These have to be the two least sympathetic dudes on TV right now. "Real estate investors" Scott and George lost their shirts when the market crashed, and rather than, I don't know, GETTING A JOB like everyone else in America, they decide to abandon their wives with their many, many young children and go risk their lives (and hundreds of thousands of private investors' dollars) to mine for gold in Africa. This is the equivalent of betting your life savings on a roulette wheel, if the roulette wheel was in the middle of the jungle in Ghana. The guys whine nonstop when their pipe dream of getting rich without doing any work doesn't go smoothly (rest assured, the only people actually working on this show are the nameless African locals who toil day in and day out for pennies so these clueless meatheads can pay the mortgage on their Utah McMansions).
Some lowlights include: the guys flat-out lie to their private investor to try to squeeze more money out of him; one of the guys tries to make some quick cash through a shady deal to be a "middleman" for a "gold dealer" to "sell large quantities of gold to rich Americans" (the deal fell through when the dealer spotted the hidden camera the show sent in to the meeting); the guys walk out on their partners, who stepped in when it became clear that these dudes know absolutely nothing about gold mining and kept the operation running, but blame the partners for not finding enough gold; the guys decide to take the last $30,000 (of their investors' money) and use it to buy a $75,000 gold bar from some random shady dude in the middle of nowhere--to the surprise of no one but Scott and George, it's a trap, and they walk away without the money or the gold; after catastrophically failing and blowing an amount of money that most Americans could easily live on for 5 years (money that didn't belong to them in the first place), Scott and George learn their lesson, and return to their families determined to find decent, steady, respectable jobs and simply work to pay down their debts and support their families. JUST KIDDING! The guys vow they will return to Ghana, presumably with some other naive investor's money, to try again.
Honestly, the ONLY reason to watch this show is the schadenfreude of seeing one horrible thing after another happen to these terrible guys.