PREVIEW - The Friday Edition: Behind the scenes of our time with Rep. Auchincloss.
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Isaac Saul
4.7 • 818 Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2025
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Last week, we released a documentary on the 72 hours we spent with Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D-MA).
Immediately, questions started coming in about what happened behind the scenes — what you didn’t see on camera, how the shoot came together, and what our impressions were about different elements of what we saw.
We wanted to respond to those questions, and also follow up on the story since there was so much that we weren’t able to fit in the video. If you haven’t watched it yet, you can do that here.
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| 0:00.0 | From executive producer Isaac Saul, this is Tangle. |
| 0:08.4 | Hi everyone, and welcome to the Tangle Friday edition. |
| 0:21.7 | This is Will Kayback. I'm Tangle's senior editor. |
| 0:24.9 | Coming to you on a lovely August Friday here in Brooklyn, New York, where I'm based. |
| 0:30.8 | And today I'm going to be reading our Friday piece, which is a response to feedback and questions we received after we put out our |
| 0:39.5 | YouTube video where we followed Representative Jake Alkengloss for about three days in June |
| 0:44.2 | while he was on the hill. The idea of this video was to get a behind-the-scenes look at what it's |
| 0:49.3 | actually like to be a member of Congress, the things you might see them do on a day-to-day basis, |
| 0:54.0 | the people they interact with, the things that they're them do on a day-to-day basis, the people |
| 0:54.3 | they interact with, the things that they're working on, and generally give you a peek |
| 0:57.9 | behind the curtains at what this incredibly important and serious job is actually like. |
| 1:03.4 | The video generated a ton of feedback, thoughts, questions, criticisms, and when that happens, |
| 1:08.9 | we sometimes like to dedicate an entire edition to respond into it. So that's what we're going to do today. We also think this will be a great way to follow up on the story since there was a ton we weren't able to fit in that video. If you haven't watched it yet, we'll put the link to it in today's show notes. There's a few points where we reference specific moments. And if you check this out in the newsletter, you'll see we've linked to specific spots in the video. |
| 1:31.7 | So it might be a good idea to also check out the newsletter if you are subscribed and read |
| 1:36.3 | through it there so you can watch the moments of the video that we're referencing. |
| 1:39.4 | But for the most part, everything should be clear in context. |
| 1:43.4 | All right, without further ado, let's jump into |
| 1:45.7 | our mailbag. What happened behind the scenes with Representative Jake Auchin-Clos? |
| 1:57.3 | Our first question comes from Jonathan from Omaha, Nebraska. |
| 2:01.6 | This was awesome. Will you do more? Will you do a companion piece for a Republican, an independent, or a libertarian perspective? |
| 2:07.6 | Here's our response. As our team and resources continue to grow, we definitely want to do more videos like this. |
| 2:13.6 | And if we can do a day in the life video with a Republican representative, we'd absolutely do it. |
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