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Found on a live episode, the worst way.

Holding the floor meant every word a leg heard was credited to its co-host — and with two hosts talking in turn, somebody holds the floor nearly all of the time. So the guest's answers were discarded as the co-host's echo, and both hosts kept asking questions into what they could not hear. He was saying "can you hear me?" and neither of them could.

A floor claim now carries the words being said, and a line is credited to the co-host only when it actually matches them (half the heard words or more). Anything else is a person, and a person always gets through — including as an interruption, which the old order of checks also swallowed.

Also: a model answering SAY: PASS meant to stay quiet, and a leg read the word "PASS" out loud on air.

Verified against the real transcript lines from the live call, then live on the same call: the guest's answers came through and the hosts followed up on them.

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Found on a live episode, the worst way. Holding the floor meant every
word a leg heard was credited to its co-host, and with two hosts talking
in turn somebody holds the floor nearly all of the time — so the guest's
answers were thrown away as the co-host's echo, and both hosts kept
asking questions into what they could not hear. He was saying 'can you
hear me?' and neither of them could.

A floor claim now carries the words being said, and a line is credited to
the co-host only when it actually matches them. Anything else is a
person, and a person always gets through — including as an interruption,
which the old order of checks also swallowed.

Also: a model answering 'SAY: PASS' meant to stay quiet, and one leg read
the word 'PASS' out loud on air.

Verified against the transcript lines from the live call, then live: the
guest's answers came through and the hosts followed up on them.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
On the first co-hosted episode the guest said 'I'm checking into that
now', was asked the same thing again in different words, said 'I'm
looking into it', and hung up — Telnyx has it as hangup_source callee at
13:06:31, so that was a decision, not a dropped line.

A guest who answers in a few words has told you he has nothing more to
say on the point. The turn hint now says so: when the last thing heard
was eight words or fewer, do not ask about that point again in any words,
change subject, and read the transcript before speaking so a question
already asked is not asked twice.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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