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. Thank you. Hello, everyone.

Thank you for coming to the renewed, in some ways, brand new, unregistered podcast.

And let me say a few things about my beloved unregistered podcast.

I began it in April of 2017.

So that's now seven and a half years.

And the show then was interviews, one-on-one interviews with people,

and it was audio only. This was before the pandemic, and so we were still doing things in person.

It was a lovely time. And that, in my whole career, from the PhD to the books to the articles that I've written, the teaching I've done, that podcast is the thing I am most proud of.

I think it is still my best work in some ways.

And I am very, very glad I did it.

And I am very grateful to all my guests over the years who revealed things that they didn't reveal anywhere else.

And I think we, in just about every interview, we broke new ground and created new ideas based on their work and my interactions with it.

And it was the most satisfying professional experience of my life doing that podcast.

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