The Road to Season 3 Starts Here: Hot Tubs, BravoCon, Farm Updates

Steven and Cole are back in the studio and ready to stir things up! In this episode, the McBee brothers dish on everything from Steven’s Joe Millionaire reunion to Cole’s unexpected identity as a certified Hot Tub Guy. They tease what’s in store for an unofficial Season 3 and reflect on the momentum from Season 2. Plus, the guys share what’s next for the McBee family operation, including the brand-new Cattle HQ, shout out their neighbor farmers who are doing it right, and make a push for your support to help get them to BravoCon!

I see a bunch about season 3. Uh I’ve seen a bunch asking if we’re going to Bravo Con. I mean, hey, we’re we’re ready for whatever. So, we’re just kind of riding out. I’m Bravo Con is in the middle of the rut. So, it’s middle of November. I think it’s sat second Saturday in November. But I I I mean, you’d miss you’d miss uh Deer Stand for that. If we needed to, I would for sure. I think I would too. Yeah.

But so, just keep pushing. Um you know, keep tagging Bravo. Just saying if you love the show, keep letting them know.

Hey y’all. Welcome to Meet the McBes. Cole and I are in the studio today. It’s just us two and we’re going to be talking about what’s the next chapter for McB Farms. What’s the next chapter for us now that the show has ended?

We had the grand finale. Jesse and Ally got married. We’ve got two new grandbabies for my mom. Uh I’ve got two new nieces running around. So, what are the plans? What are we going to do?

All of that and more in this episode of Meet the McBes. So, y’all saddle up and let’s get down and dirty with it.

Finale’s over. Show’s over. Yep, it is.

Your 15 minutes of fame is over.

Hey, it ends pretty quick once it’s over. Like the next morning, I think the next morning I had like three missed calls, like couple from banks, like 7:30 in the morning. I’m like, “Yeah, this is back to reality. We’re right back to it.”

Yep. No, it’s uh it’s crazy because you you’re going around and like you kind of you feel like something because you’re talking to people all the time. People are recognizing you because they see you, you know, you’re on everything. And like a little bit more swagger.

Like three or four days after the post top and after the show stops, it’s like just right back to reality. Well, it is what it is. That’s how it is. We need to get back to work anyways.

What do you mean back to work? We’ve been working since the show aired.
There ain’t a filming was uh last.

When did we get done filming?

We stopped filming at Jesse and Allie’s wedding, which would been October 19th.

Dang, it’s been that long.

It’s been that long. We’re almost coming up on full 12 months. Wow.
Yeah. I didn’t realize it’s been that long since we stopped.

And really throughout filming, I would say that is our biggest, it’s not a break from work, but whenever you are filming, you can’t get the workload that you usually do done. Fair to say.

Yeah. Well, I mean, there’s no like uh, I mean, how many times in the office are you here from like 5 to 7:00 p.m. or something like that where you’re doing something?

Well, usually we’re we’re doing some type of family dinner or we’re doing family dinner or they’re filming us working out or filming us at our houses, whatever it may be.

So yeah, if I’m if I’m usually don’t have anything scheduled, I’m up here at the office working. Cole’s out in the fields doing something.

And so really during filming is when we get our biggest break from the heavy workload.

But throughout the episodes airing, I mean, I was gone for a couple days for press.

Yeah.

And that was about it. Jesse and I were, yeah.

I um I had a few bachelor trips this week this summer.

Yeah, you did.

Yeah, during like summer time, but it was always weekends. You know, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Leave Friday after work like midday and then come back Sunday.

But I I was gone quite a bit. Casey reminded me like you’ve had like three bachelor trips.

Had to make sure that you.

Hey, I’m at that age now, you know. Everybody’s getting married.

That’s right. That’s right.

And I was in Miami for the weekend. It went well.

Oh, yeah. You were.

Enjoyed it. Had Kurt down there.

We’re both single again. So, my buddy Kurt who was on the dating show with me, Joe Millionaire.

Uh it has been that was 2021, fall of 21 that we filmed that. It is now fall of 25.

So four years later and shockingly, not shockingly at all, not surprising in the slightest, we are right back in the exact same place we were four years ago.

Both of us single, absolute 32 year old losers.

