Name: John Reeves Stumbled Upon a Goldmine of Ice Age Fossils
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Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'John Reeves Stumbled Upon a Goldmine of Ice Age Fossils' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-12-30. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'John Reeves Stumbled Upon a Goldmine of Ice Age Fossils' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-12-30. Transcript available.

the Joe Rogan experience how do you get these bones how does this all start get
into that okay and the way I discovered the bones was after I bought the
property there was a stripping pile done by an adjacent miner who was dumping
overburden on this on these flat tailings and I had a tour guide and a
big guy I said Josh run over there and find me a mammoth tusk I'd never found a
mammoth tusk but I'd heard they were finding them over there and the ground
we're dumping on was on my ground so he he went and he he says what do they
look
like I said whether they look like tree trunks only they got a curve to him so
he
went he was gone half an hour he comes back with a seven-foot tusk over his
shoulder holy shit I said go get me another one he went came back an hour
later with another one about three feet long a broken one so I walked over
there
to look at this area where the mining was going to take place and they ended up
mining it they had a right to mine it the company took out about 3,000 ounces
out of
this one little area and I was like goddamn this stuff stinks so one day we
were
walking around the area after they had mined it moved on to another place and
we
followed the smell we walked around the side of this hill and we got up in this
little draw and we're picking my kids were with me too we're picking bones off
the off the ground little shards little leg bones and stuff so we filled up a
garbage bag with those we went back again and again and again and then I took
an
excavator back built a little road around the side so we get back to it with a
machine took a couple dirt digs out of the muck found mammoth tusk I said oh
boy
let's get something going so we got a big floating barge and put a pump on it
471 Jimmy with a giant they're called Giants but they're actually hydraulic
monitors they look like big long pipes that you spray water out of and our pump
was a 8 inch intake 6 inch outtake and we nozzled it down to two two inches two
and a half inches we fire the water way out there and wash the overburden away
the overburden there is about 60 feet high it's permafrost silt and underneath
that you have your gravel layer and underneath the gravel you have the gold and
the bedrock and the gravel layer and the muck interface is where most of the
bones are so we started finding lots of bones I mean a lot of bones and in the
first three years we found thousands and thousands of tusks and bison heads and
bones and by the way you're all those skulls you got out there in your in your
building here yeah you ain't got a step bison skull I'm gonna fix that shit
okay
okay okay I'm gonna and then I don't even know how many we have we stopped
counting and mammoth tusks same thing and when did step bison's go extinct 12,000
years ago Wow and so the permafrost is slowly melting and you're hosing it down
and pulling it so the stench is literally like this ancient rotting biological
material it stinks Wow it's organic but it's been frozen forever thousands 20,000
years 30,000 years so this is you with the hose spraying it onto the side of
this
wall so the way you do it is you just spray the side of these like what would
you call that hill it's a muck bench a muck bench yes sir so you spray that
until you see something poking through yes sir well you spray it and then you
walk up
there and you turn the nozzle off the side and you'll pick up the bones the
little pieces leg bones backbones why is there so much in this one area
nobody knows really nobody well that's what's so crazy like when I watch the
documentary on your place when you show this giant room where you have all
these
buckets of femurs and skulls and tusks and and you have those paleontologists
who
are just like they can't even believe what they're seeing yeah that's because a
lot
of those animals they say never lived up there during the ice age so when they
see
it and they still think that I just say well they sure as fuck died here dude
so it's
changing their ideas of what existed in that area yes sir wow and what's the
oldest bones you
guys have found we don't know we've sampled maybe four or five of them it costs
400 bucks a sample do a
carbon-14 test on them if I was to sample my entire collection today it costs a
hundred million dollars mmm because we have a close to a quarter million
fossils
now the whole place is crazy I mean it's it's so hard to believe that this one
area has so many bones is there they have no idea of like did these animals
fall into a
muck pit was it why are they there they don't know no because there's so many
of
them and we're talking bones we're not even talking fossils right right because
they froze which is very very unusual right the the the documentary you saw the
dick mole paleontologist what an unfortunate name by the way dick mole you
know I see what you're saying there I know you do yeah he he's one of the good
ones you know he's he he came up and spent a few days with us with the
filmmaker that made that film by the way the filmmaker is a artist pure just
through and through and I met him when he was working for net National Geographic
and then he came to me he says hey I'd like to document make a documentary
about
the boneyard so I gave him unfettered access for four years just do what you
got
to do just stay out of our way don't make me worry about finding you under a
muck bench or a tree fall on you just go do your thing so he did and the stuff
