Best Richard Raphael Podcasts (2024)

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Reville Saw 1:04:36

20d ago1:04:36

1:04:36

Shane Simonsen talks to Reville Saw about his work rehabilitating degraded land in West Papua using syntropic principles, the indigenous agriculture surviving in Papua, and his own extensive efforts breeding bananas from original species, lima beans, restoring fertility to ginger, breeding better biomass plants, and a bunch of other topics.…

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Richard Paul Watson 1:04:24

2M ago1:04:24

1:04:24

Richard Paul Watson talks to Shane about his efforts growing and breeding a wide range of vegetable crops in windy New Zealand, and his successes in building a network of seed growers to create a collective seed sales organisation, the Sentinels Group. Check out more of Richard's work at https://www.sentinelsgroup.co.nz…

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William DeMille talks to Joseph and Holly 59:37

2M ago59:37

59:37

Farmer and educator William DeMille talks to Joseph and Holly about permaculture, biodynamics, silvopasture, holistic management and georgics and how they apply to his farm in northern Nevada. Check out more of Williams work below https://www.thegeorgicrevolution.com/ https://www.amazon.com/Worry-Free-Eating-William-John-DeMille/dp/B0BW2Y4GLZ https…

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Austin Vaughn 42:04

3M ago42:04

42:04

Shane chats to Austin Vaughn about his experiments developing landrace carrots and a range of other crops in his difficult Texas clay. Check out more of Austin's work at the Going to Seed discourse forum https://goingtoseed.discourse.group

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Taylor Chance 47:11

4M ago47:11

47:11

Taylor Chance talks to Shane about his many crop breeding projects, including Chinese yams (Dioscorea polystachya), ancestral cucurbits and interspecies goji berry hybrids.

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Padraic Flood 43:30

5M ago43:30

43:30

Shane Simonsen talks to Padraic Flood about his work to domesticate the lost tuberous pea crop of Europe, Aardaker, also known as Lathyrus tuberosus.

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Episode 16- Darren Abbey 48:53

6M ago48:53

48:53

Shane talks to Dr. Darren Abbey about breeding blue beans, white tomatoes, storage tomatillos and so much more. Read more about Darren's work - https://the-biologist-is-in.blogspot.com/ Find him on Twitter (@thebiologistisn), Mastodon (@thebiologistisn@redwombat.social), Bluesky (@thebiologistisn), Threads: (@thebiologistisn), Instagram (@thebiolog…

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Episode 15- Holly Hansen 55:37

6M ago55:37

55:37

Joseph and Holly reminisce and discuss plans for the year ahead.

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Yevgenii Berben-Zycki 19:15

7M ago19:15

19:15

This episode features traditional farmer Yevgenii Berben-Zycki, managing his farm with his family in the middle of an active war zone in Ukraine. He outlines his family's work selectively breeding hazelnuts over the last four generations, and how they are reconnecting with historic farming techniques.…

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Raphael Maier 53:05

7M ago53:05

53:05

Shane and Joseph talk to Raphael Maier about breeding cold hardy passionfruit and other fascinating projects. Check out Raphael's book- https://www.amazon.com/Breeding-Hardy-Passion-Fruit-Developing/dp/B0C12P63RK And Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/imperatorplantae/?hl=en

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Going to Seed- Bruce Pascoe 50:36

8M ago50:36

50:36

Shane Simonsen talks to Bruce Pascoe about revitalising Australian Indigenous foods (including kangaroo grass and vanilla lily among many other species). Check out Bruces work at the following links: Black Duck Foods https://www.blackduckfoods.com.au Trailer for the Dark Emu Story https://youtu.be/Z1Vq7rrTsY0?si=pw6AQBtWDwRA3o0W Full Documentary- T…

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Going to Seed- Mark Shepard 57:13

