McBee Dynasty -I Do, DUI & the FBI

Wendy (00:00.962)
Hi, welcome to We Wine Whenever, I'm Wendy.

Kelli (00:04.074)
I'm Kelly.

Gina (00:05.3)
I'm cousin Gina.

Wendy (00:07.682)
We are talking about McBee Dynasty Season 2 Episode Number 10, the season finale called Wedding Bells and Jail Cells. That's a perfect title.

Kelli (00:19.724)
I meant to ask you ladies, did season one also only have 10 episodes? I would imagine, right? Got it. One day I'll go back and watch it, watch the first season. You know what? I really don't like their father. So I'm hesitant to go back and watch season one because I know he's in it a lot, right?

Wendy (00:25.068)
Yes. Yes.

Gina (00:25.089)
Yes.

Gina (00:31.66)
it's a good watch. It's a good watch.

Wendy (00:32.886)
It's a good watch.

Gina (00:40.98)
He's ate it a lot.

Wendy (00:41.46)
You have, but you need to see him. You need to see him in action, like to really get the context. Yeah. We start out with the men. Well, we didn't start out, but this is my first note. So they're getting ready for the wedding. It's wedding day and the men show up. The ladies are, you know, they're getting ready and the men, the first thing they do is they shotgun beers and the ladies are drinking mimosas. I mean, I think that's totally appropriate, right? We didn't know it.

Kelli (00:45.566)
Okay. Okay. I'll do it.

Gina (01:07.318)
Mm-hmm.

Kelli (01:08.79)
I mean, coal, coal, coal shotgunning beers might not be the best decision early in the morning, but whatever. Maybe if he paces himself.

Wendy (01:11.98)
Yeah, cool.

Gina (01:12.705)
Close the one.

Wendy (01:20.706)
It wasn't early in the morning. So they went golfing that day. The day of the wedding, the boys went golfing. And I did notice, because I listened to the podcast, I think, before I watched the episode. And they had said that they went golfing in the morning, because they talked about being on time. And they were a couple minutes late. I did notice they had some golf shorts on. it wasn't early. So that's fine. No, no.

Kelli (01:40.374)
Okay.

Kelli (01:44.192)
Okay, good. So he wasn't shotgunning first thing in the morning.

Wendy (01:50.114)
Casey said to, I think she said to Steven Jr, you know, why is it I get stuck sitting next to your dad? And he said to keep him from saying stupid shit. Right. Which we didn't say, they didn't say. I'm sure she was fine.

Kelli (01:58.037)
You

Kelli (02:01.836)
was only at the ceremony, right? That wasn't at the reception.

Gina (02:05.148)
Why wasn't she a bridesmaid?

Kelli (02:11.444)
of feeling was probably because she was so pregnant. I mean who the hell wants to put a bridesmaid's dress on?

Gina (02:11.456)
mean, they're close. They were living together.

Gina (02:21.012)
Yeah, I don't know what her due date was, but I know the wedding was like mid to the end of October. That could be. That could be. But it was was surprising.

Wendy (02:26.636)
Yeah, it was mid-October.

Kelli (02:29.324)
That's what I'm thinking because they are very close, Allie and Casey, they seem very close.

Gina (02:34.588)
And Allie and Jesse were living with them. Or one of them was living with the other one waiting. Maybe it was Cole.

Wendy (02:42.83)
Cole and KC are living in the basement of Allie and Jessie's house. And as of the last podcast, they're still there, I think.

Gina (02:47.284)
Yeah.

Kelli (02:53.812)
while they're building their house? okay.

Wendy (02:56.01)
Yes, they're still in the basement. Yes, they're still in the basement.

Gina (02:57.142)
It's going to be a spectacular house.

Kelli (03:01.77)
Yeah, that house is going to be beautiful.

Wendy (03:03.77)
It must be a nice basement though. You know, right?

Gina (03:06.911)
Yeah. Well, they have two houses. They've got the city house and the farmhouse.

Kelli (03:07.253)
sure.

Yeah.

Wendy (03:12.642)
The other thing interesting, so on the last episode when Jesse and Allie were talking about where we're gonna live, Allie's like, I guess I'm moving to the farm. But it turns out I heard on the podcast, it's not actually, he's spending more time in the city, because his mom's in the city and her mom's in the city and all the babysitters and the helpers are in the city. So they're spending more time in the city. Now that may change.

Kelli (03:35.958)
So he's just commuting to work every day to the farm. And the only thing that sucks is that obviously you work on a farm, you have to be there early, it's not a nine to five.

Wendy (03:38.829)
Yeah.

Gina (03:39.721)
That's an hour and a half.

Gina (03:47.517)
No, because remember they got, he got called, one of the brothers got called in and it was like, you know, it's going to take me an hour and a half to get there.

Wendy (03:48.365)
Right.

Wendy (03:55.98)
Yeah. Well, it is what it is, right? You gotta do what you gotta do. Cole and Jake are not allowed to have the mic at the wedding. They've been told that they are not allowed to speak, so they give their little cheers and best wishes. I love that. I love that.

Gina (04:12.094)
That was funny.

Kelli (04:14.796)
That is so funny, I didn't even catch that they said that.

Wendy (04:18.22)
Yeah, Cole said it, Cole said it. Stephen Jr. says that Cal is coming to the wedding and he's excited.

Gina (04:18.567)
Yeah, they didn't want them to make speeches. Yeah.

Kelli (04:29.942)
He said, love is in the air and maybe it's a last ditch effort for them to get back together.

Wendy (04:34.636)
Hmm, not so much.

Kelli (04:36.458)
Nope.

Gina (04:38.546)
And what was that bolo tie thing? maybe you'll want, I didn't get that. What did he say? He might want to pull my bolo tie.

Wendy (04:40.908)
my gosh. Him and his... Him...

Kelli (04:43.808)
Well, I guess they use that when they're being intimate with each other.

Gina (04:48.327)
I'm sorry, but a bolo tie doesn't turn me on.

Kelli (04:51.334)
I was watching Hunting Wives last night, which we have to talk about that.

Gina (04:55.989)
couldn't get through it. It's a hard show to watch when your brother's in the other room.

Kelli (04:58.618)
I can only imagine and I don't want to take away from this show. So I'll just say this real quick. I struggled getting through the first three episodes, but after the fourth episode, I was so locked in. I was up until after 1 a.m. last night finishing it. I finished it last night. I watched five episodes last night after dinner. I was so locked in. But you struggled to get through the first three episodes.

Wendy (05:02.03)
Now I can.

Gina (05:22.941)
Wow, I'll have to talk to you about it later.

Kelli (05:28.288)
But all I could think about, the one husband was wearing a bolo tie and all I could think about was what Stephen Jr. said to Kelly. Yeah.

Gina (05:33.844)
you

Wendy (05:34.028)
about the Polo side, that's so funny.

Wendy (05:39.118)
Then we see Mackie the security guard and Stephen Jr. showing him pictures of Masha and Galina and letting him know which Russians allowed and which Russians not and they are both blonde and they both have blue eyes. I mean and in a picture you can't tell that Galina is so much bigger than Masha. I mean

Gina (05:57.022)
They don't look anything alike.

Kelli (05:58.935)
They don't look anything alike.

Wendy (06:01.662)
They don't, but you know, those two big features.

Gina (06:05.276)
And Galena has probably six, seven inches on Masha. Yeah.

Wendy (06:08.814)
I said, yeah, she's a lot taller. Yeah, yeah, she's a lot.

Kelli (06:09.342)
Yeah, that's what Wendy's saying. In the picture, you can't tell unless they're standing next to each other. But what was funny was when Steven Jr. was like, you have mace on it? What do say, mace or a taser? And the guy was like, damn, really? And he's like, yeah, really. Yes, really.

Wendy (06:14.509)
Right.

Wendy (06:20.546)
I think he said it. Yeah. Yeah. So Steve senior is there and Christie says that she has not seen him since she filed for divorce, which

Kelli (06:29.218)
or some kind of backup.

Gina (06:40.094)
I was shocked, because that's two years, two plus years.

Wendy (06:43.916)
Well, no, because they got divorced in 21, said, remember?

Kelli (06:50.08)
I think she filed in 21.

Wendy (06:52.558)
Okay, so she filed in 21. still that's...

Kelli (06:54.604)
I think she said, yeah, right? I thought it was like almost five years. Yeah.

Wendy (06:59.64)
That's three years. Yeah, it's been a long time. Let's just say that. It's been a long time that she has not seen him. And she says that, you know, she doesn't want to go back to that place, you know, mentally. And I would imagine that, you know, that's where your head's gonna go, but she's an adult and she, you know, she was totally fine.

Gina (07:04.061)
That's a long time.

Gina (07:19.165)
But that really surprises me. know she doesn't live near the farm. I don't know, having four kids and not seeing each other. Yeah.

