Joe Rogan Experience #1351 - Dan Aykroyd

1. 0:00 – 15:00

   And we're live with…

   1. JRJoe Rogan0:02

      And we're live with Dan Aykroyd, cutting oranges and doing a podcast at the same time.

   2. DADan Aykroyd0:07

      Yes. It's, uh... It's kind of like, uh, walking from the... the tightrope, uh, between two buildings, chewing gum, and uh, and looking up at the... at the ceiling. Y- have you ever heard of the... the guy who, uh... He was a tightrope walker at the turn of the century, um, and he was very famous. Uh, I think... I, I forget. He was a French guy. He walked over Niagara Falls several times.

   3. JRJoe Rogan0:26

      I know who you're talking about. Yeah.

   4. DADan Aykroyd0:27

      Uh, I... I... But, he was a French, uh, tightrope walker, and one of the things he did, Joe, was one... one morning, he said, "I'm gonna do this, but I'm gonna take my manager on my back. I'm gonna take a small stove, and I'm gonna cook him breakfast in the middle of the falls, right over the falls."

   5. JRJoe Rogan0:43

      Oh, shit.

   6. DADan Aykroyd0:44

      And this is recorded of him having... A- can you imagine the manager, you know, the conversation there? "Okay. You're gonna climb on my back. We're going to the middle of the falls. I'm gonna make you breakfast." "I love you. I love handling you. But no... What? Uh, really? I have to do this?" So, he took his manager on the back, out to the falls, cooked him eggs right there, and then walked to the other end of the falls with a stove, his manager all on his back.

   7. JRJoe Rogan1:04

      (laughs)

   8. DADan Aykroyd1:04

      I... This is like... You know, these are... these are feats that, uh, that we hear about.

   9. JRJoe Rogan1:08

      Did he cook in the middle?

   10. DADan Aykroyd1:10

       He cooked in the middle of the falls.

   11. JRJoe Rogan1:11

       Oh.

   12. DADan Aykroyd1:11

       He cooked b-... He cooked eggs, and I think flapjacks, and, uh, all while, uh, handling his manager on his back, and handling the stove, and the whole thing. Yeah.

   13. JRJoe Rogan1:19

       There's the images of it.

   14. DADan Aykroyd1:19

       There... There he is. There yet, there. There. There's the manager. Look.

   15. JRJoe Rogan1:22

       Oh, my goodness.

   16. DADan Aykroyd1:23

       Yeah. Isn't that funny?

   17. JRJoe Rogan1:24

       Where's he cooking?

   18. DADan Aykroyd1:25

       Yeah. Blondie, that was his name. Yeah.

   19. JRJoe Rogan1:26

       I wanna see him cooking.

   20. DADan Aykroyd1:27

       Yeah.

   21. JRJoe Rogan1:27

       They must have a photo.

   22. DADan Aykroyd1:28

       They've got to have a photo.

   23. JRJoe Rogan1:29

       Is that a wheelbarrow up there?

   24. DADan Aykroyd1:30

       Yeah. Yeah, a wheelbarrow. He had the manager on his back. There he is, the manager on the back, you see, taking him across.

   25. JRJoe Rogan1:35

       Jesus Christ.

   26. DADan Aykroyd1:35

       Yeah.

   27. JRJoe Rogan1:36

       That's how you earn your keep as a manager.

   28. DADan Aykroyd1:38

       (laughs) I... I know. And... And... And I don't know whether... There. There he is. Look at the table-

   29. JRJoe Rogan1:41

       Oh, my God.

   30. DADan Aykroyd1:41

       ... and the chairs. Yeah.
2. 15:00 – 30:00

   Why does she, why…

   1. DADan Aykroyd15:00

      orange one and a cloudy green one, and they're smaller. She says they're all fakes, that they were carved by a German lapidary in the 1800s, and that he seeded them around the world. Well, wait a minute. I think one was found in Tibet, one was found in Ohio, we're hearing, at the Serpent Mounds.

   2. JRJoe Rogan15:17

      Why does she, why does she think this one gentleman did it?

   3. DADan Aykroyd15:19

      Uh, he, because he was an expert lapidary. He had the tools to do it. And, and she figures, her theory is that they're not artifacts polished by tribal, uh, uh, hands and passed down, that they're all fakes. But it's just, wait a minute, he would've had to have had an airship to go and deposit these wherever they might be around the world. Um, and, uh-

   4. JRJoe Rogan15:39

      D- but does, what was his take?

