Zach Richert
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I want to make time to golf and hang out with the bros and do stuff every once in a while, like go into the Colorado game, whatever it may be. But, like, during harvest, I don't really do anything. I just work. That's all it is. But that's fine. That's how I want it to be. There's a time and place, so you've got to get the work in.
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Oh, yeah. Yeah, I'm cruising. I got my dog, and he's my best pal ever. What kind of dog is it? Golden Retriever. He's my best man.
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I live on the farm. I live in the house I grew up in.
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No, we moved to town. We moved to York when I was a junior.
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Like going into second semester of junior year, like 2018.
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Yeah, well, and then a family moved in while they built their new house, and they lived there for like four years. They built their whole new house by themselves, so it just took a while. Wow. What was the thought process there? Just wanted to live in town? Oh, on living in town.
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Yeah, my mom was tired of gravel, and she drove a lot, and she got a job in town once my youngest sibling was in school, and she was just like kind of tired of driving every day. And living in town, honestly, it has benefits for sure, and it's nice. I mean, it was only like 20 minutes to the farm from there.
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So it wasn't too bad, but I mean, yeah, sometimes it was like, man, I got to drive out there, you know, either way, like living in town, being near food was just a pretty big deal.
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Older sister, and then me, and then younger sister, and younger brother.
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We're all adopted, so we're all, like, pretty different from each other.
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Yeah. Wow. Yeah. It's a fun family because we're all, like, very different.
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But that's who they went through, yeah.
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Yeah, it's called Half Fam. Half Fam? Yeah.
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Yeah, it's fun. I'm the only kid that's got both of them, too. Really? I'm pretty lucky. Wow. They're both cool. I get along really good with my dad, my biological dad.
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Yeah, he's a fun guy. At what point in your life did you...
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uh my mom i always knew like they never hid it from us you know something we always knew but my dad like right at the start of senior year was when i got to meet him and then we've been hanging out ever since that's really cool are they local there he's in papillion and right now she's in bennington yeah okay so kind of i mean they're still an hour and a half but yeah they've never been out to my place yet
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And like learning why I am some of the ways that I am is very entertaining. Me and my dad are really similar. Like we went through even a lot of the same stuff at the same ages and,
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Yeah. Just a lot of stuff like lined up perfectly. Didn't go to college or tried to go to college. He tried and he didn't finish.
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This is crazy. They just like, I don't know. I talk about it and that's normal to me. You know, that's my life. But I mean, yeah, what they think, I don't know.
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and they just have no it's totally foreign that's really that's how cool is it for his parents though to allow that connection yeah to allow you to have a have the best they're the greatest people that is badass they're awesome and my dad he's really fun to work with too like we still have like the typical father-son differences sometimes but generally it's really really good we get along super good how old is your dad he's 54 so he's pretty young yeah
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Yeah, she's 27. We're all five years apart, right about. Because that's how long. They've got to make sure that the last one they gave you didn't die.
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And then they're like, all right, yeah, no. They're in kindergarten. You can get another. And it was always weird. Like growing up, it was weird. Because everyone else's mom got pregnant. And then it was like us, we just had a new one one day. That's a very valid point, right? You're sitting there in kindergarten. And come in, I'm like, I'm getting a new baby brother tomorrow. Oh, you guys suck.
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New one coming in. New one just dropped. Uh-huh. I remember the phone call from my little brother coming out of Walmart with my mama. Really?
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No. No. No, mom got in the car. She was like, you're getting a little brother. We were taking food to my dad. And it was, yeah. Which my mom doesn't really do that, but it was a field right on the highway. So there's like no reason not to.
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Yeah, she hates gravel. She really does. She won't even drive on it now. She drives an all, like, new blacked-out Traverse. Oh, nice. The rims are, like, gloss black. It's tinted. It's like a literal investigation vehicle.
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Yeah, and it was just taking the curves for me.
