February 18, 2025 • 18 mins
80's icon Cory Feldman talks new movie 'Going Viral', music and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're on with Mario Lopez. Seby Mario Lopez, join me
down studio. Actor and musician my man Corey Felman. How
you doing, Hey, it's good to see you. We've known
each other a long time. It's funny because I.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Want to know what kind of crack you use to
keep your face from cracking?
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Same one you use. You look good, man, you look
good the hairs.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Are you doing a little gh or are you natural? No?
Speaker 3 (00:25):
No, I'm talking so far a lot of tequila.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
I think.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
You got any secrets?
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Let me know. It's the Mexican secret, right, The Mexican
weapon is tequila, baby, exactly.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
That's what That's what I strive for.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
So it's funny because when you came in here, we
were talking about how long we known each other, and
you actually performed at my high school, Trulivista High School.
That must have been thirty something years ago.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Man, I think it was right. It was more than that,
maybe more than that, right, Well, we knew each other
since we were like seventeen. I think, yeah, from way
back in the day. Because I mean, like I'm trying
to think, did I know you before I got sober?
That's the big question because like I remember us all
meeting up when I lived in Encino. A lot of
times we actually have the meeting to go to those
(01:11):
games at my house in Encino. And that was like
when I had first gotten sober, thirty years thirty, but
I mean it was thirty five since then, So that
was thirty five years ago that I actually started the journey.
And after five years I relapsed and was out for
like six months and then.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Yeah, yeah, damn, too bad. I didn't know you. Shit,
how bad did you get at one point?
Speaker 2 (01:32):
How bad were your partying when I was back in
the day? Yeah, back in the day, dude, I wasn't partying.
I was. I was on an isolated train to hell.
I mean really, oh yeah, just all substances. No, I mean,
like I had. My drug of choice was heroin.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Oh wow, that's a serious one and usually people don't
get off that, right. Why'd you end.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Up on that?
Speaker 2 (01:51):
My pedophile? You don't know the story, dang, dude, I
don't just got heavy quick dude. Yeah, well that's the
right questions. Bro brot already sick, you see, man.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
A little weed or something? You went heroin on me?
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Oh no, no, dude, like no, yeah, everybody knew. Everybody
knew I was busted for it. I mean that's what
I got in trouble.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
For nine We have a pretty damn healthy and I was.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
I was, I was seventeen years old. Look at that. Well, yeah,
I mean thirty years, thirty five years. You know, I
never went back to it. I mean it was thirty
years of complete sobriety, meaning like I haven't done any
hard drugs, haven't drank alcohol in thirty years.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
How bibical was.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
That for me? It's easy, really, so it really is.
I mean in the beginning, okay, so like like thirty
five years ago, it was it was hell trying to
get sober the first time because I had to go
to ten months of treatment. Ten months. I mean it
was a big thing. Yeah, I was in a residential
living facility in the valley for ten months. But the
first I did like a month of it, and then
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I got kicked out, and then I had to go
back in for another nine months because I got kicked
out for the first month. And then after that when
I came out, I mean there was no messing around.
I was like completely sober for four years, and then
after four years had like a little slip up, like
basically testing the waters, like, oh, I'll try this again.
I'll try that again. No, none of it's good, none
(03:08):
of it works. I'm good good, And that was it,
and that was it, yeah for you. After that, I
went back to clean and I have no interest in
hard drugs, no interest in alcohol. This doesn't even good
for good for you. I'm happy to hear that.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Well, man, you've been going viral all summer, popping up
on my social right here on tour right here, which your.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Crazy dude open.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
It looks like you're having a blast out there. How
did that team up happen?
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Well, you know, Fred and I have been friends forever
so uh and not as long as you and I.
But we met I think probably like mid nineties at
the Playboy Mansion, so like right when Limp was like
really really big, blowing up exactly and I was always there,
you know. Yeah, but but uh, Fred and I would like,
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you know, we we'd call each other. We text he
just like, oh man, check out my new media. Oh
check what I'm working on. Yeah, we got a hook up,
let's link up, let's do something. And that went on
for like ten years and then it got to a
point where we almost got in a fight cause I
was like, I was mad at him because he kept flaking,
and I was like, dude, what is the deal? Like
you keep saying you want to get together and do something,
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and then you flake. I'd be like, I got time
for this. He's like, well, you want to go to brawl,
let's go. Bro. I was like, all right, let's go.
