Mike Irwin | Culture | Flynn Wright | Des Moines, Iowa, Advertising Agency

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Mike Irwin

Research Manager

Hi, I'm Mike. I'm a researcher at Flynn Wright. I'm married and have a 65 lb. German Shepherd/Retriever/Chow mix named Charlie. I drive a Jeep and recently traded in my beloved steel lugged bicycle for a 1100cc super sport motorcycle…all in the pursuit of moving as fast as possible on as few wheels as needed. Soon, I’ll perfect my rocket unicycle idea. Speaking of the Jeep, you’ll probably catch me tuned into NPR or something from my ever-expanding collection of blues records as I move a little further up the road. I love the outdoors and spend much of the remaining hours of the day hiking and pondering how I’ll be able to do a 14er. I mix and match sweater vests and wool. This is an odd and somewhat useless fact, but then again, I spend most of my day revealing insightful and actionable facts.

What I Like

Bicycles (steel is real!)
Tweed/Wool (it's a tie!)
Public radio (preferably KUNI)
Hiking
Blogging

What I Don't

Hot summer weather
WOI's variation on public radio
Warm milk
Glo-Sticks
Marathon reality TV programming

Did You Know?

I was always assigned non-speaking rolls in childhood plays (ie. a tree, or a mute raccoon, or a bear-skin rug) due to the fact that I can't memorize lines. This isn't so much a little known fact as much as a fact that no one would care to remember.

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