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I was playing rap music for my mother. She kind of liked it. She maybe acted like she didn't, but she kind of did. That's the thing. Whenever my parents get a new vehicle, I have to test the speakers because I tuned them for her and got them set, and the bow's ripped. But then dad bought a pickup, too, right after mom bought that. He got a daily, finally, for the farm. Ah.
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Because where they live is, like, it doesn't look great for just a muddy truck to be in the driveway all the time. Yep. It just looks destroyed 24-7. He washed it, like, once every two months. It's just like me now, too. The same way. Turned into him.
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mm-hmm the l what do you call them lbz yeah i drove my white one here it's lbz yep now i got my lml my 15 but i don't want to drive i got my white truck back yesterday after being gone for a little over a month so where was that uh the doctor oh forgetting surgery it was it leaked all it's cooling out and my cruise control hasn't worked for over a year my brake lights stopped working because i was getting like damn near rear ended all the time oh
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And one time my little sister was following me out to the farm. We got there. She was like, do your brakes work? I was like, yeah. And she was like, your lights weren't lighting up. So that's how I figured out that they weren't working. Thankfully, she told me. I didn't find out the hard way.
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It was a fun time. Right? It's a great memory. It's fun to laugh at now because, you know, you grow past it so much.
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It's not the... But if you do it and get caught, you get one. Two is where it's like... No, I'm kidding. Yeah, someone could have five here. I have no idea. I don't plan on doing it again. That's good. I've been totally innocent. Never broke the law. Never. Yeah. Been good. So let's go.
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COVID. Once it started, I started making videos end of May of 2020.
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And just, like, doing stuff on the farm, being funny, and I got, like, my first video that popped, and... So where the hell did the Trotter gang come to? That was from... I met Blake on... BMO?
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BMO. I met him on TikTok Live. And, yeah, that's how we got to know each other, and... He made the Trouter video first. It was something about when she doesn't want to play Trotters when she comes over. I remember that.
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And I was like, dude, that's so funny. I have toys too. We should use that word and go with it. Because we started talking in kid voices and stuff. We thought it was funny. The kid voice then, it was terrible looking back now. But it worked, I guess. But no, we just started playing with them. And then that came about. And then, yeah, the gang deal happened.
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tratter gang nick we knew nick because like blake and i first started we were working with nick's brand before like for two months or so or a month before the tratter stuff started and then we we just knew nick so then he was like kind of our merch manager to start and then he became a part of the whole group and gatlin did here too farm so with daryl with daryl yeah went down to oklahoma a couple times one time for sure went down to his place yeah but yeah we just hung out did events and then
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Yeah, eventually the traveling was kind of burning me out and I was missing a lot of work that I didn't want to be missing.
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And, like, the last event I went to was, like, Tennessee State Fair and they were, like, hyping it up. It was like, oh, there's American Ninja Warrior there. It's going to be a great time.
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And we get there and, like, they ended up not paying us at all. Oh. And we get there and the American Ninja Warrior is, like, it looks like a bored dad assembled it in, like, a week. Yeah. It was like, there was an actual American Ninja Warrior guy there, but it was just like a really janky setup. Yeah. Didn't really trust it. And it was like, all right, what are we doing here?
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And then, yeah, after that, I just never, I was done pretty much. But I went to one more. I went to a Granger Smith concert in Missouri. Okay. But then after that, I was like, yeah, we had a phone call because we weren't all getting along very well because there was different opinions, you know, and on like what to do. And yeah, I was like, guys, I'm just going to keep farming.
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I'm in a grain cart right now. I'm just too busy. Yeah.
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But, like, we've hung out a couple times since everything. It's still fun. I mean, it's fun when we hang out.
