Millennial Farmer Makes More Money On YouTube Than Farming

Summary

Podcast Summary: "Millennial Farmer Makes More Money On YouTube Than Farming"

Podcast: Life Wide Open with CboysTV
Guests: Zach Johnson (Millennial Farmer) and the CboysTV Crew (CJ, Ben, Ryan, Ken, Evan, Micah)
Release Date: February 27, 2024

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Episode Overview

In this episode, the CboysTV crew welcomes fellow Minnesota YouTuber and sixth-generation farmer Zach Johnson, known as the “Millennial Farmer.” They dive into Zach’s remarkable journey from traditional farming to YouTube stardom, discussing how online content creation has not only expanded his influence but also become a more lucrative pursuit than farming itself. With a blend of business insights, honest talk about the realities of modern agriculture, and their trademark laughter, the group explores the intersections of technology, agriculture, internet fame, and behind-the-scenes YouTuber life.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Minnesota Life & Harsh Winters

• The group shares stories about shooting in blizzards and surviving harsh Minnesota winters. Zach confirms that even seasoned locals find it tough:

  “No, I. We went 200ft from my house and I didn't even want to go out there. Yeah, it was horrible.” (03:34, Zach)

2. Origins & Rise of Millennial Farmer

• Zach is a sixth-generation farmer, growing mainly corn and soybeans.
• He started filming to address misinformation about agriculture (GMOs, pesticides, etc.) and bring transparency to non-farmers.

  “What I wanted to do was figure out a way to… talk about that stuff, but not in a defensive way. Just be actually transparent about it…” (06:21, Zach)

• He learned filming and editing entirely from other YouTubers and admitted to not being tech-savvy.
• His wife encouraged him to take YouTube seriously after some early videos gained traction around 2017-2018.

3. Life Balance: Farmer or YouTuber?

• When asked how he identifies, Zach says he typically tells people he’s a farmer:

  “I just say I'm a farmer… your average Joe Schmo that's 60 years old isn't going to get it.” (08:14, Zach)

4. Filming Family & Farm Crew

• It took Zach years to get comfortable involving others on camera—for a time, even his coworkers didn't realize he was filming for YouTube.
• Family and crew, like “Jim,” have gradually become characters in his videos, often to their surprise and eventual amusement.

5. Video Creation Process and Audience Expectations

• Zach mostly documents daily farming realities, worrying at times about repetition but realizing audiences love the ongoing story:

  “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 million people will watch it. So, yeah, keep making it.” (11:53, Zach)

6. Farming Technology & Automation

• Discussion covers how modern tractors and combines can practically operate themselves with precision GPS and automation.

  “You can set it up for as much automation or as little as you want...We can now sync our grain cart to the combine...John Deere now has fully automated tractors...” (30:14 – 31:01, Zach)

7. Brand Partnerships & The Realities of Sponsored Content

• Zach has worked with multiple manufacturers (John Deere, Case, etc.), sharing how demoing new machines for videos can actually slow down real farm operations.
• Brand deals are a major part of monetization, but viewers sometimes still critique “selling out.”

8. Revenue: YouTube vs Farming

• Zach affirms that YouTube now brings in more income than farming does:

  “It's the YouTube.” (36:43, Zach)

• He highlights how this supplemental income has provided security and savings for his farm during tough years, underscoring the razor-thin margins and volatility of modern agriculture.

9. Barriers to Entry: How Hard Is It to Farm?

• The cost and difficulty of entering farming are daunting. Modern operations require millions of dollars in capital, and Zach notes that most new entrants rely on creative direct-to-consumer farming, rather than commodity grains, to get started.
• He tells the story of Grant Hilbert, who parlayed gaming YouTube success into real agricultural land ownership.

  “Grant didn’t farm...he started a YouTube channel where he played Farming Simulator...and it just exploded...he put a bunch of it [money] in farming.” (38:15, Zach)

10. Overhead, Risk, and Lifestyle Realities

• The group discusses unpredictable income, high fuel usage (~600-700 gallons of diesel per day during harvest), and the stress of massive overhead—contrasting perceptions that all farmers are wealthy or “subsidy rich.”

  “It's just big dollars...the margin can be the same as any other business, but the dollars are moving.” (47:30, Zach)

11. Audience Criticism, Haters, and Social Media Culture

• Zach shares how even fellow farmers hit him with jealousy or “multi-generational privilege” critiques.
• Comments can be harsh, especially when he shows any mistakes or tries sponsored content, yet he recognizes most haters are projecting their own insecurities.

  “I get the comments from the guys, girls, whoever, like, like, oh, you like. You have a hobby of making videos about that. Yeah, it's a cute little hobby.” (60:17, Zach)

12. YouTube Operations: Team or Solo?

• His channel is largely a two-person operation: Zach films, and his wife does 90% of the editing.
• They recently hired a virtual assistant to help manage emails.
• Zach prefers keeping the channel small and true to its roots, rather than building a large production team.

13. Fame, Boundaries, & Real-World Consequences

• Both Zach and the Cboys share problems with visitors showing up to their properties unannounced—a weird, sometimes invasive consequence of YouTube fame.
• They joke about signage, gates, and Minnesota Nice conflicting with personal privacy.

14. Social Media Strategy: Youtube vs. TikTok

• Zach is more unfiltered and direct on TikTok, seeing it less as a family brand and more as a place to joke, roast, and be candid.

15. Notable Jokes, Quotes, and Memorable Moments

• On when farming comes first:
  “I'm going to give you the farmer answer and say it kind of depends on the weather.” (35:47, Zach)
• On people showing up at the farm:
  “We have a longer driveway...an eight foot sign that you can't miss. Because I didn't want to deal with the gate.” (54:35, Zach; 55:43 for full policy)
• On YouTube haters:
  “Even though I completely despise you, that was a pretty good answer.” – a comment Zach received (59:08)
• On his YouTube team:
  “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...” (62:11, Zach)
• On audience criticism:
  "People just think, like one day my dad was 40 years old and was like, here you go, have fun." (60:02, Zach)
• On being compared to Bob Ross:
  “It compared me to Bob Ross. It called me the Bob Ross of agriculture.” (66:18, Zach)
  Banter ensues:
  “I've never heard anyone call Bob Ross a cocksucker...” (66:36, Zach, tongue-in-cheek)
• On TikTok:
  “…if I'm gonna spend more time on TikTok, then I get to be who I like. I want to tell somebody off once in a while.” (73:47, Zach)

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Notable Timestamps

• 06:21 – Zach’s YouTube origin story and motivations
• 11:53 – Discussion about repetitive routines and content
• 30:14 – Modern farm technology, automation with tractors/combines
• 36:43 – YouTube exceeds farming as a revenue stream
• 38:15 – Grant Hilbert’s transition from virtual to real farming
• 47:30 – High costs and the reality of farm business margins
• 54:35 – Dealing with fans showing up in person, signage policy
• 60:17 – Addressing “daddy’s money” haters and stereotypes
• 62:11 – YouTube workflow and the Millennial Farmer “team”
• 66:18 – Being called “the Bob Ross of agriculture”
• 73:47 – TikTok persona vs. YouTube persona

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Tone & Style

The episode is upbeat, honest, and laced with candid banter, poking fun at rural stereotypes, Minnesota life, the oddities of online fame, and the day-to-day grind of both content creation and farming. Zach’s dry, self-deprecating humor and the Cboys’ energetic curiosity make for a fun, approachable discussion—even when breaking down complex or serious topics.

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Final Thoughts

Zach Johnson’s story is a testament to how curiosity, transparency, and a willingness to experiment can transform not only personal income but the culture of an entire industry. The episode shines in its realism about both farming and content creation—never glossing over the hard realities or the surprising perks. And, true to both the CboysTV and Millennial Farmer brands, no one ever takes themselves too seriously.

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For Listeners Wanting More

• Check out Zach (Millennial Farmer) on YouTube and Instagram for authentic, behind-the-scenes farm life and (occasionally) unexpectedly viral tractor pulls.
• Subscribe to Life Wide Open for weekly episodes packed with similar Midwestern humor, YouTube behind-the-scenes, and entrepreneurial insights.

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Transcript

[Seaboy 1]

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.

[Seaboy 2]

Million subscribers.

[Seaboy 1]

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, the money.

[Seaboy 2]

Being a farmer, being a YouTuber and a farmer. Yep, 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.

[Seaboy 1]

Getting a lot of hate from the farming community. It's a great story. Let's get into it, guys.

[Seaboy 2]

Dude, this has been a long time coming.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

A horrible day.

[Seaboy 3]

It was. Man, we felt so bad too, cuz I think some people came from like Iowa or something like that.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Came from like Green Bay area.

[Seaboy 1]

Dude.

[Seaboy 2]

It was a blizzard and it was 20 below and the plan was to be outside the entire day.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Yeah, it wasn't like a normal blizzard. It was awesome.

[Seaboy 2]

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.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

I'm not sure that you would have. The other people were only there because they stayed in Alexandria the night before.

[Seaboy 3]

Okay. Yeah, I think the highway was closed between here and there.

[Seaboy 1]

And we're pretty good about filming in blizzards and, and nasty conditions. I mean, that's half the year we. We spend it like that. So we just. They couldn't make it.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

No, I. We went 200ft from my house and I didn't even want to go out there. Yeah, it was horrible.

[Seaboy 3]

I don't know why we picked to live in Minnesota, I guess.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

It's terrible, isn't it?

[Seaboy 3]

Yeah.

[Seaboy 1]

God, isn't it terrible filming when it's like negative, like 20. Just your fingers don't work. Yeah.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

The little buttons on the cameras.

[Seaboy 1]

Yep. Then you have to pull your gloves off and. Yeah, it's tough, but yeah.

[Seaboy 2]

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.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

There's one more.