Wendy (07:25.976)
Well, there's no room.

Kelli (07:25.996)
I know, how has it gone this long? You have four sons. How have you not seen him in this long?

Gina (07:32.591)
Yeah, it just doesn't...

Wendy (07:34.338)
The boys come to her. Right? I mean, she doesn't need to go there. She's had her life in the city for how long? I mean, she wasn't living there when they got, when they were separated before they got divorced, so.

Kelli (07:36.192)
Yeah.

Gina (07:39.602)
Yeah.

Kelli (07:46.102)
So she was living in the city prior to them separating?

Gina (07:50.789)
Most of their marriage she was living in the city because that's where her work was and that's why the younger son is not so involved in the farm because he was with her and the older three were with Steve senior.

Kelli (08:02.164)
I mean, it's hard to sustain a marriage that way. And if you have a husband with a wandering eye...

Gina (08:05.35)
But you.

I'm not sure about the youngest son, but all three of those boys went to college too. So they were probably all off at college at the same time because they are close in age.

Wendy (08:08.044)
Wish you didn't know that.

Kelli (08:10.124)
She didn't know that.

Wendy (08:16.962)
The other

Kelli (08:17.342)
Yeah, it seems like they're very well we said Stephen juniors 30 Jesse's 28 and Cole's probably right underneath there

Wendy (08:25.622)
Yeah, I think they're each two years apart. think they're like, you know, right in there. Cole had said, and he's talked about this on the podcast, so Cole played football in Gallatin. So there was a time where it was just him at the farmhouse, because that's where the high school was. And he was the big, like he was the big football star. He was the high school football star.

Kelli (08:49.632)
Yeah, they reference that a lot.

Wendy (08:53.162)
Yeah, so his mom was in Kansas City and Stephen Jr. was probably off in college. he was at the farmhouse by himself basically in high school. And I mean, guess Tessa was around kind of looking after him, right? But, well, exactly.

Kelli (09:01.003)
and Jesse.

Kelli (09:11.904)
Yeah, I mean, I guess his father was there, but his father wasn't there.

Gina (09:15.888)
Yeah, but they had to be out of high school.

Wendy (09:19.628)
What do mean? I'm saying when he was in high school is when his mother was living in the city and he wanted to go to school. Right, he wanted to go to school in Gallatin because of the football team. He was a very good football player and that's where he wanted to play football. So that's where he went to high school. Whereas I don't think his brother, his younger brother didn't go to high school there. He went to school in, I guess Kansas City or wherever he was.

Gina (09:21.542)
when they got separated.

Gina (09:27.919)
yes yes okay that was before the divorce yeah.

Kelli (09:47.425)
Right.

Wendy (09:49.567)
Kelli (09:50.058)
I loved when they were making fun of him for fighting the mountain. They're like, you were fighting a mountain.

Wendy (09:53.491)
yeah. And crying and him crying. So cute.

Kelli (09:58.135)
He's like, I didn't get that emotional. They're like,

Wendy (10:01.898)
I actually, think Cole is so endearing. Like he's just like, he's kind of a mess, but in a sweet way. Like his heart is in the right place.

Kelli (10:12.372)
He's got a definitely got a good heart.

Wendy (10:14.828)
He's got his father in him.

Gina (10:14.884)
He's a lot younger than he acts. He acts, I always think he's older than he really is.

Wendy (10:21.868)
I think it's, yeah, he's got the, he's got the, he's got the impulsive, his father impulsive, like bad boy kind of thing, but his heart is pure, like his mother's. Do you know what I mean? I really like, I don't know, I like him. So then we see, which I love this, Allie's mom and dad walked her down the aisle. I wanted to ask you, did my mom and dad walk me down the aisle?

Kelli (10:22.038)
Yeah.

Gina (10:28.69)
Mm-hmm.

Kelli (10:32.224)
Right, right.

Kelli (10:44.912)
my mom, no, just my dad walked me down the aisle.

Wendy (10:47.608)
How about you, Gina?

Gina (10:49.658)
There was no aisle.

Wendy (10:51.723)
okay. No while. Okay, no while.

Gina (10:53.04)
We got married in the mayor's office. We were, yeah, it was almost an elopement. But it lasted a long time.

Wendy (11:02.38)
Yeah,

Kelli (11:04.46)
That sure did. It sure did. Yeah, I never even thought to have my mom do that with my dad.

Wendy (11:07.278)
Yeah, I, um...

Wendy (11:11.98)
Yeah, I just was like, you know what? My mother was just as, she's given me away too. Like you're both walking me down. I love to see that Allie did the same thing. Cause you don't really see that. You know, it's not like, it's not the, you know, the common thing.

Kelli (11:20.82)
Yeah. No, you don't.

Gina (11:26.106)
But wasn't done at all when I got married and my friends, you would never think of having your mother walk you down the aisle. If your father could have walked you down the aisle, your brother or an uncle did.

Wendy (11:29.084)
No, no.

Right.

Wendy (11:37.046)
Right, right.

Kelli (11:37.91)
I'll tell you what I do like is a mother-daughter dance.

Wendy (11:41.853)
that's nice too.

Gina (11:42.404)
You don't see that a lot, yeah.

Kelli (11:43.05)
And I already have my song picked out if I'm allowed to do this.

Wendy (11:46.614)
Okay, good. I'm sure you'll be allowed to do it.

Kelli (11:48.268)
you

Kelli (11:51.949)
We'll see, Tess throws you off sometimes. She's very, you know, easy going, easy breezy, but sometimes all of a sudden she's like conservative. That's all right, her choice, her wedding, her choice. But I got it locked and loaded if I'm allowed. I got the song locked and loaded.

Wendy (12:01.356)
Okay. guess you'll have to wait and say, there, there you go.

Gina (12:09.614)
Well, if you're going to pay for it.

Kelli (12:13.526)
Good point. Good point.

Gina (12:15.543)
know, listen, we taught you the Italian guilt when you were in the womb.

Kelli (12:19.03)
That's right.

Wendy (12:19.054)
Jesse's face lights up when he sees her walking down the aisle and he doesn't cry. They all thought he was gonna cry. Even Allie commented that he didn't cry, but you could see like he was he was so happy.

Kelli (12:21.746)
It runs deep. It runs deep.

Kelli (12:34.689)
Yeah.

Gina (12:38.116)
He was.

Kelli (12:38.302)
Especially now that he knew she was pregnant, so it's even more like

Wendy (12:43.946)
Yeah.

Kelli (12:45.226)
I loved the flashbacks of them when they were younger.

Wendy (12:48.078)
I, yep, I put that too. I love those pictures. You could see their progression and like they're so sweet. 12 years.

Gina (12:54.734)
How much younger is he than her? Because she said he was younger than her.

Kelli (12:59.052)
She did say she was a cougar, but I mean, I'm thinking like one or two years, right?

Gina (13:01.776)
She said she waited until he was old enough to drive.

Wendy (13:03.896)
Probably.

Kelli (13:06.881)
Yeah.

Wendy (13:07.064)
Probably a year or two. It's not a big difference, right?

Gina (13:10.544)
Yeah.

Kelli (13:10.828)
But I was thinking about this. So, so Allie's been in the family since Christie and Steve Sr. were still married. Like she saw them as a married couple.

Wendy (13:18.616)
Mm-hmm.

Gina (13:18.744)
Right, and that's what that's what Christie was saying to the boys about or to Jessie about the prenup. We've known her or maybe to Steve, Steve Jr. We've known her family forever, you know, and listen, I'm so glad they didn't do the prenup. Yeah.

Wendy (13:21.41)
Mm-hmm.

Kelli (13:30.753)
Yeah.

Kelli (13:34.38)
Mm-hmm.

Wendy (13:34.583)
Mm-hmm.

Kelli (13:37.644)
She's been through it with them. Yeah.

Wendy (13:40.118)
Yeah. Tess is there and I love how she calls him pretty boy and how she's so proud of him. I thought it was interesting too. I do think that for some reason, Casey is close to Steve senior of every, like closer than Ali is. And it could be because of Cole that she's close because

Kelli (13:46.347)
Yeah.

Yeah.

Wendy (14:06.196)
he's carrying out her pink bag and Christie's like, he didn't even so much as carry a diaper bag for me and he's carrying your pink bag and she was seated next to him to keep him under control. Like I feel like she is like the female influence for Steve Senior. What are your thoughts?

Kelli (14:24.3)
Well, and not only that, when they were bringing Masha and Galena together to try to get them to talk, like it was up to Cole and Casey to bring Masha, right? Like I was surprised and somebody said like, well, you're the closest one to her. And I was like, that's interesting.

Wendy (14:34.946)
Mm-hmm.

Gina (14:35.907)
Yes.

Wendy (14:43.456)
Yeah, because I think she's close to Steve Senior, right?

