March 11, 2025 • 26 mins
Season 1 Episode 7: A No-Rough-Stuff-Type Deal
Remember like a year ago when I started my FIRST time ever watching Breaking Bad??? Well... when I starting digging back in I realized I had actually finished watching season 1 and just hadn't recorded all the episodes for the podcast!
I thought a fun way to jump back into Breaking Bad would be to share with you my thoughts from that first watch of all these episodes - a belated binge reaction to my first belated watch reaction!
If that seems confusing, that's OK, we're only doing this for the final 3 episodes of season 1 - then it'll be just be me watching the show again for the first time.
In this episode, Walt becomes a trailblazing meth cook and dealer. He solves a supply and demand problem and makes blue meth! He also gets off on being the new kingpin, and so does naggy wife...
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Walter White is officially a trailblazing meth dealer coming
up with new cooking method to make just amazing meth without
some of the usual supply chain issues.
And my favorite part is that it's blue, which is my favorite
color. I even wore a blue shirt for
those of you on YouTube just forthat.
(00:21):
Hi and welcome to Belated Binge,the podcast that doesn't take
itself or the show too seriously.
I'm Zach, your host, here to letyou relieve your favorite shows
like Breaking Bad, which ended over 10 years ago and I'm
finally watching for the first time.
However, if you're familiar withthe podcast, you will know that
I started this quite a while ago.
I did the first 4 episodes like a year ago and then I stopped.
(00:44):
But here's the thing, I recentlyrealized I actually finished
season 1. I just hadn't recorded all of my
reactions. So what better way to get into
Breaking Bad then to share with you what my initial reactions
were? So grab your gas masks and
chemistry sets as I react to my reaction of the final finale.
(01:05):
Episode 4 Season 1A, no rough stuff type of deal.
The Belated Binge Podcast Beforewe get started, there will be no
spoiler because I have no idea what happens in this show aside
from this dude becoming a meth dealer.
There will be language. Dream up the children.
Shout out to the bonus Binge squad on
(01:27):
patreonpatreon.com/belated BingeWe left off in the last episode
with Walt pushing Jesse to try to make a deal with a big player
who beat him into the hospital. Walt shaved his head, blew up
the drug guy's place. Oh, and they agreed to a bigger
deal, like twice the quantity ofmeth than they had originally
(01:48):
planned on doing. All right, so a reminder, the
way that I was doing this back then was to pull out my notes
while watching the episode and just frantically type what was
happening in the scene and what my immediate reactions were.
So I'm going to be going throughwhatever the heck I was saying
and thinking back then and probably making fun of myself
along the way. Let's jump into a no rough stuff
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type of deal, which opens apparently on a random dude
talking about catching the person who is stealing supplies
from the school and making meth.This appears to be a school
board like a parent meeting typeof a thing, like an open hall
and they're harping on Hugo's arrest because he's the
scapegoat for these people. And while all these parents who
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just want to tell the cops how to do their jobs, Walt either
really wants to leave or is getting off on getting away with
this completely because he goes for an old like hand up the
skirt, move on. Naggy wife under the table.
She does protest for like a quick second and then she's like
Oh no I'm in. Unfortunately for Naggy wife,
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she snapped out of her foreplay by the over hyper school
administrative lady calling Walt's name and starting an
ovation for him so he can now tell everyone what was stolen
from the school. Nagy Wife is very much not
interested in the list of missing beakers.
He wants to get it on, which apparently happens in the
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parking lot right next to the cop car.
Oh, Walt. From the backseat, Nagy Wife
asks why that sex was so good, and he says because it was
illegal. He was getting off on being the
person getting away with this shit.
And now so is an Aggie wife. And that's when the credits
(03:44):
started. So that's fun.
Back in action at some kind of dark place.
It's the basement of Little Buddy's house.
The realtor says that you'll think of all the things that you
can do down here as she's showing people around.
And all I can think of or could think of is, you know, like,
(04:05):
kill someone and they're walkingon squishy floors asking about
the patched up ceiling in the realtor.
Again, with a great line. The house has great bones.
Yeah. Melted bones squishing
underneath your feet. And here's Walt coming to visit
little buddy. He's laid up in the RV, still
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has broken ribs. Walt is just now telling him
about the Tuco meeting. He hands him an envelope full of
cash. And good on Walt, the extra
$15,000 he took off Tuco didn't get split.
He gave it all to Jesse, which is a big deal when you think
about this guy's dying of cancerand he's turned into a meth cook
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and dealer to pay for the medical bills and set his family
up so that they don't have to worry about it.
But he's giving 15 grand to Jesse for his.
Walt is definitely under sellingthe meeting 2 lbs a week and
little buddy is not happy about it.
