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Welcome to I Choose Me, the podcast about making choices, some that scare us, some that save us, and some that ultimately set us free.

I am honored, you guys, to welcome David Archiletta, someone who has made more courageous

choices than most of us can imagine.

David is a platinum-selling artist, American Idol, icon, and now New York Times best-selling author of his new memoir, Devout.

David, welcome.

Funny story, I was preparing for David Archiletta to come, you to come to my studio today.

And I walked outside and I thought, oh my gosh.

Well, our house is under construction.

I thought, oh my gosh, these windows are too dirty for David Archeletta.

No.

So I was out cleaning the windows in my crocs when David Archeletta drove up in my driveway. Well, well, Ken, my publicist drove me up, I guess. I didn't realize we were early. I didn't realize I was late. And you weren't. I lose track. We were like, we were 20 minutes early. Oh, well, that's nice. That never happens. I know. That's what happens when he works with Ken.

He's, yes. Philips as a publicist. Yeah. He's on the, he's on duty. He's getting you places before you're supposed to be there.

Yeah. Said never said no one ever in Hollywood. I hope we didn't and make you feel uncomfortable though.

No. I'm totally for the crox vibes and that was so sweet

of you to be cleaning your windows for us for me had they were so dirty it had to be done really

because you see there's instruction is doddy loving up on it oh no it's a construction everything is

dirty here how about how adorable doddy is you love dottydy? So cute. She's just chill. She is. She's just sleeping in the sun. Soaking up the sun. Oh my gosh. This is surreal that you're here because we've been trying to get this going for a minute. Yeah. And then I got like, you got sick. I think something happened to me. I got sick or schedule wacky. W we had to do it reschedule again. Then we just missed each other at the Lit Fest. Oh, yeah. LA Lit Fest. Yeah. We kind of crossing paths on our book tours. I know. You on yours for devout your new book. Thank you. And congrats, by the way, on yours as well. Oh my gosh. You guys, two bestselling

authors coming at you right now. Yes. One of my friends was telling me how much they were enjoying

your book, by the way. So I need to get on top of that. I'm going to send you home with one, okay?

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