From executive producer Isaac Saul, this is Tangle.

I'm your host, Isaac Saul. It's Monday. I have the distinct feeling that this is just going to be one of those weeks that feels like a month. I don't know why. I just got back from a little family vacation in the beach town of Oak Island, North Carolina, which is awesome.

It's the third year I've gone down there. It's kind of what I imagine the Outer Banks used to be like

a few decades ago. It's becoming this now annual tradition with my family because we have this

miraculous stretch of nine birthdays, including my own, that fall in this four-week span,

which feels like some kind of record. So we've been going down to Oak Island, North Carolina,

to celebrate, and I love it there. It's just like a beach town that's not overcrowded and

overpopulated, which is really hard to find these days. But I'm back to the real world now here in New Jersey.

And today we are diving into the latest Graham Platner controversy,

which feels like it's not going to be the last time we have to talk about him.

But we're doing it.

Also, we wanted to remind you guys that on our newsletter and our website,

we just launched new

and improved comments, which you might have missed in our Friday edition podcast.

But our new publishing platform, Goats, just rolled out several new commenting features,

which makes commenting on our articles way more interesting and less cumbersome and easier

to do.

So if you are ever reading our content online or if you're a podcast listener who wants to engage with our audience,

I highly recommend the comments section right now. It's a good place to be. All right,

with that, I'm going to hand it over to John to break down the day's main story and I'll be back

for my take.

Thanks, Isaac, and welcome, everybody.

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