I am so glad you mentioned this. Rick just can’t STFU. He likes to think he’s the smartest guy on the island and all decisions run through him.

LOL. Maybe Rick can sniff it to check for charcoal.

My three answers:

1. Billy - he is the most underrated member of the team. I also think Marty is great too.

2. This is the toughest one. Dislike Rick. Jack has the most ridiculous takes. Gary needs to stop acting like he strikes gold. My vote is for Laird as he cock blocks any significant dig with a trowel.

3. April 2026. They find a vault with nothing in it.

Yeah Billy is a good answer. No bs from Billy - he knows how to work that escavator with some real talent.

Rick is a mixed bag for me…. He definitely has passion, works hard, and isn’t afraid to do the dirty work. However, he is also a walking cliche machine. It seems like his dialogue consists of a bout 50 sentences that they just cut and paste in ad nauseum

1. My favorite is the Bobby-Dazzler guy. I like him because he is the only one who finds anything of value.

2. My least favorite is the bald guy with the facial hair. Jack? Whatever his name is, I have no clue why he is there. He adds zero value. He is quick to latch on any theory that he thinks the non-Marty Lagina brother might believe. I think it’s funny they give him the dirty/messy jobs to do.

3. They won’t ever find any treasure and the show will end in 3 more seasons. So, 2026-2027-ish.

I agree with you.

I think the show will go on for 2-3 more years, until they figure out the real treasure is a hidden bank account left by Bell after he had already sold everything.

Then a new show with Shatner will start, looking for all the treasures that Bell sold.

they should spice it up with some drama and have peter and and miriam hook up. then jack and/or emma get jealous.

boots on the ground. ah hah moment.

Since I have stopped watching the show a few years back, I don't even know who Miriam and Peter are. haha.

I HATE when he says that. Something about his attitude bugs me. I want to "vote" him off the island. LOL

1. My favorite is Gary. Several years ago my wife and I renamed the show to "What does Gary find tonight".
2. Least favorite is still Jack. He basically adds nothing and only ever parrots what someone else says. I will say Rick is a close second with his repetitive phases and I never liked when he started the whole "Its about the story" crap.
3. Show will end when the rating drop. I can't blame Marty and Rick. If a TV show was paying me lots of $ to pursue a hobby that would be great. I also believe Sam Ball probably found the good stuff. If there is anything left, they need to bring in Tony or Parker from Gold Rush. They would dig the whole island in a week.

This definitely has to happen!!!!!

I swear when they are metal detecting some of those holes are already dug and been put back. The shovel goes in the ground and you see the whole thing start to wiggle.

This!!! ^^^

I was going to ask who would you vote off the island versus least favorite person.

SkyJammer I second your motion for Jack and Rick to go back to mainland Michigan. Or the UP.

1. Love it. My wife calls the show “Joke Island.”

3. Great point about ratings. You’re probably right.

Sometimes if you have a good eye, you can catch how some of these treasure hunting shows stretch reality. To me, that can be the most interesting part of the show. Sort of like spotting bloopers in shows or movies.

I remember one of the shows (Beyond Oak Island) visited a small lake not long ago. Can't remember the details about the folk lore, but the show focused a bit on two mysterious marking going down a small hill to the lake. Of course, there had to be some unworldly explanation for the markings and something at the bottom of the lake. Then in another scene not related to the earlier, you could spot just for a second, posts from a pier long since gone in the same spot. The 'mystery markings' likely were vehicle tracks from a couple of guys going to their favorite fishing pier ages ago.

Another show, not related to Oak Island, had to do with something about a bank in a town if I recall correctly. Something about houses and tunnels between them, and maybe a tunnel going to the bank vaguely come to mind. I recall the crew standing in a basement and someone was explaining how the wall appeared to have different bricks. Clearly that was a sign there was (or is) a secret tunnel entrance going to the house across the street. The problem? It was an old house, the kind where the basement (below ground) is only 4 or so feet, with the rest above ground. What gave it away? A basement window right next to where they were pointing at the wall. Then a scene where they are looking at the ground, next to the side of the house and you can see the 1st floor was about 3 up from the brick foundation. So either the tunnel was for a 3 year old bank robber, or you had to traverse on your stomach. Or maybe somebody just patched a bad spot in the brick wall. But to the producers, digging a tunnel in 4 ft. of dirt under a street to another house made more sense than just stashing some loot in a wheelbarrow and carting it across the street in the middle of the night.

