Would have been funny if Walter chose to flip to Hank and convince him that he could do what he did to the cartels but partnering with Hank. Not that Hank would likely go with the idea, but it's a humorous thought.
Something a lot of people overlook is Walter took out so many people in the drug business that you could say he positively affected it in that regard. Also Gretchen & Elliot spoke on Charlie Rose about their 28 million dollar charity grant announcement for drug abuse treatment centers in the south west that would have never been possible if not for Walter
It’s all about infiltrating them and gaining their trust until you have enough info to take them down. It’s just a lot easier to do that when you constantly break the law unlike the DEA
@@unclekarl5219 his own, jack's, and technically through killing tuco he helped gus fring kill the entire cartel, then he killed fring. so in total like 4
I waa watching the video with a straight face while thinking back to the series as a way to refresh my memory and that split second made me burst into tears laughing
Visualizes the scope and scale of how organized each empire was, the amount of shit they were pumping into people who just wanted a fix is crazy. Even with the map empty of any color, it's still chilling knowing millions are snorting that crap up.
@@DogeickBateman honestly with the sheer amount of meth they produced it's kinda jarring that we never see someone (other than tuco) using it, would've made for one hell of a scene
@@Josuh you mean like the scene in the very first episode where krazy 8 snorts it? or the multiple scenes where jesse smokes it? or the scene where badger snorts it and does the riverdance? or the wendy montage where she smokes it? or the scene with a whole trap house full of addicts where walt finds jesse? or the scene with tucker and his friend?
@@lucille8302yeah I wish people would acknowledge this more. Something that I kept a note of during the series is that Lydia vaguely acknowledges knowing SEVERAL drug contacts in Europe. After hearing the news the Euro drug gangs could’ve easily split business to New Mexico and pick up where they left off. They’ve got lots of fiending customers.
Seems pretty accurate, but I think the addition of Germany onto the map of the Czech Republic should be there because Gus had operations there and I believe Lydia mentions it too.
There is a whole scene playing in Germany, when the police raids the mother company and the inside guy electrocutes himself on the toilet. Very nicely done, they used german actors even for the extras that are exclaiming stuff in the background.
Something that is never mentioned after the series is how many copycats of Blue Sky there will turn out to be after Walts death. Sure, we had Declan, but he is considered a 'reputable' dealer. Imagine the widespread influence of countless up-and-coming cooks there would be. Similarily to how the general public talks about Escobar and Guzman.
Not just in the show, but Blue Sky made it's way into the real world after Breaking Bad. The show was so influential that real meth manufacturers started adding blue food dye to their product as a marketing stunt, to get more people to buy it.
2:53 The elevator smooth jazz music and the purity of the split second we get to absorb those three words really seals this as a moment of comedy gold, imho.
Hi! Everyone who belives in Jesus Christ shall be saved. Acts 16:30-31 He then brought them out and asked, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?” They replied, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved-you and your household.”
The show probably exists in-universe too, but instead of "Breaking Bad" by Vince Gilligan, it'd be "Narcos: New Mexico" and it'd be by the same guys who did the Narcos shows
@@nathansquared2685 I don't think he was talking about justifications. I think he meant that if you want to do something evil, but accidentally do something good, the original intent does not change the benefit to society.
No, as evidenced by this video you can see that empires come and go and that power vacuums are always filled, someone will replace them, the only thing that is truly gone is the blue meth, that was Walter's and anyone who knew how to make it or even had the means to make it is gone, those who follow will simply sell inferior home-made meth.
I thought one of the main "morals" of the show was that every drug cartel or leader you kill just leads to another one taking their place, ad infinitum. Even though we don't see it in the shows, there's definitely already someone building their own drug empire after Walt's death.
One mistake I think, is that Gus broke free from Juarez in S3E8, when he had Bolsa killed, which isn't even mentioned in the notes. Ever since that point, he was at war with Juarez, who were trying to bring him back into the fold. The war only ended when Gus cut the head off the snake by killing Don Eladio in S4E10 causing the collapse of the Juarez Cartel.
S3 E3 really was the point where the meth empire began expanding that episode truly captures the foundation that Walt built to transform himself and the video does an amazing job capsulating all that happened in that episode
Hi! Everyone who belives in Jesus Christ shall be saved. Acts 16:30-31 He then brought them out and asked, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?” They replied, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved-you and your household.”
This video needs to be updated with “2010: James Morgan McGill aka Saul Goodman confesses to his crimes in court, saying ‘Heisenberg couldn’t have done it without me’. Goodman is then sentenced to 86 years in prison for his crimes.”
