Yellowstone TV Series Review by Montana Cowboy

so today I'm going to make at least half of you angry with me and there's really no avoiding that because what I'm talking about today is the Yellowstone TV series and I want to focus on a couple of things that I really like about the show and I think are accurate and a couple of things that aren't immediately a lot of you are going to say well it's just a TV show so what do you care as we know shows and games and things like that influence what we think of things that we don't know or understand so when you watch a Yellowstone TV show you're gonna get ideas about politics and the way of life in Montana or that cowboys live and that ranches are and I want to make sure that people understand the truth about those whether they're real things that are happening in Montana what I think about them and whether they're totally false and you should disregard them as just part of Hollywood foreign so what are we going to talk about well first of all I'm going to share three things that I really don't like about the show that I think they're getting wrong about Montana and then I'm going to share three things that I really do like about the show and what it portrays about Montana the people and the lifestyle and then I'm going to tackle the big issue at the end and that's land which is the overall overarching storyline of Yellowstone what's happening to the land in Montana so instead of calling these first three things that I don't like about Yellowstone I'm gonna call them negative impacts from Yellowstone so number one is brucellosis in recent episodes they have talked about brucellosis in a herd of bison that got in with John dutton's herd of cattle and the fact that now he has to ship his cattle immediately down to Texas because of the Mont if the state of Montana found out that he had his cattle had possibly been exposed to brucellosis then he would have to kill his entire herd and that's the premise of rip having to take some Cowboys and the whole herd of cattle all the way down to Texas because that's the the only place they could find land to pasture them on so brucellosis is actually a bacteria that gets in an animal and typically causes it to abort its calves this can actually have an effect on humans as well if they can get it but basically the only way a human can get it is technically is by rummaging around in the guts of an animal while it's being butchered not not the meat it's almost never or never documented being in the meat at all at normal cooking temperatures kill it so here's the problem I have with this is the fact that in Montana it's very rare that when you find brucellosis in a herd for one thing that you would kill the entire herd they call depopulate uh that's something that they you know is kind of Hollywood hollywoodized in the show Yellowstone and and the reason I have a problem with it is because it does show something that might give people the wrong impression about ranchers or what happens up here or the other thing that uh is kind of off about that is if you're a Rancher and you discover a bunch of aborted calves from Buffalo in your pasture which is what John Dutton and his Cowboys did the last thing you want to do is grab your herd and rush them off through a whole bunch of other states to Texas because if you did have brucellosis in your herd the the first thing you should do in that case is actually round up your herd and test them all for brucellosis find any infected animals and if you do find some Infected animals then you isolate them you isolate your herd from other herds so you don't try to spread this thing all over the country which is immediately what they did uh you don't really want to rush them off to Texas because if you do have an infected herd and you don't know it you're actually you possibly infecting not only you and your surrounding neighbors but also all the way down to a different state and several other states in between so that's a problem they do actually require um I don't know exactly USDA I believe don't quote me on that it requires that all female animals of reproductive that are intact reproductively because that's mostly how it's transmitted are bangs vaccinated so they're actually vaccinated against the brucellosis bacteria and that that is it's pretty difficult to do you have to have a veterinarian do it but all the counties surrounding Yellowstone the greater Yellowstone area in Montana Wyoming and every everywhere are required to vaccinate all their female animals so that limits the the Bruce losses greatly another thing that you might be interested in is most often brucellosis is not transmitted from Buffalo or bison to cattle it's found more often in Elk to cattle so that's one thing that you might want to consider as well so these are just some things that were off about how they portrayed that obviously it's Hollywood you can watch the show it's not like you know you know I'm not trying to kill the show for you I'm just trying to go through a few things that that might affect your way of thinking of Montana and and because you don't really know the truth of it it and I want you to understand the truth so what you can think about this thing in the correct way so now when I'm out in the mountains or anywhere out here one thing I like to carry in my saddlebags or along with me in my pocket is the wag bar the wag bar is actually American wagyu beef and it's in a bar form just like this so they're really good handy snacks and uh there I work with them now so and if you want to get 10 off of these things if you want to try some I'll leave a link for you down in the description to get 10 off it's called the wag bar who doesn't like a good snack especially good American wagyu beef number two of negative things that they show in the hit series Yellowstone um in this latest episode I believe was the latest episode they're talking about stopping a pipeline now this is very political because if you start to discussing pipelines and yes again I realized this just to show but the pipeline thing is a big issue for people uh we're talking about the Keystone Pipeline which was shut down recently and everybody's concerned about it now on the show they're portraying like man I don't want that to go through my land wreck my land and everything and and they show it even going underneath the reservoir on the reservation like they could possibly contaminate the water source of the reservation drinking water so there's Phillips 66 has a pipeline right near me that goes right through this whole area and so I thought