The Breaking Bad Episode

Friends Keep Secrets

Friends reflect on their deep bond and the legacy of 'Breaking Bad,' sharing personal stories from filming, emotional reunions, and the show's lasting impact. They also discuss launching a mescal brand and the joy of creative collaboration.

Key takeaways

• The show's success grew after Netflix streaming.
• Friendship and collaboration fueled long-term projects.
• Emotional moments on set revealed deep personal connections.

Transcript preview

Freaking Bad. Bad. Reagan Bad. Just see and what became at heads at last. Jesse and Wall's, Pinkman in the Waltz. Walter White, what the fuck? See you next week and this week. Who's the twin? It smells so good. I'm the twin. Of Jesse Pinkman? Yeah, I'm Josh's twin. So, yeah, so you guys feeling excited about... Do you feel embarrassed? I don't feel embarrassed. No, I feel good. You look kind of normal. I feel like we're honoring something that deserves to be honored. She looks like Billy-eye-ish. I feel like... I feel like a little light headed too. I feel like... I feel like... I feel like... I feel like... I feel like... I feel like it's a little like... I'm a little like... I'm a little like... I'm a little like... I'm a little My outfit's pretty chill too. Do you guys like mine? Yeah. I love your outfit. It's kind of. I love all of our outfits. I know I'm kind of. Do you think that they're sorry what we're saying? I don't think they're gonna like what we're doing. Yo! You don't think they're gonna like what we're doing. Yo! Here's my age. Yeah, yeah. You're doing a Jesse Pink. Get off me, y'o. You're. You're gonna break bad. I'm nervous. Like. Like. Like. Like. Like. Like. Like. I'm gonna' I'm gonna' I'm gonna' I'm gonna' I'm gonna' Speaking of staying good and being nervous and the breaking bad men and New Mexico Yeah You know how I like to spend time on Airbnb when there's nothing to do and I browse all the homes? Yeah, I think you guys I Send it to you Dave, but I don't think you checked your phone Look at this home. I think we need to go here. It's this. It's called the spectacular Earthship This is on Airbnb. Yeah Oh wow. I think you want to stay in Earth ship with me? Look. Oh my God. I think I think we go right. Oh my God. Oh my gosh? Oh my gosh? Oh my gosh? Oh my gosh? Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. I think we go right. Oh my gosh antique shopping. We should have done this in New Mexico with them. I'm so nervous. Are you? I'm not nervous but I'm like excited nervous. Seeing both I've never met either of them. Seeing both of them together is just going to feel almost like I'm like I'm going to. I was feeling like it's I'm in the show. Hey Chuck, how's that feel? I don't want to answer first. You go first. You go first you go. Have you ever lived in Venice? No? West LA. Good hell man. Come on you get some snatch me! A good! One of the best shows ever made. Brilliant! You have such a focus. I'm sorry, what? Wow. This show changed our lives. I would have been so pissed. Oh, baa baa baa. Baa. Baa. Baa. Baa. Baa. Baa. Baa. Baa. Baa. Baa. Baa. Baa. Baa. Do you? Do you hate this or is? Okay. No. You. No. You. You're. You're. You're. You're. You're. You're. You're. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No I'm Chris. I'm really sorry. I actually want to start drafting like this. Isn't it cozy? Yeah. Well, she likes me too, too, man. Yeah, you're stilling. Yeah, I might, I might wear this all the time. You represent that very well. Yeah, you do. I really feel I'm coming alive. You look great. You were stuffed. Of course. I'm stuffing. You're stuffing. You're stuffing. You're stuffing. You're stuffing. You're stuffing. You're stuffing. You're stuffing. You. You're stuffing. You. You're stuffing. You're stuffing. You're stuffing. You're stuffing. You're stuffing. You're stuffing. You're stuffing. You're stuffing. You. You. You're stuffing. You're stuffing. You're stuffing. You're stuffing. You're stuffing. You. You. You're stuffing. You. You're stuffing. You're stuffing. You're stuffing. You. You. You're stuffing. You. You. You. You're stuffing. You. big wall. When you were in the endies were you thinking like man I hope they don't get a weird shot at this. I'm already in my underwear on national television. He's just giving the public what they want. How many times have you been in your type of ways? With Malcolm in the middle of the main guy. I joked that my agent was aware of a nudity clause but he thought it was that I wanted to be. I was like so he was fired. He was fired. I had fire right. We brought you some treats. Thanks for having us, great place. Yeah. Is this the treat? This is this is a treat? This is a treat. This is actually a lot. I feel like it's gonna be someone's head. Yeah, yeah. So this is your first spot. Yeah, it's my first home that I ever owned and then met Kristen and we fell in love in this home and. Wow. It looks just like that. Okay. He looked just like that. Yeah. And he still fell on up. That's. That's wild. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's. That's. That's. That's. That's. That's. That's. That's. That's. That's a. That's a. That's a. That's a. That's a. That's a. That's a. That's a. That's a. That's a. That's a. That's a. That's a. That You look great. You look good. Thanks, you're like the stylist, the most stylish version of what that outfit can look like is like, I know these are like the expensive versions of those things. You look very, you look good. You look good. You look good. You look good. You look good. Yeah, you look good. Yeah, fancy. Your voice just cracked too. You look. You look. You look, you look. You look too. You have some. You guys dress yourself in these outfits. Oh, you. You. You. You guys. