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Speaker 2: I think as an artist, we all go to extremes.

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Speaker 2: I don't think there's an artist out there who likes

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Speaker 1: Welcome to this episode of Taking a Walk with your

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Speaker 1: host Buzznight. Today, Buzz is joined by actor, musician, activist,

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Speaker 1: and author Corey Feldman. Corey has appeared in countless movie

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Speaker 1: and television shows, and he got a start starring in

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Speaker 1: a Cleo Award winning McDonald's commercial when he was just

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Speaker 1: three years old. He was also on the New York

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Speaker 1: Times bestseller list for his twenty thirteen autobiography, Corey Agraphy.

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Speaker 1: He's always colorful, and he's got a lot on his mind, and.

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Speaker 3: We'll hear it all.

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Speaker 1: Next with actor, musician, author, and activist Corey Feldman on

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Speaker 1: Taking a Walk with Buzz Night.

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Speaker 2: Next.

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Speaker 4: Hi Corey, Hello, Hi, thanks for being on Taking a

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Speaker 4: Walk virtually but nonetheless thanks for being on man.

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Speaker 2: Hi, Buzz though, are you great?

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Speaker 4: Corey, Hey, Congratulations on the new song Deceptive Deborah, Thank

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Speaker 4: you very much.

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Speaker 2: Yes, it's a very exciting single, very exciting surprise.

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Speaker 3: What a cheery, uplifting love song.

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Speaker 2: Well, you know, I was feeling romantic and I thought

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Speaker 2: what better for the love rechoors to her than something

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Speaker 2: super cheery and positive. I can make us all feel

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Speaker 2: wholesome and wanted and needed. No I'm joking, but you know, hey, listen,

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Speaker 2: love sometimes is a many feathered bird, and it is

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Speaker 2: not always a good feeling. Sometimes love can be a

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Speaker 2: painful feeling, as we all know, and that's okay, but

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Speaker 2: it's something to talk about. So that's what art is about.

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Speaker 2: Art is about being subjective and putting our feelings down

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Speaker 2: and getting them out there, regardless of whether they're a

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Speaker 2: positive or a negative experience. And so therefore I try

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Speaker 2: to be true to form.

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Speaker 4: She got blood in her eyes. You think you know her,

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Speaker 4: but you better think twice.

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Speaker 2: Boy, oh boy, yes, have you ever met anybody like

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Speaker 2: that before?

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Speaker 3: Never?

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Speaker 2: Never, of course, not, of course not.

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Speaker 4: Can you talk about how music can be this soothing force,

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Speaker 4: but it also can be this tool that's the equivalent

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Speaker 4: of hitting someone over the head with a two by four.

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Speaker 2: Well, you know that it can be all of those

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Speaker 2: things at the same time. I don't think that's my intention.

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Speaker 2: You know this, The irony of this is just as

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Speaker 2: it were. But in fact, you know a lot of

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Speaker 2: people are going to say, well, you know, did you

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Speaker 2: write this about your wife because you're going through a breakup. No,

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Speaker 2: I actually didn't write it about my wife. This is

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Speaker 2: not about Courtney. It's just a true coincidence that this

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Speaker 2: is what popped out, because sometimes you know, you don't know,

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Speaker 2: you're just writing something, and sometimes things pop out. I

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Speaker 2: have had a lot of deceptive devras in my life,

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Speaker 2: so I think it's more of a figurative kind of term.

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Speaker 2: I don't think it's really specified around one particular person.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, but of course a lot of people will

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Speaker 4: So you mentioned art earlier, and I was thinking about

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Speaker 4: the songwriting process comparing it to artwork. Would you classify

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Speaker 2: I probably neither. I would say definitely more on the

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Speaker 2: more of the psychedelic art I suppose where you have

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Speaker 2: a double meaning. There might be going more going on

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Speaker 2: beneath the surface than you expect, looking for the multiple layers,

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Speaker 2: being able to read something into it and getting something

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Speaker 2: I also want to make sure that I leave somebody

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Speaker 2: with some form of a message. And it's usually a

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Speaker 2: positive one, even if it's sometimes you got to keep

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Speaker 4: Looking back at your career, well, one of my favorite

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Speaker 4: Day by Buddy Holly to Jerry Lee Lewis, great Balls

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Speaker 3: What are some of your favorite songs from stand by Me?