But it's again because Walt doesn't know shit about being a
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drug dealer. There's a supply issue on the
ingredient side. He calls it pseudo, which I
think is suda medicine, but I don't really know anything about
cooking meth. That's just a word that I've
heard. What I do know is that Jesse is
working hard behind the scenes, driving like 400 miles round
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trip to get the stuff that they need to actually make said meth.
Now Walt is with Naggy Wife at adoctor meeting, and the doctor's
being very nice to her. And my first thought is if he's
nailing Naggy Wife, but I don't actually think that's happening.
She's spilling all the tea abouthow Walt is more frisky than
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he's been, and now she's suggesting to the doctor some
alternative treatments. That's what we need.
Naggy wife telling the cancer doctor how to treat cancer?
Great, just fantastic. Well, dude, maybe you just need
to keep her in a state of sexualeuphoria so that she will stop
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doing everything else that she does.
What's the worst, now we are in a junkyard for a meet up with
Tuco, and Little Buddy is givingWalt shit about the location
that they went to. This is clearly the theme that
we're heading toward in this partnership.
We've got Little Buddy who's going to teach Walt the
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intricacies of being a criminal drug dealer, and Walt is going
to teach Little Buddy about the chemistry to make better meth.
When you think about it, they'rekind of the perfect match, you
know, if you want them both to die.
And here comes the black SUV. Because every bad guy in every
movie and every drug dealer in every show and everything
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happens from a black SUV. Little buddy is nervous as hell
and he's not even close to hiding it, which makes sense
because, you know, last time he dealt with these people, he
ended up in the hospital. Walt has now busted out a black
bowler hat for his Heisenberg character and I am having a
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really, really hard time with this act.
Tuco has no problem putting Jesse in the hospital, but
Walt's false confidence has him agreeing to everything
immediately. It makes no sense and this guy
shows a big does a big show of throwing money around and being
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all aggressive after Walt pushesit to 4 lbs and I it just
doesn't. The things don't.
I'm having a hard time with thatin the show.
A bag of little buddy's house. Walt has worked up a way to make
the meth without the pseudo, which I'm pretty sure was one of
my crazy predictions. Which means I get to celebrate a
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win. This is my celebration face.
And now we cut to a home movie being shot.
And it just occurred to me that most of you are listening to
this, not watching it. So I will describe to you right
now my celebration face. It's just my face, but happier.
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And yeah, anyways, now Walt gives Jesse a shopping list.
I literally lost my own train ofthought being silly.
He can't even pronounce the shitthat's on this list.
He's ready to quit and Walt gives him a rah rah speech.
We can do this. We're meth dealers now.
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And now we cut to a home movie apparently being shot live at
the baby shower, focusing on theAnt who's wildly happy.
It's a slap happy moment until Walt gets on camera and it's
wholesome and it's touching and then there's gifts and Walter
Junior's sticking the camera on some chick's boobs.
(09:16):
Sure, why not? We get a heart to heart with the
brother-in-law. First, stronger alcohol, which
is absolutely necessary because that's what it's like talking to
the brother-in-law. You need alcohol.
He busts out a couple of Cubans,which Walt flips on Mr. DEA that
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it's illegal and then goes into a legal versus illegal thing.
And apparently meth used to be legal, which I didn't know, but
thank God it's not legal now because we wouldn't have a show.
It would just be perfectly fine for this chemistry teacher to be
making meth in his classroom. That wouldn't be any fun.
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Anyways, Walt is doing research on the alternative medicine that
naggy wife is wanting him to look at and whatever and is
talking about returning the fancy tiara her sister bought
for the the money. And now it actually starts to
make sense. Walt told her that he's doing a
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sweat lodge for the weekend and what he's really doing is
cooking 4 lbs of meth because Jesse came through on his
shopping list with no explanation at all as to how
just it was hard. That's a pretty good way to
explain plot things, don't you think?
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It was tough except one thing from the list and apparently
that's going to cost 10 grand for a couple of like thieves to
go get it for him and Walt decides I don't have 10 grand.
We're just going to steal it ourselves.
A bunch of what looks like thosemagnetic toys for kids, the ones
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that you throw and erase. It's that's the key to opening
this lock because chemistry, which I feel like is going to be
a thing in this show a lot. We're just going to learn new
things that chemistry can do to explain plot inconveniences.
And we're then cutting back to naggy wife trying to return the
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tiara and the dude asks to see areceipt.
And this has been telegraphed for a couple of scenes.
Now she's going to get arrested because the sister stole the
tiara. Remember how she stole the
shoes? I called it.
It happened. And the dude is relishing the
moment that he's catching her about this theft.
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And naggy wife goes all naggy wife and starts threatening to
call reporters and playing the pregnancy card and fake
hyperventilating and fake labor.And it worked.
Of course it worked again. Plot.
Sure, We then cut back to Walt and Jesse, who are now bickering
over Walt's ski mask fashion choices.
