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- 0:00Speaker 1: I am all In again.
- 0:18Speaker 2: Luke's Diner with Scott Patterson, an iHeartRadio podcast.
- 0:22Speaker 1: Hey everybody, Scott Patterson, I Am all In Podcast one
- 0:25Speaker 1: eleven productions. iHeartRadio Media. iHeart Podcasts.
- 0:30Speaker 2: We are graced with.
- 0:33Speaker 1: The presence of one of the great singers today, David Archiletta.
- 0:37Speaker 1: Welcome everybody to Luke's Diner.
- 0:40Speaker 2: Thank you.
- 0:41Speaker 1: Incredibly talented you are David. You may remember David from
- 0:44Speaker 1: American Idol, but his journey as a singer, songwriter and
- 0:47Speaker 1: performer has been nothing short of remarkable, and today is
- 0:50Speaker 1: extra special because his brand new single crem Breulet is
- 0:54Speaker 1: officially out. Welcome David, tell us a little bit about
- 1:01Speaker 1: your journey. You were it came very close to winning
- 1:06Speaker 1: American Idol. I think in what the seventh season you
- 1:09Speaker 1: were sixteen years old. Tell us about that. How did
- 1:12Speaker 1: you get discovered? What was the audition process like for you?
- 1:16Speaker 1: An amazing journey?
- 1:19Speaker 2: Oh yeah, the I mean yeah, it was a pretty
- 1:24Speaker 2: wild time because it was, you know, I just started
- 1:30Speaker 2: high school. Not I didn't start high school. I was
- 1:33Speaker 2: in my junior year of high school, and I wasn't
- 1:36Speaker 2: expecting everything to go pretty crazy because I was just
- 1:40Speaker 2: I went to audition, but I thought, you know, I'm
- 1:42Speaker 2: just going for fun and it'll be a good experience.
- 1:45Speaker 2: I didn't say bye to any of my friends because
- 1:48Speaker 2: as I thought, I'll be back soon. It's not like
- 1:52Speaker 2: I don't know. I just was like trying to be
- 1:54Speaker 2: realistic about it, and I thought, I'm not going to
- 1:56Speaker 2: be gone for long. And I just ended up never
- 1:59Speaker 2: going back because I just kept going every week and
- 2:04Speaker 2: all the way to the finale. And then I got
- 2:06Speaker 2: signed to record deal and went on tour, and but
- 2:10Speaker 2: I wasn't anticipating any of that at all, because I
- 2:13Speaker 2: was like, just a few months ago, I was getting
- 2:16Speaker 2: ready for my Spanish test and so that was my priority.
- 2:22Speaker 2: And then it went from that to releasing an album
- 2:26Speaker 2: and trying to find a business manager and a tour
- 2:28Speaker 2: manager and management and hiring a band and getting merchandise.
- 2:34Speaker 2: It's just all these things I'd never even fathomed.
- 2:39Speaker 1: Right, You're sixteen years old, How could you possibly like
- 2:44Speaker 1: take all this in and process? It must have been
- 2:47Speaker 1: a bit overwhelming.
- 2:50Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it was. It was pretty interesting, but and
- 2:56Speaker 2: it was overwhelming. I think it was it was a
- 3:00Speaker 2: it ahead of me, like my life was moving faster
- 3:03Speaker 2: than I was able to keep up with, and I
- 3:05Speaker 2: was kind of like, what how am I supposed to
- 3:08Speaker 2: keep up with all this? Like it seems amazing, it
- 3:11Speaker 2: seemed like a dream come true, but I just it
- 3:13Speaker 2: wasn't even something I thought of doing.