And then he kind of liked the fact that I
stepped to him, so he was like, Nah, you're cool,
We're good, We're good.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Let's do let's do it.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Yeah, And then we actually got together and recorded. So
I think we recorded our first whatever together like around
twenty eleven, twenty twelve, somewhere in there, and that song
ended up on the Angelic to the Core album, which
was my double album. Then I put out with All
the Angels and all that stuff. Yeah, back when I
had go for It with Snoop Dogg and all that,
(04:49):
So he was on that same album. And then right
around that time, I think around two thousand and fourteen,
fifteen whatever, I did my first concert with them in
the House Blues. But yeah, here we are. You know
the yet later, but I love the guy he's a listen.
He's a sweetheart of a guy. You know, he's crazy
for sure, but he's a sweetheart. So I'm very grateful
(05:11):
to him. You know, we went from you know, playing
these venues that were like eighteen hundred two thousand and
we're packing them to like all of a sudden, we're playing,
you know, forty thousand and fifty.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Thousand, one of the viral ONMS tools your guitar solo, man,
and that's you really playing? Uh yes, yes, yes really,
Because I remember he came out there, put that mike out.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
I was like, okay, man, we ran with it.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
We ran with it because it was like, it was
so absurd to me that I'm playing this like not
great guitar solo. I mean it's not great by any stretch.
It's like me just subjective. Well, you know, as an artist,
I will say the art of it was making fun
of myself, the art of it. That was the point.
The point is the song was called the Joke, So
I was saying, like, for all of you people who
don't take my music seriously, the joke's on you. And
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then I played this awful guitar solo just to kind
of punctuate that, you know, statement like okay, exclamation market
really sucks.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Well, my personal favorite song is uh, I'm the Comeback Come.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
That's a real song. That's the gym right there. Yeah,
it right here all the time.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
And you know what's crazy? Green Day sings that song
into each other we're in their dressing room. Yeah, I
mean it's crazy, like all spectrums. Right, You're like looking
at like how many people it's affected. I'm like, that's
such an honor. It's such an honor. Yeah, I had
to play. I got to play the Forum with Falling
in Reverse. Like after I finished the tour, I got
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home and they're like, yeah, come come show up at
our show at the Forum and play your guitar solo.
I was like, are you serious?
Speaker 3 (06:46):
That's awesome, that's awesome.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Are you planning to come out to LA anytime? So?
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Uh yeah, well you mean to play in La?
Speaker 3 (06:53):
To play in La?
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Well, no, the last show was at Glenn Helen. There
was forty thousand people out there. Plans he's missing, No,
I think and I think we were talking, weren't we, Like.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Yes on Instagram?
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Just made in your d MS let me know, But
I think I was. I think I was working. I
was out of town.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
When next time you come, yeah, be sure to let
for a more intimate show, like a theater show.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Hey, you know, let me know when you want to
when you want to book me for a private party.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Drills, did it?
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Strillgs?
Speaker 3 (07:22):
That can play a little bit.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Really, we'll come over and cam dude, I got always
got a live room.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Now, a lot of people.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Don't know, but your dad was actually a pretty famous songwriter.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Well he wasn't a fansy.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
That's it's it's a misconception, conception.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Here's the thing. There was a guy named Bob Feldman
who was part of the Candies Something I Want.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
I want my boyfriend's back.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
All that is not my dad. Well that's another Bob film,
another Bob Felman who died, by the way, that guy died.
But my father was also Bob Feldman. But he was
in that guy was in the Strangeloves. Yeah, my father
was in uh Strawberry or Alarm Clock. Oh yeah, and
send some peppermints that song.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Oh so he was a musician.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
He was a musician, but he was and he was
a songwriter, but he wasn't that songwriter. That musician. Wow,
but he ended up doing his own solo stuff. And like,
so as a kid, you know, I was always around music,
and people always said, like, when did you get into music.
I'm like, dude, I started music, Like that's how I
got auditions because I started at three years old. And
so at three years old, you can't memorize law, and
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you can't read a script. You don't even know how
to read read it, right, So how do you get
a part? Well, the way that I would get parts
is my mom and dad would lock me in a
room with a record player and they would say, learn
this song, memorize every word of it, and then come
out and sing it. And so I'd come out and
sing and be all cute, and that's how I'd get
my part, because that's how you got your part. Yeah,
and then my sister was in the Mickey Mouse Club,
(08:46):
so she was out there doing live theater, yeah, at
Disneyland every weekend, right or all summer long.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Wow, the film is going on right there.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
But it was all music music. Music.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Did you end up studying at some point as.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
A kid studying acting?