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And this is just a hodgepodge mission that's undoubtedly going
to go incredibly wrong. We all know it.
Jesse has a win. He has the idea to lock the
security dude in the well. He locked him in the shitter.
And then they explode the lock on the door and now they're
shopping while the alarms are going off and they can barely
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lift the drum of whatever this stuff is that they needed.
I'm feeling like Jesse. I can't even pronounce half the
shit on this show, you know? He thought to himself as they
waddled by the guard in the porta potty, and thought to
himself about how he thought to himself a year ago when he was
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watching them waddle past the guard in the porta potty.
It's the next day and Walt can'tstart the RV.
They're rolling. Meth lab isn't going anywhere.
So now they're cooking in the basement and little buddy is
trying to call and make sure that the real estate lady
doesn't come in today and she's not answering because she's
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setting up for his open house right outside.
We have no idea any of this is happening.
It's obviously going to go really bad, which is fun.
Here we go, people all over the house and there's a child.
Walt waves at her. It's a cute moment.
And also what the fuck is happening?
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Because now we're with the sister who's stealing more shit.
Earrings, I guess. Except now she's probably not
going to steal them because Skyler found her.
It's a really weird exchange, but again, I guess because we it
had actually been a little whilesince we showed her stealing
shoes and we just had the revealthat she stole the tiara, we
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have to then have her stealing more shit.
Just in case you didn't put two and two together yourself
because plot. And then back at the house, some
ladies sniffing around like she's a drug dog, which is
weird. Some dude wants to go in the
basement and Jesse just clears everyone out.
I guess he won't be using this realtor anymore.
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But alas, what are you going to do?
And Walt is home. I assume that means he
successfully cooked his 4 lbs ofmeth.
There's orange juice waiting forhim, which is great if you like
orange juice. I wonder if Walt is a pulp or no
pulp guy. I don't remember if that said on
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the episode. It might even be in my notes
that I'm about to go through. I'm not sure.
But are you a pulp or no pulp type of person in your orange
juice? Me, I'm a no pulp person.
I don't like chunky things in mydrinks.
That's gross to me. I don't like chunky things in my
ice cream and now that I'm older, ice cream doesn't like me
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at all anyways and I can't even eat ice cream.
This just got sad. This podcast is supposed to be
fun and now I'm sad. Remember my happy face from
earlier when I got the prediction right?
This is my sad face. And for those of you listening,
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it's just my face but sadder. And now your wife is also
waiting on him and sniffing his head.
We've got human drug dogs everywhere.
This is weird. She informs Walt that the tiara
was stolen and makes it a whole big thing, and Walt uses this
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opportunity to cryptically suggest extreme measures that
are OK for family. Asks her if she'd turn him in if
it was him that stole the tiara and she wasn't convincing like
at all. She's not into it.
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So it's probably not going to gogreat when it's not stealing a
tiara and it's actually, you know, cooking and dealing meth
when your brother-in-law is ADEAagent, she's going to love that.
Anyways, so much for becoming partner in the drug empire.
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And that's a prediction, I assume that I've gotten wrong,
but we'll see. That would be less of a sad
face. That would be a bit of a yeah,
duh. But it's a fun prediction
nonetheless. At the drug deal, the meth is
blue and Tuco loves it. 4.6 lbs of blue meth and here we go.
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Tuco goes off on his own guy forpiping up at them and Walter
tries to come to the guy's defense.
This is how it goes down. Tuco beats the piss out of this
guy. He might actually be dead.
I think he actually might be dead.
And that's what I mean when I said that it doesn't make sense
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that he's given in to Walt so easily at every turn.
He just apparently killed or almost killed his own guy for
speaking out of turn. He would have killed Walt
several times over if he wasn't wearing plot armor.
In this display of physical force has our boys shook,
Especially Walt, who didn't see Jesse get beat down before, Now
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we got to see this other guy. I, I, I don't know where to go
from here. So that's the episode and the
end of the first season. And I'm not going to harp more
right now about the plot armor because I've said enough about
it and that was a fairly anti climactic finale.
I think it's a good setup. I suppose we've got the
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arrangement in place for big money moves that Walt is trying
to make. He he's made the new school like
like the new school meth version.
I guess you could say it's goingto be a a way to get around the
supply chain issue, but also a way to kind of have a signature
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I guess. So we're going to be on schedule
and we're going to be differentiated and you know, we
got our stuff that we need for drug kingpinism.
I guess we've also got a wild card distributor who's a loose
cannon and that should present plenty of opportunities for
obstacles and what not. And at home, we've got a baby
(18:52):
that is almost here. We've got drama between the
sisters that, you know, stealingplot with the sister is
certainly going to keep being a thing.
They set that one up early. And so I completely expect for
it to continue. And like, it's not just going to
be a, oh, I've seen the error ofmy ways.
