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 think that maybe associating with Tuco wasn't the best idea guys.

Welcome

to last time on the Watch Cast for everyone who wants to watch

all of this prestige television, but who has time for all of it?

I'm sfa I

I'm Ben,

And we're watching Breaking Bad right now.

And we rolled a seven after watching the pilot, which means we're watching

season two episode one with absolutely no context besides the pilot.

Yes, for everyone else, this is season two, episode one for us.

This is episode two, Matt Boogaloo.

So, uh, I feel like if you thought I was going to be having

a podcast where the name of the podcast was not a bit on that show.

You are sorely mistaken because oh, sure.

Now we're going to introduce what we've named this podcast for.

Yes.

It didn't really make sense to do it for the pilot episode, but this

will be in every non-pilot episode going forward, which is a bit we're

gonna do called the Last Time On.

Now Ben and I have not seen Breaking Bad Before.

Right.

Um, so we have no idea what's going on besides things that might have seeped

to us through the cultural zeitgeist.

Very, very vague.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And so what we will be doing is, while we're talking about the episode, season

two, episode one in this case, but also all episodes going forward, uh, we're

going to say last time on, and then we'll both do a little Wayne's World

World

and go back in time for a moment where we will

pitch what we feel happened.

Last time on this show, the things we're missing.

And by the way, just for context, we are skipping all recaps.

Yes, that's important.

We're not cheating, we're not googling anything.

We've got a very strict no Google policy in place.

Um, you can Google things completely unrelated to the episode,

but you can't Google anything that might give you a spoiler.

Mm-hmm.

Those, those be the

I am, I'm, I am.

It is very painful for me because like, I want to look up a bunch of actors on imdb.

It's part of how I watch TV shows.

Like where have I seen that guy?

But I know if I do that, I'm going to end up finding like, oh,

they were in four episodes of, of Breaking Bad and now I know, okay,

maybe they're not a going concern or, oh, this random side character.

Is in 26 episodes.

I don't want to to

promoted to main cast.

Yeah.

I don't

spoil any of my, you know, there will be people who have major runs

on this show that we will never see,

which is actually, uh, we'll talk about it at the end of the episode,

but this episode ends on a cliffhanger.

Yes.

I've got no idea what's going to happen, and I was actually very hooked and

I wanted to watch the next episode.

Yeah, same.

But

I can't.

You can't, um, we'll talk about that when we get there.

Uh, but I'm, I'm very much looking forward to that bit of conversation

now.

Jafa?

Yes, Ben,

Uh, about how we're going to be watching or going through this recap?

Yeah.

My, uh, my plant thought of how we were gonna do this is we'll talk

about what we're seeing in the episode and then just generally

talk about how we think we got here.

But then we use the, what happened heres

against each other.

Uh,

so yeah, so we'll do, so there will be, we'll, we'll, we'll

do the last time ons, right where we pitch the things that we think

happened, and then we'll also do a, we'll hop on her, which is, Offensive.

Okay.

If a last came on is defensive, uh, where I will force you or you will force me once

per episode to explain a plot point via things that happened in previous episodes.

Um, completely unscripted.

So

have two things going on last time on and what happened here.

Yep.

Alright.

Hopefully that's not, not too confusing of a gimmick, but hey, we're watching all

of breaking bad in like seven episodes,

Yeah.

It's, we gotta do something.

expediency.

That's the whole point of this project.

Exactly.

Uh, you don't want to watch all of breaking bad, but you wanna have an

understanding of why people watched it.

Yep.

And we're doing that

that.

for you ish.

We are the worst version of Cliff Notes.

We are, we are Cliff notes from your friend

who skimmed the cliff notes.

Uh,

so we open on this episode,

Season two, episode 1, 7 37.

Yes.

And we get a bunch of black and white.

Black and Walter White black and Walter White slowmo shots.

And we get this kind of menagerie of melancholy.

Yeah, because last time on

we missed it, but Werner Hzo actually took over his showrunner, uh, surprise.

oh, oh man.

I do not have a good Verna Herzogg impression.

Uh,

go TikTok.

Sad beige boys for sad.

Sad beige toys.

For sad beige boys.

They do much better than I ever could.

Z melancholy of Z New Mexico mess dealers as we watch

yeah, this theme, we get a build a bear, two face

floating in the pool of the theme

eye and I'm just, my, my gut reaction was, I really thought

they'd be able to do a better eye.

