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  1. 5 minutes ago, jdhorn92 said:

    Can you help me recall...why or what led Walt to Saul?  Was Saul their conduit to laundering money, hiding money etc..under the ruse of Saul being a lawyer?  I dont recall how that relationship came to be.  And for that matter, was it Mike who turned Walt on to Saul in the first place (through their connection at the courthouse)?

    In the episode "Better Call Saul" in season 2, one of their dealers got busted. Jesse said they needed a "criminal lawyer" and that Saul was the guy to get them off the hook. The events depicted in last night's episode (Walt and Jesse kidnaping Saul) took place. Saul helped their dealer walk free and set up another guy as Heisenberg. The relationship continued with Saul offering to help launder money and introduce Walt to Gus. 

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  2. 5 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

    Up until last night, it was easy to believe that Walt made Saul bad (despite some of the things he had done prior to meeting Walt).  After the episode, I'm not so sure it wasn't Saul that made Walt go off the deep end.

     

    I'm sure Saul helped influence Walt, but by the time he met Saul, Walt had already killed a couple of guys, blown up Tuco's place, not to mention having Jessee "Handle It" with the tweakers who robbed their dealer.

  3. 20 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

    With 2 episodes left, do we have time for Gene to get arrested, the feds discover that Gene = Jimmy/Saul, and then some federal trial where Kim helps Jimmy found not guilty? From the characters we know, is there even anyone left that Jimmy could snitch on to get a deal?

    Was Francesca saying that Skyler made a deal with the feds, was that the first time we knew that? I can't recall how exactly BB left Skyler. 

    I like how the title of the last episode is Saul Gone.   It's All Gone.

    I just finished a re-watch of BB and it was left with Walt giving Skyler the lottery ticket with the GPS coordinates to where Hank and his partner were buried. He told her to use that to cut a deal.

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  4. The plan makes sense but I wouldn't put it past Jimmy and Kim to have a deeper plan either assuming Howard sees through them, or if only to entertain us.
    On further thoughts about Lalo and Jimmy, Mike was right that most likely Lalo has bigger fish to fry with Gus and Mike. It would seem that Jimmy may get roped into a scene with Lalo's return to NM but Lalo's story is more involved with Gus and Mike. The storylines get mixed in my head, but to Lalo there isn't a direct connection between Jimmy and Gus. Right? Nacho's betrayal of the Salamancas creates the potential of Jimmy being involved but even to Lalo that would be stretch.
    Speaking of people we don't know where they end up in BB or afterwards, what about Mike's granddaughter and daughter in law?

    The granddaughter was in BB quite a bit of memory serves.
  5. You are the prime example of someone in the center of the lifeboat.  Can't wait to talk to you again soon.  Congratulations on the year, that is such a tremendous milestone.

    Thank you sir. It’s a good boat to be in. You’re lifeboat reference makes me think of this talk of heard before. Listen to his invisible bot analogy starting at 51 mins in or so.

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  6. Major props man. No offense but there was a stretch where I was worried about you putting it together. Keep it up.
    Now you can be worried about me figuring it out

