Trillbilly Worker's Party - Episode 371: Enter Landman

Episode Date: December 12, 2024

This week we touch on a few world news topics, and then develop a new TV show inspired by Taylor Sheridan's "The Landman" Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

I'm not okay I've only fucked three guys If I fuck three more Everything will be alright jelly roll our guest today. He is welcome to the show jelly roll Welcome to show Mr. J. R. Mr. J. R This song will be way better if that was the premise the premise is he's not okay because he's only had gay sex three times. He just needs more reps. Just three more and he'd be alright.

I've only fucked three guys. He's disappointed because that's the numbers he's putting up. It's just three. I've only got three which is like, sounds like that's hard to do. Isn't there like a, there was some documentary about a woman who had sex with a hundred guys in a day Did you saw that I just saw somebody talking about it? What about a documentary about jelly roll, but he has sex with a hundred Guys in a day, what's the documentary call? gay jelly roll

Jelly toll jelly toll Good stuff started from the top Welcome to the welcome to the show everybody I'm drinking coffee I'm afraid to say about Bob Dylan because it's so polarizing to the show everybody. I'm drinking coffee. I'm afraid to say that about Bob Dylan because it's so polarizing to the fan base. Is it? Yeah, I just see some people absolutely hate it, some people can't get enough.

But do you see the thing I sent you last night about him going to the shoe store? Yeah. That's an interesting. About Pumas? Yeah, he's awesome. Where did you get the Puma? Yeah, one of those Bob Dylan also remember the what are those?

Started the what are those? He started that made well the funny thing was um, there was also a Story that I sent you about how That I found just on George Harrison's Wikipedia page about how like they went to sing karaoke one time Imagine going to stay at the karaoke bar then comes Bob Dylan and George Harrison and they were like they were singing something and and George Harrison said that Bob Dylan kept getting in his ear and just singing like nonsense words to fuck him up. to rattle What do you think he was singing in his ear and just singing like nonsense words to fuck him up. To rattle him. To rattle him. What do you think he was singing in his ear? You think he was, that was the first incident of

scatting? The scat man? He just did his ear saying skibbidi-bibbi-do-bob-bob-boo. Ball ping dollar bid now five George. He was, yeah, he was scattering just making like auctioneer noises and George Harrison's oh man what's going on I'm Hawk to a coin has crashed really look to the clean crashed and well that's unfortunate for me. That's what I had my retirement set on. I called Fidel Diaz and said, hey I want you to move my retirement to the Hock Tool Coin. I wonder if they've ever filled a call quite that stupid. Well this is the thing, people were like, she's ruined lives, she's destroyed people, and it's like fair. But I feel like if you put all your life savings on the hock

Just to some degree you some degree you had it coming. You have to take a little bit of a cat like yeah sure She needs to be like, you know properly, you know Reprimanded for that however I'm kind of at the point with cryptocurrencies where people are like people have like a very like um 90s corporate anti-corporate progressive thing about it where like

cryptocurrencies ruining people's lives like it's destroying people's lives and it's like It's you know wiping out life savings and it's like well Yeah, but also at this point. I kind of feel like you're not getting anything that's not already in the brochure. People should be well aware at this point that cryptocurrency is just a scam. Yeah, at worst and at best, it's like extremely volatile. Like you should treat crypto trading

like you treat sports betting. Actually, that's a bad idea because people are doing that right now too and that's not. I'm blaming the victims here is what I'm saying. Yeah well I mean with finance crimes usually is, you know if you're exploiting like shut-ins on a fixed income or pensioners,

yeah you're a bad guy, okay. But I, to some degree I do agree with Canada Bill Jones' maxim that it is immoral to let a sucker Keep his money. I mean the thing I was like talking to my dad about My dad had his Facebook hacked in like not hacked by his wife Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's like no He just left it open and you just left a funny message someone hacked my dad's Facebook And I met up with one of my buddies from high school like last year and he was like

He was like Bob is he getting it? He's always into Bitcoin now and I was like no He had his Facebook hacked and whoever is hacked his Facebook is like hawking Bitcoin And so like so like people have hit me up like yo your dad Can you get me into Bitcoin or they hit him up like Bob can I get into some Bitcoin? Cuz like your dad is like I guess earn some trust in the business community Right, right, Texas, right East New Mexico. So it's like, if Bob's into it, then what's the problem? But he's really not.

Also kind of scary, and another reason why we do need to log off is that like, you can also be besmirched and immortalized as a crypto guy through no fault of your own. Oh no, I know, That's the weird thing, like you can have your identity stolen essentially. I had it happen one time to my Facebook I think, and it was,

you remember those wraps they would sell that would promise to shrink your belly by six inches? People for a while thought I was selling those wraps. It's like damn. Damn Thomas. Thomas falling down the... Well then another time I had a friend of mine, Kevin from college that was selling, remember Advocare? Yeah. It's like those like nutrition products and stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And Mona V, that kind of stuff. I sent him a message, I said, hey man, it looks like somebody, basically kind of something that Bob was like, man, it looks like somebody's

like hacked your page or whatever, and selling these, advocate and all that kind of shit. He's like, I don't know who I am. And I think you'd be great at it. He took his opportunity to try to get me under his umbrella and I was like. Wow, that's good. I was like, oh man, I'll think about it

I'd like totally just said You were just disparaging what you were doing right? Yeah, right. Yeah, but you gotta understand I was fresh off that wraps thing. Mm-hmm. You know, you'd been burned by the ramps. Yeah I was talking my dad about that on the drive home on About Bitcoin. Yeah, and it's just funny though Like when you try to actually like get it down to the bare essentials like it is just straight up a scam It's like it's like like without a question. Well, it's a scam. Well, and the other thing is like You know for what I don't you know again is like, you know, for what I don't, you know, again, wading into these waters is kind of polarizing territory

because some people are like, you know. Oh shit, are we gonna take some heat for this? Probably, there's a lot of blockchain people out there. But the proliferation of all these sort of coins, you know, it was like I was talking to a guy the other day, cool guy, sold me this record player in there that I got and I was telling him like, you know, like you got guys like Sturgill, Samson, Jason Isbell, and you know,

all these other guys that ushered in this like, era of country music, but it's like, and those guys are great in their own right, but it's like the guys downstream of them, like they're great, great, great grandkids. Right. Are like kind of the, where that started getting off the rails a little bit.

