It's time for Last Time On, the podcast for everyone who wants to watch all of that prestige television, but who has time for that? Our hosts don't, so they take the randomized highway down your favorite shows they haven't seen, and try to guess what happened Last Time On!

Join us as Ben and Xhafer start their trip with Walt and Jesse through Breaking Bad, along with explaining how this whole thing will work.

Welcome the last time on the watch cast for everyone who wants

to watch all of this Prestige tv.

But who is time for that?

I don't have time for that.

I'm Jafa.

I'm Ben

and we're gonna be starting off this new podcast.

We're gonna be talking about Breaking

Bad,

uh, but I want to introduce the general conceit of the podcast

first.

Yes.

Why are we all here?

So it's exactly what we said.

There's so much prestige TV

There's so much great tv.

It's, there's too much great

because who's got the goddamn time?

don't got the goddamn time.

So what we're gonna do is we're gonna take one of these shows that neither of us have

seen.

Yep.

That is.

is

Universally

acclaimed.

Oh look, let's not always,

they won't all be universally

No.

uh, but a very popular show that, you know, someone who's told

you, you've gotta watch this show

you haven't seen.

Right.

One of those, and we're gonna be going through it

it

as

quickly as possible

Because we're not actually just going to watch these, these shows.

No, because as we meant, we said who's got the time?

I don't got the time to binge Breaking Bad.

No, but I do have time for like six episodes.

Yeah.

So that's what we're gonna do

now, Jafe, are we going to just look up a list of the six

best episodes of Breaking Bad and read about what happens in between?

That sounds way less fun than what I had in mind, Ben.

and way more work.

Sounds like reading.

Ugh.

No reading.

No reading

for this podcast.

That's,

it's actually a problem because if we try to read anything,

suddenly everything gets spoiled

and we don't wanna spoil it for us, but we do wanna watch

the show as quickly

as possible.

So what

we've done is

we've got a little bit of a mathematical

formula.

Uh, if anyone

wants the actual nitty gritty on how we determine that these

numbers shoot us an email.

I'm

Jafa made a spreadsheet.

I always make a spreadsheet

and,

uh, the goal is to skip 75%

of each season.

right?

And so we set the numbers and we came up with a dice roll

that we're gonna be using,

and

we're gonna watch an episode, make some predictions about where the show is going.

Roll the dice

and the dice will determine the next episode we watch.

Yep.

Uh, for breaking bad with an average seasonal length of 10 episodes.

Uh, because Breaking Bad, like a lot of shows in the late two thousands

to 2010s, the last season has a 5.5.

That's bullshit.

It's season six.

You did two eight episode seasons.

Yep.

Which is fine.

We're not here to shame a show for that.

Looking

at you, Battlestar Galactica.

But we are going to count those 0.5, I guess we're gonna round

Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

And so we

have six seasons, 62 episodes, 10 episodes on for the average

season,

which means

we're going to try and skip 75%.

We looked for a dice roll

combination that matches that

seven and a half episodes, which happens to be 3D four.

So that's what we'll be rolling for this

show.

Yep.

So that means we're watching the pilot.

We're rolling three D four.

If you don't know your dice, those are the little pyramid shaped ones.

Cow traps.

Yep.

And uh, then we immediately jump to that episode.

Yep.

No watching the in-between episodes.

No reading about what happens in the in-between episodes.

Just onto the next one.

Yep.

All

right.

Well, Ben, I feel like we've

explained what we'll be doing.

Mm-hmm.

How about we watch, uh, some Breaking Bad.

All right.

So Jare, what's your history with Breaking Bad?

Um, I

thought I

I had never seen this show.

Oh, okay.

And then I watched it and while watching it for

this podcast, I realized I actually turned

the pilot off about 10 minutes

in.

Oh, okay.

Uh, I will call out the moment.

That makes me turn it off when we get there.

Um,

Yeah, I just, I was completely uninterested.

I probably picked it up.

I, I don't remember when this was, um, our mutual friend and, uh, former

podcasting partner on an old podcast we had called Draft the Universe.

Chris,

uh, was really into this show, and so, uh, I think he told me to watch it at

some point, probably someone got me,

mm-hmm.

haven't seen

this.

So

I turned it on and

after 10, 11

minutes, I turned it off.

Oh.

I fully expected the answer to B none.

That's the whole point of the show, but,

alright,

There we go.

I had two, uh, but I like vividly

remembered turning the TV off

at a certain scene.

Fair enough.

I know this is one of those shows that I always meant to get around to watching.

Mm-hmm.

And so now I'm glad.

To do that at a very rapid pace.

Speaking of which, you want to get into this episode, Ben?

Yeah.

We've got Breaking Bad Season one episode one pilot.

Yes.

And we open on some fucking desert.

We opened in, uh, media pants.

Yeah.

Uh, Ben, have you ever been in the desert?

Yes.

Is it an interesting story or was it you were in the desert?

