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"The first time I ever really listened to Kyle Kulinski’s show was in the back of a cab last summer. The driver had his phone hooked up through the stereo and was pumping out an episode through the car speakers — loudly, as if looking to convert a captive audience.

“Do you like Kyle Kulinski?”

The driver, Ahmed, was a recent immigrant and apparently a die-hard fan of Secular Talk, the political talk show that Kulinski broadcasts on YouTube. I told him, yes, in fact. I do like Kulinski, had come across his show several years ago, and, all things considered, he seemed pretty good.

“He understands what we’re up against,” Ahmed said. “Like Bernie.”

But I was surprised to hear Kulinski’s name mentioned in the same breath as Bernie Sanders, particularly with such adoration. Because what I did remember about Kulinski’s show struck me as mostly capital-P “progressive” takes on the news — the left wing of the Netroots crowd more than the democratic socialism Sanders has popularized.

It’s an impression that wasn’t entirely incorrect.

“I have no time for philosophical, airy bullshit,” Kulinski tells me from his home in Westchester, New York. “I don’t want to hear about Lenin. I don’t want to hear about Marx. I just want a super plainspoken, straightforward agenda with a straightforward way of selling it.”

With over 800,000 subscribers and nearly 670 million total views on YouTube, selling a progressive agenda is clearly something Kulinski knows how to do — even Democracy Now, the long-standing flagship of progressive media, cannot match his reach on the platform. Chapo Trap House can certainly boast a wildly devoted fan base (and a not insignificant degree of media influence), but their audience is roughly half the size of Kulinski’s.

While Secular Talk might be more likely to be looped in with the progressive networks around Air America and Pacifica alums like Sam Seder than the more resolutely socialist world, Kulinski’s fiery rhetoric, razor-sharp class instincts, and knack for withering takedowns sets him apart from his peers. Judging by his rhetoric alone, he’s closer to a Eugene Debs than a Chris Hayes.

But unlike Hayes, Amy Goodman, or his friend Cenk Uygur of The Young Turks — who began airing Secular Talk on his web network seven years ago — the thirty-two-year-old Kulinski is virtually invisible in the mainstream media. Despite his enormous fan base, his show has never once been mentioned in the obligatory trend pieces on “the Millennial Left” pumped out by the prestige media. Nor has Kulinski’s name ever popped up at all in the New York Times, Vox, the New Yorker, New York Magazine, or the Washington Post, despite his leading role in cofounding Justice Democrats, the organization widely credited with sweeping Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the rest of “the Squad” to power.

Just last week, his Wikipedia page was deleted. The reason? “There is very simply no [reliable source] coverage of this person,” according to one moderator. In new media, he’s king — the Sean Hannity of the Berniecrat left. In old media, he’s nobody.

I suspect there are a few reasons for that. There is nothing “cool” about Kulinski’s show. (As a friend put it, “‘Welcome to Secular Talk’ sounds like something you’d hear on Egyptian radio.”) His no-nonsense social-democratic politics won’t get him much cred with the Full Communism crowd. He records his show not in Brooklyn or Los Angeles, but in a studio he built himself in his modest Westchester home. His hair is too groomed and his taste in clothes too preppy to qualify as “Dirtbag Left.” Nor has he ever attended an n+1 release party. “Not only have I not attended one,” he says, “I have no idea what that means.”

And yet he’s astonishingly plugged-in for a young man in the suburbs. Wondering how Sanders ended up on the Joe Rogan Experience? Kulinski, a frequent guest on Rogan’s wildly popular show, introduced them. “You make the most sense to me,” Rogan told Kulinski on a recent episode. “You’re a normal person.”

Much like Sanders himself, Kulinski’s show has a massive audience that just doesn’t compute with our media’s understanding of “what the kids want” or even “what the left-wing kids want.”

It’s probably for the best — the very woke and very WASP-ish decorum haunting much of the media world is nowhere to be found in Secular Talk. “Corporate Democrats over-focus on identity as a trick to divert you from the issues that unite us all — class issues,” he said on a recent episode.

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[Mrbrklyn]

My Mother always said 'It's better to see the roaches than wonder where the roaches are hiding'. R.I.P Ma and thank you

[ryanadams]

To anyone that is curious Charlie Kirk didn't even finish Community College

[PassiveandMoon]

“Steal a white persons slot”

Sure he caught himself later on saying “anti white and anti Asian” but we all know his mindset

[WillGallagher]

I know plenty of white people who have gone to Yale, Harvard, Stanford, and Johns Hopkins. These racists have it in their minds that no white people can get in at all now because of affirmative action and that just isn’t true. The point is to level the playing field a little bit because not everyone went to $60, 000 a year mostly white private school (pre-school through high school) their whole lives where the students were manufactured for college acceptance and are managing charities/non-profits their parents funded at the age of 16.
I have heard quite the number of rumors about the reasons some of these white people were accepted including daddy’s mega large donation or their family’s perceived ability to donate to the school… although you know the admins will deny to the grave that wealth was a factor in deciding lol… That’s the class inequality issue that needed addressing, not the affirmative action holding anyone down.
On top of that, I do know a few who were accepted to some prestigious schools 1000% on their own merit and were not particularly wealthy to begin with, so it is still very possible for white people to attend these places when they put in the hard work that it takes.

[watamatafoyu]

Here's how to tell whether affirmative action works: if the majority it lets through graduate.

[anotheryoutbechannel]

Chuck is mad because affirmative action didn’t help him get into college when he wrote an essay about how hard life is for him with his noticeably shrunken face.

[ArmaBiologica]

LOL, Charlie's face in that thumbnail.😂

[decentwhitepen]

It's hilarious to hear Charlie Kirk belittle someone else's intelligence like this because I feel like his whole shtick is to be the dumb guy

[daboyman]

Charlie " the one semester community college dropout" kirk

[AndrewPagel]

I don't understand how there are black conservatives when this is what they think of them...

[mindymorgan]

Imagine the world without Charlie ... peace, love, and happiness

[JediNiyte]

Charlie Kirk commenting on ANYONE'S brain power is the most delicious of ironies.

[ericpmoss]

Didn’t Clarence Thomas say he wouldn’t have had a chance without it? That didn’t stop the reich wing from embracing him.

[Czer_OW]

The guy who said we need to protect dolphin fetuses has no right to talk about anyone’s intelligence.

[archielundy]

Kirk is a cynical grifter and provocateur. Doesn't make him any less dangerous.

[EsotericFood]

some people stutter or whatever during public speaking… it’s common

[johnchessant]

7:28 looked it up, for anyone who's curious. He's a community college dropout.

[bigcrazewolf]

Charlie really shouldn't be speaking on other people's intelligence, but I'm sure his glass house has no windows at this point tho.

[garmonbozia_]

KBJ is objectively the most qualified justice, but that doesn’t matter to these people.

[zozetamad]

I thought Charlie thinks higher education is a waste of time and money. If that's the case, he shouldn't care who's getting into Harvard law school.