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Katie Woolf spoke with Matt Hull and Rebecca Forrest about the Men’s Health Event · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: Now, I always love hearing about great events that are
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  Speaker 1: happening around the territory, but I particularly like hearing about
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  Speaker 1: wonderful events that are organized for our great men in
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  Speaker 1: the community. And on Thursday this week it's actually International
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  Speaker 1: Men's Day, I believe.
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  Speaker 2: That's the correct title.
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  Speaker 1: And joining me in the studio to tell us more
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  Speaker 1: about a fantastic event it's going to be happening on
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  Speaker 1: Thursday in celebration. I've got beck Forrest, who is the
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  Speaker 1: organizer of the wonderful event.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning, Good morning, Katie, thanks for having us on.
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  Speaker 1: Lovely to have you in the studio. And I've also
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  Speaker 1: got Matt Hull, who is a case manager for Mates
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  Speaker 1: in Construction.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning to you. Maddie. Ops, I've got your wrong
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  Speaker 2: microphone turned on. Mate. We better make sure we got
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  Speaker 2: hang on. Are we right?
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  Speaker 4: No, that's meeting.
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  Speaker 2: We better move your Micael. That's the problem there.
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  Speaker 3: Talking out belly.
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  Speaker 2: It's because we.
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  Speaker 1: Were talking too much before we actually got on air,
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  Speaker 1: because I was very excited that you brought me a
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  Speaker 1: box of pens. Now, I tell you what, when we
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  Speaker 1: talk about men's health, and when we talk about men
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  Speaker 1: in general and their mental health and various other issues
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  Speaker 1: around men's health.
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  Speaker 2: You guys are two people who I know do a
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  Speaker 2: lot in the community in this space.
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  Speaker 1: Matt, You've come in on numerous occasions to talk about
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  Speaker 1: the great work that gets underway with mates in construction.
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  Speaker 1: But this Thursday, we're sort of going to see everything
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  Speaker 1: really come together in a celebration for our blokes.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's actually really exciting. It's the International Men's Day Forum.
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  Speaker 3: It's like a one stop shop for men to chat
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  Speaker 3: about all different topics and a bit of comedy in
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  Speaker 3: there as well. So it's going to be a great day.
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  Speaker 2: It is going to be a great day. Now, what
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  Speaker 2: can we expect?
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  Speaker 1: What can the blocks that are maybe thinking about heading along,
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  Speaker 1: what can they expect?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Sure, So it's basically going to be around two hundred
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  Speaker 3: men and women. Women aren't excluded at all, coming together
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  Speaker 3: and hearing some incredible stories from the likes of Gerard Nisham.
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  Speaker 3: He's a sports superstar, but he also founded Klontat Foundation
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  Speaker 3: for all of our young Aboriginal boys. Tick Everett from
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  Speaker 3: Dolly's Dream. So suicide prevention is certainly going to be
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  Speaker 3: a topic, but just about resilience and empowerment opportunity to network,
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  Speaker 3: and Maddie here is one of our keynote speakers, so.
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  Speaker 4: I get to talk about myself again.
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  Speaker 1: Well it's but you know, we can joke about that,
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  Speaker 1: but you're actually doing some great stuff in terms of,
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  Speaker 1: you know, looking after each other in the construction industry,
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  Speaker 1: and certainly when you talk about mental health.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, thanks for that. I love it when people tell
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  Speaker 4: me I'm doing good things with these bad things. I
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  Speaker 4: don't want to hear about it, but no. Yeah, so Mates,
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  Speaker 4: obviously is it all about suicide prevention getting out there
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  Speaker 4: and promoting that conversation the starter And also I actually
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  Speaker 4: saw a car the other day and I want to
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  Speaker 4: I just remembered it, but a blowcat on his back
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  Speaker 4: of his windscreen. Darwin's got some pretty wicked number plates.
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  Speaker 4: I saw a sticket. I said it ain't wait to speak,
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  Speaker 4: and I just thought, that's brilliant. That's that's something you
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  Speaker 4: know that you don't really see too often in the territory.
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  Speaker 4: But I suppose for Thursday's event, I'll be out there
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  Speaker 4: talking about mental health and the construction, mining and energy
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  Speaker 4: industries and what it is that MATES does and my
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  Speaker 4: own story about how I got to that place. But
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  Speaker 4: we're gonna hear from I can't wait to hear from
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  Speaker 4: old mate Geroni from November. Yeah, so I'm actually going
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  Speaker 4: to be just glued to a chair to listen to that.
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  Speaker 3: So he's the bloke who started November. Yeah, he had
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  Speaker 3: a terrible mo sitting in a pub. His mates gave
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  Speaker 3: him flak for it, and that started the November movie.
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  Speaker 1: He's responsible for all they mustaches.
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  Speaker 2: It's all this.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think I didn't tell him that dating in
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  Speaker 3: November is pretty pretty awful.
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  Speaker 4: Look. I actually went to a company the other day
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  Speaker 4: and I did a big chat and to a whole
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  Speaker 4: bunch of people, and it was actually about seventy five
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  Speaker 4: percent ladies there and there was twenty five per cent blokes.
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  Speaker 4: And I said, you know, men'sdays on Thursday, and they went,
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  Speaker 4: what one day? That's all you can have one day?
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  Speaker 4: And then all these women were like taking everything that
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  Speaker 4: they're only about one day, Leave us alone. You men
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  Speaker 4: can have one. You got your stupid mustaches for a month.
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  Speaker 2: You can't have them forever.
