"On this Gold Rush" "The most successful season of gold mining" "Yeah!" "My boy!" "comes to a close." "Hell yeah." "We had a great season." "never before seen moments." "I don't think I'd ever want to be a miner." "dark secrets they never wanted shown." "We were gonna get 10% of the gold." "the truth finally comes out." "Brandon started off at our site." "He fired me." "When I tell you to leave me alone." "Nobody treats me like that." "Like Parker's bromance with Derek." "(whistles)" "Sleepyhead." "Is that what's gonna be shown?" "Yeah." "That lead to a full-scale war." "I just want to punch him in the fuckin face." "Just looking at the guy." "but Parker sure did." "And a phenomenal side of Todd Hoffman." "Ready to rock?" "That he's always kept under wraps." "¶ it's the world I know ¶ you're a miner." "What are you doing making a song?" "a sneak peek bold gold-mining plans for next season." "Tony's ambition to ship a second dredge" "Down the mighty Yukon river." "Parker's ongoing crew crisis." "I think there's some people that aren't gonna come back." "I've already got some e-mails from some of his employees from this year." "And Todd once again uproots his operation to find life changing gold." "There is a possibility of finding a world class nugget." "Three generations of Hoffmans set off on a quest." "For the legendary Eldorado gold." "390)} We went up there to Eldorado." "Met Peter in the snow." "man." "Thanks." "Right on." "What you guys didn't see" "Is that after I made the deal with Peter" "We actually stayed up there for several days." "And we prospected in the snow." "390)} If we found the source of the Eldorado gold" "There's going to be billions of dollars." "my gosh." "We're up on Eldorado creek." "One of the richest creeks" "Ever found in the history of mankind." "There was snow on the ground." "and that's not gonna stop us." "get up here." "Is the excitement to be on a treasure hunt" "With my son and my father." "So here we are." "It's frozen." "The creek's frozen." "We got to find some pay dirt." "we were being idiots." "it's the wrong time to be doing this kind of stuff." "kid." "390)} This is kind of my grandpa's little adventure and his idea." "they dragged me up here." "Just to shovel all the buckets for 'em." "And pretty much do all the manual work." "I don't think I'd ever want to be a miner." "it's really hard to even make money mining." "You hit your noggin on that and you'll be eating peaches and pears." "You got an old guy with a bad back." "You got a little smart-aleck kid." "You got the fat dad sleeping in this cabin." "How'd you guys sleep?" "My back feels like a chipmunk chewed on it." "(laughing)" "It seems like it sucks really bad." "and it was just us three in the cabin." "And we haven't done that in a while." "And then it ended up being really fun." "at least." "he's got it pretty well there." "First scoop of the season." "We're ahead of everybody sluicing." "Jack's dream of mining Eldorado came down to just one pan." "I saw some gold." "and you'll see it." "There is color in here." "Boom." "Boom." "Look at that." "color." "that's not bad." "I don't have a whole lot of time left." "You know?" "I don't want to pass an opportunity like this." "dad." "I really do." "I think there's enough gold here where we bring Freddy Dodge in." "Yeah." "We bring in an excavator." "Yeah." "and do a little bit more serious testing when the snow's gone." "The Hoffmans were hooked." "But three months later when they finally returned." "Jack's dream of Eldorado gold didn't pan out." "Nothing." "No gold here." "We had a failure." "Eldorado." "sometimes you're wrong." "This time I was wrong." "It kind of sucked." "I've had enough." "I'm just going home." "I don't know if this is a firing or a quitting." "Parker had to rebuild his crew from the ground up." "How you doing? Only 11 made it to the bitter end." "What never made the show is that a key member of the Hoffman crew" "Was originally hired and then fired by Parker." "You must be Brandon." "yeah." "How's it going?" "Good good." "Good to meet you." "Good to meet you too." "You're already ready to go to work?" "yeah." "Geez." "Met Parker." "asked me to come down and fix up the road." "hard winter and uh fucked." "I'm really excited." "worked on a gold mine before." "you actually get