McBee Dynasty: Prison, Proposals & Power Struggles

Kelli (00:00.784)
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Lori (00:04.555)
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Wendy (00:05.242)
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Lori (00:07.35)
Confused about the order. Yeah, the sounds like yeah.

Wendy (00:09.489)
my gosh, Lori, you have no idea. Just before when I I started it, I blanked. I s I'm sitting here, I'm like, I totally blanked. I'm like, what wait. I'm like, what am I doing?

Kelli (00:14.52)
yeah.

Kelli (00:18.844)
She's like, Hi, I'm Wendy. I said, Hi, I'm Kelly. And she's just sat there.

Lori (00:21.39)
And then what am I doing? It's great. Isn't menopause great? It's great.

Kelli (00:31.622)
So funny. so we're finally getting to McBee Dynasty. we're gonna do just a quick highlight of the first three episodes and then we'll get into the fourth episode. but before we do that, we'll do our call to action. If you haven't already, please go to our please go to our YouTube and subscribe and our Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, follow on all the platforms.

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Wendy (01:08.219)
Someone wants us to cut our hair?

Wendy (01:18.161)
Yeah.

Kelli (01:19.996)
We're not cutting our hair and it's not fake. We don't have extensions. It's real.

Lori (01:23.168)
No. And I'm never gonna be that woman with short hair. I'm gonna be that old lady in a big bun with her long grey ass hair. And that's that's just how it's gonna go. So

Wendy (01:23.809)
No, it's real.

Kelli (01:31.888)
Yeah. Right. We're just not ready to go gray yet.

Lori (01:35.588)
Yeah, yeah. So just letting you know.

Kelli (01:37.818)
And Wendy doesn't even have to worry about that 'cause she still doesn't color her hair, which is ridiculous.

Lori (01:40.726)
Yes, no, ridiculous. All right, let's not talk about it 'cause I get pissed off.

Wendy (01:42.851)
I do not, I do not

Kelli (01:44.925)
Cra that's crazy shit. Exactly. Cause I have roots coming in. I gotta I gotta make Lisa stay one night to do my roots. okay. So episode one starts out, you know, Steve Sr. is getting ready to be sentenced. We do like a like a countdown of twenty-four hours. They kind of recap season two. you know, they're all very nervous. They're hoping for probation or house arrest. I feel like that was a

Lori (02:15.031)
That was a big hope.

Kelli (02:15.108)
I feel like that that was a wing in a prayer. That was a wing in a prayer.

Wendy (02:19.141)
Yeah.

Lori (02:20.439)
So what is it exactly that he did? Because in the show they tried to make it sound like like he just like didn't claim something like it they kind of brushed over it.

Kelli (02:31.312)
I think he lied. He lied about something he lied about the weight of something or

Wendy (02:35.515)
So there's

So there's a like a federal like insurance, it's crop insurance. So th if you don't produce a certain amount of crop, then they will pay you. So I guess the the weight of the crop was misreported. And that got them federal crop insurance money that they should not have received.

Lori (02:50.559)
Okay.

Lori (02:57.62)
Okay, okay.

Lori (03:03.309)
I gotcha.

Kelli (03:07.197)
so we see Cole and Casey are with Blair. She's so cute. They're both those babies are so adorable.

Lori (03:11.927)
So cute. So cute, yes.

Wendy (03:13.411)
my God, I love those little girls.

Kelli (03:16.166)
They're adorable. And they're gonna be so close growing up. Like that's gonna be so adorable. they built a beautiful home on the farm property, which we later find out belong to McBee Farms and not Cole, personally, the corporation. Beautiful. Jesse and Allie are are at their city house with Baby Summer, and you could tell like Allie starts

Lori (03:16.695)
So cute.

Wendy (03:31.163)
Corporation, yeah. Yeah.

Lori (03:31.277)
Mm-hmm. Yeah. Beautiful home though. Beautiful home. Beautiful.

Kelli (03:44.039)
To say she's had some postpartum issues and you know, they're both basically saying their marriage isn't quite where they'd like it to be and you know, their love life isn't what it was. But th this is all normal stuff. So kids at home, pay attention because this is all normal stuff when you first get married and have a baby. I really think they're gonna be fine, but we'll see.

Lori (04:04.492)
Yes.

Lori (04:08.673)
feel like it's especially difficult too when you get married and then have a baby right away. Like you you don't establish that married connection 'cause it's different than engaged connection or dating connection. You know what I'm saying? So when you go from right to one to the other, I feel like it can get it can get muddy.

Kelli (04:14.171)
For sure.

Kelli (04:27.377)
Yes.

Yes, I agree.

Wendy (04:30.907)
Well also, I mean, they did date a long time, but the fact that they have a city place and a farm place and she's a physician's assistant, so she's in the city and they weren't living together. They were going back and forth, so it was already not the best situation. And that's tough. Like that's tough.

Lori (04:49.459)
Right, right. Yeah.

Kelli (04:49.56)
Right. That is. But understandable because if her job's in the city and his job's on the farm, like I think it's like an hour away, right?

Wendy (04:57.541)
Right. Right.

Wendy (05:02.617)
I think so, yeah. Yeah.

Kelli (05:04.538)
Yeah. So Steve Junior meets with Galena. Galena's worried that the judge is gonna make an example of Steve Sr. And she says that he's chaotic in relationships, but in business he's a rock. Which I thought was interesting that she said that.

Lori (05:18.465)
Mm-hmm. Now I want to ask you, how did she become part owner? Did she become a part owner after she started messing around with them? Wow, she climbed the ladder.

Kelli (05:26.78)
She was their cleaning lady. She was their cleaning lady, right? And then they hired her. I don't know what happened first. They hired her as like a consultant for like financials. She came on as like a financial employee in some aspect. she was also their cleaning lady, though. And she, yeah, she started sleeping with him, obviously. And then she

Wendy (05:49.413)
Well, that's how she met Steven. And then they started dating.

Kelli (05:56.049)
What she did help their business. She did help them become more successful. So the more successful they got, the more responsibility they gave her. And then eventually he gave her a piece of the pie, which I mean, listen, if she kind of if she turned the business around, he did the right thing.

Lori (06:11.009)
Sure. Well y yeah, absolutely. Yeah, I was just wondering that.

Kelli (06:13.872)
So nobody's gonna work harder than somebody who's got a financial stake in a company.

Lori (06:18.711)
Mm-hmm.

Wendy (06:20.213)
definitely.

Kelli (06:21.88)
then we learned s when Steve Junior says that a felony charge can make banks pull loans and it could affect every aspect of the business. I would never have even thought of that, but makes total sense. They have to start selling off pieces of the land.

Wendy (06:34.607)
Yes, it absolutely does.

Lori (06:38.561)
Right. Wasn't it like seven million within twenty four months or something? Crazy?

Kelli (06:43.462)
think it was an even shorter time than that, wasn't it?

Lori (06:45.686)
Yeah, I don't know.

Wendy (06:47.109)
That they sold off. Yeah.

Kelli (06:51.274)
the okay. I thought it was like a time restriction. They had to do that. That's what they have done. That's what they accomplished. Okay.

Lori (06:57.696)
Okay.

Wendy (06:58.105)
Yes. I think I think that's what it was. I mean, 'cause they weren't they weren't sure. Like they they weren't sure if they were gonna pull the loan so they had to get everything in place in case they did.

Lori (07:10.251)
In case they did, yeah.

Kelli (07:11.788)
Right. So they're having a family dinner. Christy says that Steve Sr.'s nervous and everything's starting to hit him. And then Allie kind of drops on Casey that she and Cole's house, her and Cole's house, is on a property in Steve Sr.'s name. And that could be taken from them. So he owns the property, but they

Lori (07:36.301)
Sure.

Kelli (07:38.717)
paid for the house to be built. I mean, I would imagine that house being built, you know, I'm I'm sure it was at least five hundred grand. That's a beautiful house. I know they're in a different area than we are, but yeah. So Casey goes and confronts Cole and he basically says he just didn't want her to worry and he apologizes.

Lori (07:46.408)
my lease, it's huge.

Wendy (07:47.565)
it was more than that. Yeah, no, it was definitely more than that. It was definitely more than that.

Lori (07:50.391)
Yeah.

Lori (08:04.011)
No, I want to ask you a question. I so they said, when they were talking about like their equity and everything, I think it was Galena who said that, like they leveraged all their equity to do the car washes. Like that's not but that's not a smart business move. You should never leave yourself like high and dry like that. Like that's that's not smart.

Wendy (08:19.365)
Yes.

