In this week’s episode, we have a bit of purely speculative (read: most likely bullshit) news on the future of Breaking Bad after the final season concludes, as well as new theme music courtesy some friends of ours in Germany (see bottom of show notes for more details)! We then do our customary recap, where we discuss the greatest cold open in Breaking Bad history, Todd’s new pet, Gomez as the worst field agent in DEA history, the anti-christ’s methylamine, the most uncomfortable dinner scene th...
Aug 21, 2012•1 hr 41 min•Season 5Ep. 6
This week’s episode covering episode 505 of Breaking Bad, “Dead Freight” has Jim and A.Ron discussing a boy and his spider, Jesse Pinkman, criminal mastermind, quick draw Todd, shutting up Skyler, the perils of coming between Flynn and his breakfast, and one of the all time gut punches in Breaking Bad history. All this and the latest and greatest of your feedback, theories, and speculation! As always, please feel free to email us , and follow us on Twitter or Facebook . If you’ve enjoyed the wor...
Aug 15, 2012•1 hr 59 min•Season 5Ep. 5
This week’s episode covering episode 504 of Breaking Bad, “51” has Jim and A.Ron discussing Mike’s raging sexism, Lydia’s general not having her shit togetherness, Jesse’s soft side, Skyler’s pool party, Walt Jr. unsafe at any speed, and Marie’s inability to SHUT. UP. SHUT THE HELL UP! SHUT UP! All this and the latest and greatest of your feedback, theories, and speculation. As always, please feel free to email us , and follow us on Twitter or Facebook . If you’ve enjoyed the work we’ve done thi...
Aug 08, 2012•1 hr 45 min•Season 5Ep. 4
This week’s episode covering episode 503 of Breaking Bad, “Hazard Pay” has Jim and A.Ron discussing Skinny Pete’s veins, Huell’s ability to sleep standing up, Walt’s creepy creep, and appropriate entertainment for babies. All this and the latest and greatest of your feedback, theories, and speculation. As always, please feel free to email us , and follow us on twitter or facebook . If you’ve enjoyed the work we’ve done this season, please use our Amazon affiliate link to buy the stuff you’re alr...
Aug 01, 2012•1 hr 34 min•Season 5Ep. 3
Breaking Bad comes roaring back this week with an awesome, instant classic episode. It had it all; great writing, great direction, great acting, humor, suspense… it’s hard to find something we didn’t like. We consider some show ratings news, our in depth recap, and consider your feedback. Oh, and before I forget, this is the fan made Breaking Bad “intro” Jim references in this week’s cast. As always, please feel free to email us , and follow us on twitter or facebook . If you’ve enjoyed the work...
Jul 25, 2012•1 hr 40 min•Season 5Ep. 2
So this is kind of awkward. Months of waiting, weeks of intense anticipation, days of breathless excitement, and then the premier came, and it was kind of just… okay? Okay on the Breaking Bad scale happens to put it better than just about any show on the air, but still. What did we like? What didn’t we like? What did we learn, and what new questions were raised? And what did you, the fellow Breaking Bad fan have to say? This one was long, as we had a shocking amount of email to plow through, but...
Jul 18, 2012•1 hr 44 min•Season 5Ep. 1
Can you believe it? We’re less than five days out from the season five premier of Breaking Bad! Join us for about an hour of previews, predictions , listener feedback and speculation, and a little bit of season five spoilers in our handy dandy spoiler section. Just a heads up, we consider any material or interview that has come out as part of the season five promotion to be NOT spoilers. So, if you’re squeemish about stuff like that, you might want to stay completely clear. As always, please fee...
Jul 11, 2012•1 hr 11 min
Welcome to this bittersweet episode of Breaking Good! We are over the moon about the way the season went, but sad that we have to wait almost a year to find out what’s next for Walt and Jesse. We reflect on our favorite moments, thoughts for next season, predictions that came true and those that flamed out, and read the final thoughts from our listeners on Breaking Bad. Remember, this will NOT be our final Breaking Bad cast. We’ll be back next season, and throughout the offseason with occasional...
Oct 19, 2011•1 hr 2 min
We promised a listener feedback episode this week and we delivered! We tried to give some attention to everyone’s thoughts but even after cutting some emails for time and ONLY covering your thoughts we STILL barely brought the episode in under an hour thirty! Seriously, the feedback is overwhelming but we love it. Thanks to everyone who contributed to this episode and those whose feedback we just didn’t have the time to read on air. We appreciate all of it! One more episode to go for Breaking Go...
