Gold Rush S15 E107 Worth Their Weight in Gold
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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.
00:29Ain't no f***ing good life.
00:33Were you 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 f***ing
00:37let me know which is the right side of the bed.
00:41On this gold rush...
00:42I hope it's not the s*** it doesn't look, because otherwise it'll be an expensive day.
00:47The king of the Klondike, Tony Beets, takes on his longest day...
00:51Ho, ho, ho, off we go to see where the next s*** drop is.
00:55As he battles to run two operations...
00:58That bridge, that could be f***ed.
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.
01:11That thing is f***ed.
01:12Okay, tell that guy to get the f*** off that machine.
01:15Okay, boil it up, man, I gotta see what you got.
01:18All in pursuit of big gold.
01:20How many ounces do you have in here?
01:26F***.
01:38You got your clothes on, Minnie?
01:40Yeah.
01:41Good, you got a film crew.
01:43On Paradise Hill, Tony Beets enjoys the creature comforts of home.
01:49This house, it really, really feels good.
01:51Yeah, and it may be part of a trailer or whatever,
01:54but I mean, at least when you come home at night,
01:56it should be somewhat decent.
01:58The way you look at it, I have to look at it,
02:00you're here six, seven months out of the year, right?
02:02So at least you should be comfortable.
02:03Yeah, I'd say so.
02:04The king of the Klondike is running two mining operations,
02:08forcing him to split his time
02:10between an Indian River crash pad 40 miles away
02:14and his home at Paradise with wife Minnie.
02:21Gonna 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,
02:35350-yard-an-hour Paradise Hill Trommel.
02:39Shut it off!
02:40Run by youngest son, Mike.
02:46At the end of the night shift,
02:48Tony checks the sluices to determine if it's time for a cleanup.
02:53Looking pretty good.
02:57It's yellow.
03:01Once you see it lay that thick up on top,
03:04then that means that that thing is almost chock full.
03:09Okay, here they are, Mike. Mike.
03:13I 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?
03:21Do you see that?
03:22That's how thick it lays in there.
03:25They say that if you would want them little squares,
03:28if you would have them full,
03:30then you would have seven ounces in them.
03:33Hey, that looks pretty damn nice, Mike, huh?
03:36Oh, yeah.
03:37What's wrong with that?
03:38I was going to do two rows the whole way.
03:40Well, that is okay.
03:42The more you got to clean up, the better it is now, isn't it?
03:45Yeah.
03:47That's a nice one.
03:49Yeah, I mean, they add up, you know.
03:52Very good looking.
03:55Okay, well, it's good. Let's go.
03:57Yeah, I get cranky if I don't eat.
04:00While the crew gets to work cleaning out the trommel,
04:04Tony and Mike head to breakfast.
04:08Someday I'll be smart enough to cut my laces
04:11because I don't tie the...
04:14because I don't tie the...
04:16but I'll leave them long just in case
04:18maybe someday I'll change my mind.
04:21Stupid.
04:29Is Monica coming, too?
04:31Probably in a minute.
04:33Okay.
04:35Monica, do you copy? Monica?
04:39You want to come to the kitchen?
04:45How's things going, Mike?
04:47Good.
04:49Been having them haul every day.
04:51Had a nice big pay pause as you saw as you drive in.
04:54I seen that. That looks pretty damn good, don't it?
04:56Yes.
04:57Morning.
04:58Hey, Monica, how are you?
04:59Good morning.
05:00Morning.
05:01Fine.
05:02Like your hair.
05:03Thanks.
05:06Got up early this morning?
05:08No. Put it in at night.
05:10Oh, it looks nice.
05:12That's pretty good, yeah.
05:14It lets you plan out your day good.
05:16Yeah.
05:17And then before we get out the f***ing door, we change them.
05:20Yeah.
05:21No we in that statement.
05:23Oh.
05:24Unless you're talking about you and your multiple personalities.
05:27I'm going to go into the inn and lay down, I think.
05:29Are you coming right out, did you say?
05:31Yes, I think so.
05:34Has anyone heard from Kevin?
05:36No.
05:37I don't see that f***ing guy. You?
05:39No.
05:40He's making me have to stop buying spy on him.
05:42You know what you got to do? Just rent a helicopter.
05:44F***.
05:45Oh, I see.
05:46F***.
05:47I could just sit there with both of them.
05:49F***.
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 f***ing great.
06:11Oi!
06:12Okay, what we're going to do is, we're going to go show your mother to make the cuts,
06:16and then we're going to go and bump Kevin.