I'm not going to steal anymore. My husband's in the law
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enforcement. This was a bad idea.
We've got the investigation at the school.
Hank, the brother-in-law is kindof looming there.
He's kind of all around Walt andhasn't even thought of Walt yet,
which again, I've mentioned on the past couple of episodes now
I have seen in the year since watching this first season that
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Walt or that Hank does eventually catch Walt and
confront him. And so that's going to be a
thing. I this is a good TV show.
I'm still not sure it's the greatest TV show ever made or
the greatest TV show I've ever seen, but it is good.
It's a slow burn. It's surprisingly comedic.
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The episodes don't have a ton going on, but they've got enough
to keep you locked in during theepisode most of the time.
That one, that second episode where they spent like most of
the time just talking in the living room, that one was tough.
But for the most part, it keeps you.
It keeps you engaged, so that's good.
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It was a short season, too. I did look once without trying
to read any titles or summaries,but I think that the next Four
Seasons of the show are going tobe more of the traditional
length of like 12 episodes each season, I think so I don't I
don't know what this what I don't know why this one was 7
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episodes. This isn't a history of the show
type of a podcast because I've never seen the show.
So I'm not going to go looking up a bunch of information about
it because then I would know what happens in the whole show
and that defeats the purpose of this whole reaction thing I'm
doing. So anyways, I don't know why
necessarily it was like a a A7 season, first seven episode
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first season, but it does seem like the rest of them are are a
bit more quote UN quote normal length.
It kind of reminds me of The Office in that way.
If you've heard early on in thispodcast, earlier I guess on In
this podcast Life, I had coveredthe first season of The Office.
We may be bringing The Office back in some form or fashion.
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It's just not going to be the way that it was before exactly
because you can only watch one episode at a time and say that
was a good joke so much. But enough about the office.
Just saying that I do have interest in bringing that back
in some way, whether that's batching some episodes together
or doing at least some like season reviews, something I
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don't know. I'll, I'll figure out how to how
to make it an interesting thing to do if I decide to do it.
If not, you know, you don't carebecause you're here for Breaking
Bad anyways. There's there's plenty of
opportunities with this show forme to think like I know what's
coming and also be completely wrong about what I thought was
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coming, which I think is a good,I think that's a good thing for
a show like this to have, especially if it's not going to
be crazy action-packed all the time.
You know, this isn't Sons of Anarchy, which is a show that I
cover on this podcast as well. And that one is that one has
stuff going on constantly. There's multiple subplots in
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every single episode. There's action happening at
every turn, bikes, bullets, drama, explosions.
It's that kind of show. And this one is in the same like
antihero vein, but it's a way more mild and like subdued kind
of flow to the show, I think. And so being able to set the
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audience up with thinking that they know what's coming and then
flipping on them in a way that they didn't see coming is a
really, really good way to keep that interest up when you know
things aren't just blowing up every 5 seconds.
Which I think is a good segue for me to jump into some of my
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ridiculous predictions that I had when I was watching the show
for the first time like a year ago and now trying to remember
what the heck I thought was going on.
So the first one was I think Naggy Wife is going to stay on
the sister for stealing and might even pull the DEA brother
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in on it. That seems like low hanging
fruit. That is right up Naggy Wife's
alley and definitely something that she would do.
I also thought that Walter Junior was going to be a bigger
part of the plot in Season 2. I don't have a lot of reason for
that, but he wasn't really in the last couple episodes except
to be a pervert with the camcorder.
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I think he's going to get a storyline that becomes like one
of Walt's problems to overcome in Season 2.
Maybe it's an attention thing when the baby comes.
Maybe it's just being a horny teenager, you know?
But something feels like it needs to happen with that
character. And maybe, I don't know, maybe
he's going to get a girl pregnant that might not be in
season 2. But that feels like the type of
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plot point where we're probably going to have to go in that in
some kind of direction with thatcharacter at some point in time.
So I'm guessing that happens in season 2.
Before I go saying some more predictions based on no
evidence, I'm going to call it with that one.
If you enjoyed my reaction to myreaction of the first season of
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Breaking Bad, go ahead and leavea review on whatever app you're
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If you're on YouTube, you know, comment below all the things now
that I have reached the point where I had finished like a year
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ago, we're not doing this whole like reaction to my reaction
thing. We're going to go back to
reacting to the show as I watch the as I watch the episodes, but
it's there's going to be a little bit of a different
format. It's going to feel a little bit
more like the other shows that Icover in some of the more recent
episodes for things like Sons ofAnarchy.
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There will be a show summary, but then I'm going to I'm going
to talk about more stuff in kindof at A at AI guess a higher
level and make my predictions and stuff like that kind of just
in a different way. It's not going to be a scene by
scene recount of every single thing that happens in the show
and exactly what I was thinking at the time.
It's going to be more more summary of what went down.
