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wow guys today is a big one this is uh ah God Dana and I were really uh pumped about Danny akrite he's one of the biggies that we just have talked about since the beginning and even
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before I ever wanted to be on SNL which was I didn't really want to be on SNL almost until I got on SNL because I
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didn't think it was even a possibility I dream low my mom always told me dream within
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reason dream about getting a new spare tire for your Volvo so I was never thinking I was like a character guy for SNL and the king of the character guys is Acro I mean Phil Hartman is up there
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but I have to say it's very hard to compete with that first crew um Hall of Fame crew of SNL guys and akir Roid loved and with Belushi and there was too many things to
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go with them from The Blues Brothers to Cone Heads we talked about all that stuff of course we didn't even get to Julia Child bassomatic and Heather's favorite Jane
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you ignorant [ __ ] uh I wanted him to say that on my phone machine who has a phone
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machine anyway that's not the point point is he he was lovely he came into my pad I showed him Farley's jacket from Tommy Boy that is on the wall uh we did
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Tommy Boy together um we did con heads together he was a stud I interviewed him once for Spin Magazine when I was on SNL he was very generous and let me do that
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and he is a character and he was doing some Impressions and goofing around and there isn't enough time to talk to tanak
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right there's just too much and what a stud and he's got his vodka uh and we talked about that and it's all and we had a few knocks I did definitely with him put a d Coke in it to ruin it and uh
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and it was just a blast so uh without further Ado let's get here's Danny akroy and we had such a fun time with this [Music]
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dude I saw Chris two days ago and he said St The Chateau love Chris he must love you he came over and gave me a hug and I said I said I was seeing you guys and he was
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yeah uh he should have been more excited about you seeing us but that's okay it's great when you meet someone who uh
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hasn't become a superstar yet Chris yeah and if you treat them normal they never
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forget it if you're just reasonably respectful he's pretty much of a superstar though oh yeah and just boy
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from what I can gather hasn't changed a bit this looks like a congressional inquiry answer some questions we're sitting on a table like I see from Oppenheimer the podcast is actually
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called the hot seat it's a surprise and you are we welcome Dan akroy to better Mo the hot seat Heather helping with
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that do you know how to do that I'll do side thing and uh will you bring a that Crystal head vodka is that the one do you have do you have plain you have do you have any do you have any fresh
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squeezed orange juice in the in the H in the house assume so do you know do you have
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any did you ever win an award any juice at all any cranberry or any you know what we might have is a it's not juice
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might have lemon uh seven up Selzer is that nothing you don't have juice like a hibiscus or
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cranbery or hibiscus yeah that's all right put put some ice in there yeah I will I'm just uh no no no no no don't worry about that no but it's just if you to sample it it
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it it pops it better if it's uh if it's uh cold oh if it's cold I'll put some ice in there put some ice in there I'll try I'm going have yeah or if you guys so and and please let me know uh so I
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don't let me know when we're rolling so that I'll do all the politically incorrect stuff now uh we're use it but
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we're roll but you always have editing capability yeah you can will send you the the conversation begins then okay
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okay well what you're doing there is you're you're pouring the uh the uh the mash okay go ahead let's start have you won awards for this vcast you want to start you do a for do you do a formal
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introduction or do we just no we do have Dan arroy who I start everyone as Joe Biden get your facts Jack that's it yeah
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and then there was the other president you did so well and so beautifully I didn't do it yeah you know that the way
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that eventually yeah came it was a slur you know it's a there a Washington not it became not going to do it became not g to do it and in Washington now there's a slur that is commonly used commonly
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for a word that that is that is frequently employed in the in the trade Cent sent sir it's Senator Senator
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becomes sir sir it's su su remember Su yeah Katan how genius was that guy Su you remember Su no chis Chris Katan he did
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he did Su because I'm talking now I'm gonna tell you you know Su the slur yeah the people
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SL all the time yeah well a little bit now I think he a little bit yeah can I do a six degrees of separate well I don't think that's the term I'm in college you're doing Jimmy Carter on
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Satur Night Live I'm recording it with a cassette and trying to steal you know playing to little teeny Club steal your Jimmy Carter and was in awe of it and
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then to use where what were you in clubs I was just trying to do what you guys did you guys were like to me like badass
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Rebel Pirates yeah I think of Bill Murray and you that's so accurate an analysis of us it uh it really is well I think well we were little look at us we're like little we're tiny people but
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you guys were kind of strapping all over six feet you would punch a guy or make him laugh yeah but um and so you do uh
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you you'd copy that Jimmy well Jimmy Carter you know he had that he had that the eye contact and a very soft way of
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approaching things and yeah he ended up being you know one of the great post presidents and uh really uh a giant
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figure you know what's interesting about him because I became fascinated by him because he's constantly referred to so I
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read this book about him could not understand the idea of deficit spending he was like I don't understand how we
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take in this much money yeah and we're going to give out that much money that makes no sense to me but uh my Jimmy
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Carter I do now I still do all the presiden is that he had a nervous breakdown put peanut butter on his head
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we wander around the White House sir are you okay you got peanut butter on your head no I don't I'm a peanut butter man
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I got peanut butter hair peanut butter soup peanut butter tie peanut butter shoes I'm a peanut butter peanut butter
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I'm doing you but here's the thing that got me crazy is when you you were visiting SNL and then you praised my
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georgeb senior impression so it was like 10 years later so that just no you know these things are Carter was unbelievable
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you know he he was a nuclear uh physicist and an engineer in the Navy and he helped set up Canada's reactor
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program there was a there was a he he troubleshooted uh went up to Ottawa my hometown there and troubleshooted a reactor problem they had at one point J in what year before
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President oh yeah no when he was you know some president let me take a look you know 60 I'll get back to the economy I'm going to do this reactive for the OT ones yeah but well the deficit been you
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know you know look we live in a country uh that is a Fiat a Fiat uh currency well Canada as well say you know fiat currency is
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all you do is you just print more money if you need it and so you know spending you got to spend the money people need