But then we see it's from, uh, a pink teddy bear.

The only color we see, uh,

really pulling a sad new Mexican Schindler's list, uh,

which is saying something.

like that.

Uh, I initially was wondering if like these seasons just started

in Media Rez, or if this entire show, just every episode started in

Media Rez and that was the thing.

I think I'm, I'm just gonna say it does every single episode.

Okay.

Um, also,

except this one because we just get these

sad shots with no connection.

Fair enough.

Uh, I, I fully expected, uh, as we see the eye floating in the pool,

uh, to get the Caddy Shack pool drop.

So

so we go to theme from this and we come back to Walt who

got a cool new hat and is making blue meth now, which apparently you do.

Snort.

Yeah.

We now have confirmation, meth dealers, snort meth.

Uh, I actually wrote that down.

Okay.

I guess you can snort meth.

Yeah.

So he hands Walt a ton of money here.

Yes.

I, I counted how much money,

how much?

Well, if they're using bank rolls, which is what's

expected, that's a thousand bills.

There's nine rolls in that bag, and they're all twenties,

which adds up to $180,000 in that gallon bag he throws Walt.

Ooh.

Oh God,

In exchange for a gallon bag, which I think Walt

says later was four pounds of meth.

All right.

You Feel

like they could get, at least get like the money.

Okay.

Put it in a Tupperware or something.

Some with a seal

in like,

You do not want to toss a bag of meth and find

out I didn't zippy all the way.

Like though that would be, uh, that, uh, last time on that was a very funny episode

where they had to spend 44 minutes just digging crystal meth out of the dust.

Stupid

Jesse.

Um,

Um, but then we get to, uh, One of, uh, so we have the, the

big drug dealer, Tuko, one of his goons breaks the number one rule of gooning.

Yeah.

You don't say shit.

Your job is to stand there and look menacing.

Mm-hmm.

You don't say shit.

Yeah.

So did you catch, Walt has a nickname here.

He doesn't get called Walter or Mr.

Wade.

He gets called Heisenberg.

Yes.

Do you know.

Heis, like the famous Heisenberg.

I didn't check if this is what he was named for, but I have to assume

it's for the quantum physicist

that the

Heisenberg Compensator is named after in

Star Trek.

Yes.

And the Heisenberg Uncertainty principle from which the Heisenberg

Compensator and Star Trek compensates for, uh, I thought that was fun.

I, I assume so.

It does fe he feels like that kind of nerd.

Yeah.

Um, I didn't want to Google it just in case, but I'm pretty sure the Heisenberg

uncertainty principle is you can't know something's volume and speed.

Uh, you can't know it's speed and position.

Uh, that's what it is.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That, that's why you get the

whole bit.

You, you can get one or the other.

Yeah.

In,

in the future album episode where they go to a quantum finish

and the, the professor goes, no, you changed the outcome by measuring it.

Yes.

but then we get.

A meth up drug, Lord, beating the shit out of his goon.

Yeah.

Uh, Walt tells him to relax and tuko does not relax.

Walt, you've been around meth and meth dealers for a season now,

And the last time you told someone to relax,

you had to kill them in an rv.

So, yes.

Uh, so my.

My,

uh, my assumption now is every season going forward is going to

end with, at at least two dead goons.

uh,

it is now our pattern

season premiere two dead goons.

Yep.

Uh, so, Walt starts to do some napkin math with Jesse on how long it's

gonna take him to save up enough to provide for his family, which

is the titular 7 37 of the episode.

Haha.

You thought it was gonna be a plane suckers?

Nope.

$737,000 And you with an income of about 70 K a week, which if the bag was 180 40

K in supplies to make up that much meth.

Uh, 70 each.

Splitting the remainder.

Yeah.

Checks out.

That said, what's Jesse's cut?

Uh, you know.

But also this, all of this money talk just had me.

So like this is all of the money issues he is having is so much more

anxiety inducing the than the dr,

than the drug dealer problems.

Um,

Well,

Tuco actually takes issue with that statement, uh, because he pulls

up to them while they're in the car.

Yes.

Uh, almost crashes into them and demands they perform CPR r on his

goon who he beat the shit out of his other goon gonzo, staes the body.

