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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.
00:37So you f***ing let me know which is the right side of the bed.
00:40On 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.
00:51Ho, ho, ho, off we go to see where the next f***ing stop is.
00:55As he battles to run two operations.
00:58That bridge, that could be f***ed.
01:00Gets tough with new recruits.
01:03You mean you want me to help you do your job?
01:05And fights to save a key piece of equipment.
01:09Hey, stop, stop, stop.
01:11That thing is f***ed.
01:13Okay, tell that guy to get the f*** off that machine.
01:16Okay, board it up, Monaco, see what you got.
01:18All in pursuit of big gold.
01:21How many ounces do you have in here?
01:26You got your clothes on, Minnie?
01:40Yeah.
01:41Good, you got a film crew.
01:43On Paradise Hill, Tony Beats enjoys the creature comforts of home.
01:49This house, it really, really feels good.
01:51Yeah, and it may be part of a trailer or whatever, but I mean.
01:55At least when you come home at night, that should be somewhat decent.
01:58The way you look at it, I have to look at it, you're here six, seven months out of the year, right?
02:02So at least you should be comfortable.
02:04Yeah, I'd say so.
02:05The king of the Klondike is running two mining operations.
02:09Forcing him to split his time between an Indian River crash pad 40 miles away.
02:15And his home at Paradise with wife, Minnie.
02:17Hey, hey, hey.
02:21Going to go see how Mike is doing.
02:23It'd be nice to pull some gold out of 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.
02:46At the end of the night shift, Tony 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, then that means that that thing is almost chock-full.
03:09Okay, here they are, Mike.
03:10Mike.
03:14I mean, look how thick it is in there.
03:16Yeah.
03:16And 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 squares, if you would have them full, then you would have seven ounces in them.
03:34Hey, that looks pretty damn nice, Mike, huh?
03:37Oh, yeah.
03:38What the f*** is wrong with that?
03:39I thought I was going to do two rows the whole way.
03:41Well, that is okay.
03:43The more you got to clean up, the better it is now, isn't it?
03:45Yeah.
03:50That's a nice one.
03:53Yeah, I mean, they add up, you know.
03:56Very good looking.
03:58Okay, that'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 f***, but I leave them long just in case maybe someday I'll change my mind.
04:22F***ing stupid.
04:30Is Monica coming, dude?
04:32Probably in a minute.
04:33Okay.
04:36Monica, do you copy? Monica?
04:39I'm back.
04:40You want to come to the kitchen?
04:42Yes, I'm on my way.
04:46How's things going, Mike?
04:48Good.
04:49I've been having them haul every day, a nice big set of paintballs as you saw as you drive in.
04:54I've seen that. That looks pretty damn good, don't it?
04:57Yes.
04:58Morning.
04:59Hey, good morning, Monica. How are you?
05:01Morning.
05:01Fine.
05:02Like your hair.
05:03Thanks.
05:07Got up early this morning?
05:08No.
05:10Put 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.
05:18And then before we get out the f***ing door, we change them.
05:21Yeah.
05:22No we in that statement.
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.
05:34Has anyone heard from Kevin?
05:36No.
05:37I don't see that f***ing guy. You?
05:39No.
05:40Mike and me have to stop by and spy on him.
05:42You know what you've got to do? Just rent a helicopter.
05:45Oh, I see.
05:47We could just sit there, both of us.
05:50We should too.
05:52This season, eldest son Kevin is running his own operation near the Indian River.
05:58Yeah, let's get a helicopter.
05:59This is f***ing great.
06:14Oi!
06:15Okay, what we're going to do is, we're going to go show your mother to make the cuts.
06:19Uh-huh.
06:19And then we're going to go and bump Kevin and spy on that f***er.
06:22You mean that great idea I had?
06:24Yes, there you go.
06:25Perfect.
06:25Sounds like a plan.
06:26And that will f*** off.
06:27Okay, we'll do it.
06:28Perfect.
06:30Good.
06:32There we go.
06:33Whoa!
06:34Perfect, young fella.
06:36F***.
06:43With nearly 3,000 acres of gold-rich claims,
06:47the best way for Tony to monitor his empire is 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, make one swing and then we're all good.
