Most celebrities who got near crypto in the early 2020s took the bag. Ben McKenzie took notes instead. The actor best known for The O.C. , Southland , and Gotham has spent the last five years deep inside one of the biggest financial frauds of a generation—writing a book, testifying before the Senate Banking Committee, and now releasing a documentary called Everyone Is Lying to You for Money , which includes interviews with two CEOs who are currently in prison. On the latest episode of VICE Culture Club , host Jackson Garrett sits down with McKenzie to walk through all of it, and the conversation is about as far from a Hollywood press junket as you can get. Videos by VICE The obsession started during the pandemic, when McKenzie’s economics degree from the University of Virginia suddenly felt relevant again. A friend pushed him toward Bitcoin. McKenzie pushed back, then got curious, then couldn’t stop.…