#1918 - John Reeves, from The Boneyard Alaska

The Joe Rogan Experience

Joe Rogan

Comedy

4.6 • 228.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2022

⏱️ 184 minutes

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John Reeves is an Alaskan gold miner who first came to public prominence on the 2012 National Geographic docu-series "Goldfathers." More recently, his ongoing search for gold uncovered the remains of thousands of Ice Age animals lying beneath the permafrost on his property. The discovery is featured in the 2019 documentary "Boneyard Alaska" and popular Instagram account @theboneyardalaska. www.fairbanksgoldco.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Joe Rogan
0:05.0	Logan Experience
0:06.0	Train by day Joe Rogan Podcast all day.
0:10.0	Welcome aboard John.
0:13.0	Thank you, sir.
0:14.0	Very nice to meet you, man.
0:15.0	I've been admiring your Instagram page and all the social media stuff forever and it's crazy and perplexing
0:21.0	and so I couldn't wait to get you in here and see how the hell did you acquire
0:25.2	This magical spot that you have in Alaska? I'd have to give you some context okay
0:31.2	And I grew up on an Indian mound in North Florida,
0:36.2	to give you an idea of an Indian mound.
0:38.1	Yeah, my parents moved his family down from Ohio
0:40.6	and bought nine acres on the St. John's River in 1962.
0:45.0	This is where I grew up and it was on top of an Indian mound.
0:48.0	We didn't know it at the time.
0:49.0	So I was always out digging in the mound looking for pottery and was always captivated by
0:54.8	looking for treasure and I did that as a kid and then did a lot of surfing and stuff like that as you might think in Florida and got to be pretty good
1:07.8	at swimming.
1:08.8	Ended up in high school setting the American record in a 50-yard freestyle.
1:16.0	And there was a fellow and assistant coach at the University of Florida named Eddie Reese.
1:21.2	You might recognize his name. He's the head coach at the University of Texas right here.
1:26.4	Three-time Olympic coach widely regarded now as the greatest swim coach of all time.
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