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.

I'll be speaking in three cities in October and November.

On October 12th, I'll be in Denver, Colorado.

On November 19th, in Des Moines, Iowa,

and November 20th in Chicago, Illinois.

For more information and to buy tickets to these events,

go to Thaddeus Russell.com

slash talks.

My guest this week is a co-founder of the Critical Mass Bicycle Movement, a founder and editor

of the Countercultural Magazine Processed World, and the leading renegade historian of the San Francisco

Bay Area.

He's also one of the last remaining left-wing radicals

who embraces the politics of fun.

This is my interview with Chris Carlson.

So in 1991, I was living in the Bay Area and working as a temp office worker in downtown San Francisco.

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