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Speaker 1: Hey, it's me again.

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Speaker 2: It's Jefferson White with a very special episode of the

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Speaker 2: Official Yellowstone Podcast, presented by Win las Vegas. I woke

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Speaker 2: up this morning extremely excited about today's show. You know,

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Speaker 2: I didn't expect to get much sleep last night because

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Speaker 2: I was so excited. However, the beds.

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Speaker 2: They have these very very fancy shades that sort of

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Speaker 2: block out all of the light of the strip.

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Speaker 1: So I slept like a baby.

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Speaker 2: And I'm very grateful because this is a huge, huge

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Speaker 2: day for me. Today I get to sit down with

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Speaker 2: the brains behind the entire world of Yellowstone. You've heard

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Speaker 2: this man's name over and over again if you've been

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Speaker 2: listening to this podcast, if you've ever had a chance

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Speaker 2: to talk to the cast of Yellowstone, you hear the

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Speaker 2: name Taylor Sheridan over and over and over again. Because honestly,

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Speaker 2: this whole thing, this whole show, this whole universe, this

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Speaker 2: whole world comes from Taylor. Taylor is the mastermind, the genius,

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Speaker 2: the brilliant creator, writer, director, cowboy kind of the maestro

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Speaker 2: behind Yellowstone. He's also my boss. He gave me the

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Speaker 2: best job I've ever had in my life. He's been

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Speaker 2: my boss for years now, so you can imagine how

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Speaker 2: nervous I am to sit down and talk with my

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Speaker 2: boss to interview my own boss. So, you know, pray

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Speaker 2: for me, wish me luck. I'm also going to be

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Speaker 2: spending time with the superstar executive producer of the Yellowstone World,

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Speaker 2: David Glasser, another man without whom none of this would

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Speaker 2: be possible. I owe the best job of my life

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Speaker 2: to these two guys, Taylor Shared and David Glasser, and

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Speaker 2: I can't thank them enough. We're going to dive right

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Speaker 2: in right after this. I feel incredibly honored, incredibly lucky

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Speaker 2: to have with us in the studio today, the busiest

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Speaker 2: man in Hollywood who never sets foot in Hollywood, A

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Speaker 2: guy who I think his work is honestly characterized by

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Speaker 2: staying too busy to talk about it. Much so, Taylor Sheridan,

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Speaker 2: the creator of Yellowstone, the creator of eighteen eighty three,

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Speaker 2: Mayor of Kingstown, and many many, many, many more facets

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Speaker 2: of a vast empire. Thank you so so much for

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Speaker 2: being here today.

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Speaker 3: How'd you get this job?

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Speaker 2: A great question? I thought I was actually going to

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Speaker 2: ask you that question, boss, How did I get this job?

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Speaker 3: I said, who's doing the podcast? They said Jefferson and

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Speaker 3: I said who. Yeah, Yeah, yeah, Jimmy. And I said,

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Speaker 3: oh Jimmy. Fuck did Jimmy get a podcast? You have

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Speaker 3: your own podcast?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right.

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Speaker 2: I was talking to Eric Nelson the other day and

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Speaker 2: he said, we should send a picture of us to Taylor,

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Speaker 2: and I say, he's not going to recognize me.

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Speaker 1: That's a busy man.

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Speaker 3: Hey. So you were in you were in Fort Worth

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Speaker 3: a week ago for the celebrity cutting for the charity,

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Speaker 3: the cancer charity. That's right. They do every year, which

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Speaker 3: you won two years in a row.

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Speaker 2: Now, that's right. Well, the trick is that I won

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Speaker 2: when this year I won because you weren't writing, in

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Speaker 2: wasn't writing, and Nick won the year that I didn't write.

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Speaker 1: So this year I lucked out.

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Speaker 3: No, you got a buckle two years in a row.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, to twenty nineteen and twenty twenty one, Nick, one

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Speaker 2: in between because you were busy. You were busy making

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Speaker 2: maybe the biggest television show in history.

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Speaker 3: Well, you know, maybe the most expensive.

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Speaker 2: How does it this is? I've seen the first two

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Speaker 2: Yellowstone and very much characterizes eighteen eighty three. There's the

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Speaker 2: Will you talk just a little bit about those two extremes,

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Speaker 2: the romance tick idea of the West and the brutal

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Speaker 3: Well, the romance everyone understands. We were taught it in

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Speaker 2: And I feel like that contradiction is very present in

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, to a degree, yes, one hundred percent, and

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Speaker 3: In Yellowstone, you have a group that is attempting to

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Speaker 2: To keep uncovering those And I feel like thematically, I

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I agree, and.

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Speaker 2: It's amazing, I mean, just embodied. Also, those contradictions, you know,

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Speaker 3: Lost everything he fought for. So what do you fight

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Speaker 2: Then being presented with this new hope to a certain

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Speaker 3: Yea, his venture west is a complete rejection of the

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Speaker 2: And that's fascinating. Then also sort of embodied in the

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Speaker 3: One hundred percent. No, she's going to a place to

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Speaker 3: Right now, some people figuring out rules, figured out rules

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Speaker 2: That theme feels like it's present through all of your work. Effectively,

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Speaker 2: whether it be through a state institution, you know, whether

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Speaker 2: it be through like actual legal pathways or a kind

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Speaker 2: also it breaks the law consistently. That feels like a

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Speaker 2: theme that sort of resonates throughout all of your work.

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Speaker 3: To me, it's the most important theme, and we have

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Speaker 3: There's nothing we can do about that. So we've created

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Speaker 4: Thanks so much, my friend. Thanks for having me.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, it's Look, it's an incredible and very

436
00:24:14,680 --> 00:24:16,879
Speaker 4: humbling opportunity to get because when you have a creator

437
00:24:16,920 --> 00:24:20,200
Speaker 4: like Taylor Sheridan, he's a big picture visionary, right, He's

438
00:24:20,200 --> 00:24:23,919
Speaker 4: got this huge idea, he's got this incredible cast, and

439
00:24:23,960 --> 00:24:26,600
Speaker 4: then my job is to make sure that we execute

440
00:24:26,640 --> 00:24:29,200
Speaker 4: upon that, right. So it's everything that goes into it,

441
00:24:29,240 --> 00:24:32,280
Speaker 4: from making sure that we stay on budget, we get

442
00:24:32,280 --> 00:24:35,120
Speaker 4: our locations, we get things done, you know, the sort

443
00:24:35,160 --> 00:24:37,639
Speaker 4: of relationship with the network and sort of just spending

444
00:24:37,680 --> 00:24:39,680
Speaker 4: plates and managing it all. So at the end of

445
00:24:39,720 --> 00:24:43,480
Speaker 4: the day, what everybody gets to see this incredible number

446
00:24:43,480 --> 00:24:46,000
Speaker 4: one show now comes with sort of being part of

447
00:24:46,040 --> 00:24:48,400
Speaker 4: this team. And it's really a team effort, right. It's

448
00:24:48,840 --> 00:24:50,760
Speaker 4: it takes a village to do what we do. And

449
00:24:50,800 --> 00:24:52,439
Speaker 4: it doesn't matter whether you're at the top of the

450
00:24:52,440 --> 00:24:55,720
Speaker 4: food chain or a pipa on our set. You know

451
00:24:55,800 --> 00:24:58,480
Speaker 4: you've been there and working on a Taylor Sheridan show.