    Haha. None taken my friend. I had the same worries about myself for quite a while.
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  7. Oh god does THIS jewel bring back memories. My dad's been married 3X so if he'd stayed with his 2nd wife (Kay, an alcoholic, philandering credit card fiend) her older brother, Glenn, would be in strong contention for this honor.
    Glenn was a classic cheap, wannabe golf hustler from Minnesota. He was a 10 handicap who knew that he'd make the senior tour and cleanup if his wife, Sandy, would get a job so he could keep his membership at Stillwater CC and practice more often instead of working at his chosen profession which was a tire salesman. Oh yes, the income was just rolling in for a guy in '81 who barely graduated HS and whose only skill--besides getting drunk--was changing and selling tires. Check that. He had a 3rd skill: getting his 80 year old Auntie Eleanor drunk on rum and cokes then hitting her with sob stories about how he didn't know how he was going to get clothes for his 2 daughters or put food on the table until she'd start writing him checks.
    In '82 Glenn decided MN wasn't living up to expectations so he packed his wife & daughters into the station wagon and headed to Clovis, CA where his parents had retired 5 years earlier. He was sure to sell more tires there AND the better weather would help him practice his golf game which was going to be his ticket to the good life. In reality he spent 12 months getting drunk and losing whatever money he could skim from his parents hustling at the munies. Here's where it gets good.
    In November of '83, the Monday before Thanksgiving, Glenn calls his sister Kay to say "hey, we're gonna move back to MN. Can we spend a couple nights at your house until we get settled." Kay says, "sure. When do you think you'll be arriving?" Glenn says "well if we stay ahead of the snowstorm we'll be getting there tomorrow." I literally thought my dad's eyes were going to pop out of his head when he heard this.
    Glenn and the fam showed up the next day in the middle of a blizzard. We unpacked the few things they had and the 4 of them took over my oldest sister's bedroom in the basement. Glenn promised he'd be pounding the pavement looking for a job as soon as the Thanksgiving holiday was over. So Glenn, Sandy and their 2 daughters (aged four and two) settled into the basement where he proceeded to do jack shit except pretend to look for work & get drunk. He had a great act of waking up as soon as the paper was delivered so he could be sitting at the breakfast table pretending to look through the want ads for jobs while my dad was getting ready for work. As soon as dad & Kay headed to the office he'd go back to bed. Around noon he'd head to the bars and come home drunk, always with a story about how he was at an interview and ran into an old friend who wanted to buy him a drink, blah blah blah. Meanwhile, Kay's got my dad's balls in her purse and checkbook in her hands. The two girls barely have any clothes and certainly no winter clothes which gives Kay an excuse to do what she loves most which is spend money. And of course they needed food, diapers, etc. My dad knew that there was about no chance Glenn was finding a job before the first of the year so as Xmas got closer & closer he kept watching his wife spend more & more on her two nieces.
    Then it happened. We were all going over to Dave's, Glenn and Kay's baby brother, on Dec 23rd for an early family Xmas. My dad's fed up and on thin ice. Kay--who's spent a couple grand on her nieces already--tells my dad that he needs to give Glenn some money so he can buy gifts for his wife and daughters. While gnashing his teeth he gives Glenn (who initially tries the "oh, I can't take your money" routine for about 5 seconds) $250 cash. My 14 year old self watched my dad count out the money, hand it to him, and tell him to "do the right thing."
    Glenn vanishes for the next 6 or 7 hours. We're all at Dave and his wife's house, eating a bland MN Xmas feast. Dave is consoling my dad because he knows what a useless asshole his older brother is. Glenn's wife is frantically calling friends to see if anyone knows his whereabouts. She's crying. The young girls are crying. Kay's drunk & yelling at my dad for not offering to take Glenn shopping.
    Suddenly Glenn's station wagon is pulling up the driveway. He staggers out of the car and pulls a huge box out of the back. He comes in the house and slurs "Merrrah Chrisstmaass" and plops his loot on the floor. There were exactly 3 gifts: a bottle of cheap perfume for Sandy, and for his 2 daughters an Emerson stereo and a vinyl box set of Frank Sinatra's greatest hits. Dave asked his brother point blank "what the fuck were you thinking?" Glenn's reasoning was that it was never too early for the girls to learn to appreciate good music & that this would help them get into college down the road. Sandy--who was timid as a church mouse--walked up to Glenn, slapped him hard across the face and shouted "you're an asshole." My dad's head damn near exploded.
    It was the greatest example of selfishness I think I've ever seen. I wonder if that fucker is still live or pickled in a cemetery somewhere.

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  8. My sister (no pics). My parents allowed her to drop out of school and get married at 16. She then left her husband who worked an oilfield job for a crack dealer. She would sneak the crack dealer over while her husband was home and he would hide under their trailer house. They eventually ran off to a crack motel together where she was busted in a major federal trafficking case at the age of 18. Since her 3 1/2 year stint in the federal pen about ten years ago, shes upgraded to a meth head about twice her age and has a son with him. Im pretty sure he’s never held a job for more than two weeks and she never has. They are squatting in a house with no electricity or running water. They dumpster dive and steal for food/money. Last I heard, the kid hasn’t been in school in a year because they’re concerned about CPS involvement. Meth head also had a partial foot amputation due to infections and recently had a below knee amputation on his other leg.

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  9. I was at a book study retreat last week where we discussed various places the book uses the word “and” to join things that don’t link together for guys like me.

