Tangle - A message from Isaac (and Trevor)...

Episode Date: September 24, 2021

Today's episode is a brief (but important) message on the future of this podcast!Please consider supporting this podcast by clicking here.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tanglenews/message Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Based on Charles Yu's award-winning book, Interior Chinatown follows the story of Willis Wu, a background character trapped in a police procedural who dreams about a world beyond Chinatown. When he inadvertently becomes a witness to a crime, Willis begins to unravel a criminal web, his family's buried history, and what it feels like to be in the spotlight.

Interior Chinatown is streaming November 19th, only on Disney+. Chinatown is streaming November 19th only on Disney+. From executive producer Isaac Saul, this is Isaac. Hello, whoa, another voice on the TanglePod. This is Trevor.

If you have been listening to the podcast the last week or two, then you probably know we have been putting in a lot of work to make this happen. Every morning when I'm done writing the Tangle newsletter, I slide my chair over to this newly built closet studio in our office space that I've set up, and I start recording. Inside that studio is a nice new microphone, which you're listening to me on right now, all sorts of foam padding and curtains and the recording program on my computer and all these edits coming in from the Tangle team on this Google Doc that I'm working out of. And it's this kind of mad dash to get it done. It takes me about an hour or two every morning

to get the recording right, to look up pronunciations, to make sure I'm saying things in a legible, hearable way. And then I download it all and send it over to Trevor. That's me. Trevor is the newest Tangle employee. Trevor, why don't you tell the people a little bit about yourself? Sure. I've got brown eyes, curly brown hair. At this point, it looks like I'll never quite make it to 5 feet 11 inches. But most importantly, I'm a longtime subscriber to Tangle. I'm a lover of podcasts. So I was thrilled to have the opportunity to help in the pursuit of joining the two earlier this year when Isaac and I hooked up to start the interview pod.

And I'm super excited that it has grown into the daily. So thank you for allowing us to share that with you and for lending us your ears. And maybe you could talk a little bit about what happens when the podcast gets to you. Sure, it's a multi-step process that is largely boring. But the long and short of it is that I download a giant raw vocal feed of Isaac's narration, upload it into some software, wherein I edit in the intro, outro, the transitional music by Diet75. I affect Isaac's voice in little ways that make it sound polished and nuanced and radio ready and edit out, you know, little vocal gaffes and silly little mouth sounds. No offense, Isaac,

silly little mouth sounds is just a normal human thing. At which point I export the file into a podcast-ready format. I send the file and the new recording back to Isaac. Around that time, the newsletter is about to be sent out. So this is the part of my day where I am scrambling, making sure the newsletter is properly vetted and finished, checking for last-minute typos, and just generally trying to listen to and upload the podcast file all at the same time. And then I write a description for the

episode, make sure it's hitting your podcast player early in the afternoon, preferably within 30 minutes of when the newsletter goes out. All told, the process is hours of work every day. It requires this office space we're paying for. It requires this little studio we've built. It's enough work that I had to bring Trevor onto the team. And now it means making sure that he's compensated for the awesome work he's doing on the show. That way he sticks around. So in order to do that, we need your support. Isaac's about to ask you for money. Support sounds a lot better than money, but yeah, we do need your help. We're only going to be able to keep this going and keep this podcast live if we are sure that it's both helping grow the business and that it's helping spread Tangle to more people.

So today we're just asking you for a little bit of support. Money. Right now, if you go to the episode description or you go to our Anchor homepage, which is anchor.fm backslash Tangle News, you'll see a little button that says support. Money! If you click that button, you can make a monthly pledge to Tangle. All we need truly is a few hundred listeners to pledge $5 or $9 a month to ensure that we're breaking even out of the gate and then we'll try and take care of the rest either by growing the subscriber base finding advertisers and sponsors if a bunch of people pledge we won't even have to do that or coming up with a creative new way

to monetize the podcast so i can keep my job so please right now go to the episode description or open yesterday's newsletter where we drop the link and make a monthly pledge. Your support, is it still funny if I say money, keeps us going. Thank you so much. Yes, thank you, thank you, thank you. Jokes aside, Tangle is a project that I care deeply about, and I know that you do too. We see evidence of it every day in the reader questions, We see evidence of it every day in the reader questions, listener feedback, and just the fact that you're here. So extend that support if you can. Thanks for letting me be a part of this. Thanks for letting us be a part of your daily routine.

Go support us. Link is in the episode description. I highly recommend that you click it. Give us your money. Yep, still funny. We'll see you next time. Thanks for watching! a background character trapped in a police procedural who dreams about a world beyond Chinatown. When he inadvertently becomes a witness to a crime, Willis begins to unravel a criminal web, his family's buried history, and what it feels like to be in the spotlight. Interior Chinatown is streaming November 19th, only on Disney+.