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Jen Landon
Hey, everyone. Welcome back to the official Yellowstone podcast. We are so glad you can join us again. I'm Jen Landon, and I am joined, as always, by my very good friend, Mr. Jefferson White.
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Jefferson White
Hey, Jen, how you doing? I am happy, as always, to be here with you today, but also especially today. So this is typically where we tell, you know, we tell the audience a little bit about what we've got planned for the day. We perhaps let them know who our guest of the day is. However, this week just so happens to be a very special week. Valentine's day is this week, so I thought I might put together a little something special. Me and the producers have put together a little something special, and we're going to be surprising you with our guest, Jen. So, like our audience, you're also going to have to sit tight for just a little bit longer.
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Jen Landon
Jeff, this makes me incredibly nervous. This could be very, very good or very, very awkward.
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Jefferson White
I. I'm guessing it's going to be a little bit of column A, a little bit of column B. Jen, listen, you're going to find out soon, but for now, you're going to have to sit and stew and sweat, and we're going to come right back after this.
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Jen Landon
Jeff, that was the longest commercial break of my life. Can I. Can I now know who my valentine's guest is for the day?
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Jefferson White
Listen, this is an audio format so the audience can't know how gleefully. How gleefully I'm raising my eyebrows and how sort of, you know, how much I'm insinuating by rubbing my hands together sort of fiendishly. Listen, you got to be patient, Jen. We're going to get to that. This is our Valentine's Day episode, however. So let's talk romance, huh?
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Jen Landon
Yeah. Please distract me with some other romances from the Yellowstone 1923, 1883 universe so I can, you know, not sit here and sweat.
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Jefferson White
Well, it is funny. I mean, this is a show that is, in a lot of ways, really built on these relationships. You know, we see over and over again amongst the Dutton generations, we see these pairs, these partnerships, these two partners that support each other in many ways. Sometimes it's support each other physically, you know, sometimes it's, you know, carry each other to safety. Other times it's helping each other manage responsibilities. It's a really beautiful thing. We see these. These really rich partnerships, and it also casts in a new light the tragedy of John Dutton Jr. Our John Dutton, you know, in Yellowstone, the John Dutton that we first got to know, the tragedy that he has no Partner. He is bereft. From the moment we meet him, he is without that partnership. And he's seeking to sort of cobble together what he's missing by calling on his children, by sort of giving more and more responsibilities to his children. But it really, over and over again, we hear him saying, if my wife only saw the mess I've made of this family, if only I had, you know, the kind of support that I needed to keep this ranch going and also to care for these kids.
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Jen Landon
Right. And so you bring up an interesting point of the sort of difference between the partnership that we're talking about in terms of the women holding down fort, which is what John lost, and the romance that, like, John is obviously bringing in his life through Senator Perry, through Summer, but that those romances are different than the kind of partnership that the relationships in the Yellowstone universe are built on.
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Jefferson White
Yeah, we've seen both on Yellowstone. We've seen Hot and Heavy. We've seen, you know, we've seen infatuation. Everybody's talking about Spencer and Alexandra. Spencer and Alexandra before, Spencer and Alexander. Well after. But before, in terms of the show's airing. What about Jimmy and Mia, everybody? Everybody's talking about Spencer and Alexandra like they're the coolest, hottest couple. Before Spencer and Alexandra, we had Casey and Monica, Jimmy and Mia, Beth and Rip and Laramie, Beth and Rip. And that's amazing because we've seen that that relationship grow and change over the years from one that was perhaps based on, you know, mutual. In fascinating mutual infatuation based on perhaps a degree of lust. And now we've seen it mature into that kind of partnership that you're describing, this real sort of walking side by side. Another one of my favorite relationships on the show is Casey and Monica. I feel like Casey and Monica, they've been through so much. You know, Beth and Rip have been through a lots of ups and downs, but if you go back and watch Yellowstone again, so have Casey and Monica. They have sort of. They've come really close to parting ways over and over again. They've. They've been through so many roller coasters as a couple. You know, they started out with completely different goals. It felt like, you know, they were young and in love. They have a kid. But then when it came down to it and they have to start making decisions about, you know, where they're gonna live when both of their families are putting pressure on them. They really feel like a Romeo and Juliet to me in a way that I. I think is. Is beautifully crafted. And those are Also, two of my favorite actors on the show.
