What’s with “The Curse Of Oak Island”?

I don't watch any of it. Shame that the History Channel is mostly "reality television ".

And the Military Channel has become the Nazi/Hitler Channel.

I hope that there is a special place in Hell for whoever came up with "reality" shows.
 
My friends brother works for the Screen Actors Guild in LA. Spoiler alert - he says every one of the "reality shows" is completely scripted - even the game warden shows which I like. And you swamp people (which my wife loves) …. Shoot the damn alligator when you first pull it up instead of letting it thrash around for gods sake …. And must we see the splashing water on your faces from the shot in slow motion each and every time ?? And clean your guns !!!!! And do you need a scope to shoot 2 feet? I could go on …..
And Josh Gates ? His voice is like nails on a chalkboard - immediate change of channel.
There - I feel a touch better now …
Josh Gates goes to such interesting places, but I just can't get into it because he kind of gets on my nerves, too. He reminds me too much of that annoying (now extremely woke) alleged actor Seth Rogan. And when I have seen it, Gates often makes fun of people or customs at the places he goes to.
 
I often doze off watching archeological shows. I think it was over the weekend where someone was doing one on pyramid structures. They covered one in Illinois, one in Peru and ended with one in the Antarctic that's shown up due to some melting of the ice cap. The fascinating thing was that they did core drilling where there's actual land under the ice and discovered that at one time, Antarctica was a lush green habitat.

I have to admit Josh Gate's over enthusiasm get wearing. However, occasionally, he makes a redeeming crack. During a thing on the Vikings capitol city and Norway he was commenting on all the free stuff Norwegians get. Followed by the comment to the effect that "Of course they take about 1/2 your pay in taxes."
 
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Ive only watched a few episodes of season 1, before the stupidity of the premise struck home. Have these clown brothers ever discussed how the subterranean structures were constucted in the first place? Seems to me it'd be rather difficult underwater, especially a few centuries ago. Aliens?
 
Still better than prescription medicine commercials.


I always laugh at that Bent Carrot commercial…

Especially since I had an Adams Arms piston rod that had Peyronie's Disease.

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I always laugh at that Bent Carrot commercial…

Especially since I had an Adams Arms piston rod that had Peyronie's Disease.

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That has got to be a fake. Everybody knows piston ARs are 100 and ten percent reliable.
 
That has got to be a fake. Everybody knows piston ARs are 100 and ten percent reliable.


That is still my truck gun… actually. Been 100% since then.

It was a bad heat treatment on the rod. Adams Arms said the only cause of that could be improper installation or bad heat treatment. Since it was their upper, I figured they could install it correctly. Nothing else was changed… except for the carrier.

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All production products can have issues. AA did the right thing twice… and one really wasn't even their "warranty."

Spikes Tactical… they fell off the face of the earth when I had an AA barrel rotate in the extension. Only replied back to me months later, after I wrote about their terrible C/S in a thread on another forum. AA… they gave me a brand new barrel and gas block just because it was an issue related to their barrel.

I get your comment, and chuckled from it… but seriously, I'll recommend AA to anyone. Good company. [emoji106]
 
When Antarctica gets all melted, hopefully Oak Island will be completely submerged. Then I suppose we'll get a deep sea divers show exploring the "lost" Oak Island.
 
I was actually a fairly serious archaeology student in college.

That being said, I know most of the archaeology people think about has to do with finding rich stuff and grave goods. Serious archaeology consists of very little of this.

These two guys are clowns. I read the same reader's digest article they did.

There most definitely was something going on there in the time periods they reference on the show, but that in itself doesn't make good TV or good archaeology. I still watch the show. It's cringy. They make huge assumptive leaps in evidence ID that magically support their beliefs with very little science to suggest their leaps of faith are correct. Taking some piece of scrap cast iron to some crazy blacksmith and having him canonically bless it as being "from a sailing ship, very old, from 1650 or so, I'd say…" is the sort of thing that makes scientists roll their eyes and throw up in their mouths a little.

Here's what's interesting to me. C14 dating and dendrochron are actually real, tried and true tools that do have significant value when applied correctly. And yes, the metal analysis done by the lady in the lab, where they can tell where stuff is mined, is legit. But the application of it in the context of treasure hunting is stupid. Same thing w the XRF machine they claim to have bought for themselves. XRF has been proven to be snake oil.

I still watch it, but it's like watching a car wreck for me. Have a hard time looking away, even tho i know the outcome.
 
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