I was, it, it's just hot and dry.

I

I don't know.

I almost got got by a scorpion in the desert

once.

Oh, damn.

Yeah.

I was out hiking

in

some Californian desert.

Uh, probably like two hours in between Vegas and la.

Okay.

And I was hiking with our buddy Aim Corto.

All right.

Hey,

Hey, Levi, if you happen to be listening to this,

and,

uh, a Scorpion kind of crawled out from under a rock and

tried to get me through my

boot.

Woo.

Whoop,

Uh, it did not make it through my boot.

Good.

Uh, and then Levi stepped on it immediately.

Uh,

but yeah, that's, that's my desert

story.

Well, uh, I know one time my uncle, I believe in Mexico,

Could

been many places.

He moved around a lot for subterfuge reasons.

Um,

that aligns with the scene that we see here.

uh, he woke up once with a, uh, a scorpion.

Pinched onto his nose.

Oh

no.

Um, and it had to be like, don't freak out, or it will sting your face.

Just wait for it to let go.

Ugh.

But yeah, so we have a rv just ripping ass through the desert.

This is the worst road trip ever.

There are

gas masks, dead people, uh,

tidy, Walter

Whitey's,

Awesome.

wet cash and a video camera.

Yes,

Yes.

I, I was

find out what was gonna hap ha be happening

I was very excited to see that early Oz, uh, digital video

camera, because that's one of those things, it's kind of like a pager.

It really sets it in time because like 10 years later, everything

would just be on a phone.

Mm-hmm.

But here is the, you can have a tiny digital camcorder, uh, just ready to go.

We

a little video confessional before Brian Cranston goes to the road.

Gun pointed, presumably, uh, the cop, we, we hear sirens, we assume they're police,

uh, that they're coming from, and then we go to theme, and I gotta say this theme.

Short and sweet.

I did like that.

Thank you.

Lost.

Fuck you.

Game of Thrones.

Hey,

Hey, no.

Game of Thrones.

Theme is awesome.

Game of Thrones theme was awesome, but because of Game of Thrones, every TV

show, every Prestige TV show

has to have a five minute fully animated

title sequence these days.

And

I ain't got time

for that.

Yeah, I dunno.

Watching this, uh, watching the opening of Breaking Bad made me think

of a twist on a, a line from, uh, Eva Green's character in, uh, casino Royale.

Mm-hmm.

Uh, So, uh, there's media res and media rez.

This is the ladder.

Like we are not like, oh, how?

That's me.

I bet you're wondering how I got here.

It's, uh, dead guys in the back of an rv, chemicals solution everywhere.

Uh, just like, well, something's clearly gone very wrong,

but we don't find out what, because after theme, we

skip back in time, three weeks.

And we see Hal in bed.

And

it looks like they just had a baby shower or something.

We see lots of like diapers and stuff.

We, we learn a little bit more about that

later.

Yep.

And then we get to the 5:00 AM sad dad stepping.

Yep.

During

sad

step, we see some of, like Walt's life up on the wall.

We see a, uh, medal for contributing to the chemistry.

Nobel Prize in

1985

actually

Googled this.

It's from measuring crystalline structures.

Yep.

I wonder

if that's prescient.

From the sad dad stepping to the sad cholesterol breakfast.

Yes.

Uh, veggie bacon.

We meet Walt Jr.

Who's a real teenager's, teenager.

Yes.

is the stereotype of the late two thousands teenager.

A hundred percent,

yes.

With one very notable exception.

Yes.

He, he is a child with, uh, disabilities, but he does not seem to be hindered

by it, and he's given just the right amount of sass back to, uh, the parrots.

Uh, we go to high school.

And, uh, we see Walt as teaching

Wait.

First we have to address the Aztec.

He's driving an Aztec.

Another thing that really puts this into a, a place in time.

It's true.

Yeah.

It is a miserable little box car.

Yes.

Uh, but yeah, we,

we go to high school and Walt is teaching chemistry there and

he's trying

really

hard to be the cool chemistry

teacher.

And

hate

to have to be

the one to

tell him this, but that is, that is not what is

happening here.

This.

Is the worst, like this is some really bad

teacher dialogue.

It is.

wife is a teacher and the, if you ever open a class in what is thing?

Mm-hmm.

That is,

that is

bad.

Um,

and the, so

like, it's so awkward because they're

talking about, you

this is like the first five minutes of this class or whatever is

like, welcome to chemistry 1 0 1, and then it's, oh, but we're on chapter

six and in the middle of a school year.

Yes.

So it was impossible to know where, where in the year we are suppo supposed to be.

Yeah.

As if

being in New Mexico wasn't enough to make it, impossible to tell what month it is.

Yes.

Uh, this does not help.

Yeah.

Uh, so it was, it was one of those, one of those things that I've, I've

been around somebody writing enough lesson plans that it really reeked

to me of we need to really establish that this person's a teacher.