[Seaboy 2]

We got millennial. Millennial farmer sitting next to us on the podcast. Zach, man, it's been a long time coming. Thanks for coming.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

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.

[Seaboy 2]

Yeah, you would. You would think. But we've been trying to do this for, what, two years now?

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Yeah, probably.

[Seaboy 2]

It's like you got a busy schedule. It's like you're working two jobs.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Well, same way with. I mean, you guys are. You're gone all the time. Even just trying to get this coordinated. Like, we canceled a couple of months ago. Again, just. You guys have a lot going on, too. See, my. 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.

[Seaboy 1]

We do.

[Seaboy 2]

We're on the road a lot, too, especially in the winter, like you said, you know, it's. It's. It's tough to film around here. You know how that goes.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Right.

[Seaboy 2]

And so, yeah, we hit the road and we travel quite a bit, especially.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

These months, but especially when there's no snow. Then you really got to come up with stuff.

[Seaboy 1]

Yeah. I mean, there's 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 that way 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 just sucks not being able to snowmobile around here, but.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Yeah.

[Seaboy 2]

Is that good for you? No snow?

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

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 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.

[Seaboy 3]

So is that worse because it soaks in?

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

No, I'm. I'm. I'm going with. It's better.

[Seaboy 3]

Okay.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

It's going to replenish some of the. 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.

[Seaboy 3]

And then you'll get one of those really great videos where you get the tractor stuck up to the top of the tracks.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Yeah.

[Seaboy 3]

And it takes three weeks to get out.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Yeah, but that's the silver lining is you get some videos out of that.

[Seaboy 2]

Right.

[Seaboy 3]

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.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Right. But it is ridiculous that way because 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.

[Seaboy 3]

Yeah, exactly. At least I got a title.

[Seaboy 2]

You got a good thumbnail.

[Seaboy 1]

Whereas for any other farmer, it's just completely all negative.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Right.

[Seaboy 1]

Like, it's just more work. Yeah. So what do you all farm then?

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Right now it's just corn and soybeans.

[Seaboy 1]

Okay.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

So we just. We just like 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 did. We had 100 acres of wheat last year. My dad is 65 years old. He had never grown wheat. So we had our first hundred 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.

[Seaboy 1]

So you've been farming your whole life?

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Yeah.

[Seaboy 1]

Your fifth. Fifth generation?

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Sixth, actually.

[Seaboy 1]

Six now.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Yeah.

[Seaboy 1]

Holy smokes. So did you have a passion for, like, you know, filmmaking or making videos or. How did. How did you go from being a farmer to now a farmer and YouTuber?

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

It's the total opposite. Like, I don't. I don't know what I'm doing with the camera that I use.

[Seaboy 1]

You really don't need to.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

No, you really don't. I tell people that all the time. You don't have to get overly fancy. I mean, if you got it and you want to do it that way, fine, but I don't. Yeah, 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.

[Seaboy 1]

So are you doing iPhone or.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

No, I. I use a. It's a Canon phone. G7.

[Seaboy 2]

Okay.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Yeah, for the camera guys. I guess it's. It's like a thick cell phone. It fits in my coat pocket. I mean, it would have to, or else. I. I've tried. Like, GoPros are just super glitchy.

[Seaboy 3]

Yeah.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

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.

[Seaboy 3]

Oh, so do we.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

It's bad. It's just a cost of doing business. Yeah, it is what it is.

[Seaboy 2]

So how'd you start that? Yeah, how's the video start?

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

I started it because I was seeing a lot of stuff out there about farming that wasn't like they. 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 I. 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. And like, you know, 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. Yeah, we eat the food too. Right. So that was kind of why I started it. And then it just, like, it started as my goofy little hobby. I had to use YouTube to figure out how to start a YouTube channel.

[Seaboy 3]

Yep, same.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

I had to use YouTube to figure out how to edit a video.

[Seaboy 3]

Yep.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

I mean, I used YouTube for everything. And then it just 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.

[Seaboy 1]

And what year was that exactly?

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Like, would you say I started it? In the spring of 16.

[Seaboy 1]

Okay.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

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.

[Seaboy 3]

And it just grew.

[Seaboy 1]

You were a full blown YouTuber.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Yeah, I guess so.

[Seaboy 3]

Do you. What do you call yourself? A YouTuber or a farmer or a farmer YouTuber.

[Seaboy 1]

Yeah. When people ask, what do you do for a living?

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

I always say, I don't really. I mean, if. If a normal. If a normal person, if somebody asks that doesn't know I'm a YouTuber.

[Seaboy 3]

Yeah.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

I just say I'm a farmer.

[Seaboy 1]

Yeah. That makes.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

I don't try to.

[Seaboy 3]

I agree.

[Seaboy 2]

Yeah.

[Seaboy 1]

So much. That's way easier.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Yeah. Like your. Your average Joe Schmo that's 60 years old isn't going to get it. I make track videos, too.

[Seaboy 2]

What's a farmer? You're like, oh, man. I really can't explain my second job.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

So. Yeah, to most people I just say that I'm a farmer.

[Seaboy 3]

Yeah.

[Zach (Millennial 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 use. Yeah.

[Seaboy 1]

Yeah.

[Seaboy 2]

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.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

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 like, what, What's. Why don't you show us anything else? You know, because I didn't want to stick the camera in everybody's face. It's really. Yeah. It's uncomfortable for them and the guy running the camera.

[Seaboy 3]

Yeah.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

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.

[Seaboy 1]

Right.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

But yeah, it took a while. I. 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.

[Seaboy 3]

You're on. You're on YouTube. And he's like, what?

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Saw you on YouTube? Yeah, I think it was exactly like that.

[Seaboy 3]

That is so funny.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

And then it took me a while to really get comfortable, like, 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.

[Seaboy 3]

Okay.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

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.

[Seaboy 2]

Oh, God.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

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.

[Seaboy 3]

Yeah, you're in.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

It doesn't bother him a bit.

[Seaboy 2]

And people watching the videos are, like, pretty stoked because there's another customer, there's another. There's another character personality to watch.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Yeah, yeah. You need characters in the story.

[Seaboy 3]

I was just watching a video, 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.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

He's probably the most uncomfortable with it. You're working, so he'll get there, I guess.

[Seaboy 1]

This is tough. Do, like, kids say anything to you at school?

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Not really, I guess, because, like, I was already at the age where were. Like, I already had my buddies, and I already knew them before the YouTube took off.

[Seaboy 3]

I feel like it would be definitely.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Different if, like, I was, like, a kindergartner and then grew up from there with it.

[Seaboy 3]

But I don't know.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

I kind of had my group and my buddies.

[Seaboy 3]

Yeah.

[Seaboy 1]

Does it help you, like, getting some street cred being that you're on, you know, YouTube?

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Not usually. Okay.

[Seaboy 2]

It doesn't help with the chicks?

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

No, no. Maybe being on the Seaboys podcast.

[Seaboy 1]

Yeah, I don't know, man.

[Seaboy 2]

Maybe.

[Seaboy 1]

I hope so.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Not with the chick part, though.

[Seaboy 1]

Okay. Yeah, maybe not.

[Seaboy 3]

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 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?

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

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 million people will watch it. So, yeah, 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 really planning ahead, where I'm just documenting the process of what we're doing on the farm.

[Seaboy 3]

Does it make your day longer? Like, does it take you more time to do things because you're setting up with the camera and filming it?

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

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

[Seaboy 1]

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, like, you know, it's just worth nothing. You know, like you get. You're like almost double dipping. Well, I definitely are.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

I. Yeah, I guess so. But I feel like there's also probably. And I don't know that for sure yet, but I feel like your guys has more longevity to it.

[Seaboy 2]

Oh, wow.

[Seaboy 1]

I feel you might be the first person that's ever said that.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

No, because you guys, like I say, you put all the planning into it. You're fabricating, you got all these ideas, like you can jump around and do different stuff. Right. If I leave my farm, nobody cares. Like, I'll go make a different style video and it gets half the views.

[Seaboy 2]

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.

[Seaboy 3]

Know, people to follow.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Yeah, yeah, maybe.

[Seaboy 2]

Like, I think you could easily go and do something else that you really like. To do, like snowmobiling or racing and people be just as interested.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Yeah. We've started. So we have a second channel now that we've been doing a lot of the racing stuff on.

[Seaboy 3]

Yeah.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

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.

[Seaboy 1]

Yeah.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

I mean, it's still something. And we haven't pushed it really, to try and, you know, make it real big yet, but it just. It doesn't feel as good when you see the videos, doing half of what your videos do.

[Seaboy 1]

For sure. You don't have to tell us, man.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

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.

[Seaboy 3]

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?

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

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 reasons, you get lucky.

[Seaboy 1]

Yeah.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Yeah. I've had some terrible videos do really well.

[Seaboy 1]

Isn't that the worst, too? When it's like you're like, oh, 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.

[Seaboy 2]

Right?

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Yeah. All these new people coming to the channel because of my worst video.

[Seaboy 1]

God damn it.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Like, why couldn't this have been better?

[Seaboy 3]

Yeah.

[Seaboy 1]

That's how it goes sometimes, though, how.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

We focus on weird stuff, though.

[Seaboy 1]

Yeah.

[Seaboy 3]

You do dirt track racing, right?

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Yeah. Do you travel around for it a little bit? Not. Not a ton. We travel around a lot. 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 of times this winter, which is nice, but I mean, hopefully we can do a little bit more of that in the future.

[Seaboy 3]

How long have you been racing?

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Since I was 15.

[Seaboy 3]

Okay. So you've been doing that for a long time.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Yeah, quite a while.

[Seaboy 2]

What is it about racing that you like?

