Orality
Model
70%
Oral-dominant (speeches, podcasts, storytelling)
Speaker Breakdown
HostTracy Alloway(1,261 words)
M:94%
HostJoe Weisenthal(791 words)
M:29%
GuestMike McCall(2,343 words)
M:29%
Oral Indicators
Agonistic14%
literally, completely, obviously
Engagement69%
you, our, your
Memory Aids100%
listen, now, so
Repetition100%
catfish (52x), they (46x), about (45x)
Parallelism75%
And I'm Tracy Alloway...., So, really, you didn't make mu..., And you're like, well, I'm not...
Sound Patterns96%
47 question(s), alliteration: "markets move", alliteration: "barclays brief"
Formulaic Phrases12%
you know what, i mean, so to speak
Literate Indicators
Hedging10%
could, possibly, maybe
Passive Voice5%
was covered, was interested, been banded
Abstract Nouns15%
investment, recommendation, business
Subordination10%
though, because, until
Sentence Length30%
Avg: 12.6 words/sentence
Word Complexity44%
investment, analyze, anticipate
Academic Markers0%
Impersonal Style31%
337 personal pronouns found
Descriptive Style87%
literally, completely, recently
Description
America has had many well-known booms and busts in its history: Real estate, internet stocks, Beanie Babies... too many to list. But did you know there was once a catfish gold rush? Yep, starting in the 1970s, farmers in the south, in states like Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, and Arkansas started devoting thousands of acres to catfish farming in the hopes that catfish would become America's next great white meat. Joining us on this week's Odd Lots is Mike McCall, the editor of the Catfish Journal, and the author of "Catfish Days: From Belzoni To The Big Apple," to talk about how the boom happened and why it eventually collapsed. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.