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Joe Rau lost, and his opponent will not make the finals. Pino Hinds losing 4-2 on Mat A in the second period. He's been put down, and didn't open up. The ref kept cautioning him, but he still wouldn't open up. Awarded another point to 5-2. Challenge lost, now 6-2 for the Iranian, who looks like a Golden Age Batman mob thug. 7-2 now for the Iranian, and Flo goes down. 8-2 now but I don't know how it got there. Flo was down. And that's your final.

BOARD QUESTION: Can I Say That I Was a Stand-Up Comedian? About ten years ago, I decided to do an open mic at a comedy club in Myrtle Beach. I had about 20 minutes of “A” material and wanted to see how an audience of humans responded to it. Turns out, I was more nervous about this than at any time I spent arguing in court. I drank a couple of beers and had a Dad-at-your-kid’s-birthday-party-at-your-ex-wife’s-house buzz going. When it was my turn, I went with my duck call joke, and the crowd roared. I did bits about GPS, zombies, the Golden Age of Hollywood monsters, why my doctor pissed me off and some other things. I made fun of North Carolina. I was killing it. After ten minutes, though, I drew a blank. Instead of signing off with something like, “I hate you all” or “I have an urgent desire to be alone,” I told a joke about ****jobs on porn sites. Well, the manager had told all of us beforehand that we couldn’t go blue. From the stage, I noticed that same guy running up at me like Peter Griffin at a concert. I hurried up with the punchline before he snatched the microphone away. So, my first question is this: Can I say that I was a stand-up comedian without further explanation? My second question is whether I can put the following on a resume: JOB: Stand-up Comedian DATES: January 17, 2013 at 9:43 pm (Eastern) to January 17, 2013 at 9:53 pm (Eastern) EMPLOYER: The Comedy Cabana, 9588 N Kings Hwy, Myrtle Beach, SC PERSON TO CONTACT: I would rather that you not contact them. REASON FOR LEAVING: I told a dirty joke.

The Greco portion of the tournament needed more BEY. The last time he wrestled one of the finalists at 77 kg, he beat him 4-1. That match was less than 6 months ago. He wrestled the other finalist twice in 2023. Lost to him badly, and lost to him closely in the finals of the Hungarian Grand Prix. That's the thing about these big international competitions, you make a run deep into them, and you tend to run into the same guys. The whole Army (WCAP) program was rocked recently with the loss of one of their wrestlers who had emergency surgery for blood clots. Kamal was especially distraught. As for the women's competition, yeah, NHS is right, needs more America.

Congrats to the OP on the understated title of the year. "Uncomfortable Brands Interview" is like "Uncomfortable Jellyfish Sting" or "Uncomfortable Meeting with the IRS." None of those things are ever comfortable. It is probably project #439 on my list of things to do, but I will someday do an entire video of the faces that Tom Brands makes before an interview starts. Maybe set it to Minnie Ripperton's Lovin' You or Pavarotti's Nessun Dorma.

Canada's Stewart with a Gold at 55 kg. Low scoring, but she dominated the positions.

Susaki is so good. Perfect leverage. Early second-period tech for the Gold.

I agree with your first two statements. In fact, the result against Taz would've caused me to decide to wear down my elite opponents before unleashing my offense. It makes logical sense. As for chest lock defense, I think that's basically physics. Snyder will always be heavy for the weight, but he's not too tall, and that means he has a center of gravity that is much closer to the actual chest lock and therefore easier to throw over. What exactly is a chest lock defense? Maybe finish his takedowns quicker or at a better angle? Cheers! NOTE: I don't know **** about physics.

Kamal Bey among the USA Greco wrestling tomorrow. Expecting big things from him. There are HUGE fields in the Olympic weight classes in Greco at this ranking series tournaments. Midland-tournament-sized fields.

Your point is conceded. Still boring. And I like Sumo. This is slow motion Sumo.

