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Hey Dude, the Nineties Called with

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Christine Taylor and David Lasher.

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Hey, everybody, welcome back to Hey Dude, the

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Nineties Called podcast.

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I'm David, Hi David, I'm Christine.

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Welcome back to the podcast.

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Everyone. Yeah, we've got

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we've got an exciting one today.

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Yeah, this is like, this is

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my childhood.

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You know, Corey Feldman is

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the guy that was in every movie

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when we were in our teens, you know.

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I know, I mean movies like you

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know it just I can't imagine

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I can't imagine.

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A childhood without these movies,

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you know.

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Gremlin's, The Goonies, stand By Me, Lost

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Boys, Dream, A Little Dream, I mean like and those

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are all eighties. I know this is a nineties podcast,

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but he worked NonStop through the nineties

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as well, and he's just kind

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of taking off, like having this sort of new next

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chapter in

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his career, which is really exciting.

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What was your favorite? I

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know what your favorite? Y?

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You know Corey

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feldon scene with about his

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father.

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You know, listen, I his

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work moved me when I was when

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I was a kid, Like I really you

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know, connected with his performances

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and of course you know coonies.

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You know, no, no, next

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level. Yes, yes, The Lost

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Boys.

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I mean we just showed Quinn The Lost Boys

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like last year or the year before or something.

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Oh really does that hold off?

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It's oh, it really holds up.

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I mean it's such a period piece, like the

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Wardrobe, it's so eighties, like

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it's so late.

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Eighties and Patrick.

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Yeah, just it's it's

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such a damn good movie.

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Yeah, I just feel like And also

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I saw I don't think I ever saw it, but they did

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make a sequel to The

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Lost Boys that he was also in or produced

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I think he produced, which

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I never saw. But anyway,

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we're we're very much looking forward to talking

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to him. We don't have a huge window

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of time, so we're going to do our best to get a

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lot of questions in. He's in a press junket

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today. If

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any of you are Mass Singer fans, he

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was just ousted

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on the Mass Singer. The big reveal happened,

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and apparently Jenny McCarthy.

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Can I you must

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have watched it, because you watch every one of these shows.

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I love all the shows, but I don't watch them all in

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real time.

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I've got everything recorded so that I

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can kind of go back and like watch

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highlights.

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I'm not I can't. I can't stand on top.

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Of all of them at all times, but

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I do have them on record.

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What'd you say he was a seal or something?

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He was a seal? This really cute little like

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fur creature.

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And you know, we've had other guests on

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this show who have been on the mass

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Singer.

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So we got to talk to them about that.

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I don't know if we'll have a chance to ask him about that stuff

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because now that now he's

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off, he's off, he's off, so

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so.

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Now the big reveal.

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But apparently Jenny McCarthy guessed him

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from the first time he came out, and

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she kept saying because they give clues, that's

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the thing they sing. But

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they also the key is their very

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sort of obscure clues, so if you

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queue into those clues, and one of the clues

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he gave was that he had

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partied with Jenny at some point in

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the nineties, or he had spent an evening

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with Jenny in the nineties or something

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like that, And Jenny apparently

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just guessed.

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Him from his first performance,

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and she was right.

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People other people thought it was going to be Macauley

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Culkin. Other people thought it was going to be Haley

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Joel Osman.

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It was funny. I read all.

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No, Jenny spent a night with him.

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Yes, but it was nothing, No, it

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was nothing. They were both there. Apparently

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they were both married to other people. But

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anyway, it looks like he's here,

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the legendary Corey Feldman.

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Yeah, let's go with Corey Feldman.

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Dude, uck Corey.

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Welcome, dude.

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This is iconic. This is iconic,

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dude.

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That's so cool. Things.

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Oh, bro, I know we're probably

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all the same age around, but I feel

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like I grew up with you.

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I feel like I know you.

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So you're twenty two as well, all

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of us.

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We're all still in our twenties, right exact?

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I know I am. I mean I wear

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a proof of it every day.

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There it is. Yeah, you see that?

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You see it? Can you see it? You can see it? Right? Yeah?

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Fantastic.

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I don't know, I don't know if you can see it.

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Let me get a little closer. You can see that?

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Yeah?

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Oh yeah, twenty two baby.

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That's it. That's me. That's my religion. That's

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where I live. I live in the land of

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twenty two all the time, which

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would put us writing about nineteen

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ninety one. I think, right, so there

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you go.

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Yes, yes, I think we

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need to jump in, right, like.

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Yeah, you can jump jump on in, jump on in.

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What you got for me, Lay it on me, throw it

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on the line. Let's do this thing.

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Okay, the scene you want to go, because I have

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he's got the biggest IMDb page I've

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ever seen in my life.

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It's so true, it's so true.

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I mean, listen, we'll get to the masked

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singer because that's so exciting and that

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all just happened, and I

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want we want to hear all about that.

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But do you mind going back?

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Because, like David said, you

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are a part of just

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all of us growing up, like the most iconic

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films.

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I'll be honest with you. I know you guys are a nineties

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podcast, but I'm really not in talking

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about the same stuff I've talked about a million

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times. I've done that interview. So

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I like to talk about what's new, what's

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fresh, what's exciting, what's current,

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what's relevant. Definitely, as

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much as possible, I'd like

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to stay focused on that stuff. Once

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in a while, we can, we can dip, but yeah.

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Yeah, can we at least give you some kudos

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for some of the iconic work that

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you did as a kid that would literally

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like changed our lives.

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And I think we just because we get.

