February 25, 2025 • 26 mins
Season 1 Episode 6: Crazy Handful of Nothin'
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 finally shaves his head!!! I had been wondering when that would finally happen... Oh, and he blew up a drug dealers office & convinced him to double his order.
The same drug dealer who put Little Buddy in the hospital... I'm sure I had something to say about that convenience as well as how Naggy Wife is forcing him to group therapy, because she sucks!
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(00:00):
The hair is officially gone and Walter White is officially a
hands on drug dealer and arsonist.
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 relive your favorite shows
like Breaking Bad, which ended over 10 years ago and I'm
(00:23):
finally watching for the first time.
However, if you are familiar with the podcast, you'll know
that I actually started this a while ago.
I did the first 4 episodes like a year ago and then I stopped.
But here's the thing, I recentlyrealized.
I finished watching season 1 allback then.
(00:47):
I just didn't record all my reactions.
So I thought it'd be fun to get back into Breaking Bad.
And what better way than to share with you what my initial
reactions were in real time? I have no doubt that I had
plenty to say. I'll have made predictions,
theories, and they're going to all have been wrong.
I'm going to look like an idiot.And since it's been so long and
(01:10):
I refuse to rewatch these episodes or revisit my notes,
I'll probably make fun of my past self too.
So grab your gas mask and chemistry sets as I react to the
6th episode of Breaking Bad season 1.
Crazy handful of nothing. The belated Binge podcast.
(01:33):
Before we get started. There will be no spoilers
because I have no idea what happens in the show aside from a
dude becoming a meth dealer. There will be some language
earmuff the children. Shout out to the bonus binge
squad on patreonpatreon.com/belated
Binge. We left off in the last episode
with a real character growth from Little Buddy Jesse, who's
(01:57):
all business with his meth thesedays.
We also learn more about Walt's past.
He finally agreed to chemo and ended the episode asking Little
Buddy to partner up again. We shall now jump in to crazy
handful of nothing and reminder,the way I was doing these back
then was I was literally openingup my notes app while I was
(02:19):
watching the episode and I was just frantically typing
everything that I possibly couldabout the scene and my initial
reactions in this. So I am essentially recounting
that. And then I will also be, I'm
sure ad libbing as I go and it'sall going to be 1 giant
hodgepodge of joy. So we open on aliens.
(02:43):
Seriously, were those UFOs? Walt is back in the RV, which is
not as pristine and spotless as it was when we he last saw it.
He finds porn, which is great. Everybody loves porn, right?
I don't know. Walt is he's decided he's laying
(03:04):
down the law. He's the chemist, the silent
partner, and doesn't want any interaction or knowledge of the
street side of the drug dealing.It's a good thing Walt has
cancer because otherwise he's kind of shitty to root for.
I don't like the way that he's acomplete pushover to everyone
else in his life but then talks down to little buddy like he's
(03:26):
some kind of authoritarian. And by the way, you're not less
guilty if you're just cooking the meth and pretending that
it's not being sold and consumed.
He then starts giving a speech about no more blood, no more
violence. You know, we're we're cutting
back and forth to a scene of a bald Walt in the midst of the
(03:48):
streets looking like he's carrying a bleeding bag.
This I wanted to know in the moment if it had a head in it.
So obviously they were playing with the storytelling there with
him talking about no more blood,no more violence.
Now I'm carrying a bag that might have a head in it.
And I also wanted to know what was going on with the time jump
(04:13):
credits. Then we have close up on a chemo
treatment and this is the happiest his wife has looked.
She's getting more pregnant and he's absolutely miserable
getting cancer treatment. He finally talks her into
leaving so that she can be home when Walter Junior gets there.
And he's also lying about getting a check from their
(04:36):
friend. Remember there's the rich ass
friend who wants to pay for all the treatment and wants to give
Walt a good job and basically hand him everything that he
possibly needs. But if Walt does that then well,
he wouldn't have to make meth. Oh and he would have to see his
ex-girlfriend or whatever she is.
There's always a girl. It it's always about a girl.
(04:57):
You could be set for life with all of the treatment and
insurance and all that that you possibly need.
Or you can go behind your family's back and your wife's
back to cook meth. Dang it.
(05:18):
We're going meth. But not before we go back to
teaching high school kids, because that's still a thing.
Walt is still doing that. He's still a high school
teacher, not just, you know, a meth cook.
