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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 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 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.

It has gotten to the point where I think I can count the number of real journalists in this country on two hands.

The good news is I've had pretty much every one of them on this show, including this week.

This is my interview with the great Katie Herzog.

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