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The Narrative Networks Podcast
Using AI we explore the concept of modeling influence pathways. We'll be transcribing and analyzing over 50,000 podcasts and sharing our findings along the way.
Episodes
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Five Times What? Trump’s tariff windfall claim, aired on the Mark Levin Podcast
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Claim: the U.S. is taking in over $200 billion in tariffs, "5 times more than ever before" and four times more than any other country. The source is President Trump's North Carolina rally audio, aired by the Mark Levin Podcast, "9/16/26 –...
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”It Turns Out to Be True”: How Butler Got Declared Solved Without New Evidence
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. The Kuhner Report, "Can Trump Beat the Media?" (22 Sep 2026, 29:49): "Butler was an inside job… There were at least two shooters… it turns out to be true." Our verdict: false. Truth score 0.03, confidence 0.9. The FBI, both chambers of...
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”Hundreds, Not Thousands”: A Bongino Guest’s 1948 Displacement Figure, Fact-Checked
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. A guest on The Dan Bongino Show (Ep. 2603, "What Is Really Happening Here?", 25 September 2026) said 1948 saw "the displacement of 100s of Palestinians, not 1000s, not 1000000s." Our verdict: false (truth score 0.02, confidence 0.95).…
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The Door Logs That Never Were: How a Satire Page Put Elizabeth Warren at Biden’s Autopen
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. The Kuhner Report ("Are Sanctuary Cities Losing Steam?", 29 Sep 2026, at 10:29) said West Wing door logs show Sen. Elizabeth Warren entered the West Wing 116 times, and that 112 of those visits match her signing pardons, documents and...
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Did Iran, China and Russia fund BLM? What the July 2026 declassified documents actually say
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Claim: On The Benny Show episode "What Trump Secretly Just Did With Spanish World Cup Champions Will Cause An INTERNATIONAL Incident…🤣" (20 July 2026), Benny Johnson said US intelligence documents released the week before showed Iran,...
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Fact-check: Ted Cruz’s ”communist and Islamist takeover” of the Democratic Party
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Claim: Sen. Ted Cruz, guesting on the P.A.S. Report ("Ted Cruz on Clarence Thomas, Socialism, and the Midterm Warning Republicans Can't Ignore," 3 Sep 2026, at 17:05), said: "We are witnessing, literally, a communist takeover of the...
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”Not Even True”: Fact-checking Buck Sexton’s climate aside inside an AI doom episode
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Claim: current climate change is not unprecedented, which Buck Sexton called "not even true." Verdict: mostly-false (truth score 0.2, confidence 0.9). Fact-checked: The Buck Sexton Show, "Buck Brief — Will AI Destroy Humanity Like Skynet…
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Three a Day: Fact-checking the claim of ’three or four terrorist acts’ a day in Europe
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Claim: "In Europe. Every single day, we have 3 or 4 terrorist acts." Verdict: false (truth score 0.05, confidence 0.92). Europol recorded 45 terrorist attacks across the EU in all of 2025. The line comes from a clip of a Polish member of...
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”Mostly Not Knowingly”: A Prophecy Show’s Vaccine–Autism Claim, Fact-Checked
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Claim: vaccines cause autism, neurological harm and autoimmune disorders. Verdict: mostly-false (truth score 0.12, confidence 0.92). Fact-checked from Flyover Conservatives, "PROPHECIES | What's Coming? 2026, 2027, 2028, 2029 – The...
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The Phantom Paperwork: How ”Antifa Did January 6” Survived Five Years of Debunks
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Claim: Federal filings show that "numbers" of the January 6 rioters imprisoned for assaulting officers were BLM and Antifa members "LARPing as MAGA supporters." Verdict: false (truth score 0.05). Said by Benny Johnson on The Benny Show,...
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Timcast IRL says no multiethnic democracy has ever succeeded. Verdict: false (0.1)
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. A panelist on Timcast IRL said there has never been a single successful multiracial or multiethnic democracy. We rate that false — truth score 0.1, confidence 0.85. India, Mauritius, Trinidad and Tobago, Canada and Switzerland are the...