   5. DADan Aykroyd15:40

      ... you can, you can get the pictures of the skulls up, the Smithsonian crystal heads-

   6. JRJoe Rogan15:44

      Yeah, please.

   7. DADan Aykroyd15:44

      ... uh, and, uh, the Smithsonian's crystal head you can get, and Victoria & Albert crystal head.

   8. JRJoe Rogan15:48

      Do they all have-

   9. DADan Aykroyd15:49

      There.

   10. JRJoe Rogan15:49

       ... the same, similar type of markings?

   11. DADan Aykroyd15:51

       There. There's the, there's theirs. Uh, yes. Yes, they do. They do. They all have the same. Now, you see, some of them are more, um, cl- are clearer. See, there's one at the, uh, the, the, uh, the British Museum. And there's some that are clearer and they're more beautiful, and there's some that are rougher, like, uh, that one there, and the, and the green and the orange one. But she says all fakes. But if they're all fakes, how did they get to these different places around the world and how were they found? Uh, you know.

   12. JRJoe Rogan16:16

       Well, here's the, here's the thing, but what, why fake? The word fake is very strange, because it's like they are certainly real carved crystal skulls. So they're real.

   13. DADan Aykroyd16:25

       But were they from tribal ancestry?

   14. JRJoe Rogan16:27

       Right. Who-

   15. DADan Aykroyd16:27

       That's the question.

   16. JRJoe Rogan16:27

       Who made them? Is the question.

   17. DADan Aykroyd16:28

       Who made them?

   18. JRJoe Rogan16:29

       Were they from modern Western people?

   19. DADan Aykroyd16:30

       And how? Were they polished-

   20. JRJoe Rogan16:31

       Right.

   21. DADan Aykroyd16:31

       ... or were they carved? That's the thing. Aren't they beautiful, though, God d-

   22. JRJoe Rogan16:34

       What do the indigenous people say? They say they found them?

   23. DADan Aykroyd16:36

       They, they, the Navajo say they came from the star children, that they, they were brought down and deposited and given to them as crystal ball devices, scrying devices too.

   24. JRJoe Rogan16:45

       What's that one down there, Jamie? Keep scrolling where you were. The one on the left.

   25. DADan Aykroyd16:48

       The green is beautiful.

   26. JRJoe Rogan16:48

       The one on the left right there, that looks m- almost like a real skull.

   27. DADan Aykroyd16:50

       Uh, it is a real one.

   28. JRJoe Rogan16:51

       Oh, is a real skull.

   29. DADan Aykroyd16:52

       Yeah. No, the green is beautiful. So, so I guess, I don't know, I'm not a scientist, uh, I'm not a professional historian. I guess I have to trust the lady at the Smithsonian. But then I question, they were found at different times in history around the world. How do you go and seed, how do you deposit them there? How do we know?

   30. JRJoe Rogan17:07

       Why does she believe that? Has she given a coherent reason why she thinks that they're all hoaxes?
3. 30:00 – 45:00

   ... dummy. Yeah. …

   1. JRJoe Rogan30:00

   2. DADan Aykroyd30:00

      ... dummy. Yeah.

   3. JRJoe Rogan30:00

      He was put under pressure to do so.

   4. DADan Aykroyd30:02

      Yeah, yeah.

   5. JRJoe Rogan30:02

      He's in a movie called... What is it? Um, there's a documentary on Netflix, it's available, that he's in, um, that he talks about the pressure that they put on him to make light of that incident. And he talks about his own personal experiences with seeing something, some sort of triangle-shaped craft that was enormous, the size of several football fields. It was flying overhead, that was completely silent, and how it freaked him out. I think that was him.

   6. DADan Aykroyd30:24

      The triangle, the triangle and del- Delta crafts are very, very interesting.

   7. JRJoe Rogan30:27

      Yeah.

   8. DADan Aykroyd30:27

      But, uh, the, the Tinley Park incidents of the, uh, of the '80s, uh, and, uh, with, um... Sam Oranto was the investigator there from UFON.... these things would park over the family barbecue for about half an hour, and, you know, families in suburbs were looking up at them, the sky being blotted out by these things parking above them. (inhales deeply) So, y- y- I, I think it comes down to they... I don't think these beings... I... Well, Lord Hill Norton said there were 23 different species visiting the planet in 23 different types of ships. I don't think they want a formal relationship with people on Earth. They want an informal, secret relationship. I think they probably have one with elements of the, of black elements of the Air Force and the government. You know who David Sereda is?

   9. JRJoe Rogan31:07

      I've heard his name.