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Never did, Never took an acting class.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Wow, No, I didn't believe in it. I still don't, huh,
I think that you have a god given talent or
you don't. Yeah, And it's a natural instinct. You know,
you've got it, you know, thank you.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Thank you. So that's your Poachel, that's refreshing.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Here. Did you take you out to school?
Speaker 3 (09:17):
I mean I did just because I thought.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
You know, that's what everyone was supposed to do, right,
So I did a lot of times parents just kind
of put cadah.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Well that agent suggested and stuff.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Right, So you got to get in there. Like my
kid now wants to start to start doing him and stuff.
But I mean he seems pretty natural. I don't want
to kind of mess with that, so.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Right, So and you're right, don't, Yeah, don't. You're exactly right,
because it'll actually teach him bad habits, right, Yes, yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Okay, good, I'm glad to hear that. Talk about your
new movie. It's called Going Viral, Going Viral eighties movie,
vibe to it. I like it already, all right.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
So Going Viral is kind of a fun family adventure,
you know, which you don't see too often anymore. You know.
It's like these days everything is like so slanted, it
like being as as gross or wrong as you possibly can,
and that's comedy, that's horror. That's like everything these days.
But this is beautiful because it's just like it's a great, innocent,
(10:11):
kind of eighties vibe family movie, except it's got a
modern twist, which is that like it's an alternate reality
because it's supposed to be modern, but yet it looks
like it's in the eighties, but you're playing with tools
that would only exist in modern times. So it's really
a bit of a mind warp. You're like trying to
wrap your head around where are we? So it's almost
(10:33):
like an alternate reality kind of movie, huh, where you
could imagine like in the eighties if we had VR,
if we had AI and we had you know, computer
graphics talking to us and encouraging us to get follows
and likes and all that kind of social media saying. So, yeah,
it's a really different kind of plot. I like it.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
I love that nostalgia. That's cool, man.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
So we get sucked into like an AI world. Well,
the kids who are the main protag and is they
get sucked into like this AI world and there's like
this Max Headroom type character that kind of like you know,
entices them. His name is mister viral, and he like
entices them to, like, you know, get more active on
their on their personal handsets and all this kind of stuff.
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And then what happens is they get kind of into
too deep and they need help, so they reach out
to like the old gamer, you know, the guy who
used to be like in the eighties was like the
Donkey Kong Master and the past band Master and that's me.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Yeah, that's too.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
By the way, only our generation will get that max
Headroom reference right.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Exactly exactly, which is what I'm saying. So it's really
a cross of you know, like the parents can watch
it with the kids, and the kids will think it's modern,
but the parents are getting all the throwback right there.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Speaking of the eighties, this Summer fortieth anniversary one of
the greatest movies of all the time.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
How did I know I wasn't going to get out
of here without you?
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Well do There was a recent pick I saw with
you and and Key and Josh. It was so awesome
them to see that all, so great to see those guys,
so great to see everyone together. And there's been like
rumors of some sort of sequel or something too already like.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Something like that. Right, it definitely will not be a
remake that I can promise you.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Yeah, because you can't.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
You can to make that. No, right there, you'd be,
you'd be you'd have people shooting at your back of
your head like target practice.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Jeff was there too.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Jeff was there. Jeff was there, and Jeff, Josh, Sean, Carrie,
me Key. The only one missing was Martha. She's literally
the only.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
One that the only one that's great.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Man.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Yeah, that's great.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
So but no, you know, listen, for forty years, they've
been saying it's gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Is it?
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Rumors, it's the sequel, It's happening. We had fifteen different writers.
Every three or four years, Richard Donner would call me
and be like, kid, we're going back to work. It's happening.
We're making it, you know, and then it wouldn't happen.
I remember at one point he had the X Men
writers on it. He had all these different writers. Sean
and I created our own pitch. We would in there
(13:00):
and pitched Dick and one of Chris's assistants and at
I don't remember it too because this was like five
six years ago now, but it was uh, maybe even longer,
like eight years ago. But it was. It was really good.
It was really good. It was like inter dimensional and
involved like a time machine and time travel. It was
(13:23):
going to be like the older version of us ran
into the new version or the young version of us. Yeah.
So it was like really like back to the Future style.
It was really cool.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Dad never too late, right a right, never say die?
Speaker 2 (13:39):
So I actually, you know, we pitched it to everybody,
and Dick sat there with this giant smile on his face,
and Sean and I are like sitting there like pitch
and pitching, and he's like got this giant smile and
his eyes are back and he's like imagining it and
he's like yeah yeah, and then at some point he's like,
uh nope, not gonna work. We're like, what what happened?