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it uh you got to spend it we're doing that and we're doing it yeah we've got a we've almost got a let sit on the Shelf
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don't it shouldn't a third world uh debt uh debt load right now right but because we can print more why not spread it
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around never anything mod monetary Theory now we're getting close to a trillion in interest on
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it's really B vodka a little bit of that for myself now you'll notice our not sweet thank
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you sweet vanilla dry and crisp um made in Canada no can I ask you a question about this because yeah we don't have to talk about the Vodka we can talk I want to talk we'll hop around this is going
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to integrate into you as a performer you were one of the first celebrities that that made a sweet first time he tast Dan's
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drinking his own vodka there's a there's a m constant in the back now David has this other vodka I won't mention the name sometimes I'm always looking for a vodka so Crystal head and I knew about
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this okay we have here David Spade is going to take a little sh am I smelling the notes first didn't you love
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Johnny so he's going to have last night he had two slippery monkeys at the hook and crook yeah what a great Carson you
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all oh I love Johnny ah yeah when he died when the joke would die that was the funniest the way his reactions were you know yeah the deconstruction of dry crisp off the Finish it's it's
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clean it's you'll the sweetness from our corn there yeah and I'm a vodka guy David most of the other vodka I don't name names but they put uh lemon
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sugar and they put uh Citrus oil they put glycol andar you don't need that no don't need that you know if you're a bartender you're making things where you add all kinds of additives in there St
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Germaine franka uh you know all kind of brette Bronco all that stuff Dictionary d are you you know so so you
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don't need if you're a bar Chef you don't need well I don't know the story how did this originate I'm sorry I just
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want to know how you I just wanted a cleaner vodka really and what year was this this has been around we've been in a decade and a half in this now there
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have been many vodka come and gone come and gone many come and gone all the celebrities are doing tequila now well
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many there you know what there's 200 sick celebrity Spirits Brands too many 200 C I didn't know there was 200 celebrities I got to get going on this and uh but weren't you an early
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adopter it seems like uh Sammy Hager did his tequila and then I just I just I just began to research vodka and saw that uh you know uh that they were
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uh kind of polluting it a bit and so Johnny Alexander and I came up with the idea for the skull remember him you know
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Johnny Johnny Alexander the artist yeah well the skull is revolutionary we met we met uh when he uh when his girlfriend uh or my girlfriend dumped me for him
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Rosie Schuster Rosie Schuster who developed churcha with me yeah wrote with her a spectacular human being yeah and uh and beautiful beautiful woman
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from from I didn't know she was Lauren's ex-wife for like a year Lauren's ex-wife yeah well I knew I knew and it didn't
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stopped me but oh boy uh he was very magnanimous but anyway uh Johnny uh I got it back because uh not that I took her away from him that was kind of over with Lauren and Rosie at the time but I
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uh was with Rosie and she fell in love with Johnny and dumped dumped me and now we're friend yeah now we're friends Johnny and I and as Rosie said to all three of us one night at Davis's
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Memorial she looked at Lauren she looked at me and she looked at Johnny we were all sitting there like crows on a wire
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at davidon she said well at at least you have each other oh we love Rosie oh God so today
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with VA we have the Vodka company Johnny and I we're having a ball with her it's really fun uh you know if you can drink
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moderately and respectfully uh it's a good thing now Danny are you saying some of these like there's a lot of
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celebrities I drink um kkes tequila which is probably the best one um kles I'm kidding I don't
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know it probably does sound real it's probably in the works I've got Felix the Cat uh no be it's a logger be yeah fix
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phix the cat you remember Felix the Cat yes oh of course the the bag do you remember lwood Blues is is partly based
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he partly Felix the Cat he's partly based on Felix the Cat the the briefcase that has everything in it oh my goodness
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Felix that's got to be brought back that that is a beautiful beautiful character that was one of my first animated
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memories oh yeah yeah 58 59 fix is Felix is great fix a cat he's one of the Blues
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Brothers Felix yeah she really he's black and white yeah I know a mission from God now
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listen now when you do when you do this you're saying the as vodkas they have some of those things you're saying that are in it I didn't know all the words but they might make for a
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hangover uh the glycol certainly would okay yeah so when you have too many things in it it's not great for no no of
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course no you you you get to eight shots of this even without the pollutants in there you're going to it is ethyl
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alcohol so you know you got to be kind of uh one of our new sponsors I guess is trying to mitigate that problem oh we
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have one of ours that says but you know what oh it it doesn't it doesn't have hangovers it mitigates
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them it's not Vodka it's saying it helps you with a hangover it's not a well you know try it yeah try I mean now by the
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way the House of Blues Dan you don't know this you were part of the House of Blues and it was across the street it's
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so sad it's gone they dug up the coolest place in the world and now it's some dumpy Hotel that nobody cares about Live
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Nation uh bought House of Blues in 2007 how much did they pay for they paid several several hundred million okay basically to save the company because it had had many challenges and they they
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came in and saved the company because okay you know the dotc bomb 2008 uh all kinds of things uh 911 all kinds of things fought against House of Blue survival and Live Nation came in and
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saved the company in 2,500 jobs and then uh across Street here they the lease holder uh basically wanted the building back and so they just paid Live Nation
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you know a sum to say we want to build our own thing here and and Live Nation looked at it economically and said you
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know we'd have to run a restaurant here for the next 50 years to make the money that was offered so you I understood the
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decision but it's too bad they took out our beautiful spar with the steel curved
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steel and uh that was my office I mean I hung I saw the Goos I saw so many so many inas there's a there's a cool one
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in Anaheim Vegas yes oh yeah there's 11 of them and um and and they are they're rocking the one in Chicago was just great yeah it's a great brand so so another business thing you got into I it
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seems to me just listening to you it's a super creative expression of yourself because the first time I met you and you sat us all you were visiting SNL it me and Phil and John my first season we
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were at a restaurant first thing you said was don't be in a hurry to leave the and the second one was just about
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business and pay attention well it's show business right you know yeah but that I remembered that to this it's
