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Ben Stubbs

Researcher

Jun 28, 2026

LachieHOST
11:46
What was, what was like the, obviously you're playing AFL and you were working, but when was, when did it become like,
11:53
oh, this is, this is the main thing.
11:55
Yeah.
11:55
Well, it was like, cause I had that dream originally before I went out of like streaming or like playing 2k and stuff.
12:01
Um, but then I was like playing waffle footy, which is like huge commitment, especially if you're working.
12:06
Um, so yeah, I was working as a teacher aid and then I was like, like something's got to change.
12:11
Like if I want to do, cause I was like, go wake up in the morning, five o'clock at a gym swim.
LachieHOST
14:49
What was the first brand you worked with? Do you remember?
27:12
And Mary Gilmore?
27:14
She ended up going to South America and she, Anne Whitehead, and she married one of the colonists, Anne Whitehead, who wrote a wonderful book about the New Australian Experiment in the 1990s.
27:28
She wrote a follow-up that kind of followed Mary Gilmore and her blue stocking adventure in South America as well.
27:36
Because Argentina, sorry, had other colonies as well.
27:40
There's a Welsh, a famous Welsh colony in Patagonia with, you know, again, that has lingered as well.
27:47
So, you know, that same ideal of farming and hope was what led Mary Gilmore South.
27:53
And I think that...
30:02
And were there many Roddy Woods that you came across? I mean, were people speaking English? Did they look Australian like Roddy did?

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