ABC World News Tonight, October 15, 2026

On the Oct 15, 2026 episode of ABC World News Tonight, 7 of the 16 words Kalshi listed were said; Parrot’s count agreed with all 16 settlements. Quotes below are at most 25 words each.

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16 words · 7 settled yes · our count agreed on 16 of 16

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 Yes1212✓54%n=9 from settlement history–
ICE Yes1212✓35%n=37 from settlement history–
Trump 5+ timesYes1010✓72%n=58 from settlement history–
Strait Of Hormuz Yes44✓–new new word, no probability yet–
Flood / Flooding Yes33✓58%n=4 from settlement history–
Oil / Gas / Gasoline Yes33✓55%n=47 from settlement history–
Zacharia Yes11✓42%n=2 from settlement history–
Pope Leo No00✓60%n=3 from settlement history–
Russia / Russian No00✓52%n=19 from settlement history–
NTSB No00✓–n=1 too little history for a probability–
Ukraine / Ukrainian / Zelenskyy No00✓43%n=10 from settlement history–
Maduro No00✓42%n=2 from settlement history–
Starlink No00✓–n=1 too little history for a probability–
Medicare No00✓–n=1 too little history for a probability–
Inflation No00✓36%n=12 from settlement history–
Great Wolf Lodge No00✓–n=1 too little history for a probability–

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

quotes of at most 25 words

Machine transcript · ABC World News Tonight podcast audio (ABC), machine transcript · Source · Used to count words; quotes of at most 25 words.

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

4 matches for “White House”; 4 quoted, at least 25 words apart.

Speaker not labelledreporter2:13

We'll go to Matt Rivers on board tonight. This evening, the new White House press secretary after calling herself a lawyer and the president asking…

Speaker not labelledreporter9:22

…die by firing squad in December. David. Rachel Scott live at the White House. Rachel, thank you. Next tonight, ABC News learning an ICE agent…

Speaker not labelledreporter13:21

…tonight on board the USS Washington. Matt, thank you. Tonight, the new White House press secretary already under intense scrutiny in her first week on…

Speaker not labelledreporter13:40

…what she's now saying. Here's Mary Bruce. Tonight, sources tell us new White House press secretary Katie Zachariah, who President Trump described as an attorney,…

Where the listed words were said

Speaker not labelledreporter“Iran / Iranian” · 10:42

…the team. Thank you. We move on tonight to the war with Iran. Our team on board the USS George Washington tonight near the Strait…

Speaker not labelledreporter“ICE” · 1:33

…the president is now saying about this. Tonight, ABC News learning an ICE agent put on leave. Surveillance video showing the incident, two men fleeing…

Speaker not labelledreporter“Trump (5+)” · 7:16

…three, D-A-Y blinds.com slash podcast. Also breaking tonight amid growing outrage, President Trump has now halted the plan to live stream the execution of the…

Speaker not labelledreporter“Strait Of Hormuz” · 1:58

…the midterms. Pierre Thomas standing by on what we've learned. Tonight, our team on board, the USS George Washington, right near the Strait of Hormuz.

Speaker not labelledreporter“Flood / Flooding” · 2:45

Tornadoes and flooding. Temperatures in the northeast set to plunge. Lee Goldberg is here. Tonight, an arrest in a murder case that made national headlines.…

Speaker not labelledreporter“Oil / Gas / Gasoline” · 11:48

…group plays a vital role here, enforcing the U.S. blockade on Iranian oil coming out of the strait and helping escort non-Iranian oil tankers out,…

Speaker not labelledreporter“Zacharia” · 15:07

…Today, Zachariah dismissing questions about her resume as, quote, miscommunication. And David Zacharias says she consulted many legal experts about whether it was okay to…

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