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

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, I don't care that much if we're screwing around, doing whatever else. I don't, I don't think I have a super competitive personality, but when it comes to racing, I just, I just love it. I just, I. I want to go out there and try and beat everybody else.

[Seaboy 2]

You're okay with the whole like, hurry up and wait kind of aspect that comes with racing though?

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

No, that drives me nuts sometimes.

[Seaboy 2]

That's kind of what turns us away from doing like really any kind of race. And really the only race that we do is like Cletus's races.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Yeah.

[Seaboy 2]

Which we, we did the one at Bristol with you, actually. But, you know, other than that, like, we, we hate going to race just because of how long you just sit there and wait.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

I. And there's some tracks that are really good at pushing that along. And then you got other tracks where you have to get there like four in the afternoon. And then you don't race anything until 7 or 8 o'. Clock. You run like quick 8 laps. And then we might sit around again till 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.

[Seaboy 3]

And then you got to drive home from wherever at some point the next day you got to go all the way hours back home. It's like a whole weekend.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Yeah.

[Seaboy 3]

Just to run a few laps and.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Then you're exhausted the next day.

[Seaboy 1]

Yep.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Yeah, that part of it does get to me some because I'm really impatient like that too. But. 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.

[Seaboy 2]

It's just.

[Seaboy 3]

Those are different.

[Seaboy 2]

Yeah, that's different because we're there, you know, knowing that, like, that's just part of the process.

[Seaboy 1]

It's fun too, because there's good. 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.

[Seaboy 2]

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.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Like on with a car?

[Seaboy 2]

No, dirt bike.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Oh, okay.

[Seaboy 2]

We've gone to a couple ice races with him and just like film that and like, that's. That sucks because you're sitting outside and it's cold.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Oh, yeah.

[Seaboy 1]

Waiting around.

[Seaboy 2]

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.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

And so you're there all day. And he piled it up in corner one.

[Seaboy 3]

Yeah, exactly.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Yeah, I did that. When we. We drove to St. Louis this year and we had to get. We got all a whole bunch of different tires ready and we switched the car over to gas, 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.

[Seaboy 2]

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 days. But.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

But you can. You can make content out of it sometimes.

[Seaboy 2]

Yeah, Yeah. I mean, that's a. That's the beauty of like YouTube is, you know, you can kind of turn lemons into lemonade with pretty bad lemon lemons, you know?

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Right. Yep. So who's. Have any of you ever run circle track?

[Seaboy 3]

Oh, I don't know really. Our only racing experience is Ken and Evan in Cletus's race. I'm racing in his next one. I was gonna ask for some advice.

[Seaboy 2]

Are you in that one?

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Is it in April?

[Seaboy 2]

Yeah. The helicopter?

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

No. Well, I'm not in that market run. So that's with. Is that with the Crown Vicks again? Yeah, No, I don't have. I. 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 Florida, you guys weren't at the Freedom Factory in November, were you?

[Seaboy 3]

No, we weren't there.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

So I was teamed up with Derek Vice Grip Garage. He goes out in this car and like, just goes from like 8th 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.

[Seaboy 1]

Started racing with him, like, just like.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

And I'm just like, holy. I don't know what I'm doing.

[Seaboy 2]

I don't.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

This car is big and heavy and slow and on tar. I don't race on tar. And I gotta get. You gotta stop and get down into the dog leg on the back stretch. And then you're turning right, and there's mud all over the track. I'm like, I gotta. Like, Derek did a really good job of this. I should be as good of a driver as Derek.

[Seaboy 3]

Yeah.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

And I got into one really good. Like, we. 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. Just back and forth with the steering wheel, 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.

[Seaboy 3]

That's what I'm worried about. I'm worried about crashing.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Honestly, I crashed pretty hard at Bristol, and it didn't hurt that bad, so you should be all right.

[Seaboy 3]

Okay.

[Seaboy 1]

The nice thing is for you, Ryan, is we have very low expectations and also a very low bar to. To. To beat like you. Look, I think Evan took second to last in Bristol. And, Ken, you did.

[Seaboy 3]

You did decent.

[Seaboy 1]

You did decent in your age. But we were teamed up with. We were teamed up with Haley Deegan, so she. She might have helped a little bit in that, but you don't have, like. There's not much worse you could do.

[Seaboy 2]

There is a lot on the line, though.

[Seaboy 1]

I forgot that you were a part of that. You were a part of that crash in Bristol, weren't you?

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Not the one you're probably thinking of with Haley.

[Seaboy 1]

Okay.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

But the year after.

[Seaboy 1]

Yeah. Just as a recent one.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

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.

[Seaboy 3]

Yeah.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

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, like.

[Seaboy 3]

And you went up and smash into the wall, didn't you? That was nasty.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Yeah.

[Seaboy 3]

Right in front of me.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

It hurt?

[Seaboy 1]

Yeah, yeah.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

I mean, not that bad, but I think like, you know, it's kind of scared me hit like that. It was just a different hit than what I'm used to.

[Seaboy 3]

Yeah.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

I mean, I can crash 100 times in the dirt car. Like it happens. I've been through it before, but this one scared me a little bit.

[Seaboy 3]

Yeah, because you kind of just went down and then straight up into the wall.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Yeah, yeah.

[Seaboy 3]

It's like a head on collision hurt.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

The eagle more than anything.

[Seaboy 2]

Yeah.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Certainly wasn't like Haley's crash the year before.

[Seaboy 1]

Yeah, that was nasty.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

That was really bad.

[Seaboy 3]

I am glad that I'm racing alone because I don't think I'd like. Not because 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 planned race plan.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

That will never go the way you want it.

[Seaboy 3]

Exactly. Yeah.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

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 out of it.

[Seaboy 3]

He's like, I don't get my car back next time I come here.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Yeah, it's all messed up now someone has to fix it. I don't know if it's him or Cletus or do they fix those cars.

[Seaboy 1]

After or do they just.

[Seaboy 2]

I think ours is getting fixed. Really.

[Seaboy 1]

It wasn't too messed up. That makes sense, I suppose.

[Seaboy 2]

Just run yours again.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Yeah. A lot of them are the same cars that stick around for a while. They just have to fix them all up.

[Seaboy 3]

Yeah, that makes sense because there's no way he could source 25 Crown Vicks every month.

[Seaboy 1]

Expensive too.

[Seaboy 3]

Yeah, right.

[Seaboy 1]

Cages and everything in there that you got to put into it.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

The safety on him got so much better. The Second time at Bristol. Yeah, that was obvious.

[Seaboy 1]

Yeah.

[Seaboy 3]

He puts a lot of work into those cars.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

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.

[Seaboy 3]

Exactly.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

It's the same car, but they're really not.

[Seaboy 2]

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.

[Seaboy 3]

Ben's really trying to get his helicopter license. Anybody needs a helicopter?

[Seaboy 2]

I'll, I'll worry about that after.

[Seaboy 1]

I want to see Ben fly that helicopter home. Dude, that would be hilarious. All the way from Florida.

[Seaboy 2]

Yeah, I'm not sure if that's legal, but.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Yeah, it's definitely not. You can't you over.

[Seaboy 2]

Yeah, that's true.

[Seaboy 1]

Yeah. What is the air police going to pull you over?

[Seaboy 2]

That's true. I probably wouldn't have much to worry about now. Said if you win it, he'll, he'll fly back. Oh, really? No, he didn't say that. But, but, but people were like, you're such an, you're like giving away a helicopter. What if they don't have their helicopter license? And he's like, it's $150,000 helicopter, they'll be fine. Yeah.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

An.

[Seaboy 1]

Yeah, you could sell it.

[Seaboy 2]

Yeah.

[Seaboy 3]

Yeah. I just wish I won nothing. That'd be so much better than winning a helicopter.

[Seaboy 2]

Yeah, you should pay for their helicopter license.

[Seaboy 3]

He's like, no, I gave him a helicopter.

[Seaboy 1]

Yeah.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Yeah. The rest is on them.

[Seaboy 3]

Yeah.

[Seaboy 2]

I think that'd be so sick though to have a helicopter, wouldn't that? Oh, it'd be the best.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Then you'd have to, somebody would have to get their license for it.

[Seaboy 2]

Yeah.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Because you're gonna have to do content with it if you get a helicopter.

[Seaboy 2]

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 cheaper.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Right? Yeah.

[Seaboy 3]

Pretty sweet for you.

[Seaboy 2]

Yeah. You should get a helicopter, fly around.

[Seaboy 3]

Check all the fields.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Yeah.

[Seaboy 3]

Go to the neighbors.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Yeah, but that sounds like a lot of work too.

[Seaboy 1]

Yeah, definitely.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

I could just get a drone.

[Seaboy 1]

Yeah, that's true. Get a drone.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

I 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.

[Seaboy 2]

Did you get it for farm purposes or just for fun?

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

No, Just for fun. It's probably been 10 years since I flew anything.

[Seaboy 2]

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 gonna really spend some money on getting, like, a plane that you can fly, like, across the country.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Right.

[Seaboy 2]

You know, most planes that are somewhat affordable, you can't really make it that far.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Yeah. You're not gonna take that to California very often. Right. It's still going to be a long haul in a small airplane.

[Seaboy 2]

Yeah.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

But there's. There's times where it would be handy. It'd be a lot of work to maintain, too.

[Seaboy 2]

Definitely. But it'd be fun.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Yeah. I could have flown it up to Cormorant.

[Seaboy 2]

Yeah, exactly.

[Seaboy 3]

Yeah.

[Seaboy 1]

Probably could have landed in our field.

[Seaboy 3]

Maybe if it was like one of those bush planes. Definitely. Or you just get a helicopter and.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Then you drop the bush. Bush planes are cool. Yeah, I like those.

[Seaboy 3]

That would probably be more fitting for how we live around here, because you can land basically on any grass field, I feel like.

