#3486 McBee Dynasty S03E08 Part One: Wedding Smells

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0:31Ben Mandelker: watch new episodes Wednesdays on Freeform and streaming on Hulu reality royalty returns unfiltered unpredictable and unafraid to say the quiet part out loud calm on the outside crisis on the inside

0:42Ronnie Karam: get ready for a raw inside look at her world balancing family friends career and chaos no apologies no holding back

0:50Ben Mandelker: it's Stassi direct from the source and nothing like anything you've seen before, from her husband Beau's crossroads to bestie Katie M's brutal truth bombs

1:01Ronnie Karam: to constant sister strife. Expect tons of inner circle shade. Amid the dreams, the drama, and the dark passenger, she's willing to not just challenge the status quo, but change all the rules.

1:14Ben Mandelker: Don't miss one of reality TV's most iconic voices on her terms.

1:20Ronnie Karam: Prepare yourself for the good, the bad,

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1:54Ronnie Karam: Watch What Crappens

2:01Hi, how are ya?

2:04Ben Mandelker: Good, how are ya? I'm doing great. I'm feeling great. I'm looking a little extra orange today. I think my lighting is a little off, so I sort of have this beautiful orange glow about myself. The good kind of orange glow.

2:17Ronnie Karam: I think it's your normal color, but I'm back in Texas and my lighting is very white here. So, I think I'm throwing you off. So, welcome everybody. Welcome to the show. I'm back in Texas. everything's great. Took a plane ride for three hours and 20 minutes or so from LA, and there was a missionary sitting behind me, and there was a lady sitting next to him named Drusilla who had to listen to his ass. This man, Drusilla, wherever you are, I'm so sorry for what you just went through because that was not easy. This man did not shut up. Listen, we all know who Christ is at this point, and your sales pitch is great.

2:58Ronnie Karam: Jesus is love, and I give that to you. I'm I'm not even dissing the Christians out there. Stop selling it so hard. You don't need to sell it that hard. Three hours and 15 minutes? Jeez. Even Jesus was like, I didn't even do this. Even I took a bathroom break, for Christ's sake.

3:14Ben Mandelker: I feel bad for Drusilla. If you're out there, Drusilla, or if anyone knows Drusilla, just tell her you have our sympathies. I would love to meet Drusilla. I love that name. I'm assuming her father's name is Andrew and her mother's name is Priscilla. Drusilla. I love it. Drusilla. She's an icon.

3:32Ronnie Karam: Drusilla had to just take it. And at one point, I looked past her. I looked, not past her, but I looked between the seats, like behind me, between the seats, and I just blinked really hard. And then she looked at me like, I was fucking crazy. I'm like, this is blink if you need help, Drusilla. Okay, I'm here. Drusilla may have liked it. No. Drusilla's like, I've got a missionary beside me, and then I've got some weirdo looking between the seats, like blinking at me for some reason. What the hell's going on on this plane?

3:59Ben Mandelker: Do you know one of my favorite things to do on an airplane is a slow look behind me. When someone's like kicking too hard or coughing too much or making too much noise or speaking loudly, they've got their headphones on. I love these slow turnaround like, what's happening back there? But then what happens is - Oh, I know that Ben looked very well. Oh, yeah. Ronnie has flown with me many times. But then what happens is I'm such a coward about it because then they give me a nasty look. Like, what are you looking at? And I'm like, sorry, nothing. I was just like looking at it. I saw something back in the back of the plane.

4:26Ben Mandelker: I look back on it. I like release my position very quickly. But I need to do the initial turn to know that I've done something. And then I can go back to being normal. I need to know that for a moment that person thought that they may be disrupting other people. And then I'm fine. But man, I love the slow. Yeah, they get it. They get it.

4:46Ronnie Karam: And you're smart for not giving them an argument. I think they get it when they give you a dirty look like you want to fucking fight and you don't. You're like, no, I gave you my passive-aggressive look and that's all you're getting from me. Because otherwise they're going to whip out the phone and do whatever else, you know, like, oh, he's hurting me, you know, by telling somebody to shut the fuck up.

5:06Ben Mandelker: You know what? Can I just say, since we have a very nice-sized community here at Watch for Crap and some people who listen to the show and who support us, who come to our shows, who always have our back on the internet and wherever, if a day comes where my little head turn on the airplane does lead to one of those airplane videos, can you all promise to have my back on it with the internet?

5:36Ben Mandelker: Because you guys know I will be right. Okay? When you get a caravan video. Yeah. Because if I'm in a video and the larger internet community – By the way, let me say if I'm in a video again that goes viral on an airplane, because this happened to me like 15 years ago, and I wound up on Fox and Friends. This is a true story.

5:56Ronnie Karam: I was going to say, that's before TikTok was even there. You went viral on Fox.

