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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.
That's what's cool about agriculture, right? Like, you know it's go time.
Yeah. And you lock in and you just, I mean, it kind of feels cool.
There is a podcast in Iowa, fun for profit was named by they. They stirred up a banker near, then quick came an auctioneer. Making profit was their first goal, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy. Soon may the farmers come to bring us guests and beer and fun. One day when the recording's done, we'll take our mics and go. Before we knew, conversations grew, growing corn even
What a fascinating time it is out here at Husker Harvest Days. Listeners, we appreciate you joining us again. This is a guest who has been on the podcast before. Yeah, I say that in my intro. Don't steal my thunder. Well, I'm reading your intro for you, right? Oh, nice.
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This is how a professional podcast gets started. Oh, yeah. Just so you know.
I have a lot of notes to take, no doubt.
The poor guy's been standing here for an hour waiting for us to get started.
That's a secret, though. That allows the salesman to get him a cornet. They're trying.
These Nebraskans are trying to get us Iowans to stay here because now we have no cell phone reception. Nobody's going to have any idea how to get out of here because you can't use your GPS on your phone. We are all in SOS mode, so we had to Morse code in order to get him to find us. the booth itself.
Heck yeah.
So that also means we don't have any music. Corey gets to do his intro without music.
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You're the one that has to do the introduction. All right. You ready? I'm ready. Today on the Farm for Fun show, we are at the 2024 Husker Harvest Days, out on our mission trip to help the Nebraskans grow better corn. Yeah. From Iowa. Yeah. I've said that twice now, so that's going to get old. But we meet up with a man that was a brief guest of the podcast. Very brief.
Way back in the days of the Tratter Gang. This guy has a unique, refreshing humor in the ag industry. He has a secret to growing social media accounts. Because I don't know how many times he has grown his TikTok account to over a million to get it taken down. But a bunch of just... Also, 36,000 subs on YouTube, over 166 on Instagram. And as I said, over a million on TikTok.
He has his own podcast as well. Please welcome from Nebraska, Mr. Zach Richard, a.k.a. TikTok's favorite farmer. I should have asked. Is it actually Richard?
Yeah, it is. Okay. I'm very glad you got that right. Well, did you look at the sign out front when you pulled up? Uh-uh. Because I put you as TikTok's greatest farmer. That's pretty accurate. It's pretty close. It's pretty accurate. It's pretty close. But he says you're TikTok's favorite farmer.
That's what it actually is, right?
Yeah.
So we were all wrong. Every day. Yeah. We literally spent... hundreds of dollars on these signs and they were wrong. They were wrong like four times. And on the social posts. Oh my god. We switched we fixed it though but anyway welcome to the show Zach. Thanks man. Good to be here. Thanks for having me.
So we like to on these Farm for Fun shows to get like your whole history so let's go back to little Zach and oh man how growing up was and what'd you do?
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
Whatever.
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.
Dude, Vine was awesome, wasn't it? Vine was great, yeah.
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.
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
From here, I'm like 50 minutes east. Okay. Basically.
Almost the right direction to God's country, but just not there yet.
There's a lot of social people from Nebraska.
We've got nothing else to do. Yeah.
Literally.
Irrigate and social.
It's either make videos or drink.
Fair enough. That's all it is. Or make videos and drink. And drink.
I tend to fall into that category more often than not. Is your farm all irrigated? Yeah, except for 280s. Yeah.
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
Irrigation gets long every year. It doesn't matter.
Are you still irrigating now? In spots, yeah. It is the 9-11. Yeah.
So we missed the middle part here. You went from riding motorcycles to now we're farming full-time. What happened in the middle?
Well, in the middle, like, what did I do when I strayed away? Yeah. I worked, so...
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
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
It was great. It was fun.
So is that the typical government job where there's four of you to do one person's job, three of you watched it? Yeah, four of us watched it.
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.
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.
Yeah.
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?
Not, not.
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?
No, they know now.
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.
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
Beatrice. Beatrice. So you did Precision Ag there and you made it to... Spring break. Spring break. Yeah. Just never came back after spring break.
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.
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.
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.
We got to get that back. Yeah.
