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"HBO's VICE isn't the evening news. It's no-holds-barred, dangerous, unfiltered, holy-shit reporting. Oh, and the reason Dennis Rodman and North Korea's terrifying dictator Kim Jon-un are, like, total BFFs. This Friday, VICE is bigger\u2014\"we have more episodes this season because we had more stories,\" VICE founder and the show's host, Shane Smith, explains\u2014returning for its second season with even more scenarios that will turn you to anxiety meds. (Seriously, watching mountain-sized glaciers thunderously melting in Greenland will make you want to hide.)\n\nWe rang up Smith to talk about the show's second season, what didn't make the cut, and why he isn't worried about crossing the line.\n\n\n\n\u00B7\u00B7\u00B7\n\nGQ: Is anything going to top last season's Dennis Rodman-North Korea trip?\n\n Shane Smith: We have two things. We do, we have two big, big, big gets and I would love to talk ad nauseam about them but we're still working on both of them. I don't know if they're going to top the whole thing, but they'll definitely be in the same league.\n\nWhat do you think about how that relationship evolved?\n\n We knew that they loved the Chicago Bulls and basketball, so our initial plan was to go in there and exploit that. He was keen to do something because he's a kind of a bizarre cat and I don't think he understood what he was getting himself into, in the sense of the media frenzy that would support it. But, you know, he doesn't shy away from media frenzy. So, I think for him he's probably had a new life because of it and, for us, it was simply a vehicle to see part of North Korea that most people have never seen.\n\nIt was literally a device to get into the Hermit Kingdom\u2014it's just impossible to get in there and shoot in any meaningful way with cameras. We're fascinated by North Korea and we wanted to get a look at it that nobody else gets.\n\nAny stories you're saving for next season?\n\n It's really hard to get everything you want to do, because certain things just don't pan out. We were invited by Vladimir Klitschko, one of the leaders of the Ukrainian revolution and heavyweight champion of the world, to go with him as he fought in the frontlines for freedom and that would've been awesome\u2014but, obviously, he was flying around the world trying to drum up support for the revolt and it didn't happen and that was a bummer. What else? We've been trying to go to space for a while. We were going to dive with these guys who are trying to find Osama Bin Laden's body at the bottom of the sea. There was a bunch of stories that are out there that we didn't get to, they take too much time, but we'll save them for season three.\n\nIn VICE's two seasons, what's the most scared you've been during an assignment, both for yourself and your reporters?\n\n There's all different types of danger\u2014we're shooting in Iran right now, so there's a political danger there of being used as a sort of bargaining chip, but I'm never really worried about that stuff as much, because that'll be a lot of people waving a lot of paper and stuff. But I worry about chaos. Just, flying bullets everywhere. We've reported from south Sudan\u2014Ben Anderson just got back from there\u2014where, I mean, just full-on fire fights. And bullets are indiscriminate, so I worry about my guys going into there but we're very safe. We duck. We're not trying to be heroes.\n\nMe, personally, I went to Kandahar, which is the home of the Taliban, far away from any American bases and I was en route to interview the \"Taliban killer\" General Abdul Raziq, the most wanted man by the Taliban in Afghanistan. Literally, as we were driving up, a suicide bomber blew himself up in front of the entrance. It was very tense, not a nice place. And they have as many suicide bombers as they want to call on who will attack the Afghan National Army, or even police, because they're seen as an extension of the American presence. Just being American is a godsend to a suicide bomber, because if any American is not only a potential target, but a high-value target. So the whole time we were there it was a bit nerve-wracking.\n\nIs there ever any concern about \"crossing the line?\" For instance, most news programs don't typically reveal corpses, un-blurred, in their onscreen reporting.\n\n That's never been really a question for me. A lot of people ask me that about season one, about my Afghan piece about suicide bombers and we showed some suicide bombers and they were, you know, head here and hand there. Our argument was, Look, we're not doing this to titillate or sensationalize. We're doing this because unless you understand what a suicide bombing looks like, unless you understand what these people are willing to do, unless you actually understand what they do when they're successful, then you don't understand what the rest of the story is about. Because we've been so sort of anesthetized to things\u2014because we either don't show them or we only show them in video game or Hollywood blockbuster format\u2014when you see the real deal, what this stuff looks like, it punches you in the face."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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