6:03Ben Mandelker: that was me rolling my eyes at an at a toddler who wouldn't stop crying but it was really more directed at the parents and i was like they had me on fox and friends this is appropriate because we're talking about the mcb dynasty so it's a safe space to mention fox and friends they had me have box of friends because they were like the rumor has it that they're they're uh they're creating baby ghettos on airplanes that if you have a child you're putting the last four rows of a section so here's someone famously anti-child it's ben mandelker he had a video of him rolling as I as had a child. So I was on there to defend the sanctity of a no children zone on Fox and Friends.

6:40Ben Mandelker: So you're welcome, everyone.

6:42Ronnie Karam: And you're still going at it 15 years later. You know, consistency is key.

6:47Ben Mandelker: I've actually become much more chill about it. I think the advent of noise canceling headphones has helped. I think just growing older and just giving up and understanding like it's really, really hard. But there are still times, you know, I have issues like on a flight to Boston I had recently, I talked about that. This woman, who stood up in the middle. I won't even get into that. But the point is that inevitably I'm going to get myself into trouble again. And inevitably the larger internet community will say that I'm a Karen, or as I say, a Trishel, and that I'm in the wrong, and that I'm privileged.

7:20Ben Mandelker: I don't even know. I was a kid. I was a baby once. Did I forget that? They'll be doing all that. When that time comes, I'm cashing in my card. I'm going to call upon the entire Watcher Crappens army to defend me, regardless of if you agree with me or not. I'm just, I'm playing my chip at that moment. Defend me when my airplane video comes out.

7:38Ronnie Karam: Stopping a caravan. Well, you know, I will definitely be there for you because that look that you have given has saved me on planes when I've been around you. When, you know, cause I won't say anything. I'll just normally, normally, especially with kids, I'll be like, you want me to hold your can? But sometimes you do just want to give a look and you'll give it. And so that's helped me. I've benefited from that. So I will definitely have your back.

8:02Ben Mandelker: I love giving, I love just like a, sometimes I just need to have a passive aggressive moment. Like there was one time I flew from like Florida to LA and the people next to me had just come back from a cruise. This is like 2022. So again, COVID was even more like present in our lives. And the lady next to me was, she was sniffling, she was coughing. One moment she was hot and fanning herself out. One moment she was freezing and bundling herself up and she had no mask on. Of course I have my mask because I believe I'm masking on planes because it has nothing to do with politics or COVID. It's just about like, I don't want to get sick.

8:40Ben Mandelker: But someone was blatantly sick right next to me. And I was so mad that she wasn't masking, especially in 2022. It was much more, I felt much more passionate about that. And I was so mad. I was so mad, so mad. And then, and at one point I even gave her some tissues and she like, didn't even say thank you. and then at the end she had a layover to go to her next spot in nevada which is a good tie-in segue to the show and i said i was so mad but like the way i was able to like be okay with it was at the end i said would you like a mask for your next flight and she's like she was oh what no i mean thank you very much but no thank you and i could tell i offended her deeply to her core like i'm some lib from california offering a mask masks don't even work and i was so happy that i jolted her and even though she didn't accept the mask and even though she didn't wear the mask the whole flight and I opened myself up to whatever illness I could have gotten, I was just glad to know that I had said something and that I had maybe on some level mask shamed her.

9:39Ben Mandelker: That was a win for me. Also, I'd like to say I did not get sick because I was wearing a mask.

9:44Ronnie Karam: Well, there you go. There you go. Yeah.

9:49Ben Mandelker: Speaking of viruses and ill

9:50Ronnie Karam: people like you ill. I already knew about this. I saw it on Fox News. I saw it. Every time you turn around, you're being videotaped and put on someone's parents' television. But anyway, if you're wondering why we're avoiding talking about the show, it's because we're covering McBee Dynasty today. It is season 18 ,000, episode eight. Season three, episode eight. What happens in Vegas? Oh, God. I'm so fucking sick of what happens in Vegas. Got milk? it's enough come up with something new last today i guess i'm fucking over it okay i am really over

10:27Ben Mandelker: it as well um you know i'm also over um crazy actually i'm not it's not that i'm over but like the fashions that the mcb's were wearing to go out you know on the town were so wild and i just kind of feel like when us gay men gay men we we we go we go nuts obviously with our fashions and our looks but the fact that there's often like a pushback from you know certain communities that are like look at the look at those crazy queers look at them look like about like our looks and our fashion and then you've got the mcbe's coming out when they're multi-color multi-pattern multi shaped you know you know shirts i'm like you guys can no longer complain about gay fashions anymore I'm not saying that they look gay.

11:16Ben Mandelker: I'm just saying we all wear flamboyant stuff. So shut up.