452
00:24:58,800 --> 00:25:01,159
Speaker 4: It's not about I, it's about we, and it's not

453
00:25:01,240 --> 00:25:03,720
Speaker 4: about me, and it's about how do we do things

454
00:25:03,760 --> 00:25:05,560
Speaker 4: as a team. And that's the really, I think, the

455
00:25:05,600 --> 00:25:07,760
Speaker 4: great thing, and so I'm super lucky to be part

456
00:25:07,800 --> 00:25:10,600
Speaker 4: of that. And as you know, every time we get

457
00:25:10,640 --> 00:25:12,800
Speaker 4: one of these scripts, it's like, you know, the greatest

458
00:25:12,880 --> 00:25:14,639
Speaker 4: day of my life. It's like I'm working on some

459
00:25:14,680 --> 00:25:16,200
Speaker 4: of the greatest material I've ever read.

460
00:25:16,760 --> 00:25:19,159
Speaker 2: What, as you described, so much of it is a

461
00:25:19,200 --> 00:25:24,080
Speaker 2: team effort. It's about an ensemble of collaborators. And one

462
00:25:24,119 --> 00:25:28,399
Speaker 2: of your roles particularly is as symboling that team is

463
00:25:28,520 --> 00:25:32,719
Speaker 2: taking these elements, these elements that can seem sometimes almost

464
00:25:32,920 --> 00:25:37,280
Speaker 2: irreconcilably far apart, right the world of cowboying all these horses,

465
00:25:37,359 --> 00:25:40,240
Speaker 2: right like putting together all of these cows, these cattle,

466
00:25:40,320 --> 00:25:45,400
Speaker 2: with these helicopters, with these legendary actors, with these incredible

467
00:25:45,520 --> 00:25:48,760
Speaker 2: technicians in our camera department. It feels like one of

468
00:25:48,800 --> 00:25:53,879
Speaker 2: the unique challenges of Yellowstone is assembling a lot of

469
00:25:54,040 --> 00:25:58,640
Speaker 2: different elements that don't traditionally fit together. And it feels

470
00:25:58,680 --> 00:26:01,520
Speaker 2: like part of the people response to yellows notice about

471
00:26:01,560 --> 00:26:04,800
Speaker 2: these things is seeing these these these elements combined on

472
00:26:04,880 --> 00:26:08,440
Speaker 2: television for the first time on a scale that wasn't

473
00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:10,680
Speaker 2: possible until you started doing it.

474
00:26:10,880 --> 00:26:12,960
Speaker 4: Well, look, that's the exciting part about it. You know,

475
00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:15,040
Speaker 4: as a producer, you get to do different things right,

476
00:26:15,080 --> 00:26:17,800
Speaker 4: You almost get to make yourself up as a completely

477
00:26:17,800 --> 00:26:20,919
Speaker 4: different person as you sort of go forward. You know,

478
00:26:20,960 --> 00:26:23,399
Speaker 4: it was a world that I didn't know. And with

479
00:26:23,480 --> 00:26:25,800
Speaker 4: Taylor Sheridan, as you know, you get a very quick

480
00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:28,800
Speaker 4: education on what to do, what not to do, and

481
00:26:28,840 --> 00:26:30,760
Speaker 4: where are the pitfalls. You know, he is the expert

482
00:26:30,800 --> 00:26:33,359
Speaker 4: when it comes to the cows, the cattle. My job

483
00:26:33,400 --> 00:26:35,280
Speaker 4: is to make sure that everything is getting there. It

484
00:26:35,320 --> 00:26:39,120
Speaker 4: gets done when it is. But listen, I've I've learned

485
00:26:39,119 --> 00:26:41,919
Speaker 4: the world. I've learned to actually respect the world at

486
00:26:41,960 --> 00:26:45,760
Speaker 4: the highest level because it's truly incredible. I love our

487
00:26:45,760 --> 00:26:48,400
Speaker 4: wranglers and our cowboys and the people that I've met

488
00:26:48,440 --> 00:26:51,280
Speaker 4: both on the show and off the show. And even

489
00:26:51,280 --> 00:26:55,119
Speaker 4: in one late night, maybe slightly drinking night with Taylor,

490
00:26:55,320 --> 00:26:57,840
Speaker 4: I ended up buying a cutting horse, which we now own.

491
00:26:59,560 --> 00:27:02,679
Speaker 4: So we own a cutting horse, and I think, you know,

492
00:27:02,680 --> 00:27:04,919
Speaker 4: it was great because we made it the futurity on

493
00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:07,280
Speaker 4: the first time, so it was like it was great

494
00:27:07,320 --> 00:27:09,480
Speaker 4: because I really thought I actually knew what I was doing,

495
00:27:10,040 --> 00:27:12,600
Speaker 4: but it was a little bit of luck. But you know,

496
00:27:12,640 --> 00:27:14,480
Speaker 4: it's one of those things where I think, as you

497
00:27:14,600 --> 00:27:16,400
Speaker 4: sort of you know, as you know, you get into

498
00:27:16,440 --> 00:27:19,119
Speaker 4: a new world like this, it's all brand new, and

499
00:27:19,160 --> 00:27:21,640
Speaker 4: so I think sort of watching Taylor's lead and following

500
00:27:21,680 --> 00:27:24,119
Speaker 4: it and sort of figuring out, Okay, what does he need,

501
00:27:24,480 --> 00:27:26,280
Speaker 4: how are we going to do it, and how we're

502
00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:28,520
Speaker 4: going to execute what he wants and that's the job,

503
00:27:28,600 --> 00:27:31,639
Speaker 4: right And we've learned so much now we're now you know,

504
00:27:32,040 --> 00:27:35,080
Speaker 4: not everybody is a is a cutting champion like you,

505
00:27:35,200 --> 00:27:38,880
Speaker 4: my friend after last week at the at the Caarity event,

506
00:27:39,040 --> 00:27:41,480
Speaker 4: so you know, don't worry. We all know where you're

507
00:27:41,480 --> 00:27:42,639
Speaker 4: going in your cutting career.

508
00:27:42,880 --> 00:27:46,159
Speaker 2: I thank you so much. You were contractually obligated to

509
00:27:46,200 --> 00:27:48,359
Speaker 2: mention that, and I thank you for obliging that that

510
00:27:48,520 --> 00:27:50,040
Speaker 2: contract as.

511
00:27:50,359 --> 00:27:53,120
Speaker 4: Sheridan's will be very happy.

