Death of a brand...Yellowstone

[BudBro 173]

Taylor Sheridan and Kevin Costner (elderly dude who wore an "I heart Liz Cheney" shirt while adorning a cowboy hat) effectively killed the Yellowstone brand with its final episode tonight.  5 years of building a brand (literally), and they produced a "what the actual f*&k" with the final episode.  Sheridan, the producer, bought the iconic 4 6s ranch for $350M, which you may have seen in your grocery and liquor stores with its own "brand" that includes beer, whiskey, and apparel.  His spinoff shows have included 1923, The Last Cowboy on Mtv, Tulsa King, The Agency, Landman, ...among others.  I'm anxious to see if others, like me, are done with Sheridan and Costner after tonight.  No more for me.  Too bad for the cowboy "way."  Like the Garth Brooks trend that ended when he bailed on his cancer-diagnosed wife, this one should end quickly.  So much for the Dallas, Denver, and Houston stock show crowds this year. 

[IGotWorms 4,057]

Sorry bud

[BudBro 173]

3 minutes ago, IGotWorms said:

Sorry bud

Thanks. (sad...and FJB)

[Death 301]

You're too emotionally invested in this. Drink some beer.

[Bier Meister 1,658]

4 minutes ago, Death said:

You're too emotionally invested in this. Drink some beer.

Bud light?

[thegeneral 2,953]

Show was mediocre from the start. Above a network drama but way below top notch.

[jonmx 2,424]

I am glad I have invested less than an hour of my life to this show. 

[Hardcore troubadour 14,966]

They drop more bodies in Wyoming than the Sopranos did in New Jersey. 

[5-Points 3,399]

Landman is pretty good. Billy Bob is hilarious. 

[BiffTannen 873]

20 minutes ago, 5-Points said:

Landman is pretty good. Billy Bob is hilarious. 

I've seen the previews for that but haven't been able to find it. What channel is this on?

[Drizzay 699]

Haven't watched a single second of it.

[EternalShinyAndChrome 3,863]

1 hour ago, BiffTannen said:

I've seen the previews for that but haven't been able to find it. What channel is this on?

paramount+

[Death 301]

5 hours ago, 5-Points said:

Landman is pretty good. Billy Bob is hilarious. 

I like some aspects of "Landman," and Billy Bob is hilarious.

Having lived in the Midland-Odessa area for like four years, I can vouch that those characters are pretty damned accurate, from the flashy women to roughnecks to the oil executives. 

My wife hates the show, so we've moved on to something else.

[BudBro 173]

15 hours ago, Bier Meister said:

Bud light?

Beer is liquid toast.  Went carnivore a couple years ago, so beer is out. 

[BudBro 173]

14 hours ago, thegeneral said:

Show was mediocre from the start. Above a network drama but way below top notch.

Best show on the tele for the past 5 years.  Then, woked their way out. 

[BudBro 173]

5 hours ago, 5-Points said:

Landman is pretty good. Billy Bob is hilarious. 

Landman is interesting.  I enjoyed it at the start.  Have to subscribe to see it, though.

[thegeneral 2,953]

1 hour ago, BudBro said:

Best show on the tele for the past 5 years.  Then, woked their way out. 

To each their own. I like the Western-ish vibe and the idea of the show sounded good. Good cast. Costner is usually solid, the red headed hoarey acting chick is a smoke show along with others. 

I watched about 6 or so episodes and found it overly cheesy and stopped watching so didn’t really give it a full chance. On par with a Sons of Anarchy IMO.

[5-Points 3,399]

3 hours ago, Death said:

I like some aspects of "Landman," and Billy Bob is hilarious.

Having lived in the Midland-Odessa area for like four years, I can vouch that those characters are pretty damned accurate, from the flashy women to roughnecks to the oil executives. 

My wife hates the show, so we've moved on to something else.

I flew into Midland once for work a few years ago. As soon as you walk out of the airport the smell of petroleum just hits you. It was weird. 

Also, that has to be the smallest international airport on the planet. What is it, like 8 gates?  You can walk from one end to the other in like 3 minutes. 

[Death 301]

1 hour ago, 5-Points said:

I flew into Midland once for work a few years ago. As soon as you walk out of the airport the smell of petroleum just hits you. It was weird. 

Also, that has to be the smallest international airport on the planet. What is it, like 8 gates?  You can walk from one end to the other in like 3 minutes. 

It sucked living out there. The maximum highway speed limit was 55, so it took focking forever to get to civilization in Dallas, Austin or wherever. It was nice being only five hours from ski slopes, but there isn't much to do out there.

Odessa is nastier than any border town I've ever been to. Trashed out buildings and garbage everywhere. Midland at the time at least was kind of clean.

