Millennial Farmer Makes More Money On YouTube Than Farming
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What's up guys? Welcome back to the Life Wide Open podcast. We got a great episode for you today. We have our friend, a fellow Minnesotan YouTuber, Zach, the millennial farmer. He lives just down the road from us. There's not many YouTubers around in Minnesota, so we were pretty pumped to finally get to meet. Zach is a fifth generation farmer that picked up a camera and started filming his daily life and blew up on YouTube. Million subscribers. He has over a million subscribers. Yeah, it's crazy. So he runs through just his story on how

all that happened and how much his life has changed from just the fame aspect. People are showing up to his house now. The money aspect, being a farmer, being a YouTuber and a farmer. He answers the question if he's making more money being a farmer, being a YouTuber, the issues that come with being a YouTube farmer and really just being a farmer in general. And also getting a lot of hate from the farming community. It's a great story. Let's get into it, guys.

Dude, this has been a long time coming. That was a horrible day. It was. Man. We felt so bad, too, because I think some people came from, like, Iowa or something like that. They came from, like, Green Bay area. Dude, it was a blizzard, and it was 20 below.

And the plan was to be outside the entire day. Yeah, it wasn't like a normal blizzard. It was awful. Yeah, it was terrible. Yeah, we felt like kind of babies being like, oh, we can't make it. But I actually don't know if we would have made it there even. I'm not sure that you would have. The other people were only there because they stayed in Alexandria the night before. Okay, yeah, I think the highway was closed between here and there. And we're pretty good about filming in blizzards and nasty conditions. I mean, that's half the year we spend it like that. So we just couldn't make it.

No, we went 200 feet from my house, and I didn't even want to go out there. It was horrible. I don't know why we picked to live in Minnesota, I guess. It's terrible, isn't it? Isn't it terrible filming when it's like negative 20? Your fingers don't work. Like all the little buttons on the cameras. Yep, and you have to pull your gloves off. Yeah, it's tough, but we do it. Well, guys, this has been a long time coming. A lot of people think that we're the only YouTubers from Minnesota. You'd be wrong.

There's one more. There's one more.

Uh, we got millennial, millennial farmer sitting next to us on the podcast. Zach, man, it's been a long time coming. Thanks for coming. Yeah. It's been, been a while. I mean, we're a whole hour and a half down the road, so it's hard to get together. Yeah. You would, you would think, uh, but we've been trying to do this for what? Two years now. Yeah, probably. It's like, you got a busy schedule. It's like you're working two jobs. Well, same way with, I mean, you guys are, you're gone all the time. Even just trying to get this coordinated. Yeah.

Like we canceled a couple of months ago again. You guys have a lot going on too. See, mine's easier because I just film what I do every day. You guys have to keep coming up with bigger and bigger ideas all the time. We do. We're on the road a lot too, especially in the winter. Like you said, you know, it's tough to film around here. You know how that goes. Right. And so, yeah, we hit the road and we travel quite a bit, especially these months. Especially when there's no snow.

Then you really got to come up with stuff. Yeah, I mean, there's a positive side to that and also like the negative. We were planning on snow, so it made it hard. We had to scratch a lot of our plans, you know, and then try to come up with stuff on shorter notice because we're normally pretty planned out just so we can have these contraptions built or, you know, the materials to build them. So, yeah, it did throw us for a little bit of a loop, but I'm not like hating on it, not having snow. It just sucks not being able to snowmobile around here. Is that good for you? No snow season? No.

I mean no not really but I don't I don't think it's terrible this year because there's not any frost really either so I think when it I mean I would expect that it's going to start raining and snowing at some point because March and April always does so I

So I think it's going to go more in the ground instead of washing over the top because we just don't have that frost there holding it up. So is that worse because it soaks in? No, I'm going with it's better because it's going to replenish some of the moisture underneath because we've been dry for a couple of years now. So there's just not a lot of subsoil moisture underneath. And then you'll get one of those really great videos where you get the tractor stuck up to the top of the tracks and it takes three weeks to get out. Yeah, but that's the silver lining is you get some videos out of that.

Right. I was going to ask that because my grandpa was a farmer and so I would spend some harvest time with him. Right. And it seemed like things would go wrong all the time. Every day. Because they're just complicated machines that are always breaking. So there is a bit of a silver lining for you. Like, do you feel that way? You're like when something breaks, you're like, okay, this sucks because I have to fix it. Right.

Right. It is ridiculous that way. Cause there can be things that happen where it's yeah, it does. It sucks. Like it shuts everything down. It's annoying as hell, but you're like, well, I like today's video is not going to be boring. Yeah, exactly. You got a good thumbnail. Whereas for any other farmer is just completely all negative. Like it's just more work. Yeah. Um, so what do you all farm then? Right now it's just corn and soybeans. Okay. So we just, we just like this,

This standard boring grain farm of corn and soybeans right now. We had livestock when I was younger. Dad had cattle and hogs out there. And we've had...

We had 100 acres of wheat last year. My dad is 65 years old. He had never grown wheat. So we had our first 100 acres of wheat last year. And then, like I say, we had the cattle and hogs. We had a lot of kidney beans when I was younger. So it changes a little bit, but right now just corn and soybeans. So you've been farming your whole life? Yeah. You're fifth generation? Sixth, actually. Six now? Yeah. Holy smokes. So...

Did you have a passion for filmmaking or making videos? How did you go from being a farmer to now a farmer and YouTuber? It's the total opposite. I don't know what I'm doing with the camera that I use. You really don't need to. No, you really don't. I tell people that all the time. You don't have to get overly fancy. If you've got it and you want to do it that way, fine, but...

I don't. I just want to, you know, pull it out of my coat pocket. When I need the clip, I can hit the button and take the clip. So are you doing iPhone or? No, I use a, it's a Canon phone, G7X for the camera guys, I guess. It's like a thick cell phone. It fits in my coat pocket. I mean, it would have to or else. I've tried like, um.

GoPros are just super glitchy. Yeah. They drive me nuts. The audio is not good. So then you need like a different microphone on it and then it gets annoying to carry around. So I use the Canon, which is like $800 now, I think. And I wreck a lot of them. Oh, so do we. It's bad. It's just a cost of doing business. That's what we say. Yeah. It is what it is. So how'd you start that? Yeah. How'd the video start? I started it because I was seeing a lot of stuff out there about farming that wasn't

Like they didn't have the whole truth, like stuff online about like GMOs. That was a big one. It's not as talked about anymore, but genetically modified seed, drain tile, you know, being bad for the environment, irrigation, the way people treat livestock, like spraying pesticides and stuff. And what I wanted to do was figure out a way to like talk about that stuff.

But not in a defensive way, just be actually transparent about it and show when we do that stuff, yeah, this is why we use those things and this is what we know about it. Just because it seemed like people had a little bit of the idea there, but they didn't really know the full truth. I mean, yeah, we do spray pesticides. And yeah, there are advantages and disadvantages to some of the practices that we use. But overall, we're doing a pretty good job. We eat the food too, right? So that was kind of why I started it. And then it just...

It started as my goofy little hobby. I had to use YouTube to figure out how to start a YouTube channel. Yep, same. I had to use YouTube to figure out how to edit a video. Yep. I mean, I used YouTube for everything, and then it just started.

started snowballing and one fall we had a couple videos that took off and it just motivated me to keep making more and more videos and then my wife was really the one that turned me on to it like hey this is seems like like I think this might be a legit thing we should maybe push this a little more and then from there it just and and what what year was that exactly like would you say I started it in the spring of 16 okay so it's been it's been almost eight years now and it took off

I think it was fall of 17 was when it started to take off and we started getting more motivated about it and like

A year later, fall of 18, it really jumped up. You were a full-blown YouTuber. Yeah, I guess so. What do you call yourself, a YouTuber or a farmer? Or a farmer YouTuber? Yeah, when people ask, like, what do you do for a living? I always say I don't really. I mean, if a normal person, if somebody asks that doesn't know I'm a YouTuber, I just say I'm a farmer. Yeah, that makes more sense. I agree. That's way easier. Yeah, like your average Joe Schmo that's 60 years old isn't going to get it.

I make tractor videos too. What's a farmer? You're like, oh man, I really can't explain my second job. So yeah, to most people, I just say that I'm a farmer for the most part. But it's kind of the joke now around the farm that like I have to farm now.

So I have something to YouTube. Yeah. What does everyone else think about that? That's like, you know, been a part of the family farm operations. And then next thing you know, you're walking around filming their ass and you're like, yeah, they're like, hold on now. I don't know if I signed up for this. It took like two years before I would film anything with anybody else around. And people were starting to ask like, what, how come, how come you never show us the other guys running the tractor? Are you the only guy out here doing this or what?

Like what's, why don't you show us anything else? You know, cause I didn't want to stick the camera in everybody's face. It's really uncomfortable thing to do. Very. Yeah. It's uncomfortable for them and the guy running the camera. Yeah. Right. So like dad knew that I was doing it. None of the other guys did. And we don't have a bunch of guys full time. It's just dad and I.

But we have seasonal guys that help us out in the spring and fall when it's the busiest and my content is the best. But yeah, it took a while. I actually think, so Jim would be like the next guy that works for us the most.

I'm pretty sure he found out from his grandkids that I was making YouTube videos. You're on YouTube. And he's like, what? Grandpa, we saw you on YouTube. Yeah, I think it was exactly like that. That is so funny. And then it took me a while to really get comfortable letting him know when I did and didn't have the camera. And then there was a... It's probably... It's one of my most popular videos, but he got stuck with the tractor, like bad stuck. Okay. And...

