Fields of Work – Details, episodes & analysis

Low energy chill time with the boys. Thanksgiving discussions abound. Cold end-of-year times at the farm. Sam goes into a surprising amount of detail about his two projects. Can Max be Crypto Jesus? Maybe.

Max walks us through the last few unseasonably warm weeks at the farm. The boys test a special podcast-within-a-podcast concept. Sam shares his race report from his first half-Ironman.

Max is making hay, figuratively. The farm has already made as much money as it did all of last year and it's only the end of July! How cool is that? Somehow it keeps making money even though a woodchuck is going ham on the veggies. Max tried to catch him and only managed to get a possum instead. Amateur hour. Sam went on vacation to Cape Cod but forgot his swim buoy so he's sad. He's also starting a new "regular" project so he isn't purely a crypto boy any longer.

Episode 5, take two! After a little recording mishap last week, Sam and Max are back together to chat about what’s been going on the last month. Sam’s popsicles have spoken and summer is officially here! Here is how it has been going: Max hurt himself and ended up at urgent care twice, dealt with some brutal weather and has been working to try and catch up at the farm; Sam got married and he also ended up at an urgent care this month (unrelated) and is only one triathlon away from finishing the trifecta.

Sam has completed his first triathlon and begins what is sure to become a new famous segment on the podcast, “Triathlon Talk.” He shares some important tricks to having a successful race. Things like, being honest with yourself about your swimming capabilities, learn the course so you don’t repeat any legs of it and most importantly remember to lube up your whole body. Max is up to his ears in strawberries. The CSA has started and the veggies are pouring in. Also, he is concerned about how hot it is.

Max continues to have chicken problems. Apparently they don't swim so good. But before that, there's an important chat about where we're going when we get to the zoo and what we're stoked is in our lunchbox. Sam continues to do fun DAO things and be generally inscrutable to the average person!

The boys kick things off with one of their more profound check-in questions and then quickly move into discussion of the wetter parts of being a farmer; namely, cow birth and lubing egg bound chickens. It’s super gross and that’s why Max likes plants better. Sam went to Canada and visited various eating establishments. Then he had a horrible time trying to get home.

The boys are back in town (as The Beach Boys said…) and season four is officially here! Is it going to be any different? No, not really. The boys talk about what Olympic sport they could have played, hypothetically. Sam and Max then bond over their general fear of horses —they’re just so big and seem like they know things. Max talks about what his off season has been like and what new things are coming to the farm this year. Sam talks briefly about his new initiative at The Ready and tries to give us a quick run down of what a DAO is. Max struggles to understand. Foreshadowing for the rest of this season? Probably!

It’s been a month, Sam’s sabbatical is over and this episode they talk all about it. What did he learn? What does he regret? Did he get really good at skateboarding? You’ll have to listen to find out. Oh and Max is still just farming except now it’s colder.