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

I wanted to do the the young life of George Washington 'cause I was much more interested in like

Where was this myth carved in granite forged, you know?

And uh and under what circumstances?

And you get to this chapter in his life, yeah, where this is where he became the leader, in my view.

film in theaters nationwide on our two fifty that celebrates the American story at all, which is shocking to me.

It's like I thought there would at least be Independence Day three or or you know or or Die Hard 4 or or or or you know Saving Private Ryan against something.

Right.

You know?

Right.

And so, but yeah, this has been a decade in the making for me.

I love while working on other

I think I made a commitment a while ago because there's like a f a fog to success and you don't really know um it's hard.

And so uh someone should write some book surviving success.

And so after your first kind of breakout, there's a lot of voices and they're loud, but I've concluded that inspiration is kind of internal and quiet and what was the first breakout?

I just so I I would say that we did a movie called I Can Only Imagine and and raised the money for it to both make it and to market it.

So every filmmaker should do that at least once in your life.

You're throwing up in a trash can Thursday night before it releases.

We built the film to break even at 15 million in US box office and uh it did 17 million in its opening weekend and 86 million overall was the number one independent film of the year.

And uh, you know, I had grown up in Alabama

was told to do kindergarten again, uh, you know, said because I was an ADHD nightmare, you know, and so l like I had no means of my brother and I of of being in uh

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