- In this episode, episode five. (laughs)
(Jeff beat boxing) - Okay, so.
- It's like the beginning of every Jay-Z track.
(Breia laughs) Turn my mic up please.
I need more bass in my headphones. (laughs)
(producers laugh)
I'm into the system.
I've hacked into the system.
What a nightmare.
(upbeat music)
Hey guys, my name's Jefferson White.
I play Jimmy on the Paramount Network's "Yellowstone,"
and this is Welcome to the Yellowstone, episode five.
We're cruising along.
We feel so, so grateful for your support.
We're having such a blast doing this,
so thank you so much for clickin'.
Of all the things to click on,
in an ocean of things to click on,
the fact that you clicked on this
really means the world to us, so thank you so much.
We're having a blast doing it.
And no day more than today, when we're talking
about "Yellowstone," episode 105, "Coming Home,"
one of my personal favorite episodes of the season.
So really quick, before we get too nitty gritty,
let's do a very fast, five minute recap.
Six minutes?
Can we do six minutes? - No, five.
- Seven? - Five.
- Okay, I know how to negotiate.
Counter offer, 10.
- [Breia] How 'bout five?
- You're very powerful.
(both laugh)
You're a very powerful negotiator.
I really thought this would go better.
- No. - And you're just fully
shutting me down.
- [Breia] You can do it, I have faith.
- 15? - Five.
- Fuck.
- [Breia] 15 minus 10.
- Okay, I like that.
Optically that lets us both win.
(Breia laughs)
I like that a lot.
Okay, amazing.
Here we go, "Yellowstone" episode 105, "Coming Home"
in five minutes or less, fingers crossed.
Okay, so.
The very first thing that happens is we meet,
this is important.
We meet Taylor Sheridan's character, Travis,
who is a horse trainer and salesman.
And Taylor, it's amazing.
Every time I see Taylor acting, Taylor's good at everything
and it's infuriating.
Taylor wrote this episode, directed it, and is in it,
which is like, "C'mon man."
Don't do all those things better than anyone else,
that's fucked up.
Give someone else a chance.
Okay, so we're at the ranch where JD and Rip
are checking out very expensive, very fancy horses
when Monica and Tate show up at the ranch
because if you recall, at the end of episode 104,
Kayce got arrested.
So Monica and Tate show up at the ranch lookin' for help,
and Kayce has been arrested and is with tribal police
on the res, and they have recovered the bodies
of the kidnappers that he had killed,
and then surreptitiously buried,
and they're asking him questions about it.
So basically, Kayce's in trouble.
Finally all of his violence has caught up to him,
even if it was maybe justified.
That's a sort of thorny, ethical question
that were all gonna have to ask ourselves
as we view the show.
Basically, the heat's on Kayce,
but Jamie Dutton shows up, power move.
Power lawyer Jamie Dutton shows up
and basically gets Kayce off scot-free.
He is sort of, he confronts the tribal police
about the very sketchy they did to cover up the killing
at the meth house, the sort of mercy killing
at the meth house, by switching gun barrels
between Kayce and the chief of tribal police.
Jamie's like, "Hey man, you can't do that.
"Do you want me to tell everyone you did that?"
And that basically gets Kayce off scot-free.
Okay, then we find Rip at prison.
If you recall, at the end of 104, John Dutton,
once Fred got killed, John Dutton said,
"Hey, go get us another hand.
"Go to the prison and pick him up."
So Rip goes to prison to pick up a new ranch hand
and he finds, yes, your favorite and mine,
Ryan Bingham, Walker.
He says to Walker, "Hey man, you want to work
"for this really cool ranch, the Yellowstone?"
Walker says, "Yeah, I'll think,"
in his amazing cowboy drawl that I will not try
to replicate here.
He says, "Yeah, I think so."
Rip says, "Do you know what that involves?
"Do you know what that's gonna mean?"
And Walker says, "Yeah, I've heard,"
and very exciting.
