Dan Aykroyd - In Studio

Dan Aykroyd hangs in studio.

Episode Transcript

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The universe has a way of leadingyou to where you're supposed to be supposed
to be there. The Woody Showa right, welcome back everybody. Hey,
it is The Woody Show, andplease welcome to the studio. We
actually have a guest. It's DanAckroyd, My Dan, mister Ackroyd.

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Only the police call me mister andthen not always good to see you,
Andrew. We never heard a fulloffice here. What a desk? Right?
Yeah, it looks like and it'ssuper clean. Only the best around
here, Dan, Yeah, right, yeah mountain. We never get living

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legends in here. Well, nofortunate working actor for many years. Yeah,
I mean I was thinking about it. You know, you're coming in
and you know, such a bigfan of so much of your work,
but I mean, what a whata life you have lived. I mean
all the way back with the SaturdayLive and all the movies and everything else
that you've you've done, not justlike as an actor, but a screenwriter.

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Like the first screenplay that you wrotewas Blues Brothers, like you know
the band Bush Yeah, Javin Rossdale. The first song he wrote was one
of their biggest hits, come Down. You know. The first screenplay you
write is Blues Brothers Like did thatmake you nervous? Like that? That
thing is such a big hit?And then you know where do you go
from there? Can you? Canyou do it again? Well? You

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know, every every actor, everycreator, when they're finished a project,
you know, looks into the abyssand figures out what's next. I suppose
I've just been very fortunate. Allof the projects that you've liked and some
that you may not have, we'reresult of kV really heartfelt collaborations. You
know, we don't do it alone. I really am proud of a lot

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of films I made Triple A projects. I'm proud of SNL and proud of
the records that John and I didand the bang we put together. But
that that's that's all with other genius, wonderful people, actors, writers,
and so it's a collaborative effort,and I'm just grateful and I was able
to work with the best in everydiscipline and skill, songwriting, dancing,

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choreography, stunt driving, all theskills you've got, all the people I
mean in the movies, I mean, whether it was Blueshi or John Candy,
Steve Martin, like Eddie Murphy,Eddie Murphy Robert Redford. Yeah,
i'd say, yeah, you know, so I've been so fortunate and uh
and had you know, I hadfun doing ninety seven percent of it.

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Dan. I read a book youmight have heard of this called Wild and
Crazy Guys, and it's about alot of like the eighties and nineties comedy
and they, I believe, theysaid that you were kind of more the
like the avant garde and weirdo creativeforce, like you're saying you other guys
were kind of the Okay, let'srain this in a little bit, but
you were more of like that,let's let's kind of push the envelope and
that sort of thing. Well,I always thought, if it made me
chuckle and I tell someone else,and someone else, oh that's funny,

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and you're five people and five fiveturns to fifty and five hundred and five
thousand and five million in terms ofthe movie. So you have to just
trust your own instinct what makes youentertain? Yeah, but God knows,
you know, I had great peoplein the cast and crew of Saturday Night
Live there that I got to workwith, and then what what came later
with SNL look at look at thework I know geez. I mean John

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Lovett's alone. I mean, they'reworth the price. If you hear different
stories about what it's like to actuallywork on SNL, Like working at SNL
now sounds cacambo of like hell andfrat life. Like there's these two sides
of it, like one's just thisbig party and then the other side you
hear about it's like, man,there's this infighting and there's this drama and
there's things going on. But whenyou were there, it sounds like it

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was more the frat life stuff,the high jinks, the partying. Like
were you sleeping there at at NBCfor a while, Yes, I got.
I got them to put in bunkbeds and a shower. As we
used to write, to write writethe show. You know, we'll start
right the show Tuesday night, Wednesdaynight. You'd stay over Tuesday night,
Wednesday night. Uh. It wasit's very stressful still it's video commandoh you

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know. Uh, it's very highenergy and uh and high focus. And
you know, it helps to haveallies there, yeah, because sometimes there's
where there were forces working against uh, you know, within and and that.
But but ultimately in the end,each show came out, Uh,
to where it was either a jamor a turkey, and but we got

