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David Archuleta · On with Mario Interviews

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  Speaker 1: On with mario lopez.
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  Speaker 2: Mario lopez joining me right now you know him from
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  Speaker 2: season seven of american idol singer and songwriter david archuleta
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  Speaker 2: how you been david.
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  Speaker 3: Hey been doing well been doing all right how about you.
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  Speaker 2: Nice i'm doing well thank you for asking um holidays
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  Speaker 2: are here excited about that you have your third christmas
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  Speaker 2: album warm me up i like that title that is
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  Speaker 2: drop in hey there you go uh on october 30th
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  Speaker 2: um holiday music's the best man is it difficult yeah
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  Speaker 2: to create original christmas songs just because the genre's been
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  Speaker 2: around obviously for so long.
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  Speaker 3: Um i mean yeah a little bit because it's kind
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  Speaker 3: of all the same top as like santa claus and
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  Speaker 3: reindeer right presence naughty nice snow yeah So I'm like,
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  Speaker 3: at a certain point, I was like, oh, my gosh,
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  Speaker 3: like there's only so many songs and like topics and
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  Speaker 3: lyrics you can go through. But I found my way
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  Speaker 3: through and I'm happy with the songs that ended up
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  Speaker 3: on on the project. Nice.
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  Speaker 2: Well, your new one, Christmas Every Day, is also featured
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  Speaker 2: in a new holiday movie, Adopting St.
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  Speaker 1: Nick over on Hallmark. That's cool. What inspired the song? Yeah, Hallmark. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: there's Hallmark's like a sweet, wholesome song.
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  Speaker 3: Like when I, when I go on tour, like that's
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  Speaker 3: our tradition to like watch Hallmark movies.
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  Speaker 1: It's like a nice little, just like, you don't have
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  Speaker 1: to think too much. It's sweet.
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  Speaker 3: Like a, a cute little love story that they tell.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm glad that they like to use my songs.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah. Thanks Hallmark. It's a nice check too.
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  Speaker 3: Cause streaming, it doesn't, you know, it doesn't pay like
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  Speaker 3: when people would buy stuff, you know, buy albums.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 3: Streaming gives you a lot less of a percentage of,
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  Speaker 3: to everyone involved. So thanks Hallmark for helping us make
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  Speaker 3: more money.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Hallmark hooks it up. That's good to know. I
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  Speaker 2: know you've done a bunch of holiday tours over the years.
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  Speaker 2: What do you enjoy most about performing Christmas songs for
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  Speaker 2: the fans? Everyone's in a good mood, I imagine.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. It's like, what I like is you don't have to,
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  Speaker 3: you know, it's like a David Archuleta Christmas show, but
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  Speaker 3: you don't have to be a David Archuleta fan to
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  Speaker 3: enjoy Christmas.
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  Speaker 1: I do an Archuleta.
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  Speaker 3: Christmas show because all the songs, it's like I sing
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  Speaker 3: a lot of songs that people know, grew up with,
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  Speaker 3: just like I did. Yeah. And so they can sing along.
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  Speaker 3: I'll be singing like a lot of my new songs,
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  Speaker 3: but I'll be singing a lot of old songs that
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  Speaker 3: just everyone, it's like everyone gets in a good mood
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  Speaker 3: from the holidays. And that's, it's nice. It's a nice
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  Speaker 3: environment to be a part of forever. this time of year. Right.
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  Speaker 2: Well, the warm me up tour is happening in December. And,
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  Speaker 2: and I imagine these shows are just Christmas songs or
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  Speaker 2: do you mix it up?
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  Speaker 1: It's pretty much like Christmas. Yeah. It's just all Christmas.
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  Speaker 3: There, there've been times where I do like half and half,
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  Speaker 3: but this time I'm like, I just want to get
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  Speaker 3: into the Christmas spirit. But, um, yeah, there's, I actually
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  Speaker 3: have a song, uh, called noche buena on, on this album. Did,
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  Speaker 3: did y'all like, cause I know you grew up like,
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  Speaker 3: with mexican cult traditions as well as american traditions did
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  Speaker 3: y'all like mix it up like did you do more
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  Speaker 3: on christmas eve like noche buena yes we did versus
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  Speaker 3: christmas day like what was how was it for you guys.
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  Speaker 2: We did it more growing up we all went to
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  Speaker 2: my grandmother's it was christmas eve and we got to
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  Speaker 2: even open the presents christmas eve you had the midnight
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  Speaker 2: mass it was the whole deal so yeah when i
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  Speaker 2: was great when you're a kid are you singing in
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  Speaker 2: spanish I, in Spanglish.
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  Speaker 1: In Spanglish. I like that. Very Texas. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I grew up, you know, like half and half. So
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  Speaker 3: like I grew up with in Noche Buena and like,
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  Speaker 3: it would be like a party Christmas Eve on my
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  Speaker 3: mom's side. And then my dad's side, it'd be like
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  Speaker 3: more American traditional, like the nativity scene.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. A little more quiet versus like my mom's side.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm like, you know, I'll just try and incorporate both.
