The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell: Episode, Sep 16, 2026

The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell (MS NOW), September 16, 2026

On the Sep 16, 2026 episode of The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell, 5 of the 12 words Kalshi listed were said; Parrot’s count agreed with all 12 settlements. Counts and timings only: the captions are at the Internet Archive.

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Markets

12 words · 5 settled yes · our count agreed on 12 of 12

backtest The probabilities on settled rows are a walk-forward backtest: the model as of before each event, computed after Parrot went live; they were not published at the time.

Listed words: result, our count under the market rule, the count over every speaker, whether they agree, and the probability (a walk-forward backtest on settled rows)
WordResultOur countAll speakersAgreesProbabilityMarket
Whatley Yes1010✓–n=1 too little history for a probability–
Iran / Iranian Yes222✓26%n=22 from settlement history–
Healthcare Yes19✓56%n=25 from settlement history–
Tariff Yes12✓52%n=6 from settlement history–
Republican Yes116✓34%n=49 from settlement history–
Election No010✓42%n=29 from settlement history–
Medicaid / Medicare No01✓–n=1 too little history for a probability–
Farm / Farmer No00✓33%n=2 from settlement history–
Corrupt / Corruption No00✓30%n=37 from settlement history–
Billionaire No00✓28%n=12 from settlement history–
ICE No00✓17%n=18 from settlement history–
Afford / Affordable / Affordability No04✓16%n=40 from settlement history–

Market prices are mid quotes from Kalshi and Polymarket, shown for context, may be delayed by several minutes and are not a signal. Quotes as of Oct 20, 2026 23:45 UTC.

Transcript

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Captions · machine-attributed · Internet Archive TV News Archive (broadcast captions) · Source · Counts and timings only: the captions are at the Internet Archive.

Machine-attributed. Speaker turns are labelled by a model, not the publisher.

0 matches for “AI / Artificial Intelligence”.

Where the listed words were said

Roy Cooperguest“Whatley” · 18:59

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Roy Cooperguest“Iran / Iranian” · 20:32

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Roy Cooperguest“Healthcare” · 25:32

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Roy Cooperguest“Republican” · 23:40

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