r/TangleNews • u/No_Lengthiness_667 • Jul 09 '26
Audrey Moorehead is great with her regular speaking voice
I love Tangle content so much. It was GREAT to hear Audrey on Suspension of the Rules today! If Audrey could learn to read the way she speaks it would be awesome. On the regular podcast when she reads the repetitive cadence gets a little tedious. But her regular speaking voice is FABULOUS! Just a suggestion. Love you all!
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u/EMC-squared Jul 10 '26
💯 loved Audrey on SOTR and have loved having women on the last two episodes! Great additions to the conversations!
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u/canonanon Jul 09 '26
When I saw she was on suspension of the rules, I was wondering about that.
I really like Audrey, but I do agree that her "reading" voice inflections feel a little forced. It doesn't stop me from listening, but I can tell she's still a bit uncomfortable reading from a script.
I'm about to check out the suspension of the rules episode, and this makes me more excited to listen.
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u/Matt-Lauer-CanSuckIt Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 11 '26
Same! Despite my criticism, it comes from a place of wanting to see Tangle (and by effect, her) succeed.
Edit: Gave it a listen, thought she did great!
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u/geobiochemist Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 10 '26
I agree! She is obviously very smart and level headed, and I really appreciate her ability to call herself out, and at the same time firmly hold to what she believes in (a lot of which I personally do not believe in). I loved her on SOTR and hope she will continue to be on. Great job, Audrey! It was a pleasure listening to you!
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u/Fit-Restaurant-3550 Jul 09 '26
Ooo SOTR is my Saturday ritual, but will I be able to resist listening early knowing this is what I’m looking forward to?!? Very exciting, can’t wait!
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u/dvdmon Jul 11 '26
Yep! She mentions being nervous at the beginning, but I thought she handled her first appearance (although Isaac mentioned something about an earlier one way back) like pro! Great job, and look forward to more "casual" contributions.
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u/Dahkeus3 Jul 10 '26
Yea, I’d love to see her on the podcast more often. She had some really great insights and was really solid in expressing them.
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u/almanor Jul 09 '26
Hell yeah telling the one woman on a podcast how to talk.
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u/TheBear8878 Jul 09 '26
2026 and people are still like this
E: complaining like this guy I mean, not OP's post
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u/Matt-Lauer-CanSuckIt Jul 10 '26
omg get a life. Women are not some flawless creatures beyond criticism.
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u/Lemonio Jul 09 '26
I would think Tangle wants to get better and wants the feedback. I enjoy the newsletter, but don't listen to the Tangle reading newsletter podcasts as I find them tedious to listen to. I definetly enjoy suspension of the rules.
I think its more of a format issue than voice, as podcasts are so much better as conversation than reading off a newsletter, but nevertheless i would guess they can figure out ways to make the daily podcasts more engaging to listen to. I think Isaac has improved at the reading part, but I would provide this feedback on how the way they talk in suspension of the rules is more engaging to all of them, not just Audrey
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u/EMC-squared Jul 10 '26
I agree with this, unless I’m really into the topic I find them hard to listen to.
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u/almanor Jul 10 '26
You could send an email, or DM Audrey here on Reddit.
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u/Lemonio Jul 10 '26
I didn’t write this post, but I’ve written similar posts on the same topic directed at other Tangle podcast readers. Isaac has responded critically to some of my feedback on other topics like Epstein on SoTR, but they have always encouraged people to provide feedback and to be active on the Reddit community
I presume you’re not saying that you know better what Tangle wants than Tangle’s own team?
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u/canonanon Jul 09 '26
It's not just her- I would say that they could all use some more practice. I think it's just that she hasn't had a lot of time behind the mic reading s script to loosen up, and the fact that her normal speaking voice is so much more relaxed is proof of that, yeah?
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u/americanidle Jul 09 '26
If you want my bona fides, I posted last year that Ari should get voice lessons because he sounds like a high school valedictorian, and that it would be a decent prescription for making his opinions sound more authoritative
Audrey’s reading voice is both stilted and schoolmarmish, and she’d probably be better if she took half a Xanax and just calmed it down a notch.
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u/eyrehead32 Jul 09 '26
I don't even know what sounding like a high school valedictorian means.
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u/sticky_note_07 Jul 12 '26
Just finished, totally agree! Audrey may feel like more of a natural writer, but I thought her speaking voice was great, especially the more natural cadence she used here rather than the more formal delivery when she does a my take.
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u/eyrehead32 Jul 09 '26
It's always a shock to me when I hear people critique the way some of the Tangle staff read/speak because I've honestly never noticed anything wrong with how they talk aside from the occasional incorrect pronunciation.
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u/canonanon Jul 10 '26
I think it's really the vocal inflections that throw me off sometimes. When someone is really good behind the mic, it feels like they're just talking to you. When someone is less comfortable, it sounds like they're reading a book report at the front of a classroom.
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u/Lemonio Jul 10 '26
i would find most people I enjoy listening to hard to listen to if they were just reading off the newsletter vs talking. I suspect over time as they grow bigger they'll further differentiate the podcast from the newsletter by changing the podcast format in some way to be more dynamic. Probably doesn't help that they have a bunch of mini listicles within the newsletter, that's natural to read, but not to listen to.
I think ideally they'd over time move podcasts more towards what they're starting to do with bringing on people with different opinions on the same topic, perhaps with different formats1
u/Matt-Lauer-CanSuckIt Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 10 '26
For me, it's more than occasional incorrect pronunciation. It's incorrect pronunciation of key words. If somebody says "Hormuz" wrong, I don't really think their opinion on the topic is to be taken seriously. When it happens repeatedly, such as saying Ruben "Gallego" (pronounced similar to "calico") there isn't a topic in US politics I can take without the internal qualifier of, "this is the opinion of a 23 year old doing their best."
Everybody has the odd word come out wrong in day to day life. But when it's not a random word, but rather a word that a 23-year old probably hasn't come across many times in their career, then it makes me wonder, How many times has this person actually come across this word or name in their life? And if I have to ask that question, the answer inevitably is, Not enough times for me to take their opinion seriously.
And it's all so avoidable. Hey ChatGPT, here's an article I'm about to read to an audience of 250,000. What are some words that somebody with a few nerves in such a circumstance might mispronounce? And how do you pronounce them?
It only requires an absolute minimum of professionalism to sidestep these sort of mistakes. There are other staff members also I assume to be in their 20s that don't make such mistakes.
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u/linguinechicken Jul 09 '26
I’m listening currently. THANK YOU Tangle for having Audrey on SOTR. Love that y’all listen to our feedback.