Timesuck with Dan Cummins - 9 - Corey Haim: Lost Years of the Lost Boy

Episode Date: November 14, 2016

Corey Haim went one from a teen heartthrob and one of the most bankable child stars of the late 80s to being a junkie and out-of-work actor labeled as a “has been” by the early 90s to being virtually homeless before he was thirty. Find out what happened to Dan’s onetime favorite actor in this tragic (and fascinating) edition of Timesuck!

1987, the lost boys grossed over $32 million at the box office on a budget less than 9 million. Launched a little-known Canadian actor Corey Hame, who had started in the critically acclaimed 1986 film Lucas, had a role in 1935's Murphy's Romance, James Garner, Sally Fields, box office success that was nominated for two Academy Awards. Done a few smaller films earlier. Now he's a teen icon, household name. The beginning of a lifelong association with fellow child star Corey Feldman 1988. Two Corey started a license to drive. Another eight million dollar you know eight nine million dollar movie makes 22 million of the box office. 1989.

Starting the wildly unsuccessful horror film The Watchers star was felled in again in the critically pan box office failure dream a little dream and by 1990 at only 18 years of age began appearing straight to DVD universally unwatched movies like Tale of the Rollerboys and double-o kid before dying of a prescription overdose broke and living with his mom in a small burbank apartment at the age of 38 after many years of obscurity. The last years of the last boy on this sometimes sad sometimes funny, hopefully always entertaining episode of Time Suck. Suckin some time! To talk stuff. Let's get into the Lost Boys.

Lost Boys, I first remember seeing Cory Hayme and Lost Boys, one of the first horror movies I ever watched. Maybe like the first horror movie I ever watched, because it was like scary, but not too scary and the good guys win. And if I'm spoiling this movie for you who gives a shit It was made in 1987 if you haven't seen it. Well, that's your problem All right, how dare you listen to a Corey Hayme theme podcast not knowing about the lost boys

Okay, it's around 1988 when I watched I was like 10 or 11 you know I want HBO or some video rental, watched with my mom, and I thought it was awesome. It was like, scary again, but not too scary. Like I said, you know, it had kids not much older than me doing things I wanted to do. Like, you know, hanging out at the comic book store, talking about comics, talking about girls,

checking out girls, had both hot vampire team bad girls, hot regular girls, super hot, half vampire girl named star played by the gorgeous Jimmy Gertz bad ass vampire leader, key for Sutherland. That was my introduction to him as well. That flatliners holy shit, totally different episode of time suck that would be bad ass older brother. I wish I had an Jason Patrick, can do in the bench press at home, like a I had in Jason Patrick, fuck, and doing the bench press at home like a boss. In his 80s workout gear with jeans, sweet.

It was so great. It was like classic 80s movie. And Corey, he was playing J.C. Patrick's little brother, Sam. He was a star. He was using funny. He's like real witty. He's smart. He's a goofball. You know, he's like a small for his size. He's like cool, but not one of the stupid cool kids.

He had a funny friend, and Cory Feldman. Girls thought he was cute. Definitely thought he was super cute. He was like a pretty boy. Wasn't it pretty boy Jack type? And he immediately became like my favorite actor because I think I just, I saw a lot of myself in him. I was, you know, small for my age, et cetera, et cetera.

Not as well-liked by girls, but, you know, girls actually didn't have crush on me at that time, and I didn't know what to do with it. I was just, I was a dummy. And, again, man, I'm Mr. Singsong right now. I'm jacked up on the caffeine. Yep, so you're getting a caffeinated Cory Hayme episode today.

French press in it, like a Java IV into my heart I don't know why this is a strong batch. I got today. You know why cuz I let it sit and if you're a French presser with your coffee Turns out if you let it sit in the pot for like an hour It becomes some form of horse methamphetamine And it checks your heart rate to the ceiling It becomes some form of horse methamphetamine. And it checks your heart rate to the ceiling. Okay. So, all right, back on this.

