The Landman and the Lobbyists

What happens when big lobbying firms get involved in art? Landman on Paramount+ provides one of the most blatant examples of how moneyed interests can effect entertainment.
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#landman #paramount #taylorsheridan #bigoil #lobbying #thankyouforsmoking #videoessay #upyouralley

[@buzziband9535]

Wind TURBINES make electrical power. Windmills grind grain.

[@GenGaara]

Thank you. I always get mildly annoyed by this. They're not milling anything. A windmill is a mill powered by wind. A turbine is a rotary machine to extract energy from fluids (like wind). They're wind turbines. Not mills.

[@eliot.s_2672]

I like how Landman is not far off from that one Family Guy joke about 60s cigarette advertising where a guy just shouts “SMOKE” in between every 10 seconds of a kids show

[@REfan001]

ARE YA SMOKING YET

[@Jason_Abadi]

@@REfan001 HAHAHAHA

[@sals4767]

iirc that was the 'subliminal messaging' joke

[@Nighthawk-oj5ve]

The argument I hear is “it’s hard to try, so better not even try”

[@sillybirdy1994]

im not kidding, thats conservatism in a nutshell

[@dudebro7698]

I also hear some notes of “well this relatively new tech isn’t perfect yet so we’d better just stick to this one thing that is ruining a whole lot because it’s already in place

[@andrewpierce1588]

Far fall from, “We do these things because they are hard.” ~JFK on going to the moon.

[@timothyrockwell2638]

Cause in America success isn't based on merit, this is the grift economy. And those who can promise the most, and deliver the least make the most money.

[@doublem3836]

@@Nighthawk-oj5ve please, I would love to know what are you doing to help solve this problem? Are you trying to do anything about this problem

[@dirkwillard5068]

I worked in oil production as a reservoir/production engineer. I was in the MS program for petroleum engineering at USC. I know how oil is produced. I worked on projects at refineries. I led the process/project group at a refinery for a year for Fluor. I am familiar with oil production. I spent 45 years in the chemical industry. Years ago, in between jobs, I spent a year studying wind and solar. Wind and solar are now more energy efficient than coal. The internal combustion engine still rules the road, and should until we eliminate coal from electric generation. Also, cheaper, safer, longer-lasting batteries are on the way but won't be here for at least 5 years. So, EV's time is not quite here yet. What Landsman pitches about transmission lines and electrical systems is partially true: but, we need to upgrade our aged lines anyway --- storm-proofing for global warming storms, changing voltages to reduce voltage losses, and changing transformers to allow for solar power. Another point, ignored in Landsman's pitch against wind farms is that it costs a lot of concrete, steel, etc., used in oil wells, refineries, etc. I've been there! I've seen it first hand. Once installed, a wind engine runs for about 5 yrs. until the transmission needs work. Oil wells also require big diesel rigs for washing, perfing, etc. And, new transmissions are in the works that can last much longer; the same is true for wind engine equipment. We're looking at engines that could last for 30 yrs. When they're done, the wind engines can be recycled. You can't say that's true for oil wells and refineries.

[@unkatom]

Engineers usually have a more balanced perspective than an entertainment producer with “industry friends”… good engineers know scientific studies take a while to migrate from the lab to industry. Thanks for the positive input!

[@Johnnypaycheck77]

Thankyou sir

[@Johnnypaycheck77]

I have heard a lot of scientists say we got until 2050, and if we don't get stuff going, we can never fix it. After that, maybe prolong for a bit, but we are fuked. There is a great Doc made by Frontline these oil companies have known since the 60s that the earth is heating up from us.

[@TrggrWarning]

Finally an expert! What is the minimum that makes an oil well worth digging? 100,000 barrels? I really have no idea. What does that oil well represent vs a windmill or an ideal bank of 50 windmills energy wise? Any idea why oil seems concentrated in the more hostile environments like the arctic & desert? I know earth has altered some since Dinos were chomping their veggies but the equator/poles whatever shift they had while minimum made things more extreme heat/cold wise. I can see the Arab desert once being a nice rainforesty Dino habitat once but never the Arctic… Most sun loving plants reptiles & whamen hate the cold. .. what gives? Arab desert seems oddly isolated too, vs like china & india ..why’s that?

[@Thenewboidahlia]

What an enlightening comment, thank you!

[@mawortz]

Taylor Sheridan is so narcissistic he turned Yellowstone into a commercial of his ranch and the new shows are just his personal blog

[@ryanhall7827]

kevin costner power moved his ass and he still cant get over it kevins got Best Picture something taylor can only dream of getting and hes clearly very hurt over it

[@MMAGamblingTips]

@@ryanhall7827i do not like Taylor at all, but Kevin Costner’s new movie sucks and wind River and Hell or High Water are better than anything Costner has starred in decades.

[@ryanhall7827]

@yea i like both of those movies alot i watched yellowstone when it first came out cus of those two movies.I was in no way endorsing costner i mean kevin made wyatt earp just to spite the producers of Tombstone horizon is a similar situation i think

[@sixapax]

I lose it after "you believe that stuff?" Guys really have no shame, shit.

[@ryancappo]

It is accurate though.

[@sixapax]

@@ryancappo Do you mean the accurate representation of uneducated, ignorant people? Well, yeah, kinda. The self-confidence with which he spouts nonsense is more or less similar to that in the real world.

[@basedggallin4556]

​@@ryancappo Which part is accurate?

[@Uller1967]

​@@ryancappoNo it isn't. The large turbines recoup their carbon footprint within the first year. Most of what BBT says is propaganda.

[@Omnip073n77]

@@Uller1967 I just watched the part where he said "you believe that stuff". It wasn't a part about turbines, it was about burning up oil at the surface to relieve pressure underground and prevent explosions. He then uses a whataboutism about operations in China, which is pretty accurate geopolitical issue atm

[@3dartxsi]

What bugs me about Taylor Sheridan is that he makes a point to preach and virtue signal about Native American issues as if he cares. He even looks down his nose at perfornative "wokeness" of liberals, calling it out for being shallow and grating. Then he goes and makes a show that shills propaganda for an industry that steals native lands to this day, which is just as dhallow and performative as any limousine liberals he doesn't like.

