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Peter Stark - Tales of Adventure, Exploration, & Epic Battles

Mountain & Prairie with Ed Roberson

CHAPTER

George Was a Fundamental Creator of the Playbook of the West

George washington created the play book for this land hunger, land greed and breaking treaties with native tribes. He was a fundamental creator of that kind of templet to acquire lands to the west in this continent. And thereare a lot of ways that they were acquired, in very dubious and also violent methods, from from indian tribes. They then use those lands as uno speculation aceds to sell to people who are starting a new life, moving west.

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Speaker 3
Are a hundred, 90 kgs. A hundred 90 pons,
Speaker 1
two point two and pams. That sounds like it's heavy. It sounds like it's over 400 ound. Hundred, 98 goso, four hunder. So you're still in, like, you're keeping in game shape. What about injuries? Cause i'd imagine there's a million that you had. Rugby feels like one of those sports that, if you ever talked to ane played rugby, there, like, ye, i broke my neck. I broke my arm, i did this.
Speaker 3
Did you have a ton of injuries? I was so fortunate, and really that the worst i had was a broken ankle, you know. So, i i just played so much rugby an back to back seasons without suffering, ou know, radof you, no injurie. I was this very fortunate. Man. I guess i'd credet to my, to my conditionin coachman, i'd a great coincns, i aenjoo sang oso, mama, yourrman, i'll claim it. I'm a beasts.
Speaker 1
I played a little bit at, you know, divin a division one men's level, which is nowhere near as good, even as like, majorleage ruggby in the united states right now. But
Speaker 4
a, allot
Speaker 1
the props that i played with, which is your position, they have like, you know, as their career gets longer and longer, they have to get no shoulder. If you start to pop up, especiallywith props and neck issues. There are guys, know that i've gotn morie, that have spent like, their entire life playing loose head prop, and one side of their body is now bigger and over calcified, like their bones are physically bigger on one side. Bcause you've just spend so much time hitting that side, did you have to actually, like, work to counter train the other side of your body to make sure that you weren't getting like, over use injuries? Yes.

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