06:18And spy on that f***er.
06:20You mean that great idea I had?
06:21Yes.
06:22There you go.
06:23Perfect.
06:24Sounds like a plan.
06:25And then we'll f*** it off.
06:26Okay, we'll do it.
06:27Perfect.
06:28Good.
06:30There we go.
06:31Whoa!
06:32Perfect young fella.
06:41With nearly 3,000 acres of gold-rich claims,
06:45the best way for Tony to monitor his empire is from the sky.
06:50I mean, this is the stress we worked on last week.
06:54So we go all the way up to the end pretty soon.
06:59Yeah, make one swing and then we're all good.
07:01Yeah, I'm just looking at all the ground over here that I stripped.
07:05Yep, and we go a little further and then we'll scoot up the valley.
07:10From the 1,300 acres at Paradise Hill, managed by Mike,
07:16it's a 40-mile flight south to the 44 acres Kevin has leased from Tony,
07:24where he's working a three-acre section of the Lynx Cut.
07:29Okay, on this side, guys, that is Kevin's cut up to date.
07:32He should be pretty much on gravel in a lot of places.
07:40See how he's got a yard full of freaking junk already?
07:44Yeah.
07:51This water hole isn't that clean either.
07:55No f***ing wonder.
08:00There he is, there he is.
08:02Little f***er.
08:04F***.
08:08I can already see the glare from here.
08:11He actually looks kind of bad.
08:17Looks like someone made a little cut down here.
08:19Yeah, that must have done some testing, as it is, Mike.
08:26Next door to Kevin's claim on Scribner is Tony's 1,200-acre Indian River claim.
08:34Where this season, he's running two wash plants, a fleet of iron,
08:39and a 50-strong workforce who've been on their own since Tony left for Paradise Hill two days ago.
08:50I don't know why that D11 isn't running, but whatever.
08:54They have the D10 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?
09:05I just got slapped and told no.
09:08Oh, really?
09:10Is that that lady in the back?
09:12I think both of them are done.
09:14Oh, really?
09:15I don't know why, I'm having a blast.
09:17It's kind of cool seeing everything from up here.
09:19You do, yeah.
09:20There you go.
09:35I can't hang around here all day, you know.
09:37I actually have a real job.
09:40OK, see you later.
09:44Let's go!
09:50Here on the Indian River, we're doing pretty good.
09:52We just cleaned out this cut here beside us.
09:55I mean, this loose box up there is running all the material of another cut.
10:00We're still stretched pretty thin, really.
10:02On the end of the day, whatever it takes to make it work, that's what we're going to have to do.
10:07Back on his Indian River claims, after 48 hours away...
10:12Let's see what the f*** we're doing over there.
10:14Tony must make sure progress stripping a new section of the comeback cut is on track.
10:20Here is cousin Mike.
10:22Overseen by foreman, cousin Mike.
10:25How's it all got going, Mike?
10:26What's that?
10:27Are you going to put the pump in already?
10:29No, but we wanted to drag it over here.
10:31Good.
10:32Good, get that organized.
10:33Always got to drive around, see what's happening.
10:37Fingers crossed it's going good today.
10:42Anyway, most of the time, cousin Mike lives after this.
10:46I come in once in a while and f*** them all up, but that is normal.
10:50I'm pretty lucky to have him.
10:51But the same as having Mike on the hill, couldn't be any better.
10:57I like working for Tony.
10:59You 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.
11:09The goal this year is big for Tony, but it's also big for me.
11:12This 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.
11:24Who the f*** is that?
11:30Are you f***ing serious?
11:34They're all the f***ing drug.
11:43I mean, if you look at the top of the spill pile there, we have one that the box fell over.
11:50After 48 hours at Paradise Hill, Tony Beetz has returned to work.
11:56But whoever is in there wasn't thinking, right?
11:59You know?
12:03This f***ing guy, I mean, it's, whatever.
12:10Now let's go fix up or screw up.
12:15In the comeback cut, a rookie driver has tipped a rock truck on the waste pile.
12:20In the comeback cut, a rookie driver has tipped a rock truck on the waste pile
12:25and becomes stuck slowing down production.
12:29Some of them times when these people get stuck or when things go upside down or whatever,
12:34I like to do that myself.
12:37And I likely have more experience than anybody else around there,
12:41so I do the f***ing myself.
12:51Park it.
12:54Okay, let's go rescue that thing.
13:04Oh 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, like, randomly by itself.