512
00:27:52,760 --> 00:27:55,040
Speaker 2: As I talked to all these different actors and sort

513
00:27:55,040 --> 00:27:57,040
Speaker 2: of crew involved in these shows, something that comes up

514
00:27:57,080 --> 00:28:00,600
Speaker 2: over and over again is the immersive quality not just

515
00:28:00,720 --> 00:28:03,199
Speaker 2: of the content itself, not just of the show, but

516
00:28:03,240 --> 00:28:06,080
Speaker 2: also the experience of working on the show. Working on

517
00:28:06,119 --> 00:28:10,399
Speaker 2: these shows means being fully immersed in a world that

518
00:28:10,520 --> 00:28:13,320
Speaker 2: is new to a lot of us. Right for us,

519
00:28:13,320 --> 00:28:17,480
Speaker 2: it means being in Montana, it means being in West Testing,

520
00:28:17,960 --> 00:28:22,480
Speaker 2: being in West Texas, being surrounded by the world even

521
00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:24,719
Speaker 2: as you create it. So will you speak about your

522
00:28:24,760 --> 00:28:27,960
Speaker 2: experience also of traveling with these shows, of really being

523
00:28:27,960 --> 00:28:29,080
Speaker 2: immersed in these worlds.

524
00:28:29,280 --> 00:28:31,760
Speaker 4: Look, I think you know, starting with Cowboy Camp that

525
00:28:31,760 --> 00:28:33,960
Speaker 4: most people want I explain what Cowboy Camp is. It's

526
00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:37,159
Speaker 4: sort of Taylor's version of, you know, leaving the city behind,

527
00:28:37,280 --> 00:28:39,400
Speaker 4: getting out there and sort of being one with the

528
00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:41,760
Speaker 4: worlds who really understand it for you as an actor,

529
00:28:41,760 --> 00:28:44,680
Speaker 4: but even for us producers and partners on the show.

530
00:28:44,760 --> 00:28:47,040
Speaker 4: So sort of everybody can sort of do what they can.

531
00:28:47,480 --> 00:28:49,520
Speaker 4: But I think the experience is part of what I

532
00:28:49,560 --> 00:28:52,080
Speaker 4: think makes the show what it is. We're all out

533
00:28:52,080 --> 00:28:55,600
Speaker 4: there right on Yellowstone, We're out on that ranch or

534
00:28:55,600 --> 00:28:58,320
Speaker 4: in those fields, you know, deep in those fields on

535
00:28:58,360 --> 00:29:00,920
Speaker 4: a daily basis, working together. You know, we're not in

536
00:29:01,120 --> 00:29:03,960
Speaker 4: we're not on a stage somewhere. You know very little

537
00:29:03,960 --> 00:29:06,240
Speaker 4: of that. And on eighteen eighty three, that journey was

538
00:29:07,040 --> 00:29:10,880
Speaker 4: something that was was definitely something I don't think I

539
00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:13,960
Speaker 4: was ready for I think even for Taylor he was

540
00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:15,719
Speaker 4: ready for it. He warned us what it was going

541
00:29:15,800 --> 00:29:18,479
Speaker 4: to be. But taking a wagon train in the eighteen

542
00:29:18,600 --> 00:29:23,240
Speaker 4: hundred show with thirty wagon trains across America is pretty spectacular,

543
00:29:23,640 --> 00:29:26,160
Speaker 4: and there's no cover sets. We maybe had a few

544
00:29:26,200 --> 00:29:28,400
Speaker 4: days of cover sets, and a cover set is a

545
00:29:28,440 --> 00:29:31,840
Speaker 4: place you can go to when it rains, when it snows,

546
00:29:32,240 --> 00:29:35,520
Speaker 4: when it's ninety eight degrees outside. Once we got outside

547
00:29:35,560 --> 00:29:39,400
Speaker 4: of Fort Worth, that was it. We were open to everything,

548
00:29:39,560 --> 00:29:40,880
Speaker 4: and so in a way it sort of felt like

549
00:29:40,880 --> 00:29:44,160
Speaker 4: you were connected to maybe what people went through at

550
00:29:44,160 --> 00:29:47,120
Speaker 4: that time, and they had such a harsher journey than

551
00:29:47,160 --> 00:29:50,920
Speaker 4: we had, you know, crossing rivers, surviving to sort of

552
00:29:50,920 --> 00:29:53,400
Speaker 4: make something better for your family. So in a weird way,

553
00:29:53,440 --> 00:29:55,680
Speaker 4: you had a moment to sort of think and go, wow,

554
00:29:55,720 --> 00:29:57,640
Speaker 4: this is we're sort of out in the open here

555
00:29:57,680 --> 00:29:58,800
Speaker 4: just trying to figure it all out.

556
00:29:59,360 --> 00:30:01,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that a lot of what people respond to,

557
00:30:01,600 --> 00:30:04,040
Speaker 2: what I respond to when I see the show, especially

558
00:30:04,120 --> 00:30:06,560
Speaker 2: as I watch eighteen eighty three, is this incredible feeling

559
00:30:06,600 --> 00:30:10,760
Speaker 2: of authenticity that can't help. It's a part of the

560
00:30:10,800 --> 00:30:14,240
Speaker 2: product because it's a part of the process. It really

561
00:30:14,440 --> 00:30:18,400
Speaker 2: the process of making the show mirrors the experience that

562
00:30:18,440 --> 00:30:21,480
Speaker 2: you're depicting on the show. You're taking a bunch of

563
00:30:21,520 --> 00:30:26,000
Speaker 2: people from all over the world, incredible people with varied

564
00:30:26,160 --> 00:30:30,560
Speaker 2: and diverse skill sets and backgrounds, many of them who

565
00:30:30,560 --> 00:30:33,479
Speaker 2: have never set foot in West Texas before, and then

566
00:30:33,560 --> 00:30:36,280
Speaker 2: many of them who have, who grew up there and

567
00:30:36,320 --> 00:30:41,040
Speaker 2: who are experts in this world. And you're cooperating together

568
00:30:41,640 --> 00:30:44,720
Speaker 2: on this journey that lasts from months and months and

569
00:30:44,840 --> 00:30:49,959
Speaker 2: is arduous and taxing and difficult, and that bleeds into

570
00:30:50,240 --> 00:30:52,240
Speaker 2: every frame of the show.

571
00:30:52,560 --> 00:30:54,240
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I think that was the incredible part. And

572
00:30:54,280 --> 00:30:57,200
Speaker 4: I think you really you and your character symbolized it

573
00:30:57,240 --> 00:30:59,240
Speaker 4: last year with the journey to the Four Sixes, you know,

574
00:30:59,880 --> 00:31:02,440
Speaker 4: the most authentic storied ranches in the world since the

575
00:31:02,480 --> 00:31:05,320
Speaker 4: eighteen hundreds, I mean, you know, and no way Taylor

576
00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:09,080
Speaker 4: sort of blended that into our sort of not real

577
00:31:09,160 --> 00:31:11,440
Speaker 4: ranch world of Yellowstone, which is, you know, a real

578
00:31:11,440 --> 00:31:15,200
Speaker 4: world for TV and sort of taking Jimmy's character to

579
00:31:15,480 --> 00:31:17,880
Speaker 4: one of the most authentic ranches in America.

580
00:31:18,600 --> 00:31:20,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's amazing. You know, there are those of us

581
00:31:20,920 --> 00:31:22,960
Speaker 2: and one of the incredible gifts of the show is

582
00:31:22,960 --> 00:31:26,920
Speaker 2: that for every actor from Los Angeles, there's a cowboy

583
00:31:27,200 --> 00:31:32,160
Speaker 2: from New Mexico. And for every you know rancher from Montana,

584
00:31:32,240 --> 00:31:36,280
Speaker 2: there's you know, a stunt coordinator from from the East Coast.