So I see a trend. TikTok takes you down. Schools take you down. Is that your stick?
Just learning the hard way all the time. Yeah. Oh, yeah.
For sure. Kind of a rebel.
Yeah. Without a cause. Yeah. Just for fun. Not as bad now, but for a while it was...
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
What does the farming dynamic look like? Is it with your dad?
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.
I love the lifestyle it gives you.
How much of your job did you learn on the job, Corey, with your family versus the school? Probably most.
Most of it, yeah.
I was going to say, I think a lot of farming... Maybe the school is to grow up and then come back.
I think all school really is is just to teach you how to learn. Basically. And make sure that you can take orders and finish the job that you maybe don't want to do.
When I was on Vance's Ag Tribes report, I said that I still think every farm kid needs to go to college. But I think you need to go to college with a different mindset. You're not going there to learn anything except for business sense. HR, you know, being able to communicate with people and manage because most of these farms now it's not family.
It's, it's other types of workers and you have to be able to, to effectively communicate and then be input in and around people that you don't agree with. If you, if you just went and had like an ag understanding degree, that's what you went in there to do is just how can I get along with people and how can I run a business? That's probably all you need to take out of it. Yeah.
Go make some friends, go meet your spouse, uh, Go back to the farm.
I think everyone meets their spouse in college or something. I was going to say, brother. No. I'm just saying. Well, you dropped out. Provide that opportunity.
Are you single? Yeah. Every day. No girlfriend? Every day.
No. So why aren't you TikTok's most eligible bachelor instead of 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.
I feel like no one's really looking for someone until they're in their 30s now.
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.
You can't even, like – every girl you look at is looking at you like –
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
Because you see someone, you know, some OnlyFans lady.
Right, but it's not all about looks. Sometimes it's how many acres your family owns.
I know.
Oh, dude. The pool around me, it's pretty slim.
Well, you are in Nebraska.
It's shallow. There's not, I mean, it's like.
If you go to those big red games, then you may find somebody.
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.
I thought about it. I gave my nephew some of that advice last fall. He was riding with me, and I said, just go talk to the pretty girl. Yeah. Worst case scenario, you never see her again. She never talks to you again.
Dude, my kid's homecoming dance this weekend or whatever, and I'm like, you taking a girl? No. And I said, you'd be the coolest kid in school if you ask. He's a freshman. I'm like, just ask somebody. You'd be the only freshman that brought a girl. You've got to go ask the senior. I told him. to.
I told him to. I dated a senior when I was a freshman and I was on top of the world. She wasn't the hottest. She was pretty because she was friends with the hottest. There you go. She's also one of our listeners and now she's going to write in. I doubt it. I think I was revenge at her ex-boyfriend so she was like, I'm going to go big and I'm going to go really piss him off and go with a freshman.
I've done one of those. Taking a girl to the formal and then she leaves with the ex-boyfriend that I was apparently just a jealous token for her.
Hey, I'll take it however I can get it. Oh, there's Buck Me. There's Buck Me. Man, look at you, all sponsored out. And add gear. The rest of them. Golly. All right, got to get back on track. Yeah. Girls. Yeah, what's your go-to? So, like, you've just given up? No, I haven't given up by any means. What's your go-to move? Like, you slide into the DMs?
Just play hard to get for a couple, don't talk to them, and then all of a sudden they try to chase you?
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.
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.
They're out there. Better taxes.
Cheaper taxes. Sometimes, though, if you try too hard, I think you force it along.
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.
22. 22.
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.
He's always playing basketball with you? Oh, dude, yeah. Where do you live now? So you went back home to farm, but you got your own place?
I live on the farm. I live in the house I grew up in.
Cool.
Yeah.
So you kicked your parents out?
No, we moved to town. We moved to York when I was a junior.
Oh.
Like going into second semester of junior year, like 2018.
And then the house just sat empty?
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.
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.
Okay.
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.
That was nice. I actually live in town now. I'm about nine minutes from the farm. So it has to be, it is kind of nice when it's not busy season. Cause I have this separation of work and home. Yeah. So it has to be a big enough event that I need to leave and travel, you know, nine minutes. So that's kind of nice. I can shut some things off. It's hard with the cell phone, you know.
