The podcast opens with holiday greetings and a quick news roundup before announcing a break. A subscription drive emphasizes the end-of-year goal, inviting listeners to subscribe or gift memberships. Highlights of the past year include impressive audience growth and product launches. Testimonials showcase the show's impact on facilitating open conversations. Exciting plans for the next year feature new contributors and expansion into different media. The hosts conclude with warm holiday wishes and encourage support for the show.
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Take A News Break Over The Holidays
Take a deliberate break from news consumption over the holidays to protect your mental health.
Isaac Saul encourages stepping away and catching up later to give your brain a rest.
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Subscription Push And Gift Suggestion
Isaac Saul shares that Tangle is short of its end-of-year subscription goal and asks listeners to subscribe.
He directs listeners to readtangle.com/membership and pitches gifting subscriptions as last-minute presents.
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Independent Media Can Scale Profitably
Tangle grew substantially in reach, staff, and revenue this year, showing independent media can scale.
Isaac Saul highlights growth across newsletters, podcasts, and social channels as proof of impact.
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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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To listen to this podcast ad-free, and to enjoy our subscriber only premium content, go to ReadTangle.com to sign up!
Need a last-minute gift?
The holiday season is here, which is a good time to remind you: You can give the gift of Tangle to friends and family! There are two great options:
Gift a Tangle subscription. Whether it’s an earnest present to a friend or family member who would love our work, or a passive-aggressive gift for your favorite relative who doesn’t share your politics, a Tangle subscription is a great way to find some common ground and keep your loved ones informed. It takes thirty seconds!
Hit the merch shop. We have hoodies, shirts, mugs, stickers, hats, and even onesies for the little ones. Snag something fresh with our new logo or grab a vintage Tangle brain on any garment you’d like. You will want to hop on these quickly to make sure they arrive before the holidays!
Our Executive Editor and Founder is Isaac Saul. Our Executive Producer is Jon Lall.
This podcast was written by: Isaac Saul and edited and engineered by Dewey Thomas. Music for the podcast was produced by Diet 75.
Our newsletter is edited by Managing Editor Ari Weitzman, Senior Editor Will Kaback, Lindsey Knuth, Kendall White, Bailey Saul, and Audrey Moorehead.
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