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And then we'll probably 0 in on like a character at a time, a
couple of plot points that are particularly interesting.
And then like I said, I'll I'll make my predictions that I'll
probably get wrong. And that's probably how we're
going to tackle this thing moving forward.
So yeah, if you're down for that, then stick around.
Remember, life is short. Still don't become a meth
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dealer. But if you do buy an RV, wear
headphones and take belated binge Breaking Bad wherever that
RV happens to take you.
Walter White is officially a trailblazing meth dealer coming
up with new cooking method to make just amazing meth without
some of the usual supply chain issues.
And my favorite part is that it's blue, which is my favorite
color. I even wore a blue shirt for
those of you on YouTube just forthat.
(00:21):
Hi and welcome to Belated Binge,the podcast that doesn't take
itself or the show too seriously.
I'm Zach, your host, here to letyou relieve your favorite shows
like Breaking Bad, which ended over 10 years ago and I'm
finally watching for the first time.
However, if you're familiar withthe podcast, you will know that
I started this quite a while ago.
I did the first 4 episodes like a year ago and then I stopped.
(00:44):
But here's the thing, I recentlyrealized I actually finished
season 1. I just hadn't recorded all of my
reactions. So what better way to get into
Breaking Bad then to share with you what my initial reactions
were? So grab your gas masks and
chemistry sets as I react to my reaction of the final finale.
(01:05):
Episode 4 Season 1A, no rough stuff type of deal.
The Belated Binge Podcast Beforewe get started, there will be no
spoiler because I have no idea what happens in this show aside
from this dude becoming a meth dealer.
There will be language. Dream up the children.
Shout out to the bonus Binge squad on
(01:27):
patreonpatreon.com/belated BingeWe left off in the last episode
with Walt pushing Jesse to try to make a deal with a big player
who beat him into the hospital. Walt shaved his head, blew up
the drug guy's place. Oh, and they agreed to a bigger
deal, like twice the quantity ofmeth than they had originally
(01:48):
planned on doing. All right, so a reminder, the
way that I was doing this back then was to pull out my notes
while watching the episode and just frantically type what was
happening in the scene and what my immediate reactions were.
So I'm going to be going throughwhatever the heck I was saying
and thinking back then and probably making fun of myself
along the way. Let's jump into a no rough stuff
(02:11):
type of deal, which opens apparently on a random dude
talking about catching the person who is stealing supplies
from the school and making meth.This appears to be a school
board like a parent meeting typeof a thing, like an open hall
and they're harping on Hugo's arrest because he's the
scapegoat for these people. And while all these parents who
(02:34):
just want to tell the cops how to do their jobs, Walt either
really wants to leave or is getting off on getting away with
this completely because he goes for an old like hand up the
skirt, move on. Naggy wife under the table.
She does protest for like a quick second and then she's like
Oh no I'm in. Unfortunately for Naggy wife,
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she snapped out of her foreplay by the over hyper school
administrative lady calling Walt's name and starting an
ovation for him so he can now tell everyone what was stolen
from the school. Nagy Wife is very much not
interested in the list of missing beakers.
He wants to get it on, which apparently happens in the
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parking lot right next to the cop car.
Oh, Walt. From the backseat, Nagy Wife
asks why that sex was so good, and he says because it was
illegal. He was getting off on being the
person getting away with this shit.
And now so is an Aggie wife. And that's when the credits
(03:44):
started. So that's fun.
Back in action at some kind of dark place.
It's the basement of Little Buddy's house.
The realtor says that you'll think of all the things that you
can do down here as she's showing people around.
And all I can think of or could think of is, you know, like,
(04:05):
kill someone and they're walkingon squishy floors asking about
the patched up ceiling in the realtor.
Again, with a great line. The house has great bones.
Yeah. Melted bones squishing
underneath your feet. And here's Walt coming to visit
little buddy. He's laid up in the RV, still
(04:26):
has broken ribs. Walt is just now telling him
about the Tuco meeting. He hands him an envelope full of
cash. And good on Walt, the extra
$15,000 he took off Tuco didn't get split.
He gave it all to Jesse, which is a big deal when you think
about this guy's dying of cancerand he's turned into a meth cook
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and dealer to pay for the medical bills and set his family
up so that they don't have to worry about it.
But he's giving 15 grand to Jesse for his.
Walt is definitely under sellingthe meeting 2 lbs a week and
little buddy is not happy about it.
But it's again because Walt doesn't know shit about being a
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drug dealer. There's a supply issue on the
ingredient side. He calls it pseudo, which I
think is suda medicine, but I don't really know anything about
cooking meth. That's just a word that I've
heard. What I do know is that Jesse is
working hard behind the scenes, driving like 400 miles round
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trip to get the stuff that they need to actually make said meth.
Now Walt is with Naggy Wife at adoctor meeting, and the doctor's
being very nice to her. And my first thought is if he's
nailing Naggy Wife, but I don't actually think that's happening.