Speaker 3 (13:58):
What was the clincher?
Speaker 2 (14:00):
He's like, too expensive? Oh, too expensive? This is Gooney's
too How gonna be too expensive? What do you mean
like everybody's gonna see it? Yeah? He's like, no, no,
I want something more intimate, like a character study of
these characters.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Can't go intimate?
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Goody, I mean he was getting old man. This was
towards the end but you know, God bless him. I
love that man. I love that man. He was like
a father to me. So we just kind of, you know,
I had a big grin on my face and Sean
and we kind of looked at each other like, oh
so we're like, you know what, hey, man, that's all right.
It's your ship. We're just riding on it. So if
it happens, it happens. And then that faded away again
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it didn't happen. And then right before he died, he
started another rumor. He's like, we're definitely doing gourneys too,
and then six months later he's like, never mind, we're
gonna do leath a weapon five and then he died.
So it's like, okay, all right, I guess we're not
doing any of that, but time to start from scratch,
that's right. But I have heard the rumors that, you know,
mister Columbus is back in the driving scene, because you know,
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he's the guy that wrote the original and he wrote
the original Grammars encouraging. But we don't know, man, we
don't know. You know, it's he could literally be writing
a script he could not, and if he does, does
that mean it's going to get green lit. Does that
mean we're all gonna do it? Does that mean you know,
I mean there's so many. Yeah, one can wish, though,
one can wish. Actually, I'm gonna put out good energy there.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
The first one there?
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Are you from originally? Cory am I? What are you from?
Speaker 1 (15:21):
LA? Right? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Yeah, wow, you're you're a native and raised man?
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Because there's not too many. I don't know what area and.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
I haven't left yet, that's crazy. Yeah from the valley,
is that right? And raised in the valley and dude,
dang you too.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Right San Diego, but put in here since I was
a kid, California, California. We yeahcau Usually everybody's a transplant, right,
I'm going out here.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
So and you know, I say this to a lot
of people who are from LA are from California. But
it's like you ever realize it's never the people that
are actually from here that are messed up. It's always
the people that move here that think they have to
be something that they're not. And they put on this
fake kind of bravado and they make up the business
card and they're like, yeah, this and that and I'm
gonna do this for you. I'm gonna do that for you,
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and you're like, bro, go back home, we got you
got this exactly right. Man.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Hey man, I'm so happy that you're still doing this thing.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
And I'm always I'm always rooting for former child actors
like myself, So I think I think it's cool.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Listen.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
I want everyone to be sure to check out Corey
and then a movie going viral, which is available for
streaming right now on Amazon Prime and Apple TV.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
Plus.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
That's right, I got another movie on Amazon right now too.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Tell me. It's called The Birthday.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
The Birthday and this is my proudest achievement as an actor.
So if you haven't seen it personally.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
You mold statements.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
I swear it, okay, I mean it is literally my
best work. In fact, you can find that out if
you read some of the reviews, like New York Times
picked us as like one of the five best of
the month for birthdays of It's both It's like a
David Lynch kind of black comedy, dark comedy, but like
really twisted like Twilight Zone kind of like where am
(16:57):
I Vibe? But it goes from like kind of bumbling
Jerry Lewis ish Peter Seller's ish kind of bumbling comedy
to like a dark twist where all of a sudden
it becomes an action thriller.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
And so it's like a romance, comedy, thriller, horror, horror,
sci fi.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Like it's all in there.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
It's literally all in there. And all I can say
is this director from Spain. We shot in Spain, Spanish director,
Spanish cast, Spanish crew. I was the only American entity.
But it's all in English, so I had to help
like translate the script to you know, because there was
like weird translation and stuff. So I would actually do like,
you know, the transition of it, and and and helped
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them rewrite the script and helped them like really kind
of direct the movie because the director didn't know how
to communicate in English, you know, how to help him
with his English.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
It was a lot, But I was a producer on
it but also as the star, and I'm in every
single shot of the film. Wow, every shot of the
work in there. There's never a single shot in the
movie that doesn't feature some part of my body or
my face. So I had to be on the set constantly.
So the birthday Birthday Grand going viral both on Amazon
right now.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Both on Amazon. A Corey Fellman double feature There.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
You Go the Mat with me? Yeah, there we go.