Hi! Everyone who belives in Jesus Christ shall be saved. Acts 16:30-31 He then brought them out and asked, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?” They replied, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved-you and your household.”
*Cartel Endings:* Tuco - Walter White & Jesse Juarez Cartel - Gus Fring Gus Fring - Walter White Heisenberg's Empire - Walter White Declan's Cartel - Jack & Lydia Jack & Lydia - Walter White
Hi! Everyone who belives in Jesus Christ shall be saved. Acts 16:30-31 He then brought them out and asked, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?” They replied, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved-you and your household.”
@@yechezkelbinstok9281 Walt would not have had direct control of those areas, but likely it's based on his product making it's way to those areas and being in demand.
The Juarez Cartel in reality would control only a small portion of Mexico, most likely Central and Northern Chihuahua. Some spots in Sonora and Coahuila. Their control in the United States seems accurate according to Breaking Bad's lore
Yea because in reality if La Linea members tried to enter Tamaulipas during 2008 they'd end up in a gore video most likely done by Golfos or Zetas (just like what happened in Zacatecas months ago when CDN skinned some La Linea teenager alive).
@@TheStarkman123 Yeah. And even when Breaking Bad lore states that Juarez Cartel dominates New Mexico, I doubt the Sinaloa Cartel would allow it at all. Hell, even their territory inside Chihuahua would be heavily disputed
The cartel in breaking bad seemed to be a mix of the Juarez cartel, the Sinaloa cartel, the familia michoacana and the Beltran Leyva (the latter one being an inspiration for the salamancas) so it would make some sense they’d control that territory.
Seeing the name Heisenberg showcased brightly in blue really showcases what folk meant about Heisenberg having the infamy of being the man whom built the largest meth empire in US history.
Haven’t seen breaking bad since it aired its last episode live on tv. Watching this video gave me some awesome flashbacks and memories. Thanks for the video.
There’s no possible way Walt’s output could have dominantly supplied most of the western US as well as the Czech Republic. 50 pounds per week vs versus Fring’s 200 pounds plus his own distribution system, and he’s only half the size of Walt? Doesn’t make sense.
Yeah that did seem kind of light. I remember from my idiot days of youth that my dealer lady went through a few pounds a month and she was small time. I can't imagine 250 pounds for all that area being anywhere close to accurate.
Hi! Everyone who belives in Jesus Christ shall be saved. Acts 16:30-31 He then brought them out and asked, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?” They replied, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved-you and your household.”
It’s really just. Such a shame Walt left the book in the bathroom. It was his one fault that he couldn’t anticipate. We knew that Hank and him talked about “W.W.” earlier in the series. We knew Walt was just joking around feeling confident that Hank wouldn’t ever find out when he said “hah, ya got me” but wow. What foreshadowing.
While Hank discovering the book is one of the greatest cliff-hangers of all time, it's also one of the few very unbelievable things that happened. Even if we can assume Walt slips up and leaves a book that says "W.W." on the toilet in his house that guests use (including his wife's DEA brother-in-law!), this idea that Hank would have to use the bathroom AND want to pick up a couple-hundred paged book that's behind him for the 5 minutes he's going to sit there is absurd. It doesn't ruin it for me by any means, I just think the probability of it playing out that way is extremely low.
I like how Jack and Lydia not only expanded on Walt's Empire, but they were more stable and it lasted longer. If Walt had just died of cancer before he could kill them, they would have probably become some of, if not the greatest drug distributers of all time, rivaling the likes of Escobar, and they would have done it for far longer than Walt ever could have.
Ironically, it does have enormous impact. At this point, Walt was still under the delusion that he was doing all of this for his family. After Skyler admits to sleeping with Ted and later on giving him all the crawl space money to pay off the cooked books of his company, Walt then went into the "empire business" and was only in it for himself the rest of the way.
