Carrie Fisher and Personal Stories

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He comes by the office. All right, sir, fair enough, sir. He would come in and chat with everyone but sure. That's kind of when he does Tom Schneider Yeah. For those of you maybe missed this when we hadem on It's worth a listen. There's something about them that is so interesting And he is he's got such a wide range of things he's interested into as well as comedy and performing in movies. but U It's a fun fun little listen. I would say. Yeah, he's not rotting in his couch all day.'s like lookingooking for UFOs. He has a crystal headad Vodka companies into everything. polter guys and all the supernatural stuff. reallyally. Which got us Ghostbusters, which was the accident there. It did pretty well unbelievable I think one of the ghostbusters was going to be Eddie Murphy. I think one was going to be Belushci And I didn't work I think Eddie Murphy says that's the only movie he regrets I would they never made the sequel to Ghostbusters in a Western theme called Bronken Busters, Ghostbusters. Yeah, there was some talk about that. Yeah, that would have been great. But anyway But is You one to know way my hero, one of the best of all time on Saturdayight live. Yeah. Dan Acroyd Two days ago and he saidays to stay the Chateau Yeah, Chris, he must love you He came over and gave me a hug. I said I was seeing you guys and he was, yeah He should have been more excited about you seeing us, but that's okay It's great when you meet someone who hasn't become a superstar yet Yeah. and if you treat them normal, they never forget it If you're just reasonably respectful, he's pretty much of a superstar though. Oh yeah. B boy, from what I gather hasn't changed a bit. It's like a congressional. How asker some questions. We're sitting on a table like I in Oppenheimer. The podcast is actually called the Hot seeat. It's a surprise. And you are And welcome Dan Acroy toember The hot se. Yeah. Heather helping with that, Do you know how to do that? I'll do the side thing And will you bring them? So Crystal hadad vodka, is that the one plane You have any do you have any fres squeezed orange juice in the in the house in the house I assume so any didid you ever win an award? juice at all? anyy cranberry or any you know what we might have is a That's notucent we have lemon seven up seeltzer Is that nothing? you not really just like Hibiscus or grandbriur isc Yeah. That's all right Put some ice in there. Yeah, I will. Yeah. I'm just No, no, no, no, no, don't worry about that no But it's just if you to sample it, it pops it better if it's if it's cooled. Well, it's cold I'll put some ice in there.. I'll try. I' gonna So and please let me know So I don't let me know when we're rolling so that I'll do all the politically incorrect stuff now We're always we don't using it, but we'ready you always have editing capability. can We will send you the R how the conversation begins then. Okay. Okay Well, what you're doing there is you're you're pouring the the Noash. Okay. go ahead, let you won awards for this vodkka want to start do a do do a formal introduction or do we just No we do have Dan Ackrod who I start everyone as Joe Biden Get your facts straight, Jack That's it Yeah And then there was the other president you did so well and so beautiful. How to do it? Yeah You know, that was the way that eventually ye came it was a slur. you know, it's a water There's a Washingtonad not it became not going to do it became not going to do it. and In Washington now, there's a slur that is commonly used commonly for a word that is that is frequently employed in the trade Sir So Sir, Senator Senator becomes Sir Sir It's Sool Sul, remember Sul? Yeah. Hood time. Genius was that guy. T old, you remember S No Chris Chris Katan because did He did he did Sul because ye I'm talking now, I'm going to tell you a sh You know, Sool this's the slur. Yeah. the people slur all the time. Yeah. Well, a little bit now I think he a little bit. Yeah. Can I do a six degrees of separate I don't belie That's the term. I'm in college. You're doing Jimmy Carter on Saturday night Live. I'm recording it with a cassette and trying to steal you know, playing at little teeny cl stealer Jimmy Carter and was in awe of it and then yous we what we in clubs. I always try do what you guys did. You guys were like to me like badass rebel pirates. Yeah I think of Bill Murray and you That's so accurate an analysis of us It really is. Well, I think well we were little L at us. We're like little people We're tiny people, but you guys were kind of strapping all over six feet. You would punch a guy or make him laugh. Yeah m And so you do you you'd copy of that Jimmy Carter. Well, Jimmy Carter, you know, he had that he had that e contact. and a very soft way of approaching things and Yeah He ended up being, you know, one of the great post presidents and u Really giant figure. You know what's interesting about him? because I became fascinated by him because he's constantly referred to So I read this book about him. not understand the idea of deficit spending. He was like, I don't stand how we take in this much money. Yeah. And we're going to give out that much money. It makes no sense to me. But my Jimmy Carter I do now, I still do all the presidents is that he had a nervous breakdown, put your peaner butt on his head wandered around the White House sir are you okay? You' got your peaner butt on your head? No' I'm a peanut butter man. Yeah. I got peanut butter hair, peanut butter soup, peanut butter tie, peanut butter shoes. I'm a peanut butter peanut butter. I'm doing you. But here's the thing that got me crazy then is when you were visiting S andL and then you praised my George Bush senror impression. So it was like ten years later. So that just no, you know, these things Carter was unbelievable. You know, he was a nuclear physicist and an engineer in the Navy, and he helped set up Canada's reactor program There was a there was a captain of a nuclear. he trouleshooted went up to Otta, my hometown there and troubleshooted a reactor problem they had In what year before President O this Oh, yeah, no when he was you know, President walks in. Let me take a look you know, six. I'll get back to the economy and I'm going to do this reactive for the outer ones Yeah, but well, it's a deficit spending, you know,, you know? I live in a country that is fiat a fiat currency. Well, right. Canada as well say, you know fiat currency all you do is you just print more money if you need it And so, you know, it spending, you got to spend the money, people need it Uh you got to spend it. We're doing. And we're doing it. Yeah. We we've got a we've almost got a letter put it on the shelf. No it shouldn't. A thirird world debt debt load right now. Right. But because we can print more Why not spread? N never anything. Sread. Her monetary theory. Now we're getting close to a trillion in interest on formul. Oh a little bit of. Thats really bad. have vodka. A little bit of thatself. I' sweet. Thankk you. swweet, vanilla, dry and crisp u made in Canada Can I ask you a question about this because we don't have to talk about the vodka. We can talk No, no. I want to talkll hop around. this is going integrate into you as a performer. You were one of the first Celebrities that that made a I do like first time he takes hands drink his own vodka. there's a cons in the back. Now. David has this other vodka. I won't mention the name sometimes I'm always looking for a vodka, so go ahead I knew about this. Okay, we have you. Now David Sade is going to take the little. Am I smelling the notes first? I didn't you love Johnny. So he wass gonna to have Yester night he had two slippery monkeys at the hook and crook What a great caron yall. Oh, I love Johnny And ye. When he died, when the joke would die, that was the funniest the way his reactions work, you know, O Yeah. the deconstucted good An. Dry