#3414 McBee Dynasty S03E01: Fraud Man Out

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2:03Ben Mandelker: howdy and welcome to watch what crappens a podcast about all that crap on bravo that we just love to talk about i'm ben mandelker and joining me today is the one and only ronnie carham hi ronnie how's it going well hello what are you doing oh i'm just settling in to talk about the season premiere mcb mcb dynasty which we're about to get into in about 45 seconds or so uh before we do that uh go check us out on patreon to watch video of our shining faces and also get a weekly newsletter that is free for all and also our bonus episodes and also ad free listening all the good stuff patreon.com watch what crap ends uh and other than that and also check out ronnie Ronnie was on Sarah Gailey's podcast.

2:55Ronnie Karam: Oh, Andy's Girls. Yeah, go check that out. Yeah, a lot of fun stuff happening, Ben. Did you already see your newsletter? I was texting.

3:02Ben Mandelker: I did not mention my newsletter, but I have my food newsletter, MBD Fancy, where I reviewed a super fab cookbook called Better at Home. So if you're in the market for a cookbook and you want to know all the deets and what you should cook from it, go check that out, mbdfancy.substack.com. And I'm sure anyone who's listening to the McBee Dynasty is like, what cookbook should I get that features someone who lives in Nova Scotia cooking, you know, like fish with Casabletrano olives? Like, that's the totally same audience as McBee Dynasty. Yeah.

3:39Ronnie Karam: Know your audience. And it is this one. The McBee Dynasty Season 3, Episode 1, Judgment Day.

3:47Ben Mandelker: Judgment Day. that is exactly what I was doing when I was watching this. I was passing judgment. That is for sure. Well, we are judgment gays.

3:57Ronnie Karam: So we are perfect title.

3:59Ben Mandelker: Yeah.

4:01Ronnie Karam: Here we are back with McBee dynasty. I know you're psyched this show. Wow. Bravo really is featuring the terrible men more and more on the channel in general. I think that they've realized it's going to make them so many featuring terrible men. I mean, every show now is basically centered on fucking terrible men. And this show is like their crown jewel, I think. Well, I don't know. They've still got Southern charm.

4:28Ben Mandelker: I'd say their crown turd more like. I think the thing is that, like, you know, there are terrible men on all these shows. And that's kind of a weird joy in watching all that. I think the big crime is to be not a terrible man, but to be a terrible man and also a boring man. And unfortunately, I feel like that's something that the McBee Dynasty does do, unfortunately for me. But, you know, hey, new season, new attitudes. We're going to be open and accepting of the McBee Dynasty and all it has to offer us. And all the exciting plot twists and stories and uniquely shaped girlfriends. Oh, gosh. I didn't mean uniquely shaped.

5:15Ben Mandelker: I meant more like cookie cutter. Kalos. Yes. Uniquely printed. Kalobots. Maybe is the best. Kalobots. Uniquely shaped.

5:24Ronnie Karam: Sounded like body shimmy. It was not that. No, no. Well, they're all gorgeous. They're just like printed in a 3D printer. You know, it's like the same thing. Like you get one's done. You just sort of like, I want another one. She better be the same exact size. Blonde. Everything printed. Printed. Print me another one. Print me another Kala.

5:43Ben Mandelker: get her on yeah exactly um but anyway yeah so it's back and um and you know luckily we have our favorite um unhinged russian in the mix galena this is the only reason i love okay there's two

5:58Ronnie Karam: reasons i watch this galena number one galena number two and 2.5 jesse's still hot i'm sorry i don't care i still think jesse is so cute i like tessa i was actually worried this episode that they got rid of tessa because we didn't hear her you know normally it starts with like well previously on this show these boys are just everything everybody does them wrong and i just don't understand why but they didn't see on the mcp dynasty don't you dare say that stephen's

6:28Ben Mandelker: hair is thinning it's look that's normal that's fine don't make fun of my boys maybe your eyes

6:33Ronnie Karam: are thickening but um they didn't show her so i was really worried because i love me some tessa but She ended up coming and, you know, giving her like, I'm so sad. I'm so sad about Steven Sr. How could they do this to y 'all? You're just little munchkins. You need me to change your diaper?

6:51Ben Mandelker: Boys will be boys. We got to save the facility. So, yeah, I mean, we all love Tessa. And I guess we just like, well, I don't want to say we love the women of the show. Because honestly, I just like Tessa and Galena. I think the rest are like just sad, sad, wet rags. But like Lena and Tessa, they're the beacons. They're the beacons that get me through the episodes. Okay. Well, I'm here for the Dribbledors personally.

7:24Ronnie Karam: The Dribbledors. Yeah. All right. So here we go. Season three, episode one. We open at the Farm Fulfillment Center. So you know it's going to be a good one. uh christy who is the mom of the group steve see steven senior who's like the oldest brother who's always gonna rent everything i am here to save this family and my daddy taught me at a very young age what fulfilling farm things means and i'm gonna do it so christy comes in shockingly she doesn't

7:55Ben Mandelker: have a wheelbarrow with an a like a six foot tall latte behind in it She loves a big latte Okay so she comes in And she's like

8:07Ronnie Karam: I love that your takeaway from season 2 was God damn those lattes are big Those fruity lattes that they get

8:14Ben Mandelker: Look I have a giant Starbucks In honor of her and this is like a fraction of the size Of the latte she was always toting around So she's like well it looks so different than the last time I was up here it's like mother You're being so pessimistic about my hair No I was talking about the farm facility

8:29Ronnie Karam: Well I'm getting more organized You know, I'm learning the curve, mama. How you doing? She's like, I'm a nervous wreck. You know everything going on? You know everything going on? You're a piece of shit. Father finally going to prison. It sucks for me. Horrible day for me. Thinking about your daddy possibly getting it up the rear in prison where he's belonged since the second he cheated on me. I mean, I'm sad. It's a very sad day for all of us, isn't it, honey?

8:52Ben Mandelker: The unknown is horrible. Like, it's been a long few years. I've just been slurping so quietly and for so long on this latte, and I'm almost getting to the bottom of it. And I just don't know what happens when I finish it. The unknown is horrible. I just have one question, honey.

9:06Ronnie Karam: No one has been able to explain to me in all these years. What in the heck is oat milk? What's that?

9:15Ben Mandelker: I had a terrible day. I used one of those latte foamers on my hair. I thought I might give it some volume. Don't ever do that, Stephen. I mean, not that you really have much volume left, but you know what I'm saying.

9:24Ronnie Karam: it's like well daddy daddy's getting sentenced but i hope it's just probation and i don't think it'll be too much he's daddy everybody loves daddy i mean daddy he can get you a soybean he can wash your car who doesn't love daddy i hope it's just probation or house arrest he's like

9:40Ben Mandelker: yeah house arrest would be great uh just making me an anxious wreck right now she's like i know i know uh and then it's like and we go to somewhere else we go to cole and casey's new house talk about house arrest they're there with their baby blair and uh casey's like wow i just was dating facts and casey is like

10:06Ben Mandelker: so casey with their baby blair god damn i just said the name was blair so casey's like it's kind of a really weird time right now I know that the sentencing is tomorrow. And as we all know, the sentencing is, that means that's the first day that Cole McBee will ever say a full sentence. Okay. I can speak foul of myself, Casey. Okay, sorry.

10:31Ronnie Karam: Sentencing is hard. No one in this family had an easy time in fourth grade.

10:39Ben Mandelker: Sentencing, of course, is the time when we have to say a sentence in a smooth way instead of one syllable at a time.

10:47Ronnie Karam: Fail. Well, it just makes me worried. One, for the outcome. Two, now we're a family and we have a baby. Well, whose fault is that? You had a baby with Cole? Please. There is no, I didn't even have to show up at your house with a warning sign. It's Cole.