She's spilling all the tea abouthow Walt is more frisky than
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he's been, and now she's suggesting to the doctor some
alternative treatments. That's what we need.
Naggy wife telling the cancer doctor how to treat cancer?
Great, just fantastic. Well, dude, maybe you just need
to keep her in a state of sexualeuphoria so that she will stop
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doing everything else that she does.
What's the worst, now we are in a junkyard for a meet up with
Tuco, and Little Buddy is givingWalt shit about the location
that they went to. This is clearly the theme that
we're heading toward in this partnership.
We've got Little Buddy who's going to teach Walt the
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intricacies of being a criminal drug dealer, and Walt is going
to teach Little Buddy about the chemistry to make better meth.
When you think about it, they'rekind of the perfect match, you
know, if you want them both to die.
And here comes the black SUV. Because every bad guy in every
movie and every drug dealer in every show and everything
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happens from a black SUV. Little buddy is nervous as hell
and he's not even close to hiding it, which makes sense
because, you know, last time he dealt with these people, he
ended up in the hospital. Walt has now busted out a black
bowler hat for his Heisenberg character and I am having a
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really, really hard time with this act.
Tuco has no problem putting Jesse in the hospital, but
Walt's false confidence has him agreeing to everything
immediately. It makes no sense and this guy
shows a big does a big show of throwing money around and being
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all aggressive after Walt pushesit to 4 lbs and I it just
doesn't. The things don't.
I'm having a hard time with thatin the show.
A bag of little buddy's house. Walt has worked up a way to make
the meth without the pseudo, which I'm pretty sure was one of
my crazy predictions. Which means I get to celebrate a
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win. This is my celebration face.
And now we cut to a home movie being shot.
And it just occurred to me that most of you are listening to
this, not watching it. So I will describe to you right
now my celebration face. It's just my face, but happier.
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And yeah, anyways, now Walt gives Jesse a shopping list.
I literally lost my own train ofthought being silly.
He can't even pronounce the shitthat's on this list.
He's ready to quit and Walt gives him a rah rah speech.
We can do this. We're meth dealers now.
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And now we cut to a home movie apparently being shot live at
the baby shower, focusing on theAnt who's wildly happy.
It's a slap happy moment until Walt gets on camera and it's
wholesome and it's touching and then there's gifts and Walter
Junior's sticking the camera on some chick's boobs.
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Sure, why not? We get a heart to heart with the
brother-in-law. First, stronger alcohol, which
is absolutely necessary because that's what it's like talking to
the brother-in-law. You need alcohol.
He busts out a couple of Cubans,which Walt flips on Mr. DEA that
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it's illegal and then goes into a legal versus illegal thing.
And apparently meth used to be legal, which I didn't know, but
thank God it's not legal now because we wouldn't have a show.
It would just be perfectly fine for this chemistry teacher to be
making meth in his classroom. That wouldn't be any fun.
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Anyways, Walt is doing research on the alternative medicine that
naggy wife is wanting him to look at and whatever and is
talking about returning the fancy tiara her sister bought
for the the money. And now it actually starts to
make sense. Walt told her that he's doing a
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sweat lodge for the weekend and what he's really doing is
cooking 4 lbs of meth because Jesse came through on his
shopping list with no explanation at all as to how
just it was hard. That's a pretty good way to
explain plot things, don't you think?
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It was tough except one thing from the list and apparently
that's going to cost 10 grand for a couple of like thieves to
go get it for him and Walt decides I don't have 10 grand.
We're just going to steal it ourselves.
A bunch of what looks like thosemagnetic toys for kids, the ones
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that you throw and erase. It's that's the key to opening
this lock because chemistry, which I feel like is going to be
a thing in this show a lot. We're just going to learn new
things that chemistry can do to explain plot inconveniences.
And we're then cutting back to naggy wife trying to return the
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tiara and the dude asks to see areceipt.
And this has been telegraphed for a couple of scenes.
Now she's going to get arrested because the sister stole the
tiara. Remember how she stole the
shoes? I called it.
It happened. And the dude is relishing the
moment that he's catching her about this theft.
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And naggy wife goes all naggy wife and starts threatening to
call reporters and playing the pregnancy card and fake
hyperventilating and fake labor.And it worked.
Of course it worked again. Plot.
Sure, We then cut back to Walt and Jesse, who are now bickering
over Walt's ski mask fashion choices.
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And this is just a hodgepodge mission that's undoubtedly going
to go incredibly wrong. We all know it.
Jesse has a win. He has the idea to lock the
security dude in the well. He locked him in the shitter.
And then they explode the lock on the door and now they're
shopping while the alarms are going off and they can barely
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lift the drum of whatever this stuff is that they needed.
