The hosts interview Zach Johnson, better known as the Millennial Farmer, about his journey in modern agriculture. Zach opens up about the challenges and rewards of farming in Minnesota, where he helps manage the family farm. As a fifth-generation farmer, Zach discusses how his operation has evolved, focusing on precision farming techniques and sustainable practices to maximize efficiency.We talk about his success on YouTube, where Zach educates viewers about agriculture's day-to-day realities and the significance of connecting farmers to consumers. With over a million followers across platforms, Zach has become a key figure in agriculture advocacy, bringing transparency to farming practices while also advocating for sustainable food production.Listeners will enjoy stories about Zach's farm life, his favorite pieces of equipment, and the challenges that come with balancing content creation and farm management. The episode also explores how the Millennial Farmer brand has shaped public perceptions of agriculture and inspired future generations of farmers. Finally, Zach touches on his vision for the future of farming and the importance of community support in agriculture. Don’t forget to like the podcast on all platforms and leave a review where ever you listen!Websitewww.Farm4Profit.comShareable episode linkhttps://intro-to-farm4profit.simplecast.comEmail [email protected] to YouTubehttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSR8c1BrCjNDDI_Acku5XqwFollow us on TikTokhttps://www.tiktok.com/@farm4profitConnect with us on Facebookhttps://www.facebook.com/Farm4ProfitLLC/
We have the largest shooting event in the world every year with the Minnesota State High School League Championships. And that brings in about 9,000 students over nine days that come in and out of our park. So it's a huge event. We've got the campgrounds, like I said. We've got a skeet field. We're looking at maybe putting in some sporting clays and doing some other stuff out there.
So it's been fun.
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All right. If you are new to the Farm for Profit podcast, we like to say we're not the influencers, but we interview those that are. And one of our guests today is, I think, one of the most influential influencers. That's saying a lot.
You're making me nervous.
You were just having a conversation with somebody talking about Dr. Seuss. That's a mouthful. An influencing influencer. Yep.
As far as that goes, but we do we put out multiple shows a week Mondays and Thursdays But the best thing about a podcast is you can watch them or listen to them anytime that you want to We try to provide you with a little bit of expertise and advice on how you can make more money on your farm but ultimately if You are looking for something that's entertaining.
That's probably our number one goal and Heck yeah, that's where I come in. Corey's not funny, but both Dave and I are, so you can deal with that. If you want to check us out, farmforprofitllc at gmail.com. You can send us all kinds of questions. We're all over social media. If you have a question for Zach, you're going to want to write this phone number down. 515- And I will get that to Zach.
That's not his personal number. Could you repeat that number?
515-207-9640.
He's setting up the questions. Yeah, I might use that later. Why is Zach so good looking?
Get you a safe ride back from Farm Progress Show.
But it's our pleasure to have him on the podcast. I keep alluding to who he is. If nobody already knows, Corey, why don't you kick it off?
Hey, guys, maybe we even start before you, Corey. Let me interject. We would just like to thank our partners. And Sukup is where we're at today. and what a great guest to have here. For all of you that are in the live audience, thank you for being here. One of our proud partners is Sukup Grain Bins and Sukup Grain Handling.
If you are a next generation farmer, make sure that you're putting this brand stuck in your head, okay? It's one of the best brands out there. If you are a current farmer and you're just listening and says, who are these guys here? Grab one of the people in the green shirts that are around. They're all black and today. They won't kill you. They're really nice guys.
They're not overbearing salesmen. If you have questions, I love to ask them questions. Just do that. Great resource.
Yep. All right, Corey, introduce our guests. Here's the music, the drum roll. Today on the Farm for Fun show, we have a great friend and multi-time guest of the podcast, but it's his first time on the Sukup manufacturing stage here at the 2024 Farm Progress Show. This man is the gold standard in ag content creators, and we are humbled to have him again.
Please welcome from West Central Minnesota, Mr. Zach Johnson, a.k.a. the Millennial Farmer. The Millennial Farmer.
I feel like I'm supposed to get up on the corner buckle and smash the beer together.
I could. We should do that. We could do an ag talk, farm talk, wrestling event.
But you want to do it here, not in your studio, because you don't want to have to clean that up.
That's true. All right, so in two years, when we're back here with Sukup, we'll have a wrestling ring in the middle. Perfect. Oh, that would be great. We'd line up different content creators. Yeah. That would be fun. I've never tried that before. Could you do that, Dave? It's like the rap battle.
Yeah. A dance-off. A dance-off.
Maybe a break dance-off.
Well, welcome back to the show.
I would be more like that gal that competed against the United States. That would be me. Just be out there making a complete fool out of myself. That hits the entertainment side of the podcast. That's right. I made it to the Olympics. That's all that mattered.
So welcome back to the show, Zach. As I said, you've been on what? Hey, Ballard FFA.
How you doing?
You guys stick around.
Stick around.
You might learn something.
So you've been on the show three or four times. I'm sure all of our listeners have heard you on here. I'm sure, unless they're living under a rock, but for those who are living under a rock, who are you? What do you do?
So I'm a sixth generation farmer from Western Minnesota. Full time on the farm, it's just my dad and I. We've got seasonal guys that help us out. And right now, my wife and I, we bought the farmhouse from my parents. So we are raising our kids on the farm. And in 2016, I started a YouTube channel called Millennial Farmer.
And the entire idea behind it was just to try to relate to people about agriculture and what's really going on in the family farms in America. And about a year and a half into it, it just completely exploded on me. And now here I am on the Sukup stage. That's crazy.
This is the biggest stage in the industry. It's the peak. It's all downhill from here. Pinnacle is the word you're looking for. It's all downhill from here.
And the wife, is she with you here? Is she back home? She's back home. Wow, you made that sound like she's...
Well, great. She does all your editing now, doesn't she? She does pretty much all the editing, at least 90% of the editing. That's nice. So she's doing a lot of work behind the scenes. I got the easy job where I just have to carry the camera with me during the day and make it two jobs at once, I guess, throughout the day. And then she handles things from there.
But, yeah, she's back home with our daughters. And I brought my son and his buddy down thinking they wanted to go to a farm show. But when we loaded up to come down the other night, they threw their golf clubs in the back of the truck. So they're up the road at the golf course right now.
Oh, that's good. Brushy Creek.