And Dream A Little Dream was another movie that came and it was kind of like the trifecta. Like I mentioned earlier, it was like Las Boys. And by the way, this is, yeah, again, I said earlier, this is we're gonna focus mostly on the spiral into falling from grace depression, which you know, sad, but right now, man, we're in the hits. We're talking about the hits, the big three,

two Cory movies, in my opinion, the trilogy there is, you know, Lost Boys, License to Drive, and then Dream a little dream. And then dream a little dream was critically panned, just cross the board. On Rotten Tomatoes, the Critics score for dream a little dream is zero.

It's, yep, just a flat zero. I will say audience score 66%, so two out of three, or undo it. And I was one of those people who was into it like way into it, like loved it It was my favorite movie it was dream a little dream is my first favorite movie that I can remember like a movie where I was like Yes, I love this movie and and maybe like first and kind of a special way to because not everybody else knew about it It really wasn't out in the box office. You know, it had a very limited theatrical release

I went to a small town. We didn't have a theater and not really kids had you know Everybody else knew about it. It really wasn't out in the box office. You know, it had a very limited theatrical release. I went to a small town, we didn't have a theater and not really, kids had, you know, HBO because you couldn't get cable. Cause I grew up in the middle of nowhere in Idaho, 400% town, and you had to have a gigantic satellite dish in your yard where you would then steal some random providers signals and get free HBO.

Yep, that's a whole nother thing as well. The old secret black box. If you're from Central Idaho, you might know what I'm talking about. Where some dude peddled a black box that gave you all the channels. I think it was like a one-time fee, it was crazy. But anyway, so it was like, I got to talk

about this movie to other people. I was the cool kid, you know, by just being the one who knew about it. And so there was that association as well. And yeah, and this guy, like I feel awkward Cool kid, you know, by just being the one who knew about it. And so there was that association as well. And yeah, and this guy, like I felt awkward at the time with girls, I was, you know, again, small for my size, intimidated by some of the bigger boys at school. And I related to Corey, Haymes Dinger, his Dinger character,

he had a crush on the gorgeous Meredith Salinger. Also probably why I like that movie. Definitely right up there with like Kathy Ireland, where like that first group of women, where I was like, what the fuck is this? Like just like, oh my god, like you know, I'm awakening hormonally for the first time. And like to me, Meredith Salander,

that time was like, oh my god, she's like, is that even a real person? Is that just some sexual angel? Did it, and I don't even fully understand sex at all at this point in my life, but I knew that whatever she had it was all I would ever need if I could get a hold of it. Like, I just it's all I ever wanted, even though I didn't know who she was. So anyway, that was a big plus. You know, and Dingern had a crush on her, Meredith Salon just character who

didn't like really like him, just like I had a crush on this growing Sarah Foster who wasn't that into me, you know, and I was a little romantic and you're going to get my heart broken because I was sappy. And Dinger, you know, the movie is kind of like about sappy romance as well. And I became obsessed with the movie and the soundtrack.

This is like a huge memory of mine from growing up it's just a weird period of my life. It's like like six grade, where for some reason the teachers let me have a walk minute recess. I don't remember any other kid, literally, no, that's not true, I was gonna say literally any other kid. Jackie Hardy, I'm pretty sure she also

rocked a walk minute recess a few times as well. Maybe a kid named Lincoln Loflin, but it wasn't common. It was not common. And definitely uncommon to listen to the dream of a little dream soundtrack. Because it was a lot of kind of mushy stuff. You know, like I remember the other kids

that had either like a ghetto blaster or a walkman at that time, they're rocking like ACDC, poison, winger, cool shit. And that's right, I just sayDC poison Winger cool shit And that's right. I just say winger before saying cool shit Which was not an ironic thing to say and like you know 88 Like people were like fuck yeah keep winger and hell yeah But yeah, so and there was this one song. I think it was like in a little like Lewis Armstrong song It's dream a little dream the title song. I would say I have memories. I was sing this out loud

By myself wandering around at recess And just to paint the picture if you haven't heard this song this is they all sing a little bit I'll sing a little bit now. It was like um star shining bright above you Night breeze it seemed to whisper I love you Birds singing in the sickle more tree dream a little dream of me. Yeah, I would sincerely sing that Long before Michael Boobley made you know the old standards somewhat cool emphasis on somewhat made, you know, the old standards somewhat cool, emphasis on somewhat. Uh, I'm sure that did not help me, uh, helping dear myself to the cool boys at school.

