Taylor Sheridan
American screenwriter and producer, creator of Tulsa King
Taylor Sheridan (American screenwriter and producer, creator of Tulsa King) has appeared as a guest on 2 episodes in TMT. Topics they speak about most include Screenwriting, Landman (TV series), Yellowstone (American TV series).
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Sheridan credits Sons of Anarchy's poor treatment of him as an actor with pushing him to become a writer.
“thank God that they had so little respect for me that they offered me garbage”
The Bill Simmons Podcast: A Crazy NBA Month With Zach Lowe, Plus Taylor Sheridan on Building a TV Empire and the Problems With Hollywood (Jun 29, 2026) · Listen from 2:35:34
Sheridan predicts AI and drones will rapidly transform warfare in frightening ways.
“AI and drones are gonna alter the landscape of war. We're getting real close to some Terminator shit”
The Joe Rogan Experience: #2517 - Taylor Sheridan (Jun 23, 2026) · Listen from 2:12:34
Sheridan says espionage relies mostly on low-tech leverage, chiefly bribery and blackmail.
“You're either bribing someone with money or blackmailing them”
The Joe Rogan Experience: #2517 - Taylor Sheridan (Jun 23, 2026) · Listen from 2:09:39
Sheridan says Lioness fictionalizes his guesses about political developments, which have repeatedly come true, such as cartels being designated terrorist organizations.
“I've tried to guess what's going to happen politically and then fictionalize that. And the fact that I've managed to be right has been pretty fucking wild”
The Joe Rogan Experience: #2517 - Taylor Sheridan (Jun 23, 2026) · Listen from 2:05:44
Sheridan argues 24-hour cable news degraded journalism by forcing outlets to fill time with opinion and fear.
“CNN's the worst thing that ever happened to news because it's 24 hours”
The Joe Rogan Experience: #2517 - Taylor Sheridan (Jun 23, 2026) · Listen from 52:35
Sheridan warns that openly defying federal law under one president sets a precedent the other side will follow, eroding the rule of law.
“So when a president gets in that you do support, then the other side, because we've established this precedent, they're just not going to follow his laws either”
The Joe Rogan Experience: #2517 - Taylor Sheridan (Jun 23, 2026) · Listen from 47:32
Screenwriting
Sheridan believes TV shows should run about five seasons at most before becoming repetitive.
“For me, five years or six. Five years. Five years max. Because beyond that, now it's just problem of the week”
The Bill Simmons Podcast: A Crazy NBA Month With Zach Lowe, Plus Taylor Sheridan on Building a TV Empire and the Problems With Hollywood (Jun 29, 2026) · Listen from 2:10:30
Sheridan says he aims to entertain mainstream audiences rather than win awards.
“You're not going to win no Emmys with me, but I'm not trying to win Emmys”
The Bill Simmons Podcast: A Crazy NBA Month With Zach Lowe, Plus Taylor Sheridan on Building a TV Empire and the Problems With Hollywood (Jun 29, 2026) · Listen from 1:52:52
Sheridan says Paramount eliminated its development department after four years because he ignored its notes.
“And after four years, they got rid of that department. So all those people got fired because they didn't need them”
The Bill Simmons Podcast: A Crazy NBA Month With Zach Lowe, Plus Taylor Sheridan on Building a TV Empire and the Problems With Hollywood (Jun 29, 2026) · Listen from 1:54:40
Sheridan argues studio executives impose notes and consensus in order to justify their jobs.
“The reason they do it that way is to justify their jobs”
The Bill Simmons Podcast: A Crazy NBA Month With Zach Lowe, Plus Taylor Sheridan on Building a TV Empire and the Problems With Hollywood (Jun 29, 2026) · Listen from 1:54:22
Sheridan says his core rule is never to have a character say what the camera should show.
“never have a character tell me something that the camera should show me”
The Bill Simmons Podcast: A Crazy NBA Month With Zach Lowe, Plus Taylor Sheridan on Building a TV Empire and the Problems With Hollywood (Jun 29, 2026) · Listen from 1:41:13
Landman (TV series)
Sheridan says he deliberately kept Demi Moore's character in the background in season one to set up her takeover in season two.
“You're going to be an extra in this show for seven episodes”
The Bill Simmons Podcast: A Crazy NBA Month With Zach Lowe, Plus Taylor Sheridan on Building a TV Empire and the Problems With Hollywood (Jun 29, 2026) · Listen from 2:05:55
Sheridan recounts pitching Landman to Billy Bob Thornton as his Bad Santa character running a West Texas oil company.
“I want to take your character from Bad Santa and put him in West Texas and run an oil company”
The Joe Rogan Experience: #2517 - Taylor Sheridan (Jun 23, 2026) · Listen from 33:15
Sheridan says his productions prep in a third of the usual time because of a streamlined, experienced crew.
“Typically a TV show will start up and they'll prep for 12 weeks before they start filming. We do it in four”
The Joe Rogan Experience: #2517 - Taylor Sheridan (Jun 23, 2026) · Listen from 32:01
Yellowstone (American TV series)
Sheridan rejects the idea that the Western genre is dead, arguing good Westerns always succeed.