Honey Creek. Honey Creek. Yeah, that's where they said they were going. I thought it was a creek. Just when I thought you had influence of just like eight-year-old girls on YouTube, my neighbor, who's like 75, who's a hay guy, is like, have you ever met this guy, the Millennial Farmer guy? And I was like, okay, his swath is a little bigger than I thought it was.
Eight-year-old girls, that's what you chose to say?
Yeah.
They love his looks. He's from Minnesota. That was a strange choice, wasn't it?
I saw your face.
Eight-year-old boys, young farm kids, but hey. I thought it was dancing on TikTok. It includes everything.
That's one of the things that I've really noticed is that the...
sort of that like the age range and who watches my videos on youtube is so broad you know yep when you do like a meet and greet like yesterday and i'll be doing this afternoon over at fbn people come and and it's like it's everyone from the two-year-old kids up to grandpa and everybody everybody's you know coming over to say hi and say they watch the videos so it's been cool that's one of the things i've always tried to do from the beginning is make it so that everybody can sit down and watch it yeah
It is crazy the amount of influence you have. There was only one boy sitting in here when you walked in early for the show and physically started jumping up and down when he saw you, got all embarrassed, went over to his dad. And it's like, that is such, that's the coolest thing to see that.
It's terrifying for me.
Yeah, I'm sure.
Shaping the minds of the next generation. Oh, I hope not. Not too much. That's hard to think about if you really start thinking deep.
That is, yeah.
Yeah, you don't want to think too deep.
Yeah.
Speaking of generations, we take pride in the notes that we put together, but you said sixth generation farmer. Yes. So did your notes say fifth?
It did.
Did you add another generation? I did because I didn't realize when I started the YouTube channel and I put it in my biography, I thought I was fifth generation. And then my neighbor actually, who is a big history buff, sent me a whole bunch of information. He was annoyed that I had it wrong.
And he sent me my family tree with all the church records and all the neighbor's records and all the history of everything that's happened in the township and It was a deep rabbit hole that I went down for a few days. How creepy is that? It's not that creepy. Okay. He's a good neighbor. If my neighbor knew that much about me, I'd be a little concerned.
Yeah, but he knows that much about everybody in the township.
Have you been to a farmer coffee shop? They know everyone who lived here, there, then, and when, and where.
I get it. It is crazy. I think that doesn't happen anymore, right? Social media is that. And it used to be in the paper, I found a bunch of old papers from our small town back in the 30s, and it literally reported on who went over to whose house on Sunday for a birthday party after church.
And it always ends with, a good time was had by all. The Carol B. See, we still have that in our little paper.
It's like it's a little corner in the middle of the paper, but somebody will write up, you know.
Yeah. 30 people tried to go to Zach Johnson's house.
Carol and Ned went over for supper to visit family.
30 people tried to go over to Zach Johnson's house and were stopped by a sign at the end of the driveway.
Play four hands of Canasta. Canasta? What is that? That's an old card game. You guys have never played Canasta? I've never even heard of it. Has anybody in the crowd heard of Canasta? After Party Tonight. Is this one of those taverns?
That's the Canasta table over there.
I've all heard of it. That is more people than probably the ones that would agree with me that a Sloppy Joe is called a tavern. It is not.
We got thumbs down. Hold on.
Called a what? No, you're late to the party. Our listeners are sick of hearing this.
All right, I won't dig that up.
I grew up with it being called a tavern, and these guys say that's the name of a bar in my world. A tavern's a bar. Exactly.
He thinks it's a ground meat or a ground beef sloppy joe.
We don't have to dig down that.
You're wrong, but we will go there. We'll just leave it there. So my comment about the generations is you're sixth generation and you're raising the seventh generation. But they're getting older and older. As people watch you and your family continues to grow, are they coming back to the farm?
Hard to say. I mean, my oldest, my son is 14 right now. My daughters are 12 and 9. And so I guess, you know, they're young. It's hard to say. I would say... The son comes and goes with it. He's very seasonal in that way, as most 14-year-old boys are with anything. But the youngest daughter seems to probably have as much interest as anybody right now. So, I mean, we'll just see where it goes.
You know, I've actually kicked around the idea of... We've got the old Minneapolis Moline on our farm. So it was one of the first tractors that my dad owned. We've still got it. It's a 1971. Dad used to plant with an old case cyclo planter behind that thing.
And I've kicked around the idea of finding an old planter just like grandpa used to have and hooking it up behind that tractor and getting everything going and setting up an account and having everything ready for my kids to run like 10 acres of their own.
and uh and just you know here's your 10 acres but you're going to rent it from grandpa and you're going to pay for the inputs and you're going to borrow the money on it and obviously we're going to co-sign but try and teach them kind of how this all works because it's it's easy to grow up on a farm i think and and take for granted everything that goes on behind the scenes without really understanding the whole process of the business right so my brother-in-law
had that set up bought a 12 row 7000 planter and hooked it up behind the 4630 first tractor my father-in-law bought and that was the intent was for my nephews who are 16 and 14 to go out and plant and then we got douched with rain this year and it turned into the replant planter instead so sure they didn't get to go out there old school with markers and and do it but that's a goal he's got as well thinks it'd be fun to go learn the hard way yeah yep so what planter would that be that minneapolis marlin pole
Well, I guess what I would want to do is make it be like the four-row case cyclo planter, the old school.
That he had here.
Yeah, that grandpa had, right? And try to find a good working one. Are you still trying to sell your 8,000?
No, my uncle has an old cyclo sitting in the shed. I mean, probably put it away. Ran when put away. Yeah, in 1992. Probably earlier than that. I think he quit farming in the 80s.
There's an auction description.
Ran when parked. And then is that Minneapolis Moline the tractor that Ryan Kelly came to interview your dad on? It is, yeah.
So it's a 1971 G750. It's the exact same tractor as an Oliver 1655, which they made thousands of. But because this one's painted yellow and says Minneapolis Moline on it, they only made a couple hundred, and it's a pretty rare tractor. Yep.
That's cool. I ran one Minneapolis Moline. It was an LP tractor. I don't know what model it was. But I used to work for a seed company, and guys would want me to plant their plots for them. They're like, yeah, here's the four row and all that. And I planted, down by Winterset, a 38-inch row plot with an old Minneapolis Moline. I didn't know how to drive it. I figured it out.
That's the best way to learn. Yeah. Yep. What's different about them? Gosh, that was over 15 years ago, but it was just, I don't know, I've always ran deer. I've always known the 40-20 style, and I didn't know how to run it, but I figured it out. It was pretty easy.
