Johnny Got His Gun
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Oct 22, 2026
Jason MylesHOST
Like, he loses all his limbs.
Jason MylesHOST
And the manager goes, oh, that sounds a lot like this book called Johnny Got His Gun.
Jason MylesHOST
He gives James the book.
Jason MylesHOST
And then another manager goes, oh, by the way, there's a movie.
speaker_1UNKNOWN
Yeah.
speaker_1UNKNOWN
And so these people are like, no, you don't understand.
speaker_1UNKNOWN
Johnny Got His Gun was written
Jason MylesHOST
by a communist that was
JamesHOST
Todd, classically trained theater actor, was working in New York City.
JamesHOST
He was performing that one-man stage adaptation anti-war novel called Johnny Got His Gun.
JamesHOST
Oh, yeah.
JamesHOST
Directed by the name of Oliver Stone, happened to attend.
NickHOST
very tense.
NickHOST
So he was also—and I found this really interesting for, like, a weird reason, but Timothy Bottoms was also in Johnny Got His Gun— which is an anti-war movie from also 71, but it was based on a book, on a novel by the same name.
NickHOST
And that book slash movie is what James Hetfield from Metallica wrote the song One about.
NickHOST
And the movie is in the the music video features like that movie.
SeanHOST
Like, they delivered on it, but, like, do I call it a story? No, it's an experience.
BrooksHOST
It's kind of, uh, like movies that have done this sort of thing better is, um, uh, Johnny Gets His Gun or some- something like that, very old movie.
BrooksHOST
Metallica made the music video One based off of it.
BrooksHOST
So.
Dirt McCoyHOST
...
Dirt McCoyHOST
the 1950s called Johnny Got His Gun.
Dirt McCoyHOST
Um, I, I think some people w- will remem- will recognize it from the Metallica video, music video for the song One.
Dirt McCoyHOST
Mm-hmm.