#2908 McBee Dynasty S02E01: Big Farma

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1:52Ben Mandelker: ronnie carrom hi ronnie how's it going well hello how are you buddy i am just dandy we are here to talk about the premiere ish season premiere bravo premiere series premiere but show that already existed uh mcb dynasty today uh before we get into that just some scheduling updates we're going on a little july 4th vacay so we're taking off thursday friday monday and tuesday so uh we're going to throw up some of our uh some we did some episodes that we recorded along the way uh some classic episodes uh when we're on the road so some people have been like where are we going to hear those episodes well guess what you're going to hear them this coming up uh while we're on break but that being said we are going to be on break so some stuff you won't be able to hear um like not here but meaning like we're not gonna have a blow deck recap next week etc so just bear with us while we take a little break miami below deck atlanta won't be on so that'll be missing and this and this and mcbee yeah so just thanks ahead of time for your patience you just want to take a little break but that being said we are here today for some mcbee dynasty oh and if you're new to crappens because you came over from the previous season of mcbee or whatever welcome we have a patreon patreon.com slash watch for crappens where we offer uh usually it's a weekly bonus episode But right now it's like a lot per week because we're covering Love Island, usually about three times per week on Patreon.

3:19Ben Mandelker: Also, we do something called Crappens on Demand where you don't just listen. You can actually watch us. Every episode we do is streamed and it's available exclusively on Crappens on Demand for a week before we put it onto YouTube. So if you want to get the full Crappens experience, go to patreon.com slash watch for Crappens. We also have like a really wonderful Discord community, which you can get access to through our Patreon. So with that all being said, it is time to dive into McBee Dynasty. So I was aspiring to watch season one of the McBee Dynasty leading up to this. But then I thought, you know what?

3:51Ben Mandelker: I'm going to watch this like a Bravo viewer, which is I'm going to go into this blind. And I'm just going to go in starting where it's being presented on Bravo. But you, Ronnie, you watched all of season one leading up to this. Did you not? I did. I watched all of season one. Loved it. I couldn't believe it's coming to Bravo because it's not really a Bravo style show. It's not like an hammer and all of that. It's Cowboys. So I was kind of surprised it was coming to Bravo. But what a trashy, garbagey show. I loved it. I loved the first season. I fell in love with Jesse. What a hottie. Oh, my God.

4:24What a hottie.

4:25Ben Mandelker: Jesse's the longer-haired one. He's the long-haired one. Yeah, he's the hottest of those brothers. He's so cute. And then Steve's kind of cute, but he's like big Lego looking. And then Cole's like the loser brother. and now the sad thing is that the father um is going to jail he will be in jail uh and that's why he's not on this season but he was the main character in the first season so you missed all of him then so you'll have to watch it maybe one day you'll fall in love with this you'll go watch it but the dad's just like this and these kids their lives are being ruined by women's the women's are always trying to trick my boys into being in a relationship the dad was cheated on the mom with galena who's the russian lady running the hedge fund try and then go in the whole season he kept saying yeah kids come on we gotta get this together we can't have another insurance call the insurance people are real sick of us filing insurance well it turns out it's because he was filing fraudulent insurance claims up to like four million dollars and his ass is going to priz okay so that's why the dad's not here and you know all this stuff went down and i was like this is definitely Bravo worthy.

5:33I mean, you've got a whole cast that could go to jail at any minute. All you really need for this show is Galena anyway, because she's amazing. She's an amazing character. So anyway, it's rambling, but loved the show. And I'm so glad to be at least covering one of them here. Who knows? Who knows how this will go? But at least we're going to cover one.

5:50Ben Mandelker: It's so funny, because I thought this premiered on Sunday because we got a screener. So I watch it Sunday afternoon. And then I just, for some reason, I just thought it was premiering on Sunday. and then on Monday I was like I wonder how people are receiving this show because it really did not feel like a Bravo show to me at all like not just because it has to do with like like cowboys but it just it felt like Bravo shows have a certain feel and a vibe and a tempo and this show like to me had none of that and so I was like I wonder how people are going to receive it and I was like wow no one's even talking about the show what a colossal flop for Bravo like I was like there's not no one posting anything in our Facebook group I'm not seeing anything on Reddit I'm not seeing anything people there's not a single tweet about this i was like i just did i searched for hashtag the mcb dynasty hashtag mcb dynasty everything and not a single tweet and then i saw it hadn't even premiered yet i was like okay that explains it but yes today i did look and people are talking about it um but yeah uh so why don't we dive in on this crazy crazy new show but well show but it's a new place to replace the dad steven senior um he was the one who narrated everything so they got rid of him and so now we have his like henchman the lady who does everything around the farm tessa and the whole part of the first season was her going you know boss you're right even though he was always wrong and doing illegal shit and cheating on people she'd be like i get what you're coming for boss i get what you're coming from man let's take care of the children because that's what she calls all these grown men so now the new narrator is tessa and she's like it all started with one man's dream this man steve mcbete all he wanted was to be a patch of missouri farmland that no one could ever take away from him and his sons the children but they set their sights on building a billion dollar industry only problem was they were growing too fast and they took on a pot load of debt uh her and then we see a flashback from last season where the dad is like if we don't make it work they'll take my heart my house your house everything we own and then And Steven Jr.

7:57Ben Mandelker: is like, we'd rather die than watch this place go down. So then Tess is like, the boss man cooked up an idea to save the farm by investing 100 million of venture capital into the car washes. And so his big plan was, OK, in order to get venture capital. So first of all, what he does is he'll buy a lot of stuff and then he'll add that to what he owns. And then he'll say, OK, well, my estate is now that I've got all these new tractors, my estate is worth 20 million dollars. So then he'll get a bigger loan and then he'll buy more shit and say, OK, my estate's bigger. So he keeps like building up all of these loans.

8:34And so because he didn't have enough of a thing to get a hedge fund, I don't even think he knows what a hedge fund is, to be honest, because he thought, yeah, we got this venture capital thing coming up. So we got a venture capital hedge fund thing. We better be nice to Galena. Am I right?

8:50Ben Mandelker: And so hedge fund is obviously a go fund me for planting bushes around your farm. It's a hedge fund. Right. Well, he had no idea what it is. I still don't think he knows what it is. And so he was OK. So the lady who was going to be running the hedge fund is Galena, right? The Russian lady that works there. But he's also fucking Galena. But then he's also cheating on Galena on camera with multiple people. Like one other lady he's going on dates with and all this. And then he's cheating on her with this young girl in Nashville. I mean, he's cheating all over the place. Like she's never going to find out.