crisp. You did it right to finish. it's clean.' the sweetness from our corn there And I'm a vodka guy. the thing David, most of the other vodkas, so I don't name names, but they put Lemonine, sugar And they put citrus soil, they put glycol, fung. And you don't need that. No, don't need that You know, if you're a bartender, you're making we add all kinds of additives in there areain.t Germaine Frank, you know, all kind of Burnette Bronco some dictionary. Dan. are you You know, so that you don't need if you're a bar chef you don't need. Well are you any? I don't know the story. How did this originate? I'm sorry. I just want to know how I just wanted a cleaner vodka really What year was this? this been around? We've been in a decade and a half into this. Okay. Now there' have been many vodkaas coming gone Come and gone. R and And all the celebrities are doing Tquila now Well, many there, you know what? there's two hundred Sick. Celebrity spirits friends. T hundred I didn't know there was two hundred celebrities. I gotta get going on this Yeah And werent you an early adopter? It seems like Sammy Hager did his tequila. and then I just I just I just began to research vodkin and saw But, uh, you know, uh, since they were, u polluting it a bit. And so Jhnny Alexander and I came up with the idea for the skull memember, you know Johny Jonny Alexander, the artist. Well, the skull is revolutionary. matter when his girlfriend or my girlfriend dumped me for him Rosie Schuster Rosie Siser, who developed Churche with me. Yeah wrote with her Oh no lot human being Yeah. And and it's beautiful, beautiful woman from I't know she was Lauren's ex wife for like a year. Lauren's ex wife. Yeah. Well I knew that for I knew and it didn't stop me but o boy. He was very magnanous. But anyway, Johnny I got back because not that I took her away from him. that was kind of over with Lauren the time, but I I was with Rosie and she fell in love with Johnny and dumped D't gave me the high But now we're friend. Yeahah. Now we're friends Johnny and I and as Rosie said to, All three of us one night at Davis' Memorial, she looked at Lauren at me and she looked at Johnny we were all sitting there like crows on a wire. at Davis and you said, Well, at least you have each other Oh, we love Rosie.. So today we have the Vodka company Johnny and we're having a ball. It's really fun Uh, you know, if you can drink moderately and respectfully it's a good thing. Now, Danny, are you saying some of these like There's a lot of celebrities. I drink Erkel's tequila, which is probably the best one. Erke I'm kidding. No. It probably does. It's probably in the works. I've got Felix the cat What would that be? It's a loggerer I Yeahah. Felix the cat the cat. You remember Felix the cat? Yes. Oh, of course, the he remember bag Do you remember Elwood Blues is partly.elsartley Felix the cat. Hartley based on Felix the Cat, the briefcase that has everything in it. Oh my goodness. Oh Felix. That's gott to be brought back. That is a beautiful beautiful d. That was one of my first animated memories. Oh, yeah, yeah. fifty eight, fifteenelix is Felixelix Felix the cat. He's one of the Bluess brothers Felix. she is she's black and light. Yeah. I know. Yeah. that's a mission from God. Yeah. Now listen Now when you do when you do this, you're sayinging 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 hangver The glycol certainly would. Okay. Yeah. So when you have too many things in it, it's great Yeah. Now now of course now you you get to eight shots of this, even without the pollutants in there, you're going It is ethyl alcohol. so you know, you got toa be of One of our new sponsors, I guess, is trying to mitigate that problem Oh, we have one of ours that says that you take this, but you know what Oh It doesn't it doesn't have hangovers. It mitigates them. It's not v. It's saying it helps you with a hangover. it's not a Try it. Yeah, try it. Yeah. I mean So by the 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' so sad it's g. They dug up the coolest place in the world and now it's some Dump be hotel that nobody ca about. Live Nation bought House of Blues in two thousand seven. and how much did they Of several hundred million. Okay. basasically to save the company Be it had many challenges and they came in and saved the company because you know, the dot com bomb two thousand eight All kinds of things nine eleven, all kinds of things fought against House Slu survival and Live Nation came in and saved the company in two thousand five hundred jobs And then across the street here, they the lease holder U basasically wanted the building back. and so they just paid live Nation you know, some to say we want build our own thing here and And liive Nation looked at it economically and said, you know, we'd have to run a restaurant here for the next fifty years to make the money that was offered. So yeah, I understood the decision. But it's too bad. They took out our beautiful bar steel. Steel and that was my office. I mean, I hung I saw the Gogos. saw so many so many great ps. Yeah in Vag. there's cool one in Anahheim, Vegas.'s se Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah, there's eleven of them And and they are they're rocin. the one in Chicago is just great That's a great brand. So so another business thing you got into. It seems to me just listening to you, it's a super creative Fression yourself Because the first time I met you and you sat us all you were visiting SNL. It was me and Phil and John my first season. We were at a restaurant. First thing you said was don't be in a hurry to leave the show And the second one was just about business and pay attention Well, it's show business, right? you know? Yeah, But that I remembered that today. It's always great to have great advisors. and you know, Any work that I've done that I'm proud of, it's because I've been with wonderful collaborators, any success I've had. It's consulting people who are smarter than me in many areas Andh just the the fun of working with with with just great people. all the way through. Um, any, you know, Mercy and Murray and and all the Jesusist Yeah. and and Lovs, of course, we just think of 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. He loveove it Just on Lovez was there, you know. why? I did. I don't know where you got that here Sctacular. I did this thing. It's going to be out in the next year. The world in six Gasses, It's a documentary talking about all the fluids that have influenced man mind over time. and I had him on He came on I was the most fun. Yeahah. huh? I'll do it. He's so funny. Oh no, he was just. I is always alive. You put him in the wedding singer or he's funny. Yeah. I've had him in moies No, he is. he is Jealous? Yeah, That's his big one. By the way. Yeah I like your glasses. Jealous? Yeah ye. You mentioned trading places and I I mean, there's too many things ask Danak write about. I know. There's not much to ask other than the funa over things, but Trading places was one of the those movies that just hit us hard and it was an R rated movie and it was so fucking funny. And then You just so I don't want to say did you know it going in, but you know, you get to work with Eddie and did you know well at all or was it just was it a gamble to put Eddie in? Nobody Well, I think You know, He did the Walter Hill movie. The Walter Hill movie and then Paramount said, Yeahah, he'd be good. And somehow that pairing came together. I didn't know him before we started. Of course, it was spectacular to see talent grow and what he did in that film. And When I read the script it was so intelligently written and I thought, yeah, I severe great thing to play and have fun on because it was certainly different from You know anything I'd done before and And then Landa directing it because we made a couple of things together. so It was you know, all the cyinders were clicking. It was kind of like a thirty screwball