And the, uh, the episode description really makes sense now, uh, from this

episode where it's like, we're just not sure if they're gonna survive

another week of dealing with this guy.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's, that's apt and I'm glad the episode description only gave us the

first five minutes of the episode.

Right.

I was kind of concerned when I read it that we had spoiled too much already.

Yeah.

Because as, or as we know from last time on, they've been selling

to this guy for a while and he's getting more and more unhinged.

Uh, at least that is my assumption.

Uh, but it, it is also, I don't know at this point, because we don't know

how much time is ellipsed, uh, how much time Walt is supposed to have left.

Yeah.

We, he gets a diagnosis of two years with aggressive chemotherapy.

Yeah.

Well, he doesn't have any more hair, so maybe he's shaved, maybe

he's on an aggressive chemo.

Well, from the next scene, we know he's on aggressive chemo.

Yeah.

Oh.

Uh, but, uh, we, I, I know it's terrifying dealing with a guy like Tuco.

Mm-hmm.

But your.

Dead anyway.

If I could make $737,000 in 10 weeks, I'm doing that.

I'm

What?

I've got five more months.

Okay.

Whatever.

And that's how Ben became a drug,

He, he, he goes off the rail and shoots me.

I'm dead anyway.

Yeah.

Did you see this episode was directed by,

by uh, Brian Cranston?

Yeah.

Good for him.

Yeah.

It'll come a long way from uh, power Rangers.

Yeah.

So back at home Skyler surveys.

Walt's prescription collection.

Because last time on he's finally told her that he has cancer.

Yes.

It does seem like she is aware.

Uh, can I roll back real quick

Yeah.

So we get one of, I want to know if you felt any solidarity

in this moment, cuz I know I did.

W two go pulls up.

Goon is having a seizure in the process of

mm-hmm.

Uh, resting looses, mortal coil.

Yeah.

And, uh, two cocoa's.

You are smart.

Fix him.

You're just like,

I'm a chemist.

I'm not a doctor.

Also, he's dying.

Uh, and yeah,

just

being in, put in that.

Hey, you are smart.

Why don't you just fix said problem.

And it's like, I don't know how to fix a lawnmower.

What do you, what do you want me to do?

This feels like the kind of stupid shit would happen

to you if you worked for Elon Musk.

Yeah.

Like you are, , a rocket scientist.

Why don't you go develop me a boring machine so I can, sell

somebody a shittier subway.

This made me think, Just how, how shitty it is for everyone in Tuco's orbit

where it's just, I've been around those people where it's, for some reason

they're like, I'm an assistant manager.

Or just popular enough where nobody can say like, man, you are really dumb.

This is, is it the meth?

Is he just an idiot?

Is it both?

I'm thinking it's both.

Yeah.

I mean,

I mean, I don't know what meth does to your mental state.

Nothing good.

Yeah.

Like I don't, I don't hear any artists getting on meth and making great art.

You know, at least with like other drugs, sometimes it

awakens something in the mind.

Meth seems to just make you complacent.

Yeah.

So we see that Skylar is still pregnant now.

Uh, and I've, I misread the countertop at first and I was like,

she's on way too many prenatals.

But then I'm like,

like

the cancer, yeah.

But then we get what I think is a really interesting, like just jumping from season

one episode one to, to the now we see Walt come back and he's staring, haunted

at, uh, at the tv having, you know,

I love this shot.

Oh, it is, it is a great shot.

fact, I'm gonna call it next time on, they're going to reuse

this shot in a different context.

All right.

Like the same corner looking at the hallway.

Either someone else will be standing there watching tv, possibly wearing the

hat because he keeps it right there.

Um, something's gonna happen with that though.

It's gonna be great.

But we see Walt just staring like so disassociated that he can't

even hear his wife calling his name.

Yeah.

His tinnitus has really acted up because

a man just died in my arms in the pilot.

Man, you.

you killed two dudes,

phosphine, gased two people and drove around

with them sloshing in your rv.

Yep.

Which they do bring it up later too,

which is why I think last, uh, last time on in

the intervening episodes, Walt has completely dealt with that.

He has

has

so

fully

come to terms with murdering two people that now a new

murdered person in front of him

sets him

like he's back at zero.

Yeah, that's fair.

Uh, Skyler does comment on the new hat, and Ben, I've gotta ask you,

wha haha, how did Walt get this hat?