Wendy (08:29.435)
Well, I think what was happening was I think that this ha was happening and I could be wrong, but from what I understand, they have kind of transitioned from the crops. Like they're not farming crop anymore. They're they're doing more of the cattle. So they were getting rid of land and getting rid of the crop. And the crop is what got them in trouble. So they wanted something

Lori (08:41.823)
Right, into other things. Right.

Right.

Lori (08:51.51)
Right.

Kelli (08:52.507)
Right.

Wendy (08:53.545)
else to kind of be diversified besides just the cattle and now they it's not just the cattle, they also have the the beef and the meat and then they have other things besides that. Right.

Lori (09:03.915)
Right, their fulfillment center and blah, blah, blah. It just seemed to me like they you really shouldn't have stretched yourself that thin. Like that's that's little that's dangerous. I know you have to take risks in business, but I was just like, Wow, that's that's a a lot of debt to open up some car washes.

Kelli (09:20.774)
This has been this thing with Steve Sr. has been going on for a long time. Like it was going on during season one. We just didn't know about it. So I think this guy was just trying to and I think he was just trying to get involved in other businesses because that's a that was gonna be a problem. So if he could to take his equity and put it into something else to start making money right away, just in case they froze anything.

Wendy (09:28.453)
Right. It had been going on for a while, yes.

Lori (09:35.99)
Right.

Lori (09:39.487)
Right. No, I think it's good t to diversify.

Kelli (09:48.56)
He's got this other thing that can still make him money in the meantime. That's probably but I agree with you, it's very risky.

Lori (09:48.64)
Right.

Right. I got you. Yeah. Yeah.

Kelli (09:57.597)
So the next morning it's two hours until sentencing and they're all getting ready. The headlines say US versus McBee. And you know, they're all kind of jacked up about that. And then so they go into the courthouse, but obviously the cameras don't. They come out, they start recapping. they were all asked by Steve Senior's lawyers lawyer to write letters of encouragement, which is basically character reference letters, and then they start reading them.

It was it was sad you know, it was kinda emotional. They were all getting emotional reading their letters. Galena goes over to be with the rest of the family while awaiting the the trial. Steve Sr.'s brother and mom are there. So then we find out that he got twenty four months in federal prison, three million in fines, four million in restitution. It's really not bad. He was facing up to thirty years. I mean, twenty-four months is not bad.

Wendy (10:55.204)
Exactly.

Lori (10:57.697)
Yes. Not not bad. Yeah.

Wendy (11:00.409)
And actually Cole said even though he's facing up to twenty four months, they expect him to be released by the end of this year before Christmas. Right. So I mean that would be awesome for him and his family.

Kelli (11:10.854)
Provided yeah.

Lori (11:12.876)
Right.

Kelli (11:16.902)
Yeah. Yeah, so Steve G Steve Junior's very concerned about the seven million dollars, understandably. Christy's trying to be the rock for everybody. They go back to the house and Christy and Galena are actually okay with each other, which man, Christy is amazing. She really is.

Wendy (11:39.503)
I I mean the fact that she wasn't even on season one, I don't know how she wasn't on season I mean, she didn't really want to do it.

Kelli (11:45.424)
Maybe they weren't in such a good place then. Not she and Galena, she and Steve Senior.

Wendy (11:48.354)
No, no, it wasn't that she didn't want she just didn't want to do this. She had her own thing. And then when ev everything was going on with Steven Sr. and he didn't or couldn't appear on the show, because he didn't really appear on season two. You almost never saw him. And even season three Exactly. Exactly.

Kelli (12:07.708)
We've barely seen him now. Right. I was surprised to see him in the last episode.

Lori (12:10.253)
Well, you only have one siding.

Wendy (12:13.517)
I was too and we was barely s you know, we barely saw So Yep. So she stepped up for her boys. 'Cause you know, she's she's doing anything for those boys.

Lori (12:16.203)
Yeah, side view, quick side view.

Kelli (12:16.25)
Yeah. It was like nothing. Yeah.

Kelli (12:24.304)
Yeah. And I think that that's why she can be so okay with Galena, because desp first of all, she's not even with Steve Sr. anymore, and he played her like he played Christy. So you gotta have a little empathy for that, even though she he was married to Christy at the time. But the way she treats her boys and their significant others and she works for the company. Like she's a part owner. She's got stake in this. Like she's really

Wendy (12:36.24)
Right.

Lori (12:37.709)
Mm-hmm.

Kelli (12:53.06)
A part of the family, like it or not. So I I just think Christie's a pretty amazing woman.

Lori (12:54.891)
Right. Like it or not, right.

Wendy (12:55.686)
Yes.

I do too.

Kelli (12:59.902)
so Steve Sr. has six weeks before he actually goes away. Then they're having a meeting in the war room. This cracked me up when Steven Jr. was like, Where's Galena? And then he's like, She acts like she's a celebrity. She is. And she's a bigger one than you. And it's eating you alive. She's getting invited to all the Bravo things. And he's not.

Lori (13:21.311)
And you right. huh, huh.

Mm-hmm. And he's not right.

Kelli (13:29.104)
He went to BravoCon. I thought that was so funny.

Wendy (13:31.771)
I think she's gonna be at the they're doing another virtual reality in New York. It's not even at Citary Winery, it's at a much bigger place now and I think Galena is on like yeah, I think Galena's on the ticket. And I didn't really like the people on the ticket.

Kelli (13:42.076)
Really?

Kelli (13:45.894)
Are we gonna go? When is it?

Kelli (13:52.637)
All right. Okay. Um, so Galina and her daughter are getting their nails done, I guess while this meeting's going on. But it could have just been production. But she is ignoring Steve Jr.'s calls. Um and then basically Steve Jr. and Cole say that they have to sell the family headquarters, the um the big the big building, you know.

Lori (13:52.639)
Okay, well then there you go.

Wendy (13:54.391)
Ha ha ha

Lori (13:55.723)
Yeah.

Wendy (14:09.68)
Yeah.

Lori (14:21.549)
Yeah, I forget what they called it.

Wendy (14:21.573)
Yeah.

Kelli (14:21.948)
And Tessa was like, it was your father's dream. But they're you know, they're doing what they gotta do. They're the that's the only path forward. meanwhile Cole it's just a building. Meanwhile Cole can't get a word in because Steven Junior just likes to hear himself talk. I actually work for somebody like that.

Wendy (14:34.309)
Listen, it's just a building, you know? It's just a building, right?

Lori (14:36.109)
Right, it's just a building.

Lori (14:42.413)
Flapping his gums, mm-hmm.

Lori (14:46.871)
Yeah, huh?

Kelli (14:48.218)
Meetings last a lot longer than maybe they should, but that's okay. He's great. I love him. Galena's daughter's a daughter asks her if she's gonna be okay and Galena says, We're gonna be okay and I'm re I'm rebuilding myself.

Lori (14:51.063)
They need to. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Wendy (14:51.757)
Kelli (15:04.292)
Then Stephen Junior announces that he has to go pick someone up.

Lori (15:10.055)
my god, I was like, What? What? You gonna go get a chick?

Kelli (15:10.108)
And we Allie, the new the new paid girlfriend. We've learned this week how much she gets paid and how much she wanted to get paid.

Lori (15:17.879)
The paid girlfriend. Absolutely. yes. yes. Mm-hmm.

Wendy (15:23.185)
She's saying that she is saying that that is not true and I'm just like I listen, I don't think it's I don't think she

Kelli (15:29.158)
Well, I and she came out she came out and said like, what, and you all don't get paid? Like I think listen, I think that the McBee entity is trying to do damage control because Steven Junior has screwed this up so much with those text messages.

Lori (15:46.754)
Mm-hmm. My biggest problem with her is if all the claims are what they are presented to be, is that as much as Steve Junior love bombed Allie, I think what's worse is the way Allie love bombed Christy. Because supposedly she she really played

Kelli (16:13.03)
Good p good point.

Lori (16:17.097)
into Christy that this is how that her feelings were sincere and sent all you know sent all these text messages a bit about how wonderful the boys are and how well she raised them and blah blah blah can't wait to be part of family like all all of that to me is like mmm now you're right everybody should get paid

Kelli (16:32.604)
She did come on strong with all that.

Kelli (16:39.632)
Yeah. Yep.

Lori (16:43.937)
But you, I don't give a shit how many followers you have, should not get paid as much as the people whose names are on the show and have been doing it for two seasons already and you're gonna waltz in and no, you should have told you should have told your manager Sh sh sh you know, back off back off of your commission because that's what the extra money was.