11:21Ronnie Karam: It's like, what is this donkey blanket chic? What were they even wearing? And I love that they gave them the slow motion too, where they're like, oh, they're going out. And they're all wearing what looks like a blanket on a donkey, you know, just these terrible. Oh, my God. They were so bad. Cole and his, you know, his. Oh, my God. His Walmart dress shirt. and they're like slow it's just a slow motion of it all was killing me cole in his shirt that

11:49Ben Mandelker: looked like it came from like the van van hughes and fiesta line unbuttoned down to his navel i was like what is happening here it's awful like the thing is i don't want to take that away from them but like please don't come at us i'm not saying that even these guys have done that i Believe it or not, I'm going to be nice. I don't know if these – I have no idea where these guys really stand on that. But I do know that gay guys have gotten a lot of grief at the very least about the way we dress or some of the – there's always a lot of like, what? That's crazy. I would never wear something like that.

12:30Ben Mandelker: And then these guys come out in their rainbow-colored, technicolor dream shirts, and it's just enough.

12:40Ronnie Karam: yeah enough yeah are we painting the phoenix airport after this like are what are you what are you guys going for because it's very it's that southwestern i don't i don't know what they're going for but it was it was terrible and i was cracking up watching it the gossip around this show is still you know the external stuff outside the show is still so funny to me so Kayla or Calla rather um every time they bring her up on the show she'll make a post like fuck these people and here's why and so I think I've brought this up here but just to update you um she Casey said something like well she's a lot better than Calla this new one may look like Calla but at least she's better and so Calla came out with something it was like I've never even been mean to Casey in fact when she got an abortion of a baby that wasn't even Cole's child I didn't even say anything about it christy or christy made her get an abortion and i didn't even say anything about it so then that started a whole thing and then this storyline with now casey and steven are so close and we're just finding out about this and everyone was there ally was other ally was saying it was inappropriate and so people are like oh my god were they boning and that's really steven's child and then christy came came out or she posted i shouldn't say came out with a post I don't know why I always say it like that, but she posted, you know, we are just so sick of CNA, meaning Callie and Allie, being mean to us and all the horrible things that they are saying about us and all the, you know, fandom who is mean to us.

14:19Ronnie Karam: This isn't even worth it anymore. This just isn't even worth it for my family. This is our last go around at the rodeo. Please. No, you were quitting TV. Just stop. This is like two weeks after Stephen was like, I have had it with this fandom. We are not doing this anymore.

14:36Ben Mandelker: Why are you yelling at us for you being stupid? Okay, it's not our fault. Okay, go drown your tears in your oversized latte. Had enough. Yeah.

14:48Ronnie Karam: So I was cracking up because I just read that on the plane today that Christy was admonishing all of us over being mean to her family. Get your trash family off TV then. What do you think is going to happen? We're not all here to, you guys can lie to yourselves and each other about how great you are and how daddy's just in trouble for making a little paperwork mistake and all the other crap that you're trying to pull. But everyone else does not have to go along with your delusions, lady.

15:14Ben Mandelker: No, we don't, we don't have to. Also, the, I forgot what I was going to say. I completely forgot what I was going to say. This has happened to me like all week long. I keep forgetting. My train of thought is getting – who would have thought I would have been distracted away from thinking about the McBees? But the point is –

15:32Ronnie Karam: It's the evolution of Watch What Crappens. It's almost 15 years that we've been doing this, and we're just going to get older and older and more and more forgetful. Let me tell you where this show is not going. Up a hill. Okay? Steady and straight down.

15:47Ben Mandelker: That's it. But what I will say is last week I was really harsh to the producers behind the show. and I was accusing them of having bad storytelling because you have this bombshell that Ali started a rumor that Stephen and Casey may have a romantic relationship going on behind closed doors. And I was saying this is bad storytelling because this is something that we should have known about from the beginning of the season. It would have informed a lot of interpersonal relationships. It would have made it more intriguing. The show is pretty one-dimensional. It's just like what's going to happen with the farm?

16:23Ben Mandelker: what about tallow and this is something that could actually be this is something that could be an interpersonal thing that could tie these characters all together and the fact that they they brought it up so late into the season and maybe as sort of like a half-baked twist was bad storytelling but the good news for everyone uh i i apologize for saying it was storytelling because this episode they just acted like that never happened and they just it just we just move on from it so i'm gonna say it went from being bad storytelling to god awful storytelling i don't know what they're doing behind the scenes on this show but they've they've lost the threat whatever thread there could have been it is lost well they did bring it up again today because uh

17:11Ronnie Karam: casey and steven talked about it a little bit but yeah it was they decided like okay we don't want to be talking about this on tv steven why did you bring this up so now it's just very we'll sweep it

17:22Ben Mandelker: back under the rug and then let cole wear the rug okay everywhere we go literally looks like the rug

