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Speaker 1: You will recall earlier this month or towards the end

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Speaker 1: of last month, we had our good friend Richard Crooks

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Speaker 1: on the show. We went for a walk with him

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Speaker 1: before the week. That was because he was planning to

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Speaker 1: walk twelve kilometers during November to raise twelve thousand dollars

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Speaker 1: for the Stroke Foundation and of course raise awareness and

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Speaker 1: the signs to look out for when it comes to stroke. Now,

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Speaker 1: I'm very pleased to say that joining me in the

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Speaker 1: studio right now is Crooksy. Good morning, Crooksy morning, Katie.

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Speaker 2: How are you?

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Speaker 1: I'm very good mate. How are you? And how many

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Speaker 1: kilometers have you managed to walk so far?

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Speaker 2: About nine point six k's for the month so far,

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Speaker 2: and today's will be the final, will probably go over

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Speaker 2: twelve k's today thanks to Grant Jewsbury from the Turf

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Speaker 2: Club Unions mission to walk around the track. So yeah,

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Speaker 2: So it's been a tough struggle, but you know, I

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Speaker 2: think about mates to have passed away a stroke and

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Speaker 2: other people have had stroke. Just gives me the incentive

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Speaker 2: to keep going. And you think about that and that

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Speaker 2: just keeps push on. But it's been struggle. I've been

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Speaker 2: walking every third day with my physio or mates and

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Speaker 2: even with yourself, and it takes me two days to

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Speaker 2: recoep from from just walking out.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well crookxy. That's the thing that probably a lot

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Speaker 1: of people don't even realize that, you know, like they

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Speaker 1: may listen and think twelve k's you know that would

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Speaker 1: be tough after, you know, after having a stroke, but

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Speaker 1: it is, like it's it's physically exhausting and trying to

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Speaker 1: recover from that after you've gone for a walk is

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Speaker 1: like it's quite a stress on your body, isn't it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's yeah, it's like you know, I used to

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Speaker 2: be able to run all over the place when I

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Speaker 2: was younger, playing footing. Yeah, no dramas, but these days

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Speaker 2: walking is.

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Speaker 1: Just Yeah, it's been a bloody champion effort. There is

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Speaker 1: no doubt about that. Like you said, it's going to

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Speaker 1: culminate this afternoon at the Turf Club. What time are

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Speaker 1: people going there?

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Speaker 2: We're all meeting it around near the tunnel entrance through

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Speaker 2: two around five point fifteen to five point thirty, and

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Speaker 2: it's after the last race, so hopefully we'll have a

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Speaker 2: few quite a few mayors and a few phillies, maybe

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Speaker 2: a couple of geldings will rock up, but there's a

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Speaker 2: few of us.

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Speaker 1: So I reckon you'll have plenty of people there now.

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Speaker 1: In terms of the money that you've raised, now you

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Speaker 1: were hoping to raise twelve thousand dollars. Where are you at.

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Speaker 2: I've just been informed this morning from Stride for Straight

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Speaker 2: Foundation that on the second I'm the highest individual in

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Speaker 2: Australia to raise money and I raised just over fourteen

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Speaker 2: dollars in twenty nine days.

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Speaker 1: So you legend.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, thanks to you your support and everyone out

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Speaker 2: there in the top end and in the Southern States

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Speaker 2: have trusted me and got behind me and pushed me

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Speaker 2: over to the limit.

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Speaker 1: And yeah, how like you must be feeling pretty proud

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Speaker 1: that you've been able to raise that much money because

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Speaker 1: you'd said to me downstairs here when we went for

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Speaker 1: a walk on that first day, or you know, I'll

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Speaker 1: see how it goes if we can get to that amount,

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Speaker 1: and we're like, mate, I reckon, you're going to do better,

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Speaker 1: and you absolutely have.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's been overwhelming. People seeing me in the street

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Speaker 2: and saying we get donating, giving me money donating and yeah,

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Speaker 2: messaging me through my wife. You know, it's just been

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Speaker 2: pretty overwhelming, Like it's good as getting the message out there,

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Speaker 2: and that's what I want to do, to get the

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Speaker 2: message out there to everyone. Yeah, you know how serious

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Speaker 1: You know, now tell me Crooksy, I understand you might

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Speaker 1: be the highest money raiser for Stride for Stroke at

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Speaker 1: this point in time as an individual. Yes, across Australia.

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Speaker 1: You are awesome. That's so good.

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Speaker 2: That is so good, pretty amazing. Yeah, I was a

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Speaker 2: bit overwhelmed when I told me.

