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veen  ·  2863 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Anyone listening to S-Town?

Is there not a difference in quantity? I imagine that you can firegild with far less than some bars. Plus, there's a bunch of hints at him never really being in much financial trouble, despite what the cousins say about his financials at the end.





sounds_sound  ·  2863 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I never really got a sense of quantites for anything throughout the podcast. We had a witness of one gold bar coming from a box that maybe had more bars inside, but that was an assumption. We also have no idea how much guilding was actually being done, but because he was the only one in the country doing it, it could have been a lot.

Now I feel like I'm destroying a good storey by analyzing it too much. What I mean to say is "Thar's gold in them hills."

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