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#3414 McBee Dynasty S03E01: Fraud Man Out

16 Jun 2026

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Chapter 1: What are the main themes introduced in the McBee Dynasty season premiere?

0.031 - 38.88 Ben Mandelker

Crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap Howdy and welcome to Watch What Crappens, a podcast about all that crap on Bravo that we just love to talk about. I'm Ben Mandelker and joining me today is the one and only Ronnie Karam. Hi, Ronnie. How's it going? Well, hello. What are you doing?

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39.012 - 66.741 Ben Mandelker

Oh, I'm just settling in to talk about the season premiere, McBee Dynasty, which we're about to get into in about 45 seconds or so. Before we do that, go check us out on Patreon to watch video of our shining faces and also get a weekly newsletter that is free for all and also our bonus episodes and also ad-free listening, all the good stuff. Patreon.com slash watch what crap ends.

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66.721 - 94.433 Ben Mandelker

uh and other than that and also check out ronnie ronnie was on sarah sarah galey's podcast oh andy's girls yeah go check this girl out yeah a lot of fun stuff happening ben did you already say your newsletter i was texting mine i did not mention my newsletter but i have my food newsletter mbd fancy where i reviewed a super fab cookbook called better at home so if you're in the market for a cookbook and you want to know all the deets and what you should

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94.413 - 115.392 Ben Mandelker

cook from it go check that out mbdfancy.subzack.com and I'm sure anyone who's listening to the McBee Dynasty is like what cookbook should I get that features someone who lives in Nova Scotia cooking you know like fish with cassava Toronto olives like that's it's the totally same audience as McBee Dynasty so yeah

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116.215 - 144.096 Michael Rosenbaum

yeah know your audience and it is this one the mcbee dynasty season three episode one judgment day judgment day that is exactly what i was doing when i was watching this i was passing judgment that is for sure well we are judgment gays so we are perfect title Yeah. Here we are back with McBee Dynasty. I know you're psyched. This show. Wow.

144.216 - 165.942 Michael Rosenbaum

Bravo really is featuring the terrible men more and more on the channel in general. I think that they've realized it's going to make them so many featuring terrible men. I mean, every show now is basically centered on fucking terrible men. And this show is like their crown jewel, I think. Well, I don't know. They've still got Southern charm.

167.204 - 180.732 Ben Mandelker

I'd say they're crown turd, more like. I think the thing is that there are terrible men on all these shows, and that's kind of a weird joy in watching all that. I think the big crime is to be not a terrible man, but to be a terrible man...

180.712 - 202.247 Ben Mandelker

and also a boring man and unfortunately i feel like that's something that the mcbee dynasty does does uh does do unfortunately for me but you know hey new season new attitudes let's be we're gonna be open and accepting of of the mcbee dynasty and all it has to offer us and

202.227 - 231.036 Ben Mandelker

all the exciting plot twists and stories and uh uniquely yeah uniquely shaped girlfriends yeah oh gosh i didn't mean you yeah shaped i meant more like well cookie cutter calos yes uniquely printed maybe is the best no no well they're all gorgeous they're just like printed in a 3d printer you know it's like the same thing like you get

Chapter 2: How does Cole's situation impact his family's dynamics?

583.774 - 599.011 Michael Rosenbaum

Blair is not your baby shield. Well, because basically she thinks she married into this rich family and she married into this criminal family who's being sued for millions of dollars. And there's no way anyone in this family owns anything that's not tied to the business. You know, so dumb, dumb.

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599.692 - 617.438 Michael Rosenbaum

But also they kind of knew this when she got married to Cole because he was already in a lot of trouble. Even though they were pretending that they didn't know. Because today they're like, wow, we've been waiting for this day for two and a half years. I'm like, well, OK, let me do the math on how long you've been saying that you don't know any of this is going on. Bunch of fucking liars.

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618.119 - 621.945 Michael Rosenbaum

They're going to be like, oh, this was shot like 30 years ago. We didn't know yet.

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623.039 - 641.976 Ben Mandelker

Cole says, there's been a lot of changes in life for me. First of all, and the biggest one is I became a dad. Blair was born on my birthday, December 13th, 2024. Casey's like, and we are just living in our dream house. We have always just kind of lived wherever we could. And he's like, yeah.

