"231.333)\fs30} On this Gold Rush" "A side of Tony Beets few have ever seen." "And we danced for the first time." "The big bad gold miner." "Get's back to his roots as a farm boy in the Netherlands." "Tony?" "Tony reveals a devastating family tragedy." "How he went halfway around the world to make his fortune." "And eventually become one of the Kings of the Klondike." "Tony and Minnie let us in on their secret life when they're not mining for gold." "On their gold mine up north in the Yukon." "Monica." "We got it." "dig into some family history." "Hey guys." "You're looking at pictures?" "Yeah." "Okay." "The amount of pictures I've seen of Dad in a dress is starting to concern me." "Look how skinny dad was." "I know." "And he looked so young." "Ha ha ha ha." "Mom's just as good." "Holy shit." "I was only 16 there I think." "You're such a fox." "No wonder you fell for mom." "Why'd you go with him?" "Ha ha ha ha ha ha." "before children." "Look how cute they once were." "That was in 78." "Seven." "Ya." "So I've known you for 51 years." "Duh huh!" "(bleep)" "I heard stories." "216)} About?" "333.333)} Oh yeah." "Well what did you.." "About?" "What?" "The hell-raising you all did." "So" "I didn't." "I was always very nice and good and polite." "He was horrid." "You know what?" "When the" "You've seen the town he grew up in right?" "That little town." "half the town didn't want to talk to me anymore." "Why?" "Not a lie." "Cause he was just a wild man." "Everybody was always bitching about his driving and all his "fuck this." "Well at least that hasn't changed." "I thought he was." "cause he was driving a Mercedes." "Then I found out it was his dad's." "(laughter)" "Oh my god." "That's amazing." "It's been a remarkable journey." "But gold mining legend Tony Beets and most successful operations in the Klondike." "Tony is well known for being a hard-ass. he's pulled millions of dollars in gold out of the ground." "Ha ha ha ha." "Ha ha ha ha." "But this larger than life Klondike King started out 4000 miles away." "In a little village in the Netherlands." "Tony returns to the family farm where he discovered the true meaning of hard work." "You did?" "How old were you when you put 'em in?" "Cause they were here when we were dating already." "I remember walking here and it was pure muck." "Oh my god." "That was horrible." "the Beets family struggled to make a living on this 50 acre dairy farm." "Why?" "Does he attack?" "No." "It is." "It is really a lot smaller." "You still know how that works Tony?" "Let me have a look on the inside." "Uh no." "No." "I don't think so." "oh oh." "No." "How many fields did you guys have?" "Yeah." "Okay." "On a dairy farm the cows have to be milked twice a day." "Yes." "Let's go." "How you doing?" "Tony was first put to work at the age of seven." "Ha." "But Tony hasn't been at the business end of a cow in 3 decades." "You want a drink of that?" "(Moo)" "(Moo-ooo) knowing that we could have been here." "actually." "if we would have stayed here." "It might have been a good life too." "But uh." "cause you're a little bit of an entrepreneur anyway." "but." "It would have been totally different lifestyle." "We could have started a bed-and-breakfast." "but she still lives close to the family farm." "it's horrible." "It's cold." "It's ugh." "Hey mother." "Hello." "Hello Good." "How are you." "It's nice to see ya. died ten years ago." "And she is one tough lady." "That's good." "Yes." "he was a small town dairy farmer. a successful gold miner." "Who would have ever thought your son would have had a fan club. do they ever say anything about his swearing? you should have taught him not to swear." "Tony's the same way." "Is this where your dad had his accident?" "Tony relives the tragedy that forever changed his life." "Magna." "Scared. no no no." "Tony was a rebel." "Yeah." "Was hard." "Yeah." "Is this where your dad had his accident?" "Yeah." "uh" "Were you following him?" "You were stacking." "Yeah." "Then it gains momentum too as it goes down right." "Well that's quite a distance it fell you know." "That must have been horrible." "Yeah." "there was not a lot he could do." "He couldn't work on a farm anymore." "No." "Let's go." "and a fleet of dredges." "so." "I think he's a little obsessed." "(Quack quack