[@sevargas1]

He is a liberal but just more right wing. Liberal are already pretty right wing.

[@maxwellbarnhart1375]

Exactly. The performative native american pandering isnt what kills me (wind river was a great film that treated its subject matter with plenty of sensitivity) but its the defending of big oil, which is an enemy to native people.

[@slartibartfast7921]

Forked tongue

[@williambrasky3891]

It was never about any of that. He feels it’s “grating” because when he sees a black mermaid, he gets angry, which distracts him from the show/ movie. He gets, in a word, triggered. So, it isn’t anything about the pacing or any other quality metric. It’s about seeing something in popular culture he thinks shouldn’t be there. So, when he makes a show/ movie, he inserts his politics so they feel to the audience the same way he feels when he sees a black mermaid. The problem is boomer propaganda has caused him to develop “political dysmorphia.” Same as with classic body dysmorphia, he is rendered incapable of perceiving himself (his politics) in the same way as others. He hyper-fixates on “woke” politics to the point of obsession. It has been conclusively shown that people with body dysmorphia physically lose their ability to see their body as it is in reality. When they look in the mirror, they really do see a fatter, shorter, etc person than you or I see. Same thing has happened with these ppl’s politics. As for the indigenous dissonance, that can be explained by another common trait with ppl who have fallen under the fascists’ spell. Their politics are largely based on aesthetics. Their proclivities are almost entirely vibes based. Taylor supports American Indians first & for most because Taylor is drawn to the Native American aesthetic. He himself is oblivious to his motives. He just knows he likes it. This can often lead ppl like him to take actions that are indistinguishable from actual support. He participates in Native American advocacy because it allows him to more intimately connect with the Native American aesthetic. When his support for the Native American Decimator 9000 clashes with his support for native Americans, no it doesn’t. What those oil companies are destroying are small communities consisting of basic block buildings, house trailers, and poor brown people. So, they happen to be on an Indian reservation, & the ppl happen to be of Native American descent? Destroying them & their little community *looks* pretty much identical to the destruction of any other poor community in the desert. Those oil companies aren’t destroying the Native American aesthetic. They’re just destroying Native Americans. So, what’s the problem?

[@323guiltyspark]

I think he is sympathetic to the plight of indigenous populations, he just thinks there isn't anything one can do about it and that cowboys and ranchers have a stronger claim to the land because they fought(?) for it.

[@kevintaylor791]

Michelob and Bud Light are owned by the same Brazilian/Belgian Corporation. Giving up Bud Light for Mick Light to fuck over the parent company is like buying a Lincoln to fuck over Ford. Taylor Sheridan is the 21at Century Ayn Rand. 21 times the hypocrite.

[@RingoYote]

Anheiser Busch is an american company but yes .. their parent company is a Belgian multi-national

[@wyattevert6835]

They are still not drinking it because of Dylan Mullaney.

[@octothorpian_nightmare]

So right about Ayn Rand, with all of the stupid soliloquies to further her philosophical wanking. Same with the monologues here.

[@rodanone4895]

it's because they find Dylan attractive and it scares them... that leads to anger when you're not self aware... over terrible beer too.... what's that they say. pick the hill carefully... ridiculous culture nonsense meant to distract from all the facts about renewable energy, oil, etc... pretty sure the reason Kennedy happened in Dallas was the oil depletion allowance bring revoked. i mean a million other reasons...nam etc... but the oil depletion allowance. hasn't been discussed since i don't think. ​@@wyattevert6835

[@robphelan]

@@wyattevert6835 yepp.. bunch of dummies - those special edition cans weren't even for sale.

[@JimmySailor]

The idea that oil companies have a maximum dollar goal for a barrel of oil is laughable. They’d charge 300$ if there wasn’t competition. When it was above 100$ pre-pandemic they absolutely loved that shit. That’s what really annoys me about this kind of propaganda, sure guys want to believe what they do is necessary. But when they come off as Saints defending the American economy I’m out. Not a single person in any sort of authority thinks that way, it’s about making money.

[@adamnash1873]

I mean yeah anyone would charge the maximum if they were the only one in business. If it was then you should work for free if you're trying to help America's Economy

[@Laotzu.Goldbug]

This is actually not true. They don't do it out of the kindness of their heart but there is a relationship between oil price and consumption because even though some oil use is obviously mandatory a significant portion of the petroleum derivatives are not and if it gets too expensive companies will either reduce production of those goods or attempt to find other raw materials. In other words the oil company's absolutely do everything they can to maximize profits but controlling the price of oil per barrel is, counterintuitively, one of those ways. that's exactly why major oil producers like Saudi Arabia very strictly control their production volumes on a day-to-day basis and often withhold large amounts of oil from going directly to the market. The whole situation with OPEC in general and how they regulate themselves and get mad at certain members if they go over production limits is a whole other basket of eggs.

[@nuggetsaltshaker9520]

​@@adamnash1873greedy people search for maximum profits. Good people provide a service/product for a fair price that provides them a profit but doesn't take advantage of the consumer who's dependent on them.

[@atomicsmith]

Tell me you never took economics without telling me you never took economics…

[@leonlowenstadter9223]

That maximum goal may actually be true depending on where you get the oil from. It needs a certain price level to make exploiting oil sands profitable. Companies that don't have access to oil sands would love to have the price as high as possible but just slightly below the point that this competition can start to operate.

[@shwak23]

You missed that the show was produced by "Texas Monthly" a magazine turned production studio that is owned by the heiress of some giant oil company.

[@Scallycowell]

It’s laughable to think that oil companies care about consumers and their wallets. If gas was over ten dollars a gallon, you know what they’d say? “Get a second job or don’t drive to work at all.”

[@jetnavigator]

I know, right? But the "renewables" billionaires, those guys really care and are not at all exploiting the gullible.