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19:22Ronnie Karam: Let's do it. It's 4.08 a.m. We start with this really long, blurry montage of like, wow, look at them in Vegas. Now they're drinking. Now they're gambling. now they're taking a shot now they're driving in a car now they're walking down the street I was like tick tick how long is this montage we get it there in Vegas I was happy for the post

19:48Ben Mandelker: department because they've had nothing interesting to do this entire season I mean it's just like one long plotting scene after another in the stale air of like Cole's house or the HQ so like to actually like edit something that is like you know upbeat and fast and require some like use of your skills on final cut like i was like i i was like i knew the reason why this was so long it's because the post department was like please give us something to do other than cut to cole's face cut to blair cut to coffee like give us something so i was happy for them yeah tech we got to add a cross we got to like use crossfades

20:29Ronnie Karam: it was yes we got a slow mo and crossfit it was crazy they got to use it they come home all coked out all the editors like oh man that was a night whoo yes so three days earlier uh everyone's

20:46Ben Mandelker: packing and uh we see cole and casey and they're they're packing and good old blair is calling crawling around on the floor and i don't know if you caught this they have one cutaway to blair and Blair's like, sort of writhing around. And there's like a full-on like, cord to the fan that's just like right there, just unplugged for her to stick right into her mouth. I was like, God, I'm so glad they're being attentive to Blair right now. This is the second time we've caught Blair in danger. The first time was really engaging. Yeah, Blair's just like eating these fake petals or whatever. And I'm like, do you want to take care of your baby?

21:20Ben Mandelker: And now Blair's like...

21:22Ronnie Karam: That's my chain!

21:24Ben Mandelker: And now Blair's just like... I hope someone else saw this, that there was a full-on two-prong cord, and Blair was just like, I'm like, can someone take care of Blair, please?

21:39Ronnie Karam: Blair's just crawling into a dry-cleaning bag. Drink out just another day packing. I know. And Cole's being wacky by, Cole's trying to be wacky by putting on a bra. He's taking Casey's bra over and put it on over his shirt. i mean you know when it calls for it you know what i mean so then we go to jesse and ali's city house uh and ali's like uh are you gonna pack a bag jesse because are you gonna come to vegas after all he's like well i'm thinking maybe it might be better for our marriage if i just came to vegas after all wow jesse's going to vegas i couldn't sleep all week wondering if jesse was going to actually show up to Vegas.

22:25Ronnie Karam: He did it.

22:26Ben Mandelker: The pull of Cowboy Christmas is just that strong. So he is coming, which is great. So that means he has, he can enjoy all of Ali's huge personality in Nevada for a switch up. And so they're going to do it. God, the both of them. I know, seriously. They have a real like, milquetoast on milquetoast battle going on here. but I mean she's Ali is unsettling for me because her eyes are always big she seems uneasy at all times I think she's always afraid of pissing off Jesse or anyone so she sort of like says things in this like weird perky question mark sort of way but then there's also this like perky sarcasm in there she's like well I guess you're going to Vegas you're going to Vegas okay well I think we'll have a fun time right and like I just you know what it is sometimes when I imagine getting stuck in a conversation with someone I just like them more

23:28Ronnie Karam: um yeah well they both they both do that creepy smile thing you know or they're both she's her eyes are really big when she does it and his are just like and his is more teeth but they just both have this creepy smile even when they're miserable and fighting it's so weird it makes me feel

23:46Ben Mandelker: uncomfortable so then back to uh casa casey cole um cole is like like i'm excited to see cowboy christmas again because i think it would be worth it next year for all of our products and stuff and like your tallow and our apparel and could we ever make apparel out of tallow that'd be pretty cool just a shirt made of fat i don't know i'm just thinking out loud here what is their apparel

24:10Ronnie Karam: did we even know that they had an apparel business because i'm looking that shit up right well i mean And I see that they have merch.

24:18Ben Mandelker: Please tell me that we were not witnessing an actual fashion show of their line today. Because that would be terrible.

24:29Ronnie Karam: I don't know, but I have to know what their clothes are. I see on their website, it's just a bunch of stuff that says McBee Farm and Cattle Company. But I don't see actual fashions. So are they going to just show up and sell t-shirts?

