Dan Aykroyd on The Blues Brothers, Asperger’s, and UFO’s | Carolla Classics

Summary

Adam Carolla Show – Dan Aykroyd on The Blues Brothers, Asperger’s, and UFO’s | Carolla Classics Date: August 12, 2026
Guests: Dan Aykroyd
Host: Adam Carolla

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Episode Overview

This lively, candid, and broad-ranging interview features comedy legend Dan Aykroyd, with Adam Carolla diving deep into his life, career, and unique worldview. The episode covers iconic film and TV projects (notably The Blues Brothers and SNL), personal philosophies, family anecdotes, Aykroyd’s views and experiences concerning spirituality and UFOs, his entrepreneurial venture Crystal Head Vodka, and memorable run-ins with fellow comedy giants John Belushi, John Candy, Bill Murray, and more. The conversation is filled with humor, insightful tangents, and classic storytelling.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. Legacy and Comedy Craft

• Precision and Concision in Comedy (03:09):
  • Carolla praises Aykroyd’s articulate style:
    “You were such a wordsmith and so concise with the way you delivered your words...”
  • Aykroyd credits his government background for teaching him clarity and brevity:

    “You had to be very concise and precise and articulate in very little time...” – Dan Aykroyd (04:18)

  • Reflections on how unexpected early “blue collar” or bureaucratic jobs inform showbusiness skills.

2. The Blues Brothers: Cultural Importance and Personal Memories

• On the Making and Impact of The Blues Brothers (07:17):
  • Carolla calls it an “important movie” that fuses comedy, action, and music.
  • Aykroyd reminisces about iconic scenes, like the dance number with Aretha Franklin, describing being awestruck:

    “I froze. I was paralyzed watching her... a combination of amusement and awe just hit my stomach.” – Dan Aykroyd (08:48)

  • Discussion about the film’s diverse, legendary cast and innovative spirit.
  • On Hollywood then vs. now:
    “You’d never make it today...Wrecking so many cars and what? Practically no CGI? They wouldn't do it.” – Dan Aykroyd (14:15)
• Formation of the Blues Brothers Band (39:26):
  • Backstory on recruiting Booker T. & the MG's legends Steve Cropper & Donald ‘Duck’ Dunn.

    “Malone said, you guys, you should get in touch with Cropper and Dunn... they know you’re doing this out of respect and love for the music.” – Dan Aykroyd (39:40)

3. SNL and Collaborations with Comedy Icons

• Chemistry with Belushi & Candy (31:57):
  • Aykroyd recounts meeting John Belushi, instant connection:

    “The first moment I saw him, he opened the door... and made an entrance such as a great actor should...” (31:57)

  • The Blues Brothers idea was hatched the first night they hung out together.
  • Shares about early days and kindness of John Candy:

    “Everyone loved Aunt Candy, as we used to call him. He was such a great host... We were of like mind and went on to a great friendship until he died.” (29:58)

  • Nostalgia and loss for Belushi and Candy, and how their early passing affected Aykroyd and the comedy world.

4. Ghostbusters, Film Industry Stories, and Intellectual Property

• Behind Ghostbusters (44:52):

  • Belushi was to be in the film, and Aykroyd was writing for him at the time of his death.
  • Creative tension and reverence for director Ivan Reitman:

    “He was exacting and meticulous… No one could feel an audience better... comedy nerves, better than Ivan.” (47:44)

• The “Ghostbusters” Theme Song Lawsuit (48:18):

  • Conversation about Ray Parker Jr.’s theme and its similarities to Huey Lewis's “I Want a New Drug,” with Aykroyd noting that “Soul Finger” by the Bar-Kays may have been the original influence:

    “Well, the voices in the back of the chorus certainly are similar. Yeah, you could say that.” – Dan Aykroyd (50:16)

5. Sense of Fame, Success, and Artistic Fulfillment

• Reflections on Fame (68:56):
  • Both agree that significance comes from doing what you love, not just “hollow fame” or social media followers:

    “We don't want fame. We want to do what we want for a living.” – Dan Aykroyd (68:55)

  • Carolla credits Aykroyd’s concise style as an influence (69:03–69:30).

6. Personal Life, Family, and Spirituality

• Self-Diagnosis and Hypervigilance (22:03):

  • On Asperger’s and hypervigilance, Aykroyd clarifies it’s a self-diagnosis, not medically confirmed.
  • Detailed, humorous exploration of sleeping habits with his wife, Donna Dixon:

    “I don't like fans. Or air conditioning. She's from the South… and we had a lot of squabbles over that.” – Dan Aykroyd (24:39)

• Fatherhood and Family (74:14):

  • Pride in his daughters’ creative pursuits, especially Stella’s comedy and Vera Sola’s music.

• Spiritualist Beliefs (75:29):

  • Aykroyd explains family’s engagement with Spiritualism, mediums, and seances:

    “Not only does the soul survive in energy after death, but the consciousness can also survive...” – Dan Aykroyd (75:29)

  • Discusses anecdotal accounts and contact with mediums.

7. UFOs: Firsthand Experiences & Broader Theories

• Pentagon's UFO Bureau and Sightings (82:57):

  • Discusses All-domain Anomalous Resolution Office—Pentagon’s new UFO division.
  • Aykroyd recounts his three (or four) direct UFO sightings:

    “We were able to look at it for a full minute and it just sat there silently. Big gray object… no lights… and then it turned and drifted out over the St. Lawrence river.” (85:21)

• Nature and Motives of Extraterrestrial Visitors (87:46):

  • Variety of UFO types and possible motives; some may be “tourists,” others abductors, some benevolent.
  • Wistfully asks why advanced beings don’t help solve human problems (92:05):

    “If they're here visiting us, they should help mankind. They're not going to do it... So we humans have to try to solve those problems.”

8. Music: The Blues as Artistic Preservation

• Cultural Impact:

  • Blues Brothers introduced blues music to a broader, younger, and non-traditional audience:

    "You certainly brought the blues to a young white guy from North Hollywood... it's an accomplishment but it's also a service." – Adam Carolla (62:44)

• Radio and Ongoing Blues Advocacy:

  • Regrets about loss of blues radio shows, impacting new artist exposure.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “What you call her Jane, you ignorant slut!” (04:11) – Aykroyd, quoting his famous SNL line
• “I just want to play with Jimmy [Belushi] and do the concerts for as long as I'm mobile and I got 80% of the moves left...” (72:44) – Aykroyd on his late-career priorities
• “Let's be honest, it's love. I mean, you love him. And he loves you. What a great thing to have a friend like that.” (31:08–31:13) – Aykroyd discussing creative partnerships

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Early Comedy, Bureaucracy & Precision: 03:09–05:40
• Blues Brothers Memories & Importance: 07:17–11:47
• Casting, Collaborators & Comedy Icons: 27:09–34:10
• Ghostbusters, Belushi's Death, & Ivan Reitman: 44:52–47:44
• Ghostbusters Theme/Lawsuit Comparison: 48:18–52:26
• SNL's Early Years & Departure: 54:07–56:12
• Spiritualism & Life After Death: 75:29–80:59
• UFO Experiences & Theories: 82:57–90:04
• Family, Fame, and Creative Satisfaction: 68:56–73:36

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Tone and Style

The conversation is warm, insightful, and honest. Carolla brings curiosity and straight-shooting humor, while Aykroyd offers thoughtful reflections, deep anecdotes, and flashes of the razor-sharp wit that made him famous. The episode flows from cultural history to personal beliefs and wild stories, all delivered with classic showbiz flair and mutual respect.

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Overall Summary

This episode is essential listening for fans of comedy history, The Blues Brothers, SNL, or anyone looking for a nuanced, funny, and thoughtful portrait of Dan Aykroyd. It’s a masterclass in comedic storytelling and a heartfelt conversation about creativity, friendship, spirituality, and the strange mysteries (and opportunities) of life on—and perhaps beyond—Earth.

Transcript

[Adam Carolla]

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[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. Get it on. Got to get on the choice, but to get on mandate. Get it on. And welcome to an episode that I'm really excited about. Mr. Dan Aykroyd has joined me in studio. I was at the Crystal Head Vodka. We'll call it Party at the Magic Castle the other night.

[Dan Aykroyd]

Sorry I missed you there. I'm sorry. The valet kept asking my car to move and so I had to move my car three times and then I gave up and I didn't go back Inside. I'm very sorry to have to admit it was a fun night.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, I agree. And I knew I would see you today. Here we are. Here we are. I've been a fan for as long as I can remember, always watched SNL from Jump street, and I always respected your work because you were such a wordsmith and so concise with the way you delivered your words. I felt like you take you and Steve Martin doing the Swingin Check Brothers. His was a sort of comic book.

[Dan Aykroyd]

I love that man.

[Adam Carolla]

His was a sort of over the top, kind of almost nonsense version of it.

[Dan Aykroyd]

He's a very stylish guy, that guy.

[Adam Carolla]

But you were doing the accent with, like, precision. And I always thought as a young person, I thought, man, this guy is concise, like all the characters, even Bassamatic stuff. And, you know, Jane, you ignorant.

[Dan Aykroyd]

What you call her Jane, you ignorant slut.

[Dawson]

Slut, Right.

[Dan Aykroyd]

Like it was all, you miserable bag of slunk meat. You miserable bag of slunk meat.

[Commercial Announcer]

Yes.

[Dan Aykroyd]

That was Jim Downey's writing right there, though. But. Well, to address that, about precision concision or. Yeah. You know, I grew up in a government town and my parents worked for the government and they used to. My mother typed my papers in college. My dad wrote up a lot of papers, and I worked for the government writing papers for several departments that you. Penitentiary Service, the Department of Public Works. And there was one other job that I had there where I had to write a lot of. And you had to be. You had to be very concise and precise and articulate in very little time because, you know, the average government bureaucrat above me, you know, the attention span wouldn't be there, so you had to grab them.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Dan Aykroyd]

You know, but it. Slurry seal. It's slurry seal. Asphalt. Why use it? Why not use it? Cracks in the road along our Ontario highways. And then I would, you know, lay it all out.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. It's interesting how things that wouldn't seem to feed or lend itself to another profession do.

