Suspension of the Rules. - Kmele interviews Charles C.W. Cooke and then joins Isaac and Ari to talk about Susie Wiles and Rob Reiner.
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Isaac Saul
4.7 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2025
⏱️ 110 minutes
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Summary
On todays show Isaac, Ari and Kmele talk about Trump's very insensitive tweet about Rob Reiner, the Susie Wiles piece and more. Kmele then jumps into an interview with National Review's Senior Writer Charles C.W. Cooke. The guys then give some very questionable law advice in todays The Airing of Grievances section.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, coming up, we're talking about the Susie Wiles piece and the Rob Reiner tweet, |
| 0:06.5 | which by now you probably know about both of them. |
| 0:09.4 | And then Camille has an interview with Charles C.W. Cook from National Review. |
| 0:13.3 | And then a grievances section where we give some very questionable legal advice that you should probably ignore. |
| 0:19.2 | It's a good one. |
| 0:33.1 | Thank you. legal advice that you should probably ignore. It's a good one. Good morning, good afternoon and good evening and welcome to the suspension of the rules podcast. |
| 0:39.8 | I'm your somehow perpetually sick host, Isaac Saul. |
| 0:45.9 | You're probably just going to listen to me cough for like the next hour and a half. |
| 0:50.2 | I fought the flu. I beat its ass. I'm back. I'm on my feet, and I'm a survivor, fellas. |
| 0:56.8 | I'm here with Camille Foster, our editor at large, Ari Weitzman, managing editor. |
| 1:01.5 | Nobody has it harder than me, fellas. |
| 1:03.5 | I'm a tough, what's the word? |
| 1:07.5 | I'm a fighter, man, you know? |
| 1:09.5 | I just get through the tough times. That's what I do. |
| 1:12.4 | No, I'm going to jump on the line here real quick, Camille, because I want to pick up a note. Yeah, do it. |
| 1:16.5 | And I have a note here. I've just written down from a couple months ago, Isaac Saul said this, which was, I think I'm never going to be sick again. |
| 1:25.4 | This was after he started taking magnesium supplements and said, |
| 1:29.5 | yeah, it's my immune system is strong. I don't know. Zinc. Zinc. Not zinc. Right. Yeah, well, it turns out that |
| 1:37.8 | my beautiful, handsome, lovely 10-month-old son is a little walking miniature play bomb who just like goes to school, |
| 1:47.8 | finds various. I haven't had the flu since I was like 16 years old. And yeah, I got crushed. |
| 1:54.9 | I had 104 degree fever this weekend. I basically didn't leave bed for 36 hours. And now I have some |
| 2:00.7 | like post-viral cough that won't go away. I basically didn't leave bed for 36 hours. And now I have some like post-viral cough that |
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