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The Lost Irish Tradition Of Lifting Heavy Stones

The Blindboy Podcast

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The Importance of Strength and Size

The laboring people of Ireland and maybe the 1600s might go through a stone of potatoes a day because they'd be eating breakfast, lunch and dinner. Finn DeWire: If someone isn't getting enough calories, they're not building walls. The other thing too is is if you have a culture emerging where strength and size becomes a competition, then it must mean there's a lot of strong, large people around.

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