[Seaboy 2]

Yeah.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

And then putting floats on it and landing in the lake would be awesome.

[Seaboy 1]

Yeah.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Just be cool. Like, that's a baller move to just show up in your airplane.

[Seaboy 3]

No matter how cool your boat is at the sandbar, you pull up in a plane.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Yeah.

[Seaboy 3]

You're that guy.

[Seaboy 2]

Yeah.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

You have a boat.

[Seaboy 2]

Oh, let me guess. That thing can't come out of the water either.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Probably need a pickup just to get it to your garage.

[Seaboy 2]

No. Hang. After hanging out with those guys, though, Cletus was like, yeah, dude, I just used my helicopter, like an Uber. Like, I just, like, bounce around Florida in it.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Sometimes I think about that, like, him and. And Sparks. Yeah, Sparks makes a little more sense to me. But, like, either way, like, the time it takes to get certified to fly one of those and to do all that along with what they're already doing.

[Seaboy 1]

Yeah.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Maintaining 40 Crown Vicks. I know.

[Seaboy 3]

Yeah.

[Seaboy 2]

He was like, yeah, man. I just did it, you know, for a couple months at like, 5am I would wake up and just do that. He was like, yeah, why don't you just do that?

[Seaboy 1]

Because I was like, I do. I don't have time.

[Seaboy 2]

Like, we can do that. Just wake up earlier. And I was like, well, then I'd have to go to bed earlier.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Yeah.

[Seaboy 2]

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?

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

It's not like it takes an afternoon.

[Seaboy 2]

And you better be damn sure that you're ready, like, to hop in that thing and fly it alone.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Yeah, that's not like cutting corners.

[Seaboy 2]

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, should probably add 25% on, because I'm an idiot.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Yeah, I should probably know what every button does.

[Seaboy 2]

Yeah.

[Seaboy 3]

It's not like getting your learner's permit where you just run in, like, maybe just guess through the test a couple of times. You're like, it'll be fine.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Just put C for everything.

[Seaboy 3]

Exactly. Get you through.

[Seaboy 2]

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 the last time I went back in, they were like, oh, you've been so long without renewing it, so you got to retake the test.

[Seaboy 3]

And.

[Seaboy 2]

And I'm like, can I study? Well, yeah, but you'll have to come back because we're just about to close. And I was like, d. 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 then motorcycle permit at the same time. And I was like, dude, I am not qualified to be on the road. Like, I don't know.

[Seaboy 1]

Did you pass?

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

I did pass.

[Seaboy 2]

You did? I did pass, but I fail. You can fail, like, eight of the questions or something like that, and you're.

[Seaboy 1]

Right on the bubble, huh?

[Seaboy 2]

Dude, I. 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.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

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.

[Seaboy 2]

Behind a school bus, things away.

[Seaboy 1]

Yeah, no kidding. Before you hit a reasonable distance, but you don't know the exact feet.

[Seaboy 2]

If you got a car coming and it's so far away, how. 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.

[Seaboy 1]

Did you have to do any, you know, tests or like do any training for to like, you know, operate all your tractors and stuff or is that just dad teaching you?

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

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.

[Seaboy 3]

Well, the technology is insane in those things.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Now.

[Seaboy 3]

I would, would have thought that farming was a low tech sport.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Right.

[Seaboy 3]

A bunch of your job a lot of years ago. But now it's, I would say the highest tech job that I know.

[Seaboy 1]

So are you even driving your combine?

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

You don't have to.

[Seaboy 1]

You just chilling?

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Yeah, you can, I mean literally everything can be completely automatic.

[Seaboy 1]

So are you still. You're obvious. I mean you're, you're in the combine. But what are you doing when you're, when you just let it just so.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

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 because then you can watch everything else but you. 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, 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, 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, it just does it. Like Deere now has fully automated tractors. That's. That are like quite a ways into testing. They've had them for a few years.

[Seaboy 3]

So does he have to be in the grand car to do it?

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

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, could just put.

[Seaboy 3]

Like a brick or something, a couple sandbags on it.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

I think you could, yeah, do.

[Seaboy 1]

So you're strictly John Deere for the most part, right?

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Or for the most part.

[Seaboy 1]

Yeah, yeah, 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.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Yeah.

[Seaboy 1]

Do you have, like. Is there other manufacturers or have they ever, like, hit you up, try to get to work with you, or you don't want to say anything? I don't know.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

No, there's. There's multiple manufacturers that I have worked with. I'm pretty stuck on deer right now. But we did have. 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, 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.

[Seaboy 3]

Makes sense.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

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.

[Seaboy 1]

Yeah.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

You know, because otherwise it shuts the entire operation down. If one thing is broke, everything stops. So it's important to get that fixed. And those guys are just there on it. Dealership is 8, 9 miles away, and usually they have a service tech that's closer than that in the area.

[Seaboy 1]

I'd imagine it's getting harder and harder to work on yourself, too.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

It is, yeah.

[Seaboy 1]

Yeah.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

A lot of people, they bring up, like. 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.

[Seaboy 1]

Yeah.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

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. I think there. It's a lot of stuff like that.

[Seaboy 1]

Yeah. It's crazy just how much farming has evolved in the last 20 years. Yeah, 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 seems like nowadays, like you're saying just would be impossible.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Yeah, there's. I mean, there's still a lot of farmers that do. A lot of. 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 know, don't do anything themselves.

[Seaboy 1]

Yeah. So, like, when you get hit up to do like a. A deal with, say, case comes to you or, or another brand and they want to work, 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.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

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 do? What do you want to highlight? And then if they had something that we could make good use of, like the Case quadtrak 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, our combine or whatever and use what they're giving us.

[Seaboy 1]

Right.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

But it always comes with more difficulty than one would think.

[Seaboy 3]

Right.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Because.

[Seaboy 1]

Right.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

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 X9 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 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.

[Seaboy 3]

Oh, you're like, okay.

[Seaboy 1]

So you're basically just testing it for.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Them or like, exactly.

[Seaboy 1]

Kind of hyping it up, obviously, which is what they want. Yeah, they want more eyes on their product.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

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.

[Seaboy 3]

Yep.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

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.

[Seaboy 1]

So what comes first then in a situation like that, making the YouTube video or harvesting the beans?

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

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.

[Seaboy 3]

Okay.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Do we have time? Is the weather good? Are we just starting out then? 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 all the time, if it's gonna snow on the beans, we got to get them out.

[Seaboy 1]

So it comes down. So it sounds like the answer comes down, the farming comes first.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Yeah, Ultimately.

[Seaboy 1]

Yeah.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Yeah.

[Seaboy 3]

Makes sense.

[Seaboy 2]

We got a lot riding on it.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Yeah.

[Seaboy 1]

What. Maybe I'm, maybe I'm also overreach on this question, but like, when it comes down to like, what's making the, the most revenue, is it the YouTube channel now or is it because you say like now you're a YouTuber that is forced to farm, which that, that made me think about that question.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

It's the YouTube.

[Seaboy 1]

The YouTube is beating out the farming.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Yeah.

[Seaboy 1]

And that is insane to think about.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

It is, it's, 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, 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. It's been an awesome opportunity for us to be able to use the income to do something.

[Seaboy 1]

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 just every day. Every day and every situation, especially yours.

[Seaboy 2]

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 like worth doing just.

[Seaboy 1]

To make a living off of it. Reasonable.

[Seaboy 2]

Like not even like super profitable but like I can like pay the bills at the end of the day.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Yeah, there was a, 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.

[Seaboy 2]

Okay.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

And it just exploded. I mean he was at a, he was at a million subscribers years ago.

[Seaboy 1]

And he was just doing virtual farming basically.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Yeah, pretty much.

[Seaboy 1]

And then he moved into real farming.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

He took the income from that. I don't want to speak for him.

[Seaboy 1]

Yeah.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

But I'm pretty sure he put, he put a bunch of it in farming. He put a bunch of it in Bitcoin 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 property, bought the machinery, like tore down some trees, put in drain tile, cleaned up the land and he's farming now.

[Seaboy 1]

Good for him.

[Seaboy 2]

No way.

[Seaboy 3]

Dude, tell him it was way easier to be in an online farmer and stuff.

[Seaboy 2]

Yeah. Why would you do that?

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Yeah, it had to be way easier to stare at the tv, didn't it?

[Seaboy 1]

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 like in Gran Turismo. 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.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Right. You know, so we have a racing simulator and Onyx runs the crap out of it.

[Seaboy 3]

Do you, Can I come over and try?

[Seaboy 1]

Yeah. Ryan, Ryan and Ben really want one.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

It's pretty legit. It's pretty cool. No, it doesn't move.

[Seaboy 3]

It's got the full screen and all.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Yeah, it's Got, like, the big curved screen in front of you.

[Seaboy 1]

That's sick.

[Seaboy 3]

So cool.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

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.

[Seaboy 1]

You don't have, like, that feeling in your. In your. In the seat. Of being in the seat. Yeah.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

So it's really difficult for me. I'm like. 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.

[Seaboy 3]

I saw they make a kit that. That the seat belt, like, when you're turning, it pulls the seat belt so it simulates, like, you moving in your seat. And tight.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

I hadn't seen that yet.

[Seaboy 3]

I'm sure it's wicked expensive. It's probably cheaper to go out and buy a field.

[Seaboy 1]

Just go buy a car. Yeah, just go buy a car and go rip it around, Ryan. That'll get your practice in.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

You could with some of these simulators, you know, like, I think it was Roman got one recently, and it's. I'm sure it's a 60, 70, $80,000 setup.

[Seaboy 1]

God, it's nuts.

[Seaboy 2]

Yeah. That is crazy. I wonder how much of effect, like, the game Call of Duty has had on people enlisting in the army.

[Seaboy 1]

I don't think so, man. I agree. Yeah. I don't think so, Mike.

