1 00:00:01,166 --> 00:00:04,266 [bird chirping] 2 00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:11,867 [producer] Hey, Fred, if you wanna take a break at any moment or... 3 00:00:11,867 --> 00:00:14,367 -You know, just let us know. -Well, we just go through it. We'll go through it. 4 00:00:14,367 --> 00:00:16,300 -[producer] We got... We got plenty of time. -I'll let you know. 5 00:00:16,300 --> 00:00:18,600 [producer] We're just gonna get some sound levels. Just have a little talk. 6 00:00:18,600 --> 00:00:21,066 Hello there. Yeah. We can have a little talk. 7 00:00:21,066 --> 00:00:22,667 Hello. 8 00:00:22,667 --> 00:00:25,066 My name is "Dakota" Fred Hurt. 9 00:00:25,967 --> 00:00:28,900 And today is... Who knows what date? 10 00:00:28,900 --> 00:00:32,333 April the something or another, 2023. 11 00:00:32,867 --> 00:00:36,900 And we're doing this right now 12 00:00:36,900 --> 00:00:38,433 while I'm still able. 13 00:00:39,500 --> 00:00:43,634 Symptoms are creeping in on me a little bit at a time. 14 00:00:45,100 --> 00:00:46,467 [sighs] 15 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:49,467 Several months ago, 16 00:00:49,467 --> 00:00:54,066 I was diagnosed with brain tumors. 17 00:00:55,367 --> 00:00:57,100 Not just one brain tumor. 18 00:00:57,100 --> 00:00:59,233 How about four brain tumors? 19 00:01:04,567 --> 00:01:07,767 It's an end-of-life diagnosis, 20 00:01:09,367 --> 00:01:10,667 so it's terminal. 21 00:01:14,667 --> 00:01:17,333 Hey, I'm about 80 years old now. 22 00:01:19,100 --> 00:01:20,634 Yeah, I look back on my life... 23 00:01:23,166 --> 00:01:24,367 and I've led 24 00:01:25,567 --> 00:01:28,200 a little bit of an adventurous life at times. 25 00:01:28,200 --> 00:01:29,467 Here we go. 26 00:01:31,800 --> 00:01:33,467 Yahoo! 27 00:01:33,467 --> 00:01:34,467 Some good stuff. 28 00:01:34,467 --> 00:01:35,567 Oh! 29 00:01:35,567 --> 00:01:38,667 Nothing like good old Southern boy ingenuity, huh? 30 00:01:38,667 --> 00:01:39,500 Yeah! 31 00:01:39,500 --> 00:01:41,266 We're just kind of in that little zone 32 00:01:41,266 --> 00:01:43,834 between crazy and insane. 33 00:01:45,467 --> 00:01:46,900 Some not so good stuff. 34 00:01:46,900 --> 00:01:48,567 -Don't argue with me. -Hey, stop it. 35 00:01:48,567 --> 00:01:50,567 I asked you to not [bleep] do this. 36 00:01:50,567 --> 00:01:52,634 -You did it anyway. -[man] [bleep]. 37 00:01:54,200 --> 00:01:55,800 [grunts] 38 00:01:55,800 --> 00:01:57,467 Things you didn't know about. 39 00:01:57,467 --> 00:01:59,166 -You bought it out from under us. -[Fred] That is correct. 40 00:01:59,166 --> 00:02:01,266 Nothing could be further from the truth. 41 00:02:01,266 --> 00:02:02,767 -Fred. -No. Come on. Hey. Hey. 42 00:02:02,767 --> 00:02:04,867 Ain't gonna do any good if you kill him. 43 00:02:04,867 --> 00:02:06,467 It was a hell of a ride. 44 00:02:06,467 --> 00:02:08,066 Eighty years. 45 00:02:08,066 --> 00:02:09,767 Yeah! Yee-haw! 46 00:02:10,867 --> 00:02:12,567 -We're living. -[man laughs] 47 00:02:12,567 --> 00:02:14,033 Ain't we having fun yet? 48 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:27,467 [birds chirping] 49 00:02:37,667 --> 00:02:40,734 [dramatic music playing] 50 00:02:46,767 --> 00:02:47,967 [Dustin] I'm heading up to Alaska. 51 00:02:47,967 --> 00:02:49,600 Gonna get back to work. 52 00:02:49,600 --> 00:02:51,567 And I'm gonna make a detour. 53 00:02:51,567 --> 00:02:54,967 I have to find out how Fred's doing. 54 00:02:54,967 --> 00:02:57,467 Quite frankly, I think that this is probably 55 00:02:57,467 --> 00:02:59,433 gonna be the last time I see him. 56 00:03:02,767 --> 00:03:03,967 We'll see. 57 00:03:03,967 --> 00:03:05,767 That's pretty sad to say that out loud. 58 00:03:05,767 --> 00:03:07,667 I think that's the first time I've really, 59 00:03:07,667 --> 00:03:09,467 really said that out loud. 60 00:03:09,467 --> 00:03:12,634 [dramatic music playing] 61 00:03:23,567 --> 00:03:24,967 Hey, Fred. 62 00:03:24,967 --> 00:03:26,767 Hey, what's up, man? 63 00:03:26,767 --> 00:03:29,166 -How is it going, man? -I'm doing fine. 64 00:03:31,567 --> 00:03:33,200 -Good to see you. -Yeah. 65 00:03:33,200 --> 00:03:34,934 -Have a seat. -Okay. 66 00:03:39,100 --> 00:03:40,166 So how are you doing, man? 67 00:03:40,166 --> 00:03:43,133 [Fred] Hey, the best as I can do right now. 68 00:03:43,767 --> 00:03:46,667 My balance is down a little bit. 69 00:03:46,667 --> 00:03:50,800 A little bit of blurry vision. 70 00:03:50,800 --> 00:03:52,166 It's progressing every day. 71 00:03:53,767 --> 00:03:55,500 Sorry to hear that, Fred. 72 00:03:55,500 --> 00:03:56,834 That's too bad. 73 00:04:01,200 --> 00:04:03,066 So how long did they give you? 74 00:04:06,100 --> 00:04:07,767 They don't know. 75 00:04:07,767 --> 00:04:10,767 I mean, anywhere from a few months 76 00:04:11,667 --> 00:04:13,166 to six months. 77 00:04:17,667 --> 00:04:19,767 I know you're concerned 78 00:04:19,767 --> 00:04:21,233 and I know it bothers you. 79 00:04:22,266 --> 00:04:23,967 Hell, I lived a good life. 80 00:04:24,767 --> 00:04:26,367 [laughs] 81 00:04:26,367 --> 00:04:27,467 Yeah. 82 00:04:27,467 --> 00:04:30,500 [dramatic music playing] 83 00:04:30,500 --> 00:04:32,166 [narrator] Fredrick Richard Hurt 84 00:04:32,166 --> 00:04:34,266 was born on the 10th of July, 85 00:04:34,266 --> 00:04:38,467 1943 in Robstown, Texas. 86 00:04:39,400 --> 00:04:41,000 [Fred] My dad was an electrician. 87 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:42,667 He had his own business. 88 00:04:42,667 --> 00:04:45,500 My mother was a registered nurse. 89 00:04:45,500 --> 00:04:48,033 We had a regular middle-class life. 90 00:04:49,867 --> 00:04:51,133 But money, 91 00:04:52,367 --> 00:04:54,533 that was hard to come by. [chuckles] 92 00:04:56,166 --> 00:04:58,300 I was fascinated by the ocean. 93 00:04:58,300 --> 00:05:01,200 We lived on the coast of Texas 94 00:05:01,200 --> 00:05:03,033 and I loved the water. 95 00:05:03,467 --> 00:05:04,567 Got into college. 96 00:05:04,567 --> 00:05:07,667 I went and bought myself some old scuba gear 97 00:05:07,667 --> 00:05:10,600 and had a little pamphlet about that big 98 00:05:10,600 --> 00:05:12,867 that said how to scuba dive. 99 00:05:12,867 --> 00:05:15,767 And that's how I learned how to scuba dive myself. 100 00:05:16,600 --> 00:05:17,700 Somewhere along the way, 101 00:05:17,700 --> 00:05:21,367 I decided I wanted to be a commercial diver. 102 00:05:22,867 --> 00:05:24,266 My career was successful. 103 00:05:24,266 --> 00:05:26,667 Mostly oil field construction. 104 00:05:26,667 --> 00:05:28,967 Offshore, the Gulf of Mexico. 105 00:05:29,867 --> 00:05:32,100 After my career doing the diving, 106 00:05:32,100 --> 00:05:33,667 I got into my own business 107 00:05:34,567 --> 00:05:36,266 doing lots of pile-driving, 108 00:05:36,266 --> 00:05:38,433 dock-building, concrete work. 109 00:05:39,467 --> 00:05:42,166 Hell, I even put up bus stops. 110 00:05:44,166 --> 00:05:46,767 But after 30 something years of doing this, 111 00:05:46,767 --> 00:05:49,700 you finally just kind of get tired of it, 112 00:05:49,700 --> 00:05:52,166 and I was ready for something else. 113 00:05:55,567 --> 00:05:58,800 Back in, gee whiz, '04, 114 00:05:58,800 --> 00:06:01,166 my son-in-law says, "Let's go gold mining." 115 00:06:01,166 --> 00:06:04,767 I said, "Hell, that sounds interesting." 116 00:06:04,767 --> 00:06:06,667 [upbeat music playing] 117 00:06:06,667 --> 00:06:09,100 [Fred] It sparked something in me. 118 00:06:09,100 --> 00:06:13,200 We'd make contact with Earle Foster. 119 00:06:13,200 --> 00:06:16,333 He said, "Well, I got this place down in Porcupine." 120 00:06:17,967 --> 00:06:21,066 I packed up and I go to Alaska. 121 00:06:22,100 --> 00:06:24,100 And Alaska is mountains, 122 00:06:24,100 --> 00:06:26,000 waters, trees. 123 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:28,266 You can't capture it on a camera. 124 00:06:28,266 --> 00:06:29,800 It's impossible. 125 00:06:29,800 --> 00:06:31,433 It's the feeling. 126 00:06:31,867 --> 00:06:33,634 [exhales] Unbelievable. 127 00:06:37,066 --> 00:06:39,266 Didn't know a thing about gold mining 128 00:06:39,266 --> 00:06:40,867 but I belonged there, 129 00:06:40,867 --> 00:06:42,900 'cause I already knew all the skills. 