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.
John Jennings: Wealth, Happiness, and the Cost of Striving
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5 Aug 2026
John Jennings returns to the podcast for a wide-ranging conversation about wealth, happiness and what happens when ambitious people finally achieve the success they have spent their lives pursuing.
Heath Hunter: How Money, Power and Private Equity Really Work
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31 Jul 2026
This week Vance sits down with entrepreneur and investor Heath Hunter for a wide-ranging conversation about management consulting, private equity, family offices, artificial intelligence and what it
How to Use AI Effectively | A Conversation with Claude
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22 Jul 2026
This week's episode is a little different. Instead of interviewing a guest, Vance sits down with Claude AI to explain how he actually uses artificial intelligence every day—not as a novelty,
Jay Curtis: The Joy of Tinkering
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18 Jul 2026
This week Vance sat down with Jay Curtis - a retired Ontario farmer, pilot, inventor and lifelong tinkerer who believes the best way to understand the world is to take it apart and put it back
Benjamin Anderson | Building The Future
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9 Jul 2026
This week, Benjamin Anderson returns to the podcast for a fascinating conversation with Vance about urban development, technology and the future of medicine. The two discuss revitalizing neglected
Chris Barron: The Communication Advantage
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3 Jul 2026
This week Vance sat down with Chris Barron who has spent decades helping agricultural businesses become stronger. As founder of AgView Solutions, Chris works with farming families and business
Dan Kloeckener: A Life on the Cutting Edge
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26 Jun 2026
This week Vance sat down with Dan Kloeckener who has spent more than four decades styling hair in St. Louis - but behind the chair is a remarkable life story… Dan reflects on his early years
Faith, AI, and Modern Life: A Conversation with Monsignor Shamleffer
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19 Jun 2026
This week Vance sat down with Monsignor Shamleffer for a wide-ranging conversation about faith, technology, human dignity, and the challenges facing society in an age of rapid change. They
Remembering Jim Rutt: A Life Lived at the Ragged Edge
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16 Jun 2026
Jim Rutt was a working class kid from the suburbs of Washington DC who somehow ended up at MIT, spent years hitchhiking around the country, stumbled into the world's first consumer online service,
Chris Fisher on the Vance Crowe Podcast: Bitcoin, Chickens & Why Boomers Live in a Different Country
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15 Jun 2026
Vance finally lands the guest he's been chasing for two years — Chris LAS, host of This Week in Bitcoin, the only podcast Vance listens to every single week. They open on an unexpected topic:
Mark Reardon: St. Louis Radio, AI Fears & the Generational Divide
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11 Jun 2026
Vance sits down with St. Louis radio veteran Mark Reardon — 97.1 FM Talk — for a wide-ranging conversation that quickly reveals just how different two people's information worlds can be. Mark has
Rob Long: AI, Scorpions in the Office & Why Local Optima Ruin Careers
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22 May 2026
Vance sits down with data engineer Rob Long — self-described as scoring near zero on the agreeableness scale — to dig into what professional AI use actually looks like. Rob walks through his work
Joscha Bach on AI, Religious War, and Cyber Animism
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19 May 2026
Joscha Bach is back on the show, and Vance opens by asking the question almost everyone is asking right now: should we be afraid of AI? Joscha’s answer is no, and his reasons are not the usual
Why Alberta Wants to Leave Canada, with Dustin Newman
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15 May 2026
A federal judge just blocked Alberta's independence referendum from going on the ballot in October, ruling that the citizen-led petition — which gathered 300,000 signatures in four months —
Your Body Runs on Ancestral Time: Modern Life Is Breaking It | Geneticist Kate Crosby
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2 May 2026
Your Body Runs on Ancestral Time: Modern Life Is Breaking It | Geneticist Kate Crosby
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2 May 2026
When Vance Crowe learned he needed half his thyroid removed, it sparked a deep question: what does it mean when your body's clock gets disrupted? In this candid and wide-ranging conversation, Vance