[Seaboy 2]

You think the opposite. 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.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Like, pretty soon, the marines will just be a bunch of overweight, sweaty.

[Seaboy 1]

Hot Pockets.

[Seaboy 2]

Yeah, maybe not.

[Seaboy 1]

I don't think they'd make it, man. Our buddy Mike. Mike tried going into the National Guard. They actually turned him around. They wouldn't take them.

[Seaboy 3]

Why?

[Seaboy 1]

I don't know. That's what we said, too. It's like, they want everybody, but they didn't want him.

[Seaboy 2]

They looked at him up and down.

[Seaboy 3]

Yeah.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

They just kind of like this guy.

[Seaboy 2]

Yeah.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

So you took them on?

[Seaboy 1]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Seaboy 2]

So, okay. I guess we kind of got sidetracked, though. But, like, how much do you think it would cost to get into farming?

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

All right, so in order to answer the question, I need to know, 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 figure out how to have something that's profitable?

[Seaboy 1]

You want to make $100,000 a year? How about that?

[Seaboy 2]

Yeah. Okay. Let's just say buy it outright in cash, because that.

[Seaboy 1]

That's.

[Seaboy 2]

Nobody does that when you can go to a bank and get a loan. But let's just say hard cost of buying it out right in cash. How much would I have to buy?

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

I don't know how to even answer that, because you could go. There's times when our farm will 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. For commodity prices. But what we're paying for stuff is still way up to where it's been the last couple years. We're probably going to lose a good amount of money. Wow. 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's. There are some farms out there that probably have, you know, 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.

[Seaboy 1]

Wow.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

I'm not saying a ton of them, but there's got to be some. You know, if you think of some of the direct to consumer guys that really have a niche figured out, 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 gonna. You're talking a lot of money.

[Seaboy 1]

So you can make it with minimal amount of acres, basically.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Well, if you can, yeah. You just might have to get creative. You won't. 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 do something unique with it.

[Seaboy 3]

Interesting.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Which is harder for me because I got 2, 500 acres I gotta manage. I can't spend most of my time on 40 acres that goes direct to consumer.

[Seaboy 1]

Right.

[Seaboy 3]

Yep.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

It's a whole different scale. I mean, it's not even the same ballgame.

[Seaboy 2]

Yeah.

[Seaboy 1]

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.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Yes and no. Crop insurance gets People talk like crop insurance guarantees an income, not. No, no.

[Seaboy 1]

Yeah, that makes sense.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Once in a while it will, depending on the. On the year. But it's rare. But crop insurance will kick in and. 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.

[Seaboy 1]

What happens? I mean, like, if you're a family that's farming and you. You don't have a YouTube channel.

[Seaboy 3]

Yeah.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Why would anybody farm without a YouTube channel? Yeah, definitely.

[Seaboy 1]

God.

[Seaboy 2]

Extremely high risk.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Yeah, it is. Yeah.

[Seaboy 2]

That are completely out of your control.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

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.

[Seaboy 3]

Yeah.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

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.

[Seaboy 1]

It basically just be like, let's say like a tornado came through and took everything out. Then they.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

That'd be a different insurance separate from crop. So we had two. Two springs ago, almost two years ago now. We had a big storm come through in the. 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 time.

[Seaboy 1]

I think I remember that video. Yeah, I watched that.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Yeah. Silver lining, right?

[Seaboy 1]

Yeah. I think you were the one saying silver lining or something.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

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.

[Seaboy 3]

Yeah.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

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.

[Seaboy 1]

Don't even. Yeah. Save the gas, save the fuel.

[Seaboy 3]

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.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

In an entire harvest, man.

[Seaboy 1]

He doesn't even want to know that. He doesn't want to think about that.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

They don't.

[Seaboy 3]

At least 11 gallons. Yeah.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

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 gonna say it's six to 700 gallons a day. When every. When everything's moving right. And you're putting in long, long days.

[Seaboy 3]

A full day.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Yeah. Wow, that's heavy.

[Seaboy 3]

That is heavy.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

It sucks.

[Seaboy 1]

Yeah.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

There's so many other little things too.

[Seaboy 1]

Like semis and stuff.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Yeah, that's the other semis running and.

[Seaboy 3]

I'm sure ripping around on the razor.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Yeah.

[Seaboy 3]

Burning 10, 20 gallons there.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

You know, that takes something.

[Seaboy 2]

You got to be so used to it at this point. But when you, you know, categorize all the money going out just from overhead and expenses, it's got to just make you sick.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

It's just big dollars.

[Seaboy 3]

Right.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

It's like the. The margin can be the same as any other business, but the dollars are moving. You know, businesses out there that are, you know, they probably spend a. They'll spend a billion dollars a year and they make $200,000. Just, it's. It's just different.

[Seaboy 2]

I just can't imagine, you know, 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.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

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 can. 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.

[Seaboy 2]

That's the saying, you know, betting the farm. Yeah, you got to sell the farm. Yeah, literally.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Yeah. Unfortunately for a lot of people, especially back then, that was real.

[Seaboy 1]

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?

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

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. I mean, 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.

[Seaboy 3]

Yeah, definitely.

[Seaboy 2]

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.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

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 far more land, you can just go find it and get it. It's. 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.

[Seaboy 2]

You got to be losing money, but you're hoping that they fold or you're.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Hoping you can just hang on to it. Long term, you build, 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.

[Seaboy 3]

Right.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

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 him 10 bucks an acre more than me.

[Seaboy 2]

Yeah, right, right.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

So 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 that's, that's my theory anyway.

[Seaboy 2]

The loyalty aspect of it.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Yeah, yeah. Some guys don't operate respectable for sure.

[Seaboy 1]

So you don't mess with livestock, huh?

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

No, we haven't for quite a while. We had, 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. He got out of them.

[Seaboy 1]

Whenever we're getting a little low on. On content ideas, sometimes I'm like, you know, it'd be kind of fun to like, have a little, like, farm, you know, get some pigs, some goats, some cattle, maybe some. 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 cows.

[Seaboy 2]

Yep.

[Seaboy 1]

Slopping the pigs.

[Seaboy 2]

It'd be great.

[Seaboy 1]

I think it'd be great. Maybe like a llama, some stuff like that.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

But then a good friend would step up and support you like that.

[Seaboy 1]

Well, yeah. No, I mean, well, you know, he'd.

[Seaboy 2]

Be in on it.

[Seaboy 1]

It'd be.

[Seaboy 2]

All of.

[Seaboy 1]

It'd be, you know, our farm. Ken's just doing the farming of it, you know, and like, film early, 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.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Yeah. Because then all those times where you're.

[Seaboy 2]

Traveling, it's like, what are we going to do?

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

The stuff you need to do. Poor Ken can't go with.

[Seaboy 2]

I know. It's like getting.

[Seaboy 3]

But he just loves it. He has such a passion for it.

[Seaboy 2]

He does, yeah.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

How would you balance that between the gay club and the vape therapy?

[Seaboy 1]

Oh, man.

[Seaboy 2]

You saw that, did you?

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Not only did I see it, but my GPS said it, so lay here.

[Seaboy 1]

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 gay club and 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.

[Seaboy 3]

Still up for debate, so.

[Seaboy 2]

And it's like, why would I.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

That's not even that funny, dude.

[Seaboy 3]

That 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.

[Seaboy 1]

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. Like the.

[Seaboy 3]

It's always Sheriffs are Gonna be driving.

[Seaboy 1]

By here thinking, like, what? That one wasn't even funny.

[Seaboy 2]

What?

[Seaboy 1]

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. See, that's funny. That's funny. The other ones are just like, eh, you're trying too hard.

[Seaboy 3]

They're always a little vulgar.

[Seaboy 1]

Yeah, some. Some of the locals, you don't want.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

To go through the work without embarrassing Kim.

[Seaboy 1]

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. Like, it all keeps coming back on.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Well, but mine keeps showing up. No matter how many times I had it removed, it would show up and you can tell.

[Seaboy 1]

Oh, so they're doing it to you too?

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Oh, yeah. They just pin it and then they name it.

[Seaboy 3]

Yeah.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

How the hell is that possible? Millennial wrong and stuff. It's obviously not me.

[Seaboy 1]

Imagine you're just like, this is where I live.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Until now. When this comes out.

[Seaboy 1]

Yeah.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Now we'll see what they come up with.

[Seaboy 1]

True. True.

[Seaboy 2]

People show up to your house.

[Seaboy 1]

Oh, yeah.

[Seaboy 2]

And they just roll in. What do you do?

[Seaboy 1]

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 few times where it's rare or weird people, and we've had some where it's really nice. And honestly, we always are like, treat them good. But you have. We prefer not to.

[Seaboy 3]

It's. It's kind of in your yard.

[Seaboy 1]

Tough. It's like they knock on the door, I open it, and then they're like, hey, can we. Like, it's like, what do I do now? We just drove six hours. We just drove six hours. Like, do you think we could. Like, we were trying to buy some shirts. I'm like, yeah, sure, come on in.

[Seaboy 3]

Yeah.

[Seaboy 1]

And then we end up giving the whole tour and. And doing, you know, taking pictures ever.

[Seaboy 2]

Which we don't do that.

[Seaboy 1]

We're done doing it, though. We're done doing it because we're getting a gate.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

I should show you a picture of our sign because it's. It's a nice. It nicely says turn around.

[Seaboy 3]

Like, that's what I think.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

You found it. It's. We have a longer driveway. You guys are right on the Road.

[Seaboy 1]

Yeah.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Our driveway is like 300ft 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.

[Seaboy 1]

It's going to be a pain because every time someone wants to come that doesn't have the door opener, we have to tell them the code or we're going to have to get them.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

So what's part of happen is you just leave it open and then it's useless.

