Cortex (podcast)
| CGP Grey | |
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| Personal information | |
| Born | New York, U.S. |
| Nationality |
American Irish |
| Residence | London, United Kingdom |
| Website | www |
| YouTube information | |
| Pseudonym | Grey |
| Channel | CGPGrey, CGPGrey2 |
| Years active | 2010–present |
| Genre | Educational entertainment |
| Subscribers | 2.9 million+ (CGP Grey) 135,000+ (CGPGrey2) |
| Total views | 285 million+ (CGP Grey) 6 million+ (CGPGrey2) |
| Associated acts | Hello Internet, Brady Haran, Myke Hurley, Relay FM, Cortex |
| Subscriber and view counts updated as of 23 April 2017. | |
CGP Grey is a podcaster and educational YouTuber who posts on YouTube under the channel CGP Grey. Grey also posts videos and occasionally livestreams on his other channels, CGPGrey2 and CGPPlay.
His YouTube channel features short explanatory videos on varying subjects, including politics, geography, economics, history, and culture. The channel's first popular video was an explanation of the terminology of the British Isles, which became viral. Since then, Grey's videos have received increasing attention, having been covered by several publications, including Business Insider, Forbes, and The Washington Post.
In addition to video production, Grey is known for creating the audio podcast Hello Internet with fellow educational Youtuber, Brady Haran. In 2015 he started the audio podcast Cortex with Myke Hurley of Relay FM.
Grey grew up in New York State, in the Long Island suburbs of New York City. He then went to college in upstate New York, where he earned two degrees, one in physics and another in sociology. After college, he wanted to move to a big city. He says that New York was the obvious choice, but because he was raised in its shadow, it felt like a "step backward in life."
His grandmother was born in Ireland, and when he was a child, his father had applied for Irish citizenship on his behalf. Grey has dual American and Irish citizenship, although he only discovered this much later in life. This enabled him to look into opportunities in the European Union, especially its largest city, London. He felt that if he did not live abroad while "still free of life's anchors," he never would, which made it all the more reason for him to go. He attended an Economics Masters program in London, and stayed in the city for more than a decade.
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