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.

At the recent meeting of Renegate University in Los Angeles, we had the pleasure of speaking with my old friend, Danielle Bollelli, who is the host of the very popular, very successful podcast, History on Fire.

Danieli and I talked about some of the great renegade figures from American history that I've actually neglected in my own writing. We talked mostly, though, about things like loneliness, about the relationship

between the individual and society, about death and loss, about community, and about what it

means to build your own tribe.

And we have another Renegade University weekend coming right up.

That's March 15th, 16th, and 17th in Washington, D.C.

And this time, it'll be featuring my friend Camille Foster of Freethink Media and

the fifth column podcast.

For more information and to buy tickets for that weekend with me and Camille Foster in Washington, D.C.,

go to Thaddeus Russell.com slash courses.

But right now, this is my interview with Daniele Bollelli and members of Renegade University.

This is my good friend Danieli Bolelli, who I met in 2010 or 11 right after my book was published.

His mother interviewed me.

She's an Italian journalist living in Los Angeles.

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