Arm Wrestling: A Professional Sport
Our American Stories
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 19 June 2024
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of Our American Stories, Dustin Tomlinson tells the story of how he discovered arm wrestling and decided to take his skill off of the hood of a truck and into the competitive arena.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:14.3 | And we return to our American stories. |
| 0:18.0 | In the world of sports, there are several newcomers that have been making some waves, |
| 0:22.9 | slap fighting, competitive tag, and of course, arm wrestling. While the competition has been around |
| 0:29.6 | for ages, its foray into the world of being more than just a bar battle hasn't. Up next, a story |
| 0:36.7 | about a professional arm wrestler. |
| 0:38.3 | Let's get into it. |
| 0:40.3 | We've got three older brothers. |
| 0:42.3 | I'm the youngest. |
| 0:43.3 | We're all built about the same. |
| 0:45.3 | I think I'm the tallest. |
| 0:47.3 | But yeah, I might be, I think I'm the second to the lightest. |
| 0:51.3 | Yeah, and I'm almost 300 pounds. |
| 0:53.3 | You always have something to prove being the youngest, you know. |
| 0:55.7 | You gotta be macho. |
| 1:00.7 | My name's Dustin Tomlinson. |
| 1:06.1 | I live in Anderson, Missouri. |
| 1:08.1 | I've lived here my entire life. |
| 1:10.3 | Growing up, I lived on a farm. We had about |
| 1:12.0 | 50 hit of cattle. The high school I went to, my graduating class was just a little over 200 people |
| 1:18.1 | for the old county. So grew up turning ranches. I've always worked blue collar jobs. I'm 26 years |
| 1:23.9 | old right now. And for the last five years, I've been an industrial maintenance mechanic at chicken plants and |
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