Straight Answers

An LLM assessed 768 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 →

23%of assessed questions not answered directly · how? → 47playable exchanges ↓ 0with none identified → 153people measured →

Every one of the 160 people on the record is accounted for: 2 carry a full rate (8 or more assessed questions on raw tape), 151 more have their questions counted (37 of them with at least one not answered directly; too few raw questions for a fair percentage, edited feed included), and the remaining 7 never took a direct question in any tape we hold: compilations, panels and cameo appearances leave nothing to assess.

Dhani Jones 3 of 6 assessed questions

No needle for Dhani Jones: fewer than 8 assessed questions on raw tape, and a percentage on a sample that small would mislead. Their counts are real: 3 not answered directly in 6 assessed questions.

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Dhani Jones: every exchange, playable

The question Joe 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.

Redirected ▶ 2:23

“And so you, you, people also know you from shows, you've been on TV shows like Adventure Capitalists and Tahani Tackles the Globe. You see you doing some media these days still?”

answered: “Yeah, I, I had a great mentor when I was playing on the Giants”

Redirected ▶ 3:25

“Is this like a whole thing where the whole society's getting a little softer, is this what you're saying?”

answered: “For me, football, I felt like it was a springboard, and Strahan”

Redirected ▶ 25:49

“It was both kind of philanthropic, but also evolved into, into a business. Like how do you, it's clear you think about business in terms of causes, like, like what else are you looking at cause wise right now?”

answered: “And that's where Bowtie Cause originated from.”

All speakers

All 2 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
Joe Lonsdale Founder & Managing Partner, 8VC 24% 4 17 3.7
Kevin Stitt Governor, State of Oklahoma 22% 2 9 3.9

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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