I don't do it as well as I should. I'm always bothering you, so you go from one work to another work. Then you put no notifications on. Then I go to bed. So you got brothers and sisters, you said?
Yeah, three besides me.
Brother, sister?
Older sister, and then me, and then younger sister, and younger brother.
Are any of them wanting to be in the farming dynamic? No. Oh, really?
We're all adopted, so we're all, like, pretty different from each other.
Oh, really? Seriously?
Yeah. Wow. Yeah. It's a fun family because we're all, like, very different.
Different.
But we're all very the same, too.
So where did you get adopted from? Do you know that?
CSI in Omaha.
That sounds like an adoption store. Like, I just went shopping at CSI for this kid. Crime Scene Investigators. Yeah.
It's an adoption agency. Gotcha.
Yeah.
But that's who they went through, yeah.
And so you were born in Omaha?
We all were, I believe.
Interesting. Born and raised. My wife has two adopted siblings.
Have you ever found anything out about your parents? I know both of them. You know your parents? Yeah, I have a group chat with them.
Really?
Yeah, it's called Half Fam. Half Fam? Yeah.
That's cool.
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.
Okay.
Yeah, he's a fun guy. At what point in your life did you...
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
I bet they get a nice sense of fulfillment. Oh yeah.
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,
Really?
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.
Did they have any connection to agriculture? Huh? So they probably just like wild. Yeah.
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.
They look at you running a sprayer and it's a massive piece of equipment. Yeah. Yeah.
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
So they must have decided that at a young age. Because you've got an older sister.
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.
They've got to make sure. You've got to go five years before.
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.
Your mom's not right.
I'm going to be a big brother. Yeah. And then you'd be 10 years old, so you'd be in fifth grade. Yeah. You know a little bit more. My little brother, yeah. Same thing. Hey, I got another.
Yeah.
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?
Yeah.
She got the call.
You didn't come out of Walmart with the brother. No. No, no, no. You came out of Walmart and got the call. That was CSI.
No, yeah.
We hadn't kidnapped him yet.
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.
That's cool. Yeah. That's right, because she hates gravel.
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.
The new Traverses are much nicer than the old ones. Yeah, I drove it. It's got Super Cruise. Oh, dude, isn't that cool?
Yeah, and it was just taking the curves for me.
You know what Super Cruise is, Dave? What? It's AI, not kind of AI, but it's like driving a Tesla in GM vehicles, and I think other ones have it. And if you're on a highway or interstate, a road that it knows, you can hit Super Cruise and it watches your eyes.
Oh, really?
And it'll drive for you. Yeah. And if you're on the interstate, like, I want to go 74, and if someone's going slower in front of you.
It'll adapt.
It'll actually put the turn signal on, look for cars. It doesn't adapt. Go over and then go around and pass them. It's very cool.
So mine will slow down. It'll adapt.
That's adaptive cruise.
And mine will also keep you between the lanes, but it knows if you're not touching the wheel somehow because it's like, put your hands on the wheel. I'm like, they are on the wheel. And, like, five seconds later, put your hands on the wheel. But it'll drive and it'll take the curves. Yeah. But it won't. It's not watching my eyes. It's pretty cool.
I bought my wife's vehicle in Minneapolis, and I used it in Minneapolis, and I was just freaking out. It's the coolest thing.
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.
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.
Are you still running old Duramaxes?
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
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.
No.
I know too much about that.
I've heard that. I've heard that. Some more mistakes that you learn the hard way.
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.
Yeah. Don't drink and drive. Don't do it.
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.
How did you get into social media?
COVID. Once it started, I started making videos end of May of 2020.
Right.
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?
Yeah.
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.
Something like that.
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.
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
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.
Yeah.
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.
Yeah.
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?
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.
I'm in a grain cart right now. I'm just too busy. Yeah.
Yeah. So you just kind of grew apart and wasn't seeing it.
But, like, we've hung out a couple times since everything. It's still fun. I mean, it's fun when we hang out.