to see some gold in the bucket which is nice." "I had an issue with Brandon because 395)}I told him that the job he was applying for was" "An excavator operator position." "and" "Was not an excavator operator." "Volvo 700 excavator." "least amount of experience I have on anything." "It's always tough starting a season off with 390)} guys who don't know what they're doing." "on everybody else." "I don't have time to teach people how to do a job." "He asked to be in a dozer or a loader or a bunch of other things." "that's the job." "That's the job you applied for." "It was an excavator operator position." "I'm done with this shit." "After just five days." "Leave me alone." "Brandon was gone." "you leave me the fuck alone." "Alright?" "Nobody treats me like that or anybody like that." "I'm not gonna put up with it." "I'm all rooting for the best." "You know I'm not gonna put up with that fucker and neither should anybody else so." "That's it." "What am I gonna do now?" "I met Brandon in town. 390)} He was actually a little bit angry." "Think that you can talk to another human being like that." "Yeah." "You know?" "And get away with it. you're not." "You're a fuckin human being and you're lucky your head's on your shoulder still." "But I don't think Parker knows Brandon used to play hockey." "And he'd been in a lot of fights." "And he was at the edge of beating Parker up." "Brandon." "This is Kevin." "Brandon." "Pleased to meet you." "This is Randy." "Pleased to meet you." "get your gloves on." "Grab a sledgehammer." "And knock this pin out." "Sounds good." "Yeah!" "Parker hires guys that leave my mine." "But I don't usually hire people that leave his mine." "I felt obligated to give him a chance." "Todd wasted no time in using Brandon to get one over on his young rival." "that came over." "From your camp." "I just want to let you know that." "Because I usually don't hire anybody." "he had a good resume." "You okay with that?" "Doesn't affect me at all." "I just want to let you know." "I don't want you to think I'm potshotting your guys." "Cause I'm not." "We let him go." "always wants to push buttons." "usually finding the right buttons to push to get people riled up." "He's been very good at it with me." "I don't have time for training." "though." "and he's got the some kind of qualities that I want to hang out with kiss) (butt kisser)" "He's a much better fit over here anyway." "you know?" "You know?" "Hopefully it made a statement to Parker that everybody needs second chances." "Him trying to rub in that he hired Brandon and that he's giving Brandon a second chance and all that stuff that.." "it doesn't mean a thing to me." "320)} Coming up" "After being shown the door by Tony Beets." "We're done." "We're done." "Mike and Jerry accuse Tony of going back on his word." "the 10% of the gold." "ever promised 10%." "Tony Beets started his season a million dollars in the hole." "And with no experience running a gold-mining dredge." "Nope." "Just fuckin won't release now." "Mike." "What?" "You can start the winch." "Tony needed a captain for his ship." "What the fuck difference does it make if it's under the bank or not." "and get it to flip up on top of there." "Swing the whole dredge over?" "what's the problem with it being there?" "250)} Coming in part way through the season is tough 'cause especially coming in as a People don't like that." "We're loose on that side." "I'm gonna be pulling on it this way." "But the cable's loose." "I'm going to be pulling the boom this direction." "390)} He knew nothing about the dredge." "Mike and I were the ones who took it apart and put it back together." "He hasn't been on this project." "He's seen it." "You know." "We seen it a couple times." "But he hasn't been on it." "sense of it." "Be nice to me in my face and then." "Hear shit that they're saying later." "We kind of had a little feeling." "There was a little conspiracy going on there maybe to get rid of us and stuff." "The writing was on the wall." "can only do so much you know." "For I can kind of feel this night shift catching up with me." "12 hours isn't what I was promised." "That's where I wish I was tonight..." "Arizona." "They told us that "Here's how the schedule is gonna go on the dredge." "Gordon was gonna run eight hours." "Mike was gonna