Support the show for $3.11/mo at http://patreon.com/miniondeathcult and get a bonus episode every week. This week Chris Cabin from We Hate Movies joins us to discuss Paramount Network's original prestige drama Yellowstone, starring Kevin Costner as a wealthy rancher/business owner/politician/cop that we are somehow supposed to be rooting for. Filled with epic facebook bon mots and casual racism, Yellowstone dares to answer the question: what if a millionaire cowboy cop was also a troop?
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This is an episode that I've wanted to do for a long time.
It's something that I've Almost been, like, intimidated to do.
This felt like a grand undertaking to do.
Luckily, I had the help of an intrepid listener to sort of guide me, and I will give credit to that listener when the time is right, but We also have a wonderful guest here today, and I am so happy that he was able to join us for this adventure.
We have Chris Cabin of the We Hate Movies podcast.
Thank you so much for joining us, Chris.
Hey man, thanks for having me.
Yeah, big fan of We Hate Movies.
It was, I told you before we started recording, but it was literally the first podcast I ever listened to about six or seven years ago.
It got me through loading a lot of trailers.
Shout out to Jerry for recommending me.
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If you're a movie fan, if you like making fun of bad movies, We Hate Movies has been doing it for what, like 10 years now?
Yeah, we started in 2010.
We've just been doing it.
Wonderful show.
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Thank you guys.
That means a lot.
Um, so, we are not talking about a movie today.
We are talking about Prestige TV.
Something somewhat similar to a movie, especially due to the fact that it is written and directed by a, you know, film writer and director.
Uh, we are talking about Yellowstone.
The Paramount Network original TV show, Yellowstone, starring Kevin Costner as a, let's just say rancher for now, named John Dutton who owns a ranch in Montana called Yellowstone.
This is a TV show that came across, like, you know, I discovered by seeing a sponsored ad for Episode 7, Season 1, in which Kevin Costner as this rancher John Dutton
uh harasses a group of I think Chinese tourists who are on his land and then fires a gun into the air to scare them off this is this is a an episode that I've wanted to do for a long time I wasn't I had no idea whether or not The actual show was going to be worth covering.
I figured if they were advertising it based on the idea of firing a rifle to get Chinese people off your land that it might be a good show to cover for Minion Death Cult.
I talked about it in the Facebook group and I have to give a shout out to listener Kaylin for telling me what episodes were good to look at.
So thank you so much Kaylin.
We are going to be looking at episodes 1, 2, 3, and 7 with a little bit of extra info splashed in here or there because once I watched those four episodes I kind of needed to see more.
I remember you showing me this trailer, this little commercial, a while ago, a long time ago.
And I was so excited when you sent me the text that was basically like, it's go time.
We're doing it.
You've got your Yellowstone bag packed, right, Tony?
Are you ready?
Because we're about to spend $3 an episode.
It's gonna be worth every penny.
Are you ready for this?
You've got your bug-out bag for Yellowstone, right?
I was so happy.
What a beautiful time to be stuck on lockdown.
Like, best time ever is this.
Thank you so much, universe.
Well, I have to also- It all happens for a reason.
I have to also shout out Amazon Prime, because that's where we watched it.
Because for whatever reason, you can't just get a free trial to the Paramount Network.
You have to, like, have it as part of a cable package or whatever.
So, I bought the individual episodes, and then I was like, shit, I should have just bought the full season for $12.99.
But then when I went, it gave me a discounted price for the rest of the episodes.
So, I was like, alright, tight.
Oh, oh, you just changed my whole schedule tomorrow.
John Dutton, this character, this rancher, he's sort of portrayed as like, you know, kind of like a tough, hard scrabble kind of guy who's like fighting, you know, fighting to keep what's his or whatever.
What's his is 520,000 acres in Montana.
That's what the Yellowstone Ranch is.
It's worth hundreds of millions of dollars and also John Dutton is the Livestock Commissioner.
He's a cop.
Not only is he a millionaire, not only is he like a business tyrant, He's a fucking cop and a politician because it's an elected position.
So he's like everything that's bad.
He's extremely powerful.
That's what's... He's so powerful in this show.
Way too powerful and he's got like his son is the top cop in his cop uniform.
Like of his squadron, one of his top hitters lives with him.
Yeah.
Are you talking about Lee?
Is that the son you're talking about?
I mean, he's doing that on top of the actual, like, cowboy stuff, right?
Yeah, so the title of this episode is, of course, Yellowstone, but also I have here Steer Team Six.
No.
Because what this show is, is it's not only about ranchers, it's not only about like landowners and hardworking men who are also fucking millionaires.
And hey, they had to work that hard to become millionaires, right?
Absolutely.
It's also about like top level operators who are also ranchers.
Yeah.
Nope.
There's a couple scenes in here that we'll get to that showcase that spectacularly.
Yeah.
The reason we're covering it on this show is it's just good content in general, but it's so Facebook.
It's so like, there's so many Facebook, uh, like touchstones throughout the, just the four episodes that we watched.
But the main overarching thing is that these are highly competent men who are, uh, tactical in nature and also salt of the earth.
Yeah.
Like this show had this amazing effect where it's like, a little background, you know, I'm what people would consider like, you know, traditionally masculine.
I'm like a large person.
I wouldn't consider you that.
Oh, I mean like, I'm a large person who has like a beard and grew up hunting and I also grew up on like a, I grew up on like a, I spent some time on a farm.
Yeah, but you got pink hair dude, that's the girl color.
Well now, well now, but I, you know, but I, but like this, it was after I watched the show and I realized that I'm in fact not a man.
It's important to learn.
I was like, okay, I can dye my hair pink now?
No, but like seriously, this, this whole, this whole entire movie was like, even like, even like the women are like tough dudes.