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This cam you must.

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If you must, we

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must, we must.

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And by the way, I'll get it out of the

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way very quickly because it's it's

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not one of the typicals, but it probably is

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for a certain genre as the like

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I am the biggest horror movie fan

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and I really cannot wait to talk to.

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You about the birthday.

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But Friday the thirteenth, the Final

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Chapter Game,

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that was the first horror movie I got to see

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in the theaters and you're

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amazing at it, and I just wanted.

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To say that I just needed to do that.

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Thank you.

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It's one of the best ones in the franchise.

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I'm sorry just saying it. It's I think it's

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the best. I think it tops one and two.

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I appreciate that. Thank you.

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You know, to me, the Part three was the

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best, but only when it was in three D, so

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you don't have it.

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D They

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would hand you the glasses.

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Right of course, of course, you

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know, you know, David, they still do that now,

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No, no, yes, yes, it's

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a real thing.

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The glasses have just gotten better. They've just

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got a little more secure.

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You don't know this, David, really, no,

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dude, I haven't been to a movie theater in five years.

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Wow. Yeah, okay, David, you know,

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right five years ago, right before COVID,

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the biggest thing in cinema was actually

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three D movies. That's when it kind of came back,

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and that's when it was really really big. Now

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it's a little less. But yeah, So, I mean

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I think that the advancements, as you were saying,

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in technology, that's helped with you

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know, the the what do

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they call it. It's not polaroid,

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it's a polarization. Polarization,

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So that's how they're doing it now with the LED

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you know, liquid clear cell glasses

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where they actually are moving. There's actual

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movement, so it's not like the old days, you

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know, where it was just you know, a

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little red and blue plastic piece of

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film.

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Yeah, like kind of like the eclipse glasses

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that we all.

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Right, right, right exactly. That

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was the old school stuff right then we grew

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up with as kids. But now you get like the nice

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hard plastic ones and they actually

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a lot of them actually have little motors in them

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with little batteries and they're shutter

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screens, so it's actually shuddering at

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like three hundred and fifty clicks

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per second or something that.

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Would bring me back to the theater for sure. I've

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never seen that.

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You gotta do it, you got to and now with that, But these

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days they've got four D movies. Why

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am I telling them that this is incredible?

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You have a podcast, for God's sakes,

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go with.

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The I'm stuck in the dude.

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We've got four DX, okay forour DX

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is like it's like cinema sense

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around where you literally, I'm

8:41

not even joking, the seats moved, they

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blow stuff at you, they put

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smoke in the theater, they put different

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fragrances in the theater, they spray water

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on you. You never know what's gonna happen.

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Immersive experience, Immersive experience.

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It's called four it's called four D X,

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and you can find it in a lot of the big cinema

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films that are out now. Like I think the last

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one I just saw with that wash Boy,

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was it Doune Too or what

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was another big one that just came out. Oh maybe

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no, it wasn't Ghostbusters, But anyway,

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you know, yes, they do it with a lot of the recent

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films and it's a lot of fun.

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Actually, dude, I would

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be remiss for our listeners

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at least to talk about the

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way you started your career.

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I mean, Rob Ryaner, stand By

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Me.

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Steven Spielberg, Gooni's and Gremlins,

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Joel Schumacher and Lost Boys. I

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mean, do you look

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back and go, like, do you realize

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how insane that is the quality

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of the people that you worked with to

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start your career.

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But that wasn't the start of my career. That

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was about that you.

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Were doing sitcoms in this in the late

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seventies.

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Right, hold on, you were How old were you in stand by

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Me? How was that at the beginning of your career?

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That was ten That was literally

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ten years into my career. Man.

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Yeah, by the way, you still isn'tful

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as ever too, that's the thing.

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I appreciate that.

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But you have had such contevity.

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Yeah, well, it's I think it's already here and

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it's also and

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how we treat ourselves. He still can't get over the

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fact that it was ten years into my career that I

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did. He's still he

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doesn't know where to.

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Go with that.

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I don't want to hear about your commercial work.

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And you know when you were a baby. But

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like you know, stand By Me, we

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had Jerry. Jerry O'Connell is a good friend of mine. We've

10:32

had him on here and just

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the I.

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Mean trying to say that the work that I did before stand

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By Me was was meaningless

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or insignificant.

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No, it all bilds.

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We have we have twenty five minutes with you.

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I I know you do, but I don't

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care about I talked about it a million

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years ago. I know

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you're talking about these movies that I've talked about

10:57

three million times. So anyway

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I'm trying to make is the point I'm trying to make is

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I started my career with a McDonald's commercial.

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Okay, so that was actually the very first thing

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that I did that was Yes, it was just a commercial,

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but that commercial happened to win a

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Cleo Award for Best Commercial, and

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it also happened to play for ten years

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as one of the most classic beloved commercials

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McDonald's ever made.

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It was so great about that

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commercial.

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Nothing, No, to

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be honest, it was a piece of crap.

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No, it was.

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It was it was some

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little kid coming down the stairs, you know,

11:34

looking for a gift certificate or something. But anyway,

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the point of it is is that I did that in

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the beginning. But there was a lot of what

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I would call huge achievements before

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stand by me, such as

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getting to work with the great Dick Van Dyke. Now

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that's something that was an amazing accomplishment

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at only five years old. Okay,

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so let's start there. I got to do a

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musical number with Dick Van Dyke at

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five years old.

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I got to right there.