- 3:17Speaker 1: So that was my question. Did you as you were
- 3:21Speaker 1: growing up? Obviously you have this gift, this vocal gift,
- 3:27Speaker 1: this gift of expression to sing in the way that
- 3:31Speaker 1: you do, But you never had a vision of I'm
- 3:36Speaker 1: going to end up on that stage in front of
- 3:40Speaker 1: twenty thousand people or one hundred thousand people, and that's
- 3:43Speaker 1: where I'm going. That wasn't in your life path. You
- 3:48Speaker 1: hadn't thought about that. You were just sort of going
- 3:52Speaker 1: along and singing, and then all of a sudden this
- 3:54Speaker 1: contest came along, this show. I mean, did you want
- 3:57Speaker 1: to be on the show? I mean you must have
- 3:58Speaker 1: wanted to be on the show.
- 4:00Speaker 2: Yeah, I did want to be on it, and I
- 4:02Speaker 2: guess I just looked at it as maybe I was
- 4:06Speaker 2: short term goal with how I was seeing things like
- 4:10Speaker 2: it'd be so cool to be on Americanaalt and sing
- 4:11Speaker 2: for people and sing songs and share what I love
- 4:16Speaker 2: to do. In that sense, but I just didn't think
- 4:18Speaker 2: of everything else that would come, like the business side
- 4:21Speaker 2: of it. So I mean, you know, I was a minor,
- 4:27Speaker 2: so like my my dad was involved. And while I
- 4:31Speaker 2: wasn't looking at it that way, my dad did see
- 4:34Speaker 2: all that happening, and he was trying to keep up
- 4:37Speaker 2: with it and say, David, like, be mindful of this,
- 4:40Speaker 2: mindful of I think. I also kind of like I'm overwhelmed.
- 4:44Speaker 2: I don't think I want.
- 4:45Speaker 1: To write it's scary, right, I understood. I totally feel you.
- 4:48Speaker 1: I completely understand.
- 4:52Speaker 2: I did.
- 4:52Speaker 1: Yes, I do because the same thing happened to me,
- 4:54Speaker 1: and really yes, and I didn't. I didn't believe it
- 4:59Speaker 1: a I didn't believe what they were telling me. I
- 5:03Speaker 1: didn't want that responsibility. It was too much, and I
- 5:08Speaker 1: walked away from it because it was too much. I
- 5:10Speaker 1: couldn't handle it. I didn't have like this vision of
- 5:15Speaker 1: where I wanted to go. I was just doing this
- 5:18Speaker 1: thing because I enjoyed it so much and it made
- 5:22Speaker 1: me feel free and it made me feel at peace,
- 5:24Speaker 1: and it was just something I did and I did
- 5:27Speaker 1: it better than everybody. And when people started getting very
- 5:33Speaker 1: intense with me about it and telling me things I
- 5:38Speaker 1: just didn't. I didn't believe them. I didn't believe them.
- 5:41Speaker 1: My ego wasn't ready to handle it because I didn't
- 5:45Speaker 1: have much of an ego about it. I didn't see
- 5:47Speaker 1: it that way. So I know what you felt like,
- 5:50Speaker 1: I can completely sympathize with it. And it at least
- 5:54Speaker 1: you hung in there, right, you know you hung in there?
- 5:58Speaker 1: What do you attray abut dad too? How did you
- 6:01Speaker 1: hang in and stay through it as a sixteen year old?
- 6:06Speaker 1: Was it? Was it because your dad was helping you?
- 6:08Speaker 1: Was it because you had your dad with you?
- 6:12Speaker 2: Yeah? I think so. And I think, you know, my
- 6:16Speaker 2: dad got a lot of a bad rap for being
- 6:18Speaker 2: a stage dad.
- 6:20Speaker 1: What else is he going to do? Yeah, you got
- 6:22Speaker 1: to protect your.
