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The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

261: Jack Carr is a Tomahawk Kinda Guy

The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

Society & Culture, History

4.839.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2022

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

Former Navy SEAL and bestselling author, Jack Carr talks writing, grit, and how his desire to “never miss an opportunity to make someone’s day” led to the serendipitous circumstances that got his first novel into the hands of Chris Pratt.

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0:00.0

What if the world listened more? Maybe it could become a better place.

0:05.5

Because when we really listen, we smarten out as things, things that don't sound quite bright.

0:11.6

They might not seem obvious at first, but listen closely and they stand out like a sore plum,

0:17.9

and the more we glisten the door we learn, our ears help us find belter solutions.

0:22.8

And things can change from this to something a little more like this.

0:33.9

The Honda Jazz is a hybrid. Honda, the power of dreams.

0:44.4

Hey guys, it's the way I heard it episode number 261. This one's called Jack Car is a Tomahawk

0:50.8

kind of guy. Because he is Chuck, I mean, there's no denying it.

0:55.5

Well, he's very fond of the Tomahawk. It's his logo actually.

1:00.1

It's a great logo. Yeah, it's beautiful. Two Tomahawks over each other.

1:04.4

Jack Car, if you've been living under a rock for the last couple of months, is a best selling

1:10.0

author. He has five best selling books all based on a character called James Reese, which he

1:18.4

created, maybe out of thin air or maybe out of his experience as a lieutenant commander in the

1:25.5

Navy seals, where he spent 20 years serving his country. I wanted to have this guy on because I've

1:31.7

a lot of writer related questions and I have a lot of seal related questions. And I am absolutely,

1:41.5

oh, I don't know, not really envious because the guy paid his dues as we'll learn in the conversation.

1:46.9

But I've never really talked to anybody, Chuck, who had such a clarity of purpose and who knew with

1:53.8

such precision exactly what he was going to do with his life. He knew it at a young age.

2:00.7

And he knew he was going to be in the seals and he knew he was going to be a writer.

2:05.0

So he put in 20 years with the seals. And then once he retired from the seals, he's like,

2:09.6

all right, well, I guess it's time to get started on the writing. And he did. And to great success in

2:14.8

five years, he's written five novels that have all been New York Times bestsellers.

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