13:18To right the 34-ton rock truck and get production back on track,
13:23Tony takes control of the 750 excavator.
13:39I can't get on the side that I want to go, so now I'm going to have to push it over,
13:44and preferably I like to pull it over.
13:48The rock truck is dangerously close to the edge of the pile,
13:52where the dirt is less compacted and could collapse at any moment.
13:57Well, I hope it's not as s*** as it looks, because otherwise it'll be an expensive day, so to speak.
14:03Okay.
14:11The way it doesn't want to flip over easy is because you still got to have a load of dirt in it.
14:17So you got to do a little bit extra f***ing around in order to get them to tip over.
14:28Okay, drive ahead a little bit.
14:34You got your dips in?
14:37Nice and slow, nice and slow.
14:55Hold it. Dump it.
15:03F***ing wrecked by now, wasn't it?
15:13Hey, stop, stop, stop.
15:15That thing is f***ed.
15:23Let me see.
15:28What a boy.
15:29Thank you very f***ing much.
15:31F*** me.
15:33That s*** didn't have to be you, joint s***.
15:38The universal joint, essential for handling the uneven terrain, is broken,
15:45taking the truck out of action until it can be replaced.
15:51Shut it off, leave it right there.
15:53We'll see if we can find you another one.
15:59Tony was pretty pissed off about the whole ordeal,
16:01but I'm going back to work and he said that things like that happen, you know.
16:07So I just got to do what I got to do and keep on going.
16:15Yeah, I've seen that before.
16:17You get used to it.
16:19So you go through this s*** all day long.
16:22So some days you have nothing and then like the day when you got a whole pile of it, whatever.
16:27It's okay.
16:28But a lot of it is so unnecessary.
16:31It's not worth it.
16:40They got to put bacon in there.
16:44But this way, you get some grease on it, yeah?
16:47It's good for your immune system.
16:51Is that the secret to a long career?
16:53Probably.
16:56Hey, doggy.
16:58Whose dog is this, Tony?
17:00I don't know.
17:10I mean...
17:12F***ing idiot.
17:13Huh?
17:15F***.
17:17Dumb f***er.
17:19Sucks to be him, right?
17:30Almost.
17:36Anyway, this is where Kevin is mining.
17:39He's on his own, so that is his party.
17:42I mean, sometimes I wander in and have a look.
17:44A little bit of visor, 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.
17:57Never 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.
18:20As landlord, Tony receives a 10% royalty on everything Kevin mines.
18:25Already working the lynx cut, now Kevin is looking for his next spot.
18:31So what are you guys looking for?
18:32Gold.
18:33Answers, mostly.
18:34Gold.
18:35You're looking for the yellow stuff.
18:36Very helpful.
18:37We just want to know what next for the ground we should test.
18:40Everybody, to my knowledge, all they ever mined here is...
18:45this.
18:46But you got to remember, when they mined here, the gold was likely at 200 or 300 bucks an ounce.
18:51I know.
18:52If not less.
18:53Because the last cut down here, I think, was 30 years ago.
18:56Some could have been left behind.
18:58Some of them, maybe they stripped it, checked it.
19:00It was no good.
19:01You just don't know.
19:02So 30 years ago, was it still pretty much dozer mining back then?
19:06Well, that's all the money they had.
19:07If you had a D8, you did great.
19:09How much did they miss back then doing just dozering off the floor, like all the pay?
19:13Well, you need something to leave so it can grow.
19:16So the next generation has something to look for.
19:19Right?
19:20Anyway, I did this downstream, so where is your best gold?
19:23Right in the beginning.
19:24Yeah.
19:25Because that's where it came first.
19:26Yeah.
19:27Before it got here.
19:28I've been eyeing that up the whole time.
19:30Test it, and then you know for sure.
19:31Otherwise, you won't be happy.
19:33Perfect.
19:34You didn't happen to have that test plant, did you?
19:36I don't know where the **** that is.
19:38All right.
19:39That is probably likely still on the hill.
19:41Anything else?
19:42No, no, no.
19:43Just the test plant.
19:44I got one sitting there.
19:46Pick it up.
19:47Pick up the truck.
19:48Pick it up.
19:49Okay, gentlemen.
19:50Okay.
19:51Thanks, 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.
20:04Because then I'll take it back and I'll up my royalties.
20:08Just a big **** kid, eh?
20:10Oh, yeah.
20:11This is probably the highlight of a **** day, honestly.
20:14I bet that does answer a few questions.
20:16Yeah, yeah.