130 00:06:42,900 --> 00:06:45,567 I had bought the little shaker thing 131 00:06:45,567 --> 00:06:48,367 for pasta shells 132 00:06:48,367 --> 00:06:49,867 and I said, "Hey, that might make 133 00:06:49,867 --> 00:06:51,634 a pretty good gold mining equipment." 134 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:54,867 And I literally was taking a pipe 135 00:06:54,867 --> 00:06:57,367 and washing material from this dump truck 136 00:06:57,367 --> 00:07:00,266 right down into this little shaker plant 137 00:07:00,266 --> 00:07:03,834 and it worked quite well. 138 00:07:05,100 --> 00:07:07,500 [dramatic music playing] 139 00:07:07,500 --> 00:07:09,834 When you first find gold, 140 00:07:12,166 --> 00:07:14,533 it kind of sets your heart sailing. 141 00:07:15,567 --> 00:07:18,066 I did it. I found some gold. 142 00:07:18,066 --> 00:07:19,967 Real gold. 143 00:07:23,400 --> 00:07:25,166 We occasionally started meeting 144 00:07:25,166 --> 00:07:26,667 some of the locals there. 145 00:07:27,367 --> 00:07:29,433 Some guy named John. 146 00:07:30,266 --> 00:07:31,734 John Schnabel. 147 00:07:34,467 --> 00:07:36,667 Been mining there for 25 years 148 00:07:36,667 --> 00:07:38,266 or something like that. 149 00:07:38,266 --> 00:07:40,200 We started getting set up 150 00:07:40,200 --> 00:07:42,467 to do a little mining over there. 151 00:07:42,467 --> 00:07:45,767 Here comes this little kid on a little bitty motorbike. 152 00:07:45,767 --> 00:07:47,834 [mimics tiny engine] 153 00:07:50,166 --> 00:07:53,867 He says, "Hi, my name's Parker." 154 00:07:54,700 --> 00:07:57,367 [dramatic music playing] 155 00:07:57,367 --> 00:08:00,233 [Fred] He's about nine. Eight or nine years old at the time. 156 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:05,266 So that's where it all started right there, 157 00:08:05,266 --> 00:08:07,700 six years before the Gold Rush 158 00:08:07,700 --> 00:08:09,867 people ever showed up there. 159 00:08:10,900 --> 00:08:12,867 And we were successful in getting 160 00:08:12,867 --> 00:08:14,834 some gold out of Porcupine. 161 00:08:15,700 --> 00:08:19,000 But in 2010, 162 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:22,166 Earle Foster called me and said, "Fred," 163 00:08:22,166 --> 00:08:26,533 he said, "I've got a proposal for you." 164 00:08:30,266 --> 00:08:33,667 He had made some sort of a deal 165 00:08:33,667 --> 00:08:35,800 with a bunch of guys out of Oregon 166 00:08:35,800 --> 00:08:38,500 that they were gonna mine on his property. 167 00:08:38,500 --> 00:08:39,767 [chuckles] 168 00:08:39,767 --> 00:08:42,400 We're going all the way, so we'll see how we do. 169 00:08:42,400 --> 00:08:44,066 He said, "Fred, they've been there 170 00:08:44,066 --> 00:08:45,600 for a couple of months, two or three months." 171 00:08:45,600 --> 00:08:47,066 He said, "I hadn't heard a word 172 00:08:47,066 --> 00:08:48,867 from what they're doing over there." 173 00:08:48,867 --> 00:08:50,266 He said, "I'm just wondering 174 00:08:50,266 --> 00:08:53,767 if maybe you guys could come pick me up 175 00:08:53,767 --> 00:08:55,367 and we could drive down to the mine 176 00:08:55,367 --> 00:08:56,867 and see what's going on." 177 00:08:56,867 --> 00:08:58,567 [narrator] Little did Fred know 178 00:08:58,567 --> 00:09:01,266 he was walking straight into the first season 179 00:09:01,266 --> 00:09:03,300 of Gold Rush. 180 00:09:03,300 --> 00:09:04,767 Hey, Fred. I'm Todd. 181 00:09:04,767 --> 00:09:05,767 -How you doing? -Yeah. Good. 182 00:09:05,767 --> 00:09:07,867 [narrator] complete with Todd Hoffman 183 00:09:07,867 --> 00:09:09,667 and his rookie crew. 184 00:09:09,667 --> 00:09:12,433 We get to Porcupine Creek Mine and... 185 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:17,467 whoops, some guys with cameras. 186 00:09:19,200 --> 00:09:23,266 They stick microphones on us and all kinds of stuff. 187 00:09:23,266 --> 00:09:25,100 [narrator] It didn't take Fred long 188 00:09:25,100 --> 00:09:26,667 to settle into mining 189 00:09:26,667 --> 00:09:29,000 or the world of TV. 190 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:31,100 [producer] Well, can you tell me? I mean, why are you here? 191 00:09:31,100 --> 00:09:33,066 Why are you helping these guys? 192 00:09:33,567 --> 00:09:35,166 I wanna see them succeed. 193 00:09:35,166 --> 00:09:36,767 Very much so. 194 00:09:36,767 --> 00:09:38,133 Um... 195 00:09:39,367 --> 00:09:42,166 do you realize that most working guys 196 00:09:42,166 --> 00:09:44,033 out there across America 197 00:09:44,600 --> 00:09:47,100 would just love 198 00:09:47,100 --> 00:09:49,066 to tell their bosses, 199 00:09:49,066 --> 00:09:52,567 "This is it, I'm going gold mining"? 200 00:09:52,567 --> 00:09:55,100 Well, these people are living 201 00:09:55,100 --> 00:09:57,066 that fantasy. 202 00:09:57,066 --> 00:10:00,000 [Todd] Fred, you like TV now? Pretty good? 203 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:01,200 [Fred] Uh-- 204 00:10:01,200 --> 00:10:02,667 -[Todd] We'll see if... We'll see... -[Fred] We'll see. 205 00:10:02,667 --> 00:10:04,667 [Todd] ...how much you like it when you're at home... 206 00:10:04,667 --> 00:10:06,767 -[Fred] Yeah. -[Todd] ...and all your family's laughing at you. 207 00:10:06,767 --> 00:10:08,200 [Fred] Yeah. That's fine with me. 208 00:10:08,200 --> 00:10:10,033 [laughter] 209 00:10:10,600 --> 00:10:12,967 [narrator] At Earle's request, 210 00:10:12,967 --> 00:10:14,967 Fred set about making improvements 211 00:10:14,967 --> 00:10:16,767 to the Hoffmans' operation. 212 00:10:17,767 --> 00:10:19,400 [Fred] There were so many things wrong 213 00:10:19,400 --> 00:10:21,567 that I couldn't even... [sighs] 214 00:10:21,567 --> 00:10:25,266 Where the hell is everybody? 215 00:10:25,266 --> 00:10:28,467 I was just trying to get them to get up and go to work. 216 00:10:28,467 --> 00:10:30,667 We can get some gold out of this place. 217 00:10:30,667 --> 00:10:32,233 They didn't wanna work. 218 00:10:33,300 --> 00:10:36,367 They seem to be missing in action. 219 00:10:36,767 --> 00:10:38,367 [Todd snores] 220 00:10:38,367 --> 00:10:40,700 [Fred] He's in the extended stay 221 00:10:40,700 --> 00:10:42,467 bed and breakfast or something. 222 00:10:43,767 --> 00:10:47,567 The Hoffmans considered W-O-R-K a four letter word. 223 00:10:47,567 --> 00:10:48,700 [laughs] 224 00:10:48,700 --> 00:10:50,367 Up. Come on. 225 00:10:50,367 --> 00:10:52,667 [narrator] And from the get-go, 226 00:10:52,667 --> 00:10:56,066 he was never afraid to ruffle a few feathers. 227 00:10:57,800 --> 00:10:59,467 What are you doing? 228 00:11:01,166 --> 00:11:03,667 There's no reason we can't eliminate 229 00:11:03,667 --> 00:11:06,867 about half of these grizzly bars in here. 230 00:11:06,867 --> 00:11:07,967 [James] Fred, you can't do that. 231 00:11:07,967 --> 00:11:10,000 I totally, 232 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:12,266 absolutely disagree. 233 00:11:12,266 --> 00:11:13,500 Clear. 234 00:11:13,500 --> 00:11:16,400 I was pushing quite a bit 235 00:11:16,400 --> 00:11:18,567 and it irritated people. 236 00:11:18,567 --> 00:11:20,100 You're messing with the threads down there. 237 00:11:20,100 --> 00:11:21,400 -You're messing with me. -You're hitting on it that way. 238 00:11:21,400 --> 00:11:22,600 Get out of my way. 239 00:11:22,600 --> 00:11:24,100 [man] Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. 240 00:11:24,100 --> 00:11:25,667 -Go ahead. -You want this up your ass? 241 00:11:25,667 --> 00:11:28,000 -[man] Hey. -James, you're sitting there 242 00:11:28,000 --> 00:11:29,066 beating on the threads. 243 00:11:29,066 --> 00:11:30,800 -Don't argue with me. -Hey, stop it. 244 00:11:30,800 --> 00:11:32,567 Don't push him. 245 00:11:32,567 --> 00:11:35,500 He wanted to start fighting and I said, 246 00:11:35,500 --> 00:11:36,467 "James..." 247 00:11:36,467 --> 00:11:38,000 It is my job to question 248 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:39,867 some of the things y'all are doing anyway. 249 00:11:39,867 --> 00:11:42,300 It's not your [bleep] place and it's none of your business. 250 00:11:42,300 --> 00:11:43,400 Well... 251 00:11:43,400 --> 00:11:46,667 [sighs] I was just trying to help. 252 00:11:46,667 --> 00:11:48,600 The most important thing 253 00:11:48,600 --> 00:11:51,100 is to feed material in that thing, 254 00:11:51,100 --> 00:11:53,100 keep it going, keep it going. 255 00:11:53,100 --> 00:11:56,367 And one more thing, keep it going. 