Where does the Bayou Billionaires’ mailbox money come from  CMT
is about to unleash the outlandish Dowden family from NW
Louisiana on the reality landscape. The show is called Bayou
Billionaires and it’s like a fish out of water concept as it
follows the Dowdens who just so happened to be sitting on the
Haynesville Shale, which is one of the largest natural gas
producing geological areas in the United States.  In the
previews we see patriarchs Gerald and Kitten talking about their
mailbox money, which is the checks they receive from the gas
company. Here’s a cap from the supertrailer that reveals a check
in the amount of $116,680.00.  Check for over a $100,000 called
mailbox money on Bayou Billionaires  The about section for the
show via CMT partly reads:  In a modern day rags to riches
story, Bayou Billionaires tells the story of the Dowdens of
Shreveport, La. — a hardworking family of modest means who
recently discovered their home sits on the fourth largest
deposit of natural gas in the United States.  But