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