@@Arun999 True, if they found out. On Storage Wars all they do is open the door to the unit and the bidding starts. If this unit had been on the show , when they open the door the bidders would have only seen a rectangular shaped object covered by a tarp. It's only when the winning bidder takes possession of the contents does he/she actually discover what's inside. I think you could find a way to launder the money if you were the winning bidder. Of course I live in a fantasy world where laundering money is easy, as depicted in the movies.
You can't spend it lol Remember when Walt just wanted to buy a champagne and Skyler didn't let him ? Any other young dumb criminals would and that's what get them caught easily. They're smart, they have to be reasonable with their income and spendings.
Having tons of cash is a real problem. Especially in the modern age and if you want to "live openly" from your "cash lifestyle"; takes great amount of situational awareness to live that way.
@@thewaywardgrape3838 not really,travel alot,always be moving ,don,t make any new neighbors your freinds,spend when you are abroad using cash thru new set up corbs,never let friends get close,keep it all real,live abroad like a king,just don,t wear the crown,NoWorries....
Yeah but money was always his rationalization. When Skyler showed him the pile of money, it finally broke the rationalization. Psychologically he was able to give himself permission to stop at that point. He only realized his self-deception at the end of the show when he admitted to Skyler that he really did it all for himself.
It was clear it wasn’t about money about two episodes prior. Walt could’ve taken the 5 million buyout from Declan but straight up told Jesse he was in the empire business
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@@astveloria I think what @Thepowerlies was referring to is like when that Grey Matter guy offered him a job in S1 and said "There's great health benefits". If Walt truly just needed the money then he would've accepted that offer. So S1 there was a little bit of Walt wanting to leave a legacy instead of just a high school teacher. But I agree with you his hunger for power grew as the show went on and starting out money was definitely one of his main things he was focusing on.
@HF Trust What are you a Karen? I'm betting that you are. So Bryan Cranston is responsible if someone watches a fictional show and decides to go smoke Crystal Meth? He's no more responsible then you are. Being an adult means making your own decisions for good or bad. We have an accountability problem in this country where people wanna do dumb shit and blame something else instead of ourselves. And before you say " Well what if it's a kid" then I say this, why would you let a child watch this show for?
I'm surprised Walter didn't feel bothered by the fact that what stood between his life's earnings and the open world was a flimsy roll up door and a cheap ass lock.
Well, it probably isn't as valuable for him anymore. I mean, he can easily earn money by cooking, however much he wants. When getting it isn't a problem, there is no need to be too concerned about keeping it.
Smart rich people get an accounting of their finances daily. Dumb athletes,no dumb celebrities, dumb you tubers have no idea. As of this morning I had $873,413.73 in cash assets. Since my interest compounds daily I will have more tomorrow.
@stryfetc1 because truth is important. Wealthy people, smart people manage their money. Dumb people leave their money to be managed with no oversight. That is why ball players end up in financial stress in a short order after retiring. While I am far from what I call rich, I know were every cent of my money is spent.
I actually bought some of that Hollywood movie money a few years ago. It looks real on video or in a photo. But in real life you can easily tell it’s fake, plus it doesn’t feel right. And the writing on it is nonsense. Which is why it’s legal to have. Fun to fool your friends with though
@@trevorjameson3213 I work at a fast food restaurant and someone tried to pay with prop money. It literally said it on the bill “for movie purposes only, not legal tender” or something. Also, the font was wrong and Thomas Jefferson was smiling on the bill lol
You guys are all wrong about Gus. He’s got way more overhead and investments (legal and not), has to make payroll. He definitely didn’t have this kind of liquidity.
My favorite part was when Hank raided Walt's house, but only took the minerals. Most people don't even know that's where most of Walt's money was going.
Well to be fair, she didn't yet say she didn't know how much it was yet, she just that she stopped counting and started weighing it and presented there was an issue with it being not just the same type of bills. In addition to Walt already lost in thought of how big the pile was.
@@nostalgiatrip1 my question is why would an accountant get thrown off and not know how to proceed when there's multiple denominations? She could have very easily grabbed a stack of 10s, 20s, 50s, and 100s and weighed a million in each and gone ok, this is how much a million weighs in each denomination and then just weighed in bulk from then on. And all they could be accomplished in a 30 minute session with a proper scale lmao. I could literally count that stack in a Saturday afternoon with ease
The fact that Walt never really answered Skyler’s question about being enough is all you need to know about Walt’s ambitions. He simply wants power and recognition to hide his insecurities.
@@eiyp3 nah man , if you keep climbing higher, you’ll eventually fall , so having some one that can be trusted to back you up is family is left . So the most valuable thing is family
clever detail about "keeping it dry" and spraying it "for silverfish." If you ever followed the exploits of pablo escobar, it was noted that he had so much money ducked away in different places that much of it rotted away.
You guys looking at this clip like "goddamn I don't understand jack shit about economics better make a dull comparison to Bezo's fortune like he actually has a pile of cash at his disposition"
@@heramann6916 Yeah he has most of the money in wealth and stocks and not much liquid cash. He borrows against his stocks because loans are not taxable. We (or at least I) know that. This is a joke. It is not meant to be taken literally so calm tf down.
@@heramann6916 its always funny when people say ''he doesn't have a pile of money!'' like having that money invested in assets its not even better than having it in cash.
This really ended up being a great show about the road to Hell. He started out wanting to take care of his family and wound up betraying his family for his own inner demons (insecurity and pride, mainly). Brilliant long-form deconstruction of a falling star. The irony is palpable.
I don't think the fall took that long. By the time he killed 8-Ball in the first season he was well aware that he was entering a business where he would have to commit murder or be killed himself. He made that choice. The rest was just seeing if he succeeded or failed in his immoral criminal endeavor.
It doesn't play out like a morality tale, inasmuch as it plays out like a classical Greek tragedy. This story transcends simple caricatures of Good and Evil. This is a man playing out a role he found irresistible and perhaps unavoidable. It's a story about fate/destiny as much as we hate to admit it. Motives and reasons were a plenty.
Yep, faust made a deal with the devil. He gained all earthly wisdom and it cost his only soul. His only remaining ambition was to replace the devil and make the bargains himself.