585
00:31:36,280 --> 00:31:40,320
Speaker 2: You know, there's a sort of incredible combination. And one

586
00:31:40,320 --> 00:31:42,400
Speaker 2: of the tremendous gifts of our show has been watching

587
00:31:42,480 --> 00:31:47,200
Speaker 2: so many people run at these new challenges, these challenges

588
00:31:47,200 --> 00:31:51,920
Speaker 2: that are utterly unique, kind of over and over again,

589
00:31:52,360 --> 00:31:55,920
Speaker 2: with tremendous respect for the material, with a tremendous sort

590
00:31:55,920 --> 00:31:59,200
Speaker 2: of trust and commitment to each other. Because part of

591
00:31:59,200 --> 00:32:01,600
Speaker 2: what you described early are putting this team together. You

592
00:32:01,640 --> 00:32:04,880
Speaker 2: guys are now You've made and you are making shows

593
00:32:05,320 --> 00:32:10,120
Speaker 2: with this core group of collaborators from different backgrounds, different

594
00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:12,600
Speaker 2: skill sets, who have grown to trust each other over time.

595
00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:16,880
Speaker 2: How do you over and over again this is just

596
00:32:17,200 --> 00:32:20,400
Speaker 2: as a fan of your work, of Taylor's work, you

597
00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:25,000
Speaker 2: attract the best actors in the world. Like it's amazing

598
00:32:25,080 --> 00:32:27,960
Speaker 2: for me. My favorite actors who I've followed since I

599
00:32:28,040 --> 00:32:32,440
Speaker 2: was a kid, Billy, Bob Thornton, Aiden Gillen, obviously, Sam Elliott, obviously,

600
00:32:32,560 --> 00:32:36,920
Speaker 2: Kevin Costner the most a combination of the most interesting

601
00:32:37,760 --> 00:32:42,040
Speaker 2: and sort of storied actors. It's amazing they trust you

602
00:32:42,120 --> 00:32:45,160
Speaker 2: and when they join this kind of project, they're putting

603
00:32:45,200 --> 00:32:46,040
Speaker 2: a lot of faith in you.

604
00:32:46,960 --> 00:32:49,000
Speaker 4: Look, I think, look everything at the end of the day,

605
00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:51,600
Speaker 4: and you know, this being the incredible actor that you are,

606
00:32:51,680 --> 00:32:54,200
Speaker 4: It all starts with the material. Right, material is the

607
00:32:54,240 --> 00:32:55,960
Speaker 4: basis for everything. If you're going to build a house,

608
00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:58,720
Speaker 4: it's your foundation, it's everything, right what you do inside

609
00:32:58,760 --> 00:33:02,800
Speaker 4: of it, whether that's you know, whether that is you know,

610
00:33:04,360 --> 00:33:06,760
Speaker 4: a different type of counter or marble or granted, whatever

611
00:33:06,800 --> 00:33:09,000
Speaker 4: you do inside the house to sort of build it

612
00:33:09,040 --> 00:33:10,880
Speaker 4: is something that you do in what you do. And

613
00:33:10,920 --> 00:33:13,400
Speaker 4: so I think always everything starts with the material. And

614
00:33:13,440 --> 00:33:15,800
Speaker 4: with Taylor's material, it is something as you know, it

615
00:33:15,840 --> 00:33:19,480
Speaker 4: attracts incredible different people who want to come work on it.

616
00:33:19,680 --> 00:33:21,440
Speaker 4: And also you have this incredible time with Taylor. Be

617
00:33:21,520 --> 00:33:24,400
Speaker 4: like I'm just thinking about Billy Bob Thornton for that role,

618
00:33:24,400 --> 00:33:26,640
Speaker 4: and I'm like, all right, let me call his manager

619
00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:28,640
Speaker 4: and like you send over it and he goes yes,

620
00:33:29,080 --> 00:33:31,320
Speaker 4: or you go like, I'm thinking about Tom Hanks for

621
00:33:31,360 --> 00:33:33,200
Speaker 4: that role and you like call time that reads it

622
00:33:33,280 --> 00:33:36,200
Speaker 4: goes okay. You know, it's like unbelievable. Like, so, I

623
00:33:36,280 --> 00:33:39,080
Speaker 4: think it's it's his material. I have to give the

624
00:33:39,080 --> 00:33:42,040
Speaker 4: credit rightfully due It's like his material is just something

625
00:33:42,040 --> 00:33:44,920
Speaker 4: that everybody wants to come play a day, two days,

626
00:33:44,920 --> 00:33:47,680
Speaker 4: five days, and to be part of. I mean, that's

627
00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:50,600
Speaker 4: probably one of the most exciting things for me because

628
00:33:50,680 --> 00:33:53,640
Speaker 4: when he wrote the role, He's like, I think I

629
00:33:53,640 --> 00:33:57,040
Speaker 4: want Sam Elliott and I'm like, yeah, okay, well I'd

630
00:33:57,040 --> 00:33:59,280
Speaker 4: score major points in my house with my wife if

631
00:33:59,280 --> 00:34:01,520
Speaker 4: we had Sam Ellie. But I would love to work

632
00:34:01,560 --> 00:34:03,200
Speaker 4: with Sam Lely. And then you know, Sam reads it

633
00:34:03,240 --> 00:34:06,080
Speaker 4: and is like, yes, So I think his material is

634
00:34:06,080 --> 00:34:09,880
Speaker 4: something that's fresh, it's original, it's different, and it's a

635
00:34:09,880 --> 00:34:11,080
Speaker 4: world we don't get to see every.

636
00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:15,359
Speaker 2: Day, and it has the gift of I think you

637
00:34:15,400 --> 00:34:21,080
Speaker 2: guys balanced this so remarkably well combining these actors. You know,

638
00:34:21,320 --> 00:34:22,920
Speaker 2: one of the themes of a lot of Taylor's work

639
00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:25,160
Speaker 2: is that the American West and the sort of myth

640
00:34:25,320 --> 00:34:28,480
Speaker 2: of the American West, the legend of the American West,

641
00:34:28,920 --> 00:34:35,200
Speaker 2: coming into confrontation with the reality, the harsh truth of

642
00:34:35,280 --> 00:34:39,560
Speaker 2: the American West. You know, the myth and reality colliding

643
00:34:39,600 --> 00:34:41,799
Speaker 2: into each other. When I look at the cast of

644
00:34:41,800 --> 00:34:46,120
Speaker 2: eighteen eighty three Sam Elliott, of course American legend, a

645
00:34:46,160 --> 00:34:51,239
Speaker 2: myth unto himself, and then young actors, right and combining

646
00:34:51,680 --> 00:34:56,319
Speaker 2: sam Elliot's experience expertise a lifetime in the West with

647
00:34:56,440 --> 00:35:00,759
Speaker 2: Isabelle May, right, an actor new to this world who

648
00:35:00,920 --> 00:35:05,840
Speaker 2: brings something utterly distinct and unique to it because she's

649
00:35:05,920 --> 00:35:07,919
Speaker 2: new to it. Right, So will you talk a little

650
00:35:07,960 --> 00:35:12,080
Speaker 2: bit about about discovering new talent or bringing on young

651
00:35:12,120 --> 00:35:13,240
Speaker 2: actors into these projects.

