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The Donna Drake Show: Live it Up! is a weekly, one hour show featuring uplifting interviews with celebrity entertainers, sports legends, top journalists, business moguls, authors, motivational speakers, medical professionals, health and wellness experts, beauty and fashion icons, chefs, non-profit groups and everyday heroes sharing their stories of triumph, inspiration and perseverance. Hosted and created by Donna Drake, an international award-winning creative artist, writer, producer, actor ...
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The Indoor Kids isn't just about video games, but it isn't not about video games. The Indoor Kids is all about the kind of lifestyle you have to lead in order to be a proper Gamer, capital G. Join hosts Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon as they take on a journey from childhood Shinobi obsessions, up through the best and worst video game adaptations of movies. Grab your Energy Swords(Mountain Dew liter bottles)!
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What The Risk!

Larry Gordon, CAMS

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This podcast is about you and your education about risk management. What the R*SK! is an interview-based podcast series that discusses risk management topics across business types. Your host is Larry Gordon, CAMS, has nearly 30 years of working within the financial services industry at organizations ranging from large banks to FinTech startups. Strong risk management cultures promote a holistic risk approach that goes beyond using a set of metrics on a dashboard to manage business operations ...
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The "NBN Book of the Day" features the most timely and interesting author interviews from the New Books Network delivered to you every weekday. Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/book-of-the-day
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BCW Podcast Network

BCW Podcast Network, produced by Sharc

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Listen for our weekly episodes including ADVOCACY UNPLUGGED, WIN-INNOVATION ROUNDTABLE, LEADERSHIP UNLEASHED, TALENT TRAILBLAZERS, WHAT'S TRENDING & NEW MEMBER SPOTLIGHT!
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Conversations with Jeff is a show hosted by Jeff Dornik focused simply on having conversations. Featuring a wide variety of guests, some of which include Bishop Larry Gaiters, Trevor Loudon, Dr Michael Brown, Janet Mefferd, Dr Andy Woods and many others, this is a podcast where you never know who will come on or what topics will be discussed! We're bringing back the art of conversation, one show at a time. thegk.substack.com
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With a career spanning over 40 years in both retail and wholesale furniture and mattress industries, Pete Primeau shares his insights on sales & marketing. Regularly joined by guests from a variety of industries, this show is not just for those in the mattress and furniture business - but for any business owner or sales professional.
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Entrepreneur Stories 4⃣ Inspiration

Millionaire Interviews Podcast & Sir Austin Peek

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Entrepreneur Inspiring Stories to Help Motivate, Build, & Grow Your Successful Business with a Master Class from Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders that tell it How It Is... Millionaire Interviews is actionable advice for the (future & present) Entrepreneur, Thought Leaders, Solopreneur, Youpreneur, and Small Business Owner. The host interviews Business Founders in the Product, Service, Real Estate, and Tech industries so they can teach you from their experience. Connect with other Listeners @ ...
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Dear Felicity

The Ringer

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The cast, crew, executives, and fans of Felicity revisit the show 25 years after its premiere on The WB to discuss why the show remains a cultural touchstone and what made that moment in the history of television particularly unique. Rather than going episode-by-episode, Dear Felicity episodes will cover themes and story arcs as a way to have broader conversations about Felicity, The WB, the careers of those involved, and how the TV business functioned. The podcast will largely follow the tv ...
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Stance Podcast

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Stance is an independent award-winning arts, culture and current affairs podcast run by New York based journalist and curator Chrystal Genesis. An episode is released on the 1st of every month. Stance is produced by Chrystal Genesis, Zara Martin and Saskia Sewell. stancepodcast.com @stancepodcast Guests so far include musicians Four Tet, Jamila Woods, Róisín Murphy, Amber Mark, Caribou, Kaytranada, Jessie Ware, Tricky and Nao, authors Yaa Gyasi, Sayaka Murata, Elif Shafak & Valeria Luiselli, ...
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Rewind Show