So another thing that you talked about last time you were on is you've gotten together with a group of folks and put some effort into revitalizing a shooting range. Yeah. And it's so much more than just a shooting range.
Yeah, we've got 151 campsites, I think it is. And we've got, so we have 25 trap houses. We have the largest shooting event in the world every year with the Minnesota State High School League Championships. And that brings in about 9,000 students over nine days that come in and out of our park. So it's a...
huge event we got the campgrounds like i said we've got a skeet field we're looking at maybe putting in some sporting clays and uh doing some other stuff out there so it's it's been fun we've got uh tyler which is another one of the owners tyler notch has become our our manager out there and he's really been he's been great to bring on this year to have one of the owners be somebody that's out there managing constantly and keeping an eye on the business and it's it's been uh we've seen a lot of growth doing that has that been a really good investment you're happy with it
It will be. It will be. Yeah. So far, I have made zero dollars on it. But it's, you know, to me, I think long term, there's going to be some gains there. It's fun to do. I think the business is growing right now. We're a ways ahead of last year, which was a ways ahead of the year before. And I think we're going to add some stuff to it and hopefully bring some other people in and sort of.
Try to make it, you know, it's a multi-use facility. We do have like a cafeteria and a gathering spot that can hold up to 300 people. So we've talked about having wedding receptions and graduation parties in there and stuff. And it's right on the interstate, right next to Alexandria, Minnesota, which is a pretty good-sized town.
So if nothing else, I mean, the property itself, just sitting there and cash-flowing itself.
David would know that. You need to advertise. Yeah, right. You need to advertise birth announcements. You've got the hall for 300 people. People can break their clay and it can give a color. There's your next idea. We might need to bring you on.
Chief idea officer. That would be scary. So can anyone just pull in off the interstate and shoot, or does it have to be an event that's going on?
No, you can pull in as long as there's hours. You have to look on our website to find the hours. But, yeah, anybody can pull in and go through the office and buy yourself a round of clays and go have fun.
So I know we talked about this last time and how much it's growing. I have a different question for you. What's your favorite gun?
Oh, man. I don't know if I have a favorite gun. I mean, I like them all. I like all of them.
Not necessarily just shotguns either. Are you brand loyal, like Remington or Weatherby?
I'm really not. I shoot a Weatherby 12-gauge when I go duck hunting, which isn't that often anymore. But I've had that thing for over 20 years, and it's kind of my baby. Gotcha. Your kids shoot? Yep. Yep. Especially my son. He's gotten really into trap shooting. So yeah, he shoots.
He's on the school trap team and he's on the league team that we got out there at the park for just for regular league. And yeah, he's shooting all the time. He's racing now too, right? He is. Yeah. And you've been racing all summer? Yep. Yep. So I started when I was 15. He started when he was 13. So he's in his second year right now. And what class do you start at when you're 13 years old?
Go-karts? No, I started go-karts when I was 10. But in the cars, I started in a Midwest modified, which down here, guys that follow racing, I guess that'd be similar to a sport mod, like an IMCA sport mod. Okay. So kind of same thing as like a UMP mod or a USRA mod. I was more into the crash-em-up derby cars. Have you ever raced here in Boone? See, we start talking about guns. Oh, my God.
That's who starts calling.
Holy cow. Oh, man. You must be an important person. No, they're just trying to sell a membership or something. Oh, it's actually Donald Trump who's trying to call him right now. He's calling now. Here, we'll patch him into the soundboard. Have you ever raced here in Boone?
I have not raced in Boone because it's IMCA sanctioned, and so for us to come down here and run, see, we're up in Wissota country, so we would need a different engine, and it's just, it's enough different stuff to really make it a pain in the neck to have to come down and run this, but yeah, they got a huge show coming up with Super Nationals.
Have you ever been in a sprint car?
I have not been in a sprint car, no.
I would like to drive one of those.
Yeah, that'd be fun.
I think it'd be fun. Dangerous, but fun.
Yeah, yeah. I ran late models for 12 years, and now I've been running mods the last few years. How's the season been?
mostly terrible actually been one of my worst seasons ever it's been it's we've had a couple of lucky runs um we got two wins on the season but for the most part it's been a struggle it's been difficult mechanical or um no we're struggling with just finding the balance in the car and finding the right setup which is particularly frustrating because we were so good last year we had a really good car last year and we didn't change anything
And we came out this spring and we've just been chasing our tails the whole season. So I don't know if they changed something in the tires or what's going on.
How much of that like relates back to farming and agriculture? Like you set up your combine just right so that it's, you know, and then you set up your car just right. I mean, is it equal? No, it's totally different. Just as much time or less time? Oh, way more time than setting up a combat. All right. Fair enough.
Fair enough. But that is what happens. Sometimes you put a piece of equipment away and, like I said, ran one part. And you pull it out and you go, how does this not work? Was this bearing always out? Yeah. Hmm.
Maybe that just happens to me. So how long have you had Sukup grain bins and dryers and that kind of stuff?
2414.
It's very tall. He's got the cooling on the bottom. Cooling on the bottom. Yep. Yep. So we can dump into the leg from there and hopefully that'll add a lot of capacity because I think we're going to need it this year. Our corn is behind.
Yeah. We put in a 1609 last year. We were worried about length. So we went a little shorter and I knew it was going to be tall. There's nothing that prepares you for how tall that thing is. Right. Oh, you have two more sections to go up? Yeah.
Yeah.
And it's expandable to go higher.
Yeah. And so is our 24-14 is as well. I think you could take that to an 18, but I think it would be, we'd have to expand a lot in order to need that on our farm. And what'd you have before that? We had, I don't even know what the model number was. It was a 24 foot double stack.
Okay. Just a, what would you call those, just a continuous flow. Yeah, continuous flow. Cut out into a Sukup air system. That's what you said, right?
Yeah, we've got a Sukup air system out the back then that delivers it to the bins.
And you're doing that on the new one?
Yep. We still have to, the pipes need to be plumbed yet, but it's all sitting there. We just, we need to plumb the pipes for the air system. Got a little bit of electrical to finish and we've got to run a gas line.
I know I was talking to you last year about the sizing of the motors and all that and Do you have a VFD on yours? We do now, yeah. Okay, and you didn't have that before? We added it two years ago.
Okay, that changes things tremendously. It really does, yeah. It's so much quieter, so much nicer.
You can actually kind of have a conversation.
Explain that to someone who doesn't know.
