The Real Walter White

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He may be a meth chef, but he is not the one who knocks

Not only is his name Walter White, his associate has a preexisting drug history, he got a divorce, he had a questionable lawyer, he even looked like Hector Salamanca. This is too good to be true.

The bomber jacket, the stance, the way he walked. He played Bryan Cranston really well

Fact that you could walk past this man without even knowing that he's a high level meth cook is crazy

this is so crazy, someone should make a series about this

Can we get a video called “the real badger and skinny Pete”

Growing up in Oklahoma and experiencing an addiction myself, I remember fellow users who’d often mention that “red phosphorus dope” and how it had “legs for days” I’m glad to be in a better place and no longer around these types of characters. Hearing this interview jogged my memory to these comments from “back in the day”

Actually, George Marquardt, also from Oklahoma, was a chemist who made this guy look like a school boy. He went by the name of "Squeak" and he was a rotund, pipe smoking, wild haired, classic "Mad Scientist" looking character that was every bit as brilliant as he was eccentric. He was a genuine and extremely talented old school chemist who often referred to himself and his contemporaries as "Pot Boilers". He built molecules from 'scratch', rather than from immediate precursors: anything from meth to LSD and even fentanyl, which he famously manufactured in his lab in Goddard, Kansas back in the late 80's and beyond and which he distributed to Boston and NYC through mob affiliates... which got him busted. The guy being showcased here knows no actual chemistry, and his explanation of how he used a second addition of iodine as a secret way to make it perfect illustrates that fact. What was REALLY happening there, was him getting his chemical ratios wrong by using insufficient iodine in the reaction. This left unreacted ephedrine remaining in his end product, which acted like 'cut' - a diluent. One way to 'fix' that problem is to throw everything back in the reaction flask with fresh iodine and run it again. Unprofessional, but more or less a 'work around'. This tactic probably destroyed another 10 to 20 percent of his product due to thermal degradation and the usual by products that are present in most all chemical reactions being doubled by running the same process twice on the same material - but the end product that survived would at least be stronger, albeit at a cost. "Walter White" would have known these things if he was indeed worthy of being referred to as a "Chef". (LOL) But maybe someday they'll tell Squeak's story. The show 'Day One' interviewed him once in prison, but he never agreed to a movie deal after the way they edited the interview to make the story more 'juicy' or something. Spin. Squeak was finally released from Federal Prison a few years back, but I've made no attempt to reach out to him, so I'm not even sure he's still alive. If he is, he's in his seventies and the DEA is probably within visual range of him 24/7. That said, I'm fairly certain that if any of his old friends tried to contact him it would stir a hornet's nest of harmful speculation and jeopardize his freedom on supervised release. It's a shame though, because he was the victim of his own stunningly brilliant and creative mind: a mind that put him so distant from the rest of humanity that regular, "normal" people were the one thing he could seldom comprehend - or predict. Years ago, I was probably his closest friend.

This feels like an expectations vs reality meme.

The fact that guy is real, southern, cooked crystal meth in particular, and his name is actually Walter White, is beyond surreal to me!..

I love the subtle camera shots that are the same as the show, like the back and fourth between cars, the train, etc

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I wanna see their lawyer I bet he's not better than saul.

When the interviewer asked "when did your cooking hurt the family?" and the granddaughter said "did it ever really hurt the family tho?" LMAO. Obviously this guy knows how to balance his cooking and family commitments. Look at how close he still is with his sons.

Instead of being shunned by folks this guy is being appreciated and shown as if he is a hero and did something great!

... "And that was your secret?" "Yes." Meth cooks everywhere: "Write that down, write that down!"

Dad: what are you watching son? me: motivational video.

Walt would never cook in a place that contaminated

"he just wasnt the same person" He became Heisenberg