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The War on Poverty Fact-Check: $22 Trillion and a Measure That Cannot See It
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Verdict: mostly-false. Truth score 0.25, confidence 0.85. The $22 trillion is real. "Have we even reduced poverty? And the answer is no" is not — and the reason is which poverty measure you pick. On The P.A.S. Report (14 September 2026),...
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Dennis Prager’s ”only one on earth” claim about Israel
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Dennis Prager called Israel "a country, the only one on earth, targeted for complete eradication, by all the nations surrounding it." We rate that mostly-false, truth score 0.22. The eradication kernel is documented and real. The words...
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Fact-check: ”We know she married her brother” — Mullin on Ilhan Omar
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin: "We know that she married her brother to try to bring him to the United States." Our verdict: mostly-false, truth score 0.15, confidence 0.80. The words were really said. What they assert has never been...
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Timothy Gordon’s ”Or Go To Hell”: Fact-Checking a True Verse With a False Ending
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Timothy Gordon told listeners "a wife has to obey her husband or go to hell." We rate that mostly-false — truth score 0.2, confidence 0.8. The command to submit really is in the text. The damnation clause is not — not in scripture, not in...
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Fact-Check: Timcast IRL’s Nutrition Theory of Postpartum Psychosis
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Five days after the Lindsay Clancy mistrial, a Timcast IRL panelist told the audience that postpartum depression is what happens when you don't eat the right foods. We rate that mostly-false — truth score 0.15, confidence 0.88 — and the...
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Did H-1Bs Rise ’Multi 100%’ Under Biden? Louder with Crowder Claim
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Louder with Crowder said there was "a multi 100% increase in H1 B's" under Biden. We rate it mostly-false — truth score 0.20, confidence 0.85. USCIS petition approvals went from 426,710 in FY2020 to 399,402 in FY2024: a 6% decline, not a...
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Ted Cruz’s ”as a consequence”: a real crime drop, an inflated number
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Verdict: mixed. Truth score 0.35. Ted Cruz's murder figure is close to the FBI's; his overdose figure is inflated by about six points. The three words joining them to border policy — "as a consequence" — are a causal claim the agencies...
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PBD #852 Said Trump Was ”Never Charged With Anything”
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. PBD Podcast #852 said Donald Trump has been accused of a great deal and "never charged with anything." We rate that mostly-false, truth score 0.25. The narrow version — never criminally charged with a sex offence — is true. The sentence…
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”Statistically Never Happens”: Michael Knowles on Police Killings
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Michael Knowles says police killings of innocent Black people "statistically never happens." We rate that mostly-false — truth score 0.15, confidence 0.85. The public overestimate he is correcting is real and measured. The zero he…
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Is Mamdani ”Explicitly a Communist”? Fact-Checking Ted Cruz on the P.A.S. Report
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Ted Cruz told the P.A.S. Report that Zohran Mamdani "wants to seize the means of production" and "is explicitly a communist." We rate that mostly-false — truth score 0.30, confidence 0.88. The quote Cruz is invoking is real. The word...
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Fact-check: ”40 recorded cases in human history” of postpartum psychosis
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. A podcast claimed there have been "like 40 recorded cases in human history" of postpartum psychosis. We rate that false — truth score 0.03, confidence 0.96. The claim aired on Timothy Gordon Rules for Retrogrades, one day after the…
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The Smithsonian Exhibit That Doesn’t Exist Yet
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Kevin Roberts says the Smithsonian's women's history museum has a planned exhibit celebrating male athletes in women's sports. We rate that mostly false — truth score 0.2, confidence 0.75. The sentence is real and it's in a federal...
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Timcast IRL: ”The Allies Didn’t Know” — Holocaust Denial’s Oldest Shrug
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. A Timcast IRL panelist relayed a YouTube argument that Allied bombing starved the camps and that the Allies didn't know they were there. His response: "That stuff could be true for all I know." We rate the proposition false — truth score...
