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His name is Hasan Piker. He’s a socialist podcaster. And the New York Times described him last year as a Ryan Gosling-meets-Tom Brady type:
“Mr. Piker’s success on camera, in some part, has been aided by the fact that he is, by conventional standards, a very handsome man. He is 6 feet 4 inches tall and built like a professional athlete, with a square jaw, a beard and a head of thick dark hair,” wrote Jack Crosbie.
“His physique is the result of an intense fitness regimen that, on a sunny morning in January, involved repeated sets of squats with a 275-pound barbell, Romanian dead lifts and
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