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The preeminent political trickster Michael Malice joined me for his fourth appearance on the show. We discussed his admiration for Ayn Rand and RuPaul, how gays liberate straights, and of course my many physical and intellectual shortcomings. 25% off all CBD products at: https://palomaverdestore.com/33% off the Unregistered Combo Pack: https://palomaverdestore.com/product/unregistered-combo-pack/Use discount code “RENEGADE” at checkout. … Continue reading Unregistered 126: Michael Malice →

The former gay porn star turned podcaster, public intellectual and academic spoke with me from his new home in Dublin to discuss the puritanical effects of the lockdown and social distancing, mental illness and “anarchy of the mind,” the lesson we both draw from the life of our late friend Michael Brooks, and the meaning … Continue reading Unregistered 125: Conner Habib →

The author of the brilliant new book The Cult of Smart spoke with me about our society’s fetishization of “intelligence” as well as his own struggles with mental health. Freddie deBoer is the rare public intellectual who is as candid, astute and knowledgeable about himself as he is about politics. The Cult of Smart: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07J4RMN5Y/ … Continue reading Unregistered 124: Freddie deBoer →

The personal and the political are always intertwined. No one understands that better than my guest Bridget Phetasy, who joined me to discuss her rise from drunk bartender to Twitter and podcast star, the problems with left-right politics, the life-saving power of art, and our mutual troubles with pleasure. 25% off all CBD products at: … Continue reading Unregistered 123: Bridget Phetasy →

The social scientist Wilfred Reilly joined me to discuss how most of what Americans hear in the media about racism and race relations is not only destructive but also patently and absurdly false. 25% off all CBD products at: https://palomaverdestore.com/ 33% off the Unregistered Combo Pack Use discount code “RENEGADE” at checkout. Subscribe on iTunes: … Continue reading Unregistered 122: Wilfred Reilly →

Was my turn away from socialism a mistake? I talked with Doug Henwood, one of the most respected American socialists throughout my political life, about what it means to remain devoted to the cause I was born into. 25% off all CBD products at: https://palomaverdestore.com/ 33% off the Unregistered Combo Pack Use discount code “RENEGADE” … Continue reading Unregistered 121: Doug Henwood →

Lenore Skenazy, founder of the Free-Range Kids movement, joined me to examine why the Gen-X generation became the Helicopter Parent generation and whether I was neglected or liberated as a child. 25% of all CBD products at: https://palomaverdestore.com/ Use discount code: “RENEGADE” at checkout. Subscribe on iTunes: http://www.thaddeusrussell.com/itunes Join the Underground: https://www.unregisteredunderground.com Episode Notes: http://www.thaddeusrussell.com/podcast/119 … Continue reading Unregistered 120: Lenore Skenazy →

For more than three years virtually the entire class of educated and powerful Americans believed that Russia elected Donald Trump as president and Vladimir Putin controlled the politics of the United States. The journalist Aaron Maté and I discussed what we both consider to be a bizarre, infuriating and dangerous phenomenon. 25% of all CBD … Continue reading Unregistered 119: Aaron Maté →

I spoke with Hotep Jesus about his experiences with racism, the state’s war on black men, how integration is “infiltration,” why he aligned with MAGA and “race realists,” black nationalism and conservatism, the myth of black homophobia, BLM and LGBTQ, and how the current antiracism movement centers and grants power to white people. 25% of … Continue reading Unregistered 118: Hotep Jesus →

As cities were burning from rage against police brutality and mass incarceration, the author of The Feminist War on Crime explained to me that one of the principal causes of that brutality and over-incarceration was the feminist movement of the last 150 years. 25% of all CBD products at: https://palomaverdestore.com/ Use discount code: “RENEGADE” at … Continue reading Unregistered 117: Aya Gruber →