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Yeah, I got to do my first real acting

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scene with Chloris Leachman, the Academy

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Award winner. When I was like six

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years old. I got to work with Malcolm

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McDowell of a Clockwork

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Orange and Mary Steamberge and two

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of the most esteemed actors in the

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history of cinema when I was seven

12:19

years old. I started a Disney

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film when I was eight years old. So, yes, there

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was a lot of career to cover.

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If you want to be nostalgic.

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Is my point, Yes, yes, wow,

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I have no idea.

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And you obviously were a natural, like

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you just worked NonStop from that age

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till now.

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Yeah, how did you get how'd you get into

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it?

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Man?

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At such a young age.

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I did two TV series before

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I was twelve years old. I'd

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already done two TV series that were both national

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shows. I'd already

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had I don't know, three or four number

12:53

one hits by the time I got to stand

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by me.

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Yeah, you were a

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seasoned veteran.

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By the way, exactly.

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Oh you know how I met Jerry

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O'Connell.

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Okay, I did.

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We did a burger can commercial together.

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Yeah?

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Oh nice.

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Yeah, my first job

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ever was a burger Can commercial.

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So we all have fast food in common.

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Oh wow, that is funny. That is funny. Small,

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small, small, crappy world we

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live in, Okay. But

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yes, well I stayed very far away from

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those places now. And it is ironic that

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my first job was, I

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don't know, I guess as a puppeteer

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for the meat and dairy industry, considering

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my whole life's mission is to be

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vegetarian and help people not kill

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animals for food. So kind

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of ironic that I would have started off in

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that regard.

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Good for you, Good for you. That's

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incredible, That is incredible.

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Well, I guess we all find ourselves somewhere

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along the way.

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Yeah, and I hope that as we, you

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know, go on these journeys that

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we learn new things about ourselves and we

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make changes, and it just feels

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like you have constantly reinvented

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yourself.

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We have to if you s stagnant.

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If you stay stagnant, nobody's gonna care, right,

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that's the bottom line.

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Absolutely. But you not only

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you know, I think of you as just You've

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always been such a.

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Good actor, just so

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so so good, so real in

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everything you do. And yeah,

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no, I mean it. Really You're

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an author, you're a producer, you're a musician,

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you're now officially a masked

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singer.

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Alum, Yes,

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there you go. I think my greatest

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achievement, if you will, is really

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being a good dad. That to

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me is the thing I'm most proud of. That's

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the thing, that's the thing that gets me. And

15:06

then I would say second greatest

15:09

achievement maybe is the fact that I'm an ambassador

15:11

for Child USA and the work that I've done to help

15:13

change laws to protect children

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in the industry and children at large.

15:18

We have actually gotten open to

15:21

look back windows and change the statute

15:23

of limitations into states,

15:25

both California and New York. So that to

15:27

me is my greatest achievement as a

15:30

human being outside of being a dad.

15:32

Now, career wise, I don't

15:35

feel we're there yet, but I feel that we

15:37

are working on a steady path to rebuilding

15:39

what was a once broken career to

15:42

the point where now we can have much more of a

15:45

solid, illustrious, potential

15:47

career in the future. So I kind of had

15:49

to deal with the wreckage of my past, get

15:51

that uncovered, discovered and discarded,

15:54

move it out of the way, and now looking towards

15:56

the future. And with that there's

15:58

a lot of exciting things I have to talk about

16:01

that are coming up. So as

16:04

much as I do love looking back, I

16:06

also love looking forward because

16:08

I'm somebody who you know, thrives

16:11

on moving forward, as you said,

16:13

reinventing, you know, because

16:16

we all you know, and trust

16:18

me, there's a lot of artists out there who get stuck

16:21

in the in the pigeonhole of never

16:23

progressing, of never looking past

16:25

whatever their biggest accomplishment was and priding

16:28

themselves on that and kind of resting on that. Laurel,

16:30

I am the opposite of that, as I'm

16:33

sure you've seen in the few minutes of that

16:35

with me. But you know, I

16:37

really like to move things forward, and

16:39

I like to focus on what's next

16:41

and what's coming. And there's so much great

16:44

stuff coming and I'm so excited that. You

16:46

know, it's not just about the mass singer, but I am

16:48

doing the biggest tour of my life this

16:51

summer. I'm going to be doing it. What's

16:53

right, speaking of nineties, I mean, you

16:55

don't get a bigger money in a nineties

16:57

band than.

16:58

That non brand for us, Yes, that's

17:00

right, exactly.

17:01

Tell us how this came to be? And are

17:03

you friendly with the band or is did

17:05

this just.

17:06

All I hate? Those guys

17:08

are the worst? Are you kidding me? I'll

17:10

probably be throwing darts at them every time they're.

17:13

Not looking

17:15

every night, dude.

17:16

Yeah, no, No, Fred and I you know we're

17:18

we're We're intimate.

17:20

Let's just say that,

17:24

you heard. I love it. It's

17:27

something about that big white beard. It just gets

17:29

me in all the right places, if you know what I mean. But

17:33

exactly seriously though, no,

17:35

but no. The triple the matter is

17:37

Fred and I actually met at

17:39

the infamous Playboy mansion all

17:42

the way back in the nineties when Olympiscuit

17:44

was at the key.

17:45

Of the Midsummer Nights Dream

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Party.

17:48

I don't know if i'd say the peak, because I feel like they're

17:50

pretty much peaking right now. I mean, they just

17:52

played what was It Athens and

17:55

they had like two hundred

17:57

thousand people singing

17:59

every single word to Break Stuff

18:02

with only a drum beat being played.