[Dan Aykroyd]

Like carpentry.

[Adam Carolla]

Yes, carpentry. Yes. I learned a lot. I mean, it's like being in the military and then sort of taking things you learned in the military into the private sector.

[Dan Aykroyd]

But I must tell you, having that as a skill in your life, set of skills. You will never be replaced by AI. A carpenter will not be replaced. I don't see AI picking up a nail gun or a drill. As far as electricians and plumbers. Best professions to be in. You know, you're. No, no way. Some AI robot is Going to get in and do a U pipe under a sink.

[Adam Carolla]

Right.

[Dan Aykroyd]

So you have that skill? I. I don't really have a real skill like that.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, well, you don't need it. You're super talented.

[Dan Aykroyd]

Well, thank you, sir. I've worked with great people that were great collaborators, and all the work that. That I did enjoy doing is from that. And I got all the right breaks in that, and I backed it up with, you know, whatever skills I do have. But to have a hard skill like that, it's quite admirable.

[Adam Carolla]

It's funny, in Canada, they call that what's under the sink a U pipe because it's shaped like a U. I've never heard it. We call it a trap.

[Dan Aykroyd]

A trap, yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Yes. But that's a Canadian versus American thing.

[Dan Aykroyd]

Get that AI robot to get out there and clean that trap. It ain't gonna happen.

[Adam Carolla]

No, I get it. I've been pushing for this for a while, which is when they were taking away all the trades in schools and replacing them with music appreciations. As much as I love music, playing the oboe or the cello's fine, but it's easier to make a living if you know a trade.

[Dan Aykroyd]

Well, the ideal would be for the student to go in, make his oboe in the wood shop and go out and play it. But there's no money in schools to do any programs anymore.

[Adam Carolla]

So you. And you should know that I had a recovered memory last night of going and seeing the Blues Brothers movie when it came out in Century City, where they used to have a nice big movie theater.

[Dan Aykroyd]

Oh, that's a nice screen.

[Adam Carolla]

And they had the Blues Brothers mobile parked in front of the theater. And there's a few movies that I talk about that are like seminal movies, like important movies. And I feel that way about the Blues Brothers. I thought you take comedy, you take music, you take action, you take all these iconic people of the Cab Calloway's and Aretha Franklins and Ray Charles and stuff, and you capture them all at sort of the height of their powers. And then lots of little things in the movie that I always appreciated and always thought was funny, even when I didn't even know what I was gonna do for a living. But just for instance, the scene where you're in the cafe with Aretha Franklin and Matt Guitar Murphy's in there, and you and John are sitting there at the counter sort of not paying much attention, but then at some point get up and get into the dance and then slide back down onto your stool as if nothing happened. I Just thought that was like weird little pieces of. Of genius interspersed in that movie.

[Dan Aykroyd]

I have a crystalline memory of that exact moment the first time we. We were rehearsing it. First of all, we had Carlton Johnson, who was the Temptations choreographer. So we had the best there. And I remember being there sitting and just turning on the stool and just watching Aretha. And when she started to sing and started to move, she looked so cute. A combination of amusement and awe just hit my stomach and I. I froze. I was paralyzed watching her do her dance and start and her commencement of singing that part. And then I see John starting to move. And it was like Marshall Earp when he drew his six gun. You know, time stopped. He said the reason I was able to get a bullet out as soon as the barrel left the holster was because I took my time. I took my time. And that was a slow moment for him in his gunfights. And for me, a very slow moment where I didn't think I would be able to get off. I thought my knees would buckle. And John moved, and then I overcame it and then we did it. But I was awed by her talent and it paralyzed me in that moment.

[Adam Carolla]

I love the Ray Charles scene. I love that song.

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[Adam Carolla]

There's no Action in that song was

[Dan Aykroyd]

written by Philadelphia songwriters. I don't recall who, but Ray didn't write that song Shake a Tail Feather. But we needed that song at that point in the movie for that type of energy as a dance number. Also to feature him on the. On the keyboards. And so he. Ray was such a good sport. He recorded two songs for films that I did that where he was so great and. And, you know, there's nothing wrong with the action on this piano.

[Adam Carolla]

You know, I love that line.

[Dan Aykroyd]

And he plays and. And we had to record the song with him. He coached us through the vocals all the way through. He was our producer basically, on that track. And also for the film that I directed with Chevy and Demi Moore and John Candy, which I like, called Nothing But Trouble.

[Adam Carolla]

Sure.

[Dan Aykroyd]

He recorded Tony Bennett's the Good Life for me, you know. And so that was such a pleasure to work with him in the studio and then to have him just nail it on film, you know. Yeah. So you gotta. You gotta thank the city of Chicago, African American culture first. The city of Chico, African American culture first. The city of Chicago and John Landis really, for what that. That movie really became. Because John is a true sinist and it needed his hand desperately from the. From the original concept to have a real Filmmaker come in here, in there and make that movie. You know the scene where the Bluesmobile falls apart and at Cook County Building and we're about to run in, he just cuts away to two statues there, you know, ruminating, looking down, just that. So the work of a master.

[Adam Carolla]

I agree. And the other thing, as I was doing my homework last night about the Blues Brothers, I was looking at the cast and you were young, you were 28, I believe.

[Dan Aykroyd]

But I was 27 when we started.

[Adam Carolla]

I was completely blown away that Matt guitar Murphy was 51. That's insane, because he looked 30. The whole band looked to be about 30 at the time. Steve Cropper and Donald Duck Dunn and all that. And the idea that Matt Guitar Murphy, who looked to be in better shape than everyone in the cast.

[Dan Aykroyd]

He worked out, he pushed weights, was

[Adam Carolla]

in his 50s when he did that. I was completely. I mean, that's the greatest black don't crack example on the planet.

[Dan Aykroyd]

Garrett Morris is another one. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And it's so true. Yeah, it's so true.

[Adam Carolla]

He looked the same age as ever.

[Dan Aykroyd]

And I have a friend named Bobby Rush. He's like. He's getting up to almost 100 years old.

[Adam Carolla]

The singer?

[Dan Aykroyd]

Yes, Singer, harp player, dancer, composer, writer, superstar, you know, veteran of the chitlin circuit. Oh, I love Bobby. Love him. Yeah. So another example. He's so youthful and so handsome and. Yeah. God, it was, you know, the Blues Brothers. This John was superb in that film Blue Sheet. The scene where we leave the country and western bar and we haven't paid for the beer and. Well, and. And so John's little speech, walking across the.

[Adam Carolla]

Sir.

[Dan Aykroyd]

Well, I usually, you know, I go and I. The way we do this is. I go to my brother's car and I take out my checkbook and I put it on the. Something like that. You put it on the dashboard?

[Adam Carolla]

No, he put it on the lid of the glove box.

[Dan Aykroyd]

The lid of the glove box.

[Adam Carolla]

That's where I make my checks.

[Dan Aykroyd]

That's where, yeah, I make my checks out. And I put it, you know, and it's so meticulous. And we get in and he was just beautiful, the way he played that scene. And so then we take off and. Yeah, that movie I'm proud of. That's a. Aaa. I'm happy about that one.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, I mean, there's plenty of funny movies and there's plenty of serious movies, but there's not as many important movies. To me, that was an important movie. I just thought that was my take on it. Even at first blush. So it must have been hard to make all movies. Yeah, but this concept is sort of bizarre to explain to a studio.

[Dan Aykroyd]

Oh, you'd never make it today. They would say, excuse me, what? Catholic? What? Wait a minute, hold on. Wrecking so many cars and what? Practically no cgi. I don't know. No, they wouldn't do it.

[Adam Carolla]

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[Dan Aykroyd]

I believe so. I really do believe so. I wouldn't come in here and tell you a lie about that because there's no fusel oils in it. No glycerin, no sugar, no limonene at all. A lot of other products do it to mask the smell and scent of alcohol. Open that up, it smells just clean ethyl alcohol and made in Canada. And I'm quite proud of it. And purity is a good word you can use for it. And I just wanted to build something better for the home bar. And yeah, our bottles are unique. Made by John Alexander. They can search engine him. He's a Texas sculptor and painter. One of my best friends. We met when my beautiful girlfriend dumped me for him.

[Adam Carolla]

Really?

[Dan Aykroyd]

Yeah. In 74. Rosie Schuster, the writer on Saturday Night

[Adam Carolla]

Live, was your girlfriend?

[Dan Aykroyd]

She was, yeah. Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

And she dumped you for.

[Dan Aykroyd]

She dumped me for John Alexander. And then John and I became good friends and started this company. So that's our bone bottle. That's corn, peaches and cream corn. Their black is made out of blue ever agave. That is made from the plant that tequila is made out of. Now we've. There's no other tequila, no other vodka made out of the tequila plant that we know of. So you could do anything you want, margaritas or that with it. It's very long and earthy. And the corn again is dry, crisp, vanilla, sweet. And then we got the wheat bottle there, the iridescent bottle, that sunset wheat, that's more of a peppery anise kind of flavor. And you'd have a good margarita out of that. And then our spatter or our pride bottle at that season of the world of the year, you know, we should all be proud all the time. But at this pride season of the year, we do. We do in June, we do bottles. And that was one that we did a survey and there was a contest and that design was come up with. It's very Jackson Pollock and kind of Jasper Johns.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, these. There's a lot of vodka out there, but this is a conversation piece, you know what I mean? This isn't for drinking in the park alone out of a bag. I don't know.

[Dan Aykroyd]

I would say you can drink it with five people. I wouldn't. Yeah, I'm saying, I think that's a. Is there a park and is there a bag? And there's 1, 2, 3, 4.

[Adam Carolla]

There's enough of us. Yeah, and it's good.