@@spoilers9723if only Walt's ego wasn't as big as this pile he would've considered burning anything related to his *empire* *business* such as that book
@@spoilers9723 IF only walt didn't leave a book that would incriminate him especially in a publicly accessible area. Especially when he has a brother in-law who's a DEA agent and regularly visits his house
"I want my kids back. I want my life back" Really dont understand the extreme hate about Skyler from the fan-base. She is the most interesting character? not by far. But 99% of what people consider to be her "whining" is basically her being literally the only reasonable character in the show.
@Michael Green She tried reasoning and threatening him, she even tried cheating on him to make him change (she didn't cheat on him when he was a looser, just so you know). She had no choice but to play Bonnie with Walt. And later, Walter quite literally started to threaten her for wanting to get out. If anyone who hates Skyler would really pay attention to her and see the world through her eyes, whatever she does would be more than justified.
@Michael Green What else do you have to left to do when your husband is a literal murderer and drug dealer who puts your entire family and life at risk?
Well the real answer is that the show makes walt the protagonist and most people will usually get annoyed at anything that tries to stop the protagonist from progressing. But also some fans are just dicks and try to justify it.
Lol no it’s not, you literally missed half the point of the show haha. Money isn’t even close to everything and this season is legit screaming that to you.
This scene is so powerful for me. I truly believe Walt got into this for his family and for money for his treatment. But there was a small part in him that was his pride that he wanted to do it himself. This small part of him grew inside and the other pivitol moment is when he walked out of Tuco's office with $50,000. When he got back in the car he felt the rush and from then on it was all about his ego even if he didn't realize it himself and would continue to push the rationalization of money for his family. But this this is the moment when it was laid out for him and he could no longer lie to himself it is not about money anymore and it is all ego. Notice everything falling apart after this episode with Walt making one mistake after another. In psychology it is often talked about how people deceive themselves all the time and the delusion helps them to cope and rationalize so that they can function. Now the delusion/lie is destroyed he is shaken by the new realization and can't function as he did before till he finally accepts and confesses the truth in the last episode.
You got it wrong. Walt got into this for family and his treatment exactly. But it became so entertainment and, well, interesting per se, that he got too carried away. He got his woman about storing, keeping and spending it and throw himself into getting it and he became so successfull that he made far more money than he needed. Only in this moment he realized it and got his aspirations only to get out from it.
Yah right... lie continously to your family, manipulate your family, physically endanger your family, psychologically wreck your family, fuck up your family for the rest of their lives.... that's what you do when you love your family
It was always about feeling powerful. Walt could have joined Grey Matter again, become very rich, and financially support his family, but he turned down the offer knowing very well that it was a much better alternative to making drugs. He lived a boring, stale life, feeling as though he had no control over it, but making meth made him feel powerful. Him wrecking Tuco’s place with Mercury Fulminate kickstarted his ascent to power.
Walt’s pride was ALWAYS there. It was only magnified when he had some “success” and then it was completely out of control. Once you start feeding the beast it becomes insatiable…
Says "I didnt even try keeping count", then explains all the ways she either tried to keep count or could've kept count but did not Walt being Walt and not listening: "HOW MUCH IS THIS" Oh my gosh thanks guys ive never gotten so many likes i appreciate the ❤. Yall are the best.
Lol. You gotta wonder whether screenwriters actually look at the previous sentence when they write the next one, or are they just trying to make every word as dramatic as possible, no matter how little sense it makes.
@@playwme3 everyone is human, you can write the best movie or show of all time and it will still have mistakes or potential mistakes that people might notice
I'm an older guy so this was before debit and credit cards took off but it also means there has been some inflation. My first job was at a big-box grocery store and I started in December. I got promoted to the cash room after about two weeks, walked in for the first time around Christmas. There was about 300,000.00 laying on a table.....my parent's house was worth about 40,000.00.
It's not much.. I mean 100dollar bills 100 of it is 10,000. One pile of 100$ note is 10,000. Just 10 pile of 100$ hundreds notes is already 100,000. Unless you are talking about 10,20,50 notes in 100,000. Which would look alot of piles
I know a guy who won 10 Million on the lottery He threw a hundred grand in cash on his bed one night and slept with a girl on top of it He blew every penny of the 10mill and is now broke
These days, you don't even need to launder these. Just buy some groceries, pay rent, water and electricity bills, and it'd all be over within a few months
Square it off, top grid in blocks and count one column with a Bill counter then xtimes however many grid blocks you have. It won’t be accurate to the dollar but it’ll be close.
@@johansmallberries9874 it looks to be about 12 stacks by 16 stacks across on the top, and maybe 40 stacks tall. That works out to something like 768,000 bills. If the average bill value is just $20 that's about 15 million. If it's $50 a bill then that's more like 40 million dollars.
45 bundles high , 11 rows wide , 17 rows deep. 8,415 bundles.. × 100 bills per bundle, looks like all $50's but she said mixed. Assuming all 50's would be $42 million give or take. If someone took the time to band them, they took the time to count them and match denominations.
I adore how this scene dramatically illustrates that past a certain point, money brings no happiness. We're all so obsessed with making as much as possible, not realizing that the money we do make affords us the opportunity to make the most with the people we like being around and caring about. And those are the days, the interactions, the fleeting moments, that makes life beautiful and meaningful. "I want my life back." Something deep in Skylar was crying out to something deep in Walt to just take this and back out, and return to being a teacher and a wife who tried to make money with eBay selling, caring for the kids, *that's* what someone with more money than she knew what to do with was really wanting. Beautiful juxtaposition, and makes you, reader, think right now that you could have an epic moment with someone in your life right now, if you'd just stop distracting yourself and FEEL THINGS in this moment.
All that is great but that money is useless. They can't spend it. If Walt was CEO of a company and had the same amount of money legitimately, he would be much happier and so would Skyler. Which just disproves your point. The issue at hand isn't money, money hasn't been a problem since S1 and Walt could've stopped there and then. It's Walt's greed for power.
This is what happens with real life drug empires. They accumulate money far faster than they can launder it and it just piles up. When law enforcement makes a bust and finds a cache of millions, it barely puts a dent in their hoard. Some are still trying to launder profits from the 90s.