11:05Ben Mandelker: Cole is a warning sign. Also, what does your baby have to do with Stephen Sr.'s sentencing? I mean, we find out later on what it has to do with it. But like at this point, you don't know. What is this like, oh, we are worried, and now we're a family with a baby? What? Stop finding ways to bring the baby into that.

11:23Ronnie Karam: This guy's going to jail. Blair is not your baby shield. Well, because basically she thinks she married into this rich family, and she married into this criminal family who's being sued for millions of dollars. And there's no way anyone in this family owns anything that's not tied to the business, you know? So, dumb, dumb. But also, they kind of knew this when she got married to Cole Because he was already in a lot of trouble Even though they were pretending that they didn't know Because today they're like, wow, we've been waiting for this day for two and a half years I'm like, well, okay, let me do the math on How long you've been saying that you don't know any of this is going on You bunch of fucking liars They're going to be like, uh-uh, this was shot like 30 years ago We didn't know yet

12:04Ben Mandelker: Cole says, there's been a lot of changes in life for me first of all and the biggest one is i became a dad blair was born on my birthday december 13th 2024 case he's like and we are just living in our dream house we have always just kind of lived wherever we could and he's like yeah but i'm not i'm not living in some old farmhouse anymore that is leaking or having a new issue every day i'm like i'll tell you what's leaking and having

12:31Ronnie Karam: a new issue every day you you you and when he said the baby was born on his birthday i was like oh god like that baby needs any more pain in its life this dad is one of those dads you point this out all the time those dads who are like jealous of the baby right yeah when you give him the baby all love when you give him the baby now the baby is born oh so it's the baby's birthday what do

12:53Ben Mandelker: happen to my birthday yeah exactly you know he's gonna be totally like that he's gonna be a total

13:00Ronnie Karam: baby computer uh this house is um a big you know what you would think it would it's big it's a big farmhouse type thing i actually kind of liked it i liked all the big gigantic wall of like windows it was like garage door windows is that what they were it was i have actually no issues with the

13:20Ben Mandelker: house i think they have a very lovely mcmansion and i i think it's it's just right it's exactly what they need i just want to also point out that um cole mcbee and blair mcbee being born on December 13th means that they share a birthday with many people, but most importantly, Wendy Malick. I mean, this is just an affront. Is that true? Yes, Wendy Malick is born on December 13th.

13:45Ronnie Karam: How do you know?

13:46Ben Mandelker: You looked it up right now, or did you just know that? I looked it up right now. There's a lot of luminaries. Herman Cain, RIP.

13:56Ronnie Karam: Dick Van Dyke. Wendy Malick came up in a Bravo recap today. That's pretty great, Wendy. We love you, Wendy. We love you, Wendy. It's also like almost a week after your birthday. No, it's a little more. It's more than a week after. It's a day after. A week and a day after your birthday. Is that right? December 4th plus 7th is December 11th. So it would be two days plus 7th. Talk about sentencing, am I right? Killing it over here.

14:27Ben Mandelker: The point is. It's your birthday. Wendy Malick, her birthday is now forever besmirched. Taylor Swift, wait a second. By the way, all the Swifties were so mad that we highlighted Wendy Malick before Taylor Swift. But guess what? You know what? You get in line. Congratulations, Taylor Swift. You're a global superstar, but Wendy was here first.

14:51Ben Mandelker: And she'll be here after. We would have had a million comments if I had not noticed that Taylor Swift was on December 13th. It would have been like, how could you not even mention To Swift on Swifty Day?

15:04Ronnie Karam: Well, that one makes more sense on a McBee On a McBee Yeah, they probably love that

15:09Ben Mandelker: I'm surprised they didn't have a baby Taylor

15:12Ronnie Karam: Me too, or Swift

15:15Ben Mandelker: She left us when she went to Pop Yeah So they're talking about There's not a word that's ever going to be associated with Cole McBee I'm sorry to say Yeah So

15:28Ronnie Karam: So Carl's like, I'll put all our money into it. I spent like every dollar I made for the last, you know, since I graduated high school. I saved up to build my first house. You did not. Get out of here. This is bought under your fucking family's farm, and you know it. Yeah. You all have the same house.

15:44Ben Mandelker: Your name's not even on the title. Don't act like you saved up all, like you sat there on the side of the road selling soybeans. Come on. Get out of here. You did not, sir.

15:53Ronnie Karam: So she's like, it's our dream house. And he's like, well, my dad played guilty last year to give him one can of the wrong plant date. Gosh, we came after him for putting one little date wrong on a form. You can't even get a typo. Now you go to jail. It's not real fair, America.

16:12Ben Mandelker: You can't even do casual fraud anymore.

16:17Ben Mandelker: So Casey's like, that's this whole episode.

16:20Ronnie Karam: The guy's being like, what? God, America can't make one little typo. Oh, geez.

16:26Ben Mandelker: Great news, though. Casey is like, well, you know you have me and Blair. He's like, oh, no.

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19:37Ben Mandelker: So now we go to Jesse and Ali's city house. Can I trade you for the house?

19:41Ronnie Karam: What are you saying? How am I supposed to pay for this house? What the fuck does that mean, Ivy and Blair? I got one lady who barely can stand me, and another one is stealing my birthday.

19:52Ben Mandelker: I'm sorry, Ronnie. I can't hear you over the sound of the rumble of the subway running right under Jesse and Allie's city house. Because that's where we're going next. We're going to the big city. I forgot about their city house. We're at the city house.

20:11Ronnie Karam: They've also got to be. everybody's got a baby now. It's like watching that Secret Lives of Mormon Wives. It's like cut to commercial and they come back and there's another baby there. You're like, where the fuck did this baby come from?

20:24Ben Mandelker: I know, this baby, I forgot that there was another baby. I mean, I'm still just, I feel like it was just yesterday that they were getting married under that hexagonal arch.

20:33Ronnie Karam: So it's like, when are you going to make that hexagonal thing? Prove that you love me. He's like, I don't know. I can't bring myself to make shapes right now out of wood.

20:43Ben Mandelker: We need settlers of Catan represented in this wedding So They have their baby Summer And She's like She's so peaceful when she sleeps I was like I would hope so The baby's like Sleeping like that Oh yeah that's how I used to sleep

21:02Ronnie Karam: Kicking and screaming Not a peaceful sleeper

21:05Ben Mandelker: It was peaceful for me So they got married As we saw It's been a whirlwind. Jesse says, first year of marriage has had its ups and downs. There's been so many life changes for me and Allie. We had our little baby summer back in April. I was like, I don't know why that made me chuckle. It's like you're born in the spring. There's a seasonal discortancy here. Discrepancy. Seasonal discrepancies. Why don't you name her April? we have another daughter named April she's due in the summer

21:48Ronnie Karam: she's definitely been the greatest blessing in the world and Ally's like yeah postpartum immediately after having her was rough like yeah it was a lot of anxiety and he's like but you know Ally and I's intimacy has really gone downhill after having a baby okay listen I've had to listen to it all season from the valley I'm not taking it from you too You guys just need to space this shit out because I'm not about to take this from another show.

22:11Ben Mandelker: Okay? I feel like Big B Dynasty is not going to dwell on this. They're like, what? A lady's issue? Never mind. Let's talk about soybeans. Well, we still got the cows. Cole got a new hat.

22:24Ronnie Karam: I'll tell you why you buy the cow when you get the milk for free because eventually the milk stops freeing. Get over here, Bess.

22:32Ben Mandelker: You are the most pessimistic person about the cow. So Jesse is Yeah, intimacy's gone downhill Well, Jesse

22:41Ronnie Karam: There's always me There's always Ronnie Close your eyes And ears

22:49Ben Mandelker: I hope you get that photo of you with Jesse From BravoCon, because you deserve it I'm never getting that

22:55Ronnie Karam: Casey is never giving me that photo Never giving it to me Casey from Bitch Sesh Garbage World Yes, I'm talking about you With that picture buried on your phone somewhere, you're never going to give it to me. Fine. Always take your own pictures, people.