   10. DADan Aykroyd31:07

       David Sereda, you should have him on. He's very knowledgeable about this. Uh, he's, his theory is that the Roswell event may have been precipitated by the Trinity explosion at... Because there was such an inter-dimensional disturbance of the atoms being split in that explosion, there was, there was... That, that saucer there that went down in '47 may have, may have been influenced somehow negatively by, by that explosion. Now, Stanton Friedman doesn't, didn't buy that. I loved Stanton. He just passed away there.

   11. JRJoe Rogan31:34

       Yeah.

   12. DADan Aykroyd31:34

       He was the expert on Roswell.

   13. JRJoe Rogan31:35

       Yeah, I'm upset that I never got to meet him before he died. He-

   14. DADan Aykroyd31:38

       He was so credible, and so great.

   15. JRJoe Rogan31:38

       ... was an interesting guy who believed in UFOs, but believed most people were li- were lying about them.

   16. DADan Aykroyd31:43

       (inhales deeply) Uh, really? Really?

   17. JRJoe Rogan31:45

       Yeah.

   18. DADan Aykroyd31:46

       Oh.

   19. JRJoe Rogan31:46

       He, well, he believed that there was a lot of horse shit going on-

   20. DADan Aykroyd31:49

       Well-

   21. JRJoe Rogan31:49

       ... including Bob Lazar. He thought Bob Lazar was full of shit. He thought-

   22. DADan Aykroyd31:52

       Well, a- again, why would, why would Bob go out there and, and do that, and, and, and compromise his life, and you know-

   23. JRJoe Rogan31:57

       Well, let me tell you something, after talking to him for three hours-

   24. DADan Aykroyd31:59

       Incredible.

   25. JRJoe Rogan32:00

       ... and then having dinner with him the night before, the, my, I don't have, I don't... I used to believe I had the best bullshit meter in the world, but as I've gotten older, I've gotten more honest. (laughs)

   26. DADan Aykroyd32:09

       You did.

   27. JRJoe Rogan32:09

       And, uh, I d- I don't, I didn't see anything. He's-

   28. DADan Aykroyd32:13

       (laughs)

   29. JRJoe Rogan32:13

       ... he's incredibly smart guy, and he's not a guy who's like seeking out attention, and he's not profiting from this. And in fact-

   30. DADan Aykroyd32:20

       Well, just his demeanor and everything.
4. 45:00 – 1:00:00

   (sighs) . …

   1. JRJoe Rogan45:00

      think that they would can- ... Listen, sci-fi is all about those shows. I mean, I watched a, an episode of sci-fi where there's a bunch of people that claim to be trapped in a cabin in Maine because werewolves were outside. It's just like-

   2. DADan Aykroyd45:11

      (sighs) .

   3. JRJoe Rogan45:11

      It's ... They're into nonsense.

   4. DADan Aykroyd45:12

      Well, they don't do talk shows.

   5. JRJoe Rogan45:13

      I did a show on sci-fi.

   6. DADan Aykroyd45:15

      Talk show?

   7. JRJoe Rogan45:15

      I had a show called Joe Rogan Questions Everything, where I would go-

   8. DADan Aykroyd45:17

      How long did it last?

   9. JRJoe Rogan45:18

      Not very long, but part of that was my idea.

   10. DADan Aykroyd45:21

       Uh-huh.

   11. JRJoe Rogan45:21

       I didn't w-

   12. DADan Aykroyd45:21

       And then you worked for Bonnie?

   13. JRJoe Rogan45:22

       I didn't wanna keep doing it.

   14. DADan Aykroyd45:23

       You worked for Bonnie Hammer, right?

   15. JRJoe Rogan45:24

       No, it w- it was different people back then.

   16. DADan Aykroyd45:25

       C- 'cause she's one of the smartest executives in the industry, and I-

   17. JRJoe Rogan45:28

       I-

   18. DADan Aykroyd45:28

       ... I, I, I don't doubt that she'll be running NBC someday, or all of Universal. But I, and I just, I just ... I would always like to know what happened. Did someone call you, Bonnie, and, and say, "You know, don't bring this up now."

   19. JRJoe Rogan45:38

       I just don't think anyone's gonna call people about UFOs.

   20. DADan Aykroyd45:40

       Mm-hmm.

   21. JRJoe Rogan45:41

       I mean, if they're gonna make phone calls, they're gonna, you know, take out Don Lemon or something 'cause he talks shit about Trump. (laughs) . They're not gonna-

   22. DADan Aykroyd45:47

       Mm-hmm.

   23. JRJoe Rogan45:47

       You know what I mean?

