{"id":167613,"date":"2026-08-14T05:51:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T05:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/167613\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T05:51:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T05:51:30","slug":"dan-aykroyd-contrasts-malibu-wealth-with-the-california-homeless-crisis-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/167613\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Aykroyd contrasts Malibu wealth with the California homeless crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles!\n  <\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\" class=\"speakable\"><a data-omtr-intcmp=\"fnc_entertainment_article_main-content_article-body_6_5530905\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/dan-aykroyd-believes-hurtful-comedy-should-be-canceled\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Dan Aykroyd<\/a> praised his Canadian roots while pondering world atrocities in a recently unearthed podcast.<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\" class=\"speakable\">Aykroyd, 74, admitted in a resurfaced clip from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zP71n4v4dZ0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8220;The Adam Carolla Show&#8221;<\/a> that he &#8220;loved going around the world,&#8221; boasting that his Crystal Head Vodka was &#8220;made in Canada&#8221; where he was born \u2013 a place he believed to have a stark contrast to life in California.<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">&#8220;It&#8217;s great to be living in the western world,&#8221; he said before singing an old blues song with lyrics including, &#8220;Oh, this world is in an uproar, things all going wrong. The way the reds is cutting up, we ain&#8217;t going to be here long.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\"><a data-omtr-intcmp=\"fnc_entertainment_article_main-content_article-body_6_5530907\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/dan-aykroyd-survived-50-foot-fall-credits-divine-intervention-saving-his-life\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">DAN AYKROYD SURVIVED 50-FOOT FALL, CREDITS &#8216;DIVINE INTERVENTION&#8217; FOR SAVING HIS LIFE<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1786686689_904_dan-aykroyd.jpg\" alt=\"Dan Aykroyd on stage\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Dan Aykroyd boasted about life in Canada during a resurfaced appearance on &#8220;The Adam Carolla Show.&#8221; (Kevin Winter)<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">The &#8220;Ghostbusters&#8221; actor recalled a visit with a friend from Israel who stayed on his farm and once asked, &#8220;Dan, what is it like to live in a land where there&#8217;s no war?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">&#8220;Here I am driving through the bucolic countryside &#8230; and we&#8217;re in Canada,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We&#8217;re driving to the drugstore to get an ice cream, and he tells me, &#8216;What it is like to live in a country without war?&#8217; I thought to myself, \u2018Boy, do I take things for granted, you know, around this place.\u2019&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">After Carolla reminisced on failed promises for the future, Aykroyd insisted there were &#8220;pockets of the world that are at peace and that there is harmony, you know, <a data-omtr-intcmp=\"fnc_entertainment_article_main-content_article-body_6_5530908\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/los-angeles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Santa Monica, California<\/a> \u2013 harmony, peace, joy by the sea.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">&#8220;It&#8217;s beautiful there, beautiful houses and beautiful shops and lovely wide boulevards and <a data-omtr-intcmp=\"fnc_entertainment_article_main-content_article-body_6_5530909\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/topic\/homeless-crisis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">60,000 homeless<\/a>,&#8221; he said. &#8220;So the underside and the overside will always, always be there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\"><a data-omtr-intcmp=\"fnc_entertainment_article_main-content_article-body_6_5530910\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">LIKE WHAT YOU&#8217;RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWS<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1786686690_459_ghostbusters-dan-aykroyd.jpg\" alt=\"The cast of &quot;Ghostbusters&quot; looking stunned in costume.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Aykroyd is known for his roles in comedies like &#8220;Ghostbusters.&#8221; (Columbia Pictures\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">&#8220;We&#8217;re living in frankly medieval times. You go, I drive very carefully in the car. I don&#8217;t drive prison hours at night, have a gated place to live &#8230; lock up at night. Bring my family close, whereas really I would like to take my family and let them run in the park at 1 in the morning.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/newsletters?cmpid=fnfirstnl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSLETTER<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">He added, &#8220;But, no. We have to be so guarded now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">Carolla added, &#8220;Well, what we&#8217;re living in, especially in California, is you have Jay-Z and <a data-omtr-intcmp=\"fnc_entertainment_article_main-content_article-body_6_5530912\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/beyonce\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Beyonc\u00e9<\/a> buy a $200 million house in Malibu, but in order to get there, you have to drive through a homeless encampment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">&#8220;They got a deal, by the way,&#8221; Aykroyd joked. &#8220;It&#8217;s worth $700.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1786686690_176_john-belushi-dan-aykroyd.jpg\" alt=\"Jim Belushi and Dan Aykroyd wear black suits as the Blues Brothers.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>John Bellushi and Dan Aykroyd founded the famous Blues Brothers duo in the late &#8217;70s on &#8220;Saturday Night Live.&#8221; (Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">&#8220;That&#8217;s where we&#8217;re at, which is ultra rich and then people just expiring on the streets in squalor,&#8221; Carolla noted before the actor jumped back in.<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\"><a href=\"https:\/\/foxnews.onelink.me\/xLDS?pid=AppArticleLink&amp;af_dp=foxnewsaf%3A%2F%2F&amp;af_web_dp=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fapps-products\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX NEWS APP<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">&#8220;Well, thankfully, knowing people like that, they&#8217;re going to drive through their driveway, see that, and immediately start to act to try to alleviate and help in some way, because that&#8217;s the kind of people they are,&#8221; Aykroyd said.<\/p>\n<p>Tracy Wright is an entertainment reporter for Fox News Digital. 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