It's a variable frequency drive, so the old way of blowing grain would have been just all the power all the time. And it just is loud. There's no way about it, no way to get around it. And now you can actually, variable frequency, turn that power down. So maybe you don't have to run, I think it's 60 Hertz or whatever.
Now you can take it down to, and I'm probably, I'm not an electrical guy, but you can run three quarters of that. And it takes the decibels way down.
You're making me... You're making me think of the interview we did yesterday with Sync, which is a new powered by Sukup. Basically, if you don't know yet, Zach, there's like a whole suite of technology that they're on. They said phase one. They couldn't tell us a whole lot, but you have to get signed up. They got a QR code to sign up, learn all about this like new special tech that's coming.
2025?
Is that when it was? He probably knows. He was just at Sukup at the dryer class.
No, I just found out right now. Really? Awesome.
Was that your first dryer school? I was. Yeah. And I actually missed the actual formal school. So my dealer and I went down there a couple of weeks later. Actually, just two weeks ago, we went down there and kind of sat through an accelerated school and took a tour of the factory.
So you're getting the Jackson treatment. They just shut the whole thing down, and you get your private school.
That's right.
They shut everything down, and he gets his private tour of the museum. That's what I demanded. I don't blame you.
It's a pretty cool setup they have there, isn't it? It is, yeah.
It's huge, what's going on with all the buildings and the whole site there. I mean, I don't know how many acres it's on, but there's a lot going on.
Yeah. And the way that, uh, Eugene set it up was like, there's so many different buildings and they said when we were going on the tour that they did that. So for like fire prevention and all that kind of stuff. So like all one big building would, if there was a issue would burn down or whatever, like kind of risk mitigation, I guess, in a sense.
Right. Yeah. It's kind of neat when you look at the strategy that goes into the company and the safety that they put into their products and everything that goes together.
It kind of aligns with what you've been doing and the money that you've been raising for your local fire departments to help keep farmers safe, even if they don't have the proper updates or get into a situation that nobody ever wants to be in.
yeah yeah that was something we started a few years ago where um we actually we told our viewers on youtube that we were going to be donating some funds to some local fire departments to help kick in and buy some equipment for for grain bin rescues and grain bin safety training for the departments to be able to have the necessary training and the equipment to to get in and help a farmer out if you get in an unfortunate situation in a grain bin and
From that point, a ton of our viewers jumped on and said, hey, how can I do the same? I'd like to help out. I want to give some money up for that. We actually started a GoFundMe. My wife started a GoFundMe. We sent people to that link for a couple of weeks. Then we, from there, after we had raised, I mean, it was like $40,000 somewhere in that neighborhood that went on that GoFundMe.
Well, we went live on our podcast. It was live on YouTube. And we literally had fire departments sending emails in saying, hey, here's what we would do with the money. Here's what we would want to buy. Here's the training we would take. And we went live on the podcast and people started donating through YouTube then. So We were live on a podcast for like three hours. People kept donating.
We just kept drawing names out of the departments and we've done that a couple times. Over the course of it all now, we've raised over $100,000 that's all been given out to, it's like 70 some different departments all across the U.S.
That is impressive.
It's been really cool to be able to be a part of.
I saw on Twitter last week that they actually had a successful rescue a fire department did. I can't remember where it was. I'm sure our listeners would probably correct me, but I think a guy was trapped up to his chest or waist for five or six hours, but they successfully did it.
I mean, it's so good to start seeing that kind of news come out instead of the opposite because, man, it was a lot there for a while.
We had a department in Indiana that emailed us about a year after the initial fundraising that we did, and 100% they saved a life using some of the equipment that they bought with that money from our viewers.
That's got to make you feel good.
Oh, yeah, it's very humbling.
Really cool. So another safety thing that Sukup has is their paddle sweep. Do you have any paddle sweeps now?
We have a paddle sweep at the bottom of our new 60-foot bin that we put up last summer, but we've never had the corn low enough to get to it. So I don't know if I'm going to get to use it this year.
You're not supposed to have any corn right now. It's supposed to be empty. It's supposed to be sold a long time ago.
80% of it's covered on the board. Okay. So it's okay. We're planning on carrying a bunch over.
Are you?
Yeah. Is that something you normally do? Yeah, if we have the room. Luckily, I think our yields are going to be terrible this year, so we'll have plenty of room. I was going to ask, you said it's going to be wet because you're behind, but do you think it's going to be bad? You know, I shouldn't say terrible. I don't know how bad it's going to be. I don't think we're going to have an average crop.
I don't think we'll have an average yield. We've just had way too much rain. It just keeps... It's a total opposite of last year where we could not get any rain. And now this year, like since we started planting, it just does not turn off.
It just keeps raining. Guys, one of the things, you were talking safety. I'm missing John this year. John Wasukup retired. He made the safety door. So if you do get to the bottom of that bin, you might need to actually use that.
I will tell you, you will very much love that paddle sweep when you get to the bottom. Don't even have to go in, get that thing set. You might as well just transfer it to another bin so you can get to the bottom. Just to test out the paddle sweep. So we've never held over grain. We never had the capacity until now on our farm to the next year. You said that's something you normally would do.
So do you think about that any differently when you're drying or anything like that?
Not when we're drying, but this time of year we make sure that we'll run the fans when it's cool at night. We're trying to cool that corn down and keep the moisture from coming on the top of the grain so that we can prevent the crusting. We'll make sure that we are looking in the bins and trying to keep them cool and keep that crust from coming. The other thing is that we've hauled a lot out.
So we're going to have 60, 70% of our corn hauled out. And we make sure we pull a lot out of every bin. So the centers are all down. The fines are all out of there. They're all cored. We keep the grain moving. And we'll probably, we'll empty a couple of those bins and fill one completely with, you know, last year's corn.
And just as long as you keep it moving and keep fresh air to it, we haven't had any issues.
So then maybe you'll, when you start hauling next time, you'll start pulling out of that older corn. Yeah, we'll blend it all off just to keep it moving. You have the ability to blend?
Yeah, yeah, we do. Most of our bins are tied together. We have one that we can't, we have to load out of just that one. It's not tied into the leg, but we've got conveyors set up and everything so we can blend out of multiple bins.
That was one thing we did on our bin project last year. We used to have to move an auger around to the outside. All the augers faced towards the driveway. We turned everything around, put it in the middle, and now we have the ability to blend. And we didn't think we'd use it that much.