Zare bores me. He's the Sam Stoll of Freestyle.

Nice match by Parris! Bronze for the good guy. On the edge with :30 seconds to go, a step out wouldn't have helped Medishevili, so he went for a suplex. Mason just kept back and landed on top of him.

He's having trouble with the tall ones lately. Isaac Trumble is tall.

Upset of the tournament? I think that "step out" wasn't a step out. It was one of those "the video didn't provide conclusive evidence" instances. From the other angles, which were admittedly not good ones, it looked like part of Kyle's foot was inbounds. Can you imagine the noise if Iranians were allowed their vozuvala (sp?) horns?

Trumble is a beast. His problem is that Kyle Snyder is still only 15 years old. By the way, Vicky Vicky is not only a girl's name, but the same girl's name twice. I am happy that the organizers must have had a rule against those loud vozuvala (sp?) horns. Now, the Iranian fans are cheering for the Iranian in English. They don't know what to do! Isaac is your Bronze medalist 8-5.

Nate Jackson with the pin! Was that an actual grunt of pain from the Georgian, or did he just want the ref to give him a restart off his back? Wow! Big win for Nate!

Good match, but Schultz loses 7-8. Really hoped that Eric had worn him out earlier in the first period. Question for our rules/strategy folks: If you are an American and really suck at gut wrenches and leg laces, and you're chasing a lead, why not just stand up right away after a takedown? Get a quick restart. At least just sit there and look up at the ref immediately, no?

That arm drag slide by with the foot tripping underneath looks like the new "it" international takedown. Saw a lot of it yesterday, and now in the finals at 79 kg. Brit announcer says Eric Schultz is from ILLINOIS but was originally from Nebraska. That was backwards. However, I think Schultz does keep his hometown in the state. Nate Jackson is also an ILLINOIS high school state champion.

Wick went all folkstyle up in there and eventually gets the cradle and fall against Iran and a Bronze. Great match for him. Scored a ton of points. Iran has had a great second day. Good to see them lose for a change.

Thanks to @nhs67 for the American play-by-play commentary. I watched Isaac Trumble beat Luuuke Luffman in the Midlands finals 2-1 less than two weeks ago, and he's wrestling for Bronze here. Pretty wild ride for him. As for Gable, he won Olympic Gold. We want to see him wrestle Freestyle again, but it'd be too big a risk. Did any American women wrestle today? I see 72 kg had a pool of two wrestlers? I didn't see any Americans in the women's results. Time for Finals.

We'll see. Aman Aman is the real deal, though, and I don't see any other American beating him right now. Maybe, David Taylor. Zane is best when he goes back to ground and works out a plan with his team. Plus, he's now got a Croatia/Zagreb Open ranking series tournament Gold Medalist to work with in the room. He's really smart, and he'll come up with the best way to reach his goals.

Matthew Finesilver lost a hard-fought third-place match, but he can hold his head high knowing that he wears the perfect RAF mustache. You can see him waltzing into the Officer's Club after shooting down a Junkers 88 over the English Channel, can't you?

Here's how we get back at the Pan Am Games for giving us an Australian wrestling commentator and the UWW for providing an Englishman: We send over somebody from Tennessee to announce the 2024 Cricket World Cup. Another thing, how do Penn State fans feel about Jason Nolf (not my favorite wrestler) being number two in the United States at 74 kg behind Kyle Dake, who also wrestles for the Nittany Lion Wrestling Club, but never wrestled for PSU?

Bekhbayar Erdenebat, there on behalf of the ILLINOIS Regional Training Center and Mongolia, wins the Gold handily. Hopefully, he and Zane can continue training together.

Aman Aman with a first period tech in the Finals. Zane made it to the second period, so there. Seriously, the world is going to have to scout his step over from the seatbelt position. You're not supposed to do that! But he scored with it all tournament. Also, his forward pressure. Might have to time that.

He's Tom Cruise without the crazy eyes.