The Vance Crowe Podcast

Miriam Hoffman is a former national FFA officer and a member of the Articulate Ventures Network. Miriam completed her year as a national officer with a bang, concluding her term with a speech at the national convention that talked about preserving tradition while pursuing the future. Vance and Miriam talk about this experience of serving the FFA, how the organization has changed and what it is lik...

Joscha Bach is a rare mind. He is an artificial intelligence researcher that is sought out by people doing research to understand how the human mind works. He sat down with Vance Crowe for a second time to discuss if our world is in a more precarious place than in the past. Bach discusses what happens if a parent chooses not to download a religious software onto their child.  Joscha Bach mention's...

Most Surprising: Lucy Thackray (episode #144) Contribution to the Pattern Language: David Goodhart (episode #104) Most Up-The-Graph: Lee Cronin (episode #126) Prompted you to change your life: Erik Hoel (episode #135) Most Memorable: Jim Rutt ( First appearance episode #114) Virtual Reality episode #124) Most Talked About: Rob Henderson (episode #106) Most Uncomfortable: Aella (episode #100) Most...

Justin Murphy is an independent social scientist who writes about philosophy, science, and technology. Vance and Justin talk about why he left the safety net of academia to teach courses independently online and how this choice is telling of a broader trend that Justin refers to as prestige defection. Vance and Justin also discuss Rene Girard, covering his views on mimetic desire and mob mentaliti...

Evija has a Ph. D. in Depth Psychology and is a board member of the Jungian Society for Scholarly Studies . Evija left a 20 year career at the World Bank Group where she met Vance, to study Jungian psychology full time. Vance and Evija have a deep discussion about meditation, searching for truth and why people tell stories.  Evija's website: https://www.evolfve.com/ Learn more about the Jungian So...

Alex Dodge is an internationally acclaimed artist with studios in both New York City and Tokyo. His art is a unique blend of mediums, is designed in virtual space and then hand crafted. He speaks with Vance Crowe about textures, colors, shadows, and the medium of art itself. Dodge recently had a daughter and the two discuss whether someone is born an artist or if they become one from their environ...

Alina Chan is a molecular biologist who specializes in gene therapy and cell engineering at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT. She published a pre-print document regarding a hypothesis about how COVID-19 might have entered humans. This led Chan on a wild adventure to discover COVID-19 true origins. Alina Chan is the co-author of the book Viral with Matt Ridley. To purchase the book and suppor...

David Wood goes to violent conflict regions to find ways to bring people together so that they can resolve issues that are leading to war.  Wood is a professor of practice at Seton Hall University's School of Diplomacy and International Relations. The CPCS website: https://www.shu-cpcs.org/ Ethical commemoration: https://www.shu-cpcs.org/ethics-of-political-commemoration Vance Crowe Podcast Websit...

Dr Michael Levin is an amazing scientist that studies how electricity plays a role in all living things. He sits down with Vance Crowe to talk about the regeneration of limbs, the value of not defining things in binary terms, how he is preparing his children for a wild and unknown future and ends with an explanation of what he thinks is going to happen to the human species in the next few decades....

Parag Khanna is an Indian American specialist in geopolitics and globalization. Khanna sat down to talk with host Vance Crowe about the forces of human nature that bring people together into cities, causing them to trade ideas and build things. The two discuss cities after the pandemic, migration around the world, how people will feel as their cultures change due to migration and the impact of slo...

Vance Crowe talks about some of the things he's observed over the 1st year of raising his daughter. Among these things, Vance will discuss the importance of mimetic desire as a model for thinking about how parents' attention impacts a child, he will also talk about the daemon and how it is something that emerges from a young mind as an uncontrollable impulse. Link to legacy interviews: https://sto...

Chad Fleck is a modern homesteader in Central Illinois. He and his wife are raising five children on a small livestock farm where they raise and sell broilers and have a milking cow. Fleck sat down with Vance Crowe to talk about how he and his family make decisions about raising children in a modern age including why they go to the effort of educating their children at home, the value of apprentic...

Chip Flory is the host of AgriTalk a daily 2 hour live show that discusses markets in the farming industry. Flory and Vance Crowe discuss the state of supply chain and how farmers are reacting.  If you are interested in purchasing a Legacy Interview for you or a family member. https://store.articulate.ventures/l/ocAdX  PODCAST LINKS — Vance Crowe Podcast Website: https://www.vancecrowe.com/podcast...

