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Episodes · 12 months
57
Nov 2025–Oct 2026peak share, Feb 2026
Share of analysed episodes per month, Nov 2025 to Oct 2026: 5 of 3,584, 6 of 3,862, 6 of 4,115, 10 of 4,226, 6 of 4,731, 7 of 4,438, 7 of 4,230, 1 of 4,319, 1 of 4,515, 4 of 4,419, 2 of 4,624, 2 of 4,594.
All time
118
+40 via 24 narrower
On record
88
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Where they standLast discussed
2d ago
Nov 11, 2026
Who's talking
Top voices on this topicThe eight guests on the most episodes about this topic in the last 13 weeks, not counting their own shows or clips they were only heard in, most episodes first. VoiceRank (their score across the whole corpus) is shown for context and only breaks a tie. Each strip is that guest's episodes week by week, and the newest week is still in progress.
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Episodes on this topic, by weekEvery analysed episode tagged with this topic in each of the last 13 weeks, across all shows and whoever was on them. The newest week is still in progress, and recent weeks fill in as transcripts are analysed. Point at a name, or tab to it, to highlight the weeks that guest was on an episode.
All shows
Episodes on this topic per week, weeks starting Aug 17 to Nov 9 (the last still in progress): 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1.
Where they stand
Camps of opinion · 4Positions people took on this topic in transcripts, grouped by school of thought. The bar shows each camp's share of the people sorted into a camp. It is not a poll and not a share of any audience, and people whose position fit no camp are left out of it. Within a camp, people with demonstrated expertise on the topic come first, then those who reached the most listeners on it. Positions are extracted from transcripts by a model and may misattribute who said what. Every quote links to the episode it came from.
Share of people placed in a camp18 people
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28%
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- Use regulation and intervention for…6 people · 33%
- Enhance government efficiency and…5 people · 28%
- Address systemic incompetence and…4 people · 22%
- Reform welfare and reduce state…3 people · 17%
Use regulation and intervention for…
The government should actively intervene via regulation, litigation, and public investment to shape economic and social outcomes.
6 people · 5 episodes
Zoran Mamdani advocates for raising taxes on the top one percent and the top corporate tax rate to fund public services like free buses and universal childcare.
“The first is to raise taxes on the top 1% of New Yorkers by 2%. That would raise $4 billion. The second is to raise the state's top corporate tax rate to match that of New Jersey, which would raise $5 billion.”
HasanAbi · Oct 2025 · 1 episode · 1.0M views on this topic
He argues that institutional investors buying large numbers of homes is monopolistic behavior that harms housing affordability and requires legislative action.
“And I just humbly submit I think it's shameful that we allow private equity firms in Manhattan to become some of the biggest landlords here in our cities in California.”
MeidasTouch · Jan 2026 · 2 episodes · 1.6M views on this topic
He claims that Democratic attorneys general are effectively winning legal challenges against the Trump administration's unlawful policies.
“We've won uh 80% of the time approximately in of our lawsuits. Uh when we win and a court issues an order, the court order is followed.”
MeidasTouch · Jan 2026 · 1 episode · 226K views on this topicEnhance government efficiency and…
Public policy should focus on improving government management, streamlining operations, and delivering tangible results efficiently.
5 people · 5 episodes
Liberals should focus on building and delivering tangible results to avoid losing public trust to movements that promise delivery through darker means.
“If we're not, then over time the government is going to get a reputation for not delivering and people are going to turn to political movements that promise to make it deliver in another much darker fashion.”
Pod Save America · Mar 2025 · 2 episodes · 338K views on this topicBW
California's state legislature should focus on improving government management rather than engaging in resistance politics.
“I think that's maybe just a reminder legislature you would like to think, especially look at Oakland. Which is just a sad story just no matter how you cut it about government management, that really lawmakers have to do a better job in California.”
Hoover Institution · Nov 2024 · 6 episodes · 290K views on this topic
Matt MahanUnrated
The government should adopt a more pragmatic, moderate approach that avoids reflexive tax increases and instead focuses on achieving tangible results through efficient management.
“As Democrats, we have to own the outcomes we're getting in this state. And for too long, our reflexive answer has been, we need more revenue. if we just have more money, we'll solve this problem. I I just don't believe that.”
The All-In Podcast · Mar 2026 · 1 episode · 101K views on this topicAddress systemic incompetence and…
Government institutions are often incompetent, bureaucratic, or prone to overreach, requiring radical shifts or limitations.
4 people · 4 episodes
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Government institutions often perpetuate their own bureaucracy at the expense of effectively serving those they are designed to help.
“I came to learn that the social security disability program was not necessarily run primarily for the benefit of the Social Security Disability recipients it was run for the Perpetual expansion of the ssa's own bureaucracy and that while Social Security Disability Benefits represented 16% of ben”
Joe Rogan Experience · Jan 2025 · 1 episode · 1.6M views on this topicDT
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is effectively a project to destroy and eviscerate government functions rather than improve their efficiency.
“The problem with DOGE, however, is that it might call itself a department of government deficiency, but in practice it's a department of government evisceration. It's a project to destroy government as we understand it, not to help it work more efficiently.”
Big Think · May 2025 · 4 episodes · 483K views on this topic
Government officials in Oakland and Los Angeles are incompetent and prone to performing theatrical, non-logical actions rather than implementing effective policy.
“That's Nithya Raman blaming Toyota for catalytic convert. Like, baby, your brain is broken and we can't have you making decisions, anything critical, because you've shown your inability to think.”
The Rubin Report · May 2026 · 3 episodes · 989K views on this topicReform welfare and reduce state…
Government welfare policies should be reformed to prioritize labor participation, avoid dependency, and improve human capital.
3 people · 3 episodes
Welfare reform is necessary to fix labor market corruption and move people from dependency into work.
“Labor market corruption is one of the major problems that has held Britain back and has kept the poverty rate so high. Welfare reform is why for the last 5 years all the net employment growth has sucked in migrants rather than growing and shortening of domestic dual queue.”
Channel 4 News · Sep 2026 · 2 episodes · 250K views on this topic
The welfare state creates dependency and discourages employment by making it financially easier to have children outside of marriage.
“welfare state comes in, makes it affordable for you to have a kid outside of wedlock. Gives you food stamps, gives you an apartment, gives you daycare vouchers, transportation vouchers, all sorts of things to make it easier for you to have a child without having a job”
Dr. Drew · Nov 2025 · 1 episode · 3K views on this topic
Eric HanushekUnrated
Public policy should focus on improving human capital and student ability rather than merely providing financial assistance to individuals to address poverty.
“It's rather consistent, of course, with the Hoover perspective on the world, that instead of just giving money to people, we try to improve their ability to participate in society.”
Hoover Institution · Dec 2025 · 1 episode · 87K views on this topicExtracted by a model; may misattribute who said what.
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Episodes discussing this topicIncludes episodes tagged with a narrower subject. Each is marked with the subject it came in through.
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Over time
Share of episodesThis topic's episodes as a share of every episode we analysed, in each complete month. We analyse more episodes every month, so a raw count would mostly show that growth. Recent months fill in as transcripts are analysed.
Complete months · first on record Feb 2020