256 00:11:56,367 --> 00:11:58,967 Finally, we got some of the plant running 257 00:11:58,967 --> 00:12:00,800 and we were running some good material. 258 00:12:00,800 --> 00:12:02,200 Let's wash some rocks, man. 259 00:12:02,200 --> 00:12:03,667 Let's wash some rocks. 260 00:12:04,200 --> 00:12:05,934 Put some material in there. 261 00:12:09,367 --> 00:12:12,867 Dig your stuff away from the edge there real careful. 262 00:12:12,867 --> 00:12:15,667 There's gold up here on top of this rock. 263 00:12:15,667 --> 00:12:17,533 [man] Good Lord. 264 00:12:20,300 --> 00:12:23,166 Finally, we're actually getting gold. 265 00:12:23,166 --> 00:12:25,166 Got our first real nugget. 266 00:12:25,166 --> 00:12:26,367 Woo-hoo! 267 00:12:26,367 --> 00:12:27,667 -[laughter] -[man] That's it. 268 00:12:27,667 --> 00:12:30,166 [firework explodes] 269 00:12:30,166 --> 00:12:32,500 [man] Fred, your house is on fire. 270 00:12:32,500 --> 00:12:35,467 [Fred] The very fact that he even got 14 ounces of gold 271 00:12:35,467 --> 00:12:38,400 out of that thing was amazing. 272 00:12:38,400 --> 00:12:40,100 [laughs] 273 00:12:40,100 --> 00:12:43,400 They finally earned the title of being miners. 274 00:12:43,400 --> 00:12:44,667 [laughs] 275 00:12:44,667 --> 00:12:46,066 [man] Hey. 276 00:12:49,900 --> 00:12:53,300 [Fred] But during the offseason, 277 00:12:53,300 --> 00:12:55,600 Earle Foster calls me up. He said, "Fred, 278 00:12:55,600 --> 00:12:58,634 how about we work out a deal on Porcupine Creek?" 279 00:13:02,667 --> 00:13:04,033 And... 280 00:13:05,200 --> 00:13:07,100 this is where it diverges... 281 00:13:07,100 --> 00:13:10,066 [laughs] ...big time. 282 00:13:10,967 --> 00:13:12,967 [Dave] No. Seriously. Relax, man. Look. 283 00:13:12,967 --> 00:13:14,567 [narrator] Up ahead, 284 00:13:14,567 --> 00:13:16,767 Fred sets the record straight... 285 00:13:16,767 --> 00:13:18,266 Dave, get Greg out of here. 286 00:13:18,266 --> 00:13:21,266 [narrator] ...on the most controversial incident 287 00:13:21,266 --> 00:13:23,000 in Gold Rush history. 288 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:25,300 [Fred] I bought the Porcupine Creek claim 289 00:13:25,300 --> 00:13:26,767 from Earle. 290 00:13:26,767 --> 00:13:29,233 I'm gonna mine this claim this year. 291 00:13:32,266 --> 00:13:35,333 [birds chirping] 292 00:13:37,066 --> 00:13:39,567 [producer] So top of season two, 293 00:13:39,567 --> 00:13:41,333 what was your plan of attack? 294 00:13:43,166 --> 00:13:44,433 Well, 295 00:13:45,400 --> 00:13:47,567 this is where it diverges... 296 00:13:47,567 --> 00:13:50,600 [laughs] ...big time. 297 00:13:50,600 --> 00:13:52,266 [dramatic music playing] 298 00:13:52,266 --> 00:13:55,867 I'm coming home with 500 ounces, minimum. 299 00:13:55,867 --> 00:13:58,400 [narrator] Gold Rush, 2011. 300 00:13:58,400 --> 00:14:02,066 The Hoffman crew head back to Porcupine Creek... 301 00:14:02,066 --> 00:14:03,300 Here we are, boys. 302 00:14:03,300 --> 00:14:04,900 [narrator] ...unaware... 303 00:14:04,900 --> 00:14:06,800 there's a new sheriff in town. 304 00:14:06,800 --> 00:14:07,934 [man] Hey. 305 00:14:10,400 --> 00:14:12,000 [Todd] Fred Hurt. 306 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:13,467 Todd Hoffman. 307 00:14:14,300 --> 00:14:15,800 -Doing all right? -Yeah. 308 00:14:15,800 --> 00:14:17,300 I see all the boys are here. 309 00:14:17,300 --> 00:14:18,533 Fellas, 310 00:14:20,467 --> 00:14:22,467 I bought the Porcupine Creek claim 311 00:14:22,467 --> 00:14:23,867 from Earle. 312 00:14:23,867 --> 00:14:27,100 I intend to mine that thing this year. 313 00:14:27,100 --> 00:14:29,734 It's right smack in the middle of your glory hole. 314 00:14:32,467 --> 00:14:35,266 -So you bought it out from under us? -[Fred] That is correct. 315 00:14:35,266 --> 00:14:37,934 I didn't buy anything from under anything. 316 00:14:39,166 --> 00:14:41,467 -Come on, Fred. Let's go talk. -[Fred] All right. 317 00:14:41,467 --> 00:14:44,000 [narrator] In the eyes of Todd's crew, 318 00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:48,000 68-year-old Fred had muscled in on their claim. 319 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:49,600 I'm gonna go have a little chat with Fred. 320 00:14:49,600 --> 00:14:51,000 No. Come on. Hey. Hey. 321 00:14:51,000 --> 00:14:52,066 Hey. 322 00:14:52,066 --> 00:14:53,567 No. Seriously. Relax, man. 323 00:14:53,567 --> 00:14:55,133 Look, just relax. 324 00:14:55,867 --> 00:14:59,200 [clattering] 325 00:14:59,200 --> 00:15:00,467 -Come on, man. We gotta... -[man] Chill out. 326 00:15:00,467 --> 00:15:01,767 [Dave] ...just relax. 327 00:15:02,800 --> 00:15:04,467 It ain't gonna do any good if you kill him. 328 00:15:04,467 --> 00:15:06,567 [Todd] Dave, get Greg out of here. 329 00:15:08,166 --> 00:15:10,867 It still affects me even today. 330 00:15:10,867 --> 00:15:12,133 [producer] I know. 331 00:15:12,767 --> 00:15:14,300 I mean, it was... 332 00:15:14,300 --> 00:15:16,533 Because of what all it cost. 333 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:18,767 I mean, we're talking years 334 00:15:18,767 --> 00:15:21,767 of goddamn [bleep] torment. 335 00:15:25,867 --> 00:15:26,900 [sighs] 336 00:15:28,000 --> 00:15:31,500 [narrator] Now, Fred shares his side of the story 337 00:15:31,500 --> 00:15:34,967 and the events that led to this tense standoff. 338 00:15:36,100 --> 00:15:37,867 [Fred] During the offseason, 339 00:15:37,867 --> 00:15:39,667 Todd calls me up and said, 340 00:15:39,667 --> 00:15:42,567 "Fred, Earle and I 341 00:15:42,567 --> 00:15:44,800 are at each other's throat with the lawyers. 342 00:15:44,800 --> 00:15:47,266 We're gonna threaten to sue each other. 343 00:15:47,266 --> 00:15:51,367 They... We want out of the contract with Earle." 344 00:15:51,367 --> 00:15:55,567 I heard that Todd got out of his contract 345 00:15:55,567 --> 00:15:57,967 and made arrangements to go north. 346 00:15:58,867 --> 00:16:00,667 -[man] Virgin ground that way. -All right. 347 00:16:00,667 --> 00:16:02,100 -So all that... -Dirt mining right up there. 348 00:16:02,100 --> 00:16:04,000 ...is all virgin from here on up? 349 00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:05,800 -[man] Yeah. -[Todd] This is it. 350 00:16:05,800 --> 00:16:08,266 This is the place we're supposed to be. 351 00:16:09,266 --> 00:16:10,600 [Fred] A couple weeks later, 352 00:16:10,600 --> 00:16:12,066 Earle Foster calls me up. 353 00:16:12,066 --> 00:16:14,266 He said, "Fred," he said, "I've already got 354 00:16:14,266 --> 00:16:17,166 two offers on the claim but I don't trust them." 355 00:16:18,300 --> 00:16:20,000 He said, "I know you." 356 00:16:20,000 --> 00:16:22,000 He says, "How about we work out a deal 357 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:23,767 on Porcupine Creek?" 358 00:16:23,767 --> 00:16:26,700 That's a good claim. There's plenty of gold there. 359 00:16:26,700 --> 00:16:28,700 It'd just take someone with experience 360 00:16:28,700 --> 00:16:30,166 and know-how to get it out. 361 00:16:30,166 --> 00:16:31,300 [Fred] All right. 362 00:16:31,300 --> 00:16:34,367 If Earle Foster had not sold that to me, 363 00:16:34,367 --> 00:16:36,367 he'd have sold it to one of the other two offers 364 00:16:36,367 --> 00:16:37,533 that he had had. 365 00:16:40,066 --> 00:16:42,467 [narrator] But little did Fred know... 366 00:16:42,467 --> 00:16:46,767 Water license is not happening this season. 367 00:16:46,767 --> 00:16:47,834 Ooh. 368 00:16:47,834 --> 00:16:51,066 [narrator] Todd's virgin ground had fallen through 369 00:16:51,066 --> 00:16:53,867 and he now hoped for another shot 370 00:16:53,867 --> 00:16:56,066 at Porcupine gold. 371 00:16:56,066 --> 00:16:58,166 As of right now, 372 00:16:58,166 --> 00:17:00,333 we're back at Jack's glory hole. 373 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:04,266 I had no idea this was going on. 374 00:17:04,867 --> 00:17:06,567 So I show up out there 375 00:17:06,567 --> 00:17:09,467 and I was just aghast. I-- 376 00:17:09,467 --> 00:17:11,667 [Todd] Dude, you've got to be kidding me. 377 00:17:11,667 --> 00:17:13,834 This wasn't a long-term plan? 378 00:17:14,266 --> 00:17:16,166 No. Absolutely not. 379 00:17:17,867 --> 00:17:19,166 I believe you. 380 00:17:20,500 --> 00:17:22,867 I'll go talk to Jack. Make yourself at home. 381 00:17:25,166 --> 00:17:27,000 It's all legal. 