quack quack)" "There's only one miner dredging for gold in the Klondike." "And it's no coincidence that he grew up in a land of dredges." "The Netherlands is protected by 2000 miles of dikes and dams built by floating digging machines." "This dredge isn't mining for gold." "It's making the canal deeper." "Hey Tony." "Hey Minnie." "We gotta go." "Let's go." "I don't really give a shit." "Let's go." "We have to go man." "No." "466.667)} Tony and Minnie make the bold decision to leave their homeland." "For the promise of a better future." "by the way." "I'm going to Canada." "(Minnie laughing)" "How the hell did you do that one?" "I think you're supposed to stand way further back." "I mean the way you're standing right now you might as well put it in." "Tony and Minnie Beets went on their first date way back in 1978." "(Laughter)" "I mean this has to stay there too." "Well I don't have to be ready." "Whoa." "whoa." "We've come a long way from.." "Bumming rides if you win." "no I wouldn't." "I mean there was plenty of fish in the sea there." "ha." "You're so lucky you got me." "Yeah yeah yeah." "Whatever." "You knew him." "You knew who he was but he was just the guy next door." "you want to go out but I didn't have a driver's license." "sort of ended up hanging out." "no." "I mean..." "Well actually it's the truth because he first went to the neighbor on the right." "Then he went to the neighbor across the canal." "so he was starting to run out of neighbors though." "Well I mean" "Seal the deal." "When I first kissed him." "remember?" "(laughing)" "Tony made a life changing decision." "Tony had to break it to the woman he'd been dating for 18 months." "You want to know how it really went." "He picked me up from the bus because I came home." "I'm going to Canada"." "By myself"." "I'm coming with you." "Really?" "Yup." "And that was basically it." "yeah." "That's where we got married." "That's why you got your life sentence." "they had to get married." "So they headed to their 400 year old town hall." "Yes." "This is where it all changed eh." "Remember we drove in from over there." "Yeah." "And the car we were in parked over here." "How did I look on my wedding day?" "You looked fuckin sexy." "How I remember a wedding dress isn't really warm." "you know." "And then we waited until everybody was inside." "That's right." "And then we walked up the stairs." "That's right too." "we came in and that's the day when I got married." "Ha." "Right." "And we danced for the first time." "Ha ha ha." "First and only time you ever danced." "we left." "Yeah." "We left." "Packed up our 5 suitcases." "Got out." "And we left." "Yup." "Got out." "And that's how we came to Canada." "by the way." "Did I miss something?" "and I mean I'll be honest it wasn't nice saying goodbye." "now let's get on"." "No looking back." "right." "What do you have to lose?" "The Dutch farm boy becomes a Klondike legend." "again." "British Colombia." "We didn't even have money to buy a vacuum cleaner." "I know." "Right." "Oh no." "I mean we were living paycheck to paycheck." "I barely could afford gas money." "Coming up." "Tony continued to search for a way to strike it rich." "from Salmon Arm to Dawson City." "pushing dirt 14 hours a day." "seven days a week." "one of the largest gold mining operations in the Yukon." "when Todd Hoffman ventured north seeking gold mining advice." "my name's Todd." "Ha ha ha ha." "Ha ha ha." "There you go." "Tony Beets." "It's fun to watch." "It was Tony Beets that he turned to." "benefits from a large family." "At one point in time we started talking about having kids." "Bianca was born in 1987." "Kevin followed in 1988." "and Monica in 1993." "When the kids started working they were all fairly young." "The minute their feet could reach the pedals Tony put his kids to work." "It is kinda funny when you see your young ones on the heavy equipment." "It's sometimes a kinda.." "I'm not watching"." "I'm really bad." "I don't like that stuff." "it's fine." "462)} I remember the first time I got on a piece of machinery." "and it was buggy number four." "I know it was buggy number 4 because it's the one without a cab." "That way I can sit on the hood." "Old Tony showed me how to operate in the seat." "462)} I was 12 the first time I hopped on a