Gold Rush: Alaska

[proudft]

They speak English in Guyana.  But!  Odds of perishing in a poisoned generic Kool-Aid accident are non-zero.

[Evildrider]

I'd be surprised if they go back, but the lure of the money the other miners there were making will make it hard for them to decide. 

[Xanthippe]

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

I just hated every single character though. At least Todd & crew are likeable in a goofy sort of way.

[Sir T]

I started watching this today. I think Tawds (Todds) revelation of "Guys, if we run this for 24 hours rather than 6 hours a day, we will have a bigger pile at the end of the day" was, like, "Wow, Never would have thought of that!"

{edit} And after all that the came up with sod all becasue Tawd decided to keep going despite his wash plant getting clogged up with dirty water, meaning all the Gold got washed out and away. He gave the most lame ass inspiring speech ever and "I'll do better in future!" LAWL. Good god these guys are idiots.

[Soln]

Oh it gets worse.   

[Sky]

I still think the best part was the engineer going to a motel with his wife while the plant was broken, and then everyone was ok with him coming back instead of finding a competent engineer who also didn't need back surgeries just to work. The real mystery is why Dave is with them, I have to guess he likes being on tv and the show money is good.

Anyway, it's off the DVR list now.

[Soln]

No this is must watch TV.  We need to see new the engineer (it was a"girlfriend" BTW), new "investors" (lawl) and watch as they claw, scrape, rip&gouge the Alaskan landscape for.... 1000 OUUNCES OF GALD!

That's right -- Todd made a bet with ExecProducerBot on air in their pseudo-casual chat session that's how much they would fine.  If not, he would quit gold mining all together.   So I am for one am eager for the drama.

Let the grand overreactions and lack of planning commence!

[Evildrider]

I'm pretty sure they said last year that if they couldn't do better that this would be the last season.  So the bet is just a "we are gonna fail and this is it" kind of remark I think.

[Evildrider]

So, with the new Gold Rush promo it looks like someone hits it big this season.  Show starts Oct. 26.

[Xanthippe]

So, with the new Gold Rush promo it looks like someone hits it big this season.  Show starts Oct. 26.

You sure? Not the 20th? I have a new one that I haven't seen yet on my TiVo. Maybe it's a summary of last year.

I still like this show. It's the only 'reality TV' type show I watch. (If I didn't knit, I doubt I'd watch it, though.)

[Evildrider]

There was some special on yesterday, but it was just a recap show.

[Sky]

I'm weak, it's back on the DVR.

I admit I'm hoping it's the kid who hits it big. Good teaser, that one. The challenge will be to make it through all the Hoffman nonsense. The old lady did get a chuckle from some of Todd's, you know, frickin' speeches, guys.

[Soln]

Frickin sweet!  

Let the failure begin!1!! Rawr !

[kaid]

Frickin sweet!  

Let the failure begin!1!! Rawr !

Yup the kid seems like an all around good person loves his grandpa and is a hard worker. I can respect all of that. His failures are more just still learning the ropes type issues not willful stupidity of the rest of them. That said I fear I shall have to record the failure I don't know why but this is one train wreck I cannot look away from.

[Nerf]

The Hoffman crew might actually pull something off now that Dave is running his own crew at the second claim.

Did anyone catch the little blurb about Todd's college education in the pre/post commercial pop-ups?  Made the whole "Yeah man, like I know that fricken' trommel thing doesn't make any sense to someone with an engineering background, but I can totally fricken feel that this is going to work, so I'm gonna give this guy 250k.  He said it would work, so he must be right." bit a whole lot easier to comprehend.

[Sky]

Ya gotta have faith.

[Soln]

No I think it was Dave who was actually a mining engineer and Todd is a self entitled laborer with delusions of grandeur.  Err imagine a gamer without productive skills who ran a very expensive game studio and you can see what Todd is. 

And doesn't $1700/oz by 1000 fantasy ounces only translate to $1700000?  That seems laughably low for everything theyre spending.  And claim guy demands 10% ?  Its lol time again.

