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Episodes · 12 months
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Nov 2025–Oct 2026peak share, Nov 2025
Share of analysed episodes per month, Nov 2025 to Oct 2026: 1 of 3,584, 0 of 3,862, 0 of 4,115, 1 of 4,226, 1 of 4,731, 0 of 4,438, 1 of 4,230, 0 of 4,319, 1 of 4,515, 0 of 4,419, 0 of 4,624, 0 of 4,594.
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17
+30 via 13 narrower
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17
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Where they standLast discussed
4mo ago
Jul 17, 2026
Where they stand
Camps of opinion · 2Positions 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 camp8 people
63%
37%
- State orchestrates clandestine…5 people · 63%
- Institutional failures undermine…3 people · 37%
State orchestrates clandestine…
Intelligence agencies engage in covert, often manipulative, activities to further strategic interests both domestically and abroad.
5 people · 5 episodes
The CIA and other US intelligence bodies operate through non-profit cutouts like the National Endowment for Democracy to fund operations that they cannot directly claim.
“Meanwhile, CIA gets a copy of every single one of their grants. So it's just an empty cutout for it.”
Danny Jones Podcast · Oct 2025 · 1 episode · 204K views on this topicGB
Historical covert operations, such as Project Gladio, demonstrate that the U.S. government has historically conducted violent operations against its own allies to serve its strategic interests.
“These things were done by the United States to our supposed allies. And hundreds of these leavebehinds uh operated eventually a 20,000 person army all over Europe. Now, I don't expect anybody to believe a word of it. You got to go to Wikipedia and put in GLA Dio. It's just one D.”
Joe Rogan Experience · Nov 2025 · 1 episode · 1.0M views on this topicLP
Jeffrey Epstein likely had ties to intelligence agencies given the meticulous recording and exploitation of powerful individuals in his orbit.
“I saw the control room with all the cameras in every part of his house. So, everything was recorded, so he knew who was coming and going. He knew what happened in the private rooms. He I mean, everything was confiscated from the house. So, and from the island, you know, emails, flight logs. I mean, ”
Dalton Fischer Podcast · Oct 2025 · 1 episode · 1.2M views on this topicInstitutional failures undermine…
The intelligence and security apparatus suffers from internal mismanagement, regulatory failures, and a loss of public credibility.
3 people · 3 episodes
SA
The U.S. government is currently funding terrorist organizations like Al-Qaeda by inadvertently directing aid and counterterrorism dollars to them.
“US tax dollars through State Department, CIA, Department of Defense, World Bank, UN, IMF, World Food Program. We are literally funding al-Qaeda with our own dollars right now.”
Dr. Mayim Bialik · Jul 2026 · 5 episodes · 5.4M views on this topicEK
Eric KleinsmithUnrated
The order to destroy intelligence data collected by the Able Danger team due to intelligence oversight regulations was a profound failure that prevented the potential stopping of 9/11.
“I had to sit with one of my warrant officers. We had a deep moral discussion on should we hide some of it? Should we just put some on a removable hard drive and hide it in a file cabinet? And we ended up deleting all of it.”
PBD Podcast · May 2025 · 1 episode · 539K views on this topicBS
Bryan SternUnrated
The current national security apparatus faces a significant credibility and management crisis due to poor internal leadership.
“I think I think the entire national security apparatus today in 2026 is suffering from a big credibility problem and uh that's very sad.”
Glenn Beck · Feb 2026 · 1 episode · 115K views on this topicExtracted by a model; may misattribute who said what.
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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 May 2020