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The Vance Crowe Podcast

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The Vance Crowe Podcast is a thought-provoking and engaging show where Vance Crowe, a former Director of Millennial Engagement for Monsanto, and X-World Banker, interviews a variety of experts and thought leaders from diverse fields. Vance prompts his guests to think about their work in novel ways, exploring how their expertise applies to regular people and sharing stories and experiences. The podcast covers a wide range of topics, including agriculture, technology, social issues, and more. It aims to provide listeners with new perspectives and insights into the world around them.
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Episodes

Michael Levin; Bioelectricity and where cognition comes from

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. Dr. Michael Levin's Website: www.drmichaellevin.org The Allen Discovery Center: http://allencenter....

Nov 08, 20211 hr 14 minEp. 163

Parag Khanna; Separatists, migrations & the future of cities. Author of 'Move" & 'Connectography'

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 slowing birth rates. Buy Parag's new book, here to support the podcast: https://amzn.to/31bvi02 'A comp...

Nov 01, 202156 minEp. 162

Raising Children: Attention is the Currency of Happiness | As the Crowe Flies

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://store.articulate.ventures/l/ocAdX Join the Articulate Ventures Network: https://network.articulate.vent...

Oct 25, 202126 minEp. 161

Chad Fleck; Homesteader, father of 5 on homeschooling, church and raising kids

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 apprenticing, how they selected a church and the value of having children young so that you can have a multi-...

Oct 18, 20211 hr 5 minEp. 160

Chip Flory: Ag Broadcaster on supply chain, state of the media and meat packers

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 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-vance-crowe-podcast/id1463771076 Spotify: h...

Oct 11, 20211 hr 4 minEp. 159

Chauncey Nelson; Real Estate Developer & Social Worker, building community in Saint Louis' North Side

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 with today. PODCAST LINKS — Vance Crowe Podcast Website: https://www.vancecrowe.com/podcast Apple Podca...

Oct 04, 20211 hr 12 minEp. 158

Seth Tower Hurd; Author of "The Five" newsletter discusses, inflation, media, politics and culture

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 political class, and journalists that have defected from their original ideological viewpoint to advocate...

Sep 27, 20211 hr 10 minEp. 157

Benjamin Anderson; Mimetic Desire, vaccine passports, and voices in your head

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 listeners. The interest form for that retreat is listed below. Links from the interview: Podcast Listener Re...

Sep 20, 20211 hr 20 minEp. 156

Alpha-Gal Syndrome; May Never Eat Red Meat Again because of a Tick Bite! Two women living with Alpha Gal Syndrome

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 the mourning that happened when they lost the ability to eat meat. Two Alpha Gals Instagram: [https://...

Sep 13, 202158 minEp. 155

Kiel Taylor: Irrigation and Water Challenges On the West Coast

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 agricultural technology. Talk with Kiel on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kiel.taylor Join the Artic...

Sep 07, 20211 hr 5 minEp. 154

Jon Stokes; Why the supply chain is failing & the danger of woke religion being written into AI

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. Subscribe to Jon's blog: https://www.jonstokes.com/ Follow Jon on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jonst0...

Sep 04, 20211 hr 12 minEp. 153

Alex Burkart: America's Central Port and brute force marketing

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 Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-vance-crowe-podcast/id1463771076 Spotify: https://o...

Aug 30, 20211 hr 9 minEp. 152

Jason Logsdon: From Pig Farmer to Private Equity; seeing patterns in the noise to make money

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.com/](https://www.broadviewholding.com/) Chapters — 3:47 Start 9:24 Real world experience vs the cla...

Aug 23, 20211 hr 22 minEp. 151

Colin Steen: Venture Capital in Agriculture and the consolidation of Big Ag companies

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-dimensional. Chapters — 3:05 Start 3:40 Where are venture capitalists investing in agriculture 6:20 Is reg...

Aug 16, 20211 hr 3 minEp. 150

Eric Ward; breaking corporate hierarchies, searching for microbes, vaccine trials & purple tomatoes

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.bigpurpletomato.com/ PODCAST LINKS — Vance Crowe Podcast Website: https://www.vancecrowe.com/podcast Apple Podca...

Aug 09, 20211 hr 17 minEp. 149

Vance Crowe Speech: My Grandfather's Axe; Succession Planning for Organizations

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 join the Articulate Ventures Network: https://network.articulate.ventures/ Connect with Vance on Twitte...

Aug 02, 202146 minEp. 148

Kate Vogel: Cover crops, Montana drought and running North 40 Ag

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://www.vancecrowe.com/podcast Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-vance-crowe-pod...

Jul 26, 202142 minEp. 147

Gina Snyder: Montana cattle ranching with a different approach

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 Snyder's Twitter: https://twitter.com/nemtbluesky Allan Savory Ted Talk Gina referenced: https://www.yo...