Big fun on a Saturday night was to get a pitcher of beer and sit in a safe corner of an ice house or something and watch the fights. There'd at least be two or three good fights every night, with a barrel-chested oilfield workers slugging it out and smashing people into tables just like in the Wild West.

The women all had these thick West Texas accents and huge hairdos, and most of them were sex-hungry sluts. 

The only thing to do out there was fock, fight and drink.

Midland these days is just as bad.

I don't know where or when they came from, but the whole town and surrounding prairie is covered in plastic bags. The land is flat as a pancake, so you can see the bags for miles and miles.

"Landman" does a good job of nailing all this. My wife hates it, which makes me laugh because I focking LIVED that sh!t for four or five years. 

One morning I awoke to find a car-sized tumbleweed on my front porch. The whole town overnight had become covered in them thanks to just the right circumstances of wind and tumbleweed-growth stage. I wrote a story about it, and it made the national Associated Press wire.

[Hardcore troubadour 14,966]

8 minutes ago, Death said:

It sucked living out there. The maximum highway speed limit was 55, so it took focking forever to get to civilization in Dallas, Austin or wherever. It was nice being only five hours from ski slopes, but there isn't much to do out there.

Odessa is nastier than any border town I've ever been to. Trashed out buildings and garbage everywhere. Midland at the time at least was kind of clean.

Big fun on a Saturday night was to get a pitcher of beer and sit in a safe corner of an ice house or something and watch the fights. There'd at least be two or three good fights every night, with a barrel-chested oilfield workers slugging it out and smashing people into tables just like in the Wild West.

The women all had these thick West Texas accents and huge hairdos, and most of them were sex-hungry sluts. 

The only thing to do out there was fock, fight and drink.

Midland these days is just as bad.

I don't know where or when they came from, but the whole town and surrounding prairie is covered in plastic bags. The land is flat as a pancake, so you can see the bags for miles and miles.

"Landman" does a good job of nailing all this. My wife hates it, which makes me laugh because I focking LIVED that sh!t for four or five years. 

One morning I awoke to find a car-sized tumbleweed on my front porch. The whole town overnight had become covered in them thanks to just the right circumstances of wind and tumbleweed-growth stage. I wrote a story about it, and it made the national Associated Press wire.

Wow. I’m surprised you didn’t win a Pulitzer.  

[Death 301]

18 minutes ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

Wow. I’m surprised you didn’t win a Pulitzer.  

I'm surprised you think a story about tumbleweeds would win a Pulitzer.

[Hardcore troubadour 14,966]

8 minutes ago, Death said:

I'm surprised you think a story about tumbleweeds would win a Pulitzer.

I’m making fun of your hard nosed reporting consisting of a story about a tumbleweed in west Texas.  

[Death 301]

53 minutes ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

I’m making fun of your hard nosed reporting consisting of a story about a tumbleweed in west Texas.  

If what little you have in the way of reading-comprehension skills had kicked in, you would have seen that I wrote that tumbleweeds overnight had covered the whole city - blocking roads, making Little League ballparks unusable, closing down airport runways and posing a huge headache for city crews trying to clear them.

They're spiky and not very compactable, so it took a long time to clear those things. It was like a focking biblical tumbleweed plague, the likes of which the city had no record of ever seeing.

In addition to the trouble they caused, I included information about he history and biology of them. Known as Russian thistle, their seeds came over in flaxseed shipments. They owe their proliferation to their weak root systems. Wind blows them from where they start growing, and they drop seeds as they tumble along.

Mesquite trees proliferated in a similar manner, only with some help. Cattle ate mesquite beans during drives and then pooped them out as they went north, starting well-fertilized mesquite saplings for hundreds of miles. 

For the tumbleweed story, I even included a recipe I found for tumbleweed soup.

The news-story spectrum is broad and includes everything from the hard-hitting to the fluffy features, so you just further underscore your ignorance when you thumb your nose at a reporter who writes a feature story. I had plenty of hard-hitting, award-winning investigative pieces in my journey, and my tumbleweed story got picked up and run in every Associated Press-subcribing publication in America, with my name on it. You probably ran across it during your creepy research of my wife, ex-wives and sons, whom you hope get raped or die in a war.

That tumbleweed story alone brought me more recognition than you ever got shaking down shoplifters in your mall-cop job, so suck it long and suck it hard, Pickles.

I had another national AP wire story about Texor getting the short end of a deal in which it traded Oregon thousands of wild turkeys in exchange for elk, but I'll save that for another post.

 

[Hardcore troubadour 14,966]

[Death 301]

I drink and I know things.

[Hardcore troubadour 14,966]

1 minute ago, Death said:

I drink and I know things.

