VICE is back with a new podcast exploring the subcultures and fringes that we are best known for. If you thought we were gone, looks like we have more to say. Each week we are sitting down with the internets most fascinating characters and getting to the bottom of cultural trends. Oscar award winners, internet oddities, and viral sensations. There has never been more culture to consume, so let us figure out what's worth checking out. Subscribe to VICE Culture Club. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com...
May 06, 2026•7 min
VICE is back with a new podcast exploring the subcultures and fringes that we are best known for. If you thought we were gone, looks like we have more to say. Each week we are sitting down with the internets most fascinating characters and getting to the bottom of cultural trends. Oscar award winners, internet oddities, and viral sensations. There has never been more culture to consume, so let us consume it for you. Subscribe to VICE Culture Club. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more ...
Mar 30, 2026•34 min•Season 1Ep. 1
If you like The VICE Guide To Right Now , we think you'll also really enjoy VICE News' first ever podcast, "Chapo." As Sinaloa cartel leader Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán goes on trial, VICE News explores his high-stakes case through the stories of people caught up in the drug war in the U.S. and Mexico. The first episode dropped on Nov. 1 exclusively on Spotify in both English and Spanish. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Oct 30, 2018•3 min
Hello VICE Meets listeners! It's true we've gone dark for a while, but we're really excited to introduce you to our newest VICE podcast, Queerly Beloved. Queerly Beloved is a new podcast series from Broadly. Co-hosted by Broadly editor Sarah Burke and Fran Tirado of the popular queer podcast Food 4 Thot, it’s a multifaceted portrait of LGBTQ chosen family—the people who help us figure out who we are and inspire us to live as our most authentic selves. In a world obsessed with significant others...
Sep 12, 2018•21 min
If you like VICE Meets, make sure to also check out our second season of Science Solved It , Motherboard's show about the greatest mysteries that were solved by science. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jul 11, 2018•2 min
VICE founder Shane Smith interviews President Barack Obama, discussing a host of issues important to Americans, from foreign policy and marijuana legalization to global warming and political gridlock. A Roundtable with President Barack Obama: The Cost of Education: http://bit.ly/1MW3pWa Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mar 21, 2015•18 min
Director Bennett Miller spent seven years making his third feature film, Foxcatcher—a retelling of the true story of millionaire heir John du Pont's fateful relationship with a pair of Olympic wrestlers, Mark and Dave Schultz. Bizarre and haunting, Foxcatcher has an intensity that has come to be expected from the director of Moneyball and Capote. We sat down with Miller to talk about the film. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Mar 09, 2015•27 min
In 1989, a millionaire eccentric John du Pont opened an athletics facility on his 800-acre, Pennsylvania estate. For seven years, the estate housed and trained a team of pentathletes, swimmers and wrestlers including Olympic champions, the brothers Mark and Dave Schultz. The strange and haunting story is retold in director Bennett Miller's haunting film "Foxcatcher". VICE sat down with cast to discuss the movie. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Feb 27, 2015•25 min
Richard Linklater is the filmmaker behind some of indie film's preeminent classics. His early break throughs, Slacker (1991) and Dazed and Confused (1993), captured and defined our generation more genuinely than had been done before, and perhaps since. Boyhood, out in theaters July 11, is true to Linklater form in its exploration of the nuances of youth and life. It was ambitiously shot over 12 years, following the upbringing of a boy from the age of six until his high school graduation. In this...
Jan 16, 2015•26 min
The following interview with the cast and creators of The Interview—Seth Rogen, James Franco, and Evan Goldberg—was conducted by VICE on December 9, two days before the world premiere of the film in Los Angeles. At that time, hackers calling themselves the "Guardians of Peace" had compromised SONY servers and leaked a trove of sensitive emails that exposed and embarrassed senior company officials. Nonetheless, the film was still on track to be released on Christmas Day. On December 16, a new thr...
