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 →
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.
Joe Lonsdale: 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.
“And like, we're going to look at the people seriously who do a great job on it. Like, why would you not do that?”
answered: “This is my controversial point of view is that it used to be”
“And that just seems like, that's like, kind of twisted, right? Because hating Islamophobia is not more important than loving Islam.”
answered: “there are so many ways to talk about all these things with race”
“He got like teenage boys to go and sleep with, you know, men in the Navy to find guys who are gay to get them thrown out. And, uh, you know, this was something where obviously getting those, like, young men to do this was a huge scandal, and he did all kinds of crap like that, right?”
answered: “by the way, since we're talking about banks in this conversation”
“But, like, the sports story, right? Like, Jake actually had to get in the ring and, like, fight A bigger man.”
answered: “I want to ask you guys about culture a little bit.”
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).