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 recently completed Icarus Fringe and Film Festival, I was joined on stage on the first day by Michael Tracy and Max Blumenthal to discuss whether the American Empire is at an end.

It was, not surprisingly, contentious, extremely informative, and a bit wild.

This is my interview with Michael Tracy and Max Blumenball.

Good, okay. Welcome to the second hand of the Christmas. I am

I am I'm everyone. All right, I'll just

say it. So there was a dissident

conference recently in New York City,

I was in Brooklyn. And I think it featured as its main

speaker, someone who works with the US State Department.

And other people there work for places like the New York Times and Washington Post,

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