Orality
Model
83%
Oral-dominant (speeches, podcasts, storytelling)
Speaker Breakdown
HostTracy Alloway(1,526 words)
M:28%
HostJoe Weisenthal(1,251 words)
M:28%
GuestRod Alzmann(5,487 words)
M:27%
Oral Indicators
Agonistic29%
absolutely, obviously, clearly
Engagement70%
you, our, your
Memory Aids100%
listen, like, so
Repetition100%
like (126x), know (103x), it's (65x)
Parallelism83%
And I'm Tracy Alloway...., But even within the meme stock..., But among them all, I feel lik...
Sound Patterns60%
53 question(s), alliteration: "markets move", alliteration: "barclays brief"
Formulaic Phrases4%
you know what, i mean
Literate Indicators
Hedging5%
may, quite, maybe
Passive Voice5%
was presqueezed, was evidenced, was evidenced
Abstract Nouns19%
investment, community, business
Subordination8%
because, whereas, since
Sentence Length42%
Avg: 15.4 words/sentence
Word Complexity48%
investment, analyze, anticipate
Academic Markers0%
Impersonal Style30%
625 personal pronouns found
Descriptive Style79%
apply, internationally, recently
Description
The first true meme stock was GameStop, which went wild in early 2021, delivering brutal losses to short sellers, and a fortune to a handful of independent retail investors who participated in the squeeze. The episode shined a bright light on the WallStreetBets subreddit and the power of social media in disseminating trade ideas. One investor who did well was Rod Alzmann, who had been long GameStop for years as a value/turnaround play. On this episode of the podcast, we speak with Rod, the founder of Wook Capital and the proprietor GMEdd.com. We discuss where the company is now and what happened to the cohort of traders who scored big during that episode. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.