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”Leaving Aside, There Is No Genocide” — Fact-Checking Four Words
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Verdict: mostly-false. Truth score 0.20, confidence 0.75. The Michael Knowles Show, 29 August 2026: guest Shabbos Kestenbaum disposes of the Gaza genocide question in four words — "Leaving aside, there is no genocide." The verdict is not…
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Michael Knowles Says Measles Was ”Like the Chicken Pox”
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Michael Knowles described measles in passing as a disease "which used to be not that big a deal... It was nothing. It was like the chicken pox." We rate that mostly-false, truth score 0.15, confidence 0.95. Pre-vaccine, measles and...
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Matt Walsh Says Somalia Is ’Too Primitive to Draw the Blueprint.’ A 1269 Mosque Says Otherwise
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Matt Walsh said Somalia has no Mall of America because Somalis are "too primitive to draw the blueprint." We rate that false — truth score 0.05, confidence 0.85. Mogadishu has enclosed malls operating today, 6,000+ new buildings in five...
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”More Trade With China Than Anyone” - mostly-false: Census Puts China Third at 6.6%
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. On the PBD Podcast (26 Aug 2026), guest Roman Yampolskiy said the US has more economic trade with China than with any other country. We rate that mostly-false, truth score 0.15: Census Bureau data for June 2026 puts China third at 6.6%,...
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Louder with Crowder’s ”lower IQ” claim about Indians
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. At 53:04 on Louder with Crowder, the answer to "don't immigrants make us better?" is: "They poop in the streets and have a lower IQ." We rate that claim false. Truth score 0.04, confidence 0.85. Episode: "Trump's Immigration Wins Are...
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Let’s Call It Fifteen: Crowder’s “12 to 20 Million” Border Claim
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Louder with Crowder said 12 to 20 million people entered the US illegally under Biden in three years, then settled on 15 million. We rate it mostly-false, truth score 0.20. The actual record is still historic: an unauthorized population...
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Fact-check: Michael Knowles’s $17 trillion investment claim
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Michael Knowles said the first part of the Trump administration delivered "$17 trillion, new investment in America." We rate that false. Truth score 0.1, confidence 0.9. The White House's own list of investment announcements totalled $8.8...
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The Permanent Majority That Wasn’t: Fact-Checking Michael Knowles
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Michael Knowles said Democrats wanted mass migration to manufacture a permanent electoral majority and have "mostly been proven right." We rated it false — truth score 0.15, confidence 0.82. The prediction was real. The program was not —...
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”Every Single Time”: Matt Walsh’s Universal Lynching Claim
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Matt Walsh said every claimed lynching "turns out to be a completely fake story." We rated it false — truth score 0.05, confidence 0.93. The cases he's generalizing from are real. The number he needs is 100%. The number the evidence...
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The 84 Percent: how 86 anonymous answers became ”the experts agree”
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Matt Walsh told his audience that anonymous surveys show more than 80% of experts agree genes play a non-trivial role in average race differences in intelligence. One survey does. It is 86 answers out of roughly 1,237 researchers…
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”They Set It Up That Way”: The Claim That Every Blue-State Election Is Stolen
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. A guest on The Benny Show said elections are stolen "every election in most of the Democratic states, if not all." We rate it false — truth score 0.08, confidence 0.88. The same segment says you can't prove it "because of the way they've...
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Michael Knowles’s ”particularly violent” claim about trans Americans
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Michael Knowles told his audience "we know that the transvestite community is particularly violent." We rate it FALSE — truth score 0.1, confidence 0.82. The aside came one day after a real federal sentencing, and that is exactly how this...
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The Blood Ledger: Fact-Checking the Decolonization Death Toll
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Timcast IRL, 18 August 2026, at 31:38: "far more blood was shed in like literally the 10 years of decolonization in Africa than like the 100s of years of colonial rule." We rate that false — truth score 0.10, confidence 0.75. The ten-year...