I always thought Gus should have helped Walter launder the cash. Because this was going to be a problem for Walt to handle this much money and risked Walter getting caught and therefore exposing the whole operation.
@@thewolfdoctor761 It was even simplier than that. Gus could've officially employed Walt as a chemist in some front company and pay him salary from his drug money! Science-related jobs have the advantage of being largely incomprehensible to normies, meaning you don't have to explain it too much at family dinners with your DEA brother-in-law. It'd make sense for Walt to get a lucrative job, since everybody knows he was grossly overqualified in that dingy school.
Every time I watch clips from Breaking Bad I can’t help but compare with the rest of the shows out there…and promptly come to the conclusion that nothing comes even close….what a masterpiece. The story and performances from the entire cast is superb! There is a reason why this is such a highly rated show. If you haven’t seen it, please drop whatever show you’re on…cause you are truly missing out!
I was a casino cashier working in a Las Vegas count room for several years. By my eyeball calculations, assuming that the average denomination is a $50 (they are not keeping piles of singles or fives and payments would generally be made using mostly $100s) that would be about $65 million. Because of all the rounding I did, a realistically imprecise estimate would put the pile at from $40,000,000 to $100,000,000.
Skyler: Explains how it's impossible to count the money since it's too much and she can't weight it because there are numerous denominations. Walt literally seconds later: "How much is this?"
Big dealers always say the hardest part of the business is hiding the money, keeping it from rats, mice, bugs, getting robbed etc. it's harder than people think in real life.
I always felt that this was the moment where we found out that Walter no longer being forced to continue cooking but was now doing it for the thrill of it. I remember Walter would count exactly how much money he had under the crawl space but in this scene he didn’t know how much he has accumulated. It’s like going to work and getting more thrilled and focused about doing the job over getting the check.
There is actually a simple way to launder this much money and that is to start a Charity Organization and accept donations of all sizes from everywhere. Arrange agents to streamline the donations and produce accounts for the charity works.
Also it seems very easy to estimate the amount. 12*12*700 - around 100k banknotes I can't see in the video, but i guess 50 dollar bills will be on average. So in total around 5 million dollars. That's like a pocket change for a money laundering organizations...
@@evgenitantikov5865 i looked at the first stack walt is facing, to the right side, and assumed its 80-120k due to the different bills. We could assume its a million for the first line and 1.5m for the second line and atleast 2m a line after that when its fully stacked up. 80m seems reasonable.
Imagine this in storage wars. Well there is a scale and a de humidifier, I'm guessing there is a collection of magazines and news paper. May be some clothing
Skyler: how big does this pile have to be? Walter: Okay Skyler you win, I’ll give everything up. Let’s start fresh, a new beginning. And they all lived happily ever after..
The book was stolen from his home and wouldn't be allowed as evidence because there was no chain of custody. If Jessie hadn't been such a twit everything would have been fine
I watched Breaking Bad via a marathon binge of two weeks straight. I guess one of the downfalls of doing such a thing is that I don't remember this scene at all.
Too bad. The bookend scenes for me in BB are, Walt telling Jesse, 'You know the business and I know the chemistry.' And Skylar telling Walt, 'I have no earthly idea.'
@@cr820 Exactly. This scene is literally about the fact he only got into the business to pay his hospital bill but now he's an addict and has way more money than he would ever need to pay for ten lifetimes of hospital bills. What a stupid comment.
My all time favorite show. Great story. Money is the tool that we try to accomplish what we want to do or do what we dream about but if money becomes the purpose. It destroy everything. We don't know what we truly want later on.
Skyler: "How big does this pile have to be?" Walter : "As big as the pile in The Dark Knight so i can slide down from it" Skyler : "Huh..?" Walter : "What?"
Imagine winning that unit on an episode of Storage Wars
@@Arun999 True, if they found out. On Storage Wars all they do is open the door to the unit and the bidding starts. If this
unit had been on the show , when they open the door the bidders would have only seen a rectangular shaped object
covered by a tarp. It's only when the winning bidder takes possession of the contents does he/she actually discover
what's inside. I think you could find a way to launder the money if you were the winning bidder. Of course I live in a fantasy
world where laundering money is easy, as depicted in the movies.
@Emma Madison goodluck with that! Bugattis and G wagons for the fam!
Epic aye!!!
Start off at $10
🤣🤣🤣🤣
I love how at the end they are looking at this massive pile of cash with absolutely no joy or excitement, just fear and dread.
I would've imagine Brian and Ana break character and started lied down just like "Mexico all the same thing."
I mean it ain’t clean money. It’s just assurance money
You can't spend it lol
Remember when Walt just wanted to buy a champagne and Skyler didn't let him ?
Any other young dumb criminals would and that's what get them caught easily. They're smart, they have to be reasonable with their income and spendings.
Having tons of cash is a real problem. Especially in the modern age and if you want to "live openly" from your "cash lifestyle"; takes great amount of situational awareness to live that way.
@@thewaywardgrape3838 not really,travel alot,always be moving ,don,t make any new neighbors your freinds,spend when you are abroad using cash thru new set up corbs,never let friends get close,keep it all real,live abroad like a king,just don,t wear the crown,NoWorries....
It stopped being about money for him long before this episode.
Yeah but money was always his rationalization. When Skyler showed him the pile of money, it finally broke the rationalization. Psychologically he was able to give himself permission to stop at that point. He only realized his self-deception at the end of the show when he admitted to Skyler that he really did it all for himself.
he built the empire. the blue meth empire
Season 1, Episode 5.
Yes
It was clear it wasn’t about money about two episodes prior. Walt could’ve taken the 5 million buyout from Declan but straight up told Jesse he was in the empire business
“I can’t launder this, not with 100 car washes” Yeah because you should’ve listened to Saul and went with laser tag instead.
Exactly. 2 laser tags to be safe imo
Hank would have been very suspicious of Walt then
Facts
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Why not just have the car wash and get another business?
Skyler: "How big does this pile have to be?"