Uh, instead of just being like, well, how about the fact that they're in a

classroom in front of a bunch of students?

Lets us know also, For as sad sack as he is, most teachers would kill.

For this class size, there's like 12 students.

Yes.

I'm guessing they don't have the extras budget quite yet.

Well,

and also just why waste it here?

Um, yeah.

I don't know where else in the episode you would've used

it, but Yeah.

Well, and we've got a, for a class that starts with what is

chemistry, there's like already a bunch of stuff on the board.

Mm-hmm.

Uh, and so I was really.

Honestly shook when he's like, all right, chapter six.

And I'm just

Bonds.

you've gotten through five chapters already, motherfucker,

right?

Uh, after this we cut over to the car wash and Walt is working

a second job as a cashier because in America we refuse to pay our

teachers.

And yes,

sure that won't have any long-term consequences in

our society and its ability to

critically Think

Think Nope.

Uh, and then we have, uh, shitty James Franco, who was in, uh, in the class

earlier and now he's, uh, having his, his teacher who shamed him clean his car.

Yeah.

Uh, Walt comes

home to

a surprise birthday party,

is the worst thing that has happened to him today.

And everyone hates each other here.

And they play with guns.

Yes.

This is the worst.

This is like, there are bad surprise parties.

And then there is this where it seems like his brother-in-law

just brought all of his friends.

Mm-hmm.

And then they could also, it's like, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Your birthday party, but we're all getting together to watch my drug bust.

This was the moment I remember turning the show

off.

Oh, okay.

We're

11 minutes in.

His brother-in-law toast

him.

Grabs Walt's

beer for the

toast.

Yep.

Drinks Walt's beer for the toast, and then

keeps it.

it.

Yes.

Uh,

and then it's like, oh,

everyone needs to turn on

the local

news to

see my drug bust.

Yes.

Walt sees all the money and the initial seed of this whole

plot is planted in this moment.

Mm-hmm.

And he gets an awkward birthday hand jobb to end the

yeah.

So the first thing I noticed was we do have the too many pillows on the bed.

Walt has to move three pillows before he can lay down and

then we get a sad eBay handy.

That's rough.

Yeah.

At

the car wash.

Walt's cough gets worse

and he passes out in the ambulance.

He's like, drop me off

anywhere

because I have teacher insurance.

Yeah.

Uh, why does Walt not get the, the, uh, car wash uniform?

Everyone else has like the, the windbreakers and the shirts

and he's just in his sweater.

I don't think he wants it.

Fair enough.

But al also, like

like

you're doing dirty work, man.

Yeah.

But oh God, that, uh, that insurance talk in the ambulance

freaked me the heck out.

Yeah.

Uh, Maybe one day this will be comedy, uh, but for right now,

tragedy.

Uh, anyways, he gets to the doctor who's got a giant old

mustard stain that Walt focuses on

first he goes into the mri.

And I've got a question for you.

Have you ever had an mri?

I've had a CAT scan.

Okay.

Uh, so MRI is like the full tube Yes.

Where your body's enclosed.

Uh, CAT scan is a lot more localized and it's in a big open room Yes.

Where the machine is kind of exposed.

Um,

so

kind of like it's, uh, the, the procedure from the

patient side is very similar.

Lace still don't move.

uh, but without the claustrophobia.

Yes.

Um, yeah, I had a CAT scan to scan my brain when I was 15 or 16

Mm-hmm.

cuz there was a hereditary condition that we

were possibly cons concern.

My cousin had just gotten diagnosed and I was having really bad

migraines, and so they're like, oh, well that's a sign of this thing.

And if

IMO syndrome.

That's,

That's a Star Trek.

The next generation reference.

I've also had a, a, uh, CAT scan.

And so one thing, uh, just made me really just

Because

soon as you tell me I can't move, like my fingers start twitching

and, uh, it is very, very hard.

hard.

Yes.

Uh, I remember laying on the table and like I had an intense phobia of

needles from as far back as I can remember

until.

uh,

we'll say it would've been January of 2021

at an

intense sphere of

needles.

Um, and so when I saw the syringes of like the iodine that I was going to get pumped

into me to get my CAT scan, they were

like, I mean,

not the size of my

current

forearm, but

but

given I was younger at scrawnier arms, it feels like they

were like the sides of my forearm.

And there were two of them.

And I'm just like, oh, I don't want to see the needle on those.

I

remember freaking

out and it was a butterfly needle and you didn't feel anything.

Yep.

Um,

that's really my only remembrance, anecdotally

Gotcha.

Of my CAT scan, but yes, uh, Walt finds out he has inoperable lung

cancer.

Yeah.

Bad day.

So I appreciate the need for expedience in this.

Mm-hmm.

There is no way you collapse at your after work job.

Take an ambulance ride to a hospital, get an MRI and an

immediate onco, onco oncologist, uh,

appointment

appointment where they can definitively tell you what the case is.

