Okay, welcome Trill Billy family. We are joined this week by Kate Aronoff. Did I say your last name right, Kate?

You did. You got it right. We've gathered here today to discuss a topic that I'm very eager to discuss, and I think America is very eager to discuss.

And that is the Taylor Sheridan Show Landman, which has one episode left.

But Kate, when I was talking to you earlier today, you were like, should we wait till next week until the finale or what?

And I was like, well, I don't think

I need to see the finale because I think I know at this point basically what's going to happen.

But I also felt like the fires in L.A. kind of provide a very useful way of diving in to the

mythologies of this show.

And also, you had just published a piece in the New Republic about the show.

So several things have aligned is what I'm saying.

Yeah, I watched a bunch of Landman in a row to write that piece after not engaging either with landman

or any Taylor Sheridan properties. Yeah. And then in preparation for this, I spent most of yesterday

writing a piece on the insurance industry in California. And then as my wind down while I was making dinner caught up on the most recent episode.

And I think my brain turned to mush by the end.

I don't think I had thought or feeling just a blank space between the years.

It's particularly a particularly bad episode, which ends with the very pregnant,

poignant image of a suburbanite just like wasting a coyote in a field.

And like the landman is looking at the coyote and he's like having this like what is it all

mean man like you know we're out here in the wilderness we're drilling oil it's up is it you

i think are more well-versed than me in the the tailor-sharean universe is this how they all work

is there is are they all this stupid okay Kate, do you go back to the beginning?

I'll take you back to Sons of Anarchy, which while not explicitly a Taylor shared property,

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