John Reeves
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first heard Dec 2023
last heard Feb 2025
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Well, our state legislature, I told you last time I was going to go political on this. I've got no desire to litigate this thing. Litigation just takes a long time. Politically... I told you last time we're going to go this route. And I have a letter I just posted from the Alaska State Legislature to AMNH to return the bones from the Senate majority.
The guy that wrote that is a fellow by the name of Click Bishop. And the Senate president signed it with him. But Click is a good, honest, decent gold mining legislator. He was termed out this time and decided not to run again because I suspect he'll run for governor here, and he'll probably win in a couple years. And Click is one of those guys that wants the bone back.
We met with him and his chief of staff, the president of the university, and the museum guys and some other state legislators. And we want him back.
Yeah. Yeah. Bring them home. Bring them home. Well, I made the offer to... Build the research facility. Store everything. We'll bring them all back here. The scientists can have access to them. But the bones are not leaving Alaska. They're not leaving Alaska.
Why would you? Why would I? Why would you? I don't. You shouldn't. And I get a lot of people, oh, I need a mammoth bone for our studies. You're just trying to collect something.
I'll never get it back. Come on up and find it. Yeah. Come find them. They're all over the place.
2.1. Yeah, we added maybe another .1.
Yeah, downstream makes this one look like a piker. How big is that area? It's a mile long.
Yeah, it was incredible. So when we started back down at the mouth and headed up the left limit, we hit some fairly modern day drift mines on that side until we got farther up. And we went all the way up to where we had been set up before and we crossed back over tracing this back channel because that's where the gold was.
We didn't get maybe 50 feet, and we were finding these steel tubes sticking out of the ground. Well, that's how they used to melt permafrost, but this was virgin ground. It had never been mined. So we kept going, and we found some pretty significant things over there. And we're on the hunt.
Yeah, might have been.
Well, we can't seem to find anybody that's willing to come up there and study it. You know, I've made all these offers, generous offers.
Because they're scared that you're going to own everything and you're going to... Well, two of the employees at AM&H happened to have a conversation with somebody that Is related to the state of Alaska or employed by the state of Alaska where they said, we don't want the bones to get into Reeves's hands because they'll lose. The scientific community will no longer have access to them.
and they're real valuable, and we think he's going to sell them. Now, the people that he said that to was with some legislatures, university employees. Where we were at, you couldn't even count the fucking number of tusks.
We're not there to sell tusks. I want to figure out I'm goofball this way. What the fuck happened? Why did 80, 65% of the world's megaphone or North America, why'd it go all extinct all at once? Yeah. What the fuck? Yeah. And they have in that collection that they didn't dump in the river in my collection was, let's say it's a 2000 square foot or 2000 piece jigsaw puzzle.
I got 42 pieces over here. They got the rest. I'm not going to solve anything with 42 pieces. I want it all. Put it all back in Alaska. Let the state of Alaska study the fuck out of it. And we will tell you how the extinction event happened. It's been, paleontologists know that. But they don't have money. They don't really want to put up with the shit they have to do to get it.
You know how hard it is to dig an ice in permafrost?
Yeah, but I'm not digging it. I'm thawing it. Right. Take a scalp. You know how the paleontologists, you see them on TV with the little scalpel and, you know, toothbrush and shit. That don't fly around there. You got to melt it and get it the hell out of there. That's people that criticize for how we do it. But if we don't do it, we don't get it.
And we're not going to use mechanical equipment on it because I don't want to destroy it. I could strip that old 2.1 acres in two shifts. And I'd lose every fucking bone. It'd be smashed.
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