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Speaker 1: Dizy and with her with Kate Richie podcast.

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Speaker 2: Richard Wilkins. He's an up and coming entertainment reporter for

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Speaker 2: Channel nine and I tell you what this kid, he

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Speaker 2: is going to be something. He's a good friend of

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Speaker 2: ours and he joins us right now, Richard, Welcome to

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Speaker 2: the Fitty and Whipper with Kate Richie Show.

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Speaker 1: Good morning doing.

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Speaker 3: We're pretty good, Dickie, We're pretty good. I'm more excited

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Speaker 3: that you've got some more stories to tell. When Fitzy

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Speaker 3: walked in this morning, he said, oh my god, get

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Speaker 3: Dickie on immediately.

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Speaker 2: This is unbelievable because Dickie, over the years, you've interviewed

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Speaker 2: some of the biggest names of all time. There's something

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Speaker 2: that you're doing with Channel nine at the moment, and

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Speaker 2: I find it fascinating. It's called Dickie's Diary. I tell

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Speaker 2: you what, you probably wouldn't want to go through a

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Speaker 2: majority of Dickie's diary. Your clients stories in there. That's

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Speaker 2: Dickie's draws.

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Speaker 3: That's another story.

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Speaker 2: But Dickie, can you please tell us what year it

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Speaker 2: was when you got a phone call and you were

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Speaker 2: told get here immediately, because you are interviewing Prince. What

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Speaker 2: year was that, Well, the year was.

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Speaker 1: Two thousand and three, Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I've been wanting to interview Prince, you know who I

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Speaker 1: just adored, thought he was just one of the greatest

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Speaker 1: artists ever. But he doesn't do interviews. I kept, you know,

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Speaker 1: hitting a brick wall there. He didn't talk to anybody

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Speaker 1: but Paul Dainty, the famed a concert promoter, and ounced

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Speaker 1: in two thousand and three that he was bringing Prince

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Speaker 1: out and he was bringing him out in about four weeks,

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Speaker 1: so it was a really quick turnaround. Prince did that

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Speaker 1: sort of thing, you know. Now, I wanted to Australia boom.

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Speaker 1: He was doing something else and he wanted to do

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Speaker 1: a few warm up shows. So I got hold of

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Speaker 1: Paul and I said, made any chance, And Paul called me.

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Speaker 1: But after a couple of days and said he hasn't

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Speaker 1: said no. And he said that's good news, and I

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Speaker 1: said good. But I didn't hear anything until the day

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Speaker 1: before the first concert at rod Laver Arena in Melbourne

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Speaker 1: and he said, you need to get down here tomorrow

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Speaker 1: interview in between sound check and before the show. And

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Speaker 1: I said, so I've got Prince. He said, yeah, you

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Speaker 1: haven't only got princes though, because he wants to do

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Speaker 1: the interview with all of his bands. And I said

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Speaker 1: how many in the band? He said ten.

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Speaker 4: Gullies don't make me learn all their names.

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Speaker 2: So for everyone out there, okay, So Dickie sits down

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Speaker 2: with Prince and ten of his bandmates, right, and Dickie,

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Speaker 2: I've got some audio here. It doesn't start too well

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Speaker 2: because Prince isn't giving you too much. Have A listened

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Speaker 2: to this.

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Speaker 1: Period when you were just starting out, you know, the

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Speaker 1: pre controversy time when you're just getting record deals with proally.

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Speaker 2: Understand So he's burnt you there, Dickie. Then you're Dickie.

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Speaker 2: You're getting one word answers from Prince. Have A listened

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Speaker 2: to this?

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Speaker 1: You don't read music, So Richard, it's.

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Speaker 2: An absolute disaster. You're sitting there with the bandmates and

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Speaker 2: you're going, oh my god, how am I going to

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Speaker 2: salvage this interview? Tell us what happened?