[Dan Aykroyd]

Put it on ice.

[Adam Carolla]

I was drinking it all Monday night at the. At the event.

[Dan Aykroyd]

Yeah, it's tasty. It's tasty. Yeah. I'm proud of it. I really am. It's made in Canada. I love going around the world and saying that. I like Canada, where I was born and where I live, part of the. Part of the year. And, you know, it's great to be living in the Western world. You know, there's an old blues song. Oh, this world is in an uproar Things all going wrong the way the reds is cutting up we ain't gonna be here long I'm gonna dig myself a hole Move my baby down underground When I come up Ain't gonna be no wars around Had a friend from Israel in the other day from Tel Aviv. He stayed at the farm and he said, dan, what is it like to live in a land where there's no war? Here I am, you know, in my 1932 Piercero 1604 limousine, driving him for a little ride. And 16 cylinder, not 12. But Pierce didn't make it 16, but the Cadillac. Cadillac did it, and I believe Packard did as well. Yes, but. And here I am driving through the bucolic countryside and.

[Adam Carolla]

Are we in Canada?

[Dan Aykroyd]

We're in Canada. In Canada. I'm in the. This summer, I'm in the Pierce. We're driving to the drugstore to get an ice cream and. And he tells. What is it like to live in a world without. In a country without war? And I. Oh, I thought, boy, do I take things for granted around this place.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, unfortunately, the way we're wired is when we're out of real problems, we just find problems and call them problems. We're on a constant quest for problems. But our problems are not the world's problems. And they would love to have our problems, let's say our. I mean, us and Canada. So we just move on to, oh, we got a male who's a biological male, and he's swimming against females. And that's our war. We create. We'll find it. Rich Beverly Hills housewife Syndrome. Oh, what a disaster. Today was the pedicure. And the manicure van that came by was 20 minutes late and then the sushi was dry. It's horrible. Yeah, but that's what these are, real crises.

[Dan Aykroyd]

Crises to real people. Yeah, it helps distract, I suppose. But we, I think, God, what are we going to do? We just have to have positive eyes out there. The cone of positivity. And we have to get with like minds to. To try to do something about, about all of us and, and just be kinder to everywhere in humankind. I don't, I. I don't know if we're going to require some kind of deus ex machina intervention from somewhere to smarten us humans up because we're a pretty heinous species right now, generally.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, as you and I were talking about off the air and as I've brought up a million times, I never thought in the year 2023 we'd be dealing with human trafficking and tunnels under borders and, you know, terrorism and, and fentanyl and squalor and poverty. And I thought we'd be flying around in George Jetson's car and everyone would be wearing a Mylar jumpsuit. It'd be some sort of utopia because more Southern behind us.

[Dan Aykroyd]

Hoverboards, I guess. Yeah. There are pockets of the world that are at peace. And that there is harmony. Santa Monica, California. Harmony, Peace, Joy by the sea. It's beautiful there. Beautiful houses and beautiful shops and lovely wide boulevards and 60,000 homeless. So the underside and the overside will always be there. We're living in, frankly, medieval times. You go. I drive very carefully in the car. I don't drive certain hours at night, have a gated place to live, lock up at night, bring my family close. Whereas really, I would like to take my family and let them run in the park at one in the morning. Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

With a bag and a bottle.

[Dan Aykroyd]

Well, hopefully. But no, no, we have to be so, so guarded now.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, what we're living in, and especially in California, is you have Jay Z and Beyonce buy $200 million house in Malibu, but in order to get there, you have to drive through a homeless encampment.

[Dan Aykroyd]

They got a deal, by the way. It's worth 700.

[Adam Carolla]

That's where we're at. Which is ultra rich. And then people just expiring on the streets and squalor.

[Dan Aykroyd]

Well, thankfully, knowing people like that, they're going to drive through their driveway, see that, and immediately start to act, to try to alleviate and help in some way, because that's the kind of people they are. There are other owners of $200 million mansions in the world that I don't think would think the same way.

[Adam Carolla]

So I was reading up on you and I saw Asperger syndrome and I saw that's a self diagnosis.

[Dan Aykroyd]

I was never all right, that's me. That's me going, why do I do this sometimes and why do I do that? And reading books and that. But I've had no medical opinion formally. I've had no one, you know, have never had a doctor say it to me.

[Adam Carolla]

It's just a no. I know I've been described, I've had it foisted on me, but I've never been diagnosed officially. And I'm not sure if you can officially totally diagnose it. But I have some question for you. Do you have hypervigilance disorder?

[Dan Aykroyd]

I am vigilant, I am aware. But I don't think I'm hypervigilant or paranoid. But I'm definitely aware of surroundings, of vehicles, of being followed, sometimes aware that make sure that doesn't happen. Walking in a big city, someone clocks me because of my profile or they know the face. I immediately become aware of that and I'm ready for the encounter. Whether gentle or not.

[Adam Carolla]

Right? No, I have that too. It's not paranoia. It's just a sort of noticing of everything.

[Dan Aykroyd]

Oh, and I think I tell my daughters, always be aware of where you are, where you, what you've. Who's watching you as you go from your door to your car. What car is familiar the next day? Is it that one always there? Is that a neighbor or, you know, and when you go in at night, you know, get in quickly, lock the door, don't dawdle with the groceries and you know, and be, be aware.

[Adam Carolla]

But one of the things that I've realized when I talk to people who have this sort of hyper vigilance thing, one of the markers for it is sleep. When you sleep, do you have to have some white noise going? Do you have to have an eye shade on? Does the room have to be cool and dark? Because I know people can just fall asleep on any airplane on their back

[Dan Aykroyd]

holding on Jimmy Belushi. There he is, Flip flops in commercial. Tiny little bag dog now he travels with and the eye shades. And he can do it right just like that.

[Adam Carolla]

But what about you?

[Dan Aykroyd]

Cool and dark for sure. I like that much better. Don't have to have the white noise, don't want any clock radios near me. Usually a good book is what will put me out?

[Adam Carolla]

So you don't need, like, the ceiling fan going even during the winter.

[Dan Aykroyd]

I don't like fans. In fact, that was a big contention in my marriage with Donna.

[Adam Carolla]

You don't like fans?

[Dan Aykroyd]

I don't like fans. Or air conditioning. She's from the South. Southern girl, loved them and that. We had a lot of squabbles over that. I'd turn it off when she'd go to sleep, then she'd wake up and put it back on.

[Adam Carolla]

I gotta say this in all time first. And the reason is guys normally get married to the fan and women say it's too cold. I've never seen the script flip.

[Dan Aykroyd]

No, not for Miss Donna.

[Commercial Announcer]

No way.

[Dan Aykroyd]

No way. No, no. But I do like a book. And I like quiet and dark and cool. And I am so fortunate that even with the multiple times that I arise to urinate at night, I can get right back to REM Delta within a minute or two. And I have deep, beautiful REM Delta episodes. 45 minutes to 50, sometimes a little longer. Mini ones. Spurt. And I wake up and I feel extremely rested. Because when you're dreaming, you're in REM Delta, you're out. When you're dreaming, you could put a pin and you wouldn't feel it.

[Adam Carolla]

So let's go back with you a little bit. What do you think you're going to be doing when you're in high school? What's the plan? If there is a plan.

[Dan Aykroyd]

In high school?

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, when you're in high school.

[Dan Aykroyd]

When I was in high school.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. What'd you think you'd be doing for a living? Oh, well,

[Dan Aykroyd]

I was studying. Well, I didn't really know. In high school I'd done some plays and I'd done some theater, and it was fun and that, but I knew that's the. You can't make a living at doing show business. Not if you're in Ottawa. There's no way to make a living in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. And now that's changed. There's a big film industry up there and lots of actors and a big community. But then there were very few outlets. I did plays. I worked with Ottawa Little Theater. But I thought, you know, as a profession.

[Adam Carolla]

How.

[Dan Aykroyd]

No. So I worked and apprenticed at the Solicitor General of Canada Penitentiary Service as a clerk. And I looked at Carleton University and I looked at some of the courses. Abnormal psych, Deviant psych. So I thought I was really. I was headed towards a career in corrections and probably would have ended up as a low Grade prison guard, you know, drinking with my buddies, you know, at the local tavern and going into work and trying to get through the hell of working in a federal prison.

[Adam Carolla]

And was comedy always kind of in you, but you just hadn't realized it and the environment wasn't conducive to realizing it?

[Dan Aykroyd]

No, it was. My parents were very funny and there was always humor there. And I did take some improv classes and I had very funny friends in high school who were great influences on me, really. Absurdists and monologists. And I took a lot of the characters out of high school and sort of, you know, and use them kind of later on just in terms of the rhythm of speech. And my uncles were very funny, you know. Do you know that Great Outdoors, the movie I made with Candy? Sure, yeah. So that character, Roman Craig is my Uncle Peter and my Uncle Andy. That's, you know, that the chop, like Burt Lancaster, they chop the words like that.

[Dawson]

There's always.

[Dan Aykroyd]

If something's gonna come out of the mouth, it's going to be precision. You're gonna hear it, it'll be loud, you know, make sure they're heard. You know, you could say, can you make sure I'm heard? Or can you pass the salt? Pass the salt and get it over here now. You know, it's that clipped, you know,

[Adam Carolla]

So I recently saw Uncle Buck for some reason, about two weeks ago, and I thought, I miss John Candy. There's certain performers, you never want anyone to go before their time, but there are certain ones. I don't need John Candy. When he passed, I was like, oh. I mean, look, the two Johns, Belushi and Candy. Those guys were like, oh, man, I'm gonna miss these guys. There's a lot of work ahead of those guys.

[Dan Aykroyd]

I know, I know. I think about it often.

[Adam Carolla]

Did you know John Candy well?

[Dan Aykroyd]

Oh, yeah. We made the great outdoors. And also he was in the Blues Brothers, if you'll remember. He played Burton Mercer, the parole officer.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, oh, oh, he was the guy. Let's see. Parole officer. Yeah. Orange whip.