Right, right, right. You know, that's the same thing with the coins, I guess. Oh, I see, you're saying the original Bitcoin generation, they were. I wouldn't say that. They were like the outlaw. Yeah, I wouldn't say that like, yeah, I wouldn't say that Bitcoin's the Willie Nelson of like alternate

currencies or anything like that. But I'm just saying like something like Bitcoin is a lot more legitimate than Dogecoin or Hock Toa coin or that coin that Dennis Robin had with Kim Jong Un. Is it though? This is what I wonder. I'm saying that like with degrees of separate like I don't think Bitcoin is like you think Bitcoin is like

I'm not saying like it's super legitimate. I think you should still treat it like the same way You would treat sports betting is like a pure gamble Mm-hmm, but The well, let's look at this. All right, the original Bitcoin was made by was that guy's name? Satoshi Satoshi, but it like translates to like I'm in the CIA or something like that. Oh really? I know that in the original Japanese so um I just saw that Jack Dorsey this former CEO of Twitter was in Kenya at some kind of meditation retreat and he had a

Satoshi shirt on in the style of Nirvana's Nevermind. Uh-huh Yeah, what do you think about that? I ain't care for it. Didn't like anything about what that was Satoshi Nakamoto, let me see this. I'm gonna look this up. I'm pretty sure like Mina pointed this out to me Let me see this. I want to look this up. I'm pretty sure like Mina pointed this out to me That it translates to something like pretty sus Satoshi Nakamoto is CIA It means base wisdom Based wisdom basis Okay, Satoshi in Katakana or Satoshi and kanji means wisdom or sense in Japanese

meaning middle and So it actually means central intelligence agency like if you kind of like pare it down like Nakamoto and kind of Kana from Japanese meaning middle and meaning base root origin I don't know maybe that's just as like someone had you think like they're dabbing on us again hiding in plain sight? I think so. Well, nevertheless, I want to be clear, I wasn't saying you should put your money in Bitcoin or anything.

I just was saying that by comparison to the Hot Tuas and all those other coins that they do, those pump and dump things with. What's the SEC doing these days? They're hanging out. I think they're out to lunch. Feels like it's a golden era of finance crimes. I think the the thing is the reason it's complicated the reason it's hard from okay you're right like the hock tool coin is a pump and dump and the doge coin is pumped all that shit is a scam but I still standing by Dennis Rodman's pot coin. That one's great. That's a great

I think let's just go ahead and say that it's fine. I said north set one wholeheartedly But the premise is a scam because you have to get again Around Hobbs in southeastern, New Mexico and in West, Texas. They've started making those Bitcoin mines. Yeah, and In the thing and my dad was like, I don't even really understand what they do. And I was like, well, what they do is they have a ton of computers,

and the computers try to run this algorithmic sequence to try to unlock portions of the blockchain so that they can then realize the cryptocurrency itself. And it requires a lot of energy, and it takes a lot of computational and it takes a lot of like computational Sophistication like you have to run these algorithms and the algorithms have to be pretty sophisticated and good Otherwise you can't get your Bitcoin. Well, see I kind of viewed it a little differently I thought it was just a bunch of gateway computers. Remember the old gateway computer. I do yes I do a bunch of gateways and like a shack somewhere in the mountains so they're just ran

them around the clock they do that is what it is what it is but what it is computing is that's what it is okay the the the premise is you try to realize something out of nothing granted and I know people who are apologists for Bitcoin could say well That's not true because the block there is a finite amount of this cryptocurrency Which gives it its value and it's like that's not really what it gives it its value like the finitude of The crypto like the fine gives it its value is your belief in Yeah, that's exactly right. Yeah. That's exactly right. Because like generally what backs up a currency is faith in the public and even more fundamentally

like military power. Yeah, right, right, right. Like the ability to basically back it up with some sort of like powerful strong arm of the law. There's a reason the United States dollar, despite having not really made much here since the 1940s, is still like far and away the world's largest economy. That's because we have far and away the world's largest military. Well two things, right.

It's military and it's basically, I don't know how to put it. Soft power, social currency. Well I would say like land power. Like the United States controls a massive amount of land and That's another but then again you got England and they don't really they're just a little island nation, but the pound is pretty I Thought they're riding off past glory. They are for sure. They're coasting. They are man. What's your coast? And they're they're always gonna be they just banned puberty blockers

Did they mm-hmm England for people under 18? Okay, it's fucked up Yeah, and Yeah, they're bright you're there coasting, but they're on some sort of downward spiral under a liberal government Yeah under a labor government right isn't here't labor? Yeah, Keir Starmer and he the guy now. I think so. Bitcoin, man. I don't know, the thing is, is that with Bitcoin, I don't know, it seems like a classic scam

in the sense that like partially what gives it its value in the eyes of the people who who use it is that it is an alternative currency and therefore like and and the fact that you need like this computational power and labor to actually realize it like that also gives it its value but like it seems kind of like a doubt it seems like diminishing returns certain point yeah So let me ask you a question. What do you think what happened to the US dollar if we lived under military junta? Which honestly?

With Trump coming in if you've ever wanted to control the most powerful country in the history of the world for however long I don't know if that is that true. Are we the most powerful? Yeah, you don't think history of the world for however long. I don't even know if that is that true. Are we the most powerful country? You don't think so? In the history of the world. I think so. I don't know, we like to say that all the time. We do like to say that all the time. I just don't know, I just don't know what to believe anymore. But like you can get a bargain on a very powerful country right now in the next four years. I feel like it'd be right to take over military junta. I think so, yeah. you know, I think that the for all you enterprising, you know We do have 750 military bases around the world and I think China has like two Yeah, so I'd say we're still the most powerful Yeah, every time the Chinese are like, you know, we've invested in infrastructure and bringing people out of poverty and all that stuff

It's like they've got more social capital. Yeah, yeah world. It's like sure Because we've murdered like everyone on the planet at some point the jigs up. Yeah, you know, it's like, huh? Actually, every time you come around it's bad things happen. Mm-hmm And so the thing is is how much long how long can we coast on that? I mean, we just toppled another government in the Middle East, Syria, and I read an article in the New York Times about how, like who can take credit for it? Like the Biden administration is trying so hard

to take credit for the toppling of Bashar al-Assad. Like what do they think, it's gonna bring him back? Does that think, they think that they're gonna name Joe the lifelong leader of Syria. Oh you mean like why yeah though because they're trying to like make Joe's legacy at this point. Which is like genuinely perhaps the worst legacy of any president in over a hundred years. He keeps, you know, you've heard the phrase like dig yourself out of a hole, which is oxymoron, obviously.

