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Warm Me Up From David Archuleta New Album And Tour Plus So Much More · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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Speaker 1: Enjoy your exploration. Dude, I wish you could walk with
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Speaker 1: me through this forest here in North Carolina, because I've
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Speaker 1: been listening to it while walking through the trees. And
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Speaker 1: it's amazing as the colors are changing, how your music
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Speaker 1: fits so perfectly into this moment in Carolina.
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Speaker 2: Oh, well, thank you, Arrow. I'm glad that you enjoy it.
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Speaker 2: And especially in the, I love a walk in the woods.
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Speaker 2: And I love, I guess that's, is that a thing,
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Speaker 2: listening to Christmas music? with a walk in the woods.
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Speaker 1: Well, I, cause I think that it is here because only,
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Speaker 1: because I do make sure that every day that I
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Speaker 1: positioned myself, that this forest comes before everything else, because
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Speaker 1: this is where life is. And so therefore then I extended.
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Speaker 1: And so including your music into it, it's like, Oh
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Speaker 1: my God, it just puts me in that place is
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Speaker 1: what it does.
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Speaker 2: Oh, I love that. I, you know, who else, you know, what,
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Speaker 2: do you know, uh, the, there's an author, uh, named
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Speaker 2: Paulo Coelho. Um, he, he wrote, uh, the book, the alchemist,
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Speaker 2: and it's one of my favorite books. And I like
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Speaker 2: followed him one time on, at the time it was Twitter.
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Speaker 2: Now it's X, but he, he messages me back and
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Speaker 2: he said, Hey, I didn't know you we're on here.
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Speaker 2: He's like, I will follow you back too. And then
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Speaker 2: I was like, oh my gosh. Like I said, I'm
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Speaker 2: such a big fan of yours. And he said, I am,
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Speaker 2: he said, you know what? I, when I take a
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Speaker 2: walk in the woods, when I take my walk in
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Speaker 2: the woods, he's like, I've been playing your, your Christmas album.
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Speaker 2: And he's like, it makes, he's like, I love to
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Speaker 2: listen to it on my walk in the woods and,
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Speaker 2: or the forest. I can't remember what exactly he said,
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Speaker 2: but it was like woods forest adjacent. And that was
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Speaker 2: my first Christmas album I released back in 2009. So I,
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Speaker 2: it just, I love to hear that. It reminds me of, of,
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Speaker 2: of my exchange with Paolo all those years ago.
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Speaker 1: Well, it's one of those things where it's like, how
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Speaker 1: can I participate with the animals that are here? For instance,
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Speaker 1: like yesterday when we were walking in the forest, we had,
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Speaker 1: we had 13 deer and, and, and it's basically, it's
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Speaker 1: like walking with the cattle out in Wyoming, which I
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Speaker 1: grew up with. They're just there. And we all just
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Speaker 1: kind of look at each other. We walk through each
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Speaker 1: other's lives and stuff like that. And when you've got
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Speaker 1: that songs or those songs playing on, on, on through
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Speaker 1: my smartphone, it's, the deer are just sitting there going,
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Speaker 1: Hey man, thank you for jamming with us, dude. You
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Speaker 1: brought the good tunes today. Way to go. But it
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Speaker 1: really is. It's about the whole atmosphere of the forest
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Speaker 1: rather than just, Oh, it's about me. I just need
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Speaker 1: to rest. I need to relax.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, that's, well, that's great that you can have
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Speaker 2: that and enjoy. I, I, yeah, I, I miss, I've
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Speaker 2: been missing the, the nature of, aspect i'm in this
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Speaker 2: the middle of la right now and i'm not i'm
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Speaker 2: not as close to to the you know a nature
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Speaker 2: walk like that but you know at least you know
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Speaker 2: i'll go for a walk still and enjoy the trees
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Speaker 2: that that are there on the sidewalk.
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Speaker 1: Well i just envisioned you being when you were putting
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Speaker 1: this together i just this is me you know because
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Speaker 1: you know how we are we all dream that there
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Speaker 1: was David, he was in Utah. There was a light snowflake,
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Speaker 1: you know, just flowing through the air. And he said,
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Speaker 1: I'm going to make a Christmas song. And then through
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Speaker 1: the corner of his eye, he noticed a Christmas tree.
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Speaker 1: And then I'll, you see what I mean? It's like,
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Speaker 1: we have this storyline that we're writing for you, David.
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Speaker 1: And then we have this music that says he was there.
