Gold Rush S15E104 (special) It's Good to be King
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00:00How's your morning going, Tony?
00:23My mornings are always good.
00:25It starts by waking up.
00:28Some people forget to do that, it ain't no good, right?
00:33We on the right side of the bed?
00:34Well, if I crawl the wrong side of the bed, I gotta crawl over the wife, so you let me
00:38know which is the right side of the bed.
00:41On this gold rush.
00:42I hope it doesn't look because otherwise it'll be an expensive day.
00:47The king of the Klondike, Tony Beats, takes on his longest day.
00:51Oh, oh, oh, off we go to see where the next stop is.
00:55As he battles to run two operations.
00:58That bridge, that could be...
01:00Gets tough with new recruits.
01:02You mean you want me to help you do your job?
01:06And fights to save a key piece of equipment.
01:09Hey, stop, stop, stop.
01:11I think it's...
01:12Okay, tell that guy to get the...
01:14All of that in his thing.
01:15Okay, pull it up, Monica, let's see what you got.
01:18All in pursuit of big gold.
01:21How many hours do you have in here?
01:39You got your clothes on, Minnie?
01:40Yeah.
01:41Good.
01:42You got a film crew.
01:43On Paradise Hill, Tony Beats enjoys the creature comforts of home.
01:49This house, it really, really feels good.
01:52Yeah.
01:53And it might be part of a trailer or whatever, but I mean, at least when you come home at
01:56night, it should be somewhat decent.
01:58Well, the way you look at it, I have to look at it, you're here six, seven months out of
02:01the year, right?
02:02So at least you should be comfortable.
02:03Yeah, I'd say so.
02:05The king of the Klondike is running two mining operations, forcing him to split his time
02:10between an Indian River crash pad 40 miles away and his home at Paradise with wife Minnie.
02:18Hey.
02:22Going to go see how Mike is doing.
02:23It'd be nice to pull some gold up the hill.
02:32Tony's day begins at the 35-year-old, 350-yard-an-hour Paradise Hill Trommel.
02:39Shut it off!
02:41Run by youngest son, Mike.
02:44At the end of the night shift, Tony checks the sluices to determine if it's time for
02:52a cleanup.
02:53Looking pretty good.
02:57It's yellow.
03:02Once you see it lay that thick up on top, then that means that that thing is almost
03:06chock-full.
03:09Okay, here they are, Mike.
03:11Mike.
03:14I mean, look how thick it is in there.
03:16Yeah.
03:17And you got the little nuggies down there.
03:19See them three down there?
03:22Do you see that?
03:23That's how thick it lays in there.
03:26They say that if you would want them little square, if you would have them full, then
03:32you would have seven ounces in them.
03:34Hey, that looks pretty damn nice, Mike, huh?
03:37Oh, yeah.
03:38What's wrong with that?
03:39I thought I was going to do two rows the whole way.
03:42No, that is okay.
03:43The more you got to clean up, the better it is now, isn't it?
03:46Yeah.
03:50That's a nice one.
03:53Yeah, I mean, they add up, you know.
03:56Very good looking.
03:58Okay, well, it's good.
03:59Let's go.
04:01Yeah, I get cranky if I don't eat.
04:04While the crew gets to work cleaning out the trommel, Tony and Mike head to breakfast.
04:11Someday I'll be smart enough to cut my laces, because I don't tie the ****, but I leave
04:17them long, just in case maybe someday I'll change my mind.
04:21**** stupid.
04:30Is Monica coming through?
04:32Probably in a minute.
04:33Okay.
04:36Monica, do you copy?
04:37Monica?
04:39What's up?
04:40You want to come to the kitchen?
04:42Yes, I'm on my way.
04:46How's things going, Mike?
04:48Good.
04:50I've been having them haul every day.
04:52Had nice big pay pauses you saw as you drive in.
04:55I've seen that.
04:56That looks pretty damn good, don't it?
04:57Yes.
04:58Morning.
04:59Hey, good morning, Monica.
05:00How are you?
05:01Good morning.
05:02Fine.
05:03Like your hair.
05:04Thanks.
05:06Got up early this morning?
05:08No.
05:09Put it in at night.
05:10Oh, that looks nice.
05:12That's pretty good.
05:13Yeah?
05:14It lets you plan out your day good.
05:16Yeah.