So

what,

how about her?

We know that, uh, they're having money issues.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So I'm, you know, I'm not thinking that Walt went

and like was searching Amazon.

Okay.

Okay.

What

I'm thinking happened here is in a, uh, uh, Indiana Jones,

in the last crusade esque scenario,

uh, during the rest of our season one misadventures, they ran into

another meth, uh, meth cook.

Okay.

Uh, who they ran into trouble with and they got another

setback and they got shut down.

And the other meth cook was like, look, you lost today, kid.

And then puts the hat on Brian Cranston as a buck up.

You'll go cook 'em next time.

You'll go cook 'em next time.

All right.

Uh, this hat was like this, this hat exists outside of the show.

Yes.

Like

the image of Brian Cranston and this hat permeated

the culturals zeitgeist.

I am sure I saw this on stickers all over my college's campus.

Yeah.

Um, Skylar asks, what's wrong?

Walt Cries Gets a tear boner, yes.

Uh, ghost for it, and it's just a fucking mess.

So unlike the first episode, the pilot where murdering two people

allows me to finally reinstate my virility because I didn't kill this guy.

It didn't work.

work.

Yeah.

Uh,

he can only really get it up if he killed the guy.

Yeah.

That's very important for the future of the show.

Oh, uh, Jesse gets the number three special, which is chips,

guac, and a gun from the dog house.

which you can get in most states in America.

Yeah.

Um, I don't know why this was treated like it was such an undercover thing when the,

you know, the gun shoe loophole exists.

He can just go and buy guns.

It's true.

It's very easy.

It's not hard.

Uh,

than for a lot cheaper.

He could have bought a lot more guns.

That's true.

Also, we very quickly find out he also should have taken a gun safety course.

Oh yes.

But he didn't shoot himself.

I was so ready to score a point.

I'm sitting here the whole time.

Jesse's gonna get shot, Jesse's gonna get shot, and he's gonna shoot himself.

Oh, it's gonna be so good.

I'm gonna get that first point of the series.

Nope,

Not yet.

So

So now, uh, Jesse is freaking out because we saw a meth

doubt, insane drug dealer kill a guy.

We're now loose ends.

Yep.

And I believe Walt actually has the right side of it where it's, we are worth

so much more alive than we are dead.

Um, but they put a pin in murder

Yep.

Put a pin in it for now,

which this brings up.

One of my main issues with this episode, this is the first of two Teta Tets we see

between Jesse and Walt in their kitchen.

Yeah.

When later in this episode, it is established.

Skylar never leaves the house.

It's Jesse's kitchen.

Oh, it's Jesse's kitchen.

It looks the same

sets.

I don't know.

Okay.

The, I don't know that this show was doing gangbusters at this point.

Okay.

So I dunno what the budget was.

not Walt's kitchen.

I was like, keep it down guys.

Well, Junior's gonna be home any minute,

but, uh, waltz does do a great version of, uh, the Rocco

problem from the Boondock Saints.

Yeah.

Of, okay.

You've got yourself a revolver.

How many shots do you have?

How

many to kill Tuko, how many to kill Gonzo?

How many to kill whatever guys are in the car.

Um,

yeah, they need a plan for what they feel will happen at this point.

And they're having a hard time coming up with one, but they do feel the

crushing weight of their doom upon them.

Mm-hmm.

So Walt is working through the mental logistics of killing Tuko.

Uh, it's revealed he did kill someone last season,

as a law, uh, aside from our two.

Well, that's, that's actually my question to you is do

you think that is a third person Walt has killed or does that counting

the two guys from the episode?

I'm assuming it's count.

It's not counting the two guys.

Okay.

I think Walt has, has himself a burgeoning body count.

Okay.

Uh, so after this we cut to, uh, what is Skyler's sister's name?

Marie, we cut to Marie and Hank's house.

Mm-hmm.

Uh, where , based on context clues from the Tumblr, Marie is a radiologist.

Oh, I didn't catch that.

It, it is from a radiology and she is putting

so much splendor into this,

into this drink

where I'm just like, oh no, that's, that's

what happened to Gilda Ratner.

But it is Maria's a bitch in the pilot.

He or she just seems

un.

unhinged.

Uh,

yeah, things are not going well.

Hank reminds her of her appointment with Dave very ambiguously.

