The Harland Highway - NEW HARLAND HIGHWAY #69 - COREY FELDMAN, Actor, Singer, Writer, Filmaker.

Episode Date: August 8, 2023

The Amazing COREY FELDMAN shares his wild life with us, from movies, to music, to abuse, and his friendship with Michael Jackson. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You just said it you were buddies with Jacko, right? Jackson. Jackson. Yeah, yeah. You were at the Neverland Ranch, I'm assuming. Mm-hmm. Can you tell this audience once and for all what the term... Shee-hee-means.

He's got to finish with the who. Because if you don't do the who afterwards. Is it he-he-he? Or is it, I thought it was she-he-he with a C-H. No. What is it? E-he-hoo. I think it's

Shihi No, no You're thinking of Shimon Yeah, Shihi It's not Shih What is this Shih Hihi

Hi he No, there's no she There's no she There's no she No Shimon That's genius right It's just that one

Fine little detail That changes it from No You're riding down The Harland Highway All right Hold tight on the Harland Highway

Hardland Williams Oh, look at that. Can you hear my voice? Oh, look at that. Oh, wow. Whoa. Studio tricks, man. Studio tricks. You're coming at me like full Roy Orbison. Is that what it is? Dude, you look like the orbs.

I mean, you know, I get Elvis sometimes, but... No, no, you're full Orbison today. I don't even have my Raybans on, though. I don't know. There's some of them. It looks cool. Maybe if I get some more pockmarks on my face, I'll finally be there. Oh, yeah.

What was with Roy Orbison in those pock marks? Well, apparently, he did a lot of ditch digging as a young man. He did? Yeah, in his face. Jesus. Power. Is that terrible? A horrible.

An orb. Guy slams a blind mole immediately. A dead blind man. I'm going to get a lot of love for that way. You must have loved his voice, though, right? Like, didn't he? Not his orgasm, his voice. That was the same thing, man.

Dude. You got all that treblow in it. No, he was like, pretty woman walking down the street, pretty woman. Right? You got to have that vibrato, man. You got to get that vibrato. Oh, yeah. It's in all of it.

Pretty woman walking down the street, pretty woman. I don't know. I feel like you're singing him while he's in the middle of ecstasy, bro. He was always in the middle of ecstasy. It's Roy Orbison. Can please, he was in the orbit of ecstasy all the time. Was it Orbison or Orbson? I think it's Orbison.

Orbison. Well, you know, folks, right here we got Corey Feldman. Let's hit the damn theme music, buddy. Woo-hoo! We got Corey the man, Feldman. That's right, right here on the Holland Highway podcast. And buddy, what a treat, man. Yeah.

Good day. Whoa. You sound like you. Whoa. You sound like you're behind an alley making love to a wildcat. Yeah, I think you've got sex on the mind. I do, man. It's been a minute away.

No, you got a little like, you came in with the sex appeal, your shirt's open. I'm opening mine. I want a fucking fourie pounder pounder. That's what we got, baby. Dude. This is like the poundity pound pound. Yeah, man. Welcome to the podcast, dude.

Hey, thanks, man. So, so nice to be here. Thanks for having me. Oh, are you kidding? My pleasure, man. There's so much, like you're one of those guys, Corey, there's so much, like, going on with you. It's like, I almost, where the hell do I begin? I mean, it's kind of where do I end?

I mean, it's really the question. You never am. It's like, Corey Feldman, there's no ending to Corey Feldman. Oh, God bless you. We'll see about that. I have a feeling there will be, but hopefully not in time soon. No, there's not there. But you came into, like, you came into Hollywood as a wee little lad, right?

You started as a like a, you did like nine million commercials. I was a speed bump. Yeah. And then you've been through it. I mean, the whole public knows your ride, your journey, stardom, some of the other stuff. I know it's hard to believe because I'm only, I'm only 22, but. Well, you see that, 22. Wait, what's the significance of that?

This is my, my number of 22. It signifies my age, you know, mentally, mentally, spiritually. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Mentally for sure. Yeah, for sure. Mentally, spiritually. No, it's a, you know, it's a thing. I feel like we decide how we are going to progress.

And if we believe in a certain youthful spirit, then we retain that. And I think that's been the key to longevity, I guess, if you will, is just kind of keeping that youth at heart. So that's what that's about. And it's my lucky number, by the way. So I just, you know. What's so lucky about it? Everything.

Everything. No, every. Everything I put out, literally, if you watch the history, I put everything out on the 22nd of whatever month. Yeah. I mean, I, you know, I released that documentary. It was like, you know, on 222, we sold the tickets. And then on like, I think it was March 10th, we had to put it out because it was a year, it was a 10 year anniversary of my best friend's death, which is the significance of that. But we started selling the tickets on 222.20.

I put it out in the year 2020. because it was a 22. My book has 22 chapters. My last album, Angelic 2, The Core, was a double disc with 22 songs. Wow. I mean, it's just, it's a thing. If you ever kill yourself,

you're going to use a 22 rifle? Let's not go there, all right? I'm just trying to running with your theme. Thanks, Chiri. We'll have a parade when we're done, all right? Thanks. Right down to the cemetery. I'm not planning on that.

No, no, I'm kidding. If anybody sees me, you know, suicided. No. Just remember that it was Harlan. Yeah, there's no suicides. But, dude, you've been, you've been up, you've been down, you've been through so much of it in the entertainment industry. So you're going to, I was about to say, even though I'm only 22, it's crazy, but.

Yeah. Next year. What? Is my 50th anniversary in entertainment. Whoa, dude. Is that crazy? Wait, that means you. started when you were like, what, six?

Three. Three. What was your first commercial? A placenta commercial? Yeah, basically. It was like, wait till you get out of the womb. It's unbelievable, the things you'll experience. New great placenta and raspberry mountain style, too.

Use the cord for an extra straw. It's the Corey Feldman bungee jump, cricket. There you go. Yeah, and it's amazing because every time I fell out, I just kept trying to crawl back in. dude what the hell still am still am trying to throw back in but it hasn't worked yet but with all the stuff that's gone on in your long career right is there still a love for it like at this stage is there is there still like the bad and the good do you still love it you know when you got a clean trash at the side of the freeway and wear one of those orange jumpsuits not personally no but i'm you've seen the guy did you do community

service you will no no one day right not not like that no but but but you know what i mean those guys. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I love it about as much as they love what they're doing, I think. Oh, really? No, no, no, I'm disturbed. I'm just so messed up. No, man. I mean, look, I'm a passionate man. Yeah. Uh, my real love is creating art and, and spreading positive messages and love through my art. So that's what I'm all about. But that said, you know, we're in an industry that isn't always so, uh, uh, yeah, fuzzy. Yeah. So when it comes to my music, you know, I've created a, you know, I've created I've created this little thing, this groove. You know, it's like I've got very exciting things happening.

We've got this box set out, which we're here to talk about. Can I hold this up? Hold it, baby. Hold it. This is some of the best packaging I've ever seen in my life. That's what she said. Oh, hey. Feel my heart on your sleeve.

Tell me what the hell's in here, buddy. This is amazing. This is my box of love. It's my big heart on your table, but now it's in your hand. But anyway, it's the, it's the, The Love Left 2.1 box set, it is the 30th anniversary of my first album, Love Left. And we went back, we remixed, remastered the first album from the original tracks, from the master tapes, the T-H tapes, because we still use tape in those days. And we re-spun it.

We had to bake it and all this stuff. Yeah. Actually, Don Do you remember Dockon, rocking with do you remember? No. How did you miss that? Don Dockon? Yeah. Sounds like a pastry.

Oh, wow. He was like a rock. He's like a rock god from the 80s, man. But anyway, he helped us mix some of this and helped me actually bake the tapes. Oh, and Corey Feldman's on here. That's true. That's true. I'm part of it.

