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Joe Rogan Experience #2080 - John Reeves
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The Joe Rogan Experience Oh yeah, no I'll have a little taste.
Just a little taste, Mr. Reeves.
john reeves
Thank you, sir.
joe rogan
Cheers, sir.
Good to see you again.
john reeves
Good to be seen.
joe rogan
Ha ha.
unidentified
Mmm.
joe rogan
Woo!
So, tell me, what the fuck is going on?
How is it?
How's things cracking?
First of all, congratulations on being proved correct, and that there are literally mammoth bones, bison bones, all kinds of bones in the East River.
john reeves
Yes, sir.
joe rogan
You said it on this podcast, Dirty Water Dan went out and looked for them.
They found bones.
They found multiple bones.
It's real.
john reeves
It's very real.
joe rogan
So the museum dumped bones that belong to your property out there in the East River, and they're still out there for people to find.
How many pounds were dumped?
john reeves
Roughly?
50 tons.
joe rogan
50 tons!
john reeves
50. 50 tons!
And that was told to me by one of the guys that wrote that report.
That I read on your show.
unidentified
Good lord!
joe rogan
That's a lot.
I didn't know it was that many.
john reeves
Yeah.
Boxcar.
joe rogan
And they found how many bones so far?
john reeves
I don't know.
joe rogan
You don't know?
john reeves
I think Dirty Water Don and those guys found three so far.
joe rogan
Did I say Dan?
Sorry, sorry.
john reeves
It's either Dan or Don.
joe rogan
Don.
I think it's...
Is it Dirty Water Dan or Dirty Water Don?
It's Don.
Dirty Water Don.
That's a risky thing.
The guy's diving in the East River.
john reeves
Yeah.
There's more guys out there, too.
joe rogan
How many guys are out there right now?
john reeves
Don't know how many, but I know there's others out there that are making finds.
joe rogan
So are they using spotlights?
How are they seeing things at the bottom of the East River?
john reeves
One is a research vessel.
joe rogan
A research vessel?
john reeves
Yeah.
I'm in the gold mining industry, and we have a code that we don't talk about.
joe rogan
So this is one piece, and this is a jawbone, correct?
john reeves
Yes, sir.
joe rogan
Of a steppe bison.
john reeves
I believe so.
I have never seen it.
But I know he found, that was one of the first things he found.
He found some mammoth ivory.
joe rogan
Yeah, and he found another bone, right?
Yes, sir.
john reeves
Looks like a leg bone.
joe rogan
Yeah.
john reeves
Right there, yeah.
joe rogan
So this is his...
His Instagram is Dirty Water Don on Instagram, and that's another bone that they found right there.
john reeves
Yes, sir.
joe rogan
And so they know roughly the location, and it's kind of amazing that this stuff was dumped in...
Was it the 30s?
When was this dumped?
john reeves
In the 40s.
joe rogan
The 40s.
john reeves
Yes, sir.
joe rogan
So this stuff was dumped...
That's outrageous.
unidentified
That's an outrageous photograph.
joe rogan
How dare you, Don?
Yeah.
This stuff was dumped in the 40s, and to this day, this is the first time that people have actually gone looking for things, correct?
john reeves
Yes, sir.
It's been a dirty little secret for decades.
joe rogan
Well, proven true now.
john reeves
It sure has been.
joe rogan
The museum still continues to deny it, though, correct?
john reeves
They won't talk to me.
joe rogan
Why won't they talk to you?
john reeves
Well, when Drew and Laura and I and my wife went to New York a few years ago, they were supposed to meet with us, and they decided to have us stand out in the rain for four hours.
Really?
Yeah.
joe rogan
And they wouldn't meet with you?
john reeves
No.
joe rogan
So you went all the way to New York to meet with them?
john reeves
Well, I went there to the Explorers Club to show the documentary.
There was a screening of the documentary on the Boneyard.
joe rogan
And what, did they just decide that you're too problematic?
john reeves
I think so, yeah.
joe rogan
Well, how are you problematic?
I don't understand.
john reeves
I'm problematic in many, many ways.
joe rogan
I think you're great.
john reeves
Because I don't think they ever envisioned somebody like me owning this company.
joe rogan
Right.
That's probably the problem.
john reeves
Yeah.
joe rogan
The problem is you're honest.
john reeves
To some degree.
I'm a gold miner after all.
unidentified
Yeah.
john reeves
You know, Mark Twain said, a miner's a liar standing next to a hole in the ground.
joe rogan
Oh, that's funny.
john reeves
Yeah.
joe rogan
Mark Twain was the shit.
john reeves
Yeah, wasn't he?
joe rogan
He really was.
Boy, was that guy ahead of his time.
You know, a lot of people credit him for being the first stand-up comedian.
john reeves
I didn't know that.
joe rogan
Yeah, because stand-up comedy is a truly American art form, and it seems like Twain Was the first guy to do it because essentially what he would do is read his humorous works in front of people.
And they would all laugh.
So he would, you know, be playing to the crowd.
And it was one of the first iterations of stand-up comedy was Mark Twain.
And obviously he's a very funny guy.
john reeves
Yeah.
joe rogan
Very insightful and humorous and so many great quotes from this one individual, you know?
john reeves
Yeah.
joe rogan
So they left you in the rain, and then nobody has spoken to you since, or what?
john reeves
They don't talk to me.
joe rogan
What are they afraid of?
It's not even them.
You've got to think, this is all done in the 1940s.
Everybody who did it is probably dead.
john reeves
They just don't want to return the bones.
joe rogan
Oh, so they have more bones.
john reeves
Oh, yeah.
This is just the stuff they threw in the river is not even the good stuff.
I don't know if you saw that little video I posted of their collecting techniques where they threw them in a big pile.
No idea where they came from.
It's on my Instagram.
joe rogan
So they just don't want to address it?
So do you have lawyers involved?
Like, what's going on so far?
john reeves
Everybody's encouraged me to litigate this.
I've been involved in litigation before, and I have a pretty good track record because I protect my property rights.
I don't care if it's real property or intellectual property.
joe rogan
Well, this seems like they're going to have to—I mean, there's just too much pressure now.
With the fact that they've actually found real bones in the East River, that there's no other way they could have gotten there.
I mean, just how the hell else are you going to find a steppe bison bone in the fucking East River?
It's clear that they dumped that stuff.
john reeves
Oh, yeah.
And they denied it for—you know, check this out.
unidentified
So it says I— Wow.
These are the fearsome reminders of a period when cavemen were not the only things girls had to look out for.
joe rogan
Wow.
unidentified
That was, that was AM. Gold miners in Alaska loosening up the frozen earth found not gold but the treasures of past ages.
A mammoth tusk nine feet long was just a part of the 12 tons of ivory unearthed in a year.
joe rogan
Wow.
unidentified
12 tons.
These are the fearsome reminders of a period when cavemen were not the only things girls had to look out for.
joe rogan
It's hilarious.
The way they talked back then is so strange.
What a weird way to talk.
Why did they all choose to talk like that?
john reeves
I don't know.
joe rogan
Very weird.
It's like when they first heard themselves recording.
I would like to sound a little more fancy.
john reeves
Anyways, that's their collecting techniques, and they sent everything.
They weren't supposed to take all that stuff.
They were only supposed to take bones of scientific value, and they were supposed to research every one they took, and they were supposed to, under the agreement I had with them, or my company, Do a report annually on everything they took.
And it was a tripartite agreement with the University of Alaska, AMNH, and my company, Fairmix Exploration.
And they didn't do any of it.
And when I bought the company, I went to the University Museum, and the curator there, I said, I bet you know why I'm here.
He goes, I think I do.
I said, I want the bones back.
He goes, let's go to New York City.
Let's go get them.
So we all went to New York City to get them.
And they gave me a nice tour downstairs of the basement, showed me the tons and tons they had done there.
Hundreds and hundreds of mammoth tusks.
unidentified
Really?
john reeves
In those crates, the wooden crates and everything else.
joe rogan
And what are they doing with them?
john reeves
Nothing.
They're supposed to do reports and research on them.
They haven't done anything in a hundred years.
joe rogan
So is it because they don't have the funding to do the work on them and they just want to store them because they're pack rats?
Like, what are they doing?
john reeves
Well, they don't have the stratigraphic information about where that stuff comes from.
joe rogan
Oh, you have that.
john reeves
I have all of that.
joe rogan
Yeah.
john reeves
And one of the authors of that report I read last year was trying to get us together so we could make some sense out of this collection.
Like Drew and I were talking earlier, it's like a thousand-piece jigsaw puzzle.
I only got 20 pieces.
I want the whole thing on the table, and we'll research all of it.
Because the secrets to the extinction event are in those bones.
joe rogan
Yeah, it seems like it.
john reeves
It is.
joe rogan
Well, let's talk about that because one of the things that you have found is a layer of carbon, a layer of dark carbon that seems to indicate a mass fire.
Yes.
Where the animals are, it's so unusual that there are so many bones in this same sort of layer that exist in one place.
That something had to happen for them to all die in that one spot.
And this is something that Randall Carlson has pointed out before.
You know, they found...
The other places were—I forget where the other places were.
Was it Siberia, where they found massive amounts of mammoths that were all in one area that seemed to have died instantaneously?
Some of them with, like, broken leg bones seemed to have died because of an impact or the force of the impact?
john reeves
Well, like I told you last time, I think it's all secondary deposition from water because there's such a wide spectrum of very few mummified remains, although we found some this summer.
And I think I told you last year that the oldest sample we took was 22,000 years old.
And some people, you know, I have that Ice Age Fossil Works, buy little shards of ivory.
And I told the one guy, I said, why don't you carbon date it if you want to know the story.
So he sent it off to a lab and had it carbon dated, 40,000 years old.
Wow.
So there might be enough in there for two driest events.
joe rogan
Hmm.
Which is probably likely.
john reeves
Could have.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Well, what Randall and Graham Hancock, what they believe, and the Younger Dryas Impact Theory proponents believe, is that distinctly something around 11,800 years ago and then maybe something also around 10,000 years ago.
But that doesn't preclude or that doesn't dismiss the idea that there could have been one.
30,000 years, 40,000 years.
It could have been multiple events.
john reeves
Could have been.
joe rogan
Because of this time that we pass through this comet shower.
It's every June and November, I believe.
john reeves
And I've posted that picture before of the burnt bedrock and the gravel above it.
joe rogan
Yes.
See if you can find that photo, Jamie.
Because that's fascinating, too, because that seems to indicate that something massive happened.
john reeves
Something did happen.
joe rogan
Yeah.
john reeves
And the problem with this deposit, now, I've got to be careful what I say after last time.
joe rogan
What would you do?
john reeves
When I was here with you last time.
joe rogan
Did you get crazy?
What'd you say?
john reeves
I'm afraid I bullshitted you a little bit.
joe rogan
In what way?
john reeves
Because when I got back to Fairbanks, my surveyor comes up to me.
His name's Albert.
He says, you got a lot of nerve bullshitting him like that.
I said, what are you talking about?
He said, you told him the site that you dug all these up is five acres.
I said, yeah.
He goes, it's 2.1 acres.
joe rogan
Wow.
john reeves
Okay, I'm gonna tell them I'm sorry.
I apologize.
joe rogan
That's actually even more insane, right?
So do you think that this is like the water had washed these bodies into a very specific area?
john reeves
I think there's a bigger system of water in play that we don't really understand yet.
When we started going up the gulch, it's what it is is a gulch.
And it's about Well, the way I can describe it, it sure is narrow, but it sure is long.
So this year we decided, let's go back to the beginning.
And we moved the pump and everything back down to where we started 15, 16 years ago.
Thinking, okay, let's see how wide this is.
As soon as we started doing it, we started finding more tusks.
More animal parts.
More of everything.
And we found those crazy sawed bones.
joe rogan
Yeah, the crazy sod bones are very interesting.
So let's talk about that, because we've showed photos on the podcast before, and that these sod bones, now you have carbon dated them, and they're to win?
Here they are.
john reeves
Yeah.
You're not going to believe this, because we got all excited when we found them.
joe rogan
Yeah.
john reeves
Plus or minus 200 years.
Or 190 years.
joe rogan
So what kind of animal are these from?
john reeves
I don't know.
joe rogan
But they're 200 years old.
john reeves
190. Here, I brought one with me.
joe rogan
Oh, really?
john reeves
This is a story about how these were found.
I got a call one day.
I was out there at the boneyard.
My daughters have a tourist business around the corner a little bit called Gold Daughters.
And Laura called me up and goes, Dad, there's a state trooper over here wanting to talk to you.
And I look around my truck to see what I got in it.
I said, okay, I'll be right over.
I go over.
And we had some stuff going on at the time.
I didn't think there was any reports filed any place.
But I go over there and introduce myself to this guy, and his name's Eric Spitzer.
He's the head state trooper in Fairbanks.
He says, I was just out in the neighborhood.
I wanted to come by and introduce myself.
I saw you on Joe Rogan's podcast.
I love fossils.
I love what this is all about.
My kids like to look for bones and I take them out in the woods and we look for stuff.
I just wanted to come by and introduce myself.
And the excitement in it is just him talking to me.
I said, well, follow me over.
I'll go show it to you right now.
So we went over to the boneyard.
He got out and he looked around.
He just couldn't believe it.
He picked up some bone parts.
I said, well, now you're a boner.
You just gotta find one.
And we bullshitted a little bit.
He goes, do you mind if I bring my kids out sometime?
I said, bring them out this weekend.
We'll fire the pumps up.
I'll turn you guys loose and then we'll come check on you once in a while.
And they found a pallet or two full of bones.
Little fragments of leg bones and then they came back the next weekend.
They found a mammoth tusk.
And they found these sawed bones, a few of them.
We got 15 of them now that they found.
And so I told everybody that those bones are now called the spitzer, the spitzer finds.
Two little young daughters found them.
Sometimes it just takes a new set of eyes.
I don't know how many of those we've picked up in the past, but we never looked at it that way.
So I brought one with me.
This is the one that I carbon dated.
joe rogan
And so this is the one that's 200 plus years old.
unidentified
Right.
john reeves
You see that notch right there?
That's what I cut out to send in to get carbon dated.
joe rogan
And so this is some sort of a joint.
Is that a femur?
Is that the top of a femur?
john reeves
The lady, Jeanette Rimes, Dakota Huntress, she thinks it's a moose leg bone.
But set it on its end there.
Other end.
joe rogan
Okay.
john reeves
Now, 200 years ago, what kind of utility would that have to do that?
joe rogan
What kind of utility to do that?
john reeves
Yeah.
joe rogan
What do you mean?
john reeves
The people that did that.
Why would they have a bone like that?
joe rogan
I would imagine to get to the marrow.
john reeves
Yeah, but then what?
joe rogan
You eat it.
john reeves
Maybe a candle?
Maybe some marrow to...
joe rogan
Well, I would imagine they're eating the marrow.
john reeves
They are eating the marrow.
joe rogan
People have always eaten the marrow, and that's how they do it.
I mean, if you get marrow now, that's how you do it.
john reeves
But I think there's some utility to that bone, is what I'm saying.
joe rogan
Yeah?
john reeves
Just the way it sits.
It could have put fire embers in it to keep overnight.
Because this was 200 years ago.
joe rogan
Yeah.
john reeves
This was 100 years before Fairbanks was discovered.
This is even more of a mystery to me.
joe rogan
So is this Russians?
It's obviously owned by Russia.
john reeves
It's about the same time frame, yeah.
Russians owned Alaska.
And, you know, it wouldn't surprise me if they didn't go up.
They founded Anchorage in the late 1700s.
joe rogan
I think the utility of it is just a coincidence, honestly, because it doesn't look like it's been worked at the bottom.
john reeves
No.
joe rogan
No?
john reeves
No, I agree with you.
I don't know.
joe rogan
Yeah.
john reeves
That's the whole thing.
None of us know.
joe rogan
I mean, I'm sure they have used some of these before like that for something.
But if I had to guess, I would guess that this is just something that they did to get at the marrow where all the good fat is, you know?
john reeves
Maybe they had some vodka and they poured it in there.
joe rogan
Perhaps.
john reeves
I don't know.
joe rogan
They probably had some kind of metal cups back then.
john reeves
Well, those two lilies just showed.
They looked like cups to me.
unidentified
Hmm.
joe rogan
They could have been.
They certainly could be some sort of a thing that you could drink out of.
Certainly the right size for a good shot of vodka.
john reeves
Yep.
joe rogan
But, so, were there supposedly people living in that area back then?
No.
john reeves
Hmm.
That's right.
Because up till now, the dating sequences have been 3,000 before present to now it's 40,000 years before present.
That puts it up to 200 years before present.
joe rogan
Which is interesting.
john reeves
It is interesting.
joe rogan
So what do you think is going on?
john reeves
I have no idea.
joe rogan
Does anybody have a theory?
john reeves
No.
There's probably a lot of theories.
But that's the whole point about all this stuff.
Nobody knows.
joe rogan
Well, at least we know you didn't come up with evidence that the saw is older than 5,000 years old, which is one of the things that we're thinking.
john reeves
Which is, I was hoping that was going to be the case.
joe rogan
Yeah, that would have been wild.
john reeves
And when I got the carbon dates, I'm going, ah, damn it.
But thinking about it, though, it's even more of an interesting thing.
joe rogan
How much of a recorded history do we have of that area from 200 years ago?
john reeves
None.
joe rogan
None.
So was it mostly like, have you ever seen that Werner Herzog documentary, Happy People, Life in the Taiga?
It's about people who live in Siberia right now to this day, and they live this incredibly primitive life.
Really all they have is snowmobiles and some hand tools.
