John Irwin

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The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe · 492: Jon Erwin—Young Washington · 30 Jun 2026 podcast

Yeah.

I'm just

obsessed with the formation of things.

Like, um and any time there's a leader

that's mythic.

Whether that's David, you know, in the showhouse David that I made, or if it's Washington.

You actually ask, okay, how Churchill since you invoked.

Or Churchill, you get to Gallipoli, you get to a massive bullet.

Darnell's biggest mistake of his life.

A lot of people died because of a decision he made.

And so what I am obsessed with learning is like what are the primary characteristics of a person and then where are they made?

And uh so with Washington, what a lot of people don't understand is that the revolutionary

War was a war of attrition or the war of post.

That means it's basically you have the largest amphibious fleet ever assembled in the history of the world filled with Hessian mercenaries, like hired guns, basically sent to crush us.

And we're not even us yet.

And we're not even us.

And all of a sudden, uh that's a whole other discussion.

We're not even a nation.

We are uh colonies that are banded together to declare independence, or to basically

And then we didn't really know what would happen afterwards.

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