Suspension of the rules. - Isaac, Ari, and Kmele talk about Trump's health, Venezuela, and Gaza.
Tangle
Isaac Saul
4.7 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2025
⏱️ 103 minutes
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Summary
Isaac, Ari, and Kmele talk about the implications of recent U.S. military actions in Venezuela, the controversial Gaza reconstitution plan, and the ongoing challenges in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The conversation also touches on the personal side of life, with reflections on parenthood and the societal structures that support it. And, as always, the Airing of Grievances.
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up, Donald Trump dead question mark. |
| 0:03.6 | Strikes on Venezuelan cartels, allegedly. |
| 0:07.8 | The Gazalago leaks, which is really depressing. |
| 0:11.4 | And then a really, really nice grievance section |
| 0:14.1 | where we mostly talk about how virtuous we are. |
| 0:16.8 | It's a good one. |
| 0:20.9 | From executive producer Isaac Saul, this is Tangle. |
| 0:31.5 | Good morning. |
| 0:37.3 | Good afternoon and good evening and welcome to the suspension of the rules podcast, |
| 0:41.4 | our weekly meditation on the news, our own worldviews, and a place where we get to break the rules of punditry, |
| 0:46.9 | seek out some common ground, and speak our minds without being insufferable about it. |
| 0:51.0 | What do you think? I'm workshopping it. |
| 0:58.4 | I could be, is it, it's kind of something. |
| 0:59.6 | It's nice. |
| 1:00.6 | You want me to read it again? |
| 1:01.4 | I'll do it again. No, I mean, if I tell you my authentic feelings, my authentic feelings, it reminds me of the fifth column intro. |
| 1:28.0 | Oh, interesting. In a weird way. A weekly, our weekly... Yeah, and it feels like... Our weekly rhetorical assault, what do you guys say? Yeah. Well, I say, our weekly rhetorical assault and the news cycle of people that make it occasionally ourselves. I'm Camille Foster, Patrick, etc. That, I mean, it just kind of arrived. |
| 1:30.7 | It became that thing over the course of weeks. |
| 1:32.5 | It was not at all perfected. |
| 1:36.4 | And now almost 10 years later is still the thing. |
| 1:39.1 | Even while we're experimenting with a new format and have actually just shot this week the first two |
| 1:42.6 | genuine, authentic fifth column on video for |
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