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
I want to know, why do people follow you? What's the big deal? That's a tough question. I don't know. Because you're millions, and you do it over and over and over again.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
I mean, don't take this the wrong way, but I think you do a really good job at, like...
being weird oh yeah right like being awkward no i'm a weird dude yeah that's that's general information right like i think that's kind of the secret sauce yeah like i don't know you're like take weird angle photos of yourself of like yeah like and like go up here all the time yeah talking yeah falsetto yeah dude no i mean i'm a weird dude i've been told that more recently than ever in my life and i'm not sure how to feel about it i think it's good i think it's good because i don't really care
Right. Uniquely weird. You can't just be the same as everything else or you just have, you know, 80,000 followers like me. Five years ago. Or 30 like Tanner or whatever.
Yeah, exactly. Five years ago, the three of us probably wouldn't take comments the same way that we take them now. Yeah. Now we're calloused. Yeah. And we bring it on. Yeah. If you say whatever you want to say, great, thanks. This is helping the algorithm. Yeah. Keep coming at us. Awesome.
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.
Right.
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.
You played the Oregon Trail?
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.
That is.
So it's just on my mind. And, like, typhoid, everyone was just dying.
I mean, I love history podcasts, so, you know, a lot on the Oregon Trail. But then the Gold Rush is always fascinating to me, too. And there's two routes to get to the Klondike. And they were both deadly. It's just, did you want to die in the first two weeks, or did you want to die two months into it? It's kind of like... pick your poison, how you were going to get there.
But then when you got there, you still weren't guaranteed to be leaving there as a gold, with pockets full of gold, and just the amount of balls that would have taken. Have you guys seen 1890?
The show, the offshoot prequel to Yellowstone? Yeah, parts of it. Yeah. It's like, how the hell did they make it? Yeah. How do you have time to watch TV? Binge watch that.
No, he watches after he's had three vodka Red Bulls at 1 o'clock in the morning. Yeah, you just go all day long. Yeah, and your heart's about to explode out of your chest. Ding dong. He's like, I have to watch something that makes me not hear my heart. Don't talk about vodka Red Bulls, dude.
They're awesome. They're awesome. But, oh, man, it was a tough topic when I was 19. It was pretty rough.
So I think when I was 25, I started realizing I could not have vodka Red Bulls at like 10 o'clock at night anymore at the bar. Yeah. And then all of a sudden I would know if I had one at 5 o'clock in the afternoon because, like, I can't go to sleep. Yeah. So now I'm that old guy that's, like, no caffeine after 3.
No sugar. We had ice cream before we went to bed Monday night when we got out here. And poor Corey never went to bed because that was just too much sugar. I just sat there and just had a bunch on my mind.
It's like a kid, dude. I know. It's weird.
Too much jacked up on too much Mountain Dew.
Like, it never used to affect me what I ate or drank or anything. And somehow Dave's, like, 40.
one two still sucking down vodka red bowls stuff and somehow sleeps i don't understand you drink enough of them it puts you to bed is that sleeping though like is that quality sleep no no you uh as it gets so when you went to college you didn't go to college to play sports but you were an athlete yeah because you're always like i said playing ball with your dog yeah what do you what sports you play
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.
Yeah?
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.
Oh, yeah. Oh, the ladder. The salmon ladder or whatever it is.
I made it to the top on that. And I jumped up the ramp. I ran up the ramp.
Yeah. Warped wall or whatever they call it. In jeans and dudes. And dudes, too. That's impressive.
Yeah.
I usually slop around in dudes. I put them in four-wheel drive.
Have you ever been to Kale Carlson's shop?
Yeah.
Have you pole vaulted in there?
Uh-uh. I've ridden dirt bikes, though.
Yeah.
On this track.
Yeah.
With Grant quite a bit. We might pole vault tonight.
That's got to be one of the most injured track sports. I was going to say, we are all three not going to be able to walk into this place tomorrow. Yeah. If we try to pole vault tonight.
That's true. That is true. I will be injured.
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.
My jumping would be better with the pole vault. We'd have to go TikTok live and we'll just see who can do the high jump the highest. We just did it. TikTok live juggling.
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
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.
Two Happy Gents.