And, you know, maybe some chainsaws.
And most of what they do is just living off the land, trapping, fishing, hunting.
That's it.
And they, you know, very low instances of mental illness.
Everybody's very happy.
All these communities of these people living together just, you know, surviving, living off the land, subsistence lifestyle.
But I don't think there's...
Much historical record on those people.
You know, the people that are alive there right now, if they were to die off 200 years from now, what evidence is there of them?
Other than you might find some stuff that they did.
You might find some trees they cut down or some logs or whatever's going to be around still 200 years from now that'll be preserved.
john reeves
Yep.
Well, we did find that skinning rock across the valley on top of a hill that still don't know how old that is or where that's from.
joe rogan
Skinning rock.
john reeves
Skinning rock.
It's posted there.
joe rogan
And it's been worked?
john reeves
Yeah, there's even a little indent on the side for your finger as you flesh something out.
joe rogan
And what is it made out of?
john reeves
Stone from Eastern Europe.
Remember we talked a little bit about it.
joe rogan
Oh, that's right.
That's right.
john reeves
And it wasn't local.
unidentified
Right.
john reeves
So there was a lot of traveling, migrating, going on across that Bering Land Bridge because it was an ice-free corridor.
joe rogan
Yeah.
john reeves
And it went all the way into the lower 48. So there's a lot of stuff that we find, as I said last time, that they say didn't live there, but it sure died there.
joe rogan
Yeah, like let's talk about that.
Like what different animals did they say didn't live there that you personally and your company has found evidence of?
john reeves
Dire wolves being one of them.
Sabertooth being another one.
I found one and my company found one before I was around.
Sent them to New York City.
I asked to see them but they didn't have them available.
And let's see what else we got.
Badgers.
Elk.
joe rogan
And they didn't think they were around back then?
john reeves
No.
joe rogan
Why did they not think that elk were in that area back then?
Because elk are in Alaska.
john reeves
Because they never found any elk bones.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
But that's it.
It's just they didn't find the bones.
john reeves
They didn't find the bones.
joe rogan
But they literally didn't think that saber-tooth titles lived in that area.
john reeves
They didn't think that.
In fact, in that film, that documentary film, Pat Druckenmiller, who's the curator now and the director of the museum, says to their knowledge, none of them ever been found there.
unidentified
Wow.
john reeves
But to my knowledge, they have been because on a shipping manifest AM&H that one was sent to them.
The one I found was stolen by the British Museum and never returned.
So I'm on kind of a little bit of a rampage these days about the museums and what they're doing with these collections.
It's kind of a one-man thing.
It's a cause.
I think it's important.
joe rogan
I think it is important because these museums are run by these academics, and academics, unfortunately, some of them tend to be very arrogant.
And they want to be able to control whatever narrative they have or whatever information they have, and they don't want to be open about it.
john reeves
No.
And AMNH is a private institution, but the Smithsonian is a public entity that's owned by us.
So they answered a different set of rules.
The Smithsonian has to respond to a FOIA request.
AMNH says, what are you going to do?
Sue us.
We'll stump break you.
joe rogan
What does that mean?
john reeves
We'll bend you over a log and we'll break you.
joe rogan
Oh, with money?
john reeves
With money, with lawyers, with all that litigation costs.
joe rogan
Why don't we fucking crowdfund something?
john reeves
Well, because I have another plan.
This plan's going to work.
joe rogan
Okay.
john reeves
I have people in our state legislature working on this right now.
There's a senator named Click Bishop who's on the Finance Committee.
He's on the Resources Committee.
He's the majority whip, and he's making efforts to get the bones back to Alaska, from the state of Alaska.
Now, M&H might be able to take on John Reeves.
This don't break me.
But they can't do it to the state of Alaska.
The state of Alaska go toe-to-toe with them sumbitches.
Now, after we get that through the House and state legislature, the Senate and the House, we'll go to the congressional delegation.
You've heard what an act of Congress is, don't you?
You know what that is.
unidentified
Sure.
joe rogan
Sure.
john reeves
M&H give them their goddamn bones back.
M&H is going to see the light.
This is a political solution to this.
Not lawyers, not all that stuff.
I got nothing to gain from this.
You know, I'm just trying to get them back in Alaska so we have that thousand piece puzzle to put together.
They were supposed to be studied and researched and the answers to the extinction event are within the bones.
joe rogan
And so you've never been given any explanation as to why they haven't done this research?
john reeves
They didn't feel like it.
joe rogan
They just didn't feel like it.
Is it because they don't have the resources or it just wasn't a priority for them and this was all done from the 1940s and there's no reason for them to go back and take that stuff and reenact the research or begin the research?
john reeves
It's impossible for them to come up with any scientific research because they don't have the stratigraphic information.
They don't even know where it was found.
unidentified
Right.
john reeves
But I do.
Let's put it all together boys and then we'll study it.
joe rogan
I just don't understand why they wouldn't want to do that.
That seems to me an incredible opportunity to attain enlightenment on an area that's fascinating.
I mean, have any academics reached out to you after the podcast?
john reeves
Not that I know of.
joe rogan
How not?
How not?
I mean, me just finding your Instagram page, I was like, Jesus Christ, like, how does this guy have all these bones?
Like, this is crazy.
What is this place?
This place seems like, what an amazing, fortunate find that you guys have this one spot, 2.1 acres, and probably a whole lot more around that area that you just haven't uncovered yet, that has this incredible wealth of bones.
john reeves
It's amazing.
joe rogan
It's fucking incredible.
john reeves
Yep.
And that's why that cut bone, by the way, I noticed you don't have a spitzer bone out there in your lobby.
joe rogan
What's a spitzer bone?
john reeves
That's what we call the spitzer bones.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
john reeves
You ain't got one of those in your lobby.
joe rogan
No, I don't.
john reeves
I'm going to fix that shit.
joe rogan
Okay, thank you.
john reeves
You're welcome.
joe rogan
We do have the step bison head, though.
john reeves
I saw it out there.
It looks nice where it's sitting.
joe rogan
We're trying to figure out how to display it.
I think I'm going to have a stand built and just have it sit out there.
john reeves
I've got people going, oh, he needs to get a Cadillac and mount it on the hood.
joe rogan
Well, that's not a bad idea.
john reeves
As long as you don't drive it around.
joe rogan
Once I get a ranch out here, I'll do that.
I'll put it on the ranch truck.
john reeves
There you go.
joe rogan
No, that's not good.
john reeves
It needs to be preserved.
The Blue Bay Bison was 38,000 years old.
And they could have known each other back in the day.
joe rogan
Well, it looks old as fuck.
john reeves
It is old as fuck.
joe rogan
Yeah.
What an amazing, amazing spot you have.
Do you ever stop and just think how insane it is?
john reeves
I do when I have people like Eric Spitzer and his daughters show up and they're just, the happiness, they're just so gleeful.
joe rogan
Yeah.
john reeves
And sometimes I need to see that to remember that what we're doing is kind of worthwhile.
joe rogan
No, it's very worthwhile.
john reeves
It means that people enjoy it and they like seeing it and they like doing it and we just haven't figured out a way to let everybody do it.
joe rogan
Well, it just seems to me that this is an extraordinary opportunity to gain some understanding.
john reeves
Yeah.
joe rogan
And that's why I don't understand why these universities or someone hasn't reached out to you and said, hey, we need to really have a full-scale investigation and find out what happened here.
This is an extraordinary place.
And it may...
Unlock a lot of pieces to this puzzle as to what happened to humanity.
There's clearly some indication that we have a very limited understanding of the history of human beings in terms of What took place where we're starting to uncover these immense structures that seem to indicate that people had very complex construction methods many thousands of years before we thought they were capable of doing that.
Many thousands.
Gobekli Tepe, which is buried 11,000-plus years ago, back when they thought people were hunter-gatherers.
And that's just what we found.
And now they've done through LIDAR, that whole area around Gobekli Tepe.
They found tons of these things.
They're all over the place out there.
And that's how many more of these spots are there on Earth that we just haven't found yet?
john reeves
Who knows?
joe rogan
Who knows?
And your area, have they done a core sample where they've gone through that carbon layer to find out what year that all took place yet?
john reeves
No.
joe rogan
Wow.
john reeves
And it's partially my fault because I tell everybody, look, until we get our bones back from the bowels of the AMNH, nothing's going to get studied.
If they want to do this and continue doing this, they can deal with Drew out there because we're not going to just say, okay, we'll study 20 pieces of this 1,000-piece puzzle.
We're just two guys with one giant.
My company had 200 giants running at the same time for over 40 years.
Recovered tens of thousands and thousands of bones, all of which were taken to New York, 50 tons of which were dumped at least one time in the East River and maybe more than that.
joe rogan
Now, why did they dump those in the East River?
They just needed the storage?
john reeves
I don't know.
joe rogan
They just had an abundance of them.
john reeves
They had so many of them and they said, ah, nobody's going to give us any money for this.
I have an idea.
That's a good cover story for making sure your wealthy donors get a little something-something and getting them off the books.
joe rogan
Oh, so some of them they dumped and some of them they gave away.
john reeves
I would think.
joe rogan
I would imagine.
john reeves
Museums aren't money-making institutions.
joe rogan
Right.
john reeves
And so I think a lot of the times they get something donated, especially when there's no control at all.
There was no control on what was going on.
joe rogan
Sort of like when we send money to Ukraine.
john reeves
Okay.
joe rogan
It's going all over the place.
john reeves
Yeah, why don't we send them money to Maui?
joe rogan
Right.
Yeah.
john reeves
Okay.
joe rogan
I've said that many times.
john reeves
$100 billion to Ukraine?
We could have built a gas line from the North Slope to the lower 48 and a water line from Southeast Alaska to Northern California and took care of the people in Maui.
joe rogan
Yeah.
john reeves
And still have some change left over.
joe rogan
Yeah, a lot of change.
john reeves
But, no.
joe rogan
Yeah.
john reeves
It's crazy.
joe rogan
It is.
It is, and it seems like what's happening with your bones and your property and the lack of...
I don't want to say if it's a lack of interest.
I'm sure they're interested, but the lack of action...
It's symbolic of a lot of the problems that we have in our society today.
john reeves
Mismanagement, man.
joe rogan
Massive.
Massive confederacy of dunces that are running the show.
john reeves
Yeah, they are.
And seemingly they don't care what we think.
joe rogan
No.
Well, that's, you know, they have too much on their plate.
Why are they going to talk about some fucking dude in Alaska who's out of his mind, blowing water into the side of permafrost, pulling out all kinds of crazy skulls?
john reeves
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah.
john reeves
Well, I think, you know, I'm in business, you're in business.
We have a divided Congress.
We got half, a little bit more than half, that think this president we got should be impeached.
We got the other lower a little bit less than half.
Not one of them think he should be impeached.
So my belief as a business guy is as long as they're fucking with each other, they're not fucking with me.
They're leaving us alone.
joe rogan
Right.
john reeves
And that's kind of what's going on right now.
joe rogan
Boy.
Imagine that being the best case scenario in 2023, with all the information that we have today, with AI, with chat GPT 4.0, soon to be 5, with all the technology we have available, all the understanding that we have available.
And we're still just want everybody to just leave us alone.
That's the best case scenario.
john reeves
They stay busy with themselves and do what we want.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's better than them helping us.
john reeves
Yeah, we don't want it.
unidentified
Yeah.
john reeves
But if the other part is I don't want to let my bones leave Alaska.
joe rogan
Right, of course.
john reeves
They never seem to come back.
joe rogan
Right.
I wouldn't trust them anymore.
john reeves
No.
joe rogan
And the British Museum, like, have they given any sort of an explanation of what they did with that saber-toothed tiger skull?
john reeves
No.
joe rogan
Somebody's probably got that in their living room.
john reeves
Yeah, they do.
joe rogan
Yeah.
unidentified
By George, look what I have here.
john reeves
Oh, my.
unidentified
I made a sizable donation to the museum, and they gifted me with this wonderful saber-toothed tiger skull.
john reeves
In that case, I think the guy never even got back to the museum.
I think he just took it home.
He was working for them, but they're a bunch of...
It's like we don't sell bones from the boneyard.
We don't sell bones.
We've given some bones away.
That's because I own them.
I can give them away.
They didn't own them.
Museums don't own them.
joe rogan
So they were supposed to research them?
What were they supposed to do?
There it is.
Sabertooth Tiger Skull.
Wow!
A million dollars at auction.
john reeves
Yeah.
joe rogan
Wow.
That's 2019. I know a guy who has one of those.
He's a very wealthy guy.
And he actually has a real saber-toothed tiger skull on his desk in a plexiglass case.
john reeves
That's awesome.
joe rogan
Yeah, just like that.
I think that's how he got it.
I think he got it at an auction.
john reeves
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah.
john reeves
And how did he get to the auction?
joe rogan
Good question, right?
It's probably yours.
He probably bought yours.
john reeves
Mine wasn't that good looking.
That was a good-looking skull.
joe rogan
That's a good-looking skull.
Yeah, his is a good-looking skull as well.
His is fully intact.
john reeves
Yeah.
No, mine wasn't that good.
unidentified
How many of them do they have that are fully intact out there in the wild?
john reeves
Well, La Brea, there's a lot of them at La Brea Tar Pits, I believe.
Alaska's a, you know, you keep it in perspective.
I'm down here, you're neck of the woods.
There's probably two or three hundred thousand more people live in this city of Austin than live in the entire state of Alaska.
joe rogan
Hmm.
john reeves
The whole state.
joe rogan
Yeah.
john reeves
I mean, yesterday, Drew and I were going, hey, let's drive out and look at the farms and the countryside.
We drove for two hours.
We couldn't get out of town.
We ended up at the airport every time.
But there's a lot of, boy, there's a lot of building going on over last year.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Seems like there's a whole lot.
john reeves
Yeah, it is.
joe rogan
It's now the 10th largest city in the country.
It's a little tiny-ass city at one point in time.
john reeves
Not anymore.
joe rogan
No.
It's blowing up.
john reeves
When are you guys going to get a football team?
joe rogan
It's a good question.
It's a good question.
I don't know.
john reeves
I don't know.
I don't know how that shit works.
joe rogan
I don't know how that shit works either, but boy, they love football out here.
john reeves
Houston's got one.
Dallas got one.
joe rogan
I went to the UT game.
It's massive.
Boy.
Just the college team out here?
Holy shit.
john reeves
Yep.
joe rogan
Crazy.
Wild.
It's like a religion out here.
Football is nuts out here.
john reeves
Yep.
It's crazy.
joe rogan
Yeah.
It's a fucking cool place to live, too.
john reeves
Yeah, it's awesome.
So we looked around, looked around, and said, well, let's just look around a little bit more.
Saw parts of Austin that probably are not on the beaten track.
But, hey, I thought, well, let's drive down to the border and see if we get kicked out of Mexico.
He goes, it's 485 miles.
I said, we ain't going.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's a haul.
I've gone down to South Texas to do some hunting.
And the place that I went to, they actually found a dead migrant on their property.
And he said, it's not uncommon.
He said, it happens quite often.
Poor guys get lost and try to make their way across and run out of water.
They do it in July and just die out there, unfortunately.
john reeves
Well, I don't blame the people for wanting to come here.
joe rogan
At all.
No.
john reeves
My family, we all came from Europe.
joe rogan
Mine did too.
john reeves
It just doesn't seem to be any management of what's going on.
joe rogan
It seems to be the opposite of management.
Seems like a concerted effort to flood the country.
john reeves
It sure does.
joe rogan
And not just this country.
It seems like it's happening all over Europe.
It's real weird.
It's a weird time.
This is the only time in my life that I've ever wondered, like really, really wondered and seriously considered the fact that there's some puppet masters that are slowly orchestrating the collapse of civilization.
john reeves
You know, you talked about AI. Well, someday, and probably not too far in the future, you'll be able to do your podcast without even being here.
AI will have you sitting there, have me sitting here, and it will be guessing what we're going to talk about.
joe rogan
Yeah, good luck.
john reeves
Yeah, no shit.
joe rogan
AI is going to be able to do a really good job of recreating the kind of conversations that we've had.
But they're not going to be able to really recreate human stupidity.
I don't understand what happens when people get drunk.
I don't think AI is going to be able to recreate, protect our parks.
I don't think they're going to...
There's certain aspects of just genuine human chaos that AI I don't think is ever going to grasp because it doesn't have a soul.
john reeves
And the other thing is you don't know if what you just saw is real.
Right.
joe rogan
That's a real problem now.
john reeves
That is a real problem because right now the stuff you say, it can't be real.
joe rogan
Yeah.
john reeves
But it is real.
Wait till they get AI going.
joe rogan
It's already going.
I mean, I think what we're seeing right now is just really the tip of the iceberg are their capabilities.
And I wonder, you know, I had Sam Altman on who is the, he was the head dog at OpenAI and they kicked him out and they brought him back in.
And there's some sort of weird explanation of why they kicked him out.
And they were saying that he wasn't forthcoming about something.
The concern is that this artificial intelligence has reached sentience.
It can think for itself.
It can act on its own.
It can create things.
It literally is a life form now.
It's going to be.
It's going to be at one point in time an artificial life form.
Has it done it already?
It's very possible.
john reeves
You know, I've been thinking, you know, the speed of light was always the standard growing up.
Nothing faster than the speed of light.
Then I thought, there is something faster than that.
It's the speed of thought.
We can think faster than that light can travel.
I'll give you an example of that.
I saw it online.
It has to be true.
There's 200 billion trillion stars in a known galaxy.
That's not just some guy making that shit up.