Kelli (14:47.862)
Yeah, that must be it.

Wendy (14:50.679)
And I did.

Gina (14:51.231)
I don't know. I don't know. I don't I don't think anybody's close to Steve senior. I really don't. Yeah, I don't think anybody has a good relationship with him. Maybe Steve Jr. But he's just

Kelli (14:56.5)
Right, as close as you can be. As close as you can be.

Wendy (15:07.374)
The boys are close with him. mean, I think that, listen, even though he did what he did to their mother, I think the boys still respect him. I think that they are still, I think that they're still close to him. I do. And you know, Steven Sr. said to Cole when he, know, cause he wasn't, didn't really want the boys to get married. He didn't want them, you know, especially Steven Jr. And it could have been a Cali thing, but he said to Cole, treat her like you treat your mom. To Casey, meaning, you know,

treat Casey like you treat your mom. you know, I think that those boys, they know who he is. He's still their father.

Gina (15:42.294)
Right, he couldn't say treat your mother like I treat her.

Wendy (15:45.262)
No, you sir. No, you sir.

Kelli (15:45.877)
No.

Gina (15:47.599)
That was probably the only thing he could say.

Wendy (15:50.166)
Right.

Kelli (15:50.282)
Right. They do still respect him though, their father, which is pretty amazing.

Wendy (15:54.84)
Yeah!

Gina (15:55.148)
Well, he still owns everything. still, I don't know if he still owns everything now, but he did up until this whole, you know, lawsuit or this legal issue that he's.

Kelli (16:05.268)
like a southern and Midwestern thing now. Like guys are just cut different around here I think.

Wendy (16:08.908)
Yeah, I think.

Gina (16:09.056)
Yeah.

Gina (16:12.759)
Yes.

Kelli (16:14.038)
That's just my personal opinion, don't come from me. But I grew up in Jersey and I don't see that a lot.

Wendy (16:14.243)
Yeah.

Wendy (16:17.752)
So.

Wendy (16:21.471)
Well, Jersey's different though. know, we, yeah, we do it different here in Jersey.

Kelli (16:23.34)
That's what I'm saying.

Gina (16:26.104)
We have our own way of life.

Kelli (16:26.292)
If Steve Senior were a father around here where we grew up, those boys wouldn't be so, you know, respectful. I don't know. I don't know. Yeah. For sure.

Gina (16:31.126)
He would have had some black eyes.

Gina (16:37.304)
Christie's brothers would have taken care of him.

Wendy (16:42.574)
So Calla decides she's not going to the wedding but doesn't feel the need to tell Stephen Jr. just... Right.

Kelli (16:47.852)
but doesn't tell Steven Jr.

Gina (16:50.274)
Something happened. Something happened. I'll bet you it had to do with money. Like maybe Bravo was supposed to send her a check or you know what I'm saying?

Kelli (17:00.074)
Yes. I agree with you.

Gina (17:01.933)
I think that something completely different, like with her and Bravo or her and somebody else, because there's no reason she didn't contact Steve Jr. until after the wedding like that. That was just.

Wendy (17:16.702)
interesting. I don't think so. I got the impression that she needed to do this. This needed to be her stand and her standing him up at the wedding was her way of saying, I'm done with this roller coaster ride and to do it so that he couldn't take her back. to make him so...

Gina (17:35.758)
But let's forget Steve, what about the wedding part? As women, we have a lot of respect for brides because we know they pay per head.

Kelli (17:38.752)
Right.

Wendy (17:43.338)
Well, we do have a lot of respect for Brides, but I did also hear on the podcast that, and I'm sure she's privy to this, Stephen Senior, the day or like three days before the wedding, wanted to add 13 people to the guest list. And he's like,

Gina (18:01.025)
They were workers from the farm, right?

Wendy (18:03.424)
I don't know that they were. I don't know that they were. And his response was, I'll pay for it. Whatever it costs, I'll take care of it. Like he does things his own way. And I know that she was a part, know, because she was with Steven Jr. She knows who he is. So in her mind, one person, he's gonna fill that spot 10 times over. Do you know what I mean?

Kelli (18:23.466)
Yeah, but I agree. I think something happened too because I agree. Listen, this is a reality TV show, but they are clearly a solid family. And I text you guys this week, because I watched the back episode. So I watched all of season two now. I got the impression with Cala that, okay, she went on a reality TV show to find a millionaire. God bless.

Gina (18:24.896)
It's still rude.

Gina (18:29.197)
They all knew she wasn't gonna go.

Wendy (18:35.502)
Mm-hmm.

Kelli (18:50.86)
but I really think that she wanted to be part of this family. I don't think she grew up, because she makes reference to her father going to jail, her brother going to jail, we know her sister's deceased. I don't think she grew up in a family like the McBees. And I think once she got a little taste of it, she liked it and wanted to be part of it. she and Steven Jr. are bad for each other. I don't think one is...

Any more responsible for the breakdown of that relationship than the other one? I think they're both equally responsible because I think he's a player

Gina (19:24.853)
think I don't think Calla did yeah but I don't think Calla did anything to endear herself to anybody in that family if you want to be a part of that family yeah if you want to be a part of that family you're going to you know weave yourself into things you know find common ground you've got to

Kelli (19:34.784)
I have to watch season 1 still.

Kelli (19:44.983)
Well, Christie does say she's tried with her. She's tried to get close to her and it doesn't work. But maybe Cal is just not. Yes, but maybe Cal, because of how she grew up, just isn't able to, I don't know. Maybe I'm making excuses for her.

Gina (19:52.022)
Christie tried to get close to Calla. Calla didn't try to get close to Christie.

Gina (20:00.205)
Look at the way Khaled dresses. Okay, yes, you're on a reality show, but just look at the way she dresses. Like you're hanging out with Ali and Casey and they have jeans and a t-shirt on and you're all dooded up. You know, it's just, I don't think she tried. Yeah. And then bragging like, Oh, Steven gives me 10,000. Yeah. But saying things like, Steven gives me $10,000. That was last season. I believe you didn't see that.

Kelli (20:17.108)
I think that's just her. I mean, listen, she's got a smoking body.

Wendy (20:19.011)
Yeah.

Kelli (20:27.276)
it was last season, but they flashed back because I saw it.

Gina (20:30.272)
Yeah. Yeah. I think she was pretty rude to a lot of people.

Kelli (20:35.422)
And then she put out on her social media that he never gave her money. But she's on camera saying it.

Wendy (20:39.99)
Well, no, well, no, that's not what, no, she said she was trying to clarify that she's paying her own rent now is what she was saying and that she's paying the car payments now and that she's paid Christie back. But we don't, know, they're her receipts. They are her receipts. And according to Steven Jr. on his last podcast, they do not speak at all. But when this finished filming at

Gina (20:42.688)
now.

Wendy (21:09.26)
you know, at the very end, it said that they still text every week. And that was just in October. So I think what happened is she started seeing, you know, what actually was going on. And, you know, that's when that whole thing broke down.

Kelli (21:23.402)
Yeah, I mean, just the way he was acting when they went to Nashville. and then when the wedding comes, he's like, love is in the air, maybe we'll get back together. Like, you clearly don't wanna be with this woman. You clearly wanna fool around, and that's okay, but don't then try to make her look like the bad guy.

Gina (21:46.731)
I don't think he's that good looking.

Wendy (21:48.812)
I do, I think he's good looking.

Kelli (21:49.59)
think he's good looking, but I think he's the most arrogant out of the three of them, or four of them.

Gina (21:54.699)
I think Casey's the cutest.

Wendy (21:57.079)
Well.

Kelli (21:57.707)
No, I'm a Jesse fan myself. Jesse.

Wendy (21:59.586)
You mean Jesse. Jesse, you mean Jesse, yeah.

Gina (21:59.691)
I'm not Casey, I'm not Casey, Jesse. Yeah, I say Casey because he looks just like Casey from Yellowstone.

Kelli (22:06.579)
right, you said that.

Wendy (22:06.712)
So Stephen Jr. is the oldest, so he's got that in him. That's who he is. He's got to be the leader of the pack. He's got to be the alpha male. I mean, that's who he is. That's who he was born to be.

Kelli (22:20.076)
But even just the way he talks about women though, and going out and meeting women and bringing them back to the house and, I don't know, he's arrogant, he's definitely arrogant.

Gina (22:27.275)
It's Stephen's senior son. Yeah, he's definitely his father's son.

Wendy (22:30.982)
I'm not saying he's not. Yeah, I'm not saying that he's not. I mean, you didn't want, so in season one when they go out and I think it was even Nashville, Cole is like, what did he say? He said something about, like everyone's always going after Jesse, cause Jesse's the pretty boy. He's like, you know, like I'm just, you know, like they're not coming for me. And

Kelli (22:33.376)
He's his father's son.

