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.

In 1919, at the end of what was then the most murderous war in human history, the German social scientist Mokz-Vabor issued an article in which he defined the state as the entity that successfully claims a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence in the enforcement of its order.

That is, only the state can put you in prison.

Only the state can kill you for violating its laws.

Only the state can go to war with other states.

My guest this week has, for the last eight years,

challenged and even subverted the state's monopoly on violence,

not by speaking against it,

not by writing pamphlets and manifestos and books, but by creating a fact on the ground,

or really infinite facts on the ground.

Right now, largely because of him, everyone in the world can create their own police force,

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