Intercept Journalist RESIGNS & SPILLS THE TEA | The Kyle Kulinski Show

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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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Israel just killed the Head of Orthopedic department at Al- Shifa hospital.. He was arrested among other health staff & also teachers and academics who was arrested before!..

roselipton
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Kyle, if you tell us to go read something in a video, LINK IT IN THE DESCRIPTION!

Vicioussama
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Bohemian Grove would have brought so much money to the intercept.

ekrenz
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Let this be a lesson, if you create a company, don't let MBAs take control.

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My brother used to work at the intercept, but he and 14 other staffers, including the former Editor-in-Chief, all got laid off.
The Intercept is trying to cut costs as much as possible and no longer step on toes any longer to maximize profits with minimal effort.

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we almost got a list of bohemian grove participants? oh man

coolsteralpha
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this is why it’s important to support independent media. when business and equity people step in and start calling the shots, they destroy much-needed publications/outlets.

AwesometownUSA
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Dear monied interests, Sometimes doing the right thing isn't profitable.
Congrats on your life and all you've accomplished, but the world won't stop without you.

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Independent Media be Careful of who to let fund you !! My favourite news is Breakthrough News, Double Down News, Novera Media, Owen Jones, Rev left Radio Podcast and Sputnik Africa !!

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I’m waiting for Sangita from LBC to do the same thing.

wilcee
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Another nail in the coffin of journalism. This is happening throughout the world.

jackiecooper
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Kyle: "I'm beholden to YOU."
Also Kyle: Hides his Substack content behind a paywall

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Free palestine! 🇵🇸🇷🇺🇵🇷
Free assange! ✊
Pardon snowden! ✊
Workers of the world unite! ✊
Farmers of the world unite! ✊🚜

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They are DEFINITELY concerned about protecting confidential sources! 😖

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Kyle forget to mention this, the intercept is also going bankrupt, atmost they have 12 months of operation.

arturo
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I think people like Greenwald and Taibbi are being blackmailed for shenanigans. Taibbi lived for years in Russia with well-documented notorious behaviors.

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this is the guy who attempted a hit piece on david grusch. now he is doing a hit piece on the intercept....awesome!

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I just rember him fromt the UFO hit piece last year

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Journalism is a tough business. People have the misconception that it's suits around typewriters smoking cigarettes and drinking coffee. No! It's contacts, friendships, alliances, sources and work. Phone calls and schedules, flights, missed appointments, bad days and sometimes a scoop.

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this was known before lol. The intercept has been crap for awhile with the occasional good article/work. But rarely.

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