Podcast appearances and mentions of jeffrey walker

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 26, 2022 50:24

We're taking a small break over xmas, so we've unlocked an episode from the Patreon: Tune in for another director's commentary, where we take you through one of our favourite mockumentary episodes that we've made — featuring Dune Rats, Jeffrey Walker, Phoebe Tonkin and some standout performance from Luke and Pelvis.Shout outs @bangtimonySign up to our Patreon for a bonus pod each week (that's double the pod!) and other VIP stuff for just $5 a month:https://patreon.com/whatagreatpunkJoin us all in the TNSW Discord community chathttps://tnsw.co/discordWatch our Comedy Central mockumentary series and TNSW Tonight! on YouTube:https://youtube.com/thesenewsouthwhalesFollow us on Twitch:https://twitch.tv/thesenewsouthwhalesTNSW on Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/artist/0srVTNI2U8J7vytCTprEk4?si=e9ibyNpiT2SDegTnJV_6Qg&dl_branch=1TNSW: @thesenewsouthwhalessJamie: @mossylovesyouTodd: @mrtoddandrewshttps://patreon.com/whatagreatpunkhttps://thesenewsouthwhales.comShout-outs to the Honorary Punks of the Pod:Oli MossMagnusZac NickClaireElliott FlassmanJimi KendallEdmund SmithAngus LillieBen JaminDan Dingus

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Episode 228: Farting with Delight feat. Jeffrey Walker [Patreon Preview]

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 18, 2022 10:12

Tune in to our chat with Jeff Walker (director/producer) to learn about nudist camps, the world of youtube tutorials and what it's like behind the scenes of some of the biggest shows being made on television and for the big screen! To hear the full episode head over to our Patreon https://patreon.com/whatagreatpunkSign up to our Patreon for a bonus pod each week (that's double the pod!) and other VIP stuff for just $5 a month:https://patreon.com/whatagreatpunkJoin us all in the TNSW Discord community chathttps://tnsw.co/discordWatch our Comedy Central mockumentary series and TNSW Tonight! on YouTube:https://youtube.com/thesenewsouthwhalesFollow us on Twitch:https://twitch.tv/thesenewsouthwhalesTNSW on Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/artist/0srVTNI2U8J7vytCTprEk4?si=e9ibyNpiT2SDegTnJV_6Qg&dl_branch=1TNSW: @thesenewsouthwhalessJamie: @mossylovesyouTodd: @mrtoddandrewshttps://patreon.com/whatagreatpunkhttps://thesenewsouthwhales.comShout-outs to the Honorary Punks of the Pod:Oli MossMagnusHarry WalkomHugh FlassmanZac NickClaireElliott FlassmanJimi KendallEdmund SmithAngus LillieLachy TanBen JaminDan Dingus

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52 // Death By Incarceration / Episode Twenty-Four / Code Of Silence

Death By Incarceration

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 7, 2022 72:19

In the 24th episode of DBI, Suave & Kevin speak with Mr. Jeffrey Walker. Jeffrey Walker is a former Philadelphia Police Department Narcotics Officer. After his arrest on corruption charges, he decided to work with prosecutors and break the code of silence. This is one of the most eye opening conversations team DBI has ever been a part of. Producers & Hosts: Suave Gonzalez & Kevin McCracken. A great sponsor of DBI is Checkr. We love the work they are doing, check them out at https://checkr.com and see for yourself! Follow DBI on Twitter & Instagram. Be sure to visit the DBI WEBSITE. Check out some Suave with the media on WHYY and on MSNBC. His amazing artwork is available for viewing and purchase at the Morton Contemporary Gallery here. Music by Gordon Withers. Check out his WEBSITE and follow on Instagram. Edited by Jason Usry. Follow him on Twitter Listen to Kevin's show Adulting Well. And check out his company Social Imprints. Death By Incarceration is a Crawlspace Media & Glassbox Media show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Episode 194: TNSW S2E3 “Round The Twist" - Woofer's Commentary [Patreon Preview]

The Insight Interviews - Powered by Rewire

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 7, 2022 11:07

Tune in for another director's commentary, where we take you through one of our favourite mockumentary episodes that we've made — featuring Dune Rats, Jeffrey Walker, Phoebe Tonkin and some standout performance from Luke and Pelvis. To hear the full episode head over to our Patreon https://patreon.com/whatagreatpunkShout outs @bangtimonySign up to our Patreon for a bonus pod each week (that's double the pod!) and other VIP stuff for just $5 a month:https://patreon.com/whatagreatpunkJoin us all in the TNSW Discord community chathttps://tnsw.co/discordWatch our Comedy Central mockumentary series and TNSW Tonight! on YouTube:https://youtube.com/thesenewsouthwhalesFollow us on Twitch:https://twitch.tv/thesenewsouthwhalesTNSW on Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/artist/0srVTNI2U8J7vytCTprEk4?si=e9ibyNpiT2SDegTnJV_6Qg&dl_branch=1TNSW: @thesenewsouthwhalessJamie: @mossylovesyouTodd: @mrtoddandrewshttps://patreon.com/whatagreatpunkhttps://thesenewsouthwhales.comShout-outs to the Honorary Punks of the Pod:Oli MossMagnusZac NickClaireElliott FlassmanJimi KendallEdmund SmithAngus LillieBen JaminDan Dingus

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Jeffrey Walker: Doing Well AND Doing Good