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it done. You know, itcame out, it was completed, and
uh, everyone was a pro inthe end of every show. Uh,
at the end of every show wedid and then we went back and did
it all again. But I thinkthe show has great currency and relevancy.
Now I do watch when I canstay up. I live, I have.
I have a very very very quietlife. I live in a very

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very slow would you like regular andwhere are you living these days? Were
spending your time between Martha's vineyard alittle bit and then Eastern Ontario, Canada,
and then the road you know,with the with the product here,
the which we are going to talkabout. Yeahs a special went out and

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bought it. Damn, that's special. There's there's the Clearer, then there's
this pure desert, then there's ablack and then there's a Pride uh bottle
as well, I believe. AndI had to ask specifically because they're always
Damn we were talking about this offhere. The Crystal Head vodka is always
behind lock and Key, at leasthere all the States, because it is
extra fancy and people want people becauseyou want the skull. Yeah, no,
I know that's we're fighting that becausein Canada there we just tell the

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government liquor store will replace it,you know, and then and then we
get a bill for them for thefull retail price. It's very popular.
So uh no, I've got alovely quiet life right now. Everything's good
there. But the product that youhave in your hand is uh is our
wheat, sunset wheat, and thenotes on that are pepper corn, a
nisse that makes a great bloody maryuh at. The bottle is beautiful design

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by my friend John Alexander. AndI just you know, I got got
into this because I tasted other Idon't name names or other brands, but
a lot of vodka's out there.I tasted them. They smelt like nothing,
or they tasted like nothing and theyare they smelt like Chanel number five.
Sure yeah, And I thought,you know, wait, how can

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we change that? So we havea corn vodka in the clear that's peaches
and cream corn from Ontario, Solike, what causes that? Like what
did you leave out of this that? I'll tell you. I don't you
know. I know we're the firstpeople to do it. I don't know
ifbody is doing it now, butwe certainly changed the fluid in our bottle.
What happens is that a lot ofthese manufacturers they are afraid that the

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consumer is going to open the bottleand it's going to smell like ethyl alcohol.
Wait a minute, hold it.We're drinking beverage alcohol. And if
you do ethyl alcohol right like wedo from the wheat mash, the corn
mash we make. The black isthe agave. We make a mash of
what they make tequila out of theblue ebra agave. We do a vodka
distillation on that, and you openour bottles and it's that sweet kind of

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smell of alcohol. If you openother bottles, smells like nothing, tastes
like nothing, smells like perfume.Because they add the following things. They
add glyceride, it's a cousin andfree cousin andy freeze. Oh great,
now, they do it to putproduce a viscosity there. Now they don't
put enough to hurt you. Andthen they add solemonine. And you've seen

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those commercials where they take citrus oilin a mustard jar and to cut through
the grease. That's citrus oil.They add that to produce to mask the
smell and scent of the alcohol,and then they put sugar in there.
Yeah. Somebody was telling me becauseI'm a I'm a tequila guy like tequila's
and someone's like, what are youdrinking? Like this is like I didn't
realize there, I mean really was, I mean there was there's a difference
in tequila's, like some are smootherto me some other or whatever. I

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didn't realize there was much in that, you know. And then somebody told
me and gave me some of theirtheir favorites of the stuff that doesn't have
all the additives. I guess right, and you can definitely tell the difference.
I don't know about the tequila businesswhether additives are put in there,
but they certainly were and a lotof are they really the few then they're
called fusel oils, and fusel isthe German word for bad liquor, you

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know. So there you go.No lemonee, no sugar, zero added
it. We won metals all aroundthe world. Yeah, and winning he
wins with right, I'm such awinner, thank you. Yeah. I
couldn't win a thing in high schoolor I don't win anything around here either.
No. I want I want anexit ticket to both institutions. It's

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called Crystal Head Vodka and it's availablenow at your local liquor store. You
can't miss it. It's in theskull bottle and Crystal Head is releasing some
ready to drink cocktails and a wholebunch of other stuff too at crystal Head
Vodka. There Crystalheadvodka dot Com.We got Dan Akroyd here in studio.
Yeah, and some more with Dancoming up next here on the Woody Show,

