Lemonade Stand (Vox Media), September 16, 2026

Wed, Sep 16EpisodeMachine transcriptLemonade Stand

On the Sep 16, 2026 episode of Lemonade Stand, 3 of the 8 words Polymarket listed were said; Parrot’s count agreed with all 8 settlements. Quotes below are at most 25 words each.

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Markets

8 words · 3 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
Money Yes6060✓88%n=9 from settlement history–
Red Yes66✓63%n=12 from settlement history–
Japan Yes11✓54%n=2 from settlement history–
AI / Artificial Intelligence 10+ timesNo11✓65%n=4 from settlement history–
China / Chinese No00✓90%n=11 from settlement history–
Trump 10+ timesNo00✓65%n=4 from settlement history–
Blue No00✓56%n=12 from settlement history–
Experimental No00✓27%n=4 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.

2 matches for “Apple”; 2 quoted, at least 25 words apart.

Speaker not labelled22:48

…you do that one well, you have success. Why not everybody can make iPhones? Because Apple and Samsung know how to do it pretty well.

Speaker not labelled1:22:18

…the team, because otherwise you set a bad example, having a rotten apple in there and you don't do anything about it as a boss,…

Where the listed words were said

Speaker not labelled“Money” · 5:36

…Because, you know, the United States, I live here 20 years, so I know how it works here. It just works if everybody makes money.

Speaker not labelled“Red” · 5:55

…the bottom end, there needs to be a black figure, not a red one, you know? And I think Bernie never got that one across,…

Speaker not labelled“Japan” · 49:05

…you can see the front wheel lifting. This is like a Shinkansen in Japan, but you just have no windshield, and you're on a bike.

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