
149 - John Wayne Thompson's Armageddon
The Dollop with Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds
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I Had My Arms Ripped Off. I Can't Put on Gloves.
"This is a story about what happens when you don't let someone mentally heal after they have something terrible happen to them," says CNN's John Sutter. "I couldn't find any news stories about John after 2012, and I assume that's how he wants it to be." Tuffy can't wear gloves because he can't put them on so in winter, he has to use socks or mittens. He last worked as a realtor in Mano, South Dakota, a town of around 50,000. But the actual disability was never as bad as the attention.
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