WEBVTT - UNPACKED REALITY - AUSTRALIAN IDOL - TRENT 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:01.760 It's in the news today, but it was actually on 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:04.680 TV Reload the podcast last week that mine. Hey guys, 0:00:04.760 --> 0:00:07.240 welcome back to TV Reload. I want to thank you 0:00:07.320 --> 0:00:11.160 for clicking and downloading on today's episode with the country 0:00:11.160 --> 0:00:14.280 Boy Trent, one of the most talked about contestants on 0:00:14.320 --> 0:00:17.720 Australian Idol on Channel seven this year. He's actually probably 0:00:17.840 --> 0:00:20.479 one of the most talked about contestants that we've ever seen. 0:00:21.000 --> 0:00:21.200 You know. 0:00:21.520 --> 0:00:25.320 Twenty one years after Guys Sebastian pipped Shannanol to become 0:00:25.360 --> 0:00:29.520 the first Idol the International Star making reality TV sensation, 0:00:29.760 --> 0:00:32.200 It returned to Channel seven this year and if you've 0:00:32.240 --> 0:00:34.840 missed part one of the Grand Finale, you must catch 0:00:34.920 --> 0:00:36.920 up on it, which you can do on seven Plus. 0:00:37.040 --> 0:00:40.480 It was filled with amazing performances which I'm gonna watch 0:00:40.600 --> 0:00:43.800 again and again and again, which I've basically been doing today. 0:00:44.200 --> 0:00:46.800 The competition this year was easily the toughest that we've 0:00:46.840 --> 0:00:50.440 seen since series one, and Trent was another shock exit 0:00:50.520 --> 0:00:53.600 from the likely winners that might have taken out this competition. 0:00:53.880 --> 0:00:56.400 He has a fan base like no other, so I'm 0:00:56.440 --> 0:00:59.440 excited to have him here today. We have some juicy 0:00:59.520 --> 0:01:01.760 team and how the show is made and how they 0:01:01.760 --> 0:01:06.280 would drive the contestants bonkers with countless reshoots. Trent will 0:01:06.319 --> 0:01:09.959 explain why he hasn't been having a secret relationship behind 0:01:10.000 --> 0:01:13.000 the scenes and why he is actually still single. We 0:01:13.080 --> 0:01:16.040 will unpack the tension with Kyle Sandulans, and we'll also 0:01:16.120 --> 0:01:18.520 get his side of things when it came to his 0:01:18.640 --> 0:01:22.119 interpretation of the Kermit the Frog references. Plus we will 0:01:22.160 --> 0:01:24.560 discuss who he would like to see win and who 0:01:24.600 --> 0:01:26.839 he thinks is actually going to win in the grand 0:01:26.840 --> 0:01:29.720 finale tonight. There is so much to unpack with Trent 0:01:29.840 --> 0:01:33.080 and he was absolutely way cuter without his hat on. 0:01:33.200 --> 0:01:34.880 I just want to say that. So sit back and 0:01:34.920 --> 0:01:38.040 relax as we dive just that little bit deeper into 0:01:38.080 --> 0:01:42.000 the world of Australian Idol. How are you good, Mite? 0:01:42.040 --> 0:01:42.560 What's going on? 0:01:42.680 --> 0:01:44.679 Well, I'm excited to be talking to you. 0:01:44.680 --> 0:01:45.520 Can you see mehead? 0:01:45.760 --> 0:01:48.280 You're almost unrecognizable. 0:01:47.319 --> 0:01:49.920 Because you unders that the hard a brother. 0:01:50.280 --> 0:01:54.160 Yeah, that's so strange. What a wild ride this has been. 0:01:54.200 --> 0:01:57.920 Considering that when I started following your story, they were 0:01:57.920 --> 0:02:01.320 like someone from Central Queensland is auditioning for idol and 0:02:01.360 --> 0:02:03.720 then to make it as far as you did, it's crazy. 