But I remember one girl in that Damon later thinking I sounded, I was singing this on the fucking bus. It's like a, just a weirdo. I was a weird kid. Anyway, I'm saying all this just to make the point that this movie, uh Hame, was really like the first celebrity that I identified with where I was like, this dude's cool. This dude is like, he was on the cover at the grocery store you'd see all at this time. I don't even know if this is still an existence. Tiger beet, like these kind of teen zines,

were very popular with the girls and on the cover they'd have, whatever teen dude was, the girls fantasy at that time. And Corey Hayne was like the go-to dude in the late 80s for like Tiger Beat. And he's kind of teensy. And so I'm like, man, just everybody loves him. I love him.

And then after doing a little dream, I didn't realize at the time. I'm sure I got distracted into other things in life. High school started, I ended up moving to go live with my dad. I had other things going on. They were just keeping me away from the folks on what the fuck is going on with Cori. But he just kind of went away. It was like boom, boom, boom, those three movies and then just poof.

Like, what, where, where, where do you, there was no wide release theatrical movie after that for him ever that he was the star of and Mostly just a lot of straight to DVD and those getting more and more obscure more and more low budget Featuring him less and less. It just you know just went away And I and I just didn't didn't think about those guys. Cory Haymer or his sidekick in those movies, Cory Feldman. And it turns out he had a lot of drug problems and had one of the saddest spirals down ever. And I'm always fascinated.

It's why I'm choosing to talk about this in this time suck. This is something I'd fasten with on the web with like the Ryan Leafs or the Johnny Man's eels of the world. These people where it seems like at one point that the world is their oyster like all they have to do is not fuck it up. And they will, you know, not forever. No one gets it forever.

But like the path to success is so clearly to continue to excuse me continued success They're already very successful and here's more that laid out right in front of them and then they just Implode and I'm always like you know, I've always felt like I've had to struggle so hard For any level of validity. I mean and you know, and I've had a very different career trajectory for any level of validity. I mean, and you know what, I've had a very different career trajectory. I'm never reaching anywhere near his height of fame at all. And also starting way late,

just kind of falling into standup, really not getting going until I'm like 25, which is, you know, there's guys now who made TV appearances on SNL, whatever. Eddie Murphy was famous comedian by like 22. I still didn't know what the hell I was gonna do for a job when I was 22, you know, and Corey, Corey Hamgel, listen to his teens, you know,

very, very different, but I just, I'm interested, I guess, in these kind of stories, because I feel like I've had to grind, and I have to like constantly come up with new material to stay relevant, and constantly, you know, come up with like a podcast or something, new constantly, you know, come up with like a podcast or something new album, you know, scrambling around hosting weird shows on the playboy channel or writing for random reality shows to just stay in the industry and to keep grinding

it out in the hopes that, you know, eventually, I can, you know, live my dream of just performing in front of fans at, you know, sold out club shows or better around the country, but that would be my dream, that would be it. And then this guy had like, he would consider that, like Corey Hame of 1988 would be like, what, you're just touring doing little 300 seats and selling out 300 seat venues, that's then what, like Des Moines and Omaha,

that sounds fucking terrible. Like that would have been like his nightmare, probably that time, he's like Des Moines and Omaha, that sounds fucking terrible. Like that would have been like his nightmare, probably that time, he's like, no, I'm an L.A. party and fucking a millionaire. And the, you know, household name, but then he fell so much farther down than that. So like so, so far. We're gonna get into that, like really

