Episode 41: Becoming Booker In Knoxville (A Look At Success & Tribulation) The Wrestling Stoop W/Bob Roop podcast

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The Wrestling Stoop is back as Bob Roop continues to talk the early 1980s in Georgia and other random memories from throughout his career. We discuss the firing of Paul Orndorff in GCW, The Road Warriors having road-rage and leaving for the AWA, the "wrestler's handshake", the Matt Borne/Brian Blair fight, Ole Anderson's no nonsense business demeanor, Orndorff biting off a piece of Tony Atlas' ear and laying out Vader, Johnny B. Badd restructuring his contract in WCW, & more! Please Subscribe to our Patreon to help pay the bills, https://www.patreon.com/wrestlecopia Includes the $5 “All Access” Tier & $9 "VIP Superfan" Tier featuring our VIDEO CASTS, Patreon Watch-Along Series, our insanely detailed show notes (for the Grenade, Monday Warfare, Regional Rasslin, Puro Academy, & Retro Re-View), Early Show Releases! PLUS, monthly DIGITAL DOWNLOADS for your viewing and reading pleasure! WRESTLECOPIA MERCHANDISE - https://www.teepublic.com/user/wrestlecopia Visit the WrestleCopia Podcast Network https://wrestlecopia.com Follow WrestleCopia on “X” (Formerly Twitter) @RasslinGrenade Follow & LIKE our FACEBOOK PAGE – https://www.facebook.com/RasslinGrenade Subscribe to the WrestleCopia Youtube Channel at https://www.youtube.com/RasslinGrenade ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★…

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Episode 54: Bret Hart, Piper, Sheik, Schultz, Payoffs, Drugs, More! 1:35:17

19 днів тому1:35:17

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The Wrestling Stoop is back as Bob Roop continues to discuss his time working for Ole Anderson in Georgia Championship Wrestling. We talk stories involving The Iron Sheik, "Dr. D" David Schultz, a young Bret Hart, Tommy Rich, Roddy Piper being fired, Ole's rule for no-shows, drug use in the territory, payoffs on the Georgia loop & for TV, and so much more! Please Subscribe to our Patreon to help pay the bills, https://www.patreon.com/wrestlecopia Includes the $5 “All Access” Tier & $9 "VIP Superfan" Tier featuring our VIDEO CASTS, Patreon Watch-Along Series, our insanely detailed show notes (for the Grenade, Monday Warfare, Regional Rasslin, Puro Academy, & Retro Re-View), Early Show Releases! PLUS, monthly DIGITAL DOWNLOADS for your viewing and reading pleasure! WRESTLECOPIA MERCHANDISE - https://www.teepublic.com/user/wrestlecopia Visit the WrestleCopia Podcast Network https://wrestlecopia.com Follow WrestleCopia on “X” (Formerly Twitter) @RasslinGrenade Follow & LIKE our FACEBOOK PAGE – https://www.facebook.com/RasslinGrenade Subscribe to the WrestleCopia Youtube Channel at https://www.youtube.com/RasslinGrenade ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★…

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Episode 53: Arriving in Georgia, Ole Anderson, Buzz Sawyer, Stretching Marks, More! 1:44:11

26 днів тому1:44:11

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It's the latest Wrestling Stoop w/Bob Roop as we begin to discuss Bob's lengthy run working for Ole Anderson and Georgia Championship Wrestling in the early 1980s. We talk leaving Mid-South and heading to Georgia, the passing of Bob's father during that time period, Bob's real feelings behind stretching marks and the "incident" from Florida that was aired by the WWE, working in the office for Ole and what it entailed, the 3 men Ole trusted, babysitting Buzz Sawyer, Tommy Rich's car wreck and run-in with the law, Buck Robley's plan to run opposition, what got Les Thatcher and Ronnie West fired, Ole's sense of humor, the Iron Sheik, Brad Armstrong, Jack Brisco, the Road Warriors, Bob's "fat ass", and so much more! Please Subscribe to our Patreon to help pay the bills, https://www.patreon.com/wrestlecopia Includes the $5 “All Access” Tier & $9 "VIP Superfan" Tier featuring our VIDEO CASTS, Patreon Watch-Along Series, our insanely detailed show notes (for the Grenade, Monday Warfare, Regional Rasslin, Puro Academy, & Retro Re-View), Early Show Releases! PLUS, monthly DIGITAL DOWNLOADS for your viewing and reading pleasure! WRESTLECOPIA MERCHANDISE - https://www.teepublic.com/user/wrestlecopia Visit the WrestleCopia Podcast Network https://wrestlecopia.com Follow WrestleCopia on “X” (Formerly Twitter) @RasslinGrenade Follow & LIKE our FACEBOOK PAGE – https://www.facebook.com/RasslinGrenade Subscribe to the WrestleCopia Youtube Channel at https://www.youtube.com/RasslinGrenade ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★…