24:41Ben Mandelker: I don't know. That is funny. they just slip that in that there's apparently apparel maybe it's um um maybe it's like uniforms if you're opening up a car wash like here's like a blue polo or a light blue polo or a white polo with like a car wash logo on it i don't know there's like a niche for everything so casey is like i forgot to tell you but steven and i kind of briefly talked on the phone and i'm like first of all if you're on the phone i know it's not briefly because it takes you 10 minutes to get sentence out and she's like it went better than how it's been going and so i think vegas will be just fine yeah i think there's a lot you forgot to tell cole it's like oh yeah by the way um talk

25:23Ronnie Karam: to steven wow that was weird i think that's the problem casey thanks for resolving that storyline

25:32Ben Mandelker: uh before i had a chance to breathe thanks the the one shred of something interesting happening on the show you just sort of wrapped it up offline in between episodes okay great yeah well you know

25:43Ronnie Karam: with everything going on it's just gonna be so good going to vegas because we gotta blow off some steam like there's just been so much going on you have nothing going on your businesses are all closed what do you do are you working at the car wash you don't know how to drive the tractors

25:57Ben Mandelker: nothing is going on sir all you do is blow off steam anyway by the way that's every episode we need to blow off some more steam in the car wash one of the brushes bro we gotta blow off some steam

26:09Ronnie Karam: so um you get something white you need to get something white because what if we get married what if we don't go to a chapel and get married it's like I don't want to get married in Vegas Cole I want a wedding you can't just make somebody get married in Vegas well might as well do it because we're just there we're there already might as well do it does

26:29Ben Mandelker: does Casey have something white she has you Cole she has you

26:33Ronnie Karam: There is nothing wider than below your neck, sir.

26:42Ronnie Karam: Show me your arm flap. I know that that's the widest thing that anybody's got. And I speak as someone with a very pale arm flap. I know of what I'm speaking. So how cheap is this?

26:54Ben Mandelker: How what? That's how growing pains you so start. Show me your arm flap. Goal, show me your arm flap. Lift up your arm and tell me that whiteness. You gotta put on sunglasses in order to see the brightness.

27:14Ronnie Karam: Yeah, I've definitely got the great anti-underarm flap. But I wave at you and it just blinds you with both the flappiness and the whiteness. It's like, whoa! It's never seen the sun. So, Cole, how cheap is this family that... You know this whole thing is he just doesn't want to pay for a wedding. He doesn't have the money to do it. We find out next week. We already know. But we find out next week that their house is on land that the bank is calling notes in on. Like, they're fucked. They don't have any money. And he's just like, you really think you're going to get a big wedding? No. We are going to a drive-thru in Vegas.

27:49Ronnie Karam: That's it.

27:50Ben Mandelker: I know. Well, I'll save my thoughts on this wedding for that. So then Casey goes, Cole comes up with some crazy ideas, but a wedding in Vegas. Honestly, I was rooting for a wedding in Vegas because this whole season has been so Casey-centric, which is fine. She seems like a perfectly okay person. But her confessionals are really not some of the best that Bravo can turn up there. I mean, she gets up there and just starts drawing. Wow. Cole comes up with some crazy ideas, but come on, Casey. We've got 44 minutes of screen time here. You can't take up 10 of them. I'm just trying to make a stupid comment in your confessional.

28:36Ben Mandelker: Let's keep this going.

28:39Ronnie Karam: Between Casey and Allie and Jesse and really all of them. All of them. I don't know how they spring together.

28:47Ben Mandelker: Steven, that's why he has to speak so quickly. Make up the time. They're like in a relay race. All right. I'm the anchor of this relay race. I'll talk really quickly. You're the most pessimistic person about me I think this is Casey's best confessional Vegas

29:02Ronnie Karam: Vegas is tacky What? Is Elvis gonna be Cole's best man? And who's gonna be my maid of honor? Dolly Parton You should be so lucky

29:14Ben Mandelker: How dare you How dare you Second of all you should be lucky How dare you Yes Absolutely crazy Also by the way I hate to break it to you You're about to get married in Vegas. So she's like, ew, who would ever do that? You. You're about to do it. You're going to by the end of this godforsaken hour. So now we're on.

29:37Ronnie Karam: Oh, Kansas City International. Let's get to the airport, everybody. So it's awkward between Steven Jr. and Allie. And by awkward, I mean they're rubbing each other's ass all the way through the airport as he smiles big for cameras. And she tilts her head back and goes, Yeah, it's been really awkward with me and Steve Jr. He's like, yeah, it's been pretty awkward. But that was our first major argument. And I'm just so happy that Ellie has decided to come out here to Las Vegas.

30:08Ben Mandelker: So they go to Virgin Hotels, which I guess sponsored this episode. Do we know, is that where the Hard Rock was? Do we know offhand? Do you want me to look this up? The Hard Rock's still there. It is? Okay, I'm going to look up what the Virgin Hotel is in Vegas because I have some thoughts about it. Continue on. Please describe to everyone what this brain trust of people does in the next few moments.

30:32Ronnie Karam: They get a tour of the residential suite where they get to stay. It's very fancy. And they're like, wow, this is quite a room. Cole's like, yeah, normally when I go to Vegas, I'm trying to find an$88 room per night. Nothing like this with the swimming pool and a bowling lane.