Cool. Now we're back to the way that
he was feeling. I guess in this moment, he's
(05:39):
clearly not comfortable. Side effects of the treatment is
most likely in in my head as I am watching this for the first
time a year ago. This is a lot about explosions.
You know, I think the building in that weird scene earlier was
on fire. I'm guessing we're getting a
(06:00):
lesson about explosives to tie into whatever chaotic crazy is
coming. Now he's sneaking away to the
bathroom to apparently vomit andshit himself at the same time.
I didn't think we needed to see that.
And the janitor guy, I think he called him Hugo.
(06:23):
He was a solid dude, he says. I got this.
You got kids to teach, you know,because Walt just vomited and
shit all over the place that that's a good dude.
That's a good dude. Now we're cutting to the wife
talking about Walt's weight lossand treatment stuff, and he's
(06:46):
there in the support group. Are you, are you kidding me?
You know, it's not enough that she is constantly up this dude's
ass now. She needs an audience when she
does it. He is dying of cancer, having to
actually get the treatments. And when he's not puking and
(07:09):
shitting himself, he has to showup to a room full of people and
listen to how he's not doing enough to make this easier for
her and for Walter Junior. And of course, the leader of
this group is going to pry into everything because that's what
these things do. We're just building tension
about what is Walt doing? Well, what is Walt doing?
(07:33):
He's cooking meth. People leave him alone to build
his drug empire. We've got a show here.
This thing is going to be huge. It's episode 6, Season 1.
We don't know it yet, but this is about to go down in history
as one of the best TV shows ever.
At least it was like that. You know, this what I've heard?
He says he enjoys the nature as we're seeing shots of the nature
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around the RV he's cooking meth in and he passes out while
cooking. So that's good.
Little buddy is a supportive little buddy and fanning him.
He, he, he and he he is. He's able to figure out the
cancer thing. He's very observant, this little
buddy. Apparently he knows his cancer
(08:19):
and we're about to have a bonding moment, bonding over how
long his aunt was able to live with hers.
And he's not even mad that Walt is just in this for a payday
before he, well, croaks. And Walt tells Jesse to finish
the batch, and not in a very friendly way, but then he's also
sort of encouraging. So, you know, maybe we're
(08:42):
starting to set up like a mentorship kind of an arc thing.
Walt's going to teach Little Buddy how to be the best meth
cook, and Jesse will be the kingpin.
When Walt dies, Little Buddy is not feeling confident, but he
gets himself psyched up anyways.You got it, Little Buddy.
You can do this. You can make that meth.
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And what was it he that he was using before?
Was he using like Tabasco sauce or something?
That was a signature. He's not doing that shit
anymore. No, he's doing this the right
way that he made the organic. This is organic meth that we're
making here. We're cutting to a scene between
the brother-in-law and another cop who brings in the gas mask
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that they found Walt's gas mask,you know, from the first
episode, property of Walt's school written on the inside of
it. And now I'm wondering if the
brother-in-law is going to actually be able to put together
that the best chemically createdmeth that has ever hit this town
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is cooked by someone wearing a mask from Walt's school.
Maybe it's the guy who teaches chemistry and who apparently has
a whole past life of being like a totally innovative chemist in
amazing innovative genius. None of this is ringing any
(10:13):
bells. OK, sure, we're getting a weird
montage of little buddies selling meth with a funny upbeat
music score going on, which is weird, but I guess we have to
find ways to keep the show friendly while we're dealing
drugs. Because we are dealing drugs.
By the way, he shows up to the RV with like 2600 bucks from
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selling an ounce of meth and Walt is not happy with the
weight or the return. He's got all the answers.
As someone who refuses to have anything to do with the actual
dealing part, why not just sell the whole pound at one time?
Because nobody that Little Buddyis slinging to can afford a
(11:00):
pound of meth, and Walt is just.He's being a Dick.
Yeah, I'm breaking the law here.No shit.
This was your idea? How do we move in bulk?
We get a distributor. And Little Buddy points out the
fact that he used to know a distributor.
Crazy 8 Remember him? The guy that Walt strangled to
(11:23):
death. Oh, yeah.
Walt's hands are super clean, right?
Hypocrite. I don't know, I am I supposed to
root for Walt? Because it's hard.
It really is sometimes. And now it's time for little
buddy to do some teaching about how big time drug dealers don't
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just work with random ass peoplethat they don't know.