Walker thinks he knows what he's signing up for.
We'll find out if he does.
And then, we got Beth.
Beth basically has been given the assignment
of destroying Dan Jenkins,
destroying him just inside and out,
and she's taken that very seriously.
So she walks up to Dan Jenkins and his wife,
who are together, and just makes things
very uncomfortable for them, which is classic Beth.
Poor Dan Jenkins.
Okay, then we find the wranglers doctoring cows,
taking care of some cows.
Jimmy is trying, but he's still so fucked up
from how badly he got beat in the last episode,
that he's very sore.
He's in a lot of pain.
He has a hard time participating,
and Lloyd comforts him
and sort of gives him some encouragement.
Okay, then JD basically pitches Kayce
on staying on the ranch.
They got Kayce out of jail, JD says, "Look, stay here,
"move back in, come here, live here, get Tate off the res.
"It's gonna be a better situation for you and your family.
"Come live on the ranch."
But Kayce is torn in half by this plan.
He doesn't know if he wants to do it.
He doesn't know where his loyalties should lie.
He feels very conflicted.
John Dutton's plan, John Dutton enlists Jamie
to get Mel Thompson, who's the president
of Montana State University, to offer Monica a job.
Right, a very high paying job, 70 grand a year
at the university as a professor of Native studies,
as Native American studies at Montana State.
That would basically get Monica and Kayce off the ranch.
Monica initially turns it down,
but it's a very, very tempting offer.
Okay, and then later, Beth,
whose mission was to destroy Dan Jenkins is now super drunk.
She was at the club, hanging out and drinking all day.
She doesn't want a ride home, or she needs a ride home.
So she calls up the only person, Rip's not available.
She calls up the only person who'll answer his phone,
that's Jamie, which gives us a sort of legendary scene
between Beth and Jamie in the SUV driving home,
one of my all-time favorite scenes of the show.
Really iconic, powerful scene.
Then you got Dan Jenkins and his wife at home.
We're sort of starting to see more of Dan Jenkins
and his life outside of just his sort of
constant antagonism of John Dutton.
We're sort of starting to understand
that he's a complicated guy, who's trying to navigate
a difficult home life with his professional ambitions,
as we all are, to be honest.
How we doing here?
22 seconds, I think we can do it.
Okay, so Walker's moving into the bunkhouse.
The cowboys are feeling him out.
Everybody's a little sketchy.
I love the little, "Huh."
Jimmy's pretty jazzed because suddenly
he's not low man anymore, in theory.
Walker plays the cowboys, and what he calls a happy song,
which is, of course, a deeply unhappy song,
which is just kinda melancholic and sad.
Beth and Jamie get back from their. (timer dings)
Nope, didn't happen.
Six minutes.
Beth and Jamie get home from the club.
JD's hanging out with Tate.
That's really hard for Beth for reasons
that we will slowly come to understand
over the course of the next 12 seasons.
Beth goes into her closet and screams with anger
and rage and frustration and pain,
and then tonight, just for one night,
Monica and Kayce are gonna stay in the trapper cabin
on the Yellowstone Ranch, just for the night.
John Dutton manages to get them
to stay out there on the ranch for one night.
But they're talking about Tate.
Monica and Kayce are talking about Tate.
They're processing what the best thing for Tate is,
but there's still a lot of conflict there between them.
Kayce sort of storms off, classic Kayce.
Monica steps out of the cabin to try to find him
and sees the ceremony wherein Walker is branded
by the branded men.
So Monica is sort of confronted with exactly what it means
to live on the Yellowstone, exactly what it means
to be a part of this sort of family.
She's confronted with this sort of violence of that,
which is a major inner conflict for her.
- [Breia] I think you did it.
- I think I did it.
That timer went off, but I had accidentally set it
for four minutes.
- [Breia] (chuckles) I see, I see.
- It was a mistake that I made.
- [Breia] Yeah, I get that.