18:04

Wow, they weren't playing the song. They were just

18:06

playing a drum beat and the entire two hundred

18:08

thousand insynchronicity

18:11

saying word for word every song of Break Stuff.

18:14

So you don't get a bigger callback

18:16

to the future than that. But I would

18:18

say they are definitely on top of their game

18:20

right about now. That's number one, even

18:23

if it was an old song rehash. But I know they have

18:25

some new stuff out as well, and Fred

18:28

is a genius, so everything they do is great.

18:30

But here's the other side of it. So Fred

18:33

and I met at the Playboy Mansion back in the nineties,

18:36

and you know, at the time,

18:38

he mentioned to me that he was a fan of my music. He's

18:40

like, we got to work together. Let's do something together. I don't

18:43

care if it's a song and album, a

18:45

movie. We gotta do something. And I was like

18:47

sure. So we traded numbers and

18:50

you know, we kind of kept in touch through the years,

18:52

and it took about a decade before

18:55

we were both able to kind of lock

18:57

our schedules into place and find each other

19:00

literally, like you know, kind of on and off,

19:02

on and off, on and off, to the point where he'd be like, Yo,

19:04

man, let's get together, and I kind of got pissed. I was like, yo,

19:06

dude, if you're gonna just flake on me every

19:09

time we talk about day together, this is He's

19:11

like, you want to fight about it. I was like, yeah, let's go, dude,

19:13

And that kind of like broke the ice. And ever since

19:15

we've been friends. So what

19:18

happened was, you know, at some point, I think it was

19:20

like, Okay, screw it, we just got to do this. We

19:22

just got to you know, write a song together. And

19:25

we did. From my Angelic

19:27

to the Core albums, so the album that I

19:29

produced, which was actually my most successful

19:31

album to date, which happens to be offline

19:34

right now. Good timing

19:36

on that one. But because

19:38

of the fact that there were some copyright

19:41

issues apparently with a

19:43

couple of the the

19:45

sketches we did these like comedy

19:48

sketches in between the songs to help it tell

19:50

a story and give a narrative. And so

19:52

some of the sketches that we did back

19:55

when we made them, these laws

19:57

didn't exist. But now all of a sudden, there's

19:59

no laws that have come into play that

20:02

if you use background music from

20:04

another sample and

20:07

that sample was you know, actually made by

20:09

humans and not AI, that

20:11

they can find you and they can make a copyright

20:13

strike and shut down your entire album

20:16

because.

20:16

Of the fat gas cap is like a

20:19

mafia.

20:19

Yeah, it's insane. So this

20:22

much of it, there's like two seconds of this

20:25

much material in like three or four

20:27

different songs throughout the album that are

20:29

you know, sketches between the songs, and we

20:31

had our entire album removed because of it. So

20:34

but that said, on that album, Angelic

20:36

to the Core, which you can buy, by the way, the physical

20:39

copy on CBT, Like I think

20:41

Amazon, what's the name of your band?

20:43

It's just me. It's just me, but the

20:46

tourists called Loserville. Yeah,

20:48

but it's Corey Felman. It's that's it. It's just

20:50

me, Okay, anyway, got it anyway, So

20:52

my first top forty Billboard hit was

20:54

on that album. It was called go for It. It's a song

20:57

I did with Snoop Dogg Okay so on

20:59

that same album, was also in a

21:01

song with Fred and that

21:03

song is called Seamless and it's a

21:05

great song. It's Fred and I. We

21:08

wrote it together, we produced it together. It's kind

21:10

of like a perfect blend if you took

21:12

Limp Biscuit and Corey Feldman and matched

21:14

them together. That's exactly what the

21:16

sound is. And we

21:18

have Scott Page, the great Scott Page of Pink

21:21

Floyd Fame, playing sax on

21:23

it. So it's a really great song. You definitely

21:25

should check it out. Even if it's not available

21:28

today, we will have it back up and running within

21:30

the next two weeks, I assure you. So

21:32

it's all being worked out. It will be back up online.

21:34

But you got to hear that. And then also go to my YouTube

21:37

page if you want to see an early performance

21:40

of me with Limp Biscuit. Because

21:43

through the years since Fred and I have been friends, we've

21:45

done all sorts of things together, from telethons

21:47

for autism to live

21:50

performances, and there is a great performance

21:52

from Fred and I on stage

21:54

at the House of Blues where we

21:56

cover Michael Jackson and that's a

21:58

lot of fun. So you got to check

22:00

it out.

22:02

Wait wait, wait, wait, wait wait, hold on, go back,

22:04

okay, cover Michael Jackson songs.

22:07

Yeah, well a song, a song, one

22:09

song?

22:09

Which song?

22:10

I don't want to give it away, but go on my YouTube

22:13

channel. Oh, my YouTube channel right now,

22:15

it's under Corey Fellman. Just look it up on YouTube

22:17

Corey Felman channel and then look

22:20

up the lymp Biscuit House of Blues video

22:23

that I put up and you'll love it. So anyway, that's

22:25

we'll use that as a teaser to get us to the

22:27

tour. But anyway, so the tour

22:30

is the first time that we've ever toured together.

22:32

So he called me up with this idea. Uh.

22:35

Actually it was the end of last year. I

22:37

was about to do this crazy sold out

22:39

show at House of Blues in San Diego. I was

22:42

just about to go on stage, and I get a text from

22:44

him saying, hey, man, how come I haven't

22:46

heard back from you about the offer I sent? And

22:48

I'm like, offer, what are you talking about?