I had to jump in it. We hooked it up to pull it out and I jumped in it and I knew like, I need this clip and it's going to be so much better from outside. So I turned the camera on and I gave it to him like, Jim, I know you're going to hate this, but you got to hold the camera. Oh God. You know, just typical old guy complaining about the camera. And then when we edited the video, like he was talking to the camera the whole time, getting off on it. He loved it.

So from there on, I'm like, all right, Jim is all in. Yeah, you're in. It doesn't bother him a bit. And people watching the videos are like pretty stoked because there's another customer. There's another character. There's another character. Personality to watch. Yeah, you need characters in the story. I was just watching a video recently.

And I think it was you, your son Onyx, was you walked in the door and he's like working on getting something out of his shirt. He goes, turn that damn thing off. He's probably the most uncomfortable with it. You're working on it. I think so. He'll get there. I guess this is tough. Do like kids say anything to you at school? Not really, I guess, because like I was already at the age where like I already had my buddies and I already knew them before YouTube took off. I feel like it would be definitely different if like.

I was like a kindergartner and then grew up with it, but I don't know. I kind of just had my groove. Does it help you like getting some street cred being that you're on YouTube? It doesn't help with the chicks? No, no. Maybe being on the Seaboys podcast. I don't know, man. Maybe. I hope so. Not with the chick part though. Okay. Yeah, maybe not.

How do you go every day and try to keep it interesting? Like, do you ever struggle with that? You're like, dang, I, for the last couple of years have done the same thing. Like, how do you go through and try to structure a video so it can be fun to watch? Do you have like a method to that madness? No, but I have that thought all the time. I've been saying that to my wife for three or four years now. It's like, I feel like a lot of days I'm making the same video. She's like, yeah, but you know, half a million people will watch it. So yeah, I keep making it.

And she's right. I mean, it is, you know, some of them are pretty similar. Some of them are not. But I think people just like to see the process of...

like year round beginning to end. Yeah. Like how's the crop doing? I think they just like to see the documentation of it. It's so much different than you guys where you got to come up with, like, you got to have these ideas ahead of time, right? You guys are fabricating stuff and coming up with all kinds of ideas and, and really planning ahead where I'm just documenting the process of what we're doing on the farm. Does it make your day longer? Like, does it take you more time to do things? Cause you're setting up with the camera and filming it.

Sometimes, but I try as hard as I can to make sure, like to prevent that. You know, that's why I use the camera that I use that fits in my coat pocket. Yeah. So I don't have to throw it out, set stuff up.

up. Yeah, man, I'm pretty envious of you. You get to do a process that like makes a product that is valuable and then also film it. And whereas like our filming processes typically ends up with like something that's just completely invaluable, you know, it's just worth nothing, you know, like you get, you're like almost double dipping. Well, I definitely are. I, yeah, I guess so. But I feel like there's also probably, um,

And I don't know that for sure yet, but I feel like your guys has more longevity to it. Oh, wow. You might be the first person that's ever said that. No, because you guys, like I say, you put all the planning into it and you fabricate and you got all these ideas. Like you can jump around and do different stuff, right? If I leave my farm, nobody cares.

I'll go make a different style video and it gets half the views. But people also love you because of your personality and your wit and your jokes, you know? So like you might think that, but I think you'd be pretty surprised, you know, people to follow. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe like, I think you could easily go and do something else that you really like to do, like snowmobiling or, or racing and people will be just as interested. Yeah. We've started. So we have a second channel now that we've been doing a lot of the racing stuff on. Yeah. And, and,

I mean, it does all right, but instead of getting a half million views, which is a really good video for me, they get, you know, the good ones there get a couple hundred thousand, which is still good. Still, yeah. I mean, it's still something, and we haven't pushed it really to try and

you know, make it real big yet. But I don't, it just, it doesn't feel as good when you see the videos doing half of what your normal videos do. For sure. You don't have to tell us, man. It hurts a lot when some of those videos you work the hardest on do the poorest or like the ideas you're really proud of.

And then you throw up one of those videos and you go, people are not going to like this one. And then it does really, really well. Right. Yeah. The most random thing. Who knows what it is, right? If it's something you did right in the video, like the thumbnail, the title, the video itself, or if YouTube just the algorithm grabbed it for whatever reason. Sometimes you get lucky. Yeah. Yeah.

I've had some terrible videos do really well. Isn't that the worst too? When it's like, you're like, ah, this is not my best work. And then that's the one going crazy. You're like, God dang it. Now everyone's going to like that come across me. They're going to think this is how all my videos are. Right. Yeah. All these new people coming to the channel because of my worst video. God damn it. Like, why couldn't this have been better? Yeah. That's how it goes sometimes though. How we focus on weird stuff though.

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You do dirt track racing, right? Yeah. Do you travel around for it? A little bit. Not a ton. We travel around a lot regionally, like Wisconsin, the Dakotas, in that regard. I used to travel a little bit nationally like 10 years ago.

before his sisters were born and it was easier to get away and do all that now he's a little bit older we took him down to arizona this winter so a month ago we were in arizona race down there for two weeks and then i ran in an indoor race at the dome in st louis in december so we got away a couple times this winter which is nice

But, I mean, hopefully we can do a little bit more of that in the future. How long have you been racing? Since I was 15. Okay, so you've been doing that for a long time. Yeah, quite a while. What is it about racing that you like? All of it. I mean, I like the competition. That's the biggest thing, I think, is just the competition side of it. But, I mean, oddly enough, I'm not really competitive anywhere else. I don't care that much if we're screwing around doing whatever else. I don't think I have a super competitive personality. But when it comes to racing, I just...

I just love it. I want to go out there and try and beat everybody else. You're okay with the whole hurry up and wait kind of aspect that comes with racing, though? No, that drives me nuts sometimes. That's kind of what turns us away from doing really any kind of race. Really, the only race that we do is Cletus' races, which we did the one at Bristol with you, actually. Yeah.

But, you know, other than that, like we hate going to races just because of how long you just sit there and wait. And there are some tracks that are really good at pushing that along. And then you've got other tracks where you have to get there at like 4 in the afternoon. And then you don't race anything until 7 or 8 o'clock. You run like quick eight laps. And then we might sit around again until 11 o'clock at night.

And then by the time you get everything loaded up and you drink all the beer, it's 2 o'clock in the morning. Yep. And then you've got to drive home from wherever at some point the next day. You've got to go all the way hours back home. It's like a whole weekend just to run a few laps. And then you're exhausted the next day. Yep. Yeah, that part of it does get to me some because I'm really impatient like that too. Yeah.

But the race itself is what makes it all worth it, I guess, for me. So you guys, even like when we go to Bristol, you just don't like waiting around most of the day? Those are different. Yeah, that's different because we're there, you know, knowing that like that's just part of the process. It's fun too because there's like a lot of people around that you get to talk to. But I think when you say we don't like the races, it's typically like other races and events that we go to. You know, a good example is –

Evan who's a part of the channel does like ice racing or used to be like an ice racer. With a car? No dirt bike. Oh okay. We've gone to a couple ice races with him and just like filmed that and like that sucks because you're sitting outside and it's cold. Oh yeah. Waiting around. You're waiting around and then he runs and then he

piles up in the first corner and then we're waiting another two hours. And so you're there all day and he piled it up in corner one. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. I did that when we drove to St. Louis this year and we had to get, we got a whole bunch of different tires ready and we switched the car over to gas and we changed the carburetor and the fuel cell and all this stuff. And we got ready for this big race, drove all the way to St. Louis, like two days ahead of time.

And then I qualified really well, started on the front row. I went into corner one way too hard and like threw it ass end into the wall and screwed up the whole week.

It's just like, oh, I could have done that at home. Yeah. A whole lot into just doing that. Yeah. That's the worst dude. We do that all the time when we're traveling and then we have a vehicle that breaks just immediately. And we're like, well, back to the drawing boards. We're here for the next couple of days. But you can, you can make content out of it sometimes. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, that's a, that's a beauty of like YouTube is, you know, you can kind of turn lemons into lemonade with

Pretty bad lemons, you know? Right. Yeah. So have any of you ever run circle track? No. Really, our only racing experience is Ken and Evan in Cletus' race. I'm racing in his next one. I was going to ask for some advice. Are you in that one? Is it in April? Yeah, the helicopter? No. Well, you're not in that one. But you're going to run. So that's with... Is that with the Crown Vix again? Yeah. At the Freedom Factory. No, I don't have... My advice is...

The way I drive on dirt track is not how you're supposed to run those cars. Okay. I know that. Like when we were down in...

uh, Florida, you guys weren't at the freedom factory in November, were you? No, we weren't there. So I was teamed up with Derek vice grip garage. He goes out in this car and like, just goes from like eighth, somewhere back there, just like wiggles his way to the front and leads all the way to the halfway point. Just smooth sailing, like did a beautiful job. So I get in, I'm like, I can't remember who, there were some big names next to me and around me. Like

I don't think Pastrana was up there, but names like that, right? Started right at racing with them. Like, yeah. And I'm just like, holy shit. I don't know what I'm doing. I don't, this car is big and heavy and slow and we're on tar. I don't race on tar. And I got to get, you got to stop and get down into the dog leg and the backstretch. And then you're turning right. And there's mud all over the track.

