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Speaker 1: As you may know, the Man Walk Darwin. It happens

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Speaker 1: every Saturday. It's a casual way for blokes to get

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Speaker 1: together and walk, talk and support each other. Now it's

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Speaker 1: not a counseling group or they're not there to tell

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Speaker 1: anyone what to do. It's just a bunch of blokes

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Speaker 1: going out for a walk. It's a really great initiative.

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Speaker 1: I often see the group while I'm out and about

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Speaker 1: exercising on a Saturday, and this weekend they've got a

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Speaker 1: special walk that is happening.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: Joining me on the line is the bloke who I

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Speaker 1: think started the man Walk here in Darwin. Plenty of

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Speaker 1: you will know him. His name's Jimmy Behorus. Good morning

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Speaker 1: to you, Jimmy, Good.

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Speaker 2: Morning Katie, Good morning listeners.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for having me mate, Thanks so much for

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Speaker 1: your time this morning. How did the man Walk start

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Speaker 1: here in Darwin?

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Speaker 2: Not for those of youn' I don't know. I'm a

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Speaker 2: counselor for the city of down for the Richardson Arean CASU.

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Speaker 2: I'm going to win door knocking all them. Years ago

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Speaker 2: I started to realize there was not too much for

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Speaker 2: men to do. I have to talk to a lot

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Speaker 2: of guys who said there wasn't too much news. So

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Speaker 2: I went back and spoke to one of the general

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Speaker 2: managers at the time, Josh Saddler, and told him, you know,

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Speaker 2: we should do something for men. And he told me

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Speaker 2: how to make down a Kayama Mark Boone, who started

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Speaker 2: up a thing called man Walk and said the concept

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Speaker 2: was just you know, guys walking, talking and supporting each other,

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Speaker 2: you know, to combat isolation by connecting men by walking

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Speaker 2: and talking. So I said, well, let's do it up here,

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Speaker 2: and that's how it came about four years ago.

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Speaker 1: I reckon it's an awesome initiative. And you know, quite

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Speaker 1: often I'll be out running around exercising and I see

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Speaker 1: you guys out walking together and it's like, it's really

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Speaker 1: nice to see Jimmy. It's you know, sometimes there's five

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Speaker 1: of you, sometimes there's like fifteen of you, but you're

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Speaker 1: just walking with each other and just that sort of matsmanship,

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Speaker 1: you know, to be having a chat and just out

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Speaker 1: for a walk. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: As you know, we had our two hundredth walk about

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Speaker 2: three weeks ago, so we've been going for four years.

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Speaker 2: You know, we are just a bunch of blokes is walking,

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Speaker 2: you know and giving an opportunity for a safe space

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Speaker 2: to these guys and discuss any issue. Like you said,

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Speaker 2: it's not a counseling place. It's about life in general

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Speaker 2: and health and well being. As you know, women are

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Speaker 2: a lot better than men talking about their things, and

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Speaker 2: men aren't very open to that stuff. So we're providing

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Speaker 2: that space so they can talk about it.

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Speaker 1: Now, tell me what's happening this weekend. What's the event

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Speaker 1: that's going on this weekends.

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Speaker 2: Well, our local legend, Rebecca Forrest, got in contact with

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Speaker 2: me and said there wasn't much happening for the Men's

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Speaker 2: Health Week last week yep, and she said that we

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Speaker 2: should put something on. So she put together a collaboration

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Speaker 2: of us with Man Walking, a whole heap of other

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Speaker 2: organizations to put a kind of an expert to let

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Speaker 2: people know that there are things for men to do.

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Speaker 2: So that's how this has come about. So that's what's

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Speaker 2: happening on Saturday.

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Speaker 1: Where is it happening and how can people get involved?

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Speaker 2: Okay, so this is taking well, we're kicking off across

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Speaker 2: from the deck bar at Bennett Park. That's starting at

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Speaker 2: seven o'clock. That's where we're all gather. We'll end up.

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Speaker 2: We'll start off with a three point five kilometer walk

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Speaker 2: through the city and then we'll end up back at

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Speaker 2: the park where we're going to have some breakfast being

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Speaker 2: put on by our local member Paul Kirby and our

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Speaker 2: federal member Luke Gosling. They've chipped in to make sure

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Speaker 2: we get some bacon and eggs cooked up for us.

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Speaker 2: And then I can big thank you out to Sean

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Speaker 2: Pierce from Ironbarch and Michael Kirk from a Variety for

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Speaker 2: putting on all the stalls down there. So if there's

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Speaker 2: any organizations out there as well that hasn't got in

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Speaker 2: contact with us, please come down and bring your stuff

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Speaker 2: down and have an opportunity. You know, you can gage

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Speaker 2: with a lot of men and women out there to

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Speaker 2: let us know what do you do, so you know

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Speaker 2: we've got more things for men to do in our town.