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always great to have great advisers and uh you know I've any work that I've done that I'm proud of it's because I've been
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with wonderful collaborators any success I I've had it's Consulting people who are smarter than me in many areas and
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and uh just the F the fun of working with with with just great people uh all all the way through um EDD you know
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Murphy and Murray and and and and all of them Jesus Christ yeah and then and and loveits of course we we just think of
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him as he's as far as I'm concerned he's the price of he's worth the price of admission to SNL generally love it just that love itz was there you know
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why so funny I don't know where he got that spectacular he I did this thing it's going to be out in the next year the world in six glasses it's a documentary talking about all the fluids
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that have influenced man kind over time and I had him on there he came on and that was one of the most fun yeah huh I'll do it yeah he's so [ __ ] love is always a you put him in
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The Wedding Singer he's funny yeah I've I've had him in movies he's great no he is he is jealous yeah that's his big one
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by way hey I like your glasses jealous Yeah you mentioned uh Trading Places and I uh I mean there's too many things to ask Dan a about there's not much to ask other than to fawn over things but
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Trading Places was one of the those movies that just hit us hard and it was an R-rated movie and it was so [ __ ] funny and then you just so I don't want to say did you know it going in but you
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know you get to work with Eddie and uh did you know him well at all or was it just was it was it a gamble to put Edie in um nobody um well I think uh you know
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he did the Walter Hill movie The Walter Hill movie and then Paramount said yeah he'd be good
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mhm and uh somehow that pairing came together I didn't know him before we started of course he was spectacular to
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see that Talent grow and what he did in that film and when I read the script it was so intelligently written and uh I thought yeah I that this would be a
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great thing to play and have have fun on because it was certainly different from you know anything I'd done before and uh
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and then Landis directing it because he we made a couple of things together so it was you know all the all the
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cylinders were clicking was it kind of like a 30s screw ball comedy in that sense of it wasn't so fun and easy to
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watch it was written by uh a pair of writers wi gr and Harris and they wrote it um and corresponded I heard on by fax
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machine to write it uh and and I believe they did one other film but that was certainly their most famous uh yeah and wellknown one and so well done and uh
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you know well directed with great actors in it yeah that's a AAA I'm proud of that one Jamie Lee spectacular
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was so we were with everything was working and uh you eating the salmon out of your beard I mean I don't know if it's an ad lip or what but those are the texture things in movies where they
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stick with you forever I think that was I have a beard on I see the salmon I'm going for it yeah there's the
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you know you come into the set you know you're looking around stuff you can use all the time you know we're desperate
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what how do I fill it with business what I so I have this beard and I'm I love there's salmon oh yeah yeah I don't know
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if it was scripted or not but I I kind of remember it being spontaneous I'm going to pick it up be I'm going to go
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for but that's great because you look at scenes and and uh and I almost forget that you know we did Tommy Boy and same
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thing you you look at a day shoot and you go is there anything funny here there's a clip on with Farley we're like let's in the night before we're like hey
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can he bring a can you guys give us a clip on just for one laugh so we can it's all about break pads it was hard to
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make it that everything funny that reminds me of that you get there you see a salmon you see a beard you Cheo the
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beard and and Landis was generous with that oh about just grabbing things no he so he was smart no no he he he lets the performer go you know you know and you mentioned Farley of course dearly
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beloved dearly beloved you know of course Mr arroy could he be more in love with Dan it's I don'ts man Cone Heads when he was in the
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con heads he played the beautiful part oh he was good in yeah he was great oh yeah you know when he do he would do
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stuff on the set and he'd move his head and we're like that's ACO right that's Bill Murray that's Belushi but the
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sweetest the sweetest sweet sweetest guy just a sweet sweet man yeah uh just zinski the name came back this year H big have a question such great stuff with his pants
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yeah pulling his pants out he's so respectful and polite and a churchgoing you know oh Church yeah yeah
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yeah that uh we had a blast on we had blast on Tommy Boy I remember one night when you we were in like a I think you
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were showing us is that where Rob log get hitting the balls I don't want to give the whole movie way but when we uh
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we're in we we shot like 24 hours and we had some Factory in Toronto we got to go up there and uh we were getting tired
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Magna mag Magna Auto Parts and you had the uh there was the the uh air freshener Joe so many
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things and then just to have you from the guy we love to be in the movie and then the movie worked out yeah it did oh
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so much that's a good picture that's a really good picture the deer scene I mean oh God that happened to Franken and Davis you know oh is that deer came
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alive a car they it went through the the windshield yeah and yeah I think that happens a lot but uh but I don't know
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how many times deer comes back alive but um that was the other I think I think I think in their case it might have oh wow
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yeah really Frank was like w we got a deer in the back of the car well you've got to be here we've got a show just you we'll take care of the deer later oh I got to tell him we had
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Michael mck on remember Michael mck of course of course I know his resume it's like yours like exhausting and they're
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making spinal top again I hope oh I don't know I we didn't ask there's rumors of that we don't ask the good
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questions yeah we just spawn but uh we were talking about con heads he was my partner in con heads and I was telling
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Dana that we were the uh immigration guys yeah not kind of the bad guys whatever you know and um and it was
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peppered with we didn't mention it but I think Sandler was in the movie Farley had a big part it his first uh movie
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appearance Sandler oh was it Billy Madison he played yeah he sold uh he sold the or something he sold me the ID
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yeah that's right fake ID yeah right yeah yeah and we had Ellen degenerous Drew Cary Sinbad know every peppered
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that place if you watch it you go whoa hey oh look who that is it was a very good able family comedy and it it's
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certainly endures today no doubt about it serviceable I think that wasn't in the pitch they uh they well you know
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they barely no I love conee heads I told Dana and Michael that Michael didn't know so you know was supposed to come out at Halloween they rushed it if it come was that what happened yeah yeah