- Hell of an episode.
- [Breia] Nicely done.
- Hell of an episode.
Let's talk about some specific fun things from this episode.
So, episode MVP.
Episode MVP, or I won't even, check it out.
I don't even need to say it.
A sort of cool announcer voice will say it.
Ready?
(text thuds)
They use the magic of editing
to put a voiceover as I do that.
(text thuds)
Awesome.
So episode MVP for this episode, it's gotta be Walker.
It's gotta be Ryan Bingham.
It's the first episode that we meet him.
He plays that fucking song in the bunkhouse,
which is just heartbreaking.
It was the first time that I had ever
sort of seen Ryan perform live.
I loved his music, but it was the first time
I'd been in the same room as him as he played.
That guy is incredible.
That's the episode MVP.
My grandma's favorite line of the episode.
Use the editing to put that being said over me
just looking cool at the camera.
Ready?
(text thuds)
Awesome, did you do it?
- [Breia] It's done.
- It said it.
- It's done. - Very cool.
My grandma's favorite line in this episode,
my grandma loves all the profanity on the show.
She's always texting me saying, "Hey, could you get them
"to try to swear more?
"Could you just encourage them to try to swear
"just a little bit more?"
So my grandma's favorite line in this episode
is when Jamie says to Beth, "Fucking asshole."
My grandma's favorite line, she loves it.
She loves it when they swear.
That's her thing.
She's a cool grandma.
Okay, some fun Easter eggs (text dings)
from this episode, Easter eggs.
So Taylor Sheridan in the first scene,
who plays Travis, that guy wrote and directed
every episode of season one, and he's in it.
That's a Herculean task.
Taylor is one of the best writers I've ever worked with,
one of the best directors I've ever worked with,
and one of the best actors I've ever worked with
all at the same time, which is just a staggering feat.
It's incredible, and watching him act is so fun
'cause he's an incredible actor.
He's such a good actor, and I feel like I learn so much
from watching him act here,
and Tom Foran's in that first scene.
Tom Foran is an incredible horse trainer as well.
Okay, and then one more Easter egg for this episode.
When Beth gets out of the club and she's drunk,
the valet at the club
who wants to take her keys is Eric Beck.
And Eric is also an incredible writer
who worked in the writer's room on the first two seasons
of the show and wrote episode 209, later next season,
which is one of my all-time favorite episodes.
Eric Beck is an incredibly talented writer,
and he plays that valet, and he's very funny doing that too.
Fuck, everybody's so good at so many things,
and I can barely do this thing.
- [Breia] That's not true.
- Oh, thanks Breia.
I really lofted that.
(Breia laughs) I was like, "And I can
"barely do this thing,"
and then you helped me.
Thank you for saving me when I was drowning.
Wow.
- [Breia] Speaking of, does anyone die in this episode?
- Oh, let's do
an in memoriam. (text dings)
Does anyone die in this episode?
I don't think anyone does die in this episode, wow.
I think there's lots of little deaths,
1,000 tiny cuts, you know?
I think a little, Jamie and Beth, something dies there,
if it wasn't dead already.
Between Beth and, I think when Beth sees JD and Tate,
something in her dies if it wasn't already dead.
I think there's lots of tiny little deaths,
so pour one out for the 1,000 tiny cuts
that we all suffer on a daily basis,
as a result of the emotional trauma
that's caught up in our family lives.
There are many ways to die.
(Breia laughs)
- That sounds like a line from "Yellowstone."
That's a Taylor Sheridan line.
There are many ways for a man to die.
- [Breia] You should sneak that into season four.
- Yeah, not really a Jimmy line. (laughs)
Jimmy's like, "Ah, I fell off the horse.
"Ow, my butt."
There are many ways for a man to die.
What do you think?
It's a little too dignified for Jimmy.
Okay, Jeff's favorite guest stars.
Jeff's favorite guest stars. (text dings)
Fucking Taylor Sheridan.