[Soln]

cut away from show last week:

THE GOLDEN NUGGET
Todd Hoffman has never studied mining or engineering.  He spent four yeatrs in college studying biblical theology.

frickin awesome

[Xanthippe]

Can't wait until Dakota Fred needs another favor from Parker.

[tgr]

Can't wait until Dakota Fred needs another favor from Parker.

I was actually thinking "uh yeah, parker helping him is well and good, but we all know that's not going to be reciprocated". Didn't take long to be proven right.

[Abagadro]

What a douche.

Also, Hoffman up to his typical idiocy. Guess the bible didn't talk about core testing.

[Slayerik]

Next year, guys, we're gonna get 10,000 ounces!!!! DUUURRRRRRRR

[Evildrider]

Go Parker!

[kaid]

I was terribly amused that Todd called the company making his new washing plant AFTER dismantling his old washing plant. While yes it was leaking gold at least they could run some gold through it and maybe I am wrong but there does not seem to be any reason why you could not dig up the tailings and rerun them through the new washer when it arrives. Sure your old one is leaking a bit of gold but you know damn well where the leak is winding up so I would think it would be pretty easy to rerun those tailings if you are worried. Better than losing all production for 3 weeks.

[Abagadro]

Notice how the show was cutting out all of his Jesusy shit so he named the company 3:16 Mining so it was impossible to completely remove it. What a tool.

[Soln]

This might a better show with only Dave, Parker and Fred.  Maybe not as much fun, but better.


Yeah, the woe-is-me-I-did-another-crippingly-stupid-thing-AGAIN is way too old with Todd.  The show is stale with him.  We know he's an idiot and was carried by Dave and 1-2 other good people there.  Why turn in next time?

[Xanthippe]

The Facebook pages of Fred and Parker amuse me. Fred's says
"The Deal...."Move snow for one hour and I'll use my loader to load 300 yards of dirt you'll need for the bridge project."
If a friend loans you something with the expectation of something in return, that's not a friend, that's a business deal............"

Isn't Fred the guy who kept saying, when he bought the claim from under the Hoffmans "it's not personal, it's business."

Fred's friendships seem to be few. What a surprise. Why can't he move his own dirt for the temp bridge? What a crybaby.

I'm on team Parker all the way. Fred's such a dick. Dustin's acting like a dick too. Parker's a lot nicer than I am.

[Sky]

I didn't have an issue with Fred until the electrical panel nonsense. Actually he was probably my favorite person on the show outside of Dave 'why the hell is he with the Hoffmans' Turin.

[Soln]

Fred is an insecure dick. He just can't pick his battles.  He has to fight everything and everyone.   Including his own son.  He's a dick.  He has Insecure Irritable Old Man Syndrome and can't get on with anyone.   

[Xanthippe]

John Schnable is my favorite person on the show. Then Nancy Schnable. Then Parker Schnable.

Then Dave Turin and some of the Hoffman crew, I think. Fred doesn't even make the list. He's a selfish prick who doesn't understand being a good neighbor or karma.

[Sky]

Oh, I forgot grandpa Schnabel. Yes, he is the most awesome of them all.

[Abagadro]

Don't forget the lunatic Dutch miner dude. He's practically Goldmember.

[Slayerik]

Don't forget the lunatic Dutch miner dude. He's practically Goldmember.

Nice.

He's a mining legend. Or so I hear.

[Soln]

Let's take some bets, because the trailers teased that someone was going to win teh MUTHERLOOD this season.I think it's going to be Fred.  

In order of making money:

Fred: a lot (500+ oz)
Parker: enough to scrape by (300+ oz)
Dave: enough to scrape by, but keeps having mechanical problems (250+ oz)
Todd:  

[angry.bob]

I hope it would be Parker, but it will probably be Fred. Because he's a dick who would gutfuck his own mother with a knife for ten bucks. That's the type that always wins in real life.