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 15, 2022 33:54

Jeffrey Walker is the Co-Founder and CEO of CredEvolv, a fin-tech platform that revolutionizes the way consumers achieve and maintain good credit. CredEvolv's mission is to turn “no” into “not yet” by breaking down the barriers to credit equity and guiding consumers seeking improved credit on a journey to sustainable, lifelong credit well-being.Prior to founding CredEvolv, Mr. Walker held a number of mortgage industry leadership positions, most recently with Fannie Mae. Mr. Walker's responsibilities with Fannie Mae included SVP/Co-Chief Customer Officer and SVP for Strategy, Insights, and Business Enablement. In these capacities Mr. Walker leveraged his passion for customer loyalty and customer experience innovation. In this episode Jason and Jeffrey discuss:Making a difference even if it's hardDoing the right thing while making a profitBeyond just checking the boxThe best kind of customer Key Takeaways: Do well AND do good even if it's difficult to make a difference. If you see a need in your industry, do something about it. There's nothing wrong with making a profit. However, it is better to make a profit while also being able to do the right thing for society at large.Instill in your team a passion that goes beyond just “checking the box” to really serving people and making their work meaningful. The best customer is an informed customer. Do your best to provide tools, resources, and the education that they'll need in order to make the best decision they could that will benefit them the most. “Every lender wants to do the right thing, it's just hard to figure out how to do it. So in our small way - we won't solve every redlining and underserved issue - but we can take our experiences and understand what's important for our lender and what they need to do to benefit and feel value in this and help consumers become credit well-being capable consumers for life.” - Jeffrey Walker Connect with Jeffrey Walker:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CredEvolv/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/credevolv/Website: https://credevolv.com/ Connect with Steve and Jason:LinkedIn: Jason or SteveWebsite: Rewire, Inc.: Transformed Thinking Email: grow@rewireinc.com Show notes by Podcastologist: Justine TallaAudio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it.

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099: How to Write Diverse Characters Authentically (w/ Jeffrey Walker)

The Art & Business of Writing

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 4, 2022 59:11

For many authors, writing authentic dialogue in the voice of a character who doesn't look like you or have your ethnic background can be scary. Jeffrey Walker, an author of historical fiction, talks about how he uses a combination or research, readers, and indicators to help write his characters so they don't come across as caricatures.

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Episode 172: Credit Repair: What is it?

Mortgage Manager Playbook

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 13, 2021 26:53

Jeffrey Walker, CEO & Co-Founder at CredEvolv on Credit Repair: What is it? Highlights include: rapid rescore is not the best solution; HUD Certified Counseling; turning a turndown into a Yes; the importance of offering a path forward and credit well-being for life. Jeff has been in the mortgage business for over 30 years with such companies as Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Wells Fargo, Citi and SunTrust (now Truist). You will enjoy listening to Jeff's comments on this timely topic that is not well understood.

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Jason Wilder on Expecting The Best Case Scenario And The Booming Queensland Film Industry

Don't Be So Dramatic

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 18, 2021 60:00

Jason Wilder is a Queensland based actor who is currently filming the series 'Irreverent' (NBC Netflix) in Mission Beach. Jason has had an incredible year, with roles in three feature films: 'You, Me and The Penguins', 'Love In Bloom' and 'The Portable Door'. Jason has worked with so many notable creatives such as director Jeffrey Walker, The Steve Jaggi production company, and actors such as Tammin Sursok, Sam Niell, Miranda Otto and Wayne Blair. 'Love In Bloom' is showing at the BIFF on October 24th and you can get your tickets at biff.com.au/film/love-in-bloom/. Instagram: www.instagram.com/j.t.wild/ Website: www.dontbesodramaticpodcast.com Instagram: www.instagram.com/dbsdpodcast/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Episode 126: therock@gmail.com feat. Jeffrey Walker [Patreon Preview]

Synergos Cultivate the Soul: Stories of Purpose-Driven Philanthropy

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 21, 2021 10:40

One of our earliest guests and Executive Producer of our mockumentary series, Jeffrey Walker, is back on the pod! It's been a while so we get the update on the recent Jim Henson film he directed, what it's like being on emails with Dwayne Johnson, and he talks about the turn of fate that was auditioning for The Matrix. To hear the full episode head over to our Patreon https://patreon.com/whatagreatpunkWatch our Comedy Central Mockumentary series and TNSW Tonight! on YouTube:https://youtube.com/thesenewsouthwhalesSign up to our Patreon for a bonus pod each week (that's double the pod!) and other VIP stuff for just $5 a month:https://patreon.com/whatagreatpunkTNSW on Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/artist/0srVTNI2U8J7vytCTprEk4?si=e9ibyNpiT2SDegTnJV_6Qg&dl_branch=1Follow us on Twitch:https://twitch.tv/thesenewsouthwhalesTNSW: @thesenewsouthwhalessJamie: @mossylovesyouTodd: @mrtoddandrewshttps://patreon.com/whatagreatpunkhttps://thesenewsouthwhales.comShout-outs to the Honorary Punks of the Pod:Oli MossBen Isaac MagnusHarry WalkomHugh FlassmanZac NickClaireElliott FlassmanJimi KendallEdmund SmithAngus LillieLachy TanBen Nelson

#57 - Star Trek 2.0!!! (ft. Jeffrey Walker aka Marcus's Dad)

Haven‘t Seen It

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 5, 2021 97:36

In this episode, we're joined by Jeffrey Walker (aka Marcus's Dad) for a far reaching discussion on Star Trek in all of its forms, what it means to us, and why we've all been too hard on William Shatner even though it will never not be fun to mock him. We get into our various thoughts on the original series, Next Gen, DS9, Voyager, Enterprise, Picard, and yes, Discovery. We also cover the movies at length. High points, low points, reinventions, retreads, and the substantial downgrade that was "Ricardo Montalban to Benedict Cumberbatch". If we all had one episode of any series and one Trek movie to take with us to a deserted island, what would we pick? Pull up a chair and settle in, because this thing gets delightfully nerdy. ft. Jeffrey Walker aka Marcus's Dad