[Dan Aykroyd]

Orange whip. I went orange Candy.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, yeah.

[Dan Aykroyd]

And we did Second City together in Toronto. So we were very old friends. In fact, when the first day we met, he was a Kleenex salesman for Kimberly Clark. Turned out he was a clothes master of clothes. He looked. He was always turned out beautifully, you know, the beige blazer and the beige, you know, pants and brown shoes and the beige Pontiac Laurentian to match, you know, and he Kleenex for Kimberly Clark. And on the first day we met, and I was a male truck driver in Toronto. So we were both, you know, working in other things that we didn't think would lead into show business. But then we auditioned for Second City and got into that first Toronto company with Gilda Radner, Jerry Salzberg, Eugene Levy, and then eventually Catherine o'. Hara. Our teachers were Joe Flaherty and Brian Doyle Murray.

[Adam Carolla]

Wow.

[Dan Aykroyd]

Yep.

[Adam Carolla]

And did you always see something in him like you went, oh, this guy's. He's got the goods.

[Dan Aykroyd]

Oh, no. Everyone loved Aunt Candy, as we used to call him. He was such a great host. You know, he'd be, you know, he'd be the one to leave the humbugs like your aunt have out at Christmas, you know, the little candies and you know, always offering, soliciting a drink, you know, get a drink for you. Yeah, Johnny. Johnny Toronto. Johnny LaRue. For sure. Of course, he, you know, we always started in sort of, you know, at the, you know, the day we met, doing voices and people from our past and, you know, we were of like mind and went on to a great friendship until he died because he had a congenital heart defect. Plus, he did like to drink, but it wasn't so much that it was the thing that killed his dad. Very early.

[Adam Carolla]

Did you have that same kinship when you first met with John Belushi? Did you feel like, oh, like when I met Jimmy Kimmel, I was like, oh, this guy's the guy.

[Dan Aykroyd]

I know, great body, great power.

[Adam Carolla]

I gotta stay close to this guy. And I recognized it in him. Even though I was a Harper there.

[Dan Aykroyd]

Let's be honest, it's love. I mean, you love him.

[Adam Carolla]

I do.

[Dan Aykroyd]

And he loves you.

[Adam Carolla]

Yes.

[Dan Aykroyd]

What a great thing to have a friend like that.

[Adam Carolla]

But I didn't feel that with a lot of people. I meet a lot of people and I go, okay, this is not gonna go on forever.

[Dan Aykroyd]

It's the three to ten minute rule. You give them three to ten minutes and if they can engage, you don't feel engaged by then, then they should move on with their lives.

[Adam Carolla]

Right. So we had a mutual feeling. Even though he wasn't doing much, he was doing sports, local sports on a FM radio station out here, and I was doing nothing. I wasn't in show business at all. I was a boxing coach. But we met each other and we're like, this is something, and we gotta do something with this. And if you're lucky enough, you'll have a few of those in your life. Was it that with Belushi?

[Dan Aykroyd]

It was, it was first night I met Him. It was a blizzard, February 2nd, city fire hall. We heard legendary Belushi coming up to recruit for National Lampoon. He wanted to get Gilda to go down there to the radio show. And so we hosted him at Second City. And the first moment I saw him, he opened the door to the alley, he flung the door open, walked in completely inadequately dressed for the weather, in a cable knit sweater and a silk scarf around his neck. And a driver's cap, that octagonal Lee J. Cobb type driver's cap, you know, that you see in the old movies. And jeans and white sneakers and a pack of butts in his hand and smoking one. And he made an entrance such as a great actor should enter a room and, you know, as impactful as I'm sure he would have wanted it to be, even though he wasn't conscious of it being impactful. And then that night, I think he did all some favorites. He hit the wall. He did, yeah, the Angel. He did. He did Cocker, I think, and he did Lee J. Cobb. He did a lot of great stuff that we'd heard about that he'd done in Chicago. And we, that very night went back to my after hours club at 505 Queen Street east, the Speakeasy. And there was a record there playing straight up by Downchild Blues Band. And he asked me, oh, that's, that's really good music. I said, well, John, you're from Chicago, you know about blues. Yeah, but that vocalist is good. And that harp, you know. And I said, well, it's blues, just good old blues. He said, well, I'm into heavy metal, you know, mainly, you know, Grand Funk and Cream. And I said, well, that all comes from the blues, as you know.

[Dawson]

And.

[Dan Aykroyd]

Yeah, and he really listened to that record. And by God, we came up with the Blues Brothers that very night. Well, we should put a band together. I said, you sing, I play a little harp, you know, come on. And by the time I got to Chicago, to New York to do snl, he had a stack of records that come up high as the desk here. And he started to do his research

[Adam Carolla]

into the blues, into the blues.

[Dan Aykroyd]

And so from that we built. Built the act. So the very first night we met, we got to see his comedy firsthand and get to know the guy and come up concoct the Blues Brothers.

[Adam Carolla]

So that was pretty what sold him on you,

[Dan Aykroyd]

I think the love of the music and just the kind of anarchy of the way I lived. I lived below this speakeasy on a Main Street, 505 Queen had a store window there. And so we ran the bar wide open, like, right. People you could look in and see, you know, a bar, a full open, unlicensed bar running there. And I, I slept downstairs and sometimes upstairs and, and, and just, just the people we had coming and going, the artists, the scene. He liked that. And I, I think he saw also kind of a, a soul and a creative spirit that maybe needed a little guidance and rescuing, you know, so, and that was me.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, I want to talk about the formation of the Blues Brothers and the band and Booker T and the MGs and all that stuff. We'll take a quick break. We'll be right back with Dan Aykroyd right after this. Huell Wow. I feel like every place in LA I go for a quick bite, I gotta stand in line for 20 minutes. For some reason, all I get is a mediocre sandwich. Now I've wasted a bunch of time and I'm still not satisfied. And that's why I love using Huel. You know Huel, Great sponsor. I use them instead. Their black edition powder has 40 grams of protein and mixes with water or milk in just about 30 seconds. It's a complete meal you can have instead of food. Not a shake on top of food because that just makes you fat. It also has 27 essential vitamins and minerals. No artificial sweeteners, colors or flavors. The ready to drink bottle is in the grab and version and that's got 35 grams of protein, 7 grams of fiber and is under 5 bucks a meal. No more mediocre sandwiches. Try Huel instead. That's H U E L. And now it's 15% off online. For new customers it's Huel. Right?

[Dawson]

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[Adam Carolla]

whatever mission for God.

[Dawson]

If you said the blues brothers, we're on a mission from God, you're correct.

[Adam Carolla]

Now back to the show. Dan aykroyd is in studio. Crystal head vodka is a wonderful product that Dan has created and I'm here to tell you it's the real deal because I sampled my share of it at the party at the magic castle the other night. So it's wonderful. And you can go to crystalheadvodka.com and treat yourself. So I was doing a little research and I didn't know that the blues brothers had the Booker t. And some of the booker T. And the mgs in it. And so I was looking up Steve cropper and Donald Duck. Yeah, Dunn. And so then how did it. Did you cherry pick those guys? How did the band form? And these are some of the best musicians in the world.

[Dan Aykroyd]

Well, particularly Cropper and dunn were Otis redding's guitar players and they played on all of the stax volt hits. So Schaefer and Malone and I and Ruben.

[Adam Carolla]

Paul Schaefer.

[Dan Aykroyd]

Yeah, Paul Schaefer. Basically they were the first sort of house band. When we warmed up the audience first couple of times we all, we walked in the door with the concept. We already had the uniforms, we already had what we're going to do. The concept of front men fronting great musicians. Schaefer, Rubin Malone and Marini were the band at that point. And then Malone said, you guys, you should get in touch with Cropper and dunn. And I'm yeah, like wait a minute, hold Cropper and Dunn of stacks volt. Like they're want to have anything to do with us. And Malone Said, oh yeah, they know that you're doing this with veneration for the venerables and the veterans. They know you're doing this out of respect and love for the music and a desire to showcase it and revive it in some sense. And they're two of the best guitar players in the world. Reach out. We did and they joined us. And that really made the Blues Brothers happen as a, as a coalesced entity. To have Duck Dunn driving the band with his bass in concert with Steve Jordan, our 19 year old drummer at the time, who was now the Stones drummer.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, he is now, yeah.

[Dan Aykroyd]

So to have those two driving the band with Steve on rhythm and lead guitar and then Matt Murphy on. On essentially, you know, Chicago blues lead. We had a Memphis Chicago fusion band that, well, couldn't be stopped for until John died. We were still doing stuff and we were going to do more.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, they, by the way, I don't know if they're great actors, but they pulled it off in the movie.

[Commercial Announcer]

They did.

[Adam Carolla]

They all absolutely pulled it off in both movies. Yes.

[Dan Aykroyd]

And the second one is a small G. Good, comparable product to the, to the first because the SoundTrack of the second one is quite outstanding. Erykah Badu's Worth the Price of Admission and there were a lot of. There's a lot of good stuff in that too. And they, they pulled off the acting and they came back and they looked the same. And by the way, fat me looked the same as well in that movie. I did lose the weight and I look, I hold the two of them up and I go, not bad for many years later, however, it was.

[Adam Carolla]

So John passed out here in Los angeles. Yeah.

[Dan Aykroyd]

Bungalow 3 at the Shadow Marmont. 82. Yeah, 82. March 5th. 82.

[Adam Carolla]

82. Yeah. I remember. I remember where I was. I remember when John Lennon died and I remember when Belushi died, I was

[Dan Aykroyd]

on stage with Marshall Tucker Band when Lennon heard it in the Love Song.

[Adam Carolla]

Is that his song? Heard it in the Love.

