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.

I value clarity, honesty, and the willingness to play with difficult ideas.

That's why I have nothing good to say about any politician.

It's why I dislike most journalists.

And it's why I'm deeply disappointed in most of my fellow academics.

But it's also why I seek out very smart people who are not professional intellectuals. It's why I'll go way out of my way to talk to someone who works in a watch shop,

who happens to read books, and who happens to be able to speak clearly and honestly and with great intellectual rigor

about big ideas and his own life. This is my interview with James Sullivan.

So as a lot of you know about a year ago, I was besieged by thousands hordes of people online, especially on Twitter, telling me that I was the stupidest person in the world and possibly

homosexual for suggesting that gender and race or social constructs

after my appearance on Joe Rogan.

And I got hundreds and hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of messages like that every single day.

And I think it was many days into that.

I can't remember exactly.

You can correct me, James. But it had been happening an onslaught,

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