Yappy. Yappy. Yappy. We can't shut up.
And what's it about?
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.
I like the yappy. My kid keeps coming up with this. My other kid, he's like, whatever you D1 yapper, because he's watching college football. I'm like, you need to start a podcast called the D1 yapper, because he's always talking about, that guy didn't do that, and he should have caught that, and blah, blah, blah. So I like the yappy.
Yeah.
How often do you put out a show?
Once a week. Once a week. Yep. Every Monday morning, 6 a.m. Central.
sounds like he's uh watched us before or listen listen to it that's right when we do it right yeah well maybe five actually now i've started putting it out at midnight oh yeah really and we get it's fascinating we'll get you know seven eight hundred people before five o'clock in the morning hell yeah that's when i answered every freaking email this morning alarm went off you guys showered i freaking went to business yeah dave still stinks
yeah yeah right from the fan i haven't showered yeah i haven't showered in two weeks it's great yeah you look you look fantastic dry shampoo must be dry shampoos it's working pretty nice yeah you you look like pig pen you can just see the little lines of stink coming off from charlie brown yeah has it grown for you like yeah obviously the worth in it yeah because it's it's weird when we say a podcast is a lot of work but it can be
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.
Yeah.
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.
Try transferring off of three SD cards. Yeah.
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.
I'm going to buy a Mac desktop.
That's what I'm going to do, but I haven't done it yet. That's what I played a lot of Oregon Trail on was the old big Mac colored back.
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah.
Man, we came a long way.
My TV is like that thick in the basement.
Yeah.
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
I did get an award from Pioneer when I worked there called the Hitchpin Award. The Hitchpin. Yeah. It's in the studio. It's actually a legit chrome hitchpin.
You were just good at hooking up trailers?
He just did a lot of hooking up. So I was in research, and I was kind of in this role called the impact trials. And basically the hitchpin between – without the hitchpin, a trailer is no good, right?
Yeah.
And without the truck – You can't pull the trailer. But the hitch pin is what links them all together. So that's what the award was about. I linked up sales and research. You're our hitch pin. So did I bring the award? That's one thing I haven't brought to the studio yet. Yeah, it's in there. The hitch pin is in there. Oh, okay.
I forget. Well, I know there's like 17,000 pieces of artifacts on the shelf. I got some more stuff to bring in. These guys brought all their awards into the studio. Not all of them. If I brought them all in. If you think that's all of our awards.
Yeah.
No, I just picked out the livestock ones. Uh-huh. Hmm. He says he's got athletic awards all over the place, but I just don't believe it. I gave them to the neighbor's kid. I bet you did. I did. I'll believe it. I did. His mom was pissed. So you live in the farmhouse by yourself or you got roommates?
No, it's just me.
Well, thank God, because if you had roommates, you'd probably have them pull the stunt that Corey pulled on me this morning. We're staying at the Airbnb. Girls on the first floor, guys on the second floor, and it's got a bathroom and a futon and a bed, and then it's like a nook. You got a duck to go into the doorway, and then I'm sleeping on a trundle bed in the kids' toy room of this Airbnb.
There's a fan to push all the air into this little nook. Right, because it's hot as balls the first night we got there. Turned the split unit. What do they call them? The AC unit? Mini split? Mini split. Turned that on, and I needed to get air into there. So there's a fan blowing air from the outside room. A series of fans. To another fan that blows it in there so I don't die when I sleep.
And you like it cold. Corey, I get up, take a shower this morning, go back in there, fill in my pockets, and I turn around to Corey with the fan to his ass, and he farts into the fan and fills the room.
Classic bro move. Classic bro move. I about threw up. You had it coming. He did. Did you turn your back?
Ike ran out of the room. He started gagging. He did. And then I couldn't go back. I still wasn't done.
Corey's like, I'm going to take a shower. I was just laughing to myself when I was taking a shower the whole time.
Yeah, that's the best.
That's a small shower. Yeah, it is.
It's like a sample shower. Tanner got the old calamity Jane from Cactus Jacks yesterday. Recurgitated. Baby bird.
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
You're going home and you're like, I'm going to deal with this.
That's probably why you're not really looking for a girlfriend either.
