Unregistered 259: Meg Smaker, Max Blumenthal, Aaron Maté, Michael Tracey & Clint Russell

Unregistered with Thaddeus Russell

Thaddeus Russell

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4.2 • 706 Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2023

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Following a screening of "the most controversial film of the year" the Icarus Festival panel of dissident journalists sat down with the filmmaker, Meg Smaker, to talk about her work with former Islamic jihadis, America's War on Terror, and the life of the canceled.

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The independent investigative journalist Sam Husseini, who has led the call for inquiries into U.S. funding for the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the origins of Covid, sat down with me at Icarus Fest to tell the untold history of the U.S. biological weapons program and its links to the Ebola, Anthrax, and Covid outbreaks.

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0:00.0	This is the Unregistered Podcast, and I'm Thaddeus Russell.
0:07.0	This is a show about ideas, people, and behaviors that are considered inappropriate, out of bounds, or beyond the pale.
0:15.0	The things you're not supposed to talk about if you're a schoolteacher, a college professor, a businessman, a politician,
0:22.7	a parent, a neighbor, or even a podcast host.
0:26.8	These are the things you're not supposed to say or even think if you're a good liberal,
0:31.9	a good conservative, or a good citizen.
0:35.2	Each week, I'll interview a person who has something bad to say. They might
0:40.3	be a journalist or a professor. They might be a porn star or a drug dealer. They might just
0:45.8	be an ordinary person with an ordinary job who doesn't care about the rules of polite society.
0:51.3	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.
0:55.9	I'm interested in people who break the rules of conventional thought and to expand the scope
1:01.0	of what is possible to say in our society. I'm interested in people who make me think.
1:14.1	At the first annual Icarus Festival last month, we had an all-star panel of dissident journalists
1:17.2	discuss with the filmmaker the most controversial movie of the year.
1:23.0	This is my interview with Meg Smaker, Max Blumenthal,
1:31.5	Aaron Mote, Michael Tracy, and Clint Russell.
1:43.2	Meg Smaker, producer and director of the unredacted formerly titled Jihad Rehab.
1:44.4	Is this on?
1:44.7	Yes, it is.
1:50.3	I guess I want to start by saying I'm a little annoyed with you for changing the name of the movie.
1:52.8	First of all, because it's difficult to always say that.
1:55.0	Unredacted, formerly, Jihad Rehab.
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