But anyway, so we put out the first album back in 1993. This is a 30th anniversary remix, remaster. And then we found a bunch of stuff that I didn't even realize was still around from, like, old movie soundtracks that I did music for. So basically, between 86 and 93, before the album came out, I had done a bunch of film soundtracks. Yeah. And they were supposed to come out as essentially. soundtracks, but for one reason or another, maybe they didn't come out. So what we did is we took all of those songs, and we put them on an extra disc.

So now there's a second disc, which is unreleased material rarities and extras and stuff like that from 86 to 93, which goes all the way back to my first song, which is called Runaway, which I recorded while I was working on Lost Boys. So actually, there's a short video, a music video that I made in my dad's apartment when I was working on Lost Boys about 15 years old. So this goes back to my first video, my first song. the way through to the release of the first album. And then there's an instrumental album that we do.

It's called Korioki Cabaret. We have lyric videos in there so you can follow along with the words. You can sing along. I know it's very confusing. Hold the phone, Feldman. I'm not even halfway through. There's a lot in there. This is what I mean.

I didn't realize your music career was so prolific. I honestly, I thought your music career was a bit of a side thing you did as a hobby. But here in this, you've been doing music since the beginning. Right, right. Well, you just touched on something a lot of people don't know. Yeah. So, all right, let me finish quickly. Yeah.

The fourth disc is a brand new album, which is a sequel to the first album. So the first album was called Love Left. The second album is called Love Left 2, Army with Love. Yeah. And so that's a sequel. And then you've got two DVDs in there, including never-before-seen footage, from performances back all the way from, like, 1987, 1988, 1988. You've got, you've got my music videos that have never been released.

You've got a documentary called The Man Behind the Love, and that's really cool. It's directed by a guy named Jake Perry, and that actually tells you the story of how it all started. But to give you the brief synopsis, most people... Wait, there's a brief part to this? I mean, this is the longest, this is like a fucking infomercial, right? I played a character in the name mouth. You let me hold it up again, make sure they don't miss the next half hour. For only $39, you can order it right now.

That's right. Don't act yet. There's still more. And there's cookies inside, too. That's right. Actually, there is, in fact, Hershey's Kisses. But not only that, there's a pair of sunglasses, a pair of my famous raybans, you know, with the life left on the side. There's a 50-page color magazine with rare photos, lyrics, production liner notes.

This are condoms? There's condoms. Because I'm about to go fuck myself. If this keeps going on, it's going to longer. Some massage oil, some massage oil in there. And there's a hologram. for God's sakes. What?

Yes, this, this version doesn't have it, but there's normally a little QR code right on the front and I actually have a hologram and I pop out the front of the box and actually dance around on the top of it. Feldman,

do you remember that movie Raiders of the Lost Ark? And at the end of the movie, there's that giant warehouse and they're looking for the Lost Ark. This is the Lost fucking Arc right here. That's right. I'm telling you. Nothing like this has ever been created. How much is something like this?

It goes for the low, low price. Good Lord. What is it? I think it's like around 300, 350s. Oh, really? Yeah, it's expensive. It's expensive. Yeah, it is. No, I think it's actually 250, I think, is where it is.

But then they all want it autographs so it comes out to like 350. I don't know. Well, really, what's $300 for everything on planet Earth in one box? Exactly. You know what I mean? There's stickers. There's even stickers. There's guitar picks.

We throw it all with it. That is an endless box of treasures. There better be a vial of your DNA in here. Damn straight. Well, they've got that down at the clone lab. Don't worry. Dude, it is amazing, though. Like, a lot of people put stuff out and it's sort of chinty.

I'm actually really loving this. It's like beautiful. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you. It's really cool. We spared no expense. Yeah.

But, so anyway, so the truth of the short story of what happened when I was a kid. Yeah. Many people don't realize, but my dad was a singer. And by the way, there's this big misconception of who my dad is. Uh-oh. Don't say he's Roy Orbison. Well, now you really piss me up because it's Roy Orbison. and you had to steal my thunder.

I was ready to announce this was going to be a big reveal and you fucked me, all right? Wow. Angry little 22-year-old. I'm still going through my, you know, puberty face. What do you got? 22 pubic hairs down there? Were you looking at my bathroom again? He said everything's 22.

I tried to tell you that wasn't acceptable. I told you this last time. It's the 90s. Jesus Christ. It is? Oh, my God, I've got to go. You've got to get back to the future. I'm in the wrong time, man.

that's the thing you're in every time that's what i think that's what's so cool about you timeless yeah like you can you can put cori feldman you can plug you into every decade somehow like it's you're a miraculous survivor and and that's what i was getting around to at the beginning i was like like despite all the the tumultuous stuff the good the bad everything you've been through is there still a fire in your heart like not just for the music but for the whole like to entertain and yeah i mean yeah we're on tour we're going on tour we start i love it every night that i'm up there i love it are you kidding i love interacting with the fans i love entertaining i love putting on a good show yeah so that's what it's all about it's it's about giving your best and doing

you know just like you do on stage every night it's the same thing you know whether you're telling jokes or you're making people cry or you know making them dance you know it doesn't really matter or even if you make them walk out of the room it really doesn't matter the point is you're doing something and you're getting a reaction. That's what art is about. Art is subjective. But you know what I got off of you? Here's what I get off of you, because sometimes you meet actors around town and you meet celebrities and stuff. And sometimes, Corey, you get the vibe that they're kind of, yeah, okay, I can take it or leave it. But I'm going to be honest, when I'm around you, the energy I get off you is that you have to do this, that it comes out

of you. Like I can feel an energy from you where it seems like no matter what comes at you, you, you have a spirit in you that you need to entertain, you need to sing, you need to act. That's what I feel. I mean, I've been programmed, so there's that. You have, what do you mean? Well, I mean, look, I was, I was, so as I was about saying, I started three, right? Yeah. I went on my first commercial audition.

What was the first commercial and don't say Tampax? So I'm going to fly over this. Dude, are you hanging out my closet? Well, there's a tampon in the box. That's how I knew. That's the Howard Stern FME award. You remember the golden tampons? Wasn't there an episode where he was dancing around you?

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But the point of the story is... Wait, way, way, wait. Before the point of the story, what was the jingle? I want to know the... I don't know. It was your first commercial. And it ran for eight years.

It was a Christmas commercial. Yes. They brought it back every Christmas. It was for gift certificates. It was so good. It ran all year. Listen, man, I don't do the programming, all right? I just show up and do the...

All right, so keep going. So, anyway, so at three years old, it's not like you're able to read a script to get a part, right? You're not going to, like, sit there and be like, oh, okay, Romeo, ath Romeo, you know, it's not working that way. So instead, you've got to, like, basically be as cute as you can. That's your only job is to be cute. My dad, who was, let's go back to that, not the guy who is from the strange loves and not the writer of I Want Candy, which is what it says on Google and Wiki, which is full of crap. Don't believe a word you read on Wikipedia.

Yeah, my middle name's Michael on wiki for some reason. Is that true? Yeah, but it's not Michael. Have you tried to edit it? Oh, I went through and changed everything one day. And a day later, it was all back and I never did it again. Isn't that beautiful? So they control your narrative.

You're not allowed to control your own narrative. But anyway. So for whatever reason, this rumor spread that this is who he is. He's not that guy. He was in a band. He was in a third version generation of Strawberry alarm clock, whose hit was incense and peppermints in the 60s. The worst part of hitting that alarm clock in the morning, though, just the squish.

The strawberry, so messy. I just don't like the smell a couple days later. Oh, yeah. And the mold. Right. Yeah. Just then you got to, like, scrape it up and then it stains the damn dresser. It's like you had a one-night stand with Frankenberry and he left a stain behind.