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Jen Landon
Same. And. And while they do feel totally Romeo and Juliet in origin, they also simultaneously have a relationship that in many ways to me feels the most grounded. And, you know, that day in and day out relationship. I don't know if we see that in another pairing. Do we see that in another pairing on Yellowstone in that steady way?
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Jefferson White
Part of it is the kid, Right. I think part of it is having Tate that brings them. That's this kind of unifying force that means they have to come back together. They always sort of have to return to each other for Tate's sake. And I really think that's a thing that, you know, they've been through so many tumultuous ups and downs, and I think Tate is one of the reasons that they've always managed to navigate those. Those stormy waters.
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Jen Landon
Yeah, that is actually a really good point, Jeff. I suddenly was struck with this, this question, which is how do we think the different couples on Yellowstone are celebrating Valentine's Day? You know, like, like, how do they do it? So Monica and Casey, since we started there, you know, Monica, you know, Monica and Casey, I feel like, are having a supper at home or a, you know, they're sitting on the porch, a little quiet.
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Jefferson White
Yeah. They're trying to be intimate. And Tate has a question about something. Right.
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Jen Landon
What do we think Summer and John are doing?
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Jefferson White
Summer and John, they're also similarly. They're trying to be intimate. And Beth is interrupting it and dragging Summer out of the room by her hair. Yeah. Listen, Jen, speaking of what various couples are doing on Valentine's Day, folks are going to wonder what it is we're up to on Valentine's Day. I have no doubt you're wondering.
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Jen Landon
Okay, Jeff, I need to know who is the guest for the day?
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Jefferson White
All right, Jen.
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Jen Landon
Which exists.
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Jefferson White
I'm gonna put you out of your misery. I've got all your ex. You're all your exes on this call. No, listen, and you're gonna. So here's your. Here's your happy surprise. Over the course of this introduction, you will realize who I'm talking about, because I could only be talking about one man we've got with us today, my Dear Friend of 6 years. He's an actor, he's a writer, he's a producer, he's a director, he's a businessman. He is one of the most multi hyphenate, talented people I've ever met in my life and least interesting about him. He plays your love interest on Yellowstone. Colby. We've Got with us today, Denim Richards. Denim, thank you for being here.
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Denim Richards
Oh, man, I feel like I need to take you and introduce me everywhere. When I go into grocery stores, when I get to petrol, everything that's. Now that's what I need to do. Literally anything. It's great to be here. It's great to hear you guys voice. Jen, how are you?
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Jen Landon
Denim, I'm always happy to see you, but I have to say, I've never been more happy than I am right now to see you because of the terror I experienced for the last 12 minutes thinking that Jeff had brought some ex out of the closet to talk to me.
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Denim Richards
Could you imagine if there was like a roulette? Imagine, like a roulette. Something that's happening, like live, where we just pull in weird X's to tell.
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Jen Landon
There aren't that many, like, don't make it roulette. There's like. There's too many. It's more like we're bringing in dozens of Gen Xs.
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Denim Richards
I'm. I'm clearly projecting at this point. This is.
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Jefferson White
This is.
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Denim Richards
This is all I project. This is all.
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Jefferson White
And now that we've got you here, Denim, I'm so excited to bring our. Our surprise.
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Denim Richards
Right. Somebody that's dated both of us. Wait, what?
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Jen Landon
Some point it had to happen.
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Denim Richards
You know, it's like unbelievable. What's going on, guys? How's everything? How's everything going?
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Jefferson White
We're good, man. We're chilling. We're spending today. We're talking about. We're diving in. So at the core of the Yellowstone universe, as we know, is family. And at the core of those families, it's couples. It's relationships. We're doing our touchy feely, intimate Valentine's Day episode of the official Yellowstone podcast. So we're talking about all the incredible couples. Yellowstone, 1883 in 1923.
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Denim Richards
Okay, so naturally, when you were thinking super loving, super intimate, just romantic youth, every. It screamed wholesome Colby and tears. Yes.
- [09:54]
Jefferson White
But also, we can't discount Colby and Jimmy's bromance.
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Jen Landon
That's right.
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Jefferson White
There's a. You know, romance and intimacy takes a lot of form.
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Denim Richards
This is true. This is true. This is true.