Yeah.

And get home before your wife notices.

Yeah.

Um.

I mean, maybe it just works different in New Mexico.

I don't know.

Uh,

But that was, uh, that was something that really just stuck out to me.

Like, he gets home immediately.

There's Bill talk with his wife Skylar, and it's just like, you're not

bringing up that he collapsed at work.

Oh, he's pretending this didn't happen, and he's not trying to

mm-hmm.

You know, upset his wife, but it's also like, how did you not know?

Um, And then uh, we get to, uh, bill talk and Hey, that's

the credit card we don't use.

Yeah.

And I don't know if this is just me.

That conversation is worse than you've got inoperable lung cancer.

You'll be dead in six months.

It's a rough con because like,

you know,

you know, he's getting, it feels like his wife has

beat him up over spending $11.

Um, I'm guessing that this is a credit card that is close

to maxed out or something,

or it's, we weren't planning on paying anything.

I didn't look at any of the balances.

Now they're saying we've got late fees because Yeah, I didn't pay the

thing we're not supposed to use.

That would make sense too, but their financial situation.

Seems to be pretty tight.

It seems to be more shell game than uh, yeah.

Yeah.

And so it might be that that $11 was enough to

like,

set off a thing

that

they were trying to transfer a balance or something and they couldn't

anymore

because it was tight.

Um,

yeah, it's,

it's

very difficult like,

Yeah, I went to Staples and bought printer paper.

I didn't realize that

was going to break

the bank.

Also, you want

a purse on

eBay

for 50 bucks last night?

Maybe.

Yes.

Maybe talk about that too.

Uh, but I assume that's part of her business and

she's going to resell it.

but it is also, man, like just, oh, the check must be lost in the mail.

I'll totally get it to you.

you.

Yeah.

Not.

Yeah.

It's,

that's rough.

And I, I've been enough customer service jobs where I know that person hung

up and was just like, yeah, sure lady.

The check's in the mail.

Mm-hmm.

Um,

so then Walt quits the car wash job in, Flamboyant fashion.

Yeah, Uh, makes a mess of things on his way out, which after coming immediately on

the heels of the, we don't have any money.

Mm-hmm.

Uh,

like I understand his boss is an asshole, but he's not like

he's an asshole on the small business owner asshole scale, and.

For as tight as things seem to be for this family, I, I'm just like

this, this is ratcheting my anxiety up to like an eight and a half.

Yeah.

Then we cut to matchsticks in the pool.

Yeah.

He calls his brother-in-law

and, uh,

at the surprise party he had offered to take him on a DEA ride along

mm-hmm.

Uh,

to

let him feel alive.

And he, uh,

he decides to take him up on that.

But while we're still at the pool, this just made me

feel like this is New Mexico.

Mm-hmm.

This just feels so goddamn desolate.

Like,

yes.

it, it feels empty and there's nothing there.

And he is like, there is nothing alive in his backyard.

And he's throwing matches into a clearly neglected pool.

Yeah.

I'm guessing it's rainwater filled at this point, which in New Mexico can't

much.

Yeah.

It's, uh, it's very shallow.

It's not, it clearly hasn't been filled or

maintained.

Yes,

Uh, Walt goes with the DEA on his drug bust and uh, we get some

casual dea racism, a cab as they discuss Captain Cook's operation.

I wonder if he's got a boat named to the minnow.

Uh, so one thing I noticed, did you notice what they wait for?

Uh, before they move in on the house,

They

they have to wait for something to get out

Oh, the school bus?

Yeah.

Why is Walt not at work?

We watch a school bus Go by.

What?

What's going on?

Why is he not teaching chemistry?

He could have taken the day.

Yeah.

He might have been burning through, uh, burning through a day off.

Yeah.

uh, I mean he, maybe it was after like.

like.

He's a high school teacher.

Right?

High school.

Lets out.

Before the elementary school, maybe it was an elementary school

but, oh, so maybe it's afternoon.

Yeah.

So like, you know, he's done at like 2 33

and it's

like four 30 somewhere.

And the,

Hey, can you save your, uh, can you save your drug bust until I'm after work?

Right.

Uh, so one thing while they're here, uh, they talk about how, uh, if you

make meth wrong, you make frosting gas.

Yeah.

How many people.

Do you think accidentally kill themselves making meth?

Well,

I thought about doing some research

here,

but that's gonna be very, very hard.

Yeah.

Like it was one thing to Google the 1985 Nobel Prize.

Yep.

That's pretty safe as far as not accidentally ruining the show, uh,

but without enough chemistry knowledge to know if this is a real gas.

It

assu, I assume

it is a, like they used it in World War I.

Bad gas.

Well, yeah.

But in relation to cooking

Oh yeah.

I am sure there's going to be a bunch of stuff that they do wrong on purpose,

so that you can't, like they're trying to avoid a heat scenario of, hey, if you

want to rob a bank, here's how you do it.

it.

