The Pulse, every show
14,869 episodes across 44 shows, every word counted. How the interviews sound year by year, and how the shows themselves have grown. What everyone talks about, by year, is on the buzzwords page →
shows 
every show 44 of 44
The interviews, measured
Computed from every diarized word of 14,599 scored episodes: how much the hosts talk, how hard the questions press.
Share of speaking time taken by the hosts, from the diarized turns of every scored episode on the shows in view. It peaked at 39% in 2016.
How often claims get contested instead of accepted: the yearly mean of every scored topic segment, from 0.7/10 in 2013 to 1.5/10.
Episodes with full speaker diarization and scored dynamics. These feed the charts around this one.
pushback = contests claims, scored 0-10 per topic segment by an LLM with a published rubric; talk share is pure math on the diarized turns. Years with fewer than five scored episodes are left out.
The shows themselves
Every processed episode on the shows in view by year published. Bars count them, the gold line tracks the median runtime.