Walt was the chosen one: he brought balance to the streets by destroying drug empires when he built his own and when he dismantled it when it was taken from him 💀
Where you see a straight line for a border between states, it typically means there were essentially no major landmarks to be found with which to create a more natural kind of border. Given that the states where all established by immigration of largely one homogenous group to those areas pretty quickly and orderly, and coming into being in a time of advancing cartographic technology, they could actually get away with just drawing a line on the earth and calling it a border. If something ever happened to seriously impact the stability of the US, you would see the plains states essentially dissolve and borders become very fuzzy things centered around locuses of population. Given enough time, it would eventually look like how the Eurasian steppe did for most of history. With vast swathes of land laid loose claim to by nomadic clans, who would be the only kind of society able to realistically command such a large area full of very little. :nerd emoji: :nerd emoji: :nerd emoji:
@@Guy-Manni agree this is how it would play it out in the past, power had advanced in its reach enough that any civilization large enough (Deseret/East/West coast) could conquer it cleanly. It might become a sort of western Afghanistan, though, there are many hardscrabble white mountain men in them hills
4:28 You know this show was insane cause with that crawl space music as the cartel territory vanishes, Gus territory stands alone, then disappears. Dang. It was intense just reading
@@grantwilliams26507:02 this area is massive, stretching from Oregon to the Gulf of Mexico, and I don't believe we ever see proof that Walt was able to distribute this far.
@@grantwilliams2650In season 2 Episode 13 Hank says “But outside, I've got reports of the blue stuff making a scene here in Texas, Arizona, Colorado and Nevada.” Shows a map to the effect and yet here in this video at 2:29 there is zero activity outside the SW. There is plenty more inaccuracy though and it seems this is literally just the video creator guessing based off plot summaries.
Is there a video similar to this but showing real life drug empires in Mexico and the us in current time? Because that’s what I wanna see. Props to the content creator
I imagine with some reasonably extensive research it would be possible to figure out who controls where, but the truth is these days in the US it's nearly all cartel drugs again. Gang crime went down a huge amount between the 90s and today, and a lot of that is because the cartel came up north and KILLED ALL THE GANGS
For future videos when someone’s name ends in an S like Gus and you want to show possession. You put Gus’ instead of Gus’s. Beyond that very minor thing. Great and great creative video!
The Heisenberg empire existed for only part of one episode. Because Vince Gilligan was intent on making Breaking Bad a morality play in which Walt and Jesse have to constantly suffer for their sins and can't be seen having it good for any extended period of time.
I dont think jack's empire grew that large. Jack kinda made it clear he wasnt as interested in the expansion as lydia and walt were. So it seems more likely that he kept it more local. Then again, a good portion of the west coast was hooked on that blue blue. So it would've been far easier to find buyers.
4:59 Gus didnt wipe out the entire Cartel though? Aren’t there like hundreds of drug lords and he only wiped out like 20. Also that one drug lord from New York in season 5 believed the Cartel was responsible for Fring insinuating they were still around.
@@grantwalter2243 yea, and after that its all speculation. the video saying the cartel collapsed without leadership is prob mostly speculation. imo its the most likely outcome but idk im not in the cartel
This is really interesting but also there’s something so funny to me about reading about murder and drug trafficking while weather channel music plays in the background
Had to remove the second song for copyright claim which is why the editing around that part is a bit weird.
The shorter explanation thingies on the right side of the screen don't stay up for long enough
@@SowerValleryou ever heard of a pause button?
@@omega0368 ikr
GreAt stuff
@@SowerVallerwatch the show
Funny how Walt destroyed more cartel empires in a couple of seasons than the DEA did in their entire lifetime
Would have been funny if Walter chose to flip to Hank and convince him that he could do what he did to the cartels but partnering with Hank. Not that Hank would likely go with the idea, but it's a humorous thought.
@@DogeickBateman
Breaking bad ended up turning into a vigilante story would be interesting
The federal government doesnt want to lose its most valued clients.
Tbf gus did most of that
So Walter really was the chosen one that brought balance to the Force
Really puts into perspective just how much Walt both built and destroyed.
nuts innit,
Hello again Marshal
@@H_P_Lovecraft ey
With a bit of unintended help from Hank when he took out Tuco and his team taking out his operation
Something a lot of people overlook is Walter took out so many people in the drug business that you could say he positively affected it in that regard. Also Gretchen & Elliot spoke on Charlie Rose about their 28 million dollar charity grant announcement for drug abuse treatment centers in the south west that would have never been possible if not for Walter
Walter did a better job to destroy drug empires than the dea
"You are a time bomb. Tick tick tick. And I dont have any intention of being around for the boom" -Mike, to Walt
It’s all about infiltrating them and gaining their trust until you have enough info to take them down. It’s just a lot easier to do that when you constantly break the law unlike the DEA
What drug empire did he destroy others than Gus Fring’s?
@@unclekarl5219
his own, jack's, and technically through killing tuco he helped gus fring kill the entire cartel, then he killed fring.
so in total like 4
@@unclekarl5219Do you not recall the downfalls of Tuco and Jack?
