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Speaker 1: Jonesy and Amanda's Well.

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Speaker 2: The entertainment industry was heartbroken after the godfather of Australian music,

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Speaker 2: Michael Gadinski passed away well and ahead of his memorial

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Speaker 2: service tomorrow, Mike Munroe and Foxtel Arts have a tribute

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Speaker 2: airing tonight because Mike's interviewed Michael many times over the

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Speaker 2: years and Mike Munroe's with us now, Good.

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Speaker 1: Morning, Mike, Morning, Amanda, Hi Jonesy.

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Speaker 3: Hello Mike.

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Speaker 2: So you interviewed him just recently, Actually didn't you.

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Speaker 1: Well, look it was it was not too it was

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Speaker 1: it's probably probably about eighteen months, two years ago, to

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Speaker 1: be honest with you, but it's probably the last definitive,

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Speaker 1: in depth interview that Michael ever gave. I mean, I

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Speaker 1: did this life on him a number of years ago.

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Speaker 1: I've interviewed him during the Kylie years, Billie Thorp years,

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Speaker 1: all the big band years. But for Foxtel I did

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Speaker 1: a series and documentary series called Makeship, which was, you know,

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Speaker 1: American and Australia's relationship over the last hundred years, including

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Speaker 1: our music relationships, and Giddinsky of course was imperative for

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Speaker 1: that and we did a really in depth interview with him,

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Speaker 1: and because it's running, it's running tonight, as you said

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Speaker 1: before the memorial, and it goes about half an hour,

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Speaker 1: and he takes us right from his childhood right up

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Speaker 1: to you know, not too long ago when he was

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Speaker 1: actually saying ironically, who might actually take over the company

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Speaker 1: for him? But he said, but not now, not for

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Speaker 1: a long while yet.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, right, but Mattie, So, Mattie's son was always going

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Speaker 3: to be the heir apparent.

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Speaker 1: Well, he didn't say, to be honest, Jones, I mean,

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Speaker 1: you know, you know, he might have alluded to Kate

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Speaker 1: as well. He loves certain music, but he was talking

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Speaker 1: about the kids that are hoping, hoping that one day

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Speaker 1: the kids would take over the business.

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Speaker 2: Yes, he was only twenty when he founded that label.

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Speaker 2: It's extraordinary, isn't it.

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Speaker 1: He is amazing, I mean when you look at it.

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Speaker 1: But even before that, Amanda, I mean, he was the

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Speaker 1: family grew up, as you know, with the Russian immigrants.

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Speaker 1: His moment and a lot of people just let me

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Speaker 1: say that his dad, Kober, actually also died of a

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Speaker 1: sudden heart attack. I'm not sure that's been mentioned of late,

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Speaker 1: but they both came from Russia and then they lived

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Speaker 1: in Corfield and Melbourne near the race course. And when

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Speaker 1: he was I think he was seven years old, he

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Speaker 1: was Michael Gadinsky, Michael Solomon Gadinsky was charging people one

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Speaker 1: shilling or ten cents to park seven cars in their

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Speaker 1: backyard during the races. He was an entrepreneur right from

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Speaker 1: that agent and then then putting on dancers before it

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Speaker 1: had even left school, at which six hundred people were

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Speaker 1: turning up.

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Speaker 3: And he didn't play a musical instrument.

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Speaker 1: No, he didn't know. Isn't that incredible? I mean, he

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Speaker 1: just had this he just had this insight into into

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Speaker 1: knowing what was going to work and what wasn't going

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Speaker 1: to work. And he was it was always just so

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Speaker 1: up that every time he met him, and again and

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Speaker 1: again during this interview, he he was always so enthusiastic.

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Speaker 1: You couldn't you couldn't help being swept up by his

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Speaker 1: own enthusiasm. He started with his arms folded, you know,

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Speaker 1: a little protective, you know, doing another and then by

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Speaker 1: the end of it, he was almost jumping out of

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Speaker 1: his chair, the arms are waving, just gesturing just how

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Speaker 1: much he loved his industry and how much he wanted

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Speaker 1: to give for it. He was such an exciting character.

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Speaker 3: It's like that wristband that he wore just there was

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Speaker 3: a wise rubber wristbands you get from a charity or

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Speaker 3: something like that, but it just said, don't f up.

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Speaker 1: That was his that was his thing.

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Speaker 2: Maybe you should wear one.

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Speaker 3: Maybe I should get a wristband. Well, Mike, I'm looking

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Speaker 3: forward to seeing this. Michael Godinsky. My story premiere is

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Speaker 3: on Foxtel Arts tonight seven thirty with our main man

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Speaker 3: Mike Munroe

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Speaker 1: With Jos and Amanda