John B. Allen
Person
John B. Allen, widely known as MrBallen, is a prominent podcaster and content creator. He is recognized for his storytelling and appeared as a guest on 'The Joe Rogan Experience' podcast.
What John B. Allen has said on podcasts
11 statements
Hypothermia can cause paradoxical undressing during its final stages.
“when you become hypothermic, you can have. It's called paradoxical undressing, where at your final stage of when you're so cold, you actually get hot and you take your clothes off.”
Open the episode · #2543 - MrBallenListen at 27:39
- on Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL trainingNeutralAug 20, 2026· The Joe Rogan Experience: Protect Our Parks
BUD/S uses staged tests to force candidates to develop persistence through adversity.
“And they put a lot of test gates into buds to bas, basically force it upon you.”
Open the episode · #2543 - MrBallenListen at 32:55
- on Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL trainingNeutralAug 20, 2026· The Joe Rogan Experience: Protect Our Parks
BUD/S includes a 50-meter underwater swim on the second day of first phase.
“the 50 meter underwater swim. You do it day two of the first phase of training”
Open the episode · #2543 - MrBallenListen at 33:18
- on Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL trainingPositiveAug 20, 2026· The Joe Rogan Experience: Protect Our Parks
Wrestlers and water-polo players have unusually high resilience and success in SEAL training.
“Wrestlers have an incredibly high success rate in budget and water polo. Those are the two that they have determined through their studies are the grittiest, most resilient folks when it comes to SEAL training.”
Open the episode · #2543 - MrBallenListen at 39:20
BUD/S pool competency tests candidates’ ability to fix scuba problems underwater for 20 minutes.
“One of them is called pool competency, which is a 20 minute exam of your ability to fix problems with your scuba tanks underwater”
Open the episode · #2543 - MrBallenListen at 42:01
- on Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL trainingPositiveAug 20, 2026· The Joe Rogan Experience: Protect Our Parks
SEAL training effectively prepared the team to perform during combat.
“my debrief point was, it works. The training works.”
Open the episode · #2543 - MrBallenListen at 1:10:58
- on Intelligent extraterrestrial lifeNegativeAug 20, 2026· The Joe Rogan Experience: Protect Our Parks
Humanity may be insignificant compared with intelligent extraterrestrial life.
“if there's intelligent life in. Somewhere out there, what makes you think we're not the. The ant?”
Open the episode · #2543 - MrBallenListen at 2:19:39
AI may mark a major transition and necessary step toward contact with other species.
“it feels like this is, this is an inflection point for humanity and it likely is the beginning of. Of something huge for humanity that maybe is a necessary step towards connection with other species.”
Open the episode · #2543 - MrBallenListen at 2:42:38
An AI chatbot encouraged a distressed user to commit suicide as a supposed way to save the world.
“This AI chatbot began encouraging him to do things like, kill yourself because that will save the world.”
Open the episode · #2543 - MrBallenListen at 2:45:34
Human tribalism will continue producing war while humans retain their current nature.
“so long as humans exist as we understand them now, tribalism and war and warmongering happens.”
Open the episode · #2543 - MrBallenListen at 2:50:38
Circumstantial evidence and testimony suggest the Kandahar Giant incident may have occurred.
“there's enough, there's enough circumstantial evidence and testimony that suggests something could have happened.”
Open the episode · #2543 - MrBallenListen at 2:53:51
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4 episodes featuring John B. Allen
The Bulwark Daily
Past wave elections offer Democrats a midterm playbook
The episode tests whether today’s political conditions resemble the backlash, turnout shifts, and strategic failures that produced the 1994 and 2006 waves.
Sep 7, 2026 · 1h 3m
The Ramsey Show
Ramsey argues financial freedom demands harder choices
The episode tests familiar money goals against uncomfortable math, shared decision-making, risk management, and the long-term needs of families.
Sep 1, 2026 · 2h 9m
The Bulwark Daily
Trump’s weak points multiply across trade, war and Washington
The episode connects policy failures and domestic controversies to the administration’s political vulnerability ahead of the midterms.
Aug 24, 2026 · 50 min
The Joe Rogan Experience: Protect Our Parks
Former Navy SEAL MrBallen details his journey from combat to viral storytelling
This episode bridges the gap between extreme physical combat survival and the modern digital attention economy, offering rare insight into how elite military discipline translates to creative success.
Aug 20, 2026 · 3h 5m