[Dan Aykroyd]

Yeah, I think so. For some reason I got up to play harp and I walked off stage and Ron Deltzner, the great promoter, said, you know, John Lennon's been shot. And of course you think John Lennon, well, he's a God. He'll. Whatever they shot him with, it'll. They'll pluck it out and he'll be walking around. Just because he was shot doesn't mean he dies. Well, yeah, and Belushi, of course, I remember when I heard about that, I was writing Ghostbusters at our office in New York Very early one morning there, and Bernie Brillstein called and told me what had happened. And then I thought, oh, I gotta get to Judy right away. I can't have her hearing this on the radio, the TV, or seeing it in a newspaper. So I ran from 20th street down to Morton street down 5th Avenue, and I ran over to Judy and I had to tell her, which was one of those moments, a crystalline moment again, that took courage and that will remain with me forever. But it had to be done. I couldn't have the media telling her

[Adam Carolla]

first, it was back when there was some lead time before the evening news.

[Dan Aykroyd]

Not much, I'll tell you. I read.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, not much. Twitter. I mean, now it's.

[Dan Aykroyd]

Right. No, no, of course. Of course that. Right. But the newspapers had already hit the sidewalk. I ran by, and there belushi dead at 33, right there in a bundle of the Daily News for the New York Post.

[Adam Carolla]

She hadn't seen it? No.

[Dan Aykroyd]

She hadn't seen it? No. Thank God.

[Adam Carolla]

Were they. They're married, right?

[Dan Aykroyd]

Oh, childhood sweethearts, High school sweethearts.

[Adam Carolla]

How did she. What was her reaction?

[Dan Aykroyd]

Well, you know, a big part of her world ended, but she's strong, and she always was strong and still strong today. And she just picked up his legacy and helped to keep the thing alive and went on to meet a new guy and get close to his family. And her strength and I think her Midwestern style, resilience. And also, in a way, she sort of knew it was coming or there was going to be a disaster related to his appetites. And there was maybe a bit of mental preparation that. That she had for it, but that was a rough one, you can imagine.

[Adam Carolla]

You were writing Ghostbusters for him? Oh, he was going to be.

[Dan Aykroyd]

I was writing a line for him.

[Adam Carolla]

Writing a line for Belushi?

[Dan Aykroyd]

Yeah, yeah. For the. For. Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

What part was he going to play?

[Dan Aykroyd]

He was just going to be, you know, one of the, you know, one of the poor schlumps that has to go out and do this horrible extermination job. Just, you know, one of four of us. We would have found. He would have found his voice. I was really, really just writing a template for him. And then we were, of course, going to find. We'd find our voice there. As we began to work on it, I was waiting for him to come

[Adam Carolla]

back to New York, man. Writing an actual line for him.

[Dan Aykroyd]

Yeah, yeah. He was supposed to come back that next week, but I have. Yeah, that's, you know, that's the Fentanyl. Today is what's destroying so many people and nobody cares. The people who ship it up here, they don't care. But he had a. It was a cocaine heroin mix. Speedball, they call it. And that because he'd been drinking and he was smoking and his respiratory was weakened a little bit. And, you know, the woman who injected him did not mean to kill him any more than I did. I mean, we don't, you know, it was not a. You know, not something she wanted to happen. It's just a tragedy and a result of drugs of that order being the currency of the day, which they were back then. Powders and pills were strong, you know, Mandrax and Quaaludes and.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, people didn't even really think cocaine was bad for you back then. They'd break it out at every party. It was sort of a.

[Dan Aykroyd]

Today still.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, I guess today still.

[Dan Aykroyd]

It's big today still. But a lot of heart attacks and stuff in hospital rooms from that today.

[Adam Carolla]

You know, I have a Ghostbusters question.

[Dan Aykroyd]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, you're so uniquely qualified to answer this. Because now, Dawson, you gotta find the bar. Kay's song. So. So Reitman, he directed Ghostbusters?

[Dan Aykroyd]

He did, and helped write it and produced it. Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

I worked on a project with Reitman and Jimmy Kimmel for a while, and I found Reitman to be tough.

[Dan Aykroyd]

Oh, one of the toughest old time

[Adam Carolla]

movie mogul, like, pretty much got in your face, sort of told you. You know, he would tell me and Jimmy, you know, go change this in the script and go change that and then meet me up at my house in Santa Barbara and we'll go over and we'd come back and he'd go, did you change this and change that? And we'd go, well, we'd worked a little bit. And he'd go, why you fucking wasting my time? Jesus Christ, what are we doing here? I mean, he would literally start yelling at us in his.

[Dan Aykroyd]

Well, he was paying for your service. He was. He was sponsoring your vision. And we didn't take offense to it,

[Adam Carolla]

but I realized this guy's tough.

[Dan Aykroyd]

Well, he was, you know, and I hope he's resting in a realm that we can reach him soon. He was. He was, you know, he was exacting and meticulous and no one could feel an audience better in terms of cutting a movie or putting a movie together. No one could feel an audience. Comedy nerves. Better than Ivan. No, no, he was classic, old school, Louis B. Mayer, you know, type executive and mogul. Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

So the question that I was gonna. That you're uniquely qualified to answer, which is, I know Huey Lewis well. And I know there was the whole lawsuit with Ray Parker Jr. And then I Want a New Drug. And I guess they went to Huey first, first song. And he didn't provide it. So Ray Parker did one. And then there was a lawsuit. Cause Ray Parker's Ghostbusters sounded something like I want a new Drug.

[Dan Aykroyd]

It did. Yeah. There's certain. Let's see figures in there we would say that were exactly like. Want a new drug. And they settled.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. Now my feeling is my sweet Lord and he's so fine don't sound the same to me. That was another famous.

[Dan Aykroyd]

Well, those. There was a similarity there.

[Adam Carolla]

You think so?

[Dan Aykroyd]

I believe so. And there was a settlement and Huey Lewis was basically paid. As if he would have had a sample in there.

[Adam Carolla]

I think now you gotta find. Sorry. The Ray Taker Jr. Yeah.

[Dan Aykroyd]

It doesn't take away from the Ghostbusters hit.

[Adam Carolla]

No, it was a huge hit.

[Dan Aykroyd]

And Ray is so talented. He's one of the best guitarists I've ever heard in my life.

[Adam Carolla]

Ray Parker.

[Dan Aykroyd]

Yeah, Ray Parker.

[Adam Carolla]

But I think long before this, the Bar Kays had a song that sounded more like Ghostbusters and I Want a New Drug. Have you ever heard that?

[Dan Aykroyd]

No. What song is that?

[Adam Carolla]

Well, we'll listen to Ghostbusters first. Do you know the Bar Kay's hit?

[Dan Aykroyd]

I don't know a Bar Kay's song that sounded like this.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, like I said, something strange in your neighborhood.

[Dan Aykroyd]

Who you gonna call? Ghostbusters.

[Adam Carolla]

Okay, now let's listen to the Barking Hay's song.

[Dan Aykroyd]

Oh, Soul Finger. Soul Finger, Yeah. Well, the voices in the back of the chorus certainly are similar. Yeah, you could say that.

[Adam Carolla]

I think they do a Soul Finger like a Ghost Busters.

[Dan Aykroyd]

That's right. I think definitely inspiration there. I don't know about the. The guitar track. Maybe it's that, you know, it's Ghostbusters slowed down a bit or something. But. Oh, definitely the inspiration of the chorus and. And them shouting like that, you know Ghostbusters. Yeah. I could see where he would have drawn inspiration there. Sure.

[Adam Carolla]

So I was always like, sorry, Huey, but. But the bar case of a song called Soulfinger that predates I Want a new drug by 15 years.

[Dan Aykroyd]

And that to me sounds like closer to Huey's song. Didn't have the chorus in it. Yeah, it did. Huey song, Wanna do Drug. I don't think it did.

[Adam Carolla]

I don't think it did either. I don't know if you know it,

[Dan Aykroyd]

but it definitely had that Same rhythmic guitar pattern that we had in Ghostbusters. Yeah, yeah, I'm still going. Barquette's certainly on the chorus.

[Adam Carolla]

I probably could have used the money more than Huey.

[Dan Aykroyd]

Indeed. See here you get into the similarity.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. I think the big problem is, is they went to Huey first. If they went to the barques first, then maybe the barques would have. Would have a case.

[Dan Aykroyd]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

But it's haunted me for many a year and I'm glad you're here to.

[Dan Aykroyd]

Well, it was such a giant hit and it's such a great song that, you know, I. My view is, however it came together and Huey did get compensated, although the barques didn't. And you're, you know, you would have them sort of overrode any concerns and just went on to be something that is instantly associated with. With a good time.

[Adam Carolla]

How's Bill Murray? I don't know if you know him well.

[Dan Aykroyd]

The Murricane.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, the Murricane. I find him so interesting.

[Dan Aykroyd]

You and 6.8 other billion people on this planet.

[Adam Carolla]

Yes. But is there something we don't know about him?

[Dan Aykroyd]

He deserves your interest and your. Your sense of him being an enigma and sense of him, you know, being unpredictable, your, you know, your. Any kind of opaque view. You have him of him, it's all justified. He, you know, whether, you know, however you view him, he is, you know, he's all of everything. He's all of those things. He's like Sai Baba. He's all of that. And that is that.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, well, I.

[Dan Aykroyd]

He's a. He's a. He's a demigod, I believe. I think he's demi divine, honestly.

[Adam Carolla]

Really?

[Dan Aykroyd]

Yes. And I get to hang with him from time to time. But as I say, just whatever your perceptions are of Billy, you know, whether good or bad or beautiful or alarming in your interactions with him or perceptions of him, public Persona and work, the way you've enjoyed his work over the years, it's all genuine and, you know, he's. He's a giant talent and really fun to be with because it's. It's a murricane. It's, you know, a whirlwind. And he would give you the. Not only the shirt, but the skin off your back. The skin off his back. He would give you the skin off his back.

[Adam Carolla]

So early days of snl, did you guys feel like it was almost week to week? Nothing had been established. Now they're on year 40 or something. But I mean, at the beginning they're at 50. 50. Yeah. Right.