20:17For sure.
20:18And we can mine that far piece over to our border as we're sluicing.
20:22Yeah.
20:23They almost certainly left some stuff.
20:25So, I'll see you both guys.
20:26Bye.
20:27Bye.
20:28Bye.
20:29Bye.
20:30Bye.
20:31Bye.
20:32Bye.
20:33Bye.
20:34Bye.
20:35Bye.
20:36They left some stuff.
20:37So, I'll see you about getting that test plant over.
20:39Cabin, mining on its own was great to see.
20:43I had my turn.
20:44So, let the other people have theirs.
20:47Right?
20:48I mean at some point they all gotta fly the nest.
20:51They got another 30, 40 years to **** around with whatever they want to do.
20:55It's something to be jealous about, ****.
20:57Right?
20:59Can you imagine the **** mess I'd make if I had another 40 years?
21:04It's like a disaster, isn't it?
21:09Coming up.
21:10The cut has not been cleaned properly.
21:12You want me to help you do your job?
21:16Pour it up, Monica.
21:17I'll see what you got.
21:18I'll do it.
21:32After checking in on the cuts, Tony heads to his office.
21:48Music
21:53I'm probably the smartest one here.
21:55It doesn't necessarily mean I have to know how to type or know the alphabet.
22:02Emails, I don't answer any of them, ever.
22:06It's something I'm not smart enough to do, I guess.
22:09Usually quotes and prices that you look at and some of them the girls reply to and some of them they don't.
22:16Today, looking at new people.
22:18Last week we hired another 16.
22:21We'll see how many we're going 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 beats his hiring new crew.
22:32But 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.
22:43It's the same as when you introduce yourself, when you shake somebody's hand, you give them a f***ing hand.
22:48None of them lame dink ones.
22:49You f***ing wipe your pants when you give them a f***ing hand.
22:52Hello?
22:53But if somebody looks you in the eye and gives you a good hand, pay attention, there's something there.
22:59Full of s***. I'll hire him.
23:03Yeah.
23:05That's enough f***ing.
23:08There we go.
23:13No matter how strong their handshake, for Tony to reach his goal of running two plants 24-7,
23:20he 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.
23:38Earlier in the season, the Greenhorns stripped 20 feet of worthless overburden
23:44to reach the gold-rich gravel layer which was processed through the plant.
23:50But Tony believes some of the gravels were left behind, potentially worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.
23:57Anyway guys, let's have a quick peek here because I don't think we're going deep enough, you see.
24:02I mean, it's the first time for you guys, so you don't know.
24:05But then it is my job to tell you guys how it's supposed to work.
24:12So, let me show you how to take a f***ing pan.
24:23Okay, so you see that, Jeff? One, two, three, four, five, right there.
24:27And that was just right on the top.
24:28That was just right on the top, too. Anyway, guys, let's keep going.
24:32Let's keep going.
24:34Tony's suspicion confirmed. It's down to rookie miner DJ to take out the remaining pay.
24:45But like, this whole little ridge, that's all pay, right?
24:49So start on the end and work your way back and take at least one or two feet of material.
24:55Because we can both see there's lots of gravel left, right? You know?
25:00Yeah.
25:01I mean, you can see it, right?
25:09Spread your toes a bit.
25:14It works, honestly. Believe me, it works.
25:16I know.
25:22So, the cut has not been cleaned properly.
25:25I mean, we had four different operators in this cut and all these people have to learn how this works.
25:31Because there is so much gravel left and so much bedrock that they didn't take.
25:36So, I bet you a quarter of the values that were here are still in the cut.
25:41But, hey, you know what? They all tried their best.
25:44They have to learn it somewhere.
25:47So, let's go and get them.
25:48DJ is going to go in here and he's going to do the final cleanup.
25:56I'm Derjan Postema.
25:58I'm saying it in my own language for now.
26:01But most other guys, they call me DJ because it's easier to pronounce.
26:07And, yeah, I'm coming from Holland.
26:10I'm almost at the same place as where Tony came from, from Friesland.
26:17Yeah, it's pretty difficult because, yeah, the conditioning.
26:21You see the water, the different colors in the dirt and the gravel and that kind of stuff.
26:27So, I'm getting used to it now.
26:32I personally have quite a hard time telling the difference between like hay and hard rock or just overburden and stuff like that.
26:39There's such high expectations and such a specific way that Tony likes things done.
26:45It's an intimidating atmosphere.
26:47There's still frozen dirt here underneath my pocket here.