Joe's kind of doing that though. Every move he makes that he thinks is gonna be like, this is gonna be my legacy maker, just digs him further into like, fucking Warren G. Harding territory, you know? Uh-huh. Like Biden will be remembered like Franklin Pierce or something like that I saw how Netanyahu was Basically like no, I'm the one that did this Like I you know, it's because we have been bombing military targets I'm around Damascus and we've been weakening the Iranians in Hezbollah.

We're the ones that are responsible for taking down Assad. It's like, I don't know, it's really wild to see the last few days on the Patreon we were talking about how bad this could get and I've seen some bad shit. Yeah. But then again. What do you think is's gonna happen long term? I don't know, it's probably gonna be like Iraq. They're probably gonna have like some

fundamentalist government. I think honestly long term, I think they're gonna try to turn the, they're gonna try to do to the Middle East what they've done to North America. They're gonna try to like to the Middle East what they've done to North America. They're gonna try to wipe out all the indigenous people there and graft on top of it just this ethno-supremacist society and then in 100 years they'll reform

and make it multicultural like they did in America. Started off like Anglo-supremacist but then they were like, oh look, we're actually multicultural. They do land acknowledgements for Arabs as the most half-assed gesture Yeah, yeah, I think that's what they want because that's the thing. Like did you see all the people like gloating about like the skiing opportunities that they will now have after they've invaded Syria

the Can we talk about civic life for a moment just more broadly? Can we talk about civic life for a moment just more broadly? Please are we so out of ideas that what we're just gonna do is just keep Reproducing like fucking I just it's just resort life all over the world Mm-hmm You know what I mean? Oh, yeah, I know like everybody's so goddamn bored We have to go like murder people and topple governments to open up fucking beachfront resorts Let's get like yeah, who's got that fucking time and money. Is this just a world for the rich by the rich now?

It's almost like giving nine guys all the cash was a bad idea. That's the thing. It's So there was that thing with Saudi Arabia Getting FIFA till he bend its rules so that they could get the world come? Dude, that got that... Book ended with Qatar. Yeah. Right? Yeah.

And it's like, okay. As the world goes... If that would have said Israel, if that wasn't Steve Schrader, if that would have said Israel, I promise you to see me on the evening news that night. You might as well though. I mean Saudi Arabia is now a world historic evil along with Israel in the United States. Yeah. Like they are like a world historic evil that must for the world to become a better place. Those three gotta go. They all have to go. Yeah, it's funny. They all represent the most perverted versions of the three Abrahamic religions

Like the most the most perverse version reading of the three big Abrahamic faiths They're just like comprehensively a world historic evil, yeah Man it's not good But that'll be the new Middle East it'll be like basically a settler colonial Expansion is project where they turn the whole place into like neoms and and and ski resorts and stuff like that. Well I knew they were off to a bad foot when Patrick Beverly one of the worst NBA players that ever existed probably quantifiably a bad human being. Certainly the most annoying. Who did he play for?

Milwaukee Bugs, Slakers, he's a journeyman. But he was like, he went and signed to play for an Israeli team, he's like, I don't know what everybody's talking about. That's great over here. It's great over here. Geez. Oh god. I read this thing about, I this article about Elvis Elvis Costello

She's honest actually he he actually Said in 2010 He declined to go play shows in Israel and he caught a lot of flack for it and people were saying oh this is just like the time in the early 80s when he called James Brown and Ray Charles the N-word. And so he got so shamed by past racist gestures that he actually went to Israel? No he actually didn't go I don't think I think he stood his ground on it but they said it was consistent with his past racisms. And so that's a good example of why you just never want to be racist at any time in your life.

Because. Bad luck. Because when you do need to actually take a principled stand on. Oh that's funny coming from you. On the Hitlerite nation of Israel, yeah. It's like you need to have your, no skeletons in your closet.

I just don't even care about my skeletons anymore. It's like okay, yeah have no skeletons in your closet. I just don't even care about my skeletons anymore It's like okay. Yeah, that was a weird deal so Elvis Costello Was shitfaced in a bar and got into an argument with like someone in Steven Still's band and And yes said called Ray Charles and James Brown the heart are inward and called Ray Charles and James Brown the heart R N word and Ray Charles response was well when you're drunk like what you say doesn't matter like Ray Charles was

like a gentleman about it. I imagine James Brown was not no James Brown was a Evil evil awful human being very very bad extremely talented though extremely talented But not a good person, but anyways regardless Elvis Costello ran into Ray Charles like at a Like I forgot Rachel was blind because again this story they were like Like at a, oh I forget Ray Charles was blind. Because in this story they were like, they were talking about how Elvis Costello ran into Ray Charles at a music festival in the early 2000s

but didn't have the heart to go say anything to him about it. Or like he- Ray Charles or Costello? Costello didn't, he felt bad. He was- Like he wanted to go apologize? He wanted to go apologize but he didn't. And then I was like, damn,

I wonder how that made Ray Charles feel. But now I'm just just now realizing like Ray Charles may not have even known he was there Charles felt when he saw Castello perform, and then he didn't even come over to Probably felt terrible Jesus Christ Yeah, it's bad times out there in the world. Huck Toa Coins failed. The Landman is ascendant. Yeah, we're going to be touching on this show, The Landman, in a little limited series coming up. But I have to say, this first two episodes, I had to cut the second one off after he pulled the

Lynn Swan he was a football player that broke his pinky in a game and instead of Famously instead of like having it reset just cut it off so he could continue playing Wait, he he cut off his finger in the middle of the game. Not something you see a lot anymore happening. You remember in yesteryear a lot of men would sustain an injury and they would just go to the nuclear option for that injury just to prove their toughness. Just to prove their toughness. Yeah.