Shay Foulk: Theology, Military, and the Vibe Coding Death of Ag Apps
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25 Apr 2026
Vance is back in the saddle, kicking off the new run of the show with Shay Falk for a wide-ranging, live conversation that starts in ag-tech and rides straight into faith, leadership, and how AI is
AI Will Make Niche Farming Possible & Updates About Vance
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17 Apr 2026
Vance Crowe returns to the podcast after several months away with a vision for how AI agents are about to reshape commerce — and an explanation of where he's been. He argues the era of Google
Being Humbled: A reflection on the new year
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9 Jan 2026
In this solo episode, Vance Crowe shares why he is pressing pause on the AgTribes news rundown and shifting the show toward deeper, more human conversations. Over the holidays, a series of
ATR: How To Ask Better Questions CHRISTMAS SPECIAL EPISODE
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19 Dec 2025
In this Christmas special of The Ag Tribes Report, I pause the weekly news breakdown to share a chapter-in-progress from my upcoming book on interest-based communicating—practical ways to create
ATR: Europe failing and China is Deflating with @nnzp1730
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12 Dec 2025
In this week’s Ag Tribes Report on The Vance Crowe Podcast, host Vance Crowe tosses the script and sits down with returning guest “NNZP,” a veteran CEO and global manufacturer who joins
VCP: Farm Management and Rural Appraisal in our chaotic age
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26 Nov 2025
In this live episode recorded at an ASFMRA conference, Vance sit down with veteran farm manager and rural appraiser Dennis Raymond of Stalcup Ag Service to bridge two audiences: an in-room crowd
ATR: Secretary Rawlins; Cheerleader or Change Maker? with Elliot Henderson
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7 Nov 2025
In this week’s Ag Tribes Report, Vance Crowe is joined by entrepreneur, farmer, and Iowa Corn Growers director Elliot Henderson for a fast-moving breakdown of four big stories shaping agriculture.
ATR: Mandatory Country of Origin Labeling bill BACK, China deal is a letdown with rancher Casey Kimbrell
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31 Oct 2025
In this week's Ag Tribes Report, Vance Crowe is joined by fifth-generation Texas Panhandle farmer Casey Kimbrell for a fast, candid breakdown of three stories rocking agriculture. They unpack
ATR: Mandatory Country of Origin Labeling bill BACK, China deal is a letdown with rancher Casey Kimbrell
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31 Oct 2025
Luke Gromen "print the money or trigger the revolution"
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28 Oct 2025
In this episode, Vance Crowe sits down with economist and FFTT founder Luke Gromen to unpack where inflation, debt, and commodities are pushing the global financial system—and what that means for
ATR: Trump takes credit for beef prices, SNAP benefits FROZEN? with JR Burdick
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24 Oct 2025
In this week’s Ag Tribes Report, host Vance Crowe is joined by dairy farmer and Bitcoiner JR Burdick for a fast-paced tour through the biggest stories shaping agriculture. They unpack President
VCP: Devon Eriksen on cowards, leftists and culture change
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21 Oct 2025
In this episode, Vance Crowe sits down with author Devon Erickson to explore why he calls himself a compulsive explainer and how he sees the role of an intellectual: not to end debates, but to start
ATR: Prop 12 gets new advocates, Nestle announces 16K firings; Vance Solo Episode
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17 Oct 2025
In this solo-hosted Ag Tribes Report by Vance Crowe, Vance covers four major headlines shaping agriculture and adjacent markets after the scheduled guest drops out during harvest. The report dives
ATR: Prop 12 gets new advocates, Nestle announces 16K firings; Vance Solo Episode
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17 Oct 2025
ATR: Prop 12, Pig Butchering, and a Nestlé Shock; Vance Solo
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17 Oct 2025
In this solo-hosted Ag Tribes Report by Vance Crowe, Vance covers four major headlines shaping agriculture and adjacent markets after the scheduled guest drops out during harvest. The report dives
VCP: Calm Waters: A Buddhist-Catholic Driver's Lessons on Faith & Family.
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14 Oct 2025
This week's episode comes from an impromptu airport ride recording, Vance Crowe captures a conversation with Thomas Nguyen, an Uber driver whose warm greeting sparks a profound dialogue about faith,