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Hang on the Lead Show. Thankyou very much. Greg Gory,
the one the only Dan Aykroyd ishere, legendary Ghostbuster blues brother cone Head.
I mean, you've had so manydifferent roles, all these different people
you play, Like, what roledo you think is most like your real

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personality? In your alien? Youknow, is drawn cold, withdrawn and
cold. You are super empathetic.In fact, I hear you in different
interviews or I've read different things.You are so sympathetic, empathetic. I
think that's why so many people likeyou too. Like you're always looking out
for There was some story I heardabout, like the crew on sn L

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and you were coming to their defense. If you're one of the big stars,
you the big star of the show, and like you're you're coming to
their defense because there was just likeso I can't remember the details. There
were two stories that you know,and I look back up my behavior in
both those cases, and I Iregret being not heated and I'm out of
control. So many of the starsare dick to the crew or you know,
they don't give them the time ofday, but you're the guy who's

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championed. What happened was the Qcard crew was getting so stressed. That's
what it was that they were.They were getting changes a minute before we
go on the air, and youor even seconds, and you know,
talk about the pressure for them becausethey know the actors can't stand there without
lines. The whole show is readon cue cards. So I, uh,
Lauren was in having a meeting andhe hadn't come out, so I

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basically I kicked a hole in thewall and between the dressing room and his
office to get his attention. Iwas very mad about that. That's the
air amount in the full cone.I went off on the guard at the
gate. I went out there andI trashed the guard gate because they weren't

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letting my crew in. After toPark when we're shooting at night after seven
o'clock, making them walk through Hollywood. I thought these work for Paramount.
These people are hair. This isthe technical crew, hair and makeup.
I want them to park, youknow, and they just when listen,
listens. Finally I went full cone, full cone on them. Those those

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I do regret, you know,regret, that's fun. I try to
control my temper. But I dohave the French Canadian you know. Yeah,
I'm surreal for the parking Gate guythough to this day he probably talked
one story. Yeah, Dan akronFu. Yeah, dan Ackroyd's here.

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His his vodka, Crystal Head vodkais available at your local liquor store.
You can't miss It's and a reallycool skull bottle, different bottles depending on
which one you're getting. Yeah.The reason I'm here like to do this
on the vodka is because it's giftgiving time thanks That's why we had holiday.
We have a spike in sales there. I just want to tell people
that it makes a great gift ofChristmas and Thanksgiving, made in Canada with

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beautiful lufel and water, not madein another place in the world that we
try to stay away from. Rightnow where a lot of vodka. You
know, it's just funny makes itmakes a great gift and I'm really having
fun with it. Well, it'sbecause you're probably drunk most of the time.
You gotta taste it. I meanquality control, you know what I
Well, it's Crystal Head vodka availableat liquor store near you. It should

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be a big red button around here. Some weaponism podcasts found it. No
what he show? All right,welcome back. It is the wood he
showed. Dan Ackroyd is here.We're just talking about his vodka product,
Crystal Head Vodka. Before the break, we're also talking a little bit about
sn L. And I did havea couple more questions. I'm you get

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bored talking about some of this,uh the older stuff a SNL. Oh,
I do not because you have something, but you have such a storied
career. It's like and people getthis opportunity. Like I'm sure people who
are close to you, they're like, oh god, Dan's talking about SNL
again, right, But like youknow, I have I have other questions,
yeah, about other movies. Butyeah, you had mentioned, you

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know, having somebody who is anally at SNL, and we've heard and
I've heard so many stories over theyears about Chevy Chase, but I know
that he was one of your champions. He was when you were on SNL
and you had a completely different experience. So what's what is it just that
some people get rubbed the wrong wayby the guy or did something change?