run eight hours." "Jerry was gonna run eight hours. work 8-hour shifts." "We're not Sunday miners." "We're miners." "Just tired and all." "once and for all." "And what kind of an asshole comes walking down the hall and pounding on the doors like he did?" "I don't know what that was supposed to prove." "it doesn't intimidate me." "It just shows what kind of a person he is." "But what didn't make the show was that Mike and Jerry had a much bigger beef than just long shifts." "last fall." "Last fall." "Yeah." "He says we were gonna get 10% of the gold that it dug up this year." "The main thing is him screwing us out of the 10% of the gold for Mike and I." "That's what really hurts." "I'd have never been up here this summer." "They thought they were promised 10%." "That never happens." "That was never promised to them." "That's an" "I don't know where they get that from." "when we found out that we weren't getting that 10% anymore." "I wasn't gonna stay there and be a grunt employee for listening to Gene bark orders." "We're done." "We're done." "I really wanted to beat Parker this year." "the Hoffmans got off to their best start ever." "They dwarfed the opposition when they opened their massive supercut." "we were on the best gold of the year." "We were getting cleanups better than any cleanup we'd ever seen in our history." "God blessed us with another jar." "Woo!" "Yeah!" "204.15" "Good week." "We got a good start." "We think we're going to beat everybody." "probably beat everybody around us." "Whoa." "Woo hoo." "There was a point in the season when I thought he had us beat." "they had a stellar first couple weeks." ""This is gonna be easy." "There's no chance he can catch us." "Parker went on a spy mission." "He's gone big scale this year." "A sneak peek of the Hoffman's supercut caused him to alter his mining plan." "It's like war of the cuts." "You know?" "He's got the supercut." "We need a massive boundary cut." "I knew it was gonna take a lot." "And I don't know if we'd be able to do it." "the boundary cut became Parker's biggest cut ever." "But just to remove the overburden cost him a half a million dollars." "to say the least." "But Parker and Rick had no clue if their massive new cut held any gold." "the biggest gamble of this season was the boundary cut." "And we didn't have any drilling done on it." "That was scary in the boundary cut." "we put everything we had into it." "All these people working on this." "not finding anything." "That's not good." "you might be sleeping out on the streets here soon if we don't find some gold." "Another dud." "The boundary cut was by far the worst." "that we've ever had." "What did we get ourselves into here?" "It was pretty stressful." "Yeah." "I thought we were in trouble." "for nothing?" "Maybe there's just no gold in this cut." "That's what I'm starting to think." "To spend that much and have no result out of it. almost impossible to recover from." "Okay." "We need to cut our losses." "we could've done that when all of the pans were bad. so." "We rolled the dice." "Parker's biggest gamble paid off big-time." "000 dollars." "Virtually what he had paid to open up the cut." "(everyone cheering) guys." "Good job." "Congratulations." "Seeing gold and knowing that we were on it." "it was.." "pretty damn relieving." "340)} Coming up" "Underground mining." "That never saw the light of day." "I actually like this." "Nobody will cheat us out of this." "And a side of Todd you have to see to believe." "¶ It's the world I know ¶ but Todd likes to sing." "No comment." "It's beautiful." "The sun is up." "It's nice and warm out here." "Mike and Jerry left the Yukon in a hurry." "They headed straight home to Arizona." "And dove right back into gold mining." "I have a mining project in the mountains." "And it's an old hard-rock mining claim." "I don't like this!" "it feels like I'm going... you keep hooking into rocks." "Huh?" "Ahuh?" "We got back from the Yukon and we want to be running our own operation." "was right here." "right here." "What we look for is higher grade ore and a whiter vein." "Jerry's mine has been in his family for over 60 years." "he brought in a new crew member." "How much ore are we running today?" "What's that?" "How much ore are we running today?" "4 or 5 tons." "We'll probably run." "Something