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bemo is still doing something not trotter gang but he's still out trotter house trotter house that's it's trotter house yeah it's like a creator yeah influence it's like the five the 615 house that dave you you always shared with us yeah no it's like nick roy and blake and they live in this house no they don't live together they had a house for a little bit and caden was a part of it then when they like had the house at first then caden split off from it and yeah
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How many TikToks have you had? This is my fourth account. Right. And everyone has gone for over a million, hasn't it? No, not everyone. My first one, I lost it at 1.7. And then I made a Pickles are Just Cucumbers account, and that got to like a quarter mil. And then I had another one, Danny's Sexy Father, that I only used for like two months. But I got to like 130 or 140, something like that.
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Danny's Sexy Father. Yeah. And I can still get into that one, but I can't get into Pickles are Just Cucumbers. Because it's my phone number linked to it, but they think I'm trying to sign into my band account. So my mom's phone number is what's linked to my account now. Because they wouldn't let me use my actual one. Why did you get banned? TikTok was softer back then.
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Like with the stuff you post, some like edgy stuff now, like it just won't do very good. They won't get on the For You page at all. But you can do a lot more now, I think, and they won't just take stuff down. I see. Because back then a lot of stuff was taken down and be like, why did you even, I mean, what did I do? And maybe part of it was me being 19 and thinking I was perfect. Yeah.
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either way yeah that's what i'm saying but no i lost it it was actually it was good it was good because then yeah it took me like two years to get back to it maybe not that long on this one but close to it probably huh so don't mess it up don't yeah no it'd be this october it'd be two years so what's the secret sauce
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Try to do something that, like, people know, but try to do it a little differently. Yeah. And put your own little twist on it. And if it does well, run with it for a little while.
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Sometimes things get to me a little bit, but it's always like in my snap, and I slide up and see it, and I'm the only person that sees it, and I'm like, oh, yeah, I'll never ever see that person. It's probably not even real.
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Yeah. No, it's, yeah, no. I got called weird a week ago by my cousin Dylan that I do my pod with because I was like, the Oregon Trail was on my mind last week, so I was trying to talk about that.
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Well, we talked about the game for a little bit, but just like the actual experience in general. There's trail ruts here in Nebraska. I looked it up because he didn't believe me, but yeah, I went to it when I was in grade school. I remember it. You can see a sod house, and the other ruts are, like, three foot deep. Right. Yeah.
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So it's just on my mind. And, like, typhoid, everyone was just dying.
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Yeah. And you lock in and you just, I mean, it kind of feels cool.
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They're awesome. They're awesome. But, oh, man, it was a tough topic when I was 19. It was pretty rough.
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Too much jacked up on too much Mountain Dew.
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I played baseball when I was a kid until I was 13, and I started to tasseling and failing miserably at it. And then I played just basketball, football, and track. But I didn't play football my freshman year of high school.
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I wanted to focus on basketball. That was my main sport. So could you be a ninja warrior? No, but I did do the thing where you jump the pole.
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I made it to the top on that. And I jumped up the ramp. I ran up the ramp.
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Uh-uh. I've ridden dirt bikes, though.
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With Grant quite a bit. We might pole vault tonight.
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Just set it for high jump and then high jump. That's much safer. Yeah. I don't know that I could much. That would be a competition.
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yeah oh man so you mentioned that you had a podcast when did that start uh like February like February 8th and it's with your cousin yeah but I started doing it with my buddy Ethan and then he moved up here from Missouri to work at uh Acres in York and we've been friends for a couple years so that was part of it too you know and we did that because like we got busy and we didn't really see each other much so we both wanted to do it but like it was a good excuse to like get together but
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Yeah, I just didn't really pan out the best, and then he wanted to move back, so I just went a different direction. Yeah. What's it called? Two Yappy Gents. Two Happy Gents.
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Yappy. Yappy. Yappy. We can't shut up.
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Anything and everything. There's no sense of direction on any episode when we start. We just sit down, hit start, and it's like, what's up, dude? How was your week? Catch up for a minute, and then we get into it, and it could go anywhere.
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Once a week. Once a week. Yep. Every Monday morning, 6 a.m. Central.