Kelli (17:11.674)
Yeah. I just don't think anything was sincere. Now n like na well, first of all, I think all of their scenes together are cringy and produced. Steven Junior and Allie. It's horrible.

Wendy (17:20.498)
my God, they're so cringy to watch and even

Lori (17:23.617)
But supposedly supposedly though, and again supposedly, is him and Christy were like rootin' for Allie with production about getting her the pay that she wants. So

Kelli (17:37.424)
Well yeah, I mean those text messages indicate that Steven Junior's like, I'll take a hit to my salary if it'll help

Wendy (17:38.092)
I can believe that.

Lori (17:42.304)
Right. Right.

Wendy (17:45.626)
No, I totally get that. And, you know, this is what Steven did last season with Cala. You know, she drops the bomb that he, you know, he's leaving her all this cash. And the other girls are like, what? Like, where's he taking this money from? They're all working their asses off. And everything I can see is to be quite honest with you, Cole does not get enough credit. Like, Cole does Cole does so much for that.

Lori (18:10.592)
absolutely not.

Wendy (18:13.777)
at that farm. He knows so much about what is going on. And Stephen undercuts him and undermines him every chance he gets. And it annoys me. It really annoys me.

Kelli (18:17.648)
Mm-hmm.

Kelli (18:22.512)
Yep. Yeah.

Lori (18:22.945)
Yes. He's a he's a very, very, very insecure man. Very

Kelli (18:30.084)
One hundred percent.

Wendy (18:30.557)
s yeah.

Kelli (18:33.05)
One hundred percent. So they do a side by side what?

Lori (18:34.647)
Did I actually feel bad for him? I actually feel bad for him, he's that excuse.

Kelli (18:39.258)
Well, feel bad for people who are so insecure that they act that way. Like yeah. It's it's that's totally insecurity though. They do a side by side with Allie and Cala and they literally could be twins. Literally.

Lori (18:43.497)
Absolutely. Yeah. Mm-hmm.

Lori (18:51.256)
yeah.

Wendy (18:52.219)
I'll be honest with you, when I put this picture back here, I had to double check it. I was like, I'm looking to see. I'm like, is that Cala or is that Allie?

Lori (18:59.434)
Right. Isn't it yeah.

Kelli (19:00.112)
I mean, I personally think that Cala is prettier. Allie has way too much well, I don't know what yeah, I don't wanna say it. I don't wanna say. So Jake and Braden are going shopping to get Steven Junior's house ready for his company. They're grabbing maxi pants.

Wendy (19:03.942)
I don't. they're both fake they're both so fake.

Lori (19:07.149)
Thank you.

Wendy (19:09.595)
They're both fake.

Lori (19:18.451)
my God, this was great. This was great. They said, I was dying. They said, Well, if a regular tampon is not enough, can't you double it up? I was like, my God.

Kelli (19:29.028)
Ha

Lori (19:32.344)
my god. God. So funny.

Kelli (19:33.2)
That was awesome. Awesome. So Cole's telling Tessa that Steven Jr. has control issues and he's trying to step up. He doesn't think this weekend was the best time to fly up a girl, and Tessa obviously agrees.

Lori (19:48.205)
Well, I think anyone in the world would agree with that. It was weird.

Kelli (19:51.001)
Yeah. Apparently Allie's family's very conservative, so the decorations that Braden and Jake put up might not go over well.

Lori (20:00.179)
I love the boo thing with the boobs. That was great. Great.

Kelli (20:02.775)
my god, it was so good. So good.

Lori (20:08.205)
Yeah.

Kelli (20:09.948)
Dude, Steven goes in. Steven Jr. goes in for a kiss and she she like naturally pulls her body away. Not a good sign. It was so weird. And Tessa tells Cole that Stephen Jr. needs to start respecting him. So that's episode one. Episode two, we start out, it's three days since sentencing. Stephen Jr. brings Allie to the fulfillment center. And

Lori (20:18.855)
Mm mm. It was weird.

Wendy (20:35.153)
Yeah.

Kelli (20:39.572)
She says that their physical attraction was the best two pumps and 20 seconds of her life.

Lori (20:48.476)
my god, I can't believe she said that. I can't believe that I mean

Kelli (20:51.256)
I mean and it's kind of confirmed in the last episode.

Wendy (20:51.941)
I couldn't either.

Lori (20:54.935)
But that's horrible for him though. I mean I mean, I'm not saying

Wendy (20:55.45)
Yes.

Kelli (20:57.796)
my God, that's the worst thing you could say about his guy about a guy. That either his dick is small or he's bad in bed. That's the worst thing you could ever say about a guy.

Wendy (20:59.141)
No wonder he's insecure.

Lori (21:01.493)
I'm not saying he's a

Lori (21:05.729)
Yeah. The worst. Right. Yeah. The I felt I feel bad from Yeah, was like, Wow. Whoa. Well between that and then his

Kelli (21:10.308)
And you just did that on national television.

Kelli (21:16.124)
Wendy (21:17.817)
And am I am I did they meet for the first time in person when he picked her up at the airport?

Lori (21:23.563)
I think so. I think so. That's it's madness. You know what that is? That's he was hitting her up 'cause she was hot. She was ignoring him. Then she looked and said, he has a show. She stopped ignoring him. They even talked they had money hashed out before she even got in that plane.

Kelli (21:24.186)
I think so. I think so.

Wendy (21:25.711)
Right? Like, how crazy is that?

Kelli (21:40.25)
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

Kelli (21:48.432)
That's what's crazy. That's what's crazy.

Lori (21:50.082)
That's crazy. But it was funny because there was poor Steven Jr., there were three times when his Pichadel was spoken about. When the f farmhands were going to the house to decorate it, they said, look, he looked in his drawer and so saw something for like something to make you last longer. Then then the thing that Ali said, and then when all the girls were later on at the beauty salon, g I was like

Kelli (22:11.76)
Yep, yep.

Kelli (22:21.486)
I mean this guy couldn't happen to a nicer guy though, in my opinion.

Lori (22:22.903)
Poor thing.

Wendy (22:23.493)
Yeah.

Lori (22:26.891)
Well dick.

Kelli (22:29.286)
So Jake goes to Steven Senior's house and he's not there, but Masha is, and Jake's like, She is always there. She is a stage five clinger.

So I thought she I thought Masha said that Steven Senior's mom was moving in. Is that what she said? So I would imagine that means Masha has to leave. She's not gonna live there with his mom.

Lori (22:44.447)
Yes, she did. Mm-hmm. Yeah.

Wendy (22:45.083)
That yes, they're getting the house ready for his mom.

Lori (22:51.819)
No, I think I don't think her a her ass ain't moving nowhere.

Wendy (22:52.433)
I'm trying

Wendy (22:55.993)
No, does she live there all the time? Like I'm confused about the whole thing because

Lori (22:59.36)
I don't know.

Kelli (22:59.6)
I don't think she's supposed to, but she's there all the time.

Wendy (23:03.397)
Because when Christy went over to pick something up, w when she went over to pick something up and she was surprised to see Masha there. I don't think she I don't think she lives there. I think that she just is there all the time. And she can

Lori (23:03.851)
so maybe she doesn't live there.

Lori (23:12.294)
so maybe she doesn't live there.

okay.

Kelli (23:15.728)
I don't think she exactly. I don't think she's supposed to live there, but she's there all the time as if she does live there. 'Cause they have family dinners there and she's not w invited.

Wendy (23:24.739)
Right. But she has access to the cameras we know, so she knows when they're there.

Lori (23:26.829)
okay.

Yes. Right.

Kelli (23:32.528)
Right. Steven and Allie are hosting the family. And Christy meets her and she likes her. She says she's bubbly and fun. Casey says Allie looks a lot like Cala. Cole says Steven Jr. has a sp has a Pacific type. And the producer's like specific. He's like, yeah, Pacific.

Wendy (23:49.97)
my god, he's so funny.

Lori (23:50.391)
Great.

Wendy (23:55.098)
I know. He's like, is that not right? This is what I love about Cole too.

Lori (23:57.772)
No Yeah.

Kelli (23:59.281)
I cannot.

Kelli (24:03.192)
Galena is joining them too, which I thought was nice. Casey says Allie's fun to be around. Jake and his girlfriend, I keep forgetting her name, but I love it.

Lori (24:15.181)
Yeah, I forgot her name. Yeah. I don't remember her name. I don't remember.

Wendy (24:16.881)
I don't know her name.