Exactly.

And so I don't want to like, try and google details and only get

breaking bad results and ruin

for me.

Fair enough.

But I was very tempted,

So, uh, the raid kicks off and your fair?

Mm-hmm.

Have I ever told you, uh, about, uh, when there was a meth raid in my

hometown when I was in high school?

I don't believe you have been.

Well, that's a pr uh, that's pretty rare.

Um,

Yeah.

A story not shared between us,

given

our

God,

15.

15, 16.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's gotta be

your friendship.

So, uh, it's not a huge story, but I was definitely reminded watching the DEA

agent stack up and go into this house.

Mm-hmm.

Uh, a friend of my brothers came into school late, uh, uh, one day, and we were

all asking him, Hey, why are you late?

What was going on?

He's like, couldn't leave my house.

Woke up to a SWAT sniper climbing up out a ladder outside of my window.

Where he was now set up on top of my roof covering a raid of

a meth lab across the street.

And, uh, we couldn't leave our house.

Yikes.

Yeah.

And so it just, it definitely made me feel like, feel like that

I'm gonna be in the basement behind some

concrete.

Yeah.

Yikes.

Um, so yeah, they do this drug bust

and Walt sees one of his students

come out of the second story window of the neighbor's house.

And he falls off the roof.

A thing that would have ended the story right there for me.

Just like,

Hey,

where's the other drug dealer over here with like his ankles

blown out and like a dislocated shoulder because this is New Mexico.

Like there was no cushy lawn to fall into.

He's just falling into dirt and rocks.

Yeah,

it's very true.

true.

Uh,

So Walt recognizes

him.

He goes

to confront him that night.

We get in, we find out his name's Jesse

Pinkman.

Uh,

and he, Walt reveals he didn't tell

the cops,

and he pitches becoming Captain Cook's new business

partner.

Or he can turn 'em in.

Yep.

We go zero to meth real quick.

Mm-hmm.

Um, also, I feel like need to point this out.

Because Justice for Gomez, captain Cook was white.

They, that is their, their argument they make And Gomez is right.

Calling yourself Captain Cook is total white boy bullshit.

Uh, back at home, Skylar and Marie are packing stuff

up for her eBay gig

and they talk about Walt's quieting down and they assume

it's his milestone birthday.

Uh, and this is where I decided that, uh, Skylar's sister, was it Marie?

Yes.

Marie and Hank deserve each other.

They are terrible people.

I've known couples like

Yes.

Where it's like each of you is the worst person I would know

if I didn't know the other one.

Um, and now it's some kind of recursive thing, right?

Just feed

into each other.

Here is where we find out something interesting.

Yes.

So.

Walt is celebrating his 50th birthday.

Mm-hmm.

And Skylar says, you know, it'll be sort of like that when I hit 40.

Yes.

Which makes me realize, okay, Walt is more than 10 years older than Skylar.

Yeah.

a minimum 11 year age difference

between

and they have like a 16 year old.

Yeah.

Which means when, Walt Jr

is bored,

about this.

he's like 34 and she's 23.

Did you look those up or are you

No, I am saying minimum if he's 50 and she's 39 minus 16.

Okay.

Um,

oh yeah.

Okay.

So that's

the,

that

the

oldest

scenario.

Yes.

Likely younger.

Yes.

Duh.

Which I, I have a feeling like I, I don't think this is to be

like, I don't think they're trying to marry in Ravenwood Andie us here.

I think it's more okay.

How, how old could we have a, a wife with a baby on the way, uh,

without it being like a miracle baby.

I'm 50 and pregnant.

Yeah.

Um,

so I don't think it's them trying to be creepy, but it's also.

Where is a 34 year old, Walter White trolling for chicks?

I hope not work.

Yeah, yeah.

Well

we'll find out more about that.

Maybe we won't.

Maybe it's in the show and we'll just miss it.

Possibly.

Uh, cuz if, if it's in episode three or something, we are not seeing it.

Yep.

Uh, then we get the scariest scene in the entire show.

Walt steals the school supplies.

No.

Him walking out of the credit union with all of his

money and handing it to a drug

dealer.

Yeah.

So, uh, they've come up with the id, uh,

they've come up with the idea to buy an rv, to have a mobile meth

lab,

because that's gonna go just

perfect.

I mean, it's better than it being in one place.

They're not wrong.

We say this, but we know what happened in the first scene.

Yes,

we know this goes poorly.

Fair enough.

Uh, we find out Jesse failed chemistry.

Yes.

He insists that making meth

is art, which

is a reoccurring gag throughout this episode.

And I hope the show.

Yeah, everyone's all like, oh, you're an artist.

And he's just like, pissed.

No, I'm a chemist.

This is basic fucking chemistry.

And, and Jesse is like, I throw cayenne pepper into my, uh,

meth

chili powder, man.

man.

