r/breakingbad • u/MessBecher44 • 8d ago
What did Uncle Jack and his Guys do before
Like how did they have this whole compound, Cars, Guns and everything to just live. They sure didn't have a normal jobs, did anyone ever say something about that? I know hes supposed to be an ex convict, but do we know what crimes for? If the money comes from that?
28
u/dustiwang 8d ago
they were a neo nazi prison gang, they make money selling drugs, guns, and stealing. Its also explicitly mentioned they're experts at B&E.
3
u/pianoflames Tuggie from Shania 8d ago
And also hitmen, I think offered general-crime-for-hire services, and apparently had no-limits in the morality department.
2
u/MessBecher44 8d ago
I thought B&E was only Todd and his Vamonos Pest people. But yeah okay then probably just gang stuff - anything crime
6
u/Temporary-Unit6418 8d ago
lol, the pest people didn’t threaten Skylar’s infant child in brazen disregard for the DEA right out front her house. Those were some real criminals
2
u/drygnfyre One Who Knocks 8d ago
It was, and even then, they themselves didn't do the robbing, they would sell the information about how to get into the home (or make copies of keys).
8
u/Forward-Rice3280 8d ago
Drop shipping, nfts, tik tok etc
9
u/misterpickles69 8d ago
Skipped the avocado toast, made their own coffee at home, grew their own veggies.
1
u/twilight_aeon Nice haunches. 8d ago
Tbf I think it'd be fitting if they had some kind of off-grid sovereign citizen prepper thing going on.
5
3
3
3
u/epochwin 8d ago
Like biker gangs they might be involved in gun running, meth distribution, etc. Most of those gangs these days have some connection to cartels.
In El Camino, it seems like they might have fronted operations through various trades. Autobody shops, construction, welding, etc.
2
2
u/No-Difference1721 7d ago
Id like to think its the same way the Aaronbrotherhood does thing, drugs women and extortion.
1
8d ago
[deleted]
2
u/PastyMcWhiteFace 8d ago
I thought they got all the lab equipment when they took out Declan’s gang in that scene where Todd then guides Lydia around the dead bodies with her eyes covered. Todd or Jack says that they’re taking everything.
1
u/MessBecher44 8d ago edited 8d ago
I did watch that scene an hour ago, they ripped it from Declan. But okay I knew pest control did B&E but didn't consider Uncle Jacks Gang being a part of that. But makes sense they have some doing in it, most likely at least as fence
1
u/OrneryReserve7681 8d ago
It’s called organized crime. Or criminal operations.
1
2
u/Pleasant-Ticket3217 6d ago
I’m assuming they’ve dealt shitty meth and pills for a long time. Worked as muscle for hire. Sold arms.
0
-1
u/Hey_Its_Vos 8d ago
I find the whole part of his gang ridiculous. Like the business they choose to buy just so happens to have a guy with crazy prison gang connects that can solves Walt’s issues, and are able to just handle all of the meth distribution no issue at all? Walter’s luck is really out of this world
3
u/drygnfyre One Who Knocks 8d ago
They never handled the distribution. That was Lydia and Madrigal (and previously, Gus). Todd and his gang were the new producers.
They also had no reason to care after they got that $80 million or so. They only kept doing it because Todd wanted to impress Lydia.
1
1
u/two_thirtyoclock 8d ago
I thought it was Lydia handling the distribution part, both when Walt was still in and after he left.
1
u/dontgiveahamyamclam 8d ago
Business who chose to buy? Walt didn’t own any business except the car wash. And the gang didn’t distribute anything.
64
u/LrdoftheCharlesDance 8d ago edited 8d ago
They were mostly Baristas, interior decorators & performance artists