Hello. Welcome to Media Roots Radio.

Today we're presenting a special interview with Kyle Kalinsky, political activist, talk show host.

He's been the host and producer of the YouTube show Secular Talk since 2008, and he has almost reached 500 million views on his YouTube channel.

Kyle's show Secular Talk is one of the more radical shows affiliated with the TYT network,

and he continues to debunk and push against mainstream prevailing narratives, such as the Russiagate narrative that's been in the political consciousness for over two years.

He is also a huge critic of YouTube's demonetization and censorship policies that have been

largely associated and intertwined with this Russiagate narrative.

So Kyle, we're super, super excited to have you on.

Kyle Kalinsky, host of secular talk uh you've been someone that i've

been following for years now you are one of the best people out there um cutting through the partisan lines

kyle thanks for coming on media roots radio no it's my pleasure and the feeling is mutual i've been a fan of

yours too for a long time.

Awesome, dude. Well, you have this hugely successful YouTube channel. You have a very loyal fan base,

which really does seem increasingly difficult with this influx of information and also just the saturation of media content. So before we get started, how did you get started covering politics

and develop your show?

Let's see. So I started secular talk in 2008. I did it as a hobby. I was 20 years old at the time. I would just upload, you know, a video every now and then. It was usually somewhat political-related or, like, religion-related.

I think one of my first videos was actually on Glenn Beck, if I remember correctly.

And I think around 2010, so two years later, I started doing a radio show on Blog Talk Radio.

And after a while, and I went to college, got a political science degree and then after a while I kind of like decided to sync the two together in a way

so I would record a live radio show and then later on you chop up the radio show into little video segments and then you

upload it on the YouTube channel and come 2012 I believe it was I started doing I tried to do

secular talk full time and you know I got kind of lucky in a sense because it took off and I guess it was just right place, right time kind of thing. And, you know, I was able to make it work in the long run. But that's the general story. I started out kind of as a hobby and then decided to kind of saturate the market in a way. When I did it full time, I was like, I'm going to do this full, full time.

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