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 James Bond. We talk about his banned song, who he would like to rap with, who he would like to act with, and where he wish he was right in this moment. Tim Allen also comes up a surprising amount. Check out Riz Ahmed in his new movie “Hamlet” and his new show “Bait” Part 2: 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 hass moved into taking on iconic British roles like Shakespear’s Hamlet, Harry Potter’s Snape, and even James Bond. We talk about his banned song, who he would like to rap with, who he would like to act with, and where he wish he was right in this moment. Tim Allen also comes up a surprising amount. Check out Riz Ahmed in his new movie “Hamlet” and his new show “Bait” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 Your Dead Body. Finally, we ask him to give adVICE to the VICE audience. 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 Your Dead Body. Finally, we ask him to give adVICE to the VICE audience. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 humanity. We also have some fun talking about a potential all Daniels adaptation of the book of Daniel from the bible. We talk about what got left of the cutting room table for Swiss army man, spoilers, not much. At the end we finish with a game of Do’s and Don’ts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 it would take for the sport to catch on in the U.S. They also answer listener questions and play either or. Our host Jackson put it all on the line by getting in the ring with not 1, but 2 sumo wrestlers. Konishiki warns him that he better sign his will and kiss his wife goodbye, will he survive? Find out on this episode of VICE Culture Club. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 full dance routine at the end. Check it out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 surveys and listener questions. What do you want done with your body after death? Where do we go when we die? All answers here. 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 January called "The Culting of America" where she better defines what a cult is using a 10 part framework. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 billboard top 40, boyband comebacks, hyper pop, and if ska will ever return. Fantano breaks down what it will take for Kanye to come back and be reviewed by him. In the end we play some games. Fantano rates our host’s Spotify wrapped and plays real or fake with music genres. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 morals to attempt to make $1 million in 90 days. Spoiler, he pulls it off. He goes through several schemes. Bank loans, asking for money outright, crypto, selling courses, selling outrage, child sweat shops, eventually selling himself and exposing in the end the tax free loop hole that many powerful people in America use known as "buy, borrow, die". He also reflects in this interview on what it means to "Punch up" as a prankster. He talks about pranks that didn't work out, how this all started, and why it's important to grab people's attention. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices