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We discussed Santa Muerte, the Mexican folk saint who is the personification of death, with death expert Megan Rosenbloom and comedian Cornell Reid.

Richard Linklater is the filmmaker behind some of indie film's preeminent classics. His early break throughs, Slacker (1991) and Dazed and Confused (1993), captured and defined our generation more genuinely than had been done before, and perhaps since. Boyhood, out in theaters July 11, is true to Linklater form in its exploration of the nuances of youth and life. It was ambitiously shot over 12 years, following the upbringing of a boy from the age of six until his high school graduation. In this episode of VICE Meets, Reihan Salam and Linklater discuss the inspiration behind the film and his career. It also includes behind-the-scenes footage from throughout the film's production.

One major drawback to the social media giants, Facebook and Twitter, is how vulnerable users are to unwanted attention. It’s always a bummer to see Aunt Linda crash a perfectly good comment thread on Facebook, and equally a bummer to get trolled by random followers to a joke you post on Twitter. Not to mention how depressing it is to see that apparently all of your friends are always doing better than you in every aspect of life. Where can we go to feel comfortable on social media? Where do you have the most fun? Which is the biggest necessity? And in the end, is it all just another means for advertisers to pitch products to you? VICE contributors Grant Pardee and Alison Stevenson spoke with Matt Ingebretson, a comedian and writer for The Soup’s web content, to dig deeper.

The following interview with the cast and creators of The Interview—Seth Rogen, James Franco, and Evan Goldberg—was conducted by VICE on December 9, two days before the world premiere of the film in Los Angeles. At that time, hackers calling themselves the "Guardians of Peace" had compromised SONY servers and leaked a trove of sensitive emails that exposed and embarrassed senior company officials. Nonetheless, the film was still on track to be released on Christmas Day. On December 16, a new threat from the hackers promised a 9/11-style attack if the film was released as planned, and within hours the major theater chains across the country withdrew their support of the film. With no distribution, SONY announced that they had no plan to release the film. Over the course of the following days, as SONY was pilloried in the media by high profile celebrities and politicians, including President Obama, for having caved in to the hackers, senior company officials were working behind-the-scenes to create an alternative release plan. On December 25, as promised, SONY released The Interview using a coalition of over 300 independent movie theaters across the country. Additionally the film was also released on the film's website "seetheinterview.com" and via a number of other digital platforms including Google Play, YouTube, and XBOX.

It's the third episode of VICE After Dark with John Lurie, a live internet radio show hosted by cult icon John Lurie. You know John. He's the guy from Fishing with John, all those Jim Jarmusch movies, the band the Lounge Lizards, and the creator of the fictional musician Marvin Pontiac. John's priority for the last 12 years has been ​his paintings: http://bit.ly/Lurie-Art Tonight's episode is all about getting in over your head. Biting off more than you can chew. Everyone does it, and it often leads to crippling embarrassment.

We have a “first time” for everything. All the things we do in our lives now, no matter how mundane, had to start somewhere. That’s what “Firsts” is all about. Looking back, and remembering moments in our lives that we often try to forget. In this episode, we talk about our first heartbreak. My co-host, VICE Associate Editor Dave Schilling along with comedian Dave Ross managed to turn sadness into a laughing matter. We delved into the people that broke our fragile souls for the very first time, and even go on some lovely tangents about dating, toddlers, and Donkey Kong Country. Listen to the sheer and utter agony for yourself. Reflect on your own first heartbreak, and thank me later.

It's the second episode of VICE After Dark with John Lurie, a live internet radio show hosted by cult icon John Lurie. You know John. He's the guy from Fishing with John, all those Jim Jarmusch movies, the band the Lounge Lizards, and the creator of the fictional musician Marvin Pontiac. John's priority for the last 12 years has been ​his paintings: http://bit.ly/Lurie-Art Tonight's episode is all about nervousness. Everyone gets nervous. People who say they don't can't be trusted and should have the backs of their necks examined for proof they're a robot. What makes you nervous, and how do you cope? One thing we're not nervous about is our lineup of special guests tonight, because it's unbeatable. Actor, writer, director, and former firefighter Steve Buscemi will be calling in. So will Evan Lurie, the musician/composer/brother of the host.

