Royce Williams' story reaches five million on Shawn Ryan Show
The Korean War interview anchors a busy week spanning Joe Kent's midterm analysis, asteroid mining and nuclear-war scenarios.
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The Longest Dogfight in U.S. Military History 🤯
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A pair of model airplanes has given Shawn Ryan Show its most-watched new upload of the week. Captain Royce Williams uses them to reconstruct his encounter with Soviet MiGs, turning an aerial engagement into something viewers can follow across the interview table.
The clip has now passed five million views. Computer-generated combat footage illustrates Williams' account, while an archival photograph shows the damage to his Panther. His explanation moves from picking targets to losing hydraulic and rudder control, then maneuvering to escape into cloud. The title bills it as the longest dogfight in U.S. military history.
For viewers wanting more than the compact retelling, the full Williams interview stretches across his Navy career, the secrecy surrounding the encounter and his later work helping Vietnam prisoners of war. It was one of seventeen uploads in a week that also brought Joe Kent back for a long conversation about Republican midterm losses, the Iran war and government accountability.
The channel added 20,000 subscribers over the week, although its daily views are running below their usual level. That softer daily pace is shared by several nearby interview channels, including Team Coco and Jay Shetty Podcast; Club Shay Shay and PBD Podcast are running above their own usual levels.
Williams' dogfight remains the channel's busiest video right now. Alongside it, the momentum has a distinctly speculative turn: newer clips ask whether the next gold rush could happen on an asteroid and how nuclear war could make sunlight dangerous.
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- Channel
- Shawn Ryan Show
- Subscribers
- 6,690,000 ▲ 20,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 30,939,891
- Videos published this week
- 17
- Video published
- November 9, 2026
- Video views so far
- 5,099,208
- Views on its first day
- 1,206,078
The numbers
Here is how the channel's uploads and audience moved over the week.
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Which Soviet fighter does Royce Williams describe encountering?
Ryan introduces Williams' account as an engagement against Soviet MiG-15s.