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Speaker 1: I can feel it in every one of those lyrics
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Speaker 1: that he's sharing with us.
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Speaker 2: Oh, well, I, Well, that's sweet. I love that imagery.
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Speaker 2: And Utah is where I grew up, so it has
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Speaker 2: definitely inspired my perspective on Christmas, the holidays, being like
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Speaker 2: near the Rocky Mountains. And yeah, one of my songs
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Speaker 2: is called Winter in the Air. And it's describing like a...
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Speaker 2: It's actually... The song Winter in the Air describes a
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Speaker 2: walk in the woods in the wintertime. And we filmed
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Speaker 2: a music video in Utah for it in the woods,
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Speaker 2: in nature. And I had some amazing dancers, my friend
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Speaker 2: Ezra Sosa. he dances with dancing with the stars.
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Speaker 1: I just saw him last night.
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Speaker 2: Yes, he does. Wow.
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Speaker 1: That's so interesting.
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Speaker 2: Wow. He dances in the music video for winter in
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Speaker 2: the air. So it's kind of like an, an interpretation
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Speaker 2: of like a, a romantic walk in, in the woods with, um,
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Speaker 2: so it's, yeah, he did such a beautiful job with it.
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Speaker 2: And it's, it's amazing to see him just continue to
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Speaker 2: blossom and grow in his career.
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Speaker 1: Don't you think that part of the reason why we
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Speaker 1: fall in love with your music during the holiday season
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Speaker 1: is because you understand what story sharing is? That you're
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Speaker 1: not sitting there saying, everybody sing along now, put your
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Speaker 1: hands together, clap, clap, clap. You're like taking us into
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Speaker 1: this moment of, wow. Because you're sharing stories and experiences.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's fun to be an artist because you get
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Speaker 2: to be a storyteller. And you get to let people...
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Speaker 2: come into like your, your world, like into this, this
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Speaker 2: world you've create, like you've made up in, in a
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Speaker 2: way where they can get lost in and while they're
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Speaker 2: listening to it, at least for like, as, as a singer, like,
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Speaker 2: I think people can do it with painting and drawing.
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Speaker 2: They could do it with cinema and like videography. They,
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Speaker 2: they can do it. You know, there's, there's so many ways.
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Speaker 2: And I like that I get to do that with
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Speaker 2: my music. with my music videos, with my shows, like
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Speaker 2: doing a live show. We'll be doing the tour in
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Speaker 2: just a few weeks for War Me Up. And it's
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Speaker 2: fun to just let people get lost because I feel
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Speaker 2: like the arts can be an escape from the hustle
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Speaker 2: and bustle and the stress and cares of everyone's normal
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Speaker 2: day to day. And so it's nice to give people
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Speaker 2: an escape because I love my, I know I love
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Speaker 2: an escape from every now and then.
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Speaker 1: Please do not move. There's more with David Archuleta coming
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Speaker 1: up next. Oh, he's got a brand new Christmas album.
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Speaker 1: He's going on tour. We are back with David Archuleta.
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Speaker 1: How is it that we get to hear you on
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Speaker 1: all these retail store speakers? Because when we walk in there,
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Speaker 1: I don't know about any other part of this country.
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Speaker 1: But the very second that the temperatures drop below 50
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Speaker 1: degrees here in the Carolinas, people are shopping for Christmas.
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Speaker 1: I mean, my God, Macy's is already decorated. Lowe's and
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Speaker 1: Home Depot. Everybody's already decorated. And there's David. David's singing away.
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Speaker 1: And it's like, how does this even happen that David
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Speaker 1: can be a part of such a magical world before
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Speaker 1: the day even gets here?
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Speaker 2: Oh, man. I, you know, every now and then I'll
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Speaker 2: have friends who will send me a little video or
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Speaker 2: audio clip. while they're out shopping and they're one of
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Speaker 2: my Christmas songs will be playing. And that's always, I'm like,
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Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, like they, they, they decided to put
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Speaker 2: me as part of the holiday experience and for wherever
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Speaker 2: people may be shopping. And I always love, it's always
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Speaker 2: a fun little surprise in the day when people do that.
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Speaker 1: When you were putting together Santa's on his way tonight,
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Speaker 1: did you envision grown men singing right along with you? Because,
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Speaker 1: you know, we are. We're all sitting there dreaming about
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Speaker 1: mom and dad bringing in presents or even the aunts
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Speaker 1: and the uncles. And oh, my God, there's Santa.