I'm like, shit, I got to like, Derek did a really good job of this. I should be as good of a driver as Derek. Yeah. And I got into one really good. Like we took off at the start and I'm looking in my mirrors like, oh yeah, I got this. This is good. And I hit the brakes and threw it sideways like a dirt car. And I'm just screeching down into one like, oh shit, just back and forth with the steering wheel. And

And I finally got it straightened up and they split me like three cars go around me. And the next guy just piles into the back of me. So now I'm sliding every direction. We go one lap into it and I'm in like 10th place. That's what I'm worried about. I'm worried about crashing. Honestly, I crashed pretty hard at Bristol and it didn't hurt that bad. So you should be all right. Okay. The nice thing is for you, Ryan, is we have very low expectations and also a very low bar to, to beat. Like you look, I think Evan took,

to last in Bristol. And Ken, you did decent. You did decent in your race, but we were teamed up with Haley Deegan, so she might have helped a little bit in that. But there's not much worse you could do. There is a lot on the line, though. I forgot that you were a part of that crash in Bristol, weren't you? Not the one you're probably thinking of with Haley. Oh, okay.

But the year after. Yeah. Yeah. So my first car broke down again, since both times I've run it, I've been running pretty like, okay. Feeling pretty good about it.

with a lot of race left, and then I overheat, or this last one broke a ball joint. So I just, like, go into the corner, and the right front's all goofy, and it slides up towards the wall, and then everyone starts bumping into the back of me. But this last year, not many people saw it because I wasn't running up front at all, but he got under my quarter panel and just turned me right into the wall. And you went up and smashed into the wall, didn't you? Yeah. That was nasty. Yeah, it hurt. Right in front of me. It hurt. Yeah, it hurt. It looked like it hurt. Yeah. I mean, not that bad, but I think, like, you know, it kind of scared me because I've never...

hit like that. It was just a different hit than what I'm used to. Yeah. I mean, I can crash a hundred times in the dirt car. Like it happens. I've been through it before, but this one scared me a little bit. Yeah. Cause you kind of just went down and then straight up into the wall. Yeah. Yeah. It's like a head on collision. Hurt the Eagle more than anything. Yeah. Certainly wasn't like Haley's crash the year before. That was really bad. I am glad that I'm racing.

Cause I don't think I'd like, not cause I don't like sharing, but I would have the same worries that if the person before me did really well, I'd be like, crap. Now I'm going to let them down. Or if there was someone after me, I'd be like, I can't wreck the car for them. And that would mess with my like planning of the race. My super thought out. Well plan race plan.

That will never go the way you want it to. Exactly, yeah. Yeah, that's how I feel about the car that I ran at the Freedom Factory with Derek. He had run that car like five times. Not a scratch on it. And I beat the living shit out of it. He's like, I don't get my car back next time I come here. Yeah, it's all messed up now. Someone has to fix it. I don't know if it's him or Cletus or I don't know who. Do they fix those cars after or do they just...

I think ours is getting fixed. Really? It wasn't too messed up. That makes sense, I suppose. Yeah, you guys probably just run yours again. Yeah, a lot of them are the same cars that stick around for a while. They just have to fix them all up. Yeah. That makes sense because there's no way he could source 25 Crown Vicks every month. That'd be expensive, too. Yeah. Right. Those cages and everything in there that you got to put into it. The safety on them got so much better the second time at Bristol. Yeah. That was obvious. Yeah, he puts a lot of work into those cars. Oh, a ton. I can't imagine how much work that must take.

And then to try and get them somewhat equal when they're all different engines and transmissions and whatever. Exactly. It's the same car, but they're really not. Yeah, it really is quite the operation. You know, it's really impressive. But there's a lot on the line this year, Ryan. Helicopter. Ben's really trying to get his helicopter license. Anybody going to fly at home if he wins? Helicopter.

I'll worry about that. I want to see Ben fly that helicopter home, dude. That would be hilarious. All the way from Florida? Yeah, I'm not sure if that's legal, but yeah. It's definitely not. You can't fly it? They're going to pull you over? Yeah, that's true. Yeah, what, is the air police going to pull you over? That's true. I probably wouldn't have much to worry about. No, Cleet said if you win it, he'll fly it back. Oh, really? No, he didn't say that, but I'm going to hold him to it.

Talk him into it. People were like, you're such an asshole. You're like giving away a helicopter. What if they don't have their helicopter license? And he's like,

It's a $150,000 helicopter. They'll be fine. What an asshole. Yeah. You could sell it. Yeah. Yeah. I just wish I won nothing. That'd be so much better than winning a helicopter. Yeah. You should pay for their helicopter license. He's like, no, I gave him a helicopter. Yeah. Yeah. The rest is on them. Yeah. I think they'd be so sick though to have a helicopter. Wouldn't that? Oh, it'd be the best. Then you'd have to, somebody would have to get their license for it.

Yeah. Because you're going to have to do content with it if you get a helicopter. I want to get one either way, but I hope Ryan just wins it and it makes it, you know, the process of buying it just non-existent. Right. Yeah. It'd be pretty sweet for you. Yeah, you should get a helicopter. You can fly around, check all the fields. Yeah. Go to the neighbors. Yeah. But that sounds like a lot of work too. Yeah, definitely. I could just get a drone. Yeah.

Yeah, right. That's true. Get a drone. Actually, I have my pilot's license, but I haven't flown in years.

Like when I was in high school, I worked at the airport in Alexandria and I got my pilot's license, but it's been, it's been quite a while since I flew. Did you get it for farm purposes or just for fun? No, just for fun. It's probably been 10 years since I flew anything. It's kind of hard to make sense of getting your pilot's license just for recreational purposes because you know, you really can't do that much with it besides for just go out and fly around unless you're going to really spend some money on getting like a plane that you can fly like across the country. Right. Right.

But most planes that are somewhat affordable, you can't really make it that far. Yeah, you're not going to take that to California very often. It's still going to be a long haul in a small airplane. But there's times where it would be handy. It would be a lot of work to maintain too. Definitely. But it would be fun. Yeah, I could have flown it up to Cormorant. Yeah, you could have. Probably could have landed it in our field maybe. If it was like one of those bush planes, definitely. Or you just get a helicopter and then you drop.

The bush planes are cool. Yeah. I like those. That would probably be more fitting for how we live around here because you can land basically on any grass field, I feel like. Yeah. And then putting floats on it and landing in the lake would be awesome. Yeah. It really would be. It'd just be cool. Like, that's a baller move to just show up in your airplane. Yeah, no matter how cool your boat is at the sandbar, you pull up in a plane, you're that guy. Yeah. You have a boat.

Oh, let me guess. That thing can't come out of the water either. Probably need a pickup just to get it to your garage. No, after hanging out with those guys, though, Cletus was like, yeah, dude, I just use my helicopter like an Uber. Like I just like bounce around Florida in it. It's

Sometimes I think about that, like him and Sparks. Sparks makes a little more sense to me, but either way, the time it takes to get certified to fly one of those and to do all that along with what they're already doing, maintaining 40 crown Vicks. I know, it's crazy. Yeah, he was like, yeah, man, I just did it for a couple months at like 5 a.m. I would wake up and just do that. He was like, yeah, you just do that. Because I was like, dude, I don't have time. Just wake up earlier. And I was like,

Well, then I'd have to go to bed earlier. Yeah. And I'd still be set back and I don't have time to go to bed earlier. I was like, this makes no sense. What are you doing? Running on four hours of sleep? It's not like it takes an afternoon. And you better be damn sure that you're ready to hop in that thing and fly it alone. Yeah. It's not like cutting corners. It's not. On everything else that we're like, you need this much time, but...

You know, we're advanced. We can cut that by, you know, 25%. But that one, you're like, you should probably add 25% on it because I'm an idiot. Yeah, I should probably know what every button does. Yeah. It's not like getting your learner's permit where you just run in and like...

maybe just guess through the test a couple times you're like it'll be fine just put c for everything exactly get you through that was me like i you know i've gotten my motorcycle permit like 10 times because you can just renew it every single time and uh the last time i went back in there like oh you've been so long without renewing it so you got to retake the test and i'm like oh can i study well yeah but you'll have to come back because we're just about to close and i was like

I'll just hop on there and see how I do. So I hop on there. I was like redoing it. And I hadn't taken a test, you know, since I was like 16. I got my driver's license and a motorcycle permit at the same time. And I was like, dude, I am not qualified to be on the road. Like,

Did you pass? I did pass. You did? I did pass, but you can fail like eight of the questions or something like that. You're right on the bubble, huh? Dude, if there was like 50 questions, I think I got like 43 of them to pass through. And I was like, I'm not sure if I'm qualified to be out here on a motorcycle, but give me my ticket. It's the technicality of it.

Like, you know how to drive on the street. It's not a problem because you've been driving all those years, but the technicality of the details and the questions. Like how far to stop behind a school bus, things like that. No kidding. Before you hit it. It's a reasonable distance, but you don't know the exact feet. If you've got a car coming and it's so far away, how far do you have to turn the brights off before it? You're like, I don't know until they hit me with a flash. Did you have to do any tests or like...

do any training for to like you know operate all your tractors and stuff or is that just dad teaching you that's just dad teaching me yeah and youtube videos no it's just like it yeah dad taught me when i was younger and then as it evolves every time you get another machine i mean you just pick it up from there it's like when you once you know how to drive a car or a truck

you know how to do it. Well, the technology is insane in those things. Now I would, would have thought that farming was a low tech sport, right? A bunch of years job a lot of years ago, but now it's, I would say the highest tech job that I know. So are you even driving your combine?

You don't have to. You just chilling? Yeah, you can. I mean, literally everything can be completely automatic. So are you still, you're obviously, I mean, you're, you're in the combine, but what are you doing when you're, when you just let it just. So you can set it up for as much automation or as little as you want. Like on ours, I hit the button and it steers and that's really nice. Cause then you can watch everything else.

But we can now sync our grain cart to the combine. So I hit another button, you know, where you're dumping on the go. So we're harvesting, it's steering itself, and then it controls the grain cart tractor also. That way, if you're going around a little bit of a corner or a hill or whatever, the cart will speed up and slow down with the combine. Or turn left, turn right. Like if Onyx over there is in the grain cart...