I can't think of a better way to do it,
a man, thanks for coming in. Thank you, brother Hey
Speaker 1 (18:19):
With Mario Lopez
You're on with Mario Lopez. Seby Mario Lopez, join me
down studio. Actor and musician my man Corey Felman. How
you doing, Hey, it's good to see you. We've known
each other a long time. It's funny because I.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Want to know what kind of crack you use to
keep your face from cracking?
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Same one you use. You look good, man, you look
good the hairs.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Are you doing a little gh or are you natural? No?
Speaker 3 (00:25):
No, I'm talking so far a lot of tequila.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
I think.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
You got any secrets?
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Let me know. It's the Mexican secret, right, The Mexican
weapon is tequila, baby, exactly.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
That's what That's what I strive for.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
So it's funny because when you came in here, we
were talking about how long we known each other, and
you actually performed at my high school, Trulivista High School.
That must have been thirty something years ago.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Man, I think it was right. It was more than that,
maybe more than that, right, Well, we knew each other
since we were like seventeen. I think, yeah, from way
back in the day. Because I mean, like I'm trying
to think, did I know you before I got sober?
That's the big question because like I remember us all
meeting up when I lived in Encino. A lot of
times we actually have the meeting to go to those
(01:11):
games at my house in Encino. And that was like
when I had first gotten sober, thirty years thirty, but
I mean it was thirty five since then, So that
was thirty five years ago that I actually started the journey.
And after five years I relapsed and was out for
like six months and then.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Yeah, yeah, damn, too bad. I didn't know you. Shit,
how bad did you get at one point?
Speaker 2 (01:32):
How bad were your partying when I was back in
the day? Yeah, back in the day, dude, I wasn't partying.
I was. I was on an isolated train to hell.
I mean really, oh yeah, just all substances. No, I mean,
like I had. My drug of choice was heroin.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Oh wow, that's a serious one and usually people don't
get off that, right. Why'd you end.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Up on that?
Speaker 2 (01:51):
My pedophile? You don't know the story, dang, dude, I
don't just got heavy quick dude. Yeah, well that's the
right questions. Bro brot already sick, you see, man.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
A little weed or something? You went heroin on me?
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Oh no, no, dude, like no, yeah, everybody knew. Everybody
knew I was busted for it. I mean that's what
I got in trouble.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
For nine We have a pretty damn healthy and I was.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
I was, I was seventeen years old. Look at that. Well, yeah,
I mean thirty years, thirty five years. You know, I
never went back to it. I mean it was thirty
years of complete sobriety, meaning like I haven't done any
hard drugs, haven't drank alcohol in thirty years.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
How bibical was.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
That for me? It's easy, really, so it really is.
I mean in the beginning, okay, so like like thirty
five years ago, it was it was hell trying to
get sober the first time because I had to go
to ten months of treatment. Ten months. I mean it
was a big thing. Yeah, I was in a residential
living facility in the valley for ten months. But the
first I did like a month of it, and then
(02:48):
I got kicked out, and then I had to go
back in for another nine months because I got kicked
out for the first month. And then after that when
I came out, I mean there was no messing around.
I was like completely sober for four years, and then
after four years had like a little slip up, like
basically testing the waters, like, oh, I'll try this again.
I'll try that again. No, none of it's good, none
(03:08):
of it works. I'm good good, And that was it,
and that was it, yeah for you. After that, I
went back to clean and I have no interest in
hard drugs, no interest in alcohol. This doesn't even good
for good for you. I'm happy to hear that.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Well, man, you've been going viral all summer, popping up
on my social right here on tour right here, which your.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Crazy dude open.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
It looks like you're having a blast out there. How
did that team up happen?
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Well, you know, Fred and I have been friends forever
so uh and not as long as you and I.
But we met I think probably like mid nineties at
the Playboy Mansion, so like right when Limp was like
really really big, blowing up exactly and I was always there,
you know. Yeah, but but uh, Fred and I would like,
(03:58):
you know, we we'd call each other. We text he
just like, oh man, check out my new media. Oh
check what I'm working on. Yeah, we got a hook up,
let's link up, let's do something. And that went on
for like ten years and then it got to a
point where we almost got in a fight cause I
was like, I was mad at him because he kept flaking,
and I was like, dude, what is the deal? Like
you keep saying you want to get together and do something,
(04:18):
and then you flake. I'd be like, I got time
for this. He's like, well, you want to go to brawl,
let's go. Bro. I was like, all right, let's go.