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.
A 22-year-old grump. Yep. There's the next TikTok name. Well, you know, just a Jackson thing, he's 63 years old, and in a 9- or 10-year-old's body, you're just going to be 63 years old in a 22-year-old body.
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.
price yeah yeah no money no well i mean there's yeah no there's that but like i don't know i just want to be letting smarter smarter with the money yes that's why i said not anyone's going broke yet but they're coming off of some good years yeah but they see that the it's going to get real tough yeah i'm just trying to like plan a little whereas before you would have been like dollar here dollar here dollar here now you got to go okay this dollar's gonna pay me back the best yeah i better not you know buy this and i'm
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
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
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.
Then I'm in Backyard Golf Greens, too.
Isn't that crazy that there is a group for freaking anything and everything?
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.
If we end up back at the John Deere Classic, we should see if we can get him to come over, too. Talk to the grounds crew there. That was fascinating.
I think we need to enforce him. And then we just interviewed Jason Mock out in Indiana. He's got... We've got to make sure nobody clips that comment out of context. Yeah.
Meaning... He says best ball.
What did Jason say he has? He's got like 14-foot reel mowers or something like that. He can row fairways in two beers, he said.
Golf courses go out of business, and he buys their crap. He buys their crap and puts it into his fleet. I'm in a group that's golf maintenance equipment for sale.
Really?
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.
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
blue grass so i can keep it short you're gonna level with the sand yeah i want to do my backyard is our grass though like because our mainly blue grass and rye like that'll actually grow through the sand and all that every i mean any grass will it'll be fine you do that and then you know whatever equipment you rent i want to borrow it yeah because i'd like to do that my my house needs it bad yeah it's stupid it's a newer house and it was never smooth from the get-go land plane need a land plane
land plane yeah thanks and like aerating it'll help too because it kind of breaks up the compaction i did do that last fall my grass was the some some of the best on the street it helps that i got a guy that does not give a crap right next to me so it looks really good so mine still looks it looks really good but i swear they were supposed to be they were supposed to put eight inches of topsoil on it and i swear you dig down and two inches and it's clay yeah yeah it's like
It'll burn up real quick if you don't get it.
So what do people not know about you that we can learn about you that's not on your TikTok?
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.
Looking for the moms with the shopping cart?
Basically, I'll just look at them and be like, oh, yeah. Where's the popcorn? Yeah, I just continue on my mission.
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
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
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
Rick's flicking us off and just handing out his meat.
All the meat.
He's going to cook some for us. He said he would. All right. Do you ever play games on your podcast? No, we haven't started any yet. Tanner's a game guy.
What, you want to play a game? Yeah. Okay. We're going to play start, bench, cut. So just like sports team, you've got three people that you have at tryouts. You're going to pick one to be your starter. You're going to pick one to put on your bench. And the one that's your least favorite, you're going to cut from the team. Understood. John Deere, Case, New Holland.
Start Deere, Cut, New Holland, Bench Case.
Okay. Isn't it mostly Deere?
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.
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.
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?
Yeah. I like him. I thought you were going to say some people mistake you for Steph Curry.
Oh, they're right.
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.
My first trip down there on the Waikiki Strip. First trip?
How many times have you been to Hawaii?
Two times. Okay. And I'll probably go again this winter if I can. It's my place, dude.
Really?
I'm made to be there. I'm convinced. Yeah, everyone's just barefoot having a great time.
Yeah.
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?
Now when you go back, find yourself a cute Hawaiian girl and ask her what it means. I'll have to ask what it means, yeah. But either way, I just wear it.
Our listeners might see it on YouTube and chime in. What is that thing?
So out of the three of us, which one of the three of us do you think has tattoos? I'm going to go with you. You have no tattoos. I do not.
But I'm glad he picked me. So you have tattoos.
Yeah. How many? I just have one. I just have one. At the family crest on my shoulder. Oh, that's cool. On the back or front? On the back. Yeah. Sweet. Does that feel good? So it's seven colors. It was a four and a half hour setting. Yeah. It was pretty cool because I told every girl that I knew that it was happening and they could come watch it happen.
