Heist Special Series - Chapter 3 - FORT KNOX
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Matt And Sie
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🗓️ 24 September 2025
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Alright, it's time to delve into the granddaddy of all bank vaults. The gold-plated epitome of secure stashes. A place so impervious that its name has become synonymous with ultimate security. We're talking about the indomitable Fort Knox, my friends. So, just how secure is this fortress of solitude? The answer is: mind-bogglingly so.
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| 0:00.0 | Chapter 3. Fort Knox, the Brad Pitt of Bank Vaults. Let's talk about Fort Knox. The big |
| 0:07.0 | cahuna of bank vaults. The one, you know, the gold standard of gold storage, the place that is so |
| 0:14.7 | secure, it's used as a classic idiom for anything that you're trying to explain is super secure. It's literally the word |
| 0:22.8 | for secure. Yeah. If it's like, oh man, you can't get it in that cookie jar. It's locked down like |
| 0:30.2 | or Knox. Fort Knox. Four Knox, baby. The big, the big boy. Yeah, really big boy. This is great. |
| 0:36.7 | I'm so excited to talk about this. It's so cool because we, you know, we talk about this stuff all the time and decided to just jump in there and see what the deal is. Like how secure could this place possibly be? Is there even gold in there? Do they even still use it? And it turns out it's pretty fascinating. Yeah. It's also, uh, you'd say it's pretty secure. It's pretty secure. |
| 0:57.0 | It lives up to its name. I'd like to think that they've been inspired by some of our pods about some of the |
| 1:02.6 | ideas of how we'd secure things. But it turns out they were way onto it before we were born. So what do you |
| 1:08.6 | know? I guess they beat us to the punch. Who's to say who was |
| 1:11.5 | inspired by who? Yeah, yeah. But Fort Knox, if you were inspired by us, you're welcome. |
| 1:16.5 | It could have been a parallel inspiration thing, you know, two different, two different beats come |
| 1:20.5 | up with the idea. Yeah, exactly. Great minds think alike. Okay. So Fort Knox, what is Fort Knox? |
| 1:27.2 | Well, it's a fort, literally, an army fort |
| 1:30.4 | in Kentucky, about an hour away from Louisville. It was built in 1936 and holds the United States |
| 1:38.0 | gold reserves. So at its height in the 1930s, it held around 13,000 metric tons of gold. |
| 1:47.4 | You're like, that's a lot of gold, but whatever, I have no frame of reference for how much |
| 1:50.7 | gold that is. |
| 1:51.6 | Well, that's $850 billion in gold. |
| 1:55.0 | And you're like, okay, that's a lot of money in gold, but I still really don't quite understand |
| 1:59.1 | that. |
| 1:59.5 | This is, I think, the key stat to keep in mind |
| 2:02.5 | about this. The amount of gold that has been mined in the entire history of the world is only |
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