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Episode 52: ASK BOB #3 (Matt Borne Fired, Jose Lothario, Road Warrior Allergies, More!) 1:30:59

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It's the final episode of a trilogy of "ASK BOB ANYTHING" Q&A s to kick off the new year! This week Bob continues to answer your questions and hear stories about the promiscuous Jose Lothario, Matt Borne's issues in Georgia, what are the Road Warriors allergic to(?!), Tito Santana, Tim Horner, The Destroyer, Ole Anderson, Gordon Solie, Bob's biggest accomplishment and biggest mistake in his wrestling career, & more! Please Subscribe to our Patreon to help pay the bills, https://www.patreon.com/wrestlecopia Includes the $5 “All Access” Tier & $9 "VIP Superfan" Tier featuring our VIDEO CASTS, Patreon Watch-Along Series, our insanely detailed show notes (for the Grenade, Monday Warfare, Regional Rasslin, Puro Academy, & Retro Re-View), Early Show Releases! PLUS, monthly DIGITAL DOWNLOADS for your viewing and reading pleasure! WRESTLECOPIA MERCHANDISE - https://www.teepublic.com/user/wrestlecopia Visit the WrestleCopia Podcast Network https://wrestlecopia.com Follow WrestleCopia on “X” (Formerly Twitter) @RasslinGrenade Follow & LIKE our FACEBOOK PAGE – https://www.facebook.com/RasslinGrenade Subscribe to the WrestleCopia Youtube Channel at https://www.youtube.com/RasslinGrenade ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★…

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Episode 51: MORE ASK BOB Q&A (Part 2 - Lawler, Orndorff, Sammartino, Guerreros, More) 1:42:38

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The Wrestling Stoop returns this week with ASK BOB ROOP ANYTHING... PART 2!!! Just some of the topics this week include stories involving Paul Orndorff, David Sammartino, Jerry Lawler, Sam Bass, Dick the Bruiser, the Guerreros, Grizzly Smith, the art of the working punch, the San Francisco loop, ICW spot shows, a potential booking job for Bob in Mid-South working for Bill Watts and how it fell through, & more! Please Subscribe to our Patreon to help pay the bills, https://www.patreon.com/wrestlecopia Includes the $5 “All Access” Tier & $9 "VIP Superfan" Tier featuring our VIDEO CASTS, Patreon Watch-Along Series, our insanely detailed show notes (for the Grenade, Monday Warfare, Regional Rasslin, Puro Academy, & Retro Re-View), Early Show Releases! PLUS, monthly DIGITAL DOWNLOADS for your viewing and reading pleasure! WRESTLECOPIA MERCHANDISE - https://www.teepublic.com/user/wrestlecopia Visit the WrestleCopia Podcast Network https://wrestlecopia.com Follow WrestleCopia on “X” (Formerly Twitter) @RasslinGrenade Follow & LIKE our FACEBOOK PAGE – https://www.facebook.com/RasslinGrenade Subscribe to the WrestleCopia Youtube Channel at https://www.youtube.com/RasslinGrenade ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★…

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Episode 50: ASK BOB Q&A 2025 (Part 1 - Lex Luger, JYD, Sheik, More) 1:46:23

8 weeks тому1:46:23

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It's our milestone 50th edition of the Wrestling Stoop, kicking off 2025 with a 2-Part Q&A of "Ask Bob Anything"! Just some of the topics discussed this week include Bob Roop's time as a WCW Agent, the backstage fight between Lex Luger & Junkyard Dog in 1990, Original Sheik stories, losing days of memory from a concussion, being stabbed in the ring by Terry Gibbs' TEETH, pro wrestling cross-promoting with the movies, territories trying to compete against the WWF, & more! Please Subscribe to our Patreon to help pay the bills, https://www.patreon.com/wrestlecopia Includes the $5 “All Access” Tier & $9 "VIP Superfan" Tier featuring our VIDEO CASTS, Patreon Watch-Along Series, our insanely detailed show notes (for the Grenade, Monday Warfare, Regional Rasslin, Puro Academy, & Retro Re-View), Early Show Releases, REMASTERED editions of the early Grenade episodes including NEW content! PLUS, monthly DIGITAL DOWNLOADS for your viewing and reading pleasure! Visit the WrestleCopia Podcast Network https://wrestlecopia.com Follow WrestleCopia on “X” (Formerly Twitter) @RasslinGrenade Follow & LIKE our FACEBOOK PAGE – https://www.facebook.com/RasslinGrenade Subscribe to the WrestleCopia Youtube Channel at https://www.youtube.com/RasslinGrenade ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★…