- 6:23Speaker 2: Kid, That's yeah, that's true. And I think my dad
- 6:28Speaker 2: was a bit of a stage dad. And I think
- 6:30Speaker 2: sometimes parents get really invested and involved they want to
- 6:35Speaker 2: protect you, but I think they also get caught up
- 6:37Speaker 2: in the moment as well. And I mean, I've been
- 6:40Speaker 2: writing a book about just the experience of growing up
- 6:43Speaker 2: in American idol and that all all that process and
- 6:46Speaker 2: the dynamic. But I feel like sometimes, I mean, parents
- 6:51Speaker 2: can be intense, but they also a lot everyone else
- 6:56Speaker 2: around you feels like the parent is an inconvenience because
- 7:01Speaker 2: it's like, we just want to do whatever we want
- 7:02Speaker 2: with this young person because they're young and they'll do
- 7:05Speaker 2: whatever we tell them to. And I think my dad
- 7:11Speaker 2: was an intense person, but he also didn't let them
- 7:14Speaker 2: do whatever they wanted with me. But maybe my dad
- 7:18Speaker 2: thought he knew more than he did when it came
- 7:21Speaker 2: to the business as well. And you know, sometimes it
- 7:25Speaker 2: does get sticky with parents' parent child relationships. Like my
- 7:31Speaker 2: friend Janette McCurdy and her mom, you know, I think
- 7:35Speaker 2: that's an example. She wrote a book about it called
- 7:36Speaker 2: I'm Glad my Mom died, and she had a pretty
- 7:40Speaker 2: crazy dynamic, and you know, there's they're dynamics to my
- 7:46Speaker 2: relationship with my dad that were pretty wild as well.
- 7:48Speaker 2: And I look at people like Britney Spears with her
- 7:52Speaker 2: dad and when Houston or her dad, Beyonce with her dad,
- 7:56Speaker 2: like I think it's like we're your parent. Being the
- 8:01Speaker 2: way they are helps you get as far as you do.
- 8:05Speaker 2: And so it's just like when is it enough or
- 8:07Speaker 2: when is it too much? When does your parents need
- 8:10Speaker 2: to learn how to let go? And I think sometimes
- 8:12Speaker 2: your parents don't ever learn to let go, and you
- 8:17Speaker 2: have to kind of push them back because for them,
- 8:20Speaker 2: it's like you're still my child and I still have
- 8:22Speaker 2: to tell you what to do and how to do things,
- 8:24Speaker 2: and it's like I'm getting into adulthood now, and I
- 8:29Speaker 2: think there's some extreme examples like Britney Spears where it's
- 8:33Speaker 2: like your parents never do let go, even when you
- 8:36Speaker 2: try to become your own person. They try to find
- 8:40Speaker 2: some kind of control still over you because they're so
- 8:43Speaker 2: used to being the one to have the final say.
- 8:46Speaker 2: But it's like I'm my own adult, I have my
- 8:48Speaker 2: own business, I have my own employees, and sometimes parents
- 8:53Speaker 2: don't like that when they've been so invested and a
- 8:56Speaker 2: part of seenior career grow and feel like they were
- 9:03Speaker 2: responsible for a lot of that work. So it's it's
- 9:08Speaker 2: it's it gets really tricky, and sometimes parents will if
- 9:12Speaker 2: there's not a healthy balance and relationship between you and
- 9:16Speaker 2: and the parent and the child, they might find more
- 9:19Speaker 2: manipulative tactics to stay to make you feel like you're
- 9:24Speaker 2: not capable of doing things without them, Like it's I
- 9:30Speaker 2: kind of look at it like like the Michael Jackson
- 9:33Speaker 2: syndrome in my head it's like they you stay forever
- 9:35Speaker 2: a kid because you were programmed to always think like
- 9:39Speaker 2: a child because everyone around you wanted you to stay
- 9:42Speaker 2: young and not be able to fully think for yourself
- 9:47Speaker 2: as like, so you start be like, even though I
- 9:51Speaker 2: was in my twenties, I was still like talking really
- 9:53Speaker 2: high and like preserving my innocence because is that's kind
- 10:02Speaker 2: of what the people around me wanted? And is this
- 10:06Speaker 2: very It's kind of interesting to look back on.
