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Isaac Saul Intro/Host (1:51)
From executive producer Isaac Saul, this is Tangle.
Isaac Saul Host (2:06)
Good morning, good afternoon, and good evening, and welcome to the Tangle Podcast, a place where you get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking, and a little bit of my take. I'm your host Isaac Saul. Today is Tuesday, December 16th, and today we are covering Indiana's redistricting rejection. I think maybe the best way to put it is Indiana GOP rebuking President Donald Trump. Not a story you hear a ton of these days. Before we jump in to that main topic though, I have to give you a quick heads up. We launched a big campaign this morning about a couple hours ago to try and do something I think that's very ambitious. We're trying to get 3,500, 3,500 paying subscribers to Tangle in the next week. This would be the best week of paid growth ever, aside from the time that we were mentioning this American Life. So it's an ambitious goal. However, it's off to a really good start. We launched this as I'm recording this. We launched this about 20 minutes ago and we have close to 200 new paid subs already in the first 20 minutes since we sent an email out and launched this campaign. Now, I know some of you who are listening to this are already paid subs and there is actually something you can do which is you can gift a subscription to someone. You can do that by going to readtangle.com gift subscription. That's readtangle.com gift subscription. And it takes like two minutes to give someone a subscription. If you're listening to this and you're not a Tangle member already, you can go to readtangle.com membership and you can get a membership that is either a podcast only membership. If you scroll to the bottom, you'll see it's 59 bucks a year. It'll get you ad free podcasts, all the exclusive audio content we publish here. You can bundle that with a newsletter membership too. Which is the best deal. It's the best value when you combine those two. So I encourage you to do that. You can get a thank you tier membership which gets you everything and you pay a little extra just to support our work. Whatever you want to do. You can go to the membership page, check it out. But this would be a huge time to do it. And I know it's a weird time to ask because people are buying stuff for the holidays. I've been like on my computer shopping for friends and family and my wife and doing all this stuff. But you're spending some money so like, you know, a little extra for the old guys at Tangle. We could use it. The reason we could use it is we are facing the headwinds that every media industry faces, but for a little bit of a different reason, which is that we're pissing everybody off right now. To be totally honest. We criticize the left and a bunch of left leaning readers and listeners cancel. We criticize Trump and a bunch of MAGA Trump people cancel. We say something that's kind of in the middle and everybody gets upset. It's hard doing what we do from a business perspective. This is why most news organizations don't do this. They pick a partisan lane, feed people what they want and they just press that button over and over again. They don't do this because this is a hard business to operate to win with. And right now would be a really good time for you to support us because we haven't hit our end of year goals. We are about 3,500 subscribers short and conveniently we know there's about 350,000 people who listen or read our content for free. So that means like 1 in 350 people just need to subscribe to help us hit our goals. So if you're one of those people, there's hundreds of thousands of people who consume a bunch of Tango content and don't pay for it. We just need like 1 in 300 of you to become a paid member in the next week. And we'll hit our goals. So, you know, if you're driving or something, you don't have to, like, pull over and do it right now. You could. That'd be really cool if you did that. I mean, that'd be awesome if you did that. But if you're, like, doing the dishes, you could just, like, press pause on the podcast, go to the website, takes two minutes. And then once you do that, you'll never get ads again. You won't have to listen to me carry on like this asking you to become a member. Except for the members who are listening to this right now. This is a pretty unique thing. Again, gift subscriptions available anyway. All right, I'll leave it there. I think you get the point, but go do it. Just go do it, please.