piece of equipment." "It was the 998 front loader." "four feet higher than I was." "Tony doesn't care if you're male or female." "You're gonna be on equipment." "You're gonna be yelled at." "You fuckin get your shit together you're running the equipment it doesn't fuckin matter." "Get out there." "So who's the best shot here." "Really?" "Cause I'm pretty sure mom gets the most squirrels every year." "Moral of the story." "Don't piss her off." "She can shoot." "I think my money is on Mike." "Yup." "Mike is gonna win it." "Yeah he is." "You're bragging." "Yeah." "She turned on." "And they're all good at what they're doing." "And that's what makes it work." "it's not gonna work." "Being raised at Beets we got taught at a very young age that you gotta put your hours in." "twelve hours." "And it hasn't got any less since." "All go that way." "Let's get serious with this then." "That'd be plenty." "Okay Mike?" "Yup." "There's a chipmunk." "Hit it." "Yay." "Ha ha ha ha ha." "I'm a bit nervous." "There's too many eyes." "Ah." "He got it." "Oh yeah." "One more." "Nah." "That's just two." "Hey." "I'd like to see you shoot." "you're weaseling out of it." "I'm not." "Really." "like the kids work for him." "That we get special treatment but we don't." "you ready?" "Ready." "Wait." "essentially like... little bitch"." "Now we know where.." "Apparently Mike got his skills from mom." "Yup." "Ready?" "Yeah yeah." "I'm ready." "There you go." "Well that's the thing.." "One first full one." "That's the thing." "You can hit them or you can.." "439)} Okay." "Jump in Tony." "Oh ho ho ho ah." "Tony and Minnie reveal what they do in the off season when the Klondike freezes over." "Oh you look BLEEP a rotten you." "I'm so glad I picked you up." "Okay." "Let's go." "they're all one color." "it's kinda interesting." "He has none." "everything has to be black." "I don't think Tony's color blind but he just likes black." "Tony and Minnie trade the frozen north for desert sun." "A lifetime of hard work has provided them with a winter home complete with a gym." "We can do both." "An indoor sauna." "No." "No." "Aw." "And a custom garage designed around Tony's red convertible." "I'll be right back." "This is my hot tub." "usually at night." "Jump in Tony." "aah." "How's that?" "Who would have ever thought that 35 years ago that we'd be sitting in Arizona in a hot tub." "send me my money." "Really?" "and a little heart which I thought was really cute." "Jasmine." "1992." "She was actually born on Tony's birthday." "They told me she has an extra chromosome." "Which..there's nothing you can do about it." "And she passed away on March 1st the next year." "We had her for 2 1/2 months." "I'm very grateful for that." "And we all got to see her." "We all got to hold her and cuddle." "losing a baby is" "That's.....?" "That was hard." "what she would have been like." "Hi daddy." "we wouldn't have had Monica." "Now that I can't imagine either." "it's certainly different." "I'm happy you're having a good time in Thailand too." "I'm not in Thailand." "I'm in Cambodia." "where ever you are." "I mean I'll always have 5 kids." "She's with you forever anyways." "She's always right here." "That'll never change." "Love you." "Of course." "I love you too mommy." "By sweetie." "Love you too daddy." "Tony and Minnie work tirelessly in the gold fields of the Yukon." "For the rest of the year they enjoy the fruits of their labor." "But back then we were still young pups." "Oh yeah." "Without ambition we'd never be driving like this." "You gotta get up every morning." "You gotta get out of bed and you gotta get at it." "Just the way we do it." "we're not quite done yet." "you little shit head." "I'm so glad I picked you up." "Uh uh uh." "400)\fnLucida Calligraphy} Subs by {\fs23.333\b1\i1} Jack T no no." "Be honest now Tony." "Who picked up who." "No no no no no no." "I saw.." "I saw potential with you" "Oh haw haw haw." "I knew I could mold you a little." "Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah." "231.333)\fs23.333} On the Next Gold Rush they're gonna be out of a job." "I got a tip on a mine in Oregon." "I think I found something." "That's friggen gold." "we may still get some gold in the box." "Kick it that way more." "Sorry Folks." "No audio after this point."