Jimmy Jay

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The Rewind Show is a weekly interview with the stars who helped shape the world we live in (musically, at least). Jimmy Jay Hosts the one hour weekly show where we interview the stars and tell their life story while listening to the hits of their career.
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GallantFew, Inc is proud to present The New American Veteran Internet Radio Program. GallantFew is a 501(c)3 nonprofit that provides coaching, mentoring and training to transitioning veterans with a focus on the Special Operations veteran. GallantFew also consults with corporations seeking to better understand and leverage the unique skills and abilities that veterans bring to their organizations.
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Recent social and political psychological research indicates that increased access to ancestry testing has strengthened the notion of genetic essentialism among some groups, or the idea that our biology ties us to particular ethnic identities. This can boost a sense of cultural pride and prosocial behaviors among communities that are perceived to b…
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During the mid-1950s, when Hollywood found itself struggling to compete within an expanding entertainment media landscape, certain producers and studios saw an opportunity in making films that showcased performances by rock 'n' roll stars. Rock stars eventually found cinema to be a useful space to extend their creative practices, and the motion pic…
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In Win or Else: Soviet Football in Moscow and Beyond, 1921-1985 (Indiana University Press, 2024), Larry E. Holmes shows us how Soviet football culture regularly disregarded official ideological and political imperatives and skirted the boundaries between socialism and capitalism. In the early 1920s, the Soviet press denounced football as a bourgeoi…
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A radical new reading of eighteenth-century British theorist Thomas Robert Malthus, which recovers diverse ideas about subsistence production and environments later eclipsed by classical economics With the publication of Essay on the Principle of Population and its projection of food shortages in the face of ballooning populations, British theorist…
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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 …
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On Tuesday 13 September 2022, all Mahsa Amini has planned is a day shopping in Tehran. Her birthday is next week. But she is arrested as she comes out of the subway – the Guidance Patrol deem her hijab inadequate. On Friday she is pronounced dead. By Sunday, women have taken to the streets across Iran, setting their headscarves on fire and cursing …
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Be sure to catch this month’s episode of “Member Spotlight”! Host Linda Tyler, VP of Membership & Programs sits down with Melissa Andrieux, Chief Diversity Officer and Client Relations Officer at Dorf Nelson & Zauderer LLP, and Valerie Mason Cunningham, Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Mason & Rice LLC, to explore the transformative impact of Diversity, Equi…
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Rick Skidmore is the Founder and CEO at Timberlane, Inc. Having been born an entrepreneur, it should have been clear early on that despite considerable success in the insurance and investment industry, Rick's future was outside the traditional career path. Rick founded his current company, Timberlane Inc., in 1995, based on a passion and a gaping n…
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Does Marx have a coherent ethical vision? How does that square with his sometimes-scathing dismissal of morality? What does his critique of capital have to do with ethics? Why is the proletariat the revolutionary class? What is the normative importance of that claim? In Marx’s Ethical Vision (Oxford University Press, 2024), Vanessa Wills provides a…
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Donna talks with Sean “Contractor” Edwards, Billboard Executive Producer. In the entertainment business, Sean 'Contractor' Edwards is recognised as the man who has built a reputation for himself as a music marketer, executive producer and one who keeps abreast of trends internationally and can be called upon to to provide interesting insights on va…
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In this episode, we welcome Karen Converse, an industry veteran with over 20 years of experience in both retail and wholesale. Currently thriving as an independent rep, Karen shares her insights on navigating the ever-changing landscape of the industry. We discuss her journey, the challenges she has faced, and the strategies that have contributed t…
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A critical challenge for militaries is preparing for future, not past, wars. History shows that success often depends on accurately interpreting and harnessing technological and societal changes. In the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), this transformation process has been ongoing, with Brigadier General Eran Ortal as a key advocate for a new paradigm. …
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A “wonderful…highly comprehensive” (John Barton, author of A History of the Bible) global history of the world’s best-known and most influential book For Christians, the Bible is a book inspired by God. Its eternal words are transmitted across the world by fallible human hands. Following Jesus’s departing instruction to go out into the world, the B…
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Joséphine Bonaparte, future Empress of France; Térézia Tallien, the most beautiful woman in Europe; and Juliette Récamier, muse of intellectuals, had nothing left to lose. After surviving incarceration and forced incestuous marriage during the worst violence of the French Revolution of 1789, they dared sartorial revolt. Together, Joséphine and Téré…
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Who controls what is taught in American universities – professors or politicians? The answer is far from clear but suddenly urgent. Unprecedented efforts are now underway to restrict what ideas can be promoted and discussed in university classrooms. Professors at public universities have long assumed that their freedom to teach is unassailable and …
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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! Ple…