382 00:17:27,000 --> 00:17:28,533 We're out of here. We gotta go. 383 00:17:30,567 --> 00:17:34,567 Looks like I probably screwed this whole thing up big time. 384 00:17:34,567 --> 00:17:36,000 [narrator] In the end, 385 00:17:36,000 --> 00:17:38,367 Todd abandoned Porcupine Creek 386 00:17:38,367 --> 00:17:41,367 in search of his fortune in the Klondike, 387 00:17:43,266 --> 00:17:45,767 leaving Fred the sole owner. 388 00:17:47,066 --> 00:17:50,767 [Fred] And that's when I got to thinking, 389 00:17:50,767 --> 00:17:53,834 "I wonder if Dustin would wanna come up here and help us?" 390 00:17:54,800 --> 00:17:56,600 [truck horn honks] 391 00:17:56,600 --> 00:17:58,567 -[narrator] And so... -Hey, Fred. How are you? 392 00:17:58,567 --> 00:17:59,867 -[Fred] You all right? -Yeah, Dad. 393 00:17:59,867 --> 00:18:02,000 [narrator] Fred's son, Dustin, started what would become 394 00:18:02,000 --> 00:18:05,066 a decade-long mining career. 395 00:18:06,266 --> 00:18:07,967 The last time Dustin and I worked together, 396 00:18:07,967 --> 00:18:09,233 he was a teenager. 397 00:18:10,100 --> 00:18:12,000 He was the adventurous sort. 398 00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:13,967 And I knew he knew how to work. 399 00:18:13,967 --> 00:18:17,400 And I thought for sure that once Dustin came up there, 400 00:18:17,400 --> 00:18:19,900 we'd have a pretty good 401 00:18:19,900 --> 00:18:21,867 father-son relationship, 402 00:18:21,867 --> 00:18:23,667 and I was looking forward to all of that. 403 00:18:23,667 --> 00:18:25,900 Ain't it more comfortable using both hands? 404 00:18:25,900 --> 00:18:27,567 It's killing you. You can't not touch it, huh? 405 00:18:27,567 --> 00:18:29,767 -No. No. I mean... I mean-- -[laughs] 406 00:18:29,767 --> 00:18:31,400 [laughs] 407 00:18:31,400 --> 00:18:35,100 Boy, did that start an era of conflict 408 00:18:35,100 --> 00:18:37,467 and... [laughs] 409 00:18:37,467 --> 00:18:39,667 To say the least. 410 00:18:39,667 --> 00:18:42,200 -[Dustin] What am I doing? -Hold on. 411 00:18:42,200 --> 00:18:43,967 [Dustin] You're giving bad instructions 412 00:18:43,967 --> 00:18:46,266 and getting pissed off about it. 413 00:18:46,266 --> 00:18:50,100 The father-son thing was not working well at all. 414 00:18:50,100 --> 00:18:52,100 Just standing there, holding it. You're not saying nothing. 415 00:18:52,100 --> 00:18:54,900 You're just walking back and forth is what you were doing. 416 00:18:54,900 --> 00:18:57,233 -And you're not saying-- -I asked you to hold it. 417 00:18:58,100 --> 00:19:00,266 What else I gotta say? 418 00:19:00,266 --> 00:19:03,533 I wanted you to hold it while I was trying to get a pair of vice grips. 419 00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:08,867 That ain't the show, folks. 420 00:19:09,700 --> 00:19:11,500 That was the real deal. 421 00:19:11,500 --> 00:19:14,000 This continues, I'm not gonna be here much longer. 422 00:19:14,000 --> 00:19:17,100 Oh, don't give me that crap. 423 00:19:17,100 --> 00:19:20,066 I guess it was just two strong-headed people 424 00:19:21,400 --> 00:19:23,867 not seeing each other's perspective. 425 00:19:23,867 --> 00:19:26,266 You're pissed off about everything I say. 426 00:19:26,266 --> 00:19:28,367 I am not being condescending. 427 00:19:28,367 --> 00:19:30,667 "What the hell you doing?" 428 00:19:30,667 --> 00:19:35,066 That does not sound like condescending [bleep] to you? 429 00:19:35,066 --> 00:19:36,800 [narrator] In a matter of weeks, 430 00:19:36,800 --> 00:19:39,567 their relationship reached the breaking point. 431 00:19:39,567 --> 00:19:42,567 I love him to death but just sometimes, 432 00:19:42,567 --> 00:19:44,066 he can get to you. 433 00:19:45,900 --> 00:19:49,066 [Fred] He stomped off the claim and left. 434 00:19:49,567 --> 00:19:51,066 And to this day, 435 00:19:51,867 --> 00:19:53,967 I still do not understand 436 00:19:53,967 --> 00:19:57,367 what all that conflict stuff was about. 437 00:19:57,367 --> 00:19:59,166 Absolutely hated 438 00:19:59,166 --> 00:20:01,533 that part of our relationship. 439 00:20:09,600 --> 00:20:12,266 Next day, I'm out there running a dozer. 440 00:20:23,500 --> 00:20:27,200 So I'm sorry, Fred. 441 00:20:27,200 --> 00:20:28,600 Why? [clears throat] 442 00:20:28,600 --> 00:20:31,166 I snapped. You didn't deserve that. 443 00:20:32,166 --> 00:20:33,800 I wish I could take it back. 444 00:20:33,800 --> 00:20:35,467 I would be care... 445 00:20:35,467 --> 00:20:37,266 A bit more careful from now on. 446 00:20:37,266 --> 00:20:39,066 -Well, it's not even that. -It's just, you know-- 447 00:20:39,066 --> 00:20:41,300 I should've handled it better. 448 00:20:41,300 --> 00:20:43,667 So I love you and, you know, 449 00:20:43,667 --> 00:20:45,734 -it's just-- -I love you too. 450 00:20:55,567 --> 00:20:56,867 Good to see you back. 451 00:20:56,867 --> 00:20:59,233 [Dustin] Yeah. Good to be back. 452 00:21:02,567 --> 00:21:05,066 Just that little situation 453 00:21:05,066 --> 00:21:07,333 on the dozer with Dustin, 454 00:21:09,467 --> 00:21:11,967 it helped us get through the season. 455 00:21:13,867 --> 00:21:16,767 [Dustin] Woo! We're digging gold now, baby. 456 00:21:16,767 --> 00:21:19,867 All I can see is gold soup going out here. 457 00:21:19,867 --> 00:21:22,100 [narrator] Over the next three seasons... 458 00:21:22,100 --> 00:21:25,567 Down, down, down. 459 00:21:25,567 --> 00:21:28,467 10 feet, 20 feet, 30 feet, 40 feet, 460 00:21:28,467 --> 00:21:32,100 50 feet, 60 feet, 70 feet, 80 feet. 461 00:21:32,100 --> 00:21:35,367 In fact, we get it down to a hundred feet deep. 462 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:39,567 [narrator] Fred and his crew edged closer 463 00:21:39,567 --> 00:21:43,667 to what they believed was life-changing gold. 464 00:21:45,567 --> 00:21:47,266 [thunder rumbles] 465 00:21:47,266 --> 00:21:49,734 [narrator] But Mother Nature 466 00:21:50,767 --> 00:21:52,567 had other ideas. 467 00:21:54,367 --> 00:21:55,834 [man] [bleep] 468 00:21:59,767 --> 00:22:01,767 [groans] 469 00:22:03,900 --> 00:22:05,934 [Fred] Water is pouring 470 00:22:07,100 --> 00:22:10,567 into the hole from about 25 feet down. 471 00:22:10,567 --> 00:22:13,200 [woman] No, no, no. 472 00:22:13,200 --> 00:22:15,367 [narrator] The surging Porcupine Creek 473 00:22:15,367 --> 00:22:17,600 was undermining the steep fragile walls 474 00:22:17,600 --> 00:22:19,166 of the glory hole. 475 00:22:21,100 --> 00:22:22,700 [Fred] If that wall goes, 476 00:22:22,700 --> 00:22:25,667 you understand that it could really come in fast. 477 00:22:26,667 --> 00:22:29,634 I didn't want anybody else going down in that hole. 478 00:22:30,567 --> 00:22:33,033 I'm declaring it right now abandoned. 479 00:22:37,367 --> 00:22:39,300 We had to call it. 480 00:22:39,300 --> 00:22:43,133 It was kind of like the end of a era. 481 00:22:44,166 --> 00:22:46,166 Porcupine Creek hole 482 00:22:46,166 --> 00:22:48,634 was no longer viable. 483 00:22:50,367 --> 00:22:51,967 [narrator] Fred's eight-year obsession 484 00:22:51,967 --> 00:22:55,233 with Porcupine Creek was over. 485 00:22:57,266 --> 00:23:00,066 280 ounces of gold. 486 00:23:00,066 --> 00:23:01,367 -[man] Oh. -[woman] My-- 487 00:23:01,367 --> 00:23:02,767 -Yeah! -Woo! 488 00:23:02,767 --> 00:23:03,900 -Hell, yeah! -[man] All right! 489 00:23:03,900 --> 00:23:05,367 [man] Yeah! 490 00:23:05,367 --> 00:23:06,867 I'm proud of you, guys. 491 00:23:06,867 --> 00:23:08,266 I'm proud of my team. 492 00:23:08,266 --> 00:23:09,967 [Dustin] Woo! Woo! 493 00:23:09,967 --> 00:23:13,367 We got a total of, I guess over the years, 494 00:23:13,367 --> 00:23:15,166 maybe three-quarters of a million dollars' 495 00:23:15,166 --> 00:23:16,734 worth of gold out of there. 496 00:23:18,300 --> 00:23:22,000 Of course, it cost me $600,000 to get it. 497 00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:23,834 [laughs] 498 00:23:26,066 --> 00:23:28,166 And, God, I thought that that was the end 499 00:23:28,166 --> 00:23:30,867 of some of our conflict. 500 00:23:30,867 --> 00:23:32,567 Oh, Lord, was I wrong. 501 00:23:32,567 --> 00:23:35,433 [laughs] 502 00:23:38,500 --> 00:23:40,867 [dramatic music playing] 503 00:23:40,867 --> 00:23:43,066 [dog barking] 504 00:23:45,667 --> 00:23:47,200 -[producer] So, Fred... -Yeah. 505 00:23:47,200 --> 00:23:50,100 [producer] ...you finished lots of mining at Porcupine. 