8M ago57:13

57:13

Shane Simonsen and Joseph Lofthouse talk to Mark Shepard about restoration agriculture and breeding staple tree crops with mass selection. Check out Mark's work at the following links: restorationag.com www.forestag.com Mark is speaking at the Restoration Agriculture Conference very soon! https://events.acresusa.com/e/2023-eco-ag-conference-trade-s…

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Joseph Lofthouse talks to Evan Sofro 56:07

9M ago56:07

56:07

Joseph Lofthouse chats to nomadic farmer Evan Sofro about heritage grains, biophilia and land artistry. See more of Evan's work at- www.instagram.com/regenerative_earth_art/ Contact Evan at- evansofro@earthincorporated.net/

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Shane Simonsen talks to Damien Beaumont about intergeneric berry hybrids 20:23

9M ago20:23

20:23

Going to Seed Podcast- Shane Simonsen talks to Damien Beaumont about raspberry-strawberry hybrids and other fascinating topics. Check out Damien's work at his blog - http://living-mudflower.blogspot.com Contact Shane with guest suggestions at shane.simonsen@icloud.com

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Joseph Lofthouse talks Tomatoes with William Clark Schlegel 52:21

10M ago52:21

52:21

Joseph Lofthouse Interviews William Schlegel about promiscuous tomato breeding and other projects. https://osseeds.org/ossi-breeders/wil...

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Shane Simonsen talks about primitive permaculture with David Lauterwasser 1:05:32

10M ago1:05:32

1:05:32

Shane Simonsen talks to primitive permaculturalist David Lauterwasser. Find out about the diverse agricultural systems in tropical Thailand, and hear discussions about breeding jackfruit, tropical mustard greens and aquatic tomatoes. Read more of David's work at his substack- https://animistsramblings.substack.com Instagram- https://www.instagram.c…

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Joseph Lofthouse interviews Mark Reed 53:50

9M ago53:50

53:50

Joseph Lofthouse Interviews Mark Reed about Sweet Potato Breeding, broccolish and a bunch of other fascinating projects. Check out Mark's broccolish project in more detail here- https://youtu.be/7tgfpo28fhc?si=blPDSVnQT-uOrp8u

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Shane Simonsen talks to Thulahn about domesticating Silverweed 35:22

10M ago35:22

35:22

Shane Simonsen talks to experimental crop breeder Thulahn about his exciting new project to domesticate silverweed (Argentina anserina). Read more about Thulahn's work at his substack: https://urbanfoodforest.substack.com https://linktr.ee/foodforestadventurer

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Zero Input Agriculture with Joseph Lofthouse and Shane Simonsen 52:34

10M ago52:34

52:34

Joseph Lofthouse talks to experimental farmer Shane Simonsen. Learn how to grow food with no irrigation, no imported fertiliser and no pest protection, the zero input agriculture way. Shane also talks about his experimental crop breeding work with Canna tubers and Bunya nut trees. Check out Shane's weekly blog - https://zeroinputagriculture.substac…

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Bringing Potato Onions Back from the Brink with Joseph Lofthouse and Kelly Winterton 55:14

10M ago55:14

55:14

Joseph Lofthouse talks to world potato onion expert Kelly Winterton. Learn how you too could become a crop expert with a little care and attention.

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Joseph Lofthouse interviews David the Good 56:31

10M ago56:31

56:31

Episode 2- Pioneer vegetable breeder Joseph Lofthouse interviews David the Good about gardening on Florida sand, subtropical food forests, survival gardening, and learning to grow food to build community. Check out David the Good’s writing at https://www.thesurvivalgardener.com/ and his videos at https://www.youtube.com/@davidthegood…

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Joseph Lofthouse interviews William Whitson of Cultivariable 51:33

10M ago51:33

51:33

Joseph Lofthouse talks to William Whitson about breeding potatoes from true seed and his many other crop breeding projects. Check out Will's work at https://www.cultivariable.com

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What If You Explored the Deepest Points of Earth? - with George Kourounis 32:35