Walt: "Big enough for Huell to lay on it"
Skyler: God help us all 😳
Or enough to satisfy Ted
My friend has over 100 grand saved up and he still works a menial job so he has an excuse not to hang out w me.
@@worsethanhitlerpt.2539 “Friend”
Huell, who's Huell?
Men will literally start a meth empire before going to therapy
It's hard avoiding something that makes you feel alive, even if it destroys your life afterwards.
Who can afford therapy?
@@TravisGarris Clearly they can. (I can’t tell if the comment is sarcastic, it is is then r/woosh me)
Men will literally turn themselves into a pickle before going to therapy.
He technically did go to therapy if chemotherapy counts 💀
Walter worked this hard just to make a cozy bed for Huell
worth it
Nice one
/-_-\ reasonably good one
Mexico. All's I'm sayin
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Totally worth it then 😆
"It's not about the money, Skyler. It's about sending a message."
**proceeds to burn pile of cash**
😂
Bro that’s a kabib quote 😂
@@sirgrifoog6461 bruh tht joker..
KLF moment
Albuquerque deserves a better class of criminals, and I’m gonna give it to them.
Started out for the money, then turned into the thirst for power and being the best of what you do.
The ego.
It was always about his ego ... but every time he had a different excuse for it (one of them needing the money for kids and stuff)
@@astveloria I think what @Thepowerlies was referring to is like when that Grey Matter guy offered him a job in S1 and said "There's great health benefits". If Walt truly just needed the money then he would've accepted that offer. So S1 there was a little bit of Walt wanting to leave a legacy instead of just a high school teacher. But I agree with you his hunger for power grew as the show went on and starting out money was definitely one of his main things he was focusing on.
He would be fine with just making 737 000$ and wouldn't been caught
Ayeee, you just described a drug cartel leader. Good for you man 👍
By the end of Breaking Bad this is how they really paid Bryan Cranston
That's how much pocket money he already has. The show just borrowed it for shooting.
@HF Trust yeah ok
@HF Trust who cares if a junkie dies? Idgaf
@HF Trust What are you a Karen? I'm betting that you are. So Bryan Cranston is responsible if someone watches a fictional show and decides to go smoke Crystal Meth? He's no more responsible then you are. Being an adult means making your own decisions for good or bad. We have an accountability problem in this country where people wanna do dumb shit and blame something else instead of ourselves. And before you say " Well what if it's a kid" then I say this, why would you let a child watch this show for?
@HF Trust horrible take
I'm surprised Walter didn't feel bothered by the fact that what stood between his life's earnings and the open world was a flimsy roll up door and a cheap ass lock.
I was just thinking that myself.
It's ok. She took the contents-insurance.
I honestly don’t even think Walt cares about the money at this point. It’s just all about the power that he has as Heisenberg
Well, it probably isn't as valuable for him anymore. I mean, he can easily earn money by cooking, however much he wants. When getting it isn't a problem, there is no need to be too concerned about keeping it.
He knows he can make that all back in a year or 2
Fun fact- All this money is real ..The producers asked Bryan Cranston to empty his pockets one day during set and then shot this scene with it..
I mean it really ain't impossible considering that Bryan Cranston has a total net worth of 40 million dollars 😄
@@KarlMacmillann thats the 40 mil they know of
No, it is not.
I don't think that's true. what would even be the point?
BRAVO VINCE
All that money, and Walter still died and lost his family.
Its not about the money, its about sending a message.
He had a shit wife and kids they betrayed them
@@Chris-hw4mq Skyler stopped loving him many episodes before this one and being there for him is almost the same as commiting suicide
@@Chris-hw4mq Walt went full megalomaniac. It was never about his family, it was about himself. His ego brought Hank's death
@@alemedina4243 Hank was a moron everybody told him to let it go he got what he deserved
As someone said:”You know when you’re rich when you don’t know how much money you have got anymore”
And you know you’re poor when you know exactly how many quarters exist in the house.
Smart rich people get an accounting of their finances daily.
Dumb athletes,no dumb celebrities, dumb you tubers have no idea.
As of this morning I had $873,413.73 in cash assets. Since my interest compounds daily I will have more tomorrow.
@stryfetc1 oh, one other thing wealth builders do, they need no one else's approval.
@stryfetc1 because truth is important. Wealthy people, smart people manage their money.
Dumb people leave their money to be managed with no oversight. That is why ball players end up in financial stress in a short order after retiring.
While I am far from what I call rich, I know were every cent of my money is spent.
You are rich WHEN you dont need to know how much money you have.
'How big does this pile have to be?' - My wife when looking at the dirty laundry in the hamper
Hmm, sounds like you need a new wife if you’ve got laundry piled up. Or you just need to train her better.
Never ending story ... dishes and laundry
Sounds like you need to get better at laundering.
Lol
My mom when she looks at my trash can in my room
The follow-up of "How much is this" always makes me chuckle. He asked this right after she went on about how she has no clue how much it is.
he wasn't paying attention lol
Props to the prop technicians on the show for making that pile look so real.
I actually bought some of that Hollywood movie money a few years ago. It looks real on video or in a photo. But in real life you can easily tell it’s fake, plus it doesn’t feel right. And the writing on it is nonsense. Which is why it’s legal to have. Fun to fool your friends with though
@@trevorjameson3213 I work at a fast food restaurant and someone tried to pay with prop money. It literally said it on the bill “for movie purposes only, not legal tender” or something. Also, the font was wrong and Thomas Jefferson was smiling on the bill lol
@USN Patriot Democrats work?
@@mightyORFEN not any more. Scary virus make you cough.....cough cough
@@JDJD-mw9rr something something.. living rent free in your head... something something.. your feelings don't matter.
Imagine how high Gustavo's money was. Even though he struck me as a guy who didn't really care about money just revenge
Walt has around 80 mill here, Gus had around 400mill and I think don eladio was at the $900mill range
@@jesse6398 Don eladio was a billionaire so yeh
@@jesse6398 with his legal business like restaurants and laundry...it could be more than that
@@asmerX100 yeah Walt just had only 1 legal clean front gus had probably 50 tbh
You guys are all wrong about Gus. He’s got way more overhead and investments (legal and not), has to make payroll. He definitely didn’t have this kind of liquidity.
