Reader interview, Part 4: Kristen / Jon
Tangle
Isaac Saul
4.8 • 672 Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2023
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Kristen (who sometimes goes by Jon) is from Des Moines, Iowa. They are a Christian, raised Catholic in a moderate left household, and say the teachings of the church pushed them "wayyyyy far left." Kristen is non-binary, a lesbian, just graduated college, and moved states to start their first adult job as a software engineer.
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| 1:01.6 | Good morning, good afternoon and good evening and welcome to the Tangle podcast, the place we get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking without all that hysterical nonsense you find everywhere else. |
| 1:12.5 | I'm your host, Isaac Saul, and this is our fourth installment of the Tangle Reader interview series, which I still have not named four episodes in, so I don't know what to call it. And today we are sitting down with Kristen from Des Moines, Iowa. |
| 1:17.2 | Kristen, thank you so much for being here. Yeah, I'm really happy to be here. Thanks for having me. |
| 1:21.7 | I'm excited for this conversation. We've had a really interesting kind of eclectic mix of people |
| 1:26.7 | coming on this week. And I think |
| 1:30.2 | you fit the bill and you add something new that we haven't had yet. And that's exciting. |
| 1:35.3 | Yeah, you're you are the youngest person we've had so far. I know you're a recent, how old are you? |
| 1:41.1 | 23. I just graduated college in May. 23. |
| 1:44.4 | Okay, awesome. |
| 1:45.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:45.3 | So you were, I think, far and away, the youngest person we had on at our randomly |
| 1:48.9 | selected readers. |
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