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.

23 matches for “Texas”; 5 quoted, at least 25 words apart.

Speaker not labelled8:33

…is pretty goofy but it's all real however let's go over to Texas a little bit goofy I think we're just going to open this…

Speaker not labelled9:18

…a midterm convention. So they're having a gigantic Republican midterm convention in Texas. Now, normally these conventions exist for a couple of purposes, which is…

Speaker not labelled10:03

Like they have to fly out to Texas to be at this thing. And, you know, as we may have mentioned last week, some of…

Speaker not labelled12:41

…was unlocked. I want to mention the race. The Paxton-Talerico race in Texas is probably, I don't know. It's tough to say, but it may…

Speaker not labelled13:04

…did look into it more today. Man, the math is so bad for him. All Republican standard ballot. I'm sorry, all standard ballots in Texas.

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” · 14:41

…being as bad as he is, it's still such an uphill battle for this race. Maybe Blue Texas in the future with 20 more years.

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