Harvest, Seasonal Depression, and a Broken Pelvis
Harvest, Seasonal Depression, and a Broken Pelvis
I’ve wasted a lot of years with my main priority, my main goal chasing the dollar.
I think I spoke some words of wisdom.
What is he doing?
Why is he up on a tree 20 foot in the air?
Oh 2024, I’m ready to end the year.
I am too.
Oh wait, was I supposed to say the name?
No, I’m not.
Baby cuteness?
Yeah probably.
I mean I have to give that to you.
I mean it went downhill quick.
Cole’s got a baby this week.
Dad just broke his hip.
I just got back from NFR.
And we just finished Harvest.
That’s about all that we’ve got going on right now.
Hey y’all, welcome to Meet the McBee’s: Building a Dynasty.
Today Cole and I are in the studio and we are talking all things finishing up Harvest.
Cole’s having a baby in the next couple days.
I just got back from the NFR.
We’re gearing up for Christmas and a new family member added to the McBee’s.
So, here’s how Cole is feeling leading up to the last couple days without a newborn baby.
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Let’s get down and dirty with it.
Well Harvest 2024 is in the books.
It’s over.
It’s over.
Normally it’d be celebration.
We’re just thanking God that the bleeding stopped.
Yep.
We’re glad that we were able to finally get back on the field and finish.
Because the last, like I’d say 15% of the crops to get out took us like a month and a half.
We were feeling like we were going to finish up easily by Thanksgiving.
Yeah, you talked to us like October 20th.
We were rocking and rolling.
Smiles now.
We’ve been dragging.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Glad to get it over with.
I’m actually — last weekend was a good weekend for me.
Jesse and I went out to the NFR.
It was a good time.
Got to see Cowboy Christmas — it’s always an experience.
Rodeo was fun.
Yep.
And yeah, it was a good time.
What about you?
What have you been doing?
I was just — stayed in town and worked last weekend.
Because I didn’t know if my daughter would come, but she ain’t here yet.
So what’s the plan today?
It’s Wednesday, December 11th.
Yep.
So she is going to be here by Friday for sure.
Saturday for sure.
So when are they — we get induced tomorrow night.
Okay.
At Liberty Hospital?
And Liberty, yeah.
Okay.
Surprised.
I thought there for a bit we were going to be walking from one room to the next with Dad in one room and Casey in the other.
Yeah, I’m not going to lie.
I was like, seriously?
He’s just going to be in the same hospital?
Same hospital.
That was — what is he doing?
Why is he up on a tree 20 foot in the air or a ladder trimming trees?
Some of the decisions that Dad makes…
He has a construction crew of eight guys standing there that does anything he says to do.
These are the best guys ever.
They work their butt off.
They will do anything you say just like that and do it better than anyone else can.
And instead he decides to jump on a ladder.
Because he said they missed one branch on this tree they were cutting limbs at Reynolds.
He’s doing a bunch of fixing — well fixing rent outs, not fixing flips.
And he climbed up the tree, started cutting the branch.
He said the branch just started to fall a little bit, and he went to touch it with the saw one more time.
And that branch fell, kicked back, knocked him off the ladder, and he fell 15–20 feet.
Yeah.
He said it was 15.
Well, and the problem was he fell, he didn’t want the chainsaw to get him.
So he held the chainsaw in his right hand and held it out like that.
That caused him to flip to his right and then he landed on his hip.
And he fractured his pelvis.
52 years old.
You don’t need to be above 15 foot no more.
No chill.
Have one of your workers do it.
You have enough people that would do it.
I don’t get it.
He’s always got to be — if there’s one person running a shovel and ten people there, he’s going to be the first one to grab that shovel.
Always the first one to volunteer.
Always the first one to jump in a ditch.
He’s got to learn — he doesn’t want to believe it, but he’s getting a little older.
He’s not as young as he used to be.
He’s not as good as he once was.
He’ll argue that though.
I think he’s hurting.
I haven’t seen him in that much pain.
And he’s doing too much.
He won’t chill.
He was trying to play it off after the injury.
Cole went over there — brought a trash trailer over, dumped it full of trees.
He drove over.
Got out.
Tried to walk.
Almost falling every step.
I’m like, dude, stop.
“I’m fine, I’m fine.”
No you’re not.
He climbed up into an excavator, fell into the seat, had to pull himself up.
Ran the excavator for like an hour.
Got out.
Fell out of it.
Barely got up.
What’s so crazy is the way it broke — he was lucky enough that he doesn’t have to have surgery.
But he’s doing all this after he’s already hurt.
One wrong step and he’d need surgery.
Yesterday we told him to just chill at the house.
Do laptop work.
He’s terrible at that.
He can’t sit.
Jesse cooked breakfast and left him everything he needed.
An hour later he calls me — I can tell he’s in his truck.
“Are you driving?”
“Yeah, I had to come to the city.”
Dude.