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Speaker 1: I just yeah, oh mate, that is so good. And

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Speaker 1: you know, like for me, you're so passionate about this,

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Speaker 1: but you're so passionate about making sure that people are

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Speaker 1: making sure that you raise awareness and so the money

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Speaker 1: is such a huge thing, but I think the thing

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Speaker 1: that's even more important is the fact that, like you said,

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Speaker 1: you've got those conversations going, You've got people talking about

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Speaker 1: the signs of a stroke. You know. It's something that

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Speaker 1: I went home and told my kids I've done. I think,

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Speaker 1: you know, I want them to know what the signs

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Speaker 1: something that you've taught me, is it even young people

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Speaker 2: And hopefully next year, if I can get some support

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Speaker 2: from from our politicisan friends, I can get to the

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Speaker 2: schools and talk to do some talks with kids, get

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Speaker 2: the message out there and maybe even get some sort

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Speaker 2: of little fly from or something that can clip on

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Speaker 2: their school bag or fridge magnet even go out there.

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Speaker 2: Because their brains are like a sponge, they remember everything,

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Speaker 2: and you know, one little kid can save someone's life

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Speaker 2: that easy by just looking at that magnet or whatever

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Speaker 2: with the fastest symptoms on there. Once they know, they.

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Speaker 1: Know absolutely Now Crooksy, I know that you visit the

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Speaker 1: rehab ward regularly as well. It's not just about you know,

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Speaker 1: raising awareness of stroke, but you also, I suppose have

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Speaker 1: really wanted people to kind of understand too that we

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Speaker 2: No, we don't. We have a reaward and we've got

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Speaker 2: great nurses, ots and physios working in that ward, and

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Speaker 2: the ward is full of people with other disabilities, and

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Speaker 2: it's a shame to say that there's even elderly people

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Speaker 2: waiting for placement in a retirement or care ward or somewhere.

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Speaker 2: There is nothing for them, so they get stuck in

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Speaker 2: the rehabilitation ward, which is more care for. They need

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Speaker 2: as much as a straight patient, as a straight patient needs,

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Speaker 2: you know, they demand, well they don't demand, they really

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Speaker 2: need the first three months have lots and lots of

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Speaker 2: staffing to do that, because they're tied up with people,

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Speaker 2: which is sad to say, age care waiting for waiting

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Speaker 2: for accommodation and just takes eventhing up. You know, just

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Speaker 2: recently came back from Madelaide for the opening of the

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Speaker 2: new stroke water at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital. They've all

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Speaker 2: got their own individual rooms for every patient and so on,

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Speaker 2: and that's the difference. And we really need to make

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Speaker 2: that something like that happen here. I don't know when,

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Speaker 2: but it's got to happen. You know, numbers in a Australia,

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Speaker 2: you know, in twenty twenty was twenty six thousand and

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Speaker 2: seven hundred people had strokes. This year it's unbelievable, forty

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Speaker 2: five thousand and six hundred.

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Speaker 1: Ye it's huge, Like they're massive numbers, and you also think,

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Speaker 1: you know, the reality of it is that every one

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Speaker 1: member at some stage in their life that realistically does

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Speaker 1: have a stroke, and so that money does need to

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Speaker 1: be invested. But I also truly believe that if you

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Speaker 1: do invest and you've got that you know the rehab there,

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Speaker 1: and you've got those those places here in the Northern Territory,

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Speaker 1: that it will potentially save money in the long term

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Speaker 1: because you're not having to send people away as well for.

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Speaker 2: That support exactly.

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Speaker 1: So crooksy mate, you are such a legend. You've done

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Speaker 1: such a tremendous job in terms of how far you've

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Speaker 1: walked and how much money you've raised. There's still a

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Speaker 1: bit of time though, isn't there If people do still

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Speaker 1: want to make a donation to head to the Stride

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Speaker 1: for Stroke website and they can just search your name.

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Speaker 2: Can't They just click on Richard Crooks and just go

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Speaker 2: straight to there.

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Speaker 1: And they can also turn up this afternoon as well

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Speaker 1: if they're keen.

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Speaker 2: If they're keen and join the rest of us. So

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Speaker 2: it's a first ever event for people to walk around

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Speaker 2: the track, which is you know, Yeah, very good.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's awesome. Well mate, you've got messages people texting

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Speaker 1: through just saying good on your Crooksy so well done.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Thanks so much for all your time this

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Speaker 1: month as well, and for taking us for a walk

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Speaker 1: now and you're pointing to some stats there for me,

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Speaker 1: are you what do you? I'll read that out after

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Speaker 1: you can tell me off air and I'll talk to

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Speaker 1: you after Crooks. Thank you so much for joining me

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Speaker 1: in the studio as always, mate,