It's unnerving how Heisenberg's empire was bigger than some countries in the world
Ik It's scary AF
His neighborhood was bigger than some countries
His house was bigger than some countries@@ukulelevillain4170
This map is total BS with no proof from the show
@@yechezkelbinstok9281 if you paid attention to the show you'd realise it isnt
And then no more drugs were ever made! Truly one of the happiest endings of all time!
Truly one of the comments
of all time@@appledinger1121
@@appledinger1121Truly one of the replies
@@Spongebongvapepants Truly one of the replies to a reply of the comments
Truly one of the replies to a reply to another reply in the comments. Bravo Vince!
I lost it at "Skylar fks Ted" 😂
I was looking to see who else noticed
LMFAO, I rewind it like 3 times
"Wait wtf was that?"
2:54
They should've added her empire for a quick second 😂
I waa watching the video with a straight face while thinking back to the series as a way to refresh my memory and that split second made me burst into tears laughing
This makes the horror of the series feel more apparent
Visualizes the scope and scale of how organized each empire was, the amount of shit they were pumping into people who just wanted a fix is crazy.
Even with the map empty of any color, it's still chilling knowing millions are snorting that crap up.
@@DogeickBateman honestly with the sheer amount of meth they produced it's kinda jarring that we never see someone (other than tuco) using it, would've made for one hell of a scene
@@Josuhvery true. It would help visualise the destruction the drugs caused. But a wonderful series is over (sadly)
@@Josuh you mean like the scene in the very first episode where krazy 8 snorts it? or the multiple scenes where jesse smokes it? or the scene where badger snorts it and does the riverdance? or the wendy montage where she smokes it? or the scene with a whole trap house full of addicts where walt finds jesse? or the scene with tucker and his friend?
@@Josuh Season 2 , Episode 6
So without Walter the western drug empires would never have fallen, a true hero
I love pepperoni pizza
All hail Emperor Walter the White
A real “Hitler was a hero for killing Hitler” situation
@@randomjunkohyeah1 that's why he's in heaven right now
He didn’t take it down all he did was create voids for another person to inevitably take over. He didn’t kill the market lmfao.
@@lucille8302yeah I wish people would acknowledge this more. Something that I kept a note of during the series is that Lydia vaguely acknowledges knowing SEVERAL drug contacts in Europe. After hearing the news the Euro drug gangs could’ve easily split business to New Mexico and pick up where they left off. They’ve got lots of fiending customers.
Seems pretty accurate, but I think the addition of Germany onto the map of the Czech Republic should be there because Gus had operations there and I believe Lydia mentions it too.
The mother company of Los pollos hermanos was in germany
It would basically only be Frankfurt based on my experiences in person lmao. Not all that much information to display.
I remember Lydia mentioning that they were about to ship gus's blue meth to Czechia, but thats when Gus died.
There is a whole scene playing in Germany, when the police raids the mother company and the inside guy electrocutes himself on the toilet. Very nicely done, they used german actors even for the extras that are exclaiming stuff in the background.
6:58 includes Prague during the Heisenberg expansion
Something that is never mentioned after the series is how many copycats of Blue Sky there will turn out to be after Walts death. Sure, we had Declan, but he is considered a 'reputable' dealer. Imagine the widespread influence of countless up-and-coming cooks there would be. Similarily to how the general public talks about Escobar and Guzman.
Not just in the show, but Blue Sky made it's way into the real world after Breaking Bad. The show was so influential that real meth manufacturers started adding blue food dye to their product as a marketing stunt, to get more people to buy it.
7:31 declan died.
Fuck, there were people in real life that tried to replicate it by dying their meth. I think they even make a reference to that in the show
@@jto541 Source
translate to english hahaha, its is actually@@amelhormatilha7847
This is really cool, i've always wanted to see the full extent of these empires
What's sad is when one empire falls, two new ones take their place.
2:53 The elevator smooth jazz music and the purity of the split second we get to absorb those three words really seals this as a moment of comedy gold, imho.
Hi!
Everyone who belives in Jesus Christ shall be saved.
Acts 16:30-31
He then brought them out and asked, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”
They replied, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved-you and your household.”
What's your favorite empire you like to learn about? The Roman Empire? Frankish?
Me:
The Heisenberg Empire.
