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Episodes · 12 months
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Nov 2025–Oct 2026peak share, Jan 2026
Share of analysed episodes per month, Nov 2025 to Oct 2026: 2 of 3,584, 2 of 3,862, 5 of 4,115, 1 of 4,226, 4 of 4,731, 2 of 4,438, 0 of 4,230, 0 of 4,319, 0 of 4,515, 0 of 4,419, 0 of 4,624, 0 of 4,594.
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26
+3 via 2 narrower
On record
22
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Where they standLast discussed
7mo ago
Apr 5, 2026
Where they stand
Camps of opinion · 3Positions 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 camp19 people
42%
32%
26%
- Advocate for regime removal8 people · 42%
- Critique interventionist strategies6 people · 32%
- Oppose foreign intervention5 people · 26%
Advocate for regime removal
The removal of hostile or authoritarian governments like the Iranian regime is a necessary step for regional peace and stability.
8 people · 7 episodes
CP
A change of regime in Iran is a necessary prerequisite to achieving a better future that serves the interests of all parties.
“But we have to first understand that change of regime in Iran is a prerequisite to a better future that is in everyone's interest.”
PBD Podcast · Nov 2024 · 1 episode · 325K views on this topic
The objective of the current military action should be regime change in Iran because the Iranian government's nuclear and terrorist threats are policies that will never be changed.
“The reason for this action is that Iran's nuclear threat and its terrorist threat are policies the regime will never change. In other words, their behavior is not going to change. And therefore, for the interest of US national security and Israeli national security, the only alternative is regime ch”
Piers Morgan Uncensored · Mar 2026 · 2 episodes · 1.7M views on this topic
The current Iranian regime must be removed for the sake of regional peace and stability.
“I will feel more peaceful if that chaotic regime doesn't exist where they look at us as the enemy and the Western, you know, ideology as enemy and I think tourism back to the Middle East will increase in ways we've never seen before if that regime is no longer there.”
PBD Podcast · Nov 2024 · 3 episodes · 1.2M views on this topicCritique interventionist strategies
Foreign-backed efforts to change governments are viewed as strategic manipulations or illegal attempts to project power and control…
6 people · 6 episodes
US and Israeli involvement in fueling protests in Iran is a strategy to foment regime change in that country.
“Could it be that they're trying to spark regime change in Iran? Could it be?”
The Young Turks · Jan 2026 · 2 episodes · 903K views on this topic
The strike on Iran is part of a broader, pre-planned agenda to achieve regime change in Iran under the guise of preventing nuclear proliferation.
“This is not about a nuclear weapon. This is about a regime change war.”
Breaking Points · Jun 2025 · 1 episode · 693K views on this topicBR
Ben Rhodes argues that the U.S. intervention in Venezuela sets a dangerous precedent for ruleless geopolitics and illegal military actions.
“But in any case, you just don't want to open up this Pandora's box of kind of returning to imperial rule ruleless geopolitics.”
Brian Tyler Cohen · Jan 2026 · 1 episode · 619K views on this topicOppose foreign intervention
External efforts to engineer regime change are dangerous, counterproductive, and typically result in instability or worse outcomes.
5 people · 4 episodes
He believes that American-led regime change operations consistently fail because they ignore local realities and lead to increased instability.
“How does this whole process happen that you go into this process of regime change and keep installing people that are creating more and more uh instability and destruction in the world and then you use that to then justify invading and starting wars.”
Lex Fridman Podcast · Aug 2025 · 1 episode · 777K views on this topic
Encouraging citizens to rise up against an authoritarian regime is dangerous because it often leads to their slaughter without achieving a positive political outcome.
“I'm worried that the administration and others have called for people to rise up only for them to be killed for nothing.”
Triggernometry · Apr 2026 · 1 episode · 256K views on this topic
Engaging in regime change wars is a dangerous, unpredictable, and potentially counterproductive strategy that often leads to worse outcomes than the existing regime.
“If you blow up the government, how is it not very likely that militant killers who are as bad or worse than the old regime fill the void? How is that not how is it how is that not just a possible scenario, but actually the most likely scenario?”
Matt Walsh · Mar 2026 · 1 episode · 210K views on this topicExtracted by a model; may misattribute who said what.
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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 2023