🎙️ What a show tells
The MeidasTouch Podcast
- LEFTour grouping of the show
- 187claims in our motif index
- 152motifs they came up in
⚠️ 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
the motifs it tells far more than the other shows we follow do
🧩 Five O'Clock Follies 🧩 Passing the buck 🧩 U.S. overreach 🧩 The backdoor 🧩 Election meddling 🧩 Caligula 🧩 Abandoning an ally 🧩 Miles gloriosus
👯 Tells the most alike
the shows whose stories overlap most with its own, whatever their lean
- 🎙️ The Adam Mockler Show 60% alike · left
- 🎙️ The Kyle Kulinski Show 60% alike · left
- 🎙️ Breaking Points 41% alike · center
- 🎙️ The Young Turks (podcast) 40% alike · left
- 🎙️ David Pakman Show (podcast) 37% alike · left
🧩 Its repertoire
every motif its claims came up in, the most first
🧩 Oil market instability ×8 🧩 Caligula ×6 🧩 Whose side are you on anyway? ×6 🧩 Pay to play ×6 🧩 Five O'Clock Follies ×6 🧩 The backdoor ×6 🧩 Senile leader ×5 🧩 War for votes ×5 🧩 Passing the buck ×4 🧩 Foreign meddling ×4 🧩 Political retaliation ×4 🧩 U.S. overreach ×4 🧩 Trade as a weapon ×4 🧩 The war isn't going well ×4 🧩 The family business ×4 🧩 Election meddling ×4 🧩 Abandoning an ally ×4 🧩 The war hits your wallet ×4 🧩 Inflammatory political rhetoric ×3 🧩 Class conflict ×3 🧩 Political coercion ×3 🧩 The buck stops here ×3 🧩 Backfiring policy ×3 🧩 Kleptocracy ×3 🧩 Bribing voters ×3 🧩 Misusing public funds ×3 🧩 Hatch Act ×3 🧩 The war is escalating ×3 🧩 Selling indulgences ×3 🧩 Pants on fire ×3 🧩 Narcissus ×3 🧩 The last guy ×3 🧩 Inflation ×3 🧩 Not up to the task ×3 🧩 Political accountability ×2 🧩 Tariffs hurt consumers ×2 🧩 In this economy? ×2 🧩 Political party surge ×2 🧩 Graft ×2 🧩 Politicians' empty promises ×2
🎙️ Lately on the show
its latest claims, in our words, with their motifs
- 2026-10-28 “Trump's administration is a criminal band of thugs that would shock previous administrations.”
🧩 Kleptocracy - 2026-10-28 “James Tallarico had a mental breakdown and is in a mental institution.”
🧩 The ailing king - 2026-10-27 “Trump is bragging about oil corporations making record profits while the American people suffer at the pump.”
🧩 Class conflict - 2026-10-27 “Donald Trump believes the Brazilian election looked corrupt and rigged.”
🧩 Rigged election - 2026-10-27 “The Trump DOJ is committing an appalling abuse of the Department of Justice against James Comey.”
🧩 Political retaliation 🧩 Lawfare - 2026-10-27 “Donald Trump and his administration are attempting to subvert midterm elections through thuggish intimidation of election officials and voters.”
🧩 Intimidation 🧩 They're going to steal it - 2026-10-27 “Elon Musk uses X to control algorithms and suppress political content to benefit his interests.”
🧩 Citizen Kane - 2026-10-27 “Elon Musk suddenly restricted Ukraine's use of Starlink.”
🧩 Trade as a weapon 🧩 Whose side are you on anyway? 🧩 The backdoor - 2026-10-27 “Donald Trump and his allies are evil people who seek to destroy American democracy.”
🧩 The enemy of all mankind - 2026-10-27 “Trump is a fraud, a criminal, and a sex predator.”
🧩 The rap sheet - 2026-10-27 “Donald Trump is an absolute psychopath, lunatic, sex predator, criminal, and an incredibly weak and pathetic individual.”
🧩 The rap sheet 🧩 Sad angry little man - 2026-10-26 “The economy is currently very strong despite what some people perceive.”
🧩 Vibecession - 2026-10-26 “Trump is driving the United States' post-World War II architecture off a cliff.”
🧩 Decline is a choice - 2026-10-26 “Marco Rubio is urging Cubans to send information to the CIA.”
🧩 Bay of Pigs - 2026-10-25 “Donald Trump says the candidate Obama is now campaigning for is 'a Muslim brotherhood, a jihadist who hates Jews and blacks and Americans'.”
🧩 The enemy of all mankind 🧩 Brotherhood candidate - 2026-10-25 “Mark Zuckerberg's Meta shut down the No Kings account during protests.”
🧩 Shadowbanned - 2026-10-25 “Donald Trump is sympathetic to Vladimir Putin and relates to him as a leader.”
🧩 Bromance - 2026-10-25 “The White House falsely credited Melania Trump for a ceasefire that the Pope actually brokered.”
🧩 Stolen credit - 2026-10-24 “The U.S. is prepared to maintain a blockade against Iran for the foreseeable future.”
🧩 Trade as a weapon - 2026-10-24 “Donald Trump argues high gasoline prices are a small price to pay to prevent Iran from having nuclear weapons.”
🧩 Some of you may die 🧩 The war hits your wallet - 2026-10-24 “Trump claims high beef prices are a Biden issue he inherited.”
🧩 The last guy - 2026-10-24 “Elon Musk's decision to slow down Starlink has caused direct human casualties by reducing Ukraine's ability to defend itself.”
🧩 The backdoor 🧩 Abandoning an ally - 2026-10-24 “Senator Roger Marshall has done an incredibly poor job as an incumbent.”
🧩 Not up to the task - 2026-10-24 “Melania Trump's adviser says she is negotiating a broader ceasefire with a direct line to both sides; critics say she is taking credit for a truce Pope Leo worked out.”
🧩 Stolen credit - 2026-10-23 “Amy Acton's mother is complicit in her daughter's abuse because she remained married to the alleged abuser.”
🧩 Silent complicity - 2026-10-23 “Donald Trump and Republicans are getting super rich while people face exploding prices and war.”
🧩 Class conflict - 2026-10-23 “The Trump family and administration engage in widespread corruption and enrich themselves through deals.”
🧩 Kleptocracy 🧩 The family business - 2026-10-23 “Democrats must be more ruthless to counter the consolidation of power by the right.”
🧩 Spineless leadership 🧩 Fight fire with fire - 2026-10-23 “Donald Trump would be complicit in Elon Musk throttling Starlink services in Ukraine.”
🧩 Whose side are you on anyway? 🧩 The backdoor 🧩 Abandoning an ally - 2026-10-23 “Donald Trump is a bully who cowers and runs away when faced with opposition.”
🧩 Miles gloriosus 🧩 Ducking the fight