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🎙️ What a show tells

Today, Explained

⚠️ Stories told, not claims that they're true.

What the show's hosts, guests, callers and the clips they play said, as claims in our words, filed by the shape of the story. "Came up on" the show: told, reported or argued against. We don't yet mark which.

✍️ Its signature

the motifs it tells far more than the other shows we follow do

🧩 The greatest country on earth 🧩 Thirsty data centers 🧩 Data center panic 🧩 Money in politics 🧩 They're going to steal it 🧩 Daddy Warbucks 🧩 Big Mo 🧩 It's the economy, stupid

👯 Tells the most alike

the shows whose stories overlap most with its own, whatever their lean

🧩 Its repertoire

every motif its claims came up in, the most first

🧩 The impostor ×4 🧩 They're going to steal it ×4 🧩 Money in politics ×3 🧩 Lawfare ×3 🧩 Daddy Warbucks ×3 🧩 Political party surge ×2 🧩 Data center panic ×2 🧩 It's the economy, stupid ×2 🧩 Thirsty data centers ×2 🧩 Big Mo ×2 🧩 The greatest country on earth ×2 🧩 Inflammatory political rhetoric ×1 🧩 Executive overreach ×1 🧩 Intimidation ×1 🧩 Political infighting ×1 🧩 Punching down ×1 🧩 Captured court ×1 🧩 Fall of the Republic ×1 🧩 Broken electoral math ×1 🧩 Stochastic terrorism ×1 🧩 Midterm curse ×1 🧩 Targeting civilians ×1 🧩 Dead weight president ×1 🧩 Where our tax dollars go ×1 🧩 Driven off the land ×1 🧩 Distancing ×1 🧩 Voter suppression ×1 🧩 Big tent, no house ×1 🧩 They're out of control ×1 🧩 No one is above the law ×1 🧩 Picking their voters ×1 🧩 Houdini ×1 🧩 Solution in search of a problem ×1 🧩 Lied on a form ×1 🧩 Red mirage ×1

🎙️ Lately on the show

its latest claims, in our words, with their motifs

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