John Allen

speaker

2,188 appearances 4 recordings 3 series first heard Nov 2013 last heard 31 Aug

John Allen’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

Trend

recordings per month · last 12 months

Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 2 in all, peaking in Aug 2026 with 1.

newest first · ▶ plays the moment

It was almost like meeting a professional athlete or something.

It feels so disconnected from real life.

Like you don't you don't know people that play shortstop for the Red Sox.

You don't know those people.

They exist, but that's separate, right?

And I I I asked them all.

some variation of like, why did you do this?

Why'd you join?

And all of them had this sense of like

I don't know, I just kind of fucked everything else up and I uh

I thought this was a pretty cool thing, cool challenge.

You know, I always wanted to serve to some degree, but I wanted to see if I could if I could make it. 'Cause the training for SEAL training it's it's

You know, it's famously open to the public in some ways.

You just gotta be like an American citizen in decent enough shape.

You can go try out.

But very few people make it through it.

try out.

You well, you do.

You do have to join the military.

But you can come off the street and raise your hand and say, I want to go try out.

Showing 121–140 of 2,188 · page 7 of 110