Taylor Sheridan, that guy's an amazing actor.
He's so good at acting.
It's fucked up and unfair I would say.
And then, in terms of Jimmy gettin' hurt,
Jimmy gets hurt. (text dings)
This an episode where Jimmy's hurt is all on the inside.
You know?
Jimmy's still dealing with this sort of emotional pain
of the previous episode when he experienced
so much physical pain.
You know?
Jimmy gets hurt.
Okay amazing, Breia,
do you wanna do some Instagram questions,
what do you think?
- [Breia] Let's do it.
Okay, Kristan Haugen wants to know,
what did you want to be when you grew up?
- Wow.
I think the first thing I wanted to be when I grew up
was a biologist of some kind.
I loved animals, I do love animals.
But when I was a kid, I was especially obsessed with frogs.
They're my favorite animal.
They still are.
And I really wanted to be some kind of frog scientist.
If you asked a very young Jeff what he wanted to do,
he probably would've said
something to the effect of frog doctor.
(Breia laughs) Or frog scientist.
- [Breia] Mark Egnew wants to know,
how has life been since you started filming "Yellowstone"?
How has it changed?
- My life has changed a lot
since I started filming "Yellowstone".
It's funny.
I think that it's, in some ways, so here's the real scoop.
There's the answer that's like, "My life is unambiguous."
And my life, I feel incredibly lucky
to be involved with "Yellowstone."
I feel so blessed and so privileged
to get to work on this show,
and to get to work with this text and with Taylor,
and with this entire creative team,
and it's such a blessing.
It's also very hard to leave your life
for five or six months a year,
and go and work on location in Utah and Montana.
Utah and Montana are beautiful states.
It's incredible to be there.
I feel so lucky to be with all my friends
and the creative team there,
but it's hard to leave your life behind for work.
It's hard to leave your loved ones,
your family, and your friends to go
and work on location for five or six months.
And now that we've done it for three seasons,
I think that it really, that's part of what defines
the experience for me is it's these highs and lows.
It's such a joy.
It's such an incredible privilege and joy
to get to work on something like this,
but that's accompanied with the sadness
of leaving behind my life and my friends and my family
for five or six months a year.
So I would say that my life has changed.
There's higher highs and lower lows.
- [Breia] @sophiaro25 asks, are there any old Western stars
that you take inspiration from?
- Forrie J. Smith, Kevin Costner, Buck Taylor, yeah.
(Jeff laughs)
Yeah.
Yeah, those are my favorite Western actors.
They really are.
It's amazing.
I've learned so much about,
I had seen the sort of Western classics when I was a kid,
but this show has been where I've become acquainted
so much more with this culture and this heritage
of Western, the Western lifestyle, and also Western films,
and so it's been a real privilege and journey
to get to know that culture more.
- [Breia] All right, so @taayyyllooorr says,
marry me, question mark.
And my question to you is,
is this your first Instagram proposal?
- Wow, it might be my first Instagram proposal.
I get some pretty indecent proposals in my DMs,
(Breia laughs) but that's maybe
the first public proposal, the first person who would make,
is treating me with the respect and dignity
of asking to marry me
and not just, let's just want something from me.
No, I'm just kidding.
Thanks, thank you very much for that.
That's very kind.
That makes me feel cool and handsome and smart and nice,
so thanks.
You don't wanna get, you don't want to marry me.
I'm a fucking mess. (laughs)
I've got great health insurance,
but that's mostly what I got going for me.
I also have to leave five or six months a year
to go work on this show.
Maybe that's a good thing.
I think if you were married to me,
you'd probably be grateful that I was gone
for five or six months a year. (Breia laughs)
I would not be a good husband.
Just by virtue of my own neuroses.
Sorry, Taylor.
- [Breia] @lbmullen12, did you need riding lessons
before the show?
- Yes, desperately.
