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27th Jun 2023

Breaking Bad S3E5 - Bathroom Hubris

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

Join us as Ben and Xhafer wonder where the hell the baby is all the time.

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Hello and welcome to last time on.

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on.

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This is the watch cast for people who wanna watch

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all this prestige television.

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But honestly, who's got time for all that?

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I know.

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I don't.

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I'm Jafa

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and I'm Ben

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and we're in the middle of our breaking bad watch through.

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Yeah.

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Which, just to elevate this point, watching half of

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Breaking Bad would take you.

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What about 30 episodes?

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We've done it in four.

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That's right.

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efficiency.

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We are quite efficient.

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That is the name of the game here on last time On, today we'll be

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reviewing season three, episode five.

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Moss.

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Oh, okay.

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I thought it was mass and they spelled it wrong.

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No, no.

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no.

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Uh, it, it's Moss.

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Oh, okay.

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I was, I I was wondering like, are they gonna go to Boston?

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And now, now we're cooking chowder.

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Jesse, we gotta make the chowder.

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I man, if this show takes that turn,

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it just becomes a cooking show

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just becomes the wire.

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or

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Or, oh, that's Baltimore.

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Oops.

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Yeah.

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Uh, what am I thinking?

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Boston?

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The, uh,

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the de the departed.

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It just becomes the departed

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the town.

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Um, now Chef White, how do you get your clam chowder So immaculate.

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It's chemistry.

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You respect the chemistry tree.

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Chef white.

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I saw a totally unhinged post on the internet earlier today that was conflating

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that Chef Boy Rd was actually Dracula.

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Interesting.

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So, Dracula is the, the last of the boy line.

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So boy, r d Boy, r d for Dracula.

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Um,

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and then also like the timeline for when Dracula gets

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killed and when Chef Boy Rd immigrates to America is relatively close.

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a believable timeline, but more importantly, there's a lot of stuff in Dr.

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Dracula, the book about how Dracula prepares every meal

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mm-hmm.

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In that book.

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And it's all incredibly bland, like pasta and stuff.

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I feel like Chef Boyk would feel insulted for

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you to call his food bland.

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He a hundred percent would, by all accounts, actually a decent dude.

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Yeah.

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And purposefully misspelled his name.

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So you pronounced it right?

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Totally.

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Wasn't Ellis Island, who screwed that up?

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Well, that's on the can It is different than the way he spelled it.

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Yes.

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Yeah.

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but yeah, that's a fun little flashback.

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Did you eat a lot of, uh, chef wey when you were a kid, Ben?

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I know I've told you this story, but now I can

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share it to our friends at home.

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Yeah.

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I.

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Was very, very sad in high school when going into my senior year for AP

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English, I had to pick two books from a, a list of AP English books to read.

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And one of them I read was Dracula.

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Yeah.

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I loved it.

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I got like really hooked on.

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Oh man.

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Like, uh, Brahm Stoker did a bunch of research and went, you know, to

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uh, the area and found out all this actual lore about, uh, the regional

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vampire myths and how cool it was.

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And I came to school like, ready, I want to talk to some nerds about vampires.

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And everybody's like, vampires, I love Anne Rice.

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And I was like, dang it.

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No, I don't wanna talk about sexy romance vampires.

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I want to talk like Castle and Will murder you vampires.

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Anne Rice has a little bit of both, but they're definitely

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skewed one way compared to the other.

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Yeah.

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All right.

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Well, I can't really segue from that into eating Chef Boy

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Rd for a semester at college.

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So I guess I'll just leave it at that.

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Oh, I'm sorry.

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I didn't mean

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no.

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It's, uh, your story's good.

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Fa I, I liked your story, Ben.

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I mean, it's not the,

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my story.

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A sad tale of college poverty.

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Yeah.

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I mean, we all have those.

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Yeah.

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If it helps it, and you know this, it is not my

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most embarrassing, I tried to engage with nerds in school story.

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That's true.

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But we'll leave that one on the table for another time.

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Uh, so this episode opens on a flashback,

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well, first

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might call it a, unaired last time on.

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I actually was a bit concerned, like, did I

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start playing the wrong thing?

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Oh, oh a hundred percent.

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Cuz it lines up too perfectly with the episode we watched last, which

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leads me to believe we might be stumbling upon something, Ben.

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Oh, what's that?

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We might actually be watching Breaking Bad as Intended.

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watching about a 10th of it,

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I was talking to dear friend of the podcast, Chris about

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this, and he had suggested that the order in which we watch episodes

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is kind of given its own title for people to follow along with.

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Much like the Famous Machete Order from Star Wars.

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Yes.

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Where you watched 42,356.

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4, 5, 2, 3, 6.

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Yeah.

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Still.

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Yeah.

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Um, yeah, that makes more sense anyways, uh, that we could possibly

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be creating our own machete style order of the series by skipping around like we are.

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And so the last time on order, uh, it does have a little bit of credence

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after this because it feels like I, I legit stopped to make sure I was

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watching the right episode because this flashback we get of Jesse spending the

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money for the RV and then spending it all at a strip club with skinny Pete.

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Was that Skinny

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That was skinny Pete.

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Okay.

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How?

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Because they never say his name.

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You just recognize him.