And you knew about that, too. Well, yeah. Okay. It's too much information, man. It's in the box. All right. Keep going. So, all right.

So my dad was this musician. He played bass. He sang. So I was around them. sister had the first fame in the family and she became a mousketeer so she was in the new mickey mouse club so she's kind of getting all this attention i'm hanging out with her i'm three years old i don't know how to read i don't know how to do anything but i like singing and my sister was singing and my dad was singing so my mom said go learn songs i'm going to stick you in a room with a record player you're going to learn these

songs backwards and forwards right and then when you go on these auditions instead of trying to read you'll just go in and sing a song and they'll just fall in love with your adorable terrible singing because it's not like I was a professional but that's when it started so I started with actually auditioning and singing for auditions and then I got my first

musical with Dick Van Dyke actually called How to Eat Like a Child which was a live TV special based on a book and I got to sing and dance with Dick Van Dyke at like five years old you know so I've been doing it since then and then started you know writing music probably around 11 years old, 12 years old. Speaking of writing music,

can I just, can I read one of your song lyrics out to the folks? If it's right. I think it is. I got it off WikiLeaks. Yeah, exactly. A lot of times these lyrics are not right.

I said WikiLeaks. I'm just letting you know. I've seen lyrics out there and a lot of times it's very misquoted. Well, you tell me. I will. I will. And then tell me we can break it down.

What does you do it? When you want to get on my tip, that's crazy. That's, I don't. think so but go ahead now this is right off the internet oh well geez please don't interrupt your own lyrics everyone knows that my name ain't stacey i like angels that's my thing everybody wants to buy you a ring but i tell you now now's my thing ding ding ding a ring ding ding yeah okay

well you would pull out the most comical part of any lyric i've ever written so it is yours It is, but it's a, it's a farce. It's a joke. It's a parody. It is. Yeah. What, break it down for me. Well, the song is called, duh.

So let's start there. Yeah. All right. So it was during the Corey's Angels phase of my life. And, you know, I was running this kind of modeling agency to try and help girls get a career outside of modeling. Okay. So girls who had triple threat talent, they could sing, they could dance, they could do other things. So we started this whole thing of like helping them mold their careers and getting

them a position so that they didn't have to do some of the lesser things that girls have been known to have to do in Hollywood, right? So it was like, okay, well, let's try and... So you were helping them. Right, trying, trying. And we built a band around it. We, you know, we were throwing all these events and stuff like that. And we threw together an all-female band and blah, blah, blah. So during that time, obviously, we had a bunch of these models and we put them in these videos. And the whole thing was based on done under the halo. That's why it's called because at the time that I wrote it, that was a very popular. your catchphrase, every goal under 30 was saying, duh, duh. How do you say it? Duh. How do you say it?

Duh. Duh. With an exclamation mark. Let's see. Duh. Duh. Right. You got it. Yeah. It pretty much is the answer to everything. So the idea was done under the halo, meaning if you're wearing a halo, you can get away with acting like you don't know anything. Oh, wow. You know, I evolved it to another level. You know, some people go, hello. Right. So I added them together. and I got Dullo. I like it. Isn't that a winner? Yeah, I think we might be able to write something together.

This is a cosmic writing team of the future. You know, just so you know, I'm not going to pop it on you right now, but I wrote you a song. You did? Oh, pop it, baby. Not yet. Oh, I want to hear it. I wrote lyrics. You can't tease me like this.

And I want you to have it. You can throw it in the garbage or you can use them or you can use one line, but I thought I'm writing Corey Feldman a song. I like it. So I write you, I wrote you a song today. comparable to Doug, because, again, that was not the... No, it's interesting because when you walked in here before we rolled the camera, we kind of just as a goof, off the cuff, said something about Hollywood belonging to the devil, right? Oh, what?

Right? I don't know anything. Sort of. Why would you say that? Well, why did we say it? Come on. Look at you now seducing me with your eyes. Oh, baby.

Wow. Carpal tunnel syndrome. But, uh, so. So I wrote kind of, it's weird you said that when you walked in because that's sort of what the song's about, but I'm going to wait for a minute. Oh, boy. So the point of that album, it was a double album,

and the whole theme of it was good versus evil. Oh, wow, okay. So it was like Angels versus Demons and all that kind of stuff. Yeah. There's actually a shot of these two girls dressed as angels pulling me out of a fiery pit on the cover of the album, which was called Angelic to the Core. You know, it's double meanings all throughout it, right?

Are those themes strong with you, though, for real? Oh, for real. Do you feel a constant battle between good and evil in this town or just in general? In the world. Yeah, but what about here? Is it amplified? Oh, yeah.

Really? What do you think? I think so too. Yeah. And that's what, you know, that's why I wrote the song because it's like, I feel like you've had some battles. We've all had battles, but I thought you might appreciate it. But I'm still, I'm just still teasing you with it.

I'm not. This is a comedy song, I'm assuming. No. No, it's serious? it's it's these top these themes we're on right now all right and it's all yours it's all you're all yours to have but but before we get that dark dude yes can we talk about we got to talk about lost boys like okay talking about dark i mean it's a vampire movie right guts you know all that stuff but do you still have nightmares about keifer sutherland and that crazy i just think

about that's not exactly what i think about but we don't want to talk about publicly the nightmares I have about him. Really? No, I'm just joking. Oh, wow. It's not that deep, bro. It's not that deep, bro. Yeah, yeah, okay.

Did you love it, though? Was it an ominous set? Like, was there, was it, you know, sometimes you do a dark movie and it feels kind of, or was it just fun? No, I mean, it was a bunch of kids. We were all kids, you know? So for me, uh, there was ups and downs. I mean, it was, it was a difficult time in my life.

I was going through an emancipation. I was, you know, leaving my parents. You were? And moving out on my own. Yeah, 15 years old. Why were you leaving your parents? Was your mother a horrible cook? She was a horrible at a lot of things.

What? Yeah, yeah. Well, you really were a lost boy. Yeah, well, no, actually, I found myself. You were a found boy, and you got out of Dodge. Yeah, no, so it was, you know, I had a very abusive childhood. I was basically a child slave who was put into the industry against my will at three years old. I mean.

Wait, so that McDonald's commercial, the Christmas McDonald's commercial, you were like four, To be a Christmas baby? Let's put it to the way. I wasn't forced. Like, they didn't shove me in front of the camera and say, stay there, I'll kill you. But, you know, it was more like, Wow.

You know, look, let's put it very simply. At three years old, are you making career choices? No. At three years old, are you deciding what the rest of your life should be? No. At three years old, are you thinking about what your job career or profession should be? No, but at three years old, I am thinking about McDonald's. I'll tell you that much.

So the point is, is that, you know, my parents didn't really ask if this is what I wanted. they just put me in it. And the point is, once you're famous, there's no erasing that. Yeah, you just get sucked into the slipstream, right? Right. But as a child, though, didn't all that attention and all the lights and all the kind of the adoration, wasn't that infectious for you as a child? Because kids love that stuff, don't they?

No, the only thing I liked was not being beaten. So the fact that I could go to a set and not be beaten was a good thing. Who was beating you? My parents. Like with how? All sorts of stuff. You've got to read the book, dude. I know, but to hear it right from you is way better.

I don't have time to read. It's not better for me. Is this tough to talk about? Of course it is. It's never easy. Yeah. Were you beaten as a child? No.