05:18And then before we get out the **** door, we change them.
05:20Yeah.
05:22No we in that statement.
05:23Oh.
05:24Unless you're talking about you and your multiple personalities.
05:28I'm going to go into the inn and lay down, I think.
05:30Are you going to head out, did you say?
05:31Yes, I think so.
05:33Has anyone heard from Kevin?
05:35No.
05:36I don't see that **** guy.
05:37You?
05:38No.
05:39Making me have to stop by and spy on him.
05:41You know what you got to do?
05:42What?
05:43Just rent a helicopter.
05:44****.
05:45Oh, I see.
05:46****.
05:47Just sit there above him, son.
05:48Yeah.
05:49****.
05:50We should too.
05:51This season, eldest son Kevin is running his own operation near the Indian River.
05:57Yeah, let's get a helicopter.
05:58This is **** great.
06:00Oi.
06:01Okay, what we're going to do is, we're going to go show your mother to make the cuts,
06:06and then we're going to go and bump Kevin and spy on that ****.
06:09You mean that great idea I had?
06:11Yes.
06:12There you go.
06:13Perfect.
06:14Sounds like a plan.
06:15And that will **** us all.
06:16Okay, we'll do it.
06:17Clark.
06:18Clark.
06:19Clark.
06:20Clark.
06:21Clark.
06:22Clark.
06:23Clark.
06:24Clark.
06:25Clark.
06:26Clark.
06:27Clark.
06:28We'll do it.
06:29We'll do it.
06:30We'll do it.
06:31Perfect.
06:32Good.
06:33There we go.
06:34Whoa.
06:35Slow with the umbrella.
06:43With nearly 3,000 acres of gold-rich claims, the best way for Tony to monitor his empire
06:50is from the sky.
06:52I mean, this is the stress we worked on last week.
06:56So we go all the way up to the end pretty soon.
07:00Yeah, but it won't swing and then we're all good.
07:03Yeah, I'm just looking at all the ground over here that I stripped.
07:07Yeah, and we go a little further and then we'll scoot up the valley.
07:12From the 1,300 acres at Paradise Hill, managed by Mike, it's a 40-mile flight south to the
07:2044 acres Kevin has leased from Tony, where he's working a three-acre section of the Lynx Cut.
07:30Okay, at this rate, guys, that is Kevin's cut up to date.
07:34He should be pretty much in gravel in a lot of places.
07:43See how we got a yard full of freaking junk already?
07:46Yeah.
07:51Ha, ha, ha.
07:53This water hole isn't that clean either.
07:57No f***ing water at all.
08:01There it is, there it is.
08:03Ha, ha, ha.
08:04Let me f***.
08:05Ha, ha, ha.
08:08I can already see the glare from here.
08:11He actually looks kind of mad.
08:13Ha, ha.
08:15Looks like someone made a little cut down here.
08:18Yeah, they must have done some testing as it is, Mike.
08:25Next door to Kevin's claim on Scribner is Tony's 1,200-acre Indian River claim,
08:33where this season he's running two wash plants, a fleet of iron, and a 50-strong workforce
08:41who've been on their own since Tony left for Paradise Hill two days ago.
08:49I don't know why that B-11 isn't running, but whatever.
08:53They have the B-10 going down there.
08:56So apparently that was f***ed after all, so to speak.
09:00Is there anything else you want to see, Mike?
09:04I just got slapped and told no.
09:07Oh, really?
09:08Ha, ha, ha.
09:09Ha, ha, ha.
09:10Is that that lady in the back?
09:12I think both of them are done.
09:14All right.
09:15I don't know why.
09:16I'm having a blast.
09:17It's kind of cool seeing everything from up here.
09:19You do.
09:20Yeah.
09:21There you go.
09:35I can't hang around here all day, you know.
09:38I actually have a real job.
09:40OK.
09:41See you later.
09:45Go!
09:51Here on the Indian River, we're doing pretty good.
09:53We just cleaned out this cut here beside us.
09:56I mean, this loose box up there is running, hauling material out another cut.
10:01We're still stressed pretty thin, really.
10:03On the end of the day, whatever it takes to make it work, that's what we're going to have to do.
10:08Back on his Indian River claims, after 48 hours away.
10:13Let's see what the **** they're doing over there.
10:15Tony must make sure progress stripping a new section of the comeback cut is on track.