9:24And Galena loses her shit every single time. So she's the one in charge of this hedge fund. And because they didn't have enough, they decided they'll open all these car washes. Right. So they open up all the car washes. And now people are like, well, OK, but you've just had these car washes for five minutes. We're not giving you a hedge fund. And so at the very end of the season of season one, Galena finds out. They are not giving us dead fund money. And he's like, what? I can't believe it. This didn't work out. So the dad goes on the run because now he's fucked. He's taken out all of these loans.

9:57He's filed all this insurance fraud and all this stuff to keep going. And now he's not going to get this hundred million dollars. So he literally just got in his truck and ran away.

10:07Ben Mandelker: Wow. You know, I feel like the last people on Bravo to lean into car washes were the Manzos. And that didn't really work out so well either. So I think like if you're reality star, car washes are not the way out. Okay. And it's not every day that a hundred million dollars goes walking out that their door. They bet their firm money. Unfortunately, they lost poor old boss, man. He took it harder than anyone. Hell, he just skipped it and head out of town. Now it's time for the oldest boy to take the reins and all the hell that goes with it. Yeah. Also, the other people that really jumped into car washes was Breaking Bad to launder all the drug money.

10:46so that's the first thing i thought when i saw the car washes i was like uh guys this has been done and we all know it's a criminal enterprise okay so you know yeah so now after tessa gave a

10:59Ben Mandelker: whole uh backstory that included the stuff everything you said um then we go to gallatin missouri where tessa and the employees are in the kitchen at the mcb farm so we see cole oh this was funny to me because i feel like after she does her whole intro we then sit through five minutes of watching the stars of this show with their backs to us because it's like we cut back and forth between like cole and um steve jr washing dishes and or steve jr is cooking something at his stove and cole's washing dishes and it's like two cross-cutting scenes of these two guys they're literally their backs of the camera i was like this is a great start to the show love this excited to meet the stars here.

11:38Ben Mandelker: It's reality. So, Cole, Cole's the youngest brother, and he's the biggest loser. Like, he's really dumb, and he's not hot, right? Because the other two brothers are hot as fuck. Like, one of them's from Joe Millionaire, that's Steve, and then Jesse, I mean, Jesse's just hot as hell. Like, everybody loves Jesse. And then you've got Cole with his tiny little mouth, and he's like, I should win this farm. I'm not the best at running the farm. Nobody trusts me with shit. I mean, that guy knows money, sure, but I know how to clean a horse. And they're like, Like, yeah, it's not really about cleaning horse, bro.

12:07And so he's always trying to undermine his brothers. But he's the biggest loser. And so he went off and gained a ton of weight. And I don't know. He had one of the biggest season two changes. But he's also the biggest shithead. So it's kind of nice to see him not doing great.

12:24Ben Mandelker: There's like a dust off about how he was on Twitter thrown around the F word for years, years and years. Like, shut up, you liberal F word. Shut up, you liberal F word. That does not shock me. Yeah. So I'm not surprising at all. Yeah. So I'm glad he got fat. That's what you get, Cole. I mean, it was from 2000 calories. Okay. Now it was all the way back in 2017. So I will allow people to grow and change, but I have a feeling he probably has not. So, um, we, he says things like this, Ben. So they use the clapboard in front of his face for his interview. And he goes, did DJ Khalid use that? it's like his only point of reference yeah he's like hip-hop am i right he it's about to start getting real busy around here first of all we're going to get into fall calving season on the farm where the cows have their babies and you check them every day and you make sure there's no complications so we like to call it cow er you know we play the music and then we say i need 10 seeds of milk stat and then we milk the cow it's fun yeah you know we have calving season we want to make sure those cows are healthy before we kill them and eat them so and jesse's like yeah and at the same time the farm has a harvest season it's coming up here pretty quick and so you know they're explaining harvest season whatever that means and steve's like yeah and fall harvest season that's the most important time because we've got six million dollar payment that's due by november 1st and if that doesn't happen the world is going to sink in on itself and we're all going to die yeah so then we uh see steve jr and his girlfriend kala and they're working outside and kala's like last year steven and i made it instagram official a lot has happened since then because steven and i have been through a lot of ups and downs and so we see like flashbacks of all the stuff they went through last season and she's like we've gone through a lot together but we love each other and the only times we're really ever had major issues is when other people get involved and then And she spends the rest of the season, the rest of the episode complaining that other people didn't get involved in their life.

14:27Ben Mandelker: Truly. Okay. So her backstory is she met Steve Jr. on Joe Millionaire. And she was a contestant. And I guess she won with him or something. So that's how they met. So she's long distance. But he, last season, he's like, you literally cannot meet a man or meet a woman where I live. There's no women. There's, like, men. And then everyone who's here is married. Like, there's nowhere to date. If you go on Tinder, there's literally no one. And so I have to stick with this chick who lives in like Nashville or some shit. So it's very romantic. He's like, I stay with Kala because there's literally no one else.

15:01So the dad hates Kala because she's like a strong, independent woman. And the dad thinks women are just trying to steal his children from him. Like the dad wants to just go out and party with his kids and get laid everywhere they go. And the women get in the way. But Kala is not going to stand for it. But then also Kala gets super wasted and tells everybody off. And so the dad thinks that she's not enough of a lady for his men. Meanwhile, he's fucking three people at the same time. It's fucking. Yeah. Okay. So that's Alice thing. So now she's super upset, but we'll find out later. So now we go to Cole and his girlfriend, Casey, who I normally like, but, um, she's, she's trying me today.

15:42Ben Mandelker: Hmm. Yeah. Cause she's pregnant, right? She's the pregnant girlfriend. Well, she's not trying me cause she's pregnant. That didn't, sorry. I didn't mean it that way. hit that pregnant witch she's reproducing women they just want to trap you and have babies so um they're just like cleaning and talking about having a baby and casey's like cole and i weren't talking about having children and the baby was unplanned but we're both very excited in fact the doctor well we had an ultrasound and the doctor said if you listen closely you can hear the baby using the f word already so we're just so proud she's like this is all i wanted since i met him but you know i just ever since i met him i knew i loved him casey you are such a fucking liar that is not true she told the story of when they met last time they met with a group of friends and he was kind of a wuss and didn't do anything and then they saw each other a few months later and like he made a move or something but it was never like i just knew i always loved him but now she's pregnant so she's changed her story it's like it's a love story for the ages so cole's saying yeah but you know you'll be doing most you'll be doing most of feeding though and the last few weeks they've been really feeling up i think something looks a little different she's a free boob job he's like no i was talking about the cows it's calving season coming up i think they're gonna have a bunch of calves can't we just latch that baby onto a cow and watch it go when i met him back in 2019 that's just always what i wanted when i first met him i I said, I knew I loved him.

