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Ep 732 - Johnny Got His Gun, by Dalton Trumbo

Overdue

Headgum

Books, Literature, Craig Getting, Podcasts, Andrew Cunningham, Comedy, Arts

4.62.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2025

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Darkness, imprisoning me / All that I see, absolute horror / I cannot live, I cannot die / Trapped in myself, body my holding cell

These lyrics from Metallica's "One" were inspired by this classic anti-war novel (this is relevant, we promise). It's unique perspective and focus on the irreparable harm that war inflicts on the individual set it apart from the other anti-war text's we've read for the show.

Our theme music was composed by Nick Lerangis.

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0:00.0

This is a headgum podcast.

0:05.6

This episode is brought to you by Uncommon Goods.

0:09.1

Andrew, what's that over the horizon?

0:11.3

Is it an advancing army a horde of minions?

0:13.7

No, it's the holidays.

0:16.5

I thought, I was hoping it was minions.

0:18.3

Oh, no.

0:18.9

You know, you know me.

0:19.9

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0:54.8

I found these really neat interactive mugs.

0:59.4

Interactive. Aren't most mugs interactive?

1:01.7

Well, see, interesting. We have a lot of wonderful nerds who listen who would probably like a good mug and they're like sort of a word of the day calendar.

1:10.7

They have a QR code in their design

1:12.8

and you scan it and you could be drinking coffee you could get a trivia question you could

1:18.3

learn about that day in history you could get a little quotable a quote a potent quotable

1:24.0

sounds great to me.

1:31.5

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1:36.6

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1:43.6

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