"VICE After Dark with John Lurie" is a live internet radio show hosted by cult icon John Lurie. You know John. He's the guy from "Fishing with John," all those Jim Jarmusch movies, the band the Lounge Lizards, and the creator of the fictional musician Marvin Pontiac. John's priority for the last 12 years has been his paintings - http://www.johnlurieart.com. We gave him a nighttime talk show to chat about whatever he wants, because why not. Seemed like a good idea to us.

Everyone dies. Good morning! You are going to die. Hi, hello, we are all fucking ticking time-corpses. It sucks, but embracing that awful fact might make all this bullshit a little easier. We Americans barely confront death, instead marketing our entire culture to the enviable youth and their sweet, sweet, disposable income. Fuck that, let’s talk about it. In our second installment of What Happens When You Die, our resident death expert Megan Rosenbloom (whose next Death Salon is in San Francisco October 11th http://deathsalon.org/future-events/death-salon-sf-2014/) teaches us about Tibetan Sky Burials, which are even more metal than they sound. Our special guests for this episode are comedians Guy Branum (Head Writer of X-Play on G4, Chelsea Lately) and Billy Wayne Davis (Last Comic Standing, WTF with Marc Maron). Joining them are VICE contributors Josh Androsky and Grant Pardee.

VICE contributors Grant Pardee and Josh Androsky sat down with two internet personalities who have harnessed social media for aims that are not totally lame. Comedian Mike Burns is perhaps best known as the creator of @dadboner on Twitter, which is the ongoing story of Karl Welzein, a divorced dad in Michigan who defines himself by his love of Van Halen and muscle cars. Molly McIsaac has gained a significant following online in the opposite way: by being herself. She made on Twitter and Instagram by being a geek personality who advocates for body positivity. Her presence helped land her a spot on a SyFy reality show about superfans and today she works as a social media manager for a new media company. We spoke with Mike and Molly about how they've used social media and how personal branding has affected them on the latest edition of the ENTITLEMENT Podcast.

Megan Rosenbloom is a librarian who works with rare books and the history of medicine, and is the co-founder and director of Death Salon. She joined us, and our two special guest comedians—Kyle Kinane and Chris Fairbanks—to chat about our untimely demise.

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This week on the VICE podcast Reihan Salam sits down with filmmaker Errol Morris to discuss his latest film The Unknown Known, a portrait of one of the leading architects of the Iraq War, Donald Rumsfeld. Watch more VICE Podcasts here: bit.ly/VICE-Podcasts Check out the VICE podcast on iTunes here: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/vice-…id634513189?mt=2

This week on the VICE podcast Reihan Salam sits down with Michael German, a 16-year veteran of the FBI, who recently joined the Brennan Center where he'll focus on law enforcement and intelligence oversight and reform, in the center's fight to advance effective national security policies that respect constitutional values and the rule of law. Today we chat with German about the way in which the FBI has changed since 9/11. Check out the Best of VICE here: http://bit.ly/VICE-Best-Of Check out the VICE podcast on iTunes here: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/vice-…id634513189?mt=2

This week on the VICE Podcast Reihan Salam sits down Nigerian-American journalist Dayo Olopade, to discuss her new book, The Bright Continent: Breaking Rules and Making Change in Modern Africa. Watch more VICE Podcasts here: bit.ly/VICE-Podcasts

This week on the VICE Podcast Reihan Salam sits down with the founders of Upworthy, Peter Koechley and Eli Pariser. Koechley has been making important ideas irresistible for more than a decade -- as an Onion editor, a viral video producer, and now, as a co-founder of Upworthy; Pariser has dedicated his career to figuring out how technology can elevate important topics in the world -- as an author, an online organizer, and most recently, as a co-founder of Upworthy. Today, these two chat with us about Upworthy, it's creation and where they see it heading in the future, as well as the ever-expanding media landscape. Watch more VICE Podcasts here: bit.ly/VICE-Podcasts Check out the VICE podcast on iTunes here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/vice-media/id634513189?mt=2