I had a buddy whose father was an Army Green Beret special forces and Said they took a pair of pliers and pulled every tooth in his head out just to prove how tough he was one time Why would you do that you're gonna look stupid yeah, I wouldn't have done it But he had like veneers the rest of us off you know like a ding-dong Yeah, I don't know if I'd done that I wouldn't I would have said he looked like a ding-dong cuz Ben was a bad bad man, but Interesting, but yeah stuff like that would you know? You don't see feats of strength like that anymore like uh

Guys aren't just cutting their pinkies off anymore. You know cuz you'd look cuz here's what you forget is like Yeah, I'm gonna look like a heart badass in the moment you go look dumb afterward as someone who has had their has had a finger cut off part of it anyways it's a lot let me say that well that happened yeah it's always looked a little gnarly to me I mean tell you it's pretty fucked up as someone attached that they tried they tried to reconstruct it does look a little Cronenberg Ian yeah so it's pretty fucked up man let me just say that as someone who has experienced that

you don't just walk away it's like granted they who was the football player that did that land swan they probably was it Ronnie lot I've been Ronnie lot I would bet they shot it full of fucking Nova Kane or whatever and then gave him heavy painkillers seems to me but in the land man he just puts it on the fucking tabletop and just cuts it off and it's like yeah you would pass out I can tell you for a fact you would pass out yeah my neighbor broke his pinky toe and had to have it reset and he was like dog when they reset it I passed out yeah from

just the pain like they wouldn't give me anything like you would the pain would be unbelievable even just a fucking pain just even a fucking pinky let me see what Ronnie Lott did what the Ronnie Lott finger I'm not gay that might have been limp okay it was Ronnie Lott Uh-huh. Uh, let's see. I don't think I'm gay. Ronnie Lott famously had his broken pinky finger amputated in April 1986 to avoid the long recovery time that would have followed reconstructive surgery.

That's kind of where they got the plot, that plot device for the land man. That's what he said. He's like, I don't want to do 12 surgeries and all this, that's kind of where they got the plot that plot device for the land man That's what he said. He's like, I don't want to do 12 surgeries and all this that the third is that just give me a fucking knife Which the doctor? Does Taylor Sheridan shows are so strange because sometimes like real like reality does peek through the doctor goes You're probably gonna get a staph infection That is 100% true If you put your fucking wounded thumb down on a surface in a hospital and just cut it off You're going to get your gun. I'm going to place is crawling with yeah all kinds of shit. You can't do that

The decision has been since been romanticized and pro football Laura's heroic, the extreme act of a warrior, or maybe just a football lunatic. Few, however, remember just how unheroic Lot, then a 49er safety felt at the time. He said, I was trying to laugh it off, but I felt sick. He told the AP in 1986, at first seeing the bloody nub. Yeah.

I tried to stand up, but I broke into a cold sweat. It was just a total shock. And I thought, oh man, I should have had the pin put in. Oh, you did that in the middle of a game and then went back out to play? No, I think it's been, that's the lore. As someone who's experienced this, there is no fucking way you could play

after something like that. Roddy Lott immediately regretted the amputation. Yeah, it was a net completely unnecessary Yeah, and I should tell you if you can avoid an amputation you should you should do that a hundred percent yeah Jesus man Good morning America, how hard are you? How hard are you? How big

How big a boy? Roy Mercer Mercer Roy D Mercer. Yeah, Roy D Mercer if he pops up in the land man Mercer in the land. Yeah, how big a boy are you? Yeah, just go ahead cut it off Roy D. Mercer as the devil on your shoulder Did you see my did you see my joke about them the blinds man that was a good But no one left only because no one knows the land man that is true. No one has it It's poised to be the first Sheridan flop well you're right If there was a just God Tulsa King wouldn't have flopped. At least as far as I've never watched Tulsa King but at

least it seems like it's got a sense of humor okay the land man does have a sense of humor I should I should correct myself the pilot to the land man was pretty goddamn funny I laughed several times actually yeah even though there is a weird thing where he's like him and his daughter have a weird sexual tension That is strange Well, it's designed for somebody like you to say that then for somebody like Sheridan to say you sick fuck Why is your mind going that you know speaking of this did you see this thing about Taylor Sheridan where? he's written himself into the second part of the last season of Yellowstone because

Costner didn't come back. Yeah. And he's like written himself to be like totally cool and Bella Hadid is his girlfriend and he's a totally cool guy who everyone loves. And he has like a strip poker scene with Beth and like the man must be stopped. He's gotta be stopped. There's nobody, there's nobody on earth that needs their ass kicked one good time like Taylor Sheridan. Just to be brought down a half a peg. A half a peg is all I'm asking.

He's clearly never had his ass kicked. Oh my God, dude. Yeah He's clearly never had his ass kicked Cardiologist kid he's a car. He's a son of a cardiologist Quintessential I was raised around poor people, but I myself was not poor What was the quote that his wife said we were literally starving after he quit sons of an hour after sons of anarchy was over But before he got big as a writer She said we were literally starving it's like I don't think that I don't think that's true Did you see that scene who knows who knows maybe he had a bad relationship with his rich daddy, did you see this scene? Listen to this

There's two types of people at work in patch dreamers and losers Used to be that way in the whole nation Used to be that way in the whole nation. Fagers headed out west to either die or succeed. All the way to California. Just don't need dreamers out there anymore. Don't need dreamers out there anymore. It's thieves and fools. Just what?