0:02:03.480 --> 0:02:05.720 Oh mate, wild, Like that's I don't even know the 0:02:05.760 --> 0:02:09.239 word too. Yeah, to sum it up honestly, just from yeah, 0:02:09.480 --> 0:02:11.959 just a kid who paid footy and worked and always 0:02:12.000 --> 0:02:14.200 saying but I just I never thought I had had 0:02:14.200 --> 0:02:15.840 what it took me. That's what took me so long 0:02:15.880 --> 0:02:17.600 to do it. But you know, to be on the 0:02:17.600 --> 0:02:19.960 stage the first time, and when I did, as soon 0:02:19.960 --> 0:02:21.720 as I was out there like a freak, but as 0:02:21.720 --> 0:02:24.880 soon as I just started talking, singing, and I was like, 0:02:25.040 --> 0:02:26.760 this is just this is where I want to be. 0:02:26.840 --> 0:02:28.960 And then ever since then, mate, I feel like I've 0:02:29.040 --> 0:02:31.720 just yeah, gotten better each week and people love me. 0:02:31.840 --> 0:02:34.440 So it's Yeah, it's a really special feeling. It's one 0:02:34.480 --> 0:02:35.799 I'll I'll never forget forever. 0:02:36.000 --> 0:02:38.399 How did you work out that you had this voice? Though? 0:02:38.560 --> 0:02:41.360 Like when you sing into the Camels? Did did your 0:02:41.440 --> 0:02:43.240 dad or your parents and they tell you that you 0:02:43.280 --> 0:02:46.079 could sing? Like, how did you know that you had 0:02:46.080 --> 0:02:48.360 a talent good enough to try and take it to 0:02:48.400 --> 0:02:49.080 a show like this? 0:02:49.720 --> 0:02:51.040 Yeah, I think it was more. 0:02:51.440 --> 0:02:53.519 I mean everyone sort of knew I could sing, and 0:02:53.800 --> 0:02:56.160 it was just sort of how it's honestly, like how 0:02:56.160 --> 0:02:58.000 all the stars aligned for it, like a lot of 0:02:58.000 --> 0:03:02.519 things happened at the time with me, just with things. 0:03:01.960 --> 0:03:04.720 Like I'd be working and you know, I'd be thinking 0:03:04.720 --> 0:03:06.400 about it or something that pop up. And really what 0:03:06.400 --> 0:03:09.440 happened was the night before I applied, I was just 0:03:09.480 --> 0:03:10.720 in my own head and I was like, you know, 0:03:10.800 --> 0:03:12.600 what would I do if I got told like I 0:03:12.639 --> 0:03:14.640 had a month to live or I was just you know, 0:03:14.680 --> 0:03:16.520 I was working hard. I was just like, there's more 0:03:16.560 --> 0:03:18.360 to me than this. I was like, there's you know, 0:03:18.760 --> 0:03:20.160 I think this. I don't know what it did to 0:03:20.200 --> 0:03:22.600 come out a finger. I just like, yeah, I didn't 0:03:22.639 --> 0:03:24.480 know what it was. And then they asked myself the 0:03:24.600 --> 0:03:26.920 question and I said I'd just love to sing and entertain. 0:03:27.040 --> 0:03:28.919 And I was like, but I just didn't think I'd 0:03:28.919 --> 0:03:30.800 ever have have the boss to do it, mate, So 0:03:31.200 --> 0:03:33.320 I yeah, I'll never forget it. I woke up that 0:03:33.400 --> 0:03:35.920 morning and the audition to Idol came out. I just 0:03:36.200 --> 0:03:37.840 I was brushing teeth or whatever, look in the mirror 0:03:37.840 --> 0:03:40.320 and I just thought, yeah, something just just clacked, and 0:03:40.320 --> 0:03:42.680 we just said that's I could not do it, and 0:03:42.760 --> 0:03:45.000 I didn't. I was hitting confirmed to do it, and 0:03:45.040 --> 0:03:46.960 I'm just freaking out. I'm going, how am I going 0:03:47.040 --> 0:03:48.880 to do this. I couldn't even I'm doing a zoom 0:03:48.880 --> 0:03:50.880 call now and I had to sing to the person 0:03:50.920 --> 0:03:54.680 the first time, and I'm just freaking out and it 0:03:54.800 --> 0:03:57.600 was wild. It was wild, like to go from that, 0:03:57.880 --> 0:04:00.760 how I started to just singing and one of the 0:04:00.840 --> 0:04:03.760 nation in the world now, It's just it's crazy. 0:04:04.000 --> 0:04:06.600 So the decision to have you seen and be placed 0:04:06.680 --> 0:04:09.600 right up against Dylan that must have been really nerve wrecking. 