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And also subtitles I watch with subtitles and it has character names,

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Ah, dang it.

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Man.

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Well, the, uh, that's one of my predictions, uh, done.

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Well, it's a flashback.

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So

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we,

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we flash back to skinny Pete.

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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At the, in.

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The first episode.

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Yeah.

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Um, but it lines up so perfectly with the oldest shit from the RV

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that we had last episode, that it literally was just like, did I fuck up?

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Am I watching the next episode in order?

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Did I forget to skip ahead?

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Yeah.

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So like, Nope, I didn't, Nope.

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This is the right one.

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This just, I, I'm very happy about it because I, I appreciate

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the rv, but, uh, it makes me feel like the, the off touted, and complete BS

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line from sex and the city of, you know, new York's really the fifth character.

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This, this really feels like they're leaning into the RV

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is the third main character.

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Yep.

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So after the flashback, we go to theme,

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well, first, before that I will admit, I have

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never set foot in a strip club.

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Okay.

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I can in some ways, like I can understand the appeal.

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What I do not understand the appeal of is sitting in a back room

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watching your friend get a lap dance.

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That's weird.

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That feels weird.

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It's so fucking weird.

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Um, I

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I have been in like two strip clubs in my, well I have

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gone to two strip clubs where I didn't know someone and I was visiting

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them at work in my life, because I've done that outside of going to

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a strip club to go to a strip club.

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And I did not want to go, but it was a bachelor party and it was

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the thing that was happening.

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Mm-hmm.

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And I went to support my friend for the, and go on the bachelor

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party much more so than I was ever interested in going to a strip club.

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Uh, there.

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I don't know the reality in which this happens.

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Yeah.

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I'm by no means in aficionado.

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I have not been to enough strip clubs to speak with any kind of authority here.

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And to be perfectly honest, that was God.

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I think I was 19 or something like this was a long time ago.

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and it's just like, this feels fucking weird, man.

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Yeah.

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Ugh.

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So

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I had to wonder, cuz we see the outside of this

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place, it does not seem nice.

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It is not Henry vii.

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No.

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No.

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Uh, and at, at a certain point they have like five or six

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strippers in their one back room.

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And I'm just like, how many people does this place employ?

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Um,

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It might have been after closing because they're there quite late.

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I don't know what the, the hours are, the, the limits in, in, uh, New

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is fair, nor do I and I didn't want to Google it.

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Uh,

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No.

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I don't wanna know what that does to my algorithm, but,

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uh, I assume because they make it to morning and the parking lot is empty.

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Yeah.

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That they were there significantly later than normal operating hours.

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Fair.

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so yeah, we see this flashback, uh, we see the RV.

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we go to theme and we come back and we see Skyler and some rando named Ted

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They do a bit in this that I absolutely love, which is finding

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new ways to show how dumb Jesse is.

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He pays his friend combo to steal an rv and it's just like he

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doesn't ask any questions about it.

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yeah.

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Why are we at your parents' house?

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Yeah.

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So I just, I, I, if, if you were ever like, man, where am

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I gonna find an RV for $1,700?

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And somebody's just like, I can get you an RV for $1,700.

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Do not give that man $1,700.

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All right.

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So we go to theme and when we come back we see Skylar

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and some rando names Ted, who's got

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fuck is Ted?

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Who the fuck is Ted?

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We find, actually, we find out who Ted is in this episode.

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Yes.

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Uh, we find out Ted is Skylar's boss.

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Uh, we also find out Ted has a heated bathroom floor,

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which doesn't seem like something you'd need in New Mexico.

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A agreed like this.

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this is bathroom hubris

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right here.

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Right.

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Like I have considered, uh, I mean I just redid my kitchen last summer.

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Mm-hmm.

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Uh, when I moved into the new house here, I had considered a

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heated floor in my fucking Michigan kitchen and decided against

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because it really wasn't necessary.

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No.

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Um, I do think I'm gonna do one when I read you the breezeway, but

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that is a significantly colder room.

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Yeah.

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Like bathroom.

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I understand.

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Yeah.

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But,

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But,

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Uh,

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New Mexico though, Mexico

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no,

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no.

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This is not required.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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So I don't know at this point in the episode, had, did you think

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that Skyler and Walt were split?

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Yes.

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Yeah.

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Um, which was one of my predictions.

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Yes.

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so I might've just been riding for that.

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Mm-hmm.

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Uh, especially considering it cuts from Skylar sleeping with

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another man to Walt in the closet.

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Yeah.

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I

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wondered if maybe this was not subtle,

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not the case though.

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He's just taking a phone call in there, with Jesse who was at Saul's

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office, and the relationship has clearly deteriorated significantly.

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Ben, what happened?

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Her,

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I am so glad you asked me this Jafa, because I have an answer.

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Fantastic.

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You know who we no longer see Ping around with?

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With Jesse.

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who come,

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Ritter.

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Oh,

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Oh, that's true.

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Yes.

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My assumption is in our interim, as I mentioned,

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Kristen Ritter became a problem.

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Okay?

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Tried to, uh,

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the Yoko Ono to our meth.

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Beatles

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to, blackmail Jesse, caused like a whole mess.

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is the reason why the heat that we see bearing down on

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them is starting to bear down.