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641.956 - 653.129 Ben Mandelker

But I'm not leave, I'm not living in some old farmhouse anymore that is leaking or having a new issue every day. I'm like, I'll tell you what's leaking and having a new issue every day. You, you, you.

653.27 - 666.225 Michael Rosenbaum

And when he said the baby was born on his birthday, I was like, oh God, like that baby needs any more pain in its life. This dad is one of those dads. You point this out all the time. Those dads who are like jealous of the baby, right? Yeah.

666.205 - 688.556 Michael Rosenbaum

when you give him the baby all love when you give him the baby and now the baby is born oh so it's the baby's birthday whatever happened my birthday yeah exactly you know he's gonna be totally like that he's gonna be a total baby computer um this house is um a big you know what you would think it would it's big it's a big farmhouse type thing I actually kind of liked it.

688.616 - 696.547 Michael Rosenbaum

I liked all the big gigantic – the wall of like windows. It was like garage door windows. Is that what they were?

697.508 - 721.789 Ben Mandelker

I have actually no issues with the house. I think they have a very lovely McMansion, and I think it's just right. It's exactly what they need. I just want to also point out that Cole McBee and Blair McBee being born on December 13th means that they share a birthday with many people, but most importantly – Wendy Malek. I mean, this is just an affront. Is that true? Yes.

Chapter 3: What challenges does Casey face regarding the family's house?

999.998 - 1009.409 Ben Mandelker

There's been so many life changes for me and Allie. We had our little baby Summer back in April. I was like, I don't know why that made me chuckle. It's like you're born in the spring.

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1011.953 - 1018.761 Ronnie Karam

There's a seasonal discrepancy here. Discrepancy. Seasonal discrepancies. Yeah.

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1019.298 - 1025.478 Ben Mandelker

Why don't you name her April? We have another daughter named April. She's due in the summer.

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1030.213 - 1048.947 Michael Rosenbaum

She's definitely been the greatest blessing in the world. And Allie's like, yeah, postpartum immediately after having her was rough. Like, yeah, it was a lot of anxiety. And he's like, but, you know, Allie and I's intimacy has really gone downhill after having a baby. Okay, listen, I've had to listen to it all season from the Valley. I'm not taking it from you two. I know.

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1048.967 - 1053.592 Michael Rosenbaum

You guys just need to space this shit out because I'm not about to take this from another show.

1053.892 - 1063.362 Ben Mandelker

Okay? I feel like McBee Dynasty is not going to dwell on this. They're like, what? A lady's issue? Never mind. Let's talk about soybeans. Well, we still got the cows.

1064.422 - 1065.543 Ronnie Karam

Cole got a new hat.

1066.785 - 1073.754

I'll tell you why you buy the cow when you get the milk for free, because eventually the milk stops freeing. Get over here, Beth.

1074.855 - 1076.878 Cole McBee

You are the most pessimistic person about the cow.

Chapter 4: How does the sentencing of Steven McBee affect the family?

1470.644 - 1473.847 Michael Rosenbaum

Oh God, it's even going to affect the card business we got.

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1474.187 - 1478.051 Cole McBee

Damn it. And the card washers. Have you ever brought a deck of cards into a washer?

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1479.092 - 1485.378 Michael Rosenbaum

Hey, honey, I'll be right back. I need to run and grab some meat from the car wash. Okay?

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1485.398 - 1494.629 Cole McBee

Don't forget to pick up a card for mama. I don't know if my mother's going to be able to afford one of their big, big lattes anymore. It's terrible.

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1494.889 - 1516.478 Ben Mandelker

So Glean is like, well, I've been working with McBees for over seven years now and worked my way up to become part owner. And since last year, we were forced to sell quite a bit of land to come up to pay off some loans. And then, you know, more loans keep popping up. It's just like a never ending circle. I'm like, well, stop opening up car washes. Stop. They've got so many random ass businesses.

1516.518 - 1517.339 Ben Mandelker

Just shut them all down.

