Off subject ?
One gold mining show I DO like ? is Bering Sea Gold and Under the Ice.
It shows the hard work involved and risks one takes with their lives.
Me ? I'd be panicking a shark is coming heh-
I wouldn't mind seeing a show about river dredging. There would be risks, I once crossed a river in Blairsville PA when heading to Bear Cave and got 30 feet out - it seemed only 2 feet deep but my oh my - the current just took me away. I for the first time realized how people drown in rivers - even 2 feet was powerful enough to pull me feet out. So river dredging would be tough but I think if I did mine for gold ? It would probably be through studying Google maps trying to find where rivers had once been, not unlike what the Big Nugget Mine in Gold Rush Alaska did over the winter, finding an area where a river once was.
I ALSO think metal detector mining might be fun. There is this one guy in Australia on youtube, he goes out and always finds something nice and then yells "BUGGER", he's found nuggets several ounces out in the barren lands in Australia. Just amazes me it's there. North of Queensland if I recall. I wrote him - he's pretty cool. I write a LOT of people on these reality TV shows and often hear back- the internet makes for an entirely new kind of TV. I don't think these two guys would ever write me back, but I don't support the idea that the world owes you something and it's just there for the taking too !
These two guys make life sound so rough. "Man, if we don't find gold soon, I won't be able to make payments on the Escalade and me Lear Jet this month, and I do not - TRUST ME - DO NOT want to lose that Jet ! That thing cost me 14 million and I can BARELY afford the $110,000 a month to maintain it - and THAT is exactly why we need to find some gold today... Maybe I can get them to sacrifice something bigger, like an elephant... "
Bering Sea Ice has some cool people though. At first I thought the son on the big dredger with the Back hoe was not cool at all, then I realized, I mis-read him. Man oh man, Bering Sea Gold had this one guy - no one could work with, he even got into a fight when they had an end of Season get together to talk about the show - he just went at the other guy right there on the camera - police came. LOL - and well- not so funny. In a BIZARRE way I did like him though even though he said up front "I don't like people". He CALLS you to like him - heh, you could see he's so helplessly isolationist. But THESE TWO GUYS ? they don't call me to like them- they call me to vomit. There is nothing more vile than people that dress well, wear the hair gel, step in without competence but talk as if they are, and start bossing people around all the while making sure everything know the world revolves around them. All I ever picture with THESE two guys is ? after they get their gold ? They are perpetually out on some lake jet skiiing - one with a budweiser in hand, the other dropping 14 lobster tails on a grill with a bottle of champagne pulled from a case sitting in the Mercedes 2012 family SUV that they are thinking of trading in for a 2013 because the 2013 has a bigger LCD in the back for the kids.
Well George and Scott ?
When you're done braving the jungles of Ghana from your hotel room where you seem to have ample supply of hair gel ?
May you get that 3rd Jet Ski - and hey- maybe you can move out of your 1.4 million dollar homes and upgrade to a 3.4 million mansion after all- you two deserve it after all your hard work.
I bet George and Scott won't even give bonuses to the workers of the backhoe and other help they have.
I bet it's cash in and GET OUT OF GHANA ASAP.
Let's hope if they do score they go back and pay those natives who built the bridge that made it ALL possible- MORE than $10, and that they don't just extract the resources out of Africa leaving it in the dust as they fly off to go buy some jet ski's going 'Hey man, let's order 200 lbs of Lobster tail when we get back and go out to the lake and live off the land with champagne and lobster tail '.
Hey George and Scott- you COULD have sold your wedding rings too ! to pay the mortgage.
The ring is ONLY A symbol - the love is ALWAYS REAL with or without the ring - well- one would hope.