I think we used it the first time that we did it because we had quite a bit of fines in that really big bin we were blowing to. So we had to kind of trickle it out of that so we weren't getting docked.
we had uh this is just kind of a a way to look at how bins can really pay for themselves but maybe 12 13 years ago we had some really wet corn and a lot of guys were bringing in corn that it was like caramelized because it took so much to dry it down so it was just ugly corn you were getting brown kernels in there and the elevator was docking everybody so bad for that they were totally taking advantage of it right
We kept a bin over of that stuff, and then the next year we just blended out of that bin with all the new grain, and they never said a word about it. I mean, we paid for two-thirds of that bin in one year. Just through that.
And that's not even counting the marketing side of things. That's our core message. Farming for profit. These are ways that you could make yourself the elevator. Now you can do that kind of stuff and blend. That's what the elevator's doing. That's exactly what they're doing.
That's why they were docking people for that corn. They were blending it with other stuff, yeah.
So we talked about the economy a little bit. It's just a different market right now with corn being down and interest rates up and whatnot. You got any tech tips for the audience or tech tips for the listeners down the road of something that the Millennial Farmer is going to do this year to try to be more profitable? Man, I don't know about that. Specific tech tips?
You're putting me on the spot there.
A tip, farming tip, tech tip, something. Watch your cash flow. Okay. We find that just having good cash flow software and having the right numbers in there and knowing how to put that into place is huge for us. That's one of the things my dad's always been good at. So data-driven decisions, not just gut feeling.
Yeah, and actually knowing what your cost of production is and knowing that you can market right and you can get to the point this year where you're not losing money or whatever. At least know where your cost of production is.
Tanner's smiling over there. He's a freak in the sheets. What do you use? Excel documents. Excel document sheets, that is, as a banker.
Probably the largest eye roll I could give you. What do you use? We use FinPAC. Okay. So my dad actually, he knows the guys that came up with FinPAC years ago in the 80s, and he's always kept in touch with them, and they're still involved in it from what I understand. It's no longer the black screen with green numbers, right?
No, it's not that. Nope. The co-op was still using something like that up until a year or two ago.
That's DOS. This is what they did. Funny enough, when we bring our FinPAC, our cash flow balance sheet, all of that to the banker, our ag lender, he loves it, but he is always telling us how unfortunate it is that he has to actually take those numbers and put them on what the bank uses, which he says is fine for small businesses in town, but for ag use, he said it's just not where FinPAC's at.
Do you love your ag banker, though? Most of the time, yeah.
He's a great guy. Some people are. Last time we talked, you were talking about maybe expanding a little bit. Did that ever go down, if I can ask? Did you get any more land since I sell land?
I got the shooting park land a couple years ago. So there's 90 acres of farm ground there. It's not very good, but there's some farm ground there. Right now, we are working on a small, a little bit, yeah. The same piece I was talking to you about two months ago.
What have land prices done in your area, looking at a short crop and commodities?
I would say last year and the year before, they really went up. Specifically, there's just a few specific sales that everybody who's selling land is looking at, and that's always a benchmark. But, I mean, realistically now it's flat lined or gone down. I mean, if you were to hold an auction right now, I bet it'd be down 30% from last year.
And then it'd probably no-sell because everyone has too high of expectations. You've been dealing with that, right, Dave? I've been dealing with that, yeah. You've got to manage the expectations.
Manage the expectations. We educate sellers, not buyers. Buyers know what they want to give. They know what they can afford and what the bank will loan them on.
We did get a comment from the crowd that said one of the tips that you probably should go about is getting a red combine so you harvest more profit.
I think we know what table that came from. So you have a podcast. It was Off the Husk. Is it still a thing? Does it still exist? You used it to raise money and then...
Yeah. No, it doesn't really exist anymore. I forget how many episodes we did. Did we scare you? No, you didn't scare us away. It was just one of those things where it was always on the back burner, and we started it completely for fun, and then it just kind of became work.
And we recorded a couple this spring with the intention of bringing it back, and all we did was really remind ourselves why it's always on the back burner, because we have so much other stuff going on. So it's just like... It's been fun to do, but for some reason, every time I do one, I wake up the next morning with a headache.
And it's just, it's one of those things that takes more time than what it's been worth for me with the way my life is set up at the moment.
Maybe you should move it to the other side of the day and be the coffee shop instead of the after hours. Maybe. Is that why you guys do it at 9.30, not 9 p.m.? Yeah. Those ones, yeah, it's tough.
We should have followed suit with you. We started on YouTube, and now as we switch sides. Yeah.
One big thing that I think has happened since the last time we talked was probably about a year ago that we talked. You're over a million followers now on YouTube. Yeah. Congratulations. Yeah, thank you.
Did you get the sweet YouTube plaque that's like gold or silver? Yeah.
I got the silver one at 100,000, and then they send you the gold one at a million. At a million.
That's the gap. There's no like 250, 500?
No, it's from 100 to a million. That's the gap, yeah. Whoa. Whoa. It's really, and I think it's pretty easy to see if you actually look up some of these big YouTubers that'll show their, they call it like a gold play button. And it's this, it's a cool looking plaque, but it's really just a piece of plywood with some gold aluminum around it. It's not real gold? No, it's not real gold.
It's not even heavy. They should just put it like a lead sheet inside of it so it feels important, feels quality.
Well, they know if they made it out of real gold or real bronze that the metals, like in the Olympics, they age and they tarnish. So probably just making sure that it looks pretty forever.
That could be. So non-farm related, do you have YouTube people that you follow, like Mr. Beast or somebody that might be bigger than what your presence is? I don't follow anybody too closely.
I mean... I don't honestly watch much YouTube or much television at all in general. I was telling some guys last night, our son destroyed our remote in the living room, our TV remote. So he became the remote? Well, no. You can't even change the channel. So instead of getting a new remote, the rest of the family all set up an app on their phone, so that's how they control the TV.
Oh, okay.
I've never had that app. I don't even know how to turn the TV on in my living room, so I just don't watch TV. Yeah.
100%.
All the time. See, you can be as successful as a millennial farmer if that's what you consume 100% of the time. Yeah.
No, I pretty much do exactly what you're not supposed to do, and I stare at social media right when I'm laying in bed, like right before bedtime.
What's wrong with that? Yeah.
I do it. That's my way to decompress. Yeah, that's the same here.
If you don't follow Zach on TikTok, that's my favorite Zach.
That's the unfiltered one.
It's a different Zach.
There are multiple Zachs.