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yeah Stanley jaffy there at Paramount prodded Lauren to get it ready and Lauren and I were thinking Halloween Halloween but oh we need it now we need it now so would have would have done
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better at at Halloween but it it as all of these things have a life now listen they they they they people wind up
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seeing them and uh yeah and when you're smoking weed in Wasington Satur Night Live In 1978 they come on and they're
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they're called The Cone Heads and their heads are like Cone Heads when I and wrote the thing yeah they're the cone
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heads and their heads look like yeah no that's good that that yeah I didn't tell I Danny remembers I I was telling them
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yesterday that uh right when you were probably Garling the garthok at this point but we were um narl the Garth we
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were Michael and I were in tshirt and boxers to do a scene and I was in the in my trailer and I said the ad because I was so naive and so adorable and cherubic but I said hey don't tell
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anyone and I can still work today I do have chickenpox and he goes you have chickenpox and I go uh yeah but it's O
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it's here where my shirt is and it's on my legs and you can't see it and I'm in a seene with you and could infested the
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whole every oh yeah and he goes okay hang on and they go shutting down the set I'm like what's going on I I didn't
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even connect it to me and so they sent everyone home and uh I don't even know if you're working that day but I was
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like oh my God and so and then someone goes oh that's G to cause the studio you're in trouble everything was
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terrifying me he get fired but wound up being a blast but uh that's remembering you have a chickenpox way late yeah I know you didn't get a kid no and I was
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such a weak little puss of a kid I got a measles knocked me out for three weeks which was abnormal you were 37 or no no
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that I got when I was a normal kid okay but I was uh very frail you can't tell this athlete that sits in front of you
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today no that's right marathon runner marathon runner Dan is marathon runner that was such a
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fun picture con heads and and it what we had a great cast yeah and yeah yeah it's I'm proud of that one I like that one I
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love that do I mean this just fan type questions like when you look at you will be spared you take you take a drag net you take take this you will be spared you will be spared you will be spared I
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will place both of you on the protected roles say no more of it goodbye remember I was behind Dave
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Thomas at the end they brought me in for an extra scene there will be and I go that was so I just mocking everything he
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said I just said whatever I turned and went with the cone heads at the end so this you can order this on Amazon for like three bucks
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right for just people listen drink when you see us were there two Conan movies or just one just one Hey listen I would
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do that character in a second in fact I have a story idea but you know I'm too busy now you know and no one's going to
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listen to a story how do you sleep at night Cone Heads no one's going to want another cone heads out there Paramount
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plus no Plus Hulu is waiting I know the guy who runs Hulu Crystal vodka the movie
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I'm T yeah no I was I was on the Hulu there I was I did a little show called Zombie Town in RS Stein you know the
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Goosebumps author yeah so it's on Hulu now it's called Zombie Town and it's like it's like okay now Children of
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America you're going to have to learn about zombies this is an introductory movie about zombies for you Gentle and
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soft and kind of funny a little scary yeah so that you can step up to you know totally World of Z what's that Z World
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War Z World War Z I remember Lauren asked me when his kids were little goes I I don't really understand
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Scooby-Doo and I said yeah I don't really get why they love it and it was to your point it was the
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first time when they're at a certain age it's a little scary the mass comes off there's a haunted person so that's that
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was the rocket fuel for that get them yeah you st them up to The Exorcist that's right that's I saw it at 17 still
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haven't unseen it is even too early yeah well we went in we I've never seen it we you don't
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see it it's it's too scared I guess it's brilliant it's brilliant I believe in that I'm a paranormal guy like
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Dan Dan you believe in UFOs I believe that they're real everyone believes in UFOs it's just where are they coming from is the only but of course there's I I know they're real you can be a skeptic
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and say oh well I'm not a skeptic but I do have a question for you where are they're coming from all all different species there's probably dozens of them
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do they come from the ocean I it there may be bases there and and and I love it no the question is look I'm I'm totally
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cuz I whenever I'm thinking about supernatural stuff and I always go we're here so the greatest Supernatural thing
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is that we exist right now talking here how do we get here what are we doing here what's you know so I'm open-minded
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to all of it what I was curious about the United States Air Force that the sightings of the UFOs seem to be stuck
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in kind of a black and white Herky jerky 1950s Motif yeah can't they get more sophisticated cameras on these sucker so we can really well there's more footage coming out uh and uh it is all governed
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now by the new office at the Pentagon that handles this and that is called the all domain because they go in water they
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fly through water a th miles hour so space Sky water all domain anomalous you don't know what it is resolution because they have to resolve they've got military craft and and and
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Equipment being exposed so it's the all domain anomalous resolution office to figure out what they are and so that's
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uh we actually have a pentagon department now that's working on that or a branch that's working and you know uh all those sightings will be uh brought
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in by the military and brought in by uh civilians and and and analyzed there so it it's real again your question who where where are they coming from why I
00:28:48
think a lot of them are just tourists I think it's not as scary a little bit because they and I'm scared of them even though I I do I think they they would have done
00:29:00
whatever they're going to done they're already here they've been here a million times they would they can take us out if they was that's why I feel a little
00:29:06
easier they're not I don't I don't think they're a threat however you know I'm kid if you talk to some of the aviators
00:29:13
down near Marina Del Rey with fire department the police department the sheriff's department helicopters and
00:29:18
such they see them all the time and and they seem to be bugging them and and flying them flying around and like
00:29:24
challenging them I'm way down you ahead of your time in a sense because now it's
00:29:30
going more mainstream with the Pentagon and it's more acknowledged you talking about seen four
00:29:37
of them and seen two here unidentified so and my mother saw one that was why I got interested in it my mother saw one in 1947 and she worked in the aircraft production uh Ministry in
00:29:51
World War II uh at that with uh in Ottawa during the war in aircraft production for the Fus AES on the hurricane so she knew aircraft and she in 1947 she saw one on uh uh uh the
00:30:04
Sparks Spark Street there in they're going back then they were yeah yeah they kind of going everywhere yeah I don't I don't think they want a formal relationship with us but they will take
00:30:15
advantage of us using their Superior techn do you have any sense of being connected to uh 2001 Space Odyssey just
00:30:21