1517.479 - 1534.585 Michael Rosenbaum

Pay off your bills. It's a never-ending circle of LLCs. I'm surprised that anybody could even catch them because they've got so many LLCs going on on this show. It's like, well, okay. You want to know who owns the soybean company? I couldn't tell you. It's probably the person who owns the cattle company. Who owns that? The person who owns the car wash. Who owns that?

1534.605 - 1538.531 Michael Rosenbaum

The person who owns the car company. It's like, geez. How do you? It's just a lot of digging.

1538.891 - 1546.543 Ben Mandelker

It's a lot of digging. You just follow the paper trail. It just leads you to ginger the chicken. The chicken's like, what? You signed it in my account.

Chapter 5: What role does Galena play in the McBee family business?

1858.186 - 1877.419 Michael Rosenbaum

But we're so worried. And Ali's like, well, but technically, Casey, this land is like in one of Stephen's loans, right? So if something bad were to happen tomorrow, they could pull that loan. You know that, right? Wait, so that means they could take our house? Wait. And she's like, yeah. You didn't know that? Oh, sorry. I didn't know you didn't know that.

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1877.439 - 1882.93 Michael Rosenbaum

She's like, wait, but why would he keep that from me? He's cold.

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1884.26 - 1912.866 Ben Mandelker

yeah this is it you if this is the man that you married and also neither of you were very bright so that's why this this that's why this information did not pass through so casey's like if we did leave the house i just don't know what we'll do we put all of our money in our house we can't just start over we thought this is where blair is gonna grow up i'm like a tornado is gonna take out that house sooner or later so don't get too attached to it okay a tornado geez

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1913.285 - 1931.448 Michael Rosenbaum

She's like, it just makes me sick. But he should have told me because then at least I could know. I'm going to freak out. I'm going to say something. Allie's like, I didn't say anything, though. Don't say you heard it from me. She's like, okay. Hey, Allie told me our house is going to be taken.

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1931.468 - 1941.633 Ben Mandelker

So the boys are outside. Steven Jr. is like, hey, how are you guys feeling about tomorrow? Jesse's like, nervous, man. It just sucks because there's nothing we can do.

1941.813 - 1947.442 Cole McBee

He's like, yeah, well, it's going to be a long night, but come 1130 tomorrow, all of our unknowns will be answered, good or bad.

1947.462 - 1949.546 Michael Rosenbaum

1130 a.m. or p.m.?

1949.706 - 1951.329 Cole McBee

I don't know. Stop asking me questions.

1951.99 - 1954.735 Michael Rosenbaum

But how many hours and minutes is it till 1130?

Chapter 6: How do the McBee brothers react to their father's sentencing?

2276.378 - 2285.251 Michael Rosenbaum

So they get to the courthouse. It's one hour until sentencing. And guys, it's surreal. It's surreal.

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2285.271 - 2293.243 Ben Mandelker

And so they all park somewhere where they come emerging through like a chain link fence or whatever.

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2293.263 - 2294.665 Ronnie Karam

Where did you guys park?

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2295.446 - 2297.008 Ben Mandelker

I don't know. It was so funny to me.

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2297.14 - 2322.772 Michael Rosenbaum

This whole thing was, they're just such fakers because one of them even, one of them on the way is like, so I've never been to this courthouse. My ass, you've never been here. Like, how far even is it? We'll get used to it. Yes, we've been here. Please. So, Stephen, basically, they're all going in and then we see the drawings. It's like a very, very intense day in the court.

2322.872 - 2325.696 Michael Rosenbaum

It's just like boardwalk caricatures.

2325.676 - 2349.76 Ben Mandelker

i'm telling you right now these were not these these could not have been real court courtroom drawings courtroom sketches they were so silly they made the judge look like simon van kempen i was like can someone please get out of here with this this is the silliest they were so silly and they just kept showing them over and over and over again and then they're narrating this experience and steven's like it was a surreal experience walking in this courtroom and jesse's like

2349.74 - 2365.926 Ben Mandelker

We're walking into what could be the last time we see my dad for a while. Our country has betrayed us. And then Ali's like, it was real quiet. It was real quiet and real still. I'm like, because everyone was probably gagging from the smell of Cole's feet.