Barstool Zach.
When I started that platform, I just decided that I'm not going to care on that side of things, on the TikTok side, who's watching or who can watch. Like on YouTube, I always keep that PG. TikTok, not the same.
We did an interview yesterday with Jackson and Tony Reid. Oh, yeah. So here we have nine-year-old innocent Justin Jackson sitting there next to Tony Reid. And both were very well-behaved. Who thought you could keep the attention of a nine-year-old boy for 45 minutes? We did. And Tony behaved.
Is he really nine, though? I've never met him, but he does not see.
Yeah, that's what it seems like.
Going on 60.
You haven't met him yet? I haven't met him. He's running around here somewhere.
There's a meet and greet today.
I think he's coming to the party tonight.
He's going to go to a pedal pole. I'd like to see you get on one of the pedal tractors next to him. They're going to need a big pedal tractor. You'd probably be able to hook the pedal tractor in front of the one that you're on. Sit on that one and still reach the pedals on the first. Yeah, that'd probably be easier. Just chain them together and make your pole. Yep. Absolutely.
Who's the YouTuber that has all the influencers come in and race? You went down to Bristol. Cletus McFarlane. Yeah. Do you follow him quite a bit?
Yeah, I follow him. But, again, it's like I just don't follow anybody too closely. Yeah. But I do enjoy following what he's got going on. Does he do that every year? Well, he has different races, and they kind of move around, and they do different things, and I can't always keep up with it.
But the last two years, I've gotten to go to Bristol, actually, and race around Bristol Motor Speedway with Crown Vix and all those guys. You know, it's like racing against, like, Cletus and Brad DeBirdie and... Like Travis Pastrana and the Diesel Brothers, those guys. So when Travis Pastrana comes up to you, he's like, oh, I follow you on YouTube.
He didn't say that. He didn't say that. He's fangirling out.
You're just being modest. We all know that he asked for your autograph, and it was a picture of you. He did, yeah. Signed on your cheek. He was shy, so he sent his wife over to ask.
So I just saw some of the local trap shooters come in right here at this table that are near me. Have you ever shot a perfect trap score? No, I'm not that good. What's your highest?
My highest? Probably... See, I don't even know. It'd be like probably a... Upper 80s? Okay. Very good.
Have you, Dave? No, I haven't. I haven't. Has anybody on the trap team shot a perfect score? There's a couple of them that got up into the 80s, maybe 90s over there. But it'll come quick.
In the next couple of years, you guys get a little older, it'll come quick. You guys will be shooting 100s.
I always see the girls do a little better. They don't get frustrated as much. The guys get mad when they miss one, and the girls are like, whatever, I'll shoot the next one.
Yeah. I've never shot trap. I've shot skeet when I was like 14, but never. That's harder. That's even harder. And sporting clays.
Sporting clays are fun. Do you have sporting clays? We don't right now. We've actually been looking into what that would cost to add that, and I think that'd be a hit.
Some of those is like almost self-defense. Like, if you don't shoot this thing, it's going to hit you.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Just like ducks coming in and it's going to land right on your head. One of the neat things that I love about the podcast world and now as a media company, all of the YouTube and the social media is the analytics that come with it. That's something that I geek out on. But one thing that I'm struggling with, and maybe you have the same issue, is a lot of our audience is male.
Yeah.
And is it because the industry is a lot and significant a number of males? I mean, obviously the female participation is growing, but is your audience mostly male too? It is.
And I would say, yeah, I've also noticed that, which for one, I don't really pay attention to analytics, but I have noticed the last five years that there is a higher percentage of female viewers, at least according to what the analytics are saying, right? Yeah. I don't really know why that is. I guess I couldn't answer that.
Do you have a theory? Well, we do. And it's one of those to where we just don't think we're attractive enough on camera. Yeah.
Do you think the guys like to see that?
No, they don't care. No, we don't. It's a struggle because we've met and interviewed a lot of female guests. We have a lot of experts and those that are farming and they're full of knowledge, full of energy, excited to do what they do. And they're building social media presences and they're continuing to build family businesses. And it's great stories to tell.
It just is a struggle for us to reach other females that farm or in ag business as well to take in our content.
Yeah. Maybe they're too busy doing everything behind the scenes that needs to be done, and the guys are just sitting on the couch.
I said that earlier.
Well, and Tanner's is working on the party tonight.
Yeah.
Are you coming to the party tonight? I have a decision to make because it's like six hours home for me. So I'm trying to decide if I want to get home by midnight and wake up in my own bed and get a bunch of work done tomorrow, or if I want to wake up in central Iowa hungover.
Work doesn't sound good. Tanner gave him a phone number for a free Uber, so now all he's got to do is call it, and he's got to drive you to Minnesota.
Are they going to take me to Lowry, Minnesota? Rob Sharkey has an extra bedroom. I don't know if you saw that tweet he had last night. With the bat? Yeah, with the bat. I did see that. I'll be fine.
I can sleep in the truck. I know you could drive all night. Come out and say hi, and hopefully Jackson's out there and you can finally meet him. Yeah.
And what's on the schedule for the rest of the day for you? So I'm going to go to the Polaris booth after this, which is right over here next to FBN, and then this afternoon I'll be in FBN for their happy hour.
Nice.
Yep. Do you get to drive one of the Polarises? I guess I didn't ask that. I drive them all the time at home, so I don't really need to drive one at the show here. Yeah, but the course looks really neat. The course does look cool. My son and I walked over yesterday, and I was thinking it would be cool if we could each take one and run time trials with it and see who can beat each other.
Yeah, I'm guessing legal wouldn't like that very much.
No, they would hate that.
Yeah, they would hate that.
We need a racetrack here. You know, you were talking about a wrestling arena. How about a racetrack, and we'll get Jackson, and we'll just like the tractor pull. Inside. The CTO, we'll get Millennial Farmer. You do that, and they're not going to have any room for their displays.
We could do like Cletus does and get a whole bunch of Crownvics or Cavaliers or something like that, and we just take them out to boon the Speedway out here.
Yeah, that'd be fun.
And warm it up for their nationals next week.
I'd like to see all you guys just go out to where they're parking, and everybody grab a horse, and we'll make a contest out of it. That sounds fun, too. I've never drove a horse. You've never drove a horse? No. You've never rode a horse? No.
I rode on one, but I didn't drive it.
Oh, man.
I like how you said you didn't drive it.
Have you ever drove a horse?