comedy in that sense of It wasn't it was so fun and easy to watch. It was written by a pair of writers, Weinrad and Harris and they wrote it Um corresponded I heard by Fax machine to write it and I believe they did one other film, but that was certainly their most famous Yeah and well known one and so well done and great actors in it. Yeah, that's a ApleA. I'm proud of that one. Jamie Lee' we love nature. Everything was working and You eating the salmon out of your beard? I mean I don't know if it's an ad liver or what, but those are the textuure things in movies where 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, you know, you come into the set, you know, you look around stuff you can use Yeah all the time. You know, we're desperate How do I fill it with business? What a So I have this of a beer and love there's a salmon like, Oh, yeah. I don't know if it was scripted or not, but I kind of remember it being spontaneous I'm going to pick it up. your ha I'm going to go for But that's Gre because you look at scenes and And uh And I almost forget that, you know, we did Tommy Boy and same thing. you look at a day's 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 He bring it can you guys give us a clip on just for one laugh so we can It's all about brake pads. It was hard to make it that Everything funny. that reminds me of that. You get there, you see a salmon you see a beard, and you chew the beard on Atandis was generous with that? aboutb just grabbing. Oh no, he So he was smart. Oh no, he lets the performer go And you mentioned Farley, of course Dearly beloved, deearly beloved, you. Of course. mr Rackrooy. Oh Could he be more in love with Den? It's unt think so. was C had thisstand the Conads. He played the beautiful part. He is good at Cad. Yeah, he was great Oh yeah. You know when he do he would do stuff on the set and he'd move his head and we're like, that's Aachroid. That's Bill Murray, That's Bllut. But the sweetest sweet, sweetest guy Just a sweet sweet man J Zelenssky. The name came back this year. B, bigish Yeah. we were the first great stuff with his pants. Yeah. pulling his pants. he' so respectful and polite and a church going You know, Oh ye go and Yeah. Yeah, ye. that Yeah we had a less on time We had a less on time I remember one night when we were in You were showing us, is that where Rob Lo gets hitting the balls? I don't want to give the whole movie away, but when we we're in like we shot like twenty four hours and we had some factory in Toronto We got to go up there and We were getting tired Magag magna auto parts. And you had a there was the the air freshener show. so many things. and then just have you from the guy we love to be in the movie and then the movie worked out. Yeah, did So that's a good picture. That's a really good picture The deer scene. Oh. That happened to Frankin and Davis, you know Oh, was a deer came alive? Is it a car went through the windshield. Yeah. ye yeah. I think that happens a lot. But I don't know how many times deer comes back alive That was the other I think think I think in their case it might have. Oh, w well, yeah,. Frank's like this. Yeah. Well, we got a deer in the back. Oh you've gott to be here. we've got to show.ust We'll take care of the deer later. Oh, I gotta tell him I'm sorry we had Michaelcan and I, remember Michael McCon. Of course. a c Well. I know. his resume, it's like you're Yeah, he's exausting every And they're making spinal topaps Damn I Oh, I don't know. I wt There's rumors of we don't ask the good questions. Yeah. We just wn, but we were talking Konets, he was my partner in Konets And I was telling Dana that we were the u Immigration guys. Yeah. kind of the bad guys or whatever, you know, And and it was peppered with. we didn't mention it, but I think Sandler was in the movie Farley had a big. was his first movie appearance s? G, was it Billy Manis. He played ye Yeah, he sold he sold theline or something. He sold me the ID Yeah That's right, Fake Iy. Yeah, right. Yeahah. Yeah. And we had EllanaeGens Drew Carry, Sinbad. I know peppered that place.. If you watch it, you go, whoa,, look who that is. It was a very good serviceable family comedy and it's certainly endjures today, no doubt about it. Serviceable. I think that wasn't in the pitch. They Well, you know they Barely No, I love conheads Yeah I told Dana and Michael that he's Michael didn't know those. So you know, it's supposed to come out at Halloween, they rushed it was that what happened? Yeah, yeah. Yeahah, Stanley Jaffy there at Paramount prodded Lauren to get it ready and Lauren and I were thinking Halloween, Halloween, but we need it now, we need it now. so He would would have done better at Halloween, but it did as all of these things have a life now. Listen, they people wind up seeing them and ye And when you're smoking weed in Washington Santaight Live In nineteen seventy eight they come on and they're called the con headads and their heads are like con headads. What I mean we wrote the thing. Yeah. They're the cone headads and their heads look like ye No, that's good. that yeah I didn't tell community members. I I was telling them the yesterday right you were probably gnarfling the Garthock at this point, but we were u Narvel liketh thought. We were Michael and I were in same shirt and boxers to do a scene and I was in 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 anyone and I can still work say I do have chicken pox And he goes, you have chickenpox. And I go, yeah, but it it's here where my shirt is and it's tell my legs and you can't see it. And I'm in have scene with you and could have infested the whole. Every yeah. And he goes, okay, hang on. And they go, shutting down the set. I'm like, what's going on? I didn't even connect it to me And so they sent everyone home and I don't know if you're working that day, but I was like Oh my God. And so and then someone goes, U, that's going to cause a studio. You're in trouble. Everything was terrifying me to get fired but wound up being a blast. but That's remembering of the chicken pox way late. Yeah. I know. You didn't get on it. Y so No when I was such a weak little puss of a kid, I got Masles knocked me for three weeks, which is ormal. When you was thir seven or when I had I got when I was a normal. Okay. but I was very frail. You can't tell this athlete that sits in front of you. No, that's right. Marathon runner. Marathon runner, Dan is a marathon runner. That was such a fun picture, Chadson. and we had a great cast. Yeah. And yeah, yeah, it's I'm proud of that one. I like that one Yeah Yeah I mean this's just fan type questions likeike when you look at you will bered you take you take a dragnet, you take you take you will be sared. You will be spared. You will be spcared. I will place both of you on the prrotected rolls Say no more of it. Goodbye. Remember? I was behind Dave Thomas at the end. they brought me for an extra either it will be. and I go ahead. Yeah. That was so just mock everything just said with I turned and went with the conheads at the end. So you can order this on Amazon for like bucks, right? for just people listen like shrink when you see a. Were there two cononant movies or just? Just one. Hey, listen, I would do that character in a second. In fact, I have a story idea, but you know, busying out if you know And no one's gonna to listen to a story. How do you sleep night? cone heads? No one's going to want another cone heads out there, Paramount plus. No Hulu is waiting. I know the guy runs for Cryistal Vodka, the movie. I'm gonna text him. Yeah, no was I was on the Hulu there. was I did a little show called Zombie Town in Aris Stein, you know, the Goos author. Yeah. So it's on Hulu now. It's called Zombie Town. And it's like it's like, okay now Children of America. You're gonna have to learn about zombies. This is an introductory movie about zombies for you. Gentle and soft. kind of funny, a little scary. you know, so that you can step up to, you know totally world of Z. what's that Z World WarZ WorldarZ was. I remember Lauren asked me when his kids were little girls. I don't really understand sccooby Doo. And I said I said I don't really get why they love it And to your point, it was the first time when they're a certain age, it's a little scary. The mask comes off, there's a haunted person. So that's that was the ro That's fuel for that. G them. You step them on your exercise. That's right. That I saw at seventeen.. I still haven't unseen it. It was even too early Yeah. Well, we went in, you' never seen it. don't see it. I'm too scared. I guess it's brilliant. It's brilliant. I believe in that showit. I'm a paranormal guy like that Study and play. Come together on a Windows eleven PC. And for a limited time, college students get the best of both worlds. Get the unreal college deal, everything you need to study and play with select Windows eleven PCs. Eligible students get a year of Microsoft three hundred sixty five preremium and a year of Xbox GamePass Ultimate with a custom color Xbox wireless controller Lear more at windows d. com slash student offer. 