Oct 13, 2011•1 hr 24 min•Season 4Ep. 13
Breaking Bad season four is in the books! Last night’s episode “Face Off” capped off a remarkable story arc that has lasted over two seasons, and where it goes from here, is anyone’s guess. In this episode, Jim and A.Ron recap the episode, analyze how the various plots and machinations resolved, talk about lose ends, and speculate a bit about what comes next for our favorite show. We had so much thoughts by ourselves that we couldn’t get hardly any feedback in. So, Wednesday we’re recording roun...
Oct 11, 2011•1 hr 11 min•Season 4Ep. 13
Holy shit! No time for witty text, here’s Jim and A.Ron’s Instant Review of “Face Off” in podcast form! It’s less than 15 minutes long, and sort of unusually low-key. We were trying to be quiet since my five year old was asleep in the next room over. In about an hour, we’ll have our written instant reviews up. Tomorrow, we do the full cast! We love getting your thoughts, speculation, and/or feedback, so keep emailing it to us, or share it with us on Twitter or Facebook . We’ll read and use as mu...
Oct 10, 2011•14 min•Season 4Ep. 13
Did you know Jim has a Halloween article that explains how you can dress like your favorite Breaking Bad character? Did you know we have a new t-shirt as an homage to the Kenny Rogers getup from 401 “Box Cutter?” Now you know! This week we discuss dramatic crying, playing spin the revolver, burger-flipping knock and talks, Tuvok’s mastery of the art of dickishness, Meat Eating Man’s magic hands, stress smoking, playing with fire, ricin emergencies, cold packs and hot stoves, and cap things off w...
Oct 04, 2011•1 hr 32 min•Season 4Ep. 12
Great Odin’s raven, that was a good episode. It took me and Jim quite a while to work our way through it, and then you all weighed in. This is a beefy cast. Chew slowly, savor the episode, let it take time to digest. First, we ask your help getting our officially unofficial cast nominated for the People’s Choice Podcast Awards . You guys always come through for us, and we’d appreciate you taking the time. Then we dig straight in. We talk about tongue shots, scales balancing, Walt’s face, Gus’s p...
Sep 27, 2011•1 hr 47 min•Season 4Ep. 11
Hi everybody! In this week’s episode, we talk about gifts of booze and bad cars, Jesse laying down the law, Walt Jr’s possible drug thievery, Ted being in the dumbass business, A.Ron’s hatred for Tuvok, Gus’s ambivalence when confronted with ‘dat ass, and his badassness when confronted with damn near anything else. As always, we cover listener feedback, speculation, and theories, then consider some spoiler news after the music. Thanks for your continuing support on iTunes ! Your reviews and subs...
Sep 20, 2011•1 hr 26 min•Season 4Ep. 10
Hello! Apologies once again for the delay on the cast, next week we should be on track to have it out Monday as usual. In this week’s episode we discuss tiger eyes, chicken slinging sons of bitches, Pontiac Aztecs with sweet ass camping packages , smoke breaks, lots of angles, some Terminator type shit , the Quicken, dinner time with Gus, and savage beatings. We unload a massive dose of listener feedback, with great takes about Gus’s past, the Creation of Adam , the significance of swimming pool...
Sep 14, 2011•1 hr 38 min•Season 4Ep. 9
Hope everyone had a safe and happy Labor Day. Jim and I were hard at work making podcasts in the lab, and this is the latest result. We talk about all things Gus, Jesse’s shirt, Chilean history, perfect storms, the significance of eyeballs, and more listener feedback than you can shake a GPS tracker at. In the spoiler section, we talk about next week’s episode, Jesse’s loyalty, and a listener’s contribution. Something else we touch on is how you can help us defray hosting costs by checking out o...
Sep 06, 2011•1 hr 36 min•Season 4Ep. 8
Well, here is our little experimental insta-cast! It’s 15 minutes of raw, un-rehearsed reaction. It doesn’t have a full recap, or in-depth analysis, we ask more questions than anything else. Let us know what you think. If you like it, and we can fit it into our schedules, we’ll try it again. In about an hour, we’ll have our written instant reviews up. Tomorrow, we do the full cast! We love getting your thoughts, speculation, and/or feedback, so keep emailing it to us, or share it with us on Twit...