652
00:35:13,320 --> 00:35:15,120
Speaker 4: Look, that's always the thing, right, And Taylor and I

653
00:35:15,160 --> 00:35:18,080
Speaker 4: have that conversation always. He sort of feels if he's

654
00:35:18,120 --> 00:35:21,320
Speaker 4: going to bring some of the table, whether it's Isabelle

655
00:35:21,400 --> 00:35:24,320
Speaker 4: may or Emma Laird or people that he's sort of discovered,

656
00:35:24,360 --> 00:35:27,320
Speaker 4: he'll see somebody, you know, like he did with Isabelle.

657
00:35:27,760 --> 00:35:31,399
Speaker 4: He hadn't really figured out and shaped the role yet

658
00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:33,160
Speaker 4: he knew what it was going to be. But the

659
00:35:33,200 --> 00:35:36,359
Speaker 4: minute he saw her, he knew she was the one.

660
00:35:36,400 --> 00:35:37,799
Speaker 4: She was the one who was going to tell this

661
00:35:37,880 --> 00:35:40,200
Speaker 4: story and he was going to sort of turn the

662
00:35:40,239 --> 00:35:43,279
Speaker 4: traditional Western on its head a little bit with this

663
00:35:43,360 --> 00:35:46,319
Speaker 4: sort of point of view through an eighteen year old's eyes,

664
00:35:46,680 --> 00:35:48,880
Speaker 4: you know, going through sort of just becoming a woman

665
00:35:49,280 --> 00:35:51,480
Speaker 4: and sort of finding herself as well as trying to

666
00:35:51,520 --> 00:35:54,080
Speaker 4: protect her family. So I think the interesting thing about

667
00:35:54,080 --> 00:35:56,080
Speaker 4: it is is, you know, because of his sort of

668
00:35:56,080 --> 00:35:59,719
Speaker 4: background and being an actor, he sort of finds this

669
00:35:59,760 --> 00:36:02,440
Speaker 4: way and we'll sort of have a conversation about finding

670
00:36:02,480 --> 00:36:05,560
Speaker 4: so many fresh and new that we don't know yet,

671
00:36:05,760 --> 00:36:07,560
Speaker 4: and that we get to sort of experience things. And

672
00:36:07,600 --> 00:36:11,200
Speaker 4: I think when you watch Isabelle, I even feel, even

673
00:36:11,600 --> 00:36:14,719
Speaker 4: five and ten times seeing a cut of something, I'm

674
00:36:14,760 --> 00:36:17,360
Speaker 4: sort of discovering it with her. I don't know her.

675
00:36:17,680 --> 00:36:19,719
Speaker 4: I mean, I know her personally, but I don't know

676
00:36:19,800 --> 00:36:22,520
Speaker 4: her as her character. I'm sort of sold on who

677
00:36:22,560 --> 00:36:24,600
Speaker 4: she is and what she's going to be, and I'm

678
00:36:24,640 --> 00:36:26,600
Speaker 4: sort of following her on our journey. If she's feeling pain,

679
00:36:26,640 --> 00:36:28,600
Speaker 4: I'm sort of feeling a little bit too. If she's

680
00:36:28,600 --> 00:36:30,600
Speaker 4: feeling laughter, I'm feeling that. So I think that's the

681
00:36:30,680 --> 00:36:33,560
Speaker 4: great part about it, right. You know, you and Jimmy,

682
00:36:34,040 --> 00:36:36,920
Speaker 4: I remember when we were looking early on at reading

683
00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:39,439
Speaker 4: for it, and you sort of I'll never forget they're

684
00:36:39,520 --> 00:36:40,960
Speaker 4: sort of reading you did in the chair if you

685
00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:43,839
Speaker 4: remember it, And you know, the minute Taylor saw it,

686
00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:47,279
Speaker 4: he was like that guy. He's got what I'm looking for,

687
00:36:47,400 --> 00:36:49,560
Speaker 4: and sometimes I don't know always get it. But Taylor

688
00:36:49,600 --> 00:36:52,320
Speaker 4: Start has this way. He knows he can look in

689
00:36:52,360 --> 00:36:55,160
Speaker 4: sort of the eyes, the face, the sort of character,

690
00:36:55,920 --> 00:36:58,480
Speaker 4: and he knows that that's who I want Jimmy to be,

691
00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:01,680
Speaker 4: or that's who I want this character to be. That's

692
00:37:01,680 --> 00:37:04,560
Speaker 4: a talent, you know. At that point it becomes much

693
00:37:04,640 --> 00:37:07,480
Speaker 4: easier because I think then audiences get to discover somebody

694
00:37:07,520 --> 00:37:09,720
Speaker 4: new and be part of that discovering them.

695
00:37:10,080 --> 00:37:12,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, And it's a real gift. And on the opposite

696
00:37:12,880 --> 00:37:15,200
Speaker 2: side of the spectrum, it's the same gift. It's saying,

697
00:37:15,800 --> 00:37:21,920
Speaker 2: who could possibly fill the roles of these walking legends? Right,

698
00:37:22,320 --> 00:37:26,319
Speaker 2: Kevin Costner and John Dutton feel so synonymous in many ways,

699
00:37:26,400 --> 00:37:29,560
Speaker 2: it's hard to conceive of anybody else playing that role

700
00:37:29,800 --> 00:37:32,759
Speaker 2: because the character is himself a legend. He's a legend

701
00:37:32,800 --> 00:37:35,440
Speaker 2: who carries a tremendous weight on his shoulders that everybody

702
00:37:35,440 --> 00:37:39,200
Speaker 2: respects and has a sort of wary kind of relationship

703
00:37:39,239 --> 00:37:41,200
Speaker 2: to it. And that couldn't be anybody but Kevin and

704
00:37:41,239 --> 00:37:43,720
Speaker 2: I think that's on the opposite side of the spectrum,

705
00:37:43,760 --> 00:37:48,560
Speaker 2: the incredible gift of excellent casting I can't help but

706
00:37:48,680 --> 00:37:53,360
Speaker 2: sort of like glean a worldview from a lot of

707
00:37:53,400 --> 00:37:56,040
Speaker 2: Tailor's work, because and I think it relates in a

708
00:37:56,080 --> 00:37:59,040
Speaker 2: lot of ways to those that juxtaposition, Right, the extremity,

709
00:37:59,080 --> 00:38:02,320
Speaker 2: there's the beauty, the sort of big scale epic, the

710
00:38:02,480 --> 00:38:07,040
Speaker 2: the incredible action sequences, and then there's this incredible human, simple,

711
00:38:07,320 --> 00:38:13,520
Speaker 2: quiet intimacy. And Taylor himself has an incredibly holistic approach

712
00:38:13,560 --> 00:38:16,359
Speaker 2: to filmmaking. He's an amazing actor, he's an amazing writer,

713
00:38:16,600 --> 00:38:19,960
Speaker 2: he's an amazing director, he knows everything about the camera department.