Ok. I’m gonna be honest. Your story was quite interesting. I just couldn’t resist bustin balls. 

[Death 301]

10 minutes ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

Ok. I’m gonna be honest. Your story was quite interesting. I just couldn’t resist bustin balls. 

I once wrote a 128-inch feature on prairie chickens for the Corpus Christi newspaper.

To give you an idea of how long that is, it would cover an entire newspaper page, not including headline and photos.

The prairie chickens were like the buffalo. People in the 1800s just slaughtered them for the hell of it, only prairie chickens need huge numbers to survive because they're stupid as fock and make their nests on the ground, making them vulnerable to everything. They're not good eating, unlike buffalo, so it was a meaningless prairie-chicken holocaust, which I'm sure Cdub would deny because he's into denying mass murders.

Anyhoo, I finished writing that prairie-chicken piece and moved it over for the city editor to read.

A few minutes later, he screamed: "A FOCKING 128-INCH STORY ON PRAIRIE CHICKENS?!!?!?!?!?!?"

I calmly walked over and said, "Just read it."

His eyes were glued to the screen as my story took him on an epic prairie-chicken journey.

After he got to the end, he said, "That's the best damned prairie-chicken story I've ever read."

Not only did every inch of it make the paper, skipping from page to page to page, it also in its entirety made the national AP wire.

I doubt any paper ran the whole thing, but by gawd I got a 128-inch prairie-chicken story on the motherfocking Associated Press wire.

 

[seafoam1 2,808]

14 minutes ago, Death said:

I once wrote a 128-inch feature on prairie chickens for the Corpus Christi newspaper.

To give you an idea of how long that is, it would cover an entire newspaper page, not including headline and photos.

The prairie chickens were like the buffalo. People in the 1800s just slaughtered them for the hell of it, only prairie chickens need huge numbers to survive because they're stupid as fock and make their nests on the ground, making them vulnerable to everything. They're not good eating, unlike buffalo, so it was a meaningless prairie-chicken holocaust, which I'm sure Cdub would deny because he's into denying mass murders.

Anyhoo, I finished writing that prairie-chicken piece and moved it over for the city editor to read.

A few minutes later, he screamed: "A FOCKING 128-INCH STORY ON PRAIRIE CHICKENS?!!?!?!?!?!?"

I calmly walked over and said, "Just read it."

His eyes were glued to the screen as my story took him on an epic prairie-chicken journey.

After he got to the end, he said, "That's the best damned prairie-chicken story I've ever read."

Not only did every inch of it make the paper, skipping from page to page to page, it also in its entirety made the national AP wire.

I doubt any paper ran the whole thing, but by gawd I got a 128-inch prairie-chicken story on the motherfocking Associated Press wire.

 

What's that again pimpledoosh? You really think anyone is going to read that crap? Is that what happened to your "journalism" career?  No high school kids wanted to read the school paper that you vomited all over? 

[Death 301]

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[seafoam1 2,808]

Just now, Death said:

Don't know what it says. Don't care what it says.

Peefoam is as useless as teets on a junebug.

Yet you keep responding. 

Trump 2024 bltch!!! 

[lickin_starfish 1,893]

How big do you think Pimpeldeath teased his hair in order to seduce the barrel-chested oil workers?

[Hardcore troubadour 14,966]

So I watched an episode and a half of Landman. I shut it off after BIlly Bobs character went on a tirade that it’s not smoking that causes lung cancer.  Thing is, I feel he actually believes that. 

[supermike80 1,812]

I liked Yellowstone and I'm not sure why the OP is in a dizzy over the ending.   I mean it kinda made sense.  It's was a pretty good show.

[IGotWorms 4,057]

On 12/19/2024 at 6:00 AM, supermike80 said:

I liked Yellowstone and I'm not sure why the OP is in a dizzy over the ending

Because he’s a b1tch

[jbycho 611]

2 hours ago, IGotWorms said:

Because he’s a b1tch

Sounds like you two have a history together. 

[BudBro 173]

14 hours ago, IGotWorms said:

Because he’s a b1tch

Can be,... but not generally.  I don't vote for democrats, though.  So, that prolly means a b**ch in your world.  Rent free, though. 

[Hawkeye21 2,382]

I don't get all the outrage about the show.  I only watched around the first 3 seasons and really enjoyed it.  I saw clips from the final episode and thought it was pretty cool.

[porkbutt 892]

yellowstone is gayest show ever

[BudBro 173]

8 hours ago, porkbutt said:

yellowstone is gayest show ever

Did someone steal your login info?

[TheNewGirl 1,357]

Bumping: 

New season of 1923 started, anyone watching?  

Can Sheridan redeem himself after the terrible ending of Yellowstone?