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Episode 49: Leaving ICW, "PLAN B" VIDEO, Rip Did WHAT? 1:42:13

11 weeks тому1:42:13

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Happy Holidays wishes to all from The Wrestling Stoop as Bob Roop tells more ICW stories, including how thrifty the Miser was when living on the road, and Rip Rogers masturbating in a car.. in front of Angelo Poffo! From there, hear how William Harding got PAID by Angelo Poffo after escaping the infamous "Sugar Hold Challenge". Then, we talk how both Bob Roop AND Ron Garvin got their stocks paid out from Poffo when they left the ICW territory (hear how the "ITALIAN STALLION" Gary Sabaugh played a major part in one of them)! Plus, we finally discuss the "PLAN B" VIDEO, what it was created for, what the intentions were, and so much more! Please Subscribe to our Patreon to help pay the bills, https://www.patreon.com/wrestlecopia Includes the $5 “All Access” Tier & $9 "VIP Superfan" Tier featuring our VIDEO CASTS, Patreon Watch-Along Series, our insanely detailed show notes (for the Grenade, Monday Warfare, Regional Rasslin, Puro Academy, & Retro Re-View), Early Show Releases, REMASTERED editions of the early Grenade episodes including NEW content! PLUS, monthly DIGITAL DOWNLOADS for your viewing and reading pleasure! Visit the WrestleCopia Podcast Network https://wrestlecopia.com Follow WrestleCopia on “X” (Formerly Twitter) @RasslinGrenade Follow & LIKE our FACEBOOK PAGE – https://www.facebook.com/RasslinGrenade Subscribe to the WrestleCopia Youtube Channel at https://www.youtube.com/RasslinGrenade ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★…

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Episode 48: Lawsuit - Fuller vs. Garvin & Sugar Hold Challenge Debacle! 1:42:34

12 weeks тому1:42:34

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This week on the Wrestling Stoop w/Bob Roop, we take a deep dive look into the lawsuit of one Ron Fuller (Welch) vs. Ron Garvin in the Knoxville territory. Fuller suing Garvin for the reimbursement of a $12,000 loan for a Bayliner boat (that's $52,00 0 in today's money!), and the return of Fuller's Southeastern Heavyweight Title belt! Listen to excerpts from the book "Pro Wrestling & The Law", including actual transcripts from the court case which features Fuller admitting that Pro Wrestling matches are pre-determined! Find out the judges ruling and what "unclean hands" means in the court system. Then from there, we dive into the ICW's infamous "Sugar Hold Challenge", where Angelo Poffo forced Bob Roop to take on fans from the audience, with the promise of $1,000 to any fan that could escape Roop's Sugar Hold! SPOILER ALERT.... SOMEONE ESCAPES THE HOLD... BUT ANGELO DOESN'T WANT TO PAY!!! More fun to be had this week, so pop a squat on the stoop and listen to more stories from Mr. Roop! Please Subscribe to our Patreon to help pay the bills, https://www.patreon.com/wrestlecopia Includes the $5 “All Access” Tier & $9 "VIP Superfan" Tier featuring our VIDEO CASTS, Patreon Watch-Along Series, our insanely detailed show notes (for the Grenade, Monday Warfare, Regional Rasslin, Puro Academy, & Retro Re-View), Early Show Releases, REMASTERED editions of the early Grenade episodes including NEW content! PLUS, monthly DIGITAL DOWNLOADS for your viewing and reading pleasure! Visit the WrestleCopia Podcast Network https://wrestlecopia.com Follow WrestleCopia on “X” (Formerly Twitter) @RasslinGrenade Follow & LIKE our FACEBOOK PAGE – https://www.facebook.com/RasslinGrenade Subscribe to the WrestleCopia Youtube Channel at https://www.youtube.com/RasslinGrenade ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★…

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Episode 47: Izzy Calls Out Poffo, Chicken Challenge, "The Sting", & More! 1:28:11