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Nazi Germany, Annexed Poland and Colonial Rule: Resettlement, Germanization and Population Policies in Comparative Perspective (Bloomsbury, 2023) examines Nazi Germany's expansion, population management and establishment of a racially stratified society within the Reichsgaue (Reich Districts) of Wartheland and Danzig-West Prussia in annexed Poland …
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Be sure to tune into this month’s episode of “What’s Trending”! Hosts Marsha Gordon and Amanda DePalma sit down with Adam Bosch, President and CEO of Hudson Valley Pattern for Progress, to explore housing challenges in the Hudson Valley, economic development trends, downtown revitalization, and the important research Pattern is conducting.…
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Over the past decades, under the cover of "innovation," technology companies have successfully resisted regulation and have even begun to seize power from governments themselves. Facial recognition firms track citizens for police surveillance. Cryptocurrency has wiped out the personal savings of millions and threatens the stability of the global fi…
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The Shawnee leader Tecumseh came to prominence in a war against the United States waged from 1811 to 1815. In 1805, Tecumseh's younger brother Lalawethika (soon to be known as "the Prophet") had a vision for an Indian revitalization movement that would restore Native culture and resist American expansion. Tecumseh organized the growing support for …
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Donna attends the Victor Green Celebrity Golf Outing and talks with Victor Green, Former American Football Player, Victoria Green, Esther Green, Charles Grant, Former American Football Defensive End, Tim Brown, Former American Footbal Wide Receiver, Jerome Bettis Football Running Bacl/NFL Legend, Actor Sean Ringgold, Johnny Damon, Former American B…
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In this episode, we welcome Steve Houk, the owner of Boise Mattress and the driving force behind the largest Facebook group in the mattress industry, The Mattress Industry Network Group. Just as a football coach strategizes to build a winning team, Steve has mastered the art of marketing and sales, creating a robust network that supports store owne…
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Is there such a thing as a timeless classic? More than a decade ago, Dr. Rochelle Gurstein set out to explore and establish a solid foundation for the classic in the history of taste. To her surprise, that history instead revealed repeated episodes of soaring and falling reputations, rediscoveries of long-forgotten artists, and radical shifts in th…
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Adoption has always been viewed as a beloved institution for building families, as well as a mutually agreeable common ground in the otherwise partisan abortion debate. Little attention, however, has been paid to the lives of mothers who relinquish their infants for private adoption. Through the lens of reproductive justice, Relinquished: The Polit…
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In All the Rage: Power, Pain, Pleasure: Stories from the Frontline of Beauty 1860-1960 (Pegasus Book, 2024) richly detailed account, Virginia Nicholson provides a richly detailed account to take us to the Frontline of Beauty to reveal the power, the pain and the pleasure involved in adorning the female body. At the heart of this history is the fema…
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In Coalitions of the Weak (Cambridge University Press, 2022), Victor C. Shih investigates how leaders of one-party autocracies seek to dominate the elite and achieve true dictatorship, governing without fear of internal challenge or resistance to major policy changes. Through an in-depth look of late-Mao politics informed by thousands of historical…
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For his fifteenth-century followers, Jesus was everywhere – from baptism to bloodcults to bowling. This sweeping and unconventional investigation looks at Jesus across one hundred forty years of social, cultural, and intellectual history. Mystics married him, Renaissance artists painted him in three dimensions, Muslim poets praised his life-giving …
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You won’t want to miss this month’s episode of “Advocacy & Politics Unplugged”! Join host John Ravitz and guest, Bill O’Reilly, Partner at The November Team, as they discuss the 2024 presidential, congressional, and senate elections, the business of running campaigns, and the key economic development issues that impact businesses in these elections…
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In this episode, we welcome Michael Wipfler, the Director of Sales for Mueller Furniture and Mattress Co. With over a decade of experience in the industry, Michael is recognized for his collaborative leadership style and empathetic approach. Join us as we dive into his insights on building effective sales teams, fostering a positive work culture, a…
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What threatens American democracy and the rule of law? In her new book, Corporatocracy: How to Protect Democracy from Dark Money and Corrupt Politicians (NYU Press, 2024), legal scholar and campaign spending expert Ciara Torres-Spelliscy argues that the USA’s privately-funded campaign finance system – combined with corporate greed and antidemocrati…
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Over 150 years ago, Marx published the first volume of Capital, a systematic and voluminous account of capitalism, from the economic bedrock all the way up to the social and political consequences. The book itself would stand as one of the most influential and decisive texts of all time, proving to be a wildly fruitful foundation for further resear…
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Donna sits down and talks with Country Music Artist John Berry. John he has recorded more than 20 studio albums, including one platinum album and two gold albums. In his career, Berry has also charted 19 songs on Billboard Hot Country Songs, including the Number One single "Your Love Amazes Me" and six additional Top 10 hits: "What's In It for Me",…
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Writing in the 1920s, Winston Churchill argued that the First World War on the Eastern Front was "incomparably the greatest war in history. In its scale, in its slaughter, in the exertions of the combatants, in its military kaleidoscope, it far surpasses by magnitude and intensity all similar human episodes." It was, he concluded, "the most frightf…