that you're seeing there and you saw on that video that you watched the
documentary it's like nobody knows why any of that stuff is there is that the
most unusual site that they've ever discovered in terms of just the sheer
quantity of bones yes Wow and you just found it by accident yeah just makes you
think how many more of those are out there well I know one more really it's the
next creek down yep so this area where you're extracting these bones from how
big
is the actual area where you finding these five acres that's it that's it Wow
and I
I get blamed well I have a you've you're there I I got to be honest with you on
a
little thing here when you first mentioned the boneyard Alaska and talked about
our site
you've I don't know how you found it but he found it you had who'd you have on
here
it was Forrest Gallant yeah it was Forrest Gallant and I picked up 5,000
followers on my
Instagram account that day and I said to myself the only guy I remember to talk
to
about this site is Joe Rogan ever and I used you as a crutch for three solid
fucking years so I didn't want to talk to anybody about this but everybody's so
interested in it and I said I'll talk to Joe Rogan that's it I've had countless
opportunities to talk to newscasters and network reality TV people that want to
do
blah blah blah blah no ain't gonna do it I'll talk to Joe Rogan about it well
thank you for that no thank you for that my pleasure well it's just so unusual
at
first I just thought oh you probably found a couple things on this place and
then as
I'm going over your Instagram page I'm seeing all the stuff that you're pulling
out of there I'm like this doesn't even seem real like how could this one area
have so many bones and so many tusks how many tusks do you have mammoth tusks
we
stopped counting not because we can't count that high it's just because what's
the
point thousands I have a friend that says I got 10,000 dead woolly mammoth on
my
ground Wow in five acres yeah that's insane I have any of these paleontologists
speculated on why this one area would have so many dead animals no if they have
they
haven't told me and so you you dated a few of them and what were the dates from
those few they went from as recent as 3,000 years ago to 22,000 years ago Wow
and the
reason this site is so interesting to them is because it's from all from one
little area so the context is there and it spans what's called the extinction
event
Graham is yeah Randall yeah the Younger Dryas impact theory yeah and so I'm
kind of
going along with them because that would make sense why they're all there well
you got to
remember that the world Pleistocene started what two and a half million years
ago mm-hmm and stopped about 11,800 years ago yeah so that whole area was ice
except for a ice-free
corridor between Siberia and Alaska in the lower 48 they went right through
where we're at so
there was migration happening coming through there and these animals live there
for tens of thousands
of years the grazers well wherever there's grazers there's gonna be carnivores
you have the short-faced
bear you got the cave lines you got we found all that stuff you found short-faced
bears yes sir
really yeah you got a short-faced bear head yes what does that look like it's
huge how big is it
they stood when they stood up on their hind legs they were 12 feet yeah we've
shown photos of these
replicas standing next to people yeah no it's nuts yeah and and not only that
but you know you have a
a little mini factoid for you you know it takes a mammal 22 seconds 21 seconds
to take a leak
did you know that no check it out okay by the way i hope you have your bullshit
detector on i know
you got one and anytime you want to throw it on you throw it on me i believe
you no i'm just telling
you okay some of this stuff sounds no no way there it goes 20 seconds empty
their bladders in 20 about
20 seconds yeah the golden rule yeah all mammals weigh more than 2.2 pounds
empty their full bladders
in about 20 seconds unless you've been drinking i've gone 100 seconds before i
bet you have
it's kind of a contest yeah and uh so anyways the uh you got to remember also
that a grizzly bear can
cover about 100 yards in eight seconds and they got some pretty powerful noses
on them so all these
animals that stop to take a piss they get whacked i that's my theory i don't
think that's a good
theory it probably not i have another theory though that i discovered in florida
what uh pelicans flying
groups of prime numbers they do it seems like that to me i pay attention to
shit like that joe okay
if you say look there's a group eight pelicans flying over there i'll go
bullshit there's one and then there's seven behind it
there there's 23 of them yeah you're right prime number interesting but i threw
that out on my instagram
one time to challenge people go find a group of pelicans or pen pelicans flying
in an odd number
and it was kind of hard for them
so yeah you ain't got pelicans around here but no i'm not a fan you ever see
pelicans swallow seagulls
they just grab a seagull swallow it whole they're ruthless motherfuckers oh
they are like people
think of pelicans oh they carry this like a stork they carry the baby those big
birds
no that that thing is to swallow giant things that's why their mouth is so big
i saw a pelican last year
drew was with me and it has a fish stuck sideways in its gullet he couldn't
hack it out he couldn't get
it out and there went another pelican around there to help it put his beak in
there and pull it out i
mean this thing was gagging on it um don't even know what happened to him they
probably figured it
out you'd think yeah i mean they're evolutionarily designed to swallow enormous
things just think they
were they were goddamn dinosaurs about 60 million years ago yeah for sure yeah
yeah so it's a it's a wild
place so this mass extinction event theory does explain why there would be so
many all in this one area