22:51

And then at the same time I see my manager saying,

22:53

hey man, I've got this offer from lymp Biscuit blah

22:55

blah blah blah blah. So I'm like, okay,

22:58

yo, bro, I'm about to go on stage. It's

23:00

a crazy show here today, it's sold out, it's

23:02

packed. I got to get out there. But as

23:04

soon as I come off stage, I promise I'll have

23:06

a look at everything and I'll get back to you over the weekend. He's

23:08

like, Okay, I'm on my way to Japan right

23:11

now, doing you know olymp Biscuit Japan

23:13

Tour or something like that, so you know, when I

23:15

land, let's talk. And so

23:18

we did and it turned out, yes, this was

23:20

it. It was Low Serve Ill and

23:22

that's what we call it. By the way, Low serve it

23:26

right right, Low Serve Ill.

23:29

You can, by the way, you can come and get tickets

23:31

to not only see the show, but you can come and

23:34

see me backstage after

23:36

the show at Low Servi Ill

23:39

if you go to my website, Coreyfelman

23:41

dot net where we are selling VIP

23:44

tickets and passes specifically

23:46

for Low Serve Ill. So it's gonna be a

23:48

lot of fun, a lot of fun.

23:50

Congrats that is thank you. Great

23:53

story. And by the way, you know you talked about

23:56

just always looking forward, but how

23:58

great is it when you have these relationships

24:01

that formed or birthed

24:03

at a period of time at a different chapter

24:06

in your lives, right and.

24:07

Then in the nineties, in the nineties.

24:11

And you know, we've had a lot of musicians

24:13

on who were huge in the nineties

24:15

and are having a massive resurgence

24:18

because of the nostalgia. But it's

24:20

also a sort of window and

24:22

way in to their new music.

24:25

Like you said, you'll you beg to differ that they're that

24:27

Limbiscuit is going to is peaking now

24:29

right like they're they're selling out and

24:33

this is your biggest tour date, you know, So I

24:35

feel not.

24:35

Only that, but you got to look at the fact that, I mean,

24:37

here's one for you that everybody told me my whole

24:40

life. You'll never have a successful music

24:42

career. It'll never happen. Nobody's ever

24:44

going to take you seriously because you're an actor first

24:46

and that's the way people know you. And

24:49

with that, I said, screw you. I'll keep

24:51

going no matter what I'll about. And

24:53

you know what, it took me until I

24:56

until age forty to get my first

24:59

top forty Billboard hit, And everybody

25:01

thought at that time, you can't get

25:03

a top forty Billboard hit at age

25:05

forty, So who would have ever thunk

25:08

that at this point I would have three

25:10

Top forty Billboard hits under my you

25:13

know whatever you want to call it, backpacker

25:15

or shoulder strap or whatever, but they're

25:18

in there.

25:19

Your next song should be called Top

25:22

forty at forty.

25:24

There you go, there you go, exactly know I

25:26

mean, I mean, I think I did. I think I did

25:28

what I thought, at least was inconceivable

25:31

and undoable as

25:33

a child or as a young man, I thought, well, you know,

25:35

once you hit thirty five, you're done. You know you're

25:38

done. You can't possibly have a pop career. And

25:40

you know, my music is more successful

25:42

and bigger than ever. So I've been very, very

25:45

grateful for the tremendous love and

25:47

support that we've gotten through the years. There's been a lot of

25:49

hate too, you know. I guess I'm grateful for that

25:51

as well, because without the haters.

25:53

With the territory, you're exactly right.

25:55

Yeah, yeah, as Fred ask, limb Biscuit, Bred

25:57

and limb Biscuit would not exist if there were

25:59

not hit. The reason

26:01

they are as big as they are is because

26:03

of the haters. So it's it's

26:05

pretty crazy, and the same thing can be said for me. I mean

26:08

we did the Today Show. We made history. More

26:10

people watch that performance than anything

26:13

at any time in the history of the Today Show.

26:15

It was over a billion views within a day,

26:18

so I mean it was historical.

26:20

When did you guys perform?

26:21

Yeah?

26:21

When was twenty sixteen?

26:23

Okay, okay, okay, because we've had

26:26

Carson Dally's a good friend of ours, and he

26:28

was on the show and he talks about the TRL

26:31

days and how important that was for music

26:33

in the nineties, and he talks about Fred

26:35

Durst, how he and Fred and

26:38

Justin and Brittany how they started

26:40

sort of like a movement in

26:43

music, and Fred Durst was a big part of

26:45

that conversation.

26:46

Absolutely, of course.

26:48

And Carson is, you know, now the host of the

26:50

Today Show, so he's like moved with his

26:53

audiences grown up right.

26:54

Well, when I did when I did the Today Show

26:57

in twenty sixteen, Carson had a segment

26:59

on the show, so that's kind

27:01

of where he was at that point.

27:02

But yeah, that's full circle.

27:04

And we did two performances on The Today

27:06

Show. So the first one was such a big deal that

27:08

they actually had to bring us back and do it

27:10

again. So it was pretty cool.

27:12

Sick Yeah,

27:28

Corey, we're getting a note that we need to wrap

27:30

it up because we know you're in a big press day, but

27:33

I really want to talk to you about The Birthday.

27:35

And this story is phenomenal.

27:38

How Jordan Peel, this

27:40

relationship that you have with Jordan Peel,

27:42

and how like tell me about that he

27:45

was a fan of yours and then.

27:46

You've told him about it.

27:47

And please please tell the story of this, of

27:49

this film and it's coming just

27:51

before we have to go.