Very badly needed riding lessons,
and I got them from a whole team of wranglers
and horse trainers and incredibly talented riders,
and that was so cool, and I feel so lucky in that regard.
- [Breia] @brentrmason wants to know
who your favorite "Yellowstone" character is?
- My favorite character on "Yellowstone,"
I'm gonna give you two.
I'm sorry, I'm gonna narrow it down to two.
It's Kayce.
I'm obsessed with Kayce's journey and Kayce's story.
I think it's incredibly compelling.
I think it's amazing to watch, and I also think
that Luke Grimes is a profoundly talented actor,
so I think it's incredible to watch him
often with very little text sort of dealing
with huge, seismic questions and doubts and struggles,
and I think it's amazing.
And then, Thomas Rainwater's my second favorite character
because over the course of three seasons,
we think, over and over again, we think we know him.
We think we understand him,
and over and over again, he surprises us,
and we learn that he's so much more complicated
and so much more nuanced than we ever imagined.
- [Breia] @kaylynngaston, we've been asking fans
to share with us their favorite season one moments,
but @kaylynngaston wants to know
what your favorite season one scene is?
- Oh man, okay.
My favorite moment in season one is when Kayce,
after Kayce's incredibly difficult journey.
After Kayce getting ripped in half deciding
whether he's gonna come back and live on the ranch
or if he's gonna keep living on the res,
after Monica leaves him, and he loses everything
that he's been fighting for this whole time.
Everything he was trying to protect, he loses,
and he goes back and he said, "I'm coming home,"
he says to JD
And he says, "Okay, cowboys live in the bunkhouse.
"I'll go live in the bunkhouse,"
and JD says, "I don't need a cowboy."
And Kayce says, "I know what you need,"
and he's just so, it's with such profound sadness,
and Kayce knows what he's good at,
and I think that he's worked his whole life to escape it.
I think he knows what he's good at
and he feels an incredible sort of internal tension
between what he's good at and what he wants.
I think it's beautiful.
That's my favorite season one moment.
- [Breia] Okay, and last for today,
@barb.stagman wants to know
what crime Jimmy committed to go to jail.
Do you know?
- Yeah, I know.
- [Breia] Can you share?
- Well yeah, Jimmy's a drug dealer. (laughs)
Jimmy's a drug dealer and got involved
with some really bad dudes and took a fall
for those fellas in the second season,
who take their own fall in time.
(Breia laughs)
Yeah.
- [Breia] All right, that's it for today.
- Wow, thanks so much.
Thank you so much for your questions.
Holy shit, I feel so grateful to be on a show
with such an engaged audience and a lot of the questions
that you're asking are things
that we ask each other all the time on set.
We're like, "Hey, what's your favorite moment? Dah, dah."
We're all huge fans of the show,
so it's such a delight to know that you're out there
asking these same questions.
- [Breia] Why don't you throw it to some voicemails?
- I'm gonna throw it to some voicemails
because I want to Breia.
- [Breia] 100%.
- Not because you told me to. - It was your idea.
It was your idea.
- I am driving this ship and I will turn it around,
we'll go back to the,
I don't know what it's like to have kids or a family.
(Jeff laughs)
Let's throw it to some voicemails.
Well you guys wanna listen to some voicemails?
So we put a message up on Instagram asking
for your favorite moments of season one.
Thank you so much for calling in.
I haven't heard these before and I'm excited to.
Let's give 'em a listen.
- [Jimmy] Hey, my name is Jimmy Corso
and my favorite scene with Jimmy
is when Lloyd helps him
figure out how to do bronc riding.
I think it just makes it, it's such a good connection
showing that all the ranch hands
are kinda these badass, mean cowboys,
but they're all there for each other when they need to be.
And it's pretty awesome watching him earn that buckle.
And my social handle on Instagram
is J-A-Y-C-O-R-S-O, thanks.
- Hell yeah man, I couldn't agree more.
That's such an amazing thing
because Forrie J. Smith, who plays Lloyd, is in real life,
a very tough cowboy and is exactly as you describe it.
