Johnny From Roanoke

Fair question asker. The first caller into FRL? Idiot. Bad apple. 1 for 1. Guy who doesn't think things through.

[Johnny From Roanoke @RoanokeJohnny]

Dake walking the strip, trying to shield himself from the bombardment of blue light. Probably.

[Johnny From Roanoke @RoanokeJohnny]

@PBDsPodcast Given the recent group of high profile missing persons, the most appropriate to speak on the topic would be @canammissing

[Johnny From Roanoke @RoanokeJohnny]

Dake walking the strip, trying to shield himself from the bombardment of blue light. Probably.

[Johnny From Roanoke @RoanokeJohnny]

@Cornell_Kevins Good pull with the 50th 3x-er. Do you know how many 4x finalists there have been?!?

[Johnny From Roanoke @RoanokeJohnny]

Willie and I are cut from the same cloth same cloth. I would be like Hiroo Onoda, still fighting the war long after it was declared over.

Actually have a funny Zach Rey story related to that, but I’ll save that for another time

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

NASA Artemis passing close to the Moon

[Johnny From Roanoke @RoanokeJohnny]

@elonmusk

[Johnny From Roanoke @RoanokeJohnny]

This is just about how far the next casino looks on the strip when one of your boys says “screw it, let’s walk”

[NASA @NASA]

One last look at Earth before we reach the Moon.

This view of the Earth was captured on April 5, the fourth day of the Artemis II mission, from inside the Orion spacecraft. The four astronauts will reach their closest approach of the Moon tomorrow, April 6.

[Johnny From Roanoke @RoanokeJohnny]

Jesus Christ, America, Wrestling. All great things.

[Johnny From Roanoke @RoanokeJohnny]

@TheBrownKind Tens of thousands of direct NASA employees worked on the Apollo missions, not counting subcontractors, vendors, and other governments. Even our adversaries verified we went there.

So why did we go? “We do these things not because they are easy but because they are hard”

[Johnny From Roanoke @RoanokeJohnny]

I absolutely love conspiracy theories. Always have. Love to discuss any of them with anyone any time. But Johnni is correct here. Flat earth and moon landing denial are pure fantasy, mountains of evidence prove it’s nothing but fantasy for those stuck in adult adolescence.

[Johnni DiJulius @johnnidijulius]

If you’re an adult and believe the Earth is flat, even for religious reasons, you have lost credibility in all other areas of conversation. That goes for the moon landing too.

[Johnny From Roanoke @RoanokeJohnny]

@johnnidijulius Spot on. And I should elaborate: yes I love conspiracies, why people believe them, how people fall for some, etc. But an objective look at them yields results similar to your post above. Less than 10% are full truth. Still fun at times, but people can’t ignore facts

[Johnny From Roanoke @RoanokeJohnny]

Well said. This is the point that actually gets to me about moon landing denial. It denies American exceptionalism. We went to the moon with new metal alloys, some of which had not yet been invented. Our best and brightest did it right, and did it first.

[Stack Hodler @stackhodler]

You look at the United States today and of course you don't believe they put a man on the moon in 1969

But go watch the Apollo 11 documentary on Amazon

What you'll see is an entirely different country full of people that basically no longer exist today

A serious, focused, rational, and united people with a common goal

They had a pack of tin foil and less computing power than a microwave oven...

But they understood physics
They knew how to build things
And most of all, they had belief

Why wouldn't they?

They were from the country that invented flight itself

If two bike mechanics from the midwest could accomplish something that even the great da Vinci only dreamed of...

Why couldn't a team of the brightest minds in the most powerful country in the world come together to put a man on the moon?

As time goes on, fewer people believe that the scientists and engineers of the 60's actually put a man on the moon

But that says more about our own time than theirs

Go tour the Mont Saint-Michel in France and you'll realize that progress isn't always linear

They built that place 500+ years ago, but no one could imagine us building it today

Yet no one denies it's there.

It sits there as a high watermark in architectural history, reminding us what we are no longer capable of.

The moon landing is a lot easier to deny.

You can't see it with your own eyes.

And what you do see with your own eyes makes it hard to believe it was possible.

[Johnny From Roanoke @RoanokeJohnny]

@OrwellNGoode My spidey sense tells me that @MarkHalperin from @2waytvapp would like to solve…

[InterMat @InterMat]

We received this from a former Gopher wrestler who talks about wrestling for J Robinson:

https://t.co/LppaWPE5rn

[Johnny From Roanoke @RoanokeJohnny]

At the time of each, it seemed completely reasonable that at least 5 of these guys had a legitimate shot to win it after their session 2 match

[NCAA March MATness! @MarchMATness_]

As we all review the #NCAAWrestling brackets for this years’s #MarchMATness tournament, let’s take a look back at some of the most improbable champions in the tournaments history.

[Johnny From Roanoke @RoanokeJohnny]

@MarchMATness_ @choxfan Correct way to represent this. The 5th title was unique in its opportunity AND achievement. But I don’t think anyone ranks him higher for winning the 5th. To me it was a novelty, especially after he himself said 5 would be ridiculous (prior to winning his 4th).

[Johnny From Roanoke @RoanokeJohnny]

Any hope of another world medal for Italy Wrestling just went bye bye. And when I reference Italian wrestlers, I mean Cuban defectors, Italian Americans, Russians, Asians, Middle Easterners, Africans, other Europeans, and pretty much anyone else not born in Italy

[CNN @CNN]

The announcement will be a devastating blow for those who believed the court would uphold Italy’s 160-year history of citizenship by descent, or ius sanguinis. https://t.co/nDRnqrvjLu

[Johnny From Roanoke @RoanokeJohnny]

The Hot Sheets™️

[Justin Basch @JustinJBasch]

Paper brackets! @MatScouts1

[Johnny From Roanoke @RoanokeJohnny]

@WPIALwref @MatScouts1 @NCAAWrestling +1