Speaker
Taylor Sheridan
Appearances over time
2 episodes
Episodes
2
Podcasts
Quotes & moments
Tom Nelson, the co-author of Sheridan's prison book, served 17 years for drug dealing, armed robbery, and running over a DEA agent before becoming a personal trainer.
Taylor Sheridan cited an approximately 86% recidivism rate in the US, meaning the odds of a released prisoner not returning to prison are roughly 4 to 1 against them.
Taylor Sheridan explained that four major packing houses control over 90% of the US beef industry, though that concentration is slowly beginning to change.
The Four Sixes Ranch (6666) covers 300,000 acres and is operated by just 12 cowboys, each responsible for roughly 35,000–50,000 acres.
While a typical television production preps for 12 weeks before filming, Taylor Sheridan's streamlined team does it in just 4 weeks.
Taylor Sheridan described scaling from guerrilla indie films to $35 million-per-episode television productions using the exact same creative system.
Growing almonds requires approximately 1,900 gallons of water per pound, making them one of the most water-intensive crops.
Taylor Sheridan's co-author for How to Not Die in Prison spent 17 years in state and federal prisons as a career criminal before turning his life around through fitness.
Taylor Sheridan was the first film/TV production in the US to resume filming during COVID, convincing guilds to allow work by isolating crew on a Montana ranch.
Taylor Sheridan said that according to both climatologists and engineers, cold fusion is humanity's best hope for replacing petroleum fuels, but it is still 30–40 years from being viable.
Taylor Sheridan sold Yellowstone to HBO first in 2015, telling them it would be the biggest show on television, but they passed; Paramount picked it up and the rest is history.
Taylor Sheridan questioned how former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi could be worth approximately $400 million on a $175,000 Congressional salary, citing alleged insider trading on IPOs.
Tom Nelson, co-author of the prison survival guide, was the biggest drug dealer in Hollywood, committed armed robbery, and ran over a DEA agent before serving 17 years.
Taylor Sheridan noted that Anthony Fauci had attorneys reach out to Biden's camp on the final day of the administration to secure a preemptive pardon — before any criminal charges were filed.
Ibogaine is a psychedelic from Africa with no recreational appeal — it's 24 hours of reliving your worst moments — but it rewires addiction at the neurological level. Rick Perry went from measurable brain atrophy to none at all within six months. Joe Rogan went to the White House to pitch Trump directly, and within a week Trump was signing it.
When Sheridan's ex-convict friend Tom Nelson called him broke and dying from a suspected cancer diagnosis, Sheridan didn't give him money — he gave him a book deal. Modeled on Lonely Planet guides, How Not to Die in Prison walks first-timers through day one processing, gang navigation, commissary, riots, and how to make a shiv — formatted as a literal travel guide to incarceration.
During the January 2025 raid to capture Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, US special forces used a classified sonic weapon — nicknamed 'the discombobulator' by Trump — that simultaneously disabled Russian and Chinese-made weapons systems and incapacitated enemy personnel. No Americans were killed. It's the kind of thing that would be rejected as too far-fetched in a movie script.
Fauci used the exact same 'safe and effective' language for AZT — a chemotherapy drug so toxic it was abandoned for cancer — as he did for the COVID vaccine. AZT was given to people who merely tested HIV positive on a PCR test, and Kary Mullis, who invented PCR, publicly said it was never meant to detect disease in a person's body. The playbook hasn't changed.
Before writing a single word of Landman, Sheridan went to Billy Bob Thornton and told him: I want the guy from Bad Santa to run an oil company in West Texas. Thornton's answer was immediate: that sounds fucking awesome. Sheridan didn't call anyone else.
Taylor Sheridan's favorite stallion line — Spook's Got a Whiz — produces brilliant, balanced horses that one day every few months simply check out completely. Many in this line are deaf, triggered by vibrations they can't hear coming. Everyone on the ranch keeps riding them anyway because the rest of the time, they're automatic.
A sheepherder kicked a weird stone in the 1990s and uncovered Göbekli Tepe — massive circles of giant carved columns intentionally buried over 11,000 years ago. Rogan argues archaeologists are too protective of their own discoveries to accept what it means: civilization started far earlier than our textbooks claim.
AI and drones are about to permanently alter warfare. Fully autonomous drones with devastating payloads can be pre-programmed, launched, and complete their missions without a single human decision after takeoff. Sheridan calls this the teenage years of a new kind of warfare — and he's terrified of what happens when it grows up.
One side of Sheridan's family traveled from Kentucky to Texas in the 1840s, and a great-great-grandmother kept a detailed journal. That journal — combined with hundreds of other published pioneer diaries — became the research foundation for 1883. River crossings were the most deadly obstacle: almost no one could swim.
Sheridan built the structure of How Not to Die in Prison directly on the Lonely Planet model: overview, glossary, language, food, accommodation, navigating the territory. It covers day one, the yard, gangs, commissary, diseases, riots, and how to make a shiv. One rule: finish it before you get there, and do not bring it inside.
Tulsi Gabbard's final act as DNI was a press conference detailing how Fauci lied to Congress and used US tax dollars to fund gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab through EcoHealth Alliance. Mainstream outlets are treating it as a partisan fight — but Rogan argues the debate is over. It came from a lab.
Sheridan's secret is the same core crew from Wind River, all promoted from within, who simply don't hold the meetings that networks invent to justify their existence. No tone meetings. No prop show-and-tells. No 12-week prep — just 4 weeks. Every show, no duds.
Nonprofits built around homelessness have a structural incentive to make the problem worse, not better. The moment you solve homelessness, the funding disappears — so the incentive is always to grow the crisis, not eliminate it. California spent $24 billion with nothing to show for it, and Newsom vetoed the audit.
The 4 Sixes Ranch is 300,000 acres operated by 12 cowboys — each managing up to 50,000 acres on their own, with town 90 miles away. Nearly every one has a ranch management degree. This isn't rugged ignorance; it's organized, educated, radical autonomy.
Sheridan argues the most important legislation Congress could pass right now is term limits — 12 years maximum in the House, two 6-year terms in the Senate. The current system turns public servants into multi-generational millionaires while the people they represent get nothing.
Analysis
What they talk about
- Arts 40%
- Government 20%
- Society & Culture 10%
- History 5%
- Technology 5%
- True Crime 5%
- TV & Film 5%
- Business 5%
- Education 5%
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