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What is this? What I mean? What was so special about you that
you had this well experience with himthat I don't know, you know,
I loved what he did and heloved what I did, and I don't
know, we came from kind ofcompletely different worlds because he's one of those
guys I want. He's one ofthose people that you see and you're such
a fanily like you want him tobe awesome, and then you hear these
stories that's disappointing. Well, Ithink he's a little waspy, you know,

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like you know, white Anglo SaxonProtestant. You know that he's coast,
you know, kind of reppy,you know, and you know,
and if you look like anything closeto like an idiot in front of him,
he's not going to put put upwith that. Yeah, you know,
because he likes smart, intelligent,accomplished people. And we met a

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and I never made was damaged.Uh. You know, his mother used
to lock him in the closet whenyou go shopping that kind of stuff,
so you know who stands before you. Also, he beat a heroin addiction
and painkiller addiction. So he's beenthrough a lot and fought a lot.
But just to hang with him,it's just so funny and so uh.
Sometimes he can be caustic and abrasivein that, but he's really he's got

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a beautiful heart. He's really asweet guy and very sentimental. He's a
spectacular jazz pianist, and he's justa good hang. Now. You got
to remember that cocaine was quite popular, and that can be a for for
all of us, and it wasnever my thing. I never really liked
it, but I did. Idid do it a couple of times.

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The more like a drinker, wheatsmoker. I would say more, you
know, white wine and you know, maybe some of the greeny now and
again. But I tell you thatthe coke would change moods and it made
people edgy. You know, youmight think we were having fun on it,
but so I think there were someinteractions that Chevy might have had when
he was on that I with Johnand so it's just the currency of our

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time back then. Yeah. Unfortunately, he directed him in a nineteen ninety
one movie that I absolutely love calledNothing but Trouble. It was it was
it easy to do that? Ohhe directed him in nineteen ninety one.
Well, of course, and hewas in Spies Like Us too, you
know. Yeah, and I lovethat movie. And he was really good
in both of them, and ofcourse drove me crazy the whole time.

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And you know, but because heloved what he was doing there, and
he liked the scripts and he likedthe characters. You know, he came
through for me. Nothing but Troublewas a is a fun, very serviceable
comedy. It was not a hitat the time because we were doomed on
the weekend that it opened. AndI'll tell you how here, I make

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this movie for us, for theguys you know, I saw, you
know, or you know that audiencelike absurd kind of out their humor.
Yeah, And so two pictures openin the marketplace against us that weekend.
One was Silence of the Lambs.Oh geez, yeah, that's where it.
Yeah, that's right, that's whatI'm saying. That's right. And

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then Julia Roberts Sleeping with the Enemy. You can be sure every woman in
America told their husbands or girl orboyfriends or you know, we're going to
see those two movies. We're notgoing to see that. So it didn't
work in the marketplace. But inretrospect, younger people like yourself, you're
like twenty two, right, Yeah, a lot of kids love that that
film. That's the first time wesaw Tupac in a movie. Yeah.

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Digital. Also, I did haveone other question about the movie because in
the same year there was a moviecalled Doc Hollywood Michael J. Fox,
and they kind of had like similarplot points. Did that annoy you?
I got call it a little bitbecause it was like about people from a
big city they get pulled over ina small town. Oh, I don't

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know, a haunted house with amaniac. Yours was a much funner.
But I've got I remember that.I remember you didn't know about it,
but now the noisy Yeah he knowsabout it. Way to go, man,
we parallel thrunning from the law.No no, but he gets pulled
over in a small town and thenhe has to do basic plot points lived

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off those places exist in America.Yeah, absolutely, that New Jersey,
Pennsylvania triangle where Volcanvania County was isin the in the story is a real
real you see, you really dosee places like that. Yeah, dan
Aykroyd is here and uh, speakingof difficult personalities but good people. Bill

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Murray and you were talking about likeworking with Chevy Chase in these other movies.
I think one of my favorite stories, and you'll tell it way better
than I do, is when youwere making Ghostbusters. Obviously the role was
written for Belushi, and you knowhe didn't live to be be in that
movie, and so you cast BillMurray and not exactly in the same role,

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like I, uh, not exactlythe same Billy came on. We
rewrote it right right right, butlike anyway, so but we Fixedkman for
him. Everybody was really nervous becausethe first day of shooting and they're wondering
if he's even going to show upbecause it was like the negotiation or something
behind the scenes. Like I said, you'll tell the story way better than
I do. But he I mean, Bill Murray is Bill Murray. He's
like a mystery to so to somany people. But you were wondering if

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he was even going to show upon day one of filming. None of
us knew and uh, you know, everybody's there, like there, everybody's
there. It's a miracle. Whenhe does show up, he's there,
he's it's it's as if a deityhas come down from the clouds. Uh.
Now, Billy's great. He wouldgive you not only does the shirt,

