The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell: Episode, Sep 30, 2026

The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell (MS NOW), September 30, 2026

On the Sep 30, 2026 episode of The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell, 6 of the 13 words Kalshi listed were said; Parrot’s count agreed with all 13 settlements. Counts and timings only: the captions are at the Internet Archive.

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13 words · 6 settled yes · our count agreed on 13 of 13

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
Trump 3+ timesYes439✓51%n=18 from settlement history–
Healthcare Yes22✓75%n=27 from settlement history–
Afford / Affordable / Affordability Yes28✓33%n=43 from settlement history–
Republican Yes148✓68%n=52 from settlement history–
Election Yes112✓66%n=32 from settlement history–
2028 / Campaign Yes17✓44%n=5 from settlement history–
Corrupt / Corruption / Crook No03✓47%n=4 from settlement history–
Data Center No00✓46%n=3 from settlement history–
Iran / Iranian No02✓44%n=25 from settlement history–
AI / Artificial Intelligence No00✓34%n=12 from settlement history–
Anthropic / OpenAI No00✓–n=1 too little history for a probability–
Crypto / Cryptocurrency / Bitcoin No00✓20%n=2 from settlement history–
Billionaire No00✓19%n=14 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 “FBI / Kash”.

Where the listed words were said

Jon Ossoffguest“Trump (3+)” · 18:24

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Jon Ossoffguest“Healthcare” · 21:21

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Jon Ossoffguest“Afford / Affordable / Affordability” · 21:39

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Jon Ossoffguest“Republican” · 18:53

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Jon Ossoffguest“Election” · 20:48

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Jon Ossoffguest“2028 / Campaign” · 19:31

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