26:51Maybe you can take it out for me?
26:56You mean you want me to help you or do you the job?
27:04No, I'm just asking you for a favor.
27:07Okay, I'll be there in a sec. Let me finish this up, would you please?
27:18So, are you ready for trucks?
27:20**** yeah.
27:25Now that Tony's happy DJ is getting all the remaining pay, the trucks roll in and start hauling it to the plant.
27:34I mean, there is always a training period and that's what you take a chance.
27:38But, I mean, we knew that it was going to happen, so who cares?
27:42We knew that it was going to happen, so who cares?
27:45It'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 and especially when I'm talking in my own language.
27:59I'm learning a lot from Tony, yeah.
28:05Yeah, go ahead.
28:06That bridge is out. It looks very rotten, but I have to get across.
28:12So, let's go fix the road, I guess.
28:37See, like I said, you can put a rock within 100 acres and they **** find it.
28:41See how many times they've driven over the **** thing?
28:44Now, this is just a little one. They do the same to the big ones.
28:51And for some reason, nobody gets out of the **** truck and picks them up.
28:58If a loaded rock truck drives over top of that, that means that truck tire has to squash this much at one point.
29:06That's a 40-ton load that it got in there.
29:09So, I mean, that punctures the tire almost.
29:11That **** with the structure in the tire.
29:14See, they don't think about that, but what it is, it'll cost you money.
29:25At Indian River, mine boss Tony Beets is having a day.
29:30He's been driving his claim since 6.30 a.m.
29:34And now, the road connecting camp to the rest of the mine has collapsed, leaving an old bridge as the only access point.
29:52That bridge deck is ****. We put it in this spring and never bothered fixing it since we always had the road beside it over the culvert.
30:00Nah, ****.
30:03The bridge is unsuitable for the heavy equipment, so Tony must rebuild the road or risk his biggest iron becoming stranded in the cut.
30:14Now, I guess, I'm gonna dig out the approach from the bridge, throw it in the hole to reestablish the road.
30:23So, let's go fix the **** road, I guess.
30:31Like this, straighten it out. Nice and slow. Good. Hold it right there. Dumper, please.
30:45I still enjoy running the equipment once in a while. Yes, absolutely.
30:50Especially when there's something that I did and I didn't like it. This way, I can nicely improve it. You know what I mean?
31:00People ask me, when are you gonna retire? Well, **** never.
31:06I mean, in a perfect life, one of these days, I'll fall dead in an excavator or something.
31:12And at this point, I wouldn't care because I'd be **** dead now, wouldn't I?
31:16Hold it tight.
31:29I didn't know if you lost load or gained last load.
31:37We should have a road back in. Maybe temporary one, but at least we can drive back and forth normal and not having to take the chances on the bridge.
31:46Let's go.
31:55I'll put a grader on it, and for now, it'll do just fine.
32:01It cuts down the speed. You put a **** S-bend in there, you see, people go slower. Maybe.
32:08Look at that **** eagle over there. I guess he must be checking the cutout to see if there's any fish in it yet, probably. That's what he's doing.
32:17Oh, there he goes. Look at that. Beautiful. Beautiful.
32:32Good.
32:33Good.
32:36All that's left is for Tony to test his work.
32:48That's perfect. Project finished. Next step, supper.
33:04This is what you call **** parking. If we could get any closer, I'd probably drive on a deck and be close to the door.
33:24Still on the clock, Tony grabs a quick dinner before heading to the gold room.
33:29I was snooping for more buttermilk, but I better not drink all this ****.
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 going back.
33:44So you take two scoops. That's what you do. Then you take these and put them on top.
33:52Then what you do is you squish this **** all over it. See, now you got a little extra.
33:59Would it be nice next time if somebody put that **** on tight? There.
34:04See, it's so nice now he can clean it up.
34:07Then you put this over top of it so then it really looks like ****, so to speak.
34:12And then you go eat it.
34:22Anyway, I got to go check on the gold, I guess.
34:36I'm going to go have a look at the dredge. I haven't been there yet.
34:40I'm going to go have a look, see how it handled the winter.
34:43In 2016, Tony paid $1 million for a second dredge.
34:48Originally built in 1946.
34:51I mean, we got the sluice block, we got the trommel in there, we got most of the big stuff on it.
34:58After two years, he sunk another million dollars in moving and rebuilding it,
35:04but never finished the job, and it's been derelict since 2018.
35:09One of these days, it wouldn't bother me to take half a million bucks or better.
