Some closing thoughts on the year.
Tangle
Isaac Saul
4.7 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2025
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
Dear listeners,
First and foremost, a programming note: The Tangle team will be off Wednesday through Friday, but we’ll be back in your inbox on Sunday and for a few days next week before the new year. I hope you all have a merry Christmas and happy holidays, and you get to enjoy some time off from the news (we’ll update you on everything you missed when we’re back, so feel free to take a break).
Second, as we head into this period of winter vacation, I wanted to thank you all for an incredible year. We’re still a bit short of our end-of-year subscription goal (so if you haven’t yet, please go subscribe or gift a subscription!), but on the whole, it’s been another fantastic year for Tangle. A few brief highlights, if you’ll indulge me:
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| 0:00.0 | From executive producer Isaac Saul, this is Tangle. Good morning, good afternoon and good evening and and welcome to the final Tangle podcast before Christmas. |
| 0:26.4 | It is Tuesday, December 23rd. |
| 0:29.9 | There's some news, not a ton of news. |
| 0:32.3 | So you're not missing much today without us breaking it down for you. I'll say I'm keeping my eye on some of the |
| 0:41.1 | fallout from the Epstein file stuff. We got some more docs last night. U.S. economic growth |
| 0:48.4 | surged in the third quarter of 2025. We got a new labor economic report today. There's a big controversy at CBS right now |
| 0:59.2 | with Barry Weiss and her killing a story about Seacott, which I read the details, the memo |
| 1:06.7 | of why she killed it seems totally reasonable to me. I'm not at all convinced that she's |
| 1:13.4 | like in the tank for the Trump administration. Maybe it has something to do with this merger, |
| 1:18.3 | but, you know, these are their stories kind of percolating, but we're not covering any of them |
| 1:23.2 | today. This is a little end-of-the-year wrap podcast. So first and foremost, I'm here with a programming |
| 1:30.4 | note, which is that we will be off Wednesday through Friday this week. We'll be back in your |
| 1:36.9 | inbox on Sunday with a Sunday edition newsletter. And then we'll have a podcast for a few days |
| 1:42.8 | next week before the new year. |
| 1:45.0 | And then during the new year break, we're going to be releasing a couple interviews we have in the bank that have been completed but not yet release. |
| 1:52.8 | So I'm here mostly to say, I hope you all have a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays or whenever you celebrate. |
| 1:59.7 | Good New Year. |
| 2:02.9 | I hope you get to enjoy some time off from the news. We'll update you on everything you miss next week on Monday when we're back. So |
| 2:08.1 | if you want to take a little news break and then just tune in to next week's podcast, you can do that. |
| 2:13.8 | And I encourage you to do that. It's a good thing. It's healthy for your brain if you're a big |
| 2:17.5 | news consumer. Second, I'm here because as we head into this period of winter vacation, I just |
| 2:23.3 | want to thank all you guys for an incredible year. We're still a little bit short of our end of year |
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