- [10:04]
Jefferson White
Okay, before we get into all of that, we're gonna step aside really fast, so don't go away. So listen this season to Yellowstone, particularly in season five of Yellowstone, we've got more relationships popping off in the workplace than ever before. Everybody on the show is booed up at this point. We've got Teeter and Colby. We've got Ryan And Abby, we've got Walker and Laramie. That's just in the bunkhouse.
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Denim Richards
Oh, my God.
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Jefferson White
It's Jake and Ethan.
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Jen Landon
Yeah, Jake and Ethan.
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Denim Richards
And that, to me, was. Is like the couple that everybody is kind of trying to get to be.
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Jefferson White
Like, exactly that level of. That level of intimacy.
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Denim Richards
We're all striving for that, I think. Like, Lloyd and his gun. I got my gun, you know.
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Jefferson White
Oh, Lloyd and the life, the cowboy life, you know, it's like fishermen are married to the sea. Lloyd is married.
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Denim Richards
You know, he's married to the saddle. Right. Like, I think. No, this is. I think it's fascinating, right? Like, watching kind of all of these things, you know, it seemed like season one, it seemed like you would never be able to have relationships. And, you know, the way that it's just kind of been woven in in a very kind of organic way, doesn't. None of it feels forced. But I do think it's going to be fascinating because, you know, us as individuals, we don't want our hearts broken. And then when you play that, you know, because we talk about this all the time, that, like, you know, if a character leaves or if there's a split up, that person actually leaves.
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Jen Landon
Yeah, Right.
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Denim Richards
So, like, we, as individuals, we feel even what the characters are feeling because you're like, damn, this person's gone. I think hopefully these couples will stay strong and vibrant for many, many seasons to come.
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Jefferson White
I mean, speaking of romance and the Duttons. Right? So all of these. All of these Dutton kids at this point have these relationships. In this season, we also saw Jamie. Jamie developed this beautiful relationship, this amazing thing for Jamie. But I think the whole time, we were all kind of grimacing and gritting our teeth with fear because this is, you know, it's the other. It's the flip side of this. It's intimacy as a weapon.
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Denim Richards
Right.
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Jefferson White
You know?
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Denim Richards
Right. The shoes on the other foot, you know, And I think that's, you know, that's the. Sometimes I think that's hard. You know, you don't never know if you're being used, what that looks like. You know, you get comfortable, and then they cut your head off, you know, And I think that that's something with Jamie. I think that that's something he could. Could potentially be experiencing, which is why, more and more, as these relationships go, I feel more and more confident about the Colby and Teeters relationship, because as weird as it is, the foundations of it are very unique and genuine. And I think that's. It's fascinating because it seems like, our relationship is kind of like a cockroach, right? Where it's just no matter what you throw at it, we're still gonna just kind of weirdly be together.
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Jen Landon
Denim, do you think that Colby and Teeter had a conversation about consent in terms of bringing the third into their relationship, which is the bear? Do you think that they talked about consciously bringing in a third, or do you think that was just sort of spur of the moment?
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Denim Richards
Yeah, I think that in the moment, Colby felt like there was a lot of people that were around, and he didn't want to make, like, a scene. And then I think what just kind of naturally ended up happening was the bear just became part of it. It's there at breakfast, right? It's bathing, and it's weird, you know, But I think, you know, for Colby, I think Teeter loves it, and I think Colby is learning to love whatever Teeter loves. From afar, though, right? More.
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Jen Landon
I don't know. I think that bear. I didn't see that bear on that truck when she drove out of there. So I'm pretty sure that bears.
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Denim Richards
Back in that bunk house with you, buddy, it's like. It's like. It's like a. It's weird. It's like an Easter egg. Like, nobody ever said, like, hey, when he went back into the. We didn't see the bear in the bunk house. Where is the bear in the truck? Like, where is. Is the bear walking there?
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Jefferson White
Like, I think that means Colby still has the bear. Dude, I think that means Colby held on to the bear.
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Jen Landon
Denim, before I lowered the conversation bar by bringing the bear and the throuple into it, you were actually hitting on, like, an interesting point. You both were, which is about relationships that, you know, are. Maybe don't. They're not right for everyone, but they're really right for that person. So, for example, like, Jeff, I was thinking about. Of course, you know, there's this whole Mia and Emily thing, right? And I felt like what. What Jimmy had with Mia was so special. Right? But it was one of those times in life where what they wanted and the circumstances of life were taking them in different directions.