the idea that we were seated here by an alien race uh still seems of fascina yeah you know one of the favorite movies of a lot of people at Nasa is the movie that uh that was uh that was made
00:30:33
Mission to Mars with with with had the face the face on Mars in it and the the was Gary C uh yeah I think so and uh
00:30:42
Mission to Mars it wasn't the one with mat D Matt Damon that was no no this this postulated that we were
00:30:50
seated here and there was some help was was uh you know there was some help yeah and so a lot of NASA personnel
00:30:57
see that as a kind of a viable concept from what I've you know what I understand of course everything's on the
00:31:05
table unless someone has all this figured out have you seen any aliens because they have pictures of them they
00:31:10
have I don't I never no never seen you know they're you know that people have seen pictures yeah sure sure no all kind
00:31:17
shapes and you know my polter guys or whatever you call them experiences they yeah um yeah you really went through
00:31:25
that yeah and it was to you that your experiences it wasn't something you enjoyed right it was no what well the one that was the well there's there's many of them but in this
00:31:37
house we have up in Northern California it was built in 1912 there's three bedrooms upstairs my son was in one
00:31:44
bedroom he was the older brother and over time he had a lot of waking dreams dates or nightmares and he moved into
00:31:51
his brother's room just organically the younger brother MH and so one night and I didn't know what white noise was at this point believe it or not just had not it was the ' 90s or whatever so he
00:32:04
had a boom box in the bedroom he'd left so I wake up to this like a FM radio between channels
00:32:12
right I'm going why is everyone sleeping so I walk around and by the time I get in the room I don't hear it but it was
00:32:18
not a waking dream state it wasn't like a nightmare was just like what the heck and so that room I also had some one I slept in there once CU company's over I
00:32:29
had an experience there but I become less afraid of it because if it starts to happen I just sort of go with it now
00:32:35
yeah well it happens to millions of people H Holzer h o z r he was the great Ghostbuster and he has a great number of books upon you know dealing with all of
00:32:46
the things that he he dealt with in his career is that how Ghostbusters started as you just got into all that well my
00:32:51
family was into it my great-grandfather was a spiritualist researcher and uh all around the house uh in the cottage there
00:32:58
that we had in the Summers which was the the summer house where he lived uh it was full of journals and books and his
00:33:05
writings and so I was sitting there flipping through a journal from the American Society for pycal research and it was an article on quantum physics and parap parapsychology and I just
00:33:16
went okay parapsychology quantum physics the real terms the real vernacular the real research that's being done marry that to an old style comedy like and Castello bowry Boyce Bob Hope and uh
00:33:31
Dean Bening Crosby who did ghost movies in fact Hold That Ghost I think is a movie with Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin and it's the first use of the term Ghostbusters somebody asks Dean Martin
00:33:43
who are you guys we're Ghostbusters he says ghost by the way just as an asside Ghostbusters I want to tell you he yeah so that was the first use of the term and there was a great tradition of ghost
00:33:55
movies in Hollywood I thought let's marry the real vernacular the real science the real fact that that people
00:34:00
are seriously you know seriously into this research with an old style comedy now as an aside that movie Hold That
00:34:07
Ghost with Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin Jerry Lewis does a a walk down the stairs in the old castle set that it defies physics the way he comes down those stairs and doesn't kill himself is
00:34:21
amazing he was aular was he trying to be uh no he was just coming down the stairs
00:34:27
as like clumsily coming down the stairs not possessed no no just clumsily walking down the stairs and he I don't
00:34:33
know how he didn't kill himself so he was a masterful physical comedian absolutely masterful you got you got you
00:34:39
hung with him I must you must have known Jerry Lewis yeah not really I met the woman who played the anenu cinder fella
00:34:48
cind and then I went and looked at a scene on YouTube of Jerry Lewis there there's a centerpiece where he's dancing
00:34:54
around with the stairs to your point the physical comedy is breathtaking yeah and
00:35:00
it went on and on he was directing it you must have met him I did I well actually I met I talked to him on the
00:35:06
phone Schaefer hooked him up on the phone with me one day and Jerry andell and Jerry and ier I said Jerry can you can you give me a a give me a and he on
00:35:18
the phone I'll never forget over the phone I hear it all comes from the the the the
00:35:25
the Jewish uh Yiddish theater of the Lower East Side the cats kills that all of that humor the the shoulder take the spit take uh the fork drop have you ever have you ever the fork drop's wonderful
00:35:37
you're sitting at dinner somebody says something and [ __ ] yeah the fork that's all comedy from the Yiddish uh low side
00:35:45
do you know that there's a wonderful expression for your show in Yiddish the fly in the wall and it goes it's the
00:35:53
Fleck that's how you say fly in the wall in yish f f let's get this so we have our
00:36:02
promos sounds it's poetic so that the Nang he gave me a Nang and and and all of that
00:36:09
comes from that rich rich tradition did you have other like Heroes like did Carrie Gran ever reach out to you or
00:36:16
other super in the 70s when you guys were exploding CU Jim liry and Davis were yeah Timothy L and Davis were I bought I bought him and on our friends I
00:36:28
bought the last steak dinner that he ate before he died at the at the Marmont over there at the restaurant put in uh
00:36:34
he it was already taken care of and now everybody's doing it for uh mental health reasons know Timothy lry I met Jimmy hofa CU I I we uh yeah giant Stadium that's the
00:36:48
last I heard uh that was yeah yeah well you saw that movie with Alo and that met
00:36:53
him Lauren ball I worked with her I worked with Garner and uh Jack Lemon I work with Jack Lemon and in a movie called American president and Lauren McCall was in that that was wonderful
00:37:05
was that Pete seagull yeah Pete seagull yeah yeah and I work with work with the all great veterans like that yeah that's
00:37:12
what I I was curious assume you intersected them so NE so neat so neat and special when you left SNL was there so Chevy came we had Chevy on here he
00:37:24
was perfectly bananas the way we wanted amazing he was we're so mad we didn't film it it was so funny yeah he was doing stick and Stu no his Sticks and
00:37:36
Stones his work with his fingers if you never saw any other part of them that work with his hands I I I remember he he
00:37:43
did something just like you know he's like he's he's there he's got the fingers walking and then all of a sudden
00:37:49
and it starts to go and you you just hilarious to control you know yeah well we had this here which is like 10
00:37:55
bottles on a tray he just waited and at a given point he just down he reached for it was justly but he waited he knew you could tell he knew ear on that was his goto no
00:38:08
I love Chevy I love we do too you stay straight through like he he was the first year of SNL then you stayed how
00:38:15
long you stay five years four four years yeah and the reason we left was purely and sorely because and we had to finish
00:38:22
the Blues Brothers you know we thought maybe there was a possibility we'd go back back you know we went to Chicago
00:38:28
then the movie went sort of early summer late summer autumn and shooting and we were shooting and we had to go back to LA to shoot some of the stuff inside the church scene the uh soul food restaurant
00:38:41
all that had be done in LA and we knew we couldn't go back so I made the call to Lauren saying we weren't going to
00:38:48
return for John how hard was that it was a little it was made a little easier because when uh Animal House was being done they wanted me to play D-Day and
00:38:58
they wanted me to join Landis and and uh wman and uh yeah you'd be great and and
00:39:04
uh you know uh John in in Oregon to do that movie and I I just looked and I just John's gone man I just looked and I thought you know how I can't leave
00:39:16
Lauren here without another without a writer or an actor you know so I told him I said I'm I'm going to stay and I
00:39:21
stayed on then so when we left for Blues Brothers it was a little easier because I did stay on and I didn't leave for
00:39:26
Animal House yeah and there's like somebody some analyst somewhere some pundit or something said oh Lauren forced me to stay or was you know he enforced the contract Lauren is not a
00:39:37
dictator slave driver you want to go you go he's not like that he encouraged us he wouldn't want to look thirsty like that he would say say we we'd love to have you you know but if you need to go
00:39:50
you know would gracious Canadian he fell in love with his cast members to this day he loves comedi my boys and my girls he calls them yeah no yeah no he he loves he loves
00:40:04
[Music] them when I came in in ' 86 cuz he'd had that 5year Hiatus constantly references to you guys and it was so intimidating
00:40:15
to me and it was like Danny did it because I'd come up with an idea Danny did that season
00:40:21
two Chevy believes but you guys are the originals there is bil chvy dny never the last name never said danroy never said Paul Simon never said Paul mcart and look how the show's going now so
00:40:35