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It can be. I don't make it that way. Yeah. I probably could be doing it. Like, I don't even film them yet because I keep forgetting to order a camera for it. But I filmed a couple on my phone. It's just I have a PC, so it's hard to, like, get it off my phone onto the PC, Apple, and Windows.
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I can still do it. It just takes forever for the file to transfer. It'll take, like, four hours sometimes. It's ridiculous. And then it's the fastest way.
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Yeah. No, it works out pretty good. We have a lot of fun. But, yeah, I just, like, record it. I go into Premiere Pro. Cut out whatever I want to cut out, if there's anything, and then export it and upload it, title it. Is he a Mac guy if he's a Premiere Pro? No. Oh, no. He just said PC. Still, it's a Surface Pro. Got it. So it breaks apart, but I never, ever break it apart.
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My TV is like that thick in the basement.
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yeah absolutely so not only are you tech talk's favorite farmer but you guys actually farm and farm well because you've your farm has taken some awards home yeah yeah technically yeah big dog award yeah pioneer seed corn that's when you're in a competitive contract with the other guys in the area with the same product and whoever gets the highest yield gets a big dog award you ever you ever gotten a big dog award nope seed corn doesn't doesn't work there
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You were just good at hooking up trailers?
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Classic bro move. Classic bro move. I about threw up. You had it coming. He did. Did you turn your back?
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that was impressive uh no i couldn't do roommates again i don't think there's no way i had a couple like good experiences no doubt but generally roommates just aren't the most fun but they can they cannot be that way sometimes right like because you have little like just like nitpicky yeah each other about stupid stuff and it just gets like
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You're going home and you're like, I'm going to deal with this.
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Basically, yeah. Chill outfit, yeah. I think I'm turning into a grumpy guy. I might be turning into a bit of just a grumpy.
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Pretty much, yeah. I still buy RC cars and stuff because I love it. I have so much fun. I'll break one, and I'll just order a new one from Traxxas. I won't fix the old one because it's like, okay, now I've got to get parts, and I would have to actually fix it. I buy myself toys all the time, although not as much now. Why not? Things have gone down.
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keep that back personally i pretty much it's like groceries and golf that's it oh dude you have no idea it's my we should have done this in our studio yeah we have a golf simulator really yeah i'm building the course in my house at your house in the yard yeah i have a green that's almost filled in it's almost established grass just one hole or one green but three par threes and a par four
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very cool yeah do you have a fancy mower then too i have a real mower yeah just a push one but i have a real mower yeah so you're gonna mow the fairways like fairways or you're gonna mow them just like the yard uh i have to add i'm gonna add a fairway to one of the it's a straight on par three um and you don't really need it but then you could practice like 100 yard wedge shots and a bunch of different stuff so there'll be a fairway there but then i have a lot of long-term plans but i'm gonna start with that fairway for now that's cool the t-boxes are still trying to
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Well growing up was I mean that was a good time the whole thing was just a great time. I got to I mean we didn't have like Instagram you know like it is now and
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Get established, so that's the main goal at the moment. So did you know how to establish a green, or are you just learning as you go? No, I'm just learning as I go, figuring it out. Do you YouTube it? Parts of it, yeah, for sure. And I'm in a couple Facebook groups. I'm in Golf Maintenance Uncensored, which is people that actually work at a golf course, and they talk in tongues. I have no idea.
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Then I'm in Backyard Golf Greens, too.
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Yeah. And so, like, I just joined that. And, like, that way you could talk about, like, what herbicides. And, like, people use DEF on their greens for fertilizer. Oh, yeah. And so I've started. Cheap nitrogen. Yeah, pretty much. Started to do that a little bit. Yeah. Yeah. Just a lot of ideas bouncing back and forth.
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But, like, I got to play a lot with sticks. Got a dirt bike when I was nine, so that was not good for me. But I immediately liked speed and just messing with stuff. But I made a good time. I always loved the camera. I used to make vines when Vine was a thing.