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Jefferson White
I think at the end of the day, Jimmy and Mia really didn't have a chance because Jimmy was ordered by his boss to leave this date. You know, like, it's long distance. Relationships are incredibly difficult, punishingly difficult. Jimmy doesn't really. He didn't have much control over his own fate. Mia certainly doesn't have a lot of control over Jimmy's fate. So it feels like circumstances pulled Them apart. And then meeting Emily, it felt like that was the first time in his life that he actually had. He got to make some decisions, he got to make some choices. He got to sort of, you know, be in the driver's seat and have some agency in his life, which I think is very empowering. I think that's a very empowering feeling to feel as though you're making your own choices. Because Mia pursued Jimmy from the beginning of their relationship. You know, Jimmy didn't make a lot of choices there either. I think he was really into it. But she kind of came up to him at a rodeo and hit on him. You know, it. She really was. Was making the calls, which is intoxicating in its own way. But I think for Jimmy to actually get any sense of control, any sense of agency in his own life, it makes a lot of sense to me that that is a powerful. A powerful factor in driving people together.
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Denim Richards
You know, And I think it's interesting too, like, speaking on that, like, you know, I think with Mia, it also became a good break between kind of the rough and tumbleness of the bunkhouse, but just giving a little bit of different energy. Somebody that's trying to let you see that you can be empowered, but because of your circumstance that you're in, you, it's impossible to act on that. And then, of course, when you get to Texas, you're in an entirely different environment where you have the opportunity, to a certain degree, to become a little bit more empowered independently. And now you can kind of start to see what Mia saw in you before you saw it, but now the circumstances are different. I think, Jen, what you were saying, that sometimes the person that you end up ultimately ending up with in life is not necessarily the person that you fell so deeply in love with and imagined, but it was somebody that in these circumstances, you learned that type of love. But there's so many different versions of love, right? I think that we always just think that love is just a blanket thing, like love is love. And there's so many different versions. There's loving in a situation, in a circumstance, depending on your social and economic standings. Like, it's so. I think it's so multi layered and leveled and very complicated. And I think what's interesting about this show, and I think it's interesting in general, is like, art does imitate life. And so for us as individuals, we've all been in love with somebody that we thought that we could never imagine a life without them. And so naturally we thought, we're good and Then something happens, and then all of a sudden that person's gone, and you're like, okay, well, now what? And then you go and you fall in love with somebody else, and you're like, okay, Damn. So it's this notion that it's like, yes, you can be in love, but that doesn't mean that if something goes wrong, that you can't be in love with somebody else and love some. A different version. Because as we're growing, we're getting older, and we have different versions of ourselves.
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Jefferson White
Yeah, there's very much a, like, right person, wrong time. Wrong person, right time. And a relationship we've seen go through, that whole spectrum is Beth and Rip. We've seen Beth and Rip at a time when they couldn't. Like, they maybe had a sort of connection to each other that they didn't quite understand. But it wasn't the right time for them to explore that intimacy. It wasn't the right time for them to sort of partner up. And we've seen them over the course of the show, like, it was. It was maybe the right person from the beginning, but it took them decades to find the right time, you know, and it was just that circumstances kept them together.
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Jen Landon
There are these things, though, if we look back on it, that they share that, like, that Rip is always going to want, you know, cowboying is always going to come first for him on some level. Right. There's a freedom there, and we've talked about that a lot on the show. And there's something about Beth that will forever remain sort of wild. And so those two things sort of match together. And I. I was hearing some version of the thing that she said about all she really wants is, you know, a little house with, like, a little pasture that is, like, just her own or whatever, that. That the big expanse is too much for her. And there was. And there's something about the Rip character that feels very much like that is true for him as well. You know, this is a guy who doesn't want to take over the Yellowstone ranch. There's never been an inkling of that. Like, he just wants to serve, if that makes sense. There's a. There's a simpleness in both their aspirations.