3+ y ago32:35

32:35

Let NetSuite show you how they’ll benefit your business with a FREE Product Tour at www.netsuite.com/WHATIF We've explored a lot on this planet, but how deeply have we truly gone? The Earth's core is over 6000km deep...and the deepest we've drilled is roughly 12km! Not even 1%, and we haven't talked about the Earth's Oceans. Join Peter and Richard …

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What If You Only Ate Sugar for a Month? - with Gary Taubes 28:35

3+ y ago28:35

28:35

Go to the Great Courses Plus and receive the first month for FREE: thegreatcoursesplus.com/whatif Normally the idea of gorging yourself exclusively with sugar for 30 days would be a hypothetical, but over the holidays, it might not be. Peter and Richard and joined by the author of the best selling book "The Case Against Sugar" Gary Taubes to get to…

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What If We Settled on an Exoplanet? - with Didier Queloz 34:49

3+ y ago34:49

34:49

Go to www.greenchef.com/WHATIF90 and use code WHATIF90 to get $90 off, including free shipping. It's been a long strange journey for Nobel Prize winning astronomer Didier Queloz. In 1995, he and his team discovered the first "Exosolar Planet" i.e. an Earth-like planet orbiting a star. In 2019, they received the Nobel Prize. Now there are over 4,000…

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What If You Rode a Balloon to Space? - with Taber MacCallum 41:27

3+ y ago41:27

41:27

Let NetSuite show you how they’ll benefit your business with a FREE Product Tour at www.netsuite.com/WHATIF With everyone from Elon Musk to Jeff Bezos working on ways to bring space travel to the masses (the very wealthy masses) through various rocket launched endeavours, has anyone asked if this could be done in a simpler way, a safer way, a cheap…

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What If a Tornado Hit an Active Volcano? - with George Kourounis 32:33

3+ y ago32:33

32:33

So What If a tornado hit an active volcano? To be honest, we have no idea. But you know who might be the only person on Earth who knows? It's the host of the long running Discovery Channel hit show "Angry Planet" George Kourounis who has chased more tornadoes than you could count and has literally been inside an active volcano...multiple times! Joi…

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What If You Never Aged? - with Jamie Metzl 45:57

3+ y ago45:57

45:57

What If you could live forever? Since the days of Ponce De Leon and the search for the Fountain of Youth, human beings have pursued longer lives, doing whatever they could to cheat time and extend their lives. Now, with genetic engineering/CRSPR technology etc. this is no longer a dream, it's a reality. We are on the cusp of literally designing how…

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What If We Lived in a Closed Biosphere? - with Jane Poynter 39:01

3+ y ago39:01

39:01

In 1991, 8 people walked into the first ever biosphere project, committed to live there, grow their own food, recycle their waste and sustain themselves on limited amounts of oxygen for 2 years. So who better to ask "What If we lived in a closed biosphere than Jane Poynter, one of the designers and participants of the historic endeavour. What was i…

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What If You Could See Through a Black Hole? - with Pr. Clifford Johnson 29:18

3+ y ago29:18

29:18

What do we really know about black holes? We've only recently even gotten a visual of an actual black hole, so not a lot. But although we can now see a black hole, can we see through a black hole? And if we could, what would we see? Where would we see? Who would we see? When would we see? Join Peter, Richard and physics professor Clifford Johnson a…

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What If You Were Addicted to Energy Drinks? - Danielle Robertson Rath 36:05

3+ y ago36:05

36:05

If you’re ready to take action and prevent hair loss, go to keeps.com/whatif to receive your first month of treatment for free. Do you drink energy drinks? Do you drink them everyday? Do you drink multiple ones everyday? Then you just might be addicted to energy drinks. But why is that so bad when everyone else is addicted to coffee? In a stressed …

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What If "Among Us" Was Real Life? - Liana Ruppert 41:32

