I may be able to save you some time here, courtesy of one Betteridge who, in 2009, wrote about the journalistic principle that Blockware Intelligence used with this video :

It's sometimes called Betteridge's Law of Headlines these days, although the practice has been in use long before he wrote about it:

TLDR: If the journalist/podcaster knew the answer to the question, they would have stated it as an assertion instead.