John Irwin

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968 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 30 Jun

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

There's thirty five of 'em down there and there's fifty surrounding him.

And it's his job to go tell him to leave again.

And if they don't, to use whatever force necessary, which is an order he didn't understand, a very unclear order.

I don't think he fires his gun.

I'm saying when we dramatized it, I'm like, everything I know about this character, you know, so there's all kinds of theories.

You know, the the half king who was there with him hated the French and said that they ate his father, whether that was true or not, uh, that's what he said.

I don't think that there is near enough to say that it would because the other thing is the account that Washington fired the shot.

was, as I understand it, decades later in an absolute retrospect.

So there was nothing first person in the moment at the time that said, Oh yeah, Washington pulled the trigger that it you can't

I I would be uncomfortable as a storyteller claiming that that to be true.

It's terrific.

Impossible to execute.

And I I'm much more vocal of like this is a

This is commentary.

This is a storyteller wrestling with everything that they can learn.

And then when you put it up on its feet and you add context and you add hopefully this kind of emotional archaeology to it, um, it's revelatory.

You can process it, but I

This is how I heard it.

I don't know.

This is my best efforts to saying of all I know, this feels emotionally right and authentic to me.

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