They add Sacramento Creek Claim to ensure that they can break even on the season. Then they prospect at Pennsylvania Mountain to find a third claim for season 8. Gold Rush Wiki Explore. Explore Wikis Community Central.
Register Don't have an account? Hoffman Crew. View source. History Talk 0. During Season 7 and Season 8, the Australian Ashley Youle, Schnabel's girlfriend, was occasionally seen on camera, as Schnabel and his team mined in the Klondike.
In "Win Big or Die Trying," Schnabel said he "never made the relationship a priority," and Youle "deserves a lot better than that. In the "American Dreamer" episode, Hoffman reflected on how "eight years ago, I had a dream," to mine for gold, even though he, and the men he was bringing along, didn't have experience as professional gold miners.
As the episode traced the Hoffman crew's journey, others weighed in. Freddy Dodge said, "My first impression of Todd as a gold miner is, he wasn't a gold miner. Hoffman's father, Jack, agreed, saying, "Todd's not the best gold miner. The episode touched on the disastrous season Hoffman led his crew to Guyana, South America, a decision Hoffman called his biggest mistake.
But things started looking up in Seasons 5 and 6, where the "knuckleheads trying to figure it out" in the early days, as Hoffman put it, began having success at mining gold. The good days didn't last, though. That turned out to be a bust. As Dodge said in the "American Dreamer" episode, "When things went bad in Oregon, everybody was hurting.
A clip from the season showed Dave Turin, who had been a key member of the Hoffman crew, saying, "We've lost the team, and without the team, we can't do it. Hoffman said, "We got bailed out by Freddy," after Dodge told the crew about land in Colorado that promised more gold than what they were finding in Oregon. But it was too little, too late to save the season, Hoffman said. Tensions finally boiled over at the end of Season 7, when a fight broke out between Turin and Trey Poulson. Turin, who lives in Gresham, subsequently announced that he was leaving "Gold Rush.
In "American Dreamer," Hoffman looked back at the conflict, and said, "it shook our foundation as a brand of brothers. In an episode that aired near the end of Season 8, Hoffman said, "Last year, we didn't leave as a team," and that he didn't want that to happen again, adding, "I have not talked with Dave for a year. I just watched the latest episode in and the guy in the excavator under cut the hill to make it cause a landslide.
Love the show and the information I pick up along the way is nice. Tony has his family crew together as a side gig for tv, so he doesn't try too hard. His real outfit is not part of the show. Smart guy. Rick Ness crew is entertaining to watch, Karla is a rock star. Parker is the star and it's fun seeing his empire continue to build and we can actually see a lot of gold at the weigh ins.
Fred Lewis Can't stand watching his crew, especially knowing it's taking air time away from Rick mostly, but everyone is getting cut to work him in. It's boring and forced and the post-military angle is really forced. Can his crew, put him with Rick for extra help. Bring back the Dakota boys. A bunch of incompetent Yahoos go out digging in the woods. Its really as simple as that. Aload of twerps get some money together, decide to go to alaska and try to mine Gold Very Unsuccessfully.
It was cringe worthy to watch, especially the patriarch of the group , the father There's a Certified asshole if ever there was one. We all know there's bears in alaska don't we, so if we were setting up camp we'd take a gun or two for protection But 47! What are they thinking??? Complete and utter Yahoos And why the hell did they bring their kids up there Watch it Even just one episode, it will make you happy to know that even on your worst day you will be more intelligent than any of these guys on their best day.
I must say I do like some of the segments and some of the characters and others I can tolerate. My biggest disappointment is the scripting, it is so plain to see, if it wasn't there is no way in hell that asshole Parker SNOBbell would have any crew left working for him. I guess the show has to have a bad guy and he is it!! Feeling slightly stupid to be a sucker for this show. Not much new in the 5th season, but still like the elements of people struggling, being assholes, taking senseless stupid chances and so on.
How much is real and how much is played or scripted, I don't know, but seems real enough for me to not turn the program off. From the first season the Hoffman crew has been running on too small budgets and knowledge, I don't know if effort, luck or help from the TV- production has made them still succeed sometimes. Parker is developing a A-class asshole attitude, if some of this is real it is interesting to ponder why - ambition, expectations, camera fever, narcissism or something else?
What makes me believe in the show is that too much operation, equipment and costs are involved for it all to be fake. One annoying fake element of this show is the drama build-ups and the speaker voice - "If they can't manage to Showing more of what actually happens including the boring stuff, and scrap the forced drama would have made the show better.
What appears to be a group of six novice miners searching for gold in Alaska is actually a produced TV program paid for by sponsors. All the desperation of mortgaging their lives, taking a great financial risk, and possibly failing in their efforts to make money are all fake.
In the fist season they only found 14 ounces of gold worth about twenty thousand dollars but in actuality each minute of commercials probably brings the production company about that much money so everyone in this production is doing quite well. Unless you want to believe the miners actors agreed to act for free. Each miner actor is probably being paid about thirty thousand dollars per episode to act desperate.