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Enhancing Joy and Wellbeing with Jeffrey Walker, Chairman, New Profit

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 30, 2021 44:16

Jeffrey Walker is Chairman of New Profit, a venture philanthropy organization that backs breakthrough social entrepreneurs who are advancing equity and opportunity in America. Listen to hear how Jeff has always been a seeker and the role meditation plays in his life. He discovered his purpose, to minimize suffering and enhance joy, on a trip to Bhutan. He shared how his approach to impact involves applying all of his skills, partnering with change-makers and listening to people proximate to the problem. Jeff gives examples of projects that he supports that are shifting systems through collaborations. Jeff is Chairman of New Profit, a social change venture fund and is founding partner of the Community Health Acceleration Partnership, focused on front line health in Africa and the U.S. He also currently serves on the boards of the African Philanthropy Forum, Just Capital, UVA Center for Contemplative Sciences (where he is chair), Giving Tuesday, the Aspen Management Partnership for Health, Leadership Now Project on democratic reform and the University of Virginia’s Undergraduate Business School, where he was President for ten years. He is also a partner in Bridge Builders investment fund for Mindful Wellness. Jeff was on the board of the University of Virginia, Chairman of The Council of Foundations at University of Virginia (UVA), served on the Berklee College of Music Board, the Harvard Business School Dean’s Board of Advisors and the HBS Visiting Committee and is on the Advisory Boards of MIT Media Lab and the Harvard School of Public Health. He has been on numerous other for-profit and non-profit boards. Previously, Jeff was Executive-in-Residence at Harvard Business School, focusing on social enterprises and collaboration, and a Lecturer at the Kennedy School. At Harvard, he helped to develop a course in exponential fundraising for nonprofits. He served as the Chairman of Millennium Promise, partnering with the United Nations and Columbia University, an incubator to eliminate extreme poverty, and was the Chairman of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation (Monticello), where he is as an Emeritus Trustee. Jeff Co-Founded and was Chairman of Npower, an organization that provides shared technology services to nonprofits. Jeff co-authored the book, “The Generosity Network”, about new approaches to gather resources to address causes each of us are passionate about. He is currently teaching, researching and writing on the issue of orchestrating and coordinating systems change. For twenty five years Jeff was CEO and Co-Founder of JPMorgan Partners, JPMorgan Chase Co’s $12 billion global private equity business, Vice Chairman of JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Chairman of the JPMorgan Chase Foundation. He has an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a B.S. from the University of Virginia, is a Certified Management Accountant and a Certified Public Accountant. He received the John Whitehead award for philanthropy from the NYC HBS Club. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ode to Caregivers

3 Black Docs

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 15, 2020 19:05

What is life like for caretakers? Dr. Karen gets personal about her experience taking care of her late husband and the struggles of advocating in the healthcare system. Dr. Zanetta speaks to the the role she plays in her familyDedicated to Jeffrey Walker (1960-2018). --New Episodes every Tuesday! Rate and Subscribe so you don't miss a beat! Also, join us for our monthly live podcasts on Facebook and Youtube!Join the Conversation! Follow us on social media!3 Black Docsfacebook.com/3blackdocstwitter.com/3blackdocsinstagram.com/3blackdocsYouTube.com/3blackdocsDr. Karen Winkfieldfacebook.com/drwinkfieldtwitter.com/drwinkfieldinstagram.com/drwinkfieldDr. Zanetta Lamarfacebook.com/drzanettainstagram.com/drzanetta

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38. Celebrity w/ Jeffrey Walker

What Shall We Do About...?

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 6, 2020 35:43

Many of us grow up with dreams of making it big. We watch our celebrity heroes on TV and movies and hope that perhaps one day we too could be famous. Even now, we crave likes on Instagram, and views on TikTok. Social media has opened up our eyes to celebrities more than gossip in trashy tabloids ever could. Even through this global pandemic, we’ve been fascinated to see inside the homes of our favourite celebrities, gaining a glimpse of their personal lives. But is celebrity all it’s cracked up to be? And is Hollywood really the place where dreams come true?Joining the podcast this week is actor turned director Jeffrey Walker. Debuting on our screens as Bronson on classic Australian TV show Round the Twist, Jeffrey also starred in Ocean Girl and The Wayne Manifesto. But more recently, he’s been directing big shows in Hollywood - including Bones and Modern Family. Jumping between Australia and Hollywood, Jeffrey has plenty of experience working alongside big name celebrities in Hollywood.Jeffrey Walker is on Instagram @jlwalk, and his interview series Blurring the Lines can be seen below:Watch Blurring the Lines with Jeffrey Walker featuring Guy PearceWatch Blurring the Lines with Jeffrey Walker featuring Ty BurrellThanks for listening to the show, I'm genuinely thankful that you did. If you enjoyed it, please hit 'subscribe' on Apple Podcasts, or 'follow' on Spotify to get new episodes in your feeds every Tuesday. And leaving a rating and review really does help get the word out, so feel free to do so!Connect with the show:Instagram: @whatshallwedopodFacebook: @whatshallwedopodTwitter: @whatshallwepodEmail: whatshallwedopod@gmail.comWhat Shall We Do About...? is hosted and produced by Sam Robinson, who is on Twitter @samsquareeyes.