23:11Ben Mandelker: Always. We learned that from Jesse McBee and from Lisa Hochstein. So Allie is saying that she got a lot of help from Christy and I think others during the pregnancy or afterwards, I should say. I'm sorry. And her mom as well. and Jesse's like, so, uh, Hey, you took off for my dad's court case tomorrow. Right. She's like, of course I took off from my busy job of doing stuff. Well, she's a nurse, I think.

23:43Ronnie Karam: Right. I think she's a nurse. Yeah. She's got, she's got a good career. Um, she's like, of course people dying, people bleeding. I would much rather watch your dad be ripped apart limb from limb. You bet your bottom dollar. I'll be there to support this family. And she's like, you're so strong for everybody. It just worries me. You know, I just want to make sure you're doing okay. Now, don't speak for another eight hours. I wouldn't plan to take solace in that.

24:09Ben Mandelker: It's confirmed. She is a nurse practitioner. So she does have a lot on her hands. I know my McBee. I shouldn't have questioned it. So now, by the way, the entire time, this whole episode is like an episode of 24. It's like beep, beep, beep. It's like 20 hours, 43 minutes of sentencing. Oh, my God. Oh, thank God we were not 20 hours, 44 minutes until the sentencing, because that would have totally affected how this next scene plays out.

24:36Ronnie Karam: Yeah. So we go to McBee Farms with Galena and Steven Jr. And I felt like I was watching a play because I started applauding. It's like when the star comes on. I'm like, it's Galena. It's like, yes. It's like, okay. Yeah.

24:50Ben Mandelker: Go ahead. No, no. I was going to make something that here's reference.

24:59Ronnie Karam: she's like listen here greens greens and nothing but greens parsley peppers cabbages and celery asparagus and fiddle ferns and the watercress and lettuce i said all right but it wasn't quite because i called them in the garden in the autumn in my garden one night don't say bernadette peters around me fucking masha expect not to get that well that was the

25:21Ben Mandelker: exact scene i was thinking of it was like bernadette peters coming out as the witch and and applauds.

25:25Ronnie Karam: I know, because I did the same thing when she came out. I was like, yes, Galena! She's like, I'm Bernadette Peters, how dare you?

25:33Ben Mandelker: Bernadette Peters is Galena in McPhee, a new Stephen Sondheim musical.

25:38Ronnie Karam: Car wash, car wash, always a car wash. Okay, so Galena's like, Stephen Jr., I think it is important for us to touch base on things like let us hope for the best, prepare for the masha.

25:51Ben Mandelker: Are you ready for tomorrow? She's like, I am not. I mean, in a way, just so we actually can start moving forward with what to deal with, it's going to be hard. I'm extremely worried about the length of the sentencing because, you know, ultimately, it's all in Judge's hands. And Judge does not have chickens that they can kill. So very difficult for me to take action.

26:11Ronnie Karam: He can make example out of Steve. Even though because of Steve, definitely I found myself in a horrible situation last year. You found yourself in a horrible situation because you were high off your rock or crashing in a tree. That's why. Literally crashing into trees. Literally, they cut through a tree and crashed into a tree. And then the lady, the cop being like, oh, well, you know, we're not going to charge you for drunk driving because I think something else is going on here. Whatever it is, I don't know. But Steve McBee is pretty big. And I've got one more little spot to get punched out on my car wash car before I get a free car wash and now's not the time to fuck it up you may go madam you may go you know they've been let

26:59Ben Mandelker: off the hook so many times like with the local police and so that's why they're really freaking out because like wait a second our bag of tricks is not working with this federal judge so lena is like uh she's like steve can be at times you know very chaotic in relationship but when it comes to business he is the rock that holds everything together a rock that i want to fuck Have you ever fucked a rock before? Oh, so hot.

27:21Ronnie Karam: How are you calling this man? How are you going to call this man the rock that holds the business together when you're about to lose everything because he committed crop insurance fraud?

27:34Ben Mandelker: Yeah. He is not the rock. He is a pile of sand. So Stephen Jr. is like, we are going to have some intense meetings after tomorrow. I'm like, you're going to start having them every time you go to a meeting. It's like, we have to change the coffee filters. You're like, okay, relax, relax, relax.

27:53Ronnie Karam: He's like, is this an empty bottle of wine that I just found in your trash can? It is still cold. Well, I'm sorry for refrigerating wine.

28:02Ben Mandelker: Why has no one ordered more cherry cups? So... I know this because we've done so many of those loans. Every single loan on our books, there's a moral clause where if one of the owners happens to have a felony, happens to have a felony. I love that. Happens to have a felony, the bank can reconsider the loan and call the note to where you have to pay off the loan within 15 to 30 days. And my fear is that if something goes bad tomorrow, we're going to have a domino effect of banks calling notes. You know what's a great way to avoid this? Don't commit felonies. It's really as simple as that.

28:35Ronnie Karam: Oh, stop making everything sound so simple. God. So he's saying they're already in a lot of debt. They were already in a lot of debt. Now throwing a felony charge on top of that, and things just got a hell of a lot worse. If these banks pull these loans, that number could reach eight figures real quickly. Real quickly. Quickly. More quickly than I come.

28:56Ben Mandelker: This doesn't just affect the farms. It affects the cartwashes, the home building, the meat facility, the fulfillment facility, tires, roads, pigeons, everything. Everything in the entire world is truly a house of cards.

29:08Ronnie Karam: Oh, God, it's even going to affect the card business we got. Damn it.

29:13Ben Mandelker: And the card washers, have you ever brought a deck of cards into a washer?

29:17Ronnie Karam: Hey, honey, I'll be right back. I need to run and grab some meat from the car wash, okay?

29:23Ben Mandelker: Don't forget to pick up a card for mama. I don't know if my mother's going to be able to afford one of their big lattes anymore. It's terrible. So Glena's like, well, I've been working with McBee's for over seven years now and worked my way up to become part owner. And since last year, we were forced to sell quite a bit of land to come up to pay off some loans. And then, you know, more loans keep popping up. It's just like a never-ending circle. I'm like, well, stop opening up car washes. They've got so many random-ass businesses. Just shut them all down. Pay off your bills.

29:56Ronnie Karam: It's a never-ending circle of LLCs. I'm surprised that anybody could even catch them because they've got so many LLCs going on on this show. It's like, well, okay, you want to know who owns the soybean company? I couldn't tell you. is probably the person who owns the cattle company. Who owns that? The person who owns the car wash. Who owns that? The person who owns the car company. It's like, geez. It's just a lot of digging.

30:16Ben Mandelker: It's a lot of digging. You just follow the paper trail just leads you to ginger the chicken. Chicken's like, what? Can I take a sign? You signed it in my case.

30:28Ben Mandelker: Behind it all. So Stephen Jr. is like, it could all come crumbling down tomorrow. And yeah, I haven't been sleeping very good this week and there's not going to be much sleep tonight. Well, thanks for the update. So Kalina is like I went on two hours of sleep for weeks now And it's just exhausting

30:43Ronnie Karam: And he's like well You know what I'm thinking of repercussions Because it feels like my dad's not the only one Being sentenced tomorrow Because if things go bad This farm sort of becomes my prison I mean it already kind of is This farm has been fucked from the beginning This was never I like that they pretend they're coming from Some successful farm This farm has been on the shits since the first episode of Watch The Mall.

31:09Ben Mandelker: You know what I'm sure a prisoner really wants to hear while they are cooped up in their tiny cell? That your expansive, thousands and thousands acre-wide farm is a prison. I'm sure that really is going to land well for people who have gone through that.

