Lemonade Stand (Vox Media), September 30, 2026

On the Sep 30, 2026 episode of Lemonade Stand, 5 of the 8 words Polymarket listed were said; Parrot’s count agreed with 6 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 6 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 Yes4545✓84%n=13 from settlement history–
Money Yes2020✓90%n=11 from settlement history–
Japan Yes11✓65%n=4 from settlement history–
Blue Yes11✓55%n=14 from settlement history–
Red Yes00✗61%n=14 from settlement history–
AI / Artificial Intelligence 10+ timesNo1212✗61%n=6 from settlement history–
Trump 10+ timesNo00✓51%n=6 from settlement history–
Experimental No00✓21%n=6 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 “Left”; 2 quoted, at least 25 words apart.

Speaker not labelled2:00

left for a while, came back. Can you just explain like what you do at the company now and like what led up to that?…

Speaker not labelled1:50:38

…buy the website from him, you know, and said, oh, my grandma left me some money, and so here's 25 grand, let me go buy…

Where the listed words were said

Speaker not labelled“China / Chinese” · 58:30

…have been told is that a long time ago, Tencent, who is this giant Chinese gaming company that is a majority owner of Riot Games.

Speaker not labelled“Money” · 6:15

…trying to do and made tons of mistakes, of course, but we're fortunate enough to build League of Legends after raising some money from VCs.

Speaker not labelled“Japan” · 1:22:30

a nascent market in China. And obviously they're massive in Japan, they're massive all over the world, magic and all this. Do we think that…

Speaker not labelled“Blue” · 1:01:41

know anything, all of a sudden out of the blue comes this massive Chinese company. At the time, they're like 50 billion, which is still…

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