That's a real smart person that's done the studies on this universe.
joe rogan
Yeah.
john reeves
200 billion trillion galaxies.
Or stars.
How many planets would that be if they averaged five apiece?
joe rogan
Yeah.
john reeves
That's a bunch.
joe rogan
That's a bunch.
john reeves
That's such a massive thing to think about.
There's no point in even thinking about it.
You know, it's by me.
I just want to go pick up bones at the boneyard.
joe rogan
Well, then it goes deeper than that.
Well, there's a couple ways it goes deeper than that.
First of all, in the center of every galaxy is a supermassive black hole that I think is...
I think it's...
What is it?
One half of one percent of the mass of the entire galaxy?
Something along those lines?
So the larger the galaxy, the larger the supermassive black hole.
And there's real speculation that if you went through that black hole, you reach another universe.
With also hundreds of billions of galaxies.
Each with hundreds of billions of stars.
Each one of those galaxies has a supermassive black hole.
You go through that.
Another universe.
Hundreds of billions of galaxies.
Hundreds of billions of black holes.
Go through them.
Hundreds of billions of galaxies.
New universes.
Everywhere.
And then there's dimensions.
This is the real speculation.
When people start talking about UAPs and Alien life and there's two thoughts one thought well, there's more than two thoughts one thought is that they are us from the future Another thought is they are us from their people their things their intelligent life forms maybe even artificial intelligence something that has been created from other galaxies that is Physically transported here and then the other thought is there's into interdimensional travel
that there are beings from somewhere that are capable of visiting This dimension that we exist in but they exist in something so they are here all the time They're just here in a way that we have no ability to access them, but they can access us And time, and I've heard you say this, something we made up.
Right.
john reeves
There's no such thing as time.
joe rogan
Right.
This is the only time right now.
john reeves
Yeah.
It's gone already.
joe rogan
Yep.
john reeves
Because here it's gone.
joe rogan
Right.
john reeves
Now, you talk about...
joe rogan
What is this, Jamie?
jamie vernon
Quick animation NASA made to give you a size reference, if you will.
joe rogan
Okay.
jamie vernon
It starts with the middle thing is the sun.
Our sun.
And I think these are different super massive black holes.
unidentified
Right.
jamie vernon
They're small, obviously.
I'm going to try to speed it up so it doesn't take too long.
Let me go to speed.
This is the orbit of Mercury.
There's one there.
It gets really big here really quick, though.
joe rogan
So these are other supermassive black holes that are just in our galaxy?
jamie vernon
Yeah, there's the Milky Way.
Asteroid belt just went away.
Watch how it speeds up here.
Here comes a big one outside of the solar system.
joe rogan
What the fuck?
jamie vernon
Hold on.
Bigger one.
And wait for the big one.
joe rogan
Oh my god.
jamie vernon
So that one's just sitting out there.
Ton 618. Wow.
And I guess in theory then, yeah, all of that times two or I don't know how big is inside that.
unidentified
Like reverse?
jamie vernon
I don't know.
joe rogan
Yeah, go inside that and you find another universe.
Yeah.
Which is weird that like the universe is so big we can't even wrap our head around it and that's just the tip of the iceberg.
The tip of the iceberg is not even a good way to describe it.
It's a grain of sand.
Maybe it's not even a grain of sand.
Maybe it's an atom.
Maybe it's not even an atom.
Maybe it's a subatomic particle.
And maybe the whole thing is fractal.
So maybe what we are and what this planet is.
I mean, I'm sure you've seen when they look at...
Have you ever seen a map of the known universe in comparison to a neuron in the human brain?
See if you can find that.
It's entirely possible that it's just constantly, if you constantly expand further and further out, that this entire universe is an atom.
It's a part of a much larger organism that exists in another universe that is infinitely large, that is impossible for us to grasp our head around.
So that's a brain cell and that's galaxies.
And when you look at that, I mean, goddamn those things look the same.
They look the same.
Neural network and the cosmic web, they look the same.
And if they are the same, if that is what a brain cell is, and that the entire universe is a part of the brain of an infinitely large individual that's a part of Of a civilization that also exists in another universe that's a part of an infinitely large being.
That's a brain cell of that.
That universe is a brain cell of that thing.
And then it just keeps going and going and going and going.
And even the idea of the Big Bang is just like, maybe not.
Maybe it's always been here.
Maybe it's just constant.
And maybe it's God.
Maybe the whole thing.
john reeves
Maybe those people, aliens, whatever you want to call it, visited Earth about 65, 75 million years ago and they said, hey, no life like us can live here with these dinosaurs running around.
joe rogan
Yeah.
john reeves
Let's burn this son of a bitch down.
joe rogan
It could be.
john reeves
And poof.
joe rogan
It could be.
That's just how...
It's sort of designed.
The thing is designed to, like, the only reason for us to advance and the only reason for us to create civilization is you can't live...
Where you are without structure.
You can't live where you are without agriculture.
You can't live where you are without controlling resources.
And so then, as they fight off the predators, they develop better weapons.
As they fight off the Mongol hordes, they develop better methods of protecting civilization and societies.
And it just keeps expanding further and further and further, all of it to encourage technological innovation.
And that without that strife, without the problems that we have in the world today, what if they didn't exist?
Everyone's like, oh, we'd have utopia.
But would we?
Would we?
I don't know.
I mean, it seems like we're designed for chaos.
We're designed for constant struggle.
And maybe that's like an engine to further encourage innovation and to further encourage society to progress further and further.
And that you have to battle against these evil forces.
You have to battle against incompetent government.
Otherwise, you have no motivation to do better.
john reeves
Well, I think the pandemic brought on a whole series of mental disorders in this country.
unidentified
Oh, yeah.
john reeves
In this world.
We're getting set up for it again, probably.
joe rogan
Yeah.
john reeves
And you were talking once about quiet desperation.
joe rogan
Yeah.
john reeves
There's a lot of people that were worried.
I was worried.
You know, I have a family.
When all that started going on, going, oh, no.
joe rogan
Yeah.
john reeves
I want to protect my family if I can.
I can't.
Nobody can.
Not when they're making viruses in labs.
For what reason?
joe rogan
Right.
john reeves
Why would you make that virus?
joe rogan
Right.
john reeves
You know, it's crazy.
joe rogan
Right.
Why are you making them more infectious, more dangerous, more deadly?
Why are you taking viruses that were never designed to infect humans and didn't exist in the human population and you're engineering them?
Why?
So you can study them?
So you can get research money?
Like, what are you doing?
john reeves
Maybe that virus is designed to make people go crazy.
joe rogan
I'm sure there are.
john reeves
You know, just make them go nuts.
Kind of like what's going on.
joe rogan
Right.
john reeves
We got shit going on.
You know, talking about planet killers.
We can kill this planet right now if we want.
If all those triggers get pulled and all the...
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
john reeves
Many times over.
unidentified
Yep.
john reeves
That's where we're at.
It's unfortunate that we have to live like that and think about that.
We shouldn't be thinking about that.
joe rogan
No.
john reeves
We shouldn't be.
joe rogan
No, we shouldn't be, but...
john reeves
But we are.
joe rogan
But again, maybe that's part of the design of how the human race evolves, that it has to go through these things in order to have an incentive to restructure things and get better.
I don't know.
I don't know.
The problem is also our personal timeline of being a human being is so limited and so short that by the time you realize how fucked everything is, it's sort of the end of your ride.
john reeves
Yep.
joe rogan
Have you ever read War is a Racket by Smedley Butler?
john reeves
No.
joe rogan
It's a great piece that was written by a guy who was a general.
It was in the 1930s, and at the end of his career, he wrote this piece called War is a Racket, and what he thought he was doing versus what the motivation for these military actions actually were.
See if you can find that, Jamie.
And it's a very famous piece that was written by Smedley Butler.
The book's not very long, but this is a great quote.
War is a racket, it's always been.
It's possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious.
It's the only international in scope.
The only one international in scope is the only one in which profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.
And he wrote this very long piece explaining all the military campaigns that he was involved in and what they were really about.
It was about making things, you know, protecting bankers, protecting the investments of oil companies and all the different things that...
What he thought they were and what they really were I spent 33 years in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high-class muscle man for big business for Wall Street for bankers in short I was a racketeer a gangster for capitalism and he wrote that in 1935 Wow Yeah.
And he had figured it out by the end of his tenure, you know, when he was looking back at his career, he's like, Jesus Christ, I thought I was doing the right thing.
I thought I was protecting the world.
john reeves
You know, you get so many years, and, like, we've made it both around one more trip around the sun since I saw you last time.
joe rogan
Yeah.
john reeves
And Willie Mammoth's had a built-in escape.
You get six sets of teeth.
When the last set is gone, you starve to death.
joe rogan
Yeah.
john reeves
Real simple.
joe rogan
Real simple.
That's the wild.
john reeves
Yeah.
joe rogan
The wild is a built-in system.
john reeves
And our ancestors, you know, that were living with us, and I'll say this because I know, they were living with us back in the Ice Age.
And they weren't working against us, and we weren't working against them.
All that we wanted to do was survive from one day to the next.
joe rogan
Because it was so brutal.
john reeves
And that's all they wanted to do.
I went off on this a little bit recently about the way we portray mammoths being the extinction caused by humans.
I'm going, no, you got it all wrong.
We live with them side by side for tens of thousands of years.
What if we kind of lived together?
What if we went out and collected their wool and made clothing?
What if we didn't run them off cliffs?
I've seen the spear tips.
You're not going to stick that through five inches of fur, three inches of skin, leather, to hit a vital organ and a woolly mammoth thrown by a guy from me to Jamie.
First of all, you're not going to get that close.
It'll stomp the shit out of you.
Woolly mammoths have 10-12 foot tusks.
They just don't stand there going, oh, stick a spear in me.
They're swinging their head and they're cleaning stuff out.
The short-faced bears knew better.
Short-faced bear will go after a baby mammoth, but not a big woolly mammoth.
I think they were kind of like domesticated to some degree.
Same thing with musk oxen.
I talked to Matt Slingsby up there in Nome about this.
He spends a lot of time out there with the musk oxen.
He sees how they protect their young.
joe rogan
Yeah.
john reeves
I can see kind of us living with those guys and domesticating them to some degree.
Hey, you leave us alone, we'll leave you alone, but let's work together.
We didn't always stick spears in them.
You know, all the paintings you see now, even prints online shows this caveman sticking a spear in a mammoth.
I call bullshit on that.
And you know why I can do that?
Because nobody can say you're full of shit.
Because they don't know either.
joe rogan
No, it's a lot of speculation.
And until the Younger Dryas impact theory, the main theory as to the extinction event was the berserker theory, that human beings had become such effective hunters.
And by the way, this preceded the invention of the bow and arrow.
This was the atlatl, which is essentially like a better method of throwing a spear.
Like, I have this thing that I throw a ball for with my dog.
john reeves
Yeah, we got one of those.
joe rogan
You know what I mean?
It's like a cup at the end of it, a long stick, and it allows you to whip that ball really far with leverage.
And they had something along those lines that they would throw a spear with.
And, you know, you probably could kill some young mammoths with that.
You definitely could kill some bison with that.
john reeves
And caribou.
joe rogan
You could kill some stuff, but kill them all.
john reeves
No.
joe rogan
No.
I don't think so either.
I think it was an impact event.
john reeves
There were very few people in the Ice Age anyways.
Very few.
They didn't travel in groups of 100 or 200, I don't think.
We'd have found evidence of that.
But if your choice is to go, let's go knock over that caribou over there, or let's go over there to that woolly mammoth and half of us get killed.
What do you say, boys?
Well, first of all, you can go kill that caribou, skin it, gut it, and eat it for a few days.
Meat won't go bad.
You knock over a woolly mammoth with 2,500 pounds of meat, you ain't gonna eat very much before it all goes bad.
We have a woolly mammoth brain in one of our permafrost tunnels.
joe rogan
Oh really?
john reeves
Yeah.
We're way ahead on this frozen DNA stuff.
We formed a little...
We have permafrost tunnels.
They stay frozen year-round.
There's no electricity.
There's no cost to it.
It just stays frozen.
And that's what you have to do with DNA material to keep it frozen.
So you find something substantial, you put it in one of the tunnels.
We come back to that later.
We'll get that later.
joe rogan
So you have the brain that's inside of the skull?
john reeves
No, it's outside the skull.
joe rogan
Really?
john reeves
Yeah, it was found frozen.
How is it outside the skull?
Probably the woolly mammoth got ripped apart and the brain got frozen into the gravel and the muck.
joe rogan
How intact is it?
john reeves
Half of it's there.
joe rogan
Wow.
john reeves
You got a photo of this thing?
I don't know if I posted one or not.
I'll have to look.
joe rogan
That's pretty intense.
john reeves
It is.
I think I got one.
If not, I'll ask you if he's got one.
joe rogan
There's a company in Dallas that's going to supposedly bring them back.
You know about this?
unidentified
Mm-hmm.
joe rogan
They have, I think, an Indian elephant, which has a large percentage of the DNA that a woolly mammoth has, and then they're going to splice that with whatever DNA they have of woolly mammoths, and they're going to recreate woolly mammoths.
How far away are we from Jurassic Park?
How far away are we from some asshole putting a fucking dinosaur in Costa Rica?
john reeves
Those guys were all up in Fairbanks, the ones you're talking about.
Brought them out to the boneyard and showed them some of the stuff we got.
Now I'll go out on a limb here.
This ain't about cloning woolly mammoths.
It's about cloning humans.
joe rogan
And so you think they're trying to do it effectively with William Mammoth first?
john reeves
I think they're already doing the humans.
We just don't know about it because of the ethical issues it brings up.
joe rogan
Yeah, I've always said that if the moment they tell you they can clone humans, the person telling you is probably a clone.
By the time they tell us...
john reeves
All I know is that some of my DNA material is in that permafrost tunnel.
Mm-hmm.
And with instructions, if down the road somebody in the family wants to bring the old man back, I'm your Huckleberry.
joe rogan
Well, you know, they're doing it right now with human pets.
john reeves
Yeah.
joe rogan
With people's pets.
You can get your cat cloned.
You can get your dog cloned.
john reeves
Get your horse cloned.
joe rogan
Yeah.
john reeves
Race horses.
unidentified
Ooh.
john reeves
Dolly, sheep.
unidentified
Yeah.
john reeves
I think Dolly was the first one.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Well, there was a group called the Second Coming Project.
Yeah.
It was a while back, where they were trying to use DNA material from the Shroud of Turin to clone Jesus.
john reeves
Jesus H. Christ?
joe rogan
That guy.
I think, though, the Shroud of Turin has been proven to be fraudulent in that I believe it's only 500 years old, so it's not really Jesus' image that was in the cloth.
And it looks fake.
You ever seen the Shroud of Turin?
john reeves
I've seen pictures of it.
joe rogan
Looks a little hokey.
Looks like what someone 500 years ago would make.
Look, I found Jesus' covering.
This is what he died in.
There it is right there.
unidentified
Yeah.
john reeves
That looks like a guy's song just outside the hotel last night.
joe rogan
Yeah, that looks like, you know, when they find, like, the Virgin Mary in a fucking grilled cheese sandwich?
You know?
You know?
Shroud of Turin.
Okay.
Is a length of linen cloth that bears a faint image of the front and the back of a man has been venerated for centuries, especially by members of the Catholic Church, as the actual burial shroud used to wrap the body of Jesus of Nazareth after his crucifixion and upon which Jesus' bodily image is miraculously imprinted.
The human image on The Shroud can be discerned more clearly in a black and white photographic negative than in its natural sepia color, an effect discovered in 1898 by Secondo Pia, who produced the first photographs of the Shroud.
This negative image is associated with the popular Catholic devotion to the holy face of Jesus.
The Shroud's authenticity as a holy relic has been disputed even within the Catholic Church.
And radiocarbon dating has shown it to be medieval artifact, with the main image created via prolonged differential exposure of a prepared fabric to bright sunlight.
So the documented history of the Shroud dates back to 1354 when it's exhibited in the new collegiate church of Leary, a village north of France.
The Shroud was denounced as a forgery by the Bishop of Troyes in 1389. It was acquired by the House of Savoy in 1453 and later deposited in a chapel in Chambury, where it was damaged by fire in 1532 and 1578. The Savoys moved the shroud to their new capital in Turin, where it has remained ever since.
So what was the years that they found it?
Yeah, scroll down a little bit.
In 1988, radiocarbon dating by three different laboratories established the Shroud's linen material was produced between the years 1260 and 1390 to a 95% confidence level.
Defenders of the authenticity of the Shroud have questioned those results, usually on the basis that the samples tested might have been contaminated or taken from a repair of the original fabric.
unidentified
Hmm.
joe rogan
Yeah.
But imagine if that's how Jesus comes back.
I mean, you know, the whole idea is that Jesus is eventually going to come back when the shits hit the fan.
Like, okay, guys, I'll let you try it on your own forever, but now I'm back.
I mean, what better time for Jesus to come back when they've figured out a way to fucking make humans out of DNA? That would be a good time for Jesus to go, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Slow down.
Don't you guys have bigger problems?
john reeves
Yeah, our site is called Clone Fathers.
And we haven't done a lot with it because it's emerging technology, let's say.
But can you imagine raising your own clone?
joe rogan
Imagine raising a little you.
john reeves
Uh-uh.
I'd have to put it in a bag and throw it into the river.
joe rogan
I wouldn't know what to teach it.
Because I would want it, if it was going to be me...
It would have to make all the fucking mistakes that I've made.
And I would try to tell it, hey, don't do that.
