PREMIERE - Suspension of the rules: A new era begins.
Tangle
Isaac Saul
4.7 • 818 Ratings
🗓️ 8 August 2025
⏱️ 95 minutes
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Summary
It's a new day and a new name for the Sunday podcast. Literally. We are moving our fan favorite podcast from Sundays to Fridays, and giving it a new name. SUSPENSION OF THE RULES.
Isaac, Ari, and Kmele talk about the rebrand and the challenges in coming up with a good podcast name. They also discuss the intricacies of gerrymandering and its implications on the political landscape, and the role of artificial intelligence, particularly ChatGPT, in today's society. They explore both its potential benefits and the challenges it presents, especially for younger generations.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | All right, coming up, a new podcast and a new name and a new visual brand. |
| 0:05.5 | We've got some big breaking news in the Tangle world. |
| 0:09.0 | We talk census gerrymandering news, some of what President Trump's proposing, |
| 0:14.7 | and one very, very intense comment on a Tangle article we deconstruct a little bit. |
| 0:19.8 | And then some chatter about |
| 0:21.0 | Chatsy PT and the kids and whether they're all right or not. And finally, our first ever |
| 0:26.5 | grievance section in the new podcast. It's a good one. |
| 0:33.1 | From executive producer Isaac Saul. This is Tangle. |
| 0:38.7 | Hey, everybody. |
| 0:49.5 | Welcome to suspension of the rules. |
| 0:54.6 | A brand new Tangle podcast, whose opening will forever be the 10-second clip of our conversation that suddenly became on the record you just heard. |
| 1:06.4 | I'm Isaac Saul, your host, Tangles executive editor. |
| 1:10.3 | I'm here with Ari Weitzman, our managing editor and Camille Foster, our editor-at-large. We have a name for a podcast, but we do not yet have an intro, so you're getting what we have. Fellas, the inaugural episode of suspension of the rules. How are we feeling? Camille, how are you feeling? I know there's some back and forth, |
| 1:29.6 | there's some percolation. Don't worry to be honest. The rules are extended. I'm always happy to |
| 1:36.3 | be with you, gentlemen. I'm always happy to share some space, be it physically or virtually as |
| 1:42.4 | you can always tell what somebody thinks about something when they start complimenting a thing that isn't happening. |
| 1:47.8 | What do you think of this name? |
| 1:48.7 | I love being with you guys. |
| 1:49.9 | This is such a nice space. |
| 1:52.2 | You know, I say things like that all the time. |
| 1:54.7 | But yeah, often in preparation of getting ready to say something critical. |
| 1:58.8 | Look, am I thrilled about the new branding? |
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