(hooves charging)
(crash)
- God.
- Wow.
(upbeat music)
- What happened?
Do you remember that?
(bull roaring)
- Sorry, what's cowboy poker?
- Cowboy poker is, with a card table, and you're in an arena
and the other player is a 2,000 pound bull.
(bull snorting)
And the object of the game
is to be the last one in your seat.
- And there's no cards and no chips.
- That's irrelevant.
- You want some courage? - Fuck yeah.
(laughter)
- I read that in the script, and I was like,
that'll be cool, that mechanical bull,
that's going to be so exciting how they fake that.
- I know, I read that, I had the same kind of thing.
I read it and I was like, Taylor, this is great.
How are we going to do that?
- How are they going to fake that?
- And he's like, uh, we're going to put a bull
in there with you guys.
- You get there, and it was like,
we're shooting stuff before, and everyone was like,
"Where's the bull?" and it's like,
he's just in that cage over there,
pissed as hell. - Pissed as hell.
(bull growling)
- Yeah, I'd love to meet the guy who's playing the bull.
Where's the guy who's going to put the mask on
and do that? - Fireball.
- So we did it, we did it faking it, making a lot
of "ehh?" Faces.
- Yeah. - And then at a certain point
they were like, "Okay, we'd like to invite you
"to get very far away
"from what's about to happen." - It kind of reminded us
if a tornado is coming, they tuck you away.
They put us in the barn and they were like,
"Whatever you do, you can't come out of this barn."
(laughter)
"Don't peek, don't open the barn."
- "You're going to hear screams.
"There's going to be people knocking on the barn doors,
"saying, 'Let us in, we're in trouble, please help us',
"do not let them in." - "You cannot let them in."
- He's real angry!
(bull roaring, crash)
- Oof!
- Shout-out to Duke,
whatever you're doing. - To Duke, that's
the stuntwoman who plays Avery in that scene.
The next day she's at craft services
and everybody's like, are you okay, did it hurt?
And her line was, "You know,
"I looked in the cowgirl handbook
"to see if I could cry, and the answer's no."
- There was no crying, so I didn't.
- Checked the cowgirl handbook.
Said I can't cry, so.
- You think actors have egos and personalities
that need to be managed, animals are equally as much,
if not more.
- They're angry!
- [Man] No shit they're angry!
- The animal wranglers and stunt performers on this show
are the best in the business.
- Yeah. - They've got to deal with us.
- What are you dipshits doing?
- And the animals.
(bull snort)
- Put the two clowns together.
- Duke kept talking about how it was a good bull.
The bull hit her the right way,
so that she walked away.
They control the variables as much as they can.
- It's a big job.
(beep)
- Take seven.
- You guys want to get drunk, you go down to a bar!
- You guys want to get drunk, go to a bar!
And then of course we go, great, that's a great idea.
- Excuse me, you want to dance?
- Sorry, man, we're having a conversation.
- I didn't ask you to dance, I asked her.
- Answer's no, buddy.
- I think feeling invincible. - You got a little chippy,
didn't you?
- He was hitting on Avery and sort of being an asshole
and I think that the experience dealing with that bull,
also spending all your time surrounded
by the biggest, toughest cowboys you know
makes you feel invincible.
- (beep) off!
- The editing on that piece was so good.
It was like, oh, shit, they can't touch us,
we're in the Yellowstone.
- We're with the Yellowstone.
No one's going to mess with us.
(grunting, punching)
- (laughter) You got knocked out, and then it's like,
oh my god, again?
- We start feeling ourselves, and we really feel like,
everywhere we go we can just do whatever we want,
and then you kind of get this very quick reality check.
(fighting, shouting)
- But the reality is, too, I mean,
if we were there with Rip,
(electric guitar sting)
they wouldn't have touched us.
- Yeah, exactly. - Exactly, just a little
too big for our britches.
- We just overextended a little bit.
- Of course, Rip comes and saves us
with a bull. - And handles it.
(rock music)
(bull snorting)
- Exactly, brings the fucking,
just put that one in there.
- This Lane Pulsator Four electronic bull ejaculator
for artificial insemination.
- Yeah, that's lowman's work.
- Lowman is just a moniker for the guy
who has the worst jobs.
(bell ringing)
- Lane Pulsator Four electronic bull ejaculator
for artificial insemination.
- Whatever the crappiest, most disgusting,
foulest, hardest work is for the newest person,
because they haven't worked themselves up
like the private.
- Who's lowman?
- Are you still lowman?
- It's arguable, because I'm like,
by the time, a lot of new people are out there.
- I'll make Gilligan do it.
(impact)
- Get on the horse, Jimmy.
Crank this thing until I tell you to stop.
Don't you let go.
(whooping)
- Let's go.
- We ain't got all day!
(bull roaring, screaming)
- Yeah, but I think that they've all done...
- It just doesn't seem fair. - ...cowboy work before,
so I think by proxy you just haven't put the time in,
and I think lowman is also just time.
- Lowman is an idea.
- Yeah, it's a theory.
- Lowman is a state of mind.
(laughter)
- Yeah, they taught that in the cowboy yoga,
you're trying to find your lowman.
- Cowboy yoga, exactly.
I might not be lowman in here,
but I'm still lowman in here.
- [Denim] Yeah, it's all about finding the lowman.
(choir singing)
- Finally got to third base, Jimmy.
- I did not expect this.
I read it in the script, and I was once again like,
I wonder how they'll fake that.
And they didn't.
They didn't fake it.
- Hey, Jimmy, don't worry, there's only about 60 left.
- 60...
Me and that cow still in touch and still talking.
- Which is great, it wasn't like a one time thing.
You know, so you could really just dig in there
and find some feelings.
(cow mooing)
- I think you make him nervous.
- How's he doing?
- Finally found his calling.
- It's also like, everybody's got jokes on a day like that.
Everybody wants to throw a line in.
- That third base line was not in the script.
- Yeah, that shit wasn't in the script,
and I don't think Lloyd's line was scripted.
It's like, I stick my hand in that cow's (moo),
and everybody's like, oh, excuse me,
what if I said this?
I'm like, all right, great, everybody's got dunks
when it's just an easy target.
I'm over here with my arm like, listen,
it's hard to have a comeback from this position.
I'm surprised John Doug didn't walk away
and throw something over his shoulder.
"You look stupid."
Thank you.
(cow mooing)
- Is there a moment when you get sent the script
that you kind of sit down and just read it,
because, you know something crazy's going to happen?
For me, I know if it was in Utah, I would draw a bath
and put some lavender oil in it and read the scripts.
Really cowboy.
- It's very cowboy of you.
- Yeah, but also exfoliating is good for the skin.
- Cowboys exfoliate.
- No, exactly, so, yeah.
- Do they? - Just thought I'd throw
that in there.
- And after how the stakes were so insane
in the first season, after how every episode
has a gunfight.
(gunfire)
And an explosion.
(explosion)
Then to see how in the second season,
script after script, it continues to escalate.
You get to the point where every time
you open the script, it's like, "Page one,
"the charred wreckage of a blast."
It's like, (beep)!
- Well, yeah, because you never figure out
how high it can go.
- Yeah, it just kind of keeps going up.
"Page one, six helicopters fly in a tight formation
"over the Empire State Building."
- How did they get to New York?
- A mushroom cloud.
What?
(upbeat music)