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but he gives you the skin offhis back. I mean, is
h He's really uh a great,great hearted person. And again though like
Chevy, he doesn't suffer fools.You're going to be you know, you'll
be batted out of the way.You know, if he sees idiocy or
medium talent there and when it showsup, he's ready to go. It's
not like he's aloof and then justkind of like I'm here now what you

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know he's he shows up ready forwork, he brings his bags packed.
He always does the other thing.I wanted to ask you what some of
the behind the scenes high jinks ofSNL, Like do you have a favorite
story, because you hear a lotof different stories, is there one in
your mind that sticks out like talkingabout you know, maybe it's like one
of the after parties or just thingsthat are going on while everybody's sitting around

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writing. Well, sure, ofcourse, you know February it gets quite
cold in the northeastern United States.And the windows at Rockefeller Center today they
open right up. There's no barriersor anything. The windows open up and
there you know, you're ready tolook. You can look down or or
do whatever. Yeah, jump ifyou want. We used to set pizzas
out to freeze at Franklin and Davis'swindows and we leave them there. We'd

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make sure that they're and then wewould try to sale them out over and
could hit the ring. Yeah,we see if it's so. And now
this is at four in the morningwhen there's no one around, but still
have taken somebody's head off. It'shis future Senator L. Frankin, by
the way, should run again andshould be re elected. Absolutely, So.

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Yeah, we try to get themjust out of the seventeenth floor and
hooked down so that they'd skid acrossthe rink. And I think a couple
of couple of times we were successfuldoing that. That was one thing dump
one of those win Oh yeah,yeah, we heard about that. Working
in that building was spectacular. Youknow, you had the the beautiful you

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know, freezes, and the architectureof it, and the sculpting and the
depictions of industrial life and the insideit and the you know, the floor
polisher was always going when when Iwas there was a guy with a floor
polisher there, no matter when youwent in. It could have been nine
in the morning, nine at night. The drink. There's a guy you

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know with the floor, same guycigarette ashes floor. And so Davis and
I Tom Davis and I used towalk around the building and kind of look
and go up and down in elevatorsand different you know, and kind of
check it out. And I eventuallyI accumulated a lot of keys, one
of them to the eleventh floor roofcoopp Garden. You'd like, go past

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the secretary's desk high and then stepthrough a little half door and go there.
Uh, you know, sort ofkeys to get through different hallways so
you wouldn't have to go around andgo the other And so I had a
lot of keys. So one daywe're walking up on the sixty fifth floor
just looking at this endless hallway.What the hell is There's no offices up
here, There's oh, there's afew. What's this? And then we
see this black door on the left, you know, look at it and

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go what's in here? You know. So I go through keys, about
the sixth key, I hit it. I hit it. Wow, this
key opens this lock. So Iopened the door and I step into nothing.
It was a shaft way stories ofshaft and Davis realizes that I'm going

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forward. He grabs me and heclosed that thing up. I put those
Yeah, that's insane. But itwas fun, fun working in that building
and a good thing that wasn't forone of those after parties. Yeah,
we had them. We had awe had a bar downtown, the Blues
Bar, and uh we would openup uh after the after party, like

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you know, between like three andten in the morning. And often I
would find myself at ten in themorning closing the arm. Oh my god,
between between three and ten as well. Oh no, the eyes were
opened. He had great bands goingthere. It's easy Top and Bowie played
there and wow, yeah, Keithand what a life dude that It's so

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cool. And as you hear thesestories, it's seems like I really missed
out on like what would have beenlike a great time to be alive,
you know, like this, likea lot of stuff seems like it just
doesn't It wouldn't happen now exactly wemissed out, all right, welcome back,
dan Ackroyd is here. Crystal HeadVodka. I mean, dude,

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you are quite the business man.We'll talk about the Crystal headvalk here for
a second. Find your local liquorstore. It's in that skull bottle.
They got some crystal Head ready todrink cocktails right that there are being released
crystal Head Vodka dot com for moreinformation about that. We were talking about
that high quality ingredients, free fromthe oils and the sugars and the additives
and all that stuff. So youare an ambassador for us, right,