[@Scallycowell]

@ Alternative resources don’t have the same kind of pull in Washington and Hollywood that big oil does, but yeah. Congratulations for understanding the folly of late stage capitalism. Corporations aren’t selling a product to you, you’re the product to them.

[@has25252]

Every business cares about how price affects the customer - if your product is too high, sales drop; if price isn't high enough, profit suffers. Everybody wants to keep their customers just below the point of saying "eff it, this is too expensive" at a price point that maximizes profit. So yes, they care about taxes, regs, etc if it impacts their bottom line - so they don't care about YOUR bottom line beyond this particular context.

[@tomoconnell2320]

Factually incorrect. If you doubt this, do some digging into how oil companies performed during the 70s oil crisis, when prices when through the roof. Then adjust for inflation. Here’s a hint, Exxon’s stock price fell by nearly 50% during the crisis, and that was when inflation was at 11.4%. Catastrophic results for the industry as a whole. The Laffer curve applies to both tax revenue and the oil demand for oil, and they are right about the ideal price range of a barrel of oil. Do you know what that is?

[@trevordeke]

If gas gets expensive, it will help move people off of their dependency on it. That's why they need to keep it cheap and ubiquitous. Green energy is getting cheaper rapidly. This is an existential threat to the oil industry.

[@basedggallin4556]

"In its 20 yr life span it wont offset the carbon footprint to make it" is literal oil company propaganda Every scrap of actual data shows entire windfarms offset their footprint in a max of 15 months

[@yaboye3791]

And abandoned oil rigs poison the earth around it while leaking CO2, methane and other gasses into the air, thus still being dangerous and toxic to average Joe 😭

[@Phil9874]

not to mention the amount of oil used in their construction and maintenance is rather miniscule when compared to the amount of oil burned to make the same amount of power via an oil powerplant.

[@nbrugman1980]

when i was watching the show, at that moment I laughed and said "definitely not" then looked up the facts and found out the show was lying. Ridiculous.

[@doublem3836]

That is still terrible You're talking about a whole farm and it takes over a year to make its worth? That's terrible.

[@doublem3836]

So one windmill probably does not offset its own carbon footprint It takes a plethora of them

[@earnthis1]

Holy shit, they even used the "windmills kill the birds" argument! lolol So stupid.

[@AtramentousMindframe-ju5fx]

Is it untrue?

[@evan448]

But it's very true it kills large birds like eagles and condors and lot and lots of bats

[@323guiltyspark]

@@evan448 If you paint one of the windmill blades black, it can decrease the risk of bird strike by 70%. Proper siting of windmills can eliminate the risk completely. When it comes to bird strikes, skyscrapers are by far the biggest culprit. I don't see Exxon lobbying for building code reform or bankroling the Audobon Society. Outside of shitting on the growing wind and solar sector, the petroleum industry couldn't care less about birds.

[@ChrisMorganComedy]

That person doesn't care about animals because of their politics​@@evan448

[@jjhester6586]

It's true, which is why they should find ways around this problem instead of being a point to why we shouldn't use wind power at all.

[@Upcountry77]

It's funny you cite Thank You for Smoking. There's a scene where Billy Bob explains that cigarettes aren't actually bad for you.

[@TheStig505]

The show's talking point (which always seems to be the same point by my relatives over 50 use) is "Sure this thing's bad, but this other thing is worse (because I say so), so we should focus soley on the thing I think is worse.

[@jamad-y7m]

Tommy seems pretty authentic for a boomer idiot from Texas. Source - I grew up in Texas

[@Squirrelnut77]

Lioness season 2 was great propaganda for declaring Cartels to be terrorist organizations. Face it, we’re in an age of choosing our own propaganda. There’s something out there for everyone to reaffirm what they want to believe.

[@CharlieTooHuman]

The irony of Sheridan writing a movie like Sicario which examines the American government’s narrative control of the “war on drugs”… I just really don’t know where Sheridan stands on any one particular issue.

[@snakeplissken6717]

I remember liking season 1 but had to turn off season 2 before my eyes rolled out of my head. It was Jack Ryan level of absurd propaganda and manufacturing consent.

[@nuggetsaltshaker9520]

@@Squirrelnut77 I mean cartels basically are terrorist organizations. The show also depicts how American agencies often work with the very cartels other agencies are fighting. The unrealistic part is that China is sponsoring acts of terrorism.

[@Jhqwulw]

Cartels are fucking terrorists like in what parallel universe wouldn't they not be?

[@thelovewizard8954]

Age of choosing our own propaganda hit me harder than any comment I have ever read. Genuinely. Thank you, I'm going to have to think on that one for a while.

[@tyler3755]

I disagree that these random speeches are just propaganda. They are complete propaganda, but I would bet my life on the fact that the Jerry Jone's/Landman types talk like this in real life.

[@tjt5055]

They do. Lived in the Marcellus Shale region during the fracking revolution. This is how they think and speak.

[@jellis3194]

Nobody does evil in their own mind. They always have rationalizations that somehow make it okay. And the more evil your actions, the more you need to practice your rationalizations. So yeah, I think you're right--the real-life analogs would sound like this.

[@blondegirlsezthis8798]

it's like a southern drawl version of the Gish Gallop. Meme lies strung together to shut down any facts like you're an idiot if you can't see the real deep state bla bla bla. Real Trailer park science here

[@78sawboss]

Bingo

[@brettsullivan3849]

Yup

[@Liam-w4h4w]

You'll never convince me that wind farms are more environmentally destructive than fucking oil wells 😂

[@vincentd.2284]

Because they're not. You have to twist the numbers real bad to come to that conclusion. Windmills are much better.

[@ANProductionsOfficialChannel]

Your electric car batteries are though.

[@vincentd.2284]

@ANProductionsOfficialChannel Not true either. This is another myth. The math is clear for this one as well for anyone with the training to actually get it. Those saying this just take the manufacturing portion of the equation. No the driving life cycle. Yes the battery is more carbon intensive to manufacture. But it doesn't take too long for the much lower emissions from driving (even when electricity used comes from fossil fuel plants) to make up for this initial higher emissions from manufacturing.