Gina (22:57.547)
I mean, he's not good-looking. He's not ugly, but he's an average-looking person.

Wendy (23:00.598)
He's, I, yeah, I would say that. I would say he's average and that's okay. Average is okay.

All right, so the next thing we see is that Steven Jr. realizes that Galena didn't show up and he calls her and it goes straight to her voicemail. He knows something's wrong because he knew how important this was for her to be invited to this. And if she's not there, there's something going on.

Kelli (23:24.896)
Yeah, there's a reason she's not there.

Wendy (23:26.998)
So he calls Irina, her daughter, and Irina's crying and she's like, you know, he's like, what's going on? She's like, well, she was in a car accident. And he's like, is she okay? She says, I don't know. You know, she's close by, because she was able to track her phone. That's how she knew where she was.

Gina (23:47.498)
She was only a mile from the venue.

Wendy (23:49.164)
She was only a mile from the venue. And then we see some body cam footage and Stephen Senior gets wind of what's going on. They send a producer over there to go see what's going on and.

Kelli (24:04.236)
think that was a little weird that they sent a producer and one of them didn't go. I know it's Jesse's wedding. I know they have to take pictures, but can you send like Tessa or somebody? Somebody who doesn't have to be in pictures?

Gina (24:08.148)
They're at the wedding. No.

Gina (24:13.512)
No, no.

No, because it's not the first time Galena's done something like this.

Wendy (24:21.548)
Well, well, so, so.

Kelli (24:21.65)
okay. Okay.

Gina (24:25.246)
I mean, not just a car accident, but smashing up houses and cars. No, that was his, that was Jesse and Allie's wedding. They all needed to be there.

Kelli (24:29.364)
Right, right, right, right.

Wendy (24:34.542)
Yeah, yeah. So, know, Irina is obviously upset. The officer asks for a blood test. They said...

Kelli (24:34.624)
Yeah, okay, okay.

Gina (24:50.931)
Well, they asked for a breathalyzer and she refused. So they said, they asked her to do a test and she said no, because I'm not drinking. And they said, you know.

Wendy (24:54.122)
Yeah. Did they say breathalyzer?

Kelli (25:00.502)
She wouldn't do the field sobriety test.

Wendy (25:02.186)
No, no, she failed. She failed the field sobriety test.

Kelli (25:06.228)
I thought she refused it.

Gina (25:06.363)
Okay, but they did say to her that you know you're gonna get blood tests done and she said yes.

Wendy (25:10.094)
They say, we're gonna take you down and get a court order for a blood draw. Cause she said, I'm not having any testing. But she did say that she was having a nervous breakdown when the police officer was talking to her. She's like, I'm having a nervous breakdown. And she, I mean, she looked visibly shaken. I didn't think from seeing what I saw, I didn't think the car looked that bad, but according to Steven Jr. it was totaled. She totaled the car. mean, did you...

Did you think it looked that bad when they were?

Kelli (25:40.908)
Sometimes you can't tell because it's like on the inside, you know?

Wendy (25:44.59)
Yeah, that could be. then once those airbags go off. But I mean, she was totally fine. She was, you know, totally fine. Yeah, yeah.

Kelli (25:52.32)
She was lucky to walk away, that's for sure.

Gina (25:55.123)
She never went to a hospital or a doctor. She went right to jail.

Wendy (25:59.38)
Well, they took, yeah, went to jail and then once the the blood test came back, which must've been pretty quick, I guess, then she, you know, she went home, but.

Kelli (25:59.499)
Yeah, she could have had internal bleeding, God forbid.

Wendy (26:11.877)
I listen.

And they talk about this. Galena has, she's a strong person. She's been through a lot in her life, right? We don't really get to see that on this show. We see the havoc that she's causing the family because of her emotions and her emotions are getting the better of her. But I think if we met Galena prior to this,

breakup of her and Steven, we would have had a whole different impression of this person. I think now from listening to her, I've heard her on many interviews actually. I've heard Steven, I've heard Christie talk about her. She is in such a better place, like mentally, now. So, I'm

Kelli (26:46.558)
I totally agree.

Gina (27:00.774)
now.

Kelli (27:03.666)
It's wild to hear her.

I don't want to say play the victim, I don't think that's in her to play the victim. But to be so... To have these feelings that she has against Masha when she did the same fucking thing and he was married. She wasn't even married to this guy.

Gina (27:25.449)
Actually, what she did, yeah, what Galina did was worse than what Masha did because there was a marriage there. Yeah, there was a marriage and four kids.

Kelli (27:31.532)
Absolutely, he was married. And for her to have these feelings, it's like, what did you think was gonna happen?

Wendy (27:34.946)
Well-

Gina (27:40.774)
And it's not like that happened 20 years ago. That happened what? Five, six years ago?

Kelli (27:45.673)
Yeah.

Wendy (27:46.734)
He portrayed himself as not married. When she first met him and they were first together.

Kelli (27:52.107)
Okay, but at some point she knew he was married. When she started working on the farm, she knew he was married. Maybe she didn't know when she met him and started dating him, but at some point she knew he was married.

Wendy (27:55.01)
But at

Gina (27:58.408)
Yeah.

Wendy (27:59.497)
She, I mean.

But when she found out, she was already in love with him. And they were separate, but they were separate.

Kelli (28:11.39)
Okay, but you still say, I can't be with you, you're married.

Gina (28:17.67)
Were they separated? Was Christie and Steve separated?

Wendy (28:19.182)
They were separated in when the fat, they were separated in space, in physical space, in that they weren't together.

Kelli (28:21.812)
Not when they met.

Gina (28:23.078)
No, no.

Gina (28:29.468)
They were only separated because she was working. Yeah, that wasn't

Kelli (28:29.484)
But that was their whole marriage. That was their arrangement.

Wendy (28:32.631)
But she didn't know that is what I'm saying. She didn't know that. Galena did not know that. So then she...

Kelli (28:38.124)
but at some point she had to know. Maybe not in the beginning.

Gina (28:40.997)
because Christy showed the text about her texting her about cleaning her house. And that's when she was still with her husband. And she wasn't going down to Kansas City to clean a house. Yeah.

Wendy (28:41.068)
I'm not, yeah, she definitely.

Kelli (28:46.697)
Exactly.

Wendy (28:46.914)
Right.

Kelli (28:49.878)
Right, so why would you ask a woman, can I come clean your house? If you're sleeping with her husband and you didn't think that they were together, you wouldn't be asking her if you could clean her house.

Gina (29:02.033)
right they were so together

Wendy (29:04.952)
So I don't know if you heard the whole backstory of her actual education and where she learned everything. Did you hear that? Where Galina came from? You know, she got her degree in the former Soviet Union. That's where she was educated. And then she got married. She came over on the fiancee visa. They were in Florida. That's the father of Irina. They moved to Missouri, Kansas City area, I believe, or Gallatin, somewhere.

Kelli (29:05.441)
Yeah.

Kelli (29:31.948)
for his job, right? Yeah.

Wendy (29:33.144)
for his job, then they wound up getting separated. She was a single mom. so she had her degree and her degree was in, it was operations. was like, it was operations. Her degree was in operations. And she started working for, why can't I remember the name of the company?

Gina (29:44.709)
It wasn't finance. I was surprised.

Gina (29:54.843)
Was it a fast food company where she was opening up all of these businesses?

Wendy (29:56.874)
Yeah. She was opening up all these and it was, it's one that's not a franchise. It's all, it's all company run stores and I cannot think of the name of it. So she helped them open up all these stores and learned how to do that. So she really did learn the ropes of business by doing it. Like she was thrown into the fire and like,

It's not like she came in and like, it was never explained to us in the show. And I think that's part of the problem. You I think that the viewers don't know, they don't know who Galeen is and where she came from because we only know what we saw that they showed us. And again, we only had two seasons, 20 episodes. You know, there's a lot of history there that we don't know. I'm not saying Galeen is.

Gina (30:50.341)
We get a lot of our information from the McBee podcast and Galina was interviewed, Christie was interviewed, and she also did clean the McBee's house though. Even though she had this really good job, she said she always had a side business of cleaning houses.

Kelli (30:54.976)
Yeah, for sure.

Wendy (30:55.381)
and

Wendy (31:09.026)
Yep. Steven Jr. said that too. She's the one who did that side hustle business because she needed to be making more money because she was sending her daughter off to school and paying for her daughter was dancer. She was paying for gymnastics or day. Now she is, but back when she was younger, she was paying for something for her daughter. can't remember what it was. wasn't, I want to, it was something like that.

Gina (31:25.231)
Isn't her daughter going to law school?

Gina (31:32.805)
Well, if it's dance lessons, those dance lessons are crazy money.

Wendy (31:37.912)
It was something like that that she was paying for. So, you know, I just think that she gets a really bad rep if you just watch the show and you don't know.

