John Ballen
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard Dec 2024
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And I finally get it on and it's just like notifications like mad from this video. There's over 5 million views on this video. Mind you, everything I've ever posted collectively has maybe been like 100,000 views. So this is like massive virality, but it was utterly divorced from SEAL stuff. This is like pure, I think this is fascinating and I love telling stories.
and that wasn't like oh boy here's a business opportunity it was more like oh my god this is so cool i'm gonna tell more stories like that because this is what i like and i just began making story after story that sort of fell in line with that and it happened to fall at literally the start of the pandemic so it's like suddenly everybody is not only on their phones but they're on tick tock
And everybody on TikTok is like mostly kids dancing and also me telling stories with a flannel and backwards hat. And so the account just blew up like mad. I transitioned to YouTube and I've just been telling stories ever since.
Man, I don't know. I don't know. So they reopened the investigation, like I said, in 2020. I don't claim this to be true, but I think it might have been in part because of the virality of that video. Suddenly there's this newfound interest of people Googling that the outlaw passed. And they concluded that there was an ice slab that broke off and killed them.
But it's like, how does that account for like the clothes being exchanged, the potential radioactive nature of their clothes, like what the military guys saw with the lights? There's too many things that don't get explained. It is true that like when you become hypothermic, when you become truly hypothermic and you're nearing like the end, basically, you're about to die from exposure.
You become warm to the point where you're hot and actually take your clothes off.
Yeah. That's a well-documented thing. So you could say, okay, so they pitched a terrible place on the mountain. They're being exposed to the elements. They're basically freezing. Maybe as skilled as they were, they weren't really prepared for the weather. And so they became hypothermic. And let's say maybe an avalanche or an ice slab did come down. And maybe they got hit by the ice slab.
And now they're hypothermic. They're taking their clothes off. But it's like, okay. What are all the marks in the tree? Why are their clothes radioactive? What did the government mean when they said an unknown, unnatural forest back in the 1950s? What were the lights seen by the military guy? There's too many unanswered questions. So I admittedly am a huge skeptic.
And if anything, creating this content has only made me more skeptical because there's so much stuff that gets put out that's not true. And it's just like totally made up. But this remains one of those stories that just sort of makes you wonder like, Is it possible there's stuff out there that we don't necessarily understand like supernatural forces or, you know, extraterrestrials?
Like I'd say this is a story that certainly opens the possibility. But I also would be perfectly fine to hear that actually turns out here's all the things that happen that makes that completely reasonable. Maybe there was a leak of some kind that like leaked out radiation or who knows what. So I'm open to it. But I think it's one of the few cases that seems like could make a case for paranormal.
Yeah.
So one of the things that my wife and I often find ourselves saying is like, wow, the timing on things is just amazing. We're so lucky with timing. And I'll give you a couple examples. So when I was getting medically retired from the military, There was a time where I actually was going to be pushed out, like actually cut from the military.
And it was going to be like a year earlier than when I actually did. And so it was like, hey, you're going to get medically retired and it's happening tomorrow. And I didn't have a job lined up. I didn't have anything lined up. And that's actually – when I began reaching out and I met Jordan and it was like really quickly, we came up with this elite meet thing.
But then after the elite meet thing actually had some legs and we're getting donations in, we're putting these cool events on and I have like this feeble little salary coming in from it plus my retirement. I'm like, okay, I can keep things afloat for a little while until I figure out the next thing.
Right as that happened, so out of necessity, I found a way to make an income within like a month of needing to have an income. The Navy says, actually, we're going to extend your contract for an extra, I think it was eight months or something. And so suddenly I had the opportunity with Jordan and Elite Meat, but also got eight more months or 10 months, six, I forgot what it was.
It was less than a year, but it was a lot more time in the Navy, but I really didn't have to do much in the Navy. I was already on the medical discharge way. I had to go to work and like be there like a couple hours a week. It was not hard, but it meant I got paid through the Navy. And so it allowed me really to not worry about pulling money from Elite Meat and pulling a salary.
I can just grow Elite Meat with Jordan. and get paid by the Navy. It's like the Navy is incubating Elite Meat. But Elite Meat wouldn't have existed if I didn't have that, oh my God, I'm getting out in a month. I have to do something about it. And so it feels like, oh, the timing's so perfect. Like I started Elite Meat with Jordan, and then I was granted this extra time with the Navy.
It fostered this company. It incubated this company. But no, I've sort of always looked at my life as being like, man, there's just such amazing timing on things. Like, I just feel like we're so blessed with the timing. Like when, like the TikTok thing, like I just so happened to, to like be making this video when suddenly everybody's on TikTok at the beginning of the pandemic.
Yeah, that's insane timing for sure. And I'm not denying that that's a timing thing. But also, I'm somebody that is perfectly willing to take a chance and do something. I don't get stuck on, is this a good idea or not? It's like, I'm just going to try this thing.
And it's the people that are sort of willing to quickly check a box and do this thing that will be in a position to where timing can benefit you. If you're constantly like, ah, I'm thinking about it. I'm thinking, things are going to pass you by. And so I forget what the question was, but essentially, The advice I would give is like, really, it's sort of what Jocko said.
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