27:53

Right coming to theaters, coming to theaters

27:55

this fall. So excited, Okay,

27:57

So speaking of progress, move

28:00

upward and onward, and then still with a

28:02

little bit of a callback, here is

28:04

the perfect film for all of us

28:06

that we can all get along and find

28:08

the median right here in the middle ground

28:11

of everything we've talked about

28:13

today, which is a film in and of itself

28:15

that is an antiquity and yet a

28:17

brand new piece of IP and

28:20

that is called The Birthday. And The Birthday

28:22

is a film noir, brilliant

28:25

piece of cinematic lovely

28:28

filmmaking by a genius

28:31

filmmaker by the name of Johannio

28:33

Mera from Spain. He's a writer and directed

28:36

and we shot this movie back

28:38

in two thousand and six,

28:40

two thousand and five. Yes,

28:43

yes, it's never seen the light of day.

28:46

It's never been released in America, it's never

28:48

been released in most of the world. Only

28:51

released in two countries back in two

28:53

thousand and six. And

28:57

at the time that it came out, it was hailed and

28:59

regarded as an incredible achievement

29:02

in filmmaking, both cinematically

29:04

and from an acting standpoint. I won a Best Actor

29:06

awarded Luxembourg, and I also

29:09

we won Best Art Direction and Best

29:12

Screenplay at the Seachas Film Festival

29:14

in Spain the year that it originally was supposed

29:16

to be released, but the powers that be shut

29:19

it down and silenced the movie

29:21

and stopped it from coming out. I think out

29:24

of the fear that it would have given me too much

29:26

of a platform potentially would

29:28

have led to you know, award

29:30

nods and things like that. Already was

29:32

going that direction, and so they

29:35

just shut it down. They just stopped it. They never allowed

29:37

it to come out in America. And

29:40

fast forward eighteen years later,

29:43

I'm watching you know TV one day, or

29:45

actually I don't watch TV. So it was a friend of mine

29:47

that sent me a link and said, you

29:49

know, watch this, and I watched the link, and

29:51

the link was Jordan Peel

29:53

on Seth Myers talking about

29:56

how much of a fan he is of mine. And

29:58

this was when he was doing publicity for whatever

30:01

film I had out at the time. He's

30:03

saying, oh, man, I love Corey Felm and he's like, my muse,

30:05

and I do all these things, you know in

30:08

my films that are little easter eggs in honor

30:10

of him, and I don't know if people notice or not, but it's

30:12

my little inside thing. And

30:15

I was like blown away by this, Like what do you mean?

30:17

That's crazy? Nobody's ever called me a muse before,

30:20

you know, that's fine. And so

30:24

I all of a sudden received an invitation

30:27

from his company to come to attend

30:30

the premiere of his movie Nope, and

30:32

so I was like sure. So I show

30:34

up at the premiere and I met Jordan

30:36

and he was extremely nice, and we traded numbers

30:39

and we started texting each other, and during

30:41

those conversations, he asked, you know

30:44

what my greatest loss in

30:46

my career was, like, if there was one thing that you could

30:48

have saved or salvage or fixed,

30:50

what would it be? And I said, well, there was this great movie I made

30:52

twenty years ago, eighteen at the time

30:55

that I love so much. Great filmmaker,

30:57

are brilliant actors, brilliant you know, all

31:00

I support. It's like dark cinema, very

31:02

much like David Lynch, you know, that kind of vibe.

31:05

And he said, well, it sounds amazing, sounds

31:07

right up my alley. I'd love to see it. And

31:09

I said, well, unfortunately, the only way to see

31:11

it would be to come over to my house because

31:13

there's no copies in existence. You

31:15

can't find it, you can't buy it, you can't rent

31:17

it, it's not available on the internet. And

31:20

he said, what this is crazy, you know. Okay, fine,

31:22

I'll come over and watch the movie. So him

31:24

and his producing partner Ian Cooper came

31:27

over to my house and they watched the film

31:29

and lo and behold, he

31:32

stopped after the film and he turned to me and he said, this is

31:34

a cinematic masterpiece and

31:37

all of your fans, all of the world

31:39

needs to see this film. And I said, from

31:41

your lips to God, dear Is Jordan, you

31:43

know, I have no idea how that's going to ever happen.

31:46

But okay, and he said

31:48

it's going to happen. This is going to be your

31:50

year. You just wait, you'll see,

31:52

and I was like, oh, come on, stop it.

31:55

Well, fast forward a couple months and

31:57

I get a text from Jordan and Ian

32:00

who tell me that they're putting together a film

32:02

festival at or

32:05

it's like a screening, a film series

32:07

of screenings at the Met Center in

32:10

the Lincoln Center in New York. Yes. Yes,

32:13

and so they do this at the beginning of twenty

32:16

twenty three and they

32:18

had this series of screenings and

32:20

I show up and it turns

32:23

out they used four of my films, and

32:25

then The Birthday and all the other films. You

32:27

know, they were busy, but they weren't packed.

32:29

The Birthday was the only one that sold out,

32:32

and it sold out two screenings. So because

32:34

of that, it got a huge buzz and a bunch

32:36

of distributors came and checked it out and

32:39

go and behold, we got an offer, and out of

32:41

those offers, we finally made a deal. And

32:43

I'm happy to say that thanks to Jordan Peele

32:45

and Ian Cooper, my most

32:47

beloved piece of work and the film that I

32:50

would say is my tour

32:52

de force, This is my you

32:54

know creme de la creme as far as acting

32:56

goes. This film that I want everybody

32:58

to see. If you're a fan of mine, and you really believe you're

33:00

a fan of mine, see this movie. It's

33:03

called The Birthday. It will be out this fall

33:06

from Alamo Draft House

33:08

Cinema. They're going to release it in about forty

33:10

theaters, so it's a limited screening release.