506 00:23:50,100 --> 00:23:53,066 Why not stop there? Why not call it quits? 507 00:23:55,500 --> 00:23:57,667 I wanna just keep mining. 508 00:23:58,867 --> 00:24:01,967 [dramatic music playing] 509 00:24:03,300 --> 00:24:05,066 [Fred] Woo! 510 00:24:06,500 --> 00:24:08,467 I wanna get enough gold, 511 00:24:08,467 --> 00:24:11,567 it'll just mound up like that. 512 00:24:11,567 --> 00:24:13,166 Ah, this is gonna be great. 513 00:24:14,100 --> 00:24:16,300 [Fred] I could never envision myself 514 00:24:16,300 --> 00:24:18,667 as actually just like retiring. 515 00:24:18,667 --> 00:24:21,567 You've got to keep yourself active. 516 00:24:21,567 --> 00:24:23,767 There it is, Fred. 517 00:24:23,767 --> 00:24:26,567 [Fred] Dustin comes up with this harebrained idea. 518 00:24:26,567 --> 00:24:29,333 He's gonna mine a big old waterfall. 519 00:24:33,367 --> 00:24:35,667 [Dustin] Hot damn. 520 00:24:35,667 --> 00:24:37,066 Wait a minute. 521 00:24:37,066 --> 00:24:40,100 Mine a waterfall, 50-foot waterfall? 522 00:24:40,100 --> 00:24:42,500 Eh, I don't know. 523 00:24:42,500 --> 00:24:44,266 Difficult to get here. 524 00:24:44,266 --> 00:24:45,667 Can't get equipment in here. 525 00:24:45,667 --> 00:24:49,700 Vertical cliffs, powerful water 526 00:24:49,700 --> 00:24:51,767 presents a lot of challenges. 527 00:24:51,767 --> 00:24:53,567 Dustin said, 528 00:24:53,567 --> 00:24:56,567 "Hell, there's a whole bunch of creek up there to mine." 529 00:24:56,567 --> 00:24:58,367 So he had bought 530 00:24:58,367 --> 00:25:03,166 all of this three-quarters of a mile of claim. 531 00:25:03,166 --> 00:25:06,166 So we looked and looked and sure enough-- 532 00:25:06,166 --> 00:25:09,200 [Dustin] Holy [bleep] this is beautiful. 533 00:25:09,200 --> 00:25:11,567 There's all them round boulders. 534 00:25:11,567 --> 00:25:13,367 Hey, Fred. You got a copy? 535 00:25:13,367 --> 00:25:15,000 It's on the inside of a bend. 536 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:17,367 It's got a plunge pool and big round rocks 537 00:25:17,367 --> 00:25:18,467 that are on a bar. 538 00:25:18,467 --> 00:25:20,867 Yahoo! 539 00:25:20,867 --> 00:25:22,867 I think we're gonna do some good there, boy. 540 00:25:22,867 --> 00:25:24,467 [Dustin] It's the trifecta. [laughs] 541 00:25:24,467 --> 00:25:27,734 [Fred] The trifecta of gold mining. 542 00:25:29,367 --> 00:25:32,567 Dustin, he's the one that was the driving force 543 00:25:32,567 --> 00:25:36,533 to go up to do the mining in McKinley Creek. 544 00:25:37,767 --> 00:25:40,333 He really turned into a real gold miner. 545 00:25:43,667 --> 00:25:45,967 But we found out it was a difficult... 546 00:25:45,967 --> 00:25:48,433 Very, very difficult situation. 547 00:25:49,767 --> 00:25:51,367 [narrator] Just getting to work 548 00:25:51,367 --> 00:25:53,000 was a test of bravery 549 00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:55,700 and endurance for the entire crew. 550 00:25:55,700 --> 00:25:56,867 Everybody be safe. 551 00:25:56,867 --> 00:25:58,100 That's the only rule. 552 00:25:58,100 --> 00:25:59,767 Be safe, don't die. 553 00:25:59,767 --> 00:26:01,767 [narrator] Even at 72, 554 00:26:01,767 --> 00:26:04,934 Fred was not about to sit this adventure out. 555 00:26:07,667 --> 00:26:11,166 You have to ride up the mountain three miles. 556 00:26:12,567 --> 00:26:16,100 Harness up and go sliding across a cable 557 00:26:16,100 --> 00:26:18,500 about 400 feet across a canyon. 558 00:26:18,500 --> 00:26:20,233 Yahoo! 559 00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:23,100 Let's go get some gold. 560 00:26:23,100 --> 00:26:27,066 Then hike another mile up to the claim site. 561 00:26:28,266 --> 00:26:31,567 Then you have to climb down another 300 or 400 feet. 562 00:26:31,567 --> 00:26:33,967 Oh. Oh, [bleep]. 563 00:26:33,967 --> 00:26:37,166 Hell, that's where I wanted to go in the first place. 564 00:26:37,166 --> 00:26:40,767 And then you go to work. [laughs] 565 00:26:40,767 --> 00:26:42,533 Gonna be a good day. 566 00:26:44,300 --> 00:26:47,700 [narrator] Fred is no stranger to pushing himself. 567 00:26:47,700 --> 00:26:50,934 He spent his life battling the odds. 568 00:26:52,667 --> 00:26:55,567 I had a medical problem when I was a young man 569 00:26:55,567 --> 00:26:57,667 and it followed me through my life, 570 00:26:57,667 --> 00:26:59,900 and everybody has seen it. 571 00:26:59,900 --> 00:27:03,066 I got one leg considerably shorter than the other. 572 00:27:05,467 --> 00:27:07,767 Big Boot, that's my... 573 00:27:07,767 --> 00:27:09,500 kind of my nickname, you know? 574 00:27:09,500 --> 00:27:12,066 Got that big old boot down there. 575 00:27:12,066 --> 00:27:17,567 I never ever considered it a handicap ever. 576 00:27:17,567 --> 00:27:20,767 Hang on, men. I gotta get myself down a little bit. 577 00:27:20,767 --> 00:27:24,000 I worked in refineries, construction work. 578 00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:26,000 Nothing slows me down. 579 00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:28,266 It was only a handicap to other people, 580 00:27:28,266 --> 00:27:30,000 the way they perceived me. 581 00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:32,200 -What's your nickname? Big Foot? -It was good. 582 00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:33,900 -Big Boot, man. -Big Boot. Big Boot. 583 00:27:33,900 --> 00:27:36,200 -That's my email address even. -Why did they you call that? 584 00:27:36,200 --> 00:27:39,467 There are different stories that I'd tell about it. 585 00:27:39,467 --> 00:27:42,800 We was out picnicking. 586 00:27:42,800 --> 00:27:44,367 And about a little... 587 00:27:44,367 --> 00:27:47,600 Just a little old 6-foot alligator 588 00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:49,967 decided he wanted me for breakfast. 589 00:27:49,967 --> 00:27:52,200 Dude, you're BSing us. Let's pray. 590 00:27:52,200 --> 00:27:55,567 [laughter] 591 00:27:55,567 --> 00:28:00,100 I guess, mostly, to make people feel comfortable, 592 00:28:00,100 --> 00:28:01,900 I put jokes to it. 593 00:28:01,900 --> 00:28:03,367 [laughs] 594 00:28:03,367 --> 00:28:05,266 [Fred] And what happened, 595 00:28:05,266 --> 00:28:07,100 nobody will know 596 00:28:07,100 --> 00:28:09,166 because I'm not gonna tell you. 597 00:28:10,867 --> 00:28:14,066 It did make me a better person 598 00:28:14,066 --> 00:28:16,166 because I tried harder 599 00:28:16,166 --> 00:28:18,166 and I knew I had to try harder. 600 00:28:19,100 --> 00:28:20,867 [narrator] So when Fred first faced 601 00:28:20,867 --> 00:28:22,433 the raging whitewater... 602 00:28:23,367 --> 00:28:25,767 [Fred] It's just like riding a bicycle. 603 00:28:25,767 --> 00:28:27,266 You don't ever forget. 604 00:28:27,266 --> 00:28:30,667 [narrator] He met the challenge head on. 605 00:28:30,667 --> 00:28:32,066 [Fred] That type of mining 606 00:28:32,066 --> 00:28:34,266 with the dredges and everything 607 00:28:34,266 --> 00:28:36,233 was a totally new thing for me, 608 00:28:37,400 --> 00:28:40,567 but I didn't feel threatened at all. 609 00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:46,433 [man] All right. We're gonna give you a quick countdown. 610 00:28:47,700 --> 00:28:53,033 Three, two, one. 611 00:28:55,266 --> 00:28:57,166 Get it, Fred. 612 00:28:58,266 --> 00:29:00,066 [Dustin] Yeah, Fred. You're dredging, man. 613 00:29:00,066 --> 00:29:01,266 [Fred] I know, man. 614 00:29:01,266 --> 00:29:02,467 [Dustin] Woo! 615 00:29:02,467 --> 00:29:03,567 [Fred] About time. 616 00:29:03,567 --> 00:29:04,700 [Dustin] About damn time. 617 00:29:04,700 --> 00:29:06,967 Underwater and digging dirt. 618 00:29:08,066 --> 00:29:12,033 [Fred] Boy, this remind me of old times. Holy cow. 619 00:29:13,266 --> 00:29:16,066 I got into my '70s and I'm in there diving, 620 00:29:16,066 --> 00:29:18,567 and I thought, "What the hell are you doing?" 621 00:29:18,567 --> 00:29:20,166 [laughs] 622 00:29:20,166 --> 00:29:23,367 It just didn't dawn on me that I was getting older. 623 00:29:23,367 --> 00:29:27,266 My body said, "Hell, you can do this," 624 00:29:27,266 --> 00:29:28,934 and sure as hell I could. 625 00:29:30,467 --> 00:29:32,266 [Dustin] Good dive, Fred. Good dive. 626 00:29:33,266 --> 00:29:34,934 Good job, Fred. 627 00:29:37,166 --> 00:29:40,066 Fred did awesome today. He's fearless. 