4y ago41:32

41:32

Everyone once in awhile a game comes along that transcends genre, subjective preferences or styles and just blows us up in a way that takes it from "game" to "cultural phenomenon". "Among Us" is that game. What about this relatively simple, low fi looking game has captured the hearts and minds of so many? And why now? Game Informer Liana Ruppert jo…

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What If Our Solar System Orbited a Black Hole? - with Pr. Clifford Johnson 35:40

4y ago35:40

35:40

Get 20% off your first monthly box when you sign up at boxofawesome.com and enter the code “whatif” at checkout. If you’re ready to take action and prevent hair loss, go to keeps.com/whatif to receive your first month of treatment for free. What do we really know about black holes? Are they even black? Are they even holes? And do they suck everythi…

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What If We Were on Lockdown for the Entire Winter? - with Dr. Norman E. Rosenthal 48:33

4y ago48:33

48:33

Get 20% Off + Free Shipping with promo code WHATIF20 at www.manscaped.com Have you ever experienced seasonal affective disorder or S.A.D.? For those that have and do, the winter months can be a challenging time. Now, add a lockdown with extended periods of isolation for some and there is concern we could be heading into a mental health crisis in th…

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What If Matter Was Replaced by Antimatter? - with Liz Landau 34:31

4y ago34:31

34:31

Have you ever wondered if there are parallel universes? Earlier this year, a NASA study suggested there might be another universe where time goes backwards. Could that be a universe made of antimatter? Why did matter win over antimatter after the Big Bang? If there is an antimatter universe out there, does that mean we all have evil twins? Join Pet…

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What If an Octopus Was Your Teacher? - with Pippa Ehrlich 44:29

4y ago44:29

44:29

What do we really know about octopuses? For starters, they don't have 8 tentacles...they're called arms. Did you know they had 3 hearts? 9 brains? And that some people believe they aren't originally from Earth? If you've been lucky enough to catch the Netflix documentary "My Octopus Teacher”, then you also know they are capable of so much more than…

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What If Jupiter Never Existed? - with Steve Levin 49:23

4y ago49:23

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Get 20% Off + Free Shipping with promo code WHATIF20 at www.manscaped.com So what do we really know about Jupiter? Generally speaking, most people know that Jupiter is big...the biggest planet in the solar system. We know it's a "gas giant". NASA decided they wanted to know more about Jupiter, so they initiated the JUNO mission in 2016. Over the la…

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What If We've Already Made First Contact with Aliens? - with Andrew Siemion 57:34

4y ago57:34

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Get 20% off your first monthly box when you sign up at boxofawesome.com and enter the code “whatif” at checkout. If you’re ready to take action and prevent hair loss, go to keeps.com/whatif to receive your first month of treatment for free. Is the truth really "out there"? Long before Fox Mulder uttered that iconic phase on 90's cult classic series…

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What If There Is Life on Venus? - with Sara Seager 40:38

4y ago40:38

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Sign up for the Great Courses Plus today and enjoy the first month for free: https://bit.ly/podcast-great-courses-plus The world was rocked recently by the announcement that signs of life might have been discovered on Venus? Unbelievable. Is the hottest planet in the Solar System showing signs of microbial life in its atmosphere? Could this be the …

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What If We Blew Up an Asteroid? - Guest: Bill Nye 39:18

4y ago39:18

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Sign up for the Great Courses Plus today and enjoy the first month for free: https://bit.ly/podcast-great-courses-plus Not like we don't have enough things on our mind...but in case you don't, "What If we blew up an asteroid?". Assuming we'd be considering this, it'd be safe to say there's a pretty good reason, i.e. an asteroid is on a collision co…

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What If the Universe is Bouncing? - Guest: Anna Ijjas 32:09

4y ago32:09

32:09

It's easy to forget that long standing scientific theories are in fact, theories and therefore are subject to revision and change as new information comes to light or we develop new ways to understand our Universe. The current accepted theory on the creation of our Universe is, of course, "The Big Bang Theory". But cutting edge new work is threaten…

