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Speaker 1: One or two point seven Kiss FM, Ryan Seacrest with you.

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Speaker 1: I wanted to have Cameron Lawson on. He was on

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Speaker 1: the last episode of American Idol. And here's what's great.

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Speaker 1: He was working at Walmart as a cashier and he

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Speaker 1: auditioned for the show and he's made it to Hollywood

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Speaker 1: like in a short amount of time, and he found

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Speaker 1: out that he was going to audition for the judges

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Speaker 1: while at work at the store. To me, it's the

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Speaker 1: coolest part. Yeah, here he is. This is Cameron Lawson

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Speaker 1: who had a day and just a short time ago

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Speaker 1: was checking people out at Walmart, then stands in front

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Speaker 1: of Kati Luke and Leonon gets three Yes. Its top

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Speaker 1: is bring him in. Cameron, are you there? How are

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Speaker 1: you doing? Hey, buddy, how are you doing? I'm doing fine.

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry about the background. I don't know how to

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Speaker 1: take it off. It's okay, don't worry. It's very cute though.

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Speaker 1: All right, So, Cameron, we were just talking about you're

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Speaker 1: bringing people up to speed who didn't see the last

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Speaker 1: episode of American Idol. But truly, what's so remarkable and

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Speaker 1: what I love about the show every year is you

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Speaker 1: find people like yourself who are getting up doing a

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Speaker 1: job every day, who have a dream, who have some talent,

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Speaker 1: but it's like, how do I connect the dots with

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Speaker 1: that talent and my life? Right, You're getting up every

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Speaker 1: day working at Walmart, and then let's sudden you find

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Speaker 1: yourself standing in front of three superstar judges. Tell people

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Speaker 1: about what it felt like to make that transition and

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Speaker 1: that leap almost overnight from cashier at Walmart to singing

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Speaker 1: on Idol. It was, honestly, all my emotions just rushed

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Speaker 1: through my heart and all I could feel was just

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Speaker 1: joy and excitement and I was just ready. It's just

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Speaker 1: to do that. That That was literally, like I always say,

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Speaker 1: it was a dream come true. I mean I dreamed

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Speaker 1: about that. It was so fascinating to watch them announced

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Speaker 1: that you were going to audition for the judges on

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Speaker 1: the loudspeaker inside Walmart while you had your blue vest on. Yes,

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Speaker 1: that was amazing. Everybody was walking by Jeremy and I'm like, yes,

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Speaker 1: this feels good and I can't wait to show them

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Speaker 1: what I got. That's that's that's all I was hoping for.

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Speaker 1: When you found out, for example, you're working how many

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Speaker 1: how long did you work at Walmart, or have you

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Speaker 1: for a year and two months? For a year and

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Speaker 1: two so you're working at Walmart for a year and

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Speaker 1: a couple months as a cashier, and then all of

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Speaker 1: a sudden you auditioned for American I and then you

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Speaker 1: get out there and you do it. What gave you

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Speaker 1: the courage to be able to fall to follow that

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Speaker 1: dream to do it? Because it takes a lot of

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Speaker 1: bravery to just go from doing that job into auditioning

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Speaker 1: in Hollywood, right. Well, I the fact that people would

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Speaker 1: would tell me that I need to audition for American Idol,

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Speaker 1: the fact that I need to the fact that I

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Speaker 1: that they pushed me. You were nervous, The judges got

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Speaker 1: out of their seat to help you feel comfortable, all right.

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Speaker 1: That was that was scary. That was that was terrifying.

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Speaker 1: I was I didn't know what to do. But then

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Speaker 1: you you say no, you sing truly by Lionel And

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Speaker 1: how'd you push through that? In front of him? Honestly,

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Speaker 1: just watching him lip it gave me just that that

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Speaker 1: push to keep going no matter what, like him lipping it,

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Speaker 1: you seeing it with me like what as lion Ritchie,

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Speaker 1: I'm singing his song and he's singing it with me like,

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Speaker 1: that's definitely a dream come true. It's such a cool story,

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Speaker 1: Cameron Lawson with us, who is uh yep, just doing

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Speaker 1: that job every day and then find out gets three

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Speaker 1: judges on Idol, makes it through to Hollywood. How are

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Speaker 1: people back home reacting to you being on American Idol?

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Speaker 1: They love it, They they they love me. Basically, they're

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Speaker 1: they're pushing me to They're they're pushing me to do more,

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Speaker 1: and I'm I'm gonna sure him that I got more. Well,

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Speaker 1: it's so great to see a fantastic story continued success. Cameron,

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Speaker 1: thank you for coming on. Thank you y'all. Y'all have

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Speaker 1: a blessed one YouTube. Bye bye. That's excitement. Yeah, I know,

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Speaker 1: I just did. That's the thing. Like I am scared

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Speaker 1: of auditions still right to this day. Really, but yeah,

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Speaker 1: of auditions, Yeah scared. I like that. But if like

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Speaker 1: you went um doing that job at the desk at

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Speaker 1: the cashier at Walmart into immediately being thrust into it,

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Speaker 1: be terrified. Rawl still a charm about him. I love

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Speaker 1: that the judges have so much patience which with each contestant,

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Speaker 1: and they were one day back in the day, they

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Speaker 1: were in that position where they weren't who they are,

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Speaker 1: and they they hope for that encouragement too. Yeah, And

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Speaker 1: they encourage every single one in their in their unique way,

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Speaker 1: and they'll take their time like with him and with

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Speaker 1: other contestants, and whatever the unique experience may have to be,

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Speaker 1: whether they need to get out of their seat or

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Speaker 1: they have to play with them and laugh with them,

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Speaker 1: or take a breath, yeah, or take a minute, or

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Speaker 1: bring the parent in or whatever it is to make

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Speaker 1: them feel comfortable. I just I love that. Idle American

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