628 00:29:40,066 --> 00:29:43,567 He just tunnels down where nobody else is going to. 629 00:29:43,567 --> 00:29:45,467 He's taking chances. That's for damn sure. 630 00:29:45,467 --> 00:29:48,300 [laughs] 631 00:29:48,300 --> 00:29:51,166 [narrator] And after just two weeks of diving... 632 00:29:51,166 --> 00:29:53,367 [man] Fred, look at that right there. 633 00:29:53,367 --> 00:29:55,166 [Fred] I see it. 634 00:29:55,166 --> 00:29:57,367 [man] Holy [bleep]. 635 00:29:57,367 --> 00:30:00,000 I'll be damned. We found nuggets. 636 00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:02,333 [Fred] Yeah! Woo-hoo! 637 00:30:03,800 --> 00:30:05,367 Here, we've been working our tail off 638 00:30:05,367 --> 00:30:07,967 and finally we found gold, 639 00:30:07,967 --> 00:30:12,033 and everybody's spirits just kind of soared. 640 00:30:13,066 --> 00:30:14,500 Clean that sucker out. 641 00:30:14,500 --> 00:30:15,567 Woo! 642 00:30:15,567 --> 00:30:16,767 Way to go, buddy. 643 00:30:16,767 --> 00:30:18,667 -Clean it out. -Good job. 644 00:30:18,667 --> 00:30:21,066 Well, as it turned out, it was much deeper 645 00:30:21,066 --> 00:30:24,000 and it was much more difficult than we thought. 646 00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:25,567 [man] You ready, Dustin? 647 00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:33,133 [Dustin groans] All right. 648 00:30:34,767 --> 00:30:37,233 Yeah, we're just trying to get down as deep as we can. 649 00:30:39,266 --> 00:30:41,967 [Dustin] [bleep] [groans] 650 00:30:41,967 --> 00:30:43,233 [Fred] Dustin. 651 00:30:44,467 --> 00:30:46,000 [Dustin grunts] 652 00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:48,767 A rock just came through that tunnel, 653 00:30:48,767 --> 00:30:49,867 the tight spot. 654 00:30:49,867 --> 00:30:51,600 [man] Holy [bleep]. 655 00:30:51,600 --> 00:30:52,867 [Dustin] I can't take a hit to the head. 656 00:30:52,867 --> 00:30:54,400 [man] No, that wasn't good. 657 00:30:54,400 --> 00:30:55,634 [Dustin] This [bleep] is dangerous. 658 00:31:01,300 --> 00:31:03,834 [Fred] The current was so fast. 659 00:31:05,467 --> 00:31:07,166 So I had this little idea. 660 00:31:09,300 --> 00:31:11,867 One of the things I had up in my scrap pile 661 00:31:11,867 --> 00:31:14,867 was about a 20-foot long little I-beam. 662 00:31:14,867 --> 00:31:16,500 I got it. No, that's good. 663 00:31:16,500 --> 00:31:18,567 [Fred] My fix was to just go ahead 664 00:31:18,567 --> 00:31:21,166 and put it out on about a 45-degree angle 665 00:31:21,166 --> 00:31:24,867 and then just add these 2 by 8s along. 666 00:31:24,867 --> 00:31:26,667 That's perfect. 667 00:31:26,667 --> 00:31:29,266 Hide from the current is what we're trying to do. 668 00:31:30,400 --> 00:31:33,066 All right. Let's go over with it. 669 00:31:33,066 --> 00:31:36,033 [Dustin] Here we go. This is gonna be crazy. 670 00:31:37,600 --> 00:31:39,467 -You got a hold of it? -Yup. Got a hold of it. 671 00:31:39,467 --> 00:31:43,100 Come on. What happens when you add Fred Hurt, 672 00:31:43,100 --> 00:31:45,867 a full sheet of plywood, and raging water? 673 00:31:45,867 --> 00:31:48,233 This can't be anything but chaos. 674 00:31:49,900 --> 00:31:51,533 [Fred] Coming down with it. 675 00:31:53,667 --> 00:31:57,233 A full sheet of plywood and he made that [bleep] work. 676 00:32:01,100 --> 00:32:04,000 -Wow. Go, Fred. -[Fred] Yup. 677 00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:06,066 -That did a lot. -[Fred] That did a lot. 678 00:32:06,066 --> 00:32:08,100 [Dustin] Wonderful work by Fred. 679 00:32:08,100 --> 00:32:09,900 I definitely wasn't giving him the credit 680 00:32:09,900 --> 00:32:11,400 he deserved in the beginning. 681 00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:13,700 But went right together 682 00:32:13,700 --> 00:32:16,066 and he did a damn good job. 683 00:32:17,400 --> 00:32:19,166 [laughs] 684 00:32:19,166 --> 00:32:22,567 Oh, that was one of the fixes that we did. 685 00:32:24,667 --> 00:32:26,467 Oh, hell. What did I break? 686 00:32:29,266 --> 00:32:31,667 Most of the like things like bush fixes 687 00:32:31,667 --> 00:32:34,100 and things like that came from a sense... 688 00:32:34,100 --> 00:32:36,100 We never had money. 689 00:32:36,100 --> 00:32:37,600 The main thing was 690 00:32:37,600 --> 00:32:40,300 is you got by with what you have. 691 00:32:40,300 --> 00:32:43,000 He's gonna make this thing right here out of steel 692 00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:44,700 that we got from the grizzly bars. 693 00:32:44,700 --> 00:32:46,867 [Fred] It just takes so long to get parts. 694 00:32:46,867 --> 00:32:49,367 You have no chance of mining if you just sit there 695 00:32:49,367 --> 00:32:51,200 and wait till a part shows up. 696 00:32:51,200 --> 00:32:52,700 Go ahead. 697 00:32:52,700 --> 00:32:56,000 Hold right there. It's on. It's on. It's on. 698 00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:57,266 [cheering] 699 00:32:57,266 --> 00:32:58,867 [woman] Fred did a tremendous repair. 700 00:32:58,867 --> 00:33:01,734 I mean, I don't know anybody that does repairs like that. 701 00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:06,700 Nothing like good old Southern boy ingenuity, huh? 702 00:33:06,700 --> 00:33:07,767 [chuckles] 703 00:33:07,767 --> 00:33:09,367 [narrator] Up ahead... 704 00:33:09,367 --> 00:33:11,066 -Hold up. -I asked you 705 00:33:11,066 --> 00:33:13,667 to not [bleep] do this. You did it anyway. 706 00:33:13,667 --> 00:33:15,600 [Fred] Let them get it the way they want it. 707 00:33:15,600 --> 00:33:16,967 They could do it without me. 708 00:33:25,667 --> 00:33:26,767 [producer] And, Fred, tell me... 709 00:33:26,767 --> 00:33:28,100 Tell me about diving 710 00:33:28,100 --> 00:33:30,467 with your son at the bottom 711 00:33:30,467 --> 00:33:32,567 of McKinley Creek, in the Trifecta. 712 00:33:32,567 --> 00:33:35,367 That must be a special memory for you. 713 00:33:35,367 --> 00:33:36,467 [sighs] 714 00:33:40,767 --> 00:33:43,767 Always said if we can get into a wetsuit, 715 00:33:43,767 --> 00:33:45,667 we can be a diver. 716 00:33:45,667 --> 00:33:47,166 -Ooh, my bad. -[laughs] 717 00:33:47,166 --> 00:33:49,066 I think you put on a little weight, buddy. 718 00:33:49,066 --> 00:33:50,734 Suck it up. 719 00:33:53,266 --> 00:33:56,266 Getting into trifecta, it was a little bit more 720 00:33:56,266 --> 00:34:01,600 of the father and son adventure. 721 00:34:01,600 --> 00:34:03,300 Hey, Fred. 722 00:34:03,300 --> 00:34:05,100 It's you and me. 723 00:34:05,100 --> 00:34:07,767 Here we go, buddy. The moment of truth. 724 00:34:07,767 --> 00:34:10,266 [intense music playing] 725 00:34:10,266 --> 00:34:12,367 [Dustin] Damn, Fred. Can you believe it? 726 00:34:12,367 --> 00:34:15,667 We're both diving McKinley Creek together. 727 00:34:15,667 --> 00:34:18,767 [chuckles] I guess one of our culminating moments. 728 00:34:18,767 --> 00:34:20,400 [clicks tongue, makes sound] 729 00:34:20,400 --> 00:34:23,300 [Dustin] Double the bridges, double the Hurt. 730 00:34:23,300 --> 00:34:25,266 The two Hurt boys 731 00:34:25,266 --> 00:34:27,667 mining and dredging all at one time, 732 00:34:27,667 --> 00:34:29,467 and that was cool. 733 00:34:30,700 --> 00:34:32,266 Of course, I thought Dustin was digging 734 00:34:32,266 --> 00:34:35,166 in the wrong place. [laughs] 735 00:34:35,166 --> 00:34:38,166 [Dustin] Fred, there is no reason to be over there. 736 00:34:38,166 --> 00:34:40,100 [Fred] I'm dredging in the right place. 737 00:34:40,100 --> 00:34:43,100 I just got down to the damn good stuff. 738 00:34:43,100 --> 00:34:46,166 And I figured we should have been mining 739 00:34:46,166 --> 00:34:48,467 about 20 feet, 30 feet further down. 740 00:34:48,467 --> 00:34:51,100 You give the gold a chance to drop a little bit. 741 00:34:51,100 --> 00:34:52,767 -All right. -[Dustin] I'm done. 742 00:34:52,767 --> 00:34:54,767 Abandon. I'm done. 743 00:34:54,767 --> 00:34:56,700 We have to have a meeting now. 744 00:34:56,700 --> 00:34:58,433 Get out of the [bleep] water. 745 00:35:01,967 --> 00:35:04,467 [Fred] We both knew we... what we wanted. 746 00:35:04,467 --> 00:35:07,567 It's just we couldn't agree on how to get there. 747 00:35:07,567 --> 00:35:09,967 How about you coming up with a better solution 748 00:35:09,967 --> 00:35:12,100 for your problem with it falling over in the hole? 749 00:35:12,100 --> 00:35:13,767 You're my problem though. 