Lemonade Stand (Vox Media), August 26, 2026

On the Aug 26, 2026 episode of Lemonade Stand, 6 of the 8 words Polymarket listed were said; Parrot’s count agreed with all 8 settlements. Quotes below are at most 25 words each.

Updated

Markets

8 words · 6 settled yes · our count agreed on 8 of 8

backtest The probabilities on settled rows are a walk-forward backtest: the model as of before each event, computed after Parrot went live; they were not published at the time.

Listed words: result, our count under the market rule, the count over every speaker, whether they agree, and the probability (a walk-forward backtest on settled rows)
WordResultOur countAll speakersAgreesProbabilityMarket
China / Chinese Yes4343✓88%n=9 from settlement history–
AI / Artificial Intelligence 10+ timesYes3434✓70%n=2 from settlement history–
Money Yes2121✓85%n=7 from settlement history–
Trump 10+ timesYes1717✓53%n=2 from settlement history–
Japan Yes22✓–new new word, no probability yet–
Red Yes11✓57%n=10 from settlement history–
Blue No00✓57%n=10 from settlement history–
Experimental No00✓37%n=2 from settlement history–

Market prices are mid quotes from Kalshi and Polymarket, shown for context, may be delayed by several minutes and are not a signal. Quotes as of Oct 21, 2026 04:22 UTC.

Transcript

quotes of at most 25 words

Machine transcript · Lemonade Stand podcast audio (Vox Media), machine transcript · Source · Used to count words; quotes of at most 25 words.

Machine-attributed. Speaker turns are labelled by a model, not the publisher.

Where the listed words were said

Speaker not labelled“China / Chinese” · 2:04

…this for 47 years, what option is left? And the option is China, basically, because they're the one that is really financially underpinning Iran's ability…

Speaker not labelled“AI / Artificial Intelligence (10+)” · 26:19

and it's a i don't know it's a frustrating experience you know what never changes what never changes answer cells i don't think famously isn't…

Speaker not labelled“Money” · 8:49

…seemingly having an effect. Now they've already banked a lot of extra money because of all the oil they exported earlier that was at higher…

Speaker not labelled“Trump (10+)” · 9:25

…We're talking about Canada. It's very hard to make a deal with Trump that is reliable. No matter who's got the position of strength or…

Speaker not labelled“Japan” · 49:01

…is majority made in China or if you include South Korea and Japan. We almost have none of it in America. Tesla, I've maligned them…

Speaker not labelled“Red” · 1:17:32

…really getting hit by this because in 2019, when they lifted the restriction, a private equity group got a huge chunk of the Red Sox.

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