- 10:08Speaker 1: But so let's let's pivot a little bit. We're going
- 10:21Speaker 1: to get into some foody type questions. I love what
- 10:24Speaker 1: you're talking about, really appreciate it. But this episode that
- 10:30Speaker 1: we you know that we're talking about, it's about breaking
- 10:35Speaker 1: up with people, right, it's when relationships come to relationships
- 10:38Speaker 1: come to an end. We see Lora Lai and telling
- 10:41Speaker 1: Rory to indulge in pizza and ice cream after her breakup.
- 10:44Speaker 1: Do you have a go to comfort food for times
- 10:47Speaker 1: like that?
- 10:48Speaker 2: David, Oh, my gosh, I think I'd have to go
- 10:50Speaker 2: with probably like the advice for Lorlai of pizza and
- 10:57Speaker 2: ice cream, because ice cream. I do keep a pint
- 11:00Speaker 2: of ice cream in my No, not a pint. What
- 11:04Speaker 2: is it? The bigger one. Is it a gallon? No,
- 11:07Speaker 2: it's like this big of ice cream.
- 11:09Speaker 1: We can say Court.
- 11:12Speaker 2: Court, I want to say to Court, okay, of ice cream?
- 11:17Speaker 1: All right. So when you get through a breakup, are
- 11:20Speaker 1: you the type to eat your feelings or do you
- 11:23Speaker 1: lose your appetite completely? Oh my gosh, depends right, Maybe.
- 11:29Speaker 2: You know what I think after a breakup. I do
- 11:31Speaker 2: lose my appetite. Okay, I like what did I do? Like?
- 11:37Speaker 2: What did I do? I think I'm like very I
- 11:39Speaker 2: can get very perfectionistic where it's like what did I
- 11:43Speaker 2: do wrong? Or because clearly, like I'm like, did I
- 11:47Speaker 2: make a mistake to even enter the relationship?
- 11:49Speaker 1: Right?
- 11:49Speaker 2: It was going to end?
- 11:50Speaker 1: What would you rather have a Well, obviously you wouldn't
- 11:53Speaker 1: want to have a breakup meal. You would have a
- 11:55Speaker 1: breakup playlist? What would be on the playlist? Top two
- 11:59Speaker 1: songs on your brain? A playlist?
- 12:01Speaker 2: What are the songs?
- 12:02Speaker 1: Would be songs?
- 12:03Speaker 2: It depends on the breakup. Why I ended? I mean,
- 12:09Speaker 2: I've written written songs to get it. Sure, I mean,
- 12:12Speaker 2: but I think I start going on like a workout,
- 12:16Speaker 2: like a workout kick after because I'm kind of like
- 12:20Speaker 2: I want to show that I'm thriving that I feel
- 12:24Speaker 2: I'm going to be missing out on or you get
- 12:28Speaker 2: all the stress out of your system. But I will say,
- 12:31Speaker 2: like a lot of times i'll eat, I'll like lose
- 12:35Speaker 2: my appetite, but then I'll like binge. Like I love
- 12:38Speaker 2: ice cream and I like to drizzle peanut butter on it.
- 12:42Speaker 2: That's good.
- 12:44Speaker 1: So if you could team up with an ice cream brand,
- 12:46Speaker 1: uh and create the David Archer let us signature flavor?
- 12:49Speaker 1: What would it be called? And what's it? The peanut butter?
- 12:54Speaker 2: And I feel like I need to say a crimbal A,
- 13:00Speaker 2: which I do, is really good. I shot the video
- 13:04Speaker 2: for crimberl A, and my social media guy bought two
- 13:11Speaker 2: crimberl Ay's for me to eat, so I had one
- 13:13Speaker 2: after and then I had one the next day because
- 13:16Speaker 2: it was so good. I was like, I shouldn't have this,
- 13:18Speaker 2: but I ate the crimber A lunch so.
- 13:22Speaker 1: Well, God, sounds very good. What about chocolate chip pancakes?
- 13:27Speaker 1: It's comfort because that's what Rory and Laurel I swear by.
