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Edit: Grey Matters was not a Chem supply company

Just an idea from the scene where the guys say that they synthesize it and how simple it is to do so. Even with Walt siphoning his methylamine from a train, which seems easy to contaminate, he makes the best product ever in just an RV. What if the purity stems partly from his knowing that it's nearly impossible, or super difficult or time consuming, to make the acid perfectly, and so Walt simply buys his?

This might explain something - Gale, and most of the other cooks we see, are trained chemists but may not have experience in the economic side of it, like how they get certain precursors to come out pure. In contrast, Walt actually founded a chemical supply company, and had experience separate from his classroom experience.

So what if the cartel cooks and the other professionals are overstepping their abilities, don't check the phenylacetic acid, and are simply adding in an unknown number of variables when they make their own precursors?

Also helps to show that a textbook chemist in the show - Gale - is much more oriented to simply following instructions from the textbook, as opposed to Walt, who knows the market inside and out.

edit to mention that I know the title is messed up but I kind of like it tbh

Fan speculation based off of the actors playing these characters, which I have seen here before so I feel that it works.

In The Founder, Ron Swanson's distant relative being one of the founders of Macdonald's, gets cheated out of his business basically by Michael Keaton's character. My hypothesis here is that Ron Swanson has a hatred for bureaucracy and stuff because he knows this family story whereby a potential family fortune was washed down the drain by a crooked businessman - not that Ron Swanson is against business or anything, but that he views his family's loss of legacy as pertaining to the way power gets established by bureaucrats.

Ryan's distant relative on the other hand is the guy who convinces Michael Keaton that he is in the business of real estate. Ryan, unlike Ron Swanson, actually admired the crooked business kind of stuff and tries hard to be one himself, ultimately failing most of the time.

Based entirely off of the same actors playing these characters, and I'm too lazy to look up the real life people played by these actors in The Founder. So take it or leave it, I couldn't care less.

In the film, instead of being cannibal giants, they seem to be wearing steel or iron armor of some sort. We know people north of the Mediterranean discovered and smelted iron first. It seems to make sense to me that bronze being the only metal the Greeks knew, they would react surprised at people wearing and using an unknown metal.

This metal would seem fantastic and the Greeks might also interpret them as giants because they are an unknown society.

That's about it. I looked around and didn't see this mentioned - that the Laestrygonians in this story had literally just discovered iron and therefore seemed like futuristic giants to the Greeks, who were pivotal in collapsing their own bronze age.