0:04:09.800 --> 0:04:12.520 Was that the most stressful performance? I mean, I know 0:04:12.560 --> 0:04:14.400 the votes had already been kind of tallied by that 0:04:14.480 --> 0:04:16.560 point and the decision to kind of been made, but 0:04:16.720 --> 0:04:18.960 to sort of be both put together like that, that 0:04:19.040 --> 0:04:20.760 must have been the hardest song to sing. 0:04:21.360 --> 0:04:23.680 Me Mindset's pretty I've been pretty strong on the on 0:04:23.720 --> 0:04:25.960 the idol with you know, I don't think of better 0:04:25.960 --> 0:04:29.000 than anyone else. I've met friends and people that I'll 0:04:29.279 --> 0:04:31.279 stay closer to the rest of my life. And yeah, 0:04:31.320 --> 0:04:32.880 I just at that point, I was just like, you know, 0:04:32.960 --> 0:04:35.240 what what's done is done. The decision has been made. 0:04:35.320 --> 0:04:37.480 I gall out here and butcher it and still get through. 0:04:37.560 --> 0:04:39.280 So I was just like I was actually feeling good. 0:04:39.360 --> 0:04:41.440 Dylan's brilliant, you know, you know when I was like 0:04:41.720 --> 0:04:43.960 paired with Dylan. I said, well, but we were backstage 0:04:44.000 --> 0:04:46.120 made it was all last it was all yeah, we 0:04:46.120 --> 0:04:48.240 weren't stressed because I knew that Australia was going to 0:04:48.240 --> 0:04:50.240 be in good hands either way. Mate. So and that's 0:04:50.279 --> 0:04:52.000 what I said Gall out there and he said the 0:04:52.040 --> 0:04:54.480 same thing, and just yeah, it's just the beginning, mate. 0:04:54.520 --> 0:04:57.120 So whatever happens with him further on, you know, he's 0:04:57.160 --> 0:04:59.279 going to be brilliant, and just like everyone else, you know, 0:04:59.320 --> 0:05:01.719 it's just a platform in their careers. Now that I've 0:05:01.760 --> 0:05:04.520 just given us such a lift and advantage on a 0:05:04.520 --> 0:05:06.480 lot of people because I never thought I would have 0:05:06.520 --> 0:05:09.520 had me first gig on Australian Idol, Well that isn't. 0:05:09.360 --> 0:05:10.839 The end of it. I mean, you know, it was 0:05:10.880 --> 0:05:13.839 so funny because Idol when it first started for a 0:05:13.880 --> 0:05:16.160 lot of people, you know, the series was never as 0:05:16.160 --> 0:05:20.000 good as the very first season, but you somehow reminded 0:05:20.120 --> 0:05:23.640 so many people of why Idol can be so popular. 0:05:23.720 --> 0:05:26.880 It was kind of that whole Shannon Noole experience. Like 0:05:26.920 --> 0:05:29.960 you were Shannon Nole two point zero, you'd be too 0:05:30.040 --> 0:05:32.919 young to remember this, but when Shannonole was on that show, 0:05:33.000 --> 0:05:36.320 even though he didn't win their popularity for that bloke 0:05:36.600 --> 0:05:38.359 was catast like. It was just it was in a 0:05:38.400 --> 0:05:40.320 different sphere and I kind of feel like that's the 0:05:40.320 --> 0:05:42.840 same thing for you. And when Idol first started, if 0:05:42.839 --> 0:05:44.640 you look at that first series, we've got a lot 0:05:44.640 --> 0:05:47.039 of personalities, not just singers out of it. You know, 0:05:47.200 --> 0:05:50.880 Buy Sebastian, Shannon Nole, Courtney, act Rob Mills, Paulini, the 0:05:50.920 --> 0:05:53.360 list goes on. And it was because Australia idle is 0:05:53.440 --> 0:05:56.479 not necessarily always about finding the best voice. It's about 0:05:56.520 --> 0:05:59.760 finding someone that Australia can fall in love with. And 0:06:00.160 --> 0:06:00.840 you've done that. 0:06:01.120 --> 0:06:03.159 Yeah, you know to hear that and yeah, it's awesome. 0:06:03.600 --> 0:06:05.320 I don't think I'll ever take it for granted when 0:06:05.320 --> 0:06:07.640 someone says, you know, like along the lines and you said, 0:06:07.640 --> 0:06:10.039 man like, it's just it's crazy to think, you know, 0:06:10.160 --> 0:06:13.520 from not long ago to this it's and I love 0:06:13.600 --> 0:06:16.440 nausea or I followed nausea. I've probably watched his audition 0:06:16.800 --> 0:06:19.200 a million times and yeah, look what he did and yeah, 0:06:19.200 --> 0:06:19.720 it's boring. 