07:03Yeah, I'm just looking at all the ground over here that I stripped.
07:07Yep.
07:07And 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,
07:17it's a 40-mile flight south to the 44 acres Kevin has leased from Tony,
07:26where he's working a three-acre section of the Lynx Cut.
07:30Okay, on this side, guys, that is Kevin's cut up to date.
07:34He should be pretty much on gravel in a lot of places.
07:43See how we got a yard full of freaking junk already?
07:46Yeah.
07:53This water hole isn't that clean either.
07:57No f***ing water.
07:58Hello?
08:00There he is, there he is.
08:03Little s***.
08:07I can already see the glare from here.
08:10He actually looks kind of bad.
08:16Looked like someone made a little cut down here.
08:18Yeah, that must have done some testing, as it is, Mike.
08:22Next door to Kevin's claim on Scribner
08:25is Tony's 1,200-acre Indian River claim,
08:30where this season, he's running two wash plants, a fleet of iron,
08:35and a 50-strong workforce who've been on their own
08:40since Tony left for Paradise Hill two days ago.
08:46I don't know what to do.
08:48I don't know why that D11 isn't running, but whatever.
08:52They have the D10 going down there,
08:55so apparently that was f***ed after all, so to speak.
08:58Is there anything else you want to see, Mike?
09:03I just got slapped and told no.
09:05Oh, really?
09:07Is that that lady in the back?
09:10I think both of them are done.
09:12Oh, really?
09:13I don't know why. I'm having a blast.
09:15It's crazy.
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. There you go.
09:35I can't hang around here all day, you know.
09:38I actually have a real job.
09:40OK, see you later.
09:42Go!
09:48Here on the Indian River, we're doing pretty good.
09:51We just cleaned out this cut here beside us.
09:54I mean, this loose box up there is running,
09:56hauling material out another cut.
09:58We're still stretched pretty thin, really.
10:01On the end of the day, whatever it takes to make it work,
10:04that's what we're going to have to do.
10:06Back on his Indian River claims,
10:08after 48 hours away,
10:10Let's see what the f*** we're doing over there.
10:13Tony must make sure progress stripping a new section
10:16of the comeback cut is on track.
10:18Here is Cousin Mike.
10:20Overseen by foreman Cousin Mike.
10:23How's it all got going, Mike?
10:25What's that?
10:26Are you going to put the pump in already?
10:28No, but we wanted to drag it over here.
10:30Good. Good. Get that organized.
10:32I'm just going to drive around, see what's happening.
10:35Those small bumps.
10:36All the lips.
10:36Fingers crossed it's going good today.
10:41Anyway, most of the time, Cousin Mike lives after this.
10:45I come in once in a while and f*** them all up,
10:47but that is normal.
10:49I'm pretty lucky to have him.
10:51The same as having Mike on the hill.
10:53Couldn't be any better.
10:56I like working for Tony.
10:58You know what you get.
10:59You know what you have.
11:01Tony is still not slowing down,
11:03but running up and down between two mines,
11:06that's very hard.
11:08The goal this year is big for Tony,
11:10but it's also big for me.
11:11This is the first year I'm in this position,
11:14and I always like to do a good job,
11:16but especially now because it's a big thing.
11:23Who the f*** is that?
11:25Oh.
11:34Are you f***ing serious?
11:38They're all the f***ing drunk.
11:48I mean, if you look at the top of the spill pile there,
11:50we have one that the box fell over.
11:55After 48 hours at Paradise Hill,
11:58Tony Beets has returned to his Indian River claim.
12:02But whoever is in there wasn't thinking, right?
12:04You know?
12:08Oh, this f***ing guy.
12:10I mean, it's...
12:11Whatever.
12:15Now let's go fix up or screw up.
12:21In the comeback cut,
12:22a rookie driver has tipped a rock truck on the waste pile
12:26and become stuck slowing down production.
12:30Some of them times when these people get stuck
12:32or 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.
13:00What happened there?
13:02Oh yeah, when I was going up to the dump,
13:04I just started feeling like I was sinking in, you know?
13:07So I gave it a little more gas, but I got stuck.
13:10Then I was trying to empty the box to go out,
13:12but then it just flipped, like, randomly by itself.