Chauncey Nelson is a developer in Saint Louis that had the foresight to get a degree in Social Work from the Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in Saint Louis, Missouri. During this conversation Nelson talks with Vance Crowe about community development, the challenges facing inner city kids, how COVID impacted his community and explains the challenges and dangers kids grow up wit...

Seth Tower Hurd is a former journalist turned public relations strategist. Hurd writes the insightful newsletter (The Five) where he discusses stories that didn't garner much attention- or who's analysis is lacking in important ways. https://sethtowerhurd.substack.com/  This is the only newsletter Vance regularly reads and the two have an in-depth discussion about why prices are going up, the poli...

Benjamin Anderson is the CEO of an ‘Uber for Cleaning’ marketplace called WAND, and the executive producer for The Vance Crowe Podcast. Vance and Ben sit back down to discuss vaccine passports, the voices in our head, mimetic desire and look ahead at some of the things that they are working on. In the interview, Vance and Ben also bring up the impromptu idea of doing a retreat for podcast listener...

Debbie Nichols and Caroline Matthis suffer from a disease known as Alpha Gal Syndrome, a tick-borne illness that makes the effected person allergic to mammal meat and animal products. During their conversation with host Vance Crowe the three talk about living with Alpha Gal Syndrome, how to diagnose the disease, the person that suggested giving Alpha Gal to people to stop animal agriculture and th...

Kiel Taylor works for Exeter Irrigation an irrigation company in California. Taylor sat down with Vance Crowe to discuss the basics of irrigation and the challenges facing farmers in California. The two discussed coming water regulation, irrigation districts, how water wells work and the technology being utilized to make the best use of water. The two also discuss Starlink and the future of agricu...

Jon Stokes is a tech entrepreneur that started the tech blog Ars Technica. Stokes sat down with Vance Crowe to talk about the supply chain crunch in semiconductors coming out of Taiwan, the complexities of the looming supply chain shortages, the value of censorship free payment processing and how woke culture is designing the ethics of artificial intelligence and what that means for our culture. ...

Alex Burkart finds customers for a major shipping port just outside of Saint Louis. Burkart sits down with Vance Crowe to talk about the value of the Mississippi River for shipping freight, how Burkhart finds new customers to use America's Central Port's rail and truck access and the two discuss spirituality.  PODCAST LINKS — Vance Crowe Podcast Website: https://www.vancecrowe.com/podcast Apple Po...

Jason Logsdon is a farm kid turned commodity trader and venture capital/ private equity investor that seeks value in the commodities markets. Logsdon sat down with Vance Crowe to discuss value investing, the changing needs of education for kids, how commodity trading isn't gambling and Logsdon's Peter Thiel Paradox. Logsdon is the Chairman of Broadview Holdings Group  [https://www.broadviewholding...

Colin Steen is the CEO of Legacy Seeds a holding company that sells non-GMO and organic seeds in addition to traited (GMO) seeds. Steen spoke with Vance Crowe about how venture capital is being spent in agriculture, what it was like to be in Syngenta when Monsanto attempted to buy it, and then go on to talk about organic seed loopholes, SPACs, and why the climate change discussion is so one-dimens...

Eric Ward is a co-founder of AgBiome, a biologicals company that seeks to discover and culture beneficial microbes to apply on crops to prevent pests. He sat down with Vance Crowe to discuss AgBiome's work, their unique corporate culture, the latest messaging around vaccines and the invention of the brand new Purple Tomato.   Click here to learn more about the Purple Tomato: https://www.bigpurplet...

Vance Crowe publishes a speech he delivered for the Arkansas Farm Bureau's Officer and Leaders Conference in Hot Springs, Arkansas. This talk was designed to help a healthy and vibrant organization to think about succession planning so that they can pass on the organization to future generations. To connect with Vance about delivering a speech at your conference: https://www.vancecrowe.com/ To joi...

Kate Vogel is the co-owner of North 40 Ag an agronomy and seed company that advises farmers on raising pulses and cover crops in the high plains of the United States. Kate and Vance Crowe discuss the challenges of raising crops in a dry part of Montana, the value an agronomist brings to a farmer and the changes coming to norther US agriculture. PODCAST LINKS — Vance Crowe Podcast Website: https://...