I'd bring you up here and show you what that actually looks like this is it now I don't know if you call this ruining the country or not but I driving up here I know it's here and I was like did I did I already cross it yes you can see the pipeline absolutely you can see where they dug it up you can also see where a railroad railroad track is you can see where a water line was dug you can see old ditches that people 100 years ago dug in this is no more impact than that so I guess the only danger to this would be possibly a pipeline the only danger here would be like a breakage or leakage or something because this I believe don't quote me on this I believe this transfers oil from Canada down into the United States but you really I mean cattle Rome all over this this is not an this doesn't impede any elk movement it doesn't impede any animal movement there is no I mean you it's not even that easy to see if you can see it because the tracks buy it a lot of people don't even know what this is so the other thing is maybe in some alternate well I don't know I the way that the things are going is possible that somebody would make a pipe like draw a pipeline going underneath somebody's Reservoir water source but that would be so much extra work to go underneath a reservoir with a pipeline that you would not do you would go one side or the other of it on in your planning state so that you don't have to go underneath a reservoir Contours of the earth and water and all that kind of stuff is taken into consideration when they map out a pipeline so the somebody can uh probably argue this point because I haven't seen the map of the Keystone Pipeline or anything like that but these things do help actually a tremendous amount this pipeline right here I can't imagine the number of semis that would have to go down this highway burning diesel fuel to actually move the amount of oil that they move through a pipeline like this underground that you can't hear it has no noise there's no pollution in the air there's no pollution underground unless you have a leak I I can't see the downside so that one I I see as portraying something in a way in Yellowstone that would give somebody the idea oh well okay that's why we don't have pipelines when if you really look at the pipeline you're going uh not number one the the landowners are are financially compensated for being able to put a pipeline through there not not ongoing but when it's laid and then once it's reclaimed back into the to the landscape it's really not even noticeable hardly so and it takes semis and and vehicles and ships and everything out of the equation of transporting that oil in another way in a in a way that would actually use more fuel and tires and um you know exhaust and everything else that you're eliminating so I don't I see a pipeline as actually a huge benefit not as a downside when it doesn't do anything to hurt the environment foreign [Music] [Music] the third negative that I have is really something to me personally I feel that Cowboys as a whole have gotten a wrap of this super party crowd drinking all the time sleeping around with everybody and and that it's okay and I don't think that in our society that's something that we should be portraying as something to Aspire to and so when I see it in shows I understand that it's kind of something Hollywood does is is try to make Hollywood has done that for a long time where they they really combine that in with a show to make it a lifestyle of just this raunchy like sleep with everybody drink all the time and to me that that portrays something that we don't really want to portray to people is that alcohol fixes your problems alcohol and sex fix your problems basically and so personally to me that that's one thing that bothers me about the show now are they going to change that no that's for sure not going to be changed and that I believe is part of who Hollywood is and then they wonder why we have problems with our children and uh the next Generations using alcohol to try to alcohol and sex to try to figure out their to fix their lives you know any when you see anything on television or not just in Yellowstone and somebody runs into a problem where they have to forget something in life they typically then go right to alcohol and sex and sleeping around and and that's just something that uh to me we should not be teaching our kids and you might say well it's just a show yes shows teach people things teach people how to deal with things just as much as real life does I am going to now make a cup of coffee so I can share with you the three things that I do like about the show and then we'll talk about the land issue what the battle for land in Montana truly is I know I could just use snow here but um it's really light powdery snow and you'd have to gather a lot of it just to get one little pot of coffee so we're just going to dump some in here foreign not a bad place to have coffee huh coffee maker a little French press that I can carry around it's really light so you can put it in a backpack or a saddle bag or something like that that's actually a lot that might have been two pots oh well it'll make some good good thick coffee right so let's talk about the three things that I do like about Yellowstone the first one is really how they are bringing attention to the Rancher's plight you know ranchers in Montana are are a big minority in the country and ranchers all view themselves kind of how they portray in in Yellowstone it's like if you leave you you just leave me alone I'll leave you alone they don't want to actually deal with anything you can look through my comments on all the ranching stuff that I do and and the people who who are ranchers or in this lifestyle they just want to be left alone to do their own thing back here in this corner the problem is is right now our society doesn't want to leave them there it wants to attack them about you know being harmful to the climate by raising cattle and and you know not letting people on their private land and that people shouldn't be able to own such large amounts of land and things like that so ranchers really are getting slammed without trying without doing anything and they're just doing what they've always done which is sit back and allow the world to function in the way it is I don't think it's going to be able to happen in the future ranchers are going to have to actually step up and start talking about the things that they do and so that help others understand how the the process of their food food actually gets from here from here where it starts to your