[Seaboy 3]

Useless.

[Seaboy 2]

Yeah, but. Yeah, but if you leave it open, then people are dumb enough to drive through a gate, they'll go, the gate.

[Seaboy 1]

Was open, so we figured it was okay.

[Seaboy 2]

Maybe, but I don't know, I feel like it's a little bit more than just like a little sign.

[Seaboy 1]

It'll look cool. Like we'll make it look nice. Like it'll have like, maybe like a, like a logo in the middle. Like as if it's a mansion, but.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

It'S just a steel building, you know, fancy wrought iron. Just like, like a Beverly Hills game.

[Seaboy 2]

Right.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

With a butler, maybe that stands there.

[Seaboy 3]

There we go.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Yeah.

[Seaboy 2]

Or yeah, we just have Ken standing there. You can do that.

[Seaboy 3]

Oh, my God.

[Seaboy 1]

This guy's gonna have a busy ass schedule between doing all the merch, being the podcast researcher, and then taking care of all of our farm animals.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Yeah.

[Seaboy 3]

What is. So what does your sign say?

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Just says frig off something. So 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, you know, strangers or whatever it says and then says like basically, thank you for your understanding.

[Seaboy 3]

Yeah.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Meaning we hope you understand this.

[Seaboy 1]

Yeah.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

And then at. 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.

[Seaboy 3]

Yeah.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

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.

[Seaboy 1]

So it's working.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

That means it does. It definitely works. You'll be mowing the line in the sun and there's people just cruising by. 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 driving.

[Seaboy 1]

At my house.

[Seaboy 3]

Yeah.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Do you mow here often?

[Seaboy 1]

Yeah. And I don't want to say like anywhere other than the shop. I, I love meeting people. 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.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

It's an invasion of privacy and it like, for me, it slows down when you're trying to work you down so it interrupts the whole day. Like you can't give a one hour tour to every person that wants.

[Seaboy 3]

Yeah.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

But you feel like an if you don't y. Yeah. Yeah.

[Seaboy 3]

That Minnesota. Nice enough.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

It's a really weird, privileged thing to complain about.

[Seaboy 3]

It is.

[Seaboy 1]

It is.

[Seaboy 3]

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.

[Seaboy 1]

I would have done it like doing it wrong.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Oh yeah. Or more so because I, I show everything. So if like something mechanical happens and I. 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 GI Joes.

[Seaboy 1]

I know we got Albert Einstein in the comments here.

[Seaboy 2]

Why? Why is that, you think?

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

I don't know.

[Seaboy 2]

Makes people feel smarter.

[Seaboy 1]

It makes them feel better about themselves. Acting like, like belittling you, trying to make you feel not as smart as them, you know, it just like boosts them up because they're hits them off.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

A million people watched you do something cool, so they're mad about it. So they got it. Yeah, they don't, 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.

[Seaboy 2]

Yeah, Right.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

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.

[Seaboy 1]

So do you have haters then? Like, any haters?

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Yeah.

[Seaboy 2]

Really?

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

And even other farmers.

[Seaboy 1]

Okay, that makes sense.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

There are other.

[Seaboy 1]

I can see they're jealous out of me.

[Seaboy 3]

Interesting.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Like, last week I found it a pretty funny comment on Tick Tock. 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 multigenerational farmer because 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.

[Seaboy 2]

Well, you got to get like, daddy's money, like, comments too, right? Multi generational.

[Seaboy 3]

God.

[Seaboy 2]

Well, no, I'm not gonna kill my dad.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

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.

[Seaboy 3]

Makes sense.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

But people, it's like, people just think, like one day my dad was 40 years old and was like, here you go, have fun.

[Seaboy 1]

Yeah, now you, now you got it. You got a great comeback though, because you're like, what do you mean? Like, I. I started my own channel and everything. I got my own business going on the.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

But I'll get you. You guys probably get it too. I get the comments from the guys, girls, whoever, like, like, oh, you like. You have a hobby of making videos about that. Yeah, it's a cute little hobby.

[Seaboy 1]

Yeah, 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.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Yeah.

[Seaboy 1]

Or just, you know, I'll men trying to be men.

[Seaboy 2]

People got to understand it now. But I know when you first started, I'm sure it was wild for us. You know, we're not. We were college students and I guess I was in high school, but people still thought it was such a waste of time.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Oh, yeah.

[Seaboy 2]

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.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Yeah.

[Seaboy 2]

Or we're out at parties, like getting drunk, like. What do you mean, a waste of time? Right up for you. I guess it was probably like, why would you waste your time with that little video thing when you be farming?

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Set the camera down. You millennial. You ever care about your phone and the camera and showing off to people like, I bought this tractor because you watch this video.

[Seaboy 2]

Yeah, right.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

So I guess you can call me an asshole if you want. Comments are funny. Sell out. Oh yeah.

[Seaboy 1]

What are you selling out on?

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Well, just anything that's got a sponsored ad to it.

[Seaboy 1]

Oh, right.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

You know, you guys got to get that too.

[Seaboy 1]

We used to, but not anymore.

[Seaboy 3]

I think it's, it's a more socially acceptable part of the space now.

[Seaboy 1]

I mean, you got to pay the bills. And when you're frickin spending 30, 40 grand on a YouTube video, you gotta freakin. Something's gotta, you know, you gotta get some income. So.

[Seaboy 2]

Believe it or not, this ain't cheap.

[Seaboy 1]

No, this is not cheap.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Do they want the videos or not?

[Seaboy 1]

Exactly how it works. It's a part of it. You want something crazy, we gotta, we gotta fund it somehow. But does your YouTube channel have a team around it? I know you film with like, you and you know, your family.

[Seaboy 3]

Who's editing, who's doing.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Yeah, so my wife does 90% of the editing on the videos for the farm.

[Seaboy 1]

Nice.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

As far as that goes, we have. No, we, we have, we don't, 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.

[Seaboy 3]

Oh.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Because I'm horrible at answering emails and I just hate it so much. And there's so many picking out the.

[Seaboy 1]

Brand deals and stuff. Yeah.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Leave the ones in there that I actually need to pay attention to and just get rid of the rest. Yeah, right. Because 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, I, I like, I like it the way it is. I don't want it to spiral over it too far out of control.

[Seaboy 3]

Yeah.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

And have something that's not what it is more difficult to manage.

[Seaboy 2]

You got to do all the titles, though, right?

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

We argue about that sometimes.

[Seaboy 2]

Really? Because the titles have just such your personality.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

I think her trick is when. 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.

[Seaboy 2]

Okay.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

So, like, it. It is something that probably came from me.

[Seaboy 2]

Yeah. All right. That makes sense because it's your voice. And I was like, every title I read, I can. I can read it in your.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Yeah, some of them, too.

[Seaboy 3]

I'll.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

I'll adjust them a little bit. Like, after it posts, I'll look and I'm like, ah, that's got to be tweaked a little bit.

[Seaboy 2]

You got to add a little bit more dad humor to this.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Yeah, yeah.

[Seaboy 2]

Bit more of a Zach twist.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Yeah. But sometimes we'll. We'll debate about that. What the title and thumbnail should be on certain videos.

[Seaboy 2]

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 like that.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

If we do the setup, stage, thumbnail, which we do once in a while, it's completely as sarcasm. Like, let's make this look as dumb as possible.

[Seaboy 2]

Meme the Sea Boys on this one. Yeah.

[Seaboy 1]

Thumbs up. Yeah. You were saying, you know, you don't have as much preparation or. 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.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

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.

[Seaboy 1]

Yeah.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

You know, not for my style of Video, not for what it is, what it is.

[Seaboy 1]

And that's what. What is great about it.

[Seaboy 3]

Your wife understands. She throws in a couple 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. I watched you work for 20 minutes and I go, nice, that was fun.

[Seaboy 2]

And goes, well, that was productive.

[Seaboy 3]

What a good day's work.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

I did it. I did it.

[Seaboy 1]

Yeah.

[Seaboy 3]

I worked so hard today. But, like, all you did was shovel out a grain bin, which is just not fun at all.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

It's a. It sucks. Yeah.

[Seaboy 3]

And I watched it went. That was fun. I like that.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Well, thank you.

[Seaboy 3]

Yeah.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

For your help. Yeah.

[Seaboy 3]

Just, you know, anything I can do to help out.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

I had an. An article. I don't remember what magazine it was. It was a. It was a bigger one a couple years ago that I was surprised. Contacted me. But we did an article, you know, you like, you do the interview. And they put it together. And I was actually, I was 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.

[Seaboy 2]

What an interesting comparison.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Yeah, that's really.

[Seaboy 1]

How'd you take it? Compliment?

[Seaboy 3]

Yeah.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Confusion.

[Seaboy 2]

Hey, honey, what do you think of Bob Ross? Oh, that guy. That cocksucker in your life. Oh, oh, yeah, yeah.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

I've never heard anyone call Bob Ross a cock.

[Seaboy 2]

That's not quite how I describe him, but that sucker.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

That's a T shirt idea, right?

[Seaboy 2]

It's just. It's Bob Ross's face with that underneath. People be like, you know, I've never thought of that. But now that you say that, he is, isn't he?

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

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.

[Seaboy 3]

Interesting.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

I'm much more used to being called the Kardashian of farming.

[Seaboy 2]

Really?

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

I'm very thankful to my wife for coming up with that one.

[Seaboy 2]

You like that?

[Seaboy 1]

The Kardashian?

[Seaboy 2]

No. You don't like that?

[Seaboy 3]

Well, I know you pulled up in like a big G wagon and there was a big fleet.

[Seaboy 1]

He's got his security with him.

[Seaboy 3]

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.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

So that was difficult. Yeah, yeah. And it wasn't the type of jet that I wanted to be in today.

[Seaboy 2]

Honestly, it's.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

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, as many as I can find.