This week on the VICE podcast Reihan Salam sits down with Melissa Gira Grant, an independent journalist who has been writing and reporting on the sex industry for the past ten years. Grant recently authored a book, Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work, in which she calls for an overhaul in the way we think about sex work. Today, she chats with us about the history, the myths, and the criticisms of the sex industry and shares her perspective on how sex work is primarily about economic activity, and those who perform sexual labor shouldn't be criminalized or treated any differently than any other laborers trying to survive in our treacherous economic system. Watch more VICE Podcasts here: bit.ly/VICE-Podcasts Check out the VICE podcast on iTunes here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/vice-media/id634513189?mt=2

This week on the VICE podcast Reihan Salam sits down with filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer to discuss his academy award nominated documentary, The Act of Killing. Watch more VICE Podcasts here: http://bit.ly/VICE-Podcasts Check out the VICE podcast on iTunes here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/vice-media/id634513189?mt=2

Robyn Doolittle is the author of Crazy Town--a new book chronicling the absurd political messiness that the city of Toronto has endured at the hands of their crack smoking mayor: Rob Ford. As one of three journalists to have seen the infamous crack video, Robyn has covered the Rob Ford story extensively for the Toronto Star; so we had our VICE Canada Managing Editor Patrick McGuire sit down with her to review the past few years of Toronto politics. From Rob's nearly constant gaffes and presumably drug-addled soundbites, to whether or not he can win the 2014 election, to Canada's restrictive freedom of information laws... it's a comprehensive chat. Watch more VICE Podcasts here: http://bit.ly/VICE-Podcasts Check out the VICE podcast on iTunes here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/vice-media/id634513189?mt=2

This week on the VICE Podcast, Reihan Salam sits down with David Epstein, former senior writer at "Sports Illustrated," reporter at ProPublica and author of "The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance." David and Reihan chat about the ways that human biological diversity impacts athletic ability, and how this understanding could affect the future of elite sports. Watch more VICE Podcasts here: http://bit.ly/VICE-Podcasts Check out the VICE podcast on iTunes here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/vice-media/id634513189?mt=2

This week on the VICE Podcast, Reihan Salam sits down with Anya Kamenetz, a Schwartz fellow at New America, journalist, and author of Generation Debt, DIY U, and the forthcoming The Test. Reihan has an in-depth discussion with Anya about the current state of higher education in America. Watch more VICE Podcasts here: http://bit.ly/VICE-Podcasts Check out the VICE podcast on iTunes here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/vice-media/id634513189?mt=2

This week on the VICE podcast, authors Cathy Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy discuss their new book about the attack on Mumbai's Taj Hotel with journalist Ben Anderson. More from Ben Anderson here: http://www.vice.com/tag/Ben+Anderson Watch more VICE Podcasts here: http://bit.ly/VICE-Podcasts Check out the VICE podcast on iTunes here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/vice-media/id634513189?mt=2

This week on the VICE Podcast, Reihan Salam sits down with Anya Kamenetz, a Schwartz fellow at New America, journalist, and author of Generation Debt, DIY U, and the forthcoming The Test. Reihan has an in-depth discussion with Anya about the current state of higher education in America. Watch more VICE Podcasts here: http://bit.ly/VICE-Podcasts Check out the VICE podcast on iTunes here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/vice-media/id634513189?mt=2

This week on the VICE podcast, authors Cathy Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy discuss their new book about the attack on Mumbai's Taj Hotel with journalist Ben Anderson. More from Ben Anderson here: http://www.vice.com/tag/Ben+Anderson Watch more VICE Podcasts here: http://bit.ly/VICE-Podcasts Check out the VICE podcast on iTunes here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/vice-media/id634513189?mt=2

This week on the VICE podcast, Reihan Salam moderates a debate regarding the former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, who leaked classified NSA documents to journalists about the NSA surveillance programs, the first of which were revealed last June in the Guardian. The guests today are Fred Kaplan, "War Stories" columnist for Slate and Edward R. Murrow press fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and Ben Wizner, director of the American Civil Liberties Union's Speech, Privacy & Technology Project, who also serves as Snowden's chief legal advisor.

