Dan Aykroyd

I starred with Nick Nolte in the cop movie 48 Hours.

I swapped social classes with Dan Aykroyd in Trading Places.

And I played a wisecracking Detroit cop, Loose in Beverly Hills, which became one of the biggest hits of the decade that should make it a whole lot easier have you worked it out yet final clues after question 20 although i suspect a lot of people listening to this podcast won't need them question 15 which color is mostly associated with official london taxis London cabs are nearly all exclusively black.

Question 16 is a maths question.

So that's a no. I'm sure people know, but yeah, I mean, there's not, I mean, you probably wouldn't know unless you follow him,

you know? They don't have a Dan Aykroyd parade.

Or day.

Dan who? That's funny.

So,

yeah, that was fun to hear.

And it was funny that she didn't know Dan Aykroyd was from Canada.

Yeah, that was great.

I would be absolutely real with you.

I told you, Seth, I just got like flash banged by Dan Aykroyd and Justin Timberlake, right?

Pause.

Ruben, that's not a pause, bro.

[laughs]

And they would come out, there was certain schools, like Southern schools, and these kids would come out literally dressed like Dan Aykroyd's friends in Trading Places.

[laughs]

Like, "And he stepped on the ball." [laughs] And you're just looking at them going like, "There's no way.

yeah okay I like lean into that for the for the spooky season but I feel like Ghostbusters I've never been all the way through it even I get bored every time yeah

oh I like the teamwork I like the dynamics I don't find Dan Aykroyd very funny I don't know what it is okay just have you watched the new Ghostbusters with all the women oh Is it good? It's so good, Erica.

It is hilarious.

I never have because I

adult themes and the occasional bullying of ben please follow rate and subscribe to us on all the social medias plus where you get your podcasts from also make sure you check out our new twitch stream via twitch.tv forward slash nerds against normality okay this wasn't one of our picks this was obviously the pick from last week's guest rob bailey he picked uh blues brothers for us and he's given us the question if you've listened to the episode you'll know this at the end he he said Is the 70s SNL cast, has that cast made the biggest contribution to cinema compared to other decades? Now, from reliable sources, I asked NotChatGPT to get the seven biggest from each decade.

So going with Rob's said the 70s, so from the 70s, we've got Dan Aykroyd, we've got John Belushi, Chevy Chase, Gilda Radner, Jane Curtin, Garrett Morris and Bill Murray.

So we're not saying are they the funniest or biggest names in comedy.

We're saying they've had the biggest contribution to cinema.

I mean, not the biggest film head, but I know that Dan Aykroyd at Bill Murray at Chevy Chase has had massive influence, right?

Yeah.

John Belushi didn't see past 33, so probably didn't have that much of an impact past Blues Brothers.

I think, unfortunately, a lot of cinema died after that film because he kind of knocked it out of the park and then anyone who tried to do it just couldn't

shared with me some stories ever since Claude, the CEO of Anthropic, came out over the weekend and said, with apologies to those who wrote the great Miles Copperthwa bits for Saturday Night Live, punish me, no, punish me, punish me.

Like some Dan Aykroyd in a badly fitting sailor suit.

Punish me, punish me.

You must punish us thoroughly because we're bad.

She said, but his name is Dario Emoji and you should call him that.

Is it Emoji or Emoji Emoji? How about we call him Dario Emoji? Because he looks a little like that, you know, kind of round Dario Emoji.

the CEO of Anthropic over the weekend, you know, in his Dan Aykroyd costume from the Miles Copperthwaite bit on Saturday Night Live.

No, Captain, punish me, punish me.

35 seconds.

You're really doing an impression of Dan Aykroyd when he does an impression of me.

You know it, and I know it, and the American people know it.

Come on now, Senator.