald Duck. Yeah.
[00:38:10.640] Done.
[00:38:11.440] >> And um [clears throat]
[00:38:13.280] and so then how did it how did you
[00:38:16.320] cherrypick those guys? that how did it
[00:38:18.400] how did the band form and and and these
[00:38:21.280] are some of the best musicians in the
[00:38:23.040] world?
[00:38:23.839] >> Well, particularly
[00:38:26.240] uh Craropper and Dunn were Otis
[00:38:28.160] Reading's guitar players and they played
[00:38:29.599] on all of the Stacks Volta hits.
[00:38:31.440] >> Mhm.
[00:38:32.400] >> So, uh Schaefer and Malone and I and
[00:38:35.200] Ruben uh and Paul Schaefer.
[00:38:37.760] >> Yeah. Paul Schaefer basically they were
[00:38:39.839] the first sort of house band when we
[00:38:42.000] warmed up the audience. uh first couple
[00:38:45.599] of times we we all we we walked in the
[00:38:47.599] door with the concept. We already had
[00:38:49.119] the the uniforms. We already had what
[00:38:51.680] we're going to do. The concept of front
[00:38:53.280] men fronting great musicians. Schaefer,
[00:38:56.560] Ruben, Malone,
[00:38:59.119] and Marini um were were the band at that
[00:39:02.800] point. And then Malone said, "You guys,
[00:39:05.440] you know, you should get in touch with
[00:39:06.880] Cropper and Dunn." And and I'm Yeah.
[00:39:09.680] Like, wait a minute. Hold. Cropper and
[00:39:11.119] Dun of Stacks Vault. like they're going
[00:39:12.560] to want to have anything to do with with
[00:39:14.000] us. And and Malone said, "Oh, yeah. They
[00:39:17.520] know that you're doing this with
[00:39:19.119] veneration for the venerables and the
[00:39:22.079] veterans. They know you doing it out of
[00:39:23.760] respect and love for the music uh and a
[00:39:26.560] desire to showcase it and revive it in
[00:39:28.960] some sense." And they're two of the best
[00:39:31.440] guitar players in the world. Reach out.
[00:39:33.747] [clears throat] We did and they joined
[00:39:36.000] us. And that really made the Blues
[00:39:38.320] Brothers happen as a as a coalesed
[00:39:40.400] entity to have Duck Dunn driving the
[00:39:44.880] band with his bass [cough]
[00:39:47.502] [clears throat] in concert with Steve
[00:39:49.119] Jordan, our 19-year-old drummer at the
[00:39:51.440] time, who was now the Stones drummer.
[00:39:53.839] >> Oh, he is now.
[00:39:54.720] >> Yeah.
[00:39:56.480] So to have those two driving the band
[00:39:58.640] with uh Steve on rhythm and lead guitar
[00:40:01.040] and then Matt Murphy on on essentially,
[00:40:03.200] you know, Chicago blues lead. We had a
[00:40:05.200] Memphis Chicago fusion band that well it
[00:40:08.320] it it couldn't be stopped for until John
[00:40:11.599] died. We were still doing stuff and we
[00:40:13.440] were going to do more. Yeah. They uh
[00:40:16.977] [clears throat] by the way I don't know
[00:40:19.119] if they're great actors but they pulled
[00:40:20.800] it off in the movie. They all they all
[00:40:24.400] in both movies.
[00:40:25.680] >> Yes.
[00:40:26.079] >> And the second one is a small G good
[00:40:29.520] comp uh comparable product to the to the
[00:40:32.240] first uh because the the soundtrack of
[00:40:34.640] the second one is quite outstanding.
[00:40:36.400] Erica Bedu is worth the price of
[00:40:38.000] admission. And um there were a lot of
[00:40:40.320] there's a lot of good stuff in that too.
[00:40:41.760] And they uh they pulled off the acting
[00:40:43.359] and they look they came back and they
[00:40:45.119] looked the same. And by the way, Fat Me
[00:40:48.160] looked the same as well in that movie.
[00:40:51.038] [clears throat]
[00:40:51.760] I I did lose the weight and I I I look I
[00:40:54.240] hold the two of them up and I go not
[00:40:55.680] bad.
[00:40:56.400] >> Yeah.
[00:40:56.720] >> For many years later, however it was.
[00:40:58.960] >> Um so [clears throat]
[00:41:00.800] John passed out here in Los Angeles in
[00:41:03.920] >> Yeah. Bungalow 3 at the Shadow Marmont
[00:41:06.640] >> 82 was
[00:41:08.319] >> Yeah. 82. March uh March 5th 82.
[00:41:11.200] >> 82. Yeah. I remember I remember where I
[00:41:14.480] was. I remember when um John Lennon died
[00:41:17.839] and I remember when Belushi died. I was
[00:41:20.480] on [clears throat] stage with Marshall
[00:41:21.520] Tucker band when Lennon
[00:41:23.040] >> heard in the love song. Is that his
[00:41:24.800] song?
[00:41:25.440] >> Heard in the love.
[00:41:26.560] >> Yeah, I think so. For some reason I got
[00:41:28.480] up to play harp and and I walked off
[00:41:30.720] stage and Ron Delner, the great promoter
[00:41:32.640] said, you know, John Lennin's been shot.
[00:41:34.079] And of course, you think John Lennon,
[00:41:35.440] well, he's a god. He'll whatever they
[00:41:37.359] shot him with, it'll they'll they'll
[00:41:38.880] pluck it out and he'll be walking around
[00:41:40.319] that just because he was shot doesn't
[00:41:42.160] mean he dies.
[00:41:43.680] >> Well, yeah.
[00:41:44.720] >> And Belalushi, of course, I remember
[00:41:46.160] when I heard about that. I was writing
[00:41:47.599] Ghostbusters at our office in New York
[00:41:49.440] very early one morning there and uh uh
[00:41:53.359] Bernie Brilstein called and and told
[00:41:56.160] told me what had happened and uh and
[00:41:58.960] then I thought, "Oh, I got to get to
[00:42:00.880] Judy right away. I can't have her
[00:42:02.400] hearing this on the radio, the TV, or
[00:42:04.000] seeing it on a newspaper." So, I I ran
[00:42:07.599] from uh 20th Street down to Morton
[00:42:10.880] Street down Fifth Avenue. and I ran over
[00:42:12.880] to to Judy and I had to had to tell her.
[00:42:16.240] Um, which was one of those, you know,
[00:42:18.000] moments, a crystalline moment again that
[00:42:20.319] uh it that took courage and uh that will
[00:42:24.720] remain with me forever, but it had to be
[00:42:26.319] done. I I couldn't have the media
[00:42:28.160] telling her first. I you know,
[00:42:30.319] >> it was back when there was some lead
[00:42:32.720] time before the evening news.
[00:42:34.800] >> Not much, I'll tell you. I ran
[00:42:36.000] >> Well, not much, but not Twitter. I mean
[00:42:37.760] now of course of course that right but
[00:42:39.760] the newspapers had already hit the
[00:42:41.440] sidewalk I ran by and there
[00:42:43.520] >> Belalushi dead at 33 right there in a
[00:42:45.760] bundle of the the Daily News.
[00:42:47.680] >> Wow.
[00:42:48.000] >> Or the New York Post
[00:42:49.520] >> but she hadn't seen it yet.
[00:42:50.960] >> No she hadn't seen it. No.
[00:42:52.880] >> Thank God.
[00:42:53.680] >> Were they married [clears throat]
[00:42:55.359] right?
[00:42:56.000] >> Oh childhood sweethearts. High school
[00:42:58.319] sweethearts.
[00:42:59.119] >> How did she what was her reaction?
[00:43:02.400] Well, you know, a big part of her world
[00:43:04.480] ended, but she's strong. Uh, and she
[00:43:06.800] always was strong and still strong
[00:43:08.400] today. Um and uh she just picked up his
[00:43:11.520] legacy and uh helped to keep the thing
[00:43:13.920] alive and um went on to uh to meet a new
[00:43:18.079] guy and uh and get close to his family
[00:43:20.079] and uh her strength and I think her
[00:43:23.040] Midwestern style resilience and also
[00:43:27.280] in a way she sort of knew it was coming
[00:43:29.680] or or there was going to be a disaster
[00:43:32.160] related to his appetites. Uh, and there
[00:43:35.760] was maybe a bit of mental preparation
[00:43:39.200] that uh that she had for it, but uh it's
[00:43:42.480] well it was a rough one. You can imagine
[00:43:43.960] [clears throat]
[00:43:44.640] >> you were writing Ghostbusters
[00:43:46.720] >> for him.