what a cautionary tale this is. How it all kind of went away after you know 89 90 it's just just a huge huge descent and so I want to give some background on Corey too because I didn't know anything about this dude other than these movies I didn't know where he came from and I'm always fasting with that kind of stuff. So you know, I did my research again, so you don't have to

and Here's how it started. So first off he did completely fall into fame his family He's Canadian. He's living in Toronto and and he's a little kid, you know eight nine years old and his sister Wanted to go he like hockey and stuff his sister, you know, eight, nine years old, and his sister wanted to go. He liked hockey and stuff. His sister, you know, like pretty typical little boy, older sister wanted to go into acting. He'd accompany her on auditions. And then when he was like 10 years old,

just you know, landed a role on a Canadian kid show, called Yetisan Twins, a show that ran for four years. And even in that, I can't imagine, like, I have a, what that would do to someone's ego at 10. Because I have a 10-year-old son right now, Kyler. Love him to death. But, you know, him, and I noticed a lot of his little buddies, they, you know, they get cocky real easy, you know?

They do, like, one catch. Like, he plays flag football right now. Forget, like, who wins or who loses. You know, it's like they make one catch in the game, and they want to, it's like they're on an ESPN highlight. Like they're so proud of themselves and so high and like at home, you know, he'll win a game of Madden football or, you know, win a board game and he's like cock the walk. Like he's literally strutting around the house. Like he's so happy with himself. If he wins on TV, like every week and kids, like he gets excited that some of his friends know who I am

and that know that, you know, in their minds, their, his dad is a, you know, quote unquote, and I, famous comedian, I say that because I don't consider myself, walks I'm not a famous comedian, I don't know a comedian that some people know about. But his, like that association makes him, you know, a little more pep in a step.

If he was like the dude dude just on TV every week, oh man, you would have to work so hard to keep that kid ego in check. You know, because kids haven't experienced failure at that point in their life of any consequence generally. And they can get really cocky. You got to really, I think, keep him in check. You know, and this is, man, more I'm gonna tell you

about this, Corey, hey, I'm if you ever have thought about putting your kid in a showbiz, fucking think again, because it's the devil's work. And I don't even believe in the devil. And that's unfulforsed. I felt like I started it. I had good intentions. I didn't want to keep singing, but I felt like I needed to close out the verse. So he's on that. and he's on that show. And then like right away, like the early part of the show, he also lands this audition from Toronto

in a Sarah Jessica Parker, Robert Downey Jr. movie called Firstborn. Grand, this was before they are the Robert Downey Jr. in Sarah Parker, as we know them today. But he befriends both of them to the point that his parents are having marital problems. Wow, not good timing there, not good as he's becoming, you know, starting to ascend into fame.

Parents are not paying attention because they're having their own marital fucking shit. And to the point that he went during the filming of that movie, went and lived for like two months, he said, in some interview, with Sarah Jessica Parker and Robert Downey Jr. for like six weeks to two months. That cannot have been good. You're 10 years old and you're hanging out with a young Robert Downey Jr. Holy shit. He would be on like a list of like worst babysitters as far as like, I mean, you know, the dude was a fucking party guy

This is Robert Downey Jr. in the 80s. Are you kidding me? What is he? What's he gonna be having like a ginger ale at night before he goes to bed? No, he's fucking probably snorting coke off Jessica Parker's tits or so and that's a computer speculation, but come on Come on stuff was going down and you know it. So then he starts right away and gets another networking. He's getting in the scene now again from Toronto and Steven King movie, Silver Bullet.

Film when he was like 13 and his dad begins to work, you know, kind of as manager, which is that's never good. You know, your dad is latching on to your career when you're 12, 13 years old. You know, see Lindsay Lohan, it's not good. Then when he's like 13, film Lucas with 20-year-old Charlie Sheen. What?