Yes.

We do not know exactly what Dave is.

Is he,

uh,

we find out later, but yeah.

Is he a masseuse?

Is he a, uh, a jilo?

Ooh.

Uh,

do Marie and uh, Hank have that kind of relationship?

No kink shame.

Uh, but Marie does run over the neighbor's RC car.

which you're driving it in the road, kid like, yeah.

You've, you got it coming.

Uh, man, you really called this couple last step, Ben.

Oh, yes.

Uh, but

credit where credit is

I am.

I am.

are the worst people, you know.

They are the worst people I know.

And each time I'm just like, the other one's the worst.

The other one's like, let me find a new way to be the worst.

Yeah.

Uh, Hank and Gomez reviewed some CC footage.

Gomez, my man, he's still alive.

Made it past the pilot, was really worried he was going to be one of those

like, oh, it's just Hank's partner.

Uh, like he is not the same act, the character in episode two.

And so I'm so excited.

Gomez is still a, uh, going concern.

Yeah, they're reviewing some sea, sea footage

presumably of last time on.

A heist early on where Walt was complaining about

how heavy that barrel was.

And Jesse suggested rolling it and Walt says they can't because it

will mess up the chemical inside.

Yeah.

So they're, they're, they're carrying this barrel and they're getting made fun

of by the cops for not just rolling it.

it.

It's all like, oh, you idiots.

Just roll it.

Why are you putting so much work in?

And, uh, I think there's a, there's, there was a story reason for

that, that we just don't get here.

That said they should have totally had a dolly.

Uh, but we do see some,

steal a dolly.

we do see some thermite, which is cool.

Yeah.

Um, and also they make a crack about, uh, uh, these guys could barely break

into the Special Olympics, which man, that feels like a good way to

get sued by the Special Olympics.

wouldn't know anything about that.

Ben.

Uh,

goes home and dries right past Tuco's U V,

Except it's not Tuco's u v, it's a different brand.

Yeah.

I thought it was an Escalade before or something.

And that

And this is a gmc?

Yeah, it's

a, well they're both General Motors and they're both giant black

SUVs.

Yes.

Um, But yeah.

Uh, it starts up when he gets out of his car and drives off.

backs up over the curb and drives away.

Yep.

Which, if I am, if I am gooning, if I am putting, putting the, the

eyes on somebody, you know what?

I just do

nothing.

Ben, you can't, you can't use Gooning in that context.

That's, that's what you do.

no.

Ben, you probably don't know this, but Gooning has a new

meaning with the Gen Zers.

What?

Like it's not like the hockey term anymore.

No.

It's actually euphemism for masturbation now.

So you can't say Gooning won't given someone the eyes.

Gen Z.

What did you do?

Just thought you should be aware.

Oh man.

I thought it was hilarious cuz Goon Squad, but in

this particular instance, not.

was,

just, I was just in my, in my, uh, Escalade out on the street

Gooning, watching people go by.

Oh,

well thank you for, for ruining gooning.

I didn't ruin it, Ben.

I just ruined your usage of it.

There's a difference.

Anyways, Skylar wakes up to Walt not in bed, and he's out in the

living room watching the streets.

He puts a kitchen knife away.

He's also clearly exhausted.

If only he had something that might have given him that pep, he needed to make it

through the

A little stimulant of some variety.

Yeah.

Uh, Walt knows he's been made, and once he's connected to his

DEA brother-in-law, he, he's dead.

His family is dead.

Everyone is dead.

Right?

Also, part of this morning we get another Marie phone call that

Skylar just instantly hangs up on.

Which made me nostalgic for, answering machines,

Walt plans on using the favorite weapon of the

centum to handle this problem.

Poison.

So this.

This moment had was another, another bit of the show that

I, absolutely connected with.

I guess we're back in Jesse's kitchen.

Yeah.

And, Jesse is now going, like, I figured out how to open my gun.

Uh,

and I, I've, I've come up with my plan and then Walt

just goes, I've got a better idea.

And Jesse just instantly goes, thank God.

Which just makes me feel of those moments where you're just like, okay, I think

I've got a way to fix this problem.

I know it's not the best way, but I also don't know anything better.

And then as soon as somebody else goes, I know how to fix this

problem, you're just like, thank you, thank you, thank you so much.

much.