Jul 19, 202150 minEp. 146

Liza Dunn: Toxicologist, Emergency Medicine, Pesticides & and GMO's

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 mRNA technology, Dr. Dunn later corrected her comment: "CRISPR was used to cure that guy’s amyloidosis...

Jul 12, 20211 hr 43 minEp. 145

Lucy Thackray: Australia's mice plague, trade with China and dealing with Coronavirus

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 Australia is having with China. Follow Lucy on Twitter: https://twitter.com/LucyThack Podcast Website: ht...

Jul 05, 202152 minEp. 144

Hannah Borg; Returning to the farm, young farmer on rural youth culture.

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 connections prompts: https://www.vancecrowe.com/connections Podcast Website: https://www.vancecrowe.com...

Jun 28, 20211 hr 14 minEp. 143

Jeremy LaKosh; Economist talks about the Pilgrims and Illinois putting tampons in men's bathrooms

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 what really happened and not just what we want to remember about history. https://www.youtube.com/c...

Jun 26, 20211 hr 48 minEp. 142

Samo Burja: Why civilizations fail; lost technologies, failure to teach and social technologies.

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 to have children and Burja's controversial hypothesis that agriculture is much older than originally ...

Jun 21, 20211 hr 12 minEp. 141

Ben Anderson Returns! Tech CEO on Political Flags, Will nation states survive?

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://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-vance-crowe-podcast/id1463771076 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/08...

Jun 15, 20211 hr 39 minEp. 140

Alex Bernier; Personal trainer on motivation, how your muscles work, and Canada's intense lockdown

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 the proper way to do exercises; the muscular-skeletal system and reasons why your breathing isn't as g...

Jun 07, 202158 minEp. 139

Mark Reardon: Kids jumping on cop cars in Saint Louis, Being a Dad & uncreative politicians

Mark Reardon is Saint Louis's most well known radio host. He spoke with Vance Crowe about crowds of people that vandalized a cop car in downtown Saint Louis, what it is like to be the father of a daughter and what opportunities should cities be embracing if they want to grow in the future. June's ATCF Book Club this month is Orson Scott Cards 1987: Seventh Son https://amzn.to/3yJlsPv PODCAST LINKS — Podcast Website: https://www.vancecrowe.com/podcast Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us...

May 31, 20211 hr 13 minEp. 138

Economist Lacy Hunt Returns! Disinflation, the velocity of money and where the economy is headed

Lacy Hunt Ph.D. Returns to talk about dis-inflation, the velocity of money and what happens when the supply chain gets restored. Lacy Hunt is a world famous economist and Executive Vice President of Hoisington Investment Management Company. He spoke with Vance Crowe about what his economic models suggest is going to happen as the country and world comes out of COVID. PODCAST LINKS — Podcast Website: https://www.vancecrowe.com/podcast Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-vanc...

May 24, 20211 hr 1 minEp. 137

Ben Landau-Taylor; Predicting where civilizations are headed? Which will succeed?

Ben Landua-Taylor is an observer of society that works for Bismarck Analysis, a consulting firm that investigates the political and institutional landscape of society. During their conversation Ben Landua-Taylor and Vance Crowe discuss what is likely to happen to various cultures over time. Chapters: 2:24 Start 8:53 Reimagining the Past 11:59 Ben's Theory of How People Engage 20:40 Is there an opening for a new dominant power? 23:52 The state of US Institutional health 31:16 Is wokeism a regress...

May 17, 20211 hr 6 minEp. 136

Erik Hoel: Why we have lost our ability to dream; Author of "The Revelations"

Erik Hoel is a neuroscientist and author of "The Revelations" a scientific murder mystery that Vance regards as the best new book he has read in more than a decade. Vance and Erik have a fascinating conversation about dreams, consciousness, the Digital Commonwealth and the value of breaking the "5th Wall" in books where the author lets you peer into the consciousness of the characters. Chapters — 3:26 Start 4:09 Enter the Supersensorium 10:53 You don't have to like art 18:41 Revelations 22:40 Br...

May 10, 20211 hr 9 minEp. 135

Chris Bennett Returns! Out of control Feral Pigs! Freedom and a Jerusalem Artichoke Scandal

Ag journalist Chris Bennett returns! Chris Bennett and Vance Crowe discuss wild pigs, liberty, the importance of jokes, and the destructive nature of our current cultural narratives. A fascinating conversation with a man that lives deep in Mississippi and has a long view of culture and freedom. Podcast Website: https://www.vancecrowe.com/podcast Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-vance-crowe-podcast/id1463771076 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/08nGGRJCjVw2frkbtNrfLw...

May 03, 20211 hr 15 minEp. 134
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