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🎙️ What a show tells

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⚠️ Stories told, not claims that they're true.

What the show's hosts, guests, callers and the clips they play said, as claims in our words, filed by the shape of the story. "Came up on" the show: told, reported or argued against. We don't yet mark which.

✍️ Its signature

what it tells far more often than the other shows we follow, and what they tell that it never does; each motif colored by its genre, the layer of story it is

✍️ Tells more than others

motifs it tells far more often than the other shows we follow; the bar is how many times more often, by its share of its tellings against theirs

  1. 🕵️ Making America sicker ×235
  2. 🪨 Censorship ×47
  3. 🕵️ Entryism ×27
  4. 📜 Epstein cover-up ×14
  5. 🕵️ Tariffs hurt consumers ×10.0
  6. 📜 Backfiring policy ×9.5
  7. 📜 Inflation ×4.6
  8. 🕵️ Kleptocracy ×4.5

🙈 Others tell, it doesn't

motifs told on the most other shows that never came up on this one; the bar is how many other shows told it

  1. 📜 Political party surge 47 shows
  2. 🕵️ It's the economy, stupid 43 shows
  3. 🕵️ Enthusiasm gap 43 shows
  4. 📜 Political retaliation 42 shows
  5. 📜 Referendum on the president 41 shows
  6. 📜 Unpopular war 40 shows
  7. 🪨 Electability 39 shows
  8. 🪨 Big Mo 37 shows
  9. 📜 Ratf*cking 35 shows
  10. 📜 Graft 35 shows

🧩 Its repertoire

every motif its claims came up in, the most first: 50 in all, the top 40 here

🎨 What kind of stories: its tellings by genre

🧩 Told most

the motifs its claims came up in, the most first; the bar is how many of its claims

  1. 🗣️ The buck stops here ×5
  2. 🕵️ Tariffs hurt consumers ×4
  3. 📜 Backfiring policy ×3
  4. 🕵️ Entryism ×3
  5. 🕵️ Kleptocracy ×2
  6. 📜 Inflation ×2
  7. 🪨 Censorship ×2
  8. 🕵️ The war hits your wallet ×2
  9. 📜 Epstein cover-up ×2
  10. 🕵️ Making America sicker ×2
  11. 📜 Inflammatory political rhetoric ×1
  12. 📣 Transparency demand ×1
  13. 📜 Political coercion ×1
  14. 🕵️ Disinformation campaign ×1
  15. 🎭 Soft on crime ×1
  16. 📜 Asleep at the switch ×1
  17. 🕵️ Rigged election ×1
  18. 🕵️ Foreign meddling ×1
  19. 📜 Political realignment ×1
  20. 📜 Intimidation ×1

🧩 And then

the bar on the same scale as the first

  1. 🪨 Politicians' empty promises ×1
  2. 📜 Pain at the pump ×1
  3. 📜 Political infighting ×1
  4. 📜 Losing the base ×1
  5. 🎭 Proven record ×1
  6. 📜 Institutions sell their soul ×1
  7. 🎭 Pants on fire ×1
  8. 🎭 Manchurian candidate ×1
  9. ⚖️ Law and order ×1
  10. 📜 Lawfare ×1
  11. 🎭 The enemy of all mankind ×1
  12. 🕵️ Importing voters ×1
  13. 📜 The family business ×1
  14. 🕵️ Deep state ×1
  15. 🕵️ Stymied by staff ×1
  16. 🕵️ Election meddling ×1
  17. 🕵️ Negative partisanship ×1
  18. 🗣️ The last guy ×1
  19. 🕵️ The missing children ×1
  20. 🗣️ Look at California ×1

👯 Tells the most alike

the shows that tell the same motifs in much the same proportions, and the ones that least do; each colored by the show's lean, our loose grouping by reputation

👯 Most alike

the shows whose motifs overlap most with its own, whatever their lean; the bar is how alike (100%: the same motifs in the same proportions)

  1. ⚖️ NPR Politics Podcast 42%
  2. 🫏 The MeidasTouch Podcast 42%
  3. 🫏 HasanAbi (podcast) 39%
  4. ⚖️ 1A (WAMU/NPR) 37%
  5. 🫏 The Adam Mockler Show 36%
  6. ⚖️ The Daily (NYT) 35%

🙃 Least alike

the shows with the least in common with it; the bar is how alike, on the same scale

  1. 🐘 The Remnant 1%
  2. ⚪ The Tim Dillon Show 4%
  3. ⚖️ The Intelligence (Economist) 4%
  4. 🐘 Advisory Opinions 5%
  5. 🐘 The Dispatch Podcast 8%
  6. 🫏 Know Your Enemy 8%

🎙️ Lately on the show

its latest claims, in our words, with their motifs

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