Lemonade Stand (Vox Media), September 9, 2026

On the Sep 9, 2026 episode of Lemonade Stand, 5 of the 8 words Polymarket listed were said; Parrot’s count agreed with 7 of 8 settlements. Quotes below are at most 25 words each.

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Markets

8 words · 5 settled yes · our count agreed on 7 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 Yes3838✓89%n=10 from settlement history–
AI / Artificial Intelligence 10+ timesYes3636✓75%n=3 from settlement history–
Money Yes3030✓87%n=8 from settlement history–
Japan Yes55✓–n=1 too little history for a probability–
Blue Yes22✓54%n=11 from settlement history–
Trump 10+ timesNo99✓60%n=3 from settlement history–
Red No11✗60%n=11 from settlement history–
Experimental No00✓32%n=3 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” · 54:16

I had the exact same feel. You talked about Chinese micro dramas recently on this show. Yeah. My team and I did a deeper dive…

Speaker not labelled“AI / Artificial Intelligence (10+)” · 37:00

…with connected payment account required. See Experian.com for details. Experian. All right. I have been just overwhelmed by all this stuff I hear about AI.

Speaker not labelled“Money” · 3:43

…threatened to kill police officers. Judges made bomb threats and did harassment campaigns and tried to blackmail them for money to get them to stop.

Speaker not labelled“Japan” · 1:10:41

…in the show a couple times, a country like the US, or Japan, or the UK, or the eurozone really they can't actually default because…

Speaker not labelled“Blue” · 8:46

…to cover in Texas as we know the James Tallarico, Ken Paxton blue Texas possible big senator waste is coming up but as part of…

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