13 years old, and you've already worked with Charlie Sheen and Robert Downey Jr. You have seen some shit that young kids should probably never see. And then, you know, he, and by this time he's already getting like fan mail, he's already being recognized, definitely in Canada also in the States, he's a young heart throb, which again I can't even imagine, like, he eitherers turning 11. Oh my gosh, I can't imagine him like being like a heart throb. Like to dude is doing selfie poses when he gets a new outfit like he's again, the cock of the walk. But if we had, you know, girls sending letters to the house, oh, hello monster. That would

be tough to deal with. Little insecurity,, little struggle I think is good in life. And so then it falls apart. Like, so, uh, to film in the last boys, dude starts getting 2,000 letters of fan mail a week. Has to hide from teenage girls that are now in LA, it's shown up to a daily in front of his house. And by the way, he's living in a house below his mom's. He's like 15.

Basically, a total autonomy. He's going to some weird club they had in LA for like underage, you know, if you're not 21, you could hang out in this club where I'm sure again, LA in the 80s, come on, you know, they're not checking your ID, you're not serving the alcohol, but you know they're doing blow in the bathroom. Like, you know it. If you don't, you do now. He's one of the highest paid, you know, teen actors, him and Corey, him and Corey film were the highest paid teen actor. So he's making millions. That's just, wow, man, power corrupts that whole quote about, you know, absolute power corrupts, absolutely.

I mean, I'm a believer in too much too soon, not a good thing. And he did later admit that he started drinking beer on the set of Lucas, started smoking weed by the time he was doing a license to drive, you know, right after the last boys. And by the time he was doing a dream, a little dream, just doing blow and then crack. Like he was doing crack before he was 18 years old, which you never hear a good story that starts that way. You never hear like, uh, and somebody's bio like, uh, like a Bill Gates, you know, it's never, crack is never part of the good narrative.

It's, you know, no one's ever like, well, you know, things really started to kind of take off for me when I started smoking crack between classes senior year high school. And I really feel like that was the difference maker. That's what got me into Harvard, which is where I made some connections that got me on the Wall Street and really just

up and up and up from there. She just, man, it all started with crack. Nope. It all starts going down to crack. It is pretty much, I think, like a universal thing. And no one ever casually smokes crack, I feel like. You never hear about that. No one dabbles in crack.

I don't even know. It doesn't even smoke crack anymore. I never even hear about that. No one dabbles in crack. I don't even know, doesn't even smoke crack anymore. I never even hear about crack anymore. When I was like, you know, early 20s, that was like the go-to drug joke was crackheads. People smoking cracky. You don't hear about crack. Yeah, that's one of the big bumbers of 2016.

Not enough crack references. Yeah, you know, ah, the good old days. Full of people doing crack. So, yeah, he's doing crack by the time he's 18, out of rehab already by 19, and his career is essentially over. Like, like it's just got going. He, like he blew up, you know, in his mid teens, 14, 15, 16, he blew up, 17, 18, he's still, you know, right up, and then by like 19, he doesn't know it yet, but it's fucking over.

Because now he's, you know, like, doing drugs on set. He's, he's, he's getting a reputation around town to the point that he even tried. I think he was on some of our cinema hall show. Excuse me, back then, and he did some like after it became known. He's tabloid fodder, by the way. He's no longer tiger beat. Now he's tabloid junkie guy. Kind of like, you know, comparable to like a Lindsay Lohan

a couple years ago. How bad that was for her. It was like that for him. Trying to repair his image already. Again, not even 20 years old. And he's like, he did some like call in 800 number for kids struggling with drug addiction and then revealed later that he was high

when he recorded that even. You know, he's not getting much work, but he still has Hollywood money. You know, in 1992, he has a 7,000-foot, you know, Hancock Park mansion. So, you know, he's still doing all right. He's still doing all right. And that's, you know, that's 92.

So, he's only like 21. So, he's still doing good. But then by 1997, he files for bankruptcy. And in 1997, he would have been, he was born in 71, so he's 26 years old. 26 years old and he files bankruptcy, the IRS claims he owes 100 grand, according to file and assets

of $100 in cash, $30,000 in an actor's pension, $750 in clothing, $7,500 in royalty rights. He has a 1997 alpha Romeo spider convertible, which is, yeah, that's only worth about like now. If you had it, like, $15,000. It's not like a huge collector's car. Fuck man, I mean that's crazy. By 2001, 29 years old, not even 30. He's trying to sell one of his molars, one of his teeth that fallen out. He's trying to sell it on eBay.