like that." "'kay." "Lives close to Jerry's Arizona mine." "this is pretty fantastic." "Some of the other crews I've been with." "The three of us really click together." "you know." "Melody called Mike and told him that she had about 800 pounds of dirt to run." "and Mike said call Jerry." "He's got a concentrating table." "I ended up running the dirt." "Jerry asked me on a date." "For my birthday." "we started dating in April." "the best thing that came out of the dredge was meeting Melody." "she's much more important to me than that dredge ever will be." "The only way to get to the gold rich ore is through a 200 foot tunnel deep in the mountain." "Mike." "wow." "aren't they." "Uh-huh." "This is so cool." "This tunnel was started in about 1890." "this crosscut goes back 200 feet to intercept the vein." "my goodness." "Uh huh." "all this stuff is really hard." "But this ore right here probably has about a 1/2 an ounce of gold per yard." "They'll mine for $10 to $30 a yard." "So the values per yard here are like 100 times per yard." "I'll never run out of ore here." "Ahh." "I actually like this." "I think this is pretty exciting." "the ore first passes through the primary crusher." "This'll crush about 6 yards an hour." "it's a little more laid back here." "Nobody's screaming and yelling at you." "pretty nice." "the smaller rocks are then crushed into a fine powder." "catch very fine gold." "there's gold in the pan." "you guys." "that's uh" "That's" "Pretty fine stuff." "What a good feeling." "Our own gold." "Nobody will cheat us out of this." "that's a fact." "Yeah." "Arizona's a much better place to be." "And the company's so much better." "Ha ha." "I agree with that." "Ha ha." "I will probably never go back to the Yukon." "Todd took a controversial break to spend time with his son Hudson." "But what his crew didn't know is that he also had a secret project in the works." "dude?" "Ha ha." "I'm back from the north." "How's it been with the gold mining?" "uh but" "I got a week off." "What do you think? we'll hop in there and get you all wired up." "Okay." "¶ has our conscience shown ¶" "¶ has the sweet breeze blown ¶" "I'd actually booked some studio time." "And I was gonna sing a song." "And I know" "That sounds pretty ridiculous when I just said that." "you're a miner." "What are you doing making a song?" "¶ so I walk up on high ¶" "¶ and I step to the edge ¶" "¶ to see my world below ¶ you know?" "And he's not bad at it." "¶ while the tears roll down ¶" "¶ 'cause it's the world I know ¶ it's the world I know ¶ he can sing." "I'm surprised." "I'm here to mine gold and talk about mining." "And I have nothing to say about Todd's ability or inability to sing." "I don't know if I'm gonna take it to the next level." "I actually by "some people if you think about it." "¶ I drink myself a new found pity ¶ 290)} ¶ sitting alone in New York city and I don't know why ¶" "Do you think he's got a good voice?" "No comment." "I'm not the best singer in the world." "but I ain't the best miner in the world either." "And I get a lot of gold." "it's the world I know ¶" "Do you think he's got a shot at the grammys?" "(laughter) 320)} Coming up wreaked havoc with his crew." "Every weld they did is cracked." "They're all shit." "the guys reveal just how bad things got." "I would have left." "I'd have to." "I'd have no choice." "Or do I go over there and knock that guy out?" "but Parker sure did." "that I've ever had." "Going to war." "The way the season started was definitely different. we did some some goofy stuff." "we floated down the river on some chunks of ice." "Oh hoo." "This is a death trip." "but he wanted it to be fun." "Why is it a goal?" "'cause it's..." "Life should be about having fun." "But what hit the cutting-room floor is that a snowmachine accident out of action." "huh?" "Yeah." "I guess the snow machines weren't such a good idea." "Ha ha ha." "No." "I guess not." "You couldn't have picked a worse time." "I know." "And right when he needed him most." "What's up?" "like now." "Foreman Rick Ness." "A lot of things happened at once that created a storm." "Rick had to leave and go see how his mom was doing." "The timing was incredibly poor when I had to leave." "I had to leave right as basically the shit was gonna hit the fan. a colossal new