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Encore: Jeffrey Walker; Breaking the Blue Code of Silence

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 3, 2020 56:46

Mr. Walker was arrested in 2013 by the FBI for Hobbs Act Robbery and immediately began to cooperate with the federal government. He served 3 years in Fed prison and was released in 2016. He began cooperating with the civil rights attorneys concerning the wrongful convictions and civil lawsuits brought against him & members of the Philadelphia Narcotics unit, including Larry Krasner, who is now the District Attorney in Philadelphia, working together to overturn more than 1,500 cases in which he and other police officers committed thefts, fraud and other police misconduct. Join us as we will hear from Mr. Walker about how Philadelphia Police officers learned from generation to generation on how to fabricate facts that lead to arrests and pad their hours, “stealing” overtime hours, police corruption, fraud, and thefts committed by the men in blue. We will also learn about his new podcast; # Philly Freedom and his soon to be released book, “Young, Black and Shiny: A Cop's Story””

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Episode 4: The Best Bronson feat. Jeffrey Walker

Collecting Cars with Rob Conrad

Play Episode Listen Later May 18, 2020 46:51

Remember in Round The Twist when Bronson pissed over that wall? Well, we thought we’d piss over his and see how he’s doing.

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Restoration tips and stories from Jeffrey Walker

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 21, 2020 30:22

Jeffrey Walker owner of J& J repair and Restoration has great stories and restoration tips.

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Jeffrey Walker on Ancient Declamation, Democracy, and Byzantine Rhetoric

The Parlor

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 10, 2019 27:59

General Summary: Professor Jeffrey Walker talks about his research on ancient rhetoric and his efforts to bring ancient methods of teaching argumentation into twenty-first century classes at the University of Texas at Austin. Several graduate students at UT reflect on Walker's research, the connection between rhetoric and democracy, and the impact of classical pedagogy on their own first-year writing pedagogy. Detailed Summary: Walker's scholarly transition from American poetics to classical rhetoric (00.00-03.53); Walker's recent scholarly work on ancient methods of teaching argumentation (03.53-06.11); Walker's incorporation of ancient declamation exercises in his classes and his thoughts on UT graduate instructors, Mac Scott and Tristin Hooker , who have similarly incorporated performance in their writing classes (06.12-13.31); Walker's research on Byzantine rhetoric (13.32-17.26); Walker responding to comments about his work on democracy, rhetoric, and ethics by graduate students (Stephen Dadugblor, Andy Heerman, and Cindy Holland) (17.27-22.11); Walker discussing his style of writing in response to comments by Tristan Hanson, K.J. Shaffner, and Hannah Folz (22.12-25.53). Scholarly Article Informing this Production: Walker, Jeffrey. “Mime, Comedy, Sophistry: Speculations on the Origins of Rhetoric.” Advances in the History of Rhetoric, vol. 8, no. 1, 2005, pp. 199-209. Credits: This podcast was produced by Mark Longaker, with resources and assistance provided by the Digital Writing and Research Lab (Links to an external site.) at the University of Texas at Austin. It features the voices of Jeffrey Walker, Mark Longaker, Hannah Folz, Tristan Hanson, Mac Scott, Tristin Hooker, Cindy Holland, K.J. Shaffner, Andy Heerman, and Stephen Dadugblor. Music featured in this podcast, titled “commonGround,” was created by airtone and has been repurposed here under Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial license 3.0. Additionally, conversation.wav was adapted and incorporated under Creative Commons 1.0 license.

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Case Reviews and Q and A

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 26, 2019 54:51

Review of current and past wrongfully convicted and accused cases along with questions from our listeners.

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Jeffrey Walker; Breaking the Blue Code of Silence, Continued

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 12, 2019 57:10

Jeffrey Walker, Continued

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Jeffrey Walker; Breaking the Blue Code of Silence

10% Happier with Dan Harris

Play Episode Listen Later May 29, 2019 56:46

#76: Jeffrey Walker, Former JPMorgan Exec, Philanthropist (Bonus!)

Play Episode Listen Later May 4, 2017 49:52

Jeffrey Walker served 25 years as the CEO and cofounder of CCMP Capital, the $12 billion successor to JPMorgan Partners, JPMorgan Chase & Co's global private equity group, the vice chairman of JPMorgan Chase & Co. and chairman of the JPMorgan Chase Foundation, and said he was "always pretty open" with his coworkers about practicing mindfulness -- even taught meditation to his fellow executives. Walker, who now holds leadership roles in a number of non-profits and has an investor group called Bridge Builders Collaborative, puts a huge emphasis on teamwork and building better relationships to do good in the world.

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Episode #21 | Jeffrey Walker

Cinema Australia

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 1, 2017 20:47

Cinema Australia's Matthew Eeles chats with Dance Academy director Jeffrey Walker to discuss the film and his career.

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Jeffrey Walker - Mindfulness Practices in Leadership, Education, and Philanthropy

Untangle

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 24, 2017 32:23

Jeffrey Walker is an accomplished executive, author, and philanthropist with an eclectic background in music, finance, and contemplative practices. He shares his passion for bringing mindfulness tools to business, education, and philanthropy and for gathering people together to create solutions to some of the biggest challenges we face today.

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Epideictic Rhetoric (new and improved!)