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Speaker 1: Well? I thought I buttered them up by asking the

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Speaker 1: band a couple of questions early on. So what's it

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Speaker 1: like working with one of the greatest status of that's

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Speaker 1: good time. The guy threw a couple of prints, and

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Speaker 1: that's what happened. And then he said, can we just

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Speaker 1: take a minute please, and I said sure, And we

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Speaker 1: were at a tiny little room, all of in your

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Speaker 1: studio with the cameras and you know, the ten members

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Speaker 1: of the New Power Generation. But anyways, said come come

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Speaker 1: with you, come with me for sect. And he was

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Speaker 1: very softly spoken, very his diminutive little guy. But anyway,

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Speaker 1: so we went into his dressing room, which was all

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Speaker 1: beautifully lit and was the size of a tennis court,

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Speaker 1: and we sat down and here for the next hour,

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Speaker 1: told me all the stories that I wanted to hear,

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Speaker 1: everything that the world wanted to hear about his fights

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Speaker 1: with the record label, about him it had this hang

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Speaker 1: up about being so short, especially when he was trying

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Speaker 1: to play basketball, his religion, his conversion to Jehovah's witness.

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Speaker 1: He just told me the most amazing stories about you know,

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Speaker 1: tattooing slave into having that shaved into his hair and everything.

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Speaker 1: And then he was just lovely. He said, oh, you

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Speaker 1: seem like such a nice guy. I'm sorry, I'm such

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Speaker 1: a terrible interview. I said, mate, this is gold, but

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Speaker 1: we need to get some of this on camera. So

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Speaker 1: eventually I said, maybe we need to go and finish

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Speaker 1: the interviews, or really, haven't you got enough? I said,

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Speaker 1: I've got nothing, nothing on camera. So we went back

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Speaker 1: out there again. And so Prince, can you elaborate you

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Speaker 1: were telling me earlier about this? Oh no, not really.

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Speaker 1: So he gave me absolutely zipped dear or nothing. But

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Speaker 1: as I walked out of that room, I looked at

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Speaker 1: my sound recorders, whose eyes were just bulging out of

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Speaker 1: his head, and I said life and he looked, tapped

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Speaker 1: his chest, and of course my microphone was still on

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Speaker 1: my Jackson. In every word of that interview that was

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Speaker 1: very much off the record.

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Speaker 4: So that still exists. Oh you have it somewhere.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, somewhere is the key the key word in that case,

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Speaker 1: but yeah, it is. It does exist. When I told

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Speaker 1: that story originally, they said, well, you got to release that,

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Speaker 1: and I said, no, I can't because it was spoken

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Speaker 1: off the record.

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Speaker 3: You've got to find it.

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Speaker 4: It is incredible, like a little window into this person that,

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Speaker 4: like you said, nobody really knows the one that he presents,

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Speaker 4: and the one that we see on camera is the

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Speaker 4: guy that's giving one word answers.

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Speaker 1: He was so beautiful and the worst part about it.

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Speaker 1: Channel Line was running promos right across the board. Tomorrow,

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Speaker 1: on the Today Show, Prince tells all about his controversial life.

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Speaker 1: Nothing compares to Prince. I thought, oh jeez, we.

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Speaker 3: Got Dickie, that's an amazing story. You've You've got to

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Speaker 3: get that audio, mate, your.

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Speaker 1: Clowns would probably play it.

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Speaker 2: Well, this is the thing I mean, compared to that,

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Speaker 2: that story, compared to some of the stories that you've

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Speaker 2: told us. After a couple of drinks, where does.

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Speaker 1: Dick look at the time?

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Speaker 3: Mate, Dicky, we love the idea that you're doing this.

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Speaker 3: And I assume next episode is with Lauper.

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure which they've got next? Got any stories

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Speaker 1: on the Committee? Thanks?

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Speaker 3: Got the stories on Cyndy Lauper?

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Speaker 4: Time up?

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Speaker 2: Time?

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Speaker 1: I don't. I don't know anyway, I don't know what's happened.

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Speaker 2: Dickie's diary. It was when I saw that it was

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Speaker 2: fascinating because you also see the vision of Prince. He's

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Speaker 2: giving him nothing, but then takes him Kate and just

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Speaker 2: reveals everything for an hour.

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Speaker 4: But what does that say about someone like Prince? Is

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Speaker 4: it that he actually does want to connect with people

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Speaker 4: and He does want some people to know the real deed,

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Speaker 4: but what is presenting to the world is the absolute opposite.

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Speaker 2: It's unbelievable with Kate.

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Speaker 4: Ritchie is a Nova podcast.

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