Machu Pic'chu: Clear Evidence Of A Pre-Inca Megalithic Core At The Site

okay we're at a very famous site in Peru called Machu Picchu which of course is known all over the world and standard academia will state that Machu Picchu was constructed over the course of maybe 30 years 100% by the Inca civilization but what we're going to see is that the Inca in fact discovered an ancient megalithic site and they built on top and around it and the evidence should be quite obvious so this is standard Inca construction you can see stones simply stacked upon stones these are agricultural terraces located and it's likely that 95% of Machu Picchu was constructed by the Inca but around a core which is megalithic in nature and had to have been made using some forms of high technology the Inca were a Bronze Age culture and the stone that was shaped here is granite granite is much harder than bronze and so this is where we'll see that is a distinction between relatively simple Inca construction and much more complex megalithic megalithic simply means large stones but in this case it's also indicating precision of construction beyond the capacity of the Inca people so here we have an Inca period staircase again it's simply stone on stone construction with mortar made of clay as a filler and so almost anyone could do this kind of construction if they hadn't enough people and enough time to do but then we have anomalies like this rather big stone that weighs probably two tons that you see in the middle of the picture and that appears to have been shaped using a form of Technology beyond the capability of the Inca and it appears to have fallen down from another structure higher above because it doesn't make sense that is simply sitting there and here we have some quite elaborate work this was done by the Inca people there you see pretty close contact of stone upon stone but not the level of precision that we're going to be looking at in future photos so this is the pride of the Inca this is their finest craftsmen at work creating a series of fountains near the core and then we have this and what you can see is very rough construction on the left and much finer construction in the center and on the on the right very little of Machu Picchu was ever reconstructed post Inka times so it's believed that the Inka abandoned much of Picchu around 1535 and so during the time that it was rediscovered by Hiram Bingham the third in 1911 to the present very little restoration has been done and that's the important thing to look at when you go is to ask the guards and the guides when you see a mix of construction like this ask them if it's been reconstructed since 1911 or not and if they say no then you're looking at a time capsule you're looking at what Machu Picchu looked like at the time of the abandonment of the Inca people so especially something like this you see stone on stone construction very tight fitting any gaps that are present like here that was from a catastrophic earthquake that we now know happened before the time of the Inka it was from east to west and it pulled the ancient megalithic structures apart a fist if it had happened during Inka times and the whole city more or less would have been destroyed because again the Inca construction technique is stone upon stone with clay to fill in that's a very weak way to build but that was the level of the Inca technology at the time then here once again you see where the wall has been pulled apart and super tight-fitting blocks incredible precision you can't fit a human hair in the joinery so this is part of the megalithic earliest construction of Machu Picchu that the Inca found and here again you see the outcrop on the left is the bedrock itself shaped quite smoothly that couldn't not have been done with bronze tools and the Inca did not have tools harder than that except possibly some meteorite hammers and then on the right side again incredible precision so this is more evidence that Machu Picchu predates the Inca and actually the name in itself gives us a clue because Machu means ancient and Picchu means mountain so that means the ancient mountain and why would they call it that it's likely because the mountain in behind which is where they did a 100% of their work we see no megalithic work there whatsoever it was called huayna Picchu which means the young mountain so it looks like the Inka were distinguishing between the ancient structures they found and then the structures that they made so again some of the key stuff or key knowledge and information comes from the Inka language itself and we find that in other locations if you go to Egypt and you learn what the earliest names of some of the structures are there this is from the Sioux flang guack this is pre-islamic and some people still speak the language and interpret it to this day you see that the ancient name describes the structure itself and here again you look at the work on the left very tight-fitting stone and the work on the right very rough again this was not reconstructed from 1911 onwards when it was made famous by Hiram Bingham and so this is again a time capsule showing us much older work on the left and much younger work on the right and above as well on the left you see the difference between that peaked roof on the left hand side and then the wall below it almost night and day in terms of technology and here the wall on the right versus the wall in the middle which is shorter and then the work on the left and then the terracing system further left and above the work on the right and center left far superior but also the work on the center left if you look at the top two rows you'll see that's very rough work so that is Inka reconstruction or addition to a megalithic building they found damaged by an ancient Cataclysm and again we're dating that ancient Cataclysm not only prior to the time of the Inka but most likely from the end of the last ice age some 12,000 years ago because other megalithic sites that we find around the the world like in Egypt we