Orality
Model
81%
Oral-dominant (speeches, podcasts, storytelling)
Speaker Breakdown
HostTracy Alloway(871 words)
M:29%
GuestFinn Brunton(3,863 words)
M:28%
Oral Indicators
Agonistic38%
certainly, very, absolutely
Engagement52%
you, our, your
Memory Aids100%
listen, now, like
Repetition100%
like (79x), know (57x), about (50x)
Parallelism100%
And I'm Tracy Alloway...., And in part because, you know,..., And I think whenever you're ta...
Sound Patterns58%
38 question(s), alliteration: "markets move", alliteration: "barclays brief"
Formulaic Phrases6%
you know what, i mean
Literate Indicators
Hedging15%
could, perhaps, may
Passive Voice18%
be used, were involved, was inspired
Abstract Nouns25%
investment, conversation, attention
Subordination8%
because, while, though
Sentence Length69%
Avg: 22.4 words/sentence
Word Complexity49%
investment, analyze, anticipate
Academic Markers0%
Impersonal Style48%
345 personal pronouns found
Descriptive Style100%
certainly, really, actually
Description
Bitcoin has been around for roughly a decade now, but people have been working on the dream of an anonymous, digital currency for a lot longer than that. On this week's Odd Lots, we speak with NYU professor Finn Brunton, who is the author of the new book "Digital Cash: The Unknown History of the Anarchists, Utopians, and Technologists Who Created Cryptocurrency." Brunton talked to us Bitcoin's pre-history, and about how and why there was a major crossover between digital currency believers and people who want to freeze their bodies in order to live forever. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.