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 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.

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So it is Christmas Eve, in the evening even, and I am in the home of Joel Gilbert in Thousand Oaks, California, and I am really not supposed to be here, not only because it's Christmas Eve, but because you're a very bad man, apparently.

I've been hearing from a lot of people that I shouldn't interview you, that I shouldn't be associated with you, that your name should not be on my show. But I'm here anyway because I think what you've done is very important. And I think you've accomplished your major objectives. And I think that

if people watch the film, read the book, and take it seriously, I think much of American politics, and I mean much of American

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