The Vance Crowe Podcast

Thomas Evans was a hard working Uber driver that picked me up a few months ago.  Now during Coronavirus he is having to make a decision about being able to pay his bills or be exposed to the virus.  We talk about how the black community may have more fatalities, how to decide who to drive, and what he wants out of politicians

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Matt Stubblefield of Brush Creek Valley Farms raises cows, pigs and chickens in the Joel Salatin system, decentralized, local and personal.  Stubblefield was growing his customer base when Coronavirus hit and now his business is exploding.  He offers customers a chance to buy a subscription for a box of meat every month.

To learn…

Lyle Benjamin recently quit farming and this was now small thing- he was the former President of the Montana Grain Growers Association.  He is a reserve police officer, a statesman, and a modern day mountain man.  We discuss dealing with adrenaline during a scary moment, the potential breakup of centralized governance, social mobs and a…

"This is not only a financial downturn as big as the great depression... this not a pandemic as lethal as the flu pandemic... the only thing that rivals [Coronavirus] is the Black Plague, in the 17th Century"

National Geographic Explorer in Residence and world renown population geneticist Spencer Wells joined Vance Crowe from his…

Jesse Civello is a physical therapist in Saint Louis, Missouri.  Coronavirus forced her business to pivot because she could no longer see patients in person.  Now their business is up and running via tele-medicine.  Jesse talks about what is different about virtual care for people in pain while doing every day activities.  

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I have a Friday morning meeting with Sarah Bohnenkamp ever week.  She is insightful, energetic and helps me push through the mental blocks that keep me from seeing opportunities. We recorded our conversation discussing how people are reacting to the chaos of Coronavirus and which people are adapting to thrive. We talk about handling the…

Brian Rund is a farmer and ag chemical salesman that paradoxically lives in Indianapolis.  We met after a little conflict on Twitter that prompted some far more interesting DM's.  We went on to have an interesting discussion of his perception of Coronavirus on April 9, 2020.

"Just say plant geneticist and data scientist" That is what Kate Crosby told me to say about her background.  She is a Canadian plant geneticist living in Sacramento California and she has a lot of ideas that are outside of the norm.

We discussed quarantine zones, how systems break down, how long people will stay in their houses…

Dan Broadbent is the host of a blogging platform that regularly reaches more than 1 million people. He was suspended from Facebook for publishing jokes about the death of Harambe; RIP.  Now Dan is on quarantine with his wife and children and he articulates the danger he sees with the disease, how he prepared and the conditions under…

Vance Crowe and Jayson Lusk describe how the agricultural supply chain is intricately tied together, and how there are dangers that cannot be foreseen when central control starts demanding that exports halt and the government has enacted war-time powers to direct companies to produce specific goods.  

Jayson Lusk is an economist,…