14 weeks тому1:28:11

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The Wrestling Stoop w/Bob Roop returns this Thanksgiving season with more stories from the All-Star & ICW Poffo days! We talk more "Macho Man" Randy Savage, Izzy Slapawitz cussing out Angelo Poffo for his.. thriftiness, the infamous "Chicken Challenge" and what it was designed to do, Bob working the Poffos with an "injury" that turned into great TV as part of "The Sting" angle involving Roop, Savage, & Ron Garvin, plus Bob talks Doug Vines & Jeff Sword, and more! Please Subscribe to our Patreon to help pay the bills, https://www.patreon.com/wrestlecopia Includes the $5 “All Access” Tier & $9 "VIP Superfan" Tier featuring our VIDEO CASTS, Patreon Watch-Along Series, our insanely detailed show notes (for the Grenade, Monday Warfare, Regional Rasslin, Puro Academy, & Retro Re-View), Early Show Releases, REMASTERED editions of the early Grenade episodes including NEW content! PLUS, monthly DIGITAL DOWNLOADS for your viewing and reading pleasure! Visit the WrestleCopia Podcast Network https://wrestlecopia.com Follow WrestleCopia on “X” (Formerly Twitter) @RasslinGrenade Follow & LIKE our FACEBOOK PAGE – https://www.facebook.com/RasslinGrenade Subscribe to the WrestleCopia Youtube Channel at https://www.youtube.com/RasslinGrenade ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★…

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Episode 46: All-Star Wrestling & Meeting Macho Man! 1:41:59

15 weeks тому1:41:59

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The Wrestling Stoop w/Bob Roop returns this week as we discuss the All-Star Wrestling promotion in Knoxville. Bob shares thoughts and stories of his time working around Randy "Macho Man" Savage, Lanny & Angelo Poffo, Pez Whatley, George Weingeroff, Yasu Fuji, Roger Smith, Joe Malenko, & much more! Please Subscribe to our Patreon to help pay the bills, https://www.patreon.com/wrestlecopia Includes the $5 “All Access” Tier & $9 "VIP Superfan" Tier featuring our VIDEO CASTS, Patreon Watch-Along Series, our insanely detailed show notes (for the Grenade, Monday Warfare, Regional Rasslin, Puro Academy, & Retro Re-View), Early Show Releases, REMASTERED editions of the early Grenade episodes including NEW content! PLUS, monthly DIGITAL DOWNLOADS for your viewing and reading pleasure! Visit the WrestleCopia Podcast Network https://wrestlecopia.com Follow WrestleCopia on “X” (Formerly Twitter) @RasslinGrenade Follow & LIKE our FACEBOOK PAGE – https://www.facebook.com/RasslinGrenade Subscribe to the WrestleCopia Youtube Channel at https://www.youtube.com/RasslinGrenade ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★…

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Episode 45: KNOXVILLE 79 - GOODBYE Southeastern, HELLO All-Star! 1:30:24

16 weeks тому1:30:24

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The Wrestling Stoop w/Bob Roop returns this week as we discuss the "Knoxville Five" and their FINAL night in the Southeastern territory, the following week's card featuring Roop & company sitting in the crowd (find out the REAL reason why), and the first week of the brand new All-Star Wrestling promotion running opposition to the NWA. All the while, Bob dispels, shuts down, & calls into question MANY stories & false narratives that have been spread about the entire situation. We talk comments made by the likes of Ron Fuller, Jimmy Golden not blaming the group for leaving Southeastern, why the Knoxville 5 was really the "Knoxville Seven", the impact Dick Slater played in clipping the new company's wings before they could fly, early issues with getting TV, having the deck stacked against the new outlaw territory from the start, & so much more! Another fun trip back to the summer of 1979 as All-Star begins to run competition and join in with the Poffo Family, which includes Randy "Macho Man" Savage! Please Subscribe to our Patreon to help pay the bills, https://www.patreon.com/wrestlecopia Includes the $5 “All Access” Tier & $9 "VIP Superfan" Tier featuring our VIDEO CASTS, Patreon Watch-Along Series, our insanely detailed show notes (for the Grenade, Monday Warfare, Regional Rasslin, Puro Academy, & Retro Re-View), Early Show Releases, REMASTERED editions of the early Grenade episodes including NEW content! PLUS, monthly DIGITAL DOWNLOADS for your viewing and reading pleasure! Visit the WrestleCopia Podcast Network https://wrestlecopia.com Follow WrestleCopia on “X” (Formerly Twitter) @RasslinGrenade Follow & LIKE our FACEBOOK PAGE – https://www.facebook.com/RasslinGrenade Subscribe to the WrestleCopia Youtube Channel at https://www.youtube.com/RasslinGrenade ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★…

