June 29, 2023· 50 min

What Ben McKenzie Learned When He Started Investigating Crypto

Ben McKenzie

Orality

Model

69%

Oral-dominant (speeches, podcasts, storytelling)

Speaker Breakdown

HostTracy Alloway(1,166 words)

M:94%

HostJoe Weisenthal(780 words)

M:28%

GuestBen McKenzie(6,807 words)

M:29%

Oral Indicators

Agonistic33%

literally, completely, obviously

Engagement71%

you, our, your

Memory Aids100%

listen, now, well

Repetition100%

like (111x), know (103x), it's (78x)

Parallelism76%

And I'm Tracy Alloway...., But this week, of all weeks, w..., But, he is....

Sound Patterns100%

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

Formulaic Phrases4%

you know what, i mean

Literate Indicators

Hedging8%

might, could, maybe

Passive Voice8%

was recorded, be used, was intended

Abstract Nouns20%

investment, recommendation, capitalism

Subordination6%

until, because, although

Sentence Length29%

Avg: 12.3 words/sentence

Word Complexity45%

investment, analyze, anticipate

Academic Markers3%

according to

Impersonal Style29%

687 personal pronouns found

Descriptive Style82%

literally, completely, really

Description

When the pandemic struck in 2020, the actor Ben McKenzie (who you might know from The OC and Gotham) had a lot of time on his hands. And like a lot of people, he suddenly got interested in crypto when an old friend of his pushed him to buy some Bitcoin. But unlike a lot of other people, McKenzie didn't rush out to buy it. Instead, he dusted off his old economics degree and decided to learn about how the industry really works. And what he learned shocked him. So he (along with his co-author Jacob Silverman) spent the last few years writing a new book titled Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and The Golden Age Of Fraud. In an interview conducted live at the Bloomberg Invest summit, McKenzie explains why he thinks the industry is rotten and corrupt and designed in a way to enrich a small group of insiders at the expense of a large, misinformed and desperate public. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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