Oh, sorry. I didn’t mean that, Kurt.

I meant by him.

Thanks.

Anyways, yeah, we um we need to run it back. We need a mulligan is what we decided.

Hopefully we said that the show couldn’t be called Joe Millionaire anymore though. Now it’s just gonna be average Joe’s because we’re both broke.

Yeah, you guys are both just average.

That was funny because I went from a show on Joe Millionaire and they were talking about which we didn’t know it was going to be called Joe Millionaire.

So it’s not like anyone went on that show saying like I want to find this man that’s rich or I went on there because I thought I was some rich idiot.

What they told us is that it was called Love for Real and that it was for people that were focused on their careers more than finding love at the time.

So that’s what they they told us.

So then we got down there and we find out on the first day of filming it’s called Joe Millionaire.

And then the entire plot obviously with the show being called Joe Millionaire was about money.

And that was not, I see a lot of comments about people like, “Oh, all the girls were there trying to find some rich dude.”

No one even knew at the time.

So, no one there from the cast of Joe Millionaire had any idea that that was going to be the concept.

Thought it was Kurt.

Kurt was the rich one.

Yeah, I thought so, too. If you look at the way Kurt dresses.

Yeah, the way he acts.

The guy knows wine. He’s very classy.

He’s really more classy than you are.

For sure.

He’s very very more white collar when it comes to mannerisms and culturally intelligent than I am, I guess you would say.

So, the entire time I was there, I was like, well, he may be the rich one.

But then they kept slamming me, or not slamming me, they were trying to showcase that I was this wealthy one.

And there was a lot of articles that came out. Did you ever see these where it literally said the man that has $10 million in the bank?

Yeah, you did not.

Where has this money been? I’ve never seen $10 million in my life.

Like $10 million on a balance sheet worth of assets in equity is so much different than $10 million liquid cash in the bank.

And then but anyways the juxtaposition of Joe Millionaire where I was made out to be this super wealthy rich guy and then McB Dynasty we’re like yeah we got $70 million in debt.

It’s kind of funny.

Yeah it is, if you think about it.

But I actually was um I was getting a hot I was looking at hot tubs the other day. Casey and I were.

Oh, and you guys hot tub people now.

Dude, it’s that time of year now. I’m not a pool person. I’m actually more of a hot tub.

I would agree with that. I’d be all about I thought about getting a hot tub myself, but if you guys get one, I’ll just come over there.

Yeah. It’s nice because you can use it way more in Missouri than a pool.

Yeah.

Like a pool you just use two or three months of the year. Hot tub you can use the rest nine months of the year.

Yeah.

Every evening.

But um what was I going to say? Oh, I was in there and some guy’s like I told him my name, you know.

And then he was like, “Oh, you’re Steven McBe’s brother.”

Well, at first he’s like, “You’re Steve’s son.” One of the boys.

I’m like, “Yeah.”

And he’s like, “Which one of your brothers is on that show?”

And I was thinking he didn’t know about Dynasty.

Which is one of the first people I’ve talked to in a few years like doesn’t know about but knows about your show, the dating show.

And he’s like, “Man, I bet you guys just make fun of him all the time for being on a show.”

And we’re like, “Oh.”

And Casey and I were laughing like, “Yeah, we make fun of him so much. We watch that show back and give him so much crap.”

But he’s like, “Yeah, just being on TV like that, I bet you guys just make fun of him.”

No idea about McB Dynasty.

We’re like, “Yeah, not embarrass myself.”

Who would go be on a reality TV show? That idiot.

Yeah, you talked us into it after that.

I did. I did.

So Kurt and I. Anyways, maybe season three we can have like a little aspect that’s a dating version of McB Dynasty and Kurt comes out.

And we were talking about this when we were in Miami.

Like we just need like an average Joe’s show now.

Yeah.

I think Braden will be dating for you guys.

Oh, I guarantee it. Braden’s gonna fall in love in the next month.

Yeah, he falls in love every night.

He falls in love every night he ends up in Kansas City.

Every Saturday night he says he fell in love with a new girl.

We need to have him in here if he’d come up here.

We do.

I wonder that’s the one person that hasn’t been on here. Him, Ally, and it’s been a while since we’ve had Jesse on.

