Gold Rush: Alaska

[Soln]

Gold Mining PUG LFM!!!  ya mine those free epix. 

[Sky]

lol they got to the ppcreek boss and wiped another guild took over the camp

[Evildrider]

Soo karma's a bitch isn't it Fred?   

[Sky]

Oh ffs, your mechanic walks off the job to get some nookie for a couple nights, making the entire crew sit around with thumbs planted, and Todd gives him the world's most spineless ass-chewing.

These dudes HAVE GOT to be trolling at this point. I find it hard to believe they can really be that bad.

[Abagadro]

I think the "wizard behind the curtain" is really starting to show.  These types of shows are highly orchestrated by the producers but usually it is a bit more subtle. I'm thinking the whole Machiavellian "Fred steals the claim" plot is a complete fabrication by the show and at this point the actual dollars from gold is completely irrelevant in light of the money being generated by the show.  If you look into the lawsuit that the Hilstrand's were involved with against Discovery you will see that there is significant money involved in the production of the show that dwarfs the money that is made from the purported activity that is being portrayed as "reality".

[KallDrexx]

What, reality shows aren't real?  I'm shocked 

[Sand]

Wait. When and why did Todd sue Discovery?

[Evildrider]

I think he is talking about the Deadliest Catch people.  I don't think there have been any lawsuits between the Gold Rush people.

[angry.bob]

I think he is talking about the Deadliest Catch people.  I don't think there have been any lawsuits between the Gold Rush people.

Yeah, they're the two brothers who captain the Time Bandit. Or captain and First Mate, whatever the fuck.

[Evildrider]

Those guys quit while on a contract.  They didn't think they'd get sued for it?

[Soln]

Well they did it. Kinda.

Interested to see if there was any theft on Todd's team, if Fred has everything squared with lease owner and what juicy CDN taxes ToddCo will owe.

[Sky]

It was odd how Dave snapped  but still hung around not contributing the last day.

Fred is primed to haul some serious money next year. I hope he gets the claim again and it's not something Discovery fiddles with to make the stupid Hoffman story. Also, at least there's a romantic plotline now that Fred has discovered Jack's glory hole and looks to plunder its riches next year.

And lol at Todd 'next year a thousand ounces'. Did they ever settle Jack's childish "oh yeah, I'll get more in a day than you'll get all season' nonsense?

[Evildrider]

If they get shit going properly they have the chance of bringing in alot of gold.  Not a 1000 oz.  but imagine what they would have got if they started there fresh, without all the time wasted with the Fred shit,  and didn't have problems with water etc.

[Xanthippe]

lol they got to the ppcreek boss and wiped another guild took over the camp

 

Because of this thread, I got hooked into watching this show. It delivered.

Parker and his grandpa are my favorite miners; the Hoffman clowns give plenty of amusement, and Fred provides the mustache-twirling antagonist.

I want a third season.

[Evildrider]

I root for Parker.  I like to see a young kid willing to work nowadays. 

I root for the Hoffmans because they took a gamble and went after something that is basically to help them support their families.

Dakota Fred can diaf.

[Abagadro]

Sorta amused me that they played up getting a whole 5 ounces a piece as some big pay day.  It's 8 grand for months of work in the freezing cold. 

I watched the whole season but the show is starting wear on me. The narration is just too repetitive and stupid.  Thom Beers makes better shows in this genre as he is just more skilled at it. His Bering Sea Gold is already more interesting than Gold Rush.

[Soln]

Not sure about Bering Sea -- too much rage.  Second episode opened with a stabbing.  That's a side of the world filled with desperate, dead beat dads I don't need to watch.  Feel sorry for the Opera Student though, hope she survives (with an arsehole father).

This show is pretty contrived but I don't care -- I still root for Fred and Parker and ToddCo is funny to watch:  I love people who have hobby businesses but treat them as serious stuff.  As Ab said, 4-5 months of time spent + large overallocated labor + miserable conditions (no real time off?) for $8k is epic fail.  Pretty sure you can make far more than than in similar conditions tree planting.