wash plant." "Carl called in someone to fill his shoes." "Derek Antoniuk." "Derek and I got along well." "We're close to the same age." "And he's got the same kind of energy as I do." "And we clicked real well." "We're young and dumb and full of fun." "Good job!" "Ah!" "Parker and I are a lot alike." "I think." "I'll do it all." "that worked well." "390)} Derek and Parker just hit it off great." "They really did." "(whistles)" "Sleepy head." "Plant's going." "Alright." "There was a bromance going on there for sure." "Here's dinner." "I stole the desserts." "But that's about the only two people that were really getting along at the time." "It'll fuckin smash the track." "It'll go on there either way." "We can do this shit thing 10 different ways." "we're lifting it all up." "And we're gonna put so much fuckin weight on the end." "Right now it's easier to lift it." "drop the axles off." "a raging bull in a china shop." "And it really upset the whole crew." "Mitch!" "Yo." "you listen to me!" "You've got to be fuckin kidding me." "It's obviously got to be jealousy." "I mean.. get over it." "Carl re-joined the crew." "And worked with Derek to weld Goldzilla back together." "It's gonna be built like a brick shit-house done right." "that just seemed to be the changing point." "everybody got stressed to the limit." "Derek was quick to point the finger." "Is that what's gonna be shown?" "Fuck." "Every weld they did is cracked." "That one's cracked." "That one's cracked." "One there's cracking." "They're all fucked." "Carl Rosk's welding." "Pounded out in less than 24 hours." "(laughs) but Parker sure did." "I think Derek was trying to push one of us out." "Was it you who did it?" "Not me." "Parker placed the blame on Carl." "How long did I weld up there for?" "190)} I don't fuckin know Carl." "15 minutes." "'cause right?" "Carl just couldn't take it anymore." "but I'm quitting." "I can't deal with that shit." "Everybody's got their limit and..." "Yeah." "You apparently reached yours." "And I'm" "Hanging by the last thread of my rope right now." "Yeah." "Carl left." "So it made it look like I was the reason." "I'm here and he's not." "Parker's crew was on the verge of all out mutiny." "calling me while I'm on my way back." "you know?" "and now Carl's leaving because of this guy." "I don't think John and Roger would be too proud of what their legacy is right now." "I haven't been that mad as I was this season in years." "There's a reason that there's a lot of good people that aren't here anymore." "I was picking up things and throwing 'em and so pissed off." "And" "Is this it?" "Do I get in my truck and drive off?" "Or do I go over there and knock that guy out?" "Start this fucker." "Rick's supposed to be showing up." "Yeah." "It's gonna be great right." "You and Rick are gonna get along." "You both like to work and both care." "You guys should really get along." "Just tell him to stay the fuck away from me." "Rick." "I'm serious." "That's not a position that I like to hear from you." "you know?" "um what's going on?" "I just wanted to punch him in the fuckin face just looking at the guy." "I didn't want to shake his hand." "I didn't want to even look at him. to go back into that situation?" "Yeah." "you know?" "I'm not gonna apologize for it." "You are making an enemy out of me." "Look at the position you're putting me in." "Things were going fine when you were gone." "Uh huh." "leave." "I did ask Rick to leave." "And it wasn't me choosing Derek over Rick or any of that stuff." "But" "It is me choosing" "Levelheadedness." "I had to choose the..." "I can't side with emotions." "And it was pure emotions out of Rick." "He didn't know why he was mad." "Parker's right hand man for four years." "And then to fire him because he wouldn't shake a guy's hand." "So how safe am I?" "I had myself pretty convinced that I'd be leaving in the morning." "I decided to sleep on it." "I felt different in the morning." "I wasn't up for the fight anymore." "And I'd wanted to move on." "and.." "And try to get back to doing my job." "Sorry I called you a name." "handshake." "Alright." "but he looked away." "And I was gonna go for the third one come on." "Like." "Get over it." "I don't have to be his friend." "it would have been disastrous." "but the whole crew." "I think he