2367.492 - 2385.26 Michael Rosenbaum

It goes like, my dad asked us all to write letters to talk about my dad's character. Allie, you go first. Allie's like, dear honorable Judge Bowe, I'm writing this letter in support of my father-in-law. No one has done more to support Russians than my father-in-law.

Chapter 7: What comedic moments occur during the family's preparations?

2777.868 - 2782.435 Michael Rosenbaum

She's like, listen here, Flo. I've loved you ever since Groundlings. Check and see what this fucker's doing.

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2785.399 - 2815.3 Ben Mandelker

Though she would never call Flo because Flo works at a company called Progressive. so that's true that's true she's got it blocked from her phone there would i think the insurance would be farmers went to jail thanks obama don't you understand we are farmers so They probably are represented by Aflac just because it's probably every time Stephen gets a flat tire.

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2816.803 - 2842.035 Michael Rosenbaum

Well, we're going to arrest your father for defrauding the company, but he then shot the duck that represents the company. Kind of having trouble finding witnesses. Well, gotta eat. So they're all talking about how horrible the sentencing is, and it's wild seeing Galena in the same room as the mom. And the producer's like, are we missing one more blonde?

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2842.075 - 2847.589 Michael Rosenbaum

And Stephen's like, well, here, we're probably missing three more blondes if we're actually counting. Oh, dad.

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2850.438 - 2870.235 Ben Mandelker

So then Steven Jr is like, um, do you guys want to know where dad went? And Sean is like, yeah, he took all of them. It's like, yeah. Okay. Go up and walk, go up to his new house. They're like, I wonder what's going to happen with that. Well, he's got six weeks to enjoy his new house. God. It's crazy because we were hoping that Blair would be able to visit that house growing up, you know?

2870.875 - 2896.598 Ben Mandelker

So Casey is, uh, saying that, um, he seems to be a lot better Steve senior. That is, he seems to be a lot better leaving than when he went in, you know? And they're saying that he's relieved. Steve Sr. is relieved because now that he finally has an answer, he knows what's going to happen. So it's like, Boulder's been lifted off of me. That's how I feel. You, Christy. Yeah.

2898.3 - 2919.48 Michael Rosenbaum

Cole's like, well, now we can move forward because at least we're not just waiting around to see what one guy's going to say about something. gone to villainizing the judge, like, Oh God, our whole life. So, um, they talk about how the dad's going to be there for six weeks before he's gone for two years. And there's so much to do, but he's not on camera. The dad's never on camera anymore.

2919.52 - 2931.696 Michael Rosenbaum

So we're not going to get any of that. Um, so Steven says they have to really blow these businesses up times 10, make this okay. So then we go to the next day. One day since sentencing.

2932.477 - 2934.259 Ben Mandelker

I'm like, wait, we're still doing the clock.

Chapter 8: What is the significance of the new character introduced in this episode?

3255.379 - 3259.74 Michael Rosenbaum

But then I remember I made all that other money too. I should be the boss of this company.

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3260.902 - 3277.404 Ben Mandelker

Hey, this is Jesse McBee interrupting your stupid monologue call to remind everyone that this facility was dad's dream facility. And it'd be a shame if we have to sell it. I was like, oh gosh, they just keep showing this big building like, oh no, the facility, but they have to sell it.

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3278.246 - 3290.923 Michael Rosenbaum

And they tell us what's in the facility and it's like, it's the. It's not only this building, it's the garage and it's the grain mills and the water mill and the Lego factory and the straw mill.

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3292.526 - 3309.331 Ben Mandelker

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

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3309.351 - 3311.314 Ben Mandelker

I was like, why do you have an aviation building?

3311.632 - 3317.461 Michael Rosenbaum

Yeah, they've got a lot of, I'm thinking this is probably not the thing they should sell. Cause this is the center of everything.

3317.481 - 3321.307 Ben Mandelker

That's what I was thinking too. I was like, I do feel like there's probably a good case to keep the facility.

3321.728 - 3331.103 Michael Rosenbaum

Yeah. And they're like, but what about the car washes? We've already taken $3 trillion out on the car wash. I'm like, you guys, oh my God. Don't touch the car wash guys. And I'm stressed out.

3331.303 - 3333.066 Ben Mandelker

I'm like, oh my God.

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