[Dan Aykroyd]

Next year, 2025.

[Adam Carolla]

Crazy.

[Dan Aykroyd]

Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

the beginning, you didn't have that feeling of security, did you?

[Dan Aykroyd]

No, indeed not. I didn't know whether it would last past the first three shows. But wisely, Lauren said, no, I'm not going to do one pilot or two or three. I need seven. I need seven. So by him holding to get seven by then, once that seventh show happened, then, you know, it was realized that it was. It was going to work. But up until then, none of us knew. And Lauren I don't think even knew because you don't know. In that, in that business, he was, you could say he was pretty sure of himself and his ability to pull it off. And, you know, so he asked for seven and got that and that kind of, you know, set it up. If there'd been only one show or two, I don't know. No, no.

[Adam Carolla]

What would have happened when you left? Was it just because you want to broaden your horizons? You want to do features and that sort of stuff?

[Dan Aykroyd]

No, purely Blues Brothers. We had to finish the movie. That was, that was the sole reason we left is because we had. We had a lovely time in Chicago that summer. And then come fall, we're still shooting and there's work to be done in the stages out on Universal and we just couldn't do both. And so it was time to. It was time to leave. But that's. That is the sole reason not really to do movies or to get into that business. It wasn't why, you know, we left other than specifically to finish that one movie and then see where things went from there. But our sole focus was just getting that done and out. So we couldn't do. Couldn't do both.

[Adam Carolla]

And you guys then toured after that?

[Dan Aykroyd]

We did. We toured by car and by one of Elvis's planes, an old Convair 880 that he had.

[Adam Carolla]

Really?

[Dan Aykroyd]

Yeah, we toured.

[Adam Carolla]

What was the interior of that plane like?

[Dan Aykroyd]

It was, you know, a lot of burgundy. Nevada. Nevada. Yeah, Casino, you know, Casino, Nevada. Look, you know, I think it had been refitted since he used it, so we had a wonderful 20 city tour with the band and we filled 10,000 seat houses and got to sing and play the music live. And. Yeah, it was.

[Adam Carolla]

And the album was. I don't know if it was number one, but it was definitely a hit.

[Dan Aykroyd]

Well, the first album, Briefcase Full of Blues, was a number one album. It sold over four and a half million copies back then. You know, Rihanna would be happy with those numbers today, or maybe not, but close to it you know, those were, you know, impressive numbers back then and even today. Because the album was good, because the record was good. The songs were good. The band was great. People understood that. You know, John and I were front men for this great band. Made in America was the tour record. And there's some great songs on there too.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, you know, I had that album. Now Dawson's gotta find something. I should have told him before.

[Dan Aykroyd]

Well, Going Back to Miami is one of the greatest cuts I think we ever did. That features the horns beautifully.

[Adam Carolla]

I'll tell you one that features the horns beautifully. She caught the Katy.

[Dan Aykroyd]

Yeah. Taj Mahal soon. Yeah. Taj Mahal's tune.

[Adam Carolla]

Sure. I love that song. I love your version of that song. This is some horn work here.

[Dan Aykroyd]

Oh, yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

No.

[Dan Aykroyd]

Yeah. Well, that's Tom Malone's arrangement. And Al Rubin, Lou Marini and. And Tom, trombone, trumpet, Saxon. And John's vocals. He could sing. He could.

[Adam Carolla]

Sounded great in this song.

[Dan Aykroyd]

Yeah. Katie left me a mule to ride thank you. Yeah. Played all the harp on everything. Some better than others. That's a good cut,

[Commercial Announcer]

Man.

[Dan Aykroyd]

My baby long.

[Commercial Announcer]

Great.

[Adam Carolla]

The horns.

[Dan Aykroyd]

And proper

[Adam Carolla]

donald duck. I mean, steve. Sorry.

[Dan Aykroyd]

Yeah,

[Commercial Announcer]

My baby.

[Adam Carolla]

I love the N horns because they do a staccato hit thing. We're gonna listen to the whole song. Yeah, he's got a little Crocker there.

[Dan Aykroyd]

Joe Cocker flavor.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, now it's your time, Dan.

[Dan Aykroyd]

Good tone.

[Commercial Announcer]

Good tone.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. This is a deeper cut, but that's why I like it. Here comes. The horns are coming again. Good keyboards, too.

[Dan Aykroyd]

Schaefer.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, that's Schaefer.

[Dawson]

Oh, yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Did he tour with you guys?

[Dan Aykroyd]

Yes, he did.

[Adam Carolla]

God, he's great.

[Dan Aykroyd]

But he didn't do the movie.

[Adam Carolla]

I know.

[Dan Aykroyd]

Yeah. Because he was working with Field on Broadway and he wouldn't leave.

[Adam Carolla]

All right, big ending. There's the horns,

[Dan Aykroyd]

Arrangement by Tom Malone.

[Adam Carolla]

Great arrangement.

[Commercial Announcer]

Yeah.

[Dan Aykroyd]

It opens the movie Joliet Prism.

[Dawson]

Yeah.

[Dan Aykroyd]

And last September before last, Jimmy John's brother, Brother Z, his long lost Albanian brother that I found and now play with.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, Jim Belush.

[Dan Aykroyd]

Yeah, Jim.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. Great guy.

[Dan Aykroyd]

So it's the legacy Elwood and the blood brother Z, brother Zuroshaida. And we played in the prison yard at Joliet prison for about 8 to 10,000 people that were spilled out of the parking lot. And a beautiful concert at night right there in the prison yard where we shot the movie.

[Adam Carolla]

In the prison.

[Dan Aykroyd]

In the prison yard when we shot the movie. Now it's abandoned. It's now tourists. It's, like, under construction for tourists. Yeah, but wow. Wow, what a night. That was just beautiful. Kind of bring it all full circle there. We have quite an extensive tour schedule coming up. We'll be playing in Oklahoma in July, in Atlanta in January, in Delaware in June, and things we. We just did at this gig in Nebraska at the Performing Arts center there. And it's great to be able to still, you know, play and. And act as cultural preservationists, which is what we are.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, you certainly brought the blues to a young white guy from North Hollywood, for sure, because there was no blues culture in North Hollywood, California, where I grew up and just hadn't heard of any of it. So, you know, in a way, that's. It's an accomplishment, but it's also a service. You know what I mean? I wouldn't know. Chief caught the Katie. I just wouldn't go that deep.

[Dan Aykroyd]

I. I'm happy to say that I have people coming up to me all the time saying that, you know, that they picked up guitar or drums or harmonica, that they got into blues and they play in a blues band or they wanted. Went on to a career in blues. Some of them quite well known. So, yeah, I guess we served it. We served in that way. And that's what we're here to do. We're here to serve mission from God, for sure. Still on it, because there are no blues stations other than Sirius XM Radio. There are no blues shows anymore. I had almost 25 years of the House of Blues Radio Hour and Elwood Blues Bluesmobile Hour, and I was able to sell tickets and records and talk the careers up of all these wonderful new artists coming up. I couldn't tell you now who's in their mid-20s and touring and playing because I lost my radio show. They turned it into country talk or something.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. I remember when you picked up John from the prison and he was pissed off that you'd traded in the Bluesmobile for a microphone. Well, once he heard it was a microphone, he was okay with it.

[Dan Aykroyd]

Yeah, yeah. The Cadillac. Trade the Cadillac for a microphone. That's right. Yeah. And he didn't like the lighter. Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

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[Dan Aykroyd]

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[Dawson]

Dawson Stop by O'Reilly Auto Parts today or visit us@O'ReillyAuto.com Adam that's O'ReillyAuto.com Adam the Adam Carolla show presents Dan Aykroyd's birthday cocktail party for July 1st. Let's see who's invited. Let's welcome the American entrepreneur who founded Estee Lauder Cosmetics. Estee Lauder, hey, the guy who sang Rock and Robin is here. Bobby Day. Actor and award winning director Sydney Pollock is here. Blues vocalist and harp player James Cotton just joined the party. From Blondie, Debbie Harry is here. From the B52s, let's welcome Fred Schneider. Country singer Keith Whitley is here. Sprinter and Olympic gold medalist Carl Lewis just ran in. Pamela Anderson is here. Missy Elliot just showed up. Steven Tyler's daughter from the Lord of the Rings, Liv Tyler. And let's Please welcome Princess Diana. Dan Aykroyd is on the Adam Carolla Show.

[Adam Carolla]

Dan's got Crystal Head Vodka. It is pure, it is wonderful. And I consume my fair share on a Monday night. Crystalheadvodka.com is where you go. I like that song Rockin Robin.

[Dan Aykroyd]

Oh, yeah, that's a great 50s song for sure.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, yeah, it is.

[Dan Aykroyd]

I don't think I'm the most famous on there.

[Adam Carolla]

What's that?

[Dan Aykroyd]

I don't think I'm the most famous on there. I think you are Pamela Anderson and Sidney Pollock.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, Pam Anderson is recognized from a name standpoint, but not so much from an accomplishment standpoint.

[Dan Aykroyd]

Well, you know, she's done a lot with, you know, with what she was, how God equipped her. And she's a mom. And she's a mom.

[Adam Carolla]

My mom was a mom. Who cares?

[Dan Aykroyd]

She's a mom. And, you know, she looked, she looked good. And whenever she, you know, whatever she did and you know, big hit TV

[Adam Carolla]

series, you're not helping her book. You're not helping her. You're more famous, you're more respected.

[Dan Aykroyd]

Well, I don't know. I think she probably has more followers on Internet wise. That's fame today.

[Adam Carolla]

Oh, so are the Kardashians.

[Dan Aykroyd]

Well, that's fame. That's real fame today.

[Adam Carolla]

It is, but it's.

[Dan Aykroyd]

We don't want fame. We want to do what we want for a living.

[Adam Carolla]

It's Hallow fame.