17:07Ben Mandelker: And though through the last six years, I've never seen myself with anyone else. Like literally there's no one else for me to choose from. So I literally can't see myself with anyone else. Like I literally, I cut out my picture and tried to attach to someone else's photo. And it was just a picture of grass. I was just sad. So it just took us a long time to figure it out. That's all. Now, did I end up with the tiniest mouth hole, no lift motherfucker on this family? Sure. But you know what? You take what you get. That's what I always say. I'm going to make my kids settle. settling settling McBee does he sort of look like Meryl Streep doing some sort of very strange farm role perhaps but I kind of think that's attractive he's like yeah I mean we're going to have a kid Jesse now that you're getting married this year you got bigger boobs things are crazy faggito burrito come on Cole we're on TV like that's what he'd make a lead would say so now we go over to Jesse and his fiancee Ali they're bringing in horses and Jesse's like what do you have going on this week?

18:07Ben Mandelker: She's like, dress fitting for the wedding. Oh, yeah. Have our invites been sent out? No. Do you have Cal on the list? No. Yeah, so this is very much this couple not even having wedding invites. I believe that. So we go back to Steven Jr. He's cooking eggs in his tail. And Cal is there in the kitchen with him. And he's like, I'm excited for this barbecue. we're gonna play volleyball swim in the lake have fun and it's important because we run this town you know and it's important to keep the town not resentful at us because you know if they are and we're not gonna be able to pay that six million dollars everything's gonna fold in on itself we're all gonna die she's like oh my god he's like you're gonna talk to the girls and she's like i don't know like i don't know if i even want to initiate a conversation because like my sister died and like no one even texted me like what the fuck like that's bullshit my sister died and no one can you even text me?

19:02Ben Mandelker: Yeah, so she does tell the story. Her sister, she was really close with her. They sleep in each other's beds most nights and then she died and she was struggling with addiction and, you know, and then she was, Kala was upset because she got texts from, like, people that she's known for, like, hasn't even talked to in five years, but then her potentially future sister-in-laws wouldn't even text her, which I think is pretty shitty. So she's, like, really mad. Well, until we find out why later, but I still think it's shitty, you know yeah i still it's it's pretty shitty so um he's like well i talked to my brothers about it and they didn't know what to say you know they just didn't feel like you were very approachable you know it's very important if you want people to be there for you when your sister dies you need to be a more approachable person about it okay if you want to be hugged you need to be huggable kella okay this is your fault and then we go back to jesse and ali and jesse's like well I do regret not texting her I wish we would have now and Ally's like I agree she's like yeah looking back on it I thought it was the right thing to just stay out of it because I didn't think she'd want to hear from us she's like yeah Ally had no interest in texting her you can just tell and I like that he wishes that he did the bare minimum too he's not like we should have called her or sent her flowers or let her know that we were there for her he's like I guess we could have just sent a text so then back to steven he's like yeah you know this tension between casey alley calla listen to all those names casey alley calla okay uh it puts me in the worst place possible literally between a rock and a hard place because i'm the leader of this family now and kella's like i mean they could at least reach out and be like oh my god i'm so sorry for you like jesus but like i'm not gonna beg somebody to be a decent human being to me Well, you meant the right family because they're not going to do that for you.

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22:45Ben Mandelker: now we go back to cole and casey now they're feeding baby cows and casey's like they're getting big do you think our baby will eat this fast like i don't know hey dixie down the bottle look at that thing it's already gone huh hey so kala you guys still haven't you guys haven't talked to kala yet have you she's like no and i wouldn't go out of my way to be rude to her not talk to her but the last thing that we knew is that that they were broken up and she moved back to texas says Stephen told us not to speak to her anymore. So it turns out Stephen had told everyone not to. So Stephen told this family, too.

23:14Stephen tells everybody not to speak to her, and he's the boss now, so they don't speak to her. And then Stephen's acting like, well, they just didn't know what to say about it, honey, instead of saying, I told them they couldn't speak to you. You see? Fucking liars. Every guy in this family is a big liar, by the way, except Jesse. So then Cole, back to Cole, he's like, yeah, I mean, at the end of the day, you ain't DJ Khalid if you're not DJ Khalid. I'm all right. and it's up to you to do what you want to do i'm not going to support you obviously in our kid but you know i do want to keep my relationship with my brother so you better make up with with cala okay you better do it well i never i never asked you not to do that why are you saying

23:52Ben Mandelker: that it's like well do what you want i said a million times i've fixed things and i never i never said anything anything mean i never came at either of them before now you want to make me feel like this why are you doing this to me he's like now i know you haven't said that it's like i know but you act like i'm the one that's doing it you're the ones making me feel better yeah because of course these fucking guys are like hey steven doesn't want you calling calling callus so don't do it like okay and then the second call is back in the picture they're like man the girls are bitches aren't they god let's blame it all on the girls yeah and he's like yeah yeah i just don't want to lose my relationship with my brother because you didn't you didn't text Kala and she's like but wait I didn't you told me not to text her yeah exactly he's like so I'm gonna lose my relationship with my brother by going behind his back and taking out a 2.5 million dollar loan on some land he's like look you did nothing wrong and I don't want you to get stressed out like this you're a woman okay you don't understand things in life that is your role and it's just a bunch of dumb drama it's like women drama honestly if you think about it but it's between the men which is strange and it's really because they break up all the time and they can't fix their own relationship cows are for milk and not for fighting okay honey it's like i always say she's got really bad pregnancy hormones because the first year casey said nothing i think she said she would be like hey um steve's or cali told us that steve gives her like ten thousand dollars at a time y 'all better start giving us some money but other than that she really never said anything and this is the most line she's ever had in a row i can't believe you please sit down so then we go to the mcb car wash and we get to see my favorite character galena yes so steve is like good morning everybody obviously we're about to start harvesting everything so let's get right to it she's like yes yeah i'm like literally starting to have panic attack over our yields I'm having panic attack over yield.

