August 15, 2016· 32 min

41: Billionaires Help Tell the Story of Brazil's Boom and Bust

Alex Cuadros

Orality

Model

83%

Oral-dominant (speeches, podcasts, storytelling)

Speaker Breakdown

HostTracy Alloway(835 words)

M:29%

HostJoe Weisenthal(812 words)

M:28%

GuestAlex Cuadros(2,788 words)

M:28%

Oral Indicators

Agonistic46%

totally, amazing, huge

Engagement52%

you, our, your

Memory Aids100%

listen, so, right

Repetition100%

know (61x), brazil (45x), they (35x)

Parallelism97%

And I'm Joe Weisenthal, managi..., So, Joe, have you been watchin..., So you know, obviously, it's t...

Sound Patterns62%

29 question(s), alliteration: "markets move", alliteration: "barclays brief"

Formulaic Phrases0%

Literate Indicators

Hedging10%

could, might, quite

Passive Voice6%

being created, are worried, being deceased

Abstract Nouns24%

investment, information, volatility

Subordination13%

because, until, though

Sentence Length41%

Avg: 15.2 words/sentence

Word Complexity48%

investment, analyze, anticipate

Academic Markers0%

Impersonal Style48%

244 personal pronouns found

Descriptive Style98%

monthly, carefully, totally

Description

The 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro have been tainted by protests, economic slowdown, and a massive political scandal. In this episode we take a look at Brazil's boom and bust as told through the prism of the country's elite. Alex Cuadros is the author of "Brazillionaires: Wealth, Power, Decadence, and Hope in an American Country." He tells how a commodities boom gave rise to larger-than-life Brazilian billionaires including mining mogul Eike Batista, soybean farmer-turned-senator Blairo Maggi, and beer-and-burger-king Jorge Paulo Lemann. He tells us why 'Brazillionaires' sometimes argue over their place on public wealth rankings, what happened when Batista's Porsche went missing, and how Brazil's billionaires favor dead bugs in their decorating. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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