{"id":6500,"date":"2026-08-14T05:10:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T05:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=6500"},"modified":"2026-08-14T05:10:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T05:10:11","slug":"dan-aykroyd-blasts-california-as-medieval-mess-while-praising-peaceful-life-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=6500","title":{"rendered":"Dan Aykroyd blasts California as \u2018medieval\u2019 mess while praising peaceful life in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>\u201cGhostbusters\u201d star Dan Aykroyd revealed the grim, \u201cmedieval\u201d-like reality of living in California in a recently resurfaced podcast interview.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=6498\">US carries out first triple execution in 16 years<\/a><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>He cited the city of Santa Monica as one of the \u201cpockets of the world that are at peace and that there is harmony,\u201d before describing the \u201clovely wide boulevards\u201d in the LA area<\/p>\n<p>But Aykroyd quickly noted the discrepancy with other parts of the city and 60,000 homeless people living on the streets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo the underside and the overside will always, always be there,\u201d the actor said. \u201cWe\u2019re living in frankly medieval times.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Aykroyd said he drives \u201cvery carefully\u201d  and doesn\u2019t go out during \u201cprison hours,\u201d referring to how he keeps himself in a gated community during late-night hours.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBring my family close, whereas really I would like to take my family and let them run in the park at one in the morning,\u201d he said. \u201cBut no. We have to be so guarded now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=6496\">CashApp founder Bob Lee\u2019s killer launches Hail Mary bid after murder conviction<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Carolla responded that it\u2019s absurd Jay-Z and Beyonc\u00e9 have a $200 million house in Malibu, \u201cbut in order to get there, you have to drive through a homeless encampment.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Download The California Post App, follow us on social, and subscribe to our newsletters <\/strong><\/h2>\n<div>\n<p><strong>California Post News<\/strong>: Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, X, YouTube, WhatsApp, LinkedIn<br \/><strong>California Post Sports<\/strong> Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, X<br \/><strong>California Post  <\/strong>Opinion <br \/><strong>California Post Newsletters<\/strong>: Sign up here!<br \/><strong>California Post App<\/strong>: Download here!<br \/><strong>Home delivery<\/strong>: Sign up here!<br \/><strong>Page Six Hollywood<\/strong>: Sign up here!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s where we\u2019re at, which is ultra-rich and then people just expiring on the streets in squalor,\u201d the host said.<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>By contrast, Aykroyd praised his peaceful life in Canada, recalling a visit from a friend to his home there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHere I am driving through the bucolic countryside \u2026 and we\u2019re in Canada,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019re driving to the drug store to get an ice cream, and he tells me, \u2018What it is like to live in a country without war?\u2019 I thought to myself, \u2018Boy, do I take things for granted, you know, around this place.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=6494\">Luigi Mangione expected to plead guilty to federal charges in assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Aykroyd criticized California\u2019s cost-of-living crisis, contrasting Santa Monica\u2019s beauty with its large homeless population and high housing costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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