VICE Culture Club

Part 1: This is the highlights of our conversation with Riz Ahmed. For the full interview become a VICE Member.  Riz Ahmed has been pushing British culture forward for 2 decades.  He’s a rapper, actor, and activist.  He started out as an outsider skewering popular culture's take on terrorists and has moved into taking on iconic British roles like Shakespear’s Hamlet, Harry Potter’s Snape, and even...

This is the highlights of our conversation with Ben Mckenzie. For the full interview become a VICE Member.  While most celebrities were shilling for crypto, Ben Mckenzie was investigating it. Mckenzie is most known for his roles in the OC, Southland, and Gotham, but most don’t know he studied economics at the University of Virginia.   He has gone back to his college roots to take on some of crypto...

This is the highlights of our conversation with Jorma Taccone. For the full interview become a VICE Member. We sat down with SNL & Lonely Island legend Jorma Taccone to talk about why we rarely see comedy blockbusters in theatres anymore, if we will see another Lonely Island album, and what it’s like to be a rockstar as a joke.   He also talks about his new very bloody, star studded movie, Over Yo...

We sit down with Daniel Roher - Oscar winning director of Navalny. We ask him about the making of that movie and what it was like to be in the center of the world’s biggest story.  He also has two movies coming out.   “The Ai Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist” in late March.  Tuner in May.   Ai doc truly shook me and I am looking forward to picking his brain on it. I’ve never been more scared...

We have an Ai double feature.  We got the director and main character of “The Ai Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist” in part 1.  In part 2 we get Oscar winning director and producer of Everything Everywhere All At Once and Swiss Army Man to chat about their roles in the Ai Doc.  They also have to perform a bit of a therapy session for Jackson as their film truly shook him about the future of h...

Mark Fishbach, better known as Markiplier, sits down with us to tell us how his movie,Iron Lung, is a glimpse into a future where Youtubers dominate the big screen.  We ask why he decided to make this movie independently while also acting, directing, writing, and editing the movie.  We talk about the future of movies, aging with his audience, and what makes a good video game movie.  We finish with...

Editor and Chief of Know Your Meme comes to the studio to give a us a state of the union on memes.  We get questions from the memes themselves:  Chocolate Rain, Sad Oompa Loompa girl, Apparently kid, Baby Gronk, Best buy Goth, and Airsoftfatty.   We talk looksmaxxing, chinesemaxxing, slop, meme history, 8chan, and Elon Musk.   Get a full update on internet culture in 2026. Learn more about your ad...

Two Vice hosts collide in a weed shop!  Taji Ameen comes on to smoke weed with us.   We play one star or five star with a range of topics.   We get incredibly high and talk about Tajis career and where he is going next. Taji tries Thick water for the first time and becomes quite the spokesman.  Join in the blunt rotation with the Vice boys.   Special thanks to Team Moezaic The stoner gaming lounge...

We sat down with Sumo legend Konishiki and his sumo boys.  Konishiki was the first ever foreign sumo champion and at the time the heaviest to ever sumo wrestle at 633lbs.  It’s the start of Sumo season and he is back in his home country introducing Americans to Sumo culture.  He brings with him his two top students, Osaka Joe and Ruru.   They talk about the strict code of conduct in Sumo, and what...

We sat down with Maks “TRAXNYC” Agadjani to talk about the viral brawl that went down in the diamond district.  Maks walks us through a blow by blow description of what led up to the moment millions saw online.  We also get into the diamond industry, working with celebrities, and what it’s like to get mugged for his chains.   Jackson asks him listener questions and also plays Do’s and Don’ts.  Lea...

Swiping onto Parker Edmondson’s tiktok page is like stumbling into a time vortex.  Parker has created a lifestyle and a following based around living in the 1920s.   His apartment looks straight out of the past, and people online love his tours.  He has an infectious passion for all things old.  He is a unique person and likes it that way.  Jackson gets a private tour and Parker even breaks out a...

Courtney Allan gained notoriety in 2024 for hitch hiking with her friend Timo De Jong from Southampton U.K. to South Africa.   A wild journey utilizing what we thought was a nearly extinct form of transit, asking strangers for rides.  Courtney and Timo documented the whole trip on social media and caught our attention. Courtney is now hitchhiking solo from China to Cape Town, an even more ambitiou...

We took a field trip to the Bone Museum in Bushwick, Brooklyn.   Jon & Masha run the museum and gave us an hour of their time to tell us about all the human bones they have on display.  We talk grave robbing, medical history, the market for human bones, what to do if you find a skeleton, and we hold an alive man's leg bones that were donated to the museum.   We also go deep with some social survey...

  In part 2 of this interview we will dig into the world of cults with cult survivor and expert Daniella Mestyanek Young.  She answers questions from our Vice Instagram audience and goes through a long list of companies, religions and movements to give us her opinion on what is a cult or not. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We sat down with Daniella Mestyanek Young she is a Cult Expert, Cult Survivor, U.S. Army Veteran, Harvard grad in the study of organizational psychology and author of two books on cults. Her memoir Uncultured came out in 2022 covering her experience growing up in the Children of God cult & comparing it to her time in the U.S. Army as an intelligence officer.   She now has a new book coming out in...

We sit down with the leaders of "Stick Nation". The guys that have sparked a wholesome movement to embrace your inner kid and get out there and collect some beautiful sticks of all shapes and sizes.   Their Instagram account has earned millions of followers, celebrity reviews, and even an appearance on Jimmy fallon.   They are taking their reviews and a book on tour in 2026.  We get into what a st...

We speak with Anthony Fantano, the internet's busiest music nerd.  He is one of the last great music critics left.  Love him or hate him, people want to hear what he has to say about their favorite bands' music.   We get into algorithms and the death of monoculture.  Fantano fights back about there not being a song of the summer and crowns a song for 2025.  We talk about the end of rap in the bill...

Part 2 of this week's Vice Culture Club is Kala the tiktok tunnel girl, also known as Engineer everything.   She went viral in the last couple of years for using her free will to play minecraft in real life.   She has been digging a tunnel system under her suburban house in Virginia.    Is it legal?   is it safe?  Does she have experience doing this kind of work?  What is the end goal?  Will she g...

Oobah Butler is an international prankster/hoaxter/journalist/filmmaker.   He is known for his outlandish schemes that expose the nonsense of our modern society.  He has created many videos and schemes with vice in the past.  Most recently he took on Amazon.  Now he is putting out a documentary where he turns his sights on the money making, greedy, get rich quick schemes.   He puts aside his usual...