John B. Allen, known as MrBallen, is a former U.S. Navy SEAL, and storyteller specializing in strange, dark, and mysterious true stories. A graduate of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Allen served as a Navy SEAL from 2010 to 2017, completing multiple deployments including to Afghanistan, where he was wounded and medically retired.
Launching his co ... Show More
Oct 27
#248 Jon Delaney - Who's Protecting Jeffrey Epstein's Secrets?
Jon Delaney is the founder and leader of Real News No Bullshit (RNNBS), an independent news platform launched in January 2021 to provide unbiased, agenda-free coverage of domestic and global events. Fed up with mainstream media's perceived biases, Delaney created RNNBS as a digit ... Show More
2h 42m
Oct 23
#247 Brandon Tseng – Shield AI’s X-BAT: The First AI Fighter Jet to Outsmart Top Gun
Brandon Tseng is the President and Cofounder of Shield AI, a defense technology company he established in 2015 with his brother Ryan Tseng, specializing in AI-powered autonomous systems for military applications, including the V-BAT drone deployed in operations like those in Ukra ... Show More
2h 33m
Dec 2024
The Year of Actor Sebastian Stan (‘The Apprentice’)
Actor Sebastian Stan has built a career out of shapeshifting. This week, he joins us to discuss the process of transforming into Donald J. Trump in The Apprentice (8:27), his personal relationship to the American dream (15:35), and the extensive research that went into recreating ... Show More
1h 16m
Jan 2025
State of the Union
Mike Rowe is an Emmy award-winning TV host, producer, narrator, podcaster, spokesman, bestselling author, and advocate for the skilled trades. As the creator and host of DIRTY JOBS, he explored over 350 vocations across all 50 states, celebrating the grit and ingenuity of the Ame ... Show More
2h 37m
Feb 2025
Martin Scorsese (Pt. 2): One Night. One Murder. Five Directors.
Hollywood:1975. Martin Scorsese sits in his apartment, enraged. He wants to literally kill the man who is ruining his to-be-released film, Taxi Driver. Scorsese’s friends, filmmakers Stephen Spielberg, Brian De Palma, John Milius, and Paul Schraeder rush to Scorsese’s side to tal ... Show More
50m 6s
Mar 2023
Robert Durst, un riche héritier devenu tueur en série • Episode 1 sur 2
L’effroyable histoire de Robert Alan Durst nous montre que la richesse n’est définitivement pas source de bonheur. Elle n’efface ni le manque d’amour, ni la perversion, ni le meurtre. Héritier d’une famille ayant fait fortune dans l’immobilier, cet Américain a défrayé les chroniq ... Show More
14m 58s
Mar 2023
Robert Durst, un riche héritier devenu tueur en série • Episode 2 sur 2
L’effroyable histoire de Robert Alan Durst nous montre que la richesse n’est définitivement pas source de bonheur. Elle n’efface ni le manque d’amour, ni la perversion, ni le meurtre. Héritier d’une famille ayant fait fortune dans l’immobilier, cet Américain a défrayé les chroniq ... Show More
13m 20s
Dec 2022
A secret history of Jesse James with Daniel Duke
Guest; Daniel Duke is the great-great-grandchildren of Jesse James. He grew up surrounded by stories of lost outlaw treasures. For more than two decades he has been researching the mysteries involving his connection with family, Freemasonry, the Knights Templar, and the secrets o ... Show More
58m 3s
Aug 2022
Shreveport legend Sebastian "Bamm Bamm" Richardson & producer Sean Allen
Bamm is one of the most beloved, feared, and respected people in the history of Shreveport, Louisiana. He grew up in The Bottoms, a once legendary and vibrant neighborhood known for music, wild celebration, and tragic violence. The Bottoms was ultimately wiped off the face of the ... Show More
1h 5m
Oct 15
Talking Dateline: The Prince, The Whiz Kid, & The Millionaire
Lester Holt talks with Josh Mankiewicz about his episode, “The Prince, The Whiz Kid, & The Millionaire.” After retired art dealer and Palm Springs socialite Cliff Lambert vanished in 2008, investigators uncovered a plot by a group of grifters that ended in murder. Lester and Josh ... Show More
25m 17s