John Reeves
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1,814 appearances
4 recordings
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first heard Dec 2023
last heard Feb 2025
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But museums don't make money, so the guys that work there, they go out in the field, and some guy says, well, look what I found. Well, that's very interesting. That looks like a saber-toothed, I mean, that looks like just a cow head. Well, can you find out for me? Sure, I'll take it off your hands.
Well, we got a site in Florida that we've allowed the University of North Florida to dig on for decades. It's on an Indian mountain there right on the St. Johns River. And every year I allow them to come out and dig. And they found, so far they've found hundreds of thousands of artifacts. We're talking about archaeological stuff.
You know, arrowheads, shark's teeth with drilled holes through them, jewelry, beads, you name it. Whatever they made out of fish bones and animal bones.
My parents bought this property when I was a young guy. But I spent a lot of time as a 9, 10, 11, 12, 13-year-old kid just digging. I like digging in the dirt. And the Alaska stuff was about gold, but it didn't take long to find the bones. And the bones, to me, they're more fun. They're more fun. They're not worth anything to me because I don't sell them.
They were obviously doing some stuff. They're not the only ones doing this. Smithsonian is doing this stuff, too. I'm sure. Yeah. There's not much I can do about it.
And I've offered to make this happen. Let's get it back here. It's an endless tilt in the windmill and all that stuff. But I never met you before a few years ago. And prior to that, I would just say, the only guy I'll talk to is Joe Rogan about this. Because if I'm going to talk to anybody, I'm going to talk to the most influential man on earth. And you weren't supposed to call me.
But here I am for the third time.
Because I didn't want to tell this story. I just wanted to keep boning. And now that it's going, everybody wants me to do all this fucking work. I'm not a research scientist. I don't have all these machines. I can't do all this stuff. What are you asking me for? Go to AM and H. That's their job. That's what they got paid to do. What are you chewing my ass for?
Yeah. And we have some knowledge at the end of the day that we don't have now and we won't get if we don't do something like this because all my bones come from one little two-acre spot. And you talk about in situ, you know, in place. It's right there. Yeah. You can't find a bone here and find one nine miles away and somehow say they're from the same area.
But you can sure find them there, and you can find out where they exactly came from. You can figure out what that piece you're holding. You can tell how many times it had sex, male or female, what its diet was, where it traveled to. There's things that you can find out in a collagen that you could never find out 20, 30 years ago. So it's kind of cool. That's very cool.
I just got to wait for these other guys to come along. I talked to Max out there. He's my other son-in-law with Drew and married to my penultimate daughter, Jordan. And he's a really good lawyer. And his interest is in NIL. Have you heard of that?
NIL is name, image, likeness for the kids coming out of high school, college and stuff for the pro sports.
And he played football for Oregon. He was a center. I watched him play in the Rose Bowl. Good guy. And we were talking a little bit about the legalities of stuff like this. And he's pretty good on contracts, and he's read this stuff and said, ah, you got him by the balls, man, because he got the receipts. I guarantee you those guys don't have the receipts. They probably trashed them years ago.
I got every one of them. I got all the letters. I got the communications.
It's been a pleasure. It's always a pleasure seeing you and Jamie.
It's such a simple solution. Just do the right thing. Just do the right thing. And just call me up and say, okay, come get them. I'll have tractor trailers parked out there in 24 hours. Let's load them up, boys. They're going north. Put them on the rail out in Seattle. Send them farther north. We've got warehouses full of this stuff.
I'm at the point now where I'm going, maybe I should just concentrate on what we do for a living instead of the hobby. I can keep digging them up, but what good is it? We're not going to study them. I'm going to leave that area alone. It's got good gold. I don't need to dig the gold out of there. The gold's beneath the bones. And we got to get to the gold. You got to go through the bones.
And we'll get the gold someday. But we found a spot out north of town where we couldn't get drilled to bedrock. It's 450 feet deep. The old timers tried to drill it. They couldn't go deep. They couldn't get to the bottom of it. And I think that's where the fucking hot stuff hit. Really? 25 miles north of town. I think that's where the hot stuff hit. 450 feet and you don't hit bedrock?
Unfortunately, I don't own that claim, but I know who does. I'm not telling them where it's at. Yeah. But I have the records that show what happened there.
Fuck yeah, it would be. There's a lot of answers in these bones that we don't know what the questions are yet. So it's nice that you enabled me to come in.
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