Big shock. Good God, this is common sense
stuff. This isn't drug dealer stuff.
This is duh and Walt snaps and we're back in chemo.
So weird. The only time that I like Walt
is when he's in his normal life.When he's with little Buddy
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playing meth Chief, he's an asshole.
So now we got to jump back to school and vomiting again.
Hugo's starting to get used to helping vomiting Mr. White and
he's got a visitor. It's Hank, the brother-in-law,
you know, who's breaking the lawthe the ice with inappropriate
(12:29):
remarks about how the lady who works at the school, you know,
is, you know, he's, he's, he's aman's man.
Remember that. This is what masculinity looks
like in a very healthy way. He shows Walt the gas mask and
he starts asking questions and tells Walt that he found it next
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to a car of a missing snitch that's probably dead.
So Walt killed an informant and he's trying to play dumb but
he's coming off more as like Spacey then unaware.
(13:16):
Walt doesn't know of any masks that have gone missing and he
lets Hank go through the inventory and inventory and, and
Hank is thinking about students.He's easily spotting missing
stuff that Walt's been stealing.And it's it's just kind of
hilarious that Hank is investigating this and not even
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thinking of Walt, who is the most obvious answer here, but,
you know, plot. Walt gets a call from little
buddy who has to come through within an in on a new
distributor guy named Tuko, I think was the name.
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It's been a little while, obviously.
And Walt plays it off a bit. And Hank gives him a speech
about watching his inventory andjoking that Walt could be a meth
cook. Yeah, no shit.
Little buddy's nervous about meeting with the new distributor
guy. He doesn't seem to trust his boy
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that's getting him in the door. And apparently the dude did time
with him and claims that they'rejust real close, real tight, and
there's no way this isn't going to backfire.
This dude is awfully confident for a guy named Skinny Pete.
They got some really tight security and this distributor
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guy's not at all into small talk, but he is apparently into
knives and he forces little buddy to snort with him.
And then he gets real wild aboutit.
A lot of energy about it. Yep.
(15:05):
And then he makes the deal. Except he wants it on trust,
$35,000 worth of IO you. And he's not particularly happy
when Little Buddy does not agreeand then tries to run off with
his product. That doesn't go particularly
well for Little Buddy. But the dude starts bagging up
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cash upfront payment as requested.
And I expect a year ago, of course, that there's going to be
a catch. And there is.
He starts beating Little Buddy with the money bag.
Maybe this is the bloody bag from future Waltz Vision.
(15:50):
We shall find out. And at the school, Hank is
arresting Hugo. What?
Come on man, Hugo is a good dude.
Waltz at home calling Little Buddy asking where he is and
(16:10):
apparently they're having a poker night with Hank.
Some time must have passed sinceHank booked Hugo and he explains
to Walter Junior that he had a couple of possession arrests in
the past and they found a blunt in his truck.
And now Hank is bashing Walt fornot knowing shit about criminals
because he tried to support Hugoand the look he gives him is
(16:32):
pure annoyance. I guess they've found a bunch of
weed at Hugo's place, and Hank goes all in on a handful of
nothing. Our episode title.
And now we're in the shower withWalt and his hair's falling out.
He keeps calling Little Buddy. He finds him at the hospital
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after the beating that he took, and Walt is actually finally
feeling something for Little Buddy, and he wants the back
story. So obviously this thing's
jumping all around everywhere, and it has occurred to me some
(17:18):
time now past that we're gettinga little mini arc in here that I
don't know that I clocked immediately.
Maybe my notes will have it in here somewhere later.
But I'm going to say it now. We kind of started off this
episode with Walt being really, really shitty to Jesse, just
kind of being a Dick, being veryauthoritative, you know, as if
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he's still his teacher. You know, because high school
teachers are the the Super authoritarian type when they're
dealing with their ex students as adults.
I guess. I don't know, never been a
teacher. Probably best for the people
learning anyways. But by now in the episode as
(18:07):
we're getting towards the end, Ihave very, very short, like
short chunk of notes left. Walt is now like taking up for
little buddy and feeling a senseof I don't know if it's, I don't
know if it's a sense of bonding,if it's a sense of, of, of
(18:30):
responsibility for him. I don't know where the where
it's coming from, you know, But now he's like, Oh, you don't
fuck with little buddy. So now we're jumping back to
Walt in the bathroom and he's taking the grossest piss I'd
ever seen. He's missing chunks of hair.