Kelli (31:48.407)
Well, yeah, because you're only seeing, you're seeing a scorned woman in the show. And clearly she's well-educated, she's a hustler, because she always had a side hustle. She raised her daughter. I hope that I hope that Arena's father's in the picture, but whether he is or not, Galena obviously raised her. So yeah, she's, she's a good woman, but

Wendy (31:52.928)
Right, right, right.

Wendy (32:02.2)
Right.

Wendy (32:12.526)
Right.

Kelli (32:16.384)
Yeah, on the show you're seeing a scorned chicken killer is what you're Car bashing chicken killer.

Gina (32:16.422)
She's a good mother. She's a good mother.

Wendy (32:20.076)
Yeah, so yeah, chicken killer and vandalizer. She's a major vandalizer. But the thing with Masha is Masha was her friend. It's not like she was friends with Christy. Masha was her friend. They did not know Masha from a bag of potatoes. She brought...

Gina (32:25.53)
I wouldn't have her anywhere near a set of golf clubs.

Kelli (32:32.246)
That's fucked up!

Gina (32:43.92)
care if she knew Christy or not.

Kelli (32:44.928)
Where did Masha come from? Like, did Galina bring her over from Russia? Like, what?

Gina (32:48.966)
No, no, no. They met in the community.

Wendy (32:49.27)
Yes, no, no, no, no, no. Yes, and they were both from the former Soviet Union and they became friends. They were very close and Galina wanted somebody that she could talk to and have a relationship with and have some camaraderie with and who knew where she came from. So she did consider her a friend.

Kelli (33:05.856)
Yeah. Yeah.

Gina (33:11.331)
And sounded like Masha, she was trying to help Masha, bring her, her to meet people, you know?

Wendy (33:17.942)
Yes, yes. I mean, I do think that Masha is, is listen.

Kelli (33:23.698)
Do you see this unfold in the first season or had it already happened by the time the first season?

Gina (33:23.887)
They're both, they both.

It happened between the seasons. Steve was cheating on Galena with somebody. No, he was cheating on her with somebody else.

Kelli (33:30.828)
Wait, so the first season is Galina Whitsteven Sr.?

Wendy (33:34.934)
Yes, he was cheating on her, but they were together. mean, she was living in his house, first season.

Kelli (33:40.266)
Was it the chick with the dark hair that Stephen Jr went and had lunch with? Okay.

Gina (33:42.777)
Yeah. Yes. Well, but what happened was, yeah, in season one, they were living together for a while, but she had her own house.

Wendy (33:44.131)
Bruh.

She was one of many though.

Wendy (33:54.998)
She had her own house, but Steven asked her to move in and that's what like, he asked her to move in. And then she had all of her stuff in storage. And I don't know the exact story, but she did allude to it that, you know, then all of a sudden he just moved her out like kind of in the middle of the night. Like just moved all of her stuff out in the middle of the night kind of thing. yeah, and then all of a sudden now Masha's there. Yeah, I would be pissed too. I mean, the way she goes about it.

Gina (33:58.201)
Yeah.

Kelli (34:14.294)
Yeah, that's what she said.

Gina (34:21.039)
But when they left the last season, he wasn't living with anyone. Yeah.

Kelli (34:21.74)
Absolutely,

But how can you not think that this man is capable of doing that after how you met and started together?

Gina (34:33.752)
Yeah, that's that's how your relationship began. That's how it's going to end.

Wendy (34:39.224)
She was leading with her heart, not her head. I think she's now learned. I don't think she'll do that again. I don't. I really don't.

Kelli (34:45.386)
No, but they did say she's dating, right? And she's in a much better place. It ended where they said she was dating, I think, right?

Wendy (34:51.021)
Yes.

Gina (34:52.12)
But with her, she's got up and down, up and down.

Wendy (34:53.634)
Yes.

Kelli (34:58.56)
Yeah, mean... Yeah! Yeah!

Wendy (35:00.14)
I mean, I definitely think she can use some therapy and maybe some mood stabilizer, maybe some anger management. Just saying.

Gina (35:05.486)
They have, Bravo has not picked the show up for a second. Yeah. She needs, don't think anger management would help her, Wendy. I think she needs serious drugs.

Kelli (35:07.889)
Maybe, maybe interior management for sure.

Wendy (35:20.982)
I try not to diagnose.

Kelli (35:21.312)
Just smoke a little weed, Galina. I'm sure she smokes weed.

Gina (35:25.124)
She needs a lot of weed. She's really, she needs to just chill. I don't kill a chicken. I don't beat up cars. I just...

Wendy (35:30.158)
All right, let's get.

Kelli (35:30.368)
You don't see Gina killing any chickens, do ya?

Wendy (35:33.1)
There you go.

Let's

you

Gina (35:40.642)
I'm 69 years old. I can do whatever I want.

Wendy (35:44.824)
There you go. No one's telling cousin Gina what to do.

Kelli (35:50.304)
That's right. That's right. All right. Yeah, let's, let's move on.

Gina (35:50.445)
Mm-mm. Nope.

Wendy (35:51.79)
All right, enough with Galena. I'm tired of her. Let's go back to Jessie and Ally's wedding. They do the come out and they do the first dance. I didn't see the Divock step. Did you see it? I didn't see a box step, but that's okay. They looked wonderful. I love that their wedding cake was a bundt cake. I thought that was so farm chic, right?

Kelli (36:01.832)
No, that's all right. Yeah.

Gina (36:09.975)
That was cute. But what about the archway? I want to talk about that. What was that? What was that?

Kelli (36:11.372)
So cute.

Wendy (36:14.156)
The octagon? It was an octagon. What do mean? What was it?

Gina (36:19.083)
Yeah, but why? They weren't standing under it.

Kelli (36:20.988)
what'd they call it? What'd they, What were they calling it last week when he was building it?

Wendy (36:26.552)
They were calling it an arch, arbor. Arbor, they were calling it an arbor, but it was an octagon. I mean, I thought it was just a, I think it was a visual aesthetic. I liked the octagon. I liked how the, I liked everything about the visuals.

Gina (36:28.835)
There wasn't an arch. An arbor?

Kelli (36:29.132)
Arbor Arbor the Arbor Yeah

Gina (36:34.241)
Yeah, I just didn't get that.

Kelli (36:41.95)
It was all connected, so maybe that's like unity, like, you know, the union of the two of them being together, maybe? Because it's all, you know, the octagon's all connected.

Gina (36:46.306)
Okay.

Wendy (36:50.158)
Mm.

Gina (36:53.271)
What a beautiful wedding venue that was.

Wendy (36:53.282)
Maybe.

Yeah. Yes.

Kelli (36:56.081)
my gosh, so nice.

Gina (37:00.075)
It was gorgeous.

Kelli (37:01.491)
It was very nice.

Wendy (37:04.302)
I also did like, I said I was done with Galena, but go back to that for one second. Stephen Senior calls up Arena and Arena's still crying and visibly upset. And Stephen Senior says, listen, cause she said, I don't know what she needs, but she needs something, Arena. And she's worried cause she's got to go back. She's got to drive 700 miles back or wherever. Right. Right. So he's like, listen,

Kelli (37:24.042)
Yeah, she's gotta leave tomorrow.

Gina (37:26.391)
The next day, yeah.

Kelli (37:28.234)
And listen, I get the impression that Irina, when she talks to her mother, I think Irina thought that her mother was trying to hurt herself. And that's why she was scared to leave the next day.

Wendy (37:37.868)
I mean, yes.

Gina (37:38.383)
I didn't think about that. I didn't think about that. You're right.

Wendy (37:40.938)
I agree with you. I agree with you. No, I totally agree with you because I, because listen, there was no drugs or alcohol in her system and she totaled the car and she said she was having a nervous breakdown and she was visibly upset. So I a hundred percent agree with you. And I like that Steven senior said, listen, we're not going to leave her at her time of need, you know? And I believe that.

Kelli (37:54.636)
Right. Right.

Kelli (38:05.994)
Yeah, and he was the right person to make that phone call. Because any of the boys could have said it, but knowing that he said it, yeah.

Wendy (38:09.888)
Yes, I mean Stephen Jr. would definitely... Right.

Right. really, listen, really...

Gina (38:19.437)
mean, just the fact that they have her on the show means that they have a lot of respect for her because they didn't have to let her on. I mean, she is a good storyline, but they could have come up with something else.

Kelli (38:25.962)
I think. No.

Wendy (38:28.098)
No.

Kelli (38:34.07)
especially because She did not not to bring it rehash it again, but she did that to their mom, but I'm sure they're well we find out I mean on the podcast they Said that when they first told Christie about the reality TV show. She was like absolutely not don't do it so She didn't want them to do it at all. She didn't want them to do it at all

Wendy (38:39.359)
Hahaha

Gina (38:54.594)
She wasn't on much the first season.

