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Cenk Uygur

Episode 28: Cenk Uygur

Cenk Uygur is the host and founder of online news show The Young Turks and CEO of the TYT Network.

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Cenk Uygur is the host and founder of online progressive news and commentary show The Young Turks and is CEO of TYT Network, which cites a global audience of more than 500-million monthly views per month and 21-billion total video views. he launched The Young Turks as a talk show on Sirius Satellite Radio in 2002 and started uploading videos on YouTube in 2005. Prior, he was the host of The Young Turks on Current TV, hosted MSNBC Live and has appeared on CNN, ABC News’ This Week with George Stephanopoulos, NPR, Headline News, Fox News and others. He is also the co-founder the Justice Democrats PAC.

Join Cenk and I as we dive into his childhood and his shift from Republican to progressive Democrat and discuss a range of hot-button political subjects including Trump, the Midterms, DeSantis and 2024, the Georgia Runoff, Kyrsten Sinema, Biden and Democratic messaging, Republican extremism, populism vs centrism and the lingering 2016 Bernie v Hillary debate.

And as always, you'll learn whether Cenk's a cat or dog person and which musical artists comprise his all-time Top 5!

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Produced by Andy Ostroy and Matty Rosenberg @ Radio Free Rhiniecliff Associate producer Jennifer Hammoud Music by Andrew Hollander Design by Cricket Lengyel

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