714
00:38:20,120 --> 00:38:23,000
Speaker 2: He knows you know, he saddles, horses, rides like he

715
00:38:23,080 --> 00:38:25,400
Speaker 2: sort of does all of this. Will you talk about

716
00:38:26,800 --> 00:38:30,319
Speaker 2: as you produce Taylor's projects, as you're on set for

717
00:38:30,440 --> 00:38:34,880
Speaker 2: Taylor's projects, what you carry from those projects into the

718
00:38:34,880 --> 00:38:36,040
Speaker 2: other stuff you're working on.

719
00:38:36,400 --> 00:38:38,759
Speaker 4: Look, I think it's a discipline. I really think I

720
00:38:38,760 --> 00:38:43,719
Speaker 4: think he brings. You know, the cowboy world is about discipline, right,

721
00:38:43,719 --> 00:38:45,279
Speaker 4: if you sort of think about where he came from

722
00:38:45,280 --> 00:38:47,480
Speaker 4: and where he grew up and sort of what he

723
00:38:47,520 --> 00:38:50,160
Speaker 4: has done his whole life. Right, it's hard work. You're

724
00:38:50,239 --> 00:38:54,520
Speaker 4: up early, nobody's complaining, You're doing your thing, and you're

725
00:38:54,560 --> 00:38:56,680
Speaker 4: getting it done right, because if you don't get it done,

726
00:38:56,760 --> 00:38:59,040
Speaker 4: then you're letting other people down. And I think I've

727
00:38:59,040 --> 00:39:00,680
Speaker 4: taken that with me and my sort of journey with

728
00:39:00,800 --> 00:39:04,640
Speaker 4: him and sort of his ability is it's not about

729
00:39:04,640 --> 00:39:07,040
Speaker 4: no or yes, it's about getting it done. And I

730
00:39:07,080 --> 00:39:09,200
Speaker 4: think that's what I take with me in my lesson

731
00:39:09,239 --> 00:39:11,719
Speaker 4: with him, of like when he wants something or he

732
00:39:11,800 --> 00:39:16,000
Speaker 4: wants a certain a certain thing, my job is to

733
00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:17,480
Speaker 4: get it done, is to figure out how to get

734
00:39:17,520 --> 00:39:19,560
Speaker 4: it done for him, because that's the way of the

735
00:39:19,600 --> 00:39:24,160
Speaker 4: way he sort of understands. And our world sometimes in

736
00:39:24,680 --> 00:39:26,680
Speaker 4: the Hollywood business is not always like that, right, It's

737
00:39:26,719 --> 00:39:29,080
Speaker 4: always about trying to figure out, you know, what we

738
00:39:29,120 --> 00:39:31,919
Speaker 4: can do. So it's that management of sort of knowing

739
00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:33,880
Speaker 4: exactly what he wants and getting it done. And I

740
00:39:33,880 --> 00:39:37,440
Speaker 4: think that discipline stayed with me because you're sort of

741
00:39:37,480 --> 00:39:39,760
Speaker 4: out there with him and you're doing on his terms,

742
00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:43,520
Speaker 4: and his terms are, as you said, very smart. He

743
00:39:43,560 --> 00:39:46,040
Speaker 4: knows what he wants, he understands it better than anybody,

744
00:39:46,040 --> 00:39:47,799
Speaker 4: so I'm never going to argue with him, so I

745
00:39:47,880 --> 00:39:49,640
Speaker 4: just have to figure out how to get it done.

746
00:39:50,600 --> 00:39:52,680
Speaker 2: I also think he carries something with him you know,

747
00:39:53,080 --> 00:39:55,680
Speaker 2: there's a lot of language, a very sort of poetic

748
00:39:55,719 --> 00:39:58,560
Speaker 2: lyrical language, both in Yellowstone and in eighteen eighty three

749
00:39:59,040 --> 00:40:03,400
Speaker 2: about the inefficiency of this lifestyle in some ways, like

750
00:40:03,480 --> 00:40:06,799
Speaker 2: cattle ranching in Montana. In Yellowstone, over and over again,

751
00:40:06,840 --> 00:40:08,960
Speaker 2: it's revealed this is not the most profitable way to

752
00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:09,839
Speaker 2: manage this land.

753
00:40:09,920 --> 00:40:10,120
Speaker 3: Right.

754
00:40:10,239 --> 00:40:14,879
Speaker 2: It's not about numbers, it's not about necessarily profit, it's

755
00:40:14,920 --> 00:40:20,560
Speaker 2: not about progress by any like demonstrable, quantifiable metric. Part

756
00:40:20,560 --> 00:40:22,600
Speaker 2: of it is just a labor of love. It's about

757
00:40:22,600 --> 00:40:25,480
Speaker 2: tradition and a labor of love. And I also can't

758
00:40:25,480 --> 00:40:29,959
Speaker 2: help but apply that same idea to filmmaking, Like filmmaking

759
00:40:30,480 --> 00:40:33,120
Speaker 2: is far from the most efficient way in the world

760
00:40:33,160 --> 00:40:36,759
Speaker 2: to make money, right, It's a kind of radically inefficient way.

761
00:40:36,920 --> 00:40:37,280
Speaker 1: Exactly.

762
00:40:37,360 --> 00:40:41,040
Speaker 2: It's a labor of love, you know. It's it's imagination,

763
00:40:41,400 --> 00:40:44,879
Speaker 2: and it's sort of storytelling, and it's foundational I think,

764
00:40:44,960 --> 00:40:49,640
Speaker 2: to people to share our stories. But it's also hilariously

765
00:40:49,719 --> 00:40:51,400
Speaker 2: inefficient in so many ways.

766
00:40:51,560 --> 00:40:53,799
Speaker 4: I mean, our business sometimes doesn't make sense. I mean,

767
00:40:54,280 --> 00:40:56,680
Speaker 4: as I say here today with maybe my CFO and

768
00:40:56,719 --> 00:40:58,160
Speaker 4: my partner the room, we'd like to say it makes

769
00:40:58,200 --> 00:40:59,320
Speaker 4: us a ton of money and that's the way we

770
00:40:59,360 --> 00:41:01,719
Speaker 4: always go into it. I'm a little crazier, you know

771
00:41:01,800 --> 00:41:04,960
Speaker 4: sometimes with wanting to do something because it's super passionate stuff.

772
00:41:04,960 --> 00:41:06,840
Speaker 4: But you got to find that happy meeting. It's not

773
00:41:06,880 --> 00:41:08,960
Speaker 4: an easy business. And I don't think anything that Taylor

774
00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:11,239
Speaker 4: goes into or we go into, is like this is

775
00:41:11,239 --> 00:41:12,680
Speaker 4: going to be a home run, it's going to be

776
00:41:12,719 --> 00:41:15,160
Speaker 4: the biggest show on TV. Now. We go into it

777
00:41:15,200 --> 00:41:17,440
Speaker 4: because we think it's going to be something that we'll

778
00:41:17,440 --> 00:41:20,200
Speaker 4: all really be really proud of. We don't know how

779
00:41:20,200 --> 00:41:22,440
Speaker 4: it's audiences are going to take it. We don't know

780
00:41:22,480 --> 00:41:24,759
Speaker 4: if people are going to watch it. And I think

781
00:41:24,800 --> 00:41:27,160
Speaker 4: that's the incredible thing also of having a partner like

782
00:41:27,520 --> 00:41:31,320
Speaker 4: you know, Viacom and Paramount Plus and the Paramount Channel.