30:49Ben Mandelker: so here's why i thought it was the hard rock hotel and guess what i was right the hard rock is if it's there it's moved um but uh the virgin hotel is where the hard rock was and the hard rock was famously where um they did a real world uh i think it wasn't it wasn't i think they went back to real they went well they went back to vegas i think either way like the real world took over Vegas again. They had a suite up there with the bowling alley and everything. And the way I know that is because we used to work at Buna Murray and at the time I was friends with someone there and then he had a birthday party and he used his connections with Buna Murray to have his birthday party in the real world suite at the Hard Rock.

31:39Ben Mandelker: And there was a bowling alley. There's all this stuff. And I don't know why I had this irrational feeling and maybe other real world people, real world viewers had this irrational feeling and this is completely irrational. But I think that maybe there's something about this show that makes me hate on everything where I was like, you know what, Virgin Hotel? You're passing off that bowling alley as if that was your own innovation, but it was there before you got here. I was like, that was my reaction. And that's why when the McBees were like, oh, there's a bowling alley, I was like, that belonged to the real world first, hands off.

32:15Ben Mandelker: These are my honest reactions

32:16Ronnie Karam: You get them, bitch

32:17Ben Mandelker: So they play with the bowling lane

32:23Ronnie Karam: And Allie and Steven go to their room And they're talking about how they need to drink Okay? And she's like, yeah, it's really awkward We got a fight And I'm really thrown off by it Thank God it's almost a season finale Am I right? So Steven's going to get them a glass of wine And it's so awkward That they decide to do like a double nudie scene on tv together so just get naked and take a very long um what do you call it when you're posting on instagram like a contenty type thing and ally gets in the tub we get a nude shot of ally and then she's like staring at the tub posing for the cameras and then steven gets naked and does the same thing oh this couple jesus and he just like he gets in the

33:06Ben Mandelker: tub he gets in the tub so his ass cheeks open up he can sort of just see like the darkness inside you know it's like so i just but i did think like we've come so far

33:25Ben Mandelker: you know and i was thinking we've we've come so far since dennis franz if you really think about it you know when they first were showing dennis franz butt on nypd blue and i was like oh my god they showed a butt on television and now here comes steven it's not even just like a glimpse It was like a long shot of his flat butt. And, you know. At least they're giving us hot people. Yeah, exactly. I'm like, you know what? I can't complain too much about this. So, and Allie's like, I'll take that sexy butt anytime. Oh my God. So then. Who needs talking?

34:03Ben Mandelker: I would rather watch Stephen's butt than listen to Cole McBee talk about how normally when he goes to Vegas, he spends$88 on a room.

34:10Ronnie Karam: Yeah.

34:13Ben Mandelker: Which is like, oh, so you're the one who stays at the stratosphere. Okay, got it.

34:19Ronnie Karam: Yeah, it's not the boys. We're playing pool in a suite. And they're talking about how the girls are getting ready. The girls are getting ready.

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37:00Ronnie Karam: So now we get to Steven Jr. sitting down with Casey for a very serious discussion. Okay? Now, I know that we've had our ups and downs over the last couple of months, and I think that there was a multitude of factors from it. Okay? Had to like that sentence. I got an MBA. Now, obviously, there were some things that were said that made me feel a little weird. and things that were said by Ellie, other Ellie, that were very inaccurate. Okay? And I don't appreciate that at all. Now, I have viewed you 100 % like my little sister. By the way, my favorite show is House of the Dragon. That's neither here nor there.

37:35Point is, you are my little sister.

37:37Ben Mandelker: You are my sister, and I've jerked off to you in my mind,

37:40Ronnie Karam: at the very least. Listen, there was a time,

37:45Ben Mandelker: before Christianity maybe, when a boy and a girl, if they're a brother and sister, wouldn't have sex. I've just pointed that out. Now, I think that her seeing us work together on the tallow is why she said that, and I think that Allie is actually jealous of us, and that's the thing, because girls are small moms that are jealous, so she's the real villain here. Okay, I'm glad we cleared it all up.

38:06Ronnie Karam: Here's one thing I've learned about women. If they are mad at you, they are either wanting your money, they're trying to trick you into pregnancy, or they're jealous. Thank you. That is Women in a Nutshell by Steve McBean Jr.

38:24Ben Mandelker: Well, Stephen, correct me if I'm wrong. You're wrong. Well, I didn't say anything yet, but our personal relationship started getting weird the day you decide that you want to give your new girlfriend 20 % of the tallow business. And I think you're trying to use Allie as a scapegoat. You're still wrong. How'd you get into my confessional? I don't know, but you're wrong.

38:50Ronnie Karam: Yeah, she tells us that, but of course not him. And that is interesting because he's making it sound like he pulled away from Casey after these rumors got started. And that's why their relationship. But she's like, no, you pulled away from me when you got a girlfriend. Which makes this whole thing even fishier. You know, that suddenly he's like, oh, I've got a new blonde in my life. Leave me alone, Delala.

