Shane Smith Has Questions
Hosted by Shane Smith · VICE News & Studio71
4.3from 355 ratings
- 65
- Episodes
- 24
- Transcribed
- 355
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2024
- First episode
- 3B
- YouTube views
About Shane Smith Has Questions
Shane Smith Has Questions is a dynamic, apolitical podcast hosted by Shane Smith dedicated to getting to the bottom of prominent instances of misinformation and disinformation while revealing the fascinating fundamental truths (if there are any?) of the most interesting and convoluted social and political issues of our time. For advertising opportunities please email PodcastPartnerships@Studio71us.com We want to make the podcast even better, help us learn how we can: https://bit.ly/2EcYbu4 Privacy Policy: https://www.studio71.com/terms-and-conditions-use/#Privacy%20Policy
- Publisher
- VICE News & Studio71
- Category
- society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 2 Oct 2024
- Latest episode
- 15 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
24 of 65 episodes have a transcript.
15 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
How America Is Committing “Superpower Suicide” ft. Timothy Synder | Shane Smith Has Questions
1 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
“I Don’t See Anybody in Charge Here” | w/Renée DiResta on AI, Election Interference & Propaganda | Shane Smith Has Questions
17 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Trump’s Fight to Control the 2026 Midterms w/ Cisco Aguilar | Shane Smith Has Questions
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How America Is Committing “Superpower Suicide” ft. Timothy Synder | Shane Smith Has Questions
Published 15 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And unlike Poland in 1939, the leadership didn't leave the country and the resistance was effective. So this is a conflict which would have gone much bigger, much faster, I believe, if Ukrainian leadership surrenders or leaves or the resistance isn't effective because then Russia has Ukrainian territory, Ukrainian resources, and a fair amount of Ukrainian technology. And then we're in a much bigger conflict. So one sense of this is that one country is holding off a much bigger war. Another sense that it's like a world war is the scale of it, the size of the fronts, the scale of the casualties. […]
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- Timothy Snyder
- Renée DiResta
- Cisco Aguilar
- Adam Mockler
- Ben McKenzie
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- YouTube views
- 3,415,597,763
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.6 / 5
- 99 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.1 / 5
- 256 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 51 / 100
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- Quality
- 28
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 90
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