I have driven a horse, yes. Okay, awesome. You heard it here first. Yeah, I think someone gave me a ride when I was little, and I don't want that. You've never ridden a horse? I've been on one. I haven't physically rode it or steered it in a direction. You were the passenger? No, I was the passenger. I even bought him a cowboy hat. How are you a passenger on a horse?
And, you know, and then I chased a couple horse girls, and they put bad taste in my mouth, and then I got stiffed by a horse person selling hay to, and I was like, you know what, I'm just done with horses. Done with horses. There goes the horse portion of our audience. I'd try to ride one, like a bronc. I'd try to do that. You've never been on a horse, but you would ride a bronc.
Well, yeah, because you don't know where you're going with that. You're going to the ground. You don't need to know how to drive one. You just hold on. You keep saying drive.
Ride, drive. Dave, what do you do? Do you drive a horse? I guess you could say drive. I mean, you tell it direction. You give it cues of left or right.
I guess it's probably ride because you don't drive a bicycle. It doesn't have a motor.
Well, in the auction industry, we say sell it with a ride and drive. So now you can just use both.
A ride and drive. A horse ride and drive. A demo. Take it for a demo. That's what we're going to go do at Polaris. Guaranteed. Is Polaris your second favorite partner behind Sukup?
All of my partners are my favorite partners. Very good. Yeah. But I have been pretty much diehard Polaris my entire life. Dad was always Polaris guy, and that's just how our family's always been. You got a snowmobile? Yep, multiples. Or are you far enough north that it's called a, what do they call it, a sled or snow machine? Well, we'll call it a sled, not a snow machine.
You really got to get up north if you're talking snow machine.
Yeah.
Like Quick Dick McDick North.
Yeah, maybe even farther. I don't know.
He's a great comedian.
He's here. We should ask him.
Is it a snowmobile or a snow machine? Well, I saw this morning on Twitter he's over at the Mandaco booth, so somebody should go find out.
You think? He said it 30 times in 30 seconds.
I'm not sure where he's going to be at, if he was going to be there or if he was going to be somewhere else. But I'm pretty sure it's Mandaco, yeah.
Yeah, it seemed pretty clear.
When you do go ride your sleds, are you loading up and traveling somewhere? Are you wanting deep powder in the mountains, or do you ride local?
No, I'm a ditch banger. I like riding fast and carving the corners and stuff. I know that I would have a ton of fun going out west and hitting the mountains. I've got a lot of friends that do that. But I also know... It would be addicting, and I would end up out there three times a winter, and I just don't have that kind of time. We got two kids in hockey, and I'm gone half the summer racing.
So in the winter, I need to stay home.
So speaking of hockey, if you had a choice, you get to start, you get to bench, you get to cut one of these. Baseball, football. You've played that game with us before, right? No, I never have.
So you get to start. Start means it's your number one option. Yep. Bench means it's my number two option. I'm not going to quite get rid of it. Cut means you never get to do it ever again.
Well, I'm cutting basketball out of those three. You had basketball, football, and baseball. Football and baseball? Uh-huh. I mean, baseball. I'm going to start baseball.
Baseball's first, okay. You like to watch it or play it? Both. You still watch baseball?
I mean, I don't play baseball anymore. I did last night. We went over to the batting cages actually somewhere on the other side of town. My son and his buddy are really into golf, and they found a place that had golfing simulators. So Ben and Morgan from Farm Focused and myself took the kids over there. And they did this golf thing. And then we find out they've got a baseball simulator.
So Ben and I played a game against each other. I lost two to four.
That would have been in the mall.
Yes, it's in the mall area. And we were the only customers in there. And they had throwing knives and throwing stars and axe throwing, golf, baseball, bowling.
That's what we need. We need to throw sharp things in the studio. Yes, we do. We do have a golf simulator next time you come. You do? Tanner does.
Nice. And we do have balls in the foam ceiling already. I did not put one in there. That was Tanner, and he is a golfer. You guys better stick with the game. What's the game? Oh, yeah. Start, bench, cut. So obviously we're not going to do anything about TV because you don't watch it. River, lake, or ocean? Ocean.
For what? Start, bench, cut. What's your favorite? Bodies of water. A river, a lake, or an ocean.
I mean, I can cut the river. I'd rather go to the lake. Oceans are awesome, but if you're going to swim, I'd rather go to the lake.
We have a lot of nice lakes. There's a lot of stuff we don't even know about.
The ocean is very intimidating if you get out very far.
All right, how about bush light, Coors light, or Miller light? Well, I'm starting the Miller light.
Okay. I think I'm going to cut the cores.
Okay.
Yeah.
Splitting brands there.
Yep. Okay.
I got it. That's good. What about for operating machinery? Would you start bench or cut driving the tractor, driving a combine, driving a sprayer?
I'm going to cut the sprayer. What am I doing with the tractor? Am I like old school cultivating or picking rock? That's a fair question. Or am I planting corn? Let's go planting.
Planting and harvest. I'm starting the planting corn. That's my favorite thing to do. You have a new planter too. We do, yeah. With some cool stickers on it. What happened to our stickers? They took them off.
I cannot believe they'd do that. I actually was surprised at that, too. Like, why wouldn't they just have fun with that and kind of cross-promote things? You can see the spot where Corey put his. Like, you can tell it was there and somebody's fingernails had to work to get that off. We're going to have to have a talk. Yep. I don't know who took it off, if it was my dealership or who did that.
But you did one pretty good, though. I was going to say, I don't care who it is. They had to work really hard at that. They did. Yeah. When I saw you guys post that TikTok, I literally stopped the planter in the middle of the field and jumped out at night and used the flash on my phone to try to find those stickers, and they're gone. I like that we have that kind of influence.
Fair enough. Probably had to take a pee or something. Yeah, I probably did, yeah.
I think I put mine on the marker, and I was wondering if you're going to take the markers off.
And I was on the hitch right up towards the front. I'm like, you're hooking this up. So if you guys don't know that's in the crowd, while we were at Commodity Classic, we kind of added a little swag to his new planner that he got and waited to see if he would find them. But apparently they cleaned that planner up before they gave it back to him.
There was a couple of pieces missing, though. Somebody snagged a couple little pieces off that thing. I can't remember exactly what it was. A couple little things missing out of the row units.
Was that Brian? I can't remember who was also in the comment section telling us you should check row 22 or something.