He gets within a certain distance, and our two computers will sync to each other. And I hit the button saying, hey, I want control of it. And then he lets go, I let go, and it just does it. Like Deere now has fully automated tractors that are –

like quite a ways into testing. They've had him for a few years. So does he have to be in the grain cart to do it? Like he still does. Okay. Yeah. They're very close though. I don't know that he really would have to, but the tractors, it knows if you're not in the seat, it's not going to go. You just put like a brick or something. Yeah. A couple of sandbags on it. I think you could. Yeah. Do a, so you're strictly John Deere for the most part, right? Or the most part. Yeah. Yeah.

Cause it seems like that's all I, that's, that's all I see you in. So I just kind of assumed you're just a John Deere guy. Yeah. Do you have like, is there other manufacturers or have they ever like hit you up and wanted to work with you or, or do you want to say anything? I don't know. No, there's, there's multiple manufacturers that I have worked with. I'm pretty stuck on Deere right now, but we did have a, we had a case quad track out there two or three years ago. We had an Agco challenger out there, like the, I guess he like,

They're not supposed to be called cats anymore. But when you say cat, like the old Caterpillar tractors, we had a new version of one of those. We've had different stuff out there and different companies approach me. The whole John Deere thing, you know, when I was younger, I kind of grew up with everything except John Deere. And then...

it was like just little by little, we got one piece and then another piece and then another piece. And then some of the dealerships changed hands and stuff and just the service and everything we were getting through our local John Deere dealer was so good that we've just... Makes sense. Yeah. We've just gone that route because it's so important now when you have a breakdown in the fall, if it's something that we can't tackle, somebody's got to get there. Yeah. You know, cause otherwise it shuts the entire operation down if one thing is broke. Yeah.

everything stops. So it's important to get that fixed. And those guys are just, they're on it. The dealership is eight, nine miles away. And usually they have a service tech that's closer than that in the area. I'd imagine it's getting harder and harder to work on them yourself too. It is. Yeah. Yeah. A lot of people, they bring up like a right to repair. People think that John Deere isn't allowing us to work on our own tractors. You know, John Deere will know if you go in and mess with some stuff that you shouldn't be.

But a lot of that's for good reason. Yeah. You know, you can screw a lot up. There's miles and miles of electrical wire in those things. You know, I'm not going to go in and mess with the computer that controls the grain cart from the combine, right? I don't want to touch that anyway. So I think it's a lot of stuff like that.

Yeah, it's crazy just how much farming has evolved in the last 20 years. I mean, like I remember, so my mom's side of the family, they were farmers and like they were always working on stuff, you know, themselves. Granted, you know, they were much older tractors, but it seems like nowadays, like you're saying, just would be impossible. Yeah, there's, I mean, there's still a lot of farmers that do farming.

A lot of guys will do everything themselves, whether it's a newer tractor or an older one. I mean, it's just, it runs a full spectrum from guys that insist on doing everything themselves to guys that, you know, don't do anything themselves. Yeah. So like when you get hit up to do like a deal with, say, Case comes to you or another brand and they want to work with you, like what's that look like? Like obviously it's different every time, but... Yeah. Because I mean, these tractors are so expensive. So for a long time, what it looked like was...

you know, what, what do you got? What do you want to do? What's the situation? What product, what tracker machine or whatever, what do you want to,

What do you want to highlight? And then if they had something that we could make good use of, like the Case Quad Track, or we had a John Deere, a couple different John Deere combines out the last few years. It's like, yeah, I can make good use of that. And we'll park our tractor or our combine or whatever and use what they're giving us. But it always comes with more difficulty than one would think, right? Because you can't just hook something different up to what you're doing and expect it to work the same. So a lot of times there's...

different programming and just settings and figuring it out. It always sets you back a couple of days also. And then the hardest part was it's so expensive to run those big machines. It's like John Deere's combine. They brought me an X nine combine, which at the time was, you couldn't even, you couldn't buy one yet. And they brought me, they call it a limited production build. So it was, it was past prototype, but it wasn't into the, where you could really get one yet.

And they brought me one out, but they're like, you can only run it for 40 hours. Oh. You're like, okay. So you're basically just testing it for them or like kind of hyping it up, obviously, which is what they want. Yeah. They want more eyes on their product. So it was good for me because it's good content because no one had seen one before. It was all the rage at the time, right? And it does save us hours on our machines. But at the same time, it probably set our harvest back 20 hours by dealing with this new machine and having to figure things out and like...

When it's that new, you're doing a lot of communicating back and forth because they want to make sure everything's going right, everything's set right. So what comes first then in a situation like that? Making the YouTube video or harvesting the beans? It's a balance point. It really is. I mean, honestly, I'm going to give you the farmer answer and say it kind of depends on the weather. Do we have time? Is the weather good? Are we just starting out then? No.

Probably the YouTube stuff. Hey, we got this awesome opportunity to have some different content. We should probably try to be patient and work with this and do it this way. If the weather's getting shitty like it does most falls, maybe not this fall, if it's going to snow on the beans, we got to get them out. So it sounds like the answer comes down on the farm and comes first.

Yeah, ultimately. Yeah. Yeah. Makes sense. Well, you got a lot riding on it. Yeah. What, maybe I'm, maybe I'm also overreaching on this question, but like when it comes down to like what's making the most revenue, is it the YouTube channel now? Or is it, cause you say like now you're a,

a YouTuber that is forced to farm, which that made me think about that question. It's the YouTube. The YouTube is beating out the farming. Yeah. And that is insane to think about. It is. It's pretty crazy, but it's given me a huge opportunity to be able to take that income from YouTube and reinvest it into the farm. It's hard now. Farms have gotten to the point where

If you're, you know, farming a couple thousand acres, you don't have to be huge, but even a couple thousand acres takes a lot of equipment. That's a lot of money. I mean, it's tough to figure out how you even get started in that. You know, dad or grandpa, whoever has built this place up to be a big farm, good-sized farm, successful farm, but now how do they get fairly paid, you know, for all the work they've done their whole life by somebody that's just coming in and can't figure out how to afford that. Mm-hmm.

So it's been an awesome opportunity for us to be able to use the income to do something. I mean, it's just amazing, especially nowadays, like how much you have at your fingertips, you know, as far as opportunity goes. So like, and it could go with anything, you know, but, but I mean, you're definitely making the most out of it.

out of just every day and every situation, especially yours. If I wanted to become a farmer, say no one in my family had done it, I'm going to be the first generation. How would I start, one? And two, how much money do you think it would take to invest where it'd be worth doing? Just to make a living off of it. Not even super profitable, but I can pay the bills at the end of the day. How?

Yeah, there was a YouTuber, Grant Hilbert. He's from out of Iowa.

So he, that was a good, good one to bring up there, Onyx. So Grant didn't farm and he started a YouTube channel where he played farming simulator, like a gaming channel. Okay. And it just exploded. I mean, he was at a, he was at a million subscribers years ago. And he was just doing virtual farming basically. Yeah, pretty much. And then he moved into real farming. He took the income from that. I don't want to speak for him. Yeah. But.

But I'm pretty sure he put a bunch of it in farming. He put a bunch of it in Bitcoin. Oh, wow. And he got out at the right time. And he's like, you know what? I'm going real-time farming. Started a new YouTube channel. Bought.

Bought property, bought the machinery, tore down some trees, put in drain tile, cleaned up the land, and he's farming now. Good for him. No way. Dude, tell him it was way easier to be an online farmer. Yeah. Why would you do that? Yeah. It had to be way easier to stare at the TV, didn't it? Yeah. I've heard stories...

I can't remember the NASCAR racer, but like he was started out doing just like the e-sim racing or, you know, and also in Gran Turismo they have, which is based on a true story, but like kids are super into their game. But like the video game is so good now that like they learn how to actually drive. Yeah. And then they go into real racing and can do good. Right. You know, so we have a racing simulator at our house and,

and Onyx runs the crap out of it. Do you? Can I come over and try it? Ryan and Ben really want one. It's pretty legit. Does it move? It's pretty cool. No, it doesn't move. It's got the full screen. Yeah, it's got the big curved screen in front of you. That's sick. So cool.

Yeah, the wheels got all the feedback and stuff. I really like the game, but for me, as somebody that has driven real car for so long, it's so difficult for me because there's no G-forces. You don't have that feeling in the seat of being in the seat. So it's really difficult for me. I'm all over the place. If I sit down and...

practice on it for 15 or 20 minutes then i can run a race but it's like every time i do that i have to do the practice again i can't just jump on it and go i saw they make a kit that the seat belt like when you're turning it pulls the seat belt so it simulates like you moving in your seat

and tighten up. I hadn't seen that yet. I'm sure it's wicked expensive. I'm sure it is. It's probably cheaper to go out and buy a field car. Just go buy a car. Yeah, just go buy a car and go rip it around, Ryan. That'll get your practice in. You could with some of these simulators. I think it was Roman got one recently, and I'm sure it's a $60,000, $70,000, $80,000 setup. God, it's nuts, man. Yeah, man, it's crazy. I wonder how much of an effect

like the game Call of Duty has had on people enlisting in the army I don't think so man I agree yeah I don't think so Mike you think it's the opposite yeah I think it'd

I don't know, but it's like kids that never had the opportunity of like shooting a gun or something like that. You know, growing up on a farm, it's, it's, you know, pretty standard practice to go out and shoot. Like pretty soon the Marines will just be a bunch of overweight, sweaty, hot pockets. Yeah. I don't think they'd make it, man.