Kelli (24:18.61)
she's got a cool name and I love it. I just keep forgetting about it. Cole has set up a meeting with wealthy people who can purchase the headquarters and Steven Junior wants Cole to hand off a bit of this deal to him and Cole says he'll handle it. And I think good for you, Cole.

Lori (24:37.729)
Yeah, 'cause he's he's definitely got Steven Junior's definitely got some serious control issues. yeah.

Wendy (24:38.277)
Yeah.

Kelli (24:43.27)
Control issues for sure. For sure. Steven Jr. says this isn't the ideal time to take over the green facility. Cole says he doesn't think Steven Jr. is giving him the credit he deserves. And then we see Casey and Allie are at Christy's house with the babies, and Christy says Masha texts her and she wants to meet up with her. And Christy says she doesn't like what Masha did to Galina. I mean, this woman, she's so kind.

Wendy (25:09.721)
Yep. Yep.

Lori (25:12.001)
Mm-hmm.

Wendy (25:14.341)
Yep. And both of both Allie and Casey say the same thing. Like they call Masha out. They know who she is.

Kelli (25:15.26)
Kelli (25:21.314)
yeah, that was a great scene. So Steven and Allie have to keep telling us how much chemistry they have, even though we don't say it. They have to keep telling us because it's not visible to the human eye that they have chemistry.

Lori (25:37.695)
Yes. Yes.

Kelli (25:42.636)
Ste this this was kinda funny. Steven Jr. says it's hard for him to take Cole seriously. after just last year he was getting wasted and acting a fool and basically trying to fight a mountain. Which he was.

Wendy (25:55.794)
I mean he d was, but that was a one d was a one time thing, Steven. You've done many stupid things.

Lori (25:57.515)
That's right.

Kelli (26:00.445)
Well, I think that Cole was probably a handful growing up. I think, you know, he was like a star on the football team. He was like, you know, he was the man in high school, I would imagine. So, anyway. Uh John, the potential buyer shows up at headquarters to meet Cole and and Steven Jr.'s like hemming and hawing that he might go. And Allie's like, don't go, which was good. She said, just chill. Um

Lori (26:05.206)
yeah.

Wendy (26:10.885)
Yeah. Yeah.

Kelli (26:33.124)
Casey. Casey's at the warehouse, and Christy shows up to drop off Blair. And then Casey asks Christy to drop off steaks at Steven Sr. And when she gets there, Masha's there. And Christy's basically like, Well, I didn't know you were gonna be here, but that's kind of hard to believe. Because there's cameras all set up, but whatever. Masha wants to talk.

Lori (26:56.939)
Right. Right. Yeah. It is a show.

Kelli (27:02.754)
Yeah. Masha wants to talk to Christy about their issues. Christy says, You don't care about my boys at all. She says, Do you have any idea what you were doing when you showed up at that car wash? And Ma yeah, Masha says Steve invited me and Christy says, Well, Steve said he didn't invite you. And Masha says she has a fine relationship with the family, and Christy Christy

Lori (27:16.725)
Course you knew.

Kelli (27:33.861)
she had a fine relationship with the family until Christy started showing up at Stephen Senior's house. Okay, well Christie was always showing up at Stephen Senior's house, so that's a bunch of BS.

Lori (27:39.776)
Okay.

Kelli (27:45.669)
Casey and Allie are talking to Steven Jr. and he's basically telling them that he's getting ready to propose. And they're like, All right, it's too soon to talk about that.

Lori (27:56.107)
Yeah. What are you doing?

Kelli (27:58.065)
Yeah, I mean and then he says some whack shit that you know he's just thinks that, you know, Cole and Casey would be mad if he gets engaged before them because they've been together for so long. No, you just met this woman three days ago. And you're a lunatic.

Lori (28:13.301)
Right, so what do you even talk about?

Yeah. Yeah.

Wendy (28:19.075)
Yes, that right there. Exactly. Right there.

Lori (28:19.819)
Yeah. That right there.

Kelli (28:21.924)
It's that. It's that. Yeah. Cole tells Galena, Jesse and Jake that the office is closing and the sales going through. the the facility, the fulfillment center. And Jesse says it's defeating that they have to sell that. And Galena says the car washes are their biggest investment now. So you know, when what they did with that was a good move, thank God.

Lori (28:35.073)
Yes.

Wendy (28:35.451)
Yeah.

Wendy (28:48.251)
So I looked it up. They have seven active car wash locations.

And it's McBee coffee and car wash. So listen, I I think that they must have

Lori (28:56.939)
Yeah, coffee and cargo.

Kelli (28:57.211)
Yeah.

I mean listen, car washes are they're good for washing. More than cars. Exactly. They sure are. Exactly. With that said, I mean listen, they can't really mess around after what just happened with their father. The Fed the feds are gonna be eyeing them up and down. But that was the first thing I thought of. Car washes are a real good place to

Lori (29:03.585)
You're good for washing. More than cars. More than cars. Mm-hmm. They sure are.

Lori (29:18.728)
No, no, no.

Wendy (29:20.315)
Mm-hmm.

Lori (29:22.316)
Yes.

Uh-huh. Good for watching. Yeah.

Kelli (29:28.922)
Wash your money, yeah. They have thirty days to get their stuff out. And Casey's helping Galena decorate for the Halloween party. Casey tells Galena that they were having a family dinner and Masha showed up and yelled at Christy for being there. And they think she has cameras at the lodge. Well.

Wendy (29:50.747)
She has access to them.

Lori (29:52.235)
Yeah, access to that, yeah.

Kelli (29:53.435)
Yeah.

Galena leaves, grabs a shovel, and basically smashes the cameras at the lodge.

Lori (30:02.647)
She does some crazy Russian shit is what she does.

Kelli (30:06.596)
Like I need a galena to be my friend, I think.

Lori (30:11.233)
Mm-hmm. I feel like I could turn into Galena at any moment. Yeah, I feel like I could turn into Glena at any moment.

Wendy (30:11.88)
my god.

Kelli (30:13.232)
Things would be a lot different for a lot of people if Galena was my friend.

Kelli (30:20.838)
Probably could. You probably could. So now we're at the annual Wik McBee Halloween party and Masha shows up. I mean what is this girl doing? Why would you go somewhere where that you know absolutely nobody wants you at?

Lori (30:33.709)
So you could piss everybody off. And if she didn't there wouldn't be a show.

Kelli (30:35.514)
Yeah.

Wendy (30:38.011)
But she like clombed right onto Allie. The new Allie. She's like, yeah.

Kelli (30:38.547)
Cole tells Galena that Masha says Steve Huh?

Lori (30:41.333)
You're right. yeah, sh glomed right on her, yeah.

Kelli (30:46.088)
yeah, yeah. Yeah. Cole tells Galena that Masha said Steven Sr. either better get her a ring before he goes to jail or they're done. Allie says Galena checks in with her every week and never she never hears from Masha. So then Masha's talking to the girls and Galena is really staring her down. Really staring her down.

Lori (31:08.353)
Giving her the eye

Kelli (31:12.196)
Steven Jr. tells Cole that he's pretty sure he's gonna marry Allie. So Cole tells him to give him a week to basically put a ring on Casey's finger. And Tessa tells Masha she's very nervous that she's there with Galena. I love Tessa.

Wendy (31:27.121)
I do too. I do too.

Lori (31:27.307)
Yeah, she was cute.

Kelli (31:28.516)
Yeah. And Galina walks up to Masha and says, I'm still so confused. Why are you here? This is my party.

Wendy (31:31.664)
Mm-hmm.

Wendy (31:37.413)
And you're not invited.

Lori (31:38.881)
And you're not invited.

Kelli (31:39.161)
And you're not invited. And that's how episode two ends. So episode three opens up. We're still at the party. Cole says Galena's doing doing the shaky eye witch thing. I twitch, the shaking eye twitch. Galena tells Masha, I don't care about the man. Just don't come to my party. Basically. She doesn't care about Steven Sr. anymore. And I do believe that. I really do believe that.

Wendy (31:49.041)
Mm.

Lori (31:53.441)
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I truth. Yeah, yeah.

Wendy (32:06.512)
I do too.

Lori (32:07.543)
Yeah, I think so too.

Kelli (32:07.908)
I think she had to get past that to be able to like I think she's still crazy about Masha because Masha was her friend and that's such a betrayal. But I don't think it has anything to do with Steven Sr. anymore.

Lori (32:19.873)
Mm-mm. No.

Wendy (32:21.146)
I agree.

Kelli (32:24.44)
It is interesting to me though that Galena is so affected by Masha, but Christy can be totally fine around Galena.