31:25Ronnie Karam: So he says that he's brushed his personal life to the side ever since Caleb broke up with him at that wedding last year by not showing up to the wedding. And if his dad ends up going to prison, he's going to have to step up even more than he is now.

31:39Ben Mandelker: Yeah. I've rushed off my personal life to the side for at least the next 12 hours. And then it's back center stage. So, yeah, it's like for once in my life, that man has always had the answers. And he doesn't have an answer this time. We'll have to figure it out ourselves once in my life. So then we go to Colton Casey's house. It's 15 hours until the sentencing. and Steve Jr. arrives with food. And here comes Brayden. So does anybody in this family cook?

32:09Ronnie Karam: What do you think? No. I know it's weird to cook shame people, but with a family this huge, it seems like this would be like a potluck family. Like, okay, we're getting together again today. You bring the corn, you bring the bread, you bring the tamales, like whatever they have. This is a lot of take. I mean, this family goes through a lot of takeout. Well, don't forget,

32:30Ben Mandelker: the last time they all cooked cooked food casey had like a panic attack and like needed to go to

32:35Ronnie Karam: the hospital remember it says oh because calic last year remember because cali was like being snotty or something cali didn't even really do anything but casey's like oh my god cali's here

32:47Ben Mandelker: so yeah um so brayden is here and uh cole's like hey can you take the shoes off brain's like what the he's like of all the people in my family who could yell at me for not taking my shoes off of course it's coal while you're wearing the same pair of socks you probably worn the past week

33:03Ronnie Karam: i like this brayden guy i like that they give brayden a bigger war a bigger role this time they gave a couple of guys a bigger way brayden is the brother right he's like the youngest one yeah he's like the younger brother he got a bigger role and they also gave a bigger role to that farmhand guy who came like he came in like with a glow up that guy he's like i'm wearing ray-bans

33:26Ben Mandelker: now i know i was like this guy used to look like that one guy on king of the hill and now he's got like a little bit of body and like he got a haircut i was like good for him he started off

33:37Ronnie Karam: as like luke from um the valley and now he came back as i don't even know but pretty hot season

33:44Ben Mandelker: two luke from the valley no no but then they'll probably go back to season three luke um so then So Christy arrives And the finale I have got to pause

33:57Ronnie Karam: Nope, never mind, I don't They hung up on me It's a very important call Very important

34:05Ben Mandelker: Was Stephen McBee calling from prison? You talking about my family? I'm so sorry Go ahead No, I know, you're waiting for an important call So if that comes through, just let me know

34:17Ronnie Karam: But they didn't, then they hung up on me Now are they going to pretend like, but we did call you because you hung up after one ring. That's so annoying. I hate that. It is. Man.

34:28Ben Mandelker: Okay, I'm going to shut up now. Go ahead. How many things can the McBees ruin, right? Receiving phone calls. So they're all there. They're having... What's actually really hilarious about this is like the night before Stephen McBee's sentencing. And rather than being with Stephen McBee Sr., they're like, we're going to just leave him in his home alone while we shoot a reality show So talk about how much we care for this guy being sent to prison tomorrow. Yeah, pretty much.

34:57Ronnie Karam: It's like, how do you feel about dad? And Christy's like, oh, gosh, well, he's a little nervous, too. I think it's kind of hitting him now. And Jesse's like, yeah, being here feels like the last dinner for everything could change. Wow.

35:14Ben Mandelker: I don't really see much changing, to be honest. He's like, I think we're all just trying to enjoy this moment together. Sitting here, all gathered around, smelling Cole's socks. Wow. What a moment.

35:29Ronnie Karam: So Casey's saying Cole's stressed, but he's been handling it like better than I thought. But we're so worried. And Allie's like, well, but technically, Casey, this land is like in one of Stephen's loans, right? So if something bad were to happen tomorrow, they could pull that loan. You know that, right? She's like, wait, so that means they could take our house? wait and she's like yeah you didn't know that oh sorry i didn't know you didn't know that she's like wait but why would he keep that from me he's cold yeah this is it you this is the man that you

36:05Ben Mandelker: married and also neither of you were very bright so that's why this this that's why this information did not pass through so casey's like if we did lose the house i just don't know what we'll do We put all of our money in our house We can't just start over We thought this is where Blair is gonna grow up I'm like A tornado's gonna take out that house sooner or later So don't get too attached to it, okay?

36:29Ronnie Karam: A tornado It just makes me sick But he should've told me And then at least I could know I'm gonna freak out, I'm gonna say something And Ally's like, I didn't say anything though Don't say you heard it from me He's like, okay Hey, Ally told me our house is gonna be taken

36:49Ben Mandelker: so the boys are outside steven jr is like hey how are you guys feeling about tomorrow jesse's like nervous man it just sucks because there's nothing we can do yeah well it's gonna be a long night but come 11 30 tomorrow all of our unknowns will be answered good or bad 11 30 a.m or p.m i don't know stop asking me questions but how many hours and minutes is it

37:12Ronnie Karam: till 11 30. i don't know i can't do math what time zone i don't know

37:19Ben Mandelker: cole's like what else wait is time zone like an auto zone get out of here cole change your socks

37:27Ronnie Karam: so casey comes up to cole she's like i need to talk to you why wouldn't you tell us about our house he's like what do you mean what do you mean about our house and she's like but the loan on the The land is in your dad's name, right? And he's like, well, I mean, it's the land that's in my dad's name. I mean, the land don't got nothing to do with nothing except our house is built on it. That's all.

37:50Ben Mandelker: But, like, what happens? Like, you're just going to give me a one-day notice? I mean, next thing you're going to say, we're built on a Native American burial ground. Oh, yeah, I forgot to mention we do have a poltergeist. Have you noticed? But wait a minute.

38:05Ronnie Karam: if they take the land, but then what's going to happen to the house? Well, duh, it's still going to be a house. I mean, what happens to a sandwich that's on a plate, but then I take it? It means you ate a sandwich. What do you accuse me, a woman?

38:19Ben Mandelker: I'm not going to eat the house. Well, I wasn't saying that, Cole. So Cole goes, well, for all the land that's in my brother's and I's name, that stuff is safe. But for some reason, my house and the ground that it's sitting on, whenever we got it bought whenever we got it bought it got put under my dad's name oh yeah they just sometimes these things happen you know you plug in your computer and it just glitches it's like mother clear yeah you know it somehow just that that doesn't have it doesn't the amount of anyone who has gone through the process of anything with real estate knows that things don't just happen that way oh it just happened to be put that way no it's like there's this is your dad

39:04Ronnie Karam: owns the land stop pretending like you've worked since you were 11 to own this house your dad and that's you know it's fine it's normal you know like for a family with a huge family business or whatever but oh my god pick a story and stick with it cole so he's like well it should be an or mcb

39:22Ben Mandelker: farm's name i just didn't want to freak you out babe and i didn't want you to sit here and think all week about this because I hate when you have to think about things. She's like, well, I'm more freaked out to find out the night before. He's like, I know. Night before what? The night before you change your socks for the week. Oh, okay.

39:42Ronnie Karam: So, of course, he's crying. She's like, oh, don't cry. He's like, we'll figure it out. I mean, maybe we can put the house someplace sales. So, she tells us again, we thought this is where Blair's going to grow. Okay, you know what? I'm not going to sit hear and cry for you guys you guys this whole family is so ridiculous like well poor us you guys

40:03Ben Mandelker: stop fucking everybody over at all times yeah yeah if i have to hear one more time about oh we thought this is where blair will grow up oh please and watch it watch them move next next year to a different house and now after a season of them saying but this is where blair is gonna grow up oh it is enough enough about blair and where she's gonna grow up so now um christy's

40:25Ronnie Karam: He's like, boys, no matter what happens, we're all going to get through it. And they're like, yeah, well, we're going to figure it out. I just hope it's fair sentencing. That's it. Better be fair.