"I gave up counting it....."
"How much is this?"
Try listening to your wife Walt.
Zoolander vibes.
"Are you serious? I just told you that a moment ago."
Why listen to her? She gets rawed by other men so what does it matter what she has to say?
@@magnetar2427 don't be jealous. One day you'll get rawed by other men too!
@@magnetar2427 what does that even mean? English?
If I was staring at a pile of cash like that I wouldn’t be listening either 🤷♂️
I love the scene right after when hank pops out of the pile gun drawn and yells "Schrade man here! You're both under arrest for being Heisenbergs!"
best part of the show too. a real shame no one here ever talks about it
Then drinks a Schraderbrau and winks at them while Gomey hauls them off. Such a deep scene.
My favorite part was when Hank raided Walt's house, but only took the minerals. Most people don't even know that's where most of Walt's money was going.
There were more Heisenbergs out there
Remember at the beginning of the show when walt said all he needed was 373,000$?
😂😂😂😂😂😂
It was 737,000
737000
You got your numbers jumbled up
@dsworldd I know i know i just want it to be more exaggerated
*Spends about 1 minute explaining why she has no idea how much money there is*
Walt: How much is this?
He was lost in his thinking lol like holy shit I built and empire
@@justpassingby3409 he was so shook lol
*$80,000,000*
Well to be fair, she didn't yet say she didn't know how much it was yet, she just that she stopped counting and started weighing it and presented there was an issue with it being not just the same type of bills. In addition to Walt already lost in thought of how big the pile was.
@@nostalgiatrip1 my question is why would an accountant get thrown off and not know how to proceed when there's multiple denominations? She could have very easily grabbed a stack of 10s, 20s, 50s, and 100s and weighed a million in each and gone ok, this is how much a million weighs in each denomination and then just weighed in bulk from then on. And all they could be accomplished in a 30 minute session with a proper scale lmao. I could literally count that stack in a Saturday afternoon with ease
Sky: How big does this pile have to be?
Walt: Have you seen the opening sequence of a show called Duck tales?
Skyler: Yeah.
Walt: That's on my bucket list. I'm a dying man.
Dude had like 50 chances to give up the life and never have to work ever again.
The fact that Walt never really answered Skyler’s question about being enough is all you need to know about Walt’s ambitions. He simply wants power and recognition to hide his insecurities.
The question is who doesn't?.
@@eiyp3 nah man , if you keep climbing higher, you’ll eventually fall , so having some one that can be trusted to back you up is family is left . So the most valuable thing is family
@@phanquan9470 ??? I said "who doesn't want power and recognition",where did family come from?
@@eiyp3 sorry I got emotional dmg ptsd from s5ep14
No amount of power, prestige or money was ever going to be enough for Walt.
Ugh I hate it when you have more cash than you can possibly count. It's the worst 😫
Not a problem you'll ever have
@@williamfryer4528 lol
All that money all that possibility, and she’s still moaning.
Oh I can’t count it all,
Oh I have to bring it to this storage unit
Cry me a river.
@george chapelle
The pain is real....
@@williamfryer4528 coming from a broke degenerate?
"Jesse, you asked me if I was in the meth business or the money business. Neither. I'm in the empire business." -Heisenberg
This is his empire. A pile of useless colored paper gathering dust in a warehouse.
Gus had the empire business Walt wanted but Walt never realized Gus distanced himself from his own family to achieve it
@@Alknix "useless colored paper" you must live in the forest or perhaps an uncontested tribe in the Amazon.
@@flightevolution8132 "...gathering dust in a warehouse". If they're not being spent or invested, then they might just as well be coloured paper.
@@Alknix Sometimes the value of an item is not only in what it can do, but how owning it can make you feel.
I love how quiet this scene is. It's still a very loud moment as far as the meaning behind it
That’s one heck of a stimulus package
@The Way Thing's Happen a couple hundred billion short but closer than my bank account
Tax the drug lords
@@montyi8 As is if they are going to pay. LOL
@@drkurtconnors6862 I mean, they got Al Capone (it’s more complicated than that but whatever)
Soon:
How much is this?
About 0.6 BTC
Hahaha
Bitcoin is going to die a miserable death soon
@@lionsfangs739 ethereum and other crypto's are going up now.
@@lionsfangs739 you should replace the word bitcoin with "Lion Fangs" in your sentence instead because ur words will not age well
@@lionsfangs739 why
clever detail about "keeping it dry" and spraying it "for silverfish." If you ever followed the exploits of pablo escobar, it was noted that he had so much money ducked away in different places that much of it rotted away.
Dryness shouldn't be too much of an issue in an arid state such as New Mexico.
Humidifier on the side
@@PR--un4ub humidity in new mexico ranges between 25 and 50%, definitely not the driest place.
@@bubbley1234 Compared to which other southwestern states?
@@PR--un4ub i didn't say anything about a comparison between states, a 25-50 % humidity isn't low.
the idea of it being uncountable adds so much to its emphasis, great
he should have counted it when he was getting his cut from his underlings
Bezos looking at that like “where’s the pile they keep referring to”
Underrated, lol!!
He's probably thinking "Oh Walt! If only you hadn't paid your employees so much. The stack wouldn't be so small."
Bezos thinking “bitch thats how much i make in a week..”
You guys looking at this clip like "goddamn I don't understand jack shit about economics better make a dull comparison to Bezo's fortune like he actually has a pile of cash at his disposition"
@@heramann6916 Yeah he has most of the money in wealth and stocks and not much liquid cash. He borrows against his stocks because loans are not taxable. We (or at least I) know that.
This is a joke. It is not meant to be taken literally so calm tf down.
@@heramann6916 its always funny when people say ''he doesn't have a pile of money!'' like having that money invested in assets its not even better than having it in cash.
I love this moment because it really hammers home how it wasn't about money anymore
"How big does this pile have to be"
Walt: Yes
Imagine while they're staring at the money there's a voice outside:
"This is the Lock Picking Lawyer..."
Better Call Harry
"How big does this pile have to be?"
Walt: I want it bigger than the one that the Joker burned.
That is my favorite scene, the look on the mobsters faces!