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There's probably dozens of them. They come from the ocean? There may be bases there. and and go ahead and to tell lookook, I'm totally because whenever I'm thinking about supernatural stuff and what I always go, we're here So the greatest supernatural thing is that we exist right now talking here. How do we get here? What are we doing here? you know, so I'm open minded to all of it. What I was curious about the United States Air Force that The sightings of the UFOs seem to be stuck in kind of a black and white y jerky, nineteen fifties motif. they get more sophisticated cameras on these suckers so we can really. Well, there's more footage coming out. and it is all governed now by the new office of the Pentagon that handles this and is called the All domain. because they go in water. They fly through water a thousand 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 so the equipment being exposed, so it's the all domain anommost resolution office to figure out what they are And so that's we actually have a Pentagon department now that's working on that or a branch that's working, you know, all those sightings will be brought in by the military and brought in by civilians and analyzed there. So It's real. there there. Again, your question, who, where where are they coming from? Wh I think A lot of them are just tourists. I think it's not as scary a little bit because And I'm scared of them, even though I do dimensional Well S I think they They would have done whatever they're going have done. They're already here. They've been here a million times. They would they can take us out if they were. That's why I feel a little easier They're not. I don't think they're a threat, however I will If you talk to some of the aviators down ne in Marina Del Reay, with fire department, the police department, the shheriff's Department, helicopters and such They see them all the time And And they seem to be bugging them and flying them flying around and like challenging them Do you feel in a way Dan you were ahead of your time in a sense because now it's going more mainstream. Yes, you were at the Pentagon And it's more acknowledged And you've been talking about before And we've seen two here unidentified You have have Yeah yeah. So And my mother saw one. you That was why I got interested in it. My mother saw one in nineteen forty seven and she worked in the aircraft production. u ministry in World War two, u at that with u in Ottawa during the war and aircraft production for the fuselages on the hurricane. So she knew aircraft. and she said in nineteen forty seven, she saw one ark Spark Street there, you know, They're going Sw. Yeah. Back then. they worked Yeahah. Yeah they kind They're going they're going everywhere. Yeah. I don't think I don't think they want a formal relationship with us But they will take advantage of us using their flirt. Do do you have any sense of being connected to two thousand one ofpace Odyssey? Just the idea that we were seeded here by an alien r still seems of fascinating. Yeah, you know, one of the favorite movies of a lot of people at NASA is the movie that That was that was made mission to Mars with what had the face, the face on Mars in it And theory was Sy Sinnys? Yeah, I think so. Mission to Mars, it wasn't the one with M Damon. Matt Damon. that No, no, no no it Gary. is this postulated that We were seated here. and there was some help was was, you know, there was some help. And so a lot of NASA personnel see that as a kind of a viable. concept from what I've, you know, what I understand of course, and everything's on the table, unless someone has all this figured out Have you seen any aliens because they have pictures of them. They have I don't, I never know. never seen. You know they you know that people have seen pictures. Yeah, sure C how they shappe. And you know my pololter guys or whatever you call them experiences there' Yeah U Yeah you really went through that Yeah. And that was annoying to you that your experienceces It wasn't something you enjoyed, right? It was Well, the one that was the well, there's there's many of them, but in this house we have up in Northern California, it was built in nineteen twelve There's three bedrooms upstairs And so one night, and I didn't know what white noise was at this point. belieelieve it or not, I just had not It was the nineties or whatever. So I wake up to thisight like an FM radio between channels, right? I'm going, Wh is everyone sleeping So I walk around and by the time I get in the room, I don't hear it It was 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 when I slept in there once because companyies over, I 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. Yeah. you know It happens to millions of people. Hans Holzer, HOL Z ER, he was the great ghostbuster and he has a great number of books upon you know, dealing with all of the things that he dealt with in hiser. Is that how Ghostbusters started as you just got into all that? Well, my family was into it. My great grandfather was a spiritualist researcher and all around the house. the cottage there that we had in the summers, which was the summer house where he lived It was full of journals and books and his writings and So I was sitting there flipping through a journal from the American Society for Psychical Research, and it was an article on quantum physics and parasychology and I just went Okay Parap of psychology, quantum physics the real terms, the real vernacular, the real research that's being done Marry that to an old style comedy like Abbott and Castello, Bowery Boys Yeah Bob Hope and Dean B Cros Bing Crosby who did ghost movies. Yeah. 