10:21Here is Cousin Mike.
10:23Overseen by foreman Cousin Mike.
10:26How's it all got going, Mike?
10:27How's that?
10:28You going to put the pump in already?
10:30No, but we wanted to drag it over here.
10:32Good.
10:33Good.
10:34Get that organized.
10:35I'm just going to drive around, see what's happening.
10:38Fingers crossed it's going good today.
10:43Anyway, most of the time, Cousin Mike lives after this.
10:47I come in once in a while and **** them all up, but that is normal.
10:51I'm pretty lucky to have him.
10:52The same as having Mike on the hill, couldn't be any better.
10:57I like working for Tony.
11:00You know what you get, you know what you have.
11:03Tony is still not slowing down, but running up and down between two mines, that's very hard.
11:10The goal this year is big for Tony, but it's also big for me.
11:13This is the first year I'm in this position.
11:16And I always like to do a good job, but especially now because it's a big thing.
11:25Who the **** is that?
11:33Are you **** serious?
11:37They're all the **** drunk.
11:47I mean, if you look at the top of the spill pile there, we have one that the box fell over.
11:54After 48 hours at Paradise Hill, Tony Beets has returned to his Indian River claims.
12:02But whoever is in there wasn't thinking, right?
12:05You know?
12:08This **** guy, I mean it's, whatever.
12:15Now let's go fix up or screw up.
12:21In the comeback cut, a rookie driver has tipped a rock truck on the waste pile and becomes stuck slowing down production.
12:30Some of them times when these people get stuck or when things go upside down or whatever, I like to do that myself.
12:38And I likely have more experience than anybody else around there, so I do the **** myself.
12:51Park it.
12:54Okay, let's go rescue that thing.
13:00What happened there?
13:03Oh yeah, when I was going up to the dump, I just started feeling like I was sinking in, you know?
13:08So I gave it a little more gas, but I got stuck.
13:11Then I was trying to empty the box to go out, but then it just flipped randomly by itself.
13:18To right the 34-ton rock truck and get production back on track, Tony takes control of the 750 excavator.
13:28I can't get on the side that I want to go, but now I'm going to have to push it over, and preferably I like to pull it over.
13:39The rock truck is dangerously close to the edge of the pile, where the dirt is less compacted and could collapse at any moment.
13:49The rock truck is dangerously close to the edge of the pile, where the dirt is less compacted and could collapse at any moment.
13:58I hope it's not as **** as it looks, because otherwise it'll be an expensive day, so to speak.
14:03I hope it's not as **** as it looks, because otherwise it'll be an expensive day, so to speak.
14:11Because the way it doesn't want to flip over easy is because you still got to have a load of dirt in it.
14:18So you got to do a little bit extra **** around in order to get them to tip over.
14:28Okay, drive ahead a little bit.
14:34You got the dips in?
14:38Nice and slow, nice and slow.
14:55All right, dump it.
15:03**** wrecked by now, wasn't it?
15:13Okay, stop, stop, stop.
15:24Let me see.
15:28What a boy.
15:29Thank you very **** much.
15:32**** me.
15:34That **** didn't have to be you, joint.
15:39The universal joint, essential for handling the uneven terrain, is broken, taking the truck out of action until it can be replaced.
15:51Shut it off, leave it right there.
15:54We'll see if we can find you another one.
15:59Tony was pretty pissed off about the whole ordeal, but I'm going back to work, and he said that things like that happen, you know?
16:08So I just got to do what I got to do and keep on going.
16:16Yeah, I've seen that before. You get used to it.
16:20So you go through this **** all day long.
16:23So some days you have nothing, and then like the day when you got a whole pile of it or whatever, it's okay.
16:29But a lot of it is so unnecessary.
16:40They got to put bacon in there.
16:44But this way, you get some grease on it, yeah? It's good for your immune system.
16:51Is that the secret to a long career?
16:53Probably.
16:56Hey, Yogi.
16:58Whose dog is this, Tony?
17:00My neighbor's.
17:11I mean, **** idiot. Huh?
17:18Dumb ****.
17:19Sucks to be him, right?
17:28Oh!
17:30Almost.
17:36Anyway, this is where Kevin is mining. He's on his own, so that is his party.
17:42I mean, sometimes I wander in and have a little bit of advice, a little push here or there.