This week on the VICE podcast Reihan Salam sits down with Jason Q. Ng, author of Blocked on Weibo, a book which examines the keywords blocked on China's most important social media site, Sina Weibo. Jason is a research fellow at the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab, where he studies information controls in social media. He is also a research consultant for China Digital Times and was a 2013 Google Policy Fellow. His writing and work have been featured in Le Monde, TheAtlantic.com, Foreign Affairs, and Tea Leaf Nation. Watch more VICE Podcasts here: http://bit.ly/VICE-Podcasts Check out the VICE podcast on iTunes here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/vice-media/id634513189?mt=2

This week on the VICE Podcast, Reihan Salam sits down with Jerry Brito, one of the leading experts on Bitcoin. Jerry is a senior research fellow at George Mason University's Mercatus Center and director of its Technology Policy Program. His research focuses on internet policy, copyright, and the regulatory process. Jerry was kind enough to walk us through the world of Bitcoin, the first decentralized digital currency that now has a few imitators. Watch more VICE Podcasts here: http://bit.ly/VICE-Podcasts Check out the VICE podcast on iTunes here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/vice-media/id634513189?mt=2

This week on the podcast, Reihan Salam sits down with Rebecca Richman Cohen, lecturer at Harvard Law School and an Emmy-nominated documentary filmmaker. Cohen's latest film, Code of the West, follows the political process of marijuana-policy reform in Montana, as well as the federal crackdown on medical-marijuana growers across the country. Watch more VICE Podcasts here: http://bit.ly/VICE-Podcasts Check out the VICE podcast on iTunes here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/vice-media/id634513189?mt=2

This week on the podcast, Reihan Salam welcomes Hilton Als, the theater writer for the New Yorker and one of America's most daring and inventive critics. In his latest book, White Girls, Als blends criticism and memoir in a series of interlinked reflections on race, sex, and art, and he discusses the book with Reihan along with his early years as a writer and what it means to cross boundaries of class, color, and culture. Watch more VICE Podcasts here: http://bit.ly/VICE-Podcasts Check out the VICE podcast on iTunes here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/vice-media/id634513189?mt=2

This week on the VICE Podcast, Wilbert L. Cooper sits down with Adam Minter, an expert in the global economy of scrap and author of Junkyard Planet. Adam's unique perspective as an American who was raised on a family scrap yard offers uncanny insight into the world of scrap metal and how it impacts our lives from the devices we use to the air we breathe. Today he chats with us about the environmental, economic, and ethical issues surrounding the $500 billion international scrap industry. Watch more VICE Podcasts here: http://bit.ly/VICE-Podcasts Check out the VICE podcast on iTunes here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/vice-media/id634513189?mt=2

This week on the podcast, Reihan Salam sits down with artist, writer, and VICE contributor Molly Crabapple, whose work deals with subcultures, politics, and rebellion. Molly discusses how she uses her sketchpad as a lock pick to the larger world, from sneaking into Manhattan at the age of 14, to illustrating the trials at Guantanamo Bay. Here is Molly's work on VICE: http://www.vice.com/author/Molly-Crabapple

Mark Kleiman is a professor of public policy at UCLA and the author of the book, When Brute Force Fails. He is one of America's leading experts on the regulation of cannabis and other controlled substances, and an advocate of criminal-justice reforms aimed at reducing incarceration levels and violent crime. This week on the VICE Podcast, Kleiman takes us through the challenges facing the cannabis-legalization movement, strategies for limiting the harms associated with alcohol abuse, and the impact of the decades-long US prison boom. Watch more VICE Podcasts here: http://bit.ly/VICE-Podcasts Check out the VICE podcast on iTunes here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/vice-media/id634513189?mt=2

This week, VICE editor-in-chief Rocco Castoro speaks to Johnny Knoxville about his new film Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa. In the movie, Johnny stars as the 86-year-old poon hound Irving Zisman. After Irving's wife dies, he drives his eight-year-old grandson across the country to see his father, playing pranks on unsuspecting people along the way. On the podcast, we talk to Johnny about why his family hates these stunts, the technical difficulties of filming pranks with hidden cameras, and what it felt like to have a camera shoved down his urethra after he broke his penis. Watch 'Jackass Presents: A Slutever Bad Grandpa Special' here: http://www.vice.com/slutever/jackass-presents-a-slutever-bad-grandpa-special

