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 schoolteacher, 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.

Like I'm sure a lot of people, maybe most people over the last four months, I have felt increasingly crazy, psychotic, meaning detached from a reality that many other people seem to share.

I am not living in the same world, it seems, often,

as most other Americans. My guest this week convinced me, I think, that that's a good thing.

I'm very glad to have back on the show, my very good friend who now lives very far away. This is my interview with Connor Habib.

I am joined by Connor Habib, good friend. I haven't seen in a long time.

He's very far away. He's in a place I've

always wanted to visit. When I lived in London for a year during college, I did not go there,

and I am still pissed at myself for that. But someday maybe I'll visit you. Connor, you're in,

you're in Dublin. I'm in Dublin. Yes, it's great. That's what you keep saying. I've

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