Yeah, that was Brian, Brian Brown. So he was playing that up, and then we actually did have something missing out of that row. And I messaged him, like... Was this actually, did you actually, did you take this, whatever the plastic piece was missing out of there, right? Like we had to run to the dealer and get it before we could plant.
And I'm like, well, it's a little bit funny, but that's kind of a bonehead move too. If it wasn't him, he didn't do it. I bet it was Kibble Man Sam.
Of course he is not going to say it was him after it was an inconvenience. It's all fun and games until it's... Brian and I are close enough, he would have admitted that. It's in the mail. Yeah. On its way. On its way. Yep.
Yeah, I bet it was Kibble Man Sam. I think he would do that.
All right, last start bench cut. Are you a work boots, tennis shoes, or flip-flops guy?
Well, what day is it? What's the weather like? I mean, I'm wearing tennis shoes today because boots are too heavy, and I don't like walking far in flip tops. That's the same thing Vance says. How about shorts on the farm? All the time. Yeah. And I take a lot of heat for that in my videos, but I don't care. Yeah. Because it's hot out, and I'd rather have a breeze going through.
It is funny that people get all up in arms about that.
Oh, they do.
It's like, it's not your farm? All the time. Oh, I've never seen a farmer wear shorts every day. I don't know, come to my farm. Do you have tennis shoes with the shorts or do you have like a work boot for shorts? I don't know if I'd go that far. If you're wearing work boots, you should probably put your jeans on.
Before we close out, I do want to see, we've had our listener, probably five or six different listeners write in and say that we needed to do a series of episodes with the dads of YouTube. The dads of YouTube. They listed out your channel and Welker's and Larson's and just go through and only talk to dad.
Oh, like talk to my dad. Do an interview with Bob Welker and Duggo and my dad.
Yeah, that'd be cool. And keep going. Cole Cornstar, his name was thrown in there, but do a series of that. I think it would be fun. I'm excited. We want to talk to a couple of that generation And we've done transition experts before. We've had people come on and talk about how you start the conversation and so on.
But I want to talk to the farmers that are farming with the next generation or have handed it over.
Yeah, that'd be really cool. I think that's a great idea.
Have you guys gone through that process, the transition? Well, we're kind of in the middle of it right now. Actually, where my head is at right now is trying to figure out how and when I can start transitioning to my kids. Because to me, the big concern is the size of some of these farms. How does that next generation really get started?
I mean, for me, I will be totally honest with you and just say that YouTube has been a huge help. But my kids don't have that, so how can I help them to make sure that they're successful if farming is what they want to do? And when do I have to start that? Could they have it?
We just interviewed Zach Hefty, and we asked him kind of the same question, not just transitioning their farm to the next generation, but transitioning the media to the next generation.
Yeah. I mean, it's there for them. If my kids decide that's what they want to do, you know, I'll certainly help them out as much as I can. Would they have to change the name of it? Because they're not millennials. They'd be what? Gen Z? Yeah, I think they'd be Gen Z. Yeah. Gen Z farmer? You might have to go reserve that quick. I think there already is one, actually.
Yeah.
But if that's what they wanted to do, you know, I don't want to start them too young on something like that. But if they decide that's what they want to do and if people are still following me, I'll try to help my kids out as much as I can.
Since we're talking about family, one of our questions we've been asking everyone at the end, we try to put a compilation together at the end, how do you juggle work and family together?
Well, it can be difficult like anybody else. I mean, everybody's busy, and, you know, if you have young families, it is difficult. So that's, you know, part of the reason we didn't continue with our podcast because if I'm not working, you know, I'm at a hockey game or we're running the kids around or we're doing something to keep them happy.
We got a little cabin, a little seasonal cabin on a lake near us a couple of years ago, and the girls just love going there. And so we try to split that time up, you know,
onyx and i can't be racing all the time we'll spend some days at the lake and keep the girls happy too and so there yeah there's always a balance there's a given give and take cool perfect what are you looking forward to this fall running that new dryer yeah honestly i i am actually really excited to to figure out exactly how that thing works and run it and see the efficiency of it and how how it handles the bushels because i do think our corn is behind right now so we're going to have some pretty wet corn yep and so i i am excited actually to have that thing on the farm and see how it works
Yeah, I got all nervous last year because we were pushing into harvest to get it running and had the holding bin full and we were, all right, now we're going to fill it and do all that. And some other stuff during that, we had to move a couple bins, didn't go as according to plan. Of course. The dryer was seamless. Oh, good.
I mean, we had that thing dialed in and after that, it was like a whole weight off my chest. Yeah. Yeah, so. And it ran great all fall. So I'm looking forward to using it again. Do you control it with your phone? So we never got Wi-Fi to the site last year. So it was just on the touchscreen in the shack. Do you have it for this year now? Yes, we are.
Because we had that put on our old dryer a year ago and it was awesome to be able to roll over in bed and, oh, you know, I wonder what the moisture is or what speed we're going here.
It's crazy. We've got the capacity that we were actually just able to shut it down, like run until 10 or 11. And then shut it down instead of having, cause the old one, you know, it's like 500, 600 bushel an hour. Like we had to run that thing all night. And we got a little bit bigger holding bin and that really helped us. So with the big game changer there, yeah.
So now we just need to figure out how to dump trucks faster. That's our pinch point now. That's next on the list.
Well, Lowry Manufacturing in our small town, they make 500 bushel dump pits. You pull the truck right over, dump the truck, and you're out of there. Really? And they just empty themselves and then turn themselves off when they're done.
No.
your dryer your oh yeah we've got a leg yeah yeah that's what we need next we ran out of money for that so then it feeds it priority feeds the dryer and then if the dryer is full and that pipe is full it just overflows into the holding tank into the wet bin okay so you got a big distributor up there yeah yeah is that all automated
No, it's not automated. You've got to pull the cables. Okay, gotcha. Because Sukup's got a pretty cool new big distributor. Probably a little bigger than what you need. Probably. Yeah, it's sitting out here. It's a big chunk of steel. Yeah, that's way bigger than what we need. It's very cool.
That's good. Well, thank you so much for taking time out of your day and having a conversation with us. We always have fun. Yeah, thank you guys for inviting me. Whether it's on the podcast or hanging out at our party where you're going to be.
I'll be there. You got a few minutes to stick around and talk to some of your fans? Yeah. Zach will be up here. Come talk to him. I'm sure he'll take some pictures.
And we appreciate everybody hanging out, especially those listening on the podcast. And, Corey, what do you say? Crack a cold one. You deserve it.