25:51Okay? I go to bed, I think yield. I wake up in the morning, I think yield. I cannot go to the bathroom without thinking yield.

25:59Ben Mandelker: He's like, yeah, well... Intersections, I don't think yield. Ironically. Intersections, I don't think yield. All right, everyone. Well, in the financial state of the farm, we are leverage out. We got close to$7 million in debt between payroll, meat facilities, seed fertilize, a fulfillment center, moisturizer, vehicles, fuel, repair cattle, utility towels, insurance, little cute seasonal decorations that you get at Target from the Joanna Gaines section. Buy a lot of those. Medicine, attorney. It all keeps me up at night. We could lose our entire company immediately. Here's what we're going to focus on.

26:34Meat. That's it. Meat. I'm letting thousands go. I'm letting go of thousands of acres. Ranching is at an all-time high for cattle prices, and that's where we need to be going. Meat. so then we go to jesse cole and jake who's a farm hand who i think is a meth head i'm not sure so then jake's like um we get no one alleged that i'm just going off face so jake's like uh yeah we get big big big bad steven up here instead of at the gym look at that someone's coming to work instead of working out wow big brother look at him coming to work are you sure are you sure you I want to do some squats, big boy.

27:15Ben Mandelker: And Cole's like, well, he's too busy to work. You know, don't you know, he's got to get his lifts in. He can't be building fences on the farm, right? It's like, well, boys, I got news for you. I think he dropped a big, big chunk of the farm. We already dropped Weller and Mylon and Miseville and Mercer Miller and Mylon and Watermelon. Watermelon County dropped. And I'm assuming you probably are not aware of that yet, are you, Cole? and cole's like well yeah steven's plan ain't as bulletproof as what he thinks you guys he's selling off your stuff because your dad filed fake insurance claims and you have to pay back the government i'd love that they're that all of them like fucking steven and is working out in his hotness he's just had to ruin us all so we see a flashback of all the brothers in the office and steven's just like yelling at them he's like the plan to escape here is we're gonna call it get the fuck out of farming.

28:06Ben Mandelker: And we're going to focus on the meat company and the cattle. And I know that there's going to be growing pains. I know it. But we're getting the fuck out of farming. And you can believe me, guys, because I've got a white board. The white board. Look, I'm writing this down. Fuck farming. Okay? I'm circling it and making a pyramid. What does it mean? Nobody knows, but meat. Meat. Okay? We have a plan because I've drawn a very simplistic bar graph. Okay? First bar shows like smiley faces how happy we are second bar shows pecan pies how many pecan pies we're gonna make for thanksgiving third bar debt notice it's down it's the negative one that says we owe seven million dollars so now we got a plan that bar chart was so fucking funny he's like look this is this is us doing good happiness whoa doing bad it's all the way down you understand now seven million dollars in debt it's below the line see that's bad so back to the closer to hell Yeah, back to the car wash.

29:04Steven's like, yeah, I mean, our payments for all the loans we got. I mean, by the end of the year, we need to have six million in the banks by November. And Galena goes, oh, yeah, a minimum, a minimum of that, you know, and the crop prices, they suck. And, you know, the thing is with cattle operation, we're not trapulated and we're not trapped into regulated price. We can charge based on our quality. You know, you have a prettier cow. It goes much better than for ugly cow. That's just it. so i say we give lip injections to the cows we color up the cows we can make more money that's

29:37Ben Mandelker: just it it's simple math yeah galena is part owner for all of our companies because of everything she does the financial side i need her now more than ever because you know crop prices are crap we should just call them crap crap prices so then we go back to cole and he's like oh yeah boss steven greatest thing i love to run everything he knows everything saving just his numbers if we're up to him and there was money somewhere else he would get rid of the farm in a heartbeat it's like well the farm's set at six million dollars in debt so yeah i think if i think that sounds like a pretty good idea maybe get rid of this farm why steven thinks he can run a business by only thinking about numbers yeah stupid i think he's supposed to be thinking about so uh then tessa pulls up her truck to steve's house uh steve senior's house this is the dad's house so now Now we see Masha, who's this new blonde, and she's driving a Porsche, which they are sure to get five close-ups of different angles of the Porsche logo on this car.

30:37And so Tessa's like, whoa, I'm going to put this as kindly as I can. Boss man, he tried it in last year's model for a new one.

30:49Ben Mandelker: Tessa's loving this, by the way. Yes, she is really loving it. And so Masha's like, hello, Tessa. And she's like, now this is not the place to wear heels. You got to take those heels off, Russian city lady. And she's like, no, I noticed that gravel. It's very strange. So Tessa's like, I mean, I started to laugh, but it's just that you can't make this stuff up. So she brings Masha into this house. This is Steve Senior's house, this big house. And she's like, I can't believe you're coming to the farm in this attire. You're going to ruin them heels in 2.5 seconds. Now the boss is out of town and he said I was supposed to bring you in here.

31:24Ben Mandelker: So here's the key. Here's the key to the house. Now, you understand this is a light switch. You turn the lights on and off. You turn it up, you turn it on, and now turn it off. You understand that? Masha's like, yes, I've been in the house before. I understand the light switch. Child, I hope you know what you're doing coming up in here. This is dangerous territory, Hill, where you could die looking like that in this house, goddamn idiot woman. And so the producer's like, okay, well, tell us who this Masha is. Is she the Galena replacement? and she goes damn straight the russian thing's been you know you know new it's not new you know i mean this is the second one in a row well you got just a bus of russians coming over here okay look this is how it looks most of the time this is the kitchen gunner ain't potty trained he's a bad child you're a bad child if gunner gives you any problem just threaten to put him down or something kick him outside this is how it is this is the sink it turns on with a knob do you know how knobs work, Misha.

32:21She's like, um, I understand how things work. I'm a stupid

32:26Ben Mandelker: lady. Okay. So then Tessa says, I'll tell you what, the things that my boss gets me into, it seems like I'm always doing your dirty work. And then we see a flashback, which I'm sure you can provide some more context as to what was happening in the scene with these girlfriends and Galena and Messiness. Because Galena had her car in the shop. No, no. So Galena, so So Stephen Sr.'s girlfriend that he was cheating on Galena with was named Brooke. And so Brooke had her car in the shop, so she needed to borrow a car. So he loaned her Galena's car without telling her. So Brooke took out Galena's car and crashed the car.