The VICE Podcast is a weekly discussion that goes inside the minds of some of the most interesting, creative, and bizarre people within the VICE universe. This week, Reihan Salam speaks with Jonathan Lethem, whose most recent novel, Dissident Gardens, is an intimate story about American radicals that spans from McCarthyism to today's Occupy movement. Watch more VICE Podcasts here: http://bit.ly/VICE-Podcasts Check out the VICE podcast on iTunes here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/vice-media/id634513189?mt=2

The VICE Podcast is a weekly discussion which delves inside the minds of some of the most interesting, creative, and bizarre people within the VICE universe. This week, Rocco Castoro speaks with Randy Moore, the filmmaker behind "Escape from Tomorrow," a fantasy thrill ride through the darkest depths of Americana, as one man's family vacation to Disneyworld goes deeply awry. Click here for a behind the scenes look at 'Escape from Tomorrow': http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5dmaOAkq90 Watch more VICE Podcasts here: http://bit.ly/VICE-Podcasts Check out the VICE podcast on iTunes here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/vice-media/id634513189?mt=2

The VICE Podcast is a weekly discussion which delves inside the minds of some of the most interesting, creative, and bizarre people within the VICE universe. This week, Reihan Salam speaks with Jason Osder, the director and producer of "Let the Fire Burn," a documentary that takes aim at the 1985 standoff between the Philadelphia Police and MOVE, a black radical anarcho-primitivist organization. The confrontation precipitated in the firing of over 10,000 rounds of ammunition and the unprecedented decision by the police to drop a bomb onto an American suburb, which resulted in the deaths of eleven MOVE members and the destruction of over 60 homes.

The VICE Podcast is a weekly discussion which delves inside the minds of some of the most interesting, creative, and bizarre people within the VICE universe. This week, Reihan Salam speaks with John R. MacArthur, the publisher of Harper's about his October manifesto arguing against the flood of free content on the web and the dilution of reporting and writing in the media. Watch more VICE Podcasts here: http://bit.ly/VICE-Podcasts Check out the VICE podcast on iTunes here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/vice-media/id634513189?mt=2

The VICE Podcast is a weekly discussion which delves inside the minds of some of the most interesting, creative, and bizarre people within the VICE universe. This week, Reihan Salam speaks with Hamid Dabashi, author of "The Arab Spring: The End of Postcolonialism", about the shifting power tectonics in the Middle East and its reverberations in the West. Watch more VICE Podcasts here: http://bit.ly/VICE-Podcasts

The VICE Podcast is a weekly discussion which delves inside the minds of some of the most interesting, creative, and bizarre people within the VICE universe. This week, Eddy Moretti speaks with Frank Rich, editor-at-large for New York Magazine and executive producer of Veep, about the platinum age of television and the changing landscape of news media. Watch more VICE Podcasts here: http://bit.ly/VICE-Podcasts Check out the VICE podcast on iTunes here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/vice-media/id634513189?mt=2

The VICE Podcast is a weekly discussion which delves inside the minds of some of the most interesting, creative, and bizarre people within the VICE universe. This week, Reihan Salam speaks with Wong Kar-wai about the linkages of his kung fu epic, The Grandmaster, with the past, present, and future of film. Watch more VICE Podcasts here: http://bit.ly/VICE-Podcasts Check out the VICE podcast on iTunes here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/v... Subscribe to VICE here! http://bit.ly/Subscribe-to-VICE Check out our full video catalog: http://bit.ly/VICE-Videos Videos, daily editorial and more: http://vice.com Like VICE on Facebook: http://fb.com/vice Follow VICE on Twitter: http://twitter.com/vice Read our tumblr: http://vicemag.tumblr.com