It's just like, don't you smoke?

Like you're inhaling chili pepper?

That just sounds awful.

Like, okay, it's meth already.

Like what are our, our standards of, I won't do this to my body

anymore, but, but it's still like, I think this would be unpleasant.

I'm not gonna try and find out, but it feels like it would be.

Yep.

Uh,

Jesse says the name of the show shortly after this, by the way.

Yes.

Uh, and it feels

more forced than when it did during first contact.

I will say

that that's the only other

example I

could think of where they say the name of the show in

the

show

and they make such a, a

point of it.

It feels like,

I mean, it is, it is a, a term.

Um, but it

does, I don't remember.

It does,

doesn't feel like a turn of phrase that Jesse Pinkman is going to drop.

Yeah.

I don't remember.

Evangeline Lilly looking at the TV and shooting, went down the

barrel and just going, we're lost.

You know,

like

not a common thing.

No.

Uh,

then we get our shopping scene.

before that, uh, there's another line that Jesse says that's

just the most quintessential late two thousands for me, where he's

like, you know, what's going on?

Why did you suddenly

bad?

Yep.

Are you crazy

or

crazy

Or depressed?

Like depressed is so much significantly worse than crazy.

Well,

but I, I can, I can understand his residence of are you just

trying to get yourself killed?

Like are is, are you doing suicide by, by meth?

Like, are you trying to see how deep into the underworld you can

get before somebody shoots you?

Because I don't wanna be the guy standing next to you when you do that.

Fair.

Uh, after this we get the aforementioned, uh, Walt Jr.

Getting mocked and Walt beating the shit outta that bully.

Yes.

A, a.

24 year old guy pretending to be 17

his ankle taken out by his 50 year old chemistry teacher,

presumably.

But we know Brian Cranston can go toe to toe with the Power Rangers.

This guy,

he

means nothing.

Uh, out in the boonies we get some more casual homophobic prejudice, as Jesse

tells Walt, uh, his glasses art, to which he still insists its basic chemistry.

Jesse gets a small piece and goes to meet up with dog fighting.

Pete Davidson,

uh,

Emilio has made bail.

And they say that they think Jesse is a narc.

They make him take him to Walt Emilio places Walt from the DEA

bust and things take a turn from

here.

So one thing I I, I noted in order to get our iconic,

uh, Brian Cranston, no pants,

Uh,

gun image.

He shows he's taking off his clothes because these are my good clothes.

I don't want to go home smelling like a meth lab.

Yeah.

Why didn't you just wear your sweats, buddy?

Why are you wearing your good clothes out on meth Cook day?

Like, yeah.

Yeah.

Like have your good clothes, like leave the house in your good clothes.

Change into some

sweats.

You know,

just, you need a, you need a pair of dedicated meth sweats.

or e even just

like,

Even if it's, I don't want to go home with any of my

clothes smelling like meth lab.

Why'd you wear your good clothes?

For sure.

So Walt trying to make them be careful and, not kill

themselves, reminded me very much of us making, copper two chloride.

So we would make wood chips infused in copper two chloride, which if you

throw it into a fire, burns blue.

Yep.

Uh, like the Midnight Society.

Yeah.

It's a real cool effect.

The problem is for a brief minute, while you're making

it, you do make mustard gas,

Yeah.

so you have to do that bit outside.

Very important to do that outside.

Uh, the one thing that I did notice is, uh, Jesse goes to visit Crazy Eight.

Yeah.

And his cousin Emilio.

Why doesn't Emilio get a, a good uh, uh, uh, meth name?

We've got crazy eight meeting with Captain Cook and

am Emilio.

Emilio.

What's wrong with Am

There's nothing wrong with Emilio.

It's just that it's his name.

It is on his driver's license.

What

What do you got against the Mighty

Well, I'm saying if he, if he was the Mighty Duck or if he was Coach Bombay.

I'd be like, yeah, that's your meth name.

Coach Bombay is a great

name.

I know, right?

What are you selling?

It's called Quack,

you know?

There we go.

Wait, is this quack?

No, it's meth.

It's just called quack.

No,

You can only buy five bag baggies at a time cuz

Lay them out on the table in the Flying V.

You just actually, you break all the crystals to be in Vs.

Yep.

Ugh.

I don't know if that actually would do any, I don't, I know

nothing about doing meth.

Well, apparently you can snort it, which I didn't know, um, until

crazy eight did it in this episode.

Maybe that's

that's like tasting the cocaine.

Yeah.

I, I don't know.

don't know.

Maybe we shouldn't have watched a show about drugs.

Ben, are we boring?

Are we boring?

Or old people?

Did that happen to us?

I don't know.

Uh, I mean, would you have had more to say if we watched Weeds?

I guess slightly.

Yeah.

I

assume that show's just about eating gummies and

falling asleep at eight 30

anyways,

so, uh, crazy eight and Emilio show up and Emilio goes.