[@jamie_d0g978]

To be fair, he never said that in that scene. He said that you still need the whole oil industry structure to build, install and maintain those wind farms

[@vincentd.2284]

@jamie_d0g978 Which is essentially an argument against a strawman designed to justify the status quo. Only the most batshit crazy fringe militants argue that we don't need any oil industry.

[@lemiphil2388]

The Budlight dig is a reminder to when conservatives made a fuss about the company sending beer to a trans influencer. They then decided to boycott Budlight.

[@jameslight4391]

wtf that is insane behavior

[@Laotzu.Goldbug]

​@@jameslight4391quite the contrary. It sounds to be exactly the sort of behavior people always talk about doing under a capitalist system but never do - voting with your wallet. If a drink company decides to openly piss on the demographic that makes up probably 90% of the people who actually buy and drink it, in order to pander to the latest political trends and people who probably make up less than 1% of its customers, and therefore it's previously loyal customer base decides it's not having it and stops buying it, materially affecting its revenue and stock price until it decides to change course and it makes some kind of amends, however minor, that sounds like good old-fashioned Market Forces™ at work>

[@jameslight4391]

@ did you even read his comment? they sent a beer to a trans influencer and people got mad for that how is that pissing on your consumer base? It is one thing if the company openly attack the people, then it makes sense. Unless there is more to the story than the person is saying there might be than just "send beer to trans person people get mad" if so then please say if there isn't than that is insane behavior.

[@Laotzu.Goldbug]

@@jameslight4391 I refuse to believe you don't get it, and playing dumb doesn't work. You can assume with 100% certainty that the executives at Bud light, including whichever one was in charge of that particular marketing campaign, no full well that the types of people who buy and drink their beer do not appreciate having the transvestite / pedophile agenda rammed down their throat, and therefore decided to go ahead with it anyway clearly was a sign of absolutely no respect for them. AKA, pissing on them

[@Darequeliquan]

@@jameslight4391 they designed a can with a trans person. The consumer base doesn’t support trans people. Hope this helps

[@killnotic]

The part where he talks about it taking 30 years to set up the infrastructure for clean energy grates me. People like him, those he worked for, and Reagan did everything they could to stop the world from building that infrastructure 40 years ago. Complaining about a problem he helped create is diabolical and very republican.

[@AndyMcKeeFanForLife]

Absolutely my biggest complaint about that whole rant. The oil lobby used all their wealth and power to make sure we HAD to rely on them. Had they not we could have invested on the needed tech and processes decades ago but now we're behind the curve and they keep trying to use that fact as a reason why we should just keep relying on them. Freakin' ghouls.

[@neakozar122]

I see my in-laws when I think about the target audience for these shows. Their words have completely gotten into their head. The thought I just had, if these boomers keep pushing the "it takes 30-40 years" line, it makes the boomers not responsible for not beginning to transition 30 - 40 years ago. They see us trying now to do what they couldn't and that's part of the pain.

[@selalewis9189]

And on top of it, he’s lying. It’s not going to take 30 years, when we divest from fossil fuels and use the money and labor to build alternatives. If we’re talking about connecting cities to rural, why would it take 30 years? Even the country’s biggest cities are in states that have rural areas that can connect probably within a couple of years. I’m pretty sure Los Angeles would have the funds to connect to rural, free wind energy if the state of California taxed their wealthy residents, didn’t put money into cops everywhere, and prioritized public goods. Same for New York City. The DC Metro got 5G internet in 2012 within a year of its announcement. We got a COVID-19 vaccine within two years. The state can do more than it’s willing to do if we make it.

[@blondegirlsezthis8798]

It's in ALL his shows. Yellowstone started it. Landman, Lioness and the others all use the same formula.

[@vietimports]

i actually enjoyed the first season of lioness. the second season was trash though. havent seen his other shows

[@duncanw3861]

there’s a scene in yellowstone that almost borrows the rhetoric bar for bar too. a bunch of animal activists are out at the ranch protesting and kevin costner is like ‘do you know how many mice and weevils would be killed by the pesticides needed to support plant diets’ or something like that. ignoring that an outsized portion of crops grown now are fed to animals, and also being kind of willfully stupid in equating the lives of mice and weevils to those of cows. it is very frustrating because taylor sheridan has written some great movies (hell or high water being a fav of mine) but he has lately just stuffed all his stuff full of this propaganda. he was once an architect of the neowestern revival and now he’s just a lobbyist stooge.

[@fulltilt151]

Started Yellowstone when I was laid up with a stomach bug. It was pretty cool at first but I learned quickly that Sheridan is just bagging on any and all liberal/left leaning issues. I grew up in an area down south that believes the same thing as Sheridan and his ilk. "Anything new/different than me is automatically wrong and bad" I think Dutton made a comment during his election speech in that show: "I'm here to stop progress" or something like that. It's a hilljack's wet dream. That's it.

[@timeskip16]

So much potential in that show completely wasted. A scene comes to mind in the 1893 series where old man Dutton is conversing with a native leader who wishes to bury his father in his ancestral birthplace. The leader essentially says "You took all of our land, the least you could do is let me bury my dead father here" and Dutton says "Wasn't me that took it." and the leader replies "Doesn't matter. Still got taken, and now you benefit." Then the conversation just... ends with Dutton being like "okay bro whatever, bury your dad and have some of our horse feed"! And everyone goes on their merry way while exchanging some pleasantries. It's treated like some seminal moment of understanding and respect between the two peoples. No deeper explanation, no commentary, just something to make moderates and conservatives feel warm and fuzzy. Imagine if that opportunity was used to explore the whole "I don't owe disenfranchised groups shit, be it money or mindfulness, because I wasn't the one that perpetrated it" attitude that's become a common rallying cry against discussions of institutional prejudice. Like doing somebody a single solid is recompense for benefitting from the forcible displacement and murder of their entire people, lol. There's another scene in Yellowstone proper where Dutton is conversing with the current High Chief of the Broken Rock diaspora and they have a similar conversation, but Costner's character is like "your ancestors raped and murdered some other people to get your land the same way my people did to yours" and it's treated like some mic-drop 'gotcha' moment, like the show writers couldn't delicate the difference between in-group territorial conflict and colonial genocide perpetrated by an entirely different ethnicity of foreign people. The show is beyond groan-worthy. It's just conservative circle-jerk talking points mixed in with uppity one-liners that people think are some kind of principled reply to complex issues.