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Yacine Sibous is the Co-Founder of Parker, the financial stack for scaling your e⁠-⁠commerce brand faster and more profitably. After studying Physics and Computer Science at McGill University, Yacine left to attend 42, a unique software engineering school in France. It’s there that he met his co-founder Milan Ray. Yacine and Milan went on to partic…
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When scholars and policymakers consider how technological advances affect the rise and fall of great powers, they draw on theories that center the moment of innovation—the eureka moment that sparks astonishing technological feats. In Technology and the Rise of Great Powers: How Diffusion Shapes Economic Competition (Princeton UP, 2024), Jeffrey Din…
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When the USSR collapsed in 1991, the world was certain that Communism was dead. Today, three decades later, it is clear that it was not. While Russia may no longer be Communist, Communism and sympathy for Communist ideas have proliferated across the globe. In To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism (Basic Books, 2024), Sean …
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Law professors Jon Michaels and David Noll use their expertise to expose how state-supported forms of vigilantism are being deployed by MAGA Republicans and Christian nationalists to roll back civil, political, and privacy rights and subvert American democracy. Beyond identifying the dangers of vigilantism, Vigilante Nation: How State-Sponsored Ter…
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With Felicity graduated from college and back in the present day, it's time to say goodbye to the plucky freshman with curly hair. Juliet, Mandy, and Greg discuss the final two episodes of 'Felicity,' talking about Greg's real-life speech to the cast at the wedding and the absence of Sarah McLachlan in that final scene, where they think Felicity an…
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Today, U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) detains an average of 37,000 migrants each night. To do so, they rely on, and pay for, the use of hundreds of local jails. But this is nothing new: the federal government has been detaining migrants in city and county jails for more than 100 years. In The Migrant's Jail: An American History of Mas…
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Don't miss this month's episode of Leadership Unleashed! Host Marsha Gordon is joined by Alyzza Ozer, CEO of the Boys & Girls Club of Northern Westchester, Kathleen Reckling, CEO of ArtsWestchester, and Joseph Stout, Executive Director of the Westchester Parks Foundation. Tune in for valuable insights on leadership, community impact, and exciting i…
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A question has long hung over the the United States regarding the proper role of religion in public life. Those who long for a Christian America claim that the Founders intended a nation with political values and institutions shaped by Christianity. Secularists argue that those same Founders designed an enlightened republic where church and state s…
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If you seek a compelling exploration of contemporary armed conflict, then Conflict Realism: Understanding the Causal Logic of Modern War and Warfare (Howgate Publishing, 2024) by Amos C. Fox is for you. It delves into the intricate web of causation to unveil five pivotal trends shaping the landscape of war and warfare - urban warfare, sieges, attri…
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Donna sits down and talks with Debra Becker, Founder of iCandy Meals. iCandy Meal Plans fuel your body with food as delicious as it is carefully curated to fit your lifestyle. Custom tailored to your goals Fresh chef crafted meal prep delivered to your door Freshly made each week. Donna talks with Robby Johnson, Nashville-based singer-songwriter Ro…
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In this episode, we welcome Larry Levine, best-selling author of *Selling from the Heart* and co-host of the *Selling from the Heart Podcast*. With over 30 years of experience in B2B technology sales, Larry has a deep understanding of what it takes to thrive in today's challenging sales landscape. He emphasizes the importance of authenticity, helpi…
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From the Rockies to the Himalayas, the bond between horses and humans has spanned across time and civilizations. In this archaeological journey, William T. Taylor explores how momentous events in the story of humans and horses helped create the world we live in today. Tracing the horse's origins and spread from the western Eurasian steppes to the i…
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How the CIA used American unions to undermine workers at home and subvert democracy abroad. Blue Collar Empire: The Untold Story of U.S. Labor’s Global Anticommunist Crusade (Verso, 2024) tells the shocking story of the AFL-CIO's global anticommunist crusade--and its devastating consequences for workers around the world. Unions have the power not o…
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In their pursuit of social justice, revolutionaries have taken on the assembled might of monarchies, empires, and dictatorships. They have often, though not always, sparked cataclysmic violence, and have at times won miraculous victories, though at other times suffered devastating defeat. Revolutions: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford UP, 2023) ill…
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Remember the bleach drinking episode? Remember ‘alternative facts’? Remember ‘I have the best words’? These elements of the Trump presidency spoke to a fundamental part of his politics: truth and science were not prime among his considerations. Given this, one may assume that academics would have been especially unlikely to be drawn to the Trump pr…
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For anyone that has been waiting for Bob to open up about the struggles in the Southeastern territory that led to the "Knoxville 5" running opposition, the first round starts right here! It's a new Wrestling Stoop as Bob Roop continues to discuss the Knoxville territory. This week Bob shares some fun stories involving Ron & Don Wright, then goes in…
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