[kaid]

The bearing sea gold stuff that one dredge that drags its ass around with its bucket is finding alarming amounts of gold. Pretty amazing a weird contraption like that can pull in like 98 ounces of gold in that period of time.

[angry.bob]

I've only watched one episode of Bering Sea, but the fact that the Guy and Opera Girl living in a beach Yurt found about the same ammount of gold in a day with a VW engine and a rubber hose as it took the Hoffmans all season to get should make them sad.

[kaid]

Ya that is pretty hilarious the cost of one of those machines the hoffmans use could buy you an epic dredge compared to what doof boy and opra girl are using.

[Xanthippe]

After last week's postseason show (or whatever it's called) in my mind Todd went from buffoon to lovable buffoon.

I've watched some Bering Sea shows, and I just can't find anybody to root for. They're all too gnarly.

[kaid]

Ya but given what they do and where they do it gnarly is probably the type of person who can hack that job. That said even the bad dredges are making a pretty good amount of money. Shit the one that looks like its put together with spit and bailing wire seems to be making a couple grand worth of gold per week which is not bad for unskilled/semiskilled labor.  And that crazy dredge with the front loader on it is making disturbing amounts of cash every time they show their bank run. It by far has the most expenses due to the larger ship/crew but still those guys working that dredge are making a pretty damn good living doing it.

[Slayerik]

Anyone catch the After the Dredge show? Ole Scott Meisterheim or whatever brawls with Vern (the owner of the boat).

Hey, no such thing as a fair fight I say!

[Furiously]

I really would have liked to see him getting into a cop car. Seems like a stunt to just get thrown into jail.

[Slayerik]

Well, discovery channel HAS to love the dude. Hard to find someone everyone hates (maybe that's why I kinda like em, tha tand he's from MI). 1000 to 1 says he'll find someone to dredge for next season....

[Sky]

Dredgers are right down there with trawlers in my book.

Family business was lobstering.

[kaid]

Dredgers are right down there with trawlers in my book.

Family business was lobstering.

These dredges would not be much danger to lobster traps well other than maybe the big ass front end loader one. The rest they are all going down in dive suites so its pretty pin point dredging not the big normal river/channel dredgers that cause the havoc for lobsters traps.

[Xanthippe]

/necro

Gold Rush: The Jungle starts tonight at 9pm ET/PT on Discovery.

I hope Parker is going to college instead.

[kaid]

Gold rush alaska this time with greater chance of malaria!

[Lakov_Sanite]

I eagerly await Gold Rush: Mars

[Slayerik]

They'll make a million in gold and in the last episode it's jacked by some para-military fucks with AKs. Did I just say they'd make a million in gold? HAHAHAHAHHAH

[Sky]

"Now, listen up guys. I know there's gold here. You just gotta believe, ya know?"

The master of the inspirational pep-talk, Todd Hoffman.

One reason I like Deadliest Catch: despite editorial manipulations, it's still a very real show about serious shit.

[kaid]

"Now, listen up guys. I know there's gold here. You just gotta believe, ya know?"

The master of the inspirational pep-talk, Todd Hoffman.

One reason I like Deadliest Catch: despite editorial manipulations, it's still a very real show about serious shit.

I would agree despite any editing manipulations there is no way to doubt that crab fishing is some serious shit and even filming it is serious as well. It is funny when you see the brand new green horns and the captains ask have you even watched the show before you came out here to try this job. Most just don't believe it is as bad as it looks here is a hint IT IS.

Mining is a serious business unless you are running it like the gold rush alaska people I can only imagine how bad it will be if they try to mine in a jungle bunch of clueless guys trying to find obscure ways to get them selves killed off I guess.

[Sky]

Re: crabbing; it's why I made the comment 'Thankfully WW2 happened' in another thread, as my family was lobstermen in Maine. Most died at sea, the Atlantic is pretty nasty. And oddly, it was even sadder seeing my great-grandpa who didn't; he'd sit huddled at the cb radio all day long talking to the guys out on the water because he was too old to join them.

[Soln]

If they are on form they will find nothing, waste all their backing, someone will get sick, and Jesus will be invoked.  And none of them will speak Spanish.

Next up:  Africa.  No problems there.