Suspension of the rules. - Isaac, Ari, and Kmele chat with Ethan Strauss from the House of Strauss podcast.
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Isaac Saul
4.7 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Today on Suspension of the rules, Isaac, Ari, and Kmele are joined by Ethan Strauss from the House of Strauss podcast, a podcast about sports, politics, the future and technology. They get into some fun conversations about recent NBA gambling scandals and Nazis. Then Ethan joins us for the airing of grievances.
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up, we talk NBA scandal and we're joined by Ethan Strauss, who heard that we were going |
| 0:06.2 | to talk about some Nazis, so you decided to hang out for a little while. It's a good one. |
| 0:29.1 | Good morning, good afternoon and good evening and good evening and welcome to the suspension of the rules podcast. |
| 0:31.1 | I'm your host, Isaac Saul. |
| 0:38.5 | I'm here today with Camille Foster, our editor at large, and Ari Weitzman, our managing editor. |
| 0:41.0 | And we have a special guest here today. |
| 0:49.2 | Ethan Strauss of House of Strauss notoriety is joining us because we just have to talk about this NBA gambling scandal. |
| 0:51.4 | Zah. |
| 0:52.1 | I guess it's plural, too. |
| 1:00.0 | Yes. I just, yeah, there's no way around spending 10 or 15 minutes on this story. So, Ethan, welcome to the show. It's good to have you here, man. |
| 1:05.8 | Yeah, thanks for having me. And yeah, it is plural. I was just reading up on this right now and I read the phrase, |
| 1:13.1 | the second indictment. You never want to read that. You never want to be in a situation where there's |
| 1:18.0 | the second indictment. But yes, I'm trying to absorb as much as I can about this. I can talk |
| 1:24.7 | perhaps more cogently on what has led up to the conditions that would create this, |
| 1:29.3 | but this is a moving target right now. |
| 1:32.1 | This is whatever alarm fire for the NBA. |
| 1:36.6 | Yeah, well, I'll do, let me do the basics as I sort of understand it as a sports junkie |
| 1:42.9 | and not a sports journalist like Ethan. |
| 1:45.6 | But basically, I woke up this morning to a push notification that Chauncey Billups, |
| 1:53.8 | former NBA star, I mean, he was an all-star player at once. |
| 1:59.4 | I think he's one of the most underrated players |
| 2:02.8 | in NBA history, and if |
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