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Clay Aiken Going On Tour And Coming To NYC/NJ/CT! · The Cubby and Christine Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: Rewind this. is, I mean, I feel lucky.
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  Speaker 2: And the video is amazing, by the way.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, well, thank you. I wish I could take credit
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  Speaker 1: for that, too, but I sure did look pretty.
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  Speaker 2: But you were going through a box of all your
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  Speaker 2: old stuff from 2003 and 2004 and almost laughing at yourself, like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: my gosh.
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  Speaker 1: But we all do that. I didn't even remember some
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  Speaker 1: of those pictures. They literally didn't show me what was
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  Speaker 1: in the box when I sat down. Those were genuine
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  Speaker 1: in the video.
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  Speaker 2: Real reaction.
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  Speaker 1: They would not tell me what was in it. They said,
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  Speaker 1: open it on camera. And I went and I was like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: my God, I don't remember that. But I can still
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  Speaker 1: fit in that shirt. So... Do you keep in touch
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  Speaker 1: with anybody from the Idol days? I mean, we do,
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  Speaker 1: and I found it surprising. Ruben and I have stayed
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  Speaker 1: in touch. We toured together. We did a show on
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  Speaker 1: Broadway in 2018 for Christmas, like a little Christmas show.
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  Speaker 1: But we have a text thread with all our season's
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  Speaker 1: finalists that we do happy birthdays and that kind of thing.
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  Speaker 1: Folks have spread to the wind. But our season was very,
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  Speaker 1: very tight-knit. We're the only season that lived in a
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  Speaker 1: house together. And it also was not a.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't as highly produced back then. It was still
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  Speaker 1: very new. I don't even think they expected to get
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  Speaker 1: a second season. They got renewed. They were excited. And bam,
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  Speaker 1: we got thrown in. And we also didn't know what
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  Speaker 1: to expect. There were no stakes. We didn't realize that
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  Speaker 1: whoever won or came in second was going to completely
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  Speaker 1: change their lives. So we all went in thinking, this
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  Speaker 1: is going to be a fun thing to do. We're
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  Speaker 1: going to have memories. And then we're going to go
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  Speaker 1: home and go back to our regular jobs. Wow. So
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  Speaker 1: our season is very tight-knit. I've been surprised to learn
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  Speaker 1: that a lot of the other seasons don't really stay
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  Speaker 1: in touch with each other, which is sad. It's just
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  Speaker 1: such a huge part of our lives, though.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you guys bonded. I mean, you know, we saw
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  Speaker 3: that playing out. Like, you looked like you had such
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  Speaker 3: a beautiful bond with Reuben.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely. And all of it. I mean, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if they cry when people get cut now, but we
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  Speaker 1: really got upset when someone would get cut and go
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  Speaker 1: home as much as we were excited we weren't going home.
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  Speaker 1: We didn't want to see anybody go.
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  Speaker 2: When you came in second and Ruben won.
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  Speaker 1: What? Don't remind me. No, but you hugged him as
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  Speaker 1: if you won. And I remember watching going, man, he
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  Speaker 1: wants to beat him up. He's not that happy. Well,
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  Speaker 1: that's a fight I would not pick right there. But
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  Speaker 1: it is. No, I was. And actually, I had seen
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  Speaker 1: the card backstage before we walked on stage. I had happened.
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  Speaker 1: Ryan was looking at it and I'd happened to glance
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  Speaker 1: over and I saw the name was longer than mine.
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  Speaker 1: And so I actually knew right before that Ruben had won.
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  Speaker 1: And so if you watch the video, I am looking
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  Speaker 1: at him when the announcement's made because I just wanted
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  Speaker 1: to see his face when he won and see his reaction.
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  Speaker 1: And we still, we're brothers.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 1: Talk all the time. His birthday was last week. We
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  Speaker 1: talked and he's older than me, just so we're clear.
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  Speaker 1: Please make a note of it. Make sure people remember.
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  Speaker 3: Did you guys do a little, you did a reunion recently, right?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he did. And that's honestly, I have to give
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  Speaker 1: Ruben a lot of credit for me feeling like I
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  Speaker 1: wanted to do music again. I had been stepped away
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  Speaker 1: and Ruben was going to do a 20th anniversary tour
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  Speaker 1: of his own. And he said, why don't you come
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  Speaker 1: out with me? And I said, I started looking at
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  Speaker 1: the timeline. I only have a few more years before
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  Speaker 1: Parker's graduated. And I said, okay, okay. I went out
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  Speaker 1: on the road with him. Didn't expect to love it
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  Speaker 1: as much as I did.
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  Speaker 3: And I.
