The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell: Episode, Oct 6, 2026

The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell (MS NOW), October 6, 2026

On the Oct 6, 2026 episode of The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell, 10 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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Markets

13 words · 10 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
Tariff Yes613✓50%n=8 from settlement history–
Farm / Farmer Yes510✓51%n=3 from settlement history–
Corrupt / Corruption Yes314✓50%n=39 from settlement history–
Iran / Iranian Yes313✓43%n=26 from settlement history–
Hinson Yes34✓–new new word, no probability yet–
Gas / Diesel Yes211✓45%n=30 from settlement history–
Billionaire Yes23✓23%n=15 from settlement history–
Healthcare Yes13✓68%n=29 from settlement history–
Election Yes119✓47%n=34 from settlement history–
Afford / Affordable / Affordability Yes14✓40%n=45 from settlement history–
Border No00✓–n=1 too little history for a probability–
Republican No043✓38%n=55 from settlement history–
Trump 3+ timesNo095✓37%n=19 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

counts and timings only

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.

Where the listed words were said

Josh Turekguest“Tariff” · 27:42

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

Josh Turekguest“Farm / Farmer” · 28:50

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

Josh Turekguest“Corrupt / Corruption” · 29:43

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

Josh Turekguest“Hinson” · 30:17

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

Josh Turekguest“Gas / Diesel” · 28:02

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

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