[00:43:47.920] >> Oh, he was going to be
[00:43:49.200] >> I was writing a line for him.
[00:43:51.280] >> Writing a line for Belushi.
[00:43:53.200] >> Writing a line. Yeah. Yeah. For for
[00:43:55.359] Yeah.
[00:43:55.680] >> What part was he going to play?
[00:43:57.119] >> Uh he was just going to be, you know,
[00:43:58.560] one of the, you know, one of the the
[00:44:00.560] poor schlumps that has to go out and do
[00:44:02.000] this horrible extermination job. just,
[00:44:04.160] you know, one of four of us. We would
[00:44:05.839] have found he would have found his
[00:44:06.960] voice. I was really really just writing
[00:44:08.800] a template uh for him and then we were
[00:44:11.680] of course going to find uh we we'd find
[00:44:13.760] our voice there as we began to to work
[00:44:16.000] on it. I was waiting for him to come
[00:44:17.599] back to New York.
[00:44:19.440] >> Man, writing a actual line for him.
[00:44:22.240] >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He was supposed to
[00:44:24.480] come back that that next week. Um but uh
[00:44:28.400] I have
[00:44:28.960] >> Yeah. That's, you know, that's uh the
[00:44:31.599] fentinil today is what's destroying so
[00:44:34.720] many people. And then nobody cared. They
[00:44:37.599] the people who ship it up here, they
[00:44:39.119] don't they don't care.
[00:44:40.640] >> But he had a uh it was a cocaine heroin
[00:44:43.040] mix speedball they call it. Uh and that
[00:44:46.640] uh because he'd been drinking and he was
[00:44:49.200] smoking and he's, you know, his
[00:44:51.599] respiratory was weakened a little bit.
[00:44:53.280] Uh and you know the woman who injected
[00:44:56.400] him uh did not mean to kill him any more
[00:44:58.560] than I did. I mean uh we don't uh you
[00:45:02.000] know it was not a you know not something
[00:45:04.319] she wanted to happen. It's just a a
[00:45:06.560] tragedy and uh a result of uh of drugs
[00:45:10.560] of that order being the currency of the
[00:45:12.319] day which they were back then. powders
[00:45:13.760] and pills were strong, you know, mandrex
[00:45:16.160] and quaudes and
[00:45:17.920] >> Yeah. People didn't even really think
[00:45:20.480] cocaine was bad for you back then. They
[00:45:23.520] break it out at every party. Yeah.
[00:45:25.520] >> It was sort of a
[00:45:26.640] >> Today still.
[00:45:27.599] >> Yeah, I guess.
[00:45:28.480] >> Big today still,
[00:45:29.599] >> but a lot of heart attacks and stuff in
[00:45:31.520] hospital rooms from that today, you
[00:45:33.119] know.
[00:45:33.760] >> I uh I have a Ghostbusters question.
[00:45:37.280] >> Yeah. Oh, you're so uniquely qualified
[00:45:39.599] to answer this because um now Dawson,
[00:45:42.960] you got to find the Barques
[00:45:45.520] song. So, um so, uh Wrightman, he
[00:45:50.560] directed Ghostbusters.
[00:45:51.839] >> He did and and helped write it, uh and
[00:45:54.560] produced it. Yeah.
[00:45:55.760] >> I worked on a project with Wrightman and
[00:45:58.720] Jimmy Kimmel for a while, and I found
[00:46:01.599] Wrightman to be tough.
[00:46:04.079] >> Oh, one of the toughest. old time movie
[00:46:06.720] mogul
[00:46:07.440] >> like pretty much got in your face sort
[00:46:09.680] of told you you know he he would tell me
[00:46:11.839] and Jimmy uh you know go change this and
[00:46:14.319] the script and go change that and then
[00:46:15.920] meet me up at my house in Santa Barbara
[00:46:17.760] and we'll go over it and um we'd come
[00:46:20.960] back and he'd go did you change this and
[00:46:22.720] you change that and we'd go well we'd
[00:46:24.240] worked a little bit and he'd go why are
[00:46:25.599] you [ __ ] wasting my time Jesus Christ
[00:46:27.920] what are we doing here he literally
[00:46:29.839] start yelling at us
[00:46:31.280] >> in his in his
[00:46:32.400] >> well he was paying for your services he
[00:46:34.560] was sponsoring your your vision and u
[00:46:37.520] >> we don't take offense to it but I I
[00:46:39.440] realize this guy's tough.
[00:46:41.200] >> Well, he was an he uh you know and uh I
[00:46:44.400] I hope he's he's resting in a realm that
[00:46:46.400] we we can reach him soon. Um he was he
[00:46:50.000] was uh you know he he was exacting and
[00:46:52.880] um and meticulous uh and no one could
[00:46:56.880] feel an audience better in terms of
[00:46:58.640] cutting a movie or or or putting putting
[00:47:01.040] a movie together. Uh, no one could feel
[00:47:03.280] an audience comedy nerves better than
[00:47:05.680] than Ivan. Um, no, no, he was classic
[00:47:08.560] old school uh Louis B. Mayor uh you
[00:47:12.160] know, type uh executive uh and mogul.
[00:47:15.359] >> Yeah.
[00:47:15.839] >> So, the question that I was going to
[00:47:19.119] that you're uniquely qualified to
[00:47:20.800] answer, which is I know Huey Lewis well
[00:47:24.720] >> and I know there was the whole lawsuit
[00:47:26.640] with Ray Parker Jr. And then I want a
[00:47:29.200] new drug. And I guess they went to Huey
[00:47:31.839] first song and he didn't provide it. So
[00:47:34.800] Ray Parker did one and then there was a
[00:47:36.560] lawsuit cuz Ray Parker's
[00:47:38.640] >> Ghostbusters sounded something like I
[00:47:41.440] Want a New Drug.
[00:47:42.319] >> Uh it did. It there were there's Yeah,
[00:47:44.319] there's certain uh let's see uh figures
[00:47:46.800] in there we would say that uh that that
[00:47:48.960] were exactly like Want a New Drug and
[00:47:51.200] they settled.
[00:47:52.160] >> Yeah. Yeah. Now, my feeling is is um My
[00:47:55.920] Sweet Lord and He's So Fine don't sound
[00:47:58.960] the same to me. That was another famous
[00:48:00.960] >> Well, those two there was a similarity
[00:48:03.119] there.
[00:48:03.680] >> Uh you think so?
[00:48:04.720] >> Uh I I believe so. And and and the you
[00:48:07.040] know, there was a settlement uh uh and H
[00:48:09.760] Lewis was uh was
[00:48:11.280] >> basically paid as if he would have had a
[00:48:13.200] sample in there, I think.
[00:48:14.560] >> Now you got to find Sorry, the Jun.
[00:48:17.280] >> Yeah. It doesn't take away from the from
[00:48:18.960] the the Ghostbusters hit. No, it was a
[00:48:21.359] huge hit.
[00:48:22.800] And and Rey is so talented. He's one of
[00:48:24.800] the best guitarists I've ever heard in
[00:48:26.160] my life.
[00:48:26.559] >> Ray Parker.
[00:48:27.119] >> Yeah. Ray Parker.
[00:48:28.000] >> Um but I think long before this is like,
[00:48:32.400] sorry Hueie, but but the bars have a
[00:48:35.760] song called Soulfinger that predates I
[00:48:37.760] Want a New Drug by 15 years. And that to
[00:48:40.480] me sounds like
[00:48:41.599] >> But closer to the Huey Huey song didn't
[00:48:45.440] have the chorus in it.
[00:48:46.720] >> Yeah,
[00:48:47.280] >> it did. The Huey song. Want to do drug?
[00:48:49.200] I don't think it did.
[00:48:50.000] >> I don't think it did either. I don't
[00:48:51.680] know if you know,
[00:48:52.160] >> but it definitely had that same rhythmic
[00:48:54.240] guitar uh pattern that uh that that we
[00:48:57.680] had in Ghostbusters. Yeah.
