Welcome to Crystal Kyle and Friends, everybody.

Or should I say welcome to Kyle and Friends, Kyle and Friend.

Welcome to Kyle's podcast.

I don't know.

So Crystal is taking care of some family stuff today.

So it's just me you're stuck with for the next, however long.

Pretty excited though for today's conversation.

I'm talking to somebody who I've known for quite a while.

He's a very talented content creator in my opinion, really smart person, very philosophical

mind, very analytical mind.

It's TJ Kirk.

TJ Kirk also known as the amazing atheist.

He's had quite a roller coaster ride on YouTube.

I mean, he was one of the very, very early on YouTubers from when the platform first came

out and he kind of skyrocketed to fame in the sense that he was one of the only, if not

the only really like loud atheist voices and aggressive atheist voices on YouTube.

He also had a social commentary, political commentary.

He helped start the wave of like the whole like anti-social justice warrior politics where

there were people on the left who were acting in kind of an authoritarian way and they

wanted to de-platform speakers and they would go after video games for having characters

that have big boobs or whatever.

He kind of started the, the whole genre of like responding to that and pushing back against

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