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.

Right now, Katie Herzog is a staff writer for the stranger newspaper in Seattle.

But I think, and I hope, she's the future.

This is my interview with Katie Herzog.

God, I'm in like one of the most prestigious places in my world. I've wanted to be, you don't know this, Katie, but I've wanted to be a journalist for an

alt-weekly like The Stranger since I was about 18 years old.

Well, you are in the belly of the beast right now.

I know.

We're in the offices of The Stranger, which is the premier alt-weekly, not just in Seattle,

but right now we were just saying, I think, in the country.

You know, I got to interrupt you for a second.

We're actually in alt-byweekly, so we are definitely the pre-ineminent alt-weekly in the country.

Okay.

I think you're both.

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