Thieves and fools? This is where dreamers come now. And losers come here to win. Just what? Thieves and fools? First attempts always a failure so then you're gonna be a loser Wonder what you'll do then That's the sound of me jerking off you can then hear me jerking off in the background Really Bob Ford's life lesson as his life lessons. Yeah, yeah, that's that's fuck. It's so true. It's my dick so hard Yeah, do you think that's the dreamers and there's two types of people that work in the patch Tom dreamers and losers Which is hilarious like I don't know that I call my cousin right a dreamer or a loser

Just kind of a guy that was just looking for a job paid a little bit better than this for other job It's funny. I've always said that the oil patches where dreams go to die maybe that's what he's saying. Would you still stand by that? I still stand by it. It is where dreams go to die. It's a bad place. Yeah it's not a it's not a good place. What's the culture of the patch? I mean would you say that he's at least this is a reasonable fac sim we have patch life what he's put out here um It's a reasonable fact sim Lee there. There are parts that make zero fucking sense like a land man a land agent would never be Would never be the first person to arrive after a pump jack explodes and to close the valve

I hear you wouldn't even know what the fuck to do with the back Here's my question How does a guy that's essentially a middleman for the big companies have so much social clout? His job, and he's not even demonstrates that he's not even that good at his job Yeah, like his job is just to get mineral rights also, like he's clearly not good at it because he's splitting the fucking three bedroom apartment with like a fucking lawyer and an engineer and an engineer. Yeah all working for the oil company

Yeah, man, the land man is um, that's good shit, but the blinds man, I think that's what we need We need a guy who's like bad fucking ass blinds man, I think that's what we need. We need a guy who's like bad fucking ass, and he's just gotta sell some fucking blinds. And like, he just doesn't recognize this America. Does he, he doesn't recognize what it's become of America. No, yeah. Comparing the two is interesting because like,

you would never say that about the blinds man, but the land man, there's a mythological importance attached to his job, and therefore, that's why he has got a TV show yeah you couldn't have a show about the blinds well whatever it's the blinds man and what we're talking about is a guy that has a van emblazoned on the side is the blind of guy that's the blinds man looks like a black disembodied figure with some window blinds in front of him. He's the blinds man.

Yeah, like rear window. And maybe here's what the deal is, is he knows there's a rash of peeping toms. And his job is to secure the window. He always gets the girl because he's protecting her from the pervert next door. You know? Just doing my job, man.

Just doing my job. Oh, he won't be peeking in on you anymore. And he can periodically break the fourth wall to tell you about like where America is at and like why why like the need for blinds has increased shows up to a consultation and it's like a blue haired like college student that's like talking about BLM or something like I don't need or they it would definitely be yeah they'd be like I don't need

blinds because I'm in touch with my neighbors in my community. And we're all friendly to each other and we share resources. And the blindsman is like, now honey, you think that. Yeah. Now just honey, you think that. Like misgenders them right out the gate. Yeah, yeah.

And it's like, but this country's all about what you can take from another person. Yeah, and it's didn't you ain't heard You ain't read that book the pedophile next door. You got kids No, I don't have kids. Well, you might be alright But there's other people in this neighborhood that that would not do the land the blindsman would say, of course You don't have kids to himself, but to the audience because the land man is always breaking the fourth wall Yeah, he's always like Getting the land man is a very reddit show. It's always like

Breaking the fourth wall to tell you like this is where this country is gone And the blindsman would be like, of course you don't of course that of course She doesn't have kids would misgender them and be having costners also the blinds man, that's why he left Yellowstone to be the blinds man. Who installed who's installed these open windows? They the the person the blue hair is like I just like a lot of natural light and is like and the blindsman is like Well, yeah, you say that but wait till you get your first power bill and you've got some black Multicultural you know they them crawling through your window to steal your panties and sniff them and and smoke your you know, I

Don't know what's a what a conservative's conception of the drugs that a ketamine, but that he would say it wrong, he'd be like, ketamine or something. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, special K. He would try to call it some weird street name, but kind of botch it, you know? Like try to sing cool. Yeah, one day you think you're doing that special K

and you think it's gonna be all gravy. Next thing you know, you're calling customer service in Bangalore. It's like, yeah, like he's, what the blindsman's really mad about is you can't talk to an English speaking white person on the customer service line anymore. That's his pet issue.

That's a pet issue a lot of them are mad about. And that is true. Yeah. So the blindsman would go to... let's write out the pilot to this, okay? Yeah. The blindsman has a... a bitch ex-wife. And... His words, not ours not ours The land man has two kids all right. Yeah, he's still horny for his ex-wife He's still horny for his ex-wife and for his daughter kind of but the blindsman In a weird way slightly for the blindsman has like 15 kids yeah And this is why he got into blinds because he himself used to be a peeping Tom but he was like really... Takes one to know one. Yeah he takes one

right. Yeah that's what he tells everybody. He goes to do these like installments for the blinds, put their blinds in. He was like listen I'm trying to protect you from people like me. You need someone. What are you do you talk you need someone who's been on the other side of the window? Tell you something people like me will stop at nothing to catch a catch a peek with the blindsman was peeping Tom with Riz and so like he was He's got like eight ex-wives who he all spied on at one point that's why he's got like eight ex-wives who he all spied on at one point That's why he's got like 15 kids. Yeah, and they're named like

Bray Lee and Kaylee and yeah, Jason Drake He's got one named Cole Miner Drexel Yeah that Aristotle like a weird wild card. Yeah, his son son Aristotle who's Ford after his favorite brand of Truck he's got eight bitch ex-wives in 15 And He okay, and so the pilot episode is um The opening scene is him

in a they them blue hairs house. Yeah. Telling them how. About America he doesn't, that used to be. Exactly, now about how like, you think that you can just share, you think that people aren't out there trying to look in your windows and see what you have

to steal the things that you have and jerk off to perverted fantasies of you. Let me tell you firsthand, that's exactly what they're doing. I've seen it, I've lived it. And then they're just like, what, you've lived it? You've lived it? You've lived it? This whole small business, blindsmen, LLC.

