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.

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The first will be in Los Angeles, the weekend of February 1st, 2nd, and 3rd, and the second will be in Washington, D.C., and that'll be March 15th to the 17th.

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For more information and to purchase tickets, go to Thaddeus Russell.com slash courses.

Michael Brooks is the host of the Michael Brooks Show.

He's also one of the most thoughtful and interesting people I know who's doing political

journalism.

As you'll see, he and I have a lot in common, although I stopped being a socialist right

around the time that he became one.

I was very pleased that, despite my apostasy, Michael

was still willing to talk to me. This is my interview with Michael Brooks.

So I've been trying to build bridges with the left, you know, or rebuild the bridges I've had with the left by having people I consider to be worth speaking to on the show who are on the left, who are serious leftists.

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