John Reeves
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1,814 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2023
last heard Feb 2025
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Yep. Yeah. Like filled with turmoil. I think it's also because it's so quick. The information that you can get is coming at you from every direction. Yeah. Instantly. Instantly. But in 1920, that wasn't happening. No. It wasn't happening in 1880. No. It was like you didn't know like when Seward bought Alaska. You didn't know why he did that. Everybody said Seward's folly.
How about Seward's genius?
Yeah. How much? $7 million for Alaska. That's so funny. Two cents an acre. Now, let me tell you something. A guy named Klaus Naske, who was a doctor of history at the University of Alaska, I used to teach his kid how to swim. Him and I were at a social function someplace, and we were talking. And we were talking about the purchase of Alaska. And he goes, you know why we did that, right?
I said, well, yeah, Seward wanted to buy it and $7 million. He goes, yeah, we gave $7 million to Russia. I said, okay, yeah, they sold it to us. He goes, why do you think they did that? I said, I don't know. They said it was because the seals were gone. You know, they had gotten all the seals trade done. He goes, that's not why.
During the Civil War, Russia blockaded Charleston Harbor with their warships. And it helped the North win the Civil War. And a bill for that was $7 million. And they knew they couldn't just go out to America and say, yeah, the Russians helped us win the Civil War. Really? This is what he told me. Doctor of history. And I said the same thing. He goes, yeah. He goes, nobody talks about it.
Nobody even mentions it. But Russia took the $7 million and they gave us Alaska. That'll justify this $7 million. Whoa.
Well, it makes Alaska the third largest fucking state. First, we got to get Greenland. Let's get Greenland so we got them surrounded, kind of.
Well, I think Drew was talking about this the other day. Canada's got seven – I'm not sure how many provinces, but they're different. And so what they might want to do is make seven new states because the people in Alberta do different stuff than the people in – You can't just have the state of Canada. No, because it would be like L.A. and New York calling the elections.
It's ridiculous. People forget what it's like to expand America. The last time we did it was Alaska.
Yeah, then they get the Second Amendment.
It's gotten—well, I know a few Canadians. They don't like Trudeau. They don't like what he's done to the country.
Well, the farmers don't like him, I don't think. The miners don't like him.
Anyways, Alaska, I think, coming from the guy that told me that, he's dead now, but I believe it. But back then there was no fact checkers. There was no way to tell people what was going on. So let's just tell them we bought it.
I was talking to my accountant this morning. I think Greenland, if it became a state, it would be the largest state in the country.
And then Alaska would be second. But Texas is always going to be screwed. No matter how many more states we get, Texas is always going to go down the list. Yep.
Greenland, then Canada, Alaska, America. I kind of like Mexico, too. Might as well take all of it.
Well, what I don't get, Joe, we got a pretty good Navy. We got a pretty good Air Force. We got a pretty good military base. What the fuck are we doing not sending A-10s down there into Mexico and taking those fentanyl labs out? What are you going to do, Mexico? You don't like us doing that? We just said they're terrorists. We're going to blow up their fucking buildings.
Well, tell them we're coming. But we're going to blow the fuck out of that stuff. They're going to have no infrastructure left. What are you going to do? No more avocados? Give me a fucking break. Send some A-10s. I've had A-10s on my ground. They've been buzzing my ground for years. They practice on my ground. Well, they're awesome. Those pilots are good. Yeah.
A couple little warthogs in there to take care of business.
Gangster. They knocked the shit out of the SEAL population. Oh, I'm sure. Oh, yeah.
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