River Klass
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170 appearances
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first heard Aug 2024
last heard Aug 2024
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yep and dave dave can do that too yeah he would love to connect with you have you ever thought about auctioneering yourself or do you no no you know what i do do that's a lot of fun is i like to announce at the at rodeos i uh i i do them for my kind of rodeo which is ranch roping i have a couple of friends that that raise buck and bulls and so when they have a
When they're going to do the fertility or the yearlings, I love sitting there and just talking about them bulls and how they buck and how they spin. Me to sit for a couple hours and just talk and make fun of people, if there's going to be a raffle or something like that, I'll know everybody in the stands. I'll start razzing them to get them to get some money out of their pockets.
That I like to do.
That is some of the toughest people I've ever met at a rodeo, the rodeo clown.
Yeah.
That's why I can notice my forehead here is all bright white because everything is usually down to my eyebrows. Yeah. My wife cuts my hair, so she's a hairdresser in Sacramento, so she said. Put that hat off for this. You're in the house right now. Let that hair grow. That's pretty good.
Not necessarily south. I would say southeast. We're sort of the county between Tahoe and Yosemite. Right in the Sierra Foothills. It is, without question, one of the most amazing counties in California. I think we have 52. I moved here 35 years ago. We had one stoplight. I've been here 35 years. We're up to a record of three. Okay. So there's no highways. There's no freeways.
We do have one Starbucks, so that's getting a little rough. Oh, yeah. But it's a real tiny, quiet little county that is very famous. Nine miles down the road is Angels Camp. That's where Mark Twain wrote about the Calaveras jumping frogs. Oh, yeah. And we still do every single year. And it's unbelievable. These people are fanatical about getting their frogs. And you have to get the frogs wild.
You have to keep them well fed and calm. You jump them, and then they have to go back to exactly where you hunted them down. It's religion for people up here. And there's about $23,000 in the pot right now for the longest jump.
It's just one jump. It's actually it's one, two, three jumps. And that's so that's why they're 21, 22 feet. It's it's a real deal.
Yeah, it could be anywhere in California, and you get them from, you know, you got your special pond, it's like mushroomers, you know, they got their special spot, they got their special pond, they'll collect up 10, 15, 20, they'll try to see which one has the biggest hop, then they come to the county fair in May, and it's three days of jumping, and you try to get to the end, you know, we've had eight-year-old girls win the whole thing, we've had six
65-year-old men win the whole thing. It is a remarkable competition.
Jumping frogs. It was a real thing. A little tiny angels camp nine miles down the road. Back when ranchers and farmers could take afternoons off and they didn't have to have three and four jobs, a couple of beers and nothing to do and someone started betting on how far a frog would jump and
Mark Twain, then Samuel Clemens, was in town, and he saw it, couldn't believe there were some drunk guys betting on this, and he wrote this very first published thing about our town.
They're not riding the frogs. They stand behind them, and they do this, like,
So here's a place where you can stand 20 feet from a tree that was around before Jesus Christ.
To stand next to a tree that was 300 years old when Julius Caesar was just born. It puts weird things into perspective when you stand next to something like that.
Yeah, they're the big trees of Calaveras County.
It just gives you a little bit. I mean, you were hopefully around for 80, 90, maybe 100 years. And that's a couple of seconds for these behemoth trees. They're 2,000 years. How many winters? How many storms? How many crazy events in life? They've just stood there and are still alive.
Fire. Well, fire's not so bad. They need fire, but it can be – it's usually something – beetles or – what happened to us is up there is us. We did it. There's a really good story. One of the biggest trees, they still have the stump. It was used as a bowling alley. That's how long – it's like 30 feet in diameter. Wow. The guys cut it down. So they cut through it.
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