Wendy (32:34.757)
Well, Christy's a bigger person and she's not Russian. She doesn't have that running through her

Lori (32:34.998)
Right.

Kelli (32:35.024)
You know what I mean? She is. Yeah. She's not right. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Casey tells Galina that they all have her back, which I thought was nice. And then thankfully, Masha leaves. Jesse, Allie, Cole, and Casey.

Lori (32:37.377)
Right. Right. She's not crazy. Russia. Right.

Lori (32:51.327)
And Galena and Galena be she behaved herself. Galena behaved herself. She reined it in. You reined it in.

Kelli (32:56.602)
She really did. She really did. how about when Allie the new Allie told Jesse and Allie the other Allie to kiss and they like, no, no, no.

Lori (33:07.297)
Yeah, I know. It's like ooh doesn't look good.

Wendy (33:08.133)
Yeah.

Kelli (33:10.916)
I mean, we're not super like PDA, Eric and I, but we would do that for a picture at a party, for sure.

Lori (33:13.303)
P D A. No, no, no. But you can Right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That was like mm.

Kelli (33:20.804)
Yeah. Yeah. So then Jesse, Allie, Cole, and Casey are going to a fall festival. And Casey, yeah, and then Christy, Steven Jr. and Allie are they're all there. But apparently,

Lori (33:23.381)
It's not bowed well.

Kelli (33:39.293)
Cole went hunting on Blair's first Halloween and that's not sitting well with Casey. Steven Jr. is talking about how Allie is checking all these boxes. Like he's some fucking prize to win, this guy. Like he acts like he acts like this is like a dating gate, like people are vying for him. She wasn't even interested when you DM'd her on Instagram the first time. Like you had she wanted to hook you up with her sister, bro.

Lori (33:51.735)
throw up.

Wendy (33:55.097)
Mm.

Lori (34:05.077)
That's what I'm saying.

Right. She wanted to get rid of your ass what she wanted to do.

Kelli (34:11.29)
You better worry about checking her boxes, not vice versa.

Ay, ay, ay. then Steven Junior says that the cattle sale's coming up and this is gonna be huge for their business, and we see how serious he takes it.

Lori (34:24.847)
yeah, very seriously.

Wendy (34:25.666)
my gosh, that was so annoying. I'm sorry. I like

Kelli (34:26.716)
my god.

Lori (34:28.501)
Yeah. That was a real jerk off move.

Wendy (34:34.243)
It really was and and then how about how he baited her to hard launch it?

Lori (34:34.251)
Very jerk offish. Mm-hmm.

Kelli (34:34.32)
For sure.

Kelli (34:42.19)
Absolutely. Absolutely.

Wendy (34:43.793)
I mean, that was the craziest thing I've ever seen.

Lori (34:45.447)
I I had never even heard of this before. So yeah, I live under a rock. I live under a rock in the eighties still. Like I was like, what? I know, but I was thinking I know, but I was thinking, like hard launching a business online. I was like, what like what what do you what? What?

Wendy (34:50.171)
Hard launching.

Kelli (34:51.492)
The hard launching.

Kelli (34:56.324)
It's just what they call like when people make it official.

Kelli (35:03.205)
Right, right, right.

Kelli (35:07.686)
People are crazy. So, you know, Cole and Casey have their little thing at the at the fall festival, but you know, whatever. They get through it. They get through it. The boys are going to the I do too. I do too. I'm I'm rooting for both of them, Jesse and Allie and Cole and Casey. I think Steven Junior's gonna be a single creepy old guy. But whatever. So will his so will his father, so though they could be together.

Wendy (35:21.073)
Like them as a couple.

Lori (35:23.201)
Yes, I like them.

Wendy (35:24.379)
I I me too.

Lori (35:34.669)
Thanks.

We can be together.

Kelli (35:37.596)
The boys go to the cattle auction. Steven Junior is supposed to meet them the next day. Jesse says he hopes people at the cattle auction will not hold their name against them.

Lori (35:44.542)
And doesn't show.

Kelli (35:51.887)
Is it Tegan? Is that her name? Tegan and Casey are at Allie's house and Masha calls her. She wants them to come look at the things at the house to get it out of there. This was weird.

Lori (36:02.859)
Yeah, that was weird.

Wendy (36:03.419)
So do you think that they got a look when they walked into that cattle auction? Do you think that the I've

Lori (36:10.049)
Well productions certainly made it look like look like they did. You know.

Kelli (36:10.49)
I think it was production. Yeah. I think it was production.

Wendy (36:14.723)
Yeah. Yeah. That's what I was thinking. I was like, I don't know that that people were really like

Kelli (36:20.688)
I don't think those the I don't think any of those men there probably even know about the show. Or give a shit if they do know.

Wendy (36:25.381)
No.

Lori (36:25.569)
Right. No. Right. The only thing they might know is it is it is a you know, it is a very small community like ranching and farming. It's not like there's thousands of them. So they might know about McBee's legal troubles. But other than that, they don't give a shit about no show. You know what I mean? Like that's the only thing they would know about, like, hey, he got busted for, you know, the crop fraud or whatever.

Wendy (36:27.811)
Right, exactly.

Kelli (36:39.931)
Right.

Kelli (36:43.578)
Right.

Wendy (36:43.877)
Right.

Kelli (36:49.819)
Yeah.

Wendy (36:53.133)
Right. Well that and maybe the cameras that were there that might have done it actually.

Lori (36:56.691)
That might have been a that might have been a chip off. Might have been a tip off.

Kelli (36:59.29)
Yeah. Yeah. So Casey asks Allie if it makes her mad that Masha wants to sleep with Jesse and Allie's like, What? So I guess Steven Sr. asked Masha who her hall pass was, and she says his son.

Wendy (37:01.743)
Ha ha ha ha.

Wendy (37:08.779)
my gosh.

Lori (37:14.911)
Sh that's weird as fuck.

Kelli (37:17.126)
You know what vibes those are giving? y Lori didn't watch it and I don't think you want did you watch Southern Charm from the beginning, Wendy? Yeah. It's giving Ashley Thomas Ravenel's girlfriend vibes when things were she wasn't dating Thomas Ravenel very long and things got rocky. So she basically started asking like Austin and Shep, like, Well, would you date me? Like she just wanted to be on the show. She would have dated anybody.

Wendy (37:24.303)
No, I didn't.

Lori (37:43.782)
my god. You know, I thought it was really rude of Masha because she calls the girls to come get the stuff from the basement and she's saying how it would be easy for her and you know when in her confessional she's saying, it'll be easier for me when Steve goes away and less lonely for me if I had a connection with them. Okay, so I guess it's all about you. I was like, okay.

Kelli (38:08.32)
yeah. But you're not making any effort. You're yelling at their mother for being at a family dinner. Like that's not gonna do it at all.

Lori (38:13.973)
Right. No.

Wendy (38:17.041)
Лик, вот щекін билін акристі? Лек, да істрази томі.

Kelli (38:22.406)
Crazy. Nobody's taking your side against Christy. There's no way.

Lori (38:26.925)
It's crazy Russian shit, I'm telling ya.

Kelli (38:28.888)
Yeah. Allie and Casey go to Steven Senior's house and it's basically Galena's things in the bins. So I don't know, did Masha want them to bring those things to Galena?

Lori (38:41.303)
Well first she asked Yeah, first she asked do you want yeah, do you want anything?

Wendy (38:41.521)
She was offering them to them. Like, do you want these?

Kelli (38:43.42)
To them.

Kelli (38:47.836)
Yeah.

Wendy (38:47.983)
Like now we're good.

Lori (38:48.309)
And she had to kn she had to know the shit was Galena's.

Kelli (38:52.742)
So then they sit down and start talking and I'll tell you what, Casey

Wendy (38:52.805)
Absolutely. Who

Kelli (39:00.39)
Casey's good. Casey's very good. Masha says she and Galena weren't friends. They were introduced 12 years ago, but not close. She had no idea she was dating Steve Sr. Casey's like, you were at the house for Christmas. You exchanged presents, and then you were sleeping with her boyfriend. And Masha says she doesn't want to marry Steve, but Casey's like, but Steve told us you want a ring before he goes away. Like everything Masha said, Casey had a comeback for.

Wendy (39:02.917)
Yes.

Kelli (39:28.666)
And she said, Why would you go to her house on Christmas and exchange presents if you weren't friends? And she's like, Well, we were friends. She's like, You just told me you weren't friends.

Wendy (39:36.783)
Yep. No, she was on it. On everything. On everything she said.