33:12

Oh my god, I can't wait to see this.

33:14

Hey, stand by Me open with only three screens,

33:16

and now it's the most beloved movie ever,

33:19

so you never know. No, it's true. Really, it

33:21

only opened in three screens.

33:23

Jordan Peel's what an interesting question

33:25

to you?

33:26

Not giving you accolades for all your

33:28

work you've done previously, not asking you we

33:30

did that too, he did that too, Okay,

33:32

But to ask you, what's your biggest loss,

33:35

what's your biggest loss, what's your biggest regret?

33:37

That's an interesting, interesting question.

33:40

Yeah. Yeah, So he made he

33:42

made my dream of reality. That's all I

33:44

can say. I owe this man a lot. I'm so

33:46

grateful, beyond grateful that this movie

33:48

is finally coming out and seeing the light of day. And

33:51

I'm so pleased that you're all going to get to enjoy

33:53

it. So I hope you do. And yeah,

33:55

and hopefully we can circle back and talk

33:57

about all of this next.

33:58

Yees, come back and let's talk to you in

34:00

the fall when the movie's out. We would love that.

34:03

I am the comeback king. You know.

34:05

Hey, we'll take it.

34:06

We will take the reinvention case.

34:08

That's a great lesson for our listeners.

34:11

Reinvent yourself over and over, keep moving forward.

34:13

That's your Congrats on the movie. Congrats

34:16

the Mass Singer. I mean we can talk about

34:18

that.

34:19

You're promoting that as well, right, well,

34:21

yes the Mess Singer is over though, but yes, everybody

34:24

should always watch it on Fox every week. Even

34:26

though even if I'm it.

34:28

You were so cute, you were the seal,

34:30

You're so cute.

34:32

It was a really cute character than you. Congratulations

34:34

on everything. Thank you for taking the time to

34:36

talk to us. It's a real treat to meet you

34:39

and to chat with you.

34:40

No worries, it was fun.

34:41

Good luck on the tour.

34:42

Thanks for everything for having me, and God blessed

34:45

you and you guys have a wonderful rest of your day.

34:48

Thank you so much. Buddy.

34:50

All right, guys, bye bye bye.

34:52

How wild was that.

34:56

I mean, yeah, I

34:58

feel like I've known him my life.

35:01

Well, that's the thing.

35:02

I mean, I think as soon as we knew that he

35:04

was going to be coming on and we only had a really

35:06

finite amount of time since he's a in

35:08

a big press tour today, it

35:12

was like, where do we even begin?

35:13

And he very quickly just clearly

35:16

wanted to.

35:16

Talk about Yeah, he shot

35:18

me, I can't talk.

35:20

I know, I

35:22

know, I fell talking.

35:23

About stand by Me and Goonies and Lost

35:25

Boys and Grandma's.

35:26

I can't.

35:27

I cannot have a conversation with I don't

35:29

care what is PR team says, well,

35:31

I need to.

35:32

I needed to ask him about.

35:33

It, and he very quickly told

35:35

you that that's.

35:38

Not the top of his can

35:40

you can?

35:41

You and I just talked for one second about like to

35:43

work with Rob Ryan or Steven Spielberg,

35:46

Joel Schumacher, like as

35:48

at the beginning of your career.

35:49

I know.

35:49

Well I looked at his IMDb page two, and he

35:52

did tons of television

35:54

work in the seventies, like he was in all

35:56

different sitcoms things sitcoms.

35:58

As a little child.

35:59

Yeah, but he was just like he said, he was a he's

36:02

like you know Joey Lawrence,

36:04

like he was a seasoned actor at five

36:06

years old, where he was literally

36:09

like do you know, like you said, doing musical

36:11

numbers with Dick van Dijk. I mean, he's a prodigy

36:14

and it showed in those That's

36:16

why he was in hit after hit after

36:19

hit as a twelve, you

36:21

know, thirteen year old in those movies

36:23

in the early eighties that

36:26

changed our lives, Like I don't know a

36:29

world without Gremlin's

36:31

Goonies, stand by Me, Lost Boys,

36:34

like those are movies we revisit regularly

36:37

every single year in our household. Those

36:39

are the movies you don't turn off when you're flipping

36:42

through the channels and they're on, you

36:44

just leave it on. And I had to I know that Friday,

36:46

the thirteenth part for the final chapter

36:49

is not It is.

36:50

Not everybody's It's not on everyone's

36:53

hit list. Literally one

36:55

of my favorites.

36:56

I'm going to rewatch that. I don't think I've ever

36:58

seen that.

36:58

Part four Crispin Lovers in it

37:01

really good, really good,

37:03

And I remember going because

37:05

the joke in our family was Brian

37:08

and I and my brother were huge horror movie

37:10

fans, but my dad we would rent

37:12

them. We would go to the you know, this was even pre

37:14

Blockbuster. There was a little movie

37:16

rental place in Pennsylvania and we would

37:18

rent these horror movies and

37:21

my my dad, Dad,

37:23

you're gonna laugh at this when you listen.

37:25

He knows it though.

