John Iadarola (born February 5, 1983) is a
left-wing American talk show host,
YouTube personality and political pundit who is a host for the online news show ''
The Young Turks'' and ''The Damage Report''. Iadarola was also the host of the docu-series ''True North,'' distributed on the
go90 streaming service by
Verizon.
Career
In January 2012, Iadarola became the cohost of ''TYTUniversity''
(later rebranded as ''ThinkTank'' in 2015), alongside
Ana Kasparian and a producer of ''The Young Turks''. When Kasparian left ''TYTUniversity'' a few months later, he became its main host and executive producer.
During this time, Iadarola also began cohosting ''The Young Turks'' and other YouTube programs such as ''What The Flick'', ''TYT Sports'', ''TwentyTwelve'', ''The Point'', ''Pop Trigger'', and others.
In May 2013, Iadarola debuted his own independent YouTube channel, ''The Damage Report''. Topics typically include domestic and foreign politics, media criticism, technology, and social commentary on the news of the day.
On September 25, 2013, Iadarola revealed on air that he is an
atheist
Atheism, in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the existence of deities. Less broadly, atheism is a rejection of the belief that any deities exist. In an even narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there no ...
.
In 2017, John has appeared as a personality on the
History Channel series: “The Ultimate Guide to Sounding Smart”.
Shot in 2017, Iadarola and co-host Chavala Madlena went on location to the Arctic to see and document the
effects of climate change for the series ''True North'' a joint venture of ''The Young Turks'' and go90. Promoting the series in April 2018, Iadarola appeared with
Bill Nye, the science guy
''Bill Nye the Science Guy'' is an American science education television program created by Bill Nye, James McKenna, and Erren Gottlieb, with Nye starring as a fictionalized version of himself. It was produced by television station KCTS and McKe ...
and Dr.
Kate Marvel.
In May, 2018, TYT Network announced its inclusion in the new
YouTube OTT
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Entertainment
* OTT (group), a pop band from the late 1990s
* Ott (record producer), British record producer and musician
* "O.T.T" (song), a song by Fugative
* ''O.T.T.'' (television series), a UK TV programme f ...
programming service. At that time it also announced a new daily show called "The Damage Report" hosted by Iadarola. The audience of The Damage Report is collectively referred to as the "Dragon Squad". In June 2018, Iadarola was a guest on AirTalk.
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1983 births
American agnostics
American atheists
American YouTubers
American people of Italian descent
American political commentators
American talk radio hosts
American web producers
Current TV people
Living people
People from Bridgeport, Connecticut
The Young Turks people
University of Connecticut alumni
University of Texas at Austin alumni