[Commercial Announcer]

Yes.

[Dan Aykroyd]

Yeah. We just want to do what we like for a living.

[Adam Carolla]

That's the blessing.

[Dan Aykroyd]

I don't care about.

[Adam Carolla]

That's the blessing.

[Dan Aykroyd]

It is. And you're doing it.

[Adam Carolla]

I'm talking to you. You know, I was in 14, sitting in North Hollywood watching Saturday Night Live, going, man, that guy. I recognize your talent as a young person. I was just like, he's a little sharper. Other people are. They're talented and they're doing these big broad characters. But your stuff was concise as we started our conversation. And I just remember thinking, this guy's different.

[Dan Aykroyd]

Well, I thank you. That's great. I kind of. I had a positive impact and maybe influenced you to do what you're doing today.

[Adam Carolla]

No, not at all. That was Kimmel. But, you know, Rockin Robin is one of the only rock songs with a piccolo solo.

[Dan Aykroyd]

Really?

[Adam Carolla]

I think it's a piccolo. I think there's a piccolo solo in this song.

[Dan Aykroyd]

Yeah, yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

And you tell me because, you know, the, you know, the instruments shares a birthday with this dude. I think Pam Anderson knows that.

[Dan Aykroyd]

Well, she's a fellow Canadian I gotta.

[Adam Carolla]

You gotta stand up. Yeah. If you Skip ahead like, 45 seconds, you'll hear a piccolo. A rockin. Piccolo solo. Rc Whistling.

[Dan Aykroyd]

No, that's. That's.

[Adam Carolla]

I think that's a flute, not a piccolo.

[Dan Aykroyd]

No, but, you know. All right, Dawson, you know Meredith Wilson, the great composer of Music Man. It took him seven years to write that amazing, wonderful musical. Music Man. Right. Meredith Wilson. And there was an old fable that he used to tell people, and that was, the king was so pleased with the music of his horn and coronet players, he said, bring me your horns and your instruments, your brass instruments, and I will fill them with gold. And Meredith Wilson said, the. The musician in the story turned and looked away and said, and there I stood with my piccolo. You can't put.

[Adam Carolla]

You might be able to roll up a dollar and stuff it like you're a hooker's cheese string or something. Yeah, but. Yeah, there's no room for change in a piccolo. No.

[Dan Aykroyd]

No.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, I don't know if you can look it up, Dawson. Maybe we can figure out.

[Dawson]

What I'm finding here is that the first search says piccolo in quotes, which prompted me to say. Why is that in quotes? It is looking like it is. A flute solo performed by famous saxophone player Plaz Johnson.

[Dan Aykroyd]

Oh, wow. Okay.

[Adam Carolla]

Plaz Johnson. That is a saxophonist name right there. So for you, maybe we're kindred spirits in this sense that I just want to do what I want to do, people. There's more money to be made doing one thing and kind of being known for that one thing. And, you know, but. But the blessing for what the business we're in is you get to write a book, you get to go on tour, you get to do a podcast. You know, you just get to do what you want to do. Is that how you feel?

[Dan Aykroyd]

I don't want to really know what I'm doing any given Monday morning. Generally, I like to wake up with the week ahead of me and know that I don't have some kind of a set schedule other than when I'm working on certain projects. So, no, I like the mystery of the way life unfolds, you know, and.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah.

[Dan Aykroyd]

And what it holds. And right now, I just want to play with Jimmy and do the concerts for as long as I'm mobile and I got 80% of the moves left and work on the product that I'm proud of that I originated with my three partners and have fun. At this age and this time in life and where the rest of the world is, you gotta have fun at what you're doing.

[Adam Carolla]

Any plans for any big features in the future, stuff you've been doodling on?

[Dan Aykroyd]

Not. Not really. Not really, no. No, no. You know, I'm always writing something and. And my youngest daughter Stelli and I are working on a few concepts for television and. But no, Stella's funny. Oh, yeah, She's. Yeah. I'll have to send you dog manner. Yeah. Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, I was totally unsolicited, but I was driving to your event at the Magic Castle with someone who said, you know, I took an improv class with Dan's daughter. And I said, yeah, how was she? Because I'm always prepared for the, you know, the apple to fall a little bit further from the tree than. And she said, oh, she was the best in the class.

[Dan Aykroyd]

No, she's funny. We have a.

[Adam Carolla]

And then we talked to her at the event for quite some time.

[Dan Aykroyd]

Yeah, she's neat. I'll send you Dog Manor to look at where she does this English dog lady. And we're working on a concept for. For a show, and she did a little demonstrator video. I'll have. I'll have my secretary send it so just you can see it, please.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah, and she loves horses. Get a mini donkey or something.

[Dan Aykroyd]

She's got a tiger, a couple of. Couple of donkeys. Yeah, and two dogs. And, you know, she's just a great person and my writing partner. And then my eldest records under the name Vera Sola. V E R A S O L A Vera Sola. And she's kind of a folk noir singer, guitarist, composer, songwriter, and she's got a new single out now called Desire Path. And apparently part of it's about me. And I don't know, I'm still trying to decipher what part of it's about me, but she has a great new video out. She's such a crunchy guitar player and vocalist. I'm very proud of her. Yeah. And then the middle one is an Irish rep, Off Broadway alumnus. She did Eugene o' Neill play there after ACT studies in San Francisco and Reed College. And so I'm very proud of the girls. Yeah, they're great.

[Adam Carolla]

Great. And so for you, spirituality, UFOs, the great. Beyond that whole world, people talk about it. I'm not really in any lane. I don't have strong thoughts one way or the other about it, but I think you do.

[Dan Aykroyd]

Well, spirituality and UFOs, I don't know whether they're linked, other than perhaps that we're all God's creatures, even these beings that have these hyper advanced crafts. They seem to be organic and humanoid and intelligent. I guess there's a link there that maybe if they're beings, they have spirit. As far as spirituality, I am a spiritualist. You know, like just people could say, oh, I'm a Catholic, a Protestant, a Scientologist, I'm Jewish, I'm Muslim, I say I'm a spiritualist. And it comes from my family's longtime interest in the belief that not only does the soul survive in energy after death, but the consciousness can also survive. And so that brings us to the concept of mediums and mediumship and channeling and seances. And there's a community in upstate New York called Lilydale near Chautauqua. And they're registered, licensed mediums there that you can go to in the summer and go to their houses and, and get readings and try to contact those who've gone beyond. And the results are quite stunning and quite credible.

[Adam Carolla]

Have you been able to contact anyone who's passed?

[Dan Aykroyd]

I have not had myself any vivid experiences in seances, but I've heard some just great, great stories, you know, about how the medium can know nothing about, knows nothing about the person. Doesn't know the name of, you know, like, you know, the name of a pet, the name of someone who's gone before an address. They pick out things that only the deceased person would know in Newman. Multiple multiplicity of these events and seances. So enough of that anecdotal evidence piles up and you gotta go, yeah, there's something there. Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

So what's your overall view of like we're talking about John Candy, we're talking about John Belushi. Such amazing spirits, such crazy energy while on this planet. Been gone for a long time.

[Dan Aykroyd]

I have.

[Adam Carolla]

What is your sort of general take on where that energy went?

[Dan Aykroyd]

I believe that both of those guys were immediately assigned to other entities, other to the unborn.

[Adam Carolla]

Reincarnation.

[Dan Aykroyd]

They went off. They went off. They were too vivid and they were too contributive and too positive and too giving and too talented. That energy there not to survive in its own way. So I think they went on to other assignments. I like to believe that.

[Adam Carolla]

I'd love to believe it too, but I always think about this stuff and I think this way about religion sometimes too, which is how much of it do we think is factual is not the right word, but how much of it is our yearning for this, you know what I mean? And this concept of leaving and sort of nothingness and loved ones and friends and us not really being Able to connect or cope with that.

[Dan Aykroyd]

I would approach it from, you know, we're not so much, you know, not that it comes out of yearning, but that when good evidence is presented, it is comforting to us. It's comforting that there might be something that goes on beyond. I got a great story, you know, about mediumship. John Edwards is a psychic. He was on CBS for many years. He's a very talented medium. So Franny Drescher and Donna go to John Edwards show in New York. I think it was Donna Dixon. Yes.

[Adam Carolla]

Her wife.

[Dan Aykroyd]

Yes. And we are wife and husband no longer cohabitating. She doesn't have to put up with the hysterics anymore, but she's great. And she goes. She goes with Franny to.

[Adam Carolla]

She's a beautiful actress who was in

[Dan Aykroyd]

Bosom Buddies and Spies Like Us. And I have three daughters and TV shows. So she and Franny go to John Edwards show because Franny wants to reach her grandmother.

[Adam Carolla]

You see, Fran Drescher.

[Dan Aykroyd]

Yes. So they go to the show, and Franny's in the audience with John Edwards, and Donna's in the green room watching on television. Well, John Edwards is kind of searching, you know, for references. Franny, you know, he says, I'm getting a uniform. No, no. I'm getting stripes on a sleeve. No, no, no, no. That's not my grandmother. No. I'm getting a pair of wire eyeglasses. No, no. You know, Franny's getting frustrated. I'm getting the name. This is John Edwards. Now I'm getting. Talking to Franny and feeling something. I'm getting the name Morris. And Morris wants to get a message to Steve. And Donna's in the room going, holy Morris. That's Dan's Uncle Morris, who was in the Navy, and his son is Steve. And Morris passed. And so what happened there, Adam was. My uncle elbowed his way through, into. Into. Into Franny's trance channeling, you know, session with John Edwards. And he.

[Adam Carolla]

To get through.

[Dan Aykroyd]

And this is what happens commonly in seances. You'll be going looking for one entity come to come through. Another one will say, I want that channel move out of the way. And that's what my. That's what my uncle did to say he wanted to get a message to Steve that everything was all right. Franny was upset that his grandmother wasn't reached. But Donna came back to me and said, we gotta tell Steve that his dad's okay.