But you can't, because it has to make those mistakes in order to really appreciate the negative consequences of those actions.
john reeves
Yeah, your folks were telling you don't do that, and you did it anyway.
joe rogan
They weren't telling me shit, which is why I did it.
I was a lock key kid, you know, which is probably how I turned out the way I am.
But the...
The baby, if I had a baby, me, and I was raising, I wouldn't raise it that way.
I'd bring it to the best schools.
I'd take care.
I'd give it hugs all the time.
I'd give it all this love.
It would have no motivation to be the kind of person that I am today, who is motivated, at least in part, by neglect.
john reeves
Well, you've done quite well, and congratulations on being the most widely watched podcast on the face of this planet.
joe rogan
If that's not reason for the aliens to land, I don't know what is.
john reeves
No, you're bringing a lot of needed information to the world.
You really are.
joe rogan
Well, all I'm doing is...
All I'm doing is going after what I'm curious about.
That's all I'm doing.
All I'm doing is approaching and engaging with things that I'm curious about.
That's it.
This whole thing is run basically with three people and my iPhone.
john reeves
Literally.
joe rogan
No one's telling me who to have on or what to do.
And you know that, because how you and I have booked these podcasts, just you and me text messaging.
Hey, what are you doing?
Come on back.
john reeves
I loved it, too.
joe rogan
Let's do it.
It's fun.
And I think that's part of also the reason why it's successful, is that people know Even though this is on Spotify and there's a massive corporation behind it that distributes it and all that, Spotify leaves me alone.
At the end of the line, it's just me and Jamie.
I mean, the people that are making this podcast, the people that decide things, Jamie and I, we just have conversations.
It's just me and him.
john reeves
Yeah.
joe rogan
Just talking.
What do you think we should do?
That's it.
That's it.
john reeves
Kind of what Drew and I are like.
We're just two guys in a truck.
joe rogan
Yeah.
john reeves
We leave the house in the morning and the phone rings.
joe rogan
That's also why it's interesting.
That's also why it resonates with people.
People don't like it.
Like, if you get your news from CNN, Jesus Christ, how many fucking people are behind that thing?
How many executives and producers and how much financial influence is involved in everything that gets on the air?
How much incentive do the people that have that are saying those things?
How are they being pushed?
How are they being motivated by progressing their careers along these same paths?
What lines are they not willing to cross?
What toes are they not willing to step on?
What narratives are they pushing?
You don't trust it.
There's just too much nonsense.
And also, the way they talk.
Like the way those old-timey, they had things to worry about more than just a caveman.
That's phony talk, right?
The modern phony talk is the phony talk of the people that are the broadcasters on MSNBC. That's modern phony talk.
People don't like that.
It doesn't feel right to them.
When they talk to a guy like you, it's like, look what I found.
I fucking sprayed water at the permafrost.
I know this is the guy who actually found it.
I don't have to deal with an institution.
I'm not dealing with a museum.
I'm not dealing with a university.
I'm not dealing with a board of investors.
You're dealing with one guy.
That's what people like.
Because it's the only thing that resonates with a human being that's listening to this on the other end.
john reeves
And I think what resonates with people about our boneyard is that it's real time.
This shit's going on real time.
joe rogan
Real time.
john reeves
I'm not hiding anything.
I'm not going, oh, well, that bone there is only 190 years old, so I better put it away so nobody knows.
joe rogan
Right.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
Exactly.
john reeves
When we found that, I'm going, holy shit.
joe rogan
Yeah.
john reeves
It's in the bone zone, man.
joe rogan
Yeah.
john reeves
This is Ice Age shit.
joe rogan
That's what we thought.
john reeves
And then, boom.
No, it's 190 years old.
Okay, now we got a real problem.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Now it's even more interesting.
john reeves
It is.
joe rogan
Yeah.
john reeves
And like I said, we don't sell them.
How could you put a price on that?
joe rogan
Right.
john reeves
Could you?
joe rogan
Could you?
I mean, there's a million dollars for a saber-toothed tiger skull.
You know, how much is it?
I mean, how many millions and millions and millions of dollars are all the bones that just the AMNH has?
john reeves
Yeah.
joe rogan
How many?
I mean, if you put them up for auction...
john reeves
Hundreds of millions.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah!
A lot of money.
Meanwhile, it's just on your Instagram.
john reeves
By the way, that bone's yours.
joe rogan
This is mine?
john reeves
Yeah.
joe rogan
Thank you.
I love it.
john reeves
I told you I was going to fix that shit.
joe rogan
Oh, thank you very much.
john reeves
You got a spitzer bone.
joe rogan
That's pretty dope.
I love it that it's actually the bone.
You see here, folks, the chunk has been sawed off, carbon dated.
john reeves
Yeah, that's what I took.
I was a little aggressive on that because I wanted to make sure they had enough material.
joe rogan
I wonder what kind of a saw they had back then, 200 years ago.
john reeves
It could have been a Whipsock.
Who knows?
It could have been a little handheld.
joe rogan
It's just so fascinating to think back to 200 years ago, the actual human, sawn through that, and then as it goes through time, frozen into the ground, pushed out with water, found by you, cut and sent to get DNA tested and carbon dated, and then it comes back to here.
unidentified
Boom!
john reeves
Where it belongs.
joe rogan
It seems like it belongs here.
john reeves
It does.
joe rogan
For whatever reason.
john reeves
It does belong here.
joe rogan
Yeah, it'll sit right here.
john reeves
Yeah.
unidentified
Forever.
john reeves
You put your pens in there.
joe rogan
That's not a bad idea.
john reeves
No.
I mean, they had pens back in there with feathers.
joe rogan
Made a good answer.
john reeves
They wrote a constitution with that shit.
joe rogan
Tapas are gone, that sucker.
john reeves
There you go.
We have some that aren't empty of the marrow, but we only sampled one so far.
We might have to sample one or two more.
joe rogan
How many things have you carbon dated?
john reeves
That's the only one I've ever.
joe rogan
Of the bones?
john reeves
Of the 300,000 we found, that's the only one I ever carbon dated.
We've had maybe 10 others carbon dated by other people.
joe rogan
And what is the oldest one that you found?
john reeves
40,000.
joe rogan
40,000.
john reeves
That's off the most latest one.
It probably goes back farther than that, but 50,000 is about as reliable as you can get on carbon-14.
joe rogan
And what animal is it that was 40,000 years old?
john reeves
Willie mammoth.
It was mammoth ivory.
So it went from 40,000 to our next oldest was 22,000.
There's a lot of thousands in between them.
What happened then?
joe rogan
Yeah.
john reeves
Where are the people?
joe rogan
Right.
Well, you have found evidence of human beings, right?
What's that one bone that has a human face carved into it that you've...
Yeah, that one.
john reeves
That one there was found on a tailing pile.
joe rogan
That looks a lot like the Shroud of Turin, by the way.
john reeves
Yeah, it does.
joe rogan
Doesn't it?
john reeves
Paleontologists told us that that was natural.
joe rogan
That's the Virgin Mary in a grilled cheese sandwich.
What?
Paleontologists told you that's natural?
john reeves
Natural, and I look at it.
joe rogan
What?
Cut the shit.
Cheeks, nose, mouth, eyes.
john reeves
And I posted that, Joe, and about half the comments were, Jesus Christ, learn how to take a picture, would you?
joe rogan
Yeah, right?
john reeves
The only thing in focus is the bed of your pickup truck.
unidentified
That's true.
joe rogan
But that's the problem with iPhones, right?
Or any kind of phone.
john reeves
Yeah, I mean, come on, guys.
joe rogan
Yeah.
john reeves
I'm a boner.
joe rogan
Yeah, that does not look even remotely natural.
That looks absolutely like a face that was carved into a bone.
Why would they say that that's natural?
That's so silly.
john reeves
It is.
joe rogan
It's so silly to say that because it just makes you look stupid.
Because that might be natural under the craziest of circumstances.
It might be natural that a symmetrical face with eyelids and eyebrows and cheeks and a nose and a mouth and I mean, everything about it is carved.
john reeves
It almost looks like that shrouded Jesus.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
john reeves
Almost the same face.
joe rogan
Very similar.
But the idea that that is natural is just fucking stupid.
Come on.
Come on.
So stupid.
Has that been carbon dated?
john reeves
No.
joe rogan
No?
john reeves
You see what I did to the one I gave you?
A lot of people go, you need to carbon date all your fossils.
unidentified
Okay.
john reeves
That $400 a pop and I got $300,000.
That's $1.2 million.
I'm sorry, $120 million you want me to spend?
joe rogan
Well, also, with that, maybe it's an old bone that someone carved thousands of years later.
john reeves
Could be.
joe rogan
That's possible.
john reeves
It was on top of a tail and pie.
One at the boneyard.
joe rogan
Yeah.
john reeves
We have gravel and gravel pits and mines everywhere.
joe rogan
How could paleontologists with a straight face say that's natural?
I mean, it might be.
Under the craziest of circumstances, it might be natural.
But if you had a bet, if you had to bet everything you had, put it on red or put it on black, you know, I'm putting it on someone had a fucking stone or a knife or whatever it was, and they carved that face.
That looks carved as fuck.
john reeves
It looks like it to me.
joe rogan
Yeah.
I think it looks at 99.9% of the population.
Other than people with a vested interest in it being natural.
john reeves
Yep.
joe rogan
Yeah.
For what reason?
Just to push a narrative?
Like, why would you say that that's natural?
john reeves
No.
I have my friends at AM&H. They said, with witnesses, unfortunately for them, two of the uppity-ups there said, the reason they don't want to give the bones back to me is they think I'm going to sell them.
No.
Let's think about that for a second.
unidentified
That's so stupid.
joe rogan
You have a hundred times more than that.
Just sitting in a fucking warehouse that you've never sold.
john reeves
And I met with the University of Alaska State Senate recently.
Drew and I met with them.
And we said, we had this deal lined out 22 years ago.
They were supposed to return everything in the basement to Alaska.
We agreed to it.
I funded it.
I put money in the account to make that happen.
Time goes by.
Well, we can't because there's asbestos in the ceiling.
Blah, blah, blah.
It has to be abated.
Okay, abate it.
Let me know when you're done.
I'll come get them.
Well, we got sidetracked 15 years at the Boneyard, 16 years.
I said, nah, that's unfinished business.
I need to go get those.
In the meantime, they said, fuck this guy.
Fuck this dirt tramp.
We're going to keep him.
He's just going to sell him.
joe rogan
How crazy.
Let's show the images of what you have that you haven't sold, just so people understand how silly that is.
Because you have photographs on the Instagram that show massive amounts of tusks and bones.
john reeves
That's just one day right there.
joe rogan
That's just one day.
We'll go and scroll down.
Show the warehouses, Jamie, because he's got warehouses.
What is that, the cave drawings?
Scroll back up, that art.
john reeves
The one in the middle?
joe rogan
Right above the guy with the guitar.
john reeves
That was something that I saw online after I came out and I said that we domesticated the woolly man when somebody sent me that picture.
joe rogan
It's a guy on top of a mammoth.
john reeves
Yeah, a guy on top of a mammoth.
joe rogan
Whoa.
john reeves
And you know how your kids, you got a golden retriever.
You know, your kids take a brush and that dog just lays there and they comb the hair out of it.
joe rogan
Yeah.
john reeves
Why wouldn't we do that with the woolly mammoths?
joe rogan
Well, listen, we know people ride elephants.
I rode an elephant in Thailand.
You can ride elephants and domesticate them.
unidentified
If you treat them right, they'll let you ride them.
joe rogan
Yeah.
The fossilized creature.
john reeves
The mummy?
joe rogan
Yeah.
What is that?
Scroll down a little bit, Jamie.
Down.
Is it up there?
No, you had it.
It's a little down further, buddy.
There it is.
There it is.
What is that little fella?
john reeves
Well, we don't know yet.
unidentified
Does it look like a rat or a shrew?
john reeves
When Dick Maul was up there doing his research for that film, you know, Dick Maul...
joe rogan
Yeah, you talked about him before.
john reeves
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah.
john reeves
I'm just waiting for you to say what an unfortunate name.
joe rogan
Yeah, it is an unfortunate name.
john reeves
He said, keep your eyes out for Arctic ground squirrel.
That's been a few years ago.
We just found that this year.
We've never found one before.
And it was still frozen.
joe rogan
That looks like it could be a ground squirrel.
john reeves
Could be.
And I've got other pictures of it where you can actually see the ribs.
I mean, it's really unbelievable.
Well preserved.
I gave it to the museum up there.
I said, here, you guys, this is out of my league.
You guys do the research.
And they took it and they're still studying it, but they've had it since July.
joe rogan
Scroll back up a little, Jamie.
A little down, a little down, a little down.
What is that to the right?
john reeves
That's a mammoth tooth that my buddy that carved those pipes.
joe rogan
Oh, he carved that into the mammoth tooth?
john reeves
Yeah.
joe rogan
Wow, that's cool.
john reeves
A couple of faces.
By the way, this is a good time for me to give you something that I got from him.
joe rogan
Oh.
john reeves
You'll like it.
unidentified
Okay.
What was that?
john reeves
That's a pipe.
joe rogan
Oh, wow.
What is this made out of?
john reeves
You think it'll work?
joe rogan
Yep.
john reeves
It's an Usyk.
joe rogan
An Usyk?
john reeves
Yeah.
joe rogan
What's that mean?
john reeves
Jamie, what's an Usyk?
jamie vernon
A boxer?
unidentified
I don't know.
joe rogan
Yeah.
That one guy, the heavyweight champ.
john reeves
O-O-S-I-K. O-O-S-I-K. Oh, it's a dick.
Well, I can't believe Joe Rubin put a walrus dick in his mouth.
jamie vernon
That's not the first one we have.
We've got another one in another room somewhere.
joe rogan
Yeah, we have a...
What do we have?
Another walrus dick.
Fossilized walrus bone.
jamie vernon
I don't know where it is.
john reeves
Anyways, that's...
joe rogan
So there's a walrus dick.
john reeves
Yeah.
Well, not a big one.
joe rogan
No.
john reeves
There's a broken one.
joe rogan
Yeah, which tends to happen with dick bones.
john reeves
Sometimes, yeah.
You never know what happens.
Ooh, sick.
Yeah, wow.
Anyways, he carved that up, and I said, well, I'm going to give it to Joe.
It's a good conversation starter.
joe rogan
Yeah, what are they called again?
There's a word for those bones, other than Usyk.
There's a word for fossilized bones.
God, I forget what the word is.
Steve Rinello told it to me when he gave it to me.
jamie vernon
Baculum?
joe rogan
Yeah, that's right.
Baculum.
That's the technical term.
john reeves
How do you remove a raccoon baculum?
Is that what I just read?
joe rogan
Yeah, how do you remove it?
john reeves
From where?
joe rogan
Raccoons.
Yeah.
john reeves
Carefully?
joe rogan
I guess.
john reeves
There's a little bag for it.
joe rogan
Thank you very much.
john reeves
Yes, sir.
joe rogan
Pretty cool.
john reeves
Yeah.
But we've just been doing what we did when we saw you last time.
joe rogan
Just continuing.
john reeves
I told you that, hey, man, I don't have a whole lot new to report on all the new bones we found because we're finding so many different kind of things we've never found before.
But when we moved the whole operation down to where we started, bought a new pump, started up that left limit, we're starting to find all kinds of shit.
We're just trying to find...
That's what's still in the basement.
joe rogan
It's just nuts.
The amount of stuff you have is just absolutely nuts.
john reeves
When that guy wasn't looking, I grabbed a sample of that asbestos-containing material over where the lights are.
joe rogan
So this is in the AMNH. This is all your stuff that they think you're going to sell if you get it out of there, which is hilarious.
john reeves
What's funny about that is, so what?
It's my stuff.
It came off patented ground.
I can sell it if I want to.
But I don't need to, and I don't want to.
I want to study it.
I want to find out what happened.
Why did all the animals go extinct?
65% of the megafauna at the same time.
Something big going on.
joe rogan
Something big.
john reeves
And Pat Druckenmiller says the secrets are in the bones.
They have diagnostic tools now that can tell what the animal was eating, how many times it had sex, how far it traveled, how long it lived, things that we don't even know what the questions are yet.
We just need the puzzle pieces back so it can be studied.
joe rogan
What really fascinates me is the skull on your t-shirt.
john reeves
What skull?
joe rogan
The one on your t-shirt.
john reeves
That one?
unidentified
Yeah, that one.
john reeves
I don't know.
joe rogan
Finding some of those there.
john reeves
I don't know.
joe rogan
The problem with finding some of those there, though, that would change everything in terms of, like, who goes and who can look at it.
Right?
You want another one?
john reeves
Can you fill me up?
joe rogan
Sure, I can.
We can talk deeper.
Right?
That's the problem.
john reeves
I think you called him the dude.
joe rogan
Yeah, the dude.
The problem with the dude is then it becomes archaeology, right?
john reeves
Yeah, dudes are archaeology.
joe rogan
Yeah, and dudes mean that the university's coming or whoever.
Government's coming.
john reeves
Hypothetically, let's say you found a dude.
unidentified
Right.
john reeves
And hypothetically, let's say the university did come look at it.
And hypothetically they said, okay, you need to go turn yourself into the troopers.
Why?
Because those are human remains.
So if somebody did find that, they'd have to go to the troopers and fill out a report.
joe rogan
Say we found a dead body.
john reeves
They'd have to say we found human remains.
joe rogan
Right.
john reeves
And let's say the person taking the report said, let me get a homicide team out here to talk to you.
And you hypothetically said, that bone is older than everybody in this building.
All their ancestors combined are going back a hundred generations.
Well, we're not interested in that then.
Get out of here.