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Speaker 2: Claus, too. Oh, man, I you know, I guess I
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Speaker 2: didn't think too too much about like the grown men singing.
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Speaker 2: along with it, but I'm, I'm glad that they are.
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Speaker 2: And I mean, I did, I was slightly inspired by
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Speaker 2: Freddie Mercury and Queen with, with that song, the way
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Speaker 2: it begins. I was like, how would Freddie Mercury start
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Speaker 2: this song? And so that, that was a fun to
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Speaker 2: pull from. And I feel like a lot of, of
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Speaker 2: the grown men out there are fans of Queen. So
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Speaker 2: hopefully it is something they can sing along to. I don't,
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Speaker 2: I'm not, I don't quite have the, the operatic, cinematic
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Speaker 2: vocal performance that Freddie has. But hopefully I was able
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Speaker 2: to at least be reminiscent of him.
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Speaker 1: Yet in watching you, though, I do see the way
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Speaker 1: that you put yourself on that camera to where Freddie
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Speaker 1: was always so vibrant. And there is that vibrant feeling
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Speaker 1: about you when you watch your videos, because it's like, whoa,
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Speaker 1: that's absolutely David right there. Not everybody has that kind
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Speaker 1: of strength on that video.
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Speaker 2: Oh, thank you. Uh, I, you know, I get camera shy.
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Speaker 2: I don't like to be in front of a camera,
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Speaker 2: but I do like making music videos. It's, it's a
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Speaker 2: fun little challenge. And, um, you know, some videos I, I,
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Speaker 2: I enjoy, I like how they turned out more than others,
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Speaker 2: but it's always, it's, it's a fun experience. You, you
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Speaker 2: have a whole crew that you hire, you invest money
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Speaker 2: into letting people have a visual experience to your music.
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Speaker 2: And it's a learning process. You know, sometimes you have
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Speaker 2: a bigger budget. Other times I have a smaller budget
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Speaker 2: that I'm working with to film and And so it's,
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Speaker 2: you know, that, you know, of course it will make
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Speaker 2: each experience very different, but it's fun to work with
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Speaker 2: a crew and they, you're working with other creatives who are,
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Speaker 2: you know, their specialties are with cameras and lighting and editing.
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Speaker 2: And it's really fun to work with other creators in
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Speaker 2: their specialties to, to bring, help bring your work to life.
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Speaker 2: So it's, it's, I love collaborating. And so videos are
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Speaker 2: really fun to do that with.
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Speaker 1: Well, look at what you did with Jordan Sparks. Come on.
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Speaker 1: That's a gift to all of us who love both
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Speaker 1: of you. It's like, Oh my God. And they're doing
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Speaker 1: a Christmas song together. This is amazing. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Oh my gosh. I love Jordan and, Oh, you know,
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Speaker 2: I did, I haven't made a music video for, My
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Speaker 2: duet with her, it's called Wish at the Top of
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Speaker 2: My List. And she's just the sweetest. She is. I
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Speaker 2: love her. We've been talking about doing a duet for
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Speaker 2: over a decade. So I'm glad that we finally got
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Speaker 2: around to doing it. And she sounds incredible on it.
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Speaker 1: I mean, don't you feel inside your heart that we
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Speaker 1: are screaming for a duet right now? Because it seems
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Speaker 1: like that. I mean, I remember the days of Marvin
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Speaker 1: Gaye and Tammy Terrell. And there was always a duet somewhere,
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Speaker 1: even with Dionne Warwick. She was always teamed up with somebody.
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Speaker 1: And I just feel like that, David, it's like, oh,
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Speaker 1: my God, you and Jordan Sparks with an album. Oh,
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Speaker 1: would it be something that would be R & B flow?
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Speaker 1: Or how would you explore something like that?
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Speaker 2: Ooh. I think so. I think it would be a
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Speaker 2: little R & B, maybe a little Latin flair, because
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Speaker 2: I know Jordan loves Latin music. And she's even recorded
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Speaker 2: some things in Spanish. So I think that could be
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Speaker 2: maybe a fun little blend of those.
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Speaker 1: When you step into the studio to record Christmas music,
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Speaker 1: how do you step into the mindset? Do you crank
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Speaker 1: down the air conditioning in the studio? Because, I mean,
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Speaker 1: they're cold enough as it is, those darn studios. I
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Speaker 1: don't get why they have to be so cold, but
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Speaker 1: they do remind me of a winter's day.
