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 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.

Does reality exist outside of human consciousness?

If reality does exist outside our consciousness, how can we access it?

Is there something outside of space and time?

Is there a logic to our emotions?

Has science ever been right about anything?

Can science and religion be reconciled?

Or are they one in the same?

Are people who seek the truth more likely to die?

And what happens when we find out that what our fathers told us isn't true.

This is my interview with Donald Hoffman.

So I'm sitting on the campus of UC Irvine in the office of Professor Donald Hoffman,

who is, I think, in agreement with me on a very important topic for me that's gotten me into a lot of trouble.

But I drove all the way from the Bay Area this morning to find out whether we do agree.

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