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  Speaker 3: both sides of my life more into what I do.
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  Speaker 3: And it's like Bad Bunny and Shakira and everybody like
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  Speaker 3: made a lot more of that accessible and more trendy.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm like, okay, great. Nice.
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  Speaker 3: When I first started, I tried to do Spanish, but
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  Speaker 3: my record label was like, like, we don't think that's
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  Speaker 3: really worth like our money and our time. So we're
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  Speaker 3: just going to overlook that. So I'm glad that it's
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  Speaker 3: having a revival.
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  Speaker 1: No, absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: And, and is your, are you Mexican and Italian or?
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  Speaker 1: My mom is from Honduras.
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  Speaker 3: My dad has some Mexican, like his grandpa was Mexican,
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  Speaker 3: which is where the Archuleta, well, it's like Spanish, Mexican.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I guess it is. It sounds a little Italian.
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  Speaker 2: So I just thought, yeah, but I guess it is Spanish.
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  Speaker 1: You're right.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Very cool.
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  Speaker 2: And then I know you also released a memoir earlier
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  Speaker 2: this year called Devout.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. What are you getting into into that?
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  Speaker 2: What did you reveal in that, that we didn't know?
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  Speaker 1: Oh gosh.
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  Speaker 3: You know, you know, cause you've, I got, I got to,
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  Speaker 3: I have to admit, I never, I didn't get to
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  Speaker 3: finishing it. I need to finish it, but I was
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  Speaker 3: enjoying reading, like reading your book. Cause you talk about
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  Speaker 3: like the Mexican American, like Hispanic upbringing.
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  Speaker 1: You, you talked.
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  Speaker 3: About like, like your family, like how the values were
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  Speaker 3: instilled in you and like, how you started young too
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  Speaker 3: in this business.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like it's, you gotta finish it, man.
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  Speaker 3: It's validating to, to see you. I, like, I thought
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  Speaker 3: it was sweet that you talked about your cousin.
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  Speaker 1: Like you talked about your cousin who like came out. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And I thought that was, you know, I appreciate all that.
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  Speaker 3: Cause yeah, my book, I talk about my, my upbringing
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  Speaker 3: growing up Hispanic in Miami. Um, and then I moved
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  Speaker 3: to Utah, um, talked about how I came out as
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  Speaker 3: queer and still was trying to go to church and And, um,
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  Speaker 3: cause it's like, you know, it's like, I'm trying to
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  Speaker 3: figure out like who I am, but still like hold
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  Speaker 3: on to what I have always known all my life
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  Speaker 3: and what's mattered, but it got really hard. So I
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  Speaker 3: ended up step like leaving my, leaving my religion, but like, it's,
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  Speaker 3: there's still a lot of like beautiful things I still
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  Speaker 3: hold on to today. Like growing up, I grew up Mormon. So, um,
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  Speaker 3: it was, it was fun to, uh, like go back
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  Speaker 3: and like the first time i like the first draft
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  Speaker 3: i wrote i was like really bitter and like resentful
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  Speaker 3: and like mad about things and then like i was
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  Speaker 3: okay like i did another pass and i was like
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  Speaker 3: okay like i'm like settled like i've i can appreciate
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  Speaker 3: everything that happened the good the messy the bad like
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  Speaker 3: the ugly with like my family and church and And
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  Speaker 3: like settle in a good place and then be like, hey,
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  Speaker 3: this is what I learned. And like your book too,
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  Speaker 3: like you talk, what I liked about your book too
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  Speaker 3: is like you talk about like, these are the mistakes
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  Speaker 3: I made.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, there was a lot. And it's like a
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  Speaker 1: book's a good place to be like, hey, I'm not perfect.
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  Speaker 3: And I know you see me when I'm like in
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  Speaker 3: happy and like in my prime and looking my best,
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  Speaker 3: but it takes messiness to get where we are. So
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  Speaker 3: I guess that's what I talk about in my book
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  Speaker 3: as well.
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  Speaker 2: Good for you, man. Good for you. I'm sure it
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  Speaker 2: was therapeutic and wise words. that you share there just
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  Speaker 2: with us. Nice, man. Well, listen, I appreciate you taking
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  Speaker 2: the time. And everyone, be sure to check out David's
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  Speaker 2: new Christmas album, Warm Me Up, out October 30th. And
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  Speaker 2: head over to davidarchuleta.com for all the details on his
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  Speaker 2: holiday tour as well.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for checking in, bro. Hey, yeah. Good to see
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  Speaker 1: you again, Mario. You too, buddy. Take care and good
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  Speaker 1: luck on the tour. Thank you. Appreciate it. On with
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  Speaker 1: Mario Lopez.