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Speaker 2: Oh, my gosh. Yeah. Studios are cold. You know, they
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Speaker 2: run it really cold because they're worried about the equipment
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Speaker 2: getting hot.
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Speaker 1: Right, right.
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Speaker 2: Once all the machines turn on, it just gets hot, so...
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Speaker 2: But yeah, a lot of times I'm like, I'm in here.
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Speaker 2: I'm like, uh, can we turn it up a little more?
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Speaker 2: But I don't know if they may, maybe they're worried
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Speaker 2: about the equipment overheating, you know? So, but yes, a
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Speaker 2: hoodie comes in hand. It comes hand. What is it?
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Speaker 2: Comes in hand in handy. What's the phrase? Yeah. Um, when,
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Speaker 2: when you're in the studio, it just, you know, I
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Speaker 2: need to be singing warm me up. Hold me tight. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: I love it.
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Speaker 1: Now, when you're in a studio like that, I'm very
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Speaker 1: guilty of, I'm going to get in trouble for this.
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Speaker 1: I will plant my signature or something that marked that
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Speaker 1: I was there. Do you do anything like that? Because
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Speaker 1: you can go to all these radio stations I've been to. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: he was there if you go look for the right place.
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Speaker 1: Do you ever do anything like that? Because it's not
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Speaker 1: that I'm trying to do an ego thing. It's just,
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Speaker 1: I just want people to say, yeah, he was here.
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Speaker 1: Right there. He shows it. He was in this studio.
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Speaker 2: Oh, well, I know a lot of studios, just like
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Speaker 2: a lot of music venues, have a wall where you
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Speaker 2: can sign. And it's always fun to look at. It
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Speaker 2: may not be the most clean aesthetic look, but it's
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Speaker 2: always fun to... take a few minutes to look and
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Speaker 2: I'm like, do I know anyone on this wall? And
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Speaker 2: it's fun to find names. I'm like, wait a second.
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Speaker 2: They were here too. Like I listened to them or
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Speaker 2: I grew up listening to them. And it's, so it's
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Speaker 2: fun to share that space, like that energy. Like it's,
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Speaker 2: it's like a creative energy that exists there and it's
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Speaker 2: fun to take, take part in it.
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Speaker 1: Speaking of sharing that journey, what was it like to
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Speaker 1: be back with Dave again in the way of putting
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Speaker 1: things together? Because, I mean, it's been 10 years since
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Speaker 1: you've been together, has it not?
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Speaker 2: With, sorry, with who?
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Speaker 1: David Villa.
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Speaker 2: Oh, Dave. Dave Villa. Yeah, sorry. I ask that because
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Speaker 2: there are several Daves in my life. So like my
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Speaker 2: business manager is Dave. My stepdad is Dave. My keyboardist,
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Speaker 2: a lot of the times, is Dave. He's not with
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Speaker 2: me on this tour. I'll have Sean Moran coming on
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Speaker 2: tour with me this time. But Dave Mamone, he's busy
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Speaker 2: with his own band that actually is great. They're called
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Speaker 2: The Strike. And I love that Dave and Jay, the drummer,
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Speaker 2: they met playing in my band on the road with
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Speaker 2: me and Jay invited Dave to be a part of
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Speaker 2: the strike and now they're killing it. Dave is an
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Speaker 2: amazing producer and the strike is so good. They, they
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Speaker 2: have a song that I love called the getaway. Um,
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Speaker 2: but yeah, so if, if people haven't heard the strike
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Speaker 2: and they liked kind of like a, a chill, um,
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Speaker 2: what it's, it's like a little like electronic rock, like pop. Yeah. It's,
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Speaker 2: it's really cool. So, Anyway, but Dave Villa is another
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Speaker 2: Dave in my life. And Dave, yeah, we worked together
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Speaker 2: on my Postcards in the Sky album that I released
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Speaker 2: back in 2017, I want to say. And we've known
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Speaker 2: each other for over a decade, but I hadn't seen
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Speaker 2: him for like eight years up until I started working
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Speaker 2: on this Christmas album. And it was so fun to
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Speaker 2: get reunited again. His wife, Annalisa, who he met from
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Speaker 2: like songwriting. They're married. And Annalisa and Dave, I worked
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Speaker 2: on this album with together. And it was really fun
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Speaker 2: to have them as a duo with our friend Savannah.
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Speaker 1: That's it. There she is.