Jan 09, 2015•24 min
This week on the VICE podcast Reihan Salam sits down with filmmaker Errol Morris to discuss his latest film The Unknown Known, a portrait of one of the leading architects of the Iraq War, Donald Rumsfeld.Watch more VICE Podcasts here: bit.ly/VICE-PodcastsCheck out the VICE podcast on iTunes here: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/vice-…id634513189?mt=2 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Apr 09, 2014•48 min
This week on the VICE podcast Reihan Salam sits down with Michael German, a 16-year veteran of the FBI, who recently joined the Brennan Center where he'll focus on law enforcement and intelligence oversight and reform, in the center's fight to advance effective national security policies that respect constitutional values and the rule of law. Today we chat with German about the way in which the FBI has changed since 9/11.Check out the Best of VICE here: http://bit.ly/VICE-Best-OfCheck out the VI...
Apr 09, 2014•27 min
This week on the VICE Podcast Reihan Salam sits down Nigerian-American journalist Dayo Olopade, to discuss her new book, The Bright Continent: Breaking Rules and Making Change in Modern Africa.Watch more VICE Podcasts here: bit.ly/VICE-Podcasts Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mar 28, 2014•50 min
This week on the VICE Podcast Reihan Salam sits down with the founders of Upworthy, Peter Koechley and Eli Pariser. Koechley has been making important ideas irresistible for more than a decade -- as an Onion editor, a viral video producer, and now, as a co-founder of Upworthy; Pariser has dedicated his career to figuring out how technology can elevate important topics in the world -- as an author, an online organizer, and most recently, as a co-founder of Upworthy. Today, these two chat with us ...
Mar 24, 2014•1 hr 2 min
This week on the VICE podcast Reihan Salam sits down with Melissa Gira Grant, an independent journalist who has been writing and reporting on the sex industry for the past ten years. Grant recently authored a book, Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work, in which she calls for an overhaul in the way we think about sex work. Today, she chats with us about the history, the myths, and the criticisms of the sex industry and shares her perspective on how sex work is primarily about economic activity...
Mar 24, 2014•49 min
This week on the VICE podcast Reihan Salam sits down with filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer to discuss his academy award nominated documentary, The Act of Killing.Watch more VICE Podcasts here: http://bit.ly/VICE-PodcastsCheck out the VICE podcast on iTunes here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/vice-media/id634513189?mt=2 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mar 24, 2014•54 min
Robyn Doolittle is the author of Crazy Town--a new book chronicling the absurd political messiness that the city of Toronto has endured at the hands of their crack smoking mayor: Rob Ford. As one of three journalists to have seen the infamous crack video, Robyn has covered the Rob Ford story extensively for the Toronto Star; so we had our VICE Canada Managing Editor Patrick McGuire sit down with her to review the past few years of Toronto politics. From Rob's nearly constant gaffes and presumabl...
Mar 24, 2014•26 min
This week on the VICE Podcast, Reihan Salam sits down with David Epstein, former senior writer at "Sports Illustrated," reporter at ProPublica and author of "The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance." David and Reihan chat about the ways that human biological diversity impacts athletic ability, and how this understanding could affect the future of elite sports.Watch more VICE Podcasts here: http://bit.ly/VICE-PodcastsCheck out the VICE podcast on iTunes here: htt...
Mar 20, 2014•47 min
This week on the VICE Podcast, Reihan Salam sits down with Anya Kamenetz, a Schwartz fellow at New America, journalist, and author of Generation Debt, DIY U, and the forthcoming The Test. Reihan has an in-depth discussion with Anya about the current state of higher education in America.Watch more VICE Podcasts here: http://bit.ly/VICE-PodcastsCheck out the VICE podcast on iTunes here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/vice-media/id634513189?mt=2 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more ...
Mar 20, 2014•58 min
This week on the VICE podcast, authors Cathy Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy discuss their new book about the attack on Mumbai's Taj Hotel with journalist Ben Anderson.More from Ben Anderson here: http://www.vice.com/tag/Ben+AndersonWatch more VICE Podcasts here: http://bit.ly/VICE-PodcastsCheck out the VICE podcast on iTunes here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/vice-media/id634513189?mt=2 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Mar 20, 2014•49 min
This week on the VICE Podcast, Reihan Salam sits down with Anya Kamenetz, a Schwartz fellow at New America, journalist, and author of Generation Debt, DIY U, and the forthcoming The Test. Reihan has an in-depth discussion with Anya about the current state of higher education in America.Watch more VICE Podcasts here: http://bit.ly/VICE-PodcastsCheck out the VICE podcast on iTunes here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/vice-media/id634513189?mt=2 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more ...