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, who are you guys? Weere're ghostbusters? he says. Oh they Where the ghosters. By the way, justice in assault. Ghostbusters says yeah. So that was the first use of the term And it was a great tradition of ghost movies in Hollywood. I thought, let's marry the real vernacular or the real science, the real fact that people are seriously seriously into this research with an old style comedy. Now as an aside That movie hold that ghost with Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin Jerry Lewis. does a A walk down the stairs in the old castle setent it defies physics. The way he comes down those stairs and doesn't kill himself is amazing. He was was he trying? Was he trying to be He was just combing down the stairs. Oh just like clumsily coming down the stairs. notot possessedors. No, no, just clumsily walking down the stairs and he I don't know how he didn't kill him. say he was a masterful physical comedian. you absolutely masterful you got you hung with him unless you must have known Jerry Lewis? Yeah. Not really. I met woman who played the Inenu Cinderfella Oh yes fe. And then I went and looked at a scene on YouTube of Jerry Lewis. this there's a center piece where he's dancing around with the stairs to your point The physical comedy is breathtaking. Yeah. And 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 the phone. Schafer hooked him on the phone with me one day And Jerry and hello and Jerry and Ier I snd Jerry Can you canan you give me a a? Give me a n And he on the phone, I'll never forget over the phone I noah. . It all comes from the Jewish Yiddish theater of the lower East Side, the cats kills That all of that humor, the youang, the shoulder take, the spit take the fork drop if you ever if you ever the fork drops wonderful. You're sitting at dinner. someomebody says something and bank. Yeah. the fork. That's all a comedy from the Yiddish. Low eastide. Do you know that there's a wonderful expression for your show in Yiddish the fly in the wall goes It's the Fk Oystter vant That's how you say fly on the wall and youish F F I start on. Let's get this so we have to our promos. Yeah It sounds It's poetic. So that the gong he gave me a gong and And all of that comes from that rich rich tradition. Did you have other heroes like did Carry Grant ever reach out to you or O super in the seventies when you guys were exploding because Jim Leary. And Dav were Timothy Leary. Yeah, Timothy D I b Davis Yeah. I bought him and on our friends, I bought the last steak dinner that he ate before he died at the Marmont over there at the restaant. Wh didd you put in it or reallyill? It was already taken care of. And now everybody's doing it. Yeah for analalthason. And Timothy Leary. I met Jimmy Hoffa 'a I him. That's ye yeah. Giant Stadium, That's the last I heard. That was yeah, yeah. Well, you saw that movie with Hel you on that That him? Heatherice. Lauren McCall, I worked with her. I worked with Jim Garner And Jack Lemmon, I work with the Jack Lemmon and J in a movie called American President Lauren McCall was in that. It was wonderful Was that Pete Siegel? Yeah, Pete Siegel, got. Yeahah and work with work with all great veterans like that. Yeah, that's what I was curious about. so you intersected. Oh so ne so yeah, so neat And ye When you left SNL was there So Chevy came, we had Chevy on here He was Perfectly banas the way we wanted. It was amazing,. was Yeah. was filming. It was so funny. Yeah, yeah. He was doing stick and stuff. No, his sticks and stones. His work with his fingers. If you never saw any other part of them, the work with his hands I remember he did something just like, you know, he's like he's he's there he's got the fers walking and all of a sudden And it starts to it's just hilarious to control, you know Yeah. Well, we had this here, which is like ten bottles on a tray. and he just waited. And a given point, he just they were down. was like they were in f. Yeah perfectly. He waited. He knew. You could tell he knew Oh That was his go to No, I love Chevy. I know No we do too. you stayed straight through like he was the first year of SNL and then you stayed how long you stay five years? four years. And the reason we left was Purely and srely because we had to finish the Blues Brothers. Oh wear. Maybe it was a possibility we'd go back, you know, we went to Chicago then the movie went. sort of early summer. Oh it's summer Autumn and we were shooting and we were shooting and we had to go back to LA to shoot some of the stuff inside, the church scene, soul food restaurant all of that would be done in L.A. and we knew we couldn't go back. so I made the call to Lauren, saying we weren't going to return for John. How hard was that It was a little it was made a little easier because when Animal House was being done. They wanted me to play D day and they wanted me to join Land Ascend. And Reitman and o yeah and u You know, u John inew Oregon to do that movie and I just looked and I just John's gone, man, I just looked and I thought You know, how can I can't leave Lauren here without another without a writer or an actor, you know? So I told him. I said, I'm going to stay. And I 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 Animal House. Yeah. And not and there's like somebody some analyst somewhere some pundit or something said Oh Lauren forced me to stay or was you know, you enfce the contract. Lauren is not a dictator slave. Whver you want to go, you go He's not like that. No. He encouraged He wouldn't want to look thirsty like that. He would he wouldn't be We'd love to have you, you know, if you need to go, you know, that would be racious Canadian. Yeah. Yeah. And then he fell in love with his cast members. He did T to this day, he loves Canadian. He My boys and my girls, he calls them. ye. Yeah, yeah. No, he loves. He loves them We gather here tonight to bring women back to their rightful place. The Testament', a new Hulu original series from the executive producers of the Handmaid's Tale. It's easier to accept a story than believe that the people around you are monsters. The battle isn't over. There comes a time when you have to take action when you have to choose your own destiny it say. Watch the new Hulu original series The Testaments, Streaming on Hulu and Hulu O Disney pllus for Bitle subscribers, Terms apply I came in in ' eighty six ' he'd had that five year hiatus constantly references to you guys and was so intimidating to be And it was like, Danny did it because I'd come up with an idea. Danny did that season two and like Chevy believes. But you guys are the original. So there is only Chevy Danny. Yeah. Never the last name. Never said Danc Rrod, never said Paul Simon, never said Paul McCartney. And look how the show is going now. so current so relevere so extraordinary When you did Blues Bs, which is one of my all time. And I know you opened for Steve Martin at the Universal. I heard that's That's show. Why there is a Blues Brotherss because John recorded the record from there. Goddamn Yeah you do. How do you get Carrie Fisher? Was she Star Wars or was she How does they r around a girlfriend?? Yeah. She to get into that She didn't do her love line. No, well, well because it wasn't the Barbie part for her. She was good friends with John and just good friends with Penny, Marshall and John. and was a whole She was Penny's buddy and we just asked her to be a part of it, and she was a part of it, and then we fell in love And we almost got married. We had blood tests and rings exchanged and everything And I was ready to spend the rest of my life with Carrie. And After we wrapped the movie, we got into Alir twenty four with John and Judy, and we 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 future projects, right. And I said, Judy, just buy me a house. I don't care What it looks like It 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 you're bringing Carrye home. So I brought Care home to this place house I'd never seen and it's night. and fogs like down and low and we go in and walk in and they flpped the lights on and I could just tell that it was not to Kare's design sense at all. It was a mid fifties lot of modern furniture, very, you know, EMs chairs and stuff and sheets 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 I could hear her talking and hear, well, I'll be there and I'll be in New York tomorrow or today. And I thought, Oh, she's leaving. so I said, you know, Krie, the view is supposed to 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 back down to please take me to the airport. Nothing rancrous or very amicable I thought we thought we were getting married. I go I drive her to the airport, get her on a plane, kiss her goodbye and say, I'll see you soon. Well'll hang, you know, I love you, I love you You know flies off and I drive in the Jeep back to the Martha's Vineyard house kind of despond and I walk, I drive up to the house and the fog has lifted two hundred and seventy five degree view of