Hey, I think this guy's a DEA agent and showing the same level of acceleration

as Walt goes, let's kill some cops.

Yep.

It's like, if you think this is a DEA agent, they've

probably got cameras and shit.

Um,

what are you gonna, what Are you gonna go away more for?

Bought drugs or shot DEA agents?

You're already out on bail.

Yeah.

Uh, Walt offers to teach crazy eight, how to cook like

him in exchange for their lives.

They throw a cigarette out the window and I'm immediately like, don't do that.

That's irresponsible

drop here.

Smokey the bear.

Only you can prevent forest

fighters.

I, I, I, later in my notes wrote down, smokey is pissed.

Good.

That

will be even funnier when you say

it after the

trial.

Yep.

Um, Walt makes a

noxious gas that I'm assuming kills both Emilio in crazy eight, and sure

enough, that brush has caught fire.

Yep.

Uh, and, uh, now showing the same, uh, restraint as Emilio.

Uh, Walter jumps straight to murder.

Yep.

He throws a gas mask on, Jesse gets him in the RV and drives

off,

and we are finally cut up to the pants flying and car crash

from the start of our episode.

And I took note here, I had assumed seeing dead guys, Jesse and Gas mask,

like something had knocked people out.

Mm-hmm.

I didn't realize dead guys and then Jesse got kicked and has been

unconscious for like five minutes.

Yes.

Jesse needs to go to a hospital.

Yeah.

That's, that's definite brain damage level.

Concussion.

Um,

I thought you were

was dead in the first scene.

Dropped the archer.

Uh, how long have I been unconscious?

Like five minutes.

Oh, God, no.

Uh,

yeah.

So now we finally get back to where we started.

Mm-hmm.

Walt standing there, no pants, gun pointed down the lane.

Uh, ready to, I guess go out in a blaze of glory.

Yeah.

He, he does try to kill himself

Yes.

Here very quickly.

Uh, but he, uh, didn't take the safety off of the gun so

it doesn't fire.

And then when he moves it and checks the safety, it instantly

fires when he turns it off.

it off.

Yep.

Which is, Not how that works,

No

dramatic

Yes.

Yes.

Um, I guess theoretically you could wreck a gun to work like that,

Oh, I'm, I,

I

so stupid.

Well, meth dealers

Fair enough.

and

who are those sirens, Jafa

fire trucks?

That fire started like four minutes ago

in the middle of the desert and three firetrucks come flying.

Yeah.

And maybe

they've

reported that fire?

don't know.

But I think

that's a plot point, or do you think it's just glossed over completely?

I, I'm guessing it's gonna be glossed over completely, but the,

the, the life story I want to know.

Easy.

Did, did you notice what was on the back of that last firetruck?

A dude.

Yeah, some dude who's been riding on the back of this firetruck for 20 miles.

And what do I see?

Pless dude, next to a crashed rv.

And I'm just

like,

well, that's not the weirdest thing I've seen today.

I'm New Mexico wildly uh, wildlife, fire rescue.

Uh, Jesse regains consciousness and Walt catches them up.

They go to clean up the mess and we see Walt literally laundering money.

Yes.

This makes me laugh because you do stuff like putting money into

a, a, uh, tumble dryer when it's like, I've got a stack of new bills.

Mm-hmm.

These were rolls of drug money.

Well, they, they got wet.

Well,

yes,

but

chemicals and

stuff, so

it'll dry.

It was in a plastic bag.

I,

we did see money floating

around.

Oh,

okay.

Maybe the bag popped open.

Yeah.

But it, it did make me think that Walt just got home and like, okay,

I've got a bag full of drug money.

What do you do with drug money?

You launder it and just threw it in the dryer.

Um,

not,

lots of tens and twentys, which was weird.

Well, uh, I'm guessing you pay.

For one thing of meth with like a 10.

I don't know how much a meth costs,

I don't know how much a meth costs either.

Uh,

I know people we could reach out to,

but it's, it's, that's usually when you have roles.

They're consistent bills though.

Well, maybe the tens and twenties were in their own

roles and they all got mixed up.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Anyways,

uh,

Skylar Admonishes Walt for being called in silent and he

responds with passion to credits.

Yes.

We end in the bone zone.

and that's our

episode.

So what we're gonna do now is we're gonna grab our dice,

we're gonna roll 'em, see how far ahead

we're going,

knowing how far ahead we're going.

Ben and I are going to make a handful of predictions, and then

we're going to go ahead and read the synopsis of the next episode.

We're gonna watch.

So if something happens in between, we don't know.

All right.

We rolled a

seven,

which means

next

episode is going to be season

one, episode

eight.

All right, so we are jumping a lot.

Okay.

This is gonna be fun.

This is statistically an average roll for 3D four.

Yep.

So

seven

and a half is

the

median.

So.

right

Right there.

All right.