783
00:41:31,760 --> 00:41:34,200
Speaker 4: You know, they sort of have a belief. I mean

784
00:41:34,280 --> 00:41:37,920
Speaker 4: they bought Yellowstone off of reading one script in the

785
00:41:38,040 --> 00:41:40,799
Speaker 4: room on a handshake with Taylor and I and that

786
00:41:40,840 --> 00:41:43,280
Speaker 4: takes commitment, right, that takes vision. They had no idea

787
00:41:43,320 --> 00:41:45,280
Speaker 4: that was going to be the behemoth that it is today.

788
00:41:45,760 --> 00:41:47,640
Speaker 4: So I think you have to have a lot of

789
00:41:47,640 --> 00:41:50,839
Speaker 4: people believing in what you want to do to sort

790
00:41:50,880 --> 00:41:53,720
Speaker 4: of get to make something happen the way you want.

791
00:41:53,880 --> 00:41:56,279
Speaker 4: The actors have to sign up, the network has to

792
00:41:56,320 --> 00:41:58,480
Speaker 4: sign up, we have to all sign up, and then

793
00:41:58,480 --> 00:42:00,480
Speaker 4: we all kind of come into it and then we

794
00:42:00,480 --> 00:42:02,960
Speaker 4: wait to see what happens. Amis read an article one time,

795
00:42:03,600 --> 00:42:06,000
Speaker 4: I can't remember it was they analyzed all these jobs

796
00:42:06,719 --> 00:42:09,520
Speaker 4: dentist if you do X plus Y equals you know Z,

797
00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:11,640
Speaker 4: and all these jobs and the one job they never

798
00:42:11,719 --> 00:42:13,840
Speaker 4: could figure out was the movie and TV business. And

799
00:42:13,880 --> 00:42:17,600
Speaker 4: it just makes total sense, like anything can happen, anything

800
00:42:17,640 --> 00:42:21,520
Speaker 4: can really work, and anything can't. So I think we're

801
00:42:21,640 --> 00:42:24,280
Speaker 4: very fortunate, all of us, you know, with you and Taylor,

802
00:42:24,840 --> 00:42:27,840
Speaker 4: to sort of have this incredible sort of everybody that

803
00:42:27,840 --> 00:42:29,520
Speaker 4: does everything. I mean, we all know each other, right,

804
00:42:29,520 --> 00:42:32,160
Speaker 4: We've all become this big family, and I think that's

805
00:42:32,160 --> 00:42:35,480
Speaker 4: something really special. I think also for Taylor, he never

806
00:42:35,560 --> 00:42:39,120
Speaker 4: set out to make TV his whole thing. At the

807
00:42:39,200 --> 00:42:41,160
Speaker 4: end of the day, he always said to me is

808
00:42:41,160 --> 00:42:42,520
Speaker 4: I don't want I don't want to do TV. I

809
00:42:42,600 --> 00:42:45,480
Speaker 4: want to make ten hour movies. So let's go make

810
00:42:45,480 --> 00:42:47,080
Speaker 4: a ten hour movie. If we can do that, I'll

811
00:42:47,120 --> 00:42:49,760
Speaker 4: do it. Otherwise I don't want to do this, I said, Okay,

812
00:42:49,920 --> 00:42:52,120
Speaker 4: let me think about that for a minute, and so

813
00:42:52,239 --> 00:42:54,400
Speaker 4: we had to go into that without thinking everything that

814
00:42:54,440 --> 00:42:57,040
Speaker 4: Taylor does is a ten hour movie. He wants it

815
00:42:57,080 --> 00:42:59,160
Speaker 4: to be beautiful. He wants to be strong, he wants

816
00:42:59,239 --> 00:43:01,279
Speaker 4: to be powerful, and what he wants it to be

817
00:43:01,400 --> 00:43:04,560
Speaker 4: is authentic bumps and bruises at all. You know, his

818
00:43:04,560 --> 00:43:08,160
Speaker 4: new show Mayor of Kingstown with Jeremy Renner is sort

819
00:43:08,200 --> 00:43:12,359
Speaker 4: of portrait of prison life in this town, but it's

820
00:43:12,360 --> 00:43:15,879
Speaker 4: with bumps and bruises and all. It's raw, and it's

821
00:43:15,920 --> 00:43:18,160
Speaker 4: not going to be for everybody, but it is a

822
00:43:18,200 --> 00:43:21,879
Speaker 4: great show because Taylor doesn't hold back on being as

823
00:43:21,960 --> 00:43:24,480
Speaker 4: authentic and real as he can be. And that's the

824
00:43:24,480 --> 00:43:26,640
Speaker 4: only way he knows. He doesn't know any other way like,

825
00:43:26,680 --> 00:43:28,680
Speaker 4: and he's not gonna someone's not gonna take a note

826
00:43:28,719 --> 00:43:31,120
Speaker 4: and say, dear Taylor, I think you should change that

827
00:43:31,239 --> 00:43:34,120
Speaker 4: scene to this because it'll be better for you know,

828
00:43:34,200 --> 00:43:37,040
Speaker 4: when we go ahead and play this in some foreign tarror. No,

829
00:43:37,480 --> 00:43:40,040
Speaker 4: it's this is what you get. And he's serving up

830
00:43:40,040 --> 00:43:41,600
Speaker 4: on a platter, and I think that's what makes him

831
00:43:41,600 --> 00:43:42,080
Speaker 4: who he is.

832
00:43:42,760 --> 00:43:46,680
Speaker 2: It really it's brutally honest, yeah, and working. You know,

833
00:43:46,960 --> 00:43:49,839
Speaker 2: as you said, all of this stuff represents a lot

834
00:43:49,840 --> 00:43:54,440
Speaker 2: of trust. It represents a sort of collaborative agreement to

835
00:43:54,520 --> 00:44:00,400
Speaker 2: take a risk, and that trickles down throughout our entire cast,

836
00:44:00,440 --> 00:44:02,839
Speaker 2: our entire crew. That trickles down I think from you

837
00:44:02,920 --> 00:44:08,439
Speaker 2: and Taylor, you guys inspire hundreds of people to work

838
00:44:08,480 --> 00:44:11,239
Speaker 2: their hardest, to believe in what you believe in. And

839
00:44:11,280 --> 00:44:13,800
Speaker 2: I guess I just as the last thing I say

840
00:44:13,880 --> 00:44:15,399
Speaker 2: as we as we run out of time here, because

841
00:44:15,400 --> 00:44:17,160
Speaker 2: I'm so grateful for your time.

842
00:44:17,040 --> 00:44:17,440
Speaker 4: Thank you.

843
00:44:17,680 --> 00:44:22,440
Speaker 2: Is particularly shooting Season four of Yellowstone, to me, felt

844
00:44:22,480 --> 00:44:26,960
Speaker 2: a little bit like it was uncharted territory. It was

845
00:44:27,040 --> 00:44:29,400
Speaker 2: during the pandemic. It was the summer of twenty twenty.

