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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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[libertyblueskyes]

We have to thank Gov Waltz for that beautiful line of yeah call me whatever for giving kids a full belly so they can learn. Bravo.

[slime]

Pete’s gotten better now that he’s not running against Bernie lol

[hirampriggott]

FYI, here in NJ and NY, the Gateway tunnel under the Hudson river is underway for construction, and the Portal Bridge is 70% done. I am thankful for Pete to help move these infrastructure projects along. None of this would happen or did happen under Trump.

[Icemann]

I mean, this is not news. Trump will call any Democrat a communist and we will never hear any specifics because he doesn't feel the need to explain his insults.

[Squiz]

Dude I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again. I don’t know what got into Democrats lately but they’re absolutely cooking with their takes. Love to see it.

[vgstb]

Everybody in the swing states (Georgia, Arizona, Michigan, Wisconsin, Nevada, North Carolina and Pennsylvania) should regularly check if their voting registration is still valid and has not been retracted under false pretence like it has been happening to thousands of registered voters in the recent weeks.

[electrified]

Glad Pete found a place where he can get the praise and attention he wants on the media without being a vapid corporate defender. He's always been a good speaker, even if at times it was a little too Obama-y, so being a regular news guest suits him.

[burn]

Rs are disgusting for forcing us to go through this, i mean really really, truly thoroughly foul.

[advisorywarning]

They also called Joe Biden a socialist and a dirty commie in 2020 🤣🤣🤣

[barba]

I disagree with you re early days.
He has always confronted every discussion with common sense..
He always has the facts, and he is smart.

[tylerhackner]

I didn’t like him in the 2020 primary but damnnn

[TheAFGFilms]

Exactly. Trump even said today in that "press conference" that Shapiro was awful. "He’s a terrible guy. I don’t think he would have been better.”

[DontTrustGladys]

Love the positive shift in democrat rhetoric. Voters deserve to be excited to be Americans again and they don't care wtf trans people are doing.

When voters have to decide b/t a ticket that wants safety, prosperity and innovation in their children's' futures rather than "a big wall and Kid Rock", we'll see who's 'too far left'.

[alexthefae]

The gop are gonna complain regardless of who is on the ticket.

[MenwithHill]

Buttigieg is a pretty good communicator and attack dog. Wouldn't put him at the top of the ticket but he's a pretty good surrogate.

[justjulie]

It's Tim Walz Kyle, not Tim Waltz. There's no T in his last name.

[vehnashur]

At this early point in the Harris/Walz ticket, the only concern I have is left leaning groups lining up to purity test Harris and Walz. It's already happening too.

[originalname]

Kyle...it's Walz...WALZ. Not Waltz.

[LeoRousseau]

Trumps scare tactic is to say the word "radical"... 😂😂😂

[MultiAlig]

Love you Kyle but it’s wild that you are still saying “Tim Waltz” lmao