(18:51):
He's taking handfuls of pills and it's go time shaving the
head with some beard trimmers. And I got to tell you, that's
not as easy as this show makes it look.
I have clogged me some beard trimmers trying to shave my head
before it was not a good look. You got to get real hair climber
(19:14):
Clippers. You know, you got to you got to
go on Amazon. You got to find you a set of
good, good actual hair Clippers and you got to drop that 50
bucks or whatever if you want toshave your head.
Obviously I don't shave my head now, but you know, I I did get
them Clippers and and they that they, they go through some hair,
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but beard trimmers. No, no, they get caught and then
they like guy part of the way through.
Like not a good call, but it's ATV show so you don't have any
of those issues. The issues that you do have are
with Naggy Wife because she's not a fan of the new look and
she's not hiding it at all. Walter Junior likes it, though,
(19:59):
so good for Walter Junior. And now Walt is at the
distributor's place to go with his own pound of meth.
And this is going to get silly. He's, he's, and this is
something I, I'm sure I will expand upon at some point in
time. But for now, I'm going to try to
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not go here because it's probably my biggest annoyance so
far in watching season 1 of the show.
It's the balls that Walt has that he's never shown his family
or anyone else in his life except for the most dangerous
criminals he's ever dealt with. More testy testy of the methy.
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He came up with a fake name. So this is where Heisenberg was
born and he demands $50,000 and I ask, is Walt about to blow up
this dude's place? Hell yes he is.
That wasn't meth, it was a damn bomb.
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And they make a deal for double the meth and Walt is stoked
about his bag of cash and probably the adrenaline rush.
And that is the episode. A wild episode.
A couple of things that I think we have to suspend disbelief on
a bit. The brother-in-law not
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suspecting Walt at all when he has what his lab has described
as the purest meth ever made. And the evidence all points to
Walt's classroom where he teaches the discipline required
to cook meth. And he's been acting super
shady. And he's shown all the interest
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in the earlier episodes about the meth trade, how much do they
make and all of that shit. And it just so happens that he
works with a pothead and that isjust enough of a distraction
that, Nope, we're good. OK, The other thing is the Tuco
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exchange. He doesn't try Walt's meth, and
he doesn't make Walt do it either like he did with Jesse.
And then not only does he not kill Walt for blowing up his
place, he's actually the one to initiate the business deal and
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he pays Walt. He got mad at Jesse and beat him
to a pulp with the money and he pays.
Walt agrees to double the shipment and not kill this dude
that literally blew up his spot.That is a whole lot of
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convenience all bundled up in one little baggie full of
crystals. Now you get to decide if they're
the kind that alert reality or just, you know, or alter reality
or, you know, just blow shit up.That leads us to my ridiculous
(23:17):
predictions that I know will have been wrong and we get to
laugh at me together. But my predictions at the time
of watching this episode where Ithink that Walt might actually
start treating Jesse with some level of respect after this.
Or he may just go the opposite thinking he's totally Billy
(23:39):
Badass now. One or the other, one extreme or
the other, we're not going to stay in this weird middle
ground, are we Even in the middle?
I don't know. The second one is brother-in-law
and Naggy wife are going to conspire against Walt and start
to suspect him, but something's going to happen to stop the
investigation or like point themin another direction or
(24:00):
something. He obviously can't pin it on
Walt in the first season of the show.
There's five seasons to like in this show.
But I think that Naggy wife's suspicious nature and the the
evidence that Hank has, they're going to come together at some
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point in this show. And that's probably how Hank
actually ends up catching Walt. Because again, like I mentioned
on the last episode, since watching the first season, there
was a moment online fairly recently that I was spoiled that
at at some point in time that actually happens.
So that's where I was a year ago.
And a lot of things that I'm thinking right now about the
(24:43):
show. It is I I will expand upon my
earlier thought. It's the the thing that is going
to keep bugging me, I think, until I get over it or something
happens to explain it a little bit.
Is just this completely different Walt, like he's and
not just how Walt is different in the level of confidence he
(25:07):
shows and the way that he takes charge and like demands things
of these super dangerous people.It's really the convenience that
it doesn't backfire on him when it backfires on everybody else.
And that's that stuff that we're, you know, we're going to
continue to explore. So I'm not going to beat it into
the ground today. So that's all I got for this
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(26:14):
RV takes you.
