Welcome to the Quillett Podcast. I'm your host Jonathan Kay, a senior editor at

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articles and early access to Colette social events. And this week I'll be

reporting from Nashville, Tennessee, though reporting may not be the right word, as this one feels more like a summer

vacation podcast. You see, every summer, a Nashville Pharmaceuticals tycoon, I'll call him Mike, convenes about a half dozen or so obsessive board

gamers at his board gaming compound in the Nashville suburb city of Lebanon and

for the last few years I've been lucky enough to count myself among the invited guests.

These trips aren't just a great chance to play games and visit one of America's great tourism cities.

It's also my annual chance to reconnect in person with Colette alumnus editor Colin Wright and his

girlfriend, Colette published journalist Christina Butts.

Regular readers of Colette will remember Colin as a PhD evolutionary biologist turned writer who

now runs the popular sub-stack Reality's Last Stand, which he uses to fight back against those seeking to replace our biological

understanding of sex with self-described gender identity.

This year we met up for breakfast at the flat tire diner near Andrew Jackson's old

hermitage estate, which I happened to be visiting that morning.

And I decided to record the conversation, in which we discussed why the couple decided to move to Nashville, what the

sub-stack life is like, and the fight against so-called gender ideology more

generally. And just to warn you, the flat-tired diner is a popular place, so you'll hear a fair amount of background noise from other diners, some of whom, as you'll learn, are quite young.

Is this how you imagined your life when you moved here? Or did you imagine it be more like

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