[@djangofett4879]

the trailers for Yellowstone look like 110% dog crap. uninspired, unimaginative trash for boomers who love eating 💩

[@haplon33]

its a thoroughly embarrassing show. i'm embarrassed i wasted any time watching it and am saddened to learn how many other shows this same moron has helmed. it's like if you made an entire miniseries on GW Bush pretending to clear brush at his Texas ranch specifically to appeal to rubes. costner's character is entirely one-note, so it fits his acting range well, at least.

[@ThePatchedVest]

There's also a degree to which this crap is meant for affluent well-to-do upper-middle-class suburbanites with over-sized Fords who drive 15-20 minutes into the city for work every day (well, lets be real, have probably worked from home since COVID) but have never actually done a days worth of hard labor for anything that wasn't purely a hobby. They just like to LARP around as a blue-collar 'rural' working class conservatives because they like barbecued meats, own at least 1 piece of camouflage clothing, use "for men" cologne, attention farm by praising Jesus on social media post despite not having read the bible or been to church in twelve years and listen to the billion-dollar computer-generated garbage that passes for "country music" these days. If hills could talk, Blair Mountain would weep.

[@DieterHakkinen]

Land Man takes a serious tone dramatizing industry perspectives, whereas Thank you for Not Smoking is more satirical in nature and is hyper aware of its message. And its because it's tone, Land Man's narrative and messaging spreads to misleading narratives which aligns with the oil industries (and conservative) talking points when talking about renewables. I was interested in watching this show, but now that I'm aware its just feeding false information as part of its narrative, I'm gooooood. Great video.

[@IZA_Grey]

The show basically makes drunk driving look cool but wind turbines as bad. 😂

[@bravo1IsixI]

Not bad. Just inefficient.

[@YouAreDreamingRightNow]

and to boot, a raging alcoholic that promises it's ok to drink beer, just not hard liquor lmaoo.

[@andreahighsides7756]

Lol to be fair if you’re an alcoholic there’s a very big difference in your day when you buy a case of beer vs a bottle of liquor

[@YouAreDreamingRightNow]

@@andreahighsides7756 tell that to my stepfather who almost killed me and my sister picking us up after school while drinking beer.

[@rannyacernese6627]

Both Yellowstone and landman are current American riech wing zeitgeist

[@jcdenton8811]

Landman is bad art. Bad art tells you how to think. Good art on the other hand, makes you think. It's really not a left or right issue.

[@TimoRutanen]

Man, it would have been so fine.. the character is very convincing in his speeches. If they'd only shown he was wrong, we could have believed it. He doesn't even have to be wrong about everything, but certainly some things. He would have been totally realistic - What's not realistic is that the supposed lawyer doesn't apparently know any numbers about wind turbines or the oil business. She doesn't even say anything until she gets scared by a snake.

[@sethjohnson2287]

The Bud Light scene wasn't about Michelob Ultra per se, it's an anti-trans statement about Bud Light's advertising choices

[@earnthis1]

such a cringe scene, can't bring myself to watch this show

[@kcbh24]

​@@earnthis1I made it about 25 minutes into the first episode and bounced out of boredom.

[@ThePatchedVest]

An anti-trans statement about the advertising choices of a company... that is owned by the same company that makes Michelob. The culture war is a sham.

[@mcfoilanthraxarms]

Close your eyes and it’s just Hank Hill rambling about windmills.

[@Oliviagarry69420]

Nah Hank hill will understand windmills after an episode and dude is at least acknowledged global warming

[@jokergordon8446]

It's refreshing to know there are people that recognize when a large group of people are being pissed on, and told it's raining.

[@seabrin]

I really liked Wind River and Hell or High Water. Having said that, I now see that those movies, like this new stuff, have this disgusting little habit of asking us to forgive the sins of the characters not because they have any redeeming qualities but because of their self-possessed coolness. Whatever they say is cool and true because believing is better than being uncool. I guess it's inevitable but it sure feels like we've entered the New Golden Age of The Snake Oil Salesman.

[@cogsworther1639]

I don't mind *the character* holding these views, but it does trouble me how this views are framed. The music swells, the camera soars, everyone else stares slack-jawed, unable to dispute his brilliance, and all the while. . . everything he's saying is factually, provably wrong

[@riceball5511]

Tusla kind has very similar scenes, except much more socially inclined. I describe both shows to people as 90% plot, 10% personal agenda.

[@prisonerofcapitalism]

It's more like 90% and 45%, because there's a portion of the plot that's built to service a personal agenda (thus, creating that 35% overlap).

[@Laotzu.Goldbug]

​@@prisonerofcapitalismthat would be 72.5% plot, 27.5% agenda.

[@earnthis1]

He's an SJW for corporations

[@Leaferiksonday]

Did this fucking show really say that a windmill doesn’t cover its carbon footprint……. Dude windmills offset their carbon footprint within the first year.

[@JG-yc7go]

I’ve got family members who have worked in the oil field their whole life and every one of them hate this show. Not necessarily because of the propaganda, but because it makes zero sense and has little to do with actual day to day life in this field of work. Plus all the scenes with his daughter are weird.

[@YouAreDreamingRightNow]

i've been waiting for someone to bring up the pdf predilections in this show. it's hella disgusting.

[@DtWolfwood]

I love these seemingly random talking point sections in any show/documentary. Once you recognize it in one place you'll start seeing it everywhere. When you live a life playing devil's advocate it becomes much easier to spot. But as the old saying goes, no one is immune to propaganda.