The hair is officially gone and Walter White is officially a
hands on drug dealer and arsonist.
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 relive your favorite shows
like Breaking Bad, which ended over 10 years ago and I'm
(00:23):
finally watching for the first time.
However, if you are familiar with the podcast, you'll know
that I actually started this a while ago.
I did the first 4 episodes like a year ago and then I stopped.
But here's the thing, I recentlyrealized.
I finished watching season 1 allback then.
(00:47):
I just didn't record all my reactions.
So I thought it'd be fun to get back into Breaking Bad.
And what better way than to share with you what my initial
reactions were in real time? I have no doubt that I had
plenty to say. I'll have made predictions,
theories, and they're going to all have been wrong.
I'm going to look like an idiot.And since it's been so long and
(01:10):
I refuse to rewatch these episodes or revisit my notes,
I'll probably make fun of my past self too.
So grab your gas mask and chemistry sets as I react to the
6th episode of Breaking Bad season 1.
Crazy handful of nothing. The belated Binge podcast.
(01:33):
Before we get started. There will be no spoilers
because I have no idea what happens in the show aside from a
dude becoming a meth dealer. There will be some language
earmuff the children. Shout out to the bonus binge
squad on patreonpatreon.com/belated
Binge. We left off in the last episode
with a real character growth from Little Buddy Jesse, who's
(01:57):
all business with his meth thesedays.
We also learn more about Walt's past.
He finally agreed to chemo and ended the episode asking Little
Buddy to partner up again. We shall now jump in to crazy
handful of nothing and reminder,the way I was doing these back
then was I was literally openingup my notes app while I was
(02:19):
watching the episode and I was just frantically typing
everything that I possibly couldabout the scene and my initial
reactions in this. So I am essentially recounting
that. And then I will also be, I'm
sure ad libbing as I go and it'sall going to be 1 giant
hodgepodge of joy. So we open on aliens.
(02:43):
Seriously, were those UFOs? Walt is back in the RV, which is
not as pristine and spotless as it was when we he last saw it.
He finds porn, which is great. Everybody loves porn, right?
I don't know. Walt is he's decided he's laying
(03:04):
down the law. He's the chemist, the silent
partner, and doesn't want any interaction or knowledge of the
street side of the drug dealing.It's a good thing Walt has
cancer because otherwise he's kind of shitty to root for.
I don't like the way that he's acomplete pushover to everyone
else in his life but then talks down to little buddy like he's
(03:26):
some kind of authoritarian. And by the way, you're not less
guilty if you're just cooking the meth and pretending that
it's not being sold and consumed.
He then starts giving a speech about no more blood, no more
violence. You know, we're we're cutting
back and forth to a scene of a bald Walt in the midst of the
(03:48):
streets looking like he's carrying a bleeding bag.
This I wanted to know in the moment if it had a head in it.
So obviously they were playing with the storytelling there with
him talking about no more blood,no more violence.
Now I'm carrying a bag that might have a head in it.
And I also wanted to know what was going on with the time jump
(04:13):
credits. Then we have close up on a chemo
treatment and this is the happiest his wife has looked.
She's getting more pregnant and he's absolutely miserable
getting cancer treatment. He finally talks her into
leaving so that she can be home when Walter Junior gets there.
And he's also lying about getting a check from their
(04:36):
friend. Remember there's the rich ass
friend who wants to pay for all the treatment and wants to give
Walt a good job and basically hand him everything that he
possibly needs. But if Walt does that then well,
he wouldn't have to make meth. Oh and he would have to see his
ex-girlfriend or whatever she is.
There's always a girl. It it's always about a girl.
(04:57):
You could be set for life with all of the treatment and
insurance and all that that you possibly need.
Or you can go behind your family's back and your wife's
back to cook meth. Dang it.
(05:18):
We're going meth. But not before we go back to
teaching high school kids, because that's still a thing.
Walt is still doing that. He's still a high school
teacher, not just, you know, a meth cook.
Cool. Now we're back to the way that
he was feeling. I guess in this moment, he's
(05:39):
clearly not comfortable. Side effects of the treatment is
most likely in in my head as I am watching this for the first
time a year ago. This is a lot about explosions.
You know, I think the building in that weird scene earlier was
on fire. I'm guessing we're getting a
(06:00):
lesson about explosives to tie into whatever chaotic crazy is
coming. Now he's sneaking away to the
bathroom to apparently vomit andshit himself at the same time.