17:47After spying on Kevin's operation from the sky, now Tony is heading to Scribner for a closer look.
17:54I had this ground for, I don't know, like 25 years or so. Never really did anything with it.
18:00But now that Kevin wanted to start mining, well, bingo, here you go.
18:10Hey, Kevin.
18:11Hey, Tony.
18:12How's she going, Tony?
18:13Hey, pretty good, guy.
18:15I'd say this is a surprise, but...
18:17Yeah, I'm not surprised.
18:18As landlord, Tony receives a 10% royalty on everything Kevin mines.
18:24Already working the links cut, now Kevin is looking for his next spot.
18:29So what are you guys looking for?
18:31Gold.
18:32Answers, mostly.
18:33Gold.
18:34You're looking for the yellow stuff.
18:35Very helpful.
18:36We just want to know what next for the ground we should test.
18:39Everybody, to my knowledge, all they ever mine here is this.
18:46This.
18:47But you got to remember, when they mined here, the gold was likely at $200 or $300 an ounce.
18:52I know.
18:53If not less.
18:54Because the last cut down here, I think, was 30 years ago.
18:57Some could have been left behind.
18:59Some of them, maybe they stripped it, checked it.
19:01It was no good, you just don't know.
19:03So 30 years ago, was it still pretty much dozer mining back then?
19:06Well, that's all the money they had.
19:08If you had a D8, you did great.
19:10How much did they miss back then doing just dozering off the floor, like all the pay?
19:14Well, you need something to leave so it can grow.
19:17So the next generation has something to look for.
19:20Right?
19:21Anyway, I did this downstream, so where is your best gold?
19:24Right in the beginning.
19:25Yeah.
19:26Because that's where it came first.
19:27Yeah.
19:28Before it got here.
19:29I've been eyeing that up the whole time.
19:31Test it, and then you know for sure.
19:32Otherwise, you won't be happy.
19:34Perfect.
19:35You didn't happen to have that test plant up there?
19:37I don't know where the **** that is.
19:39All right.
19:40That is probably likely still on the hill.
19:42Anything else?
19:43No, no, no.
19:44Just the test plant.
19:45I got one sitting there.
19:46Pick it up.
19:47Pick it up.
19:48Pick it up.
19:49Perfect.
19:50Okay, gentlemen.
19:51Okay, thanks, Tony.
19:52Have as much fun as I do.
19:53Oh, no.
19:54That means you could have a **** day.
20:00Later, guys.
20:01See ya.
20:02I hope it is **** rich, because then I'll take it back and I'll up my royalties.
20:14****.
20:15Just a big **** kid, eh?
20:16Oh, yeah.
20:17This is probably the highlight of the **** day, honestly.
20:18I bet that does answer a few questions.
20:19Yeah, yeah.
20:20For sure.
20:21And we can mine that far piece over to our border as we're sluicing.
20:22Yeah.
20:23They almost certainly left some stuff.
20:24So, I'll see you about getting that test plant over.
20:25Cabin mining on its own was great this morning.
20:26It was great.
20:27It was great.
20:28It was great.
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21:15It was great, it was great.
21:17It was great.
21:19It was great.
21:20It was great.
21:21It was great.
21:25You want me to help you do your job?
21:28Pour it up, Monica.
21:29I'll see what you've got.
21:41I'm probably the smartest one here.
21:55Doesn't necessarily mean I have to know how to type or know the alphabet, the f*** all.
22:02Emails, I don't answer any of them, ever.
22:06That's something I'm not smart enough to do, I guess.
22:10Usually quotes and prices that you look at, and some of them the girls reply to and some
22:14of them they don't.
22:16Today, looking at new people, last week we hired another 16, we'll see how many we're
22:22going to hire this week.
22:23But if we're going to start running 24 hours a day with two boxes, we need a pile of people.
22:29Stretched thin, Tony Beets is hiring new crew.
22:33But you need more than a good resume to impress the king of the Klondike.
22:37If your guy comes up with a good set of working hands, you're an idiot not to take him.
22:43Same as when you introduce yourself, you shake somebody's hand, you give them a f***ing hand.
22:48None of them lame dink ones.
22:50I mean, you f***ing wipe your pants when you give them a f***ing hand, hello?
22:53But if somebody looks you in the eye and gives you a good hand, pay attention, there's something there.
