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 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.

My guest this week is Heidi Matthews, a professor of law at Osgood Hall Law School at York

University in Toronto, Ontario. I asked Heidi to be on the show because her work raises questions

about freedom and agency, for women in particular, but really for everyone, in ways that I've

never seen before.

In her work and in this interview, Heidi does the best thing a professor can do,

which is to make me rethink some ideas I've held for a very long time.

If you think you know what freedom is, you might think again.

This is my interview with Heidi Matthews.

So, Heidi, I don't like professors, generally speaking.

I don't get along with them.

But you do, or do you?

Maybe the question is, do you get along with me as an exception?

Well, you and I already have a checkered past, don't we?

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