The gus fring empire
The Skyler fucks Ted empire
The Sauleman Empire
The empire bussnises
this vid probably exists in the breaking bad universe aswell
that's a crazy thought
Under a different name, but yes
@@railworksamerica “The Drug Empires of Real Life 2008 - 2010"
Makes sense
The show probably exists in-universe too, but instead of "Breaking Bad" by Vince Gilligan, it'd be "Narcos: New Mexico" and it'd be by the same guys who did the Narcos shows
This is such a nerdy thing to make I adore this.
How’s it nerdy? I see people saying the same thing about the expansion of escobar’s empire
@@Nemenismoving map videos in general are nerdy. The average person doesn’t watch them, nor know basic history for that matter.
He's randomly painted borders on the map, also he's incorrect Gus was selling meth in all bordering states but not in New Mexico
@@groupvucic2235 Gus’ empire still includes New Mexico he doesn’t actually have to sell there
Dumbass
Gotta love how all of México was controlled by 1 cartel. Truly the most peaceful and quieter times of all its history.
That’s actually the accurate Juarez map at the time. Notice they don’t control Baja
@@EldenRingGod69 ☝️🤓
@@ch4rbDon’t be mad you were wrong
@@SangreFriasBack hey wanna play some beyblade
@@ch4rb Boy would I!
March 5 2009 was a critical turning point in this Greek tragedy.
Skylar fcks Ted
It truely was
Truly
I was waiting to see a comment about that😂. It truly was
This impact grecce a year later with the prime minister in kastelorizo saying the country will be in national money register
I find it funny that in a way Walter was a hero in that he monopolized the meth industry and took it down with him.
And that's why democracies need absolute ruler beforehand
outcome is more important than intent
@noises4978 the ends dont justify the means.
@@nathansquared2685 I don't think he was talking about justifications. I think he meant that if you want to do something evil, but accidentally do something good, the original intent does not change the benefit to society.
Yeah and no meth was made ever again
This just shows that Walter literally did the work of the DEA in the series. He completely put an end to the drug empires in the USA.
No, as evidenced by this video you can see that empires come and go and that power vacuums are always filled, someone will replace them, the only thing that is truly gone is the blue meth, that was Walter's and anyone who knew how to make it or even had the means to make it is gone, those who follow will simply sell inferior home-made meth.
I thought one of the main "morals" of the show was that every drug cartel or leader you kill just leads to another one taking their place, ad infinitum. Even though we don't see it in the shows, there's definitely already someone building their own drug empire after Walt's death.
Walt was an inside man all along
Play of the game
China drug cartel steps in.
One mistake I think, is that Gus broke free from Juarez in S3E8, when he had Bolsa killed, which isn't even mentioned in the notes.
Ever since that point, he was at war with Juarez, who were trying to bring him back into the fold.
The war only ended when Gus cut the head off the snake by killing Don Eladio in S4E10 causing the collapse of the Juarez Cartel.
Yes, the colour should have changed
S3 E3 really was the point where the meth empire began expanding that episode truly captures the foundation that Walt built to transform himself and the video does an amazing job capsulating all that happened in that episode
How is this comment. Not more upvoted lol
I love how Jack's empire, being the last in the series, crumbles right before Baby Blue's beat drops.
Also to note, Jack's gang probably ended up as the most profitable of them all. Made the most amount of money...
Hi!
Everyone who belives in Jesus Christ shall be saved.
Acts 16:30-31
He then brought them out and asked, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”
They replied, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved-you and your household.”
This video needs to be updated with
“2010: James Morgan McGill aka Saul Goodman confesses to his crimes in court, saying ‘Heisenberg couldn’t have done it without me’. Goodman is then sentenced to 86 years in prison for his crimes.”
Hi!
Everyone who belives in Jesus Christ shall be saved.
Acts 16:30-31
He then brought them out and asked, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”
They replied, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved-you and your household.”
@@zytniazpiwniczkiAmen
But with good behaviour...who knows? 👉👉
Gtfo of here with that nonsense, moron@@zytniazpiwniczki
I remember the court ruled that there was no possibility of parole @@nathansquared2685
*Cartel Endings:*
Tuco - Walter White & Jesse
Juarez Cartel - Gus Fring
Gus Fring - Walter White
Heisenberg's Empire - Walter White
Declan's Cartel - Jack & Lydia
Jack & Lydia - Walter White
Heisenberg's Empire was ended by Hank Schrader
@@triflomastera4882 Walter White stopped cooking meth much before Hank knew it
@@triflomastera4882Walt retired before Hank found out
Then finally Walter White - Walter White
Krazy 8: walter white
Walter White couldn't have done it without Saul Goodman.