We see that Walt is now going to be making a poison out of beans.

Yes.

Beans, job's not on board, but no, he's going to be making ric, which,

uh, this is another thing where it's just, okay, I understand he's a chemist.

How does he know how to make all this stuff?

Well, I mean, some of it makes sense.

Mm-hmm.

Like you would know chemical compounds for things, or you'd

be able to do the math when you knew what a chemical compound was.

Mm-hmm.

You know, like I can't look at a chemical compound and go, oh, well,

I need these things, obviously.

But

you're also not a, I'm

not a chemist.

Walt is.

So, you know, knowing if it's not like he has to like Google what is Thermite,

you know, or how to make Thermite.

Mm-hmm.

He just has to go, Hey, what's the chemical compound of Thermite if he

doesn't already know it, but he's probably got it in a book at home.

Yeah.

So he probably isn't doing, having to do a lot of legwork there.

I am curious if this is like a poison that comes from beans, if

this is something he's just growing

Where did he get the beans?

This isn't like he made some.

Chemical compound poison.

This is, he grew these, or someone he knew grew these, he

had to get them from somewhere.

is exactly my point.

Jafa.

We'll hop on her.

So, when we saw the backyard, In the pilot episode,

it was dilapidated, right?

The pool was maybe a quarter full.

It was filled with shit.

The entire backyard was in disarray.

When we see it now, both in our Verner Hiza opening, and then also

when Walt is out there after his tear boner crying, it's put together.

It's the ultimate expression of the modern man, and the boner come

together to show us suffering sadness.

It's getting better.

It is, it's improving.

Yeah.

Keep working on it.

, but it's much more put together.

So my, what my theory here is that waltz has actually started growing this poison.

He grew these beans in his backyard.

He's got a little veggie garden.

Tucked away somewhere growing these beans just in case he needed the poison in

in case he needed to make some rice.

yeah.

Yeah.

So this is where I started having to wonder, what is

everybody doing during the day?

Well, we find out what Skylar's doing during the day.

She's very pregnant.

Well, yes, she is very pregnant, but

she does work from home

to being very pregnant, yes.

All she did was, repackage stuff, uh, from eBay and then not

that was a successful business model in the two thousands.

yeah, she does not work on her novel.

no.

do we think it is the summer or did Walt quit his job teaching?

I have

a feeling that it is summer.

Okay.

Because Walt Jr is also not around.

So either he's, you know,

he's at friend's house.

Yeah.

They, they do establish Walt Jr's at a friend's house.

No.

All day.

when Skyler's in the bath, later in the

went over to,

to, uh, he's been, I've had the house to myself all day.

He's been over at a friend's house.

He's staying for dinner, but

But it could also have been, I've had the house to myself all day.

He went ho there after school.

Yeah.

So I just, I am wondering if, if, what is the last time on canonical

decision of, has he quit his job yet?

I'm gonna go with, no.

Okay.

I think he's still, there's too much fun you could have, like with this

being a teacher and having someone buy meth that's at one of your students

or something like getting made.

That's gotta happen at some point.

Maybe it already has, but, uh, we'll, we won't know.

Anyways, um, Skylar Spencer Day digging through old photos.

Uh, this is like scrolling your Facebook memories, looking

at photos of you with Xes.

It is not healthy.

No.

And, uh, Hank shows up to talk and we find out

Skylar and Marie are fighting.

Yes.

And he would like Skylar to bury the hatchet.

And when we find out why they're fighting, it's because Marie is a

shoplifter and Skyler insists a shoplifter

Aleto maniac.

Skylar insists that shoplifting is the worst crime any

one she knows would ever commit.

and, and everybody else is just like your

brother-in-law's, a DEA agent.

I'm sure he does, like casually commits worse crimes,

Yeah.

Hank has accidentally killed dudes promise.

Just not Gomez,

we find out Dave is a therapist.

Yeah.

Kind of bummed out about that one.

Uh,

you know, fuck I'd ask if talking about mental health.

Was this rough in the two thousands, but when my family doctor diagnosed

me with depression, it was a, oh, your aunt has that, here's a

book she read to make it better.

And also some Zoloft and some Xanax.

But my doctor couldn't even like talk to me about taking them

or the side effects of them.

And that's how I almost, or rather, should have died in

college like the first dozen times.

Yeah.

