This isn’t scripted TV. It’s real life. Steven McBee gets personal about his father’s sentencing, the emotions behind it, and the strength it takes for everyone to carry the family name forward.

He also teases the filming of McBee Dynasty Season 3 and shares a sincere thank-you to the community that continues to support the McBees through every high and low.

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Today I am solo in the studio. I wanted to make sure we got a podcast out to you guys. I apologize.

Uh, it’s been a little hectic around the farm here lately, and we’ll dive into some of that. Not too much in detail, but uh, just wanted to make sure that we’re- I told y’all we’d be consistent with this, and dang it, I’m going to do my best.

So, appreciate y’all for tuning in. Saddle up. Let’s get down and dirty with it.

Well, I’m by myself today. It has been a wild, wild couple of weeks. Obviously, we had uh my dad’s situation that had some finality to it.

Um, candidly, it did not go the way that we were hoping for. It was not best case scenario. It was not worst case scenario. And that is something that I would not wish the last year and a half, two years that we’ve been dealing with behind the scenes with my dad’s situation leading up to the sentencing-that is something that I would not wish on my worst enemy.

The mental toll is something that very, very few and far between can understand unless you’re going through that situation, which again, I would never want anyone to have to deal with a situation like that.

Um, it is just-it’s crazy. It feels like the last year and a half, two years, our world has been at a standstill, and the unknown is the worst part of it. You don’t know what’s going to happen. You don’t know how things are going to shake out. You don’t know what moves you’re going to be able to make.

You can try and prepare for it, but there’s such a wild variance of what could actually happen come that day that you really have no true understanding of what it is you should be doing.

And so that’s really what we’ve been dealing with the last year and a half, two years-saying, “Okay, you know, we have plan A, plan B, plan C, plan D.” Like, what happens if he’s gone for, you know, if it’s just probation? What happens if he’s gone for a year, two years, five years, ten years? What’s going to happen given the circumstances that we’re under?

And there’s just no way to prepare for every single outcome. And so really, you’re just at a standstill.

And thankfully, uh, we have such a great network of people that we could talk to. Um, so many people that have helped support us that have been through this very, very rare event that again, not many get to go through-and I wish no one has to go through.

Um, you know, the Grizzlies have been such an incredible support network for me-both Todd and Savannah-just helping me through, you know, keeping spirits high, letting me know that we’re going to get through this. I appreciate them more than words could ever describe.

Um, and so many of our friends and family that have supported us, even you guys in the comments and leaving DMs and just telling us that, um, you know, you’re here with us through this ride, uh, and through this very, very low moment in our lives.

We appreciate y’all more than we could ever put into words. So, thank you first and foremost.

Uh, and I do want to say that we’re going to be okay. Uh, we are going to work through this. Um, I feel so good about the trajectory that we’re on.

You guys that have been listening to this podcast over the last year, you’ve heard Cole and I talk multiple times about the moves we’ve been making to try and right this ship, to try and get us headed in the right direction before the sentencing date.

And now that we have finality with it, honestly, there’s a relief that comes with it. And again, even though it wasn’t the scenario that we hoped the outcome that we hoped there is a relief that it’s done. It’s over with.

Like, we can move forward. We can put the past behind us, and we can now start to make progress in our lives, in our businesses, knowing that there’s not this big looming unknown hanging above our heads that has been there for the last two years.

So there is some relief. There’s a weight lifted off of our shoulders.

Obviously, this last month that we have with my dad before he goes away is going to be extremely tough, and we’ve been trying to spend as much time as possible with him while also preparing the businesses for everything.

The businesses have been running without my dad for years now. You know, we’ve done a really good job of putting the people in place that do a really good job of taking care of and owning the businesses that they work in. So we felt good about everything.

Obviously, um, with the headlines and articles coming out that last week leading up to sentencing-there was one article that came out about 41 months. Um, you know, that threw some wrenches in some of our plans, and we definitely had to have some difficult conversations.

And I will tell you this: whenever you go through something so difficult and challenging, it makes you appreciate the ones that support you more than you could ever imagine.

Like, the people that have supported us through this deal those are going to be people that I, for the rest of my life, will respect and admire and appreciate so much more.

Our lenders, our bankers that decided to stick through all of this with us, that trust us, that know us personally, that know the work we put in, that know our family, how much we love and care about each other, and love and care about our businesses and the work that we put in day in and day out.

To those people-and to you people that have supported us via the comments, DMs, social media posts-l will never forget you. We will never forget you, and we love and appreciate you.

That is, for the rest of our lives, we will have a debt of gratitude towards you for that support.

And conversely, for the ones that turned their backs on us, I will never forget you either. I promise you that.

I have a note in my phone where every single social media comment from people that we know that have, uh, you know, made a little jab here and there-um-to the banks and lenders that turned their backs on us, you’re in my notes on my phone.

I promise you, for the rest of my life, you are dead to me, and I don’t take that lightly.

Like, I will never ever talk to you. I will never do anything for you. I’m not going to go out of my way to make your life worse

. I just promise you-you are dead to me. I will forget your name.

Um, when it comes to ever wanting to help, I will never associate myself with you or your company or your business. I will never refer anyone to anything that you do.

Yeah, I’ve got a chip on my shoulder, and I’ll just say that.

But again, I want to focus more on the positive side-the people that supported me. Debt of gratitude for the rest of my life. Love and appreciate you guys.

In going through something like this, uh, we love and support our dad so much.

That man has given his entire life to working his butt off seven days a week. Uh, and there’s so much misunderstanding for who he is as a person based on articles you see online or, um, you know, a reality TV show

where you’re getting one to two percent of the overall life.

And let’s face it-a reality TV show is built around drama. So you’re only getting the drama of the man’s life. You’re not getting the full scope of the work ethic and the work that he puts in day in and day out.

So, um, you know, we’re here for my dad. We’re going to support him wherever he ends up. We’re going to be there to visit him.

We’re going to get these businesses turned around and on the right track and flourish to where whenever he gets out, um, they’re going to be good times ahead and we’re going to have a good life ahead.

Uh, we’ve got so many things that are moving in a positive direction.

We’ve got new babies in the family. Um, you know, Jesse and Alli’s marriage. We’ve got Cole and Casey-knock on wood, Cole’s not in here right now-hopefully going to be engaged here soon and getting married here in the next year.

Uh, I’ve got some good things in my personal life that are going really well right now too.

So I want to continue to pour into the positive and focus on the good things that we have going for us.

Um, and as far as the moves that we’ve been making-um, with us filming season three-that’s another announcement that I don’t know if we discussed. Maybe we mentioned it briefly in the last podcast with Cole.

I started filming season three a few days before my dad’s sentencing, and we’re super excited to have the entire family, to have the baby showcased in season three.

Um, you know, this is we call it a once-in-a-lifetime event with my dad’s situation: the sentencing, the fallout, how we’re trying to navigate this entire unprecedented life event.

This is going to be it’s a once-in-many-lifetimes event.

This does not happen to many people once in their life. This happens to like-I don’t even know-once in a hundred lifetimes. Maybe once in two hundred or five hundred lifetimes. It’s a very, very rare event.

And I don’t mean that in a good way. I do not-um-you know, usually you talk about a once-in-a-lifetime event in a positive way. This is not that.