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Beautiful OP. I really can't wait to watch these guys gently caress up thousands of dollars of equipment again! A really really old man constantly saying GLORY HOLE is probably the least sexy thing ever.
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| # ¿ Oct 29, 2011 00:25 |
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So they find a guy dumb enough to give them more money, he buys in. They end up buying two tractors for ~$80k. They ship them off to the new claim. They find out they don't have the new claim anymore. They find out they don't have the old claim anymore. The equipment is in limboworld now? The truckers are all sitting in a hotel drunk out of their minds for a week waiting on where to take the tractors? The investor is still really excited about his non-existent claim he dumped money into? What? 
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| # ¿ Oct 29, 2011 02:35 |
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Random Stranger posted:I just realized that guy's illegally built house was also taken by Fred. Wonder what the odds are they go build another grand two story house on the next claim for 3/4 of the season.
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| # ¿ Oct 30, 2011 22:31 |
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Saveron_01 posted:Never underestimate the grip that gold fever can have on someone. This is what makes the show.
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| # ¿ Nov 1, 2011 03:29 |
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Loving the fact that they have three groups of people now. It's almost like they're realizing that the original crew is the Bad News Bears and need the Cardinals to keep the show going.
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| # ¿ Nov 7, 2011 02:01 |
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That old guy driving the dozer all over the land was awesome. Then runs away when he gets yelled at. Never change. I sort of feel bad about the other guys because they're sitting there crying into the camera how much their lives are loving ruined because they're all a bunch of idiots. You would have thought they would have learned this after watching themselves on season 1. Now we have Dakota Fred doing moronic things left and right. Must be something in the water.
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| # ¿ Nov 12, 2011 07:28 |
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I really love the new format that they went with. Hoffmans struggling to just get camp set up again. The fact they already did this might mean they'll have two weeks of panning gold instead of one week before winter hits. At least someone is making some money already on this show.
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| # ¿ Nov 21, 2011 00:40 |
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That driller guy really didn't seem to like the Hoffmans. Old guy being pissed that they were drilling in the first place was awesome. "I just want to dig, what a waste of money." That original claim is cursed. Dakota Fred got a whole hell of a lot of payback coming.
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| # ¿ Nov 27, 2011 17:00 |
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They finally seem to be getting somewhere. I'd really like to see them just start running dirt at this point. Two seasons of digging holes, while hilarious at times, has gotten boring. I don't care if there isn't jack in the dirt, I just want them to finally run it.
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| # ¿ Dec 3, 2011 18:20 |
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Blue balled again. I have this feeling someone could dump a load of gold into the glory hole when no one is looking to make the show more entertaining and they'd suddenly decide to go dig a hole somewhere else on a gut feeling.
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| # ¿ Dec 10, 2011 04:39 |
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Finally! Pay off! It only took like 17 episodes. If they run that poo poo into the ground they should come out pretty rich. I would be up 24/7 until I fell into the machine and died at this point. They finally had experts set their machines up and show them how to use it. AMAZING. Their gold wasn't full of black rock poo poo like Freds was. Theirs looked pretty drat pure.
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| # ¿ Dec 17, 2011 03:57 |
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Well, I think the draw was like the entire 'glory hole' concept. You can make 400k getting gold normally, but if you hit a glory hole or pay streak or grandpa's buttcrack, you end up doubling that amount or more because it's so concentrated in one spot. I really like that blue water table they got. You could just see streams of gold going into the buckets. Pretty awesome.
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| # ¿ Dec 18, 2011 02:11 |
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BEAR GRYLLZ posted:All of that poo poo you think they can't possibly be dumb enough to do? You're right, they aren't. The fact that they'll only pull out like 40k a head total makes sense when you understand they're really just actors getting paid thousands per episode by Discovery. If you read through that blog, they were actually dumber than they show on TV. Lots of illegal poo poo going on that he called them out on.
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| # ¿ Dec 23, 2011 00:11 |
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Somehow I don't think Dakota Fred was ever really a mining expert. He got his dumb rear end shut down. The Feds are probably pissed all the really big idiots are on some other new unknown claim this season.
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| # ¿ Jan 14, 2012 10:58 |
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Duck and Cover posted:Man Discovery is smarter then I realize. Moving the mine before the government can come a knockin'? Oh wait yeah they "forgot" to pay the lease. I wonder what all the other claim owners are thinking right now that are bordering the new Hoffman claim. It looks like they literally drive through dozens of active claims in the middle of nowhere to get to the one they are on now. I'm sure all the Feds are seeing all the rules they're breaking and are poking for their person to enforce it. They'll have to stop at every claim on the way up probably.
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| # ¿ Jan 15, 2012 18:54 |
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Any fantasy I ever had of being a gold miner is most definitely gone forever. Stuff constantly breaking down left and right. F that. Taking off entire treads, fixing gaskets on several hundred pound drive gears, dirt basically destroying everything. All three claims its constant poo poo breaking every other day. I would end up murdering everyone.