Our buddy Mike tried going into the National Guard. They actually turned him around. They wouldn't take him. Why? I don't know. That's what we said too. It's like they want everybody, but they didn't want him. They looked at him up and down. Yeah. They just kind of like put him off. We don't trust this guy. Yeah. So you took him on. Yeah. Exactly. So, okay. I guess we kind of got sidetracked though, but like,

How much do you think it would cost to get into farming? All right. So in order to answer the question, I need to know what, like, what's your goal? Do you want your farm to look like the one that I'm on right now? You want it to look like our farm or do you want to just...

Just figure out how to have something that's profitable. You want to make $100,000 a year. How about that? Yeah. Okay. Let's just say buy it outright in cash because nobody does that when you can go to a bank and get a loan. But let's just say hard cost of buying it outright in cash. How much would I have to buy? I don't know how to even answer that because you could go... There's times when our farm...

We'll lose more than that in a year, like probably this year in 24. I mean, things are not looking good right now. Prices are way down for commodity prices, but what we're paying for stuff is still way up to where it's been the last couple of years. We're probably going to lose a good amount of money.

But then there's years where you make a good amount of money. It's so up and down, there's no consistency to it. I would say there are some farms out there that probably have 10 or 20 acres and a few animals that have figured out a way to creatively market direct-to-consumer that are probably making at least that. Wow. Interesting. I'm not saying a ton of them, but there's got to be some. If you think of some of the direct-to-consumer guys that really have a niche figured out, you

You can get creative right now. You don't have to have $10 million invested. But if you want to have 5,000 acres and a bunch of new equipment, yeah, you're talking a lot of money. So you can make it with minimal amount of acres, basically. You can, yeah. You just don't have to get creative. You can't have 100 acres of corn and soybeans like I do and make money right now. But you could come up with a different way maybe to actually grow some kind of vegetables or vegetables.

do something unique with it. Interesting. Which is harder for me because I got 2,500 acres I got to manage. I can't spend most of my time on 40 acres that goes direct to consumer. It's a whole different scale. I mean, it's not even the same ball game. Yeah. So what happens when you go backwards on a year? Like does insurance come in then? Or are you literally like what I'm just. Yes and no. It crop insurance gets people talk like crop insurance guarantees an income.

Not, no, no. Yeah, that wouldn't make sense, I suppose. Once in a while it will, depending on the year, but it's rare. But crop insurance will kick in and help you, depending on why the year is bad, because it works off of the yield and the price. If your yield is good and the price is way down, it just is what it is. Crop insurance is there to help you, but ultimately...

You have to be set up so you can eat that. What happens? I mean, like if you're a family that's farming and you don't have a YouTube channel. Yeah. Why would anybody farm without a YouTube channel? Yeah, definitely. God. It's got to be extremely high risk. Yeah. It is. Things that are completely out of your control. It's way more high risk than a lot of people want to believe because people want to believe that subsidies and crop insurance just make the farmers rich all the time. Yeah. That's not true. I mean, there are times that that is definitely a huge help.

But it's not like a lot of people seem to believe. It'd basically just be like, let's say like a tornado came through and took everything out. Then they'd... That'd be a different insurance separate from crop. So we had two springs ago, almost two years ago now, we had a big storm come through in the early spring and it wiped out our shed that had most of our machinery in it. Luckily, most of the machinery was mostly okay. It was like everything had some damage, but nothing was totaled.

The building was, you know, gone, spread five miles from our house to the highway. Wow. We lost a grain bin. We had a lot of damage. Every roof on the farm got replaced last summer. I think I remember that video. Yeah, I watched that. Yeah. Silver lining, right? Yeah. I think you were the one saying silver lining or something. Yeah. Yeah. But insurance kicked in to help us replace the shed.

you know, fix the machinery, that kind of thing. Same as it would if you're in a car accident. Yeah. And we didn't have crop in the field yet, but if you had crop in the field, it would all come down to what you can harvest. You have to go out there and harvest what you can.

And you have to be able to prove to them that you did that before crop insurance is going to really kick in. There are times where the crop is in such bad shape, they walk out there and they're just like, yeah, you can't. There's no point in trying to harvest this. Don't even, yeah, save the gas, save the fuel. Speaking of that, I have one more money question. Or maybe just gallons. How many gallons of diesel fuel do you burn in a, we'll do a fall harvest? In an entire harvest?

man he doesn't even want to know that he doesn't want to think about that i really don't um at least 11 gallons yeah minimum yeah at least so yeah you are correct in your statement i was going to do some math there the combine is close to empty on most days so we're going to say like 270 gallons there then we're running a grain cart

That doesn't burn near as much. There's maybe 100 gallons that goes into that. Then we've got somebody running tillage, at least one tractor running tillage every day. He's burning 300 gallons. I'm going to say it's 600 to 700 gallons a day. When everything's moving right and you're putting in long days. A full day. Yeah.

Wow. That's heavy. That is heavy. It sucks. Yeah. Yeah. That's the other semis running and I'm sure ripping around on the razor. Yeah. Burning 10, 20 gallons there, you know, that takes something.

You got to be so used to it at this point, but when you categorize all the money going out just from overhead and expenses, it's got to just make you sick. It's just big dollars, right? It's like the margin can be the same as any other business, but the dollars are moving. There's businesses out there that are...

they'll spend a billion dollars a year and they make $200,000. It's just different. I just can't imagine so many people that aren't third, fourth, fifth generation farmers that just come through and have a tough season and

You know, you file bankruptcy on your farm. I can't, I can imagine that's more common than not. Yeah, it does happen. I haven't seen a whole lot of it in the last 25 years, 30 years. In the 80s, it was crazy common. I mean, we lost half the farmers in the 80s because it was so bad there for several years. And it was that same thing. Ultimately, year after year after year, they were losing more and more money till, I mean, it's like, it sounds cliche and old school, but the bank literally said, we're done. We're done.

We can't. You have no more collateral. You are leveraged way beyond what you need to be or what you should be. You have too much debt. We are not going to borrow you the money to farm again this year. That's the saying, you know, betting the farm. Yeah. You got to sell the farm. Yeah. Literally. Yeah. Unfortunately for a lot of people, especially back then, that was real. So are like the small farmers being kind of, I guess, drowned out by like the big farms now? Or is that not a thing?

I think in some ways, yeah, that is a thing. In the 80s, when we lost all those farmers, the acres are still being farmed.

The livestock is still being produced, right? You just have half the amount of farmers doing it. So it's unfortunate. Unfortunate reality of most industries, I think. Yeah, definitely. How often does farmland go up that you can lease? You got to know the right people of like, hey, I'm going to either pass it down or get out of the game. And there's always going to be someone next in line. Yeah, there's always somebody waiting around here. You can go out to like Montana and stuff. And I know there's guys out there in certain areas where if you want to farm more land,

You can just go find it and get it. It's more common if you're one of the guys that's willing to go out and pay stupid money to be able to lease it or buy it. And obviously that happens. You gotta be losing money, but you're hoping that they fold. Or you're hoping you can just hang on to it long-term. Which rarely happens because guys that are doing that, you're dealing with a guy on each side that's just going after every dollar, right? So it's rare...

if I go take some land from somebody because I'm willing to pay more than I can possibly make on it, it's pretty rare that the guy that owns that land isn't just going to give it to the next guy that gives them 10 bucks an acre more than me. Yeah. Right. Right. Makes sense. That's usually the way it works. Farming is still a little bit old school that way where you have to have and build the good relationships for long-term. At least,

At least that's my theory anyway. The loyalty aspect of it. Yeah. Some guys don't operate that way, but for sure. So you don't mess with livestock, huh? No, we haven't for quite a while. We had cattle and hogs when I was a lot younger. I think it was kind of the 80s that burned him out on it. He just said, I got enough risk in all this. It's enough work the way it is. He just got out of them. Whenever we're getting a little low on content ideas, sometimes I'm like, you know, it would be kind of fun to have a little like,

You know, get some pigs, some goats, some cattle, maybe some horses. Ken will take care of them. He'll feed them, you know, make sure. Like I could see Ken at 5 in the morning getting like, you know, smoking some cows, slopping the pigs. It'd be great. I think it'd be great. Maybe like a llama, some stuff like that. You would think a good friend would step up and support you like that.

Well, yeah, no. Well, you know, he'd be in on it. It'd be all of, it'd be, you know, our farm. Ken's just doing the farming of it, you know, and like, we'll film and all that. It's just adding a little bit more to his plate. And,

But yeah, I don't know. I've had that idea multiple times, but then I go, you know, it's quite the commitment. Yeah, because then all those times where you're traveling. It's like, what are we going to do? The stuff you need to do, poor Ken can't go with. I know. But he just loves it. He has such a passion for it. He does. Yeah. How would he balance that between the gay club and the vape therapy? Oh, man. You saw that, did you? Not only did I see it, but my GPS said it.

It's here. That's a, there's a funny story on that. We didn't. So for those of you listening, our shop on basically the maps. So Google maps or Apple maps, whatever it is, it's labeled big Ken's vape therapy and gay strip club. Is it a male strip club or something like that? Which we didn't, we did not set. And although Ken maybe thinks we did, we did not set it. Uh,

Still up for debate. Why would I? That's not even that funny, dude. I texted him. I was like, this is where it is. It'll take you here. Park around back. You don't want people seeing your truck here this early in the afternoon. Yeah. No, but so I don't know. Like just some kids basically managed to like be able to do that. And like they've changed the name multiple times. Like one time it was like...

small CJ's dope and gun shop. I'm like, God damn. The sheriffs are going to be driving by here thinking, that one wasn't even funny. There was one where it was way funnier. The best one they did, which they should have left, was Big Ken's barbecue and foot massage. That's funny. The other ones are just like, eh, you're trying too hard. They're always a little vulgar. Some of the locals, you don't want to go through the work without embarrassing Ken.

