Winning the Story Wars When Your Industry Is Under Attack
Updated August 18, 2026
While you engage critics across the table, a bigger battle runs in public: the fight over who gets to tell your industry's story. These conversations map how that war actually works — why outrage campaigns are a villain's superpower that backfires, how mobs consume the innocent along with the guilty, how propaganda is engineered, and how a founder who got death threats turned attacks into the best marketing he ever ran. The side that tells the more human story wins, and it is usually not the side with the biggest budget.
Episodes from the archive
From 487 episodes of the Vance Crowe Podcast, these conversations go deepest on this ground:
- Viral Marketing Expert Warns: Outrage Campaigns Are a 'Villain's Superpower' That Backfires
- Agricultural Journalist on Mob Psychology, Insurance Fraud, and Human Nature's Dark Side
- Ski Apparel Founder Gets Death Threats for Anti-Environmental Marketing Videos
- St. Louis Radio Host on Viral Police Car Incident, Media Distortion, and Pandemic Theater
- Canadian Podcaster on Trucker Convoy, Media Censorship, and Raising Kids in Modern Times
- Why Legacy Media Lost Trust to $5 Substack Tips: Former Journalist Explains the Collapse
- British Writer in Poland Explains How War Propaganda Shapes Western Media Coverage
- Canceled TV Anchor Draws Hard Line Between His Mistake and the Mob That Followed
- How to Tell Propaganda from Education: CIA Psychological Warfare and Information Control
- Farm Banking vs Farm Credit: Why Leverage Ratios Hit All-Time Lows Despite $20K Acre Land
- St. Louis Radio Host on Generational Media Bubbles and Coming Mob Justice
- Agricultural Broadcaster Explains 2021 Supply Chain Crisis: Natural Gas, Meat Packers, China
- Strange Donuts Founder on Depression, Cult Recovery, and Social Media Mob Attacks
- Quick Dick McDick Returns: Canadian Farmer/YouTuber on energy, comedy and the Keystone pipeline
- How to Record Your Parents' Life Story: Phil Bender Legacy Interview Example
- Author Devon Eriksen on Political Mobs, Money as Time, and Writing Across Worldviews
- Ag Social Media Consultant Opens Up About Anxiety Misdiagnosis and Lexapro Treatment
- Screenwriter Explains Teen Mental Health Crisis and Hollywood Strike Behind the Scenes
- Rob Henderson; Luxury Beliefs Only an Orphan could see; human nature & culture | Vance Crowe Podcast
- A St. Louis Radio Host on Cancel Culture, Lost Sports Unity, and Self-Censoring for the First Time
- UK Debate Festival Founder on Cancel Culture, JK Rowling, and Why Open Debate Is Dying
- A Bay Area Copywriter on YouTube Censorship, Cancel Culture, and Living Through Lockdown
- How Family Stories Shape Identity: A Literature Professor's Guide to Inherited Narratives
- Agricultural Journalist on Feral Pigs, Cultural Sacred Cows, and the Jerusalem Artichoke Scam
Where to go from here
Vance can teach your team to tell your story and explain your side in ways that your critics will be open to hearing. He speaks to industries that feel attacked — agriculture, energy, technology — about how to stop losing a story war they never chose.
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