This is the Unregistered Podcast, and I'm Thaddeus Russell.

This is a show about ideas, people, and behaviors that are considered inappropriate, out of bounds, or beyond the pale.

The things you're not supposed to talk about if you're a school teacher, a college professor, a businessman, a

politician, a parent, a neighbor, or even a podcast host. These are the things you're not

supposed to say or even think if you're a good liberal, a good conservative, or a good citizen.

Each week, I'll interview a person who has something bad to say. They might be a journalist or a good citizen. Each week, I'll interview a person who has something bad to say.

They might be a journalist or a professor.

They might be a porn star or a drug dealer.

They might just be an ordinary person with an ordinary job

who doesn't care about the rules of polite society.

I'm not interested in breaking the rules just to be a troublemaker. I'm interested in people who break the rules of polite society. I'm not interested in breaking the rules just to be a troublemaker.

I'm interested in people who break the rules of conventional thought

and to expand the scope of what is possible to say in our society.

I'm interested in people who make me think.

Politics, unfortunately, is something that we have to pay attention to, because politics is a matter of life and death. It can determine whether we're drafted into a war,

whether we are forced out of our homes, whether we lose our property, whether we are caged for life,

or whether, like Daniel Shaver, who is shot to death like an animal on the floor of a hotel

by a very trigger-happy cop in Mesa, Arizona, or George Floyd, who had his life snuffed out by

the knee of Derek Chauvin.

Politics is a matter of life and death, so we must pay attention to it, unless we want to end up

like those poor people, those victims of state violence.

But politics is outside of us.

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