#1351 - Dan Aykroyd

**Joe Rogan** (0:02)
And we're live with Dan Aykroyd, cutting oranges and doing a podcast at the same time.

**Dan Aykroyd** (0:07)
Yes, it's kind of like walking from the tightrope between two buildings, chewing gum and looking up at the ceiling. Have you ever heard of the guy who, he was a tightrope walker at the turn of the century, and he was very famous.
I forget as he was a French guy, he walked over Niagara Falls several times.
But he was a French tightrope walker. And one of the things he did, Joe, was 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. And this is recorded of him having, and 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, really, I have to do this? So, he took his manager on the back, out to the falls, cooked them eggs right there, and then walked to the other end of the falls with a stove, his manager all on his back. This is like, you know, these are feats that we hear about.

**Joe Rogan** (1:08)
Did he cook in the middle?

**Dan Aykroyd** (1:09)
He cooked in the middle of the falls, he cooked eggs and I think flapjacks, and all while handling his manager on his back and handling the stove and the whole thing.

**Joe Rogan** (1:18)
What is the image of that?

**Dan Aykroyd** (1:19)
There he is, there he is, there, there's the manager, look.

**Joe Rogan** (1:22)
Oh my goodness.

**Dan Aykroyd** (1:22)
Isn't that funny? Yeah, Blonde, that was his name, yeah.

**Joe Rogan** (1:26)
I wanna see him cooking.

**Dan Aykroyd** (1:27)
Yeah.

**Joe Rogan** (1:27)
They must have a photo.

**Dan Aykroyd** (1:28)
They've gotta have a photo.

**Joe Rogan** (1:29)
Wheelbarrow up there.

**Dan Aykroyd** (1:30)
Yeah, yeah, wheelbarrow, he had the manager on his back, there he is, the manager on the back, you see, taking him across.

**Joe Rogan** (1:35)
Yeah. That's how you earn your keep as a manager.

**Dan Aykroyd** (1:38)
I know, and I don't know, there, there he is, look at the table and the chairs. Yeah.
So that's what we're kind of up to here today, and I know when I came in, I saw the beautiful bow equipment and all your workout equipment. I was gonna bring my pinball gun so I could bounce them off your stomach, but, you know.

**Joe Rogan** (1:54)
You have a pinball gun? What is a pinball gun?

**Dan Aykroyd** (1:56)
Well, I'm just making it up here. I know you've got a hard stomach there and I could just see them bounce off.
But, and I said, you know, Joe, do you have a knife for the oranges? And I knew you'd have a really nice sharp hunting knife and he hauls this out and here it is.

**Joe Rogan** (2:08)
Tuck a more custom knife.

**Dan Aykroyd** (2:09)
Oh, it's beautiful, beautiful. Where are they out of? I don't know.

**Joe Rogan** (2:12)
It was a gift from my friend, Donnie Vincent, brought it in for me.

**Dan Aykroyd** (2:15)
Yeah, a thousand people died going over Niagara Falls. Many of them suicides and many of them, you know, just that went over in rafts and that kid, Roger, who went over in a life jacket and kids and people in barrels who were actually intending to go over the falls and wanted to float down that far.

**Joe Rogan** (2:32)
One guy survived.

**Dan Aykroyd** (2:33)
A guy in the life jacket survived and a couple of them in the barrel survived. But the tribe of the Niagara Indians who lived at the, the indigenous natives who lived at the bottom of the falls were overweight.
And why were they overweight? Because they didn't run through the forest hunting. They took all of the meat that came through the Niagara River and went over the falls and was dashed at the bottom of the falls. The bears, the wolves, the moose, all of them who drowned in the falls, all this wildlife, and they just harvested the meat off the rocks at the bottom of the falls.

**Joe Rogan** (3:03)
So they would just wait.

**Dan Aykroyd** (3:04)
They would just wait, exactly, yeah.

**Joe Rogan** (3:07)
How many things get stuck? That would seem like you'd be waiting a lot. 40 people every year fall over, so. Every year right now?