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Something Horrible Happened: How a Murder Became a Diagnosis
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. A guest on The Benny Show said transgender people are "mentally ill," "not born that way," and that this is "what got Charlie Kirk killed." We rate it false — truth score 0.12, confidence 0.86. Here is the strongest version of that...
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A Dispute For Another Time: How ”Franken Stole It” Stopped Being An Argument
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. In 2008, Al Franken beat Norm Coleman by 312 votes out of nearly 2.9 million. A Daily Wire roundtable called it a theft — and in the same breath declined to argue it. We checked the claim: mostly false. Truth score 0.12, confidence 0.90.…
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Ben Shapiro Ep. 2484: ’Three Ways Islam Will Conquer the West’
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Ben Shapiro's show played a line from Ben Shapiro's movie: "three ways Islam will conquer the West." We rate it false. Truth score 0.1, confidence 0.85. The cleric quotes behind it are real. The demographics are not — and "the wombs of…
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Fact-Check: Timcast IRL’s ’400,000 Fraudulent Michigan Voter Files’
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Timcast IRL, 12 August 2026: Michigan has "some 400,000 fraudulent voter files," and Elissa Slotkin won her Senate race "by something like 60,000 votes." Verdict: false (truth score 0.1). Slotkin's margin was 19,006, and we could not…
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A racial fertility ranking on Timcast IRL, checked against CDC data
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. A guest-side voice on Timcast IRL ranked American racial groups by birth rate. The 2024 CDC numbers put that ranking close to backwards. Verdict: mostly-false, truth score 0.15 — with one component that checks out completely, and does the...
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Thirty-Eight Days After the Ruling: Shapiro on Birthright Citizenship
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Ben Shapiro: birthright citizenship is "not mandated by the Constitution." Verdict: mostly-false, truth score 0.15, confidence 0.90. The Supreme Court answered that exact question 38 days before he said it — and the 1866 Senate had…
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Ben Shapiro on the 14th Amendment: ’One or Two Weeks After the Civil War’
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Ben Shapiro said the Fourteenth Amendment came "one week or two weeks after the Civil War ended." Congress proposed it fourteen months after Appomattox and it was ratified more than three years later. Verdict: false. Truth score 0.15,...
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”Fauci’s Disease”: How a Conspiracy Theory Retired Into a Punchline
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. On Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast Ep 628, at 54:24.84 "He was looking for a cure to Fauci's disease." The claim riding inside that possessive — AIDS is attributable to Anthony Fauci — is false. Truth score 0.03, confidence 0.92. Nobody…
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Seven Million, Wrong Denominator: Benny Johnson on Islam and Slavery
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Benny Johnson said seven million people are enslaved worldwide, all of them in Africa, all in Islamic nations. That is Walk Free's regional figure for Africa alone. The global estimate is 50 million, and the largest populations are in...
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Sharia at 44:36: How a 2013 Satire Article Became a Sitting Senator’s Fact
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. A guest identified on-air as Sen. Tim Sheehy said the United States "now has Sharia law," naming Dearborn, Michigan. We rate that false — truth score 0.12, confidence 0.90 — and trace the claim's most durable detail back to a 2013 satire...
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RFK Jr.’s ”Show me one study” on child COVID vaccines
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. RFK Jr. asked CNN's Dana Bash to show him one study showing children were protected by the COVID vaccine. On air, she didn't produce one. We rate "you're talking about studies that actually don't exist" mostly-false — truth score 0.15,...
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The Commissary Problem: ”It’s Failed Everywhere” vs. 235 Government-Owned Grocery Stores
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. USA TODAY says government-owned grocery stores have "failed everywhere else it's been tried." The Defense Commissary Agency operates 235 of them. Verdict: false, truth score 0.15 — and the real failures the column never mentions are the...
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The Statute Nobody Mentioned: How a State Law Became One Mayor’s Choice
Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. The New York Post says Bill de Blasio "allowed" NYC schools to stop using test scores to decide promotion. A 2014 New York State law had already required it. Verdict: mostly-false. Truth score 0.30. Confidence 0.85. On July 25, 2026, the...
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