Well, get out of here after the report's written.
Hypothetically.
joe rogan
Hypothetically.
Yeah.
john reeves
So everything was okay?
joe rogan
So if hypothetically, completely hypothetically, if they found a dude that's 40,000 years old, then shit gets wild.
john reeves
Sure could.
joe rogan
Because if they found this dude in the same level of permafrost where you're finding woolly mammoths.
john reeves
Hypothetically, let's say it was 10 feet away from a woolly mammoth skull.
joe rogan
Hypothetically.
john reeves
Hypothetically.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah.
john reeves
That would be very interesting.
joe rogan
It would be very interesting.
john reeves
That's a really interesting hypothesis.
joe rogan
Also, is it anatomically modern?
Is it Denisovan?
You know, the type of humans that they found in that cave in Russia?
Completely different branch of humans?
john reeves
I don't know about those.
I haven't heard about those.
joe rogan
Yeah, they found, I don't know how much they found, but they found bones that are from, I believe this was like, I want to say 2007-ish, 2017, somewhere around there.
Real recently, they found this new branch of the human tree that's called the Denisovan.
When did they find that, Jamie?
James is going to look it up, but they were in Russia.
There's many versions of human beings that coexisted, apparently, and Homo sapiens were the Article from 2019 says they recreated what it looks like from a pinky bone they found.
Mmm.
First portrait of extinct Denisovan human relative created from pinky bone DNA. Wow.
Denisovan girl shown with dark hair, piercing eyes, and a broad face.
So it was a completely different kind of human being.
Not a Neanderthal, not a Homo sapien.
Something different.
More than 100,000 years ago, modern humans in Eurasia lived alongside Neanderthals and Denisovans, two other hominins that have since gone extinct.
While much is known about Neanderthals and how they lived, Denisovans have remained enigmatic because only a handful of bone fragments from the ancient group have ever been found.
But now they have a good idea of how Denisovans look.
In a study published Thursday in the journal Cell, scientists took DNA from a Denisovan pinky bone found in a Siberian cave in 2008, there it is, and used it to predict Denisovan anatomical features.
I wonder how they did that.
john reeves
Jesus Christ.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Click that.
56 features that differ.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Oh, that's all it is?
unidentified
Wow.
joe rogan
That little tiny piece of bone.
How much Denisovan bones have they found?
Degraded DNA molecules from a group of human relatives who went extinct tens of thousands of years ago have been reassembled using a new technique yielding a genetic code for the mysterious Denisovans that meets the standard for modern humans.
The findings are based on samples drawn from 40 milligrams of ground-up bone from a Siberian girl's finger.
Imagine that.
They can tell it's a girl, too.
How do they know what gender it is?
Why are they misgendering this poor Denisovan?
Scientists saw a much less detailed genetic sequence they produced a couple years ago and addressed some of the deep questions surrounding the Denisovans, but they also raised a few new questions, including a basic one.
Just how old was the sample that they analyzed?
Wow.
Is that all they found?
Google how many bone fragments have they found from Denisovans?
Thank God for scientists.
john reeves
Got a jawbone.
joe rogan
They got a jawbone.
unidentified
Oh wow.
jamie vernon
Half a jawbone.
john reeves
Oh wow.
unidentified
Hmm.
joe rogan
In Tibet.
Wow.
jamie vernon
They mated with Neanderthals?
joe rogan
Wow.
A hybrid bone reveals in live science.
Click on that.
What year was that when they figured that out?
That was 2022. Wow.
So from 2008 to 2022, they're finding more and more of these bones.
Closest known extinct relatives of modern humans were the thick-browed Neanderthals and the mysterious Denisovans.
A bone fragment from Siberian caves, perhaps of a teenage girl, has revealed the first known hybrid of these groups.
A new study concludes the finding confirms inbreeding that had only been hinted at in earlier genetic studies.
Very amazing.
A number of now extinct human lineages not only lived alongside modern humans, but even interbred with them, leaving traces of their DNA in the modern human genome.
These lineages included the stocky Neanderthals as well as the enigmatic Denisovans Known from only a few teeth and bones unearthed in the Denisova cave in the Altai Mountains.
Click on that now, Extinct Human Lineages.
How many do they have?
unidentified
Wow, they got a tooth.
Wow.
joe rogan
The scientists have just completed sequencing the entire genome of a species of archaic humans called Denisovan.
The fossils consist of a finger bone and two molars from this extinct lineage.
Scientists don't know the precise age of the material found, though they estimate it ranges between 30,000 and 80,000 years of age.
Wow.
jamie vernon
So that would be 40,000 years ago or so?
joe rogan
Somewhere.
Yeah, somewhere along the same lines as the oldest shit you found in the boneyard.
john reeves
Yep.
unidentified
Woo!
joe rogan
Wild stuff.
john reeves
We have no idea the range that we find.
joe rogan
Yeah.
john reeves
Because we've only sampled a few of them.
joe rogan
Well, that's what's really crazy, is that the sheer amount of material that you guys have excavated is just a drop in the bucket of what's still there.
john reeves
You talked about the carbon.
joe rogan
Yeah.
john reeves
We don't know how far it goes.
We just know it's there.
joe rogan
Yeah.
john reeves
We know that in front of it, downstream of it, is decomposed bedrock.
And decomposed bedrock in that area has gold in it, but it's very hard to recover the gold from because it's a clay and you can't wash it very good.
But underneath that's another layer of bedrock.
Did something come in hot?
Something came in hot.
Something caused a lot of water to melt real quick.
Sea levels rose 400 feet worldwide.
joe rogan
400 feet?
john reeves
We came from Jacksonville yesterday.
The East Coast from Jacksonville was 85 miles farther east.
That was all dry land.
joe rogan
Holy shit.
john reeves
And now it's...
Worldwide this happened.
joe rogan
Yeah.
john reeves
Talk about climate change.
You know, climate change is climate change.
It's always going to be a climate changing.
unidentified
Right.
john reeves
And...
I'm comfortable with that.
You know, we say, oh, we're melting the climate, we're melting the world, we're doing all this shit.
Don't worry about the world.
The world will take care of itself.
You know, we don't have to be assholes.
We don't have to pollute it.
But we should take some care of it.
But no, let's go electric vehicles all the time.
Well, people who are saying that don't realize how much more copper has to be mined, how much more lead has to be mined.
You're using fossil fuels for all that.
You're not going to get a D11 dozer on batteries.
You're just not.
You've got to use fossil fuels.
joe rogan
Yeah.
And also, the thing about this whole climate change argument is climate's never been stable.
It's not like before humans it was ever, like, flat, like you could predict it every year.
Oh, September 13th it's gonna be 75 degrees.
Nope.
It's never been.
Never.
Ever.
It's always been up and down.
It's a constant changing environment on this planet.
It exists within a range where biological life can survive, but Have you ever seen those structures that they found under the ocean outside of Japan?
john reeves
No.
joe rogan
Fascinating.
It's called Yanaguni.
And they've tried to say that these things are natural, naturally occurring.
But Graham Hancock has dived with them and many other people as well.
And there's right angles and there's portals.
There's all this stuff down there that just doesn't look at all like something that's natural.
It looks like some ancient structure.
That was under the ocean a long, long, long time ago.
Look at that.
There's corridors and steps.
They have no idea who made it, why.
It's just this immense structure that's underneath the ocean.
john reeves
Do they know how deep that is?
joe rogan
I'm sure they do.
It's a 165 known structure of unknown origin, 85 feet underwater, the southern coast of Ryukyu Islands in Japan.
john reeves
It would fit right in with the 400-foot...
joe rogan
Yeah.
Yeah.
Fit right in with it.
john reeves
Yeah.
joe rogan
I mean...
john reeves
Look at that thing.
joe rogan
Yeah.
It's insane.
But what's really insane is the pathways and the corridors and these things that just don't seem to...
The right angles that exist everywhere that just absolutely don't seem to be natural.
They seem to be carved.
It seems to be something that someone made a long fucking time ago.
Graham Hancock is absolutely convinced.
He's like, when you swim down there with those things, there's no way.
There's just no way.
There's no way that wasn't created.
Wild stuff.
And who knows what it really looked like how many thousands of years ago before the water erosion, before whatever the impact did to it, you know.
john reeves
You know, nowadays people want to get something done, they always put in the effects on the climate will benefit us from this study.
You know, if we do this study, it's good for climate change.
I know the guys that are cloning the woolly mammoths are saying, you know, they want to bring them back and put them in Siberia to keep the permafrost from melting and the methane gas from escaping.
joe rogan
Yeah.
john reeves
But for some reason, I have an idea that as soon as they get one out there on the steps, somebody's going to come along and go, hmm, I'm going to shoot me a woolly mammoth.
joe rogan
Especially if you put them in Russia.
john reeves
Yeah.
joe rogan
If they get a steady population of them in Russia, someone for sure is going to say, do you want to hunt the woolly mammoth?
We can make this happen.
john reeves
We can make it happen.
unidentified
How much money do you have, my friend?
john reeves
There's never enough.
joe rogan
Never enough?
john reeves
No.
I mean, you know, we're involved in the fossilized ivory market a little bit because we find broken tusks and we make stuff out of it.
And there's very few American craftspeople that use woolly mammoth ivory to manufacture stuff.
And I know last time we talked about it, you're going, ah, it might be kind of...
But that's what we do.
Right.
Like I said, this is an adorable little hobby.
That's what my wife calls it.
But when I go to pay $400 for a carbon-14 sample, that means that's 100 gallons of fuel I didn't buy.
So I kind of go like this.
I just didn't buy the fuel because this little hobby pays for itself.
You guys buy this, and I'll buy fuel, put it in the pump, and I'll go find more.
And we'll just do that.
We'll make real nice things out of it.
And this is a good time to give you this.
joe rogan
She's got another gift?
john reeves
Oh yeah.
joe rogan
Spoiling me, buddy.
john reeves
My daughter, Elora, Drew's wife out there, Elora Longley, last time I was here I told you she's Saks Fifth Avenue.
She's beyond Saks Fifth Avenue.
She wanted to give you that.
unidentified
Hmm.
joe rogan
Oh, it's a pendant.
john reeves
On a silver chain.
joe rogan
Oh, wow.
john reeves
She didn't know if you wear jewelry or not, but I said, I'll give it to him.
joe rogan
I'll wear that.
How old is that?
john reeves
It's old, old.
joe rogan
It's not going to go around this fathead.
john reeves
And she also said, you know, Joe gets all the stuff.
I want to give something to his wife.
So, this is for your wife.
joe rogan
Okay.
john reeves
Ilora made that too.
joe rogan
Oh, cool.
Another one.
john reeves
Yep.
unidentified
Wow.
john reeves
A little gold.
There's a little tiny gold in the top.
joe rogan
And how old do you think this is?
john reeves
30, 40,000 years.
unidentified
So...
joe rogan
Imagine if you could follow the timeline of the animal roaming around to being converted into jewelry.
john reeves
Like I said last time, she was Saks Fifth Avenue, but she's putting those guys to shame with this stuff.
She finds the ivory.
She finds the gold.
She makes the stuff.
Oh, that's a nice one.
joe rogan
Yeah.
No one's gotten high off this yet.
john reeves
No, I bet that other one I sent you hasn't ever seen the match either.
joe rogan
I wouldn't do that to it.
But I'm sure you guys do sell them.
I'm sure there's people out there that have gone into space smoking weed off of a mammoth bone.
john reeves
If I was an astronaut, I wouldn't.
Even if I didn't go into space, I'd do it.
Now, the other thing is...
I had a guy call me.
He goes, I love that Joe Rogan podcast.
I want to make him some pistol grips for a 1911. I said, I don't know if he's got a 1911. He says, well, give me his address and I'll mail it to him.
I said, I ain't going to do that.
I'm going to see him.
If you want me to give him to him, I'll give him to him.
But I'm not giving out his address.
He says, okay.
So he sent me these.
Burkett Customs is the name of his operation.
joe rogan
Check that out.
john reeves
Yeah, check them out.
joe rogan
Wow.
unidentified
Wow.
Oh, wow.
joe rogan
Look at that.
john reeves
Holy Mammoth, there's a little wrench in there for you to attach it to your 1911. I see.
joe rogan
That's pretty badass.
john reeves
It is badass.
joe rogan
Look at that.
john reeves
Yeah.
joe rogan
Oh wow, so he sells them.
Mammoth ivory full-size 1911 grips.
Wow, that's beautiful.
It's just crazy that there's so much of this stuff that you can make stuff off of it.
john reeves
It all starts with a broken, for us, a broken tooth or a broken piece of ivory.
joe rogan
Wow.
john reeves
Yeah.
Yeah.
joe rogan
Nice.
john reeves
And they're very functional.
joe rogan
Yeah.
No, I'd imagine.
And beautiful.
john reeves
Now, this is for your...
joe rogan
You got more stuff?
Jesus Christ, dude.
john reeves
This is for your kids.
Okay.
Just add sandpaper.
joe rogan
Just add sandpaper.
john reeves
Yeah.
They're little ivory shards.
You give them a piece of sandpaper, and you sand it to a mirror finish.
That's what you make stuff like what we make out of.
joe rogan
Oh.
john reeves
Those are raw shards.
Okay.
joe rogan
I'll give it to him.
john reeves
Yeah.
And last but not least, for you and Jamie.
joe rogan
Another one?
john reeves
You should get one of these little packets.
joe rogan
Okay.
john reeves
Now, I know that he plays golf.
joe rogan
Uh-huh.
john reeves
I don't know if you play golf.
joe rogan
No, I don't.
I'm scared of golf.
john reeves
Well, you don't have to steal the ball marker from you, but I made you a ball marker.
unidentified
Awesome.
Thank you.
john reeves
You're welcome.
And Joe, too.
And there's a guitar pick in each one of those, too.
joe rogan
Oh, wow.
Yeah, I've got the guitar picks for Gary Clark Jr. Oh, nice.
Ball marker and guitar pick.
Alright, Jamie.
jamie vernon
Time to play golf.
joe rogan
No.
jamie vernon
Need to mark your ball.
joe rogan
I don't have the time.
jamie vernon
Nah, we could try.
joe rogan
I'm scared of golf.
john reeves
I've never played a game of golf.
joe rogan
Golf absorbs your time.
john reeves
It scares me, too.
jamie vernon
Let's play nine holes.
joe rogan
Yeah.
The nine holes leads to me being a fucking golf junkie like Tony Hinchcliffe and you and Ron White out there playing every day.
jamie vernon
Imagine the foursome.
That'd be a great time.
joe rogan
It would be a good time.
I said I'll go with you guys and just get drunk.
jamie vernon
Just have a great time.
That's all it's about.
john reeves
That's Allura's stuff.
joe rogan
I'll do that.
john reeves
Alright.
joe rogan
Nice.
Wow.
Beautiful.
Incredible.
john reeves
Yep.
joe rogan
It is amazing that you could...
There's so much stuff that you could make things.
Make jewelry and make pistol grips.
john reeves
Like I told you, Drew and I are...
We're the Dollar General.
I told you that last year.
But I think we got a meeting with Family Dollar coming up next week.
joe rogan
Yeah?
john reeves
No, I'm just bullshitting you.
We just enjoy working with it.
It's a really cool material to work with.
Because you take a piece, Joe, and you look at it and go, what can I make out of that?
It might take a week or two to figure it out.
joe rogan
I have a pool cue.
That has a mammoth ivory joint and a mammoth ivory butt cap that my friend Eric Crisp of Sugar Tree Cues makes.
john reeves
Oh, cool.
joe rogan
Yeah, he's from Alaska, and he has mammoth ivory that he puts inside pool cues.
It's beautiful.
See if you can Google Sugar Tree Cue with mammoth ivory joint, because I know he's made a few of these.
You know, he doesn't have a lot of the material, but he's made a few, and they're absolutely beautiful.
john reeves
We've had people contact us about that, and I'm going, hey man, I don't know how to do it.
You know, I can't make pool cue stuff.
But I have the raw ivory if you need a little bit to do it.
You know, you can do it.
joe rogan
Well, I'll connect you with him.
john reeves
Alright.
joe rogan
He's the man.
He makes some of the most beautiful pool cues in the world.
And he's an interesting guy, kind of like yourself.
He doesn't give a fuck.
He makes them when he wants to.
Sells them if he wants to.
I can't give him money.
He just keeps giving me cues.
I've never been able to give him money for him.
I'm like, you gotta take some money.
He won't take any money.
He'll sell them to other people.
Have you found one that has mammoth ivory?
jamie vernon
I've found people talking about it.
joe rogan
There's no images?
jamie vernon
I don't know if this is actually his.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's his.
That's 100% his.
I can tell by the ring work.
So that's mammoth ivory joint.
That might actually be my cue.
Because it looks real similar.
So he puts that mammoth ivory...
Scroll down a little bit, Jamie.
Scroll down.
That one right there in the middle?
unidentified
Right, yeah.
joe rogan
Click on that.
Yeah.
jamie vernon
I think it's the same picture.
joe rogan
That's exactly what it looks like.
john reeves
Wow.
jamie vernon
It's not clear.
I don't know why it's not loading clear.
joe rogan
Ah, it's probably someone with a fucking Android phone or some shit from the early 2000s.
Yeah, that's what it looks like.
It's beautiful.
john reeves
Yeah, that's what you start with, those little shards.
joe rogan
It's just so crazy that there's so much of that stuff that you could actually make things out of it.
john reeves
Yeah.
joe rogan
Something happened.
john reeves
Something big time.
joe rogan
Something big time happened.
