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Undaunted.Life: A Man's Podcast by Kyle Thompson

DAVE MUNSON | They'll Fight Over It When You're Dead (Ep. 838)

Undaunted.Life: A Man's Podcast by Kyle Thompson

Undaunted.Life: A Man's Podcast by Kyle Thompson

Religion & Spirituality

4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2025

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we welcome the one and only Dave Munson to the show. He is the Founder and Owner of Saddleback Leather Co, an iconic leather brand with a 100-year warranty on their products. He’s also the author of the new book “They'll Fight Over It When You're Dead: The True Story of How I Survived Terrorists, Morons and an Assassin to Build One of the Coolest Leather Companies in the World”. In this interview, we discuss how his faith in Christ fuels all of his business aspirations, how lacking a way to easily carry his books while teaching English in Mexico led to him designing his first leather bag, when he got the idea to try and launch a leather bag company, being so poor that he was trading puppies for tacos so he could eat, when a Mexican Federale was sent to kill him, why he decided to kill this man instead, how all of us are in vocational ministry, the details of the brand new Saddleback Leather Co Headquarters, and much more. Let’s get into it… Episode notes and links HERE. Donate to support our mission of equipping men to push back darkness. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is undaunted life a man's podcast. I'm your host Kyle Thompson. Let's get into it. All right, guys, we've got a special guests on the podcast today. His name is Dave Munson. We had a lot of fun on this one. He is the founder and owner of Saddleback Leather Company. That's an iconic leather brand. It's got got a hundred year warranty on all their products

0:38.1

actually have one of their products right here i've got their little toiletry bag you and we kind

0:42.0

of talk about this in the podcast and all the different things but he is the author of a new book out now

0:46.6

it's called they'll fight over it when you're dead the true story of how i survive terrorists

0:51.5

morons and an assassin to build one of the coolest leather

0:54.8

companies in the world. And so they'll fight over it when you're dead. That's kind of like

0:58.7

the company moniker in terms of their bags. And so his company is the official leather goods

1:04.6

maker, the Texas Rangers. He worked with Toyota to make a limited edition, 1500 truck limited edition, kind of saddleback leather interior truck. But in this podcast today, he's just got such an insane story, right? So, guys, the book is in the show notes. You can check it out. But his story is just absolutely insane about, okay, how he came to faith in Christ, how he ended up in Mexico, how while he was in Mexico, he didn't have a bag for his books,

1:28.4

but he wanted it not just any bag, he wanted a cool bag, and so he had designed a bag,

1:32.3

and then a bunch of people were complimenting the bag, and then he's like, well, maybe I can

1:35.5

make some more and sell them. And just his stories of what he did to get his bag company off the

1:41.5

ground, because people wanted his bags, but bags but you know he's trying to get them

1:45.2

made and you know he has having to learn all the stuff about leather and he kind of gives us in this

1:49.6

interview today a kind of a rundown of the different types of leather and all the all the different

1:53.4

things and i mean in at different points guys he's living in a hundred dollar a month like run

1:58.8

down beat up uh apartment somewhere in Mexico.

2:01.6

He's trading his time and his work for tacos, right?

2:05.6

He's trading like he was studying out his dog to make puppies to trade for more food for him and his dog,

2:12.6

just trying to get this company off the ground.

2:14.6

We go into a deep detail about the Federale that was sent to kill him, right? So an assassin was sent to kill this company off the ground. We go into a deep detail about the Federale that was sent to

2:18.8

kill him, right? So an assassin was sent to kill this guy. And we get into his mindset like,

2:23.3

okay, this guy was sent to kill me. I know he's going to kill me. We're riding in a car together.

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