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Just in case. I want to buy a rider because if I have a couple fairways at some point. So what are the tricks to establishing a green then? Have a lot of patience.
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do you have to do sand isn't yeah is that a thing top dress it level it yeah so i have like a leveling rake yeah it's just like a like flat bar basically it's like i've been watching tiktoks on those yeah irrigation uh-huh i have a sprinkler i want to do that to my yard this fall yeah all right just level it out you should it mows extremely well and i've leveled like other little spots in the lawn just trying it out and like around the green now i'm going to seed like rye grass and
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I'm pretty shy. I'm a pretty shy guy. I don't do great at talking to new people all the time. But I can sort of bury it down and go into a mode. But generally, if I'm going out, I grocery shop alone every time. But I just don't talk to anybody.
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Basically, I'll just look at them and be like, oh, yeah. Where's the popcorn? Yeah, I just continue on my mission.
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i'm pretty like skittish at first at least that's how i feel even if i don't look that way you made a comment to me when you walked up you said my brain's numb yeah yeah because i was freaking i was trying to find this you're in the mode yep yeah and like people coming up to me i was like sorry i can't hang out i gotta go and little do you know we were running behind yeah no it all worked out but i was like having a conniption was grant just like driving by and like
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I had a couple that, like, did well. But I made one about, like, Frozen, like the movie Frozen. I don't remember. Something with, do you want to build a snowman? But either way, I loved making vines. And I used to make YouTube videos in my room by myself. And I uploaded them to an account named Unknown. Dude.
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well i got i forgot i got service finally and he was on that side too where there was and he answered the phone and i was my heart rate just subsided immediately i was at the ranky booth and it's good to have people like that yeah it is yeah it is for sure and i don't i don't honestly do stuff with grant and laura as much as i probably should we don't hang out as much as we used to really because you're not far from them right no like 40 35 yeah so it's not bad it's just like
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part of it's my fault for sure but just like gran will invite me to go riding and then i'm like i'm always doing something yeah and i just i mean usually what i'm doing i could definitely not do and go do that life gets busy yeah i don't know it's just like you're wired a certain way to yeah always think about what you can be doing you know absolutely trying to make stuff better
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Start Deere, Cut, New Holland, Bench Case.
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Isn't New Holland and Case the same thing? They are, I think, pretty much. They're owned by the same company. How about Deere, Case, and Fent? Deere, Case, Fent. Cut, Case, Bench Fent. Okay. Deere Starts. That's good. I think Fenn's pretty decent. I've never really ran one. Never ran one, but I've been in a couple. I like how they look, and everyone pretty much does nice things.
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Football, basketball, baseball. Bench football, start, basketball, cut, baseball. What's your team? In basketball, I really like the Warriors, Golden State, Steph Curry. That's why I got this tattoo. What is that? Just two errors. It was a grueling session. It was pretty long. Hurt really bad. Pretty sensitive spot, though. Yeah. No, it wasn't bad at all. Does Steph have that tattoo? He does.
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
because i thought it was like oh dude name it unknown that's the coolest thing ever everyone's gonna be like wait who's unknown then come no never worked but no i don't know i just did that and i was always interested in farming and then like in high school i kind of strayed away from it for like two years and then like senior year came back and it's been back ever since so so where's the farm
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
Same spot. Some people think that's corny. Is that your only tattoo? No, I got two more on my thigh. Some people think that's corny. You're a leg tat guy?
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
okay oh my man you got it you have to wear short shorts for those yeah that's cool you got my necklace on on the one that's yeah it's exactly that the the nails yeah i got that one because i like it and i like jesus a lot and blake and caden both have it in the same spot but mine's bigger than theirs so it's cooler absolutely what's your chain My chain, I got it in Hawaii.
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
My first trip down there on the Waikiki Strip. First trip?
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
Two times. Okay. And I'll probably go again this winter if I can. It's my place, dude.
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
I'm made to be there. I'm convinced. Yeah, everyone's just barefoot having a great time.