I started watching the series with I guess the same fascination many of us have: the interesting and daring abilities of man, the perseverence and excitement in achieving success. After a few series, I realized that this series is the representation of Evil in its purest form: the American Dream gone bad.. The financials of a gold-digging business consists of cost and revenue: the struggle is about earning more than spending on equipment and manpower.
Most of it is used purely for speculation or totally useless consumer goods we could live without, or for which alternatives could be developed from other materials than gold.
But the result of the gold digging business is, almost equal to the enormous amounts of money earned with this rare metal, the enormous pollution caused by the machines that work on digging it out and dredging, not to speak of the maintenance of these machines and even more pollution creating them for this purpose. And given the relative cheapness of oil compared to the value of gold, the volumes puffed away are enormous.
Not to forget the accessability of gold: trees destroyed, creeks diverted, top soil removed which we are in dire need of to sustain nature, and the non-mentioned chemical treatments that many companies use to make the gold even more accessible.
And all this for what? To give some punters the chance to get rich. What a noble cause.. Which brings me to the second, human aspect: the way these miners are portrayed. Their lifestyle and attitude towards other fellow humans. Moreover, towards those who make them rich. Here, the operation owners show their truly dark side: the hypocrite quasi-Christian praying of the simple-minded Hoffman, who behaves as if it is an unjust act of God if he does not get rich from gold digging, while he obviously has no clue of the business and most likely never made a profit, were it not for the heavy royalty money he gets from the producers of the series.
Does God exists for the purpose of bringing them gold, as if the entity were some servant that does favours?.. No spine whatsoever, in the business pour l'art and would not survive either, were it not for the parents offering him this opportunity to play with toys. The style is the man himself: hates the world and everything in it and the only God for this man is money. Treats everyone who works for him worse than slaves, including his own children who hate him and just see him as a fat wallet, just to compensate for his lack of self respect, justly knowing that someone like him should never be in a position of power, due to his sheer destructive manner towards anything human.
The three flawed characters represent the American Dream gone bad: no noble cause, exploiting the opportunities offered in the worst possible way, people that serve them and destroying nature along the way. We watch with fascination, as if a dark drama is being presented that never ends, always waiting for liberation when finally their success may turn them into the good people we hope they really are deep within.
But the fact is, the evil in them grows along with the purpose of the business and will never lessen. Their success will only justify their methods and the spiral never ends. It is up to us to decide whether we realise the sickness of it all and learn the lessons taught: what to avoid in our ways at all cost, how not to live our lives and finding real purposes instead of these people's meaningless goals.
The sad reality however is that the producers do not make any attempt to offer this choice: no contemplation, no retrospect, no reflection. We are left to our devices to learn and most of us probably are led to believe that the acts are heroic and for worthy causes, just another aspect of a twisted world.
The producers would have a powerful means to reflect on the sickness of it all, instead they exploit the weak human interest in sensation and drama and encourage drama to portray twisted minds as heroic acts of perseverence. Either they are pathetic or plain dumb. The series is a human fail and should be taught in schools as media manipulation first degree. The actors should be prosecuted for crimes against humanity, the producers sent to detox to get rid of their perverted minds.
Meanwhile, stay sane and use your heart when you watch this garbage. The real world is not like this, don't let it become like it by accepting lies as the truth. I love this show and have watched every season, always looking forward to the next. But this season is just way to scripted. Heavy winds with not a single tree swayin. Clear "acting" by new miners. It's becoming more cringing to watch than exciting. Yes, just the mining may not have the drama factor but it does have the realism factor which is what I'd much prefer to sink my time into.
The crew that lost their claim because the leader forgot to pay for it, is particularly retarded. Just because a tree grows fast does not mean it's been there for hundreds of years, especially spruce trees. I know absolutely nothing about gold mining but I will tell you I can do a hands down much better job than those idiots.
And their leader, oh my god their leader How the hell are those guys still following him around??? He appears to have very little to no backbone. When he gets angry his voice goes up to about 35 decibels. He commands absolutely no sense of leadership or authority.
I would LOVE to see a guy join their group who is anti-social I don't mean asocial to all you idiots who think anti-social means people who don't like to be social, asocial is the correct term for that. But at the end of the day it is incredibly entertaining for me. For the sole reason of watching that retarded group try and get gold. I will tell you the only guy who is actually smart is the kid who runs his grandfathers operation. He reminds me a lot of myself because I am pretty much in the same exact boat as him interchange gold mining with construction.
But don't confuse my rant as hating this show, I love it but if the producers are reading this I have something that will help your ratings without having to make them act out drama. Do as I said before and introduce an anti-social person in that morons crew and just film. Ratings GOLD! Lmao I did not even do that on purpose i just typed it without realizing.
God I am clever. I've watched Gold Rush since day one. Always a favorite until the last couple of years. The Lewis crew story line is by far the most scripted and the hardest to watch out of all the crews.
Besides his stupid looking hair cut, the constant mention of Fred's military service and Green Beret status, and lately, his overly dramatic wife interjecting herself into the mix has dragged the rest of the program down into stupid reality show territory. No wonder Parker and his team are hardly seen any more; not enough drama I guess.
Seriously, check the classified ads.
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