Mr. Ballin
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36,020 appearances
164 recordings
11 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard yesterday
Mr. Ballin’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He didn't feel like Alford was some huge liability.
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He felt like Alford was actually very smart and quite bold.
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And so for him to stand up and make this pitch just kind of felt like in keeping with who he was.
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He was somebody that wanted to get things done, and you know, Israel liked that about him.
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However, just because Israel liked Alfred, that didn't mean he was just gonna naturally go with Alfred and do his big plan, but he was at least thinking about it.
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And as Israel was weighing out the pros and cons of, you know, whether or not he should go with Alfred, he happened to look across the fire and he saw one of the men, this really big guy, was sitting there looking really serious and just shaking his head slowly back and forth, like, no, you guys can't be considering leaving early.
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And then the big guy stood up and he held out his hand right in front of Alfred, basically telling him, like, don't say another word.
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And then this guy, while still looking at Alford, he said, If you leave right now, all of your friends will die.
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And then this big guy sat back down again.
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And then everybody around the fire just sat there really tense for a few seconds in total silence.
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The big man who had just spoken was not a gold prospector.
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He was actually very different than the rest of the people sitting around this fire.
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His name was Yure, and he was a Native American chief of the Tabawatch band of the Ute tribe.
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And Chief Yure had actually saved the lives of everybody, Israel and Alfred included, who was sitting around this fire.
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Because a few weeks earlier, this whole group of gold prospectors had wound up lost in this valley, which was the valley where Chief Yure lived with his tribe, and he had found them stumbling around on the brink of death with all the snow coming down.
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Down.
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And so Chief Yure and his people brought the prospectors some food and water.
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They helped them set up a campsite right near a river.
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And then Chief Yure told them to stay put in this campsite and ride out the winter.
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And then in the springtime, when the snow melts, it'll be safe for you all to leave.
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