13:18To right the 34-ton rock truck
13:20and get production back on track,
13:22Tony takes control of the 750 excavator.
13:30I can't get on the side that I want to go,
13:33so now I'm going to have to push it over,
13:35and preferably, I like to pull it over.
13:39The rock truck is dangerously close to the edge of the pile,
13:43where the dirt is less compacted
13:45and could collapse at any moment.
13:48Well, I hope it's not going to collapse.
13:50I don't know.
13:53Well, the way it doesn't want to flip over easy
13:55is because you still got to have a load of dirt in it.
13:58So you got to do a little bit extra...around
14:02in order to get it back on track.
14:06We're going to get it back on track.
14:09And we're going to get it back on track.
14:12It's going to work out.
14:13We're going to get it back on track.
14:15It is going to work out.
14:18It is going to work out.
14:20around in order to get him to tip over.
14:28Okay, drive ahead a little bit.
14:34You got the dips in?
14:37Nice and slow, nice and slow.
14:50Oh, dump it.
15:03F***ing wrecked by now, wouldn't it?
15:13Okay, stop, stop, stop.
15:15That thing is f***ed.
15:24Let me see.
15:28What a boy.
15:29Thank you very f***ing much.
15:32F*** me.
15:33That f***ing thing will be you, joint.
15:39The universal joint, essential for handling the uneven terrain,
15:44is broken, taking the truck out of action until it can be replaced.
15:51That, I believe, is 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
16:05he said that things like that happen, you know.
16:07So I just gotta do what I gotta do and keep on going.
16:14Yeah, I've seen that before.
16:16You get used to it, so you go through this s*** all day long.
16:21So some days you have nothing and like today, you got a whole pile of it, whatever.
16:25It's okay.
16:27But a lot of it is so unnecessary.
16:38They gotta 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?
17:00My neighbour.
17:10I mean, f***ing idiot.
17:13Huh?
17:14F***.
17:17Dumb f***er.
17:19Sucks to be him, right?
17:31Almost.
17:37Anyway, 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.
17:45A little bit of visor, a little push here or there.
17:47After spying on Kevin's operation from the sky,
17:51now Tony is heading to Scribner for a closer look.
17:54I had this ground for, I don't know what, 25 years or so.
17:58Never really did anything with it.
18:00But now that Kevin wanted to start mining, well, bingo, here you go.
18:11Hey, Kevin.
18:12Hey, Tony.
18:12How's it going, Tony?
18:14Hey, pretty good, John.
18:15And I'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.
18:26Already working the lynx cut, now Kevin is looking for his next spot.
18:32So what are you guys looking for?
18:34Answers, mostly.
18:35Gold.
18:36Are you looking for the yellow stuff?
18:37Very helpful.
18:38We just want to know what's next for the ground.
18:40We should test.
18:41Everybody, to my knowledge, all they ever mined here is...
18:46this.
18:47But you got to remember, when they mined here,
18:49the gold was likely at $200 or $300 an ounce.
18:52I know.
18:52If not less.
18:54Because last cut down here, I think it was 30 years ago,
18:57some couldn't be left behind.
18:58Some of them, maybe they stripped it, checked it.
19:01It was no good.
19:02You 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,
19:13like all the pay?
19:14Well, you need something to leave so it can grow.
19:17So the next generation has something to look for, right?
19:20Anyway, I did this downstream.
19:22So where is your best gold?
19:24Right in the beginning.
19:25Yeah.
19:25Because that's where it came first.
19:27Yeah.
19:27Before it got here.
19:29I've been eyeing that up the whole time.
19:30Test it, and then you know for sure.
19:32Otherwise, you won't be happy.
19:33Perfect.
19:34You didn't happen to have that test plant, did you?
19:37I don't know what the **** that is.
19:38All right.
19:39That is probably likely still on the hill.
19:42Anything else?
19:43No, no, no.
19:43Just the test plant.
19:45I got one sitting there.
19:46Pick it up, pick it back.
19:47Pick it back.
19:48Perfect.
19:49Okay, gentlemen.
19:50Okay, thanks, Tony.
19:51Have as much fun as I do.
19:53Oh, no.
19:53That 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.
20:10Just a big **** kid, eh?
