John Reeves
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1,814 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2023
last heard Feb 2025
John Reeves’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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We've got a pretty good group of legislators in Alaska.
Yeah. For the most part, they're all... They're going to have their squabbles and stuff, but pretty much everybody on the same page.
Yeah, it actually does. The people are generally nice to each other and considerate.
I used to always think that if I go bear hunting, I'm going to go with somebody who I can outrun. But now I get a lot of people asking me if I want to go bear hunting. No.
I have a grizzly bear hide I got from Slingsby up in Nome. And it's on that 1885 pool table that I told you. Oh, yeah. I'm not going to play on that pool table until you show up. Oh, Jesus. It covers that pool table. I'm sure. Got two of those now.
Not grizzly bears. I've seen polar bears and stuff like that. You've seen polar bears up there? Well, not in Fairbanks. I've seen north of Nome.
Yeah. They have them up there. I mean, they had one polar bear, apparently, I don't know if it's true or not, that walked into the interior of Alaska. I mean, it just went traveling. Really? Going to have me a little cross-country jaunt.
Well, they eat nothing but meat. Yeah. They're badass motherfuckers.
Yeah. Last time.
I'm hungry. Yeah. I talked about pool.
Last time you and I were talking, you said you had a friend that makes pool cues. Yeah. Here's a chunk of mammoth ivory for him.
That's a good solid chunk.
The exterior on that, the blue color, is called Vivianite. It comes from mineralization on frozen artifacts like that.
You said you had one that had mammoth ivory in it.
That's the mineralization you see on that. We find it's actually easy to find bones sometimes because they're colored blue.
I have some that are really, really blue.
The one that was found over the hill from us, 38,000 years old. Wow. I haven't tested any of my step bisons. Wow. It's 400 bucks a pop, but I would bet that one's at least 20,000, 30,000 years old.
Burt Benrock, Burt gravel, you know, deep, deep, 50 feet down. And since we talked last, I think I kind of figured some things out. Yeah. All that material that has ended up where we're at came in, I think we talked about it, came in some kind of water event. Some flood. Yeah. And that's called the back channel to the pay, what we're digging up pay out of.
So there's a back channel that goes through that valley that's pretty decent in gold. I mean, pretty rich. And the miners used to drift mine that because they couldn't bucket line dredge it. And so it goes around where we're at and it keeps going downstream. So when we moved from where we were at down to, let's go find the back channel. And we set up over here where we started on the left limit.
We started going back up and we found some drift mines up there. And this bone here, I think it was from an old drift mine a couple hundred years ago, you know. that before the discoveries were even made. Some guys were out there digging around and had an old drift mine going.
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