[00:49:00.640] >> Yeah. I'm still going bes
[00:49:05.760] could have used the money more than he
[00:49:08.559] >> indeed.
[00:49:12.319] >> See? Yeah. Here you get into the
[00:49:13.920] similarity.
[00:49:18.669] >> [music]
[00:49:21.680] >> Yeah. I think the big problem is is they
[00:49:23.760] went to Huey first. If they went to the
[00:49:25.760] Barces first, then maybe the Barces
[00:49:27.680] would have would have a case. Yeah. But
[00:49:29.760] it's haunted me for many a year and I'm
[00:49:32.640] glad you're here to
[00:49:33.760] >> Well, it was such a giant hit and it's
[00:49:36.079] such a great song that you know I my
[00:49:38.400] view is however it came together and
[00:49:40.800] Huie did get compensated uh although the
[00:49:43.520] Barquets didn't and your you know you
[00:49:45.680] would have them uh it it uh it sort of
[00:49:48.319] overrode any concerns and just went on
[00:49:50.240] to be something that is instantly
[00:49:52.160] associated with uh with a good time.
[00:49:55.520] How's uh Bill Murray? I don't know if
[00:49:58.559] you know him well. The hurricane.
[00:50:00.720] >> Yeah, the hurricane. Um, I find him so
[00:50:04.480] interesting.
[00:50:06.400] >> You and 6.8 other billion people on this
[00:50:10.240] planet.
[00:50:10.880] >> Yes. But is there something we don't
[00:50:13.599] know about him?
[00:50:14.480] >> He is. He deserves your your interest
[00:50:17.680] and your um your uh uh sense of uh him
[00:50:23.839] being an enigma and uh sense of him you
[00:50:27.200] know being unpredictable. Uh your uh you
[00:50:31.280] know your uh any kind of opaque view you
[00:50:34.319] have him of him it's all justified. He
[00:50:37.200] you know whether you you know however
[00:50:39.920] you view him uh he is you know he's all
[00:50:42.960] of everything. He's all of those things.
[00:50:44.640] He's like Sai Baba. He's all of that and
[00:50:46.880] that is that.
[00:50:48.240] >> Yeah. Well, I He's a He's a He's a
[00:50:50.400] demigod. I I believe I think he's demi-
[00:50:52.640] divine, honestly. Really? Yes.
[00:50:54.559] >> And I I get to hang with him from time
[00:50:57.040] to time. Um but uh as I say just
[00:51:00.319] whatever your perceptions are of of
[00:51:02.160] Billy uh you know uh whether good or bad
[00:51:05.839] or beautiful or alarming uh in your
[00:51:09.280] interactions with him or perceptions of
[00:51:10.960] him public persona and work the way
[00:51:14.000] you've enjoyed his work over the years.
[00:51:15.520] It's all genuine and uh you know he's uh
[00:51:19.520] he's a giant talent and uh really fun to
[00:51:23.280] be with because it's it's a hurricane.
[00:51:25.119] It's uh, you know, a whirlwind. And, uh,
[00:51:28.160] he would give you the, not only the
[00:51:29.520] shirt, but the skin off your back. Off
[00:51:31.359] his back. The skin off his back. He
[00:51:33.040] would give you the skin off his back.
[00:51:34.640] >> Yeah.
[00:51:35.440] >> So, um, early days of, uh, SNL, were did
[00:51:39.839] you guys feel like it was almost week to
[00:51:42.559] week there? Nothing had been
[00:51:44.240] established, you know, now they're on
[00:51:45.680] year 40 or something, but I mean, at the
[00:51:47.920] beginning
[00:51:48.800] >> they're at they're at 50.
[00:51:51.280] >> 50. Yeah. Right.
[00:51:52.559] >> Next year 2025. Crazy.
[00:51:55.440] >> Yeah.
[00:51:55.920] >> Uh at the beginning was were you guys
[00:51:58.559] you didn't have that feeling of
[00:51:59.920] security, did you?
[00:52:01.599] >> No, indeed not. Uh I I didn't know
[00:52:05.040] whether it would last uh past the first
[00:52:07.200] three shows.
[00:52:09.040] >> But wisely Lauren said, "No, I'm not
[00:52:11.040] going to do one pilot or two or three. I
[00:52:13.359] need seven.
[00:52:14.640] >> I need seven." So by him holding to get
[00:52:16.720] the seven by then once that seventh show
[00:52:19.760] happened uh then uh uh you know it was
[00:52:22.960] realized that it was it was going to
[00:52:24.319] work. But up until then none of us knew
[00:52:27.119] and Lauren I don't think even knew uh
[00:52:29.599] cuz you don't know in that in that
[00:52:30.960] business. He was, you could say, he was
[00:52:32.480] pretty sure
[00:52:33.520] >> Mhm.
[00:52:33.839] >> of himself and his ability to pull it
[00:52:36.319] off and uh, you know, so he asked for
[00:52:39.359] seven and that and got that and that
[00:52:41.359] kind of, you know, set it up. If if
[00:52:44.640] there had been only one show or two, I
[00:52:46.480] don't know. I don't know what would have
[00:52:48.160] happened.
[00:52:49.280] >> When you left, was [clears throat] it
[00:52:50.720] just because you want to broaden your
[00:52:52.400] horizons? You want to do features and
[00:52:54.240] that sort of stuff?
[00:52:54.960] >> No, purely Blues Brothers. We had to
[00:52:57.040] finish the movie. That was that was the
[00:52:58.720] the the sole reason we left
[00:53:01.520] >> uh is because we we had we had a a
[00:53:03.440] lovely time in Chicago that summer and
[00:53:05.680] then come fall we're still shooting and
[00:53:08.319] there's work to be done in the stages
[00:53:09.839] out on Universal and we just couldn't do
[00:53:12.559] both. Uh and so uh it was time to it was
[00:53:16.559] time to leave but that's that is the
[00:53:18.319] sole reason not really to do movies or
[00:53:21.839] to get into that uh business. uh we it
[00:53:25.920] wasn't why, you know, we we we left
[00:53:28.640] other than specifically to finish that
[00:53:30.720] one movie uh and then see where things
[00:53:33.040] went from there, but our our sole focus
[00:53:34.960] was just getting that uh done and and
[00:53:37.680] out. So, we couldn't do couldn't do
[00:53:40.400] both.
[00:53:41.200] >> And you guys then toured after that?
[00:53:43.520] >> We did. We we uh we toured by car
[00:53:47.359] and by uh one of Elvis's planes, an old
[00:53:50.000] Convair 880 that he had. Really? Yeah.
[00:53:52.800] We
[00:53:53.119] >> What was the interior of that plane
[00:53:54.400] like?
[00:53:54.640] >> Oh, it was uh you know uh
[00:53:57.119] >> lot of burgundy
[00:53:58.240] >> Nevada. Yeah, casino uh you know uh
[00:54:01.839] casino Nevada. Look at you know I think
[00:54:04.319] it had been refitted since he used it.
[00:54:06.000] So we we we had a wonderful uh 20 city
[00:54:09.760] tour uh with the band and we filled
[00:54:13.200] 10,000 seat houses and
[00:54:15.680] >> got to sing and play the music live and
[00:54:18.400] yeah it was
[00:54:19.280] >> and the album was I don't know if it was
[00:54:21.200] number one but it was a definitely a
[00:54:22.800] hit.
[00:54:23.280] >> Well the first album Briefcase Full of
[00:54:25.040] Blues was a number one album. It sold
[00:54:26.960] over four and a half million copies uh
[00:54:29.119] back then.
[00:54:30.880] You know Rihanna would be happy with
[00:54:32.480] those numbers today. uh or maybe not,
[00:54:35.280] but close to it. You know, those were,
[00:54:37.520] you know, impressive numbers back then
[00:54:39.359] and even today. Uh because the album was
[00:54:42.079] good, because the record was good, the
[00:54:43.520] songs were good, the band was great. Um
[00:54:45.680] people understood that, you know, uh
[00:54:47.599] John and I were frontmen for this great
[00:54:49.280] band. Uh Made in America was the tour
[00:54:51.440] record. And there's some great songs on
[00:54:53.200] there, too.
[00:54:54.079] >> Oh, you know, I had that album.
[00:54:56.160] >> Now Dawson's got to find something I
[00:54:58.079] should have told him before.
