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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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[Eric-]

They’re gonna build the Walz, it’ll be the most beautiful Walz you’ve ever seen, and the GOP’s gonna pay for it! 😂

[caxtillo]

I'm actually glad that Kamala didn't get pressured into picking Shapiro. I felt like everyone was leaning toward him, so it felt like it was gonna be him. So glad that didn't happen.

[oregonsbragia]

I no longer doubt Kamala’s ability to make a tough decision.

[jonathangasana]

Never been this excited for a VP nominee ever. His record in Minnesota is something to be excited for and proud of.

[frapi]

Kyle, you said that if Kamala was going to choose Tim Walz, you were going to do acrobatics!!! We want to see you doing that!! 😂😂

[andrewmcfarland]

Her first decision as the candidate.... she knocked it out of the park

[AndreB]

I would like to humbly apologize to Kamala for thinking she would be an incredibly weak candidate against Trump. I was not familiar with her game.

[DShoe]

It seems the democrats finally caught up to the fact that motivating your base is more important than pivoting to the center

[kathrynmarie]

I'm not surprised he aced the interview. He's warm, yet chill, charismatic, yet humble, serious, yet joyful.

[ConvictedFelon]

Still awaiting that video of you doing cartwheels in the streets like you promised, Kyle. 🤣

[howie]

No amount of money can make up for the energy and politics tim waltz brings he is genuinely like the modern day FDR where he uses the hands of his own critics to slap themselves willingly without even realising it, love to see it.

[codbdup]

Walz took a high school football team from 0-27 to state champions in only 3 years! He also has heartwarming father aura lol

[HemanthKumar-bsyq]

This is the best case scenario the progressives wished for. Biden dropping out and Walz becoming the VP nominee. Progressives should take it and run with it. No more disdain. Every bit of energy and enthusiasm is needed to keep the other side out of office.

[cyberneticqualanaut]

Josh Shapiro in the rally didn't look like a guy who wants to be quiet for four to eight years.

[shannonfergusson]

Harris just stated that that's what her platform is at the rally that just ended. You can instantly see the great chemistry between Kamala Harris, Doug Emhoff and Tim and Gwen Walz.

[Yoursoulismine]

God, election day is either going to be the best day of our lives or the biggest disappointment ever. I can't remember the last time i was this excited and optimistic.

[heinrichvon]

Kamala: I opposed Joe Biden in the 2020 primaries, and ever since he selected me as his running mate, I've been angling for my own presidential run. So my first question, Tim, is: if I choose you as *my* running mate, will you be like me?
Tim Walz: Hell no!
Kamala: You're hired!

[AvisSapiens]

Tim Walz is the encapsulation of the idea that you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.
And i think if more leftists understood this, understood the role that charisma, kindness, reciprocity and bonds have in politics; we would have more effective leftist policy.

Like Tim said, learning how to compromise but without compromising your values.

[YersiniaPestisNPO]

I'm crushing so hard for Walz right now. He is like Bernie with better social skills and likability through the roof. And that record, that sweet sweet record.

[dl]

See, I’ve been Walz-pilled for at least, like, seven days, and I’ve seen enough I’m fully satisfied. So when I watched Walz’s speech yesterday I just focused on Kamala’s face—omg, so fun. She was so extremely pleased with herself for her choice, and having the best time listening (just like the rest of us). Not smug, not quite. But damned close.