My son Aristotle, come in, he's like, come on, come on in here. Hey, Stottle. Hey, Stottle. Come in here. Ari. Ari, yeah. Tell the blue hair about what your daddy used to get into He's a changed man

Okay Now he installs those blinds in his name but used to be uh-huh he would Well, okay in the land man the blinds met a Christian. It's a Christian blinds installer This seems like a penance sort of arc for a former youth pastor pervert type. Yeah, but let's make it a little wild card. Let's make him like Greek Orthodox or something. That's why Aristotle was one of them. Yeah, like in the land man... This guy's has names like Connie. All right, but it's short for Constantinople Zarathus

Zaris But in the land man a Central plot point is the land man gets his son His son work wants to go work in the patch. Yeah. Classic Taylor Sheridan, as you've pointed out many times, in every Taylor Sheridan thing you will, there will be a wayward son who's kind of slumming it and he wants to, he could be... He's usually hot, although I tell you, he's this this new sundown a peg. He's not that hot

I mean, he's he's maybe that maybe he's switched gears like we need to do hot daughter Uh-huh seven six and a half son. That's true. That's true He's like I've exhausted the hot Sun that gets everybody in a little danger trope That's true. I need to invert it now. I need the daughter to get everybody in mortal danger trope that's true I need to invert it now I need the daughter to get everybody in mortal danger mm-hmm and the son to be like a little less hot true the Sun but the Sun also does get everybody in mortal danger in the very first literally by him not knowing what to get he like killed three Mexicans now granted Mexicans are completely disposable in the Taylor Sheridan land man universe by the way also also

The scariest people alive also the scariest people it the series opens with a cartel scene Taylor Sheridan is terrified of the border he is I Guarantee you this guy thinks about securing our border day and night a hundred percent They think about it sicario to the scene makes no sense because why would the cartel? Kidnap a landman and then the scene takes a weird turn where the landman's like we're gonna give you millions of dollars If you just let us drill on your land Why does their cartel own land that you drill for oil? Oh, I like how the cart at the head of the cartel just gave him his home address to forward the checks to yeah

It's like oh, here's my identifying details. Well You know also the kid Goes to work with some Mexicans on a drilling crew and They're not even a drilling crew it's not even clear what they do they're just in the oil field vaguely basically they don't drill base yeah basically Marcus Alvarez from sons of anarchy clangs a wrench against things yeah that's it while two while the two others stand around and

watch while the one guy that plays every Mexican on TV stands around and watch. While the one guy that plays every Mexican on TV stands around and watch. And then another up and comer stands around and watches. The way that this, what I learned, I was gonna save all these takes for our actual thing into the land ban, but what I learned about the land ban is the audience is not for me. The audience is for upper middle class and upper class rich white people

who have never met anybody who works in the fossil fuel industry because though and I know this because the way that that scene is introduced is He the white kid the land man's son has to climb into a truck with three Mexicans and the way it's like framed It's like this is a terrifying thing and he doesn't know a single word of Spanish and it's like if you grew up in that community Hey, you would be in trucks with you would be the only white kid in trucks in Mexico all the time You would have a curse your understanding of Spanish. So where the fuck did this anyways know what that's survey says beer There's that one scene where he's like this is Okay, anyways back to the blindsman You need a kid you need the blindsman is trying to get one of his sons aerostal into the blinds business

And he sends that he sends him out with a blinds crew Wines up getting one of the Mexicans in the blinds crew like tangled up in the blinds He's like listen listen you can't can't pull this cord to it let's eat in the guy does like Listen, Michael. You can't pull this too hard if you do this is gonna come crashing down on my head And he just like is like It comes too hard down on the Mexican guy's head This hits him in the exact right spot and he carries the guilt with him his entire Well you didn't even finish this because in the second episode at the end of the second episode the Sun

Requests to get back on a crew After his entire crew gets killed on day one on day one. He's like put me back on a crew He's like if I'm gonna run an oil company I need to know the ins and outs and the land man's like They will make fun of you. You got your entire crew killed and he's like, I don't care. Just send me back out It's the same you're supposed to draw a parallel with him cutting his finger off and always a call back to the yeah it's like it's like the the land man's son is doing something similar like he is Cutting his finger off his finger being the member of him getting the crew kill

Exactly, but he's going right back out. He's gonna right. He's getting right back. He's not quit Cutting his finger off his finger being the member of him getting the crew kill Exactly, but he's going right back out. He's gonna. He's getting right back. He's not quit. Uh-huh He's a dreamer too. Just like his sister so the blindsman son dreamers and losers God hate him so bad the blindsman son gets a guy killed on a crew on a blind screw Okay, but we need some other people's houses that the blindsman can be going to that can like speak something about society like the so he goes to the blue hair they them's house but like where who are some other archetypes in American culture that like the conservatives love to rage against oh well there's gonna be like well, there's gonna be like,

you know, there's gonna be like a trans character. Mm-hmm. I feel like that could be, that could be folded into the they to them blue hair scene. You need something that deals with like- They like, here's what they're really against is coffee drinkers.

Yeah, they fucking- But felt like anything but black coffee Sheridan hates coffee anybody that doesn't drink coffee that there anybody that drinks coffee that isn't just black all of his shit You're right because in Tulsa isn't Tulsa King like one of the central conceits is that they have like a coffee shop That's like also Weed shopper. A weed shopper or something like that? Yeah, I can't remember. Sheridan has a weird, and this is funny

because David Lynch also, you know who also has a fixation on coffee? It's David Lynch. David Lynch. Yeah. See, I was thinking like the next house that the blindsman could go to would be like, because every Sheridan thing has this as well the out-of-touch too rich and wealthy

Like Was it what's the word I'm looking for like someone that's like really really wealthy and rich But they didn't earn it in any like noble or honorable way and so Because he's got also got a class Thing like it seems like all of his heroes are kind of like middle manager That's the thing that's the bait to switch that Sheridan pulls on all of the shows Yeah, he's got some good characters. He's got some good actors playing the characters

I'm not gonna bag on that and And he is the king of like the like the sh- like his shows are very watchable but like he takes all the wrong lessons. I feel like from it. And I think that's reflective of his like petty bourgeois background. Is that like the he idolizes, the real America, are not even really the workers, but the bosses of the workers. Yeah, middle management. Yeah, like middle management.

Like obviously, land men. People that own. If you ever did a show in Eastern Kentucky about coal mining, you wouldn't be focused on a coal miner. You would be focused on like a coal boss or No an overseer some sort. Yeah. Yeah, you're right Or the guy that owns the or wouldn't even be the guy that owns the mine It would be his foot soldier the guy that's sort of yeah, that's in the middle Well, and it's also contradictory and conflicting because there's a character in the first episode of land man

Who is the John who is basically John Dutton he's a ranch owner and the land man is basically like Like motherfucking mother. He's just like we're gonna give you three million dollars a year and fix your road So that you're gonna take it you're gonna say thank you Yeah, so you can play rancher with your two thousand head of cattle that don't bring you any money blah blah It's like that's literally John Dutton. But it's weird, it's like, I don't know if that's like an intention.