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| # ¿ Jan 21, 2012 07:08 |
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Universe Master posted:Parker working for Tony/seducing his daughter next year would be an awesome show. I like how she showed the camera her tongue piercing when the Dad said for him not to touch his daughter. Parker is so getting blowjobs all day long. Looks like i need to Tivo this SeaQuest DSGV show now.
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| # ¿ Jan 29, 2012 03:58 |
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Okay, I finally watched the first episode of sea gold storage hunter wars. Holy poo poo there are people dumber than the Hoffmans. This show is going to rule. I was laughing my rear end off watching these morons "row" their barge out into the sea with their scooper arm. Every single barge is ghetto rear end rigged, falling apart hunks of poo poo. Some guy dislocating his shoulder falling off the boat, two guys living out of a broken down bus. Some chick wearing a two piece bikini in the 40 degree weather. Everyone is in debt over their heads by 150k at the very least. Some guy quit his stable job helping childen from horrible families to say gently caress 'em and find some gold!!! This is some quality poo poo. Philthy fucked around with this message at Jan 31, 2012 around 07:18 |
| # ¿ Jan 31, 2012 07:15 |
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Incredulous Red posted:loving. Steve. *does goofy Steve pigeon walk*
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| # ¿ Feb 2, 2012 03:59 |
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Living the American dream... ..in Canada.
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| # ¿ Feb 3, 2012 00:18 |
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Finally caught up on the past two weeks. Still loving these shows, and Deep Sea Gold Quest VI has way bigger idiots than Gold Rush. I was laughing my rear end off watching this guy asking God why he was constantly surrounded by idiots his entire life. Then it goes on showing his sluice box doesn't appear to capture any gold! They ran something like 15 hours of sand and got a little over a single ounce. Next season is going to be awesome when someone appears with a dredge with 12 backhoes on it spider walking it across the beach and 20 feet into the water pulling out 300 ounces an hour while kids make sand castles in the background covered in gold.
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| # ¿ Feb 13, 2012 02:42 |
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Actually the last episode showed the barge driving itself back to port without the backhoe paddling. They never mentioned it got fixed from what I remember. Maybe it was a bad edit. I couldn't imagine gas running the upkeep that much. Even if it were $1000 a day, it is still nothing compared to them pulling in 50 ounces a day. The only overhead that I can think of is they have 4-5 people on the boat, then they use the machine in their garage to sift the gold out. Maybe it is rented out to them or something. Or there are more people involved that they're simply not showing. Their house doesn't even have any siding on it, so you have to wonder where the gently caress the money is going other than stitches from knife fights in bars.
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| # ¿ Feb 13, 2012 05:26 |
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I love how it's getting so bad that they are putting advertisements over the subtitles now. There have been a lot of shows lately that I've not been able to know what the gently caress they're saying because GOLD RUSH APOCALYPSE WARS SUNDAY NIGHTS *guy waving* over some "I think I'm going to...." I mean, they're obviously not giving a poo poo by watching their own drat edits at this point.
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| # ¿ Feb 13, 2012 23:48 |
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spankmeister posted:Holy poo poo the Christine Rose had a 96 ounce cleanout. What the hell are the Hoffmans still doing in the klondike !BUT THEY NEED TO BRING IN OVER $1,500,000 TO BREAK EVEN FOR THE SEASON! The backhoe runs on JUICED DIAMONDS.
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| # ¿ Feb 18, 2012 18:11 |
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What happened with the side plot of Parker working for some other miner and banging his daughter? It was briefly mentioned for 2 minutes about four episodes back.
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| # ¿ Feb 19, 2012 15:43 |
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nerox posted:$8k + whatever discovery pays them. They are not gold miners, they are reality TV show stars. This is probably the only thing keeping them from just going and working at McDonalds. They are probably getting paid poo poo for the show, but it probably makes it just slightly better than McDonalds. Edit: Some forums saying $1000 per episode per person. That is probably on the high side.. Philthy fucked around with this message at Feb 25, 2012 around 20:28 |
| # ¿ Feb 25, 2012 20:26 |
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CVagts posted:Seriously though, the fact that they pulled 12 ounces out of 300 yards of the third cut dirt means that they might be onto something big, or at least something bigger than what they're used to. Why do I have this feeling next season they'll run 3000 yards of that same cut before they clean it out and end up with... 12 ounces.
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| # ¿ Feb 26, 2012 08:11 |
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11 episodes for Season 1, 18 for Season 2. After taxes, they probably got about 20k total, if that, for both seasons. Then you have people like Dorsey saying they never got paid anything at all, with no contracts.
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| # ¿ Feb 26, 2012 18:03 |
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Palleon posted:So what are the odds that Hoffmans lose this claim in the off-season? I'm thinking at least 50/50. Might be for the better. All the agencies who enforce all the regulations wont ever catch up with them and fine them out of existence. There was an article where people keep calling all the various mining/wildlife/road/water agencies about laws they kept breaking when an episode aired, and they had to act on it since it was in their territory. This is why Dakota Fred and Co got hassled this season.