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. noticing the giant ball sack. Oh yeah that's a nuts. Yeah. Yeah. That's a great thing to keep. The crew. The crew. Yeah. Yeah. That's what I thought. Wait a minute. I love the show. I know those nuts. I know that. I know that. You know the show. I love that show. I love your guys a show. Thank you. You know the first time I ever saw a breaking bad was the season finale. Series finale. Okay. Listen. The first time I ever was okay so here's what happened. I'm at the time I'm working on Ed Sheerin's album okay we're in New York and he said holy shit the finale is you know with with traveling he got all mixed up he's like the finale's today he rents a hotel room gets all the stuff we could do it so I'm watching the last episode and I remember being like oh this is like really good and this was in like what year was that 2018 13 13 is when it ended So then I lived my life. COVID hit, okay? And I say, I have to watch all the best shows of all time. And I look up, I say, best shows of all time. I had already seen a few of the shows, Wire Sopranos. Yeah. And there was like a battle going on for the best shows. And it was you guys, Sopranos, the wire. And I said, I got to put this on. I put it on. From the second I started it. I did not stop. because it was the exact start of COVID and then I just watched it all over again with my wife. We'd never seen it. Just and liked it more the second time. I love that. Come into a room like and be like and I'd be like and I'd be like and I'd be like, and I'd like do all the little like things you know the guy who rings the bell. You're talking about what's his name Sala Man. Hector Sala. Do you guys ever watch it? I haven't seen it since it? No. Yeah, it's good to see what they did, what takes they did, and putting it together, and we appreciated it, but we had to move on, you know? It's like we got another one and another one, another one. And I would watch it again. And I would watch it again, and I would watch it again, but I'd like to watch it like what you were talking about, was someone who hasn't seen it yet. And I would like to be kind of fun to share that. script like a hundred times. Isn't it great? The best written pilot script ever. Because he always like we had such an incredible writer's room but then Vince always does his polish and he is talking to the readers he is talking to the people that are reading it so he's talking to the cast he's talking to the crew you know he references some of the people in the script. It's just amazing. It's so like for trying to write and learning to write it's like the perfect example of like, how to write it's like the perfect example it's like the after all of like the cinema like the cinemat even the descriptions are so cinematic yeah yeah so when I read it and I was offered the role our daughter was just about to enter high school it's a very critical time yeah and this was shooting in New Mexico yeah so I gave it to my wife and I said I want you to read this I've just been offered it after and she knew about it but she hadn't read it yet and I said just know it shoots in New Mexico And she starts reading and I would peek in to see because I knew it was so good. Yeah. And she's flipping and going and because that's it's you can't stop just like the show Yeah, and she went all the way through and I knew when she was getting at the end and I'm peeking around and she finished the last page looked at me through it through it through it over the bed and said shit And then I had to spend six, seven months in New Mexico. So you guys lived, you both lived there during shooting? lived there, yeah, I mean it was about six months. Wait, were you married when that happened? No, I met her very early on. I met Lauren, very early on. Well, he went through a couple girlfriends that I met. Whoa, I mean, not that many. Yeah. There was, there was. So you met her. You met her season two. I met her season three. I met her season three. So it was before the show sort of really took off. Yeah, you talk about, what's the deal with that? Didn't it like take three seasons to get to the level popularity of it deserve? So what happened was first season, we were incredibly proud of it. You know, we did seven episodes. We were cut short by two because of the writer's strike back then. Oh yeah. But the critics loved the show, but we were only getting, I think it's 700 or 800,000. Why isn't people like really watching this show? Yeah, but when it really exploded was we landed three seasons on Netflix just while we were shooting season four and we were actually Oh Believe it or not, but we were the very first new bingeable show ever? Interesting Wow you're sending a movie Netflix back and more and it's that stopped and it's just streaming and then that's what really helped because then people could watch and get addicted to it. I remember the first time I heard of Netflix my friend when I was a kid when I was I wonder when Netflix came out probably when I was like 14 maybe 13. Something like that I just remember I just remember my friend would get movies in the mail and then he was like 14. want and we just ship it back and I was like what are you talking about and he was like he's like we never have to go to Blackbuster again what do you mean it's amazing you don't have to go to Blackbuster I loved Blockbuster was an event I know I know I remember though thinking it was it was so cool option for sure I remember being really like not impressed with the business model I was thinking like I don't know if this thing's gonna work obviously I'm