Lori (39:37.601)
Yeah, she did call her out. Yeah, she was on it. It was good. huh. It's good.

Kelli (39:41.764)
And and then Casey says that Cole, that she, Cole, and Steve Sr. all told Masha not to go to the car wash because of Galina, and Masha's like, that never happened, that's a lie.

I mean this bitch is crazy. And Casey says that you were sh Masha was lying right to Christy's face, and Casey calls Masha delusional to her face. And Masha says that she thinks Casey's being disrespectful.

Wendy (40:12.369)
my gosh, when she said that in her confessional, she's like, We I don't know how she was raised. What?

Lori (40:15.893)
What?

Kelli (40:19.728)
Ye well, she's not sleeping with a married man or b a man who has a girlfriend.

Lori (40:20.203)
Yeah, right? I know. You're right. Right. God.

Kelli (40:26.412)
And Casey says, no matter what, Galena will always be in their life. And Masha goes in the bathroom and says this is humiliating. And Casey's like, It's humiliating because you're a liar. And she's right. Then we see the boys are in Russell, Iowa, and they go to the Tipsy Turtle and they order Tipsy Turtles. you could tell the people at the bar were like like kinda into it, like happy to see them there and

Wendy (40:51.984)
Yeah.

Lori (40:53.121)
Mm-hmm.

Kelli (40:53.456)
You know, like those women sitting at the bar, like they were into it, which is nice. and then we see Steven Jr. and Ally are in the hot tub. And

Lori (41:01.711)
that was so that was a weird scene. She kept like she kept like turning her head like it was weird. It was weird. There was a weird vibe.

Kelli (41:04.508)
Fringey.

Wendy (41:08.057)
It was weird.

Kelli (41:09.69)
And you can stop trying to tell us how sexy he is because nope. Nope. Jake shows the boys some social media stuff about Allie and a divorce that she had and asks if he should let Steven Senior know. And Jesse's like, no, he already knows. He's going fast, but he's a man and he can make his own decisions. and then Steven Jr. and Allie are talking about a lease in New York that fell through.

The the scenes with them are just so produced. And now that we know all about these text messages that he sent, like and then she you know, with the money and I I don't know. I mean, do we think that they were ever really even dating, do you think? 'Cause I don't now. Yeah.

Lori (41:52.503)
How how about?

I don't think so. I think it's all bullshit. How about his he's just like such a he's such a douche like when he went to that retreat and he he did that list for his ideal woman and then even worse was he did the the thing of what his dream day would look like, you know, and did

Kelli (42:03.921)
Duche.

Lori (42:27.297)
He's just such an He's just such a suck up. Like you could tell when he was at this retreat, he said, okay, I have this assignment, so I have to write down what my dream day is. So I'm just gonna be like an ass kiss and I'm gonna write on there that you know, we're gonna pick out our reading materials and we are going to journal twice a day and we are going to do the deep work like, my God, dude. No, that's not what they wanted.

Kelli (42:28.258)
Even when he was talking about Yeah.

Kelli (42:55.11)
Right. Meanwhile he's rage texting her because she stayed at a party late. Like you're so zen. You effing whore. Like okay, Steven Jr. so it's the day of the cattle auction. Steven Jr. is nowhere to be found. And then we see him at home with Allie. And that he starts acting so douchey about this. This is when they hard launched because

Lori (43:02.933)
It's just like dude, shut up.

Lori (43:08.545)
Mm.

Kelli (43:22.7)
Allie posted a picture of her in his gym and everybody knows what his gym looks like. Like he couldn't say that enough.

Wendy (43:22.928)
Right.

Lori (43:29.025)
That's an that's another that's another telltale sign. I'm sorry, but there are cer there's certain guys who are too buff because they are too into it. Because it's the only thing that makes them feel better about themselves is doing that all those hours in front of the mirror and it gets creepy.

Kelli (43:34.533)
Of insecurity.

Kelli (43:51.225)
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. So Steven and Allie decide to post their relationship. It's very dramatic for no reason at all. No reason at all. We don't need all the dramatics. my God. The effort they put into that.

Lori (43:53.099)
Beware of a two buff man.

Wendy (44:01.433)
Which picture should we take? Which picture do you like better? What should we say?

Lori (44:07.457)
I wanna ask you guys a question. Do you ever like sit on your kitchen counter?

Kelli (44:13.092)
No, and I don't like it when people do.

Lori (44:14.007)
They were always sitting on they were always sitting on the kitchen counter several times. I was like why you why you s yeah, like why are you sitting on the co I was like

Kelli (44:17.808)
Yeah, stop sitting on my counter. That is where my food goes. Don't put your dirty ass keys on my counter and don't sit on it. I don't want to see wallets on my counter. Those are like germ havens.

Lori (44:28.758)
I see här det.

Lori (44:34.091)
Yeah, I was like, Ew, stop sitting on the counter. I don't know, I just had a problem.

Kelli (44:36.656)
Yes, I totally agree.

Wendy (44:39.021)
never sat on a counter. Weird.

Lori (44:40.351)
No, right? It didn't sit on the c that's a fucking weirdos.

Kelli (44:45.08)
well I have something funny to add to that, but I don't wanna it's it possibly is TMI. It was my old kitchen, so I guess it doesn't matter, but I think Joe might have been conceived on my kitchen.

Lori (44:51.831)
Okay.

You went and you're like, Okay.

Lori (45:01.185)
P I

Wendy (45:02.811)
See ya.

Kelli (45:03.12)
I was on the counter, not both of us. It was my old kitchen though, don't worry. None of that activity has happened in the new kitchen. It's gone. It's gone. I know. T I.

Wendy (45:08.881)
Yeah.

Lori (45:09.613)
Still still.

Let me get up the eraser.

Kelli (45:18.104)
so now the boys are at the auction and they see the post and are like, okay, this is so this is what he's choosing to do while we're trying to save our company. McBee cows are up and they're looking to get at least 2,000, I think, per 2200 per cow.

Lori (45:26.763)
Mm-hmm. Right.

Wendy (45:37.585)
Twenty two hundred, I thought. Twenty two. Yeah.

Lori (45:37.921)
Go ahead. Ahead, yeah.

Kelli (45:41.071)
And they all came in low. The first was like s around seventeen. The second was around nineteen sixty, which was probably the best one. Eighteen hundred, seventeen hundred, fifteen hundred, nineteen hundred. They aren't hitting they were looking to make five hundred thousand and they made four hundred forty six. So they came close, but no cigar. Close, but no cigar.

So that's the end of the third episode. Fourth episode opens up with Cole and Jesse going to the jewelry store. And Cole says he's done some growing up, stopped drinking so much, and he got her a three point one six carat ring for thirty five K.

Not too shabby. Jesse says it's giant. Cole asks Jesse if things change when you get married. And Jesse thinks things won't change too much because they're already living together. They talk all the time. You know, the their their dynamic isn't going to change that much. And then Jesse says that his one-year anniversary is coming up and it's been a tough year with everything going on, obviously, with his father.

Lori (46:29.363)
Not too shame.

Kelli (46:54.234)
And sometimes they feel disconnected and they're just not as close as they used to be.

Wendy (46:54.662)
Yeah.

Wendy (47:01.233)
So I mean Jesse doesn't talk. That's I think that's the whole thing. I mean, do you remember remember last year, like he was like having like like almost like anxiety of get about getting married with Allie and when they finally sat down like to talk about it, like Jesse just holds everything inside. And I think that you know, I think that's something he's gonna really need to work on because

Kelli (47:01.691)
And then

Kelli (47:05.807)
Yeah, I agree.

Lori (47:22.519)
Mm.

Wendy (47:31.057)
Like you need to communicate. Like you just need to talk about it. And he like we don't like he says very little on every episode. We don't hear much unless someone's asking him a question. Like he's not like he's not talking, you know? I don't know. I worry about I worry about that couple to be honest with you. I do like them as a couple. I do, I really do. And I I really like Allie a lot, but I don't know.

Kelli (47:39.152)
I know.

Lori (47:45.505)
Right.

Kelli (47:45.914)
Right. Right.

Lori (47:50.55)
Yes.

Lori (47:56.846)
Especially you know, later on we'll get to it, but especially when we get to their like anniversary dinner I was like

Wendy (48:02.062)
Yeah.

Yeah.

Kelli (48:05.52)
Yeah, that yeah, that's yeah, we'll get to that 'cause that's something. Allie and Casey go see Galena with summer and Allie says Galena's always been there for them if they need her. They tell her about the Masha thing, asking the girls to go through her st Galena stuff to see if they want anything. And you know you could tell this isn't gonna be good. And Galena says it's an invasion of privacy and she's not wrong. And Allie says nobody's close with Masha.