The real mastermind is lung cancer
@@NeonBeeCatAnd the mastermind behind the mastermind is Chuck McGill
@@ProfoundKrab Chuck McGill: "I know what you were, what you are! You're Slippin' Jimmy!"
Walter White: 🤸♂️
Hi!
Everyone who belives in Jesus Christ shall be saved.
Acts 16:30-31
He then brought them out and asked, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”
They replied, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved-you and your household.”
Saul Goodman wouldn't have existed without Chuck McGill, who is is just Walt 0.5.
Is there proof that Heisenberg's empire was even near that big? How would he be able to supply meth from Texas to Oregon?
They probably didn’t directly l supply but it rather got tossed around all over the country
@@CoacoaPuffs yeah but is there any proof of that in the show?
@@yechezkelbinstok9281they had customers in other countries confirmed via granite state ending
no
@@yechezkelbinstok9281 Walt would not have had direct control of those areas, but likely it's based on his product making it's way to those areas and being in demand.
The Juarez Cartel in reality would control only a small portion of Mexico, most likely Central and Northern Chihuahua. Some spots in Sonora and Coahuila. Their control in the United States seems accurate according to Breaking Bad's lore
Yea because in reality if La Linea members tried to enter Tamaulipas during 2008 they'd end up in a gore video most likely done by Golfos or Zetas (just like what happened in Zacatecas months ago when CDN skinned some La Linea teenager alive).
@@TheStarkman123 Yeah. And even when Breaking Bad lore states that Juarez Cartel dominates New Mexico, I doubt the Sinaloa Cartel would allow it at all. Hell, even their territory inside Chihuahua would be heavily disputed
The cartel in breaking bad seemed to be a mix of the Juarez cartel, the Sinaloa cartel, the familia michoacana and the Beltran Leyva (the latter one being an inspiration for the salamancas) so it would make some sense they’d control that territory.
@@thecollector4332 why La Familia Michoacana?
@@TheStarkman123
Partly because of their odd religious tendencies and also cause hector mentions having businesses in Michoacán.
Seeing the name Heisenberg showcased brightly in blue really showcases what folk meant about Heisenberg having the infamy of being the man whom built the largest meth empire in US history.
2:55 I saw that bruh 💀
I was looking for this comment
@@chernovbrichtofen4767and i was looking for your comment
very vital to the plotline
I fucked Ted
Very important for the creation of the drug empire.
Haven’t seen breaking bad since it aired its last episode live on tv. Watching this video gave me some awesome flashbacks and memories. Thanks for the video.
I love that the Crawlspace ending music matches with the moment the map is showing Crawlspace.
my favorite scene is 4:57 where the crawl space ost beat drop syncs up with the timeline reaching the crawl space episode vravo bince
kind of disturbing when you think about Heisenberg's meth empire being bigger than some countries
Great video! I had never thought of how huge of an area Gus' and Walter's empire stretched.
There’s something so unnerving about the music choice and the plot being described
Eerie is another word to describe it
2:55
The most important note.
3:24 best part
2:55
There’s no possible way Walt’s output could have dominantly supplied most of the western US as well as the Czech Republic. 50 pounds per week vs versus Fring’s 200 pounds plus his own distribution system, and he’s only half the size of Walt? Doesn’t make sense.
I think its just signs from where Walt's product was seen by the DEA
This guy has no sources for the map he just guess
Yeah that did seem kind of light. I remember from my idiot days of youth that my dealer lady went through a few pounds a month and she was small time. I can't imagine 250 pounds for all that area being anywhere close to accurate.
This video uses no sources so it's not accurate.
Hi!
Everyone who belives in Jesus Christ shall be saved.
Acts 16:30-31
He then brought them out and asked, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”
They replied, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved-you and your household.”
9:28 i like how it sounds like walter bought the machine gun at Denny’s
You don't buy your guns from Denny's?
so what is this video based on, exactly? i don't recall anywhere near this much geographic information being given in the show
The moral of Breaking Bad: When involved in drugs, eventually no-one will win.
Bro if you could remake this with a script it would have blown up insane. W research, W video
wdym by “a script?”
@@cronus8773 like voiced out so you don't have to read paragraphs of information in short bursts. No shade, I was genuinely impressed.
Eh. Its fine as is.
@@concept5631 tldr basically I already seen the show this video isn't interesting enough for me to read 10 mins of info pausing every 2 seconds.
@@NICH.O0O0O0O0 ight
Insanely good, how is this only att 500 views?