23:00Full of s***, I'll hire him.
23:03Yeah.
23:05That's enough of the s***.
23:08There we go.
23:14No matter how strong their handshake, for Tony to reach his goal of running two plants
23:1924-7, he needs to make sure the new recruits are holding their own.
23:26Well, right now we're off and going to go see the cut.
23:31We were in the cut, sluicing a while back, but I think they left a lot of pay behind.
23:40Earlier in the season, the Greenhorns stripped 20 feet of worthless overburden to reach the
23:46gold-rich gravel layer which was processed through the plant.
23:51But Tony believes some of the gravels were left behind, potentially worth hundreds of
23:56thousands of dollars.
23:58Anyway, guys, let's have a quick peek here, because I don't think we're going deep enough, you see?
24:03I mean, it's the first time for you guys, so you don't know, but then it is my job to
24:08tell you guys how it's supposed to work.
24:13So, let me show you how to take a f***ing pan.
24:17Okay, so you see that, Jeff?
24:19One, two, three, four, five, right there.
24:21And that was just right on the top.
24:22That was just right on the top, too.
24:24Anyway, guys, let's keep going.
24:28Tony's suspicion confirmed.
24:30It's down to rookie miner DJ to take out the remaining pay.
24:38What, like, a quarter of a million a year?
24:41But, like, this whole little ridge, that's all pay, right?
24:45So, start on the end and work your way back and take at least one or two feet of material,
24:51because we can both see there's lots of gravel left, right?
24:55You know?
24:56Yeah.
24:57I mean, you can see it, right?
24:58Right?
25:00It works.
25:01Honestly!
25:02Believe me, it works.
25:03I know.
25:09So, the cut has not been cleaned properly.
25:12I mean, we had four different operators in this cut and all these people
25:16have to learn to get the dirt off.
25:19So, take a look at this.
25:22We're just going to take the dirt off of this cut here.
25:26We had four different operators in this cut,
25:28and all these people have to learn how this works,
25:31because there is so much gravel left
25:33and so much bedrock that they didn't take.
25:37So I bet you a quarter of the values
25:39that were here are still in the cut.
25:42But you know what?
25:43They all tried their best.
25:45They have to learn it somewhere.
25:47So let's go and get them.
25:49DJ's gonna go in here,
25:51and he's gonna do the final cleanup.
25:53I'm Dirk-Jan Postema.
25:59I would say it in my own language for now.
26:02But most other guys, they call me DJ
26:04because it's easier to pronounce.
26:08And, yeah, I'm coming from Holland.
26:11I'm almost at the same place
26:14as where Tony came from, from Friesland.
26:17Yeah, it's pretty difficult because, yeah,
26:21the conditionings, and you see the water,
26:24the different colors in the dirt
26:26and the gravel and that kind of stuff.
26:28So I'm getting used to it now.
26:33I personally have quite a hard time
26:35telling the difference between, like, pay and hard rock
26:38or just overburden and stuff like that.
26:40There's such high expectations
26:43and such a specific way that Tony likes things done.
26:46It's an intimidating atmosphere.
26:50There's still frozen dirt here underneath my pocket here.
26:54Maybe you can take it out for me?
26:59You mean you want me to help you or do you the job?
27:07No, I'm just asking you for a favor.
27:10Okay, I'll be there in a sec.
27:12Let me finish this up.
27:13I'll help with you, please.
27:22So, are you ready for trucks?
27:23F*** yeah.
27:28Now that Tony's happy DJ is getting all the remaining pay,
27:33the trucks roll in and start hauling it to the plant.
27:37I mean, there's always a training period
27:39and that's what you take a chance.
27:41I mean, we knew that it was going to happen, so who cares?
27:46It's just the cost of doing business sometimes.
27:49They got to get started somewhere.
27:53Tony is a pretty good person to talk with
27:57and especially when I'm talking in my own language.
28:00I'm learning a lot from Tony, yeah.
28:03Tony, do you copy?
28:05Yeah, go ahead.
28:07That bridge is out.
28:08It looks very rotten, but I have to get across.
28:13So, let's go fix the road, I guess.
28:37See, like I said, you can put a rock within 100 acres
28:40and they f***ing find it.
28:42See how many times they've driven over the f***ing thing?
28:45Now, this is just a little one.
28:46They do the same to the big ones.