33:06And so the car place called Galena was like, oh, we've got your car. And she went to pick it up. She's like, what the fuck happened to my car? She's like, this fucking whore. You gave my car to your fucking whore. and it became this huge fight. She's like, I'm walking out of this business and hedge fund. It is either her eye. It is her eye. There. It's a decision. He's like, oh yeah, this is the last time you get to give me an ultimatum.

33:33Ben Mandelker: I love that that's what his takeaway is. Not like, oh, I shouldn't have done this. So, um, Tessa's like, well, man, this is awkward to do. And do you find this quite awkward? Like, what do you think about this? She's like, no, I don't find awkward this. What happens people meet people to friends that is life you know so well i hope you don't mind if i overset my bounds you might just tell me she's like no it is fine it is fine i understand you know i am i am gold digger and this is how it goes all right well let me give you all the tea masha first met steve mcb through old galena and then we see a flashback to last season where galena's like oh it is masha masha i would love you to meet steve the love of my life and uh so we know that masha made her way in there through and stole that man stole that man so tess is like okay well this is a kitchen this is where things are cooked you probably won't be able to do it i'll probably do it because i'm the one who takes care of the children no i i i've been here before so i'm just dropping off my stuff and I'm going to check on chickens.

34:43Ben Mandelker: Oh, I see. Just a little advice, by the way, make sure that you have to boss if it's okay to start messing around with this little nest because, you know, those chickens, you gotta be careful with them. She's like, oh, fine. I like chicken. He told me, do whatever you want to do. If you want to poison Galena, that is okay. So bring whoever you want to bring. Well, I think I've got it from here. Thank you for the key. I hope to see more of you here, stupid old lady. Okay, well, I hope to see you too in more reasonable shoes so now kawa goes and meets with galina at a cafe then in their town and so they they get like iced chai and chocolate mocha i was like wow how city city like and so they like sit on a bench and everything and cause like she's like you don't really come up to gallatin too much anymore do you though right she's like no not really not as much as I used to.

35:35Ben Mandelker: It's been quite a bit of changes happening, so tell me about you and Steven, so that way I can be distracting myself from the betrayal of Steven Sr. Oh yeah, we're doing good. Are you sure? And they start laughing. It's like, yeah, because my sister passed, and she goes, oh, I'm so sorry to hear about that. I was going to maybe text you, but then I thought, why waste some money? You know what I mean? Like, thank you. But I didn't really get what I needed from him at that time, and the girls. Like, what bitches? Like, we were close. like i remember we hung out one time and i told them that steven gives me twenty thousand dollars sometimes or there was like this other time where we like had toast together so like we were super close and they didn't even text me and i was shitty and like am i am i being sincere right now or is that weird like am i sincere just no it's it's weird i i'm it's my second language but i think you're using sincere on no i'm like totally sincere about it i'm pissed okay but you know they're guys like you cannot date mcb and expect sensitive am i right what fucking losers honestly like yes because like exactly what you're saying right now steven does to me all the time and it makes me so mad like okay like so what is going on with steve by the way steve senior like are you single are you dating she's like i am definitely single look i have breakup makeup on okay just i'm just going to lay it out yeah single and ready to mingle well not really mingled there's no one here i mingled with lamp post but that didn't really go so well we're going to go on a second date anyway but he doesn't really talk because he's object but whatever you know steve was my boyfriend steve and i broke up because i found out he was fucking my friend masha slot while i was still living in the house i was so severely backstab and i wasn't going to just die from it it's like yeah well i wanted to hear it from you the source rather than hear from everybody else like i'm so sincere right now it's like well i I moved out of Lodge and have my own house in Kansas city.

37:29I cut my hair. I redone the way I do my makeup. I mean, I'm trying to give heal. I'm like, yeah, that's healing. And she did get the second season housewife glow up where it's like Botox, Botox haircut, good hair dye, hair comb. I mean, Galena needed some work and she looks great. She came back. But it's like a USA network.

37:47Ben Mandelker: It's like a USA network glow up, which is different from the Bravo glow up. Cause the Bravo glow up also involves usually like a totally new face. And she just has like, like more like eyeliner on i think she did some filler eyeliner and um better way better hair like maybe some kristastin or whatever they call that what is it kristos and kristos yes she got the lisa barlow treatment yeah so kala's like well i knew after you had already moved into the new house i think like we went over for dinner or something and masha was there without you and I was like, that's weird. I'm so sincere about that.

38:23Ben Mandelker: Everybody thought it was like very fucked up. Did anyone text you about it? Because no one texted me. Did you know that anything about it while it was happening? Like she literally just like snuck in. She's like, oh, yes, she did. And she was like the biggest freaking backstabber ever. So Galina says how like Masha starts reaching out to me. And I'm like, oh my gosh, somebody from country, home country that can speak my language. We had something, I thought, in common. Yeah, they met 13 years ago and were each other's only Russian friends in this town. and Masha came in and snaked the man. And it's cold because you see the clips of her being like, oh, Masha, I'm so good to meet you.

38:57Masha's like, oh, it's so good to only befriend and be completely respectful in situation. I mean, ultimately, obviously, it's Steve Sr.'s fault, but this is still super shitty of this Masha chick. Yeah, it really is. So then Cal is like, yeah, she's a stick. And she goes, gold digger whore has her moves. Everything's so sneaky behind back. they were laying straight to my face they were lying straight to my face and she goes you know and people come to me and say you're not the first one she does it to she done it to multiple men and women you know she befriend woman she pretends she knows her language and then she go after man this is her way to support herself and kala's like yeah that's disgusting

39:40Ben Mandelker: yeah well you know what she told steve she's taking entire summer off to focus on him ridiculous i'd be on trip and she'd be like oh can i come to lodge and i'd be like well that's weird i'm not there but i trust you i literally said the exact words i trust you i wish i had said i trust you bitch slut fucking whore i would never do that to other woman ever ever would i do that and then kella goes um yeah i think that galena has amnesia because like um you were the other woman like you did the exact same thing to christy mcb like they had children involved too that's fucked up too i didn't know this that she the galena knew christy the wife the first wife and like befriended her i guess and then snaked the man away god steven's such a pig too she goes i mean galena's situation is more fucked up than the masha galena situation but she doesn't say that because she's not a total idiot yeah she's like you know i think that like masha's staying up at the lodge so i just want to make sure that you're aware of that so you guys don't run into each other she's like yes yes no of course thank you for letting me know that i will absolutely not go to the lodge to see her i will not do that at all i'm not furious at all i have no feeling about this nothing you know i need to go to the restroom i will be right the back she gets up and walks off and cali goes you guys do you think she's gonna leave i just see galina jump in her car and speed the out of there and she gets on the phone she's like you motherfucker you will die in sleep okay I found out your little whore.