table all right my water is ready sitting in the snow so it's it's pretty cold it's hard to keep it hot but we're gonna pour that in there we go put this in make sure it's sitting in the water it gets all down in there all right so the second thing I like about the show is the way it tries to help people actually understand ranching it kind of goes along with the first one but that's what they're actually doing when you in the recent Series in the recent part of this series you actually have seen now them going through brandings and uh and then there's an environmentalist to kind of an uh an animal rights activist if you will that is kind of being thrown in the middle of this because she's in trouble with the law and she has to learn about where meat comes from and the fact when they look up on the hill and she sees this huge forest fire burning and she's like well is anybody going to put it out and we're like how would you put that out in the middle of huge huge amount of wildernesses people people don't understand the the issues and the way things that work out here and that's one thing that I think the Yellowstone is doing a very good job of especially recently is portraying that is really helping people through through teaching this lady this animal rights activist how things actually function on a ranch and that it isn't cruel to to vaccinate a calf you're actually doing it for the the benefit of the calf and and you have to or you'd lose a whole bunch more of the calves things like that I think they're doing a good job of portraying that actually watching this recent part of the series I was thinking holy cow they're actually doing what I'm doing on YouTube my goal is to really show people what happens in ranch life that that what they view as cruelty is often just a way of life it's something that has to happen for food to end up on their table you know we used to be so closely connected to our food if you wanted a chicken for for dinner if you wanted chicken for dinner you had to go out in the backyard and kill a chicken I mean or you saw somebody do that we're so connected to our food and the and how it be how it got from the field to your table that we didn't ever really think about the things that we think about now people are really blunted emotionally they're they're traumatized by watching a calf be branded in our society because you don't really understand where food comes from you you become emotionally emotional have an emotional problem with it and therefore you reject it Without Really learning any of the meanings to everything because if you're in a city let's say you're in a city like New York or Los Angeles what you hear is is what other groups who are also tied into emotion are actually telling you and and professors people look up to professors and like colleges and like oh my word they said it's true and like it's like they know I mean any anything academically that you learn in the book is has a possibility of being true but it's also could be somebody else's idea that they created from their own mind and emotions and life experiences and everything so you have to learn how to use your mind to decipher right and wrong in these areas for yourself and I think education is the only way to do that to give people an idea of what they could the other side there is another side to this so I do think Yellowstone is doing a very good job of that all right let's pour a cup of coffee have you ever cooked anything outdoors it's always always seems to be just better somehow I don't I don't know why taste of nature I guess adds a little flavor in there all right the number three thing that I like about Yellowstone is the fact that they don't shy away from the wolf and grizzly bear issue not that they mention grizzly bears a lot but they do show them in there as a problem right now we are being inundated in Montana Idaho and Wyoming by predator species and it doesn't just affect ranching it affects all anybody who hunts any any wildlife organization anywhere because the more Predators we get the the more that they kill in in our populations and you know I was talking about this with somebody yesterday um our Wildlife is is sustained Now by man managing the populations and we can't people say well the Wolves were here first and so we need them back in here and I don't want to wolves are another story but I don't want to completely eliminate grizzly bears but I do think they need to be managed you can't just have so many predators that they're coming out into civilizations and causing so many problems along with killing so much of our Wildlife populations when they're babies I mean we don't eat the calves that come off the ground we don't Harvest calves that come on the elk babies and bison babies and everything but the the that's what the wild animals eat so if you like that then you want more Predators I mean those are things that people just don't think about in Yellowstone they do portray that Ranchers have to deal with these these wolves and bears all the time and people say well the losses just aren't that you know they're just not very big but it doesn't really matter when it's messing with your livelihood you know it's like even though it's a little different it's your herd of cattle or sheep or whatever you have it they're they're your livelihood in that business so just because you might be able to get compensated for it and being compensated for it means you have to prove beyond a shadow of doubt that a wolf or a bear killed that and sometimes that's very difficult to do so going by the numbers that you see from um from the any organization that posts this stuff like oh it's only this amount or that amount we don't really know how many calves cows and sheep are killed by wild animals because a lot of them aren't reported and a lot of them can't be proven that it was a wild animal so they can't be compensated for it so I do like that they show that that that is a struggle in Montana so you can see the three things that I've mentioned are a lot of the issues they're bringing to light that people may in cities and around may not have ever thought about that we deal with out here in the west and those are now becoming I think to the Forefront of people because you have to even though it's a TV show and it's just a TV show so they can do whatever they want the TV show that's not really Hollywood eyes that that's really what we have to deal with and I think that's bringing it to the Forefront of people's minds Okay so to the final thing here no sip of coffee that's good it's really that's