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Episodes · 12 months
49
Nov 2025–Oct 2026peak share, Feb 2026
Share of analysed episodes per month, Nov 2025 to Oct 2026: 9 of 3,584, 4 of 3,862, 3 of 4,115, 15 of 4,226, 6 of 4,731, 2 of 4,438, 3 of 4,230, 0 of 4,319, 4 of 4,515, 1 of 4,419, 2 of 4,624, 0 of 4,594.
All time
87
+28 via 18 narrower
On record
56
took a position
Where they standLast discussed
1d ago
Nov 14, 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.
#Guest · last 13 weeksEpisodes, sorted, most firstVoiceRank
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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, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 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 camp22 people
32%
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18%
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- Reform intelligence oversight…7 people · 32%
- View agencies as shadow networks7 people · 32%
- Prioritize agency integrity and…4 people · 18%
- Essential for national security4 people · 18%
Reform intelligence oversight…
Intelligence agencies act as unaccountable entities that require significant reform, dismantling, or increased civilian oversight.
7 people · 6 episodes
The FBI and CIA are currently broken institutions that require significant reform or dismantling to function properly.
“when Cash Patel was was named FBI director, I celebrated because the FBI's broken and it needed to be torn down to its studs. Same with the CIA.”
PBD Podcast · Apr 2026 · 7 episodes · 23.6M views on this topic
The CIA is arguably the most powerful agency in the US government and operates with virtually no effective civilian or congressional control.
“this is the legislative branches oversight of the most powerful arguably the most powerful agencies in the government which have very little civilian control particularly CIA I think there only other what three appointees at CIA I believe three appointees which is in my opinion not enough.”
Tucker Carlson · Jul 2026 · 5 episodes · 2.8M views on this topic
Intelligence agencies act as an unaccountable shadow government that prioritizes their own influence over the will of the people.
“It's this fourth branch of government that the founders never created. They never designed. There was no intent for and that fourth branch of government is unaccountable.”
The Jimmy Dore Show · Feb 2026 · 7 episodes · 2.4M views on this topicView agencies as shadow networks
Global intelligence agencies function as secretive, powerful networks that manipulate political landscapes and protect illicit interests.
7 people · 7 episodes
He contends that global intelligence services operate to serve the interests of powerful multinational networks rather than merely employing individuals through formal channels.
“These spy services are in service of extraordinarily powerful kind of multinational global networks of of individual figures. And so it's not as if you know is is MSAD or something like that was that he was working for them. It's more like you know uh that MSAD was working for Epstein.”
Piers Morgan Uncensored · Feb 2026 · 2 episodes · 1.9M views on this topic
Intelligence agencies act to leak investigations to the media in order to humiliate and terrify individuals who challenge the status quo.
“But the main reason they do it is to leak the existence of the investigation such as it is to the media and then humiliate and terrify the subjects of this op and that's of course happened to me repeatedly.”
The Young Turks · Mar 2026 · 7 episodes · 1.5M views on this topic
Intelligence agencies and their high-level operatives, such as the ones involved in the Crossfire Hurricane investigation, use blackmail to control political figures.
“It seems to be whether you're if you're in the closet, if you have a problem with your drugs or money or something like that, leverage is always being used on different people so to control them”
The Tim Dillon Show · Jul 2025 · 1 episode · 1.4M views on this topicPrioritize agency integrity and…
Intelligence agencies must remain independent, objective, and ethical to effectively speak truth to power and serve national interests.
4 people · 4 episodes
Intelligence officials must maintain a clear separation between intelligence analysis and policymaking to ensure objective work.
“intelligence officials need to keep away from taking policy for obvious reasons. Okay? Just like you don't just like you have a commercial part of your bank and then you have the investment part. You know, in other words, you need to have a sort of a a clean delineation between the two.”
Glenn Diesen · Aug 2025 · 2 episodes · 164K views on this topic
Alex YoungerUnrated
Intelligence officials must maintain the courage to speak truth to power, even when it is uncomfortable for their political superiors.
“spies are useless if they're not prepared to speak truth to power.”
The Rest Is Politics: Leading · May 2025 · 1 episode · 827K views on this topic
The intelligence community must remain independent and committed to speaking truth to power to ensure America remains safe.
“If that truth is being corrupted, America is less safe. And that should not happen. If you were going to tell people one thing that they could do or something they could do to express their concern about this, what would you ask them to do?”
Heather Cox Richardson · Dec 2025 · 1 episode · 250K views on this topicEssential for national security
Intelligence operations are necessary tools for statecraft, national defense, and protecting the country from foreign threats.
4 people · 4 episodes
JB
Intelligence operations are essential for government diplomacy and overall success.
“intelligence is an absolutely necessary part of government interaction right like when you're at high level i mean even at low level honestly different types of intelligence but on a government level for sure intelligence is crucial diplomacy is fed by intelligence you can't have diplomacy without i”
Danny Jones Podcast · May 2021 · 2 episodes · 7.4M views on this topic
It is necessary for the CIA and FBI to exist because they are essential to protect the country from foreign enemies.
“life without Ci or FBI is like life without food and water yeah right I would I would assign cias is going without cias like going without food You're Gonna last a while it's just not going to be pretty going without FBI yeah it's like going without water”
Danny Jones Podcast · Nov 2022 · 16 episodes · 7.4M views on this topicIntelligence agencies must retain the ability to conduct investigations when individuals within their country have contact with foreign security threats.
“So you have to have a mechanism that allows that. Now, can that get out of control, right? Of well, yeah, of course it can. It's again, it's it's a government, right? You need transparency. You need an inquisitive, constantly questioning um government”
Winston Marshall · Sep 2026 · 5 episodes · 2.1M views on this topicExtracted by a model; may misattribute who said what.
In the transcripts
Episodes discussing this topicIncludes episodes tagged with a narrower subject. Each is marked with the subject it came in through.
65%
Polymarket’s SHADY Israel-Connected History! Trump Announces His Own #CHINAGATE Hoax! w/Whitney Webb
80%
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85%
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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 Aug 2019