[Seaboy 3]

I hoping you can get them to come on out.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Yeah, they don't. I want Kim Kardashian to come out and drive a combine.

[Seaboy 1]

Dude, that would be a banger.

[Seaboy 2]

Come and do that.

[Seaboy 1]

That'd be a hit.

[Seaboy 2]

I think. I think, like, Seaboy's day on the farm would be a great bit for us.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Well, you called Bob Ross a cock sucker.

[Seaboy 1]

Yeah, dude, come on.

[Seaboy 3]

Not.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Yes, you guys are invited out.

[Seaboy 2]

I think that'd be great. We want to do a video series where we go around and do, like, dirty jobs, Seaboys edition, but 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.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Yeah.

[Seaboy 2]

Like, if you guys get something stuck, come out for that.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

We can come up with ideas.

[Seaboy 2]

I think that'd be cool.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Like, during harvest, you could be ripping around in the razor or something and.

[Seaboy 1]

Maybe put, like, Evan in the combine. See how long till he breaks it. Yeah, ten minutes.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

I guess there'd be a silver lining for everybody.

[Seaboy 3]

Like. Yeah, that's actually kind of a busy time for me. I would like to get done.

[Seaboy 1]

You have like a horse or something? Evan's riding the horse.

[Seaboy 2]

The horse dies.

[Seaboy 1]

You're like, oh, my, dude. Like, how do you manage to do this to everything?

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

He's like, what?

[Seaboy 1]

You put me on an old horse.

[Seaboy 2]

What'd you expect?

[Seaboy 1]

What'd you expect, Evan?

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

You.

[Seaboy 2]

That's how it go.

[Seaboy 1]

Gavin's laughing. Our mechanic right now, he knows.

[Seaboy 2]

He's kidding.

[Seaboy 1]

Standby.

[Seaboy 2]

Yeah.

[Seaboy 1]

Then Gavin.

[Seaboy 2]

And we're gonna need a full on doctor and mechanic. Yeah. Gavin becomes a vet. So as a farmer, they always say daylight savings was for the farmers.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

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.

[Seaboy 2]

You don't have an opinion on daylight savings?

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

No, I think it had to do with when farmers had to get up early.

[Seaboy 2]

Right.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Which now there's farmers mad at me that are listening, that are like, well, I still. Yeah, I know there's a lot of really hard working farmers that still get up really early. 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.

[Seaboy 2]

I don't know if anyone does.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Yeah, probably not.

[Seaboy 2]

It wasn't there. Somebody was trying to pass a bill that was like.

[Seaboy 3]

Yeah, it almost, it almost made it the whole way. Someone shut it down. Comes up every year that they always talk about.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Let's talk about it in the next two weeks.

[Seaboy 3]

Because daylight savings time is in two weeks. Look it up. I think they shut it down in like the House of Representatives or some ridiculous stage.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

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's, if it goes like, can we stay on that time? Because I don't want it to be light out until midnight in July.

[Seaboy 1]

That could be dangerous.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Yeah. Really?

[Seaboy 1]

Yeah, yeah, I'm going about like 4 in the morning. Yeah, we're out running around all night.

[Seaboy 3]

Sun's up.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

If you guys are like me, when it's light out until 10:30 at night, it's like you use all of something.

[Seaboy 1]

You use all of it.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Yeah, yeah.

[Seaboy 1]

100.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

But then in January when it's dark, it's dark out. At 4:30. You're like, well, day's over.

[Seaboy 1]

Yep.

[Seaboy 2]

Yeah, it really is. It's actually, you know, it kind of works out I guess in that aspect. But at 4:30 when it gets dark, it just puts me in a different state of mind of like, man, this is kind of depressing.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

It's horrible.

[Seaboy 2]

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, seasonal depression.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

It's dark out. I can't work on anything. What am I going to do?

[Seaboy 3]

Yeah, the lights in the barn.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Yeah, the lights still work.

[Seaboy 2]

Now I got to go home and drink a beer.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Yeah, I'll probably have another one after that.

[Seaboy 2]

Yeah.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

God, even Bob Ross is gone now.

[Seaboy 3]

Nothing good to look forward to.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

It's just nothing left.

[Seaboy 3]

They took everything from us. So I have just a honest, hard working dairy farmer friend. He works year round 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.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

I mean, he's not that far off compared to a dairy farmer. Those guys bust their asses.

[Seaboy 3]

Damn. I thought you were going to turn.

[Seaboy 1]

This going to be you, Ken.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

No, I'm not going to turn it because I just have to admit it. It's. It's a lot more than four weeks in the spring and four in the fall. And he knows that too.

[Seaboy 3]

Yeah.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

But compared to a dairy farmer, I mean, if he's actually the one getting up and, and feeding the cows and, and milking and.

[Seaboy 3]

Yeah, they got a machine.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

He's not.

[Seaboy 1]

Robot.

[Seaboy 3]

They got robots.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Oh, yeah. Pretty soon he'll have a four by four. No, that's still. That's still a ton of work.

[Seaboy 3]

Yeah.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

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.

[Seaboy 3]

Yeah, I wouldn't mind with the smells. He should start a YouTube channel, actually. Yeah, I cracked up at. I was watching your Tick Tock before this and then you had a guy who was like, you only work six weeks a year and you respond, you're like, six weeks. No one should have to work that hard. You gotta get some better machinery or something, man. You gotta get those hours down.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

You gotta do something.

[Seaboy 3]

Yeah, yeah.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

That one went off pretty. Pretty good is at the end of it. I was like six weeks every single year.

[Seaboy 1]

Yeah.

[Seaboy 3]

I love that you're good at messing with people on Tik Tok. It's so easy on Tik Tok because there's just enough people that come through that will. That don't get the humor and stuff and really will get bent out of shape on something.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

It's enjoyable. It's a different I. Obviously you've seen it. I use that platform differently than I would my YouTube channel.

[Seaboy 3]

Yeah.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

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.

[Seaboy 3]

Y.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

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 just don't give a. Yeah. Like, I don't. I. If this is the one that ends me, then so be it.

[Seaboy 2]

Those Are your rules, huh? Huh? Those were your rules for getting on it?

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Pretty much, like, yeah, if I'm gonna spend more time on Tik Tok, then I get to be who I like. I want to tell somebody off once in a while.

[Seaboy 3]

Yeah, you can get the, like, two beer version of you, you know, like the late night version.

[Seaboy 2]

I like that.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

We kind of did that with the second YouTube channel, the one we put the race stuff on. We call it between the Rows for anybody that's wondering. But we don't filter that a lot, you know, like, my. 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? And he wears it all the time. And I didn't even think about it. I had so many angry people.

[Seaboy 3]

Oh, man.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

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.

[Seaboy 3]

Or wait till those people see the Bob Ross shirt.

[Seaboy 2]

Yeah, we gotta get that Bob Ross shirt, man.

[Seaboy 3]

I'm gonna get a package in the mail. You'd be like, what's this?

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

There's got to be a good artist out there that could come up with a millennial farmer Bob rossucker shirt.

[Seaboy 1]

Farmer ex Bob Ross.

[Seaboy 3]

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, like, probably pretty expensive Bob Ross there. I think they've only sold, like, one, and it went for $14 million or something like that.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Because who's got them?

[Seaboy 3]

Bob Ross Inc. Owns everything Bob Ross has ever made. So you. You can't buy it. You can buy Bob Ross styled paintings.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

So somebody owns the estate.

[Seaboy 3]

Bob Ross.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

But maybe he could. I suppose he could have had it. Like, it could have said, you, like, you get the estate when I die, but you cannot sell anything.

[Seaboy 3]

Yeah. I don't know if he set it up or if someone who was really like, oh, I'm gonna make a ton of money off of this, because wouldn't it be kind of cool? You have a nice little Bob Ross.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

That would be oddly badass.

[Seaboy 1]

Yeah, it would be.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

I'd like little trees. Yeah, that sucker painted.

[Seaboy 2]

How many paintings do you think he has?

[Seaboy 3]

That's what I'm saying.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Probably like a billion of them all in one. Like, dusty storage.

[Seaboy 1]

What a shame. What's he doing sell those things?

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

So somebody's probably just annoyed by it. Like, yeah, Bob Won't let me sell these paintings.

[Seaboy 2]

Let me throw these paintings away.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Got $200 billion worth of paintings. Anything with now I can't park my boat in the garage.

[Seaboy 1]

What did Bob Ross like. What was the channel that he'd be painting on?

[Seaboy 3]

Pbs.

[Seaboy 1]

Dude, he got that PBS money in need. The painting.

[Seaboy 3]

He. They sold the first painting on his first episode, and that sold for 10 million.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

When like that back then?

[Seaboy 3]

No, recently.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

They sold the first one.

[Seaboy 3]

Yeah, the first one he ever made.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

That was the one. They. They only sold that one.

[Seaboy 1]

Yeah.

[Seaboy 2]

You gotta imagine the whole team is like, come on, let's just sell them. Yeah, you've got 14,000 of them.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Can we just sell every other.

[Seaboy 2]

Let's just sell one in the middle.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Like, why the first one, though?

[Seaboy 3]

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 thing, but, yeah, there's.

[Seaboy 2]

I'm gonna be honest. I know, like, little to nothing about Bob Ross.

[Seaboy 3]

You're too.

[Seaboy 1]

We can tell you call him a cock stock.

[Seaboy 3]

Yeah. Dude, I can't believe you called that guy Bob Ross.

[Seaboy 1]

Yeah.

[Seaboy 2]

I don't know. It just felt right in the moment. And now. Now I'm being questioned on and I'm. I'm backing out of my statement.

[Seaboy 3]

27 paintings are at Min Mintrista's Bob Ross Experience in Muncie, Indiana. So next time you're down there.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Next time I'm rolling through Muncie.