totally wrong I'm thinking like is it's it really that convenient to have this thing mail to me when I can't I remember I remember I remember I remember I remember I remember organized like that. We used to take our daughter and say, well you get to select one and mommy and daddy will select one and okay one candy and it was like a it was like a fun event. It should bring it back. Gosh I mean we talk about a few bigger institution I know like I told to my cousins who are kids and I talk about movie theaters because they haven't had what we had growing up like they look at movie theaters as like they're like oh movie theater like I would never those places are weird yeah. Yeah. Do you guys do you guys do you guys do you guys do you guys notice? Do you guys notice? Do you guys? Do you guys? Do you guys? Do you guys? Do you guys? Do you guys? Do you guys? Do you guys? Do you guys? Do you guys? Do you guys? Do you guys? Do you guys? Do you guys? Do you guys? mode. Oh yeah. Do you notice, like... It's too crisp. It's way too crisp. So you can reset that though. It's for live sports. So all the TV's kind of set to like optimize life. You can read. And it turns every cinematic thing, any TV show, any movie into looking like it's a soap opera. It's like, it's like, it hasn't been rendered. Like, it's not the final export. Yeah. So it's like, it's, it's, it's so hard break. Like, it. Like, it's, it's to the common. I re-watched the wire when we were shooting breaking bad and I put it on my TV I'm like why does this look such shit? It looks like it was filmed on like a cell phone. Yeah and then I was able to reset the settings. I'm gonna taste the mess out now. Yeah tell us about the inception of this. Yeah, when did you guys start thinking? We've been working on this for a close to a decade. Yeah, we've been out on the market July 9th will be seven years but I just I just honestly. We've just love this guy so much he's truly truly my best friend in the world and yeah we just really hit it off with breaking bad and I'm like this guy I always say it he is the hardest worker in the room thank you man I appreciate no he really is the hardest like he is just the best but also the most immature person you've ever met in your life it's just such a great combo it's just an elevator picture like why we did it is I miss I missed him Three years post the finale breaking bad. He was doing a play in New York. I was doing a show and we caught up and had sushi together and he pitched me. He's like, do you think it's too soon to do another show or a movie or I go, I think it's a little too soon and we started spitballing ideas of what we could do together. The sushi meal. And then out of no, I never thought I'm starting a booze company. Yeah. And I go. Well, what do you think about booze company? he laughed to me thinking I was joking and go no man I'm being serious what do you think about mescal and he almost did a spit take he goes the shitty spirit with the dead worm at the bottom of it yeah no man that's not how they do things anymore because he had a terrible experience with mescal was my introduction back in the day of course plastic bottle it was so it was like a dollar and a quarter or something it was awful what's the worm do wanted to not have people confused with tequila and mescal and so they just literally put a worm on the mescal. It was also it's like to show wow. But typically it was very very shitty mescal we didn't have options back then so this has been out for over six years we're just launching our tequila. Yeah I got some glasses. You can drink this. This smells like this smell this. Now smell him. A little bit? Yeah, I do. I see. I just rub that all like a leathery. Yeah. Not in a bad way. Oh look at that. Which one? Which one do I get? Here you can. Baker. Yeah. Give me one of those. Look at that. You guys ready to cook a little? Yeah, you want to go. Like are these cousins? Are they related to Keala and mezkow? Tache. Tachea is mescal. Yeah. Tache. Tache. T'ic. It's great to be here. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Tache. Tache. Tache. Tache. Tache. Tache. Tache. Tache. Tache. Tache. Tache. Tache. Tache. Tache. Tache. Tache. Is this an extra one? Was this? Thank you. Is this someone guys? Oh, I love it. Oh yeah. I love it. I love it. I love it. I love it. I love it. I love it. I love it. I know. I know what's going on in the world. She doesn't. She can't be in the comments. I mean, I know about a few things. Thanks to CNN. Oh, I'm. Oh, it's. It's a movie magic glass. It did. It did. It did. It did. It did. It did. It did. It did. It did. It did. It did. It did. It did. It did. It did. It did. It did. It did. It did. It did. It did. It did. It did. It did. It did. It did. It did. It did. It did. It did. It did. It did. It did. It did. It did. It did. It did. It did. Yeah, shouldn't have hurt like, yeah. Everybody's okay. I thought that was just okay. Let's let's try it with this. It didn't hurt a little bit. Wait, wait, I want to I want to break something here. I got a bunch of movie magic glass right here. You're just sort of God. It did. Hold on, do it. Do it. Do it. Do it. Do it. Do it. Do it. Do it. Do it. It. Do it. Do it. Do. You. You're going to break that. Do it. It doesn't hurt it. It slightly hurts. And I chastise you for you. Will you just shut up? It does hurt a little bit. Pay him back. Pay it forward brother. I can't even do it. It's like, it's so. Don't you dare. It's so. It's so wrong. It's not. It's so right here. You want a bigger one? Let me do think, Chris. Okay. Okay. Wait. Now, now he gets to do it to you. You're so sweet. You're so sweet. You're so sweet. Only one of them is