Well, then why don't you talk about that? Because I did Burger King commercials. I did things the right way. Oh, well, I'm sorry. Well, you kind of brought it up. So if you don't want to talk about it, I know, I definitely. It was a rough childhood. So the bottom line is, you know,

Sorry. We didn't make the choices, right? The choices were made for me. Yeah. And that makes it a whole different thing because at the end of the day, once you're famous, you can't go back. Yeah. And it's not like you can do like, you know, 15 number one films

and then go work at Blockbuster or work at Taco Bell or whatever. And you were in like number one films. You're in a lot of them. Right. Can you disappear? Don't some of these celebrities kind of slip off the radar? Well, they do. Maybe if at, you know, 18, I said, okay, I'm done.

Yeah. Maybe, but even still, it's pretty hard when you've got a legacy of those kinds of films. We're not talking about, you know, D.C. Cab or something. We're talking about it. Wow. That's a ripe one. You just picked a winner of D.C. Cab, he says. But here's the other thing, too, when you were doing these number one movies, this was a time when there were just movies.

There wasn't streaming. There wasn't cables. So that makes it even more memorable. occasion, right? So let me ask this, though, if there were troubling times and there were issues with your parents and you're going with things, did the movies serve as a welcome distraction? Like all of a sudden you're on set and you're away from the violence and you're like a hero and people are nice to me and they treat me well and, you know, I'm not getting beaten or yelled at it. Because you're away from your home environment, right? Well, not only that,

but obviously they can't beat me when I'm on camera. That's another thing, right? So they always had to be very careful about not marking up my face and things like that. Oh, I'm so sorry. That's awful. So you're Canadian, eh? Yeah, I am Canadian. Yeah, I'm right there with the story. Oh, did you pick up on out?

Oh, yeah, buddy. Oh, right. We're going up to the lake and we're going to have a big old fish and trout session, eh? Yeah, we are. Oh, pop a couple of bruskees. Come on up. We'll bring fucking Keith for Sutherland.

He's a Canadian too, hey. Oh, yeah. We'll have a great old time. You knew he was Canadian, right? Oh, buddy. Of course I did. Okay. Okay. Oh, wow. So that's super intense, man.

Yeah. So there was all that. Yeah. And then at a certain point, you know, you go, okay, there's no avoiding it. And I went through the drug thing. I went through the being molested thing. I went through the, you know, all of those different things that I had to go through until I turned 18. When I got 18, I was like, well, I'm either going to spend the rest of my life being a screw up or I'm going to get sober and get my life together. So that's what I did. So I got sober, got my life together. Good for you. Good for you. by 19 so before I was legal to drink in a bar I was sober you know and a lot of people don't realize that yeah and then you know for the next I don't know 20 years they tried to paint me as this druggie and an alcoholic even though I was sober which is very they did like the Hollywood machine the media the media let's just say that you know um so that that's disturbing yeah it's disturbing um and then on the flip side of it like I was going around like helping people speaking at universities and lecturing about the dangers of drugs and alcohol, why people get into them and all this kind of stuff.

And on the flip, they started saying, Mr. Rehab, Corey Feldman, things like that, you know, so it's like you can't win. Whatever you do with the back guy,

right? So even when you're trying to, to raise the bar and help other people, they still want to knock you down a peck. Yes, yes, yes. Isn't that awful? And then I try to, you know,

like, okay, well, I'll just focus on my music or, you know, I'll do the, you know, like,

I remember when I got a rehab, it was like, well, you know, these terrible scripts that I was getting and I'm like I really want to do these and my manager says no no I'm just do them because it's better they see that you're working so that way people know you're reliable and you can

you know keep your thing together and you're on the set and to some extent that works because I did end up back in the studio level stuff and you know studio movies and studio TV shows again but it took five years of crap movies in between which doesn't help because now you've lost the artist thing and now you're just be movie guy and yeah you know So that was another thing that could hang on me, you know, and then being friends with Michael Jackson. There's another thing.

Oh, my God. You know, it's just always something, right? There's always some labels, some thing that they can tear you apart with. Well, that's why right out of the gate, I said one thing that I really appreciate about you that, you know, I didn't know until I met you, but you do have this energy where you, I'm really impressed because you survived through all of this stuff. And there's still that creative light that burns in you. So for what that's worth, I really do feel. that emanating off you. So it's very nice to say.

Well, I never stop putting out creative. Yeah, I can tell. That's what I can feel, yeah. And I can. It's in my heart. It's in my soul. You're driven. So whether I'm writing a book,

whether I'm writing a movie, whether I'm writing a song, or putting out an album or putting on a live show or creating whatever type of art, it's art, and that's what I have to do because that keeps me breathing, I guess. You know, it's in my soul.

It's my heart. And they can never stop you, too, because that's why you got to keep doing it. That's true. And thank God we're in the digital age. We're now, you know, look, I own my own label. I have distribution through Sony. Wow.

And, you know, we make our own stuff, our own product in our studio. We created this, this box set from scratch. We're back to this again. Here we go, folks. For $300, you can have everything that was ever made, even the animals from Noah's Arker in here. Right? Yeah, how do you go, Corey?

No, but the point I'm making is like in-house production. Yeah. Making my own documentaries. I've made two documentary films that I've released and distributed myself. Good for you, man. You've empowered yourself. You can keep the machine going. You can keep the work going.

You can keep yourself busy. You can keep the income. And you don't have to be a pundit. You don't have to be a puppet for the studio system. You know, you can make your own way. Your own creative fire. That's right. See, I didn't know this about Harlan.

Yeah. not only is he a comedian folks but he's also a production master he is in here with his own lighting his own production don't pick up my box don't try no no no no no no no try to distract the harland williams story he just doesn't want he just doesn't want the spotlight now that's what's going on he wants to deflect but the truth of the matter is there's four spotlights in here that he put up himself so therefore he wants that spotlight don't let him kid you though yeah well you just did that to feel non-evasive well i saw you come with the welding glasses. I thought I'd better, you know, put the lights. No, I put on the welding

glasses because of your lights. I got it. So anyway, but no, he does his own production, he has his own editing. Thank you. He's a master of all classes. Jack of all trades. And master of how many? Easy. Bealsabob. Master of Jack in the box. I have a question I got asked because you might be the only one who can answer this. Okay. You just said it you were buddies with Jacko. Right? Jackson. Michael Jackson.

Yeah, yeah. You were at the Neverland Ranch, I'm assuming. Mm-hmm. Can you tell this audience once and for all what the term she-he-he-means means? Yes. It's an exuberant feeling of self-indulgence on the dance floor, specifically. That's it? Yeah.

How does it go? It's a code. She-he-hee. who you got to finish with the who because you don't do the who afterwards is it or is it i thought it was she he with a c h no what is it he who i think it's chi no no you're thinking of shaman shimon what shimon what shimon well it's come on but it's like slain you know it's so he just changed come on that's all it is to shimon simple it's you know that's jean

right it's just that one fine little detail that changes it from no it changes it from genius to stupid you see yeah thank you yeah you just said it no but but because he said shimon yeah that made it genius again yeah see if it was jaman you know or something like that then pretty stupid but shaman i mean that says a lot what was some of the other ones he had yeah she he it's not she he what is this Are you obsessed with something? Is there something else we need to get out here? If you, if you sing it out, it's clearly, he, he, she, he.

No, there's no she. There's no she there. Not she, she. Wait a minute. Not she, he. In today's world, with, with he and she, you got to have a he and a she. Don't start.

Don't start. He, she, no. Shee, no. Shimon. Sounds like someone yelling for a kid to come in to do it. Shimon. Shimon. I'll be in in a minute, damn it.

Come on in for a nice hot polo. Hey, I'm fixing up the table downstairs. Now, I'll be up there in a minute. Just leave me alone. Shimon! No, I'm not coming. Sorry. Oh, my God.

So, was he a cool guy? Was he fun to hang around? He was actually very funny. He was, yeah, he seems like he had a good sense of humor. He had a very good sense of humor. He was very funny. And you were never, you never felt weird around him or there's no, like, weird? I did.

