Podcast Episodes

How This Civilisation Ends with Professor Jiang

Season 2 Episode 9

Professor Jiang brought deep historical, economic and cultural analysis to the masses through his popular YouTube lectures.

In this interview Shane digs deeper into his perspective on the east/west di…

Published on 17 hours ago

Restoring Lost Crops with Professor David Shields

Season 2 Episode 8

Professor David Shields is most often known for his work restoring Carolina Golden Rice to prominence in his native South Carolina, but this conversation goes further to explore parallel projects ret…

Published on 1 week ago

Resource Limits with the Honest Sorcerer

Season 2 Episode 7

The Honest Sorcerer is an engineer from Eastern Europe with a passion for studying the resource limits squeezing our global industrial economy. We talk about the intersections between advancing techn…

Published on 2 weeks ago

Bruce Steele

Season 2 Episode 6

Bruce Steele works with resilient, low input staple crops (including oaks for flour) and breeds heritage mangalitsa pigs in Southern California.

Check out Bruce's substack: https://steeleb.substack.c…

Published on 3 weeks ago

Archdruid John Michael Greer

Season 2 Episode 5

John Michael Greer is a historian of religion, the occult, and every aspect of history that typical historians overlook. In this conversation we explore the cultural impact of industrialisation and d…

Published on 4 weeks, 1 day ago

Mandy from Incredible Vegetables

Season 2 Episode 4

Mandy operates a fantastic nursery in England specialising in a mind blowing diversity of perennial vegetables. Shane interviews her about her collecting and breeding projects, the challenges of runn…

Published on 1 month ago

Amateur Plant Biotech with Sebastian Coccioba

Season 2 Episode 3

Shane talks to Sebastian Coccioba about his obsession with plant biotechnology, and how his determination to build his own home laboratory (including a gun that shoots genes into plants) paid off. Al…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

Simon Michaux

Season 2 Episode 2

Shane grills Simon Michaux on the key resource limits preventing the promised renewable energy transition and his comprehensive plans to develop a thorium powered alternative.

Read more about Simon's…

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

Thomas Picard

Season 2 Episode 1

Thomas Picard is a landrace cucurbit breeder from France who works with melons, watermelon, pumpkin and kiwano.

You can read more about his work at the Going to Seed forum- https://goingtoseed.discour…

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

Ask Me Anything with Shane

Season 1 Episode 47

In this final episode of season 1, I outline plans for the podcast, Substack and planned YouTube channel in the coming year, then answer a stack of questions from followers of my work.

The podcast wil…

Published on 3 months, 1 week ago