the ocean the islands And that this beautiful, beautiful promontory that the house was on. I thought, you know, she saw saw that. She might have she saw saw I' been married today.. It's like Manhattan socked in., it's the only time we when is it always fall No on And so yeah, that me we were good friends all the way, right to the end of her life, of course. And Blues Bothers I think it's one of those where A lot of people want to be around funny people. and she's like, if I And she's a big star but it's funny herself. mean It's hilarious. really. She's great in that She's great Ball of course, you know, because we were making a movie and we were in love You know, maybe making a movie with someone you love. You can go to work in the morning like the. imagine the rocket ship, you know, I had my own little success there too. Wayne's world anyway, but You guys 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 the energy of it was like, well, this is something new. different. This is like really musical too. band was kicking. And then you guys were just so funny with all the stick to me again at just asising about being on Saturdayight live. Those characters, don't get me starter with wild and crazy guys. donon't even star with that. Come on, I don't think I can do that guy no moreore No, you can't play around with accents anymore. You can't have it. And you can't even talk about the parts on a woman. parts And we look, they love our American bulges or what we The bulges. Yeah, please you will be shocked buy my great vulcher You know, you kind of watch it these tim. I mean, I was so influenced by you guys hnically musically. What about you at a re? Oh, she was Yeah had Atha. I think that is one of the greatest she was inside. She looked so cute wait outfit She didn't want to wear the waitress' outfit. No I can't I cant. And she's Deborah N Dulman, Landus's wife, the designer. Design this beautiful Waitress looked great. M her looked great. Yeah. Yeah. She was It was even funnier that she had So supportive of us all the way through. She always was and so was Ray and everybody Yeah. Jon Candy. Yeah, we had another Candy was a alledge Yeah. Yeahah, and then we had proper and done who were Otis Reddingss guitar players. so that made it happen. Now I still play with Jimmy, John's brother. We go out and we have an active concert schedule We go out with a band that we've got here from California and Texas that we put together over the years. and Uh we got a, you know, we got to like what's what's more fun than No the music when you hear that guitar and hear the just the organ and You know, mo and I've got, you know, seventy eight percent of the moves left. so, you know, yeah pretty good Yeah. Yeah. lastast week it was eighty, but declines Yeah, I'm in a low forties Oh I don' Yeah, it's not it's not all clicking. or it is clicking. So you're going along there's trading places, there's Blues brothers There's all these stuff we get on Saturday night live. Yeah. and then and then Marvin B What's Dan going do now? And then I don't know what the trajectory was, but then ghostbusters was like Probably equivalent, inflation adjusted, almost like gone with the win or something. It was like three hundred on and ninet three hundred more. That's right. So like who's three hundred million. Oh my God. So what And you thought of it that day that day at the farmhouse where the old where the silances take took place where my great great grandfather had silances. from the twenties in that and I was sitting there reading that journal and I just thought oldld style Abbott Costello comedy with The real science, marry it up. It's brilliant, but who's the first person you told Um well, that would have been Bernie Brilstein, I guess. Oh, yeah, Bernie and I love it And then over. And then I turned a draft into both 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 wrote it fat, right? Well, not so much lengthwise, but it was a little darker. was a little it wasn't the movie you saw, but it' certainly All of the stuff in there that became the movie, all the elements were there So and then Ivan Looked at it and then Ivan said, let's go to Harold and Harold looked at and understood what I was trying to do here with it and then And then we decide what do we do about Castwall And Harold and Ivan looked at each other and said, Wow If we could get Murray, we would give it to Murray And so we carried the ball for us He was the master of those lines, those throwaway lines style. One of the probably the greatest comedy romantic lead of our generation and many many. And him and Sigori Weaver. Yeah. very good. beautiful. Brilliant. Beautiful. all came together. This is magic on a film works An film. But when something like that that's old and new and then just connect so strong. I remember going to, you know, it was like jaws in a way Huge lines, theater pads. Oh ye. It was anomous Howrill to have that hit. And because you could have screwed that movie up easily. I mean, it's a great idea and everywhere any movie go wrong An movies you go in where it's good and you go Where do we go wrong? The editing, this, the casting, but too get it every step of the way and' come lookook at who was on it, right? Harold great Ivan Miranas had great part. Miranas. No Mirana. Wonderful. wonderful big. Human Sigurny can Han and Sigururnny are big parts of I why that movie work greatreat. Yeah Yeah, I know. Sool Yeah, know. Well, and I love I was on IMB today It like it was. And so I looked them up and even ghostbusters there's like eighty iterations. It's like a cartoon of this, that there's so many Yeah. because there's probably I think there's a new one coming out there's well, there's a new animated cartoon that they're working on. Okay. Is there a movie movie or not? Isn't I don't know what the st status is with strikes and all that. They're tell me not st. Is it really? Tod today? Well, then in March, Ghostbusters, Frozen Empire with McKenna Grace, Sin Wolfhart Billy myself, Winst Ernie U And Patton Oswald, thank you very much and Paul Rud. And Care Koon, and you've already got a cast. and yeah, we are we are ready to go in March with a spectacular new release. a great news story, and it is going to be hot and really fun Sary, whole new generation handing it to the kids U Re excited. We completed it in England and it's going to be coming out in March. Oh, so you did do it. It's done. Oh It's done. It in March. I just couldn't talk about it till this instant I read about this and then I thought maybe something happened. We have a we have a Yeah, gave me that blank. We have it there. I go go. Fly on the wallet.. It's our first real scoop. It is. comes on talking about it for the first time in any media right here. Yeah Yeah. Paul Rud, you've got Care Pat Oswald. Yeah. Finn from Stange Oswald. How about?ere as a genius Oh yeah serious actor too. Yeah he is. great delivery. Yeah. alwaysways yeah. Any name ghosts We got the Tik tack goes from the Navy video U What's we once g or can you tell us? Well Leave us to say that u, you know An entity is found in a psychometrically charged object. Too much. Thank. That's all. I figured the whole thing out. Um Okay I love it. I'm excited. It's good. And it really Reason Ritman. I'm going to do a Jerry Jason Gin Kan Gil Keenan directed it. Jason's partner. I love it. Jason did second unit and they co wrote. They got. And of course, the kids are wonderful. Oh ye, Mcenna, Finn and And you do, youg I do, you know, the the enthusiastic uh, you know wants to believe everything, you know, Yeah, kind of a little kind of resentful that that you know, things have passed them by Ghostbuster in this one, you know, because they He's no longer licensed You always have that skill set of putting a lot of words together really like that is true. Like as a comic concept of, you know bit you know, does that something because my mother was French Canadian. My mother was French