He is also a sort of incredible teacher
and also a sort of a part of this family.
And Jimmy learning how to buck from Lloyd
is also like Forrie J. Smith,
who really also is an incredible bucking horse rider
teaching Jeff how to survive and how to like.
It's amazing all this,
how specific the sort of ritual of bucking is.
And Forrie J. Smith sort of watching over my shoulder
and making sure that I'm getting all
that shit right is a huge gift.
That's one of my favorite scenes too.
All right.
- [Caller] Hi Jimmy, my social is S-F-I-T-Z-U,
and my favorite season one moment
is as cowboy as it gets.
And it's when you was bringing the calf
back in from the woods.
And I love this show, I think y'all are awesome.
And I love following y'all,
and anyway, have a great day.
Thank you, bye.
- Thank you so much.
That's so nice of you.
That was, that means a lot 'cause it was really hard to do.
I could barely ride a horse,
and then I had to put a calf on a horse.
I had a lot of people helping me, don't get me wrong,
but it was very hard, so that means a lot, thanks.
- [Holly] You're one of the most tough actors
there is in the show, I feel like, and pretty badass.
My name is Holly Cant.
My Instagram username is @cowgirl_cant_, and yeah.
- Thanks, Holly.
That's really nice.
One day, I'll feel,
I'll feel as tough as you've given me credit for,
so thanks, Holly.
That's very kind of you, thank you.
- [Chance] Yeah, this is Chance,
and I was just curious what it was like for you
to be around all these guys like Jake and Lee,
they actually ranch and cowboys for a living?
Thanks, bye.
- It's incredible, man.
I've learned so much.
This show has for me represented sort of getting to know
this lifestyle and this culture in a way
that I never would have otherwise.
So I'm so grateful for it.
And Jake Ream, particularly, has been so patient with me
as I've asked him the dumbest fucking questions
for three years now. (laughs)
So thanks Jake.
Just stupid fucking questions,
that if you knew anything about this shit would seem absurd,
but I didn't know anything about this shit.
So thanks to Jake and Ethan Lee and Sled Reynolds,
and everyone else who has been very patient with me
and sort of taught me about this lifestyle
as I've pretended to live it.
Thanks, guys.
Okay, so you folks at home,
you know that "Yellowstone's" a very popular show.
I don't need to tell you that.
I don't need to prove it.
What, I gotta use some statistics?
All right, 35 billion people watched
the season finale of season two, did you know that?
35 billion people.
A lot of people watch this show.
It's the most-watched cable drama of the summer.
Huge numbers, huge fan engagement.
I've been working on it for three years.
It's really changed my life.
It's changed my professional life.
It's easily the sort of seminal project of my life to date,
three years of my life.
So the show is also about community.
It's about your chosen family,
not just your biological family, but for Jimmy especially,
it's about the family that you choose.
It's about the wranglers.
It's about the guys at the ranch.
It's about supporting your friends and your community.
So what we're doing is we're doing a fun little game
where we call my friends and we ask them
some very simple trivia questions about "Yellowstone,"
and the person who knows the most answers
will legally speaking become my new best friend.
We've had the legal team over here draw up some contracts,
and I've signed them.
So legally speaking, whoever wins this bracket
will be the best man at the wedding that I'll never have
and will be the godfather of the children
that I'll probably never have.
So this next person we're gonna call
is my roommate, Dan Johnson.
He's my current roommate and very dear friend.
Dan is an incredibly gifted actor and also musician.
Dan's band, Significant Other, is a brilliant band
that has both my friend Dan Johnson
and my friend Jake Sabinsky in it.
He's a very, very good friend,
and a very precious person to me.
We live together and so he's been acutely aware
of my comings and goings as I've worked on "Yellowstone"
over the last three years.
Let's give Dan Johnson from Ray, North Dakota, a call.
Ba dum bum.