again see megalithic work but we also see catastrophic damage so an ancient global Cataclysm that affected the entire planet and the only real evidence we see are in the megalithic structures that are still present today any other culture that was not as sophisticated all evidence of them would have been wiped out but luckily for us these super stone megalithic works were so tightly fitted together that they stand to some degree earthquakes and this is just another close up again the very rough work on the right the fine work on the left and the gaps caused from the east to west earthquake these structures are basically earthquake proof so that means that the earthquake would had to have been at least a nine if not nine point five on the Richter scale again if that had happened during Inka times the whole city would be gone and here again you see the lower courses here superior above inferior on the left still very tight fitting this wall down here inferior and to the left hand side inferior as well and in in the back very tight-fitting stone here and then rougher work above and places where the actual reconstruction has been done during recent times as in from 1911 to present the workmanship is actually even worse than it is during the Inka time so we can't negate that the Inka were careful craftsmen but modern craftsmanship is actually inferior to what we find we also find in the modern work power tool marks like angle grinders and saws and so we can find in fact three different levels of Technology three levels of building the pre inca megalithic the inca and then modern reconstruction this is another great example of inca work you see a series of water channels this is a series of pools that go down and down and down in the core part of the city these were ritual bathes or baths and the workmanship though it looks really good in the channel if you put your fingers in and run them back and forth you see irregularities so this was simply careful work carried out during the Inka time period and again it shows that the Inka were capable of quite good work at locations that were ceremonially and spiritually very important to them and even more dramatic on the left-hand side you see very right of rough construction in front incredibly precise construction again the gaps between the stones in the center and right we're from the ancient earthquake and then on top again we see the top row of smaller rougher stones added by the Inka and this is the same location this is called the temple of the three windows every stone is of a different shape and size the mountain in the back on the left-hand side is wine a Picchu again that means the young mountain so all works there are Inca but in the core of Machu Picchu that means ancient mountain that's where we have these very odd-looking structures that look also like they never had roofs on them because there's no evidence of any roofing and machu picchu gets a lot of rain and so these seem to be open spaces which is very odd because the Inka were meticulous at making peaked roofing and then lashing timbers and then thatch in order to make their buildings waterproof also on the left-hand side you see the lower course is of megalithic stone and then above much rougher stone and loose-fitting and the upper area we know from the local experts and guides that that is Inka period and this is just more detail of the temple of the three windows and you see every stone is a different shape and size one thing that would do would be it would make it relatively earthquake proof but to construct in this style is kind of crazy in some ways I think because the amount of effort involved to do that would be horrific in comparison to simply cutting evenly shaped blocks and stacking them one on top of another so this would appear to have been quite easy for the ancient megalithic builders to do and obviously would have utilized forums of lost ancient high technology and even more detail here the interlocking nature and then in the window again on the bottom you see very rough construction on the first and second level a very roughly constructed staircase then tight-fitting blocks and then on the very top very loose-fitting so the tight-fitting blocks are evidence of the first culture and all the rest of it is Inca and that's why these locations are very complicated not simply here at Machu Picchu but also in the city of Cusco and other locations such as saqsaywaman eientei tombow and others and even more dramatic is this is a three sided building and the right-hand side has sunken down by two feet or more into the ground and again I was there with a geologist from the United States and she said that would be an earthquake of a huge magnitude that caused the right-hand-side to sink in the ground it pulled the megalithic wall apart that would originally have fit perfectly together and if this had happened during the Inka time period it would have destroyed and flattened the rest of the city and she said this site by itself is showing you a that there was an older megalithic construction and be that it was struck by a massive Cataclysm and this is just detail of that again you see where the wall was pulled apart the right hand side has sunken down the stones originally fit perfectly together and that stone that giant blocked their ways somewhere in the region of 40 tons in terms of structure and foundation there's no reason why the Inca would have bothered with something like that but whoever originally did this work did it simply because they could and because they wanted to do it this way a very sophisticated planning very sophisticated cutting very sophisticated locking stone together and this is the left-hand side so you can see it's still intact the north-south axis all the stones fit perfectly together the east-west which is here is pulled apart and so this photo shows us that the earthquake happened in an east to west direction and we also see this at other ancient sites in the area such as the city of cusco which was a megalithic