Canadian and I g up around French Canadian. and French Canadiansak very fast like that. P V it com, so don'. againain, Sheila I my st. No, no, no, no, no, no, they talk a lot of fast. bring me that right now. give me the salt, give me a pepper give me the steak, the potato, give you want some wine you want talk like that. they're fast. Yeah French Canadiian. So I had this always, you know, and plus Sitting around the table there'd be fourteen family members and you know, you couldn't get a word in unless you interjected it, injected in there So how did you go from like a fourteen year old, fifteen year old and then you really were you onesting at twenty one or twenty two or, I was twenty three young Yeah. So just quickly, I mean, for you Second city at twenty one and twenty two' late Michael's at nineteen, I worked with him on a CDC special at nineteen. And his show he heart and then Hart Lauren Terrific hour. You were on that It was on poot of that That's right. So you were like eighteen or nineteen, you're on teleon nineteena doing. That's right. That's right. ninet. It's call aa Yeah Well, it was it was called An early adoption. Yeah was it was being steeped in improv. My parents sent me at twelve years old auto little theater improv class. And so was I was already doing it sort of back then, you know. It just it came to you. It's like Larry Bird. He said, when basetball, he first got a of basketball hand. the game came to me So it just came to you. It was was it was you know you warbed your ass. It was worked. Well was I was encouraged to pursue it. and it was fun to do improv in that Yeah. And then at secondcond city I was learning all the techniques over again that I'd already known at twelve and thirteen years old. at the little theater improv classes, ye. so Started early, you know. It seems to me that in your part of this, we're talking to Michael McKeen and you know, the Beatles and all the music of the sixties Yeah. and then the treundling along with Peter Sellors and then you all kind of knew each other from seventy or seventy five or you know, It's very interesting because you were like the Beatles of comedy to me, the SNL cast. Well you had you had the lampoon crew, you had, you know, Yeah Sheelly and you had Chris Gest and Harry Shearer and you had Johnny Belushci and And then you have Gilda eventually because Belu she stole her away there from seconde city. Then you had the Canadian crew leevy O'Hara myself can be Miranus, Thomas Yeah, that so there were two two and the Venn diagram kind of crossed and some of those people ended up working with each other on various thingss Um, yeah But I think my first The first time like for us like Getting interested in entertainment, okay? I'm in grade three Now what the hell? In grade three, I'm like, I' five years old, maybe four eight I'm grade grade three So I go up You're seventeen. No 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 happened? And so they they were doing an Irish Stain. Patrick's D dayay concert and compelled me to learn McNamara's band You know that song, d d d d dy. Oh, Hennessy, Tennese Tle the fl the music of something grand . So they put me in a green bowler and a green vest and a green pants and leprechaun shoes putut me out on stage with a sync track. And I you know, they maybe learn it, They maybe stay back from school to learn it So this concert comes And we go concert I start singing and I'm like, oh, I'm just going get through this, God. I remember it vividly, Well, God. And they get to the end finish and give the tap dance finish and Howling the crowd Whoa, really? you like that that much and Im I thinking to myself, Oh, wow, that's good. And so I was the big applause and they take me off stage into the wings. I give back my bowl and I'm thinking manan, that wow that was very, very interesting. And then two of my friends, Ricky And Greg come up recalls Hllingsworth and Greg Chit have us and they come up and they say, Hey, yeah, that was nothing, man. They like the like the bad the bad donkeys in and bad donkeys in over in a, you know, in the in Pinocchio, you know, the bad bad you're not so bad' Yeah you ain't so there. Yeah, yeah, yeah, think that was good. You think that come come on with us. Let me show you something. let me show you this. Let's let's show you this They take me across the street to the funeral home, across the street from the church hall where I did the concert So I go from the elation of singing Amers band and getting cheered Yeah to two minutes later, walking into the funeral home where seven bodies are laid out. What? A family that had drowned in a car the night before. Seven, the father, the mother, the sister, the brother doock walkers It want you to be famous. Oh this Jesus. Look at this. Look at this and like walk in, I'll never out as long as I like. He'd rolled his car Gatino River and drowned So they bring me from, you know, my performance street, Euphoria to But are they jealous? I didn't that was Yeah, yeah, it's Namby Pamby sing. and they look at these dead people. So they go over and there were the seven on a baby coffin too. Jesus great. I didn't do any jigs for years and years afterwards. That's turned me right off of any kind of performance That's a true story. Isn't that weird Oh wow It's horrifying bodies, the family are all beautifully preserved Never forget the dark eyebrow. My mother and father did. I'm still processing this story. baby It's so hilly. was Exceleration in the yeah, yeah. At age five, six ruin it They. They ruined. yeah. so I didn't dance or sing for years after. Weirdly, my first gig was in a funeral home. But that's a whole not story. David I played a dead body in that scene No you went on SNL, you get there, what's your first big sketch that works? Is it just the very first show or Asomatic? How the first sketch that works was they the w that the one that Garrett kn Iightited as home home invasionists prove to the homeowner that their house was vulnerable And so we break into their home to prove it was vulnerable. Yeah and then pitch them on an alarm system. show. That was the first sketch I was in. ye. show. Yeah. And that was a Wolverine one it open a cold opening was John in the Wolverine with Mike Lodonio. And then we had the home invasion sketch here. You were after the monologue win was that's a good spot's a home run spot. Who is the host of your first show? George Carl, Geor Girl Iaited on him once at a Holiday Han. Yeah. I brought him oatmal. I goes, oatmeal, drop the O and you have thatatmeal. I really. Yeah. Why is there no balloon? shoes, big shoes, little shoes, brown shoes, girl scoops shoes He was that was he was working on. Don't tell me about Richard Prior too. I was a waiter at the holiday and I waited on Oh becausecause it was next to the Circcus Star theater. Yep Waited on Rich Little Everyone said We in on the Hland? Oh no, this was on the peninsula. It was a theater in the round. like be near Michigan No, no, Peninsula south of San Francisco. Oh Oh I saw ye yeah, I see right. And they all stayed at the holiday. Yeah, yeah. So they were, you know, I gave Richard Prior Romblet, stuff like that. you know. Yeah. well, the you know, the I find the great people are really nice. The ones who are really great are nice And the medium talented people aren't so nice, you know you know. I've kind of I think that's true. You know, I know. He was a great Richard while Prior and Carlin. they were both, you know And they would have been gracious to you. very nice. I did a movie with Prior. Oh, yeah.' very sensive and sweet and not great right Vulnerable. he host her ne there What's up? Did he host? Richard Prior hosted? Sure. I remember helping to write that show. All right, sir, fair enough, sir. Yeah.atever That that's right. Yeahep, T. Yeahah. That's Tom. I think I I was doing Harry Sheer or doing Tom He did a great Tom Snyder Re really standing outstanding gu. I remember saying I love