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Denim Richards
And I think what's interesting, too, is, like, the question that you asked is that, you know, how, like, we'll be on set sometimes and, like, these kind of these hectic weeks or a month of just hectic, and we're like, you know, what we're going to do when we rap? We're going to go to an island for three weeks. We're going to turn off our phones, and we're just going to be present. And then the moment we rap, we're like, what show do we get on? What do we do? We got to work. So there's always a part of me that I wonder, like, can Beth actually just do a small house and, you know, with a little pastor, can rip, you know, just wake up at 9:00am you know, pour a coffee and just sit on the porch? Like, can you do that? Or is it just kind of a fun thing to talk about? I think that's fascinating.
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Jefferson White
I think you're so right. I think Rip could do it. I don't think Beth could do it. When Beth said that on the show, I was like, I believe that Beth feels that way right now, but I think she would be itching. She would be itching to get back in the boardroom, to get back on a plane. I think she would be itching to get back in the action.
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Jen Landon
I want to throw, like, I. I think you guys are right, but I just want to, like, play devil's advocate here a little bit. And just because this is a character as well, who has, like, cannot shake the grief and rage that she feels over being robbed of being a mother. Right. And I'm wondering if she, like, was able to have kids, you know, if. If actually, like, the raising of that child and pouring all of that energy into that would be the thing that would sort of ground her. And. And because so many. Some of Beth's impulses to, like, get out there and do things and whatnot, it doesn't feel just like it comes from drive. It feels sometimes like it comes from deep, a deeply unsettled place, you know, from her mother passing, from the loss of her ability to have kids. You know, there's a version of Beth that I see, like, with a more. Less traumatizing childhood where it's like, yeah, it almost. I could see a version of her that feels a little bit more like Helen Mirren's character in 23, you know, which is still wild and filled with independence and adventure, but also more rooted in a life like that.
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Jefferson White
Yeah, that's a fascinating point. And also, you know, that beast in her, that tornado in her simmering underneath the surface, should it be called upon? Because, as we see in 1923, you know, she's got a. She's got that dog in her, too. When the time comes, when it needs to. To wake up and.
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Jen Landon
And bark and bite a little, you guys, we're gonna. We're gonna take a quick break, but when we come back, we're gonna talk more about our favorite relationships in the Yellowstone universe and maybe some of our relationships in our own personal lives.
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Jefferson White
Whoa.
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Jen Landon
We'll be right back.
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Jefferson White
You know, another relationship that I'm watching like a hawk develop because I'm really enjoying 1923 is Spencer and Alexandra. That's a fascinating. They found each other in the middle of nowhere. That might be a true star crossed lovers situation because they found themselves sort of. They found each other kind of against all odds, like on safari. She was engaged to be married. He was chasing this death drive, like, sort of trying to get himself run over by a rhinoceros. It's amazing that they found each other and in each other they find this kind of redemption. I think that's a bit of a Beth and Rip situation too. It's a different kind of connection and a different sort of. They're at a different chapter in their lives. But I really think that's an amazing sort of star crossed lovers relationship.
- [24:03]
Jen Landon
I feel like Taylor's writing about that relationship that maybe we haven't seen yet in the sense of when, you know, you know, I mean, there was nothing about Spencer that was even looking for a relationship or. Or wanting one. And it. And. And it's. It's that story of when. When that thing walks into your life, no matter how much you don't want it, that's it. You just know. And that's what it feels like.
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Jefferson White
He was really looking for the opposite. You know, if love is life, it really seemed like he was chasing his own death. And, you know, his life, a life, a different life, a different path walked in, and now he's down a completely different path. Oh, Spencer. I know we spend a lot of time. We spend a lot of time on this podcast talking about the big man, Spencer Dutton. He's an icon.
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Jen Landon
Yeah, he's an icon because of the way he's written, and he's an icon because of the way he's portrayed. Between season four and season five, your life changed a lot. Do you want to talk a little bit about where you live now and how your life looks different than it did before?
