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.

My guest this week is an associate editor at Reason Magazine, where she writes about

precisely what you're not supposed to write about.

This is my interview with Elizabeth Nolan Brown.

So I'm at the Reason offices in Washington, D.C. with Liz Brown, Elizabeth Nolan Brown,

who's a staff writer, associate editor, sorry, here. And Liz, you and I actually have only met once

before, which is very strange, which we'll talk about later. But, so I'm going to do two things with you.

I'm going to make an argument later that you deserve a Pulitzer Prize.

But I want to get into something a little heavier right now.

So you've taken a position on something that's pretty important to me.

Is it, and I want just a straight answer, and try to be honest here.

So is it, do you say La Croix or do you try to say the French?

Well, I can't help that.

I thought it was the French.

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