It’s really just. Such a shame Walt left the book in the bathroom. It was his one fault that he couldn’t anticipate. We knew that Hank and him talked about “W.W.” earlier in the series. We knew Walt was just joking around feeling confident that Hank wouldn’t ever find out when he said “hah, ya got me” but wow. What foreshadowing.
Hank most likely would’ve found out either way
@@masturch33f66 How?
While Hank discovering the book is one of the greatest cliff-hangers of all time, it's also one of the few very unbelievable things that happened. Even if we can assume Walt slips up and leaves a book that says "W.W." on the toilet in his house that guests use (including his wife's DEA brother-in-law!), this idea that Hank would have to use the bathroom AND want to pick up a couple-hundred paged book that's behind him for the 5 minutes he's going to sit there is absurd. It doesn't ruin it for me by any means, I just think the probability of it playing out that way is extremely low.
this is so f ing funny to me that 2:54 very important fact that skyler f's ted is shown for a split second
You made a masterpiece here
2:35 Smooth jazz fits really well with the map. We could call it the Mether Channel
currently in our area: meth
In between building and destroying drug empires Walter and Jesse spend a day trying to deal with a fly.
I like how Jack and Lydia not only expanded on Walt's Empire, but they were more stable and it lasted longer. If Walt had just died of cancer before he could kill them, they would have probably become some of, if not the greatest drug distributers of all time, rivaling the likes of Escobar, and they would have done it for far longer than Walt ever could have.
Huh interesting, sad that we know so little about some local gangs from the area after heisenbergs death.
ah yes.. 2:54 the most important moment of drug empire history 😂
Ironically, it does have enormous impact. At this point, Walt was still under the delusion that he was doing all of this for his family. After Skyler admits to sleeping with Ted and later on giving him all the crawl space money to pay off the cooked books of his company, Walt then went into the "empire business" and was only in it for himself the rest of the way.
How the hell did Walt manage to get his empire so damn big? Gus literally had his own distribution system with his own trucks.
@@tru3boc working overtime
Walt was the chosen one: he brought balance to the streets by destroying drug empires when he built his own and when he dismantled it when it was taken from him 💀
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Because he's the one who knocked
He has the higher ground
This is one of those videos that 100% would exist in the breaking bad universe.
the fact that there are states that are just straight up rectangles is so crazy for me to grasp
Where you see a straight line for a border between states, it typically means there were essentially no major landmarks to be found with which to create a more natural kind of border. Given that the states where all established by immigration of largely one homogenous group to those areas pretty quickly and orderly, and coming into being in a time of advancing cartographic technology, they could actually get away with just drawing a line on the earth and calling it a border.
If something ever happened to seriously impact the stability of the US, you would see the plains states essentially dissolve and borders become very fuzzy things centered around locuses of population. Given enough time, it would eventually look like how the Eurasian steppe did for most of history. With vast swathes of land laid loose claim to by nomadic clans, who would be the only kind of society able to realistically command such a large area full of very little.
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@@Guy-Manni agree this is how it would play it out in the past, power had advanced in its reach enough that any civilization large enough (Deseret/East/West coast) could conquer it cleanly. It might become a sort of western Afghanistan, though, there are many hardscrabble white mountain men in them hills
@@Guy-Mann I didn't read all of it but I appreciate the nerd essay.
So much detailed knowledge of the series yet still misspells Skyler lmao
And Jessie
Misspelled Hyzonnburgh too
To be fair, Skyler is masculine and Skylar is feminine
and Vamonos Pest
“Skylar fucked Ted” truly the most pivotal moment in the show causing Walt to expand his drug empire
We need a total timeline map with BCS included
4:28
You know this show was insane cause with that crawl space music as the cartel territory vanishes, Gus territory stands alone, then disappears.
Dang. It was intense just reading
This video is awesome!
No it's not, there is no proof that Walt's empire/distribution network was even nearly that big.
@@yechezkelbinstok9281 Give me a time stamp that’s messed up and explain the inaccuracy.
@@grantwilliams26507:02 this area is massive, stretching from Oregon to the Gulf of Mexico, and I don't believe we ever see proof that Walt was able to distribute this far.