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| # ¿ Feb 27, 2012 23:52 |
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Incredulous Red posted:PLease link it, I've gotta get my Hoffman schadenfreude http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-n..._gold_rush.html The best part is the official who is annoyed that she has to do her job. quote:'The more we get questions, the more I am forced to watch it," Siroky said with a sigh. Philthy fucked around with this message at Feb 28, 2012 around 03:01 |
| # ¿ Feb 28, 2012 02:58 |
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You could wear all that on Halloween and just scream about glory holes all night long. It would never get old.
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| # ¿ Feb 29, 2012 20:19 |
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So that one guy that got all paranoid. They gave him about 17 ounces of gold for two months worth of work? That really isn't that bad if true. Almost 30 grand for basically digging with a backhoe.
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| # ¿ Mar 13, 2012 02:40 |
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That was one red face.
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| # ¿ Mar 17, 2012 06:17 |
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Sly Pistachio posted:I am bumping this thread because it sounds like National Geographic Channel has their own rip-off of Gold Rush starting tonight. Dah! I just found out about this show! They had a marathon this weekend and I binged through 6 or so episodes straight. I like it, moreso than Gold Rush! They have some experienced gold miners, and some noobs. No one is completely dumb like the people in Gold Rush, but they have some "unique" people for sure. One thing, though, poo poo breaks ALL THE TIME. It's one thing in common with all these gold shows. NOTHING WORKS. EVER. NEVER EVER. Anyways, I like that one family has all the documents from the defunct Alaska Gold Mining Company that shows all their dredging maps and how much gold they got where. He is literally spending the entire season prospecting so that next season he can send his men in and hopefully make a crap ton of money. This is something we haven't really seen too much of yet. This is more than just drilling sample holes like Gold Rush guys did, this looks like some actual effort into researching past claims. That he happens to actually own. Millions of acres that he owns. The noobs of the season appear to have mostly working equipment, but are only pulling out half an ounce an hour, which is a lot less than they were expecting. I'm going to guess it's probably because he prospected with "dowsing rods". I'm hoping this part was just made up to cause "drama" and National Geographic just threw money at them to see if they could get anything done. The claim owner demands 15%, but they only want to pay 10%. And they mention this literally 10 times an episode. Every episode. Did I mention the claim owner demands 15%, but they only want to pay 10%? Yeah. Then there is the other established family that has quite a large process going. They strip mine with many dozers and something we haven't seen before: Water canons. They run into pump issues (surprise) so their canons can't fire, or they have people driving their dozers off ledges, or they run out of gas, and they can't get a loan for more. A company that goes through millions of dollars for fuel gets it via a loan at the beginning of each season, and pays it at the end. They had to scrap $40k out of an old washing trommel to get more fuel. How is it that a company that uses millions and millions of dollars in gold doesn't have 40k sitting in reserve. The show is really good if you like Gold Rush. But the commentator is loving AWFUL. I mean, he is by far the worst I've heard. He constantly reminds us that its "make or break" for everyone, and that the claim owner demands 15%, but they only want to pay 10%, or if someone says "I'm not sure how im going to fix this" is immediately followed up by the commentator saying "IF BILL CANT FIX THIS, IT MIGHT BE THE END OF THE SEASON!!!!". It's ridiculous and awful and stupidumb. But I like the show. Why? Because I'm a fool for these Gold Rush shows. I want to see a guy with four teeth and a sweat stained hat buy a 20 million dollar mansion in Beverly Hills. I demand it. It's been a lifelong dream ever since that one show aired in 1962. Philthy fucked around with this message at Jun 27, 2012 around 18:33 |
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The entire idea is crazy. I think I might really love this season.
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| # ¿ Aug 18, 2012 02:52 |
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PowerBuilder3 posted:This show raised so many questions to me. I don't understand. The Hoffmans are supposed to get permits? What do you mean "export" the gold? Maybe there are no mega-corps there because no one but the Hoffmans know about this magical goldlandia yet. Geez.
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| # ¿ Aug 20, 2012 19:32 |
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Piell posted:So I saw a commercial for Bering Sea Gold: Under the Ice which starts Friday. I can't believe God, I hope Steve is around to screw everything up and that other guy to punch his face in. loving Steve.
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| # ¿ Aug 23, 2012 21:46 |
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New episode of Bering Sea Gold Under the Ice tonight! I REALLY enjoyed the first one. The lazy boy or whoever look like an honest to god team who want to work hard and aren't total retards (yet). Also, loving Steve. Also, where are the new Gold Rush episodes? They played the first episode of the season and that's it? I want to see them haul all their poo poo down to S. America! Did they die and it got canceled? Philthy fucked around with this message at Sep 1, 2012 around 00:20 |
| # ¿ Sep 1, 2012 00:18 |
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Ah, okay. Last nights BSG was interesting. They are finding huge nuggets worth over a grand all over the place.
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| # ¿ Sep 1, 2012 14:48 |
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So what happened to John Bunce? How did he die? He's pictured here: http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/bering-.../the-clark.html  
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