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 →
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.
Doug Burgum: 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.
“Who can take that deregulatory action? Do you need Congress to get involved?”
answered: “I've got a great partner, Chris Wright, incredibly talented”
“How did that process go for you? How did you end up in this role?”
answered: “I love what I'm doing and I love the role, uh, because of course”
“In electricity production capacity, and if everything gets automated, factories are automated, AI becomes the great accelerant of the global economy, China is hugely advantaged relative to where we sit today. What do we need to do about it?”
answered: “this is the issue. And it's so thrilling and refreshing that you understand”
“Why can't we build for the future? What can we do to create the incentive to make this work?”
answered: “nuclear's got a future, but it's, it's not the thing we need in the next 24 months.”
“to the moon, fighting World War II in Europe, a Manhattan Project style set of solutions are needed to address this. What is This council that you're leading, the National Energy Dominance Council doing, what are kind of the top three things that you think unlock the energy potential in the United States and meet the demand curve that's kind of tidal waving its way across this country right now?”
answered: “we don't have enough power to win the AI arms race”
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).