In this episode, we dive headfirst into the first six lines of the 2025 Utah Treasure Hunt poem. We break down each line, look for patterns, and explore possible interpretations based on how John and Dave have crafted their clues in years past. Drawing on their previous solves, we attempt to get inside their heads and understand how they might be thinking this time around.

Also, just a heads up, this was our first attempt at filming a video podcast, and well… we hit a few snags with the audio. It’s not perfect, but we’re learning as we go. Thanks for your patience and sticking with us!

The story of Julia Thomas begins where the life of the Dutchman himself ends.

When Jacob Waltz died, he supposedly trusted the general location of the gold mine to Julia Thomas, who then spent years searching for the mine and stumbled onto some pretty promising leads.

Ultimately though, Julia would end up joining some weird religion and selling maps to the lost gold mine that she never located.

Whatever your opinion of the veracity of the Lost Dutchman's Gold Mine itself, you have to wonder why someone would leave behind a secure source of income and dedicate all of that time and money to finding a treasure... if they weren't entirely sure of its reality.

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In this special video episode we interview this year's winner, Damon Johnson. We offer our parting thoughts on this year's hunt and share our latest parody song, "One Trail More". Thanks for another awesome year!

In this episode we attempt to do an extremely steep hike to our latest solve while recording a podcast episode. It goes about as well as you might expect.

Yes, we know. Christian's audio is terrible in this episode. We need better equipment. In this episode Christian shares that solve that broke him as a treasure hunter. We discuss our recent negative reviews and resolve to be better. Chad and Christian mend broken fences. Caden continues to be his good natured self. You know, more of the usual.

In this episode we discuss the most recent hints, including the head-scratching poker video. There is at least 10 solid minutes where we discuss the merits of bathing. So if your love treasure hunts and taking baths, this is literally the most applicable podcast you could possibly listen to.

In this episode we discuss a solve centered on Mount Timpanogos that broke our hearts. We gossip about Discord and Reddit drama and review listeners biggest coincidences they have encountered so far.

It's gold. Just listen to it.

We are not going to lie, there isn't a ton of substance here. We kick around our best (partial) solves so far. We share the results of the survey. We finalize our bets and our punishments if we are wrong. Chad gargles some jelly beans. Things get weird. Friday can't come soon enough...

In this episode we discuss and dissect the remainder of the poem. Caden Photon and Brad Zollinger make some really good contributions. We take questions from our listeners and do a below average job at answering them.

Also, if you are curious, this episode will be released tomorrow.