I mean, the time when he made me wear a dress to dinner, I thought that was a little strange. Shee-hee. Exactly. Then he said she-hee. Yeah. And where did that finger go? Hey, hey, hey. That one.

No, man. But you always said you had a good experience with them? Read my book, man. I'm telling you. It's a contrast. And that's the irony. I'd be honest. I didn't even know you had a book, to be honest.

That's fine. That's fine. Why did I have you here? No, I won't take it personally. It's fine. You're right here. It's all good. We don't need to.

The truth of matter is in the book, it's interesting because it's a contrast because you literally see me talking about the actual pedophiles that I was molested by. Wow. And that he was the guy that I turned to for like a base of comfort. Consciousness, whatever, comfort, healing, friendship. Did you? Unadulterated. Yeah, yeah.

When I went and hung out with him, it was. like, you know, we're talking about Disneyland, we're talking about kids stuff, we're talking about innocent, but stuff. But in a world where you just said you were molested, was your radar going off because of what you had heard about him or were you? No, because nobody was saying those things in those days. Oh, it hadn't been said yet. No.

And you never felt any sense of weirdness. People made gay jokes about him, you know, and I would straight up ask him, like, do you like girls? And he was like, of course I like girls. Yeah. We'd talk about girls sometimes, but it wasn't like in a sexual way. It was like, oh, I like this type of girl. like that type of girl or like, oh, he saw my girlfriend's like, oh, she's cute, you know,

stuff like that, but never like anything sexual. And with the molesting stuff, I remember you did the documentary or you were going to come out and like name the people that did it and didn't somehow they cut your, your documentary off or something? So you never actually got to come out and say the name. No, I did. They just didn't put it in the media. Oh, really?

I mean, it's out there. You can, we can wiki it. Yeah, but don't believe Wiki. But you can, no, but you can, like, Google My Truth, the documentary, and you'll see all the names, and it's all out there. But the point is, is that, you know, I spent $1.3 million to make that film. I self-financed, self-distributed, and premiered the Directors Guild the day before the pandemic started, coincidentally, ironically.

Yeah. And what happened was they stole the movie midstream. Well, it was streaming live. To the whole world. Who stole it? Well, that's a great question. You want to find out and get back to me. Isn't that awful?

So what happened was basically they shut down. Same thing that happened with another movie, ironically, calling out the entertainment industry for certain activities. That movie was called an open secret, and they did the exact same thing. Wow. It was supposed to premiere at Cannes. They had the screening all set up,

and then all of a sudden, lo and behold, the day that it happened, SAG decided to strike in front of the movie and prevent them from... releasing it. Oh, my goodness. That was very strange. Yeah, and the same thing happened with our film, except with our film, they didn't

even bother, like, trying to make a political statement. They just literally stole the film, shut down our stream. I remember that, yeah, yeah. Because people had already paid to see it online. We had 50,000 people waiting to see it around the world, and we played it for the 700 people who were at the Directors Guild. It was a sold-out room. Wow.

And so when it happened, the, the projection booth, I was about to start the film because it was supposed to line up. Yeah. And the projection has called me and says, we have a problem.

I said, what's a problem? They said, the stream froze from the website. So we had another copy. They didn't expect that. Oh, smart. Yeah, they thought we were running one copy

so nobody would be able to see the film. And the narrative that they put out in the first story at 5 a.m., when the story broke the next morning, was that there was no movie and it was all a lie and I was trying to scam people out of money. That's the way they wanted to spin it.

Isn't that amazing? Fortunately for me, all the media that showed up that was actually in the room got to see the movie. So you have Entertainment Weekly, LA Times, Rolling Stone, all writing articles. Oh, good. Reviews of the film. Yeah. While you've got the other side trying to act like it didn't happen. Isn't it amazing that just the content of what they're trying to shut down is so important.

It's about protecting children. Right. And to shut that down. and then, you know, for lack of a better example, you can go see a movie like John Wick where he murders 300 people in an hour and a half. Right. And that's cool. And that's okay. That's in 5,000 theaters.

And I'm not knocking John Wick, but I'm just saying the juxtaposition between that rampant violence and you trying to do something to protect children and alert the world to a danger that children, it's so disheartening. It's so disheartening. How do you think I felt? I know, I know.

And here's the worst part of it is they're stealing your voice. Yeah, they're not just stealing your films. They're not just stealing your money. Yeah. But they're literally changing the narrative, stealing your voice, and making you feel impotent. You know? Because at the end of the day, it's like if it was a girl coming out about her story about Weinstein or about this sleazy producer or that sleazy producer, oh, yeah, we can throw them under the bus, no problem.

But God forbid, we revealed the name of an A. actor, who's not so A-list anymore, but it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter because he's still being protected. And they decided it was more important to protect that one guy than allow me my voice and allow my best friend who's dead his justice. Was this Corey Haim? Yes. And he was molested by the same?

He was raped by this man. Wow. At 13 years old. Do you think there are other victims as well, or was it just you two? Oh, no, there's got to be. I'm sorry, man. Well, first of all, as far as from that person, I'm sure. There's plenty of other victims that they've silenced.

I know there is because this man has a record of beating, stabbing, shooting, strangling his ex-girlfriends because obviously he doesn't like women very much. But that's another story altogether. Yeah. The main thing is that, yeah, there's so many kids that I grew up with. And you know what? The screwed part is everybody was terrified to speak up. Everybody was terrified.

But not you. Well, I had to. I had no choice because I made a commitment to my best friend. And I promised that I would tell a story. So I told this story, I did what I had to do, and then I had to throw my hands up and, you know, leave it to God. Because at the end of the day, if I keep it up, what's going to happen? Yeah. You know, it's obviously they don't care to give me my justice.

It's a war that never stops. Right. And it's you against the hordes. Right. So I'm just like, so you know what? I did my part. Mm-hmm. You shot a ray of light through the black cloud, and it's a hole that can't close.

It's always going to be there. And that's the, that energy that burns from the, did have to take the film down. I left it up streaming for a year. So after we fixed the problem, because what they did was a DDoS server attack. So everybody understands what happened. Because there's still rumors out there saying,

I made the whole thing up, and it wasn't really prevented from being seen and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But the truth of matter was we have record of everything. We have proof of everything. Yeah. There was a DDoS server attack. They got like thousands,

thousands of line communications that were like sent all at the same time to overload the system. Wow. So that's what happens. Like they overload the system so that it can't think and then it just freezes. Then they stole the stream. They made a copycat website, started selling tickets for $10 more than we were selling tickets and streaming the film illegally.

Then they made multiple copies, put it all over YouTube. They started selling DVD sets of it. And mind you, this is right as the pandemic is gearing up. So there was no, nobody was open. You know, it's not like SAG was open. This is like high level espionage. Like this isn't just some guy, well, jammed. his frequency.

Like, this is a multi-tiered attempt to divert, distract, destroy, suppress. And I've got proof of all this, by the way. But when they stole the money out of my account by freezing down. That too? Well, they stole the, they froze the account so you couldn't buy the tickets, right? So that means if no more money is coming through, they froze the account on my PayPal account at exactly $66,000 at 8 o'clock at night. 666.

Wow. How would you be able to time that so perfectly? I was pre-selling for a month and a half before that night, and somehow it landed at exactly that number. That tells me that they were controlling it the whole time. It's in the song lyrics. It's coming up. Oh, man. Now I've got to hear these song lyrics. Six, six, six. So the point is we move past it. Okay, that's what I was going to say. By the way, valiant, everything you did, honorable, good for you for trying to make a difference. And the last point I want to make, it surely must have been, despite all the things that went off the rails,

it must have been very self-therapeutic for you to get this out and throw it out there in the world and get it out of you, these sort of dark, horrible secrets. It was cathartic, but at the same time, you know, I mean, the hell that I went through, two attempts on my life. They put spies into my house. They literally had people pretending to be band members who were actually there to sabotage me. I mean, this thing went so deep. That's what I mean.