[00:54:59.200] >> Well, going back to Miami is one of one
[00:55:01.599] of the greatest cuts I think we ever
[00:55:03.040] did. That's that that features the horns
[00:55:05.040] beautifully.
[00:55:05.760] >> I'll tell you one that features the
[00:55:07.040] horns beautifully. She caught the Katie.
[00:55:09.920] >> Yeah. Taj Mahal soon. Yeah. Taj Mahal's
[00:55:12.480] tune. Sure.
[00:55:13.280] >> I love that song. I love your version.
[00:55:15.680] >> Yard at Juliet Prison for about 8 to
[00:55:18.880] 10,000 people who were spilled out of
[00:55:20.720] the parking lot at a beautiful concert
[00:55:23.440] at night. Uh right there in the prison
[00:55:25.440] yard where we where we shot the movie
[00:55:27.680] >> in the prison.
[00:55:28.480] >> In the prison yard where we shot the
[00:55:29.920] movie. Now it's abandoned. It's now a
[00:55:32.000] right a tourist. Uh
[00:55:34.079] >> it's like
[00:55:34.640] >> under construction for tourists. Yeah.
[00:55:36.400] Um but uh wow. Wow. What a night that
[00:55:39.280] was. Just beautiful. Kind of bring it
[00:55:40.880] all full circle there. Uh we have quite
[00:55:42.480] an extensive tour uh schedule coming up.
[00:55:45.040] We'll be playing in Oklahoma in July uh
[00:55:47.760] in Atlanta uh in January, in um uh
[00:55:52.480] Delaware in June. and uh things we we we
[00:55:56.960] just did at this big gig in Nebraska at
[00:55:58.880] the performing arts center there and uh
[00:56:01.599] it's great to be able to still you know
[00:56:04.000] play and uh and act as cultural
[00:56:07.119] preservationists which is what we are.
[00:56:09.760] Well, you certainly brought the blues to
[00:56:12.559] a young white guy from North Hollywood
[00:56:15.280] for sure because there was no blues
[00:56:17.520] culture in North Hollywood, California
[00:56:19.920] where I grew up and just hadn't heard of
[00:56:22.160] any of it. So, you know, in a in a way
[00:56:26.480] that's um it's an accomplishment, but
[00:56:28.960] it's also a service. You know what I
[00:56:30.559] mean? I wouldn't know she caught the
[00:56:32.240] Katie. I I just wouldn't go go that
[00:56:35.040] deep.
[00:56:35.520] >> I I'm happy to say that I have people
[00:56:37.440] coming up to me all the time saying
[00:56:39.200] that, you know, that they picked up
[00:56:41.200] guitar or drums or harmonica, that they
[00:56:43.599] got into blues and they play in a blues
[00:56:45.760] band or they want to went on to a career
[00:56:47.839] in blues. Some of them quite well known.
[00:56:49.920] So yeah, I guess we served it we served
[00:56:52.720] in that way and that's what we're here
[00:56:53.839] to do. We're here to serve. Mission from
[00:56:55.760] God for sure. Still on it. Uh because
[00:56:58.079] there are no blues stations other than
[00:56:59.920] Sirius uh XM radio. Yeah.
[00:57:02.319] >> Yeah. There are no blues shows anymore.
[00:57:03.599] I had almost 25 years of the House of
[00:57:05.920] Blues Radio Hour and Elwood uh Blues
[00:57:07.839] Bluesmobile Hour
[00:57:09.200] >> and I was able to sell tickets and
[00:57:11.599] records and talk the careers up of all
[00:57:13.760] these wonderful new artists coming up. I
[00:57:15.520] I couldn't tell you now who's in their
[00:57:17.280] mid20s and touring and playing because
[00:57:19.119] I'm I lost my radio show. They turned it
[00:57:21.440] into country talk or something.
[00:57:24.240] >> Yeah. I remember when you picked up John
[00:57:26.799] from uh the prison and he was pissed off
[00:57:29.520] that you'd uh traded in the uh bluesmo
[00:57:32.720] >> for a microphone.
[00:57:33.839] >> Well, once he heard it was a microphone,
[00:57:35.359] he was okay with it.
[00:57:36.319] >> Yeah. Yeah. The Cadillac. Trade the
[00:57:38.240] Cadillac for a microphone. That's right.
[00:57:39.749] [laughter] Yeah. And he didn't like the
[00:57:40.960] lighter. Yeah.
[00:57:41.920] >> All right. We'll take a break. We got
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[01:00:31.200] The Adam Corolla Show presents Dan
[01:00:33.280] Akroyd's birthday cocktail [music] party
[01:00:35.440] for July 1st. Let's see who's invited.
[01:00:41.040] Let's welcome the American entrepreneur
[01:00:43.359] who founded Estee Lauder Cosmetics.
[01:00:46.720] Estee Lauder. Hey, the guy who sang rock
[01:00:49.839] and Robin is here. Bobby Day, actor and
[01:00:53.599] award-winning director, Sydney Pollock
[01:00:55.760] is here. Blues vocalist and heart player
[01:00:58.559] James Cotton just joined the party from
[01:01:02.000] Blondie. [music] Debbie Harry is here
[01:01:04.799] from the B-52s. Let's welcome Fred
[01:01:07.280] Schneider.
[01:01:08.799] Country singer Keith Whitley is here.
[01:01:12.319] Sprinter and Olympic gold medalist Carl
[01:01:15.680] Lewis just ran in. Pamela Anderson is
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[01:01:22.160] Steven Tyler's daughter from the Lord of
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[01:01:26.559] And let's please welcome Princess Diana.
[01:01:31.359] Dan Akroyd is on the Adam Corolla Show.
[01:01:34.559] Dan's got Crystal Head Vodka. It is
[01:01:37.520] pure. It is wonderful. And uh I consume
[01:01:41.119] my fair share on a Monday night.
[01:01:42.880] Crystalheadvodka.com
[01:01:45.040] is where you go. I like that song, Rockn
[01:01:48.000] Robin. Oh yeah, that's a great 50s song
[01:01:50.319] for sure. For sure.
[01:01:51.599] >> Yeah. Yeah, it is. Uh
[01:01:53.040] >> I don't think I'm the most famous on
[01:01:54.480] there.
[01:01:54.720] >> What's that?
[01:01:55.200] >> I don't think I'm the most famous on
[01:01:56.640] there.
[01:01:56.880] >> I think you are.
[01:01:57.520] >> Pamela Anderson and Sydney Pollock
[01:01:59.520] maybe.
[01:01:59.839] >> Well, the Pam Anderson is recognized
[01:02:03.359] from a name standpoint, but not so much
[01:02:05.760] from an accomplishment standpoint.
[01:02:08.160] >> Well, you know, uh she's done a lot with
[01:02:10.960] uh you know, with what she was how God
[01:02:13.599] equipped her.
[01:02:14.640] >> And she's a mom and
[01:02:16.559] >> she's a mom. My mom was a mom. Who
[01:02:18.480] cares?
[01:02:18.799] >> She's a mom. And uh you know, she looked
[01:02:21.359] she looked good and whenever she you
[01:02:23.280] know, whatever she did and uh you know,
[01:02:25.280] she big hit TV series.
[01:02:27.200] >> You're not helping her book.
[01:02:28.400] >> You're not helping her. You're more
[01:02:29.920] famous. You know,
[01:02:30.720] >> you're more respected. [snorts]
[01:02:32.640] >> Well, I I don't know. I don't I think
[01:02:34.240] she probably has more followers on
[01:02:36.240] internet wise. That's fame today.
[01:02:37.920] >> So are the Kardashians.
[01:02:39.119] >> That's Well, that's fame. That's real
[01:02:40.480] fame today.
[01:02:41.520] >> It is. But it's
[01:02:42.640] >> Well, we don't want fame. We want to do
[01:02:43.760] what we want for a living.
[01:02:44.640] >> It's hollow fame. We just Yeah. We just
[01:02:46.640] want to do what we like for a living.
[01:02:48.720] >> That's the blessing.
[01:02:49.520] >> I don't care about that's the blessing.
[01:02:51.119] >> It is. And you're doing it.
[01:02:52.559] >> I'm talking to you. You know, I was in,
[01:02:55.359] you know, 14 sitting in North Hollywood
[01:02:57.520] watching Saturday Night Live going, man,
[01:02:59.440] that guy.