35:15And just finish it off just because I can.
35:18And then see it run.
35:20Overall, as long as we don't worry too much about what it looks like,
35:25it's not that big of a job to get it back together.
35:46I'll go have a look in the gold room, I guess.
35:49My least favorite place, I think.
35:53I don't mind mining for gold and everything, but I have no use for cleaning that s***.
35:59That's why Monica does most of that.
36:02Say I'm really not into that.
36:05Why is that?
36:07Takes patience.
36:09And I'm full of that.
36:16Hey, what's happening?
36:18Oh, not too much, you?
36:20Screening, screening, screening.
36:22Never ending.
36:24Tony Beets has been run ragged, but still needs to make his last check of the day.
36:30The gold room and the latest news on his Indian River gold count.
36:35How are things going, Monica?
36:37Oh, slow and steady, you know.
36:39Well, what else can you do, eh?
36:41There's nobody else that can do it.
36:42Wow, you don't really want everybody in here either.
36:45No.
36:47Like the story's always been, if they,
36:50you should keep family in the gold room.
36:53At least if they steal, it stays in the family.
36:56You sure bet.
36:58Isn't that how it's supposed to work, eh?
37:00Now, oh, we got some more toys in here.
37:03Make that easier.
37:05To separate the gold from the fine, worthless dirt,
37:08Monica runs it through a gold table,
37:11where water and vibrations sort the heavier gold into the grooves
37:15and deposit it in a bucket below.
37:18It's then dried out, ready to be weighed.
37:22Okay, pour it up, Monica.
37:24Let's see what you got.
37:26All right.
37:39That's pretty nice stuff, eh?
37:46That's a f***ing head of half a million bucks.
37:49You like that?
37:51Take it and run.
37:53Take it and run.
37:55Get them out of here.
37:57Clean this s*** up.
37:59Dry it.
38:01Put it in a jar.
38:03Yeah, put it in a jar.
38:05Save it for a rainy day.
38:06That's never a bad idea.
38:08Anyway.
38:10Young lady, good job.
38:12I'm out of here.
38:14Don't go away mad.
38:16And the more gold you get, the better I like it.
38:19Right?
38:20Yep.
38:22Okay, later.
38:24With Tony, every part of my life,
38:27he's been, you know, my father, my boss and everything else
38:30for the last, oh, almost 20 years of my life.
38:33And so, there is no one part of him separate from the other.
38:40Now, he's an old man.
38:43He can be a little bit more relaxed.
38:45Any time my kid's around, this guy's like f***ing melted butter in her hands.
38:57After a long day on the mine site,
38:59Tony heads to his Indian River crash pad.
39:03This is where I live.
39:05Old trailer, but who gives a s*** if it's livable?
39:08So,
39:12open the curtains
39:14so I don't live in the dark, I guess.
39:17Yeah.
39:19I never sit here.
39:21Pretty plain, pretty simple.
39:23But,
39:25there's the trick, right?
39:26I mean, we're not that fussy as to how or where we live on the claims.
39:30It's nice to have a bit of space by yourself.
39:32We don't spend a great amount of time inside.
39:35And by the time when we put the 12, 13 hours in during the day,
39:39by the time you get down here,
39:41lay on the couch maybe for a minute, and then that's it.
39:45Well, we're gonna go check,
39:47see if my laundry is dry.
39:52Take all this off.
39:54Take all the s*** socks out.
39:58See? Piece of cake.
40:00That's how you fold your laundry.
40:02You put it on a pile,
40:04and that is done.
40:06From here on,
40:08that's all I own.
40:10Same black shirt,
40:12same s***, same jeans, same thing, same everything.
40:15Anyway,
40:17this is what I've got, this is where I live.
40:24Well, I just put a hot tub in here the other day.
40:27One of the few things in life I seem to enjoy.
40:30I got one in every other house, too.
40:33So, that's what I seem to enjoy.
40:36Other than that, there's very few things in life that I care for.
40:40So, I had the ports already,
40:42so I put this thing on.
40:44Then what I did was I had the carpenter put a wall in,
40:47they're not quite finished yet.
40:49Then I put all the old dredge windows in.
40:50Then I put all the old dredge windows in.
40:53Instead of going to waste.
40:55Why not?
40:57Those windows, they're probably 100 years old.
40:59But 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.
41:12And today, I'm going to crawl in the hot tub,
41:15so I'm going to get naked,
41:17so I think that's it.
41:21Ladies and gentlemen,
41:23I got s*** to do.