20:22Oh, yeah.
20:23This is probably the highlight of the **** day, honestly.
20:26That does answer a few questions.
20:28Yeah, yeah.
20:28For sure.
20:29And we can mine that far piece over to our border as we're sluicing.
20:34Yeah.
20:35They almost certainly left some stuff,
20:36so I'll see about getting that test plant over.
20:40Kevin, mining on its own was great to see.
20:43I had my turn, so let other people have theirs.
20:47Right?
20:48I mean, at some point, they all got to 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, ****, right?
21:00Can you imagine the **** mess I could make if I had another 40 years?
21:04That'd be a disaster, wouldn't it?
21:06Coming up...
21:07The cut has not been cleaned properly.
21:10You want me to help you do your job?
21:14Pull it up, Monica.
21:14I'll see what you got.
21:28Okay.
21:32After checking in on the cuts, Tony heads to his office.
21:53I'm probably the smartest one here.
21:55Doesn'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,
22:12and some of them the girls reply to and some of them they don't.
22:16Today, looking at new people.
22:18We, last week, we hired another 16.
22:21We'll see how many we're going to hire this week.
22:24But if we're going to start running 24 hours a day with two boxes,
22:27we need a pile of people.
22:29Stretched thin, Tony beats his 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,
22:40you're an idiot not to take him.
22:43Same as when he introduces himself, when you shake somebody's hand,
22:46you give him a ****ing hand.
22:48None of them lame dink ones.
22:50You ****ing wipe your pens when you give them a ****ing hand, hello.
22:53But if somebody looks you in the eye and gives you a good hand,
22:56pay attention, there's something there.
22:59Full of ****, I'll hire them.
23:03Yeah.
23:05That's enough of a ****.
23:08There we go.
23:14No matter how strong their handshake,
23:16for Tony to reach his goal of running two plants 24-7,
23:21he 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,
23:35but I think they left a lot of pay behind.
23:40Earlier in the season, the Greenhorns stripped 20 feet of worthless overburden
23:45to reach the gold-rich gravel layer which was processed through the plant.
23:51But Tony believes some of the gravels were left behind,
23:54potentially worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.
23:58Anyway, guys, let's have a quick peek here
24:00because 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.
24:06But then it is my job to tell you guys how it's supposed to work.
24:09So, let me show you how to take a f****** pan.
24:21Okay, so you see that, Jeff?
24:22One, two, three, four, five, right there.
24:24And that was just right on the top.
24:26That was just right on the top, too.
24:27Anyway, guys, let's keep going.
24:31Tony's suspicion confirmed.
24:33It's down to rookie miner DJ,
24:36But like, this whole little ridge, that's all pay, right?
24:40So, start on the end and work your way back
24:43and take at least one or two feet of material
24:46because we can both see there's lots of gravel left, right?
24:50You know?
24:51Yeah.
24:52I mean, you can see it, right?
24:53Right?
24:54It was good risk one there.
24:56I'm a little bit worried about the next one.
24:58I mean, I don't know if we're going to make it.
25:00I don't know if we're going to make it.
25:02I don't know if we're going to make it.
25:03I don't know if we're going to make it.
25:05I'm a little bit scared of this.
25:07Yeah.
25:14It works, honestly.
25:15Believe 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
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.
25:36So, I bet you a quarter of the values that were here
25:40are still in the cut.
25:41But 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 is going to go in here
25:51and he's going to do the final cleanup.
25:56I'm Dirjan Postema.
25:59I'm saying it in my own language for now.
26:01But 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 as where Tony came from,
26:15from Friesland.
26:17Yeah, it's pretty difficult because, yeah,
26:21the conditionings and you see the water
26:23and the different colours in the dirt
26:26and the gravel and that kind of stuff.
26:28So, I'm getting used to it now.
26:32I personally have quite a hard time
26:34telling the difference between 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?
26:59Maybe you want me to help you do your job?
27:01No, I'm just asking you for a favour.
27:10OK, I'll be there in a sec.
27:11Let me finish this up, would you please?
27:21So, are you ready for trucks?
27:22**** yeah.
27:24Now that Tony's happy DJ is getting all the remaining pay,
27:29the trucks roll in and start hauling it to the plant.