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Denim Richards
Yeah, Yeah. I was living in Orange county, and now I live in Botswana, which is in sub Saharan Africa, which is where I'm doing this podcast. So clearly that means that there's Internet and as you guys can see, the layers, electricity and, you know, wow, what a surprise. It's funny when people are like, oh, wow, running water it's like, yeah, guys, I'm fine. But, you know, it was important for me. And I think that, you know, with the world being more interconnected, with different opportunities for zoom, there's planes go everywhere, you know, you can be. I could be in Los Angeles if I needed to within 20 hours, you know, So I think that at a certain point, you have to kind of figure out, like, what you want to do with your life, what you want your life to look like. If you want to have a family, what does that family structure look like? And just kind of just do it. And at the end of the day, like, as we all know, production and being able to do this stuff is such a blessing, but also with that, like, at any given moment, things could just change. And then you sit there and you ask yourself, what the hell did I, like, what was I doing? Did I get anything done in the course of this time? Or did I build a life that I always wanted to live? Or did I live a life that everybody else wanted me to live?
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Jen Landon
That's awesome, you guys. I know our listeners are gonna be disappointed if we don't talk about our on set relationship stuff and just our dynamic with each other.
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Denim Richards
Are they gonna be. Will they be?
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Jen Landon
They will be. They will be. Cause I. And I don't know if we've, like, I'm sure we've painted this on the podcast before, but they see us on camera having fun, playing poker, you know, doing all the things that we do. And I feel like we do a lot of that stuff in to varying degrees off camera, whether it's in between takes or in our free time.
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Denim Richards
I think that's why we're not talking about it as much because we kind of, like, do a lot of the stuff that we do on screen, off screen, like, so I think maybe that's the reason why we're not diving deep down, because we spend time together, we go out to dinner together, some of us gym together, we play poker, we go to music events, rodeos. All the stuff, the dynamics that we do on the camera or a lot of the stuff that we do outside of it. The difference is there's just not 600 people there filming us while we're doing it.
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Jen Landon
Do you guys have any favorite memories from on set or offset hangs from the last four or five years or.
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Jefferson White
How I think season one, we went bowling and Wes Bentley got so mad because he lost in bowling that he left.
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Denim Richards
Yeah, he did leave. He did leave.
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Jefferson White
He just left.
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Denim Richards
He didn't leave.
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Jefferson White
It was like one of Our first big group hangs as a cast, and it's like, everybody all right? We're keeping the vibes good. No, no, no. Wes got in his car and fucking left.
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Denim Richards
And, you know, it's hard in bowling. The thing that sucks in bowling is it's like, it's only you. So then, like, naturally, as a competitor, I'm like, I want everyone to fail. But then when you see the way that somebody's going to take you, like, I really hope they get a strike. Like, I really hope that it goes well for them.
- [28:07]
Jefferson White
And then when it's hard to let somebody win in bowling, you know, they got to do that by themselves.
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Denim Richards
It's like, I can't make the ball. It not go into the gutter. I don't know.
- [28:16]
Jefferson White
We're all sitting there, like, just, like, praying, trying to manifest. Wes getting a strike.
- [28:21]
Denim Richards
That was so funny. It was like a big.
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Jefferson White
Because Wes is a really good athlete.
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Jen Landon
He's an amazing.
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Jefferson White
He takes everything very seriously. He's an incredibly pleasant, very smart guy. And we, all of us have our days where we're a few bad roles away from, you know, a few bad.
- [28:38]
Denim Richards
Gutter balls, but gutter balls away from being. I mean, I think we've had, you know, I think some of the events, you know, that we've been able to go to together. Like, I think one of the things exciting, you know, when we took a year off of Yellowstone and then we all kind of came back, you know, for a cowboy camp, you know, I think that was nice just to kind of reconnect again. I think sometimes that it's just like, man, we're like, we're here. Like, we're doing it again. Like, we didn't know. We didn't know that we were going to get the opportunity to come back, and, you know, here we are. So I think it's always just exciting when we finally get that opportunity to do so.
- [29:09]
Jefferson White
I wasn't there.
- [29:11]
Denim Richards
Yeah, that's all I was saying. That's what I was saying. It was a highlight.
- [29:14]
Jefferson White
Yeah, that's the. You just. That's the one time I wasn't there. Jen, what do you got? Favorite memories. Oh, we have to both be in them. We have to. Both Dee and I have to be in the memory.
- [29:26]
Denim Richards
I think for the same reason.
- [29:28]
Jen Landon
I know, I know, I know. But honestly, they're gonna act as though they're gonna exist at different. Listen, they're gonna exist at different times because I think, honestly, one of them. There was a hike that we took looking for some berries Jeff, you were there. Denim, you were not there. Denim, you were like home or something. You had left.