Yep! That’s my response
“How big does this pile have to be?”
“Get another tarp.”
"How many units are in this warehouse?"
This really ended up being a great show about the road to Hell. He started out wanting to take care of his family and wound up betraying his family for his own inner demons (insecurity and pride, mainly). Brilliant long-form deconstruction of a falling star. The irony is palpable.
Good guy turns bad and ends up losing everything. Yawn 🥱
It was almost as if the show was about a good person breaking bad
I don't think the fall took that long. By the time he killed 8-Ball in the first season he was well aware that he was entering a business where he would have to commit murder or be killed himself. He made that choice. The rest was just seeing if he succeeded or failed in his immoral criminal endeavor.
It doesn't play out like a morality tale, inasmuch as it plays out like a classical Greek tragedy. This story transcends simple caricatures of Good and Evil. This is a man playing out a role he found irresistible and perhaps unavoidable. It's a story about fate/destiny as much as we hate to admit it. Motives and reasons were a plenty.
Yep, faust made a deal with the devil. He gained all earthly wisdom and it cost his only soul. His only remaining ambition was to replace the devil and make the bargains himself.
This was such a wholesome show ending . Walter stopped cooking and kept the money
If only Hank didn’t take a dump
@@spoilers9723if only Walt's ego wasn't as big as this pile he would've considered burning anything related to his *empire* *business* such as that book
@@CurseEnforcerBreaking Bad fans trying not to bring Walt's ego in a conversation:
@@factory_enslavement challenge *IMPOSSIBLE*
@@spoilers9723 IF only walt didn't leave a book that would incriminate him especially in a publicly accessible area. Especially when he has a brother in-law who's a DEA agent and regularly visits his house
"I want my kids back. I want my life back"
Really dont understand the extreme hate about Skyler from the fan-base. She is the most interesting character? not by far. But 99% of what people consider to be her "whining" is basically her being literally the only reasonable character in the show.
She is also extremely smart. Without her or Saul Walt would not have got as far as he did.
@Michael Green She tried reasoning and threatening him, she even tried cheating on him to make him change (she didn't cheat on him when he was a looser, just so you know). She had no choice but to play Bonnie with Walt. And later, Walter quite literally started to threaten her for wanting to get out. If anyone who hates Skyler would really pay attention to her and see the world through her eyes, whatever she does would be more than justified.
@Michael Green What else do you have to left to do when your husband is a literal murderer and drug dealer who puts your entire family and life at risk?
Fr.
Tbh everyone should have hated Walt. Yet we rooted for the bad side.
Well the real answer is that the show makes walt the protagonist and most people will usually get annoyed at anything that tries to stop the protagonist from progressing.
But also some fans are just dicks and try to justify it.
That pile of money is everything Walt has been working towards the last 5 seasons, to him it’s everything.
With all due respect, it what started everything. But at this point it’d become more about power, being the best, and ego.
Lol no it’s not, you literally missed half the point of the show haha. Money isn’t even close to everything and this season is legit screaming that to you.
Seems like you need to watch the show again. Did you seriously enjoy five seasons of BB thinking the main character was as shallow as that?
At first it is but by the 3rd season it's apparent that he's doing this crap for recognition power and skill for his ego and self satisfaction
instead of seasons.... i've read seconds. i was like wat
This scene is so powerful for me. I truly believe Walt got into this for his family and for money for his treatment. But there was a small part in him that was his pride that he wanted to do it himself. This small part of him grew inside and the other pivitol moment is when he walked out of Tuco's office with $50,000. When he got back in the car he felt the rush and from then on it was all about his ego even if he didn't realize it himself and would continue to push the rationalization of money for his family. But this this is the moment when it was laid out for him and he could no longer lie to himself it is not about money anymore and it is all ego. Notice everything falling apart after this episode with Walt making one mistake after another. In psychology it is often talked about how people deceive themselves all the time and the delusion helps them to cope and rationalize so that they can function. Now the delusion/lie is destroyed he is shaken by the new realization and can't function as he did before till he finally accepts and confesses the truth in the last episode.
You got it wrong.
Walt got into this for family and his treatment exactly. But it became so entertainment and, well, interesting per se, that he got too carried away. He got his woman about storing, keeping and spending it and throw himself into getting it and he became so successfull that he made far more money than he needed.
Only in this moment he realized it and got his aspirations only to get out from it.
Youre right man
Yah right... lie continously to your family, manipulate your family, physically endanger your family, psychologically wreck your family, fuck up your family for the rest of their lives.... that's what you do when you love your family
It was always about feeling powerful. Walt could have joined Grey Matter again, become very rich, and financially support his family, but he turned down the offer knowing very well that it was a much better alternative to making drugs. He lived a boring, stale life, feeling as though he had no control over it, but making meth made him feel powerful. Him wrecking Tuco’s place with Mercury Fulminate kickstarted his ascent to power.
Walt’s pride was ALWAYS there. It was only magnified when he had some “success” and then it was completely out of control. Once you start feeding the beast it becomes insatiable…
Bro was suffering from success.
Still not enough to fill the void where his soul used to be.
Says "I didnt even try keeping count", then explains all the ways she either tried to keep count or could've kept count but did not
Walt being Walt and not listening:
"HOW MUCH IS THIS"
Oh my gosh thanks guys ive never gotten so many likes i appreciate the ❤. Yall are the best.
She didn't say that she didn't try keeping count. She said she stopped counting.
@@FreeThoughtCrime same difference
Lol. You gotta wonder whether screenwriters actually look at the previous sentence when they write the next one, or are they just trying to make every word as dramatic as possible, no matter how little sense it makes.
This comment is wrong. Listen again to what she says.
@@playwme3 everyone is human, you can write the best movie or show of all time and it will still have mistakes or potential mistakes that people might notice
Imagine Walter just lights a match and burns the money and turns to Skylar and says “It’s not about money, it’s about sending a message.” 😂🤣😂
Bryan Cranston joker 😂😂
R.I.P. Heath Ledger
😂😂😭😭😭😭
Everything buuurrrrns.....
“Who do you think you’re talking to right now? What is it you think you see? It is _not_ about money, Skylar, it is about sending a message.”