@@grantwilliams2650 The part where Walt's empire is twice as big as Gus' despite him making 1/4th of the meth lol
@@grantwilliams2650In season 2 Episode 13 Hank says “But outside, I've got reports of the blue stuff making a scene here in Texas, Arizona, Colorado and Nevada.” Shows a map to the effect and yet here in this video at 2:29 there is zero activity outside the SW. There is plenty more inaccuracy though and it seems this is literally just the video creator guessing based off plot summaries.
just a correction, 7:03, Czechia is not in nebraska
No way
No, but Saul is
I hate how if Hank didn't find the book all would be well
Is there a video similar to this but showing real life drug empires in Mexico and the us in current time? Because that’s what I wanna see. Props to the content creator
I don’t think so, drug empires overlap
That'll be a really heavy task, pretty sure someone is already making it.
I imagine with some reasonably extensive research it would be possible to figure out who controls where, but the truth is these days in the US it's nearly all cartel drugs again. Gang crime went down a huge amount between the 90s and today, and a lot of that is because the cartel came up north and KILLED ALL THE GANGS
3:23 So random "Walt and Jesse spend the day killing a fly in the lab. 😂😂😂
Awesome. Interesting to see how the foothold played out throughout the series.
So is no one going to talk about how important 2:55 is to the map?
For future videos when someone’s name ends in an S like Gus and you want to show possession. You put Gus’ instead of Gus’s. Beyond that very minor thing. Great and great creative video!
Crazy how walt only had the huge empire for like 1 episode
Crazy to think his entire drug empire was toppled by one book that Hank found
Man I miss the 2000s so much. I remember when this shit was going on.
you forgot the territory of that skinny boy and his muscle guy in that GMC motorhome that Walt confronted in that hardware store parking lot
"The market void left by Krazy-8 is filled by Tuco Salamanca"
Krazy-8 was part of the Salamanca crew so it was already their territory
Yeah, this. How can you fuck up so badly 10 seconds into a video lol?
2:54 the transition from walls of texts to just one sentence made me laugh
Walt and jesse spend the day killing a fly in the lab
This better summarized the story better than every single documentary I’ve watched about it
Gus Fring's empire was the best one.
Walts drug empire is basically the size of the roman empire from the like 500 bc and all. Thats insane
"So how often do you think about the Heisenberg Empire?"
It’s crazy to me how walter’s empire was just a brief time sandwiched between Gus and Lydia. Really goes to show how much evil he did for so little.
2:54 🥶the turning point
Add in the map from better call saul! They added new gangs and hectors old territory before gus took it over
2:54 🤮🤮🤮
2:55 love how thats the only thing ypu put for that episode
The largest meth empire in the USA
Omg from a fricking chemistry teacher!!!
If he was a history teacher he would be the greatest politician ever lol
Dude was a Nobel laureate
@@SacredCowStockyardsyeah!!!
I mean imagine a mockumentery about his life, how he won the Nobel prize, his teaching job, and his drug empire
The Heisenberg empire existed for only part of one episode. Because Vince Gilligan was intent on making Breaking Bad a morality play in which Walt and Jesse have to constantly suffer for their sins and can't be seen having it good for any extended period of time.
I dont think jack's empire grew that large. Jack kinda made it clear he wasnt as interested in the expansion as lydia and walt were. So it seems more likely that he kept it more local.
Then again, a good portion of the west coast was hooked on that blue blue. So it would've been far easier to find buyers.
great work man!
very useful for my history class
I don’t know about you but I find it really wholesome that they made an ep about killing a fly
4:59 Gus didnt wipe out the entire Cartel though? Aren’t there like hundreds of drug lords and he only wiped out like 20. Also that one drug lord from New York in season 5 believed the Cartel was responsible for Fring insinuating they were still around.
Shut UP
it said the cartel disintegrated without leadership. most likely, there were some remnants, but the majority collapsed
@ nah we wouldve heard about that in world. I think he only took out some of the leadership
@@grantwalter2243 yea, and after that its all speculation. the video saying the cartel collapsed without leadership is prob mostly speculation. imo its the most likely outcome but idk im not in the cartel
They were more using the term cartel to refer to the Juarez cartel not “THE” Cartel
427 subs and 437k views. Bravo! And bravo for the topic!
2:54 nice glance over lol
What about the Meth Empire that Hank Schrader built using Walt as his chemist?
2:55 i love how there are detailed descriptions and then there's just "Skylar fucks Ted"
This is really interesting but also there’s something so funny to me about reading about murder and drug trafficking while weather channel music plays in the background
Oh boy, looks like we got troubles. Better call in the Sicario.
It's funny how Walter and Jessie are better at destroying the meth business than the DEA.
2:55 most important part of the show
I’ve sold methamphetamine for years now and I can tell you there are a lot more than 1-2 groups operating in a city of that size
Amazing the size of Walter's drug empire.