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Speaker 1: It's not the weather, I'd choose for a stroll on

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Speaker 1: the Charles River Esplanade, but Dave Santulli has other ideas.

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Speaker 2: And basically we're just hoping to get people to come together,

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Speaker 2: go for a walk, get outside, meet some new friends,

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Speaker 2: get off their phones for a little while.

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Speaker 1: He's the lead organizer of Walk with Your People, a

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Speaker 1: new organization started in Boston to draw people out of

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Speaker 1: their shelves a little. He says, isolation has taken a

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Speaker 1: toll on us, and the way to fix that is

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Speaker 1: to make a space one hour a week where people

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Speaker 1: can feel comfortable getting to know one another.

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Speaker 2: There's no agenda with this. We're not getting together because

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Speaker 2: we're looking for some outcome. We're getting together to just

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Speaker 2: spend time together and celebrate life.

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Speaker 1: Dave envisions the walks as a monthly thing that have

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Speaker 1: different themes, and he wants to turn this into a

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Speaker 1: worldwide phenomenon. There's already a website and everything. As I

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Speaker 1: spoke to him as first walker showed up, Anna, who

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Speaker 1: saw his post online, was intrigued.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I hear about these run clubs, but I'm like,

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Speaker 3: you can't personally, I can't really talk to people I'm running,

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Speaker 3: and so a walking club that has kind of a

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Speaker 3: theme for the conversations and to new people sounded great.

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Speaker 1: Kyle Shaffle, WBZ, Boston's news radio