Well, you know, some of the locals, I guess, you know, just down the street at a restaurant, I overheard through the grapevine, like they were complaining about it thinking we set that. They're like, there's kids and stuff that I'm like, we didn't do that, man. It's like, it keeps coming back on us. Well, mine keeps showing up no matter how many times I had it removed, it would show up and you can tell. Oh, so they're doing it to you too? Oh yeah. They just pin it and then they name it. How the hell is that possible? Millennial wrong and stuff. It's obviously,

I cannot meet you. Imagine you're just like, this is where I live. Until now, when this comes out, now we'll see what they come up with. True, true. Do people show up to your house? Oh, yeah. And they just roll in? What do you do? How do you take it?

You do? We're thinking about getting a gate. Actually, we probably are getting a gate because we've done signs and it doesn't seem to deter. We've had a few times where it's weird people and we've had some where it's really nice. And honestly, we always treat them good. But we prefer not to. It's tough. It's like they knock on the door and I open it. And then they're like, hey, can we...

It's like, what do I do now? We just drove six hours. We just drove six hours. Like, do you think we could, uh, like we were trying to buy some shirts. I'm like, uh, yeah, sure. Come on in. Yeah. And then we ended up giving the whole tour and, and doing, you know, taking pictures of ever, which we don't do that. We're done doing it though. We're done doing it because we're getting a gate. I should show you a picture of our sign. Cause it's, it's a nice, it nicely says turn around. Like,

That's what I think. You found it. We have a longer driveway. You guys are right on the road. Yeah. Our driveway is like 300 feet long, and halfway up it, I have an eight-foot sign that you can't miss because I didn't want to deal with the gate. I didn't want to pay for the gate, and then I didn't want to deal with it all the time. It's going to be a pain because every time someone wants to come that doesn't have the door open, or we're going to have to tell them the code, or we're going to have to get them a...

So what's going to happen is you just leave it open all the time. And then it's useless. Yeah. But if you leave it open, then people are dumb enough to drive through a gate. They'll go, the gate was open, so we figured it was okay. Maybe. But I don't know. I feel like it's a little bit more than just like a little sign. It'll look cool. Like we'll make it look nice. Like it'll have like maybe like a logo in the middle. Like as if it's a mansion, but it's just a steel building. You know? Big fancy rotten iron. Yeah. Like a Beverly Hills game. Yeah.

With a butler maybe that stands there. There we go, yeah. Or Ken. Yeah, we just have Ken standing there. He can do that. Oh, my God. This guy's going to have a busy-ass schedule between doing all the merch, being the podcast researcher, and then taking care of all of our farm animals. Yeah. So what does your sign say? It just says, Frig off? Something. So I admit, we kind of copied Cletus's sign that he had posted at the Freedom Factory. And it says, like, it's got the Millennial Farmer logo that I have.

And it's something along the lines of this is a busy working farm and our private home. We can't allow unannounced visitors or strangers or whatever it says. And then it...

It says, like, basically, thank you for your understanding. Yeah. Meaning, we hope you understand this. Yeah. And then there's literally a stop sign on the sign. And then I just put my little tagline at the bottom, like, hey, keep it between the rows. Yeah. And every day in the summer, you can see marks where somebody comes halfway up the driveway. And then they, like, awkwardly back down when they get to the sign. So it's working, that means. It does. It definitely works. Oh, my God.

I get a lot of that. If I mow the driveway and I end up down at the road,

It's almost like every time somebody's waiting, like they're a half mile up the road and they see the mower coming and they hurry up and they're just like, Oh, Hey, wow. I was just trying to see you in your driveway at my house. Yeah. Do you mow here often? Yeah. And I don't want to say like anywhere other than the shop. I, I love meeting people saying what's up, shaking hands, taking pictures. I'll talk with you for 20, 30 minutes, but at the shop,

It's just an invasion of privacy. It's an invasion of privacy, and it, like for me... It slows down when you're trying to work. It slows you down so... It interrupts the whole day. Like, you can't give a one-hour tour to every person that wants in. But you feel like an asshole if you don't. Yeah. It's tough. It's a really weird privilege thing to complain about. It is. So with YouTube and filming your daily process, I feel like there's a lot of things that people are always...

critiquing us on our way of doing something. They go, no, you should have put the Harley snow bike together like that. But you have something that a lot of people do and they have these, they're stuck in their ways when they do it. You have a lot of people that when you do something, they're like, Oh, I would have never done it that way. I would have done it like this. Oh yeah. Or more so. Cause I, I show everything.

So if like something mechanical happens and it takes me a while to figure it out, like I document that. Yeah. I'm not the most mechanical guy in the world, but like I can find my way around something. I'll figure it out. And I show it on camera.

And if I say something wrong or I call it the wrong thing or it takes me too long, just so full of G.I. Joe's. I know. You got Albert Einstein in the comments here. Why is that, you think? I don't know. It makes people feel smarter. It makes them feel better about themselves acting like belittling you, trying to make you feel not as smart as them. You know, it just like boosts them up. Because they're mad because a million people watched you do something cool. So they're mad about it. So they got it.

They don't know it, you know, but I think...

It took me a while to figure it out, but it's like, it's an internal, like it's a problem with them. Yeah. It's their own security. Yeah. Right. They're insecure. Nobody looks at someone that's doing something else. And if you feel good about yourself, like you don't need to tear them down. Yeah. That's a really weird, like grandfatherly way of saying that, but it's true. It's true. So do you have haters then? Like any haters? Yeah. Really? And there are other farmers. Okay. That makes sense. There are other farmers that hate the shit out of me.

Interesting. Like last week, I found, I found it a pretty funny comment on Tik TOK. I was explaining something about multi-generational farms and I answered it super nicely. And I talked about like how, how lucky I am and how thankful I am to be a multi-generational farmer. Cause it's not, not everybody can jump in and start farming the way I do. So I understand the opportunities that I've had. And I was acknowledging that. And this dude's comment was,

Even though I completely despise you, that was a pretty good answer. Well, you got to get like daddy's money, like comments too, right? Being multi-generational. I was like, God, that's the worst. Well, no shit. I'm not going to kill my dad. Yeah, right. Yeah. And all the time. And I always, to this point, I have not inherited anything more than the opportunity to do it.

I have zero ground that I've inherited. I have inherited zero machinery. It's just the opportunity to be able to do it. Makes sense. But people, it's like people just think like one day my dad was 40 years old and was like, here you go. Here's the farm. Yeah. Now you got it. You got a great comeback though. Cause you're like, what do you mean? Like I started my own channel and everything. I got my own business going on the, but I'll get you, you guys probably get it too. I get the comments from the guys, girls, whoever, like,

Like, oh, you have a hobby of making videos about that? Yeah. It's a cute little hobby. We don't necessarily get that, I guess. But I could see how as like the farmer, maybe community, they're a little bit more old school. Yeah. Or just, you know, men trying to be men. People got to understand it now. But, you know, when you first started, I'm sure it was...

Because for us, we were college students. I guess I was in high school, but...

people still thought it was such a waste of time. Oh, yeah. And like we had nothing else going. You know, it's like, what do you mean wasted time? It's either we're doing this, building this business or this brand. Yeah. Or we're out at parties like getting drunk. Like, what do you mean a waste of time? Right. But for you, I guess it was probably like, why would you waste your time with that little video thing when you would be farming? Set the camera down, you millennial.

millennial. All you ever care about is your phone and the camera and showing off to people like, I bought this tractor because you watched this video. Yeah. Right. So I guess you can call me an asshole if you want. Sell out. Sell out? Oh yeah. What are you selling out on? Well, just anything that's got a sponsored ad to it. Oh, right. You know, you guys got to get that too. We used to, but not anymore. I think it's a more socially acceptable part of the space now. I mean, you got to pay the bills and when you're freaking...

Spending 30, 40 grand on a YouTube video, you got to freaking... Something's got to... You know, you got to get some income. Believe it or not, this ain't cheap. No, this is not cheap. Do they want the videos or not? Exactly. That's how it works. It's a part of it. You want something crazy? We got to fund it somehow. But does your YouTube channel have a team around it? I know you film with like you and...

on you know your family who's editing who's doing yeah so my wife does 90 of the editing on the videos for the farm nice as far as that goes we have no we we have we don't nice we have we have a lady now actually we hired a lady like six months ago to be a virtual assistant so she'll go through and clean up our emails oh because i'm horrible at answering emails and i just hate it so much and there's so many picking out the brand deals and stuff yeah

leave the ones in there that I actually need to pay attention to and just get rid of the rest. Yeah. Right. Cause I just don't have time to, I'd be emailing all day every day and I'm not going to do that. So most of them get ignored, but she'll go through and clean stuff up. But as far as the editing goes, there's nobody, I don't think that has ever edited another farm video besides my wife or I. So it's just the two of us, which I also know sometimes limits us a little bit. You know, we could probably do some,

Bigger, better, cool stuff, I guess. But I like it the way it is. I don't want it to spiral too far out of control and have something that's even more difficult to manage. You've got to do all the titles, though, right? We argue about that sometimes. Really? Because the titles have just such your personality in it. Yeah, your taste in it. I think her trick is when my wife titles it,

I think her trick is like, as she's editing, she'll find a line or something from it and like write it down as she's editing. And I think that's the trick. Oh, so like it, it is something that probably came from me. Yeah. All right. That makes sense. Cause it's your voice. And I was like, every title I read, I can, I can read it in your voice. Yeah. Some of them too. I'll, I'll adjust them a little bit. Like after it posts, I'll look and I'm like, ah, that's gotta be tweaked a little

bit you gotta add a little bit more dad humor to this yeah yeah a little bit more of a zach twist yeah but sometimes we'll we'll debate about that what the title and thumbnail should be on certain videos that's funny man you got such a great thing going though because it you don't really have to think too hard your wife is just pulling the title out of out of what you said in the video and it's a screen grab or a picture of it you know it's not all set up and staged and everything yeah right

