So tonight is the season premier of "The Curse Of Oak Island". Can't lie: fascinated by this show. It's ridiculous on several different levels, but at it's core is fascinating. The brothers are fascinating; one - Marty - is a multimillionaire entrepreneur, with multiple engineering degrees, a successful energy business, and a successful winery - and one - Rick - is a former postal worker who is... uh, that's pretty much it. It's cheesy on a lot of levels - they call the team the "Fellowship of the Dig" - and Rick is prone to these very cliched proclamations - my favorite is "one in, all in, once in, forever in" - and insistance that it's all about "truth" and the "story" of what happened at Oak Island. But the holes in the logical stream of thought are massive. For example, the first "searcher" activity they note is in the 1790's. The goal has always been to find "pre-searcher" activity, that is, activity that can be attributed to those that PUT the treasure there to begin with. So while digging, they found some wood in a dig zone, and had it dated. It came back at approx. 1750, and IMMEDIATELY they were all classiofying this as "pre-searcher activity", thus reinforcing that there is treasure there. One problem. The absolute AGE doesn't have anything to do with WHEN it was used. I have a 1990 Jeep in my garage, but it was PUT there in 2018.
Another bit of cheese: they have a room they call the "war room"; it's basically a conference room they can talk with experts and those crew members who are off-island (the brothers are "yoopers", Michigan residents from the Upper Peninsula). It's almost like clockwork: someone will be saying something, and they'll pan across the other people, and they will invariably be nodding their heads saying "yup" and "absolutely". It's a running joke with my wife that when they do that, I sit there and nod my head and say "yup. Absolutely" over and over again (it's funny if you see what I mean).
In any event, it's fascinating to watch these boobs spend their money for my entertainment value.