Money just became a trophy for Walter. Not something to be used but to be displayed to showcase his achievement.
I actually saw $100,000 in cash once. It scared me.
I'm an older guy so this was before debit and credit cards took off but it also means there has been some inflation. My first job was at a big-box grocery store and I started in December. I got promoted to the cash room after about two weeks, walked in for the first time around Christmas. There was about 300,000.00 laying on a table.....my parent's house was worth about 40,000.00.
We’re you tempted to steal some of the money?
It's not much.. I mean 100dollar bills 100 of it is 10,000. One pile of 100$ note is 10,000. Just 10 pile of 100$ hundreds notes is already 100,000.
Unless you are talking about 10,20,50 notes in 100,000. Which would look alot of piles
I had to carry ~600k in a "hundred" bills(not dollars), I didn't realize money is very heavy
I know a guy who won 10 Million on the lottery
He threw a hundred grand in cash on his bed one night and slept with a girl on top of it
He blew every penny of the 10mill and is now broke
I love how walter asks how much it was right after skylar explains that she couldn't figure it out
Manchester City & PSG during the transfer window.
Lol
Lol
nigga u funny
gold
Hahahah 😄😄
These days, you don't even need to launder these. Just buy some groceries, pay rent, water and electricity bills, and it'd all be over within a few months
Skyler: How big does this pile have to be?
Walt: *hovering his hand a few inches over the pile* -about this tall seems pretty dandy
Walt: I did it for the family
Dom: Did somebody say *_family_* ?
Imagine being inside your unit next door to them just picking up some tools and you overhear this conversation...........
Fun fact: This was acting or a prop, this was just Bryan Cranston figuring out what to do with all the money he made from Breaking Bad lol
Malcolm could have counted that pile in 5 seconds.
Good reference to Walt's son from a previous marriage.
@@steveblixt9437 lol
Square it off, top grid in blocks and count one column with a Bill counter then xtimes however many grid blocks you have. It won’t be accurate to the dollar but it’ll be close.
@@johansmallberries9874 nope, they are different denominations... But still, it wouldn't be that hard to figure it out.
@@johansmallberries9874 it looks to be about 12 stacks by 16 stacks across on the top, and maybe 40 stacks tall. That works out to something like 768,000 bills. If the average bill value is just $20 that's about 15 million. If it's $50 a bill then that's more like 40 million dollars.
45 bundles high , 11 rows wide , 17 rows deep. 8,415 bundles.. × 100 bills per bundle, looks like all $50's but she said mixed. Assuming all 50's would be $42 million give or take. If someone took the time to band them, they took the time to count them and match denominations.
Good job. She must be a bit dim, Walt would have totalled it up in seconds.
I just watched a vid where Vince said this was realistically 80million
Walter says it's worth 80 million to jack in a certain scene of particular importance (ep 15)
@@cameroncurtis7261 is that the part where he says you can do whatever you want. Live whatever life you like?
So if they're mostly $1 bills it might not even come to $1 million?
I'm learning English with these clips, thanks!!!
I guess you're skipping clips from the Boy Scouts.
I'm learning about meth with these clips. than you.
Good luck dude! :)
I'm learning drug business 😂 😂
lmfaooo this guy using one of the greatest shows of all time to learn english
I adore how this scene dramatically illustrates that past a certain point, money brings no happiness. We're all so obsessed with making as much as possible, not realizing that the money we do make affords us the opportunity to make the most with the people we like being around and caring about.
And those are the days, the interactions, the fleeting moments, that makes life beautiful and meaningful.
"I want my life back." Something deep in Skylar was crying out to something deep in Walt to just take this and back out, and return to being a teacher and a wife who tried to make money with eBay selling, caring for the kids, *that's* what someone with more money than she knew what to do with was really wanting.
Beautiful juxtaposition, and makes you, reader, think right now that you could have an epic moment with someone in your life right now, if you'd just stop distracting yourself and FEEL THINGS in this moment.
It's money you cannot spend, though
All that is great but that money is useless. They can't spend it. If Walt was CEO of a company and had the same amount of money legitimately, he would be much happier and so would Skyler. Which just disproves your point. The issue at hand isn't money, money hasn't been a problem since S1 and Walt could've stopped there and then. It's Walt's greed for power.
between all the analysis and boasts about show this kind of comments are unfortunately rare to find
The real bummer is having all this money, but not being able to spend it.
How much is enough? "THE WORLD CHICO, AND EVERYTHING IN IT"
The best thing about the characters in breaking bad and better call Saul is they demonstrate how pride can ruin a good man.
Having that much in cash would cause more problems than you could imagine.
This is what happens with real life drug empires. They accumulate money far faster than they can launder it and it just piles up. When law enforcement makes a bust and finds a cache of millions, it barely puts a dent in their hoard.
Some are still trying to launder profits from the 90s.
I always thought Gus should have helped Walter launder the cash. Because this was going to be a problem for Walt to handle this much money and risked Walter getting caught and therefore exposing the whole operation.
Maybe Saul had the connections who could have funneled the money to an account in the Cayman Islands, for a cut of course.
@@thewolfdoctor761 It was even simplier than that. Gus could've officially employed Walt as a chemist in some front company and pay him salary from his drug money! Science-related jobs have the advantage of being largely incomprehensible to normies, meaning you don't have to explain it too much at family dinners with your DEA brother-in-law. It'd make sense for Walt to get a lucrative job, since everybody knows he was grossly overqualified in that dingy school.
@@Alknix The writers messed up so bad by making him a nobel prize contributor and just have him be teaching at some high school lmfao
@@jphataraki6764 Walt was a nobel prize contributor? When was this stated?
I loved this series. how it started, how it ended. hits home to so many people who are in it for the love of money and/or success.
Very, very cool from vince gilligan to foreshadow the price of health care in america
Every time I watch clips from Breaking Bad I can’t help but compare with the rest of the shows out there…and promptly come to the conclusion that nothing comes even close….what a masterpiece. The story and performances from the entire cast is superb! There is a reason why this is such a highly rated show. If you haven’t seen it, please drop whatever show you’re on…cause you are truly missing out!