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Okay?

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Okay?

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She lets slip.

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Oh my, you know, dumb ass boyfriend is going out into the

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desert and an RV to cook meth.

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Mm-hmm.

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and, Walt had to get rid of her.

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Oh.

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Walt holds this completely, understandably against Jesse.

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I had to murder this young woman because you couldn't

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keep your, crimes to yourself.

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Mm-hmm.

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and we're done.

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So that is, that is what Hak Oh, okay.

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Over at the rv, Hank and Gomez are scoping it out.

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at an rv.

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Yes.

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At N rv, not the rv.

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Also Gomez.

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I was so happy.

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Gomez is still a going concern.

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Yeah.

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Although that seems like it might not be the case coming forward.

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Uh, but I do think, well, we'll talk about that when

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we get to our past predictions.

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Um, but yeah, so I'm guessing they are, they're hot on the trail of

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Jesse based off of the conversation from earlier where Walt was talking

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about him still cooking in the rv.

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Walt is not cooking right now,

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but he was given a big bag of money.

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He, someone gave him a big bag of money, which

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is part of the concern here.

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Mm-hmm.

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Anyways, Hank crawls up to the top and finds out it's the wrong rv.

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Uh,

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which part of me, like, I understand if just from a writing

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perspective, you're like RVs, they've got those little ladders on them.

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Like, oh, how fun would it be to like, have Hank like sneaking

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surreptitiously outta the roof?

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You can knock, get on that thing without shaking that whole fucking

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rv.

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Everyone will be firmly aware.

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And the, the sidings, the roofing on an RV is not thick.

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You would just be making clank, clunk, clank clunk as you're

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skimming or across the roof.

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Yeah.

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There is no way he surprises the couple in that RV like he does.

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Yeah.

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I would not describe Hank as, uh, def to foot.

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No.

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Uh, he does not te strike me as a terribly sneaky individual on a good day.

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No.

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And this is not a good

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He is this, he does not have a high deck skill.

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Uh,

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no.

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Uh, Hank does clear it all up with the owners as Gomez tells

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him that he's moving to Texas.

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I am so mad.

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I am legit livid.

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They're getting rid of my boy Gomez.

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don't know that he, he we're skipping ahead.

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We don't know how many episodes Ben Gomez could be back.

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I know Gomez maybe had another project to go work on the actor,

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and this was just their way of veering him off for a little bit.

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I'm just distraught that they're writing off my boy Gomez.

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That's fair.

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I suppose you owe me a lifetime of not laughing at puns, so I

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won't take this too personally.

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I gotta say what the hell is going on in the scene because

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we're 13 minutes into this episode and we're still getting credits.

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I hadn't noticed that.

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13 minutes in and we're still getting fucking credits.

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That's obscene.

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That is a lot.

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Hank goes home for a shower while Marie complains

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about work-life balance.

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and apparently her psycho morning routine is a going concern.

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And they do have an argument about like, it's okay after what happened in Mexico.

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And I'm just like, what the fuck happened in Mexico?

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This is one of those times where I'm really starting to

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regret, our method of watching.

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There's a bit later that made me like really, like I desperately want

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to go back and find out what is the reference for this and I'm sad I can't.

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So, we get to that.

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There's a little bit in between.

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We hear us hearing about El Paso.

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Yes.

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And I do have a theory.

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Okay.

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So we'll get there.

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Right now Marie is just like, Hey, I talked to go Mrs.

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Gomez.

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Yeah, I know they're leaving.

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I assume you are like.

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Like,

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You're going with them, right?

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Yeah.

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Like, and he's just like, no, this is long term and I'm not

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going, I'm sticking around here.

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The reality is he wasn't invited.

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Mm-hmm.

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Because he, he didn't know.

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But after all of this, Hey, it's Juan Carlos Baito.

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Yes.

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Uh, there was a, there's like, if you could say, Ben, what if

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you could have like two things in this room with you right now?

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I would say big bag of money and Juan Carlo Esposito.

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Fair enough.

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that's, that's what, Walt has at this

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one.

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I knew he was in this show.

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Yes.

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He's very famously in this show.

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I think this show was his big break.

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I don't know the timeline.

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I know, he was in other things.

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Yeah.

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I know he was famously, uh, I don't know how famously, importantly for me,

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he's Pierce's brother in community.

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Yes.

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, Track 2_001_1: I think this might be

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I think it, I think you are correct.

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you know, he was obviously he was a successful actor, rightfully so.

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He's very talented.

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Oh, yes.

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I believe later in my notes, after his, big speech at the end I was just like,

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I could listen to John Carlo Esposito, uh, read the back of a cereal box.

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Um,

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So he's like, Walt's meth boss.

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we find out Gus is his name.

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Not because of conversation, but because of the subtitles.

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Yes.

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and he's hired Jesse to cook solo and Walter's come to stop

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that since Jesse is not to be trusted.

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Yes.

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Because he made him kill Kristen Ritter.

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I kind of buy the, the theory, Ben, I, I, it makes sense.

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Um, I

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I really liked the scene because while I've very much

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enjoyed chaotic criminals being stupid, because the people I know

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from like growing up who mm-hmm.

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Did crime stuff, none of them were what I would call competent.

