The Vance Crowe Podcast

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 advances in pet medicine.Brian and Vance also discussed how they both had to independently embrace the concepts of stoicism in order to endure the pain and suffering that happened when their wives struggled to have a baby.  They discuss stoicism, and how it applies to their lives.  They also talked about how social media is a zero sum game and how this is impacting the way we engage with other people in the real world.  They talked about the realities of children being marketed to and how communities are different than tribes.Brian and Vance discuss Sober October and why they gave up social media and the impact that it has had on their lives.To Join the Articulate Ventures Network: https://network.articulate.ventures/

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 search is similar to the concept of the Daemon as discussed by philosophers such as Nietzche, Goethe, and Carl Jung.Kenneth Stanley and Vance Crowe discuss how a small talk is a form of Novelty Search, and how watching their young children grow is a similar experience.  To purchase Ken Stanely’s Book: The Myth of the Objecting: Why Greatness Cannot be Planned https://amzn.to/2SHMrXYTo Join the Articulate Ventures Network: https://network.articulate.ventures/

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 organizations, why the Albert Camus The Stranger resonated so deeply with him and how cosmopolitan society makes men without responsibilities vulnerable to the creeping darkness of depression.To Join the Articulate Ventures Network: https://network.articulate.ventures/October’s ATCF Book Club: The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien https://amzn.to/341qw36

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 can be done to prevent Coronavirus spread using HV/AC systems, UV light, raising daughters to be strong, and how New York City is opening up churches and restaurants as their case loads go down.  To Join the Articulate Ventures Network: https://network.articulate.ventures/

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.To learn more about the October Book Club: https://articulate.ventures/october-atcf-book-clubTo Join the Articulate Ventures Network: https://network.articulate.ventures/

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 discuss:Why is it socially acceptable to have a picture of Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin on your wall, but not an intellectual leader from the Nazi regime?  How do the people of the former Soviet Union view themselves? Is it inherently true that free-market capitalism is the best for everyone, or is that an ideology?Find out more about William Prigge: https://www.sdstate.edu/directory/william-prigge To learn more about the October Book Club: https://articulate.ventures/category/atcf-book-clubTo Join the Articulate Ventures Network: https://network.articulate.ventures/ 

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.To learn more about the Articulate Ventures Network https://network.articulate.ventures Vance Crowe on Twitter https://twitter.com/VanceCroweThe Vance Crowe podcast interviews fascinating people to discuss values, respectfully challenge ideas and explore new ways of thinking.  

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.To learn more about the Articulate Ventures Network https://network.articulate.ventures Vance Crowe on Twitter https://twitter.com/VanceCroweThe Vance Crowe podcast interviews fascinating people to discuss values, respectfully challenge ideas and explore new ways of thinking.

Reid Tymcio teaches financial innovation at the University of South Carolina.  He is a financial expert with a balanced perspective on the role of cryptographic currencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum and other blockchain based systems.  We have a conversation about trust, how the financial system works and Reid tells the story of when gold was made illegal to own in the US.  To learn more about the Articulate Ventures Network https://network.articulate.ventures To find Reid Tymcio on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ReidTymcioVance Crowe on Twitter https://twitter.com/VanceCroweThe Vance Crowe podcast interviews fascinating people to discuss values, respectfully challenge ideas and explore new ways of thinking.  

Mark Reardon is one of the most well known radio hosts in the Saint Louis region.  He sat down with Vance Crowe to discuss the value of engaging people you disagree with in conversation, why the shutdown of sports will damage communities and Vance Crowe's Peter Thiel Paradox.Mark Reardon talks about how for the first time in his career he is concerned that he may lose his job for saying the wrong thing.  They discuss the skyrocketing crime in Saint Louis, how the loss of baseball negatively impacts our local politics and what Mark does to speak with politicians he doesn't agree with but is willing to hear out.To learn more about the Articulate Ventures Network https://network.articulate.ventures Mark Reardon on Twitter https://twitter.com/MarkReardonKMOXVance Crowe on Twitter https://twitter.com/VanceCroweThe Vance Crowe podcast interviews fascinating people to discuss values, respectfully challenge ideas and explore new ways of thinking.