This is this high-level espionage. Destroying everything. I mean, it's just, they do so much damage. And you know what? This is for real. Look what the guy puts out. After all that, a heart, a beautiful. This is you putting your light back into the world.

Thank you. And I think it's beautiful. And I feel you, man. And I'm sorry you went through all that. Thank you. All of it, not just the espionaged stuff, but what you went through in your real life. That's some tough stuff. It's been a real.

roller coaster but you know what hey i'm not here to be a victim no i'm here to shine the light that we can get through anything yeah you know if we believe in it if we have faith in god yes sir i do me too yes good for you i can feel it i can see it and i can feel it good for you and that's what's letting you speak like this right now because i can see you you don't have the fear and you've been through more than most of us yeah so why don't we do this let's lighten the load a little bit here okay be happy if there was a reunion with one of your favorite cast members if I had someone here that you didn't know

about from wanting for your movies I suppose it depends which cast member though no no I'm just joking most of them I think it's someone you'd really love to see and just talk to you might not have seen him in a long time is it okay if I bring them out let's do it man surprise me okay all right are you going to put on a mask now

you know it how did I know oh my God it's we go it's john matusag here we go i'm so glad to see you again john it's it's been forever i know what was the last time we even got to hang out i mean i think it's been at least a couple decades but i got to say you look great i got the gingivitis looked after but the halitosis is still growing really strong for a guy who's been dead for 20 years i've never seen anybody really come out looking on top like you do so so much yeah i mean i know they say that the hair

keeps growing after we die, but you took that very literally. You know what? I didn't want to say this because this is Hollywood, but these are plugs. Oh. I know. I had to get them put in, but... I know. I get it. I get it. You know, I'm sloth. I can't be completely bald. We all have

a point in our lives where we have to have a little vanity. And by the way, I think you're smoking too much weed because that eye is really red. I mean, it's really red. Dude, it's true. The weed nowadays is way... I mean, holy. Holy shit. I mean, hey, you guys.

Right. I mean, I'm saying, like, you got, like, the worst cotton mouth I've ever seen. I know. It's, like, stuck open forever. It's really bad weed. Did you get, like, a Doritos stuck back there or something? Just can't crush that, baby. Hey, you guys.

Baby Ruth. Hey, can I tell the story about the time me, you, and Val Kilner, that one night, we snuck up to the Hollywood sign in the middle of the night. With the prostitutes. And we were throwing a moment. The three of us snuck up there. We were sitting on the age, on the top of the drinks, drinking red wine. Right.

And the rest got crazy. What about the acid, dude? You forgot about the acid. When we did acid and went to Disneyland. Remember you got that weird phase? Yeah. Yeah, we went to the fun house and I looked normal. Right, right, right.

Yeah, that was so crazy. Can we say it together? Let's do it. Let's do it. One for the fans. One, two, three. Hey you go. It was good to see you, buddy.

Good to see you, too, man. I love you. Only Harlan could bring us together like this. It's so sweet of him. God bless him. Oh, my God. Now you're crossing. That's called shameless cross promotion, and I can't go there.

I'm sorry. Right. How did that not just lighten the mood? Doesn't sloth have that effect? You know what? You know what? I'll put the mask back on if you don't watch. you know what actually you know what we're going to do open the lid open no no no it's not it's

oh we can't i was going to stuff the mask inside oh well that's what she said whoa look out but doesn't sloth just make everything feel better like we went from really heavy to just super like we slothed it we slothed it over i think that's why it's one of the uh the seven deadly sins what sloth yeah what do you mean sloth is one of the dead deadly sins because of his breath no just his bad looks. I mean, you look at the guy like that steadily. No, no, no, because he's sloth-like. I mean, you shouldn't be that way.

You shouldn't be gluttonous or sloth-like, you know. Tell me the truth, because everyone's wondering, did he have halitosis? No, those fucking teeth. No, let me tell you. Gingervitis? The best breath you've ever smelled. Come on.

I wanted to kiss the guy constantly. Come on. No, really. What did it smell like? Roses. What the fuck? With that mouth? The guy had like black gums and.

I know, but it was makeup. But the guy underneath was a gem. Wow. Is he really dead? Yes, he's really dead. Oh, shit. So you thought I was bad, making one little joke. Now you've just gone and completely slandered the guy.

That's all right. That's right. It's called he's turning over just a little bit. Just a little bit. But the thing about Slot, you dig him up and you can't tell that he's been dead. That's what they said about Michael. Oh, yeah. Well, you were talking about that earlier.

Well, you totally flipped when he just, like, was just gone that day. Yeah, but my, you know, he was, he was talking about grave digging and stuff. Oh, yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah. We were going to go up to Forest Lawn and dig up Michael Jackson and reenacted Thriller. Remember that? That was a good time. Yeah, buddy.

All right. We're going to get it going on. So the, uh, the, shoot out the lights. Let's have a party. Let's go jigging for squid there, by sure. Um, so just quickly back. to the movies and then we're going to get to, I wrote you a song. Okay, I want to hear the song, but maybe I don't. Maybe I don't. No, I think you will. I think you'll want to

write this song. All right. But, um, you did like a lot of like lighthearted comedies, like, like, the goonies and, and gremlins and stuff like that. Well, Gremlins wasn't very lighthearted. Yeah, that's true. Drive. Dream a little dream. Yeah. Um, but, but, but when, the burbs, rock and roll high school, you know, but stand by me, something that was a lot more Serious. Dramatic and serious. Like, tonally, what did you prefer for you, like, acting-wise? Or did you love it all?

Well, my favorite work is a film that is actually not gotten a wide theatrical release yet, but we're planning on it. Oh, what is it? It's a film called The Birthday. And we actually shot it in 2005, and it was, it came out. It got all these awards at, you know, festivals outside of the U.S., but they never allowed it to be released theatrically in the U.S. Why? gee I wonder oh is it another one of the yeah we've covered that yeah they don't really want me to be like you know on top shall we say why is it like you feel like it's like some of your best acting is that what you mean oh it's the best

really there's no question that's got to be tortures so i showed the film to jordan peel yeah about six months ago yeah yeah and he was like this is a cinematic masterpiece this is by far your finest work yeah and it's a shame nobody's seen it. So I want to do what I can to help it be re-experienced or re-issued. Yeah. Whatever. Yeah. Oh, wow. That's generous. So Jordan actually put together this short film series, not short films, but a short film series. Yeah. At the Lincoln Center in New York in January. And it was basically a film series to explain all of his inspiration for the film Nope. And so his Fulope was kind of the head of the series, and then everything leading up to it was like,

these are all the things that inspired me. Well, it turns out that he told me that I'm, like, amused to him. Wow. Yeah, and that he tries to include Easter eggs from all of my films in his movies. Okay. So I guess each one of his movies, there's a lot of, like, there's Goonies references, stand-by-me references,

and that's based on you. Yes. Wow. What an honor. Yeah, it's a big honor. He's a splendid guy. Yeah, yeah. Him and his partner, they're both wonderful people.

Yeah, yeah. Anyway, so they hit me up one day. They said, look, we're doing this. We hope you'll support it. We're putting together's film series, and we're including four of your films. And as the kind of coupe de grace, at the end of the run for the last film of the series, we want to put two screenings back to back of your film, The Birthday. Wow.