27:33I mean, there's always a training period
27:35and that's what you take your chance.
27:37But, I mean, we knew that it was going to happen,
27:40so who cares?
27:42It's just the cost of doing business sometimes.
27:45They got to get started somewhere.
27:49Tony's got to get started.
27:51Tony is a pretty good person to talk with
27:55and especially when I'm talking in my own language.
27:57I'm learning a lot from Tony, yeah.
28:01Tony, do you copy?
28:04Yeah, go ahead.
28:05That bridge is out.
28:06It looks very rotten, but I have to get across.
28:11So, let's go fix the road, I guess.
28:20So, like I said, you can put a rock within 100 acres
28:40and they **** find it.
28:42See how many times they driven over the **** 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 **** truck and picks them up.
28:58If a loaded rock truck drives over top of that,
29:01that mean 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 **** with the structure in the tire.
29:14See, they don't think about that,
29:16but what it is, it'll cost you money.
29:26At Indian River, mine boss Tony Beets is having a day.
29:31He's been driving his claim since 6.30 a.m.
29:35And now the road connecting camp to the rest of the mine has collapsed,
29:40leaving an old bridge as the only access point.
29:46That bridge deck is ****.
29:54We put it in this spring and never bothered fixing it
29:57since we always had the road beside it over the culvert.
30:00Nah, ****.
30:03The bridge is unsuitable for the heavy equipment,
30:06so Tony must rebuild the road or risk his biggest iron becoming 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.
30:22So, let's go fix the **** road, I guess.
30:31Like this, straighten it out.
30:33Nice and slow.
30:35Good, hold it right there.
30:36Dumper, please.
30:44I still enjoy running the equipment once in a while.
30:46Yes, absolutely.
30:48Especially when there's something that I did and I didn't like it.
30:51This way, I can nicely improve it.
30:54You know what I mean?
30:58People ask me, when are you going to retire?
31:00When are you going to retire?
31:01Well, **** never.
31:04I mean, in a perfect life, one of these days,
31:06I'll fall dead in an excavator or something.
31:09At this point, I wouldn't care because I'd be **** dead now, wouldn't I?
31:25Hey, that's your last load, okay?
31:27Last load.
31:32We should have a road back in.
31:34Maybe a temporary one, but at least we can drive back and forth normal
31:38and not having to take the chances on the bridge.
31:49I'll put a grader on it.
31:51And for now, that'll do just fine.
31:55It cuts down the speed.
31:56You put a **** S-bend in there, you see.
31:59People don't like that.
32:00It cuts down the speed.
32:01You put a **** S-bend in there, you see.
32:04People go slower, maybe.
32:09Look at that **** eagle over there.
32:11I guess he must be checking the cutout to see if there's any fish in it yet, probably.
32:15That's what he's doing.
32:17Oh, there he goes.
32:18Look at that.
32:19Beautiful.
32:21Beautiful.
32:31Good.
32:37All that's left is for Tony to test his work.
32:48That's perfect.
32:49Project finished.
32:52Next step, supper.
33:00It's what you call **** parking.
33:20If we could get any closer, I'd probably drive on a deck and be closer to the door.
33:24Still on the clock, Tony grabs a quick dinner before heading to the gold room.
33:30I was snooping for more buttermilk, but I better not drink all this ****.
33:34And he knows exactly what he wants.
33:38You're going to serve some of them delicious beans and mashed potatoes.
33:41Best in Yukon, bud.
33:45So you take two scoops.
33:46That's what you do.
33:49Then you take these and put them on top.
33:53Then what you do is you squish this **** all over it.
33:57See, now you got a little extra.
33:59Would it be nice next time if somebody put that **** on tight?
34:03There.
34:04See, so nice.
34:05Now he can clean it up.
34:07Then you put this over top of it so then it really looks like ****, so to speak.
34:11And then you go eat it.
34:14Anyway, I got to go check on the gold, I guess.
34:39I'm going to go have a look at the dreads.
34:41I haven't been there yet.
34:42Trying to go have a look, see how it handled the winter.
34:46In 2016, Tony paid $1 million for a second dredge, originally built in 1946.