I think though, the point is, is that, there's this dialogue between a lot of his stuff about like people that own land and interact with it, and he, in that like larger cosmological structure of stuff, like John Dutton is not the same thing as an oil CEO Yeah, and in fact, there's like multiple bad. Yeah, there's multiple bad guys in Yellowstone that are like bigger than John Dutton Right, and it's not played in any kind of like crats

bureaucrats or then there's Right, there's rainwater then there's the out-of-towners or or native or Native Americans, right? This man really has it out for Native Americans and Mexicans. Yeah hundred percent as like interlopers somehow I mean it makes total sense though If you once use once you work from the presumption that like his utmost concern is land Yeah, that makes sense because who are the two biggest threats to that people coming across the border and Native Americans? Yeah, that is that makes total sense because this whole thing is bolstering the white claim on land on land It because like what ultimately matters is did you fight to win this did you work hard to keep this right exactly?

That's what he finds virtuous. That's what he finds virtuous It is a it is literally settler ideology distilled. Distilled and what's crazy about it is like I was willing to give him the benefit of the doubt on that for a long time. Okay. He bought some graces with Sicario and Heller Highwater. Well, not even that. And Wind River was good too. Even Yellowstone was compelling for like two or three seasons until it just kind of got meandering and kind of moving in circles. Where he lost me is this, is now I see Dutton Ranch branded cast iron skillets for sale.

Like the cottage industry that sprung up around this. And I'm just like, wait a second. So you've got like Team Dutton Ranch. Like I thought the presumption of Yellowstonestone what I was thinking going in was like Eventually the Native Americans are gonna be made whole right? That's the arc No, no, no, no, no in every single Sheridan thing Bad behavior is not only rewarded which would be fine As long as you're badass, but the thing is is like you've compared to a show like Sopranos where like

Bad behavior behavior is rewarded all the time, but there's subtext to a show like Sopranos in his shows There's never subtext. There's always characters basically breaking the fourth wall and being like no This is why my behavior is justified and this is why you should encourage it and root for it. It's bizarre It's like it's like I said to you, it's the same, it's the same conception liberals have with media in the sense that like they cannot, it's why they freaked out about licorice pizza, right? It's like I can't watch anything where the characters

don't turn to the audience and say like, this is bad, you shouldn't do this. They cannot deal with that. It's the same shit with his things too. Like he cannot just present something as it is He has to constantly be turning to you and being like no This is why you should root for this and this blah blah blah. He doesn't trust his audience base No, no, no, no, no, and it's it's really stunning to watch it because I'm watching rewatching Sopranos because I'm always rewatching Sopranos

it's like it's like stunning to watch rewatch it alongside sopranos because sopranos is a show that just like Does not insult its audience it just like it's like telling you the story and it's inviting you to bring your own critique and Experiences whatever into it. It's I don't know death Yeah, it is a show about that. That's a dark shit. So faytas is Great, but it is so dark is is so dark. It's so dark. It might be the darkest show.

Wait, okay, the blindsman needs to go to a rich person's house. And first things first, he's gonna go into the bath- he's gonna be like- He's gonna drink a bunch of coffee and when he gets there, he's gonna have to really go to the bathroom. And so he's gonna ask to use the rich person's house and they're gonna have some like highfalutin crazy shit in there like a a boudet a boudet and he's gonna be like what is this crap? What is this crap? Yeah, cause it's costner.

He's gotta watch his asshole. The rich guy's like, He's gotta watch his asshole Blindsman that's a bidet it comes from Japan it shoots warm water up your ass to clean it You mean to tell me This thing's gonna shoot warm water right at my he comes out of the bathroom when it his like whole ass is like wet There's a big water stain on the on his pants I guarantee you at some point a Sheridan character is gonna have a weird experience with a bidet That's the call of the century yeah

he goes he goes to the rich person's house has a weird experience with the bidet and then the rich person is like trying to explain like why like they need the like the most high-tech blind technology they can find and the blindsman is like You rich people are all the same you think that you think the high-tech blinds are gonna keep out the bad guys Yeah, yeah, but we've been building blinds in this country for 200 years And they've never failed us the the best blinds you can get were built by Harold Kasanak way in 1923.

27. And then they've, they've never served me wrong. Like they've never. Yeah. Or it'll say like something like, like overly schmaltzy where it's like, like you can drop the blinds, but the wolves are still going to be outside.

You know,erdan loves He does dude. What was that one line in the in the The the pilot episode of lamb and she was like daddy. Why are you always right? He was like cuz i spent my whole life being wrong. Yeah. Yeah being wrong. It's full of like like dumb guy rugged wisdom like all of his shows are imbued with like the line like a Dumb guy's idea of what rugged wisdom looks like, huh? You know the rich guy wants high-tech remote-controlled blinds He's like that's the problem to you bridge people

You don't want to walk over to the window and raise the blind yourself We've been raising blinds in this country for 200 years. And the minute you stop raising the blinds yourself is when it all started going off. Started going to hell. You couldn't just pull the string. The rich person's like, I think I'm gonna go with the other blinds. Yeah, you do that, coward.

Yo, just cause I won't get you your fancy, smancy latte blinds Then it makes a coffee joke. That's not even like right work doesn't even work. Then he's got to go to He's got to go to like a Not my words. This would be in the blindsman universe a white trash persons like trailer home and universe a white trash person's like trailer home and And install some blinds there and that's where he gets caught into some shit

Like that's where the plot starts really get kicking in the gear Because he like walks in and he's like looking at the blinds and he smells that they're cooking meth in the back Yeah, and he's like, why do y'all need blinds? Why do y'all need blinds? They're like they're like scratching their necks They're like, you know, it's just like we gotta keep people out. You know, it's like we we say like we're just trying to protect ourselves He's versus like yeah, I know the wolves always outside the blinds keep There's the only demarcation between us and the wild and and and And so and slowly like the tension starts to build in this scene and the meth makers understand the blinds men is starting to

catch on to what they're doing and so they try to like kidnap him but he rips the blinds like there's some already some shitty blinds on the window and he rips him off and he uses that he like he breaks off to blind like slats of the blinds There's a meth explosion in the back and there will be a meth explosion And he grabs the woman brings her to safety while the guys like burning in flames like screaming And he said honey never mind. You gotta leave the past behind Honey, nevermind, you gotta leave the past behind. But I love him, I love him. You're not gonna love him anymore. And he'll be like, talking like a barbecue joke.

