Suspension of the rules. - Isaac, Ari and Kmele chat about Republicans standing up to Trump, Los Angeles mayoral election and a literal horror story unfolding at the border.
Tangle
Isaac Saul
4.7 • 818 Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2026
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Coming up on todays episode of Suspension of the Rules, are Republicans maybe finally standing up to President Trump? We get into the L.A. mayoral race and Spencer Pratt as well as a literal horror story unfolding at the border followed by our grievances where we say good bye to Ari's favorite sandwich shop. It's a good one!
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up, Republicans finally maybe stand up to Donald Trump. |
| 0:04.9 | We talk about Spencer Pratt in L.A. |
| 0:07.3 | A literal horror story unfolding on the border, |
| 0:11.2 | and we mourn the loss of Ari's favorite sandwich shop. |
| 0:14.7 | It's a very good episode. |
| 0:15.6 | Music. Good morning, good afternoon and good evening and welcome to the suspension of the rules podcast. |
| 0:33.6 | This is a politics talk show where we kind of break the rules of normal, terrible pun entry that exists basically everywhere else you look. |
| 0:41.2 | I'm your host, Isaac Saul, executive editor of Tangle News. |
| 0:44.3 | I'm here with Camille Foster, our editor at large, and Ari Weitzman, our man. |
| 0:49.9 | I just intimidate you so much, I know. |
| 0:54.5 | We might as well leave that in. |
| 0:56.3 | And Ari Weitzman, our managing editor of Tangle. |
| 1:00.8 | I was going to make a joke about how Camille's life is ruined |
| 1:04.6 | because OKC's not in the finals and he sucks and it's Wendan Yama's League, New York Knicks basketball tonight, but now I stumbled over my opening words, so I look and sound like a fool, and I don't really know where to go here. Camille, opening, opening, take it, say something. You got him on the ropes. I can't, I can't. I'm still, I'm smarting from the OKC loss. I am a little sad about it. But it was a great series. And I'm confident this is going to be a good finals. And I am going to say Spurs and Six. I can't wait. I can't wait for the Knicks to win. And I participate in the civil disobedience in New York City that takes |
| 1:45.3 | place after. Oh, I know. I will be out in the streets, looting stores, burning buildings, |
| 1:51.6 | flipping cars over. You will see me on CBS News. It's going to be awesome. |
| 1:57.2 | Make an example of you. Shamed. Yeah, exactly. All right, well, listen, there's a lot of stuff going on. |
| 2:04.6 | I'm really excited for today's show. |
| 2:06.2 | I'm stoked to talk about some of what's happening in California and specifically Los Angeles. |
| 2:12.6 | I'm very, very interested in a weird, disgusting story about an insect that I'm not looking forward |
| 2:21.4 | to talking about, but also looking forward to talking about, which we're going to get to in a little |
| 2:24.3 | bit. But I think at the top here, we have to talk about what's going on in the White House |
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