El Salvador's Bitcoin City | Vice Culture Club Preview
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 (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
30 Mar 2026TRANSCRIPT
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 (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
24 Jul 2023
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 (https://www.vice.com/en/article/ak37v8/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 (https://www.vice.com/en/article/5d9gkq/striking-writers-are-on-the-front-line-of-a-battle-between-ai-and-workers)
How Long Will the Writers’ Strike Last? An Expert Explains (https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3wvem/wga-strike-how-long-will-it-last)
The Hollywood Strike Will Affect Way More Than Movies and TV (https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7e3jm/unexpected-ways-hollywood-wga-strike-could-affect-entertainment)
We’re recording CYBER live on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/vice). Watch live during the week. Follow us (https://www.twitch.tv/vice) 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 (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/cyber/id1441708044?mt=2) or wherever you listen to your podcasts.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
Inside a recent episode
El Salvador's Bitcoin City | Vice Culture Club Preview
Published 6 May 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] El Salvador dollarized years ago, and so the actual currency of El Salvador is dollars, and it's cash. It's a very poor country, so the average El Salvador only makes like $400 a month. And the foundation of the economy is remittances. It's the two to three million people of El Salvador in Descent that live in the United States, sending money home to their relatives. And it's a quarter of the economy. So the pitch from Bukele, which sounded kind of like kind of like an interesting idea, is like, will build a system so people can use crypto, and they'll be able to send money instantaneously home without the fees of money gram or western union or whatever, you know, and sometimes those fees are pretty high. […]
Pod Engine is an independent podcast discovery and analytics service and is not affiliated with or endorsed by this podcast. Artwork and show content belong to their owners. Full legal notice.
Explore this show Podcast research with Pod Engine