[@nicholasjohnson3931]

“Lioness, whatever that is” Oh man💀

[@ccourt46]

Try drinking a bunch of Mick Ultra's than take a breathalyzer, Landman.

[@brockkomon7484]

I got very quickly annoyed by the show's propaganda, like "smoking isn't harmful." I did some quick research into that famous windmill scene. Wind Turbines offset their carbon footprint in a few years at most, and pay for themselves in that time, so about 18-28 years of profit and carbon neutral power. The real reason oil companies don't invest in them is because a single wind turbine can generated about a million dollars worth of power a year. A single oil well can do that in a day. It can also be noted that while construction, mining, transportation burns fossil fuels, so does digging and refining oil, but only one of these are clean once the product is in use. Some rich cat with $2M in the bank can buy a turbine and take 1000 members of their community off fossil fuel forever, and the oil company will never get them back. This is why the show maintains a general philosophy of skepticism towards science, and necessary evil. 4.2T dollars is a lot of money at stake.

[@vincentbatten4686]

The truth that a lot of people don't understand is that the demand and the consumption are part of the problem. It's not that some of the things they say are true, but they wouldn't be as much of an issue if we didn't consume as much. But endless growth is part of the problem.

[@lightfeather9953]

Yeah too bad everyone isn't poorer? This degrowth ideology is sociopathic.

[@mastersquinch]

The economy relies on it. That's the problem. These problems are baked into capitalism. And look at what happens when any serious, offline anticapitalist movement of ANY kind starts gaining momentum.

[@MichelleHell]

As we consume more energy, we find ways to consume more energy. I was a bright eyed Chemist and thought I could help humanity by developing a catalyst. Over time I realized that if I developed a catalyst that made us 100x more efficient, we wouldn't conserve energy by a factor of a hundred but consume energy at the same rate and do more with that energy than years prior. So the problem is the insatiable appetite for energy, driven by a system of legal evictions on the basis of lacking productivity.

[@firefly9838]

I consider myself a green. Masters in forestry. Love the environment. However I also know geography and I can read numbers and look at things objectively. Our power infrastructure is old in this country needs completely overhauled if we are going to relocate more manufacturing here and depend less on China (their economy is gonna collapse soon anyways due to an inverted demographic structure) so we have to retool somewhere. That new manufacturing is going to require a lot of power. Solar is great in Phoenix but probably not worth the initial investment in a place like Boston. If we want to leave fossil fuels behind wind and solar are not going to be the whole picture... it's not enough. We need nuclear... and we need it yesterday.

[@bubba842]

It would take about 20 years to build the nuclear power that you need. Mainly because the United States is so corrupt. Everyone has to take their share. The United States will never be able to produce goods for anywhere near the same price as China. You can manufacture expensive goods, but no one is going to buy them. Plus the costs of moving all these factories back to the US will cost hundreds of billions. Companies will not form out huge costs to build in the United States to not sell any products. And not to mention the huge impact on inflation that this will cause. Everything will be more expensive which will only decrease the amount of disposal income available to every American family. It's not like these corporations are going to increase wages to offset the inflation. All they care about is shareholder profits. If that means suppressing wages and cutting benefits to make that happen, then they will do that. It amazes me how people who pronounce themselves as "Capitalist" throw every capitalist value out the window and start believing nonsense and narrative because some orange man said so.

[@mikeoxhard3826]

Bingo

[@blueyedmule]

We had it yesterday kin Oregon.nuclear The Trojan nuclear power plant and Bonneville hydroelectric dam had this state energy independent but the greens are taking it all. Y'all are untrustable like big oil or big pharma.

[@felixbrochu7821]

Fr. nuclear is like 99% clean

[@felix-1917]

China's economy isn't going to collapse, also the US faces the same demographic problem. Media's been claiming that China is going to collapse tomorrow for 30 years, it's not gonna happen anytime soon.

[@arthurblose2221]

Taylor Sheridan is a conservative. That should be obvious from his total output. you can see these "rants" as coming from the oil lobby, but they aren't out of line from the opinions of lots of Americans. I get a kick out of these "rants", one of my favorites being John Dutton getting lectured by some tourists regarding who should own the land, and he yells them back on to their tour bus. Part of Sheridan's shows popularity is his willingness to make these points, as ham-handed as some might think. as far as Michleob Ultra is concerned, I'll avoid the lite beer controversies and have a johnny walker on the rocks. good video, keep up the observations.

[@lopoa126]

The show felt like a remix of something like Chapelle's recent content where every joke was just degrading trans people. Really lowbrow stuff for meatheads. A lot of Americans are indoctrinated by content like the show.

[@jojodelacroix]

Look, oil is fucking great. It's highly versatile and we've damn near mastered it's use as a species after billions of dollars invested in it. The issue is the side effect that's killing us. It's like taking steroids. No one ever said it doesn't do what they said it does. The issue is the rage and other negative side effects.

[@warheadsnation]

"It's evil for the government to control everything." "We capitalists can't be held responsible for the net consequences of our actions because we're all specialists who act independently of each other." Hmm, I think I see the problem.

[@bisket2003]

Loved thank you for smoking when it came out. Loving watching Landman as well. Great vid.

[@TryingToDoBetter01]

This is one of the ways regular folks end up with angry opposition to liberal policies. I see it among women at my work, who I wouldn’t classify as ardently conservative, but they love their shows, and for some reason love this one, and then at lunch, you hear them talking these same talking points. Then one shows a video on her phone; further conservative viewpoints. It envelops you.

[@davidkelly790]

Sheridans shows are a reflection of his personal views. I'm not hating him for it, he has got in to a position of power to create these shows so if they are successful he'll keep doing it. You have to take what's said in these shows with a pinch of salt. Trouble is, too many people lap it up without actually thinking about it. Ironically, it's the people that keep talking about "critical thinking".

[@californiacombativesclub202]

That’s gross

[@earnem4175]

and his writing and directory skills are awful, he can only be a good writer, for such a short time. Movies he wrote for prove this.