current so relevant so extraordinary yeah when you did Blues Brothers which is one of my alltime uh great ones and I
00:40:41
know you opened for Steve Martin at the universal I heard that that's why there is a Blues Brothers because John recorded the record from there godamn um
00:40:49
you do how do you get Carrie Fisher was she Star Wars or was she how do they my girlfriend you mean yeah let's get into
00:40:56
the didn't do a l love l no well uh well because uh it wasn't the Barbie part for
00:41:01
her she was good friends with with John and and good just good friends with Penny Marshall and John and the a whole
00:41:07
she was Penny's buddy and and uh we just asked her to be a part of it and she was a part of it and then we fell in love
00:41:13
and uh we almost got married we had blood tests and Rings exchanged and everything and uh I I was ready to spend
00:41:21
the rest of my life with with Carrie and uh after we wrapped the movie we got into AER 24 with John and Judy and we
00:41:28
flew to Martha's Vineyard and we flew to this house that Judy had bought me in the vineyard to be near John to plan
00:41:34
future projects right and uh I said Judy just buy me a house I don't care what it
00:41:40
looks like was our first check from Atlantic Records and she bought me a house and said you're going to see your house tonight for the first time and
00:41:46
you're bringing Carrie home so I brought Carrie home to this house I'd never seen and it's night and fog is like down and
00:41:54
low and we go in and walk in and they flip the lights on and I could just tell that it was not to car's design sense at all it was a mid-50s lot of modern furniture very uh
00:42:06
you know uh e chairs and stuff and she so that night was a difficult night and then in the morning I heard her talking to Paul Simon her boyfriend at the time before and and I could hear her talking
00:42:18
and hear well I'll be there and I'll be in New York tomorrow or or today and I thought oh she's leaving so um I said
00:42:26
you know Carrie the view is supposed to be beautiful in this house you should say no I have to get back I've got to go back to Paul I've got to go I'm going
00:42:31
back down please take me to the airport nothing ranous or very amicable I thought it was we thought we were
00:42:37
getting married I go I drive her to the airport and get her on a plane kiss her goodbye and say I I'll see you soon we'll hang you know I love you I love you and and you know she flies off and I
00:42:50
drive in the Jeep back to the Martha's Vineyard house and I'm kind of despondent and I I walk I drive up to
00:42:56
the house and the fog Has Lifted and I've got a 275 degree view of the ocean the islands and that this beautiful beautiful Promontory that the house was on I thought you know she'd saw saw that
00:43:11
she might she saw been married today it's like Manhattan socked in oh it's the only time we went is it always foggy no no no and so yeah that me but we we
00:43:22
we're good friends all the way right to the end of her life of course Brothers I think it's one of those where a lot of
00:43:28
people want to be around funny people and she's like if I and she's a big star but it's I'm funny herself I mean
00:43:34
hilarious brilliant that yeah she's great we had a ball of course you know because we we we were making a movie and we were in love you know may you're making a movie with someone you love you can go to work in the morning with them
00:43:46
I can't imagine the rocket ship you know I had my own little success there too Wayne's World anyway um but you guys um
00:43:54
I'm doing a David there Blues Brothers when I first saw that I was like this is so electric on every level like you're enjoying it you and John the dancing and
00:44:06
the energy of it was like well this is something new different this is like really musical too like the band was
00:44:13
kicking and then you guys were just so funny with all this shtick to me again at just fantasizing about being on
00:44:20
Saturday live just those characters don't get me started with wild and crazy guys don't even start with that come on
00:44:27
I don't think I can do that guy no more no you can't play around with accents anymore you can't have it and you can't
00:44:34
even talk about the parts on a woman the parts and we look they love our American bulges or what was yeah they bulges yeah
00:44:42
please oh uh you will be shocked by my great bulge you know you got to watch it these
00:44:47
days I mean I was so influenced by you guys rically and musically what about you you you oh she was re I think that is one of the greatest inside she look
00:44:59
so cute in the in the in that waiter's outfit she didn't want to wear the waitress's outfit no I can't I get and
00:45:04
then de nulman landis's wife the designer designed this beautiful waitress out that made her look great yeah yeah was it was even funnier that she had that so supportive of us all the
00:45:16
way through she always was and so was Ray and everybody yeah John Candy yeah we had candy was in yeah yeah and then
00:45:24
we had Cropper and Dunn who were mhm Otis readings guitar players so that made it happen now I still play with uh
00:45:30
with Jimmy John's brother we go out on we have an active concert schedule we go out with a band that we uh got here from
00:45:36
California and Texas that we put together over the years and uh uh we got a you know we got a couple of gig what's
00:45:43
more fun than that the music and I hear that guitar and hear that just the organ
00:45:49
and uh you know move and I've got you know 78% of the moves left so you know gu yeah yeah last week it was 80 but declines yeah I'm in the low
00:46:02
40s yeah it's not it's not all clicking uh or it is clicking so you're going along there's Trading Places there's Blues Brothers there's all these stuff we on Saturday Night Live yeah and then
00:46:15
and then what's Dan gonna do now and then I don't know what the trajectory was but then Ghostbusters was like
00:46:23
probably equivalent inflation adjusted almost like with the win or something it was like 300 million in
00:46:30
198 right so like million now or oh my God so what Titanic and you thought of it you that day that day at at at The Farmhouse where the old where the seanes take took place where my great
00:46:43
great-grandfather had seanes uh from the 20s and that and I was sitting there reading that journal
00:46:48
and I just thought old style Abbot and Castello comedy with the real science marry it up it's brilliant but who's the
00:46:55
first person you told um well that would have been Bernie brillstein I guess oh yeah Bernie uh and I love it and then o and then I I I turned a draft into both
00:47:06
of those guys and then we went to Ivan and Ivan got got it how it could be fixed and made what it was you know you
00:47:13
wrote it fat right well I not so much lengthwise but it was a little darker it was a little it wasn't the movie you saw
00:47:19
but it certainly had all of the stuff in there uh that became the movie all the elements were there uh so and and then
00:47:26
Ivan looked at it and then Ivan said let's go to Harold and Harold looked at it and understood what I was trying to
00:47:31
do here with it and then and then we decide what do we do about cast well and then Harold and Ivan looked at each
00:47:37
other and said well if we can get Murray we we'll give it to Murray I mean and then so we we he carried the ball for us
00:47:45
he was the master of those lines those throwaway lines style one of the probably the greatest comedy romantic lead of our of our of Our Generation and maybe many many and him and Sigourney
00:47:57
Weaver yeah very cool brilliant beautiful it all came together just magic once a film Works any film but
00:48:04
when something like that that's old and new and then just connects so strong I remember going to you know it was like Jaws in a way huge lines theater packs it was a phenomenon fun how fun to have
00:48:17
that hit and cuz you could have screwed that movie up easily I mean it's a great idea but everywhere along line any
00:48:24
movies you go in where it's and you go God where do we go wrong the editing the this the casting but to get it every
00:48:30
step of the way and it comes out well look at who was on it right Harold Ian thean Moran wonderful wonderful big him and
00:48:43
sour and can s and soury are big parts of why that movie works yeah yeah no Z yeah no yeah well and I I was on IMDb today cuz I I could not remember who Dan
00:48:56
AK was and so I looked him up and even Ghostbusters there's like 80 iterations it's like a cartoon of this there's so many yeah because there's Pro I think there's a new one coming out uh there's
00:49:08
there's well there's a new animated uh Cartoon that they're working on right now okay but is there a movie movie or
00:49:13
not isn't I don't know what the status is with strikes and all that they're tell me not is it really today to well
00:49:21
then in March Ghostbusters Frozen Empire with Mckenna Grace Finn wolfheart Billy myself wi uh Ernie um uh and uh Patton Oswalt thank
00:49:35
you very much and Paul Rudd and Carrie [ __ ] and uh you've already got a cast we we and uh yeah we
00:49:42
we we are we are ready to go in March with a spectacular new release a great new story and it is going to be hot and really fun scary whole new generation
00:49:53
handing it to the kids um really excited we we completed it in England and it's going to be coming out uh in March oh so
00:50:00
you did do it it's done it's done it comes out in March I just couldn't talk about it till this instant I read about
00:50:06
this and then I thought maybe something happened we have a we have a yeah gave me that blank
00:50:12
St fly on the wall attention it's our first real scoop years talking about it for the
00:50:19
first time in any media right here yeah okay so you have Paul Rudd you've got Pat oswal Finn
