- Well, it teaches these colts

to use their bodies the right way

before I put them on a cow.

- Why not just use a cow?

- For hell sakes, lady,

that's kind of like practicing a fist fight

when you're already in the middle of one.

You know what I mean?

Oh, fuck. You're the governor.

(rock music)

- It kind of started out all season one,

I was just helping saddling and wrangling,

making sure everybody was safe and saddles were correct

and the tack was properly done and all that stuff.

And just kind of started in.

You know, they needed another cowboy.

Taylor put me in a little bit here and a little bit there.

And on season one, he let me do a roping scene that was fun.

That was probably the first big scene that I did

and I think there was just kind of a small place for me

for a guy to pop in and out.

- How come you can't rope like that

when we're roping for money?

- Then I'm thinking about the money, not the fun.

- I started riding horses-

Man, I can't even remember.

Grew up ranching

and doing about everything with horses you could do.

My older brother,

he used to put me on quite a few wild ones

and told you it was okay.

That kind of fun stuff.

Graduated high school

and got an opportunity to go to Texas

and work for a cutting horse trainer, Guy Woods.

It was called EE Ranches in Pilot Point, Texas.

Got to ride with a lot of really well named guys

and it was a great time.

I put a horse on the internet about five years ago

and Taylor called me up on the phone.

He asked me what I was doing, wanted to try it.

So, Taylor just came down to the barn and rode him,

tried him out and bought him

and they came down, started taking lessons

and that's kind of a funny story.

We were at a show

and the secretary of the cutting horse association

she asked me, "How did you meet him?"

Well, he just bought a horse from me

and she pulled up on the internet and thought,

"Wow, he must be famous."

- Oh, you think that's funny?

- So, I went out to the trailer and I said,

"So, you're some famous guy or something."

And we just kind of laughed

and called me right before "Yellowstone" started

and pretty much just asked me

to give some riding lessons for the actors.

- Teach the son of a bitch a lesson, will you please?

- All right.

- Says, "Hey, take them on a pack trip,"

so we loaded up.

I think we had 14 mules and six, seven actors

and we went up on some ground that my grandfather owns

and went up there for four nights and packed them in

and just taught them to be cowboys, I guess.

When I first got introduced to Kevin,

Taylor brought him down to the barn

Just him and Taylor rode down in the truck

and he introduced himself and he says,

"So what do you do for a living?"

And I said, "Well, I train horses and I farm

and do some ranching and stuff like that."

And he goes, "Oh, that sounds like a great life."

And we get halfway back in the barn

and I just couldn't help myself.

I turned and looked at him and I said,

"So what do you do for a living?"

He paused and gave me this look

and the only thing that went through my mind was

"I think I just cost myself a job."

- Yeah. I see that.

- And he started laughing and slapped me on the back

and said, "We're going to get along just fine."

So, it ended up being a good thing.

- So this think will buck, Jake?

- Curtis been hauling him all year long.

Anybody ride him for eight seconds yet.

- Is there, like, a mechanical bull

or something that I could try first?

(laughs)

- Poor Jefferson.

- Jake, pull it.

(yells)

That poor kid.

He hadn't been on a horse

until we take him 9,000 feet in the air

and we strap him on and I looked back at him.

I said, "I hope you can hold on."

And his eyes went about that big

and, well, he cowboy-ed up and did good

and he's riding really good.

You know, he's come a long way.

(crowd cheers)

They've all progressed great.

Cole Hauser's just- I mean, he's kicking butt.

He's doing his own stunts

and you know, riding fast, doing really good.

I mean, all those guys have, you know, have done great.

You know, something that not everybody gets to do.

They're riding really well and advancing.

They're going to take the stunt guys out of business.

Kelsey, she didn't get the opportunity

to go on the pack trip,

but she's been down to the barn lately, riding cutters,

and she didn't seem like she was nervous to me at all.

- Cool if I ride with you? I wanna see my kid.

- Monica, if you fall off, they're gonna have my ass.

- Taylor wrote the script where Kelsey took my horse.

- She wants to ride up there with us.

- Go and grab her a horse.

- All the good ones are up at camp.

- Rip got mad at me

and told me to give her my horse and all that.

- The only thing left here

is a bunch of freight trains and monsters.

- What the fuck is wrong with your horse, Jake?

- Well, it's my horse.

- Okay, Monica, you get on Jake's horse.

- Taylor called me and says,

"Will you get on a bucking horse?"

and I had to remind him that I was 40.

And I said, "Yeah, if I can pick it."

- His horse seems a bit angry.

- Yeah, little bit.

- Taylor has got the best horses.

I mean, I don't think you're going to

see a TV series nowadays

doing anything like that with the caliber of horses.

And he's invested into the actors and they are riding.

They are doing the stunts, you know?

When Cole ropes those guys, you know,

he is swinging the rope and running fast

and doing kind of a lot of that stuff,

which I think should mean a lot to the followers.

But me watching it, it's real stuff. It's exciting.

- Hey pretty boy, you're up.

- You go to work on them ranches

and the bunkhouse is pretty much a mess-off place.

And you know, the cowboys can do what they want

and he writes it pretty funny, you know?

There's a lot of truth to it.

Maybe a little too much beer sometimes in 'em, but...

- Kid's got a point.

- It's for sure been interesting, you know,

to never been around a movie camera in my life

and to watch all of it and see how it takes out

and then to actually sit down on your TV and to watch it.

It's been fun.

(toilet flushes)

- I wouldn't go in there for 10 or 15 minutes

if I was you boys.

You're even walking different.

- I feel different.

(laughs)