[@basedggallin4556]

​@earnem4175 Wind River is pretty damn good but its widely known even as director and writer he didn't always have full creative control same with Sicario and Hell or High Water slight script alterations were made during filming Sicario especially wouldn't have been as good as it was without Denis Villeneuve at the helm Sheridan now only works on projects where he is 100% in charge and it shows the cracks in his abilities as a writer and how he can't help but self insert himself and make himself the coolest manliest richest badass alpha bro of all time

[@earnem4175]

@ and look how his properties are. Boring, nothing happens, and he treats actors who are actually nice. Awful

[@earnem4175]

@ they don't age well too.

[@darraghkane18]

Landman was awful and those echo chamber rants particularly the one at the turbines are not fact based. Even if the show dosent sing to my ideology it’s such a clunky show that dosent know how to deal with its subject and that’s not getting into the wife and daughter character. That show could have been told in 3 maybe 4 episodes.

[@lopoa126]

What do we do with the wife and daughter? They can go entertain old people! EVERYONE CLAP FOR ME!

[@darraghkane18]

@ I would shorten the duration of the season. Five episodes max. Have one or both of them walk in on a scene similar or the actual scene when he cuts the top of his finger off. I thought that was a fantastic scene that really established part of Thorntons character. It would show that this life is not for the shallow wife and daughter. It would be a great wake up that Thorntons character just won’t change who he is and she packs the bag (time lone of the scene who have to change but definitely keep the scene it was brilliant). If not that just hire a writer that can write women better. It’s like Beth in Yellowstone. She was an absolutely awful character. Not because of her views and opinions. It’s just the way she was written. Absolutely awful dialogue.

[@andrewnicon]

At least King of Tulsa just advocates for italian guys

[@MTLucero]

Yep. 100% propaganda. It was pretty easy to spot within the first few episodes. Taylor Sheridan does write some enticing dramas that they all Target at a very specific hyper masculine demographic. I'm pretty done with his shows. Same storyline, different outfits, different geography

[@samnelson7428]

It reminds me of the argument, "Electric cars are powered with fossil fuels!" "They still use less fossil fuels than non-electric cars"

[@GoblinArmyInYourWalls]

Landman is literally just situations that are obviously written in such a way that BBT just gets to be mad and right.

[@cypressbartlett9083]

'I just make the cigarettes, I don't make the people smoke' - argument

[@tayloreh]

1:04 is almost the production company sound at the end of all the Parks n Rec/Good Place shows...

[@TobiasDaKing98]

Watched & liked the show and I completely agree. Politically, I‘m right-leaning so I agree with some of the talking points. But it was distracting. What‘s interesting to me is, the characters are always eager to mention the obvious and real shortcomings of wind & solar energy but as far as I remember, they were careful to avoid mentioning nuclear energy which is actually viable & competetive.

[@VitaliyMilonov]

Based

[@ryanspengler4877]

All Sheridan shows seem to have the theme that rich people have property and all the "lesser-thans" are out to take it away from them. That's all they boil down to. I think that's why his shows are so big with the, "From my cold, dead hands..." crowd. It makes the slightly-rich feel like they're in the actually-wealthy club, even when they aren't.

[@jcwoodman5285]

Oh I see now, BIG Oil is our friend 🙄... Thanks Taylor😘

[@earnem4175]

Taylor Sheridian is producer who wasn't meant to be a producer. Like not actors aren't meant to be Directors/producers. They act, they don't watch or rate movies, the ones who do, have to prove their expectations. Its like Quentin Tarantino, Chris Nolan, and Sheridian himself. Hollywood only gives big budgets to them, even though there's so many future directors who'll surpass them, the most promising directors never get recognization for their films - and they don't become household names, which they deserve. But this is about Taylor Sheridian: given too much power, Stanley Kubrick was a control freak, people defend him by saying "Its cineman, he's a director, he has to be a control freak", even though big name directors have the same job. But weren't much of a piece of shit like him. Taylor has this issue: trying to appear cool, having bad relationships with his cast. One lining problem: his ego. He is much worse than Stanley Kubrick, there's one director I can name one director who has better writing, cinema, and stories. Micheal Haneke, he made the most disturbing movies, but they have content in them, it keeps moving at a pace. And guess what? The characters aren't man-children's imaginations (of what a badass is). They suffer consequences, and have character development. I think people should just stop wathing Taylor Sheridians shows, so they don't boost his ego, and treat amazing actors so terribly.

[@cookedbutok]

i have gotten into so many arguments about the ABSURD heavy handedness of conservative talking points in every Taylor Sheridan show. It’s such an insult to the intelligence of the American audience, and so damning that so many people BUY this garbage.

[@MartijnterHaar]

Tommy smokes like chimney in his truck and drinks two 4.2% beers right after getting in? I'm not getting into that guy's car.

[@Deezsenz]

"we spent 120 making oil the cornerstone of the American life so no sense trying to change it now" lmao

[@MaxGarbaty]

One thing every pro-oil person fails to realize is that oil is finite. There will come a day when we run out of oil. The sooner we prepare for that, the better off we'll be.

[@samuelcozzens6799]

Ahh Taylor “totally not propaganda” Sheridan

[@vodkaboy]

they love the poorly educated

[@Formal_Andy]

Anyone ever notice that the graphic design for the posters to these shows are (almost if not entirely) the same?

[@klaw1991]

Taylor Sheridan managed to write daytime quality scripts, on a primetime budget.

[@steve94183]

I heard someone say Taylor Sheridan is just right wing Aaron Sorkin and now it's impossible to unsee when looking at his shows.

[@djangofett4879]

wow you have some serious bootlickers in your comment section.

[@TJGriggs25]

When I saw the first trailer I knew this was unwatchable for me. Thanks for confirming it.

[@LuckyDogProductions]

I hope they have BILLY-BOB do a BAD SANTA Christmas episode of LANDMAN.