I didn't think we needed to see that.
And the janitor guy, I think he called him Hugo.
(06:23):
He was a solid dude, he says. I got this.
You got kids to teach, you know,because Walt just vomited and
shit all over the place that that's a good dude.
That's a good dude. Now we're cutting to the wife
talking about Walt's weight lossand treatment stuff, and he's
(06:46):
there in the support group. Are you, are you kidding me?
You know, it's not enough that she is constantly up this dude's
ass now. She needs an audience when she
does it. He is dying of cancer, having to
actually get the treatments. And when he's not puking and
(07:09):
shitting himself, he has to showup to a room full of people and
listen to how he's not doing enough to make this easier for
her and for Walter Junior. And of course, the leader of
this group is going to pry into everything because that's what
these things do. We're just building tension
about what is Walt doing? Well, what is Walt doing?
(07:33):
He's cooking meth. People leave him alone to build
his drug empire. We've got a show here.
This thing is going to be huge. It's episode 6, Season 1.
We don't know it yet, but this is about to go down in history
as one of the best TV shows ever.
At least it was like that. You know, this what I've heard?
He says he enjoys the nature as we're seeing shots of the nature
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around the RV he's cooking meth in and he passes out while
cooking. So that's good.
Little buddy is a supportive little buddy and fanning him.
He, he, he and he he is. He's able to figure out the
cancer thing. He's very observant, this little
buddy. Apparently he knows his cancer
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and we're about to have a bonding moment, bonding over how
long his aunt was able to live with hers.
And he's not even mad that Walt is just in this for a payday
before he, well, croaks. And Walt tells Jesse to finish
the batch, and not in a very friendly way, but then he's also
sort of encouraging. So, you know, maybe we're
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starting to set up like a mentorship kind of an arc thing.
Walt's going to teach Little Buddy how to be the best meth
cook, and Jesse will be the kingpin.
When Walt dies, Little Buddy is not feeling confident, but he
gets himself psyched up anyways.You got it, Little Buddy.
You can do this. You can make that meth.
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And what was it he that he was using before?
Was he using like Tabasco sauce or something?
That was a signature. He's not doing that shit
anymore. No, he's doing this the right
way that he made the organic. This is organic meth that we're
making here. We're cutting to a scene between
the brother-in-law and another cop who brings in the gas mask
(09:26):
that they found Walt's gas mask,you know, from the first
episode, property of Walt's school written on the inside of
it. And now I'm wondering if the
brother-in-law is going to actually be able to put together
that the best chemically createdmeth that has ever hit this town
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is cooked by someone wearing a mask from Walt's school.
Maybe it's the guy who teaches chemistry and who apparently has
a whole past life of being like a totally innovative chemist in
amazing innovative genius. None of this is ringing any
(10:13):
bells. OK, sure, we're getting a weird
montage of little buddies selling meth with a funny upbeat
music score going on, which is weird, but I guess we have to
find ways to keep the show friendly while we're dealing
drugs. Because we are dealing drugs.
By the way, he shows up to the RV with like 2600 bucks from
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selling an ounce of meth and Walt is not happy with the
weight or the return. He's got all the answers.
As someone who refuses to have anything to do with the actual
dealing part, why not just sell the whole pound at one time?
Because nobody that Little Buddyis slinging to can afford a
(11:00):
pound of meth, and Walt is just.He's being a Dick.
Yeah, I'm breaking the law here.No shit.
This was your idea? How do we move in bulk?
We get a distributor. And Little Buddy points out the
fact that he used to know a distributor.
Crazy 8 Remember him? The guy that Walt strangled to
(11:23):
death. Oh, yeah.
Walt's hands are super clean, right?
Hypocrite. I don't know, I am I supposed to
root for Walt? Because it's hard.
It really is sometimes. And now it's time for little
buddy to do some teaching about how big time drug dealers don't
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just work with random ass peoplethat they don't know.
Big shock. Good God, this is common sense
stuff. This isn't drug dealer stuff.
This is duh and Walt snaps and we're back in chemo.
So weird. The only time that I like Walt
is when he's in his normal life.When he's with little Buddy
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playing meth Chief, he's an asshole.
So now we got to jump back to school and vomiting again.
