Suspension of the rules. - Isaac, Ari and Kmele mourn Dolly Parton and then get into Iowa's interesting candidate for governor, Darline Graham, Jesse Watters and more.
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Why do the hosts mourn Dolly Parton and what does her legacy mean for the conversation?
Coming up morning, Dolly Parton, a very interesting candidate for governor in Iowa. We talk about Darlene Graham actually winning the Republican Senate primary in South Carolina, a good guy of the week segment on Jesse Waters, maybe, and then uh some very good grievances. It's a great episode.
Good morning, good afternoon, and good evening, and welcome to the Suspension of the Rules podcast, a politics talk show where you try and turn the temperature down, have some reasonable dialogue, agree to disagree, talk about how stupid each other are, all at the same time. I'm your host, I'm not sure. Yeah, here with my good friends, uh Ari Weissman, Tangle Managing Editor, and our editor at large, Camille Foster. Um, gentlemen, flags half mass right now. We are mourning the loss of the great, the singular. Dolly Parton. Uh the news hit the Slack channel in a very ungracious way. I'm not gonna name names, but um I found out this heartbreaking news with one blip of a Slack message that just said Dolly Parton dead yesterday, which I did not like, did not appreciate the uh the ungraciousness of that.
Uh But it's gotten me thinking, we had a day yesterday where President Donald Trump announced the death of Dolly Parton, announced a week-long honoring of her extraordinary life, said basically what I would say of her, which is uh she's one of one. There will never be anybody like her. There never has been, there never will be again. And then in the same mm two minute time span, you've got the DSA posting tweets, honoring Dolly Parton, the Democratic Party, Republican Democratic politicians from across the political spectrum, pop culture icons from you know MM, uh to basically every actor I follow on Twitter.
Kim Jong un as well.
Kim Jong yeah, saw the North Korea.
Speaking of legendary actors, you know?
Yeah. Yeah. It just it got me thinking. I I don't know. Is there another person? as universally beloved as this? Was there another living person as universally beloved as this? Is there anybody who holds a candle to her? Who who else could die in August 2026 and receive this kind of reception? I honestly don't know. It's
encouraged.
And
Mm.
Somebody would find something negative to say. Well,
we'll find out. I don't know. Poor guy. Um also universally beloved, though probably not to the same degree as Dolly Parton's being
received. Yeah,
that's true. But this is like are there no major entertainment scandals involving Dolly Parton ever? I mean I can't think of anything, but
I don't know. I if there are, I refuse to learn about them. That's my position I have. I
think that's the right stance to have. Yeah, we won't we won't sell you her reputation the day after she uh her death is in the
and if I don't know about them at this point, she's been alive for eighty years. I don't care to learn about them anytime soon. And like I you know, I listen to her music, I follow her stuff a bit. The The work you know, the work that she does outside of her being an incredible country singer, artist Is so uniformly loved. The the children's library, all the philanthropic stuff. Just just somebody who like exuded love. And and it really that that is actually what I've been thinking about the last 24 hours is like what it what was the formula for her that worked? And it's actually remarkable how simple it was. It's like she cared a ton about children and making kids' lives good. And she was really positive and and just like poured love on people no matter what.
She's never negative or nasty. She was self-deprecating, but also very honest about who she was and forthright about who she was. I don't know. I it really is it for me at least. I definitely can't think of any s politicians who'd receive this kind of reception. I think because of the nature of their work. And from a entertainment celebrity status, it does really feel like maybe uh the end of some sort of nonpartisan monoculture love. existence that nobody else is ever gonna really have. So um feels worth acknowledging just on the merits of who she was as an artist, but also in the context of the show and what we do at Tangle.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Why do the hosts mourn Dolly Parton and what does her legacy mean for the conversation?
0:00–8:23
2
How do Isaac, Ari, and Kmele analyze Dolly Parton’s unique appeal and why she was universally beloved?
8:23–18:23
3
What is the story behind Iowa’s surprising gubernatorial candidate Rob Sand and why is he getting attention?
18:23–28:35
4
How does the discussion of Rob Sand transition into the surprising Pennsylvania Senate poll on John Fetterman?
28:35–37:34
5
Why do the hosts label Jesse Waters as the “Good Guy of the Week” and what does his interview reveal?
37:34–45:44
6
What grievance do the hosts share about rodents chewing electric‑car cables and why does it matter?
45:44–52:48
7
How does Isaac’s heel‑deformity (Haglund’s) become the week’s personal grievance and what solutions are explored?
52:48–1:01:42
8
How do the hosts wrap up the episode, what final thoughts do they leave listeners with?
1:01:42–1:14:43
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