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
And that's me. So I need to be there. But no, I don't know what it means. I don't know. I've tried to figure it out. It was like a native shop. I was too embarrassed to be like, what does that mean?
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
But I'm glad he picked me. So you have tattoos.
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
I'm the cool guy. Come watch me get this tattoo. Ten million colors on it's not a big deal. All it did was make it more expensive. We might get farm for profit tattoos, but I doubt it. I would. They're not that bad. I would. They're kind of fun. I need to get more. I went through a phase for a second, but now I'm kind of getting back into it.
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
Do you have any children? Yeah, two. How old are they? Eight and four. Yeah, see, that would be an interesting conversation when you're working on something together when they're 14 and you bend down. They're like, oh. You got one, Dad, so I'm getting one. Yes, that's going to. I could see you with like a sleeve. Have you ever thought about that?
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
I've thought about like a forearm one, but I just don't. I don't know if I'm a sleeve guy.
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
Maybe either forearm or like calf. But I don't know. I'm not just, I just don't know what I do. I can see a calf sleeve. Yeah. Yeah. I like my legs for doing stuff. Are you a no color tattoo guy? So far. So far. Yeah. I just don't know if there's like, I haven't really ever seen a color tattoo that I love.
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
But I just, I want to love whatever I'm putting on me. And like all of these, whenever I found them, I was like, yeah, I'm getting that.
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
From here, I'm like 50 minutes east. Okay. Basically.
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
That's tough right there. Probably going to cut YouTube. Really? Start Instagram, bench TikTok. Really? Huge Instagram guy. Really? That's where I get my news. That's not what I thought you were going to say. No. I left the D out of there. No, Instagram is just so much. I like Instagram a lot. Yeah. Probably too much. What do you like about Instagram?
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
Because I have not been able to figure it out. Reels. The Reels. Reels are good. Which is just TikTok. No. It's TikTok's two weeks old. No. No, not anymore. Now it's like, do you want to see a cartel beheading? Here you go. Totally uncensored. Not even, like, sensitive video. Really? Yeah.
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
Although mine isn't as many of, like, people dying anymore because I started to skip those because they're, like, bad and, like, we're not meant to see that every day. Yeah, that's not healthy. So now it's just, like, memes and it's really funny to me. But I have very unique humor on my telephone. I'm really into comedy, though, but what's on there is not really comedy.
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
Oh, yeah. Heavily in the last, like, two months. The show Kill Tony, you ever heard of that? You could be like the Matt Reif of agriculture.
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
No. Yeah. No Matt Reif vibe. Shane Gillis vibe. There we go. That's what we got to go for. Yes. Yeah. That's the show you're talking about where they sit there, there's four. Yeah, they sit at the table with Kill Tony, Tony Hinchcliffe hosts it, and then they call like a random comedian out and they're picked out of the bowl and most of them bomb.
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
But I watch that show like every night and it's like you see someone go up there and it's like I could do better than that. I could because some of them are just like they go up there, they shakily pull a piece of paper out. Yeah. How about airplane food? Just terrible jokes. It's like I could do better than that.
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
Not as much, no. I just don't listen to it. I listen to like the Protect Our Parks where they have like Mark Norman, Shane Gillis, a couple other comedians on.
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
Cutting cores, benching bush, starting Mickeys. Nice.
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
I could see that. I knew when I walked in.
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
No, I'm just kidding. Yeah. No, I love Michelob. See how I keep my slim girlish figure?
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
Not very well, generally. But I try to juggle it pretty well. I think I'm a little better than my dad at it, but my dad's been conditioned to just be how he is for so many years. So, like, it'll be, like, summer night, you know. He'll go cut weeds until it's dark, which is, like, 9, 930, you know. And then he'll go check his water and then go home. And then he's back at, like, 5 a.m.
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
I tend to fall into that category more often than not. Is your farm all irrigated? Yeah, except for 280s. Yeah.