And then he kind of liked the fact that I
stepped to him, so he was like, Nah, you're cool,
We're good, We're good.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Let's do let's do it.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Yeah, And then we actually got together and recorded. So
I think we recorded our first whatever together like around
twenty eleven, twenty twelve, somewhere in there, and that song
ended up on the Angelic to the Core album, which
was my double album. Then I put out with All
the Angels and all that stuff. Yeah, back when I
had go for It with Snoop Dogg and all that,
(04:49):
So he was on that same album. And then right
around that time, I think around two thousand and fourteen,
fifteen whatever, I did my first concert with them in
the House Blues. But yeah, here we are. You know
the yet later, but I love the guy he's a listen.
He's a sweetheart of a guy. You know, he's crazy
for sure, but he's a sweetheart. So I'm very grateful
(05:11):
to him. You know, we went from you know, playing
these venues that were like eighteen hundred two thousand and
we're packing them to like all of a sudden, we're playing,
you know, forty thousand and fifty.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Thousand, one of the viral ONMS tools your guitar solo, man,
and that's you really playing? Uh yes, yes, yes really,
Because I remember he came out there, put that mike out.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
I was like, okay, man, we ran with it.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
We ran with it because it was like, it was
so absurd to me that I'm playing this like not
great guitar solo. I mean it's not great by any stretch.
It's like me just subjective. Well, you know, as an artist,
I will say the art of it was making fun
of myself, the art of it. That was the point.
The point is the song was called the Joke, So
I was saying, like, for all of you people who
don't take my music seriously, the joke's on you. And
(05:58):
then I played this awful guitar solo just to kind
of punctuate that, you know, statement like okay, exclamation market
really sucks.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Well, my personal favorite song is uh, I'm the Comeback Come.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
That's a real song. That's the gym right there. Yeah,
it right here all the time.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
And you know what's crazy? Green Day sings that song
into each other we're in their dressing room. Yeah, I
mean it's crazy, like all spectrums. Right, You're like looking
at like how many people it's affected. I'm like, that's
such an honor. It's such an honor. Yeah, I had
to play. I got to play the Forum with Falling
in Reverse. Like after I finished the tour, I got
(06:40):
home and they're like, yeah, come come show up at
our show at the Forum and play your guitar solo.
I was like, are you serious?
Speaker 3 (06:46):
That's awesome, that's awesome.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Are you planning to come out to LA anytime? So?
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Uh yeah, well you mean to play in La?
Speaker 3 (06:53):
To play in La?
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Well, no, the last show was at Glenn Helen. There
was forty thousand people out there. Plans he's missing, No,
I think and I think we were talking, weren't we, Like.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Yes on Instagram?
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Just made in your d MS let me know, But
I think I was. I think I was working. I
was out of town.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
When next time you come, yeah, be sure to let
for a more intimate show, like a theater show.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Hey, you know, let me know when you want to
when you want to book me for a private party.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Drills, did it?
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Strillgs?
Speaker 3 (07:22):
That can play a little bit.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Really, we'll come over and cam dude, I got always
got a live room.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Now, a lot of people.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Don't know, but your dad was actually a pretty famous songwriter.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Well he wasn't a fansy.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
That's it's it's a misconception, conception.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Here's the thing. There was a guy named Bob Feldman
who was part of the Candies Something I Want.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
I want my boyfriend's back.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
All that is not my dad. Well that's another Bob film,
another Bob Felman who died, by the way, that guy died.
But my father was also Bob Feldman. But he was
in that guy was in the Strangeloves. Yeah, my father
was in uh Strawberry or Alarm Clock. Oh yeah, and
send some peppermints that song.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Oh so he was a musician.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
He was a musician, but he was and he was
a songwriter, but he wasn't that songwriter. That musician. Wow,
but he ended up doing his own solo stuff. And like,
so as a kid, you know, I was always around music,
and people always said, like, when did you get into music.
I'm like, dude, I started music, Like that's how I
got auditions because I started at three years old. And
so at three years old, you can't memorize law, and
(08:25):
you can't read a script. You don't even know how
to read read it, right, So how do you get
a part? Well, the way that I would get parts
is my mom and dad would lock me in a
room with a record player and they would say, learn
this song, memorize every word of it, and then come
out and sing it. And so I'd come out and
sing and be all cute, and that's how I'd get
my part, because that's how you got your part. Yeah,
and then my sister was in the Mickey Mouse Club,
(08:46):
so she was out there doing live theater, yeah, at
Disneyland every weekend, right or all summer long.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Wow, the film is going on right there.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
But it was all music music. Music.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Did you end up studying at some point as.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
A kid studying acting?
