Two years ago, I quit my job. Today, I need your help.
Tangle
Isaac Saul
4.8 • 672 Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2023
⏱️ 14 minutes
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| 0:35.2 | From executive producer Isaac Saul, this is Tangle. |
| 0:40.7 | This is Tangle. |
| 1:01.7 | The good morning, good afternoon and good evening, and welcome to the Tango podcast, the place we get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking without all that hysterical nonsense you find everywhere else. |
| 1:07.6 | I'm your host, Isaac Saul, and today is a special edition of our podcast. |
| 1:14.5 | This is the two-year anniversary since I quit my job to go in at Tangle full-time. |
| 1:21.4 | And we also have a very big announcement and a small favor to ask. At the end of the podcast, |
| 1:31.0 | we'll do some quick hits and have a nice day story. But with that, I'm just going to jump right in. Two years ago, I made one of the most important bets of my life. I wouldn't call it a roll of the dice or a coin toss or any other |
| 1:36.7 | euphemism that implies pure chance. More than anything, it was a bet on you, my readers and listeners. |
| 1:43.1 | It was a bet that what I was seeing, what I wanted to see, |
| 1:46.2 | was real, that you were genuinely interested in being challenged in embracing debate and in getting |
| 1:51.5 | out of your bubbles, and that you would stick around for the long term, even when you were asked |
| 1:56.3 | to read things you didn't agree with. When Tangles started, it was nothing more than a concept for a political |
| 2:01.9 | newsletter that got people to drop their news filters. I thought my background put me in a unique |
| 2:07.2 | position to pull it off. I'd grown up in a politically divided place with friends and family from |
| 2:12.0 | across the political spectrum, and I felt open-minded and politically incongruent myself. |
| 2:17.2 | I found myself siding with different political factions |
| 2:19.8 | based on specific issues rather than strict party lines, |
| 2:23.5 | and I figured there were a lot more people like me out there. |
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