28:51And for some reason,
28:54nobody gets out of the f***ing truck and picks them up.
28:58If a loaded rock truck drives over top of that,
29:01that means that truck tire has to squash this much at one point.
29:06That's a 40-ton load that got in there.
29:09So, I mean, that punctures the tire almost.
29:12That f***s with the structure in the tire.
29:14See, they don't think about that, but what it is,
29:19it'll cost you money.
29:26At Indian River, mine boss Tony Beets is having a day.
29:31He's been driving his claim since 6.30am.
29:35And now, the road connecting camp to the rest of the mine
29:39has collapsed, leaving an old bridge as the only access point.
29:53That bridge deck is b****.
29:54We put it in this spring and never bothered fixing it
29:57since we always had the road beside it over the culvert.
30:00Now, f***!
30:02The bridge is unsuitable for the heavy equipment,
30:05so Tony must rebuild the road or risk his biggest iron
30:10becoming stranded in the cut.
30:13Now, I guess I'm going to dig out the approach from the bridge,
30:17throw it in the hole to re-establish the road.
30:21So, let's go fix the f***ing road, I guess.
30:31Like this, straighten it out.
30:34Nice and slow.
30:35Good, hold it right there.
30:37Dumper, please.
30:45I still enjoy running the equipment once in a while.
30:48Yes, absolutely.
30:50Especially when there's something that I did and I didn't like it.
30:53This way, I can nicely improve it.
30:56You know what I mean?
30:59People ask me,
31:00when are you going to retire? When are you going to retire?
31:03Well, f***ing never.
31:05I mean, in a perfect life, one of these days,
31:08I'll fall dead in an excavator or something,
31:11and at this point, I wouldn't care
31:14because I'd be f***ing dead now, wouldn't I?
31:29Hey, that's your last load, okay? Last load.
31:37We should have a road back in.
31:39Maybe a temporary one,
31:40but at least we can drive back and forth normal
31:42and not having to take the chances on the bridge.
31:54I'll put a grader on it,
31:56and for now, I will do just fine.
32:00It cuts down the speed.
32:01You put a f***ing S-bend in there, you see?
32:04People go slower, maybe.
32:09Look at that f***ing eagle over there.
32:11I guess he must be checking the cutout
32:13to see if there's any fish in it yet, probably.
32:15That's what he's doing.
32:17Oh, there he goes. Look at that.
32:19Beautiful.
32:21Beautiful.
32:26Beautiful.
32:33Good.
32:37All that's left is for Tony to test his work.
32:49That's perfect.
32:50Project finished.
32:52Next step, supper.
32:57Next day
33:17This is what you call a f***ing parking.
33:19If we could get any closer,
33:21I'd probably drive on a deck and be close to the door.
33:24Still on the clock,
33:26Tony grabs a quick dinner
33:28before heading to the gold room.
33:30I was snooping for more buttermilk,
33:32but I'd better not drink all this s***.
33:34And he knows exactly what he wants.
33:37You're going to serve some of them delicious beans and mashed potatoes?
33:41That's the new color.
33:45So you take two scoops.
33:47That's what you do.
33:49Then you take these and put them on top.
33:52Then what you do is
33:54you squish this s*** all over it.
33:56See? Now you got a little extra.
33:58Would it be nice next time
34:00if somebody put that s*** all in on tight?
34:03There.
34:04See, it's so nice now he can clean it up.
34:06Then you put this over top of it
34:08so then it really looks like s***, so to speak.
34:11And then you go eat it.
34:23Anyway, I got to go check on the gold, I guess.
34:37I'm going to go have a look at the dredge.
34:39I haven't been there yet.
34:41I'm going to go have a look, see how it handled the winter.
34:44In 2016,
34:46Tony paid $1 million for a second dredge,
34:51originally built in 1946.
34:54I mean, we got this loose block,
34:56we got the trommel in there,
34:58we got most of the big stuff on it.
35:00After two years,
35:02he sunk another million dollars
35:04in moving and rebuilding it,
35:06but never finished the job,
35:08and it's been derelict since 2018.
35:11One of these days,
35:13it wouldn't bother me
35:15to take half a million bucks or better
35:18and just finish it off just because I can,
35:21and then see it run.
35:23Overall, as long as we don't worry
35:26too much about what it looks like,
35:28it's not that big of a job to get it back together.