40:34Ben Mandelker: Yeah. This should be a fair sentencing. It won't be. 30 years. Yeah. It will be fair. And that will be in your father's favor.

40:43Ronnie Karam: Trust. Yes. So now it's the next morning.

40:45Ben Mandelker: Then you'll still complain. You'll still complain.

40:47Ronnie Karam: Two hours until sentencing. The boys are getting on their, you know, trusty suits. and Stephen's telling us that the dad could get up to 30 years. They don't know what's going to happen. And, you know, they're all starting to drive to this thing. And Jesse's looking over at Christy's phone and Jesse goes, Wait a minute. That headline says USA versus McBee? The government trying to pin us against our own country? That's the stupidest observation in the history of this show.

41:19Ben Mandelker: Do you know how lawsuits work? I died. When he said that, I was like, what is wrong with you? I'm being pinned against my own country. You're defrauding people. You're the one who's pinning, you're the problem. It's you.

41:40Ronnie Karam: You defrauded the country, you dumbass. So Stephen's like, Cole, you know, even if something stupid crazy happens, do not break face Cole. He's like, what do you mean? Don't go punching anything. I'm not going to punch nothing. Do not get into a fight with the hill. I love that they were showing at the beginning clips. They're like, everything this family has gone through. And they just show Cole trying to beat up that little mound of dirt.

42:06Ben Mandelker: Casey is like, it's scary to think about how Steve could get taken out in handcuffs today and we don't even get a moment to say goodbye to him. Blair doesn't even get to say goodbye To her grandpa Blair doesn't give a shit right now Blair's not going to be like When Blair's 25 She's not going to be like I remember when I was three weeks old And I got to say goodbye to grandpa

42:29Ronnie Karam: Where's that old man with like eight girlfriends You know Maybe just not care So they get to the courthouse It's one hour until sentencing And guys it's surreal It's surreal and so um they all like they all like park somewhere where they come emerging through

42:48Ben Mandelker: like a chain link fence or whatever where were you where did you guys park i know it was so

42:54Ronnie Karam: funny to me this whole thing was they're just such fakers because one of them even one of them on the way is like so i've never been to this courthouse my ass you've never been here like how far even is it we'll get used to it yes we're in here please so uh steven uh basically they're all going in and then we see the drawings it's like very very intense day in the court it's just like boardwalk caricatures i'm telling you right now these were not these these could not have been

43:28Ben Mandelker: real court courtroom drawings courtroom sketches they were so silly they made the judge look like Simon van Kempen. I was like, can someone please get, get out of here with this. This is the silliest. They were so silly. And they just kept showing them over and over and over again. And then they're narrating this experience and Steven's like, it was a surreal experience walking in this courtroom. And Jesse's like, we're walking into what could be the last time we see my dad for a while, our country has betrayed us. And then Alex like, it was, it was real quiet. It was real quiet and real steel.

43:59Ben Mandelker: I'm like, cause everyone was probably like gagging from the smell of Cole's feet.

44:05Ronnie Karam: Goes like, my dad's lawyer asked us all to write letters to talk about my dad's character. Allie, you go first. Now he's like, dear Honorable Judge Bowe, I'm writing this letter in support of my father-in-law. No one has done more to support Russians than my father-in-law. Please save him.

44:25Ben Mandelker: It's time for my letter. Okay. Hello, I consider myself to be the luckiest, most blessed man on the planet for having parental support, love and care, and the ability to somehow haul in the same blonde lady from Texas year after year, but with different names.

44:46Ronnie Karam: That was all for my daddy. Casey's like, dear judge, I just found out that my house is like a sandwich and Cole's hungry. please let Blair grow up in her sandwich

45:01Ben Mandelker: now I understand why they call it a club sandwich because actually I don't I lost my train of thought just let him be free judge

45:10Ronnie Karam: Cole's like my feet is and I don't know why but I can tell you this as I got older my relationship with my daddy changed no one cares what the fuck are you talking about your dad I committed insurance fraud.

45:25Ben Mandelker: Dear Judge Bowes, my feet supposedly smell. I think they smell good, but they say it smells bad. I went to the doctor and they said, I have athlete's foot. And I said, thank you for acknowledging that I was a quarterback once. So in closing, let my daddy go. Commercials. Here comes one right now.

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48:23Ben Mandelker: Wait, I'm sorry. Can we share a little bit of what Jesse said in his letter? He goes, I've never seen anyone as uplifting and positive as my dad.

48:39Ben Mandelker: Yep, that's what I think of I'm like, every time I'm like, why don't we get a poster of him with hope under it I mean, this is a man who is positive

48:49Ronnie Karam: Oh my gosh So now we go to Jesse and Allie's city house and the family's all over there and Galena comes over and hugs Jared and they're like, oh my god, Galena Are you okay? She's like, well Well, obviously, breaking up with Steve, it was extremely messy, but I still care about him. I have so many concerns when it comes to business if Steve goes away. How can Ginger take on all of this by herself?

49:18Ben Mandelker: How will I bash Carr if there's no one there to buy a new car? So they come out of the courthouse. And they have this, by the way, they have this fake reporter. This is not a real reporter, but they try to make her look real by blurring out her local news station, which is hilarious because we know that anytime they need to show a local reporter on Bravo, they just pull someone from an NBC affiliate. We get the tricks, okay? This is an actress. She can't even do the reporter voice right. She's like, we have just received word that a sentence has been handed down. So then they get into the cars.

49:50Ben Mandelker: It's very serious. And Stephen Jr. is like, I knew as soon as we got into that courtroom that that judge had already made his decision. So it turns out that Stephen Sr. was sentenced to 24 months and they're all moping. I'm like, you know what? Jen fucking Shaw got sentenced to seven years. Suck it up. Okay. If a real housewife can do the time, you can too. Now she got on her week. She served like five minutes. So you'll be fine. She served five minutes. Yeah. You'll be fine. Okay. You'll be fine.

50:17Ronnie Karam: Casey's like, well, I mean, 24 months is better than 41 months. Wait a minute, it's just golf or basketball. Not sports, Cole. Numbers. But wait, 41's better because it's bigger though, right?

50:34Ben Mandelker: So then Jake and then Steven is like, they're like, wow, you know, it's a lot of months. And Steven's like, it's not the time, it's the dollar amount. I was like, okay, well, so much for all those letters about your dad and how much you loved him. He's like, I don't give you rights to jail.

50:45Ronnie Karam: I got all$7 billion now. And Jake the farmhand is like, wait, but how did they add$7 million on top of that? What the heck? Because this is like automatic tipping.