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Episode 44: KNOXVILLE - MAY 1979 (Responding to Accusations) 1:35:30

18 weeks тому1:35:30

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The Wrestling Stoop w/Bob Roop returns this week as we continue to tell the story of Knoxville 1979, and the defection from Ron Fuller's Southeastern territory. This week, we look at the final full month of time that Roop, Garvin, Orton, Malenko, and the rest competed for Southeastern in May of 1979. We look at the card results and for the first time ever, Bob hears and responds to comments made by Ron Fuller about the final events leading into the "Knoxville 5" departure. Bob responds to accusations of "poor houses", intentional "bad booking", "tanking matches", conversations that may have never happened, & more! Please Subscribe to our Patreon to help pay the bills, https://www.patreon.com/wrestlecopia Includes the $5 “All Access” Tier & $9 "VIP Superfan" Tier featuring our VIDEO CASTS, Patreon Watch-Along Series, our insanely detailed show notes (for the Grenade, Monday Warfare, Regional Rasslin, Puro Academy, & Retro Re-View), Early Show Releases, REMASTERED editions of the early Grenade episodes including NEW content! PLUS, monthly DIGITAL DOWNLOADS for your viewing and reading pleasure! Visit the WrestleCopia Podcast Network https://wrestlecopia.com Follow WrestleCopia on “X” (Formerly Twitter) @RasslinGrenade Follow & LIKE our FACEBOOK PAGE – https://www.facebook.com/RasslinGrenade Subscribe to the WrestleCopia Youtube Channel at https://www.youtube.com/RasslinGrenade ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★…

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Episode 43: More Knoxville 79 Discussion 1:49:04

19 weeks тому1:49:04

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The Wrestling Stoop w/Bob Roop returns this week with a 2-HOUR Episode #43, as Bob continues to discuss the plans to run against Ron Fuller's Southeastern territory in 1979 Knoxville. We talk the early discussions, trying to form a union, Dick Slater blowing the whistle, the ideas behind the booking from this period, Thunderbolt Patterson arriving in town, plus we discuss and explain some of the comments and questions Ron Fuller has made on his podcast about this time in history. Please Subscribe to our Patreon to help pay the bills, https://www.patreon.com/wrestlecopia Includes the $5 “All Access” Tier & $9 "VIP Superfan" Tier featuring our VIDEO CASTS, Patreon Watch-Along Series, our insanely detailed show notes (for the Grenade, Monday Warfare, Regional Rasslin, Puro Academy, & Retro Re-View), Early Show Releases, REMASTERED editions of the early Grenade episodes including NEW content! PLUS, monthly DIGITAL DOWNLOADS for your viewing and reading pleasure! Visit the WrestleCopia Podcast Network https://wrestlecopia.com Follow WrestleCopia on “X” (Formerly Twitter) @RasslinGrenade Follow & LIKE our FACEBOOK PAGE – https://www.facebook.com/RasslinGrenade Subscribe to the WrestleCopia Youtube Channel at https://www.youtube.com/RasslinGrenade ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★…

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Episode 42: The Knoxville Issues Begin (Dissecting Truths from Lore) 1:57:20

20 weeks тому1:57:20

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The Wrestling Stoop returns this week with a 2-HOUR Episode, as Bob Roop begins to share his in-depth memories on the entire "KNOXVILLE SITUATION" of 1979. We begin to dissect the truths from the lore, how the issues really started, whose idea it was to run opposition vs. Ron Fuller. Plus, we talk talent like Dean Ho, Crusher Blackwell, & more! Please Subscribe to our Patreon to help pay the bills, https://www.patreon.com/wrestlecopia Includes the $5 “All Access” Tier & $9 "VIP Superfan" Tier featuring our VIDEO CASTS, Patreon Watch-Along Series, our insanely detailed show notes (for the Grenade, Monday Warfare, Regional Rasslin, Puro Academy, & Retro Re-View), Early Show Releases, REMASTERED editions of the early Grenade episodes including NEW content! PLUS, monthly DIGITAL DOWNLOADS for your viewing and reading pleasure! Visit the WrestleCopia Podcast Network https://wrestlecopia.com Follow WrestleCopia on “X” (Formerly Twitter) @RasslinGrenade Follow & LIKE our FACEBOOK PAGE – https://www.facebook.com/RasslinGrenade Subscribe to the WrestleCopia Youtube Channel at https://www.youtube.com/RasslinGrenade ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★…

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Episode 41: Becoming Booker In Knoxville (A Look At Success & Tribulation) 1:22:09

23 weeks тому1:22:09