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this was fun just to see two smart, competent criminals being competent.

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Yeah.

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they have a really, this is a great scene.

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I love

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Oh, absolutely.

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Gus says, , the quality is more or less the same

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between Walt and Jesse of meth,

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and that cut him deep.

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Walt does not believe, and he goes out of his way to say that.

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I don't, it's not that I disbelieve you because of ego in product of my own pride,

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you know, of, pride in my own product, but rather Jesse lacks the requisite

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respect of chemistry to be able to produce something anywhere near that I can.

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Yep.

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Not thinking that, I don't know.

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Maybe he's been watching you do this and he can just follow the

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right?

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they decide to go for a drive and by decide, I mean Gus and sis.

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Yeah.

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And then

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And then we cut to, Marie watching the baby

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while Skylar is out cheating.

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Yep.

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Which

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I am very happy to be wrong about that prediction.

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Which one?

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I predicted that the baby wasn't going to make it.

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Yes.

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That would've been fucking tragic

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and sad.

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for sure.

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So happy to be wrong there.

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But also, Hey, unstable sister.

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watch my child while I go cheat on my husband.

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Like bad decisions all around here.

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Yeah.

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They talk about, neither of their husbands have been the same.

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obviously Walt with his experience with cancer and then Hank because

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of what happened in El Paso,

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someone got blown up.

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Yeah.

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We don't have context here, so I'm gonna go ahead and say last time on,

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Oh, okay.

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Walt made some thermite and blew a dude up

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while Hank was on their trail.

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that I can, I can buy that.

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it lines up with what we've seen him do already and it

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would make some sense to be something kind of fucking horrific to witness.

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yeah.

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Apparently

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keeps them on the same path.

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shit went down, people got blown up.

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I am now really, really worried about my boy Gomez in El Paso.

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You should be maybe, I don't know.

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We'll find out.

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I guess maybe we won't.

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Maybe we won't find out.

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Ben, maybe you gotta go back and watch this show just to

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find out what happens with

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with Gomez.

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Can't do that.

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That's not how it works.

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Well, we'll finish this show at some point and then you can

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go back and watch it at your leisure.

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cause then I'm be, I'll have to be watching the next thing.

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That's fair there.

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There's time in between.

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It's not like you also have to watch Babylon five for another podcast

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right?

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Yep.

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And possibly v very soon.

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I'm gonna be busy podcasting a lot.

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Yep.

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Anyways.

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so Gus has taken Walt to a Laer.

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Yeah.

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With a secret basement.

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and a

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upgraded non-mobile meth lab with some industrial

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equipment and a quota of 200 pounds of meth per week to fair.

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how many contractors do you think were required to

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build that lifting laundry machine?

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Secret tunnel?

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So not as many as you might think.

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The basement was probably built with the original building.

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Yes.

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So nobody in the original construction of the building probably knows.

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All you'd have to do theoretically is maybe take down

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a segment wall that was not load bearing that would kind of like.

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like

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Turn the staircase into what we would normally

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consider a staircase instead of being a hole in the floor.

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Cuz there'd be a wall there to stop people from falling into the hole in

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the wall or the hole in the floor.

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Mm-hmm.

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Right?

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Mm-hmm.

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Uh, and then

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you're cooking meth, you're not worried about OSHA or building coats.

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Well, you've gotta get rid of that to fit the laundry machine on top.

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On top of it.

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Yeah.

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But those laundry machines lift up and dump like that.

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That's not a special feature in that laundry machine.

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That's how you empty them.

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Okay.

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So it is a, it is a industrial tool per like perfectly Oh yeah.

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Designed.

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to hide a basement under a hundred percent.

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Um, the only thing would be is that there's probably, like the

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machine is probably on big old legs.

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Those big old legs probably have some stretchers on them.

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Mm-hmm.

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So there's probably a bit we don't see where they've kind of got a duck under,

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I'm guessing a two or three foot tall.

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metal

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like relationship to the staircase.

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Mm-hmm.

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There'd probably be a couple feet in a steel bar that was a stretcher for this

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that you have to like, kind of shimmy

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got a shimmy under or around they

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be a pain to get the meth back up out of.

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They might have cut that out.

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There's also a little elevator on the side it looked like.

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Yeah.

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Um, so they might be using that lift to move material in and out

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instead of using the secret entrance.

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That is probably a lot harder to access.

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Uh, but the, I assume you would need to access it a lot less.

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Okay.

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When

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you're bringing stuff in and when you're put,

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pulling stuff out and that's

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I just, I would hate like, As much as I've

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always wanted to work in a front.

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mm-hmm.

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I've always thought that that would be like a great

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job, just because it doesn't matter how much work you actually

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do, because that's not the point.

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And it's like, you mean I could work in retail, but I could like

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tell customers how I really feel.

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Tell me more.

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You mean like the guy at where we had dinner before

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recording where he hung up the phone and in the middle of the restaurant

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screamed customers or fucking idiots.

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Yes.

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Yeah.

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He, that, that was an interesting dining experience.

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, I've had this feeling like every so often driving past a strip mall, you'll see

:

like an off brand cell phone repair shop.

:

Yeah.

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With like 15 different cell phone cases on a peg board and that's it.

:

And you're just like, Oh, you're not actually a business, are you?