He's trying to sell clumps of his hair to pay for medical, and it's not like he's trying to sell them for like $50,000. I think he was asking for like, I don't know, a couple hundred bucks. That's what I saw for the molar. God dang man. And then living in a small apartment with his mom

above a garage in Santa Monica, five years earlier, this dude is sleeping, he's in a two year relationship with like Baywatch Beauty Nicole Egert in her prime. I mean, just Google her. with like Baywatch Beauty Nicole Egert in her prime. I mean, just Google her. Like, fuck, the mind fuck that would happen. I can't even imagine if like you're living in a mansion in a trendy neighborhood in LA,

and you're a household name. Yeah, you're going through some struggles and stuff, but you're partying it up, you know, living like there's no tomorrow, you're sleeping with Nicole Egert or equivalent Hollywood starlets. And then five years later, five years later, when in your mind, you're supposed to imagine yourself to progress even farther from that, like as people do, you never think like, well, I've peaked.

It's downhill now, especially not at 20, 21 years old. And instead, you're living in a small shitty Santa Monica. Because people sometimes people think a Santa Monica, like it's all nice. No, I live in Santa Monica, it is not. There are some buildings and little spots in Santa Monica. They're just like, ugh, gross. I would never want to live there.

It's not nice. He's living in one of those. A little apartment over a garage. So yeah, I'm assuming that probably didn't have AC. Not central. You're not getting that above the garage. You might have a little window model blown in some cool breeze.

And you're with your fucking mom. How much does that suck? When you're, this is somebody who, when they were 16, had their own place, next to moms, whatever, but their own place, with girls coming pounding at the door all the time. Now you're not getting, you know, the mailman, is your only visitor.

And then just kind of disappeared. So like 1997 to 2007, he just like was gone from the business. Later in a Larry King interview, he said, for eight and a half years, I was just watching movies, staying in bed, eating food, and just, you know, being miserable. That in a Larry King interview, he said, for eight and a half years, I was just watching movies, staying in bed, eating food and just, you know, being miserable. It's a quote.

He also said during three and a half years of that time, he didn't leave his apartment once. Like there was a three and a half year stretch of this dude in his, you know, late 20s, early 30s right around that period where he just, and he bloomed like 300 pounds, just stayed Just stayed in a little tiny apartment. Oh my god. So then in 2007 A&E begins

He's trying to make it come back the two quarries Him and Cory Feldman's like a reality show runs two seasons. He's trying to make it come back He's getting excited takes out a full-page ad in Variety magazine letting the industry know he is back. He's ready to work full-page ad and variety magazine, letting the industry know he is back, he is ready to work. Right after that, I guess on camera, on this reality show, it is revealed to him that in the sequel for the Lost Boys, a straight to DVD movie, the producers have informed him

there is no role for him in this movie. What a slap in the fucking face. The movie that made you a star, less than 10 years later, the shitty straight to DVD sequel that no one ever would know whenever talks about last boys too. People love last boys. I've never watched or had the interest in checking out last boys too.

It looks like shit. But even in that mood, it's like he doesn't even get offered a part. That's like, oh my God, that's like, you know, you're being the quarterback of the New England Patriots. Maybe like a Tom Brady. You know, let's say Tom Brady of like 10 years ago. For some reason, he gets into drugs, he falls apart. And then today, well, it's like Ryan Leif or like Johnny Manziel.