I can't watch anything else. Nothing else holds my attention lol
Game of Thrones was just as good.
zzzzzzzz
better call saul is at the same level if not better tbh
Mr Robot does. Not to that extent, that's for sure, but does
I was a casino cashier working in a Las Vegas count room for several years. By my eyeball calculations, assuming that the average denomination is a $50 (they are not keeping piles of singles or fives and payments would generally be made using mostly $100s) that would be about $65 million. Because of all the rounding I did, a realistically imprecise estimate would put the pile at from $40,000,000 to $100,000,000.
@paulpeterson4216 And Dustin Hoffman took one look at it and said... "Yeah about 50 cents, yeah definitely 50 cents, yeah."
Can’t think of another tv series I know I’m going to watch all over again 10 years from now. Sooooooo good
i found Ozark to be a close second to BB
@@jonlavallee2976 Agreed. Laura Linney playing the “Godfather” role was amazing on her part. Ended ok but overall a really good series.
Small stage. Perfect simple props. And so few words. That's a great scene.
Skyler: Explains how it's impossible to count the money since it's too much and she can't weight it because there are numerous denominations.
Walt literally seconds later: "How much is this?"
"There's a variety of denominations and I never thought to break them up into groups and weight them that way."
But strangely they're strapped. Surely, if strapped they had to be counted and like bills
It was never enough at s certain point it wasn't about the money anymore it became much more something more meaningful
Big dealers always say the hardest part of the business is hiding the money, keeping it from rats, mice, bugs, getting robbed etc. it's harder than people think in real life.
The show is supposed to be about him making plans for his death. But it's really about him being alive for the first time
One of the greatest television scenes of all time.
when she pulls off the cover... the scene is so majestic and HD
I always felt that this was the moment where we found out that Walter no longer being forced to continue cooking but was now doing it for the thrill of it. I remember Walter would count exactly how much money he had under the crawl space but in this scene he didn’t know how much he has accumulated. It’s like going to work and getting more thrilled and focused about doing the job over getting the check.
There is actually a simple way to launder this much money and that is to start a Charity Organization and accept donations of all sizes from everywhere. Arrange agents to streamline the donations and produce accounts for the charity works.
This guy get it hehe
Also it seems very easy to estimate the amount.
12*12*700 - around 100k banknotes
I can't see in the video, but i guess 50 dollar bills will be on average.
So in total around 5 million dollars. That's like a pocket change for a money laundering organizations...
@@evgenitantikov5865 thats atleast 80million dollars
@@robertromero8094 how you calculated it?
@@evgenitantikov5865 i looked at the first stack walt is facing, to the right side, and assumed its 80-120k due to the different bills. We could assume its a million for the first line and 1.5m for the second line and atleast 2m a line after that when its fully stacked up. 80m seems reasonable.
“Its not a question of enough. Its a zero sum game, pal”- gordon gekko
This is where you hired Marty from Ozark
“Skylar-we need to buy a masoleum!” 😉
The spraying for silver fish is something I never would have thought of…
Hmm, imagine some stupid silverfish spawning and destroying a block of that money
"This is it, if I collect one more dollar I will be the richest I have ever been"
Come on Sam.
“I’m not in the drug business, I’m in filling storage units with stacks of cash business.”
Walter White
I love how Walt made so much money he didn’t even realise
"Jesse you asked me if I was in the meth business or the money business. Neither. I'm in the Empire business."
~ Walter Hartwell White [S5 E6]
Imagine this in storage wars.
Well there is a scale and a de humidifier, I'm guessing there is a collection of magazines and news paper. May be some clothing
20 dollar bill all day long.
Goddamn best show period. It had a beginning, middle and end. Made you do a whole lot of thinking along the way.
Skyler: how big does this pile have to be?
Walter: Okay Skyler you win, I’ll give everything up. Let’s start fresh, a new beginning.
And they all lived happily ever after..
Right if it wasn't for Hank start taking a dump in Walt's bathroom where he kept his Walt Whitman book.
@@abramsullivan7764 Or if Walt just hadn’t gotten careless and didn’t put what was essentially evidence in his bathroom.
The book was stolen from his home and wouldn't be allowed as evidence because there was no chain of custody. If Jessie hadn't been such a twit everything would have been fine
Sarcasm, Yes?
@@immanuela209 Jesse should've killed Walt
The room isn't even 10% full. Back to work.
I watched Breaking Bad via a marathon binge of two weeks straight. I guess one of the downfalls of doing such a thing is that I don't remember this scene at all.
Too bad. The bookend scenes for me in BB are,
Walt telling Jesse, 'You know the business and I know the chemistry.'
And Skylar telling Walt, 'I have no earthly idea.'
This magnificent show finished almost a decade ago. I still haven't watched anything since which matches this.
And in this woke times you never will.
@@dermagnus8482 sad but true
@@dermagnus8482 I don't understand people's fixation on "wokeness" or whatever. Why is it that bad to you?
@@nekozombie It is cancer to culture and society. And one of the greatest dangers to creativity. It has to die off as soon as possible.
@@nekozombie because everything woke goes to shit
Skylar: We can't spend those money even in 10 lifetimes
Me: Visit a hospital in America
Just buy 2 F-16.
@@dermagnus8482 Half an F-35
They are in America. Walter does visit hospitals, quite a lot. That is kinda the catalyst for the whole fucking show.
@@cr820 Exactly. This scene is literally about the fact he only got into the business to pay his hospital bill but now he's an addict and has way more money than he would ever need to pay for ten lifetimes of hospital bills. What a stupid comment.
How much is enough is a crucial question in everybody's life.
My all time favorite show. Great story. Money is the tool that we try to accomplish what we want to do or do what we dream about but if money becomes the purpose. It destroy everything. We don't know what we truly want later on.
Skyler: "How big does this pile have to be?"
Walter : "As big as the pile in The Dark Knight so i can slide down from it"
Skyler : "Huh..?"
Walter : "What?"
Walter has that mamba mentality 🐍
Walt: "How much is this?"
Skylar: "Man what the fuck did I JUST tell you?"
Walt: "Well, I've been ignoring you for the past four seasons, why would I stop now?"