Hugo's starting to get used to helping vomiting Mr. White and
he's got a visitor. It's Hank, the brother-in-law,
you know, who's breaking the lawthe the ice with inappropriate
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remarks about how the lady who works at the school, you know,
is, you know, he's, he's, he's aman's man.
Remember that. This is what masculinity looks
like in a very healthy way. He shows Walt the gas mask and
he starts asking questions and tells Walt that he found it next
(12:51):
to a car of a missing snitch that's probably dead.
So Walt killed an informant and he's trying to play dumb but
he's coming off more as like Spacey then unaware.
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Walt doesn't know of any masks that have gone missing and he
lets Hank go through the inventory and inventory and, and
Hank is thinking about students.He's easily spotting missing
stuff that Walt's been stealing.And it's it's just kind of
hilarious that Hank is investigating this and not even
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thinking of Walt, who is the most obvious answer here, but,
you know, plot. Walt gets a call from little
buddy who has to come through within an in on a new
distributor guy named Tuko, I think was the name.
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It's been a little while, obviously.
And Walt plays it off a bit. And Hank gives him a speech
about watching his inventory andjoking that Walt could be a meth
cook. Yeah, no shit.
Little buddy's nervous about meeting with the new distributor
guy. He doesn't seem to trust his boy
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that's getting him in the door. And apparently the dude did time
with him and claims that they'rejust real close, real tight, and
there's no way this isn't going to backfire.
This dude is awfully confident for a guy named Skinny Pete.
They got some really tight security and this distributor
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guy's not at all into small talk, but he is apparently into
knives and he forces little buddy to snort with him.
And then he gets real wild aboutit.
A lot of energy about it. Yep.
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And then he makes the deal. Except he wants it on trust,
$35,000 worth of IO you. And he's not particularly happy
when Little Buddy does not agreeand then tries to run off with
his product. That doesn't go particularly
well for Little Buddy. But the dude starts bagging up
(15:29):
cash upfront payment as requested.
And I expect a year ago, of course, that there's going to be
a catch. And there is.
He starts beating Little Buddy with the money bag.
Maybe this is the bloody bag from future Waltz Vision.
(15:50):
We shall find out. And at the school, Hank is
arresting Hugo. What?
Come on man, Hugo is a good dude.
Waltz at home calling Little Buddy asking where he is and
(16:10):
apparently they're having a poker night with Hank.
Some time must have passed sinceHank booked Hugo and he explains
to Walter Junior that he had a couple of possession arrests in
the past and they found a blunt in his truck.
And now Hank is bashing Walt fornot knowing shit about criminals
because he tried to support Hugoand the look he gives him is
(16:32):
pure annoyance. I guess they've found a bunch of
weed at Hugo's place, and Hank goes all in on a handful of
nothing. Our episode title.
And now we're in the shower withWalt and his hair's falling out.
He keeps calling Little Buddy. He finds him at the hospital
(16:55):
after the beating that he took, and Walt is actually finally
feeling something for Little Buddy, and he wants the back
story. So obviously this thing's
jumping all around everywhere, and it has occurred to me some
(17:18):
time now past that we're gettinga little mini arc in here that I
don't know that I clocked immediately.
Maybe my notes will have it in here somewhere later.
But I'm going to say it now. We kind of started off this
episode with Walt being really, really shitty to Jesse, just
kind of being a Dick, being veryauthoritative, you know, as if
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he's still his teacher. You know, because high school
teachers are the the Super authoritarian type when they're
dealing with their ex students as adults.
I guess. I don't know, never been a
teacher. Probably best for the people
learning anyways. But by now in the episode as
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we're getting towards the end, Ihave very, very short, like
short chunk of notes left. Walt is now like taking up for
little buddy and feeling a senseof I don't know if it's, I don't
know if it's a sense of bonding,if it's a sense of, of, of
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responsibility for him. I don't know where the where
it's coming from, you know, But now he's like, Oh, you don't
fuck with little buddy. So now we're jumping back to
Walt in the bathroom and he's taking the grossest piss I'd
ever seen. He's missing chunks of hair.
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He's taking handfuls of pills and it's go time shaving the
head with some beard trimmers. And I got to tell you, that's
not as easy as this show makes it look.
I have clogged me some beard trimmers trying to shave my head
before it was not a good look. You got to get real hair climber
(19:14):
Clippers. You know, you got to you got to
go on Amazon. You got to find you a set of
good, good actual hair Clippers and you got to drop that 50
bucks or whatever if you want toshave your head.
