John Irwin
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 30 Jun
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And then you what I've learned to really win
You have to just catch a lightning in a bottle, kind of a perfect storm that you cannot create.
So you just have to keep swinging.
History's pretty amazing if it's in the hands of good storytelling.
Oh, it's the best.
Like is, I think the documentary filmmaker Ken Burns calls it emotional archaeology, which is a cool term and process and fun of like, man, do everything that you can to put the audience there.
Like, what would this have been like in a visceral way?
Which is what we really tried to do with Young Washington.
And if there is any agenda to the work, it's that you know, at Wonder Project, which is the independent studio I founded, um, that Michael Burns at
Lionsgate help me found.
Uh we talk about this sentence of stories that restore faith and things worth believing in, whatever those things are.
Whatever those things are.
And I think I would submit that America, while imperfect, is one of those things.
And uh it's worth believing in.
Where would you rather be?
Where would you rather be?
And yeah, and so to me, that is the and not to say that there's anything wrong with I'll give you an example.
I think probably one of the most perfect hours of television ever is the finale.
Of Breaking Bad.
That is probably it's so hard to architect an end in television.
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