39:12Ben Mandelker: so Casey is saying like she's not sure what's gonna happen with this tallow business which is too bad because all of America is waiting to know what's next for the tallow but there's something that we can figure that's something they can figure out when they get home for right now she wants to sweep everything under the rug and then put that rug onto Cole's chest and say it's his shirt that's her plan that's what happens in Vegas so now it's the time for the slow-mo scene of them

39:41Ronnie Karam: all walking down the hallway, I died laughing in their outfits. I can't. Never gonna get over it.

39:47Ben Mandelker: It's just one of the, just stripes, patterns, colors, everything.

39:55Ronnie Karam: Now let's go to Lucia Mexican Grill, okay? And Jesse's like, anything that gets put in front of me, I'm gonna be drinking.

40:05Ben Mandelker: Can I put tallow in front of you? So Allie is like, I really hope that me and Jesse get to enjoy each other's company And kind of forget everything that's been going on And I think this is like a stepping stone for us It's like I'm going to drink the stepping stone Blackout or back out Am I right? She's like what? Huh? Blackout or back out She's like That ain't me Jesse It's like well that's me I told you I warned you

40:33Ronnie Karam: Yeah he starts getting really mean with her Dick He starts being really mean for no reason And I didn't really understand What was even going on Was this the part where he's just like That ain't mean, you know it's mean She's like, what? I mean, come on, Jesse And he's like, shut it Jesse gets really dark and mean When he's He needs to be drunk It's just that he always seems so sweet Now we find out he's just a piece of shit Asshole Mean streak

41:03Ben Mandelker: Yeah, he has a real dick Much as I sort of am a dick When I say I hated the way the girls looked in their cowboy hats How about that I'm just going to say it

41:14Ronnie Karam: Well you got to show everybody We got a pair now Everybody's got to know So then They're talking about stupid stuff Cole's like I need to get some new Inspec for you guys And they're laughing and Casey's like Well you guys can't go to strip clubs Men are blocked from going to strip clubs We don't like that This is going to be a crazy plot line Are the boys going to disobey the ladies And go to a strip club This production company Jeff Jenkins Productions Are they fucking the Thunder Down Under Because it's the same thing that they did On Secret Lives of Mormon Wives Which is also produced by these people Where they go to Thunder Down Under and then it's a big offensive thing.

42:04Ronnie Karam: It's like, oh my God, the girls are getting grinding on by the boys.

42:09Ben Mandelker: I just have to assume that when you work with certain places, it's just much easier to go back. You understand the infrastructure of how to shoot there. And the deals in place will just re-up the deal. I have to imagine just like, once you shoot in one place, you just go back. It's just easy. And also - That's how it works in this family. that's for sure so it's the old age old thing like girls are allowed to go to a strip club but boys can't because the girls thing is different blah blah blah blah blah and so it's an issue and Jesse's certainly about it and Ali is like Jesse sometimes can have two different kind of drunks sometimes when he's drinking it's a great time and then sometimes he wants to pick fights with me this is your moment to turn around and leave because we're watching this we we've seen this on the valley and the two different kind of drunks has never worked out historically there's actually only one drunk the other one is a is just a facade that's not the real drunk yeah he gets really mean because of the strip club

43:16Ronnie Karam: because she's like well you all shouldn't do that jesse goes well i wasn't gonna do it to you but now i'm thinking about it what do you think about that you're pissing me off now she's like whoa Jesse maybe you should eat and he's like no I'm not I'm drinking y 'all need to do your own thing I don't care damn and she's looking everyone's staring at them while he's being an asshole and you can tell that this is not the first time you know it's not it's not and he's like are you gonna

43:41Ben Mandelker: be a little nicer she's like I said I'm sorry well that's not good enough he's like Ali already getting on my nerves feel like we're right back at home right where we started it's frustrating because this trip was supposed to be a fresh restart for us, and now it feels like we're doing the same thing as we're back in Missouri. Yeah. Well, then just go back to Missouri. I don't care. Yeah. So he sucks. He really sucks. And their trip is off to a bad start. Will they have a good time together? Who knows?

44:13Ronnie Karam: Yeah. So now Cole goes to hang out with Allie and Steven in their room, and Allie's like, Oh, my God. Tomorrow's our night because it's like 12 our time, and I have to get up early and work, and then I'll be ready to party after that. But content does not stop.

44:30Ben Mandelker: Tall boy Christmas backends tomorrow. So Cole is being like, well, we don't know it, but we talked. But we're sitting here like we don't really know when dad's going to be out. So we're like, what if we just get married? How about that? And then we can plan our wedding when dad gets out. And then who cares if it's two years from now? Because we can have another kid and be fine by there. We can have Blair part two. So we still want to have a big wedding And then she still gets to have one You know what I'm saying?

