The Truth Behind Filming Our Reality Show and a BIG Personal Announcement

You look back sometimes and you’re like, why would I do that?

Can we skip like episode 2 and 3?

What you see on camera and what you see on these episodes—there’s at least 10 times more behind the scenes that you don’t know.

We’re not out there posting ass pictures non-stop.

Yeah, no, you and I are in the doghouse together.

There’s such a lag time between what happens on camera and when people can see it that we’re wanting to shortcut that and bring you weekly updates from the farm.

Welcome to episode one of Meet the MCBs, powered by AG America Media.

I’m Steven MCB and today we’re joined by my brother Cole.

What’s up, guys? Cole MCB, who supplied most of the drama for season one of The MCB Dynasty.

Thanks, Cole. Appreciate that.

Yeah, you’re welcome.

Today we’re going to be talking about everything that happened during the season, postseason, and really what’s going on now with the farm.

This is more of an introductory episode covering what this podcast will be about and I’m excited about it.

What about you?

I’m pretty excited. Um, you know, a little embarrassed I have to always apply the drama, but hey, someone’s got to do it.

Tune in, let’s get down to it.

Today we’re going to try to bring you up to speed on everything that’s happened over the last year and a half.

I was going to say it’d be about a whole week’s worth, maybe more, of bringing everyone up to speed on what’s happened.

Obviously, since the reality show The MCB Dynasty, we have some big projects in the works.

In real life, we have some very big things happening that we’re not announcing yet.

Really, to all of us, right?

I think everybody has life-changing events happening this year. It’s a pretty big year for us.

2024 is going to be interesting—not going to say it’s bad, not going to say it’s good, it’s going to be interesting. Some things are good, some things not so good.

I feel like that’s kind of the way it goes with us.

Yeah, most times, I’d say I don’t know if that’s good or bad, but yeah.

I mean, really, I guess this is going to be the first time that we’ve been candidly talking about The MCB Dynasty and everything that has happened since the show has aired.

We’re a few months out since it aired.

Can we skip like episode two and three? I don’t really want to talk about those.

We’re going into Fort Worth and everything that happened since then because it’s real life.

Honestly, we had some very candid conversations with everyone from the cast before the episodes dropped.

There was so much that happens behind the scenes of the show.

For every 100 hours of filming, there’s only one hour of footage that actually makes the episode.

So there were cameras on our farming operation in and around us for three and a half to four months total.

Yeah, it was like they were here for 3 months straight and it would come back for another month basically.

Really, we started in late April of 2023 and we filmed all the way through October.

Yeah, I mean, when they left, because I mean they’d be gone for three weeks or something, we had to come back and film another three weeks.

Yep, if they didn’t have enough footage for something or whatever it was, they just had to come back and get more footage.

To say it wasn’t a lot and it didn’t change our lives would be an understatement.

I mean, it’s definitely more than what you would think. Filming affects your life. It’s a full-time job.

Yeah, it is.

I know everyone sees it and they’re like, man, that’d be so much fun to have cameras following you around everywhere.

We’re on a pretty tight-knit schedule.

Even though we have an awesome production company and awesome network, they’ve got a business to run—their business is shooting this show.

So we’re full-time employees for the network when it comes to that.

We’re also running businesses.

It’s an interesting dynamic when you’re on a reality TV show because you have to balance your real life and somehow make that work while filming full-time.

You go to work for two hours, have to go film another scene, head back to work for two hours, try to get as much done as you can, head back, go film some more—whatever your time is that day.

It starts to really wear you down because you’re trying to do two jobs at once.

It becomes a lot, but it’s fun.

I mean, it is. It’s a lot of fun.

Not every scene—sometimes you look back and you’re like, why would I do that?

I think Cole could speak for that 100%.

For sure, you look back and you’re like, I’m such an idiot.

You and I had some moments where we were not at our finest.

No, and we definitely are still dealing with the fallout and repercussions of that.

We probably deserve it, but it’s well deserved.

But again, there’s a lot of backstory to everything.

What you see on camera and what you see on these episodes—there’s at least 10 times more behind the scenes that you don’t know.

I’d say the weirdest thing about it is you have to become so open with your personal life.

Anything that happens—if it’s a big deal, if you have a relationship problem, if you have a fight or breakup—you’re supposed to phone the producers and say, “We need you over here right now to film this.”

Anything that happens, you just learn to openly talk about everything.

Then you have to talk about it with like every person.

You have to go tell every single person about every one of your problems.

I’ve learned a lot about you guys in the last year—you become a very open communicator.

There are no secrets that we did not air out to not only everyone in our family but really anyone who watched the show.

Yeah, we did not hold anything back. Probably should have, honestly.

The deal going into the show, the whole reason we went with the network we did and partnered with the production company we did—Jeff Jenkins Productions—they really made us feel comfortable whenever we were shooting.

They have a track record of success.

Jeff Jenkins was one of the early producers for the Kardashians.

They focus on not trying to lie or deceive the cast.

Every single time we had a very dramatic scene or a fight, they don’t try to mislead us or trick us.

Some production companies will do that—they almost play mind games with you.

The good thing about Jeff Jenkins Productions is they don’t.

They let us be us, which was good.

Whenever we go out to bars, we thought they would control everything and not let us cut loose.

Whenever we were in Fort Worth, Cole was able to be single Cole without any holdback from the producers—they just ran the cameras and followed him.

Yeah, I wish they would have stopped me. Someone should have stopped me.

You know, whenever you’re single and 23 with cameras around you, that’s what happens.

It was a show.

It was ugly. Everyone was a little mind-blown, but not Jesse and I, because we witnessed it.

It was about a normal night for us when we’re single and having a good time.

Yeah, it was a normal night out at the bars.

I wasn’t the only one—I was in that boat later in the season in Nashville.

Yeah, I was about to say I didn’t want to bring it up, but yeah.

You and I are in the doghouse together.

Unfortunately, still in the doghouse.

I think here we are, 4 months after it aired, a year and a half after all that happened, and we’re still completely different situations now than it was a year and a half ago.

But we’re still in the doghouse.