Yeah.
john reeves
Nobody knows.
joe rogan
But it's crazy that this particular subject of the mass extinction event, which is related to Atlantis, which is related to the melting of the polar ice caps that It led to some sort of a mass extinction event in North America that all this stuff is connected and one of the big pieces of the puzzle is your property.
And maybe one of the biggest pieces that's ever been discovered.
john reeves
I think so.
And if I can get the other stuff back...
Well, you saw the video.
All that stuff probably got dumped in the East River.
You know, it's a mammoth leg bone, but it's broken at the end.
We don't want it.
It's not museum quality.
Throw it away.
Right.
And so a lot of that, they say in a report, mistakes made in the field.
Well, those are your people.
Those are your employees that made those mistakes.
Don't blame it on my company, guys.
joe rogan
Is it mistakes made in the field meaning that the bones got damaged?
john reeves
It means they didn't document where they came from.
joe rogan
Oh, I see.
john reeves
And the paleontologists, if they don't know exactly what level of soil, where it came from, they want all that stuff.
And if they don't know that stuff, it's got no scientific value, none.
And so the stuff they sent back, none of it, maybe a couple pieces, have scientific value.
They weren't supposed to take that.
And they know it.
And that's why they don't want to return it, because It's quite valuable.
joe rogan
Which is so crazy.
john reeves
You saw that film, 12 tons in one year.
joe rogan
Yeah.
john reeves
They did it for 1928 to 1958. That's nuts.
That's a lot of tusks.
And they talk about hundreds and hundreds of them shipped there.
I've seen them.
I mean, I saw them.
And when I met with the head guy, I said, I want them all back.
I want all the bones back.
And he said to himself, who is this fucking guy?
Get him out of my office.
Next time he shows up, make him stand in the rain.
Which we did.
It's not like I'm afraid of getting wet or dirty.
joe rogan
Jamie, see if you can find the photo from the Boneyard Instagram page that shows that carbon layer.
jamie vernon
I've been looking for it the whole time.
I don't know why I can't find it.
I kind of know what it looks like.
joe rogan
Do you know how far back it is?
john reeves
I'll find it real quick.
joe rogan
Do you know, is it old?
Like how, when did you post it?
john reeves
Oh, it's been a few years.
unidentified
Okay.
joe rogan
So it's probably, you post quite a bit, so it's probably pretty far back in there.
john reeves
I've reposted it a few times.
joe rogan
That's the big piece.
What's that, Jay?
jamie vernon
I found a few that looked like it.
I just couldn't tell.
The description wasn't saying, like, this is the carbon layer or anything.
joe rogan
How far back was the ones that you found?
jamie vernon
I'm back to right when he was on the fire first time, so I'm back in the bone rush.
joe rogan
How thick is that carbon layer?
john reeves
You know the picture you pulled up with the guy riding the mammoth?
There's a picture right next to it showing it.
joe rogan
Oh, okay.
He'll find that.
Oh, there it is.
Okay.
john reeves
And there's the picture of the guy.
joe rogan
Right, so it's right next to it.
jamie vernon
Not that.
joe rogan
Right above.
Right there.
jamie vernon
Right here?
joe rogan
No.
Right there.
That.
jamie vernon
This?
joe rogan
That's the carbon layer.
So here it is.
It says something came in hot.
This burnt gravel laying on top of burnt bedrock 80 feet below the surface.
Topography at the bone yard.
Tell me it's not natural.
It's the most natural thing in the solar system.
Of course it's natural, right?
That's something came in.
Boom!
And burned everything.
And it's 80 feet down in the permafrost.
I wonder if they did a core sample.
What they would find.
Imagine if they did that and they said 11,800 years.
I bet.
I'd be willing to bet.
Bet that's it.
It totally makes sense.
john reeves
Oh, the short-faced bear, that jawbone you just saw.
No, those are badass.
They're extinct.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
I mean, that animal was...
They think that might have been one of the animals that kept people from crossing that Bering Land Bridge.
That it was just such a fucking monstrous predator.
Far bigger than a polar bear.
An immense, immense predator.
Like the biggest bear ever that existed and went extinct along with all the other megafauna.
65% of the North American megafauna instantaneously existed.
That's one of the reasons why we have weird stuff here.
Like pronghorn antelope.
Why are they so fast?
Well, they were so fast because there was a North American cheetah that lived here.
john reeves
Wow.
Which was faster.
joe rogan
Yeah.
So we had a North American lion that lived here back then that was bigger than the African lion.
unidentified
Mm-hmm.
john reeves
And we have those up north.
We found one.
joe rogan
Really?
john reeves
We found more than one.
The American lion.
joe rogan
Really?
john reeves
Oh, yeah.
The skull that you see sticking out of the muck bench.
That's what Dick Moll calls the American lion.
unidentified
Wow.
john reeves
Wow.
And when we were going through just some bones I had on a pallet, and he goes, oh, do you know what that is?
I said, no, it's a lion scapula.
I told him, we got a bunch of those.
joe rogan
Really?
john reeves
Yeah, we do.
We got a bunch of those.
joe rogan
So was there supposed to be a North American lion as far as the...
john reeves
The skull I have, they say, is the best one of the four that have been found.
joe rogan
Wow.
john reeves
And some guy offered me $85,000 for it, and I said, ah, there's the door.
joe rogan
That's not enough, fella.
john reeves
We don't sell this shit.
joe rogan
Also, that's a historically important piece of bone.
That's a very important piece.
And to think that, again, you have just...
That's a drop in the bucket.
I shouldn't say a drop in the bucket.
That's a drop in the fucking Olympic swimming pool that you have up there.
I mean, if someone made a full-scale excavation...
We just really went all in to see what the fuck is going on up here.
God, that would be amazing.
john reeves
The problem is it scares them.
It's a scary sight.
Because we're not talking about dirt and rocks.
We're talking about melting ice.
You get over next to that muck bench and you look up 60 feet and up there's trees and there's boulders, not boulders, but big chunks of ice that can fall.
And so we're real careful with our guys.
Don't go under there.
joe rogan
Oh, have you had any kind of collapses before?
john reeves
Oh, yeah.
We had a piece of ice we knew was going to collapse, and we kept working on it to make it happen quicker by undercutting it with the Giant.
joe rogan
When you say the Giant, you're talking about the water sprayer.
john reeves
Right.
It collapsed two days after we shut the pumps off.
We knew it was going to go.
We said, okay, stay out.
That was five stories tall, the piece that broke off.
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Wow!
john reeves
It took us a whole summer to get rid of it with the giant.
But within that thing was about half a dozen tusks.
joe rogan
Wow.
john reeves
So we just sprayed it and sprayed it and come back and get a tusk.
We restore the tusks.
If they're not broken, we fix them.
We got a bunch of them restored.
A bunch.
joe rogan
It's just so nuts that there's this one area that has so much.
john reeves
Not five acres either.
2.1, Albert.
joe rogan
I mean, 2.1 is like a really big backyard for a nice suburban house.
john reeves
And I think I mentioned to you, it goes all the way, it goes downstream, where there is a creek that's a mile long.
And that creek is going to, if we ever get to it, someday somebody will get to it.
Maybe Drew and Allure or my other kids might get to it, my grandkids.
joe rogan
So here's the area.
And this is showing the giant in action as it's spraying.
And so do you just spray for a specific amount of time and then just start looking at what's been uncovered?
Or do you look at it while it's doing it?
john reeves
Sometimes we'll hang out.
If we see something coming up, we'll aim it.
But a lot of times, that one's an automatic giant.
It'll sweep by itself.
You turn the pumps on, and it just goes back and forth.
joe rogan
And then you come back and just start looking around.
Wow.
john reeves
It's like looking for Easter eggs.
joe rogan
I mean, it seems to me insane that no one's contacted you that doesn't want to do some sort of collaboration with you and do some massively funded...
john reeves
It's gonna take massive amounts of money, and I'm not opposed to having them do that.
But generally speaking, what I get is some guy goes, hey, I'd like a man of tusks.
joe rogan
What's that, Jamie?
jamie vernon
Ice, right?
It's like ice.
It doesn't say what it is.
joe rogan
To see a lot of Ice Age cool stuff emerge from the frozen muck.
john reeves
That's because we don't know what that is.
jamie vernon
Or it's just shiny, black, can't tell.
Reflect in the sky.
john reeves
But the stuff, the little things on the side, the micros, we've spent a lot of time looking for tips, spear tips.
joe rogan
Have you found them?
john reeves
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah?
john reeves
We found one mammoth hip bone with a spear tip still sticking in it.
joe rogan
Really?
john reeves
And I've got that one posted, a little video thing.
joe rogan
Ooh, find that, Jamie.
That's wild.
john reeves
Yeah, it is wild.
joe rogan
How old is that?
john reeves
Got to be tens of thousands.
joe rogan
There's got to be some people in there.
You might have like a full Dennis Oven in there.
john reeves
I found things that I thought...
joe rogan
Oh, there's a tip.
john reeves
Yeah, now they're going to tell me that tip went through the fur and the hide and hit a vital organ in a mammoth.
joe rogan
But if you found one in a mammoth hip bone, it has to...
john reeves
We found a tip.
We found a tip.
joe rogan
In a mammoth hip bone.
john reeves
Yeah.
joe rogan
But don't you think that they hunted those things?
Especially if they were above them, like if you were above them on a cliff or something like that, you could sneak up and throw spears down.
john reeves
They could have.
I don't know.
joe rogan
I mean, they did it with elephants.
I know people hunt elephants with bow and arrows.
There's a video of people hunting them with traditional bows, like longbows.
john reeves
Yeah.
joe rogan
From like the 1900s, early 1900s.
john reeves
But remember, the steppe had no trees.
No wood.
It's all grasslands.
And so the browsers, you know, the woolly mammoth, the caribou, the steppe bisons, they ate grass.
And the moose came in later, the browsers.
And there was no wood to fashion a spear out of, really, to speak of.
It was all grassland.
So I'm thinking they kind of might have moved through a little bit and got a little bit farther south.
Maybe they went somewhere else that was on the limits that was emerging into uplands.
joe rogan
So maybe some nomadic people traveled with spears they had gotten from somewhere else and they made it to your place because that's where the mammoths were?
john reeves
The carnivores had a field day up there, because the short-faced bears, the cave lions, they had all kinds of stuff to eat.
joe rogan
Cave bears?
john reeves
Oh, yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah.
john reeves
They were eating good.
And that was for thousands of years they did that.
They got along.
You know, that balance is there.
We have them right now with wolves.
You know, you'll have a year with a lot of wolves, and then you'll have...
You know, they'll kill everything, all the moose.
And you'll have a few years where the wolves disappear because there's nothing to eat.
And then the moose come back.
And then the wolves come back.
I mean, it's just, it's time.
joe rogan
Constant cycle.
john reeves
Constant cycle.
joe rogan
Yeah.
john reeves
I've got a creek now with two packs of wolves on it.
The one I invited you to go hunting on?
There won't be a moose left on that creek, I don't think, this summer.
joe rogan
Probably not.
john reeves
I'll put you on a different creek.
joe rogan
They're a fascinating animal.
We just showed yesterday, they reintroduced them to Colorado recently.
Good luck, guys.
john reeves
I don't think the people in Colorado understand what just happened.
joe rogan
No.
No, they have no idea.
Fucking city dwellers think, wolves are amazing.
They're so beautiful.
Why'd they go extinct?
john reeves
I have that video of a little young wolf that's right by our road.
You know, we're driving down to look at a cut.
And he's just sitting there looking at us like, hey, what's up?
And he's howling, and you can hear another one in the background howling.
They show up out at the boneyard going, time to eat.
joe rogan
Oh, right.
john reeves
Oh, yeah, they smell that rotten flesh.
joe rogan
I'm sure, right?
john reeves
Oh, the stench of that is, you can't avoid it.
joe rogan
How bad does it smell when you start excavating?
john reeves
It's the kind of stench that you'll never forget, but you'll never smell it anywhere else.
So the invite is still open for you to come up there.
joe rogan
I need to make it my way out there.
If I do, I want to bring Randall.
john reeves
Do it.
joe rogan
Yeah.
john reeves
But here's the other caveat to that.
joe rogan
Okay.
john reeves
We built our new building.
We put two 1885 Brunswick pool tables in there.
Got them restored.
joe rogan
I saw.
john reeves
And I told Drew, I said, you're welcome to play on it, but I ain't playing until Joe Rogan plays on it with me.
As soon as you cue it up and rack it, I'm going to run out the door and leave.
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Okay.
john reeves
I'm not a very good pool player.
joe rogan
Well, that's why I'm scared of golf, because I am a good pool player.
john reeves
I know you're a good pool player.
joe rogan
But that's what it takes to play good pool.
It's just massive amounts of time that I don't have.
john reeves
Yeah, that's practice.
joe rogan
I already have one thing that sucks my time.
And if I was living where you are, my time would be spent spraying water.
john reeves
We're trying to figure out a way to do it while we don't have to be there.
Put the auto giant up there.
joe rogan
Did you get a bunch of people that reached out to you after the podcast that wanted to volunteer to help?
john reeves
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
But I can't do it.
joe rogan
Too many weirdos.
john reeves
Look, dude.
Talking about you two?
joe rogan
Yeah.
john reeves
It's me and Drew.
joe rogan
Yeah.
john reeves
And when it's all hands on deck, when something is happening, like the day, then it's all hands on deck.
That day we pulled out a whole woolly mammoth and a half.
Wow.
One day.
joe rogan
A whole woolly mammoth.
john reeves
And a half.
joe rogan
And a half.
john reeves
And we got the other half the next day.
joe rogan
Have you thought about putting that thing together?
john reeves
Oh yeah.
Yeah, we got it all.
joe rogan
Like museum style?
john reeves
I don't know.
joe rogan
Piecing it together?
john reeves
We'll put it together and put it in our building.
joe rogan
How do they do that?
They use like metal to connect the bones?
john reeves
The museum I saw in the Yukon, they use a metal frame.
And they attach it somehow to that.
But I've seen them.
I've seen these woolly mammoth replicas that they have of the skeletons.
And you see the tusks going out.
And I'm looking.
There's nothing supporting those tusks.
Those are made out of foam.
You can't hold a 250 pound tusk in a skull without it just breaking.
You gotta have something underneath it to support.
joe rogan
Oh, so those are replicas?
john reeves
Oh yeah, most of them are just all foam.
joe rogan
Well that's the thing about the dinosaurs, right?
They'll have some pieces and then the rest of it is just kind of bullshit.
It's just what they know it looked like and the dimensions that it would be based on the shape of whatever bones they do have.
john reeves
Yeah.
We have all the bones.
We have whole herds of those things.
joe rogan
Wow.
john reeves
Just a matter of that thing that we invented called time.
joe rogan
Yeah.
john reeves
My time is better spent collecting it than it is trying to put it together.
joe rogan
It's just amazing that there's this one spot in Alaska and it really makes you think how many spots are like that somewhere else that just have not been explored.
john reeves
Well, I told you last time that that guy, Chuck, says there's 10,000 of those dead animals on my property.
Woolly mammoths.
joe rogan
10,000?
john reeves
10,000.
joe rogan
That's the estimate.
john reeves
Yeah.
He's the carver.
And he's dealt more woolly mammoth bones and tusks than anybody I know.
Probably in the world.
joe rogan
It just makes you really want to imagine what the scene was like when it all went down.
What the scene was like.
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Boom!
joe rogan
Boom!
When they all just died all at once.
john reeves
Yeah.
And all at once, might have been 500 years.
joe rogan
Right.
john reeves
Might have been 1,000 years.
joe rogan
Right.
john reeves
But faster than they could, you know, adapt to it.
joe rogan
Yeah.
john reeves
So, and you know, all the silt and all the shit that covers the ground there, that's leftover from the melting glaciers.
The glaciers melted and the wind came in and blew all that stuff, deposited itself on the gravels.
That's why in gold mining, you got to strip that shit off to get down to the gravel and the bedrock.
Yeah, that's all covering it.
joe rogan
Have you paid attention to any of Randall Carlson's work?
john reeves
A little bit.
joe rogan
He thinks it all happened very quickly.
john reeves
I think he's right.
joe rogan
Yeah, I think he's right too.
john reeves
But I think there's another one in there.
Earlier.
joe rogan
I bet.
john reeves
By about 20,000 years maybe.
joe rogan
Completely makes sense.
john reeves
Yeah.
joe rogan
I mean, if you go 20,000 years ago from us, I mean, look, we think about the pyramids and we think about Egypt and we really don't know when they made those.
But Robert Shock, who's the guy who was a geologist from Boston University, who did the work on the Sphinx and the Temple of the Sphinx and found water erosion that indicates thousands of years of rainfall after they carved that thing.
After they carved that area out, he's like, this is thousands of years of rainfall.
And the last time there was rainfall in the Nile Valley was more than 9,000 years ago.
So you have 9,000 years ago, and then you have thousands of years before that.
So now you're in that area.
Now you're in 12,000 years ago, 13, 14, who knows?
There's also speculation as to when the Sphinx, which used to have the head of a lion before they carved it and made it an Egyptian head.
And they think that, because the head of the Sphinx is much smaller than the rest of the body, it also has much less erosion.
And then they go back to, okay, at what point in time was this thing pointed towards the constellation Leo?
And now you're at 30,000 years ago.
And they think that might have been when these people had made this thing.
john reeves
And I've heard you talk about the pyramids and the engineering that went into it.
How do you move a block like that 500 miles?
joe rogan
Yeah, insane.
john reeves
So, well, intricately cut.
You can't even put a razor blade between the fits.
joe rogan
Yeah, amazing.
john reeves
You can't do that now.
joe rogan
Well, 2,300,000 stones.