00:50:27
how about as a genius and a great great comic actor serious actor too yeah he is
00:50:33
great delivery yeah always yeah any name ghosts um we got the Tic Tac ghost from
00:50:39
the Navy video um what's the plot oh yeah what's the plot can you tell us uh well uh leave us to say that uh you know an entity is found in a psychometrically
00:50:51
charged object too much thank you yeah that's all I figured the whole thing up um okay I love it I'm excited Jason rightman I'm going to do a preorder Jas
00:51:04
gin Keenan Gil Keenan directed it uh Jason's partner Jason did second unit and they co- together Jason and of
00:51:11
course the kids are wonderful you know McKenna Finn and uh and you do you're a guy I do you know the uh the
00:51:18
enthusiastic uh you know wants to believe everything uh you know yeah kind of a little kind of resentful that that you know things have passed him by
00:51:29
Ghostbuster and this one you know because they he's no longer licensed you always have that skill set of putting a
00:51:36
lot of words together really like that is true like as a comic concept you know you know that does that something you as a k my mother was French my
00:51:47
mother was French Canadian and I GRE up on French Canadians and French Canadians they speak very fast like
00:51:53
that no no no no no no no no they they talk a lot a lot fast bring me that right now give give me the salt give me the pepper give me the steak give me the potato give me
00:52:04
you want some wine you want they talk like that they're fast the French Canadian so I I I had this always you know and plus sitting around the table
00:52:10
there'd be 14 family members and you know you couldn't get a a word in unless you in interjected it injected in
00:52:21
there so how did you go from like a 14-year-old 15-year-old and then you were really were you on out 21 or 22 or
00:52:28
something I was 23 the young so what the just quickly I mean for your city at at
00:52:34
21 and 22 La Michaels at 19 I uh I worked with him on a CBC special at 19 and his show
00:52:42
hard and uh the heart and Lauren terrific hour you were on that uh it was on offshoot of that that's right so you
00:52:48
were like 18 or 19 you're on television Canada doing that's right 19 call SA yeah well it was it was an early adopter it was uh it it was
00:52:59
being steeped in improv my parents sent me a 12 years old to autta Little Theater uh improv class and so I was I
00:53:06
was already doing it sort of back then you know it just it came to you it's like Larry Bird he said when basketball
00:53:12
he first got a basketball hands he said the game came to me so it just came to you it was it was it was and then you
00:53:18
worked your ass off well I was it was I was encouraged to pursue it and it was fun to do improv and that and uh and at
00:53:25
Second City I was learning all the techniques over again that i' already I'd already known at 12 and 13 years old
00:53:31
at the Little Theater improv classes yeah so started early you know um it seems to me that in your part of this
00:53:37
we're talking to Michael mcken and you know the The Beatles and all the music of the 60s yeah and then the trundling
00:53:44
along with Peter sers and then you all kind of knew each other from 70 or 75 or you know it's very interesting because you you were like the The Beatles of Comedy to to me the SNL cast well you
00:53:57
had the you had the Lampoon crew you had you know Chevy and you had Chris guest and Harry sheerer and you had uh uh
00:54:04
Johnny uh Belushi and uh and then you had Gilda eventually because Belushi stole her away there from Second City then you had the Canadian crew Levy O'Hara myself candy Moranis Thomas yeah
00:54:19
that was so there were two and and and the ven diagram kind of crossed and some of those people ended up working with
00:54:24
each other on on various things um yeah but I think my first the first time like for as like getting interested in entertainment okay
00:54:36
I'm in grade three now what the hell in grade three I'm like five years old maybe four
00:54:42
five I'm I'm grade uh grade three so I go uh you're 17 I was I was I was you know I was you know five or three or four or five I guess in grade three or something yes so what and so they they
00:54:56
were doing an Irish uh St Patrick's Day concert and they compelled me to learn mn's band you know that song Oh Hennessy tennessy to the flute
00:55:10
the music something grandel so they put me in a green bowler and a green vest and the green pants and leprechaun shoes put me out on stage
00:55:23
with a with a sink track and and I you know they made me learn it they made me stay back from school to learn it and so
00:55:29
this concert comes and and we go I go to the concert and I start singing and I'm
00:55:37
like oh I'm just going to get through this God I remember it vividly oh God and I get to the end and I and finish
00:55:44
and give the tap dance finish anding the crowd they whoa really you like that that much and I'm thinking to myself oh wow that's good so I was a big Applause and they take me off stage into
00:55:59
the wings I give back my bowler and I'm thinking oh man that wow that that that was very very interesting and then two
00:56:05
of my friends Ricky uh and Greg come up Rick H Hollingsworth and Greg chidas and they come up and they say hey yeah that
00:56:11
was nothing man like the like the the bad uh the bad donkeys bad donkeys in over in uh you know in the uh in in Pinocchio you know the bad bad you yeah yeah you think that was
00:56:24
good you think come here come on with us let me show you something let me show you this let's let's show you this they
00:56:29
take me across the street to the funeral home across the street from the church Hall where I did the concert so I go
00:56:35
from the Elation of singing mn's band and getting cheered yeah to two minutes later walking into the funeral home
00:56:41
where seven bodies are laid out what a family that had drowned in a car the night before seven the father the mother
00:56:48
the sister [ __ ] blockers don't want you to be famous go look at this look at this and I walk in I'll never that as
00:56:55
long as I like he he rolled his car in the in the gatau river and drowned and so they bring me from you know my
00:57:01
perform I gooss the street Euphoria to whoa but are they jealous I didn't well yeah nambi pambi singing and they look at these dead people so they go over and there were the SE the seven on a baby
00:57:14
coffin too Jesus great I didn't do any jigs for years and years afterwards that turned me right off any kind of
00:57:20
performance that's a true story he's not weird oh wow then seven bodies the the family and all
00:57:27
beautifully preserved never forget the dark eyebrows the mother and father processing this story exilation and they yeah yeah at
00:57:38
age five six ruin it they want to ruined yeah so I I didn't dance or sing for years afterward weirdly my first gig was
00:57:45
in a funeral home but that's a whole another story David I played a dead body yeah in that scene no uh you when on SNL you get there what's your first big uh sketch that works is it just the very
00:57:57
first show or is bomatic oh the first sketch that works was the the win that the one that the Garrett and I did as
00:58:03
home home invasions to prove to the homeowner that their their house was vulnerable and so we break into their
00:58:10
home to prove it was vulnerable yeah and then pitched them on an alarm system is that first show that was the first
00:58:15
sketch I was in yeah first show yeah and that was the Wolverine one well it open a cold opening was John in the Wolverine
00:58:22
with Michael oonu oh my had the the home uh Invasion sketch yeah you were after the monologue after the monologue when
00:58:29
was it oh that's a good spot the Home Run Spot who was the host of your first show uh George Carlin George Carlin
00:58:35
George Carl I waited on him once at a holiday and yeah I brought him oatmeal he goes oatmeal drop the O and you have
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at meal did he really yeah why is there no blue your shoes big shoes little shoes brown shoes girl school shoes he was that was he was working on a don't tell me about Richard prior too I I I
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was a waiter at the holiday in waited on all oh because it was next to the circle Star theater yep waited on Rich Little
00:58:59
everyone said which holiday in on Highland no this was on the peninsula was a theater in the round uh like be
00:59:06
near Michigan no no Peninsula South of San Francisco oh I oh I saw yeah I see right and they all stayed at the Holiday end so they were you know I gave Richard prior rbl stuff like that you know yeah
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well the you know the I find the great people are really nice the ones who are really great are nice and the medium
00:59:23
Talent people aren't so nice you know you know I've kind of I think that's true you know you know he was a great
00:59:30
Richard uh or well prior and and Carlin they were both you and they would have been gracious to
00:59:36
you very nice I did a movie with prior he was very sensitive and sweet and uh yeah great great um vulnerable did he host when you were there what's up did he host uh Richard prior hosted sure I
00:59:48
remember helping to write that show all right sir fair enough sir yeah H that was that's right yeah to yeah that's I
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think I think I was I was doing Harry sheir or doing Tom Snider he did a great Tom Snider really outstanding
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outstanding a Tom everybody I remember saying I love Tom I was a kid I I didn't know Dan I'm So Young um no I'm not but uh I was watching it going I never
