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. At the Icarus festival, I sat down with Jack Mason to discuss why one of the greatest works of art in American history was banned in 2020 and what it says about the world we live in today.

This is my interview with Jack Mason.

Hello, hello, hello.

Welcome back to Icarus Fest,

2023, the last event of this festival.

We just watched Gone with the Wind,

which is the most popular film of all time.

It is, I believe, the highest grossing film of all time.

And now it is nearly impossible to watch it, because in 2020,

there was a cancellation campaign launched against it.

HBO Max dropped it entirely. They later added it, but now you can only watch it with a lecture from a critical race

theory professor telling us about the stereotypes and why it's a bad movie.

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