They weigh between like 2 and 80 tons.
Perfectly placed.
The true north, south, east, and west.
They align with constellations.
You have these shafts that align to certain star patterns.
It's like, whoo!
What was going down in Egypt?
john reeves
I got to think Elon Musk has come back.
He might have been there.
joe rogan
Well, I bet there was millions of Elon Musks back then.
Who knows?
I mean, I really firmly believe that we are sort of a reimagining of human civilization, and that human civilization, as it were, when they did construct the pyramids, was probably more advanced than we are today, in a different way.
And this is what Graham thinks, this is what Randall thinks, and a lot of these people think.
That whatever technology they had, whatever so far undiscovered technology, we don't really know how they carved that stuff.
We don't know what methods they used.
Because modern conventional thinking is that they only had copper.
They didn't even have steel.
So how the fuck are they doing that?
There's also these drill marks, these cores that have been cored out that seem to indicate diamond drills, diamond bit drills, moving at insane rates of speed that have cored out sections of stone.
Like, who the fuck did that?
Who, how, where, why, when?
Even if it really is 2500 BC, what the fuck did you use?
What did you use?
How did you do that?
It's probably not 2,500 years ago because that's just based on organic matter.
It's also based on they find little pieces of organic matter that they can carbon date.
There's no real proof that that wasn't done, that they didn't resurface things or refix things or try to update things.
There's also the hieroglyphs, which is really fascinating because the hieroglyphs...
They accept the hieroglyphs up to a certain point and then when the hieroglyphs go back and they indicate kings that existed 30,000, 40,000 years ago, they're like, oh, that's just myth.
Like, says who?
Says who?
Says you because you've written books on this and you've taught lectures and you've based your life work on this timeline?
Is that why you think that old stuff is myth?
Because you don't think Ramsey's is myth.
You don't think that Tutankhamen is myth.
You don't think all those other things are myth.
Why do you think it's myth when it gets back 30, 40,000 years ago?
I bet that's not myth.
I bet whatever was going on back then, 30, 40,000 years ago, those people were probably insanely advanced in a completely different direction than we have gone today.
And I think that if you wiped us out and left a few nomadic tribes of people and they repopulated the earth over the next 20,000 years, we'd probably figure out some completely new direction of technology.
You know, I think people get on a path, they innovate on that path, and then everybody sort of chips in on all the different inventions that have been previously established, and they make them better, and they refine them and make new versions of them and make better stuff.
And then it keeps going and going and going in whatever direction some other genius heads in.
And there was probably some fucking insane geniuses 30, 40,000 years ago that figured out some stuff that we haven't figured out yet.
And they probably were more advanced in that direction than we are today.
john reeves
We can't even tell what happened in the case of that Spitzer there, what happened 200 years ago.
joe rogan
Right.
Who were those folks?
john reeves
Who the fuck did that?
joe rogan
Right.
john reeves
And why?
joe rogan
Do they think people were living there 200 years ago?
john reeves
Nobody thinks nothing about nothing because Fairbanks wasn't there.
Fairbanks wasn't discovered until 1902. So they have no idea.
Eight or twelve percent of the carbon dating, you know, they say that They spread out a long timeline.
12% I think came in around 1600, late 1600s for that.
Then it's under the 1700s there's more than the early 1800s and then pretty soon they have a okay 95% certainty that's 190 years old or something like that.
But we can't even tell Why?
Who, what, where, when?
joe rogan
Right.
john reeves
200 years ago.
joe rogan
Yeah.
john reeves
Give me 2,000.
Well, we got Jesus over there with the shroud.
joe rogan
Right.
john reeves
Somebody 500 years ago said, I'm going to make some money on this.
joe rogan
Right.
john reeves
I'm going to get me some tourism business.
joe rogan
Now go 2,000 years before that, and then 2,000 years before that.
Like, we have no evidence.
You have the burning of the Library of Alexandria.
All the records are destroyed.
Right.
john reeves
Didn't go 20,000 years before that.
Might as well really get going here.
joe rogan
Well, that's what's really crazy is that they find older stuff in Egypt that's buried under newer construction.
So they build temples on top of older temples.
And then as they excavate the sand, they find different construction methods that seem to indicate different ages.
They do things differently back then.
And as they get deeper, the things seem to be more sophisticated, more difficult to make.
john reeves
Yeah.
Look at Austin.
Tell me that's not going to happen here in 1,500 years.
joe rogan
Right.
john reeves
Or any city in the country.
Yeah.
But we're only here for like, maybe 100 if we're lucky.
joe rogan
If we're lucky.
john reeves
I'm thinking 100, maybe not be that lucky.
Maybe 80 is better.
joe rogan
Depends.
With modern science, I mean, they think that we're going to be able to live to be 150 and thrive.
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Right.
john reeves
I'm going to get me a clone going.
joe rogan
Yeah, just download your brain into the clone.
Imagine a 20-year-old John with the brain of you now, all spry and young.
john reeves
You know, I can tell, Drew.
Drew, I'm going to run on over the 966. I'm going to scamp run up the ladder, and then I'm going to run that son of a bitch.
But we translate it into that, Drew, I'm going to shuffle over to that machine over there.
Can you lift me up with the loader to get inside it?
I had one shoulder out last year.
I couldn't pull myself up a ladder.
Rotator cuff gone.
joe rogan
Got to get you some stem cells.
john reeves
I just need a new me.
Gotta clone me.
joe rogan
We also need to take care of the me that you got right now.
john reeves
Yeah, I'm gonna be around a while.
joe rogan
How long are you planning?
john reeves
Another 15, 20 years.
joe rogan
That's it?
john reeves
Yeah.
joe rogan
If you do, if you wanted to plan your life out, what would you want to happen with the Boneyard over the next 15 to 20 years?
What's ideal for you?
Best case scenario?
john reeves
To get the bones, all the bones back, first of all.
joe rogan
Why are you so concerned with those bones when you have so many?
john reeves
Because they have so many more.
So many more.
joe rogan
So they have more there than you have where you are.
john reeves
They took, you got to remember there's 200 nozzles running.
They took them all.
They took hundreds and hundreds of thousands of bones to New York City.
Hundreds of thousands.
I've only got a couple hundred thousand.
They took millions.
joe rogan
And they got them all?
john reeves
They got every one of them.
And the guy that was their collector, he was just a field hand on the Alaska Railroad.
And they said, hey, you want to collect bones for us?
He said, sure.
So he ended up, when it was all said and done, with an honorary doctorate from the University of Alaska, who was in on it, by the way, on this tripartite agreement, and probably influenced by, you know, Childs Frick, the son of the industrialists that used to shoot his laborers because they wanted more money in the steel industry.
Yeah, Henry Frick was a prick.
joe rogan
Where was this?
john reeves
In America.
Look up Henry Frick.
joe rogan
He used to shoot his workers if they wanted money?
john reeves
He had a gang of gunmen come in when they were striking to make better wages.
And he was killing them.
This is in our steel industry.
joe rogan
What year was this?
john reeves
It was on the Men Who Built America that was on that show.
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Ah.
john reeves
He was the old man, so it was back when the steel industry was just getting going with Carnegie and those guys.
Childs was his kid.
joe rogan
So here it is.
A lifelong opponent of organized labor and his refusal to allow union workers at his mines led to the infamous homestead strike of July in 1892 in which 10 men were killed and 60 wounded.
The same month Frick himself was attacked in a failed assassination attempt by a 25 year old Russian anarchist.
Wow.
What did Frick do to his workers?
In June of 1892, he slashed wages, evicted workers from their company houses, stopped negotiating with union leaders, and threatened to bring the Pinkertons, a detective agency for hire that amounted to a private army of thugs.
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Wow.
john reeves
That's what he did, too.
joe rogan
Oh, man.
john reeves
And the guy, so the guy that his kid, Childs, is the one that was head of AM&H and he hired this guy Geist to go out and collect fossils in Alaska and he just didn't He just didn't limit himself to here.
He went out to the West Coast.
joe rogan
It says Frick fired 2,500 of his workers and cut their pay in half of those who remained.
At one point, he was named the most hated man in America.
Wow.
Fucking greed.
john reeves
Un-fucking-believable.
joe rogan
Fucking greed.
It's always been the fucking bane of mankind.
john reeves
Otto Geist went out to Nome and St. Lawrence Island to dig up babies out of the permafrost because they wouldn't decompose.
He put them in pickle jars.
Sent them back to Henry or Charles Frick and AM&H. I've seen these jars of pickled babies.
And now they're being repatriated.
And 60 Minutes just had a big thing on Cambodia and all the things they stole out of there.
AM&H and Smithsonian and all those guys are in on it.
They just don't want to return them.
joe rogan
And they justify this based on the idea that they're the keepers of this historical record, natural history.
john reeves
That was a good segment on 60 Minutes.
I quit kind of watching them a long time ago, but this kind of piqued my interest.
Because it's all about what they're doing.
They're doing it right now.
It's not like this has just happened in the past.
These guys are like real life Indiana Jones, let's go out and plunder and bring it back home.
Some of it gets to the museum, some of it goes home.
I've heard people that say they've been in an auto guy's house in Europe.
He's got all kinds of stuff in his house that came out of our boneyard area.
joe rogan
Really?
john reeves
Out of Fairbanks.
Yeah, skulls, short-faced bears, saber-toothed.
Anyways, he ended up with a doctorate and the streets named after him up in Fairbanks.
Hey, you find a guy that's willing to do anything for anything.
That's what they found.
They found him.
And Charles Frick had no problem.
Look, his dad was a prick.
That's dead.
joe rogan
Yeah.
john reeves
And you know what they say about...
joe rogan
Yeah.
Apple in the tree.
john reeves
Yeah.
Yeah.
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So...
john reeves
Yeah.
So you ask what I want to do.
I want to make things right, at least on the bones that came out of Fairbanks.
I want the proof that men and animals live together.
It's there.
Why they haven't studied those bones in a hundred years, I don't know.
joe rogan
Do they have human bones?
john reeves
At the MNH? If they do, they don't talk about it.
Well, of course, they're not talking to me.
joe rogan
Right.
john reeves
They might talk to our legislature, though.
joe rogan
Boy, have they found out they've been holding on to human bones all this time, too.
john reeves
Yeah.
joe rogan
Probably the people that are there right now probably don't even go into those boxes.
So if you're dealing with stuff from more than 80 years ago, Well, who the fuck knows what's in there?
It's all just stored, huh?
john reeves
Well, there's a whole bunch of spear points they found out in Esther, which is one of my areas.
They just disappeared between Esther, Alaska, and New York City.
Just disappeared for 15 fucking years.
They found them in North Dakota because some guy was trying to track them down.
They got some of them back.
But I've asked for reports on those.
They haven't done any.
Wait a minute.
You guys were supposed to report on everything you took.
You haven't done any of it.
And that's my leg that I'm standing on.
I could litigate this if I want to.
I'm not afraid of that.
But I wanted this to be a good story when I started off.
We're bringing the bones back.
We're gonna make things right.
We're gonna study it.
We're gonna solve some issues.
We're gonna solve some historical questions.
Let's all get together and do it the right way.
Let's do the right thing for once.
joe rogan
Yeah.
john reeves
Now, do you have the signed contract with notarized copies from 1928?
Well, that's not how business worked back then.
You had the Boston men who financed it through the United States Smelting and Refining Mining Company, went to AM&H. Yeah.
Yeah, we'd love to get those bones.
We'll go get them.
But here's what you got to do.
They didn't do it.
So I'm saying give them back.
That's why the University of Alaska went with me to New York City and said, we want them back.
But they know.
They're in the business of fucking longevity.
They know how long people live.
Just outlast this sumbitch.
We're an institution.
joe rogan
Right.
john reeves
We don't ever die.
joe rogan
Right.
john reeves
People come in.
They raise hell.
Then they go away.
Well, that's probably true in my case.
But Drew out there, go ahead and deal with him.
He plays hardballs.
joe rogan
So your best case scenario is all this gets handled politically.
You recover the bones, and then we start putting the bigger pieces of the puzzle together.
john reeves
Exactly.
You know, people want, oh, send me these bones so I can carbon date them for you.
Carbon date them up here.
joe rogan
Yeah.
john reeves
Get your ass in Alaska and set up a research.
I already built it for you, for Christ's sake.
I spent a million dollars doing it.
It's done.
I built it last year.
I'm anticipating they're all coming back.
I might not know how it's going to go, but I know how this is going to end.
We're going to get the bones back in Alaska.
So just stop doing this bullshit.
Let's just do the right thing here, boys.
joe rogan
Is the hope maybe some of the younger scientists that are listening to this realize the potential of these discoveries and start working with you?
john reeves
The problem is in organizations like that, the younger scientists don't want to ruffle feathers because that's a career ender for those guys.
Oh, he raised hell with the uppity-ups at Smithsonian or whatever museum.
Stay away from this guy.
And they all want to be successful in their careers, and I get it.
joe rogan
Right.
john reeves
But maybe somebody out there goes, you know what?
And there's a few of them out there.
I've talked to a few of them.
They can't go public.
joe rogan
Right.
john reeves
And I don't blame them.
They've got to put beans on the table, too.
unidentified
Right.
john reeves
But some of the plunderings that have gone on, Mongolia, that area, that's been plundered for their cultural artifacts.
And the people that know about it are at the Museum of Natural History, and they can't say anything about it because they don't want to lose their job.
joe rogan
So these artifacts, do you think that there's just like these wealthy people that keep them in their homes?
And then just don't tell anybody.
Because that was always the case with Egyptian relics, right?
Because we don't even know how many tombs were raided over the, you know, several thousand years and where all those artifacts went and what happened.
Because we know that, like, when they found King Tut's, when they found his...
All of his remains in the sarcophagus and all the gold-lined this and gold-lined that.
Imagine people found that 500, 600 years ago, 1,000 years ago.
Where'd all that stuff go?
Like, did they melt it down?
Was it more valuable as gold for them?
john reeves
What's the coin of the realm?
It's gold, right?
joe rogan
Yeah.
john reeves
It's been the coin of the realm since the beginning of time.
What's the oldest...
Profession.
joe rogan
Prostitution.
john reeves
That's right.
You got the prostitution, you got the gold, and you got people that are willing to die for, you know, one or both of those things.
And so it's been the basis of conflict forever.
You can melt all the gold down that's ever been mined on the planet.
It's still here.
It hasn't gone anywhere.
You can't get rid of gold.
You can't vaporize it.
You can melt it.
But it would fit in an Olympic-sized pool.
That'd be all of it that's ever been mined.
joe rogan
Right.
The whole world's...
john reeves
Yeah.
And if you've been watching the price of gold in the last year, it's up 12% since you and I met last time.
And it'll probably keep going.
Because people are...
They buy it to hedge against inflation.
You know, Costco started selling gold bars.
joe rogan
Really?
john reeves
Costco.
joe rogan
You can buy gold bars from Costco?
john reeves
Gold bars from Costco.
And they sell out as soon as they put them up for sale.
They sold $100 million worth of them in the first quarter.
unidentified
What?
joe rogan
One gold bar, Swiss Lady Fortuna, Versican.
Members only item.
24 karat gold.
Item is not refundable.
Limit two per membership.
Costco.
Goldbars at Costco.com.
unidentified
What the fuck?
joe rogan
Jamie, would you ever imagine that?
jamie vernon
No, but do you remember this story from...
Where am I at here?
This guy had a private collection in Indiana.
He was 91 years old.
joe rogan
It says, it was unlike anything we'd ever seen, collection of stolen artifacts to be returned.
jamie vernon
It's somewhere in the range of 5,000 different things just in his house in a small town in Indiana.
joe rogan
A delegation from China went to Indiana on Thursday to claim hundreds of artifacts that were seized from one man's private museum.
He had items from all over the world, everything from ancient jewelry to human bones.
Those Chinese artifacts are part of the 5,000 seized from a home inn from 90-year-old Don Miller, a man well known locally for his passion for collecting and global travels.
He died in 2015. I remember seeing that story.
jamie vernon
Super old Chinese weapon.
joe rogan
Wow, look at that.
Look at that axe.
Wow.
jamie vernon
I'm trying to find more info on exact things that they pulled out of there, but I didn't find anything really great.
joe rogan
So there's probably dudes like this in Europe.
There's probably dudes like this in Russia.
Dudes like this in China.
john reeves
Dudes like this in the USA, man.
joe rogan
You think so?
john reeves
Oh.
joe rogan
Well, this guy.
jamie vernon
Yeah, at least one.
joe rogan
For sure, this guy.
At least one.
unidentified
Yeah, look at that hammer.
joe rogan
The hammer and the axe, that's incredible.
john reeves
That hammer's for splitting the skull open.
joe rogan
I'm sure.
It's not for making a house.
jamie vernon
2,000 human bones.
joe rogan
One dude.
Yeah.
He's not the only one.
Yeah.
john reeves
How many of those dudes are connected somehow to the AMNH? Well, there's just a story out recently where they have like 12,000 human bones they've got to return to someplace.
jamie vernon
Yeah, on this letter that they wrote, this is a letter from this year in October.
They're going to talk about what they're going to do with their human remains in storage.
They have a lot, but...
joe rogan
Wow!
jamie vernon
Where it came from, how they got it.
This is a long letter.
It's not super worth reading, but it does say that they have them.
unidentified
Wow.
jamie vernon
They pulled them out of exhibits.
Some of them were given to them through, like, science.
joe rogan
Listen to this here.
These remains were removed from a burial ground in the Inwood neighborhood of Manhattan during a city road construction project in 1903 to 1904 and accepted into the collection.
Enslavement was a violent, dehumanizing act.
