Orality
Model
84%
Oral-dominant (speeches, podcasts, storytelling)
Speaker Breakdown
HostTracy Alloway(1,385 words)
M:28%
HostJoe Weisenthal(495 words)
M:28%
GuestDavid Dayen(2,707 words)
M:28%
Oral Indicators
Agonistic45%
literally, totally, absolutely
Engagement50%
you, our, your
Memory Aids100%
listen, so, like
Repetition100%
they (70x), know (38x), what (33x)
Parallelism93%
So have you heard the story ab..., And I'm Tracy Alloway, executi..., So, Tracy, we're gonna talk ab...
Sound Patterns39%
19 question(s), alliteration: "markets move", alliteration: "barclays brief"
Formulaic Phrases4%
i mean
Literate Indicators
Hedging11%
probably, could, quite
Passive Voice16%
are assigned, are created, was confused
Abstract Nouns27%
investment, prescription, medication
Subordination6%
because, since, though
Sentence Length47%
Avg: 16.8 words/sentence
Word Complexity48%
investment, analyze, anticipate
Academic Markers0%
Impersonal Style50%
244 personal pronouns found
Descriptive Style100%
automatically, family, literally
Description
The Great Recession was characterized by a historic and gigantic wave of foreclosures all around the country. Left and right, people were being removed from their homes. But because of the explosion of mortgage securitization -- the slicing and dicing of financial assets that got Wall Street into so much trouble -- there was often a failure to do the proper paperwork required for such evictions. This week on Odd Lots, we talk to David Dayen, the author of the new book Chain of Title, about a group of activists in Florida who self-taught themselves to become experts on securitization and foreclosure law in order to fight back in court against what they argued was fraudulent activity. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.