Crossing Thresholds Together
We aim to be men of integrity by acknowledging, embracing and navigating the universal cycle of orientation, disorientation, and reorientation.
Ido Dassa, a twenty-eight-year-old Israeli ultrarunner turned startup founder based in Vienna, joins Evan and Danny for a conversation that covers a lot of ground: growing up overweight and checked out of school, discovering sport at seventeen, becoming a professional athlete and national record holder, and now building Race Pace, an AI-powered trail running co-pilot. What makes Ido's story compelling is not the race results but the way he thinks, like a person who keeps saying yes to things that terrify him, from signing up for an Ironman four months after learning to swim to competing in the backyard ultra world championship satellite race in October. He talks about how sport gave him a toolkit for everything else in life, how getting comfortable with failure in training made him willing to try things he would have never attempted before, and why he deliberately seeks out situations where he has no idea how the day is going to go. The episode closes with a pitch for Race Pace and a reminder that the backyard ultra world championship satellite races are happening in October with live tracking available online.
12 Oct 2026
Breaking News- Zion
This is a short, unscheduled drop from Evan, Danny, and Joshua giving people a practical look at what the Unrationed annual gathering at Zion National Park is actually going to be like. They cover the campsite, the meals, the shuttles, the routes, and the community app that comes with registration, keeping it grounded and honest about what you’re signing up for: camping, not luxury, but with a chef, showers, pickleball, and some of the most spectacular scenery in the world. The guys also make the case for signing up sooner rather than later, both because the early bird price ends October 31st and because the earlier you’re in, the more time you have to get to know the fifty men you’ll be covering ground with before you ever set foot in Utah. They close with a promise of a future episode on how to have the conversation with your spouse about going.
9 Oct 2026
53. The Random Show
Evan, Danny, and Joshua go without a guest and end up in one of their best conversations yet, wandering from CrossFit gyms and tarantulas to the real question underneath a lot of what they do: how do you relate to work, money, and growth in a way that doesn't cost you the things that actually matter? Danny shares the arc of fifteen years of self-employment, from a boxing and barbell gym to sixty grand in credit card debt to now feeling a glow walking home from the Unrationed office that feels like walking the path. Joshua names the thing he's been stewing on, why didn't he scale Mission Matters Group when he had the ingredients, and lands somewhere honest: he just doesn't care enough about growth for its own sake, and the trampoline wins. The episode closes with Naval's long-term games with long-term people as Danny's only career goal, and a shared sense that maybe their generation is slowly finding a more balanced relationship between work and the life that work is supposed to be serving.
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