41:13Your whore is here. This fucking gold digging whore has balls to show up again. You don't give a fuck. I hope this fucking whore goes to hell. Okay. I'll give her that much. This cheap whore got some ball, but no brain. If you are satisfied with your message, press one. Oh, sorry. The mailbox is full and cannot accept.

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43:12Ben Mandelker: Then we go back over to Steve Jr. He's arriving at the offices on the farm and Galena is there. This is a whole other scene. And he's like, hey, Galena, what are you up to? She's like, oh, perfect timing. She's like, yeah, well, you look nice. Did you just come from the car wash? She's like, no, but that's not what I'm worried about right now. She's like, well, what do you got? She's like, well, I think you need to look at this. And it's basically documents about masha's car and he's like he's like is this is this about masha he's like yeah whatever whatever just another horse name i don't even track all the names of them whatever her name is he's like wait what what is this seven grand for her car seven thousand dollars in damage what happened to her car hood front door rear door rear lance rear bumper and we see pictures of my car which has mysteriously just been someone went to that lodge and beat up masha's car i was laughing so hard at this part i was cheering in my house i was like yes galena and steven's just looking at her she's like i don't know what happened it's crazy this lady's car i guess we have to pay for it now what a whore right and he's like um did you do this she's like nope i know galena and i can see that look in her eye they look crazy and that's when all bets are off and she does have those like little shining eyes like nope no no idea what happened to Carr I don't know no I don't know it took a Louisville slugger with both hands on but not to Carr just played baseball with it and he's like well I would say the odds are I don't know 0.11 % that this is true because I've seen Galena react to the other woman my dad's dated and then we see a clip of the other one these This whore, this whore crashed my escalade.

45:00Ben Mandelker: Yeah, it was 100 % Galena without a doubt. Seems like this has been a life story for my dad where he goes in, Captain KS, causing an absolute mess of things, and then I just have to follow behind him and pick up the pieces. And I've got so much going on right now that just trying to keep the damn farm and ranch alive. God, this has been shit. Oh my God, Galena, can you just put down that slugger? That was not her pulling into the parking lot. What are you talking about? What are you talking about? Can we just erase those Carrie Underwood MP3s from her phone, please? It's giving her too many ideas.

45:34So, Stephen's driving now, and the office manager calls him. He's like, hey, Stephen, how are you? So, I just wanted to call and let you know that the lease is fine lost on that ground up on Highway 69. He's like, what lease? Oh, you know, the one right across from the road from Cox. You know, it's brand new ground. You know, like 237 acres of coal was working on. don't you call you know cole your brother didn't he tell you about it first of all this is not new

45:59Ben Mandelker: york city or los angeles we don't allow around here okay so i don't even know what you're talking about um so how do you run a business and you don't know that someone is taking out money to sign a lease on a huge farm like that's crazy he needs to pay more attention yeah exactly so then Cole is at like a farm so Stephen shows up and then they're like okay we're gonna have a fight and this won't be scripted at all okay now let's start our fight so Stephen comes in he's like Cole did you sign a fucking lease without me I am angry and Cole's like yeah I did I signed a damn good lease I'm angry too yeah well you think you're a big boy now you wanna cut that check I'm still angry doing a good job being angry and this is genuine anger right now have you not I heard we need$6 million by November 1st.

46:52And he's like, well, I'm trying to do us a favor by making more money for us right now. I mean, what do you think? You can just work at and that's all you got to do? This is a money-making farm. I know about money-making farms. What part of, did you see the whiteboard? We are not farming. It said, fuck farming. Do you need me to show you the bar going down again for you to understand how much farming sucks?

47:12Ben Mandelker: Well, I'm trying to do us a favor by making money for us right now. I can tell you right now, this is money-making. I bet you right now there's 60 bushels of soybeans on it, every bit of it. I mean, it looks insane. If it wasn't for the farm, we wouldn't have nothing. Think about how everything started. Look at the meat facility from our cows, from our farm. Cole, I've got news for you. You've got nothing now. You're$6 million in that, bro. And that's just like the minimum payment, okay? And he's like, I'm not going to get screamed at like this after I'm just doing what right for our farm. we've always been bigger than the raw crop size Stephen's convinced there's no money left in it but I think it's just the best of what's to come so he wants to sell farms I'll keep buying farms then you're going to be paying for that damn lease out of your own account that was fucking dumb well we all know that Cole we know from last season Cole has$1 ,200 in his account so that's not going to happen so Cole's like well I do it every day and dad told me to have more confidence in myself and then we see a clip from last year where um steve senior is like hey you need to add more confidence in yourself i mean sure you're kind of a loser nobody believes in you because you suck at most things you do but you should really trust your instincts cole so yes the brothers are mad at each other and then we cut to tessa just being like amazing grace how sweet oh it's a tractor so she's like just singing it by the tractors.

48:46Ben Mandelker: And she's like, oh, Steven, I got a trivia question for you. I just heard this this morning. Okay, you see that little door hanging off that machine right there over there? What do you reckon that door's called? He's like, trap door. Yeah, that's the technical term. And if I'm lying, I'm dying. And God is my witness. It's called. Wait for it, everyone. Wait, wait, wait. Okay, is everyone listening? It's called the dribble door.

49:13it's like slapping yourself and like cracking up a dribble door can you believe it you know why because it keeps corn from dribbling out into the beans i reckon