(Skype call chiming)
- [Dan] Hello?
- Hey Dan, what's up man?
- [Dan] Not much.
- You're on with the producers of the podcast.
You're on with the producers of Welcome to the Yellowstone.
- [Dan] Is that why it said unknown?
- Yeah, exactly, we're calling you from my--
- [Dan] The call was coming.
- Here's a fun little bit.
So were using one of Viacom's laptops
and this is the comedy laptop.
This laptop is designated
for comedy. - It's the Viacomedy.
- Viacomedy, hey don't give them
these amazing branding tips for free, Dan.
Don't just throw
these great ideas away. - Yeah, that's true, okay.
- You gotta monetize that.
- [Dan] I'll send an invoice.
- Yeah, exactly. (laughs) - Yeah.
- Bill 'em for it.
So Dan, I think that siren's on your end, cool.
- [Dan] Yeah, yeah.
- You and I, we live together.
Would you describe me as a good and supportive friend?
- [Dan] Ah, absolutely.
Yeah, yeah.
I don't know what I would,
yeah honestly, I mean, I think we've talked about it.
I don't know what I'd do
(laughs) without your friendship and your general support.
You let me, you were the one that was like,
"Hey, this room in my apartment's opening up"
and it's the fucking, oop, sorry I swore.
It's the best apartment in New York that I've ever had.
- Oh man, I'm so glad, and this is the internet,
you can fucking swear all you want, dude.
It's the internet. - Oh really?
Oh, that's great. - Do you know how much
fucked up weird shit - I was worried.
- is on the internet?
(Dan laughs) Swearing is the least
offensive thing on the internet.
- [Dan] I haven't been looking
and my parents don't really let me
use the internet yet, so. (Jeff laughs)
- That's better for your brain.
Tell you what man, so thanks for saying
all those nice things about me.
That's gonna make this next part a little painful.
So what we're doing is we're calling people
and we're asking 'em five questions.
And the questions are, they start very, very simple,
and then they get a little more difficult.
- [Dan] Oh, okay.
Okay.
- And then based on who answers
the most questions correctly,
we're creating a little bracket,
and the person who wins will legally speaking,
be my new best friend.
- [Dan] Oh, okay.
- So this, yeah, an amazing opportunity to unseat Ben Vigus.
It's an amazing opportunity to sort of prove
- Ooh! - prove I--
- [Dan] Who else is in the bracket,
like Casey Worthington?
- Exactly, I don't know what order
they'll air these phone calls in,
so it's hard to say whether-- - Okay.
- But the basic point is, you've got a real chance
to make your mark here.
So are you ready
for some questions? - Okay.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- All right, you're gonna knock this one
out of the fucking park.
What is Kevin Costner's name on "Yellowstone"?
- John Dutton. (bell dings)
- Dan, would you believe me if I told you
that you were literally the first person
to get that right? (laughs)
- [Dan] No way, are you serious?
- Yeah, dude. - It's Dutton Ranch.
I'm not a total rube.
- Ben got Dutton.
Ben managed to get Dutton right,
but he couldn't get the first name.
Okay, so. - Oh yeah.
Hell yeah, hell yeah. - You are fucking,
right now you are destroying.
Okay, second question.
What is John Dutton's youngest son's name?
- [Dan] Kayce. (bell dings)
- Fuck yes.
Oh my god, the warmth that I feel in my heart right now
after two of the truly most discouraging phone calls
I've ever made in my life.
- [Dan] Hell yeah.
- You are destroying.
Okay, what is
Kayce's son's name? - Well, since I, okay.
No, sorry.
- No, no, no, do a riff, do a riff.
We're doing riffs.
- [Dan] Oh, just sometimes you refer to them
as the actors' names, but we talk about them
so I think that kinda gets confusing for me.
But I think, okay.
Is the little kid's name Brecken?
(bell dings) - Brecken is the actor's name,
so you're exactly proving the point
that you were just making. (Dan laughs)
That's partial credit.
