Straight Answers

An LLM assessed 1,464 question → answer exchanges, the host's own answers included. Speaker names were hidden during assessment. Each exchange was marked answered, partly, redirected or not addressed, with a quote as its source. Every exchange below is timestamped and plays. How it works →

These readings are observational: the transcript shows whether the question was answered directly, whatever the reason. It is an AI reading of a public exchange, never a claim about intent, and the tape is one tap away on every row. full disclaimer →

22%of assessed questions not answered directly · how? → 217playable exchanges ↓ 6with none identified → 204people measured →

Every one of the 227 people on the record is accounted for: 47 carry a full rate (8 or more assessed questions on raw tape), 157 more have their questions counted (62 of them with at least one not answered directly; too few raw questions for a fair percentage, edited feed included), and the remaining 23 never took a direct question in any tape we hold: compilations, panels and cameo appearances leave nothing to assess.

Antonio Gracias 2 of 8 questions
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Antonio Gracias: every exchange, playable

The question asked, then the AI assessment note from the answer. Tap to play the moment. Not addressed = the question was not engaged; redirected = acknowledged, then steered elsewhere.

Not addressed ▶ 8:20

“And it will be in a pill format soon, right? I mean, the pills are almost here.”

answered: “If you did the every, the every person's, um, kind of story around this journey.”

Not addressed ▶ 1:31:41

“And it will be in a pill format soon, right? I mean, the pills are almost here.”

answered: “if you did the every, the every person's, um, kind of story around this journey”

Not addressed ▶ 1:02:05

“But the DOJ, the DOJ sells these. So like, who do you think of the DOJs making the Bitcoin market decisions, and is that the right person to be monetizing these assets?”

answered: “David mentioned a point about security I just want to follow up on”

Redirected ▶ 25:14

“as a Clinton Democrat, fiscally conservative, socially liberal, correct me if I'm wrong there, what are your thoughts on reconciliation here, because you really do care about that, your parents, both immigrants, my besties here, three of the four people who host this program, immigrants, this is an immigrant country built by immigrants, for immigrants, has always been, So how do we reconcile this ”

answered: “I don't want to get into the policy at all because it's above my pay grade.”

Redirected ▶ 2:14

“This is sacrifice, right? You're, you're, you're taking time out of your day job.”

answered: “It, it, it's definitely a sacrifice, but... How bad is it?”

All speakers

All 47 people with 8 or more assessed questions on raw tape. Click a name to see their exchanges. highest rate none identified small samples

Person Not answered directly (%) Redirected + not addressed Questions Argument clarity /5
Jason Calacanis Founder & CEO, LAUNCH 74% 17 23 3.3
Donald J. Trump President, United States 56% 9 16 3.0
Doug Burgum Secretary, U.S. Department of the Interior 56% 5 9 3.5
John Fetterman U.S. Senator, United States Senate 54% 7 13 3.1
Josh Shapiro Governor, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania 50% 4 8 3.6
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services 43% 6 14 3.7
Ray Dalio Founder and Mentor, Bridgewater Associates 38% 6 16 3.3
Jared Kushner Founder & CEO, Affinity Partners 38% 6 16 3.6
Senator Eric Schmitt U.S. Senator, U.S. Senate 38% 3 8 3.5
Sam Altman CEO, OpenAI 33% 4 12 3.8
Pete Buttigieg Former U.S. Secretary of Transportation 33% 4 12 3.8
Balaji Srinivasan Founder, The Network School 33% 3 9 3.7
Chamath Palihapitiya Founder & CEO, Social Capital 27% 10 37 4.0
Elon Musk CEO, Tesla and SpaceX 25% 4 16 3.6
Jensen Huang Founder and CEO, NVIDIA 25% 3 12 3.7
Bryan Johnson Founder, Project Blueprint 25% 2 8 3.8
Antonio Gracias Founder & CEO, Valor Equity Partners 25% 2 8 3.7
Senator Ron Johnson U.S. Senator, United States Senate 24% 4 17 3.7
David Sacks Founding General Partner, Craft Ventures 22% 7 32 4.2
Chris Christie Managing Partner, Christie 55 Solutions 21% 3 14 4.1
David Friedberg Founder & CEO, The Production Board 21% 7 33 4.0
Ro Khanna U.S. Representative, U.S. House of Representatives 19% 3 16 3.9
Dean Phillips Former U.S. Representative, Minnesota's 3rd District 18% 3 17 3.8
Brad Gerstner Founder & CEO, Altimeter Capital 15% 2 13 4.1
Ryan Cohen Chairman and CEO, GameStop 15% 2 13 4.0
Sundar Pichai CEO, Alphabet and Google 14% 2 14 3.9
Scott Bessent Secretary of the Treasury, U.S. Department of the Treasury 13% 2 16 3.9
Reid Hoffman Partner, Greylock 13% 2 16 3.7
Nate Silver Founder & Author, Silver Bulletin 13% 2 16 3.8
Ryan Petersen Founder & CEO, Flexport 13% 1 8 4.2
Graham Allison Professor of Government, Harvard Kennedy School 13% 1 8 4.0
Joe Lonsdale Founder & Managing Partner, 8VC 11% 1 9 3.8
María Corina Machado National Coordinator, Vente Venezuela 8% 1 12 4.1
Dave Ricks Chair & CEO, Eli Lilly and Company 8% 1 12 4.2
Rand Paul U.S. Senator, United States Senate 8% 1 12 3.7
Steve Hilton Founder and CEO, Golden Together 8% 1 12 4.0
Dave Portnoy Founder and Owner, Barstool Sports 8% 1 13 4.0
Brian Armstrong Co-Founder & CEO, Coinbase 7% 1 14 4.0
Dr. Marty Makary Professor Emeritus, Johns Hopkins University 7% 1 14 4.2
Jared Isaacman Administrator, NASA 7% 1 14 4.2
Emil Michael Under Secretary of Defense, U.S. Department of Defense 7% 1 14 3.9
Changpeng Zhao (CZ) Founder, Giggle Academy 0% 0 12 4.1
John Martinis Co-Founder & CTO, Qolab 0% 0 9 4.0
Vlad Tenev Co-Founder & CEO, Robinhood 0% 0 12 4.0
Mark Cuban Co-founder, Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company 0% 0 13 4.0
Shyam Sankar CTO & EVP, Palantir Technologies 0% 0 12 4.2
Trae Stephens Partner, Founders Fund 0% 0 8 4.1

Percentages come from raw unedited recordings only: produced podcast audio has tangents and stumbles cut in the edit, which moves the speaker up by about 12 percentile points. The small-sample counts include the produced feed. This is a reading of a transcript. It is not an accusation of dishonesty, and there are many good reasons not to answer a question directly (confidential numbers, unreleased products, someone else's news to break).

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