49:24Ben Mandelker: that makes sense i make underwear with that why don't you laugh at my joke you think the dribble door is funnier than my joke okay wait hey you got a second oh wait hold on one second let me get into character I'm pissed as hell sorry I forgot I was angry I just had a very real angry scene with my brother so he's like can you believe Cole signed a new leak still it's a little bit of a bombshell I even showed him a whiteboard I mean what the heck you're upset but you know he's a boy and we're not allowed to be a boy mad at boys in this family he just gotta love him cause Cole's just trying to get his you know something good going on so you just gotta love him you gotta be a good brother to him but we can't just drop acres over here and over there because our expenses are locked in for like two three five years so how do i know he's even looking at one when the leases expire i mean when we when we can drop land over here to pick this up we can't do that she's like yeah i would have thought surely he would have checked on them um can we talk a little bit more about the dribble door i wasn't quite done with that discussion yet well you know cole's got such a tiny mouth and he doesn't got any lips and he's always looked up to you and i'm sure he was just trying to make you proud i'm sure he was okay you've just been so wonderful with them boys y 'all know how to use the sink thanks to me okay you watch over him you you bring him through the good and the band i know your heart i know it be good to your brother she just is like i'm just gonna cry so this guy gets out of my face and i keep go back to laughing at the dribble door so she's like those boys working together sometimes like oil and water and i guess i'm the impartial judge because i love oil and water together you ever put it on a sale of course you don't that's for gay folk anyway they don't with i love them equally and i could no more choosing then nothing whatever i want that dribble door so steven jr's like well maybe he did look it up and he's got a plan in place but he should have called me first you know well you gotta you gotta remember that you've got a penis and he's got a penis so you've got a mutual enemy vaginas concentrate on that by the way if i told you i'm sorry for having a vagina i'm so sorry i mean 300 acres rows 300 acres row crops row crops times 200 bucks an acre.

51:49Ben Mandelker: Can you do that math? 18? Yeah. I can't do it either. And all I know is that we're really expensive. I'm just going to say it's a$60 ,000 mistake. Well, you got every right to be concerned. Thank God he's got you, boss man. Listen, we've all got to be on the same page moving forward. And if the left hand isn't talking to the right hand, that means that someone's masturbating, okay? so we're going to end up completely flopping in the pan with the farm so then we go to Casey and Cole and Casey is feeling insecure because she's pregnant she's put on a little sundress for this party and she's like do I look weird and he goes no you look cute like a little Amish girl such an idiot why would you have a thing with this person my god he's like so I'm excited about Jester's barbecue tomorrow you know who's coming and she's like scholar Baylor Braden I'm just going to list stupid names and hope some of those people show up.

52:45Scarlet, Baylor, Braden, Dating, Shooting, Putin, Blotting, Dottting, Blotting, Dottting.

52:52Ben Mandelker: So then Tessa and Calla arrive at the farm and Tessa's like, how are you feeling, sweet thing? She's like, oh, it's just a little, I don't know, a little spicy gal. Well, listen, you could literally see the steam coming off. Are you girls all right? She goes, yeah, I mean, it's whatever. and then we see a flashback to Kala like complaining to Galena saying that no one sexed her she's like well there's been a lot of stuff going on I just want to make sure you especially you girls are okay you know having vaginas and such you're prone to making mistakes she's like yeah well we've just been on a weird page since my sister left like nobody really reached out to me or said like one word to me about it so I'm just like kind of hurt by that it's just been a lot yeah and she's like well you know Y 'all are girls, okay?

53:36Girls gotta stick together, because with that, girls, who's gonna support the children? Okay? You gotta forgive them. They don't understand bad sisters dying, okay? You guys gotta understand them. Please lift up these boys. Please lift them up. I can't do it if these boys are upset.

53:54Ben Mandelker: I do get what you're saying. I just feel weird about initiating the conversation. I don't want to come off any type of way, and obviously my feelings are, like, really hurt by this. Well now listen Maybe you could say something like Hey girls my sister died Maybe you could text me Something like that Maybe just something like that Yeah 100 % I would like to get this behind me Because I'm already dealing with so much I made some brownies for this party And that took a lot out of me So I don't need this on my plate as well And Tessa's like Well I come from a family of tragedy Have you ever heard me sing the song About the dribble door it's a rough one it's a rough one friends are close you gotta keep them close to you honey my great my granddad's sister-in-law died by a dribble door so been wanting to know the name of that thing for many years finally vengeance will be mine so she's like yeah like 100 we should sit and talk about it but like like i'm already dealing with so much like i don't need this on my plate as well so so now we go to jesse and ali's farmhouse and they're opening up some frozen french fries but in the air fryer basically but it comes with seasoning so has green stuff on it they're like what's that that's gross it looks like spinach so then braden and jake walk in like hi look at our french fries what's got green stuff in it yeah it's french fries for seasoning what that's crazy yeah they're like that just didn't mix well what do we do so they end up throwing it away dumb asses so um jake comes over and he's like hi what kind of barbecue you guys have do you guys put any planning into this at all or what are we just gonna watch steven work out all day big boss man working out doing some scratches huh is that what we're gonna do is that a barbecue now just watching steven work out and then cole and casey arrive and i did love how um ali was just like look at this fucker because they cole and casey get out of the truck and she's full-on pregnant he just gets out of the truck and just walks to the house like does not he's not like waiting for her or anything he just starts walking to the house and ali's like look at him leaving Casey behind.

55:59Ben Mandelker: And I was like, oh, I love that Allie doesn't like this guy. Yeah, he's just a piece of shit, Cole. He's just the rudest. Like, he has no manners. He's an idiot. He's not hot. Like, there's nothing redeeming about this guy. No. So, Casey's like, oh my god, I'm having so much anxiety because, like, Stephen invited Cal and now Cal is really mad at me and I'm pregnant and I don't want to be stressed out about nothing. You know, I mean, I solve Cal mad whenever she gets mad with Stephen and I'm scared. I'm scared. so then kala just walks in and she's like hi i brought brownies and like no one says anything to her she's like no one even speaking to her they're so rude who doesn't be like hey kala so nice to see you back you doing okay i'm so sorry about your sister like at least try and make it better what the hell but then she says i mean they're protein brownies but they're like really good i swear so i can understand why they're like fucking witch you can't do that especially in the south show up with protein brownies and ally's like oh they actually don't look well not too bad i guess she's like well it's really hard for me to make effort because like it's like awkward in here so then casey just sees her because no one's speaking to her i think she's being perfectly nice but no one's speaking to her and so it's just silence in there and so casey's like oh my god my heart my heart please get me out of here i gotta go are you hurting do you need to leave do you need to go to the hospital okay um so casey she starts to like freak out and calls like oh my god i'm freaking out okay casey's not feeling good she just collapsed even though she was just sitting in her chair and didn't collapse at all but she wanted to stand up but she stayed sitting so i think that counts as collapsing right anyone and everyone's just surrounding her now in this room and they're like oh my god call the vet call the vet and uh kala's just sitting there like licking brownie off her finger like huh so um they're like oh my god what's going on with casey we got to get casey away from evil kala protein brownie kala and so they're like go call go leave leave leave and kala's like i literally have goosebumps like i don't like that at all i'm don't like like come on casey see me to come with you so they basically all like pile into the into the pickup truck like We're going to the Cameron hospital.