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  Speaker 1: I absolutely love sharing the stage with him. And we
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  Speaker 1: had such a great time. And I thought, okay, I
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  Speaker 1: think I want to do this again. And speaking of tour,
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  Speaker 1: you're going to be going on tour. I am.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, you're going to be in our area February 25th, Fairfield, Connecticut.
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  Speaker 2: February 27th, Inglewood, New Jersey. February 28th, Newton, New Jersey.
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  Speaker 2: And you're doing a Vegas residency too?
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  Speaker 1: I am, yes. I've decided to just come back and
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  Speaker 1: just completely make myself available. wear myself out in the
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  Speaker 1: first year.
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  Speaker 3: Do it all.
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  Speaker 1: Completely burn out. Yes, everything. So yeah, my first, I
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  Speaker 1: did it. We did a Christmas show in Vegas in July.
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  Speaker 1: Just the Christmas in July fun thing because I do
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  Speaker 1: love the Christmas stuff. And it went very well. So
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  Speaker 1: they asked us to come back this Christmas for a week.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to be a week in Vegas in Harrah's
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  Speaker 1: December 18th through the 23rd.
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  Speaker 2: You're correct.
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  Speaker 3: 23rd.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. Someone's got to get the notes. I'll show
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  Speaker 1: up when they book my flight. And then yeah, my
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  Speaker 1: first ever, well, first ever, my first solo tour in
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  Speaker 1: 15 years I've been on the road with Ruben but
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  Speaker 1: I have not been out on my own until those
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  Speaker 1: dates that you just mentioned.
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  Speaker 2: We play you every Christmas, by the way. We play
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  Speaker 2: O Holy Night.
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  Speaker 3: We played it this morning.
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  Speaker 1: We played it this morning, actually. Oh, did you?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I said Clay Aiken's going to be here later,
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  Speaker 2: and we started playing O Holy Night.
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  Speaker 1: Listen, that's what people know me for. But now you
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  Speaker 1: can play Rewind instead. Exactly. Because it's a banger, and
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  Speaker 1: I have not had anything like that for you to
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  Speaker 1: play in almost 20 years. You're a cool dad, by
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  Speaker 1: the way. You said banger. Oh no, he would, I
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  Speaker 1: probably should not have. Actually, as I was saying, honestly,
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  Speaker 1: I'm telling you the truth, as it came out of
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  Speaker 1: my mouth, I thought, did I use that right? Because
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  Speaker 1: I think it's, I think, did I, I'm looking over,
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  Speaker 1: I'm looking over at the very young people who, and
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  Speaker 1: she's laughing, so maybe I didn't use it right. Is
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  Speaker 1: it right?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But what, people all say bop too, right? Yeah. Is
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  Speaker 1: that more, is that better? Is bop better than banger? Oh,
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  Speaker 1: it's the same. It's a bop. I sound so young.
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  Speaker 2: A clay bop, a clay bop.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Clay, last question. New album coming out? Coming out
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  Speaker 1: with a new song? Yeah, comes out on Friday of
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  Speaker 1: next week. It's called Rewind. Called Rewind. It's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of it is, it's very personal to me. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I know everybody says that when they come and talk
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  Speaker 1: to you. It's my most personal album. But all of
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  Speaker 1: my albums that I did before were sort of handed
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  Speaker 1: to me by the label. The songs that I got
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  Speaker 1: for my first album, I had within five days after
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  Speaker 1: Idol was over. They were chosen for me. concepts were
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  Speaker 1: given to me. This time I got to sit down
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  Speaker 1: with writers and say, here's what I want to say.
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  Speaker 1: And so a lot of it's kind of molded around Rewind.
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  Speaker 1: That song kind of guided our direction for everything, but
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  Speaker 1: it's about stepping into something you haven't done in a while.
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  Speaker 1: It's about being happy for the experiences you have had.
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  Speaker 1: There are songs on there about, you know, being nervous
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  Speaker 1: about what might come next. So it's all really inspired
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  Speaker 1: by Rewind the song itself. And so we thought, let's
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  Speaker 1: just call it that. Plus, I'm getting old. My memory's bad.
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  Speaker 1: It's easier to call the tour Rewind, the album Rewind,
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  Speaker 1: the song Rewind. Let's just make it easier. Don't forget that.
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  Speaker 3: Way, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Christine.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, seriously, you look like you're in a beautiful, happy space,
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  Speaker 3: you know, and we're just so happy to see you again.
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  Speaker 1: Well, thank you very much.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you for coming in to visit us.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for having me.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, everybody.
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  Speaker 1: It's back and better than ever. Yeah. All right, Light FM.
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  Speaker 2: Party.