750 00:35:18,300 --> 00:35:20,000 And... [chuckles] 751 00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:21,967 The little conflicts continued. 752 00:35:21,967 --> 00:35:23,266 -Hold up. -I asked you 753 00:35:23,266 --> 00:35:24,667 to not [bleep] do this. 754 00:35:24,667 --> 00:35:25,867 You did it anyway. 755 00:35:25,867 --> 00:35:27,266 Now, it's [bleep] up. 756 00:35:27,266 --> 00:35:28,867 Now, we gotta redo it. 757 00:35:28,867 --> 00:35:31,300 Don't give me no [bleep]. 758 00:35:31,300 --> 00:35:32,667 You can do it yourself. 759 00:35:35,367 --> 00:35:37,667 His style of what he wanted to do 760 00:35:37,667 --> 00:35:39,367 was totally different than mine. 761 00:35:39,367 --> 00:35:42,266 If they don't need me there, so be it. 762 00:35:42,266 --> 00:35:45,500 They're expert operators. They know better. 763 00:35:45,500 --> 00:35:47,367 Let them get it the way they want it. 764 00:35:47,367 --> 00:35:48,734 They can do it without me. 765 00:35:55,100 --> 00:35:56,500 We just decided I just couldn't work 766 00:35:56,500 --> 00:35:58,200 with Dustin anymore. 767 00:35:58,200 --> 00:36:01,467 He just couldn't accept the way that I was. 768 00:36:01,467 --> 00:36:03,166 There it is. 769 00:36:03,166 --> 00:36:05,033 Father-son conflict. 770 00:36:06,567 --> 00:36:08,533 It lasted for years. 771 00:36:11,200 --> 00:36:12,433 Hated it. 772 00:36:14,266 --> 00:36:16,900 [dramatic music playing] 773 00:36:16,900 --> 00:36:19,400 The best thing for me to do, work my own claim. 774 00:36:19,400 --> 00:36:21,867 I will make the decisions. I will be in charge. 775 00:36:21,867 --> 00:36:24,767 That's just the way it is. Dustin. 776 00:36:28,567 --> 00:36:30,467 I wanted to run my own operation. 777 00:36:30,467 --> 00:36:31,900 Dustin wanted to run his own. 778 00:36:31,900 --> 00:36:34,767 I like being in charge. 779 00:36:34,767 --> 00:36:36,867 It's better. 780 00:36:36,867 --> 00:36:38,600 -[Dustin] We each get to find some gold. -[Fred] All right. All right. 781 00:36:38,600 --> 00:36:40,367 Let's get in there and get it on. 782 00:36:43,400 --> 00:36:46,567 That kind of actually started to... 783 00:36:46,567 --> 00:36:48,600 We started getting a little better together. 784 00:36:48,600 --> 00:36:50,767 [Dustin] Don't you miss doing fun [bleep] like this, Fred? 785 00:36:50,767 --> 00:36:52,867 [chuckles] Maybe nothing quite as dramatic. 786 00:36:52,867 --> 00:36:54,300 [laughs] 787 00:36:54,300 --> 00:36:56,000 [Fred] Patching our differences up. 788 00:36:56,000 --> 00:36:58,300 Things were doing much better. 789 00:36:58,300 --> 00:36:59,400 [Dustin] Fred, you gotta take out 790 00:36:59,400 --> 00:37:00,767 one of those pigeons, man. 791 00:37:00,767 --> 00:37:02,600 [man] Five bucks I bet he hits it. 792 00:37:02,600 --> 00:37:04,467 [Dustin] Come on, Fred. Don't let me down, boo. 793 00:37:04,467 --> 00:37:05,600 -[gunshot] -[man] Woo! 794 00:37:05,600 --> 00:37:06,600 [Fred] Pigeon 40 feet away. 795 00:37:06,600 --> 00:37:07,600 [man] Yeah, I'd give you that. 796 00:37:07,600 --> 00:37:09,367 [man] That was good. That was good. 797 00:37:09,367 --> 00:37:12,867 But I think, over the years, that Dustin and I finally 798 00:37:12,867 --> 00:37:15,266 figured each other out a little bit. 799 00:37:15,266 --> 00:37:18,567 [Dustin] There was times when everyone doubted me 800 00:37:18,567 --> 00:37:20,367 except for Fred. 801 00:37:20,367 --> 00:37:23,166 Of all people, Fred's the one. 802 00:37:23,166 --> 00:37:24,667 Fred's the one. 803 00:37:24,667 --> 00:37:26,934 Gonna stand by your side as much as we fight. 804 00:37:28,266 --> 00:37:32,066 Now, the situation is totally reversed. 805 00:37:32,066 --> 00:37:35,000 Dustin and I get along quite well. 806 00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:36,567 [Dustin] All right. So lay it on me. 807 00:37:36,567 --> 00:37:38,166 Where would you dig if you were digging? 808 00:37:38,166 --> 00:37:41,000 [Fred] I would dig all across right there. 809 00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:42,700 -[Dustin] Yup. Fred... -It's like-- 810 00:37:42,700 --> 00:37:46,100 ...it is possible that this is the very first time 811 00:37:46,100 --> 00:37:48,867 that you and I agree on where to dig. 812 00:37:48,867 --> 00:37:50,567 [chuckles] 813 00:37:50,567 --> 00:37:52,300 I kept on diving until, I don't know, 814 00:37:52,300 --> 00:37:55,500 76, 77 years old. 815 00:37:55,500 --> 00:37:59,166 Oh, there's, you know, like a big chunk of gold. 816 00:37:59,166 --> 00:38:01,367 Yes! [laughs] 817 00:38:01,367 --> 00:38:04,900 Fellas, I'm just more than ecstatic. 818 00:38:04,900 --> 00:38:06,500 I don't know. I guess I started feeling 819 00:38:06,500 --> 00:38:09,300 my mortality or something. 820 00:38:09,300 --> 00:38:11,367 Sad to see it go. 821 00:38:11,367 --> 00:38:13,600 I noticed that climbing up and down those mountains 822 00:38:13,600 --> 00:38:15,200 was getting to be a little bit tougher 823 00:38:15,200 --> 00:38:17,367 than it used to ever be. 824 00:38:17,367 --> 00:38:19,767 Time for Fred to admit 825 00:38:19,767 --> 00:38:21,867 just not as tough as these young guys. 826 00:38:21,867 --> 00:38:23,066 [laughs] 827 00:38:25,467 --> 00:38:28,166 It was a little humbling to be able to say that 828 00:38:28,166 --> 00:38:29,900 but I really felt that. 829 00:38:29,900 --> 00:38:32,900 They definitely, definitely 830 00:38:32,900 --> 00:38:35,200 are tougher than I was. 831 00:38:35,200 --> 00:38:37,300 Hey, y'all get down there and find that pile 832 00:38:37,300 --> 00:38:40,200 of leprechaun gold that I didn't get. 833 00:38:40,200 --> 00:38:42,200 [laughter] 834 00:38:42,200 --> 00:38:44,000 [narrator] After nearly two decades... 835 00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:46,767 [Fred] It's been a thrill of a lifetime. 836 00:38:46,767 --> 00:38:48,367 [narrator] ...the sun set 837 00:38:48,367 --> 00:38:52,233 on 77-year-old Fred's Alaskan adventure. 838 00:38:53,266 --> 00:38:56,600 [dramatic music playing] 839 00:38:56,600 --> 00:39:01,166 [Fred] At this point in time, there's no regrets whatever. 840 00:39:01,166 --> 00:39:05,600 I guess if people have never done like hunting or fishing 841 00:39:05,600 --> 00:39:07,100 or the old golfer that thinks 842 00:39:07,100 --> 00:39:08,667 he's gonna get him a hole-in-one 843 00:39:08,667 --> 00:39:10,867 or something like that, 844 00:39:10,867 --> 00:39:14,667 they would never understand that lure... 845 00:39:14,667 --> 00:39:16,867 every day, every day. 846 00:39:16,867 --> 00:39:20,100 Wow. What an adventure that was. 847 00:39:20,100 --> 00:39:21,433 [laughs] 848 00:39:22,767 --> 00:39:25,433 Adios, Porcupine. 849 00:39:27,066 --> 00:39:29,100 Wow. 850 00:39:29,100 --> 00:39:31,266 I'm gonna miss Dustin, you know? 851 00:39:31,266 --> 00:39:34,266 I worked together with him for the last 10 years. 852 00:39:34,266 --> 00:39:37,867 We've had our differences but I'm gonna miss him. 853 00:39:45,166 --> 00:39:46,767 That was the end 854 00:39:46,767 --> 00:39:49,567 of the Gold Rush era. 855 00:39:53,266 --> 00:39:56,333 [dramatic music playing] 856 00:40:04,266 --> 00:40:06,734 So what are you gonna do with your final days then? 857 00:40:08,200 --> 00:40:10,967 [sighs] It's the strangest thing in the world. 858 00:40:10,967 --> 00:40:14,000 I got a little hot rod out there that... 859 00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:15,767 I think that... 860 00:40:15,767 --> 00:40:18,467 I always wanted to kind of spruce it up a little bit. 861 00:40:18,467 --> 00:40:21,266 I call it my Black Beauty. 862 00:40:21,266 --> 00:40:23,767 Here's what it look like now. 863 00:40:23,767 --> 00:40:26,266 You know, you talk about bucket list or something, 864 00:40:26,266 --> 00:40:28,166 maybe, you know, we could just drive down there... 865 00:40:28,166 --> 00:40:29,667 General store down here 866 00:40:29,667 --> 00:40:33,000 and I get me a nice big cup of ice cream. 867 00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:34,934 I'd be happy with that. 868 00:40:41,266 --> 00:40:43,867 [Dustin] That's fun, Fred. Look at that thing. 869 00:40:46,166 --> 00:40:48,266 I think this thing will start up for you. 870 00:40:48,266 --> 00:40:49,834 [Dustin] Okay. 871 00:40:53,066 --> 00:40:55,567 [car engine rumbles] 872 00:40:57,867 --> 00:40:59,900 [laughs] 873 00:40:59,900 --> 00:41:01,667 Well, I feel naked out here. 874 00:41:01,667 --> 00:41:03,166 Yeah. 875 00:41:04,667 --> 00:41:07,166 [Dustin] I can't get my foot on that pedal, man. 876 00:41:10,500 --> 00:41:11,967 Boy, that is something. 