- 13:30Speaker 2: Oh my god.
- 13:31Speaker 1: Oh So if you had a choice pancakes, the chocolate
- 13:34Speaker 1: chip pancakes, pizza, ice cream, what's what's your winner. What's
- 13:37Speaker 1: your winner?
- 13:38Speaker 2: I think I'm more of like a French toast guy
- 13:40Speaker 2: when it comes to breakfast.
- 13:41Speaker 1: French toast.
- 13:42Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, it's like comfort. Like if I'm thinking like
- 13:46Speaker 2: a breakup, I'm like, I just want to have something good.
- 13:49Speaker 2: We just went through a lot right now. There's a
- 13:51Speaker 2: lot of emotions being processed, and this person I was
- 13:54Speaker 2: attached to is now detached, and I have to get
- 13:58Speaker 2: the hang of that wrench toast with some good butter
- 14:01Speaker 2: on it and good syrup.
- 14:04Speaker 1: There you go. It would be really glass of milk.
- 14:07Speaker 1: You're good to go. Do you have more songs we
- 14:09Speaker 1: can look forward to in the future, and he related
- 14:11Speaker 1: to more signature dishes. Maybe yeah, because crimberl is a
- 14:17Speaker 1: very memorable title for a song. What do you have?
- 14:20Speaker 1: Do you have maybe Beef Wellington coming up?
- 14:24Speaker 2: Is that your next Sea Wellington?
- 14:25Speaker 1: Oh my god, I might write that one myself.
- 14:27Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, that actually sounds pretty amazing.
- 14:30Speaker 1: Blaming filet of yak something I don't know.
- 14:34Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, I don't know. I think anything with
- 14:36Speaker 2: beef I think my new gay community would probably take
- 14:40Speaker 2: and run with it another way. They Oh man, I
- 14:48Speaker 2: will have to see because I do love me some food.
- 14:51Speaker 2: My favorite app is Yelp because I love to find
- 14:54Speaker 2: all its food spots. I like to look up lists
- 14:57Speaker 2: of like what are considered the best restaurant at the time,
- 15:00Speaker 2: what restaurants are buzzing? All right, So we.
- 15:04Speaker 1: Talked about breakup food. What about celebration food? What's your
- 15:07Speaker 1: big go to when you're celebrating something big like the
- 15:11Speaker 1: release of your Cremberlay single? Are you what are you
- 15:14Speaker 1: celebrating with? You go out to dinner and you know,
- 15:17Speaker 1: you buy your manager and your friend's dinner.
- 15:19Speaker 2: I mean, I probably have to go with the theme
- 15:21Speaker 2: of you know, crembrewle a and because like, just like
- 15:25Speaker 2: my after my music video, we ate I Cremberlay. So
- 15:28Speaker 2: I think I probably just want to get everybody crimpala.
- 15:30Speaker 1: Okay, so that's number one in your hierarchy of desserts.
- 15:33Speaker 1: I see.
- 15:34Speaker 2: It's like all that's on my mind right now is
- 15:36Speaker 2: crimber a.
- 15:37Speaker 1: Gotcha understood.
- 15:39Speaker 2: But I do like pizza and I like tacosh me too.
- 15:44Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you have a taco spot.
- 15:46Speaker 1: I do. I do, And I like the hard Shell
- 15:49Speaker 1: and we go there once a week. Hard Oh yeah,
- 15:51Speaker 1: hard Shell for sure. Oh yeah, I like the crunchy.
- 15:55Speaker 1: Oh wow, yeah, the beef tacos there, I'm more of a.
- 15:58Speaker 2: Soft shell guy, right, or like just the tortilla, even
- 16:03Speaker 2: though I do like them when they're like the like
- 16:05Speaker 2: guess Aria tacos where it's where it is like really
- 16:08Speaker 2: fried and crunchy, right, and you like dip it in
- 16:11Speaker 2: the I forget what it's called, I think, and.