[Adam Carolla]

Wow.

[Dan Aykroyd]

So things like that. Yeah, they elbow their way through.

[Adam Carolla]

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[Dawson]

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[Adam Carolla]

And UFOs been a lot of stuff out lately. I mean, we've been arguing about this since the 60s and the 70s or even before. But now, for the first time, it seems like there's some concrete evidence.

[Dan Aykroyd]

Well, there's an office in New York now. It's called the New York Washington, D.C. i'm sorry. It's called the All Domain Anomalous Resolution Office. This is the new formal Pentagon investigative branch or office or bureau for UFO reports. So All Domain, that means water, Sea, they go.

[Adam Carolla]

In.

[Dan Aykroyd]

Sea, they go. They're going to the sea at a thousand miles an hour with the medium meaning nothing to them, right? So all Domains, sea, sky, air, whatever.

[Adam Carolla]

Earth.

[Dan Aykroyd]

And then Anomalous. You can't explain it. It's an anomaly. Then Resolution. We have to explain it. We can't have machines like this flying around with our Air Force and our Navy. So we have to resolve it and the office that does it. So civilian reports are going to be accepted Military reports are going to be there. Whether you believe or not that these hyper advanced craft exist with intelligent operators. You may believe it or not, it is a reality.

[Adam Carolla]

Have you had any encounters yourself?

[Dan Aykroyd]

I have seen four of them.

[Adam Carolla]

Four?

[Dan Aykroyd]

Yep.

[Adam Carolla]

In Canada, United States, Martha's Vineyard.

[Dan Aykroyd]

Two in Canada. Well, I would say four. Well, four because two were at one sighting. So three events. Martha's Vineyard in Montreal, Canada, in downtown Montreal, Right there.

[Adam Carolla]

How'd you know what it was?

[Dan Aykroyd]

Well, this thing in Montreal. I was with a friend and we were sitting there on the 23rd floor of the Queen Elizabeth Hotel doing some promotion for patron tequila at the time that I had in Canada. And we were there in Montreal in the Queen Elizabeth Hotel. 23rd Floor, Gray February day. We were sitting watching the spiders on the 23rd floor in the window. They were going up and down like yo yos, you know, oh geez, that's an interesting phenomenon. We're sitting there and then my friend goes, what's that? What's that? I said, what, what? And I look out and coming down St. Catherine street is what I can only say hit my mind first as a Macy's Day paloon. It was a Thanksgiving balloon. I'm thinking, oh, they've got some kind of a parade coming. But I'm thinking it's February, there's no parade, it's winter, it's gray, there's nobody out on the streets watching a parade. And I watch this thing come closer. It's about 50ft wide, it's 150ft long, it's maybe 20ft high. And underneath looked like a bunch of grapes, like round bulbous growths underneath or mechanism. And it came, it parked 50ft off the window. We were able to look at it for a full minute and it just sat there silently. Big gray object, really, you know, no lights on it and everything. And then it turned and then we ran out in the hall and we watched it just drift out over the St. Lawrence river, just slow, slow.

[Adam Carolla]

And there must have been others that saw this.

[Dan Aykroyd]

I don't know, I never reported it, but we were. You know, when you see something you know is not a helicopter, a meteoric bolide, a jet, a plane, a balloon, we know this was a craft machined and controlled by, I don't know, robot AI what? But it just sat there silently. And I have a book, a couple of books on UFOs and I looked up and I saw one that kind of looked like it with a bunch of grapes thing underneath that had been reported in other sightings just to have another person there and you know her reaction.

[Commercial Announcer]

What's that?

[Dan Aykroyd]

I'll never forget. What's that?

[Adam Carolla]

So what's your head on it? Is it that they're coming here to observe or they don't know who we are and they've sort of lost their way?

[Dan Aykroyd]

No, they know many, many different. I would say as Lord Hill Norton there, the aerospace attache from the British government there, or he was, I think a minister, deputy minister in the British government. He said there are 23 different species visiting that he counted. They're here for many reasons. They know who we are for sure. Many of them do. Many of them know who we are. Many of them care who we are. Many of them are benevolent. Many don't care who we are, Couldn't care less. And you're just tripping through. Many are tourists. Like if you look the Stingray ufo, you look up that Stingray ufo, you're going to see a picture of a craft that looks like a Corvette with no wheels, but with a stinger out the back that is commonly seen. Then you have the Mexican humanoid UFOs where you have guys that look like they're in a rocket pack, but they're up there at airline height. And you know, rocket pack don't go above 150, 200ft.

[Adam Carolla]

Right.

[Dan Aykroyd]

And so you just, if you look on the website, just those two alone, Mexican humanoid, flying humanoids, Mexican City, Mexico City. And you look at the other events that you see all around the Stingray, there's a guy here taking pictures of them. In Marina Del Rey. The helicopters are. Police, sheriff and fire are all complaining sometimes about how they buzz the helicopters out here at Marina Del Rey. So many different types, excuse me, Many different types, many different species, many different interests in humankind from ranging from tourism to straight up abduction and medical extraction of fluids. Like that happened to Barney and Betty Hill. You know that story?

[Adam Carolla]

I've heard that story.

[Dan Aykroyd]

That's a great one. That's pretty vivid.

[Adam Carolla]

I was kind of dubious, you know, all throughout my life because all I had was Leonard Nimoy telling me about it and super grainy pictures and a lot of stuff. Now we have radar, but now it's documented.

[Dan Aykroyd]

Yeah, we have radar, but here's all kinds of other stuff that's going to come out. The Aero office that I just mentioned is going to start releasing other stuff too.

[Adam Carolla]

But here's an interesting. On a psychological note, and I've been saying, so if you're of a certain age, you realize we've been discussing this my entire life and debating it and arguing over it. And many a TV show and a movie and so. And so has been dedicated to this subject. And now it seems as if we finally have some definitive information. It's coming from the government, it's coming from Navy pilots and cameras inside their cockpits and things like that. And nobody seems to care, which is very interesting. And I think it's because we've become in such crazed narcissists and we're all staring down at our phones that we don't look up into the heavens anymore.

[Dan Aykroyd]

Well, that's a lot. That's a lot to do with it. But I think it's more that we have really vivid concerns on this planet, other than who's visiting and who cares about us or not, that have these craft. We have, you know, worldwide famine. We have wars, we have, you know, we have violence, we have gun crimes. We have so much in the, in the world.

[Adam Carolla]

But that existed in the 70s, not,

[Dan Aykroyd]

not in the extreme that we have today. I don't.

[Adam Carolla]

Well, I mean, we talked about it in different terms. We talked about ecology and the ice age. Now we're talking about global warming. Yeah, but I mean, what I'm saying is we always had problems. We always had the inner city and we always had skirmishes. And as I always comically say, I said when I would watch SNL in the 70s and they started with the news segment, they'd start oftentimes with Trouble in the Middle East. And I said the. But that's 50 years ago and it's a comedy show. And they started with Trouble in the Middle East. So, I mean, we've always had this. But we carved out room to obsess over UFOs. Even amongst the strife we have on planet Earth, we just don't seem as interested anymore. I think it's a psychological thing.

[Dan Aykroyd]

Well, I think that exposure in the news media will. We'll take care of that. Once they start distributing some of the footage that they have, more people would get interested. But again, they're not going to come down and solve these problems. They should. They shouldn't be holding back. In fact, you have UFOs say you have an intelligent being that has one of these craft that can do what they report. They should be hovering above countries in Africa, purifying their water, providing basic materials for shelter. They should be. If they're here visiting us, they should help mankind. They're not going to do. They should take a magnet and get all of the guns in the world and just suck them up into one of the vessels. They're not going to do that. So we have to we humans after down here trying to solve those problems. But if I could directly address them, I'd say get the magnet, get the water purifier. You know, you got the technology. Don't be so selfish. You've been coming to this planet as tourists and enjoying sights. Now help us out.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. Alien privilege, I think they call it.

[Dan Aykroyd]

That's right. That's right.

[Adam Carolla]

All right, well, let's end on a funny note. Crystalhead Vodka is the name of the product. It is pure. It is delicious. It's a conversation piece.

[Dan Aykroyd]

Thank you.

[Adam Carolla]

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[Dan Aykroyd]

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[Adam Carolla]

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[Commercial Announcer]

That's it.

[Adam Carolla]

That's it. Dan, this has been a treat for me.

[Dan Aykroyd]

Oh, thank you, Adam. Thank you. Say hello to Jimmy.

[Adam Carolla]

I shall. And let's do it again whenever you're around.

[Commercial Announcer]

For sure.

[Dan Aykroyd]

For sure. Absolutely. This was fun. And you like cars, too. That's another thing you like is cars.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. I want to check out your Pierce Arrow.

[Dan Aykroyd]

Did you say Pierce Arrow? Yeah.

[Commercial Announcer]

What year?

[Dan Aykroyd]

32, 1604. Limousine. J. Edgar Hoover had an identical car.

[Adam Carolla]

Wow.

[Dan Aykroyd]

Instead of one. I have. Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

God, people don't realize how many American car companies there were in the country. Duesenberg.

[Dan Aykroyd]

Duesenberg.

[Adam Carolla]

Yeah. Lots of American. Auburn Chord was the first front wheel drive car. One of the first, as I recall.

[Dan Aykroyd]

Of course. Studebaker. Hupmobile. Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

They just kept towing and going.

[Dawson]

Yeah.

[Dan Aykroyd]

Hudson.

[Adam Carolla]

All right, well, we'll talk cars next time you hear this. I got all Paul Newman's race cars.

[Dan Aykroyd]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Adam Carolla]

Right. So we can. Wow. Great.

[Dan Aykroyd]

Wow.

[Adam Carolla]

We can delve into that. Go to AdamKroll.com I got shows all over the country. Go check out crystalheadvotka.com until next time. This is Adam Krola for Dan Aykroyd saying, Mahala,

[Dawson]

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