So I was just laying there face down on the table and everybody just feeling in, feeling out, bringing food, bringing something to drink.
Yeah. It was pretty badass. I just can't imagine. how much of a loser you were. Tanner was really trying hard to be cool. Hey, ladies, come watch me get this tattoo.
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.
I go through phases with everything. I think we should fundraise and get to a certain level for some charity somewhere for Corey to get a tramp stamp. A tramp stamp. That would be funny. I should call it, sorry, we don't want to get canceled, a lower back tattoo. A lower back tattoo. Like a Loch Ness Monster.
A lower eyes tattoo. Yeah.
Get one that's below my beltline so only when I'm cracking you could see it.
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?
I've thought about like a forearm one, but I just don't. I don't know if I'm a sleeve guy.
Yeah.
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.
Yeah. I'm the same way. I'm not that I have any.
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.
Cool.
Yeah.
What about a still start bench cut? TikTok, Instagram, YouTube.
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?
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.
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.
Have you ever thought about doing comedy?
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.
The what? Reif, Matt Reif.
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.
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.
So do you consume Joe Rogan?
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.
What about Bush Light, Coors Light, or McUltra?
Cutting cores, benching bush, starting Mickeys. Nice.
I just wish... I probably got a warm one back there. I wish Mic Ultra had a different option than the skinny can. I wish they just had a fat can.
Yeah.
I mean, otherwise you got to go to a bottle. Or you can get it in a tall boy, I guess. Do you feel insecure when you hold the skinny can? Yeah, it's just like... I don't know if it's insecure. It reminds me of standing over the urinal. It doesn't fit your koozie. It doesn't feel right in the hand. Man. I just want girth. Yeah. Oh. Yeah.
I could see that. I knew when I walked in.
I knew when I walked in. Big girth guy. Yeah. Out of the three of us, which one do you think?
No, I'm just kidding. Yeah. No, I love Michelob. See how I keep my slim girlish figure?
Yeah.
Well, you're also 22.
Yeah, that helps.
That does help.
And I eat like a bird. Higher metabolism. I wonder how a 22-year-old's going to... We try to ask the same question over a period of three, four, six months. Yeah. And compile answers together to let our listeners, one, know that they're not alone in something, or we're just damn curious. Man, now it's therapy. Let's go. It kind of is.
We know that it's hard for farmers that work a lot and have families to get over the thought in their head that they aren't there as much as they should be as a parent. So we've been asking people, how do you juggle work and personal life?
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.
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.
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. That's what's cool about agriculture, right? You know it's go time.
Yeah. And you lock in and you just, I mean, it kind of feels cool.
The observation that we've picked up on asking this question for a couple of months now is 92 to 95% of the people start the answer off the same way. Well, I don't do it very well. Yeah. And that's what we're trying to help is you do. You do what you can do. It's not a balance. No. Don't think you're not doing it well. You're doing it the way that it works for you.
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.
That's good.
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.
I'm glad we got to do this. Yeah. Yeah. I'm glad that we got to have a conversation with you, and hopefully it made you feel more comfortable than you were when you were freaked out about getting here. Yeah, I was a little bit. Needless to say, we weren't ready for you anyway, so you didn't miss anything. It worked out. It did. I appreciate it. Appreciate you. It's wild. I can't.
We still don't have service. No.
yeah thank you you could have just like sorry dude i didn't have service i couldn't find you yeah you know so i wanted to get here i wanted to do it i've never been a guest on another show besides this one once really no yeah you called in with that that was uh well we've been on the greatest podcast it's hard to do any other podcast and i know we talked to you last year when we're out here at uh
Laura's, is that? You're at Winchester's. Winchester's. Yeah. Said we need to do a podcast with you, but we're not willing to do it virtually. Yeah. Right? You need to be in person. Yeah. Because it's way better in person. It is. We can do some good virtual ones, but it's way better in person.
It's just not the same.
Yeah.
Can't bounce off each other as well.
Can't read emotions. No. So thank you for being patient. Yeah. Come on. Yeah, you guys too.
This is our pleasure. Corey, what do you tell the audience? Crack a cold one.
You deserve it.