Yeah, the love is over easy. Or the love is medium rare now. Yeah, the love is well done. God damn it,. Something stupid. There will be an explosion, right? Yeah. Cause Taylor Sheridan loves a good explosion. And hey, like I said to you in the pilot episode

of The Land Man, they bought me some good graces by exploding, by running a semi truck through an airplane. That was tight. I love when TV shows and movies. I'll stick around a little longer for something like that. That was practical effects too. That was not CGI and that was tight. I love when yeah, he shows a mess stick around a little longer for something like that Practical effects to that was not CGI and that was dope. Yeah, you don't see a lot of that TV But the the the pump jack explosion was CGI and I did not like that I like that was maybe the funniest thing I'd ever seen in my life Yeah, the only thing that made it funny is if he would have thrown in a racist joke where it was like

like It made it funny years if he would have thrown in a racist joke where it was like like Carnais side of well done or something like that Yeah, uh-huh. Oh my god. He's tomorrow. He's tomorrow. Yeah the foreshadowing What did they were making the state like the on the grill? Oh, that's true, dude They really really what did to erase? He did a racist foreshadowing. Yeah. Oh, that's true, dude They really really want to do a race. He did a racist foreshadow. Yeah. Oh my god. I realized that he did Okay, so yeah the blindsman that's good that's good stuff good stuff What is this crap saves a woman from a metal? I think I was there she's a man. What is this crap? And then it like dawns on this is the thing he's heard about the nightly news like so much like oh, this is

This is I've never seen he sees all the suit of head empty suit of head boxes And he makes a comment like I've seen congestion going on in here Yes, you guys have an hour time guys stopped up in his ragweed seasoning You guys have a hard time. You guys stopped up. It is ragweed seasoning. That way y'all scratch. That way y'all scratch. Yeah, you guys are malargees.

God damn it. Wow. Well, that's the thing. Like, the blindsmen. Good stuff. Yeah, we've written another one. You got anything on the tabs? People come for the tabs to come back.

People come for the tabs to come back. like the blindsman Good stuff We've written another one you got a thing on the tabs people come for the tabs to come back people really want the tabs to come Back. I thought they were just a Dog I always got shit on the tabs I Always fucking guys sit on see the thing is is we're gonna have to pre record some episodes coming up here soon And so I was thinking maybe we could do some tab roulette. Okay while we pre record some EPS I've definitely got that going on But you and I have to get a workout in yeah

And this is a much preferable to the YMCA. Yeah, let me just tell you something man The YMCA male locker room I Was in there the other day There is a guy Okay, the lengths guys go to in the YMCA locker room to be nude is funny and whatever I don't care. It's kind of like a cliche at this point But it is true like they're always waving their dicks in your face Which I don't have any problem with but what I did see in the YMCA locker room that I did have a problem with

There was a guy Butt ass naked sitting on the floor and stretching his hamstring nude Okay, that's not acceptable the only okay I'm really want to tell you something I don't think it's okay to be nude in the locker room naked on the floor I was like dude he's gonna stand up and there's gonna be I hate it so bad. It's like it's like Like I'll give you Dude it's like here's my deal with it. Okay, like if Like there's just no excuse not to just like

Like dude, I've been in there and seen dudes like Shaving and brushing their teeth like just hanging cock and balls right there in front of the mirror And it's like they do love to do just be naked and again. That's There are limits or there have to be some limits like if you want to fucking yeah Just walk around naked in the locker room and fucking shave and brush your teeth which they all do that fine But you can that I draw the line at sitting on the floor But even that's like stretching the limits of good taste, you know It's like bro. You can easily tie a towel right away. You know what I mean?

stretching nude on the floor stretching your I like okay like if I'm being a stiffy lucky if you're like cruising right now, you know Like by all means. Yeah, carry on, whatever. But this is, but bro, if you're in the common areas with your shit out and I have to walk around your dick and balls to get to my locker, I don't have, here's what I have a problem with. You're changing out of your bathing suit. You're going to get like a little dick and balls there. I have to get naked in there changing out of your bathing suit. You're gonna get like a little

Dick and balls there. I have to get naked in there. That's fine. I have I have no problem in the wintertime I have to yeah, that's I have no problem. That's fine It's just when you linger in the common areas Just kind of makes me feel like you're trying to like make me uncomfortable You know I just thought that was a little over the line. You can't stretch on the ground Yeah, it's like and how do you nonchalant about that yeah, just gonna stretch them out here right good It's just like Okay, all right Yeah, you can't say anything cuz you would look like the biggest asshole

Like man get your fucking dick and balls and ass off the ground I gotta put my bare feet where your dick and balls are get the fuck up. Oh My god, dude, and it killed me It's good shit. If you would like to listen to more content that is actually, I don't know, I'm just gonna go ahead and tell you guys straight up. Maybe this will alleviate my stress for the month.

I've been stressed out about the fact that like this month we've just kind of we've not been half-assing it but we've maybe been a little bit half-assing it. I mean no we've not been half-assing it. Don't cop to it. We've been doing fine. That's true don't cop to it. We've been doing good stuff. I'm just saying I'm just gonna go ahead and give you guys a warning like we're You know, we're it's December We're fucking we can't have a guest on every week. You're gonna get some tab roulette. You're gonna get some Yeah, just have me cut you off there We do a fine show. There's nothing wrong with we do Apologizing for this cut this cut this no, what's wrong with I mean, I just always feel the need to apologize. What is that about me? Why do I always feel the need to apologize?

Why do I feel fundamentally wrong all the time? Mmm, I think it's a hedge against being wrong. Is it an attachment style? Is it like an attachment? I think it's I think anxious Maybe give me interesting. You've done nothing wrong here. We got it. We got muscles to develop. Let's get out of that's true All right. We thanks for listening friends go to the patreon to please listen to more Programming and we'll see you next time. Yep. Adios