:

Probably not.

:

Um,

:

you go in with a broken Android and a broken iPhone,

:

you're like, Hey, I broke my iPhone.

:

We can't fix this.

:

We only do Android.

:

Do you hand your an broken an Android?

:

We only fix iPhones.

:

Yep.

:

So I guess then the only people you really had to be worried about for in this case

:

are the people who you had put the laundry machine over the, the hidden stairway.

:

Well,

:

Oh.

:

And the guys that made sure that the stairwell wall

:

wasn't load bearing, probably.

:

Um, unless it was like, I guess it's an industrial building, so it might

:

not have been a full size wall.

:

Well, and

:

it might have been very easy to just look at it and

:

go, there's nothing on top of it.

:

It's obviously not load bearing.

:

And at this point, if your, employees are the kind of people

:

you can trust to be like, Hey, look the other way, while we bring meth chemicals

:

in and meth out, I was more worried like, are there six contractors going to, like,

:

sitting somewhere drinking a, a Coors?

:

Just like, yeah.

:

Uh, how did that meth job turn out for you?

:

Oh, I mean, it worked pretty great.

:

They got paid on time.

:

Yeah.

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Got paid on time,

:

Inca.

:

Oh, absolutely.

:

In cash.

:

I feel like I'm a pretty, I'm a pretty solid voice on that.

:

Uh, I feel pretty correct, having spent a lot of my time either working in

:

buildings that were under construction for work or daydreaming about building

:

secret passageways in my house

:

nearly

:

day of my life since I was eight.

:

Fair enough.

:

But I do love seeing this new lab.

:

It's got that new lab smell and everything.

:

Oh, yeah.

:

Now my question for you, Jafa.

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Yes.

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We have our quota, 200 pounds of meth.

:

Yeah.

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Walt gets to set his own hours.

:

Mm-hmm.

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Do you think Walt's a 10 99 employee?

:

Uh, I think it's cash only.

:

Yeah.

:

Oh, okay.

:

I'm assuming that this is all off the books.

:

Well, it's also he's not bringing his own equipment,

:

so Oh, yeah.

:

So he would be w2.

:

Mm-hmm.

:

Um,

:

I was initially frustrated in this scene though,

:

because, Walt is clearly bolting at the idea and we don't hear the number.

:

Yeah.

:

We, we get the amount, we get like, here's your quota per week.

:

Just work what you gotta do to do this.

:

We do get the amount at the end of the

:

At the end of the episode, but like, For Walt to be just so

:

flippantly like, no, I'm not doing this.

:

There is a price at which you will be doing this.

:

Walt, like, yeah, most people have some kind of, you know, dollar

:

amount at which you will do a thing you don't particularly want to do.

:

Uh,

:

for sure.

:

And it's just like, and you'll be making, you know, 1175 an hour

:

and Walt's like, yeah, no, screw you.

:

And it's like, what?

:

It's what I pay my employees.

:

I think it, we don't see it and we won't because it'd

:

probably be in the next episode or two.

:

but I think the long game here is, Gus knows that this is a short time gig.

:

Mm-hmm.

:

So he's paying for the expertise and more specifically, probably to train

:

someone, cuz it's not like he's gonna stop making meth after three months

:

because that's the term of the contract.

:

Well, it's gonna cook for three months for.

:

A million dollars a month or something?

:

$3 million for three months.

:

Yeah.

:

So a million dollars a month for three months.

:

And he doesn't have to worry about any of the shit he had to worry about before.

:

Yes.

:

so it's just pure profit for him.

:

him.

:

Doesn't have to worry about selling, he doesn't have to

:

worry about all kinds of stuff.

:

the goal there is that he trains someone and I wonder who this

:

character is cuz it's not Jesse.

:

No, my other thought was, I don't know how much meth you can actually

:

sell and is it just make me so much meth.

:

I can sell this for the next three years.

:

Yeah, that's fair.

:

I got no idea how much meth you can sell.

:

Um,

:

Or is, is it

:

I'm really not interested in learning.

:

Uh, I imagine that,

:

oh God, I could just, Florida man dies

:

after snorting expired meth.

:

Yeah.

:

You'd know if meth expired there, it'd be on the news.

:

it doesn't, it just doesn't get to that point.

:

Normally, I imagine Gus seems to have the kind of operation where his regional

:

footprint is significantly larger than Jesse's or anyone Jesse was working with.

:

Uh, so I don't think the quantity is going to be an issue for Guss.

:

No.

:

Um,

:

Um,

:

anyways, uh, we get family dinner that is just

:

built around awkward silence.

:

This did not sit well with me.

:

Yeah.

:

This was very difficult to watch.

:

No.

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Especially cuz there's a bit where the baby's crying.

:

Mm-hmm.

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And it is very clear.

:

There is so much tension going on here.

:

Yeah.

:

To the point where it seems like Walt isn't sure

:

he's allowed to touch the baby.

:

Yeah.

:

And

:

like he seems like, can I.

:

Can I comfort the child looking for any kind of like affirmation from Skylar?

:

Yeah.

:

And I'm like, well, you guys are having your little shitty staring contest.

:

No one is tending to the baby.

:

There is a fucking baby.

:

Help the goddamn baby.

:

Right.