Do you know the character's name?
- [Dan] Ah, I don't.
- But that's amazing.
I refer to Brecken more as Brecken than as Tate,
so you 100% get that.
It doesn't mean that you've ever
watched the show necessarily,
(Dan laughs) but you do listen
to me in conversation,
which is more than can be said for Ben or Casey.
Okay, so that's great.
What is my character's name,
first and last, if you've got it?
- [Dan] Jimmy Hurdstrom.
(bell dings)
- Dan, the producers in the room
are pumping their fists in victory.
This is--
- Excellent. - This is incredible.
So we're gonna go, it's gonna get a little tricky.
- [Dan] Okay, all right, all right.
- What is John Dutton's father's name?
- [Dan] Whoa, oh man.
- I know, he's only in one episode.
- He's referenced sort of
constantly, but he's only in one episode.
- [Dan] John Dutton Sr.?
(bell dings) (Jeff gasps)
- Wow! - Oh, Dan!
(producers laughing)
So good. (producers clapping)
This is a, do you hear this applause?
- [Dan] (laughs) Did I get it?
- You got it.
This is a room full of producers applauding.
The whole premise of this bit,
the entire premise of this bit
is that my friends and roommates
don't watch "Yellowstone" (Dan laughs)
and you have single-handedly restored my faith
in the human relationships
that I've spent the last five years of my life developing.
(Dan sighs)
- [Dan] Well, I'm glad I'm not embarrassing myself.
- 100% not, and it just puts it in
that much more stark contrast
how much Ben and Casey embarrassed themselves.
(Dan laughs)
- Wow, Dan.
Really good stuff.
I'm tempted to ask more difficult questions
just to deliberately stump you,
but that seems like a cruel act at this point
because you've done so well.
- [Dan] Oh thanks, man.
That's great.
I feel really good about that, yeah.
- You really. - I'm really happy
about the Brecken one.
I thought that was a pretty smooth one.
- Yeah, that was very good, Brecken Merrill.
The character's name is Tate, Tate Dutton.
- Tate, Tate Dutton, okay. - Yeah.
Yeah, what's Tate's mom's name?
- [Dan] Oh.
Kelsey?
(bell dings) - Kelsey's the actor.
Dan, that's incredible.
- [Dan] Kelsey's the actor.
(Dan laughs) - You get full credit.
You get full fucking credit.
You clearly listen to me when I talk.
That is so nice.
- [Dan] Yeah, well she (Unintelligible) so.
- Yeah.
- Right?
- You're a legend man.
Thank you so, so much. - Hey, thanks man.
- Dang, I'm--
- [Dan] I can't wait to watch the season three premiere, you know?
- Yeah exactly.
Fuck it, you're coming to L.A.
with me for the season three premiere party,
if this thing goes well. (Dan laughs)
The producers are signaling that they will pay for that.
(producers laugh) (Dan laughs)
Thanks very much, man.
I'll talk to you soon, okay Dan?
- [Dan] Woo, yeah, that was great.
I'm gonna have a great day now.
- Fuck yeah, dude. - I feel like
I really accomplished-- - You deserve it.
- Yeah. - I'm bringing home
so much jerky from the craft services dude.
- [Dan] Oh, oh, oh. (producers laugh)
That's all I need.
- Hell yeah, baby. - That's all I need.
- Jerky town.
All right, talk to you soon, Dan.
- [Dan] All right, love you man, bye.
- Love you too, bye.
(producers laugh) Guys, we built
a whole segment based on my friends disappointing me,
and Dan Johnson with the 11th hour save.
Incredible.
- [Breia] He came through.
- He really came through.
- [Breia] That was impressive.
- That was remarkable.
Thanks, Dan.
- [Breia] I feel uplifted now.
- I know.
Did you guys see the light, the spark in my eye
sort of come back, (laughs)
after such a disappointing series of failures?
Incredible.
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