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Never did, Never took an acting class.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Wow, No, I didn't believe in it. I still don't, huh,
I think that you have a god given talent or
you don't. Yeah, And it's a natural instinct. You know,
you've got it, you know, thank you.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Thank you. So that's your Poachel, that's refreshing.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Here. Did you take you out to school?
Speaker 3 (09:17):
I mean I did just because I thought.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
You know, that's what everyone was supposed to do, right,
So I did a lot of times parents just kind
of put cadah.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Well that agent suggested and stuff.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Right, So you got to get in there. Like my
kid now wants to start to start doing him and stuff.
But I mean he seems pretty natural. I don't want
to kind of mess with that, so.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Right, So and you're right, don't, Yeah, don't. You're exactly right,
because it'll actually teach him bad habits, right, Yes, yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Okay, good, I'm glad to hear that. Talk about your
new movie. It's called Going Viral, Going Viral eighties movie,
vibe to it. I like it already, all right.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
So Going Viral is kind of a fun family adventure,
you know, which you don't see too often anymore. You know.
It's like these days everything is like so slanted, it
like being as as gross or wrong as you possibly can,
and that's comedy, that's horror. That's like everything these days.
But this is beautiful because it's just like it's a great, innocent,
(10:11):
kind of eighties vibe family movie, except it's got a
modern twist, which is that like it's an alternate reality
because it's supposed to be modern, but yet it looks
like it's in the eighties, but you're playing with tools
that would only exist in modern times. So it's really
a bit of a mind warp. You're like trying to
wrap your head around where are we? So it's almost
(10:33):
like an alternate reality kind of movie, huh, where you
could imagine like in the eighties if we had VR,
if we had AI and we had you know, computer
graphics talking to us and encouraging us to get follows
and likes and all that kind of social media saying. So, yeah,
it's a really different kind of plot. I like it.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
I love that nostalgia. That's cool, man.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
So we get sucked into like an AI world. Well,
the kids who are the main protag and is they
get sucked into like this AI world and there's like
this Max Headroom type character that kind of like you know,
entices them. His name is mister viral, and he like
entices them to, like, you know, get more active on
their on their personal handsets and all this kind of stuff.
(11:16):
And then what happens is they get kind of into
too deep and they need help, so they reach out
to like the old gamer, you know, the guy who
used to be like in the eighties was like the
Donkey Kong Master and the past band Master and that's me.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Yeah, that's too.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
By the way, only our generation will get that max
Headroom reference right.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Exactly exactly, which is what I'm saying. So it's really
a cross of you know, like the parents can watch
it with the kids, and the kids will think it's modern,
but the parents are getting all the throwback right there.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Speaking of the eighties, this Summer fortieth anniversary one of
the greatest movies of all the time.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
How did I know I wasn't going to get out
of here without you?
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Well do There was a recent pick I saw with
you and and Key and Josh. It was so awesome
them to see that all, so great to see those guys,
so great to see everyone together. And there's been like
rumors of some sort of sequel or something too already like.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Something like that. Right, it definitely will not be a
remake that I can promise you.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Yeah, because you can't.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
You can to make that. No, right there, you'd be,
you'd be you'd have people shooting at your back of
your head like target practice.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Jeff was there too.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Jeff was there. Jeff was there, and Jeff, Josh, Sean, Carrie,
me Key. The only one missing was Martha. She's literally
the only.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
One that the only one that's great.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Man.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Yeah, that's great.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
So but no, you know, listen, for forty years, they've
been saying it's gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Is it?
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Rumors, it's the sequel, It's happening. We had fifteen different writers.
Every three or four years, Richard Donner would call me
and be like, kid, we're going back to work. It's happening.
We're making it, you know, and then it wouldn't happen.
I remember at one point he had the X Men
writers on it. He had all these different writers. Sean
and I created our own pitch. We would in there
(13:00):
and pitched Dick and one of Chris's assistants and at
I don't remember it too because this was like five
six years ago now, but it was uh, maybe even longer,
like eight years ago. But it was. It was really good.
It was really good. It was like inter dimensional and
involved like a time machine and time travel. It was
(13:23):
going to be like the older version of us ran
into the new version or the young version of us. Yeah.
So it was like really like back to the Future style.
It was really cool.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Dad never too late, right a right, never say die?
Speaker 2 (13:39):
So I actually, you know, we pitched it to everybody,
and Dick sat there with this giant smile on his face,
and Sean and I are like sitting there like pitch
and pitching, and he's like got this giant smile and
his eyes are back and he's like imagining it and
he's like yeah yeah, and then at some point he's like,
uh nope, not gonna work. We're like, what what happened?
