Freddy Dodge's Gold Prospecting Show

[jasong]

Yeah, Derrick is who lives here, I met him a long time back but at that time he said he wasn't going to do any TV, guess it changed. I haven't seen the Whitewater one as I more or less stopped watching or owning a TV 10 years ago. But I ran into an old closed claim in NNV that was staked by that Fred Hurt guy. Location of which made me think he must have been a gold detectorist at some point in the past, and the location also probably means someone on this forum probably knows/knew him at one point.

 

[Joe D.]

   I've been catching up on all the shows since I changed my channel lineup after the beginning of the year! I don't take them too seriously, but I do learn some decent stuff; Good and bad!! And they are in the realm of what we like to do! 

   Besides, other than a movie here and there, and Newsmax, it's all the TV I watch!?? 

[Swegin]

43 minutes ago, Joe D. said:

 I've been catching up on all the shows since I changed my channel lineup after the beginning of the year! I don't take them too seriously, but I do learn some decent stuff; Good and bad!! And they are in the realm of what we like to do! 

I watch them for the entertainment value.  

[okara gold]

12 hours ago, Ridge Runner said:

I still got the Brooklyn Bridge for sale and I will throw in all the pigeons on it but no takers. 

You've got the bridge, but I sold all the ocean front property in Arizona a long time ago. You can check it out... there's none there. ?

[Ridge Runner]

If the gold was Bull S... we’d all be rich.

 Chuck 

 

[Steve Herschbach]

On 4/5/2021 at 11:24 PM, Tom Slick said:

So last week I'm watching Freddy Dodge's Gold Mining show and he calls his friend, a "nugget detecting Expert" to come check out a claim to see if there is any large gold to be found. She takes out her Garrett Apex and proceeds to find close to a  1/4 oz nugget. That's it, I'm selling all my other detectors and getting an Apex.? 

I make a brief appearance in this weeks episode. If it makes you feel any better I don’t find anything.  I’ll be in an episode of the Hoffman show at Nome sometime soon where I do find a lot of gold. Just finished another bit piece with Freddy outside of Missoula last week for next season. Freddy has actually mined more gold than most of us will ever dream of. His show is probably one of the more real of the reality shows, and he is genuinely helping out miners mine more gold. But it’s TV and they have to play to the audience also. For me it’s just been a lot of fun, all the cast and crew of both shows were super nice to me. I don’t make any money doing these. It’s more like little short paid vacations to places I’ve never been and hanging out with interesting people. The funny part was my telling the Hoffmans and Freddy I don’t watch shows of any sort really, theirs included.  I’ve not actually watched this one either and only found out it was on because somebody said they saw it.

Gold Rush: Mine Rescue with Freddy & Juan
S3 E1 - Old Dog, New Tricks
Freddy and Juan face a mine intervention at a 30-year-old Nevada claim.
 
https://go.discovery.com/video/gold-rush-freddy-dodges-mine-rescue-on-discovery-discovery-atve-us/old-dog-new-tricks

 

[GB_Amateur]

2 hours ago, Steve Herschbach said:

Gold Rush: Mine Rescue with Freddy & Juan
S3 E1 - Old Dog, New Tricks
Freddy and Juan face a mine intervention at a 30-year-old Nevada claim.
 
https://go.discovery.com/video/gold-rush-freddy-dodges-mine-rescue-on-discovery-discovery-atve-us/old-dog-new-tricks

Missed it (Friday).    Might be able to finagle a way to see it.  (I tried the link without success.)  Does it require some kind of subscription?  (Maybe my browser software is just too out-of-date.)

Sometimes the specialized streaming route (e.g. Discovery+) as opposed to standard cable and its clones show these ahead of time which could give those of us still married to cable(-like) services a heads up.

I just Saturday mentioned to a friend who is more video saavy than I that I wanted to see if we could use his streaming services to find those two episodes (Freddy Dodge one and Todd Hoffman one) before I miss them on my old school cable.

Some of the most popular cable TV shows (e.g. Curse of Oak Island) will rebroadcast the previous week's episode the hour right before the new episode, but I don't think Freddy's & Juan's program is popular enough for that.  I'll figure out something.

[phrunt]

I think it's really cool you're in these shows Steve, I like the shows, they're entertaining, they don't have to be 100% real to be worth watching and in fact if they were they'd likely be a lot less popular as they're be quite boring.  No show would want to follow me on a days gold detecting digging thousands of pellets to find a few crumbs ?  They're entertainment, not a documentary.

Some happy snaps from the episodes

They didn't like your shirt obviously and blurred it out, but were happy to keep the AT Gold hat on display ?  It's good to see Garrett getting on these TV shows, Aussie Gold Hunters is all about Minelab marketing, Garrett got their foot in the door once with the ATX when the Gold Gypsies dropped their Minelabs and used them for one season but it caused a bit of a ruckus.  Now the Axiom is out it would have been a better time to do it.

It's funny they call Steve a gold detector, but in a way I guess you could say he is ?

Cool detecting area, I'd be having a ball there.

Just a 22 shell!

I'll keep an eye out of Hoffmans, It's only up to episode 2 but no sign of you yet.

[beatup]

some mighty fine looking country