    “The idea that somehow, someday he will control and enjoy his drinking is the great obsession of every abnormal drinker. The persistence of this illusion is astonishing. Many pursue it into the gates of insanity or death. We learned that we had to fully concede to our innermost selves that we were alcoholics.”


    I tried so many times to control or moderate but I did not enjoy it by any means. If I was enjoying it, I definitely wasn’t controlling it. One was always too many and one more was never enough. Once I began taking the actions, I have somewhat a fighting chance against taking that first drink so long I stay in fit spiritual condition and continue looking for the next man to help.

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  10. On 2/16/2022 at 9:49 AM, Macanudo said:

     

    One of my big hang ups on going to AA is that my Dad was a regular attendee.   He was always looking to help/fix someone else for the control and ego boost it gave him.    He is not the only person in AA that I know like that.  I know deep down that is not the case for all AA attendees but it's always left a bitter taste in my mouth.   

      

    First of all, thank you for posting and I'm glad you went to a meeting. I had a bad taste in my mouth to begin with about AA. I always thought it was just a bunch of old men bellyaching about not being able to drink any more, but I've found so much more.

     

    My suggestion is to listen in the meetings, find a guy that can match your stories and sponsor up. If you have a book, start reading it from the Doctor's opinion. I thought for the longest time I had to address trauma and past hurts to be able to drink normally. I tried therapy, meds, you name it and yet I still drank the way I did. The doctor's opinion explains the allergy and the phenomenon of craving that baffles us and the ones around us. 

     

    I can't speak for your father, but my biggest  insurance against the next drink comes from helping others and that can come in many forms. These feelings/hang-ups you describe are addressed in the family afterward (ch 9) of the Big Book. 

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  11. I was afraid of being bored in sobriety, or not being fun enough to those around me. Then I learned other's perceptions of me don't matter any more.  That feeling of not being good enough for others is what kept me drunk. For the longest time, I didn't feel normal or accepted until I had at least a drink or 3 in me. That's great, but I didn't know how to stop at 3. 

    I had to learn to accept myself and not care how others perceive me. At the end of the day, as long as I know I am continuing to do the right thing, it doesn't matter to me any more what others think. 

    I've personally found a lot of fun in sobriety. I've been able to enjoy the things I used to enjoy while drinking in a different way (Sports, weddings, concerts, etc), and it's been great.

     

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  12. I'd say put it on about 9:30.  I also adhere to the Franklin method, and I'm putting mine (20 lbs on WSM 22.5") at 9 for a 12:30 or 1 pm. (who can say) lunchtime.  I run the WSM wide open with an empty water pan.  It usually takes just under 3 hours for me with the bird on the top (hot) rack.
    That would give you about 45 minutes to rest it and time to slice and serve right at 2.
    Don't mess with low and slow with Turkey.  Hot temps equal crispy skin.

    Thanks. I was thinking 3-3.5 hours. I’ve got the 18 inch but should be similar. It seems like last time I tried to run it hot, I couldn’t get over 275 but I didn’t open the door at all. I plan to fill the base with charcoal then load a full chimney on top, or should I do two chimneys? I’m aiming to leave my place around 12 or just before.
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  13. I've got a 19lber I'm going to do on the WSM. Gonna use the Franklin method. Taking it overt to a friends place around 12 to eat at 2 (will transport in cooler). Thinking I should be putting it on around 730-8 to pull on time.  Does that sound about Right?

  14. 23 hours ago, henrygandorf said:

    seems like several of you are in the same boat i'm in.  the wife loves hallmark movies, just like her sister and her mother.  which is weird because my sister and mother do not care for them at all.

    sometimes she'll put one on from 2018 or something and after about 10 minutes while i'm playing on my phone i'll be like, "i've fucking seen this one."  happen to anyone else?  i know these movies seem like they're all the same but sometimes they actually are the same.

    sidenote - there is some new channel called gac that is not available everywhere (we do not get it).  my wife (through work stuff) knows several of the mid-level hallmark type stars like danica mckellar (we've gone on a double date with them) and apparently danica and others are pushing people really hard to call their providers and complain about not getting it.

    i like calling companies and complaining about shit, but this is a bridge too far.  i'm not that good an actor.

    You can't just gloss over this fact. Please tell me some sort of Winnie Cooper fantasy was fulfilled.

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