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  • S1 · E1
    March 30 · 33 min

    VICE is back with a new podcast

    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/privacy for more information.

  • Jul 24, 2023 · 43 min

    Adam Conover Talks the Hollywood Strike

    It’s a brutally hot summer, a great time to cool off in an air conditioned movie theater or to catch up on some of those TV shows you’ve had on your list forever. But did you know the people who make the fine entertainment you know and love are on strike? Both writers and actors are picketing, trying to get a fair shake out of the studios and companies that bet big on streaming and used the shift to screw over the workers who keep us all entertained. With us today to talk about it is standup comedian and consummate host and presenter Adam Conover. If you’ve been following the strike at all you’ve probably seen some of his videos. If you’re a fan of great TV or podcasts, you may have seen his various TV shows or listened to his Factually! Podcast. Stories discussed in this episode: SAG Files Unfair Labor Practice Against Universal After It Trimmed Trees on Picket Line Without a Permit Striking Writers Are on the Front Line of a Battle Between AI and Workers How Long Will the Writers’ Strike Last? An Expert Explains The Hollywood Strike Will Affect Way More Than Movies and TV We’re recording CYBER live on Twitch. Watch live during the week. Follow us there to get alerts when we go live. We take questions from the audience and yours might just end up on the show. Subscribe to CYBER on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to your podcasts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  • Jan 23, 2019 · 1 min

    [Bonus] Introducing CYBER, a Hacking Podcast by Motherboard

    Motherboard has launched a new podcast, called CYBER. It's available on Apple Podcasts and on whatever app you listen to.Hacking. Hackers. Disinformation campaigns. Encryption. The Cyber. This stuff gets complicated really fast, but Motherboard...

  • Oct 1, 2018 · 56 min

    NASA Turns 60

    NASA turns 60 this week. We're joined by Former NASA chief technologist Mason Peck joins us to discuss the agency’s history of spaceflight milestones, which include landing humans on the Moon (six times!), putting rovers on Mars, sending probes to...

  • Sep 12, 2018 · 20 min

    [BONUS] Introducing Queerly Beloved

    If you've been enjoying Radio Motherboard, we think you'll also love 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 que...

  • Jun 7, 2018 · 38 min

    Sex Workers Lobby Congress Against a Terrible Internet Law

    Radio Motherboard talks to Liara Roux, a sex worker who was part of the first ever organized effort by her industry to lobby Congress. We talk about SESTA/FOSTA, a law that puts sex workers in danger and has fundamentally changed the internet.

  • May 31, 2018 · 38 min

    Elon Musk, Then and Now

    Radio Motherboard pulls a 2015 interview with Elon Musk's biographer Ashlee Vance, and talks about how perceptions about Musk and his companies have changed.

  • May 29, 2018 · 1 hr 1 min

    Facebook’s Reckoning with American Nazis

    After a white supremacist killed a protester in Charlottesville in 2017, Facebook pushed to re-educate its moderators about hate speech groups in the US, and spell out the distinction from nationalism and separatism, documents obtained by Motherboard s...

  • May 24, 2018 · 1 hr 16 min

    Amplifying the Alt-Right

    Whitney Phillips, the author of a new report called "The Oxygen of Amplification," talks about what she learned by talking to more than 50 journalists who covered the alt-right and white supremacists during the 2016 election cycle.

  • May 22, 2018 · 43 min

    Who's Afraid of Kaspersky?

    We went to Kaspersky Lab's SAS conference, where the controversial Russian anti-virus firm showcases its best research, wines and dines competitors and journalists, and burns American espionage operations. 

  • May 17, 2018 · 34 min

    The Senate Voted to Save Net Neutrality--Here's How it Happened

    Evan Greer has spent the last few months pushing the Senate to preserve net neutrality. She explains how Fight for the Future and millions of internet users convinced the Senate, and what's next in the uphill battle to save the internet.

  • May 15, 2018 · 49 min

    Pod Void if Removed

    The FTC just announced that Warranty Void if Removed stickers on video game consoles are illegal. This is a big win for consumers--and an indication that the walled gardens of electronic manufacturers are being breached.

  • Mar 14, 2018 · 27 min

    How to Make a Photo Go Viral

    A woman in cyberpunk body paint stands in the center of a ring of old laptops. It's a staged photo about e-waste, sure, but photographer Ben Von Wong hasn't just set up the photo to look cool. He wants it to go viral: "I create viral cam...

  • Mar 8, 2018 · 58 min

    BROAD BAND (Live)

    We talk to Claire Evans (who last joined us on the first ever episode of Radio Motherboard!) about her new book BROAD BAND: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet. Claire joined Motherboard staff writer Kaleigh Rogers to talk about the int...

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