would've lost his crew." "I would have left." "Had Rick..." "I'd have to." "I'd have no choice." "Rick is one of my best friends." "But.." "When you're in my shoes." "When you're in this seat." "And you've got a million bucks on the line..." "Making decisions doesn't become so easy." "340)} Coming up" "An early look at next season." "Tony preps to ship a second dredge down the mighty Yukon river." "Parker faces crew trouble." "I think there's some people that aren't gonna come back." "I've already got some e-mails from some of his employees from this year." "And Todd continues his never ending hunt for life changing gold." "There is a possibility of finding a world class nugget." "Tony's grand plan was bringing a gold mining dredge back to life." "I think." "Tony didn't have a clue." "Can you let the gangway down for 'em?" "that says winch." "See what happens when you let Tony around it for five minutes?" "It's a fuckup." "That's what we're all saying." "Yeah." "Tony's million dollar dredge failed to pay for itself." "But that hasn't stopped the Klondike legend from doubling down on a second dredge." "His crew faces a herculean task." "Transporting a 400-ton dredge 150 miles from a remote location on thistle creek." "But it is a long ways away from everything." "You have to either get to it by river or by air." "The only way to pull off this feat of engineering is to use the mighty Yukon river." "Tony has bought a 33 year old tugboat." "Grew up tugs and barges on the ocean." "But it's not running 6 knots." "But the river will only get the dredge part of the way to his claim." "Tony has another secret weapon for next season." "A militarygrade eight-wheel drive off-road truck." "What the hell is that?" "they buy a Ferrari." "You buy dredges and trucks and" "I guess you'll be sleeping on the couch tonight." "Parker had his worst start yet." "But managed to finish with the biggest gold haul of his life." "worth $3.5 million dollars." "Todd Hoffman." "Shoot-out." "Ha ha ha." "It would have been a disaster." "came at a cost." "The numbers don't lie." "We were very successful gold-wise." "But" "I think there's some people that aren't gonna come back." "I don't view that as success." "Parker needs some work on how he treats his guys." "I've already got some e-mails from some of his employees from this year." "this year." "uh" "I don't know if it's gonna be with Parker." "They'll be armed with a multi million dollar war chest." "That could take their operation to the next level." "but I will always be looking at other ground." "Because he knows how to smell blood in the water." "And I'm not gonna let Tony Beets hold my business hostage." "I am trying." "And we're a lot closer now than we were a year ago." "the Hoffman crew doubled their best gold total yet." "worth a cool $3.3 million dollars." "we had a great season." "But there is one regret." "right?" "000." "000 ounces from the drill holes." "This hole right here is 12 ounces per hundred." "We got to get this gold out of it." "000 ounces." "it did not mine like it drilled." "The easiest thing in the world for the Hoffmans to say is that we lost because we had worse ground." "That is a very easy thing to say." "Doesn't make it true." "McKinnon creek delivered more gold than all of Todd's previous seasons combined." "And we conquered the Klondike." "Todd has made the controversial decision to leave the Klondike's proven ground behind." "we went to the jungle." "Failure in Guyana left the Hoffmans nearly bankrupt." "I'm praying and hoping that Oregon doesn't turn into Guyana." "Our mining company won't last another hit like that." "this time on a claim in eastern Oregon." "We're starting over." "And that is scary." "chunky nuggets." "You have got to be kidding me." "Within hours of prospecting the new ground" "(BEEP BEEP)" "Dad." "I think I found something." "The Hoffmans had reason to believe." "buddy." "Yeah." "I have confidence that there's good gold there." "Oregon has crazy gold." "Listen." "I love the sound of that." "That is awesome." "it'll make worldwide press." "You could have days you could do 500 ounces in a day. 300)\fnLucida Calligraphy} Subs by {\fs49.901\b1\i1} Jack T" "I don't know what is." "Yeah." "I'm gonna throw out the challenge right now." "I'm gonna kick the kid's ass next year."