#2517 - Taylor Sheridan

**Joe Rogan** (0:01)
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**Taylor Sheridan** (0:03)
The Joe Rogan Experience.

**Joe Rogan** (0:06)
Trained by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day.

**Taylor Sheridan** (0:13)
What's happening? What's up, buddy? It's a hell of a fucking belt buckle. What is that? What's going on there?

**SPEAKER_4** (0:18)
So this one is for a horse I have called Maverick Buzz the Tower that won reserve at the Futurity.

**Taylor Sheridan** (0:25)
And they give you a belt buckle if you win?

**SPEAKER_4** (0:27)
A belt buckle and money.

**Taylor Sheridan** (0:28)
That's a dope belt buckle.

**SPEAKER_4** (0:30)
Expensive belt buckle.

**Taylor Sheridan** (0:31)
So guys like you that understand horses, if you saw someone with one of those, you would know exactly what that is right away.

**SPEAKER_4** (0:37)
Oh, yeah. And the year, depending on the year, I'm going to know the horse.
It's like you had fighters.

**Taylor Sheridan** (0:45)
I guess. I guess it's probably similar. Yeah.

**SPEAKER_4** (0:48)
Oh, that guy won the thing in 2012 He fought so and so and this. Same with me and horses.

**Taylor Sheridan** (0:51)
It's always so interesting to me how there's these different sort of categories of interests that people have that one person might not know anything. I don't know anything about horses, but you're like fucking balls deep. Everything about horses. It's crazy.
It's such an interesting pool of knowledge, the people that are really into horses. They start explaining, oh, this is not as simple as, oh, that's a horse and that's a horse too. There's genetic lines and there's certain tendencies that certain horses will actually pass on to their offspring.

**SPEAKER_4** (1:26)
Oh, yeah.

**Taylor Sheridan** (1:26)
It's crazy stuff.

**SPEAKER_4** (1:27)
There's a stallion and I really like him. I've got a number of horses by this stallion. His name is Spooks Got a Whiz and they're just incredibly balanced, real feely, very, very quick-footed, big stoppers. But they see dead people, they see ghosts. So like what? Once every three months for no reason. This thing's going to fucking check out.
And I mean check out.
Just decide it's not safe here. We're going back to the bar and you can come with me or I'm going to buck your ass off or I'm going to flip over. No, he just loses his mind.

**Taylor Sheridan** (1:59)
Whoa.

**SPEAKER_4** (2:00)
And you never know when it's going to happen.

**Taylor Sheridan** (2:01)
And his children have this as well?

**SPEAKER_4** (2:03)
Yeah.

**Taylor Sheridan** (2:03)
Whoa.

**SPEAKER_4** (2:05)
Just a little quirk. But other than that, they're getting automatic.

**Taylor Sheridan** (2:09)
That's a big quirk. That's like if you have a Corvette and it decides to drive home.

**SPEAKER_4** (2:12)
Yeah. A little bit. A little bit.

**Taylor Sheridan** (2:14)
Most of the time you could go to the store.

**SPEAKER_4** (2:16)
We all deal with it because they're worth it.

**Taylor Sheridan** (2:18)
I guess. But that seems so crazy. Do you really think it sees ghosts?

**SPEAKER_4** (2:24)
I don't know what he sees. Some kind of boogeyman. A lot of them are deaf.
Really?

**Taylor Sheridan** (2:29)
Why?

**SPEAKER_4** (2:30)
Well, there's a gene. Typically, if you see a horse with a white face and the white goes above the eyes, typically that horse is deaf.

**Taylor Sheridan** (2:40)
Wow.

**SPEAKER_4** (2:41)
And so they can't hear, but they can feel the vibrations. So like that could set one of those horses off.

**Taylor Sheridan** (2:50)
Just anything pounding on the ground, that might be something chasing it. Yeah.

**SPEAKER_4** (2:53)
I mean, they're prey animals. Right. Right.

**Taylor Sheridan** (2:54)
Right. So, wow, the deaf thing is crazy. I wonder if that has any sort of an advantage where they could sort of tune out distractions.
I would imagine if a horse is at a rodeo.

**SPEAKER_4** (3:07)
Yes. 100 percent. Because this crowd, the screaming and yelling is not going to bother them. Now, if they start stomping their feet, I was going to show this one horse of mine, and I'm about to run on the pen, and all these guys are cheering for this Italian rider, and they're all beating on the side of the arena.

**Taylor Sheridan** (3:23)
Oh.

**SPEAKER_4** (3:24)
And my horse checked the fuck out. He checked the out.

**Taylor Sheridan** (3:30)
He's like a whole herd of elephants chasing him.
Wow. I can imagine how weird that is for the horse. Like it's being told to do something, but it's instinct to like, no, we got to get the fuck out of here. I can't hear anything. That's nuts. The hearing thing, there's a famous pool player, his name is Shane Van Boning. He's like one of the greatest pool players of all time, if not the greatest, and he's deaf, and he has hearing aids. And when he plays, he shuts them off. He just goes click and goes into this world.