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You're on with Mario Lopez. You're

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al Mario Lopez. Let's welcome to the studio.

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Grammy winning artist and actor Mr Rick

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Springfield. How are you, Rick? Good? Good?

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I gotta tell you. I haven't

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seen you, I know, since this air, but you were

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excellent on True Detective too. What

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a great character, and you nailed it

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in Creepy and I was like wow. I

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was like, he's such a good actor. I wish we could see

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him do some more stuff. Yeah, I mean too. I want to I

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want to work more as an actor. I've done

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some some weird parts,

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you know, started Californication, Yeah, playing

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a weird version of me, and then I did Mac

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and horror stories and Supernatural

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and I've done a few pretty out

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there parts, no, I know, and it's very rare.

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And there's a lot of artists, musical artists that maybe

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try to cross over and you know, without due respect and not

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the greatest actors, but you were good. You

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were going to course. I remember you from General Hospital growing

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up and all this stuff. But to see

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you take on these quirky,

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cool characters is so neat and it's

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a treat to see. It's got to be fun. To play too. Yeah, yeah

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it is. It's great to play against type. I love doing

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that and it gets more attention, you

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know, if you're playing against type Exactly. A

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lot of people didn't actually recognize me on that.

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I kind of saw my name at the end and went, wait, where

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was he? Yeah? Well, and I was looking at it, go gosh,

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that looks like Rick Springfiel, And then I had to wait till the end to see.

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They did a lot of makeup and the classics

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are a dream, the orange skin and the whole deal. No, so it was

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really good. I wanted to make sure I told you that. And

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I've had the uh good fortune of seeing

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you perform live, and you sound just as good live in

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person. You've also got this new album coming out this

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month, and instead of the regular Greatest Hits

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album, you've re recorded your

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songs with an orchestra. Yeah, it's

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a band and an orchestra. I mean there

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they they're as close as as the originals

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as we can get. Plus we added an orchestra

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with really some actually

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great results. Was there a

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lot of adjustments that you needed to make because

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of that? Uh, the arrangements.

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I wanted to keep the same arrangements and the sound.

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Although we can make it sound a lot

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bigger now because the technology in the in

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the studios, but the orchestra

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makes you sound bigger too. But it was

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just a lot of sonic uh information

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to get you know, a forty piece

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orchestra plus a band plus a singer. So it's

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a it's a it was a tough mix, but I

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think we did it. I bet yeah. I'm

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looking forward to hearing that. And you can get the album

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as a single CD or a four

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disc box set. What what else

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is in the big deluxe version? Um,

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there's instrumental versions. I think

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I actually haven't looked at it,

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but there's signs stuff. You know, it's like it's

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the usual thing they do with with box sets, you know

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a lot of bonus things. Um

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me me talking about the songs, Uh

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yeah, a lot of different stuff, inspiration stuff, got

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it it was. There's also a new song on the album as well,

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Irreplaceable. What inspired

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that one? My mom? My mom died two

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years ago, so I wrote a song for

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her, and we wanted one new song

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on the album, so it uh, it seemed

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appropriate because there's another song on there about my dad.

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I lost both my parents. So there's a

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song I wrote in the eighties called my Father's

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Chair that we did with just an orchestra, and

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I really brought the song out

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and so the song from

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my mom, song from my dad together, and the album is

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dedicated to them. Oh that's awesome special

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And they have a point your song on the album like God, that makes

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it really cool. Um, you're gonna be taking the

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orchestra show on the road. Yeah, it

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sounds like a big production. Will you be performing

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with different orchestras each time or are going

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to bring musicians with you? Uh, we'll bring my

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band with me. But when we pick up the City

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Symphony Orchestra, that's cool. Whatever

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city were. And we've done a couple of them already, and and

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the you know, the charts that were written and these

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people although musicians like me, we can't

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read music. We used tape records

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and stuff like that to write song. But these

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people, uh, you know, they can read the black

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and white page. So it's pretty incredible.

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You just sit in front of them and it just happens

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like that. It's amazing. It's incredibly impressive.

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I've gotten to perform at the Hollywood Bowl and

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doing this and to see them. They only like one

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day rehearsal, and yeah we

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did. Actually we did a show at the Saban last

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week that we filmed in Beverly Hills

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and we used the

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the Santa Monica High

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Civic Symphony Orchestra and they're

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like fourteen eighteen year old kids. There's eighty

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two of them on stage and it was They're incredible.

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They absolutely nailed it. Wow,

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that is so impressive. That's so cool. That big

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believer in music in school. So I was

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for that that angle too, you know, and

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I love this. You've also got some acoustic shows with

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Richard Marks in the works. Yeah,

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I do. I do a solo acoustic show and he does too,

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so and we knowing each other for a long time, so we sometimes

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get together and do uh do some

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solo. It's like a humorous thing, you know, we

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talk about the songs and have a lot of jokes and stuff.