0:06:19.760 --> 0:06:21.440 You know, have you reached out to him, have you 0:06:21.480 --> 0:06:22.720 asked him any questions? 0:06:23.160 --> 0:06:26.159 I probably have too many messages made. He probably didn't see. 0:06:26.040 --> 0:06:29.279 Mine, Hey, Shannon, not pretty sure he's waiting for that thought. 0:06:29.279 --> 0:06:30.800 He wmight have swung me a message by an earlier 0:06:30.839 --> 0:06:32.040 old budda, but he didn't. 0:06:33.120 --> 0:06:35.160 Actually have his number. I'll text him after this and 0:06:35.240 --> 0:06:37.839 telling me to stop resting on his laurels, that he 0:06:37.920 --> 0:06:39.120 needs to get good. 0:06:39.200 --> 0:06:40.880 It'd be good to have a chat and yeah, be 0:06:40.880 --> 0:06:42.760 good to jump date Monday hopefully. Well. 0:06:42.800 --> 0:06:44.719 You know what was so funny about even having this 0:06:44.800 --> 0:06:47.840 conversation with you was that after last year's Idol. You know, 0:06:47.880 --> 0:06:50.000 there's a lot of celebrity shows that happened, and a 0:06:50.000 --> 0:06:52.159 lot of my friends do casting for them, and I 0:06:52.240 --> 0:06:54.440 kept saying to people, we've had a season of vityl 0:06:54.560 --> 0:06:56.320 you know, is there any of these contestants that you 0:06:56.360 --> 0:06:58.320 think would be good on one of these reality shows? 0:06:58.400 --> 0:07:01.120 And the answer after last year were no, you know, 0:07:01.440 --> 0:07:04.159 they weren't interested. I had the same conversation this morning 0:07:04.320 --> 0:07:06.800 with someone who casts for these shows, and they were like, 0:07:07.440 --> 0:07:10.200 Trent is going to get picked up by something someone, 0:07:10.600 --> 0:07:12.600 because not only can you sing and you're very good 0:07:12.640 --> 0:07:14.680 at that, but you have a fan base and a 0:07:14.720 --> 0:07:17.280 personality that we aren't finished with. We want more. 0:07:17.400 --> 0:07:19.360 No, thanks, mate, It means a lot. Yeah, that's the plan. 0:07:19.440 --> 0:07:21.560 And I know that I'm pretty hard on myself, but 0:07:21.600 --> 0:07:23.960 I know that I'll really start to wake up and 0:07:24.040 --> 0:07:25.920 you know, look in that mirror and go, you know, 0:07:26.400 --> 0:07:28.800 there's he's in there. There's something, there's something in there. 0:07:28.800 --> 0:07:31.360 And this has given me such a yeah, just like 0:07:31.440 --> 0:07:33.960 a yeah, I don't know, just an adrenaline feeling that 0:07:34.040 --> 0:07:35.840 I just yeah, I wake up of a morning with 0:07:35.920 --> 0:07:38.400 a smile on my face. It Yeah, it's being bigger 0:07:38.400 --> 0:07:38.720 than ever. 0:07:38.800 --> 0:07:40.760 So I just if you're not on Dancing with the 0:07:40.800 --> 0:07:43.720 Stars twenty twenty five, I will give you one hundred 0:07:43.720 --> 0:07:46.920 dollars and I'm going to give you the zoom virtual 0:07:47.000 --> 0:07:50.640 handshake on this my friend. I it's gonna happen. But 0:07:50.680 --> 0:07:52.000 if you get on that show, you owe me a 0:07:52.120 --> 0:07:52.720 hundred bucks. 0:07:53.520 --> 0:07:57.000 Absolutely it would be good man. But yeah, obviously me 0:07:57.080 --> 0:08:00.040 singing is me. I'd I love performing. I didn't. And 0:08:00.040 --> 0:08:01.800 that's the thing. I just threw myself in the deep end. 0:08:01.800 --> 0:08:03.480 And yeah, I was either going to swim with Droum, 0:08:03.560 --> 0:08:05.040 but I think I think I swum. 0:08:05.160 --> 0:08:06.440 So you swam. 0:08:06.560 --> 0:08:08.640 He swam to the like, went around the corner, went 0:08:08.640 --> 0:08:10.080 over the rocks, went under the log. 0:08:11.920 --> 0:08:14.520 You know two contestants from Central Queensland. You know, has 0:08:14.520 --> 0:08:16.680 been pretty awesome to see on this season. Did you 0:08:16.680 --> 0:08:17.840 guys even know each other? 