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 24, 2016 10:49

Epideictic Rhetoric Intro and rebroadcast note Today we’ll be talking about epideictic rhetoric because it’s probably my favorite of the three branches of Aristotelian rhetoric and it’s my birthday. It being my birthday actually has a lot to do with epideictic rhetoric because birthday speeches are one of the classic examples of epideictic rhetoric, the others being wedding toasts, eulogies, and Independence Day orations, except I think the people who came up with that last one probably lived a century ago because I have never attended an Independence Day oration, unless you count the one Bill Pullman gives in the movie Independence Day and that was probably not what they had in mind. But then again, I don’t think I’ve ever gotten a birthday speech either. The point I think I was making is that epideictic rhetoric is very old and very important. It’s likely older than either political or legal rhetoric, and might have grown out of the same TV-less fascination with sitting around hearing someone talk that makes human beings revere storytellers. Because it has a long history, epideictic rhetoric also has a long history of being studied. Manuals on how to give speeches date back to the 4th and 5th century bc and Greeks continued to be fascinated by epideictic rhetoric. It is one of the three branches of rhetoric that Aristotle describes in the Art of Rhetoric along with the judicial and deliberative. But while judicial rhetoric obviously concerns itself with obtaining justice and deliberative rhetoric obtains laws or political action, it’s less clear what the goal of epideictic rhetoric is. Judicial rhetoric can keep you out of jail or paying a fine; deliberative rhetoric can stop a tax or send you into war with Sparta; epideictic rhetoric—makes a happy day happier and a sad one sadder? It turns out that epideictic rhetoric actually does a great deal of work, but a subtler way than judicial or deliberative rhetoric. It’s sneaky, but lets break it down into three things you need to know about Epideictic rhetoric The first thing you need to know is that Epideictic rhetoric, according to Aristotle, deals with praise and blame. So all of those special occasion pieces, like wedding toasts and obituaries, point out the good qualities of the people getting married or buried. They talk about the virtues of the people of the hour. For Aristotle, these virtues were well classified: of course, it’s Aristotle so it’s well classified. He mentions “justice, courage, self-control, magnificence, magnanimity, liberality, gentleness, practical and speculative wisdom" or "reason." You can imagine an obituary that pointed out how brave and gentle the deceased was, or a wedding toast that honored the good reason in choosing this particular spouse. This is the “praise” side of epideictic rhetoric, which is easy to imagine because we see it relatively often. Well, hopefully the people writing the wedding toasts and obituaries point out the good qualities instead of blame, although you could imagine occasions that didn’t sugar-coat everything. Blame speeches are a little more difficult to conjure up, but Guy Fawkes Day springs to mind, as do the journalistic obituaries for dictators and other villains. These blame speeches, for Aristotle, will focus on the opposites of those virtues, so instead of talking about bravery and gentleness of the departed, a blame-based obituary would talk about a tyrant’s cowardice and cruelty. So the first key thing to remember about epideictic rhetoric is that it engages with praise and blame according to some criteria, some list of virtues that are deemed important by that community. That leads to the second key element about epideictic rhetoric. The praise and blame that people bring up are dependent on the community in which those people live. So to go back to the example of writing an obituary, if you lived in a community where gentleness was not considered a virtue, but, on the contrary, being feared was the most important attribute, you might say, “He was a cold-hearted, calculating tyrant” with utmost praise and affection. When we in our society hear that phrase, we recoil and feel the figure is being blamed, but another culture might interpret that phrase as praise. So one of the jobs of the rhetor is to understand what is praise- or blame-worthy in the community. Chaim Perleman and Lucie Olbrecht-Tyteca have said, “The speaker engaged in epidictic discourse is very close to being an educator ” and must do the work of “promoting values shared in the community” (52). The community determines what is blamed and praised, but also what is praised and blamed tells you something about the community. So if “He was a cold-hearted, calculating tyrant” is considered praise in a community, you know a lot about what it’s like to live there. You know you want to clear out of there. But epideictic rhetoric both reflects and creates a community. Celeste Michelle Condit describes this process when she says that one of the key things epideictic does is “shape and share communities” (289). Sometimes the epideictic rhetoric is the first time that common attitudes and beliefs have been put into words, and if the articulation of those beliefs resonate with the audience, it defines that community. Jeffrey Walker describes this as a lyrical enthymeme. An enthymeme does this [shave and a hair cut knock] It’s hard not to finish it, isn’t it? In your mind you’re filling in the blanks—provided you’re familiar with the whole pattern [shave and a hair cut—two bits]. You could only know the whole pattern if you were part of the culture that made this pattern so common. Imagine the same thing happening in an epideictic speech. I say “Brooklyn,” you say “whaaat?” and I say “He was a cold-hearted, calculating tyrant” and you say “boo.” The audience fills in the gaps. In fact, if the audience doesn’t, Condit sees this as a good sign that you aren’t part of the community. This works in parts as well as over all. The speaker gets to decide which parts of the community to highlight and which parts to downplay. If someone praises something that only 80% of the community agrees with, the remaining 20% are, according to Condit, “likely to [feel] a sense of alienation from the community “ (290). So while almost everyone in our community agrees that being “a cold-hearted, calculating tyrant” is a bad thing, if the speaker then goes on and says, “and he didn’t like dogs—he liked cats!” then everyone in the audience who likes cats is going to start thinking, “Wait, what’s wrong with liking cats? I like cats. Should I not be liking cats? Do only cold-hearted, calculating tyrants like cats? Argh! I’m terrible, I don’t belong here, what am I doing?” So epideictic rhetoric will sometimes reflect the values of an audience, but sometimes it will create an audience, by alienating some members of the community. So if the first point is that epideictic rhetoric praises and blames and the second point is that epideictic rhetoric will shape and share our communities, the last thing to remember about epideictic rhetoric is that it’s actually everywhere. At this point you might be saying, “wait a tick, didn’t you just say that Independence Day orations and birthday speeches are really rare?” Yes, but epideictic rhetoric doesn’t always have to be a formal speech. Remember the characteristics we mentioned—praise and blame and reflect the society’s values. Now think about everything that does that. A movie like Independence Day might do that. It praises the courage of Will Smith’s character and Jeff Goldbaum’s quirky intellectual obsession while criticizing cowardly politicians and naïve hippies. If you’re an American, the movie seems to argue, these are the values that you’ll admire. If you don’t admire those values, the movie can be alienating. Movies, song lyrics, TV shows, museums, even art and architecture can be epideictic, establishing what is praiseworthy and what is blameworthy. A lot of literature, in a broad sense, can be read as epideictic. The idea that the arts presents to an audience stories that we can either praise or blame creates a rhetorical background for the rhetoric of poetics. Scholars from Wayne Booth to Jeffery Walker have noted the way that literature creates an argument for our societies, teaching us values. Being assigned certain “great works” can be a way of indoctrinating young people to the values and attitudes of a community, as can being told that a book or movie is a “classic.” When epideictic rhetoric can be found everywhere, we recognize that we are always being persuaded to attitudes and values, even if not to specific actions. So while today I might not be getting a birthday speech at my party, I will probably have a conversation with someone about achieving my birthday goal of reading all of Shakespeare’s plays (which are persuading me to espouse certain values), and we’ll listen to the French circus music I like (which may alienate those who don’t appreciate a swing accordion) and when someone wishes me a happy birthday, they will wish me the things we as a community have agreed will bring me happiness.