- 16:15Speaker 1: It's really What about before you go out on stage?
- 16:18Speaker 1: Do you have any food rituals? Do you eat anything
- 16:20Speaker 1: before you go out? Or you like to go out
- 16:21Speaker 1: on an empty stomach.
- 16:23Speaker 2: I try to not to eat have anything too heavy,
- 16:25Speaker 2: so I try to do something with something lighter, like
- 16:29Speaker 2: grilled fish or just grilled chicken, because if I eat beef,
- 16:33Speaker 2: it's really heavy and I start getting sleepy and I
- 16:36Speaker 2: need energy when I'm on the stage, so I try
- 16:39Speaker 2: to go with that, maybe a little bit of rice
- 16:41Speaker 2: or like a salad, and then after I I I'm
- 16:45Speaker 2: starving after a show, so like I usually taco or pizza.
- 16:51Speaker 1: Do you have any fun plans promoting Crumber late music videos, performances,
- 16:55Speaker 1: What's what's coming up? What can we expect?
- 16:58Speaker 2: I'm like doing like some tiktoks so nice, So people
- 17:02Speaker 2: have to look at some of the tiktoks that I've
- 17:04Speaker 2: been filming and I I mean, I I'm performing at
- 17:10Speaker 2: the HRC event, the Human Rights Campaign tomorrow for my
- 17:17Speaker 2: first time. I'm singing Crimberly like live for my first
- 17:20Speaker 2: time there, interestingly enough, just not because they asked me
- 17:24Speaker 2: to do, but it's like, well, I have the song
- 17:26Speaker 2: just came out. I'll be singing songs like Freedom by
- 17:27Speaker 2: George Michael because I did to cover that and held
- 17:31Speaker 2: Together too. But I mean, I have like a dance
- 17:34Speaker 2: party because I've gotten really since leaving Mormonism, Like I'm like,
- 17:38Speaker 2: where where do I find a sense of community now?
- 17:40Speaker 2: Because that is something that I missed from church's community.
- 17:45Speaker 2: So I've been going to like DM festivals and like
- 17:49Speaker 2: concerts and raves and things, and I feel that sense
- 17:52Speaker 2: of community. There's So I'm throwing my own dance party
- 17:55Speaker 2: in in a month or so and it's just called
- 18:02Speaker 2: David Archilotta after Hours, and I'm going to have a
- 18:04Speaker 2: couple of DJ friends come. I'm gonna I'm going to
- 18:07Speaker 2: perform and then have a DJ party after because that's
- 18:10Speaker 2: like my new happy place. So we're just going to
- 18:13Speaker 2: dance to night So if.
- 18:14Speaker 1: You were to come into Luke's diner, my diner, Luke Steiner,
- 18:18Speaker 1: what would you order and where would you sit?
- 18:20Speaker 2: Gosh, I think I'd probably want to sit by by
- 18:25Speaker 2: you so I could have a conversation and chat, have
- 18:27Speaker 2: a little more of a catch.
- 18:28Speaker 1: Ye going to be at the counter? Okay? What would you?
- 18:31Speaker 2: Yeah? What would I order?
- 18:33Speaker 1: I think we have Although I think Caesar could whip
- 18:36Speaker 1: something up.
- 18:37Speaker 2: I feel like I would have to go with the
- 18:39Speaker 2: chocolate pancakes because that's I feel like that's where it
- 18:43Speaker 2: hits the spot. I'm going to have to try that
- 18:45Speaker 2: because I always have to try what's a good something
- 18:48Speaker 2: that's known to hit the spot at a at a
- 18:50Speaker 2: diner restaurant.
- 18:52Speaker 1: Fantastic David Archiletta. Everybody get his single download his single
- 18:57Speaker 1: crembrew lay today and we appreciate your time, good luck
- 19:02Speaker 1: with your career. It has been great chatting with you
- 19:07Speaker 1: and all the best Okay food spot sometimes absolutely man
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