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What If We Became a Type II Civilization? - Guest: Michio Kaku 47:11

4y ago47:11

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Sign up for Policy Genius today: https://bit.ly/policy-genius-what-if-discussed How cool would it be if we could one day regulate our atmosphere, control the climate and maybe even blast threatening asteroids into stardust? Well, to do those things would require A LOT of energy. Essentially, we'd have to be able to harness all the power from the Su…

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What If You Got Stuck in a Time Loop? - Guests: Danny Rubin and Ryan Wasserman 50:54

4y ago50:54

50:54

Get 20% off Manscaped + Free Shipping with promo code “WHATIF”: https://mnscpd.com/What-If Do you ever wake up thinking, here we go again? Same stuff, different day? What many of us call "Groundhog Day" but physicists call a "Causal Loop" or "Time Loop". This idea has been used as a plot device in many movies and series like "The Day After Tomorrow…

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What If We Had to Evacuate Earth? - Guest: Bill Nye 34:10

4y ago34:10

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Sign up for the Great Courses Plus today and enjoy the first month for free: https://bit.ly/podcast-great-courses-plus We know the history of this planet and asteroids isn't good...just ask the dinosaurs. So, what if we were faced with the same situation now? How much time would we need? Where would we go? How would we get there? How many people wo…

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What If You Lived on a Super Earth? - Guest: Dr. Jack Madden 29:28

4y ago29:28

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Sign up for Policy Genius today: https://bit.ly/policy-genius-what-if-discussed The Hubble telescope has helped discover over 4100 exoplanets in recent years, some of those being categorized as "Super Earths". But what exactly does that mean? What makes them so "Super"? Are they conducive to the formation of intelligent life? And what will new "sup…

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What If Your Teacher Were A.I.? - Guests: Dr. Joanna Bryson and Dr. Jutta Treviranus 47:27

4y ago47:27

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Sign up for the Great Courses today to receive the first month for free: https://bit.ly/great-courses-what-if Is A.I. the future of education? Could human teachers one day be replaced by robots? How can A.I. enhance the educational experience? What are the pros and cons of A.I. in the classroom? We tackle this highly charged subject with two global…

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What If Humans Are Future Versions of Aliens? - Guest: Dr. Mike Masters 54:08

4y ago54:08

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So imagine that all of the reports of UFO's, visitations and alien abductions were true...but sort of not? Confused? How about instead of "aliens" being alien, they were actually humans travelling back in time from the future to study their origins as a species? This is the thesis of "identified Flying Objects", a book by Dr. Mike Masters who took …

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What If You Lived in Ancient Egypt? - Guests: Dr. Salima Ikram and Dr. Bob Brier 48:25

4y ago48:25

48:25

Have you ever wondered what it might be like to have lived like a Pharaoh? Walked like an Egyptian? Reached the top of the Pyramid? Ancient Egypt continues to be one of the most enduring mysteries for our modern world, a source of never ending fascination. But as much as we know about pyramids and mummy's, we know very little about what life might …

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What If the Sun Dimmed Down? - Guest: Emily Calandrelli 31:29

4y ago31:29

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We all know we depend on the Sun, but how much? And what happens to us if the Sun goes down...on us?! Join Peter and Richard and science communicator and self-described "Space Gal" Emily Calandrelli as we figure out how much our big blue marble depends on that big orange fireball 93 millions miles away. Show notes: https://whatifshow.com/podcast Jo…

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What If We Lived In Space? - Guests: Dr. Ronke Olabisi and Jerry Stone 55:53

4y ago55:53

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What if we lived in space? Could we build a Bernal Sphere, an O’Neill Cylinder or a Stanford Torus? Why would we choose to live on a space habitat? Join Richard and Peter in their discussion with Dr. Ronke Olabisi and Jerry Stone. Dr. Ronke Olabisi earned the first of her many degrees in mechanical engineering from MIT and a certificate from the Ru…

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