my guest tonight portrays branch davidian leader david koresh in paramount network's six-part series waco." >> gary? >> no, it's walter. gary's been reassigned. >> reassigned? why? >> david, i need to tell you that my bosses have run out of patience with you. >> every day we try and show you men good faith, but all you want to do is fight. i'm tired! i don't want to fight no more! i'm alive! everyone in here is alive. we've got children, we're american citizens, and you're doing wrong by god and by man and every day you're adding to your wrong. >> david, you're the one who's doing wrong. >> no, no, no, no! >> trevor: please welcome taylor kitsch! ( cheers and applause ) ♪ welcome. >> first and foremost, happy birthday ( cheers and applause ) >> trevor: oh, man! >> i had to. >> trevor: thank you very much. happy birthday to you, too. ( laughter ) welcome to the show. >> thanks for having me. >> trevor: i'm a huge fan of yours, have been for a long time, but i've never seen you in a role like this. for people who don't know, what was the "waco" siege about? >> an event in 1993 that was

and david koresh at waco.ughter ) >> that's what everybody asks. >> stephen: why do you think they ask you that, michael, shannon? >> because i have such long, curly hair. i really don't know. i guess they assume. but i think david was a little bit younger than me. but, honestly, david is a very charming and fascinating individual. >> stephen: to be a leader of a cult you have to be charming. >> yeah, you can't be grumpy and be, like, get over here! time for prayers! here's your porridge! time to go to bed! no, it has to be more than that. >> stephen: who do you play in this. >> gary nesner, a wonderful human being who was the head negotiator for the f.b.i. for a number of years. he has a wonderful book, i believe it's called "stalling for time," the documents, the number of cases he worked on over the years, but waco was obviously the most notable. >> stephen: it's my understanding he was not there for negotiating the entire time. >> no. there's a team of negotiators, and he trains them, he oversees the divis

tim riggins from tv's critically acclaimed "friday night lights"" he is currently starring as david koreshiseries "waco." let's take a look. >> hello. hello, who am i speaking with? >> this is david. the notorious. >> hi, david. >> this is gary, fbi. >> hey, gary. how are you doing? >> you know, i suppose we've both had better days. >> yeah. you're telling me. >> seth: please welcome to the show taylor kitsch, everyone. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> seth: welcome. very happy to have you here. >> first time. >> seth: first time here. >> first time, yeah. [ cheers and applause ] >> seth: and -- this -- i watched the first episode of this. i found it really engaging. do you remember where you were when this all happened, because, of course, when you watch stories like these, you go, "oh, 1993, i remember this being on the news all the time." >> i was 12 years old. >> seth: i was also 12. [ light laughter ] >> i think i remember just that last terrible shot of the compound in flames, to be honest. and i don't even know if i really remember that part at that age. but obviously growing up or lear

they were a cult in waco, texas, led by david koresh in the '90s.with teenagers. [ light laughter ] not like comedy writers who are in their 40s who write this piece. [ light laughter ] this is a thing that's hot with teenagers. and their new slang term is inspired by them. it's "brunch davidians." it means a group of friends who stay at brunch so long, the wait staff resorts to force to get them to leave. [ light laughter ] here it is in a sentence, "after the seventh pitcher of sangria, it was clear that none of us were going anywhere. soon our table was surrounded by a team of waiters and the manager. they laid siege on us for hours and we lost five devote 'brunch davidians' in the raid. [ laughter ] to this day, i still remember kyle's last words. you can take my freedom, but you'll never take my mimosa." [ laughter and applause ] where they letting teens have mimosas at brunch? [ laughter ] there's a ton of holes in "brunch davidians." [ laughter ] our next new teen slang term is "corsage a trois." it means when you're having so much trouble ge