Speaker 3 (13:58):
What was the clincher?
Speaker 2 (14:00):
He's like, too expensive? Oh, too expensive? This is Gooney's
too How gonna be too expensive? What do you mean
like everybody's gonna see it? Yeah? He's like, no, no,
I want something more intimate, like a character study of
these characters.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Can't go intimate?
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Goody, I mean he was getting old man. This was
towards the end but you know, God bless him. I
love that man. I love that man. He was like
a father to me. So we just kind of, you know,
I had a big grin on my face and Sean
and we kind of looked at each other like, oh
so we're like, you know what, hey, man, that's all right.
It's your ship. We're just riding on it. So if
it happens, it happens. And then that faded away again
(14:35):
it didn't happen. And then right before he died, he
started another rumor. He's like, we're definitely doing gourneys too,
and then six months later he's like, never mind, we're
gonna do leath a weapon five and then he died.
So it's like, okay, all right, I guess we're not
doing any of that, but time to start from scratch,
that's right. But I have heard the rumors that, you know,
mister Columbus is back in the driving scene, because you know,
(14:58):
he's the guy that wrote the original and he wrote
the original Grammars encouraging. But we don't know, man, we
don't know. You know, it's he could literally be writing
a script he could not, and if he does, does
that mean it's going to get green lit. Does that
mean we're all gonna do it? Does that mean you know,
I mean there's so many. Yeah, one can wish, though,
one can wish. Actually, I'm gonna put out good energy there.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
The first one there?
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Are you from originally? Cory am I? What are you from?
Speaker 1 (15:21):
LA? Right? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Yeah, wow, you're you're a native and raised man?
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Because there's not too many. I don't know what area and.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
I haven't left yet, that's crazy. Yeah from the valley,
is that right? And raised in the valley and dude,
dang you too.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Right San Diego, but put in here since I was
a kid, California, California. We yeahcau Usually everybody's a transplant, right,
I'm going out here.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
So and you know, I say this to a lot
of people who are from LA are from California. But
it's like you ever realize it's never the people that
are actually from here that are messed up. It's always
the people that move here that think they have to
be something that they're not. And they put on this
fake kind of bravado and they make up the business
card and they're like, yeah, this and that and I'm
gonna do this for you. I'm gonna do that for you,
(16:01):
and you're like, bro, go back home, we got you
got this exactly right. Man.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Hey man, I'm so happy that you're still doing this thing.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
And I'm always I'm always rooting for former child actors
like myself, So I think I think it's cool.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Listen.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
I want everyone to be sure to check out Corey
and then a movie going viral, which is available for
streaming right now on Amazon Prime and Apple TV.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
Plus.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
That's right, I got another movie on Amazon right now too.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Tell me. It's called The Birthday.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
The Birthday and this is my proudest achievement as an actor.
So if you haven't seen it personally.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
You mold statements.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
I swear it, okay, I mean it is literally my
best work. In fact, you can find that out if
you read some of the reviews, like New York Times
picked us as like one of the five best of
the month for birthdays of It's both It's like a
David Lynch kind of black comedy, dark comedy, but like
really twisted like Twilight Zone kind of like where am
(16:57):
I Vibe? But it goes from like kind of bumbling
Jerry Lewis ish Peter Seller's ish kind of bumbling comedy
to like a dark twist where all of a sudden
it becomes an action thriller.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
And so it's like a romance, comedy, thriller, horror, horror,
sci fi.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Like it's all in there.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
It's literally all in there. And all I can say
is this director from Spain. We shot in Spain, Spanish director,
Spanish cast, Spanish crew. I was the only American entity.
But it's all in English, so I had to help
like translate the script to you know, because there was
like weird translation and stuff. So I would actually do like,
you know, the transition of it, and and and helped
(17:39):
them rewrite the script and helped them like really kind
of direct the movie because the director didn't know how
to communicate in English, you know, how to help him
with his English.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
It was a lot, But I was a producer on
it but also as the star, and I'm in every
single shot of the film. Wow, every shot of the
work in there. There's never a single shot in the
movie that doesn't feature some part of my body or
my face. So I had to be on the set constantly.
So the birthday Birthday Grand going viral both on Amazon
right now.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Both on Amazon. A Corey Fellman double feature There.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
You Go the Mat with me? Yeah, there we go.
I can't think of a better way to do it,
a man, thanks for coming in. Thank you, brother Hey
Speaker 1 (18:19):
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