:

Uh, Skylar does give Walt permission and as Walt holds the baby and like

:

cries, I'm guessing this might be the first time Walt holds the child.

:

Yeah.

:

Skylar leaves.

:

Yeah.

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Like can't even be in the room while he's holding the baby.

:

Hank meanwhile has gone through every RV that matches the description.

:

Gomez is having a going away party.

:

Hank says some casually racist shit and gets a break

:

if it's casual.

:

I think this is ranked racist.

:

He's being casual about it.

:

The racism itself is not casual.

:

It did make me like, yes, of course Hank is the guy where

:

you see a person carrying a cake to a party and you're like, ah.

:

But one more thing.

:

Mm-hmm.

:

Skylar cleans up Walt's room, which stills the nursery and finds

:

a black bag filled with money.

:

bag of money, hundreds

:

of thousands of dollars,

:

probably millions,

:

quite possibly.

:

it's a ton of money.

:

Yes.

:

after this we find out Tom is Skylar's boss during what I

:

thought was a therapy session.

:

Me too.

:

And then we find out it's her lawyer who's all like, you're using me as a very

:

expensive and undertrained therapist.

:

Yes.

:

And that lawyer knows about Walt,

:

and Walt knows about Ted.

:

Yeah.

:

That was surprising.

:

Yeah.

:

so Skylar wants a divorce but won't sign the papers to do a non-mutual divorce.

:

Right.

:

She only wants a divorce if Walt wants a divorce, but she

:

wants Walt to want a divorce.

:

The fuck.

:

It's amazing that we made it this far into the show and this

:

is the first time I felt lost.

:

We've watched four episodes in three and a half seasons, and this

:

is the first moment I truly felt, I had no idea what was going on.

:

Well, so we find out this is, and this is an important thing,

:

we find out the relationship between Skylar and Ted is not just a fair

:

partners, but it's that it's her boss.

:

Yeah.

:

Which kind of lends some credence to the Marie calling

:

being like, aren't you at work?

:

And she's like, yeah.

:

Mm-hmm.

:

You're sneaking away from

:

work.

:

I'm looking at my boss right now.

:

Yeah.

:

so we don't know what Skyler does and we don't know what her boss does,

:

which is where I need to ask you Jaire.

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what happened?

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Her,

:

I can tell you what didn't happen here.

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Well, that's not what I asked you.

:

No, but you wanna know it.

:

It's Skyler didn't write anything.

:

Oh, I, I firmly believe that.

:

I don't think she, I don't think Ted is a copy editor.

:

100%.

:

Ted is not a copy editor.

:

No copy editor has heated floors in their bathroom in New Mexico.

:

No.

:

Um, obviously she Walt, uh, with, with sickness and her not

:

knowing about the meth for a period of time and not having money because

:

they were clearly in dire straits for money for most of last season.

:

Um, had to get a side gig somewhere.

:

Mm-hmm.

:

Uh,

:

I bet you it is a write a gig that she's just

:

not doing that would like she's a technical writer or something.

:

I, I, my gut was telling me she worked for a real estate company.

:

I dunno.

:

Well, they need writers too, like, I mean, they

:

still do for another couple weeks.

:

Chad GBTs probably about to put all of them out of business.

:

Sure, sure.

:

but

:

yeah, some kind of like, uh, some kind of

:

writer of copy of some variety.

:

just technical bullshit writing manuals for products, something like that.

:

that.

:

Cuz uh, her, a boss here strikes me as the type of like a

:

project manager or something a maybe works at a, a place that makes a thing.

:

Mm-hmm.

:

So I think that's the kind of job she would end up in knowing that

:

she couldn't or didn't write her novel.

:

Mm-hmm.

:

All right.

:

Yeah.

:

Yeah.

:

So one thing that, jumps out to me in this, lawyer scene

:

mm-hmm.

:

Skylar decides to tell another person, Hey, giant

:

bag of crime money in my house.

:

Yeah.

:

This house is going to get robbed.

:

There's gonna be a break in.

:

in.

:

Yeah.

:

I mean, the lawyer, I'm sure is on some confidentiality deal, knows

:

too much at this point anyways.

:

Can't be a mandatory reporter, that kind of thing.

:

because she knows that Walter's a drug, a drug manufacturer.

:

Yes.

:

or the very least involved in the drug trade.

:

And so she's like, there's a bag of money in your home.

:

Guess what?

:

You're complicit now.

:

Well, and, but it's also, Hey, there's a bag of

:

money in this house over here that they can't go to the cops about.

:

Yeah.

:

You

:

You know, you do not have to be the scummiest of criminals or the

:

most unethical of divorce attorneys to be like, I know three guys who will go

:

in, put on ski masks and get me that bag.

:

It's true.

:

I'm sure Saul knows someone.

:

Oh, I am sure.

:

Anyways, when Sky Lu gets home, waltz is cleared out of the nursery,

:

leaving only divorce papers behind.

:

Where's the baby?

:

Yeah.

:

This is one of the problems about introducing children into TV shows

:

is like for as much crap as people gave, like 24 about when do they go

:

to the bathroom, it's like it's not following one character for 24 hours.

:

There are times in between.

:

you don't have time without a under one year old.

