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Speaker 1: Jump Mission with Jonesy and Amanda.

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Speaker 2: Back in twenty ten, TV talent shows got a real

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Speaker 2: shock when this guy rocked up for an X Factor audition.

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Speaker 2: He was a forklift driver and he sang like this,

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Speaker 2: I remember it like yesterday, Altin childs blew everyone away.

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Speaker 2: He went on to win the X Factor Crown with

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Speaker 2: a Spotlight. Of course, came some challenges which had him

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Speaker 2: retreat for a while in a cave. As we read about,

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Speaker 2: he's back with new music. This is a snippet of

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Speaker 2: his new single dreams.

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Speaker 1: I love it.

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Speaker 2: I like it too all He's joining us right here,

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Speaker 2: right now out in Child's Hello.

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Speaker 1: Good morning, beautiful people.

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Speaker 3: Wow.

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Speaker 2: Wow, ten years is a feel that long since you

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Speaker 2: entered the Spotlight.

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Speaker 1: It's like a paradox. It feels like yesterday, and it

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Speaker 1: feels like a thousand years ago.

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Speaker 2: Because it was amazing. Your ride to the top was

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Speaker 2: so so instant, from being a fork lift driver to

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Speaker 2: winning that show. What a headspin.

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Speaker 3: It was a headspin, sure it was, But I think

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Speaker 3: as well, in those times, you naturally presumed, are you

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Speaker 3: win X Factor, surely you're going to go on to

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Speaker 3: incredible riches and greatness. But it wasn't as easy as that.

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Speaker 1: No, I mean I think, what maybe ninety five percent

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Speaker 1: of the winners of these shows don't have that, don't

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Speaker 1: have that story. So yeah, completely agree.

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Speaker 2: So what happened because it was only a couple of

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Speaker 2: months after you were kind of at the top that

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Speaker 2: you decided to retreat. Is it true that there was

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Speaker 2: an incident where you were a passenger in a car

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Speaker 2: and the driver fell asleep and you felt that you

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Speaker 2: were saved somehow?

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Speaker 1: It sure is. Yeah, Will to answer the first part

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Speaker 1: of the question, I did retreat, And I've heard all

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Speaker 1: the different versions of my own of my own life,

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Speaker 1: and and that's completely understandable. But the reality was that

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Speaker 1: the cave thing happened during the show and after I

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Speaker 1: won the the news media a couple months later said

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Speaker 1: that that I'd retired from music, which was not true

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Speaker 1: as well, and I went on to release like ten singles,

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Speaker 1: an album and win a couple of music awards. But

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Speaker 1: if you're not on mainstream media, you know, it's still

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Speaker 1: you're still perceived as non existent. So yes, it's been

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Speaker 1: a real, real challenge, continuous challenge in that in that regard,

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Speaker 1: But but yes, I did experience a miracle and for

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Speaker 1: some reason, you know, God still wants me here. And

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Speaker 1: and that was when when I got woken up on

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Speaker 1: the highway by a mental voice in my ear, and

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Speaker 1: when I opened my eyes there was there was a

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Speaker 1: war coming toward towards me at about I don't know,

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Speaker 1: probab one hundred chimeters an hour. Because we were on

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Speaker 1: the freeway and I looked to my right, everything slowed down.

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Speaker 1: Everything was slow motion like you like you see in

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Speaker 1: the movies. And my driver was asleep and my hand

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Speaker 1: automatically went over, was kind of carried over to the

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Speaker 1: steering wheel, and we just grazed the wall. And here,

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Speaker 1: I am wow.

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Speaker 2: Has that shaped everything that's happened since for you?

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Speaker 1: Well, yes, Amander, actually yes, it hasn't left me. You know,

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Speaker 1: that presence hasn't left me, and and so ever since then,

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Speaker 1: really I've I've been walking on holy ground and just

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Speaker 1: living that redemptive life and grateful for every breath and

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Speaker 1: just wondering what it is exactly that that why I

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Speaker 1: was saved. You know, people dying in car accidents every day,

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Speaker 1: and and there's definitely a great mystery there.

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Speaker 3: So you've had a religious ephy you.

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Speaker 1: Could call it that. Absolutely. Yeah, I live on the

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Speaker 1: shoulders of Jesus Christ. That's how I live. And the

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Speaker 1: view from up here is very interesting and very different,

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Speaker 1: and it doesn't really help in a lot of ways

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Speaker 1: when it comes to just the general world. It's not

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Speaker 1: a very popular state of mind, especially in a busy,

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Speaker 1: money driven industry. Yeah, but I mean that said, some

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Speaker 1: willing to sacrifice everything to give back to him what

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Speaker 1: he gave me.

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Speaker 2: And do you feel anxious or nervous about re entering

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Speaker 2: the music scene now?

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Speaker 1: Well, I mean, as I said, I've released about ten

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Speaker 1: singles and an album, and I've really worked a lot.

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Speaker 1: I did take two years off in twenty seventeen, just

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Speaker 1: after I played Jesus Christ. But funnily enough, in Jesus

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Speaker 1: Christ Superstar and that rock opera was an incredible challenge

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Speaker 1: because I've never you know, a different field operatic kind

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Speaker 1: of style. And after that, I just thought, you know what,

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Speaker 1: there's been seven eight years of continuous, continuous work, you know,

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Speaker 1: up down, left, right up, down, left, right up and

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Speaker 1: a little bit higher and then way back down again

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Speaker 1: and all that stuff. So yeah, I brought a little

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Speaker 1: home in the country with my dogs and my wife

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Speaker 1: and and about two years later I thought I'd move

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Speaker 1: back to Melbourne and I found myself an amazing three

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Speaker 1: piece band. And yeah, I'm a little anxious, no doubt.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but you want to it's so hard in these

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Speaker 3: times to get out there and perform as well.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah the comeback. I couldn't have chosen a worse time.

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Speaker 3: But you're like a challenge.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Well the new single is dreams how and it's great

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Speaker 2: to see you doing it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so you know, because what are you going to do?

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Speaker 3: And there's nothing wrong with being a forklift driver raised

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Speaker 3: to drive forklift, but you know you've been called to

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Speaker 3: a higher perse a purpose.

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Speaker 1: Yes, wow, I appreciate that. I appreciate that I live

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Speaker 1: to inspire people and I always have and I think

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Speaker 1: this is just another you know, my eleventh or twelfth single,

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Speaker 1: and every every attempt is is just another attempt to

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Speaker 1: reach someone that needs to hear something, you know, something

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Speaker 1: that keeps them to keep them going in this in

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Speaker 1: this kind of crazy and mostly tragic world. At the

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Speaker 1: end of the day, you know what is success when

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Speaker 1: when you have to lose it all and you have

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Speaker 1: to go to sleep forever, you know, Yeah, people have. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: people need some inspiration, no doubt.

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Speaker 3: I'm just asking a Forkliff question for a friend called Amanda.

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Speaker 3: Are you an electric Forkliff fan or an LPG fan?

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Speaker 1: Oh? Guys, wow, I really wasn't that professional much relational driver? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean six months six months or so. I want

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Speaker 1: to go. I'm going to go to the LPG.

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Speaker 3: Aldie and it's so great to talk to you. The

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Speaker 3: new single Dreams with Circus Dust is out now. Thank

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Speaker 3: you for joining us.

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Speaker 1: You guys are lovely. Thank you both so much for

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Speaker 1: having me.

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Speaker 2: Take care bye with joins The and Amanda