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Well, I appreciate you being here, man. So we study up a
little bit to know what's going on, like on the on the business side
thing. You started hard Rock Cafe. I mean not you solo, but
you were the one who But itwasn't the Hard Rock Cafe party. That's
his partner, that's correct. IsaakCogrit founded hard Rock with Peter Morton and
then and then Isaac came to Judyand I after John had died. I

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met Isaac in London actually on theweekend. I married. I'm married.
I was married to John. It'strue to Belushi. We were man and
wife. I was the wife andno when I the day I interreed John.
Then the next day I went toNew York. It took the concord

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and turned right over Martha's Vineyard tolook down. From forty seven thousand feet
you could see the whole island andthere was my friend. Goodbye to one
chapter in my life. Met atthe airport by Isaac Tigrit because my friend
Larry Bilzarian, who helped start Houseof Blues. He said, you know,
you've lost a brother, Isaac losttwo brothers. I think he can
help you with this grief. SoI get off the plane in London and

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there's Isaac in a Damler stretch limousinewith champagne and a joint about seven inches
long, and off we go.And then from there, you know,
we just were great friends. Andhe said, I think the Blues Brother's
brand can be revived, and startedHouse of Blues Wow in the nineties late
nineties, and then Live Nation acquiredit and folded it into their organization.

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And we say it means you gota big fat check out of that.
That's nice mainly honestly, realistically,it was they bought it and we sold
it because we were challenged by somany things and we couldn't run the business
without the resources of a major company, and so in order to save twenty
five hundred jobs, we decided tosell it and and get a company in

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there that could really grow it andtake it where. Yeah, well it's
done very well. Yeah they're coolveny like the House of Blue Chicago.
Super awesome venue. I've seen alot of shows. I missed the one
in La here that was my office. I love that. Yeah, the
Bucket company, but also the othercool thing I thought was pretty neat from
a business standpoint. You're the guywho got the distribution rights to Patron Tequila

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for the entire country of Canada.Oh wow, that's how I got into
this. I I that's why I'mhere today because I didn't, you know,
it's not like I had many introducedthem on the Wood Show exactly not
that. No, I'm this ismy environment. I like this in here.
I want to stay. No,thank you, I'll set up a

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cot under the I'm here today becauseI didn't, you know, have any
desire to get a be any morebusy or do anything else. And look,
but I just wanted to get abetter margarita at my dock in the
summer. Yeah, and you couldonly buy two types of tequila in Canada
that night, and they were bothinferior. And I thought, I loved
patron. I'll see if I canbring into my little government run liquor store

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in the village, maybe a caseor two per summer. Yeah, and
Jp, my friend Jp de Joy, said no, you have to bring
it to the whole country, mademe the importing agent, and we brought
it in. I know that guy, his son went to the same boarding
school. I sure he was themost generous guy, Paul Mitchell guy.
So yeah, like do our wholeboarder school got outfitted with all the Paul
Mitchell stuff. But he would likehe bought a really cool popcorn machine for
everybody. He owned radio stations atthe time, and so like I had

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this like love affair with radio already, so he would like send me all
the stuff from his stations that thathe owned and stuff. It was.
He's a very cool guy. He'sone of the great I forgot he was
under the radar entrepreneur. Yeah,and he eventually sold patron Uh to Bacardi,
and so we got out of itat that point. But it sort
of led me into what's this isa fun business and when everyone else is

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out there? Well, tequila wassort of overdone at the time, and
I couldn't start another tequila business afterthat. Vodka. So I looked at
vodka and Crystal Head vodka and thensmelled the other vodkas that were out there
and said, why do I likethem? And and made something that I
can be proud of. I thinkyour words were earlier, hideous garbage.