50:56Ben Mandelker: Well, remember how your dad defrauded the committed insurance fraud? So that's, you know, you're probably going to have to pay something when that happens. So then Jesse is like, so my dad was sentenced to 24 months in federal prison and then$3 million in fines and$4 million in restitution. We have six weeks before we have to take him to prison. so I guess I don't know it's a lot of numbers it's a lot it's a lot of numbers

51:22Ronnie Karam: I was like wow Jesse I'm so impressed he just kind of gazes off so Cole's like wow I'm definitely shocked hearing what my dad got it sucks it's the worst feeling I ever felt I don't know where the 7 million is going to come from but all I can think about my dad's not going to be in our lives for two years you guys need to stop being so fucking brainwashed how is nobody pissed at the dad Nobody's like, wow, you just fucked over your entire family Like, hello They're like, but I'm gonna miss daddy

51:53Ben Mandelker: Yeah, you guys are all toxic as fuck You're in messed up relationships And you're in a decrepit, like fraudulent farm And they're like, well, dad's gonna be out of our lives for two years The judge should have said, you're welcome Okay So, Stephen Jr. is like, well, I'm just glad that they didn't take him away in cuffs Because the minute he started talking about how a felon is a felon

52:13Ronnie Karam: yeah you knew it was over right i'm like oh gosh so yeah now they have their big everyone's like this is the worst thing ever what if they take the farm what if they do this what if they take blair you know they all have their kind of like little lines what if they take the combine oh i

52:29Ben Mandelker: wonder if that person can get mad at me again this year with that time i was like oh my god combine's going so slowly in the streets that what a nightmare and this person wrote me and was like you don't understand how to how the hell does the combine get from one field to another it's not that simple so grow up i was like okay sorry sorry i offended the combine community is up in arms you think these farms just farmed themselves i was like i understand that there's machinery needed on on a farm i don't like being stuck behind it though yeah um and you know at the

53:00Ronnie Karam: end of the day don't care so christy everybody gathers the family's all gathering christy's the rock and uh i think christy's like the informant probably she's like get him you know what stephen I hope so Check the numbers on that She's calling Flo She's like listen here Flo I've loved you ever since groundlings Check and see what this fucker's doing

53:20Ben Mandelker: No she would never call Flo Because Flo works at a company called Progressive So Stephen That's true That's true She's got it blocked from her phone I think the insurance would be farmers She's like Stephen went to jail

53:33Ronnie Karam: Thanks Obama

53:38Ben Mandelker: Don't you understand We are farmers So

53:46Ben Mandelker: They probably are represented by Affleck Just because it's probably every time Stephen gets a Flat tire Well we're going to arrest your father

53:54Ronnie Karam: For defrauding the company But he then shot the duck That represents the company Kind of having trouble finding witnesses

54:06Ronnie Karam: We'll gotta eat So they're all talking about how horrible the sentencing is And it's wild seeing Galena in the same room as the mom And the producer's like, are we missing one more blonde? And Stephen's like, well, here we're probably missing three more blondes If we're actually counting, oh, dad

54:26Ben Mandelker: So then Stephen Jr. is like Do you guys want to know where dad went? And Sean is like, yeah, you took all of them He's like, yeah, okay, go up to his new house They're like, I wonder what's going to happen with that That way he's got six weeks to enjoy his new house. God, it's crazy because we were hoping that Blair would be able to visit that house growing up, you know? So Casey is saying that he seems to be a lot better. Steve Sr., that is. He seems to be a lot better leaving than when he went in, you know? And they're saying that he's relieved. Steve Sr. is relieved because now that they – he finally has an answer.

55:03Ben Mandelker: He knows what's going to happen. So it's like, a boulder's been lifted off of me. That's how I feel. You, Christy.

55:11Ronnie Karam: Yeah, she had the boulder on her. Cole's like, well, now we can move forward because at least we're not just waiting around to see what one guy's going to say about something. Oh, God. Villainizing the judge. Like, oh, God, our whole life. So they talk about how the dad's going to be there for six weeks before he's gone for two years. And there's so much to do. But he's not on camera. The dad's never on camera anymore. So we're not going to get any of that. So Steven says they have to really blow these businesses up times 10, make this okay. So then we go to the next day, one day since sentencing.

55:48Ben Mandelker: I'm like, wait, we're still doing the clock. The clock. So the sensing happened. Why are we doing your clock afterwards? 24 ends. When at the clock hits 24, we don't go into 26.

56:00Ronnie Karam: Just keeps on going. And so they go to have a meeting at the family farm. And Stephen's like, let's go to the boardroom. So Galena's not there. They're like, where's Galena? And Jesse's like, well, I've seen her on Instagram. He's like, I'm a little tired of the Instagram. You know, for the past year, Galena believes she's a celebrity. And she's been traveling to any and every party she can possibly go to. Even Gretchen's from Real Housewives of Orange County. And that is disgusting, even to me. And it doesn't suit well for our businesses that are struggling whether we need Galena to be there fully focused.

56:38Ronnie Karam: She needs to be here. Listen, Galena is probably the one who's really running this whole thing. I can't believe Galena's not in the pokey as well because doesn't she have to sign off on everything?

56:50Ben Mandelker: You would think so. And if I were them, I wouldn't be mad at Galena going off and acting like a celebrity because she's like my only way into this show, quite frankly. So, like, let your Bravo ambassador run the rounds because, like, she is a goodwill ambassador as far as I'm concerned. What was that random wedding that she wound up at where we're like, is Galena there? Is that Galena in the photo? There was some random wedding that happened this past year.

57:14Ronnie Karam: Was there an Orange – oh, it was Orange County. It was Alexis Bellino and Johnny J.

57:18Ben Mandelker: Yes.

57:19Ronnie Karam: Yeah. She's friends with the Orange County ladies.

57:23Ben Mandelker: Oh, yeah. We'll never forget running into Galena at BravoCon, and she was just drunk, and she just sort of – stared at us and then she came over to say hi she was so nice but she was really not she was really really nice uh but she was but it was hilarious because she still just sort of she was like it was like next standing next like meredith marx or something kind of my first problem that's

57:43Ronnie Karam: crazy seeing all those people in one room and all the the mcbee guys stood like by the doors and their big cowboy hats just stood there the whole time like hey uh so anywho so he's mad that she's acting like a celebrity but you are the one who started a podcast where the family goes on and talks about this shit every single week so i don't and you were on that millionaire farmer thing

58:07Ben Mandelker: millionaire am i a farmer or a millionaire the dayton show yeah whatever that was exactly so uh he's upset that galena has actually tried galena's trying to diversify her portfolio by by leaning into being a celebrity because she sees that this farm is a sinking ship okay um but she's not at the meeting but tessa's there by the way we should mention tessa's like i'm here at the meeting well boys will be boys am i right so um so they're like i'm so mad galena's

58:38Ronnie Karam: not focusing on business cut to galena at the nail salon with her daughter and they're calling her and she's like oh i think i will not take this call she's like thanks mom god

58:48Ben Mandelker: finally you're being a good mother yeah seriously her like her daughter erina or rena actually says to her like you're almost back to being the person the mom i like yeah you're almost there mom

59:03Ronnie Karam: galena goes i'm learning how to do progress okay so then we go back to the war room and the call goes to voicemail and they're all pissed and cole's like we're gonna talk to her we can't have that not with dad not around he's like oh yeah well yesterday obviously shocked us but guess what these banks are coming they are coming for george bagley and we need to do something about it or we're all going down we are all going down there is no wavering there is no weakness man cole's like well but now we got three or five or 17 more million dollars to come up with i don't

59:37Ben Mandelker: do numbers yeah now dad's going to jail we know we've leveraged all the car washes against the farms and we've used all the equity of the farms and we can't have one thing go wrong or it's all

59:48Ronnie Karam: going to go under to sell that shit please i'm begging you it's literally the same plot every like every year they're like oh they are coming for the farm if we don't make 19 trillion dollars by tomorrow they are coming for us we better open a steak company so yeah they have they owe like

1:00:07Ben Mandelker: three or four million dollars more than what they thought they were gonna have to owe so they're all They're in a tizzy and Stephen Jr. is like, anything we don't need, we're going to get rid of. Everyone. Everyone. What? What?

1:00:21Ronnie Karam: Yeah. Cole. I just can't say nothing no more. So Stephen's like trying to say, lead the meeting. And then Cole just keeps repeating like a word or two at the end of the sentence. Okay. Facility. Okay. We're going to say a facility. Now I know we love the.

1:00:39Ben Mandelker: No, I know. You are. You are. Listen. I know we love the facility.

1:00:45Ronnie Karam: And the first thing I'm going to do today is take a fuss out and eat him. But he don't even let me talk about me. He's always trying to be the boss of me. Well, I'm going to get him because even when I came up with all that money that time, nobody even gives me no nothing. And I'm going to prove myself because I started the soybeans after I started it behind everybody's back and signed paperwork, probably fraudulently. Nobody gave me credit for that. But then, remember, I made all that other money, too. I should be the boss of this company.

