The Late Show with Stephen Colbert: Episode, Jan 8, 2026

Thu, Jan 8EpisodeHistory onlyThe Late Show with Stephen Colbert

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Markets

10 words · 0 settled yes

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, and the probability (a walk-forward backtest on settled rows)
WordResultProbabilityMarket
Dictator / Dictatorship No–new new word, no probability yet–
Greenland No–new new word, no probability yet–
January 6 No–new new word, no probability yet–
Oil No–new new word, no probability yet–
Somali / Somalia / Somalian No–new new word, no probability yet–
Healthcare No29%n=3 from settlement history–
China / Russia No–n=1 too little history for a probability–
Trump No25%n=7 from settlement history–
Affordable / Affordability No–n=1 too little history for a probability–
Epstein No–n=1 too little history for a probability–

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 20, 2026 15:46 UTC.

Transcript

History only. We have no transcript source for this category; the results above are how the venues settled the markets.

Agents: this page as TSV at /api/v1/brief?event=k%3AKXCOLBERTMENTION-26JAN08 · columnar JSON in #parrot-data · llms.txt · MCP