Question:
well i guess we were supposed to be talking about the weather but that's

Does it follow that "I guess were supposed to be talking about the election."?
Answer:
no

Question:
yeah well i tell you what i'm a kind of uh a history nut i'm trying to think back now i read an awful lot of uh periodicals and uh you know almost what you call reference book and uh the last uh i'm embarrassed to say the last you know honest to gosh cover to cover book that i read i cannot

Does it follow that "I am a voracious consumer of history books and articles but I cannot for the life of me remember what the last one I read was."?
Answer:
yes

Question:
Just about every economic historian who has looked at the issue believes that standard measures of productivity have consistently understated the true improvement in living standards for at least the past 140 years.

Does it follow that "Economic historians study how productivity affects our standard of living. "?
Answer:
yes

Question:
Clever man, Bauerstein.

Does it follow that "Bauerstein is a smart man."?
Answer:
yes