Entering the Supersensorium with Erik Hoel
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.
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Erik on Twitter: @erikphoel
Erik’s Article: Enter the Supersensorium
Buy Erik’s new book: Revelations
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Chris Bennett; Hogs Running Wild and the Future of the US
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.
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Chris’s Articles: Pork Business
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Rob Long; The King of Digital Sovereignty
Rob Long is a data engineer, amateur philosopher and crypto experimenter. Rob Long met with Vance Crowe in studio for a discussion about the Interplanetary File System (IPFS), NFT's, the future of personal server storage, art and dreams.
Links from the interview —
Rob on Twitter: @Plantimals
Rob’s Blog & Website: Plantimals.org
Will Wright’s Talk: Lesson’s from Game Design
Rob’s Interview with Past Guest Shaun Newman: Episode 161
#ATCF Book Club: Book Club
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Shaun Newman; Jumping into Life with Both Feet
Shaun Newman is a former professional hockey player and podcaster that has generated hundreds of thousands of dollars for charity. Vance Crowe and Shaun Newman discuss if he will let his kids play hockey, mediation, dreams and the value of connecting people that don't know each other.
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Shaun’s Podcast: Shaunnewmanpodcast.com
#ATCF Book Club: Book Club
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Todd Keske; Chemical Manufacturer talking Supply Chains and Ozone
Todd Keske runs a chemical company and comes on the show to talk about who benefits from increasing regulations, the sky rocketing prices of input costs and the downsides of international organizations like the World Bank and the UN.
Keske is the CEO of Foam Supplies Inc
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Todd’s Company: Foam Supplies Inc.
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John Jennings; Renaissance Wealth Manger
John Jennings is a Renaissance man. As president and chief strategist of the Saint Louis Trust company his 50 person office manages the wealth of 60 families, whose wealth numbers in the hundreds of millions of dollars. Vance Crowe and John Jennings talk about the challenges the ultra wealthy face, books, art, dreams and a different way to build a reporting structure in a company.
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John’s Blog: The IFOD
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Community, NFTs and Fame on the Internet; Jack Butcher
Jack Butcher is the founder of Visualize Value a communications channel that creates unique pieces of art, and offers insight into becoming a successful creator on the internet. Jack spoke with Vance Crowe about his sale of an NFT for more than $60,000 the challenges of being a new father, what he has learned running a massive community and the challenge of having your creative skillset compete with everyone else in the "anywhere world."
Vance and Jack discuss Renee Girard's concept of Mimetic desire, Eric Hoel's Super sensorium, and David Goodhart's concept of Somewhere vs. Anywhere people.
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Jack’s NFT Collection: Foundation
Jack’s Twitter: @jackbutcher
Jack’s Brand: Visualize Value
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A man who sued a state; Ted Dabrowski
Ted Dabrowski is a political analyst and writer with Wirepoints a foundation designed to reveal the data and facts that the Illinois government hasn't been straightforward with revealing. In this conversation with Vance Crowe, Ted discusses what happens if Illinois doesn't get a Federal Bailout, how legalized corruption became so ingrained in Illinois politics and what he thinks happens if we keep printing money to get out of the problem.
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Ted’s News Platform: WIREPOINTS
Ted on Twitter: @ilpoliski
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Vices and the Red Pill; Ed Latimore
Ed Latimore is a former professional heavy weight boxer, a chess player, a professional writer and an interesting character. Latimore came on the podcast and discussed with Vance Crowe what it was like to grow up in the projects, tells how he flunked out of college and then became a professional boxer, got a degree in physics and was in the Army.
The two discuss how men are not being talked about fairly in society, how nuance is lost in the war between the sexes and why men are being lost.
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Ed’s Twitter: @EdLatimore
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Chemistry, Robotics and Life; Lee Cronin
Dr. Lee Cronin is a university professor that is searching for a way to turn chemistry into something living. Cronin sat down with Vance Crowe to discuss what does it mean to be alive, how he has been a professor that has been able to question core assumptions in science, and why a Tweet almost got him canceled by a Twitter mob for a joke he made about the name of his lab POMHub.
Vance and Lee talk about famous scientists like Stephan Wolfram (A New Kind of Science) and Joscha Bach.
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Lee’s Twitter: @LeeCronin
Link to Lee Cronin's Ted Talk: Ted Talk
Joscha Bach's Computational Meta-Psychologist (Paper Walls): YouTube
Vance referenced an article on the value of dreams: Article
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Fighting for Farmworkers; Christina Kohler
Christina Hudson Kohler is back- our resident Egg Farmer has come back to talk about how the State of New York has failed to prioritize farm workers for getting access to the COVID vaccine despite being promised.
After we talk about vaccine distribution Christina and Vance Crowe talk about the luxury beliefs of young college students that have a lot of opinions about how food "ought" to be grown, a talk about how to boil and decorate Easter Eggs and Christina makes the case for why others should join the Articulate Ventures Network.
