6. Why Farming Feels Like a Calling / A Conversation w/ My Brother Brayden Christensen

This might be the most unfiltered conversation I’ve ever recorded. My brother Brayden shares what it’s like to farm through failure, work 80-hour weeks, and find real purpose in hard things. We also give some healthy trash talk to brother Bridger. 

Chapters

• 0:00 Trailer
• 0:58 Intro
• 1:15 Worst part about being brothers with me
• 2:25 Favorite part of farming
• 3:42 Why farming?
• 5:41 If not farming, then what?
• 7:22 School is dumb
• 8:29 Get an education regardless
• 9:41 Me being humbled about Idaho
• 12:29 Idaho is the best
• 14:10 Earliest memories farming
• 18:49 The work ethic / long hours
• 22:52 ADHD / can't sit still
• 25:04 I'd farm if it were like Farming Simulator
• 26:48 Misconceptions of farming
• 31:05 Weather seriously matters
• 34:25 How to keep going after a cruddy year
• 36:51 An ideal year of weather
• 39:46 When did you realize farming was for you
• 40:50 He's human guys
• 41:57 Is farming an obsession
• 43:34 Cussing at equipment
• 45:38 What does it feel like to feed the world?
• 48:57 Dumb truck/tractor story
• 51:33 Cream soda
• 53:27 I was wrecking cars
• 54:35 What do you like most about farming
• 55:35 Growing up in the country vs city
• 59:40 Work is ALL. DAY.
• 1:00:43 You're a 60-year old in a 17-year old body
• 1:01:31 Something you learned on the farm that you wouldn't have otherwise
• 1:05:05 Outro