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.

9 matches for “Trump”; 5 quoted, at least 25 words apart.

Speaker not labelled9:00

…down on the polls and down on the betting markets. And so they're trying to turn it around. Donald Trump came up with an idea

Speaker not labelled9:34

…this only exists as like a drumming up support type beat where Trump is going to go out, give a speech. They're spending $40 million…

Speaker not labelled10:22

the speakers are going to be a who's who it's trump then it's vance then it's rfk then it's scott besant and the idea i…

Speaker not labelled10:47

…see this episode we're recording the day before but it starts then, Trump will have probably given his speech by the time you see this.…

Speaker not labelled11:05

…or the MAGA Inc. And that is where the money is. And Trump controls the strings on that. So he has all of the Republican…

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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