Walt's Mouth-Watering Heisenburger

**Vinny Caravella** (0:10)
Hello, everybody, and welcome back to another Nextlander Podcast. This is it for August. We're going to close it out. Good riddance, August, at least here on the East Coast.
A lot of people celebrating birthdays in August, and I personally have a couple to celebrate. Man, we can find a better time for you.

**Alex Navarro** (0:32)
Just had it with the summer?

**Vinny Caravella** (0:33)
I really, these are the last few days here, have been kind of okay and pleasant, but it has just been the soggiest, hottest, humid August I can remember here on the East Coast.

**Alex Navarro** (0:44)
In this region, certainly, yeah.

**Vinny Caravella** (0:46)
Brad Shoemaker, happy end of August to you.

**Brad Shoemaker** (0:48)
Thanks, thanks.

**Alex Navarro** (0:50)
How damp are you?

**Brad Shoemaker** (0:52)
68 degrees.

**Vinny Caravella** (0:53)
Okay.

**Brad Shoemaker** (0:54)
70% humidity.

**Vinny Caravella** (0:55)
Ooh, that's clammy, that's clammy.

**Brad Shoemaker** (0:59)
I haven't seen the sun much this month at all.

**Vinny Caravella** (1:03)
Well, good. Well, then goodbye August to you as well.
I recently went to a Barnes & Noble. I feel like I'm doing a set here.

**Alex Navarro** (1:16)
Actually, no, I shouldn't say that because I buy random criterion blue grays from their website all the time. So I know Barnes & Noble still exists.

**Brad Shoemaker** (1:22)
Do they still make e-readers?

**Vinny Caravella** (1:25)
I don't know if they make them or not. Was that the nook?

**Brad Shoemaker** (1:27)
Wasn't the nook theirs? Yeah, they still make nooks.

**Alex Navarro** (1:29)
I can't remember if I bought or something.

**Brad Shoemaker** (1:31)
Yeah, there's like five, I'm looking at like five different nooks you can buy.

**Vinny Caravella** (1:36)
Hello, nooks. Tom Nooks, Barnes & Noble Nooks. My daughter had a gift certificate to Barnes & Noble. Nobles? Nobles.
To the Barnes & Noble, we go. And we went and they have LPs there. They have just records that you can just buy.

**Alex Navarro** (1:56)
Yeah, again, the record collecting scene is such that like people just descend on that stuff and so it is starting to infect other random retail places now.

**Vinny Caravella** (2:05)
It was a little weird. They had like, as you'd expect, different tchotchkes to buy and stuff like that. There was a Starbucks inside this of Barnes & Noble, which I guess is not atypical there.
Interesting to see how they organize their books. You know, like a lot of self-help stuff, a lot of cooking.

**Alex Navarro** (2:31)
Yes.

**Vinny Caravella** (2:31)
Tons and tons of shelves of cooking.
I think I mentioned this before, no fewer than two easily-spotable Snoop Dogg cooking books. Everyone who can put their face on a cookbook... I'm surprised I didn't see your face on a cookbook, either of you. There's just cookbooks aplenty from anybody I think that has ever eaten food, any show that has ever gone on. Hey, do you want to cook like Breaking Bad, but not math? No.

**Alex Navarro** (3:01)
No, that's the only thing I think that show is known for cooking, so that's not what I'm into.

**Vinny Caravella** (3:05)
I guarantee, or I'm not going to guarantee, I'd put money down that there's a Breaking Bad Let Them Cook book out there for the food from Breaking Bad.

**Alex Navarro** (3:15)
It's got to be Tex-Mex, like Southwestern Cuisine, right? Like that's the whole thing, because it's New Mexico.

**Vinny Caravella** (3:20)
There's Dungeons & Dragons cookbooks, there's like every video game cookbook you'd ever imagine. Hey, what's the food from Rainbow Six Siege? Like, you know, there's just cookbooks, so many. It's ridiculous.

**Alex Navarro** (3:32)
How many of these are AI generated, though, is the question.

**Vinny Caravella** (3:35)
You know, they're printed out, they're in a barn, Barnes & Noble. I don't know. The stuff with Snoop Dogg on it was maybe the worst Photoshop stuff, where he's just basically in a pose and a cupcake, like photoshopped onto his hand.

**Alex Navarro** (3:48)
Is it weed food? Is he selling weed food or is it just regular food?

**Vinny Caravella** (3:53)
I think he was attached to whatever that dude's publicist can get him attached to at this point.

**Brad Shoemaker** (3:59)
Well, there are multiple Breaking Bad cookbooks.

**Vinny Caravella** (4:01)
There you go. Are any of them called Let Him Cook?

**Brad Shoemaker** (4:04)
How about Walt's Mouthwatering Heisenburger?

**Alex Navarro** (4:07)
You know what, man? I can't with that.

**Brad Shoemaker** (4:14)
I can't do that. Perhaps you prefer cakes and pies because there's also Baking Bad.

**Vinny Caravella** (4:21)
Oh, man. See? I'm telling you, we as a society need to really reexamine what the hell we're doing with our resources.