Genuine Teachers of This Art

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 6, 2016 7:27

Welcome to MR, the podcast for beginners and insiders about the ideas, people and movements who have shaped rhetorical history. Today or rather, the day I wrote this, I got some bad news, so to make up for it, I get to talk about Jeffrey Walker, who is one of my favorite people ever, and I get to talk about one of my favorite books, too, his Genuine Teachers of This Art, subtitled Rhetorical Education in Antiquity. Basically Walker’s arguing that rhetoric as a field is, at its very core, pedagogical. It’s not just practice of rhetoric or analysis of rhetoric, but that both of these really come into being through the teaching of rhetoric. As he says “by defining ‘the art of the rhetor” as the art of producing a rhetor, one puts the other definitions into relation. The pedagogical project sets the agenda for the critical-rheoretic one and determines the appropriate objects of study… Its pedagogical enterprise is what ultimately makes rhetoric rhetoric and not just a version of something else” (2-3). Walker’s title comes from a line from Cicero’s dialogs on the orator. Antonius describes Isocrates’ subsequent rhetoric teachers as the “genuine teachers of this art” and Isocrates does feature heavily in how we think about rhetoric and the teaching of rhetoric. At the center of this text, Walker does the incredible work of reverse engineering the techne or art of rhetoric that Isocrates may have written. We think Isocrates wrote such a treatise. Zosimus’s Life of Isocrates in the the fifth century wrote “It is said that Isocrates also wrote an art of rhetoric bu in the course of time it was lost” (qtd. 57) Cicero, too, and Quintilian, seem to take it for granted that Isocrates had a complete rhetoric treatise. We might, Walker points out, not impose our own publishing tradition on what this would look like. Isocrates’ treatise on rhetoric would be, like Aritotle’s probably was “a ‘teacher’s manual’ or ‘toolbox’ containing an organized and thus memorizable and searchable, collection of ‘the things that can be taught’ and a stock of explanations and examples” (84). Combining shorter pieces of Isocrates’ with cited fragments and other sources’ admiration, parody and allusion, Walker reconstructs what this lost document might look like. He suggests that by looking at, say, the legal arguments of Isocrates, you can see evidence of a “rudimentary stasis system”: did they do it? how bad was it? was it legal or right? if it was right was that because of advantage, honor or justice? Of course there’s a bunch of stylistic rules some of which seem uniquely suited to Greek language and culture. And, of course, imitation is paramount. Over all, it seems that Isocrates’ pedagogical philosophy “assumes an ideal student of ready which who can take the imprint of the stylistic models set before him and can quickly come to imitate and absorb them” (153). One of the key pedagogical assignments, then, is declamation. We don’t think of performance and acting as part of rhetorical discovery, but back in Isocrates’ day,speaking was extremely important, and the old debate practice of speaking your opponents’ words was a key pedagocial practice. Not just your opponent, but just “others” with whom you may or may not agree, sort of playing a part and trying on an argument. Think of it a little as if you were doing mock trial back in high school and some peopel are given the role of defense counsil and some are prosecution and some are witnesses: you have the facts of the case, but then you play the role the best you can within that structure. It’s invention, but also acting and it can be an effective pedagogical tool. As Walker puts it “the student was(is) freed from the pressure to discover the ‘correct answer’” (198) and “because the the student is playing a role, his or her youthful ego is not at stake, and it is possible to both play with the lines or argument and to reflect on them as well” (199). If you have a question about some of the verbs and pronouns used in those last quotes, it’s because Walker doesn’t just study this stuff--he teaches it. Since his whole argument is that rhetoric is about being a teacher, he doesn’t shy away from describing how contemporary first year composition can embrace “rhetoric [as] an art of cultivating a productive, performative capacity” and unabashedly declares that “Rhetorical scholarship that made no consequential difference to what rhetors/writers do, or to how rhetors/writers are trained, would have little point. Perhaps that is obvious. Yet it is easy to forget” (288). Man, I get chills reading those words. I should take a moment here to say that if you use rhetorical methods from the ancients, like closely imitating exemplors or trying on other arguments, why not shoot a line at Mere Rhetoricpodcast@gmail.com? I’d love to hear about it and maybe we could do an episode just on the history and benefit of, say, imitation or declamation. Okay, here’s the last word from Dr. Walker, though “Ancient rhetorical education appealed to the desired that brought the motivated student to it and that persists today: the desire expressed by Isocrates’ students to say admirable things; or Plato’s Phaedrus’ remark that he would rather be eloquent like Lysias than rich; or Plato’s Hippocrates’ wish to learn to speak ‘awesomely’ like Protagoras … Rhetoric, as a paideia, was a ‘sweet garden’ where the young could experience and enact such things as theater, as game, and in so doing could cultivate their dunamis for wise and eloquent speech, thought and writing in practical situations as well as develop an attachment to a dream paradigm of democratic civic life” (293-4)

