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.

Where in the world can we find beauty? We know that we can find it in art, in music, in love, in sunsets,

but can we find beauty in the death of someone we love? Can we find beauty in the pain of our own

child? Can we derive pleasure from the pain of our own child?

Can we derive pleasure from the worst things that have happened to us?

My guest this week says yes, so long as you have the right ideas.

This is my interview with Daniel Coffeen.

I am in the home of the intellectual who knows nothing, the great Daniel Coffine,

the wizard of Renegade University, the entrepreneur, former academic, brilliant writer, someone who touches me deeply with his writing, his ideas, his way of life.

I got to share a story before we even start.

I asked him for some of his writing before I came over here.

I said, man, just send me some of your blog posts to read just to give me, just to give us some frame for this conversation. And he said, all right,

here's a couple. And I'm in the car on the way to your house. And I'm reading the first one. And I got

about halfway through it and I started crying so hard. I couldn't even get to the goddamn house, you fucker. That's a good essay. Jesus Christ. So it's about your son and it's about your sister and it's about other things.

It's about the pain that is pretty normal, actually, that is experienced by everybody,

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