846
00:44:30,040 --> 00:44:34,239
Speaker 2: All of us left our homes, our families on the

847
00:44:34,280 --> 00:44:39,160
Speaker 2: strength of this trust. We all took that risk together,

848
00:44:39,760 --> 00:44:43,040
Speaker 2: and it was it was both things. It was both

849
00:44:43,080 --> 00:44:45,080
Speaker 2: a risk that we were taking. It was dangerous and

850
00:44:45,120 --> 00:44:47,720
Speaker 2: difficult to leave our families behind, but it was also

851
00:44:47,800 --> 00:44:51,600
Speaker 2: the you put back. You put six hundred people back

852
00:44:51,640 --> 00:44:54,839
Speaker 2: to work. More than that, you guys took that weight

853
00:44:54,920 --> 00:44:59,560
Speaker 2: upon yourselves. You protected the family that you had built

854
00:44:59,719 --> 00:45:03,440
Speaker 2: for four years, and you put six hundred plus people

855
00:45:03,600 --> 00:45:07,200
Speaker 2: back to work at an incredibly uncertain and difficult time.

856
00:45:07,760 --> 00:45:11,200
Speaker 2: And I, for one no that I'll never forget it.

857
00:45:11,239 --> 00:45:14,000
Speaker 2: You brought us all back to work, and you took

858
00:45:14,040 --> 00:45:17,080
Speaker 2: care of us. You protected us, and you saw us

859
00:45:17,280 --> 00:45:19,399
Speaker 2: from one side of that journey to the other.

860
00:45:19,440 --> 00:45:22,000
Speaker 4: You know, look, I appreciate that. And I remember having

861
00:45:22,040 --> 00:45:24,360
Speaker 4: the conversation with Taylor and we're sort of it was

862
00:45:24,440 --> 00:45:26,960
Speaker 4: right in a high of COVID and he had written

863
00:45:26,960 --> 00:45:29,400
Speaker 4: the scripts and we're sort of scratching our head what

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00:45:29,480 --> 00:45:34,480
Speaker 4: to do, and we're getting calls from crew my unemployment's

865
00:45:34,560 --> 00:45:37,680
Speaker 4: running out, or this happening, or I can't pay my bills,

866
00:45:37,800 --> 00:45:40,240
Speaker 4: or we sort of thought about it and said, we're

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00:45:40,239 --> 00:45:44,000
Speaker 4: shooting in Montana. We could go into a bubble and

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00:45:44,040 --> 00:45:46,160
Speaker 4: really protect ourselves and put ourselves back to work. And

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00:45:46,200 --> 00:45:47,920
Speaker 4: I said, what do you want to do, And without

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00:45:47,960 --> 00:45:49,560
Speaker 4: even a blink of an eye, Tailor said, We're going

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00:45:49,600 --> 00:45:51,400
Speaker 4: back to work. That's what we're going to do. And

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00:45:51,440 --> 00:45:53,799
Speaker 4: I said, all right, let's figure it out. And we

873
00:45:53,880 --> 00:45:56,040
Speaker 4: went back and we went into that bubble, and where

874
00:45:56,040 --> 00:45:58,120
Speaker 4: I really saw it was we're all working really hard,

875
00:45:58,200 --> 00:46:00,400
Speaker 4: and nobody could do anything. Nobody go to rests. We

876
00:46:00,440 --> 00:46:02,960
Speaker 4: had to all eat together and live together on the

877
00:46:03,040 --> 00:46:05,720
Speaker 4: ranch or really close housing. And then on those Saturdays

878
00:46:05,719 --> 00:46:07,800
Speaker 4: and Sundays was interesting. All of us would grab a

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00:46:08,600 --> 00:46:10,680
Speaker 4: picnic blanket or something and just sit out on the

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00:46:10,760 --> 00:46:14,719
Speaker 4: ranch and talk and talk about our families and talk

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00:46:14,760 --> 00:46:16,920
Speaker 4: about who we're missing and what we're doing. But there

882
00:46:16,960 --> 00:46:20,120
Speaker 4: was something really beauty in the ability for everybody to

883
00:46:20,120 --> 00:46:22,640
Speaker 4: sort of be together. And that season for me actually

884
00:46:22,640 --> 00:46:25,800
Speaker 4: funny enough that you say, that was really special and

885
00:46:25,960 --> 00:46:27,799
Speaker 4: I'm and to see the ratings the way they are

886
00:46:27,800 --> 00:46:31,200
Speaker 4: today is just even more because for those of us

887
00:46:31,280 --> 00:46:33,640
Speaker 4: that all worked on that season in the middle of

888
00:46:33,680 --> 00:46:36,399
Speaker 4: COVID and we had everybody, you know, friends getting sick

889
00:46:36,400 --> 00:46:38,440
Speaker 4: and people getting sick on the crew, and I mean

890
00:46:38,520 --> 00:46:41,319
Speaker 4: we did a pretty incredible job in protecting ourselves but

891
00:46:41,400 --> 00:46:45,120
Speaker 4: also sending everybody home with you know, they're sort of

892
00:46:45,320 --> 00:46:49,040
Speaker 4: feeling back that I'm okay and this is going to

893
00:46:49,080 --> 00:46:50,920
Speaker 4: be okay and we're going to get through it. So

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00:46:50,960 --> 00:46:52,800
Speaker 4: it really holds a special place in my heart, and

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00:46:53,600 --> 00:46:56,680
Speaker 4: I think audiences have embraced that season, which makes it

896
00:46:56,760 --> 00:46:59,800
Speaker 4: even even more special. So, you know, love and spending

897
00:46:59,840 --> 00:47:02,920
Speaker 4: time with you today and thank you for everything. For

898
00:47:03,000 --> 00:47:04,799
Speaker 4: the fans out there that don't know you. You put

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Speaker 4: your heart and soul into the show for us. You're always,

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00:47:08,600 --> 00:47:11,040
Speaker 4: you know, there, as early as can be and as

901
00:47:11,120 --> 00:47:13,000
Speaker 4: late as can be, without a word to say. I

902
00:47:13,040 --> 00:47:15,879
Speaker 4: remember us down at the four sixes and hanging out

903
00:47:15,880 --> 00:47:18,640
Speaker 4: down there. So we all appreciate, and I know Taylor does,

904
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Speaker 4: and I do, Network and all of us that want

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00:47:21,160 --> 00:47:22,600
Speaker 4: to want to appreciate everything you do for us.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much, David, and thank you so so

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00:47:25,120 --> 00:47:26,319
Speaker 2: so much for being here today.

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Speaker 3: My pleasure.

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Speaker 4: Thank you, thank you.

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Speaker 2: Once again, a special thanks to you the Yellowstone family. Obviously,

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Speaker 2: none of this would be possible without you, so thank you,

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Speaker 2: so so so much for tuning in. We're going to

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Speaker 2: drop new episodes every Thursday, so make sure to subscribe

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Speaker 2: and tune in to the Official Yellowstone Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify,

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Speaker 2: wherever you get your podcasts. The Official Yellowstone Podcast is

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Speaker 2: hosted by me Jefferson White and produced by One on

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Speaker 2: One Podcast Studios and Paramount Network.