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

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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-PodcastsCheck out the VICE podcast on iTunes here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/vice-media/id634513189?mt=2

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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-PodcastsCheck out the VICE podcast on iTunes here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/vice-media/id634513189?mt=2

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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-PodcastsCheck out the VICE podcast on iTunes here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/vice-media/id634513189?mt=2

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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-PodcastsCheck out the VICE podcast on iTunes here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/vice-media/id634513189?mt=2

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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-PodcastsCheck out the VICE podcast on iTunes here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/vice-media/id634513189?mt=2

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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-PodcastsCheck out the VICE podcast on iTunes here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/vice-media/id634513189?mt=2

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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+AndersonWatch more VICE Podcasts here: http://bit.ly/VICE-PodcastsCheck out the VICE podcast on iTunes here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/vice-media/id634513189?mt=2

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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-PodcastsCheck out the VICE podcast on iTunes here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/vice-media/id634513189?mt=2

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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+AndersonWatch more VICE Podcasts here: http://bit.ly/VICE-PodcastsCheck out the VICE podcast on iTunes here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/vice-media/id634513189?mt=2

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