Straight Answers
An LLM assessed 618 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 96 people on the record is accounted for: 2 carry a full rate (8 or more assessed questions on raw tape), 94 more have their questions counted (26 of them with at least one not answered directly; too few raw questions for a fair percentage, edited feed included), and the remaining 0 never took a direct question in any tape we hold: compilations, panels and cameo appearances leave nothing to assess.
Codie Sanchez: every exchange, playable
The question Codie 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.
“You're not the personality type that can build a very valuable company. Is not the kind that can sit around and do nothing.”
answered: “It's also, I think, incredibly difficult to simplify things.”
“Like, I feel like a lot of creators can also package up what, They say into these courses, but maybe not a lot of them do because it's hard to price yourself in many ways. How have you thought about that?”
answered: “I think there's two reasons people don't do info products.”
“Your coffee is so bad. It is a, but yeah, no, I'm with you, so.”
answered: “two hundred million dollar project that is basically a glorified strip center residential unit”
“And at some point in time, did something happen that caused you to believe that it was all made up and there was no right and wrong. And then there's some other behaviors that, you know, might interact to lean you in one direction or another.”
answered: “so do you think that means that we're creating more psychopaths today?”
“So how convincing is someone? And I think that ends up being really, really important.”
answered: “I realized that there is just a huge value to being willing to put the nose”
“Don't ignore my comment. Please, Cody.”
answered: “first let's look at college. So should you go get an MBA or really”
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Codie Sanchez Founder & CEO, Contrarian Thinking | 38% | 6 | 16 | 3.5 |
| Arthur Brooks Professor of the Practice, Harvard Kennedy School | 0% | 0 | 11 | 4.2 |
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).