The VICE Podcast is a weekly discussion which delves inside the minds of some of the most interesting, creative, and bizarre people within the VICE universe. This week, Reihan Salam gets comedian Reggie Watts to reveal his agenda of world domination. Check out more with Reggie on Jash here: http://www.youtube.com/user/ReggieWattsJash Watch more VICE Podcasts here: http://bit.ly/VICE-Podcasts Check out the VICE podcast on iTunes here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/vice-media/id634513189?mt=2

The VICE Podcast Show is a weekly discussion which delves inside the minds of some of the most interesting, creative, and bizarre people within the VICE universe. This week, Reihan Salam speaks with Michael Wahid Hanna, a senior fellow at the Century Foundation and leading expert on affairs in Egypt and the Middle East. Following the ousting of Morsi, Hanna traces the history and mission of Egypt's key players in an attempt to shed some light on the new wave of violence and bloodshed erupting in the streets of Egypt.

The VICE Podcast is a weekly discussion which delves inside the minds of some of the most interesting, creative, and bizarre people within the VICE universe. This week, Eddy Moretti speaks with Nicolas Winding Refn, director of the new film, Only God Forgives, a polarizing work starring Ryan Gosling that explores the most primal and most depraved desires of human nature. Delving into the art and the act of genesis, Refn distills his filmmaking to the essentials of image, of pin-up.

The VICE Podcast is a weekly discussion which delves inside the minds of some of the most interesting, creative, and bizarre people we know within the VICE universe. This week, we speak with Jeremy Scahill, national security correspondent for "The Nation," whose work covering America's special operations [forces] and targeted killings in Afghanistan, Yemen, and Somalia is chronicled in the recently released documentary, "Dirty Wars: The World is a Battlefield." As the U.S. continues to expand its use of covert counterterrorism measures worldwide, Scahill argues that far from making Americans safer, U.S. covert counterterrorism measures are in fact undermining national security. Check out the VICE podcast on iTunes here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/vice-media/id634513189?mt=2

The VICE Podcast is a weekly discussion which delves inside the minds of some of the most interesting, creative, and bizarre people within the VICE universe. This week, we speak with Christopher Soghoian, a former boarding pass hacker and FBI person of interest, who is now principal technologist of the speech, privacy, and technology project at the American Civil Liberties Union. Focusing on the NSA and the FBI, Soghoian discusses the worldwide development of privacy. Check out the VICE podcast on iTunes here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/vice-media/id634513189?mt=2

The VICE Podcast Show sits down this week with documentary photographer, filmmaker, and artist Tim Freccia. We discuss his past work, his experience documenting conflict, as well as his most recent project Cowboy Capitalists, which will air on Vice.com June 17th.

The VICE Podcast Show is a weekly unedited discussion in which we go inside the minds of some of the most interesting, creative, and bizarre people we come across. This week, host Eddy Moretti talks with actress Greta Gerwig about the film industry and her new film, Frances Ha, directed by Noah Baumbach.

The VICE Podcast is a weekly discussion which delves inside the minds of some of the most interesting, creative, and bizarre people we know. This week we sit down with American Apparel founder and Chief Executive Officer Dov Charney, who describes how he got his start in the clothing business and where he believes the industry should go next. Charney offers his perspective on the recent collapse of the Rana Plaza manufacturing facility in Bangladesh, which took the lives of over 1100 people. He calls for an international minimum wage to curb the exploitation of workers in the developing world, and he urges consumers to take more responsibility for the impact their purchasing decisions have on workers around the world.

The VICE Podcast Show is a weekly unedited discussion in which we go inside the minds of some of the most interesting, creative, and bizarre people we come across. This week, host Reihan Salam talks to adult performer and VICE columnist Stoya about gender roles, homeschooling, safe sex, and the future of monogamy.

The VICE Podcast is a weekly unedited discussion which delves inside the minds of some of the most interesting, creative, and bizarre people we know within the VICE universe. This week we speak with author and filmmaker Ben Anderson, who has just returned from another trip to Helmand, Afghanistan's most violent province. With US forces withdrawing, most of the country is now under the control of the Afghan government and its security forces. This, it is officially claimed, is victory. Ben, and his disturbing new Vice film "This is what winning looks like" would suggest otherwise.