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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 🤯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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The videos drawing views on Shawn Ryan Show right now

The facts
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.

views gained this week: this channel and similar channels
Shawn Ryan Show
30,939,891
Team Coco
7,959,135
PBD Podcast
5,753,691
Theo Von
3,950,700
Lex Fridman
1,854,147
subscribers
6,690,000
▲ 20,000 in the last 7 days
total views
3,370,566,687
views per day
3,846,101
typical day: 5,183,408
subscribers: this channel and similar channels
Team Coco
9,220,000
Lex Fridman
5,070,000
Theo Von
4,810,000
LOL Podcast
3,590,000
PBD Podcast
3,000,000
As of November 15, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube
Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.
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