I feel the same way. The only reason I watch it is because I've been fascinated with the Oak Island mystery for a long time. And I don't really watch much else on tv these days.

Ditto.

Only TV i watch is football. So when i need some background noise, something to fall asleep to or just something on the screen in general, i throw on Oak Island.

There's something about the narrator's voice that's like....soul food.

It kind of reminds me of the show Burn Notice. Every season involved the hero looking for the higher up that ****ed him over. At the end of the season, he'd find that person, kill them, but with their dying breath, they'd identify somebody higher up who ordered them to **** him over. Next season, same thing. Eventually I just quit watching. I have no idea how the series ended.

There's no way this is real. It's just another fake reality show.

What are you basing this on?

Is it your belief that these guys are making more money from the commercial shares on the History channel than they are putting into their operation to find very little of substance?

These guys own damn near the whole island. Marty Lagina has a networth of $40M. Not sure what is fake about that.

My belief is that there is a search for treasure, and then there is a TV show that needs to occasionally have a little pay off to keep ratings up and advertising dollars flowing in. And the TV people don't give a crap if little things they find are real or not, as long as their audience thinks they're real.

Look, I'd love it if they hit the jackpot and found a vault full of gold and jewels or the Holy Grail or the Ark of the Covenant or Excalibur or whatever, but it's quite likely that they've been doing this for years and haven't found jack shit, but still want to do whatever it takes to keep the cash rolling in.

It's my opinion.

I guess I just dont see how the History channel is going to get their hands on some 600+ year old artifact and talk the owner into letting them bury it in dirt.

I walk past a coin shop in Chicago every day that sells ancient coins and whatnot. Find one in Italy, it's no big deal. Valuable, sure, but not that much.

Take that same coin found in Italy and bury it in the mud in Oak Island, though, and HOLY SHIT LOOK WHAT WE FOUND!!!! An expert dates it back 1,000 years. Well, sure; it's a thousand years old. Doesn't mean the producer didn't drop it in the mud while the cameras weren't rolling.

I do hate being so cynical, but there's a reason for it.

I don't think people realize this isn't your typical reality show.

The pawn stars business model doesn't apply here.

I'm betting Marty's net worth has increased as a result of this show. And would probably suffer if the show went off the air because they never found anything.

I'm not questioning his desire to find something. I'm just saying that sometimes you do what you've got to do to keep things moving.

he makes 500k per year for the show.

I have heard they are spending millions of drilling and costs associated with it, but they get a couple million in grants per year, and its funded by both the laginas, craig tester, and a silent partner.

I have to think that they are losing money devoting time and energy into oak island, instead of focusing on the gigantic energy business and winery they have.

Marty Lagina looks like he's juuuust about through with this shit. Rick is looking tired as well, but he's of course a lot more devoted to the hunt than Marty is.