1:01:16Ben Mandelker: Hey, this is Jesse McBee interrupting your stupid monologue, Cole, to remind everyone that this facility was Dad's dream facility, and it'd be a shame if we had to sell it. I was like, oh, gosh. They just keep showing this big building. Like, oh, no, the facility.

1:01:32Ronnie Karam: But they have to sell it, and they tell us what's in the facility, and it's like, it's not only this building. It's the garage and it's the grain mills and the water mill and the Lego factory and the straw mill.

1:01:48Ben Mandelker: It's like, there's the cupcake factory. There's the styrofoam plant that makes the cups for mom's lattes. Oh, God, it's a lot of things. They actually have an aviation building. I was like, an aviation building? I'm assuming is that for like crop dusting? Is it like they have to take a plane out and like literally fly over the fields and like spray or whatever? I was like, why do you have an aviation building?

1:02:08Ronnie Karam: Yeah, they've got a lot. it i'm thinking this is probably not the thing they should sell because this is that's what i

1:02:13Ben Mandelker: was thinking too i was like i do feel like there's probably a good case to keep the facility yeah but

1:02:18Ronnie Karam: what about the car washes we've already taken three trillion dollars out on the car wash like you guys oh my god don't touch guys and i'm stressed out i'm like oh my god i just wanted me to close those

1:02:30Ben Mandelker: car washes so badly i hate the car washes i feel like it's like just get the car washes are probably the thing that are the most profitable actually car washes are supposed to be i mean they're

1:02:39Ronnie Karam: supposed to be a very profitable business i mean i'm a breaking bad fan so the second they said car wash i was like okay so we're gonna be laundering some drug money huh okay well let's see how this goes everything they do is just so shady you know and now they're like can't touch

1:02:53Ben Mandelker: the car wash all day well now we go back to the nail salon and um yeah and this is where arena is It's like, no, mom, I feel like you're almost back to being the mom I knew growing up. She's like, oh, distant, cold, drunk. Yeah. Exactly. It's great to have you back.

1:03:14Ronnie Karam: Yeah. So she says that last year she struggled with anxiety and depression. And, you know, she was hitting rock bottom right when her kid needed her. And she can't do that again. And she's like, I started rebuilding my entire life. I had really great days, bad days, days where I would put chicken in dishwashers for revenge. But ultimately, I'm pretty proud of car wash.

1:03:41Ben Mandelker: So back to the war room. Okay, so everyone's on board, right? We know the plan. Okay, I've got to go down to Kansas City because I've got to stop by the airport and pick someone up. Like, wait, what's the plan? No, shut the fuck up. That's the plan. Cole, you change your socks.

1:03:54Ronnie Karam: What time is it? I'm like, how can you not know the time? It hasn't left the screen.

1:03:59Ben Mandelker: i know it's like meanwhile dara yeah this is dara this is dara so cole is like uh i can i can tell you we won't be hearing from steven for the next few days because every time steven's with a girl he just forgets about everything else and then we see a flashback to steven claiming that he's brushed aside his personal life to focus on the business but is that even true because now he's going to the airport to pick up temu kala kayla cool whatever her name was yeah the stand-in for

1:04:36Ronnie Karam: k for kala who just happens to be showing up for the first week of shooting what a coincidence wow can i just say this i'm i actually kind of like kala this lady wow what an annoying fucking late now that's not to say she deserves anything she got this guy steven is such a piece of shit for those of you who don't keep up with your mcb dynasty news he's dating this girl is posting all over that he's so happy they're so in love this and that they go to stagecoach together he decides to go to bed early she's dancing with some guy because they're at a music festival and he's like you dumb slut you stupid whore how could you cheat on me went on this she released all of his texts because he went on Instagram and was like, oh, God forbid, a man goes to bed early without his Jezebel cheating and whatever he does.

1:05:29Ronnie Karam: And then she released all these texts where he's like, you dumb whore. You slut. I mean, this guy's real fucking classy. So I hope nobody's buying into this. Like, oh, shucks. Just a good, good guy who just happens to get carbon copies of blonde ladies to torture.

1:05:46Ben Mandelker: Yeah, exactly. So he's really excited. So here comes ally not cala but ally or i like to think of her she she's not cala she's cal b okay and that's funny cal b she's got three of the letters she really does she's a very close scrabble bag to

1:06:09Ronnie Karam: the other one and um and face and everything else so she comes and she's like oh my god his first message was you are gorgeous miss it was on instagram and and he said you're a nashville gal aren't you and i was like i ain't answering that oh no i groaned i groan you know honestly

1:06:32Ben Mandelker: the actual first date that we went on i've never felt i've never left the date feeling like okay this could be someone that i want to spend the rest of my life with but i did with her and she's us wait i oh sorry i got confused between so now we actually have two alleys on this show which is really gonna be difficult so she says oh my gosh i tried to set him up my sister isn't that hilarious so she gets in the truck and um they uh she is like very ready for tv this one she comes on she's

1:07:02Ronnie Karam: sitting like for the confessional and she's just like got her legs up on the chair so do my cheek do my cheek okay yeah check out my cheek like oh gosh you've been waiting for this moment your

1:07:14Ben Mandelker: whole life and it's a show you know well maybe you'll run into her ronnie because she's from austin texas and she turned 28 in march she goes but i'm still holding on i try on clothes for a living so that's been fun and so he's like we're gonna have a great time are you nervous because nervous is not the right word it's unfamiliar but there's growth that comes with that i was like

1:07:38Ronnie Karam: Prove it And what is trying on clothes for a living

1:07:41Ben Mandelker: Does that mean she's a model I assume she's like an influencer But when she said that I was like Are you another fit model It's been a while since we've had Jacqueline It's been 10 years since Jacqueline Yeah we need a new fit model

1:07:54Ronnie Karam: So he's like A little bit spontaneous I like being spontaneous It's just usually not on film

1:08:02Ben Mandelker: So Brayden and Jake Are at Stephen's house um where there's apparently mustard everywhere because steven i guess really likes mustard um and steven has told them to clean up his house because a girl's coming and so it has to look cute so they're there by the way they're still that annoying ass like fake um foliage that's on top of all the cupboards it drives me nuts but um but anyway so there's a they're there we find out

1:08:33Ronnie Karam: where a lot of that stuff comes from because we in the preview recap we did like a trailer trash of this show and we're like where do all these pumpkins come from where did all this crap come from why would steven have this and then we find out he made his brothers go clean his house and decorate it because he's just too busy so he had them do it so he could have it be presentable for the woman folk and so that's where all this stupid stuff came from yeah because by the way this entire

1:09:02Ben Mandelker: episode has been so sullen because they're all like oh my god daddy's going to jail i'm gonna read my note to the judge again and so they've been crying all episodes so this is like our fun and games moment to lighten the lighten the mood for the season premiere so they the brothers are like cleaning things up and everything and they're like looking at his roman swaps for male enhancement

1:09:21Ronnie Karam: stuff like that and and we find out roman swipes i've never heard of these had you roman swipes and Jake is like, yeah, it's for mail enhancement. They make you last longer. Look it up on your phone. So this is the episode we find out Steven lasts like two seconds in bed. I think it's so funny. Yeah, and it becomes a continuing thing.

1:09:44Ben Mandelker: The idea of anyone being able to enhance Steven McBee is also a hilarious concept to me. No.

1:09:51Ronnie Karam: Well, Royds can't do everything. So Steven Jr. and Allie are in the car and we're back with them and Allie's like McBee's Coffee and Car Wash, your name's everywhere. Everywhere I turn it's McBee. I had no idea.