Thompson. I was a kid. I didn't know Dan, I'm so young. No, I'm not. but I was watching it going I never thought of being on Satday Live. I just was every kid loves comedy and I was like, oh my God, this's Tom Snyner. I was just starting to get Wh 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 just saw And it was so good and it was like that dumb little studio and it's a little lighting have a cigarette All that stuff, I mean, Fred Garvin, was that was his name? Fred Garvin, male prostitute? That's right, littleittle lady It' it for the lady? it's still little lady. The name is funny att the time. Edgar that just sets his and he announces himself that way. But you know, the copycats and Rich littleittle in that generation, Frank Gorsman, Th those are the shows I was watching and Oh love those impressionists, Rich Little Fred Travvelina. Marsan right Ordinarily they were great and that was like magic to me. But when you guys came in and did them in a different different contexts. it was just post mododern. Yeah, you know, it's just a lot of great impressions on the show for Hartman acular And we've referenced you and Phil, there's a connection personality wise. you both have so many interests. Yeah outside of being ise effortless performers and then would go read these journals. He was a pilot. Yeah, he's a pilot. He was sailing. He was I loved him. I loved him too. He was wonderful. You did Bilco with him, right? Yeah. Yes right, Ste Yeah Yeah, here's to fill. 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Crystal head just just a few seconds before we get out of here How'd you come up with that? name Well, it's based on the legend of the crystal headads which from Indiana Jones? It was referenced in the Indiana Jones movie and they made a movie about it. In fact, we were developing concept kind of right in parallel and I find out that Steven's doing this movie. about crystal heads. so I actually take a meeting to tell them 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, you know when your movie comes out, we will be out on the marketplace. We' have been out a little before. but I explained to him that it wasn't kind of a plagiarism, and it wasn't really. Um, Crystal had there were thirteen of them. What if he stole it from you? I don't No, the lead time doesn't work out in terms of like projects came to fruition But the Navajo, the Aztec, the Mayans were supposed to have had these heads and they were used for crystal balls And so we decided We were doing this vodka that had no fluids pollutants, glycols, sugar Lemonine clean. And so we wanted to sell the idea of enlightened purified drinking of beverage alcohol and this was the perfect package to put in Put it in. Yeah. very came from that. I have one more question before this young man takes up uh, during that, um, When you leave SNL You did a lot of big movies. You probably got offered so many ones that you wish you did or is are movies that you got offered other than James Bond Yeah I' would have lik Spies like us. I don't sppies like us was so fucking. I don't know that I was offered anything that I turned down and it became No, I don't think so. No regrets where you go. I should have done that one Spies I us was unreal, That was you and Chevy? Yeah, I I did audition for things that I didn't get. Oh. the peopleeople versus Larry Flint U Re I audition for the part of the lawyer played by Edward Norton. I auditioned F Milos Forean You know, and I read it a couple of times. D, D. Do you work with him? My audition for Ammadeus. Oh, did you? Yeah, Dan, Dan Dan D, D stop acting. Oh really? acting st. He was too bored with me I don't know I think we're ready to move on. Yeah, yeah during years. So I didn't know what I was doing, but I saw the movie and I go, okay, I see. they wanted a blonde haired Sherubic guy boy off script into chopping Broadway No, but I I wanted to be on Saturdayight Live. Yeah, I know. you know minds. And you guys did and you were great. and you know, today your stuff endures just as strongly as anything that we ever did in that first cast, you know, if you look at Church Lady and all your impressions and you know, and everything, you know and I' your flight attendant, of course, a classic, a classic. Oh yeah. My theory All of it great. My theory is this is that music and comedy just have to reflect the times And so we were for our time. Yeah. And then I don't ever want to be a grumpy old man Now Taylor Swift, she's no John Lennon, you know, that kind of thing. I tried to really do a deep dive into Taylor Swift because I want to know and she's incredibly skilled And same thing with Sur Night Live now. This is their era. And they're great. Yeah. And they're great. And Higgins said Steve Higgins, just said Lure he said Lauren wrote the Constitution. and then everyone interprets it Yeah for their time. Yeah for their era. So no the shows and really great people Really great The Halloween shows Outstanding writing, really, really very smart.b' We had him on the podcast a couple days later. Yeah He was he was a great com. He' a really good writer and he he's so excited about that. He'd only done talk shows quQality quality work you of it. That'sice we still the George W. Yeahah well, C mean I. I live a very very quiet life right now, very quiet I'm not in the cities.'m country That's I used to have that was pretty sweet. Yeah, right. I write that old bllack national. yeah. W. Yeah Black grand National. and everyone Yeah kind of yeah Oh yeah went on the motorcycle or take one of the old, you know, the old cars in. It seems to me just just from afar, you've always had one foot still in what every you call regular life. I would say so. Yeah. sele friends, get a steak. I don't know. I've heard things, but it seems like you've always Oh, sure, sure. off course for sanity. Yeah. But I don't like living in cities anymore. I prefer living in the country just because I have tinnitus You know, the ringing and also to sleep at night the blackness You need to blackyleep. And where I have a place Mountaineers coming in. And I can open my eyes or close my eyes. Black still black Yeah ye. and dead quiet. all here is the cooyotes sometimes throw a party. but it is so so good. It the deep sleep you get there It'll prolong life that sleep. It really will Mine's being short and I'm about forty feet from sunset. It's quiet and this is a fortress here, David. is here mom. Yeah. This is where I want to be during the Great Reset. Yeah. Plus he's got a lot of food This stocks a lot of food. This whole thing. Dan, first of all we've all looked up to you. you're a lovely guy. You're always nice. I interviewed you for Spin magazine when I got an SNL. Yeah. And it' so cool. And just the fact that you still generous everything in talkking love hanging with me love. Just bullshitting about the old day. Yeah, you know, there is an expression. Canadian nice. and I went to Canada 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 before I was gonna to go out there and a guy was like, he saw me look at some water. Hey, do you like some water there? I can get some water for you. So there is Canadian nice and admires yourself and It's very sweet. and my wife's Canadian so I'mial. She's very nice too. sure She listens to the podcast I just did Calgary last weekend Yeah, it's just Canada is just a cool country. Not a rumor. It's real. Yeah. anyway, D, it's been such an honor and a pleasure. You've been a big part of the puzzle of our little project here and we're so glad to have you. hang again soon. Yes. See you around campus is what I sayry David has quietly gotten drunk during the podcast. It's David is hot. David is Mit stuff work. Hey guys, if you're loving this podcast, which you are, be sure to click, follow on your favorite podcast app, give us review, five star rating, and maybe even share an episode that you've loved with a friend. 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