   24. DADan Aykroyd45:47

       Yeah, I guess so. Yeah, maybe she just-

   25. JRJoe Rogan45:48

       It just- it just doesn't make sense.

   26. DADan Aykroyd45:49

       I don't know. I'd always like to know what happened.

   27. JRJoe Rogan45:50

       UFOs are w- openly discredited by normal people, people dismiss them.

   28. DADan Aykroyd45:56

       Well, not entirely, though. Half the world, uh, d- believes. If you look at the work of Ralph Blumenthal and Leslie Kean, New York Times reporters, they're credibly reporting these, this stuff. Barney and Betty Hill, the State of New Hampshire has certified their s- their, their, uh, uh, has certified their experience with a plaque. You can go to the place where they were allegedly abducted, and the State of New Hampshire has "UFO Incident" right there.

   29. JRJoe Rogan46:18

       Right. But we both know that that doesn't mean anything. It doesn't mean it happened because someone-

   30. DADan Aykroyd46:21

       Well, it means it's a state-certified or state-
5. 1:00:00 – 1:03:20

   Mm-hmm. …

   1. DADan Aykroyd1:00:00

      moon and I, I love that story about there was only 17 seconds of fuel left when they, when they landed.

   2. JRJoe Rogan1:00:05

      Mm-hmm.

   3. DADan Aykroyd1:00:06

      And then that he had to kinda h- hop over some rocks to get there, you know. Um, so there's a story that Neil Armstrong was at a conference in, in, uh, in France in a hotel room and one o-... And there was a woman there who had been previously head of MI6 and she was a part of this cocktail party. And she overheard a conversation between Neil Armstrong and another gentleman who was in the intelligence service. And the guy was asking him about the moon landing. And Neil said, "You know, there was a frequency that we switched to, to talk about other things that were happening at that time." And the guy said, "What do you mean?" He said, "When we landed there on the rim of the crater nearby," he said, "there were several ships and they were large and menacing."

   4. JRJoe Rogan1:00:53

      What's a menacing ship?

   5. DADan Aykroyd1:00:54

      M- uh, large.

   6. JRJoe Rogan1:00:55

      Shaped like one of your bottles of skulls?

   7. DADan Aykroyd1:00:57

      Well, no, that... No, this here's a happy skull.

   8. JRJoe Rogan1:00:59

      That's menacing.

   9. DADan Aykroyd1:00:59

      No, the Coneheads starship. Remember the Coneheads starship?

   10. JRJoe Rogan1:01:02

       Yeah, but I, I do remember that. (laughs)

   11. DADan Aykroyd1:01:03

       So I mean, that's a total anec- I mean, what I think, you know, if that... If Neil Arm- if that's true...... you know? Well-

   12. JRJoe Rogan1:01:09

       Well, he only said that one time in French. Maybe they- we- maybe their translations sucked.

   13. DADan Aykroyd1:01:12

       Yeah, you know, the woman, again, the woman... Do you want this... Oh, I might as well have it straight, right? Uh, the woman, the woman was with MI6, purportedly. That's kind of a- a neat story, you know? I don't know.

   14. JRJoe Rogan1:01:21

       Of course it's a neat story.

   15. DADan Aykroyd1:01:22

       Yeah.

   16. JRJoe Rogan1:01:22

       Edgar Mitchell said that he saw something out there too, right?

   17. DADan Aykroyd1:01:25

       Edgar Mitchell did, and, uh-

   18. JRJoe Rogan1:01:27

       Yeah, he- he was a fr-

   19. DADan Aykroyd1:01:28

       ... and, uh, yeah.

   20. JRJoe Rogan1:01:28

       He's- he's passed away.

   21. DADan Aykroyd1:01:29

       Condon.

   22. JRJoe Rogan1:01:29

       He's passed away since, right?

   23. DADan Aykroyd1:01:30

       Yeah, yeah.

   24. JRJoe Rogan1:01:31

       Edgar Mitchell.

   25. DADan Aykroyd1:01:31

       No, there were-

   26. JRJoe Rogan1:01:32

       He was a firm believer.

   27. DADan Aykroyd1:01:33

       And the- and then the- the STS, 1979 STS space shuttle footage, you've seen that. STS 1979, uh, tether, uh, satellite tether break.

   28. JRJoe Rogan1:01:43

       Oh, I have seen that. Yeah.

   29. DADan Aykroyd1:01:44

       Yeah. The tether broke off, it was a mile long, and they were supposed to spin off a satellite, it was a mile long, and they- and it broke.

   30. JRJoe Rogan1:01:51

       Mm-hmm.

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