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John Law
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From executive producer Isaac Saul, this is Tangle.
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Ari Weitzman
Good morning, good afternoon, and good evening and welcome to the Tangle Podcast, the place where you get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking, and a little bit of our take. This is Tangle's Managing editor Ari Weitzman with a bit of a different feature for our Friday podcast. Today we're introducing our 10 favorite Tangle reader essays, which is something that I think some of you might not even be aware of. Every Sunday we publish a subscribers only Sunday newsletter that features things like our favorites from across the Internet, things that we are posting on our social media channels, as well as recaps of what we published this week in the daily newsletter, questions and answers from readers, and a bunch of other fun stuff that you would expect from a Sunday newspaper. One of the things that we've been featuring in that newsletter is a reader essay. That's where we have anybody from the Tango audience submit their personal story experience, they had some local issue, we edit it, consider it for publication, and we send it out to our readers and our subscribers in our Sunday newsletter. These always look very different from what we publish during the week. And they always look different from each other too. Over the years since we've been publishing reader essays, we've gotten this great kaleidoscopic archive built up over time from one reader essay a week for the past two and a half years or so. We really only have one rule with reader essays. They have to be personal. Everybody who submitted something has submitted something about their lives and from their perspectives, which make these unique offerings. If it's something that you're interested in submitting, we're going to put a link to how to submit a reader essay pitch in the Show Notes, simple form to fill out, and then we'll consider it for a future Sunday. But today we've compiled our 10 favorite reader essays. We've put them in a Friday edition that is on our website. You can see the whole list there. Again, a link to that will be in the Show Notes and we're going to read one of them for you today. So the essays that we selected cover a wide amount of ground. We have one from a reader about how how they swapped their smartphone for a dumb phone, how it's the best thing they've ever done. We have one from a reader in California thanking first responders and the Army Corps of Engineers for helping build back her house and recover lost items after the Palisades fire in 2025. We have another one from a college writer covering student protests at Pomona University, an essay about Seattle public schools, an American abroad in Japan for 50 years. The list goes on, and you can see that list again in our Show Notes. But the one that we're featuring today, we think encapsulates what we like out of the reader essay. This one is called all the Pretty Hot Dogs. It comes from a young writer in Burlington, Vermont, which is just down the road from where I live in northern Vermont, and he's rhapsodic about Hot Dog Hysteria night at Centennial Field in Burlington, which is a sort of gimmicky 25 cent hot dog special that the local baseball affiliate, the Vermont Lake Monsters runs. Trust me, the way that Carl describes it is pretty special. He's a guy that I actually know personally too. He has a encyclopedic mind for literary references, especially for somebody in their early 20s, as some of you may have clocked in the headline, which is a Cormac McCarthy reference. I'm really excited to try to read this essay out in Carl's voice and I hope you guys enjoy. I'm sure you will. So with that out of the way, this is all the Pretty Hot Dogs by Carl Crawford. For my 10th birthday, my grandfather got me the Ken Burns documentary Baseball. I do not know why my grandfather decided that a Ken Burns documentary was an appropriate gift for a child. I assume it was something he thought he might find of use during his infrequent visits to Vermont where I was raised. Despite the awkwardness of getting a DVD box set as an elementary schooler, I loved it. I loved the stories, the legends, the fables of players spun throughout. I loved the many Burns idiosyncrasies that I was introduced to throughout its 10 part run, the slow zooms from people of interest, the pans from one subject to another inside a photo, the constant narration from different, often recognizable voices, and introduced me to a love and lore of the game that was so much richer than I could have ever imagined, showing me how a Civil War sideshow grew into a global phenomenon. For all the reverence and glory he puts upon America's pastime, Burns can never have predicted the way things would change in the years following baseball's 1994 release, Burns Focus remains solely on the game within the lines, with all the various digressions still stemming from and ultimately returning to America's pastime. But I don't think Burns heavy handed story of a Persevering sport could have found any narrative room for discussion of my favorite excuse for a ball game, Hot Dog Hysteria. Hot Dog Hysteria is a promotional night at Centennial field in Burlington, Vermont, where you can buy one hot dog for 25 cents. Centennial is home to the state's one and only baseball team, the Vermont Lake Monsters. For many years, the Lake Monsters were a single a minor league affiliate for a rotating cast of Major League Baseball teams such as the Oakland Athletics and Boston Red Sox. However, following some reorganization of the league in 2020, the Monsters lost their affiliation. They have since become a collegiate summer baseball team, playing other teams of similar happenstance throughout the region. Hot Dog Hysteria nights have consistently been the most attended games of the summer, often selling out before gates even open. These marketing events speak to a new age of baseball, one where the general public has become less romantic about baseball's methodical pacing, as well as a lack of interest from the local fans and a, let's face it, bunch of college players living out their summer of dreams before earning their econ degrees.
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John Law
Hey everybody, this is John, executive producer for Tangle. We hope you enjoyed this preview of our latest episode. If you are not currently a newsletter subscriber or a premium podcast subscriber and you are enjoying this content and watching would like to finish it, you can go to readtangle.com and sign up for a newsletter subscription. Or you can sign up for a podcast subscription or a bundled subscription, which gets you both the podcast and the newsletter and unlocks the rest of this episode as well as ad free daily podcasts, more Friday editions, Sunday editions, bonus content, interviews and so much more. Most importantly, we just want to say thank you so much for your support. We're working hard to bring you much more content and more offerings, so stay tuned. I will join you again for the daily podcast. For the rest of the crew, this is John Law signing off. Have a great day, y'. All. Peace.
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Ari Weitzman
Our Executive editor and founder is me, Isaac Saul, and our Executive producer is John Lowell. Today's episode was edited and engineered by Dewey Thomas. Our editorial staff is led by Managing Editor Ari Weitzman, with Senior Editor Will K. Back and Associate Editors Audrey Moorhead, Lindsey Knuth and Bailey Saw. Music for the podcast was produced by Diet75. To learn more about Tangle and to sign up for a membership, please visit our website@retangle.com.
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John Law
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