The Vance Crowe Podcast

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://...

Gina Snyder is a cattle rancher in North East Montana. Snyder's family made the decision to change how they ranch and she joins Vance Crowe to talk about what it takes to raise cattle in a cow-calf operation. Crowe and Snyder discuss buying cows at auction, raising them on ranch lands, CRP lands and water. Snyder has a clear view on the environmental value of raising cattle on grasslands. Gina Sny...

Dr. Liza Dunn is a toxicologist, medical doctor and employee of the Bayer corporation. She sits down with Vance Crowe to talk about emergency medicine in the developing world, the value of pesticides in crop production, using testosterone and psychedelics, and why the US medical system is falling behind the French and Irish systems. *During the interview Dr. Dunn made comments about the uses of mR...

Lucy Thackray is a reporter in western New South Wales where a mice plague has broken out. Thackray talks with Vance Crowe about the massive amount of mice, how they are biting babies and grandparents, ruining machinery, and wreaking havoc on crops. Later in the conversation Thackray talks about Australia's response to COVID, and why they are going back into lockdowns, and the trade tensions Austr...

Hannah Borg is a daughter that has returned home to her family farm in rural Nebraska. Hannah talks with Vance Crowe about the culture of living on a farm, dealing with family conflict, and how she thinks about relating with consumers.  To contact Hannah on Twitter: https://twitter.com/itshannahborg To join the Articulate Ventures Network: https://network.articulate.ventures/ To sign up for the co...

Jeremy LaKosh returns, this time for a live interview. We discuss the perilous state of Illinois politics, the deeper story about where the Pilgrims came from and a discussion about how Benjamin Franklin invented the idea of being an American. Jeremy is the host of Historical Context a deep dive into American history where he looks at the writing of people from the time to give the deeper story of...

Samo Burja is a sociologist and founder of Bismarck Analysis that attempts to answer the question: why do some societies live on, while others crumble away?  During Samo Burja's conversation with Vance Crowe they discuss technologies that were lost for hundreds of years, the value of mentorship to pass along complex skills, how the Catholic church endured for thousands of years without being able...

Ben Anderson is the CEO of Wand an app to find housekeepers in your area, and the executive producer of the Vance Crowe podcast. Vance and Ben discuss corporate use of the Pride flag, if nation states will be the ruling order, and which podcast episodes were their favorites.  Ben's Website: https://www.thebenjam.in Podcast Website: https://www.vancecrowe.com/podcast Apple Podcasts: https://podcast...

Alex Bernier is a motivational guy. His Twitter feed is one of Vance Crowe's favorites because it does an amazing job of teaching how muscles work and how to do movements correctly so that you get the full benefit from exercise. Alex Bernier is a kinesiologist and personal trainer for his website www.onlineschoolofexercise.com/ he is an extraordinary Twitter poster @mythoughtfood where he shows th...