If we do the set up stage thumbnail, which we do once in a while, it's completely as sarcasm. Like, let's make this look as dumb as possible. Meme the Seaboys on this one. Thumbs up. Yeah. You were saying, you know, you don't have as much preparation or you're not like...

building out these projects and doing these crazy things for the video, you're kind of just going about living your daily life. But I think that's the beauty of it. And that's why people enjoy it. You know, it's real nowadays. Like it's, there's just so much fake, everything, everything's just set up and, you know, people can see through that. So I think when you're just being original, you're being yourself. People just tend to head towards that, gravitate towards it. I think you're right. And I think that's also part of,

Like we talked earlier where you don't need super fancy equipment. I think in the same way, you don't need to edit fancy music and graphics and whatever. Yeah. You know, not for my style of video, not for what it is, what it is. And that's what, what is good. Great about it. Your wife understands she throws in a couple of jokes.

like she has good timing on your jokes and stuff like that makes it funny to watch but also somehow makes it really easy to watch someone doing work like i watched you work for 20 minutes and i go nice that was fun like right it's done and goes well that was productive what a good day's work you know i did it i did it yeah i worked so hard today but like all you did was shovel out a grain bin which is just not fun at all it's a it sucks that's a horrible job yeah and i watched that went

Hmm, that was fun. Yeah.

I like that. Well, thank you for your help. Yeah, just anything I can do to help out. I had an article. I don't remember what magazine it was. It was a bigger one a couple of years ago that I was surprised contacted me, but we did an article. You know, like you do the interview, and they put it together. And I was actually on vacation when it came out, and they emailed me the link, so I went to check it out. And I remember I was sitting on the beach at Mexico, and it was like it compared me to Bob Ross.

It called me the Bob Ross of agriculture. That is awesome. What an interesting comparison. Yeah, that's really... How'd you take it? Compliment? Yeah, I mean... Confusion. Confusion. Hey, honey, what do you think of Bob Ross? Oh, that guy, that cocksucker. You're like, oh, yeah, yeah. Never heard anyone call Bob Ross a cocksucker. Yeah. That's not quite how I'd describe him, but... That cocksucker. Yeah.

That's a t-shirt idea right there. It's Bob Ross's face. With that underneath. Cocksucker. People will be like, you know, I've never thought of that. But now that you say that, he is, isn't he? I guess it apparently had something to do with the fact that, like you were saying, it's like oddly satisfying or relaxing to watch the video. Like from beginning to end, Bob starts with a canvas and makes a painting. And like I start farming in the morning and you go through the whole day till the day's over.

So it was some kind of an analogy to that. Interesting. I'm much more used to being called the Kardashian of farming. Oh, really? That fits. I'm very thankful to my wife for coming up with that one. You like that? The Kardashian. No, you don't like that. Well, I know. You pulled up in like a big G-Wagon and there was a big fleet escalating. He's got his security with him. Yeah.

yeah you flew the plane the big private jet just down the way but obviously you had to ride in a car that was really tough so that was difficult yeah yeah and it wasn't the type of jet that i wanted to be in today that's the worst it's it's tough actually every time i've been called that which is not very many times but every time i am i'll share it and i tag the kardashians in it like

Like as many as I can find. I was hoping you can get them to come on out. Yeah, they don't. I want Kim Kardashian to come out and drive a combine. Dude, that would be a banger. Can we come and do that? That'd be a hit. I think Seaboy's Day on the farm would be a great bit for us. Well, you called Bob Ross a cocksucker.

Yeah, dude. Come on. Not you. You guys are invited out. I think that'd be great. We want to do a video series where we go around and do like dirty jobs. Seaboy's edition. We'll go to like a pig farm. Not quite as dirty as a pig farm, but like get in, you know, in the mud or something. Yeah. If you guys get something stuck, come out for that. We can come up with ideas. I think that'd be cool. Like during harvest, you could be ripping around in the razor or something. Maybe put like Evan in the combine. See how long until he breaks it. Yeah.

Yeah. 10 minutes. I guess there's a silver lining for everybody. Like, yeah, that's actually kind of a busy time for me. I would like to get done. You have like a horse or something. Evan's riding the horse. The horse dies. You're like, dude, like how do you manage to do this to everything?

He's like, what? You put me on an old horse. What'd you expect? What'd you expect? Evan, you cocksucker. That's how it would go. Gavin's laughing. Our mechanic right now. He knows. He's kidding. We'd have to have Gavin on standby. Yeah, then Gavin. And we're going to need a full-on doctor and mechanic. Yeah, I got to go to work.

Yeah. Gavin becomes a vet. So as a farmer, they always say daylight savings was for the farmers. As a farmer. Now you're hitting me with a question that I don't have an answer to. I already know. I know that I don't have an answer. You don't have an opinion on daylight savings? No, I think it had to do with when farmers had to get up early. Right. Which now there's farmers mad at me that are listening that are like, well, I still, yeah, I know. I still get up early. There's a lot of really hardworking farmers that still get up really early. Yeah.

But it had, yeah, it had something to do with that. But I don't care. It just messes with me. I don't like it when it happens. I don't know if anyone does. Yeah, it does. Probably not. Wasn't there somebody who was trying to pass a bill that was like daylight saving? Yeah, it almost made it the whole way. This is a Ken question. Someone shut it down. It seems like it comes up every year that they always talk about. They're going to talk about it in the next two weeks because daylight saving time is in two weeks. Look it up. I think they shut it down in like the House of Representatives or some ridiculous stage. Anyway. So in the summer...

I'm trying to think which way this would move. In the summer, it moves ahead, so it gets lighter an hour earlier in the morning. Is that right? I hope if it goes, like, can we stay on that time? Because I don't want it to be light out until midnight in July. That could be dangerous. Yeah, really, yeah. I'm going to bed at, like, 4 in the morning. We're out running around all night. Sun's up. If you guys are like me, when it's light out until 1030 at night, it's like you're doing something. You use all of it, yeah. Yeah. 100%. But then in...

When it's dark at 4. It's dark out at 4.30. You're like, well, day's over. Yep. Yeah. It really is. It's actually, you know, it kind of works out, I guess, in that aspect. But-

4.30 when it gets dark, it just puts me in a different state of mind of like, man, this is kind of depressing. It's horrible. It has something to do with the fact that it's here, Minnesota, winter, cold. This year we don't even have snow, so everything is just brown. It's like seasonal depression. It's dark out. I can't work on anything. What am I going to do? Yeah, the lights in the barn still work. Yeah, the lights still work. God, now I got to go home and drink a beer. Yeah. I'll probably have another one after that. Yeah. God, I'm so sad.

Even Bob Ross is gone now. Nothing good to look forward to. It's just nothing left. They took everything from us. So I have just a honest, hardworking dairy farmer friend. He works year round and

And I told him we were interviewing you and he got really upset. And he said to tell you that the reason that you guys have four by four on the back of your pickup bed is because you only work four weeks in the spring and four weeks in the fall. And I wanted to give you a chance to defend yourself on that. I mean, he's not that far off compared to a dairy farmer.

Those guys bust their asses. Oh, damn. I thought you were going to turn this. It's going to be you, Ken. No, I'm not going to turn it because I just have to admit it. It's a lot more than four weeks in the spring and four in the fall, and he knows that too. Yeah. But compared to a dairy farmer, I mean, if he's actually the one getting up and feeding the cows and milking and – They got a machine. He's not. Is it robots? Don't give them that much credit. They got robots. They got robots.

Yeah. Pretty soon he'll have a four by four. No, that's still a ton of work. Yeah. I mean, I don't even know what more to say about it. Dairy farming is tough. That's tough. And it's not like he's making hand over fist either. Yeah. I wouldn't mind dealing with the smells. He should start a YouTube channel, actually. Yeah. I cracked up at, I was watching your TikTok before this, and then you had a guy who was like, you only work six weeks a year. And you're responding like, six weeks? No one should have to work that hard to have that practice.

You got to get some better machinery or something, man. You got to get those hours down. You got to do something. Yeah. Yeah. That one went off pretty, pretty good is at the end of it. I was like six weeks every single year. Yeah.

I love that you're good at messing with people on TikTok. It's so easy on TikTok because there's just enough people that come through that don't get the humor and stuff and really will get bent out of shape on something. It's enjoyable. It's a different, obviously you've seen it. I use that platform differently than I would my YouTube channel, which has been fun for me because my YouTube channel, it's not like it's not me. I mean, what you see on the YouTube channel is me, but it's filtered.

Yeah. I make it so the kids can watch it. Right. Yeah. But on Tik TOK, I guess when I started it, I told my wife like, all right, if I'm going to get on Tik TOK and have another platform, I've just don't give a shit. Yeah. Like I don't, I, if this is the one that ends me, then so be it. Those are your rules, huh?

Huh? Those were your rules for getting on it? Pretty much. Like, yeah, if I'm going to spend more time on TikTok, then I get to be who I, like, I want to tell somebody off once in a while. Yeah. You can get the like two beer version of you, you know, like the late night version. I like that. We kind of did that with the second YouTube channel. The one we put the Ray stuff on, we call it between the rows for anybody that's wondering, but yeah,

We don't filter that a lot. You know, like my buddy was on there in a video. I didn't even notice it because it's just who we are. But one of my crew guys, his shirt said, what's up, fuckers? And he wears it all the time. And I didn't even think about it. I had so many angry people. Oh, man. Really? Because I let him, like, be in the videos and walk around my kid with that shirt. And it's like, welcome to real life, man. Or wait till those people see the Bob Ross shirt. Yeah. Yeah.

