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.

The police in this country have been getting away with murder for decades.

But in 2004 on the night of November 9th, they shot and killed the wrong kid.

They shot and killed the son of a man who would not quit.

He would not protest in the streets.

He would not burn down buildings.

He just waged a 16-year campaign to institute real reform so that police can no longer get away with murder.

The problem is that my guest this week and his son weren't in the media. You've never heard

their names because they're the wrong color.

I would love to see someday on a stage all the people of all colors who were the family and friends of people who have been murdered by police in this country.

If that's going to happen, we need many more people like this week's guest.

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