Gold Rush, who's been watching?
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TheDallasDon;4380980 said:
All reality TV is edited for dramatic reasons. This show is no different. It's still fun to watch.
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Heisenberg;4381005 said:All reality TV is edited for dramatic reasons. This show is no different. It's still fun to watch.
I don't think Cops is.
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Heisenberg;4381005 said:All reality TV is edited for dramatic reasons. This show is no different. It's still fun to watch.
I think your down playing it......
The Hoffman's are rich and NEVER sold there airport.
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Heisenberg;4381005 said:All reality TV is edited for dramatic reasons. This show is no different. It's still fun to watch.
i loved it last season but this season? i really get tired of things like
"and if the hoffmans get a flat tire, it could stop their entire season"
how many times a show do they need to throw that into our faces? i'm about done watching it.
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I wonder how much these guys are payed by the network . I am starting to wonder if these reality shows are really just networks paying guys to attempt to do certain jobs . As bad as Gold Rush has become , it will never reach the level of stupidity that Turtle Man does .
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jnday;4382421 said:
Oh yeah, they're not letting them film them for nothing. Of course there could be a pay structure where if they don't find any gold, they'll be payed X amount for the season and anything over X amount they'll just be payed in what they make in gold + a little extra. Like on Storage Wars, one guy is holding out for a better contract. I'm pretty every person on a reality show gets payed. Usually it's not really THAT much. Sometimes a couple grand an episode.
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Latest episode might be one of the best.
The smelting process was pretty awesome.
That Russian guy is set. 2 - 4 oz / hr?
Thats ridiculous. Like 100K per day cause he runs 23 hours per day.
He looks so perfect for the role too. Looks like Tom Hanks did at the end of his stay on that island on Cast Away.
Pretty cool he said he'd let Parker come up and basically train under him and get experience with all the equipment next season.
I think it'd be hard to turn down an offer like that. See a dude who pulls in millions per season and see how he does it.
And once again, the Hoffman's look like the biggest group of clowns on the Earth. The one dude runs the diesel dry and then decides to pack up and leave.
Their whole season has been a complete disaster. What do they do when they aren't running, just thumb their butts? I mean, Mr. Mustache goes over to the spot they've been working and had just ASSUMED was out of gold and pans out what looks like the best soil of their season. It seems like you'd find gold, run that dirt and test pan until you get no more gold.
I swear, they've got to be the most clueless group of people on Earth.
Their 24HR maraton run they did a few weeks back was a disaster. They essentially flushed gold right down the drain by have dirt back up their machinery.
From the very first moment I saw that they had dirt packing up their gold traps I thought to myself, "Why don't they dig a big *** hole right below where their water comes off the machine". They essentially would have created a pseudo-********** and could have ran the dirt from their homemade pit at the end of the season and recovered all the gold they had lost.
They're clueless. I've never seen a group of guys with so little foresight in my life. They literally have no discussions that pertain to addressing problems they could have down the road and just wait until those problems hit. The smartest guy they have out there is the dude that owns the quarry and it must be hell working with a collection of guys who have zero ability to think ahead.
Dakota Fred is only moderately better. They had an episode where their entire setup was screwed up because they had rocks build up at the end of their contraption. Didn't think of what was going to happen to a couple hundred thousand tons of rocks?
Here's an idea, you know that hole you filled in at the beginning of the season? The big one that the Hoffman's dug last year and were getting gold out of? Aside from the fact that you should have used their equipment as best you could while waiting those 40+ days for your own stuff arrive........how about instead of filling that hole in your just have your big rock sifter dump right into that hole?
Each episode is like watching a group of a monkeys trying to solve a Rubik's Cube.
The smelting process was pretty awesome.
That Russian guy is set. 2 - 4 oz / hr?
Thats ridiculous. Like 100K per day cause he runs 23 hours per day.
He looks so perfect for the role too. Looks like Tom Hanks did at the end of his stay on that island on Cast Away.
Pretty cool he said he'd let Parker come up and basically train under him and get experience with all the equipment next season.
I think it'd be hard to turn down an offer like that. See a dude who pulls in millions per season and see how he does it.
And once again, the Hoffman's look like the biggest group of clowns on the Earth. The one dude runs the diesel dry and then decides to pack up and leave.
Their whole season has been a complete disaster. What do they do when they aren't running, just thumb their butts? I mean, Mr. Mustache goes over to the spot they've been working and had just ASSUMED was out of gold and pans out what looks like the best soil of their season. It seems like you'd find gold, run that dirt and test pan until you get no more gold.
I swear, they've got to be the most clueless group of people on Earth.
Their 24HR maraton run they did a few weeks back was a disaster. They essentially flushed gold right down the drain by have dirt back up their machinery.
From the very first moment I saw that they had dirt packing up their gold traps I thought to myself, "Why don't they dig a big *** hole right below where their water comes off the machine". They essentially would have created a pseudo-********** and could have ran the dirt from their homemade pit at the end of the season and recovered all the gold they had lost.
They're clueless. I've never seen a group of guys with so little foresight in my life. They literally have no discussions that pertain to addressing problems they could have down the road and just wait until those problems hit. The smartest guy they have out there is the dude that owns the quarry and it must be hell working with a collection of guys who have zero ability to think ahead.
Dakota Fred is only moderately better. They had an episode where their entire setup was screwed up because they had rocks build up at the end of their contraption. Didn't think of what was going to happen to a couple hundred thousand tons of rocks?
Here's an idea, you know that hole you filled in at the beginning of the season? The big one that the Hoffman's dug last year and were getting gold out of? Aside from the fact that you should have used their equipment as best you could while waiting those 40+ days for your own stuff arrive........how about instead of filling that hole in your just have your big rock sifter dump right into that hole?
Each episode is like watching a group of a monkeys trying to solve a Rubik's Cube.
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I liked last season, because they used the phrase "glory-hole" a lot more, and it sure made for some funny segments on The Soup... I like Gold Rush, but I still might not know the show exists, if not for The Soup poking fun at it...
I think the arrival of the MSHA at two of the mining sites gives a good representation of the fact that there's way too much regulation on part of the federal government, and it's helping to kill our economy and the small business man... Dakota Fred was also quick to recognize this, as was 17yo Parker... Now if only more people in Washington were paying attention to Gold Rush... Ron Paul in 2012!
I think the arrival of the MSHA at two of the mining sites gives a good representation of the fact that there's way too much regulation on part of the federal government, and it's helping to kill our economy and the small business man... Dakota Fred was also quick to recognize this, as was 17yo Parker... Now if only more people in Washington were paying attention to Gold Rush... Ron Paul in 2012!
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I can't believe the Hoffman's nearly left behind all that gold because they didn't do any research. Oh, wait, I can believe it. They're a bunch of bozos.
And nice timing on that guy leaving. He bails and basically the day after, they discover all this gold to mine. Sucks for him, but honestly, I would have bailed LONG before he did. There's no way I would have stuck with Todd.
And nice timing on that guy leaving. He bails and basically the day after, they discover all this gold to mine. Sucks for him, but honestly, I would have bailed LONG before he did. There's no way I would have stuck with Todd.
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I thought this was kinda cool:
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Dallas;4410471 said:You know I know where all of the gold is, right?
Guess where the Division of Mining Land and Water sits?
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Nope, it's in bank in the middle of Beverly Hills in somebody elses name.
See if that doesn't stick in your head for the day.
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JIMMYBUFFETT;4410488 said:
In case folks don't get the reference
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Heisenberg;4410458 said:I thought this was kinda cool:
That is uncanny.