:

When she gets home, Walt has cleared up the nursery, leaving

:

only divorce papers behind.

:

Yep.

:

Saul is still tending to Jesse,

:

who's getting clean.

:

Yeah, he's sober.

:

Good for him.

:

if I had only believed that it wasn't, forced upon him

:

by his own terrible behavior,

:

Oh, yes.

:

That is absolutely last, last time on Jesse did too much meth.

:

Yeah.

:

I'm sure that's what happened.

:

I mean, I can still be supportive of someone getting clean, but,

:

get your shit together, dude.

:

Which hopefully he is.

:

Anyways, Saul facilitates a meeting between Walton and Jesse, where Walt

:

gives Jesse his share of what he received, but tells Jesse he's done.

:

Gus is only involved Jesse to get to Walt, and he's decided to cook again.

:

After all, Saul immediately abandons Jesse for 5% of Walt's new deal to launder.

:

Yep.

:

Jesse destroys the front windshield.

:

Jesse destroys the front windshield of the Aztec.

:

goes full Juan Cortez here

:

here.

:

On his way out, Hank tracks down the RV to who it was stolen

:

fun fr to who it was stolen.

:

Hank tracks down the RV to whom it was stolen from, which is combo's mom and

:

sees a picture of him and Jesse together.

:

Yes,

:

that's our episode.

:

Which man, like have you, I

:

I don't

:

know if it is just some cultural thing or something.

:

I have never seen a shrine to a dead person.

:

Uh, and like I

:

know,

:

I see it in movies and stuff, but I've never actually seen,

:

like, like I've been to places where, you know, we have a family member who died.

:

Yeah.

:

But I've never seen actually in real life, Cena, we kept

:

their room just the way it was.

:

Uh, Yeah.

:

With, with combos, half eaten combos still here?

:

I, I have.

:

I didn't know if.

:

If like, preserved room was like something that actually exists out

:

there, and I just never encountered it.

:

Like I, for a long time thought like school nurses were a joke that just

:

like got left into stuff because none of my schools ever had a school nurse.

:

The, I would say your, your school probably needed

:

a school nurse more than my school.

:

It's probably,

:

had two.

:

Yeah.

:

And so that's one thing, like I've, I've found out recently, like my

:

experience in this was not the norm.

:

yeah.

:

So I was, this is one of those things where it's just

:

like, well, you grew up in a, a rural town.

:

Yeah.

:

A population of

:

8,000.

:

8,000.

:

Yeah.

:

That is my graduating, like my high school had half of your town attending it.

:

it.

:

Fair.

:

you know, like my graduating class was

:

over a thousand people, so.

:

Yep.

:

Yeah.

:

I mean, my high school class was 300.

:

I don't know why.

:

Yeah.

:

Yeah.

:

Cause it was a 1200 person school.

:

Yeah.

:

Yeah.

:

So yeah, your graduating class was my entire high school.

:

Yeah.

:

Okay.

:

Yeah, no, it does happen.

:

It's just, I don't think it's particularly common.

:

All right.

:

Well it's time to roll and see where we're gonna watch next.

:

Get these dicey boys rolling our 3D four.

:

All right.

:

And that is a nine.

:

Okay.

:

so we are skipping ahead to season four episode one,

:

which I'll look up the description for after we make our predictions.

:

So I can start us off with my first set of predictions.

:

Uh, my first prediction, which I'm, I'm, I think I'm gonna call this one.

:

Skyler never actually writes anything.

:

You get the point.

:

Yeah,

:

I get the point.

:

So I'm gonna give myself a big check mark there.

:

Uh, my second prediction is Bogden gets run over by a car in the car wash.

:

It is a feelgood moment.

:

I firmly believe this happened.

:

Uh, but we haven't seen any positive.

:

Uh,

:

yeah.

:

We just have no way of knowing

:

prime time

:

time.

:

Gomez

:

murdered violently by Hank.

:

I feel like the by Hank might be my problem here.

:

I agree.

:

Too specific.

:

Yep.

:

But that's the point of these, the primetime predictions.

:

If they were e gimmies.

:

They, they wouldn't be primetime predictions I had Jesse is gonna

:

get shot still on the table.

:

Yes.

:

Always on the table.

:

Came really close Last time

:

he did.

:

Walter Cheats on his wife.

:

This might have happened.

:

It

:

might have, but I don't think so.

:

We don't have confirmation yet.

:

And it's, uh, and then Walt's cancer diagnosis is incorrect.

:

We found that to not be true.

:

But the how terminal it was

:

yes.

:

Was incorrect.

:

Yeah.

:

But only because of treatment and modern medicine.

:

Yes.

:

ahead.

:

Daytime, Jesse accidentally spills a pack of meth because it

:

isn't sealed still on the table

:

and firmly believe it has happened many times.

:

Uh, Marie comes out to visit and steals Walt's

:

hat is my evening prediction.

:

Uh, t b d, uh, we, we didn't see the hat.

:

This episode.

:

The hat might actually be outta play.

:

Yeah.

:

And then primetime, Hank.

:

catches Walt.

:

Walt cuts him in on the operation, not the

:

to be the case.

:

Uh, mine,

:

yet.

:

uh, Tuco ends up working for Walt.

:

That does not seem to be the case.

