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wow guys today is a big one this is uh ah God Dana and I were really uh
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
00:26:53
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
00:27:03
Dan Dan you believe in UFOs I believe that they're real everyone believes in
00:27:10
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
00:27:16
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
00:27:23
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
00:27:31
cuz I whenever I'm thinking about supernatural stuff and I always go we're here so the greatest Supernatural thing
00:27:37
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
00:27:43
to all of it what I was curious about the United States Air Force that the sightings of the UFOs seem to be stuck
00:27:50
in kind of a black and white Herky jerky 1950s Motif yeah can't they get more
00:27:56
sophisticated cameras on these sucker so we can really well there's more footage coming out uh and uh it is all governed
00:28:02
now by the new office at the Pentagon that handles this and that is called the all domain because they go in water they
00:28:10
fly through water a th miles hour so space Sky water all domain
00:28:16
anomalous you don't know what it is resolution because they have to resolve they've got military craft and and and
00:28:23
Equipment being exposed so it's the all domain anomalous resolution office to figure out what they are and so that's
00:28:30
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
00:28:37
in by the military and brought in by uh civilians and and and analyzed there so
00:28:43
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
00:28:53
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
00:29:44
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
00:29:56
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
00:30:10
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
00:30:27
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
00:31:30
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
00:31:57
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
00:32:23
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
00:32:40
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
00:33:10
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
00:33:22
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
00:33:36
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
00:33:49
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
00:34:13
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
00:35:11
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
00:35:31
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
00:36:22
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
00:36:39
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
00:36:59
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
00:37:17
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
00:37:30
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
00:38:01
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
00:38:35
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
00:38:53
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
00:39:10
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
00:39:32
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
00:39:43
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
00:39:55
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
00:40:09
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
00:40:28
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
00:41:59
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
00:42:12
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
00:42:42
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
00:43:04
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
00:43:16
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
00:43:40
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
00:43:59
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
00:44:53
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
00:45:10
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
00:45:55
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
00:46:08
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
00:46:37
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
00:47:01
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
00:47:51
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
00:48:09
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
00:48:38
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
00:48:50
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
00:49:01
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
00:49:26
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
00:49:47
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
00:50:44
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
00:50:57
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
00:51:24
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
00:51:42
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
00:51:59
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
00:52:54
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
00:53:50
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
00:54:10
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
00:54:30
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
00:54:49
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
00:55:03
mn's band you know that song Oh Hennessy tennessy to the flute
00:55:10
the music something
00:55:16
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
00:55:52
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
00:56:17
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
00:57:07
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
00:57:32
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
00:57:51
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
00:58:41
at meal did he really yeah why is there no blue your shoes big shoes little
00:58:46
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
00:58:53
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
00:59:12
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
00:59:18
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
00:59:42
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
00:59:54
think I think I was I was doing Harry sheir or doing Tom Snider he did a great Tom Snider really outstanding
01:00:01
outstanding a Tom everybody I remember saying I love Tom I was a kid I I didn't
01:00:07
know Dan I'm So Young um no I'm not but uh I was watching it going I never
01:00:12
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
01:00:44
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
01:00:57
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
01:01:14
referenced you and Phil there's a a connection personality wise you both have so many interests yeah outside of
01:01:23
being was effortless performers and then would go read these Journal he was a
01:01:29
pilot yeah he's a pilot he he was sailing he was I loved him I loved him
01:01:34
too he was wonderful you did bco with him right yeah that's right Steve yeah here's to
01:01:41
Phil Chris John and a lot to be thankful for at this time of year Thanksgiving
01:01:46
and Christmas and uh the old vodka there in the skulls is available in stores all
01:01:52
over the nation all over the if you want to get a well makes a great gift that's why I'm
01:01:59
on this kind of little tour here because it's gift giving time of year and we want to remind people that Thanksgiving
01:02:05
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
01:02:16
website is there uh worldwide web Crystal head vodka.com it's in most uh
01:02:21
uh liquor stores across the country chains and otherwise yeah Crystal head and um I think it's it's got a pretty
01:02:27
big brand name I think people really are aware there's a lot of a lot of room to
01:02:34
grow so yeah see the bottle should be on your shelf if you have liquor it just
01:02:39
looks Co yeah it tastes good should be on every bar yeah in the world Crystal head just in just a few seconds before
01:02:46
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
01:02:57
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
01:03:15
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
01:03:27
wasn't kind of a plagiarism and it wasn't really um uh Crystal had uh there
01:03:32
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
01:03:39
projects came to fruition um but uh the Navajo the Aztec the Mayans were
01:03:45
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
01:04:04
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
01:04:52
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
01:05:13
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
01:06:17
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
01:06:29
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
01:06:43
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
01:06:59
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
01:07:37
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
01:07:50
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
01:08:01
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
01:08:13
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
01:08:26
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
01:09:02
um my wife's Canadian so I'm partial she's very nice too sure sure she
01:09:07
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
01:09:20
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
01:09:32
during the podcast it's David is hot David is messed up stuff works oh
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