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Christina’s Twitter: @EggGirlHudson
Like Hudson Egg Farms on Facebook: Hudson Egg Farms
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First VR Podcast Ever? | Jim Rutt Returns
Jim Rutt Returns! For a special episode - a podcast recorded inside of Virtual Reality. Vance Crowe and Jim Rutt discuss the nature of consciousness, the evolution of the English Language, the launch of Game B's first "Proto-B's" and what it is like to record a podcast in Virtual Reality... perhaps the first of it's kind!
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Check Out Jim’s Podcast: The Jim Rutt Show
Join GameB: GameB
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St. Louis Venture Capitalist; Rick Holton
Rick Holton Venture Capitalist tells about deals that failed, why large corps can't innovate and the divide between the top and bottom of the world.
Rick Holton is a venture capitalist at Fintop Capital. Holton and Vance Crowe discuss what is venture capital, how do deals get struck, deals that Rick lost his money in and why corporations often outsource their innovation to smaller more nimble companies.
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Vance mentions a YouTube channel called "The Soft White Underbelly"
Rick Mentions the Prison ReEntry Program he is involved with - Concordance Academy
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Steelmanning and the Personalized Century; Timandra Harkness
Timandra Harkness is an expert at disagreeing with people in a way that helps everyone have a more robust conversation. She sat down to discuss with Vance Crowe how to steelman an argument, the consequence of hyper individualization, the voices in our heads that argue, and the role companies and governments are playing in the challenges surrounding mental health.
Timandra’s Website: timandraharkness.com
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Trolling Culture; Interview with David Lesh
David Lesh is an environmental troll that has leveraged his willingness to have people hate him into a marketing strategy for his company Virtika that hits an audience that has been unserved in ski wear. Lesh sat down with Vance Crowe to talk about how he developed into a person without the need to please the respectable crowd, what he did that so infuriated environmentalists, and why he doesn't use drugs or alcohol any more.
Lesh's marketing videos are insane; showing Lesh waking up from a wild orgy, taking drugs, flying his plane to go skiing, then joyriding in the snow while shooting guns. His videos and social media posts have infuriated environmentalist and even got him brought up on legal charges for damaging the environment.
Check out David on Instagram: @DavidLesh
View David's clothing line, Virtika: virtika.com
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Adventures on Drugs; Author Buck Mulligan
Buck Mulligan: Author of Adventures on Drugs; a conversation about a man traveling the world and experimenting with drugs for the first time.
Buck Mulligan we as teetotaler who had never had a sip of alcohol. Then after a particularly rough breakup he decided to go on an adventure around the world so that he could experiment with drugs that he had never used before. Buck and Vance Crowe talk about using drugs, the dangers of addiction and the claims people make about the healing power of drugs.
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Buck Mulligan's book: Adventures on Drugs
Buck Mulligan on Twitter: @ThatBuckGuy
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Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Fighter Mike Rethmeyer
Mike Rethmeyer is a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Master. He learned to fight because he had to- he had been picked on mercilessly and no one was willing to step in.
Mike Rethmeyer is a world class martial artist. He was exposed to violence at a young age and had to learn how to control his temper and rage. After beating another child up so badly that the kid lost part of his eyesight, Rethmeyer decided he needed to learn to fight- what he learned instead was the path to discipline. A path he is still on to this day.
During the interview we discuss growing up as a kid that was bullied, the belt system in BJJ, and how one makes the most out of training BJJ.
In other news: earlier this week Vance released a video of him talking about how ideas spread into society:
Monsanto Scientist Fred Perlak
My mentor, Fred Perlak, was a career scientist at Monsanto, an agriculture company that created GMOs and pesticides we recorded one of our long conversations.
Fred Perlak Ph.D. is a retired scientist from Monsanto. During this interview he discusses the likelihood that glyphosate (RoundUp) causes cancer, how disruptive Monsanto was to the pesticide industry, and gives a metaphor to understand how you can engineer a plant to resist an herbicide that kills almost all other plants.
Perlak ran the Hawaii site for Monsanto, a site critical to Monsanto’s seed operations. Prior to that he was a key member of the scientific team that created Bt cotton, a GMO that protected the plant from being eaten by specific insects.
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The Vance Crowe Podcast interviews experts in unexpected fields and gets them to reveal the discoveries that come from having a knowledge of a highly specific discipline. Vance Crowe is the CEO of Articulate Ventures (www.VanceCrowe.com) a communications strategy company- and he is regularly invited to deliver speeches around the U.S. and Canada teaching audiences how to communicate so that others want to listen, understand and value what you have to say.
Civil war, inflation, food: Lawrence Mattock
What is it like to watch your money get inflated by more than a billion percent?
Lawrence Mattock was a child when the Rhodesian Civil War began. During this interview we discuss what it was like to be a soldier, life after Robert Mugabe came to power, obscene levels of inflation, and a cultural food company Lawrence has built from the ground up.
In this clip Lawrence discusses what it was like to learn that his savings and future earning potential were being inflated.