Yeah. So we did that. Yeah. And I went to New York for it. What was the feedback like? Dude, it's sold out. Every other movie, like stand by me, Goonies, all the other movies they showed. had a nice audience, like 70% full, whatever,

but both screenings of the birthday sold out, which is just crazy to me, right? Wow. So as a result of that, the director, the genius director, his name is Johani O'Meara, he's from Spain, flew in to be there with me. It was kind of like a U.S. premiere, really,

because we'd never really done a proper U.S. screening, which was great. And then we got a bunch of interest from a bunch of studios who were interested in releasing it. So you think it'll have a second life? We just transferred it to AK. Wow. And it's in the process of finishing up the print right now,

and then we're going to put it to the people who've asked for it. So we'll see what happens. So it's going to show in Russia? I don't know about Russia. You said A.K. China for sure. Okay. For sure, yeah.

Give me real quickly just that the... I want the M8. Whoa, easy. Dial it down, Nacho. All right. Tell me just real quickly, what is the character you play in it? Are you playing yourself, or are you playing, like, what is the character? Well, that's the fun of it.

Yeah. I mean, since that time, I've done several films that are very detached. I really, at this point, you know, after you've been acting for 50 years, you don't want to just play the same. Yeah. You get fair, I'm the same way. I'm very selective. I turn down more than I take nowadays. If there's not something I can excel and sink your teeth into you and make it memorable, then I'm not interested.

Right. What's the point? It's just, it's mundane. You're doing the same thing over. So I try to really depart in every character that I choose. And I have for the last 15 years of my career. So this was kind of the beginning of that. This was 2005, and this was the first major departure.

And the thing that I'm so proud of is, first of all, the film is shot in real time. So it's a real time experience. So from the moment that you open the theater to the moment that you walk out, everything happens in consistency. There's no breaks. There's no cuts. and follow my character through every shot of the film.

Oh. So it was an intense experience, very intense. And my character is like this nerdy kind of dweeb guy with a weird voice and a nervous tick. And, you know, he's twitching and, you know, just completely opposite of who I am. So you really were able to get into that character. I had a little quirks and stuff.

I had to live at 24 hours a day. That's fun. We were shooting 14 hours a day. We're in Spain. Oh, you're in Spain. All the rest of the cast and the crew is Spanish. So I'm the only American entity. It's like those old Clint Eastwood Spaghetti Westerns.

And they shot all those over there. And there was like everyone was Spanish. And there was like two. He and Lee Van Cleef were the only like English speaking ones. Right. So, well, they had everybody speak English, but a lot of it was broken English. A lot of, you know,

some people were Americans that had moved over there and became Spanish. Some people were actually Spanish, but had worked in enough, like Jack Taylor is in the film. And he's like a legendary Spanish actor from like the old 70s movies and stuff like that. So he was brilliant. in the film. But, you know, but they're all Spanish. So the point is, is that I had to not only

do the work, but I also had to help write the script and I helped produce the movie, because what happened was they gave me a script that was very poorly translated. Yeah. And it was very broken. And not only did it have to sound like proper English, but it also was a period piece set in the 80s. Jesus. So I had to throw in all these kind of 80s phrases and slogans and, you know, pop culture references. Yeah, yeah. So, yeah, I did a rework of the script. Isn't that ironic? You are a pop culture reference. Yeah, right. That weird?

Yeah, exactly. It's kind of funny when you think about you get, they say, find some pop culture references and you are a living one. And I'm like, okay, here I am. Yeah, yeah, yeah, hey, right here, yeah. Yeah, no, but, uh, but the point being that, yeah, it was a lot of work. It was very intensive. And I was so stuck in that character being it, you know, and every shot of the

film, 14 hours a day, I couldn't leave the set. So literally by the end of the day, I'd come home as the character. Oh, shoot. The character's name was Norman, Norman Forrester. And he talks like this. And he's like, really weird and you're like you know he's got this Brooklyn accent and stuff so it's like really strange so anyway so I'm like you know I'm with my wife and you know like yeah hey baby what do you

should we get some dinner she's like stop talking like that you're driving me crazy you know you want to make love tonight baby yeah you know what's going to the bedroom and let's get a little fun time you got sugar things wow yeah dude that's a great character thanks man oh what so so what's the future of the movie now like we'll find out okay so it's the wait and see game But I know that there's some heavy hitters that reached out and want to do stuff. I hope that comes out because I can tell you're excited about it. Yeah, it's a brilliant film. I'm very proud to be a part of it.

So there's that. Yeah. There's also, you know, now this is one of those things that you might have to hold until Monday or whatever. But if you're not, I'm not releasing it for a few weeks, so it should be okay. So one of the big exciting things I have coming out right now, you know about Funko pops, right? Yeah, yeah, the little bobblehead dolls, the square ones look like you're a squished in a press or something. And they make them for every movie.

Yeah. So I've got like a bunch of them for my different characters. But the reason I was just at San Diego Comic-Con was to announce my very own Funko Pop. So it's a Corey Feldman special edition, rock star Corey Funko Pop based on my music video, Ascension Millennium. So they basically characterized it after that.

So it's really cool. It's quite an honor. It's quite an honor to have your own, you know, People want to know, though. Congratulations on that. People have to know, because I watch it, and I'm just sort of mesmerized by it, who in the name of sweet, holy Christ, son of the Savior, Lamb of God is your choreographer?

Your dance moves are like Jim Morrison just got attacked by a squid behind Dairy Queen. Like, I've never seen anyone move the way you know. Where do you come up with that means? I don't either. That's what I mean. Your moves blow my mind. Yeah. Like, who, do you have a choreographer?

Is that you? Well, I choreograph a lot of my stuff. I've been choreographing since Dream a little. It's like, they're so like you have, like nobody moves like you. Am I right? Am I correct? Well, I don't know. I mean, I see people, you know, kind of copying the dance moves or whatever from different

performances, but, uh, but yeah, you know, it's, you got to be original, man. Yeah. Oh, that's what I mean. Nobody moves like you. Yeah. Is it, is it, is it integral to the music or did somebody, somewhere go look core your songs are great but you got to move around you got to you just that was part of what you wanted to express i started dancing before i started writing so okay what happened was

obviously i was very mj inspired so that was a big piece of mj yeah michael oh mch he that guy again yeah right so anyway so i was trying to get it right i was very inspired by him as a dancer that's really what started was when i saw him dance and do billy jean because before that i my mom had put me into dance and I was very uncoordinated. I wasn't very good. I couldn't find my footing. Yeah. But then I watched him and somehow I copied it, like effortlessly.

Well, you weren't on set when he did the Billy Jean video. I was on set for Smooth Criminal. I was on set for a way you make me feel. I was at his rehearsals all the time for his show. Like, yeah, I got to see a lot of it, yeah. Oh, wow. Were you there for Thriller? No, that was before.

That was before I met. Oh, that would have been fun. I got to know in between Thriller and Bad. But anyway, so the point being. I watched Willie Jean. It changed my life. And I started dancing in the mirror. And all of a sudden, you know, I'm doing this dance.

And my, you know, my parents are looking at me like, what the hell? You know, where did this come from? That's what I was just saying. I thought you couldn't dance, you know. I'm looking at you and going where the hell did this come from. Right. It's wild. So I ended up doing my very first public dancing appearance at the Rose Bowl.

Wow. When I was 12 years old. What? Yeah. By yourself? Yeah. I went up and I lip-sinked Michael Jackson. Oh, what's wrong?

For like 40, 40,000 people. Billy Jean. Oh, wow. Did you have the little hat and the loafers? I did the whole thing. Come on. And it was such a big hit.

Did you moonwalk? Yes, of course. It was such a big hit that people were like, this is crazy, right? Yeah. So that inspired, you know, like every time I would go to a Hollywood party, they'd throw on Billy Jean, and somebody would throw me a hat, and they'd circle around me. It became this thing. So after that, I did Dream a Little Dream.