0:08:18.200 --> 0:08:21.559 Like? Na now old Denver and I know we didn't 0:08:21.600 --> 0:08:24.240 funny that because I think I think Denny's a year 0:08:24.280 --> 0:08:26.760 older than me. I think. But no, she's brilliant, like 0:08:26.960 --> 0:08:29.560 hats off tour. You know she's brilliant. You know she 0:08:29.600 --> 0:08:31.760 knows what she's done, she's been in the game, and 0:08:31.880 --> 0:08:34.320 you know her personality is unique to you, like you 0:08:34.320 --> 0:08:37.400 can't miss her. There's only one Denver, There's only one 0:08:37.440 --> 0:08:39.800 denber Well. 0:08:39.920 --> 0:08:42.000 Can I tick her off the list? Because you know, 0:08:42.360 --> 0:08:44.240 Carl Sandaland seems to have put out like a bit 0:08:44.240 --> 0:08:47.160 of a bounty on a secret relationship that is apparently 0:08:47.160 --> 0:08:49.640 happening behind the scenes of idol. And I'm pretty sure 0:08:49.679 --> 0:08:52.319 when those rumors came out that you were on everyone's 0:08:52.360 --> 0:08:55.800 bingo card, but no one could find out who you 0:08:55.880 --> 0:08:58.520 must have had this relationship with. So can we just 0:08:58.600 --> 0:08:59.880 remove Denver from the list. 0:09:00.160 --> 0:09:04.439 No, there's no relationship. There's no relationships. I'm not thatcessilly mate. 0:09:04.440 --> 0:09:06.200 The last one did me dirty, and I tell you what, 0:09:06.240 --> 0:09:08.319 I won't be looking for another one for a while, mate. 0:09:08.440 --> 0:09:11.080 So there's no so you had no nothing at all 0:09:11.120 --> 0:09:13.320 because you know, I've got a theory that you have 0:09:13.440 --> 0:09:15.800 hooked up with one of the other contestants. It's my theory. 0:09:15.840 --> 0:09:19.240 It could be wrong, and you decided not to reveal 0:09:19.320 --> 0:09:21.600 that to all of the young women out there in 0:09:21.600 --> 0:09:23.840 Australia who are obsessed with you. Thought maybe that's going 0:09:23.880 --> 0:09:25.959 to affect, you know, them voting for you because they 0:09:26.000 --> 0:09:29.360 want to envision that they can be your wife one day. 0:09:29.440 --> 0:09:31.200 So you've sort of kept it away. So that's not 0:09:31.240 --> 0:09:31.680 the truth. 0:09:31.920 --> 0:09:35.000 No, no, mate, on mom. Yeah, as I said, you know, 0:09:35.520 --> 0:09:37.600 it's good to laugh about. But now this is the 0:09:37.640 --> 0:09:39.960 only time I've ever done something in my life I 0:09:40.000 --> 0:09:42.880 feel like really for me and I don't want to. Yeah, 0:09:42.920 --> 0:09:44.760 I mean, if something comes along, maybe, but I'm just 0:09:44.800 --> 0:09:46.880 really focus at the moment and I don't want to 0:09:46.920 --> 0:09:50.319 take one step back and just no distraction. And yeah, 0:09:50.360 --> 0:09:52.080 but as I said, the one comes along, you know, 0:09:52.440 --> 0:09:54.440 you don't choose your full love with so one pops 0:09:54.480 --> 0:09:56.160 along and I can't help it or so be it. 0:09:56.200 --> 0:09:59.120 But until then, I'm, yeah, mate, just going to really 0:09:59.160 --> 0:10:01.520 try and get some songs out. I've got a heap 0:10:01.520 --> 0:10:03.800 of songs written ready to go. So I can't wait 0:10:03.840 --> 0:10:06.760 to share the world of yeah a bit a bit 0:10:06.760 --> 0:10:07.080 more me. 0:10:07.240 --> 0:10:09.920 So is it true that you're already attached to touring 0:10:09.960 --> 0:10:12.400 with the country music festival? Is that something that people 0:10:12.440 --> 0:10:15.319 can start to look forward to? Are you already attached 0:10:15.320 --> 0:10:16.880 to a music festival coming out? 0:10:18.040 --> 0:10:20.360 Yes? I wouldn't. Yeah, I don't like saying I just 0:10:20.400 --> 0:10:23.199 didn't know, like mate, honestly, like I had people come 0:10:23.280 --> 0:10:25.600 up for gigs and things and that, and I've never 0:10:25.640 --> 0:10:27.720 even sold a gigs. I didn't even know what to charge. 