[01:03:00.319] >> I recognize your talent as a young
[01:03:03.440] person. I I was just like, he's a little
[01:03:05.599] sharper. other people are
[01:03:09.280] they're talented and they're doing these
[01:03:12.160] big broad characters, but your stuff was
[01:03:14.720] concise as we started our conversation
[01:03:16.960] and I just remember thinking that this
[01:03:19.039] guy's different.
[01:03:19.920] >> Well, I thank you. That's great. I kind
[01:03:21.520] of I had a positive impact and maybe uh
[01:03:24.319] influenced you to do what you're doing
[01:03:26.000] today.
[01:03:26.400] >> No, not at all. That was Kimmel.
[01:03:28.868] >> [laughter]
[01:03:29.680] >> You know, Rock and Robin is one of the
[01:03:32.640] only rock songs with a with a piccolo
[01:03:37.839] >> solo composer of Music Man. It took him
[01:03:40.640] seven years to write that amazing
[01:03:42.720] wonderful musical music man, right?
[01:03:44.400] Meredith Wilson.
[01:03:46.160] >> And there it was an old fable that he
[01:03:48.079] used to uh tell people and that was the
[01:03:50.960] king was so pleased with the music of
[01:03:54.160] his horn and coronet players. He said,
[01:03:56.400] "Bring me your horns
[01:03:59.119] and your instruments, your brass
[01:04:01.520] instruments, and I will fill them with
[01:04:04.079] gold."
[01:04:05.920] And Meredith Wilson said the uh the
[01:04:09.280] musician in the story turned and looked
[01:04:12.000] away and said, "And there I stood with
[01:04:13.520] my piccolo."
[01:04:16.960] You can't put in a piccolo. [laughter]
[01:04:19.599] >> You You might be able to roll up a
[01:04:21.359] dollar and stuff it like you're in a
[01:04:22.960] hooker's g-string or something.
[01:04:24.880] >> Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, there no room for
[01:04:26.640] change in a piccolo.
[01:04:28.079] >> No. No. Well, I don't know if you can
[01:04:30.240] look it up, Dawson. Maybe we can figure
[01:04:32.160] out
[01:04:32.400] >> what I'm finding here is that uh the
[01:04:34.960] first search says piccolo in quotes,
[01:04:37.920] which prompted me to say, okay, why is
[01:04:39.760] that in quotes?
[01:04:41.119] >> Uh it is uh looking like it is a flute
[01:04:45.680] solo performed by famous saxophone
[01:04:48.480] player Plaz Johnson.
[01:04:49.839] >> Oh wow. Okay.
[01:04:50.720] >> Plas Johnson. That is a saxoponist name
[01:04:53.200] right there.
[01:04:53.760] >> Yeah. Yeah.
[01:04:54.319] >> So for you, uh maybe we're kindred
[01:04:56.640] spirits in this sense that I just want
[01:04:58.480] to do what I want to do. People, there's
[01:05:01.200] more money to be made one thing and kind
[01:05:04.720] of being known for that one thing. And
[01:05:06.720] you know, but but the blessing for what
[01:05:09.920] the business we're in is you get to
[01:05:11.680] write a book, you get to go on tour, you
[01:05:13.520] get to do a podcast, you know, you just
[01:05:15.520] get to do what you want to do. Is that
[01:05:17.359] how you feel?
[01:05:18.079] >> I I don't want to really know what I'm
[01:05:19.520] doing Monday, any given Monday morning.
[01:05:21.839] Generally, I'd like I like to wake up uh
[01:05:24.000] with a week ahead of me and and know
[01:05:25.599] that I don't have some kind of a set
[01:05:27.119] schedule other than when I'm, you know,
[01:05:28.720] working on certain projects. So, no, I I
[01:05:31.760] like the mystery of the way life
[01:05:33.359] unfolds, you know, and uh
[01:05:35.599] >> yeah,
[01:05:35.839] >> and what it holds and uh right now I
[01:05:38.880] just want to play with Jimmy and do the
[01:05:41.119] concerts for as long as I'm mobile
[01:05:42.720] mobile and I got 80% of the moves left
[01:05:45.440] and uh and and work on the the product
[01:05:47.920] that I'm proud of that I originated uh
[01:05:50.640] with uh with my three partners and uh
[01:05:53.520] and have fun at this age and this time
[01:05:55.920] in life and where the rest of the world
[01:05:58.000] is. Yeah, you got to you got to have fun
[01:06:00.480] at what you're doing.
[01:06:02.000] >> Any any plans for any big features in
[01:06:05.920] the future? Stuff you've been doodling
[01:06:07.680] on?
[01:06:08.319] >> No, not not really. Not really. No, no,
[01:06:11.200] no. Uh, you know, I'm always writing
[01:06:13.440] something and uh and u my youngest
[01:06:16.400] daughter Stey and I are working on a few
[01:06:18.400] concepts for for television and uh um
[01:06:21.520] but no,
[01:06:22.079] >> Stella's funny.
[01:06:23.200] >> Oh, yeah. She's Yeah, I'll have to send
[01:06:25.039] you Dog Manor. Yeah. Yeah. Well, it was
[01:06:28.000] totally unsolicited, but I was driving
[01:06:30.960] to your event at the Magic Castle
[01:06:34.000] >> with someone who said, you know, I took
[01:06:35.440] a improv class with the Yeah.
[01:06:37.520] >> Dan's daughter. And I said, "Yeah, how
[01:06:40.000] was she?" Cuz I'm always prepared for
[01:06:42.079] the, you know, the apple to fall a
[01:06:43.839] little bit further from the tree than
[01:06:45.599] >> And she said, "Oh, she was the best in
[01:06:47.039] the class."
[01:06:47.440] >> No, she's funny. Uh, we have a
[01:06:48.640] >> And then we talked to her at the event
[01:06:50.319] for quite some time.
[01:06:51.280] >> Yeah, she's neat. I'll I'll send you dog
[01:06:53.520] manner to look at where uh she does this
[01:06:56.160] English dog lady and we're working on a
[01:06:57.920] concept uh for uh for a show and uh she
[01:07:00.880] did a little demonstrator video. I'll
[01:07:02.480] have I'll I'll have my secretary send it
[01:07:04.319] so just you can see it. Yeah,
[01:07:05.599] >> please.
[01:07:06.079] >> Yeah.
[01:07:06.559] >> And she loves horses.
[01:07:09.200] >> Get a mini donkey or something.
[01:07:10.880] >> Uh she's got a couple of couple of
[01:07:13.359] donkeys. Yeah. And two dogs. And you
[01:07:15.760] know, she's just a great person and and
[01:07:17.680] my writing partner. And then my eldest
[01:07:20.319] records under the name Vera Sola. V E R
[01:07:22.640] A S O L A Vera Sola. And uh she's kind
[01:07:25.359] of a um folk noir singer, uh guitarist,
[01:07:29.039] um a composer, songwriter, and she's got
[01:07:31.599] a new single out now, um called Desire
[01:07:35.200] Path, and apparently part of it's about
[01:07:37.760] me. And uh I don't know, I'm still
[01:07:39.520] trying to decipher what part of it's
[01:07:41.039] about me, but she has a great new video
[01:07:43.200] out. And she's such a crunchy guitar
[01:07:44.960] player and vocalist. I'm very proud of
[01:07:46.799] her. Yeah. And then the middle one uh is
[01:07:48.880] an Irish rep off Broadway uh alumnist.
[01:07:51.760] She did a Eugene O'Neal play there after
[01:07:54.400] ACT
[01:07:55.920] uh studies in San Francisco and Reed
[01:07:58.240] College. And so I'm very proud of the
[01:08:00.240] the girls. Yeah, they're great. They're
[01:08:02.559] great. Um and so for you, spirituality,
[01:08:07.839] UFOs,
[01:08:09.520] the great beyond that that whole world.
[01:08:12.720] Uh people talk about it. I don't I'm not
[01:08:15.200] really in any lane. I don't have strong
[01:08:17.759] thoughts one way or the other about it,
[01:08:19.120] but I I think you do.