- [29:48]
Denim Richards
That sounds pretty accurate.
- [29:50]
Jen Landon
But we went hiking for some berries and we were looking for the huckleberries that we never find, which I don't even think are that hard to find, but we never find them as a group. There's a small group of us. And denim, my favorite offset stuff with you has always revolved around our obsession with health.
- [30:11]
Denim Richards
Health. I knew you were gonna say that.
- [30:13]
Jen Landon
You know, like the insane conversations that we have in the aisles of health food stores and also the time that you and Ian let me work out with you guys.
- [30:24]
Denim Richards
Oh, yeah, I forgot. That was sweet. Oh, that was nice.
- [30:26]
Jen Landon
I really enjoyed. You guys were really nice about that. You were incredibly sweet about that.
- [30:31]
Denim Richards
No, I think. But like I say, I think it's important for the audience to know, like, you know, as much as we are acting on camera, that we actually do spend time with one another and that we are highly impacted by our relationships that we have. Because, like, Jeff, like you were saying, when you're in that world in Montana, and it's very. Because it's so small and because we've been very blessed that the show has gotten so big, there's not that many places you can go and you kind of get that opportunity to kind of bond with one another. It's not the same thing as being in New York or la, Chicago, Florida, where you can kind of just get lost in all of these other things that are going on. And I think that. I think that our relationships on, off camera really resonate on camera. I don't think that we're really having to do that much acting. I think we're just in the moment. I think sometimes we're just saying the words. We happen to be saying words in a bunkhouse or saying the words, you know, on a horse. But I think it's a. It's a beautiful thing, the relationships that we built on this show.
- [31:28]
Jefferson White
Yeah. D likes our friendship so much that he moved continent.
- [31:32]
Denim Richards
Yeah, I left. I wanted to make sure that I ran into people, so I got on a flight and left the country.
- [31:38]
Jefferson White
Yeah, exactly. He loved the time we spent together so much that he got as far.
- [31:42]
Denim Richards
Away as far away from possible.
- [31:44]
Jefferson White
You said earlier you were like, you know, I can be in LA within 20 hours. And I was like, bro, isn't it like, exactly a 20 hour flight?
- [31:50]
Denim Richards
Yeah. What you mean?
- [31:51]
Jefferson White
Like, I can be there in 20?
- [31:53]
Denim Richards
100%. Like, I really have to think about it. I got to really want well, the great thing about being here is, like, nobody's just in the neighborhood. Like, nobody's just like, oh, yeah, hey, like, I was just in Botswana, and I'm like, no, you aren't. Like, so you gotta kind of tell me before.
- [32:06]
Jefferson White
I'm just coming through. I'm just popping.
- [32:08]
Jen Landon
Didn't we all decide. Didn't we all decide we're going to Botswana to hang out at Denim? Since there's. There's such a. Between every time we shoot seasons, we're like, well, might as well just go.
- [32:18]
Denim Richards
To Denim every season. We've also said that we're gonna go on some magical vacation with all of us, and then we're like, yeah, we're gonna do that, and then we leave. But, you guys, here's the reality. The good thing is I'll be here. And so anytime you guys would like to come to Botswana, I'll be able to host you. We're doing a lot of exciting things, you know, with my. My company here. So. Yeah. So anytime you guys want to come, it would be. It would be a blessing.
- [32:45]
Jefferson White
Thank you so much for joining us today.
- [32:47]
Jen Landon
Thanks, Steve.
- [32:49]
Jefferson White
Always an absolute treat. Follow Denim on social media where you can get more. More information about all the amazing things he's doing. Much love, Denham. Thank you so much for being here.
- [33:00]
Jen Landon
Miss you, bud.
- [33:01]
Jefferson White
Talk to you real soon.
- [33:02]
Jen Landon
Bye.
- [33:04]
Jefferson White
The official Yellowstone podcast is a production of 101 Studios and Paramount. This episode was produced by Scott Stone. Brandon Gis is the head of audio for 101 Studios. Steve raises is the executive vice president of the Paramount Global Podcast Group. Special thanks to Megan Marcus, Jeremy Westfall, Ainsley Rosito, Andrew Sarnow, Jason Reed, and Whitney Baxter from Paramount. And of course, David Glasser, David Hucken, and Michelle Newman from 101 Studios.