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“Democrats aren’t going to automatically just become popular because the Republicans aren’t.”

Watch the full conversation with Adam Mockler on the latest Shane Smith Has Questions.

Adam Mockler and Shane Smith discuss the financial incentives behind American wars, and how decades of intervention in Afghanistan and Iraq left behind consequences that military force couldn’t solve.

Syrian Morning Show hosts couldn't answer Issy's questions on the Assad government.

Crypto investigator Ben McKenzie breaks down the “grift shift”—crypto’s hustlers rebranding as AI companies. He warns about the damage that the shift to AI could bring.

Filmmaker Ben McKenzie set out to document crypto’s characters, and caught one of its biggest frauds unfolding in real time. The man behind the company, Celsius, now sits in jail.

Inside Iran, hours before a U.S. naval blockade on the Strait of Hormuz takes effect. Peace talks with Iran collapsed, and the fallout plays out on the ground.

Ben McKenzie, who interviewed Sam Bankman-Fried for his crypto documentary, argues that the system is rigged by insiders—the people issuing the coins and running the exchanges.

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China’s neighboring nations reject the claim that the South China Sea is a Chinese sovereign territory. An expert makes his case using a map from the 1700s.

Crypto investigator Ben McKenzie analyzes the role celebrities played in selling crypto at the beginning of the decade. He discusses NFT promotion and celebrity crypto commercials.

President Trump makes $600 million from his Trump crypto coin, while nearly one million people lose money. Ben McKenzie, an actor turned cryptocurrency critic, discusses the lack of investigation into the Trump Coin.