city found by the Inka and then rebuilt again east to west damage also at saqsaywaman which is above cusco east to west damaged boy ante tombow in the Sacred Valley of Peru east to west damage and the more you look at these places the more you see that in each of these locations and others but especially saqsaywaman eientei tombow and Machu Picchu they found a megalithic site and they were so impressed by what they found that they decided to do their own construction there as well and these went from being wonders and Oz to being sacred temples of the Inca people they were clearly in awe of whoever had first been there and they obviously recognized that someone had been there so another problem we have is with the Spanish chronicles from the 16th century their awareness wasn't very great in terms of being able to distinguish the difference between the megalithic and Inka work and most academics to this day simply say that the Inka built all of this stuff from scratch but if you bring an engineer and/or a stonemason to these locations they will simply tell you this was done by two different people at two different times using two different types of Technology and this is another display once again of the interlocking nature of the megalithic work below the gaps caused by the earthquake and the much rougher work at the very top now this is curious this is the bedrock and this is actually a sundial it was likely done by the Inka but it may have been older but it works as a sundial to this very day and it's just one of those little details that most people don't even look at because Machu Picchu is a very complicated and huge location and most people simply visit for about three hours so it's impossible to take in all the nuances and details of what you see at Machu Picchu and the other ancient locations and here this could very well be an example of the earthquake proofing system you see the three stones in the center it is possible that they were made smaller on purpose so that if there was an earthquake disturbance they could move back and forth and even up and down to some degree taking the pressure off the larger megalithic blocks and because they were able to move it's quite likely that that capability of movement meant that the megalithic larger blocks would not crack or break or lose their their strength and so this gives you an overview of much of Machu Picchu you see the terracing above that's all from the Inca time period and then below you see what they call and what likely was the quarry so that's where most of the stone for the Inka period construction that's where it was taken from on some levels the Inka would utilize the difference in temperatures that happen especially in wintertime it is quite possible that during the freezing times of the winter what they would do is boil water and then they would wait until nightfall and then pour the hot water on the stone and then it would crack because of the difference in temperature and the next day they would simply gather the stone that was broken off and use that in the construction of the different terraces and then night after night simply continue that process and that's why it's relatively messy looking because they didn't have the capability of cutting stone as we do in a modern quarry by taking layer by layer it was easier for them to simply utilize the difference in temperature to make the stone crack and then in some cases put in wooden wedges to break the stones up even more so and here a magnificent terracing system done by the Inka again technically not that sophisticated but an incredible amount of work there was enough terracing on machu picchu to feed quite easily about a thousand people so it's probable that the number of inhabitants at any one time at Machu Picchu was about nine hundred to a thousand people and they can seal the city off and not allow outsiders to come in and that was part of the function of Machu Picchu was it was a secret location only for the nobility of the Inca the outsiders didn't even know that it existed and that's why the Spanish conquistadors never found it and the local people in fact also likely never knew it was there so this is kind of curious this is one piece of stone with three steps this may be an example of the megalithic work or it could be the work of some of the finest stonemasons in the Inka world but we'll see lots of this bedrock shaping most of which was done by the megalithic builders and to some degree later on by the Inca themselves and so this is what's called the inti Wattana or the hitching post of the Sun it is a megalithic construction the wall in behind is also megalithic with Inka repair on top and the inti what anna is in fact the top of the mountain itself it is high in quartz content and so that's why to some people they call machu picchu the Crystal City because energetically it is still very powerful to this day because of the amount of quartz content in the stone all of the construction of machu picchu was done with the stone from the mountain and why its original location was chosen by the megalithic builders is completely unknown but it's clear that the Inka found it and then built there and then this is another profile of the inti Wattana or hitching post some people say that it was used as a marker for solstices and equinoxes but it's more likely that it was used as an astronomical calendar and was used everyday as a way of accounting and monitoring the growth of the different crops that way they could do comparisons between June 21st of 1532 and the same day of a different year they could see how different crops were growing based on utilizing this calendar and that's why they were so successful at agricultural production and this is a curious aspect of of the inti Wattana each of the four corners point to a mountain so in this in this case one of the corners is pointing to y-nough picchu and in the background and there are some stories then in fact on each one of these mountains on top there is another hitching post