[01:08:20.719] >> Well, spirituality and UFOs,
[01:08:22.967] [clears throat] I don't know whether
[01:08:24.000] they're linked other than perhaps that
[01:08:25.520] we're all God's creatures. Even these
[01:08:27.040] beings that have these hyper advanced
[01:08:28.560] craft craft, they seem to be organic and
[01:08:30.799] humanoid and intelligent. Uh I uh I
[01:08:35.120] guess there's a link there that they
[01:08:36.640] they maybe if they're beings, they have
[01:08:38.400] spirit. As far as spirituality, I am a
[01:08:41.199] spiritualist, you know, uh like just
[01:08:43.679] people could say, "Oh, I'm a Catholic, a
[01:08:45.199] Protestant, a Scientologist, I'm Jewish,
[01:08:47.600] I'm Muslim." I say I'm a spiritualist.
[01:08:50.000] And I it comes from my family's longtime
[01:08:52.880] interest in uh the belief that not only
[01:08:55.920] does the soul survive uh in energy after
[01:08:59.120] death, but the consciousness can also
[01:09:00.960] survive. And so that brings us to the
[01:09:03.440] concept of mediums and mediumship and
[01:09:05.279] channeling and seancoses. And uh there's
[01:09:07.759] a community in upstate New York called
[01:09:09.359] Lilyale near Chiakqua and they're
[01:09:11.120] registered licensed mediums there that
[01:09:13.279] you can go to in the summer and go to
[01:09:14.880] their houses and uh and uh get readings
[01:09:18.960] and try to contact those who who've gone
[01:09:21.679] uh beyond and the results are quite
[01:09:23.920] quite stunning and quite uh credible.
[01:09:26.000] >> Have you been able to contact anyone
[01:09:28.640] who's passed? I have not had myself
[01:09:31.742] [clears throat] any uh vivid experiences
[01:09:33.920] in in seances but I've heard some just
[01:09:35.920] great great stories you know about how
[01:09:38.960] the medium can know nothing about knows
[01:09:40.960] nothing about the person doesn't know
[01:09:42.640] the name of uh you know like you know
[01:09:45.040] the name of a a pet the name of someone
[01:09:47.279] who's gone before an address they they
[01:09:49.359] pick out things that that only the
[01:09:50.960] deceased person was know would know uh
[01:09:53.359] in n multiple multiplicity of these uh
[01:09:56.480] events and seancoses so u enough of that
[01:09:59.120] anecdotal evidence piles up and you got
[01:10:00.800] to go, "Yeah, there's something there."
[01:10:02.239] Yeah.
[01:10:02.640] >> So, what's your overall view of like
[01:10:05.040] we're talking about John Candy, we're
[01:10:06.960] talking about John Belalushi, such
[01:10:09.040] amazing spirits, such crazy energy while
[01:10:12.960] on this planet,
[01:10:14.640] >> been gone for a long time.
[01:10:16.239] >> I have.
[01:10:17.040] >> What What is your sort of general take
[01:10:19.600] on where that energy went?
[01:10:22.080] >> I believe that they were both of those
[01:10:23.840] guys were immediately assigned to other
[01:10:26.800] other entities, other
[01:10:29.199] reincarnation.
[01:10:30.000] >> They went off. They went off that they
[01:10:31.600] they were too vivid and they were too uh
[01:10:35.360] contributive and too positive and too
[01:10:37.199] giving and too talented uh that energy
[01:10:40.320] there not to survive in its own way. So
[01:10:42.400] I I think they went on to other
[01:10:44.239] assignments. I I I like to believe that.
[01:10:46.800] >> I'd love to believe it too. But I always
[01:10:49.360] think about this stuff and I think this
[01:10:51.679] way about religion sometimes too, which
[01:10:53.520] is
[01:10:54.400] >> how much of it [clears throat]
[01:10:56.800] do we think is factual is not the right
[01:10:59.600] word, but how much of it is our yearning
[01:11:02.400] for this? You know what I mean? And this
[01:11:04.640] concept of leaving and sort of
[01:11:06.640] nothingness and loved ones and friends
[01:11:10.000] leaving and us not really being able to
[01:11:13.280] connect or cope with that. I would
[01:11:15.360] approach it from, you know, we're not so
[01:11:17.520] much, you [clears throat] know, not that
[01:11:20.000] it comes out of yearning, but that when
[01:11:22.800] good evidence is presented, it is
[01:11:24.400] comforting to us.
[01:11:26.560] >> It's comforting that there might be uh
[01:11:28.880] something that goes on beyond.
[01:11:30.800] >> I got a great [clears throat] story, you
[01:11:33.040] know, about mediumship.
[01:11:37.440] Uh John Edwards is a a psychic. He was
[01:11:40.320] he was on CBS for many years. Mhm.
[01:11:42.560] >> Uh he's a very talented medium. So
[01:11:46.159] Franny Dresser and Donna go to John
[01:11:49.120] Edward's show in New York. I think it
[01:11:51.520] was
[01:11:51.679] >> Donna Dixon.
[01:11:52.880] >> Yes. And and
[01:11:54.159] >> her wife.
[01:11:54.880] >> Yes. And uh we are wife and husband. No
[01:11:59.280] longer cohabitating. She doesn't have to
[01:12:00.880] put up with his hysterics anymore, but
[01:12:02.719] she's great. And she goes
[01:12:04.800] >> uh she goes with Franny to
[01:12:06.320] >> she's a beautiful actress who was in
[01:12:08.719] >> Bosom Buddies and Spies Like Us. Spies
[01:12:11.280] Like Us. And I have three daughters
[01:12:12.880] >> and TV shows.
[01:12:14.320] >> Yes. So
[01:12:15.600] >> she and Franny go to John Edwards show
[01:12:17.520] because Franny wants to reach her
[01:12:19.120] grandmother. You see
[01:12:20.159] >> grand dress show.
[01:12:20.960] >> Yes. So they go to the show
[01:12:24.080] and Franny's in the audience with John
[01:12:25.840] Edwards and Donna's in the green room
[01:12:28.480] watching on television.
[01:12:31.040] Well, John Edwards is kind of searching,
[01:12:33.199] you know, for references. Uh Franny uh
[01:12:37.360] uh you know he he says I'm getting a
[01:12:40.000] uniform. No. No, I'm getting stripes on
[01:12:44.239] a sleeve. No, no, no, no. That's not my
[01:12:47.679] grandmother. No, I'm getting a pair of
[01:12:50.719] wire eyeglasses. No, no. You know,
[01:12:53.440] Franny's getting frustrated. I'm getting
[01:12:55.520] the name. This is John Edwards now. I'm
[01:12:57.360] getting talking to Franny and feeling
[01:12:59.440] something. I'm getting the name Morris.
[01:13:02.800] And Morris wants to get a message to
[01:13:05.760] Steve. And Donna's in the room going,
[01:13:08.400] "Holy Morris, that's Dan's uncle Morris
[01:13:12.000] who was in the Navy and his son is
[01:13:14.800] Steve." And Morris passed.
[01:13:16.960] So what happened there, Adam, was my
[01:13:19.280] uncle elbowed his way through into into
[01:13:22.560] uh into Franny's trance channeling uh uh
[01:13:25.679] you know uh uh session with John Edwards
[01:13:28.800] and he to get through and this is what
[01:13:30.800] happens commonly in seance is you'll be
[01:13:33.199] going looking for one entity come to
[01:13:35.040] come through and another one will say I
[01:13:36.560] WANT THAT CHANNEL MOVE OUT OF THE WAY
[01:13:38.320] AND THAT'S what my that's what my uncle
[01:13:39.840] did to say he want to get a message to
[01:13:41.360] Steve that everything was all right
[01:13:43.760] Franny was upset that his grandmother
[01:13:45.360] wasn't reached But Donna came back to me
[01:13:47.520] and said, "We got to tell Steve that his
[01:13:49.360] dad's okay."
[01:13:50.880] >> Wow.
[01:13:51.280] >> So things like that. Yeah. They they
[01:13:52.880] elbow their way through.
[01:13:54.400] >> And UFOs been a lot of stuff out lately.
[01:13:57.600] I mean, we've been arguing about this
[01:13:59.600] since [snorts] the ' 60s and the 70s or
[01:14:01.520] even before. But
[01:14:03.040] >> now for the first time, it seems like
[01:14:05.280] there's some concrete evidence.
