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.
No needle for Marc Andreessen: fewer than 8 assessed questions on raw tape, and a percentage on a sample that small would mislead. Their counts are real: 2 not answered directly in 6 assessed questions.
Marc Andreessen: 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.
“Like, what does that coalition look like of the, of the, of the good guys against this kind of broken regulatory cartel in all these industries? Is that, is that something we're going to all have to fight?”
answered: “the way I think about this is there's basically, right, three components”
“But there's over a thousand laws at state level we've been trying to fight and stop that would screw this up, right? So there's a lot of people who are against this.”
answered: “California state government almost passed a law to outlaw AI in California six months ago”
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).