44:58Ronnie Karam: Yeah, this whole daddy Daddy needs to be there Daddy's not going to be Who cares if daddy's there? You guys just want daddy to pay, I think Yeah, I think that's what it is I can't believe that anyone is that attached to Stephen McBee Jr. Such an asshole He's such an asshole I kind of don't want to see your wedding until daddy's there either Though, to be honest Because you know he's going to make an ass of himself

45:20Ben Mandelker: but the amount of energy they put into um like thinking and catering to daddy and christy it's kind of like oh yeah oh mom doesn't get to be here for this and she can't oh yeah that's fine never mind it's like yeah why don't you elope back in missouri you can elope in missouri too you don't have to elope in vegas this is not the only place in the country to elope

45:41Ronnie Karam: yeah and ali's like no no you guys definitely need to have your mom there she's not going to be happy if you don't have it there. They're like, whatever. Who cares? We'll just do it right here.

45:51Ben Mandelker: And by the way, who's paying for this suite tonight? Christy! Christy is the one who bought this suite. That was her whole thing. She's like, the boys will be boys. They need some money. Also, why don't you just call? There's enough time. You can call mom and be like, why don't you fly out? We're going to do this. It's for real. Fly out for it.

46:11Ronnie Karam: You're flying out Galena for Christ's sake. You could fly out Christy. But Christy She's stuck home taking care of all the kids, I think. Which makes it even worse, you know? No, she's not. We're going to stick mom with all our kids and then keep her out of the wedding, too.

46:27Ben Mandelker: Oh, yeah. Blair isn't in Vegas. For a moment, I thought Blair was in Vegas because I had the vision of Blair writhing around near the extension cord. But I remember that was in Kansas City. So never mind. Gallatin.

46:37Ronnie Karam: Blair's just crawling around on a roulette thing that's spinning around in circles. Blair, do not eat the bus. Just swallows the ball.

46:48Ben Mandelker: so um yeah they're like what about mom and uh you know they're like well you know and then like well we need to get a ring you know what steven goes i bet cowboy christmas has some cool setups so congratulations casey you're about to get a special wedding ring from cowboy christmas

47:06Ronnie Karam: this man's not only too cheap to give you a real wedding he's getting you a fucking ring from cowboy Christmas, girl. So embarrassing.

47:15Ben Mandelker: Here's a turquoise wedding ring from a convention. I'm not opposed to a turquoise wedding ring. But, like, just, like, just going to get the best deal, trying to get a hookup because you're on TV as you go from stall to stall. Please. Yeah. Yeah.

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50:42Ben Mandelker: I'm having my hot Caesar summer, Ronnie. Yes. Caesar sauce? I feel like we don't talk about Caesar sauce enough because it's so, so good. I love to dip everything into it. Have you ever dipped fries in Caesar sauce before?

50:54Ronnie Karam: I mean, I just have. It is delicious. Caesar sauce is like a Parmesan, garlicky blend with some lemon in it. And you can dip anything in there.

51:02Ben Mandelker: One thing I have been known to do is to stop over at McDonald's and go to the drive-thru and get myself a Caesar snack wrap and just dip some fries in the Caesar sauce. Also, the Krispy strips in the Caesar sauce. Honestly, try it. It's really good.

51:17Ronnie Karam: Listen, I say if you put Caesar sauce on something, that automatically makes it better. Yes, that's really all you need is the Caesar sauce.

51:24Ben Mandelker: I think I just want to have just a constant supply of Caesar sauce and put it on things at all times.

51:31Ronnie Karam: Yeah, I'm a straight up French fry and Caesar sauce kind of a boy. That's what I love. And that's how I'm going to go down.

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51:51Ronnie Karam: It's a new era, a new reality, and a new obsession. Stassi's back, making an entrance and making it unforgettable in the new series House of Stassi

52:01Ben Mandelker: Watch new episodes Wednesdays on Freeform and streaming on Hulu Reality royalty returns, unfiltered, unpredictable, and unafraid to say the quiet part out loud Calm on the outside, crisis on the inside

52:12Ronnie Karam: Get ready for a raw inside look at her world, balancing family, friends, career, and chaos No apologies, no holding back

52:20Ben Mandelker: It's Stassi, direct from the source and nothing like anything you've seen before. From her husband Bo's crossroads.

52:28Ronnie Karam: To bestie Katie M's brutal truth bombs to constant sister strife.

52:33Ben Mandelker: Expect tons of inner circle shade.

52:36Ronnie Karam: Amid the dreams, the drama, and the dark passenger, she's willing to not just challenge the status quo, but change all the rules.

52:44Ben Mandelker: Don't miss one of reality TV's most iconic voices on her terms. Prepare yourself for the good, the bad, and the Stassi. Watch the new series, House of Stassi. New episodes Wednesdays on Freeform and streaming on Hulu.