Wendy (38:56.782)
She wasn't on at all. She wasn't on at all the first season. Nope. Nope.

Gina (38:58.978)
She didn't make one appearance with the younger brother afterwards.

Kelli (39:03.22)
I'm gonna rewatch season one so I'll let you know, but she, I don't know if she was on or not, but she definitely did not want them to do it. But the fact that they let Galena on, yes, after what she did to their mother, I would imagine that they got their mother's blessing for that. They seem like respectful boys.

Gina (39:19.776)
Now let me, yes. Do you think she didn't want to be involved because of the legal issues?

Wendy (39:21.944)
Mm-hmm.

Wendy (39:29.838)
Who's she? Christie? No, I think she didn't want to be involved because it was Steven Senior and she hadn't seen him and she didn't need to, you know, that I think that's the whole reason. And I think the only reason she did come season two is because Steven Senior wasn't going to be around. So she did that for her boys. That's what I think.

Kelli (39:30.006)
Maybe. Christie.

Gina (39:32.332)
Christy.

Gina (39:51.074)
When they were on the first reality show, I think they were together.

They like, she came back and they had the whole, you know, let's be together.

Wendy (39:58.114)
the parents.

Kelli (40:02.208)
Yeah, right.

Wendy (40:03.596)
Okay, so then we're going back to the wedding. Sorry. I'm bringing us back. Back at the wedding.

Kelli (40:06.316)
Alright, go ahead. Bring it back, bring it back. I'm drinking and I have a very low tolerance because I haven't been drinking very much. So one glass and I'm already tipsy. So just reel me in when you have to, ladies.

Wendy (40:13.514)
Okay. Back at the wedding, Allie has a shorter dress on, so she must have had a outfit change. She looks adorable.

Kelli (40:25.832)
yeah, that was cute.

Gina (40:26.316)
That was adorable, that second dress. You know, these women have like two, three dresses now for a wedding.

Wendy (40:28.556)
Yes.

Kelli (40:31.336)
I know. Not me. I loved my wedding dress so much. I wasn't taking that thing off.

Gina (40:37.428)
You spend all that money, why would you not want to wear it the whole night? mean, wedding dresses, I don't know what they cost, don't they cost like thousands of dollars?

Kelli (40:39.23)
Exactly!

Wendy (40:42.257)
no.

Kelli (40:42.58)
to wear it the whole night.

Wendy (40:45.112)
hated my wedding dress. Well, mine was $300.

Kelli (40:49.548)
My dress was $800 and it was $400 to alter it. in total, $1,200. My headpiece was like $200. Eric's like, where are we wearing that? Because you're not just wearing it at the fucking wedding, I can tell you that. We're gonna come up with a whole bunch of other places for you to wear that $200 headpiece.

Gina (40:56.566)
Yeah. Why wouldn't you keep it on?

Wendy (41:08.654)
Ha!

Gina (41:08.822)
Did you take the headpiece off?

Gina (41:14.048)
You kept it on all night?

Kelli (41:15.936)
Yes, I did. That shit was shellacked in there. Yeah.

Wendy (41:17.582)
For that price, she had to. No, so my wedding dress was $300 at David's Spritles and $100 to get altered, because that's all I said I'm spending. That's it. That's all I'm spending. I was so uncomfortable. It was the most uncomfortable. And it shouldn't have been uncomfortable, but I just was so uncomfortable. And you know what? I don't know. was just, it was too big. It wasn't even that big, but I'm not used to wearing a gown. I wasn't used to wearing a gown.

Kelli (41:35.358)
Not when you had it altered. Why was it, yeah.

Wendy (41:47.192)
You know, it had an Empire waist and it had all this, and then there's like tool in between like the, I just couldn't wait to get the dim. It was all pearls on top. So for the Empire waist, the whole top, it was all pearls. then the bottom was just all satin, plain satin, but it just was this heavy, and it was June 20th. It was the hottest day of the year. It was like a hundred degrees. I was like,

Gina (41:54.41)
Did it have a lot of beating?

Gina (41:59.082)
That looks uncomfortable.

Gina (42:13.768)
August... Mine was too.

Wendy (42:16.831)
It was so uncomfortable. was like, what was I thinking? Like, I couldn't wait to take that damn dress off. I wish, I wish.

Gina (42:23.7)
You wouldn't think June would be that hot. Yeah.

Kelli (42:23.926)
Mine was heavy.

Wendy (42:27.072)
Yeah, I just, and we went to the boardwalk. Like we went to the boardwalk, we went on the horse, the carousel. had, you know, I had long hair. had the, you know, the hair and I was like, ugh, I just couldn't wait to take it off.

Kelli (42:31.84)
take pictures right?

Gina (42:40.544)
I bought my wedding dress at House of Magda. costs, I don't know, maybe 20 bucks back then. Little boutique I worked at. And I have it, I'm like, could go get it right now. It's hanging right in my closet.

Kelli (42:40.948)
Yeah.

Wendy (42:46.774)
Okay.

Kelli (42:52.204)
Let's post our, mine's packed up. I was gonna say let's post our wedding dresses. Well, we could post our wedding pictures.

Gina (42:55.392)
go get it right now if you want to see it. Mine's not a gown. Mine was not a gown. My wedding dress had little spaghetti straps and a little it was it was like beige with it was a dress I had. I didn't know I was getting married. My husband just like let's get married like in a week or two. Okay. yeah.

Wendy (42:55.501)
I have-

Wendy (42:59.756)
Yeah, post our pictures.

Kelli (43:01.962)
Yeah.

Kelli (43:10.412)
Aww.

Wendy (43:17.218)
That's so romantic. Yeah.

Kelli (43:17.932)
Aww. It is romantic, and look how long it lasted.

Gina (43:24.065)
47 years. Yeah. Until the day he died. Until death do us part.

Wendy (43:25.751)
That's it.

Kelli (43:29.238)
Alright, we're gonna post pictures of our, we're gonna post our wedding pictures.

Wendy (43:32.256)
Yes, Gina send us a picture of you in your wedding dress so we can post our...

Gina (43:35.58)
I will. I can just put it on Facebook. I usually put it on Facebook on our anniversary. August 29th, the hottest day of the year. My husband had unbuttoned his shirt and forgot to button it before we got married. So he looks, you know, he looks like he should be in Cocaine Brothers down in Miami.

Kelli (43:38.922)
You just did, but when was your anniversary? anniversary just passed. Yup.

Kelli (43:53.726)
It's a very yacht rock picture, I can assure you of that. It's very yacht rock.

Wendy (43:59.134)
I love it. I love it.

Gina (44:01.14)
Yeah. And you'll like this. I was smoking and I burnt my dress and it's got this little hole in it.

Kelli (44:03.115)
Yeah.

Wendy (44:03.586)
So.

Kelli (44:10.892)
That's so funny. I have a picture of me on my wedding day, outside smoking a cigarette, and I have my whole skirt. You see, you know the picture. I'm holding the side of my dress up and I'm smoking so I don't burn my dress.

Wendy (44:11.448)
So funny.

Gina (44:17.194)
I have that picture. I know the picture. I might have taken that picture.

Wendy (44:26.883)
that's so funny. That's so funny.

Gina (44:31.04)
I was out there. That was on a porch, right? There was like a porch there.

Kelli (44:36.66)
Yep, you know it. It was a good wedding.

Gina (44:38.164)
That was a fun wedding. I never danced so much.

Wendy (44:39.726)
All right, we're going back to the McBee wedding, okay? Jesse takes off Allie's garter and he throws it and Cole catches it and he knows what the meaning of that is, which is good. We never saw the vocathe. Yep, we never. That's fine, whatever. Right, we didn't see it. We didn't see it. Then Allie and Jesse leave and they do a sparkler walkout, which I thought was kind of cool. I've never seen that before, I like that.

Kelli (44:43.358)
All right. All right.

Gina (44:43.38)
Okay.

Gina (44:51.38)
He shot it right at him. He went.

Kelli (44:53.428)
Yeah, and they never did the bouquet. Well, we didn't see the bouquet.

Gina (44:56.308)
No.

Gina (45:06.143)
I love that.

Kelli (45:08.364)
Super cute.

Wendy (45:09.504)
Likes that a lot. Kristi in her confessional says she doesn't know what's gonna happen with Steve senior, but tonight was a special night and they'll be there for each other because they're family. regardless.

Gina (45:09.61)
Yeah.

Kelli (45:20.428)
He gave her his vest because she was cold.

Wendy (45:24.044)
No, his jacket. thought he gave her his jacket. Yeah. No, I think it was his jacket. okay. Yeah. Yeah. Jacket. That's what I remember. Yeah. So the...

Gina (45:25.129)
Jacket, jacket.

