Lemonade Stand (Vox Media), September 23, 2026

On the Sep 23, 2026 episode of Lemonade Stand, 7 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 · 7 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
Trump 10+ timesYes6565✓57%n=5 from settlement history–
AI / Artificial Intelligence 10+ timesYes3737✓69%n=5 from settlement history–
China / Chinese Yes1919✓91%n=12 from settlement history–
Money Yes1313✓89%n=10 from settlement history–
Blue Yes33✓59%n=13 from settlement history–
Japan Yes11✓60%n=3 from settlement history–
Red Yes11✓59%n=13 from settlement history–
Experimental No00✓24%n=5 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 “Tariff”; 2 quoted, at least 25 words apart.

Speaker not labelled17:20

…shit that is like not part of his responsibility. Yeah, like a tariff thing. Yeah, exactly. So I thought that's really interesting is that you…

Speaker not labelled17:45

…counting ballots after election day, Federal Reserve governor firing, and most importantly, tariffs, as well as it lists like several other things like the Missouri…

Where the listed words were said

Speaker not labelled“Trump (10+)” · 3:07

…House's crackdown on the free press. If you pull this up, Donald Trump in the past few days banned CNN, MSNOW, and Politico from the…

Speaker not labelled“AI / Artificial Intelligence (10+)” · 1:03

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Speaker not labelled“China / Chinese” · 0:05

…brought to you by Constellation. Doug, you know how Aiden's always saying climate change is a Chinese hoax? Yeah, he does say that a lot.

Speaker not labelled“Money” · 22:03

…he says, Hey, uh, it's almost October 1st. I'm a lot of money every day pretty soon. If you, so October 1st is the point…

Speaker not labelled“Blue” · 14:57

And they most likely lean blue. Yeah. You know what I thought was interesting from this? Trump voted mail-in ballot, just to be clear. That's…

Speaker not labelled“Japan” · 57:51

…upcoming trip right where like i'm having to figure out hotels for japan and whatnot and to be able to say here all the parameters…

Speaker not labelled“Red” · 20:25

…We'll do the facts first. So if you pull this up, Perry, these 12 states, I colored them in red, but they are blue states.

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