Episode 80: Kmele Foster at Renegade University

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🗓️ 2 April 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Kmele Foster is the former co-host of The Independents, the co-founder and lead producer of FreeThink Media, the host of my second-favorite podcast, The Fifth Column, and one of the most original and important public intellectuals you will hear. This episode was recorded at the Renegade University Weekend in Washington D.C. For full show notes, … Continue reading →

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0:00.0	This is the Unregistered Podcast, and I'm Thaddeus Russell.
0:07.2	This is a show about ideas, people, and behaviors that are considered inappropriate, out of bounds, or beyond the pale.
0:15.5	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.
0:40.2	They might be a journalist or a professor, they might be a porn star or a drug dealer.
0:45.3	They might just be an ordinary person with an ordinary job who doesn't care about the rules of
0:50.7	polite society. I'm not interested in breaking the rules just to be a troublemaker.
0:56.0	I'm interested in people who break the rules of conventional thought
1:00.0	and to expand the scope of what is possible to say in our society.
1:04.0	I'm interested in people who make me think.
1:08.0	Recently, at a Renegade University weekend event in Washington, D.C., we were joined by Camille Foster, the co-host of my favorite political podcast, The Fifth Column, and a partner at Freethink Media.
1:22.1	In several public forums, Camille has been presenting a quite provocative and definitely radical set of arguments
1:29.1	about race and criminal justice and their intersection in this country. What we like to do at
1:35.7	Renegade University is take big and new and different ideas like that and put them to the test.
1:43.8	And so that's what we did with Camille.
1:45.9	We had him present the argument to us, and then we broke out into discussion sections,
1:50.9	and the students or the members of Renegade University asked Camille questions, and they prepared
1:55.3	questions that they then presented when we turned the microphones on in the podcast.
2:02.3	This is Camille Foster at Renegade University in Washington, D.C. So I've said this in many public forums.
2:16.0	Over the last five or six years, I have changed my
2:19.3	position substantially on only one issue, which is crime and race. And I've changed it largely
2:27.0	because of this guy, Camille Foster, who simply asked me a lot of questions about all of the
2:34.0	feelings I was having in around 2014 and 2015
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