CGP Grey Podcast Bio Wiki Age Wife Youtube Face Salary And Net Worth

CGP Grey is an American-Irish podcaster, educational YouTuber, and live streamer.  He creates short explanatory videos on subjects such as history, economics, geography, politics,  and culture. His videos have been reviewed by publications such as Business Insider and The Washington Post.

Apart from video production, Grey is also best known for creating the audio podcast called Hello Internet in 2014 alongside fellow educational YouTuber Brady Haran. Grey has hosted the audio podcast called Cortex withMyke Hurleysince 2015. Myke is the co-founder of the Relay FM podcast network.

He was born in New York,United States of Americabut currently lives in London. However, it’s not possible to help Grey’s actual age since he has not publicly shared his exact date of birth.

He is a man of average stature. Grey stands at a height of5 ft 8 in ( Approx 1.73m).

He was born to his father and mother in New York, United States of America. Grey grew up in the Long Island suburbs of New York City. His grandmother was born in Ireland. When Grey was a child, his father applied for Irish citizenship on his behalf. He, therefore, has dual American–Irish citizenship. The duo citizenship enabled Grey to look into opportunities in the European Union and its then-largest city, London.

He is a married man. Grey once mentioned in his one video that he’s married unopenly“I don’t have a favorite but I’m irrationally fond of Tungsten mainly because my wedding ring is made out of it.”The American-Irish Youtuber and podcaster is an extremely secretive person when it comes to his personal life. Information about his marital status in news is barely findable. On December 28, 2019, Grey tweetedMy wife had never seen Solo and wanted to watch it after listening to the Hello Internet Star Wars xmas special…”

He attended college in upstate New York where he earned two degrees. Greg graduated with a degree in physics and another in sociology. Grey earned a master’s degree in economics program in London and continues to live in the city. He said that if he had not lived abroad while ‘still free of life’s anchors’, he never would have later in life.

His primary YouTube channel is called CGP Grey. It predominantly features explanatory videos on subjects such as American culture, science, math, the internet, productivity, history, economics, geography, politics, and British culture.  The videos feature Grey as he narrated over stock footage, animations, and still photographs.

Nearly all of his videos feature his voice and his face has never been shown in his videos. When appearing in other people’s videos, Grey almost always has his face obscured. Generally, he uses a stick figure with glasses to represent himself. He has stated that Yahtzee Croshaw’s Zero Punctuation series influences the presentation style of his videos.

When Grey decided to serve as a physics teacher in the United Kingdom, he underwent a one-year course to earn a physics Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE)  graduating as a qualified physics teacher in England and Wales.  Grey wanted to ‘escape the system’ after spending several years teaching in the UK so he could become self-employed.

During that time, he and his in-laws lived in Hawaii to save money. After his attempt ‘failed miserably,’ Grey returned to the UK to find another teaching job. He served as a teacher until his career as a YouTube creator became sustainable. He has co-hosted a general discussion podcast called Hello Internet since January 2014.

He launched a podcast called Hello Internet in January 2014,  along with co-host Brady Haran. Brady is an educational YouTuber and online content creator as well. The Hello Internet podcast peaked as the No. 1 iTunes podcast in the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, Germany, and United States. In 2014, the same podcast was selected as one of Apple’s best new podcasts.

In 2016, The Guardian included the podcast among its 50 best of the year podcasts, naming episode 66 (“A Classic Episode”) its episode of the year.  The paper described the Hello Internet Podcast as having “in-depth debates and banter that is actually amusing.” As of September 2015, Grey reported a podcast listenership of approximately “a quarter million” downloads per episode.

The Hello Internet podcast features discussions pertaining to their lives as professional content creators for YouTube and their interests as well as annoyances. Typical topics include futurology,  vexillology, plane accidents,  movie and TV show reviews,  technology etiquette, as well as the differences between Grey’s and Haran’s personalities and lifestyles. Their opinions and comments on feedback usually start the next episode of the podcast.

Haran has been noted for reappropriating the term “freebooting”, among other words as he refers to the unauthorized rehosting of online media. The “Nail & Gear” is the podcast’s official flag which was chosen using an instant-runoff voting system by the podcast’s audience from five candidates by a postal vote. The podcast has been on hiatus with no immediate plans to return and its last episode was published in February 2020.

He is an American-Irish podcaster, educational YouTuber, and live-streamer who has accumulated an estimated net worth of$2,597,892.

Grey once mentioned in his one video that he’s married unopenly“I don’t have a favorite but I’m irrationally fond of Tungsten mainly because my wedding ring is made out of it.” However, he has not shared detai

CGP is an American-Irish podcaster, educational YouTuber, and live streamer.  He creates short explanatory videos on subjects such as history, economics, geography, politics,  and culture.