And Dream A Little Dream was a movie that they actually asked me to come up with a dance number. Oh. They put Tony Fields with me. Tony was one of Michael's choreographers. So I worked with him, and he kind of choreographed that with me, so we worked together on that. Okay. And then they asked me to choreograph something else for Dream Will Dream 2.

Rock and Roll High School Forever. I did the choreography with a woman who was a choreographer. So I worked with other choreographers and a lot of the film work, and then when I started shooting my music videos, I knew that I wanted, you know, some authentic, like, modern moves. So, you know, there's certain things that, like, I wouldn't have thought of, like, you know, that one moves. on the Today Show or whatever, like, this thing.

Yeah. That wasn't me. That was like the choreographer. But you can tell the difference between, like, what are my moves and his moves? It's like a little bit of Spider-Man meets Jim Morrison meets like someone that just got electrocuted or something. It's a weird, like that. But you're right. You got to create your own look and your own vibe and you nailed it.

But you see, here's the thing. Like, everybody tried to give me crap when the Today Show came out, you know. Oh, what happened? Well, you were referencing the Today Show performance way. I'm imagining, right? It might have been. Yeah. I'm not sure.

The Angels and all that. Oh, yeah, yeah. So we did the Today Show. Yeah. A billion people watched it in three years. It was the most... That's some good choreograph from out there, son. So say what you want, but, you know, we got the reaction we were looking for.

It scored. So the point is, is it got, like, historical views. It was a crazy thing. We broke the Internet, all that kind of stuff. And at the end of the day, you know, a lot of people try to talk crap and say, oh, it was this or it was that or it wasn't good. or wasn't, you know, or what's he doing,

what's he thinking? Yeah. And that's fine, because at the end of the day, with all the negative press that they gave me, we did a sold-out tour, the album sold more

than I'd ever sold. The single was a top 40 hit on Billboard. And the thing is, is that at the end of it, I was going like, look, here's the deal. I have people like Pink,

Kesha, Paris Jackson, Michael's daughter. All these people came out and defended me when the press was a lion to destroy me because of my creativity or whatever.

And they're like, he's an artist. Yeah. Like, leave him alone. Yeah. You know, we all felt that way at some point. At some point when we first started, somebody was out there talking crap about us, saying how weird we were, how different we were.

You know, he's an artist. He's expressing himself, and this is his art. And apparently, people are interested. So why bag on the guy? I know what I mean? Well, good for you for keep rolling, buddy. And I want to roll into this song, since we're talking about the music now.

Let's see what your skills are all about. I don't know if they're skills, but it was just sort of based on a little bit of your journey. And then it's sort of ironic that we dipped into the light and the dark of your journey and everyone's journey. So this is sort of about coming to Hollywood. Okay. And you can. It's not coming in Hollywood. It's just.

Well, that's happening all the time. But this is a, I'm going to give these lyrics to you later. You can keep them or throw them away or take. Okay. So here we go. This is my song for. Corey Feldman, here we go. He's going to serenade me now.

I'm not singing it. I'm just reading it. All right, poetry. You get to make, if you, should you decide to keep it, you can do whatever, you can put the music to it. Here we go. The Hollywood lights, they seduced me, lured me in like a moth and reduced me. The never-ending drinks, the never-ending shrinks, the handshakes, the winks, all of it stinks.

But seduction is the name of this movie, where every, tells you you're groovy. They build you up high so they can all milk you dry, and there's no one to cry as they all watch you die. Not even a goodbye, it's all been a lie. They dangled the good life in front of your eyes, and the red carpet turned out to be the tail of the devil, and the points on the stars are his horns. You fell deep into the Hollywood Bowl, the price of admission your soul, and the drugs make the pain feel like pleasure, all the sex you can't even measure, fame and money is all that you treasure. But deep in that dark burns an ember, a pure light that won't let you surrender. The reason you'll truly be remembered. The battle was

brutal, relentless, unkind, but you stood and survived, will strength of you. mind despite all the scars the deals and the cars people will always get joy from the work you left behind deep man i like it's for you buddy that's for you yeah do what you well with it sounds like it sounds like you did some real soul searching there you know what it's you know what core it just sort of came to me i kind of like let energy just flow yeah and when i when i met you when we were talking when we decided to do this and when I just started thinking about you and these words just kind of came to me. But it feels like there's some personal indication here, too. There is.

I mean, I live here too. I've had a much, I don't, this is going to sound weird. I feel like I've had an amazing guardian angel. I've been in the entertainment industry almost as long as you. Really? I started doing stand-up in 1982, I think. Oh, wow. And Corey, in the-

So 40 years. In 40 years, I've physically seen cocaine. twice in my whole life. How's that possible? I don't know. I have not had people try to seduce me. I have not had people try to molest me. I haven't had bad things come my way.

Right. And I'm very lucky. I'm very lucky and that I haven't been like prone to or privy to all this stuff. It blows my mind. But I'm not unwise to it. And I know that it exists and I can see it and feel it on other people. And it hurts me. It pains me.

and even talking to you today, I feel all that you've been through. And so that just sort of came to me when I started pulling you into my presence, you know? It's cool. And you can, even if you don't do it, I'm not serious about you writing a song, but I actually do really think there's some good stuff.

I think there's some good stuff, and I think it's very soul-searching, and I think there's, you know, maybe a bit heavier than just looking at somebody else's reflection, but I think there's a bit of your own in there as well. There is, yes. It's definitely hitting, hitting the nail on the head in many ways.

Yeah, it's a big, it's sort of the underlying current. Now, I don't want to say that all of Hollywood is evil and dark, but this was touching on a part of it that can be sinister. You know as well as I do. We've got friends that last a lifetime, right? You know, we've met so many great people in this town, so many people that we've had the opportunity to work with

that are absolutely just geniuses and sweethearts and great people. So I've never said once that this town is, you know, all full of evil, screwed up people. It's definitely not. I think there's more good people than there are bad. Good, good, yeah. There's a dark underbelly. And that dark undercurrent is very strong.

The force is strong with this one. Yeah, but you made it through, buddy, and you're still fighting, and you're giving your light to people, and that's beautiful. And being here today was part of that, so thank you for coming on, buddy. Thanks for giving me that voice.

I do appreciate it. We do one thing before we go, and it's just a fun thing. It's like it's called Words from a Wooden Shoe, and it's an authentic Dutch clog. I've seen them, yes. Inside there's a bunch of words, and you just pull out a word, and if it inspires a story or a memory from your life, you share it with us. And that's our end piece.

I'm going to do this so that it's not the obvious choice. Words from a wood, oh, he's taken two. No, well, I didn't mean to. Yeah, geez, Corey. Scream! Ah! Gee-hee! Hoo!

Well, Scream was the name of whose song? Who was? M.J. Bam. Was it really? Yeah. It was like one of his last big hits. Scream with Janet Jackson.

It was a combo. Oh, wow. How weird is that? But on top of it, there's another deeper meaning. Because we started off talking about my father and the bands that he wasn't in. Yeah. And one of the bands that he was in, in, in fact, was named. named no scream is that everything's tied together i'm telling you man that's pretty weird i better

start wearing a 23 yeah exactly well you know the other part of this is yeah is a ruby it's my birthstone oh wow so there's there's deepness here there's something going on i'm not sure what it is yet but there's something going i just want to go out and scream right i don't know why but uh yeah i kind of felt the same way in fact i was thinking about jumping off the top of his hill That'll be a nice long A nice long I mean at least you have plenty of time for TMZ To get a good shot

As I go down You know Which is what they all want anyway Give them what they want Give them what they want No never never We're fighting to the end There you go

Cory Feldman here on the Harland Highway Parkest thank you so much buddy And that's it for today Until next time Peace and love Peace and love And peace and love And by the way

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