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Speaker 1: I reckon it's a great initiative, honestly, you know, I'm

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Speaker 1: like I am a big supporter of initiatives to try

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Speaker 1: men's health. I just think it's a really wonderful thing

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Speaker 1: to do, and good on you for stepping up as well.

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Speaker 1: You know, when there isn't a huge amount else on

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Speaker 1: for you know, for men, for men's health wake. I

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Speaker 1: think it's like it is just a really good thing

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Speaker 1: to do to get blokes out there, get you talking

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Speaker 1: and to stay healthy and supportive of each other.

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Speaker 2: Well yeah, so look at us. An opportunity for us

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Speaker 2: to expand too, so we'll get some more guys down there.

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Speaker 2: At the moment we're in down city. But you know,

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Speaker 2: I've always wanted to run the Casarina one and get

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Speaker 2: something down at Palmston. We've already got a lad who's

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Speaker 2: coming down who's going to start one up in Catherine.

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Speaker 2: We've got a guy down in Alice Springs already running one.

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Speaker 2: So it'd be good just to get that to expand

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Speaker 2: a little bit more. And this is an opportunity to

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Speaker 2: come down and walk, talk, support and understand what we're doing.

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Speaker 2: So it's one thing I do know about the territory community.

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Speaker 2: People can smell bs. They know when things aren't aren't right,

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Speaker 2: if we're damming, so it's good for them to come down.

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Speaker 2: I have great support our women. Most of our men

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Speaker 2: that come down are because women have sent them down

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Speaker 2: to come down and talk with us and walk and

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Speaker 2: connect back with the community. So thank you very much

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Speaker 2: for all the women out there, and I hope to

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Speaker 2: see a lot more come down on this Saturday to

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Speaker 2: experience and understand what we're about.

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Speaker 1: Oh good on you mate, So seven o'clock. Arrive at

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Speaker 1: seven o'clock for a seven point thirty walk and it

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Speaker 1: is at Bennett Park, the opposite the deck bar.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. So before you head out to the before we

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Speaker 2: drive boating, can be expo or do any of the

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Speaker 2: pride Fastic festivities or you know, any of the many

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Speaker 2: kid supporting commitments and they come down and trade support,

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Speaker 2: come say hello and understand what we do. And we're

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Speaker 2: on every Saturday. So this is the big one where

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Speaker 2: we have all everyone come down. But you know, if

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Speaker 2: you can't make it this time, that's fine. You men

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Speaker 2: are all invited to come down every Saturday seven o'clock.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, good stuff now, Jimmy, if anybody wants some further info,

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Speaker 1: is there a website where they can head to as

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Speaker 1: well or somewhere where they can go. Do they need

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Speaker 1: to register? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Look, if you head down to beg Forrest with no

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Speaker 2: one left behind website, she's got the big whereas it

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Speaker 2: says here men walked down and exposed social walk, so

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Speaker 2: you just get onto that. All the infos there you

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Speaker 2: want to get contact out of contact details are there?

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Speaker 2: Contact gone back and yeah, come on down.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Oh wonderful stuff. Jimmy, good on you, you know,

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Speaker 1: and and all those years ago, four years ago getting

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Speaker 1: it started. I think it's a really important thing to do.

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Speaker 1: And you know, to anybody out there that's this thing

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Speaker 1: that's thinking, oh should I head along? Head along, because

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Speaker 1: you know you've got to look after yourselves and sometimes

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Speaker 1: just going for a walk with some like minded people

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Speaker 1: having a bit of a yarn. It is a really

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Speaker 1: important thing to do.

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Speaker 2: And a big shout out to all the women out

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Speaker 2: there who are our greatest supporters. This would not be

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Speaker 2: where it is today four years later and hopefully moving

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Speaker 2: forward another four years or more, because if it wasn't

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Speaker 2: for the ladies in our lives, we wouldn't be Thank

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Speaker 2: you very much.

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Speaker 1: Good on you, Jimmy, Thanks so much for your time

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Speaker 1: this morning, mate, very much appreciate it. And hopefully we'll

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Speaker 1: get plenty of people down there to the man Walk

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Speaker 1: Darwin this weekend.

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Speaker 2: I hope to see it all there. Thank you very

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Speaker 2: much for the

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Speaker 1: Chat, no worries at all, Thanks Jimmy,