johnnyboy25
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What do you think of Gary on Oak Island?
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stetam
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Look up his resume. Quite impressive.
Steve
Steve
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I get really annoyed with him and his "bobby dazzlers". He thinks he's the greatest detectorist to ever pick up a coil, and he thinks everything he finds is the find of the century. Every thin flat piece of metal he declares is a "coin", even when it's not, like the rectangle piece he found a few weeks ago that clearly was not a coin.
I love it when he's wrong about something, you can see his face turn red, and he tries to justify himself by saying "well it's something" Well duh Gary, everything is "something".
And he NEVER digs his own holes as if he's some high and mighty King too important to get his hands dirty!
I think he's a damn joke with his 48 inch coil, finding stuff that any 10 year old boy could find with a $300.00 detector, and I think the show would be So Much Better without him.
I love it when he's wrong about something, you can see his face turn red, and he tries to justify himself by saying "well it's something" Well duh Gary, everything is "something".
And he NEVER digs his own holes as if he's some high and mighty King too important to get his hands dirty!
I think he's a damn joke with his 48 inch coil, finding stuff that any 10 year old boy could find with a $300.00 detector, and I think the show would be So Much Better without him.
EmuDetector
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The show and him have been discussed a lot here before. I'm not a fan of him, I watch the show to watch the dig. When they war room like crazy or do flash backs I got the skip button on the DVR. I get that he's got his character image to make him money, but from where I first saw him he's a beach comber who got lucky with a major find, appeared on history channel years ago to talk about it, faked finds in that show too, then suddenly appeared in oak island as an expert. If the show makes him play things up for TV I get it. But nearly everything he picks up he claims is super rare and must be treasure related and then gets his id of the item wrong. If I was truly an expert I'd be embarrassed to fake it that much. Just dig history and say it's cool because it's history, don't fake it.
Jtracss
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I took pic with him on the beach here in Florida, he was out there swinging along side me. Super nice dude. Its my avatar photo.
That program is the equivalent of a soap opera on TV.... they are never going to find anything unless they plant it... it amazes me how some believe that show... I guess if you have nothing else to so with your time, you can throw it on
What he says and does in real life most likely is much different than what the producers tell him to do for the show and he has no control over the editing.
Did they "plant" the road in the swamp?That program is the equivalent of a soap opera on TV.... they are never going to find anything unless they plant it... it amazes me how some believe that show... I guess if you have nothing else to so with your time, you can throw it on
I don't know what you are talking about... I don't waste my time on that show... I tried it in the beginning but soon realized it was a show just to string people along like most fake reality shows...
hoser
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Keep in mind it is a show, and if the show is to succeed, they have given the public just enough to keep them interested and wanting to see what happens next week. That is what is called showmanship. It's what pays the bills and keeps people coming back for more. I watched quite a bit of the episode's. I came to the conclusion that the only time they find the so-called treasure is when the press will explode with the good news. For now I see it as a way of briefly leaving the humdrums of winter, and keeping those of us that do love treasure hunting to watch, learn and dream. For now I guess that's all that counts. But that's me.
Same as the post above, like youtube it's about being famous. I think he's trying to work himself up to earning his Knighthood? Never meet him but heard those that have said he's normal, and friendly. As far as the show, I tried but not my cup of tea...
You don't waste time watching the show but feel its necessary to to comment on how bad it is?
Nothing wrong with sharing my opinion...
Many threads have been started about this entertainment show on the forum...
Oak Island and Gary Drayton
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I’m watching the last “ Oak Island “ for the season. An iNTERVENTION .........PLEASE !!!
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My wife and I use it as a drinking game now, we'll watch it but we're looking for a particular phrase word or action like Templars or garden Shaft or let's call Rick after we find one little piece of bent metal. And what we'll do is every time they say that word or phrase or call Rick we'll take a drink and we've had some pretty wild nights doing it that way. But it's about the only thing I think that show is useful for.That program is the equivalent of a soap opera on TV.... they are never going to find anything unless they plant it... it amazes me how some believe that show... I guess if you have nothing else to so with your time, you can throw it on
Tom_in_CA
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Grizz, Be patient with the "locker room talk" here. Boys will be boys.
But to answer your question, about various "salacious details" : If you gave me enough time & imagination in my own backyard, I could .... likewise .... find clues to treasure . That would amount to no different than O.I.'s asserted proofs.
For example: An unexplained depression I found in the middle of my yard. The curious symbols (the round paver stones, the rectangle fence planks). The out-of-place rocks at 10 ft. deep (our septic tank). A square nail I just found (wow !!). And so forth. And I can find all sorts of reasons from the history book of why a pirate treasure must be in my back yard : That Monterey, CA was a stopping spot for the returning Manila trade galleons ! That the Spanish capitol location is a mere 2 miles from my home. And my neighbor has squinty eyes. And I saw strange lights at 2am a week ago. Etc... etc...
Everything On O.I. has benign and more-plausible explanations. And no, it's not on the skeptic to "explain away" all the supposed proof. No more so than it's on you to explain the "proofs" in my backyard. All that anyone needs to do is (drumroll) show a treasure ! But the type things this O.I. story has, can be construed and dreamed up for ANY location, in the entire USA, when given enough time & imagination.
And no, I do not accept as "proof" to point to the legend itself (the boys, their rowboat, blah blah). For the skeptic to ask about the legend and say "says who ?", and the proponent points back to the legend itself, as proof of itself, is known as "circular reasoning".
Coin-Saver
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The only reality in that show is that it IS a show.
My point has been missed.
If you're going to be critical of the show, you should, at the very least, be up to date on all the episodes. Less than that you are talking from your back side about something you literally know nothing about, other than the first few episodes from about 10 years ago
As fas as you being able to create your own mystery treasure, well who cares, this thread is about Oak Island.
Moved this thread to the sub forum where other Treasure "Tales" are located.
Tom_in_CA
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Grizz, let's be totally honest : Even if a skeptic watched every episode, and created detailed explanations for how the "salacious details" have more-plausible explanations, then : Would that *really* drive the faithful to loose faith ? I don't think so. Hence, really then, it's not a matter of someone being up-to-date . The faithful will merely reject any & all pushback, no matter HOW well-versed the skeptic is.