The SkinWalker Ranch is another one when they get out their RF electronics and start looking for signals. I'm an RF engineer and when they fire up their 'spectrum analyzer' (i.e. a $20 USB receiver stick from Amazon), it is truly cringeworthy to watch.

I think I have more fun spotting these moments than watching the treasure hunting aspect.

Reminds me of something they would say on "Lost in Space" when I was a kid in the '60's. LOL

Just rewatched the pilot... did you know Jack is Craig Tester's SON!

His stepson. Craig's son Drake passed away.

Look in the credits, Jack is a producer too. Lol.

Gotcha… but in the pilot they called him his son. I remember that Craig’s one son passed away…. If I remember correct he said he would never come back to the island.

I stand corrected, Associate Producer.

Is that another way of saying “Gopher”?

Do they have a title for Peter Fornetti? He is normally Gary's digger or gopher for everyone else.

Gord

Why the hell are they taking a trip to Italy at the end of their digging season? From the sound of it, they only have a few more weeks before they have to leave the island. Can’t you take it once you’re done on the island?

Weird decision making. Unless the History Channel needed more material.

Tonight's summary:

1) Road trip to Italy.
2) Watched Star Trek on Paramount+ instead of watching the road trip. Pretty much whenever "Templars" is mentioned, I'm done. They went off on that stupid tangent in the intro (23 second mark), and I started reaching for the remote.

Actually, I don't mind the road trips, because it reminds me of how I never care to go to any of those places myself.

I prefer to go on vacations in my own country and help the economies of my own country.

So far, I have never seen any footage on tv of any place that I want to go to myself. Nice to see the places on tv for free though.

I am glad that Skinwalker Ranch is back, it is a tad interesting.

Maybe Oak Island will find something next season, I doubt they would ever show the footage this late in the season, if they actually did find anything now.

Skinwalker is very interesting, hopefully it doesn't end up like Oak Island

This episode might have been the most interesting of the year. I think it is worth watching. I didn't even fall asleep!

I keep waiting for the hurricane to roll through there. Wasn't Nova Scotia hit pretty hard last Fall?

Next week is the week!

There needs to be a "yeah" box. Or maybe "10+ 'Yeahs' in one episode"

Great Card. How about a "Templars Baby!" or "Top Pocket Find" box.

Despite only having only one Free spot in the center, I think about 90% are pretty much a given. Templar's - of course. Tunnel mentioned - yep. Wide angle shot of the island, road, Jack and a shovel - every episode, those are really free too. The list goes on.

After finding the bingo card, this was the first show I've really paid attention to in well over a year (it's on for background noise mostly) just to fill out the card! I was hoping to get a "Bobby dazzler" and "Well lookie here!", but didn't happen (almost, not quite tho).

Did he go to Oak Island also?

I am pretty sure they will find the treasure next week during the 2-hour final season episode.

I do hope, in the years to come, that they will find some treasure, and it will be as good as the movie National Treasure.

I also hope they will read comments here and keep all that repetitive narrator stuff to a minimum in future episodes.

echo.. " Repetitive Narrator?? "

10 Things You Didn’t Know about Jack Begley
https://tvovermind.com/jack-begley/
(take with a grain of salt since they never mention he is Craig's son/stepson)

And then his 'data driven' stuff:
https://exploreceleb.com/jack-begley/

One thing that I do like about the show is that I like all of the guys. Rick talks too much and needs to learn some new clichés, but they are all pretty relatable and don’t mind getting down in the mud and lifting a shovel.

Happy Season Finale tonight.

Treasure or no treasure?

"Could it be...."

Maybe they will find a Knights Templar guarding the treasure.

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I really keep hoping for something like this:

I like how they say they have to wrap it up for the winter as they walk out of the war room in short sleeves and leaves on the trees.

You have chosen....to drag this story out for 10 YEARS?

Yeah, they said their permits were expiring and that is why they had to stop working in the Garden Shaft.

All-in-all... the end of the season was pretty good. The last 4 or 5 episodes were the best they have had in years.

The only treasure is what they make from the studio selling this bullshit story.

As long as people keep watching, they'll keep producing the show. I found it interesting the first couple years I started watching, but lost interest since it was all the same. At this point I have no hope that they'll find anything significant.