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.

This episode is about being a heretic, but also a traditionalist. It's about being treated like the devil when you believe in God.

This is my interview with Robert Mariani.

So a lot of people know that I moved back to the Bay Area, the San Francisco Bay Area, my hometown a few months ago.

And ever since then, I've been surrounded by people who all agree against me on virtually every issue.

And it's been a challenge, I must say,

in particular in intimate relations, friends, family, and others. Then I found out that there was a new magazine or a relatively new magazine, an online magazine that was, at least one of their

editors, was based in San Francisco that

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