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Jeffrey Walker on the Aesthetic/Epideictic

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 13, 2016 8:29

Jeffrey Walker’s Aesthetic/Epideictic Welcome to MR, the podcast for beginners and insiders about the ideas, people and movement who have shaped rhetorical history. I’m Mary Hedengren, Samantha’s in the booth, Humanities Media Project is the sponsor and Jeff Walker is the subject. Jeffrey Walker is kind of my hero in life. I get weird around him, the way some people get around Natalie Portman or David Beckham. I came to the University of Texas, in part, because I so admired his work, but when I got here and saw him at parties I found that I mostly awkwardly stood four feet behind him, which—incidentally, is the exactly position the camera takes behind the protagonist in horror movies and I suspect that that didn’t help me much in meeting him. Since then I’ve taken a class from Dr. Walker, had him speak at official RSA student chapter meetings, even had a one-on-one seminar with him, where every week I would exit his office to a world where the sun shone brighter and the birds sang sweeter. That’s how much I like Jeffrey Walker. He’s a great human being, but he’s also a darn fine scholar. Dr. Walker’s first book in 1989, Bardic Ethos and the American Epic Poem may sound on first blush like a piece of literary criticism, but it’s actually about persuasion, the very particular kind of persuasion that demands that the listener put in as much or more work than the rhetor. In this book, Walker looked at a very specific genre—the American Epic—and a specific period and school, and inquired about what kind and amount of rhetorical work being done. The main difficulty here seems to be audience. To write an American epic that can both express and inspire the nation en masse, the poet has got to speak to those masses. But to be a high literary, post-Romantic bard, the poet has to deal in the kind of textual, allusion, and thematic obscurity that is incomprehensible to the masses. In hisconcluding paragraphs, he sums up the struggle nicely: “The bard, in short, is obliged to reject the available means for effectively communicating his historical, political, and ethical vision to the public mind insofar as he wants to succeed with his tribal audience” (240, emphasis in original). Bardic Ethos and the American Epic Poem traces the American literary attempts at prophecy without populism from its origins in Whitman’s “moral magnetism” (30). First identifying both high poetic speech (93) and “conventions and expectations” for the audience (118), as the reasons for Pound’s failure to be a “Whitman who has learned to wear a collar” (2), the book then examines Crane’s inability to “use his mythic ideal to redeem or bless the present” (136), in part because “’the popular’ in a modernist context is generally beneath respectability” (145). While William Carlos Williams what Walker on another occasion called the “good guy of the book” (15/2/2011) in trying to write Paterson for “a public at least partly comprise of actual people” (157), he, too, fails to write a work that is accepted in both popular and literary circles. Olson’s Maximus Poems seek a similar project, but in describing the few that can transform many sometimes becomes almost eugenically elitist, even to the point of justified genocide (234). In the end, it seems as though these modernist bardic writers must chose between a literary and a popular audience (240), usually coming down on the side of the literati, ultimately described as the “tribe with whom [the author] is marooned” (243). I’m very interested in this book’s premise of irreconcilable audiences. You might see how this concept could coordinate with Wayne Booth’s image of the author sitting around waiting for an audience. While Booth dismisses this idea, this book kind of suggests that it happens, regardless of the author’s intention; these writers sought a broad and a specific audience, but only the specific audience came to the table. I always think about the hero of Nightmare Abbey, who wrote a metaphysical tome so boring that it only sold seven copies. The hero then perks up, calling his readers, in his mind, the seven golden candle sticks. If you write obscure stuff, you probably aren’t going to reach a wide audience. The other hugely influential book Walker wrote about the rhetoric of poetics is his 2000 Rhetoric and Poetics in Antiquity. The book goes way beyond Whitman and his prophetic bards to ancient Greek lyric poetry. Poetry back then was always publicially performed and that, Walker argues, means that it was always public persuasion. One of the key ways this happened what through the lyric enthymeme. The Enthymeme, to refresh, is when the audience supplies part of the argument. So [shave and a haircut]. Or, to make it poetic, when Ol Yeller is, spoiler alert, put down, the 20th century American audience things “Oh, dogs are like friends and it’s sad when they die” instead of, like 14th century Aztecs, thinking, “what’s the big deal? We kill dogs every day—and eat them.” The audience supplies part of the argument of any aesthetic piece. It seems like the main argument Walker’s making in this book is that the epideictic isn’t derivative and secondary to the other genres of rhetoric, but actually primary and of almost “pre-rhetorical” origin. In supplying many examples of ancient poets who were able to produce the best lyric enthymemes, Walker not only builds up evidence to support his over all claim, but he creates sub-categories and conditions for this kind of lyric enthymeme.. One of the most interesting of these divisions is the “Argumentation Indoors/Argumentation Outdoors” distinction Walker illustrates with Alcaeus and Sappho’s lyric poetry. So some of the public performance weren’t big publics. If Alcaeus spoke only to his hetaireia (remember them? The geisha like prostitutes like Aspasia?) or that Sappho make have written for an intimate circle of acquaintances and devotees doesn’t have to imply that their poetry could appeal only to those small groups. In fact, Walker claims that “just the opposite is true” and the poems “offer enthymematic argumentation that engages with the discourses of a wider audience” to cement their continued influence (249). The ideal situations for this kind of poetic influence disintegrate, though. The book is, after all, called Rhetoric and Poetics in Antiquity and it’s understandable that the tracing of suasive lyric has to end somewhere, so Walker seem to mark the beginning of the end, in both Greece and Rome, with the literaturaization of poetry and the Aristoltization of rhetoric. The former leads to a paradigm that literature is removed from everyday life, erudite, a “decorative display” (57) that “cannot escape the rhetorical limitations of symposiastic insider discourse” (289); the latter downplays the rhetorical nature of poetry (281) while emphasizing rhetoric’s relation to the civic responsibilities of the forum and the court. So you can see why I have so much hero-worship for Jeffrey Walker. In fact, I’m not entirely convinced this is going to be our last podcast on his work. Yeah. If you have a reason why you love Jeff Walker, or –I guess—if you want to suggest a podcast about your own rhetorical heroes, send me an email at mererhetoricpodcast@gmail.com. I’ll just be sitting here, dreading the possibility that Dr. Walker might hear this podcast, getting embarrassed and awkward for a while.