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Well that's what they put a lotof a lot of manufacturers put hideous garbage
in. I don't I don't saywho, and I don't say but I
know who right right, But Icould say who you are. Dan Akroyd
is here, everybody. Yeah,it's the Woody shown, this show,

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all right, welcome back, everybody. It is the Woody Show. Dan
Ackroyd is here, the legend,dan Ackroyd. Thank you for being here
again. Star. And I reallyI feel like it would really be a
crime if we didn't bring up ghostswhile you were here. And I know
we're running out of time. Greghas always told us about this ghost that

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used to haunt. Yeah, itwas the former owner of the house that
I bought, named Elmer, whodied in the house. And that's why
I got a good deal in thehouse. And he stayed with me the
entire time, like is on andoff, handprints on couches, papers,
moved around, stuff that was inexplicable, he says, the suckers thrown across
the room. He says, thestuff to ups and at him and like

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for for you, this is familytradition, right, I mean, like
the family business. And I tellyou, I absolutely I'm ready to believe
you, and I do believe you. Why would you say that? And
it's just crazy. It fits theunexplainable sometimes it seems crazy. But this
is this, this is a verysimilar story to what I hear and I've

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read about all the time. Andyou you were able to identify who it
was. Yeah, absolutely, anduh and you know and and see things
that they they did there was harmlessmore or less. But oh yeah,
no, the uh, the theother side is very active, just as
active as we are here in thison these four dimensions, for sure.
Did you try to eradicate it atall? Not at all borderline enjoyed it

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because I still thought of it ashis house. Sometimes I would yell like
Elmer, stopped flickering the lights,and they would stop flickering. There was
a lot of stuff, and therewere limited time, but so much stuff
that was completely unexplained. My brotherlocked me out if I would go outside,
lock me out. That happened toa bunch of people. Oh yeah,
well you hate that. Yeah,that's right, ghost prankster. My
My brother lived in a house onSelma Street over here in Hollywood. He

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owned it for many years, andan opera singer had died in the house
and she had owned it. Andsometimes we'd all be there and upstairs we
would hear her going through the scales. Oh wow, down like that.
Yeah yeah, and that nice tostop as cold. No, for sure,
that's Ulster h O l z eR. Search him up on your

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search engine and all his stories arethere, great ghost stories. Uh.
And it's as real as uh that'swhat I'm when I'm touching here at Dusty
Tail. Yeah. Yeah. Wasit the gatekeeper? The key master?
Zeel like, who, like,who's in your house? Well, I
mean have you ever had like yes, we we uh we lived in a
haunted house uh in on Woodrow WilsonDrive. It belonged to Mama cass uh

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Oh, and we were in thereand I raised three daughters in that house.
And there was also the spirit ofa red haired man with a little
red haired girl that my daughter saw. And the story went that there was
a party there in the sixties anda guy died of a drug overdose and
they buried him in the hillside nextto the house. He was a drifter

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from some said boulevard. He wasup there partying, and so maybe that
was hymns, but things like youknow, jewelry doing little dances and then
you know, a hand on theshoulder of the StairMaster going up and down.
So that house. Yeah, andnow the owner who lives there now,
she says that it's still happening occasionally. There's little stuff that goes on

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there, but nothing identifiable. AndI've never seen an apparition, although I've
talked to people who have. Whatabout the one in the library, Ah,
well, yeah, yeah, he'sthere. That was pretty crazy,
you know what you know, youknow what's neat about ghostbusters is that you
were saying your son is into itor now you've got three third generation,
you've got grandchildren of you've got grandparentsbringing their grandchildren to the movies and and

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and showing them. You know,so it's it's endured, certainly. One
of my favorite moments of Ghostbusters isone that I don't know if anybody ever
mentioned. It's when you guys arein the hotel trying to find Slimer who
ends up sliming Bill Murray's character,and come around the corner it's the housekeeping
lady and you blow her up.You know, to this day, I

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see that and I laugh out loudevery single time. The delivery on that
was wow. What made it workwas, you know, uh, the
comedy layered onto uh kind of thereal vernacular of of paranormal research. What
are you thinking about? Ray?Stay puff, marshmallow Man. My favorite
thing about Bluebrother in there. Itwas so subtle when the lighting of the

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cigarette with the car lighter and thenthrowing the car lighter out the window.
I saw that. Well, DanAckroyd, thank you so much for coming
in. Sure. I appreciate youbeing here. It's a it's an honor
to have a guy uh like youhere and uh, we're all as you
can tell big fans and uh,I appreciate you spending some time with us,

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We will be right back. We'llsign it next The Woodie Show.