We're gonna

make three

predictions, a daytime, a

a evening,

a primetime

prediction.

Yep.

So, daytime predictions, easy predictions, you know?

Mm-hmm.

Something, uh, like you'd see on daytime tv, an evening prediction,

Hey, we're getting a little bit more, uh, uh, you know, complex.

Maybe you're reaching a little bit more.

And then prime time is, this is a once in a, uh, a show.

You know, giant twist.

Yep.

And we're gonna keep track

of these and then

we're gonna tally up,

uh, daytime's

worth one

evening's

worth.

Two prime times are worth

three.

Yep.

At

the end of a series, we'll go through, see how many points are

tallied

and declare a winner.

And then the winner

will get to do a

thing.

Yep.

It's gonna change every time, so we're not even gonna

bother saying what it is now.

It'll just be fun when it happens.

All right.

Daytime prediction first.

I

think Jesse's gonna get shot.

Like, I don't necessarily mean dead, but like he's going to sustain a gun

injury.

Well, with how bad they are with guns in this, this first

episode, wouldn't be surprised.

Wouldn't be surprised if it was an accident.

Yeah.

Yeah.

If he accidentally sh

If he

accidentally shoots

Yes.

If he accidentally shoots himself.

All right.

What's your daytime prediction,

then?

Uh, my daytime pre prediction.

Uh, Skylar never actually writes anything.

So it is either something that comes up a few times as, oh, are

you still working on that novel?

Or it is dropped completely?

Either way.

Skylar never publishes anything.

All right,

uh, now we'll go on to our evening prediction.

Uh, I am going to go with Bogden, gets run over by a car in the carwash.

It is a feelgood moment.

I have the opposite of a feel good moment.

Uh, I think Walter's gonna cheat on his

wife.

Mm.

All right.

And then our prime time.

These

are the

Predictions, the big ones.

I have a huge twist that I think is going to happen in this show.

I don't know if it will happen next episode.

Probably not.

I think this is kind of a, a season four, maybe season three finale kind of a deal.

Or how many seasons?

Uh, six.

Six.

Yeah.

Um,

I don't

Walter's cancer diagnosis is correct.

Mm.

Um,

it's

kind of the

imps for

all this.

I think he's got that bug that he's go, is going around.

Like

he says, it'll possibly

turn into pneumonia,

but

do think

he's going

to get

lung

damage or possibly even cancer

from cooking the

meth.

Interesting.

So his initial diagnosis incorrect.

He is going to end up with some kind of lung

disease

or issue from chemical exposure, from cooking the meth.

That is what will end up killing

him.

But the impetus of his pending demise starting this all off

incorrect.

I, I love the idea of, you know, end of season three, he's murdered

so many people, he's cooked so much meth, and hey, great news.

We got your scans back.

back.

Um, everything's fine.

we finally did a biopsy, like real doctors.

Yeah.

Uh, so my primetime prediction, uh, is based on my MVP for the episode.

Okay.

My boy Gomez.

All right.

I, I, I like Gomez.

He spends all day putting up with Hank.

Uh,

and, uh, but alas, I'm, I, I feel that Gomez is going to be murdered violently.

By Hank.

By Hank.

By Hank.

Okay.

That's a prediction.

All right,

so, um, I'm just pulling up

the episode

synopsis.

There is

no season

one episode eight.

Oh shit.

It only ran for seven episodes

in the first season.

So our next episode will be

season two, episode one.

one.

We are okay.

You hope nothing cool happens in the season one finale.

Uh, well, we'll probably get a little last time on to catch us up a

bit.

Are we allowed to watch a, a.

the name of the podcast is last time on,

but if there is like a season recap at the start of the next

episode, I think we have to skip it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yep, that's,

That's fair.

Okay.

Yeah.

Skip recap.

Ooh.

Yep.

Ooh, we're gonna miss that context.

Yeah.

But what we won't be missing is season two episode 1, 7 37, as they lay

plans for their final big drug deals.

Walton Jesse worry that their sole buyer will think nothing of

killing them when it suits him.

So we're already done making drugs.

got it done in one season.

Good job

boys.

All right.

Well, with that, we want to say thank you to ripe for letting us use one of her.

Absolute favorite songs, goon squad as our theme music.

They're currently touring until the end of August.

You can check them out on Spotify or wherever else you listen to music.

We'd also like to say thank you to a netlist Sienna for that

wonderful photograph of a TV that we use to create our cover image.

Thank you for producing art and then licensing it under creative commons.

So that artists who are just doing their thing.

Without the intention of making money like ben and i can use it for our needs as

well we really appreciate that thank you

I just cranked you up a bunch.

Okay.

Well I'm now all cranked.

You can call me Jason Statham cuz I'm cranked too.

too.

Oh, all right.

five points.

If you can tell me the name of the character Jason Statham

played in the crank films.

Jason Crank.

Chev Cellos.

The answer was Chev Cellos.