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And we're also doing some actually some band shows

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with him as well. Too. Oh nice, yeah,

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but oh that's great. Great. Did you know each other

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just from back in the day, Yeah, yeah, and

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about we met about eighty six, um,

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and uh, we've been kind of friends

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on and off since yeah, and

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going back real quick to uh

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to the acting do the do the rules usually

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come up? People think of you for certain rules

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or because I know you're so busy on the road performing

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just as a musician, um, or

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certain meetings your agent calls you, or

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well, sometimes you've got to fight for him, you know, the true

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detective one. They didn't think. I didn't

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even want to see me, and then my agent said, no, you've got to

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see him. So I went in and read for it, and I loved

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what I did for it. I love that, so I gotta

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Yeah, sometimes you gotta fight for him. Sometimes they're

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written for you. Sometimes someone

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thinks that you'd be right for it. Acting is it's

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a weird gig. It's not like music where you

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write it and you own and you you know it's your

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thing. You're basically, you know, looking

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looking for work all the time. Basically actors are always

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looking for work. Everything's attempt. Yeah, and

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you have to read for stuff. And but

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I love that. I love that challenge. I love going

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in and reading for things and kind of surprising

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people. Um. It's an

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amazing thing. I love it. I love acting more

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much more now as I'm older. And I have more

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to work from and draw

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from and draw from exactly. I know you've

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got a couple of adults sons. Are

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they following your footsteps at all? Are they interested

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in the space in any capacity? Um? My

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eldest sons an actor on a musician. My

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youngest son's actually school teacher's

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definitely not following on my footsteps. School.

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What's he teach? What the subject he teaches at

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a private school, but he teaches history. He's

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aiming to teach history. He's teaching everything at the

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moment. That's my favorite. But I always I always

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kicked out of eleventh grade, so which was

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not I was not his inspiration? Would

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you do in the eleventh grade? I did not attend

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school. I've discovered the guitar and I said

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away for about the three months of the year that

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my eleventh grade, and the

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headmaster called my parents up and said, Richard need

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not come back to school next year. Richard did

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not. Well, it worked

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out, I did. It worked out

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well. I was staying at home playing the guitar and reading.

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I read books and I

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played guitar, and that's that's all I wanted to do.

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And that's you know what I'm doing now. I knew

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I had no future geologist

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or a geographer or a historian. So well,

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you found your your your passion. Yeah, I did

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find it early for sure, and I uh,

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you put an effort towards it when a lot of people don't. So you

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put an effort, hard, obvious effort.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, Well that's awesome. Um, I

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want to put you on the spot. Quick questions, quick answers. Okay,

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favorite type of classical music? Well,

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um, Beethoven, I love I'm

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ninth Symphony, I think is the Corral. Ninth Symphony

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is the most beautiful piece of music I've ever written,

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and I'm always that can

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bring me to tears just listening to it. I've never heard anything

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more powerful in my life. Actually, last

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show you binge watched that Binge

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watched? Um would

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have been uh

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Fargo the TV show.

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That's a good one. Celebrity crush

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growing up Haley Mills. You

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know Haley Mills actor

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And I was. I was. I was ten

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years old living in England at the time. My dad was

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in the Australian Army. He got shipped over to England

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and I saw the parent traps. She was the first

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parent trap. She was in it, and I was like, was hit

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over heels And I wrote a waiter and got

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an autograph and I kissed it every night before I went

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to bed. And then I wrote away to

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her again and got another autograph, and it's completely

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different from the first one.

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Did you ever meet her? No? I didn't, but I

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have fans who have met her, and she you know, she knows

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I was a fan. She likes to send a

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note and a little signed autograph of a joke. It

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was pretty funny. Yeah, I know you answered that quick?

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Uh favorite Richard Mark song? Well,

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I have to say right here waiting, it's probably

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like someone saying, oh, Jesse's girl from me. But yeah,

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when I heard that, it's it's

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stepped out from all these other stuff. I

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thought. Last one

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four a week asked him that he's

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been here before too, Right, Yeah, he has been here before,

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and we're gonna ask him last one for

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a week time travel destination.

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You can go anywhere, Uh, go

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back to either the dinosaurs

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or Jesus to figure

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out what was the real

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deal. See, I don't want to go. I don't want to see

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what concerts were playing. Let's see.

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I want to go further back. Yeah, you're going back,

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go back to see if you know all that stuff was, what

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was really going on, what went down? Limited

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with the food though, back in the day. That's what's gonna kill me. The

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food. Yeah, not much. I

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wouldn't stay there long. I'm not saying I'd say it's

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a week. It's a week. We got a week, can hang a week,

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al right. Food Orchestrating

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My Life comes out on the twenty

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six. You can follow him on Instagram

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at Rick Springfield. Congrats on

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the show. I look forward to checking it out. Thank you so much. Uh,

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it's a blast, A very different show than

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than the rock show that we do with the band. Yeah,

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really enjoying it. Thank you. Awesome with

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Mario Litlepez