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Speaker 1: My next guest. Well, he's definitely a friend of this show.

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Speaker 1: And you know when he comes into the studio, you

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Speaker 1: can't get him an eye to stop talking really when

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Speaker 1: we're not on air, but we've got him more air

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Speaker 1: of course. It is indeed. Stroke survivor and advocate Richard

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Speaker 1: Krooks Crooksy good.

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Speaker 2: Morning to you, morning Wolf.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, good mate, good to see you in the studio. Now,

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Speaker 1: before I get into the work that you're doing to

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Speaker 1: to ask you, I know this on Anzac Day, will

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Speaker 1: you had done something that you've been wanting to do

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Speaker 1: or trying to do for quite some time, and you

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Speaker 1: marched on Anzac Day, didn't you?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Mate, yep, it was Yeah.

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Speaker 3: It was a bit of a I opened in a

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Speaker 3: shock to me to actually finally get there. It was

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Speaker 3: very overwhelming to get amongst some great old veterans and family,

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Speaker 3: friends and mates and them supporting me just in case

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Speaker 3: the people, I wasn't looking at anyone. People were yelling at me,

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Speaker 3: but I wasn't because I was concentrating where my feet

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Speaker 3: were going and trying to keep in time.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, have you been, like, have you been working

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Speaker 1: towards that for a while?

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Speaker 2: Just four years, Katie? Four years?

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Speaker 1: Oh, that is wonderful.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, I'm done my grandfather's medals and.

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Speaker 2: Put them on. He was World War Two and yeah,

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Speaker 2: one foot half the other. We made it, you legends.

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Speaker 1: That is so good. Look, I was a bit sad

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Speaker 1: to hear though, you'd said to me off fir that

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Speaker 1: after you've done that, and you've done something that you've

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Speaker 1: been working so bloody hard to do for the last

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Speaker 1: four years to be able to be able to be

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Speaker 1: able to march, you know, because to anybody out there listening,

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Speaker 1: that doesn't realize. You know, for for a stroke survivor

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Speaker 1: like Crooksy, that takes an enormous amount of your energy

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Speaker 1: and you've had to, like you've had to relearn to

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Speaker 1: to be able to get out there and do that

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Speaker 1: much on Anzac day is nothing short of phenomenal. Unfortunately,

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Speaker 1: later in the day, you and your wife were were

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Speaker 1: you going back to the car or where were you going?

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Speaker 3: No, I wanted to go and catch up with my

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Speaker 3: friend who owns a She owns a shop in the

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Speaker 2: It for it because it was a to a ship

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Speaker 2: in Is that Harry Colins?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, she was a beautiful listener to this show as well. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: oh mate, so you went into her shop, do you know.

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Speaker 1: I'm really glad that you did bring her up, because

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Speaker 1: she used to send me emails often on this show,

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Speaker 1: and when I saw that she'd passed, I shed a tear,

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Speaker 1: and I know I didn't know her aside from her

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Speaker 1: this show. So I'm really glad that you mentioned her

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Speaker 1: because I've not had the opportunity to and I think

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Speaker 1: and she was somebody who always did that. Crooksy Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Well, we grew up together and she always used to

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Speaker 3: She says, I'm not coming to see you. Goer to

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Speaker 3: She used to bring me once or twice a week,

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Speaker 1: Well, she'd be bloody proud that you marched, I'm sure

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Speaker 3: I always make sure I'm going in to the right

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Speaker 2: The same as me, you know. And it's not just

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Speaker 1: And you know, crooksy. It makes me feel really sad

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Speaker 1: she's never felt as unsafe as she does now. Now.

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Speaker 2: That's exactly right, and I know.

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Speaker 1: Everybody listening will feel exactly the same way, because you know,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a bit sad. You know.

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Speaker 3: We came here in nineteen seventy one and all my

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Speaker 1: That sucks smart.

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Speaker 2: Because it's scary, and you know, we shouldn't have to

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Speaker 3: Speak to other members in the community who retired and

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Speaker 3: I went to Kashermina with a friend a few weeks ago.

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Speaker 3: We had to walk inside, so we walked two k's

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and you're worry, mate, Crooksy, I'm really like, like

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Speaker 1: I said, I'm sorry that you feel that way, and

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Speaker 3: Well, it's they're raising money. The Stroke Foundation is raising

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Speaker 3: So we're having in one hundred and thirty one strokes

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Speaker 3: You know, I'm still visiting straight people.

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Speaker 2: You know, two other.

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Speaker 3: People I know in hospital now had strokes and you know,

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Speaker 2: I did thirty six k's last last month.

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Speaker 1: Good on you.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so it went around down and took the big

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Speaker 2: I know, all the dogs are I bet you doing it.

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Speaker 2: And it was.

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Speaker 3: Great because the people down there, I was we were

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Speaker 2: But it was really good.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, so I'm walking, and I'm trying to walk

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Speaker 3: fifty seven cays by the end of May.

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Speaker 1: All right, Well we'll have to go for a walk

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Speaker 1: at some point. I'm sure our listeners will probably potentially

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Speaker 2: So that's my goal.

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Speaker 1: Oh that's so good.

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Speaker 1: So fifty seven k's for the month of May, and

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Speaker 1: How good?

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Speaker 3: And it starts at eight o'clock on the twentieth, so

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Speaker 3: and you can adults of twenty dollars, this family passes

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Speaker 1: you notice that I'm behaving myself really today? Mate? We

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Speaker 2: Check for holes. Well, if she doesn't want me to

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Speaker 1: Not coming out to do all your work for you, keys,

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Speaker 3: Around as long as he makes me a cup of tea.

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Speaker 1: You've done that to yourself now, crooksy, don't make me

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Speaker 2: Installed soon.

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Speaker 3: I'm not to say any dates because we're still going

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Speaker 1: Thank you for the work that you continue to do. Crooksy,

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Speaker 1: your bloody legend. Mate. Always love having you in the studio.

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Speaker 1: We will talk to you again very soon, definitely as

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Speaker 1: you continue on throughout the month of March, and.

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Speaker 2: I'll see you around the track.

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Speaker 1: Sounds like a plub good on your Cropsy. Thank you