[@michaelclawson6576]

The airships, electric trams, and the World's Fairs in the 1800's needed no oil. I wonder why. 1776 was the start of this world's current cable show season. A short season🐿

[@duncanluciak5516]

2:06 Good to see the yellow filter in Texas now. Thanks for the warning. Don't need more American oil propaganda.

[@kenon6968]

2:29 I pretty much heard the same speech in the criminally overrated How To Get a Head in Advertising... Cinema repeats itself, first as satire and second as farce

[@Fuicui777]

I heard an adult film star state one time, if you really cared about the environment you would drive your car till there’s nothing left instead of getting a new car every few years. Regardless of profession it was profound, I don’t think people realize how much oil they use just by purchasing new stuff constantly, instead of being content with what they have. Maybe the point of the show is to point out the irony. It’s not really propaganda, but verbally addressing the elephant in the room, even “environmentally friendly” projects can’t be accomplished without oil. John Hamm sums it up pretty precisely, people point at oil companies say they’re evil, when that industry produces the substance our livelihood depends on. I mean it is everything.

[@victorwilson3392]

ur a moron

[@Rainbowhawk1993]

I’m just happy that Fossil Fuel’s days are numbered. Even with subsidies drying up, EVs and Renewables are growing at an exponential rate and will inevitably kill fossil fuels within the next decade and a half.

[@vemonguy686]

We live in a dystopian future lol companies are now spending millions on your entertainment to influence your opinions. And we just sit there, braindead, watching it and clapping like wind-up monkey toys.

[@davidh2550]

I’m glad other people notice these things. We have been getting psyoped by corporate marketing for several decades and they’ve lobbied our reps to bend in their favor. We have to stay diligent about educating ourselves accurately now more than ever bc it’s everywhere nowadays

[@joshuasmith9350]

There is a correlation between tv shows and corporate America ? No way dude . Just no way !! High level stuff man

[@wyattrussell7496]

At this point, I’m rooting for a Kaiju or whatever the earth decides to release in defense of them making her bleed

[@tygressblade]

This has been going since the Hays code.

[@VitaliyMilonov]

Just a reminder: "Thank you for smoking" was produced by arm raising bad rich person, currently hated by reddit.

[@dartagnanjames8069]

I personally feel like Ultra tastes better than Bud Light, as far as watered down beer goes.

[@bubba842]

If you want a beer that tastes of nothing and is close to the taste of water, then Micholobe ultra is definitely that beer.

[@dartagnanjames8069]

@@bubba842 Yeah so is Bud Light, and I still think it tastes better than Bud Light

[@ShowmanJonathan]

Oil is good and I'm glad they're running effective psyops.

[@SaltPepperEconomics]

I’m giving them the benefit of the doubt that they may do a Mr robot type deal where the ideals of season 1 completely come crashing down later in the show. I doubt these exposition points exist in a vaccum where they won’t come into play later on considering just how unbelievable the writing is in every other part of the show. Especially since a season 2 is already confirmed this shortly after.

[@PapaSmurf11182nd]

I’ve seen all the episode of season 1, and I’n of the mind that that is a possibility. The talking points are silly from the perspective of anyone who’s not a oil person. I find the show well written artistically

[@stever5359]

All Taylor cares about is making bank.

[@MangosInTrees]

Great video. Felt like a wake up call

[@MalleeMate]

As someone who has no experience with Taylor Sheridan, I think it’s okay to blame him. He helmed a show that is okay with parroting fossil-fuel industry talking points.

[@geinikan1kan]

Nice catch. & to think you found this by accident. Salute to unknown subscriptions. You just got another sub.

[@t850terminator]

I immediately thought "industry plant" when I saw the trailers on paramount

[@kevinlearner40]

I used to care about peak oil until i realized they had it figured out. Somebody, somewhere can make gasoline out of water using cold fusion and the supply is literally unlimited, we are just trying to keep the thermal heat signature of this planet from melting the polar ice caps. Its never going to run out because if it was going to run out then it should have already.

[@rndmlttrs]

5:44 and takes a drag off his super-cool cigarette.

[@moodrow1234]

I wholeheardetly disagree it does nothing for the plot. It give you permission to root for the oil guy when societally we all know it's killing the earth. It's moral doubt spoonfed.

[@charlottemcqueen8583]

“Wind is expensive and unreliable” yep definitely nowhere on earth with wind, wind is so expensive, how will we ever afford WEATHER

[@2wingssamebird]

Yeah wind turbines are cheap youre so smart

[@YouAreDreamingRightNow]

I know right? these darn wind shortages are out of control.

[@jamescampbell8482]

The thing thats INSANE is that WE KNOW Petroleum is still an essential component to energy. The issue isn't oil, the issue is oil from carbon sinks at rates that are not sustainable.

[@KindaSemiCompetent]

Never heard of this show, but just the few clips you’ve shown me tells me everything I need to know. If this is the slop people across the country are watching, it’s no surprise we’ve ended up where we have.

[@texomajohn2916]

If you drive tru the Permian , they are drilling and pumping oil and gas from underground, and on the hills the have more wind turbines than any place on earth. You can not believe the amount of activity and truckers on the highway, and the price of a hotel room.

[@bigpictureguys8415]

Keep doing / do more content like this. I may check out the podcasts at some point but these are much more enticing

[@scmanley4229]

Thank you for pointing this out

[@Carpenter4134]

It’s funny how his speech for how dependent we are on oil makes me think we should get off of it even more. Like at some point this shit will either run out and the entire world economically/functionally will collapse or we’ll all die from pollution/climate change. Both options really suck.

[@jamesberkheimer]

Absolutely don't respect your decision to keep watching this propaganda.

[@jamesonheadley8713]

It's striking because you rarely hear anyone say anything positive about hydrocarbons, yet it feels like half the media I consume is pushing a green energy agenda.

[@andrewnicon]

That Mikelob Ultra thing is hilarious.

[@rring44]

I like how the speech he gives about wind mills is wrong. They recoup all of the CO2 it takes to make them in less than a year.