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.
Kevin Stitt: 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.
“I think you started with a thousand dollars in a computer. Tell us about your entrepreneurial journey.”
answered: “and then, really, the reason I ran for, for office, 2018”
“I think you started with a thousand dollars in a computer. Tell us about your entrepreneurial journey.”
answered: “and then, really, the reason I ran for, for office, 2018”
“What would you say to your fellow business leaders who don't want to get involved in politics? Do we need more of these guys to step up?”
answered: “running state government specifically is really a lot like running a business.”
“How can we be more bold in this fight, and are you seeing this even in your state? Is there, are there ways that woke nonsense gets into things in Oklahoma, and, and how are you thinking of fighting it?”
answered: “Our school choice plan. So I, I tell people all the time... And then during COVID”
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).