I'm feeling like Jesse. I can't even pronounce half the
shit on this show, you know? He thought to himself as they
waddled by the guard in the porta potty, and thought to
himself about how he thought to himself a year ago when he was
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watching them waddle past the guard in the porta potty.
It's the next day and Walt can'tstart the RV.
They're rolling. Meth lab isn't going anywhere.
So now they're cooking in the basement and little buddy is
trying to call and make sure that the real estate lady
doesn't come in today and she's not answering because she's
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setting up for his open house right outside.
We have no idea any of this is happening.
It's obviously going to go really bad, which is fun.
Here we go, people all over the house and there's a child.
Walt waves at her. It's a cute moment.
And also what the fuck is happening?
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Because now we're with the sister who's stealing more shit.
Earrings, I guess. Except now she's probably not
going to steal them because Skyler found her.
It's a really weird exchange, but again, I guess because we it
had actually been a little whilesince we showed her stealing
shoes and we just had the revealthat she stole the tiara, we
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have to then have her stealing more shit.
Just in case you didn't put two and two together yourself
because plot. And then back at the house, some
ladies sniffing around like she's a drug dog, which is
weird. Some dude wants to go in the
basement and Jesse just clears everyone out.
I guess he won't be using this realtor anymore.
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But alas, what are you going to do?
And Walt is home. I assume that means he
successfully cooked his 4 lbs ofmeth.
There's orange juice waiting forhim, which is great if you like
orange juice. I wonder if Walt is a pulp or no
pulp guy. I don't remember if that said on
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the episode. It might even be in my notes
that I'm about to go through. I'm not sure.
But are you a pulp or no pulp type of person in your orange
juice? Me, I'm a no pulp person.
I don't like chunky things in mydrinks.
That's gross to me. I don't like chunky things in my
ice cream and now that I'm older, ice cream doesn't like me
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at all anyways and I can't even eat ice cream.
This just got sad. This podcast is supposed to be
fun and now I'm sad. Remember my happy face from
earlier when I got the prediction right?
This is my sad face. And for those of you listening,
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it's just my face but sadder. And now your wife is also
waiting on him and sniffing his head.
We've got human drug dogs everywhere.
This is weird. She informs Walt that the tiara
was stolen and makes it a whole big thing, and Walt uses this
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opportunity to cryptically suggest extreme measures that
are OK for family. Asks her if she'd turn him in if
it was him that stole the tiara and she wasn't convincing like
at all. She's not into it.
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So it's probably not going to gogreat when it's not stealing a
tiara and it's actually, you know, cooking and dealing meth
when your brother-in-law is ADEAagent, she's going to love that.
Anyways, so much for becoming partner in the drug empire.
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And that's a prediction, I assume that I've gotten wrong,
but we'll see. That would be less of a sad
face. That would be a bit of a yeah,
duh. But it's a fun prediction
nonetheless. At the drug deal, the meth is
blue and Tuco loves it. 4.6 lbs of blue meth and here we go.
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Tuco goes off on his own guy forpiping up at them and Walter
tries to come to the guy's defense.
This is how it goes down. Tuco beats the piss out of this
guy. He might actually be dead.
I think he actually might be dead.
And that's what I mean when I said that it doesn't make sense
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that he's given in to Walt so easily at every turn.
He just apparently killed or almost killed his own guy for
speaking out of turn. He would have killed Walt
several times over if he wasn't wearing plot armor.
In this display of physical force has our boys shook,
Especially Walt, who didn't see Jesse get beat down before, Now
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we got to see this other guy. I, I, I don't know where to go
from here. So that's the episode and the
end of the first season. And I'm not going to harp more
right now about the plot armor because I've said enough about
it and that was a fairly anti climactic finale.
I think it's a good setup. I suppose we've got the
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arrangement in place for big money moves that Walt is trying
to make. He he's made the new school like
like the new school meth version.
I guess you could say it's goingto be a a way to get around the
supply chain issue, but also a way to kind of have a signature
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I guess. So we're going to be on schedule
and we're going to be differentiated and you know, we
got our stuff that we need for drug kingpinism.
I guess we've also got a wild card distributor who's a loose
cannon and that should present plenty of opportunities for
obstacles and what not. And at home, we've got a baby
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that is almost here. We've got drama between the
sisters that, you know, stealingplot with the sister is
certainly going to keep being a thing.
They set that one up early. And so I completely expect for
it to continue. And like, it's not just going to
be a, oh, I've seen the error ofmy ways.
I'm not going to steal anymore. My husband's in the law
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enforcement. This was a bad idea.
We've got the investigation at the school.
Hank, the brother-in-law is kindof looming there.
He's kind of all around Walt andhasn't even thought of Walt yet,
which again, I've mentioned on the past couple of episodes now
I have seen in the year since watching this first season that
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Walt or that Hank does eventually catch Walt and
confront him. And so that's going to be a
thing. I this is a good TV show.
