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.

I have two speaking gigs coming up soon.

On November 19th, I'll be speaking in Des Moines, Iowa.

And the following day, November 20th, I'll be in Chicago, speaking at the famous Beat Kitchen Club.

For more information and to get your tickets, go to Thaddeus Russell.com slash talks.

My guest this week has made a career out of asking questions you're not supposed to ask.

Now, with her new book, The Problem With Everything,

she's asking questions that you're not only not supposed to ask,

but that might get you thrown out of polite society.

This is my interview with Megan Down.

I'm in San Francisco with a very bad woman.

Her name's Megan Daum.

Does that you pronounce it?

Yeah, there's a long story about the pronunciation of my name.

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