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Title: Anyone Here Watch Gold Rush?
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Published: Jan 7, 2013
Author: me
Post Date: 2013-01-07 09:47:32 by James Deffenbach
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I have watched Gold Rush since the first show of the first season. Some of it is pretty good when they have actual miners who know what they are doing (like the young kid, Parker Schnabel and his grandpa) and the big guy from Sweden or Norway or wherever it is he's from. But I thought, and have for a while, that there was just too much about the show that was "off." I learned a bit more about it last night. There is a group on facebook called the Gold Rush Alaska Gossip and it pretty well lays out that the group the show centers on, the Hoffman crew, really don't know what they're doing, have sponsors (like Volvo) and leave when the producers get the footage they want. And Todd is always talking about "the American dream" yet now they are in Canada and using equipment made by a foreign company. And when the show started out the storyline was they were all down on their luck and about to lose their homes and how they were going to Alaska and try to get rich mining gold. Well, the mechanic in the first season, James Harness, apparently wasn't all that broke. Here is a car he owned at the start of the first season (and may still for all I know). Does THIS look like a car owned by someone who is "broke"? James Harness owns this 2004 GTO Banshee built by PFYC. Besides the body modifications the engine can put out 570 to 590 horsepower. This car was featured on the cover of Pontiac Enthusiast March/April 2005. Outside it has; over 1/3 carbon fiber and fiberglass to lighten it up (bumpers, skirts, hood, fenders, deck, & spoiler), Wilwood 6-piston Calipers with oversized slotted rotors, 4-piston rear Axis Milano wheels, and Toyo Proxes T1-s tires. Interior Color: black And, while Todd claims to have gone to all these colleges and everything the records indicate that he attended one semester at one college. Anyway, if you watch the show you might want to check out that facebook page. I will probably keep watching it because I like Parker Schnabel and his family but now I know more than I ever cared to about the rest of the show and won't be seeing it through the same eyes. 
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Owner: James Harness (audioproducts@comcast.net ) from Oregon OR
Posted: 11/21/2007
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#4. To: James Deffenbach (#0)
Been thinking about watching it, since Netflix removed Ice Road Truckers and American Pickers.
It's ok but the best part of the show is Parker and his grandpa and that Tony Beets guy, all of whom are real miners, not hobby miners like Todd and his crew. The funniest thing I have heard, or one of the funniest anyway, is the person who does all the voice over on the show and how he always says that the fuel expense for every crew--whatever size it is or whatever equipment they use--is 1,000 dollars. Ridiculous. First of all, Todd and his crew aren't even paying for ANY fuel and, even if they were then an operation the size of the one he's running would most certainly use more fuel than Parker Schnable would. And Tony Beets has a huge operation and in all likelihood his operation would burn far more fuel (and he is a full time miner with a big overhead).
the key to reality t.v. is to realize it is as close to reality as microsoft minutes are to actual time.
#12. To: IRTorqued (#8)
And as Micorsux alleged operating systems are to actual operating systems. Which is not very.
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#8. To: James Deffenbach (#5)
Replies to Comment # 8. the key to reality t.v. is to realize it is as close to reality as microsoft minutes are to actual time.
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