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.

Do black lives really matter?

Do they matter in Somalia, where the United States is right now waging a war against the Somali people?

Do brown lives matter?

In Yemen, where the United States and Saudi Arabia have been killing people for years.

Do brown lives matter in Syria and Iraq and Afghanistan been killing people for years.

Do brown lives matter in Syria and Iraq and Afghanistan?

All places where the United States is still actively at war.

At the recent protests against the killing of George Floyd, I have seen virtually every left-wing cause represented, everything from indigenous rights to women's

rights to climate change. But I have still, to this day, seen no mention of foreign policy,

no mention of these wars, no mention of the fact that the United States government has been

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