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Along For The Ride with Andrea Fappani

003 Taylor Sheridan & Andrea Fappani

Along For The Ride with Andrea Fappani

Jim Essick

2yo, Nationalreininghorseassociation, Tishfappani, Reininghorses, Nrha, Fappani, Scottsdaleaz, Quarterhorse, Runforamillion, Yellowstone, Hobbies, Nrbc, Futuritychampion, Andreafappani, Reiningbythebay, Leisure, Derbychampion, Sports

5635 Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2019

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

Taylor Sheridan tells his story about growing up in a small West Texas town outside of Waco to the hustle of being a successful Hollywood actor, director, producer and Academy Award Nominated screenwriter. The bright lights of Hollywood never dimmed his passion and interest in horses, rural values and the western lifestyle. His conversation with Andrea will take you along the journey of why Taylor needed horses to bring balance in his busy life and how his interest in the western way led him to write and produce Paramount Networks hit TV series Yellowstone staring Kevin Costner. He will explain his decision to take a chance and create The Run For A Million event with the reality passed TV series The Last Cowboy to tell the story of reining and The Run For A Million.  

Texas country boy to the heights of Hollywood, a true American success story, come Along For The Ride with Andrea & Taylor. 

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Along for the Ride with Andrea Fapani.

0:07.6

I'm Andrea. I'm here with Jim Essek. And today we have a pretty special guest on our show.

0:12.9

We're going to be talking to Taylor Sheridan. You know, Taylor has done it all. He's an actor,

0:17.6

screenwriter, director, and now even a bigger producer.

0:21.1

He's not a Hollywood guy.

0:22.2

He comes from Texas.

0:23.5

And he's a very interesting guy.

0:25.0

I met Taylor a few years ago when he started raining.

0:27.5

I actually sold him a horse that they dwell on.

0:31.0

And so that's how we got to know each other.

0:33.3

You know, I've watched him get better as a rider.

0:35.6

And nowadays, in the last couple of of years how much is doing for raining.

0:39.3

You know, if you're in the raining industry or even just the performance industry, you've heard of what he's doing.

0:45.3

You know, he put horses back on TV with Yellowstone and then moved on to now the Run for the Million, the big show that's coming up next week.

0:52.3

I'm fortunate enough to be part of it. You know, it's going to be exciting. And he created a whole TV show around it.

0:58.0

The last cowboy has been, I think we've had about three, four episodes out right now.

1:02.0

There's over a million people watching it every week. So it's pretty special what's going on in their industry, in our sport.

1:08.0

It's a cool time. And what a better time to interview him the week before the big show coming up.

1:12.6

You know, we're going to ask him a lot. I think he's going to be super interesting.

1:15.6

It's definitely not a story that we've heard before. I want to know how he got into raining and what really made him decide to do raining over.

1:23.6

He could have done anything else. Obviously he's a successful guy. He could have bought million dollar jumpers or or cutters or whatever you want to name it but he picked

1:31.7

raining so let's find out why and let's find out why he wants to do so much for the sport

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