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Speaker 2: You know, I always loved rock and Robin. I think

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Speaker 2: And you know, I really like the lollipop you know

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Speaker 2: You know, we are on tour right now. We're hitting

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Speaker 2: the US. We're getting ready in about a week we

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Speaker 2: leave and our first show is on Saturday, a week

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Speaker 2: we do a section of the show which we dedicate

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Speaker 2: to the film's soundtracks and you know, kind of going

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Speaker 2: we play them by me actually is one of the

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Speaker 2: songs during the show. So hopefully some of your listeners

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Speaker 2: a chance to experience it, because it is a lot

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Speaker 2: of fun. It's like a giant sing along and just

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Speaker 2: as you said, it's like memory lane. Everybody chimes in

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Speaker 2: and sings along and it's like Kumbaya. It's lots of fun.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you're also on some of the shows. I think,

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Speaker 2: That's right. Well, we go through we do like a

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Speaker 2: movie section of the show, so there's a lot there's

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Speaker 2: a lot of ground that we cover. You know, it's

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Speaker 2: a big show, but we do some of the you know,

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Speaker 2: classic hits people want to hear, going all the way

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Speaker 2: back to the eighties, you know, some of the songs

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Speaker 2: that I wrote for film soundtracks, and then of course

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Speaker 2: some of the stuff that you know has been popular

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Speaker 2: the kind of classic film soundtracks, because there's people forget,

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Speaker 2: there's a lot of number one films associated with a

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Speaker 2: lot of my films, So you know those songs we're

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Speaker 2: going to be doing, from Goony's to stand By Me

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Speaker 2: whole chronology of it. It's really fun. It's like a

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Speaker 2: of love and having a great positive experience. That's the mission.

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Speaker 3: That's awesome.

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Speaker 4: How did you learn the importance in life of having

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Speaker 2: I'll tell you what. First of all, I think as

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Speaker 2: the middle of the road, because you wouldn't be an artist,

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Speaker 2: you know, if you didn't feel on a very heightened

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Speaker 2: sense of awareness as an artist, if you weren't ultra sensitive,

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Speaker 2: if you weren't ultra aware have some kind of insight,

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Speaker 2: then you wouldn't really have much to offer the rest

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Speaker 2: of the world. The whole idea is being able to

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Speaker 2: some way, whether it's through a painting, whether it's through words,

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Speaker 2: through poetry, through a script, through music. However we can

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Speaker 2: transcribe it, it's still an emotional exchange from one human

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Speaker 2: to another. And that's why we're also petrified and terrified

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Speaker 2: of AI because you know, we're literally talking about computers

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Speaker 2: taking over our emotions or our job to project those emotions.

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Speaker 4: So there's so much that you give to the world

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Speaker 4: in terms of how you highlight many different causes and

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Speaker 4: important things, and I want to give you the time

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Speaker 4: it's important how you put yourself out there for those.

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Speaker 3: Thank you.

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Speaker 2: I appreciate that. I mean, look, I've been working on

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Speaker 2: many great causes through the years, you know, but we're

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Speaker 2: very you know, grateful that I've had an opportunity to

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Speaker 2: do certain things. You know, there's a lot of different

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Speaker 2: areas I work in, whether it's children's rights, protecting children,

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Speaker 2: helping to change laws. I am an ambassador for Child USA,

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Speaker 2: so I helped to change laws in different states regarding

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Speaker 2: statute of limitations. I've also helped change laws regarding animal rights.

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Speaker 2: I do a lot of work with animal rights. I've

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Speaker 2: changed laws actually. In fact, in Boston, I helped change

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Speaker 2: not having enough room to turn around, things like that.

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Speaker 2: So yes, I work in all sorts of different areas,

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Speaker 2: help them find one or lend mine.

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Speaker 4: Three of your favorite musicians that maybe you'd like to

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Speaker 2: Oh, Paul McCartney, David Gilmore and Billie Joel.

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Speaker 3: Wow, that was definitive.

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Speaker 2: Yes, I would give pretty much anybody's belongings to be

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Speaker 2: old to, including mine. Okay, fine, mine too, to be

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Speaker 3: That's awesome.

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Speaker 4: Corey Felban, thanks for being on taking a walk man, appreciated.

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Speaker 4: Good luck on the release and good luck on the

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Speaker 2: Nice talking to you too, and I hope to see

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