Uh, so I do know that that's how bad it was

Yeah.

It was not good.

Uh, and then we do get a, a great moment of Skylar ripping, Hank a new one.

Uh, which I appreciated on the side of like, there are commonly

people who you are always expected to be the bigger person.

Yeah.

And she just starts listing off, I'm nine months pregnant.

My husband has terminal lung cancer.

we have no money.

our water heater is still broken from the pilot.

and I have to be the bigger person, because she can't own up to the

fact that she's got kleptomania.

yeah.

And this just made me so mad because we know Walt has been

dealing meth for a while.

He does have some money saved, stashed.

He, but it is not near, like,

it's not the, what he wants.

It's not to set them up, but it's definitely enough to pay for a hot water

Yeah, that's only a few hundred bucks.

I am assuming that Walt's plan here is to just take this to his

grave and then when he dies, it's surprise life insurance money or something.

But you could also have, have like slipped an extra,

you know, few hundred bucks, uh, or just been like, Hey, so and so at

does not control the finances in the house.

but he could've said so and so at work gave

me an extra 300 bucks because

he knew we needed a

new job, a teaching job.

No, none of that's plausible, Ben.

I guess we know Bogden wouldn't, wouldn't have given him

any, uh, any extra money, uh, which I was really hoping they would

test out the rice in on Bogden.

so Skylar, during that breakdown also

mentions Walt's missing time.

Yes to Hank.

That's the second clue Hank has gotten about Walt dealing this episode.

And so I have a feeling that's gonna be a sooner rather than

a later plot in this show,

probably.

but then we do get, a,

really unfortunate

moment.

So Walt comes home, it is late.

Mm-hmm.

He's terrified, thinking people might be in the house.

Nobody's answering.

Yeah, he

doesn't

lock the door behind him.

And that just made me so mad.

Uh,

but,

that said, I, I didn't, it was probably there in the pilot,

but I didn't notice until today.

Love that he's wearing a calculator.

Watch,

Uh,

did make me very, very

happy.

But then, he gets a call from, Hank, who's like, Hey, really

stepped in it with your wife.

she's gonna be mad.

So giving you a heads up, bro, to bro.

Also wanna see a cool picture of this murder I'm at.

at

That somehow he's able to notice on his nine megapixel phone, um,

oh, he wishes it was nine megapixels back.

was a f uh, it

it was a flip phone.

was a flip phone from the mid s and it's supposed to be, ha, look

at this picture of these dead bodies.

How funny is this?

But Walt is able to recognize it because

He's seen

He's he's been there.

Yeah.

Um, so right before this Walton Jesse are cooking some special meth with The poison.

Yes.

Well, they cook meth and then they put some poison in with it.

And that's how they plan, they plan to get, uh, Tuco with that is be like, oh,

here's some special meth just for you.

Tuko new recipe.

Let us know.

Appreciate.

Jesse turning the tables and he was just like, so what's special about

it?

And

well, it's just like, Fuck, I don't know,

it's drugs.

It gets you super high, whatever.

Just

say it's the best meth.

And in his defense, Tuco does not seem to be the most,

mm-hmm.

Deep thinking of drug dealers.

No.

Uh, but yeah.

So he gets the call, uh, Jesse grabs his bug out bag.

Walt runs home with the gun, assuming that they're both next.

And then this is where we get Walt Juniors at his friends and

Skylar's in the bubble bath.

Yes.

She asks him where he is been all day.

He grabs some hidden cash, STEs it in a diaper box along with the gun

that will come play later, I'm sure.

Yep.

But probably not for us.

Hank knows these goons run with Tuco.

Yep.

And

Deduces, that Gonzo died trying to move the other body.

Not because Tuco killed him.

Yes.

But.

We,

He deduces that after he, , talks to Walt.

So Walt gets all up in arms and then this happens and it's supposed

to be like, oh, maybe Walt's overreacting.

Mm-hmm.

And then we almost immediately get Jesse showing up at

the house with Tuco in the back seat.

Yes.

So he wasn't overreacting.

They drive off to end credits.

We're at the cliffhanger, Ben.

Yes, we are.

is the end of our episode.

I really wanted to watch this next episode.

I really wanted to go back and watch season one.

Yeah.

Uh, but we can't, we've, we have, uh, made our bed and we will be sleeping in it.

Yes.