877 00:41:13,667 --> 00:41:14,867 Like a go-kart, huh? 878 00:41:14,867 --> 00:41:16,467 -Yeah. -[laughs] 879 00:41:16,467 --> 00:41:18,000 She bounces a little bit too, eh? 880 00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:20,333 Oh, tell you what, it's kind of cool though. 881 00:41:24,166 --> 00:41:26,066 You know, you and I have never done 882 00:41:26,066 --> 00:41:27,367 something like this before. 883 00:41:27,367 --> 00:41:29,266 -Nope. -Ever. 884 00:41:29,266 --> 00:41:32,567 I look back on... 885 00:41:32,567 --> 00:41:34,667 everything and it... 886 00:41:34,667 --> 00:41:36,800 Hell, it seems like we were always working. 887 00:41:36,800 --> 00:41:39,000 [laughs] 888 00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:41,867 Nobody ever, on their death bed, says, 889 00:41:41,867 --> 00:41:44,266 "I should've work more." 890 00:41:44,266 --> 00:41:48,533 Nope. That's one of my regrets is I didn't take a vacation. 891 00:41:51,967 --> 00:41:54,867 Sometimes you wonder why you do certain things 892 00:41:54,867 --> 00:41:56,266 and lots of times, 893 00:41:56,266 --> 00:41:57,734 you just don't even question it. 894 00:41:59,266 --> 00:42:02,166 When Dustin was younger, 895 00:42:02,166 --> 00:42:04,734 I buried myself in work at lot. 896 00:42:07,066 --> 00:42:09,667 That era of my life, 897 00:42:09,667 --> 00:42:12,900 I'd prefer to kind of put it in the past 898 00:42:12,900 --> 00:42:15,166 and work on a new relationship. 899 00:42:20,300 --> 00:42:21,734 [Dustin] All right. 900 00:42:23,900 --> 00:42:25,400 [Fred] Hey, look like we got a good 901 00:42:25,400 --> 00:42:27,133 front row seat right here. 902 00:42:28,400 --> 00:42:30,166 Oh, yes. 903 00:42:30,166 --> 00:42:31,367 [grunts] 904 00:42:33,867 --> 00:42:35,266 Yeah, this is one of the things 905 00:42:35,266 --> 00:42:37,567 I wanna do on my little bucket list. 906 00:42:37,567 --> 00:42:39,734 -I can cross it off. [laughs] -[Dustin] Okay. 907 00:42:47,000 --> 00:42:48,266 [narrator] Up ahead... 908 00:42:48,266 --> 00:42:49,367 [Dustin] I love you. 909 00:42:49,367 --> 00:42:51,200 I'm pretty damn sad. 910 00:42:51,200 --> 00:42:53,000 I have to accept this is probably the last time 911 00:42:53,000 --> 00:42:54,734 I'll see him alive. 912 00:42:58,100 --> 00:43:00,667 [dramatic music playing] 913 00:43:00,667 --> 00:43:02,500 [man] Frederick Richard Hurt, 914 00:43:02,500 --> 00:43:04,767 do you have the gold... rings that is. 915 00:43:04,767 --> 00:43:07,767 Jen, I commit myself completely to you. 916 00:43:07,767 --> 00:43:09,400 [man] You may kiss your bride. 917 00:43:09,400 --> 00:43:11,867 [cheers and applause] 918 00:43:13,900 --> 00:43:17,500 [Fred] Jen and I have been together for six years now. 919 00:43:17,500 --> 00:43:19,066 It's been a pleasure. 920 00:43:20,100 --> 00:43:22,567 Most incredible thing ever. 921 00:43:23,767 --> 00:43:26,800 Okay. We're off to Australia, right? 922 00:43:26,800 --> 00:43:29,100 [Fred] I think our honeymoon's gonna have to wait. 923 00:43:29,100 --> 00:43:31,634 We gotta get back to gold mining. 924 00:43:38,767 --> 00:43:40,867 [gobbling] 925 00:43:42,266 --> 00:43:47,200 Well, you heading on up and I'll be here 926 00:43:47,200 --> 00:43:49,967 just trying to do whatever I can do 927 00:43:49,967 --> 00:43:53,367 to deal with all this stuff on a day-to-day basis. 928 00:43:53,367 --> 00:43:55,667 We're gonna miss you up there, man. 929 00:43:56,767 --> 00:43:59,734 Everybody likes having you around. 930 00:44:01,100 --> 00:44:02,800 [Fred] I want you guys to go up there 931 00:44:02,800 --> 00:44:04,367 and have one hell of a season. 932 00:44:04,367 --> 00:44:06,667 I know you got a good plan, 933 00:44:06,667 --> 00:44:09,166 and I'll be rooting for you. 934 00:44:09,166 --> 00:44:11,100 [Dustin] Hopefully, you make it long enough 935 00:44:11,100 --> 00:44:15,300 to where we can... show you some gold. 936 00:44:15,300 --> 00:44:16,667 I'll be looking forward to it. 937 00:44:16,667 --> 00:44:17,667 [Dustin] Okay. 938 00:44:17,667 --> 00:44:20,100 That's my goal. [laughs] 939 00:44:20,100 --> 00:44:22,500 To hold out long enough to see some gold 940 00:44:22,500 --> 00:44:24,967 come out of Nugget Creek. 941 00:44:24,967 --> 00:44:27,567 So just bring me some. 942 00:44:27,567 --> 00:44:29,767 I'mma try with all of my might but... 943 00:44:29,767 --> 00:44:32,000 -Yeah. -All right. 944 00:44:32,000 --> 00:44:33,867 -All right. -Love you. 945 00:44:33,867 --> 00:44:35,433 You take care. 946 00:44:38,467 --> 00:44:39,800 I love you. 947 00:44:39,800 --> 00:44:41,567 I hope we get to see you again. 948 00:44:41,567 --> 00:44:44,667 [forlorn music playing] 949 00:44:56,667 --> 00:44:58,133 [Dustin] I'm pretty damn sad. 950 00:45:01,467 --> 00:45:05,000 He's just not doing quite as well as he was 951 00:45:05,000 --> 00:45:07,567 the last time I saw him. 952 00:45:07,567 --> 00:45:10,567 And I have to accept 953 00:45:10,567 --> 00:45:13,767 this is probably the last time I'll see him alive, so... 954 00:45:18,467 --> 00:45:21,066 I've never known life without Fred Hurt. 955 00:45:23,000 --> 00:45:26,266 Fred and I started making up about two years ago. 956 00:45:27,300 --> 00:45:30,467 I'll say the truth, I think that Fred and I have made 957 00:45:30,467 --> 00:45:33,300 huge leaps and bounds from where we started. 958 00:45:33,300 --> 00:45:37,467 And now that we're doing better, 959 00:45:37,467 --> 00:45:39,133 old man's gonna die. 960 00:45:42,100 --> 00:45:43,100 [Fred] Love you, hon. 961 00:45:43,100 --> 00:45:44,634 [Jen] I love you too. 962 00:45:46,000 --> 00:45:48,667 Nobody's ever ready to let somebody go. 963 00:45:48,667 --> 00:45:50,767 You just deal with it when it happens. That's it. 964 00:45:56,467 --> 00:45:58,867 I'm heading up to Alaska with his blessing. 965 00:45:58,867 --> 00:46:01,100 He wants me to succeed. 966 00:46:01,100 --> 00:46:04,967 He wants me to find gold. 967 00:46:04,967 --> 00:46:08,266 He wants me to have adventure. 968 00:46:08,266 --> 00:46:12,000 He doesn't want me sitting here watching him die. 969 00:46:12,000 --> 00:46:15,133 [somber music playing] 970 00:46:24,000 --> 00:46:26,367 [Fred] Well, a lot of people would remember Fred 971 00:46:26,367 --> 00:46:31,967 as that grouchy character on Gold Rush: White Water. 972 00:46:31,967 --> 00:46:33,834 [laughs] 973 00:46:38,667 --> 00:46:41,400 Living 80 years is... 974 00:46:41,400 --> 00:46:44,066 I guess, is long enough, although I was thinking about 975 00:46:44,066 --> 00:46:46,533 another 10 years, 15 years. 976 00:46:49,600 --> 00:46:51,200 I look back on my life 977 00:46:51,200 --> 00:46:54,867 as definitely a well-lived life. 978 00:46:54,867 --> 00:46:56,800 -Hey, Fred. How are you? -You all right? 979 00:46:56,800 --> 00:46:59,767 [Fred] Oh, anybody can go and live a boring life. 980 00:46:59,767 --> 00:47:01,400 [laughs] 981 00:47:01,400 --> 00:47:05,266 Years ago, I could've just retired. Uh-uh. 982 00:47:05,266 --> 00:47:06,700 Woo! 983 00:47:06,700 --> 00:47:08,567 What the hell do you wanna retire for 984 00:47:08,567 --> 00:47:10,567 when you're still enjoying life? 985 00:47:10,567 --> 00:47:12,567 Yeah! [laughs] 986 00:47:12,567 --> 00:47:14,467 Find something you really enjoy doing. 987 00:47:14,467 --> 00:47:16,400 -We're getting this. -[man laughs] 988 00:47:16,400 --> 00:47:18,166 [Fred] Go out and search for that adventure. 989 00:47:18,166 --> 00:47:19,767 Woo-hoo! 990 00:47:19,767 --> 00:47:22,000 It gives your life a little bit of meaning. 991 00:47:22,000 --> 00:47:24,166 [Dustin] I love you. 992 00:47:24,166 --> 00:47:25,867 [Fred] At the end of your time... 993 00:47:25,867 --> 00:47:26,767 Woo! 994 00:47:26,767 --> 00:47:29,266 You can say, "Yeah, I had a good time." 995 00:47:29,266 --> 00:47:31,100 Yeah! 996 00:47:31,100 --> 00:47:32,467 [laughs] 997 00:47:32,467 --> 00:47:34,100 It was a hell of a ride. 998 00:47:34,100 --> 00:47:35,700 Eighty years. 999 00:47:35,700 --> 00:47:37,800 [laughs] 1000 00:47:37,800 --> 00:47:40,934 [dramatic music playing] 1001 00:47:42,967 --> 00:47:44,634 I'd do it all over again. 1002 00:47:46,266 --> 00:47:49,367 [laughs] 1003 00:47:51,100 --> 00:47:54,100 [dramatic music playing]