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  Speaker 1: No, But look, I just think this is such a
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  Speaker 1: great thing to do, because you know, we do a
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  Speaker 1: lot of wonderful events for women as we should. You know,
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  Speaker 1: there's no doubt about that. We certainly have a lot
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  Speaker 1: for International Women's Day and beg you do a lot in.
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  Speaker 2: That space as well. What started this?
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  Speaker 1: Do people start saying, do you how come you're not
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  Speaker 1: doing anything for the law?
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  Speaker 3: Pretty well, Yes, I've worked for police for fire an
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  Speaker 3: emergency for ten years, so I've got a lot of
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  Speaker 3: guy friends and they troll me. Every International Women's Day.
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  Speaker 3: I get abused basically by my mate, your sex is
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  Speaker 3: what about the men?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not kidding.
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  Speaker 3: Our Google search International Men's Day has been around for
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  Speaker 3: twenty one years, and yet what have we done? We've
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  Speaker 3: done nothing. So I went right, guys, it's going to
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  Speaker 3: take a chick to organize your event.
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  Speaker 2: Let's roll with it. And I love men and women.
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  Speaker 3: I'm actually all about equity, and I think it takes
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  Speaker 3: conversations from both sides. I don't even like the idea
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  Speaker 3: that they're segregated to be fair, so little by little,
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  Speaker 3: I'm trying to bring us all together.
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  Speaker 2: That's just what I do.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's a great thing to do, and I
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  Speaker 1: think it'll be a wonderful event. Now talk us through
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  Speaker 1: who those keynote speakers are just if there's anybody out
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  Speaker 1: there listening who thinks, oh I wouldn't mind buying a
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  Speaker 1: ticket to this.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Sure. So, like I mentioned Jared Nisham, I just love
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  Speaker 3: that he's his sports superstar. But klontarle foundation to get Basically,
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  Speaker 3: he was a teacher that wanted to get Aboriginal boys
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  Speaker 3: into school, so he took it to the trees, he
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  Speaker 3: took them camping. He started all of those initiatives that
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  Speaker 3: led to the outdoor learning and we still see it
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  Speaker 3: going strong. In fact, more kids this year year, twelve
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  Speaker 3: Aboriginal boys graduated through the Contents Program and the NT
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  Speaker 3: than ever before.
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  Speaker 2: It's great.
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  Speaker 3: Professor Mick Dodson is our Australian of the Year representative.
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  Speaker 3: He's going to come and have a chat about his life.
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  Speaker 3: It's more about journeys and stories, so just let people
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  Speaker 3: know it's not really the head of suicide prevention talking
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  Speaker 3: about what they're doing to stop it. It's actually the
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  Speaker 3: real people talking about their journey and their story. So
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  Speaker 3: it's a lot of that heart. It's going to be
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  Speaker 3: a really special event. And like I said, Tick Everett,
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  Speaker 3: the MC of course is Richie Fijo, So we're going
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  Speaker 3: to have a Yeah it is. It's going to be
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  Speaker 3: a really lovely day. And what I love is we've
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  Speaker 3: got representation. I think the youngest kids about fourteen, and
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  Speaker 3: I know that Marianne bin Salik, Professor Marianne bin Salik,
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  Speaker 3: if she heard me or I'm in trouble, She's just
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  Speaker 3: turned eighty, so I know that there's fourteen to at
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  Speaker 3: least eighty in the room, all different industries as well.
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  Speaker 4: Like I'll be there, So that's always good to see that.
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  Speaker 4: I think if you're listening today and you're thinking, you know,
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  Speaker 4: this sounds like a good event, but I can't make her.
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  Speaker 4: You know, there are so many people that are going
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  Speaker 4: to represent like I know, okay, you're you're run with dad.
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  Speaker 4: I did it for the first time. Yeah you did
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  Speaker 4: up the hill. I still haven't forgiven you for that.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not built for running. But no, like, yeah, there's
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  Speaker 4: so many organizations out there, and I'm sure me and
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  Speaker 4: Beck do a list up of all the all the
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  Speaker 4: different stuff out there for people to reach out to
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  Speaker 4: and hear from it and speak to. And I just
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  Speaker 4: say a big thanks to back because she rang me
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  Speaker 4: and said, Matt, what do I do who I speak
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  Speaker 4: to and I said, yeah, do this, do that, and
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  Speaker 4: she put it all together. So yeah, it's really interesting
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  Speaker 4: that we've got to this point and I can't wait.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I think it's going to be fantastic and you know,
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  Speaker 1: wonderful to have an event for the blokes on International
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  Speaker 1: Men's Day, but also wonderful for women to go along
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  Speaker 1: and support as well. Now where can people go if
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  Speaker 1: they are listening and they think, oh, I wouldn't mind
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  Speaker 1: buying a ticket.
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  Speaker 3: To Yeah, sure, So you can go to the International
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  Speaker 3: Men's Day Forum. There's a Facebook page and all of
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  Speaker 3: your links will be there, and we're really trying to
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  Speaker 3: encourage organizations they can send a table of six for
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  Speaker 3: one thousand bucks and then support all of their staff
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  Speaker 3: to come along, which is just going to be very cool.
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  Speaker 3: So Facebook page International Men's Day.
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  Speaker 4: For them networking afterwards.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's always a good thing, mate, it's a good thing.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you both so much for coming into the studio
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  Speaker 1: this morning, and we'll talk to you again very soon.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And can I just throw it out there if you
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  Speaker 3: can't make it to the forum, please make sure you
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  Speaker 3: do something really special for yourself or for a man
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  Speaker 3: in your orbit. This international Men's say.
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  Speaker 2: Good stuff. Good on your Beck and Maddie, thanks so
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  Speaker 2: much for coming in today. You two. You are listening
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