Or

Skylar will be sleeping in it while we stand.

Ominously in

the living room, staring out the window.

but this cliffhanger, knowing.

That there's no rule we're rolling 3D four.

There is no way to roll a one.

We are not watching the next episode.

Yeah.

Did you find this liberating because you know it's going to be either resolved

or at the very least, this cliffhanger won't, they're not gonna be locked in

a car with two go for four episodes.

No.

So knowing that.

Knowing that when we move on, when we watch our next episode,

this is going to be resolved.

And knowing that there's another 60 episodes of this show, bill 50.

Mm-hmm.

Uh, I found that incredibly liberating because knowing, and like having

accepted that I wasn't going to watch the next one, it was just

like, oh, that's a cliffhanger.

I was able to just completely live with it.

I was not, so, I'm, I'm happy for you, man.

, but I was not.

All right, well, it's time to see how far we're skipping ahead.

Yes.

I got our three dice here.

Whew.

Big roll.

We're skipping another eight episodes, Ben.

Oh geez.

Oh man.

You couldn't have rolled a four or something.

we'll be coming back to season two, episode nine.

All right, so before we go into our predictions for

this time, do we wanna talk about our predictions for last time and

see if they're still on the board?

Sure.

All right.

I've got, , Jesse's gonna get shot

still very much on the board.

Walter cheats on his wife

possible.

and Walter's cancer diagnosis is incorrect and he

still gets pneumonia or something.

He will get lung damage or something from cooking meth, uh, that

requires maybe even cancer from the meth, from cooking the meth.

But, uh,

uh, the initial diagnosis is wrong.

The initial diagnosis is wrong.

I'm gonna go ahead and say that's probably off the table at this point.

It doesn't look good given how much chemo is going on.

but maybe

it's possible.

Yeah.

Daytime prediction, Skylar never actually writes anything that

seems, that seems right on track.

We know she was at home all alone by herself all day.

Mm-hmm.

Didn't write anything.

Now is it too soon to give you the point?

I think it's too soon to give me the

point.

Okay.

You wanna say, you know, like another one If she makes it to the end of season

two without having written anything,

think that that's sufficient.

Okay.

My evening prediction, uh, Bogden gets run over by a car in the car

wash and it's a feelgood moment.

We don't know.

I also was, I'm also rooting for, uh, the rice to be tested out on

Bogden.

I don't know, I think I might be just.

W something from each episode we watched.

I'm hoping that's what gets bogged

in,

Uh, but we didn't see Bogden.

Uh, and then my, uh, primetime prediction was, uh, Gomez is murdered violently

by Hank Gomez is still in the show.

Gomez, my man, uh,

Gomez, still might get violently murdered by Hank.

So

that is still on the table.

And actually that ties into my primetime prediction for this time.

Okay, well go ahead with yours.

Uh, so I'll I'll end with that.

My daytime prediction is exactly as you called it, Ben Jesse accidentally spills

a bag of meth because it wasn't sealed.

That shit's gotta happen if it hasn't already.

And so I'm putting it on the board for a point.

All right,

My evening prediction, uh, Marie comes over

to visit and steals Walt's hat.

Mm.

And then my primetime prediction is that Hank catches Walt,

but Walt cuts him in on the operation.

Oh.

Probably just monetarily, I would assume.

Yes, but we'll see.

Uh, so my, uh, daytime prediction, Tuco ends up working for Walt

Oh.

Instead

the other way around.

Uh, my, my thought is the end of this episode, he's like, both ma goons is dead.

Something's going on.

You seem like you've got your shit together.

Like, how about you be in charge?

I'll just be the muscle.

Like he's still insane and still a problem, but the power dynamic shifts.

Okay.

Okay.

Uh, my, uh, evening, uh, Hank has to choose between

Marie's Kleptomania and his job.

He picks his job.

Ooh.

Uh, and then primetime.

No one ever actually tries to turn in Walton Jesse.

Every problem is only because of their paranoia and naivete.

Like at the end of the show, they would have completely gotten away

with it if it wasn't for them.

That's fun.

Yes.

Yes.

And so is this Ben?

Yeah.

So we'll be back, uh, next week with season two episode nine, four days out.

I'm gonna write

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As our theme music.

We still don't believe it's real.

Uh, it's absolutely crazy to us.

Thank you so much.

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