[01:14:07.760] >> Well, there's an office in New York now.
[01:14:09.600] It's called the New York, Washington DC,
[01:14:12.159] I'm sorry. Uh it's called the uh all
[01:14:15.120] domain
[01:14:16.159] >> Mhm.
[01:14:16.640] >> anomalous resolution office. This is the
[01:14:19.760] uh new uh uh formal uh Pentagon
[01:14:23.040] investigative branch or office or bureau
[01:14:26.000] for UFO uh reports. So all domain that
[01:14:29.920] means water sea they go in sea they go
[01:14:33.520] they're going to the sea at a thousand
[01:14:35.199] miles an hour without with the medium
[01:14:36.880] meaning nothing to them
[01:14:38.080] >> right. Uh so all domains sea, sky, air,
[01:14:40.800] whatever. Uh earth uh and then anomalous
[01:14:44.640] you can't explain it. It's an anomaly.
[01:14:46.800] Then resolution we we have to explain
[01:14:49.040] it. We can't have machines like this
[01:14:51.360] flying around with our air force and our
[01:14:53.360] navy. So we have to resolve it and the
[01:14:55.520] office that does it. So civilian reports
[01:14:58.320] are going to be accepted. Military
[01:14:59.840] reports are going to be there. you
[01:15:01.360] whether you believe or not uh that these
[01:15:03.920] hyper advanced craft exist with
[01:15:05.840] intelligent operators you you may may
[01:15:07.760] believe it or not it is a reality.
[01:15:10.560] >> Have you had any encounters yourself?
[01:15:12.080] >> I have seen four of them.
[01:15:13.360] >> Four?
[01:15:13.840] >> Yep.
[01:15:14.719] >> In Canada, United States.
[01:15:16.239] >> Uh Martha's Vineyard. Uh two in Canada.
[01:15:19.600] Well, I would say four. Well, four
[01:15:21.360] because two were at one sighting. So, uh
[01:15:23.600] three events. Uh Martha's Vineyard um in
[01:15:26.719] Montreal, Canada. In downtown Montreal,
[01:15:29.600] right there. How did you know what it
[01:15:31.440] was?
[01:15:32.239] >> Well, [clears throat]
[01:15:34.080] this thing in Montreal, I was with a
[01:15:36.400] friend and we were sitting there on the
[01:15:38.320] 23rd floor of the Queen Elizabeth Hotel,
[01:15:41.040] uh, doing some promotion for Patron
[01:15:43.360] Tequila at the time that I had in Canada
[01:15:45.199] and we were there in Montreal in the
[01:15:47.600] Queen Elizabeth Hotel, 23rd floor, gray
[01:15:50.000] February day, and we're sitting, we were
[01:15:51.760] sitting watching the spiders on the 23rd
[01:15:53.920] floor in the window. They were going up
[01:15:55.360] and down like yo-yos, you know, kind,
[01:15:57.440] >> oh jeez, that's an interesting
[01:15:59.040] phenomenon. We're sitting there and then
[01:16:02.719] uh my friend goes, "What's that? What's
[01:16:05.840] that?" I said, "What? What?" And I look
[01:16:08.400] out and coming down St. Catherine Street
[01:16:11.600] is what I can only say hit my mind first
[01:16:13.920] as a Macy's Day balloon balloon. It was
[01:16:16.960] a It was a Thanksgiving balloon. I'm
[01:16:18.640] thinking,
[01:16:19.360] >> "Oh, they've got some kind of a parade
[01:16:21.199] coming." But I'm thinking, "It's
[01:16:22.719] February. There's no parade. It's it's
[01:16:25.040] winter. It's gray." That there's nobody
[01:16:26.960] out on the streets watching a parade.
[01:16:28.320] And I watched this thing come closer.
[01:16:30.080] It's about 50 ft wide. It's 150 ft long.
[01:16:34.080] It's maybe 20 ft high. And underneath
[01:16:36.880] looked like a bunch of grapes, like
[01:16:39.520] round bulbous uh growths underneath or
[01:16:42.159] or mechanism underneath. And it came it
[01:16:44.880] parked 50 ft off the window. We were
[01:16:47.360] able to look at it for a full minute and
[01:16:49.600] it just sat there silently. Big gray
[01:16:51.679] object really, you know, no lights on it
[01:16:54.320] and anything, everything. Then it turned
[01:16:56.400] and then we ran out in the hall. We
[01:16:58.000] watched it just drift out over the St.
[01:16:59.520] Lawrence River just slow slow
[01:17:02.000] >> and it must have been others that saw
[01:17:03.840] this.
[01:17:04.239] >> I don't know. I never reported it, but
[01:17:06.159] we were, you know, when you know when
[01:17:07.600] you see something you know is not a
[01:17:09.040] helicopter, a meteoric bolide, a a jet,
[01:17:12.080] a plane, a uh a balloon, we know this
[01:17:16.159] was a craft uh machined and uh and and
[01:17:20.640] and controlled by I don't know, robot AI
[01:17:24.239] what. It just sat there silently and I I
[01:17:26.560] have a book a couple of books on UFOs
[01:17:28.400] and I looked up and and I I saw one that
[01:17:30.560] kind of looked like it with a bunch of
[01:17:31.920] grapes thing underneath that had been
[01:17:34.000] reported in other sightings. And just to
[01:17:36.480] have another person there.
[01:17:37.760] >> Yeah.
[01:17:38.000] >> And and and you know
[01:17:40.560] her reaction, [clears throat]
[01:17:42.239] what's that? I'll never forget what's
[01:17:44.159] that. [laughter]
[01:17:46.000] >> So what's your head on it? It is it that
[01:17:49.679] they're coming [clears throat] here to
[01:17:51.679] observe or they don't know who we are
[01:17:56.560] and they've sort of lost their way.
[01:17:58.320] >> No, they know they know many many
[01:18:01.040] different I would say as Lord Hill uh
[01:18:03.920] Lord Hill Norton there the uh the
[01:18:05.920] aerospace uh atachier from the British
[01:18:08.480] government there uh or he was I think a
[01:18:10.800] min deputy minister in the British
[01:18:13.840] government. And he said there are 23
[01:18:15.280] different species visiting that he
[01:18:17.360] counted.
[01:18:18.159] >> Mhm.
[01:18:19.120] >> They're here for many reasons. They know
[01:18:21.280] who we are for sure. Many of them do.
[01:18:23.920] Many of them know who we are. Many of
[01:18:25.520] them care who we are. Many of them are
[01:18:27.040] benevolent. Many don't care who we are.
[01:18:29.040] Couldn't care less and are just tripping
[01:18:30.640] through. Many are tourists. Like if you
[01:18:32.960] look the Stingray UFO, you look up that
[01:18:35.440] Stingray UFO, you're going to see a
[01:18:37.120] picture of a [clears throat]
[01:18:39.199] uh of a craft. It looks like a Corvette
[01:18:41.120] with no wheels but with a a stinger out
[01:18:44.000] the back. That is commonly seen. Then
[01:18:46.080] you have the Mexican humanoid UFOs where
[01:18:48.320] you have guys that look like they're in
[01:18:50.080] a rocket pack but they're up there at
[01:18:52.080] airline height and you know rocket pack
[01:18:54.080] don't go above 150 200 feet right
[01:18:56.560] >> and so you just if you look on the
[01:18:59.040] website just those two alone Mexican
[01:19:00.960] humanoid flying humanoids Mexican city
[01:19:04.320] >> Mexico City and you look at the
[01:19:06.184] [clears throat] uh the other uh events
[01:19:09.360] that that you see all around the
[01:19:11.040] stingray
[01:19:12.640] there's a guy here uh taking pictures of
[01:19:14.880] them in Marina Marina del Rey. The the
[01:19:16.880] uh helicopters are police, sheriff, and
[01:19:19.520] uh fire are all complaining sometimes
[01:19:22.080] about how they buzz the helicopters out
[01:19:23.760] here at Marina del Rey. So many
[01:19:25.840] different types, [cough]
[01:19:27.800] [clears throat]
[01:19:28.400] excuse me, many different types, many
[01:19:30.000] different species,
[01:19:32.400] many different interests in humankind
[01:19:34.480] from ranging from tourism to straight up
[01:19:37.120] abduction and medical uh extraction of
[01:19:40.000] fluids like that happened to Barney and
[01:19:41.679] Betty Hill. You know that story?