1:10:05Ben Mandelker: I regret that now. Don't ever make a brand your last name ever. Horrible idea. Can't hide from the feds as easily.

1:10:13Ronnie Karam: Yeah. So they go through the car wash. And he's like, I don't know if she's closed off or she's got like kind of a snotty attitude or what. And then afterwards I said, I was completely wrong. She's not snotty. She's amazing. She's super smart. my brain hurts just from trying to keep up with her well to be fair i feel like your brain hurts

1:10:32Ben Mandelker: just doing most things yeah why is this door not opening so brayden uh brayden and jake still decorating everything and they're they're saying that they have a nicer palette than uh steven especially when it comes to decorating for girls but this is all a big misdirect because guess what steven and ally show up and the place looks crazy

1:10:54Ronnie Karam: Yeah, it's got like crazy decorations And it's like Got some Halloween thing that's like Show me your boobies Yeah

1:11:04Ben Mandelker: It's like stuff that's like clearly Well, they're clearly trolling their brother Right? Yeah

1:11:09Ronnie Karam: They're putting like handcuffs on the bed And stuff like that And meanwhile Allie's like So how's your dad? How you feeling about that whole thing? And he's like Oh man, that man can handle stress like nobody I have ever seen. He just starts writing numbers down on contracts and sending them into the government.

1:11:30Ben Mandelker: And Allie goes, so that's where you get it from? What? Are you saying that Stephen McBee Jr. handles this dress well? Have you seen the veins in his forehead and his neck?

1:11:38Ronnie Karam: Yeah, fast forward to stagecoach. See how... I know, seriously.

1:11:43Ben Mandelker: This girl washes not clean my car adequately.

1:11:46Ronnie Karam: Yeah, so she's telling us that she would never just go anywhere for a man, but they're so connected. and he's telling us, yeah, you know, I'm just so spontaneous now. This is one of the most spontaneous things I ever did. And then they cut back to the brothers and they're like, don't you think it's a little weird that he's flying in this new girl the day of dad's sentencing?

1:12:07Ben Mandelker: Yeah, seriously. And by the way, this is not kind of spontaneous. He did the exact same thing last year with Akala. Yes. First week of filming. Now Cole and Tess are doing some farm work elsewhere, And Cole tells us, even though we just wrapped up harvest, you know, what's supposed to be the busiest time of the year, we still have so much work to do on the farm. No matter if we're taking my dad to court, no matter what new girlfriend you got, that's your lifestyle. It's not just your job. Okay. So, um.

1:12:40Ronnie Karam: Thanks for the insight. Yeah. And Cole's like, that meeting is something else. Steven, don't even let me talk about stuff. I had stuff to say. and Tessa's like, well, that just kind of comes from your dad, I think. He's like, yeah, but I'm trying to step up. So I'm about to step up, you know. I mean, I don't know if this was the right time to fly in a girl. He's like, well, I thought it was a little odd myself, but I didn't want to say nothing. You never know how bossy this one's going to be.

1:13:08Ben Mandelker: Blair says that she's a slut. It's like, oh. So then Ellie and Steven arrive. Blair's first word.

1:13:16Ronnie Karam: Slut. Slut.

1:13:18Ben Mandelker: back inside the farm so then um ally and steven they get to the farm and this is where they see all the silly stuff the toilet papers and trees and then like the thing is up that's like boobies and everything so ally's like um okay so this was his brother so really what i'm worried about is i don't know if i'm if i'm about to meet the family right like am i that hot and attractive that like he already wants to make me his bride like what is happening i don't know what's going on all i know is i don't think i've seen trees teepeed since high school yeah so stephen's like

1:13:51Ronnie Karam: you guys are crazy okay this ain't these handcuffs ain't mine i just told you this place isn't

1:13:56Ben Mandelker: decorated like a frat house now look at it yeah it looks so yeah it's it's like so wacky it's wacky it's a wacky moment there's hang the handcuffs and everything and so then ally's like oh my gosh This is crazy. I mean, we haven't even kissed yet. I'm going to say that a few more times. You know, just to tee up a scene where we kiss. We haven't even kissed yet.

1:14:18Ronnie Karam: So the boys did buy tampons. They were like, girls are like that, right? What size do you think she is? The other one's like, well, I mean, just get the small ones. Because even if she's big, she can use just two of them, right?

1:14:34Ronnie Karam: So she's like, well, I guess it's good that you have tampons. He's like, but I didn't get those, though. It's like the one good thing they did he doesn't even want to take credit for. It's like, I don't want to look gay. So then we go back to Cole complaining to Tessa, and he's like, you know, I've been trying to take things on. I beat up a hill. I mean, you would think after closing that$30 million deal this year and paying off all that debt we did with that, I mean, I don't know how I haven't proved to him yet that I can handle more. I need proof of this. Yeah, I need proof.

1:15:04Ben Mandelker: you know it's not it's it's not like i need you know told good job every day or i'm trying to show off what i'm doing you literally are asking to be told good job and show off what you're doing and that's what you've been doing last year say but i was able to sell a bunch of ground to a big investor for 30 million dollars just to pay the debt off with and yeah i just feel like she even just still treats me like i'm some sort of idiot i'm like that's because you're some sort of idiot you are and how much was the land worth you punched you saw why did you punch the land

1:15:29Ronnie Karam: He's like, I sold$1 billion worth of land for$30 million. I don't know why they're not proud of me. So Stephen's showing, you know, Allie around the house and everything.

1:15:41Ben Mandelker: And Cole's still complaining. He's like, I know he wants to fix everything. But I also know he wants to get to find the right woman and get married. And I want him to get his life straight, you know, because I want him to be happy. Because I have Casey in my life. And I have Blair. I can't tell you. I can't even tell you the help they are to me. The way that Blair helps me drive my car. Oh, we, it's good. They got, that's how I stay on the road. I mean, they keep me going.

1:16:05Ronnie Karam: She's like, she's like my drunk driving straw. Every time I'm about to get in the car, just blow up her nose and see if she gets drunk. Every time I got to move a bale of hay, I'm like Blair, get out of here.

1:16:15Ben Mandelker: Help me with this. Hey gosh, you shut your hell.

1:16:20Ronnie Karam: I'll put everything into this. I even put Blair on the blackjack table and said, spin the wheel. What are you even playing? So we go back to Allie and Steven, and Steven's like, I'm glad you're here. You look real good. You look real good up here on this farm, Cal. Oh.

1:16:39Ben Mandelker: Cal. What are you saying? Claire. I can feel that he's trying to go in for a bit, you know, and my body language is kind of pulling back naturally. You know, look at me. I'm just Allie pulling away from any advances from this guy. Cut to them just making out.

1:16:56Ronnie Karam: Yeah. She's like, I'm a soft and kisser. I just love big fat wet one, right? I mean, here's more of a, you know, do you not use tongue? I mean, stick your tongue in my mouth.

1:17:09Ben Mandelker: So anyway, speaking of mouths, we now go to the jack-o'-lantern. And so Cole is like, I've got more in the line that I've had my whole life. And I'm here to take responsibility. I need to. Well, he needs to learn to start respecting you like you respect him. And let you grow up. And you become responsible. Whatever you need me to say to get out of my office. Please. I got things to do. There's dribble doors that need to be fixed. But this farm, Blair, needs this farm.

1:17:34Ronnie Karam: Get the hell out of here already. Jesus Christ. So it ends with Steve Jr. and Allie sitting together on the swing. The new, completely, like, authentic couple we've all been waiting for.

1:17:47Ben Mandelker: Everything's fine. Everything's, look, will they lose the farm? Maybe. But will they gain true love? Absolutely. Of course.

1:17:56Ronnie Karam: Yeah. Guys, it all works at the end. So that was the McBee Dynasty

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