34:55I mean, we got the sluice bog, we got the trommel in there,
34:58we got most of the big stuff on it.
35:01After two years, he sunk another million dollars in moving and rebuilding it,
35:07but never finished the job, and it's been derelict since 2018.
35:12One of these days, it wouldn't bother me to take half a million bucks or better
35:19and just finish it off just because I can, and then see it run.
35:24Overall, as long as we don't worry too much about what it looks like,
35:28it's not that big of a job to get it back together.
35:42I'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, but I have no use for cleaning that.
36:01That's why Monica does most of that.
36:04Say, I'm really not into that.
36:07Why is that?
36:08It takes patience, and I'm full of that.
36:13Hey, what's happening?
36:21Oh, not too much, you?
36:23Screening, screening, screening.
36:25Never ending.
36:26Tony Beets has been run ragged, but still needs to make his last check of the day,
36:33the gold room, and the latest news on his Indian River gold count.
36:37How are things going, Monica?
36:39Oh, slow and steady, you know.
36:41Well, what else can you do, eh?
36:43There's nobody else that can do it.
36:45Well, you don't really want everybody in here, either.
36:49Like the story's always been, you should keep family in the gold room.
36:55At least if they steal, it stays in the family.
36:57You sure bet.
36:58Isn't that how it's supposed to work, eh?
37:02Now, well, we got some more toys in here, make that easier.
37:07To separate the gold from the fine, worthless dirt, Monica runs it through a gold table
37:13where water and vibrations sort the heavier gold into the grooves
37:18and deposit it in a bucket below.
37:20It's then dried out, ready to be weighed.
37:24Okay, pour it up, Monica.
37:26Let's see what you got.
37:27All right.
37:36That's pretty nice stuff, huh?
37:50That's f***ing out of half a million bucks.
37:53Like that?
37:54Take it and run.
37:55Take it and run.
37:57Get them out of here.
37:59Clean this s*** up.
38:02Dry it.
38:03Put it in a jar.
38:04Yeah, put it in a jar.
38:05Save it for a rainy day.
38:07That's never a bad idea.
38:10Anyway, young lady, good job.
38:13I'm out of here.
38:15Don't go away mad.
38:17And the more gold you get, the better I like it, right?
38:21Yep.
38:22Okay, later.
38:24With Tony, every part of my life, he's been, you know, my father, my boss,
38:30and everything else for the last, oh, almost 20 years of my life.
38:35Um, and so there is no one part of him separate from the other.
38:44Now, he's an old man.
38:46He can be a little bit more relaxed.
38:48Anytime my kid's around, this guy's like f***ing melted butter in her hands.
38:54After a long day on the mine site, Tony heads to his Indian River crash pad.
39:00This is where I live, old trailer, but who gives a s*** if it's livable?
39:05So, open the curtains so I don't live in the dark, I guess.
39:13Yeah.
39:15I never, I never sit here.
39:17Pretty plain.
39:19I mean, we're not that fussy as to how or where we live on the climbs.
39:23It's nice to have a bit of space by yourself.
39:25We don't spend a great amount of time inside.
39:28And by the time when we put our 12, 13 hours in during the day,
39:32by the time you get down here, lay on the couch maybe for a minute, and then that's it.
39:38I mean, we're not that fussy as to how or where we live on the climbs.
39:40It's nice to have a bit of space by yourself.
39:42We don't spend a great amount of time inside.
39:45Lay on the couch maybe for a minute, and then that's it.
39:48Well, I'm gonna go check, see if my laundry is dry.
39:55Take all the s*** socks out.
40:00See, piece of cake.
40:01That's how you fold your laundry.
40:03You put it on a pile, and that is done.
40:08From here on, that's all I own.
40:10Same black shirt, same s***, same jeans,
40:14same thing, same everything.
40:16Anyway, this is what I've got.
40:19This 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 every other house too, so that's what I seem to enjoy.
40:40Other than that, there's very few things in life that I care for.
40:43So I had the ports already, so I put this thing on.
40:46Then what I did was had the carpenters put a wall in.
40:49They're not quite finished yet.
40:50Then I put all the old dreads windows in.
40:53Instead, they're 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 gonna paint them and just leave them as is.
41:13And today, so 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*** to do.