and simply another view of of the complexity of the inti Wattana being cut straight out of the bedrock itself and more of Machu Picchu this is basically all Inka period construction except here very fine fitting stone so the Inka use that as the foundation for their construction why take down something that is incredibly solid when you can utilize it and build on top of it and then here very rough work on the bottom and then the bedrock itself here and then super tight-fitting stone on top this is the so-called Sun temple which the Inca used as a Sun temple but whether that was what it was originally built for is unknown and more kind of odd constructions that we find at Machu Picchu super tight-fitting organic construction here these strange steps that nobody can figure out suppose at royal tomb inside where no body was ever found so that's the problem we have when archaeologists state that something was of a specific function if this was a tomb then why are there no burial artifacts inside of it so you can't simply name something something unless you have evidence that that was its function and another photo of be incredibly precise nature the Sun temple megalithic work on the left and very crude work on the right here and just in detail again super tight-fitting stone and then on the top two layers you see rougher work so that is Inka rebuilding in order to make it look the same as the work below and this is also a dead giveaway you see the beautiful tight-fitting stone on the right-hand side much rougher on the left-hand side the doorway is quite precisely constructed the stairs are quite rough and the work above the doorway and in behind is inferior so again the Inka found the ancient tight-fitting work and simply utilized it to use it for their own particular function and here again you see in in the front super tight-fitting work right hand side super tight-fitting work and much rougher work above and in behind there could be no evolution of rough work to fine work over the course of 30 or 25 years so here we're seeing more and more evidence of ancient work and we're modern and then again the gaps are almost exactly the same east to west so this indicates a major earthquake at this location and here tight-fitting work up to the halfway point and then rougher work going up and then the lintel was from one of the megalithic structures and was utilized and added in there because if you find the stone there you would use it why quarry a piece when it's already there and this is the interior of the Sun temple again you see the fine quality of workmanship here much rougher work with filling in there and then the top two rows being added during Inka times the bedrock in the center has notches and things cut into it which indicate the winter solstice that was probably done by the finest of the craftsmen during the Inka time period but one of the key things to look at is you see the solid construction of this and then the filling in there and this is just in more detail very fine workmanship pulled apart by an earthquake and then the bedrock here cut like that and here we have other indications just to show you there we have the megalithic work here and the rest of it is Inka so the more you look at this stuff the more your eye becomes tuned into distinguishing between the older megalithic and the more relatively modern Inka this is called the temple of the condor it's an Inca construction on the left-hand side you see that semicircle which represents the white collar of the Andean Condor the little nipple shape are almost fingernail shape on the left is the beak of the condor and this is an Inca construction a temple dedicated to the Andean Condor which also represents the higher-self and this is just it in detail again the semicircle in lightest tone indicating the white band around the neck of the Condor and then the head and/or beak inside technically not profoundly well done but the main question is what was the original function of Machu Picchu we don't see any ceremonial structures necessarily we don't see artwork so it's like in places like Egypt we see pragmatic form and function in the earliest construction and then during Inka times we find a lot of ceremonial work a lot of artwork and stuff like that so here this is all Inka work they utilized this giant stone as a foundation and then built in a relatively crude manner above it and contrasting with this again the first half level very finely done the upper section quite a bit cruder so early work at the bottom Inka work above and these two circles were likely made by the Inka and used by them as ways to do astronomy they would use them to study the star patterns and chart the movement of the stars at night there's also a possibility that they were actually corn mills and they could have had actually both functions in the daytime they could have been used for grinding corn and then at night be used by the astronomers for mapping the heavens and that's just detail once again with the megalithic stuff we we find such incredible technical precision that you put your hand on the surfaces and move them and you feel the preciseness of the structures these are roundish but not completely round and so they're probably Inka work and not the earlier megalithic work and here more evidence of the Inka this is walking into the temple of the Condor and again you see the relatively rough work on the left and right hand sides it's possible that there that small wall section that might be the earlier megalithic but some of the Inka work was actually quite sophisticated so there's no necessarily cut-and-dried distinct distinction between Inka and megalithic work and that's why the whole study is very complicated and that's why I've been too machu picchu 68 times so far there's always more to learn and so here again very fine or relatively fine craftsmanship in the lower section and rougher on top and above and once again tight-fitting on the bottom with rougher above so you can see that the megalithic complex in