Wendy (48:10.352)
Yeah.

Wendy (48:27.15)
Right.

Kelli (48:34.412)
And she and Casey are team Galena and they do but they do feel like Galena needs to have a conversation with Masha just for her own healing. And then Galina mentions that she ran into Brooke and told her she would like to talk. Now I I never watched season one, but from what I understand, Galena in season one was Steven Sr.' girlfriend, correct? Or were they broken up already?

Wendy (48:47.217)
Crazy That was crazy.

Wendy (49:00.869)
Yes. No, no, they were together. I mean, we think they were together. They were living together. But she didn't know.

Kelli (49:04.26)
Okay. And but he was also dating this woman, Brooke. He he's just a fucking liar, Stephen Senior. Like he's just a dog. Right.

Wendy (49:12.293)
Well that's it. Well that's just it. That's it. Right. Right.

Lori (49:12.523)
It's just a runaround. Just a it's just a dog. It's just a runaround dog.

Kelli (49:18.48)
So Casey's helping Allie put something together and at at their house and Allie says Jesse hasn't really been helping her enough with summer. Allie and her confessionals say that since they had summer, they haven't been focusing on their marriage. Casey says Jesse and Allie are very reserved, but Allie started opening up to her and Jesse hasn't given Allie the support she needs.

I mean, again, yeah, yeah. But again, like kids at home, this is normal. This is what happens. This is real shit. So Cole's getting ready for the engagement party and he FaceTimes Christy and Christy says she loves Casey and and then Allie is kind of setting Casey up because she's supposed to be taking her for a spa day and a nice dinner with Tegan.

Wendy (49:47.439)
I'm glad that she's opening up to Casey. Yeah.

Kelli (50:14.192)
But the boys are setting up the gazebo for the engagement. I loved this. I absolutely loved this.

Lori (50:18.999)
But it was it was great it when Cole in his confessional called the gazebo a Zamboni.

Kelli (50:26.988)
Ha ha ha ha.

Wendy (50:27.331)
I was dying. I was dying. He's like, a Zamboni? I mean that's hockey.

Lori (50:28.711)
I was dying. I was like, my God, that's so funny.

Kelli (50:32.412)
He, I mean, the coal-isms that we're getting this season are just fantastic. Fantastic.

Lori (50:37.099)
Great.

Wendy (50:38.961)
Yeah. I love that too.

Lori (50:40.268)
Hmm.

Kelli (50:43.444)
Allie says there's no because Casey says, Are you pregnant? And Allie says there's no way she's pregnant because they're not having sex, basically. So there's and there's a lot of factors playing into that. She doesn't feel comfortable in her own skin, which is what we're seeing on the valley. And this is real shit. This is real shit. And Summers, like I mean, Summers I don't know, is she even six months at this point?

Wendy (50:59.045)
Yeah. Yeah.

Lori (51:00.895)
Yeah, again. Totally normal.

Kelli (51:10.81)
I mean you're cleared to have sex, but it doesn't mean that you're comfortable having sex. It doesn't mean that you want to. It does you know, it's

Wendy (51:14.245)
Right.

Lori (51:14.827)
Right, right, right. It's a whole it's a whole thing. You have this other you have this other being that is like your whole focus, all your attention and you're not you're not sleeping and you know, you just feel like it and listen, having a baby is great, but you know, around six, nine months you're like, Whoa, because it's a very intense thing how much they need you and sometimes

Kelli (51:25.04)
You're not sleeping right.

Lori (51:45.185)
Being intimate with somebody can not feel like a connection. It can feel like a service and then you're like, n I'm not servicing you too ki you know what I mean? Like it gets it can get weird.

Kelli (51:54.727)
Well, and the thing is, is that for a guy, and I'm I'm not trying to generalize, but for a guy, it's just so easy. They're like, What we'll be quick, but let's just go in the bathroom. Like but for a woman it's just so different. Like it's your mind. You have to be emotion you have to emotionally be in that place, not just physically.

Lori (52:07.829)
Right. Because it's your mind too. It's like you're you can't Yeah.

Right. Right.

Wendy (52:15.439)
And especially if you don't feel like he's there helping you and supporting you, that's the last thing you're gonna wanna do. Right?

Kelli (52:19.406)
Exactly. Exactly. That's a huge factor. It's a huge factor. Absolutely. Yeah. So, they're going to the Elms and the girls show up to get pedicures and then the boys show up. And then we learn that Steven Junior used a ball trimmer on his face.

Lori (52:20.371)
Right, right, right. Right. Yeah. There's a lot that goes into it.

Lori (52:40.168)
my god, that was so gross. was like, What?

Wendy (52:45.445)
He's like, it's my body. I'm like, What the hell is wrong with you?

Lori (52:48.397)
Yeah, but it's still your balls.

Kelli (52:51.386)
Yeah. So Allie and Casey, they're not talking to each other. I think this is in their confessionals, but Allie says as she sees on TikTok that Stephen Jr. and Allie are kissing all the time, and it's hard to not compare your relationships. But in hindsight, I think I think I think you're all right, Allie, because look at what happened. And then Casey says she doesn't care that they're moving too fast. She just doesn't want Steven Jr. to get hurt. And then Tegan says, my God.

Lori (52:52.481)
Mm.

Wendy (53:07.205)
Yeah. Yeah, I think you're yeah, yeah.

Lori (53:07.98)
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Kelli (53:19.768)
She heard that Steven Jr. is not very good in bed. And Casey says that she and Allie have heard that he wasn't very good too. And that it doesn't last very long.

Lori (53:22.997)
Yeah.

Wendy (53:31.845)
That was crazy. That was crazy.

Kelli (53:33.712)
Crazy so crazy.

Lori (53:35.648)
And you know and you know why that is. Because everything with him is based everything is based on performance. Everything about him is based on performance. So that's how he sees himself. He sees himself through the lens of not how he feels, he sees himself as how he performs in all aspects of his life.

Kelli (53:47.131)
Yes.

Kelli (54:01.074)
Right.

Lori (54:03.329)
So he put so much pressure on himself that he fucks himself up.

Kelli (54:07.632)
Yeah, you're right. You're absolutely right. So now Galena goes to see Brooke. And Brooke says to her, I want you to understand that my life was very affected by what happened. I was just date I was just dating someone, but she understands that Galena was blindsided. It's so interesting to me that all these women are d are fighting over Steven Sr. because I find him so unattractive.

But he must he must have game. He must have game.

Wendy (54:40.592)
He must

Kelli (54:41.882)
Yeah. Galena says the last few years have been traumatizing and she's made mistakes and it was unfair to Brooke. She's working on her temper and I'm just sitting here waiting for her to apologize. I'm just waiting. She says she feels like an asshole and it was not fair to Brooke, especially how it affected her kids. And Brooke says she has forgiven her and let it go. I don't remember Galena saying I'm sorry, but Brooke does say she forgives her and

And when Galena learns how to control her own emotions, she'll feel even more powerful. I think what Brooke said was very good.

Wendy (55:18.863)
I did too. I did too. I actually thought Galena did apologize because she I mean, she did seem to me

Lori (55:19.02)
very good. Yeah.

Lori (55:25.335)
No, I think she did. Yeah, I think she did.

Kelli (55:25.692)
I guess in her own way, I just don't think we ever heard the words I'm sorry.

Wendy (55:30.522)
Yeah.

Lori (55:30.665)
Right. But I think she did she did apologize in her own way.

Wendy (55:34.445)
She seemed remorseful when right. She seemed remorseful when she was hearing it from her side and how it, you know, didn't just affect her and how it affected her children 'cause, you know, that's obviously something she can understand. So, I mean, I she definitely was sorry if she didn't exactly say it.

Kelli (55:34.8)
I mean she said I felt like an asshole.

Kelli (55:47.61)
Right. Right.

Kelli (55:53.914)
Yeah. So Galena, I guess in her confessionals is the only person she

Lori (55:56.14)
And listen, she didn't pull out she didn't pull out a gun or a bat, so she didn't so she did well. That's how I looked at it.

Kelli (56:00.455)
There was no shovel involved. Right. Right. Right. Galena says the only person now she has to make amends with is Masha. I think Masha should go pound salt. I don't think Galena owes her everything. But whatever. I love now that we're at the Elms and the boys are decorating Cole's dirty ass truck. Like you couldn't run that thing for one of your car washes for crying out loud. That thing was so dirty.