Mar 03, 2014•58 min
This week on the VICE podcast, authors Cathy Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy discuss their new book about the attack on Mumbai's Taj Hotel with journalist Ben Anderson.More from Ben Anderson here: http://www.vice.com/tag/Ben+AndersonWatch more VICE Podcasts here: http://bit.ly/VICE-PodcastsCheck out the VICE podcast on iTunes here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/vice-media/id634513189?mt=2 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Mar 03, 2014•49 min
This week on the VICE podcast, Reihan Salam moderates a debate regarding the former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, who leaked classified NSA documents to journalists about the NSA surveillance programs, the first of which were revealed last June in the Guardian.The guests today are Fred Kaplan, "War Stories" columnist for Slate and Edward R. Murrow press fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and Ben Wizner, director of the American Civil Liberties Union's Speech, Privacy & Technology Pr...
Feb 28, 2014•1 hr 17 min
This week on the VICE podcast Reihan Salam sits down with Jason Q. Ng, author of Blocked on Weibo, a book which examines the keywords blocked on China's most important social media site, Sina Weibo. Jason is a research fellow at the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab, where he studies information controls in social media. He is also a research consultant for China Digital Times and was a 2013 Google Policy Fellow. His writing and work have been featured in Le Monde, TheAtlantic.com, Foreign Aff...
Feb 04, 2014•39 min
This week on the VICE Podcast, Reihan Salam sits down with Jerry Brito, one of the leading experts on Bitcoin. Jerry is a senior research fellow at George Mason University's Mercatus Center and director of its Technology Policy Program. His research focuses on internet policy, copyright, and the regulatory process. Jerry was kind enough to walk us through the world of Bitcoin, the first decentralized digital currency that now has a few imitators.Watch more VICE Podcasts here: http://bit.ly/VICE-...
Feb 04, 2014•1 hr 1 min
This week on the podcast, Reihan Salam sits down with Rebecca Richman Cohen, lecturer at Harvard Law School and an Emmy-nominated documentary filmmaker. Cohen's latest film, Code of the West, follows the political process of marijuana-policy reform in Montana, as well as the federal crackdown on medical-marijuana growers across the country.Watch more VICE Podcasts here: http://bit.ly/VICE-PodcastsCheck out the VICE podcast on iTunes here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/vice-media/id63451318...
Jan 20, 2014•58 min
This week on the podcast, Reihan Salam welcomes Hilton Als, the theater writer for the New Yorker and one of America's most daring and inventive critics. In his latest book, White Girls, Als blends criticism and memoir in a series of interlinked reflections on race, sex, and art, and he discusses the book with Reihan along with his early years as a writer and what it means to cross boundaries of class, color, and culture.Watch more VICE Podcasts here: http://bit.ly/VICE-PodcastsCheck out the VIC...
Jan 07, 2014•35 min
This week on the VICE Podcast, Wilbert L. Cooper sits down with Adam Minter, an expert in the global economy of scrap and author of Junkyard Planet. Adam's unique perspective as an American who was raised on a family scrap yard offers uncanny insight into the world of scrap metal and how it impacts our lives from the devices we use to the air we breathe. Today he chats with us about the environmental, economic, and ethical issues surrounding the $500 billion international scrap industry.Watch mo...
Jan 07, 2014•47 min
This week on the podcast, Reihan Salam sits down with artist, writer, and VICE contributor Molly Crabapple, whose work deals with subcultures, politics, and rebellion. Molly discusses how she uses her sketchpad as a lock pick to the larger world, from sneaking into Manhattan at the age of 14, to illustrating the trials at Guantanamo Bay. Here is Molly's work on VICE: http://www.vice.com/author/Molly-Crabapple Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jan 02, 2014•54 min
Mark Kleiman is a professor of public policy at UCLA and the author of the book, When Brute Force Fails. He is one of America's leading experts on the regulation of cannabis and other controlled substances, and an advocate of criminal-justice reforms aimed at reducing incarceration levels and violent crime. This week on the VICE Podcast, Kleiman takes us through the challenges facing the cannabis-legalization movement, strategies for limiting the harms associated with alcohol abuse, and the impa...
Jan 02, 2014•56 min