machu picchu did sustained some damage during the the great earthquake cataclysm it wasn't completely earthquake proof but still astonishing craftsmanship and unknown who the original builders were and another example very fine work on the bottom much rougher work on top massive slabs on the bottom especially the very the one on the very bottom that's probably ten tons and then much cruder work above that and here once again you have stone interlocking into the bedrock and then cruder work by the Inka on top the megalithic builders appeared to have used the natural landscape so the stone on the left is actually the bedrock itself there's almost like a seat that's been carved into it that was probably done in megalithic times and once again the Inka not wasting space would utilize the entire area and here again super tight-fitting stone work in the area of what's called the temple of the Sun which with rougher work on the very bottom and here to the Gateway beautifully constructed and then the wall that butts into it and the wall on the right hand side much cruder so from inheritance to construction and they say that this is how the Inca actually did the the quarrying work that they would take bronze wedges which actually cannot penetrate granite and then they would make these depressions and then at night they would put wedges in and then boil water and pour the water on the stone so that then the wood would expand and produce a crack and in theory it could be this but what you're not told when you go to Machu Picchu is that in fact this example was done by Russian archaeologists in the 1990s so this is not an example of what the Inka necessarily did this is what the Russian archaeologists believe was done during Inka times and again super-tight precision that you can see on the left hand side and then reconstruction here on the right hand side beautifully shaped stones so that's an example of a wall from the earlier period falling down and then the Inka rebuilding it and having to fill with clay mortar because they couldn't get the stones to fit perfectly back together again and then this staircase is relatively crude you can see the the gaps in the back so this is another Inka addition to possibly megalithic lower construction and simply an overview of Machu Picchu this shows you the majority of what the city looked like there were also many terraces that go down the left-hand side and go down the right-hand side and this is a view from just above the quarry so Machu Picchu proper is in the foreground point of Picchu the so-called younger mountain in the background and some people think that this is the profile of a human face looking upwards it's probably natural in terms of its shape but some people believe that it's an artificial construction and it's up to you to decide what you think of that and then here this shows you again Inka period 100% Inka period construction very highly peaked roofs because of the amount of rainfall that occurs here it rains almost every day and it's located about 7,000 feet above sea level in the very high area of the Amazon jungle so the temperature is almost always the same year-round more or less somewhat colder in the evenings in winter and this is Inca construction as compared to this that's one solid piece of stone you see all the shapes the shape steps coming up on the right hand side and for those that are interested in energy or dowsing there is a line or energy line was recently recently measured by a guest on one of our tours and he said that that energy line goes from the megalithic core through this stone all the way to Cusco so for those of you interested in crystal energy and vibrational energy and dowsing and things like that this could be very significant to you and here again megalithic filling in bedrock on the right beautiful work going all the way up except possible repair at the bottom people said say why would there be repair at the bottom well if there was a major earthquake sometimes the lower sections will pop out it's not necessarily the top parts fall over and that's what we also see when we go to cusco we see a lot of megalithic work where there are very small stones used in the construction at the bottom because damage happened at the bottom in some ways it's also believed that the megalithic builders put smaller stones in the bottom so that they would act like shims for earthquakes so the wall would shake the smaller stones would pop out the wall would settle a little bit and actually become stronger and then the shims would be put back into place again and another example of the the pre-inca megalithic work most of this then on the right hand side you see inferior construction other pieces of stone are missing so they're likely victims of the ancient earthquake that were never put back into place to some degree because they were too big for the Inka to pick up and move and another staircase carved into the the granite bedrock whether it's from the Inka time period or earlier unknown but the stones on the left-hand side were obviously added in by the Inka and then this is another example of pure Inka construction a lot of terraforming that went on so it's not to say that the Inka were primitive this would have required thousands upon thousands upon thousands of man-hours to shape each one of those terraces and to make make the stone walls very little damage has ever happened to Machu Picchu since the time that it was rediscovered in 1911 and that shows you that the Inka craftsmanship was actually really quite good for that time period and another view of mainly Inka work notice again that the surfaces here or are flat and in contrast to the mountains in behind which are all domed so I think that what happened was the the first builders the megalithic ones came and they basically sheared the top of the mountain off using some kind of ancient technology and the Inka took advantage of that in order to build their their terracing systems and here another staircase cut into the bedrock with a