Removing these remains from the rightful burial place ensured the denial of basic human dignity would continue even in death.
Identifying a restorative, respectful action in consultation with local communities must be a part of our commitment.
Wow.
Wow.
So for sure they've got some fucking human bones.
I just want to know if they have some human bones that they got from your spot.
Because if they did, I just think there's got to be some in there.
If you've got spear points and you've got arrowheads, goddammit, you've got to have some fucking humans in there.
jamie vernon
I also, when looking up the American Lion, in the Wikipedia it says that the AMNH got something from Alaska in the early 1900s.
joe rogan
A few additional discoveries came until 1907. The American Museum of National History and College Alaska collected several panthera atrox skulls in a locality originally found in 1803 gold miners.
How do you say that word?
Kotzebue?
john reeves
Kotzebue.
joe rogan
Kotzebue, Alaska.
The skulls were referred to a new subspecies of Felis panthera atrox in 1930, Felis atrox alaskanesis.
Despite this, the species didn't get a proper description and is now seen as a nomenudum, synonymous with panthera atrox.
Further south in Rancho La Brea, California, is a large field skull.
Is that what?
No, felid.
A feline, I guess.
A felid skull was excavated and later described in 1909 by John C. Merriam, who referred it to a new subspecies of Felice atrox, Felice atrox bebe.
The subspecies is synonymous with Panthera atrox.
Wow.
jamie vernon
Wow.
Amazing.
joe rogan
Whoa!
Look at that thing.
Holy shit.
Look at that thing.
So that's the North American lion.
Wow.
And bigger than the African lion, which is wild.
john reeves
We got a skull of that.
Nice.
joe rogan
I bet you got a lot more of them under that ground, too.
john reeves
Yeah.
We might have stuff we don't always post.
joe rogan
I bet you do.
john reeves
Hypothetically speaking.
joe rogan
Hypothetically.
I bet you do.
john reeves
It'd be a good bet.
joe rogan
You're allowed to.
It seems like they should play ball.
john reeves
They should.
joe rogan
I mean, it just seems like if you guys want to know some stuff, how about there's this one extraordinary area in Alaska that's produced an insane amount of artifacts?
john reeves
Well, the bone rush you started.
joe rogan
You started it?
john reeves
No, you started it.
joe rogan
I couldn't do it without you.
john reeves
Hey, you know what?
We're tied inextricably at the hip about this.
I've had ample opportunity to be interviewed.
I don't do it.
I'm here with the greatest communicator on the face of the planet.
And I don't know if I mentioned this last time, but I got an MS and BS. So you put me in here with you.
If I don't know it, I'll make some shit up.
But for the most part, I'm not kidding, your ability to communicate is letting people throughout You're listening world.
There's something wrong here.
These people need to step up.
After our broadcast, after our podcast last time, within two days, AMNH put out a press release denying this ever happened.
joe rogan
Well, that seems silly if you've actually visited the bones themselves.
john reeves
Yeah, they denied the existence of that report that I read from.
So I posted that cover today in case Jamie wanted to look at it.
That report was written, co-written by one of their own employees at AM&H. Now, come on, boys.
You can bullshit everybody.
You can't bullshit everybody.
joe rogan
This is a problem with archaeologists.
This is a problem that they've found with trying to establish an earlier date for some of these Egyptian artifacts and the Temple of the Sphinx and some of these other things.
People do not want to give up any of the power they have in controlling narrative.
Early man in eastern Beringia.
Late Pleistocene and early Holocene artifacts and associated fauna recovered from the Fairbanks Mining District in Alaska.
Wow.
john reeves
Yeah, look at that.
joe rogan
That says early man.
john reeves
Robert L. Evander.
joe rogan
So let's read.
john reeves
Yeah.
They wrote the report I read.
joe rogan
They wrote it.
And what you said here is on your thing, it says, this is the document AMNH said they have no record of.
I read it on Joe Rogan podcast a year ago and identified the spot in the East River where the AMNH dumped approximately 50 tons of my company fossils back in 1949. It started a bone rush.
Though it only took two days for AMNH to issue a press release denying it existed, note that one of the authors, an employee of AMNH, co-wrote it.
My goal is to get the remainder of the collection still stored in their basement sent back to Alaska so the scientific research can be conducted on them.
I'd like to see these elitist snobs hauled in front of Congress and testify under oath about their misdeeds.
That process is underway.
Alaska is not the only state nation that AMNH plundered archaeological, paleontological, anthropological, and cultural resources and artifacts from.
They're doing a disservice for the people that want to understand things.
I mean, they are a blockade to understanding how there is this area that you own that has this insane amount of bones.
It's insane.
And it's a massive mystery.
And it's one thing that is so compelling to human beings that want to know what is going on.
With the history of animals and the human race and also with this theory, this Younger Dryas impact theory, if they can just do a core sample on that area that you have uncovered that's 80 feet down that shows all this carbon that seems to indicate massive amounts of fire and something big, as you said, something that came in hot.
And that there's evidence of this all over the world now.
Because of the research that's been done on this Younger Dryas Impact Theory, they know that there's a layer of iridium that exists that indicates that something from space, iridium, which is very common in space and very rare on Earth, there's a layer of this shit that indicates we got hit.
And if you add that to what you have, this layer that shows some fucking insane event took place in your area that led to all that burning and all these fucking bones, man.
How is this not something that they are actively collaborating with you, working together with the scientific community to get an understanding of how this took place?
john reeves
Because I think it gets back to the whack-a-mole game.
You know, some guy steps up and goes, I'll do it.
And they go, well, you're not going to have work in the industry anymore.
We're going to blackball you.
They're afraid to.
It goes against the grain.
They don't want to stick up for some dirt tramp in Alaska saying, come on, let's study this stuff.
I already built a building for you.
I did it already.
joe rogan
That is what's really crazy.
You really did spend over a million dollars to build a scientific research building.
john reeves
You saw the pictures of it.
I got all the receipts in there.
I mean, I got everything they need.
Just bring the bones back and I'll build another building just like it.
What do you want me to do?
People go, well, have you carbon dated all your...
No, it's not my job.
Well, have you done this and have you done that?
What are you asking me for?
Why don't you call AM&H and ask them?
They're the ones that are supposed to do this shit, not me.
I don't have the skill set.
I'm not a paleontologist.
I'm just a simple fucking boner making my way through life.
Well, super boner, actually, Joe.
joe rogan
Yeah.
All you have to do is get one piece out and you're a boner?
john reeves
Yeah.
joe rogan
I'd like to be a boner.
john reeves
You're going to be a boner.
joe rogan
I need to be.
john reeves
You need to come up, bring your friends with you.
joe rogan
Yeah.
john reeves
We'll go out there and have a boner party.
joe rogan
We need to make a YouTube video.
john reeves
Oh yeah, fuck.
joe rogan
Yeah.
john reeves
Yeah, I'll put you on the manual giant.
There's a workout there.
joe rogan
Is it hard to hold on to?
john reeves
Not really.
joe rogan
No?
john reeves
You can make it look like it is.
You know, just move it around a little bit.
My kids do it.
I mean, my kids are a great support.
My wife, we're all in on this.
joe rogan
It's just to me, it's so strange that they continue to resist what seems to be inevitable.
And the more we talk about it and the more millions of people hear about this, the more it will become inevitable.
john reeves
Exactly.
joe rogan
This is a massive mystery.
And it's not like a little bit of evidence.
You have the most insane amount of evidence I think I've ever come across.
And the fact that we're all finding out about this because of social media.
What a weird time to be alive.
john reeves
Not just social media.
The Joe Rogan experience.
joe rogan
Yeah, but I found out about it through Instagram.
I don't even remember how I found your page.
john reeves
Well, I'm glad you did.
And I told you last time it took me three years of saying I only talked to Joe Rogan about it.
Knowing that's not ever going to happen because I didn't want to talk to nobody about it.
But when we talked about it, I got to tell you that my Instagram blew up and went from like 40-something thousand people following my page.
I think it's at 370,000 now.
joe rogan
We'll see what happens by this time next year when you come back again.
john reeves
Sweet Jesus, I might build a political base.
I might have enough people that can contact their legislators.
joe rogan
Well, that's the hope.
The hope is that if we can continue to highlight this and could just continue to show people this is really important stuff.
There's a reason why people are so fascinated by it.
We have all been fascinated by the history of the human race and the history of animals and the history of whatever caused these extinction events.
We're all fascinated by this.
And they're doing a disservice to humanity by not exploring this further, by not playing ball.
They should play ball.
They should get involved in this and they should do so in an honorable way where you don't have to bring in politicians.
This should be something that as educators and as the These are the curators of this information.
These are the people we turn to.
This is one of the most prestigious institutions in the world when it comes to natural history.
john reeves
It's supposed to be.
joe rogan
Yeah.
john reeves
And they're not doing themselves a service doing this.
This is a big disservice.
And did you just invite me back for next year?
joe rogan
Let's do it again.
john reeves
I gladly accept.
joe rogan
Let's have this an annual thing to see how much progress we make.
john reeves
As long as I'm the last podcast of the year, I'm down.
joe rogan
That's our tradition.
You are the last podcast of 2023. You'll be the last podcast of 2024. Thank you, sir.
Is that they come to their senses and they do this in an amicable way where everybody realizes, like, this is important.
It's bigger than everybody.
This is good for the AMNH. This is good for the scientific community.
It's good for the curious people like myself.
It's good for the world.
We really should find out what the fuck is going on and what happened.
And I think you have a massive piece of the puzzle, sir.
And it's extraordinary.
I'm very happy that you're the guy.
You got some hard-nosed motherfucker who doesn't give a shit who is willing to stick his neck out and tell the truth and also to show the world.
Just the evidence that you have on your page.
Just that bone with the human face carved in.
Shut the fuck up.
You know somebody carved that.
Stop playing games.
What is it?
Just the fact that you've got saw bones, sawed bones.
Who did that?
Just the fact that you've got an insane amount of woolly mammoth tusks and bones and all these animals that they said aren't even supposed to have been in Alaska, and they clearly were.
There's a mystery there, folks.
john reeves
There is a mystery, and it's being played out.
Not only on my Instagram page, where it's the only place, but with you.
If you want to know about it, you've got to come here.
You've got to listen to the Joe Rogan experience.
Because I ain't talking to the so-called mainstream media.
I'm not interested in being a story one night by some guy sitting in a studio that's never even gotten dirt under his fingernails.
You come out here, you walk around in this shit, motherfucker, and you listen and you smell what we're dealing with here.
This is the Ice Age, baby.
We live in the Ice Age.
People say, think outside the box.
We live outside that sumbitch.
If you're in the Ice Age all day, it changes you.
Maybe makes you fucking crazy.
I don't know.
joe rogan
I think you might have been a little crazy to start with.
john reeves
I think so.
joe rogan
I think that's why the universe chose you to own that land.
I really do.
john reeves
Either that or the universe says, we need some prick out there.
That's our guy.
joe rogan
I think that makes sense.
Because I think a lot of people just wouldn't have gone through the lengths that you've gone through.
They wouldn't have been so stubborn and determined.
And also, just the fact that a guy like you is exactly the type of person that you need to do all this work.
It's got to be a guy like you.
A regular person is not going to be so dedicated to this.
john reeves
You know, this is, like I said, this is my cause.
Last year I said, okay, everybody, it takes a mammal 21 seconds to take a leak.
That was a great contribution to mankind's knowledge because I got a lot of people going, you're right.
joe rogan
I timed myself the other day.
I pissed for 35 seconds, though.
john reeves
And somebody else said, hey, I pissed for 55 seconds.
joe rogan
If guys would drink beer, I guarantee you they could...
john reeves
But see, I like to think that people can still think.
joe rogan
Yeah.
john reeves
So I also like to think that there's a certain degree of what you do goes into the presentation of what you do.
It's in the presentation.
Can I give you an example?
joe rogan
Sure.
john reeves
Three guys go fishing in Valdez.
They leave Fairbanks.
They drive down to Valdez.
They get in L.A. and they need a hotel room.
So the clerk says, I only got one room left that's kind of nasty.
It's got two cots and a couch.
How much is it?
Thirty bucks.
So each guy pulls out ten bucks out of his wallet and gives it to them.
Gives them the key and they go to their room.
The night clerk comes in a little bit later, the night manager.
He says, hey boss, we rented that last room out.
He says, all right, what'd you get for it?
He goes, 30 bucks.
He goes, you overcharged him by five bucks.
He gave him five ones, and he says, take it back to the room and give it to him.
So he goes back to their room, knocks on their door, and he gives each guy a dollar, right?
Okay, and he kept two bucks in his pocket.
He said, ah, fuck, they don't know they overpaid.
So let's do the math on this one.
Age spent nine bucks now, right?
joe rogan
Okay.
john reeves
What's three times nine?
joe rogan
27. Yeah.
john reeves
He kept two bucks, right?
joe rogan
Right.
john reeves
27 plus two is 29. Where the fuck did that other dollar go?
joe rogan
I don't know.
Why are we worrying about a dollar?
I'm not sure where you're going with this.
john reeves
It's the presentation.
Where did it go?
They paid 30. They got a dollar back and the clerk kept two.
Where I'm going is it's the presentation.
It's the story.
It's the way you tell it.
29 bucks is not 30 bucks.
They spent 30 when they walked in.
joe rogan
Right.
john reeves
But where did that other one dollar go?
joe rogan
I don't give a fuck about that though.
I don't understand where you're going with this.
john reeves
Where I'm going with it is I'm making, I'm throwing this out there for the people that listen to this show going, that don't make sense.
unidentified
Right.
john reeves
It doesn't make sense, Joe.
They go, what the fuck?
Maybe you're thinking that right now.
What the fuck?
Where'd that dollar go?
joe rogan
I'm definitely not thinking that.
john reeves
I know you're not.
joe rogan
I'm thinking where are you going with this?
john reeves
I'm not going anywhere.
I'm talking about the presentation.
joe rogan
I understand.
john reeves
You know, and sometimes things get lost in the presentation.
You know, AMNH can say, well, we did this, we did that, we did the other thing.
joe rogan
There's no evidence of this letter.
john reeves
Yeah.
Nothing happened.
It doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter where that other dollar went.
joe rogan
Well, I think for the longest time, they have become accustomed to being the ones who are the gatekeepers of information.
And when it comes to this kind of information, a little press release here, a little statement here has been adequate.
They've been able to cover their tracks.
But in this age of information, that's not good enough anymore.
john reeves
No, it's not.
And like I said, it's the...
It's the way it's laid out.
I'm laying it out as clearly as I can to these guys.
You have the opportunity to do the right thing.
joe rogan
And it's the right thing for all the curious human beings that deserve access to that information because it's a part of the human story.
It's part of the story of the earth.
It's part of the story of the animals.
It's part of the story of your land.
It's a part of the story of probably the impact theory that wiped out massive amounts of animals and human beings.
And I think you've got a piece of the puzzle.
john reeves
We have 20 pieces of the puzzle.
It's a thousand pieces I want.
I won't get them all because I know a bunch of them were stolen.
joe rogan
Well, let's hope that by this time next year, things have progressed.
And when we talk about it in December of 2024, for the last podcast of 2024, let's hope we've got some good news for people.
john reeves
Yeah, and when I got ahold of you and I said, I don't know if I have anything, you know, I was trying to give you an out, like, just in case he's got nothing for me.
I was trying to manage expectations is what I was trying to do.
I just...
A lot of people liked my podcast with you last time.
joe rogan
They're going to like this one too.
john reeves
And I just don't want to disappoint you or disappoint the people that follow you or listen to these stories because, frankly, some of them might not be interested in it.
joe rogan
A lot of them are.
And I think a lot of them now are invested in this.
And specifically since when the bone rush yielded results.
And now people know it's true.
Yeah.
Undeniably.
Undeniably.
Step bison, jawbones, they're not supposed to be at the bottom of the East River exactly where you said to look for them.
What are the odds of that?
john reeves
And don't forget what I told you about there's other people out in the river.
joe rogan
Yeah.
john reeves
We're talking...
If I have a guy come up and go, hey, I want to go prospect this creek, and I say, okay, go ahead and prospect it, and they go prospect it, and it comes in really hot.
It's good.
But somebody else comes along, I'm not going to send them to that creek.
The other guys are already there.
So there are things happening in the East River that spread all over the place.
This guy might find this.
This guy might find that.
These other guys might find that.
I'm not going to tell any of them anything.
Go about your business.
I'm not going to divulge any confidential information to anybody.
Keep looking.
I don't envy them for it.
We don't have to look.
We go get coffee.
We go drive out there.
We pick up a tusk.
Coffee's still too hot to drink.
These guys got to get on a boat, go out in the east fucking river, put on scuba gear, go down there with zero visibility.
That ain't easy.
joe rogan
How are they finding them?
john reeves
I don't know.
My daughter out there, Lauren, she went on the boat with them, I think last year.
She was in New York and she went along for the ride.
And that ain't easy work.
joe rogan
No.
john reeves
But I hope they find them.
joe rogan
I hope they do too.
I hope they hit the mother load.
john reeves
Me too.
And I will tell you this, the mother load is still out there.
I know that.
joe rogan
We're going to piece it all together, my brother.
john reeves
We are, and we're going to talk about it next year.
joe rogan
See you in a year.
john reeves
Yes, sir.
You're the man.
You're the man.
joe rogan
No, you're the man.
john reeves
You're the man.
joe rogan
Thank you very much.
Appreciate you, sir.
john reeves
Thank you, sir.
joe rogan
Thank you very much.
john reeves
My pleasure.
unidentified
All right.
joe rogan
Bye, everybody.
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