Russell Brand Goes FULL MAGA | 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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[philippeh]

He’s the biggest grifter I’ve seen. Used to be a faux radical, then became an enlightened centrist, then became and Anti-vax weirdo and is now MAGA. He’s covered all bases 😂

[oddfellow]

He kept pretending he was middle of the road, slightly left leaning for a while until he realized that telling his audience what they want to hear is more profitable than speaking truths. As usual, the MAGA crowd blindly sends money to whoever tells them what they want to hear, and he is cashing in while he can.

[kensuke]

He knows the right wing base will defend him over his SA accusations. The pivot to the right 100% makes sense from that standpoint.

[ericbrizendine]

Sadly, I fell for him just as I did with Tulsi. It hurts the same and makes me feel embarrassed. I'm tired of these grifters. Apparently, I'm just too gullible.

[sirwill]

Years ago I realized Russell Brand says a whole bunch of nothing. He used catchy words, but I didn't take anything away from his message

[peterk]

Can't believe I used to think he was a somewhat honest person.

[Magdalenas]

I mean, we all knew this was coming. The moment Daniel Sloss confirmed he was a dirtbag behind the scenes and a serial abuser he had to start fully grifting.

[brendag]

I lost Facebook friends over Jimmy Dore and Russell Brand, because they refused to accept they were slowly grifting to the right. Brand is doing this to make his image look better and to avoid possible rape or sexual assault charges. If you're a rapist, Republicans will always embrace you.

[WedgeKahn]

He addicted to attention and his own narcissism. And he LOVES being contrarian. And with the gullible, aggrieved, conservative movement you have the perfect audience for someone like that.

[mattalexander]

Russell Brand is what stupid people think an intelligent person sounds like.

[gordonstrong]

Russell Brand is the Jimmy Dore of Tim Pools

[cockyrustler]

He also used to be huge advocate for Palestinians and exposing what Israel is doing to them.
How many videos did he make about them since this genocide started? ZERO.

[BlueBeetle]

2008 russel brand would fight 2024 russel brand

[genreartwithjb]

Irony of a rich British guy telling Americans to vote for Orange man.

[TheTexasLeftist]

“If you’re anti-war you would vote Trump.” - Jimmy Dore

He and Russell should get a room together

[thehellyousay]

face it, brand is a grifter, and maga are the easiest marks to fleece.

[dustinsindledecker]

He knows who his audience is. He is just giving them what they want

[FreshtexBlackman]

I was one of the first subscribers to Russell's The Trews years ago, I loved how he would explain all the wrongs the government was doing, he was so anti establishment, then he switched up on everybody so I bailed out from his BS.

[SallyBalfort]

I used to love Russell Brand... and lost all respect when he became a spiritual conspiracy theorist.

[jeremyjackson]

Never idolize anyone without the expectation of being sorely disappointed.

John Fetterman, Russell Brand, Tulsi Gabbard, RFK Jr, Jimmy Dore, etc. Not anyone, not this channel, not me, not even yourself.