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thought of being on S live I just was every kid loves comedy and I was like oh my God and this Tom Snider I was just
01:00:17
starting to get why it was so funny I didn't really get the depth of how funny it was I'm like that's like the guy I
01:00:23
just saw and it was so good it was like that dumb little studio and it's little lighting you have a cigarette and all
01:00:30
that stuff I mean Fred Garvin was that was his name Fred Garvin male prostitute that's right little
01:00:37
lady say for the lady yes little lady the name is funny at the time that that's and he announces himself that way but you know the copycats and Rich Little in that generation Frank Gman
01:00:51
those are the shows I was watching and love Impressionists Rich Little Fred travina right extraordinarily gifted they great and that was like magic to me
01:01:03
but when you guys came in and did them in a different a different context it was just postmodern yeah you know just a
01:01:09
lot of great impressions on the show for Hartman was spectacular and we've we've
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referenced you and Phil there's a a connection personality wise you both have so many interests yeah outside of
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being was effortless performers and then would go read these Journal he was a pilot yeah he's a pilot he he was sailing he was I loved him I loved him
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too he was wonderful you did bco with him right yeah that's right Steve yeah here's to
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Phil Chris John and a lot to be thankful for at this time of year Thanksgiving and Christmas and uh the old vodka there in the skulls is available in stores all
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over the nation all over the if you want to get a well makes a great gift that's why I'm
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on this kind of little tour here because it's gift giving time of year and we want to remind people that Thanksgiving
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and Christmas there's a a gift you can bring home and you know everybody wants to get
01:02:10
[Laughter] ahe where do you get it is there a website is there uh worldwide web Crystal head vodka.com it's in most uh
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uh liquor stores across the country chains and otherwise yeah Crystal head and um I think it's it's got a pretty
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big brand name I think people really are aware there's a lot of a lot of room to
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grow so yeah see the bottle should be on your shelf if you have liquor it just looks Co yeah it tastes good should be on every bar yeah in the world Crystal head just in just a few seconds before
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you get out of here how' you come up with that name well it's based on the legend of the crystal heads which uh
01:02:52
from Indiana Jones uh was referenced in the IND Indiana Jones movie um and uh they made a movie about it in fact we were developing the concept kind of right un
01:03:02
parallel and I find out that Steven's doing this movie about Crystal heads so I actually called him to take a meeting
01:03:09
to tell him you know we're not copying your Enterprise here we started at the same time and it takes two years to build a project like this and so I said
01:03:20
when you know when your movie comes out we we'll be out on the marketplace we will have been out a little before but um I I explained to him that we and it
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wasn't kind of a plagiarism and it wasn't really um uh Crystal had uh there with 13 of them what if he stole it from you uh I no the lead time doesn't work out in terms of like when the both
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projects came to fruition um but uh the Navajo the Aztec the Mayans were supposed to have had these heads and uh and they were used for crystal balls and
01:03:50
so we decided we were doing this vodka that had no fluids uh that were pollutants glycols sugar lemine clean
01:03:59
and so we wanted to excel the idea of enlightened purified drinking of Beverage alcohol and this was the perfect package to put in put it in yeah very yeah it came from that I have one
01:04:10
more question before this young man takes off uh during that um when you leave SNL you did a lot of big movies
01:04:18
you probably got offered some any ones that you wish you did or there movies that you got offered other than James Bond I yeah
01:04:26
would have lik Spies Like Us I don't oh Spies Like Us was so [ __ ] I don't know that I was offered anything that I
01:04:33
I turned down and that became I no I don't think so no regrets where you go I should have done that one spies I guess
01:04:39
was Unreal that was you and Chevy uh yeah I did I did audition for things that I didn't get oh the uh the people
01:04:46
versus Larry Flint um I auditioned for the part of the lawyer played by uh um Edward Norton oh and I auditioned for M foran you know and I read it a couple of
01:04:58
times don don do you work with him I auditioned for amadas oh did you yeah Dan Dan Dan Dan Dan stop acting really
01:05:07
stop acting he go stop he was too bored with me I know I think we're ready to move on yeah yeah during yours well I didn't know what I was doing but I I saw
01:05:19
the movie and go okay I see they wanted a blond-haired cherubic guy yeah did you
01:05:25
go off script and do chopping broccoli no but I I want to be on Saturday Night Live
01:05:31
yeah I know and you guys did and you were great and you know today your your stuff endures just as strongly as
01:05:38
anything that we ever did on that first cast you you know if you look at church lady and all your impressions and uh you
01:05:45
know and everything you know and your flight attendant of course classic a classic a
01:05:51
classic all of it great all my theory is this is that music and comedy just have to reflect the times and so we were for
01:05:59
our time yeah and then I don't ever want to be a grumpy old man about Taylor Swift she's no John lennin you know that
01:06:06
kind of thing I said and tried to really do a deep dive into Taylor Swift because I want to know and she's incredibly
01:06:11
skilled and um same thing with sat Night Live now this is their era and they're great and they're great and Higgins said Steve Higgins just said luren he said Lauren wrote the Constitution mhm and
01:06:24
then everyone interprets it for their time for their era so no the show's been really great really great the Halloween show is outstanding writing really really very
01:06:37
smart we had him on the podcast a couple days later he was a great com he's a really good writer and he's so excited about that he'd only done talk shows quality work all of it George oh yeah
01:06:51
well when I'm awake I mean I I live a very very quiet life right now very quiet good I'm not in the cities I'm I'm I'm in the country I used to have a Grand National
01:07:06
that was pretty sweet yeah right I right old black National yeah oh yeah store you go to and everyone knows
01:07:13
your name kind of thing yeah go on the motorcycle or take one of the old you know the old cars in
01:07:19
it seems to me just just from afar you've always had one foot still in whatever you call regular life I would
01:07:26
say so yeah mcycle friends get a steak I don't know I've heard things but it seems like you've always oh sure that
01:07:32
well of course after for sanity yeah but I don't like living in cities anymore I prefer to live in the country just
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because I have tinitus you know the ringing and also to sleep at night the Blackness you need the Blackness to
01:07:44
sleep and the where I have a place that the mountain a is coming in and I can open my eyes or close my eyes still black black yeah yeah and dead quiet all
01:07:55
here is the coyotes sometimes throw a party but it is so so good it you the deep sleep you get there it'll prolong life that sleep it really will yeah mine's being short and I'm about 40 feet
01:08:07
from Sunset it's quiet and this is a fortress here David this is where we want to be during the Great reset plus he's got a lot of
01:08:19
food no he stocks a lot of food this old thing um Dan first of all we we we've all looked up to you we we we you're a lovely guy you're always nice to me I interviewed you for Spin Magazine when I
01:08:31
got an SNL yeah and you're so cool and just the fact that you still generous everything and talking love hang we love
01:08:38
just bullshitting about the old days yeah you know there is an expression Canadian nice and I I went to Canada
01:08:44
once and did a gig and there is Canadian nice there's Minnesota nice but Canadian nice was like I was just at a table
01:08:50
before I was going to go out there and a guy was like he saw me look at some water hey would you like some water there I can get some water for you so
01:08:56
there is Canadian nice and mik Myers yourself and um it's very sweet and and um my wife's Canadian so I'm partial she's very nice too sure sure she
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listens to the podcast yeah I just did Calgary last weekend and everyone was nice yeah it's
01:09:13
just Canada is just a cool country it's not a rumor it's real anyway Dan it's been such an honor and a pleasure you've
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been a big part of the puzzle of our little project here and we're so glad we'll hang again soon yes see around
01:09:27
campus is what I say slam my crystal head just David is Qui gotten drunk during the podcast it's David is hot David is messed up stuff works oh
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