Kelli (45:26.432)
I thought it was his vest. I don't think he was wearing a jacket.

Gina (45:31.027)
Yeah, he was. was. He just didn't, he didn't have a tie on. I don't remember a vest. I remember a jacket. He looked nice. But I don't, I didn't see anybody other than the.

Kelli (45:31.817)
I could be wrong.

Kelli (45:37.92)
Okay.

I was waiting for Masha to jump out of the bushes and attack, by the way.

Wendy (45:42.318)
Yeah, right. So then Jesse, yes. Then Jesse and Allie leave in a fully restored old square body Chevy 79. And I know what it was because Steven Jr. talked about it and Steven Sr. had some guys from the farm restore it from the frame up for him and they did it in six weeks. And it looked awesome. It looked awesome. That's awesome.

Gina (45:45.767)
I'm so happy the wedding went off with no drama.

Kelli (46:05.704)
Wow.

Gina (46:05.841)
Look great. It looked great.

Wendy (46:11.086)
Then we see two weeks later, we're back on the farm and Steve Jr calls up Cole and asks him and Jesse to meet him at the Grey Barn. And that's when he lets them know about the FBI investigation because they had no idea.

Gina (46:27.859)
And they asked him how long did he know? And he said a year. So this was going on probably during filming of last season.

Wendy (46:31.447)
Yeah.

Kelli (46:34.092)
during season one. Right.

Wendy (46:35.916)
Yeah, yeah. And they were pissed because Cala knew about it and they didn't. And that was, I don't blame him either. I don't blame him either. Right. Because she would use it against them because that's who she is. That's who she is. Yeah, she did.

Gina (46:44.435)
I don't blame them.

Kelli (46:46.026)
I don't play them either.

Gina (46:51.73)
Cal right and she did she did because we we knew about it and we heard her before everybody else knew she would say snide remark and like Galena too when he was confronting Galena about her drinking she said well it has to do with the investigation FBI

Wendy (47:12.566)
Mm-hmm.

Kelli (47:12.704)
Yeah, and Callis said it in the Ozarks. He was like, everybody's gonna find out, Stephen.

Gina (47:15.452)
Mm-hmm.

Wendy (47:21.206)
Yeah. So after he tells them Cole's exact words, are he scared to death? because he's, what is he going to do? Like without his father there? 30 years without parole? That's what he's facing. I don't understand that without parole. I really don't. Listen, I know, I understand.

Gina (47:39.73)
Because it's a federal charge, when you go to jail on federal charges, there is no parole. If you get 10 years, you serve 10 years. Yeah, it is. I know somebody just got out. Jen's not federal. She is? Yeah, but she's not getting out early. They just reduce their sentences.

Wendy (47:47.49)
That's not true because Jen Shaw, Jen Shaw, it federal? Yes, she is federal. Yes, she's federal. So, yeah, yes, they do.

Kelli (48:01.101)
But it wasn't parole. She's not out on parole. They reduced her sentence. There's probably a difference.

Gina (48:02.504)
But it's not parole. It's not parole. When you get out, you're free. You walk away. You have no, unless you have local charges also. But yeah, federal is all different. I've known people that have been federal. Yeah.

Wendy (48:07.982)
Wendy (48:18.296)
So.

Kelli (48:18.72)
That's probably the difference.

Wendy (48:21.262)
So tan jumpsuits are federal prison, just so you know. Federal is tan. I just learned that from...

Gina (48:25.298)
Yes.

Kelli (48:29.43)
So he's facing 30 years without parole. What the fuck?

Wendy (48:33.293)
Yeah.

Gina (48:34.459)
Yeah, but he'll go to one of those camps where he'll play golf and tennis.

Kelli (48:38.956)
Yeah, but still, 30 years at his age? He's my age. He's getting out when he's 80?

Wendy (48:43.436)
Mm-hmm. And miss those grandbabies?

Gina (48:48.039)
Guess what? Don't steal $3 million from the federal government then.

Kelli (48:52.372)
I know, like what were you thinking? But you know, I was thinking about this. Was this during COVID like, cause even Maurizio was accused of doing some shady shit with the PPF loans. Or PPE, PPE?

Gina (48:54.565)
You know?

Gina (48:59.004)
Yes.

Wendy (48:59.17)
Well, it was, it was.

Gina (49:06.279)
But it wasn't a PPF loan. This was a, no, it wasn't that loan. This was a farming type of a loan.

Wendy (49:06.414)
PPE, PPE. this, was, it was.

Kelli (49:12.844)
that's right. That's right. It wasn't COVID. It wasn't. That's right. Yeah. See, you can't fuck around with that.

Wendy (49:16.92)
But it was for the

It was for the crop years 2018, 2019 and 2020. So it was for three years that they under reported their crop is what they did. They under reported their soybean crop. So if you don't get to a certain level, then you get insurance money to subsidize so that you...

Gina (49:28.113)
And it was three million because they just, that's how they did it.

Kelli (49:44.687)
I wonder how he got caught?

Wendy (49:48.014)
Gina (49:48.221)
Probably from being on a reality show.

Wendy (49:52.206)
No, I don't know

Kelli (49:55.147)
I bet you them being on a reality show, just like Teresa put a spotlight on him. I mean, we know now that that's how she and Joe Judas got caught up, got jammed up.

Gina (49:55.185)
But you know what?

Gina (50:00.413)
That's what I'm thinking.

Wendy (50:06.136)
So do you think from the Joe millionaire? You think from the Joe millionaire because this other, this was, I mean, they were already under investigation by the time they started filming this. So it would have been the Joe millionaire.

Gina (50:06.194)
But there was no trial. There was no trial. Huh?

Gina (50:15.708)
Yeah. Mm hmm. Because Steve Jr went on that show as the millionaire. There were two guys. One was a millionaire and one wasn't. And Steve was the millionaire. So you're already on there flaunting that you're Joe millionaire. And I think and I just I don't know why just a gut feeling, no evidence. I think Steve Jr was involved and I think Steve senior.

Kelli (50:16.254)
Yeah, so the Joe millionaire thing.

Kelli (50:24.192)
Right.

Gina (50:42.269)
pled guilty so there was no trial and Steve Jr. or anybody else, Tessa, whoever, he was taking all the blame. But I have a feeling.

Wendy (50:51.655)
I don't think Tess did.

Kelli (50:52.31)
So did you notice that Jesse asked, is it just dad or is it all of us? Did you notice he asked that?

Wendy (50:57.228)
Yeah.

Gina (50:57.371)
Yes, because all of their names are on the business.

Kelli (51:01.374)
And honestly, they might've known something.

Gina (51:06.877)
Yeah, but I think he took the blame because there was no trial. Steve Jr., not the other ones.

Wendy (51:07.158)
boys you think they knew? I don't think so.

Kelli (51:07.83)
They, yeah, they could have known something. They're very involved in the business. I think you're right. I think he just, you know, he said like, don't fuck with my boys, just do with me whatever you gotta do. I think you're right.

Wendy (51:13.367)
I don't think they're.

Gina (51:24.797)
but I think Steve Jr. knew about it all along, only because of the role that he plays in the business.

Kelli (51:30.666)
Yeah, and Galena could have too. Well, you guys have said that before.

Gina (51:32.999)
Galena?

Wendy (51:33.118)
definitely. think Lena and Steven Jr. definitely knew about the books and knew what was going on. I do not think Cole or Jesse did. I don't think that they were involved in that portion of the business.

Kelli (51:44.214)
Probably not, it's just, Jesse looked very concerned.

Gina (51:45.52)
But Galina was the CFO. Yeah, Galina was the CFO. I mean, how more involved can you be than that?

Wendy (51:51.594)
Right, she was, no, she-

Right.

Kelli (51:55.628)
But she's also as the CFO, she rep- well, she could be.

Wendy (52:00.65)
Yeah, she's, mean, listen, when last week when Steven said we weren't sure what our numbers were gonna be, the CropCats came in, we're gonna be able to make the six million, but then we just read this week that they just defaulted on a loan. So, and that the feds are requesting three watches, three different watches that were purchased. No, one of them.

Kelli (52:15.251)
now.

Gina (52:24.955)
It was like $800,000 in watches or something.

Wendy (52:28.606)
One of them is worth up to a million dollars. One of those watches, one of those, yes, three watches, yes, yes.

Kelli (52:33.652)
A watch, watch that you put on your arm?

Gina (52:39.225)
And they're trying to get the, to pay back the three million he stole.

Kelli (52:39.808)
Why is the government requesting that?

Wendy (52:42.35)
Yes, because they were purchased with that money.

Mm-hmm.

Kelli (52:51.424)
people are so fucking stupid. Like how do you not know you're gonna get caught?

Wendy (52:53.644)
Yeah. And that can be, that could be how they got caught to be quite honest with you. Making big purchases like that. Yeah. Yeah.