0:10:27.720 --> 0:10:29.920 I didn't you know, I probably shouldn't tell that because 0:10:29.920 --> 0:10:31.959 people probably take advantage of it. But I'm not an idiot. 0:10:32.000 --> 0:10:33.960 I've got me wits about me, and I know people 0:10:34.040 --> 0:10:36.679 say it's you know, but yeah, I'm just like at 0:10:36.679 --> 0:10:37.960 the moment, I was like, look, you know, I just 0:10:37.960 --> 0:10:40.320 got to wait to litle finishes and I just got 0:10:40.320 --> 0:10:41.760 to take us on this first. And then you know, 0:10:42.000 --> 0:10:43.920 I was freaking out because I'm like They're like, oh, 0:10:43.960 --> 0:10:45.960 what do you want mate? This? And that, I'm like, 0:10:46.040 --> 0:10:47.760 what do I do? I'll play the guitar, but I'm 0:10:47.800 --> 0:10:49.280 not I don't know IM good enough? Do I bring 0:10:49.280 --> 0:10:51.240 me on mike'st indor I bring them I didn't know, 0:10:51.360 --> 0:10:52.800 Like I don't even know me do I bring a 0:10:52.840 --> 0:10:55.320 bar stild to sit on his lunch provided or Yeah, 0:10:55.400 --> 0:10:57.960 so a lot to a lot to think about, a 0:10:57.960 --> 0:11:00.839 lot to take him. But I just there. I can't wait, man, 0:11:00.920 --> 0:11:03.280 it was Yeah, I'm really going to try. I don't 0:11:03.280 --> 0:11:05.000 think I'll be going back to the coal mine or 0:11:05.040 --> 0:11:06.839 the camera farm anytime soon, I hope. 0:11:06.880 --> 0:11:09.840 So I'm just picturing the camels have been put to work. 0:11:09.840 --> 0:11:11.560 Now they will be opening your fan maut. That's what 0:11:11.600 --> 0:11:12.800 the camels are doing back there. 0:11:13.080 --> 0:11:16.240 Oh yeah, those families would be more famous than they 0:11:16.280 --> 0:11:19.800 ever were. Now that's wild, man, it's wild. But I 0:11:19.840 --> 0:11:23.400 just can't wait to Yeah, just really like you know, 0:11:23.600 --> 0:11:26.280 like do it myself in the sense like you carry 0:11:26.320 --> 0:11:29.280 from my first experience of the music to make up 0:11:29.360 --> 0:11:32.520 and everything planned for you. And you've got producers, you've 0:11:32.520 --> 0:11:34.559 got all the TV that make you look good. They 0:11:34.559 --> 0:11:37.120 do this, they do that, and you know you don't realize, 0:11:37.280 --> 0:11:39.800 well I haven't yet, but I know coming from Idol 0:11:39.880 --> 0:11:42.160 now back to no Idol, like, it's not going to 0:11:42.200 --> 0:11:43.679 be it's not going to be easy. I don't expect 0:11:43.720 --> 0:11:45.280 to walk in the park and the hand out I 0:11:45.320 --> 0:11:46.679 know that I'm going to. Yeah, I got to really 0:11:46.760 --> 0:11:49.200 work hard at it and even meet vocals and keep 0:11:49.600 --> 0:11:51.559 keep getting some lessons. You know. That was probably my 0:11:51.600 --> 0:11:54.160 best thing I did is throughout the Shale, I think, yeah, 0:11:54.200 --> 0:11:56.600 I think the judges, yeah, were starting to enjoy it, 0:11:56.600 --> 0:11:58.920 like they liked it. But just you know, just who 0:11:58.920 --> 0:12:01.360 I was up against, you know, yeah, but I wasn't 0:12:01.360 --> 0:12:03.400 the biggest vocal was so it never really bothered me 0:12:03.440 --> 0:12:06.000 because I know that what I had. I believe that 0:12:06.040 --> 0:12:07.800 I had something that a lot of the others didn't, 0:12:07.840 --> 0:12:09.640 and that was just me, you know. 0:12:09.840 --> 0:12:12.280 So you're so humble, Like this is one of my 0:12:12.280 --> 0:12:14.600 favorite things about you, Like something that you got from 0:12:14.600 --> 0:12:16.920 your family, from your dad. I don't know, Like what 0:12:17.040 --> 0:12:19.400 how do you have your head screwed. 