Obviously I don't shave my head now, but you know, I I did get
them Clippers and and they that they, they go through some hair,
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but beard trimmers. No, no, they get caught and then
they like guy part of the way through.
Like not a good call, but it's ATV show so you don't have any
of those issues. The issues that you do have are
with Naggy Wife because she's not a fan of the new look and
she's not hiding it at all. Walter Junior likes it, though,
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so good for Walter Junior. And now Walt is at the
distributor's place to go with his own pound of meth.
And this is going to get silly. He's, he's, and this is
something I, I'm sure I will expand upon at some point in
time. But for now, I'm going to try to
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not go here because it's probably my biggest annoyance so
far in watching season 1 of the show.
It's the balls that Walt has that he's never shown his family
or anyone else in his life except for the most dangerous
criminals he's ever dealt with. More testy testy of the methy.
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He came up with a fake name. So this is where Heisenberg was
born and he demands $50,000 and I ask, is Walt about to blow up
this dude's place? Hell yes he is.
That wasn't meth, it was a damn bomb.
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And they make a deal for double the meth and Walt is stoked
about his bag of cash and probably the adrenaline rush.
And that is the episode. A wild episode.
A couple of things that I think we have to suspend disbelief on
a bit. The brother-in-law not
(21:29):
suspecting Walt at all when he has what his lab has described
as the purest meth ever made. And the evidence all points to
Walt's classroom where he teaches the discipline required
to cook meth. And he's been acting super
shady. And he's shown all the interest
(21:50):
in the earlier episodes about the meth trade, how much do they
make and all of that shit. And it just so happens that he
works with a pothead and that isjust enough of a distraction
that, Nope, we're good. OK, The other thing is the Tuco
(22:10):
exchange. He doesn't try Walt's meth, and
he doesn't make Walt do it either like he did with Jesse.
And then not only does he not kill Walt for blowing up his
place, he's actually the one to initiate the business deal and
(22:33):
he pays Walt. He got mad at Jesse and beat him
to a pulp with the money and he pays.
Walt agrees to double the shipment and not kill this dude
that literally blew up his spot.That is a whole lot of
(22:56):
convenience all bundled up in one little baggie full of
crystals. Now you get to decide if they're
the kind that alert reality or just, you know, or alter reality
or, you know, just blow shit up.That leads us to my ridiculous
(23:17):
predictions that I know will have been wrong and we get to
laugh at me together. But my predictions at the time
of watching this episode where Ithink that Walt might actually
start treating Jesse with some level of respect after this.
Or he may just go the opposite thinking he's totally Billy
(23:39):
Badass now. One or the other, one extreme or
the other, we're not going to stay in this weird middle
ground, are we Even in the middle?
I don't know. The second one is brother-in-law
and Naggy wife are going to conspire against Walt and start
to suspect him, but something's going to happen to stop the
investigation or like point themin another direction or
(24:00):
something. He obviously can't pin it on
Walt in the first season of the show.
There's five seasons to like in this show.
But I think that Naggy wife's suspicious nature and the the
evidence that Hank has, they're going to come together at some
(24:21):
point in this show. And that's probably how Hank
actually ends up catching Walt. Because again, like I mentioned
on the last episode, since watching the first season, there
was a moment online fairly recently that I was spoiled that
at at some point in time that actually happens.
So that's where I was a year ago.
And a lot of things that I'm thinking right now about the
(24:43):
show. It is I I will expand upon my
earlier thought. It's the the thing that is going
to keep bugging me, I think, until I get over it or something
happens to explain it a little bit.
Is just this completely different Walt, like he's and
not just how Walt is different in the level of confidence he
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shows and the way that he takes charge and like demands things
of these super dangerous people.It's really the convenience that
it doesn't backfire on him when it backfires on everybody else.
And that's that stuff that we're, you know, we're going to
continue to explore. So I'm not going to beat it into
the ground today. So that's all I got for this
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one. If you enjoyed my reaction to my
reaction of this episode of Breaking Bad, leave a review on
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There's patreon.com/belated Binge, All the things.
Remember, life is short still Maybe, perhaps, just maybe,
don't become a meth dealer. But if you do, hey, buy an RV,
wear headphones and take BelatedBinge Breaking Bad wherever that
(26:14):
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