In this section, Lawrence talks about a food company he has started during his retirement years after spending a lifetime traveling through some of the toughest places in Africa.
Strange Dounuts' Jason Bockman
Drugs, jail, escaping a cult, and now running exceptional businesses- Jason Bockman has integrated his shadow, and is one of the most exceptional people I’ve ever met.
I ran into Jason Bockman at the gym a few weeks ago. He had seen my podcast featuring cannabis entrepreneur, Tony Sansone III and he wanted to tell me that he liked it. I told him that my podcast was all about interviewing people with an expertise and he responded, “the only thing I think I have an expertise in is hiring great employees and keeping them engaged.”
Bockman owns a famous Saint Louis donut company called “Strange Donut,” people here love it. He went on to tell me that he had a less than 2% annual turnover rate of his employees. In an industry with over a 130% turnover rate, this is nothing short of astounding. I was intrigued so I invited him over to the studio. I wanted to have him on the podcast because I like his personality and he runs a cool shop, I had no idea what I was in store for.
As we talk about during the episode, Jason and I had known each other for years. We had always been friendly but never made the time to get together. This was a serious oversight on my part, because once I got to know Jason during the interview, I realized he is a man that grew up in a dungeon, went through hell and is now living in a palace that he has built after so much of his shadow has been integrated into his life.
We talk about business lessons too:
Jason runs at least two businesses that we discussed, but I get the sense that he has even more going on. We deep dive into keeping ahead of the competition and how to create trends instead of getting swept up by them.
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Farmers Rob Sharkey & Megz Reynolds
Two farmers stopped by the studio and discussed the biggest issues facing farmers today: Huawei extradition impacting Canadian farmers, Thank a Farmer Campaigns, Checkoff programs and so much more.
Rob Sharkey and Megz Reynolds are two of the biggest names in U.S. & Canadian agriculture. Megz Reynolds is a grain farmer from Saskatchewan, Canada and Rob Sharkey is a corn and soybean farmer from Illinois.
During the episode I spoke about the South Dakota State Farm Bureau Collegiate Conference October 11-13th. If you are interested to learn more check out their Eventbrite Page for tickets and more information: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/learn-grow-lead-collegiate-midwestern-farm-bureau-conference-tickets-68268357495
Rob Sharkey is host of "The Shark Farmer Podcast," a daily XM radio show and "The Farmer and the City Girl Podcast" with Lesley Rae Kelly. Rob has completely upended the agriculture communications world by hosting a podcast that talks about the social and cultural issues farmers face. You can follow Rob Sharkey on Twitter @sf28430
Megz Reynolds is a social media phenomenon. She has built up a huge Twitter following as she has also run for political office in Canada. Megz is a powerful voice in Canadian agriculture, speaking about trade, transportation and many other issues important to farmers. You can follow Megz @farmermegzz
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Trucking Exec: Camden Civello
You see trucks all of the time. Literally everything you buy comes from a truck at some point. But what do you know about the world of semis? This week I sat down with Camden Civello, the Executive Vice President of LTI Trucking to get a sense for what is going on in the field that has 3.5 million truckers and employs more than 8.7 million people.
Camden is mild mannered and introspective. His perspective of the industry comes from more than 10 years in the industry and he has some interesting thoughts on the major shortage of truck drivers in the US.
Camden sees other problems in the industry as well. Such as not enough public parking spots for long haul drivers.
Banker Rita Kuster
Rita Kuster is the Chief Credit Officer for Saint Louis Bank, a community bank. For full disclosure, I met Rita because I am a member of the board of directors- which is how I knew that she has a special way of describing banking that makes it relatable.
During this interview, Rita describes her biography starting at a “banker’s bank,” becoming a regulator at the Federal Reserve Bank in Saint Louis, Missouri, and then being a banker during the financial crisis. She took a new position at Saint Louis Bank as the Chief Credit Officer and after working with her for over a year I was grateful that she was willing to sit down with me to discuss banking.
Rita discusses the challenges of preventing “Too Big To Fail” banks, how a person can get a loan, and the weird things she knows bankers have repossessed when a customer couldn’t pay their loan. Rita is very open in this conversation- offering opinions that are well thought out and not heard very often.
PGA Golfer Jay Delsing
I have almost no natural interest in golf, but a friend of mine recommended that I meet PGA golfer Jay Delsing. Jay is fit, joyful and passionate; and his expertise in golf was obvious once we sat down to talk.
We talked about if it is worth it to purchase expensive golf clubs, why people quit golf, and how Jay’s mediation practice led him to a psychedelic experience. It was an amazing conversation.
Jay Delsing is a legendary PGA golfer from Saint Louis, Missouri. During this interview Delsing talked about why people are quitting golf, how important are golf clubs, how expensive golf balls help you drive farther. Jay also opens up and talks about how meditation can improve your golf game and how breathing can clear your mind.
A star athlete from St. Louis, MO Jay entered the PGA straight out of college and then stayed among the top 125 golfers in the world.
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