35:31boat engine roars
35:47I'll go have a look in the gold room, I guess.
35:51My least favorite place, I think.
35:55I don't mind mining for gold and everything,
35:58but I have no use for cleaning that s***.
36:01That's why Monica does most of that,
36:04say I'm really not into that.
36:07Why is that?
36:09Takes patience, and I'm full of that.
36:20Hey, what's happening?
36:22Oh, not too much, you?
36:24Screening, screening, screening.
36:26Tony Beets has been run ragged,
36:29but still needs to make his last check of the day,
36:33the gold room and the latest news
36:35on his Indian River gold count.
36:37How do you think it's going, Monica?
36:39Oh, slow and steady, you know.
36:41Well, what else can you do, right?
36:43There's nobody else that can do it.
36:45Well, you don't really want everybody in here either.
36:48Like the story's always been,
36:51if you keep family in the gold room,
36:54at least if they steal, it stays in the family.
36:57You sure bet.
36:58Isn't that how it's supposed to work, right?
37:01Now, we got some more toys in here, make that easier.
37:05To separate the gold from the fine, worthless dirt,
37:09Monica runs it through a gold table
37:12where water and vibration sort the heavier gold
37:15into the grooves and deposit it in a bucket below.
37:19It's then dried out, ready to be weighed.
37:24OK, pour it up, Monica, I'll see what you got.
37:26All right.
37:43That's pretty nice stuff, huh?
37:45Yeah.
37:51That'll f***ing add a half a million bucks.
37:53You like that?
37:55Take it and run.
37:56Take it and run!
37:58I'm out of here.
37:59Clean this s*** up.
38:02Dry it.
38:03Put it in a jar.
38:05Yeah, put it in a jar.
38:06Save it for a rainy day.
38:08That's never a bad idea.
38:10Anyway.
38:12Young lady, good job, I'm out of here.
38:15Don't go away mad and leave it.
38:17And the more gold you get, the better I like it, right?
38:21Yeah.
38:22OK, later.
38:24With Tony, every part of my life,
38:28he's been, you know, my father, my boss and everything else
38:31for the last, oh, almost 20 years of my life.
38:37So there is no one part of him separate from the other.
38:43Now he's an old man, he can be a little bit more relaxed.
38:48Anytime my kid's around, this guy's like f***ing melted butter in her hands.
38:59After a long day on the mine site,
39:02Tony heads to his Indian River crash pad.
39:06This is where I live.
39:07Old trailer, but who gives a s*** if it's livable?
39:11So...
39:14Open the curtains so I don't live in the dark, I guess.
39:20I never sit here.
39:22Pretty plain, pretty simple, but...
39:26There's the trick, right?
39:29I mean, we're not that fussy as to how or where we live on the claims.
39:33It's nice to have a bit of space by yourself.
39:35We don't spend a great amount of time inside.
39:38And by the time when we put the 12, 13 hours in during the day,
39:42by the time you get down here,
39:45lay on the couch maybe for a minute and then that's it.
39:48Well, I'm going to go check, see if my laundry is dry.
39:55Take all the f***ing socks out.
39:59See? Piece of cake.
40:01That's how you fold your laundry.
40:03You put it in a pile and that is done.
40:07From here on, that's all I own.
40:10Same black shirt.
40:12Same s***, same jeans, same thing, same everything.
40:15Anyway, this is what I've got.
40:18This is where I live.
40:27Well, I just put a hot tub in here the other day.
40:30One of the few things in life I seem to enjoy.
40:33I got one in every other house, too.
40:35So, that's what I seem to enjoy.
40:39Other than that, there's very few things in life that I care for.
40:43So, I had the ports already.
40:45So, I put this thing on.
40:46Then what I did was I had the carpenters put a wall in.
40:49They're not quite finished yet.
40:50Then I put all the old dredge windows in.
40:53Instead of going to waste.
40:55Why not?
40:56Those windows, they're probably 100 years old.
41:00But they don't rot or nothing.
41:02I have to clean them yet.
41:05But I don't even think I'm going to paint them.
41:07I'll just leave them as is.
41:13And today, I'm going to crawl in the hot tub.
41:15So, I'm going to get naked.
41:16So, I think that's it.
41:23Ladies and gentlemen, I got s*** today.
41:29I got s*** today.