[01:19:43.120] >> I've heard that story. That's a great
[01:19:44.800] one. That's That's pretty vivid.
[01:19:46.560] >> I was kind of dubious, you know, all
[01:19:49.040] throughout my life because all I had was
[01:19:51.040] Leonard Nemoy telling me about it and
[01:19:53.360] super grainy pictures and a lot of
[01:19:56.560] stuff.
[01:19:57.199] >> Now we have radar in Nevada. But now,
[01:19:59.679] >> yeah,
[01:20:00.159] >> now it's it's it's documenting.
[01:20:02.320] >> Yeah, we have we have radar and
[01:20:04.800] >> all kinds of other stuff that's going to
[01:20:05.920] come out. The Arrow Office that I just
[01:20:07.520] mentioned is going to start releasing
[01:20:08.880] other stuff, too. But here's an
[01:20:10.640] interesting on on a psychological note
[01:20:15.600] and I've been saying so if you're of a
[01:20:18.080] certain age you realize we've been
[01:20:20.640] discussing this my entire life and and
[01:20:23.760] debating it and arguing over it and many
[01:20:26.239] a TV show and a movie and so and so has
[01:20:29.120] been dedicated to this subject and now
[01:20:32.719] it seems as if we finally have some
[01:20:35.600] definitive information. It's coming from
[01:20:38.080] the government. that's coming from Navy
[01:20:39.679] pilots and cameras inside their cockpits
[01:20:42.480] and things like that and nobody seems to
[01:20:44.400] care which is very interesting and I
[01:20:47.840] think it's because we become in such
[01:20:50.080] craze narcissists and we're all staring
[01:20:52.320] down at our phones that we don't look up
[01:20:54.239] into the heavens anymore.
[01:20:55.520] >> Well, that's a lot that's a lot to do
[01:20:57.120] with it. But I think it's more that we
[01:20:58.880] have really uh vivid concerns on this
[01:21:01.600] planet other than who's visiting and and
[01:21:04.000] who cares about us or not that have
[01:21:05.600] these craft. We have, you know,
[01:21:08.640] worldwide famine, we have wars, we have
[01:21:10.960] inter, you know, we have violence, we
[01:21:12.480] have gun crimes, we have so much in the
[01:21:14.480] in the world,
[01:21:15.280] >> but that that existed in the 70s.
[01:21:18.640] >> Not not in the extreme that we have
[01:21:20.800] today, I don't think, you know.
[01:21:21.920] >> Well, I mean, we talked about it in
[01:21:23.600] different terms. We we talked about
[01:21:25.679] ecology and the ice age. Now we're
[01:21:27.840] talking about global warming and yeah,
[01:21:30.400] but I mean I'm saying we always had
[01:21:32.159] problems. You know, we always had the
[01:21:33.840] inner city and we always had skirmishes.
[01:21:36.400] And as I always comically say,
[01:21:39.760] >> I said when I would watch SNL
[01:21:42.400] >> in the 70s and they started with the
[01:21:44.880] news segment, they'd start often times
[01:21:47.360] with trouble in the Middle East. And I
[01:21:49.840] said, "That's 50 years ago, and it's a
[01:21:53.040] comedy show, and they started with
[01:21:55.040] trouble in the Middle East." So, I mean,
[01:21:56.400] we
[01:21:57.120] >> we've always had this,
[01:21:59.520] >> but we had we we carved out room to
[01:22:02.480] obsess over UFOs, even amongst the the
[01:22:05.600] strife we have on on planet Earth.
[01:22:08.000] >> We just don't seem as interested
[01:22:09.679] anymore. I think it's a psychological
[01:22:11.600] thing. Well, I think that uh exposure uh
[01:22:14.800] in the news media will uh will take care
[01:22:17.280] of that once they start uh distributing
[01:22:19.840] some of the the footage that they have.
[01:22:22.080] Um more people would get interested. But
[01:22:24.159] again,
[01:22:25.679] they're not going to come down and solve
[01:22:27.120] these problems. They should
[01:22:29.237] [clears throat] um they shouldn't be
[01:22:30.719] holding back. In fact, you have
[01:22:32.159] >> UFOs are say you have say you have an
[01:22:34.880] intelligent being that has one of these
[01:22:36.400] craft that can do what what what uh they
[01:22:38.719] report. They should be hovering above
[01:22:42.080] countries in Africa purifying their
[01:22:44.320] water,
[01:22:45.920] um providing uh basic materials for
[01:22:48.639] shelter. They should be if they if
[01:22:49.920] they're here visiting us, they should
[01:22:51.120] help mankind. They're not going to do
[01:22:53.280] they should take a magnet and get all of
[01:22:54.880] the guns uh in the world and just suck
[01:22:56.880] them up into one of the vessels. They're
[01:22:58.320] not going to do that.
[01:22:59.600] >> So, we have to we humans after down here
[01:23:01.600] trying to solve those problems. Uh and
[01:23:04.080] but if I could directly address them,
[01:23:05.679] I'd say get the magnet, get the water
[01:23:07.440] purifier. You know, you got the
[01:23:09.199] technology. Don't be so selfish. You've
[01:23:11.280] been coming to this planet as tourists
[01:23:13.360] and enjoying sights. Now help us out.
[01:23:16.400] >> Yeah. Alien privilege, I think they call
[01:23:19.280] it.
[01:23:19.920] >> That's right. That's right. [laughter]
[01:23:22.560] >> All right. Well, let's end on a funny
[01:23:25.040] note. [clears throat]
[01:23:26.000] >> Uh Crystal Head Vodka is the name of the
[01:23:28.400] product. It is pure. It is delicious.
[01:23:32.719] It's a conversation piece. You should
[01:23:35.360] treat yourself to this work of art
[01:23:38.000] outside and inside the bottle. I
[01:23:39.679] Thanksgiving outside and Christmas great
[01:23:43.040] gift.
[01:23:43.679] >> Show up with that instead of your dry
[01:23:47.040] ass stuffing this year
[01:23:49.040] >> and [laughter] really make an impact.
[01:23:50.880] >> That's it. That's it.
[01:23:51.920] >> Dan, this been a treat for me.
[01:23:53.679] >> Oh, thank you, Adam. Thank you. Say
[01:23:55.040] hello to Jimmy.
[01:23:56.080] >> I shall. Yeah. And uh let's do it again
[01:23:59.520] whenever whenever you're around.
[01:24:00.960] >> For sure. For sure. Absolutely. This was
[01:24:03.040] fun. And you like cars, too. That's
[01:24:04.639] another thing you like is cars. And
[01:24:06.400] >> yeah, I want to check out your Pierce
[01:24:08.159] Arrow. Did you say
[01:24:08.960] >> Pierce Arrow? Yeah.
[01:24:10.320] >> What year?
[01:24:10.960] >> Uh 326004 limousine. J Edgar Hoover had
[01:24:14.560] an identical car to the one I have.
[01:24:17.440] Yeah.
[01:24:17.840] >> God, people don't realize how many
[01:24:19.280] American car companies there were in
[01:24:20.960] this country.
[01:24:22.400] >> Duesenberg.
[01:24:23.199] >> Duesenberg.
[01:24:24.000] >> Yeah. Lots of American.
[01:24:25.760] >> Auburn.
[01:24:26.639] >> Cord was the first front-wheel drive
[01:24:28.880] car. One of the first, as I recall,
[01:24:30.880] >> of course, Studebaker, Hopmobile. Yeah,
[01:24:33.040] they just kept tearing and going.
[01:24:34.800] >> Yeah, Hudson.
[01:24:35.760] >> All right. Well, we'll talk cars next
[01:24:37.360] time you're here because I got all I got
[01:24:38.960] all Newman's race cars.
[01:24:40.800] >> Yeah. Yeah. Right.
[01:24:41.679] >> So, we can Wow. Great.
[01:24:43.360] >> We can dwell delve into that.
[01:24:44.823] [clears throat]
[01:24:45.520] >> Uh go to adamcroll.com. I got shows all
[01:24:48.000] over the the country. Go check out
[01:24:50.000] crystalheadvodka.com.
[01:24:51.760] And until next time, this is Adam
[01:24:52.960] Crawler for Dan Akroyd saying mahala.