I'm still not sure it's the greatest TV show ever made or
the greatest TV show I've ever seen, but it is good.
It's a slow burn. It's surprisingly comedic.
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The episodes don't have a ton going on, but they've got enough
to keep you locked in during theepisode most of the time.
That one, that second episode where they spent like most of
the time just talking in the living room, that one was tough.
But for the most part, it keeps you.
It keeps you engaged, so that's good.
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It was a short season, too. I did look once without trying
to read any titles or summaries,but I think that the next Four
Seasons of the show are going tobe more of the traditional
length of like 12 episodes each season, I think so I don't I
don't know what this what I don't know why this one was 7
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episodes. This isn't a history of the show
type of a podcast because I've never seen the show.
So I'm not going to go looking up a bunch of information about
it because then I would know what happens in the whole show
and that defeats the purpose of this whole reaction thing I'm
doing. So anyways, I don't know why
necessarily it was like a a A7 season, first seven episode
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first season, but it does seem like the rest of them are are a
bit more quote UN quote normal length.
It kind of reminds me of The Office in that way.
If you've heard early on in thispodcast, earlier I guess on In
this podcast Life, I had coveredthe first season of The Office.
We may be bringing The Office back in some form or fashion.
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It's just not going to be the way that it was before exactly
because you can only watch one episode at a time and say that
was a good joke so much. But enough about the office.
Just saying that I do have interest in bringing that back
in some way, whether that's batching some episodes together
or doing at least some like season reviews, something I
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don't know. I'll, I'll figure out how to how
to make it an interesting thing to do if I decide to do it.
If not, you know, you don't carebecause you're here for Breaking
Bad anyways. There's there's plenty of
opportunities with this show forme to think like I know what's
coming and also be completely wrong about what I thought was
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coming, which I think is a good,I think that's a good thing for
a show like this to have, especially if it's not going to
be crazy action-packed all the time.
You know, this isn't Sons of Anarchy, which is a show that I
cover on this podcast as well. And that one is that one has
stuff going on constantly. There's multiple subplots in
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every single episode. There's action happening at
every turn, bikes, bullets, drama, explosions.
It's that kind of show. And this one is in the same like
antihero vein, but it's a way more mild and like subdued kind
of flow to the show, I think. And so being able to set the
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audience up with thinking that they know what's coming and then
flipping on them in a way that they didn't see coming is a
really, really good way to keep that interest up when you know
things aren't just blowing up every 5 seconds.
Which I think is a good segue for me to jump into some of my
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ridiculous predictions that I had when I was watching the show
for the first time like a year ago and now trying to remember
what the heck I thought was going on.
So the first one was I think Naggy Wife is going to stay on
the sister for stealing and might even pull the DEA brother
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in on it. That seems like low hanging
fruit. That is right up Naggy Wife's
alley and definitely something that she would do.
I also thought that Walter Junior was going to be a bigger
part of the plot in Season 2. I don't have a lot of reason for
that, but he wasn't really in the last couple episodes except
to be a pervert with the camcorder.
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I think he's going to get a storyline that becomes like one
of Walt's problems to overcome in Season 2.
Maybe it's an attention thing when the baby comes.
Maybe it's just being a horny teenager, you know?
But something feels like it needs to happen with that
character. And maybe, I don't know, maybe
he's going to get a girl pregnant that might not be in
season 2. But that feels like the type of
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plot point where we're probably going to have to go in that in
some kind of direction with thatcharacter at some point in time.
So I'm guessing that happens in season 2.
Before I go saying some more predictions based on no
evidence, I'm going to call it with that one.
If you enjoyed my reaction to myreaction of the first season of
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Breaking Bad, go ahead and leavea review on whatever app you're
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that I have reached the point where I had finished like a year
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ago, we're not doing this whole like reaction to my reaction
thing. We're going to go back to
reacting to the show as I watch the as I watch the episodes, but
it's there's going to be a little bit of a different
format. It's going to feel a little bit
more like the other shows that Icover in some of the more recent
episodes for things like Sons ofAnarchy.
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There will be a show summary, but then I'm going to I'm going
to talk about more stuff in kindof at A at AI guess a higher
level and make my predictions and stuff like that kind of just
in a different way. It's not going to be a scene by
scene recount of every single thing that happens in the show
and exactly what I was thinking at the time.
It's going to be more more summary of what went down.
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And then we'll probably 0 in on like a character at a time, a
couple of plot points that are particularly interesting.
And then like I said, I'll I'll make my predictions that I'll
probably get wrong. And that's probably how we're
going to tackle this thing moving forward.
So yeah, if you're down for that, then stick around.
Remember, life is short. Still don't become a meth
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dealer. But if you do buy an RV, wear
headphones and take belated binge Breaking Bad wherever that
RV happens to take you.
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