The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell: Episode, Sep 21, 2026

The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell (MS NOW), September 21, 2026

On the Sep 21, 2026 episode of The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell, 7 of the 17 words Kalshi listed were said; Parrot’s count agreed with all 17 settlements. Counts and timings only: the captions are at the Internet Archive.

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Markets

17 words · 7 settled yes · our count agreed on 17 of 17

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
Iran / Iranian Yes38✓39%n=23 from settlement history–
Afford / Affordable / Affordability Yes25✓23%n=41 from settlement history–
Healthcare / Health Care Yes15✓53%n=27 from settlement history–
Election Yes13✓44%n=30 from settlement history–
Corrupt / Corruption / Crook Yes11✓43%n=2 from settlement history–
Billion / Trillion Yes13✓37%n=2 from settlement history–
Oil / Gas / Gasoline Yes112✓31%n=28 from settlement history–
Republican No010✓53%n=50 from settlement history–
Tariff No01✓48%n=7 from settlement history–
Data Center No06✓–n=1 too little history for a probability–
2028 / Campaign No06✓45%n=3 from settlement history–
Trump 3+ timesNo077✓44%n=16 from settlement history–
Hegseth No00✓–n=1 too little history for a probability–
Missile / Munition No00✓–new new word, no probability yet–
Ukraine / Ukrainian No00✓–new new word, no probability yet–
AI / Artificial Intelligence No03✓34%n=10 from settlement history–
Ceasefire No00✓31%n=3 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.

1 match for “Nuclear”; counts and timings only, no caption text.

Mark Kellyguest32:01

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Where the listed words were said

Mark Kellyguest“Iran / Iranian” · 30:41

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Mark Kellyguest“Afford / Affordable / Affordability” · 30:03

Caption text not shown: counts and timings only; the captions are at the Internet Archive.

Mark Kellyguest“Healthcare / Health Care” · 32:37

Caption text not shown: counts and timings only; the captions are at the Internet Archive.

Mark Kellyguest“Election” · 33:55

Caption text not shown: counts and timings only; the captions are at the Internet Archive.

Mark Kellyguest“Corrupt / Corruption / Crook” · 33:03

Caption text not shown: counts and timings only; the captions are at the Internet Archive.

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