strong coffee I I will say that but I like it land there is definitely a battle going on for land and has been it's not recent it's just it's been for the last hundred years and that's one of the things they portray in Yellowstone is John Dutton trying to protect his land from basically the onslaught of progress this is something that's already happened once in our history this used to be long to the Indians and even though they didn't view it that way I I don't believe the Indians really viewed it as Like This Is Our Land I own this piece you own that piece kind of a thing they had territories and they utilized the land and were pushed off of it and rather a dramatic and many times very horrible way one thing you have to understand is that they're not making any more of this land this look at the vast expanses of land just right here that we have in the west and down below me here there's subdivisions of houses all along uh different areas so as this land is sold for development it starts to become covered with what we call civilization which is towns cities houses and I don't blame people for wanting it it's it's gorgeous I mean this I mean obviously this is winter so there's no cattle out here right now but this is beautiful beautiful land and it's untouched you can see even though there's a pipeline running right through it you can't hardly see the pipeline it is untouched land and ranchers that own land sometimes they feel like oh I can't believe people would want my land and you know people think I should be you know lucky that I have this yes you should you should feel absolutely lucky and unashamed unashamed that you are lucky to have that land realize that you're lucky to own it and and that your ancestors came here and settled and gave you this land because most of them got it through um you know their descendants settling here and then they inherited it from them don't feel bad about that don't feel like ashamed that you own it understand though that you're lucky to have it and I think that changes your mindset in Yellowstone he's battling to keep that land from development and encroachment from development he doesn't want an airport right next to it and you might think yeah but it's not his land the more people encroach upon your land so the neighbors that sell and there becomes a subdivision there it becomes more and more traffic more and more people problems people are people humans create issues of Their Own not that you don't know this so the land out here is becoming more and more sought after and more and more valuable and in the west there's all kinds of debate about access to private land should should private land remain private should public land be sold to the private and and should be what's the use rights on this land or that land and how should Wildlife be managed on this land or that land and it's an ongoing thing now I believe in the rights of people to own land I believe in private property ownership I don't think that all of it should be I love all of our public land it's a vast amount of public land in Montana and you can go experience the outdoors and Wilderness in so many different areas in Montana it's incredible I don't want that to go away but I also understand the private rights ownership of land and how it needs to stay that way now how do we keep this land like John Dutton is trying to do with his place in the show how do we keep this land from having houses all over them because I know a lot of you watching would want to have a house right here do I blame you no so there's not I don't believe in the government telling you you can't do that now you can you can put a conservation easement on your land which makes it impossible for you to subdivide meaning you can't sell it for development and uh I've talked about that in some other videos some of my other short videos if you want to hear more about that make sure you let me know but I honestly believe that price fixing and you know regulations is not the way to save this land from being developed I honestly believe that we need to figure out find new ways to innovate for ranchers who own the land right now to be able to make enough income off of the property from Ranchi that they don't sell it for development and nothing against rich people who who come in and buy large tracts of land for their own purposes a lot of times though they're taking it out of production and I do I do have a problem with that because at a food source in the world is could is going to become a problem at some point if you don't protect it right now the more people come out here and build on land that's productive and not that this is horribly productive but it is beautiful uh the less amount of of acreage we have to provide food for the world and at some point that can create a problem and we'll talk about that in future episodes as well so I think the land issue that John Dutton is trying to protect his land from development is actually um something that's really driving me to delve in deeper as to how you help ranchers actually do that how do you help them maintain their rent now one of the things in in Yellowstone that they actually did which I was amazed at is they actually talked about the four sixes ranches the she uh Beth called the four sixes Ranch in Texas to find out how they sold their meat and then she's like well let's let's do that and that's something a lot of ranchers are going to have to start doing is innovating in those ways they're going to have to start instead of selling their calves at weaning weight they're going to have to keep them for an entire year year and a half and then butcher them themselves so they cut out the middleman that's a one way at least that ranchers can make more money per cow than they are right now now that brings up a huge problem ranchers are not good at marketing so that's a hurdle because you can raise your cattle butcher it have a whole bunch of beef but you have to be able to sell that beef to make a profit those are other issues we'll be talking about in future videos so I kind of covered all of this that's kind of how I see it it's what I feel about Yellowstone in both positive and negative and uh if you guys have any questions about any of this stuff make sure you leave them in the comments this would be a great discussion on anything I've I've touched on all six things or seven things that I discussed in this video all right I'm Trinity Van Den acre until next time God bless

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Length: 32min 16sec (1936 seconds)

Published: Sun Jan 08 2023