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.

Tickets are going fast for the very first unregistered live event in Brooklyn on July 16th

with Dave Smith and Nicholasby. To get your tickets, go to Thaddeussell.com slash courses.

My guest this week has a simple but radical proposition to make.

You cannot live your best life until you've prepared for your death.

This is my interview with Tom Nicholl.

So about three years ago, I realized something.

I realized that I was going to die.

And when I say that, I mean that, of course, I knew intellectually my entire life that people

die and I was a person.

So I knew that I would die on some level of my consciousness intellectually.

But I didn't feel it until I hit about 50 years old, and I really, really felt it to the point

where I would walk around and look at other people and think, why aren't they panicking the way

that I'm panicking about the fact that we're all going to die. It hit me hard.

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