We got to get that Bob Ross shirt, man. I'm going to send you a package in the mail. You'd be like, what's this? There's gotta be a good artist out there that could come up with a millennial farmer, Bob Ross, cocksucker shirt. Someone get on it. Ex Bob Ross.

Funny enough, I actually looked at a Bob Ross. I was like, I want to buy a Bob Ross painting. And you can't buy them. Like a legit? Probably pretty expensive, dude. Buy Bob Ross. I think they've only sold like one and it went for $14 million or something like that. So who's got them? Bob Ross Inc. owns everything Bob Ross has ever made. So you can't buy it. You can buy Bob Ross styled paintings. So somebody owns the estate. Bob Ross Inc. But maybe he could, I suppose he could have had it

Like it could have said, you get the estate when I die, but you cannot sell anything? Yeah. I don't know if he set it up or if someone who was really like, oh, I'm going to make a ton of money off of this. Because wouldn't it be kind of cool? You have a nice little Bob Ross. That would be oddly badass. Yeah, right. It would be. I'd like it. Look at those happy little trees. Yeah. That cocksucker painted. I'm going to make a ton of money off of this.

How many paintings do you think he has? That's what I'm saying. Probably like a billion of them. All in one, like dusty storage ship. What a shame. What's he doing? Sell those things. So he's probably just annoyed by it. Like, yeah, Bob, let me sell these paintings. Let me throw these paintings away. You got $200 billion worth of paintings. Yeah.

Now I can't even park my boat in the garage. What did Bob Ross, what was the channel that he'd be painting on? PBS. Dude, he got that PBS man need the painting. They sold the first painting on his first episode.

And that sold for $10 million. When? Like that back then? No, recently. They sold the first one on any episode? Yeah, the first one he ever made. That was the one they only sold that one? Yeah, you got to imagine the whole team is like, come on, let's just sell them. You've got 14,000 of them. Can we just sell every other? Let's just sell one in the middle. Why the first one though? He's painted more than double the amount of paintings that Picasso has painted. I didn't mean to take us down this Bob Ross.

uh thing but yeah there's i'm gonna be honest i know like little to nothing about bob ross you're too we can tell you call him a cocksucker yeah dude i can't believe you called that guy bob yeah i don't know it just felt right in the moment and now now i'm being questioned on it i'm backing out of my statement 27 paintings are at minis minitrista's bob ross experience in muncie indiana so next time you're down there oh yeah next time i'm rolling through muncie yeah is muncie

Does it show where it is? Because I don't want to sound like an idiot. Is it by Chicago? Sure. Never mind. Chicago's in Illinois. I didn't want to sound like an idiot, so I said the wrong state. It's like up over here, northeast of Indianapolis.

On the other, it's pretty far from Chicago. I'm not going to go there today. There's a Bob Ross painting for sale for an unspecified price, but they do accept financing. Email? Can we call him now on the show and make an offer? Yeah, can we call him up? Yeah, call him up. See what it's about. Just buy email is all they offer. Oh, son of a gun. Can you imagine that guy sitting by the phone? I'd like to buy your Bob Ross. I'm pretty sure there was one point you could get Joe Exotic on a podcast.

Joe Exotic? You could. You just call him up and get him on a podcast. Yeah, he's in jail. No, it was just, God, what were they called? Cameos. He was on Cameos. So you could basically hire him out for 30 minutes. Yeah, you could hire him for an hour. Yeah, from jail. Yeah, I don't know how the hell that works. Maybe because he's like, I don't know how that would work. You'd think he'd be...

under some weird, you know, strict things. I didn't think you could work from jail. He's using his 15 minutes a day to make his phone call, and he's doing like 10 cameos. Oh, yeah. Two grand a day. So, like, when he gets out, he's going to have a million bucks waiting for him. Yeah, he will. Pretty smart, actually. You can book Joe Exotic for $249. Oh, for 15 minutes. Oh, wow. It's actually not that bad. It's almost half of your price. Yeah, that's not very good.

Your next video, though, is just 15 minutes of Joe Exotic sitting in a cell. You too? Just talking about Carole Baskin. Get me out of here. Get me out of here.

You should do that and you should have him sit in the tractor with you in the buddy seat. Farming with Joe Exotic. Just like on an iPad? Dude, that would go crazy. You should do that. See, you guys. Now he's doing stuff that he doesn't necessarily want to do. This is not on his thing. You're right. I can title it like Farming with Joe Exotic. See, that's how we think. We're like, that's a banger title right there. That shit's going to go viral. Then you go down the rabbit hole. Yeah, yeah.

There's so many things you could do, like having Joe Exotic babysit my kids. Yeah. You know, like set them up. You know, Onyx and him. Yeah. Great. Joe Exotic flies my helicopter home from Cletus' race. Yeah, exactly. There you go. That's pretty good. You might have a career in this. Now Ryan just needs to win that helicopter. If you win that helicopter, I'll pay for Joe Exotic to fly it home with you on the iPod.

That's fair. Well, okay. That's a safe bet. Hold on. Only for 15 minutes. Only for 15 minutes. The whole way home. That is about a 15-hour flight. Can you imagine every day for the next 100 days I'm flying for 15 minutes from spot to spot? Zach pays like $100,000 to Joe Exotic. Yeah, he's like, I thought it was going to be a one-time thing. He's like, well, this was not worth the investment. I didn't think he could drive that well. I didn't think he'd win the race. Tough.

You and me both. Yeah, that's going to be electric if that does happen. I do have faith in Ryan, though. He is the best wheel man in our group, I will say. Him and Mike are probably tossed up. Mike really gave you a run for your money in the last year. As long as I don't have to jump. Yeah, Ryan doesn't jump. Which, honestly, if you jump...

in that race you're in so much trouble like i mean but think of the content yeah ryan ends up in the in the stands or something hopefully maybe on the other side other side yeah yeah not like on top of a bunch of people no not like that trying to avoid that well you've got one of those danger rangers built and that race got pretty sketchy yeah that was the one that

they actually did jump. Extremely. So I built the Ranger for those who don't know. I built the Ranger planning to go to Bristol and race it in Cletus's race almost a year ago. That was in April of 23. I built the Ranger. I got it 90% done. And then it just, it got way too close to farming. I mean, we were going to get in the fields and I'm like, I can't be driving to Tennessee for a stupid Ranger race. Driving a Ranger on a racetrack. And I'll be honest with you. Like you guys went through my head. Like, who could I call?

That would legitimately. We do love Ford Rangers. Yeah. Who, who could, who could gain from this? Who could, who would actually use close enough and knows how to load this thing on a trailer and go, who could I dump this on? But then you thought of us and went, well, there's no way that thing's coming back in one piece. Well, now it's sat there for like 10 months.

So if you guys get invited to the ranger race, I got a good one sitting there. All right. All right. It just needs a little bit of work. So you're also a Ford ranger enthusiast then, or was that just because of the race? That's because that's what was required. Oh, you don't use range. So you're nothing like us then. No, I'm not an enthusiast. Okay. Nope. Yeah. If we had a farm, the entire thing would just be rangers. Rangers. Yeah. We'd be using them to combine and stuff. Yeah. Everything. But why? Yeah.

you're the best that's why what do you mean did you see ours out there did you see it like what is there's any more questions yeah if you ever got any heavy loads and you need a rig that can pull it you can use our dually converted cummins swapped you can pull like if you get a new combine or something you need to pull it home yeah see that one that would go crazy you don't want to race that one

Right? I don't know. I don't think you'd make it. It's built for work. But it would still probably win the race. It would win. Yeah. Pull the racetrack home. Yeah. Load it up. Throw it home. Take it home. All in a day's work. No, if you guys want that Ranger...

It's there. Yeah, use it. You can almost barely not even say that. I was like, use it. But you need to pay for it first in full before you can even open the door. I'm being careful about what I say because I think I promised to get Joe Exotic to fly a helicopter. That was by accident. Yeah, you're driving home, your hands are sweating, you're like...

What did I just do? What did I say in that podcast? Can't sleep at night? What happened? Just dreams of Joe Exotic and Bob Ross. Yeah. Well, I think that's a wrap. We'll end on that note, man. We definitely appreciate you making the trip to come down here, and we're glad that we could make this happen. And thanks for being you.

Keep making great videos and keep farming, dude. Yeah, same to you guys. Thank you for having me. Much appreciated. Thanks for the t-shirt idea. Yeah, there you go. It's all yours. All right. If you haven't subscribed, hit subscribe, and we'll see you guys in the next podcast. And also subscribe to Millennial Farmer. Check him out on Instagram. Millennial Farmer on YouTube. Go check him out, guys. There we go.

What are the headsets for if there's no audio? You didn't have audio the whole time? No. Shut the fuck up. Yes, you did. No, I didn't. Are you serious? No. Test. Oh, my God. Yo. You should have said something, dude. I got like five minutes into it. Why are we wearing these stupid things? Only three of these are plugged in.

Way to go, Ken. What? I didn't set this up. It was me. What does this sound like not having audio? Unplug mine. Unplug mine. Bro, you just can't hear shit. What do you mean? Now do it. Dude, I feel bad. I'm sorry. How did you even hear what we were saying? Put this on for a second. This is what it's supposed to sound like. Oh, I know. I do most of my internet calls. It sounds just real nice, you know? Oh, man, I wish you would have said something. I feel awful now. Oh, my gosh. Yeah, this is a rookie-ass podcast. Come on, guys. We need to pick it up. Shitty.

We need to pick it up. I went on the Seaboys podcast and I didn't hear a single fucking word they said.