0:12:19.120 --> 0:12:21.160 On like this? Mate? When you get to name me, 0:12:21.200 --> 0:12:24.360 you'll think I'm a half with No, It's just I 0:12:24.360 --> 0:12:26.760 don't know, mate. I feel like I've been through I've 0:12:26.800 --> 0:12:28.920 been through a lot of heartbreaking a lot of ways, 0:12:28.960 --> 0:12:31.120 and I've seen a lot of things that and just 0:12:31.200 --> 0:12:33.080 the day and age of the world and everything that 0:12:33.160 --> 0:12:34.840 I hear and what's going on in this and I 0:12:34.920 --> 0:12:36.880 just you know, I stick by everything havings for reason 0:12:36.920 --> 0:12:39.079 in life too short, and I just you know, I 0:12:39.120 --> 0:12:41.760 remember when I was a kid and had a dream 0:12:41.840 --> 0:12:44.120 and now it's sort of done it Like I just 0:12:44.320 --> 0:12:48.040 I can't even describe how like I don't even yeah, 0:12:48.160 --> 0:12:49.960 like just to go from what I did to that 0:12:50.240 --> 0:12:52.920 is just I still it just still blows me mind, mate, 0:12:52.960 --> 0:12:56.320 Like I know me so for five six years or 0:12:56.600 --> 0:12:58.280 would have never I couldn't even see in front of 0:12:58.360 --> 0:12:59.920 my dad like I couldn't. I couldn't just pull look 0:12:59.920 --> 0:13:03.040 at and it just all clicked. But really I was 0:13:03.080 --> 0:13:05.320 just like on that plane, I never forget I nearly 0:13:05.320 --> 0:13:07.440 didn't even get on the plane new best mates, Like mate, 0:13:07.440 --> 0:13:08.880 you got to go, and you got to go. Like 0:13:09.240 --> 0:13:11.240 I was freaking out because I put myself in a 0:13:11.240 --> 0:13:12.520 position where I don't even if I'm going to be 0:13:12.520 --> 0:13:14.600 able to go down there in an audition to open 0:13:14.640 --> 0:13:18.800 the mouth and seeing or forget words or freaking out, 0:13:18.880 --> 0:13:21.520 freaking out. But comes back to Evingham for a reason, mate, 0:13:21.520 --> 0:13:24.200 And yeah, there's the best thing I ever did in 0:13:24.200 --> 0:13:26.200 my life. And it was the most special I've ever felt. 0:13:26.280 --> 0:13:28.520 So there were these huge rumors that you had this 0:13:28.559 --> 0:13:32.200 big fan base, right, so people were starting to say, yesterday, 0:13:32.240 --> 0:13:33.679 do you think that the way that they changed the 0:13:33.720 --> 0:13:36.800 way in which the audience could vote changed or affected 0:13:36.800 --> 0:13:39.080 the way in which you didn't make it to the finale. 0:13:39.240 --> 0:13:41.640 But it's so funny. While I talked to you today 0:13:41.679 --> 0:13:46.240 about this, I realized how ridiculous sometimes some of these theories. 0:13:45.840 --> 0:13:50.160 Are that yeah, people, I get that, and I'm someone 0:13:50.400 --> 0:13:52.600 you know I could cop defeat. And that's the thing. 0:13:52.679 --> 0:13:55.520 It's defeat, but it's not like I won, like within 0:13:55.600 --> 0:13:57.839 myself and everything I know I want. And that's why 0:13:57.840 --> 0:13:59.679 I'm so okay with it all because it's a part 0:13:59.679 --> 0:14:02.199 of the like I knocked out half of the Top twelve, 0:14:02.520 --> 0:14:06.360 which is all brilliant, Like the live show is as massive, 0:14:06.400 --> 0:14:08.480 Like I was going for an audition mate, like I 0:14:08.520 --> 0:14:11.439 didn't think I'd get to the top fifty, Top thirty, 0:14:11.480 --> 0:14:13.960 Top twenty one, top twenty four, top this, Like it's 0:14:14.000 --> 