You know, it's like, but it's like, you know, if Tom Brady, all of a sudden couldn't get the people to let him play quarterback like a YMCA, you know, just wreck league or something. Or like if he showed up at the park and, you know, yeah, it'd be like, let's say, it was like Michael Jordan. Well, I mean, that's going a little far. This is backtrack. It's like Charles Barkley in his prime. And then 10 years later, instead of being a TNT analysis, He's like showing up at a park in Birmingham and he doesn't get picked for like the half court scrimmage. That would be just devastating. And yeah, and then you know, he tried to make a small comeback in 2009, early 2010, supposedly was getting some

attach to some projects as an actor. You know, he did do some that some never released, attaches a director to some upcoming ones and then he dies. I think he's living with his mom, Burbank. And even on the comeback thing, it's like, I know people who are attached to stuff where it's like people think like, oh man, you're like, like I did some little movie that did festivals like five years ago that's on Amazon now, please don't watch it. It's for real.

But it like, you know, did some little festival stuff. I actually got some kind of nonsense award show nominations. It's random like festivals no one's ever heard of. And I made like next to nothing for that, you know, so it's like, you know, on one hand, it's like, oh, he's starting to make a comeback, but you've, well, nah. He might have been making like a couple thousand bucks on his movies, and this is the guy with that a day job.

And wow. And just again, again, I hope this was entertaining. I know it wasn't necessarily as funny, as hopefully the last two episodes were and the next one Yeah, I'll be sure to pick a little more positive topic But I want times like to be just about interesting stuff stuff that you know like you can you can talk about little tidbits you can take away and I try and keep it as factual as possible

You know, I know that sometimes random web articles it's hard to tell exactly telling the truth But I try and sail away from the ones that have lots of clickbait that just, you know, I try not to take my information from an article that on the bottom has like, you know, some non-cathy Ireland, look at her now. And it's, you know, clearly not even a picture of Cathy Ireland or whatever, you know, the original cast of Baywatch. It's scary to see what they've become.

And it's, you know, again, it's no one from the show. It's fucking nonsense. Try to stay away from that. But if you ever wondered, man, what happened to Corey Hayme? Well, you know, the dude blew up in his teens and then his life imploded for his 20s and 30s and that poor, poor bastard, man. I would not wish that on anyone.

And I guess I'm fascinated too because You know, it's like I've experienced a small small small dose of that where it's like You know the whole time I've been doing stand-up. I've had the same exact approach I write what I think it's funny. I Edit it perform it as best I can get it to a place where I think it's as good as I can get it and then I try to record it And then you know it shows up as I can get it and then I try to record it. And then, you know, it shows up sometimes, for a while there, it showed up on a comedy central,

like a half hour and then an hour. And then all of a sudden, just like a random new exec comes along, wasn't into me, like the previous exec was, and then my next album doesn't go on there. But it turned out to be better, better liked on Pandora, where you can make a channel, by the way,

Dan Cummins, Pandora Station. And it's just like a lesson to me of like, man, you know, you can just do what you do. Like in this case, Cory, you know, he just, you act well, and then you get to start doing a lot of drugs. But sometimes it just goes away. And it's really mentally hard, and I can say that from personal experience, you have that adjustment period

of like, shit man, am I just done? You know, I'll admit, like after my hour special, I definitely thought about quitting, you know, because at that point I was just invested in ego stuff. It's like I just thought I was on this path of, well if I got this, only eight years in, oh my gosh, by 15 years in, I'll have three HBO specials. You just project that way.

But it's not all up to you. And you know, with me, I realized it's like, you know what I care about is what I can control my show. And I still like putting on a show. And as long as I like that and can make money doing that, I'll do that. But Corey, hey man. Ooh, ooh, just to go from such heights

to such a low for such a long time. Ooh, so let's get out of here. Let's get out of here with some top five takeaways. Don't let your kid go into acting until they're an adult. Not ever. Don't let your kid hang out with Cory Feldman, bad track record. Don't let your kid live with young,

rubber, darnie, junior for a few months or anytime at all. If you get a time machine, that should be the last thing to list. Don't ever smoke crack, ever, ever. And number five, the Lost Boys will forever fucking rule. Miss you Sam, RIP, Corrie Ham. Oh!