“Ghostbusters” star Dan Aykroyd revealed the grim, “medieval”-like reality of living in California in a recently resurfaced podcast interview.
In an republished episode of the Adam Carolla Show, Aykroyd spoke to the stark contrast between living in Los Angeles and Canada, where he hails from.
He cited the city of Santa Monica as one of the “pockets of the world that are at peace and that there is harmony,” before describing the “lovely wide boulevards” in the LA area
But Aykroyd quickly noted the discrepancy with other parts of the city and 60,000 homeless people living on the streets.
“So the underside and the overside will always, always be there,” the actor said. “We’re living in frankly medieval times.”
Aykroyd said he drives “very carefully” and doesn’t go out during “prison hours,” referring to how he keeps himself in a gated community during late-night hours.
“Bring my family close, whereas really I would like to take my family and let them run in the park at one in the morning,” he said. “But no. We have to be so guarded now.”
Carolla responded that it’s absurd Jay-Z and Beyoncé have a $200 million house in Malibu, “but in order to get there, you have to drive through a homeless encampment.”
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“That’s where we’re at, which is ultra-rich and then people just expiring on the streets in squalor,” the host said.
By contrast, Aykroyd praised his peaceful life in Canada, recalling a visit from a friend to his home there.
“Here I am driving through the bucolic countryside … and we’re in Canada,” he said. “We’re driving to the drug store to get an ice cream, and he tells me, ‘What it is like to live in a country without war?’ I thought to myself, ‘Boy, do I take things for granted, you know, around this place.’”
Aykroyd, 74, lives primarily on his estate in Ontario, according to reports, but he did spend time at a number of properties in the US, including one in the LA area.
