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June 25, 2025 10 mins

To The Hilt Deep Dive Podcast Ep 1.27 Johnny Nugent: A Sword Swallower’s History of Sword Swallowing


In this episode, we discuss sword swallower Johnny Nugent, who ran away from home to join the circus as a teenager in the 1920s, and ended up performing as a sword swallower with dozens of circuses and sideshows over 50 years.


Johnny Nugent is one of more than a hundred sword swallowers featured in the book, To The Hilt: A Sword Swallower’s History of Sword Swallowing, by sword swallower Dan Meyer and sideshow historian Marc Hartzman (Schiffer Publishing), now available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-a-Million, Target, Walmart and more:


To buy To The Hilt book, visit

https://ToTheHiltBook.com


Buy To The Hilt on Amazon:

https://amzn.to/3EbUsQf


Listen to more To The Hilt Podcasts, both historical bios and modern living sword swallowers’ jackpots:


To The Hilt Podcasts

https://www.swordswallow.com/podcasts.php


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