May 20, 2019· 34 min

Behind the Scenes of Financial Fraud

Orality
Model
85%
Oral-dominant (speeches, podcasts, storytelling)

Speaker Breakdown

HostTracy Alloway(861 words)
M:94%
HostJoe Weisenthal(1,465 words)
M:29%
GuestSam Antar(3,869 words)
M:28%

Oral Indicators

Agonistic57%
obviously, crazy, very
Engagement73%
you, our, your
Memory Aids100%
listen, so, now
Repetition100%
they (56x), what (36x), crazy (34x)
Parallelism57%
So why would I pay for stuff I..., And I'm Tracy Alloway...., So today, we are doing an acco...
Sound Patterns76%
50 question(s), alliteration: "markets move", alliteration: "barclays brief"
Formulaic Phrases9%
you know what, i mean, the bottom line

Literate Indicators

Hedging10%
could, maybe, may
Passive Voice6%
were allowed, was subsidized, are based
Abstract Nouns19%
investment, business, verizon.com/business
Subordination6%
because, while, though
Sentence Length32%
Avg: 13.1 words/sentence
Word Complexity46%
investment, analyze, anticipate
Academic Markers0%
Impersonal Style27%
480 personal pronouns found
Descriptive Style79%
exactly, apply, monthly

Description

If you lived in NYC a few decades ago, you probably have heard of Crazy Eddie, an electronics retailer that was famous for its outlandish ads on TV. What most people didn't know until after it went public, is that the company was built on financial fraud. In this week's episode of the Odd Lots podcast, we speak with its former CFO Sam Antar about the company's shenanigans, and how it all came undone.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.