The Vance Crowe Podcast

Chris Bennet is ag and technology editor for Farm Journal magazine.  He tells stories with a southern drawl that draw you in and almost always has a twist that you cannot believe.

In this interview we talk about the inner demons that can lead anyone astray, one of the greatest insurance frauds in US history done by Robert Carl…

Jamey Stegmaier is a giant in the world of board game publishing.  Stegmaier sat down with Vance Crowe to talk about what it takes to design a great board game, how introverts can use board games to start conversations, and why writing game directions is so difficult.

Stegmaier owns Stonemaier Games and is a major…

Once humans let pets in the house, everything about the way we medicated them had to change.  Suddenly the disease that were ok outside, were now coming into the house.  Animal pharmaceutical salesman Brian Hopkins sat down with Vance Crowe to discuss what changes have happened, how people engage with their pets differently and the…

Kenneth Stanley’s concept of “Novelty Search” characterizes how major breakthroughs happen by articulating that individuals that discover and build totally new things cannot plan where they are going, they instead need to follow what they find interesting.  During Kenneth Stanley’s interview with Vance Crowe, they discuss how novelty…

Bryan Moes is a slow talking South Dakota farmer with five boys living in South Dakota.  Moes is a family man, deeply active in his community and a strong supporter of the organizations that make agriculture work.  Moes sat down with Vance Crowe to discuss teaching your children responsibility, how to make changes in large…

Paula Olsiewski is an MIT trained biochemist that now helps foundations decide how to allocate resources to deal with challenges that face our civilization.  She has worked in biosecurity, synthetic biology, and most recently on indoor air quality.  

Paula Olsiewski spoke with Vance Crowe about funding research, what…

Rob Long is back discussing with Vance Crowe on how to read so that you extract more meaning from your time, the dichotomies game that they play, the reason that positive human rights are dangerous and the value of negative human rights, and why values smuggling has destroyed the value of the skeptics community.

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William Prigge Ph.D. is a history professor at South Dakota State University and a former history professor of Vance Crowe, at Marquette University.  They have a wide ranging fast paced conversation about how to analyze history as a world system rather than criticizing as a way of tearing down.  

Vance and Will…

Tommy Grisafi is a man that can make money during moments of high volatility in the markets. During this conversation Vance Crowe and Tommy Grisafi discuss where inflation is showing up in our markets, how puts and futures work and the value of doing difficult things like running marathons.

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Julian Schuster is the President of Webster University in Saint Louis, Missouri.  We sat down to discuss what he has to consider as he leads through Coronavirus, people’s reactions to insecurity and how his University developed into the best chess team in the nation.

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