:

No, Tuco seems to be off the board.

:

Uh, evening.

:

Hank has to choose between Maries Kleptomania and his job.

:

He picks his job.

:

Doesn't seem like he got pushed that far and, uh, primetime, no

:

one ever actually tries to turn.

:

Walt and Jesse in Every problem is only because of their own

:

par paranoia and naivete.

:

That does still seem to be the case.

:

They are their own worst enemies.

:

I'd say that's on the table.

:

Yeah, but we're one to go away right now from that not being the case.

:

Yeah.

:

Or one Kristen Ritter.

:

Uh,

:

All right.

:

Uh, the last set of predictions I made upgrade with two Gs.

:

Uh, I, this is a two, I put two things in here.

:

One that Walt was probably gonna stop cooking.

:

Mm-hmm.

:

Which we know to be the case.

:

And the other is that they are going to not cook in the RV anymore

:

and their operation would improve.

:

That is clearly the case.

:

Mm-hmm.

:

I think I get a point.

:

I, I think so.

:

All right.

:

Uh, my evening was Skylar finds out about Walt likely from the

:

diaper box with a gun, but maybe something else clearly also the case.

:

Yes.

:

So I'm gonna give myself those two points as well.

:

And then my evening prediction.

:

Thank Christ they didn't lose the baby.

:

Yeah.

:

Uh, still on the table though.

:

Yeah.

:

Well, yeah,

:

Yeah, we'll, we'll see.

:

So, then my last, last episode, Kristen Ritter

:

becomes a ca all caps problem.

:

I firmly believe that did happen.

:

let's see if we see her at the very least.

:

We got one more episode.

:

Let's see if we

:

see if we see her again.

:

my evening.

:

the RV explodes.

:

I firmly believe this can happen.

:

Um,

:

maybe it happened at the end of last episode, which is why

:

we get the flashback with the RV now.

:

Yeah.

:

And why he can't find it.

:

Um,

:

but with my, my feelings now, they probably are that the RV

:

is going to be a constant concern and they keep circling back around to it.

:

Alright.

:

and then a last, my primetime skinny peat is never, never seen, but is

:

called at least three more times.

:

Well, that immediately

:

it's flashback and I feel like you're talking about the future.

:

Yeah.

:

But.

:

we'll see if they ever reference Skinny Pete again.

:

Yep.

:

All right.

:

My predictions for this most recent episode.

:

No one.

:

We're skipping nine ahead.

:

Daytime, Walt and Jesse bury the hatchet and cook together again.

:

my daytime, Jesse and Walt reconcile

:

my primetime, Walt and Jesse's rift deepens leading to them

:

becoming rivals on the meth scene.

:

Ooh, hedging my bets.

:

Sir, what's your prime time?

:

Uh, or my evening?

:

Or, or Oh yeah, sorry.

:

Your e Oh, I messed them up.

:

Okay.

:

Uh, yeah.

:

Okay.

:

So yeah, that was my evening, not my prime

:

Okay.

:

Uh, my evening is, they are back in the rv, but to live Oh.

:

Walt is now out of his house.

:

I'm saying, thinking he's moved into the rv.

:

I,

:

well, my primetime prediction is Walton

:

Skylar, get back together.

:

Uh, that

:

Which seems to be opposed to your primetime prediction.

:

Well, yeah.

:

Uh, or season four is just, they go on a nice, uh, trip to all

:

of America's national pucks.

:

Uh, and then my primetime is, uh, Gus becomes a chicken magnate

:

and leaves the drugs behind.

:

I'm

:

I am sorry.

:

Uh, we are expanding into the Midwest.

:

My attention is needed elsewhere.

:

All right.

:

Skipping nine ahead to season four, episode one.

:

The season premiere of what is technically the last season,

:

I think, or is there five?

:

There's five.

:

All right.

:

Uh, we've got episode one box cutter after a tense third season cliffhanger that saw

:

Walt and Jesse laboring for their lives.

:

They wait anxiously to see what Gus will do next.

:

Okay.

:

Okay,

:

well

:

I feel good about one of my predictions right now.

:

I think we're both gonna be getting a point in short order

:

next episode, but until then, uh, we'd like to say thank you to Ripe.

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Yeah, fucking what?

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I still don't believe this is

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weird.

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Whoa.

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Um, we haven't gotten to record thank yous yet, listener for a, uh,

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peek behind the curtain as it were.

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Uh, we've been recording without our thank yous cuz we weren't sure and

:

how this was all going to settle out.

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But Ripe is letting us use one of our absolute favorite songs,

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goon Squad as our theme music.

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Uh, they're currently touring until the end of August and you

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

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Do it.

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They're fucking excellent.

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I love this band.

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I love this song.

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And, uh, Ben, thank you for reaching out to them and getting, they're

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okay to use it as our theme song.

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I don't believe

:

shot in the dark.

:

I did not think I would like, I didn't even expect to get a

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no back, so thank you so much.

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Ripe.

:

Yeah.

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And then, um, also our current podcast Art, uh, has some stock

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footage from Anton Lucina.

:

Uh, thank you for taking fo photographs and putting them up under Creative

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Commons on the internet so that small struggling artists who aren't making

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money with their stuff, like Ben and I can use them for our projects.

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