Gina (53:02.415)
buying watches and stuff like that. Yeah. Why does a farmer need three? Why do you need three watches?

Kelli (53:03.66)
Of course. Again, like I said, that's what we know now that Teresa Giudice, yeah, Teresa Giudice got the spotlight put on her because some guy working for the feds wife was watching Real Housewives of New Jersey and she's paying 100 grand cash for furniture. And he's like, the fuck show is this? And she lives where?

Wendy (53:10.913)
Right.

Wendy (53:22.008)
Right.

Mm-hmm.

Gina (53:25.158)
And that's exactly, he said it, this FBI guy came out and said that's exactly what happened.

Kelli (53:30.44)
Absolutely. So that's probably exactly what happened here.

Wendy (53:32.076)
Yeah.

Wendy (53:36.108)
Yeah. So then we see the babies born, Blair Collins, Colin McBee. Cole in his confessional is actually crying and said when, like, he feels overwhelmed, but when he holds Blair, everything goes away, which is so sweet.

Gina (53:53.707)
I started following Steve Senior last year on Instagram and all he ever posts are his two granddaughters. It's like that's all he cares about. He's with them like all the time. Ocean and Blair.

Wendy (54:02.818)
Mm-hmm.

Kelli (54:07.724)
So you know how on your social media when you like things, your algorithm changes, right? So now all of a sudden, all McB stuff's coming up on my Facebook and Instagram. And that's exactly what I see, Gina. I see Steven Senior with the babies. Both babies. Super cute though.

Gina (54:12.388)
Yes.

Wendy (54:12.866)
Mm-hmm.

Wendy (54:21.973)
Mm-hmm. Yeah.

Gina (54:22.009)
Yeah. Yeah. I didn't realize it was two different babies, but

Wendy (54:28.087)
Yeah. Yep.

Kelli (54:28.352)
Well, one's a lot bigger than the other one.

Gina (54:30.747)
Yeah, I'm really, you know, I'm just swiping. don't really like him that much that I'm gonna look at his stuff.

Wendy (54:31.032)
Yeah.

Thank

Kelli (54:33.738)
I know. Because Cole's baby is almost one. If she was born in October.

Gina (54:43.203)
Was she? The wedding was in October.

Wendy (54:43.518)
Yeah, wedding was in October. So I think she was born in December. I think one was born in December and one was born in April. Right?

Kelli (54:44.79)
Yeah.

But she was born a weeks later.

Kelli (54:53.356)
I thought Cole's baby was born in October.

Wendy (54:56.874)
No, I think, I think December, but I could be wrong. I don't know the exact date.

Gina (55:03.043)
I want to know that because that's also going to tell me why she wasn't a bridesmaid.

Kelli (55:08.138)
That's why I was thinking it was October, let's say, call my piece.

Wendy (55:08.162)
Really?

You guys really care about that way too much. could care less. Why is that so important?

Gina (55:15.546)
Because we're Italian. Are you Italian? We're Italian.

Kelli (55:15.756)
I just personally think that that's why she wasn't in it.

Wendy (55:17.966)
I'm Italian, I'm Italian too. I'm not your kind of Italian though. I don't hold grudges. I'm not your kind of Italian.

Gina (55:22.148)
Well, I mean, we're vicious Italians.

no, we're, we're, yeah. The baby was born December 13th.

Kelli (55:32.332)
No, Blair College, December 13th. You're right, Wendy, December 13th.

Wendy (55:35.906)
Yeah, December. Yeah. And Summer was born in April. Summer McBee was born in April.

Kelli (55:43.082)
Yeah, no, listen, we are gonna question, we're gonna question why someone wasn't a bridesmaid. Not only are we gonna question it, we're probably gonna talk about it the whole fucking wedding. We're gonna give each other the eyes, we're gonna be like.

Wendy (55:48.174)
Okay, yeah, I win.

Gina (55:50.808)
The rest of her life, yeah. If this was in our family, Kelly and I would talk about this till we were in our graves.

Wendy (55:56.28)
Okay, so you know what? All right, this is what we're gonna do. So this weekend, Casey, there is a town right by Gallatin, the next town over, think it's called Hamilton. They're having this big birthday bash and Casey's gonna be there. Casey and Steven Jr. have been working on this new beef tallow product for cooking.

Kelli (55:59.851)
Right. Absolutely.

Kelli (56:20.774)
for your skin?

Wendy (56:23.054)
for your skin, for baby beef tallow. Yes, and it's also used for cooking. they're gonna be at, yeah, for the baby. I think like diaper rash, things like that. Anyway, we're gonna go onto Instagram and we're going to DM Casey and see if she can tell us why she wasn't a part of the wedding because you bitches are not gonna let it go. That's it. That's it. That's what we're gonna do.

Kelli (56:27.052)
I've used beef tallow on my face.

Gina (56:30.995)
She said it's good for the baby too. Yeah.

Kelli (56:48.928)
No, we want to know. We need to know, Casey. Just please, put it to bed. Put it to bed!

Gina (56:51.329)
we need to know. we need to know. yeah.

Wendy (56:52.846)
Because I I don't care, Casey, I don't really care. But these two, they are not going to let it go. All right, that's what we're going to do. We're going to find out.

Gina (56:57.623)
We care. We care.

Kelli (56:59.06)
Yeah, we're gonna,

Gina (57:02.551)
Listen, we will even talk about if somebody was a maid of honor or a bridesmaid. That could also be a slap in the face.

Kelli (57:08.992)
Yeah. Everything's questioned. Everything's questionable.

Wendy (57:12.576)
Okay. Okay.

Gina (57:16.665)
Kelly and I could do 10 hours of a podcast about our family.

Kelli (57:20.652)
100 %

Absolutely.

Gina (57:25.239)
You know what's funny? We all stayed in New Jersey and we all still see each other. We all stay in touch. We all still see each other. have group texts.

Wendy (57:37.056)
Okay, we're approaching an hour, so I'm gonna wrap this up.

Kelli (57:40.554)
Yeah, and I have to go FaceTime Kai and see how his first day of school went.

Wendy (57:44.428)
Okay, so Stephen Jr. said sentencing is scheduled for March 13th, but then they're gonna push it back to May, but then it was recently pushed again to October 16th, but we know now that it was just again, because then it was September, but now it's October 16th. That's what we know today. But by the time, you know, October 1st comes around, it could get pushed again. Jesse's scared for his dad going to jail at 51 years old. Stephen Jr. is focused on keeping his farm in the family for generations to come. He's gonna have

Kelli (57:58.016)
Yeah. Yeah.

Wendy (58:14.478)
A lot of work ahead of him to do that. Galena is still working for the Vee family. She started to date and has moved on from Stephen Senior. Thank you. Stephen Junior and Calla have not seen each other since December, but they continue to text weekly. But that is no longer because he said on the podcast that they're not in any contact anymore and that she will not be at the event this weekend.

Kelli (58:16.78)
Yes, yes he is.

Kelli (58:23.372)
Thank you, Jesus.

Wendy (58:43.646)
Steven Jr. is dating again, but hasn't been on a second date yet. Okay, it's gonna be a problem Steven. and Casey have not made any wedding plans and he hasn't been back to Nashville. Jesse and Allie have been living together under one roof since April. That's when they welcomed their baby girl named Summer. Steven Sr.

Kelli (58:50.752)
I think he's a player.

Wendy (59:10.838)
We said this, know, pled guilty, insurance fraud, facing 30 years in prison without parole. So that's where it ends. They're going to continue to do their broadcast and talk about what's going on in their lives and you know, what the events are. They'd be foolish not to pick this up. Even if Bravo doesn't pick it up, the production company could sell it to another network because they grew. I know, that's what I'm saying. Right, so.

Kelli (59:31.542)
Definitely.

Gina (59:32.458)
It wasn't on Bravo last year. It was on, yeah, yeah, it was on CMT or something last year.

Kelli (59:34.996)
Right. This was the first year it was on Bravo. Yeah, no, they'd be foolish not to pick it back up.

Wendy (59:41.676)
Yeah, they're gonna pick it up. Why would they not? It's a hit. It's a hit. So we're gonna say it. We just don't know when. And we told them what we want. Maybe they'll listen to us. So until next time, thank you for watching and listening. Did you?

Gina (59:44.409)
my gosh. Yeah.

Gina (59:56.396)
Thank you ladies and I want to thank you ladies very much for including me in your podcast for the B Dynasty because you knew what a huge fan I was. Thank you very much and if you ever need me to fill in for somebody I'll be happy to help you out.

Kelli (01:00:01.868)
Of course.

Kelli (01:00:10.455)
We love having you, Gina. We love having you. Bye.

Wendy (01:00:11.928)
Thank you, cousin Gina. Bye.

Gina (01:00:12.275)
I love you guys. Thank you.