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
And then he's there all day again, you know. So, I knew I didn't want that every day. Like, some days, 100%. Like, I'll put it in and it doesn't really bother me too much. But, like, I want to make time to golf and hang out with the bros and do stuff every once in a while. Like, go into the Colorado game, whatever it may be. But, like, during harvest, I don't really do anything. I just work.
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
That's all it is. But that's fine. That's how I want it to be.
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
Yeah. And you lock in and you just, I mean, it kind of feels cool.
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
Just whenever I get a chance to take time for myself, I take it every time. I always take it unless I like absolutely need to do something, but I get whatever I got to get done with first. And then I, I take my time for me. I need that.
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
two hilly 80s but they do pretty good they've been no-till corn on corn for this is like year 11 really yeah and it just does i mean even last year we got like no rain and they did well one of them did like 177 the other one was like 181 really yeah so decent and this year things look even better so yeah because you guys have gotten pretty good rains this year yeah i mean at least the the early start of the year like spring and going into like june but then it got started to get dry once it was time to actually irrigate and it hasn't been it's been few and far between since then pretty much but
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
Cause I got to have something that kind of like balances me out and kind of can bring me back down. Cause I mean, working with family is hard, you know, it's difficult. Absolutely. So you need something to kind of like mellow you back out.
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
Can't bounce off each other as well.
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
Irrigation gets long every year. It doesn't matter.
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
Well, in the middle, like, what did I do when I strayed away? Yeah. I worked, so...
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
I detasseled the star I did that for two years I was actually just horrendous at it I was so bad at detasseling like hand detasseling yeah okay yeah on fertile fields and I was the worst at that I got demoted to a first year my second year and I was I was like 5'2 when I was 13 I was so small so like I didn't have a great experience in the fields but no I did that and then I pollinated for a year
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
um for pioneer at a research plant and that was pretty fun but then the two years after that um summer before sophomore and junior year i worked for the city or senior year i worked for the city of york public works so i tried out the eight to five thing and yeah yeah it was a fun job because we weren't old enough to work on the street so all we did was like weed eating parks and stuff and
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
One holds the shovel. Yeah, said we got it done and then just didn't. We'd get everything done that we had to do for the day, like before lunch and work like crazy. And then during the afternoon, we just kind of like drove around. Huh. Yeah. Did you go to school after high school at all or not? I went. I mean, going to school is a pretty loose term there.
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
No, I went to UNL for a semester and that was when UNL was like all online. But supposedly they had in-person classes and my mom was like, you need in-person because online is not good for you. Because once my high school switched online, I told the teachers like, hey. I'm busy farming.
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
Don't know how much I'm going to do here. But I mean, they were like, yeah, we get it, whatever. And they just didn't care too much. They didn't assign a lot, but I didn't do great. So I went to UNL and then all my classes ended up being online. And yeah, I just, I just studied drinking after that pretty much. Didn't go to class?
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
Even though it was on your computer? I never once, I had one in-person class, but I never once went to class. So that was short-lived. Yeah. And then after that, I didn't really tell my parents that I wasn't doing school. Wasn't doing it. Yeah. Do they know now or do I have to cut that out?
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
Yeah. No, I came back from school. It was like November. And dad thought it was weird that I was there during the week the entire time during harvest because I was there helping every day. And he's like, oh, that's weird. He's never doing school or anything. He's just hanging out all the time. So then like the end of the semester, I was like, by the way, I haven't done like anything. Yeah.
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
my mom for like 30 minutes was like we're gonna get all of this done we're gonna get you caught up you can't do this my mom went into freak mode and then like after like yeah 20 minutes she was just like okay no this is not gonna work we can't do this yeah then i went to beatrice to do precision ag and i made it till spring break that's how you say it beatrice yeah it looks like beatrice doesn't it beet rice yeah i don't think i've ever said it out loud
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
No, because my classes were actually not doing too bad. I was trying a lot harder there and I like learning about the stuff a little more. And I thought it would be useful. But there was this one teacher... I like skipped her class once and it was like a checks and balances class. And she kept me after class and I had like a D I'd like an a minus or B something in that class.