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Speaker 2: Yep. Yeah. Savannah's Grow. She's the one who reconnected all
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Speaker 2: of us at a Friendsgiving dinner that she hosted. And
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Speaker 2: I was like, wait a second. I'm like, I know you, Dave.
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Speaker 2: I'm like, we work together. And he's like, yeah, oh
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Speaker 2: my gosh. And so I was like, let's do something else.
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Speaker 2: And we did. And thus this album was created.
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Speaker 1: Does it feel like a Laurel Canyon moment in the
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Speaker 1: way that, because I mean, that's how that whole entire
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Speaker 1: thing was. Everybody's just inviting everybody over for a potluck dinner.
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Speaker 1: And we're just, we're just, you know, real people that
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Speaker 1: just happen to be musicians. Oh, by the way, let's
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Speaker 1: do something together for the heck of it. And then
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Speaker 1: the world gets to have the fruit and we get
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Speaker 1: to celebrate the victory with you.
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Speaker 2: Honestly, it's my favorite. It's my favorite. It's my favorite
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Speaker 2: way to work with other creators when it happens organically
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Speaker 2: and Because it's not just about like, I want to
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Speaker 2: be the best and I'm going to have to work
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Speaker 2: with the top people and the ones who are moving
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Speaker 2: and shaking the most and hustling like that. I mean, yeah, I, I,
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Speaker 2: I've worked sometimes that way where I've like been put
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Speaker 2: together with like, by like my, when I was signed
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Speaker 2: to record label, like the record label puts me with
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Speaker 2: their top writers, but it is so much more fun
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Speaker 2: when you just make friends with somebody and it's like, Oh,
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Speaker 2: you're creative. Let's, let's work together. Those have always been
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Speaker 2: my favorite songs, my favorite outcomes. And they're the most
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Speaker 2: pleasant creative experience.
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Speaker 1: Where can people go to find out more about you?
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Speaker 1: You were talking about the tour, which I'm so glad
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Speaker 1: that you're doing this because we're all festive. We all
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Speaker 1: want to have a reason to dress up and to
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Speaker 1: come to watch you live. Oh, I'll dress up for that, dude. Oh, yeah.
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Speaker 2: They can go to David Archuleta dot com and check
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Speaker 2: out the warming up holiday tour dates and I start
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Speaker 2: in Salt Lake City, November 28th. And then I go
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Speaker 2: to Atlanta, to Arlington, Texas. I'll be in Arizona and
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Speaker 2: New York City, Connecticut. We'll be getting around. So LA,
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Speaker 2: San Francisco, Hawaii as well, and Kauai. So a lot
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Speaker 2: of a lot of locations.
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Speaker 1: Is there a side of you that would, would ever
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Speaker 1: do like a little personal show at the Getty museum
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Speaker 1: right there in LA? Cause I could just see you
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Speaker 1: with a guitar and just, just, just opening up with
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Speaker 1: a song. Nobody even knows you're showing up all of
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Speaker 1: a sudden you're there.
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Speaker 2: Oh, that would be fun. Um, I, I do believe,
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Speaker 2: I do think that they have music there sometimes and
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Speaker 2: I love I love the Getty. It's one of my
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Speaker 2: favorite places in LA. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: That, that tram to get up there. It's just like,
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Speaker 1: Oh my God, I know where I'm going someplace. Now
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Speaker 1: I'm not going to be the same when I come
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Speaker 1: back home.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. I feel the same way. It's almost like a
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Speaker 2: Disneyland experience. Like you just feel giddy getting to your
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Speaker 2: destination and it's like a magical place that you arrive to. So,
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Speaker 2: I mean, it could be fun. Like I, I'm like,
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Speaker 2: would I be interrupting the, The museum goers are trying
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Speaker 2: to just like listen to the art without any like commotion.
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Speaker 2: But I, I love getting, I love grabbing a matcha
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Speaker 2: and then like, you know, taking a sip at one
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Speaker 2: of the tables out there in their plaza and then
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Speaker 2: looking at all the beautiful artwork. Wow.
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Speaker 1: You got to come back to this show anytime in
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Speaker 1: the future, David. The door is always, always, always going
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Speaker 1: to be open for you.
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Speaker 2: Thank you, Errol. Great to speak with you.
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Speaker 1: Well, you'll be brilliant today, okay?
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Speaker 2: Thank you. You as well. Happy holidays.
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Speaker 1: Same to you.