I like the show. It's very entertaining and probably not even a realistic portrayal of sea dredging. That's fine, since I'm not one of the morons who sit on their couch and think they're going to do this for a living sometime in the future and make millions of dollars. Apparently they don't watch the show, since it certainly doesn't portray it as a lucrative business, or an easy lifestyle. Almost every interview on the show is about someone being broke. You have to watch the entire season before anyone makes any money, if they even do. They complain about the quality of work and the low pay they achieve for their troubles there. Even the people who have been doing this their entire lives aren't rich. So now these fans are going to move across the continent, where the weather is worse, the work is harder, and the pay is still very poor. They know nothing about boats, mechanics, swimming, the sea, gold, Alaska, etc. They don't any much money to get started either.
In response, I have decided to produce a show called Covington Street Gold. In it, you have to go around and find people selling gold jewelry and other items on the cheap. At the end of the day, you go to Willie Lomax's Foo's Gold, the mobile pawn shop and exchange owned and operated by the only man to survive 50+ homeless years on the streets of Covington. He will offer you two dollars per piece of gold you bring him. Series premiere this summer.
Foo's Gold may doze, but never close.