“every time someone makes a good Western, it's a fucking hit. Every time”
The Bill Simmons Podcast: A Crazy NBA Month With Zach Lowe, Plus Taylor Sheridan on Building a TV Empire and the Problems With Hollywood (Jun 29, 2026) · Listen from 2:25:07
Sheridan says Kevin Costner was originally contracted for only three seasons of Yellowstone before the network pushed to keep him.
“with Yellowstone, Kevin was only supposed to be in the first three seasons. That was in his contract”
The Bill Simmons Podcast: A Crazy NBA Month With Zach Lowe, Plus Taylor Sheridan on Building a TV Empire and the Problems With Hollywood (Jun 29, 2026) · Listen from 2:10:51
Sicario (2015 film)
Sheridan says Lionsgate should have released Sicario like a summer movie rather than as an awards play.
“I think that they decided to make an awards play. And I wouldn't have done that. I would have treated it like a summer movie”
The Bill Simmons Podcast: A Crazy NBA Month With Zach Lowe, Plus Taylor Sheridan on Building a TV Empire and the Problems With Hollywood (Jun 29, 2026) · Listen from 2:33:47
Incarceration in the United States
Sheridan argues U.S. prisons are not designed to rehabilitate and instead produce criminals, citing a recidivism rate he puts around 80 percent.
“It's an institution that guarantees you're a criminal when you come out”
The Joe Rogan Experience: #2517 - Taylor Sheridan (Jun 23, 2026) · Listen from 2:38:11
How to Not Die in Prison
Sheridan says he conceived the book as a Lonely Planet-style travel guide to prison to help his friend Tom Nelson support his family.
“We're gonna write a travel guide to prison. for the accidental inmate, right?”
The Joe Rogan Experience: #2517 - Taylor Sheridan (Jun 23, 2026) · Listen from 2:33:28
Opioid addiction
Sheridan argues that providing phones and needles to addicted homeless people is cruel and they should instead be taken off the street for treatment.
“Like if someone's to that point and you want to help them, don't give them a fucking iPhone and some more needles”
The Joe Rogan Experience: #2517 - Taylor Sheridan (Jun 23, 2026) · Listen from 1:16:33
Term limits in the United States Congress
Sheridan calls congressional term limits of about twelve years the most important legislation that could be passed.
“The most important legislation that we could pass right now is term limits. I think 12 years tops in Congress”
The Joe Rogan Experience: #2517 - Taylor Sheridan (Jun 23, 2026) · Listen from 51:14
Four Sixes Ranch
Sheridan says the Four Sixes covers 300,000 acres but is worked by only twelve cowboys.
“You know, four sixes is 300,000 acres, but there's 12 cowboys”
The Joe Rogan Experience: #2517 - Taylor Sheridan (Jun 23, 2026) · Listen from 26:21
Homelessness in Los Angeles
Sheridan argues that NGOs lack incentive to solve problems like homelessness because solving them would end their funding.
“So they don't create them to solve problems. Anything exacerbate the problem. Make the problem worse”
The Joe Rogan Experience: #2517 - Taylor Sheridan (Jun 23, 2026) · Listen from 11:25
Appearances
A Crazy NBA Month With Zach Lowe, Plus Taylor Sheridan on Building a TV Empire and the Problems With HollywoodThe Bill Simmons Podcast · Jun 29, 2026 · 2 h 45 min
Bill Simmons and Zach Lowe debate Jaylen Brown trade rumors, the LaMelo Ball and Miles Bridges trades and LeBron's future, then Taylor Sheridan discusses his prison book and TV empire.
#2517 - Taylor SheridanThe Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 23, 2026 · 2 h 50 min
Joe Rogan and Taylor Sheridan discuss ranching, his TV production methods, politics, COVID, fraud, ibogaine, espionage, and his new prison survival guide.
Discussed in
Sylvester Stallone Hid His Struggles for Decades. Now He’s Coming Clean.The Daily · Sep 26, 2026 · 1 h 17 min
Sylvester Stallone tells Lulu Garcia-Navarro about his abusive childhood, anxiety, bulimia and steroid use, his rivalry with Schwarzenegger, and career collapses and comebacks.
#2556 - Siddharth KaraThe Joe Rogan Experience · Sep 22, 2026 · 2 h 28 min
Siddharth Kara tells Joe Rogan about child and slave labor in Congo's cobalt mines and the slave ship Zorg that sparked abolition.
#2523 - Ali SiddiqThe Joe Rogan Experience · Jul 7, 2026 · 2 h 47 min
Joe Rogan and comedian Ali Siddiq discuss sports betting, social media pressure on comics, organic career building, comedy club stories, ghosts, psychedelics, TV shows, and meat.
Often appears with
- Bill Simmons · 1 shared episode
- Zach Lowe · 1 shared episode
- Joe Rogan · 1 shared episode