JASON MCCARTHY | Forging a Better America One Ruck at a Time (Ep. 298)

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

Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2022

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we welcome Jason McCarthy to the show. He’s a retired Green Beret and the founder and CEO of GORUCK. GORUCK is one of the top rucksack, boots, and apparel companies in the world. In this interview, we discuss why he chose to enter the military, what drew him to Special Forces, his thoughts on the pullout from Afghanistan, where he got the idea to start a backpack company, almost failing as a business owner, the forces fighting against the concept of community in America, what we can do to regain rites of passage in America, how going to war helped him see God’s hand in his life, the virtues of rucking, why we should all focus on doing hard things, and much more. Let’s get into it… Episode notes and links HERE 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.
0:21.4	I'm your host Kyle Thompson.
0:23.2	Let's get into it.
0:24.2	Hi guys, today we've got a special guest on the podcast.
0:26.1	His name is Jason McCarthy, so Jason is a retired green beret.
0:29.6	He's also the founder and CEO of GoRuck.
0:32.7	They make the best rucks that you can find in the world.
0:37.2	And they're made right here in the good old United States of America.
0:39.8	Now guys, you might see from like the title of the podcast and that little bit of the
0:43.4	intro that you got to hear that, oh, we're just going to sit here and talk about backpacks
0:46.4	the whole time.
0:47.4	Now we did talk about backpacks.
0:48.7	Oh, the guy was a green beret or you can talk about the cue course.
0:51.2	You can talk about all this stuff.
0:52.7	Okay, we're going to get into some of those things, right?
0:55.7	But this conversation was an incredible one.
0:59.5	Because whenever I build these conversations out, I'm just like, okay, I want to talk
1:01.9	about these things.
1:02.9	And this is kind of the red meat for the audience that, you know, no of Jason McCarthy
1:06.4	or want to hear this about GoRuck and that kind of thing.
1:09.0	And that stuff is in here, but we got into a lot of other stuff.
1:11.6	We got into some ideas about what's going on in America right now.
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