John Irwin
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 30 Jun
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But uh if there even was an afterwards, which was un highly unlikely.
So the idea that this unstoppable force meets this immovable object, which is Washington.
And by force of character and force of will and force of myth and ethos, this one man
Before there was a national anthem or creed or flag, this one person embodied this movement and his army, that people don't understand was not a standing army.
That means every six months, most of your army can just be like, Well, that's all that South Carolina, you know, and they would just leave, you know.
And so the idea of one guy holding it together like that, where did this person with an absolutely uncommon grit and in?
endurance and the ability to suffer f over a long period of time in a way that just out lasted the enemy, which is what you're a war of attrition, you're waiting on them to just get tired where do you learn that kind of stuff?
Where do you
Where do you learn it?
Where do you learn it?
And then you get to this early part of his life and you learn that great characters like that are forged, they're never forged in ease and success and kind of like
Um lofty ideas or alone.
They're forged in hardship and adventure and risk and failure and brotherhood and you know mentors.
Yeah.
Adventure.
Adventure.
So there was this adventure chapter in the beginning of his life that
I knew we were onto something when we went to Mount Vernon to uh research it and the one of the gay attendants.
She's like, What are y'all working on?
We're like, Oh, we're working on a movie on uh it's called Young Washington.
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