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

And uh but what I learned after that was just, you know, I think at the end of the day, you gotta be motivated by the work itself and the work has to be its own reward.

And to me, I just decided kind of through the dark night of the soul that period to I'm just gonna tell the stories that are most moving to me.

So did this come to you from

Oh no, this is a Michael Burns uh quote uh that he loves.

Uh Socrates said, I've suffered my way to wisdom.

And so I think it was just uh it was just difficulty that allowed me to come to a fuller realization of like, you know, the joy of it is just in

In telling stories that I think are meaningful and life-changing to me and hoping they're meaningful and life-changing to other people.

It's wonderful when they succeed, and many of them have.

But uh so that led to I created a series for Amazon called House of David, and that's a story I had wanted to do since I was 16 years old, and it was a number one on Prime and 60 million viewers globally, and I had carried around a a magazine that I had found on the internet that was 15.

fifty years old that no one understood that there was a movie in there.

But it was like a psychedelic Jesus and it said Jesus Revolution and it was very much like a spiritual hippie awakening in California.

That movie, you know, broke even in like three days and uh and and didn't there's a movie and everything.

There is.

And then Washington, ten years ago, I uh I'm from the South, so I'm very um fairness means a lot to me.

And uh and and so I could not get in to see Hamilton like a decade ago.

And uh it just felt unfair.

I mean I I wasn't and and so I'm like I'm gonna rage against this by reading thirty books, you know, which I did.

And uh I fell in love with the story of the American Revolution, but not to tell a movie, not to make a movie or TV show.

But I just loved I mean it's an incredible story.

Good day.

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