[Seaboy 3]

Yeah.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Is Muny. Does it show where it is? Because I don't want to sound like an idiot. Is it by Chicago?

[Seaboy 3]

Sure.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Chicago. Never mind. Chicago's in Illinois. I did. I didn't want to sound like an idiot, so I said the wrong state.

[Seaboy 3]

It's, like, up over here. North on the other side of Indianapolis. On the other. It's pretty far from Chicago.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

I'm not gonna go there today.

[Seaboy 3]

Okay.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

There's a Bob Ross painting for sale.

[Seaboy 3]

For an unspecified price, but they do accept financing email.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Can we call them now on the show and make an offer?

[Seaboy 2]

Yeah. Can I call them up?

[Seaboy 3]

Yeah, call them up.

[Seaboy 2]

See what it's about.

[Seaboy 3]

Just buy email is all they offer.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Oh, son of a guy.

[Seaboy 3]

Can you imagine that guy sitting by the phone? I'd like to buy your Bob Ross.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Pretty sure there was one point you could get Joe Exotic on a podcast.

[Seaboy 2]

Joe Exotic? Yeah.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

You could you just call him up and get him on a podcast?

[Seaboy 3]

Yeah, he's in jail.

[Seaboy 1]

No, it was just. God, what were they called? Cameos. He was on cameo. So you could like, like, basically like hire him out for 30 minutes.

[Seaboy 3]

Yeah, you could.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

From jail.

[Seaboy 3]

Yeah, from jail.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Yeah.

[Seaboy 1]

I don't know how the hell that works. Maybe because he's like, I don't know how that would work. You think he'd be under some weird, you know, strict things.

[Seaboy 3]

I didn't think you could work from jail.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

He's using his 15 minutes a day to make his phone call. And he's doing like 10 cameos. Two grand a day. So like when he gets out, he's gonna have a million bucks waiting for him.

[Seaboy 3]

Yeah, he was smart, actually. He can book Joe Exotic for 249. Oh, 15 minutes.

[Seaboy 2]

Oh, wow.

[Seaboy 3]

It's actually not that bad. Half of your price.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Yeah, that's not.

[Seaboy 2]

Your next video though, is just 15 minutes of Joe Exotic sitting in a cell just talking about YouTube. Just talking about Carol Baskin.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Get me out of here. Get me out of here.

[Seaboy 2]

You should do that.

[Seaboy 3]

And you should have him sit in the tractor with you in the buddy seat. Farming with Joe Exotic.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Just like that.

[Seaboy 1]

Actually, that would go crazy. You should do that. See, you see that? Now he's doing stuff that he doesn't necessarily want to do. This is not on his right title.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

It like Farming with. Yeah, that's.

[Seaboy 1]

See, that's how we think. We're like, that's a banger title right there. Like that's just going to be go viral. Then you go down the rabbit hole. Yeah, yeah.

[Seaboy 3]

There's so many things you could do, like having Joe Exotic babysit my kids.

[Seaboy 1]

Set him up, you know, Onyx and him.

[Seaboy 2]

Great.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Joe Exotic flies my helicopter home from Cletus's race.

[Seaboy 1]

Yeah, yeah, There you go.

[Seaboy 2]

It's pretty good. You might have a career in this.

[Seaboy 1]

Now Ryan just needs to win that helicopter.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

If you win that helicopter, all pay for Joe Exotic to fly it home with you on the iPad.

[Seaboy 1]

That's fair.

[Seaboy 2]

Okay, so that, that's a safe.

[Seaboy 1]

Only for the whole way. About 15 hour flight.

[Seaboy 2]

Yeah.

[Seaboy 3]

Can you imagine every day for the next like 100 days, I'm flying for 15 minutes from spot to spot.

[Seaboy 2]

Zach pays like 100 grand to Joe Exotic.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Yeah, he's like.

[Seaboy 3]

I thought it was like a one time.

[Seaboy 2]

Well, this was not worth the investment.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

I didn't think he could drive that well. I didn't think he'd win the race.

[Seaboy 1]

You and me both.

[Seaboy 2]

Yeah, that's going to be electric if that does happen.

[Seaboy 1]

I do have faith in Ryan though. He is the best wheelman in our group. I will say him And Mike are probably tossed up. Mike really gave you a run for. For your money in the last year.

[Seaboy 3]

But as long as I don't have to jump.

[Seaboy 1]

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.

[Seaboy 3]

Maybe on the other side.

[Seaboy 1]

Other side. Yeah.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Yeah. Not like on top of a bunch of people.

[Seaboy 2]

No, not like trying to avoid that.

[Seaboy 3]

Well, you've got one of those danger Rangers built, and that race got pretty sketchy. Yeah, that was the one that they.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Extremely. So I built the Ranger for. For. 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, 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.

[Seaboy 3]

Driving a Ranger around a racetrack.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

And I'm. 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.

[Seaboy 1]

Yeah.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Who. Who could. Who could gain from this?

[Seaboy 2]

Who could.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Who would actually. Who's close enough and knows how to load this thing on a trailer and.

[Seaboy 1]

Go, who could I dump this on?

[Seaboy 2]

But then you thought of us and went, well, there's no way that thing's coming back in one piece.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

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.

[Seaboy 1]

All right. All right.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

It just needs a little bit of work.

[Seaboy 1]

So you're also a Ford Ranger enthusiast then? Or was that just because of the race?

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

That's because that's what was required.

[Seaboy 2]

You don't use range.

[Seaboy 1]

So you're nothing like us, then.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

No, I'm not an enthusiast.

[Seaboy 1]

Okay.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

No.

[Seaboy 2]

Yeah. If we had a farm, the entire thing would just be Rangers.

[Seaboy 3]

Rangers.

[Seaboy 2]

Yeah.

[Seaboy 1]

We'd be using them to combine and stuff.

[Seaboy 3]

Yeah, everything.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

But why?

[Seaboy 2]

They're the best, that's why.

[Seaboy 1]

What do you mean? Did you see ours out there? Did you see it?

[Seaboy 2]

Like, what, What?

[Seaboy 1]

Is there any more questions?

[Seaboy 2]

Yeah, if you ever got any heavy loads and you need a rig that can pull it, you can use our dually converted. Yeah, Cummins swapped.

[Seaboy 1]

You could pull, like, if you get a new combine or something. Yeah.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

See that one that would go Crazy. You don't want to race that one.

[Seaboy 3]

Right? I don't know. This.

[Seaboy 2]

I don't think it would make it.

[Seaboy 1]

Work, but it would still probably.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Yeah, it would win.

[Seaboy 1]

Yeah.

[Seaboy 2]

Pull the racetrack home.

[Seaboy 3]

Yeah.

[Seaboy 2]

Load it up, tow it home. Just take it home on a day's work.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

No, if you guys want that Ranger.

[Seaboy 1]

Yeah.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Use it.

[Seaboy 2]

It's almost barely. Not even say that.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

I was halfway through it.

[Seaboy 2]

He was like, use it.

[Seaboy 1]

But you need to pay for it first in full, before you can even open the door.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

I'm being careful about what I say because I think. I think I promised to get Joe Exotic to fly a helicopter. That was by accident. So.

[Seaboy 2]

Yeah. You're driving home, your hands are sweating. You're like, what did I just do? What did I say? What did I say in that box? Can't sleep at night.

[Seaboy 3]

What happened?

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Just dreams of Joe Exotic and Bob Ross.

[Seaboy 2]

Yeah.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Yeah.

[Seaboy 2]

Well, I think. I think that's a wrap.

[Seaboy 1]

We'll.

[Seaboy 2]

We'll end on that note, man. We. 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 and keep making great videos and keep farming, dude.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Yeah, same to you guys. Thank you for having me.

[Seaboy 2]

Much appreciated.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Thanks for the T shirt idea.

[Seaboy 2]

Yeah, they're welcome.

[Seaboy 1]

It's all yours.

[Seaboy 2]

All right, if you haven't subscribed, hit subscribe, and we'll see you guys in the next.

[Seaboy 1]

And also subscribe to Millennial Farmer. Check them out on Instagram, millennial Farmer on YouTube. Go check them out, guys.

[Seaboy 2]

There we go.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

What are the headsets for? There's no audio.

[Seaboy 1]

You didn't have.

[Seaboy 3]

You didn't have audio the whole time?

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

No.

[Seaboy 1]

Shut the up.

[Seaboy 2]

Yes, you did.

[Seaboy 1]

Yes, you did.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

No, I didn't.

[Seaboy 1]

Are you serious? No test.

[Seaboy 3]

Oh, my God.

[Seaboy 2]

Yo, you should have said something, dude.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Like, five minutes into it.

[Seaboy 2]

Why are we wearing these stupid things?

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

Three of these are plugged in.

[Seaboy 3]

There's one way to go.

[Seaboy 2]

Ken, I didn't set this.

[Seaboy 3]

It was me.

[Seaboy 2]

What does this sound like? Not having audio?

[Seaboy 1]

Yeah.

[Seaboy 2]

Unplug mine. Unplug mine. I don't know, bro.

[Seaboy 1]

You just can't hear. What do you mean?

[Seaboy 3]

I'll do it.

[Seaboy 1]

Dude, I feel bad.

[Seaboy 2]

I'm sorry.

[Seaboy 1]

Put this on for a second. This is what it's supposed to sound like.

[Zach (Millennial Farmer)]

I know I do most.

[Seaboy 1]

It sounds just real nice.

[Seaboy 3]

She would have said something. I feel awful now. Oh, my gosh.

[Seaboy 1]

It's a rookie ass podcast. Come on, guys, we need to pick it up. We need to pick it up.

[Seaboy 2]

I went on the Seaboys podcast, and I didn't hear a single word they said.