John Irwin
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968 appearances
1 recordings
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 30 Jun
John Irwin’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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At the crossroads.
Oh, at the crossroads.
Yeah.
In eight minutes, you had me saying, wait, did this place exist?
Did Washington really go there 25 times once on his way to the inauguration?
Was it and it was great storytelling.
It was a great device of let's hold the what who the traveler's name is till the end.
And to me, that's the job of a storyteller is to entertain and to kind of give a window into the meaning of life.
I agree with
you I like this uh Aaron Sorkins said when you do an adaptation of a true story, you're not trying to take a photograph, you're trying to paint a portrait.
You're painting a portrait and you're tra painting the most accurate portrait you can but you have to make typically in making a movie you're compressing timelines and you're doing composite characters, but you're trying to get
Painting the most
that portrait right.
I remember when we did the Kurt Warner movie and we signed a Rams helmet and said, You got my story right and we made those changes
typical to an adaptation, but you're trying to paint an accurate portrait so that the audience is then inspired to go find the photographs.
But you hypothesize in a way that
It does not it could have happened.
Well I'm in Washington like I love the history and I was like, wait, did this happen?
It was written in a way that was visceral and engaging
And that's exactly what stories should do.
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