What's up, guys? Welcome back to the Life Wide Open podcast. We got a great episode for you today.

We have our friend, a fellow Minnesotaan YouTuber, Zach, the millennial farmer. He lives just down

the road from us. There's not many YouTubers around in Minnesota, so we were pretty pumped to

finally get to meet. Zach is a fifth generation farmer that picked up a camera and started

filming his daily life and blew up on YouTube. Million subscribers. He is over a million subscribers. Yeah, it's crazy. So he runs through just his story on how all that happened and how much his life has changed from just the fame aspect. People are showing up to his house now. The money aspect. The money aspect. Being a farmer, being a YouTuber and a farmer. Yep. He answers the question if he's making more money being a farmer, being a YouTuber, the issues that come with being a YouTube farmer and really just being a farmer in general. And also getting a lot of hate from the farming community. That too. It's a great story. Let's get let's get into it guys dude this has been a long time

coming a horrible day it was we felt so bad too because i think some people came from like iowa or

something like that came from like green bay area dude it was a blizzard and it was 20 below and the

plan was to be outside the entire day yeah it wasn't like a normal blizzard no it was awful yeah it was terrible below and the plan was to be outside the entire day.

Yeah, it wasn't like a normal blizzard.

No, it was awful. Yeah, it was terrible. Yeah, we felt like kind of babies being like, oh, we can't make it, but I actually don't know if we would have made it there even. I'm not sure that you would have. The other people were only there because they stayed in Alexandria the night before. Okay, yeah. I think the highway was closed between here and there.

And we're pretty good about filming in blizzards and nasty conditions.

I mean, that's half the year we spend it like that. So we just couldn't make it. No, we went 200 feet from my house and I didn't even want to go out there. Yeah, it was horrible. I don't know why we picked to live in Minnesota, I guess. It's terrible, isn't it? Yeah. God, isn't it terrible filming when it's like negative, like 20 just.

Your fingers don't. why we picked to live in Minnesota, I guess. It's terrible, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah, isn't it terrible filming when it's like negative, like 20?

Your fingers don't work.

Yeah. Like all the little buttons on the cameras? Yep. Then you have to pull your gloves off and yeah, it's tough. Yeah. It's the worst. Well, guys, this has been a long time coming. A lot of people think that we're the only YouTubers from Minnesota.

You'd be wrong.

There's one more.

There's one more.

Uh, A lot of people think that we're the only YouTubers from Minnesota. You'd be wrong.

There's one more. There's one more. We got millennial farmers sitting next to us on the podcast. Zach, man, it's been a long time coming. Thanks for coming. Yeah, it's been a while. I mean, we're a whole hour and a half down the road, so it's hard to get together. Yeah, you would think, but we've been trying to do this for what, two years now?

Yeah. a whole hour and a half down the road, so it's hard to get together. Yeah, you would think, but we've been trying to do this for, what, two years now? Yeah, probably. It's like you've got a busy schedule. It's like you're working two jobs. Well, same way with, I mean, you guys are, you're gone all the time. Even just trying to get this coordinated, like we canceled a couple of months ago again. Just you guys have a lot going on too. See, mine's easier because I just film what I do every day. You guys have to keep coming up with bigger and bigger ideas all the time. We do. We're on the road a lot too, especially in the winter. Like you said, you know, it's tough to film around here. You know how that goes. Right. And so, yeah, we hit the road and we travel quite a bit, especially these months.

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

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