I'm gonna be sitting down with Tommy Robinson this week.
To say Tommy's a controversial figure would be putting it mildly.
You only have to glance at his Twitter mentions to see how some see him as a modern-day hero defending Western society, while others see him as a racist thug.
Thankfully, I don't get all my information from Twitter, and neither should you.
Tommy is the co-founder of the English Defense League, a movement that opposes Islamism and Sharia law in the UK.
He left the EDL a few years ago after connecting with Majid Nawaz's Quilliam Foundation because he felt the EDL had become too extreme.
Now, Tommy is part of PAGIDA UK, a subset of the bigger European PAGIDA movement, which has the stated goal of preventing the Islamification of our countries.
Basically, Tommy thinks that the UK, and now all of Europe, are en route to becoming Islamic nations.
Tommy reached out to me about two months ago to see about being a guest on the show.
Before I said yes, I actually had to do a bit of soul-searching.
As you guys know, I'm beyond fed up with the regressive left's labeling of everyone a bigot or a racist.
But in Tommy's case, are they actually right?
And if the regressives are, why should I even talk to someone with racist views?
There's no doubt Tommy spends most of his time talking about the dangers of Islam.
He certainly isn't hiding that.
But are his motives actually based in bigotry?
It wasn't just those questions that had me unsure whether to talk to him, though.
There was actually something else at work and something that really exposes the rot that the regressives are causing in our society.
Part of me was actually afraid that if I spoke to Tommy, regardless of whether he really is a bigot or not, that I, also, would be labeled a bigot.
Let me repeat that.
I feared that just by having a conversation with someone, just by hearing their views on this show as I do every week, that I would then get one of those awful labels that people throw around thrown on me.
After a couple days of thinking about it, I realized that not only did I have to do the interview with Tommy, but my fear was the exact reason that I had to do it.
The chilling effect that words like bigot and racist have are not just on the person at who they are aimed, but they're also used to stop other people from talking to them.
The less we talk, the more the authoritarians can move in with easy answers.
Once I really wrapped myself around that, it was a no-brainer.
Like all my guests, I'll let Tommy's ideas be heard and you, the audience, will be the judge.
Ironically, if the left had been more honest about the dangers of Islamism all along, I would feel less of a need to have conversations like this.
But they refused to, so here we are.
If his ideas are good, then let them spread.
If they aren't, then let them be beat by better ideas.
As my former guest Douglas Murray said on Sam Harris' podcast a few weeks ago, it's too late to be willing to be blackmailed by people who are fundamentally insincere in their insults.
That's exactly how I feel about labels or pretty much any of the other nonsense coming from people who would rather stifle debate than have it.
This past weekend, I rewatched one of my all-time favorite movies, V for Vendetta.