This is the morning after a broken pelvis.
He refuses to take pain meds.
“I’m fine.”
Why do you need to prove something?
Take them and sleep.
Nope.
He won’t.
He’s going to be laid up for a bit.
And that’s the only thing that sucks — we lost our chef.
Five-star meals every night.
Now we have to cook.
You can’t cook.
Chicken still pink.
You grill like a caveman.
300 years ago you were cooking in the front yard.
2024, I’m ready to end the year.
But we’re ending it with a bright spot.
Your daughter’s coming.
Our family is moving in the right direction.
No matter what, we’re always trying to make our lives and our kids’ lives better.
We’re not the people on social media talking trash.
I don’t have time.
Some grown men do, and it’s wild.
TikTok is almost as bad as Reddit.
People meet us and say we’re nothing like what people say online.
Because they don’t know us.
We didn’t even have a plan for this podcast.
Cole’s having a baby.
Dad broke his hip.
I got back from NFR.
We finished Harvest.
That’s life right now.
Seasonal depression in Missouri is real.
Dark.
Cold.
Gray.
From March to November, I love Missouri.
These winter months are tough.
But this year will be different.
Because there’s a baby.
I bought your daughter Christmas presents.
Wait — was I supposed to say the name?
Blair.
No E.
I spelled it wrong.
She won’t know.
I don’t even know how paperwork works with babies.
Social security numbers.
Birth certificates.
I guess I’ll learn soon.
Public school.
She needs to see the world.
Hard work.
Treat people right.
Money isn’t everything.
Chasing the dollar isn’t life.
Time with family matters more.
That’s what we learned.
That’s what we’re building toward.
I think Blair’s going to be good for all of us.
She’ll be our North Star.
A reminder of what matters.
I think that’s all for today.
Next time I see you, you’ll be a dad.
That’ll be wild.
Thanks for tuning in.
We’ll see y’all next time.
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Now let’s get back to the podcast.
I’m always so interested about this because I think about this sometimes.
Like with my family, whenever I have a kid, what are going to be the values that you want to teach her as she’s growing up?
What is the most important moral compass you want her to have?
I definitely want her to work hard.
She’ll grow up on the farm.
Girl or boy — I’ve met a lot of guys that said their daughter did everything with them.
That’s how I want her to be.
Hard work.
Be nice.
Treat people good.
One thing I definitely want to teach her though is money is not the most important thing in the world.
You want to find your own happiness and actually be happy.
Money is definitely not everything.
Don’t get me wrong — give me a couple million dollars and I’ll be pretty freaking happy.
Money fixes a lot of problems.
But there’s more to life than chasing the dollar.
I agree with that.
I thought the same thing.
I feel like I wasted a lot of years with my main priority, my main goal chasing the dollar.
If I would have chased something more fulfilling, the byproduct probably would have been more money.
Work is important — like Dad.
A grown man works every day.
But you put work above every relationship.
That was the number one thing.
And when you start a family, that changes.
The most important thing is time spent with Blair.
Time with your family.
Growing up, the best times weren’t new things.
It was camping trips, South Dakota, being together.
Not Dad answering a thousand phone calls.
Now we can’t go anywhere without 3,000 calls.
I’m 30 and haven’t started a family yet for a reason.
The last two years my values have changed.
I’d rather not scale a business so big that I’m responsible for 500 people.
I’d rather have time, peace of mind, calm days.
Business owners deal with so much.
They don’t get to go home and relax.
When’s the last time we all watched a Chiefs game together?
I think Blair will be good for all of us.
She’ll put our North Star front and center.
Time with loved ones.
Another motivation — why you work.
I want Blair to live a blessed life.
Same with nieces and nephews.
It’s different when you do it for someone else.
The next five-year plan is more time.
More family time.
That’s the goal.
There’s a fine line between growth and life.
Grow too fast and you lose everything else.
We’re not complaining.
We’ve had a great life.
But what matters changes.
Five years ago it was bars and weekends.
Now it’s different.
At NFR, that was the first time I drank in a long time.
Halfway through the night I realized — this felt better at 22.
Now every drink comes with stress.
Hangovers.
Getting too old for it.
I hit 30 and I’m ready to chill.
We’re moving in the right direction.
The last five years we built.
Now we’re smoothing things out.
We value time.
If we don’t get as big as we imagined, that’s okay.
We’re still big enough.
Family trips.
Hunts.
Time together.
Those were the best memories growing up.
We want that again.
We’re still young.
We still have time.
Everyone in the family is on the same page now.
Even Dad — well, he can’t move as fast now.
He’s stuck in bed.
He’d be mad hearing that.
Still tries to do everything.
I think that’s all for today.
I think I spoke some words of wisdom.
Next time I see you, you’ll be a dad.
That’ll be wild.
Maybe introduce her to the podcast someday.
Thanks for tuning in.
We’ll see y’all next time.