37:26

He would take you know, because in all of the

37:28

eighties horror movies there were really pretty

37:30

gratuitous sex scenes with nudity. Always

37:33

before those characters got killed,

37:36

they usually had sex.

37:37

And what might do We're in a bathroom

37:39

or something, Yeah, were.

37:40

Showering, always a shower, a great shower

37:42

scene. And my dad would get

37:45

the rental. He'd let us watch the

37:47

horror movie, but he'd get the rental. He'd preview

37:49

the sex scenes. He would dub

37:51

it. We had a double decker. He would dub

37:53

it cutting out the sex scenes. But it was fine

37:55

for us to see heads getting cut off and people

37:58

like, you know, like axes.

38:00

Going to kill me skip like re

38:02

edited. Yes, rental movies.

38:05

Hell, yes, how did you know how to do that?

38:06

Oh?

38:07

My god. He was like a tech wizard. He's

38:09

the one who like got all of my hey dude

38:11

stuff on. You know, when he dude came out, it

38:13

was all on.

38:14

Good parenting right there.

38:15

Well, but like it's okay to get an axe

38:17

in the skull, but I can't see boobs. I

38:19

mean that was a little bit, yes,

38:22

a little bit, but because my dad

38:24

was like, no, all that's tough's fake.

38:26

I know you guys think that's fake.

38:27

You don't need to see sex and boobs just yet

38:30

as ten year olds. But I

38:32

swear to god, that was the first one

38:34

that I got to see in the theater. And we snuck

38:36

and my dad and my dad took us to the We didn't

38:38

sneak in, he took us because we were underage. We were

38:40

twelve years old when that movie came out Friday, the

38:42

thirteenth and Final Chapter, and my dad

38:45

got his tickets and walked us in and then he left

38:47

and went out for a bite to eat and then came back

38:49

and.

38:50

He's like, little bird fly, you're on your

38:52

own. Yes, you know what.

38:53

The first horror movie I saw and in the theater

38:56

and it freaked me out for years

38:58

was Nightmare and Elma Street. The first Nightmare

39:00

on Elm Street I saw in the theater, and I will

39:02

never forget it.

39:04

It crushed the best, the best.

39:06

That was the best. Yeah, that came out a little bit after,

39:08

but so good.

39:10

Anyway, back to Corey, I

39:12

liked that he was really clear about wanting

39:14

to talk about future stuff, but gave us a lot of little

39:16

nuggets about Yeah.

39:19

And you know what he was.

39:20

He's open and honest about that. He's been up and down

39:22

and up and down and reinvented himself.

39:24

It's almost like similar to

39:27

Drew's story, you know, like you got

39:29

to keep coming back and you can't give

39:31

up, and he wanted whatever.

39:33

I'm so happy for him. He's such a talented

39:36

guy.

39:36

Yeah, I mean I was lovelent

39:38

biscuit back in the day, and I really I want

39:40

to check out these I want to check out the song

39:43

they did together.

39:44

I'm going to go to his YouTube channel. I'm

39:46

gonna look all of this stuff up.

39:47

Yeah, in this movie The Birthday that somehow

39:50

Jordan look, you know, Fred Durrist was a

39:52

fan of Corey Feldman's, Jordan Peel

39:55

was a fan of Corey Feldman's, and they

39:57

now he's collaborating with both of them.

39:59

It's yeah, well that's what I was saying.

40:01

It's amazing how those those years

40:04

where you think you're you know, you're

40:06

you're sort of at the top, and then you have your crash,

40:08

you know, like he said, he's sort of the

40:11

wreckage, the hitting rock bottom,

40:13

and then but those were it

40:16

was those moments that formed

40:18

some of these relationships that are now,

40:20

you know, building a new chapter

40:22

in his career.

40:23

So I thought it was fascinating.

40:25

He's so interesting.

40:27

I've been, you know, frantically

40:29

researching the birthday since we got his

40:33

you know, the notes on him, and

40:35

it looks insane.

40:37

You've got to look it up, David.

40:38

It's just it's all done sort

40:40

of like I don't know how

40:43

they shot it, but it's all shot like in real time,

40:45

like as one continuous shot,

40:47

like like the like Hitchcock's the

40:49

Rope. I don't know if you ever saw that where there are film

40:52

breaks, but it's shot

40:54

as if it's all happened in one shot.

40:56

Kind of in real time. And it partically.

40:59

No, no, none of us has seen it. You can't find

41:01

it anywhere. Oh I I've just been reading.

41:04

About it, and apparently it's

41:06

like the last act of

41:08

the movie is like

41:10

like horrific and scary and a horror

41:12

thing, but it's comedic. It's apparently

41:14

he's doing a crazy character a

41:17

lah. Jerry Lewis like, he's

41:19

really taking on That's why he's so proud of it,

41:21

because it's something he's never done before.

41:23

I was reading a lot six.

41:24

This is so awesome that Jordan Piale can

41:26

now make this movie come out.

41:29

Yeah.

41:30

Anyway, well, thanks everybody for listening.

41:32

That was a great, really interesting one,

41:34

like certainly one of our Like, like I said,

41:37

he every single movie

41:39

he was in in those years. Those were movies

41:41

where I remember seeing him. I'm like, he's

41:43

so lucky he gets to be in those movies

41:46

with all of these cool actors, like the

41:48

coolest movies.

41:49

Right, He's one of the greatest.

41:51

I love him And yeah he was

41:53

part of my growing up for sure

41:56

and our listeners. But thank

41:58

you for listening to Corey Felman and

42:00

have a great week, and you too, Christine.

42:02

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42:06

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