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Metanoia NEW AND IMPROVED

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 2, 2015 6:19

Metanoia Welcome to Mere Rhetoric, the podcast for beginners and insiders about the ideas, people and movements who have shaped rhetorical history. I’m Mary Hedengren, Samantha’s the booth, Humanities Media Project sponsored us and I have nothing to regret. Remember back when we talked about kairos? Just to remind you, here’s a poem, a Greek poem, translated by Jeffrey Walker, explain. This poem is ekphersis, a piece of writing that describes a piece of art, in this case a sculpture of Kairos done by Lysippos of Sicyon. The rest explains itself. From where is your sculptor? Sicyon. What is his name? Lysippos. And who are you? Kairos the all-subduer. Why do you go on tiptoes? I’m always running. Why do you have Double wings on your feet? I fly like the wind. Why do you have a razor in your right hand? As a sign to men That I’m sharper than any razor’s edge. Why does your hair hang down in front? For him that meets me to grab, By God. Why is the back part bald? None that I have once passed by on my winged feet May seize me, even if he wishes to. Thus the artist fashioned me, for your sake, Stranger, and placed me at the entrance as a lesson. So here we have this figure of kairos, with a haircut that is party in the front and business in the back ad if you don’t grab him, too bad. It’s done. Game over, chance lost. But then what? when you’ve missed your chance, what’s even left? Are you all alone as Kairos flits away? Not really. The ancient Greeks created another figure, named Metanoia to describe the deep regret that comes when there’s something you could have done and you missed the chance. MEtanoia literally means after thought, or after mind, I guess if you want to get picky about it. It’s similar to regret. As Kelly A Myers put it in her rhetoric society quarterly article, Metanoia was a figure that “resides in the wake of opportunity, sowing regret and inspiring repentance in the missed moment” (1). It is “a reflective act in which a person returns to a past event in order to see it anew” (8) In Roman poetry, metanoia accompanies the god of opportunity in Ausonius’s epigrams. The first part of the epigram sounds very similar to the ekphrasis of kairos poem “who are you” “I’m opportunity” “why do you look so weird?” “seize the moment” etc. etc. but then the questioner turns to metanoia “please tell me who you are.” “I am a goddess to whom even Cicero himself did not give a name. I am the goddess who exacts punishment for what has and has not been done, so that people regret it. Hence my name is Metanoea.” There’s something weirdly compensatory in this accusation against Cicero. Metanoia is a such an important concept, Ausonius seems to say, that Cicero must have known, must have felt, but neglected to name. Metanoia is out there, but under studied and ignored. But we’ve all felt that regret, haven’t we? Me, personally, I get that feeling in the shower, when dumb things I’ve said, or witty comebacks I should have said come sweeping in on me. I’ve also heard people getting hit with metanoia when they’re trying to sleep or when they’re driving or when they’re staring into a beautiful tropical sunset. It makes you want to stab your eyes out. So what was the purpose of metanoia? What did it accomplish to feel such crippling regret? Hopefully such reflection and regret means that next time around you doing something different. Hopefully you change. This became a big deal as Christianity burst onto the scene. Metanoia became associated as a step of repentance, reflecting on the mistake you made before you can move forward. The New Testament uses matanoia as an “act of repentance that lead to spiritual conversion.” (9). As kittel et al describe it “affects the whole man,” not just the brain. It’s important that this emotional aspect of metanoia exists. Some sources point out that metanoia is always emotional as well as mental it is a “change of mind ad heart” (Liddell and Scott 1115) a “profound transformation of the epistemic orientation of the whole person” (Torrance 10). Myers points out that “metanoia ia the affective dimension of kairos” (2) Metanoia as a rhetorical figure really hit its stride in the middle ages and beyond. Visual representations of metanoia became as common as kairos. Metanoia stuck with kairos, showing up in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, sometimes as a beautiful young woman and sometimes as a vengeful hag. Here’s the thing: there’s a moment of indecision, a Schrödinger's Cat moment where you don’t know whether you will seize the moment or live to regret it.As Myers says ‘once a descion has been made or missed, the two part ways, but before that crucial moment they stand together” (4). So when you think of kairos, think of the inverse as well, the potential for deep abiding regret that makes you want to burn your high school yearbook. But remember metanoia in the moment that comes, not just regretting what is past, but looking at where you are now and making sure you make the right choice right now, so that you don’t have to regret it later.

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Kairos--NEW AND IMPROVED!