Sep 05, 2011•15 min•Season 4Ep. 8
There has been a lot of confusion going around about the future of Breaking Bad, what with Aaron Paul mentioning that there is going to be two more seasons, and an Entertainment Weekly article claiming that Breaking Bad is getting “canceled” after season five. Our advice: be cool, baby. Like a little Fonzie, because unless I hear Vince Gilligan is getting less than he wants or is being forced to do more than he wants, I’m not going to worry about it whether we get two more seasons of eight episo...
Aug 30, 2011•1 hr 33 min•Season 4Ep. 7
Thankfully there was no real news of note this week, because we were packed to the rafters with recap and feedback! We discuss ineffectual truck defense systems, Walt unexpectedly switching up the Big Lie for the Big Truth, Eyebrows landing jabs, but in the end being humiliated by a Coke machine, Jesse with the shakes, Walt Jr. being bought off, Walt being a self centered dick and subcontracting out the dirty work, a four cornered coinflip, and TUCKER!! Then Jesse shovels well, Mike polishes the...
Aug 23, 2011•1 hr 31 min•Season 4Ep. 6
Welcome back! This week on the podcast we celebrate V-Day for fans of Breaking Bad as news broke over the weekend that the show has been picked up for it’s fifth and final season by AMC! I also allude to the article I wrote last week on one way that Hank and Walt could work together. I’ve got some really great feedback on this that I’m going to write up when we get a lull in the the weekly news. Moving on to the recap, we discuss Aztec badassery, Walt’s good vibrations, Jesse making good use of ...
Aug 16, 2011•1 hr 26 min•Season 4Ep. 5
Welcome back! This week on the podcast we quickly cover some show news; a positive update on the Sony/AMC battle, and a Q/A with Vince Gilligan that hints (ever, ever so slightly) at a possible post Breaking Bad spin off. During the recap, we discuss Mike’s cold open, what a doozy of an episode this turned out to be, the fine art of card counting, what Hank may or may not know, how cool it would be to have Gale as a friend, how The French Connection influences Breaking Bad, if Saul has his eye o...
Aug 09, 2011•1 hr 10 min•Season 4Ep. 4
Welcome back! This week on the podcast we talk a little bit of news with reports that Sony and AMC are having some differences of opinion on season five of Breaking Bad . What, if anything, will this do to our favorite show? We also analyze some of the Skyler hate that’s been going around the net . Is it warranted? “Who told Walt to go home?” is revisited, with a definitive answer courtesy V. Gilligan. During the recap, we discuss the fine art of fronting, ladder wielding pig riders, non-attache...
Aug 02, 2011•1 hr 22 min•Season 4Ep. 3
First off, thanks so much for your support. Jim and I are completely blown away by all the iTunes reviews, Facebook likes, and email feedback we got. In fact, we got so much we could not include it all in the cast, but we tried. Speaking of trying and failing, we’re both down one on our prediction list. Wah, wahhhhh…. But enough about that. First up, I challenge some of Jim’s takes from last week, we touch on a cranky dude from Seattle’s complete failure to get the point of Breaking Bad . We rec...
Jul 26, 2011•1 hr 23 min•Season 4Ep. 2
The long wait is over! Season four of our favorite morally ambiguous crystal meth chemistry show is back, and Jim and A.Ron are all over it. After a bit of showkeeping and news, the guys break down the episode in detail. How concerned is Gus with purity, really? How effective can a bodyguard be when his sinus cavities are obviously packed full of meat and he is constantly suffering from a series of elaborate heart attacks? How much fun did the practical effects guys have with the blood and gore ...
Jul 19, 2011•1 hr 14 min•Season 4Ep. 1
In this week’s episode, we discuss the possible impact to our favorite show from a rumored takeover of AMC , some thoughts and speculation on the newest Breaking Bad season four trailer , what a possible Breaking Bad spinoff about Mike or Gus might look like, some relavations from some recent articles on Breaking Bad and interviews with series creator, Vince Gilligan, and finally, we offer dueling predictions for things to come in Season 4! Hope you enjoy this week’s episode, and see you NEXT Tu...
Jul 12, 2011•35 min
Welcome to the first episode of Breaking Good, the officially unofficial podcast of the phenomenal AMC original drama series, Breaking Bad. We are psyched that season four is less than two weeks away, and recorded a very brief cast to explain who we are, what we’re up to, and what you can expect going forward with us. We also break down the latest trailers and teaser images released to date. Our posting schedule: Sunday night; A.Ron and Jim’s “insta-take”, posts on the website with a link to our...
Jul 06, 2011•14 min