We haven’t had Ally on, have we?

Nope.

Jesse, we need to get him back up here. They’re always in the city.

Always in the city. Little city boys.

They are.

No. And so whole purpose of this podcast before we went to ramble is what’s next on the agenda for McB Farms, the McB family.

Now the show has ended airing.

You know we’ve actively what you see on season two is not hyperbole in any way an exaggeration like a fake exaggeration.

We, me specifically, I hate it more than anyone. Cole hates it quite a bit.

I think I finally got my dad around to the idea of how bad of a business model rowcropping is.

So yeah, I mean I feel like there was quite a few arguments in season two and some of those were a little built up.

But built up over time.

And I think that once you and I sat down, we started looking at the numbers, we were just banging our head against the wall saying the rowcrop side is awful.

Yeah. No, I mean it’s not good and the horizon for the rowcropping doesn’t look any better.

Not in corn and soybeans.

Or not in commodity markets.

You can find little niches.

If you can find your niche.

But with like a specialty crop that is grown for food is where you can actually find some profitable money-making strategies.

But volume commodities, garbage.

It’s just so controlled.

There’s just, I mean, there’s only four people making money.

Mother Nature, who is uncontrollable non-stop especially here in Missouri.

The prices are so controlled.

Correct.

The end price of the product you’re selling, you have no control over.

Plus inputs have risen drastically while the price that you’re selling that product for have not risen at all since the 1980s.

Well, and really the biggest problem is we make too much corn per acre.

But another big problem is there’s just too much supply.

Damn you Iowa and Illinois.

Iowa, Illinois, Nebraska.

Some of those people they’re making so much corn.

We’re raising too much compared to demand.

So supply and demand, economics 101, if supply is through the roof and demand is dwindling, the cost goes down.

That’s what’s happening.

And even in soybeans, Brazil and South America are becoming major players.

They can grow two crops a year.

Once their infrastructure gets built out, American markets are only going to drop more.

So the five to ten year horizon for American rowcrop commodities, in my opinion, is horrible.

Every year you continue commodity rowcropping, you’re one year closer to losing the farm.

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I agree. It’s hard.

Everybody’s leaning on their cattle right now.

The value of their operation is in the assets, the ground.

They’re losing money in row crops and borrowing against their land.

Slowly dwindling equity.

We’ve seen it because we’ve done it.

We had hard assets, but every year rowcropping was break-even at best.

Lose money, borrow more.

Slowly lose the balance sheet.

If you have paid-off ground and paid-off equipment, you can still be profitable.

But new equipment is killing people.

New combines are a million dollars.

We learned the hard way.

Buying new paint is wrong.

Look at the successful farmers around us.

They have older, paid-off equipment.

They test everything before scaling.

We never did that.

We put everything everywhere and paid for it.

So now we’re downsizing rowcrop drastically.

We’re farming what we own south of town.

Paid-off ground, paid-off equipment.

Short planting windows.

Freedom the rest of the year.

Actual profitable ventures.

Cattle, meat facility, other businesses.

Farming ain’t where the money is for us.

Season two shows us getting out of rowcropping and we’re continuing that.

We’ll always farm some acres.

But I don’t care if I farm a single acre anymore.

I love cattle.

I love the meat facility.

I’d like to double the herd in five years.

Cattle numbers are at all-time lows.

It takes years to rebuild herds.

Beef demand is high.

Herd size is at 1950 levels.

That’s why beef prices are high.

It’ll take seven to ten years to recover.

We feel great about cattle.

We’re converting rowcrop to pasture.

Building a new cattle headquarters.

Maybe a wedding venue too.

Lots coming down the pipeline.

We just keep grinding.

2026 will be better than 2025.

We’re in the best spot we’ve been in in a while.

We built hard for five years.

Now operations are profitable.

Still grinding, just smarter.

Everything is personally guaranteed.

No trust funds here.

We put it all on the line.

Season three, we don’t know yet.

When we can talk about it, we will.

Keep tagging Bravo.

If you love the show, let them know.

You can stream both seasons on Peacock.

The reception has been amazing.

People are passionate, love it or hate it.

It’s entertaining.

Galina is a star.

Never driving our vehicles again.

So that’s what’s happening around the farm.

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