relatively crude inca wall of a building on the right-hand side again two more of these circles that were used by astronomers this whole piece is actually in the shape of a llama the llama of course a very sacred animal to the Inka and also one of the constellations of the Inka is called the llama and the baby and this is thought to be a portrayal on the ground of what is seen in the heavens and a beautiful ceremonial bath again due to the level of the tight fitting of the stone this is probably a construction from excuse me the megalithic times with a bit of repair work done by the Inka and the water actually still runs to this very day half a much of Peach's construction is in fact underground it's the way of moving all of the water from the rainfall through the mountain and they took as much time building underground as they did above-ground in order to make sure that Machu Picchu would always remain stable and there were major floods that happened in this area about 13 years ago and thousands of modern homes were destroyed or damaged but supposedly not a single stone from Machu Picchu moved during that major month of flooding then we have strange anomalies like this this protrusion function unknown the fanuc again you see the superior relatively superior construction on the bottom right side the left side this giant stone put into place there is in fact a whole vertical hole in the center of that Petrosian it's thought that that is an indication of winter solstice that at midday the Sun shines straight through the hole as a calendar indicator and once again the inca construction on the right hand side and this in fact is that whole whether it's megalithic or inca unknown could be a combination of both could be that the knob was done by the megalithic builders and then the inca made the hole they simply created a secondary function which is common among the inca and other culture they didn't use it for whatever the original function was but they would utilize it nonetheless for their spiritual or other practices and then more of the water channel system relatively roughly done so from the inca time period and here we have sections of a water channel probably not in their original place so this is is an example of reconstruction they haven't simply tried to rebuild the original waterways but simply lining them up to document them a giant stone block on the left of the left hand side near that llama which fell down from one of the megalithic structures above too heavy to pick up and move back into place so simply recorded as to where it is and the difference between the megalithic work in the back and the inca work in the front night and day right next to each other so more of machu picchu with wine of Picchu in the background once again a very big site very complicated well worth spending as much time as possible to study and here again you see a very large megalithic block on the left and the rest of what we're looking at more or less is inca time period construction and here mainly inca but if you look on the left-hand side where the person has the yellow windbreaker that could be a section of megalithic wall from the early builders time and then inferior work added on top and some of these lentils again were probably recycled from the older megalithic builders and utilized because of their size and high quality of workmanship and as we start to move out of machu picchu this is looking back at the main area of construction multiple levels of building the megalithic core is actually over here on the right-hand side it's the center focus point and all of machu picchu was constructed around it and contrasting that with the superior work of the megalithic builders again the stone being pulled apart during the ancient Cataclysm and as you look through the doorway there the window you see the upper two layers are inferior to the ones below so that's Inka reconstruction as well as the stonework on the left-hand side you have different shapes and sizes fitting in and this is looking up at the inti Wattana or the hitching post of the Sun inside that enclosure where all those people are standing that's the highest point of machu picchu normal place to have a astronomical observatory and here we see part of the foundation almost all inca work and it shows that they built quite far down underground to make sure that water would travel properly due to all the excessive rainfall that happens in the area and what's left of a megalithic wall on the left and then an inca construction on the right this is what machu picchu looked like in night excuse me in 1912 first photographs ever taken once the foliage was being removed another photograph of how it was found 1911 1912 this is the megalithic core that is the Sun temple in the background and the three-sided structure that we saw earlier that's the beautiful example of the megalithic work they had to dig down more than two feet to find the actual foundation of it and again these astronomical circles here being portrayed as being for grinding corn again could have been both functions and a very early photograph again a part of the megalithic aspect of machu picchu mainly the lower section and then in the upper on the left-hand side you see the stone all pulled apart so that's damaged Inka period work and the man who actually did the did the discover main discovery he was the inspiration for Indiana Jones notice that the Hat is very similar actually hid the handbag he has is very similar and so that's where the idea of Indiana Jones comes from is Hiram Bingham the third he was not the first foreigner to see Machu Picchu but because he was associated with Yale University and National Geographic he was able to make Machu Picchu famous in an article in National Geographic in 1913

Channel: Brien Foerster

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Keywords: Machu Picchu, Peru, Inca trail, Inca, Cusco

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Length: 50min 36sec (3036 seconds)

Published: Sat Dec 22 2018