Unregistered with Thaddeus Russell

Gavin McInnes is a media personality, actor, comedian, and the author of The Death of Cool: From Teenage Rebellion to the Hangover of Adulthood. He’s also the host of The Gavin McInnes Show on Compound Media. He was one of the co-founders in 1994 of Vice Media (which he departed in 2008).

Daniele Bolelli is a university professor, the creator of the enormously popular History on Fire podcast, and the author of several books on philosophy and religion. He’s also a former professional mixed martial arts cage-fighter. Daniele dislikes the culture of academia as much as it dislikes him. He’s an academic outlaw, but as you’ll see, … Continue reading Episode 5: Daniele Bolelli →

I’ve always thought of him as a renegade genius. After serving as a U.S. Army combat medic in Baghdad, Jonathan Carp studied ancient history and political philosophy while working as a nurse and raising a family in Tacoma, Washington. Several years ago I asked him to write the stories of the people he knew who … Continue reading Episode 4: Jonathan Carp →

Recently I’ve been re-thinking some of my core ideas about race, a subject I’ve been studying and writing about for more than 30 years. This is largely because of conversations I’ve been having with Kmele Foster. He is the former co-host of The Independents, the co-founder and lead producer of FreeThink Media, the host of … Continue reading Episode 3: Kmele Foster →

I talk to Maggie McNeill, a sex worker and author, who for many good reasons calls herself a whore. Maggie’s blog, The Honest Courtesan, and her Twitter account have become hubs of the emergent sex-workers’ rights movement. She is a living renegade and one of the fiercest thinkers I know.

In the first episode of Unregistered, I introduce the podcast and interview Michael Malice, who is the author of Dear Reader: The Unauthorized Autobiography of Kim Jong Il, the subject of Harvey Pekar’s Ego & Hubris: The Michael Malice Story, a columnist for The Observer, and a cable news renegade.