58:15Ben Mandelker: Casey's heart is really bad. She's going to explode any moment. She's going to give birth to a heart. Then they just leave Callis sitting in the kitchen like, okay, well, glad I came by. Yeah. And then we see clips of the season coming up. Real American Cowboys. And it ends with the FBI investigation and Galena being thrown in jail. Oh, my God. Yeah, it was a pretty wild trailer. I'm going to definitely give it to the show that served up a very strong, like coming up this season trailer, because I was like, wow, you got, I mean, if you got the FBI involved, that's always, that's always impressive and jail time and lots of fighting.

58:53Ben Mandelker: And there's, it was like a very high fighting trailer. I was like, okay, well, that's, that's definitely a good sign for this show. For sure. For sure. It definitely felt like a USA show to me and not just because it was rural. It did not feel like a Bravo show. But I'm like, I'm going to keep an open mind about it. You know, there's, there was definitely some entertaining stuff in there. I thought. Yeah. I'm interested to see what people think of it and how long it'll last. Cause yeah, I think they're going to like it. I feel like it's going to be a hit. Bravo put in a huge amount of marketing into this.

59:21Ben Mandelker: They did like, they literally created a whole show of like Nick B dynasty watch parties where they gathered their, all their talent to watch it. I mean, God forbid they put any of those resources into Real Housewives of Miami, a show that really deserves some sort of marketing budget. But I think that they really did. They've done a big push. And the show already does have an audience. And I think it's going to be one of those things where we're all going to be. Well, you've already watched the first season, so you're hooked. But I think for the rest of us, it's going to be like, I don't want to watch this show that's clearly for the USA, that they're just going to wedge onto Bravo.

59:51Ben Mandelker: That's just not right. But I think we're all going to get hooked. So I'm anticipating it. I'm just going to be chill about it and go along for the ride. Yeah. I mean, you never know. I mean, some shows that have taken off on Bravo, I never thought were Bravo. Exactly. Below deck. Still weird. Below deck. Below deck does so well on Bravo. So a hundred percent Vanderpump rules. Remember we hated that at first. So like this, get this show off our TV, but I'm like in terms of like shows where I've had like not an amazing, like initial reaction off of it. Like this one's far better than like, I mean like Vanderpump Villa is like my, that continues to be what I judge them all against.

1:00:24Ben Mandelker: Like, is it better than Vanderpump Villa? Much better. I remember the one that you hated the most out of every show. I think one of the only ones that you've ever said, no, we're not fucking covering this. Cause usually that's me who's like, no, I'm not doing it. But there was only one that you did that too. And it was that one about the mom group in like Santa Monica. And it was like get together and have mom meetings and stuff. And it was, they were trying so hard and you were just like, oh, hell no to this show. I will not do it. I did not like that one. I think in retrospect, I may have been too harsh on that one.

1:01:00Ben Mandelker: I also remember really outright rejecting, we both did, a show that Bravo tried to do called Lollwork, which was worse than you could ever. That's probably the very worst show that Bravo ever aired was Lollwork. That was just the stupidest, stupidest idea. Yeah, you never know. I was just watching this one because I had to put together furniture one weekend, and that's so hard, you know? And so I just needed something mindless. So I thought, I'll just check out this McBee thing. And at first I was like, we're never going to cover, there's no way, A, that Ben will cover this. And then B, I don't want to cover this either, really.

1:01:36I think we're going to agree that this sucks. But then as it started going on, I was like, oh, I can see the Bravo in it. And that they're fighting over millions of dollars first. So there is money there, even if it's fake and they don't really have it, which is very Housewives, right? and then the other thing was that the men are such assholes on it yeah which is very like southern charm and um summer house you know where you're always like kind of rooting against the men so i think that it has that you know boys will be boys boys just can't grow up and commit it's got that thing going for it but i don't know i ended up really loving it but mostly because of uh galena and steven senior who's just clearly even before all this stuff came out or that i knew about this stuff he's clearly a criminal and all of this stuff about oh we keep calling insurance we can't call insurance anymore i'm like here it's total fraud i mean it's just like the writing was on the wall you know so to watch them kind of get taken down was pretty fun and they get a lot for

1:02:35Ben Mandelker: a new cast you know yeah i i think that um it'd be interesting to see what bravo does with it i almost wonder are they going to slowly transition the show into more of a bravo tone because like bravo is more than just like showing luxury there's a certain way that they just present their shows that's almost hard to describe but like you can tell the difference between a show that airs on like a and e versus bravo versus usa versus e there's like a just like a different aesthetic a different pacing a different way of doing the editing and i wonder if they're like maybe we'll start the first episode a little bit more like usa so that with the old people who are like already fans will be the the base of the show won't feel alienated but we'll slowly tonally change it let's feel but fit more like the bravo vibe because that to me was really the issue for me was that just it had like it just felt like a different network on my well it's because it's peacock you know and but i think they figured well it gets huge ratings on peacock and then we've still got the straight guy audience with like summer house and vanderpump rule you know the straighter guy shows and so they're like we'll just play to that audience you know so i don't know that they'll bravo it up i think it's pretty good as it is honestly and look we're already getting mail like this we just got this email just came in hey loves listen to y 'all every day all i have to say is fuck steven jr he's such a cocksucker i wonder if he realizes how much of an asshole he acts like also on the first episode of the second season he doesn't even know what certain parts of a tractor are i couldn't stop laughing he's not a farm boy love wow well people are already feeling things so i guess there's that yeah we'll see how it goes bravo's trying all sorts of new things.

1:04:13Ben Mandelker: They've also got what's it called? Queen's Court that's coming out. That's like they're doing more dating stuff probably in the wake of Love Hotel, etc. So Bravo is definitely trying to expand its horizons for sure. Yeah. All right. Well, we'll see. We will be back not next week with this, but the following week we'll probably try McBee again. See how it goes. Let us know what you think. Do you even want us to cover it? Tell us what you think, guys. We'll listen. and thanks so much we will talk to you tomorrow bye everyone watch what crappens would like to thank it's premium sponsors ain't no thing like Alison King our way is the amber way it's the foster and the furious it's Amanda Foster she can run my country it's Angie McGovern it's always automatic with Ashley Otto put your hands together for Carly Clapp get on the right foot with Chrissy Offutt we never miss her call it's Diane Call Erin McNicholas, she don't miss no trick-a-less.

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