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
I don't remember, but she kept me after class and like told me I was going to fail and all this. And then she became my new advisor, like right as spring break started. And it was just like a bad talk. Cause I was talking back and I was being a little just asshole basically. And yeah, no, she, um, I never went back after that. Never even got my sheets or anything from my room. Oh, really? Yeah.
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
They billed me like $62. Someone has Zach's sheets. Yeah. Someone has my deer blanket that I loved. But whatever. It's fine. It's probably on eBay right now.
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
Just learning the hard way all the time. Yeah. Oh, yeah.
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
Yeah. Without a cause. Yeah. Just for fun. Not as bad now, but for a while it was...
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
yeah so you didn't go back after spring break you just go right back to the farm and just start helping there pretty much yeah I mean I told him I was like yeah I'm not going back I'm done I just want to I mean I was already farming at that point I had my first piece that first year it's only 27 acres but I was in the process of doing it you know already and yeah so I was like I mean I'm not learning anything at school I know I won't this is how I learn stuff by doing it and I have to make mistakes or I won't learn so
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
With my dad. Dad and I do a lot, and then we got our hired guy who's kind of an unsung hero of the farm. This is his 11th season with us, and Grandpa's still around, but he's just doing Grandpa things, you know, sweeping, sleeping, all that. So you want to take over the farm? Oh, yeah. I'd love to. I'd love to. I think it would be a great time. And I think it's a good life, too.
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
I love the lifestyle it gives you.
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
Are you single? Yeah. Every day. No girlfriend? Every day.
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
I lost it, man. I lost it. I like my alone life too much. It's really what it is. Anything disrupting it could ruin me. It does seem very, like, society's kind of gotten independent now.
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
No. And, like, my generation, too, like, I think we're all just sick of it because everyone kind of – everyone that's single now, like, after college is kind of going through, like, the same thing, like, dating apps. And then once you actually go out to, like, be at bars around other people, everyone's in their own little, like, stupid little cliques.
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
You can't even, like – every girl you look at is looking at you like –
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
creeper like yeah like you're good what's wrong with you right yeah there's a predetermined notion that there's something wrong with you yeah and like i feel like if i'm gonna come up she'll be like i don't talk to a man you know get away from me i'm horrified of that so what do you what do you think messed that up what is it was it covid tinder media all social media so i mean you could be with the most beautiful girl in the world you go on instagram once and you'll be like yeah well maybe i could do better
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
Because you see someone, you know, some OnlyFans lady.
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
Oh, dude. The pool around me, it's pretty slim.
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
It's shallow. There's not, I mean, it's like.
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
I know. I was at the Husker game when they beat Colorado. Yeah. And there was a lady that I. She didn't look at me, but I looked at her a couple times. Yeah? And I never talked to her, but I thought about it for a good five minutes or so.
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
I have a lot of notes to take, no doubt.
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
No, my whole, everyone that's my age does that stupid shit where they're like, you have to pretend like you don't like each other. For like three weeks before you can actually maybe start being two humans. Yeah. And it just, it's so stupid. So like in a sense, sort of I've given up, but like at the same time, I don't know.
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
It's like, what if I meet a lady and then she tells me something that I love has to go, you know? You can't go that fast. That'll happen no matter what. I don't know. Everything you love will be gone. Then you'll have new things that you're told you love. It just doesn't sound fun.
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F4F - Zach Richert - TikTok's Favorite Farmer
Yeah, you do. It'll happen. I did that for a little while, and now I'm just cruising back. I mean, I'm talking to one right now, but who knows? Just one? Yeah, well. Well, look at the smile. One that's like a potential prospect. Okay, I like that. Because you get, I mean, yeah, I don't know. You get caught up just like sending a picture to each other once a day, and then it's so dumb.