Wendy (56:01.327)
Right. Right. Right.

Lori (56:11.093)
Yeah.

Mm-hmm. No.

Lori (56:23.969)
thing to right, right, right, you got enough of them.

Wendy (56:26.585)
I know, right?

Kelli (56:30.812)
And then Braden's writing engaged and Jake's behind him, like, No, you spelled it wrong and he's like he had to like really think about it. And Jake's looking it up. He's like, no, no, you're good.

Wendy (56:31.259)
So true.

Kelli (56:46.982)
So then we see the entire family's there, including Stephen Sr., Casey's parents, everybody's everybody's there. And Cole's up at the up at the gazebo slash Zamboni. And Allie sends Casey to get a table for dinner. But when she's gonna turn to supposedly go to the restaurant, she's gonna see Cole. So the girls get up by the rest of the family. Cole's nervous as hell. Casey comes walking down.

Lori (57:00.535)
Mm-hmm.

Wendy (57:00.709)
Ha ha ha

Kelli (57:16.688)
He does start to cry. And he says all the right things, proposes, gets down on one knee, and thankfully she says yes, because I do think he was a little nervous that she wasn't gonna say yes.

Lori (57:22.805)
Yes. Very nice.

Wendy (57:30.425)
He was, he was worried. He was

Lori (57:30.593)
Uh-huh.

Kelli (57:34.746)
Yeah, so she says she had no idea. and Cole says now he has to let all the other women know he's off the market. I kind of believe she was surprised though, don't you?

Wendy (57:39.729)
I believe that.

Wendy (57:43.889)
Ha

Lori (57:48.587)
Yeah, I c it did it it did seem believable that she was surprised. It did.

Wendy (57:48.685)
I a hundred percent. Yeah.

Kelli (57:51.983)
Yeah. I mean they are filming a show, so it's normal for a camera crew to be there, like, you know, whatever. Jesse says he saw Cole and Casey go through the high school relationship where they were fighting every day to being parents and growing closer, so that was nice.

Then we see Allie is in the car with Masha, calls Galina and says they're driving over to see her.

Wendy (58:18.393)
At the car wash.

Kelli (58:19.062)
Allie tells Masha it's a good time for her to take accountability for her actions.

Lori (58:24.439)
She doesn't know what that word means.

Kelli (58:26.16)
She does not know what that means. So they get there and Galena says, not between those two, you know. Galena says, I trusted you and you you and took you into my life and my daughter's life, and you wrecked everything I was building. She said, I didn't lose a good man. I don't want to be your friend.

Wendy (58:26.555)
Mm-hmm.

Lori (58:27.617)
Does not know.

And it's not due to a language barrier.

Wendy (58:33.722)
No.

Lori (58:36.289)
No. Yeah.

Kelli (58:55.79)
I don't wanna know you. I don't want you to come here. I mean g Galena. What like how did you think she was gonna react to that? But Masha says

Lori (59:05.419)
Right. But did you like how did you like how production panned over to the bats on the floor? Did you catch that? That's great. Yeah. Production they panned so yeah, so Galena was at the computer. Yeah. Yeah. It was great. no. No. Baseball bat.

Kelli (59:11.696)
No.

Wendy (59:11.944)
my gosh, yes, I saw that. I s I totally saw that.

Kelli (59:15.59)
Wait, would they pan over too?

Wendy (59:17.905)
She had two bats, two bats on the floor.

Kelli (59:20.568)
I saw the bats. I saw the bats. Yes. I thought you meant bats, like flying bats.

Wendy (59:26.715)
But what about when, you know, Galina I didn't know this, said that, you know, they were building a house together, Stephen and her for her daughter, and they show us in this big house. I it I don't know.

Kelli (59:36.004)
Is that the lodge that he's living in or no?

Lori (59:39.714)
I think I think so and I think that you know there's probably a lot I 'cause I didn't watch the whole thing, but this is just my observation. There's probably a lot that Galena had set in her mind that really wasn't there. You know, you can fool yourself into a lot of things and I think that she thought, Well, you know, he's built in this house, he's telling me he built an extra room so my daughter can stay and I can move in.

And maybe he told her I'm gonna leave my wife and we can have this th you know, who knows? yeah.

Kelli (01:00:15.148)
he's obviously feeding these women lines and stories and fantasies and you know, gassing them up.

Lori (01:00:19.883)
Right, right, right, right. And all that. Right. Yeah, so who knows what he told her.

Wendy (01:00:29.605)
Yeah, I was just surprised to see that.

Kelli (01:00:30.074)
Masha says I ruined your daughter's life because she couldn't live in a house.

And Allie's like, Masha, she just told you how she feels. Say you're sorry. Not happening. No. She's not, exactly. So Al poor Allie now has to get in the car with Masha, knowing that Masha handled that all wrong. Braden is stuck listening to Galena, which I'm sure he agrees with Galena that Masha's an asshole, but he looked very uncomfortable.

Lori (01:00:38.024)
Gary.

Lori (01:00:44.013)
No. Sorry. No. Cause she's not.

Because she's not.

Lori (01:01:06.229)
Yes, he did. He was like, get me out, get me out. Someone call me.

Kelli (01:01:11.942)
So now Jesse and Allie are going to dinner for their anniversary and Jesse calls her out immediately. so uncomfortable. He calls her out immediately for being on her cell phone and she's like, I'm just checking on my daughter. Now I can't tell you my husband tells me to put my phone down all the time.

Lori (01:01:17.047)
So uncomfortable.

Kelli (01:01:32.112)
But I will say this. When I go to a restaurant, I might put my phone on the table in case one of my kids texts me or calls me. I don't look at my phone. I mean, we've been out to dinner a decent amount of time or out to eat, the three of us. I don't sit there on my phone. I don't think I do, right? I can assure you that I do not ever look at my phone when I'm out to dinner with my husband.

Lori (01:01:49.867)
Right. No. No you don't. No. No, 'cause I tell ya

Wendy (01:01:49.987)
No, no, no, no.

Kelli (01:02:00.391)
Cause I know that's a huge pet pee for him. And when we're out with our kids, I mean Joe gives us the most problem, but we do not allow them, even at their ages now, like put your phone away. We're out to dinner. It's just that's just how we've always been. But she was checking on her daughter who's only, you know, six months or whatever at this point.

Lori (01:02:11.169)
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Well

Right. But to see the problem Right.

Wendy (01:02:16.817)
But she was checking on the daughter. It wasn't

Lori (01:02:22.889)
Right. And also the problem is is that you got no business saying Jack shit because you were out playing golf all day and showed up with a buzz to go out to eat with me for our anniversary and you didn't do shit with me before that 'cause you were too busy w golf and boosting it up. So don't be telling me nothing about being on my phone.

Kelli (01:02:35.226)
Exactly.

Kelli (01:02:41.987)
Exactly.

It exactly. for sure. I totally agree with you. Cause like you said, then we find out that you know he went golfing, he drank all day and has a buzz. And then he gets on his phone and she's like, look who's on his phone now. So it it wasn't it listen, it wasn't it wasn't great. It wasn't great. That's how the episode ended.

Wendy (01:03:12.675)
It it wasn't great.

Kelli (01:03:15.514)
I'm wishing for the best for these two. I hope they can get it together. I think they will, but it's they're gonna really have to

You know, do some

Wendy (01:03:30.607)
I agree. I mean, what even when Allie said, do you want to split something? And he's like, No. And she goes, Well, it's kind of expensive. He's like, Well, you've been working a lot. I'm like and then he ordered the Wagu. I you got to imagine that was the most expensive thing on the menu.

Kelli (01:03:43.919)
I know.

Kelli (01:03:52.856)
I would imagine it is. I would imagine it is.

Wendy (01:03:55.629)
Yeah. So

Kelli (01:03:59.686)
So that's it. We're over an hour, and I know nobody likes to listen to us talk that long, so we're gonna end it, but we did recap four episodes in an hour, so that's pretty impressive. Now we're all caught up with McBee. We got a lot going on. We still gotta watch OC. Well, when do you watch it? I didn't watch it yet, but we got a lot of shows going on. So hope you guys enjoyed it. Thank you so much for listening and watching. Please like, share.

Wendy (01:04:05.019)
Nobody does.

Wendy (01:04:10.854)
Yes.

Kelli (01:04:26.918)
Comment. We love the engagement. Please comment. We love the engagement. And five star reviews if you wish. Bye.

Wendy (01:04:34.715)
Bye.

Kelli (01:04:37.498)
Lori says bye, you just can't hear her.