0:14:14.960 just yeah, just nat. 0:14:15.120 --> 0:14:18.040 I think you know, Kyle's comments kept you in the competition, 0:14:18.160 --> 0:14:20.640 so to speak, because I felt like people kept voting 0:14:20.680 --> 0:14:23.080 for you with him being as savage as he was 0:14:23.160 --> 0:14:25.640 sometimes and calling you come with the frog, Like I 0:14:25.640 --> 0:14:28.240 think in some way that indeed you as well. And 0:14:28.280 --> 0:14:30.200 it reminded mate. 0:14:30.280 --> 0:14:32.520 Yeah, I think when I first I think I first 0:14:32.560 --> 0:14:34.680 heard the word and on stage is tree you know 0:14:34.720 --> 0:14:37.000 when you sing your heart out and you know. But 0:14:37.040 --> 0:14:39.240 then the part of me clicked and it was good. 0:14:39.240 --> 0:14:41.640 I made a comment when he said it, and Ricky's fed. 0:14:42.040 --> 0:14:43.560 I said, oh, yeah, I think I did did a 0:14:43.560 --> 0:14:45.440 good job or right or something, and she goes what 0:14:45.680 --> 0:14:47.720 I said. Well, some people liked it, some people didn't, 0:14:47.760 --> 0:14:49.600 you know, but like that's the way we live in mate, 0:14:49.640 --> 0:14:51.280 Like I can't sit down. I was. I was a 0:14:51.280 --> 0:14:53.480 bit like afterwards. I was like, ah, you know, because 0:14:53.720 --> 0:14:56.600 it's not it's the comment, but it's then that gets 0:14:56.600 --> 0:15:00.400 broadcasted across Australia like it's live television, like and then 0:15:00.440 --> 0:15:03.640 you're worry about people buying into the judges comments and this. 0:15:03.800 --> 0:15:05.760 But and that's the thing I thought, you know what 0:15:06.000 --> 0:15:07.960 I've been told worse mate, and I just thought, I'm 0:15:07.960 --> 0:15:09.680 not going to sulk about it. I'm going to use 0:15:09.680 --> 0:15:11.520 it to my advantage. And yeah, I made a bit 0:15:11.520 --> 0:15:14.000 of a video with me and Kermit and had had 0:15:14.000 --> 0:15:15.320 a bit of a laugh about it, and that was 0:15:15.360 --> 0:15:16.920 the way to go about it. I think it worked 0:15:16.920 --> 0:15:18.320 in my faith was and a lot of people like 0:15:18.760 --> 0:15:21.600 that's a true who was a young lad sense of humor? Like, 0:15:21.880 --> 0:15:23.440 so that was good. I loved it. 0:15:23.640 --> 0:15:26.560 Redetermined the way people are using it to a certain extent, Yeah, 0:15:26.880 --> 0:15:28.080 working it to your advantage. 0:15:28.320 --> 0:15:30.120 And that was funny too, because after he said it, 0:15:30.120 --> 0:15:31.840 he was like, you know, I can't stop here in 0:15:31.880 --> 0:15:33.440 kurrent the frog and everyone was like in the crowd 0:15:33.480 --> 0:15:36.880 went boom, and he's like, hey, nothing wrong with Kermit. 0:15:37.360 --> 0:15:39.600 I don't know why you're doing kerbitt, it's just there. 0:15:39.600 --> 0:15:40.160 It was funny. 0:15:40.200 --> 0:15:42.600 But are you getting along with Carl Sanderlance? 0:15:42.680 --> 0:15:42.760 Like? 0:15:42.800 --> 0:15:45.000 What was what was this? What was the deal behind 0:15:45.000 --> 0:15:45.400 the scenes? 0:15:45.480 --> 0:15:46.880 No, it was good, you know, and I know at 0:15:46.880 --> 0:15:48.280 the end of the day, I don't know what happens 0:15:48.280 --> 0:15:50.040 behind closed doors, mate, but I know he's got a 0:15:50.080 --> 0:15:52.360 job to do. And but no, I think, you know, 0:15:52.680 --> 0:15:54.800 beside everything else, you know, I think his heart's in 0:15:54.800 --> 0:15:57.240 the right place, and and he has He's seen a lot, 0:15:57.240 --> 0:15:58.800 you know, he props a bit of shit from people, 0:15:58.840 --> 0:16:01.400 but you know, the means he's pretty successful and he's 0:16:01.600 --> 0:16:03.360 you know, he's doing well. He's seen a lot of 0:16:03.400 --> 0:16:05.640