Star Treatment

Does prominence change the questions? Every guest, plotted: their public prominence (rated 1–10 by an LLM, methodology below) against the host pushback they met, measured from every diarized word of their episodes.

An aggregate AI reading of public interviews: pushback per exchange, plotted against guest prominence. It describes questioning patterns across the whole catalogue, not any single guest, and every point opens to its episode. full disclaimer →

+0.32pushback per +1 prominence
0.0/10host pushback, prominence 8–10
1.7/10host pushback, prominence 1–4
22guests measured
22 of 22 guests shown
0 2 4 6 8 10 12345678910 prominence → (1 to 10) host pushback /10

dot size = rated episodes · gold line = average per prominence level · every dot links to the person

All guests, by prominence

GuestProminenceHost pushbackGuest pushbackEps
David Bailey Managing Partner, The Bailey Group 4 3 3/10 1
Mike Lazerow 4 4 2/10 1
Ben Lee Broker Associate, The Agency 3 1 1/10 1
Mikey Taylor Co-President & Managing Principal, Commune Capital 3 2 1/10 1
Jamie Lane Chief Economist, AirDNA 3 2 1/10 1
Michael Muller Principal, Michael Muller Photography 2 0 2/10 1
Neyshia Go Founder, The Go Group 2 1 1/10 1
Randy Fifield Founder & Chairwoman, Randy Fifield Modern Living 2 1 1/10 1
Gary Gold Founding Partner, Forward One Real Estate 2 1 1/10 1
Daryl Owen Founder & CEO, Owen Companies 1 0 0/10 1
Dr. Jonas Kuno Co-Founder & Medical Director, Cryohealthcare 1 1 2/10 1
Christian Johnson Founder and Operator, OODA Management 1 1 1/10 1
Adam O'Neill Founder & CEO, Pacifica Urban Builders 1 1 1/10 1
John Umbanhowar Founding Partner, Hughes Umbanhowar Architects 1 1 1/10 1
Mercer Kahlo Developer Agent 1 2 2/10 1
Lizbeth Scordo Real Estate Agent, Compass 1 2 1/10 1
Chris Safferis Real Estate Investor 1 2 2/10 1
Kimberly Stepp Co-Founder and Principal, Stepp Commercial 1 2 2/10 1
Jimmy Basile Representative, Beverly Hills Art Exchange 1 2 1/10 1
Sam Raffae Founder and President, Monarch Title Company 1 2 2/10 1
Claire Baucom Founding Steward & Curator, Clear Art Reserve 1 3 1/10 1
Akash Sani Commercial Real Estate Broker, KW Commercial 1 3 1/10 1

host and guest pushback: scored 0-10 per topic segment by an LLM with a published rubric over the diarized transcript; an episode’s number is the peak-weighted p75 · prominence: rated 1–10 by an LLM from the person's public profile · full method on /methodology.

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